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>>A complete simulation would require infinite means to process, memorize and exhibit.

True - but a perhaps a clever simulation could concentrate it's computing near the observers and approximate distant or non-observed events.
Correct. I know Minecraft has a large modding community. But last I checked, I had to download third party software to do this.
>I don't see Gawker's "wrongness" as entirely relevant to the fact that Thiel is ostensibly subsidizing litigation...

It is directly related...If Gawker was not guilty of committing a tort that resulted in actual damages, then Thiel or anyone else would not be financing litigation against Gawker.

>Thiel is ostensibly subsidizing litigation in the hundreds of millions of dollars-just to see Gawker go away.

Who gives a shit and why? Is it just because Thiel has a personal issue with Gawker? If Bollea couldn't afford the litigation legally he could use credit, take a bank loan, have family loan him money...legally, he is allowed to sell portions of any potential damages he may/may not be awarded to finance the litigation. What is a better alternative? Certainly we don't want to limit litigants financing to what they can afford out of pocket.

And its not like Thiel or any other financier is allowed to have any influence on the independence of the client's lawyer, so its not like Thiel can prevent Bollea from settling if the amount is agreeable to the client.

Finally, there are mechanisms that Gawker had at its disposal it didn't use that they could have to stop the bleeding. They could have offered Bollea a settlement and avoided litigation, and even if Thiel unduly influenced Bollea to keep the litigation to bleed Gawker, they could have file a Proposal for Settlement above the actual damages and when the judgment comes back under the proposed settlement amount, then Bollea would actually be responsible for Gawkers lawyer's fees (i.e. they would be net + on the litigation even though they lost).
It's just lean journalism. Release and iterate!
I try to stay in those grey areas where people sort of want to stop me but find my antics too useful or entertaining. :) Far as that setup, sysadmin was a pal of mine who hated the unreliable crap he had to manage. He had already made sure all the work sync'd to their Novell network's central storage. I also told people to make CD backups with the CD burners on the machines. With my help, people just lost time here and there with him not having to do any extra work.

So, sysadmin was thanking me for helping him deal with machines that were inexplicably always crashing "because Acer machines are garbage." You feel more or less conflicted now? :P
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Presumably you already have some scaling mechanism for non-native resolution inputs already.
I can't fully understand why people complain about that TBH. Free service and shit happens.

If you're running in production without having a APT mirror[0] in your local network something is wrong with you, no with docker apt repos.

[0] https://apt-mirror.github.io/
> Don't discuss your own votes.

I don't think that is what OP meant, rather than please add a comment explaining why it is wrong (instead of downvoting and moving on.)
To clarify, there's no "my simulation" and "your simulation" in the present discussion. What's potentially being simulated is the entire universe, with no privileged viewpoint. That the universe is being simulated simply means that the laws of physics of "the universe" have been implemented on a computing device that exists outside of "the universe" (and which therefore does not itself necessarily obey those same laws of physics).
Well, yes, that's right, but I think it also spans multiple cases, not just the Hogan case.
To GP's comment... I'm not sure growing the workforce is the "considerable challenge" that matters most either. blowski's point about efficiency still stands -- all other things being equal, achieving the same result with fewer employees is more laudable.
It's also possible that the latest release wasn't pushed to the commercial repo.
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They are not that bad, I have an APU laptop and they work flawlessly so far. However, owning an Nvidia rig, the nvidia drivers are much much better.
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The reverse is also true. The U.S recently prevented Intel from selling $1 billion worth of chips to China [1], so China is getting to work developing their own supercomputing chips on their own tech.

[1].http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/05/us-supercomputer-chip-ban-d...
They do it where I work, because our ops and dev teams like it when deploys don't randomly break.
Awesome! I already push Postgres and praise its team for the quality focus. Just extra evidence in your favor. :)
Exactly. Some comments on this issue are making me irrationally mad.
This is not true. States have been unable to get the drugs they are supposed to use for lethal injection, so they've been substituting others, with horrible consequences. The linked article[0] is one example; there are plenty of others. There's also the fact that the second drug in the cocktail has always been a paralytic:

"But the paralytic also meant that, for years, witnesses could not necessarily tell if something was going wrong with an execution. Prisoners would be frozen, even while suffering immensely. Sometimes, the evidence would only be revealed in an autopsy."

[0]https://theintercept.com/2015/04/30/lockettoneyearlater/
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Probability doesn't work like that. Likelihood has an upper bound at 1, and log likelihood has an upper bound at 0. Likelihood just represents the probability you assigned to the actual outcome. You can't have a probability higher than 1.
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>> The talent was there, the leadership was not.

This is spot on and completely staggering to think about. Yahoo was there with all of the other big search engines. They HAD to have seen the landscape changing, they HAD to know what their competitors were doing and starting to diversify their portfolios and offerings.

And with all that information, what did they do? Nothing. they sat and watched their competition lap them time and time again, diversify, introduce new products, move to mobile, and create new technologies.

I am completely mystified to how this could happen at such a huge company with some very smart people working there. It's as if this was some grand pump and dump scheme for a group of investors. It's like they wanted it to fail.
I see four parties in play, but the author describes only two:

1. Foreign governments

2. American government

3. American companies

----Not mentioned in the article----

4. Foreign citizens

5. American citizens

Groups 3, 4, and 5 are more-or-less aligned.

Groups 1, 2, and 3 have more conflict than anything else.

Since American companies are doing an end-run around control, governments are frustrated. I'd never expect otherwise, and I wish the American companies all the luck.
> Is it a strange indicator that this feels more like lockin to me, than loyalty?

My hunch would be that your subconcious is telling you loyalty towards a huge faceless corporation feels weird. If it was a local store with people you could connect your positive experience to, my guess is you'd have no issue calling it loyalty, even if that store was part of an equally big corporation.
China is primarily blocking/censoring media companies. Other companies can work there freely. Apple is in China, Walmart is in China, Amazon is there, Uber is there and many, many western brands are making tons of money in the country.

In the article they mention that China ordered Apple to block/censor iTunes. Why? Because that's media content and media content is blocked/censored in China. Apple can still sell their phones and they do.
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Science of course! Maybe you simulating the entire universe for science is a thing you want to do, but there's no reason to think you'd want to (or even be able to without simulating the earlier bits) t=4.5 billion years rather than t=0.

And the numbers I gave only allow you to simulate roughly in realtime, so... your civilization has to stick around for another 4.5 billion years to get to us.
You don't need a seamless, robust process for dealing with the occasional remote failure (especially when there are mirrors), but you can for example save snapshots of dependencies.

You should be able to do something in an emergency, even if it requires manual intervention. If you can only shrug and wait, that's bad.
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I've always wondered the moment where I finally resolved my childhood difficulty in choosing a character class was actually an indication I was growing into a personal identity in the real world.

I chose a mage, and always play as the one when afforded the opportunity in any RPG. And now I am a scientist...
If Gawker were something other than tabloid trash, maybe it'd get more support from us non-robber-barons.

Do you think Gawker would spare you, if they thought humiliating you would be popular? Could you do anything about it?

Well, apparently they were stupid enough to humiliate someone who could do something about it. And I'm fine with the results we're seeing.
You underestimate the power of being able to turn the Eye of Justice selectively upon individuals or groups of enemies. It's one of the reasons people get so upset with racial or class-based profiling.

We may all agree that enforcing speeding laws is a good thing, and someone who gets a ticket for it deserves the fine. But if I could fund the police department to have a car permanently follow just you around and nail you for each transgression, it turns something that is fair for each individual offense into something unfair in aggregate. Even if by doing so I was making the roads safer, and you technically deserved each fine.

I think Peter Thiel is doing something similar and even though Gawker is in the wrong in the individual case and deserves to lose, I strongly dislike being able to keep paying to throw the justice system against your enemies.
This is the point! These are the actions that people go to prison for, and some people are like "stop picking on her".

If this were an middle-aged white man of privilege, the same people wouldn't rest until he was sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff
The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?

We still, to this day, don't know the extent to which PRISM and BULLRUN participation was forced, voluntary, or completely opaque. We have Marissa Meyer claiming USG threatened charges of treason, and we have Google denying involvement full-stop.

I doubt if we'll ever know.
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/these-are-the-count...

source:

http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-...

This is 2005 data btw.
what? of course they have it, they have legos, tshirts, plushies, tons of stuff
> Sentient things happening to hold values cannot tell us if these values are objectively the case.

Here's how I'm understanding you... what you are pointing out is that even if all human beings valued, say human flourishing, with no exceptions, that there's still yet no factual purchase from which to say they SHOULD value human flourishing rather than something else.

Well... as they do, goal-based meta-ethical theories are generally going to point to something like that kind of (hypothetical) shared, innate orientation towards "human flourishing" AS the metaphysical bottom rung. It IS the purchase from which moral statements gain any sort of coherent meaning at all (Since you value X, therefore you should Y). You can always keep asking, "But why is THAT Good?" questions, but it just doesn't make sense too.

Maybe this can help illustrate the point.

I could similarly ask, "Whats so good about God's Nature"? Within typical theist meta-ethical frameworks, those words basically parse as, "What's so good about good?" or "Whats so God's Nature about God's Nature?"

"Since you value human flourishing above all, you ought to value human flourishing above all".

Those are just syntax errors. :)

The overall point is this... IF it is true that there's some hypothetical, universal goal X, then statements such as, "Since X, you should Y" can be factually, universally, objectively true.

"You value human flourishing, so you should help your neighbor", etc.

Not only is there no is-ought problem in such frameworks, "ought" DEPENDS on "is".
Although mentioned in passing in the article, firearms sales in the US have gone up hugely since Obama was elected - in fact, yearly sales have more than doubled.

Gun makers and their stocks have done corespondingly well. Smith and Wesson is up 6x since Obama's election.
I agree it's a nit, and your interpretation is probably on the right track, but it's an inaccurate statement by the original author as-written.

Also agree that the crux of the point is multisocket scaling. Though with enough sockets (if memory serves, in mid-2000s, the rough consensus was 4), I don't think computer architects think there is any way to scale well without a NUMA approach of some kind, so it's not just an academic point. With today's memory bandwidth and "memory transaction volume", perhaps even 2 sockets wouldn't scale well in a uniform memory access configuration.
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Thanks for that, not sure where I got the extra multiple of ten from when I'm looking right at articles on this whole story.
By a small epsilon do you mean something like there being a lower limit to how much we could measure, say, position and momentum concurrently?

Would you expect the glitches to appear as random events if you look too closely?

'Cos until you wrote this I didn't think it was likely that we were in a sim. Now you've made me question that...
I definitely agree that the best use case for a VPN nowadays is local network security. When traveling to places like China, it's very common for there to be multiple people intercepting and meddling with public WiFi traffic. Therefore, it's very important to have a VPN to prevent any unwanted sniffing.

In addition, it's always a possibility to register for a VPN anonymously if you think you can't trust the provider (which you often cannot). Some providers such as https://cryptostorm.is/ use a token system which furthers its users anonymity.
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Yes, but a simulated universe would have bounds much lower than that. E.g. the laws of physics say that building a computer of size X is possible. But whenever we try to build it, it should mysteriously fail.

Because the laws of physics aren't actually being simulated, any more than a video game simulates every particle and photon of light. It's just an approximation, and the computing power isn't there to actually simulate a computer that big.
Indeed I've been waiting for something like Owncloud for Django or Flask or something Pythonesque for a while.

I'd join in if there were a better Pythonista to start it than myself.
It's the same solution for the npm left-pad problem.
In my opinion every type of package repository should be mirrored & cached for production :)
> But you argued that a stock dividend is also equivalent to a cash dividend.

They are not equivalent, no. That's what I was trying to emphasize with the difference in choice available to the investor.

> They never do stock splits in place of cash dividends, because splits have no effect on shareholders' wealth.

Neither do cash dividends. You own $100 of a company worth $1000. The company issues a 5% dividend. The company is now worth $950. You now own $95 of the company and got a $5 dividend. Wealth unimpacted (disregarding tax and future changes in the company's valuation of course).
> Unfortunately you can pretty much nanny-pick a study that supports your view for just about any purported topic and view relating to drug use.

While that's partly true, in this case it's a systematic review of the literature on this exact topic. That's not nanny-picking some random study.
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Hi, I work at Docker. Here is my reply on the github thread: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203#issuecomment-2...

I am copying it below:

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Hi everyone. I work at Docker.

First, my apologies for the outage. I consider our package infrastructure as critical infrastructure, both for the free and commercial versions of Docker. It's true that we offer better support for the commercial version (it's one if its features), but that should not apply to fundamental things like being able to download your packages.

The team is working on the issue and will continue to give updates here. We are taking this seriously.

Some of you pointed out that the response time and use of communication channels seem inadequate, for example the @dockerststus bot has not mentioned the issue when it was detected. I share the opinion but I don't know the full story yet; the post-mortem will tell us for sure what went wrong. At the moment the team is focusing on fixing the issue and I don't want to distract them from that.

Once the post-mortem identifies what went wrong, we will take appropriate corrective action. I suspect part of it will be better coordination between core engineers and infrastructure engineers (2 distinct groups within Docker).

Thanks and sorry again for the inconvenience.
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Yeah! Lets just keep on manufacturing in an unsustainable manner.

These aren't you cars, these are chips which could'nt care or show effect of being n-handed.
My son and I are pretty deep into Minecraft, and we have been for a number of years now.

We certainly play Feed The Beast modpacks, but we spend most of our time on client-vanilla but modified servers.

Regarding your last statement, it does strike me as a strange thing as well, but also consider what Linux kernel you're running. For non-HN people, the chances are essentially zero that they're running a Linus kernel. I haven't run a Linus kernel in...I can't even remember.

Granted, the analogy has some weaknesses, starting with how one needs to essentially hack mods into Mojang's official releases, a rather different approach than 'modding' the Linux kernel.
>> This is a Fat Bike tire (A mountain bike "type" that went mainstream in the last few years.

As you point out, the tire has a very specific use. I see these everywhere now and its clear it has become a some kind of fashion trend now. I see people out riding them on city streets all over my city - makes no sense to me really.
Still, the universe only contains so much energy. There is a limit to the number of computations that can be done, and only a tiny percent of those can be allocated to our simulation.
The other one I'm reminded of is Tic-tac, the bookmakers' sign language that John McCririck helped to bring to popular attention on Channel 4 Racing in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac
To keep things in perspective, in oncology the current success rate of treatments that enter trials is just 5%! See http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/06/02/are....

Immunotherapy is indeed the most promising approach to cancer therapy so I'm optimistic, but the odds of success here are 1-in-20 if this is an average study, or perhaps 1-in-5 at best.
Thanks the ux part wasn't very clear in the article
Who said deference to those in power?

I would hope a free press has the respect not to invade the privacy of private citizens.

Do you honestly think the videotape of the sexual exploits of a private citizen is somehow worthy of protection under freedom of the press?

Not to mention the tape was illegally procured and Gawker continued to act in flagrant violation of the court ordered redactions.

You hear deference and you immediately go to despot or dictator. The truth is, the press is far more damaging to private citizens than it has ever been to the establishment.

You show me one piece of great investigative journalism and I will show you 10 celebrity reporters lying in the gutters getting upskirt shots of a teen celebrity.

Team Thiel until they learn not to hack voicemails and generally become decent members of society.
Learning how to have slaves for population?

How noble of them. Not really.
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>But in cities with public transit, and with non-ridiculous building restrictions, why can't the answer be "downsize and move ten minutes away"?

if you are living off UBI, it literally doesnt matter where you live. Move to rural midwest - theres plenty of vacant housing at astonishingly cheap prices.

You could easily get a multi-bedroom house for under 500 a month
It adds a fair bit of lag, too, which is already pretty bad on most HDTVs.
>the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

If Thiel believes that sponsoring this lawsuit improves the welfare of others, then it is by definition philanthropy.
I imagine the first test or two would be a period of the students learning to understand the system, but after that it's perfectly fair. It's a good lesson in "You aren't 100% sure of anything, so don't claim you are".
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. I receive dividends from a bunch of companies, and, with almost no exceptions, the stock prices drops by almost exactly the dividend value on the ex-dividend date.

Maybe what you are suggesting is that a company with no history of issuing dividends, that starts to issue dividends, will see an increase in the stock price?
Good for a career in politics.
They are experimenting with this a bit. For instance, the Wii U version of Minecraft has official Nintendo-licensed DLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8EhPT6ixTA
The 30% clause was for the actual components in the product being sold, not on the volume of sales.
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I'm not sure about that, but they definitely should have taken a move fast break things style approach a la Facebook. New features on Twitter seem to take forever to be decided upon and rolled out.

I often wonder if their architecture is stifling them in some way. If I were Jack I'd want to set up a large opt in beta group to trial new features.
Again: convolutional filters existed long before CNNs did.

Yet no one solved ImageNet with some convolutions and hand-engineered features. You can't get that performance even if you shift a set of hand-engineered feature across an image in a convolutional fashion. No one solved it with any previous approach. (Are we to believe that CNNs are the very first method to ever try to exploit some spatial structure...?)

So deep networks do bring things to the table beyond hand-engineered features and you are simply wrong.
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Sadly, these days, the Acer machines are the least problematic of the machines (looking at you H "100 hard drive failures out of 120 machines" P) I have to deal with.

[edit] I feel about the same, as a system admin, I get bit in the /\$$ way too often by good intentions. I hear they pave a road with them (I think I worked there).
How is it not problematic when American tech form an oligopoly on internet services? Especially when these services need to bend to the whims of American government.
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