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sdfgtr··on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
I love how this is the common sense answer and it's the conclusion in the study as well.

But if you read the other comments here, you see people arguing about Roe v. Wade, racism, statistical errors, covid vaccines, etc.

When the whole time the answer is just right there, the hippo in the room if you will lol. Anything to avoid personal responsibility I guess.

sdfgtr··on Gemini Pro refuses to acknowledge yt-dlp
A comment under the tweet says: > yt-dlp stopped working this week. Literal better maintained forks are available

Anyone know what is being referred to? I thought yt-dlp was the best

sdfgtr··on The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour
I suspect the answer is yes.
sdfgtr··on Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
Lookup Japan's Keirin racing. I think it's pretty much that. IIRC at the top levels they also require the racers to stay onsite under observation for several days before a race.
sdfgtr··on Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
Tbf, millions is spent on that part. This seems to be a drop in the bucket.
sdfgtr··on Hawaii home mistakenly built on Bay Area woman's land to be torn down
The house and property was being sold for 5 million. Spare the "food" and "shelter" schtick, no one involved was going to be starving because of this.
sdfgtr··on More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work
> I can’t recall the specifics but within a week of COVID lockdowns and no commutes, carbon and pollution in atmosphere plummets

I don't deny the impact of lessening the number of people commuting, but how much of that was commuting and how much was everything being shut down?

I don't know that there would be as large an impact as people may hope.

sdfgtr··on Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company
I'd rather have the nickle.
sdfgtr··on The Toxic Consequences of Attending a High Achieving School
Has anyone read the underlying studies for the first section? I tapped out but I find it somewhat hard to believe that rates of hard substance abuse are higher in places like Cupertino than in some ghetto school (the author specifically implies this with their vagueness).

I can see high achieving kids having an unneeded Adderall prescription or binge drinking, but am I really being led to believe that rates of crack abuse are similar? Did they look at kids who drop out/never attend (probably not)? Just feels a bit off.

sdfgtr··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
> Even here on HN there are comments trying to downplay the issue by portraying the victims as mostly wealthy or landlords, which are presumably acceptable victims to people who like these kind of narratives.

After skimming some of the comments here I'd even go so far as to say that it's the majority of the comments here.

sdfgtr··on LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore
> While some of this is for annotation and ratings on data that came from the web or LLMs, they also create new training data whole-hog:

The article states that this human data is PhDs, poets, and other experts but my recollection from some info about programming LLM training is that there was a small army of low paid Indian programmers feeding it with data.

Even if it's actually experts now I have to wonder when that will switch to 3rd worlders making $1/hour.

sdfgtr··on How does AI impact my job as a programmer?
My God, I can practically taste the salt emanating from this post.
sdfgtr··on Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering
I bet they do. I imagine OpenAI is trying to build themselves a moat. They can't really do it with the tech, but they can try to do it legally.
sdfgtr··on Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer
That particular line is definitely directed towards people with gender identity issues.