Aurornis

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by Aurornis 2mo ago
The US is a global media and culture juggernaut, so by that token the US can be blamed for most trends. I don't think it's a worthwhile distinction. Anti-vax culture was prominent in the UK, Australia, Canada, and many other count
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There is some evidence that anti-vac activism was one of the key topics pushed by foreign influence campaigns at several points. I think the simple explanation is that they pushed any topic which could be used for political divisiveness and
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The pivotal paper that tried to link vaccines to autism came out of the UK and was published in The Lancet. Assuming that the US was the root of the current surge of anti-vax idealism is not supported by the facts.
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Strangely, anti-vax sentiment is surging in a lot of countries. Canada has higher rates of vaccine rejection than the United States in some categories, as one example. It’s a strange global phenomenon and I don’t think there is one single r
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Hep C screening at least once for adults >= 18 is recommended and considered standard of care in the United States. I checked my medical records and I have a negative Hep C result in an old checkup when I was younger, and another one fro
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> Doesn't mean I don't use them. And the goalposts keep moving. You’re proving my point by admitting that you still use it.
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If nobody was trusting the country, the economy would collapse. The Greenland drama was dumb, but there is zero reason to think it’s a next 50 years thing. Is the force even still there, or are they gone? Nobody takes the Greenland thing se
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
No they are not. The Illinois law fails to include any of the exclusions I mentioned. None of them enforce the parental password controls or remote monitoring. Please read my full comment before jumping to respond.
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> Nobody and no country will trust the US or their commitments ever again. How do you explain all of the people and countries who are currently trusting the US and their commitments? This is always a strange belief to hold when the cur
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I’m talking about the people with decision making power and the businesses working internationally. I have no doubt that certain individuals in other countries will be holding grudges against the United States for the rest of their lives lo
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> No one is going to take the US seriously for the next 50 years. I hate this obvious pay-for-access thing as much as anyone, but this isn’t going to define the US for the next 50 years. The second the next president is in office every o
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Iran controls the straight of Hormuz, which is a key shipping channel for the world. It being open or not has an impact on all businesses which have to ship through it, which is a lot of them. Therefore it impacts the entire economy. The en
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I think you’re missing the point. The payment is for early access. The posts don’t go live for everyone else until after a delay. This isn’t some penny stock group. It’s the president of the USA who has command of the largest army in the wo
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When I first heard saw headlines about this I thought it was so outlandish that it couldn’t possibly be real. Yet here we are. It’s amazing how much corruption is occurring for so little money. A million dollars a month is peanuts for such
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> I dunno if you can legislate “better parental control ux”, If we must have something, I’m in favor of the OS-level flag where a parent can set the device as belonging to a minor and the apps and browser can receive the flag. Lock it be
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
It’s weird to see that locking down devices even further is being proposed as a solution to anything. The unspoken part of this requirement is that websites would have to block users who aren’t connecting via one of these attested, verified
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Not that I'm condoning it, but this law requires self-declaration, not verification. It might sound pedantic but the practical difference is huge. Self-declaration means that the system asks the user to declare if they are a minor. Not
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
A couple groups are trying to commercialize it. There have been some trials, but they're all relatively limited by depression trial standards. Double-blind is impossible because the participants know 100% if they've received it or
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Almost nobody believes it's a silver bullet or perfect shield against disease. It's an odds game. I don't encourage people to start going into the long tail of diminishing returns to improve their longevity at the expense of
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
You're looking at this from the wrong angle. The dementia risk and longevity have overlapping factors. Lifestyle choices correlated with shorter lifespan are also correlated with earlier dementia onset. They're not perfectly propo
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You can tell how long the cloud models spend thinking based on the delay. The Qwen models have a habit of going into thought loops where they go in circles for a while.
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> Maintaining optimal midlife vascular health was associated with up to 12.6 additional dementia-free survival years, Stay on top of your cardiovascular health. Even moderate diet and lifestyle changes can have a significant impact on th
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> I think you missed the point. Any negotiation, from the point of view of the author, was a negative and unfair outcome. I think the author missed his own point. Because he didn't negotiate, he got the most predictable negative out
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I don't think they're bots and I don't even think they're organized. In my experience with other communities, it only takes 3-5 people with a lot of free time to crush conversations they don't like. On a fast moving
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Unsloth has quantized versions uploaded: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Muse-Glimmer-30B-GGUF The quantized releases often change in the weeks following release as new improvements are discovered, so either use a tool
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> at best it seems like we’re heading back to the “server under your desk” era of IT again Maybe in the very long term. If companies go local, the efficient model is to buy some big hardware to share among developers. I run local models.
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> The problem is that when there are any sides, they spend the top 100 comments rehashing the same arguments, often over a political bugbear or web design faux pas. This is a problem with any upvote/downvote based site, in my experi
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> I don't think there's a strong consensus on Hacker News. There are diverse viewpoints. However there are some topics and threads where it becomes obvious that the comments are going to tilt toward one viewpoint. Participatin
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> If these complaints were fake, then surely they would be dismissed? If the petitioners were out of line, then the companies shouldn't have cause to worry. Big companies have a steady stream of legal cases with questionable merit.
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The blog literally says "I didn't care to understand" to demonstrate that he was not interested in listening. I would not assume the manager was making things up. He might have truly believed what he was saying. In these situ

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