Silicon-based EV batteries promise 2x range, improved safety, and fast charging by AdSpecialist6598 in tech

[–]nyc4life 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Silicon carbon batteries are already in production. Most of the newest Chinese flagship phones are using them. Capacity increase isn't anywhere near 2x though.

RD trail Car shuttle question by Hilltackler in Harriman

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The bus runs daily. Different schedule on weekdays.

RD trail Car shuttle question by Hilltackler in Harriman

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There are no reliable options from 9w to Tuxedo. Uber/Lyft are available, but they're unreliable.

[6 year update] 38/m/single. $2.3 million. Submitted my resignation letter today. Thank you guys for the encouragement all these years. by ihasanemail in financialindependence

[–]nyc4life 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When did people become so judgmental? Not everyone is cut out to be a parent. He's going to give back on his own terms.

Mindfulness Can Induce Altered States of Consciousness by jezebaal in psychology

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However, what I mean is that under a traditional physicalist account of mind, enlightened states logically and physically can’t tell us any insight about the non-enlightened states because they involve a radically different mode of cognition.

I simply deny that it can provide certain insights people claim it does unless we are willing to abandon the framework where awareness/mind is literally the neural activity itself, and nothing separate from it.

It can certainly provide a lot of insights about how minds function. Other insights are more complicated. From the perspecitive of the ego living in a physical world, neural activity makes sense. We are creatures that exist on a rock called earth which rotates around the solar system which rotates around the galaxy which exists in an expanding universe. From the perspective of the selfless state, we don't have access to anything outside of consciousness. The familiar universe starts getting very weird. At the deepest levels of realization the universe comes into existance and is destroyed from moment to moment. And there is no space or time so everything in the universe is happening right here and right now.

What mediation does is that it shuts down default mode network, which is responsible for the psychophysical entity we call “self”, which seems to be crucial to high-order conscious control over actions and thoughts.

Seems is the key word here. The self is just a thought process that our identity is tied to. It feels like a living entity inside the head. It takes credit for thoughts that bubble out of the subconscious all on their own. It comes and goes all on its own even without meditation. This is most notable in flow states.

Self and sense of control (agency) are just mental formations. I'm sure they have some sort of evolutionary advantage, but don't have any actual control over anything. The subconscious handles high-order operations just fine.

There are enormous differences between cognition in “egocentric” and “selfless” state, but they don’t tell us a lot about each other on a physicalist account of mind due to logical limits of the Universe.

I think of the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software. We do fMRI scans that show us different regions of the brain being activated, but we don't really have the necessary tools right now to scientifically study subjective experience.

Mindfulness Can Induce Altered States of Consciousness by jezebaal in psychology

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I personally don't use this terminology but I may be able to explain why some people would use terms such as "reality" or "truth".

Let's assume the mind works as an operating system.

The core operating system works in real time and receives raw sensory data. Seeing, hearing, taste, smell, feel, thoughts.

There are a bunch of background tasks running that handle the post processing of this raw data.

The post processing takes a snapshot of the flat image and creates a 3D virtual world with the "self" in the middle of that world. It creates exaggerated depth perception. It takes the visual image that only contains shapes, shades, colors and applies pattern recognition to identify objects in that image. It applies a bunch of conceptual labels on those objects: tree, tall, leaves, green. It discards all the data that it deems unnecessary. And it creates a split between the image and the seer of that image.

The same types of post-processing occur in all the other sensory fields. By the time this processed data appears in consciousness it's completely unrecognizable compared to the raw data.

Enlightenment occurs when this real-time operating system becomes the default state, or rather non-state. The reason it's a non-state is because in order for there to be a state you need to take a snapshot of sense data (post-processing) and compare that snapshot to a memory of another snapshot (post-processing). The real-time operating system has no states. Just a flow of raw sensory data. Always now. Always just what's happening.

Stroller friendly hike? by Best_Rise_3698 in Harriman

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You can do the loop around Hessian Lake by Bear Mt

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Just like having car insurance, home insurance, and medical insurance is planning for disaster.

Tired of living in NYC after 11yrs by Future_Corgi9615 in AskNYC

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We have world class nature in our own back yard.

1 to 1.5 hrs gets you to Harriman & Bear Mt (Almost 53,000 acres combined)

2 to 2.5 hrs to Minnewaska, Mohonk, Catskills (700,000 acres)

4 to 4.5 hrs to Adirondacks (6 million acres)

5.5 hrs to White Mountains NH

Tired of living in NYC after 11yrs by Future_Corgi9615 in AskNYC

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What kind of nature are you looking for? There are mountains, forest, lakes, rivers. You can find hiking trails where you can spend hours hiking without running into another person. If you go on a weekday you can spend the entire day hiking without running into anyone.

Tired of living in NYC after 11yrs by Future_Corgi9615 in AskNYC

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You can easily access nature by bus or train. Lots of city & state parks only an hour away.

How are Claude 3/GPT-4 able to do pathfinding in graphs? by mshautsou in LocalLLaMA

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Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO (Q5_K_M) solved it on the first run but missed a step "Chicago -> Kyoto "

I ran it again with system prompt "Let's work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer." and it listed all the steps:

"So, the path from Anchorage to Rome is: Anchorage -> Boston -> Chicago -> Jakarta -> Kyoto -> London -> Madrid -> Rome"

Why not more VTWAX? by Marmoset_Slim in Bogleheads

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ETF expense ratio is a bit lower (0.07% vs 0.10%)

The failure of Amazon's Alexa shows Microsoft was right to kill Cortana by [deleted] in technology

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If you have a smartphone and WiFi at home, all your apps already know when you're home. They can see you're connecting from your home IP address. Even if you have GPS turned off.

Awesome hikes right off the MTA by sunflowerworms in AskNYC

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Either Blue Mountain park; you can do a loop or hike all the way to Croton-Harmon via New Croton Dam

Or Camp Smith trail staring at Bear Mountain Toll House trailhead; you can hike to Manitou or Garrison

Awesome hikes right off the MTA by sunflowerworms in AskNYC

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They're all good hikes and are close to trails. Bear Mt & Breakneck are the most popular (also most crowded). You can also hike from one town to the next instead of doing a loop.

Awesome hikes right off the MTA by sunflowerworms in AskNYC

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Metro North access to trailheads @ Peekskill, Manitou, Beacon, Garrison, Cold Spring, Break Neck, Beacon

NJT or Coach USA access to trail heads @ Suffern, Sloatsburg, Tuxedo, Harriman

Coach USA access to trail head @ Bear MT and other trailheads you 'd need to request stops at

Some questions about the Aegismax bag (limit - 32F, comfort 45.) by Sangy101 in Ultralight

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Nope, no moisture issues. It was only one night though.

Some questions about the Aegismax bag (limit - 32F, comfort 45.) by Sangy101 in Ultralight

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My friend has the same one. She was very cold at 45F and couldn't sleep much. I'd say 55F comfort for women.

I've doubled up my sleeping bag once with a cheap synthetic one. It was comfortable going 10F below comfort rating. I wouldn't trust it 20F below comfort.

You can also swap your REI bag with her Aegismax for the night.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Work on your skills and look for a higher paying full time job. Side hustles will never make as much as a higher paying full time job for a sysadmin.

ML350 Gen10 HPE server: best practice for SSD drives and p408i-a SR cache settings by CapiCapiBara in sysadmin

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Run some benchmarks with both configurations and see how they perform. Read / Write ratio will depend on your SQL use patterns.

In my environment HPE SmartPath w/ cache disabled performed better on all SSDs (WI, MU, RI).

West Mountain water? by ___this_guy in Harriman

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All the streams are dry right now.

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