skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To clarify, there's no "my simulation" and "your simulation" in the present discussion. What's potentially being simulated is the entire universe

The Simulation Argument (to the extent it applies to anything at all) applies at least as well to solipsistic simulations where all that is simulated is one observer and their personal observable universe.
> until the press learn to wield their authority with respect and deference.

I think the last thing I would want is for the press to act with "respect and deference" at all times. That sounds like a recipe for burying your head in the sand and assuming everything is just fine. There can indeed be a fine line between "muckraking" and "investigative reporting" but I think it is important for someone/something to be toeing that line, even if it isn't something I personally care for.
> the simulation scenario requires assuming that our universe is not the "root" universe

Assuming by "simulation scenario" you mean the theory that there is a chance we are running in a simulation, it doesn't assume we aren't the root universe (but it does make a lot of other assumptions), just that of some number of realities both simulated (s) and real (r), our chance of being in a non-simulated reality is r/(s+r).

Some (but not all) of the assumptions required are: Simulated reality is possible, human level AI is possible, it's possible to simulate a universe to the level we are at before the heat death of the simulation running universe (or the simulation running universe has different constraints, more time or power, etc).

> Its the sloppiest possible train of thought, that starts with assuming most of its conclusion, and then proceeding by unwarranted leaps to conclude the rest of it.

I don't think it's quite that, and I don't think it assumes most of its conclusion. I think given the assumptions the argument takes for granted, then it's a valid argument. While I think many of the assumptions are probably, it only takes one of those, and a much greater likelihood to be true, to greatly affect the original calculation, but even then, you have to assume that if there's a parent universe, it follows the same laws, otherwise you can't assume anything.

Ultimately, the thing we all need to keep in mind is that it doesn't matter. We have no ability to control or predict the consequences of being in a simulation, and given that our universe seems ultimately to conform to laws, and not act in what appears to be a capricious manner, it's inconsequential in the truest meaning of the word.
Your examples aside from chat apps are quite unrealistic. I don't even know when was the last time I invited someone to an event using any of the listed methods, it must have been years.

But even if running into friends at the store was a thing, it doesn't mean that Facebook is not used by a billion people for organising social events and is therefore beneficial to them.
Apple readying new external 5K Display that may feature an integrated GPU
I agree with this. The value of the press is when it adds bits of information. If it tells us that she and her investors have been perpetrating a fraud after we have discovered the same via discussion son Hacker News, &c, they are adding nothing in the way of journalism.

Their responsibility is to break the story, not follow it.
I have a few questions if anyone can answer them:
1) how did this deal with networking? In containers, we can delegate them IPs in a fine grained way, and they can even use our own IPs?
2) how did this deal with storage?
I'm not going to argue the whether protectionism is a good thing in general but a predatory doesn't mean that it's not worth it to the buyer, but that the profits of the sale leave the country.

As an extreme example, if your country exports nothing but you have citizens buying goods from other countries then over time the country is going to become poorer and poorer as the capital flows out of the country.

Free trade is good for regions with industry and when workers have the means to relocate to areas with employment. Until our immigration policy is indistinguishable from 'we're all basically one country' then trade protections are going to sometimes be a country's best option.
Note that the only entities complaining about this are themselves journalists. They're just closing ranks.
> > How many companies can say they triggered revolutions?

> British Petroleum?

For those not familiar with Iranian history: the first revolution that happened on Twitter was the Green Revolution in Iran (2009)[0][1].

If you trace British Petroleum (BP) all the way back to its roots, it began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1908. That company's formation was the basis for the series of political upheavals and revolutions that resulted in the current political leadership in Iran today[2], which in turn was the basis for the 2009 Green Revolution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_presidential_elec...

[1] Named the 'Green Revolution' in the long Persian tradition of naming their revolutions after colors ('white', 'red', 'green', 'black')

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company#Nati...
Money alone doesn't win a lawsuit. The reporter who wrote this probably doesn't agree with the court's decision, but that decision wasn't written by Thiel or Silicon Valley. Also, people have crowd-funded legal fees previously. That isn't new. That Thiel chose to fund a lawsuit against a publication that outed him as gay doesn't seem very surprising or devious. They still had to convince the court they had a claim in this case.
Are these things required by code or are German consumers just very discerning?

How can I learn more about this stuff?
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Relatively weak human arms have enough strength to assemble tools that are much stronger than the original arms. A small, well placed flame can initiate a reaction that burns even hotter and brighter than itself. Our abstract concepts of strength, heat, brightness, and so on, are latent to varying degrees in the environment. Certain arrangements of raw materials release that potential.

If those analogies hold, then intelligence is still another concept expressed by some configurations of matter. Who knows how much "latent intelligence" is available to be released, but I guess the assumption is that it's much greater than what's already manifesting in our brains.
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Can computers become conscious?: My reply to Roger Penrose
> Facebook is beneficial to society

Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.

That argument hardly obvious enough to take on faith however, the concepts of "widely used, willingly" and "beneficial to society" do not have a 1:1 relationship.
This makes a lot of sense. I only need a big GPU if I'm using a big display, so put it in the display that can be heavy and is always connected to power. I wonder if they'll use Thunderbolt over USB-C or something else over USB-C.
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I like Pelican[0], a static site generator written in Python.

0. http://blog.getpelican.com/
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The fact that companies are choosing to comply rather than simply not do business in India seems to mean that their policy is a huge success.
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same here for personal blog. But for professional blog, I feel that WordPress works better because I end up needing some of the extra functionality that WordPress plugins provide.
If the people want diversity, they can choose to watch those diverse films. Then the money they pay to watch those films will encourage others to watch those films. But it seems the people don't want to watch those films.
Our goal is to make the monetization of media follow the content, instead of flowing from the platform like it does today.

Today, Mediachain can automatically link an image to who made it. That same channel can be used to transfer value directly through content in the future. We believe that this will create a huge opportunity for developers to build new media applications that reward creators directly through their content, no matter where it is.
My own! https://blog.thekyel.com/

I built a minimal php page that just pump out html from text files. All of the blogging platforms that I looked at were terribly bloated. I built this in a couple of hours. No DBs, no css, and no JS.

KISS
> you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government

I don't think if it's government or individual it changes the inherent unfairness of having someone decide to watch you, and just you, for any sign of a slip up and then getting you punished based on it. Heck, I think most siblings understand this kind of unfairness with uneven parental justice.

> You are also muddying up scale. In your example, the government is much more powerful than the individual. In the Gawker case, all the parties are pretty much at parity.

There's an order of magnitude difference between the net worth of Thiel and Gawker as a whole. And that's on a good day for Gawker.
Personal Blog: Ghost on DigitalOcean droplet

Professional blog for product: WordPress (can't beat the functionality and plugins)
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It's not so much about limits or bounds, they do exist.

It's about limits or bounds that are incongruent with how physics normaly works in reality (patches would always do that), for lack of a better expression, I call these metaphysical inconsistencies.
When quite a few individuals took News International to court between 2009 and 2011 for illegally eavesdropping on their mobile phones in the UK, a number of them had their legal costs underwritten by Max Mosely. This is just the same thing: a wealthy individual making sure that legal costs do not preclude action against Gawker.
I like this approach much better. I know most Chrome plugins aren't a problem but it still desensitizes people to the one that might be.
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I love this. Any website where I am expected to spend any decent amount of time needs to have a dark mode. Very surprised so few websites support this.
>After dropping $250 up front for her lease of a 2015 Honda Civic, she pays $160 a week to Xchange. If she keeps the car for the full three-year term, she’ll end up paying Uber $25,210. The Kelley Blue Book fair purchase price for a new 2015 Honda Civic SE in Los Angeles is $18,142. Schmitt said she’ll need to pay Uber $5,000 or so more to buy the car if she wants to keep it at the end of her lease.

This is kind of par for the course for some chunk of car dealers. They have no qualms in getting someone to ultimately pay $30,000 for an $18,000 car of which the margins are normally extremely tight (2-3%) with profit being a very long tail of maintenance work orders. This one Civic, if she ran it to term and then bought it out, brought in as much profit as DOZENS of Civics.

My sister learned similarly many years ago. She ended up paying $26K for a $15K car, simply because she didn't do the math.

Although we'd like businesses to not engage in these kinds of deals, but unfortunately many businesses rely on these deals. I think the only decision more costly that people getting unwillingly put over a barrel for a car is people making poor retirement planning decisions and paying through the nose in fees (or buying what a "financial advisor" that is really a salesman at a bank is peddling) when there are far lower cost alternatives. It sucks, but it's true.
Do this instead:

Lump the smallest ones together into "other". The number you lump together is the minimum needed to make "other" be at least 1% of the total.
I'm pretty new at promises, but doesn't any appearance of a "promise of a promise" indicate a trivial mis-use of promises? Isn't the whole point of promises that they can be chained together without nesting?
Let me quickly summarize every thread about twitter:
1) "Twitter in the old days was great. They are ruining everything now!"
2) "Twitter has 0 revenue! How can they be worth so much? It deserves to die." "Actually, they have 0 <i>profit</i>" "Oops! Point still stands!"
3) "But what do all the employees even DO all day?"
4) "I stopped caring about Twitter when they closed off their API"
5) "The world needs Twitter!" "No it doesn't!"
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_character...

Or am I missing something.
I'm trying Ghost, hosted on Openshift. Free. For less personal content, I'll probably use Medium.
Been planning for years
You don't have to if you don't want to.
I used to hate OJ Simpson because of the murders, but he was funny in the naked gun movies..
Same - I might use a static site generator, but my wife wanted a blog with an in-browser editor, and since it's very easy to host multiple Ghost blogs on a single server with some nginx configuration, I decided to just go with that for my own as well.

Works well since neither of them are very high traffic.
Don't get me wrong, I use async/await almost exclusively these days - but I've run into these problems in large real world applications, and they can be hard to fix.

This isn't FUD if the main implementation is "broken".

With regards to errors being swallowed, I'm not talking about unhandled rejections, I'm talking about code that mishandles rejections and may swallow one intentionally, or code that doesn't pass along errors properly.
How is democracy not coercion? There are plenty of laws passed that I didn't want passed, yet I am forced to obey them.
You can use async/await to implement a Mutex in ES6! It's crazy.

https://gist.github.com/artursapek/70437f6cdb562b7b62e910fd3...

Usage:

import Mutex from 'lib/mutex';

class MyObject {
constructor() {
this.m = new Mutex();
}

async someNetworkCall() {
let unlock = await this.m.lock();

doSomethingAsynchronous().then((result) => {
// handle result
unlock();
}).catch((err) => {
// handle error
unlock();
});
}
}

let mo = new MyObject();
mo.someNetworkCall();
// The next call will wait until the first call is finished
mo.someNetworkCall();

I love it. We use it in our production codebase at Codecademy.
Having just recently bought from a couple other places online for the first time in a while, I'm not worried about Amazon losing customers long term. I had forgotten what it was like to have your package take a week and a half to get to you. If I was another e-commerce store, I'd be very, very worried about competing with Amazon's logistics machine.
While async and await is a welcome change, callback hell is mostly a symptom of the programmer's own doing. It is possible to have callback hell in any async programming stack/framework.

In C++, you usually don't write anonymous functions and lambdas at will. You make proper named functions out of them and write unit tests even. Same applies to js. It's really just a matter of discipline and having a culture of writing manageable code.

If someone is curious how this can be done, please post a link here and I can help clean it up.
Thank you! I've never heard of flexbugs.
Newly disclosed CDC lab incidents fuel concerns about safety, transparency
Hugo for work stuff, my own homebrewed mod_python abomination for my private site.
Many people do not consider trade barriers being bad axiomatic.
Here's the story Joel Spolsky wrote some time ago[1]:

> Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
The policy is great for Indians and the companies involved. Jobs mean money to spend and a thriving economy.

The same policy implemented here would be great to rebuild our crumbling economy and get money flowing.
Check out the book You Don't Know JS (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async...) for more details on Promises and, in general, on asynchronous programming.
I've used http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ for going on 16 years now, it's great and still maintained, albeit by one guy. It just works. Not sure how it stacks up to this.
> Why? Many cases brought by individuals or groups on moral grounds have led the way to better governance.

Intent matters. One of capitalism's great powers is harnessing the greedy and power-hungry and getting them to at least sometimes work for society. (It's not perfect, but it's better to have Bill Gates trying for a monopoly than starting land wars.) But that doesn't make them great-souled public benefactors. (Although later they do sometimes become that as well.)

Here we can infer intent from design. If Peter Thiel's goal was to help out defenseless individuals harmed by thoughtless journalists, that suggests one set of structures. E.g., a public nonprofit that does advocacy while funding the occasional suit from someone without money or power.

The structure actually chosen was to secretly fund a series of suits against a single publisher with the apparent intent of driving them out of business. The first plaintiff chosen was already rich (net worth, $25m) and famous. And if you talk to journalists, the result isn't to make them generally more careful. It's to make them more afraid of Thiel and other billionaires. [1]

So either A) Thiel is a kind-spirited public benefactor who's just not very competent or B) he's getting exactly the effect he wanted, which was to hopefully crush Denton and scare anybody who plans to write about him, even when the articles they write are perfectly legal. He seems like s smart guy, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and going with B.

[1] e.g.: http://www.wired.com/2016/05/three-cheers-for-peter-thiel/
And then the threat of losing your income becomes just another way for the government to control people's behavior.
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Is that a no?

Do you have any data that shows Promise speed to be a blocker on UI performance?
Violating someone's privacy is always offensive. Is that really in question? While lots of people say they put little value on protecting privacy, I have never seen them post their medical records or tax returns.

In practical terms for Thiel, there are likely large investors in the world (like say in the middle east) who might not be willing to invest in a VC who is gay, etc.
Both components have been mentioned repeatedly, but I haven't seen the combination commented yet:

Hugo on S3

https://github.com/jfkelley/blog
Don't forget SAP.

Clearly, the key to succeeding as a tech firm in Europe is to start your company's name with an S.
Was Yahoo ever big outside of the US?

Yahoo was, and still is, big outside the US. From my understanding Yahoo Japan is doing really well as is the company in other developing markets.
Truth here, except running your own repos to add immutability shouldn't be something you have to do for infrastructure. Aptitude, and the package manager ilk like it, need to die.
Of course not being able to access a website you want (and censorship in general) is not good, but comparing that to slavery is absolutely ridiculous.
It's not the legal fees that are doing them in, it's the damages awarded by the judge.
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Better leave that Internet-connected microphone that's in your pocket at home in the freezer...
"callback hell" is just a sign that you did not split your code into small functional chunks, nothing more. promises/async/await might have its place, but "callback hell" is developer's fault, who can't shake off linear coding past, not language's.
Well yes, of course. What I object to is equating "able to think critically and independently" with "has years of domain expertise in academic liberal-arts and humanities fields." The whole point of talking about "critical" or "independent" thinking is that they're supposed to be domain-general cognitive skills.
It's not, and the rest of this thread dives into it a bunch.

Gas and tire wear implies a ~$2/hour hit, roughly.

Tickets are presumably negligible for long-term drivers? Most people get <1 ticket per year, even with long commutes, and I assume that if you're getting ticketed very often with passengers Uber will drop you as a driver, the cutoff is low for that.

Accidents are hard to call - their 'cost' is basically whatever you pay in insurance (plus some adjustment for future insurance hikes if you file a claim). I don't know how the Uber-insurance thing shook out, so I can't speak to that at all.

The $16/hour wage is now at something like $12/hour (very roughly), but that's neglecting the benefits of having a car (I'm assuming most drivers with Xchange wouldn't have cars if they worked elsewhere, otherwise raise the effective wage by $5/hour).

But of course, that's part-time work. It's voluntarily part-time, but you can't scale up Uber driving arbitrarily - presumably you're already working the highest cash-flow hours and will see decreased hourly wages as you add less-profitable driving time.

So I'll stand by a claim that the money is pretty good, at least in <$10/hour minimum wage markets, but it's locked into a no-benefits, part-time status that prevents it from being an especially good living.
in Mexico that is how it is. I guess first world country: everybody, third world country: above 65.
For people who know both systems well, how does this compare with Erlang? The await thing superficially looks a lot like Erlang waiting for a message from another process.
wow, thats quite a thorough calculation of expenses. But I'd assume a leased car probably has less maintanence costs, but certainly added costs for gas.

I'm not sure if you factored in commercial insurance for a leased vehicle which will be more expensive per month, compared to personal auto insurance for own car. Factoring the commercial/rideshare auto insurance in, will leave little wiggle room.