skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kind-of already was for all practical purposes. Businesses had to keep buying to keep the payments integrations and stuff. At least my perception.
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Isn't the security of the blockchain fundamentally tied to the mining difficultly?

I don't see how you could significantly reduce the energy usage without sacrificing security (unless you make structural changes such as moving to POS)
In one case the “canceled” actually happens routinely. In the other, it’s just a loud man ranting but no one was canceled.
I read on here a long time ago that it wasn't just supposed to be humans as batteries, but as CPUs/algorithms (some good further discussion too, about the Architect): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508832

I thought I'd seen an earlier discussion on a mailing list or something but can't find it now.

I remember coming up with an idea, which I thought was original, of us being in a simulation where all our life choices are just training an AI advertising engine that then targets "real" humans, and then later came across this revelation about The Matrix, and of course it'd already been thought of.
The Matrix is really just a side-story for Dark City.
Lots of legal and moral significance.
It had almost as much finesse and imagination as "HOT SINGLES IN $YOUR_AREA".
Title buries the lede, One in 5k per day

> How small are the chances of the average vaccinated American contracting Covid? Probably about one in 5,000 per day, and even lower for people who take precautions or live in a highly vaccinated community.
Patent lawyer here. There is a lot of dubious stuff already in this thread, so be careful with legal opinions from people on the internet.

Some relevant claim language is below. Of course a lot of this stuff has been known for a while, but you have to have everything together--or an evidenced argument that combining things in this way would have been obvious--before you can conclude anything about the validity of the patent. And on unpatentable subject matter (i.e., being an abstract idea), there is a pretty good argument that this improves the functionality of the computer, not just uses a computer to do something known, which recent cases have started using as the de facto dividing line.

1. A system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer memories;
a set of instructions incorporated into the one or more computer memories, the set of instructions configuring the one or more computer processors to perform operations for automatically managing a set of memory chunks within the one or more computer memories at runtime for a computer application, the operations comprising:
receiving a set of entities from the computer application, each of the set of entities including a set of components, wherein each component of the set of components has one type of a set of types;
classifying the set of entities into a set of archetypes, each archetype representing a different count of the set of components or a different combination of types of the set of components relative to other archetypes of the set of archetypes;
based on a determination that one of the set of archetypes corresponds to a new archetype, building a new memory chunk, adding the new memory chunk to the set of memory chunks, and populating the new memory chunk, wherein the populating of the new memory chunk includes adding data from the set of components included in one or more entities of the set of entities that are classified under the new archetype, the adding of the data including contiguously adding the data to ends of a set of component data arrays included in the new memory chunk, each of the set of data arrays included in the new memory chunk corresponding to a respective component of the set of components included in the one or more entities that are classified under the new archetype.
I just found out that there is a new Matrix movie and I am honestly a little bit horrified. I have zero confidence that the downhill progression in movie quality will somehow be turned around given the current state of Hollywood.
Oddly enough, some of the smallest Android phones released in the last couple of years have headphone jacks, e.g.: Galaxy S10e and Pixel 4a.
> Would he have lost them money? Yes, definitely, without question.

So would it be right to fire Kaepernick at the first hint of controversy, since it would be reasonable to predict that would cause at least some loss of revenue?
That we don't know doesn't necessarily imply that we need to assume the worst case scenario.
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For pure range, sure. But think about things like heat sinks or other cooling devices. Or the weight of these components themselves. Swap over to this new SiC, you get more direct efficiency, AND you don't need to carry as much supporting hardware!
> Maybe because it's news and critical Android remote exploits are found often enough to not be news.

Then you should have no problem being able to find one that will exploit my phone. I even gave you the specific Android version AND security patch level to target.

Get at it instead of pointing to the sky and saying "look!"
I say there are 2 good matrix movies what we got though was one good one and 2 mediocre ones. 2 and 3 were really one story, but it needed a serious amount of editing. There was a lot of fluff in there that really detracted from the story. They could have released that movie and then special editioned it for DVD release... The last 2 also suffered from a problem once you make someone superman. The stakes are just not there. They tried to make that with zion. But story wise they just did not make the audience really care about them. The first one you felt like you were right there along for the ride. 2 and 3 you were merely an observer and did not feel terribly invested. They are 'ok' movies but just do not go into them expecting more of matrix 1.
I think OP might have confused Unity (a game engine) with Unreal Engine (game engine owned by Epic Games)
And in fact, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Waltons and all the people who have been populating the Forbes rich list for the last 30 years...they don't look happy.

They seem rather dull and desensitised to anything. Very robotic.

Very similar to the British royals and European old money.

They live in fear of losing their money and relevance instead of having the confidence to double down on their bets and hit yet another home run.

If you look at billionaires then it's pretty easy to pick the ones you'd want to be: Mark Cuban, Donald Trump, Rihanna, Cristiano Ronaldo....etc

Those type of billionaries who are big spenders and also continiously betting on themselves are the type of billionaires also good for society because they make the economy go around and their projects are cash cows for other entrepreneurs looking for easy oversells.

Can't imagine living in fear like Gates, the Waltons and Warren Buffett, they aren't human.
I have written my own bspwm-like twm for Windows which is actively developed and supported: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

It supports multiple monitors, multiple workspaces per monitor, multiple containers per workspace, multiple windows per container (stacks)

It also supports Windows 11 and comes with a batteries-included configuration sample that "just works" and is installable via scoop.
> If I could go back and edit my comment I would do so.

I've reopened it for editing if you still want to do that!
If electrons can think, this revitalizes the EE student's great hope: that they could be taught to read and obey schematics!
Yeah, South Korea is roughly at SF's latitude and Taipei is roughly Miami.

Maybe Taiwan can be bucketed into SEA, but SK is definitely East Asia
That actually looks really interesting, thanks!
GnuCash is free, and can do most of what quickbooks does. https://www.gnucash.org/
> A country the like US who has a high degree of monetary sovereignty has a lot to loose and very little go gain by adopting bitcoin. If you believe in Modern Monetary Theory. Given the way things have gone since 2008 financial crisis i believe MMT is the best model available.

I’m a huge proponent of the free market, and opponent of Keynesian economics - but even I freely admit that the US moving to a fully free market system would have disastrous consequences. That doesn’t mean a “fully floating” currency is better; it means that there is a barrier to exit.

There are lots of things in life that are easier to adopt than to abandon :)
Hot take: Fundamental forces are actually particle preferences.
CSVs with quoted fields and imbedded newlines can be troublesome in awk. Years ago I had found a script that worked for me, I'm not sure but I think it was this:

http://lorance.freeshell.org/csv/

There's also https://github.com/dbro/csvquote which is more unix-like in philosophy: it sits in a pipeline, and only handles transforming the CVS data into something that awk (or other utilities) can more easily deal with. I haven't used it but will probably try it next time I need something like that.
>This is alluded to in the article with polygenic risk scores, but those I suspect will face a similar crisis of replicability; although they predict outcomes, it's relatively weak when you get to behavior, and much weaker still upon replication.

Why would you say that? I think you implied you work in this field, so maybe you do know better than me. But from my perspective, you are incorrect. Not only a lot of SNP's are replicating, but we also have the definitive method to test causality, which is applying PGS intrafamily.

> The reason why I'm posting in response to your comment is that underlying all of this I think is a fundamental, often implied concern about BG research: that it is not oriented toward intervention, change, or improvement.

Ok, now I am definetely sure you don't work in the field. Wtf? Of course it is immensely valuable to know that cluster X of genes influences condition Y. Nowadays, drug discovery is a pretty messy process without any direction except trial and error. If we can previously know which genes are first implied in this condition, then we can reason what they are probably doing (using previous knowledge of them) and from there work in a possible solution.
Speak for yourself.

"Conscious" is an undefined term. Whether something or someone is conscious is a matter of personal preference, therefore moot, by the definition.

Unless you are an EMT, and need a release signed.
That's up to each individual's risk profile. I'd rather play it safe for another several months than risk lifetime debilitation. You can pick your own risk level.
Have you tried getting a bookkeeper to use GnuCash? Xero has a following as does SAGE/peachtree but not the good open source options. I did and it failed. No reason except everyone in the CPA and bookkeeper business uses and knows QuickBooks. I have up and use and pay the kings transom for QBO so i can focus on my business and not play transaction level bookkeeper myself.
So obvious you didn't read the article.
"Take this if you want to live" Christina Ricci says as she hands Morpheus Jr. a holographic PinePhine running Arch and a neural uplink transceiver, tossing what looks like a earbuds case on the ground as it shimmers and transforms into a hoverbike speeder (branded PORSCHE for the requisite product placement just like in the first film). They speed off in search of Johnny Silverhands.
This is the sequel that broke the camel's back for you and not all of the other sequels, prequels, sidequels, spin-offs, reboots, remakes, retcons, and reimaginings that Hollywood has been indulging in since it was founded?
I was writing a real-time multiplayer game a while ago and used that article as the basis of how to keep players in sync.

One thing it doesn't mention, but that I thought of and implemented a protection against, is a malicious client sitting there and listening to game states, then send a bunch of inputs with timestamps in the past that would put the player into an advantageous position. I eliminated this by coding the server to reject any inputs that are older than 500 ms, and since the server was authoritative, the client had to just deal with it and put the player where it was up to 500 ms ago. The server would even tell the client "You are lagging and I ignored your input" when this happened, so legit clients could deal with it.

While yes, this could create a negative player experience as a player who is dealing with a lot of latency or packet loss would frequently get teleported back, that player would already be having a negative experience due to everyone else jumping around. Even with interpolation between predicted states and authoritative states, at 500 ms latency, you're going to have a bad time in a real-time multiplayer game when latency matters.
So has religion, but we got over it
Why be upset? Instead, make a service breaking laws elsewhere but not your home jurisdiction.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444380.
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Propaganda, according to Wikipedia:

> Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.[1]

PragerU's "About Us" Page:

> Prager University is the world's leading conservative nonprofit that is focused on changing minds through the creative use of digital media. Taking full advantage of today's technology and social media, we educate millions of Americans and young people about the values that make America great.[2]

I'd also encourage you to check out their "What is PragerU"[3] brochure (PDF) which goes into more detail.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

[2]https://www.prageru.com/about

[3]https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/UfBbMy7KkcxxjzVTlR...
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Sure, but a wrapper around Electron isn't a hard thing to copy, and they've got to go from a neat tech demo to what you are describing.
Channel has been reinstated!

https://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP/status/1435311971973406726

I want to know what happened for Google to make such a serious mistake.
> That's a drop of 24% in purchasing power.

No, it's not, because purchasing power doesn't scale linearly with M2 money supply.
Use it for personal but gave up trying to get my CPA or his booking staff to work with it at all.
> Using renewables to do something that doesn't need to be done is not a win.

It is if it spurs development of the underlying tech.

Pornography isn’t necessary, but because it was consumed in volume we ended up with ubiquitous household VCRs in the 80s and 90s.
That's super interesting! I can see their study included asking to what extent the participants are experiencing certain negative/positive feelings (which may give some more context), but isn't their core measure of happiness also capped? They use a continuous response scale, but in terms of being capped, it shouldn't matter if it's measured on a 0-100 or 1-5 scale, no? The participants can't be happier than "extremely happy" in their study design as far as I can tell.
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As many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly)

In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a...

The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as:

red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i

where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant function)

Then "17" is prepended to that string ("BOND_OBFUSCATION_SALT" in the source code), and then the video file name is simply the MD5 of the string.

To find the video URL:

// change 1435 for any HHMM time
timeStr = "red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i"
videoFile = MD5("17" + timeStr) + ".mp4"
url = "https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/" + videoFile

:-)

---

All 1440 red pill video URLs (tested all of them in bulk without downloading any using `wget --spider -i allurls.txt` — spider is a cool option!):

https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820...
I use type annotations. They make it a lot easier to do things like refactoring. I've written a ton of Python since the early 2000s, and my experience is that projects above a certain size (and it's not really that large, like a few thousand loc) start getting hard to modify. There are also a few types of errors that reliably get caught by type checkers that you can easily encounter in Python code... for example, misspelling an exception name, or constructing an exception wrong. Simple typos in code paths that are not exercised in tests. The annotations also help you acclimate faster to code you haven't seen before (you can navigate to definitions / call sites more reliably), and lets Emacs / Vim / VS Code make better autocompletion suggestions.

In short, it helps me code faster.
Do you want me to translate this from Hollywood BS? Hugo probably thinks it’s a stinkerrrr.
> Would he have lost them money? Yes, definitely, without question

I question it. You’re too confident here. How much money would he lose? Is it measurable? A blip?

And how much increased revenue would be gained by his supporters? Does it even out?

How many people doing the canceling have never bought from the company, nor would ever?
Hmmm...cities are organic things that follow organic economic cause and effect. Plans for a new city...adorable. Planned economy (Sri Lanka)...adorable. Mental masturbation.
Cbc's polling average has them at 4.8%, which isn't inside your 5-8% interval... but it's true that they have been slowly trending upwards... though whether you should prefer a momentum model or a reversion to the mean model for polling variation is unclear.

Separately, giving airtime to ridiculous conspiracies that even you don't believe is simply not helpful.
That's good to hear.

Lake Charles is still waiting on Congressional approval for a relief bill for last year's hurricane damage, so there's some angst.

Cable news seemed stuck on Afghanistan evacuations (which didn't have any developments between the bombing and last wheels up, as far as I can tell).

And the weather channel (and similar) were too busy faking bad conditions in places that were relatively spared.

Ie. the electrical lineman doing cartwheels behind the reporter pretending to be blown over.
Co-watching is an interesting space. One I've worked in actually. And yes, I agree it's not "solved".

Amazon has taken a stab at this with a watch party on Twitch. I imagine you could have a private stream and do it that way maybe? Not ideal of course. It's intended for a different use case.

The best options I've seen involve using sites of questionable legality plus Discord.

Your observations of skew are kind of interesting and larger than I would've expected. But I guess this is the video players being built to show you the content not showing you the content at the same time as someone else. Specifically this means no effort is made to "catch up" in case of buffering. You or your GF must have a lot of buffering. This alone surprises me because Netflix's core delivery tech seems to be extremely good. But again, their delivery tech probably isn't built to solve this problem.

Anyway, while that's an unsolved problem it's not core to Netflix's business and that's the key criteria here.
Japan has officially recognized Bitcoin as a currency and legal payment method, though companies using it are subject to taxation and regulations. Bitcoin has been declared as a legal tender or payment method in Japan, effective from April 1st 2017.
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What? Securing the blockchain and processing transactions is the same thing. What do you think "securing the blockchain" entails other than processing transactions?
The funny thing is you saying "you can't have a discussion online" as we are having a discussion online and you are responding to someone who said what you were thinking.

I am completely open to the concept that cannabis consumption is not always healthy for people, depending on delivery method, quantity, and the state of mind of the individual.

I also, almost without qualification, will dismiss the health risks as a rationale for continuing its general prohibition. And (wait for it)... yeah, it's because there are myriad substances and behaviors that can cause harm, but we don't outright ban them.

So no, I'm not saying "don't tell me how it could be harmful" - especially as an occasional user, I want to know as real studies (and trusted anecdotes among friends) come about. Just don't use evidence of some adverse effects as a justification for prohibition, which politicians and puritans are quick to attempt.
https://mempool.space/
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-median_transact...

And considering I use Bitcoin frequently, and I'm constantly, on a weekly basis sending on chain for 5 cents, 10 cents max. I'm in within a couple blocks, every single time. You are straight up spreading FUD.
I think that is a great analogy. If you view Bitcoin on the main blockchain as M0 money supply, then side channels like the Lightning Network and other centralized payment processors that have been popping up can be viewed as M1 and more commonly M2.

If Bitcoin's original thesis of truly decentralized P2P cash still holds, then it should be viewed as an M0 money supply. Financial services and products build on top of and separately from the main chain make sense as analogues to reserve banks and payment processors that do not handle the majority of transfers in physical cash.
Thank you, Hacker News friend! Worth the downvote, to get this information.
Are you some kind of bot?

Someone with the ability to flag comments should look at this.
Maybe you're talking about Windows, I don't really know. But I gotta say, I wrestled through using Ubuntu ca. 2010s because they included a cool Matrix wallpaper by default. That's cooler than knowing how to quit vim.
Now that organically grown, super high quality marijuana gummies and candies are legally available in many places, why do people still smoke vs. eat it? It seems so much safer and the precise dose predictable.
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It's a drop relative to what it would be if the money supply had not increased accordingly, not versus what the purchasing power was at that point in time.
I don't see how this example would necessarily benefit me as the content consumer/customer nor Netflix. What if the clips that Netflix learns to show me aren't representative of the entire special, and I'm disappointed? And while Netflix to some extent wants to have me spend time using their service (to ensure I feel like I'm getting value and don't cancel my subscription), watching more things I don't enjoy may not help.
Apparently the original plot was that humans were used for compute, which would make more sense, but the studio didn't think audiences would understand that as well.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
That's not his voice, but whoever it is sounds similar. Same accent, similar voice but not as deep and with less variation in emphasis. I'm guessing whoever it is is playing Morpheus' son.