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redavni··on Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
Conspiratorial networks? I'm not wasting my time reading research which is probably entirely intentionally incorrect conspiracy theories that people believe. Might was well have done research into whether people believe Gone With The Wind was actual history. Reading the research is not necessary because of the framing. The framing makes the research useless for truth seeking.

The idea here is exactly what you say, belief in authority because science people spend time on it. Essentially this is science as religion. Which was exactly my point.

redavni··on Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
The dichotomy of conspiracy theory / not conspiracy theory is semantic poison. This entire article is reinforcement. Do you see it?

Are you the kind of person who believes convincing sounding research from an Ivy League school posted on social media and wikipedia articles? Is your epistemology based in socialmediaism?

redavni··on Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes
Dude has a mildly traumatic experience in a high pressure environment at which he pushed through, and you respond with toxicity and name calling? This is not OK behavior for an adult. Do better.
redavni··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
analyzing and modifying a user interface in realtime?
redavni··on Google restricts Android sideloading
I would love to, but this is the wrong forum. This is going to sound weird if you understand these events purely literally, but me and you are ideologically aligned, but not dialectically aligned. There is a much greater truth to this entire situation.
redavni··on Google restricts Android sideloading
When you understand that this is not literally the truth, but is actually still true.
redavni··on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries
Been using this in our Workplace account. Most people don't like it because they are luddites, but I absolutely love the summaries for those multi-week 50 email threads. Also the ability to quickly insert an absurdly overly formal response to a simple request as a joke is amusing.

I do wish it had the ability to respond to emails for me though with a prompt.

redavni··on [dead]
My statement was intended to alleviate the tension caused by semantic dissonance that was created by the authoritative title and the the authors statement that this is an editorial opinion.

Welcome to the future.

redavni··on [dead]
The Economist is a European publication owned by Italian owners of Fiat, Rothschilds, and other British families. This article is attributed to "Leaders" which means it is an editorial position of the publication.
redavni··on Google scraps minimum wage, benefits rules for suppliers and staffing firms
The end result is that the NLRB decision potentially made life worse for affected employees. Poor grasp of cause and effect at the labor board.
redavni··on Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist
I'd be wondering if sending the request was enough to get you on the list.
redavni··on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days
So why do we sell cars at all? They are the 3rd leading cause of death since before Elon Musk and yourself were born.
redavni··on Surprising public health benefit of unemployment?
I didn't read the entire paper, but I don't see lowered stress and lack of sleep mentioned anywhere. These would be the most obvious answers and should be addressed.

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lives-vs...

redavni··on Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing
Agreed. The bookshelves have been full of terrible sci-fi for over a decade now. I have given up on the book sellers and the awards (Hugo, Nebula etc). I do read sci-fi almost every day though still. Almost all of it from Kindle Unlimited.

This article could probably be summarized as "People don't read anymore".

redavni··on Weather forecasts have become more accurate
There is a gap between the title of the article and the contents. Starts out with weather forecasting is improved, but spends most of the article talking about how poor people and countries have other things to spend their money on than forecasting weather.
redavni··on Benzene Found in Acne Creams Including Proactiv, Clearasil
No, but I breathe oxygen radicals 24 hours a day and so do you. A study about the free radical content of the air in a bag of Lay's Potato Chips is pretty pointless despite it being proven to cause cell death.
redavni··on Private company landing on the moon today
> Note: one of my neighbors does this, by having an AP on every 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channel.

Sounds like a fun and ethical excuse to DOS some WIFI routers.

redavni··on The Ultraviolet Myth
It has been repeated by YouTube "science communicators" quite frequently and very recently.
redavni··on Receiving weather satellite images using SatDump
Google Cloud and AWS host the netcdf GOES archives among others. They are all there.

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-pu...

redavni··on Receiving weather satellite images using SatDump
The Thought Emporium made a great series on this. There are more these days though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY

redavni··on Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
https://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacki...
redavni··on A Theory of Grift
The real estate and banking industry with a host of grifters caused 2007-2008 crash....then we elected a direct representative of this group as president 10 years later. The problem is deeper than poor economic policy.
redavni··on Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI
> December, 2048

So it is not unreasonable to expect I can have an Ana de Armas AI in 2049?

I hope you AI people are better than the flying car people.

redavni··on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance
Mitchell Baker, earned $6,903,089 in 2022
redavni··on Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund Hyperverse does not appear to exist
It's almost as if marketing is inherently evil.
redavni··on Meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies
Causation is not correlation. More importantly, meat is tasty.
redavni··on The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
Not sure "we" is, but I think the people who have had to uproot their entire lives because of poor leadership, would rather the poor leadership leave.
redavni··on TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees
Wow fascinating. Apparently it is a deciduous tree.
redavni··on Ask HN: Who is consuming all these semantic HTML tags?
Great question. When the "Semantic Web" hype train rolled through back in the day, I asked the same question. I got a lot of hand-wavey answers about search engine understanding semantics of markup. Also if you use <b> instead of <strong> you are a barbarian.

In theory, more information would be easier for a language model to extract meaning from though.

redavni··on Show HN: Turn Emoji into Artwork via AI
The thumbs up emoji is missing which is probably for the best.
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