skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what do you think the logic of the Cold War was? It was exactly this. Economic isolation and forcing them into a military arms race worked once. And Russia today is no match for the Soviet Union.

We've had threats of nuclear annihilation and proxy wars literally for decades, the world didn't start in the 90s. Go watch some TV commercials from the 70s and 80s.(https://youtu.be/F0OPVi90-lg), this is how most of the latter half of the 20th century looked like.
There are many practical applications of quantum mechanics.

The one that I remember foremost is tunneling to (dis)charge the floating gates on flash memory transistors, but that just scratches the surface.

"Flash memory chips found in USB drives use quantum tunneling to erase their memory cells."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_quantum_mech...

This I did not know:

"It even exists in the simple light switch. The switch would not work if electrons could not quantum tunnel through the layer of oxidation on the metal contact surfaces."
What alternatives, other than sanctions, do you think would be better?
The current model Mac Pro at least supports add-in PCIe cards. So you are only 1 sound card away from having as many headphone and other audio jacks that you want.
Why does someone that listens to classical hear harmonics (I'm still not sure whether you mean tonal harmonies or harmonics aka timbre) better than someone who doesn't?

Sure, maybe they'd be better at picking out a bassoon in the mix than a metal fan, and a metal fan might be able to tell the difference between a Jackson guitar and a ESP guitar than the classical fan, but that's just due to familiarity, not their overall sense of hearing.

I don't think any serious musician would agree with you whether you're talking harmony or harmonics. However, listening to music in general will definitely allow you to hear different harmonic intervals better than if you didn't, but this is again just due to familiarity/ear training and doesn't overlap into your overall ability to hear.

We just use mnemonics. For example, Amen = 4th twinkle twinkle = 5th NBC = 6th etc.
No, it's hetrogeneity, system integration, pipeline width and instruction set as well.
It's only 3 IQ points, 1/5 of a standard deviation so not really massive. Of course there are much bigger effects on IQ such as the factors that cause low income children, and people in poor countries to have low IQs which swamp the lead effect.
For a prosumer there’s only so much you can offload to iCloud or NAS and eventually these machines, which are typically owned for a long time, do run out of space.

Apple added back expandable internal storage for the Mac Pro and I hoped they would relent here too
Two thoughts:

- You couldn't get a better argument for totalitarian "We should have our own internet" than "Hey, look, if we don't, the whole world will just cut us off from the Internet like they did Russia". Expect more banking, business, communication silos from nationalist/dictatorial governments.

- Russia's propaganda is eerily similar to the propaganda the USA pushed out during its wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. They call it a "special military operation". We called the Iraq War "Operation Iraqi Freedom", and the Afghanistan War "Operation Enduring Freedom". We never officially declare as war (haven't since WWII), even when we kill over a million people[1]. (we killed hundreds of thousands in both Iraq[2] and Afghanistan[3] respectively) We also falsified evidence to go to war, despite in-country and worldwide protests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...
So? How does that support your argument? Even a black market operates as a market. If the value of an item increases, demand will increase, all else equal.
> this information has since been disseminated to CEOs etc via some sort of national security briefing

That is not how these things work.
> Humanity either needs to "agree to disagree" on wide swaths of things we care a whole bunch about (abortion, firearms, lgbtq, etc) or we need to go back to not discussing those things in public or polite company.

You can't 'agree to disagree' on those topics though, specially when laws ban abortion, for example. If you think we should do that, then making laws regarding those things (abortion, "don't say gay") would need to be completely forbidden and you would need to let people do what they want.
I had the same reaction. Pretty mind-blowing that it's so common, and that they encourage each other in their... what I can only describe as 'Evil'.

The abusers and their mental gymnastics not only hit home, it drove home the point that I was most definitely right to distance myself as much as possible rather than ever hope for some sort of reform.
If you have some monster like 3090, you expect it to run games smoothly on “ultra” settings. In reality, some games are pushing its limits even on “middle” settings (Cyberpunk 2077 @ 2k, RDR2 @ 4k). Any emulator will hit performance, so if you want some top-of-the-top performance - you still need Windows PC with RTX 3090. And it will not be even more expensive than Mac Studio ;)
Does "a very short period of time" means like a few decades?
Hmm, thanks; that seems interesting. I guess I need to read up more. On searching in Google someone[1] was quoting Xeon L1 fetch as approximately 4 cycles. I don't know if this is an average across branch prediction hit/miss, I will look for source of these numbers and try to read what has changed.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4087331
The thermals suggest no. Twice the CPU heat is probably not in the current MacBook Pro design.
I have vented - about management and to management - often to give a signal that I am frustrated (managers can't read between the lines, they are humans) and to get management to realize that they are doing a bad job.

Venting is a very important social tool to account for mediocrity or lackadaisical attitude of others.

Venting is not useful if you yourself can do something about it.
I think - hope - that it won't go nuclear.

Let me start with the possibility of cyberattacks. Biden (I think it was he, anyway) made a comment about American offensive cyber capabilities. I think that was a warning. "Hey, Russia, yes you could cyberattack us and cause a lot of problems. But we can do the same to you, and maybe better. Don't open that door." And so far, they haven't.

Maybe the same thing could be said about tactical nukes. "You want to use a tactical nuke on something in Ukraine? Think twice. If a tactical nuke just happened to wind up in Ukrainian hands, well, that armored column that's stalled outside of Kyiv would look like an awfully tempting target..."

Would that be enough to keep Russia from using them? I don't know.

And I think this article is off base when it talks about escalation even if the Ukranians win. It talks about Ukranians crossing the border into Russia to carry out attacks. In what world is that going to happen? What do they think they're going to do, march on Moscow?

I mean, I can see some accidental or incidental incursions. I can't see a real deliberate crossing. (I can see Russian propaganda turning an incidental crossing into "The Nazi Ukranians are coming for us! It's Barbarossa 2.0! Every man to the trenches!" But that's just propaganda - unless Putin believes it.)
Unemployed people don't need nannies, and they're the poorest. I think you're deliberately avoiding saying that poor people abuse their children, which is true. It's not much about affording anything.
Poland's proposal on jets not 'tenable,' Pentagon says
From what I gathered, the lawsuit is asserting that the US Navy is not abiding by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. I understand this to be outside the scope of a court-martial, as this is federal law and not from the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
> I never enjoyed talking about politics or current events with coworkers. I'd typically steer the conversation back to my job (which is what I'm supposed to be doing anyway).
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> Any socializing after work, I'd stick to safe subjects like family, clients, sports, etc.
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> Is that what you're looking for as well? Or are you interested in talking about politics with like minded coworkers? Or do you want coworkers with different views as long as they respect yours?

I'm an opinionated person and I don't mind sharing my opinion. That being said, I can avoid talking politics at work.

If I do share my opinion, I don't even mind if someone gets into a heated debate with me -- I can get over it. What I'm specifically concerned about is being blackballed long-term because we don't agree.

> I've never been privy to this, so I'm curious what this situation was like for you and how you felt pressured. Any example you can share? Or is this more about trying to prevent a possible situation?

This isn't quite the same, but it's tangential. I had a former coworker who would try to tightly control conversation that occurred in the office. Her sensitivity was sky high. EVERYTHING was a personal attack somehow. Working with her was absolute misery. It killed office camaraderie and we had no fun whatsoever. This was pre-COVID, when office common-space chats were still common.

After that experience, I don't want to work in an environment where people can't be adults and do some emotional regulation where it's appropriate.

I'm with you generally. There are strategies to mitigate some of that stuff at work. While you don't HAVE to like the people you work with, it sure does help.
Pretty much. It's called "serving" for a reason. It's not about you.
>population growth had to end at some point.

They'll be fine, I expect no prolonged famine, if any. Population growth will continue as expected. Ignoring western sanctions in exchange for food is a good idea if it comes to that.
>It's just not fashionable to say good things about Intel right now.

Well, being single-handedly responsible for the nearly complete stagnation in processor performance for 10 out of the last 12 years probably has something to do with that.

That said, Intel's products and their performance are indeed quite underrated especially once you consider that they're being generated on a relatively old process node; it will be interesting to see what kind of performance they'll be able to wring out at 5 or 7nm.
That was when China had a GDP of $400B, as opposed to now ($15T).
Your pi-hole doesn't block ads like this

https://m.imgur.com/IZwvACb
This is the old scientific American article (from 1973) from where a lot of the claims originate, to my knowledge:

Gerald Oster, "Auditory beats in the brain", Scientific American, 229 (4): pages 94-102, October 1973.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/auditory-beats-in...

From what I understand, later controlled studies do not seem to back the claim that specific frequency differences lead the brain to an alpha state, or theta state etc. as claimed. But there may be potential in reducing anxiety:

R Padmanabhan 1, A J Hildreth, D Laws. "A prospective, randomised, controlled study examining binaural beat audio and pre-operative anxiety in patients undergoing general anaesthesia for day case surgery", Anaesthesia, 2005.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16115248/
Eating a few bags of candy isn't going to do it. It's going to take years and years of constant exposure. People in this thread need to calm down. Even if you did lose 5 IQ points, it's not like Flowers For Algernon here... No one would even notice. The only reason we can is due to large sample sizes over decades and decades.
> Why can’t you? Is it impossible to imagine civil friendly people who simply do not share one’s views on these issues?

Of course, let's put the transphobes and trans people on the same room. That should play out well, like KKK and black people and Nazis and the Jews, right?
I mean I kinda agree with you, but for 15 bucks a month is it really such a big deal? If the service went away tomorrow I wouldn't really care at all... I enjoy it, and it enables me to game on a level that would normally require thousands of euros of equipment, so .... Yeah, I don't care about gaming freedom it seems.. I still want OSS for my OS though ;)
Are CppCon attendees more vulnerable than other parts of society, that are still open to this person? If not, then is it really CppCon's place to "protect" anyone? "Protection" is something I expect from schools or youth sporting organizations, not professional conferences.

In other words, why not just call this the prison system's failure to protect the community by releasing this person, and that they should have kept them jailed for life?
Is this because of signal speed anyway reaching almost speed of light?
I don't think you can use a trademark in ad text. But companies still try to wiggle around this.
Yes, it is indeed a simple game. I do agree with everything you have said and I am very familiar with those thanks. I am too addicted to history. Let me ask you this.

Why hasn't Putin been successful with all his experience? Did he overplay his hand?
Chickens took over America’s dinner plates
Honestly CPUs and memory fail very rarely. If the storage was on standard m.2 sticks and maybe the I/O was on a replaceable module in case Ethernet fails… would that be enough to assuage most server concerns?

I don’t see Apple getting back into that business. But I think they have the ability to make a good option if they want.
What? You can't buy the chips separately, but the base system prices for a mac studio with a m1 max is $1999, and the version with the m1 ultra is $3999. You also get 2x the ram, and 2x the disk space when upgrading.
This is the real test. While we (HackerNews) readers might be able to realize they are fake, that other 90% of the world won't.

The reverse side of it is if an overwhelming amount of deep fakes get called out, people will stop trusting the real ones (we have already started stepping into that reality)
To use the bug collecting analogy, I like the idea that by capturing and describing these particles perhaps we've killed them in the process.
It’s a sort of social proof. If you want a larger company to reduce risk, you can probably correlate placement with revenue.

In the Yellow pages, display ads were the same thing. If you don’t know of them before hand, you might assume that the half page display ad was a more “legit” company than “AAAAA-1 Plumbers”.
You still can't tell the capabilities of the USB C port just by looking at it.

I don't buy the "saves a cable" argument. My laptop is all USB C (made sure all the ports had all the same capabilities) and now I need to carry a dongle everywhere if I want to remain compatible with the other screens that I need to use or if I want to use a wired keyboard or mouse. And a good dongle is not cheap.

Mostly what USB C does well, is if you are not an iPhone user, and ask someone for a charging cable. It will fit. I'd rather just carry my own cable than have spent that dongle money.
I follow exactly one person on Twitter. A scientist who I consider particularly interesting. And even then, I get a lot of garbage and political ranting. I realise how it can get entertaining and addictive, but I rather spend my time in a more fulfilling way.

Also, there are so many narcissists there...
Nobody ever asks this question about a spring supporting a mass against gravity.

There's nothing actually holding atoms together, it's all electric fields. So why is a magnet different? (it's not).

People also don't ever ask this question about gravity itself.
The world has been taken hostage by the business model of the media: which is fear and outrage porn.

Whatever narrative tugs at the heartstrings the most and gets the most clicks and shares becomes the only permitted reality that the mainstream public and government functions off of.

The public is wholly ignorant of that region’s history and energy politics and everything involved yet yet they think they’re experts. You have people who are literally crying about this conflict and trying to get involved solely because the media told them that they had to care: most of these people never even noticed Russian invasions of Georgia and Ukraine before because they were never told to care.
This doesn't matter if the goal is just to sneak them into Ukrainian airspace to an airfield. The goal isn't to fight or engage AA, it's just to move them from NATO airspace into Ukrainian hands without being noticed.
Pretty cool! I'd appreciate a demo with a more realistic app. Also, are you able traverse a more complicated / dynamic app like Twitter?
The original reason was that LTE modems used a lot more power and the small phones didn't have enough battery.

The other reason being that it was an obvious differentiator from small iPhones.
I switched from 27in 1440p to 27in 4K recently, and I am enjoying it. I previously used 100% scaling, but now I'm using 200%. I have less screen real estate, but everything is more crisp, and I find myself leaning forward at my monitor less and with less eye strain.
> requires some metals Russia has too

it's not like those metals are _only_ found in Russia. The upfront capital expense of opening new mines somewhere else is high, so doesn't make economic sense when Russia has already made this investment in the USSR era, and can pump it out cheap(er) now.

But if the need arises, other sources of such metals can be acquired in the medium to long term. Same can be said for the rare earths from China.
That's not remotely the same as what you described in the first post.
Montreal orchestra drops Russian piano prodigy from concerts amid backlash
They would have to dedicate a software team to writing drivers so you could run games on it. They don't value gaming though.
"the average number of toes had decreased in half" is very hard to parse. I have no idea what you intended by this proposition, but here is my interpretation, and yes, I believe you do expect to see one half of the population average a lower number of toes.

Say I measure the average number of toes in the population twice. Once in 1990, and once in 2020, and there is no difference in the average number of toes between these two populations. Now instead imagine, for my second measurement, that I sort the people by how many toes they have, pick midpoint of that list, and take the average number of toes in each group. The average number of toes has now indeed decreased in this half. Mind you, I'm just responding to what you said. I have no idea what you meant.
Indeed the UX of grabbing your phone and it's unlocked in one step is a superior UX. Face ID is three steps.

As a UX professional I strive for the simplest UX(less is more). Maybe Apple doesn't strive for the same thing in this regards?

I do hope they add Touch ID back to all their phones someday.. fingers crossed!
Yep, finally Electron apps will run smoothly on consumer hardware.
but do the m1s have ecc?
> The devil is in the details. What does "us stopping and them stopping will likely be brokered in a single deal" mean?

It means a single agreement would outline both conditions. Not sure what isn't clear there.

> What about the scenario where Russia doesn't care about the West and continues to occupy Ukraine for months, maybe years, in the future?

I believe I commented on that exact scenario: "sanctions would continue for an indeterminant (but likely not indefinite) time."

> Right now I see a lot of "we apply pressure Until They Stop (TM)" but I don't see where "Until They Stop (TM)" ends unless we're planning to enter another Cold War where we sever communications with Russia forever.

Seeing as how we didn't sever communications with the USSR forever in the first Cold War, I doubt that'd be a thing we did in the second. Like with everything else, we'd keep punishing them until we stop feeling the need. Right now there is a need: maybe it pulls them off of Ukraine. If that winds up not happening, maybe we keep them going for a while as punishment. Its a pretty simple give and take.
Could also be shots from weapons mounted on armored vehicles that aren't strictly speaking tanks. Ex-Soviet mechanized forces (both sides in this fight) field a bewildering array of tracked and wheeled vehicles that look more-or-less tank-like but aren't considered tanks because they are much more lightly armored.

They're typically equipped with heavy weapons that are smaller or less powerful than tank main guns but larger than something that could readily be carried by a soldier or two.

Tank misidentification satirized here: https://twitter.com/pascalheyman/status/1088555831187128321
So? It's not China that's marching on Kyiv.
I agree with Karrot. I also think it's irresponsible to keep digging the hole you're in
No, and there is no reason to believe it's toxic if you read the Wikipedia article.
The Logic of the cold war was to enrich a ton of politically connected companies. Whom I am sure will be right there to make a shit ton more money off the American Tax Payer, Present and Future
But you can use a trademark as an ad targeting term... which feels a little trademark-violation-y to me.
Yes there is, it's called IPNS. It's part of IPFS and still under active development. It can be slow depending on your settings, but it works.
and writing it down in public may make it a lot harder for Sue to change her views, or walk back an over reach after those interactions happen since at any point in the future she could be confronted with her prior dissonant statements.
Are you rich now?
It could be. He was accused of being a double agent so you probably are right. I think I am thinking too much. But it is interesting how the Russian president has often been portrayed when he could be a dud? Not as smart and strategic? Just thinking out loud so don't mind me hey haha...

I can't just can't fathom how a man so smart as he is often portrayed - with b*s and feared is head to head with the Ukrainian president. Did everyone get him wrong for years? Hmm...
Apparently this was an unpleasant surprise for the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60657155?ns_mchan...
Source? Ben & Jerry's had 9% sales growth last year, out pacing the rest of the market at 4.5%. They haven't reported this year so I'm wondering where you're reading that, I can't find anything.
Magic is a lot of never seen work, followed by a reveal.
It's virtue signaling. Companies are trying to outdo one another in showing support. This is why we get insane things like Namecheap threatening to cancel domains belonging to anyone registering from Russia.
I don't think so. Banning strikes me as a disproportionate response. People can individually mute him if they want.
The US can't make iphones the same way that China can't make their own Silicon Valley (god knows they've tried - they ended up with Shenzen, which to be fair, is called the Silicon Valley of electronics).
All correct.

Oh ... and if things are still a bit floppy, just fix the gauge and you are good.
>I assume this preference is based on a historical evaluation of the performance of democratic and autocratic governments?

What the fuck are you smoking? Are you arguing that there is no a priori reason to prefer democracy?
and we're talking about a confrontation with Russia right now, not with China. If China wants to pay the bill for Russia's adventures they're free to do so, but from their ambivalent reaction it's pretty obvious that they're not to keen on it either. The West is 50% of the world's economy, Russia 2%. China knows this.

There's no reason to instinctively flinch every time someone in the Kremlin or in Beijing throws a tantrum. Leadership in China and Russia responds to strength and making countries pay a price for moving borders violently is going to make the world more stable.

The US and Europe aren't going to get nuked, where do you think the children of all those leaders live right now? You think they're gonna glass their own kids in those fancy apartments in Rotterdam, London or New York? It's just bluster.