skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>4. Interprets the battles in 3 as at best insignificant and at worst a distraction from real problems of class disparity in America.

Note however that there is nothing in the article describing economic disparity as a problem. There are laments about social position and altering or eliminating traditions but no hint of criticism of economic inequality.

So the claims aren't about inequality, they're about the "wrong" people (in the author's opinion) being rich. In particular, the rich students behavior regarding the culture war.

And the author is annoyed that some of the rich students live austere and ascetic lives. But the implication is they should act rich instead to become more worthy of respect.

Also the article talks about the energy students devote to racial issues as done merely to avoid social responsibility. But this does not make sense for a couple of reasons:

1) The students described believe there are issues around race and are acting in a way they think will help. So what are the other unstated higher responsibilities are they shirking during their time at University?

2) Walking in protests or wearing cheap cloths only works on people who are literally in physical view. Hiding wealth is done through a Cayman island bank account, that is how one would shirk responsibility.

3) The opinions and behaviors of the minority of students described are extremely rare among the super rich so it's obviously not a very good avoidance technique. Or, by implication, the author signals that the behavior of the Koch brothers or Walton family is more appropriate to the responsibilities of the rich.

So honestly, although there is a brief point raised about two wrongful terminations, the article is really just lamenting the culture war and claiming that the students participation in it is wrong minded and fad driven. There is no call that they should be protesting war or helping the poor or anything. Just that they stop taking these stances on culture war issues.
I used Uber in Hong Kong.
Could our simulation ever become "heaven", or just seem like heaven, because we're programmed to think of it that way?

In other words, if you create a creature who thinks of being beaten with sticks as heaven, and then you proceed to beat that creature with sticks, are you providing heaven?
Morbid curiosity is reason enough. If you have the means to find out, would you? If there's hesitation, why?

It's human nature to seek meaning. Knowing that we exist "merely" as simulacrums will greatly affect how we perceive our existence.

I would hope that most would react to this with indifference and continue life as usual, but who can say.
Hebbian plasticity in biological NN assumes strengthening happens during the forward pass (the only pass). It is a local phenomena at individual synapses that detect a coincidence (2 inputs occur simultaneously or nearly) and is mediated by calcium influx. NMDA receptors will pass calcium but only if two things happen: (1) they are currently bound to glutamate neurotransmitter (input from their own upstream axon), and (2) magnesium is not blocking their calcium channel (Mg will be ejected briefly from the Ca channel if the neuron is depolarized - meaning currently receiving input from elsewhere). If you are receiving sensory input from both my voice and my face, some set of neurons are detecting this coincidence and strengthening that connection so the next time you hear my voice, it becomes easier to picture my face from all the different faces you have seen.

Here is a good article explaining not just in theory how LTP (long term potentiation) works in neurons but why a particular protocol always works irl (I can attest to the validity of these statements based on first hand experience):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843869/

To summarize, the most reliable way to induce LTP is to "take control of the postsynaptic membrane with intracellular Cs+ to block K+ channels, which allows the experimenter to hold the cell at a constant membrane potential and induce a minimal ‘pairing’ protocol to induce LTP: depolarizing the cell to 0 mV while stimulating synapses."

Holding the cell at 0 mV ensures Mg is always ejected, so any upstream stimulation will always be seen as a coincidence.
I dreamed Elon Musk hugged me for writing him some code
By the way I dreamed last night that I meet Elon musk, and he asked me to write some code to show some statistics of the latest SpaceX launch. He told me to email some guy, so he would send me the raw data. He hugged me and then went away. I emailed that guy, but he didn't answer me, so I got stressed out.

Then I woke up feeling good this was only a dream that he didn't reply and feeling bad Elon musk didn't hug me for writing him some code.
Canada's postal codes are also like this.
> the word immolatio itself derives from the Indo-European root melh2− (‘to crush, to grind’): immolatio* is cognate with English ‘mill’. From this same root also derives the name for the mixture sprinkled on the animal before it was killed, mola salsa. The Romans were aware of the link, as is made clear by Paul. ex. Fest. 97L: ‘Immolare est mola, id est farre molito et sale, hostiam perspersam sacrare’ (‘To immolate is to make sacred a victim sprinkled with mola, that is, with ground spelt and salt’), a passage which also suggests that the link between immolatio and mola salsa was active in the minds of Romans in the early imperial period

This is a very strange way to make this argument. You don't need to link immolatio all the way back to an Indo-European root. And you certainly don't need a citation for the obvious, obvious claim that the link between the words mola and immolatio was known to the Romans -- of course it was known to the Romans, because that link exists entirely within the Latin language. Immolare is transparently nothing more than in+mola+[verb endings], and immolatio is the noun derived from immolare. Arguing that immolatio and mola are related because they both derive from the same root that existed thousands of years in the past is obtuse -- immolatio derives directly from mola. Even if the words were actually unrelated, the form of the word immolatio _guarantees_ that the Romans would perceive it as deriving from mola.
50 million years ago is when the earliest primates first appeared. They were very small, and definitely not making cave paintings.

Neanderthals didn't show up until less than half a million years ago. There's a 49+ million year gap in between.

Evolution took a while to make us.
Idk about your proposal of what makes one person right and another not.

Someone can have a starting point of life with the genetics & environment conditions needed for all the events to happen for making the "right" theory.

Another person can have a starting point (different than the other person) and where all the events to prove with the scientific method of what is the "right" theory; matching the other person.

Realistically each person would be effected by forces from previous lives that made them come to the conclusion at the end.
OpenStreetMap/Nominatim routinely fails to work with simple bog-standard addresses around here, a major metropolitan area in the US.

The reason, I believe, is that the city portion of addresses in this area often doesn't match the actual boundaries: locations well outside of the named city or town still have that in their address.

Addresses are hard. And they don't necessarily line up as nicely with the data needed to make a map as you might think. And this is just for the "easy" stuff, really.
It's not obvious to me why the recruiter in question is in violation of this rule. The rules bans someone from extracting information with GitHub API and selling such information to recruiters. It does not seem to ban recruiters from acquiring this information themselves.
> It doesn’t make sense to hand-write SSR’d AMP. Instead, use a tool to automatically transform your AMP files into a SSR’d version, like a compiler would.

"Compiling HTML" would've been Star Trekian techo-babble a few years ago. And yet, here we are, where a straight-faced Google developer advocate is telling us to do just that. Should we laugh or should we cry?
I found a non-paywalled discussion here:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/06/29/the-dipole-drive-...
So when does this begin? I'm about to go to Berlin for ICFP and would love to stand in a car-free street and imagine all cities were like this.
Why did Black Hat delete it, rather than making snide comments about it? A video of people laughing at the speaker would have been great.
At which point prices will rise and the profits will roll in

That was Moviepass’s theory too, it didn’t work out so well in practice. Once the price went up people simply stopped using it.
Thank you, I'm going to mention that possibility to the kids this evening. There are other oddities that they are familiar with regarding Biblical translations, such as Moses being depicted with horns.
Yeah he’s basically satirizing this stuff with a cult style following looking for a laugh. There’s tons of serious tacky romance stuff published on there which is where he got the idea.
Syncing across devices doesn't have to be lost just because E2E is adopted. Wire has been doing E2E chats and group chats by default (there is no non-E2E) and synchronizing chats across devices for years now.

It's just a matter of how an application has been architected and how to transition a large platform for such an addition. Neither of these are easy to change/do with Telegram's current scale. Telegram also prides itself in very fast searches since it stores messages in plaintext on its servers.

It's not like it's technically impossible for Telegram to transition to E2E as the default and only way to communicate (similar to Signal, WhatsApp and Wire).
In that same category of pure gameplay, I would also add Enter the Gungeon, it is difficult, and Its curve of skill improvement vs playtime is too shallow, I mean, it takes a lot of playtime to get better at it.
1 square meter year of solar panels is one square meter producing peak output 24/7 for a year, or two square meters producing peak power for half a year. Like a man-month.

I was also surprised by that low capacity factor. Before doing the math I estimated maybe 100sqm per person. The US installation averages probably benefit a lot from the deserts and being much closer to the equator. Solar is pretty bad in Germany during winter.

I agree that we most likely don't need week long battery storage btw, but mostly because of wind energy that is also available at night and during winters. We can probably get away with just over night batteries and power-to-gas for long winters.
i don't think that proving reality to be a simulation would necessitate the proof of any divine beings. all it would really prove is that we are within a simulation that was put into place by something capable of doing such. there is no reason to ascribe "divine" or "holy" traits to those potential creators. granted, i operate under the ideology that there is no distinction between "divinity" and mundane reality itself. i more or less believe that religions were created to establish a schism between those two ideals and to set the divine aside because most people just cannot handle the true power of the infinite potential that lies within their conscious awareness. arbitrary power structures put in place so humans can point to something else and say that that something else is separate from us and better than us, instead of seeing that that something else simply is us— or more appropriately, the sum of us altogether. the way I see it, even if you are just a single lonely gear within a machine, connected within countless others, in being part of the machine, you represent the machine as a whole itself just as much as you represent your perspective as an individual gear.
I was confused by the assumption that modern conceptions of sacrifice view it in one of two ways: as an exercise of violence for its own sake (??), or as a communal meal.

My first association with the concept of sacrifice is an offering or a trade: You give something to a spirit or god, and the spirit or god hopefully gives something back to you.
And Dark Mass and Dark Energy.
I haven’t used the C yet, I’ve only used the 4 - I’ve a “For Mac” Bluetooth one which I returned because the 2.4GHz wireless version was performing much better. I suspect they made the Bluetooth one to sell in the Apple Store. As far as I know, they haven’t changed the basic mouse design in 5-6 years now. It still works and feels high quality, I’ve no complaints. (Except that it is definitely not “travel size” - and isn’t rechargeable, it takes an AA battery - but for all that, it has a nice high quality plastic feel and the design of the mouse means you’re not rubbing your palm all over the table as when trying to hold a regular mouse with a vertical wrist.)

The extra buttons require their driver but it works fine without and I don’t notice the buttons most of the time anyway.
Both.

Aging makes us "love" new things less. But I also consider this period peak gaming (emphasis on gaming). These days video games are too sophisticated. Your fathers motorcycle is not your bike to fool around with your friends on saturday.
It's also been consistently buggy. I'm just using a stock iPhone, but maybe 30% of AMP pages just show up blank for some reason.
Many parts of the US are the same. Even worse: there are areas in the Chicago suburbs (I presume other cities' suburbs too) where since a town boundary runs down the middle of the street, the numbering on opposite sides of the street are actually going in different directions, because they are relative to two different town numbering systems. O.o
> Losing money can be good for a company if it's being done in a way that leads to long-term growth.

I guess. But being profitable while growing is better.
For people actually interested in the topic rather than painfully bad pop-sci reenactments, you should read the simulation paper[1], or, for a less technical introduction, watch the video of Bostrom talking about it[2].

[1] https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnl6nY8YKHs
I'd like to see something similar on for YouTube and Twitter for the recent Hong Kong protests, I'm seeing lots of clearly political adverts on both platforms labeling protestors as "Black Terror" and the such.

https://i.redd.it/00nqhz8ufnf31.jpg
driver base has idle time that is an outrageously deep moat in competing in this space

It isn’t a moat at all! Every driver has all the apps and picks jobs from any of them. If I use Lyft instead of Uber the chances are I'll get the same driver in the same car anyway. And he’ll follow his in-car GPS to find me and then to take me to my destination so there’s no value in the route data either.
Perfect. I think each cuisine can come up with a cultural culinary favorite.

Ramen in Japan. I guess burgers in USA and ‘liquid meal replacement/energy drinks in the USA.

Bratwurst in Germany? Seafood in Singapore? I am liking this idea.

Altho’ I wouldn’t mind living on ramen thrice a day for the rest of my life.

I am a trained chef and I have been saying to anyone who would listen to me that instead of cell based meat in fermentation vats, they ought to create collagen rich flavorful broth with a good body and depth. It would mean that we can cook for fun and still not be worried about malnutrition. Because. Soup. Who doesn’t love soup?
I can't really tell which parts are satire, which parts serious
I'm guessing there aren't all that many cryptographers at blackhat; that's quite a different specialty, isn't it? Then again, is also pays to know enough about cryptography to at least identify poorly applies crypto, so there are likely enough people in attendance with surprisingly in-depth knowledge even if crypto isn't technically their specialty.
And possibly the rise and mass adoption of Steam also had a major role in the rejuvenation of PC games.
The company can't sell shares it doesn't own. Think of it like a startup founder borrowing to buy out someone else's equity. If interest rates are near zero, it may make sense to borrow cheaply now to buy back stock that the company can then sell later when it actually needs an influx of capital (presumably when interest rates are higher and the stock has risen a bit). It's essentially a financial bet on the company's future prospects.

The market isn't perfect but if companies are really mortgaging their future to provide shareholder returns today, that would seem to be something easily noticed when analyzing the company's financials... thus weighing on future profitability and acting as a counterforce to the boost from the buyback.
Oh, plenty of them. Being a god doesn't imply being good nor interested too much in the entity you are a god to.
The shrinkflation problem in bulk retail CPI calculation comes from the way the the data is collected. They typically use GTIN numbers and those don't change when the quantity changes. You need to do additional work to correct for that.

Quality adjustment in CPI calculation is routinely done for many products using hedonic modeling. It's important in all rapidly advancing product categories like like TV's as you mention. For a product like a smartphone price difference between the replacement item and its predecessor is almost never pure price change. For example screen resolution change in smartphones induces quality adjustment to the price change.
When several companies like this one look related and are trying to push some of their "products" into a pro market, it really smells like a money laundering scheme. I have seen schemes like this one in South-America, Brazil specifically, related to "religious" indoctrination.
Hope someone in USA investigates this. It looks well funded.
No we know why you live alone
Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?
Well, it's interpreters all the way down ...
The difficulty adjustment algorithm for Bitcoin is unfortunately very naive - there is a reason blockchain timestamps have a 2 hour deviation.

For some data, look into orphan blocks: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/orphaned-blocks
The Telegram founder is hated by the Russian government, and does not live in Russia. There have been some futile attempts to block Telegram in Russia.

Signal may be open source, but it's still as centralized as Telegram is. Signal.org will never federate with other servers running Signal (this is the official position). Signal also lags behind a lot in UX and convenience, when compared to Wire or Telegram.
Yes, it was what I meant to say.
Yes. And why, for the love of everything that is holy, can you not disable compass navigation then?!?

Even gps direction is vastly superior during walks - despite the obvious issues with that.
So it sounds like the people in attendance who challenged it live were aware of it beforehand and showed up to call him out? The linked Twitter post saying "Sad to see such charlatans given a stage at Black Hat" was on August 2nd.

Edit: and a paper critiquing the math was published July 2019: https://unprovable.github.io/drafts/Prime_Generation_For_Bre...
>While there would be considerable value in learning that we live in a computer simulation.

There is no value, what would most of the people do differently if they knew? Nothing.

Also, apart from the questionable idea that we are central to the simulation, there are many possible ways (unknown to us) simulation detection can be handled:

* Impossible to detect due to well-executed software.
* Impossible to detect due to counter-detection and counter-measures.
* They don’t care if simulation is detected.
* They expect simulation to be detected, and this is the topic of the study.

And at the end of the day, even if you write an article arguing agains the detection, people still will try to do it.
I'm sorry but can you rephrase that for me. I don't understand how someone can be in a deterministic system and expect to not be deterministic as well. Nobody chooses their birth and what comes after isn't any different to me. We're shaped by genetics & environment conditions and all the external forces is everything around us. All working on one another and based on the preceding forces that were already exerted upon us.

I just cannot see non-determinism working with determinism. Maybe if you rephrase it? Your definition of free will might not be mine as well. I always think people that think they have free will are just having a very privileged life and cannot assume they had no control over anything because of the ego that was built because of the success that really wasn't their doing.
Btw I'm person you're replying to. HN says i'm posting too fast. Maybe email me at alizeebellerose @ icloud.com if you can because I'm interested in understanding how determinism can work with non-determinism.
It's the Internet... back when dialup was a thing... most users understood when you share something on the Internet... It's shared on THE INTERNET... if you don't want people knowing something about you then don't publish it on the INTERNET!!! Seems like some have forgotten this Golden Rule... #privilegeMuch #OpSecFail #thoughtprogrammersweresmart
> I'm only asking because the System76 Threadripper Thelio[0] doesn't support ECC

The Thelio Major uses a Gigabyte X399 Designare EX motherboard, which has ECC DRAM support. System76 may not offer or support ECC DRAM as an option, but you can add it yourself if you're so inclined.
A thing being known secretly and a thing being known openly are two very different scenarios. That they can't completely conceal their wealth and that they know that, is not a reason to believe they're trying to conceal their wealth.
You don't need to be a cryptographer or even in the computer science field. One look at that hilarious promo video by any layman with any common sense is enough to see total bs that it is. I couldn't stomach to watch it all the way through.
That is, assuming there are flaws/glitches. There might not be.

Regardless, we're looking for glitches plenty, that is in my view, what modern physics is about. The study of glitches in our model and the adjusting of our model accordingly.

If we were in a simulation the "glitches" would probably be something small and subtle, at sub-atomic level, not something that teleports you or gives you superpowers.
No, floating point would result in physics behaving differently depending on distance from the origin, which is a problem with some game physics engines.

(More promising was Wolfram's attempt to define physics in terms of cellular automata, which does not seem to have worked out.)
Seems related to hypernormalisation...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
I look forward to never using this nonsense.
On&Off-Topic: Read the Ultimate Code (Mobile or Desktop)
The code to our self, the universe and the Superself.

Each sentence is seperated for better readability and study. Im a programmer and I read code one line at a time. Enjoy! Haribol!

https://bg-ai.github.io

https://srimad-bhagavatam.github.io

PS:

I do wish you find this 'deeply interesting'.
A true hacker will look past the book cover.

HN welcome page states:

"A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, perhaps it could be."

# sed 's/But if this robbery.*/What caused him to rob in the first place? What energies cause people to behave ignorantly?/'
Honest question, did they steal this technology? Or have they innovated a new way to created a reusable rocket?