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Brits are usually pretty good at taking the piss…

That argument was vaguely plausible until WebKit/JavaScriptCore shipped PTC and literally no one bat an eye.

Bun users don’t care either.

At this point it is pure BS.


> Bun users don’t care either.

Most Bun users don't even know about this (unless they are bitten by this). That doesn't mean absolutely no one cares or would not care even though such complaints might be uncommon.


There are NES emulators aplenty, the only value in writing a new one is pedagogic, for the writer.

This endeavor had negative net value.


It demonstrated the capabilities of an AI to a potentially on-the-fence audience while giving the author experience using the new tools/environment. That's solid value. I also just find it really cool to see that an AI did this.

Yeah, it shows the AI is not capable of writing maintainable projects. I'm off the fence. And its cool you find it cool, but reducing the problem space to that of a toy project makes it so much less impressive as to be trivially ignorable.

The new LLM (pattern recognizer/matcher) is not a good tool


How about being entertained by the process?

They didnt call it the "Nintendo Entertainment System" for nothing.

There is a difference between having an opinion and spending money to promote it.

Also, beside the direct murders as @ceejayoz mentioned, the social exclusion of LGBT folks drives far too many of them to many of them to suicide.

The legalization of same sex marriage cause a noticeable drop in their suicide rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBTQ_people#:~:...).


There is plenty of evidence beside this study.


The vaccinnated group was 1 year older on average, and had mode cardiovascular risk factors.

Covid has long term health consequences, and these are proportional to the severity of the acute infection.

People who died of a stroke of a heart infarction 6 months down the line were not counted as "covid death", even though covid is known to increase their incidence in the next year.


Another factor that may play a role: the people who chose not to take the vaccine may be prone to taking bad decisions more broadly, leading to a higher mortality rate.


If true, that means the groups are different in many other aspects other than the vaccine.

The study does not control for the differences. No causality can be inferred.


I mean, it's plausibly something around trust in medical authorities which correlates with both vaccine and other treatment refusal.


@dang this may be a good candidate for the second chance pool

The author has a strong quantum physics background, and makes testable predictions [1].

This isn't circular fluff as argued in this thread, but a mathematically fledged theoretical framework.

1. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/11/115319/3372193/Un...


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059894

Called it, six years ago :-)

I can see boards of directors drooling at the potential savings.


Tesla can immediately make a saving of $1 Trillion


unforuntely, that 1T is because Elon's buddies are on the board. They're a bunch of rich human centipedes.


Love this one.


Musk isn’t getting a trillion. Tesla sales would have to skyrocket.


The package doesn't say who the buyers must be. Musk could just have his other pet companies by Teslas to meet the threshold.


Imagine that they do skyrocket but the RoboCEO is in charge trillion gets distributed to shareholders.


Imagine that at least half the shares were held by a sovereign wealth fund that paid dividends to every citizen.


This is TFUS [1] with a novel target.

It looks like independent hackers with a strong technical background and little regard for decorum.

Their methodology seems reasonable, and their results are plausible.

I’m reserved about the final part of the post where they moot about applications, but the core result seems solid. They elicited osmosphenes like one can elicit phosphènes by targeting the visual cortex.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_focused_ultrasoun...


> Keeping in mind where the team are coming from [...]

Oh... could you elaborate?


I don't know the exact details, but as far as I remember they are a employees owned collective with social improvement goals, working on open source, and they are involved in the Orca screen reader for Linux.

Wikipedia and their about page give some more info, but they definitely have accessibility experience and the history of delivering stuff.


Great, thanks!


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