DanielleMolloy

The cheat code feeling might only occur if your focus in life is earning lots of money. If you are instead pursuing to contribute something valuable in arts or sciences, a ton of money might just give you ease of mind and time to create something really worthwhile. Thinking about René Descartes, Charles Darwin and (as a more recent example) Jimmy Wales. It could indeed be that many of the former lottery winners ending up badly fell into the former camp.

Mh, you can see at first sight that what GoogleMaps returns there (check out the image in the article) is no proper route.

What is actually surprising is that some people think it was a proper mountain route and tried to walk it. That is quite some blind trust into and misunderstanding of technology.

Thanks, I had seen this one too (had even tried sharing it with HN in a parallel submission). It is made with a lot of care and tactfulness, and is one of the best documentaries about Steve Jobs I know.

Little warning: It totally brought me to tears. I knew he liked Japanese aesthetics, but wasn't aware it meant so much for him.

Associated NHK Documentary: https://youtu.be/1HUUTzGDGVA

The Dutch law that in case of an accident the stronger party is always to blame always seemed pretty smart to me. Thus in case of an accident between a cyclist and a car, it's always the car. Does this still exist?

Generally drivers in the Netherlands seem much more careful, partly because of this, partly because they know what riding a bike in traffic is like.

So what might those other cryptocurrencies Tesla is looking at be at the moment? PoS coins? Ethereum? The last time I checked for a more future proof Bitcoin alternative I stopped at Nano, but that was in early 2018.

This shouldn’t be downvoted, B2 / riboflavin is mentioned in the article too, next to Magnesium and Q10. Note that the recommended amount (100mg+) is far above the daily recommendation (~2mg).

Next to what other users said it gives very specific supplement recommendations, riboflavin (B2) far above the daily recommended value, as well as Q10 and Magnesium. I’ve made some good experiences with the latter and will give the others a shot too.

They recommend ketogenic food too (I never noticed an effect on my migraines though).

Thanks for the link! I must have been logged in via my institution and didn’t realize the article wasn’t public.

This looks pretty neat indeed, thanks!

There actually is a follow-up to this story that confirms that this person has not overcome her strong tendency to bully, her narcissism and her fixation on the victim: https://www.askamanager.org/2017/12/update-i-didnt-get-a-job...

She rather pities herself at length than putting some effort into admitting and reflecting on the wrongdoings. Similarly to the ‚probably was awful to her’ in the first letter, her fallout (obviously retraumatising the victim at her anniversary) which got her thrown out of a restaurant and blacklisted in the industry gets a short sentence worth of description.

I hope for the victim that she could avoid that person.

I agree that games are not quite there yet, people who already put them on the same level of depth that books or movies earned the “art to be taken seriously” badge for in the past seem to rarely consume either (or are of the type that will try to convince you that zombie and splatter movies should be viewed as a piece of art as similar in value as Schindlers List).

However one could already say that they are the most innovative (and interesting) art form these days.

Check out The Longing, Wanderlust: Travel Stories or Firewatch for recent emotionally deep games.

Many people in your or your neighboring country now seem to be very surprised by cases opponents have warned about before, such as Tine Nys, or this grandma with dementia who was opposing the jab and had to be kept down by her family until her last moment. The family members likely feel confident and „rational“ about their murder because the procedure was backed by the local public discourse. (A cynic may see parallels to widow burning, which is also backed by some local clan discourse.)

With such cases in public awareness I don’t understand how the cases you translated here for us (thanks for that, btw) don’t lead you to the conclusion that there must be more research into palliative care, and instead that one should be allowed to put an end to a human life that is more suffering than living. You list graphic descriptions of situations where the first is not possible yet so the latter would likely have to apply, and I understand that - as I said, I’m aware of the complexity. But improving palliative care with dignity should still be the primary route.

That your legal floodgates are open now may prohibit a focus on palliative care research since it seemingly has already changed your national discourse quite a bit - which is another issue opponents have warned about. The Dutch / Belgian (and perhaps Canadian) discourse on euthanasia is an outlier in the world, and being on the outlier side is not automatically a good thing. It will derail even further and weaken more boundaries, and change how people act or feel are expected to act.

Yeah, don’t worry too much about the suicidal depressed guy, just open up an easy legal route to painless suicide with a ‚rationality’ flavor for him so that he can „ ‚decide‘ to end his suffering“. And tell all his friends (half of them depressed too) that ‚this is just a rational decision for a depressed person to make’. Don’t worry too much about implications, that’s just „unrealistic perfectionism“. Just put up your very confident face.

Thinking about individual cases I’ve heard of during my time in NL (one being relatively close, a young depressed student) is what has lead me to the opinion that the floodgates have indeed been opened - which is what people have been warning about.

I’m otherwise not sure how you perceive me right now, but you might be attacking your straw man.

The goal of palliative care is increasing the quality of a dying person’s life with dignity and as little pain as possible, and allow them to make the best of the time that is left to them. Instead of opening euthanasia floodgates that just lead to difficult individual situations (such as not wanting to be a burden to one’s family, a very common feeling) I do believe we need more research in this direction.

You are giving examples of the complexity of this topic when it comes to individual cases, which I do acknowledge and am aware of. However you did not acknowledge / wage them against the many complex loopholes euthanasia laws are opening, which I tried to point at.

As you say, we do already have palliative care. Why not improve much further on this front instead of opening all the legal loopholes, which can easily lead to more suffering in the end (if one wants to play this “sum of suffering” thinking game)?

It’s a complex subject, but these rulings are a direct result of our nihilist materialist pseudo-rational thinking and easily seem to get out of bounds. There unusually seem to be complex interpersonal relations involved too.

Belgium allowed a 24yo with severe depression to “decide” for assisted suicide (this seems to be frequent, I’ve heard of a similar case of a student this year), and the Netherlands wants to allow childhood euthanasia soon (it is already allowed for those over 12). Decision makers seem to believe that they are rational and ruling out religious moral opinions on these subjects, however we seem to be gravitating towards the buddhist nihilist view that life is suffering, and that our reason to live is to end suffering by vanishing.

Mh, do you really want to play down the possibility of unknown long-term consequences?

Check out this: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.23.432474v1

The Spanish Flu has led to a „sleeping sickness“ epidemic years after it ceased.

They are probably used to closed-minded arrogant Westeners whining aloud about not getting their cornflakes. Unfortunately.

I also don't get people who won't at least try local customs like eating cooked fish on rice with green tea in the morning, but there are plenty of them. These people usually don't do well in really different countries and complain and whine and compare to home all the time instead of curious observing / understanding. Real travelling, which is about learning and immersing and broadening your mental horizon, and not about conquering some beach with your ass is just not for them.

It is astonishing what an obvious phenomenon consciousness is, and how little we know and think about it. It’s a massive scientific mystery, neuroscience can’t even define it well.

It sometimes seems science, e.g. neuroscience has not truly left dualism behind. We still seem to talk about and study mind and body as separate entities.

Hiring: Are you aware of the discussion around Elseviers profit margins? Various fields are considering abandoning journals (or have abandoned them long ago, see cryptography) since it is increasingly difficult to identify the value of a for-profit publisher for science. They will need to redefine their business model if sufficient scientists stop playing along for free.

„Currency“: Broad expertise, knowledge about methods and ideas are gathered by reading literature in-depth, which most scientists have little time for in modern science (hence the reluctance to engage in a long peer review process). Working as a paid reviewer for a few years can lead to a scientist who is informed very well about the state of the broader field and its various fallacies, and could move on from there. We have very few of those.

Editors: We wouldn’t have various discussions around peer review if the current system would be working satisfactorily well and nothing needs to change.

Lots of these highly qualified researches are forced to leave science right now, the reasons all too often not being their qualification. There would be a large pool of good researchers to draw from for this.

I understand this point, yet to correctly assess whether a typical paper in my field - for instance - can be trusted you would need a modern neural networks researcher, a statistician, a cognitive scientist, a neuroscientist and perhaps a physicist. All would have to know about common fallacies in their respective fields and should optimally discuss with another.

Faculty reviewers are not only overworked, they have accumulated biases, can be overconfident about their expertise and in the worst case have malicious incentive to prohibit publication of your results.

I’m certain that a team of specialists who review as their full time job would do a better job than at least half of the reviewers I encountered (especially those at high-profile AI conferences).

I enjoy reviewing too and am doing my best to be constructive, but I’m not sufficiently qualified for most of the offers I receive.

Journals should not shed out tiny payments for peer reviews by overworked faculty, they should hire teams of reviewers with diverse specialisations full time. By decent quality assurance on the massive amount of papers each year publishers could actually do something valuable for science.

Indeed, I had posted it here seeking more informed opinions by people who have followed long covid research during the past year.

When it appeared on biorXiv yesterday a couple of researchers picked it up with worried statements. What I could assess myself were the position of the authors, and format details which look as if they expect high impact (I’m in a whole different field, so take that with a grain of salt).

Maybe scientists will have reason to check in humans next after this result..

By the way, I found thematic newsletters like Import AI or the Johns Hopkins University Covid newsletter very useful lately and have been looking out for more of them.

I want to stay up to date with what is happening in ML (and in the world) but don’t want to burn time manually opening up RSS readers, RedditML or news websites every day, given all their abusive time-stealing distractions and soul-crushingly dumb comments. I strongly prefer a weekly or daily carefully curated summary automatically delivered to my inbox. Hopefully these curated e-mail newsletters will become a thing again.

Has any government entity attempted to ban Bitcoin yet, and is this even possible?

It is quite noteworthy that Ethereum trusts proof of stake so much that they want to move to it though. Ethereum has some really good devs.

Last time I checked for altcoins that are trying to solve Bitcoin‘s various scalability problems I ended up with a proof of stake coin too, Nano (using the rather new idea block lattice, small but so far quite low-toned development team that seemed to focus on problem solving rather than scammy marketing).

I’m surprised that Ethereum is convinced that they can „just move“ from proof of work to proof of stake. Should be possible for Bitcoin too then, shouldn’t it? (Maybe I’m missing something about this transition.) Nano required a whole new development.

Just wanted to come here to agree. I blacklisted pinterest (and some other garbage content with forced registration for the purpose of data collection, like Quora) long time ago using a browser extension. It is particularly annoying when searching for images. I never clicked on pinterest either and wonder why Google is still showing me these results.

I wish they would natively allow blacklisting specific domains.

People who preorder games aren’t the brightest, and may not have the best self-control. Remember those death threats?

Part of the reason for the review bombings of the recent past is that those same people will write the first user “reviews”.

Almost none of the user “reviews” I’ve seen in the beginning seemed to have any thought about the writing, which is the main mission of CDPR. It was all complaints about graphics and bugs.

It is like a backlash for the industry that started to milk people who would preorder.

(Not trying to excuse CDPRs action to push this game out on base consoles no matter what of course.)