skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point is that the physics would be heavily approximated in obvious ways.

Whether they would or not depends on the complexity of the computer and software running the simulation, the limits to which are set by the laws of physics of the "real" universe in which the simulator exists (which may not be those of the simulation). Our intuition of what is practical in a simulation based on our own technology and what is practical in our universe simply don't apply.

> E.g. you would observe artifacts of 3d rendering, which we shouldn't expect to observe at all.

Our universe has a lot of quantization artifacts which defy intuition based on assumptions about continuity of physical quantities. Once we systematically observed and cataloged them, we incorporated models of them into our understanding of physical laws. Whether those are "real" physical laws in a non-simulated universe, intended simulated physical laws of a simulated universe, or simulation artifacts representing limitations of the simulation in a simulated universe are impossible to distinguish from within our universe.

> However there is a limit to how far they could go. We couldn't have computers too big, or it would break the simulation.

If the simulation is sufficient to model a universe the size of our observable universe at the detail level our universe is observable too, the maximum scale of computer we can have without breaking the simulation is a quantum computer of the complexity of our physical universe. Anything up to that scale is within the capacity of the simulation.

Basically, all of the assumed limitations you propose are undetectable from within.

You may be making the additional assumption that not only is there a host universe, but that the host universe has a scale and physical laws basically identical to those that we observe in our universe, such that the simulation would need to be substantially less complex. But there is no reason that either the scale or general physical laws of the host universe would have to mirror those in the simulation.

> Either way, you can't have "turtles all the way down".

If you assume the host universe is infinite in scope and information content (and the assumption that it is infinite in time and that all of that time is available to civilizations, which seems to underlie the conclusions on the that our universe is likely to be a simulation, implies this), then no matter how small of a fraction of its capacity one thinks a simulation can have, it can support an unbounded number of layers of simulation underneath it.

If you assume a finite root universe, then (even leaving aside other reasoning flaws in the argument), the conclusion that our universe is likely to be a simulation falls apart rapidly.
>This is a good overview of promises and async / await. The initial thesis of this seems to be that you need promises or async / await to avoid callback hell which I disagree with. You can still write good code, not use promises or async / await and not run into callback hell.

Even if you could, you shouldn't. It's busy work -- manually doing the computer's work.
> There's this weird claim that payday loans and bad car loans and similar are caused by "greed!" when the companies making them are operating at tiny profit margins. High default rates dictate high prices (which forms a vicious cycle, but that can only be broken from the outside).

You don't need payday loans when your government provides proper social safety nets, and labor regulations that allow you to earn a living wage.

Payday loans are simply a symptom of the problem.
>> "a totally different form factor."

THIS. Core's basically a smartphone the size of a an iPod shuffle where the interface will not need a screen, and where you're expected to interact with it via voice or the 2 minimal programmable buttons (which will probably be context aware and provide even more functionality depending on what app you're using). This is why I find the whole device fascinating! The iPhone removed the keyboard, the core is removing the screen!
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>> many of them say data must be operated on sequentially

I don't think so.
Sure

http://imgur.com/0cJTqz3
As another poster noted, you have the facts backwards. Gawker posted the racist rant as retribution for Hogan's lawsuit. The sex tape was published because it was a sex tape of a famous person.
All countries should try to protect their interest and markets. I am happy that Apple got a push back by Indian government. Can you explain in words Apple's action when it is parking Billion dollar fortune outside USA? It pretty much sounds like 'practice of protectionism' from USA itself.
I agree that you don't need them, but I do think it makes life easier.
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Deluminate[0] for Chrome does a pretty good job of this. For some sites I find it does better than whatever themes happen to be available on userstyles.org. In other cases, it performs pretty poorly but it's still far better than having to hack together something myself for sites I care about.

[0] https://github.com/abstiles/deluminate
I counted up from 0 in binary (excluding leading zeroes) and even with a completely predictable series, it only did slightly better than 50%. I was expecting more (that on-line game of 20 questions was freaky good).
Definitely agree that Jezebel and many other publications in general don't give provide enough perspective of feminism and LGBT issues from PoC (for what its worth, I'm a PoC), but I disagree with the fact that Gawker does not provide some legitimate journalism. Does Gawker have an issue here? Yes. Does Gawker produce a bunch of drivel around issues that are probably trivial in the grand scheme of things? Yes, but I think you could apply the same critique to almost every major liberal news publication. The difference for me is that Gawker has reach and is willing to take on very powerful people (for better or for worse), unlike other publications.
Right now, this isn't really any better than looking at an individual language's site for syntax, this just offers a common user interface. For example, the site has no idea what a list comprehension is, yet that's a fundamental component of python.

I think a transpiler would be absolutely awesome -- even if it only works on curated code samples on the site. Something that shows how a piece of code can be expressed in many different languages. This would be extremely useful for things like Regular Expressions (also, no results found for regular expressions on the site), which are in just about every language, but are treated very differently.

Personally, I think that's your killer idea. It will be damn hard to do, but if you can make it work, I think you'll end up with a lot of visitors. Knowing the language idioms is key to understanding a language.
I see what you're saying, although... Based on that explanation, I'd expect to see a much more diminished frequency / intensity of the PayDay loan issue, but...

...if Something Happens and you run out of cash this month, why would you expect to a) not have Something Happen next month or b) have enough surplus next month to repay the "loan"?

Well, I guess you'd want to peg the BI at "average cost of living plus buffer", so that the person always has enough liquidity to cover, say, a standard deviation of Oh Shit over the course of N months. Or, keep safety nets as nets (rather than traps) so that Oh Shit, Something Happened events don't cause this issue.

Hmmm.
What happens if i open the source code for this, run it in node, get the probability of guessing f or d, and then guess the one that's lower?

This is like showing someone an elaborate mirror, and saying, "See? My copy of you does exactly what you're doing to do! You don't have free will!"

All you have to do is put another mirror in the middle and show them that it doesn't work as they claim.
> Robert Whitaker [1], author of Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, has looked into these matters, and concluded that the medications make people's conditions worse.

Sure, I agree that the school isn't making it any better but lashing out against the things that work in lessening the pain given our current theoretical overload?

Remember, we don't need to go further back than my childhood before woodworking and sewing was a school subject, as was cooking (yeap, real food: fish, meat and vegs).

One generation back and my dad grew up with a work horse, dairy cows, dairy goats and sheep. And so on and so on.

Evolution doesn't move that fast. Banning or further restricting (i.e. beyond todays standard where you need something line 7 years of medical scool) the best solutions we have doesn't sound like something I would support.
All that would do is cause a lot of poor people to not bring lawsuits that are just, out of fear that another company with more money and lawyers will be able to out lawyer them.
My biggest annoyance when it comes to dark themes is with Chrome. Whenever I open a new tab even though my new tab page is black I still get a bright flash of full white for a couple seconds before the new tab page renders.
It is not ironic at all it is factual and even obviously the case in any capitalist society (the policies, at least, there is no evidence of any xenophobia in the scope of the article or discussion here).
Here's a nice writeup that's critical of async and await:

https://blog.getify.com/not-awaiting-1/
>http://www.villagevoice.com/news/conservative-facebook-inves...

Look, I agree Gawker crosses the line time to time and is seen as a garbage blog by many people. What's worrisome to me is that Thiel has orchestrated a shadow campaign based on what to me seems like personal revenge than actually wanting to right a wrong or to discourage unethical behavior.
That is like saying law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from discretionary enforcement.

What is your feeling on discretionary enforcement that targets a someone, or a population, because they are undesirable? If such enforcement uncovers crime (but was not motivated by crime), is it just?
Why can't Stylish sync my styles to multiple computers?
Use the Web to make interactive displays out of almost anything
The perceptual recognition technology is similar to Shazam or Google Image search (or Tineye), identifying media based on how it looks or sounds.

This allows Mediachain to always point back to information about an image, even if its metadata is stripped out as it goes viral, for example. Near duplicate image detection is quite far along and works well for images that are cropped, distorted, etc.

More on our approach in this post:
https://blog.mediachain.io/perceptual-resolution-9c00ad5ca55...

Details on the implementation in this RFC:
https://github.com/mediachain/mediachain/blob/master/rfc/med...
So the 3D printing spits out a big chunk of finished product that "could not" be made by assembling parts more conventionally.

What happens when a piece breaks? Just throw the whole thing out?
I don't think you understand monads.

For one, only the IO monad could be said that is used in Haskell as a "workaround".

Second, monads are fundamental mathematical objects, not some random kludge invented to solve some language's problems.

Third, if you don't have monads in your language you still use them all the time, just implementing them yourself, in an ad-hoc and less flexible way.
Not a motorcycle. This is an electric bicycle. Forgetting the weight of the bike, that front brake isn't enough to properly handle the mass of a rider panic-braking at 100kph.

Also, look into modern Japanese motorcycle design. Their frames are much less than 6kg. Many don't have anything worthy of being called a frame. The rear swing arm is bolted to the engine block, with the only load-bearing structure being between that and the triple clamp (The bit where the front forks attach).

These are proper electric motorcycles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TT_Zero

And here is what they can do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxZs2-gICc
Out of curiosity, what brain cancer does she have? I had a Grade II astrocytoma in 2013, came back in Sept 2015 as Grade III. Currently undergoing chemo and feeling fine (25 years old).
Amusingly, each of those fits in a tweet ;)
When your product becomes a platform
Isn't that more of an effect of ambient darkness? Focusing on something dark doesn't affect one's pupils, as far as I know.

Regardless, I've been using a dark GitHub theme¹ and a dark Firefox theme², as well as a variety of other dark themes (e.g. Emacs tao-theme, dark terminal themes, dark Thunderbird) with no ill effects (so far)—on the other hand, my vision is not the best anyway.

--

¹ https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark

² https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/
Thanks for posting this, it's an interesting approach. Monitoring the availability of replicas instead of individual nodes probably makes sense. However, I'm wondering how this information is actionable for your team. How would you act differently in case your monitoring reports certain consistency levels becoming unavailable, compared to just reporting 2 unavailable nodes in your cluster?
The API doesn't provide access to cards?

Anyway, even if it didn't, the watch could still just display a speaker/microphone image and a graphic indicating audio playback.

Honestly, this is my personal hold-up on buying a smart watch. I'm pretty set on getting one with Alexa built-in.
I won't pretend Thiel's behavior in this matter is unambiguously good, but Gawker is a habitual bad actor, assisting stalkers, violating privacy on numerous occasions for reasons most reasonable people wouldn't consider newsworthy and offering bounties for stolen property. Several of those behaviors are illegal, and the last is likely criminal.

Viewed in a favorable light, Thiel wants to discourage gawker and companies like it by offsetting some of the risk of taking legal action. Viewed in an unfavorable light, he wants to take revenge on Gawker for invading his privacy and that of his friends. Even in the worst case, I can't say I blame him.
Check the Elm language. It built on top of monad ideas (but the language author avoids using the term for good reasons). It make programming web pages very compostable, scalable and maintainable. It shows that monads are really good fit with event-driven programming.
Sure. They use the Technich Laucher and install mods themselves. They also played a lot of minigames in online servers.
Improvements to Notification Emails
I am stuck at around 0.76.

I think its flawed - Whatever I press it never changes by more than 1%

How can the prediction for 'f' be 0.764 and for 'd' be 0.763 - they don't add up to 1.
> The question should be why you need a billionaire to fund a lawsuit to get some sort of justice.

You don't need a billionaire to get "some sort of justice." Bollea could have found someone to do this on contingency. But you may need a billionaire if your goal is to destroy a multi-million dollar media organization.
A quick LinkedIn search shows a Donald Freese who seems to be fairly high-ranking in the FBI.
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Sign in to Firefox sync? It works for me. shrug
Carts without horses
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Even when implemented in a readable way, callbacks can still become hard to maintain. When you use properly separate functions (instead of anonymous ones), you typically have to embed those methods inside one another.

I'll take an example from the callbackhell website that was linked previously:

document.querySelector('form').onsubmit = formSubmit

function formSubmit (submitEvent) {
var name = document.querySelector('input').value
request({
uri: "http://example.com/upload",
body: name,
method: "POST"
}, postResponse)
}

function postResponse (err, response, body) {
var statusMessage = document.querySelector('.status')
if (err) return statusMessage.value = err
statusMessage.value = body
}

What happens when I want to do something other than `postResponse` when `formSubmit` is finished? I would have to start thinking about using partial application and providing specific callbacks, which is okay, but what if the callback levels are multiples deep? The code still starts to get muddy really quickly.

With promises / async, the asynchronous code doesn't need to know anything about what functions want to run afterwards, so the concerns stay completely separated.
Actually, if a player is flipping a coin, it is literally impossible to design an algorithm that has expectation other than 50%. Even in the short term, it cannot have an expectation that's <50%.
This was completely unusable for me. I do commit reviews using side-by-side view and the dark theme here didn't have styles for the changed line highlights causing them to appear in original white.

This dark theme, however, did work: https://userstyles.org/styles/37035/github-dark
The built-in apps seem to be heavily cloud-based. You can turn them off but you can't use them in local-only mode. However there are third-party apps that can collect data on the watch and store it on your phone. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few that keep data on the watch itself.

Edit: Sibling says you can disable uploading, but I just looked through all the menus on my Android app and can't see how.
All sites should support a dark low-blue-light theme. Maybe this should be some ergonomic standard. I've been using f.lux since its release, but it's still awkward to have those bright white sites when working at night.
This Mobile Security Feature Will Annoy You, but It Will Also Protect Your Phone
If you're interested in dirt simple Lambda deployment, check out Kappa[0], written by the same person as boto.

Gordon looks interesting and I'm definitely going to check it out, but from what I can tell, one of the downsides is that it uses CF.

Don't get me wrong, I love CF for it's reproducibility, but waiting for a CF stack to run on every deploy will be frustrating for rapid iteration. CF is great for managing your infrastructure once you have a good idea of how it should look and aren't making constant changes anymore.

I suspect my workflow will be something like using Kappa while I'm iterating, and then using Gordon for the final deployment once it looks like everything is working as expected.

[0] https://github.com/garnaat/kappa
> How is Netflix bending to the whim of the US government?

National security letters.
And yet somehow installing mods is a way to kill the parent in your family. :(

I know there are some tools around this but it is a painful exercise in version numbers to get anything working in minecraft with mods.
"Amazon is asking for the defendants to be banned from selling products on any of its sites or accessing its services."

I am a bit confused by this. Why do the need a court to make this happen?
.something {
width: calc(33.33% - .66em);
margin-left: 1em;
}
.something:first-of-type {
margin-left: 0;
}
People upvote the idea, not so much the implementation.
It isn't telling you the odds of what you'll do next. It's telling you how often its hidden predictions been right so far. So if you've hit 100 keys, and it secretly guessed 75 of them right, it will display 0.75. The more you play, the more slowly this number moves, because each additional guess has a smaller effect on the overall average.
Just once, I'd love to see one of these tech companies call these ridiculous bluffs.

"Fine. You want to try and force us to carry local French TV, and fully pay for the production of said local TV programs? We will be cutting off all Netflix access to France, effective immediately."

It would take less than ten minutes for these cowardly bureaucrats to cave.
Apple might put a GPU right inside the Thunderbolt Display
Hubble finds universe may be expanding faster than expected
I liked this a lot, but it is way too heavy. Almost kills scrolling here, even on super-light sites as HN.
Or, you could spin this as ethical investing. Presumably, Thiel backed Hogan with an expectation of being compensated if Gawker lost the suit and had to pay damages. So, from an investment perspective, this was a good deal that paid off. It also punished a bad actor that invaded a celebrities private life. Smells like a win-win to me.
Sharing that your communication style is condescending and lacking in substance. Maybe this will help you to communicate better?
Aside from taking China's approach to block external services, if a company doesn't have any physical presence in a country (shipping products, office, .fr domain), do they really have any recourse to force the country to do anything? Is there any reason for google to not just shut down google.fr and let french people use google.com. Assuming the media companies are cool with it, is there any reason why netflix would be required to change their behavior in france if they're just using the US version of it?
It's pretty good, got me at 0.76. It seems you can switch patterns to make it go down, but if you just mash f and d it rises pretty quickly.