skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say you can get debt at 3% interest. The same money could get 4-7% yearly average return in safe investments over a 7-15 year time frame.

Why wouldn't you aquire debt?

This is the same reason rich people get a mortgage even if you could afford to buy the house outright.

Best part is that debt is defaultable.
like... an inductor? Inductors and capacitors are opposite in behavior, but a series capacitor can be replaced with a parallel inductor and vice versa. In that sense they are counterparts.

It is not possible to make an inductor out of purely passive capacitive components, or vice versa. In fact the Gyrator[1] is a transistor circuit that exists specifically to act like an large inductor using capacitors, which are cheaper to build at large values. The function of a Gyrator inherently requires active power input; it isn't possible to passively convert the phase lag of a magnetic circuit into the phase lead of a capacitive circuit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrator
Hey Hoanhan101, Love that you are working on this. I see listed in to-do's introduce multiple nodes.

I am working on a similar idea, to build a blockchain as a datastructure application. Would love to talk in more detail
There is also the possibility that it is simulated only to one person's sensory input, which reduces the computing power needed quite a lot. I mean, how are you supposed to prove that author of this comment is not just crappy AI homework from a lazy student participating in the simulation study? Frankly, that would explain a lot...
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Are these teenagers seeing something more then someone could see someone wearing at the beach?
Maybe the rest of the universe is being cheaply simulated, the simulator only computing what we observe. And it isn’t like it has to do anything for what is outside of our observable universe.
So AMP is designed to be so so fast, and yet has such a big JavaScript library attached that we need to process the content twice (once in a server-side render, and then again when the client side JavaScript loads)?

Anyone fancy going through the AMP library and inspecting it for cruft?
What you have just stated is a very good example of eco fascism.
The awesome Argentinian move Un cuento chino is in English Chinese Take-Away or U.S. English Chinese Take-Out[0] ...because un cuento chino (literally, a Chinese story) means in Spanish a tall tale, a cock-and-bull story, a confusing mess[1], so the title (the movie features a Chinese guy and his extremely unlikely, hard-to-believe history) is rather untranslatable.

Another expression relating to a confusing mess is the wonderful Hungarian Flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine:

"Before Unicode became common in e-mail clients, e-mails containing Hungarian text often had the letters ő and ű corrupted, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability. It is common to respond to an e-mail rendered unreadable (see examples below) by character mangling (referred to as "betűszemét", meaning "garbage lettering") with the phrase "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép", a nonsense phrase (literally "Flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine") containing all accented characters used in Hungarian."[2]

[0] Australia here. What in the U.S. is apparently called take-out is called take-away here.

[1] https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=un%...

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/un-cuento-chino.7730...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake#Hungarian
Would it be more interesting to the experimenter that the simulation itself is aware of the simulation, and what real incentive there is to terminate the simulation just because the simulated knew they're simulated? What if it's also part of the goal of the simulation.
Proving that the Universe is a simulation would be proving the existence of gods. Considering how much effort humans have dedicated to this question over the millennia, and the various consequences, and the continuing influence on the lives of the majority of people, I would say it matters.
I always find it interesting when the same story (not link, but actual story) makes the front page of both Hackernews and Zerohedge. Here is the version from the latter: [1]. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does it's usually something of consequence, so I think there may be some signal here.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-10/do-investors-reali...

Edit: I entirely concur with the concerns about ZH, but the observation that buybacks are being used to juice EPS is a good and informative one.
Yale certainly failed to teach the author how to write.
3 possibilities:

- We are not living in a simulation.

- We are living in a simulation, but it is a "perfect" simulation. There is no way to determine if we are in a simulation from within the simluation.

- We are living in a simulation, and it is not perfect. It could be exploited from within itself.

By far the most likely is 1 or 2, based on what we've observed, imho.
But the interesting part is that at least some of the people involved in these companies seem real (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/amira-val-baker-47047123/)
The current anti-brown sentiment and violence in the US is clearly extremism. You are trying to hide behind the tried and tested, "but it's the law" and you conveniently omit why the movement even exists (racism, brown people are icky) and how "justice" is being carried out (through inhumane methods that show no empathy and cause great harm to the victims).
I cannot believe what I just read. The top search result was shortlisted for a Hugo award (for Best Short Story). Pasting from Wikipedia with some light censoring:

> In April 2016, Space Raptor B??? Invasion was shortlisted for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story in the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction. This stemmed from a campaign by the alt-right "Rabid Puppies" group, a faction of the Sad Puppies movement that laments the perceived politicization of science fiction. However, Tingle disavowed the campaign, saying via his Twitter account that it was the work of "devils", and that if his book were to win, video game designer and anti-harassment activist Zoë Quinn would accept the award on his behalf. His story did not win. Tingle subsequently published Pounded in the B??? by My Hugo Award Loss.
There will be a future market event when some of the money loosing unicorns will cards will be flushed.

Or we keep zero interest rates forever which will be an interesting monetary move.

The current economic system is not long term sustainable.
Considering what we've accomplished in the last 100 years I think it's easy to say that within a billion years we could develop the technology to simulate and create life. The question is would it take a billion years or a million or only 10k? You can't say it's impossible. It's just a matter of when.
Well, the current American ambassador to the UK is Woody Johnson, UKIP have just elected Dick Braine and government leaks are brought to us by Reality Winner, so if it is a simulation, the writers are busy dropping clues.
By that logic then any picket line could be banned.
PM creates 10k new prison places and boosts stop and search
But physics as we understand it, isn't entirely deterministic.

There seem to be a number of other potentially important differences between living in a simulation and some other kind of "baseline" reality. One of those might be that a simulation sits inside of some kind of outer reality. It could therefore potentially be effected by that outer reality.
I would just view this as 'part of the simulation'.

If you assume with high probability that we're in a simulation, then the simulators are intelligent enough to predict that we may become aware of this eventually. If they're interested in human behavior, questioning our reality is part of it, not an exception.
I can think of a few more reasons why this will be known as the era of stupid thoughts. One of them is in the White House.
One benefit I can think of is that the volume of addresses that the average person reads tends to decrease with distance from the person's home. This means that in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom language, you can start reading from the beginning of the address, and as it gets more general, eventually you hit a point where it becomes identical to your address for the rest of it, so you can stop reading. For example, when reading an address in the city I live in, I can read the number and the street, and then once I see the city name, I can stop, since I know everything I need to. This would be a bit more difficult if you had to start from the bottom right and work your way backwards, so I'm guessing that the ordering was chosen to maximize efficiency for those common, local cases.
In the spirit of Dan Dennett: then who simulated those gods? Super duper gods?
No, the recruiter admitted to following a guide online that used the API
Or the flip side, if the goal of the simulation is to see how simulations react when they figure out they're in a simulation and if we decide to never try to figure out whether we're in a simulation they'll reset the simulation, that means we need to prove that we live in a simulation.
While 3 is unlikely, thanks for posting it. It’s the first reason I’ve ever heard that the simulation question could matter at all.

As a person who prefers high-variance outcomes, that could be cool
"Evil"? Is that the word you're searching for? Here, let's use it in a sentence for context: "Google is Evil."
Yeah, that seems like it fits the billet!
Seeing that WhatsApp is using the signal protocol and encrypts all communications by default, I contest the notion that Telegram with its home-grown protocol and clear text by default is a step up.
Farmer's markets can be a good deal for what they sell but a lot brewpub is never to going to come close to the price of Budweiser or even more supermarket label beer. "A tiny bit more" here is $5 or $1.

And fast food is a much cheaper deal than if you cook veggies and organic burgers yourself - because quality does cost money.
I love Ubiquity. Their CLI is so user friendly.
It's in the FAQ, but admittedly obscure, if something in a FAQ can be obscure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
In some circumstances, your objective might require that you attain some rank in the organization in order to control a resource. In such cases, attaining rank may be in and of itself a necessary step in the process of accomplishing your thoroughly rank-unrelated objective.
Do you have any argument against this "stupid thought"?
It's simulations all the way up?
I feel like this begs the question. How do we develop automated solutions? This seems much harder to me than it appears to seem to you.
That's what I was going to ask.

But from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666140, cited by sls:

> They're using "Big Bang" to mean the hot, dense, rapidly expanding state that is the earliest state of the universe for which we have good evidence. In models with inflation, this state occurs at the end of inflation, when "reheating" transfers all the energy stored in the inflaton field to the Standard Model fields (quarks, leptons, and radiation).'
One of the products seems to be real and FDA approved.

https://www.drugs.com/newdrugs/fda-approves-jeuveau-prabotul...
Sounds good to me. The moral argument is null and void considering we already participate in immesurable evil through mechanized industrial murder of billions of animals for consumption. Killing them all, except a small breeding stock so we don't lose the genetic qualities of cattle, in order to save our environment seems like a very wise thing to do indeed. I'd vote for this in a heartbeat.

The only arguments against it are capitalist.
I mean, there are valid concerns over the ethics or intentions behind AMP, but let’s not kid ourselves—it’s definitely damn fast to load. Say what you will about the implications or whatever, but they nailed it in a technical performance sense.
I used to read zero hedge a lot, but then they started getting a bit extreme with the "down with the establishment" theme and I stopped reading which is a bit of a shame cause they do have some good analysis. You sublimaly get influenced by all the propaganda-esque rhetoric until you can't distinguish the good analysis from conspiracy and consequently miss the entire bull market
Japan is actually getting quite friendly lately, as a full-time remote worker have been investigating moving there for a while.
That's the theory used in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
If simulations imply gods exist, humans must be gods, as we are doing plenty simulations.
We are just NPCs in a Philosophical Zombie FPS.
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This argument resembles Pascal’s Wager in the contradictory assumptions it makes about the beings running the simulation. Perhaps the forthcoming paper will resolve the issue. For those interested in exploring what it would mean to live a simulated life in a simulated world, the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan is wonderful.
Floating point has a finite resolution, and so does the position of subatomic entities, it turns out. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. :)
I can't tell if you're trolling. Sometimes I do stuff because "Why not?" sounded like a good idea, and I reckon others do, too. That's all I've got.
I got a notice from Google on changes coming up in G Suite with respect LSAs (Less Secure Apps). Initially I was miffed at it since I thought IMAP access was going away, but on reading it closely, I understood it as "even less secure protocols like IMAP and others have to be authorized through OAuth (with user consent on information shared), but we will allow the domain administrator to decide whether to continue allowing these apps or not".

This seems to be aimed at controlling the information that apps may collect, but I'm not so sure if that's the intent or if that will be really achieved.

I agree with your point that if IMAP is broken or deficient, then the industry needs to come up with good alternatives. But it hasn't happened all these years. JMAP still seems to be several years away from widespread adoption, and I don't know enough to say if it's a better replacement for IMAP in all respects to be a stand-in replacement (with email clients changing to support it).

I wish Mozilla hadn't made Thunderbird into a community project and had instead stood by it as a steward of industry standards and adoption (and worked with Fastmail on JMAP). I can't think of any large non-profit company working on email. Mozilla still supports Thunderbird in multiple ways, but it's not like how it was before the project was spun off.

Companies like Google and Microsoft have strangled email in various ways and are making it tougher for other contributors and players to do much, IMO.

I'd love to hear what the JMAP team thinks of these changes that Google is bringing and what it means in general for email.
A small but possibly interesting addendum to this European/American split on suite/apartment number placement... Here in Australia, they both work fine and seem to be widely interchangeable. Many systems I’ve used don’t force either choice and simply let me put it in as “address line one” and “address line two”. Australia Post, DHL, and basically everyone I’ve ever sent/received mail or parcels using, seem to be totally fine handling both of these formats in Australia.
Lyft still exists. Also, it would be trivial for someone to just create their own taxi company if the prices get too high.
Anyone with collateral can go into debt at 3%(ish) interest. I've never heard of anyone getting a sizable loan for longer than overnight at that rate without collateral. If there is a counterexample please share it. And if a person defaults on a collateralized debt, well, they lose, and usually badly. Margin calls are one of the nastier examples, but foreclosures also come to mind. Even a safe investment like US Treasury bonds can trigger a margin call if, for example, interest rates rise and reduce the market value of the bond enough to fall below margin requirements.
They've developed this cool new car you can power by burning money. And the best bit, is it burns other people's money, not just your own.
It would explain the Fermi paradox.
That was a sort of glorious fiasco in the annals of science fiction. The Rabid Puppies basically decided to troll the Hugos (anyone who purchases at least a supporting membership to the World Science Fiction Convention that year can make a nomination). It apparently never occurred to them that someone who wrote books with titles like "Space Raptor Butt Invasion" just might be better at trolling than they were.
And that god could be an evil monopolist?
In the article they hypothesize that the simulation's purpose could be a historical / social one, hence humans..

But that seems like a quite anthropocentric idea. I think it would be less presumptive to theorize that the simulations' purpose is pure physics or math, or something else entirely, and life and humans are just an emergent phenomena.

So basically, the exact same way of thinking as in conventional cosmology/physics without assuming we are in a simulation, according to the anthropic principle.

Also, why does the universe we experience need to be an actual representation of the simulation? Maybe the universe we experience is just a by-product of all that computation.
I even think it is more likely that we are not the focus. If I wanted to study humans, I'd just create some and watch them do, I would not bother with simulating evolution, or alternatively burying fossils and creating a whole phylogenetic tree.

It is very likely that what we consider important and what this simulation is supposed to be studying are going to be totally disjoint.
It isn't hard, but there are a lot of options, and a lot of units ends up taking a while.
Related: There is a whole sub reddit cableporn in which people compete who makes the neatest cable wirings.

Https://Reddit/r/cableporn
Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?
Take a look at Google's AMP script:

https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/k=xjs.av.en.1ic8JaUStX4.O/m=...

Ask yourself... Is that really the minimum amount of script needed to render a basic fast text and images only webpage? Notice the handcoded crypto functions? Notice the copious numbers of debugging functions and log messages and error messages? Notice the large numbers of copyright notices and complete license texts.

This stuff, if Google's dream comes to fruition, will be downloaded billions of times per day. For every byte of cruft in this file, an ethernet cable needs to be installed/upgraded somewhere.

We shouldn't let Google get away with such massive inefficiency in the name of efficiency.
That site seems to do a poor job predicting the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=zerohedge.com
> That's usually said when talking about Google's free services. In my experience when you're paying them money they're very responsive.

I'm the admin for a company gsuite. We can certainly get a google representative on the phone, but when they can't do anything for us, it doesn't qualify as responsive.

It took like 4 meetings to get invoiced billing. They wouldn't consider disabling links on email. They like to redesign the admin UI to make things take more clicks. There is no way to merge two G Suite accounts. I don't remember my other complaint, but they told me I had a good idea, but please post it in the customer forum to see if it would get done --- I've seen what happens to ideas in the customer forum, nothing, since I frequently end up there looking for how to do reasonable things that are impossible.
For the simulated entities? Yes you are - you have absolute power over the simulation.
Part of activism is picking the right battles you can win and where you can be effective.

The main focus of animal rights protesters consequently are industrial meat production and animal cruelty, not the fucking Hell’s Angels. That’s absurdity to the highest degree.
I think what you observed is just some smart caching behavior and application code expecting frequent network issues. I can read already synchronized messages and queue messages for being sent on reconnect. I dont see why this would change anything with their encryption scheme...
How do you forward an email to an entire company?
Physics can be entirely deterministic. What we believe is quantum physics can be the result of local hidden variables. Even multiple universes that are interfering with one another. Also the possibility that what we cannot measure as a repeating pattern under fixed conditions, is in fact following a pattern but not within our lifetimes to measure. There are so many possibilities that can make something appear random but in fact is truly deterministic.
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Well, one of the three major interpretations of quantum mechanics is Superdeterminism, where there are hidden variables that make everything just appear to be quantum mechanical, and that's wacky enough to fit together with the idea the universe is a simulation.
Did you read the article? This is pretty explicitly about performance reviews at your job, either manager or peer based. Most people would want to be recognized so that they can keep their job and possibly get a raise. Maybe you float above us mere mortals and are not victim to such petty things as job stability and wages to support your family. For the rest of us this kind of practical advice could be very helpful.
> Wouldn't then they be criminals?

A lot of people justify genocide by calling the targets of their mass murder "criminals".

We are absolutely not killing millions and millions of people in the US right now, as you are advocating for.

No 1st world country is doing anything even close to what you are advocating, which is whole scale mass murder, on the same level of number of deaths, as all of the horrible genocides that the world talks about.

Your suggestion of mass murder against millions and millions of people is well outside the realm of anything that 1st world country is even coming close to doing, and you can expect 10s of millions to fight this crazy mass mass murder plan.

You'd probably have to kill not just the gun owners, but also all these 10s of people in pretty much every major 1st world country, as well, who vowed to never let anything like that happen again, who would fight back in the civil war that you created. (such a civil war would cause more deaths than all mass shootings in the entire world, put together, 10 times over)
> Well, I did allude to a draft preprint of some arguments that point out the major issues with Grant's paper he is presenting at @BlackHatEvents. Here is that draft: Reviewing Recent Prime Generation Methods for Breaking Cryptographic Keys

https://twitter.com/LargeCardinal/status/1159204973282025472

https://unprovable.github.io/drafts/Prime_Generation_For_Bre...
When was the last time you wrote perfect software? Personally never in my case. The possibility of complex, provably correct software is pretty unlikely I think due to fundamental logical reasons.

I think any ancestor researcher would have at least some bugs in their code.
Plus nothing to stop Apple from offering $2Mil if the bug is really bad....er good.