skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the immortal soul.

This is a different argument. It's not necessarily saying consciousness is distinct from matter. The panpsychist view (not sure if Chalmers is in this camp) is that consciousness is a fundamental property to all matter, from photons to the human brain. (This isn't to say a photon has experiences as a human does, but rather the complex human consciousness is derived from a much simpler forms of consciousness).

This is different from saying ""where the car goes when you take all its pieces away?". This assumes consciousness is an emergent property, rather than a fundamental one. The "car" is emergent from the right arrangement of "car parts". Rather, the question "where is the mass/charge of the car when you take away all its pieces" is a better analogy, because the car mass/charge is derived from the mass of the car part's mass/charge.
PeaZip – file archiver utility written in Pascal
Is "cargo cult" really what you mean here. It doesn't seem to fit.
I'm sure it works quite well with UTF-8. I'm less sure that it is able to consistently distinguish e.g. various Cyrillic encodings. And yes, CP1251 and even KOI8-R are still occasionally a thing when it comes to websites.
What Mikaela Shiffrin’s Stumbles Can Teach Us About Our Own
A bit part of it are the companies behind it. Docker is the original from the Docker company. Podman is an open source clone pushed by RH that has the advantage of not needing root access, but some apps that expect genuine Docker fail. Rancher is a simple Kubernetes implementation. LXC for a similar but different world.
Any time you're fitting a modeled distribution to an empirical one you can use MMD, for instance.

You have never used Gaussian processes?
https://archive.ph/LyWAz
It sounds like the author lives somewhere upper class. I've never been to a business that can't take cash.
Apple also generally follows a "don't announce until it's ready" approach (these days it means they have shipping hardware compared to press releases providing perf figures for future products - as long as review sites continue to give free press for future announcements with unavailable hardware this will continue).

The one time I recall apple pre-announcing something was the AirPower nonsense, and I'm 90% sure you can't buy that yet :D
Not sure I get your point - the exact same is true of a C function which is passed a void* ctx object, since those objects have to be allocated and their lifecycle has to be managed. It's still a zero overhead feature.
The App Store is not even close to the convenience and features of Steam.

Awful search, awful review system, confusing interface and.. that's it? I don't see how the app store even compares.
dat username tho
Is it still a PITA to make RHEL containers with Podman?
Conviction is literally 'firmly holding a belief or opinion.' If you firmly believe that currency is collapsing and your response is to buy a home, then you're leaving a bunch of money on the table and potentially not profiting from that at all.

If you think that interest rates are low and housing has a lot of reasons to inflate going forward, then I think we agree you're acting rationally, but that has almost nothing to do with 'currency collapse.'
FWIW, I have an HDMI and an sd card reader expansion card that I keep in my backpack. I rarely need them buy they are small and super easy/quick to swap out that I just remove a USB port and put those in when I need them. I had a lenovo with all-the-ports and I feel like I have a lot more with the framework since I can put in what I need when I need it. I haven't yet needed an sd card reader while charging while plugged in to HDMI, while using the other port for something else, and not had the ports I need.

But I was (and still am) pretty critical of the headphone dongle that apple and many android phones make you use, so there may be some hypocrisy in what I say.
Yes on recording all her passwords somewhere you will have access. We also took photos of all my grandma’s insurance and financial records, so we’re ready when they need updating.

She’s in her 80’s and any change to her routine completely frustrates her. Password update prompts are the stressful. I’d advise against changing your grandma’s computer if she’s anything like mine, a different keyboard and different screen resolution required me multiple visits to get right.

I have set up my own admin user on her computer, and remote in regularly with RDP on a non-standard port to keep the machine updated. If you have the knowledge, make sure her router is moderately secure.
Docker can do 1. as well. Either via compose (network-mode: service:) or cli (--net=container).
Ads without javascript are great, but they barely pay anything as it’s apparently harder to identify fraud.

Everything is moving, animated, etc. Blink was deprecated for a reason, it’s annoying. So is auto play, stickies, overlays, copy/paste interference, etc. The dark patterns make it miserable.
The simple answer is to reject the cashless society.

In the medium to long term it's simply incompatible with any reasonable definition of freedom. Surveillance is bad enough, but a system that allows governments to arbitrarily "turn off" thousands or millions of people at the push of a button is too powerful to not be abused.

Even the mere existence of such a system has a chilling effect. Which I suspect is precisely what these people want and is exactly why we can't give it to them.

I'll take inconvenience over slavery any day of the week.

This isn't some sort of anarcho-libertarian paradise opinion, I have no issue with there being a well functioning justice system.

But yeah, if you want to seize assets, get a court order and go and lock someone in a box and take their things, don't take the cowardly way out and pretend that you've just flipped a database key and it's not really a big deal.

By the same token, if you tell me there's been a murder on my street I'll give you the CCTV footage of my door cam. If you ask me for a backdoor, I'll tell you where to shove it. That's what being a member of a free society is, that seemingly minor distinction is one of the most important things we have and better minds than mine have sought to elaborate on why.

Even a child is able to understand that force is still force regardless of whether it involves the direct visible physical kind.
I like this blog to understand NVidia perf stats (search for "Normalized GPU deep learning performance"):

https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

It seems that their consumer GPUs also have a gap
Presumably meat is more ethical if it is never born.
I think they meant that the demographic that uses Snapchat wasn't too young for the kind of content they were pushing.
What's your threat model here that has any relevance to the discussion? That your neighbor hacks your TV to connect it to WiFi behind your back to...? Collect analytics?
See the thread from earlier today about login.gov
uBlock origin, haven’t seen an ad in years. The web is unusable without it.
I'm really hoping to see an AMD option for better power efficiency.
Why not the first?

Most ancient cosmology is wrong, for example we know absolutely that the sun is not a chariot pulled across the sky despite that being part of Hindu, Norse, Baltic, Chinese, and Greek theology. This despite Eratosthenes figuring out it was 93 million miles away. Why didn’t they ditch the untrue beliefs?

While the West had four elements, the East had five, because nobody had the tools to look for roughly a hundred, not that it stopped people trying to turn lead into gold (which we can in fact do now, but the ancients didn’t have nuclear reactors).

No microscopes to look for germs to suggest that misama wasn’t how disease spread. Aztec blood sacrifice doesn’t really help maize crops grow or the sun travelling across the sky. Pork and shellfish goes off quickly in hot deserts like the Middle East, but we’ve got refrigerators and health inspectors now.

The story of Noah’s Ark was taken seriously for a very long time, because nobody had any idea how many species existed and how that number was so large it could not possibly fit into a boat that small.

Some ancient Greeks argued that we could see due to light coming out of our eyes, a belief which is (IMO surprisingly) common today: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12094435/

False beliefs are the default. How do you go about eliminating them when they don’t feel any different to true beliefs?

Science is the best answer to that question that we’ve got so far, and when we find a better one we will use that instead, just like we switched from “verification” to “falsification” when we realised verification wasn’t actually possible.
How much search engine traffic does that article get?
Obviously this is getting a bit into the weeds, but from looking up the word "progress", that doesn't seem to necessarily be the case. Merriam Webster gives almost the opposite as its first definition: "to move forward : proceed", and "proceed" says "to come forth from a source : issue". It seems pretty well established that progress can also mean to _come from_ a distinct place rather than only meaning arriving at a distinct place. I agree that it can sometimes mean a convergence will occur, but it also sometimes doesn't, so any assumption of that definition in terms of societal progress would be reflected by the reader.
I love the 64 GB of RAM. With Chrome and Firefox both running with mountains of tabs, I still don't run out of memory! Chrome performance starts tanking for other reasons before I get close to hitting swap. Take that web developers!
Office?
> * Just works

I don't game very often, but the way Steam "just works" can't be understated enough.

It's not perfect. I've run into weird bugs occasionally, though they were likely the fault of a specific game.

However, it's miles ahead of other game launchers I've dealt with. I'm a casual gamer, so if I end up fighting the game launcher and update mechanism for more than a few minutes, I'm just going to give up and do something else. Steam has come as close as I've seen to streamlining that experience for me.
Hey wslack! Hope you're well. Glad to hear you're still fighting the good fight.
In SF, they recently passed a law saying all stores must accept cash.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-franciscos-cashless-ban-now-in...
This is a big deal. Congrats to the team who pulled this off.
It's not Apple charging 30% itself that is problematic it's that no other option is allowed and they then force things like 30% cuts or policies of what apps are allowed with that. Other launchers/stores (or none at all) on PC succeed but that doesn't mean there can't be a popular option that still takes a 30% cut. A most popular option also does not mean that option has sole discretion on what is allowed to be installed on PCs, just what is allowed on that store.
It's become common in many restaurants and stores throughout North America during the COVID pandemic. It seems unlikely that all these businesses will revert. Other places such as China and some Nordic countries have gone further.
I like the idea, but can’t they get around it with prepaid cards or (eventually) crypto? And rich people aren’t punished at all, they can always get someone else to do it. I think they would need to use an equivalent of a no-fly list, which would be hard to make every business to use, and also privacy crushing.
I get it, and totally agree on 'mental health' - but the message is misplaced.

Ignorance is bliss, and 'eternal vigilance' is the thing necessary in order to keep our system going.

If we could all be 'reasonably informed' - so many problems would be avoided.

'Good' countries fail from within, and Tyrants come to power on a wave of populism which is ultimately based on misinformation.

We really do need to pay attention, but the issue becomes much more difficult in an era wherein main stream outlets have jacked up their bias, where Twitter advocates saucy, false and vindictive statements, where the Internet has enabled every Yahoo (pun intended) to have a soapbox and provided very little facility to wade through the morass to find reasonable voices. Often the reasonable voices aren't actually reasonable. A lot of intellectual voices over-state the issues. It's really, really, hard.

Instead of 'disassociating' entirely from the news, one could chose to 'disassociate from any political ideal' and just read from a variety of sources, and less often. Sometimes the high brow places (i.e. FP or FT) have less audacious triggering. Some high quality outlets that have known biases are not a good place to spend a lot of time. Check the headlines from state propaganda. Read the English news from other countries occasionally - this is quite refreshing because the foreign perspective tends to entirely deconstruct the local rubbish back and forth by not giving it much credence.

Get out of a political headset and don't over consume, but pay attention. It's kind of like voting, it matters collectively.
I'm far from the biggest crypto enthusiast but pretty hard to buy home, purchase car, get business loan etc. without a bank account. Obviously you can still get food and clothes no issue but I think the larger point stands.
> Kubernetes is a waste of computer resources

Yes, because orchestrating storage volumes, network policies, redundancy, secrets, and containers on a cluster with potentially heterogeneous nodes (some might have a GPU, some might not), is a waste of resource

> you don’t need Kubernetes to have declarative infrastructure as code

True.

> Addicted to yaml? Ansible uses YAML

Yes, because rollbacks in case of failure are so easy to do with Ansible. And who cares about an API that is becoming wide-spread (to not say standard) so you don't have to relearn everything when jumping from project to project?

> your build steps and doesn’t leave detritus like an agent nor waste any target resources

Only if you wrote your playbooks properly. Which is hard.

> Avoid containers unless you have a specific reason for using them. It’s a silly trend, IMO

Yes, because who cares about isolations, reproducibility, and avoiding the "it works on my machine" when integrating your app on different OS with various configurations?

> I fail to see what anti-lock-in benefits either containers or Kubernetes provide.

This sums up your whole unhelpful comment.
Surgical implant as alternative to CPAP for sleep apnea relief
Well that's unfortunate. I suspect the fault lies with C, the early versions of which did not have the 'void' keyword, and 'int' was assumed as the default return type - which also meant that when such "function" did not include a 'return' statement it "returned" whatever garbage was left in the register. Instead of adding the keyword 'void' (to be abused later as the empty arg list) they could have added 'proc' instead, but that would have complicated the parsing, and so they went with the 'void' pseudo-type as an indication of the fact that the function is not really a function but a procedure.
If you can use wayland on your distro, it can do that fractional scaling. I think I settled on like 140%
While I'm definitely wary of government overreach and not really a fan of the Pandemic management bill the Vic government passed to replace the use of state of emergency powers, at least this bill did say that its provisions could only be used if the state premier and health minister declared a "state of pandemic", and also the bill was heavily modified from its original reading after criticism from the legal profession and negotiation with the state opposition.

So in actual reality those state of emergency powers to compel lockdowns, quarantine people and compel business to shut were NOT extended indefinitely, the government wrote them into legislation designed to cope with the current situation, and specified that they could only be used in a pandemic situation and NOT indefinitely.

Yes before you say it the government could amend the bill again before the state of pandemic is declared over, or pass more draconian legislation or try and do anything it feels like. In the end it comes down to if you think the government is acting in good faith to do what is best for the population or not, and I can't think of much evidence they are actually acting in bad faith or otherwise misusing their powers.

The situation in Canada is not the same, I very much do not like the idea of freezing people's bank accounts without oversight or recourse.
Is it click bait if the title is formulated this way?

> "How Stripe does X!"

> - Brought to you by my current employer, RETOOL
There are a few that won't take cash, especially in the more COVID-conscious areas.

Nominally it was because during early pandemic people were worried about handling cash with virons on it, or otherwise bringing infected peoples' bodies nearer to cashiers' bodies than strictly necessary.

Then many realized that their profits didn't take a hit since card payments are common now and nearly everyone has a card.

Now it seems simply to be a convenience thing. Probably businesses are happy with prompting every customer with a tip request, rather than expecting them to remember to drop some money in the jar before they leave with their goods.
Aaron Swartz also has good insights not in this article:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
I apologize.

Your TB test sounds valid but did you verify with manufacturer that power loss protection or power failure protection works in your TB enclosure? Is that a fair assumption or do you need to ask?
I live in a "not affluent" city, and cashless is common. Many restaurants will not take cash. No hotels take cash. Some gas stations do not take cash. Grocery stores actively encourage cashless payments. etc...

Is it more likely that you frequent places which are cash-centric? Coffee shops, independent retailers and the like?
If anything, it seems like the trucking protest was a case of American dollars and influence trying to tilt Canada towards right-wing populism. Granted, that appears to have been a grassroots fundraising campaign and not American government policy or CIA black budget money (as underwrote, e.g. the failed anti-Chavez and anti-Maduro coups Venezuela). The banking measures look like a ham-fisted, authoritarian attempt to squelch that.

I think this feels "new" to Americans because it's on our border, and because Canada looks more like the US and is assumed to be more stable and less prone to authoritarian emergency measures than e.g. Venezuela or Argentina. But similarly extreme and extra-judicial banking controls have been implemented by other governments in the hemisphere when authoritarian left-wing parties in power feel threatened by right-wing populist movements they believe are at least partly sponsored by America.
> Is it possible there's a third (minor) Korean player? Could I possibly still have a chance? :)

Well supposedly Zalman (another Korean company) makes SSDs, but I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. Their specialty is heatsinks and fans, last I checked.
It is amusing to hear that in a comment chain about how US told it wouldn't expand to the East yet it did and how the current situation is a direct consequence of those talks.
Louisiana's $2B Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast
It is: "zero-overhead" is defined to mean you could not open-code it yourself any better.

If you specify a capture-by-copy, you have specified a copy. If that copy involves an allocation, you have specified an allocation. There is exactly zero extra overhead: in the overwhelmingly most common uses, not even a call through a pointer.

The good news is that the compiler knows all about lambdas, so can optimize the hell out of them.
To be fair, no one is complaining that they protested illegally. The complaint is that the protesters actively targeted unrelated civilians and made life a living hell for them for weeks on end.

I don't think you would say that it would be ok for protesters to physically attack random civilians because "it's a protest and that's their protest strategy". There are obviously limits to the illegal behaviour generally allowed to protests.
51% just doesn't feel like a meaningful threat model when governments can instead prevent exchanges offering monero pairs from accessing banking services in their country/currency.
I am not underselling them at all, or mean my comment that way. However, as the first entry, they have had the longest time to refine all the aspects of their offering. The core of which i think is Users, Games, and API.

Indeed, the prevelance of Steam API is such that competing game markets have to make their own replacement Steam.dll, so that the gamedevs dont have to change anything.

Also Valve was a game company first, and i believe developed the first of these technologies for Half-life 2.

- Valve used Half-life 2 to bootsrap Steam (HL2 install disc came with steam)

- Use Steam to provide online services to HL2

- Then the users of HL2 become Steam users (or the sosial network of Steam, as we say today)

- Expose API to other game companies, which brings more Games, and Users

- Add features and keep ahead of competition

- Alot of the features also come from the fact that Valve develops games, and makes the features for themself first, and then exposes them to everybody through Steam API
> (and confident that there's usually nothing of immediate consequence to me)

Those sites are not going to cover your local news which will have an impact on your life.
> Zukerburg type character

I was trying to put my finger on who he was emulating (besides the same actor’s character in Ready Player One), I was very pleased to hear Duncan Trussel’s take in his last podcast (493), he thinks the character is lifted from the head of the suicide cult “Heavens Gate”, note the pauses in speech and the ever-lifted eyebrows [0]. Basically framing the geo-engineering/tech-will-save-us crowd as a suicide cult.

[0] https://youtu.be/AqSZhwu1Rwo
I also tried running a service in podman 3.4.2 on ubuntu recently, and I agree that it had a lot of rough edges e.g. ports that fail to publish when restarting a service, podman ps losing track of containers if you ran podman as User= in systemd. There are lots of command incantations that you have to learn when using rootless podman which are not clearly documented (loginctl enable-linger, sudo --user USER XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u USER) systemctl --user restart, usermod --add-subuids, podman unshare chown). Hopefully it becomes clearer over time.
I wish I knew some I would probably be less 'OMG everything has gotten horrible' overreacting.
https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/yechiel/c++-faq/dtors-sh... but what if dtor fails(e.g. can't release a resource), is the by-default action terminate or ignore?
They don't need dark patterns, they're already making a boatload of money indeed. If the trend continues, that means more paid consultants working on open source Linux desktop libraries [1]. Win-win in my book.

It actually feels good that the 30% cut Steam takes out of my purchases partly goes to improve my Linux desktop experience. Better for me as a user than if they were taking a smaller cut and focusing on Windows only.

1: Valve has been sponsoring work on Wine, Wayland, KDE, mesa gfx drivers, dxvk, and others.
It's great that Microsoft can see the effectiveness of Steam. Now if only they would apply Valve's philosophies to Windows. Steam won and continues to win because it adds features that people want, and removes anti-features that people don't want. That second part is key.
I think if you had something to say you would have said it already. There are people who actually replied with something worthwhile.
many Walmart and other grocery self-checkouts began only accepting cards due to a ""coin shortage"" during covid, and it seems like they now have no reason to revert.
Beyond Serverless
Does it matter that I know how to secure a web server and database?
Subjective perception still requires energy to percept. Thus, to perceive time dilation your brain needs more energy to process it, but there is no a source of such energy.
> 100db noise seems pretty mild

I'm done arguing with you. Bye.