skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US government has unlimited time and will around these things

> ...

> Let’s say he steps one foot out of the UK to another country that has an extradition treaty

Very much agree with this take, after all the US already forced the landing of the Bolivian presidential plane in Austria when they believed that Snowden could be aboard it in order to capture him and extradite him to the US
They use network traffic information to figure out who needs to be peered with. This is like asking citation for someone that says gas-burning cars need gas stops to refuel. It's just not reasonable.
I agree that banning people from platforms for no reason isn't cool. But what do people honestly expect from Facebook? Running ads in the first place is contemptible. Basing basically your entire business model on running Facebook ads is stupid in the extreme. If you're greedy enough to run your business like that, you reap what you sow.
I wouldn't trust Milton Friedman's opinion when it comes to life and death. He loves busting supporting pillars without first considering how to migrate off of them. His economic "misadventures" in China resulted in protests at the Tiananmen Square and everyone knows how that ended.
Well not quite, since you might have had their number but they not yours. But if you just talk to someone on Telegram, they are not automatically added to your address book, and thus can't see it by default (as I understand it)
This. I've never seen hners describe a product as "sexy" as many times as in the comments here.
If you don't consider measurement ontologically special, then you need to somehow derive a physically meaningful Born rule without reference to measurement, which so far is something that AFAIK has only been accomplished in theories with large amounts of nonlocality and extra assumptions. The idea that people cling to the obviously false projection postulate out of obstinance is really strange to me, there just aren't very good alternatives available (at least not with the math fully worked out).
They should have rights, but they need not, indeed they cannot be the same as for mortal beings. Consider: falsely imprisoning someone whose lifetime is limited for years is bad in that it's extremely unpleasant, but also because it deprives them of a finite resource. The former is true for an immortal being, not the latter obviously.
Sorry, I have to: we need more female construction workers for diversity. Most occupational deaths are male. We need to balance that scale. Do not we?! Sigh...
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One complication that is not mentioned explicitly, but can be inferred from the discussion on cycles is that context switching should take longer, right? In the most basic design, you'd wait for the entire instruction to complete, for who knows how many tens of cycles more. You could also just cancel the instruction and retry it after servicing the interrupt, wasting some work. Or let it still run, but only stall when the interrupt code wants to access the same vector registers. Which is going to happen eventually anyway if you're doing a context switch (barring some lazy state dump/restore optimization).
I would like to see load testing done in some kind of 100% deterministic environment. Make a system emulator where everything is fully deterministic, including perfectly timed IO and network characteristics.

Then your load test won't have any random noise from things like an SSD with inconsistent performance, or a CPU that throttles down depending on room temperature.

A zero-noise load test can be much shorter to get good results, and means you won't be investigating spurious performance regressions. You can compare traces between tested software versions down to clock-cycle accuracy to really locate issues, rather than just guestimating.
If the idea of "subsistence agriculturalist" is a US farmer, yes. Others are lucky to have a hut or some such structure.

In the developing world (and heck, in Southern Europe and the Balkans too, as recently as the 60s-70s) farmers used to live, whole family (extended one at that) in ~ 500 sq ft houses... One typical case was that brothers e.g. would often sleep in the same bed for 1 person, one with feet in one direction, the other in the opposite.
I just use my own domain and then forward incoming email to whatever service. This way it doesn't really matter what I use: if I get locked out I simply change the forwarding email. It's free with most providers.
It would be a hilarious unintended outcome if the Google Union developed into the official unofficial Google Support Channel, because they care about public perception in a way that Google don't.
Bitcoin consumes more electricity than the population of these countries
Look into China's Ghost Cities/Real Estate Bubble. Like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E
Where is Jack Ma? Chinese tycoon not seen since October
Quantum mechanics is a deterministic theory. It does not have "complete uncertainty at the quantum scale". The probabilistic aspect only comes into play when you cast a quantum state down to a classical observable quantity like position or momentum.

You may have missed the subtle but important aspect of the uncertainty principle. It is not the case that there is a true underlying value of position and momentum for which the error bars are limited by quirk of theory. It is more like you expect to be able to observe 2 bytes of position information and 2 bytes of momentum information but the underlying quantum state is defined by 2 bytes in total. The full 4 bytes cannot fit inside 2 bytes. You can have a state which encodes the 2 bytes of position information but no momentum information, a state which encodes 1 byte of each, a state which encodes 2 bytes of momentum information but no position information, and everything in between. The uncertainty principle is actually a non-existence principle. When the position information exists the momentum information isn't uncertain, it just outright doesn't exist.
Chess must be a "beauty contest" then.

Seriously, a model that can predict things better than a coin flip will be more scientific. Even if it utilizes something that is somewhat hypothetical / not immediately observable. Say, Newtonian mechanics talks about forces - but forces is a totally made up concept, their nature is (for the most part) not explained within the Newtonian mechanics framework at all, but it's a good model.

Also, many models of reality that are "inferior" to the "real models" are still very helpful and useful in science. Many numerical methods scientists are happy to use, say finite differences, discretize continuous equations. This transformation makes the model strictly speaking worse. But this is fine, since it allows to produce calculations that match and predict experiments. Even in Physics, people start using ML / neural networks to approximate complex calculations. Not because a neural network is a better more descriptive model of the reality (of course it's not), but because it calculates the answer close enough to the real one.

Crank ideas are crank not because they use use some made up concepts that cannot be experimentally seen. They are crank, because they ignore mainstream development, staying blissfully unaware of the subtleties and details the mainstream theories have already considered and resolved.

So the main fault of crank theories is the ignorance of their creators, who are either not willing or not able to correctly contextualize their work within the previously existing knowledge. If you want to do science, you have to do your homework: 1) explore and learn what is known already, 2) develop it further or propose an alternative, 3) contextualize your work within the existing knowledge about the subject. Skipping steps 1 and 3 is dishonest.
People overestimate the efficacy of CPR because they see people in the movies come back to life after 4 chest compressions and a second of mouth-to-mouth. I wonder if that is the sort of thing driving the discussion
Ask HN: Has Real Estate Tech become more attractive for founders
A few years ago a post about "Why Real Estate Tech Is So Attractive For Founders" was very popular on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7070930

I think the general consensus then was that Real Estate Tech was not attractive to founders. I'm curious to know if people think it has become more attractive now with more money being poured into the sector.
I'm voting for a deep hole.

My layman feeling wrt. QM, and Copenhagen school in particular, is that we're searching for too computationally simple mental models. Most other areas of physics - like GR, SR, thermodynamics - can get away with aggregating matter into points, perfect spheres, etc. because they're working in macro scale, but QM is trying to deal with the smallest bits of our reality. Now the boundary between QM and "classical physics" is one where your quantum system will interact with 10^{double digit} amount of other quantum-relevant bits. I have a feeling that searching for what constitutes "a measurement" in such scenario is missing the point, and even talking about the macro system being entangled with the test system is pretty much skipping over all the interesting bits.
Please give us some examples.
As usual, a tiny wrapper and huge beasts behind it, but let's count just this wrapper's code, lol. nginx and levelDb - who cares about them? :)
>>"The virologists working in Wuhan did travel all the way to Southern China to collect bat coronavirus samples and they did perform gain-of-function experiments. Viruses - even highly pathogenic ones - have escaped labs on numerous occasions. There is a plausible scenario here."

Another plausible scenario, in my opinion, is that the virus was brought to Wuhan by the virologists (in the virologist or their helpers) but never escaped from the lab itself.

If you have a bunch of people periodically going to interact with the bats, how improbable is that they get infected of something (unknowingly) on site?
But they can observe that Alice always wins when playing against Bob. (If they somehow can determine that one player is black and the other is white, they probably can also distinguish the players as well?)
> the moving location on Google Maps

Note that China intentionally fudges all locations, apparently you can see that in HK (where Maps is available), locations across the border are completely wrong (in the sea, etc)
These guys are roughly paying 1000 INR for average salaries (of the tech folk... others are much worse) of around 60,000 INR per month. Is it around the same ratio for you in terms of earnings versus cost for the connection? Otherwise it is misleading to convert everything to USD since earning average capacity is widely different from the West to other places.
Why didn't he first travel to somewhere else before saying those things?

He thought too much of himself and his power. He mixed up the source of his power with his money.
To update your reference class of how likely this is and what kind of countries this can happen in— one or more of the outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in the UK were caused by lab leaks.

2007: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2007/08/report-l...

2011: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/countryside-i...
> YouTube resembles cable television more and more every day.

Depends on what you're searching, there is also the perspective that YT is a vast library of content that would never have appeared on TV, such as lectures, talks, conferences, courses, demos, gameplay, cooking, home improvement, product reviews, obscure music. It's the library of Alexandria of modern age. I would be devastated if I lost access to it. Wikipedia and Arxiv are complementary collections.
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I think most people (including myself) may not have a good understanding what nefarious things this could be used for exactly. I don't have a stalker, and I don't think the risk of a targeted burglary is all that high in my case, what else could someone do with this to harm me?
If you pull up a list of countries by tax rates and some quality of life index they seem to be pretty corrolated so I would not say it is an outlier, where as the outliers are those with low tax and high QOL for example UAE, Oman and Qtar, but all those have a pretty significant income in another way compared to most countries.
One could even go with a series of dots (or other visualisation), preferably in a neutral colour, that can be expanded to include faces, so you still get some visual indication of team/network size.

As is, it definitely just is visual clutter.
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Increasing automation to push prices might keep the factories within the country, but it won't save manufacturing jobs.
Andrew "bunnie" Huang explains an alternative model of innovation in his talk An Alternative to the American way of Innovation[1].

The over-simplified summary is that instead of worrying about the losing the monopoly protection of copyrights and patents - which are expensive to enforce and often bypassed - consider the new types of innovation that become possible when you have access to the all of the knowledge that was previously locked behind IP monopolies.

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> The problem now is that a lot of cryptocurrencies are prime targets for money laundering, financing organized crime and terrorism networks.

I'd argue otherwise. A good (or successful) cryptocurrency should allow such transactions and be safe from the government. A good cryptocurrency should be ready for adversity and if it is censorship-resistant and really private, the government shouldn't have much power over any transaction.
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This is less of an issue in highly dense urban areas, such as typical east-asian metropolises. If you live in a building with 2000 other people, it becomes less concerning.

It seems like it would be rather easy to create an automated tool for triangulating users locations; by spoofing the GPS location of ones phone say 33 times, it should be very easy to triangulate every single person in the 'nearby' section.
Why do they need special laws to subsidize their creation? People can pay them to make their work, that's historically how things were done. Now suddenly they need special laws so its illegal to take a photograph in public without permission? Of course they need to get paid in order to live and to work, so do I, so does everyone else. Can we now discuss why creators are so special that they get an entire class of quasi-property rights where enforcement is subsidized by the state?
My first two jobs had me undeniably junior but I still had a measurable sizeable impact on the businesses where I worked within the first two months. Seems an overgeneralisation to say the first six months are a complete loss by definition.
Not OP. Good idea. I thought it's integrated into GitLab (on premise omnibus), but I still haven't fiddled with it, but enabled something in the config file, but nothing happened.

I know it's a tough spot, but if it were usable from GitLab with zero config that would be great for fallback.
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Of course. That's why the first two versions of the Matrix failed.
>increase the word count, add more photos

It seems that thanks to this policy of Google most cooking/recipe sites are full of fluff. Not always 'more content' means the content.
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It says that for me too, so I tried 8.8.8.8 and it was rated as "100% abuse". I don't think this tool is very accurate.
If you have the money for it, as in, a developer may be able to create infrastructures at whim, but does he have all the necessary money to pay for all the bills related to that cloud? (Paying for processing, storage, networking, etc)

We already know of a few cases where a bug in code got a few thousands of dollars of damage.

Imagine that multiplied by the number of objects created on an array that generates clouds in real-time in a developer's code.

It's a pretty pricy bug.
> If the idea of "subsistence agriculturalist" is a US farmer, yes. Others are lucky to have a hut or some such structure.

Not lucky, in fact it is the norm for them to have a dwelling. Adobe/mud or some other local construction technique.

> In the developing world (and heck, in Southern Europe and the Balkans too, as recently as the 60s-70s) farmers used to live, whole family (extended one at that) in ~ 500 sq ft houses... One typical case was that brothers e.g. would often sleep in the same bed for 1 person, one with feet in one direction, the other in the opposite.

Thats one example, in parts of Asia they have more room.
Life is just a more efficient way to dissipate energy (2014)
I thought this was a quite insightful article - and was surprised to find so much criticism in the comments. e.g. those who are attacking his parable on the grounds that "actually the odds aren't actual 50-50 in chess" or "an alien would have to wonder why some people win more than others"... these objections seem like nit-picking to me and miss the opportunity to broaden our perspectives. The example is to help illustrate and illuminate an intriguing idea which does merit consideration: that the scientific method and various aspects of the scientific process are very much a "gradient descent" algorithm which will tend to converge to a local minimum... the large jumps needed to discover the "global minimum" are not sufficiently rewarded... or may not even be within our capabilities!

Here is a more concrete example I have been considering recently: The principal of least action can be derived from Newton's force laws. Alternatively, Newton's force laws can be derived from the principal of least action. Therefore, you could choose to make either "law" the more fundamental one and consider the other to be an emergent phenomena. Might this also apply to, e.g. the principals of thermodynamics? Might it be that all of the laws of physics are actually just an emergent phenomena that can be derived directly from the information theoretic properties of the laws of thermodynamics and entropy?

But then, why even stop there? We choose/discover these examples because our tiny, mediocre brains can only understand the universe from that point of view, whereas the actual universe we live in is unimaginably vast and complex. But might there be a way, for example, of deriving the laws of physics from some narrative principal (e.g. "we live in the best of all possible worlds... therefore by some chain of reasoning: F = ma!"). Maybe that chain of reasoning is only comprehensible to an artificial intelligence which we have yet to invent, involving us inhabiting some element of a vast fractal structure subject to some sort of anthropic principal?

And in general, it is worth considering the concept that not all things which are "true" are objectively measurable - those are just the things that are easiest to prove are true. To give an example of something which you know is true but which is, almost by definition, subjective: the existence of your own consciousness! It is impossible to prove, objectively, that you're not just some simulation that is running in a computer that's about to run out of memory and segfault... that you yourself are "real".

That's not to say that any of the above is actually true... but it might be true. Our recent focus on "provability" and "objectivity" has been used to argue that such things are in fact false, or just not worth considering or thinking about. There is sometimes an arrogance when there should be humility. Just because something might be exponentially difficult to prove, the sheer difficulty in proving it does not mean that it is not true.... There may be things which are true which we will never have the resources to discover. I think it's all worth considering.