skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen midnight mass? The protaganist from that movie in the final scene, says something along those lines... as she herself is dying. She was asked earlier in the movie: "What happens when we die"... and iirc she gave a more christian-themed notion as she herself was very religious, but you can see her shift from the dogma of catholicism to one more pantheistic.

When the memory of Riley asks her what happens when we die she responds:

“Speaking for myself? Myself. My self. That’s the problem. That’s the whole problem with the whole thing. That word: self. That’s not the word, that’s not right, that isn’t — that isn’t. How did I forget that? When did I forget that? The body stops a cell at a time, but the brain keeps firing those neurons. Little lightning bolts, like fireworks inside, and I thought I’d despair or feel afraid, but I don’t feel any of that. None of it. Because I’m too busy. I’m too busy in this moment. Remembering. Of course. I remember that every atom in my body was forged in a star. This matter, this body, is mostly just empty space after all, and solid matter?

It’s just energy vibrating very slowly and there is no me. There never was. The electrons of my body mingle and dance with the electrons of the ground below me and the air I’m no longer breathing. And I remember there is no point where any of that ends and I begin. I remember I am energy. Not memory. Not self. My name, my personality, my choices, all came after me. I was before them and I will be after, and everything else is pictures picked up along the way. Fleeting little dreamlets printed on the tissue of my dying brain.

And I am the lightning that jumps between. I am the energy fighting the neurons. And I’m returning. Just by remembering, I’m returning home. It’s like a drop of water falling back into the ocean, of which it’s always been a part. All things, a part. All of us, a part. You, me, and my little girl, and my mother, and my father, everyone who’s ever been. Every plant, every animal, every atom, every star, every galaxy, all of it. More galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on the beach.

That’s what we’re talking about when we say God. The one. The cosmos, and its infinite dreams. We are the cosmos dreaming of itself. It’s simply a dream that I think is my life, every time. But I’ll forget this. I always do. I always forget my dreams. But now, in this split second, in the moment I remember, the instant I remember, I comprehend everything at once. There is no time. There is no death. Life is a dream. It’s a wish. Made again and again and again and again and again and again and on into eternity. And I am all of it. I am everything. I am all. I am that I am.”

This monologue gave (continues to give me goosebumps)... I'm exmormon/agnostic, but still inspired and have some spirituality...I believe there's something bigger and better and our 'energy' continues on in some respect, or we're at least in a simulation and maybe will respawn and get another chance to get life 'right'.. either way, I think death isn't the end, and this was just a very beautiful way to think of it...
So…then the answer is “no”
He would have faded into obscurity and we would all be talking about how terrible his replacement was for lying to the UN.
If the standard is that you have to be fully responsible for the war to carry any responsibility for the war, than nobody is responsible. No wonder no one was punished except Judith Miller, lightly.
Ethereum?

Or Ethereum2?
You will probably find they are getting it for free to act as a reference site.

Ha, just realised - there's no such thing as a free lunch.
And acceptance taught right in the schools. Grow up with cameras staring at you and you will grow to willingly accept them. Get em hooked while they're young.

"I grew up with cameras pointing at me my whole life and nothing bad ever happened to me! I don't understand what all the fuss is about."
I know this will be down voted but I've learned to be a bit skeptical of Axboe's monumental claims. There have been some unfair benchmarks posted in the past surrounding io_uring that were called out by people on the liburing repositories. Take these with a grain of salt - his results are notoriously very difficult to reproduce, even on identical hardware.

Nevertheless, io_uring is certainly the better design and I'm happy to see progress still being made.
In my secondary school of around ~1000 people they solved this by simply assigning a rotating time in the lunch break at which year groups could get the food (i.e a 10 min slot at 12:45 one day, 1300 the next, etc - you could sit and eat as long as you liked). I'm surprised this is not a solved problem...
Someone at the facial recognition company persuaded someone at the school that it would help cut bullying as smart cards can be stolen, faces cannot (so easily).
I know it's normal for taxi drivers here to own their taxi, and therefore be the only one who drives it - I wonder how common that is throughout the rest of the world? Are there places where different drivers might drive the same cab in shifts?
For kafka the default is round robin in each partition. A hash key can let you direct the work to particular partitions. Each partition is guaranteed ordering. Also only one consumer in a consumer group can remove an item from a partition at a time. No two consumers in a consumer group will get the same message.
Fukushima weathered the worst earthquake AND tsunami in decades at the same time.

And we only had one direct fatality from radiation.
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This is obviously a silly case but I think traffic cameras are one of the few places surveillance could actually be called for.

I'm not sure what the perfect system looks like, but the current system in the US seems broken. Not only is traffic enforcement a huge time waste for police, but traffic stops create an unnecessary hazard while failing to discourage dangerous driving.
So, I want to share an alternative: https://github.com/srid/neuron

It's also just a bunch of markdown files

And, uhhh.. I just found out this:

> Neuron is being superceded by Emanote: https://github.com/srid/emanote

Cool
Exactly. Just because Bertelsmann isn't as left as oneself might want them to be, doesn't mean they aren't left-leaning
Do they "live free" now?
Is there perhaps a relationship between the placebo affects and people that meditate or do extended prayer sessions?
Let's phase out camera based ticketing. But clearly, some drivers cannot be trusted to drive the speed limit, stop at red lights, or generally drive in a sensible manner. In many cases, it may happen accidentally, even to conscientious drivers.

Thankfully, we're living in modern times, and while autonomous driving is not there yet, we can use similar technology to prevent traffic violations. When you are on a public road with a speed limit, your car will simply not accelerate beyond the speed limit. When you are missing a red light, the car will not let you run it.

Of course, there are emergencies where you need to do these things: your pregnant wife is giving birth, you are Jack Bauer and preventing nuclear war. Activating the hazards disables the traffic assist. It also keeps a log of all violations and forwards it to the authorities, but since it's a medical or national security issue, nothing will come of it.

This cannot be done overnight, which is why there will be a generous period while the old system is phased out and the new system is debugged.
The entire universe we know could be but a single neuron firing in a huge brain of something much much bigger... and they don't even realize we exist...so size is very... relative/immaterial to sentience...we could be the sentient bacteria.
By that definition, were bacteria fake until the microscope enabled them to be observed? Scientific anti-realism appears to be an easily refutable logical fallacy.
Incorrect. He would be hailed as the first African American Secretary of State with a decorated military career that resigned to protest lies and an unjust war.

Textbooks a century from now will include his name. It could have been in a positive light, but now his name will be forever tarnished.
Nobody's yet dumb enough to say it out loud but there were definitively people in the approval chain for this system who saw that as a nice side benefit. School administration is a line of work that tends to attract authoritarians.
> Well, citizens of Iraq tend to disagree with you.

A story of single person is too little evidence to claim it for all citizens of Iraq or even for majority of them.
I am sorry but you complete misrepresented my comments and are now making a straw man argument. I did not state that a state controlled many web is the answer anywhere in my comment. you seem to have come up with that on your own. so let's leave that alone

now regarding malls, the incentives are different, so yes for the most part they do. at least in the country I live in at the moment. it is in their best interest to get more people in the door and for longer, can't do that if they keep getting harrased. I don't know why you think they wouldn't.

no other business benefits from emotional dark patterns as much as these platforms
Because cards doesn't spy on people? England is a China level surveillance state, the spying is a feature and not a problem.

https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2020-08-14/the-t...
If you've been paying attention then it's quite clear that buying a new electric car is not always green.

If you're trading in a car that's less than 5 years old, then it takes a long time to offset the "new car" footprint.

Electric cars also do not care how the power is sourced, and if it's coal then can actually add more carbon to the environment than a petrol car.

Not everything is black and white, electric cars are definitely able to be more green than petrol ones and centralising the power generation will help keep our cities less polluted too.
The update videos published by the openMW team were my beloved companion through a decade of my life.
Booking.com is where the most desperate landlords and the real scumbags post. It's a cesspool. No wonder it's the only one where number of listings has increased given the circumstances.
Yeah. ZFS is great for single disks for laptops.

With ZFS Boot Environments you are bulletproof on upgrades and major changes.

Moar here: https://is.gd/BECTL
Can you? The businesses that were actually illegal have legalized themselves, and the businesses that virtually everyone agrees do bad things have been getting "investigated" by Congress with no action for the past decade...
> of two of the last truly-unique languages in our field.

What is the other one?
> when I do see this talk of them as a new kind of cloud platform I cringe a little. Are we going to under go the same lock-in like experience we've had over the years

I don’t understand your argument. A relatively small but innovative company is working to provide competition against the big 3 cloud providers … and you cringe?

Even if their service turns out to be more or less a S3 replicate with better pricing (for some applications involving a fixed amount of data that needs to be widely distributed) it’s a win for consumers and innovation
My back of the napkin calculations say it's impossible.

The world produces around 25 000 TWh of electricity and 82 000 tonnes of lithium annually.

EDIT: wrongly assumed that 100% of the world's electricity is used for lithium mining. Correct version below:

For this to be true at $30/MWh one gram of lithium would need to cost ~$0.45, so a kWh of li-ion batteries would clock in at around $90 just for the lithium.

Li-ion batteries are already bought and sold for less than that.
Not a dumb question at all. I've got pretty much all Apple products and a) I have no idea what "Apple search" is, and b) I can't remember ever seeing an ad delivered by Apple.
A million dead civilians. All that blood is on America as a whole, but this guy's hands are as bloody as they can be.

Reading these comments it seems America has forgiven him... I assure you the rest of the world won't forget...
This isn’t as relevant to bubbles but a transducer phased array is what is used in multi-beam echosounders[1], which provide a swath of depth readings perpendicular to the ship’s path.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder
Couldn't you be accused by a prosecutor based on video evidence?

I get that having some private company collect fines directly would be bad, but couldn't they solve that with a simple manual review process by law enforcement?
With ~90% efficacy, how do you expect that to work when rolling the dice thousands of times?

It's a heck of a lot better than none. And sadly people still don't care to treat Covid seriously, and nowhere near high enough vaccination rates in most places - thus no herd protection yet.
The “jitter” of PSX graphics is caused by a number of factors: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/5021

Incidentally, the Nintendo 64 also used fixed point numbers in RDP graphics instructions, but did not exhibit the same visual artifacts as the PlayStation.
Airbnb is great when traveling, but it made things more difficult for renters in cities with even a slightly moderate amount of tourism. Better houses with amenities like pools are almost completely out of the long-term rental market, or have insane prices.
For the professional urban renter this just means a less fancy rental, but this less fancy rental now is out of the reach for lower income people.
This is exactly how scala does it
>What did they know that Colin Powell—a Vietnam vet, mind you!—did not?

Nothing. They just had different interests: his to promote his career and feed the imperial machine, theirs to end war.

>If you’re not even 20, that outcome might not have been obvious. But if you served two tours in Vietnam and are in your 50s, you should know better

If you care about the country/justice/etc, which is a big if in politics.
Compared to life under SH, yes.
From my own experience and the sayings of a Friend who is lead-dev Android, developing for Android is "hair-losing": not only the platform (Android versions) change often, but there are so many different devices with so many different OSes "customized" by the manufacturers that you will spend a lot of time hunting and fixing bug.

The 3 calmest languages I know are Go, Vue.JS and Rust.

Go because it rarely changes, the language is simple and permits to quickly create programs with few bugs. Thanks to its big standard library, the Go ecosystem is relatively stable and there is not a lot of trendy new frameworks to learn every months.

Vue.js on the frontend, like go does not change often, and is relatively opinionated which allows it to be stable and simple to learn (as opposed to react).

Rust for security, embedded development and complex business logic. In contrary to Go and Vue.js it's way harder to master, and thus may fit with your expert personality.

I hope it can help :)
War-making is a bipartisan cause.

Those against war are considered extreme and fringe
This reads as though the entire chess vs go conceit was meant only to bait eyes into making it all the way down to the last paragraph, which jumps the shark by dignifying Web3 nonsense.
Yes, I think most places haven't caught up with this variant of capitalism where citizens are paid to enforce laws, bounty hunter style. This is going to be crazy.

You could be paid to have the speed radar placed inside your car at all time while on the road. If someone overtakes you at a given speed, it calculates that car's speed based on your own speed and knows the local speed limit based on GPS. The Good Citizen™ gets a salary proportional to how many tickets he helped deliver.
My first childhood computer was an IBM P70 luggable. I loved that thing. It had such great feel — so many clicky parts — that really appealed to me as a little kid.

The keyboard, which snapped into the case, also had these little legs on the back that swiveled so you could set it at an angle. The 3.5" floppy drive tilted out, and it had a great IBM-blue button to press to eject. Naturally the keyboard was clicky as all get-out. Beautiful orange plasma display. In hindsight, you'd think it would make MS Paint boring, but I loved it just the same.

One story. At maybe 4 or 5 years old, I thought to myself: I wonder if I can make this blue floppy eject button pop out without putting a disk in the drive. So I jammed a plastic ruler around inside the drive feeling for some kind of latch to press. I was not able to get the button to come out, but I sure as hell broke the drive. Whatever software was on the machine before jamming that thing around is the software that stayed on that machine for the rest of its days.
Is there a PC manufacturer that does great trackpads?
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Used to do IT (helpdesk) for one of the many local networks that got acquired by Sinclair around 2013. Company I worked for owned about a dozen stations across the region, when Sinclair bought us they owned around 200 at the time. In spite of this, our IT operations were way more advanced. For example, Sinclair had only started using AD and Exchange less than a year before acquiring us, they had been on some ancient Novell installation before that.

Most entertaining memory I have of their incompetence: after the acquisition my boss no longer had permission to approve payment of bills, it had to go through corporate. So my boss called and emailed for months to get payments approved for our internet, phone service, etc., keeping a thorough record of all of the times he had asked to get our bills paid. Fast foward to about 4 months after the aquisition and suddenly our long distance phone service stops working. We contact the phone computer and find it's because of non-payment (we already suspected as much thanks to all the late notices we received). Corporate flips their lid, attempts to blame my boss for it, and he just sends them the dozens of emails and refers them to the dozens of calls he made record of. No idea who (if anyone) took the heat for it at corporate after that.

Second story, we hired a new senior network engineer. Turns out he knew even less about networking than me and the other guy on the helpdesk. But the technical competency part of the interview process was administered by, you guessed it, someone in corporate IT. At least we were able to get the guy fired within a few weeks of him starting, and the guy at corporate who passed him had some major egg on his face. This was shortly before I left though so I don't know if anything more came of it. I only stayed for about a year after the merger.
Ask HN: What resources have helped you gamify different aspects of your life?
The bit about compilers reminds me of this quote about Feyman, but sorry of the inverse where you hold tricks in your head instead of problems.

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!'
No you go and check.

This is a silly argument.
This is precisely one of the reasons I prefer attention schema theory as an explanation of consciousness. It actually has a progressive build up, with each individual stage conferring an advantage while also leading to the next stage. Evolution does not like big-bang progression. And it's also very hard to explain big-bang progression in multiple, drastically-unrelated species -- such as humans and octopuses.

Attention schema instead builds gradually. It starts with selective signal processing, advancing to body schema, then to attention schema, then to social schema (modeling other's bodies and attention).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-cons...
Assessing Supernatural Belief in Colonial Mexican Inquisition Records
China shamed a women who's face was on a bus ad for jaywalking -

https://www.techinasia.com/businesswoman-china-caught-jaywal...

These systems are far more accurate than humans, but if you want to cling to the fake facts they are not, cool.

When even these small amount of errors are gone and they are every part of your life then what will you do? Whatever they tell you I guess.
Nice to hear Russ's name on HN. Not completely forgotten I see. He also opposed the Patriot Act when it was extremely popular which I thought was courageous.
Yeah no way that is true.
On a side-note: Wait, did I read that right?

Colin Powell was fully vaccinated AND still died of complications from Covid-19?
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Sinclair is pretty easy to boycott though? Just look up which of your local news stations they own and don't watch them.
The only thing that "ride-sharing" companies proved was that they can do it cheaper by (a) bleeding capital and (b) evading regulator enforcement/taxes.
I thought of him as a dedicated and intelligent
general who got things done and done right.

I was even hoping he would run for president.

All that changed when he outright lied to the world
and the nearly unimageable suffering he in part,
brought to people.
The US wasn't going to fight it "no matter what." The US was going to fight it if the US government was reasonably capable of doing so, which depended on political support at home, the ability to find allies, and functioning internal logistics. All of these things he had a hand in.

Suppose he fled the US for some neutral country, resigned his position, and made a public announcement that he knew that the case for war was fraudulent and that the international community had an obligation to stop the US. What would have happened?

Suppose he simply resigned to spend more time with his family the night before his speech to the UN.

Suppose he did not decide (as he did in real life) that he was going to support the president in waging war without the support of the UN, and he told the world as much.

Suppose he insisted on having more time to review the material himself before making the speech to the UN.

There were a number of times where he could have changed the course of history. Yes, it would have come at significant personal cost to himself and perhaps significant embarrassment of America on the world stage. If you're unwilling to do that for a raise, sure, that seems reasonable; if you're unwilling to do that to prevent tens of thousands of deaths, you are absolutely morally culpable for those deaths.

The invasion of Iraq on false premises was itself a war crime, and the killings of Iraqi soldiers was just as immoral as killing civilians. Quoting one of the rulings at Nuremberg: "War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
> The ongoing high profile, fatal breakthrough Covid-19 cases should not be underestimated. They are to be expected statistically, but taken individually continue to feed into the idea that "vaccines don't work" and conspiracy theories.

It's not expected when the administration and other "health agencies" keep parroting that COVID19 would be over tomorrow if everyone was vaccinated. They are lying just as much.

EDIT: a new publication on this very topic:

"Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/