skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTC is quite literally made out of hot air. Burning coal to create hot air to spin turbines is the most common energy source for BTC mining. And "hot air" describes most of it's coals replacements as well.
Sounds like an anxiety or panic attack. The latter often sends people to the ER because they think they're dying.
> Your math is rather suspect; 1 in 5000 daily chance [. . .] for 10 days [. . .] that's a 1 in 500

The poster was correct. A 1/5000 daily chance is about 1/7 chance for a two year period.

Your math, on the other hand, is wrong.

If it didn’t seem wrong to you on an intuitive level (that is, if you didn’t know a binomial distribution would be necessary) you are at great risk for being easily misled.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in its current form is environmental lunacy. I don't know what problem digital currency solves when the planet can no longer sustain human life due to climate change.
Seems interesting! Thinking of trying the free account once I get some spare time this week. Anyone here have experience with it?
Not that many chunks, looks like the entire video is re-generated.

My browser fetched

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...

which is for 1:54.
On one hand I agree with your assessment. On the other you argue with a personal anecdote -- not much better, is it?
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There's even a version of awk specifically designed for bioinformatics that natively knows how to handle fasta, fastq, and sam files, among other formats.

https://github.com/lh3/bioawk
Apple are smart though. The CSAM scanning update will come after they've made the sales.
So vaping is safer?
The UK started the foreigner blame game in 2016. It will probably get worse in other nations.
It's 07:45 PM? Oh, that's 19:45, cool. Kind of breaks the effect a bit for those of used to a 24 hour clock.
Here's mine from 12:57 to confirm your hypothesis.

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
Six-pack definitely doesn't mean best shape of your life. But the habits we build throughout the program will certainly help you get in the best shape of your life. We're still pretty early and we go for the six-pack angle because

1) We wanted a six-pack ourselves so in the spirit of solving our own problems we started Consistent
2) Getting a six-pack is a pretty concrete outcome, especially when looking at before and after photos.

That being said, we're also open to folks who want a body transformation!
Trump will win?
There's a link to a discord server on the bottom of the landing page. We'll post updates there.
I would hazard to say that a sufficient (not a necessary) condition for a company to be a "tech company" is its tech being hard to replicate, that is, far from a commodity.

Google is a tech company because both the search and the ads networks are hard at the planet scale; we can see how hard it is to compete.

Same applies to e.g. Twitter or Uber. It applies much less to, say, Reddit, or eBay, or Craiglist; their tech is secondary to their existing network effects.

A company like GrubHub definitely has a strong tech branch, but the tech is secondary to its delivery network and restaurant contracts.

A company like CNN, equally, must have a strong engineering / IT branch, but it's so secondary it feels totally invisible, and everyone sees them as a "media company", not a "tech company".
I wasn't picking a point in time, rather pointing out that 50 years is a pretty long time - nearly two generations of people. Someone who was 15 years old for Roe v Wade would be 63 years old today. We feel sorry for the twenty-somethings of Afghanistan, who only ever knew freedom, seeing the Taliban take over their country. This is over twice as long.

To me, the core of conservatism involves respecting existing institutions and customs, and wanting change to happen slowly. This has direct bearing on the topic, because it's incorrect to say this CEO had to step down due to having a "conservative" opinion. Rather, business is intrinsically conservative. It's just that our societal values in 2021 involve things that religious fundamentalists do not like, such as women's healthcare and rainbow flags. Big business isn't embracing these symbols so they can be activists pushing change, but rather to ingratiate their businesses with consumers by embracing change that has already happened.

This CEO didn't have to step down because they were against some change or wanted to slow it down, but rather because they were advocating for a change that most people find repulsive. There would be similar pushback for any political opinion that was equally unpopular.
They may already have. They've already pushed "pause" on the roll out. We're just waiting to see how long after the initial rush on sales of the new devices before they release the pause. Is the "pause" just a ploy to not hurt sales numbers like the cynical ones of us think? It looks like that to us. Maybe they can lure those folks like you into going ahead and getting one more device.
For those like me who had to look it up, "myocardial infarction" is a fancy way of saying "heart attack"
Cool concept! Does it come in OS?
Will this live stream finally be available on non-Safari browsers? Is that still a thing?
"""I probably would have reached for Python if I realised how many edge cases there were"""

This is the counter for all the "success" stories of awk users that walked away with an underspecced and underdeveloped 5 minute solution.
Weighing food is not really a "herculean effort," but in my experience it is certainly fair to call it a "pain in the ass".

That said, dealing with the "knowing exactly what ingredients" part is actually easy enough, if you're cooking your own food. If not, most places have some kind of nutrition information available, and if they don't, a rough guess is definitely better than nothing.

Calorie tracking is not much fun, but it is definitely effective. Getting it perfectly right isn't as important as consistency.
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> The claim that the U.S. is hellbent on preserving the primacy of the U.S. dollar is largely a myth.

Could you elaborate, please? It was my understanding (perhaps mistakenly) that because so many foreign entities, be they countries, corporations etc, depend on the USD and it functions both as a reserve and for international trading, the U.S. Federal Reserve can be more aggressive with "dovish" policy.

Or stated another way, if fewer people/institutions held USD abroad, the risk of inflation would be much greater.
So you've nationalized Youtube, eh?
> remittance fees as high as 20% or more

Average remittance costs for El Salvador are between 1.67% and 4.33%, with the average being 2.85% [1]. Meanwhile, the two Bitcoin ATMs in the country charged a 5% fee.

[1] https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2021/06/Bukeles-Bitc...
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

But also, I applaud this effort at simplifying workflows, recognizing how difficult it is to program around productivity where everyone seems to have a different way of doing things :)
We've not added a hotkey for that, you have to press the button to the right of the url bar. I'll add a hotkey soon!
So is “shithole country” but that doesn’t make either term inaccurate.
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Planning on upgrading a 1st Gen iPhone SE this year but the decision between 12 mini and 13 mini currently lies solely on whether the 13 mini will have Touch ID.
Plenty of countries already don't control their own currency.
It's a marriage of convenience. Until Madigan is indicted by the FBI (probably happening in the next 12mos, his underlings are helping the FBI now), if you are a (D) on his bad side, your choices are to exit Chicago politics or switch parties.
It's basically hidden increase in standard of living - people used to join workforce at 18-19, now they do it a couple years later, after getting their degree. It means a couple years less of work and a couple more years of fun/partying. In the few countries (US, UK, anything else?) where Universities aren't nearly free, that's kind of a deal with the Devil (as J. Peterson called it), but everywhere else it's basically a free improvement in quality of life.
Not right now. I'll add that to our todo list.
Probably recorded him saying 1 through 59 and o'clock and am or pm and then for looped it.
0 currently.

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1435197879795212291?r...

Also. Lightning network can give unreliable transaction costs ( eg. When sending to an unknown wallet)

It's weird that everyone is supporting an off chain solution. It kinda defeats the purpose of Bitcoin in general.
I thought the same. It gets a little tiresome the very narrow railroad tracks of thought we are now expected to adhere to on any given topic.
Any minor diversion always require some statement to imply "hey Im still on the railroad tracks..."
I love that workflow-oriented browser ideas are popping up. Funny enough I just ran into Sigma OS browser earlier today, but haven't tried it yet: https://sigmaos.com/
On one hand, the 'digital gold' aspect of bitcoin make it attractive for countries that want access to a non-US-dollar currency. However, it seems like the most sane version of such a system would basically use a private blockchain (or even a basic centralized tabulation service) run by the central bank. Having your central bank run a centralized system through bitcoin isn't much different than running a centralized system through some other currency.

On the other hand, the power requirements of Bitcoin seem like they make it a very poor choice - both from an ethical point of view and a practical point of view. In the same way that using a foreign currency exposes you to the ups and downs of that currency, El Salvador now has to deal with the operational realities of bitcoin. This seems potentially worse than simply adopting another fiat currency because you've handed over control of how transactions work.
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This is a little bit hyperbole don't you think? I think companies with means these days just invest in this sort of technology because that's what you do in business now. Target is a department store but I wouldn't be surprised to learn they are hiring pure machine learning researchers too and doing remarkable things with data as well, same goes for any large company. 60 years ago you had large companies operating complex switchboards in their offices but you would never call these businesses telephone companies even though they operated their own internal telephone network. That sort of technology was just a tool of the trade, just like data science is now for large companies. I wouldn't call netflix a technology company when literally every large video production company is investing in the same things and trying to hire the same sort of talent, and you wouldn't call MGM or warner brothers a technology company either.
I'm with you. I saved both of my Trump Bumps and my Biden Bonus for a new M1 MacBook. I don't need a ton of ports, but I do need at least a 16-inch screen.

(Using a 17-inch PowerBook these days is like driving a 1970 Cadillac Coupe-de-Ville. Luxurious, but slow.)
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Yes, social wealth is important too.
Sounds like Tesla fanatics and the phantom ICE manufacturers they think are out to get them.
In my opinion, six packs are not that important. Having strong muscles along with agility and control over body is what really matters.
I don't think I'd click on any of the links as a US citizen in the USA...I don't want to wind up on any more lists (the assumption being everyone is on one/some lists.)
A decade or so, I did _everything_ in emacs. I was never more productive and I attribute it partially to the sort of flow that Legend seems to be trying to make.

Smartphones are what killed it for me. As I switched to using my smartphone + tablet more, it broke my emacs setup. I'm still trying to get it back.
Better term would probably be revenue driver, which is typically what is meant by "profit center." In other words, IT brings sales contracts through the door.
Actually it is because we are dealing with an factual data point (I), rather than someone using hyperbole by saying something is ONLY used for x. one data point proves that wrong
The past few Apple events have been broadcast live on YouTube.
We use the 200/m for two reasons

1) It's a strong commitment device. At this price point we hope people really will take this seriously and be committed.
2) Stopa and I are also providing personal coaching, we'll be giving you individual attention. In the future we may remove the personal coaching aspect, and in that case we will bring down the price.
Is AlgoDex not working? What would be the purpose of rushing out tools and smart contracts that need to be verified and routinely cause irreparable damage due to security and bugs?

There are already two HN startups using Algorand: 1) Lofty.AI, which has been a smash hit for tokenizing real estate and making daily income and 2) Algofi, which is S21 and intended for lending.

There's also ANote + Opulous for owning tokenized music royalties, and AlgoGems for NFTs + Yieldly for NLLs, etc. With the recent news that El Salvador will use Algorand for their infra and the $100M+ ArringtonXRP investment fund, Algorand is only getting started. Devs are flocking to Algorand for how easy it is to use the wallet and create unique tokens on a fast and scalable network.
I'm running out of working keys on my 2017 MBP.
Check out the "Secure Streams" of libwebsockets, it hides details of protocols specifics stuff (in the JSON policy) and easier to program network application (just deal with the abstracted states and payload in the callbacks).

https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-exa...

https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/secure-...
I don't think this is true; I definitely choose YouTube / Netflix over e.g. Amazon Prime just to browse for new shows as the UI/recommendations are way better. This affects my watch time significantly.
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Especially when you consider before netflix made content and first got its subscribers, it was just showing reruns of shows like Frasier. Cheaper to get through a box set on a netflix subscription than at the video store.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ for a well defined at-home fitness program which requires minimal equipment.

And six packs means just no fat over your abs, and actually made in the kitchen as the saying goes.
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In terms of agree/disagree, I'd want to add that unrationalized downvotes is not very useful to readers.

Someone anonymously disagrees with a statement - but why?

Upvotes, on the other hand, makes sense inherently. Someone agrees to the statement, which is rationalized by itself.
For folks who are having problems or are in a scenario where you can't see this (issue on mobile, text only browser, always reads the comments first, don't want to click on a thing that says "trailer"), here's what the link portrays:

Overall, the page is an ad for the new Matrix movies, a teaser for some upcoming trailer. It's a white screen showing a red pill on the left and a blue pill on the right. You click on one of the pills and a video starts streaming with a voice over, a-la one of Morpheus' speeches from the original. As you see the green "matrix digital rain" falling, you'll hear the same voice over per-pill each time, with both indicating something along the lines of "are you sure about what you know?" and right after that opening voice line the video will show the current time (very seamlessly, so it seems like it's always been a part of the video) and the actor doing the voice-over says the time right then.

In my case it was 10:59am when I played the video, so the overall effect was like this:

"Are you sure you know what you know?" ( <- paraphrasing)

Cut to large swooshing graphic of
the numbers "10:59" as the voice
actor says "ten fifty nine a.m."

Then the rest of the teaser plays.

No matter which you click on you get effectively the same thing, but with a different script and voice per pill color.
It's terribly hard to actually falsify the vote counts across thousands of polling places. In theory, someone observing the process, as should be legal everywhere, will notice the irregularities.

It's not impossible, obviously–especially if you have full control of at least anyone important. But plausible deniability suffers rather fast, and that's a valuable assets at the Putin-level of dic(tator|k)ishness.
Didn't they also find porn? Or was that propaganda?
The biggest reason to learn AWK, IMO, is that it's on pretty much every single linux distribution.

You might not have perl or python. You WILL have AWK. Only the most minimal of minimal linux systems will exclude it. Even busybox includes awk. That's how essential it's viewed.
Check the numbers. Bitcoin is just not worth it's ecological footprint: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
The overhead of ideal levels of automation, like

> In prod where I work, if someone logs into a production VM we mark it tainted and replace it with a fresh instance. This keeps things nice and consistent.

doesn't make sense from an ROI perspective, at a great number of businesses. Like, "this would take a decade to pay off, and that's assuming it requires no maintenance" kind of bad ROI.

Lots of places, you script vm/server configs (even just with bash) and get CI running automated tests on important branches, and you've captured 99% of the benefit available from automation. Would the other stuff be nice? Yes, but five people saving 15 minutes per week means you can't reasonably spend the kind of time on it—for initial set-up and for ongoing maintenance—that you would if it were fifty people saving 15 minutes per week, let alone 500 (at that point you can have a couple people dedicated full-time to just that one piece of automation, and it's still saving you money).
I see this as a feature though. If I pay $2 for an app that helps me track fitness, I'm much more likely to lose interest. This is the same reasoning that Orange Theory uses...and seems like they're pretty successful.
Guess that explains why when you click on english language books the first time, it loads them. Click on something else it page reloads with no change. Or maybe it doesnt explain that at all. Very antiquated site.
Who had the Matrix screen saver back in the day?

I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.
It's not just about the products themselves (although some products are probably also just clones of something that already existed with better marketing) but rather about everything a software company does in general. Think websites, random general-purpose code and development processes. I think there's a lot of repeated effort in those areas that could be avoided if we all magically knew about each other's problems and worked on common solutions. (Note: I don't think that will ever really happen.) Publicly available frameworks and libraries are sort of that although there's still a lot of "grunt work" overall.

My point wasn't that commercial software is actually useless though. More like, in the grand scheme of things, even something that's just quirky for the sake of being quirky is kinda useful.
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this is barely interesting. It better be worth it or movies will be officially finished for me. feels like we re in a 20 year cultural swamp.
So who was this deplorable seller, so that we may also avoid them?
I'm interested as to why this hasn't already been done.
In your mind, does this only apply to cannabis, or any mental-health related medication?
Ah yes, the notion that the white race holds the same vaunted position that Ferrari does among car makes -- held by racists and anti-racists alike.
Bingo. And if the stakes were high enough many jurisdictions have laws that allow for it to happen under wraps. i.e. being forced to lie about collecting data.
Unfortunately that's simply wrong and there is no scientific basis for your claim. See the article linked I linked above, including the video testimony from Prof. Pollard. Vaccines are effective at preventing most deaths but vaccines and masks will not be sufficient to eradicate the virus. All of us can expect to be exposed multiple times. That is our reality.
why not i mean it still looks cool
I was thrilled to see that SICMUtils, FDG and friends are there as one of the examples! This looks awesome, and thanks for taking a look at those projects :)
It's leaking and collecting private information.

How is this any different from any banking app?
Only if they bump battery life
> dollar is getting cheaper every year through inflation. Hoarding USD is impossible over the long term.

The U.S. dollar is a transactional currency. It's very good at that. If you're holding value over longer terms and want cash-like liquidity and security, you hold Treasuries, which are inflation resistant.
Often the Mac stuff is announced in October, so don't hold your breath.
(So we've already given up on "Truth is not determined by a list of approved opinions, it can only be revealed by rigorously disproving everything that opposes it" then. Fine. Truth is relative.)

No, what I'm really asking is, "What happens if innocent people start being hurt by the lie?"

What happens if you are seriously injured in an accident but cannot get medical help because the intensive care facilities are full of people who disagree with the truth? Thoughts and prayers?

Does freedom come with any responsibility?
At the bottom of that page it says:

"Proposed preface to Animal Farm, first published in the Times Literary Supplement on 15 September 1972 with an introduction by Sir Bernard Crick. Ian Angus found the original manuscript in 1972."

So, I don't think this was written during WWII.
I think parent correctly identified it as hyperbole, a figure of speech, not a syllogism.
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> Everybody I know considers a car company a tech company

I have never heard that. Car companies are mostly manufacturing, that is the major part of their organizations and what drives their decisions. They have big engineering teams, but they have way bigger teams working at factories. If you had a company just creating car designs and selling those to manufacturing companies it would be a tech company, but the current ones aren't.
Why not use a stablecoin? Or are they dealing with Bitcoin volatility in another way?
The independent is not a serious source and these kind of laws have been tested in court and require terrorist intent. A bad law indeed though
Only a person who doesn’t drink caffeine, alcohol, or any other drug (including aspirin and other non psychoactives) can approach making this claim.

Hell, you could say the same thing to someone who enjoys a small dessert every night. Or a bath. So long as they’d feel sad to not have it, they are then avoiding a problem, right?

Or… humans just really enjoy having diverse things to do, and all find different balances of what those things are. And THC suits very well to certain brain physiologies much like a bubble bath does for others.
Did he? Probably not, as he made the tweet two days ago.

Would he have lost them money? Yes, definitely, without question.
Yeah I had the same reaction.
A computer would never make that kind of mistake!
Somebody yell at the Squid sysadmin to kick the locale again.
I think there’s been a bit of an overcorrection about weed in the last couple years. Weed smokers have been on the defensive against a lot of bullshit (and untrue/hyperbolized) propaganda for almost a century, and thus a lot of them have gotten somewhat inoculated against any negative findings about cannabis, to a point where they will dismiss virtually anything that has even a remote chance of making weed look bad.