skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh goody, income is magical. We can all just vote ourselves whatever we want. Let's all be millionaires - it's just a congressional act away.

Real income is earned not commanded. Any attempts to the contrary are doomed to fail.
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I know they're amphetamines, but surely there's a big difference between that and smoking street meth (which is what I assume your friend switched to from cocaine)
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And don't put everyone on the same bus, I guess.
> But what brought me out of it was understanding (from Hume) that without a supernatural/supramundane explanation, right/wrong not only could not be located but could not exist, and that same 'suffering' that had troubled me could not be understood to be truly bad.

I think this is really where we fundamentally diverge on the whole matter. Perhaps I'm interpreting you incorrectly, but you seem to have found and then left zen buddhism because it's central argument is that suffering is bad in some kind of Objective way. As in: there's an 'ought' in the story there.

What appeals to me is that, as I interpret it, zen buddhism makes no such claims. It primarily argues that suffering sucks, by its very nature, and we seem to be driven to try and avoid it, so we might as well find the most effective ways to do so.

It then offers some kind of metaphysical framework to understand this (with nihilism at its root), but ultimately focuses on practical approaches to deal with this suffering. Some approaches (perhaps most) even make a constant point of not getting hung up on the metaphysics of it all, because that in itself is considered part of the root problem.

I like all this precisely because I arrived at the conclusion that there's very little evidence or use for 'oughts', or any other statements that claim to be Objectively true. And this troubled me for years until I found zen buddhism to provide me with a practical way to deal with this, and some degree of metaphysics and theory (theology, even) to satiate my desire for theory.

So we're both in agreement with Hume, I guess (interestingly, I've found that this is one thing that Christians and nihilist ex-Christians often have in common).

All that said, to make things practical: could you point me in the direction of thinkers or thoughts that might persuade me that there is such a thing as Objective truth, and that there are Oughts?
The movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor gives IMHO an interesting insight on the subject.
Germans are civil engineering Gods. Here's a factory-made, German Huf Haus, which was built in a factory in Germany, and shipped over from Germany to the UK on the back of a truck, and then installed on-site in just one week:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx0k9r_se04e06-grand-design...

I'm surprised to hear those heavy duty doors are not available internationally, they utterly destroy any interior door in terms of quality that I was familiar with growing up.

I can tell you that you can throw a full blown house party without the neighbours hearing a peep, and you almost never use the heating if you live a few floors up (a few days per year at most due to the completely sealed building and the rising heat from downstairs neighbours).
> * Sending all microphone input to a remote server would be really bad for battery life and data usage.

Not if you transcribe it first, and upload compressed text.
I'd say God is a different question: Even if this entity can't help you while you live, you still can gain points for the supposed afterlife (I guess that is the mayor selling point of religions these days?). There is no such concept in the Simulation Argument.
I almost agree, but I suspect it's a reference to previous discussions around Betteridge's Law, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419

I'm sure it's come up more than once, and it's a sensible response to clickbaitesque headlines like this one.
But isn't a company allowed to use a unified sign in process instead of keeping the products they bought separated? It was more about a unified sign in.

Do you also NOT use YouTube since that was where you were forced to use a new sign in.
Or don't want to live sad cynical lives.

P.S: I understand it is a balance but Musk has done nothing to warrant this derision...yet.
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Is there a poor man who isn't?
This is called a warrant canary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
I remember that backward compatibility story, but when I search for it I keep finding this post. :)
There's some telling comments in a thread on their forums[1]:

> So, the main thing we wanted is a sustainable company. A company that doesn't go away soon, that isn't forced by a bad funding situation to make stupid decisions, or to limit itself and not work with partners as much as possible.

> A similar fork? Well, if Frank and the rest of the engineers lose trust in Nextcloud, we won't have to fork as this time, we will make sure the company won't fully control trademark and code. No more CLA. Trademark in a foundation. So this is the first and last time a fork happens

[1] https://help.nextcloud.com/t/will-nextcloud-stay/90/4
That's why you're supposed to think about it.

Technology advances -> Simulations exist -> We're either the first civilization in infinity or we're a simulation.

It's possible we're the first civilization in infinity, and it's the simplest explanation given no additional information. However, just because something is true doesn't mean the probability of it being true is very low and just happened to end up that way. You can believe in both probability and reality.
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It doesn't seem like he was saying that we _are_ living in a simulation, but that at some point in the future we will be living in a simulation since virtual reality technology will be so good.
>Losing money or whatever seems less of a burden than starving or freezing to death.

huh its almost as if thats the entire point of UBI
(Note to Jack Dorsey fans: if you want to downvote downvote with arguments)

Obviously Jack Dorsey is not very capable and is bad at business execution. There is/was a simple way to increase Twitter revenue and profits: giving small and medium companies a way to pay for entry level access to their API in the same way Google AdWords, etc work. I think there is a lot of money there but they only know about wholeselling to companies/agencies with big budgets.
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> Uh... following this precisely" 10,000 years from now would at 1/1000 of our current advancement rate would look like 2026

Only if advancement is linear.
At one building, friends and I rigged every machine to have hidden copies of Alien vs Predator and Everquest. I modified the system software to intercept keystrokes before they got to the game. One command crashed video, audio, and then whole system. I also set others to randomly crash around same time people walked in to supervise what was going on. Friends and I griped our machines were down about every day. Person in charge ordered us to keep using them and get no replacements because that served wiseasses like us.

Oh, yes it did. Served us well. (evil grin)

Note: Also embedded web browser into our business application in development-mode only. The GUI forms and such. Policy had IE locked down but embedded browser still worked lol. So, fast coders got the job done quickly then were bullshitting around on Internet till someone approached. One key stroke and back to boring UI testing. ;)
Here's the semi-classic "simulations all the way down" short story that pops up here every few months:

https://qntm.org/responsibility
They paid 2bn for Minecraft, not sure if 367m is just software sales or merchandising as well but the merchandise is everywhere here in the UK and it seems to sell well.
Brexit vote could affect Brits' right to live in Spain
Prostate cancer aggression 'linked to waist size'
They operate on blocks and can implement Reed-Solomon with no issues. Random writes do not matter with the architecture like this. The tricky part would be latency and performance during periods of growth.
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Not when he uses the phrase "chances are", which means high probability, but based on what? magic?
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I have. It's... not great. It gets the job done, but it's a bit cumbersome.

It does recognize separate words, but, IMO, the biggest flaw is that it only recognizes pre-defined commands.
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I like that story, but it doesn't really apply to simulation hypothesis. Each simulated universe would necessarily have much less computing power than the level above it. We should expect there to be a limit on how powerful the computers we could build are, if we were in a simulation.

Perhaps if we tried to build a simulated universe, things would start breaking, or events would happen to prevent it, or our simulation would just be shut down or reset.
> Thiel could have given his money to a foundation that openly sponsors lawsuits for media victioms.

Why is that better than shuttering a perpetrator and dancing on its grave?
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Was broken the other day for Amazon UK, too.
Rule of thumb: differences of orders of magnitude result in differences of kind, not degree.

Behavior over 100ms can't be compared to behavior over hours. It's possible that it's true, but it's unlikely.
Hey, I applied a while back but never heard back.
skeleton has the same approach
I'd guess they're probably losing more like 90% of sales while search is down. Basically every purchase I make on Amazon starts with a search.
The simulation argument by Nick Bostrom neglects an important (probable) reality.

While the number of simulated universes may vastly the exceed the size of the real universe, the size of these universes may diminish faster than the increased number can make up for. Bostrom's argument is that we're likely in an ancestor simulation, but if the size of the simulated universes decreases faster than the number of simulations increase, it could easily be the case that the the probability that we're a simulated person is lower than the probability that we're a real person: real people may vastly exceed the number of simulated people.
You really can't imagine? What if for example the losing party in a law suit was automatically forced to pay the legal expenses of the winning party? That is actually how it works many places outside of the US. It's quite effective at discouraging frivolous lawsuits, and it means that a rich person can't bankrupt a someone by waging a legal
attrition war.
I guarantee they told your execs something completely different because Amazon. SOP is to tell you don't worry be happy while loading you up with blame coming down from your director/VP. If you quit, everything they tried to secretly pin on you now focuses on your managers so they are desperate to keep you from quitting. Once you get to OLR the next year you'll get an unpleasant surprise and probably fired. This is called burn and churn management and Amazon is a master of it.
It was a library with 500,000 items being used all the time. I had Librarians who were adding and purging our collection everyday full time and students and faculty checking in and out books etc. all the times.

Insider information all the Library Management Systems are totally broken and garbage (Open Source Evergreen is doing things better). I was required to reboot my Windows Server (Purchased before I was hired) everyday. I was told this was totally acceptable. The Oracle DB was solid but the rest of the stack was total and complete garbage that cost over $125,000 and service contracts of $30,000.

Edit: Off Site aka IT Office Fireproof Case was my monthly and previous weeks. Once a week I walked them over. In the library in a fire case were the daily, and the last week. Tape was it was 2007.
God says...
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Yes those Huf Häuser are amazing.

I found that there were suppliers of the doors in the UK but I haven't looked further afield. The windows (opening two different directions) are also similarly impressive though much more widespread. I spend half my time in Germany trying to look out for these things and marvelling at them.
Man, Forbes and others just keep hammering her with hit pieces. We get it, you don't like her. Her company's tech didn't pan out. Everyone wanted so desperately for her to succeed that they praised her as a fully formed, late stage Steve Jobs in a dress. It's as if they want to hurt her feelings more than report any actual substantive news.
Mediachain enivisions a blockchain-based tool for identifying artists’ work
This mismatch between expectation and reality is why so many internet companies "die". It's not that their business model failed, necessarily, it's that management, or the board, has set expectations for growth that defy reason. The company then has to embark on an ever-more-doomed set of initiatives to try to meet growth targets, which inevitably fail.

Many companies could still be thriving today (e.g., Yahoo), if not for this destructive aspect of capital in our markets.
> So yeh, I am Team Thiel until the press learn to wield their authority with respect and deference.

A good/free press does not and should not exhibit respect and deference to those in power. For a counter-example, see the Russian press, which does show a lot of respect and deference to the Russian ruling class.
Have you read Bostrom's argument? Which premise do you think is true?
Based on scale...

If the universe is of infinite age, the chances of our being the first civilization in infinity to create a realistic simulation is one in infinity. It's not magic, it's the simplest possible train of thought.
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Meanwhile I was curious about the tires and noticed that it has different front and back tires
Turns out neither is built for speed, one is a cruiser bike tire, the other is a fat bike tire.

[Back tire]
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ee8ba9_3c48823dff9e4cdaad...

Vee Rubber Vee Mission Fat Bike Folding Tyre

This is a Fat Bike tire (A mountain bike "type" that went mainstream in the last few years. where the proposition is to have a bike with extremely large diameter tires (for mtb standards) to roll over obstacles or to "float" on top of sand/loose gravel/snow (well for snow use it already existed for a long time, but was quite a niche thing)

back tire more info:
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/TYVEVMFB/vee-rubber-vee-mission-...

[Front tire]
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ee8ba9_7a508f9284164dddbf...

This looks like a cruiser/low rider tire

front tire more info:
http://www.feltbicycles.com/USA/2016/Parts/Cruiser/Tires-Tub...

http://www.classic-cycle.de/en/Tires-Tubes-Parts/Berm-Master...
>Twitter announced what it hoped would be the antidote for its user decline: “Moments”

Yeah, I can't believe anyone thought that would work. It's like thinking that the recent "you can now type 10 more characters because URLs don't count" thing will save Twitter.
Scientific knowledge already isn't expressed in normal human language; scientists build up a language of mathematical symbols, diagrams, and domain specific terms to encode and communicate their understanding in a more effective format. After all, how well do you understand a thing if you can't explain it?

I suspect the real issue will be difference in mental skills... there might not be a human who can understand what the AI understands, even if it is very good at explaining.
All foreign retailers run into this problem entering India. Ikea has been building factories so they can start sourcing from India in order to comply. Moving their production out of Pakistan and Bangladesh into India in order to comply to tackle the bigger market.
Foreign owned businesses need to stock 30% or more of products sourced from India.
At Google, the answer is a firm no. Someone else commented on the "we just spent a million dollars training them, why would we fire them now?" quote which is commonly thrown around.

People get fired for leaks and being intentionally malicious, not mistakes. Even expensive ones. [besides, a big outage is usually caused by multiple smaller issues if your systems are sufficiently reliable. Also, read the SRE book about "blameless postmortems"]
Skip level, as in manager's manager.
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This appears to be a blog post. Because it does not have elements for people to play with or try out, it is not really consistent with the "Show HN" guidelines.
Actually since the aim is to avoid being hit by a bus, inside a bus seems like a pretty good place to put everyone.
As someone who has worked at 501(c)3 orgs that have launched public interest lawsuits, they are very likely receiving money to pay for those cases. And probably the majority of funding for a case comes from just one source--a source you likely don't know is funding it. Just because you see the ACLU or EFF doesn't mean you see where the money is ultimately coming from.
Hi Kasbah, I'm Chris from MacroFab.

We actually have a lot of people asking us to provide this kind of functionality for open-source projects. In a lot of cases, the projects have complex assembly requirements (like BGAs) that restrict self-assembly to the most capable makers. By making it really easy and affordable for people to order a single unit, they see it as an excellent way to spread their project to the world.

Our model is designed to support the business-side of electronics manufacturing and operations, and our intention is to be impartial to which marketplaces/how makers sell their products. Instead, focusing on enabling connections to those market places. This is why we have not chosen to create this sort of marketplace for our customers directly. (We are integrating with a lot of other popular platforms for makers/inventors that want to sell their designs later this year.)

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I don't understand why people cite Dilbert. He is smart, but out of touch. He is also petty so it's not a surprise he supports vindictive behavior. [1]

Personally, I despise Gawker and disapprove of Thiel, but if I were rich and displeased then I would do the same. How many can claim otherwise? Even a small mount of money changes people.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/user/plannedchaos
I would rather lose friends than have untrustworthy influences in my life.
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Shifting Economic Winds Spell Trouble for Solar Giants SolarCity and Sunrun
In an ideal world, what you say is probably correct.

In the real world, the Streisand Effect comes into play.
Ok, so who is qualified to talk about it? And is Musk not allowed to have opinions on things?

Anyway his thoughts aren't based on the Matrix. This is a well known idea called the Simulation Argument, invented by Nick Bostrom (who Elon Musk is a known fan of): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Its truly amazing to me how many places come up with their own version of a language in day to day business. This is one of the extreme version, but I guess when you have to deal with horrible conditions for normal communication you make do.

I worked at place that used to have teletypes between locations and paid per letter. They developed a set of abbreviations that survived well into the e-mail era[1]. Every place at least has a lingo to explain specific concepts and procedures in the business.

This is one reason I am very interested in DSLs, dialects in languages like Red and REBOL, and speech acts in agent literature. It seems like a more natural fit with business to developer communication than API calls.

1) I wrote a perl program to translate at one point in some frustration.
This is why I always put books on the save-for-later list for at least a few days.
"The first is, it will eliminate a lot of existing types of jobs. Gates said that creates a need for a lot of retraining but notes that until schools have class sizes under 10 and people can retire at a reasonable age and take ample vacation, he isn't worried about a lack of need for human labor."

Almost one hundred years ago Keynes predicted drastic cuts to the average worker's labor time, down to 15 hours or so a week. He expected living standards in developed countries would be between four and eight times higher and this would leave people far more leisure time.

Many countries have experienced massive productivity and standards of living increases in the last 100 years, and hours worked has not significantly declined. What makes anyone believe, 'this time is different'?
By definition no, of course. But I have never done a non-trivial amount of open source-style work (coding or otherwise) with someone who shares their political views online, without learning about them somehow.

And in fact, every Urbit contributor in this thread who's mentioned this has also heard about Yarvin's political views, and not from this thread. It appears to me there's already a kind of self-selection process in Urbit contributors, towards those who are comfortable tolerating his garbage. And that's exactly the problem.
Hasn't this been already solved by Descartes and his Cogito? ( that the very act of doubting one's own existence served—at minimum—as proof of the reality of one's own mind; there must be a thinking entity—in this case the self—for there to be a thought. )
I had a thought in jest. But then I started thinking about it, and now I don't know whether it's a good idea or not:

We need a single-payer legal system.
Are We Living in Simulated Virtual Reality? Elon Musk Thinks So