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>If your work doesn't keep your mind busy, it finds a different outlet, that seems to be driven by some primal tribal instincts. Team up with the ones of your kind and go against the neighboring tribe.

You followed this statement with "call me paranoid, but we might see my tribe (presumably) fall out of dominance in our lifetime." The end of US hegemony is not some terrifying future, it's the US living like the rest of the world.
human life will persist as long as the environment permits it but what future form it will take remains unknown and perhaps would not please our common current cultural tastes
Yes, that book is more about people who made precision, not about technology (I didn't finish it yet, bought it after last article about precision on hn). But I'm not picky, it's nice read.
By the time humans are able to create universe scale simulations, post-scarcity might well have been achieved. So finite computational resources — or indeed economic competition — might not be a thing anymore.
not really sure if having a nuclear reactor would make much of a difference in this case
You can think of an example where things are classical, the particles start with some definite orientation randomly determined at the start and if they are within say 45 degrees of the angle of the detector they go one way, over 45 the other and it's not so hard to figure in that case it will vary linearly. As to how to prove the general case I don't know. Try Bell's paper?
> All of these factors have led Davoudi to speculate about the simulation hypothesis. If our reality is a simulation, then the simulator is likely also discretizing spacetime to save on computing resources (assuming, of course, that it is using the same mechanisms as our physicists for that simulation).

Hmm, crazy idea: What if the EmDrive[1] is powered by simulation error?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461005
The sim isn't 'computing consciousnesses' brains are emergent. However the reason time 'slows down' (Relativity Theory) could could be 'on purpose' because there is finite computing power in 'God's Computer', and the trick of Relativity length contraction and time dilation is a compensation to ensure calculations can be done in time, or even an 'emergent' phenomena due to the fact that calculations do take time, even in God's computer, and if the later interpretation is the case it implies "Gods Computer" does experience the same "spacetime" that we do in this universe. And if that's true it indicates Gravity is external to the Simulation while the Standard Model is part of the simulation.
I'm no expert but from what I recall you wouldn't get there: as you get closer you would reach a point where the difference of gravity in the space occupied by your own body is such that you would get torn apart and turned into spaghetti
I use a case that has that feature (Mous), and wireless charging works fine with the case on.
thx for the reference. I posted the free download link to the book here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24773941 + plus the first 2 chapters as a PDF dropbox link

also if you have feedback, hit me up anytime via "fe (at) f19n dot com"
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“At this point in my career I can write code for just about anyone. I don’t say that to brag, I say that just to lay out my options.”

I find this semi-guru semi-brag style of writing so infuriating. I’m sure he’s a great iOS developer but come on man... I wish more people wrote with the goal of genuinely helping others rather than just trying to promote their own brand.
Many parts of it exist in Australian slang as well, probably other colonies too.
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I guess the problem is that they can involuntarily crash the system, but we would never know.
On fedora the Bluetooth package with aptx support is in Bluetooth-freeworld (rpmfusion repos).

Beats having to compile it from source which is what I was doing.
Even if there's no radiation risk, they're pretty dense and heavy. We use depleted uranium in armour-piercing rounds for a reason.
I'd love to fly through this in VR to get a real appreciation for the scale and majesty.
If we would simulate realities different to our own,
then it seems possible that we might be simulated by realities different to our own, perhaps with very different computational constraints.
The implication being they still save it permanently, but now they validate it's a video feed. So all you need to do is encode your data as valid video.
Exactly right. The Sim is computing Physics itself. It's not computing brains, but only the atoms making up brains. Atoms do what they do, ergo brains form.
If it makes you feel any better it's pretty much impossible to make Earth less habitable than anywhere else in a few light years, so I wouldn't worry about missing out on a space-paradise!
That depends on the black hole in question
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The phrase “a fraction” in Bostrom’s setup means a small portion, meaning it wouldn’t need large scale planning and agreement across the civilization to use it. Any rando could do it. And in general, randos aren’t bound by notions of rationality. Some would launch simulations just because they could, or for no reason at all.

I still think the setup is such an enormous assumption as to beg the entire question.
The link in the blog post to photos.google.com is now 404. Do you have a working link?
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Great way to go though. An experience you literally cannot describe
A lot faster? what are we talking about? 1/2 a second? faceID is great, you look at the phone and it unlocks, I much prefer it to touchid, I used to have to use my passcode far more often with touchID because It didn't get it quite right, or my fingers were wet, or using my other hand from an odd angle.
And, with winter, you know, gloves...
This is not a very helpful comment. OP has made a pretty convincing argument (to my ears), and you basically say: this is wrong! You need to elaborate, or, if you are not prepared to do that, keep quiet. OP spent some time and effort to make their case. You did not, at all.
It isn't negligible on the timescales we care about. Skimming through the graphs in [0], at 900km we're talking 100+ years of orbital lifetime. And even if most fragments were to disappear sooner[1] - giving them a generous 20 years - that's still 20 years of dealing with a swarm of untrackable hypervelocity bullets coming at you from random directions. While space is big, it's not that big in LEO, and any such bullet will, upon impact, spawn more bullets.

I don't think we'll have a catastrophic cascade leading to Kessler syndrom even if these two satellites collide today, but few more such events might be enough.

EDIT:

Also, the collision will be off-center and, eyeballing the orbital diagrams, some 15 degrees shy of being head-on. That means you can expect most of the both satellites not being directly involved in the collision, but instead gaining spin and breaking apart under stress. Those surviving pieces will then keep most of their orbital velocity and heading, but scatter like buckshot, each piece on slightly different orbit, migrating further over time.

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[0] - https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm

[1] - Orbital decay due to atmospheric drag is a function of mass to area ratio. I'm not sure whether the debris from a hypervelocity collision tends to be more like irregular, high-drag shatter, or like low-drag spheres of superheated metal that cooled off radiatively.
This is all pseudoscience peddled as a mental health miracle
MagSafe was probably a retroactive marketing message.

Primary goal here is to get a secure, consistently lined up charging mechanism.

Apple has used magnets in chargers before, and lo- a brand was reborn.
So, will it be something similar to the collision scene in "Gravity", movie?
I'll be borrowing "Sadness Rectangle" readily in the near future.
the ancient base of Greek and Roman civilization persists to this day in the West even if the major empires have changed hands many times! The West is still studying Plato and Aristotle...
This often feels like a meme: "I had a scalability problem, so I made everything distributed and asynchronous. Now I have three problems!"

It's not that the idea is fundamentally broken, but I suspect a lot of people dramatically misjudge the trade-offs. Never underestimate the power and efficiency of one big, fast server, nor the added complexity that is introduced by taking loose coupling to extreme levels.
How does experiment on his and his brother can possibly cast doubt on potential for different people? I mean, the study did not measured anything on different people.
Serverless (as far as I can understand) is what we can consider as the early stages of the commoditization of compute.
Meaning, similar to electricity or tap water, at some point in our lives we will subscribe to a provider and then just plug and play whatever we want to. It is just we are in the early stages.

If you are interested in these kind of stuff, maybe take a look at Wardley Maps:
https://medium.com/wardleymaps
There's Sonos also
According to the article, Gagarin's 10 page memo never even made it up the chain to Brezhnev, because all the people in between didn't want to bring bad news. How is that a flat hierarchy?
> Since we're now getting deeper into what I personally do, I'll note that in practice, I dual license under the UNLICENSE and the MIT. I use the UNLICENSE because it's goal is to explicitly disclaim monopoly copyright interest while attempting to be a public domain dedication. I also add the MIT because some folks stopped using my code when I only used the UNLICENSE because they were too risk averse and wanted a more established license.

As an aside, an alternative to this dual licensing might be the 0BSD license: http://landley.net/toybox/license.html

It's on spdx: https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html

It's approved by OSI: https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD

Available on choosealicense.com: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/0bsd/

Unlike the unlicense, google allows it: https://opensource.google/docs/patching/
I can't tell you when to use it, I can clearly tell you when not to (as has the other guy here).

If 1 machine postgres suffices, stick with it. If it does not, would buying more processors/memory/disk fix that? If so, stick with it.

The big data stuff is when you really have too much data to deal with in one box and literally cannot get round that.

The tradeoffs are (my limited experience): cost in terms of buying a stack of boxes. Cost in terms of learning a massive new software stack. Cost in terms of "it scales almost infinitely but each node processes so much less".

I gave a link before, I hope that showed something useful. Here's another, see article and paper https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=scalability%20%22at%20wha...

Does that provide (at least the beginnings of) an answer?
How does one write so many words to communicate so little of value?

And the message? Quit some VC funded thing and start a blog?

The world is a strange place... Hedge fund sellouts now have finally found an alternative.
by the way, for my own projects - with an editorial setup - I use
* headless wordpress + static site renderer
* wordpress - everything kicked out that makes it slow + caching
* hugo

for bigger projects by now next.js became very popular - and works if you start with a webperformacne/speed focused approach

but you can search engine optimize everything (that does server side rendering / that is not client side only), well everything but TYPO3 (a CMS cancer in Europes German Speaking Markets)
If you're interested in how our brains work during learning, check out "A Mind for Numbers" by Dr. Barbara Oakley [0]. It may be geared towards STEM college students, but I found it a great resource for fine tuning my own process.

And if you prefer a visual medium, please check out the Coursera course "Learning how to learn" [1] by the same person.

[0]: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
It depends on LEO altitude (exponentially) and aerodynamic properties of the object.

~ 150 km making single orbit becomes impossible.

~ 300 km orbital decay is ~km/month, so it already takes years to fall down to earth. ISS is at 400 km and decays 2 km/month. It has unfavourable mass to area ratio due to all those solar panels.

~ 500 km it takes few decades to fall down. (Hubble space telescope is here)

990 km is the altitude where these two satellites might collide. Debris can stay up thousands of years .
I doubt I could convince anyone to upload our customer and supplier data or technical designs to the cloud. Developers could do that, most industries probably not.

There are hackers and then there is industrial espionage. Users choose their passwords themselves, there are also service accounts. It would be a complete security nightmare.

We employ quite a few SaaS tools that are mostly marked as "not that important" in case they get compromised.
I already have Universal Paper Clips addiction.
I guess this will go along with it.
I think in English it is most often given the title "My Religion"
It's a myth that Europeans (in general) dream of America. I don't know why so many Americans have such a need to believe it is true.
Now if only app designers could get dark mode right, and not actually go full black mode.
Everything Andy Wingo does is more interesting than it should be.
Why the simulated universe should be the same as the universe outside the simulation?

If it's the same, perhaps it's shown to us as a fraction of what's real.
Apple certainly does have an advertising platform for the App Store and Apple News. They describe their privacy stance here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223

Maybe this is better in practice than other ad platforms, but they explicitly say that they use information about you to serve you targeted ads such as: location, age, gender, purchases from the App Store, what news you read, etc etc.
I was looking at the bit when they showed that gaming app and I kept looking at the phone in her hands and thinking it was a max, but they hadn't shown the pro max yet and thought they were swapping different phones in and out for different shots, but I think she just had tiny hands. (Relatively, I probably just have massive hands)
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>I think the experience is really high quality.

Wow.

I never even thought about it being possible - you know, calling site that doesn't seem to be different than others "high quality".

Maybe I'm not noticing something here?
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201014053226/https://uk.help.y...
This somehow reminds me of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Its not the same story of course, but I cant help but think of the book.
Sony hasn't had a true compact phone since Xperia XZ2 Compact. They abandoned the line after 2018.
> what Usenet was

Usenet is still around, I still read it most days, with trn.

Most newsgroups are either dead or pure spam, but some are active with real content.
And I’m afraid the time would be weird so that may happen for a very long time.
The way they leveled down the whole yahoo ecosystem is amazing. It almost seems they've done this deliberately.

I'm now waiting for the mess that will be caused by the shut down of yahoo mail and the inability to access/regain the accounts on different platforms associated to these mail addresses.
On the contrary, I simply suggested a different one
Modern economy: hold my beer and watch the exponent.
Yahoo isn’t a company anymore it’s a brand. It’s a death walk to insolvency at this point. They’ll extract whatever value they can before killing it.
A HUGE issue for me is the quality during calls with a BT headset (HSP/HFP) profiles. This is a killer in my workflow as I need to be in calls all the time, and for that I need to take them through a separate windows laptop. It is crazy, I hate it. Is there a way to improve call quality?
What if it does something weird like trapping your consciousness in a loop for eternity. That would presumably be far worse than simply dying.

(Sorry)
Sonos has not supported this for over 10 years, and seem to be doing quite well.

It is a “smart speaker”, not a speaker, so expectations are different.
Given that Americans are the nation with longest average working hours among developed world and the nation that is literally worshipping hard work, I find it dubious when people just throw lazy Americans around. I know it is usually Americans doing it to other Americans, but still.
There is a possibility our "creator" (simulator) is indeed living in the same Spacetime as us, and is yet at a higher level up, where he isn't made of atoms like us but something else that's nonetheless inside the common spacetime.

This could explain why Gravity hasn't been unified with Standard Model. Could be that our simulation is just the standard model itself, and is the thing God created.

So if this is true the Simulation theory would still not answer the "Theological God" question unless our simulator knows the answer to where both of our common spacetime came from.
Maybe the purpose of the simulation is to learn what can go wrong, or what's wrong in order to avoid self-destruction or solve a self-destruction situation in the far future.
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In the year 2020? Build a GPT-3 clone with a friendly UI manageable by anyone with a “general computing sophistication”. Make it available to the general public, especially the young of all economic and social conditions. Real outreach stuff...

The idea is to take AI from a “Wow!” state to an “Oh wow!” state for the general public. And the only way to do that is to provide the opportunity for average people to play and, more importantly, to build. When people build their first “autonomous brain machine”, at even a rudimentary level, it goes from “Isn’t that cool!” to “I made fire!” That’s a very important leap.

The sooner AI becomes real to the general population, the sooner important public discussions about its role in modern society can occur in the general population...
Yahoo Finance is just about the last top tier Yahoo service standing, and it has plenty of competition.
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I really enjoyed the first third of the book, the second third was decent too. I had to drop it when I got to the last third, it just became too boring.
Don't you have the same problem in classical mechanics? Let's say you're standing at the edge of a pond, and you see waves rippling across the surface. The deviation in height of the surface of the water is described by h = cos(r + t) where r is the distance from the centre of the pond and t is the current time.

Why can you see the solution of the equation for the entire surface of the pond at once, but only for a single instant of time at any given moment?
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The poor remote engineer team in an African country will definitely appreciate better income, however the Canadian one most likely not, while working remotely to the same company.
The last comment says it all: factually corrects an mp3 nit and points out this breaches NLS eula which is why Braille playboy can exist in the first place.
Yeah our satellites just need a huge asteroid clearing the way if the worst happens
If it's possible to abuse it then it's not unlimited. Unlimited can't be abused. If usage above certain level is not allowed, then it's not unlimited.

The fault is entirely on company side that do false advertising, not on the people that actually use whatever is promised to them.
It makes sense: The product is well known and subscription may be cancelled at any time.

At this point those who cancel during the free trial are probably those who did not plan to pay anyway.
Yeah just tried it as well and it doesn’t work. Too bad.
Se 2016 is 123x58

Se 2020 is 138x67

12 mini is 132x64

S10e is 142x69

So s10e is still the biggest one of "high-end small phones" though it has the best screen ratio by far.
I do think mini might be just the right size! I hope this will prompt more small phones on the market!
Propaganda is not dependent on the speaker. If you look at historic propaganda of the german third reich, it's still propaganda, despite it possibly being a digital copy in a school book.

Propaganda is information or media that is purposefully designed to mislead, misinform or misdirect the reader and/or cause them to spread it to more readers, willfully.
Irregardless
If it's a big enough black hole then you'd only see the ageing universe shrink behind you. The spaghettification comes later.
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I've had this feeling ever since the 3G / 4; all the improvements since the app store and mobile internet have been incremental, and sometimes even regressive (e.g. getting rid of the 3.5mm jack). Maybe I'm a luddite though.

Anyway some years ago I got an iphone XR (via work) and it's just fine, it'll do me for the forseeable future. It was an incremental upgrade to my iphone 7 or 8, whichever it was.
From my understanding of Kessler syndrome after reading more about it - only LEO would be locked out for a couple of centuries, even in a worst-case scenario. We should still be able to go beyond that with minimal repercussions.

This is in conflict with the Kurzgesagt video. I wonder what their source was for the Kessler effect preventing excursions into space altogether.
When I took this in my 20s I was within a couple points of halfway on every category. I've always been quite adaptable and have tested myself enough to eventually decide what I'm not. Less official tests taken later in life have been less middling; but they haven't been consistent, either.

But don't worry, it's pseudoscience. I took a quiz to determine my astrological sign once, too.
As a frugal Android spectator, a high-refresh rate screen is one of the only upgrades that I find compelling in new phones. Already have USB-C, AMOLED 400ppi screen, mediocre battery life but fast charging, no notch, and this is a OnePlus 3 from 4 years ago
While re-use and recycling are important, this post addresses a different use: the issues associated with production of the latest line of devices themselves.

When you sell your old phone while buying a new one, both phones have already been produced. The issues - e.g. water consumption, worker rights, pollution related to production and logistics,... - associated with the production of both devices have already happened.

Reuse and recycling would only be a net positive if they replace the amount of new resources which are introduced into the entire production/consumption cycle, and reduce pollution. That's just not what is happening.

What happens to old electronic devices? Their value is gradually written off until they are deemed worthless junk. What's fraction of originally manufactured and sold iPhone 4's is still in active use in 2020? How many are sitting idle somewhere in a drawer? How many ended up in landfills? How many ended up as exported waste to developing countries?

A far more interesting question is this: Is the need to own the latest generation artificial? Is that need driven by the unveiling of latest new features and 'improvements'? Or does the latest generation solve fundamental new consumer demands which emerged independently of the product?

As the poster poignantly asked: Does one really need to replace perfectly working devices just to do the exact same set of things every 18-24 months?
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The argument against that was in the article: " the simulation would most likely create perceptions of reality on demand rather than simulate all of reality all the time"