skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question to ask is: can everyone eat meat from animals that had good happy, lives? Does that scale to everyone?
The notion of "garbage in, garbage out" is debunked when we introduce an additional signal, such as responses generated by humans, validation through tests (like code verification), or engagement in a game where maximizing the score is the aim.

Consider the extraordinary case of AlphaGo Zero. Despite beginning with a random initialization and without any human game data to train on, it mastered Go and chess solely through game feedback, reaching superhuman levels. The potency of feedback is nothing short of magical.

Shifting our focus to humans, what's the nature of our major breakthroughs? More often than not, we serendipitously encounter them. They don't typically arise from deduction but from meticulous observation of how our existing theories align with reality. Essentially, we observe and integrate feedback.

Involvement in a larger system - be it the world, society, the internet, or even a dialogue session with a human - is how AIs can transcend the mere regurgitation of the training set. With every interaction, they receive a nugget of new data in the prompt and feedback following the response.
Concepts and Their Consequences
The Role of Value Judgements in Understanding the Past
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
> I think it's eminently readable

This. And proper line breaks help a lot, too. There's a reason single line breaks are ignored.

> People have mentioned tables here, and...yeah, they're messy, ...

IIRC, the "original" markdown does not include tables. They've been added by GitHub (I think), because it made sense for them, and many parsers started to adopt. I agree they are not easily readable in "source mode". It helps to properly align stuff, though, but it's a PITA.
Also has a $20k trash can as it so happens so we're competitive there too.
They even talk about this in the article:

> “The environmental impact of near-term ACBM production is likely to be orders of magnitude higher than median beef production if a highly refined growth medium is utilized for ACBM production,” concluded the study.

> The authors propose a solution, suggesting the creation of cell lines that can withstand higher amounts of endotoxins. This would decrease the necessity for energy-intensive purification procedures and ultimately reduce the environmental impact of lab-grown meat.

It’s new, “alpha” stage tech, proving that it’s possible to grow meat in a lab, without yet being optimized for efficiency/scale. Not a reason to be bearish on the tech - it’s a problem that needs to be solved, but also one that seems solvable.
The main one is diarrhea/nausea. I took a few doses as someone who isn’t fat for other reasons and it wasn’t great the first two days after injection, but not terrible either.

Everyone is different, of course.
>Command prompt (now Terminal)? Yes, tons. A massive amount of new features really.

Can you name a few that could explain the 1,000x performance cost?

Also, have you heard the story about the guy who told MS that their terminal was shit and could be fixed, only to be ridiculed by a fleet of "super elite 500k/year engineers" that in the end turned out to be ... wrong?
this is the way.

but putting delay between events (not keystrokes) is nevertheless a good practice
When will they hit 1.0? Where do I find the goals to reach it?
It causes weight loss, sure, but it doesn't seem like it's actually healthy weight loss - it entails disproportionate loss of lean mass and unfavorable metabolic changes. https://twitter.com/raphaels7/status/1662021374276255746

There are also anecdotes of appetite bouncing back up above the baseline after discontinuation.

It's very much so not a magic pill.
Employment laws “wayyy less strict” in Scandinavia than in the USA?

Where in Scandinavia would that be?!?
/s

Bloat is intentional and fills Microsoft’s wallet.

Optimization drains Microsoft’s wallet.
Me, the founder and sole worker of a 1 person company, building b2c apps.
China is permitting 2 new coal plants a week[1]. Yet it's cow flatulence that is the problem.

How people get convinced to act against their own self interest I'll never understand.

[1] https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-...
Their speed test service isn't very accurate either, its always over reporting by a factor of 100Mbit/s for me (vnstat running at the time of the test shows this). The JavaScript tests in general are not very useful IMO.
> Seems easy enough to install vmware then run operating systems inside it for most use cases.

That's a way different experience than running Hyper-V.

> is it really worth having all the features that you, clearly as a power user or professional, use installed on every computer everywhere? No. No it really doesn't. It's bloat.

I also didn't realize that managing WiFi networks or using display scaling are things only power users and professionals would want on their machines. I guess supporting Bluetooth natively in the OS and a modern sound stack is just bloat for most people.
USDA guidelines are designed to benefit those who produce processed food.

My source here is 10 years old, so it does not have up-to-date information on whatever MyPlate is pushing. But it says: "[the pyramid] no longer gives any clear recommendations whatsoever. It is fairly open to artistic interpretation."

Previous food pyramids were demonstrably "perverted", such as one where a major food group component consists of sugars and fats. Carbohydrates were the base of that pyramid.

Luise Light, Ed.D., explained that "3-4 daily servings of whole grains were changed to 6-11 at the base" as a concession to the processed wheat and corn industries. The processed white-flour, low-nutrient products which she had placed at the peak, were moved to the base, encouraging a foundation of sugars, fats, and highly-processed sweets. The wording was changed from "eat less" to "avoid too much".

The food industries and their allies in Congress were pissed because they said the USDA shouldn't be telling citizens to "eat less" of anything!

Many health guides are written by pharmaceutical companies, and therefore everyone in hospitals here gets Jell-O. Cool stuff.
> It's miles better than gitea.

Gitlab is a crazy setup full of services, with elaborate interdependence, absurd hardware requirements, iffy performance, and all the lack of confidence on security that comes from this (and it only ever running if you use their docker images and don't touch anything).

But yeah, it got everything.
Some societal implications:

* Kids playing with iron filings sounds a lot safer than kids playing with gasoline. "Don't leave your magnets in the fuel tank; it clogs up the lines!"

* The gasoline party scene in Zoolander would need to be reconsidered.
Generally I think this is fairly true. The ecosystem has a ton of matyring/growth to do before it has competitive mainstream offerings.

Pulp folks' Occamy is supposedly going to get a run of chips made this summer. 432 cores, each with an incredibly innovative vector processor. Really tapping those vector cores takes effort, & floating point isn't what most servers need/use, but this is still one very rapidly approaching very interesting data point, a huge step function where RISC-V could leap to the front.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/432-core-occamy-cpu-for-us...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35873153
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36436786
> You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed and killed in the process of extracting those resources.

This is an absurd stretch of the definition of veganism. If this were accepted, you couldn't call anyone living in any basic form of civilization vegan. It stretches the idea to a point of being useless.

No homes allowed, since their material extraction and the construction process harms animals. No bicycles, those factories harmed animals in being constructed.

Even Jaina live in buildings.
Why would you think it's awful? What are your sources? Almost everyone has access to gigabit connections. I myself have access to a 6 gigabit connection. Almost every house has fibre
I can’t share your disgust and I’m surprised really. Modern farms are horrifyingly efficient, unnatural, and hellish; and that’s the alternative if we want everyone who wants to, to be able to eat meat. Mixed farming at scale seems like just tells you what to do with the lakes of manure the caged animals produce, not the feed or unnatural conditions of those beings
Microsoft Scalability Day Falls Short (1997)
Yes, people knew it's true purpose then. They were wrong about how it was laid out, but people knew about it. It was declassified 30 years ago or so. And much of it was not top secret, just secret. We use entirely different computers and networks for "just" secret vs. unclassified vs. "top" secret.

The exact way they do it now, where they do it, etc. is the secret. The mere existence of a sensitive listening system is not a secret that endangers national security if known; the opposite is true, we want people to know/think they can't move a tennis ball underwater without us hearing it. Knowing enough about it to get past it is such a secret.
See what I mean? " No one is gonna stop me from spraying DDT" no one is gonna stop me from dumping this chemical waste in this river" "No one will stop me from doing what I want to sentient animals"

Anyway. Enjoy the highest level of depression in any industry and the shit smell all around your house.
> No new laws are needed.

So the laws worked just fine, they just need to be enforced better? That’s exactly what a lack of political will looks like.
They did exactly that if you scroll a bit down. It's just as fast as Windows NT 3.51.
I wonder who the market for lab-grown meat would be. I bet that 99% of vegetarians (myself included) and maybe 90% of meat eaters would never eat it. Meat eaters will insist on “real meat” and vegetarians don’t want any meat.
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I don't see how it matters just like if the only meat you could digest was human meat. You would have to find some other permutation of an elimination diet that works for you just like Jeffrey Dahmer would have to find some human meat alternative.
2advanced Studios was always my favorite, especially

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8

I remember Eric Jordan, the man behind it all, mentioned in an interview that the key was to make the animations flow with a rhythm.
You could keep temperature down with fans, but my 90W thinkpad has fans so strong it sounds (and feels) like a hair drier and still runs very hot. I'm having a hard time imagining a 180W laptop that isn't hotter than hell.
Pretty sure hikvision is suspected to have spyware in it. UK has banned it from government sites afaik. China of course denies. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-65307503

It is known to have major vulnerabilities https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-80-000-e...
Non-rechargeable batteries are also consuming a fuel. The products just stay in the same enclosed container. Same with rechargable batteries, just that there the process is easily reversible.

It is a bit of a fuzzy distinction. Batteries are typically simple chemical reactions that cause electrons to move around. But viewed from the outside a hydrogen fuel cell behaves the same; so why not call this one a battery too (especially since the process is reversible).
The way to keep cows and chickens happy, in a global way, is either to regulate production to hell, or to stop farming animals for _mass produced_ food altogether.

Former is not feasible without production costs skyrocketing, and good luck trying to enforce regulation like that globally. The way to achieve the latter is to make artificial meat more attractive to food production businesses that mass exploit animals today.

You cannot defeat the tragedy of the commons[0] by just growing happy cows. Business will always exploit the available means, and we will continue to see 1 "happy farm" and 99 ugly grinders where animals suffer.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
San Francisco announces initiative to convert office buildings for other use
The real challenge is to see if you can extend the technique to higher denominations :)
> This would be real meat.

I'm not sure if I agree with that.

It's definitely not real chicken.
Chickens turn kitchen waste and other garbage into nutrient dense eggs.

I raise chickens and feed them my kitchen and yard waste. They also eat bugs.

Two chicken eggs can power me all day.

Reason about that "trophic energy loss [gain]".
Anytime you mention to people that maybe we shouldn't eat as many animals as we do you're going to get down-voted or politely scolded or yelled at. It's like any addiction, people won't admit there's a problem until they have some sort of break through of clarity.
Nice, interesting explanation https://windsorsalt.com/faq/
The digital media ecosystem disempowers the public sphere
I always get a good chuckle when I see comments that get unexpectedly processed as a new ordered list. Like if replying to a 3-item comment by starting with "4. " which renders as "1. " -- for the sake of users who don't know these nuances of markdown, I wish it strayed a bit further to accommodate them.

Bold, italics, links, etc. -- sure, false positives there are rare enough and the means of correcting mishaps are intuitive enough. The OL issue though... so many go uncorrected.
Ok, well just a few more paragraphs down is:

> The investigation also revealed that Raytheon Technologies had raised the price of Stinger missiles from $25,000 to more than $400,000 per unit. “Even accounting for inflation and some improvements, that’s a seven-fold increase,” Shay Assad, a former Pentagon acquisitions official, told 60 Minutes.

The US ramped UP how many stinger missiles it bought so how could your explanation lead to an increase in price? Especially one so dramatic?
"Bloat" includes the addition of intentional, but frivolous, features. An application can be well-optimized but still slow simply because it's doing too much.

But I think the reason that most modern software performs badly is because of optimization: we're optimizing to reduce production costs over increasing performance.

It's economic in nature. We minimize production costs by using frameworks and other labor-saving tools. The code produced using these tools tends to be poor, but hardware is cheap enough to make up for poorly performing software.

It's an intentional decision.
Reminds me of the scene from movie Aeroplane where the flight attendant announces all that's wrong with the flight, and nobody bats an eye. Then as she's almost done, she adds that they've ran out of coffee, and then panic ensues.
so, I can't reply to your latest message because it's too far down but...

Let me just hop on my wifi and browse the web. Lets do it on a computer from 1999. 2000. 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008... etc, etc.

Why is it that every couple years from 2012 onwards, doing the same thing keeps taking longer, even with new hardware, without the same revolutions in quality and experience that came with that new software previously?
I'll let the experimental subjects try this for a few decades and all of the resulting side effects be fixed before partaking, thank you very much lol.
> For like 4-8% of the population, like me, they don't need the delight of meat. Fine. But that still leaves 92% who eat meat as long as it is possible to do so.

Yeah I don't like the look of that ratio. I don't think you guys can reproduce fast enough to feed all of us!
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and then its same result as whatsapp.

and then they should probably also turn their brain on when buying into this arrangement
If that "long story" is stimulant abuse, the shadow people are much more pronounced than in regular sleep deprivation. So is the psychosis.

I also had a few years period where I would get constant sleep paralysis during sleep. Multiple times weekly. It's a very unique feeling and you know it when it starts coming on. I trained myself to ignore it as best as possible and "go back to sleep" instead of opening my eyes. Much harder when it's incorporated into an actual dream though instead of just seeing/feeling/hearing things in your room.

After doing that for a while, I had an extremely intense episode where a vortex/black hole was at the bottom of my bed sucking me into it, and I just KNEW if I didnt fight it that I'd be dead. So I fought for my life. That was my last episode of sleep paralysis... going on 5 years now.
I have made no such assumption. The person who I was responding to said it is not possible. I said it is possible to do. That is all the claim I'm making.

Of course it is very hard. It is kinda implied by the fact that I linked an article about the technical challenges! If you order some custom built equipment and the company then later writes an article about all the challenges with it, you can bet that it was a super expensive and specialist device.
You're probably right, but a closer analysis that includes externalities will likely be dismissed as being too inconvenient to the narrative.

Just look at ethanol. Several studies now show that it's actually much worse for the environment than fossil fuel. But very few people care (plants are natural!!!1) or know about it. Even the government ignores its own studies and keep pushing for more subsidies and higher ethanol content.
the GTM for fake/cultured meats generally goes through restaurants first. its easy to train a few chefs to cook properly, partner with them to make meals that taste great. Much better solution than buying in a grocery and lettting anyone yolo.
In-Band EXT4 to Root on ZFS Conversion on Debian 12 [video]
Man. Retributive justice done in a potentially more painful way so that family members can do a ritual on your corpse. I hope our society continues becoming more enlightened. :D
Looks to me that by AI they mean ChatGPT.
As far as I can see from all of their documentation, they exclusively open a predefined list of common manifest files. They explicitly mention that they won't be able to do dependabot analysis if your deps are listed in a `setup.py` file for example. You'd need readonly access to the entire repository to actually find those manifest files though, as most of the time they're not going to be in the top-level directory.

For companies & people not willing or able to surrender that level of access, it's still possible to use the dependabot API, dissociated from any github repository (for example if you have an Atlassian git repository). You just send it a list of dependencies and an enum indicating its current build status, and they'll reply with a list of suggestions.
Fascinating, curious how it can be proven, but I'll go do some reading thanks
Font Ball (2015)
For the interested, relative pronouns: https://studyspanish.com/grammar/lessons/relproelque
I love this concept and is why my current designs are littered with E-keyed M.2 ports and the only real I/O is on my board are USB-C and a few USB-As. The advantage is that I can supplement built-in peripherals with USB devices until I build them.
Another potential advantage of cultured cells is higher amino acid digestibility/DIAAS[1] scores, which is generally much higher in whole animal based foods , for example chicken breast is rated a 1.08, eggs a 1.13, Soy a .91, chickpeas a .83 and Tofu a .52, with each being limited in some amino acids.

Vegetable Protein isolates/processing combinations can bring this up a bit, but processing can have varied effects on availability defending on how it's performed, making something with a high DIAAS score without processing or additives to taste and act like meat ideal. "Literature suggests that the extensive processing needed to obtain protein isolate might induce molecular alterations, making the protein more resistant to digestive enzymes and decreasing its protein nutritive value."[2]

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

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9552267/
You’re very wrong about the perception of doctors. According to polls, doctors are the 2nd most trusted profession. https://news.gallup.com/poll/388649/military-brass-judges-am...

My wife runs the resident eduction for her division and they are very aware of the dangers of sending an incompetent doctor out into the world to practice. They’ll force them through extra training and make them repeat residency if they have to.

Residents also drop out of their programs and move into other ones. It’s rare for them to drop out completely because they’d still be on the hook for $200k+ in loans. But medicine is a big field and it’s rare that someone who made it into and through med school to not be able to find something they are competent and capable at. Maybe you’re not great with patients, but you can look through a microscope all day as a pathologist etc…

Incompetent and corrupt doctors still make it through the process of course, but far far fewer than in our profession and just about any other profession I can think of.

As for lawyers:

Law schools have around a 77% graduation rate nation wide. And about 90% of law school graduates eventually pass the bar exam.

So we’re look at somewhere around 70% of people making it through after a pretty selective filter to begin with.
The page background is wild. It's really neat how it reacts to the mouse cursor.
Of course it makes sense. People like to eat meat. Meat is expensive to produce, particularly including externalities like CO2, animal suffering, etc. Making meat less expensive to produce across some or all of those dimensions seems like a no brainer.
The TL;DR of why is that without ground clearing fires there is a build up of trees and debris, resulting in what would have previously been a patchwork of groves of trees turning into thick continuous forest coverage with no breaks. In addition to this the ground gets cluttered with fuel like dead trees, needles and the like, and there is a build up of intermediate trees that help carry any fire on the ground into the canopy of the larger trees.

Paul Hessburg of the Forest Service and University of Washington has a good TEDx talk on this that helps explain it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDZNkm8Mas
I guess you’re supposed to bookmark the deep link that goes to your dashboard then let it send you to the Interstitial login page.

Bad UX though.
> As we have written in Noema [1], new mediating institutions, such as citizens’ assemblies, that encourage and enable civil discourse and consensus formation at the same virtual scale as social networks, are more necessary than ever because the forces of fragmentation have never been greater. Mending the breach of distrust between the public and institutions of self-government in the digital age can only happen by absorbing the wired activation of civil society into governance through integrating connectivity with common platforms for deliberation.

>

> Just as republics have historically sustained themselves by creating countervailing institutions to check power when too much of it is concentrated in one place, so too such checks are needed in the digital age when power is so distributed that the public sphere itself is disempowered.

I'm unsure of Nathan Gardels and the Berggruen Institute's ideological orientation. But I found this article and passages such as the one above, interesting.

[1]: https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-t...
If a power plant has sufficient store of Iron, with a complete cycle, from burning iron to recovering iron, then it is no longer a consumable.

I can imagine a solar plant, making iron in the day and burning it in the night and essentially act as a base load plant, the holy grail of renewable energy.