skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland mostly does this. I can buy a time-limited ticket from any ticket vending machine which is valid within a certain area, for a certain amount of time, and I can then use that ticket on any bus, train or tram, regardless of company or how many changes I need to make. It's also valid for most cablecars and boats. It's completely changed the way I use public transport.

(You can actually use the ticket vending machine by the bus stop near my house to buy a ticket which can be used to go by bus from my house to Zürich station, then by express train from there to a station in the mountains, and then by bus up to a ski resort car park, and then by cable car from there to the resort proper, and then by chairlift from there to the top of the mountain, and then it's your ski pass for a day's skiing, and then it takes you home again. One ticket.)
Though a perhaps interesting reworking of the question could be "If the universe were a simluation, what can we say about the computational machine doing the simulation?" I'm guessing that Complexity Theory has some stuff to talk about here.
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Nope. Imagine there are million possible universes. Imagine the most probable has a probability of 1%. It'd still pretty unlikely that we live in that one, even tho it's more likely than any other one.
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I use pass ( http://passwordstore.org/ ). Uses gpg, has addons for all major browsers, works on Android, is completely transparent, supports segmenting your password "tree" to use different PGP keys depending on path (e.g. all passwords in www/ encrypted to both my safe GPG key and my less safe key unique to my phone). Highly recommended.
I think that you can have a cheap copy of yourself if you only simulate the main factors. The problem is now to know have sensible is the system to perturbations and how to control deviations. It seems that our genes and body are programmed to recover and repair, in such a way that for example all those bad mutated cells are eliminated and we survive for 80 years. Like a flame, the laws of the university generate stable system like life.
There is the evolutionary approach taken by Thompson.[1] There were some spectacular results; though each circuit only worked on the exact FPGA that it was trained on - so that particular approach has no practical applications.

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....
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It's all "justified":

> In this post, when I talk about RPC I talk about WYGOPIAO: What You GET Or POST Is An Operation.

When you consider RPC only as this extremely contrived protocol, of course REST is better.

(I, too, don't know why the author is trying to pretend that this incredibly narrow specification is somehow representative of RPC in general.)
I was shocked to see that a month of notice is common here (Ireland). It actually was an issue when I wanted to attend a conference for my new employer (gave notice around 11 PM exactly 30 days before I had to fly).

I get that it's apparently an employee protection but it does seem kind of ludicrous. What happens if you rage quit? Win the lottery?
What's interesting is that all other alternatives listed here in comments also use stdin & stdout. Have we returned to CGI?
I copied the content here for anyone in a similar situation to the parent commenter: https://justpaste.it/14pz7

The HTML hidden in that mountain of div tags is remarkably well formed for the standard I see around on the "modern web".
It's surprising how few companies will bend on this. In my experience it seemed like they were more concerned about the possibility of other employees getting notions. It's a big reason to move somewhere that mandates vacation time (though again, I'd rather just take as much time as I want unpaid).
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I find articles like this interesting, mainly because I went through a similar transition (IDE => Sublime => vim). However, my story stopped at vim.

For this particular article, I think what strikes me as odd is:

> use[ing] the keyboard is slower for some selection tasks like selecting a range of text far from the cursor than the mouse is

This is...precisely the opposite of my experience. I find navigation and selection to be the most powerful aspects of vim. I never felt like I "got" vim until I understood this, in fact. I constantly questioned if the investment of time was worth it. That being said, if you don't grok this I could see how it would be defeating. You eventually reach a point where you forget the mouse is even an option though.

My only other comment is in regard to his mention of issues with tabs. I'm curious what we were doing so differently, because that's never once been a problem for me, even in early days (however I could see how it would be super annoying).

I'm of the mind that it doesn't matter what you use as long as you're being productive, but it's also neat to see what path other people walk down.
Wow that's quite a thought experiment. Fun twist at the end, I wonder how society would react to this realization.
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That's not "quickly". That's your consciousness slowing down to a rate of one day per million years.
Well, my blog-post is half-serious. The bigger question from it would be why the hell the Universe would be implemented in Java :)
I think that assessment wasn't entirely wrong, it's just that smartphones, rather than tablets, turned out to be that general-purpose PC for many people.
I wrote this post because I often find myself justifying my use of Sublime Text to Vim and Emacs users. They often look down on Sublime users as people who haven’t put in the effort to learn a real power user’s text editor. They’re confused when they learn that I have tried Vim and Emacs extensively and still choose to use what they see as a basic newbie editor. I hope this post explains why Sublime is an excellent choice for a highly customizable power user’s text editor.

My opinion as well although I am not as experienced as the author.
Bostrom's argument is based on rather implausible and far-fetched assumptions, e.g. speculation about what advanced civilizations would do or not.

There are more interesting variants of the simulation argument and many types of simulations could be detectable. To give an example of what makes the question principally interesting, one could claim that storing an infinite amount of information within a finite amount of space violates the laws of thermodynamics and is therefore not physically possible. Hence, real numbers don't exist and the universe is discrete. If it is also finite, then you can simulate it on a computer.

What I'm saying is that even though the question whether we are in a simulation is mostly speculation, there are some principally interesting corollaries about it, and some of them are physically meaningful in the sense that they can be confirmed or falsified by experiments at least in principle.
On my Smart the service reminder is similarly easy to reset. All i need to do is press and hold two buttons that are too far apart to be pressed by one hand while turning on the ignition on the center console.

I usually do it by pressing the indicator with my feet and turning the key by hand.
The brew formula is here:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...

url "https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.8.src.tar.gz"
mirror "https://fossies.org/linux/misc/go1.8.src.tar.gz"
version "1.8"
sha256 "406865f587b44be7092f206d73fc1de252600b79b3cacc587b74b5ef5c623596"

This checksum matches the one on the official download page:

https://golang.org/dl/

406865f587b44be7092f206d73fc1de252600b79b3cacc587b74b5ef5c623596

The Golang people could save a lot of headaches and fix whatever they see wrong in the formula so people can continue to use their package manager instead of being reduced to Windows style savagery.

Edit: looks like someone indeed tried to make an issue:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/9272

If I understand, the Go team made the binary package install stuff not in the source tarball. That's doesn't sound like a good idea but they're some smart people; I'm sure they have some reasons. T'woud be nice if they helped bring brew in-line as well.
Browser? I read it on FF on android and found it ok.
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>Would that not immediatly raise the question "why"? If we are a simulation I would really like to know the reason for being simulated. What do they hope to reach with simulating a life like ours?

It's the holy grail of the scientific method. Anything becomes testable and observable, the "why" seems obvious.
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Those names don't change when you move the code from Subversion, to Github, to Gitlabs, to Mercurial, to cool SV startup offering SCM services.
Will this work with something like Ext2Fsd or other usermode file system drivers not from microsoft which work on windows?
You don't solve the problem by yourself, that problem is solved for you on system A, in system A a million years have lapsed but in your life only a few days have passed.
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I use vim from time to time, when hacking stuff on my server. I often hear people say it's the best editor.

Could you tell me; don't you miss a mouse? Or a scrollwheel? Or alt-tabbing? Do you use a project panel wher you can see your files? Do you browse that with your keyboard?

I ask because I always struggle in vim.
Aesthetically enjoyable and with an organic feel, the intricate detail suggests a lot of information is represented, yet Graphcore's diagram does not seem immediately apprehensible.

In the OP article's masthead, the clusters are labelled, this is AlexNet's computational graph from a Tensorflow description (depicted in full lower down the page).

On the right is "Conv1 11x11 forward [3 in, 64 out]" which suggests a Convolutional Layer with 3 inputs and 64 outputs. Forward, presumably, the direction of tensors flowing through the layer.

Alexnet's Layer 1 is Convolutional [a] :

• Images: 227x227x3

• F (receptive field size): 11

• S (stride) = 4

• Convlayer output: 55x55x96

Compare Colah's 2D Convolutional NN depiction: http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-Conv-Nets-Modular/

or CS231n's page containing both structural and activation diagrams:
http://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/

In reply to your linked tweet [1], Chintala asserts the links are " compute/mem activity on their cores" and "connections between clusters are memory transfers/activity"

Does Chintala mean compute cores, Graphcore's IPUs ?

From Graphcore's page: "computational graphs are made up of vertices (think neurons) for the compute elements, connected by edges (think synapses), which describe the communication paths between vertices."

What do Graphcore's colours represent ? What is an IPU ? Is an IPU hardware like Google's TPU ?

[edit] Graphcore explains: "Our Poplar graph compiler has converted a description of the network into a computational graph of 18.7 million vertices and 115.8 million edges. This graph represents AlexNet as a highly-parallel execution plan for the IPU. The vertices of the graph represent computation processes and the edges represent communication between processes. The layers in the graph are labelled with the corresponding layers from the high level description of the network. The clearly visible clustering is the result of intensive communication between processes in each layer of the network, with lighter communication between layers."

So it is a compiled computational graph just like Tensorflow's.

I cannot fathom it further and am unsure how or if to proceed.

Counting the little dots and lines in cluster Conv1 and relating this to to 11x11 [3 in, 64 out] & Alexnet's 1st Layer could be a place to start an inquiry.

[a] http://vision.stanford.edu/teaching/cs231b_spring1415/slides...
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There's evidence that your brain is influenced by e.g. certain chemicals in your bloodstream produced by gut bacteria.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacte...

So the brain in a jar model where the only interface with the real world is through nerves is most probably wrong; now your jar also needs a stomach with a fully developed microbial ecosystem. And that's just one recent mechanism that was investigated; there are probably many others.
Even yourself called it security theater because people have looked at TSA security and never found a single case where it prevented a threat to a airplane.

To quote: "Security theater is the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it"

Security theater do not cause 90% prevention. And to be clear, I know several personal cases where a knife has gone through the security check because the person carrying it had forgotten that it was even there. Its not effective, no research say its effective, and all benefits that security checks provide against threat to airplanes are the placebo effect.

Strong doors, investigators, and bomb sniffing dogs. Those are some real security measures found to be effective on airports, airplanes, as well as other places where dangerous people need to be stopped. They are used by both police and the military, and shown to be cost effective. The methods used by airport screening is used by airports, not by the police or the military, and the results are clear.
Honestly, we hacked most of it together with perl. https://www.xkcd.com/224/
My problem with all of this is I don't care about having the "best name". I want to make a new name, and then work increasing it's value.

This system seems like anyone who wants to make a name but not monitise it will lose. How much of the value of (picking the first things that come into my head) the names FSF, GPL, GCC and clang come from the organisations and products? I bet those names would be worth much more to someone willing to use adverts and spam.

And even if we raised enough money to keep the names out of the hands of spammers, all that's happening is that lbry gets to charge a tax to anyone who has a name that has got even slightly popular.
Homebrew is a perfectly acceptable, even preferred way to install Go on Macs. Who has told you otherwise? They are wrong, or are speaking from a very specific context.
Interesting, as from what I have seen of the app screenshots it looks far to busy and full of useless features compared to the podcast apps I use regularly or have used in the past. As a simple example, the idea that I want to have a comment section for a podcast seems laughable at best and for the most part each major panel of the app seems to be working on a 'how many buttons can we stick in here' theme that would lead me to look elsewhere.
Anyone got more examples of awesome Sublime plugins using the new tooltips feature?
> People were still suspicious - and in his working with kids it doesn't make sense to "take a risk" on an allegedly exonerated pedophile.

England has a "Disclosure and Barring Service". People who work with children and vulnerable people will apply for a DBS. It will return information about arrests and convictions. Some people need an enhanced DBS, and that will sometimes return police intel.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-b...

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-b...

This is likely to affect his employment for some jobs until it got fixed.
Why would you doubt the situation has changed? Also, not fully double glazed would cover my current house which has one single glazed tiny bathroom window with an extractor fan in it.
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More problematic than it already is. But should we perhaps see these sysadmins as 'divine sysadmins'. In essence, they could fulfill the job that our God today does (not do).

But here we once again hit the problem that it would be incredibly hard to prove, if not impossible. So I don't think religion has something immediate to fear. Maybe some people will start taking it 'on faith' that there are divine sysadmins interfering with our lives, whilst others take it on faith that there is a God interfering with our lives.

Since religion seems to not be constrained by 'logic' as much, they could probably find a way around it.

Going with the idea of a God one level higher does raise some other problems in my opinion. First of all, if there is a God one level up, then that means that we have no idea what that God would be like, invalidating all religions of today. Or, one would argue, that the ones creating our simulation have given us the word of _their_ God. Which would mean that either there is one true God, given to us by the supreme programmers. Thus the other Gods we have are wrong and are an invention from within our simulation, but it's impossible to find out which one the correct one is (or was, maybe it was Zeus and our simulation denied that). Alternatively, maybe they have many Gods and they added all their Gods to our simulation and instead of accepting all of them, we refused to do that...

I don't think a convincing argument can be given for any of the scenarios.

Though, it's something interesting to think about!
Why don't people ever give native emacs a try?

No evil-mode, no super-bloat spacemacs, just barebone emacs with maybe one or two plugins??
Interesting. I find myself in a similar situation, except that I'm still using vim since I have too many cool things set up there that I simply can't do without.

As I often say, IMO vim is the best text editor in terms of actually editing text, bar none. Unfortunately, all the million surrounding tasks that you need to do, e.g. opening and switching between files, searching, etc, are terrible in stock vim. I've taken the path of installing tons of plugins to make vim work better, but it's still not as smooth as something like Sublime. I check Sublime once a year or so to see if the vim mode there is "good enough" yet, and it invariably isn't :(

Btw, my transition was IDEs (and Slickedit at some point) -> Emacs -> back to IDEs -> Sublime Text 1 (for which I wrote a few plugins) -> vim.
Putnam has a very nice argument in his Brains in a vat paper. [1] Basically he argues that a brain in a box lacks any causal connection to the box, the brain does never learn any information about the box. The idea "I am a brain in a box" lacks a reference and any reasoning about it is at best a lucky guess, even if true.

The issue is the similar, but more fundamental, as me claiming "you have a misplaced comma in the second sentence of your next email." That may or may not be true, but if it is true it is certainly not based on sound reasoning.

[1] http://ieas.unideb.hu/admin/file_2908.pdf
There are a whole BUNCH of other ways available. In practice, no single thing is even close to 100% accurate, but once you have enough distinct indicators you can fingerprint to a pretty high level of accuracy (for many advertisers 80% accuracy is enough, and it's probably not worth spending lots of effort to go above 90%). Clock skew, for example, is slightly different on each device, but on a given device doesn't change that quickly. Mouse/finger movement patterns, TLS negotiation timings, etc, etc. There are even technologies able to track users across different devices, but it's been too long since I worked in this area to be able to speak confidently about the methods used to implement that.
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The issue is convincing the other people that someone who does that doesn't need to be an "Angular Ninja" or know by heart the complexity of several sorting algorithms
>> banks’ monopoly on their customer’s account information (...) is about to disappear

To clarify, this is presented as a good thing.

Of course, my bank doesn't have a "monopoly" on my account information: that information is not a commodity. More so, it is definitely not something that I would ever want to have change hands and be traded around. I entrust my money to the bank, very grudgingly, because it's a convenience, but I definitely, very very definitely, do not want it to share any information about the services it provides to me with third parties.

I really hope the article is misrepresenting the new directive, or that at the very least it will be a unique legistlative exception that somehow manages to provide adequate safeguards to my privacy, otherwise... OK, I don't know what, otherwise. This just sounds insanely stupid. In terms of protecting EU citizens' privacy it's a giant leap backwards.
You might feel safer - but it's not because of the 'extra security'. That's all it is...a feeling (much like that of feeling safer with a sky being) - http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find...
Maybe we asked too few questions for now and the quantum system is not overconstrained enough for us to see any bugs.

Maybe it is not software, but natural process when our physics was separated from original physics (the event that happened at the big bang) and all this is a temporary false state.

Maybe our gods are not aware of us and our universe is a single pew in their high-tech starwars.

The fact is, all these possibilities are close to our minds, so we find them 'interesting', but there could be billions of billions other not so close-to-mind ideas that are much less sci-fi and do not fit the religion happiness/meaningfulness property. That's why falsifiability is important — you can't connect real point to one of infinite amount of imagined points and pretend that road exists. We explore the universe, we do not imagine things so they suddenly realize. Imagination is a property of our simple and biased minds. Nature doesn't give a fuck about what you like.
But what precisely are they testing? Which hypothesis of theirs? It does of course seem obvious that thay simulate it to test _something_.

To me, that does not really satisfy the "Why" question, though to a certain degree it does answer it, albeit without being specific.

It's akin to asking someone "Why do you need a particle collider?" -> "To test something". I assume you'd like to know what they are testing :-)
> Except that your mind is not an isolatable computation

This doesn't follow from what you write next. You are saying that the computation needed to generate a mind is very large. I agree that it might be the case, and I would say that nobody knows how large. Do you really need to simulate in minute detail what is going on in every distant galaxy? Seems doubtful, but who knows?

All I'm saying is that if this computation is finite, and the universe-in-the-large-sense (entire timeline, branches if you accept the Many World Interpretation, and so on) is infinite, then infinity wins.
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The SE has an A9; its guts are basically those of a 6s, minus Force Touch and the second-gen fingerprint sensor. With yesterday's rev to storage, I guess its guts are basically now those of a 6s+.
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