skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this resonates so much for me as i also grow and distill lavender essential oil at my farm. then i started growing other perfumery herbs and plants. creating scents is not a job for me, but it's almost like a meditation. each 'fragrance' has a profile but to me, they also have a 'time and place' sense.

the project mentioned is euro centric and i think its different in other parts of the world. for me..growing up in india, there are a lot of fragrances that bring back memories. sandalwood reminds me of my grandfather...orange blossoms takes me back to what can only be another lifetime in some exotic middle eastern walled garden...the fragrance of earth after the first summer showers, petrichor. i can go on but it will be boring. i used to wonder why i am awash with so many 'visuals' mentally when i recognise a fragrance even though i havent even been to some of the places in those mind movies. then it hit me. books! i read a lot and i think when i read..because english isnt my first language..i bolster and decorate words with other 'senses' by imagining that i am 'there' inside the pages with those words.

this is one of my favourite sensory readings...from the seven pillars of wisdom, t.e.lawrence.. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100111h.html ...

[...]The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly. A first knowledge of their sense of the purity of rarefaction was given me in early years, when we had ridden far out over the rolling plains of North Syria to a ruin of the Roman period which the Arabs believed was made by a prince of the border as a desert-palace for his queen. The clay of its building was said to have been kneaded for greater richness, not with water, but with the precious essential oils of flowers. My guides, sniffing the air like dogs, led me from crumbling room to room, saying, 'This is jessamine, this violet, this rose'.

But at last Dahoum drew me: 'Come and smell the very sweetest scent of all', and we went into the main lodging, to the gaping window sockets of its eastern face, and there drank with open mouths of the effortless, empty, eddyless wind of the desert, throbbing past. That slow breath had been born somewhere beyond the distant Euphrates and had dragged its way across many days and nights of dead grass, to its first obstacle, the man-made walls of our broken palace. About them it seemed to fret and linger, murmuring in baby-speech. 'This,' they told me, 'is the best: it has no taste.' My Arabs were turning their backs on perfumes and luxuries to choose the things in which mankind had had no share or part.[...]

and when i read that, i knew..i just knew that was the 'smell of the desert'. just as tangible as the rose or jasmine or lavender. for one brief moment, i was the Bedouin myself.

on a slightly different(related?) note, today Gingko Bioworks based in Boston can create any fragrance you want(or can dream up) with their fermentation tanks. so there's that.
I have a question,

if we start growing tank meat, cells that have cancer like qualities might be very successful in a tank.

Cells with no density or attachment growth inhibition will kill the host. (or at least create an ugly tumor in the carcass)

Removing the animal removes this filter.

How dangerous is to eat cooked cancerous cells?

How much more dangerous would this be if they were human, or even my cells?

I wouldn't want to end up looking like this:

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

could we solve this by growing complex tissues, rather than a loose cell soup?
in this case why not just use go-binary as the backend? go is natively designed to be single executable and you don't need any package tools, and it does everything node.js can do on your OS while using your browser as a GUI frontend.
good way to get pwned
A letter from four people "urging" something isn't blatant censorship. Blatant censorship just happens--there's no asking in between (see China for more).

Google is making a strategic decision. Despite what you may hope, free speech isn't YouTube's main priority--it's profit. Right now they're trying to minimize the possibility profits may be impacted by stakeholder action. They don't care if your particular political views aren't adequately represented. Free speech isn't a mandated requirement for corporations.
Why does this "terrify" you
What was that quote from Contagion (2011)? “Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are already doing that.”

In the case of SARS-CoV-2, we know how contagious it is. In all likelihood, spreading it didn’t need any help from a lab.
If Reese doesn't get to collect $400 then this bet is an academic wankathon.

Ignoring clear global threats, gutting the programs that exist to respond to those threats, and piping all comm through private algos that (inadvertently) degrade basic practices of self-preservation is functionally equivalent to whatever movie plot these two thought they were betting on coming true.

Going forward-- dealing seriously with all three of these problems must decrease the risk of whatever movie plot these two thought they were betting on coming true.
No. Stop trying to defend this behavior. Leveling the charge that the President is “illegitimate” and “knows he stole” the election is a serious accusation and should be backed by real evidence. Nothing in the Mueller report suggests that Russia swayed a decisive number of votes in an election where the parties spent billions of dollars on marketing and advertising. Democrats’ “blue wall” states swung 15-20 points in Republicans’ favor compared to 2012. Russians didn’t cause that. And the report confirms that Trump himself wasn’t involved with whatever contacts the campaign had with Russia.

I’ll grant you that Clinton’s allegations are less “far-fetched” than Trump’s. But that shouldn’t be the standard! We shouldn’t be trying to draw distinctions over claims that are totally made up and ones that are only mostly made up.
> I am curious how something like this would have been handled 50, 100, 200 years ago.

The idea that the press should be politically neutral is a pretty new one -- historically there were highly partisan newspapers, alongside "impartial" ones.

But I think the lies, etc., were more likely to be litigated on charges of slander, defamation, etc., at least when they were about individuals.

Now they're all about "socialism" or whatever, and unfortunately socialism doesn't have any lawyers.
Also debunked as false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-received-debate-qu...
If you want to be pedantic about it

I don’t want to be pedantic about anything. The terms can say whatever they want - they write them. But regardless of what the TOS say, when you advertise yourself as an open platform for free speech, which YouTube certainly does, it opens you up to liability when you prove not to be that open platform. Further, if they go too far with moderation and begin censoring content over and above clear, previously set guidelines, they can lose their immunity to libel/slander lawsuits under the CDA (Communications Decency Act).
Like that guy who ran for president with vague threats of not accepting the outcome if he would lose. And then when they lost not accepting the outcome and making up a bunch of stories about wide-spread fraud?

If you were implying that I'd actually accuse anyone of doing stuff to kids, you throughly misunderstood the content of my comment.
Guarantee of legitimacy of products and offer best prices.

Study BHPhoto. If BH carrying thing i need - I buy it from there knowing that quality, service and support is there.

Amazon peddling fakes products and fake reviews and does nothing about it. That's their weak spot. Fill it in.
It's tough to tell what they're doing, as they're way less open about things than SpaceX and some of the other new commercial launchers (e.g. Rocket Lab).

Seems to me that they may be trying to pivot away from having orbital rockets being their main product with the sale of BE-4 engines to ULA for Vulcan and all of their work on lunar projects. But that could also be them trying to get more friendly with NASA or get development of the BE-4 paid for or any number of other things. They certainly are lacking in terms of actual hardware being seen.
Regardless of what you plug it into, there has to be a way to play music from your home server.

DLNA is pretty much the only open standard in existence to play music stored on one device on a second device, controlled by a third device.
With an attitude like yours, I think it's the candidates who saved a ton of time...
> Rather, I am against the exploitation of data I generate

do you really think your "data" is valuable? or was this just an idea put in your head by journalists?

ponder that for a moment
What I think is Google's worst sin here is publishing the reason for her termination. I've not seen employers do that before. In my opinion it should be a matter between Gebru and Google.

I get that they wanted to publish their side because they want to avoid being seen as racist, but it strikes me as unprofessional.
I'm going to be a pedantic HN type, but 43. See the 1876 elections.

This is important, because you could get an idea of what has to be done to fix the issues and what repercussions it might have by looking at historical precedence.
Frankly, Gore should not have conceded - allowing the Bush campaign to steal that election set the stage for the unprecedented abuses of power that followed.

The current attempt to steal the election is bound to fail, but it's setting up the GOP playbook for stealing a closer, more plausibly contested presidential election.
Dean’s explanation makes sense if it is based on a standard that is consistently applied to all research papers coming out of Google. But there are public statements from other Googlers implying that it’s not, as noted in this article:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
In case you hadn't caught it, there's a very cool way to catch "trusting trust" style attacks called "diverse double compiling". The idea is that compilers from sufficiently disparate sources are very unlikely to have the same malware, and while different compilers aren't expected to produce the same output for the same source they are expected to produce functionally identical output for the same source. So if you compile a compiler (where you've vetted the source) with an array of compilers, you have something that, applied to (again) that same source should produce something bitwise identical - any deviations are an attack or a bug in at least one of your compilers, and can be investigated manually.

https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
If only there was some way of auditing an election to calm peoples fears.
> I'm an ethical vegetarian

Isn't that a contradiction? You know that mother cows are slaughtered after they're done producing milk, right? And the male calves are mostly slaughtered immediately.

"I'm a celibate prostitute"

I think veganism is much closer to being ethical
Has she given her account in a linear way? (i.e. not on Twitter)
She might have been getting managed out over her twitter spat with Yann LeCun, or maybe they just wanted her name off research or the research toned-down to not attract attention.

What she definitely did wrong was misunderstand that a researcher on "Ethical AI" is a PR role, and job is to make Google look good. That doesn't mean she can't ask hard questions, she just has to do it the right way.
Is this going to be fixed/known price? then you are describing "source available" model. I don't think we need another word for it -- it exists, and it works pretty well (even Microsoft uses it sometimes)

Or are you describing some sort of system where the authors get the fixed share (%) of user's company revenue? I think this is not going to work very well... just imagine a big company which is not focused on computers. Or a computer startup which wants to be bought by FAANG for billions of dollars.
Kinda hoping that we get an updated "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster" video [0] covering Starship development eventually...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
So you keep posting the same old tired link claiming its "evidence". I don't think you understand what that document actually says.

I don't rebut evidence, I accept it, if courts accept it when used as evidence in a case. I don't know what rebutting evidence means, or what that would accomplish. After four years of nonsense investigations there were no indictments on this so called "collusion". This fact alone makes anyone involved in making those allegations look completely nutty.

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

No indictment = no charges = no case = no conviction = innocent until proven guilty. Regardless of this report, if Dems had solid evidence to bring criminal charges, I'd bet my life savings that they'd have brought cases by now, and we'd know about it.
You obviously haven't listened to any of Hitchens' or anyone else's criticisms of Mother Teresa, since you refuse to address or refute any of them. Funny how somebody who believes in invisible ghosts and resurrection and chants magic soap labels but doesn't believe in science or cause and effect will accuse somebody else who does of insanity. You're the deranged one arguing that the poor should suffer to help the world and the environment. That makes your personality very dark, indeed.

We're having a discussion about psychopaths with dark personality traits who deceive people into thinking they're saints, and Mother Teresa is the archetypical textbook example of that. Do you have any evidence to the contrary? Can you prove Christopher Hitchens' criticisms are wrong? All you've contributed so far is serving as an example of somebody who refuses to look at the evidence and was gullibly fooled into believing a terrible person is actually a saint. Which was my point. Thank you!
I found grocery stores in LA to be incredibly affordable compared to Seattle. More variety as well. Not sure about Texas m, but prices for food in CA follow the west coast norm.
The first time I’ve ever heard the “dark night of the soul” referred to as spiritual depression. “Dark night of the soul” customarily describes part of the via negativa approach to mystical experience in the Christian traditions, e.g. St John of the Cross. Aunque es de noche...

Depression sounds like something that just takes a pill to fix...a disease of the brain. The via negativa is most assuredly not a brain sort of thing...
> The fact that SpaceX's President and COO is a woman seems to get surprisingly little publicity

How much publicity do COOs of other companies get? Hardly none.

Shotwell is all over media. She has given tons of interviews that are on youtube/social media as well. Most of them are great so feel free to watch them at your leisure. She's also in the 2020 Time's 100 most influential list.

For a COO, she's gets surprising too much publicity rather than too litte.

> especially given that she seems like the more qualified engineer out of Musk and herself as well.

Why does she seem like it? Just because she's a woman? She's mostly worked on the business side at spacex.

Are you as concerned that the male COO of tesla is getting no publicity? It's a trick rhetorical question so you needn't answer it.
Wow, this is really cool! Is inference running on GPU or CPU? I wonder how well this would run if model storage and inference is done on a jetson nano!
Read a wide variety of code. Think of it like reading the literary classics, it gives you a perspective on where we came from and where we’re at. Opening core OSS codebases like GTK and trying to hack on it will get you places.
100 years ago, most newspapers were party organs. Local political parties wanted "their guy" getting favorable coverage.

Later on, once ads became a major source of revenue, most newspapers realized that being completely one sided hurt ad revenue. After all, if you want to advertise your furniture store, don't you want to sell to everyone in your area regardless of their party?

Now with intelligent/micro-targeted ad systems and minimal geographic limitations, those previously "too small to matter" niches are suddenly worldwide and large enough to be a useful segment on their own.. so many organizations can say/do what they want up to the line of defamation/slander protections, if any.
Rees's argument specifically mentions that it must be an error relating to biotechnology (possibly caused by "wierdos [sic] with the mindset of the people who now design computer viruses"). There is no proof that the coronavirus was created or unleashed intentionally or accidentally.
If you challenge it before hand you have no damages to base a case on.
Now I want a VR Library of Alexandria experience with the entire archive.org collection.
LOL now you can't accept you lost?
you can block most ads that uBlock Origin blocks with a hosts file. they still cannot take that away from you.

I might actually start doing this now that I considered how much access I'm giving to uBlock Origin.
Neither is that compelling; otherwise there wouldn't be a bet.

Rees basically said, I bet this is going to happen before 2020 ends, because my gut said so.

Pinker multiplied a bunch of statistical principals without a number. I really don't understand how to reach a conclusion based on his line of reasoning.

At least the gut feeling of an expert is somewhat a reasonable point.
I disagree. There are many here (including you) that conflate the idea of 1st Amendment "freedom of speech" and the general idea of censorship. You even use the word "censorship" to provoke a knee-jerk reaction as if censorship is automatically evil and we ought to have some inherent right to not be censored. We do have such a right, from the 1st Amendment, and it doesn't apply to YouTube.

Companies censor, as they often should. They should censor against violence, exploitation, DDOS attacks, and much more. They should censor to protect their viewers and their brands. If you want to spew hate speech, exploit some vulnerable people, build a devoted following of uneducated people then do it on your own dime.
Eventually we're gonna run out of funny three letter acronyms to describe the different explosion types. We've already got RUD for rapid unscheduled disassembly and SRD for scheduled rapid disassembly (Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort test).
Well, that’s not really surprising, is it? The more recent the colonizer, the larger the impact felt by the average citizen.

Besides, I think invaders only got more “organized” as time progressed. Brutality and domination are shared across time periods, but the more subtle techniques, such as cultural genocide and historical revisionism, only became effective tools in the invader’s toolbelt relatively recently.

More crucially, thanks to various technological advancements, modern European colonizers were able to steal resources at a scale never before seen in the history of this planet.
Back in the 90s I would send VHS tapes + some return postage money to get fansubs of animes not available in the US. It was an amazing community and no one took a profit from it.
This is in line with my entire problem with the whole Twitter fiasco: screaming about problems but not offering any solutions.

I don't know the lady well, but given her background I assume she's intelligent. So, this isn't to degrade her but that trait in general - in what job can your role be to just tell people that they're wrong? How long would a roofer last that just stood on the ground and yelled up they were doing it wrong...even if the roofers really were? Or a programmer who denies your PR because it's wrong? Communication is an invaluable life skill. Handling disagreements with tact and real suggestions in hand will always be better received.
Not to mention but Russian (Soviet) collusion seems to be a move out of the Democrat's own playbook when Ted Kennedy solicited Soviet intervention to foil the reelection of Ronald Reagan [1]. When you point your finger at something there's usually three more pointing straight back at you.

Hillary said the election was fraudulent from day one all the way up to current election.

Or how on October 26, 2020, PBS (hardly a right-wing or conservative news agency), aired a documentary [2] on the problems with the Dominion voting machines showing how you could just copy the QR codes and they could be re-scanned and count as a legitimate vote, no major hacking needed here. Here's an excerpt:
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"J. Alex Halderman:

By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that there's nothing that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would count the same as the original bar code.

Miles O’Brien:

And in late September, another concern came to light. During testing, election workers found half the names of the 21 candidates for Senate intermittently disappeared from screens during the review phase.

Dominion sent out a last-minute software patch.

J. Alex Halderman:

I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to the 737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."

For me, it's the individual states changing their own election laws via unconstitutional methods right before the election. I think that is widespread fraud without a doubt, and those votes need to be audited or discounted.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-r...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/will-georgias-new-voting-m...
Surely you can find the official report.
> You can buy games and just play them, 1080p60 on hardware you never have to pay for.

Honestly, this worries me the most. There doesn’t seem to be a way to transfer the licenses out of stadia, which means, even though you “bought the game“, you’re still at googles mercy for your continued enjoyment of the game. What if they decide that the hardware costs are too much for Google, and you now have to pay a monthly fee? What if they decide that stadia is not the success they hoped for and close it down (which Google is not known for doing at all…). Unless there are clear migrations paths away from stadia, I’d stay away from it because Google have shown that they are not afraid to change/EOL any of their products with no regards to their existing customers (just look at their lifetime free photos service, etc)
Read the article, couldn't understand why they are villains. OK, so there's a case where a guy misunderstood his financial statement and killed himself. This is profoundly sad but surely doesn't make RH villains - they didn't intend this outcome and they didn't even make the data particularly hard to understand, it's just a sad coincidence which sometimes happens when thousands of people interact in millions of ways. Fish long enough, and you'll find something weird and something bad happening.

The other claim is that RH runs their order flow through brokerages which has the right of first trade on the trades RH users do. I don't see how that hurts RH users - by the time they made the trade, they already agreed on a price, and unless something nefarious happens like somebody foolishly sending no-limit market price orders and somebody else exploiting those to close deals with wildly out-of-market prices (which I saw no evidence of, that's just the only way I can think of this can be hurtful for the RH clients), I still fail to see the villainy.

So TLDR of it all is that they are villains because a) one guy killed himself after misreading a financial statement, b) they work with HFT companies and c) they have notifications (oh noes, no non-villainous trading software would ever do that!). That's it. Weak sauce, I say.

P.S. And what this has to do with the pandemic? Just to make it more nefarious by somehow implying they are profiteering from the pandemic, without providing any proof except temporary coincidence?