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godmode2019··on AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
Thank you
godmode2019··on TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
These videos are punishment for watching videos flagged as unapproved.

Think about what you watched right before these videos, its coded to being a feeling a disgust so you assioate that with the previous videos.

YouTube does the same thing with ads of kids dying in hospital, screaming for help on the start of 'controversial' content. Most of the time it makes you click back and watch something else.

godmode2019··on Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
Can your mind only resolve the likely? Thinking outside the box is the first step in the scientific pursuit.

Its called thinking it doesn't always have to be logical.

godmode2019··on Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
My personal non scientific thought on tumours (non cancerous fatty tumours)

Is that they are your bodies away of wrapping up something bad that it can't otherwise deal with. In a protective layer to contain. Similar to how a clams makes a pearl layer by layer around a foreign particle.

godmode2019··on Reality is just a game now
I call them propaganda streams, I share a similar bucket with my friend and it's interesting discussion the subtle tangents it takes us on - some days it will try get you mad about some world event, then some it will decide action sports is the go. I wonder how many other people are in the same streams watching the same suggested content thinking the same thoughts given to us, unlikely to ever go outside long enough to meet.
godmode2019··on Japan WWII poison gas agents still scarring people today
Agent orange has had the same affect, at least in my country

Ref: https://www.smh.com.au/world/agent-orange-caused-damage-to-d...

godmode2019··on The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here
I agree, often having more information is worse because you notice things and over react to things that would otherwise go unnoticed and fix them self.

I noticed this first when tracking sleep data, but it can also be applied to many other areas were humans try fix small problems but tend to make things worse.

godmode2019··on AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
What is the current state of the art speech synthesis model?
godmode2019··on US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
IBM had this 7 years ago
godmode2019··on Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team
Welcome to 2010 YouTube were adults can decide what information they want to consume.
godmode2019··on Six months as a full time pancreas
39min of rem sleep is not enough for any human.

My Grandad has type 1 diabetes he treats it with a strict routine of eating at the same time every day and injecting at the same time, and testing only if he feels low.

The article I read was a parent in panic, and my only advice could possibly be to try and chill out, which is almost impossible as its your son and you would want to do as much as you can. Which is why I felt empathy to the poster, I could feel his anxiety.

godmode2019··on Six months as a full time pancreas
I'm not telling you how to parent, in saying that waking a growing boy in the night and limiting food during the day, may be more harmful in the long term. Childhood sleep and nutrition is probably the most important thing to a boys health.

Forgive me if any offence is taken. Sometimes more data is not better and only leads to increased anxiety and over reactions.

godmode2019··on The South Asian Polycrisis
You are changing the goalpost making a hyperbolic statement seem reasonable. Read what they said, its borderline hysteric.

You are agreeing with it not on the merits but on the premises.

godmode2019··on The South Asian Polycrisis
1 degree isn't really going to do very much is it?

That's the current best estimate for warming in the time period you are suggesting.

India has a bigger problem with feeding it's population which is likely to be the biggest in the world by that point.

To suggest to the most populated place in the world in 2050 will have no people is hyperbolic.

The gates foundation has the best estimates on this topic and their estimates also suggest growth in the region.

godmode2019··on Super apps are proliferating across emerging markets
Hot take: western apps stole the super app concept from Chinese companies specifically wechat.

Hot take2: The proliferation of video and streaming was driven by the Chinese. Who's language is much harder to type on a phone, their app stores this media was exploding and western apps started to copy without really knowing why it was popular.

godmode2019··on Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
I just want to leave a comment to the people who said they turn it on for movies because they can't hear the audio over other movie sounds.

If you can't hear the audio clearly the director didn't want to you to hear the audio correctly. Some scenes especially with thick accents the point is to be ambiguous, you having captions on is basically a cheat code to get more context than the director wanted you to have.

Same goes for when someone speaks a foreign language, if the CC is not baked into the video layer I assume the director wanted me to be in the shoes of someone who cant understand a conversion and guess the characters intent.

It's like reading a novel with pictures on every page, you don't need that much context, it robs your brains ability to infer with missing context.

godmode2019··on I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the terminal
Has someone got this working in a notebook?

I can't wait until someone open sources a model that will really drive innovative in this space. I don't feel great about a company uploading unknown information from my filesystem as context.

godmode2019··on The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot
I had a friend once tell me that porn was the driving force for innovation on the internet.

Firstly getting the speeds up to load images, then videos with buffering then 4k, then VR.

The design features and business model of porn sites is years ahead of anything else, for a reason these sites up until very recently were the majority of bandwith over the Internet.

A business model you will start to see more which is very common in porn is to use the streaming site as advertising to your paid membership site.

You release 10min clip of say a podcast and to watch the rest you need to join the members only site. As YouTube partner programme gets worse and rules about what content get more strict you will see a drive to only using YouTube as a marketing tool to get people behind the pay wall.

godmode2019··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
How do you deal with YouTube banning you from using their iframe api as this competes with their YouTube kids app?
godmode2019··on Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut
But they still have those A100s?

I think you have to compare it to how much ETH you could have mined as the opportunity cost of training a model vs other uses of a GPU

godmode2019··on Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
I believe this was a Trump policy
godmode2019··on Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power
Also the book has a extra chapter at the end where the shire turns into a police state, Fordo leads a horse back revolution to kick out the corrupt hobbits who inslaved their own people with the new tools from the people with the machines.

I was surprised as an adult when I first watched the movie that it didn't have this ending to the character arch, missing the final stage of the hero's journey.

godmode2019··on Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech
No one can speak up, your identity is not the reason for backlash, people use identity as the first attack vector or reason to dismiss an opinion that they don't like.

Social media is broken - having a fight on the street has real world consequences, having a fight online has none. Many people use fighting online to a proxy to assert their status they can't achieve in the real world.

That being said, Free speech and other base rights like privacy, association are activity being reduced in most countries. Take free speech for example once you remove actually hateful people you encounter less of those people, so the extreme things you do see become the new vile, and so on until no one can speak without being labeled some proxy for a reason you should not listen to them.

While I have no idea what kiwifarm or whatever is, blocking those already loney people is just going to make them express themselves through violence.

Book burning is now commonly practised, the books of today just look different. They are videos hosted online.

godmode2019··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
No, that's not market rate for salary. I thought we were talking about contracts.

Salary seems to be around 150k +- 50k

godmode2019··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
What is a US rate? I get $120NZD per hr from local companies
godmode2019··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
I was that thinking of a cool idea, where the conversion was translated in real time and gpt3 was giving you answers to common questions like give me an example of when XYZ

You could also do interview questions.

godmode2019··on Your doppelgänger is out there and you probably share DNA with them
I read it was common to make the Irish woman slave to breed with the African slave, so that the child would be part African and owned by the slave master,

This made it very uncommon for the Irish slave to leave, as she would be leaving her child.

I read accounts of pale skin red headed children being sold at slave markets marketing as African.

But, this could just be some right wing talking points. I honestly don't know what's real online anymore.

godmode2019··on Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order
Please stop, you are letting the secret out. If too many people know yandex will start filtering the results.
godmode2019··on Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)
I had a website break, because they were filtering emails that contain their domain name for some reason.

And I had no way to apply for the government licence thing I needed, and the people on the phone suggested I use the website.

godmode2019··on How and why I built Japan Dev
Nice work! I honesty never would have considered a job board to be able to bring such a large amount. Especially in just a few years.

Good job.

I don't think you mentioned how many employees you have? Not very many I assume if your headquarters is your apartment. Good work keeping overheads low

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