skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as the simulations run and are interfered with, the higher up simulations will diverge more and more from those lower down. An interesting direction this could go in would be if eventually a low-level universe created a person who was needed in a higher universe. Then we could have avatars being created in higher up universes to enable simulated beings to interact, perhaps even up to the top level...
It looks great but refuses to sync for me :( Too many (37000) bookmarks?
Risk over Time
This article sort of reasserts the same sentiment that the parent comment alluded to. Quoting a couple -

> Some farmers worry whether the reforms might lead to the end of wholesale markets and guaranteed prices.

> Farmers might go from the local monopsonies of the APMCs to the national oligopoly of Amazon-like behemoths.
Ok there I agree with you, however in some domains the choice is made by who is calling the shots and not due the technical merits of some sorts.

Windows is a good example of this politics game actually.

Joe Duffy mentioned on his Rustconf keynote that even with the system running in production, the Windows team couldn't be argued against.

A system that even powered parts of Asian Bing infrastructure.

Likewise they clearly sabotaged the Longhorn efforts, to replace them with COM, and yet UWP, mostly written in C++, happens to usually run slower than traditional .NET applications on Win32, or any other compiled GC'd language on Windows for that matter.
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This comment is amazing. Thank you so much.
Blazor can now also be used to write cross-platform desktop applications with C# similar to Electron:

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/02/17/net-6-p...

C# will then be compiled to WebAssembly.
I've been ridiculed for stating verifiable facts, even by teachers. There's something about people when you challenge something they believe to be true or untrue, they'll immediately resort to ridiculing the person stating it.

I always try to avoid doing this myself and ask how they came to their conclusion. If the answer is "do your own research" however, as is very popular with the 'skeptic' community, I discard it immediately.
If the bull case was only $150k, I might agree with you. The bull case is $5 million. But bitcoin has always been risky and can always go to 0 rather quickly.

Anyway, there is no point at looking at nominal values given inflation, population growth, general progress. I like to look at everything as a ratio against total global numbers (global wealth, global debt, global population, global equality etc.). Unfortunately it’s hard to find reliable global numbers.

The IIF only gives its numbers to a few hundred global banks and similar sized institutions.
No, epubs - presumably as a competitor format - are not supported.

You can do it (email "conversion" - often just a horrible mish-mash of text and images) with PDFs and text etc.

Epubs need to be converted first by a third party service, eg calibre.
If an AI set her up, why would it let us discuss it here?
Staff won't give you anywhere near a million per year in total comp. Not even before tax or living expenses.

You'll be able to put away 100-200k a year on that at best, is my estimate.

(This includes bonus and stock)
I can only imagine that vast majority of Texans would fight tooth and nail against any kind of regulation as government meddling. They overwhelmingly want to be free of restrictions and regulations to have "freedom" to enter any shitty contract they can. So, there you go you entered a contract where your price is matched to the wholesale price? That's what you get. I don't feel even a shred of sympathy, because I know fully well that any attempts to help would be met with outright aggression and ridicule.
My particular Boox is a small 6 inches, so it's not ideal for that use case, and I think there's only one model that has an actual physical HDMI input but yeah I'm pleased enough with the reading experience that I may upgrade to a larger one that can be used as a coding screen, pen input tablet etc.

Again, with screensharing apps, or terminal apps as others talk about in this story, it's possible to do certain things of this nature without the HDMI cable too.
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I think he is being sarcastic about a recent judgement.
> the same type of comment that blames ORM-s for ineffective SQL being used because people don't know how to write the queries in the first place.

I don't think this blame is as unfair as you imply, even if if were the primary cause of ORM induced performance disasters. In my experience the main selling point of ORMs has always been the promise for people who fancy themselves programmers to leverage DB technology without having to sully themselves or their cherished OO model by learning the relational model, databases or SQL. The other, equally false promise has been that the ORM would somehow allow you to "abstract" over your concrete DB so you could easily swap out one for another. Both these ideas now seem utterly misguided to me (although many years ago I probably fell for the same nonsense). For all of SQL's warts, I find the relational model conceptually much superior to OO. Moreover since the way data moves in and out of the DB (and the consistency/transactional and performance constraints around this) is often more architecturally central than the python code that orchestrates it, what ORMs are trying to do, shoe-horning the well thought out relational model into the badly thought out OO model seems utterly backwards to me -- spanning the cart before the horse so to speak. Now I will readily admit that SQLAlechemy is about the least bad ORM I have encountered, but I still absolutely fail to see what the point of it's ORM part is (I can see a bit of the appeal of being able to dynamically construct or compose queries with core, although I'd try hard to avoid the necessity).

Clearly you know what you are doing with hundreds of millions of users and you are not the sole large user of SQLAlchemy either, so I am evidently missing something. Can you maybe give one or two examples of things that are much easier/robust/... because of SQLAlchemy, compared to just writing SQL, in separate files, and executing that from you python code?

To be clear, there are various things that I think are broken about how databases work, and I'd really like to see them fixed but I don't see how SQLAlchemy helps much with most of the below (with the notable exception of query parameterization).

- no high level support for migrations: it should be possible to get a readable aggregate schema defintion out for example and it isn't

- parameterization and composition of queries is awkward and limited

- (for most DBs) lack of in-process support

- bad testing framework support
Most cross platform toolkits support layout managers, since Motif days.

Actually even WinForms supports them, even though too many are happily doing fixed canvas positioning without using them.
Could you share your layout? I also recently started using a Moonlander. I can currently type around 40-50 WPM, but it's getting better.
> Why?

Selfishly, I don't want our reality to be turned off.

All other motivations follow from that, as intermediate steps to figure out how to break out and become more permanent. Even if I'm a consciousness inside a Boltzmann Brain near the heat death of the reality-actual, a hundred Sol years passing for every "second" of simulation "tick", I want help in whatever way I can on a solution to beat entropy. Not going gentle and all that...
They all do however, succeed in diverting attention thoroughly away from both AI, and ethics..

ML and AI are just calculations, always will be. You need sound, rational arguments and evidences, to get the breakthroughs.
I'm not an economist. I want to know net capital invested in BTC.

With your example, that'd be $10,000. But it would be then (when they sold) and now (even though the sticker price is $50k).

Alternative example: someone is holding a BTC that cost them $1, whereas someone else just bought one for $50k.

Market cap says there is $100k in there. I see $50,001 there.
I sometimes comment to show a bit of effort, when I agree with someone, like yours superbcarrot, something more than an easy upvote. Not everything has to be a discussion.
If you liked this story you should definetly check out the TV show DEVS[1]. It's very well produced and good performance. I loved it.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203389

Note that netguard (a vpn firewall solution) is not active at boot. It gets kicked well after wifi comes up.

My tcpdump tests showed a few seconds of traffic before it started blocking. This is a known thing, but it is time enough that I watched loads of traffic phone home on boot.

Another thing, is that the wifi connectivity test/beacon has been modified to point to the boox store url.
This is not blocked by a VPN, and thus, anything could be happening.

To be fair, once netguard was up and running, it did block all but that, and I ran tcpdump over several days watching.

Of course, if you want any part of the Boox ecosystem, you have to let it phone home.
Yup, it will.
> Actually, we're in a world where Windows 3.0 "lost", if such a win/lose designation is meaningful. What Windows people use today isn't any form of DOS+Windows at all. It's Windows NT.

That said, Windows NT is still a partial descendant of DOS+Windows. A lot of NT's APIs and other interfaces (filesystem path syntax, CMD.EXE, etc) come from DOS+Windows. Some people say poetically that the deceased ancestors live on in their descendants, and that's much more true of DOS+Windows than of OS/2.

(There is still some fringe use of OS/2 as eComStation and ArcaOS, but there is also still some fringe use of DOS, Win 3.x/9x, and clones such as FreeDOS. There are also odd places where OS/2 has left its mark, such as the DosSetRelMaxFH [0] and DosSetFileLocks [1] APIs on IBM i that were copied from OS/2, although IBM i itself is somewhat fringe.)

[0] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/api...
[1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/api...

> It wasn't OS/2 3.0, and it never had OS/2 2.0 support, nor even full OS/2 1.x support.

NT itself only ever shipped support for OS/2 1.x console apps, but Microsoft sold a separate add-on which added support for OS/2 1.x GUI apps. I don't think many people bought it, but it existed. I wonder, how close to complete an emulation NT was of OS/2 1.x once you'd bought that add-on?
That would need a rewrite from scratch instead of the described refactoring and introducing more functional concepts.
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You've got me super curious. What sort of industries are you catering for when making your own products?
Little fix in the order: Herr Professor Doktor. But only in formal writing.

When talking to them, it's Herr Professor.

Austria loves their honorifics, though. Every school teacher is a Professor, and the Professor's wife is Mrs. Professor.
A perfect show of how little is know about the effect of those drugs:

>they're also used to treat a spectrum of anxiety disorders like OCD and panic disorder

A massive amount of people treated for depression have panic disorder because of these drugs, so they can treat or induce the same thing in different people.
Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole
Of my 67k+ bookmarks, I would reckon that at least 85% are from automation (Twitter/Feedbin/Facebook/Pocket/Flickr/Instagram/Fediverse favourites, things I've tweeted/facebooked/flickr'd/instagram'd, etc.) There's no way that works with synced browsers and saved tab groups.
I have the exact same dream but the class varies.
The problem with that is that modern houses are very well insulated and unfortunately the insulation also traps moisture. If it gets too cold water condensates in the walls and mould can form. 17° in my experience is too cold and poses a risk.
If you see him speak in person, like in a documentary, he always seem high on adrenaline. Don’t know whether thats a good or bad thing.
Do you think a keyboard like that is mainly helpful for people with pain, or it would make typing more comfortable/efficient for the general user ?
Speech is more than articulating words. It is also about rhythm and melody and idealy also body language.

The way someone speaks is very unique ... and it is actually very, very important how you speak to bring your point across. Or ... to convince people.

A robot voice might present the best arguments, but it will very likely loose to a good speaker who can (literally) tune in to his audience.

Speech is a complex pattern of sound waves, containing much more information, than binary encoded words.

So if there was a ML tool to make people with strong accent more understandable, why not. But you can also numble without any accent.

And I can enjoy and understand certain people with strong accents much better than natives, because they are just good speakers.

And having subtitles is one thing, but changing their voice .. would require consent I believe. (unless you run the tool for yourself, but I believe parents point was, he speaks and then automatically a tool enhances his voice, I would not like that, too)
Doubt she was needed there first place, just good PR to hire someone related with ethics who is also POC and woman.
Yeah, he was totally wrong on Python.

That being said, I'm not sure he would have predicted that data science would be what pushed Python into a better place. Very few people would have, certainly around 2004 or earlier when he was writing it.
I have this dream too, except it is the English language class and there was a book to be read on our own (Hound of Baskervilles) that I forgot to read.
If you can get those saves as an RSS feed, you can use IFTTT to send them to Pinboard.
I think your experience with migraines can hardly inform a typical person's experience with blue-light filters and a random hidden camera exposé is not really going to "prove" anything. Also, flux is aimed at sleep regulation, where blue-light filtering is aimed at claimed damage reduction and increased acuity.

However, there do seem to be no studies proving efficacy, indeed.
I'm sure those libraries are good, you just tend not to encounter stuff like that in programs written casually or by people who think performance really matters.

Most people doing triangulation by ear clipping are trying to rasterize shapes. In the past, cairo (the 2d graphics library) had a bug that would cause crashes/hangs in Firefox because a VPN driver was changing the floating point state on random threads... which would cause one of those geometric algorithms to break.
The second example in the article shows someone using 5000 kWh in January of this year alone — how does one household reasonably use that amount of electricity? In The Netherlands and Germany the average is around 3500 kWh per household _per year_.
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Because it all comes out of American universities? I wouldn't mind if they didn't try to spread and infect the rest of the world into it either.
Web-tool to determine how to schedule and staff at a Covid vaccination clinic
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food price indexes and data collection
Linux Sucks 2021 [video]
Clojure-lsp: my new drug
I was the under the impression that everything on qntm is by one author.
I can imagine how hard it turned out to be, thanks for sharing.
Biocrusts Are an Entire World Beneath Our Feet
You wouldn't need to simulate the entire universe in perfect detail - just the parts users are interacting with, and just to sufficient detail that they didn't notice anything amiss. This is exactly how we render games.
I've never heard of discovery being applied to ones own communication.
There seem to be quite a few people that consider Dr. Gebru to be one of the leading scientists within that specific (sub)field.

I don't know the field well enough to have an opinion on the merits but it seems like a view one might disagree with but would not be surprised to find somebody to hold.
Seems like the employees are undermining all of the security team’s efforts by suppressing critical thinking at the prospects of getting a trinket.
That is not what gaslighting means.
EMACS, a great air traffic controller, but really could do with a good text editor.
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There's a fine line between appreciative agreement and something that just decreases the signal to noise ratio though.
Very interesting story. After reading a few thoughts came to mind:

1. I don't agree with the "midpoint stability" argument. Since these are simulations - the real one is on the top, but there is no "bottom simulation", since every simulation below is also running a simulation. Hence there is no stable middle point - since there is no middle in the first place.

2. About simulating the future. It seems quite obvious that, since everything is based on determinism, they cannot look at the future and change something so that the future they observe is no longer the case. Hence the only possible future they could look at would be that which they wouldn't want to change in any way. Which is really an interesting idea. But furthermore - when they look into the future (say) 100 years from now - the simulation they are seeing would be the one which already "looked" into the future. So the act of looking must have a profound effect - it has to order the future so, that whoever is looking at it would not be able to change it, because: 1) if you can change it then determinism falls apart, and so the whole premise of simulation, and 2) if you would decide to change it then, within the future you see in the simulation, that change has already taken place.
Yet we know for a fact irrational numbers exist, and some of them are even trivial to grasp (like pi, which they mention how they are calculating all the digits of, which is weird on its own since pi has a greater than aleph-0 digits in any numbering system, because it's, well, an irrational number).

But writing a coherent story around non-countable infinity is so much harder because our brains struggle to grasp that concept altogether.

Basically, my point is that our brains have a few limitations which we work around by simply ignoring the stuff that does not compute. And that there are much more approachable things which belong there, like the ratio of a circumference and radius of a circle.

Yet even in the quantum future, it's hard to imagine "real" number of universes because we are so bound by the countable numbers.

I'd like to see a story go that far, but it's likely not to be very readable because humans today don't think of irrational numbers as irrational.
For me the main factor for using mechanical keyboard is the amount of force required to press keys (Actuation Force) - its much smaller compared to cheaper membrane keyboards and it makes a huge difference if you type a lot (much less strain).

Travel Distance, distance a key needs to travel to be actuated, is sometimes within 2mm (eg. cherry mx browns). If you learn to use just enough force to type, you glide over keys. No need to bottom out.

If I ever need to type something on a standard keyboard, I feel like moving stones.
I don't think that's a valid point to make now. A 2013 macbook is a fundamentally different machine, much more modular. For the all soldered machines, ultra compact, we simply don't have the data. And for real "repair" meaning you rip out everything and replace with a new board "module" isn't exactly sustainable design. You are extrapolating apples to oranges.
So this means modern macs essentially have 4 copies of OS X installed? One regular, 2 recoveries, and whatever runs on their management controller(Bridge OS? Does that still exist on M1 macs?) and the touch bar.

Seems to work out fine for them if it creates resilience and makes code-sharing/interoperability easy.
How does project zero trash talk their employer, do you have any such instance?
The Perseverance Mars rover just took Linux to another planet
> I note there is no comment section on this piece...

The absence of a comment section may be consistent with one of the author's pieces of advice: "have the disagreement away from an audience."
Your word is evidence, then they can use that to look for more evidence including checking emails.
I would use SME server to do it but a QaD way might be just flashing a decent router with DD-WRT. In any case I would make sure You get a deposit from your potential customers first, many people say they want things but then flake out when the time comes to pay.
Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef: What Is It?
Ask HN: Does the citibank ruling mean hard times for software developers?
So Citibank had a terrible software UI / process / something. And now there is precedent that making a mistake is sometimes irreversible.

Does this mean that every bank and financial institution is now rewriting its codebase to be more ... reliable? Is it affecting you?
One approach that you can take to deal with this is to mentally back way the fuck off the 1990s on what your UI expectations are.

Give up pixel-accuracy and fine-grained control of your app's UI layer, and just treat it how people like Peter Norvig and Chris Lattner treat their home pages.

There isn't any browser with even 0.1% share that can't render those things.

You also don't really have to go as far as those guys do, leaving the font 14-point Times New Roman and using HTML 1 tables. You can add some style, fonts, etc... just don't add anything that would make it _not work_ if somebody opened it in Netscape Navigator 4.

There is definitely a big downside, in that your app won't look all dope and modern. For many apps that is a deal breaker. Also, some UIs really do require a higher fidelity UI. Not all UIs are just like, buttons and menus (although a lot are).

But there is also a big upside: durability, in the sense that your app's UI will work on most 10-year old computers, and most computers 10 years from now.
Witness testimony is evidence.
I think it's unwise to minimize the impact and significance of AI at this time - this is the same sort of thinking that prevented proactive and effective management of Social Networking and Big Data technologies. We have to take it seriously this time round, and if it proves to be a y2k thing - well no problem.

You are right about the humanities types - the otherside of the coin is that there is a definite class of insight that should come out of social sciences and history that is relevant here. Unfortunately those fields are dominated by bullshit artists which means that the signal to noise ratio is very very low.
Drugs most definitely aren't legalized in Europe.

Also, Europe is a collection of sovereign countries, each of whom has their own drug policies.
It's funny how google started off with such a good reputation and managed to end up with "you can't expect them to be any better than drug hawkers".
Time to break out the Thomas Kuhn again.
The pandemic made the world realise the importance of human contact
I agree with you about the "preordained goal that consent must be found" but I'm not convinced that a technical aspects, like Arguman, can help here. You need the humans in board.
You mean there are no zero-volume nonorientable-manifold Klein bottle icebergs in real life? :(
I've got an iOS Shortcut which fetches all my Pocket URLs (via a text file I generate myself), shuffles them, and then pushes the top 20 to the top of the pile as "READ THESE PLEASE" kind of prompt. Should be easy enough to lash up some code using the Pinboard API to pick some random RIL URLs and push them into email / something.
I've added it.

Is there somewhere to buy it, or is it discontinued / one off group buy? I've linked it to here for the moment: https://www.taehatypes.com/alice