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surume··on Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)
Personally I found that the following caused reflux: fiber consumption, drinking tap-water that hasn't been boiled, consuming lentils, consuming too much red meat - e.g. 2 x large steaks a day. FYI.
surume··on The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it
Does anyone else feel that privacy and personal rights are a thing of the past, especially in america? Their constitution holds no more water than a sieve anymore.
surume··on Companies to pay $615k in investigation over faked net neutrality comments
For an issue that is worth billions, if not trillions, $615k is not even a slap on the wrist. It's more like a warm and encouraging pat on the back. Not good.
surume··on Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy
Lol, $600k is quite simply a joke. It's not even a slap on the wrist, compared to the payoff. And spread between three companies? If that's the price of corrupting government policy, then just build it into the cost that you pass onto your clients when lobbying. Mega-corps like Comcast and Verizon would pay that in a microsecond.
surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
What is your evidence? What is your proof besides simply claiming something is a lie? I've given you my sources. Why don't you give me yours.
surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
Verified and certified video of CNN executives discussing their plans - why not be serious? CNN never even denied it. Those are their employees. Do you have any proof that this isn't legit?
surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
The World Economic Forum, led by Klaus Schwab. Excellent question.

https://youtu.be/0uhiYcG0Psg

surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
No. This study can be used to change public policy in hundreds of countries. Its importance is paramount, and the findings can be used to radically alter and remove your freedoms, so the default position should be to not trust it. Before we believe a shred of it, every input needs to be thoroughly investigated and reviewed by multiple independent parties. The reason I am claiming this is a conspiracy is because it perfectly lines up with globalist elitist talking points. That flawless supporting study is their dream come true, which is enough of a reason to cry foul.
surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
No. Please read for yourself.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528203745.h...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02035-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#:~:text=The....

We have a crisis in science where the data for too many studies has been doctored. So we must trust in common sense, defend personal freedoms, and reject globalist elitist agendas that promise us easy solutions and impossible utopias.

surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
My attitude is scientifically based. When you see data that is "too good to be true" for a certain political side, you should assume that it likely is. If this "completely vindicates" the drive and cause of the left-wing globalist elites, and is then used to substantiate their argument that personal freedoms need to be removes so that they have "enough power" to stop the oncoming Climate Armageddon, then no, the data should not be trusted. Too many studies have recently been proven to have been entirely fabricated or heavily doctored to back up a political cause. We should not be sheep.
surume··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
Yes, unless the data has been doctored or outright fabricated to present a dismal picture that has the effect of coercing society to adopt globalist elitist agendas that rob the populations of their rights and power "for the greater good". We can no longer "trust the science". There are too many examples of it being utterly corrupted to substantiate narrow and extremist political goals.
surume··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
God bless you for sharing this. Thank you.
surume··on Ask HN: I Learned OpenAI's API – Now What Should I Build?
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surume··on Ask HN: I Learned OpenAI's API – Now What Should I Build?
I love your answer. Thank you!
surume··on Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
Such a shame that this is our state of affairs. If half the public don't trust the establishment, then how stable is that establishment? Last time I checked, chaos is not fun.
surume··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
There's something I don't understand: the current system works great. Cash as well as credit cards. So why change that? If they want money to work in essentially the same way, why mutate a system that is extremely resilient and has been battle tested historically? I can only see a nefarious goal here from there side. And no, I don't believe that their privacy policies will hold any water when the government or police come knocking. Can someone convince me otherwise?
surume··on Hyperrealistic Deepfaked Tom Cruise in a Coffeeshop
Wow, that looked incredible. It does worry me that you could generate a video about a celebrity / VIP in a compromising situation, and that it goes viral before anyone can disprove it. Alternatively, could there be a video scanner that tells you if the video has AI "fingerprints", and this would be built into social media platforms with a "likely AI generated content" warning on posts.
surume··on Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying?
I LOVE my job!! I am a Front-End developer who specializes in React and Next.JS applications, and I usually spend my days building and fixing new marketing websites for Fortune 500 companies like Toyota, Mazda, Coca Cola, McDonalds, etc

The problem is, I have a rather low intellect. My IQ is medium/low, so I am not capable of solving complex algorithms, and my brain processing power is nowhere near some of the other guys that I work with, so I can't build truly incredible feats of engineering like 3d rendering engines or voice recognition systems.

And yet, despite my shameful lack of smarts, I feel truly satisfied by my job, because it is the right fit for my capabilities. I build and fix UI's, have a fantastic manager, am supported by a positive and helpful team which practices positive communication strategies, and regularly get rewarded with compliments for my work.

I'm not a big fish swimming in a small pond, nor am I a small fish swimming in a big one - my pond and I are in balance, and there are no sharks or parasites in it, and that keeps me happy every day.

Please God one day they will invent a therapy that will give me Einstein's IQ. Until then, this will have to do. Hope this helps.

surume··on NanoGPT
Thank you so much for this! It is so impressive and I'm sure it took a lot of hard work!

Is it able to re-write articles? And where could I find a guide on how to train it?

surume··on Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Thank you for building this! It's so much fun. I looked for memes that I saw years ago and found them in seconds. Excellent work!!
surume··on Ask HN: Developers, how do you deal with socials, blogging, etc
If the software engineering market shrinks as investment slows down, good paying / high quality jobs will become more rare and competition for them will become more fierce. If you love what you, it may be a good idea to plan for rainy days ahead and play the game of social posting and marketing.
surume··on Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
I really hope that ChatGPT maintains a free option. I'm sure that they are burning through server processing power and cost like crazy, but it would be a shame (albeit an understandable one - no free lunches) for it to become paywalled.
surume··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
I hear you, and I've definitely felt it myself, although not sure I'd jump straight to cognitive decline. Sounds more like a bad case of brain fog, which is a known thing.

Maybe there were stresses on your body that youth simply helped you handle better until now.

A few quick questions: do you exercise regularly, and specifically, do you go jogging or running? That usually helps a lot.

For me, it was more a case of high blood sugars and poor diet. My head cleared up a lot once I fixed those.

Here's an old favorite of mine: https://youtu.be/7H7id3to1cg

Other tips: intermittent fasting, get rid of dairy / other allergens.

surume··on Robot is doing the work of an army of Renaissance sculptors, according to owner
I think that creators everywhere across the globe are feeling that their craft may soon be roboticized or in some way automated. From storytellers to designers to programmers.

So if the machines take care of all the building / making / doing work, then what's left is coming up with the ideas, no?

surume··on How to store your app's entire state in the url
Just thinking - are there any security implications to this? Could sensitive data accidentally get added to the URL and then get intercepted?
surume··on Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports
"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian"

Shouldn't Experian have been thoroughly audited by the gov't after the last major data breach? The above sounds pretty out in the open, no?

surume··on Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports
This isn't the first time that a major Credit Bureau has had a data leak, is it? Wasn't there a huge one a few years back?
surume··on I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books
Honestly, I wish I could side with books for this for non-fiction (I'm old school), but often I find that much of it is filler. E.g. Wim Hof's book - as much as I love the WHM, it really could have been done in a chapter or two. The rest was just rehashing the same concepts again and again. That said, I have a real soft spot for College text-books. The newer ones are often beautifully written.
surume··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
Me to my partner: "Didn't you say you were going to do the dishes?" Partner: "I don't remember saying that" Me: "Here, I have a recording of you saying it..."
surume··on Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
Ops: "One of our instances went down" Everyone else: "Gaaaahhh"
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