skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with the US system is that there is too much emphasis on the President. The office is important, but it's not all powerful. It's not that the presidency itself needs to be available to more than two parties, but seats in Congress as well as state legislatures should be.

Indeed, a party-list proportional representation for the state legislatures would strongly encourage minority parties to obtain seats, as votes cast for a party not winning in one's district would be go on to matter on the state-wide level.

As for the presidency, a worthy consideration could be how France elects their president. Their system is a two round system. In the first round, anyone who is eligible can be on the ballot. But if no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes (not electors), it goes onto the second round, where the two candidates with the most votes are the only ones on the ballot.

In practical terms, only two parties in modern France have held the presidency, but at least each presidency was elected by a majority of the voters. Plus France's parliament and senate contains members from parties that never get the presidency itself.

Another place to look could be your neighbour to the North, that practically has three main parties: NPD, Tories and Labour. Of course, Canada is a parliamentary system, so they don't have a strong executive branch like the US.

But you are not wrong, it's the US election system that encourages the two party system. But what I truly wonder is why each state basically maintains the same system as every other state.
Yea, but lets say we just pick iOS users, how do you tell they use iCloud over Dropbox when some things do not give a choice? This is probably as good as we're gonna get from a third-party.
Fair enough, but just because you'd say it to someone's face doesn't make it civil
Blogspam, kinda. Post just links to https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/69/78... and says it mentions two new instructions: AVX512_4VNNIW (Vector instructions for deep learning enhanced word variable precision) and AVX512_4FMAPS (Vector instructions for deep learning floating-point single precision)

On Intel's part, it seems kinda... late? It's like adding Bitcoin instructions when you already know everyone's racing to make Bitcoin ASICs. How could it beat dedicated hardware, or even GPUs, on ops/watt? Maybe it's intended for inference, not training, but that doesn't sound compelling either.
I would be surprised if we are not living in simulation. Look at superposition and function collapse in quantum physics, it's equivalent to what we are doing in games today = do not render if player is not watching, save resources. Think about it, look for example at GTA V, what we can achieve today and think about how world looked like 100 years ago.

I imagine that in 1000 years from now, simulating world similar to ours will not be a problem at all. Maybe not as complex because every level you go deeper you have less resources at your disposal. Who knows which level deep we are? Maybe we are simulation in simulation in simulation...
I don't claim to represent the average app developer but I've never so much as heard of CloudRail, them claiming to be a "Unified API integration leader" and all. I can't find them being written about by someone like Gartner; some other sources claim that they're a European startup in the IoT integration space.

I guess I'm not sure what to make of some unknown-to-me company's study on usage of its own SDK for cloud storage; and this study being posted in 'news release'-style on their blog. To me, these are huge grains of salt.
I like my Schwab Investor Checking account a lot
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Interesting. So we're a simulation that can simulate 15 (femto)meters of cosmos that is indistinguishable from reality. This isn't much but it's still absolutely mind-bending. Reminds me of the movie The 13th Floor [1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
Not the same loss of life. A large rapture will propagate through the hole vacuum tube at the speed of sound, likely killing everyone, not just one pod.

Also it's a much easier target. Planes are only reachable to the terrorists during takeoffs/landings. And even then, it's not exactly easy to hit a plane moving at 300mph with an RPG/truck/drone.

The rest of your argument about automated cars is the classic example of straw man.
> Since Orion doesn't need to accelerate constantly

If it's coasting along it's significantly increasing transit time and thus available window to consider and prepare counter-measures.

> it's in principle quite possible to turn it and fire bombs in the direction of any interceptor

Sure but that means less payload to deliver and even more time for the target to prepare counter-measures.

> and the thick pusher plate makes it actually pretty durable from some aspects.

No matter how thick your pusher plates are they're not going to stand up to the kind of kinetic impact involved.
Or, of you prefer ( as I do ) government debt is a hedge against future GDP growth.

The population may be aging but people are working longer. And in an economy with feeble monetary velocity, entitlements to old folks has pretty high relative velocity.

Low interest rates are less about entitlements than they are about attempting to restart consumption. The problem is that low interest rates encourage dinking around with M&A activity rather than investing in productive enterprise that might employ people. This leads to high private sector debt levels, which further suppresses wages. The "winners" are just sitting on mounds of cash and having trouble finding outlets for it.
It isn't solvable in a binary way, certainly, but we can potentially find an optimal solution that at least reaches a level of fairness that the vast majority of people are comfortable with. Yes, you're always going to end up with some people unhappy with their lot, but there's a huge gray area between not pleasing everyone and not pleasing anyone (aside from a very few very lucky people).
That's kind of the crux of 4chan — you can't take it seriously, but it's very serious.
Sigh. Why would you dedicate your life to proving this?

You will either find you cannot prove it, in which case you have wasted your entire life on falsehood, or you prove it true in which you undo your dilute your existence and everyone you have ever known and loved.

Kinda like religion I guess...
Galileo safely aerobraked into Jupiter at 47km/s. It takes one hell of a heat shield, but it can be done.
I think "javascript fatigue" is just a bad term. It's like sayings I have "hammer fatigue" because I've been whacking at screws all day.
My argument is fairly straightforward. The universe is much larger than our appetites, and that's the horizon we're talking about with economics- centuries, not the heat death of the universe.

Your comment about gasoline is a good example of a resource that has a real world constraint, but it doesn't show that economics is zero sum. It shows that the limited game, where the goal is to obtain as much gasoline as possible, is zero sum. If I also use nuclear power, I'm not playing that game.

We have a sad tendency to ignore negative externalities, as a species. And it could be our undoing. But countering that by claiming that human econonic activity is zero sum is an abuse of game theory.
Your channel is cool. The videos are short and crisp and gives a basic understanding for totally new topics like machine learning for me in a very short time. Good job.
Learning python - https://www.youtube.com/user/CodingEntrepreneurs
The title of the arxiv article is: Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation

The only time they use the word evidence is in this quote:

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Therefore, there is a sense in which lattice QCD may be viewed as the nascent science of universe simulation, and, as will be argued in the next paragraph, very basic extrapolation of current lattice QCD resource trends into the future suggest that experimental searches for evidence that our universe is, in fact, a simulation are both interesting and logical.
Who's to say "real" computing, or "reality" at all, has to adhere to the laws we observe within the simulation? That's like Luigi in Super Mario Brothers saying you can't kick a turtle into a brick in the our world and not expect a gold coin to pop up in front of our faces.
I'm fairly certain that, that was exactly the parents' point - this is what you'd often see from a beginner in PHP.
though, if we are a simulation... maybe we can exploit bugs in it and give ourselves advantages! After all, the only bug-free program is one that was never started.
To be honest, the way you put it (/i read it/) sounds like becoming a bum is a better alternative.
As creator, are you responsible for the well being of the sentient beings?

Are you morally prohibited from turning them off?

Can you reset to a save point, possibly undoing the creation of some of the sentient beings?
The world has suddenly got bigger
That's interesting, I did not know that. I'd just expected they would represent the history of the content over time with blank periods when it could not be crawled.
The last two elections that went to the House of Representatives left lasting marks. After 1800, the twelfth amendment to the Constitution required the distinction of presidential and vice-presidential candidate. The results of 1824 increased Jackson's popularity, made J.Q. Adams one-term president, and probably did Clay no good.

Had 1800 not gone for Jefferson, there could well have been an insurrection.
Still, human intelligence would be simulated within that, presumably. So the platform might not be the obvious one, but the software would still be theoretically possible.

That, or there's some interface to that platform that provides a source of intelligence. Maybe we're nothing more than Docker containers running on God's hardware.
You don't want to show that it's true. You want to find out whether it's true or not.
And so it does? However you feel about the executives and history of Hyperloop, I think it's important that companies like this exist and try things like this.

You know what's expensive and was once unfeasible? Strapping thousands of tons of fuel to a rocket and launching it into space. And yet...
sparklers apparently work
>Maybe if you look outside your bubble aka in the internet you can come to realise in the real world this isn't nearly a big and widespread of a problem as some people make it out to be.

Ah, but it was in meatspace that I became alarmed by them. I saw them ruin my alma mater, go after freedom of association, smear everyone who dared oppose them racist. I saw the spinelessness of leaders who instead of fighting back would just capitulate. I saw the Obama administration embrace their cause and turn college sexual assault tribunals into modern Salem witch trials, where a mere accusation is enough to ruin a life forever.

This has spread beyond academia. I saw what they did to Brendan Eich in Mozilla, I saw the chill that has set in among my conservative friends, who dare not speak their opinions lest they be outcast from their industries.

Maybe it's you who needs to step out of whatever bubble you're in.
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Nobody said the simulation is being done with transistors. Even if it was why wouldn't it be possible? I don't see any constraints. One day humans will fully understand neurons. One day we will make an AI using transistors who will be able to "understand" transistors
It is really hard to believe that OpenCAPI can achieve this short latency with 25Gbps per lane interface and off-chip connectivity.
In fact PHP7 as well as PHP fork called HackLang used in Facebook are brand new cars and the latter even produced in your own country.
Indeed, just like how a computer program will never detect the exact positions of all the electrons in the computer it's running on.

Not even if it tried to get that information from an external observer.
Already done :D

VmWare is owned in part by EMC (or the other way around).
What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Would building it underground largely solve these risks? We already build for natural disasters in mind- seems earthquakes would be the main issue in California, which structures claim to be "proofed" from.
You mentioned Laravel 20 times. You might want to slow down on that kool-aid. And I know you're not affiliated with them because I see this behavior all around the place, especially with unseasoned developers.

> What I think most people are missing about PHP is the incredible ecosystem that emerged in the recent years (especially with Laravel)

I would replace that last bit with: "especially with Symfony and Laravel". And composer, and all the changes made in 7.x, and lots of libraries that people build on top of it and made all of this it possible.

This is a good talk (Symfony's "creator") about the PHP ecosystem:

dotScale 2014 - Fabien Potencier - My Take on PHP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNbmEnRLBU
So that we can have a puppet of the Mormon church just like Gordon Smith[0][1][2]? Hell no. I'd take Trump over a devout Mormon politician any day of the week.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/mormon-videos-leaked.ht...
[1] http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/10/03/mormon-leaks-video-feat...
[2] http://www.anamericandreamrevealed.com/2015/03/the-role-of-l...
Greg Egan has written a (slightly ham-fisted, but still interesting) short story about that question: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/

The author has commented that he regrets having overlooked the moral implications of simulated life in his previous works (see e.g. http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ..., which contains spoilers for Permutation City) so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the inspiration for this story.
Per the arXiv abstract, physicists may be able to find evidence. That's very different from may have found.
Anything bigger than the size of a bag of sugar travelling at 0.13c actually poses a threat to the entire human species. If you have for example a standard 1kg bag of sugar travelling at 0.13c, that's carrying (2nd order estimate):
0.5 x 1kg x (0.13 x 3 x 10^8)^2
= 760 quadrillion joules
= 0.1MT (small nuclear bomb's worth)

Now this is linear, so a car (2000kg)?
= 200MT (4 times Tsar Bomba, global disaster).

A tiny spacecraft (5000kg maybe?)?
= death of most of human race

A large spacecraft?
= death of everything.
On one hand, I get it. Especially the popular channels on Freenode or places like the Arch Linux forums can get swamped with people who could not care less for rtfm'ing. Ungrateful, entitled, obnoxious folk, robbing people of resources and time who're putting in work for free, at least in a lot of cases. Sucks. I usually get splendid answers from these sources because I don't even bother unless I have a specific question or error, logs to back it up maybe. Yesterday I had somebody on #Openvpn help me with an issue in three lines. Nice.

But if the snark is heavy without being warranted at all, it more than pisses me off. It reflects poorly on whatever you're representing and it's just bad communication. If all you have to offer is a lmgtfy.com Link, don't bother. Those immune to that train of thought won't, the others already have.
> With that loss in innovation companies suddenly find a comparable feature that took 2 weeks taking 2 months.

No offense to the mentioned, but the "ideas are like assholes, everyone has one" comment seems to apply extremely accurately to non-technical design and product teams who are blessed by management to throw things over to "those technical people" without any concern.

And why would a 2 week task not take 2 months under that structure? If your high-performing, creative engineers are sisyphean implementers of someone else's features without some empowerment, ownership, and accolades for the end result, good luck retaining them.
The states maintain their systems because there are 2 parties that exercise a lot of influence in state politics.

I've thought about trying to start a ballot initiative to remove parties from the ballot process. Each candidate would have to generate sufficient support to get their name on the ballot, no other rules. Organized groups like parties would be useful under those rules, but an independent wouldn't be at a legal disadvantage compared to a member of an incumbent party (as is the case in many states today).
I still can't get past the feeling that this is another Moller Aircar type project. Something to string investors along forever while you bilk them out of money.

The proposals aren't even all that similar to the original Hyperloop proposal. Gone is the ducted fan setup and instead they're just building high speed rail in a tube. And the cost estimates still make no sense whatsoever. I will be frankly shocked if any of these companies ever lay anything more than a short test track somewhere.
So, like a dream?
let's just hope we don't find the bug that crashes our server
I'm no expert on philosophy, but I feel like consciousness is a subjective experience. So externally there would be no difference, but I'm pretty sure I'm conscious.

Of course, I've also heard of the illusion of consciousness, but that's where my brain explodes.
This wasn't a real research (to really discover something) though (read some other comments here like typon's) except to "prove" how successful trolling is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12708090
https://www.youtube.com/user/CodingEntrepreneurs for learning python and django
Your comparison is apple and orange if you think a person's education in software is comparable to an army. in army, the training is real hands on. rigid. while learning how to code is never a real hands on, always partly figuring out on your own, thus each person having more various understanding/competency on how to do the job.
I've heard of them before a couple times but frankly, I don't know how good the source is. Just considered it interesting and I'm a Dropbox only user as well.
Apologies, didn't see your reply until now.
IE11 behind the company firewall, I can see a rather short set of complete HTML in the source but nothing is rendered. Sorry I can't offer more information.
"Symmetric array destructuring": Hooray!!!

"iterable pseudo-type": Double hooray!!!
Not a good analogy. One of the main Hyperloop points it is to have near vaccum inside the tubes, which will reduce air resistance and allow faster speeds, otherwise it's just a train inside a tube. This means they must be totally sealed, so no gaps allowed.
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2015 was the first year we broke 3 ppm in a year.

Average for the last decade was ~2.25ppm/y

1000ppm by 2100 is probably not going to happen, but considering the significant lag behind the effects, it's starting to look more and more likely that we will hit 1000ppm at some high point, perhaps in the 22nd century, before it starts going down again.

Regarding the poisoning comment, that's not very accurate. It's true, there is reduced performance at high CO2 levels, but 1000 is probably the lowest bound for the most sensitive people and the effects aren't really noticeable until high teens. You can still function indefinitely at those levels.
"Words don't real. Don't analyze them. That's not important. You're the real problem."
Well, yeah, nothing is except for Apple software.
Wouldn't that be a disturbingly low bus factor?
I am not so sure if it is "late". Sure, for training models it is far too late, we have semi-dedicated hardware for that at this point. But it is possible that it will become increasingly common to run these models on end-user systems and in that case these instructions could provide a bit of a speed boost.
We use something similar to this with object creation/deletion too. We set up a macro called watchallocation and watchdelete that keeps track of when objects get new'ed and deleted so we can track memory leaks. In release mode they just vanish. Quite helpfull
>If men also could get pregnant, it wouldn't be discriminatory. That the only reproductive control technique to be denied women is a technique only available to women, any laws to restrict such techniques are inherently discriminatory toward women.

This is preposterous logic. Women have the same access to birth control than men do. In fact, as it stands now, the options available to women are vastly superior, i.e. the pill.

The fact that only women can bear children does not make the regulation of abortion "discrimination". Discrimination would be if both sexes could bear children, but only abortion by females was banned.

Do you think that abortion on the day before birth should be legal?
For those like me who missed it at first, "make the world more open and connected" is Facebook's "official mission" (i.e. what the PR department claims they do).

But it's directly in contrast with what makes them money, so obviously they won't.
Let's all just think, very hard, of the number 42 and see if the simulation ends.
Not really, almost the same effort.
So we stopped believing that God created the universe, and us as part of it. We believed only in science and natural processes. Following that through, we started believing that we live in a computer simulation with, presumably, some kind of programmer. That's pretty ironic.
They are applying the scientific method to testing a hypothesis... isn't it more like religion to NOT do it?
Indeed, I didn't understand why you thought I would suggest something pointless. I wasn't suggesting it.

If you want to argue that crashing into the atmosphere would be an inevitable result of the trip, okay, but I don't understand what else it would have to do with my initial comment.
He did it without belonging to the one of the correct fraternities.
I think a simple train would be much cheaper and effective for Mars.
Additional References:

Data Skeptic podcast: http://dataskeptic.com/epnotes/nyc-bikeshare-rebalancing.php

KDD 2016 Talk, "Rebalancing Bike Sharing Systems: A Multi-source Data Smart Optimization" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB6UpW-5eRw
> We are trying to build applications that run right in a dozen browsers, look good on thousands of different devices, load fast enough for impatient commuters in the subway, and are still accessible enough that blind people can use them.

Wow! That sounds cool! When do we start doing that?

Now, seriously, the complexity of the problem is enough you don't need to pile up more complicated tools on top of them that become, too, problems to be solved. We have tools to manage micro-dependencies we create because we have the tools to manage them. Then we invented tools to bundle micro-dependencies because we didn't want the browser to request 300 separate functions in 300 separate http requests and soon we'll unbundle them and let the browser request them because the individual request itself becomes cheap enough...

I get we are talking about "web applications" that have routes, don't re-render pages and don't hit the server for full pages. If this reminds you of what we were doing with Visual Basic in the early 90's minus using HTTP to get JSON data from a server, it's because this is a solved problem. What it feels like is that we are trying to re-do it with the wrong abstractions.
> It takes one hell of a heat shield

That's quite the understatement, the galileo probe was half heatshield by mass. And it took a 230g hit to the face.
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A credit union.
Hey guys, thanks for doing this! What did you like the most during your time at YC?
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What benefits does a U-shaped track have over traditionnal rails?