skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For every stunning example that gets passed around the internet, thousands of others sucked

…implying there may be an art to AI art. Hmm.

Meanwhile, the degree to which it is off-puttingly hideous in general can be seen in the popularity of Midjourney — which is to observe millions of folks (of perhaps dubious aesthetic taste) find the results quite pleasing.
> Where's the equal or louder negative attention for billionaires who profit off death and destruction? That use actual slave labor for their projects that result in tens of thousands of deaths? That wreck the environment without consequence? That promote harm and violence to disadvantaged groups? That exploit child labor?

The sad reality is that these egregious human rights violations often fly under the radar because their perpetrators know how to keep their mouths shut. Elon is constantly in the limelight because he intentionally inserts himself there and is openly flaunting his wealth and disrespect for others. It's no surprise that a high-profile person constantly acting belligerent, lying, and antagonizing people receives so much attention from the media.

It's the same reason why Martin Shkreli went to jail and not any of the pharmaceutical executives who've ruined or ended millions of lives.

> The issue is clearly not that Musk says dumb shit on Twitter and missed a deadline for his pickup truck.

This is an inaccurate and dishonest summary of what I linked in my comment.

> The issue is that society has a rage boner against him and people like you are perpetuating it while missing the wealth inequality forest for the Elon trees.

You are creating a false dichotomy to simp for a billionaire who treats his employees and other people around him as disposable means to an end. The sins of other people does not make it okay for Elon to sexually harrasses and abuses his employees, report a fake shooting threat to spite someone for whistleblowing[0], abuse and kill countless animals in rushed and botched testing... I could go on.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
RSS doesn't have to include the article. Websites can omit the it if they want people to visit the website. I don't use the browser in my RSS reader anyway because it doesn't support my favourite add-ons.
Apart from active confirmation bias, simple blind spots can also cause a lot of trouble. As one example heuristics and biases researchers Stanovich and Toplak found that their Actively Open-minded Thinking (AOT) instrument had a bug. It stood for twenty years because the bug was consonant with a secular-liberal worldview so no one really thought it might be wrong. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.006

This, of course, when the scientists themselves are honest, acting in good faith and eager to fix their mistakes as Stanovich and Toplak were.

In openly political fields like sociology and whateverstudies, you get "researchers" blatantly manufacturing their conclusions in scale construction.

As one example of some of the gems of scientific integrity in these fields is the finding that conservatives are higher in hostile sexism. Will any liberal check this? Of course not, because it conforms to their expectations that their political opponents are bad. Even if they are honest, if they just glance at a paper they won't question it, and it won't feel weird to read in a quick report on the research.

How was the sausage made? In at least one study, the entire hostile sexism scale was two items long, and one item was, not kidding, "feminists are making entirely reasonable demands of me." And in the greatest surprise ever people dislike their political opponents. Bam, conservatives bad, because we're measuring their attitudes towards politically partisan activists, not the fairer sex.

(The question also presumes that feminists' demands are reasonable. If the activist set are insane, a low score on the question would be an indicator of sanity, not misogyny or simple political partisanship. As an example, Simone de Beauvoir: "No, we don't believe that any woman should have this choice. No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.")

There's also the famous case of Bob Altemeyer's Right-wing Authoritarianism scale which is explicitly constructed so that leftists will score lower on it than rightists. Cue decades of results that authoritarianism is more prevalent on the right. Quelle surprise.
I'm pretty sure that being facetious is against the community guidelines.

The post really should be flagged immediately.
(I don't disagree with your sentiment, fwiw)

For 1.5 years we had the notion of "1 death is 1 too many" shoved down our throats at every turn to justify some pretty heinous encroachments on personal freedom.
I don't know, i still prefer Win XP/7 UI over Win 10/11
My employer wouldn't let me go to the office or even any offsites or outdoor actives (i.e. a picnic) until very recently. (Despite my approved religious exemption and "requiring" all employees to work in the office).

If that isn't coercion to take an experimental vaccine i don't know what is.
idk about cooking, but surgery is already seeing AI-aid.
The former group has been condemned, banned, ostracized, and dehumanized. To the degree any of them were acting on bad faith or in violation of their oaths, yes they should be condemned.

But the deepest crimes lie elsewhere, by those in power who coerced others into taking drugs they did not want, who used ends-justify-the-means reasoning to violate ethics as physicians or public health officials, and who now continue to try to suppress, deflect, and gaslight us from recognizing the real events which actually occurred and which we are morally obligated to correct for our children.
I care about salary because with my current one, it will take me 30 years to own my own house. It's the sole reason, really.

There is no such thing as a "Meister" title in my country.

I am afraid of working with physical stuff, I was awful, just awful with it in High School.

I don't know about Low IQ jobs, is it worth it to live as a trashman after having hopes and dreams? What's the point of living? I am already a failure... And yes, garbagemen and everything make money and so on, but I had actual hopes and dreams, which is what is really putting me down. Everyone I see around me is so much more accomplished than I am, socially, academically, or in whatever else.
Key takeaway:

>>The reported incidence of (epi-)myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination [29].

I hope the research continues to make it even more safe.
Sure, but it can't go on megayachts or personal world domination initiatives, and Elon (or anyone else) could make tax deductible donations to those registered charities without a foundation in place.

Since the foundation publishes accounts, it's actually relatively transparent what he has and the eclectic selection of causes Elon donated to has been fairly widely reported on. It looks considerably more like a man chucking money at a lot of pretty standard causes than say, the obscure nonprofit "to promote interior design" that is the tax-free beneficial owner of Ikea...
Using microartifacts to infer Middle Pleistocene lifeways at Schöningen, Germany
Bingo. Solar panels were outrageously expensive 15 years ago, but that didn't stop us from investing in them as a technology.
Young people were at extremely low risk from covid. It is entirely possible that the vaccine killed more people than it saved under a certain age. It is not certain but it is plausible as the covid deaths for young people were so low.
Not quite. The argument is that our tech elites aren't so evil to try to violently take over and that us masses can simply vote a more (much more) socialist system.

It's up to us. Indeed easier said than done in the current dysfunctional and polarized politics of ours but we can still do it.
It seems easy to imagine that the crew was panicked an believed (even erroneously) that extending the landing gear while attempting to land was the correct action.

I find it absurd that anyone would find this proof or even a suggestion that the plane was deliberately crashed.

If the pilot or other member of the crew wanted to crash, an unrecoverable nosedive or stall out seems much easier to concoct than "deploying the gear" at the last second once a nighttime middle of the ocean landing was required.

How long would it take to deploy the gear? 15 seconds? Plenty of time for someone else to rescind the request. How long to intentionally nose dive from 2k feet ensuring death? I'm guessing it would be almost instantaneous.
I love the idea of an IDE-like terminal! I think that it could greatly benefit from using its JS runtime for an extension system: visual autocomplete, syntax highlight, even fancy special effects.
Whom Do Credit-Card-Rewards Programs Reward?
Everything You Know About Human Nature Is Wrong [video]
If you think that immigrants, particularly indian and Chinese, are not bringing their own oppressions from their homeland, you're wrong.

HN has the best thread for discussing the caste baste discrimination that happens among Indian tech workers in the USA. It turns out that being white still gives you a lot of privilege, even in tye FAANGs.
Android-Slideshow: A simple slideshow application for your mobile – GitHub
this is just great
McMurdo during the summer routinely gets above freezing and isn't all too different from Alaska or northern Canada in the early spring. During the winter of course it gets cold.

As for power, McMurdo has a mix of power sources including a number of renewables. For about a decade ('62-'72), McMurdo also had a small nuclear power plant on site as well. This was also only a few years after McMurdo was established ('56). So there was definitely a time where energy was not particularly expensive and the greater issue was the cost per kilo for shipping supplies.

Of course now that shipping logistics are mostly ironed out and nuclear was deemed too problematic, various fossil fuels are used for power and heating a good chunk of the site (whatever the scattering of renewables can't handle).

Wind Turbines: https://brr.fyi/media/hut-point/town.jpg

PM-3A Nuclear Site: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/PM3Anucl...
..to St. Jude? With one intermediary? I don't see the big deal...
Still seems like a pretty crappy deal to me and negative expected value. More so if you have your own Corporation that can do all those things. I feel like there is a n
Physical limit on the number of tax deductible meals and vacations someone and their family can consume
One important note: make sure your mother's will is the way she wants it before you do the guardianship, because once that is done, the will cannot be changed. My grandma's attorney never took this step with me, he had drawn up her will, and it contained errors that could not be fixed after the guardianship was granted. We were lucky that things worked out okay, but if my mom had died before my uncle, all of my grandma's assets would have gone to him, with none going to my mom's side of the family, and we were the ones taking care of her! "Per stirpes" was omitted in the will. Two words -- huge difference in meaning.
> Besides pneumonia, myocarditis is another manifestation reported during SARS-CoV-2-infection [24].

I mean, your point only makes sense if you ignore that COVID causes the same myocarditis and ignore that the vaccine has been proven to reduce severity and duration of symptoms. This study was of 5 autopsies, unless you can prove this was incredibly widespread concern I don't understand why you think it would be better people get COVID.

On a slightly different note I find it incredibly funny how the refrain was "they died with COVID, not from", but now it's "they died because of the vaccine, not with".
I can relate to this. Most people don't like me. The problem is they don't like me for the things I love about myself.

Minimizing social friction produces lubricant, not "quality" humans.
We require young people to get vaccinated as a rule in order to obtain education. Every medical intervention involves risks. So does taking a shower or taking the bus to school. We all have to take risks and some of them are mandated for the good of society.

There were very good indications that the vaccine would prevent spread.

Public policy decisions which cost lives are not unusual and although tragic, are often necessary. For instance should we use the entire yearly budget of a hospital to cure one child, or let that child die in order to fund daily operations? These questions have no 'right' answer and no matter what was decided there is going to be criticism and errors which result in less than optimal or even tragic outcomes.

Looking back in hindsight and using the knowledge we now have, I would say that the biggest errors made during the pandemic by public policymakers (besides disbanding the pandemic team and having a leader who was looking at everything in the lens of a what was personally good for him at that moment) was in messaging.

If we can use this to craft a better way to handle public messaging in the future then perhaps we can avoid a lot of the negative societal effects which we are now dealing with -- specifically lack of trust in scientific institutions, division based on ideology and not evidence, and the spread and enabling of conspiratorial thinking.
If a human wrote the prompt, how is AI different from a paintbrush or any other tool of the trade?

Every tool makes some of the 'decisions' about how the artwork results by adding constraints and unexpected results. If anything I'd argue that AI art allows for more direct human expression: going from mental image to a sharable manifestation has the potential to be less lossy with art than with paint.

This feels like a bunch of misplaced ludditism. We need to implement a UBI because 99.9% of human labor is going to be valued below the cost of survival in the next 50-100 years. Always fun to see people thumbing their nose at Disney though.
yep in another words semantics...
This combines well with things. Like inland reservoirs used for water storage and are therefore cut off to boating and recreation. Also places like the sultan sea. Also open water fish farming.
Note: the ages in this study ranged from 46 to 75 for those who died.
I agree with my sibling here is that your confidence is misplaced that we did not kill many teenagers unnecessarily.
Nice to see Dunbar's Number validated with real world data.
> You seem to be under the impression that real life access is the indicator of closeness of relationship.

No, just the hardest part to fake. You can copy my photo, hack my email, mimic my prose style, and steal my credit card, but you can't get the people in my school's PTA to say, "Yeah that's him" in real life.
Yes, I noticed my handwriting deteriorating.

I didn't want to lose the skill of handwriting, so I've returned to snail mail :)

I've discovered that my handwritten letters are quite different to my emails. I'm much more relaxed with my pen.
Asked my pacyhologist SEVERAL times. I've already been put on anti-anxiety meds, I'm scared as all hell of ADHD meds.

Also, a new psychologist would cost me money, which I simply don't have, as I'm living paycheck to paycheck.
Cool stuff. The egraph implementation in particular sounds fascinating.
I'm not sure why you'd want a trial, since you've already decided its outcome. In reality all you want is a lynching.
I'm specifically talking about people like Andrea Dworkin, who said:

"Prostitution in and of itself is an abuse of a woman's body. [...] In prostitution, no woman stays whole. It is impossible to use a human body in the way women's bodies are used in prostitution and to have a whole human being at the end of it, or in the middle of it, or close to the beginning of it. It's impossible. And no woman gets whole again later, after"

This doesn't distinguish between survival sex work and people who are doing it more by choice, nor does it seek to improve the material conditions behind the lives of those forced into sex work, so that they have other choices and survival sex work can organically disappear. Nor does it connect survival sex work to other sorts of difficult jobs with great bodily risks.

Instead, politically, second-wave feminism has sought to orient the full weight of the carceral state against sex workers (i.e. the Nordic model), with all the expected consequences.
Is it 0.05% of the remaining capacity, or of the initial capacity?
Very few of the instant commenters read the study first it seems.
That caught me off guard too. 'Did he ... did he hand draw this' ?
I hope you are joking. The husband of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the third person in line for the presidency of the United States, was brutally attacked in his own home with a hammer. A billionaire cannot possibly buy better security and resources than the US Secret Service and local police combined.

I don't understand hatred based on financial standing.

However, I do not think this is the real motivation in Musk's case. I can see people hating on Musk these days because he is uncovering just how deep and wide one political party has reached in the United States in order to control the media and messaging. Something that Putin and totalitarian regimes have done for ages in other nations has been achieved in the US by brainwashing people at universities and then asking them to restrict or reshape the message in favor of that ideology.

Anyone who does not think this is revolting and should not exist in the US should take a moment to imagine a scenario where the same level of indoctrination and control would be had by the other party. This would be just as revolting and just as undesirable. Universities should not be centers of indoctrination. Political parties should not have any control on what the public can and cannot hear. That's a formula for progress, not one where one or the other party can exercise ideological control.

> I don't think you even really understand the implications of what you're saying.

I don't think you have taken a single minute to explain what you think the implications might be.

Interestingly enough, I am arguing in favor of privacy/security for all. You seem to be saying that someone with money does not deserve it. Why?
Did their stances actually contribute to public health policy, if so then they bare responsibility unfortunately. Armchair biosecurity advocates should be left off the hook.
I'm in the same boat, in fact I chuckled that the most recent U-Line catalog has a bit of a political rant from the founder in the back cover, something about social justice warriors. Most of what I get from U-Line I buy from a local business instead these days just for convenience and because I need relatively small quantities but... to be honest I think U-Line is their wholesale supplier. I'm on the hunt for a different way to get a wide variety of packing materials in relatively small quantities.
It isn't? So companies aren't trying to produce things as cheap as possible to increase their margins? And robots that are never sick, takes no vacation, needs no rest and are mostly an upfront investment aren't cheaper than people?

> Having cheaper goods thanks to ai will improve our living standards

Well, or at least we will have more cheaply produced goods.
I can't speak for others, but I'm currently going through a very painful time tools-wise. We've switched to a new workflow with all new tools and there are several objective ways in which they make my life harder. There was, of course, the learning curve that any new tool has in the first few weeks/months. It's been 2 years, and I'm still getting slowed down every damn day by these horrible tools. It's not that I haven't learned them, it's that they are objectively worse than what we had before. (And what we had before had a number of issues, too.) I will fervently let others know of the potential pitfalls of the tools I'm forced to use by my employer. It may make me sound like I'm being religious, but really, I'm just trying to warn others what they're getting themselves into.
> The real meaning is that it's a poor craftworker who has crappy tools, but just keeps using them

The "real meaning" of a common aphorism is the one that's obvious to everyone. That's the point of aphorisms.

If common aphorisms needed special "truth knowers" to explain them, then the words themselves might qualify as religion.
The democrats did. The republicans didnt
This paragraph seems gpt-like
Scott Base is easy walking distance from McMurdo, not 99 miles (or 100 kilometers and 100 miles and 100 nautical miles - that site is quite confused!).

Both are actually in New Zealand depending on the purpose, due to the Ross Dependency[1]. For instance, most of those folks in McMurdo station have longer NZ visas than typical US tourists visiting NZ would get (3 months), because when they fly down to The Ice they're not technically leaving the country.

An interesting corner case is when something happens at one of the US stations in the Ross Dependency, which New Zealand wants to investigate. The Rodney Marks death[2] is a particularly well-known example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Dependency

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Marks
Sha-224 and Sha-384 are the truncated versions of Sha-256 and Sha-512 respectively.

My boring hash function of choice is Sha-384. The Sha-512 computation is faster on Intel hardware, and ASICS to crack it are far more expensive than Sha-256 because of bitcoin.

If you're hashing passwords or something, use a "harder" hash like Argon2 or Scrypt.
Given the information i had at the time, I am fine with my unforced decision to get the first two doses, but I will not be getting a third barring some surprising new information, new variant, etc.
Social media always remembers – which makes moving on from a breakup much harder
These are very low numbers with only 5 vaccine+death cases found in an area with 8mio citizens.

But they convincingly argue that accidentally injecting the vaccination into the bloodstream towards the heart may cause a heart infection similar to those seen in people who got sick with Covid.
> I have to scroll past a whole crowd of people posting this self congratulatory snark.

Has this comment ever been posted more than once in a thread?

edit: and I honestly can't understand what is self-congratulatory about a list of issues created by somebody who is obviously interested in batteries, and has seen a lot of press releases with the same flaws. It gives laymen a sensible list to check the newest claim against.
I would agree with klipt: why were so many influential figures allowed to spread disinformation based apparently on misunderstanding mathematics, the scientific process, and just caring about general health and welfare?

It was said once that 5 deaths is a tragedy, but 500k is just a statistic (as a justification of genocide). This is possibly why the 5 deaths in the article possibly from the vaccine is apparently more terrifying.
I'm going to throw this out there: most of the promising companies in this space are likely going to get their seed funding from federal grants rather than incubators like YC. You may not be seeing deal flow because your product is unattractive to them in comparison.
it’s not entirely likely the dead were at a low-risk of death by the actual virus