skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it follow that the "simulators" are also simulated, ad infinitum? (see: "turtles all the way down" comment)

Certainly, no matter how far you go back, the simulations are "real" in the sense that they exist. Why is this simulated reality considered less "real?" Would we (or whatever we really are) be able to experience "base reality" as he puts it? Can you see your own eyeball directly?
> Also foot pegs integrated into the frame may look good but in a low slide crash could prove catastrophic.

They also appear to have a taper to them, leading to a somewhat thin edge. My dad still has the scar from when he put a footpeg into his foot on a motorcycle when he was younger. That was from a fixed but fairly blunt footpeg. No idea the kind of damage this thing would do.
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I found an article about their last downtime and either way they are losing a lot of money https://www.upguard.com/blog/the-cost-of-downtime-at-the-wor...
I've always thought that overtime, gradually, they should've expanded their character limit to something reasonable like 200-300 chars. Are they that Microsoft like tied to being backwards compatible with SMS?
There is a vast middle ground between cynicism, and giving a successful billionaire the benefit of the doubt on the pseudo-philosophy he spouts.
You can download it if you put quantum.jar at the end of the url, no? >.>
Well that is the Number One Reason why they are going immuntheraphy the side effects are minor compared to Chemo and Radiation. This is your own body fighting the cancer.
Neither side here looks great. It's reasonable for someone to sue Gawker because of what they publish.

It's a bit scary to have someone attempt to take down a publishing company just because of a long-held grudge.

That's a template for private censorship by the rich.
Interesting that NSLs don't get the content or subject line of emails. I was under the impression they could get every last scrap of data from anyone with one of these.
Geez, yes, they absolutely do care. That's the entire reason why Uber took off to begin with. Taxis suck and entirely normal people hated them because of that.

"Normal" people are going to get upset when they need to be at the airport and their taxi that they called 30 minutes ago is still not there, so they call again and are informed that there are no taxis available in the area, then call again and suddenly one is right around the corner, but the driver's in a bad mood, demands a big tip, and berates you if you don't want to use cash. That was my typical experience with taxis before Uber, and that's why almost everyone I knew avoided them at all costs. It's also why I started taking a towncar to the airport instead -- because they were actually capable of being on-time and were only barely more expensive.

Now almost everyone I know uses Uber at least occasionally and many use it quite a lot.
> BI is not paid by employers to employees. You seem to be confusing Basic Income with some kind of minimum wage.

Although, raising the minimum wage would be a good thing. Here is an article that shows how the lowest paying companies are effectively ripping off the rest of the economy:

http://prospect.org/article/confronting-parasite-economy (Confronting the Parasite Economy)

The articles is written by Nick Hanauer who is co-chair board of Pacific Coast Feather Company, his families business.

Here is a excerpt from the article which explained what happened when minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour in Seattle.

In 2014, Seattle took its high-wage model one step further, passing the first $15 minimum wage in the nation. Restaurateurs and right-wing think tanks warned of ruin. Businesses would close. Workers would lose their jobs. The invisible hand would punch us in the mouth. But it never happened.

As the Puget Sound Business Journal recently reported in a front page story titled “Apocalypse Not: $15 and the cuts that never came,” six months after the first wage increase went into effect, Seattle’s restaurant industry is growing faster than ever. Even celebrity chef Tom Douglas, who had warned that Seattle could lose a quarter of its downtown restaurants, has continued to add restaurants to his local empire. “Douglas has now changed his mind about the law,” the PSBJ reports, “saying he was ‘naïve’ to think that restaurants would raise pay on their own.” That he was. And then on February 15, 2016, The Seattle Times reported that ADP’s national survey of economic vitality ranked Washington state number one in the country for both wage and job growth. And you thought higher wages killed jobs. Not hardly.
If, in your statements, we substitute ADHD with another chronic disease and Adderall with another medication would your conclusions still hold?

In an ideal world, yes, we would all function optimally in our environment. But, unfortunately environmental changes have outpaced Human adaptation. And, while I'm pretty sure my biology would've been better suited to running around a plain chasing wild game, I didn't get to choose.

Most medications have side effects and trade offs. What's important is whether the medication improves a person's quality of life overall.
This is great. I wish this was around 8 months ago when I built lambda infrastructure at Cronitor. Local invocation, multi region deploys and config management all took far too much development time.
He's using the quickness with which we've progressed to VR as an existence proof that creating universes is not as hard as once expected, such that "universes" might actually be numerous and commonplace. From there, it's a statistical argument -- if "existence" contains one billion "universes" and only one of them is the base level of reality in which all the other simulations are nested, then if we assume a uniform distribution over universes, we have a one in a billion chance of being in the base level of reality.

That's a very simple version of the argument with obvious flaws, but that's what he meant. Nick Bostrom has made a much more elaborate version of the argument.
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There is something particularly worrying about the industrialists: they have the most resources.
Well for starters I would fix the work history section where you say you were an "internee" at Pakistan International Airlines, since "internee" means "a person who is confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons." - probably not the right impression to give a potential employer... Intern is the word you were looking for.
I was gearing up to try to explain how substantial the difference between what Blue Origin and SpaceX have achieved is, but luckily I found that Randall Munroe has already explained it quite well[0].

Long story short -- a vertical takeoff and landing, reaching 100km with zero velocity, is a vastly simpler (and lower energy) problem than what the Falcon 9 is doing.

[0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Well, what he gave is an opinion. And a possibility. But there is no proof of it. So far Musk has not been on any major scandal, nor has he been caugh to financial fraud, talking giant lies, etc. So on the scale of billionaires, he is currently in the top 25 percentile. And because what he does capture the imagination, people want to believe he is just building stuff out of passion. And that's another opinion. And a possibility. From now, either you prove it, or you believe. And I guess most of us just believe.
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Related: There is a whistling language used by people who communicate long distances over a wide river valley. Can be heard at distances up to 5km!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero
The "White Christmas" episode of "Black Mirror" touched on the subject of ethics towards AIs. Highly recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
Presumably they did control the company when they started. I don't know of a time when this complaint wasn't leveled against OwnCloud.
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It also means a non-rich person can't initiate a lawsuit because they'd be ruined if they lost. There are always uncertainties. Truly frivolous lawsuits tend to be dismissed pretty quickly in any case. But there are many reasonable cases where the outcome is nonetheless uncertain.
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And then pour your money into a case that has more chances than not of being thrown out? More power to you.
Because getting a settlement for invasion of privacy is exactly the same?

False equivalence. Hulk Hogan may not be my favorite celebrity, but he deserves privacy more than Gawker deserves page views.
Or more computing resources would be automatically allocated to us.
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> There will always be rich people.

Peter Thiel is not an automaton. he is a human being. he bears responsibility for his actions. he might not be doing anything illegal, but it is perfectly justified to expect more of people than merely following the letter of the law, and as for the rest, anything goes! it is particularly justified to expect more from such influential people like him. he bears, if not legal, then moral responsibility. and after all, laws did not spring out of Zeus' head or something, we defined them, and situations like this, and discussions that they instigate, can change those laws.
Would have been funnier if he searched for "Greece".
My point is that it's the same old unfalsifiable, adolescent speculation that every teenager of sufficient nerdiness or THC intake has had at some point.

We're broadcasting these ideas, not because they're at all new, or interesting (they've been around for about 400 years, at least). We're broadcasting them because Elon Musk is saying them. His only new idea, AFAICT, was asserting some probability that he pulled out of his ass that this idea is false.

In the absence of new ideas, maybe we weight this by the authority of the speaker. If a theoretical physicist said this stuff I'd be more inclined to take some kind of notice (since they'd have a deeper insight into the structure of the universe than I do). A car salesman - not so much.
> Even if it is true, it changes nothing.

I haven't watched the videos yet, so apologies if this is covered. Looking forward to seeing them.

If it is true, it changes everything. If you're simply a character in my simulation and not a real human, then there's no reason why I shouldn't screw "you" over to maximize my personal enjoyment.

That's the most actionable point of the thought experiment, to illustrate the importance ethics.
Yeah maybe. They would have to be server-side as I was picking random things I have never searched before to see if search was broken for everything or not (I was initially getting different error messages for different products).
> Seriously, HN is a gigantic delicious timesink that has probably cost all of us collectively millions.

It's possible, but what you get back from HN is also enormous; from jobs to interactions with very smart people. I mean, Alan Kay was involved in discussions here, just yesterday!
Same here. But what I'm implying is that we've been fooled into believing untrustworthy people as trustworthy, and identifying some of those people as untrustworthy will get you in hot water.
Yes, that would help. However, there is still an upfront cost of being able to defend the lawsuit. I imagine the wealthy in the countries that do have this system still have advantages in litigious matters
could be even worse. On the Internet it's not like some corner store you can check later, as it's still just as convenient next time: everything is a Google search away. So everyone who goes through the trouble of figuring out where else they can buy from - might just end up as those other people's customers for good!
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It only has one breakpoint whereas bootstrap has multiple (xs, sm, md, lg).
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Broken, or compromised?
140 exactly... ;-)
Basically, I have created this as a substitute for a resume. I would like suggestions on what to include to make me more likely to be hired.
The media backlash feels more like a disingenuous and thinly veiled attack on Thiel's political views.

Ask yourself - would there be all this hand-wringing if Soros had funded the case?
Nitpick: His name is Terence not Terrance.
He's allowed to talk about them, sure. But nobody listens to the ten million high school students who have variations on these same thoughts, with roughly as much insight on the subject as Musk does.
> all of the reddit admins were stuck on a plane on the way back from a wedding

Clearly, we need to operate in cells, so that no one knows everybody and will have everybody over for weddings and other parties.
Pretty much. What's in it for the banks to loan out at incredibly low rates? Remember that there isn't only an aversion to high interest rates for people trying to secure loans. The banks want higher interest rates to make loaning worthwhile.
.NET speech recognition is Windows-only. I doubt Mozilla would go for this as they are aiming for cross-platform software.
He didn't come up with the idea. Philosophers came up with the idea, and Musk read about it.

The media doesn't report much on relatively obscure philosophical discussions, but they do report on what celebrities talk about.
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In that system Gawker would still be fucked. However a rich person who controls a media company can still discourage lawsuits against him by spending a lot of money on lawyers to defend him.

Suppose that rich media-owner slandered you. Even if the lawsuit would not be frivolous, the small possibility that you would lose and have to pay for the rich guy's very expensive lawyers would dissuade you from suing him in the first place.
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Yeah it's more like the Boostrap 2 grid, which will be a step back for some people used to multiple breakpoints of Bootstrap 3.
I was watching this talk on Google's SRE and the speaker explains in depth why the answer at Google is indeed no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vMcD7zKM0 She explains the emphasis is more on learning from the problem and post-mortem than pointing fingers.
The author defends Gawker by stating, "But at least Gawker did this openly." If he is working for Gawker, that is very relevant to his argument.
In fairness, his opinion is probably consistent with the views of the editors at Reuters.
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Looks like that book/page might be unavailable outside of the UK.
This update is precisely what changes that. It took some hard work to get it to stay on GitHub and make that smooth, but it's ready now.
I think they understand the appeal they have, it's just that they're deciding it's not what they want. They're trying to pivot it to make it grow. That's what investors want to hear about, apparently; coverage, not depth.

Unfortunately for them they're trying to widen their appeal by making it less appealing to their current user base. I think we all know how it ends.

It's not a new tale.
Couple of comments,

It was rare that the CEO would reject people, but it happened occasionally, much to the interviewers delight \s. Sometimes he just wanted to 'leave his mark' I guess.

I actually doubt that the 'flabbergasted' response was an act.
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Was Yahoo ever big outside of the US? For me it's always been some invisible, but persisting, corner of the Internet. Admittedly I've used some of the services they have acquired (like Flickr and RocketMail), but none of the core products I think.

Search was dominated by AltaVista up until Google, and for news and website index services I would have used local papers and link collections. I don't really even know what else was in their offering.
There is a difference between winning a lawsuit to right a wrong and then to go further and actually try to take down a paper. Whatever Gawker did to Theil it's not worth doing what he is doing but thats up to him.

The problem though is that as extreme wealth gets put into fewer hands it allow them to basically bleed anything skeptical to this out.

Furthermore and as a sidenote.

I find it ironic that Theil of all people, a libertarian who claims we more or less don't need government end up kind of illustrating exactly why we do. Thats of course on top of his funding of Palantir a company who's based on government work.

I like some of his thinking but I think he is showing some major flaws.
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Marissa Mayer's employer is the board of directors of Yahoo. Their bosses are shareholders, who want to make money. That's the metric by which she is evaluated.

YHOO was trading around $16 per share when she started at the company. Today it's hovering around $37, for a gain of ~130% over 4 years. That's an annualized rate of return of 24%, which handily beats the indexes over that period.

You may not like her, or her decisions, but it's simply not true that male bosses are usually fired for this kind of performance.

Edit: yadda yadda of course the stock benefits from the decisions of her predecessors. They also made the job harder for her in other ways. But: stock performance during their tenure is the #1 way CEOs are evaluated.
There was a comment a bit below that suggested that those who paid for commercial support got it 24/7, but if that's true, id imagine the fix that commercial support would have given to paying customers would have fixed it for everyone else too...
Probably broken, since a competent attacker would have been able to avoid creating a checksum mismatch.

My company's actually done the same thing before (same error), by putting Cloudfront in front of our APT repo -- it cached the main packages file inappropriately, causing the checksum mismatch.
If Thiel didn't have a history with Gawker, I would believe to this nobel cause. However, it is obvious that he is using his power for personal revenge.

The short article just tries to show that the new billionaires are not different than old billionaires. They won't hesitate to use their power for personal gain in any area.

Well, you may say, of course, they will use their power for their personal gain. Well, yes, that is the point. Silicon Valley billionaires are not different.
Julius works well, but has no continuous dictation models for English yet (it was originally developed in Japanese).
I am surprised Minecraft doesn't have licensed content you can buy, like how I can buy Spiderman or Harry Potter Legos. Seems likes a logical next move, considering their target audience is very similar.
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Sure, they played her gender up for all they could, but the same thing has happened many times with golden-haired young male founders: While the stock is being pumped, they can do no wrong, they are visionaries, they are wise and smart beyond their years, &c. &c.

We have seen that pattern with every unicorn going back to the days of Jobs and Wozniak. Some of them (like Jobs and Wozniak) turn out to have something. Some of them (consult the Dead Pool for an exhaustive list) turn out to have diddley to contribute, and their companies close, or they get pushed aside.

But for some reason, when a woman fails, there is a reaction that she was only CEO because she was a woman, and there is some massive conspiracy to prop women up and tear men down.

It's simply not true. All sorts of men get propped up for a long time after their incompetence has been demonstrated. All sorts of women get tossed aside even though they were competent and the company's troubles were beyond their power to correct.

This really is a case where the simplest explanation is the correct one: The investors did not want to cast her aside because they were trying to maintain the illusion that all was well.

Zero to do with gender.
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AltaVista straight to Google? You missed out on some great stuff! What about Webcrawler, Hotbot or Metacrawler?
You might be copping downvotes because people think your arguments that he's "not very capable" and "is bad at business execution" don't hold up?
The difference between God and simulation, is there is no particular reason to believe in God. Religions have traditionally argued that the universe needs a creator, therefore there must be a God. But then who created God?

There is a reason to believe in the simulation hypothesis. We already have a massive industry devoted to making world simulations, video games. We know our computing technology advances steadily every year. So it's not unreasonable to suppose it's likely we will someday create such simulations.

The second belief is also untestable, it's a prediction about the future. But a prediction about the future seems much more grounded than religion. It's taking into account our observations of the world, and what future outcomes seem probable. Not just making stuff up.
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The SAT used to have a wrong answer penalty to discourage random guessing. This seems to me a simple, effective way to reflect a student's certainty in an answer.
The Minecraft EDU version has still not officially launched. It has the potential to simply take the ed tech market by storm. Those sales numbers should be interesting.
Yeah, I saw that but I figured both people would see the response if I put it on the child comment since people often only look at comment replies and their children. Conceptually I was replying to both.
Yes, but that is not a global limit but a per-file limit. So you would need one single file to have 64k hard links to it before you'd run into this issue.
Parent does have some validity related to their API...and how they've scorned developers - but the API, and all of Developers in the "Twitter Sphere", are such a small portion of what Twitter "does" it would be out of scope for their investors to bank on TwitterAPI to reach projections.

I don't think Dorsey is as bad as you claim, but this example does reflect an (IMO) systemic problem of treating the CEO of large companies (~N > 50) as a superhero when institutional and foundational changes would really be the hero of the story.
Part of the purpose of tort law is to discourage tortfeasors from future misconduct. With a company as big as Gawker, insurance subverts this to some extent.
See Generation Kill and s5 of the Wire to feel more of his press opinions

Thanks - I didn't know he was on twitter