skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> to generate multiple new tactics or inspect which vehicles in the launch zone were available for deployment

Following up on GP's analogy, I read this as "human overwhelmed by micro" and "human overwhelmed by macro", which... tracks.

From my own StarCraft experience, the two most taxing parts of the game - the ones where I could easily get confused and lose track of the battle, or even forget what I was doing and why, were:

1) Micro, i.e. "generating new multiple new tactics" on the fly, manually controlling a bunch of units, whose survival depended entirely on me being able to do it faster than my opponent.

2) Macro, i.e. "inspecting which vehicles in the launch zone were available for deployment" and deploying them, while queuing production of new ones - while trying to keep track of the front line(s) and spot potential sneak attacks and overall pay attention to the whole map. "Macro management" is easy when it's the only thing you do - but when there's a battle going on, you end up looking at a different part of the map for a second, every second; it basically becomes a form of "micro", except you're micromanaging your attention.

In both cases, the source of the overwhelm is the pressure of battle - things are changing so fast that few seconds can decide the fate of the battle, possibly of the overall game - but the battles between peers can drag on for minutes, requiring you to sustain that level of focus for extended time, and keep it split between the fighting and the base management; as there too, few seconds of error can put you at a large disadvantage down the line.

All this to say - I'm not a soldier, so I might be wrong, but I feel that real-life warfare, at least now, isn't this fast-paced. That may change in drone vs. drone scenarios, but with humans on the ground, I imagine taking it slow and methodical will remain the dominant approach.
Replacing: usually not hard. Open the thing, unscrew the things holding the ends of the wire on, remove old cord, put new cord's wires in, screw down, close thing back up.

(Often "open the thing" and "close the thing" are the hardest - modern devices with plastic clipped on plastic and needing delicate shimming to pry stuff open)

Depending on the level of fix you're going for and where the break is, it can be anywhere from very simple and a few minutes, to much more involved.

If the break is actually at the plug end, you can often pop off the plug housing, trim the wire back, and do basically the same as above.

If the break is in the middle of the cord and you're not squeamish about the final fix having electrical tape on bare wire, then cut, strip, twist, tape, and ... don't fuck it up?
That's my point. A green star would signal to anyone in the universe that something is really off here and most likely achieved by unnatural means (aka and advanced civilization). This would attract attention. which the civilization that sent the beacon can take advantage of for various reasons. There are many such beacons that could be placed all over the universe to attract attention.
Oh, I envy you, I have the exact opposite problem. Sometimes new icons start stacking up one over the other on the top right corner.

If you try moving one of the icons anywhere, it snaps back to the top right corner right away.

I haven't found a fix. The only fix is moving the icons away from the Desktop into another folder using a Finder window.
Who complains about the land use of solar?

Obviously not a bottleneck? There's millions of desert acres.
At this point TSMC is Taiwan, in much the same way that Novo Nordisk is Denmark: they command more resources than their respective governments. So this is Taiwan hedging against direct action by the PRC by integrating itself into the US economy. It is not an economic investment -- considered purely economically, it is lunacy -- but a political investment, and the only possible one. That does not mean that there are no risks, but the largest one, US economic collapse, is simply not subject to contingency planning: if the US goes down, TSMC goes down, one way or another. The $100B burns regardless.
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Sure, but it is allowed, at least as far as I understand, to phone home if it otherwise needs network access. In practice it’s really hard to prevent unauthorized semantic network access once you allow any network access.

The main benefit is that kernel space is drastically smaller which means that the opportunity for a kernel-level exploit is minimal vs something like the Linux kernel that a single device exploit compromises your entire machine.
You're describing a phase change in persuasiveness which we have no evidence for. If humans were capable of being immediately compelled to do something based on reading some text, advertisers would have taken advantage of that a looooong time ago.

Persuasion is mostly about establishing that doing or believing what you're telling them is in their best interest. If all my friends start telling me a piece of information, belief in that information has a real interest to me, as it would help strengthen social bonds. If I have a consciously weakly held belief in something, then a compelling argument would consist of providing enough evidence for a viewpoint that I could confidently hold that view and not worry I'll appear misinformed when speaking on it.

Convincing me to do something involves establishing that either I'll face negative consequences for not doing it, or positive rewards for doing it. AI has an extremely difficult time establishing that kind of credibility.

To argue that an AI could become persuasive to the point of mind control is to assert that one can compell a belief in another without the ability to take real-world action.

The absolute worst case scenario for a rogue AI is it leveraging people's belief in it to compel actions in others by way of a combination of blackmail, rewards, and threats of compelling others to commit violence on its behalf by a combination of the same.

We already live in a world with such artificial intelligences: we call them governments and corporations.
Yep. It's anyone's guess what's been going on there. Lots of theories out there. IMO Google doesn't consider this a high priority and the cost to keep the development going on considering the engineers working on it is low enough.

Also note that swapping the core of a widely used comercial OS like AOSP would be no easy feat. Imagine trying to convince OEMs, writing drivers practically from scratch for all the devices (based on a different paradigm), the bugs due to incompatibility, etc.
The goal of reducing e-waste is commendable. I really like the idea that if people built their own toaster then they will know how it works and they will feel more comfortable repairing it if something goes wrong with it.

That being said I would have started a project like this with researching why toasters end up in the trash. Is it because they break? (and if so which part?) Or is it because people get bored with the old design and want something new which fits their kitchen decoration better?

My suspicion is that there are garbage toasters not built to last. And then there are good quality toasters where the toaster probably could serve for decades. Maybe even hundreds of years with part replacements. But changes of taste, and design is what limits the lifetime of the second kind of toasters in reality not breakage.
I had a 60s kitchenaid and it was super loud, possibly over 90 db. Additionally, it had square corners where stuff got stuck, couldn't handle some solids well, and to wash it you often had to remove the blade and gasket.

One interesting thing was a gimmick about heating soup with the blender using solely friction.

I eventually bought a modern plastic refurb which has been a dream. I do think it is a shame that it won't last 50 years.
Closing and reopening Settings seems to be the missed requirement. I'd disagree with the original assertion that a pro tester would find this in five minutes. The steps to repro are not nearly as simple as originally implied. In fact, they are narrow enough that I'm willing to forgive Apple missing it. (Not fixing it, OTOH, after it's been reported...)
The update notification has a close icon when you hover the popup window. I use it all the time.

It'll ask me again later (a few days? a week?), but it won't make any changes immediately, nor will it schedule any changes.
Central planning is likely going to be a feature of all manners of world-leading governments, whether we're talking about dictatorships, theocracies, or democratic republics. Imagine, for example, a country that wants to get into the chip game at this point.
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TL;DR: mismanagement after the original and subsequent sales, an outdated editor and link/summary model, and a migration of relevant users driving discussion to other areas of the Internet.

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Long ago, it was THE place for relevant nerd news and discussion, but throughout the various sales, ever-eroding userbase, lack of serious updates for mobile users (don't even get me started on how I still need to use the Desktop site because the mobile version just...sucks), and lack of keeping up with better front-page moderation/editing, it became clear that other sites out there were providing a much better UX for 'nerds' on 'stuff that matters', especially moderated content and conversation.

Today, I find something interesting on there once a month or less and instead head here, daily, to find relevant links and useful discussion about content that 'matters'.

Unless something changes at HN (see Reddit, Digg, and/or Slashdot), I don't see any reason to move away from HN; this is simply the best (for me) when it comes to surfacing interesting tidbits, stories, and interesting stories. While I do miss the good 'ol days of Slashdot, it's become like every other Internet dinosaur--a dying relic of days gone by because they refused to capitalize on their userbase FOR their userbase, instead opting to capitalize on the userbase for money, instead.
I think it's pretty crazy how slow a lot of the newer things in Windows 11 are. Explorer is super slow, Settings are slow. Sometimes I think even if I wanted to make things that slow (without using sleep statements), I wouldn't know how do it.
My MIL lost half the people she works with in the federal cuts. She’s been a massive massive trump supporter (wears maga hats in public, even in San Francisco, has a painting of trump in her house, etc), but the cuts shook her. She told me “I thought they were only going to fire the people who didn’t do anything!” And “but what we do is so important, why are they firing us?”

Now she’s very worried because her, her husband, and all of their children except my wife work for the federal government. And one of her son’s entire life is funded by Medicare (which republicans have made clear they want to gut to make room for tax cuts).

Of course, they blame musk and not trump, but even for diehards like them I’m starting to see some cracks. They still have “faith” in the Donald but I think it’s a shaky faith now. If things get bad enough people really may stop liking him. We’re not there yet tho.
No, I would argue I am correctly framing externalized costs ie the tragedy of the commons.
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These comments just ignore history. Tsmc wasn't even founded until 1987, let alone dominant. US commitments are from WW2.
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One word: BS. Germany energy shortages were in the news early this year, and last year, and the year before then. See this, for example: https://www.power-technology.com/news/germany-wind-power-sho... Germany and its renewables is just a laughing stock at this point. One cannot run an industry on renewables, and they are finding this out. There was already some talk about restarting nuclear power plants.

With your optimism, they would have tackled this problem already.

Texas already paid its price for their lack of investment in traditional generation facilities.
Of course. How many climate change theory advocates do you know who are poor?
China has the ability to strike the American heartland, including naval production, in ways Japan did not.

We’re also at risk of losing strategic depth: how many more years of provocations from Washington do you think it would take a South American, Mexican or the Caribbean country to start letting Chinese drones, ships and missiles on their territory? (How confident are you in our intelligence community that this hasn’t already happened?)
Honestly don't know. I've never cared much about extensions. Most people seem to care about ad blockers, which Vivaldi has built in. I don't see many ads because the sites I frequent most often, I pay to see.
IIRC the PS3 issues were a mix of the RSX die cracking and the NEC Tokin caps giving out, not a solder issue.
Exactly. They’re complaining about the defaults, yet you’re on Hacker News where most people on here probably have the most cursed settings you can think of.
> ...unless that intent is to right click something. In which case I have to move across the vast expanse of trackpad to find the secret magic area on where it lives.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't disbelieve you, I just don't even know what you're trying to do. It must be a feature I've never attempted to use.

I just click with two fingers, anywhere. Boom, right click. Didn't even know there was another way.
You could make a USB toaster, it would just take a lot longer...
How are you defining rich here? All these discussions people throw out relative terms and we all have different numbers in our heads. However when Democrats propose bills they start at ~$400k for W2 workers. This is not rich in NYC/SF, and these people use regular banks.
Maybe I should try a Thinkpad but otherwise the Macbook trackpad is the only one that really works for me and doesn't feel awkward. The gestures are right and the feel is right. I agree about size. It could be smaller.
`.retain()` unfortunately isn't what I'm talking about, since it's at least O(n) per call. It might be better if you can arrange to call it just once after a batch of operations, but that isn't always the case.

"Delete as you go" usually† adds no space/time complexity to the operations you're already doing (though it does affect the constant factor). It does mean you're giving up on predictable destructor calls, but generally the "heavy" destructor was called by whoever made it expire (e.g. the death of the last remaining shared owner if that's what expiry is based on).

† If many expirations happen at once, this can easily drop to merely amortized time. It's also possible for a container to offer, say, O(1) iteration via dedicated pointers but have a delete operation that's more complicated.
Android is very unapologetically Linux and it's unlikely anyone seriously proposed doing anything other than use Linux.

Fuchsia more likely was for all the stuff that Google kept experimenting with using Android just because it was there rather than because it was a good fit - wearables, IoT, AR/VR, Auto, etc...
Military vehicles had much more in common with their civilian counterparts in the WWII era. Technologies have almost entirely diverged since then. An M4 Sherman tank had a gasoline piston engine and steel armor. An M1 Abrams tank has a turbine engine, and uranium and ceramic composite armor. To convert a factory from one to the other you'll have to rip out almost everything and start over.
Financial enforcement is empirically one of our most effective tools to combat organized crime.

> We don't do this because of principles, because of the risk of enabling other crimes, and because it would be a bad tradeoff

Really the only reason we don't do this is because of the Constitution. The Constitution could prevent us from capturing beneficial ownership data from corporations, but indeed it does not. Of course one can make this argument in front of SCOTUS (and perhaps will some day) but there's a reason you're not making that argument now, which is that it's a bit silly on its face.

Corporations are fundamentally legal objects of the state, which is why they're registered at all. You can operate whatever business you want without incorporating (and without the legal affordances thereof) and then you don't need to disclose any information to anyone.
In my experience slight blocks work better. If your blocks are absolute you are just going to circumvent them, possibly out of need.

Think about a time when the internet or your battery went out, wasn't that a relief actually?

So just serving 99% of requests, taking 1 minute breaks, or degrading quality after 1 hour of peak usage, all work for me.
In the UK the energy market is broken, the costs of electricity is based on what the most expensive source is currently on the grid.

The UK has a lot of wind (shallow waters, strong wind blasts from Atlantic etc) and wind is significantly cheaper, but because there's gas still on the grid everyone pays the higher gas based price even if energy is mostly coming from cheaper wind.

Yes, the renewable cleaner energy is actually cheaper than the fossil fuel it's replacing and in a perfect world should reduce bills.
I did the same. The other benefits of the NUCs is they often have M.2 slots without surgery or extra add-ons and it's easy to find models with dual Ethernet.

On mine I bonded the interfaces so I've got a "free" 2Gb connection despite my switches only being gigabit (between each other). I've also added storage that's actually reliable rather than having to pray to the SD card gods.

I'm also much happier with DC adapters with barrel connectors rather than also having to hope for the best with USB-C power. It took a couple adapters before I got one that would reliably power my RPi4.
Sounds like it has just AppArmor/Seccomp/SELinux policies built in. You usually reach the same with previous.
> I would go, who doesn't like stunning ruins built by cursed vegetarians?

They should honestly steal this pitch, I found myself curious for the first time.
The U.S. holds the top spot with 813 billionaires - there are 340 Million people in the US - I don't think their mere existence has any impact on weather my local grocery sells more expensive bread or tomatoes.

I think people should stop fetishizing billionaires one way or the other.
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Settings -> Trackpad :)
Yes, I could be anywhere, exactly.
Except that this is not really infrastructure code; it's Kubernetes code. Infrastructure is what runs your Kubernetes clusters!
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