skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite sure that most HN posters are aware…

Now I’m confused; who is it again who’s making the low-effort generalizations?
- Arabic language tutorial for violent jihadist extremists on how to use Google

Thats halirious ;)
Maybe have the line about "jq" be 2nd. Have the first line be a brief description of what it actually does.
They will be using Algorand for much of their blockchain infrastructure:

https://www.coindesk.com/events/2021/08/31/el-salvador-to-la...

What's likely is they'll end up with wrapped Bitcoin on the Algorand chain and using all the Algo tools.
It's not so much the software per se to blame as the facile criteria implemented by the software.

Employment Equity Legislation should require Companies and recruiters to disclose the criteria used in their resume screening programs.

Applicants rejected by resume screening programs should be notified of what criteria resulted in their rejection.

Employment equity commissions should be empowered to receive complaints against resume screening software and require changes to discriminatory criteria.
Unity patents ECS
How is that a biological imperative and not just another form of social conditioning?
A Quicktime movie plays
Huh, I wonder how they did that.
El salvador payment system is built on the lighting network. A layer 2 scaling solution for bitcoin (up to 25 million transactions per second)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

edit: typos
1440*2 different pre-rendered videos I assume.
Hehe as a guy who thinks of himself as lucky to have been born an American, this was hilarious
How do you measure calories in food? It takes a herculean effort to know exactly what ingredients are in food and weigh exactly how much of each you're consuming with every meal. Seems like a lot of work to manually keep track of all that every single day and not make a mistake.
Makes it easier, sure, but not absolutely necessary.

I regularly have alcohol when I'm cutting weight. It just gets counted towards my calorie budget.

I do find non-diet soda to be completely wasted calories though. Just not worth it.
We need both. Delta is infectious enough that vaccine alone isn't going to stop it. Vaccine + masks can stop it, though, without infecting everyone.
XPath does general data processing not just selection

E.g. when you have a list of numbers on the website, XPath can calculate the sum or the maximum of the numbers

Or you have a list of names "Last name, First name", then you can remove the last name and sort the first names alphabetically. Or count how often each name occurs and return the most popular name.

Then it goes back to selection, e.g. select all numbers that are smaller than the average. Or calculate the most popular name, then select all elements containing that name
There is a ton of room to improve on the best existing cities. Innovation in terms of the tax structure, regulatory codes, transportation grid, policing, healthcare, pandemic preparedness, and many other areas.

Poverty is still rampant in most US cities. That seems like the most pressing matter.

Just because existing conditions are adequate for those with resources doesn't mean we can't do better.

Housing supply and housing quality should be a key area of focus.
Ability to implement monetary policy comes from monetary sovereignty.

Monetary sovereignty is a spectrum, with countries having high degrees of MS and low degrees of MS. Since El Salvador pegs its currency to the US dollar it has a low degree of monetary sovereignty.

Having a low degree of monetary sovereignty is the reason countries like Greece ran into so much trouble after the 2008 financial crisis. Greece doesn't control its currency. Where as the US does and it did much better.
CSAM is really giving me pause too.

I think if enough of us plebes hold off on upgrades they might get the message.
Results for other methods of consumption were not statistically significant:

"Similarly, a higher odds of history of MI was observed with vapourization as a primary method of cannabis consumption (adjusted OR 2.26, 95% CI 0.58–8.82) and other forms of cannabis consumption, including edibles (adjusted OR 2.36, 95% CI 0.81–6.88) when compared with nonusers; however, these were not statistically significant."
> I can't speak for people who don't know jq,

I can, and it's not illuminating at all.
The original title: Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021

I've emailed the mods to suggest a change.
Measuring “excess” in terms of inputs minus harvest is really problematic as a proxy for environmental damage from runoff. The nutrients may be absorbed by other vegetation that is not counted as part of the harvest. Plus, some locations may have mitigation strategies or utilize the runoff. It’s really quite problematic to calculate environmental damage from ag runoff using such proxies.
Tech firm: your product team creates externally used technologies.

Not tech: tech improvements are internal and/or your IT staff is all about maintaining/integrating external products.

IT as cost center versus profit center may be a useful distinction.
Well not clear enough I guess since my comment just got downvoted 4 times lol.
Jo sends $100 from Bank A to Alice at Bank B, then Bob sends $100 from Bank B to Jo. The banks will have no USD to settle at clearing as a result.

Did Jo and Alice participate in a USD transaction?
You can't pause it, so could be.
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Or to support local bookstores while buying:

https://bookshop.org/books/red-roulette-an-insider-s-story-o...
Interestingly enough there's also an occult-related book called The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall (1928). That book is more or less an overview of esoteric beliefs in the West. Why was he fascinated in this stuff?
Eh perhaps, I revised the comment a few times here and there.

I guess I would say I'm aiming towards examples that are big enough to be notable and not just directly focused on political analysis or similar or type channels.

A lot of what throws somewhat sane people (I would include myself in that but of course I'm biased) off of using the alternate video sites is the second you load up the home page of something like BitChute or rumble and see nearly an entire page full heavily one-sided political content and many (justifiably) believe there's no content for them if they don't align there.

Odysee could use some more quality content for sure, but they at least operate in such a way that I'm not convinced they're only for one type of content and some of the creators I watch in Linux/technology space have somewhat of a presence there.
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It's very possible some of those were simply gifts.
I have the UEFI/boot partition followed by an LVM PV. If it's a VM, data disks just get the whole disk, though I still usually set up LVM because it enables stuff like live storage migrations. I've actually had to do those more than once in production; one migration involved moving several terabytes of data used by a hardware server from an aging SAN onto physical disks and iSCSI. It required no downtime.

I haven't really had to worry about partitioning on any Linux machine I manage for over a decade thanks to LVM; I just create volumes based on what makes sense for the applications hosted on the servers.
The problem is tying the idea deserving to be at the top to some imaginary concept of I influence in the first place. All that matters is ability, it doesn't matter how you got it. Personal influence doesn't exist in a scientific world without a soul. People are born with better or worse operating systems and hardware. Their conditions improve or deminnish their OS and function over time.

We can strive for a society where the environment produces the best outcomes, but some will always be better than others at any measurable task.

Saying that someone is better at something because they have better genes, better upbringing, better schooling, doesn't take away the fact that they are better.

The people with the best ability do deserve to be at the top.

The only question is what we can do as a society to enable individuals to develop ability to the greatest extent possible.
1. Count your calories the best you can. Apps like MyFitnessPal help.

2. Weigh yourself every day.

3. After 2 weeks, raise or lower your calorie budget depending on how much weight you've lost. Look at averages, not daily weight.

4. Repeat.

The 2 week adjustment takes care of most mistakes you make with calorie counting. I am usually consistent with the direction I'm over or under counting.
Suppose Hitler's body must be in the Arctic because we never saw it either, right? Assumptions can be fun...
Did the app before that made use of connection pooling and reuse? If yes then the latency gap is typically not high. You can still send a http request in a single ip packet as long as your framework doesn’t do anything wrong. Obviously there will a a latency hit for new connections. But in return you get handling of packet loss
Exactly this.

It doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Others have pointed to UI issues, for example. It just means the state of the tech probably isn't the top of mind for the C-team and the board.
I haven't used it but demo already got me so excited. This is the reason I check HN on a daily basis. Great work!!
> that its only used for money laundering and buying drugs

I am not surprised to see hyperbole like this, but i'm disappointed that they are so routinely upvoted. I've personally used bitcoin for sending money across borders (for legitimate purposes) and never for drugs or money laundering.

Apologies for my reactivity, but i think highly of the HN community and get deeply frustrated that this sort of ignorant hyperbole is peddled and supported.
Just shooting from the hip, but streaming videos are all done as short 1-5 second chunks that are all listed in a playlist. They could have specific versions of the hour:minute with a specific playlist that includes the correct segment. When you click, the time is checked and the correct playlist is sent down the wire.

Edit: I opened up the dev tools, and did not see the typical HLS style segments. I saw several MP4 files intro/outro/etc. They could still have the segments ready to go, serve up the intro to buy time for the server to ```ffmpeg -i time.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4``` type of thing before serving to you
If they announce a new ARM Macbook Pro with a new (and actually good) camera, I'd probably buy it.

If it comes with macOS Monterey, I'd probably not enable iCloud Photos on it though. Device-side scanning is unacceptable to me.
I don't mean to imply that long COVID isn't happening. Just offering a reason why death counts get most of the attention when we try to assess whether a vaccine/treatment/policy measure is effective.
The Art of Problem Solving books are great and really focus on understanding the concepts deeply.

The problem selection varies widely in difficulty and they all have corresponding solution manuals so you can check your answers and problem-solving approach.

If you were to go through all of them, you would come out with an extremely strong foundation in mathematics that would make undergraduate-level material much more accessible.
I can entirely imagine this happening at very large companies. And that is also inside EU.
Note that most of the documents were just various files from the ~10 computers they took from the compound. There's nothing really tying him to many of them. And it's unclear if he even understood English, he claimed not to but his pedigree would suggest he did.
The Undefined Threat
Interesting bits on Germany

> In case there was a call for boycotting the German merchandise, it better to have a substitute to
the German technology, and the substitute may be the Japanese or the South Korean.

First: Japan has a technology to cover the needs of the people, who want to dispense with the German
goods,

Second: Japan is going through a destructive and fierce crises, this may be a clear message to Japan if
this was suitable, this is a suggestion, and I do not know anything about Japan.

> After the publishing of the caricatures insulting Prophet Muhammad in Denmark, the German Minister
of the Interior called asked all the European Newspapers to publish the caricatures, and it has a weight
since it was not said by a minister of some country, but the Interior Minister of a country that has the
largest publishing house in Europe (Axel‐Springer Verlag) , and what is important to mention is, the
same minister promised reporters from Der Spiegel a day before the first Summit of Islam that if any
one described him in this Summit as a Kafir (Infidel), he will face problems.

> Mentioning this will serve us in spreading fear among the Media personalities believing publishing
them, means targeting them. If the Media is afraid, the barrier between the truth and the people is
broken. Fearing for their lives, the media will publish what encourages the people to vote for who wants
to pull the tro ops, and only God knows.
Uber is mostly made of drivers, yet is considered a tech company. (I'm aware drivers are not technically employees).

Maybe it's more to do with the strategy of the company.
You get spammed with hundreds of fake profiles trying to add you is the biggest disappointment I've seen myself firsthand (obvious phishing links included). There is a lot of botted activity.
Not everyone is forced to store it though.

You don't need consensus about the state of the entire network on layer 2 like you do on layer 1.

So it's not really a problem.
Let's say that all Banana growers were shut down for 8 months and during that time all existing supply was bought up that were sitting on store shelves. After they were allowed to start growing again, how long until you see a Banana in your local store? You better be there when they arrive, because everyone else who has been wanting Bananas is waiting too.

On top of that, can the Banana grower even get all of the items needed to grow the same sized crop as last year? All of the fertilizers, etc.? Those companies have been shut down during this time too. Oh, you're not the only company who needs those exact same supplies and the Potato farmer down the road is trying to purchase it too? After you've grimaced that the price has risen due to short supply and you had to source the items from 3x as many suppliers as you used to, now, you're relieved that your Bananas are almost done growing. You call the trucking company to deliver them to the distributor, who you learn is short staffed and prices have risen in order to attract truckers who are now in short supply, and factor in the gas price increases. Every single segment of the economy that the Banana grower relied on is going through the same thing, at the same time.

Making chips is several orders of magnitude harder/more complex than growing Bananas. Think about how many different companies products must be purchased to make a wafer. How many different highly specialized chemicals are used in addition to solid materials? If any single one of them is having supply or labor issues...
> not sure that Gresham’s law would strictly apply

You're correct, it's a loose analogy.

> people can instantly exchange one for the other

"El Salvadorans without a bank account (70% of the population) can only convert bitcoin to greenbacks at a bitcoin ATM. At present, El Salvador only has two active bitcoin ATMs" [1].

[1] https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2021/06/Bukeles-Bitc...
Supply change disruption before a major war.
Once a company has grown to certain stage it HAS to be centered on business. So the ideal life of a technical person is to:

1: Join a start-up

2: Work hard to grab as much technical fields under belt as possible, preferably be the CTO or one of the tech director/VP

3: Leave when it's broke/successful enough to be less technical related

4: GOTO 1
Good god, I had no idea how bad the state of personal freedoms is in the UK. That's horrifying.

For the curious, parent is talking about this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/terrorist-pr...
so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.
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That is honestly a pretty confusing sentence in need of clarification. My read would be that statistical significance was not achieved due to the small sample size of users who are primarily using other methods of consumption than smoking.
Yeah jeez. 200/m for an app and a slack bot? Unless these curricula are awfully extraordinary, this is a ridiculous price.
> Competing interests: Karim Ladha and Hance Clarke are principal investigators of an observational medical cannabis study funded by Shoppers Drug Mart.
It's down though.

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1435197879795212291?r...
> There are plenty to choose from now, so what features exactly were missing in those?

IIRC, people using that wallet can opt into a government backed BTC to fiat conversion rate that allows all shopkeepers to cash out in fiat. It's to make people feel comfortable being forced to accept bitcoin. For obvious reasons, governments don't want to subsidize non-citizens or risk alternative wallet lending themselves to arbitrage.
To look things up, I often land on https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory . As someone, who went from skinny to muscular with just bodyweight workouts, I think consistency is the key.
There's a huge difference between 2D Mandelbrot renderings and 3D fractal renderings -- whether 3D slices of 4D Julia sets, or 3D Mandelbulbs.

Which is that the 2D Mandelbrot is mostly interesting in the shapes of swirls and whorls generated just outside of the set -- the rainbow spirals surrounding the black parts.

But all the 3D/4D fractal renderings I've ever seen focus on just the "black parts" turned into 3D surfaces.

What about 2D rainbow slices of the 3D/4D fractals? Does the Mandelbulb exhibit the same spirals etc.? Do 2D slices through the third dimension look qualitatively similar to the regular 2D version, or are the spirals different?
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"Tech company" is arguably a term whose meaning has shifted into the domain of common popular agreement, away from any rigorous first-principles definition.

It would be equally futile to say "Betsy's Diner may serve coffee, but it isn't a cafe; it's mainly just a sandwich and pastry shop." Or, "Fritz's Foods may sell a few items in bulk, but it isn't a grocer; they mainly sell individually-packaged items."
For sure, and I wouldn't be surprised if Teslas are less likely to hit parked cars than human drivers.

But you see the problem -- for the outrage journalism to stop, it has to be a lot better (~10X) than humans.
More specifically, whenever such an article hits the headlines most comments will gladly assume that the authors are insultingly ignorant about basic statistics and overlooked a glaring confusion between causation and correlation, which the commenter immediately spotted without even reading the article.
Here are some estimates: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Do you think they are wrong? By how much?
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Encryption also would likely change independently of the protocol issues.

Layers of communication are a thing for a reason, it allows each piece of the communication to upgrade independently. Instead of writing encryption into the spec, its more useful to write encryption on top of the spec as a 2nd layer.
Delivering streaming content at all is pretty remarkable.
I wonder if that commenter meant HBO Go? HBO tech has had an interesting history.

First came HBO Go. This was the online streaming for those with HBO as part of a standard cable package. Apparently it was built on a .Net stack and had huge problems.

HBO Now is the service created for standalone sales of streaming. Apparently it had a completely different tech stack because of issues with HBO Go. Apparently it came from the same people who did the streaming services for MLB (Major League Baseball)> In my experience it was very good.

HBO Max is the expanded and updated content ecosystem that came with the merger. I don't know what the tech stack here is. I suspect it's just incremental changes to HBO Now but that's just a guess.

Perhaps the commenter was referring to HBO Go's problems as evidence that serving VODs isn't "solved". To clarify, I mean "solved for Netflix".
Such an ignorant comment. There are hundreds of millions Bitcoin users globally, and only a very small fraction of them are criminals of any kind.

And let's ignore the actual criminals who legally counterfeit US dollars to finance war all around the world.
> Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier

The reviews in amazon seem to rave about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlines-Illuminati-Fritz-Springmei...

Though, take them with a grain of salt.
That's what I did. I made a Scheme instead of Lox because I'm not that interested in parsers; s-expression recursive descent parsers are almost trivial to implement. And I wanted to try implementing macros, which are so much simpler in a Lisp.

I loosely followed the second half of book - but I found that for a Scheme or Lisp, it made more sense to have separate parsing and compilation steps. Because implementing quotation is trivial if you parse first, but would have been kind of messy to do in a single pass.

(I also used Rust instead of C, which means I skipped a lot of the memory management code, at the cost of more indirection in some places.)
> Normal banks already do that

70% of El Salvadorians don't have a bank account [1].

[1] https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/el-salvador-global...