skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many groups of slime-mold-like living beings and most of them are not closely related and they have evolved independently the ability to make multicellular fruiting bodies, as an adaptation to the life in terrestrial conditions (where an elevated position is needed to enable the dispersal of spores by the wind, like from mushrooms).

In most of these groups, they live as single amoeboid cells and they aggregate into multicellular fruiting bodies only for reproduction. Besides most such groups that are eukaryotes (nucleated cells), there is even a group of bacteria, the Myxobacteria, which have the same ability of making multicellular fruiting bodies.

Besides the many groups of slime-mold-like living beings, with similar mushroom-like fruiting bodies, there is a single group of those which have been known by humans for the longest time and which are the only for which the name "slime molds" (the English translation of Myxomycetes) should be applied in the strict sense.

For the slime molds properly, the term "social amoebae" is not appropriate as it is for the others, which live single and then aggregate into multicellular fruiting bodies.

The true slime molds spend most of their life as multicellular or multi-nucleated (so-called plasmodia) bodies, which are big enough to be seen without magnifying instruments, which is why they have been known many centuries before the others. As seen in the linked videos, the true slime molds are blobs that move slowly around, usually eating bacteria.
apparently this is condensed matter physics e.g. quasiparticles, so not fundamental physics?
"Legitimate interest" is the universal GDPR loophole. This one needs to be closed asap.
How do you come to that conclusion? These laws apply to all EU based companies while non-EU companies have the clear option to opt out of them, which many do. If you want to do business within the EU, then you need to respect citizen privacy. Though I do agree that they should eat their own medicine, but here in the EU, we do tend to view private corporations as less worthy of our data than our own governments.

That being said. The branches that are working to secure citizen privacy and the branches that are working to ruin online encryption and monitor everything we do are often very sepperate parts of the government. So it's not exactly the same people.
They’re both transactions yes, but one has actual medical consequences, whereas the other has precisely zero concrete harms.

This is the fundamental problem with privacy alarmists; despite the dire warnings, millions upon millions of people walk around consequence free after having experienced what the alarmists claim to be utterly fatal and wildly harmful.

There just aren’t the bodies piling up like these alarmists claim there ought to be.
I think there’s probably benefits to be had in terms of interface without having a fixed typing keyboard. Logic and Final Cut for example, could be hugely improved by this.
Too bad surface processors are not near as good as apple's M series both in terms of performance and battery life(
> You make an excellent point about the EU surveillance laws. They clearly don’t give a shit about privacy. None of the folks disagreeing ITT seem to be willing to discuss that point.

You can be for privacy and against survailance. Often the politicians who work to implement data protection laws and politicians who work to increase survailance come from opposite sites of the political middle. So it's not really a very good point unless you can only deal in black and white.

The EU can clearly be good on some areas and terrible on others. As it is with most things. Another example could be how the green party members of the EU are working toward clean energy while the conservative branch is working to increase the markets for fossil energy simultaneously. They do so by positioning them in the legalislative branches where they get the most influence acording to their political agenda, and while that may be "weird" to people from a "winner-takes-all" sort of system, it's how the vast majority of the EU democracies work.
I think it’s generational. In Berlin I see plenty of students that now actively use it while studying in cafés for example.
They should contact the laser etching company and see if the gcode file is still on drive of the etching machine...

(They probably requested the company shred the files or whatevs but given the overall low level of due diligence I'd say it's worth a shot).
Show HN: MailRender converts your emails to PDF, removes malicious scripts
Hello I'm Pierre, developper. I'd like to get early feedback about a side project I'm working on.

MailRender has a simple concept which allows to convert any email with or without attachments to PDF.

Just login to register, then send or forward an email to "pdf at mailrender.io", and you'll get an email back in your inbox with the body and attachments converted to PDFs.

There are loads of possible applications / extensions, like redirecting output email destination to another mailbox or to s3, set other MailRender mailboxes which merge or watermark pdf attachments, provide APIs for automation, etc...

The backend is a k8s cluster hosted on Hetzner. I'm basically using NATS for queing and actually 9 microservices for parallel processing. Access to the cluster have been Tailscale'd :)

There are a bunch of licensed libraries I'm using which doesn't allow me to make this project opensource.
No AI were harmed during the process.

MailRender website : https://mailrender.io

Discussion : https://github.com/mailrenderpdf/discussion/discussions
IANAL, but I would say yes, and yes.

https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#usage-limitations

> 11. What are the usage limitations for HashiCorp’s products under BSL?
> All non-production uses are permitted. All production uses are allowed other than hosting or embedding the software in an offering competitive with HashiCorp commercial products, hosted or self-managed.
Would you take a 10% paycut to get 4 weeks PTO
This is wonderful news. Maybe next a fine tune based on OpenAI’s function API, which I consider their killer app.
Elixir builds types out of maps (using the struct) and you can build multiple dispatch operations over types using Protocol. If you want to pretty print your user types, you can implement the Inspect protocol.
Doesnt have to be Chinese vendor. https://www.youtube.com/@M539Restorations prides himself on using OEM parts, but he often goes directly for actual manufacturer because that source tends to be much cheaper than BMW dealer. The only difference is marker/machining over BMW logo on the part.
Instructions are included. Go to town.
Similar to undefined in javascript. (undefined == anything) is always false, even if anything also happen to be undefined.
That's not answering the question. I've written many thousands of lines of elixir and never used index based access.
Alright, I got nerd sniped halfway through when he said:

Scalar triple products only exist in 3D, because they involve cross products which only exist in 3D (please keep the “they exist in 7D too” comments for some other time).

There isn't a reference, and me googling "higher dimensional cross product" seems to return results generalising to any number of dimensions.

Can anyone explain what he's talking about or provide references? Off the top of my head I can't see why you can't generalise cross products to D > 3. Or if you can't I don't see what's special about dimensions 3 and 7...
Awesome, thanks! I've been wanting exactly this service.
I feel like the killer app for taxi services was central radio dispatch.
It removes the bottom rung of the ladder, it's a temporary stage.
It takes work because the design of FHS is outdated and will eventually die off when we have working package managers that can deal with incoherency of their packages, and figure out a less heavy handed approach to redundancy.

Containerization isn't really the answer but it uses the same tools that the answer will have: chroot jails, Linux namespaces, and bind mounts + overlays. The problem with containers is that the layer model doesn't lead to anything actually being shared, but the basic feature set of the user lane gives the tools to a possible solution that doesn't suck. Nix is close, but suffers from design issues orthogonal to how it works. Maybe Nixos is the future once end users never need to read a flake.
Let's not call it open source. Even Llama2 doesn't think that Llama2 is open source: https://imgur.com/AZFOzWk
Money is crystallized time.
New trends tend to follow an S-curve of adoption and rich people tend to be the ones financing the leading edge of that adoption before it's "popular," when it's still hella expensive and the bugs have not yet been worked out.

I, for one, welcome this type of "bad behavior" by rich people. It might eventually trickle down to neighborhoods you can afford, assuming it starts somewhere and that somewhere will probably be with the folks most able to afford to take a risk and to indulge their whimsy.

Generally speaking.
The current is always positive except when it's turned off. It never reversed so it never passes through 0v to get to negative volts. Which is also the big advantage, since you're not spending part of the time at lower voltage.
agreed, seems like Russian!
It doesn’t. Some of the Swiss waters are very good. My baseline for coffee is quality single origin Geisha, and good Swiss water is better than most espresso places.
Biologic incompatibility isn't as much of a concern. At least not with the modification in the article. Our genes encode a wide variety of proteins and enzymes that differ from person to person. Even people with significantly debilitating mutations havent had trouble conceiving. Even people with extra x or y chromosones do not have to worry about the matter. Though some men do have strange mutations like only being able to conceive girls with their partner.
Yeah but it’s not Apple’s fault the general public are lazy and stupid. I’m a creative and don’t do those things so much - I make records and read philosophy and write whatever book takes my fancy on the same device. It’s not Apple’s fault that when given a handheld supercomputer people use it for instagram - a black mirror reflects the good and bad of the human and that’s where we are. Steve Jobs really did want to make “a bicycle for the mind* and for some of us it is the most amazing one of those, just for the rest it’s too much power and responsibility, so the Californian capitalists at Infinite Loop are going to profit of them anyway.
Menopause and longevity are not necessarily at odds: see the Grandmother hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis
Ok... I'll leave the comment to stand but apparently I just needed to scroll a tiny bit more and get an answer here[0].

The seven-dimensional cross product is one way of generalizing the cross product to other than three dimensions, and it is the only other bilinear product of two vectors that is vector-valued, orthogonal, and has the same magnitude as in the 3D case.[2] In other dimensions there are vector-valued products of three or more vectors that satisfy these conditions, and binary products with bivector results.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-dimensional_cross_prod...
Well, here's your problem. Don't make random incisions into your peritoneum.

If you have an abnormal result on the MRI, just wait for some time to check if it's really abnormal.
Funny you mention DSP, that's a hobby of mine (for music) and I've never really connected DSP fundamentals and FPS outside of animation keyframes.

Your system sounds a lot like the current industry standard for deterministic physics engines if the input was processed without regards to the physics or rendering speed (you just need to run the physics at a fixed tickrate and it's deterministic). Did you wait for the real time that physics should be occurring at? Most of those don't actually run the physics ticks in realtime, basically if you're not rendering them you can process a bunch of them in a row and just simulate the clock stepping forward. For physics decoupling I normally just use Unity's built in interpolation system which does it that way, but I was trying to get fancy here. The issue in my case is because it depends on external input the physics processing would need to occur at specific real times. And unless I can know the time of the next frame in advance, that's difficult and not entirely possible (I didn't want to enforce vsync). It would have been fun to go down that rabbithole but at that point I decided to take the easy path and tie input polling to the render rate.

And then like 6 months later Unity released the new Input system which can be completely decoupled from any kind of framerate and just gives you realtime input timing values if you want.
on this topic this is also great: http://computers-are-fast.github.io
I got bloodwork done for the first time in a long time. My liver enzymes were high. I don't have hep C. I cut out drinking for a while, liver enzymes were still high. They did some imaging and maybe saw some fat on my liver. They did some more imaging later and didn't see the fat. Enzymes are still high. My next option is a biopsy, the hepatologists tell me.

If I do the biopsy and they don't find cancer or something, they'll just tell me to drink less and eat better. Seems like mostly downside to doing the biopsy.
Black Box – A Terminal Emulator using libadwaita and GTK 4
Please read this carefully: Apple will NOT _sell_ you a battery cheaper than their inhouse genius bar battery service fee. Apple can barter a battery for ~$10 cheaper than that fee if you:

- tell them detailed information about the device in need of a new battery, wait up to a week for that bespoke battery to arrive, then send old battery back.

- agree to share all of your accounting with Apple, now and I think up to 5 years from termination of the contract.

- agree to share all of your client details with Apple.

- agree to audits checking if you dont posses any third party parts that could be used in Apple products.

- agree to never repair Apple product beyond strict list of services approved by Apple.
Whenever anyone I know sends me a reddit link in a group chat, I relink them to old.reddit. The day they drop old.reddit is the day I start dropping those friends. I did put the app on my phone for a minute, since the "new" reddit web experience is so miserable, but the app was even more intolerable.
Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages
>>> If there isn’t a strong rule of law, any economic activity is going to come under the control of protection rackets and other armed factions.

I think you're restating what I said. Narco traffickers are able to subvert the rule of law via corruption. Their ability to perform corruption is a function of their profitability, which in turn is a function of the demand (and their ability to supply it), in rich countries. The demand is unmet domestically because of our prohibitions and draconian federal enforcement.

So the rule of law breaks down there due to strong rule of law here. We are essentially exporting the market making there, and that sort of market making, while risky, is profitable in the extreme.

As for the commodity sanctions while most maybe are well intentioned, they only serve to again allow those willing to take the risk of market making to rack up obscene profits. This is regardless of what circumstances lead to them, they empower actors who aren't particularly altruistic and certainly aren't democratic, to subvert the rule of law.
Yes, and this argument indeed holds in the case of extra MRI screenings. We simply don't have enough MRI units to screen everybody every year.

On the other hand, the quantity of MRI units is not fixed. We can always build more, they are just inherently very expensive. And if you can afford an MRI scan from your personal disposable income, then what's the problem?
https://wmealing.github.io/signed-kernel-modules.html

Maybe I need to write it a little more clearly, but perhaps that will get you there.
The problem is that it is global government, if your local police assist American corporations in seizing your assets for setting up a server far away in another country that downloads public social media profiles. It's just not a global government that anyone whose net worth is < $1B has any influence upon.
This. I recall in their earnings report, they gave a similar answer, I.e the more this technology is made accessible, the better the content put on social media becomes. They also pointed out that any improvements made can be incorporated into their stack like what happened with open compute and PyTorch.
I notice it more on airplanes when people want to watch their own movies.

I would also say that about 1/3 of people that work primarily from their laptop, and travel a lot (no easy access to a desktop monitor), will probably have an iPad as a second display as well.
Yeah it's amazing how many iPads + Apple Pencils students have these days. I notice this in Thailand universities as well.
In logic class, these were axiomatically equivalent

for all x. P(x)

not (exists x. not P(x))
> Unions have arguably been good for straight white native born men. Everyone else who has had to pay higher prices or has had to deal with worse products and services has lost out.

I criticize unions all the time, but your comment is so incredibly ahistorical and out of touch it makes me rethink my position because I don't want to be confused with people as clueless as you are.

Nothing in US history has come remotely close to improving race relations like the union movements of the 1930s and 1940s. The ruling class deployed racism to divide working people and unionization brought them back together, making the civil rights movement viable. People like you who spout nonsense they know nothing about disgust me and I hope your employees unionize ASAP.
Now imagine that you started getting MRI screening every year. You'll be able to afford to wait to make sure a strange mass doesn't get larger.
Right, it is a way to gatekeep people in the industry and allows those who are better at politics to rise up than those who are simply good at their job.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like Netflix has allowed their app to show up in under the "iPhone & iPad Apps" section in the MacOS app store.
Is this really the line we want to draw in the sand? It’s not open source because it can’t be trivially used by AWS and Google? It feels like the popularism is the point, not the complete lack of restrictions.
good old CGI is making a comeback.
I don’t get it. How can multileg flights be cheaper than single leg flights? Is the system optimizing for length of travel?
How better to learn to do menial physical tasks like house cleaning, and produce picking?
To some extent, I agree, I don't see a problem if the world population shrinks to <= 1 billion over a few generations.

The main thing we should be focusing on is the quality of life for those who are born, primarily in terms of education and opportunity for development, ie fewer people leading more productive, creative, fulfilling lives, rather than billions of starving, uneducated, unwashed, etc, as is sadly the case today.
Cynical take, but what if it’s all a scam to steal 38.9M for themselves. That they haven’t actually lost the password…

Just wait a few years and suddenly we’re rich!
Housing, healthcare, and education are the biggest drivers when it comes to cost of living. How does monetary policy drive healthcare and education costs?

When it comes to housing, it's pretty clear how the Fed's monetary policy drove those costs in areas where it is scarce. Luckily counteracting that is simple given political will, at least in principle.
I have a childhood friend who became a doctor. Everyone admires him. He's a good dude and deserves it.

But I often find myself feeling like I wasted myself by not pursuing medicine; I had the grades. Instead I've pursued illustration. I haven't made any seriously good work, but that's not what bothers me. I often wonder " what if illustration was a less worthwhile pursuit, right from the outset? What if I made the very best works possible in illustration-- they're still not saving any lives.

I found a lot of comfort from that just now with the thought: "what if Bill Watterson had chosen medicine?"
Don't you have to always provide an id when you stay in a normal hotel?
The airlines can get all worked up about it, but there's no way they can stop it. (At most they can see a passenger doesn't make their connection the majority of the time and impose a penalty fee after so-many missed connections; but then they'll juse lose any revenue from that passenger.)

And why should they care? I paid the full price of the ticket. What's it to them where I get off?

Sure they might think they can sell me food or drinks in flight or annoy me with their stupid branded credit card on every single flight, but the fact is I paid for the seat. If I don't show for my initial departure flight, they don't get worked up about that. Why is skiplagging any different?

Because they want to make more revenue by making it more expensive to fly to my intended destination? Well... don't do that. This is the natural, economic response to their pricing games. If you make it a game, people will play the game. Don't cry when you can't win 'em all, airlines.
> Labor has _always_ been a liability for rich amoral capitalists

Just capitalists. It doesn't matter how rich or amoral they are.
I don’t see how this differs from current state. You believe people getting to the top of corporate structures aren’t there because of politics and their network?

Workers support unions (71% of Americans, the highest amount in 60 years) because they’re tired of having the shit kicked out of them by the American employment arrangement. Workers who are members of labor unions in the United States make 18% more than their nonunion counterparts, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual report on union membership.

> The survey also found about one in six Americans live in a household where at least one resident belongs to a union.

> Of the union members surveyed, 65% cited better pay and benefits as the top reason for joining a union. The second-most-chosen reason was employee rights and representation.

Your profile indicates you work at a FAANG company. I recommend some perspective on median working conditions and compensation for the average American.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/americans-su...

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
The exterior aka wedge product generalizes, as do determinants. Cross products absolutely do not
Blackswan, the K-pop group with no Korean members
is there any more uptodate corpus of reddit comments out there? like this 2015 one

https://archive.org/details/2015_reddit_comments_corpus

(oh there is a 2TB torrent from 2005-06 to 2022-12)
What happened in your first sentence was ruled impermissable in the USA due to Taft-Hartley in 1947 as I understand it, strikers can only picket where the company they are striking against does business. So you really need to be less vague.
As everything becomes more and more spied on, this seems to be the way to go. I never say anything interesting to coworkers over MS Teams, I'll just wait till I see them in person before engaging in any real talk.
Along with the dark patterns of “confirm my choices”, where my “choices” are an endless list of checkboxes hidden under expandable sections of complete gibberish.
No, because as the article explains, the probability isn't of the "which pocket are my keys in" kind.
> They forget to mention the corruption, the ties to organized crime, the sexism, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia

These are odd criticisms to bring up, because they apply just as well to companies and governments. It's not like unions should be rejected for failing to be an improvement in every possible dimension.