skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The historical Fall of Rome, having lasted from one to three centuries, was a tad more gradual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...

As they don't say in the asteroid Belt: Da Rom na decho dewe im wang diye. (Rome didn't fall in a day)

Edit: why even use earth days in the belt? maybe they'd count in shifts, maybe they'd use watches (of which there are many varieties, where the US submariners' reduce to shifts)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchkeeping
When are we going to see books and articles on the Colombia disaster, where presumably several astronauts went to their molten deaths crying in rage? Why do I get the feeling that this news which periodically seems to surface on HN smacks of anti-Russia sentiments?
I played a lot of Rollercoaster Tycoon and always cleaned up the vomit. I put out the fires in the Sims and made sure the burglar didn’t burgle.
The question of whether or not we live in a simulation is more of a theological question than a scientific one.
Also made a decision to leave the US (San Francisco) and miss it immensely. There's nothing comparable to bring surrounded by genuine techies, and the go big or go home attitude is inspirational.

Yes, the politics is in shambles and society is arguably falling apart, but at some point you need to decide what your impact on the world is going to be. If you believe you can fix tech in Europe, I applaud you, and that would be a worthy cause. I've learned that I function best in the fast lane, and that's in the tech hubs. Innovation requires lots of people bouncing lots of ideas off each other, and I don't think remote work is going to significantly compete with where the next innovation wave will come from.
If the wireless charging mechanism is solid state, it’s immune from mechanical wear.

Mechanical wear matters for example if you have a Roku, and the buttons in the remote control physically wear out. You can just instead use your phone app to control it over WiFi, and the WiFi antenna will “never” wear out because it’s solid state. Source: I have an old Roku
Affordable housing is an easy one-- look at a map of US housing costs, and make a decision about which areas are affordable [1]. Then look at a map of political party distribution. There is a strong correlation between affordable communities and Republican ones

It's also trivial to find examples of republican led cities/counties investing in public transit and green energy. Here's a twofer [2]

[1]: here's a map that takes COL into account although it's California only https://edsource.org/2019/interactive-map-where-teachers-fin... Here's a national map that compares the minimum hourly wage to rent a 2 bedroom house, it also let's you zoom in on a region- https://reports.nlihc.org/oor

[2]: https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicles/article/2111467...
At these velocities, the objects behave as if being made of glass or water. Upon collision, we can expect a large number of small fragments flying out in pretty much every direction - some still fast enough to retain orbital velocity. And given the altitude of the event, 991 km, even those fragments that fall down may shred something on their way down.
Yes and the transistors are baryonic matter 1:1 with the actual universe. The map has become the territory.
Seriously, the simulation argument has to be one of the absolute stupidest.

Even from a probability standpoint, it's not P(A) vs P(B), it's P(A and B) that we're in a simulation.

The amount of energy required to run a universe scale simulation is beyond our ability to even begin to calculate.
It's an interesting and useful thought experiment, but a terrible argument. I suspect people like Musk popularize it because they want to highlight the real and terrifying risk that humanity will destroy itself.

As Occam stated: "Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity."
Bostrom's reasoning about the second one is faulty, because simulations cost computational power. In a competitive environment (particularly an economic one), it is more profitable to devote computational resources to predicting the future as opposed to peering into the past (at least to any level of detail that would give rise to consciousness). So by Bostrom's (specious) argument that there are more simulated worlds than real ones, then it's more likely that we'd be living in a simulation of the future than the past. But since in our known past we've never had the computational resources to simulate a world to the level of detail we perceive, then it's a contradiction.

There are other, better arguments. Like, it appears that simulating our universe is computationally intractable because of the complexity of quantum mechanics. Instead it would make sense to simulate simpler worlds that don't have quantum mechanics, which of course would look completely different.

Another argument from quantum mechanics is that the outcome of most particle reactions is entirely probabilistic, i.e. relies on tons of randomness. It would be dumb to design a simulation based so thoroughly on randomness, because you cannot make conclusions based on the outcome of a single run. Instead, you'd do Monte Carlo simulations, i.e. billions up billions of runs, building a probability distribution, which would make it even more computationally intractable. That'd be completely stupid because you can't even trust your inferences without covering a sufficient amount of the probability space, and that's a problem entirely of your creation.

I am extremely skeptical of people who seriously believe that this insane reality is a simulation. They usually don't know much physics, nor computer science. A simulated world would look completely different just from the basic engineering perspective.
I hope you topple the rat king sooner than later!
San Diego has more homeless people than SF.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/dec/17/san-diego-has-fourth-h...

It's less visible because SD is way larger geographically than SF (231 square miles vs. 372 sq miles in the city proper), plus there's no bay to the East, it just goes into more urban area. But, yeah, there's a big skid-row tent-city southeast of the Padres stadium.

SF is a small city and it just squeeeeezes everyone together so it's in your face.
tastroder - firstly, our primary aim is to democratise AI and data in general so it is no longer driven by developers. Most non-technical people I've spoken to have no idea what AWS, Azure, etc are and where 'the cloud' is. These platforms rightly so are built for developers. This is an immediate source of bias when the overwhelming majority of developers are male.(here is a really interesting article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/give-up-gender-gap-science-cs...)

Given you understand how cognito works I'm sure you dont mind creating an account with one of the many gmail accounts you most likely control and therefore you wont be exposing any meaningful data.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. There are also other propriety features we are developing to limit the extent to which data can be copied with out permission.

On bias - Data is stored with meta descriptive properties and attributes, which provide the user with a guide to the underlying data composition and therefore can be used to highlight potential bias.

Our dev horizon also include similar monitoring capabilities to provide information that can assist users detect bias.

The truth here is simply - AI are the products of algorithms, data and developer

There is only one source of bias in this statement - developer

algorithms are tools; data is information without intended action; developers use these to create intended action.

The most obvious way to remove bias from technology is to improve diversity in the pool of technology creators. We are approaching this by increasing the size of the pool by enabling non-technical people to be a part of AI development. As well as increasing the ease at which collaboration occurs in AI development. This begins with the safe sharing of data, which in turn means more data becomes widely distributed for use in ML. It continues with a collaborative approach to data modelling, in which the domain expert leads the process - removing more opportunity for bias introduced by developers who may not have deep domain knowledge and who therefore may not fully grasp the consequences of modelling decisions. And similarly with collaboration on AI development, deployment and monitoring.

Imagine a future in which 10 billion people can build their own AI and not have to ask the 100 million developers to do it for them.
on top of my head: canonical check, ending slash / no ending slash collision check, GSC traffic check, noindex check on HTTP&HTML level, rel-alternate cross-page check, title tag best practice check, highlighter of parameterized URLs, internal link spot checking check, static dom vs rendered dom comparision

and extendable
The thing that always makes me think I'm in a simulation is when somebody tries to explain to me quantum physics. From a simulator's perspective quantum physics may be the tool that efficiency possible. What I mean is that, like in a computer game, quantum physics may be responsible for only calculating the n-dimensional space that is currently in use. In a game we also try to only load into memory those parts that are currently required for gameplay in order to be efficient. Just a thought.
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I have the new SE and it works as advertised (like a faster 8). Pressing the ‘button’ definitely wakes mine.
Apple has been using a common charger from the first iPhone on, there never was an iPhone charger that was not USB.

Back the other brands came with a different, proprietary charger with a fixed cable for each model.
Apple changed the cable once from the wide and weird dock-connector to the small and sturdy lightning port. That happened before USB-C was even invented.

As a long time Apple customer I‘m quite happy with their consistency here.
For a small business the first thing you should be looking at is Office 365. Put it in the cloud, get rid of the VPN.

I'm having a bit more of a problem with AD. AD wants you to be in the office when you log in for some group policy stuff. We are finding some policies can't be removed remotely! We are investigating Azure AD as the future, but that is more like MDM than AD.
FDA approved vitamin D lamp:

https://www.sperti.com/product/sperti-vitamin-d-light-box/

Do read the instructions before using it, it has a 5 minute timer on it for a reason.
There are good benefits of having centralised services though. I don’t like this either, but I don’t think the solution is as simple as “they shouldn’t exist”.

I think the issues come down to incorrect or misaligned incentives.
I agree and I really don't understand how mature researchers can engage in this type of guesswork. If we are in a simulation, our observed universe is also a simulation. Even if the real world revealed itself to us Matrix style, this "revelation" could also be a simulation.
There is no way to tell. We can not falsify either of the contradicting statements "we live in a simulation" / "we do not live in a simulation".

(Edit: Technically, I don't agree with your "application of probabilities to non-discrete systems" statement, but I think we get the intended meaning here.)
Plato's cave for the modern age (that doesn't read or even recognize philosophy).
Well, if it's a simulation there's no "suffering" in some way, anymore than Grand Theft Auto is suffering because people get shot and beaten.

It's just bits playing the "suffering" mode.
Interesting to see that they recommend specific bottom-up recommendations, in contrast to top-down approaches used on many social networks.

>An independent and legitimate governance mechanism needs to take the following steps:

Encourage bottom-up decision making (consult with the public)

Adopt decisions and rules that the community perceives as legitimate

Measure the impact of those rules

Reform
In Europe we put mentally ill people in institutions, so they get the care they need. What else would you do? Throw them on the streets? We're not a 3rd world country.
> You know this is a gross overuse of the service

How do you know that?

Turn the tables; say that as a customer you agree to a company charging you an unlimited fee each month for a service. Do you think they'd charge just $1 because they 'know' you didn't mean all of your salary?
dude just check out https://app.canopi.app
I wouldn’t really compare Webflow to those.

“Site builders” like wix, Squarespace, etc. are basically all the same. They sandbox you into a selection of annoyingly rigid templates and a dumbed down UI and abstract the important stuff away.

Webflow is more of a “visual coding” platform. If you don’t know basic html/css you’ll have a hard time using it. It spits out static sites on the front end with proper readable html/css and SEO.

It’s a bit of a steep learning curve to get the hang of their UI but after a few hours, building things is insanely fast and you have control over everything.

I rebuilt my company’s entire site in it in about 4 hours and was blown away how easy it is to update things.

I’ve heard pretty much all YC companies are now using it to build their marketing sites because of this.
The dinosaurs thought the same thing about computers.... or not...
Now we should keep the phone away from our floppies!
Ask HN: Do people still use COM C++ in 2020?
Outside of legacy code, is there a reason to use COM (Component Object Model) C++ in 2020 if you're programming on Windows? Is there an alternative from Microsoft? My impression was that COM died off after Microsoft went all in on .NET, but now C++ seems to be having a resurgence within Microsoft. But whenever I look up a COM guide, it's from at least a decade ago. Does Microsoft recommend we use COM, Modern C++, or a mix of the two when developing on Windows, and do they have a guide somewhere?
How to Choose the Azure Region?
Doesn't work (relatively) as teleport nor time machine.
You don‘t even own an iPhone...
There is no value, but it pays the blogger. In a way they prove the point, only that it applies to themselves or the followers who would do exactly the same.

The same can be observed in some educationnal subjects, some teachers make money teaching students how to become teachers of the same thing, with no concrete value other than filling jobs. The money often come from state funds :)
Soyouz 1 was new technology and was bound to had some teething problems (like Apollo). Similar issues were very common even on other missions. There were backups and Soyuz 1 managed to deorbit.

Soyouz capsule is stabilized aerodynamically. And solar panel is not even on part that deorbits...

There were several delays. Problem was in parachute storage. It was kept in pod without maintenance. Before mission it must be checked and refolded, this did not happen. Parachute become moldy, sticky and did not open...

My source is a book from this guy:

Karel Pacner is a Czechoslovak journalist, with long history in soviet space mission. He was only soviet-block journalist who covered Apollo 11 on site. In 1990ties he had series book about soviet space mission based on his study of soviet archives.
I agree, such pompous and self aggrandizing titles convey the idea that the person behind it has a tendency to try to defraud others by portraying himself as an authority that he is not. It's like introducing ourselves to others as head chef because we made ourselves a sandwich.
Competition doesn’t imply rationality.
Given the physics of the landings that SpaceX does... they really, REALLY need to be sure of where they are landing, one digit off in coordinates, or altitude..., or sign of lat/long and all that stuff goes to the wrong people.
Excellent. Let's get more police on the streets of SF. How many patrolmen can you hire with the ~170k avg salary of the cities paper pusher employee?
But if they are on LEO the atmospheric drag shouldn't be too negligible no?
I think the trick with Fedora is to know the release-schedule, give them about two weeks after the release to find and fix the worst bugs and then not wait too long to update. On my own workstation I also didn't have issues.
Hope so. Thanks!
I wish more people would understand this. Those (both American leftists, and Europeans who listen to them) who say that "Democrats in the US would be right wing in Europe/Canada" have to (for example) then agree that all major political parties in Canada and every European country outside the UK and Ireland are right of US Democrats, because there is no significant opposition to voter ID laws anywhere. Macron's Les Republicains got elected because voters liked his vow to get tough on unions and union pensions, and privatize more infrastructure, neither of which appears in Biden's campaign platform.

Speaking of which, several European countries have privatized post offices; not just telecom companies that were parts of PTTs, but entire postal services. It is the rare European country that hasn't sold off at least part of their postal services. The EU explicitly requires postal monopolies to end in member states; whether government-owned or not, EU postal services do not have the USPS's monopoly on first-class mail. Yet no major party in the US seriously talks about privatizing the USPS.[1] Does this mean that American politics is "far to the left" of that of Germany and the UK, both of which have completely sold off their postal services to private investors?

[1] 1 And no, it's not because of the Constitution. Article I Section 8 only gives Congress the authority "To establish Post Offices", as opposed to requiring a government-run one. Certainly nothing in the Constitution mandates the USPS's first-class mail monopoly.
Aside from the fact that Apple DOES do advertising, you have to understand that even outside this - your data is valuable to apple and they take steps to keep it turned on. In some cases they are contractually obligated to collect the data.

Here's the thing -- by circumstance they are like arms dealers stuck selling arms to both sides. They must entice app developers to develop for their platform, and they must also entice consumers to buy their products.

Personally I think if apple was concerned about privacy, they would let you see what your phone is doing, and let you firewall your phone (one that could block apple traffic).
Not arbitrarily so. We don't have to throw our hands in the air and declare them infinitely ineffable.
I honestly feel a bit insulted that Apple is releasing a phone without Touch ID during COVID-19. They think I will gladly hand over large amounts of money for a phone that is highly inconvenient to unlock.

When it became clear that people around the world were being legally required to cover their face, in some places at any time they left the house, Apple should have raced to equip the next iPhone with a fingerprint scanner. Apple didn't even apologise for not including one. I would have bought the phone with that feature. Maybe next year.
try not being lazy when your hormone system has been fried with food that is literally illegal to sell in Europe, from early childhood;

https://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/american-foods-banned-ot...

or being told that common healthy foods we enjoy in Europe, Australia etc are dangerous and to be avoided;

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/oysters-and-vib...
I can almost imagine Apple unveiling a replaceable battery in the future and claiming it as ‘innovation’. It’l never happen but I’m sure they’d market it that way.
If we do, we can pull of a sandbox escape so brazen it'd make taviso blush.
The best way to win a competition of wits is to get smarter, i.e. make a better model that makes better predictions.
Cool name, I'm inspired to build a Moneymagnet.
There's significant daylight between the prog and moderate coalitions in SF -- at least if you care about anything on their platforms. Again, if your focus is policing people's sex lives and consensual relationships, it'll all look the same to you.
Flappers
I'm contrasting funding police and cleaning up a city versus paying continual homage to whatever the city is doing now - not much.
> The amount of energy required to run a universe scale simulation is beyond our ability to even begin to calculate.

Wouldn’t the simulation only have to run whatever is being perceived? No need to simulate things that are completely unattended.
the last Yahoo service I use
Is the universe compressible? Based on what we know, are there efficiencies to be found in storage or computation of the universe?

Because the smallest simulation of something incompressible is itself. Assuming the universe is incompressible, it's impossible to simulate the universe in the universe. The smallest computer to simulate the universe would be have the size and energy requirement of the entire universe itself.
That’s discrimination.
> For a small business the first thing you should be looking at is Office 365. Put it in the cloud, get rid of the VPN.

In Germany, this is forbidden by the data protection laws:

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-Office-365-Die-Gruende-f...
> Samsung and Android are big on the half baked gimmicks and lackluster supports

Since when? I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 from 2016, and I honestly don't see any bloatware. It's still running smoothly, and without degraded performance.
If you’re a developer, and you work for a big company that gives stock options, you will almost certainly become a millionaire after 15-20 years if you don’t mismanage it.

You’re far better off, on average, this way than if you work for startups. You’re also more likely to become a millionaire this way than starting a company, but your less likely to make hundreds of millions.
I picked up a refurbished 8 a while ago, great size + touchID
California is not likely to vote for Trump, but he's going to do much better than the 31.6% he won in 2016. Nationally, he's going to do much better than the 28% of Hispanics he won in 2016.
You edited your original comment... and you mean e.g not i.e.
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Taking jumps means nothing. And his choice of absurd and self aggrandizing titles lead me to doubt he ever stood on prestigious ground, at least acknowledged by others.
Kessler syndrome - hundreds of thousands of tiny shards would explode at the point of impact ripping into other satellites and rendering them defunct (causing more collisions). An exponential growth would occur which would result in Earth orbit being unusable. This might effectively lock use of Earth orbit away for centuries.

See the video by Kurzgesagt - “End of Space: Creating a Prison for Humanity.” [1]

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yS1ibDImAYU
Animals in factory farms disagree with you.
Working Software
I have an S10e. Coming from the 2016 iPhone SE I was looking for something a bit larger, but still reasonably small. It was a bit bigger than I would have liked, but I thought it would be fine. It's not. It's too big for me and I'm an adult male with relatively large hands. I'd be all over the 12 mini if it weren't for the price.
The revelation would falsify something at least? It would falsify “we have never been in and will never be in a simulation”, yeah? Because even if the revelation was simulated but this now isn’t, it would still involve simulation.

That being said, I don’t think it is likely.
There are a few more cities with amazing schools on the Peninsula but this is effectively the calculus. Some people still send their kids to private schools from those cities but the home value is buoyed by access to the public schools.
Yes, because it's great.
991km is pretty high for LEO - ISS is at ~400km, Hubble is at ~500km.
I have a scar across my left thumb from working in kitchens in my 20s and touchID seems really unreliable on that thumb.