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by phs318u 3y ago
Indeed, but they don't always peak over the same period. Any alternative theory has to provide a plausible explanation for why all these other causes of death (which presumably were also causes pre-COVID) all of a sudden decided to spi
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by phs318u 3y ago
But since this is considering 'excess' deaths, wouldn't any there need to be an explanation for the temporal increase vs baseline for any non-COVID causes that would explain the excess?
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by phs318u 3y ago
It's now well known and accepted knowledge that "addictions" have heritable elements (specifically in the transition from initial to problematic use). This has been proven by repeated studies of families and twins. The prepon
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by phs318u 3y ago
I’m conflicted between the clever tech accomplishment, and knowing that the bar to becoming an accomplished sniper has just fallen to zero (beyond the means to acquire the equipment).
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by phs318u 3y ago
I flagged your post because ‘karma whoring’ [0] (aka attention whoring) is one of the roots of evil on all social media. If you read the HN guidelines [1] (which cover both submissions and comments), most of the positive qualities HN is try
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by phs318u 3y ago
Have you ever been in a position where you’ve had to try to convince a professional of something only to have them dismiss your concerns because it falls outside of some technical boundary? When it comes to medical, financial and legal doma
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by phs318u 3y ago
I don’t know about the other entries but there’s no reason for the Thylacine (Tasmanian “tiger”) to be on that list. This is a known real animal that only went extinct less than a century ago. There’s been talk of “de-extincting” it: https
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by phs318u 3y ago
Wow, I hadn’t heard that quote before but is is scary accurate and broadly applicable (think ‘psychopathic’ executives and politicians). I often wonder about those type of folks whether some transformation of mind occurs that turns a previ
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by phs318u 3y ago
I was about to ask you to share your list, but that got me wondering: is there any tooling for curating, sharing, and most importantly, consolidating curated lists of sites (based on tags rather than categories), such that the consolidated
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by phs318u 3y ago
Ah the Sams books. I once thought that writing tech books was going to be a career (having contributed a single chapter to “Microsoft SQL Server Programming Unleashed” by Papa, Shepker et al. I was one of the Al’s). I think the “in 24 hours
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by phs318u 3y ago
For anyone who thinks this is a facetious response, I've done exactly this - use LibGen to find far more useful (to me) formats of books that I own physically. I don't see why I should be punished because I purchased the book in a
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by phs318u 3y ago
This may be true in specific domains but does not stand across the board. Otherwise, we would not see any progression in the application of new discoveries in industry. It seems to me that the evidence of the last couple of centuries indica
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by phs318u 3y ago
More on this by the author: "Pop-sci" description: https://phys.org/news/2024-01-method-straighten-space.html Another paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.12
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by phs318u 3y ago
The reasons for resistance are reasonably understandable - most science withstands the scrutiny. Think of the alternative, where a barrage of complaints can get almost anything retracted and require the original authors to jump through hoop
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by phs318u 3y ago
For those that usually skip reading the actual article, or only stop at the article and don't read the comments - I can recommend the comments as worthy of your time, especially those of "Clive Robinson". Technically savvy an
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by phs318u 3y ago
Would you mind sharing this (if it doesn't contain any personal info).
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by phs318u 3y ago
I'll suggest that a) a lot of that content is bot generated (uncontroversial), and b) perhaps those behind the bots are seeing a greater "return" on their investment targeting LinkedIn users rather than say FB/X/TT&
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by phs318u 3y ago
This sounds great, but to my naive, unschooled mind doesn’t this scheme fragment the maximum memory you can request in a single vmalloc request? What am I missing? Are the per-core pools dynamic in size?
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by phs318u 3y ago
Most but not all. Every country has its xenophobes. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2023/06/29/...
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by phs318u 3y ago
https://archive.is/KcfaJ
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by phs318u 3y ago
Yes. It is almost guaranteed that the code from this project will be used in exactly the way this person fears. Why not use the GPL if you don't want that to happen? Why instead try and beg people to not "disappoint" you? I f
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by phs318u 3y ago
Agreed, but in that case the tool shouldn't be trying to detect what I mean. Why look for 'exit' only so you can print 'no actually, it's exit() dummy'. If you're parsing for it then just bloody do it! Oth
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by phs318u 3y ago
Except in the case of the 'exit' clearly this is accepting and parsing imprecise input in order to guide the user. If the code wasn't looking for 'exit' in order to correct the user (to use 'exit()'), it w
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by phs318u 3y ago
That may be so, but if her reputation has been “ruined” that’s probably down to her own admission. I’d also add that if she were merely using AI to translate her own words from her native Mandarin into English it would have barely rated a m
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by phs318u 3y ago
Getting very creepy vibes from this. Why “women’s” data?
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by phs318u 3y ago
Perhaps a global or regional coalition of commercial fishing associations interested in protecting their market. Speaking for myself, I can confirm that I've reduced my intake of ocean-sourced seafood over the last decade precisely bec
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by phs318u 3y ago
True. You're at the mercy of whatever information was captured at the time using means available at the time. One reason we (hopefully) don't get rid of physical evidence from criminal cases.
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by phs318u 3y ago
The actual paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.11514 Abstract: "Large language models (LLMs) are central to modern natural language processing, delivering exceptional performance in various tasks. However, t
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by phs318u 3y ago
This argument makes it seem like forged documents were never a thing.
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by phs318u 3y ago
That's the decision I came to a couple of years ago after 18 years as an Apple hardware user. Having said that, I still use an iPhone because the use and risk profiles are so different. The phone is literally the "keys to my kingd

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