skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (Novel?) Theory of the Universe
Building on the simulation theory – I was pondering the question of 'why' a higher order being (HoB) would simulate a universe like ours (or multiple).

My theory is that this being is in the same predicament as us: they would like to understand the nature of their own universe and where they came from. From their more advanced technological position, they are attempting to solve this challenge by 'brute-force creativity' through computing / simulating a universe (or numerous) that are likely modelled on similar foundations to their own, with the aim of accelerating the uncovering knowledge (going beyond the local maximum they achieved and seeking to uncover new approaches).

It might be inevitable that we also arrive at a similar solution.

If one of the simulated universes (for instance, ours) manages to 'break out of' or make contact beyond our universe, it would hopefully equip our makers with the knowledge to 'break out of' or make contact outside their own – potentially creating a cascading effect up through many levels of simulations.

This theory potentially helps explain a few things, such as why our universe is expanding (perhaps it's growing at the rate of our HoB's computing capabilities). Perhaps quantum behaviour is a kind of compression algorithm for optimising compute etc.

I haven't come across a theory like this – but if anyone has, or has thought about this, please share. Otherwise I'd love to hear thoughts on this / build on the theory.
That's a cool name and it looks like a pretty airplane as well (from the top at least)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-58_Hustler?oldformat...
In some cases he's rational, irrational, but not real:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_fab_Mathonwy
Yes, that's what Wikipedia says, basically verbatim. But is that fact internally consistent with the rest of the story?
Also a national security threat because they're game changing weapons and they make the most and best of them.
One thing I've learned from reading the Factorio blogs is that you can easily get caught up in details and forget to make the game fun.
But he did so in Reims (which is in France), and they later did it all over again.
Are you saying that "office foot traffic" is unaffected by encounters with crime, homeless people and drug users? Seems to me perfectly reasonable that those things would decrease office foot traffic.

Or are you claiming that those things don't exist (in any quantity that matters) in the downtowns of most cities?
Yeah they do. I was able to get ChatGPT-4 to transcribe 我哥哥高過他的哥哥, which says that they can. I did have to set the app to Chinese, and the original didn't work so I had to modify what I said slightly.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86psPxY/

Roughly translated, my older brother is taller than that other guy's older brother.
You’d think they’d “out-Open Source” Nvidia’s Linux drivers situation. It seems if they shipped “good enough” hardware (not the best) and open sourced their driver stack it would get the attention of more devs.
It's even crazier if you think of the current demographics of the US mapped against this outcome.
Motorola phones have very little bloatware as well.

Samsung is probably the worst.
The resume screener automatically takes the skills of the candidates into account. However, we do not scan for exactly how much experience a candidate has in a particular field, as we believe that is a job best left to recruiters based on their company requirements.
If Apache was truly responsible, they would just redirect to the LibreOffice instead because AOO is dead for good for a long time already.
>It doesn't exist in the Google Play Store, to avoid inspection.

I thought that was because the company was sanctioned by the US, and therefore google can't work with them?
They have discontinued their consumer products sadly: https://www.skydio.com/blog/skydio-to-sunset-consumer-drone-...
Look at the bright side. Before long, there will be thin men's clubs
Pixel 4a was a very good phone but also sadly not waterproof.

I am bummed that all the newer Pixels are bigger.
It depends on the blockchain and on the implementation whether a smart contract is immutable. Technically, all smart contracts running on EVM (the most popular smart contract virtual machine) are immutable. However, it is possible to call smart contract methods from a different smart contract while operating on the same state. Some smart contracts use this as a hack to get around immutability, by changing which smart contract is called by a proxy smart contract.

Generally immutability is better for security reasons, but proxy contracts are useful if someone is testing in production. There have been cases of immutable contracts with bugs that locked millions of dollars of cryptocurrency with no recovery possible.
Enshitification is when you make a product worse for the users with the goal of increasing profit.

It may work. It may work in the short term, but cause collapse in the long term. It may fail in the short term. All are enshitification.

There are two keys elements in my mind:

- the product gets worse

- in an attempt to increase profit
Any word on how many TFLOPs that NPU could achieve on the high-end chips?
The early 1900s is a continuation - with men dominating, and the women being mostly upper class but not wealthy.

Wharton is rich (the phrase keeping up with the Joneses comes from her family), Woolf and Gertrude Stein are well-off and McCullers & Plath a bit less so. Harper Lee's father was a lawyer, and she's a one-hit wonder. Toni Morrison was not rich...

The vast majority of men - who dominate (not the women) - are not from well-off families: Steinbeck, Orwell, Sinclair, Tolkein, Fitzgerald, Lewis Carroll, Tennessee Williams, D.H Lawrence, Jack London (who claimed to be poor but wasn't), Kerouac, Vonnegut. Stephen King and Stan Lee were arguably poor.

Hemingway, Salinger, Conrad, Roald Dahl, and Joseph Heller are not from wealth, but definitely not poor.

Frank L Baum was wealthy, similar to Melville & Hugo - Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Jane Austen - but less so than Tolstoy.
> Houses can be cheap, or they can be a good investment. Not both.

> I think I read that here on hacker news a few years ago, and it has stuck with me.

It's repeated in every HN discussion about housing.

Also, it's too simplistic. It's basically impossible (barring a complete market meltdown like Detroit back then) to not increase your net worth owning a house.

You have to live somewhere. If you buy a house you (very slowly) end up owning it. A house has nonzero value. Now you have some equity, aka wealth. Even if the price depreciates it's not zero, so you built some wealth (vs renting where you could've rented for 60 years and still own nothing).
Yes, I think I should have made my point better: if you can't dogfood it and the population affected is small people just don't care, especially if there is zero economic incentive. It sucks that it is like that.
Good for you! I admire musical talent. My parents are musical, but I'm rhythm-impaired and can't even touch-type at typical speeds. I can and do sing, but my only talent in that regard is being able to remember the words.

What shapes my thoughts here has almost nothing to do with music per se, and is instead grounded in a concept of fairness in the implicit and customary contract between performers and their audience. Caveat emptor is not a satisfactory response here, IMHO, and the logical conclusion of that route is that the audience should demand a setlist before buying tickets, which would not be to anyone's benefit.

to be clear, I don't think Reed's behavior here was egregious; it was merely a peccadillo.
Make it illegal for corporations to own residential real estate.
I'd think it would be more respectful to walk around a body rather than over it. You'd probably also want to ensure the authorities are aware.
I mean sure but that’s like saying “this condition has tumours” and saying “so cancer” like that is a useful diagnosis.
Hell your response is like someone describing the symptoms of chemo or numerous other heavy treatments and saying “oh so CFS”.
Newton mechanics was wrong: because it didn’t account for the relativistic terms, all the equations are off by some amount. It turns out that we can ignore the error in practical contexts, but that’s still being “wrong”. Another example: the math of a geocentric solar system is often precise enough for practical purposes and so, when it’s simpler, it can be useful to use it instead of Newtonian or relativistic models.

I think this is important because physicists that popularize often make grandiose claims about how reality is when they should know better and then these claims form popular imagination in ways that shutdown thought.
It seems very likely that one reason downtowns have so much office space is because it's employment that's inoffensive in terms of city planning and zoning while potentially promising good salaries historically more associated with noisy, polluting industrial spaces.

I remember seeing an article where someone was against zoning that completely eliminated industrial uses in their town or something. She felt that it was possible to allow for clean industry without ruining the environment, but that's harder to regulate. It's easier to say "Nope. No industry. It's dirty and polluting." than to have regulations which allow for industry but require it to meet certain standards of air quality, etc.

She lost. The zoning or regulatory changes she was against went through.
If you’re interested, I worked for a short time on Daikanana and have some thoughts on this topic, some of which match up to themes in John’s book: https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1596-5-things-w...

To make this more HN-relevant, I will say that the whole point of Ion Storm was supposed to be unleashing Romero’s game direction, but the business partners who were supposed to give him that space instead provided another level of distraction.

John worked insanely hard and doesn’t blame others for what he’s responsible for, but with all the business chaos at Ion which he dealt with personally, he just could not be on top of everything and that’s the major reason why DK was not the epic game it could have been. That’s the part that he doesn’t want to say, but to me it’s clear.

It’s a good example of why a startup needs its product visionary highly focused at the most critical times. As a rough approximation, every night John went to bed thinking about Ion’s latest issues instead of thinking about Daikatana was a lost chance to make the game 2% better. That adds up.
I'm not having the easiest return to office. I'm trying to see the positives in it because I want to provide value and be a team player.

But I have 2/9ths the horizontal pixels at work, and have to ignore five other people having unrelated conversations while I am paid to write code. I'm a little tired from adding the long commute back in but that's completely on me to figure out.

I'm genuinely worried my performance stats are going to take a hit that gets me into some trouble. I have a lot of adjustments to figure out.
RIP to Mr Belser.

I hope that we can add nutrition labels to alcoholic beverages in the near future.
twitter.com/bowtiedsalesguy for saas / enterprise software.

i review his content when i'm inbetween interviews and deals.
In my experience, if there was a well-defined problem in the 70s or 80s, some clever person came up with a workable solution using a tiny microprocessor with limited RAM.

The way I think about it is... when I was a kid I hated waiting at lights and imagined you could build a computer vision/ML system (this was in the '80s) that coudl recognize traffic and change the light to green when it was safe, rather than timing out. I mentioned this to some traffic engineer and he pointed out the simpler solution was to put magnetic detectors under the road and then just look for blips which are cars driving over.
I like this Java movement back from overbloated frameworks with decades of cruft.

I thought about building my own libraries as well. Don't have time for that yet.

What I don't like about this library:

Java 21 requirement. Virtual threads are performance optimization, they should not be a requirement. If I'm fine with running thread per request, that's on me. I mean, we built apps 20 years ago which did that and they worked. They wouldn't work worse today.

Everything bundled. I'm fine with mini-framework with everything, however it should be split with separate libraries.

No module-info.java. I mean, we're talking about Java 21 which is 12 releases after Java 9. Time to embrace modules.
Printing is in this department too.

I have a friend who makes automotive decals, and he got a new (to him) large format Epson printer last year. The seller included a circa 2014 Mac Mini which has all the software installed and setup for the printer, as apparently it's painful to setup and doesn't work well with Windows.

And the friend uses CorelDRAW for making designs. When he first told me I didn't believe him that it is still around :D
You can hear the starter cart in some of the YouTube videos, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFO--wzFfUs - it really gets going around the two minute mark.
He seems to have used the project as a conceptual experiment. In the "engine" folder's README, he mentions it's a work in progress but believes it might be useful someday.

I stumbled upon it while searching for a JavaScript state machine where one can define event pipelines triggered by rules or conditions applied to the state. I'd love to build web UIs using this approach in a performant manner.
It looks like the practical limits to wheeled airplane is a few inches of snow, not a foot.
Phet: Interactive Simulators for Science and Math
Weird considering that Google maintains the S2 geometry lib which is supposed to handle things better than naive lat/long
It took 40-50 years after the introduction of electricity in the late 1800s for electricity to reach that point of penetration.
Lets be real here, you probably cannot afford a new phone if you have to cheap out with wired headphones/earbuds on a mobile device in 2023.
It's to take in due account the cuckoos, of course.
Rare to see a level head who doesn't just believe everything they are told immediately.
For the nonexistent Pixel 8? Or are you referring to running on a Pixel 6a, for example:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_6a_(google-b...

This device is marked as not booting.
> Actual gender change operations aren’t even done until adulthood

This seems to be false according to this article [1] which claims that “In the three years ending in 2021, at least 776 mastectomies were performed in the United States on patients ages 13 to 17 with a gender dysphoria diagnosis, according to Komodo’s data analysis of insurance claims.”

1: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...
I’m with you on this. I tried every popular option a few years ago and found all of them to be rather atrocious, but settled on self-hosting VW, and found its mobile integration (using BW clients/apps) to be as close to native as anything, and its 2FA (for TOTP anyway) is superb. Nothing else thus far allows me to launch a website or app and login with 2FA faster than Bitwarden. I operate under the assumption that everything has a weak spot, at least Vaultwarden isn’t hiding the source code and if BW’s VC backers dictate some kind of rule-breaking change to the service, it won’t affect my data and forks/OSS alternatives will be easily readied to interface with it.
Discussion from earlier today that put this quote in the context of the Unity stuff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37649052
Battlebit Remastered
iOS user here. You are correct they work quite differently. I don’t have enough android experience to tell you how, but there is no equivalent of the icons at the top of the screen for various apps.
The entire devices division of Google has to use Pixel for their daily driver...
>They're beaming back home whatever they want

This claim is always thrown out like a life preserver without ever anything to back it up. Do you have anything to support this claim?
The biggest thing that kills indie developers is taking a waterfall approach to game design. "I want to make an XYZ genre game with mechanic ABC and a story about 123." There is absolutely no way to know if that combination of designs will be fun at all, and it won't be until they're too far in development before they realise it's irredeemable.

Best advice I ever got on this subject: identify what you want the most impactful element of the game to be. Is it a unique combat mechanic? Is it a compelling story? Make that first and only that. If it's impactful, take it further and build more around it. Show it to people as early and regularly as possible. If people tell you it's boring, they're probably right, but don't listen to them if they tell you how to fix it. If you can't fix it, toss it and move on. You cannot afford to find out if your game is fun 2 years into development. Also, most of your ideas are probably terrible and you won't start having better ideas until you make and finish a number of projects.
i havent encountered this in my life yet but how does this work? can people just ask for permission to use that approach? do they have to be paid in royalties? are they patenting processes (flexible) or procedures (specific, sequential)?
Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed 'pods' in downtown San Francisco
There's a very important chip in the Pixel that isn't made by Google.
> The Astro-Nav System didn't work only at cruising altitude, it tracked stars even when the SR-71 was on the ground. [1]

>

> [1] https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/NAS-14...

I don't necessarily doubt you, but linking to a 76-page PDF without any indication of where the reader is supposed to find support for your claims is not nearly as convincing as you think it is.
List of Markdown Presentation Tools
They called it “Unicode” because, at the time, thanks to Han Unification, UCS-2 was widely believed to be the one and only encoding that anyone would ever need. Two bytes per codepoint. No more, and no less.

C#/.NET even inherit this misnomer and call UTF-16LE “Unicode”: System.Text.Encoding.UnicodeEncoding
One of the clearest signs we live in a pinnacle of technology is that mathematicians and astronomers have been refining the equations that produce ephemerides for thousands of years, and the inverse problem (given star locations and time, predict location and pointing vector) to the point where an average human with average hardware can instantly estimate things that would have taken the world's most powerful observatories a great deal of effort to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_ephemeris
Also worth listening to is Motley Fool's encounter with Trump in 1997, which they republished during the 2016 election:

https://www.fool.com/podcasts/rule-breaker-investing/2016-08...

Many candidates have questionable action in the public markets, but this was remarkably brazen, fishy and AFAIK technically legal. It was just Trump being a good salesman, as he's always been.
Europeans indicate clear support for the detection of CSAM in E2E encryption
> Hypothetically, is there some sort of motive you have for Canada to want to blame India for such a murder? What would they have to gain?

Canada is part of the death cult hell bent on world domination. The current plan involves using Ukrainians as fodder in a hopeless attempt for what they outwardly claim is the defeat of Russia. India is one of Russia's key allies and blowing up such a minor event in the media follows the trend of isolating and disrupting Russia's allies, both physically and in the minds of the people in the west.
GHz? Try 2 MHz.
>Unless you're worried nobody will leave a voicemail (which, I think will change over time as folks know the functionality exists),

Situation today: I get a voicemail prompt. If I leave a message it could be read anywhere immediately after I leave it or some unknown time in the future

Situation in the future: I get a voicemail prompt. If I leave a message it could be read as I record it, or some unknown time in the future

Today I'm not really inclined to leave any voicemail because it's unknown if or when it'll be read, and it's more awkward than a call or a text. I'll only leave it if there's literally no other method of communication. I don't see how having a chance that the callee will be reading the voicemail as I leave it will change this.

As it stands the main advantage of call screening is that it makes explicit that someone is on the other line. I'll admit that the advantage of being able to use follow-up prompts isn't really clear (the default prompt of "Go ahead and say your name, and why you are calling" is usually enough).
I’d totally bring one back if it failed because they forgot to harden it or something. Put it in some wood and the first time you use it the threads reverse because the metal is so soft.
I'm not sure if you're joking. Apple's business depends on them bending the rules for China.
Before I read the article, I was about to comment something like "generation, prediction and compression are broadly isomorphic to one another, so I don't think it should be "surprisingly" great."

But this is about audio and image compression using text models, which is quite surprising!
The navigator verified their position with the device while they were still on the ground.
Yeah, the listed it among many things, and I agree that's messed up, but honestly only that part in a really visceral way.

I wonder if they were really focusing on the family needing to be punished, vs. the murderer knowing what they've done to their family. In such a case, you could argue that it does not and should not hurt the family any more (or not much).

You don't have to stand by family, and can feel very little different about their receiving justice; perhaps a bit worse, since you don't know what else they could do before being laid to rest.

I thought this was getting dismissed too quickly, but I forgot how directly this was said. Yes, if you literally want to hurt their families, that's just insanity; lashing out at people who had nothing to do with it...

... although there's a really interesting argument that you're always doing this when you punish someone.
You should have held out for college credit.
You could ask them, you’re replying to the founder right now, after all.
> Corollary: every simple subset of language contains missing features dearly needed by someone else.

This could even be said about larger languages, though. If Rust committed to pleasing everyone, it would have an optional garbage collector, lifetime annotations would be optional, and there would be an interpreted runtime available as an alternative to the compiler. Those are features that some people do dearly need for some tasks. There's a point where you have to stop and put limits on what the language is actually for and what it's not. It seems to me that much of the push to add async/await in the first place was from people who really should have been using Go, Java, or Node, but wanted Rust to be their "everything language." It's okay to say, "This language is for writing performant systems applications. It's not a fullstack language for writing a webapp."
Your software was written in the Buffyverse?
Recently a Russian commander got killed because he shared his daily running route on Strava which was seen by the killer.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/europe/russian-submarine-...
Type 1 fonts are still supported on macOS though.
Smells like that someone else were given superuser...
It's perceivable as long as a consciousness exists with sense organs. Existence doesn't depend on that perception. Existence existed long before any minds existed and will it exist long after. ("Long" is a euphemism here for eternally.)