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> A coenocyte (/ˈsiːnəˌsaɪt/) is a multinucleate cell which can result from multiple nuclear divisions without their accompanying cytokinesis.

Seems like a cell to me? How is it clear that it evolved from animals? It seems like clear protist to me.
How to get into emacs? Where would you recommend to start for an absolute dunce?
No, that's not correct and what you're stating about my views or what I have said is not correct.

> Daniel Micay himself said that iphones are one of the best choices from a security perspective, GrapheneOS closing the gap.

I haven't said this about current era GrapheneOS. You're referring to outdated comments from 4 years ago. Pixels, AOSP and GrapheneOS have all massively improved since then. Pixels with the stock OS have competitive security with iOS. GrapheneOS is not closing a gap with iOS on security. It is closing a gap on privacy and also surpassing it with features like Contact Scopes.

> The reason is the close working together of hardware and software, which is very seldom done in case of Android devices - pixels being the sole exception that care about it, that’s why they are the only supported device.

AOSP is developed largely with and for Pixels, but that is not why they're the only supported devices for GrapheneOS. They're the only supported devices because they're the only devices meeting the security requirements listed at https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices. If you ignore the differences in APIs between iOS and Android while pretending that the iPhone supported alternate operating systems, it does not meet that full requirements list either. The lack of MTE is a simple example.

It's presented as being for the ultra paranoid but what it does is mainly reducing huge amounts of attack surface created by default enabled Apple services. They're basic security measures rather than something super advanced and niche. It's all grouped together into one setting with some aspects impacting usability a lot without being able to get most of the features without that, which was their choice, and is what makes it into way more of a niche feature than it has to be.

These Apple services/features don't exist for GrapheneOS in the first place. People use Signal or the hardened Molly fork on GrapheneOS, not iMessage/Facetime, etc. Android already takes a more cautious approach to media handling in the stock OS. Lockdown mode mainly disables the permissive defaults of Apple services/features and provides attack surface reduction for Safari. GrapheneOS has Vanadium features that are similar such as JIT being disabled by default but beyond that those browser parts of it there isn't a lot that's applicable.
Internet is being divided into big conglomerates ruled by the most wealthy corporations. Knowledge is being held back and closed behind login-walls and pay-walls. There is a global censorship introduced in which people are being convicted automatically, and only then they can only prove innocence, but sometimes they don't because no one answers or there is no way of discussing the matter with a human being
Why would you think it's not shared memory? Maybe I'm wrong here but by default Python's existing threading implementation uses shared memory.

AFAIK we're just talking about removing the global interpreter lock. I'm pretty sure the threading library uses system threads. So running without the GIL means actual parallelism across system threads with shared memory access.
I hope I'm not the only person who, thanks to the Harry Potter books, fell in love with reading?
As someone who builds recommendation, filtering and moderation systems I think most of the discussion on the topic is naive.

About a billion pieces of content are posted to social media a day, maybe you can look at 100 of those, so no matter how you look at it content is being winnowed down by a ratio of 1-to-10,000,000. Maybe I can afford to show you one comment that was inspired by Fox News's ceaseless agenda spamming on certain issues. Trouble is, some people like to keep repeating things that other people repeat and they're going to cry censorship if I am not showing you 99/100 pieces of content. Trouble is all that spam displaces real content that somebody put blood, sweat and tears into plus it also poisons the well and drives consumers away. (You never hear complaints about "censorship" in the West when it is a book or an investigative journalism project that takes person-years, it is always in the context of low-effort imitation, spam, etc.)

This 1971 book is head and shoulders better than anything I've seen written recently

https://www.amazon.com/Information-Machines-Their-Impact-Med...

about the problem of personalized news media. I find it quite interesting that the book predicted we were going to have something like the WWW almost 15 years before we actually did. (Technologically we did, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel. The trouble was the lack of a business model to make it a sustainable business outside France. Technology had to progress so far that it was so cheap that we didn't have to think about it as a business when we were deploying to people...)

Most notably Bagdikian points out the severity of the filtering problem, that the editor of a small town paper looking at the AP feed in 1971 could spend at most 6 seconds deciding what article to run.

In recent years we've had an epidemic of aquired situational narcissism where someone whose life was just work, sleep, eat, repeat suddenly discovers that the government did something really bad with respect to COVID-19 and now they wake up and their computer is now a command center and they are trying to organize everybody. I will hear what they have to say but I am not going to stand for them repeating and this person has another 999 just like them and, sorry, I listened to the first person once and just don't have time for the other 999.

That's how I see it.
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In short all encrypted data transiting through internet will get uncrypted once quantum computing is there. As if we didn't already had enough threats to worry about...
>I'll take the 16" MBP, thanks. I can get more memory, in my case 36GB vs. 24GB

My current and previous MacBooks have had 16GB and I've been fine with it, but given local LLMs I think I'm going to have to go to whatever will be the maximum RAM available for the next model.

Similarly, I am for the first time going to care about how much RAM is in my next iPhone. My iPhone 13's 4GB is suddenly inadequate.
That's true, and you're right in that those will never go out of style. But there's a lot of job skills that aren't soft skills, and which of those will be relevant in 20 years is an unexpectedly open question.
Apple is testing AI-powered App Store ad placements
What I would expect from an infinite canvas app would be a streamable data structure, that can be rendere on demand on a "virtual" canvas - let's say you have a window from 0,0 to 100,100 - you can query the data structure to give you only the nodes in the viewport + the nodes connected to them.
Sure, but why do you want order to be preserved? The spec never says the order of nodes is pertinent. Is there undocumented z-index behavior?
Opera uses Chromium so it's covered under Blink/V8.
>Well, apart from the lack of LTE connectivity.

I have two unused SIMs with unlimited data (Thank you, Sprint/T-Mobile free line promotions), and would love to be able to put one to use.
Service industries like technology and finance are huge productivity multipliers. With the more traditional manufacturing here in Europe you don't really experience that huge growth, even if ones particular niche is still healthy.
Europe is stuck operating with 20th century principles, whereas the US and China have both reinvented versions of capitalism that work better.
I get that feeling, too.

There may or may not be something there, but the article is mostly buzzword-slinging. They wrote "This will allow us to put an Extropic accelerator in every home, enabling everyone to partake in the thermodynamic AI acceleration." Huh?

If they said something like "We are trying to cut the cost of stable diffusion by a factor of 100", that would sort of make sense. But then people would want to see a demo.
My prediction is that the closed internet (see walled gardens) will give way to the small internet (small networks of people in the style of whatsapp or discord) where there are no feeds. And GenAI (which is disturbingly being used to represent all AI) will become the tool of spammers and office workers
The founder I know personally, he interned at Nvidia and contributed many performance improvements, he's the real deal - just really enthuasitic so it may come off as boastfulness ;)
Sounds like an air pocket event from the description; hitting a pocket of different temperature air that has a different viscosity to the surrounding environment. It's still summertime in the southern hemisphere so pockets of warm air in an otherwise cool cruising altitude might be involved. An hour away from Auckland could mean they were on a descent path as well, which implies dropping through different layers of the atmosphere, too.

Sounds like shitty turbulence; let's see what the investigation reveals.
I think atoav was crediting Bauhaus with the modern kitchen, with the Frankfurt Kitchen as an early success story.

Which is both fair and faintly damning, as what has been lost along the way (functional design that makes good use of limited space) was perhaps more important than the clean lines and shiny veneer which was retained.

Or maybe I'm just projecting. Been cooking on glass-topped stoves for the past few months and that tends to make me irritable.
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It took them _years_ to get that bad. Remember, these kinds of business are short lived, yes, but you are only for the short while, not long term.
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They're happening, but it's not as clear cut as Microsoft ignoring the license. GPL doesn't say anything about AI explicitly. Personally I think Microsoft is in the wrong anyway.
As if nothing had happened. But only an occasionally appearing passerby wearing a mask reminds you of that time...
I think this is another wrong idea. You can never read all useful books. The whole idea of "all" useful books is faulty. You should read a book you really like and immerse yourself in it. The only time I think it's close to what you are suggesting is if you're prepping for a test.
They did trick us a bit in my opinion. The pervasiveness of their tracking networks was never made clear.
Mysteries of the universe – and a new force that might explain them [video]
I make a better RNG right now (https://arbitrand.com).

We experimented with doing ML training with it, but it's not clear that it trains any better than a non-broken PRNG. It might be fun to feed the output into stable diffusion and see how cool the pictures are, though.
how applicable this will be for the age-verification stuff that's now popping up for social media too?
Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots (2007)
radioactive probe maybe
The better to contaminate your code with, my dear.
This is great generic idea.

It's also possible to wrap it in something user friendly a'la [0].

[0] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3019
Not in single threaded code.
They're getting swallowed up by Anthropic and the other huge spenders:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/google-announces-ex...

"Partnership includes important new collaborations on AI safety standards, committing to the highest standards of AI security, and use of TPU v5e accelerators for AI inference "
You are talking about Minnesota but your description is identical to that of Atlanta, Houston, and any number of other southeastern US cities during the first half of the 20th century. A/C became widespread in the US first in the South, because it made indoor work possible in the afternoons. During that time (first half of 20th century), Northerners still considered A/C optional because the hot season was relatively short. A/C has been considered non-optional in the American South for the last 50 years. (In fact, I often find that when I visit the South in the summer I need to bring a sweater because it's not uncommon for indoor spaces to be ridiculously cool.)

Those days are over. Now Minnesota is like Atlanta in 1950, and Atlanta in the summer is now dangerous. Phoenix in summer is now deadly. A/C is a life-and-death issue in the southern half of the US (unless you're on top of a high mountain). A long absence of A/C in those places will kill you, and I don't mean figuratively.
MIT OCW physics--start with 'For the love of physics' then don't mention that video series again because it will get you cancelled. Then you can take MIT's quantum course. From there, PIRSA has a bunch of video courses available that will prepare you for theoretical physics. You'll need calc 1-2(3), linear algebra, differential equations, discrete math, real and complex analysis, and mathematical physics, which may include the discrete math and complex analysis as my coursework did. You'll need to read Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass, at least for cultural references. Most of what you need will be between PIRSA and MIT OCW. Khan Academy can help if you're not getting calc, but with CS you probably already have calc 1-diff eq and linear algebra.
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> The mere fact that companies tend to paint everything about their operations in the best light possible instead of the opposite is not evidence of trickery or even morally culpable deception.

We definitely differ in opinion there. I don't know why people think companies can get away with things that humans never would.

I just don't get the mindset of 'companies are evil, it's how it has to be'. Because it doesn't.
I'm not talking about lex. Lex is fine (if boring; that's good, it puts the focus on the guest).
> No hard core is a bummer.

The Zynq product family already exists.
I didn’t mean to misrepresent your views, was only remembering an old comment of you that said that iphones are quite good for the security-minded.

Of course I could not have known how the state of security, or your opinion of it has changed in the meanwhile.
> Automobile safety has changed significantly in the last 10-20 years.

That's a valid point. Personally, I'd prefer to take the increased chance of being seriously injured or killed in an accident over being under constant surveillance. But this is a thing reasonable people can and do have different perspectives on.
FYI only the spec canvas is black on chrome mobile with dark mode enabled.
God I love C. Thanks for reminding me.
OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans
How is this different from Apple's Grand Central Dispatch aka libdispatch? Based on my superficial understanding they appear to be quite similar.
Sounds interesting. Do you have a link? (or at least a title?)
Also, there's far less area of land near the poles, despite of what Mercator would have us believe.
Does anyone know if the major dealbreaker “Additional Terms” apply to Gemma? Because I don’t want to touch anything Google related with a 100 foot pole given the following:

> Use restrictions
You may not use the Services to develop machine learning models or related technology.

https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai

Note that using Gemini chat model develops it so, taken extremely seriously, this is a blanket ban on sending text to Gemini
Yes, maybe. I was on an international flight last week and they said, over the intercom, that they suggest you keep your seatbelts fastened all the time where possible.

Maybe they should play some in flight video of one of these events.
Great! Yeah, I imagine you guys have a lot on your plates. Looking forward to hearing more from you guys!
When should I use this over tools like, say, Retool?
Why is a company paying one person a quarter of the revenue earnings? And mind you, a number that arguably no single being truly deserves?

Morals aside, 193m is almost double Tim Cook's compensation and a bout 90% of Sundar Pichai's. Public companies that made 1000x the revenue in a quarter, compared to this yearly revenue report. How is Spez justifying such compensation?
Star Wars came out 30 years after World War II.

The time from today until when Star Wars came out has been 46 years.

Time sure flies.
Yes, frequently, I tried to get used to lldb, but I still find gdb's breakpoints easier to work with.
I wonder how many of that is just handouts to friends' businesses under the name of "R&D". In Ireland we always joked about the business "overhead" mainly being spent on admiring the sun overhead from a tropical beach :)
He could have made it a profitable year just by cutting his salary.
There weren't any TQFP packages in 7-series either, and I don't expect that to change for US+. Even Spartan-6 only had that package for their smallest parts (XC6SLX4/LX9).
Ask HN: Do you know why Anthropic is mass banning accounts?
There are tons of reports of bans on the ClaudeAI subreddit (check the weekly top). My account was banned immediately after I created it. No one seems to know what is happening, and there is also no communication from the Anthropic side. Support is very poor. They are also refunding Pro instead of unbanning. Are they overwhelmed by their success? EDIT: typo
What you describe is not universal. I recommend you visit Phoenix in July and open a "cold" water tap.
The people cleaning your hotel room who can barely speak english and get skiddish if you are wearing a law enforcement uniform definitely don't make $50 an hour.

If you can't efficiently get cleaning services for your rented out room, maybe you should get out of the hotel business!
You generally have to tell the LLM what you want it to generate and then enforce it, i.e, the LLM has to be somewhat aligned with the constraints. Otherwise, for example if you ask for JSON it will keep generating (legal) white-space or when you ask for C code it will say:

int sureICanHelpYouHereIsAnExampleOfTheCodeYouWereAskingFor;

In this case however, you can just do:

await aici.gen_text(regex=r"[a-zA-Z\n]+" stop_at = "\n")

Also note that there still a lot of work to figure out how it's easiest for the programmer of an LLM-enabled app to express these things - AICI is meant to make it simple to implement different surface syntaxes.
> Sometimes it feels like those with very strong faith inhabit a quite different world to me.

It is not a feeling but a reality. They often live closed off from the outside world unless interaction is strictly needed. Look at the Vatican City, also look at the residential areas in the US where people have everything they need (education, entertainment, etc), also secluded communities in the middle of nowhere. You can find many examples. Worst is if you were born there and you don't know anything
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672701. My actual position is that current Pixels with the stock OS and iOS have comparable security. iOS has overall better privacy including privacy from apps. It's not strictly more private and Pixels with stock OS do have areas where they do better. AOSP on a Pixel doesn't have the heavily integrated Google apps and services which gives it more advantages than the stock OS usually has compared to iOS, so it's hard to say which has better privacy. A major focus for GrapheneOS is addressing the biggest privacy weaknesses such as providing Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes and a per-app Sensors toggle which not only close the gap with iOS in those 3 areas but go significantly beyond what it provides. There are still a few areas where iOS does better on privacy, but GrapheneOS definitely does better overall. Security is a clearer picture where it's clearer more secure overall and there aren't a lot of areas where it's worse since the Pixel stock OS / AOSP starting point has very strong security. Suggest that people look through https://grapheneos.org/features which explains what we provide compared to standard Android 14 QPR2, although it's missing a lot of minor features and some recent major features.

GrapheneOS gets to focus on the weak points in Android and can make a bigger performance and memory usage sacrifice to achieve privacy and security. We can also add more user-facing features and toggles than either Apple or Google is willing to provide. This allows us to do many things they can't do. We care a lot about preserving app compatibility but we're willing to have opt-in features which break some apps, and we're willing to break apps with severe memory corruption bugs by default with an opt-out toggle to get them working. GrapheneOS aims to be nearly as easy to use as the stock Pixel OS once we do more work on the out-of-the-box experience and bundled apps, but we're willing to have more complex privacy and security options available for people who can deal with it. We see the starting point of AOSP as an already very good base relative to other modern operating systems.
> I think the tech stack needs another 12-18 months to mature

Google has been doing AI before any other company even thought about it. They are on the 6th generation of TPU hardware.

I don't think there is any maturity issue, just an availability issue because they are all being used internally.
Maybe the values that your grandparents' generation had that were later abandoned by successive generations had a purpose.
I got zapped once as a kid. My grandfather's TV, I was pulling the tubes to take them to the testing machine. Fairly small screen but I knew it probably had some residual charge that I most definitely didn't want to come into contact with. The layout was such that I could pull the tubes while staying far away from it. It never occurred to me that safety would require keeping him from looking on in curiosity and bumping my arm. (He was impatient about getting his TV fixed, I saw that whoever designed it had had the courtesy to put the tubes in an area where even if your hand slipped it wouldn't approach the tube. That was no protection against my hand getting moved in a direction I was not applying force, though.)

I don't think such things are actually capable of direct lasting damage but you do lose control--I slammed my hand into the cabinet pretty hard, completely involuntary. My understanding is that tasers are AC, thus involuntary movements will be back and forth rather than just in one direction.
I find that abhorrent myself.

What YOU pay for your cleaners is up to you.

Stop nickel and dimming your customers - if you charge a cleaning fee then there's zero moral rights in my mind that you have to ask customers to also clean.

Just up the nightly rates and build it in.

When's the last time you stayed at a Hotel and found you got hit with a 'Room Cleaning" fee?

What's next - a fee for allowing Heating to be used? A fee to allow water? Heavens above.
That's right. Ultimately it will always go up (over the long term) when priced in any other asset even if no additional net value is stored in it. Which of course generates more even demand. On top of that, every ~4 years the issuance (roughly the steady-state supply) halves and no matter how hard miners try, they can't mine any more - the harder they try, the harder it gets. Mankind has never seen anything like that before.