skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The philosophy aspect is questionable as well. That the fundamental layer of the universe may be something amenable to quantum simulation is way less impressive than this author thinks; it is not clear to me what "fundamental physics" would not be so amenable to quantum computation. If such a fundamental theory of everything wasn't amenable to quantum computation I'm not sure we could ever discover it.

If you hike over to the latest work that materials science has been doing you can also see that once you have a "qubit" it's pretty natural to make it sing and dance and do all sorts of related mathematical tricks. It's actually unsurprising there are things that might theoretically be able to simulate qubits in a more complicated universe. Materials science is past the point where it's proving these things exist and is into the process of engineering these states to spec, even if they haven't quite come up with a generalized quantum computer yet.

Or, to put it another way, I'm not updating my Bayesian probability of "the universe is a simulation" simply because it seems like the universe seems to be something that could be simulated on a particular type of computer, on the grounds that I don't have and never had any probability assigned to "the universe is fundamentally not something that could be simulated", again on the grounds that if that statement is true somehow it is likely that for the same reason it is true we could never prove it, or even necessarily gather significant evidence for it. (How would I do that? By finding some event in the universe that fails to match my own computational models? The probabilities that this is evidence for the non-computability of the universe would be smaller than "my model is wrong", "my data fed into the model is wrong", and "the physical process of computing my model failed" almost no matter what I did.) I already had effectively 100% assigned to "any observation I can make with my senses, no matter what machines may be augmenting it, is something that could be simulated with a sufficiently advanced simulator"... in fact, a "sufficiently advanced" simulator could be faking most of the "quantum" nature of reality, even with my machines I only can ever observe a very few qubits directly at a time.

(And I personally am observing basically none! I'm just reading articles about it. It is easy for the Great Simulator to be forging those articles for me, in a reality that is "generally" non-quantum except when it absolutely has to be for me.)
I find "the vehicle fled the scene" as a useful phrase that's used to distinguish this situation from the very different "the driver fled the scene" which is commonly used in the (not that rare) cases where the driver abandons the wrecked car after an accident, in some cases to hide that they were intoxicated.
Finland lobbied EU to declare nuclear power sustainable
The fact Australians can't leave or enter their own country, is pretty insane, even China (social score China) allows (with quarantine) their citizens to leave or enter the country. Australians let this happen to themselves, and now are screwed forever, sad to see.
I think heavily regulated before many people invest there retirement accounts and are then "the last fools in" and are left with nothing.

Wouldn't things have been better for the middle class if the real estate industry was more heavily regulated in 2008?
I think the point is you want the power run separately from the data. And you want the data lines to be short to reduce noise and loss.
Note that I gave them dedicated time to focus. I couldn't do it before lunch (in about an hour as I write this), but give me a few days to run some false starts and I think I could figure it out.
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When thinking of this amount of energy in kWh it seems small, but if this is deposited by lasers in a small fraction of a second it seems like a huge amount of power delivery.
The simulation 'hypothesis' is pseudo-science gobbledygook by any measure. There is no way, even in principle, to tell if we are in a simulation, unless the runners of the simulation decide to tell us.

In fact, the simulation idea is exactly transcendent religion coated in scientistic terms. The simulation is like Hindu Maya, where the real world is Brahman, the ultimate truth. Or Buddhist nirvana. Or even Abrahamic notions of the earthly world vs the Kingdom of God.
Yes, I do not think you bear responsibility if you collapse and someone strikes you with their car and then flees the scene.
You can work from a co-working space or cafe if you need to be around other people.

I actually think it's quite the opposite of cynical to engage with your community in a much more natural way than it is to be forced to socialize within the context of a for-pay job.
Not knowing where you're from sounds like you're commenting on the UK policy at least (I'm sure it parallels others)...

Speaking from an unfortunate position of experience a lot of this is driven (in the UK) by whitehall asking deliberately leading questions which are politically charged of civil servants and scientists.

aka, there is a difference between, "what do we have to do to reduce deaths due to X this summer" and "what do we have to do to eradicate X this summer"...

It's a shame that once these decisions had been made that only then the questions were asked. This is what comes from introducing data illiterate driven morons into the heart of politics, they don't understand the minutia of modelling, don't understand statsistics, and they abuse anything they find or read to a political end. </rant>
Gotta think about the scale here. 4k gaming pushes 8 million pixels, 60 times per second. Those pixels are being calculated from light bouncing off of meshes, each formed of 10,000-100,000 triangles. More triangles makes your objects look smoother and rounder. Each triangle also has texture information that dictates its color, as well as some specific properties such as reflectiveness. To achieve highly-realistic video games (and CGI), you simply have to have that level of complexity. Even then, the way light is calculated in video games is not realistic at all, it is done that way for significant performance/efficiency gains. Ray tracing is now being added, which is how light behaves in the real world, but that cranks the computational complexity through the roof. That's why it takes thousands of CPU cores 25 hours to render one single frame for a Pixar movie, they go for realistic physics/light.
"Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035."

I'm no expert on Nuclear power but it seems to me were going in the wrong direction. At a time when we're investing so much money in other fuels, we could be investing that in better nuclear power, like Small Modular Reactors [1], Sodium Cooled Fission, Small Pellet reactors, etc. [2]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/advanced-small-modular-reactors-sm...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-rea...

Edit:

I see France is investing in Small Reactors, but only 1 billion.

"One billion euros is to be thrown into nuclear power: “We need to develop small, innovative nuclear reactors in France by 2030, with better waste management," Macron said."

[3] https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20211012-hydrogen-nuclear-power...
> money and capitalism, which is inherently democratic by design in that many decisions contribute to the overall direction, rather than a single decision maker

No, that's not what “democratic” means. Its true that capitalism is inherently oligarchic rather than monarchic, because of the property you describe above (minus the improper reference to “democratic”) but that's...a far cry from democratic.
Google Cloud Run also scales to zero by default, but you can configure the minimum number of instances: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/min-instances
How anyone can say iOS favors privacy with a straight face after the CSAM debacle is beyond me.
To me it's not ambiguous - it means the latter.
I think your statement "Once you have plasma breakeven you have a self-sustaining heater basically" is false. According to Wikipedia [1] - if I interpret it correctly - the fusion energy gain factor from plasma must be 5 (!) to have a self-sustaining heater:

"Most fusion reactions release at least some of their energy in a form that cannot be captured within the plasma, so a system at Q = 1 will cool without external heating. With typical fuels, self-heating in fusion reactors is not expected to match the external sources until at least Q = 5"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
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I don't believe it is irrelevant. You're saying other people are overly attributing opinions to censorship - and you have a Harvard paper (but don't link to it) that may show censorship in China is more based on potential to go viral than on the actual content. How do you think opinions change if ideas can't freely be shared?

And I'm guessing that the definition of censorship in this paper is based on things that are actually removed from the internet, which is not the whole picture. Movies, songs, TV, news, and books all have to be approved by the party before distribution. Education is controlled by the government. There's also the comments that people don't make in the first place because they know it will be censored. That line is always being pushed, and it's purposefully vague. There was a teacher in Sichuan a month or so ago who made a very polite, short comment saying he wondered if the government would consider other strategies on their covid response and he went to jail for 2 weeks!

How do you think people break out of their set opinions? Where did those opinions come from in the first place?
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You are correct. I have the same experience often.

*siphon

“The Usual Suspects”, Keyser Söze
This is a stock phrase used by the journal. The author didn't write the words, he just checked a box on a form.
I find many people ask "Can you make the text bigger?" and react violently if you suggest that they can take control of the font size. It's like telling some people that they can use cut-and-paste.

Conversely, the fact that people can scale text make me loathe to choose a particular font size because no matter what size I set it, somebody might perceive it as "too large" or "too small" if they've set the zoom, either deliberately or accidentally.
> Show HN: Ensure all car crash articles are biased against the driver and vehicles generally using NLP

Seems like a better title for this.

In the analysis of the first article, under the "recommendations" about counterfactuals, it's literally telling you to remove relevant context about the incident, to ensure the readers can't possibly come to the "wrong" conclusion about who's responsible.

Distrust of news media is at an all-time high[1] and if people can't see how this sort of thing contributes, I really don't know what to say at this point.

1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrus...
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The main downside of Lambda, in particular for user facing applications is that the incentives of the cloud provider and you are completely opposed. You (the developer) want a bunch of warm lambdas ready to serve user requests and the cloud provider is looking to minimize costs by keeping the number of running lambdas as low as possible. It's the incentive model that fundamentally makes Lambda a poor choice for these types of applications.

Other downsides include the fact that Lambdas have fixed memory sizes. If you have units of work that vary in amount of memory required you're basically stuck paying the costs of the largest units of work unless you can implement some sort of routing logic somewhere else. My company ran into this issue using lambdas to process some data where the 99% of requests were fine running in 256mb but a few required more. There was so way to know ahead of time how much memory the computation would require ahead of time. We ended up finding a way to deal with it but in the short term we had to bump the lambda memory limits.

That doesn't even get into the problems with testing.

In my experience, Lambdas are best used as glue between AWS components, message processors and cron style tasks.
I've been recently trying out the new Apple maps' turn by turn navigation. Some of the directions are almost human like - "Take a left at next traffic light" Must say makes driving directions easier to follow compared to take a left on X street, when I can't even see what X street is at night.
If you're trying to gaslight me, save it.
I can't tell if you're saying you like or dislike A Deepness in the Sky. From my perspective it's among the most thoughtful portrayals of a truly alien species I've encountered (trying hard to be respectful here and not include spoilers for those who have not read it)
The best thing you can do to increase cognitive performance is to learn to think abstractly.
>Between 1990 and 2015 we added a billion people and cut the number of those living in extreme poverty down by half.

Ehhhhhh. This isn't really that close to truth.

These claims are based off of something called the International Poverty Line. This is the poverty line of the poorest country in Earth. In 1990 it was surviving off of $1/day. In 2015 it was survivng off of $1.90/day.

There are not many places in the world people can survive on $1.90/day. I don't care what the IPL says, you are still in extreme poverty if you can only scrounge up $2/day. Many experts argue that the real poverty line should be $5-$15 dollars a day in order to meet peoples basic survival needs. Besides, most of those gains made against poverty were made in China.

The reality is, while people have nicer things the poor are still getting poorer. While more people are getting out of the International Poverty Line, a disgusting amount of people continue to live in poverty. And the third world's continued exploitation by liberal developed countries (not at all claiming the illiberal countries are doing better, just the Liberalism is the prevailing ideology in the world) is a huge cause of the issue.
This link doesn't work for me in Canada, because of some faulty re-routing that Kaspersky's backend is doing (keep getting redirected to https://www.kaspersky.ca/fr). This one does: https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/hacking-agriculture-defcon29/...
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(Early employee)

We liked 1.x/cattle as much as the next person but it was clear 4 years ago that k8s was going to win the mind-share & market.

Competing with that was a slow and painful path to irrelevance. Which was the path Mesos chose, along with Docker/Swarm to a large degree.

(Please stop running 1.x, especially if exposed to the internet; it hasn't been updated in ~3 years now and everything up and down the entire stack it supports are going to be full of CVEs.)
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The only thing I know him from is his CCC talk, which is definitely interesting, even dazzling for all the ideas it ties together, but in the end it isn't really presenting anything new, so to me it is a bit of intellectual popcorn, like a TED-talk. I don't know anything about his actual research (which I think is unrelated to most of what he talks about) even though I did my PhD in an adjacent field. I believe as a researcher/teacher he is not in the same category as Peter Norvig and some of the other people you mentioned.
The Synergy of Curiosity and Initiative
The Decline of Disruption in Science and Technology [pdf]
Yeah, the time scale and volume of where it's happening matters a lot.

It's like in fission when you read about reactions giving net energy of X MeV. If you convert that to even Wh, let alone kWh, it's an incredibly small number. But when you start multiplying by the number of atoms in a fuel source, it starts adding up VERY quickly.
The article is discussing the media and government being intentionally vague or even misinformative because they don't trust the public, but it backfires and causes more distrust. The flip side that wasn't discussed is the belittling and censoring of voices that were skeptical of the narratives, which engendered even more distrust. Their strategy of information control backfired, and they doubled down. Now we've got a huge swath of US citizens that will never take the vaccine.
The most important benefit is that if a build is reproducible, then a backdoored build is reproducible. The security benefits and security implications of being able to reproduce what bad guys have done are huge.

And by having this "threat" against the bad guys, which consists in saying: "If you poison the well, we'll find how you did it", suddenly the bad guys are having a much harder time being bad.
I mean you are gonna have to expand on that. How can you be disgusted by some simple math?
We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment
> Cheese: more than one serving a week

A serving of cheese is one ounce, which is roughly the size of your thumb, or about two small cubes of cheese resembling dice. I can't imagine being limited to this amount of cheese per week. That's a paltry eight cubes of cheese per month!
I agree with the sentiment of this article, but I'm noticing that some folks can't determine fact from fiction even when presented with data that supports the facts or makes them irrefutable. No amount of logic, facts, or transparency will be enough for these folks, and while I can appreciate a skeptic, some of these people are beyond basic help and need professional guidance.
You sound like you’re alarmed the world might change without your permission.

A brand is a mind virus used by aristocrats to capture worker effort for aristocrats.

Go ahead and wave it off with a vague alarmist reaction yourself. I’ll let my real world experience with billionaires who goto Davos, and have plainly discussed with me their goal of leveraging technology to manage the agency of the masses for their gain, they’ll be dead before the environment is an issue or society decides its a problem because society is full of rubes…

Pretend hundreds who don’t know you exist care about your existence specifically.

Sit in your filter bubble and wag fingers at anything that might try to poke through.

Language changes meaning over time. Anchoring ourselves to past meaning is the opposite of disruptive.
I hope you have recurring donations setup for all these FOSS apps. FOSS still means that developers need to eat.
I’m a Rails developer–what the heck is Storybook, and should I care?
It was kind of a shocker too me when I discovered that in the PPP metric China has surpassed the US back in 2014.
Also a thing i heard today was that Mercedes for examples sold 770k plus cars in China compared to only 220k and 260k in the US and Germany. And people still expect western companies to decouple.
I'd much prefer to work alone and in silence than in an open office, or cube, or commute...

I can focus on what I'm doing when I'm alone. It's definitely preferable when writing things like code or copy, which is majorly stressful if other people are in the room.

If I feel like chatting, I can go to the cafe, talk to a neighbor. Even meeting the same UPS guy every day is kind of nice and makes me feel like my home is part of a regular community.

It feels much more natural than spending a good portion of my day on the freeway or in an office and just using my home for a place to sleep.
Do you have any links to presentations or documents about Huawei's management and development methodologies? It sounds like a different kind of beast, and I'd very much like to learn more.
What promise did Apple break with CASM?
I fully support it. As designed, it shows Apple goes out of their way to protect privacy as much as they do children from being exploited.
I proper balance of interests.
I can't wait for an M1X MacBook Pro that will crush my current Intel MacBook Pro!
I want to receive no communication from many of my friends and extended family for months, and sometimes years, and then, when I do receive something, I want it to be real and thoughtful and written to me personally, not to a distribution. I want to respond at my leisure to these people in the same way, with no expectation of immediacy. There is often more joy in long absence, and finally reconnecting, than there is constantly being connected. And less pressure. The days of very expensive long-distance phone calls and cheap stamps were great.
And make your AC work even harder during summer or if you live in a tropical/desert/…etc. climate.
> plus FAANG companies effects on local offices.

I work at one of the FAANGs and this isn’t exactly true for our case. We pay a wage competitive with other local companies, and it’s certainly a fraction of the same role pays in the US.
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An RNG that all your friends and enemies also have access to
Why do I find so many people willing to take the simulation hypothesis seriously, but are at the same time are not willing to take the idea of "God" seriously; which is a super-dimensional alien that found it in their good pleasure to create the universe?

Disclaimer: I'm an old-universe Christian
IANAC but any sufficiently secure RNG implementation should be inherently wasteful.
“I’ll stick with the phone made by a company that makes their money off of spying on me.”
Ok, sure. Have fun.
And thats a good thing too. Don't reward poor behavior with compliance.
Thought-provoking review of The Ministry for the Future in TC
Press release [1]:

> CureVac estimates that the earliest potential approval of [first-generation vaccine] would come in the second quarter of 2022. By this time, the companies expect the candidates from the second-generation vaccine program to have progressed to late-stage clinical development.

What's the goal of having a COVID vaccine market ready in the third/fourth quarter of 2022? And how will they achieve it? Will it be authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization? Do they anticipate that the circumstances justifying EUA's will continue?

[1] https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/10/12/curevac-to-shift-focus...