skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always hated sponsored talks. I understand why they exist -- because they are huge money makers for the conference organizers. Occasionally, you get a good one, where it's a talk about a general topic that happens to have a light tie in with the commercial product. Or it's a very good commercial product that people want an in depth talk about.

But usually, it's just a 30 minute ad that's all fluff. I try to avoid them, but sometimes I volunteer at conferences and get stuck managing a sponsored talk track, and man is it depressing.
An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared
> "Noblesse oblige"? "With great power comes great responsibility"†? "To whom much has been given, much is expected"?

"Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen."

That's article 14 paragraph 2 of the German Grundgesetz (Basic Law ~ Constitution). Translated: "Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good."
2. You realize they're the same drivers on both platforms right, just different stickers?
> Usually, talks submitted to Black Hat go through a thorough approval process managed by a review board of industry experts. But, as in this case, companies can also pay to play and get these sponsored talks, which are not vetted for quality.

That just seems ripe for abuse like this. I'm surprised this hasn't happened before.
Yes, that's the superficial explanation. The interesting stuff, and the stuff of the essay, is when you peel back that layer with the first "why?"
Airflow losses in big AC generators are solved by having the whole motor sealed in helium. The helium gas is used as a coolant too.

It would be hard to design such a system with a big enough supply of gas to survive leakage for the whole life of the motor though.
A Trojan horse?
Who decides this is the goal? Do all corporations have this as their ultimate goal?
I also suspect the guy (Robert Grant) is a conman, but whatever scheme he is running is quite elaborate: https://strathspeycrown.com/team

Does anyone have an insight as to what their endgame is, and where their funding is coming from?
I don't quite get why the latter became widespread in the west, though - we read text from top to bottom, we pinpoint addresses by drilling going from the largest geographical entries down to the smallest, why make them go reverse against each other?
I too believe this might be a conspiracy of some sort

But there is still a chance he committed suicide willingly. Perhaps he himself couldn't stand the upcoming revelations and bribed the guards or someone else to remove some of the restrictions so he can roam free enough to do the deed.

I read before,he has had a conviction at some point where he only served time on weekends and basically had cops dedicated to his "protection" who called him "Mr. Epstein" unlike they would a normal prisoner.

I just hate concluding with incomplete information at hand.
I’m not sure about a term, but the Underhanded C Contest [1] is (another) great example.

[1] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
You could take the API info you're looking for and then cross reference it with a simple GitHub user search, filtering for users that have "available for hire" selected in their profile.

I used this method years ago, albeit manually. I didn't have much luck though as it's akin to cold calling.

I found it much easier to pay a job and let the interested candidates come to you.
Uber's main (only?) advantage here is their ability to take advantage of a shared labor pool. By increasing the demand for driving + food delivery, it makes the Uber labor pool bigger and further increases the lock-in effect so Uber drivers don't want to open other apps.
Though I should add that it's in general against the Haskell spirit to write code against needlessly specific types and to combine unrelated functionality. So, I'd first look for a function or write one myself in some utils module that looks up and parses a value from an environment variable:

readEnv :: Read a => String -> IO (Maybe a)
readEnv var = (readMaybe =<<) <$> lookupEnv var

Then the function in question becomes much easier (and probably unnnecessary too):

getSocketAPIPort defaultPort = fromMaybe defaultPort <$> readEnv "socketPort"
HVAC systems are far from theoretical peak efficiency. For example, notice how they all have a 'capilary tube' to restrict the flow of liquid coolant between the hot and cold sides of the system? That's like using your brake to go slowly round town rather than letting off he gas...

A small turbine rather than that capillary tube would instantly increase system efficiency...
I thank "The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" and the PT that recommended it to me for finally breaking the cycle and beginning my recovery after 6 years of severe RSI. Learning about trigger points have also helped me self-treat my chronic neck pain and various other aches and pains. I can't recommend it enough.
Is it a Trojan Horse when the strategy is so blatantly obviously? Google exists to turn this path:

User -> Internet -> Website

Into

User -> Google -> Internet -> Google -> Website

So that they can sell more ads.
My experience having observed rich friends I knew from my high school and Ivy league college days has been that, when it comes to their own children, this is the exception, not the rule.
Yes, they already do this
Seems fine on my iphone 6s.
"Were guessing plausible ways the brain might work in ways similar to the machine learning world, but have no data to back it up"
Wouldn't that be a Trojan horse?
To me dark matter (and, worse, dark energy) is a hint that our current models miss something crucial that we haven't figured out yet.

Essentially we're saying "our model is fine as long as 80% of the mass is made up of some unknown matter"...
Should be an interesting read. Can't reach the site. Is it up or down? Tried loading it several times but it didn't load for me.
I did not have kids, I won't have kids. If you want to have a lasting impact on earth, refrain from having kids. Problem solved.

In the meantime, I'll keep eating beef in an effort to get rid of the 1.4B cows you want dead.
What does it mean that they're encrypted, but not E2E? That means the chats are MITM'd by the company, no? If you're talking about HTTPS, that's an incredibly low bar.
The assumption seems to be that the purpose of the simulation is to investigate humans. In that case, why bother to simulate the entire Universe? Simulating the Solar System would be sufficient. The night sky could just as well be blank. Perhaps the stars have been included for aesthetic reasons?

I suppose it's possible that in some simulations "they" do leave the sky blank, in others they include randomly distributed stars, and in ours they've been grouped into galaxies. Perhaps if you were bored you'd try running it a few thousand times on each setting to see if it makes a difference?
Walmart plays a heavy part in this game. They have such an outsized share of the market for Consumer Packaged Goods that they can bully manufacturers. When economics suggests the price of, say, some condiment needs to increase, Walmart simply refuses to accept the higher price. You can either lose your shelf space, or substitute a new, smaller, product format at the same price, which they will accept.

And so bottles of mustard get smaller, but stay $1.99 at Walmart. Kleenex boxes have 76 tissues instead of 88 but stay $0.99 at Walmart.
> If we were to prove that we live inside a simulation, this could cause our creators to terminate the simulation — to destroy our world.

There's nothing to stop our creators from doing that anyway. Simulations are often stopped, tweaked, restarted, and eventually abandoned.

Personally, I think there's value to determining if we live in a simulation. If we do live in one, we could potentially learn how to "hack" the simulation from the inside in order to improve our lives in it.
I don't fully understand the implications here, and I know I'm oversimplifying given the SSR half, but I find it amusing that part of this feature is "remove the code we told you to add".
The site guidelines ask people to "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". The original title in this case is neither misleading nor linkbait, so should be used (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

It's true that the title doesn't explain itself, but not every title needs to. On HN it's good for readers to have to work a little, and for not everything to instantly disclose its secrets. This is different from clickbait because there's no attempt to exploit mechanical reactions to get attention, and no repetitive trope.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Then how to simulate the aspects of human that can only be aroused by having the concept and the ability to explore that universe?
I get the extra trash from packaging required for delivery but how is it using extra CO2? The driver would be doing the same distance or less than you because they would be doing multiple pickups and dropoffs in a row so they're only contributing a one-way (more like 1.5) whereas you would have to do the roundtrip.
They only have to simulate the signals we get about the Universe, not the Universe itself.
I would have rather wasted my time reading a Skull & Bones expose.
It's the same story here on Firefox with Webrender (which even manages to tame the horribly unoptimized youtube).

I am sure there is some irony on some level and dimension when the first piece of text on this abomination of a site is "Lightning Fast"
Maybe the real civilisation has spread over the universe, so it made sense for them to simulate it just for us to study and travel it.
A simulation can’t have living objects
I think a valid question to ask yourself is: Why do you want to be recognized?

I believe recognition/praise/rewards/etc are not conducive to lasting satisfaction. They feel good for a while, but wear off quickly. OTOH, choosing not to pursue these things is very liberating, and helps you detach your satisfaction from things outside your control.
Right, and sometimes they can mess up. One example could be the star found recently to be older than the universe!
On a trip to Tokyo we had challenges locating a restaurant based on the address. Despite handing the address to the taxi driver, we got to the block, but the driver couldn't locate the restaurant. He had to call the restaurant to have someone come outside and wave us in.

Left us wondering how that addressing system works.

From the article i'm guessing this would have been a "banchi" block, where numbers were assigned in order of registration.
There is a device that worked wonders for massaging my forearm muscles: The "Arm-Aid": https://armaid.com/

It was not a panacea by any means, but even though I'm fully recovered from my RSI today, I still pull out the arm-aid when I've typed a lot or done something else that has caused my arm muscles to tighten up. (It's apparently a big hit with climbers, too.)

You can also use it to massage your calf and shin muscles. Incredibly painful if you're anything like me, but very helpful. Use it in combination with the "Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" mentioned elsewhere.
Thanks, really appreciate constructive feedback! Some of the points you've mentioned were already on the roadmap and I'll definitely consider the rest, although crypto markets are quite specific and can't be 1 to 1 compared to traditional wise hence my initial choices.
Good question. I don't have any sources on hand, but I've heard whispers that they should launch by end of Oct. We'll see where they land then.

I haven't looked into it too deeply except what they've released here: https://test.ton.org/download.html
I've never been entirely sure why this debate matters.

A simulation, at least as we'd understand it, would mean some kind of set variables and set rules. It would be entirely deterministic, but you have to run it to see what happens.

That kind of sounds like…physics?

You have some basic elements like atoms and energy plus some set rules like conservation of mass, laws of thermodynamics, and the rest. Sure, we don't know what's going to happen next, but it does seem entirely determined.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding physics or the simulation hypothesis here. It's always seemed to me that we talk about a simulation as if it would be different than what we have now.
Starcraft 2 has excellent path finding algorithms, which they did discuss quite a lot prior to release. I don’t think they published the algorithm but maybe you can find it.
Talking about we being in simulation will go down in history as the "era of stupid thoughts"
I like the ancestor simulation theory and it's really fun to think about. But I don't understand why humans specifically would be the thing to get simulated. Couldn't we just be a bi-product of a universe created to simulate something else? I mean imagine you wanted to simulate a universe -- given enough computing resources you could simulate a universe's worth of atoms, and humans might just be an accidental artifact of the atoms globbing together in really fascinating ways.
I think talking about averages is somewhat misleading. There has been a steep upward trend in the US and Europe. In the 1960s we'd be talking about less than 5% for the US and Europe so that is a big change. It's fair to say that there have been major policy changes over the past 50 years but it's misleading -- I'm not accusing you, just pointing out -- to say it's an average because that implies a steady state.

I don't think USA/EU is at 15% yet. Europe trends just a little less than the USA (at least from 2016). I was just skimming this article today (below). I may have misinterpreted it so feel free to set the record straight. See Fig 1.

Peri, G. 2016. Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(4): 3–30.

Canada and Australia have had very high rates for a long time. Australia's is higher though. I'm not sure why Peri chose to combine the series because they are quite different but higher than the US.

The AU/NZ (and Canada too I suppose) cases are interesting because they all have very overheated housing markets and prices are historically high relative to average wages. The USA went through a market correction and let the housing bubble burst but these markets did not. I've heard it argued that increased immigration to major housing markets is considered to be one way to keep the construction industry and house/rent prices sustainable. I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts or insight into this.
Need for speed used to be wicked fun too. Recently Forza Horizons has scratched that itch but they’ve still tried to shoehorn in a story.
The main filter is the expense -- I don't see "sponsored talks" listed with a price-tag online, but I'd guess about USD $20000.

There's plenty of boring, possibly snakeoil security products that get peddled every year. Usually they must have some foundation in reality to be able to pay Blackhat.
The universe we happen to inhabit is just the chosen world of the simulation. It may not bear much resemblance to base-level reality. In the same way that Skyrim's universe is different from ours.
> the thing is, most middle or above folks with an once of sophistication can sense the trust fund kid a mile away

My experience has been the same as the author's. My college classmates (at Swarthmore) and I were repeatedly surprised when we learned that our friends were trust fund kids. I remember junior year we found out that one kid was super wealthy because he bought a last-minute cross-country plane ticket, first class. Even his roommates, who had lived with him for years, had no clue he was wealthy.

Another time, I learned that a girl was wealthy because she bought an iPod ($400 in 2004!) on a whim. I'd previously thought she was upper-middle class because she drove a Honda CR-V and didn't have any other trappings of wealth.
That's BS. DotA was an indie game (if you look for popularity).

Terraria and Factorio are great (for multiplayer/coop and replay experience correspondingly)
I do something similar but, because I'm faster at multiplying, I do "its double plus its half". E.g. 7 inches = 14 + 3.5 = 17.5 cm
According to a recent study of Google US web searches in 2019 Q1:

Received 150+ Billion searches

Solved 48.96% of those searches without a click

Sent 6.01% of all searches (~12% of search clicks) to websites owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company

Directed a click to non-Alphabet-owned websites (aka, the rest of the web) after 45.03% queries

https://sparktoro.com/blog/how-much-of-googles-search-traffi...
Using Python to Code by Voice by Tavis Rudd (2013)
There is no evidence for ghost, so they're as likely to exist as anything else you can come up with for which there's no evidence.
That drives the costs down, sure, but then you end up with food that's been sitting around as the driver goes from restaurant to restaurant and then travels from house to house.
The company has issued a "statement regarding recent allegations made at Black Hat 2019 [0]. For anyone interested, the statement links to the guy's paper [1] "where he identified the first Infinite Prime Number prediction pattern".

> Utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music’s infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs, ...

I'm not even remotely qualified to speak about any of it but it certainly gives the feeling that they're selling "silicon snake oil". My bullshit detector hit 11 after reading the above.

Supposedly, Grant's discovery enables "the accurate prediction of prime numbers". I'm unable to find out just how many previously unknown prime numbers he has successfully predicted thus far, however. Anyone know?

[0]: https://www.crownsterling.io/2019/08/crown-sterling-issues-s...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08570
And given that drum and barrel (when referring to containers) are usually synonyms in English, it's not unreasonable to imagine a non-english speaker confusing the two, remembering that 'barrel' is a term related to guns, and saying '100 round barrel'.
I second going to a PT, but I went through a number of PTs before I found one that actually knew about referred pain and trigger points and specifically worked on treating those in addition to strengthening. Just doing strengthening only made the trigger points worse.
So you mean listing the change on already mandatory information.

Note that a lot can be told just looking at the label, but few people do it. For example quality meats tend to have more protein, quality diary products tend to to have more fat. High salt and sugar is usually a bad sign.

The order of ingredients is important too: greatest amount first. It means that if the thing they advertise in front of the package is way down the list, that's not good.
Having a team page like that is your first red flag.

https://strathspeycrown.com/subsidiary-companies-investments...

> "Strathspey Crown is a visionary portfolio of transformational businesses, focused on the most complex sectors of healthcare, energy, and technology."

This seems to be the parent company, check out some of the goofy things they claim to been involved in. Quotes like "changing the paradigm", "the internet of wellbeing", "where little things make a big difference". It's cookie cutter generic websites for every one of them, most of the time I can't work out what their product is supposed to be or what they're claiming to be working on.
The assumption seems to be that the purpose of the simulation is to investigate humans. In that case, why bother to simulate the entire Universe?

Right. And why so much unnecessary detail down to the quark level?

(Of course, if you really like the simulation idea, maybe we're in an unimportant corner of the simulation and the real action being observed is elsewhere. Much simulation-hypothesis blithering has the same human-centered problem as theology.)
> Simulating the Solar System would be sufficient.

But that's exactly how it is with our Universe! There's clear evidence that the important and relevant stuff happens only in the Solar System, and the rest of the Universe is just empty procedurally-generated useless filler.
Those investors just need to find greater fools.
As most regulations are around the world - a response to some problem. It’s not unique to the US.

Do you have a source for the $/Oz being due to bad behavior? From what I’ve heard it was done purely to address consumer demand.
What was that? Hitler was a vegetarian?

FWIW, the environment really is the ultimate non-partisan issue and I think we are about one or two heat waves or water shortages away from finding that out.

This made me think we'll see unilateral geoengineering by e.g Bangladesh before it gets too hot: https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...

I don't think there's anything intrinsically authoritarian in ecology, if anything evolution is anarchy, but I can entertain (and be dismayed by) the thought that e.g. Chinese Communism may turn out to be the successful system in a hundred years. Recall "How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537409 that describes regenerative ecological farm systems.
I'm a hard determinist and so I view everything very much as a simulation.

Responsibility for everything follows the chain of events back to whatever started everything.

You can't even blame the creator of this "simulation" if such a creator exists because you would have to continuously follow the chain of events again with the creator.

I do like to theorize there are many chains of simulations that resemble a tree of branches (each being a simulation) but maybe with no starting point. Example we may make our own universe one day with computers and another will be created inside that simulation for infinity.

In any case, I like to add the understanding of infinity to these ideas of philosophy. Knowing we're all just the result of external forces exerted upon us. One can realize that we likely have lived our same life countless times. Who knows if something in the universe can interfere like hidden local variables that resemble quantum mechanics for us and make our lives slightly different in the next go. Worsening or improving our fate as the forces continuously repeat for infinity.

I find the idea "the chain of forces that made our life, will never repeat ever again in our universe" tremendously naive.

Whoever disagrees with what I wrote, please reply with your thoughts. I very much stay sane when it comes to death with this ideology. Everything else seems illogical.
It depends on how you define life.
I think that many 'carbon offset' payments work by paying for less polluting technology to be installed in developing countries in the method you describe.
Start solo. I read the laws know the laws. Plan on getting arrested. Don’t insult anyone instead insult yourself. Write your message out(have a script)
'To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'
I'm also super confused about how the first company to develop self driving cars will win everything. Firstly, it's hard to say when a car is truly self driving and even once regulators say it passes the tests, I'm sure companies will continue investing money into improving the experience so R&D isn't going to get any cheaper. Also, self driving cars cost a ton to operate and manufacture. Probably more than the amount Uber and Lyft are paying drivers right now. Considering all these factors, it probably won't be another 10 years until the economics of driverless cars works out. In this sense, I think Uber's biggest competitor isn't Lyft or Waymo. It's Tesla since Uber is trying to shift people away from car ownership.
Huawei's new OS could be a trouble for Android
How to Shut Your Wife Up from Feeling Unappreciated
One of the reason is because Singapore is small compared to US. Its hard and dangerous to travel around motorbikes here