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Impressive work. thanks a lot :)

On a Tangent:

As I switched from macOS to arch linux, I was looking for a good text-to-speech option, cross platform and open-source. (I use it to get an first overview over larger, boring papers I'm reviewing ).

pretty impressed by larynx so far: https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx

It seems also quite hackable.

Will also play with NATSpeech.

Was just a light-hearted joke about JRE. I was first thinking this post is about the Java Runtime Environment.

Considering censorship ... not sure if it is, seeing that Rogan also seems to condemn some language he used in those episodes now. Maybe it's just a change of heart :) How do you know?

The link was just a slight quip, about what the biggest, recent news about censorship for me was: if you are a school teacher in McMinn County, Tennessee, you are not allowed to use "Maus" anymore in class. There are really worse things going on than a couple of old episodes with profanity being taken down by spotify or by Rogan himself.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/the-inside-stor...

censorship and broader culture? Maybe you are commenting on the wrong article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30122252

;)

Why are their intentions important at all? Can you show they follow some government orders?

If Spotify censors Joe Rogan's speech, it would mean they suppress or prohibit him to speak about a particular topic /content etc. They made a couple of episodes unavailable on their service (that happens all the time with other content as well, and Spotify didn't even touch the recent ones dealing with COVID). I cannot see how this constitutes to censorship.

Which ideas/concepts are censored in the episodes taken down?

Also, the episodes and clips are still available if you search for them, and Joe Rogan can say anything he wants on other channels ... Or did I miss something?

any talk recommendations?

There are a lot of politically questionable JRE episodes still up and available. So hard to blame the takedown solely on politics ...

Here's a take down from the decoding the guru's podcast about some of those ideas you mentioned:

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/robert-malon...

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/patreon-prev...

Decoding the gurus should get 100 Million Dollars and a deal from Spotify in my opinion.

Nobody is censored here ... Spotify decided that they don't want to distribute them anymore. Rogan can say what he wants. Even the missing episodes are still on archive.org and other places.

Is a movie/show season is no longer listed on Netflix because of some rights issues also censoring in your opinion?

There are some albums not visible in some countries on Spotify. For the longest time, i could not listen to the metal versions of Ghibli songs in Japan (they are offline, online several times already, potentially due to rights issues): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXB35-cYVMU&list=PLmsGXAySkD...

My spotify playlist was suddenly empty /filled again.

Is that censorship?

As a result, I payed for the albums and canceled my spotify account.

Edit: clarity + totoro example

If you are missing JRE, just download it: https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Still wondering why this is on hacker news :)

not really ... anybody with 3 people vetting them can upload to arxiv. Nature Scientific Reports have a decent review cycle. Yes, it's easier to get in than into Nature or other top level publications. Yet, it's still harder than some 2nd 3rd tier conferences (at least in computer science).

However, I agree with your sentiment. Don't take it too serious

Individual experience reports are nice, yet it does not really account to a decent study.

Reading the paper mentioned, I also feel that we need more than just experience reports (e.g. comments and feelings in forums like hackernews) and controlled experiments.

Comprehension is down, yet I wonder about recall and the general amount of information we are processing. As we experience a lot of information in context, it might lead to a decrease in overall comprehension, yet a stronger recall on the bits we do remember. It would be super interesting to setup a larger scale in-situ study on the topic. Yet, I wonder how to get a baseline on that.

I like the book series ... just find funny that there are again typos in the title: "The Manga Guide to Statistics: Regression Analysys"

I find the speech MLK gave a day before he was killed much more relevant today. He calls for unity and challenges our ideals. He spoke on April 3, 1968 and was assassinated the next day (Chilling sometimes as he discusses his own death).

"I've Been to the Mountaintop" https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemou...

A nice special from Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/17/mlk_day_special_2022

Love the mission and effort ... yet the first book I tried to look at in pdf format gave me a 404

https://batch.libretexts.org/print/Finished/eng-46560/Full.p...

From the link below, full pdf: https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Computer_Science/Appl...

How about that your evidence article uses some blog posts (not peer reviewed papers) as evidence ... Surjit Bhalla, Indian economist, author and columnist, ...

And does not address any articles published in that year that showed effects. Here's one: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7

You can find way more than the "sources" your article cites. AIER is partisan and does not give you "the evidence."

I read it. They redefined herd immunity: "We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00728-2

if you are right, fix the Wikipedia entry ;)

Did you check who co-signed it? Mr Banana Rama, Dr Johnny Bananas, Dr Johnny Fartpants, Dr Person Fakename, Harold Shipman, Professor Notaf Uckingclue, and Prof Cominic Dummings.

Also the study your sit you are in good company ...

All positions from AIER are mentioned on their Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi... Try to change that if you think it's wrong.

Their "Herd Immunity Strategy": Keep the elder parts of the population locked up and let children and younger parts get it without vaccination: https://gbdeclaration.org/

"In October 2020, AIER sponsored the “Great Barrington Declaration,” a controversial statement advocating for a herd immunity strategy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization and other health experts have suggested a herd immunity strategy would be “unethical,” dangerous, and deadly."

More info: https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/

Obesity is also very high in the United Kingdom (~27 % versus ~35 % ) and not the same problems ( https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42950587 ).

US is also a super bad infant mortality rate compared to other countries:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844390/

It's common practice in the schools and universities in Japan to operate on 50 % capacity if the infection rate is high. There are strict mask mandates, social distancing and temperature checks are enforced.

Knowledge source: I'm a professor at a University in Tokyo. Nobody can enter campus without a mask and temperature check (not even me, the door to my floor has a facial recognition /thermal check). Social distancing is also enforced by teachers and staff. There is a max student cap for each room (that his about 30 % of the maximum capacity).

For schools: several of my friends have kids attending elementary school in Tokyo.

Yes, there is a lot of orientalism going on hackernews. lol.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220107_37/

I was fascinated by D. Englebart's "Augmenting the Human Intellect" and the whole Intelligence Amplification research direction (made always more sense to me than Artificial Intellignce).

This is going off on a tangent, yet I recently find myself interested in embodied knowledge (skills), things you cannot learn from notation.

It started for me with Rekimoto's possessed Hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XBoZyfB8hY

The Proprioceptive Interaction paper from Pedro: (all of his work is awesome): http://plopes.org/

Haptic perception work by Paul: https://fkeel.github.io/

There are some awesome researchers (actually collaborators) in this space: http://embodiedmedia.org/ https://www.sonycsl.co.jp/member/tokyo/198/

I believe more and more intelligence amplification technology will have a substantial haptic/proprioceptive component.

Playing recently a lot with soft actuators :) http://kaikunze.de/papers/pdf/goto2020accelerating.pdf

I have the 20th anniversary edition. It quotes the debunked magazine article directly: "In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others are rotting hulks. Why? Researchers in the field of crime and urban decay discovered a fascinating trigger mechanism, one that very quickly turns a clean, intact, inhabited building into a smashed and abandoned derelict.[5]"

Citation 5 is an article from the Atlantic from March 1982 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-...

Nobody thought to fix that for the 2019 edition?

Honestly, although I don't agree with the author's sentiment.

Yet, even though I found the old version very influential and a great read at the time, the updated version feels a bit quaint for me. Especially because it uses old metaphors. The author mentions the "Broken Windows" Theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory Especially as it moved towards Stop-and-Frisk in NY, I would not use it in a technical book today: https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-poli...

Another one is the "Boiled Frog" from Topic 4:

"We've never tried this—honest. But “they” say that if you take a frog and drop it into boiling water, it will jump straight back out again. However, if you place the frog in a pan of cold water, then gradually heat it, the frog won't notice the slow increase in temperature and will stay put until cooked."

The same as with the broken window, it's just not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

It makes it hard for me (personally) to use the lessons of the book (cognitive dissonance ... "wait but a frog would jump out" ... ). Given the work that went into the anniversary book, I am wonder if the authors could not have found better fitting metaphors.

Edit: clarity + typos.

I mostly switched to librem 14, arch linux (i3wm, gnome from time to time), still using a mac for work (mostly presentations, video conferencing). Development tends to get more and more difficult on the mac for me (the security check for running shell programs is sometimes annoying. Currently hunting down a node compile error ... works perfectly under arch).

For my mac: I tried Amethyst, as others mentioned Yabai seems better. Yet, I switched to just to hammerspoon scripts, for tiling/desktop management etc.: http://www.hammerspoon.org/ It fits my needs and is adjustable.

For shell: iterm2 is ok, yet I'm currently in love with kitty. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

Brew alternatives: macports, nix (https://nixos.org) I love the idea, yet still haven't gotten around to use it much.

shell: fish editor: nvim / neovide

Thanks a lot :) We are thinking about opensourcing. Not really any experience with it. It's quite easy to build yourself (ESP32 with EDA and heartrate attached).

Can ask the hw team for the schematics (or just the sensing setup, I guess easy to replicate with most embedded platforms).

We might still have a couple of bands in the lab somewhere ... If you have a cool idea what to use it for, could send one out. (Yet, might take a while before I know, Just ping me by mail).

Will be giving a rC3 talk about a new collaboration project: Frisson Waves tonight 22:00 CET (6:00+1 JST)

Talk info: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021-fem/talk/RXUW8B/ Stream Link: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/fem

Work was also presented at Siggraph Asia the last weeks, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3476122.3484847

Really Like Sublime Text for cross platform work (especially when I need to edit code under windows). Yet, really love Nova https://nova.app/ for mac, super polished.

Though for day to day, i switched to nvim and neovide (rust frontend). Given that, I guess I spent too much money on text editors ...

I live in Tokyo, Japan. Nearly Everybody wears masks here (correctly). Several people even wear 2. Don't listen to him, he claimed there were spikes in Japan this winter when somebody pointed out the mask wearing ... Fundamental anti-masker :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29294849

Is it? I was surprised how complex the heros as well as the antagonists are. One can understand their motivation of all and it has a couple of unpredictable twists.

Compare that to standard Disney movies .. You can guess from the beginning what will happen.

Also watched Mononoke first. My favorites are Naussica and Totoro :) all movies form Miyazaki are amazing and watchable. If you wonder about his skill,check some of the ghibli movies he was not involved in.

Spike in Japan this winter? lol ... yes it's really scary here 73 cases a day nation wide. The only spikes came during summer due to Olympics and Paralympics. Please stop making stuff up.

The major difference to Germany I see between the two countries in terms of measures, Japanese were masks (vaccinated) and Mask Wearing in Germany has become political as it did in the US.

Artem's work is super cool. One of the researchers I follow . Loved the Epidermal Robots. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3264912 https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=dDv1lycAAAAJ&...

Older cool haptics research: I'm currently collaborating with Kouta on some projects. He's one of the researchers behind the techtile toolkit: http://www.techtile.org/en/techtiletoolkit/