skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone asks you if you want vanilla or chocolate ice cream, once you have made a choice, even dualists would agree it is just a dance of chemistry that sequences a series of neural firings which propagate, excite muscle contractions, resulting in the verbalization of "chocolate". That is, the soul isn't acting at the level of muscles or plucking the strings of individual neurons to make them fire.

Instead, dualists have a vague assertion that the soul influences (perhaps determines) the choice itself. Getting to my point: if you believe that the soul drives the choice and the decisions wasn't just the result of billions of (purely physical) neural antecedents, where in your brain are the rules of physics violated in order to steer that neural outcome we call "choice"?

One hand wave is to say: quantum! Yes, quantum effects are not individually predictable, so one could imagine that a tricky soul which is trying to not be discovered somehow can cause just the right statistical fluctuation in the right neurons at just the right time to nudge the outcome to what it desires. But consider that that activation energy of a synapse is about 30 orders of magnitude greater than quantum fluctuations at the atomic level. Or put another way, not every butterfly flapping its wings causes a hurricane. Such things happen only if the interconnected decision points are on a knife's edge. It seems like wildly overconstraining to think that our brain configuration must be so delicately balanced for every decision we make to allow a soul to have the opportunity to effect every nudge that is required of it.

Taking a step away from humans, spiders have pinhead "brains". They can navigate the world, choose a place to build a web, build a web, catch prey, avoid harm, repair their web, mate, reproduce. I think few dualists would credit spiders with having a soul. Why is it surprising that a brain a billion times bigger is capable of making music?
The thing people really have to understand about climate change is how unprecedented the impact of many of the changes coming are. I mean if you look at a globe you should immediately see that most of Europe is North of the United States. The reason it's comfortable to live there an agriculture is possible is the Gulf Stream.

But forget the Gulf Stream, you should learn more about the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)[0], which also could be shut down. There is geological evidence that such a shut down would turn the Atlantic ocean anoxic, literally turning the ocean toxic.

This isn't some wacky, doomer fantasy scenario, this has happened multiple times in Earth's history when CO2 levels and temperatures have risen and been responsible for multiple mass extinction events[1]. It's also worth pointing out that the AMOC is already showing evidence of weakening [2]

A good overview of this paleontologist Peter Ward's Under a Green Sky.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event

2. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz4876
That's the first part of the test.

If you can't easily break into a university IT system what sort of
hacker are you? :)
I used to worry about needing to make sure I saved enough so I wouldn't have to pay any PMI. I really didn't like the idea of "throwing away" that money. My wife talked me into it and had me actually look at the real terms.

We ended up putting ~10% down on a house. The PMI for that was ~$70/mo. We refinanced a year later and the home value increased that we were able to get rid of the PMI after only a year. I would have missed out on the lowest interest rates ever really seen and bought with house prices getting even higher over $840 in insurance on a several hundred thousand dollar purchase.

I would suggest you don't assume you need to avoid PMI. For me, if I would have waited it would have cost me >$100k waiting to avoid "throwing away" $840. Obviously, every market is different, every buyer is different, the financial world is different now than a few years ago, your mileage may vary, I am not a lawyer, etc. Just saying, look at some actual terms before deciding.
Ok, but the "powerful" in this situation are not looking out for the interests of average working Americans, who would be best served by fair and peaceful relations with other countries. And they're not even looking out for the interest of maintaining their "power" since they continue to give the entire rest of the world more and more incentive to abandon the dollar as the global reserve currency. What will happen to the standard of living in de-industrialized America once that happens?
I agree with the sibling comment, the verse formatting makes it even better!
No, you are mistaking them for the CDU and SPD which got us addicted to russian fuels and at the same time curbed the deployment of renewal sources.
The Greens is the party whose minister Harbeck has now to clean up the mess left to him and on short notice, Germany has a reasonable amount of coal power plants which can be reactivated to prevent blackouts. But this is only necessary due to Russia not delivering the agreed amound of gas.

(And ironically on the French nuclear power plants failing due to wear and heat, so that Germany had to produce an additional 20TWh of electricity to keep the grid alive)
> Manual transmissions aren't going anywhere.

I have not come across any manual EVs
I'd absolutely do it now. The price of solar has been beneath that of racks, mounts, wiring and installation for a while now. Even assuming a major breakthrough your costs probably wont change that much because panel cost isnt a big % of what your costs will be anyway.

There's also a risk that supply chain bottlenecks/cold war with china will drive up the cost & your electric bill is only gonna go up.
Time to build some seawater desalination plants. Power them with solar and/or nuclear.
That is what happens when you take shit that's not yours.
Isn’t the downside to this then that although you’re using the native browser you’re losing the whole point of Electron which is to have a consistent environment regardless of where it’s run?
Treasury Dept. blacklists crypto platform used in money laundering
> before the supposed crime was made illegal

The laws against money laundering aren't new.
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Well its wise to keep it in perspective. Found this page with a list of historic droughts.

https://historicdroughts.ceh.ac.uk/content/standpipe-drought...
Though, your milage may vary, as you still need to

1. Take care to ensure that you follow platform guidelines

2. Ensure that the view and controller are not tightly coupled

3. Ensure that whatever libraries you want to use have support for all platforms you want to support

4. Pray that you don't need something very platform specific (or need to use Bluetooth, which I am told is a huge pain)
The organization of society is not outside our control. We've been architecting society for 1000s of years based on what has worked and what hasn't in years past. We aren't just along for the ride although that is a convenient excuse to do nothing and make no effort.
Re this segment:

> "There were endless complaints about the time taken to get ‘central IT’ to do their bidding, and frequent demands for more autonomy and freedom. A cloud project was initiated by the centralised DBA team to enable that autonomy. [...] Cue howls of despair from the development teams that they need a centralised DBA service"

Author makes it sound like users didn't know what they wanted. This is not true -- I have seen this play in practice, and what author omits is _it was a different set of people_ who were complaining before and after.

If a dev team has at least 2 engineers who are happy working with infrastructure, then the team will benefit from autonomy. If there is no one like that on the dev team, they will cry in despair.
It's why the war on drugs doesn't work. You either decriminalize or have a strict zero-tolerance policy like Singapore.

Otherwise, tons of poor people and minorities are arrested on drug charges, while suburban and rich people joke about doing coke and taking illegal prescription drugs.
Of course you didn't.

As far as I can tell from this clipped fragment, these two talk about absorbing the Ukraine into Russia (or splitting it with Poland and Hungary, this idea is occasionally aired too) and 'denazification'. If you object to calling neo-Nazis 'helminth', I'd agree because no human should be dehumanized.

So, unless you really find a call for the destruction of the Ukrainian cities, please don't make me watch any propaganda.

'Bucha and Mariupol didn't commit themselves.'

Bucha wasn't destroyed and Russian propaganda worked hard to convince Russian population that Bucha is fake news.

The extent of the damage done to Mariupol (a city with 95% of Russian speakers, btw) was hidden by propaganda for some time and then they started showing the city and talking how Russia would rebuild it.

Mariupol was held hostage by infamous neo-Nazi Azov regiment [0] which like other Ukrainian forces operating in the Eastern Ukraine use civilians as human shield:

'Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Military bases set up in residential areas including schools and hospitals
Attacks launched from populated civilian areas' [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrai...
The chinese have stolen enough IP to make this and other ventures of theirs possible, they absolutely get to feel at the very least some repercussion for it and should be treated as a thief in your home.
Unless one believes in supernatural creators, observers and judges, there is no point in anything and existence, life and consciousness are all unlucky coincidences. We are an absolutely pointless long term consequence of the natural process of evolution, that can start anytime the environment for life is just right.
Completely untrue. I replaced my gaming desktop with a Mac Mini for several months. I was able to play many games:

* League of Legends

* Civilization 6

* Stellaris, EU4, etc.

* Minecraft

* Factorio
There are low end phone plans in the range of $10-15/mo. You can get a prepaid smartphone for like $40, and if you aren't using cellular data, you can get the smartphone itself for around $20.
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The article misses a really big item.

I’ve programmed in C for 20+ years and then recently switched to rust. When fellow C programmers ask me how Rust is going, I say “it’s modern” and “it’s consistent”. What I mean by that unlike C, Rust doesn’t have 50 years of baggage: string functions that handle null termination all differently, complicated implicit promotion rules, null-terminated strings that haven’t been a good idea for decades, apis that we’re completely busted by posix threads but still exist, functions that cannot be used safely that still exist, code snippet examples with horribly broken unsafe code that beginners copy-paste, dubious and bad type-based aliasing, rampant use of UB, etc etc etc

Sadly Rust is not a better C. Maybe it’ll grow into one some day. Today it’s a better C++. Sadly I’d still chose C to do C’s job.

All I want from “better C” is to fix the obviously bad problems from C’s history. Or rather, maybe that’s the committee’s job.

At any rate: it’s embarrassing that we’re still so dependent on a language that’s so broken. And it’s sad that there doesn’t seem to be a path forward.
every two years doesn't feel that aggressive. my brothers and me are closer together. and most people i know are similar. my own kids are spread out by three years, and that's only because the doctors here said that after a c-section you have to wait 3 years before you can have another child. to me that feels quite spread out. the age difference between the oldest and the youngest is 6 years, and sometimes it's a challenge for them to get along because of that age difference.
Issues leading to total brake failure? I'm going to pass on the Ferrari, would rather buy 20 Highlanders than one expensive Italian stallion.
What are the implications of such hardware on user security?

Threat persistence, i.e. persistent rootkits, persistent remote monitoring if one has privs to tickle the CPU instructions that give access. It is just a matter of time before there are public tools for script kiddies to manage the OS within the CPU. Here [1] is an example of someone slowly making progress decoding all the undocumented instructions and here is a talk with a brief overview of the tools. [2] This is not specific to Intel's ME but it is the way people will eventually tame/exploit that beast in my opinion. There are more recent talks that get deeper into security rings in the CPU. This video [3] more related to your question but not specific to ME however can be used to access ME and much more. If this appears to difficult and time consuming just know that some folks out there have the documentation for the undocumented instructions.

You may find some tools on github and other public repos for disabling ME. Use with care. Test on an identical model of system that is at the same firmware/BIOS and same model of CPU as those tools can brick your CPU. As @rocket_surgeron stated, one can buy CPU's with ME disabled but that will not disable the "God Mode" referenced in [3].

[1] - https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g
Take a look at the tasks from last year: https://github.com/luker983/nsa-codebreaker-2021
Are you implying we should have wasted billions manufacturing extra chips just in case there was a shortage and consumers didn't want to wait a year before buying a new car/truck?
Laughable, you need to read about blockchain
Upvoted for the effort of responding in verse, very nice.

That rubbed me the wrong way too. Even the hackers at MIT documented their hacks, they even wrote up a memo explaining a bunch of them so others could understand and build on them - see HAKMEM.

Documentation was much more extensive and available back then. Systems frequently came with full schematics, and you could call the design team on the phone if you wanted. DEC would get phone calls about the PDP-10's RIM10B bootloader right up until the retirement of the 36-bit processor line, and they did their best to explain its tricks.

The loader was made to fit entirely in the processor registers so it didn't touch the memory it was loading. To do this it made use of a specific and documented aspect of the processor - that being that the first thing it did when executing an instruction is to determine its effective address, and nothing the instruction can do will have any effect on its own effective address calculation.

They had two bold-print warnings about this in the processor manual, both before and after the RIM10B source code, but some people still required more explanation. For those people, the explanation was given.

In Mel's story, he grinds out a very well optimized program, and while I can appreciate the skill it takes to do that, he documented none of it. This was customer-facing code. That's unacceptable even by their standards, and even his own co-workers of the era would have thought he was an asshole. A skilled asshole, with skill worthy of respect, but an asshole nonetheless.
Not really. They may filter some stuff, if it is outright illegal and has caused enough outrage or someone complains about copyright. And if you have an account there, they'll try and give you results you most likely want to read. Which opens up the risk to end up in an echo chamber.
Its also <24,000 cars in the US. So pretty small compared to others. Major US car manufacturers recall millions of vehicles at a time. And I believe the Takata Airbag recall covered something like 70 million across all manufacturers.
Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form
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Agreed, JavaFX's font rendering on MacOS was like this for years: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1413266/82507544-6... (Note not only the inconsistency between letters - all the specific colour values used are the wrong ones to get a working subpixel effect in the first place).

Possibly still is like that. But that gets around to your question... is anyone still around to notice?
If you bought a home and had to sell, but made money, congratulations you beat the market. You get to brag at the next barbecue about how your a financial wizard.

If you bought a home and had to sell, but lost money, congratulations you were an unofficial renter. You lick your wounds and lean into the next financial scheme.
This reads like you're looking for a fight by using the least charitable interpretation of the quote.
lol what an awful take
It's really not that bad and comments like this just perpetuate the fear to other people who have never touched them.
Not that much. Factory went private which was sometimes better (more reasonable investment, tech progress), sometimes worse (high unemployment levels meant people were treated shitty sometimes). It was closed maybe 15 years later. Dad's pretty good welder/mechanic (spends a lot of time on this even now), so was hired in company providing, let's say, maintenence outsourcing for various business.

Nothing exciting, but they always provided for the family and helped us to start adult life however they could.
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This was in a major city (Guangzhou). I think China has its own issues with food safety and additives. Very little regulatory action has led to some very nasty stories about adulteration and gastric problems.

I think when I was in China I was basically in a perpetual state of food poisoning for several years.
> if you buy a software package thinking it's fsd in 2022 with zero research, it's on you.

I want to agree with you on this, but Tesla is very much bordering on false advertising.
403 Forbidden?

Is this the challenge or am I missing something?
The unfortunate reality is that there are no guarantees. I once inadvertently helped someone commit suicide. I had no idea until after he did the deed and there's no realistic way I could have known beforehand.

Sometimes you just have to assume that everyone's operating in good faith.
Many terrorist groups from the Middle East use captured oil wells to fund their ventures. This gets mixed with other oil from the region via places like Turkey (a NATO ally). ISIS is reported to have made $500M in 2015 [1]. Anyway, the vast majority of the world buys this oil. This is why I say that Canada + USA which produce basically as much oil as Saudi + Russia should pull a DeBeers and sell "blood free" oil but obviously with a fun name like Freedom Oil.

[1] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/10/isiss-new-plans-to-get-...
Is it possible somehow to set separate CPU/GPU power limits like is possible on the steam deck?
>Why should it be any different if you happened to have purchased that house through a corporation?

A corporation can't be homeless, so I'm fine with them being treated differently when the bulldozer comes to knock their house down.
> What do you mean by "the Blender treatment"?

On top of the other answers: a much more friendly UI. Blender used to have a horrendously steep learning curve because the UI was just alien and ignored most agree-upon convention used by other 2D and 3D packages.

Not the case anymore, Blender is much more user-friendly and beginner-friendly.

The huge amount on online video tutorial also helps tremendously.
FYI the later versions of TK look much more native across platforms.

I recently found this tutorial: https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/index.html and am going thru ut.
I rather think this video supports my point. This is the best we can do and it's so far from a replicant that it's not even funny. Most importantly it's not improving quickly, there's no Moore's law for this. The Hall of Presidents opened in 1971 and I don't think this video demonstrates very much progress for 50 years.
NOx and SO2 are (primarily) local pollutants, and get broken down over time. Cargo ships is a relatively small contributor to greenhouse gases for most items. (I would not be surprised if a few hundred km by truck causes larger greenhouse gas emissions than around-the-world by ship.
Sidebar: This is the first piece of content out there in the wild where I've noticed a Dall-E generated image for an article.
How did unity go from mobile game development darling to being acquired by an adware company?
Good to know ty!
My 30 year old microwave has near perfect UX
Hum - I believe this is what the hand brake is for no? Do Ferraris not have hand brakes?
It is interesting that your dogma is gradualism, and you explain gradualism through gradualism.
Then you appeal to the God of time, but many great paleothologists and mathematician have demonstrated that it is not enough !
Please note that I am not a fixist creationnist, apparition (evolution ?) of species happened in history, but what is the engine of evolution ?
Where the new information to build new orders, reigns, branches, proteins, functions, organs, orders, species, came from ?
Chance applied to a code can by no way create new functions. It is easy to understand as any programmer will tell you. There is no computer science domain, neither developpers who use chance to create or improve a computer program.
Nevertheless, a computer can run more generations than nature had for many new species to appear.
If positive mutation happen, it is a build-in system, it cannot be pure chance (a lot of maths on the subject)
If it is a build-in system, it is one more mystery to explain how chance can create codes, coders, decoders, engines, pumps, pipes, organs, species, self-replicating systems, and also self-improving systems.
That is the case with JavaFX as well. It's not part of the JRE anymore. Also there really isn't any such thing as the JRE anymore, only the JDK. If you want to distribute a desktop Java app you must embed the entire runtime via javapackager. They have correctly realized that end users cannot be expected to install and update a language runtime separately...
Was paddling down a river the other day and a giant oak fell. Sounded like gunshots at first, then maybe fireworks, and by that time I noticed what looked like a T-Rex moving around among the trees, the tree finally came down on another tree and fell into the water.
“Remember that there is no code faster than no code.”

“Every time we say yes to a request, we are also saying no to anything else we might accomplish with the time.”

“If you don’t guard your time, people will steal it from you.”

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”

“Saying no is so powerful because it preserves the opportunity to say yes.”

“One trick is to ask, “If I had to do this today, would I agree to it?”

“Hell Yeah or No”

“It’s easier to avoid commitments than get out of commitments. Saying no keeps you toward the easier end of this spectrum.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
You're right about more gears in auto transmissions helping to keep the engine at its ideal RPM for torque. There are still more mechanical losses in an auto transmissions since the auto transmission's fluid-based torque converter does not transfer engine rotation as efficiently as a manual transmission's friction-based clutch when the latter is fully engaged.
Yes I think frame.work is a good and reputable maker. They are indeed still young, but they've made and kept a number of big early promises, and have been consistently shipping. There are some bugs/quality concerns but I'm confident they'll work them out.

I've bought hardware before though from companies I'd never heard of, and either never received it or when I did it was much poorer quality than advertised or was so long after the order that I'd nearly forgotten about it. Would hate for that to happen with xcalibyte