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I’m paying for some services and yet I still find myself torrenting the same medias available on these platform.

Because of the fact that video compression is so terrible (especially with Netflix, even on highest plan) that at times it’s unwatchable.
It’s easy if you just want to get the basic game up and running. If you want an authentic experience, however, then you need to put in more work to replicate the quirks of the NES original (the version used for CTWC). There’s everything from the NES’s 60.0988 frames per second to the Nintendo rotation system, delayed auto shift, soft drop speed, to the random piece generator (which is biased against line pieces). There’s also the scoring rules, gravity level progression, and more.

The game mechanics are actually quite complex when you include all of the details. Sure, you might say those details are superfluous, but there’s a reason many people prefer classic Tetris over more recent versions. Nintendo’s original mechanics are much more challenging but also very satisfying to play with.
I don't think this computer has a touchscreen?
I think we are approaching this wrong, its not about if language models are sentient or not. Its about to what degree the average person considers a chat not human.

We are entering a stage were normal people will not be able to tell if they are talking to a human or a language model.

Then the question is, what does that mean - and how are human machine relationships going to change moving forward.

To what degree is the humanness of a chatbot going to affect our emotions forwards it, or how will people let its responses influence their thinking.
Because they are too expensive and take too long to build. One gets much more CO2 reduction per $, and much more quickly, from spending on renewables.
Ask HN: Why don't file systems and OS's provide file system transactions?
This is inspired by [1].

Quite frankly, I don't know why filesystems don't provide these things.

I have read that Windows has a transactional API, but they've actually deprecated it! [2] They say it's because few programs use it.

I mean, sure, that might be true, but I bet it's really important for those programs that do use it.

Bonus question: why does Windows hide its equivalent of `openat()` in the NT API? [3] Rust code seems to claim its fundamental to the NT kernel [4], so why is it not exposed?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32190032

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/deprec...

[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winternl/...

[4]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1c63ec48b8cbf553d291a...
I wouldn't say your coworkers should be Friends with a capital F, but a certain level of friendship is very helpful. Like it or not, your coworkers are humans and they have emotions. A little socialization helps see people as humans and give them the benefit of the doubt when there's a misunderstanding, overcome other communication hurdles, etc.
That’s like asking if Guitar Hero should have tapping, where you bring your strumming hand up to press fret buttons. Speed techniques that work with unmodified hardware and game code should almost always be allowed.
My wife and went to a farm to look at baby goats, then we adopted them. They are fantastic creatures. Sadly, their genetics were awful, and the boys urethra blocked. The girl became hormonal and very aggressive towards women (I was the only one that could interact with her since I could handle it, and she would rub on me).
This seems indicative of a security concern. When this happens it could indicate someone is trying to get a container full of e.g. explosives or chemical weapons to be shipped to a target city without a paper trail. Imagine if the malicious container had e-ink screens on the outside that allowed the numbers to be changed on the fly to route the container through multiple untraceable steps. :(
You can't just run normal linux on them?
> It's always convenient for primary losers to blame their loss on party favor like Hillary's case, even though it simply amounts to increased marketing and exposure which, as was evident in the 2016 elections

For the record, it went far beyond "marketing". In this case it was the DNC prepping Hillary's campaign by leaking questions in advance of debates, denying the Sanders campaign access to critical voter data (which they only restored after he filed a lawsuit against them), strategizing with her campaign on ways to turn democratic voters against him (including the suggestion that they attack on the basis of his religion), changed party rules to increase the number of Hillary's delegates, and established a joint fundraising committee to secretly launder money into her campaign.

That's not to say "marketing" wasn't a part of it too. The DNC pressured the media (including MSNBC) to be favorable to Hillary's campaign and leaked information to reporters they hoped with hurt Sander's campaign. The DNC also leaked info they had on Sanders to Clinton's campaign staff and they paid people to attack his supporters online.

They didn't even deny they rigged the whole thing. In a lawsuit filed against the DNC over their actions the lawyers for the DNC stated that they had no legal obligation to follow their own charter and had every right to "go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.”
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1563874

http://deliveryimages.acm.org/10.1145/1570000/1563874/jacobs...
your son is way ahead of most kids, he'll do just fine even if he doesn't go to MIT
Oh well, maybe some day.
The very same article could be titled "What I don't like about being not determined in life"

It looks like people don't know what to do with their life and find work as a meaningful baseline that is acceptable in social gatherings.
Even the Model T dropped >60% in its first 15 years. Pretty weak argument here if the focus is solely about the cars coming off the line today.

https://www.fordmodelt.net/model-t-ford-prices.htm
So wear an N95. Your problem is not everyone else’s.
The need is high... for bad people doing bad things to everyone else (trying to de-secure the world)?

There's some hypothetical travelling salesperson style questions we might ask. But we don't seem incapable of doing this work today. 98% the needs seem like: can we break the world's crypto. How is this anything beyond a chaotic evil mis-use? How will this do anything but de-secure & instigate risk across the planet?

At least when 99.5% of the engineers were working on ads, they were just wasting their time doing amoral shit. This seems actively immoral.

I really struggle to understand what this all is good for. There probably are some valid & good uses. But it's all hyper-abstract, with little grounding. The attempt to hipster-ize the facilities, to make the physical systems themselves look cool, to present an impressive front: it all works counter to the very essence that made computing cool for so much of my growing-up period: computing in my era was personal. It empowered people. I don't see how this will help actual people at all. It seems mostly like a big hard problem for which the winner reaps some eventual explotative spoils. At likely cost to general world order & peace. Hiss boo.
I mean that sounds a lot like what DWave and Google are pursuing with the adiabatic QCs.
It's still in the mail, so we'll see! As long as it avoids the macOS issue where my left and right monitors randomly flip positions, I'll be happy :)
In my experience living in Latin America, you have to know decent numbers in Spanish in order to not get people ripping you off. Really important here, considering that prices are often above 1000 pesos/etc for things, if you can't understand (with conversion!) mental math in those units or how to say numbers that high you're probably going to get screwed over at least once by someone looking to capitalize on your ignorance. It's the first bit of advice I have for anyone coming in from out of the country other than the other two bits: don't take offence to someone making fun of you (If they don't make fun of you or mess with you a bit after getting to know you, even just a little bit, it means they don't like you, which is really quite something a lot of other cultures don't get so easily), and don't do cocaine unless you want to be looked at as a potential victim. Same thing with the taxi, except it helps to know the local slang for a 'meter' -- 'la maria', and a phrase around the lines of 'no me jodas, no soy gringo, muchas gracias' (Don't fuck with me, I'm not a gringo, many thanks) will get you a lot further too.
That's how I felt living in Washington after having spent most of my life on the North Dakota prairie.
I'm not at all a gamer, but can type decently fast and see much similarity between the "rolling" technique and using all 10 fingers on the keyboard --- e.g. 120WPM is a rate of 10 keys per second, which is extremely difficult to do even with a single finger on one key, but spreading the energy across all the fingers makes it much easier to achieve those speeds. Incidentally, the fastest typers don't use a rigid key-to-finger mapping for ths reason too; they tend to use the closest finger that's available.
Yes exactly, I was only focused on the direction, not the magnitude.
> Some of those can continue to get cheaper, but land costs for example aren’t dropping.

The great thing about solar is that you can put a lot of it directly on rooftops in most places. Obviously not on top of skyscrapers in NYC, but there are plenty of homes and businesses with ample room for panels.
Recently I bought a hard drive that was "shipped and sold by amazon" and it was not only completely DOA, but the serial number was fake. It did not verify using the manufacturer's lookup page. It had also arrived practically loose inside a way-too-large box with almost no padding inside.

I returned that and simultaneously ordered the exact same item again from the same page, still "shipped and sold by amazon", and this time the properly packaged product arrived, with a valid serial number, and it worked just fine.
Quick C++ Benchmark
Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple take AI more seriously?
With companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, NVidia, and a slew of startups, all working on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, I find it bizarre that Apple hasn't taken this area more seriously. In the long term, it definitely could cost them.

Siri could benefit from LLMs, and given Apple's customer base, an LLM-powered customer support could help them provide answers to questions quickly and only forward the tricky ones to human customer supports, saving cost and time for Apple.

When it comes to autocorrect, the situation with iOS is a joke compared to Android and even Windows. A better AI-powered autocorrect could put Apple on par with Google and Microsoft.

Some might say Apple is secretly doing all of this, but given the nature of such models, I find it difficult to believe that Apple wouldn't open-source [part of] their model.

There's just so much going on in AI and the hype around it is mostly exploited by Apple's rivals, while Apple has been mostly silent and irrelevant.
OP wasn't suggesting anyone build a machine shop and then not charge money, they responded to this argument above:

> Do you want to build a space for occasional use by a random, large assortment of people, or one where the members make consistent, weekly use of the space and value the space highly?

by saying that price barrier is not a prerequisite for quality and safety of a space. People can value the space they're in because they were initiated into the culture, not merely because it costs $120/month.
Any ya'll numerous downvoters care to make stance? It seems obvious to me the difference: an AI has to be elaborately re-trained/re-programmed. A more or less total mind wipe. How many AI's can adapt & change, that we've seen? These expert systems seem clearly a product of trained learning, with minimal adaptive capability. Sentience seems much more about having that adaptive, cognizant, realtime model of real reality. I see no evidence anything comes remotely close. Please counter-shit-post me. I have a hard hard hard time seeing why we should take any of this seriously.
Oh sure; x86 Chromebooks that support https://mrchromebox.tech firmware upgrades are actually some of the nicest Linux laptops on the market once they've been unlocked and flashed. I just want to call out that the author is precisely backwards and Crostini is a VM and a container and not bare Linux on hardware.

Edit: There's also Crouton, for an intermediate option that does need developer mode.
I would listen to that podcast. The interviewer and interviewees were extremely sober about the situation. They described everything that was going on in detail. None of which is in dispute. The main problem is actually population increase which is driving overconsumption of water. That is not cyclic. Climate change is exacerbating the issue.
>Isn't it sad that Elon has been so successful with Tesla and SpaceX, revolutionary success at that, that people feel impelled to dis him?

"I'm not at all an Elon fanboi, but" is just a variant of "I hate Trump, but".
As a OneMedical member, this wasn’t great news. I’m fine buying random shit from Amazon, but medical anything with them makes me now look elsewhere.
What's the power consumption of a device like this? Can you flash Ubuntu on it? What about Pop OS!?
Seeing why someone would take issue with something is not agreeing it's an issue. I understand why the Tetris community might have been unhappy that a strategy impossible for 90% (completely made up number, I have no idea how common the ability is) of people became the meta.

I wouldn't have banned it, but I would understand if they decided to have separate categories for hypertapping and "regular" play. Rolling seems to have fixed the problem.
It is an abbreviation of an expatriate, a person who lives outside their native country.

"American expatriates in London"

It had generally been used for retired people, but remote (pandemic) workers have greatly expanded the word's meaning and usage.
Everyone relies on intuition to determine what sentience is, because there's no clear definition of the term to begin with. The difference is I know that I am sentient so thinking something like me being sentient is a reasonable intuition.

On the other hand thinking a simple data storage structure is sentient merely because it's big doesn't sound very compelling. You think the sentience of a dictionary depends on
its size or the words you store in them? A phonebook of the United States is ten times more sentient than one of Spain because you can retrieve more data from it? If you walk into a warehouse does the warehouse become sentient?

You're right that it's exactly like Searle's Chinese Room experiment because Searle was and is correct (and people stil horribly mangle and misunderstand his argument), functionalism is silly. The mechanical turk can play chess better than my cat but is neither sentient or even intelligent, it's just the most proximate machine you interact with.
> And, I want to make it clear that I only received racist attacks (physical and verbal) from cops in BKK and one where else in the country -- but of course, everything became fine once they realized I was an American...

you said you experienced racism, that's what I meant, which I thought was pretty clear by the context of people were racist against you until they realized you were american, which is the heart of my question - why is being american an acceptable form of whiteness to the people who were racist against you
Getting a dog and a bunch of hobbies was huge for me too.

Need to get out of your headspace and ideally out of the office.
Discipline & lack of exercise can be remedied by getting a membership at the health club and doing low till natural gardening.
This is the real answer to why were they experiencing this distress
> It’s extremely hard to be friends with your co-workers. You have to go out of your way to reach out and be available. Friendships don’t happen “organically” like they do in the office.

I'm working in an Italian co-working space and can relate. I'm the only foreigner here. I would like to be friends with them and practice my Italian but my workload and schedule doesn't allow me to be always available. I'm not used to reaching out to people. Usually I work and discuss with my colleagues and relationship just happens. Would like to know a way to improve this. I hate small talks though.
Good, as imagine what you would need to believe to equivocate between people and shell scripts. I really think this view is more indicative of a peer enabled personality disorder than insight or compassion. I'm very harsh about this because when I wondered what belief his equivocation was enabling, it became clear that the person involved could not tell fiction from truth. The belief in the aliveness of the code reinforces the a-humanity of people and reduces us all to a narrative experience, completely divorced from physical or greater reality.

When you can't tell the difference between people and symbols you've accepted nihilism, and with the begged question as to why. This person wasn't sentimental, he lost the plot. Google has a lot of power and a lot of crackpots, and that puts them all at risk politically and commercially. If as an individual you want to fight for something, consider seriously whether someone who compares a script to men and women should be operating what is effectively your diary.
Albuq was a beneficiary of the San Juan - Chama Project [https://www.sanjuanchama.org/] which (in 1978) diverted 86-110K ac-ft from the Colorado to the Rio Grande thanks to 3 tunnels. Albug got ~48K ac-ft.

But then Santa Fe needed some of that.
This 2022 article is about plans to cope with that dilemma.

[https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2022/05/18/where-will-the-wa...]
Only people that deal with stuff created by chemical reactions have a need for quantum computers... None else.
Strongly recommending not using it in a blanket way is not helpful.

I have used it extensively in an embedded product for many years, and it has just worked.

Sure it doesn't have all the postgis goodies, but it has enough that it's not usually hard to find a good way to do the spatial queries you need.

I'm quite surprised by this thread so far, given how robust it's been for me for many years using it in many different ways.
I really want carbon capture to work, but arguing from first principles, I think the approach in the paper will be a niche product, and is probably a decade too early. (I honestly do wish them well.)

Feel free to poke holes in my math:

From the article, the proposed technology is about 30% energy efficient. Let's round that up to 33.3%, so I can multiply by three below.

They propose using this for natural gas production for home heating. They're competing with hybrid heat pump water heaters and air-to-air heat pumps that work throughout Europe. Those have coefficients of power above four, in practice.

So, it will take 12x more electricity to heat homes with legacy boilers and synthetic LNG than with heat pumps, assuming no transmission loss. PG&E in California is notoriously inefficient; they somehow triple the cost of electricity when they deliver it. Assuming that is pessimal, and that natural gas distribution is free, it will cost more than 4x as much. At current energy prices, that means the heat pumps pay for themselves quickly.

With the Ukraine crisis, leaders should find N houses on electric heat, and roughly 3N on natural gas. Upgrade them all to heat pumps. This would have zero net effect on the energy grid, but remove three houses worth of natural gas heating demand! Manufacturing and installation for this already ramped, so it could start happening tomorrow. (Well, Monday, since it is the weekend.)

On to replacing LNG at all costs, because we have to, and replacing infrastructure won't work for some applications:

There are carbon capture technologies that use less energy than burning the equivalent fossil fuel created. Say one is "just" break even. For the same solar panel consumption as the technology in the article, you could extract and burn 1 carbon unit of fossil fuel, and capture three units of carbon! That's much better than net zero.

As I said, I wish them well, but I hope a more efficient approach wins. As the article says, they will need 10 extra years of solar panel ramp up for their math to work. By then, we'd better have already ramped carbon capture!
I wonder if quantum computing is just a mirage that results from looking too much at the time complexity of quantum algorithms versus the cost in qubits, which are still wildly expensive. Maybe qubits will just never scale to the number of qubits needed to meaningfully outperform classical computers.
You mean instant goatification.
I genuinely like the sentiment. But in my lived experience and study of history, the people who want to knock off the alphas mostly just want to be the alphas themselves. All communist revolutions I'm aware of embody this principle extremely well.

The closest people have gotten to a large-scale egalitarian society is Scandinavian social democracy.
You're assuming I'm white...think about that for a second.

I don't mean to be flippant, I really mean to give it a thought as to why you made the assumption.
The Flooded, Man-Made Sahara Sea
I guess the number of comments explain
Gen-Z graduates want more flexibility, more security – and more money
Australia and its policy on coal mines and such seems like a bizarre version of USA Republicans. It's like English-colonialism Texas.
You should probably do what makes you happy to be honest. If you really don't get on with the team and you feel depressed maybe this job isn't right for you and not worth the effort trying to make it work as others here have suggested...

You seem like a slightly more normal version of me. I'm fairly sure I have aspergers so being the weirdo in the office is kinda my thing. I've never fit in anywhere I work so I can relate to this quite a bit. If the company is large enough I'll often find a another weirdo that I'll get on with, but at smaller places that doesn't usually happen.

I guess the only thing I don't relate to is caring about it. Sometimes I can feel lonely, but I guess that's not the issue in your case because you're not feeling like this when you're working from home. That suggests this probably more to do with feeling like an outsider than a need for social interaction. I'm not sure how you would solve that.

You can try to make friends with people as some people here have suggested but that doesn't mean you'll necessarily fit in - at least in my experience. In my case trying to talk to people to make friends would just solidify my position as an outsider if anything as I wouldn't be accepted either way.

I think you have two choices: Either you try to understand why you care about being an outsider and learn to deal with it or find a different job - that's assuming there's really no one in your office you think you'll be able to get on with. I'm not sure you can force friendships regardless of how much you work on social skills. You can definitely fake them, but if feeling like an outsider is the problem here simulating a personality that people will accept probably won't make you feel any better.

All that said, I'm probably the least qualified person in this thread to answer this question so maybe don't listen to me. =) Hope you find some answers here though.
> What does media coverage of climate change have in common with coverage of COVID-19? Each has been an example of the media practice of "bothsidesism," whereby journalists strive to present both sides of an issue, even in cases where most credible sources fall on one side.

This guy must be living in a different planet. On planet Earth, what I remember about Covid coverage is unrelenting one-sided propaganda.

Also, if there's anything such as faith in science, it's due the perception that dissent can exist to some extent.

If you take that away, the legitimacy of scientific institutions will be questioned even more.