https://www.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/comments/1lno8ub/i... first I heard of this, looks like they're calling it ai upscaling

There's a huge vegan market segment but meat industry still plods along

Roughly 2% of the US is vegan. About 5 million people.

This would be why the meat industry “plods along” century after century. For every vegan there are 49 people who eat meat, and probably 35 people who feed their pets meat.

There is actually a huge market for animal meat and it is the vegan industry that plods along.

In fact, what even _is_ the vegan industry? Or do you mean it’s basically marketing hype for companies that combine plants in various ways to sell as food?

Yes. Most people don't care enough to change their behavior. Others think about it & decide it isn't for them

Industry is plant based food, certification orgs, vegan charities, consulting, books (both recipes & lifestyle advocacy), content creation, ...

at least it's possible to be a vegan. imagine trying to be a smartphone vegan. I hope we're not headed there with this abominable technology. I hate using it and don't want to be forced

Same. Sadly haven't been able to find a working twitch ad mute extension after they made latest anti adblock changes. At least Youtube Live is still in growth phase so I don't get ads there yet

There are companies like Helix Guard scanning registries. They advertise static analysis / LLM analysis, but honeypot instances can also install packages & detect certain files like cloud configs being accessed

But relying on the goodwill of commercial sec vendors is it's own infrastructure risk.

So don't rely on their goodwill? Instead, pay them, under a contract.. or do it yourself.

You can also pay a commercial sec vendor if you don't want to rely on their goodwill.

There was a subtle mistake: the 30M would be deducted from taxable income (in Canada I was only able to deduct from capital gains)

tbf you started with what intelligence is in rejecting their claim of being the smartest: ability to predict the future

True: A shadow take that I have been noodling on is that "ability to correctly predict the future" is actually the only true characteristic of intelligence. All other things we might label as intellect are either expressions of that, or something different that is more accurately categorized under a different label.

This isn't even that. If I'm a person others may take as a reference and I hold Bitcoin, it is in my interest to publicly state that Bitcoin is going to increase in value, because that in itself makes it increase in value and it's good for me.

But doing what is in one's best interest isn't necessarily the more intelligent decision. In a rat society, the more "intelligent" rats can possibly be better at acquiring resources to survive if selective pressure is put upon those with such talents but can just as well be early signifiers of 'behavioral sinks'[0]. Not to mention, certain illnesses, mental and otherwise can change motive regardless of IQ.

Actions don't necessarily dictate intelligence. The goal of life has to be defined to make such arguments. For example, using a maze as an analog you could argue the more intelligent person can arrive to the end faster and more elegantly but with life, it has no such defined and agreed on ends. If we're arguing that selfishness is a sign of intelligence then that view is quite myopic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

It's a system people opt into, you can do something like ingress/egress blocked, & user has to pay a service charge (like overdraft) before access opened up again. If account is locked in overdraft state for over X amount of days then yes, delete data

I can see the "AWS is holding me ransom" posts on the front page of HN already.

Yep, I've just taken to driving with prescription sunglasses at night

Generally mutable strings there too, like Ruby

I was getting hand pain, switched to a Totem keyboard. 38 keys, 6 thumb keys. Column splay & never reaching for number row has greatly helped. 20g actuation means little force needed