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ksrm··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
Modern capitalism, basically.
ksrm··on Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio
No-one is going to listen to an audiobook made with this. It's still fundamentally just TTS.
ksrm··on BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
It is good when people lose their jobs, actually!
ksrm··on The Graphical User Interface Gallery
Another great site from back in the day is the GUIdebook Gallery: https://guidebookgallery.org/guis
ksrm··on Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?
These seem to have laptop-style fans in them - do you know if they can be run silently?
ksrm··on Twitter Office Supply Auction
extremely hacker news comment
ksrm··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
AI tools aren't people. We don't have to treat them the same.
ksrm··on Blocking Kiwifarms
Not just immoral and reprehensible, the campaigns of targeted harassment they undertake limit the victims' speech. If you care about people being able to freely express themselves, today is a good day. I don't know why the free speech defenders miss this (I do know).
ksrm··on “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
It's Big Brain 200 IQ Hacker News, what did you expect
ksrm··on SWATed streamer Keffals to organise protest in front of Cloudflare SF office
The list doesn't appear to be exhaustive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066186
ksrm··on SWATed streamer Keffals to organise protest in front of Cloudflare SF office
Some more information on what happened: https://globalnews.ca/news/9048763/trans-woman-twitch-stream...

This is the same group of trolls connected with the death of the emulator developer Near a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814

ksrm··on Ask HN: Anyone else having trouble with Twitter?
It seems to be working again for me in the UK.
ksrm··on Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
I thought you'd missed a word but no, "total Facebook products" is good.
ksrm··on Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
Right here: https://imgur.com/a/COXJUwb
ksrm··on On Web3 Infrastructure
If we call all that stuff web 4, maybe people will lose interest in "web 3".
ksrm··on Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
Because """software engineering""" is a joke.
ksrm··on Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity
How do you strip the DRM, is there a FOSS tool for this?
ksrm··on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
There are no PCBs in PTFE/Teflon, what are you talking about? Also the soy thing is nonsense.
ksrm··on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
What a strange implication to make.
ksrm··on Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?
The number shown when collapsing a thread ("x more") appears to be incorrect.
ksrm··on Craft – A fresh take on documents
The conventional wisdom was that accessibility was something worth caring about.
ksrm··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
I don't use Facebook much any more but a lot of the noise on there can be blocked (the ads which are conveniently labelled as sponsored, and "suggested for you").

They've seemingly gone out of their way to make this difficult by putting each letter of "Sponsored" in its own div, but you can make a filter based on the aria-label instead.

ksrm··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
Account is over two years old but this is your first comment?
ksrm··on Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't Care Yet
Where can one track the mining (issuing?) of Tether?
ksrm··on Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't Care Yet
"This paper investigates whether Tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, influenced Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices during the 2017 boom. Using algorithms to analyze blockchain data, we find that purchases with Tether are timed following market downturns and result in sizable increases in Bitcoin prices. The flow is attributable to one entity, clusters below round prices, induces asymmetric autocorrelations in Bitcoin, and suggests insufficient Tether reserves before month‐ends. Rather than demand from cash investors, these patterns are most consistent with the supply‐based hypothesis of unbacked digital money inflating cryptocurrency prices."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903

ksrm··on Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight
LiPo is a type of Li-ion battery and they have much the same safety characteristics. Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries are much safer, they don't tend to run away.
ksrm··on Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
It just needs periodic "Messenger Service" popups to be 100% authentic.
ksrm··on The Fall of Silicon Valley
Yeah Juicero was like 2014, wasn't it?
ksrm··on Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
Found an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bFEs4ZoXw
ksrm··on Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial
£35k is about £27.4k after tax. You have forgotten about national insurance.
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