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quickchequeon Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling

I usually don't like to make such a meta comment, but in this case, it appears HN fails basic heat transfer and thermodynamics.

quickchequeon Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

' As a consultant, this should make my expertise even more valuable. '

Consultant logic at its finest.

quickchequeon How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

I tend to view parenting discussions on HN with a strong gell mann weight.

quickchequeon Google researchers deal a major blow to the theory AI about to outsmart humans

I supposed generalization outside the training set structure may occur by chance should the outside set share enough of the same 'structure'. Basically if you can find magical maps to your training set then perhaps generalization may occur.

quickchequeon Photomolecular effect leading to water evaporation exceeding the thermal limit

Yes, this is a big deal. You can think an analogy to the photoelectric effect where a photon excites an electron and for the photomolecular effect, a photon with the proper 'excites' a molecule, breaking the molecule free from its bulk.

quickchequeon Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty

Perhaps it was never a liberal 'free' democracy in the first place. Or if it was, then it resides at an unstable point, and the stable points are full of nightmares.

quickchequeon Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college

You can have social convention without the debt. The social convention in the US is to have debt.

quickchequeon Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

Sure, any system with a false negative and false positive rate 'works'.

quickchequeon The Hypocrisy of Mandatory Diversity Statements

As a prof, I use GPT for any boilerplate statements such as DEI required as part of grant/fellowship/scholarship applications.

quickchequeon Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns

And are you following the same approach with your own kids (if any)?

quickchequeon Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns

How about the ones that were allowed to do whatever they wanted? Where are they now?

quickchequeon Ask HN: How are you a good dad to your kids?

Let the kids choose but help them understand the the consequences of their choices.

quickchequeon When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

Sounds like an ideal labor force.

quickchequeon Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile

cough cough ... do things that don't scale....this industry is a joke.

quickchequeon Globalization is dead and no one is listening

Well, how does futurism fit into this statement? After all, it is about the future so eternally theoretical.

quickchequeon An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model

In your example, both sides are equally acceptable and we just pick one. How does this apply to the present case?

quickchequeon An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model

If you are willing to throw out the moral reason, then the legal reason is just an empty rule.

quickchequeon The Insane Study Routine of Sir Isaac Newton

He was also human.

quickchequeon FTX closes in on a deal to buy embattled crypto lender BlockFi for $25M

I mean that possibility is implied. Backward and downward.

quickchequeon ‘We’re a Cult’: Inside Bitcoin’s Shameless Hypefest

It is kind of interesting to look at bitcoin as part of the 'virtual colonization'. Much of big tech can be said to colonize the data of its users...