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"The philosopher Nick Bostrom contended that, if humanity successfully colonized the planets within its “light cone”—the plausibly reachable regions of the universe—and harnessed the computational power of the stars to run servers upon which the lives of digital consciousnesses might be staged, this could result in the efflorescence of approximately ten to the power of fifty-eight beings."

It's hilarious how much this sounds, and the science-fiction writer Charles Stross has pointed this out in the past, Russian cosmism [1], a weird offshoot of Christianity dressed in secularism and rationalism. That something like this emerged so quickly out of the decidedly pragmatic and genuinely secular altruism of Singer is in my opinion evidence of the weakness of Effective Altruism as a philosophical system. It's such a bureaucratic, mechanical system that it's already started to branch off into weirder, less utilitarian schools.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov#P...
I signed up months ago for the beta and I'm still not in.
You can't game on M1 or Mac AFAIK
> I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of this post is. GNU/Linux is already ready for the desktop; I and others use it.

You're on Hacker News, I presume you're a professional programmer, that says a lot about Linux readiness.
My experience has been that too many management training courses have an Idea Metaphor that they then try to warp reality to. If you are lucky, its merely cringe ("be a warrior monk!"). If you are unlucky, its actively harmful. I assert that this forcing of metaphors on trainees is the #1 reason why corporate mgmt training feels like such a high mental friction game.

I would suggest that the best training is one that takes a world view that you are already somewhat sympathetic to and expands your thinking. So for example I've drawn some inspiration from commentary in the Gita about focusing on the task at hand, not attaching too hard to the outcome, because of my cultural background, but Ive also read Jung and found it useful to think about the ways organizations build up a common store of mental state like a collective unconscious. That worked for me, but your background and interests will be different. Reading fiction, strangely, also helped me, esp when I started to manage more diverse teams. It can be easier to reason about fictional characters than real people sometimes, like a practice runin a sandbox.
Exactly. Not just 1 model but you can compare identical ThinkPad models as well and AMD versions have significantly better battery life. Not only that, even last year's identical models with 11th Gen Intel CPUs have better battery life than their new 12th Gen models. So Intel's power efficiency actually decreased compared to last year, even though they introduced the hybrid architecture.

In some instances Alder Lake CPUs slightly edge out Apple's CPUs in performance, but with a terrible battery life (~4 hours of real world battery life vs >10 hours on Apple laptops) and noisy fans.

AMD on the other hand seems to have focused on getting a good balance this year. 6800U models have significant performance improvements over the last gen while improving the battery life as well.

I am thinking of buying a new laptop this year, but I am waiting for the AMD models. For anyone interested, these are the models I am waiting for:

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkBook/ThinkBook_13s_G4_...

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X13_Gen_3...

Both have much better battery life than their Intel counterparts:

ThinkBook 13s Gen 4 (AMD): 14 hours

ThinkBook 13s Gen 4 (Intel): 10.9 hours

ThinkPaf X13 Gen 3 (AMD): 15.68 hours

ThinkPad X13 Gen 3 (Intel): 11.8 hours

These numbers are usually lower in real life, but they are comparable with each other.
Ask HN: What is the most common name for the www/htdocs/public_HTML directory?
Documenting a static website generator and I want to know the generic name of the directory that holds the files to be published: HTML file, image assets, etc. Audience is semi-technical: they're tech writers who can work the command line to use Hugo or Jekyll but who probably don't know Python or Go very well.

I call it the "publish directory" but perhaps there's a more popular term of art? ISPs tend to call it the www directory, or public_html, or htdocs, but I'm not convinced any of them is particularly well known to less technical peeps.
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Completely agree. I’m convinced that the get married have kids, raise them well, they become good workers, if you time it right we are all corporate drones as a happy family - dream is pretty horrible.

I want to work to not have to work anymore. I can’t think about a partner because I’m too dead from work to give someone else the commitment they might deserve. Don’t want kids that sounds like work. Nothing is wrong with me just want to be able to relax without commitment.
I seem to remember Slashdot holding up.
True but that works better when the lynchees get to vote with the same ease as the lynchers.
Me too, that's awkward
People who keep on having children are often the kind of people who like children. Under those circumstances I assure you that is not a hellish life.
I think they are using the term "attraction" explicitly as a force to draw them together. If they fell apart, it was due to a lack of attraction.It isn't so much attention from an "unattractive" person can cause attraction - this appears to be very rare, but you are sure to not be attracted to anybody that you give no attention. Best bet is to first change your attractivity to your target (may or may not be possible) and then change the attention.
The love languages concept is pseudoscience, just like the MBTI.
> Android is a Linux

Android has 0 to do with Linux.

No glibc, gcc, glib, no Xorg/Wayland, no most Linux services/daemons.

The only thing that's common between them is the kernel. Well, the kernel alone is bloody useless. Also, Google intends to replace the Linux kernel in Android with Zircon and has already done so for some of its devices.

Secondly, show me the people who use Android as their desktop OS. All the 10 of them in the entire world.
Good point. We have other options for sign up pretty high on our list. We wanted to launch the MVP as soon as possible to hear feedback so that we can talk to customers and iterate on the right thing. We'll prioritize this higher :)
I have never been in the US, but I grew up in a rural (catholic) village in the Alps — I think rural people everywhere are alike, especially if they live in somewhat remote geographies.

E.g. it is a very important skill in an rural environment to know how to shut up and not say what you are thinking. This is why the recent vreferendum on abortion in Kansas went the way it did. People on the countryside tend to be more comservative, sure. But they also hate being told what they are allowed to do.
As per most reviews 12th gen is more power efficient. Particularly for the use cases you have mentioned, as P cores wouldn't be working most of the time and E core are much more power efficient.
To me, liquid hydrogen does not make any sense in aviation (except maybe for rockets), because it's so difficult to store and handle on the ground, and even more onerous in the air.

Also flying wings will be like riding in a rollercoaster, since the window seats are far from the axis of rotation when banking, etc.

I've seen concepts for small (2-6pax) hydrogen fuel-cell electric planes using Toyota mirai fuel tanks, which make some sense.

But synthetic hydrocarbons (eg butanol), and the process to make them sustainably, make much more sense to me as future aviation jet fuel.
The author is the founder, owner, and operator of a company, and from a quick view, is quite successful at his work. Plus, he is in a relationship where his partner is supportive of his dreams and long hours. And he has kids at the same time.

That sounds like a great life to me. Not a lot of people get the opportunity, and not very many people can pull it off. I'm sure life will be more relaxed when the kids leave the home after become adults, too.
Spaced repetition could replace time currently wasted on homework. As a kid I would have much preferred to sit in front of Anki instead of being laden with hours of homework, and it probably would have done me more good over the long term.
Could she keep staying at different friends places? Move every 2-4 weeks. Get a new phone every month.

Hassle/cost wise that might be in-between the two extremes.
I guess we've met different people!
Why do you keep posting this? One would think by the 10th heavily downvoted comment in the same vein you would have figured out by now that the flaming is neither clever nor appreciated.
Hopefully Qualcomm’s Nuvia acquisition will bear some fruit sometime soon.
I'm in a very similar demographic as the author so I empathise with how hard things can be, but this:

>there’s not a lot of time for communication with my wife. We’re on the go from sun-up to sun-down, and at the end of the day we drop into bed exhausted to get just enough sleep for the next day.

Oh boy. That sounds awful.

Rather than trying to work around that busyness, personally I would go out of my way to just not have that. Maybe I'm naive, but I want to be continuously moving towards being less busy and having more time for my family. Actual time, disposable time. Not time-compressed, high-information-density notes.

Of course, to each their own.
> The fact that this happens in the recent aftermath of the election of the leader of the executive branch, under which the FBI is contained, against his adversary who is now being elected just leaves a very politically charged taste in my mouth.

In practice, that's pretty close to just saying no President should ever be investigated.

> Pretty much all presidents have likely committed crimes [...]

I would definitely be in favor of a special prosecutor being set up to investigate the current President, every time. Let's not wait until they're out of office.
A jury is the last line of defense. The state can not use it's power to punish someone unless they can find 12 members of the community who are willing to allow the punishment.

It is supposed to be the last, final defense against the perversion of the justice system into political prosecution.

The state can make whatever laws it wants, but it can't enforce them without the will of (some of) the people.

Probably worked, too, when populations were smaller and communities more cohesive.
Additionally, back in the 8 and 16 bit home computer days, C programms were full of inline Assembly, because C compilers generated garbage machine code.

It was 40 years of throwing UB optimizations at it, that made its current performance come true.

This is nothing special, any language can eventually reach that reality with similar investment.
Building a new laptop from scratch is time-taking and costly. So Framework may rightly be spending their time on optimising product, reducing cost and reaching more countries.
>7.62x39 tumbles pretty well and under auto-fire,

Gun wives tale.

No bullets are designed to tumble in air - ever.
Web Archive has most of the revisions. There are changes but far and between. Overall issues get mostly added (for instance a large chunk of Wayland ones), sometimes I remove stuff when it gets resolved but it's quite a rare occurrence.
Countries that recognize Taiwan in 2022:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

Looks like most of the world can "fuck off", I guess.

> [Taiwan] is currently not in the UN and is classified as only a territory.

Add the UN to that list, too.
The problem is that the people who thought lynching was fine had the same sense of certainty that you have. Which all by itself is enough to refute the claim that such a sense of certainty is sufficient.
I'm actually on a project looking at this and it's not so rosy.
My area is trying to predict maintenance costs for the hydrogen PEM fuel cells. The cells get contaminated pretty fast.

Regarding hydrogen suitability while it has excellent gravimetric efficiency it has terrible volumetric efficiency. You either need huge tanks and high pressure or cryogenic tanks to store it in its liquid phase.

Like anything else its doable we just need to accept higher airliner prices and slower speeds/shorter ranges.
Don't underestimate impact dot-matrix printers as well. They still have the lowest cost per page if you don't mind the rather sub-par quality and are printing a lot.
Nice I'll have a look at it! Thanks
This just sounds to me like you haven’t read enough. It’s not that hard to understand honestly. Here are some randomly picked links:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8q8m/admit-your-financial-...

https://gen.medium.com/families-like-mine-rarely-realize-the...

https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/how-and-...
Remotely wiping an air-gapped system and a Pixel phone are some astonishing feats. Could you tell us some more details about that, especially why you may suspect it to be caused by malicious sabotage by some state level adversary? How did you air gap your air-gapped system?
> There are good reasons why we try to minimise how much of law enforcement that are left to peoples discretion.

I don't know where you're getting this from. Practically all of law enforcement is left to people's discretion. The people exercising the discretion just aren't members of juries in most cases.
In reality, I don't think this ever happens unless you had a bad attitude.
Well that too, but this device does seem to contain a completely undocumented BMC. Which is not the best situation. Whether it's incompetence or malice is difficult to say.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/data-center-and-cloud-knowled...
Crypto.com Secures License to Operate in South Korea
attraction is created through interaction. but what attracts is different for every person, and if i am attracted to someone, i need to find out what makes me attractive to them. it's not just looks or first impressions. those help to get the foot in the door, but even an initially unattractive person can become attractive as you get to know them.
Scrum of scrum doesn’t work, you shouldn’t have a separate “devops team”. If you really must, someone from that team should sit in your scrum to link back to their team any blockers.

Otherwise what you have, and I’ve seen this in multiple places, is developers getting blocked by DevOps constantly, so basically setting up “shadow” infrastructure to try and work around the problem.
This is something I have been discussing with forums and friends

The Keynesian economics principals has an assumption that says 'goods are scarce`

And if the next 15-30 years is an era of exponential then how should the economics behave?
As of C++17 not so horrible, and C++2x versions even less so, unless one has some strange fetisch for SFINAE and tag dispatch.

Since 1993, I never saw any need to keep bothering with C other than having it imposed on me, C++ had enough C89 subset on it, if I ever miss coding like C and its warts.

Nowadays that compatibility is up to C11 subset.
The justice system is supposed to apply to all.
From an engineering point of view, planes would be close to the bottom of the list of fossil fuel uses to transition to hydrogen/other "X-fuel" [0].

Still, my cynical part expects that we will see renewable-powered flight as a relatively early (premium) use of power-to-X for the sole reason that it will allow the affluent and/or powerful to fly while claiming to be climate neutral.

[0] Our society uses insane amounts of hydrogen. One fundamental use is for synthetic fertilizer which supplies around half the nitrogen input for agriculture, without which we would be hard pressed to feed the world. This hydrogen is currently produced from fossil fuels.
> Firstly, I've seen a LOT of Windows 95 apps that do not "still run fine in Windows 10" -

Absolute most Windows 95 era 32bit applications run just _fine_ under Windows 10, period. Sans games. Games were often coded for then current GPUs and modern GPUs have different API.

> However, this is just factually false -- Windows and MacOS do not provide configuration GUIs for every possible setting.

I've not needed to use regedit in Windows or edit text config files since forever. You can fine tune stuff but absolute most people never need it.
…of Anaheim :-)
>marriage is not for everyone

For quite a long time this was a very obvious and common sense statement. That is literally the traditional view of the Catholic Church on marriage, for example.

Things changed only very recently.
> - you personally should do the good things you want to do in the world rather than just donating money for someone else to do it on your behalf

Why?
From the Cinebench scores in the linked post vs some M2 benchmarks, the M2 (score of 1695) is comparable to the bottom tier 12th gen Framework in the single core benchmark (framework scores: [1691, 1723, 1839]. On the multi-core benchmark, the M2 is significantly worse- 8714 vs [9631, 10027, 11076].

The main advantage of the M2s is probably battery life.
Would it be possible to change jobs/companies? Not all work is so draining that you can't have time for yourself, and many respect time boundaries. Hope you can one day make a living in a better environment.
The biggest reason to have them is when you have a ton of junior developers who are not very good at unblocking themselves by asking for help. I’ve found it’s invaluable to probe them when they’re stuck on the same ticket for multiple days but haven’t asked for help.
Okay I'll bite, how are black beans/soybeans/seitan, formed and fried, then served on a bun a conspiracy theory?
Yes. And whether or how jury nullification comes in depends on circumstances.
there's room for the law to mandate disclosure of any built-in expiry mechanism - e.g., # of pages printed before printer stops working.

I think the problem is with the fact that this is just not disclosed properly, before a purchase decision is made, as it's not apparent that such a expiry mechanism can exist!
Since the keyboard is replaceable you could make your own and also sell to other like-minded people?
> People who make this list, are they working on fixing the issues they perceive?

It's a single person.

If you give me $1-2 billions (I'm not joking) I'll fix pretty much everything on the list and make Linux a better OS than Windows and MacOS combined.

I'm not a bloody programmer, secondly the list is so vast no one person can possibly fix everything.
As a customer, I want that.

If I drive from here to the closest proper movie theater, I can plug in my car at a 22kW outlet. It gets around 7.5kW/h from it (single phase charger in the car, so it can only use 1/3).

A 2 hour movie and some faffing about on both ends is around 2.5 hours. That's 15-20kW of power charged to my car, which can go 100km with 15kWh. The theater is about 40km away, so I actually come back home with a fuller battery than I left with.

This is how the future should look like. 11/22kW destination chargers should be ubiquitous in all places you spend an hour or more usually (bigger grocery stores, hardware stores, IKEA, malls etc).
And the latest trend, producing C Machines with hardware memory tagging, because none of those mitigations are actually working preventing all those CVE to take place.
A jury can still falsely convict, but a defendant can appeal a guilty verdict.

Non-guilty verdicts are more final.
thank you for mentioning the AK-74 since it hasn't been mentioned. It was introduced in the late 70's!

the other gun you mention is the AN-94
You are forbidden by law (and mandated to report) such arcs in Europe. In Germany people who work in such environments have to have a few special certificates and PPE that looks like they are trying to defuse a bomb.

Arc flashes like that can burn with 10000 to 15000 degrees celsius and if you are close by not only will they send you flying, you are probably dead before you hit the ground.

And trying to extinguish such an arc can be quite a challenge.
They didn’t give them away, they were convinced by Russia and the US to do so.
This is complete BS and I would posit you’re just making things up. Link me to an article about a potential juror spending at least one night in jail due to saying they won’t convict during pre-trial jury selection.
Gratitude is only possible from a place of narcissism. Think about it.
What happens to the vaporized metal after things cool down? Does it become dust?
Breaking the news of the fall of Richard II
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I think what a lot of people here are missing is that the priorities of E.A. are fluid by design.

Yes, existential risk of general AI might be small; but even fewer people are working on it: only about one hundred, worldwide. Similarly, the reason E.A. stepped off the climate change train is because it was a popular issue, which means the marginal benefit of one person contributing decreases.

When more people direct attention to AI safety, another area will be the one where E.A. can contribute most, and the focus will shift.
Uh did you read brave new world? Lol.
I'm reading this comment, nodding in agreement, as I wait for my db sync script to complete.
Not my experience at all. And remember, what's good for the prosecutor, is bad for the defense, and vice versa.

And each side gets only a handful of dismissals. You waste it on some guy you think is "too smart" and you might not be able to use it on that guy who thinks your client is guilty already.
The M1 Air is a wonder as far as I'm concerned. It's very thin and light, fanless, yet I can happily do java dev on it all day and I'm not lacking in capability or waiting around for build and test runs. It rocks.
Because in my experience these systems act dumber than most individual humans manage to.

They function much more like a drunk, demented DNN optimizing for some unknown set of variables than like a human using its intelligence to solve problems.

IMO. YMMV.
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Although this is about the jury, this is actually something that turns me away from progressive parties: the only reason you're fighting for something is because Congress failed to acknowledge it for 250 years consecutively and we're supposed to pretend that this time its different.

The similarity here being that Congress sat on its hands regarding lynching for over a hundred years, followed by another 100 years of the Senate blocking everything the House brought up till just this year, long after everyone independently decided "hey, let's not lynch people". Its not supposed to be a defeatist approach, its just "hey lets focus on something that has consensus because trying this again is just a waste of energy". I'm interested in some aspects of fiscal and foreign policy, for example. That priority might not come from the same party.
You quote so much but I don't think you've read the book man.
> “I know it’s a hassle to come into the office, but if you’re just sitting in your pajamas in your bedroom, is that the work life you want to live?” he questioned.

Yes! That sounds awesome, and is in fact what I did during COVID. Well, minus the bedroom part; I at least went downstairs to the couch.

> “Don’t you want to feel part of something?”

Grossssss. I don't need to be brainwashed into being a worker bee for someone else's "vision". I don't need to get emotionally involved with my employer. I'll just do the job and take my paycheck, thank you very much.
I was testing a light bulb socket one time, and accidentally shorted it - the short set fire to the metal of the bulb socket (I assume it was aluminum), which proceeded to burn until it was all consumed, despite me pulling the plug.

It produced a jet of flame and sparks many feet tall. I had no idea this was even something that could happen.

I can't even imagine how bad a powerful arc flash would be.
Solaris SPARC is the first that has suceeded at it, and now others follow it, how?

Hardware memory tagging, the language itself is beyond hope.