skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3 people in a room with wires on their head playing tetris

It's not really tetris, it's so simplified as to be reduced to a simple press/ don't press action.

Also, the whole contraption is the union of two separate devices: an input device that picks up a single codified signal from an EEG (but could simply and more effectively track eye movements for the same result); and another one that produces a visible flick of light in a person's FOV- albeit not passing through the retina. That's it. It doesn't "transmit thoughts" at all, it transmits coded signals at a much slower rate than me typing on a keyboard right now.
Wouldn't the world view of a single god who created the universe also fall under a "simulation"?
Can the Chinese government trust itself?

I mean Chinese govn't literally buys intel from Chinese hackers. It's encouraged business until the Obama deal.
If you want to view Reddit on mobile, I strongly recommend using an unofficial app, which doesn't have the UX antipatterns. On iOS in particular, Apollo is amazing.
>Have you completely removed all influence of screens?

At this point yes (they can't read yet).

Once they do start to be able to read, we will likely allow some limited amount of screen time every day, albeit in a controlled fashion, and with an emphasis on non-video content for young kids (which is surprisingly scarce on the internet, as a matter of fact).

We (the parent) both have phones that we use regularly, as well as laptops, but we are quite strict about not using them during family time (outdoor, meals, week-ends, and family time before they go to bed).

The kids are obviously fascinated by the things, wondering what mummy and daddy do when they're using them, but so far they seem to have accepted that it's not for them yet.
No questions, just glad to see this written in Rust!
My thought here has already been said. Start smaller if you can. I'm starting really small with one specific banking issue and the entry fees are much smaller. I'm using some hedge fund ideas to get the capital.
There's a halfway point, confusingly called emulators. You get a whole rack of FPGAs (or sometimes giant arrays of tiny little CPUs that only run boolean ops) connected to eachother, running at 10s of Mhz with the signals between them multiplexed.
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The article states:

>"Somewhere in the Linux operating system, which runs in many servers, is code that authorizes a user by verifying a typed password against a stored encrypted one. An implanted chip can alter part of that code so the server won’t check for a password—and presto! A secure machine is open to any and all users."

I realize the intended audience for this article is not a technical crowd but can someone walk me through in practical terms how such a chip might subvert the /bin/login binary?
Who says that the simulation has to be done in realtime?

Without any outside reference the NPCs inside the simulation have no way to know that one second in the simulation has taken them for example a year in real-life.
One thing to consider is packaging projects as container images, but continuing to deploy them via ansible. That could solve some of your problems without requiring the time investment and complexity of running kubernetes.
I'm not sure how it matters if we're in one. Our goal in all realities should be to break free of that reality's constraints.

On the detection part, I predict we won't figure this out until we start simulating realities ourselves; then for each bug we have to fix, we'll check it against our reality. "A simulation inside a simulation!"

Or we may realize that energy is being supplied to the universe from an external source.

Or we may be able to rowhammer a neighboring simulation (or any other part of the machine really). Of course we might accidentally cause memory corruption and destroy our universe, but we might also get root access! Basically execute an in-universe hack to escape our simulation confines. Fun to think about how this would all seem to aliens in the simulation next door when humanity first fiddles with their data then is able to execute arbitrary code.
I think it's worth separating out different tasks in terms of how g-loaded they are (that is to say how much they require intelligence).

General life success is g-loaded but not to an extreme degree. As many have noted, it's certainly possible to have success without great intelligence by working around one's limitations and finding other strengths.

But consider other tasks like "invent a new theorem in particle physics and get it published in a top journal" or "improve a mature database/load-balancing system to save a million dollars a year for a large computing company". These are extremely g-loaded tasks. Intelligence, as measured by IQ, is an absolute requirement to be able to do these things at all in my opinion. My sense is I don't think anyone could ever do such things without scoring 120+ IQ at absolute minimum and probably much more, though I'd be happy to hear counterexamples.

That's an example I'd say where intelligence as a concept and measure is useful in narrow strokes: When you need such a task to be done and done well, you can use intelligence measures to filter who does it (the same way you'd use stature to filter who you put on your basketball team).

In any case, however useful intelligence is, it's the most useful of all psychometric measures. Everything else is worse. That makes it not a great tool necessarily, but the most generally important among the tools we have.
The boat has been sailed long time ago. First it was the Japanese, then the Taiwanese and Koreans. In the past decade it was the Chinese.

Who's next, Vietnamese?

Did you see the pattern here?
Another implication of the parallel axis theorem is that the attacker could perfectly mimic every moment of inertia by shaving plastic. They wouldn't have to know which two axes were being tested because there are only three real numbers worth of information in the system to begin with (once center of mass and total mass have been dealt with.) In the whole MOI tensor there are only six free numbers which sounds like a reasonable number of parameters to fix by adding and removing small amounts of material.

What was this company doing in hiring an untrustworthy manufacturer to handle secure devices? That's playing a game you've lost from the start. Not every problem is technical!
That's a big assumption.

What purpose does Goat Simulator http://www.goat-simulator.com/ serve to solve/understand issues in our universe?

How do you know our universe is not a child's toy for a race of deity-like beings? Or an art project?

Maybe the outer universe is populated by immortal godlike entities and has the equivalent of the guys who made Dwarf Fortress saying, "hmm, I wonder what would happen if there were a race of pseudo-intelligent creatures that just arbitrarily died after just a few million seconds?" Or, "I wonder what would happen if the fundamental building blocks of the universe did not behave predictably, but instead made a random choice to determine the outcome of every interaction?"

And maybe that programmer is just about to come back from his coffee break, look at what happened, and say, "hmm, that was boring", kill the process, and move on to other things.

When you're talking about something that could be powerful enough to simulate our entire universe, assuming that our sense of scale matters at all to it is pretty much the definition of hubris.
Seems like everything has artificial sweeteners nowadays. It's a trend that I noticed only in the last couple of years. And not just fizzy drinks like Sprite or Pepsi - which have sugar and sweetener! - but breakfast cereals, yoghurts, ketchup-like sauces... all have "no added sugar" on the package, you dig a bit deeper and they are full of sweeteners.

Chewing gum and other "healthy sweet" products like that have used sweetener for years, and have always had a warning not to take too much, or it'll give you the shits. Clearly bad for your gut or you wouldn't be getting these side effects. Yet here we are, with sweeteners everywhere and getting more pervasive.

I just try to avoid sugar and sweeteners as much as possible. Seems like half the things I add in "My Fitness Pal" have a little orange warning about something :(
50 weeks a year? That is only 2 weeks off!
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> When will this stuff finally have consequences for China?

Hahaha funny thing to say after disclosers from NSA/CIA/FBI/GCQH/BND...
Or you could stream information in full 4K instantly through one's eyes.
> Bloomberg didn't do their due diligence and were too eager

Furthermore, the argument against this would be that (from the denials PRs) Bloomberg has been approaching the involved parties for "several years."

Why would they decide to pull the trigger now simply from haste?
Cloning people for harvesting organs doesn't really make that much sense: it'll take many years to grow the organs to the size needed to be useful as replacements.

We're already working on growing (or even 3D-printing) replacement organs without the human; that avoids ethical problems, but it also doesn't require the huge investment in time and resources needed to grow clones of yourself and raise them to adulthood. They'll probably have this technology ready for prime-time before they could have human cloning working plus have those clones grow to late adolescence.
Robots are a component of an automation solution. Most solutions will be heavily customized in ways that are specific to the individual customer - who would usually interact with an integrator and not a robot supplier. The integrators, usually small companies with less than 10 employees buy most of the robots on the market. So as a robotics company you have to primarily focus on the integrators and offer a no-bullshit component to them. Extra fluff like the camera and touchscreen will be useless in 95% of cases. Why would i want to pay for that as an integrator?
Additionally, rumor has it the production was too expensive. Maybe due to the fluff. When you're pushing robots on the market below your own cost while the competitor beats you price wise while making a profit - you're going to have a bad time.
The initial aim to provide a robot with nylon bearings and series-elastic actuators wasn't a success, the pivot to the standard industry approach of harmonic drive didn't save them as there was no price/performance advantage over the competition.
I believe quite a few people in the industry saw the Rethink robot like toys that weren't meant serious. I don't know about the actual performance, but the image was there. As an industrial customer you want bulletproof and dirt cheap and not fun to play with.
You clearly can't compare those two percentages.

One of them is over the total energy consumption of the society and the other over the energy needed be keep a human alive.

Computers would not get "magically" more efficient if another industry triples to overall energy consumption of our society, yet that is what your analysis would suggest...
>like some production moving somewhere else?

Sure, to US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, because we trust these countries not to backdoor software and hardware.
There are still plenty of fields where you can start late in life and not come from wealth but still be the best in the world. It's only the most popular and rewarding fields that require a life optimized to be the best to actually be the best.
Why? Conway's Life doesn't have a supervisor shortcut.
Please note how the simulated world in GTA5 is based not on atoms, but on entirely different concepts which allow modeling "large" amounts of in-world physics using a "small" amount of out-of-world atoms.

As long as we don't suppose that the simulated world copies all the features of the simulator-running world, there should not be a problem of needing more outer-world stuff to simulate a given amount of in-simulation stuff. They can just be quite different.

There's still an information-theoretic argument that the complexity of a simulated world cannot exceed the complexity of the outer "true real" simulator-running world. We still could see "more complex" activity of a simulated world by spending more "real" time to model "simulated" time, and having the simulated world to more often and more evenly fill various parts of its phase space, as opposed to the outer, simulator-running world.
It's about expected necessary effort vs actual necessary effort. It's better to wrong that you needed more effort than be wrong that you needed less effort.
Sorry if I wasn't clear - I want to know how best to give software to others, so they can install it on their own machines.
The more I speak to scientist and engineers from sub-Saharan Africa, the more hate I hear for China. It’s hard to comprehend.
Or from the final episode of Firefly:

Jayne: Well, I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'.

Inara Serra: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
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Ah, you are right. English is not my native language.
This is a great article. One big thing NLP lacks (soon enough, lacked) over computer vision is its own version of ImageNet and other similar off the shelf models that can be fit to different domains. Many NLP models are brittle due to the disparity between tasks and problem domains. My BiLSTM-CRF model for NER would require retraining on a completely different set of labels in order to run inference on other tasks.

Elmo embeddings are especially interesting. Dynamic Bernoulli embeddings also deserve a mention. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.08052.pdf
Switch to unsweetened, unsalted peanut butter. It's amazing - after 2 weeks I stopped noticing the difference. The amount of sugar in most peanut butter is absurd.

Once you kick the sugar taste, oh wow do you realize its got a much more interesting and involved flavor.
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>Is it actually possible to simulate the entire universe?

For you to be a simulation doesn't require the entire universe be simulated. It only requires simulation of you and the inputs you receive. Scale that and you can simulate a population to see how they react, all without needing to simulate every unobserved event to the finest detail.

It's how we can simulate all sorts of things now that relate to the physical world without having to simulate the physical world in it's entirety.
Linux's incentives are also not oriented towards the user, unfortunately, they just don't have the profit motive to treat users like cattle.
I don't know which is more disturbing here.

That the Chinese military is technically competent enough to pull off such a thing.

Or that they are incompetent enough, to not secure their own back doors and networks, and allowed the FBI, NSA, and other American government organizations, the ability to counter-hack them, and monitor all their internal communications.

The truth is somewhere in between.

So, this article is basically saying: China got clever, and spied on us. We spied back on them, and we also hacked all of their internal communications too, so basically, we own them.

Well, at least America is finally admitting, that they too, actively spy on other countries. And can easily infiltrate any other country that they want.
How would you tell if a competent simulation was fixing the results to return "I'm not a simulation" when queried?
Tempted to make a version of this myself because it's simple. Single file executable, with statically linked Tor, that starts a v3 onion service (with or without client auth), hosts web server with file at URL, gives onion address URL (and client auth if any, could include the as part of URL or URL fragment or whatever depending upon approach desired). Client can use exe or Tor Browser to download it. Could add any features you want such as killing the server after first download, deadlines, etc.

Pro: doesn't upload to server and preserves anonymity. Con: slower than non-anonymous.

Here's a simple code example of a v2 onion file server using external Tor process w/ no auth: https://github.com/cretz/bine#example. This is essentially what onionshare does: https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare.
If you're in sales, none of this advice really matters. They just burn through SDRs and promotion is mostly political.

You'll never have a very deep conversation on the phone about say, the technical specs of conferencing software. You'll just memorize a few stats and make 100+ phone calls per day in a vain attempt to set appointments.

After 6 years of SaaS sales, I quit to wait tables in a rural area. The paycheck is more reliable and the work day is fulfilling.

Good luck and stay mentally strong!
Getting to the side of the road seems like it could be pretty risky for current autopilots, though perhaps things are further ahead than I know.
Short version of the article:

One op-ed article attacking SpaceX's safety practices appears in the newspapers of several space-industry-oriented cities. The article is not written by the person it is attributed to, but rather by two people apparently affiliated with a PR firm in Washington, DC. One of the three main clients of said PR firm is Boeing, SpaceX's direct competitor.
Given that this was a crash with no injuries, I think Waymo's severity-weighted crashs per mile is better than a typical human's. Anyone know the numbers on this?
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This seems either incredibly suspicious to me or indicates that Apple is way more protective of security and distrustful of the USGov than I would have thought: “Because Apple didn’t, according to a U.S. official, provide government investigators with access to its facilities or the tampered hardware, the extent of the attack there remained outside their view.”

Why wouldn’t the FBI be able to compel Apple to turn over such key evidence in such an important investigation? Or why wouldn't Apple be willing to do it even without compulsion?
Yes, it is known that erythritol doesn't feel great to everybody but my experience with it was awesome - I ended up eating huge amounts of it with a tablespoon (resulting in no no unpleasant sensations) in bare form and baking meringues :-) But I've stopped buying it as it's a little bit expensive and supposedly has little health value, lactulose is a way better (but you can get kind of mild diarrhea if you consume too much of it as it has laxative properties).
From the other responses here, I like the 'its the guns' answer the best, as it has likely led to police treating every interaction as a possible life and death scenario. This is likely to be it.

But, there's a possible other culprit too, that I never noticed before the recent divisions in the populace due to politics, and that is the politization of policing. Now, I could be conflating cause and effect here, but wouldn't it be interesting if the reason we are culturally nervous of the police is that we have been told to be that way by mainstream influences. Just a thought, and I'm happy to have it all backwards.
They are called semiconductors after all. Even when fully 'switched' on they are not very good conductors and cause a voltage drop across the junction. That equals heat.
It's not a trivial task - think about how hard it is to detect computer viruses in a computer.

Then we also know that homomorphic encryption is possible in principle, where from the outside it's thought to be impossible to figure out what computation goes on inside the algorithm (for example searching for a simulation)
Might make a difference if those pennies can't be tracked back to the government.
Aren't they building the Coastal Highway at a cost of $47B that will include a few tunnels and a few more bridges?
Who needs to do that? Not many companies. Deep Learning is overhyped, just as MapReduce was.
These days the marketing game includes faking organic growth. Music artists do it all the time. Here's an example: https://dimelovi.com/#

From the page:

> We at Dimelo VI offer a complete set of marketing product and creative services focus on you, the artist as a brand and your fans. You the artist, take care of the stage and your music and we take care of the rest.

> Not only we work on the artist development, we also work directly with fans to create a big impact on the social engagement of the artist. Making the Fans Closer to the artist is the key to make a hit go viral and make the best ROI.

Translation: We have the means to increase exposure for you, the product, through popular channels. Tangibly that means shill accounts on Reddit, YouTube, probably HN, Instagram, etc.

Before I deleted my reddit account (10 years old), I would regularly get private messages about getting paid for shilling.

It's a real problem and it's totally affecting how I interact with the internet. Is this really a group of people excited about something? Or am I being fooled?

And it's fair to ask what the difference is, but regardless of the answer it's also fair to have a stance on the principle. For me, don't lie to me to get me into your music/movie/game/whatever. I will actively avoid things being marketed like that.
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nice bike!

does anyone make an electric bike with regen brakes?
Sadly, I can still imagine someone crashing into a static car on the highway. I can imagine normal-speed continuation, mid-lane stopping, and attempting to navigate to the side of the road all seem to have some pretty heavy risks. I do wonder if a low-speed continuation would be in any way suitable.
It probably does. Colloquially when one says peanut butter, people think of Jiff, which can be best described as a disgusting peanut-flavored spread product. Go with natural peanut butter (i.e. where the only ingredient is peanuts and it must be stirred) and you're all good.
It's not the language, it is the system that was built.

You can't just throw it away.
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Sure, it happens all the time if you want a full os on a core that's tightly integrated with some custom hardware, but you don't want an ASIC (for reconfigurability, or just low volumes).
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If this is true, then the fact that no one is eliminated after this discussion would be evidence that we're not in a simulation. At least not one with the rules you suggest.

But maybe the simulation does allow such discussions.
Managing kubernetes yourself is a headache and why I more or less only consider managed services like Google Kubernetes Engine for real use-cases. That's why the original article showing that you could install and run it on a set of 3 micro preemptible instances for ~5 month was so compelling to me.
Easy to add custom hardware to accelerate the things you care about.
Use Rails & Heroku – just that. That's more than enough. One and only advice is don't follow the hype, just focus on what you wanna deliver. You can thank me later.
With that much sugar I'm not sure if it's the flavour or texture you don't like.
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Agreed, can't be bothered with /r/programming now, such a shit job they've done on web mobile - and app no thanks
If they wish for wide adoption, it really needs a simple frontend so that anybody can publish.
Apple seems cagey about its reputation with the Chinese government. Their balls are directly in the Chinese government's hands, they don't want to do anything that might make the government upset.

Beyond having their manufacturing there, it's also the biggest untapped market in the world.