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ejang0··on The Private-Credit Party Turns Ugly for Individual Investors
https://archive.is/XtL4n
ejang0··on Veo 3.1 and advanced capabilities in Flow
What does temporal consistency mean? Which model do you think is the best right now?
ejang0··on Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete
"[Yann LeCun] believes [current] LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years."
ejang0··on Are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?
Could you say more about this? This link isn't that helpful since the main content was removed.
ejang0··on China's New Barges Could Make a Tough Task Easier: Invading Taiwan
https://archive.ph/F8IfJ
ejang0··on Introducing deep research
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-f... "Pro users (located outside the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area) have access to 100 deep research tasks per month." So to me that must include Canada, right? I signed up for Pro. There it is. (For future reference, for someone else.)
ejang0··on Introducing deep research
Can anyone confirm if this is available in Canada and other countries? This site says "We are still working on bringing access to users in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area." But I'm not sure about other countries. I don't have Pro currently, only Plus.
ejang0··on 'It's not close' – Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending debate
This is better than my suggestions. It doesn't include the debate aspect though (...?)
ejang0··on Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page
'British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the [Gaza genocide] article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”'

From this, maybe it is clearer (but not shorter) to say: ‘It’s not close’ - The inclusion of "Gaza genocide" to Wikipedia's "List of genocides" ends editorial debate

Alt phrasing: Wikipedia's editorial debate ends with the inclusion of "Gaza genocide" to "List of genocides" page

(I'm trying to not repeat "Wikipedia" several times.)

Somewhat related Wikipedia article regarding parsing sentences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

ejang0··on Dying together: Why a happily married couple decided to stop living
"He’s 70, and sits in the swivel driving-seat of the van, one leg bent underneath him in the only position that eases his continuous back pain. His wife, Els, is 71 and has dementia. Now, she struggles to formulate her sentences."
ejang0··on Sarepta. Why?
"Apparently during the conference call, when [the Sarepta CEO] was asked about why he was so confident [about the Duchenne muscular dystrophy medication's approval], he said that the FDA's CBER head Peter Marks was "very supportive". [...]

Boy, was that the truth. The agency has just granted that use expansion, and it turns out that it was all due to Peter Marks, who completely overruled three review teams and two of his highest-level staffers (all of whom said that Sarepta had not proven its case)."

[The article then talks about how this may be "A positive vote, which marks an undeserved and potentially hazardous victory of emotional rhetoric and relentless patient advocacy over the scientific and medical evidence."]

This is interesting. I didn't know about the influence of the CEO and this narrative around this medications approval/label expansion.

I'm not sure why I'm mentioning this (Devil's advocacy?), some users on HN have also commented that maybe it is good that the FDA approves medications more liberally to give clinicians and patients a chance to experiment with them (if their situations are dire).

Anyways, in this case, it is interesting to think about how much influence one person can have in the FDA.

Sort of related, does anyone remember the approval of aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease? https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005567149/3-experts-have-res...

And now it is discontinued: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK573062/ This isn't really a good source for the full story, sorry.

All this FDA approval business is much less cut and dry than I would have thought 10 years ago.

ejang0··on Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle
I enjoyed this a lot. Thank you.

Feedback: Desktop with trackpad, I swiped and my pointed ended out of the grid and it doesn't let this swipe occur.

Echoing others: - "the numbers of taps and swipes were too small for me to notice, I’ve discovered them quite late" - "The scroll down section felt odd." - on desktop I couldn't figure out what "swipe" meant for a bit (just click-and-drag)

Thank you again for this gift.

ejang0··on Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides
This seems like something people on HN have asked for before. I clicked on one Recent video about how to create a simple Flask app in 5 minutes and the instructions seemed good on a cursory view.

I tried entering a new video but I got a Heroku application error. Maybe it's a limits thing.

When I look at the Recent videos, a lot of them are not for instructions/tutorials. Perhaps people do not understand the purpose of this project. Maybe they are just testing it out with non-tutorial content.

Maybe you could add representative videos towards the top so that people would get a better sense of the use of this project?

I don't know why this isn't more popular here. It's a good idea. (Maybe it has already been implemented elsewhere?) Reading is much faster than watching a video for many instruction-based tasks. Good luck!

ejang0··on Stevia linked to heart attack and stroke
About one-third of the way in the article: "Erythritol is also the largest ingredient by weight in many “natural” stevia and monk-fruit products, Hazen said. Because stevia and monkfruit are about 200 to 400 times sweeter than sugar, just a small amount is needed in any product. The bulk of the product is erythritol, which adds the sugar-like crystalline appearance and texture consumers expect."
ejang0··on Researchers Found Puberty Blockers Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health
I will remind the gentle reader that the originator of the lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize for this.

From Wikipedia: "The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy."