skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large living meatball wont be able to stay alive.

It would need a circulatory system, to get oxygen in to it, and waste products out.

As others have pointed out, it would also be very prone to infection, without a protective outer later (skin), and specialised cells that will destroy pathogens (immune system).

I could go on and on!

There is a reason why giant meatballs didn't evolve.
>While drunk driving by cyclists will be subject to criminal penalties,

So you can't even ride a bike after a drink or two? Wow.
I see how issuing a token has its advantages, thanks.
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> Conscience, empathy, shame and similar emotions/instincts that encourage pro-social behavior would only have developed if it lead to higher reproductive fitness for those who had them compared to those who didn't.

It's a classic prisoners dilemma. In aggregate, the best option is cooperation. For an individual, the best option is betrayal in a society where everyone else follows the rules.

Betrayers can't become dominant because the worst option for both the individual and society is everyone being a betrayer. It ruins social cohesion, so there's no synergies to reap rewards from.
There is a technique for achieving this state of consciousness, it’s called noting

This is an awareness that advanced meditators seek, practice and develop to perceive “reality as it is”

If you are curious, you might find related discussions, and a great welcoming community at r/streamentry on Reddit

Also the book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha talks about it quite a bit, including instructions on how to do it
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Totally. Skrillex at bhain is some end times shit
Not analogous. The poster was talking about suggesting an improvement and you about removing an existing service altogether.
if you're a wealthy kid going to a beach bbq with your wealthy friends, yes. you signal to others your class through products like yeti.

replace your entire question with Apple and you'll see the answer as a pattern.
Slightly unrelated but when opening this in private browsing mode, the page displays a warning “you have opened this page in incognito mode …”

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a page fingerprint me using private mode and tell me about it
I like the guy but he’s approaching 80 — he should work fewer than 32 hours per week.
That's not freedom. Are we also given the freedom to choose lab-grown meat if we so please? Otherwise "freedom to choose the only available option" is disingenuous.

Also understand that the FDA regulates lab-grown meat to the same health standards as farm-grown meat, and you can go buy genetically modified meat in the store today. 95% of meat sold in the US is thus "experimental."

https://www.fda.gov/food/human-food-made-cultured-animal-cel...

https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology/gmo-crop...
AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers
Every other query I've given to ChatGPT came up with an utterly wrong answer. Followup always yielded "sorry, I made an obvious mistake, here's another wrong answer". Confident and stupid is a very bad combination.
I'm not the person you're condescending to, but it is possible IMO to simultaneously recognize the security value in deny-by-default and Principle of Least Privilege while also finding it challenging to work with AWS's IAM permissions in practice.
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Fourscore and seven years ago, we did.
Likewise. I could absolutely afford one, but I can't justify one.

I'm the same with a smartwatch. I'd like one, but if I got one it would need to be cellular so I can leave my phone at home most of the time. But I just can't justify the cost for the utility I would get.

In some way, this is probably one of the reasons I'm in the situation that I can buy these things, because of all the other things I have not bought in the past.
Oh wow, I now suddenly understand why Welwyn Garden City is named so. I'm not sure how much of a success it is, given how small the town actually is, but maybe that was the plan all along.
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I always heard an F-16 it's a pretty easy to fly airplane ...For trained pilots.
Maybe I have done Consulting at too many Startups or large Enterprise with large Cloud deployments, where most of the team seems to have barely spent some time with the docs. Some even proudly state they learned it by "looking in with colleagues"...or "on the job". Yes, it's Friday and that makes me grumpy...
I used Julia quite a bit, even did a couple of professional projects. I quite like the all native code autodiff + ML set up.

Since the LLM breakout on Huggingface, I am back in Python world.
It’s hard to see if you limit your view to Europe, because Christian morality is just “in the water” there. I’m from Asia, where same-sex marriage is not accepted anywhere except Taiwan. It’s not accepted in Buddhist Thailand, Hindu India, Muslim Pakistan, atheist China, or Shinto/Buddhist Japan. It’s hard not to notice that the places where same-sex marriage is accepted have something in common: they were Christian for more than a thousand years.

It’s not just “secularism”—the absence of belief in God or absence of organized religion. Japan and China are extremely secular countries, more so than anywhere in Europe. The notable thing about the Netherlands seems to be not that they’re secular, but that they also were a hotbed of the Protestant reformation. Until the 20th century, the majority of the Dutch population was Calvinist. A few years after the Netherlands legalized same sex marriage—and long before most of the rest of Europe did so—Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same sex marriage. Massachusetts was founded by fundamentalist Calvinists (the Puritans). Even though American Calvinists and European Calvinists split (geographically) 300-400 years ago, their version of “secularism” evolved in a very similar direction, and quite differently than the “secularism” of Asian countries. It’s really hard to say that’s just a coincidence.
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Putting my conspiratorial hat on, this leak seems to be designed to bolster Trump’s tough-on-China image. They know that the current administration can’t comment so nobody knows how it is going and if this is a bi-partisan activity.
GPA likely tracks to aptitude + ambition, but attending a "top 50 school" is mostly a function of who their parents were.
I personally like libraries, but you have a point, maybe we should put the money that goes toward library taxes to better use.
I don't think that's really true. Nordic countries are full of people who forage and it's not like they need to do it to get by.
There are plenty of jobs where people have to complete various tasks that are outside of their domain or otherwise tedious on a daily basis. For example, plenty of devs have to set up or change the configuration of remote hosts. Some LLMs are pretty good at generating devops scripts to speed up this work.
This is inconvenient for someone writing a custom client as it is yet another feature to support, but it really doesn't matter for anything that involves framerates unless you start to change the cursor every frame or so. Normally you will just respond to events and it takes a bunch of work and it is irritating you have to do it, but it isn't computationally costly as it typically won't happen often.
Some people also experience remission from not eating meat, I don't think that proves any point except for "people are different and have different needs".

Also for the initial point of humans being facultative carnivores, it doesn't track with our origins from primates.
A lot of the housing stock here is very poor quality, run-down and filled with ancient plumbing and electrics, no insulation, single glazed, draughty windows. For some reason British people are extremely attached to old buildings and favour "character" over comfort, warmth, light, efficient storage space, etc.
Everybody understands that corporations use cartels to do their dirty work, right? Go work high level at an international commodities company and you’ll find that doing business with “the underworld” is required and that comes with connections to other capabilities

I often see people say corporations arent as big of a problem compared to government because government has the ability to arrest and kill people.

The idea that corporations are some gentle thing that don’t have murderous coercive capacities is beyond outdated

Go and look at how corporations have co-opted local police forces to protect their businesses as the first order requirement of the police force. Best Buy, Walmart etc all have hired “off duty” cops for decades.

The goal of the existing global economic and political structure is to protect business - full stop.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/shell-companies-crime/...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Busin...
You can’t impersonate a service account with the console.

The rest of those are either manual or too broad.
Patent trolls literally destroy people’s livelihoods and lives. They make billions by destroying trillions in value.
> Well, how do you take down some blog, if there is no legal base for it, because all the content was obvious legal?

We will never know the answer because the chief communication officer choose to contact the security department instead of the legal department.
I am a bit confused, there are three sites:

* https://nanos.org/ The core technology?

* https://nanovms.com/ A company providing services and offerings around said technology?

* https://ops.city/ The orchestration?

And I am not sure what "thing" I am using. Is there some disambiguation? I know is OPS is the orchestration CLI, but I am confused at the difference between Nanos and NanoVMs. What should I call the section of my README that deals with this tech? Currently gone with Nanos/OPS but I am confused.
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Because at Google, you're expected to spend your entire budget
Probably a dupe because I can't find this submission or the one you linked on any page of HN now.

edit: just found this one on page 6 now.

edit2: both are completely gone now off any page.

edit3: now it's claimed as a [dupe] and the active discussion is dead.

Wow.
Since this article leans on screenshots from Virustotal detecting/not detecting something as malware, it is worth pointing out that just because the engine vendor x uses as part of their participation in Virustotal detected something as malicious, that doesn't mean their commercial products will do the same thing[0]. 1) The vendors all want to participate in Virustotal as marketing, and to get access to the raw samples (it is a reliable high-volume source of commodity malware.) 2) There is pressure to over-detect[1], so your competitors don't send out screenshots of your engine, which they imply to be your product, not detecting some novel malware sample, which of course they only do if their engine, which they also imply to be their product, detects it correctly. 3) Almost all vendors have additional detection mechanisms that don't make it into their Virus Total engines for various reasons.

So, anyway, if you want to get a sense of if, in general, your binary is likely to trip “AV,” then, by all means, submit it to VT. If, however, you want to know if a specific AV detects it, submitting it (or worse, some other binary processed with the same packer) to VT is dumb.

0 - https://docs.virustotal.com/docs/antivirus-differs

1 - interestingly, some researchers found lower detection rates on VT, which they attributed to the vendors not using their cloud-based analysis modules. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364073462_A_Compara...
Dishonesty and bad faith are cousins. Its more or less the chickens coming home to roost.
Yes, it's a stereograph: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/stereographs.htm
> Depth sensors are widely available.

Eh, they're better than they were, but there's nothing that can meet the needs of generalizable robotics.

Every depth camera on the market does badly in some common situations. Even the ones that cost as much as a house.

> A decade ago, the state of the art was aligning an IC over the right spot and a board and putting it in place.

Are you sure you don't mean 3-4 decades ago?
You could bash together system calls to get some memory allocated that way that you could access, but any language that makes values some combination of easy to copy and not having first-class access to the memory layout is going to be a constant uphill battle to keep the secrets where they "belong".

And almost everything nowadays has easy-copy values, because almost everything copies all function parameters. It will be difficult, twitchy, and subject to whatever local compiler/interpreter optimizations as to whether or not any sort of code does or does not safely keep all values only in the "correct" space.

I wouldn't trust Go qua Go to keep my secrets only where I "put" them, and I wouldn't trust hardly any other modern language either. They're all based on copying arguments around. Rust is closest and I'm not sure I'd trust even that without a lot of checking, because while the language layer may have best-of-class controls over sharing, that's not to say the optimizer won't create copies of things under the hood. Those sharing controls are not, as I understand it, hardware-level promises as to how memory will be treated, just language-level promises. You almost have to reduce to a minimal kernel and program it in assembler, if you want to be sure the secrets can't flow, and that may be easier said than done depending on how complicated that kernel is. (e.g., simply reading something from a file and keeping it confined is easy, but if I have to do crypto with a secret that's a very large chunk of code to worry about.)

It isn't even just the software, even the hardware stack is just not designed for the CPU to not make copies. The hardware is designed to present an isolated view of the world to the software it is running on but it has numerous and large abstractions between the view of the world the software running normally sees and the actual state of the hardware. What you will see when those abstractions are penetrated (e.g., a straight-up RAM dump or disk dump) can be difficult to predict. A RAM page swapped to an SSD can physically reside on that SSD indefinitely because the SSD is remapping sectors continuously, you could get unlucky and that's the last thing ever written to that physical bit of the disk if the controller marks it bad. And that's just an example, not the complete list; I wouldn't count on madvise to protect me from all copies without a lot more research. Everything from the highest software layer to the lowest hardware layer is fighting you if you try to exercise this much control over where your data goes.
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Yep, but maybe it's a a case where calling for bans is to have compromise on labeling move towards more explicit labeling. Like Canada's cigarette labeling https://www.cp24.com/news/new-graphic-health-warnings-on-cig...

(not to say lab grown meat has the health problems of cigarettes, but I'm sure people calling for a ban would like it to be labeled as such)
That’s a reasonable conclusion and a kind of lesser of evils, but only if you take sufficient remedies off the table: I agree that if we fix “megacorps always get their way, we can kinda influence which ones but it’s a zero-sum thing”, the question becomes, what screws the public that collectively owned the commons the least?

But stronger remedies are possible without many if any new laws: straightforward anti-trust action should have either created housebroken regulated monopolies (e.g. Bell) or broken these companies up years ago. Microsoft alone has fought off such action against a different extremely damning body of evidence and precedent at least once at “front page” levels of plausibility.

The exact point at which a search engine, an OS, a hyper-scaler, a de-facto defense contractor, a hardware OEM, an AdTech platform, … becomes too much scope for anti-market activity is debatable, but it should be pretty uncontroversial that we’re overloading the donkey a bit here with most of the top 10 by cap.

What about, you can’t be a search engine with a copy of the Internet and a secretive mega AI lab? That seems a pretty plausible place to start carving the turkey?

Or, you can’t turn a tax-advantaged 501c-style structure into a de facto subsidiary of such?

Or we create a new category of intellectual property addressing the realities of the modern world in which copyright is too diffuse to let any “derivative work” be anything other than public domain?

The problem would be funding it of course. If only a bunch of hyper-resourced people and institutions felt it was important enough to build AI to create some sort of institution devoted to the public welfare to put the money up for the greater good…
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Buying preowned furniture can save a lot of money. I bought a 4 piece sectional couch, in great condition, for $600. The set originally cost $4500.
That whole structured generation line of work looks promising. I hope someone else takes this and runs evaluations on other benchmarks. Curious to see if the results translate!
This is great news for Harvard! It implies that it's taking academic honesty and rigor seriously, and deserves praise for that. Just as police departments deserve praise for firing/suspending/charging bad officers, just as state bars deserve praise for disbarring bad lawyers, we need to see more of this not less. It concerns me that such news is often used as evidence of systemic problems when this sort of news signals the exact opposite.

We should be more concerned when there are NO instances of malpractice reported by institutions. This doesn't mean there isn't malpractice, but that the institution has lost the will to enforce its own rules. Reacting to this news negatively provides a perverse incentive to institutions, and should be quelled.
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Incomplete, with a poor launch app ecosystem, dependent on owning another of the company's devices to scan your head to get a rather variable quality of mask fit, and when that phone guesses wrong it costs the customer a further $300 for a second guess? As long as the fans keep paying, I suppose you're right.
The same way the person is condescending to the ones who don't find so difficult. I would even go and argue, that if you are already having issues with IAM, how do you expect to handle what is actually difficult?
Boilerplate, test code, and general tedium. Most software just needs to handle IO.

The next time you want to use SQL to compute a rolling sum try asking ChatGPT 4 instead of searching through documentation or search engine results for windowing functions.

Competency at programming along with very good technical communication skills (with a touch of learning how to not hold the tool backwards) and you should find the appeal.
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Ahhh Ritchie Hawtin. Legend!

A friend was playing this in a bar last night and it took me back.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOtCXu6dCE&pp=ygUTc3lzdGVtIDc...
the interface on mobile leaves a lot to be desired
More like : If it is not explicitly illegal and aggressively enforced by someone, a business will attempt it, regardless of whether it makes money or not.

Everything else is fair game apparently.
A difference being whether Apple does or doesn't Apple still gets to maintain 1 version of their unrestricted browser either way whereas if Mozilla does or doesn't it either has to maintain 1 version of their unrestricted browser and 1 version of their restrictor browser or 1 version of their restricted browser.

I.e. your proposed situation is a bit of a "have your cake and eat it too" for Apple. A possibility sure, but not really an equivalent remark.
yes, yes, that's exactly the kind of comment I've been expecting, like clockwork.

here you go: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834330/

(and I could find ten more studies like that in 15 minutes if you wish to engage in this argument further)

>The serum levels of sex hormone-binding globulin significantly increased, and the serum levels of free testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) decreased significantly after 3-month supplementation. Among the 10 equol non-producers, equol became detectable in the serum of two healthy volunteers after 3-month supplementation. This study revealed that short-term administration of soy isoflavones stimulated the production of serum equol and decreased the serum DHT level in Japanese healthy volunteers. These results suggest the possibility of converting equol non-producers to producers by prolonged and consistent soy isoflavones consumption.

now feel free to pivot and say that it doesn't matter and/or it is a good thing, "dude".
Vow is a lab grown meat company taking this path. Last year they made a mammoth meatball that used mammoth dna with some elephant dna. I think this is a smart approach, allows them to charge higher prices for a unique experience. [1]

Other types of meat that make sense are high end sushi fish etc. where again the conventional price they compete against is high enough that it makes it economically possible to grow it in a lab.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/28/meatball...