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Re:Nex gaming console – year's hottest toy? on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:23PM (#46251415)
Surprised to read about this, given no significant mention on this site
They probably became aware of the size of the pie, and decided to go for it themselves.. I know different country, but similar operation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-but...

Re:Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir) on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:20AM (#40820860)
Excellent! The scrolling could be better though. I love elixir - but the scrolling from the site a couple of days back was much snappier.
Re:Ask HN: How to buy a decent Dell monitor in India? on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @10:00AM (#32318556)
I tried that, and spoke to them on phone for 20 mins. Their site says that if I buy without a GSTIN, they will reach out to get some business proof -

"Please note that if you’ve selected ‘No’ option to GSTIN, then our Order Processing team will reach out to you via email for other valid business documents (e.g. Income Tax Return copy, business utility bill or other valid business registration document) to complete the purchase post payment confirmation."

What I meant was - the ability to revisit the past perfectly, rather than a "dimmer" version of it.
I think I was making the same point as you - that consciousness is indeed not a computation.

But I actually wanted to hear from someone who thought otherwise, rather than you - dream brother :)

Ask HN: Artificial General Intelligence: emergent consciousness impossible?

What is wrong in this?Let's assume emergent consciousness is possible (whatever consciousness might mean), so that a program can eventually say "OK, I exist / feel / think".How would this program understand time though? You and I (even animals) understand time by being present here and now. We can rely on our memory to know what happened before, but we don't confuse right now with the past. Not...

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Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:18AM (#22125812)
You may want to check out Blendle - it does exactly what you ask. You pay for the article you read.
Re:Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:29AM (#21364230)
Turning off hardware acceleration in Firefox seems to make it work much better. No idea why!
"We’ve demonstrated for the first time that a quantum computer can be used to solve a simplified version of a securities settlement optimisation problem, including modelling credit and collateral pools. If we were to scale up to real-world volumes of tens of thousands of transactions in a batch, we’d need to first wait a few years for quantum hardware to evolve and mature. Every few months, the number of qubits goes up – but to run securities settlement netting, we’d need orders of magnitude more qubits than exist at present.”
Re:Softbank Fund Bets on Using Concrete Blocks as Batteries on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:15AM (#20703472)
Another article about an year back (in qz) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789456
OK - interesting to know indeed. Thanks for the insights!
With all due respect - I don't understand this. Why would suburban growth not work with tram / local train lines that could be extended? It worked in London - one of the largest cities in the world which had to plan way ahead of time due to its historically narrow streets. I've lived in suburban London for >7 years, and frankly the only time I really needed to use the car was only to haul grocery home. Almost any other travel (including to work) was always achievable with the tube/bus - some combination of these.

What the ground truth was then isn't recorded in history. There are post-facto interpretations. I would argue if the incentives were laid correctly, there was no reason for suburbanism to necessarily lead to growth in automobile consumption.

The US motor companies had a massive clout. Given a choice back then (and the big roads due to the post-war expansion) it possibly made it easy to convince people that a car was a superior and more personal form of travel (think pre-ubiquitous air-conditioning). That's when you need government to think ahead, especially at the local level.

Didn't the US car companies actively lobby against and destroy the budding streetcar transport in most cities? I admit its not exactly rail, but you do have trams / streetcars in many European cities too - like Amsterdam. I would think they would be a much preferred public transport option than everyone driving their own car.

Culture is not something which happens automatically - sometimes its driven by corporates, and the stronger the incentives for the corporates, the harder to resist, until the only one capable of doing so is the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

2 rare organism in a small sample of dirt picked up at whim. Maybe they're not so rare anymore?
Very topical speech from the Fed on regulations (current and future) on AI in Banking industry.

tldr; Opaque AI models are OK in some areas such as fraud prevention and cyber security. But in other areas like consumer credit scoring, transparency is key.

Re:Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:08AM (#17573268)
What if they had access to the IP that is currently locked away by the likes of Apple/Google? What if anyone who wanted to replicate a good design (and improve upon it) were able to do so without restrictions, or fear of lawsuits? Conversely, what if what we treat as the sacrosanct right to make profits over a one-time invention (as if noone else could ever come up with a similar idea on their own - while history has repeatedly shown otherwise) was applied throughout history? Would even railways / electricity / simple things we take for granted now - have been so widespread? Maybe we would be flying in counterfeit airplanes.

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