skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read Permutation City a year or two ago, so bear with me.

I believe they run the computation on physical computers so that the people running in the simulation can, at any point, check if their reality is a descendant of the initial garden-of-eden configuration.
I don't agree. If I wrote a title saying "Post-flu syndrome severely damages kidneys", that'd carry a clear implication that the typical flu survivor has reason to be concerned about their kidneys.
Recurring revenue should be the source of compensation.

Obsession with revenue growth is what drives poor staffing decisions: "We can't hire because net new revenue is down", but doing more requires more people.
> IIRC, the latter imagines a literally brain being formed briefly out of matter.

I see. FWIW I think that is a very narrow reading of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis and while it may have been true to when it was first presented, I think the general "brain as abstract relations that can be simulated by physical systems" Boltzmann brain is what most contemporary cosmologists are talking about.
The open source ecosystem, being primarily about source code, doesn't have any particular answer for how to charge for hardware or for services. Sometimes you get free hosting, but the organization will be making money another way.
Yeah, I could just be behind. I try to at least know what GCC is up to, but for one of the platforms I work with we're still stuck on GCC 4.9 :(
The Case for Underground Research
Africa is huge so this comment in isolation doesn't really mean anything.

What parts of Africa? Liberal democracy and capitalism are prerequisites before you can make a wealth-tax no wealth-tax comparison.

People in this thread are also confusing protecting the lower bound in society with taxing wealth. This confusion only makes sense when you think wealth creation is zero-sum (it's not). You can protect the lower bound of society (Europe does a better job of this than the US generally) and incentivize growth/wealth creation.

You don't have to choose one, you can choose both.
The Magic Trackpad is the best "mouse" for a Mac IMO. The gestures and large size and click anywhere nature make it feel natural.
Just because it won't affect a lot of people doesn't suddenly make it insignificant.

It makes it put into context. Literally any virus, bacteria, fungi or parasite can cause myocarditis. There are about 200,000 cases of it per year.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/myocarditis

My friend’s eight year old daughter had a cold about 9 years ago that turned into myocarditis. A year on the heart transplant list using some unapproved device from Mexico to assist her heart beating, the a heart transplant, then rejection a couple years later and then a second heart transplant. From a cold.
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AKA overtime pay?
We are not a big shop so there are not many levels up but the managers, including myself also got 360 reviews.
In contrast to the OP it's at least intelligible?
How about this explanation?
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence Hans Moravec, 1998

https://outline.com/JHCE77
Do you think it's still relevant for modern client web apps / data backend (I have no doubt it is for websites though).
Amazing work! Can't say I understood half of what you have written, but sure is some top quality work!
"How to (seriously) read a scientific paper" https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-rea...
Yes, that's right but that has to do with entanglement in QM and is not specific to MWI. In classical mechanics, a system of n particles is specified by 3n different functions of time - the three coordinates for each of the n particles. The complexity in terms of e.g. memory then scales linearly with the number of particles.

In QM by contrast we have entanglement, which essentially means that we can't describe one particle separately from all the other particles (if we could, then QM would be just as "easy" to solve as classical mechanics). Instead of 3n functions of time, we instead have a single function of 3n variables (plus time). The complexity of these functions does not scale linearly with n (imagine e.g. a Fourier series in one variable vs one for two variables)

So, you're right that QM is an exponentially harder problem to solve compared to classical mechanics, but this is because of entanglement and has nothing to do with Copenhagen vs MWI.
> Printing more money just makes the truly valuable things take more units of an inflated currency poo

Only true if everything else holds constant. Also, wouldn't just apply to asset prices but all prices.

Everything else, unfortunately, is not holding constant. [0]

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
> everyone seems to interpret it as saying a significant portion of children have a damaged heart after COVID, which just isn't true.

We don't know what percentage of children without this inflammatory condition have heart damage. In fact it's probably true based on the monitoring of college football players, we just don't know for sure yet.
This mouse was discontinued 15 years ago.
This is a theme which is explored in several different ways in the book. Another commenter has already related the tale of the man who ran an automatic optimizer on a copy of his own program. The optimizer noticed that the copy of the program had no inputs and no outputs, so it optimized it to an empty program. The man was understandably dissatisfied, because the empty program has no subjective experiences, while the man does. You might say that he made the mistake of optimizing a program with no inputs or outputs, but he would say that the designer of the optimizer made the mistake of not considering the subjective experience of the software to be valuable. It's certainly true that you can have a worthwhile life even if you stop talking to other people. At the very least, there have been hermits who have thought that they were having a worthwhile life, and who are we to argue?

The author of the brief "explanation" errs, I think, in simply using the phrase "computation is […] subjective". He should have instead said that sapient computations have a subjective experience. But if you don't believe that minds are software running on a funny kind of Turing machine, then even that statement might be nonsense.
Misogyny keeps civilization alive.
Almost a decade ago I independently invented the same idea. Discussion was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727750

It's a pretty simple theory, which I ultimately reject even to this day. If it were true, however, the expanse of existence is truly terrifying.

This theory leads to any possible existence existing, short of maybe self-contradiction[0]. Well, so if that is true, then there exists a relation of beings where one of the beings is both powerful and has motives that are purely antithetical to the others. Think "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" kinda bad, only armed with Knuth's up notation and applied to pain and suffering. A hell that's truly beyond comprehension.

If this theory is correct, then all beings eventually find themselves in this hell. Note that this isn't argumentum ad consequentiam. I'm not saying that since this is such a horrific outcome that it's clearly false. I'm saying that if it is true, it is a horror beyond all horrors.

Though I suppose there is always a chance that a being that found themself in such a situation could always randomly pop out into some other, better existence by sheer chance.

Thinking about it is useful, but ultimately there are too many degrees of freedom to come to any practical conclusions.

[0] An existence arising that stops the existence of the vast randomness leading to all existences, for example.
It’s managed to lock me in. I’ve been trying to completely move off of the Apple ecosystem for the last year or so. I think for a lot of people (including myself) there’s going to be a few holdouts that only use iMessage and don’t want to switch and I’m not going to stop communicating with people I enjoy interacting with over technology preferences.
I honestly don't see the issue here. Snaps may not be perfect, but they are _optional_.

I use them to install Blender and Godot on my Elementary laptop because it's simpler to do so than other ways, and (even the isolation is slightly broken in Blender's case, which requires a legacy flag), it is _super convenient_.

But, again, why complain about an optional thing that benefits many people?
but ideologies, including anarchism, aren't roads to nirvana, they're far-flung points in a multidimensional mental space that map wholly inadequately to an even higher dimensional social space. they also systematically tend to lose nuance to fervor and identity.

for instance, while i agree that institutions (concentrations of power) can be dangerous, they've also done some amazingly good (and bad) things because of the power they coalesce. anarchism would say dismantle (large) institutions, and capitalism (or whatever) would say build 'em bigger and bolder! but the practical says do both in a chaotic, highly dynamic system of competing and cooperating interests, reaching a dynamic balance that's hard to rationalize beforehand.

yes, let's talk about these ideas and put forth observations and arguments, but in no case should be go all in on any one of them, including capitalism (which is also impractical in a pure, ideological form).
Yes, that's one thing I missed when I played "From Dust" [0] which could have been a great successor to Populous if it had contained procedurally generated levels. I like the open-endedness, the potential for a bit of chaos or absurdity in how a level turns out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dust
Female form of deities are the only ones that can be worshipped for bloodlust. Female deities aren’t feminists they want blood of enemies flowing.
> If you are 5'6" and 155 lbs, you are classified as overweight and thus are a high-risk person for COVID-19. That has nothing to do with "you should/should not lose weight".

This is absolutely false. It is the adiposity that raises risk. High muscle mass is not a risk factor. You’re got an erratic view of what we mean by overweight: we mean excessively adipose.

I took it as implied that you thought overweight people should lose weight for health reasons, but that isn’t the central point.

BMI approximates population averages and is useful as such, but for an individual the correct question to ask is whether they are excessively adipose. Someone at 5’6” with a 31 inch waist and a weight of 155 is almost certainly not excessively adipose.
Ah, Minimally Minimal. I used to read the shit out of his blog, but the posts became rarer and rarer until he quit it entirely. He (Andrew Kim) worked on the xbone S and then at Tesla for a while, no idea what he's up to now, but his blog holds a special place in my heart.
"Linux kernel patches regularly get added in a way that bypasses public review and discussion, a practice that opens at least a theoretical risk of backdoored code"

I wonder about how theoretical this risk of backdoored code is and what kind of backdoors the authors envision.

Security patches are discussed in private by some, if not most, of the same technically capable people who would otherwise discuss the patches on public mailing lists (like LKML).

After the code is committed, it is available for everyone to see and discuss. All new code, including "backdoored code" would also get visibility and attention.

Even if anyone can see the discussion on LKML it does not mean all those people actively participate in the discussion, or even review the code.
What satellite data can tell us about war’s impact on farming
Most snaps and flatpaks run with full home access.
snaps only provide sandboxing when run with the Ubuntu AppArmor policy.
snaps offer zero security without special configuration on other distros.

Sandboxing desktop applications on Linux won't happen until distros start shipping strict SELinux policies that properly confine programs like Android does.
Along with flatpak/systemd taking allowlisting seriously combined with stricter seccomp filters.

Please if you maintain any packages with systemd units go read this right now and harden them, it should only take a few minutes:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...
Verify them using 'systemd-analyze security $unit'.
PUT can still be weird. For example, PHP doesn't process multipart/form-data if it's a PUT instead of a POST, I'm working on an API in Laravel and for methods that need to PUT a file I have to use Laravel's _method spoofing.
We're destroying their climate and their hearts with continued science denial. Disgusting.
One of the fundamental ideas behind anarchy is that legitimate authority only comes from the community that authority affects.

So, say you live in an anarchist commune, but do not believe in anarchy yourself. You're still invited to the meetings where policy is decided, and while you're not forced to, there's a lot of peer pressure to attend. You're still subject to the group's decisions.

Say you completely disagree with this and want to go do something else. The commune tries to get you to attend a meeting about how to respect your wishes to be excluded, possibly sends a delegate if you refuse to participate in even that. They do their best to accommodate whatever it is you're trying to do, within reason (and anarchists are usually very accommodating). People who are extremely stubborn and to the point of being borderline hypothetical are a problem for the anarchist system, but in the end the solution is chosen by a bunch of humans thinking about the situation, and it's not like any other system has a better source of reasoning than humans.
I'm not sure I even agree with the claim that Twitter needs to offer social capital to be a viable business. There are significant other products which can be offered from a social network, such as entertainment and utility.
It has signing information in it, which does seem necessary to authenticate commits.
If we judge any ancient work by our current morals, we would most likely be left wanting. This book was written almost 2500 years back.
I was always gutted that thing never came out in Europe. I had tons of Pokémon cards with the stripes and nothing to use them with.
Here is an explanation of Dust Theory from Wikipedia:

"[Dust theory states that] there is no difference, even in principle, between physics and mathematics, and that all mathematically possible structures exist, among them our physics and therefore our spacetime...The dust theory implies that all possible universes exist and are equally real, emerging spontaneously from their own mathematical self-consistency."

I think this does a pretty good job of summarizing the concept: the universe is simulatable, but there is nothing doing the simulation; it just exists as a pure mathematical object. All other possible universes that are simulatable (i.e. follow some mathematical model) are equally as real as ours.
Why are we downvoting this man's facts?
Thanks for the recommendation. I was looking for something like this to add in my personal library.
The name is a joke. Moderate democrats get labeled as neoliberals by reddit leftists so they embraced it, the sub isn't actually neoliberal. Right now there are a lot of memes, but once the election happens it'll go back to normal. You can still look at the effortposts which are pretty high quality.
You're completely missing the point. These studies don't give a damn about your adipose, or how much weight you need to lose. These studies are about whether or not you are classified as overwight, which is based solely on BMI, and nothing else.

Someone 5'6" and 155 lbs is overweight and thus is considered a high risk COVID individual, regardless of their waist size. If that person were to die of COVID, they would be reported as "had high-risk underlying health conditions".

That's what we're talking about in this context. Everything else you are talking about is completely irrelevant.

Responding to your above edit (which you now have removed):

>I agree many people underestimate their own adiposity, but the given example of 31 inch waist at 5’6” and 155 pounds indicates a trim, fit person.

This statement just highlights the entire point. You think it means "trim, fit person", as do most others. But the medical definitions do not agree with you. According to the medical definition, that person is overweight. That's the bottom line.
Yep, all debian and cent now, no more snap craziness for me
That's because LKY himself is an incorrptible person. Here you can have an insight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142FbTYeK7k
No. The opposite. By the latest CDC numbers over 90% of people in hospitals with Covid have at least 2.6 serious illnesses, and mortality is disproportionately seen in the elderly and obese.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
How solutions turn into gigantic platforms like Shopify?
I went deep down the Internet rabbithole on these HOCl cleaning solution machines (I still can’t figure out if it’s bs or not), but a big component was ph testing the solution you make. Now I kinda want to pick one of these up, some simple logic that measured ph and switched off power to the HOCl machine when it hit the right ph would probably sell extremely well
Some of this looks excellent. E.g. I occasionally add features like the kwargs delegate in my own code, and there are plenty of places in scipy where that would be an improvement.

Other bits of it aren't drastically better than the standard library. Their typeddispatch is undeniably useful, but functools.singledispatch covers most use cases, and it'd be a shame to pull in all of fastcore for a single feature that's probably covered by another library (e.g. the multipledispatch library).

Some of this is horrifying. There's nothing wrong with the PrePostInitMeta per se....but I guarantee that's going to be a footgun down the line, and IMO if somebody isn't able to comfortably write that metaclass themselves they probably shouldn't be using it.
This is silly. ILP doesn't matter because the HW has kept the same basic ISA with the same memory guarantees since forever. A lot of stuff goes on under the hood to make C code execute quickly (also to make Java code execute quickly, etc). Hundreds of in-flight instructions does not matter when they all commit in order.
What's funny to me is in Signal you can react to messages, but it still doesn't interpret iOS messages as such...
Kinda hijacking the conversation, but I discovered a great FUSE filesystem to distribute software over the network.

It allows to have HUGE amount of software available with the trade-off that the files you are asking for are not in cache, it is slow to retrieve them (need to retrieve each one of HTTP.)

Would people be interested in such filesystem distributed in the wild?

The /bin directory would be put at the end of your $PATH, as a fallback, you got the local version, great use the fast one from your SSD, you don't have that particular software, good, wait a tiny bit and get it over the network if you didn't store it in cache before.

I would find it useful for development tools like compilers or interpreters, that it is always quite a mess to install locally.
Examples of anti-hierarchical societies do exist (Catalonia, Paris Commune, etc).

The problem isn't so much that hierarchies just arise naturally, the problem is more that these societies aren't very long lived because they're pretty useless at defending themselves with violence.

It's not totally uncommon to find an anti-hierarchical company. It is almost impossible to find an effective anti-hierarchical military.
I see a lot of comments citing gitlab as devious or showing statistical lies. The basic point is that gitlab is a business that is competing in an area where competitors have infinite pockets. GitHub can allow users to use 2000 minutes and even make it free for teams because Microsoft has a huge war chest. Gitlab on the other hand is valued at 1/1000 and has to be profitable to survive.
>I've learned from going to far too many of these meetings that you can't just hammer them into the ground right there in front of everyone else. Once it's clear that they Do Not Get It, all you can do is take a note to follow up later.

There's an opportunity to learn as a team precisely when everyone is there, provided it is done a certain way that maximizes for fixing and learning:

"Okay. How can we fix this? What can we learn from this? Is there an underlying issue of which this is just an instance? How can we institutionalize this so future members who haven't worked on this don't fall into this trap?"

At this point, you tap into their brains to fix the thing, and generate ideas to actually learn.

This approach lead us to focus on the actual things to do: fixing the thing now, finding the flawed logic that lead us to make the mistake, and prevent it from happening either by finding its "parent problem class", adding tests, and adding mitigation and monitoring.

>This is the kind of culture stuff it would be nice to know before you accept a job somewhere.

Yes, but while you're there, one useful thing to do is to elevate that team to acceptable standards. Change the culture.
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Yes. It's one flaw of democracy.

In a dictatorship, if the leader is great, it will grow like crazy... It's like a startup with great founders.

On the other hand, the problem will come when a hand-off needs to happen.

Singapore is clever enough to keep the democratic process, so it has some decent hand-off process.
This makes me sad. Why aren't the professionals getting better at writing scientific papers? It's such a waste of effort to do all the research and then fail at writing it up.
The time series you linked to is already inflation adjusted, so I'm not sure why you're adjusting again. On a more practical level, over that period it went from
a colony whose inhabitants mostly lived in shanty towns to somewhere William Gibson compared to Zurich, Atlanta and Disneyland in an essay complaining about the dullness of its prosperity.

Singapore's per capita GDP was close to double South Korea's in 1990, though its divorce from Malaysia was less messy than the Korean War.
I know, I quite liked the innovations in my first Magic Mouse. The touch surface was pretty cool and it looked and felt gorgeous. I thought I’d try out my nice new iMac with Borderlands. Point at target, right click to zoom, the left click to.... left click... left.... WTF?
Debian absolutely can give you bleeding edge if you just change your repos from their stable release to testing or sid/unstable. Same thing applies to Fedora and pretty much every major Linux distribution.
Study suggests rats smile with their ears (2016)
It would be interesting, if it could even be measured, to see how productivity varies over the variation in work hours. I'd guess for many it would go up as you went down to about 80%. As in 80-95%+ attendance would produce more output than 100% attendance.

Anyone seen stats or have input on that?
Yup. Who did write the microcode at the time? And for how long?
The claim was not "there was several popular blogs that dealt with the topic of the Iraq War." The quote in full

>Why did blogging take off as a shared response to the US invasion of Iraq? (When “the Internet became an ideal valve to release opinions,” she writes, “who didn’t have an opinion on the Iraq war?”)

Basically claiming that blogging became popular because everyone wanted to share their opinion on the Iraq War. That's just not factual and, quite frankly, ridiculous.
Snap is a distribution format, akin to .msi or .pkg.
About 20 states do not have familial status protections, so that means the boss can give me extra work while the person with kids gets extra time off.

https://www.workplacefairness.org/marital-status-state-law

https://www.abetterbalance.org/resources/family-status-and-c...