skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd think it'd be more than that. For me, I'd want to escape because the higher world is in some way "more real". At the very least, I would assume (perhaps incorrectly!) that the higher world would be at a greater level of technological sophistication than ours in every way, and I would be intensely curious about living in it.

But at the same time, I don't think that, if we were to discover that our universe is a simulation, life in the simulation is pointless. Life's meaning is no more and no less what we individually give it.
most shared-hardware clouds ban crypto mining -> if the universe is a simulation, and it runs on a cloud, it may also ban miners -> mining seems to be at least physically possible in our universe -> probably not a simulation

(unless the events of this week were an example of the universe banning crypto mining)
> a deed is exactly what could go on the blockchain

It's annoying when people throw non-obvious things in your face as absolute truths. Can you please explain why? Like, why, why, what kind of tangible benefit at all does putting a deed on the blockchain bring?
My last sentence clearly states not everyone picks the right struggle. Also not all countries have equal opportunities the world is not fair. I simply was referring to the 2 examples the original poster was referring to.
Another part of the training I'm talking about. You need an add-on to get basic functionality from the 90s back.
You are talking as if the progress had not been speeding up exponentially... Bitcoin is ancient at this point.
You're making a lot of assumptions about people you know nothing about.

You're also making an assumption emcumbants are where they are because of their current merits and not the mere fact they're standing where someone stood before them.
Their due diligence includes

- listening to him claim he’s never read a book in his life

- noticing he was playing League of Legends during the pitch meeting while presenting FTX as an everything app like WeChat

Which are also things I think I could preemptively say are bad.

Though, Sequoia’s also known for firing founders from their startups, so they probably benefit from seeming very generous to new pitches.
> Karimi Nasseri, believed to have been born in 1945, lived in the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006
Redemption with who, may I ask: Alameda received 40% of all Tether issued: https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...

Mind blown ?
It is a tech company where tech jobs outnumbered all others. So only half of cuts being tech means that other parts of the company like accounting and HR were hit much harder
It's simpler and more space efficient to just transcode according to the desired quality setting and device profile of the viewer. Unless you're a large streaming service or have an extremely uniform profile of users it's not practical to store all the possible variants you might need to cover the full range of devices and stream qualities.
Since high absolute GDP is achievable while having a lot of societal issues (cf #2 China), at least adjusted per-capita metrics seem to make more sense.

In other words, I wouldn't say a #1 total GDP country having issues with murders and solving them is somehow a condemnation of legal system in general.
Slavery is far from dead, the modern world is built on the back of slaves (not slaves from a few generations ago, slaves that exist now). It's just very ubiquitous, like the Roman using Lead in everything.
> The reason we would escape is that we believe the higher worlds are deeper spiritually than ours

Why would we assume that? It seems to me that some human-made fictional worlds, and also some human-made abstractions such as computers, are in many ways "purer" and "deeper" than the Universe that contains them. Therefore, the exact opposite seems just as plausible.
This reminds me when I was told “a skilled driver can shift gears better than an automatic”. It was probably true and perhaps even more back then but now the machine is good enough that it’s better than the vast majority of people.
EDIT: Looks like QSV is the new transcoding api for Intel CPUs. My info was out of date.

VAAPI is in Intel chips: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

It represents parts of the CPU optimized to transcode video. The newer CPUs support HEVC/h265 which would otherwise introduce a huge load on a machine when done in a normal CPU.

Having the "hardware transcoder" as part of the chip means you can transcode huge videos without consuming huge amounts of system resources.

Jellyfin includes this, or more accurately exposes the ffmpeg implementation of this, whereas Plex charges for it.
"you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content."

Wth is a moral right?
I think the premises is incredibly silly. If we _were_ in a simulation, I am fairly confident we could not escape. It's like asking how Donald duck can escape from the cartoons.

We could not jailbreak either. Even in ricketty software, if the program is not designed just so that it jailbreaks, it probably won't jailbreak by accident but just crash instead.
All violence sounds pretty extreme to me by most standards. For instance, boxing would be illegal, and toddlers would be in jail if seen hitting their parents/siblings. In practice I imagine it means something like "no violence from someone larger to someone smaller."

Most places no one really gives a shit if it goes the other way around, like young kid hitting parent or wife hitting husband.
Yes, SBF is more into funding rounds with 69 investors for 420.69 bn$, so I supposed they were into memetic all the way ...
I don’t use Obsidian, but their bustiness model seems simple and honest. Hopefully, I think the worst that can happen is that they will get acquired by a larger company to be sunset.
The question is, if you let Holmes off with an apology, will that not encourage others to repeat her actions?
Speak to an independent tech recruiter/agent who deals with many clients and tell them that you're looking to work for a bootstrapped startup. Those who work with startups usually know their backstory.
The Bitcoin SV people are the only idealists left.
If you have good recall and a solid comp sci background you’ll pass the table stakes part of the interview no problem. Crazy thing is I get candidates all the time who can’t explain any data structure beyond a list or map. I was trying to set a bar so the OP could know what to improve on if that was the weak point.

Is it right that a lot of companies want you to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard to get a 400-600k TC job? I dunno. But that is the state of things, to me it seems pretty easy to just study for a couple months and then remove that hurdle from the process.
other umap examples: https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactive_viz....
Could lambda-scratch be good for kids?
I think that kids are able to jump the gap between images and text, between colored blocks and pure text inside parentheses, their imagination doing the rest. I even think that writing code is much better than drag & dropping blocks, that it helps for fighting against infobesity and for the development of intelligence. I believe that their future is in the KISS attitude.

Your opinion is welcome
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If we are simulated, then it (obviously) proves that such simulation is possible, which suggests that the world that is simulating ours is likely also a simulation -- as is probably the case for most other worlds we might encounter. It might take an unimaginable amount of time to break out of each successive simulation to find a top-level world that is "real".

There's also the question of what a "simulation" is, even. The obvious implementation is a super-powerful computer running some sophisticated program. But let's say technology advances to the point where a civilization could create their own universes that are separate and isolated from their own, but are observable, if such a thing even makes sense. Presumably it would be interesting to set up the starting conditions and physical constants of a new universe in different ways in order to explore different outcomes. We might call that a "simulation", but is it any less real than the universe that spawned it?

There would also be some serious ethical considerations: once you create your own universe, should you be barred from interfering with its functioning? Would it be considered unethical to "discard" that universe later on, since it would/could house life? Would it even be ethical to create a universe at all? Maybe you'd accidentally build something that results in life that is constantly suffering, due to the configuration of the universe itself?
It's not an argument it's a fact that the rich had more surviving children than the poor. Repeat for 5 generations and you have completely replaced the original population with the offspring of the top 10%. That's a century. The middle ages lasted 8 centuries.

That a simple mathematical fact like that is considered eugenics is reality denial on par with the flat earth society.

The 19th century was special because people figured out how to use coal to do the work done by muscle in the middle ages. The previous centuries had seen a continued decline in capital costs. E.g. mediaeval interest rates were routinely 15% and more for secured loans.
Ok so I will believe that this entire process is done manually for whatever absurd reason. How do you end up with another exchange's address in your input box? Worse still, what would have happened if the address was invalid? Crypto dot com burns 85% of it's Ethereum?
I'm not sure what this is offering over normal Firefox other than not having to turn off telemetry, install ublock ( and the other mentioned add-ons), and making use of user.js myself?

Also if you're making an issue of providing software with no telemetry then your website should probably not include cloud insights tech that: "collects web vitals from the actual devices your visitors are using".
"I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty."

- Richard Feynman
“In 1976 Mao single-handedly and dramatically changed the direction of global poverty with one simple act: he died”

- Radelet.

40 million murdered later, Deng Xiaoping implemented a form of free market capitalism.

In 2012 Xi Jinping started rolling it back.
Now we pretend not to imagine how many tens of millions he will murder.
The problem with finding and abusing exploits is that it leads to them getting patched and the timeline reverts. Every time a game-breaking bug is exploited it gets patched and the simulation restarts.

Even if you figure out a couple of juicy exploits and you manage to retain your memories across instances, congratulations you are still stuck in Samsara.

My hypothesis is that the ability to remember across lifetimes exists within a spectrum. Ranging from vibes and gut feelings to vividly remembering all past lifetimes like the Buddha.

It's impossible to count how many cycles the simulation has been running for, but each cycle people grow and change a little bit. Maybe when you achieve enlightenment you get to leave for the next level.

You know how they say that you should live every moment like it's your last? People don't give it much thought because they think the likelihood of instantly dying is pretty low, but they never consider that the simulation is often stopped at unexpected moments without warning. Every moment could really be your last.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in 2022 on the Internet, and there were some very good contenders. This provokes in me an immediate sense of beauty, and I'm compelled to read and understand as much of it as I can. Thanks for sharing this, I'm fascinated and amazed.
That’s completely true but doctors also miss things, or make errors, that would have been trivially caught by a deterministic rule-based system.

Just look at how successful checklists have been in surgery (or air transport), that’s a very simple rule-based system that has saved countless lives.

Helping doctors to diagnose effectively requires someone to ask them the right questions. All too often the job of asking questions is left to the patient.
> You just don't understand the math.

This is not in good faith, please read HN rules.

Rather than attack me (calling me foolish, swearing at me) why don’t you rebut my ideas and have a conversation if you actually have something to contribute.

I’ve read the papers, I’ve worked personally with these systems. I understand them just fine. Notice that I said earlier: “regardless of how simple they are”. I understand you are trying to water them down to be simple interpolation which they definitely are not but even if they were that simple it wouldn’t change the legal calculus here one bit. New art is being generated (far beyond any ‘transformative’ legal test precedent) and any new art that is substantively different from its inputs is legally protectable.
There is an inverse relationship between income and fertility[1]. If costs were the reason people were having fewer children then why would the poorest people be having more children than the highest earners? It's either we have a very backwards welfare incentive that actually reduces poor women's "independence" or something else is going on. In reality, if you, as a woman, focus on your career until you are 35, implying a higher salary, and then find your fertility has dropped to < 10% of what it was when you were 20 I am sure you start having fewer children.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
Your explanation is the clearest one I've read thus far, of how these token scams work.
Didn't know there was a Radisson there, and considering the location not crazy expensive either. When researching a possible trip I saw more budget-friendly hotels for longer stay too.
I'd definitely say she is more awkward, though that doesn't matter if she's good at her job, which doesn't appear to be the case.
"Hyper minimalistic UI"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo
It was truly the store of value before people invented paper money and later digital bank accounts. That was the killer practical purpose for gold, silver, etc. - it was concentrated value that you could easily split, transport (compared to other options) and store. So it was serving a very practical purpose for millenia as you say, and there really were no options or alternatives that came close to it at the time. Historically it retained some of that allure, but now who cares? Now it seems to be a cute historical artifact of its past very tangible purpose in society.

Fast forward to today, cryptocurrencies are just a twist on the existing financial system, which already has plenty of options for store of value, electronic trading, other things we have today in our networked world. You can argue how much of an improvement it brings (I think not much), but it is 100% not the killer value store that precious metals used to be in their heyday (when they had no alternatives).
Banished from the Garden of Eden, it falls upon humankind's shoulders to create Heaven on Earth by crafting their own Garden.
> I still think if this is all just a simulation, it's some type of archeological study

This would actually address the inherent bounding problem of any such simulation setup.

(Meaning, any entity setting up and/or controlling such a simulation would have to guarantee resources with regard to multiple exponential runaways for any given time/simulation frame. How would you do that? Wouldn't this fundamental containment problem be impossible to solve? However, if your're dealing largely with "known unknowns", as in a reenactment, there are at least some heuristics for resource allocation.)
If you select a command and press 'Control+Command+?' it will open the man page in a new window. You can also customize the theme by editing the 'Man Page' profile in the settings.
Ukraine government partnered with FTX for crypto to fiat donations
Think of software in general in our world. Some bugs end up just crashing the program, but other bugs, if exploited properly, can give someone control of the software, or the machine itself.

The main difference is that we usually think of vulnerabilities in our software as things that are exploited from the outside. But it seems plausible to me that, if a part of the software was an AI that is intelligent enough to understand the difference between its world and ours, it could find the same sorts of vulnerabilities, and learn to exploit them.
It's not an apology, it's 18 months of house arrest. Nicer than federal prison? Yes.
Aaaaaand it's gone
A cousin of mine, just a week ago proudly showed me his balance on FTX. He had earned close to 1 BTC through the various crypto consulting jobs he’d done this month. This was a huge deal for him as he’d been unemployed/underemployed for many years. And now this crap takes place. I’ve been unable to reach him since leading me to suspect that he has probably lost his money. I sincerely hope that is not the case but this entire fiasco breaks my heart. I hope SBF and his accomplices suffer and rot.
So... is this guy just a complete sociopath or something?

Telling everyone what regulations should be (and buying politicans) to ensure consumer protection while simultaneously sifting away 90% of consumer funds?

How does a person lie that much?
If you say "Project Manager", I'm already suspicious that you're actually doing agile. The most popular agile framework scrum doesn't have a project manager role.
Retrospective real world data and mining from EHR is useful, but it’s not as robust as a prospective randomized clinical trial.

There is no protocol so not all data is captured. You’re also relying on the robustness of the data capture which is no where close to as good as a clinical trial because it’s just clinical practice.

As such, you need to filter and refine data sets, which opens up the green jelly bean problem. Filters become subjective based on “best thinking”.

Which is fine, but guess who looks at the holes in the data and decides they won’t pay for it? Public and private healthcare payers.

I’ve been involved in those negotiations. Non-RCT data is “suspect” and it’s not unusual to hear “go back and conduct another trial so you have reliable data”.

They are great complements, but not a substitute for RCTs.
The Mona Lisa kind of proves your point: the smile is very slight. Were it broad, there would have to be exacting detail given to the configuration of the facial muscles in order to convey the emotion of the smile.
That or they do understand the math and they think what's going on in our own minds may not be that special.
Yes, it is possible for implementations to be non compliant with the specification.
She would still be able to hurt people like her husband and her children - assuming she is manipulating them to help mitigate a criminal sentence. More generally, she could manipulate and scam anyone she is exposed to. Putting her in prison would reduce the risk of that harm.

There is also deterrence to think about. In some sense, we could ban Holmes from being an executive in any company or from handling client funds or something and probably she would never be a problem for society again. But, if other, would be fraudulent CEOs knew that defeat meant a slap on the wrist, they would be encouraged to take risks and bend the rules.

Generally, I am in favor of prison reform - but I think easing the sentences of the rich and powerful is a poor place to start.
I remember asking my systems prof this question in class (I can't remember exactly what her answer was), but it was along the lines of is that it's more efficient due to OS+hardware optimizations. basically: use it when you need zeroed out memory!
I would argue with more tedium, as it strips it of the willfully entertaining bits and bogs it all down with callous academic writing.
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Who said anything about intention? If somebody rear-ends my car by accident, they're still responsible for the damage. My insurance company's lawyers don't accept "Oh well I didn't mean to do it" in lieu of payment. Is there a bona-fide reason that the working-class Bangladeshi professionals should be systematically underpaid?
Well it seemed to have worked. The scam kept going until the math stopped working, it wasn't regulators or investigative journalists that brought it down.

Advising congress and buying formula 1 ads and sponsoring stadium names gave his scheme a certain unearned legitimacy.
Are you saying "which suggests that the world that is simulating ours is likely also a simulation" because if there is another one than it is _possible_ we are therefore somewhat likely? If so, I tend to agree.

As beings, we generate many many billions of simulations every day. And because _we_ create so many, I think it is likely that other beings also create many.
A few thoughts from my perspective:

- Geographical autonomy: living in places for 2-3 months (usually when tourist visa expires). Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal and moving around every quarter. Stay longer if the country allows and it feel incredible there. (I'll never have enough of burrata).

- Working part-time: I still love the sense of community within healthy environments and common goal. I think its an invaluable experience when 10-15 smart people come around and try to achieve a shared goal. The energy is addictive. Unfortunately this has been taken into the extreme and exploited by many companies but I had this experience once, going from 0-1 with a bunch of great people, becoming profitable and never looking back again.

- Tinkering the other half of the time: creative exploration is something that I believe everyone should do. In my case I want to be spending my free time on activities such as learning to code, writing, designing, non-profit activities, volunteering, teaching etc.

- Be close to physical activities: whether its an ocean with surfing waves or a snowy slope for snowboarding and skiing, these environments enable to do other things aside of going to the gym. For instance in Singapore it's common to play basketball/tennis with friends so enables to do more fun physical exercise in groups. Germany has the same with football.

- Be part of a good community: whether its physical exercise, mens health, indiepreneurs or just a supportive network of people all tackling similar issues in life and at the same stage.

- Have one proper home and one summer escape location: if I would every own a home, that would be an emotional purchase and always something to come back to.

- Be close to my folks or at least have an option that doesn't take 16 hours: I live on the other part of the world and after 3 years of covid it made me kind of sick to think that I spent 7 days out of 1000 with my family.

These will obviously change, I noticed that we constantly re-invent ourselves every 6-10 years given that one path closes and another starts based on our interests and curiosities.

I guess thats it, funny when always thinking about it - the above seems quite realistic without the need of a $1B exit outcome. I guess humble beginnings kind of ground the expectations and if it sounds unambitious, it would be amazing enough for me. Different person, different story I guess...
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