skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply observed that, without a lot of elaboration, it is you with your claims that added nothing to the discussion, despite appearing to do so. Saying wild things with no elaboration and evidence is worse than adding nothing, in fact. It's subtracting, or detracting from the conversation. Discussions in higher-quality forums sometimes involve calling out such lazy third-person maybe-accounts presented as valid discussion items.

You're getting salty for being called out and say "I don't care". Fine, you don't care. This, however, is not your personal page, it's a public discussion where claims are challenged. When I reply to your comment, I'm not necessarily replying to "you", I'm contributing to the overall discussion that others read, and make their own conclusions from all of it.

And I don't think there's any reason whatsoever for a dispassionate observer who may not be aware of how things are in the US these days to come away thinking that US cops ubiquitously and habitually torture detainees by beating them.
It isn’t standard with Apple laptops. They normally don’t slow down on battery. They do reduce screen brightness by default, though you can override that.
I don't think there is a right word, but I recognize this behavior from history books. During the French Revolution the participants were similarly convinced they are doing the right thing, and they reinforced each other's views. The crowd had a feeling of a common cause and their combined strength. They believed that by beheading Marie Antoinette they are doing everybody a favor. Similarly during the Russian Revolution, the masses believed they are fighting for a great cause, some even died for it. But the revolutions are usually eating its children, and similarly now the revolutionary feminists of yesterday are being eaten by even more progressive trans activists. As Ricky Gervais said, the same will happen to the latter one day. [0]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ric...
No, you said FAANG pay is higher than average European dev pay, not that average FAANG pay is higher than [average] European dev pay
> I couldn't bring myself to swallow his explanation for throttling scientific advancement. The trisolarans use a device that meddles with the results of particle experiments, to make the results super unexpected, so the scientists will commit suicide out of desperation. Make their experimental results so curious and interesting that the observers don't want to live anymore. To me that doesn't jibe with human nature one bit.

Agreed, scientists would never react that way in real life. Some of the replies are saying that the behavior is explained by Chinese attitudes towards failure, but this plot device (person commits suicide in response to philosophically disturbing event) is something that I've seen a few times in different contexts, so it must be more general than that.

When I was in high school, I wrote a story that was basically just this. Character sees something impossible, spirals into depression over it, and finally kills himself. I wouldn't enjoy reading a story like that today, but I remember that it matched the aesthetics taught in K-12 English classes, which weren't very concerned with characters behaving realistically.

The story "What's Expected of Us" by Ted Chiang uses this trope too. It annoyed me enough when I read it that I wrote a note about it:

> There is zero chance people would go insane due to the emergence of a philosophical paradox like this. The laws of physics are full of mind-bending paradoxes in the real world, but they have no effect on the average person's state of mind. They are not relevant to our day-to-day pursuit of money, popularity, food, entertainment, friendship, sex, etc. ... I don't know why people have a tendency to write stories about a philosophical idea leading to insanity, when such a thing clearly doesn't match reality. I fell prey to the same temptation with my [story I wrote in high school], but that was more believable since in my story only the protagonist was driven insane by the phenomenon, not the whole society.
Etch it into a stone tablet and throw it into a cave somewhere, point a webcam at it. As webcams evolve, switch out the webcam.
As per the links in my most recent comment [1], he hasn't defended or denied any crimes of which she's been found guilty (she's yet to be found guilty of anything), and days after she was indicted in June 2018 said simply that she's "innocent until proven guilty". He's said basically nothing about her since. I can't find anything at all he's said publicly about her since March 2019, in which he notably reduced the level of support he was willing to express, and also notably said the barest minimum thing he could say in her support, before moving on as quickly as possible.

You know there are people in the world who think things like: I was the first person to show her support when nobody else did, and so now I'm going to be the last person to keep supporting her when nobody else will. It won't cost me anything to show that I still care about her even if she's done wrong. If I don't, who else will? Some people sleep better at night doing that, rather than joining the mob taking delight in laying the boots in.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28958722
This. The police will lie and the judge will take their word. In my case the police said they can break 2048-bit AES encryption easily and as a backup could unsolder the chips (they didn't say which chips) and put them in another device to get the data. The judge believed it all. The police had no qualifications in computer science or encryption.
At some point somebody "invents" the circular buffers that have the multiple data resolutions that was RRDtool and maybe we get compact and fast time series storage and reporting again.
Linux has instant wake from hibernation as well, not sure why you'd think that is unique to Mac.
Crybullying comes to mind. It lacks the connotations of puritanical self-righteousness underlying these sorts of protests but it is a term that has been popularized in response to this sort of behavior.
Hosting isn't so much the issue. You need to create something worth keeping around for 500 years. If you succeed, people will make sure it's available somehow.
Building a Plagiarism Checker
> Xbox One … lack of emulation is largely because there's not really a point to

I thought it was because no had actually cracked the DRM yet.
Microsoft’s open source program office
This is such a hilariously weird take on how rights work. I don't want to tar all Americans with the same brush, but I think only someone from the US could possibly have come up with this
> What do they win? More maket share, more revenue, more profits, better margins, competitors goes out of business?

https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-details-mixed-source-...

> Intel said Thursday its "Alchemist" graphics chips will be made by TSMC using the latter's newly named "N6" chipmaking technology, an upgraded version of its "N7" technology.

I mean, I guess they're already "winning". Intel's own chip-making group has begun to use TSMC. Hopefully Intel can figure something out about what its like to be a customer, so maybe they can be a better supplier?

But yes: customers, market share, and knowledge. By having more customers, TSMC can perform more experiments on more leading edge nodes, like 3nm or smaller.
I actually think that Intel GVT-g has opened the vGPU flood gates. With Intel trying to differentiate themselves as a new market participant they've just decided to leave this functionality on for all the parts. I bought a 700$ prebuilt PC from Best Buy with an Intel DG1 GPU and it's got GVT-g. If you look at the kernel API for this stuff you'll notice RedHat, Nvidia, and Intel wrote it together. I think Nvidia is just adapting to what will be the new market norm as the Intel GPUs proliferate.

Things are becoming more open, not less!

That's partly why I wanted to make this free open source software, to help people take advantage of these cool new open source kernel capabilities on consumer gear!
> Most instances have an open directory which lets you browse through the most active/recent profiles

which is useless, unless it's a niche instance. mastodon.social is generalist, so most people there are not posting anything I want to see.

But finding a good niche instance is really hard - in terms of the niche, rules, and actually being fast and working well.
If you want it live-hosted for 500 years, you need people to host it. Some company. I don't know anyone that will even take your money and lie to you about that.

Your best shot is a simple set of files on a few redundant medium. If you want to get fancy, put a browser on there that will run (presumably emulated) with no network dependencies. Hopefully with a 64 bit time_t.
The temporarily-embarrassed capital class can rest assured their negative dividend will reliably go toward state violence. The police unions hold a special place because of what is known as Police Nationalism. For those people police determine that others need policing can can't imagine being on the receiving end of it.

Would people object to prosecuting the Jan 6 perpetrators unless they feel police shouldn't be interfering in right wing attacks?
For whatever it’s worth my startup began life as a multi tenant kubernetes provider. We have a ton of custom controls - and for example do not allow this “custom snippet” directive at all. We spent a very long time locking down as much of the api surface as possible.

I have war stories up the wazoo - at one point we had 16k random internet users on a single cluster!
Well, I compare it to something of a normal-hard level of the games from 80/90s. There were many simpler games (Mario Bros, Contra) even if still more difficult from the current ones.

If you did the finished escape scenes on the very first run, my words of praise. The Ginso Tree took me something like an hour, and involved a bit of swearing (played on PC keyboard, I cannot compare it to pads). Many people quit the game at this point.
> This is likely to be an outdated statistic at best. If you go back three or four genenerations, you will find yourself passing through a time when the US had very high inheritance taxes and a 90% top marginal tax rate. That period of time did likely prevent the formation of dynasties across it. However, those policies have since been repealed and current studies show very low social mobility and a significant increase in dynastic formation. [1, 2]

How is it possible that you can dismiss my claims for being too long ago, and then cite claims on dynastic formation made today? Surely, in order to make the latter claim, you would need to wait equally long into the future as my claims were into the past? Would you look at my family, which has risen exponentially from poverty and claim we're forming a dynasty? How could you possible know it's a dynasty until I'm dead and my children inherit?

I don't believe the tax policy argument is satisfying. The studies show that the wealth dissipates due to squandering, not taxation. Even with a 90% income tax, these heirs still get millions and millions (likely billions in todays dollars), and yet still lose it all.

> The environmental degradation - in climate change - threatens to upend what gains there have been made in destitution and the current system is completely failing to respond appropriately to the threat. So the great likelihood is that if we stay with the same system on the same trendline, there's a cliff coming in our near future.

Even the worst models of climate change do not predict the catastrophic ends you are attempting to paint. You're just distracting from the issue at this point. In general, I find doomsday predictions unvaluable. Nevertheless, i'm not going to fall for this change in goalposts.

> Systems that haven't been tried in macro yet, but are working just fine in micro - for example the move to universal worker cooperatives funded by credit unions and crowd sourcing that I propose

So... a free market? There is nothing incompatible with the system we have and worker's cooperatives.

Although I will say credit unions have proven just as dangerous and capable of malfeasance as banks (Savings and Loans Crisis of the 80s, which everyone seems to forget for some reason).

> We can always do better.

Sure, we can improve some things in my hierarchy of needs by following down our current path, which, unlike your changes, is empirically shown to improve material conditions. This idea that because the current system hasn't made everyone's life better overnight, it must be replaced, is foolish. Some people have this constant drive to change things. Doing nothing is also a choice. And often a good one.
Why would anyone ever try a high risk innovation play to propel society forward if there was no reward? Most businesses fail. This would encourage people to just work at BigCo instead of trying to start new things.

I feel like innovative companies such as SpaceX or Moderna would never happen under that economic model for example.
It doesn't have to be fair. Things come and go. To host information for X years, statistically the things most likely to last are those that already existed for at least that amount of time.

Or you can take your chances, which, again statistically speaking, is not good if we're talking about websites lasting 500 years.
Whether a book is enjoyable or not depends at least as much on who reads the book as on the book.

When I was a child, I have read Moby Dick and I have enjoyed every part of it very much, including the so-called boring parts about the history of whaling and so on.

At that age most of what was described in the book were new things for me, so they were interesting.

Half a century later, I would never have patience to read any similar book, as it is extremely unlikely that any such book could contain anything that I have not read before.
Good, so if we take for good the mentioned 20% efficiency of human muscles[1], the robotic arm wins largely, as 70W/0.2=350 W vs. the declared 200 W of the robotic arm.

(I still doubt that the robotic arm can be almost twice as efficient as a human arm, however, so probably the 20% is not accurate or there is some other factor involved) .

[1] which I have no idea if correct even roughly
I guess my point is that if we make it a law that trans men and trans women must be treated indistinguishably from biological men/women under all circumstances, that even more bias in favor of biological males is going to creep into society anywhere physical strength or endurance matters (sports, military, manual labor, search and rescue, firefighting, etc.).
CUDA works on the host. Stay tuned for more info about guest CUDA from libvf.io ;)
Arizona solves the issue of a hypothetical PRC attack on the island of Taiwan.

PRC will have enough military strength to attack Taiwan and challenge US Carriers. We don't know if they'd win but... enough strength that they're a real threat... at least near China (with assistance from land-based hypersonic missiles and whatnot). PRC probably doesn't have the military strength to attack Arizona.
I think you're seeing patterns that don't exist.

Maybe there is a 3-letter agency that allows the EFF to exist for strategic reasons. That's almost so unavoidable that it's irrelevant.

But the EFF happening to side with Apple is more a sign of Apple having smart PR people than the EFF being a fundamentally untrustworthy organization.

I'm willing to be paranoid, but I'm not willing to be so with paranoid as to shit on the one organization that actually gets things done.
I'm curious what evidence you have to substantiate this unlikely possibility? You suggest a (widely rejected) theory that political motivations, rather than ethics, cause the media to complain about Facebook's business practices as compared to Twitter. This conjecture seems to conveniently ignore the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, it's substantial funding by Zuckerberg, and it's socially progressive goals. They have, for example, advocated for incorporating Native American and black culture education in school curriculums.

There is, in fact, no amount of money Mark Zuckerberg could contribute toward progressive causes to absolve himself and Facebook of the stain of unethical practices.

I'm sure there is nothing I could do to convince you of that in light of a history of analysis through a politics-or-race only lens.
crave it on a stone, tested and proven by our ancestors
> I mean, I’m not dismissing Linux though.

> But Linux on the desktop, sorry. It’s not going to happen.

I mean this seems like a dismissal to me. I am specifically talking about the desktop. I don't think the impact that the Linux kernel has had on the server or mobile spaces is up for debate - as you say it's pretty massive.

The issue I have is the certainty with which you can dismiss the viability of Linux desktop. I've seen you mention Proton, but I don't think I've seen you consider or weigh up whether you think that Proton will or will not have an impact on viability of Linux on the desktop. What about EAC and Battleye anti-cheat? The fact that in the last 10 years we've transitioned from Flash to HTML5 and other cross-platform codecs.

I just can't see how you could wave all that off as 'sorry not going to happen'. Like, there has been improvement. There just has! (Going to use your own debating tactic there...). That isn't to say that Linux on the desktop is happening or that it has happened. I am saying that it could happen, and that is in stark contrast to how dismissive you are being about it.
One thing we could do pretty easily is use IP geolocation to highlight "meetup in $place" posts for readers who are accessing HN from $place. I'm not sure if this would be extremely welcome or extremely off-putting.

I mean, I'm sure it would be both, for different users, but I'm not sure what the percentages would be.
If this is even mostly true there should still be pockets of humans with the "old brain" existing in remote areas today, shouldn't there?
You can give Spacemacs a try if you want Vim bindings.
Because it's good to use goto in some situations? It's perfectly fine to use goto when using the procedural programming paradigm. It's common to goto an 'error' label (from any number of spots within the procedure) to do cleanups before returning. This technique is used in C programs (see Linux Kernel code example here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/ext4/block_...)
But again, I’m not snubbing anything out of hand. If it is controversial to say that regardless of kernel, successful consumer operating systems require billions of dollars of investment, I’ll own that. But that’s being dismissive. That’s being a realist and responding to the nature of the article posted, which in my opinion was a lot of recycled from 2006 talking points that are still getting clicks and discussion like it’s fucking Slashdot or something. OS wars and text editor wars are eternal, I realize. But my response was to the article, not snubbing or even impugning the very hard and very impressive work that has happened over the last 30 years with Linux.

Again, I think there are some really valid reasons to move to Linux. I don’t think this article was a good example.
Founding three companies together without killing each other
20x overspec'd solar panel. No battery. Broadcast a wifi hotspot at minimum radio power. Keep the components cold just above freezing and never allow them to freeze. You can accomplish this by using geothermal engineering to your benefit and burying the device with an appropriate heat exchanger so the planet can regulate the server temperature. Add in high availability and failover by using multiple buried devices connected over ethernet shielded with corrosion and abrasion resistant material at the lowest power and speed settings, then using raft algorithm and heartbeat. Seal everything with heaps of epoxy resin. Cut cable insulation off near where the cable enters the epoxy cube and reseal exposed wire with epoxy. This way water cannot wick into the main epoxy cube.
This is technically correct (the best kind…) however many people will have a different experience because it was sometimes inverted to be more intuitive.
Not that temporary for people who died.

Actually look into modern GenIV reactors and try to come up with scenarios where a large numbers of people die. Its basically impossible. Maybe if you use multiple terrorists and multiple natural catastrophes in a coordinated you might get somewhere.

Any practical failure mode would not leave the exclusion zone of the plant. And even those are incredibly unlikely.

The thing is there is simply nothing that convince you otherwise. If you believe the only relevant argument is the very maximum damage possible no matter the circumstance then I lost the debate. The question to me is what is the practical danger and how many people would die if you powered a whole country of 300 million people with a technology.

With GenIV nuclear plants you could power 300 million people for 100 years and the expect times you would have a Chernobyl style event would still be far below 1. The expect number of people to die would be far smaller then wind as well. If you include home solar, it would be less as well. Maybe centralized solar is comparable.

Edit: You can lots of articles and reporting on them. Its mostly people who just never left. The area is depopulating as people die of old age and there is no migration to the area.
Getting sued is just seen as a cost of business for the government. Having sued and won against the government I have seen that 99% of the time they do not change policy to avoid getting sued again. I'm currently suing the government for violating the Constitution in a case they already lost a couple of years ago and didn't fix the problem and just kept committing the violations.
You don’t know what you know
John Talberth runs the Center for Sustainable Economy, an environmental advocacy organization in Portland, Oregon. He is an old general from the PNW "timber wars" of the 1990s, directly involved in pursuing the spotted owl injunctions. He has long been opposed to intensive management of native conifer forests. It's amusing to me to hear him advocating for harvest in somebody else's back yard. I suppose that's been the subtext the entire time, with so much harvest volume having migrated to the US southeast following the spotted owl injunctions.
I think it's totally acceptable that your success in those areas (with the possible exception of sports, i.e. due to weight classes) should be determined by your performance and not at all by your category. After all, it sounds absurd to even point out that there are no welterweight wars.
> attributable to genetics.

I didn't claim it was genetic (I did at first, but then edited my post). It could be cultural too.
It used to be possible to have both, fosdem was streamed online live. I think it's best to have the choice, looking forward to fosdem 2023!