skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's very critical to remember that Tesla only has that electric powertrain. The rest of the car is pretty much a joke. The build quality of the $100k P100D Model S is worse than what you'd find on a $20k Civic. The interior is poor. Words like "minimalist" are often used to try and make it sound nicer than it is - it's cheap, low quality, and missing loads of features for its price bracket. General quality control is poor.

The Model S has a currently unique powertrain, but that's basically the only thing it has. Do you really think that can continue to be sufficient to move vehicles when competitors have a powertrain that's 80% the same as Tesla's, but an interior & build quality that's 10x Tesla's?
This is like the opposite of a dyslexia friendly font.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-examples-of-some-world-class-...
Fluff in theory should equate to productivity.

Sometimes we stop just a bit too soon. I’ve found a great rule of thumb is that once you’re code complete on a module, put in an extra 10% of work with the profiler to try to improve performance. Keep doing 10% spurts until the performance improvement of the last spurt is less than 5x.

There’s almost always low hanging fruit which will return at least 10x. Sometimes you find multiple places where you get 10x and your code ends up more than 100x faster.

And at that point all your unit tests are written and green so the refactoring is pretty quick. Right? ;-)
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I am more railing against the discussion of IQ as the definitive way to measure intelligence. Everyone down thread is arguing "Yes IQ! No IQ! Confounding factors!"

It is as if people argued about someone's GPA in college while not paying attention to the subject's major, study habits, or natural abilities.
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No life flight helicopters?
This font has easily distinguishable glyphs for all letters. Some fonts make "Ill" looks like ||| and it's still possible to read most texts written in such fonts easily. Considering that it's possible to learn to read a completely different alphabet, I'm not convinced that there's anything to font legibility besides familiarity, so long as all glyphs are distinguishable.
If you have enough resources to lazily simulate the entire observed universe, you probably have enough resources to consistently simulate the entire observable universe.

I haven't kept up with the latest out-of-universe hardware upgrades, so I could be talking out of my ass here.

With that said, why would you simulate something so ridiculously large and detailed if you only had the resources to run a small portion of it at a time? It's like buying an 8K 3D monitor and hoping your 3DFx Voodoo 2 will do the trick.
AmE and BrE are both used simultaneously in online spaces. Neither needs to be corrected or (sic)'d to the other.
Do any of those 50 experiments involve being naked? Asking for a friend.
You also have to factor in reading speed. If you can remember 7% more but end up reading more than 14% slower, you are better off reading more (or rereading) with the lower 50% retention rate.
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They wouldn't need the PCB designer. They would need to suborn (employees of) the PCB manufacturer and the assembly house. These will be supplied with the PCB layout (in Gerber or ODB format, for making the PCB) and the bill of materials and pick and place file (for assembling it). With these files you can reverse engineer the schematic and carry out the modifications described. The PCB manufacturer might well be a sub-contractor to the assembly house.

Most electronic engineers don't have the software tools for or experience of sophisticated reverse engineering but there aren't any major conceptual barriers. They would have to go from the geometry of the tracks and pads to a connectivity graph (very automateable), then collect the pads into footprints for components (probably partly automated), then identify those components and the functions of their pins (easy with a complete BOM) and then workout the circuit function (should be straightforward for standard parts and circuits).

There might not be automated tools for making the desired changes, in which case they will have to manually draw the new track geometry on the Gerbers, add the parts to the BOM and pick and place files and change or nobble the test criteria / files. Hard work but quite straightforward.

These skills will be developed by people doing legitimate industrial reverse engineering as well as espionage / intelligence. I would think there are also unfortunate cases where firms have to reverse engineer their own products after losing the original files.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the url is that it's some kind of cryptocurrency transfer service. It's pretty crazy how much cryptocurrency has hijacked the word "crypto".
I wonder what JS dependencies FTP has...
A union can provide value even if it is not tied directly to a raise, or to benefits like 401k matching, employer paid healthcare, or time off. Requiring just cause before firing an employee, having regular shifts that can be planned around, and having someone to look out for your behalf besides the dept of labor all go a long way to improving the working conditions of a job, and don't directly affect the bottom line. The lower turnover can even improve it in the long run.
Sorry, I read it as another one of those "dumb entitled kids get what they deserve!" posts.

It is hard to tell nowadays, with multiple people coming out and saying things like "millennials could afford houses if they didn't buy iPhones!"
Isn't HN itself a counterexample?
Yes, thanks!

Where he talks about benchmarked speed vs. marketing numbers: https://youtu.be/4bZvq3nodf4?t=676
I understand the indignation etc etc. And the suggestion to not use these kind of companies anymore.

And that sounds really reasonable, until you realize that pretty much all contract manufacturers in the Far East will source cheaper or off-spec components than those on the BOM if they can get away with it.

One of my friends supplied small widgets for a well known consumer electronics maker. He routinely gets widgets returned to him as defect for inspection, which then inevitably turn out to be clones of his widgets.

The only way to make sure that your product rolls of the product line as expected, is to have people on-site with continuous inspection (and pray that they're not the cousin of somebody who's on the other side.)

If you want the benefit of dirt cheap manufacturing, you need to have a system in place to deal with these practices.
When the top two comments say the study is fundamentally flawed, I’d say it’s a good reason to flag it off the front page.
Ignoring the abject amorality and greed that underpins Chinese culture will leave one confused like this.
"There is no free will."

Ok, what implications does that have?
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Doubling down on that point a bit more -

I think that, assuming the study is high quality, one that looks at all the popular artificial sweeteners together is probably more valuable from a "practical application" perspective, because it allows you to make more of an apples-to-apples comparison among the individual sweeteners.

If all you've got is bunch of isolated studies that only look at one of them at a time, you'll always have some room for doubt about whether a difference in outcome reflects the sweetener being tested, or some difference in the experimental protocol.
This stuff really makes you wonder about how evolution works. Is it really just random mutations that survive better or do even ants pass some level of knowledge to their children?
Err, the 'n' resembles 'η' (the greek letter eta). The 'W' looks like 'Λ' (a capital alpha with quotes). Maybe there are other confusing similarities. I wouldn't use that font for maths, if it means I end up remembering an incorrect formula.
The current sense should not add data or OTG, these devices are completely out-of-band for the USB bus. This definitely does not work as intended.

Again, all this does is insert a small resistor on one side of the voltage line. It does not tap the data lines, they go straight through to the charger as normal.
Humans have had some pretty spectacular failures resulting in 1.3 million deaths in 2017 alone.
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It was too large and too complex for the kinds of things I needed to do. I over focused on getting better with my tools rather than working on domain problems.

Since it has affordances for speed, it encourages one to make fast code, but this is rarely needed. Making fast code is a trap.

Trying to become good or very good at something also puts you in direct competition with others doing the same thing. I did not have time to compete, so it wasn't a big differentiator for me.

C++ helped me learn when do give up, and when to refocus my attention in areas where I can have greater impact. I wish I was a little more technically and philosophically mature before I undertook C++. Having concrete goals is a huge clarifier and allows one to judge something with a much better light.
Simulations are more computationally bound than the root universe. Simulating a full being vs just a mind takes a lot more computation than simply simulating a mind.

Therefore from an optimization standpoint simulations are unlikely to simulate worlds nearly as complex as the real one. Either they are going to simulate minds, or they will simulate tiny subsets of the real world, or vastly less complex worlds. We are not operating as minds without body's which rules out the pure mind simulation leaving far less efficient options which must therefore simulate smaller spaces, less complex universes, and or shorter periods of time.

ED: And by complexity I mean in terms of building blocks useful for simulating a universe or hosting life. Complexity that's not useful for either purpose is useless.
Lots of people using IcedCoffeeScript these days, are there?
Maybe he is afraid of giving too much info away. By mentioning it, now the opposing side will be measuring angular momentum.

So now he needs to make a new test. Ow that that is out of the bag
How do you know your premise is true?
That really depends on how you define "powerful". The computers are less capable in several areas, but also more capable by several orders of magnitude in other areas.
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Does someone have this as a LaTeX font package?
Well it's nice to the see the specifics on how they did it, but anyone was really surprised by this? Most electronics in the World are made there what people are expecting gonna happen?
The fact that you keep referring to moment of inertia as "angular momentums" make me doubt that your story is true.
A colossal elevator to space could be going up sooner than you ever imagined
You can’t say it’s less powerful, it’s just different. It’s better at some things, worse at others, mostly because of the software.
You are right in a certain way. What increases with distance is lead time and as result inventory. Both of which are off set by volume. Cross-border adds customs issues. Complexity is not that much of a problem nowadays, maybe it never was. You are right that all of this oblyakes sense with large numbers, small scale production is better done locally as a rule of thumb.
I’m not saying nobody has the resources to hack a company. I’m saying few companies have the resources to detect such a sophisticated hack. Therefore my infra is probably safer with, say, Amazon vs my local colo.

You are correct that individuals seeking personal infosec against state actors must be eternally vigilant.
A whole lot more people than soldiers died in the war, given rationing, bombing and what not. 1990 centenarians would have been a more hearty 49 at the time. Just a thought.
Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
Memes and Editorial/Political cartoons have been our oldest way of poking fun at government officials, of course they would want to ban them, and bullying is the perfect cover to do it. Think of the children!
Ok, I must be doing something wrong as I keep getting a popup telling me to enable Siri.

Edit: Ok apparently it was just the shortcut I was trying. I tried another and am able to add to home screen w/out Siri being enabled.
he's saying that his company knowingly allows a percentage of fraud, identity, and financial theft to occur against his customers' customers because there are enough layers of indirection where they (he and his bosses) probably can't be held personally responsible. Enough efforts (fancy tables with big receipts, etc) have been provided for coverage in case of a court case or media blitz but actually using a reputable supplier is clearly too expensive.

I can't believe the parent comment is so brazen. It makes me physically sick.
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I don't follow you. Bible isn't written through oral tradition. It's probably written/revised by bunch of people. It needs more assumptions to think that that prediction would reflect what people a few millenia ago thought that to be maximum lifespan. It'd be more interesting to find that information in a legend/ballad etc which are written through oral tradition. Since Bible isn't oral, the author(s) necessarily added their artistic personality to the work (it's possible 120 "made sense" or "sounded good" to the author of that line or is an important number for them etc)
Altering components to something cheaper is common practice for every company that is willing to exploit the fuck out of their customers. Look at the food industry. In EU there is control, in US thare are sanctions. But it is up to the governments because companies are to opportunistic to change. As long you can (re)sell the junk you get, you're fine, if you can't you upgrade "QA".
I think the original article made a good point, and one that seems to be overlooked by pretty much every critical response: if you don't already know standard sysadmin tooling and procedures, then the value proposition for k8s for small projects alone is probably comparable to standard sysadmin tooling. At least with k8s, you can take that knowledge with you when you want to scale.

I don't know if I'm totally convinced by that argument alone, but it would be nice if every critical response didn't seem to assume that every hobbyist is born understanding systemd, ansible, packer, qemu, etc.
> You're starting to realize that not all cultures are that great.

That's sounding pretty racist
It was a significant moment to see two of the most powerful women in aerospace alongside one another—two fierce competitors coming together for the good of the country.

Can someone explain me this line? What "good for the country" do they mean?
The games industry is so stinking bad at archival that it hurts. Very little consideration is paid to using architectures and build tools that can be replicated later. Source code becomes unavailable (as was the case here). Game logic is written using highly platform-specific code that's difficult to emulate. Source textures and other raw resources get thrown out.

And not to diminish from the accomplishment of the team here, because it must have been a huge amount of work, but even with that amount of work this recreation ended up having problems with collision detection that changed the entire feel of the game. I don't think that's because the devs are bad, but just because the task they were trying to undertake was so unbelievably impossible -- of course they missed stuff.

If you're in the games industry, please put some effort into preserving your work for history. It does actually matter.
They rewrote Crash Bandicoot. It was originally written in lisp and is now written,I'm guessing, not in Lisp.

The parent poster was factually correct.

Your statement while still holds true isn't the opposite of what the parent said - you've replaced rewritten with written. If you said "Any C++, Java, or Python, or <insert your lang here> program will eventually be rewritten in a Lisp-based DSL that generates that language"- you would be factually wrong in this account.
While the article deals with theoretical limits, there are some practical limits. As they are already coming up in other comments might as well list them out:

[...] There are several factors contributing to the CPU power consumption; they include dynamic power consumption, short-circuit power consumption, and power loss due to transistor leakage currents: [...]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation

[2] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34766/how-does-p...
California Amends the Consumer Privacy Act; Fixes About 0.01% of Its Problems
Girl dresses up like Ruth Bader Ginsburg for superhero day, RBG sends letter
Yeah, they should rename it "Sans Scientifica".
If the branches are properly merged so that the dependency is represented in the git DAG, most good PR tools just handle this correctly: if you merge the dependent PR first the dependee updates to show the commits as already merged and "simplify" their diff views appropriately; if you merge the dependee PR first, the dependent PR simply gets marked as completed/merged for you.

I find it is still useful to include helpful hints like "this PR includes all of PR #1234, if you prefer to review a piece at a time", but that's for the reviewers' sake, not the tools'.
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I have a book on shameless shilling you might like to read.
Whenever the simulation hypothesis comes up, there's always the questions like: Who is simulating us? Where is the power coming from? What happens if they pull the plug?

But why would any of that matter? In the end it's just a blob of data, modified by some algorithm with every tick. That's not much different than computing 2+2=4. Does it matter whose computer calculated that? Will the answer be different if they pull the plug? None of that matters: maybe multiple beings are simulating the exact same universe, or maybe none of them are. Why would anything need to be computed "physically" to make the simulation happen?

This take on the simulation hypothesis is the main plot point of "Permutation City" by Greg Egan, which to this day, is (IMHO) the most reasonable variant of the hypothesis I have read.
So if a MOOC doesn’t necessarily show any competence in the skillset that they were studying and you still have to do the same technical screening, then having a MOOC certificate is neither positive or negative.

Also, if you do a proper technical screen, you should be able to find out whether they are keeping up with technology. In that case, why does it matter if they get it through a MOOC, Pluralsight, YouTube, etc.?
Well, evolution has spent millennia optimizing human brains, and millions of years optimizing brains in general, while we have been building computers for ~70 years, about a human lifetime.

And for much of those 70 years, energy efficiency was not the top priority.
Errr.... I would say that HN is not sufficiently complicated. Also don't believe HN is written in lisp, though I could be mistaken.
Senate passes bill that lets the government destroy private drones
Trying to read the comments only to have the video follow the page and cover over half the page of comments I was trying to read.
> But does the effectiveness of this hold up over time or will your brain get accustomed to the font after a while

I would posit that this might be true if everything was in sans forgetica, but since only your notes should be in that font, then it will likely retain it's utility over time.

Is the goal that you type these notes in SF and hope the font trains you to remember? There was a scene in the video where someone just "switched" the notes to SF en-masse... seems like that'd be not so useful.
The S3 api has become a bit of an informal standard. You can even host your own with something like Minio.
Supermicro doesn't publish changelogs for their BIOSes. Their disclaimer on their BIOS download page says, "don't update the BIOS unless you have to". It's a ridiculous stance for a server company. You buy Supermicro over Dell for the price. That's pretty much it.
I'm not sure "powerful" is the word you're looking for. It's order of magnitude less _general_.
Main discussion of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138990.
More generally anything based on the discrete logarithm problem (so both rsa and ecc) are not quantum resistance.

As explained to me by an actual maths guy the basic issue is that DLP is heavily biased across its key space. Shor’s algorithm leverages this by doing a Fourier transform that gets the incorrect values to cancel out. The quantum resistant algorithms work by creating an unbiased key space so there’s no ability to cancel out the incorrect answers without also cancelling out the correct ones. In theory anyway. The mailing list seems to consist mostly of people posting flaws in their own systems and/or each other’s.
I don't think there would be too much disagreement if I said von neuman was one of the smartest 10 guys to live in the last century.

But he seemed to relate to people just fine.
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AKA a list of languages people would rather write than JS.
> The state of the art for cluster management will probably something completely different by then

Has it not only changed twice in the prior two decades between first VMs and now containers? Don't think this is something you have to worry about long term.
I don't think you are representing the argument accurately.
The logic is as follows:

1. Assuming any rate of improvement of simulations there will reach a point where a simulation is indistinguishable from reality

2. Advanced species have reached this point and are interested in running simulated universes.

3. There are likely to be many more simulated universes than real ones

4. Given the previous 3 it is more likely that we are in a simulated universe than a real one.

Read the original paper from Bostrom for yourself.
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Amusing to see something that looks almost the same as a project I worked on with a couple friends 5 years ago. https://securesha.re/

It's open source too.
> but the statistics that make the US look like Pablo Escobar Columbia typically are counting people offing themselves.

I don't see a problem with that as long as the statistics for all the countries are handled that way, the datasets still remain comparable.

Or are you suggesting other countries don't account for the suicides, yet that's the only real difference?

What about the argument that people killing themselves with firearms, due to easier access to them, might have gotten proper help elsewhere and survived? In that context, even these suicide deaths can be considered victims of the failed firearms regulation.

A loaded firearm is quite a low barrier of entry for any person in emotional distress. Most other methods of suicide require at least some level of research, planning and preparation and often still fail.
Yeah but biology never really had any choice about technology - it was always going to be cells and salts. Its really not about optimization - its about how lucky we are that real intelligence (if that's what we have) can even be achieved using cells and salts.
The lack of "apply hooks" put me off the the guile version, and running MIT scheme isn't much fun. I'd love to see the book updated with the new code, or even better, a full racket version.
Ask HN: What are the next major steps for AI after deep learning?
Secure IoT: Not just a good idea–it's the law (in California)
No, I'm not. I raised the "across-the-board raises" example to point out that the union obviously would not be opposed to more money for everyone, so there must be a reason they oppose more money for only the specific people chosen by management.
The Bloomberg article might well be the better explanation for the recent problems of Supermicro: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/14/supermicro_praying_...