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New comment by sgift in "Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Breast Cancer"

sgift — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:51:43 +0000

Easy: Zero. What you describe as "desperate people" are people who would already die without "yolo[ing] on themselves", so, by definition, the worst outcome is that they still die.

New comment by sgift in "A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival"

sgift — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:01:18 +0000

> Oh, by the way, any indication that nobody roleplayed the Israeli side?

The description implies that nobody did:

> Seaside Prison is a Palestinian-Finnish-Norwegian larp that deals with the siege of Gaza trough an alternative reality setting where the situation on Åland Islands resembles that of real world Gaza. Two ordinary families live as neighbours in Marienhamn. Their family drama and wedding preparations are interrupted by bombings in which some of the family members are killed.

(Copied from: https://www.nordicrpg.fi/immersion/programme/#seaside

New comment by sgift in "Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?"

sgift — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:39:21 +0000

For the same reason Wikipedia suffers: People who are really good at writing factual content / good answers are not automatically good at moderation, often they are even some of the worst people for it. Moderation needs empathy, thinking about edge cases, dealing with emotions and so on. Making the people who have the most points on a Q&A site your moderators was always a recipe for disaster.

For a long time, the sheer usefulness of SO overshadowed all of this. People were willing to suffer for the sake of getting a result. But over time the quality couldn't keep up with the pure agony of having to deal with petty dictators. And finally, people just stopped going there, which means the chance that the best answer will be on SO is getting smaller, which means even less people bother with it and so on.

New comment by sgift in "Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives"

sgift — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 08:37:04 +0000

Solr. The correct answer is Solr. All the search features of Elasticsearch (both are built on Lucene, which provides the actual search implementation) without the problems that Elastic (the company) or Elasticsearch (the product) brings with it. 99% of companies using Elasticsearch would be far better of with Solr.

New comment by sgift in "CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes"

sgift — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:04:14 +0000

Well, Microsoft says that's because of the EU commission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590

I have my doubts, but that's at least what they give as the reason for the kernel-level access of EDR tools.

New comment by sgift in "The Delusion of the Polygraph"

sgift — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:16:50 +0000

Literal example of survivorship bias in the GP comment.

New comment by sgift in "Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads"

sgift — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 12:31:22 +0000

While I agree with your comment I'd like to point out that the reason the youth is leaving is not this policy, but that there are no jobs for them. At least none that you really want to live on. That's a problem "digital nomads" are expected to not have: They have their job somewhere else, so who cares if the local job market is garbage? Though I don't think this will work out in the long term.

New comment by sgift in "FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days"

sgift — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:03:59 +0000

Rather typical in Germany (they usually do it via Schufa, but the end result is the same). No idea for other countries.

New comment by sgift in "Hawaii home mistakenly built on Bay Area woman's land to be torn down"

sgift — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:05:36 +0000

I'm pretty sure judges can reasonably find the difference between willfulness and accident (as the article states, multiple people who had no reason to help the builder missed the error) and decide accordingly.

New comment by sgift in "Hawaii home mistakenly built on Bay Area woman's land to be torn down"

sgift — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:38:00 +0000

Sounds like a reasonable judgement - even if the parties didn't come to a compromise themselves - would have been to just swap lots. Lots 115 should be empty, cause the building that should be there is on 114. So, swap the deeds and be done with it.

(Unless lot 115 is completely different to 114, but doesn't sound that way)

New comment by sgift in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"

sgift — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:47:39 +0000

Thanks for spelling this out. I always thought the same, even as a child when I first saw the film: Ariel has a deep feeling of not belonging where she is combined with a yearning for human culture. It's obvious from the movie that her falling in with the prince is just the last step in a long line of "I should be up there, not down here" and not just some spur of the moment decision.

New comment by sgift in "Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search"

sgift — Sat, 25 May 2024 16:39:07 +0000

Even some results from "The Onion" seem to be in it. Looks like Google just took every website they've ever crawled as source.

New comment by sgift in "Autonomous AI Robot Creates a Shock-Absorbing Shape No Human Ever Could"

sgift — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:22:13 +0000

Yeah. Just the last iteration in a long list of hype terms. Big data. Cloud ready. AI. Whatever ...

New comment by sgift in "Autonomous AI Robot Creates a Shock-Absorbing Shape No Human Ever Could"

sgift — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:21:10 +0000

... I had the 'pleasure' of driving American cars and if there's one thing they don't have it's good suspension. Though maybe they finally stopped using leaf springs for newer models.

New comment by sgift in "OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT"

sgift — Mon, 20 May 2024 13:04:11 +0000

I don't see why they should license her voice if she didn't provide the voice work. Actresses sometimes sound similar. If there's a demand that voices that sound "too similar" to well known actresses (or actors, obviously) need their okay or licensing that would seriously harm the less known ones ability to make a living with their own voice. Same with the demand to take it down because it sounds too similar. It's someone else, no reason to do something.

New comment by sgift in "Konrad Zuse's Homepage"

sgift — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:52:59 +0000

Without knowing what's behind the link that says nothing. It could be comparing their achievements, the architectures or many things. You just (seem to?) interpret it in a certain way.

New comment by sgift in "Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic"

sgift — Sat, 18 May 2024 18:03:22 +0000

Someone who thinks that giving health advice to an obese person and fat shaming are the same thing has no business being in a job that requires them to give people advice. Obese people know the difference very well, no matter how often others try to gaslight them into believing that they are the same thing.

New comment by sgift in "Mike Krieger: I've joined AnthropicAI as their Chief Product Officer"

sgift — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:38:48 +0000

> far-left responses

Can you give some examples? I wanted to test it, but first they wanted my email (okay), then they wanted my phone number and .. nope. So, I couldn't test Claude myself so far.

New comment by sgift in "Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?"

sgift — Sun, 05 May 2024 00:48:32 +0000

From my outsider perspective it's by being by far the most important country on the continent in terms of size, influence, economy and so on. Also, it's (afaik? cannot think of a counter-example) the only country which has America in its name and usually people talk about countries, not continents.

New comment by sgift in "SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safety"

sgift — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:43:14 +0000

We don't know if there's even any danger. All statements so far of any danger are somewhere between science-fiction stories and anthropomorphizing AI as some kind of god. The equivalent of "if the bridge breaks down, someone can be hurt", namely a real, quantifiable danger is sorely lacking here.