skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the actual simulation argument based on information density being bounded in a way that doesn't make sense. Something like we would think information density should be bounded by 3d. You have twice as much 3d space, you can hold twice as much information. But the physics argument (and I think it is still theoretical physics) is that it is actually bounded by the 2D surface area of that space, not the 3D volume. I forget the details of how this ties into simulation.

I also think there is some math in general relativity that works out much better if we assume 3D space is actually the 3d-surface area equivalent of a 4d space (and not the 4d space time), which makes us more like a hologram of 4d space. But this is another one where I forget most of the details that actually matter.

These combine give us the hologram simulation that pops up in pop culture from time to time, but what you read about in any blog or news article has nothing to do with the actual math and science behind the theories/hypothesis/what ifs.
Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private College [pdf]
I'm also curious how Mint resolves the security threat of Debian and Ubuntu, given its lineage.
Does it do it without needing to have npm and puppeteer installed at all?
>The supreme court which is supposedly independent and a very strong human rights law

This is the problem - the supreme court is very leftist and has the "authoritarian power" to reject any bill they deem "unreasonable". This is what they are fighting about.

Ultimately the fight is about what happens to the state when the majority is religious, which is a demographic inevitability given current trends.
Please define "a full life" and explain why you believe that everyone else should live their lives according to your definition.
If it becomes a commonly used name for a type of operation. But "googling" and "tweeting" are such weird words, I feel as if they can never become generic, unlike "to xerox", which comes from "xerography".

Now... on the other hand... "X" is aaall over the place in brands, in words, in phrases...
All live-action remakes need to be compared to the baseline of just literally re-releasing the original animated film in theaters.

And there's a huge difference between "release a live-action retelling of a 60 year old movie" and "release a shot-for-shot remake of a much younger movie".
I mean that commenter also didn't fix it in the last ten years. Chromium is open source isn't it?

Maybe the commenter is less than ten years old. Otherwise they have as little excuse as the rest of us.
The poster wrote «of course» (taking something for granted) and «you», suggesting an universal context, valid for "everyone". Not just places in which the practice is established.
You seems like to think in the northern hemisphere and places with 4 seasons.
> #PC_era

That section of the wikipedia page mainly concerns the US, but TEA came out of Cambridge. This section seems more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars#Export_of_cryptogr...
Updating the software to support stronger passwords or rewrite it from scratch, on a totally different platform?

I don’t think you’re making argument think you’re making.
Yes, there are many useful diagrams in UML, but a lot of them (e.g. entity diagrams) don't map well to text based formats such as MermaidJS, because the positioning is quite important and MermaidJS often won't guess correctly.

Meanwhile, sequence diagrams map very well from the text description.
From the FAQ of atari.com:

> Do you ship to my country?

> As of this time Atari does not ship orders outside of the USA

It's a pity, I got interested in that Atari VCS as I was looking around on their website.
Horses were at the very heart of the American economy for over a hundred years, until the invention of steam power.

Technology destroys old industries and creates new ones.
> Maybe we have it backwards, and consciousness is the underlying firmament of reality and the material world emerges from that (if it even exists, of course).

This is unsupportable, even in principle, and reduces very quickly to solipsism. There's no way to account for an objective world with this (bad) philosophy.
The result is obvious, but the question is demonstrably not. Good researchers know how to ask interesting questions that no one had bothered to ask before. Seeing clever work like this makes me reflect and continually ask myself "What cool angles am I missing?"
For myself at least, Twitter has been instrumental in my career, hobbies and friendships. But now, seeing it flounder, and having people shard off to mastadon, bsky, and siloed instances of [insert next federative platform], makes me so very sad. It feels like I’ve lost a key part of my social “surface area”. Things change, I know. What hurts though is that this didn’t need to happen. He ruined something that was, within margins, doing ~alright. It had massive public and social value for many individuals and institutions. With time, of course, we’ll forget he butchered it to death, but for now.. I’m pissed off at this childish fool and all those who enabled him.
This one reminds me of Robert Service’s Cremation of Sam McGee in its rhyme and how it scans. Whatever you think of these poems, it’s interesting to imagine a time in the US when they could be popular among a wide readership. Poetry seems to have shrunk its audience faster than any other written genre.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-o...
Agreed. It's a good way to create a hard limit. It's also just a lot faster in a setting like that and I can just hand them the cash with tip included and leave, hard capping the drinks for the benefit of my wallet and my health.
> I automatically assume they are not intelligent, irrational, and I find it impossible to take them seriously... I can't see an intelligent person ever falling for it.

Some of the smartest people we know, who gave us modern astronomy - Galileo, Kepler, et al - were into astrology.
If I was a billionaire I would probably act like a spoiled 8th grader as well.
Lots of small businesses do "cash no tax". It's not forgotten when it's spent. I've fixed my car in cash (primarily to save on tax; and to not have it known by insurance). It's hard for one to "amnesia" $5000 in cash. It's a tool, just like a credit card.
Is that because the owner of twitter is acting like a 'boob' (colloquial phrase for acting the fool)
A rallying cry for them is: I vote right and keep getting left wing. They feel the claims against Netanyahu are all made up (similar to the Trump camp claims). There's also a dislike of liberal values and a lot of religion involved...

The right has been in power almost continuously since 1977 (with a few short terms in between). Yet policies are far from what they promise. The right blames the liberals similarly to the "deep state" claims you see in the states. The judiciary is a major part of that.

Ironically the judiciary today is very right wing and protects them from external criticisms.
> Analog ICs can perform multiplication using simple, compact Four-Quadrant Multiplier circuits that take voltage inputs and output their product. [...] Keeping computations in the analog domain avoids costly digitization and leverages the parallelism and density possible on an IC substrate

"costly digitization" you say? Let's look at the examples.

AD633 [0] is an analog 4 quadrant multiplier. It costs $10 for a single chip (which can only multiply two numbers). It's datasheet claims "1% total error", that corresponds to roughly 7 bit of digital performance (this is _after_ each chip being individually laser trimmed for best performance). It's small signal bandwidth is 1MHz, so that's about 1 million multiplies/second _in best case_ (for larger signal it's going to be slower). It draws 4mA @ 15V - that's 60mW.

Compare to digital multiplier: STM32F030F4 is a 32-bit microcontroller that runs at 48MHz, which costs $0.80. It can do a lot of stuff, including _single cycle_ multiplier - that means multiplying 32-bit numbers, and doing up to 48 million operations/second (practically, it's going to be less.. say 12 million ops/second). And for that, it takes 22mA @ 3.3V - that's 72mW. And that's a _value line_ MCU, there are slightly more expensive versions with much more speed and less per-operation power consumption.

So I don't think analog is coming back. It costs much more for significantly less precision and lower speed, and sees no significant benefits from scaling up. Moreover, there are fundamental physical laws which limit analog circuits improvements (like thermal noise).

[0]https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...
This would be a fun project if the sold a pack of all of the chips too. Anyone know if you can still buy all of these? It would NOT be a fun project to de-solder all of this from an old board (IMO).
Coda is the better alternative, pretty much on the same level, but with a different focus and polished at other parts I would say.

Appflowy (open source) might become some day an alternative, but it's still in development, and somewhat lacking. I would give it another 1-2 years.

There are also many other direct alternatives, in the sense to be a 1:1 clone, like Microsofts Loop or Zenkit Hypernotes(?), and a bunch of Open Source-Projects, but they all are very early in their development, or just lacking here an there, so I would more call them future alternatives.
That's awesome, thank you. Built-in closets and simple shelves is what I'm looking for. And maybe a french cleat system for organizing tools. A 2D view should be enough.

I'm using draw.io for floor plans to get a basic sense of spacing for bigger projects. Inkscape looks like a good fit for smaller ones.
Ask HN: How will AI impact porn and men's health?
I am curious to learn what folks think will be the implications of AI on porn? Given males are the majority consumers of porn, what the future hold for men's health? Are we going to get more addicted? or is it possible that AI can infact lead to novel ways to reduce harmful porn addiction?
What bothers me about evolutionary theory is that it is a theory without a mechanism (natural selection needs something to select, after all -- and where did that thing come from?). Also, the process can't even get off the ground until the existence of life has been established, which is basically the entire game.
I hear what you're saying, but I don't think this is remotely the right way to go about it.

It would be like Google changing the Google name to Alphabet, or to "A.com" or something. Imagine throwing away "to Google something" in an effort to popularize a big, story-less, meaningless name.
Beautiful UI. Is there any practical use for it?
The research is on your side. Spending cash makes you spend less. Most respondents to your comment are making a category of error that is common in our Internet age: "I have more information, therefore I am making better decisions."
I'm looking at its GitHub repo and it lists puppeteer as a dependency. There's even a puppeteer-config.json in there, so I assume it still requires having Node and running a headless browser in the background.
If you’re inclined to be informed by this you might also want to check the corrections and author’s concessions at the Julia discourse: https://discourse.julialang.org/
co-creator here, happy to answer questions.

No matter if you are using GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, you can use this open-source AI-empowered tool to

/describe --> generate a description for the PR. how many times you were lazy to write a description. no more

/review --> generate a general review for the PR

/ask --> ask anything about the PR

/improve --> generate inline code suggestions

/reflect --> ask the PR-Agent to ask you tough questions, and then accordingly create an analysis

we aim to add more capabilities, including more complicated reasoning.
we would love to get contributions from the community, you can see we respond quickly to new issues and PRs.

also, please take a look at the roadmap and make suggestions
> It is referenced hundreds of times in many classic papers.

Wait, you mean people include papers they haven't even opened in their references?!
I've lived in the USA my whole life, and I still think it's bizarre and ought to be illegal. It's basically a bribe.

The worst part is, as long as it is legal, it just makes sense use it - because most things are the same price either way, so it's essentially a small discount on everything.

So, I simultaneously use it regularly and hope it becomes illegal.
Did you include consciousness in the model of reality you're mistaking for reality itself? Because it can provide a causal link between pretty much anything, making your reductive "rational" analysis junk, if not dangerous.

Faith comes in many forms, in any undertaking human are involved in including science, watch out!
Have you tried draw.io?
> ... 2010. Before nobody believed that backprop can be GPU-accelerated.

When I was doing my master's in 2004-06, I talked to a guy whose MSc thesis was about running NNs with GPUs. My thought was: you're going to spend a TON of time fiddling with hacky systems code like CUDA, to get basically a minor 2x or 4x improvement in training time, for a type of ML algorithm that wasn't even that useful: in that era the SVM was generally considered to be superior to NNs.

So it wasn't that people thought it couldn't be done, it's that nobody saw why this would be worthwhile. Nobody was going around saying, "IF ONLY we could spend 20x more compute training our NNs, then they would be amazingly powerful".
C++23: Removing CR from CRTP(Curiously Recurring Template Pattern)
Every time I see an Atari rebooted story I wish there were a way to connect with one of the luxury brand conglomerates like Kering, Hermes, Richemont, LVMH or another one about picking up Atari as a heritage brand and doing a real design and tech firm out of it that evolves a design language into new products.
I feel like Atari is missing a trick by not going after the Edu market. They could make it easy for students to rebuild old games and old boards, through some sort of subscription program for school.
Sure, I know it was required for a while, but ISTR there being a very visible burst of work toward it and TPM support right after that requirement change became public.
And they were correct
Not really. There's a long tail of self-employed people in various capacities, who are happy with the freedom that comes with being a contractor, sole proprietor, or fiscally responsible low expense individual. The petit bourgeoisie were a thing long before tech startups.
Useful against the lone hacker. Far less useful against a botnet where the source IPs are both constantly changing and not necessarily a bad actor, just compromised.

But sure. Security measures from 1998 have their place too, I guess.
> If these things are claimed to be sources of truth

That's a strawman, though. No service, nor human, "claims to be a source of truth" in the kind of profound sense you seem to be using. It stops, everywhere, at "Wikipedia (or whatever) said it and I trust it".

The only way to get access to deeper expertise is to (1) BE an expert and (2) engage in an discussion with another.
> Musk isn't running SpaceX.

He is, and the success of SpaceX compared to Blue Origin is explained by the difference between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

> You can also be lucky several times.

Yes, but that's very improbable.
Musk will do what Musk does, whether or not he will be successful time will tell. But he has proven track record and he has made me a lot of money historically. To all you cringe haters, use your valuable energy else where rather than trashing others online.
Oh yes, that's only for self serve tool right? What about the rest?
Using an unfalsifiable framework is not a good way of trying to understand the universe.
The Secret Life of the 500 Cables That Run the Internet
Whichever line in the sand you draw as an API boundary, if the break doesn't propagate across it then the change isn't breaking in that context. Suppose (as a crude example to simply illustrate the point), a codebase exposes some CRUD operations. Internally it relies on sorting methods and comparator methods for that sorting. If you reverse the order that sort works and also reverse all the comparators then internally you've made a bunch of breaking changes, but externally you can describe the change as non-breaking (probably -- performance regressions can be tricky). The change itself was both breaking and non-breaking, and the choice of description depends on who you're describing it to.
Yeah, it’s the same with religion in general.
people don't care about false positives on CGNAT either, so not much difference to the IPv4 situation if you target /64s
That must be it, thank you for pointing it out.
Can we please have a Musk vs Zuck fish slap-down
The space shuttle is a reusable upper stage. The shuttle successfully massively increased the cost of the upper stage by making it reusable falling incredibly short of it's initial design goals.
Then you arrive at questions such as "Why do we exist?", even "Why anything exists at all, what was the need for all of this?"

> Why do we feel that we exist? Who does the feeling part?

There’s the non-helpful answer “I think, therefore I am.” I don’t think there’s any good answer to these questions. We can think about ourselves, we can think about existence, so we feel we exist? Let us imagine a person can not receive any external stimuli, can not send any instruction to control the movement of body, [e.g. a brain with blood circulation to keep it alive, but no input/output], in awakened state, now what should they feel? [Such a horrible state!] It seems they should feel their existence only on the basis of the functioning of their brain.
> Astrology goes a step too far though.

Astrology takes that step with making it predictive rather than introspective.

In on April 3rd, 2024 there will be a conjunction of Venus and Neptune, followed by two days later Mars and the moon, then the moon will occult Venus followed by a total solar eclipse on the 8th and a conjunction of Saturn and Mars on the 10th...

Because of these events...

And with that, people will be planning for certain events to take place in April not from any introspection - but rather because of stellar arrangements.

It is one thing to say "you should start planting corn on on the first full moon after the bright orange star Arcturus is visible at dusk." It is another to say "because Venus and Mars are in conjunction while in the house of Pieces, a great admiral will be born."
I think nerd culture in-jokes seem to be his thing, so in this case XCOM the video game series.
Finally rule 34 will truly become true.

In the past I have been disappointed, as I found some topics that seemed to defeat this internet law, but now, with the help of AI, I am hopeful that the golden age is still ahead of us.

On a bit different note, there are already an infinite amount of free porn of all kind on the internet, and a similar amount of paid porn. Everyone can find their favorite type already, and it has been like that for decades. I don't think that AI will fundamentally change the impact of free flowing porn.
"A bank’s lifeblood isn't money—it’s data." Yeah, tell that to a failed bank.
> He has become an egocentric man with need for acceptance.

Everyone has a need for acceptance and is driven by their ego. I think Musk's issues may lie a bit beyond those.
Cad ee
Online Bank or Social Network?
If universities stuck to their core mission and shed their dead weight, bloat, and misappropriation of tuition dollars, I guarantee you that you would see a huge decrease in cost. It's become a circus and a racket that doesn't even deliver on the core mission, and even actively harms students. Unfortunately, the market has played a role in creating incentives to measure college quality according to the wrong factors.

In any case, the thicket of incentives is so dense, and the interests so mutually intertwined, that any reform would be met with kicking and screaming (and lots of rationalization, of course). This university lobby would work overtime against successful attempts to educate the public about what it means for a university to be good, and what sorts of gimmicks make them more expensive. But it is still important to try. It is important to counter the misinformation that's taught in primary school about what universities are about, but that would also entail a reform of primary education by implication, another milieu that would resist reform. It is important that we try. We need a clear and correct notion of what education is for, and then what primary, secondary, etc. education is for. Once there is clarity, it becomes easier to make decisions about how to structure education, what to keep in, and what to keep out. It is easy to see why some may not want to resolve the ambiguity.

One avenue that's being pursued is the founding of new colleges that demonstrate what is possible. This is the long haul, but in an environment as entrenched as this one, it may be the only realistic solution.
The supreme court "pretends" to be leftist. That's all part of the trick. Remember that the Human rights law was passed by a Licud government. They approved laws prohibiting Jews from working on the sabath, destroying houses of terrorist families (collective punishment isn't legal in a democracy) etc.

But they're perceived as Liberal by the right since they need to blame someone for the pragmatism of their own MPs.

> Ultimately the fight is about what happens to the state when the majority is religious, which is a demographic inevitability given current trends.

Yes. Although they don't need a majority. All they need is enough non-religious useful idiots who think this is about right vs. left...
Check out C# LINQ, or Haskell postgresql-typed.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/postgresql-typed-0.6.2.4...
> But he seems to think that he has this ability for software engineering and user interfaces too, but he doesn't.

I find that many many people in software think they have a knack for thinking what is a good user interface, even though they are just users and not experts in the field.
I think ‘sexy’ here is just implying how it has become a status symbol.
Can I ask how you get the current balance from your bank (i.e., do you have a bank that provides a nice API, or is there another trick you're using)? I've spent a lot of time looking for a way to automatically download transactions from all my accounts but still have to either enter them by hand or manually log in and download a CSV to import.
Musk has claimed for awhile that he wanted to start a new social network, but that starting from Twitter would be faster than starting from nothing.

So I don’t think he is trying to take actions that will improve Twitter, he is trying to morph it into something else entirely while maintaining at least some significant portion of the user base along the way.

I do think it will probably fail, but I’m not sure that it doesn’t have better odds than starting from scratch.
I believe that that theory is about un-padded numbers. It doesn't apply to fixed-length numbers generated in the full range. Because 010 would have a leading 0 rather than a leading 1. Since the first byte of a UUID is random and can be any of the allowed values it has no bias in the first digit.
Education is a prime target for government subsidies because, as a market, it yields positive externalities. This means when a person receives an education, the net benefit is felt by society at large. It's a well-established economic principle.

So if we're going to discuss the economic realities of government subsidies, we should go a bit further than "things cost money," because that's obvious and simplistic.

*Edit: Just want to add that the tax debate is indeed worth having. My point is only that the justification for subsidies is grounded in econ principles, not just the whims of the public.