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As well as the hundreds of other unnamed underage victims who were coerced into sexual favors for Epstein personally.

Isn't your final clause

> that said, I'd only support it for natural/born citizens.

directly in contradiction to the spirit of UBI that you endorsed immediately preceding it?

I assume this is a joke?

> as far as I know it's only used in English when talking about mediterranean winds.

It's a French company, and "mistral" has this usage in French as well. Also, "magistral" is just the french translation of "masterful".

This feels like the same type of critique people have about code-assistant LLMs. We need to be a lot more realistic about their role as a 'next-gen autocomplete' who can write some boilerplate code, not a replacement for a mid-level software developer.

These apps seem useful to reduce the friction of entering your meal's calorie contents from 30 seconds of ingredient estimating, to 20 seconds (auto-filling main ingredients and a baseline portion estimate). As everyone points out, it's impossible for these to get any better than that (GIGO). But reducing the overhead for calorie-counting seems like a reasonable goal and a valuable service. Of course the marketing departments for these companies is going to say whatever bullshit they want; that's their prerogative...

I think there are many examples of"establishment" wrong, and this gets exposed by independent sources.

But also when the establishment is correct, it still gets (incorrectly) exposed by independent sources.

There's a nontrivial part of today's population that is purely edgy and contrarian as a rule, without a solid rational foundation to their worldview.

> Why try to engage in the arts when you won't be able to make a living as illustrator or musician because AI slop is good enough to feed the capital machine?

Maybe this is an uncommon view on HN, but personally I engage in the arts to scratch that itch of creative expression and emotional release, not with the goal to eventually monetize it. Even without AI, my poetry would never realistically be "good enough" to make it into a career, but that doesn't make it any less fulfilling for me.

True, but "stout Cortez" sounds better than "stout Balboa" ;)

It's only superficially relevant here, but I love the poem, so I'll share it anyway:

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats

  Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
  And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
  Round many western islands have I been
  Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
  Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
  That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
  Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
  Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
  Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
  When a new planet swims into his ken;
  Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
  He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
  Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
  Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Sorry, I know I'm being that guy, but if making my tight flight connection depends on saving my phone battery, I just wouldn't watch a bunch of videos and would instead turn it off until my flight lands?

I wouldn't be surprised if the 5% drop in "Data Scientists" is from the same role being up-branded as something like "AI/ML Engineer".

Maybe I'm just being shortsighted, but I don't see that as a good comparison to this, since we read books for a deep exploration of an idea by the author, not just for the idea. It's not about the rareness, or physical quality of the binding. See e-books, even.

The reality is that the LLM is not adding better analysis, it's just padding the length and fluffing. If the author was going to pad with LLM garble, he might as well have made a blog post and saved everyone the time. Of course that's less profitable...

> I don't wish to share my space/commute with drug addicts and literal human feces, I don't see why anyone in this world would prefer to do that, can you explain why since you prefer that?

If you spend an hour in literally any medium-sized European city you can see that public transport doesn't have to be like that given proper funding and a critical mass of ridership.

Regardless of opinions surrounding Jan 6, I find it re-assuring that even with full face captured on photo, and the fact that many have a smartphone with them, the FBI is incapable of finding several of them after 2.5 years. I thought the surveillance state was more mature than that.

> That seems strictly worse, to me. If you have a good tweet with a bad note, you have 1 piece of good info and 1 piece of bad info. If you have 10 tweets with bad info and no notes, you have 10 pieces of bad info.

In the isolated case, sure, but the point is that in the long-run it's more useful to maintain a non-partisan reputation, otherwise it becomes as useless as fact-checkers are. Bad community notes corrodes public trust in them.

> if you want to spread misinformation on Twitter and trivially defeat the lame mitigation that is Community Notes, you just need to make it controversial.

The goal is that the Notes themselves are not controversial. You can have a non-controversial Community Note attached to a controversial tweet.

Missing the forest for the trees ?

I don't think it's died off, rather it's found in more independent blogs/newsletters at this point. On one hand, the information is generally free and more accessible to a wider global audience, but maybe that exposure is biased towards scientists that are themselves strong writers. Whereas in a world where high-quality science writers are funded, the researcher doesn't have to master this skill to have their work effectively popularized.

In the source comment he gives it's more explicit, but the "2-3 orders of magnitude" is referring to "the total", i.e. the 114 million words, not the number of specs.

In Paris and Berlin the alternatives are probably bikes, metro, or walking...

I fail to see any value in trying to compare hugely diverse populations of hundreds of millions of people against each other and their ability to discuss nuanced political topics. It feels like you're just hashing out some intuitions based on what's come across your twitter feed or something? It's your prerogative to do so, but don't convince yourself it's a meaningful insight.

"whatever is on the American mind these days" lol.

I'm not sure how culturally-specific this is, but as a foreigner living in France, I notice the majority of smokers I meet are those who smoke exclusively while drinking. So to that extent, they appear to have sufficient will-power to resist most of the time, but the lowered inhibitions and the mental association between alcohol and smoke I guess are overwhelming.

I wonder what the tangible negative effects are of smoking 4-5 cigarettes a week like this compared to 4-5 a day? I also wonder to what extent this is a French phenomenon.

Not 100% pertinent to this thread, but does anyone have experience changing US bank account while living overseas? I currently have my old account linked to my parent's address, and I'm worried it would be a huge headache to try and open a new account from abroad without a proper address. This is the only thing that is stopping me from closing my WF account.

>>Consider using: demanding or entitled White woman

It's insane that this is one of the most explicitly racist examples and it's in the "Consider using" column...

I would assume there is quite a lot of evidence for the efficacy of helmets in the event of a crash, no? I think in general it makes more sense to give credence to studies that give intuitive results that are explainable by sound first principles modeling, rather than one study that gives an unintuitive result based on human behavior.

Dumb question: Can I lay down my vertical door fridge on its back to achieve these efficiency gains?

I went to try it out, but it looks like your website no longer works? (The gifs don't change in response to new prompts)

They are probably referring to some kind of large-scale environmental contamination, but as far as I'm aware it's quite difficult to make any of these theories fit with the timeline of international historical trends. Typically the differences in rates and magnitudes are apparent across borders and thus would more easily be explained with cultural factors rather than an environmental contaminant that is (largely) agnostic to cultural effects.

Also a big Obsidian user. I guess since they're both markdown it would be very easy to test out nb on my existing notes?

Though for me, the killer feature in Obsidian is the seamless LateX support within a markdown file. I see nb has support for .tex files, but I only want to write LateX when it's absolutely necessary for math notation, not the whole file.

I doubt the charging port is the most important factor in choosing a phone for most people.

Similar to how I voted for Biden even though I don't agree with 100% of his policies. It doesn't mean I don't disagree with him often - it's just that I only get one vote, so I have to prioritize. It's perfectly consistent for me to complain and make my opinion known when his administration does things I disagree with.

You can find the images in a few different articles (though I wouldn't be surprised if science journalists failed to specify this), as well as on NASA's website [0].

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-images-from-italian-space...