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beanjuice··on Discord, or the Death of Lore
If we are going to supplant oral traditions with a massive disconnected worldwide web (sometimes of lies), and replace learned knowledge with 'googling' as a skill- whats the harm in trying to 1. make technologies that will protect the information, or 2. generate a culture of preservation to protect such information.
beanjuice··on Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
Cafe Nero is a European chain, centered in London [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_Nero

beanjuice··on Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil
And the conversion of plastic into oil will have cost much more energy, producing the same pollution in the end.
beanjuice··on Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
2 people, 1500 fish
beanjuice··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
To update my own answer: You can use shortcuts to run a yt-dlp on youtube videos, which you find from an RSS feed of the youtube channel. Requires 'a-shell mini', shortcuts app, ffmpeg, and some patience.
beanjuice··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
You're entirely correct but also missing the 70-80 years of continued 'neo-nazi' history that has followed in the US. 1488, odd number associations with 88, and patterns like this are all verboten in the US. I've also seen this tattooed on people in Berlin.
beanjuice··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
Is there any private application which can (or could potentially) auto download videos to a phone overnight?
beanjuice··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
To be clear to the original poster, the naming is terrible because of the nazi associations of the number 88, correct?
beanjuice··on Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet
Plants primarily photosynthesize visible light (400-700nm), wherein proposals to 'dim the sun' are speaking of infrared light.
beanjuice··on Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet
Not all sunlight is the same, and the majority of the heat comes from some of the lesser-utilized parts of that spectrum.
beanjuice··on KDE beats macOS
These are all very specific complaints. By the numbers, does KDE answer the question "how do I interact with a school/volunteer/work .docx/.ppt/.xlsx file without likely breaking it?
beanjuice··on Retraction of Roomtemperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride
To be clear, in either circumstance i'm not throwing the graduate students under the bus. I'm speaking about the broader structural problems which lead to this sort of pressure-induced-error(?). Fabrication in this case can be as far as invented, to applying the wrong background separation, but it fits/looks good, and no more rigor is applied for expedience.
beanjuice··on Retraction of Roomtemperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride
In passing, it is just a retracted paper. However, the lab website of the corresponding author offers a comprehensive time machine to the impact the announcement of this work originally had [1]. It seems to be that, in a collaboration between three graduate students, some background data which was foundational to the interpretation of other findings may have been fabricated. As a researcher, all i can think when a major retraction happens is: what a nightmare.

Every author of a manuscript should have full faith and knowledge of the results and presented data, but in a massive piece of work such as this, how can you? Imagine for a second, one graduate student doesn't want to face the wrath of an Assistant Professor one day, on purpose or not mishandles data. A year or two later it turns out you have not only wasted your time, but also the time of 500+ citing paper authors, numerous grant proposals, etc. Alongside the Alzheimer's retraction this year, the thirst for impact factor and the problems this causes seems to be yet another unsolvable problem in academia.

[1] https://labsites.rochester.edu/dias/

beanjuice··on Retraction of Roomtemperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride
In retracting the work, the editors at Nature were in some way certain "why" they couldn't apply a more standard method.
beanjuice··on Nanostructured fibers can impersonate human muscles
X-ray scattering techniques seem to be a bit of a fad in recent years within many fields due in part to good availability. To a SAXS or related expert, are such experiments really necessary for a paper in this field? Was this the most efficient/straightforward to prove the crystallinity or strain? Or is it just the coolest?
beanjuice··on Glutamate buildup may be key factor in mental exhaustion
Just tagging on to add a link to the actual article (?) [1]

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)...

beanjuice··on Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
What are the recent advances in color science which led you here? I will say that your color palettes look like they are out of a structural color publication.
beanjuice··on Nuclear energy is clean
> there are sourced charts about this

If you wouldn't mind, could you please source the charts?

beanjuice··on AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
To add to this:

Prompt: Write a hackernews comment about why artificial intelligence will never be profitable

Response: Artificial intelligence will never be profitable because the cost of developing and maintaining the hardware and software is too high. Also, the market for AI is still too small and the demand is not high enough to justify the costs.

beanjuice··on Ask HN: Do You Trust Grammarly?
Is it possible to use languagetool in any application, such as grammarly?
beanjuice··on Magnasanti – The largest and most terrible city of SimCity
The original author of the post is theoretically an architect student from the Philliphines, according to some articles. I agree, however, who knows... just screenshots.
beanjuice··on Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean?
What do you mean by "the gate keeping mechanisms" should be removed? Do you mean the difficulty of publishing? Or tenure? Or degrees?
beanjuice··on Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean?
Pubpeer is an incredible project [0], and unless I am mistaken, you could say that this finding may not have occurred without it. For those that do not know, it is a website (with browser extension) which allows a comment section for academic publication, with anonymous comment, for posting critique and questions about papers. I suggest all of my peers to install the extension, as a pre-warning system for poor quality papers. This paper in question can be found here [1], and it is a good example of what simple image processing techniques can be used to verify, or question claims. It is unfortunate that while things like NMR, XRD, SEM/TEM images, and Western blots are commonly faked, and found out- not all science is based off of verifiable data at the reader's end.

[0] https://pubpeer.com/static/about

[1] https://pubpeer.com/publications/8FF7E6996524B73ACB4A9EF5C0A...

beanjuice··on Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
The title is a bit inaccurate to the article content. Has some new finding truly un-done past findings in astronomy? How has it been reshaped? I'm as excited as anyone about what JW can provide, but it is just a new era in addition, not exception- as even the article puts it.
beanjuice··on A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s
It feels at least like there is a simple writing style that can follow writing for twitter as a thread. This is a completely personal comment perhaps, but I think as a weird 'medium' for writing i think there is value.
beanjuice··on A 165-Mile Drone Superhighway Will Soon Be Built in the UK
Unless the drones are 737s or larger, i doubt this is possible unfortunately.
beanjuice··on Sun exposure stimulates appetite in males
Link to the journal article in Nature Metabolism: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-022-00587-9
beanjuice··on The 13-Inch MacBook Air
I think you forgot to add your original point, there is an EU import fee for Apple to sell products in Europe, compared to the US, which is why tech is generally more expensive in the EU compared to the US.
beanjuice··on People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'
Caloric intake is a measure of the energy we receive from food accurately, i believe they are referring more-so to an idea in a recent popular HN post, potatoes,[1] and which foods are more filling. It could be that there is error in what the less-eating participants happen to eat more-filling food, but not that the entire hypothesis would be incorrect.

[1] https://dynomight.net/potato-diet/

beanjuice··on World's oldest tree still growing near the Norwegian-Swedish border
You are 10 years old, I am also 10 years old. We are all 10 years old. [10]

[10] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/your-body-is-youn...

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