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> You correctly classified 26 of 30 (86%) images!

> You identified 11 of 14 (78%) AI-generated images.

> You identified 15 of 16 (93%) human-made images.

Focal planes were another tell.

Can someone explain how this link works?

The endpoint seems to change based on which browser and which type of window I use to open it.

Depends on what country you're moving to. But in my experience, moving from Canada to Europe and back, it's not seen as "weird" travelling with computer stuff. My suitcase even had a PC monitor and motherboard tucked in with my shirts and slacks.

For simplicity, it's probably cheaper and easier to send some peripherals to the Sally Ann or Goodwill and replace it in the new locale.

As for the data, 2 TB isn't that much these days. It's just a small portable drive and no one will bat an eye. Photos from my DSLR alone take up more space than that!

My undergrad university went with too much minimalism. It replaced an stylized crest (anachronistic for a university founded in 1965) with a "red brick". Note that The Concrete University has no bricks to which this might be a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser_University

> “over the next few days, the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.”

Is this goodbye to @ElonJet?

Also, "troll" seems rather nebulous. Is it the end for anyone seen as a troublemaker?

You'd think that Amazon would do that (and apparently they do not) just so their employees would be more familiar with the products and able to offer better suggestions on improvements.

Guess I now know why the Prime Video interface is so terrible!

> Track location over time and display it on the map. Turn that into a downloadable GPX

Right now I use "Easy GPS logger" for this although it lacks a map aspect. It hasn't been too bad on my battery, either. But it's a feature I'd like on a hiking app.

> Each carat of mined diamond has a footprint of over 100kg of carbon dioxide and over 500kg of greenhouse gases in total.

The report by Imperial College London Consultants, cited by Sky Diamond, highlights the environmental and climate costs of mining so-called precious stones:

http://www.imperial-consultants.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/202...

One more reason to ensure that synthetic diamonds cannot be identified or differentiated as such, given the high environmental impact of extracting that carbon allotrope from the ground.

The index is just the first step according to news articles:

> Once the index has been created, the next step is to develop search applications.

> The team at TU Graz will be particularly active here in the CoDiS Lab and will work on the conception and user-centric aspects of the search applications. This includes, for example, research into new search paradigms that enable searchers to have a say in how the search takes place. The idea is that there are different search algorithms or that you can influence the behavior of the search algorithms. For example, you could search specifically for scientific documents or for documents with arguments, include search terms that have already been used, or include documents from the intranet in the search.

https://www.krone.at/2791083

> we asked 576 children, ages four to nine, to predict the behavior of two kids in a story. One of the characters genuinely wanted to be smart, and the other merely wanted to seem smart to others. [...]

> When children themselves are the ones struggling, it seems quite possible they, too, might avoid seeking out help when others are present, given our findings. Their reluctance could seriously impede academic progress.

There's another side to the issue of “reputational” expectations which I've seen too many times in academic situations: People who only ask questions in order to look smart rather than to learn something. They know the answer, or at least think they do, and ask an inexperienced grad student a question about their area of expertise, even if it is at best tangential to the topic.

That opposite process also can impede progress, since it tends to drown out genuine questions and less is learned in the process. Rarely do such questions enrich the conversation the way that a good “naïve” question does.

It's definitely affected me a bit today. She has a visual and historical presence in so many Canadian institutions, from her portraits hanging in my elementary school growing up, to our currency, the courts, and government itself. It's a bit hard to think of her as a real person sometimes, yet seeing Prime Minister Trudeau speak about her with glistening eyes tells me that she did more than purely her constitutional duty, but genuinely touched many, especially world leaders, with loving humility.

It sounds like there's a solution in not discharging directly from the beach showers. I wonder if it might be feasible to collect that water somehow and use it as greywater elsewhere: watering plants, for instance.

This reminds me of my alma mater. The provincial government previously had funded $X/student. Then they changed it to a fixed grant. Meanwhile, enrollment continued to expand; the institution saw the expansion as serving the public. Soon enough, the government cut back the university's funding, which cut the operating budget. Eventually the Faculty of Science was looking at a $10 million shortfall; the equivalent of an entire department's budget. So they cut back on student spaces to the old $X/student allocation. One would hope that the public would notice and speak up in response, asking their politicians to properly fund education.

It worked for me. Here's the output with a "stupefied" expression:

https://i.vgy.me/OvbtNs.png

I haven't seen this covered in mainstream TV news, save for a segment earlier this week on PBS News Hour.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-an-obscure-cellpho...

Rather sad that it isn't more widely discussed.

One would think the guideline applies here:

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The link should be changed to the DOI or a direct link to the journal article:

- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01211-2

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2

Not sure why OP linked to this index. The article is Open Access, yet this intermediary site has a prominent "Buy article PDF →" link at the top which tries to sell it for $17. OA.mg seems like some kind of scam.

> the tremendous trade-offs entailed in the indiscriminate scanning of users’ cloud data.

It might be helpful to frame any cloud-based scanning of user activity or files as akin to mass-testing in health. While it sounds good in principle, there is always a background rate of false positives. And being incorrectly diagnosed can have negative consequences. There has been a large amount of examination of the consequences of mass-testing for various diseases without indication.

e.g.

COVID testing: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1411/

Herpes: https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/26/flawed-herpes-testing-le...

Genetic testing: https://www.geneticsdigest.com/genetic-testing-potential-con...

Works surprisingly well! One note for walking directions: It doesn't seem to take elevation gain into account in choosing between alternate routes. Probably a not an easy thing to implement.

Curious that this article, from August 11, is posted today.

Since no one in the thread has mentioned it, the issue has been in the Canadian media recently due to a situation first reported on August 16 which was updated today. The first paragraph is ample summary of what transpired:

> A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee, sources tell Global News.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9061709/veteran-medical-assisted-...

And today a full investigation was announced:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9072857/canada-veterans-assisted-...

This is not what is supposed to happen and the Veterans Affairs employee involved will, I expect, be sacked or placed on leave. It is at the very least incompetence or lack of proper training, given that the law has only been in place since 2021.

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For anyone looking to understand the issue in the Canadian context, and how we got here, here's my brief non-expert summary.

In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada decided in Carter v Canada that our Criminal Code's prohibition on assisted suicide was unconstitutional:

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/scc-csc.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_v_Canada_(AG)

That brought about Bill C-14 in 2016, which allowed those whose death was "reasonably foreseeable" to obtain MAiD:

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-14/royal-a...

A further legal challenge, Truchon v Canada, decided by the Superior Court of Quebec in 2019 required further legislative accommodation. This removed the restriction which required that death be "reasonably foreseeable" as it again violated the Charter. Hence the government introduced Bill C-7 in 2021:

https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/bill/C-7/royal-assent

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c7.h...

The eligibility requirements are now:

1. Be a mentally competent adult

2. Experience "enduring and intolerable suffering"

3. Complete the process involving paperwork, witnesses, physicians, etc...

The same thrust started happening in Canada recently as well. The Vancouver School Board recently eliminated its honours programs in math, science, and English in the name of inclusiveness: "By phasing out these courses, all students will have access to an inclusive model of education, and all students will be able to participate in the curriculum fulsomely".

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-sc...

There has been a similar move to eliminate the VSB's year-long gifted programs (Multi Age Cluster Class) by breaking it into six-week part-time sessions of which any student could attend some. Again, the proponents of the change see this as being a means to expand the "inclusiveness" of schools: “The model would enable students to experience full inclusion at their current schools while simultaneously receiving best-practice enrichment programming”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...

One thing that surprised me while attending a music festival this summer was the dozen or so 20-something women were wearing crochet tops. Nothing nearly as dazzling nor intricate as Bjerke's work. But the few who opted for that look definitely stood out.

> The platform splits pre-publish peer review from post-publish refereeing. Pre-publish review then becomes completely about helping authors polish their work and decide if their articles are ready to publish. Refereeing happens post-publish, and in a way which is easily understandable to the lay reader, helping the general public sort solid studies from shakey ones.

The author doesn't seem to understand the "referee" role of (associate) editors and reviewers. The core idea is about gatekeeping of a journal title's self-set publication limit in favour of articles that represent a substantive advancement of a field or concept.

However this itself is a problem for many fields of research, since it's a core factor underlying the failure to engage in replication studies and to check if results are valid. Moreover this would tend to encourage researchers with small but useful results to shelve them and NOT publish, since it will create a negative feedback mechanism for such contributions:

> Up votes increase the paper’s score and grant the authors reputation in the tagged fields. Down votes decrease the paper’s score and the author’s reputation in the tagged fields.

Part of this problem is because, like any site which uses an upvote or downvote function, the button will be used to express things other than the intended meaning. "Does not contribute" quickly becomes "I don't like X" (even if it is methodologically valid).

Growing good, X-ray quality crystals is more art and luck than science.

It's particularly difficult with most proteins and other biomolecules. [0] But even for small molecular compounds, it isn't always easy. I'm not sure about growing high quality crystals of metal-organic frameworks, but they could easily be limited by defects. Some compounds might be too waxy if there are long aliphatic chains involved.

Even if you do get decent-looking crystals, they might be twinned. If you are working with air or water sensitive compounds, they need to be handled with extreme care and might degrade before the data collection is complete. Some might also have temperature sensitivity, such that they need to be kept at -20 C to prevent melting or another phase transition.

Overall it can be a real make-or-break issue for someone engaged in chemical research.

[0] Check out this PDF of a PowerPoint on the topic: https://hamptonresearch.com/uploads/documents/ramc/RAMC2011_...

> Perhaps we need an army of (paid?) dogsbodies to manually go through every paper ever published and assess the sentiment behind each citation?

This is similar to what SciFinder, a database created by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) does for every paper. They have a substantial team that parses through every journal of significance where chemical research might be published. They are searching for chemical structures and substances and encoding each structure within their proprietary database. That database offers a concrete value to researchers at companies, universities, and law firms, whether looking for prior art or simply the most reliable methods of synthesis. Hence that product is greatly valued by those who use it and they can pay for people to do the complex task of indexing those papers.

While the idea of determining the sentiment of references is interesting, I'm skeptical whether there is nearly the same level of potential commercial value in creating such a database. It would be useful for reviewing grant applications, but those reviewers tend to be experts who already know if a paper received negative attention in the literature or even just on Twitter.

One odd feature of many apps that use streaks is that they fail to account or allow for a rest day or a weekend. Even with work one can have perfect attendance and only be there 5 out of 7 days. It's strange that it's normal for apps to demand more engagement than that to maintain a streak.

I find it overbearing that apps create the expectation of participating even when I am in the middle of the forest and mountains with zero network connectivity. It incentivizes unhealthy lives and life patterns of never disconnecting from the internet. Why can't these apps allow users to choose what kinds of streaks they want to aspire to?

Supernovas emit lots of different kinds of particles and radiation.

Neutrinos depart & arrive before any other radiation. The gap is on the order of hours. So neutrinos can function as an early warning system.

> The discovery of the crystals is so old, and further wavelength observations are continuing.

I'm utterly confused here. There are no other mentions of "crystals" in this article, but several mentions of x-rays. It's an X-ray pulsar, so I don't see where crystals fit in unless the writer is confused by X-ray crystallography.

Was this article generated by some kind of AI or Markov chain text generator?

It's great that citizen science space for collecting ecological or biodiversity data is is growing. I'm curious why the consortium members behind Pl@ntNet are all French. Compare that to iNaturalist, which features partner organizations in 21 countries. That kind of widespread buy-in is attractive and I'm not sure what is limiting Pl@ntNet:

- https://plantnet.org/en/plntnet-consortium/

- https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network

Personally I've found iNaturalist to be the optimum for me since it partners with 4 major Canadian organizations; it allows for local conservation authorities to have access to location data for vulnerable species observation. It's also every branch of the tree of life, not just plants, so it's allowed me to learn to identify more kinds of species.

> If you dont have positive feedback for a podcast why comment at all to begin with?

The quality of a podcast is not going to be uniformly positive. So a listener's feedback isn't going to be uniformly positive. It becomes a problem when the primary space for discussing a subject only permits positive feedback. Healthy communities do require negative feedback.

It's ironic that creator of Podbabble couches the creator-based moderation as a means to

> Foster healthy communities. Podbabble lets you moderate, adjust ratings, and flag comments as you see fit.

Too often, allowing the subject of a forum to moderate the forum leads to suppression of valid critique. And good critique can also come from outsiders; those who are not regular listeners.

A better alternative for Podbabble would be to allow creators to sponsor their podcast's forum, perhaps having it be featured more prominently or by removing comment rate limits.