skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also surprisingly robust! https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/

See also how many cultures have a flood myth that's of similar age but seemingly arose independently.
It is not odd. There is definitely an economic reason and global power aspirations side to it.

These are the same western countries otherwise which overlooked a genocide in East Pakistan which is now Bangladesh just because they needed a state for their guerilla warfare against Soviets. When India went to stop the genocide and fight for liberation of Bangladesh, it was threatened with US naval might.

Morality is not why they are doing it but that doesn't mean the moral side should not be supported.

The other reason being that CCP now has the economic muscle to influence narrative which was reserved to just West till now.
I really like Bruce Springsteen :)
So to summarize, you have never listened to an episode of Rogan but you think he is a troll, meaning your opinion is based on clever clips put together to influence your opinion. hmm, I feel like there is a word for people who think an argument is strong but don't really know what they are talking about. Another word for people who just pile on to an opinion because that's what the cool kids are doing. Buy hey, quack quack, amirite :)
> If opinion doesn't violate a law or expose someone to a likely successful civil suit, you should be free to express

Absolutely. I don’t think we are arguing freedom of speech here.

> If you're concerned about timeliness, keep in mind that censorship doesn't happen quickly enough to stop the election fraud example you gave

Is the fact that it’s futile a good reason to say that obvious fraud should not be removed on sight?

> A better standard is whether the communication rises to criminal offense or civil matter that caused harm (e.g. voter/election fraud, some sort of willful disregard/negligence). In other words, there's a standard/mechanism for redress already (there's an app for that).

That’s the bar for the law. Obviously the bar for anyone such as a broadcaster can be set at that point or lower. A company has to follow the law obviously but here the question is probably what to employees, prospective employees, customers, investors etc feel. The company adds up the numbers and decides who to include in their platform. Because it’s important to keep in mind that companies promote a select few voices on a platform. They don’t censor away an uncomfortable voice. They chose not to be the megaphone.

I’m not sure what the alternative is to the situation we are seeing? Forcing platforms to give everyone a voice?

There will always be arbitrary moderation and association in free media. Because it’s part of what free media is. We can’t have a free press without self-censorship.
They're expressive metaphorical cartoons from a critic of the CPC regime. Everyone knows Chinese athletes themselves aren't committing atrocities during the games.

On the other hand, an actual Chinese state official tweeted a photorealistic fake image of an Australian soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan child.

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1333214766806888448

Which is more graphic, & more likely to engender hate?
This might be a good strategy early in your career. Once you have some good experience on your resume, you can change priorities towards other things.
It is early stage, but there is now an alternative to Signal that doesn't use phone numbers at all:

https://xx.network/messenger/

While you can add your number to be searchable by others, it doesn't let strangers with your number know you signed up automatically, either.

Full disclosure: I work on the infrastructure behind it.
You could search gmail emails by operator like larger_than:10mb or such.
80% of US millionaires are first generation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/c....
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What do you figure the importance is?
There was nothing poor about the source material.

This actually highlights how this kind of AI simply smushes sources up randomly without any sense of content or meaning.

It has a look - more horror than SF - but that's because distorted smushing with vague hints of distorted body parts is a look in itself. (See also artists like Francis Bacon.)

Neither AI nor developers aimed for this look deliberately. It just happens to be what falls out of the process. (See also Wombo, which has a similar aesthetic.)

What it doesn't do is evoke the imaginative narratives of the originals, which were consciously crafted to suggest a mood, setting, or context. Compare with (say) Bruce Pennington or Chris Foss and it's easy to see what's missing.
Your comment is very kind and insightful, yes there's a lot to all of this but I do appreciate you sharing your experience, it doesn't have to provide answers and you know, I think sometimes it's better not to. One conversational tactic I've found hugely helpful in developing relationships is to preface some comments, especially when the subject is loaded with emotion/anxiety, simply by saying "well here's some random thoughts and feelings from me, please understand this is not a judgement or decision but rather a brain dump" – this opens people up tremendously and rather than examining your every word in anticipatory defense, if you have a good rapport and good trust then they will listen to you in an entirely different and more receptive way, and are more likely to venture something that they might not have otherwise.

Thank you!
Well, hopefully we wont have a 100+ billion dollars stolen from the US this year b/c of this decision.
Unironically yes. But the point is the crash will bring down inflation. Some bank last week estimated that to get to 2% inflation would require 10% unemployment though. I'm skeptical of Phillips curve arguments, but even if that's remotely true it would be a complete disaster.
We'll see the storage space for Google Drive being cut down drastically or features held back, long before they'll start thinking of charging for Gmail. The reason is that Gmail is part of their advertising platform.

For Gmail, I expect that they'll add more ads instead to make more money. Perhaps they'll try to squeeze more money out of companies that depend on email marketing.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of a nonprofit sub on reddit. So many members. Definitely will post there.
I wrote:

"This is much different than "Give a number 1-5 to iPhone.""

They wrote:

"They were prompted with 12 different Apple-related subjects, and asked to rate them on a scale from 1 to 5 and optionally provide text commentary per category"

So, unless they are not being explicit about their survey question, which imo would make little sense, especially if it is a traditional Likert scale which is used in context of a question, it does tell us that.

Regardless, my point is that the survey trying to quantify a score is much less valuable than the qualitative points in the article.
It's pretty easy to dismiss this stuff but I've found it has been very fun to play around with and certainly has allowed me to create imagery that far exceeds my skill.

Twitter seems to have an endless stream of examples with the aiart and generativeart hashtags. Also I really like Katherine Crowson's twitter because she builds Colab notebooks that n00bs like me can use to tinker:

https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings

https://github.com/crowsonkb

Some examples I shared a while back using Katherine's VQGAN+CLIP notebook: https://imgur.com/a/1R5UZQb Promp was 'mad max dieselpunk alien spaceship landed in a desert' and then I upscaled the images. These are cherry picked from a set of about 3x this size.

One thing I find pretty remarkable is how good it handles shadows and depth of field. These are all kind of mud tones but if you let it run away with color you'll get some really brilliant results.
I am going to explore this possibility

Thank you
Sure, if your only expense in life is buying a house.
> If you look at Fig1, describing the cohort selection, this study has two control groups. A historical as well as a contemporary control group. This gives an two different sample sources to reason about sampling bias.

There's a clear difference in health between the cohorts.

Supplementary table 1 breaks down the cohorts and summarizes co-variates. Disturbingly, the COVID cohort is significantly fatter than the contemporary control group:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

54% of the COVID cohort has BMI > 30, vs 42% of the contemporary controls, and 40% of the historical controls. They also have a higher percentage in long-term care (4% vs. 0.6%), a higher percentage with cancer (8% vs. 6%), chronic kidney disease (19.5% vs 16.7%), lung disease (15% vs. 11%), dementia (6% vs. 3%), diabetes (32% vs 22%) and hyperlipidemia (34% vs 25%).

The Covid cohort is basically a much sicker population, in almost every way. Re-weighting the populations doesn't correct for this disparity.

The authors have attempted to hide this by burying the data in the supplementary material, and presenting an "absolute standardized difference" that makes it look smaller than it is.
I have had some fun with Football Manager, and it does have a similar vibe of "letting the story play out". However, the Retro games allow you to actively control players in the match itself, instead of only being the manager like in FM.

That's the cool thing: an extremely skillful player may thrash an opponent and earn a big reward, but in a different situation may only be able to "avoid disaster". I feel like this is similar to real-life, but isn't really applied in a lot of games.
Hey, the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and were given a long leash by the Saudi government. That's just a fact. Nothing racist about it.

Also, I didn't make the racist poster so I think it's totally appropriate to leave it up. (Not sure where you were going with this part...)
If we bring your analogy all the way, we must assume that the majority of Chinese people secretly want imprisoned murderers freed, rather than supporting their incarceration.

If imprisoned murderers are like empowered politicians, then toppling the government is like freeing the murderers. A revolution of the status quo.

That's an obviously ridiculous claim to make; Chinese people do not want the dangerous murderers freed.
Do you have examples of good F2P games? I'd like to take a look.

To me, a bad pattern -- usually done by F2P games, but I don't think it's mandatory for them to use it -- is both the mindless grind ("am I having fun with this, or just clicking stuff?") and the pay-to-skip aspect. To me the latter is the worst, an admission by the game developers that their game is boring and the only way to get to the "good parts" is to spend money to fast-forward them. Usually there aren't even any good parts, it's all skippable.
I think I would describe Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk etc... as optimizing for making their companies succeed in the end, not optimizing for wealth.
Here's hoping that Valve's next round of investments in the stack puts some focus on the needs of streamers, on the basis that getting streamers into the SteamOS/Linux tech stack may introduce the topic to a wider audience.

At this point, streaming to Twitch from my Sway desktop is working really well (thanks for that @emersion!), with the one frustrating exception of not being able to screen-capture individual windows.
FCM system they use to deliver notifications will return the delivery ID as no longer valid after uninstall though.
Other endemic viruses that don’t show up in the historical control group? What definition of endemic are you thinking of?
well, the ceo did step down last month..
I actually gave it a try, and couldn't successfully signup due to the phone number check, even though my name is on the line. Figure I've wasted a couple hours on it in total. Unnecessary friction.
Fun fact, Peter Thiel gave Vitalik Buterin a Thiel Fellowship to work on Ethereum. Let's count the wins Peter Thiel has had:

- Paypal
- Facebook
- Palantir
- Etherum
- Took on deplorable Gawker
Right now this is a right-handed fretboard visualizer. Not so great for lefties.
Here I was, reading the headline, thinking a hungover geologist was getting a morning glass of water at their newly installed stone sink and had a eureka moment. Reality is so disappointing.
This is a good move for both Thiel and Facebook.

This helps Facebook with advertisers, the DC machinery still reeling from the Trump fallout, shareholders and almost all their staff. They can wash their hands of what looks - to many - a toxic situation.

This helps Thiel, because he's no longer going to have to explain himself - his writing game me the impression that he is somebody who despises having to explain himself to people who think he might be wrong - and allows him to carry on with his Trump project, unquestioned, unencumbered.

From a certain perspective and distance this is all deeply depressing, though. They walk away from each other knowing all sides face fewer consequences for their terrible decisions, many of which have caused significant - perhaps irreparable - damage to the standing of United States politics and industry in the wider World.
Does is still have the horrible dock? A plain FLWM or Fluxbox would be better.
I'd also be fine with making casinos illegal, if that's what you're proposing.
Why do people with this much wealth want even more wealth for themselves? I've never understood this.
Which sites do you scrape from?
I agree, I never seen the first fret displayed to the right. You can rotate the fretboard at the bottom right.
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Yes, but in that case you've actually bought a service that already exists, not vaporware that will never exist.
So Thiel is going to run for President as Trump's mini-me? I can see that.
I don't even have my friends' phone numbers. If I want to call a friend I do it on my desktop using Discord. Before like 2016 we would call using Skype instead.
Hi, your efforts to better understand your daughter's diagnosis are remarkable, and appreciated. A rare disease lights a fire that's almost impossible to extinguish, you want every question answered, there often are none, but it doesn't stop you from searching anyway. Your situation resonates with me a lot, my little girl was diagnosed with another KS - Kabuki syndrome, specifically a mutation with the KMT2D gene (thanks to whole genome sequencing), which is rare, but common enough for their to be a few decent resources out there now, specifically ones like https://www.allthingskabuki.org and https://www.kabukisyndromefoundation.org which helped my wife and I better understand our daughter's diagnosis. Kabuki is multi-system affecting, often accompanied by heart disease, feeding, hearing, hypotonia, endocrine, limb/spinal/skeletal/organ abnormalities, and similar to Kleefstra, intellectual, speech, and mobility difficulties.

Your ideas all sound fantastic, and definitely on the right path, maybe reaching out to foundations of other rare syndromes may offer some help, likewise with Facebook groups, and the like. I run my own non-profit https://sterlingstrong.foundation to bring awareness to KS, CHD, isomerism, etc, and to help families during long ICU stays, and further research by donating to other research centers such as https://www.kennedykrieger.org, maybe they, or orgs like Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases https://crnd.nd.edu/directors-page may help? I wish you and your family all the best!
Really rich people want to hide their wealth from the public as much as possible.

Slightly rich people want to exaggerate their wealth as much as possible.

Ultimately magazines like Forbes have very little real data to go off of, and so these lists all need to be taken with a huge grain of salt. If they were forced to put error bars on their projections people would see how worthless they really are.
That's a great analogy that I think is spot on.

To expand on this bit though:

> It doesn't mean I think it shouldn't have happened, or that I'm going to attempt to sabotage them.

You can probably see how if you go to your coworker, and tell them "It would have been in my best interest and created a world I more prefer if you had gotten less", they may get upset with you. This is what's happening here.
> Even simple things, like opening Firefox, can take almost 20 seconds, no doubt thanks to its measly 4 cores.

Why do I need an 8-Core processor to open Firefox? What is it doing with all that CPU?!?!
>And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data.

--Rochelle Walensky, Director CDC

I would recommend reflecting on what kind of bias it takes to be so confident without spending even the 30 seconds necessary to find that quote via google.
> Do you think Thiel would be in favor of more socialist-style policies? Even some?

Does that mean that he will automatically be opposed to anything that could contribute to socialist policies being enacted? I think this is the jump that you're making, and was what I was trying to address with my pay raise analogy. To take it to the extreme, the sun coming up tomorrow makes it possible for socialist policies to be enacted. Do you think if Thiel realizes this, he'll try to blow up the sun?

And I'm not claiming to know anything about whether the guy wishes women couldn't vote, maybe he does. I just don't see that in what is written.

OP edited his post to include a link of Thiel responding himself, but with your opinion of him being what it is, is it safe to assume you don't believe him?

EDIT: someone linked to a comment thread from 6 years ago talking about this. Its interesting to see how similar the discussion is. I think both sides are mostly arguing in good faith, this is just one of those "is the dress blue or is it gold" things.
Yeah this article made a lot of claims that seem completely untrue. For example, CD says that Uber's money is running out. If you look at their net assets on hand it went up last year.

This past year with tighter labor markets has shown that Uber does have substantial ability to increase prices without losing all of their riders. They are running losses, but the margins are not that far from profitable. For every dollar you spend on Uber, Uber's costs are $1.02 on average.

A much better analysis of Uber's financial situation is this https://philo.substack.com/p/ride-hailing-is-it-sustainable
Hello!

> How to raise funds for rare disease research?

I'm not a marketing expert (though I do work with rare diseases).
But a good starting point might be to checkout https://www.rarebeacon.org/
There certainly is help and there are options, but as you understand finding and accessing them isn't always easy. Good luck on your journey
Isn’t soluble fiber what feeds your gut bacteria?
Nice site! I see some features are paid -- do you have a sense of the market for an app like this?

I'm developing a jam-companion app and I'm wondering the best way to do market research
It’d be nice if people actually focused on the artificial island making or Taiwan’s independence, but “activists” (I’m not sure if that’s even the proper word in this instance) aren’t really concerned about that and most people don’t even know about the former.

But an increasing number of people, especially Americans, really think the Chinese government/police really are just openly killing people in the streets with no consequence (lol), they’ve enslaved the entirety of Africa and stolen the land due to the debt of building a few trains, and other bizarre stuff. Any time anyone is like “I’ve been there and it’s not that bad,” people scream that you’re a shill and scream “WINNIE THE POOH” as if that does anything. The level is discourse involving the country is embarrassingly low, and when it reaches that level, it does just two things: breeds absolute hatred (hate crimes involving Asians are up) and pushes people not buying into it the the opposite direction of the propaganda.
And by late 90's 46MB would be so-so for Windows 98.
Signal doesn't advertise a profile. It advertises a phone number - everything else is data you have locally. It will send a profile picture if you set one but that's it.
That could be. I didn't read it closely (I rarely do).

On the other hand, if you're going to make a case like this, it really helps to make it without reverting to the key of ideological battle yourself. Otherwise the comment pattern-matches, in my sandblasted moderator brain, to the automatic dislike of one ideological side for any information they perceive as favoring the opposite side. Conformance to already-held views, as you aptly describe this, is not interesting. It's a reflexive rather than a reflective reaction (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Long, tedious experience has driven into me how mechanical such reactions are, and also that they amount to well over 90% (if not well over 99%) of the things that internet commenters have to say about disivive stuff. As moderators trying to look through the lens of 'what's interesting', as opposed to 'who does this favor', we're conditioned to perceive such comments as more noise than signal. Especially when accompanied by snark or other markers of aggression.

I mention this here because your post was an interesting case of starting out on the one foot and ending on the other. Perhaps that is helpful, or interesting, or neither.
> From the privacy standpoint, Signal having contact list would be better.

Signal can operate using its own contact list, without accessing your phone's central contacts.
Laravel 9, Out Tomorrow
I read it happily waiting for the aha moment until the very end, where I realized that it was just an adpost for a new ifttt/transform tool with a glaze of "low code is the future" (All that for just $30k/year)
Their support is great and their services are damn good as well.

My work place have been on the previous storage box BX40 for 2TBs of off-site storage for 4 years. This announced update to the service, shows that BX21 service has just upgraded our offsite backup to 5TBs and no difference to the monthly price we already pay!
The Future of Canada (2019)
I once worked with someone who went from "not rich" to "rich", who also ending up in a senior position at Cisco where he had the authority to spend lots of money.

His observation was that a "normal" person has to work hard to find ways to make money. A person with lots of money to spend has people queuing at their door, offering ways to make even more money. It becomes a case of picking the best opportunities from the menu.
The guys behind Figma, Upstart, and Ocean Cleanup were also Thiel Fellowship recipients.
I like iOS better than macOS. Has pen input. The Pro has TB3, granted 1 port but better than the 2015 MacBook. Most of it's problems are completely artificial limitations placed there by Apple. If they just loosened those I'd pick the iPad every time. It's a more flexible form factor held back by software to avoid cutting into Mac and App Store revenue.