skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you figure China is an exemplar for worst emissions? They emit less per capita than the US today as well as historically.

But the Chinese are also poorer, on average, and since poorer people tend to live a simpler life (not that it is a bad thing), emission per capita may not be a good indicator.

An alternative is to compare tons of CO2 emitted for each USD of GDP produced, which, using the numbers the world bank [1], turns out to be 0.6 for China and 0.2 for the US (using figures from 2021 for GDP and population, and 2019 for emissions, but the results hold qualitatively). Roughly speaking, this means that the same good/service required, on average, three times as much CO2 to be produced/offered in China compared to the US (using USD to measure the "quantity" of goods/services).

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=US-CN
Probably one of the biggest Bang for your Buck (on Linux) would be to recompile your
libc and OpenSSL with -march=native. Then at least all software that depends on those libs (probably the majority) would get some benefit from your local processors extensions.
> he claims that an intelligence official

One guy claims, might as well stop there.

I'm on the side of wanting to believe, it's just important to stay skeptical because if it were all true it would probably be one of the most important things to happen to humanity. We're not alone after all.
Yes, but Plato and Plutarch weren't eyewitnesses, they were recording the claims of others, i.e. still rooted in oral histories.
This sounds nice on paper but it's far easier to just read the recipe rather than fumble around with a headset while your hands are dirty.
The parents have phones. They call the front desk's phone, usually a landline. The person at the front desk relays any information to the required student through the intercom.
That’s not the only practical abortion, abortion existed in ancient times too. However, even after birth there were easier methods, infant exposure was common and is far easier for parents than sacrifice
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They're stealing Ukrainian children, but there have also been plenty of reports of adults going to "filter camps" where apparently they're selected to be turned into Russians and relocated to live somewhere deep in Russia.

Stalin did the same, by the way: he loved to displace populations, especially of conquered or rebellious areas, and replace them with Russians. Crimean Tatars, for example, were moved to Siberia so he could Russify Crimea.
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Man if Apple somehow could have their own Windows emulation layer similar to Valve's Steamdeck developments - I could see myself returning to the Mac. It would be so amazing. The Mac would become truly a gaming platform, regardless if it costs twice the price of an equivalent PC - since people who appreciate Apple's hardware and software will see its value.

Having said that there's still the issue of upgrades. But again, I have to replace pretty much my entire PC every 5 years (new CPU needs a new mobo, needs new RAMs etc). So hmm.

edit: as an aside an interesting question.. I wonder if Valve's efforts, having incentivized developers to make their games more Steamdeck compatible - and hence more "predictable" in terms of how they access Windows APIs - would also make it easier for Apple to translate the games - even if the target is different.
From just the headline I bet it was going to be Greg Egan, author of Permutation City. Was not disappointed.
From what the commenter you're replying to said, it sounds like the guy was shown deeper evidence than just a joke. The tendency to assume that conspiracies don't ever happen is just as fallacious as the tendency to assume that they always do.

In the particular case, the coverup would not be challenging (only a handful of people would be aware that it's "fake"), there would be motive (convincing China, Russia, etc. that new aircraft we experiment with might actually be extraterrestrial + convincing them to chase ghosts + generally messing with them), and there would be means (the theory that previous-commenter just expressed, where agents selected from psych test results and shown fake classified information). Not to mention US Intelligence's recorded history of doing some very outlandish and "conspiratorial" things.

Of course, no theory in particular (conspiracy or "grounded") is going to be anything more than speculation given limited the level of evidence that's actually on the table.
https://archive.is/9x4MD
Oooh, that explains why one the main characters in "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky is named Portia (it's an intelligent spider). I'm currently halfway through the book, it's great.
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> a nuclear submarine could use it to make an ultra-accurate map of the world based on variations in the gravitational constant g

I believe in the book version of the Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, they mention that the Soviets did something similar but using a magnetometer.

Super cool to see the newest versions of this are going from sci-fi to fact.
> What you are saying is true if for some reason you want to work with absolute values, but nobody would do that. You measure many data points as your submarine flies over the landscape for a time, and then you match the measured curve with predicted curves from bathymetric maps.

The variations due to changes in elevation are orders of magnitude larger than the variations you're relying on using for navigation. Distance from the center of the Earth is the primary signal you're measuring, for better or worse. It's not just relative vs absolute. You can probably assume the sub isn't changing depth rapidly and ocean currents are long wavelength, which would allow relative measurements to be somewhat feasible.

However, nothing about this requires a new quantum sensor. Ship-borne gravity anomaly measurements have been around for half a century. The previous methods are more than precise enough. In fact, they were done on submarines first before ships - it's easier to measure without waves.

What's triggering this now? Something doesn't add up... If it were purely based on using gravity anomaly along track measurements as a "fingerprint", it wouldn't need a new sensor. There's likely another mechanism they're using or they're using it for other reasons in addition to navigation.
By the portal opened by those phones to unhealthy dark places, connections created through the phones to destructive influences and influencers, by the fact that phones are social pressure magnifiers. Yes, it is nearly certain that more lives have been destroyed by those than have been by weaponry.
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In the watermarks documentation it mentions that events arriving after the watermark are dropped. Are there any plans to make this configurable (to disable dropping or trigger exception handling) and/or alertable?

I can think of quite a few use cases (particularly in finance) where we'd want late-arrivals to be recorded and possibly incorporated into later or revised results, not silently dropped on the floor.
> Removing noise is meaningless, unless the overall discernability improves

It is certainly one possibility of function automators - guessing detail. Training from degradation to original.
If you ignore the part where they added DirectX 12 support, it's only slightly patched?

You do you.
It is about time that we call out soft sciences for what they are. Pretty much a hoax and a way to escape real work when going to university. Two of my partners both have academic degrees in soft sciences, one even made it to a PhD. And both pretty much lack understanding of the scientiific process. This is horrifying, because society treats them as if they should know.
> No, Cato was not right. He was a racist, war criminal and very corrupt politician.

Even if he was all of that, which I'd dispute or at least question, that doesn't mean he wasn't right
I think it's a network effect thing as much as anything else. If it's good enough to get people playing games on their macs at all (even if at relatively sub-par settings), that builds the market, shows there are people willing to spend money on games to play them on their macs.

Then at that point games developers might be more inclined to give the platform explicit support.

Otherwise it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation: people aren't playing games on their macs because the library isn't there, the library isn't there because no developers will support a platform where there aren't gamers and so on.
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> The submitters have given reddit a sublicense to publish their content, not random 3rd parties.

This is tangential no? Third party reddit apps _already_ republish end user content.

I'm not saying third party apps powered by scraping are not illegal, I'm saying they're _no more_ illegal than those powered by the official reddit API.
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The tragic thing was that Putin, instead of attacking Ukraine could have just opened his country for any Ukrainian citizen that feels Russian enough to want to relocate. He could probably get more people, if that's the goal, than with all this bloodshed and pointless destruction.
You mean more than the invention of fire or the printing press ?
Carl Jung had some interesting ideas on this topic, his book "Psychology and Religion" is a very thought-provoking work.
It would have been better to offer them land and money to cross over the border and live in Russia.
Thanks for the info! I think a couple of us in this thread may be arguing cross purposes - I want to ensure that codeweavers gets credit for their open source contributions and you want to ensure technical accuracy. These are both good goals and don’t conflict with each other.
what about stable diffusion or the tools by adobe ?
Societies have also been known to completely fabricate horrible anecdotes about their neighbors / nemeses.
In ancient religions, and especially Canaanite there was a great emphasis on bringing your best offerings to god, best fruits, most expensive wine and top meat.

It will be unusual that for children the unwanted ones suddenly are considered a good offering
I'd argue that the presence of anything in the brain which violates the laws of physics (necessary for the above claim to be false) is equivalent to Russells teapot, and absent extraordinary evidence it's a reasonable assumption to make that the brain adheres to known physics.
I don't think this is much different of looking at people in the 90s SMSing all the time and what happened after that with smart phones, you can criticize what you are currently living. The VR/AR is just a normal, technical and market, evolution.

In the 80s people started using walkmans to hear their own music instead of listening in their living room with their family speakers.

I think that the social criticism starts much much earlier. Nothing special about Apple.

Another take, adding AI to the equation, is that probably the humanity ego is huge and all these stuff is harming it and we are not as important and intelligent as we thought. We are amazing creatures for sure and will fight for our humanity in the way other animals do for their survival.
Also in this space is WezTerm - also written in rust, also GPU accelerated. It is probably the best I've come across in my time obsessing over terminal emulators.

This one looks neat too, I'll have to check it out.
You could use an unnecessarily big QR code for extra correction bits to mitigate this somewhat (up to the maximum correction standard (30%?) even if that means 41 cell code instead of a 33 cell one). For URLs another size hack is to include meaningless extra data (a qstring parameter or anchor that won't be interpreted). This doesn't increase the error protection in itself, but gives the fancier more data to work with so it can produce better visual results without losing more of the signal correction strength. Using the generator at https://qrbtf.com/ someone linked above, try the “C2” style with https://qrbtf.com/ and https://qrbtf.com/#some-extra-data-to-increase-the-image-siz... to see the difference this makes.

The issue with artsy QR codes often isn't the individual bit flips, but that they often include large areas of all black or all white which can make it harder for the reader to pick up the actually correct bits if the viewing angle and lighting aren't perfect. The standard includes 8 mask patterns that you can freely choose from, the intention being that you pick the one which gives most black/white variation in the final result, so there is as few low-contrast areas as possible. With improvements in cameras and processing built into QR scanners these days this is becoming less of a concern, but if you need your code to be reliably readable by older devices, probably stay away from the fancy tricks.

The fancy tricks are cool though, worth all the caveats if they match your stylistic needs.
It's the quotation of source material love the most about this comment
Peter Zeihan had an interesting take on this, that the Russians moved on Ukraine because their demographic decline means that if they don't invade now, they will forever lose the ability to wage war and hence defend their homeland. The Soviet-era population is rapidly aging out of military service age, and the post-Soviet generation is tiny, and so they will not be able to field a meaningful army if they wait. Basically Ukraine is a last-ditch attempt to save the Russian state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-r7z0lM5_k&t=42s

Interestingly, he predicted the Ukraine war 5 years before it happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuhWA9GdCo
> Otherwise, the intention was that bigger RISC-V cores would detect a conditional branch over a single instruction in the decoder and perform macro-op fusion into a conditional instruction.

This seems like an overhead compared to actually having the instruction available. Could anyone say how material an overhead this is?
Here it means more 'on your own device' rather than 'in the cloud'

You could consider that the real edge, whereas edge computing often means 'at the edge of the cloud' i.e. local CDN node
So... why is this not an end-user product like Proton on SteamOS?

Is this actually going to do anything for Mac gaming considering it's only meant for game developers for... testing? What kind of workflow is Apple envisioning here?
Nevermind the low end (it will always be an uphill battle to compete with the consoles on price), the issue is that Apple doesn't even cater to the high end.
They’ve had “drones” (more like gliders) since the gulf war that can fake electronic signatures of different planes. They worked well and were targeted by Iraqi defenses.
Yeah but how can you stick a gtx 3090 in a Mac?
Your basis for discussion is that you read the wiki article on common sense? Then you cite a dictionary definition? Suffice to say that is pseudointellectual and inappropiate.

And then you obviate the concept by rendering your own gross ignorance: people don’t like pain? Today you learn about masochism. People need entertainment? Monasticism, asceticism, Buddhism, nihilism, et al. People learn as they age? Quite unfortunately many studies show many people lose a great deal after their teens. And your invocation of the idea that cultures share morality such as a prohibition on murder (this has nothing to do with “reciprocity” by the by) is truly divorced from basic observable reality.
I don't think it's about diverting resources. Apple has the funds to buy more developers to focus on gaming.
Non-paywalled PDF of of the paper (actually both papers in the "Debate" section; the relevant paper is the second one):
https://www.academia.edu/download/34987326/XellaEtAlDebate_A...
https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2013/61/the-new-guard-whe... a left-wing perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guard the more neutral PoV

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29900970 National library of Australia contemporary newspaper report
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> it the protagonist slowly descends into an underground of hackers while finding herself isolated in a room with all sorts of mid 90s aesthetic crt monitors, servers, tubes and wires.

My Meta account name is “regretbuy” (IIRC), but I love the menu scene in Superhot because it looks so similar to your description.
They put comparison of power against nVidia 3090 which made every Apple fan think it's comparable in performance too :D
To me, all of these articles might just as well say, young people can't afford nice things anymore, but we're going to say that's a personal choice.
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I'll agree that this smells of psyop, but for what purpose? What is attention being pulled away from?

Speculate away, I'm interested in what this community has to say.
this is $3k, but then how much are other premium VR headsets?
>Interestingly, he predicted the Ukraine war 5 years before it happened:

But isnt the war ongoing since 2014?
This is a problem that turns up in Flutter when they compile for the web.

The long term answer is the Accessibility Object Model spec currently under development.

The current answer is to build a replica DOM structure for accessibility purposes.
Did you know that Dark Energy is >50% of the whole Big Bang energy? And we have no idea what it is.
That is impressive. I know the images will have been selected for the fact that they are particularly good examples, but I've seen a number of implementations of trying to mix a photo into a “standard blocky code” (the girl and Trump examples on that page) and none previously produced results quite that good. I shall have to have a play.
Metal itself is the parallel stack, no?

Granted, Metal is to a degree useful for the casual iOS games where alone Apple probably makes more money than anyone else in the gaming industry.

>I'm assuming this is a quote sourced from someone who just isn't aware of all the effort being made at the Linux side of thing

The podcaster does acknowledge that as well, I just didn't quote that part. The whole "rant" has about 4 minutes. But thanks for providing context, it is important.
I thought this was not a warm water port but indeed it is.

Their main port in the black sea is still Sevastopol though. It would cost a lot to transfer all that over to Novorossiysk and it would also cause them to lose a lot of face. I doubt they will let that happen.
Wake the f. up Samurai, we have a city to burn.
Launch a strategic nuke, no. Nobody expects that. But we're talking about tactical ones. The smaller ones that can be dropped from a plane or installed in a short range missile.

Even if one or two fail, they will find one that works. It would set a terrible precedent for the rest of the world, where any kind of nuke deployment right now is "not done".

We don't want to go back to the 60s where nuclear-tipped torpedoes were regularly carried and in fact one almost was launched during the cuba crisis.
See also: https://publiccode.eu.
And I was countering your counter?

Was that not self-evident?

Also, countering a point is itself a point in a conversation.
GeForce Now should allow you to do that right now :)
Using a compiled language to develop a webapp has a pretty horrible workflow, i.e. needing to recompile and restart a binary to see any change. Of course, that can be mitigated/automated-away in several ways, but it's still a tension.
Since they use their own Direct3D on top of Metal (D3DMetal), you can immediately start investigating performance while not much of the game is ported yet. Even while running the game in Wine, you can already analyze graphics performance with Instruments.app.

At least this was the messaging in their talk about this: first you had to work months on a port to see how well a game would work on Mac hardware, now you can immediately run it, investigate bottlenecks and see where a port would land performance-wise before putting in any of the work.

I wonder if they will make the D3DMetal usable from native code as well, I can imagine that would make porting much easier:

- First you run on Wine + D3DMetal to get idea if your game would run well enough on Apple hardware at all.

- Then you start building the game natively, still using D3DMetal, so that you don't have to immediately port the graphics stuff.

- Once you have a running game on top of D3DMetal, you start porting it over to Metal with their shader converters, etc.
Oh they did? Well, that’s good news. Something is good in this world.
Comparitavly it probably was. I can't imagine life is very good there now.
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You ruined that with facts.
In the TV show The Big Bang Theory, they invented a quantum vortex based inertial guidance system in 2016.

Initially in https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Positive_Negative_...

Then later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az44pMHvUYk
I'm not sure that many ethnic Russians who tasted life in other countries, really want to live in Russia. It's not a healthy country. Everything I read about life there sounds incredibly depressing.
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> If I could, I'd configure grub or whatever to serial-lock my Linux install to my desktop hardware (and keep a recovery key that would unlock it at another location).

This is the general idea behind TPM/Secure Boot, but as you present it, it just sounds like a headache for performing system recovery, at no obvious benefit for security.

What's your threat model? In the 99.(9)% case it's a crook snatching the laptop, wiping the HD, and selling the whole thing and/or the parts. Evil maid is a real threat, but only practical (in terms of sophistication/cost vs benefit) for high-value targets, like C-levels, devs holding company secret keys, etc.
No the article is about how child sacrifice by Carthaginians was widely accepted by ancient (Greek and Roman) authors, but has been doubted by (some) 20th Century historians and archeologists.
So looks like OpenAI top brass is aware of the moral hazard of using someone else's data to train their models and profit, interesting times. Let's see if they pull a "Google" and say "they're just ______ and don't need to pay for data"
https://archive.is/a6Bsx
They said that’s independent of the Wine fork
Well all modern architectures have FP and SIMD so it’s not as though complex (microcoded) instructions have been banished.
I understand that the goals of research code are very different from prod. code, and I suppose that the reviewers would have to tailor their review towards verifying the integrity of the results presented, rather than code quality in and of itself.

Criticism would be moderated through the journal editor, as with typical review comments.
In 2014 Russia annexed Crimea, and the world shrugged. The prediction was more stark, that Russia would attempt to march straight across Ukraine and invade Poland and Moldova. So far that appears to be their intent, though they got hung up in eastern Ukraine (see: Russia's demographic decline being too advanced to field an effective army).
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Wow ... 1800. They must work all on moderation.
Given the article, the more interesting question is how we react if the answer is "Yes".