skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're trying to start with our fundamental physical theories and calculate your way to free will. And you're right that we can't do that. But we can't calculate our way to a rose, or a tree, or a squirrel, or a human, or Mt Everest either. We can't even calculate our way to folding proteins.

How complex phenomena emerge from the fundamental laws of the universe is a blank spot on the map of human understanding. You're looking there and saying "I don't see a road to free will through here." You think this says something about free will, but all it really does is say something about the map.

The best we can do is observe complex phenomena and look for contradictions to fundamental physical theory. I can observe a beetle and see if anything about it contradicts quantum mechanics. So far, no. And observations of free will do not either.

This only disproves free will if you carefully define "free will" in advance as a quality that contradicts fundamental physics. But why would you do that? Free will has historically meant the quality that allows people to make decisions in the course of everyday life, not a quality that allows them to do fantastic feats like generate infinite amounts of energy or some other violation of physics.

As long as our ability to freely make decisions doesn't violate our understanding of physics, you can't say that our understanding of physics excludes our ability to freely make decisions.
You've got to launder it a little bit to make it look respectable.
I used to do this and there are a few annoyances, and the set of annoyances is different for every VM software you choose. My preference was VMWare Fusion. The worst annoyance there was that it emulated touchpad scrolling as a mouse wheel, so you didn’t get pixel-precise scrolling but instead jumped several lines after you had moved your fingers some significant amount.

Overall it all worked fine, and far more reliably than Linux on a modern laptop running natively (if you can get past the minor annoyances).
Whatever Rational Wiki is or is not, the statements they make about the spectator are all backed up by citations (some of which I lifted and inserted into my original comment). You either didn't read the page, or you think that the cited sources and their opinions are "far-left".
You, for wanting to waste everybody's time with problems that are yet to be confirmed.
> No need to change the CPU architecture.

But you need to relearn the keyboard as it's not a standard ThinkPad keyboard (no PageUp and PageDown above Left and Right)

That detail alone means I won't buy it.

Emulation or recompilation has fewer drawbacks than changing habits.
I was a Junior in college! Programming in PL/1
Mozilla Firefox – 107.0 Release Notes
I have been donating annually around $50 or less for the last ten years. I was quite surprised to get an email from jimmy@wikipedia.org last month suggesting I increase my donation to $250.

I'm planning to not donate at all this year, (instead to Internet Archive) based largely on discussions I have read here at HN. But I thought the request to suddenly increase my typical donation five-fold was pretty outrageous.
> ...U.S war production was so absurdly huge...

Even today common US citizens themselves cannot comprehend the scale involved. There are some interesting YouTube videos on the bonkers production efforts [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] that give some other angles of perceiving the scale. By 1944, fully 44% of the US GDP was devoted to wartime production, starting from an already-formidable economic base that many already recognized back in the 1930's despite the US' comparatively feeble industrial showing in WW1. Among the more famous leaders who recognized this massive industrial potential before WW2 even started were Yamamoto and Churchill.

Just as astonishing as the scale was the rapidity. The US military before WW2 was objectively not a top 10 rank by nearly any metric one cared to employ. This shifted practically overnight with substantive progress measured in months.

To really geek out over some of the critical numbers, check out this page [6].

Looking back, it gave me an intuitive grasp of just how much of the manufacturing sector the US bled out to the PRC, and even then, US manufacturing is still no slouch on the world stage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfMrqOdrCidQ2gpuSIxW0...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgQ33yu7Cc

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6at-eJfJOgI

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BExMOol11LA

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTtR1hqpnwU

[6] https://www.ww2-weapons.com/military-expenditures-strategic-...
> Microservices are an option, serverless is an option. Use the right tool for the job.

Developers don't need these "tools" pushed by marketing departments at first place. These aren't technical solutions, these are marketing considerations, solutions looking for a problem AKA "hype driven development".
Not sure about the Mexico City drone, but a similar thing was developed by the US military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

I know some folks who deployed during OEF/OIF and used these types of systems. Many a night raids were conducted simply by watching where attackers originated from.
As far as I can tell - FTX (at least international / not FTX.us) broke only 1 law - they broke their own terms and conditions :-

8.2.6 All Digital Assets are held in your Account on the following basis:
(A) Title to your Digital Assets shall at all times remain with you and shall not transfer to FTX Trading ...

Excluding this stipulation, which they will be prosecuted for - what exactly the CFTC/SEC/NYSE/NASDAQ/Secret Service/DEA/Texas Rangers were meant to do about a company in the Bahamas is beyond me.
The fact that you have a skip*10 manager seems to speak to some middle manager bloat. That's military levels of bureaucracy, though in the military's case, at least they have the excuse that they're overstaffing on purpose to keep slack around so they can maintain operational continuity in the event of a mass death event during combat.
In some jurisdictions it’s illegal to record a conversation without all-party consent. Example:

https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/massachusetts...
I have a dear friend with some chronic illness bordering on disability and can confirm anecdotally what this article is saying. She’s consistently ignored or told what’s she’s feeling is irrelevant, but hey what does she know she’s just had the illness from birth and is highly educated enough to read journals and have a pretty informed opinion on her own care. She also has a terrible time getting seen by specialists.

It’s compounded because she’s a young woman and my god while it’s not discussed here doctors are horrible with treating women. Between friends and family I don’t know a single woman who hasn’t told me they’ve had problems getting their doctors to listen to them and this is the case even when the doctor is a women themselves. It’s just like the system is fundamentally unable to cope with women’s health as a patient.
If you're in the US, in any state which is either clearly red or blue you are already -- at least practically -- "not being called upon to make any decisions". At least on the federal level.

So is it worth suffering declining mental health from consuming news for 2 years, just to give a meaningless vote in a sham election every other year? Probably not.
> mathematics itself but in its transfer to sociological questions
> Sociology is about distributed systems.

You make the argument that sociology is its own thing that can't be conflated with math which I think every one agrees with, isn't that the premise of the article?

Sociology has its time and place and thats in sociology, just like Math has its own time and place Math.
Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game
Eh, I'd expect the obsessive 12 year olds to beat the 30 year old with a job every single time.
I’m a huge Swift advocate, even on the server, but I have to admit Swift for Linux feels like an afterthought sometimes.
For instance there are still no official Debian-based Swift docker images, and the “stdlib” (the Foundation module) is very often behind the (private) macOS’ one (still no support for async/await, lots of bugs that take time to be resolved, etc.)

Things do get better with time and developing for the server with Swift is a great experience, but it still feels a bit early.
Yes, I just wish they would have used a less loaded term.

They also could have said "the climate has changed in the past, and today is no different".

But perhaps that would get them cancelled...
It also sounds like "to pee" in Russian
He expanded the idea into a book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_Explainer
I've used Swift for iOS development and generally like it. There's no technical reason why it couldn't be great for server-side development but there are two major reasons I wouldn't expect it. First, there's no painful gap to drive adoption. Go and bit by bit Rust are both reasonable statically typed, compiled languages with good ergonomics and performance. Second, there isn't a strong community of corporate and individual developers supporting use outside of iOS. That means few people, but also little tooling. I was excited by the extensibility and some of the stuff the TensorFlow team was doing but there just doesn't seem to be enough reason to pick Swift over one of the more mature alternatives. Even on Apple's own platforms there's only full support for the latest macOS release. I'm guessing the calculation is that iOS is a big enough carrot to keep a community of Swift developers around and Apple doesn't see growing beyond that as a priority. Fair enough.
Oh, I'm not crying about anything. I'm just watching this go further and further off the rails. It's clear we have such different opinions of the women in our lives that I think we irreconcilable.
The classic business school case is Chevy's Nova. Literally means "No go" in Spanish. IIRC, it was a smashing success in US and Canada and a giant flop south of the border.
ford nova (no va!)
Other OK Google problems:

o it changes. who cares if you know even some "commands"... it'll break. I used to ask google maps when driving "Ok Google, ETA". It's been many many years since that stopped working.

o can't change name/ATTN keyword. how dumb is your AI that you can't even rename _your_ assistant. /s
>Sadly it builds on an unstable API and is quite a bit of work to get it installed in FF.

I didn't seem to have any issues getting the add-on installed in my Firefox. Yes, TST suffered from some instability when Firefox initially deprecated XUL and switched to the WebExtension model exclusively, but it seems to work fine now. It even picked up the theming changes in the latest update to Firefox seamlessly.

>I think this kind of approach to tabs deserves to land upstream in browsers

Edge comes close. It has the option to orient tabs vertically. However, it doesn't organize tabs in a hierarchical outline like TST does.
That’s literally the point of this little book. Bullshit as Frankfurt defined it is assuredly not “intentional misrepresentation,” because that is a species of lying which is distinctly different from bullshit. In short the liar is concerned with the truth. He at least thinks he knows it and is twisting or hiding it. Contrariwise, the bullshitter is completely unconcerned with the truth. He is solely concerned with the effects of his speech itself.

People should read this book, because learning to recognize bullshit is something everyone thinks they’re good at, but most persons are quite bad at it.

As an example, we have the catch phrase of 2021, “safe and effective.” The various talking heads didn’t at all care or even have a clue about the phrase’s truth value. How could they? The clinical trials weren’t even finished! Those bullshitters were solely concerned with persuading people to get vaccinated. Whether you agree with that aim or not is irrelevant to the observable reality that it was, in fact, bullshit.
I called 15 dealerships asking about their best price out the door "RIGHT NOW" for specific VIN numbers they had on the lot and only had to yell at one salesperson. Once I got dollar figures, at each generation of the binary search I would call and ask if they could beat the lowest price of the prior generation. In the end I paid well under MSRP for that particular trim level and model.
This video was my breakthrough in learning how to pass data into a FFT call and to parse the output returned from the call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkGsMWi_j4Q # Discrete Fourier Transform - Simple Step by Step - Simon Xu
It'll need to be approved in individual countries so it'll probably get turned on in a lot more areas.

In the US there's an explicit exception to life threatening emergencies that let you use basically any radio frequency I wonder how many countries have something like that that could at least allow them to enable the emergency contact portion of this without the check-in for non emergency situations.
It's not advice it's telling. When I say "being racist is something you shouldn't do" I am not giving advice I am telling you not to be racist.
Mass Violent Protest in China over Lockdowns
How can less be more? It's impossible. More is more.
-Yngwie Malmsteen, C++ developer
Its great. I have it on paper, got it as a present. Also check "on truth" by same author
Parent in context was saying the regulator should communicate to the party under investigation, not to the general public.
Yes yes, bad analogy.
If you've watched The Wire, Stringer's the COO. "And you see this? It's the Queen. She smart, she fierce. She move anyway she want as far as she want. And she, is the go get shit done piece. Remind me of Stringer."
IIRC there's a plugin for Chrome that kills tabs once you open one more than the set limit. This to help rehabilitating tab-hoarders.
I'm splitting hairs with my comment, but this most recent period is only the latest wave of folks coming over the fediverse. The last big wave previous to this that i recall was around 2017/2017 (maybe closer to the latter part of 2017) - if i remember correctly. That was mostly due to 2 things:

- creation/availability of the mastodon software stack (there are, and have always been other tech stacks on the fediverse)

- U.S. president Trump and his followers getting more vocal on the mainstream socials

Who knows, maybe you're right, and *this time* Elon's actions will have created the biggest migration wave...but i have a feeling, there will be other waves, and likely other reasons.
You didn't see a Mac keyboard then.
Link to the actual discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(propos...
> FTX took customer deposits (which were supposed to be held in custody and untouched, according to their TOS) and loaned them out to Alameda to gamble with

This is what I initially suspected. But we can see FTX's balance sheet [1]. There is no loan to Alameda. "FTX shot its customer money into some still-unexplained reaches of the astral plane" is the best explanation we have for billions of missing dollars [2].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0c2a55b6-d34c-4685-8a8d-3c9628f1f...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-s-...
Flats are increasingly popular for touring as well. Turns out that unless you're trying to maximize efficiency at race levels, flats work pretty damn well. And even for racing, the value of clipless pedals is dubious compared to a decent-sized flat. I suppose weight weenies shy away because a decent flat is probably twice the weight of a decent clipless pedal. Deity black kats are 402 grams, whereas the most popular Shimano clipless pedal is 228 grams.

I do a lot of my touring and even bikepacking in vibram-soled sandals. Socks get so smelly even after a day or two that it's better to just go without them IMO.
Those are next level psychological operations
Audi didn’t change the “e-tron” name in France, as you can see from the Audi homepage : https://www.audi.fr/fr/web/fr.html
The Matt Levine article looks at that and claims quite a lot of it is just tokens issued by FTX themselves or related trading entities. In the words of Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski : "Mark it zero!"

Perhaps "only" $5bn was real and much of that was from institutional investors. Not yet clear how many retail rubes have been caught up in this.
Indeed it may be surprising that "stereo sound" (and later analogues like "stereo vision") have nothing, etymologically, to do with having two channels; it was essentially introduced as a marketing term referring to the more "solid" or tangible sensory quality compared to single-channel sound.
Its future is the same as its present: niche server-side choice only used by Apple-adjacent developers.

Such a squandered opportunity on Apple's part. In the early years, the Swift team talked a big game about wide industry adoption goals, but multiplatform seems to just be a defeated box-ticking exercise now.

People say Apple are an unstoppable marketing machine, but they did an absolutely horrific job of engaging the wider software development community with Swift.
In Germany, too

Vaccinated twice without booster, you are still considered unvaccinated
RISC-V instruction length is in the first two bits of every instruction; 3 of 4 values mean the instruction is 16-bit, the remaining value is for 32-bit.

The complexity this adds to decode is a far cry from the brute-force approach x86 requires.

This negligible impact is weighted against the benefits of higher code density; RISC-V is the most dense ISA, for 32 and 64 bit.

ARM's AARCH64 does in contrast have exceptionally poor code density for a 64bit architecture. This translates in much higher requirements for cache sizes and ROM size, which in turn mean larger area and higher power consumption for a given performance target.
Yeah, it's no replacement for a dedicated device, but it's with a whole lot of people all the time.
> Edge comes close.

Did not know that. Edge is basically MS branded Chrome, right?
Google to simplify location tracking controls following $400M settlement
Couldn't possibly have had better timing considering web3 is so in right now.
Well, his real title is Future Supreme Eternal Ruler of Mars (CEO)
I came here to say the same thing, but I'm gonna be an optimist and say that we'll get it by the 50th anniversary, not the 80th. We'll have MSFS in a form of VR that is not ergonomically awkward so that this is all possible.
Is that a recipe for gunpowder?
> A 2021 study by the Muslim Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring that looked at media coverage of Muslims and Islam in 34 publications found that The Spectator had the highest percentage of articles judged "antagonistic" to Muslims, 37.3% of all articles which mentioned the religion, and the highest proportion of articles which the study judged misrepresented Muslims and/or Islam, one in four. The Spectator also had the second highest negative bias of any publication studied, with 10.9% of relevant articles "very biased" (only Christian Today with 11.3% "very biased" was worse).

These are facts, not opinions.

https://cfmm.org.uk/resources/publication/cfmm-report-britis...

It is a fact that the Spectator published an article, "The alt-right isn't all wrong" by James Delingpole in which he defended his "friend and colleague" Milo Yiannopoulos. It is a fact that Delingpole downplayed the alt-right's antisemitism and racism because (in his opinion) it was "confected and insincere". It is a fact that Delingpole cited Carl "Sargon of Akkad" Benjamin's defence of the white genocide conspiracy theory.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-alt-right-isn-t-all-...
Why would working scooters be "e-waste". They're still worth hundreds of dollars.
Perhaps I’m being naive, but—is ‘scaling’ the point, or even necessary?
What sort of link does the phone use? 5G?
It really is. I guess their analytics predicted they'd gain more in income from certain people than they lose in offending people.
If anyone else is following along and getting a generic c++ exception from bun, try upgrading bun using `bun upgrade —canary` to get a more helpful error. I had to update my nvidia driver for ArrayFire:
https://discord.com/channels/876711213126520882/104207192669...
Do you mind sharing a link to the website (which is selling education content)?
https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579776106034757633 - that's all you need to read.

They're funneling tens of millions of dollars of donations into the US culture war.
A couple initial thoughts as a Sidebery user that keeps ~100 tabs open:

1. The whole point of vertical tabs is that horizontal browser space is "cheap." Why not keep the tab list visible? Having it be a dropdown adds an unnecessary step.

2. Horizontal (Sidebery style) pinned tabs that just show the site icon are much cleaner. I have a row (8-12 tabs depending on how wide I drag the tab bar)of frequently used sites pinned at the top of my tab list.

3. It doesn't look like you have right-click move to window functionality, which is critical for my workflow. If you add it, be sure to make it work with the Titler extension so you can work with window names.

I'm glad you didn't put energy into tab trees - I think they are a waste of space. I have a window for each general category of tabs.
Check out the Cadillac Escalade. That is the Cadillac that is still used for limos and the high end models sure shoot for limo-like luxury. I have not been in one inside, so I don't know how well they hit that mark though. Not a bean shaped blob.
I'm reading about the Stasi files and the GDR now, thank you for the suggestion. This a very good way of looking at the topic, I hope you're right.
It wasn’t tinder for cats. It was pets.com that was the poster child.
Nova means new, not "no go", unless you are actively trying to make a joke and read "no" and "va" as separate words.
I was 6 years old, 7 or 8 years away from acquiring a Commodore 64 and typing out my first code in BASIC from the back pages of a Compute! magazine... I'm an old man.
One can read the paper 'Closing the Performance Gap Between Lisp and C' written by one of the authors of the sb-simd package

https://zenodo.org/record/6335627
The media has been strangely blind to the rampant fraud in the crypto space up to now, but I think we're going to see a turning point now. This guy is going to have a lot of ink spilled on him in the coming days.
How is it different from regular 911/112 abuse?
In my experience the CEO - COO relationship is similar to that between a CTO and a VP Engineering.

If you are the CTO and have a VPE, the VP typically tends to focus inwards, while the CTO has the luxury to care more about outwards topics - strategy, vision, investor relations, business relations etc. The VP focuses on processes, projects, coding standards etc.

It's similar between CEO and COO. If you have a COO you trust, as a CEO you can focus much more outwards about high level issues (strategy, investors, business partners etc). The COO makes sure that the business runs smoothly (hiring, processes, quality of service etc).
Kind of off topic: Many years ago, I was learning to be an electrician. Whenever I had a hard time picking up a concept on layouts or some components, an old timer would tell me "You don't know the right questions to ask." I've carried that simple and wise saying with me ever since.
The CEO is a leader, the COO is a manager. The CEO chooses what to do, the COO gets it done.
The vast majority of their data comes from browser extensions that track the URLs users visit. The other stuff like ISPs, DSPS, etc are there to make you think they have some sophisticated model with a diverse # of sources (don't fall for it, they don't).

If Google ever prevents browser extensions from tracking your every visit, their business is in extreme trouble. Full Stop.
> standard ThinkPad keyboard

They're talking about how ThinkPad keyboards have looked and worked since forever. Seems it changed recently.
I bet Kirk's communicator couldn't even play games, so it's wilder. :)