<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mjbeswick</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mjbeswick</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:47:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mjbeswick" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjbeswick in "Chinese Ship Suspected of Dragging Anchor 100 Miles to Cut Baltic Cables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No because they would be point to point. Many parts of the phone network were connected via microwave links before fibre optic cables replaced them, as fibre carry much higher amounts of data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:59:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273232</link><dc:creator>mjbeswick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjbeswick in "What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I take it you are talking about anabolic steroids.<p>Most people don't understand that a person will not simply gain huge amounts of muscle by taking them. It does allow more lean mass gain, but only if muscle are being stimulated to grow and extra calories are being consumed.</p>
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<p>The is a lack of curiosity because there is no evidence.<p>Microwave energy has been found many times to be directed at embassies (such as the Moscow signal), but it wouldn't be any form of weapon. Such transmissions would likely be RF power for passive bugs, radar, or jamming signals.</p>
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<p>It was a great choice; as most people in Britain would find it bloody funny!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:08:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319832</link><dc:creator>mjbeswick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjbeswick in "Women are using ChatGPT to catch men lying about their height"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Women will hate finding out that it can guess their age and  weight! It can even guess their socioeconomic group, and if they dye their hair.</p>
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<p>Yes it can guess body weight and age!</p>
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<p>It's not hard to find groups of society where expose to HIV is very high, which are the ideal groups to study. Many people in these groups see contracting HIV as inevitable and do not fear it as you would expect, as it is not seen as a shame or death as as it was around the late 80s.<p>There subculture of people are people who actively try to transmit / contract HIV, often at so called "biohazard parties".</p>
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<p>Have you ever heard about the Royal Mail Underground which used to move mail across London?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway</a><p>A small light railway between large cities makes sense where roads are congested and cannot be expanded.</p>
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<p>Smoke alarms in a domestic setting might, but not systems installed in large buildings.</p>
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<p>Welcome to Mr Olympia!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:55:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633726</link><dc:creator>mjbeswick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjbeswick in "It is time for more holistic practices in mental health"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't need drugs to grown muscle, just an active lifestyle; which is also highly beneficial to mental health. Many of peoples physical and mental problems are a result of their sedentary lifestyle.</p>
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<p>As someone who has take MDMA many times in the past I very sceptical about it's therapeutic value in treating PTSD. The high is incredible, but that comes with a comedown of the opposite feelings; including depression, anxiety, fatigue, and can last from hours to days. Those effects are of course dose dependant.</p>
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<p>I'm really sceptical about the idea of treating people with mental heal issues with MDMA, as the "comedown" from it can be horrendous and causes a period low mood, depression, fatigue, anxiety, etc. Not the kind of thing you want people with PTSD experiencing! Those side effects are of course dose dependant. There is no mention of what is considered a dose, but it no uncommon for people to take a gram or more recreationally over the course of an evening.</p>
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<p>That's how insurance underwriting works anyway, as gender, age, car model ect are all used to calculate a premium based on risk.<p>In the UK you can have a "black box" fitted to your car by insurance companies, where low risk driving get you a discount on your renewal.</p>
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<p>It's not really about equality, as no one is complaining about men doing the most dangerous and laborious jobs, as mining, forestry, saturation diving etc. According to most reports, men are more than 20 times more likely to die at work.</p>
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<p>Bias exists in training data generally because it reflects reality.<p>Considering the example give the article, the average CEO is a white male; so surely you would expect that unless you explicitly asked for diversity!?<p>It's should be down to users to alter their prompts if they wish to generate images outside of statistical norms.</p>
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<p>I work for a big UK supermarket as a developer working on their self checkout software. The tills have better specs than you would expect, as they are running 30 or so containers using Docker. They are not cheap!</p>
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<p>This is more a issue with the current legislation rather than a technical one.</p>
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<p>That's your opinion, but right now he law doesn't cover training AI models.<p>Do you think that content created people is truly original?</p>
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<p>Container ships use in the region of 150 to 250 metric tons of fuel per day, so $75,000 to $125,000 in fuel alone.</p>
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