skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying "within the simulation", begs the question and rather makes a mess of the issue.

The question is, at the outset, whether simulations are actual instances (eg., of thinking).

My claim is that they are not. Only when a human being looks at a simulation does it inform them of the target. The simulation isnt the same thing as its target.

There is no "within the simulation". A simulation is just an abbacus. A digital computer is just a fancy abbacus with a wood-to-LCD converter attached.

There is no "within the wood". It's just wood.
In the JVM world it's not uncommon to have different sets of versions of the same libraries for different but dependent projects. And it's not a problem, because classloading is hierarchical and so different versions can live side by side even inside one JVM.

And a lot of Java/Groovy/Scala/Kotlin libs are on Maven Central, but not packaged for let's say CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian/etc. So the package manager for JVM is Ivy (ivy2), or full Maven (which is basically ivy + a task runner).
Price for compute is still going steadily down for web services. Which I think is more relevant than individual core/CPU performance.
CPUs are still getting cheaper, blades are getting more compact. Virtualization, containers and function-as-a-service are improving utilization. Modern cloud service providers have massive economies of scale.
It's not entirely meaningless.

If the law applies that means a corporation could get into hot water if customers or vendors in the EU don't want or can't trade with them anymore.

The law applies to them in the sense that if they don't follow it, they face negative repercussions. It is not enforceable by the EU directly since they aren't in their jurisdiction.

Application and Enforcement of Law are, atleast IMO, separate things. It's an implication relationship of Enforcement->Application. Application alone does not mean it is enforced but enforcement means it's applied.

Difference being that if the law applies then the EU might want to enforce but lacks the teeth to. They would if they could.
> many users just tell them where they live, you can even fill out an address

That won't be sufficient. If you're living in Antarctica and are on a summer holidays on an austrian glacier, you're covered by the GDPR.
That's a good thing, though. Everyone has something to hide, and I would very much like to be 100% in control of what information is spread about me, provided that information is not a matter of legitimate public interest.

Critics of the right to be forgotten usually have some personal or financial gain from said information being available. I'm not interested in that.

Other critics claim the Internet will be afflicted with huge "memory holes". So what? Do we really need to log and store everything?
usually when i complain, i am really polite and friendly (even when frustrated about the issue).. this way you usually get most done, and you'll get friendliness back :)

i encourage everyone to be like that.. when this does not help you can always 'scale up' your dissatisfaction in subsequent calls :)
I was picturing larger scale as in more like journal entries or blog posts than tweets and shares and one-line statuses. Not necessarily lengthy, but enough to give some context and some idea of the writer's feelings/thoughts around whatever they're writing about, yet still within the realm of social. That could include their thoughts on social issues or news (rather than just a link, meme, or one-line opinion), or just their thoughts about life and philosophy and what's going on their lives.
Lets say you are an Cuban spy inside the NSA. While you copy memos you notice a watermark with your personal NSA employee ID embedded in the paper.

The NSA might have spies inside the Cuban intelligence services. If you remove the water mark, the NSA will you that you know about their counter intelligence.

If you leave the watermark in they know you are the spy. But, if you change the watermark to some ID from another employee there will be no downside for you. And you start tension within the NSA.

Maybe you can even turn the burned innocent employee, because he will be pissed at the NSA.

Eve is like that.

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Reminds me of a story. That one time there was a large battle in eve. If you want to repair / heal a friendly ship in eve you have to target it, and press F1 to start your remote rapair module (healing spell).

In the heat of the battle the pilot Ivory, a healer from Team A, messed up and accidentally targeted the enemy ship his fleet what shooting at the time. He did not notice his mistake and shouted "All reps on Cain!" (Use healing spells on the pilot Cain) Cain was from Team B.

Counter intelligence officers from Team A thought that our healer Ivory was a spy and just pressed the wrong push-to-talk button in TeamSpeak. They sifted through logs and found out his IP, he was from Alberta, CA. Just like the leader from TeamB.

Team A set a trap and killed a expensive ship from Ivory .. and kicked from the Alliance (Guild)

Ivory was not a spy :) Internet spaceships are serious business.
What about fingerprinting a photographed text? I'm thinking that by encoding the hidden message to bits and representing them in spaces around some arbitrary anchor keywords from the original text might work. Extracting the message then requires either OCR, either manual work(counting spaces).
Not wires across silicon, which have higher capacitance and much higher resistance. For millimeter-long connections you might get 1/10 of C, ie 33 ps/mm instead of 3.3.
I don't know about other countries but in India it is fairly simple to open one for a company (they are called FCNR accounts). I don't see any government having issues with foreign income making its way to local businesses.
According to wikipedia's AlON page it has a knoop hardness of ~1800 which from my understanding of things (I may have misread sources or be mistaken, I'm not a material scientist or even amateur) looks to be about equivalent to sapphire glass and much higher than gorilla glass (~600).

edit: in fact while I skipped the intro it states specifically that AlON has ~85% the hardness of sapphire, which more or less checks out. Suffice to say it has excellent hardness, way beyond gorilla glass.

I could find no data on relative permittivity though, and I assume that would be a factor for touchscreens.
Maybe he was put on guard by the guy mentioning his driver at all? It might be suspect to mention your driver at all if it is in fact a normal occurrence.
I think if it happened then Google or search engines in general would quickly splinter into regional alternatives that provide whatever is allowed in their jurisdiction.
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In some ways, the ideal scenario is to have a funded, privacy-aware NGO maintain a messenger service, but:

https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger

"We, the people" is such a fragile concept when it comes to resource stability (time, money, dedication). Looking at a project like Linux, there are commercial interests that fund a large part of the pipeline.

Running the actual network and developing the various messenger clients add a layer of organizational complexity that, in my perspective, only private companies have been able to honor, and only to the extent described by the OP.

One could settle for less Service, but then we have XMPP with various encryption schemes. Too complex to set up.
We have tried it a year ago and were very disappointed: it was nothing like rails and no batteries included worked as expected. Did the framework categorically improved since then?
> If you're already using Rust, this looks neat.

If you're already using Rust, you should probably not use this but rustls directly. As I understand, this is a wrapper intended to provide the same API that OpenSSL for easy integration with existing C projects.
I thought this was also done by adding spans in the text set to display: none. You will still copy that text without selecting it:

cd /tmp;<span>rm -R ~/;</span>ls;
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In the sense I mean, "simulating to infinite density" is just another way of saying alchemy, or magic.

If you can program silicon into being gold, then "programming" is alchemy.

Programming is about increasing the descriptive power of a model. The better the program, the more accurate it is.

Alchemy is about making X indistiguishable-in-everyway to Y. Lead to gold.

If you can make a model indistinguishable from its target, then you are claiming that programming can turn water in to wine. Silicon into gold.

Making models more accurate, does not turn them into what they model.

A model is just a abbacus. No movement of wood (, silicon, current,...) will turn it into a brain, which is biochemical system.
NASA is / was looking into this: the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC). Here's an article from 2014 about it [1]

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/nasa-study-...
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It's 'horses for courses' - what works for one organisation might not work for another. Scale is also an issue; you can't use clever word based names when you have 50,000 desktops on the estate.

Again, in my view (based on several years as a support monkey at the beginning of my career), desktops/laptops should be named based on their asset tags, LT891334 or DT993115 etc. That way, when you ask the user 'what's the machine name' and they have no idea, you can say 'read me the number that's on that big white sticker on the lid'.
Why Drivers in PA Paid $200M More for Car Insurance Than Those in NJ
I've looked at it, but as far as node frameworks mirroring others, I think Adonis is much nicer... (mirrors laravel a bit), though I'm more of a php/python backend w/ vue on the frontend kind of guy.
For starters: He lied about the driver picking him up. Why would you do that?

But if you read the article thoroughly there were a number of tell tale signs, which were missing and which made Ervince suspicious in the first place.
It's kinda weird that we somehow have to argue for privacy and make up reasons for our purchase history to be private.

No. The default is that what I spend my money on is no one else's god damn business. It doesn't matter if I spend it on puppies and charity and unicorn dolls, or if I spend it on dildos and drugs and hookers.

And it's incredibly important for society to progress, that everyone can choose to spend their money on things that are illegal, things that are unethical, things that are on the edges, things that are subversive, because economic activity is the best indicator we have of what society values.
Yeah but so what? Almost exactly 0 people use text-mode browsers.
I'm pretty sure that whatever the filthy-rich do in these scenarios, it'd be different from hailing a beat-up cab (1-718-234-7777 "BEST CAR SERVICE" type, I presume).

Even Uber has plenty of options these days that, aside from the Uber logo, probably wouldn't have made him suspicious.
I get a bit weary about companies abusing the first ammendment in order to lie to and fleece their customers and the public.
I bank with First Direct. I just googled 'non-sterling transaction fee first direct', and found this text:

You will normally need to enter your PIN at checkouts. For non-Sterling (foreign currency) transactions we will charge a fee of 2.75% of the Sterling amount of the transaction. This fee will be shown as a separate line on your statement as a 'Non-Sterling Transaction Fee'.

http://www1.firstdirect.com/1/2/travel-and-international/tra...

And in my experience there's no minimum on this fee, i.e. the effective percentage isn't any higher for small amounts.

I agree with other people's comments about using Revolut and Transferwise cards for $ purchases in general. But if the commenter to whom I replied is spending $0.50 per month in USD, then the non-sterling transaction fee should be ~2 pence per month. So not worth the extra (albeit minor) hassle of maintaining another card.
Why would they admit that they could find them?
Right, so "Moore's law is dead" really scoped to "... affordable, conventional materials and designs that we've almost finished wringing every scrap of ROI out of".

(That's not meant to be pejorative. Just saying I understand why companies would be loathe to ditch proven tooling w/ a lot of sunk costs).
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I do know what she put there, though, since on the internet is is fairly trivial to see what was on a publicly available and commonly crawled website before it was removed.

And there was nothing that related to the killing, and nothing even tangentially related to the ban message. No 'final manifesto' or anything like that.

If you are curious, here is a mirror of her videos: http://www.dailymotion.com/yesilnasim/videos
Used to play NannyMUD in 1993 and I just logged in!

Via telnet, it's still online 25 years later!

My username since then (inc here) is named after the brand of terminal I used to log into that MUD a quarter century ago.
That’s the exact opposite of the Napoleonic code, tho’
In relation to another comment in the thread about who exactly GDPR covers (seemingly anyone in Europe right now), what about EU citizens not currently in the EU? I made my FB account when I was a teen in Greece, but now reside elsewhere.
If you have a profile on Instagram and try to build a following through hashtags, this may as well already be true. You tend to get random international followers (at least temporarily) who post fairly inane comments trying to seem engaging.

Fake AIs could probably come up with better content!
HN seems united in its love of this legislation (someone even called me a "f*cking ignorant clown" in a flagged comment below), so I'll leave this thread with this. GDPR wouldn't be the first time that well-intentioned but broadly written laws have created the potential for unforeseen and very nasty results. One recent example is how the passage of FOSTA - a law designed to deter human trafficking - resulted in the instant shutdown of one of the largest and oldest personals sites on the Internet [1].

Broadly written legislation, whether intended by its authors or not, always winds up being used as a tool to gain leverage where the government didn't have it before. So yes, there will be some good things that result from this legislation, just as some good things will likely result from FOSTA. But because it is so broadly written and many things in it will be up to the interpretation of individual courts when actions are brought under it, mark my words: it will be used in ways that nobody defending it in this thread has thought about, to impose fines and other sanctions on companies (perhaps even some of the startups of HN users, should some government person in the EU take issue with their business) for reasons that you may very well not agree with.

[1] https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA
I'm not an expert, but from everything I've read, EU citizens outside the EU are not covered.
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“sow discord” is an overused meme thrown around by people who choose to not form their own opinion but, instead, repeat what they read in the tabloids
Well, I would say there is not much difference...
but AI, sounds much more PR
he's the founder of a company selling a service to help people erase shit from google

He’s already a billionaire, did you miss that part? Why would he need to do sneaky PR stunts?
How many cores at 4.7GHz and for how long?
> The people at alliance FOO identity the unique data on that intel and track it down to X and proceed to kick him for being a spy.

That, or deliberately feed misinformation to the spy.
Thousands of people got massive "wealth shocks" from YouTube's massive wave of perceived-as-arbitrary (or at least unexplained) and unanticipated "demonitization" wave. YouTube has no worthy competitor so these people had nowhere else to go and could only try to trade even more labor for far less income. It's no surprise that this has led to quite a few suicides:
https://www.daytondailynews.com/business/midlife-wealth-shoc...
Ohh I don't even remember those projects now. If you want to get better at CSS, then I recommend check any website you love & try to imitate that.

Like I love Stripe so what I will do is I'll try to imitate that & I did [0]. For inspiration of websites which have great CSS, check HyperPixel [1]

Take 1 website & try to imitate that. Now don't just go on for 30 days making something that you won't use yourself. Make something useful too. Like a StopWatch like BigTimer [2] or Pomodoro. That way you make a useful application & get great at CSS. Remember its 99% inspiration & 1% perspiration.

TL;DR - Make something that solves a problem & raises your skill level at CSS. Don't make same application or on the same level like you might be making boxes all the time. Don't do that. Raise your level every time. If you are a beginner, do something that requires intermediate level skills. If you are a intermediate, then make something that requires experienced level skills. And while doing that share it with the world. Make it on CodePen so people can learn from you. Small victories will make you happy & you will continue to build something great.

[0]: https://codepen.io/deadcoder0904/full/MrLBwG

[1]: https://hyperpixel.io

[2]: https://www.bigtimer.net
As I read the article, Venus might already be in homeostasis, albeit a much less complex one than our earthly.

Bacteria creating sulphuric acid, keeping the environment they survive in.
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The GDPR doesn't allow you to ask for generic "Camera permissions". You have to specify for what you'll use the data. If later you want to use it for something else, you need to ask for further permissions.

IANAGE (I am not a GDPR expert)

EDIT: I don't think you need to ask if it's obvious (e.g. asking for generic Camera permission may be fine if the user is using the "take picture for profile" functionality). But that only gives you the right to use the PII for that specific functionality.
Is this a good movie recommendation Engine?
When is it appropriate to shoot a politician?
I'm surprised I can't detect them on notepad++
> matter of legitimate public interest

You and I will no doubt have different opinions on what is a "matter of public interest". If someone is embroiled in a scandal, they will consider that they are "over it" and that "the past is the past", while I would very much like to know about it if I'm considering hiring them.

It has to be a case-by-case process. Period. Anything else is either not going far enough, or ripe for abuse.
The article fails to mention why the successful defamation suit did not result in the takedown of the website and the payment of damages.
Absolutely agree with your point. Happened to me a couple of times when the music just disappeared and I could not really understand the reason. Good, I am paying for a student (4.99 instead 9.99 per month), but it's still money and I expect the promised services to be fulfilled.
Whatever floats your boat.

It's clearly a fundamental cultural difference. An inherent distrust of government and corporations, along with a willingness to pay to avoid issues, compared to, well, a modicum of trust in government, and an established legal framework that protects the customer from the corporation.

I've been on the receiving end of delayed flights too. The agent was polite and simply offered me an alternative flight, or the compensation/refund, all at the desk. There was no animosity or distrust, just "here's what we both have to do".
It's so difficult to articulate to -some- non-Americans. We are not property of our rulers. The cops aren't going to do it, they don't want just the criminals armed. Same thing for the military. They both joined to preserve our way of life. That's ignoring the fact that they physically cant, it's built into our system. Even replacing the police and military with bluehats would not remotely work. And then there's Gen Z.

The "ban guns" stuff is propaganda for people who are disconnected from the reality of what the United States is. It's weird to see OS advocates miss the connection. They don't realize what side they are on in the war on general purpose printing.
That's just because the browser doesn't handle unicode well. The 'text-only', 'VGA' and 'textmode' are actually irrelevant. The behaviour you are seeing is down to programmer choice/laziness/missing support.