skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simulation has probably a purpose like solving (or understanding) issues in the outer universe. It would be reasonnable to build the simulated universe as similar as possible to the outer universe.
Having two garbage-collected languages in the browser likely won't work out well.
> Isn't what makes HN great is that we
> look at the data and seek empirical
> evidence, and not just take action based on emotion?

That isnt what makes HN great nor what it does.

The article is refuting a strawman, the complaints about the gender pay gap are primarily around the lack of career advancement options for women, workplace discrimination, being asked to do the work of a senior without the relvant title / pay etc.

This article gets upvoted on HN, similiarly to the article about the sexist scientist yesterday[1] so the 90% 20-30yo white males can talk about how discrimination / sexism doesnt exist and women obviously just arent interested in highly paid careers while ignoring the years of painfully obvious data and research to the contrary.

It gets taken off the front page because HN mods arent that fussed about Hacker News being a blatantly sexist community, they would just prefer to not actually be seen as such

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112125
I always wondered how common it was for spies to use diplomatic passports as a cover. It could be so easy, you could bring in anything, guns, electronic devices - and I guess on a commercial flight without going through a metal detector. This is separate from the "economic advisor" who is really a secret CIA or KGB agent or something. In this case it was 4 Russian spies who did travel on diplomatic passports, and the Dutch security service lets the world see what they got from them, a bunch of cell phone like devices.

This is interesting because they were just so blatant about it, parking their rental car right next to the OPCW hq (chemical weapons watchdog) in the Netherlands, filled with electronic devices. It looks like a big FU to the western countries by using diplo. passports, but maybe it's more common than I think? I forget day to day that there really is an ongoing effort between countries to spy on each other, and in this case yet another situation where a Russian agency is working against international agencies.

In the recent UK chemical weapons attack they were not using diplo passports.
No one who's in a position to decide about COBOL's replacement has any strong incentives to do so. You don't want to be the one exec who made that risky move and crushed half their bank's tech foundation in the process.
I can think of a number of situations where you should say no to investment.

* you don't trust the investor

* you don't need the money

* You and the investor's goals or timeline aren't aligned

* You don't have a plan for using the money

* You don't want to get on the "rocketship or crash" plan, but would rather grow slowly.

* You aren't in a land grab business (see Spolsky's Amazon vs Ben and Jerry's article)
If there are simulators, can't / won't they detect our attempts to test the simulation hypothesis and patch any defects that scientists might notice to render such experiments un-reproducible?

Unless they really want us to find them. But then there are easier ways for that. One is simply painting in the sky: show me what you got.
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This is more or less simply impossible. If we observe some fact X about our universe we have no source of truth that can tell us whether X should be true or false for real universes, simulated universes, or both kinds of universes.
Maybe it’s just a very simple mod that slightly delays the signal based on the content - just enough to be another rowhammer.
Well yes, no politician wants to become the next Dukakis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton#Horton_in_the_19...
You could probably cut that consumption in half if people stopped using interpreted languages in production, quit telling curious young programmers that early optimization is evil or that memory is an implementation detail, etc. etc.

The computer is very efficient, electrical engineers toil and sweat a great deal to make them so. Then we build things with Ruby and Python and make things 2 orders of magnitude less efficient for, I think, no good reason. What makes those languages pleasant to use is not strictly tied to them being interpreted.
Sounds like reasonably standard PR efforts for ULA. Seems like the news media should have done a better job vetting their sources.
From the observation that miracles and divine interventions, widely reported earlier, are all but gone for many centuries, we can conclude that the simulation is now considered production-quality, and live-patching via the debugger interface is no more practiced.
Which competitors are these? Someone besides the "big 4"? (actually more like 2.75...)

Now that fees may no longer be used to gauge the relative value of pole access to different firms, what will determine which firms are allowed to use them?
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Japan was ruined mostly because of population problem years ago and (very) slowly recovering. I've saw a TV drama in 2016 (http://www.ntv.co.jp/english/pc/2016/04/were-millennials-got...) basically describing what the younger generation is still struggling.
For certain you cannot prevent all accidents, and I am not trying to say that we can/should.

I think having a sole operator in a prototype vehicle drastically increases the odds of these accidents, and that companies like Waymo should run them with two operators and some drowsiness detection systems (which are common on luxury cars). That’s a relatively simple fix.

It’s important that testing with multi ton moving vehicles be handled with far more cars than most production databases are, speaking to your metaphor. The consequences of mistakes is much much higher with cars than it is with most databases.
If its a simulation there would be some "shortcut" way to get into "root" or supervisor mode.
Why are you being obtuse, rather than trying to be clear?

RISC-V is the major Free and Open CPU. RISC-V can run on FPGA. It's natural to want a comparison of this project against RISC-V, especially considering the write-up mentions the less successful OpenRISC project.
I generally adopt an NWA mentality the second any cop comes into view. When they get their collective shit together I'll be more helpful.
I grew up experiencing the exact thing you describe: we didn't have a TV at home and there was a number of times where I was entirely left out of conversations in the schoolyard about the cool movie on TV the previous night.

When I truly wanted to watch a movie that was going to be on, I had to plan a sleep-over at my cousin's.

It honestly never bothered me, nor did I particularly feel ostracized in any way by my schoolmates.

Neither did I feel slighted by my parents: I grew in the kind of family where when you're a kid, things are what your parent tell you they are are and that's that. You get to argue the rules when you become financially independent.

On the flipside, for me, entertainment became synonymous with reading books and doing stuff outside, something I consider to have had a very positive impact on my life.

Specifically, IMO, reading for entertainment has a huge advantage over watching stuff: your brain has to work to build the picture from the text and connect the dots of the story. First, it is a very useful skill. Second, if the book isn't good, you walk away from it quick because it's not worth the effort.

With TV and YT ... it's much more about passively gobbling up whatever the thing feeds you.

That said, in 2018, with the importance social networks seem to have in teenager's lives, things might different.

We're not at that stage yet, my kids are toddlers. Once they get closer to pre-teen years, we might have to revisit.

I might have to cobble up a device that restricts internet browsing to hacker news :)
Wasn’t digg’s issue power users or something? Reddit was and can never be that bad simply due to subreddits. I think a more apt comparison is simply facebook and twitter and instagram: make the UX shitty to promote ads.
I've been using Intellij's Java to Kotlin conversion a bit lately, and the code it spits out is fairly decent Kotlin, and with a pass through on nullability and switching out Java types with native Kotlin types afterwards. It gets just as good as it would get if I hand translated my self, but it takes a lot less time.

I suspect that part of the reason that this works well, is that Java and Kotlin isn't that dissimilar. Doing automated conversion between Java and Scheme for example, would be a lot harder to get right.
"Not the one you're responding to, but to say his/her reasoning isn't "legitimate" is a bit rich when the GP (me) was about ethics."

I agree, I overlooked that.
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We had MasterCard end-to-end test auditor on site. This is the first time ever you get to do a transaction with real transaction system with real credit card.

Due to requirements we opted to have the only large meeting room to have outside our secure zone. This created an issue as we had no network access from there and in the end we decided to use slow GPRS terminal for the test.

The end-to-end test starts with offline transactions which by their very nature are quite fast (it is negotiated between terminal and card).

But then we went to online transaction and it finished instantly too.

The auditor, bewildered, proclaimed the test failed as he assumed it was incorrectly processed offline instead of going online. But then I pointed out to the printout to show ARQC (basically says it was certified online).

Now, the real discussion started. The terminal was very slow taking quite few seconds to establish GPRS and then even more for the SSL handshake so the auditor said it was not possible to make it work.

How it worked was that I have completely gutted OpenSSL and had entire cryptographic state stored locally (safely, using internal HSM) so the SSL session could be optimistically re-established without another handshake even after TCP connection was closed. The first message the terminal sends is already encrypted transaction message, there is no SSL handshake. I wrote an application to terminate the connection in our data center so that it stored the states of each connection in the database. The entire handshake was only done if the first message could not be decrypted successfully.

The operating system was single-threaded with no multitasking of any kind. This meant that all applications on this device did their operations sequentially. Send network message, print something, display something, etc.

I wrote a cooperative multitasking functionality into the application (using coroutines) so that it could work on multiple tasks at the same time (like talking to network and printing).

I then have segregated all data on the printouts so that it can start printing without having to already have response from network. Hopefully if everything went right, the response would come before it even came to that place on the printout effectively looking as if it was done in zero time.
One thing I don't understand with Apple's approach to privacy and their claims of customers not being the product, is why they then sell their customers in bulk to Google to monetize all that private data.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-Apple-default-search-...
Yeah agreed. Digg was sooo good too. Old reddit users are very unaccepting of the new style. And I believe the main reason is because they cant find most of the usual options available on old.reddit.com
Side note: I strongly believe that we’re just living inside a dream of some billionaires that were completely bored out. And, there is no test to falsify that thought...
Why only one star? Even if you assume the simulating universe has similar physics to ours the simulating entities could be Kardashev[0] III, IV or V

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
This, and I have had the "promote the app" setting in mobile internet being disengaged periodically even when I'm not logged out

Really poor form.

Thankfully, 3rd party reddit clients aren't hobbled... Yet.
Is there a greasemonkey or stylish script to hide all submissions from v.reddit.com?
Everyone is not making that assumption. Asking if photona behaves more predictably while not one is watching doesn't assume there is light in the parent universe. Similarly the article opens up the question that the root universe might have infinite computing power! That would be a very different universe indeed.
>and big but they have a 1.6 liter engine and can still only pull 1200-1400 kg

This is a reflection of the vehicle platforms they're built on. You take a Civic or a Dart slap on AWD, a lift kit and extra 500-1000lb of body/interior and call it a CRV or a Cherokee and there's not much spare capacity left to haul cargo or tow trailers.
It looks like the study confirms what we already knew. It would be more interesting to see what happens with what are considered more healthy alternatives, such as xylitol or erythritol. They seem to be "mostly fine", but more research would be very beneficial given that people use them more and more.
We need open source hardware designs that can be built locally (where ever your local might be). This black box hardware crap has to stop. Smart people who know how all this works need to dump all their knowledge in to a design and a process. Trade secrets are keeping us not only limited in choices but exposed to bad actors who can control a link in the supply chain.
Some anecdata for this:
There is one intersection on my drive into work with a red light camera.
There is also one on the way home.

Without fail, whenever I approach one of those intersections on a green light where the pedestrian signal has changed to a flashing hand, at least one car slows down.

I have seen people stop at a green light where the pedestrian signal is a solid hand (meaning the light will change to yellow soon).

Acting in an unexpected way is a recipe for an accident.
Interesting.

I have no incentive to do the test, so I wont.

My willpower is based on consequences?
It's just more of the sick culture of metric-driven "engagement" in our industry. Unfortunately, tricks like these tend to work, which is why they're done.
Are there facilities anywhere in the US where motherboards can be manufactured?
> The article is refuting a strawman, the complaints about the gender pay gap are primarily around the lack of career advancement options for women, workplace discrimination, being asked to do the work of a senior without the relvant title / pay etc.

I've been in many discussions where people tell me that women get paid 70 cents on the dollar for the same work as a man. That's the common argument, not a strawman.
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Yeah, the article talked about "only" becoming Stanford professors... maybe the author doesn't realize how incredibly hard and rare it is to be a professor at a tier 1 research institution, not to mention being as prolific as Cronbach. The kids didn't become Nobel laureates but... so? That's an insane expectation for high achievement.
> erythritol (looks, feels and cooks almost exactly like sugar)

The taste is quite different though.
It’s also a consequence of constraints. There has not been a pressure to make desktops more energy efficient, since they’re attached to a permanent source of incredibly cheap power. Even laptops spend a large portion of their time wired in.

Phones on the other hand are rarely plugged in, and consumers clearly demand more battery life. This has led to resources being poured into cell phone battery capacity and into efficiencies in power usage.
About 70% of Europe, including Germany, has a temperate climate...
Except... a key word in the article makes the hack perfectly believable and feasible: "baseboard management controller".

If the chip is inserted on the serial data line between the SPI flash memory and the BMC CPU, then, as an ex-InfoSec engineer, the whole thing sounds very plausible and even easy IMHO...

You have to expect that any article about intricate tech details written for a general audience will get parts of their descriptions wrong. Like you I was raising my eyebrows when I started reading. But when they mentioned the BMC, I believed. The author did not make a vague mistake when mentioning this very specific technical term.

In fact, the BMC is the perfect target for such a hardware hack: low-speed SPI flash memory interface easy to man-in-the-middle, BMC more privileged than the OS (can virtualize storage, keyboard, etc), BMC code independent of the OS (infect both Linux and Windows at once), BMC code changes so rarely that a backdoor making assumptions about the code layout and content would still work after many years of updates, etc.

Edit: I checked Supermicro servers from the 2015 era. Most used the AST2400 BMC. It boots from SPI flash so this backdoor chip only has to intercept and modify bytes on the data out (DO) line to inject malicious code.
1) Your phone is mostly sleeping (extremely low power state). Your laptop also uses very little power when sleeping. That is why your laptop can sleep for a week++ but can only run for 3-8 hours.

2) Your phone is not nearly as powerful as your laptop despite similar specifications of the CPU speeds. Pretty much everything other than the base CPU clock rate is much, much slower. In addition, your phone CPU down-clocks itself due to thermal limitations where your laptop has a fan and much better heat dissipation capabilities. As a result, it is almost never running at the maximum rated clock speed.

On a YouTube talk I watched (skewering web site speeds and JavaScript overloads), the speaker's iPhone, with CPU specs similar to his laptop, was 25 times slower than his laptop when rendering a (JavaScript heavy) benchmark page.
I think the matter of distinction of your second point isn't that they would or could, it's that we have evidence that in the past, they have already done this.
Disproven on speculation?
The original paper "An Arithmetic Checksum for Serial Transmissions" is worthwhile reading. Fletcher's background as a physicist shows through and the analysis is interesting as it contrasts to many other papers I have read on codes.

Also: note the section in the Wikipedia page on the Adler checksum, which was an attempt to improve Fletcher's checksum by substituting a prime modulus. This stands to reason as a prime modulus is usually important in codes. This change was probably not backed up by analysis and through direct simulation has shown to actually weaken the checksum.

Just pointing this out as an example of what I have observed personally: people tinkering with codes (nothing wrong with that) to improve them, without bothering to understand the analysis they would have to do to prove that they hadn't made things actually worse.

[yet another edit:] If you find error-detecting and -correcting codes interesting or mysterious, read the original papers! So many fun and interesting things to see there, and it is a chance to motivate a look into areas of math you might be unfamiliar with. 'Nuff said.
That's so incredibly annoying.

At least, as a workaround, you can replace `reddit` in the link with `vrddit` and it'll link to a third party player

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/9l3jdc/when_yo...

becomes

https://www.vrddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/9l3jdc/when_yo...
You, obviously, have no idea how hard it is to write decent documentation for any system. Especially when it has been in existence for many years.

I've been programming for decades and my current project is frequently praised by other developers who work with it (it's a framework) for the quality of its documentation.

So, in fact, I do have such an idea. It's hard work. We do it anyway because we're professionals. The fact that people frequently don't do it doesn't change this.

One technique I use is to keep documentation in the same repository as the code, and force people to write docs via the code review process. That is, a proposed change doesn't pass review until it also updates the documentation files. People want to get their code merged, so they know they'll have to take docs seriously or else it'll get picked up in review.

Now maybe back in the mainframe days there was no culture of code review, but these are banks we're talking about. They excel at process. So it seems kind of unlikely they'd not want things documented, if management had understood what needed to be documented in the first place. But ultimately it was only the employees who knew that.
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I probably don't understand the argument. My limited understanding is it's a thought experiment

1. We have GTA5

2. GTA5 will continue to improve until there are actual A.I. NPCs in it

3. Those NPCs will not know they are living in a simulated world

4. Every PS2000 playing GTA5 = more simulated people than actual people. QED, odds are we're simulated people

The problem I have with this is the basic premise. Is it actually possible to simulate the entire universe? It seems impossible to me. The argument is supposed to be that like GTA5 only the parts being observed by the NPCs need to be simulated (actually GTA5 is only parts observed by the player).

In either case that seems false. In order for the causality to work out when an NPC observes any part of the universe all causality for all atoms for the NPC's observation need to be calculated since they were last observed. I don't believe you can take shortcuts like a game does.

Also, games rarely save the state of the entire game world, usually they reset any changes in few seconds.

Further, simulating atoms requires more atoms. In other words there are impossible problems

* You need more atoms in the universe to simulate a universe (so that means the outer universe has to be several orders of magnitudes larger than this one)

* You can't actually take any shortcuts so you need insane processing power. More processing power than our entire universe.

I seems like the basic premise, that it's obvious we'll eventually have universe simulators, is just flat out false. We could make a holodeck maybe, but it will have to be limited the same way games today are limited since otherwise it would require nearly infinite storage and computing power.
I am sincerly impressed by the amount of supply chain analysis and operative supply chain management that went into that hack. And once the Chinese identified a distribution node in that particular supply chain, supermicro, they opted for a brute force attack by seeding these backdoor chips into supermicros servers and wating where they ended up. That was one hell of a hack.

It also gives you pause. Did that happen only once? For how long? Where esle did these chips and servers end up in the end?