skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you fix a sub-volume of the universe

Then you are not talking about the thought experiment that I was responding to, but about a different one. I have no objection to talking about the different thought experiment that you propose (and I'll do that below), but nothing in any such discussion is relevant to the objection I made to the original thought experiment, which was about the entire universe, not just some portion of it.

> you can calculate the energy in the volume

Actually, no, you can't. There is no known invariant in GR that corresponds to "the total energy inside this volume" for an expanding universe. There are only two cases in GR where we have known invariants that correspond to "the total energy inside this volume": (1) an asymptotically flat spacetime, where we can define the ADM energy and the Bondi energy; and a stationary spacetime, where we can define the Komar energy. An expanding universe does not fall into either of these categories.

You will find claims in the literature that a "total energy" for cases like an expanding universe can be calculated using so-called "pseudo tensors". However, such claims are not accepted by many physicists, and even physicists who do accept that "pseudo-tensors" are physically meaningful don't all agree on which pseudo-tensors those are.

You can, of course, choose some set of coordinates (such as the standard FRW coordinates used in cosmology), and integrate energy density over some spatial volume in a 3-surface of constant coordinate time. (It is not clear that this is a correct way to get "total energy", because in GR the source of gravity is the total stress-energy tensor, which includes momentum, pressure, and stresses as well as energy density, but we'll leave that aside for now.) But the result of any such computation is not an invariant; it depends on your choice of coordinates. The energies I referred to above (ADM, Bondi, Komar) do not. That is why they are accepted as physically meaningful by all physicists.

> The question upthread is clearly "does the energy in this volume increase due to expansion?"

It's not at all clear to me that that is the question being asked upthread (for one thing, that poster, in another subthread, has explicitly said the "energy" they are thinking of adding comes from outside the universe). But even if we assume it is, the question is still meaningless because it assumes there is such a thing as "the energy in this volume", which, as above, there isn't.
One can always reverse whatever internal API the main site uses, and/or steal the API key from the official app.
Apple' software allows to generate a virtual model of your hands. If they manage to track your hands well enough that could be used for games.
But what does that have to do with dylibs?

If you have RAM usage restrictions, aren't they for the whole process, so the main binary and all its dylibs?
That’s the perceived resolution which is different than number of physical pixels but you’re probably right in the 127k is a better comparison.
socially where? where ever you set those social norms, someone will set up a server not there. like russia or any of the other internet bogeymen countries
Are you daft? It's two of the greatest/most-importants minds of the 20th century meeting in the post ww2 era.

From the western side - Kissinger is arguably right up there with Machiavelli, his influence is immutable. and Mao sort of made modern china.
There's also a much easier to use version of shreddit written in rust (of course)

https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
I mean, that's the truth. That's the only answer I had any respect for.
> "Eliezer's writings), that words are handles, pointers to associations"

The first part sounds like the Detatched Lever Fallacy post on LessWrong:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zY4pic7cwQpa9dnyk/detached-l...
As someone that rides a bicycle around human-driven vehicles, I will take my chances with autonomous cars. The autonomous car isn't going to drive drunk, use a phone, or drive erratically because the driver is feeling frustrated.
Is everything every written by or about Kissinger somewhere on the internet?

I'm pretty sure it would be one of the highest quality textsets you could get for this whole LLM thing.
A Web-based desktop pretty much sums up why technology today is terrible. I assume they have a browser that runs in the browser, and that they'll add browser APIs to make it easier to do browser-in-browser. Maybe then implement a minimal desktop environment in the browser-in-browser browser, and then add another API...
Can you give a hint on the subject matter of the sub?
The Apple ones do not have a variable focal distance, though the technology exists in the lab.
> Every social problem can be legitimately solved by throwing more money at it[1]

What?

That famously didn't work with covid.
You're looking far out for 2106 while ignoring the signing change already broke all date calculation from prior to the epoch. This means, with an unsigned version, you start out immediately butted against the problem that many real dates are not representable instead of running into this problem many years away. The advantage that future dates will be representable twice as far out doesn't make up for being butted up against the same problem in the other direction from the start.

The same story is present with 64 bit nanosecond based timestamps, albeit we're keeping the mid date ever so slightly in the past for ease of conversion. If dates in 2264+ are important then just use a 128 bit timestamp, it'll fix the problem for many multiples the age of the universe instead of causing issues now to gain a few hundred years of padding in the future. Another common approach is to keep u64 second based timestamps and save the nanoseconds as another integer. This comes at the cost of "only" solving the problem for hundreds of billions of years but being interchangeable with those using non-fractional timestamps.
>And the average person also doesn't know the website exists.

Taking the larger number of people outside of the US that only use mobile devices and only use apps like FB, WhatsApp, or others I'm not familiar with, I'd go so far as saying that the average person doesn't know websites exist. If it's not present to them via an app, could they find an actual website (or at least would they even attempt to)?
Do you have an authoritative source to back up that claim, with examples that separate the effect you're claiming?

When I can't see pixels, it sure seems to me that I've reached the limit. Antialiasing isn't blurriness once you can no longer distinguish pixels, it's just how vision works. The "blurriness" of the source matches the blurriness of the eye so any additional sharpness is a waste.
> I don’t use distros that lack a graphical installer (running fdisk is frankly beneath my dignity)

Ironically, I couldn't get the 22.11 graphical installer to work. I had to drop down to an Arch style install (which was fine).

My biggest complaint with NixOS is the pain of trying to run things that weren't built in nix (like Minecraft, or some other binary-only tool). I end up creating a podman image to run some of these things. I'm sure I could also create a derivation for them, but haven't bothered running down that rabbit hole yet.

If you're a programmer, Nix is awesome. But I don't think it's for the masses.
The only reason why this is true is that we don't have the ability to install a computer chip into a robot to get human cognitive abilities.

In a future where we have real AI, they will eventually have the ability to install a computer chip into a robot to get better than human cognitive abilities. At which point the robot is cheaper and more capable than we are.

Why would they need us then?
This sounds eerily like LLM hallucination:

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In one of Gazzaniga’s experiments, researchers presented the word “walk” to a patient’s right brain only. The patient immediately responded to the request and stood up and started to leave the van in which the testing was taking place. When the patient’s left brain, which is responsible for language, was asked why he got up to walk, the interpreter came up with a plausible but completely incorrect explanation: “I’m going into the house to get a Coke.”

In another exercise, the word “laugh” was presented to the right brain and the patient complied. When asked why she was laughing, her left brain responded by cracking a joke: “You guys come up and test us each month. What a way to make a living!” Remember, the correct answer here would have been, “I got up because you asked me to,” and “I laughed because you asked me to,” but since the left brain didn’t have access to these requests, it made up an answer and believed it rather than saying, “I don’t know why I just did that.”
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It hit you different because you're subconsciously interested in putting drugs in your butt, and you took the time to comment because you wanted to learn more. Maybe.
Does your friend have 4 hands? If so, I would love to see 2 hands do QWERTY and 2 Colemak.

And then swap hands.

Then keyboards behind the back.

Have I taken this joke too far? Or not far enough?
I did this exact thing in 1st year geography. Gotta use the network analysis tool, not spatial analysis. Distance along road segments, not the Euclidean distance tool.
Here's a video on some related stone structures and mathematical properties found with some of them:

https://youtu.be/TznzPjLRtYg
It’s extremely clear that Spez doesn’t know how to handle Christian.

Christian hasn’t been beaten down by years of corporate ladder climbing. He knows how to protect himself, but does it in ways that others don’t often see in the business world.

Even the whole “$10m extortion” thing feels overblown. Like I can’t believe a CEO would ever take a comment like that anymore seriously than a passing joke/jesting comment in that situation. Christian’s point is true. If Reddit is having such a hard time delivering a quality app, they can buy any third party app.

The fact that Spez seems so stuck on that seems to indicate the success of Apollo is really weighing on him.
Y'all will come back in 20 years specifically to upvote this.
There is nothing defensible about this business model. It's entering a crowded category with entrenched players who have far deep pockets and can negate all of this startup's so-called advantages. It's really about the worst kind of business to enter besides the restaurant industry.
We trade with bees, dogs, and carrier pigeons. It’s just a matter of communicating the symbiotic value proposition to the other species.
I guess it's more controversial if you put it the other way: "does dropping the humidity level increase coughing" etc
Coincidentally, this is the week we found out what Jack White is up to:

https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1666571252880818178
I believe PowerPoint simply buried many better ways of presenting bytesized information chunks to the world. It prioritized the author's laziness over audience comprehension.
Do the new-internet from Pied Piper. Everyone that uses the app "donates" space to the network with IPFS or something
I disagree; nobody "Needs to be profitable". Companies especially; many break even or depending on the time the average is breaking even or barely profitable. The fact that there are huge corporations overworking employees, and have record breaking profit margins over the last few years, with hours cut to employees is what I shake my fist at. but we are all sheep so the trend will continue. Profitable is subjective and really boils down to who is getting screwed.
This reminded me of something the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wrote on the "intoxicant" part: https://uesp.tumblr.com/post/179903892360/is-it-true-that-mi...

> All of these rumors are false. The truth is that people on the Internet saw someone adding writing beyond a grade school level to a video game, and decided that to produce such a thing required you to be on drugs. Ignoring the dangerous message to budding creative types who may see the message that to be creative you have to be on drugs, it’s also extremely unfair to Michael Kirkbride himself. He’s a real person, with a real career. It’s not the best thing in the world to be a noted professional, and whenever someone googles your name, one of the top results relates to a fictional history with substance abuse.

Kirkbride's description tones it down to just some coffee and bourbon: https://www.imperial-library.info/content/thirty-six-lessons...

> "It was one dev, naked in a room with a carton of cigarettes, a thermos full of coffee and bourbon, and all his summoned angels."

And: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/hrmdzk/comment/fyd...

> You know that comes from a Photoshopped image, right? Come on now.

> Anyway, that’s all a lie. I’ve already given an account of how the 36 were written: a week of bourbon, smokes, and solitude. I’ve never dropped acid in my life.
2-Phase Immersion Cooling Halted over Multi-Billion Dollar Health Hazard Lawsuit
Hours have gone by, and many developers' questions are unanswered.
The thing I've learned from many areas of Eastern philosophy is that they don't seek to give you "the hard truth of the universe", but rather tools to understand reality and lenses under which to view it.
Of course, if we conflate it with religious beliefs then it's easy to think that they are laying out the truth under their worldview... But that's not how I've found it.

The true usefulness of the eastern conceptions of the self, the ego, the thinking mind, the emotions, it's all to help us see our faults and try to correct some of them to reduce unnecessary suffering.
But under the esoteric veil of using Sanskrit or Pali terms like antahkarana, advaita, ahamkara, Brahman and Maya, it can be confounding.
My father used to throw a glass of water on me if I tried to sleep in on the weekends. Twenty years later, I think my brain is still trying to catch up on that lost sleep.
So what you're saying is that we should bring back AOL :)
> What brings us together is a recognition of a new situation in the world and a recognition on our part that what is important is not a nation's internal political philosophy. What is important is its policy toward the rest of the world and toward us
I've been trying to remember Supernews all day since talking about it in another thread, but too busy to stop to look it up. Honestly, I'm shocked they have remained a thing.
Wikipedia seems to have an adequate explanation:

Neoliberalism, also neo-liberalism,[1] is a term used to signify the late-20th century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism after it fell into decline following the Second World War.[2][3] A prominent factor in the rise of conservative and right-libertarian organizations, political parties, and think tanks, and predominantly advocated by them,[4][5] it is generally associated with policies of economic liberalization, including privatization, deregulation, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society.
I responded to this in the other subthread where we are having this discussion.
It's tribal culture and many drivers have an attitude that the roads are them and only them.

They spout ridiculous arguments about cyclists not paying taxes as an attempt to justify their aggressive behavior. Sadly in many forums, I've seen a complete lack of empathy even when cyclists get hurt or killed. (victim blaming)

Perhaps the solution is for truckers to lobby against any roading and safety improvements for ordinary vehicle owners. (taste their own medicine)
Haha thanks! Glad you could find my app easily!
It crossed the line from stupidity into dishonesty when the judge asked him "Wtf is this court case that you're citing", and the lawyer sent the judge a fabricated document.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...

How can anyone trust anything a lawyer does, when they are willing to fabricate documents, in order to continue to lie to a judge? This is Better Call Saul-level chicanery.

He could have fessed up and apologized when called out on it, but he doubled down.
There is no such thing as "exact same time" due to relativity. The most perfect of clocks in use on the planet will drift, and both are correct.

Mail an atomic clock easy to west, and a different one west to east, and they'll drift different amounts. Put one in a plane, it will disagree with one on the ground. Put one on a mountain, it will disagree with one at sea level. Put one at the pole, it will differ with one on the equator.

There is little sense in claiming one time is exactly equal to another. Close to some tolerance is useful.
I’d wait for real experiences to show up - GeekBench isn’t a great benchmark for pro work but it’s very accessible and people who get paid by ad impressions know there’s a big advantage to getting the story out first so we tend to see these things pretty reliably after new hardware comes out. Later, you’ll see stories from people who do real work but by then the attention will have dissipated.
Become an expert in a domain, i.e. compilers, computer graphics, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, etc... Developer skills that age poorly are those for building CRUD apps.
The C-Level will have moved on by then and it won't have mattered anyway. Consequences are for us poors.
In the long run, I look forward to people and companies sorting themselves to their respective camps of "remote" vs "non-remote". Economics will prove which one works better.
It's not about which kinds of the crimes are greater; it's about which kinds of crimes have a more proximate impact on the success or failure of a community. Obviously the secret irradiation of people is a worse crime than vandalizing all the public spaces of a building, but if that irradiation goes unnoticed by the community at that time, then it will have much less effect on property values / etc than petty vandalism.
> There is no such thing as "outside of the universe".

Yes that's correct in the general accepted sense for the term 'universe'.

Edit: question if the initial thought experiment was posed as 'observable universe' would it make a difference to you?
https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/eecs20/week9/timeinvariance.htm....

Time invariance is mathematical fiction. Haha. What a wonderful quote.
> Perhaps small communities could nominate generally useful conversations and have them released as blog posts

This, maybe less formally but no less in practice, was unironically the killer social feature of Google Reader.
During my internship, I worked at Evans and Sutherland, which was just off of the University of Utah tech park and was a major part of the UoU graphics world. I worked on what I think was the last generation of E&S image generators. It was pretty cool, especially the realtime phong shading (this was the 1990s!) and calligraphic lighting (sort of like a vector display that overdrew the normal displays and made things like point lights look incredible!) in the actual flight simulators.

The company was visibly dying at the time and I didn't take their offer to join, I just had other plans, but the engineers were incredibly welcoming. One of the people I worked with went on to be an imagineer. I with I had not lost touch with them, the guy I reported to was a great guy.

It was just an amazing place, but the writing was on the wall. GPUs were just starting and I looked at the rack full of gear that was the image generator and thought: yeah, this is all going away soon. That was, in fact, exactly what happened.
If you make it elite you’ll still have dick picks and moderation. Just less of it.

It’d be interesting to see if you could add selection criteria that both scale (automated) and are unable to be gamed (read the answers from some website).
PROMPT: "Demonstrate the superfluid quantum gravity solution to the three body problem in sympy."
Neon Modem Overdrive
My problem with Aether is its emphemerality. I respect the devs and community for wanting it but part of the appeal of forums/usenet/reddit is being able to search through old posts.
More likely they’re still in the “fake it” phase.
> This would be IPV6 based (lots of available addresses) and end to end encrypted.

FYI Yggdrasil https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ already gives you a unique, stable IPv6 with mesh layer encryption for your packets.

Likewise a DHT for "subreddit" or topic identity (or even a blockchain for that as naming is one of the few things that can be solved with a blockchain, though as always there are tradeoffs) shouldn't be too hard to build as a lot of the ingredients (Kademlia, GNS, IPFS, IPNS, etc) already exist.

I suspect the hardest part will be building the product experience around this whole system. The tech is mostly there. But if you want to enable non-technical people to use it, you have to make the system simple and clear to use, which a lot of technical people (myself included) struggle with.
Reference, please? Everything I see that does standalone UFP (upstream facing port) PD winds up costing a LOT more than that.

The Cypress/Infineon chip that does this is around $2 and requires quite a bit of external circuitry: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/infineon-technolo...
Agreed. I am much, much less worried about a Skynet-type situation than I am about humans not being able to develop a viable economic system where large swaths of the population are unable to compete with robots/AI when it comes to productive output.
Agreed.

Of course, emails are also insufficient because people don't want to use them as their identifier across sites which is why your account email is private on every social platform and only used for internal notifications and forgot-my-password.

People don't want a global identifier that connects every utterance they have across the internet with the same identifier they, for example, send job applications from.
Mea culpa. I read the bit about not trading with ants and then having seen the arguments before, thought it was heading down that same path. My fault.
My comment wasn’t about brigading. It was about manipulating the vote count which spez has done in the past. Others have noticed this throttling or editing as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/145hyey/_/jnl9g...
There is a common hesitancy from accepting wisdom because of ego: they didn't think of it themselves. In addition, wisdom given too freely is seen as low value because the receiver didn't have to earn it and so it doesn't seem scarce enough. Also, the impression between madness, foolishness, and wisdom is hazier and more easily confused for those with less life experience to draw from. Charisma, along with ethos and pathos, are ultimately more effective than logos.

If committing to some career or education investment in time and treasure, then it's worth carefully considering the need and financial advantage for that particular outcome and working back how to get there most efficiently. It's unwise to earn an MBA or PhD simply because you can, because you might not need it or there maybe a net economic disincentive to having it.
Eh, I think the person you’re replying to would assert that Usenet thrived prior to 1993.

We don’t need a lesson about eternal September either.
Are they training autonomous cars on how to handle equipment malfunction?
Maybe not AI class algorithms, but the premier large scale algorithm related disaster is climate change, generated by optimization of profit and executed on a platform of financial markets and accounting software (with lots of human prompting of course)..