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by raphman 1y ago
Oh, he also claimed that he got IRB approval from "MIT’s Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects under ID E-5842. JEL Codes: O31, O32, O33, J24, L65." before conducting this research, i.e., at a time when he wasn&#
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by raphman 1y ago
FWIW, in the q&a after a talk, he claims that it was a GNN (graph neural network), not a GAN. (In this q&a, the audience does not really question the validity of the research.) https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.n
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by raphman 1y ago
> it had already been mostly abolished c.t. is still standard at many German universities (and at all Bavarian universities I know). However, I know at least one university of applied sciences where lectures start at full hours.
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by raphman 1y ago
Something like this might work. When pushing the knob in, a spiral inside it rotates around the tongue that is attached to the potentiometer (or vice versa). Once it is fully pushed in, the groove in the spiral rests against the tongue, all
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by raphman 1y ago
Yes, this sounds like a simpler solution - the major drawback/advantage would be that you'd need to insert the knob in just the right orientation so that the shaft end fits into the potentiometer's slot. Might be a bit fiddly
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by raphman 1y ago
To offer a counter-example to the many anecdotes about being gatekept(?) by veteran Wikipedia editors: I have the opposite experience. I occasionally contribute to various topics, and in many cases experienced editors silently fixed formatt
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by raphman 1y ago
Two thoughts: - The pope was not only a very important religious and political leader but also wrote and spoke about the relationship between humans and technology [1, 2] - I joined Hacker News due to its links but stayed for the community
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by raphman 1y ago
They are apparently not profitable (yet): > Discord has raised a total of about $1 billion in funding. It has more than $700 million in cash on its balance sheet and the goal to become profitable this year, according to a person familiar
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by raphman 1y ago
I'd argue that humans also more easily learn from huge mistakes. Typically, we need only one training sample to avoid a whole class of errors in the future (also because we are being held accountable).
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by raphman 1y ago
I'm pretty confident that it is not AI-generated but simply a traditionally animated 3D model. https://cdn.flipperzero.one/BusyBar_First_Block_Video_Deskto...
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by raphman 2y ago
Welcome, Tom! Y'all are making HN a place that I still love to visit every day. I find it awesome how dang et al. not only manage to keep spammers and trolls in check but also actively improve discussions by merging threads and asking
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by raphman 2y ago
Hmm, my first guess would have been that you have been a target of "brushing" [1]. In a Reddit thread from 2020 [2], multiple people mention that they received surgical masks they did not order. [1] https://www.bbb.org&
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by raphman 2y ago
The guys at Jolla (developer of Sailfish OS smartphone OS) are currently trying something like this¹: https://www.jollamind2.com/ ¹) however, their focus is less on home automation, more on personal information management,
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by raphman 2y ago
Context: https://www.tarlogic.com/news/hidden-feature-esp32-chip-infe... Both HN discussion [1] and blogs [2] mentioned that it was a nothingburger. tl;dr: there are undocumented debugging interfaces on the original ES
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by raphman 2y ago
Sometimes, even a whole conference gets compromised, see e.g. ICIMTECH '21 [1]: "NOTICE OF RETRACTION: While investigating potential publication-related misconduct in connection with the ICIMTech 2021 Conference Proceedings, serio
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by raphman 2y ago
Ooops, yes - I misspellt my search query. The transgender censor seems to be simple string matching (if query == "transgender"). Just putting the forbidden word in quotation marks makes it searchable, too [1]. I wonder if the filt
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by raphman 2y ago
Thanks, you are right!
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by raphman 2y ago
According to a comment on Reddit, search problems have been existing for some time - they did not just appear after the DNS issue [1]. Also, I just searched for "transgender" on nih.gov, and got lots of hits [2], the first one bei
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by raphman 2y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by raphman 2y ago
DNS resolution seems to work again now. https://dnschecker.org/#A/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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by raphman 2y ago
I submitted this post and can guarantee that it was not my intention to associate this technical issue with DOGE. Quite the opposite: both in this thread and on Bluesky (where a lot of people blame DOGE for 'shutting down PubMed')
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by raphman 2y ago
Yes. As noted elsewhere in this thread, they still respond to TCP requests. I did not know this at the time of writing.
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by raphman 2y ago
FWIW, nameservers lhcns1.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.55.72) and lhcns2.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.55.128) still resolve nlm.nih.gov subdomains.
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by raphman 2y ago
I disagree. The nameservers still respond to requests on 53/tcp. It seems like someone messed up a firewall configuration or rolled out a bad server configuration. Shit happens - maybe exacerbated by the DOGE insanity. But there is no
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by raphman 2y ago
Can confirm. Thanks for pointing this out. This makes it much more likely that someone messed up a server/firewall configuration than that Musk is ripping out network cables at NIH.
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NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed](nslookup.io)
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It seems someone shut down all NIH DNS servers. Right now the NIH website, PubMed and BLAST are up, but not resolvable. Cloudflare's 1.0.0.1 DNS resolver seems to still have cached the records. Google and most others I tried did not.
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by raphman 2y ago
Is this person an expert of any kind? They throw around dozens of numbers without any sources. For example, > 'A movie theater chain recently analyzed their user data and discovered that 72% of their profits came from concessions, p
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by raphman 2y ago
Continuously updated Flutrackers.com thread: https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/africa/emerging-diseases...
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by raphman 2y ago
A friend and me played these books together. We printed our own character sheets so that we wouldn't have to write into the book. As we already had this book-independent character sheet, we decided to re-use it for the next book, carry

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