skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, I think the opposite. If all of this is eventually going away, what's the point?
Windows did not disable the driver because Crowdstrike marked their driver as critical for boot. Had they not done that, Windows would disable the driver automatically.
I enjoyed the last line of the article: "An unfinished book is the only thing I know of that never dies."

A short story against mortality: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
We all know about the heat death of the universe. It is irrelevant to this discussion, however. May I suggest taking a look at "The Red Queen". I'd be surprised if you were disappointed in it.
So, is that what you wrote on your NASA astronaut training application?
I hope not to seem combative, but I'll weigh against your view.

Life hasn't "adopted" anything. It's like when people say evolution "chose" an advantageous trait, when in reality it's just a consequence of dead stuff not passing on traits and specimens with those traits having more success at living, and neutral traits surviving just by not immediately killing or ahem rooster-blocking.

Old-age death is merely a mechanical limitation of biological processes (and possibly matter in general if you subscribe to the heat death of the universe.) It enabled rapid evolution, which allowed MUCH more complex life to come about after billions of years, but the fact that life retains death is merely a consequence of how it came about. Probably life that never died would only evolve in response to environmental disasters or predation, slowing changes significantly.

Don't take this to mean there aren't problems with humanity's search for extending life well past our natural biology. There are. But all those problems revolve around society needing death to not stagnate to hell due to evolutionary circumstances shaping our mentality, not the universe demanding it for some grand philosophical reason.

If you see death as something the universe "wants", great! I merely see death as a limitation and a mechanical process for exacting change.

To posit another philosophical quandry: if life can reproduce, can it ever really "die" of old age? We're one branch on a massive chain of reproduction stretching over literally billions of years, so are we really a "different" life-form from the first one? One enormous organism, split up into quintillions of different parts. If you have a child, where do you stop and they begin? Where do your parents stop and you begin? They/you literally came in part from their/your own cells!
> Evolution has no further use for him, so his life is forfeit. In fact, survival of the progeny may be advanced by getting rid of the old folks.

I think this shows that in species where the male does not die promptly after mating, there is good reason to live longer.

> Beyond that, off to the ice floe.

Where does the certainty come that you cannot be useful in ensuring the survival of your great-grandkids, or great-great-grandkids?

After all, if you're arguing from what evolution mandates, the only thing to do is let everyone do whatever, and see where evolution goes next. You really can't think evolution had the current situation as its target all along, and now the only remaining thing is to not disturb it.
We’re probably just using the “overengineering” that the evolution put into us to account for much harsher living conditions that existed previously. I have no other explanation, in any case. That’s also why a lot of us are fat.
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Adherence to a single tablet regimen is significantly higher than a multi tablet regimen. Bringing some actual data into this, adherence to either in a broad population is not 100%:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253105/#:~:tex....

People with substance abuse disorders are not binarily excluded or included from adherence to taking a daily regimen. However, it is not an unreasonable expectation that someone shooting heroin every week in a flop house is less likely to take a daily medicine than the average population.

The belief that drug addicts can't be expected to take a daily pill is not grounded in stereotype and bias, it's a realistic and down to earth perspective that for some of them, their addiction is crippling their ability to function.
I don’t think you could discount the Foucault power dynamics either. The people running society would all be hundreds of years old, so it would have an effect on culture.

I don’t agree that preventing twenty somethings from dying in drunk crashes is easy or preventable at all. You’d need to redo the entire transportation and city planning infrastructure of almost the entire United States to do that.
"Do a kick-flip"
It's exponentially worse now with fentanyl and meth plus now there are now social repercussions or consequences and you can steal to fund your habit with no consequences. It's a sick sad society that would allow this and not see it as an injustice to man. To not intervene is bad enough, but SF actively enables this crap by giving out cash (adult assistance program) and needles (without requiring them to turn in dirty needles). But the voters get what they vote for.. so I guess they want this. This is what it looks like now on 6th/7th and Market: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-RuONoqOeP/?utm_source=ig_web_c... it's always been bad, but this is insane. I took BART to Civic Center for concerts and bars many many nights and it was never like this until the pandemic. I blame all city leaders, voters, and SFPD for allowing this to continue unabated.
There's also the risk of accidentally hitting the upgrade button and at best losing a few hours to the upgrade or at worst several days as you deal with recovery.

Had a recent bad experience when I accidentally pressed upgrade on an old macbook air running Catalina. I ultimately had to restore from a time machine backup to get it working again. The internet recovery failed most of the time and needed multiple attempts to boot through. Attempts to try and let the upgrade go through would always result in the estimated time remaining disappearing after a while, and nothing happening. Attempting to re-install Catalina from the recovery menu also failed with an infinite loading spinner after a while and nothing clickable. Additionally there is no indicator that the wifi disconnects and you need to re-connect when attempting to re-install. I only found that out when I accidentally triggered an accessibility setting(I think VoiceOver) that showed the top bar again with the wifi icon. Even then there was another workaround needed to actually connect since I believe it wasn't possible to type in the password as you couldn't select the password dialog box.

I wasn't completely without fault, I'd stopped the upgrade early to since the upgrade was taking too long, I also lost the recovery partition the first time I tried and failed to reinstall which meant that internet recovery was the only way to boot the mac without it immediately trying to upgrade or re-install. The cli is accessible from the recovery mode which did allow me to take an additional backup of the laptop's contents with more up to date things.

In general it seems that the upgrade and recovery process is not supported at all after a couple of years which makes these upgrade notifications a constant risk if you ever click to install one of them. It also reminded me the importance of keeping backups, especially of the filevault key.
you can easily find it yourself? check yourself it you have it or not.
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The larger the org the slower they are with updates. Some global companies skip one or two versions of Windows because of the time it takes them to upgrade their systems. Microsoft is trying to deflect the blame, but it is their policy of maintaining backward compatibility that bit them. If you tell enterprise they can run their software on the latest version of your OS there is no incentive to upgrade, because they can always do it later. Steve Jobs knew how enterprise clients think from his time at NeXT and killed Apple's enterprise division when he came back. When large customers pushed him to create enterprise sales and support team he told them to go the nearest Apple Store, because he did not want them to limit his ability to change the OS.
> extremely hard to near impossible to be both succinct, correct, and robust to failure.

It depends on the size of the overall system. The smaller the system the easier this is to achieve.

> many lawmakers are happy to outsource the coding to special interests.

In and of itself, this is actually a good thing, as you point out:

> You also wouldn’t expect the PMs to be responsible for the implementation.

So what you really want is two third parties. One to write. The other to review. Which, we have, in that the President is entitled to veto any legislation that hasn't passed with a super majority.
Try also saying "Al-Mamlakah Al-ʿArabiyyah as-Suʿūdiyyah" instead of Saudi Arabia.
> I think the top comment about this being Atlanta's homeland security department or whatever threw me off.

Not even a local branch of DHS. Atlanta Police Department's Homeland Security Unit. I think that's the danger here. Regardless of the justifications or even the current legality I don't think it is reasonable to expect local police departments to carry out dragnet surveillance in an attempt to find crime because that's exactly what they will do.

Maybe I'm naive and there really are so many impending terrorist attacks that we need every medium sized city PD to have a homeland security unit. I don't think that's the case.

I think it is more likely the militarization of the police has expanded their scope so far they can no longer effectively police. When you have regular "intel reports" coming out of your "homeland security unit" the content isn't really important anymore. Everyone is a potential threat. If you dig deep enough you'll eventually be right.

> Conspiring to do something. The something isn't important for my argument so long as it's a crime.

When you view the world through the lens of "homeland security" any gathering looks like a criminal conspiracy.
Well, that is why Apple is meaningless on the enterprise server room, and all their attempts at it flopped.
They're synonyms, per your link. Also check out Wikipedia

>Quantum Jump

>Redirected from Quantum leap (physics))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap#In_general
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>100,000 civilians killed instantly and an additional 130,000 died from the exposure afterwards and till this day no official excuse from the US.

With all due respect to the enormous civilian suffering behind yours and the following numbers, why should there be an official excuse other than the obvious of winning the war against a barbaric enemy that had already ferociously invaded most of eastern Asia, the western Pacific and ruthlessly killed over 15 million people in the process?

The atomic bombings, by the perspective of the time and what had already been done, weren't even so terrible in terms of dead. The mass firebombing campaigns of the entire last couple years of the war against Japanese cities, using completely conventional weapons, had already killed possibly as many as 700,000 people with hardly any allied leader batting an eye, or the U.S. public for that matter. Given this mentality, and the subsequent lack of an apology for those conventional bombings, what would have made the atomic bombings deeply unique? (except for the nature of the bombs themselves).

Let's not also forget that Japan itself did everything possible to make the use of atomic bombs seem reasonable, having promised repeatedly that it would fight even in the face of horrendous casualties both for its own people and the forces of any invading army. Given the absolutist stance of Japanese forces in the field previous to those last weeks, fighting until every last man is dead and killing as many civilians as they could in the process, on directives and mentalities instilled directly from Tokyo, it's not hard to see why the Americans took seriously the idea of an unimaginable bloodbath in any potential invasion of the home islands.

Just look at the battles of Okinawa, in which the local forces encouraged their own local civilians to commit mass suicide as they lost the island, or the battle of Manilla, in which the knowingly losing Japanese just kept fighting, butchering, raping and burning the city solely for the sake of doing so.
Here's what I have found regarding this:

"Thanks F3nd0! There are currently no plans to switch to a less permissive license.

And we're perfectly happy using proprietary services like GitHub and Discord as long as they make our work easier and more enjoyable. We recently evaluated a number of alternatives, and found that they all introduced more friction than we were comfortable with.

Although the task of building a browser is itself challenging, we're a pragmatic project :)"
> I mean what are we, Barbarians??

Clearly, considering you are using AdBlock Plus instead of uBlock Origin :)
From reading the docs, this has an IMO surprising design decision: the “journal” is a stream of bytes, where each append (of a byte string) is atomic and occurs in a global order. The bytes are grouped into fragments, and no write spans a fragment boundary.

This seems sort of okay if writes are self-delimiting and never corrupt, and synchronization can always be recovered at a fragment boundary.

I suppose it’s neat that one can write JSONL and get actual JSONL in the blobs. But this seems quite brittle if multiple writers write to one journal and one malfunctions (aside from possibly failing to write a delimiter, there’s no way to tell who wrote a record, and using only a single writer per journal seems to defeat the purpose). And getting, say, Parquet output doesn’t seem like it will happen in any sensible way.
> But for large projects, it is unrealistic that "kindness" will scale to thousands or millions of users. Too many people are too narcissistic, thoughtless, cruel, or all of the above.

While it is sadly not to be expected, I don't think it should prevent projects from at least trying to cultivate it. One thing I have learned when dealing with large communities over the years is that it certainly is possible to cultivate a more general atmosphere that greatly reduces the amount of unkind/aggressive interactions.

Part of the strategy to make that work is to keep talking about it and keep reminding people. People tend to get wrapped up in their own mind on the internet, for a majority of people being reminded of the fact that they are interacting with other people is often enough. So you need to make sure that as a project you have these things explicitly stated in places like contribution guidelines, on top of issue templates, etc.
In addition to that, contributors and project owners need to be seen talking about these things. It might seem a bit childish, but things like a "hey, I'd be happy to continue talking about this issue you created but in a more constructive manner" from contributors help a lot as well. People tend to see that and notice that there is a clear expectation from the project.
And of course, articles like this one actually are really important.

And to be clear, it is never going to perfect, but in the long term it will be a lot better for contributors and owners than without any "community training" on these sorts of things.
> It is irrelevant to this discussion

My point is there is a dial. We have to die. But we don't have to die when and in the manner that we do.

> May I suggest taking a look at "The Red Queen"

Ordered. Thank you!
That seems like a double edged sword. On the one hand, I'm sure every president would like a 50,000 man army to implement their preferred policies. On the other, how does one raise a 50,000 man army these days? This isn't Rome.
>anyone who is content to sign away their personal autonomy to a violent organization

Honestly non-physical violence is sometimes overlooked.

Economic decisions cause way more violence is mpre subtle ways.

A new policy in banking or from insurance companies can lead to more deaths than a what an entire branch of the military.

Hell, i think high decisions from Google can cause deaths in prioritizing certain arguments over others.

So i don't think that just begin a part of the system makes you bad, making the decisions does.
Before you start shooting, you perform a few practice lifts of you arm. One way is to close your eyes, raise your arm and then see where you are aiming. Adjust the position of your back foot if you're off the bulls eye. Key is to keep your wrist locked in position.

Once you raise your arm for real, you don't really need to look at the target, your hand and hence pistol will be in the right spot.

All you need then is to fine-adjust the sight alignment, hence why you focus entirely on the front sight post.

Once you get good you just know how to stand and such, so you'll be mostly bang on right away.

For this reason, if you get glasses for shooting, you'll want them made so your best focus is at the front sight.
Hmmm. Is it any better than germanium for making infrared lenses I wonder? Likely cheaper
The ones that got gold against the coll looking ones, were a bald man and a fat lady.
> The scientists managed to communicate using recognisable formats such as Morse code and nucleic acid sequences.

Sounds like a mating ritual. Do I hear wedding bells?
It’s a pretty big assumption that alien civilizations would even have a concept of the personal self that is interested in personal immortality. Even human beings had less of an interest in personal immortality prior to roughly ~2,000 years ago - before that, your group identity and memory tended to be more important, or your soul was something very different from a continuation of your earthly self.

It’s just as likely that an alien civilization is a biological system akin to insects or trees, where the individual existence of one entity is not relevant at all.
Yes, the motor is running but I'm sure the chain does stop spinning. Surely your finger comes off the throttle when it's not actually cutting, i.e. there must be some up and down action involved even if someone else is positioning the logs?
"Because I like solitude and find space and weightlessness fascinating" is also a fine response (my response to why I would also find 8 months in space something I could embrace).

The "why" of the GP was a personal question, and can just be answered with the thoughts and feelings that led you to say what you did.
I think they solved the problem by not supporting multiple inheritance, instead supporting interfaces and/or traits. But also "composition over inheritance" pretty much won, thankfully imho.
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> If the only way you could die was by physical accident, you don’t think people would do less physically risky things?

On average, sure. But look at how the wealthy spend their time today. Rationally, they should be more conservative. In reality, the infinity of experience calls out.

Similarly, having biological immortality doesn't mean your time preference goes to zero [1]. And if that number is positive then value of a statistical life is finite [2]. We're thus shifting our place on a scale, not throwing the scale out. Hence why the examples are relevant: we've shifted on this scale before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference

[2] https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...
All your examples are actually bans though. They prohibit people from freely engaging in certain behavior. The distinction I'm making is not that the Utah school book ban is contextual or based on location, it's that it's not really a ban at all. They're not going to teach these books or make them available to students. Nobody is telling students "you can't read these books." Would you call video games "banned" because they're not available at the school library?
People who don't use equipments inherently have fear of failure.

When they fail, they can say "see? Because I don't have all the fancy equipments".
Reddit already shot itself in the head shortly before its IPO.

The sycophants at the top have cashed out, and the corpse is just still falling towards the ground.
Often this does come from people that don't write software. Though some of the more grading experiences in this area I have had did come from people with at least some experience in writing software. Where they used that experience as a sort of argument as to why their demand should be met as swiftly as possible.
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Last time I tried playwright it required custom versions of the browsers. That meant it was impossible to use with any newer browser features. That made it impossible to use if you wanted to target new and advanced use cases or prep a site in expectation of some new API feature that just shipped or is expected to ship soon.

If you used playwright, write tons of tests, then hear about some new browser feature you want to target to get ahead of your competition, you'd have to refactor all of your tests away from playwright to something that could target chrome canary or firefox nightly or safari technology preview.

Has that changed?
They have enough food to stay that long?
Shipments on dragons are safe and work fine
I still don’t think this is a relevant example at all. Rich people are still going to die. If they’re careful, which they tend to be relative to the population, they live a decade or two longer than average people.

That isn’t the same thing as immortality.
I thought PFAS are toxic?
There is that saying Amateurs talk strategy, Professionals talk logistics.

I think it is a case of the strategy is fine (wanting immortality), but the logistics are just not there. So as much as it may pain us, focusing on not dying would mean you could spend your life not living in try to achieve said additional life.

I can think of a thousand futures on what I could do in a certain position but odds are that none of these situations will ever come up. So to have a clear mind, don't cling to things that might not happen.

I am glad that many are trying to achieve immortality, I will not stand in the way of them, but I also won't be holding my breath on it happening in my lifetime.
Clearly we do not have a shared understanding of identity.
> He said: “There are some people who look at this and say, ‘Well, I guess we should all have less things. We should use less energy, we should go to fewer places.’ There’s been a lot of virtue-signalling and it’s very depressing.

> “I believe in a future of abundance. I believe the north star is human flourishing and that we should build a future in which more people can go to more places more often.”

Here is one guy who looked at the state of the world and said "fuck humanity, I'll get mine".

Also was posted three days ago with archive link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41158372
"Security" software has always been like that. What's bonkers is the state of regulations and auditing where putting this kind of crap on your systems is somehow seen as increasing your security rather than decreasing it.
That’s not why. It was overpriced and didn’t have a lot of software.

Linux distros make changes and they ate Microsoft’s lunch in the server room.
> That isn’t the same thing as immortality

Biological immortality still means you'll die, somewhow, somewhere. Or at least, I believe enough will believe that to continue to have fun. There will be folks who lock themselves in a room to keep the world away, but we have those today as well.
I also think that the walk feature should have wasd and arrow movement. Maybe it should transition more slowly if you use those keys but when I read "walk" then my expectation in a 3d environment is that I can navigate more freely with keys.