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It’s amazing how dietary restrictions and medical issues track with political affiliation. Who knew?

Another reason is nowadays with all the variety of dietary restrictions in vogue, it’s much harder for a host to prepare a meal everyone can share. Potlucks or a bland collection of help-yourself dishes (which often are nothing more than an odd collection of appetizers) is standard fare.

I’m fortunate to have friends in their 60s and 70s where I can still enjoy the traditional dinner experience.

I can’t tell if this scientific article summary is bad AI writing or bad human writing.

This rant reminds me why Linux has limited penetration. Its user base is made up of opinionated users who view compromise along the way to something larger as a moral failure.

We need to go nuclear with the newer type of plants. Built at scale, they are cost effective. Otherwise we are cooked, perhaps quite literally.

As long as we acknowledge that is your perspective, and in my opinion based on 30+ years of experience, is one that is typical. Most people on the data side, enjoy their work and are well paid, perhaps not near FAANG standards, but they do enjoy their work and life.

I have no doubt you had a bad experience. There are a LOT of egotistical professors and grad studentss who don’t value others. Have you given industry a fair go yet though? You may find a job there more to your liking. The people are generally less arrogant than those in academia, and we view ourselves, rightfully so, as cogs in a big machine.

Did you see the announcement from Moderna today? That was the result of decades of us grunts chipping away the problem.

Your post sounds like it is made by a disgruntled misanthrope. I lead teams of biologists and data scientists and both are part of a vast team, each of us playing our bit part, myself included. If your desire is to be the center of attention, you are in the wrong field.

And lay off the immigrants. Jeez.

Again Nick, you don’t understand the nature of the problem. In the vast sea of biology, protein folding is well circumscribed problem. Klaus Schulten’s group and dozens of other groups were already making good progress since the nineties chipping away at this problem.

Once you move up to protein-protein interactions in living cells, post transcriptional modification, epigenetics, lipidomics, glycomics, and the the arrangement of said cells into the 3D tissue environment, and then into organs and complex biological organisms, all of which have a paucity of good training compared to what we possess in the protein folding domain, the problem becomes computationally intractable. We need to get in the lab.

You tech bros are entirely ignorant of these challenges and are making fools of yourselves.

I can’t overemphasize how happy I am that people are taking the surveillance threat that Flock represents seriously. Ordinarily, the “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to worry about” fallacy tends to dominate the discussion.

Yeah buddy, asking for a backdoor to all my private files on iCloud is just a noble attempt to protect children. What else are you selling?

“Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the world will be able to make much more rapid advances across countless fields of science.”

The key point is these jackasses explicitly state, “ a handful of people” can replace “massive teams of scientists and engineers”.

These guys don’t even understand the nature of the challenge and neither do you apparently. If they did, they would realize that it indeed does require “massive teams of engineers and scientists” to solve our most pressing problems.

From the self-stated bios, this group consists solely of CS guys. No biologist, physicist, linguist, chemist, biophysicist to be found. Based on this observation alone I call nonsense. These is AI bullshittery. These guys aren’t close enough to the problems to understand the challenges.

Source: PhD Computational biophysicist turned experimentalist. I work with genuine scientists across a range of disciplines from neurodegeneration, cancer, to fibrosis. Getting in the lab and generating data is absolutely key, among other things.

I imagine elements in the Taiwanese govt are pushing a massive drone network to turn the nation into a porcupine.

You find NIMBYs on Hacker News as well unfortunately.

I’ve sat through enough city public hearings to know what the author claims isn’t true.

People don’t care if the building is gorgeous; they will still oppose it simply because they hate new homes in their neighborhood. If making the building beautiful significantly helped getting through zoning reviews, developers would have figured this out long ago.

Aside: the reasons new buildings are bland is because no two people agree on what is ‘beautiful’; second, delays due to zoning and endless regulations already make it difficult for a project to pencil even before spending much money on the facade.

I don’t know why the difference. But if noise is a problem I would suggest buying different nib types and experimenting with those. Amazon has a wide selection, including rubberized ones that will make writing on the iPad nearly silent.

Pro Tip: In addition to the Paperlike protector, one can buy a range of different nib types from Amazon and experiment to find a one that suits you best.

Across a decade, I’ve used a Paperlike on five different iPads ranging from the iPad Mini, standard iPad, iPad Pro, both Gen 1 and Gen 2 Apple Pencils plus other styluses and never once experienced the problems you suggest. I’m making this comment on an iPad wth aPaperlike protector in fact.

To the contrary, the noise levels when writing are dramatically lower and I simply cannot imagine anyone becoming fatigued because of a paperlike protector.

Would it make economic sense to strip it down and sell for parts? That’s how it’s done now for older data centers, where the obsolete equipment is sent off to China, stripped down for parts, and sold on the secondary market. I’ve picked up several older but still useful RAID hardware cards off eBay this way.

I’m mainly interested in getting some DDR4/5 and RTX5090s on the cheap :).

How did you do this? The in-house setting will revert back to new reddit.

Because it’s AI, man.

Get one of these:

https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm?variant=397924980491...

Pricey, but the lip covers the edge. My current one is 4 years old and lasted a couple of generations of Macbooks.

The fish rots from the head. It’s Zuckerberg.

This and and other thing like Zuckerberg’s desire to integrate facial recognition into Meta’s Ray-ban glasses puts him in squarely in the lead for world’s creepiest human.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognit...

Even for logged in users, it keeps reverting back to the new reddit no matter how many times one update the setting in preferences.

It’s a user hostile shitshow.

No I am not. The discussion is about investment spending on AI.

It’s actual less than $2T IIRC, which makes my point even more.

Calls to mind a quote attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, 16th century Secretary of State for France:

‘If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him”

For context, the US alone spends annually a bit more than $2T on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That money is widely dispersed both geographically and socioeconomically. $2T is not as much as one may think. I think we should let investors put their private money where they wish.

Also, as an aside, the benefits of globalization on the balance far outweigh the drawbacks. Globalization has been the primary force pulling 3rd world countries out of poverty over the last 80 years.

Rest assured, this will likely come with no small amount of grift.

The Trump administration has already installed political appointees in America’s federal R&D organizations including the NIH and NSF. They have final say on funding decisions. These appointees override grant peer review and regular agency channels. It’s all part of Russel Vought/Project 2025’s unitary executive theory.

These NSF initiatives could well be the next logical step to channel millions of research funds to politically connected companies and organizations. Something similar happened with the recent Reflecting Pool fiasco where the federal contracts were give to Trump donors.

There’s no reason not to believe this will also happen to America’s federal R&D. Grift aside, there’s no reason either not to believe the funds will be given to Trump administration pet projects of dubious scientific value.

I can’t decide if you’re ignorant or duplicitous. Go read up on zoning and educate yourself. I don’t have the time to debunk all this nonsense. For instance, it is not generally legal by right to build up to five stories if made of wood. Far from it. The vast majority of neighborhoods forbid such construction.