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Covid vaccine was not studied the way drugs normally are, so they don't know what the side effects are. And it was rammed down everyone's throat so "public health" authorities had to present a unified lie that there was absolutely zero downside.

People happily take and request drugs with long lists of side effects and accept the risk, so there is societal understanding and tolerance of the tradeoff in taking a drug. But because the covid vaccine was forced on people, they were not allowed to make an informed choice so the government had to pretend there were no risks as part of claiming authority to mandate it.

Invoking Gebru immediately discredits any article. She had a brief moment of fame for not doing her job and encouraging others to not do theirs as well, and somehow came away with some synthetic street credit for it in slacktavist circles; she's somehow become a lazy talking point for people who want to insinuate without actually doing real research.

The scariest part of this is that it appears to be country dependent how seriously it is taken and how those presenting with symptoms are addressed. I have no idea if I'm in a pandas-accepting country, but knowing this now I'd certainly find a jurisdiction willing to entertain it's existence if my kids had symptoms. It shows how subjective and uncertain medicine really is.

This is basically happy hour. Though the app notification (why would I ever install a pub app?) feels like it could be a slippery slope to true dynamic pricing. Though revenue management for going to the pub seems like a poor use case.

Wow. Thanks.

That's an insane amount of money. I can't read the article, it would be very interesting to see the rental costs they backed out of and how much they saved.

Of note, Canada's deputy prime minister has a masters degree from Harvard in slavic studies and wrote a book about Russia. They knew what army the guy fought for, it's unlikely that she or anyone else who knew about history could really not have known if they'd thought about it at all.

I'm in no way defending him or the government's actions here. I want to add though that Canada did have a commission in 1986 look into this person's unit (Galacia Division) did not find evidence implicating them in war crimes. If there is evidence of course I'm all in favor of extraditing and prosecuting him and others

  The report also found that Canada was home to several thousand ex-Nazis who couldn’t be directly implicated in war crimes given the available evidence.

  This was the inquiry’s verdict on the Galicia Division, the Ukrainian Waffen-SS unit in which Yaroslav Hunka – the man applauded Friday in the House of Commons – was a veteran.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-canada-has-lo...

That may make sense for setting public policy but it's not necessarily true with your own kids is it?

Huh? Is it a given that we should optimize life for school, particularly tutoring which I assume pertains to high school and below? I think in the absence of a disability, money spent on sports or drama club or 4H or whatever extra curriculars is a way better investment than extra math or something. To me it says they have sensible priorities.

I think the average person was shorter then. I'm 6'3" and flirting with 200 lbs, and other than a bit of a dad bod am (or so I tell myself) pretty slim. My guess is these guys were mostly well under 6'

Maybe true, but he's trying, investing his time and possibly his money in it. He could also just do nothing, it's cool that he's spending time thinking about it. What more could you ask for?

Yes exactly. And I find many tweets only make any sense either because they are a reply or the beginning of a thread or something. Or maybe the tweet is all there is, but you'd need to know that. With the new format you just get the orphaned tweet and don't know where it fits in. It's imo not really an appropriate way of sharing information anymore.

Thanks, is there a better link then that would let someone not up to speed understand the announcement and significance?

"Trust experts" has changed in the new religious movement from "trust experts on stuff in their area of expertise" (which largely makes sense) to "trust politicians who have credentials in a narrow specialty who want to tell you how to live". It's just another manifestation of humanity's now unfulfilled needs for religion.

It's funny, this used to be common sense but now we're so far gone we can't talk about it anymore without being labeled heretics.

This is a link to a Twitter announcing a YouTube coming in 1/2 hour. Does / did the YouTube contain the announcement?

Now that Twitter has gone subscriber only, we can't see any context around tweets. I think they should be DOA now when posted to HN as they do not allow for follow up or rtfaing.

Maybe I'm thinking about it too simply but yeah I agree.

Language models in particular are very similar architectures and effectively a lot of dot products. And running them on GPU's is arguably overkill. Look at llama.cpp for the way the industry is going. I want a fast parallel quantized dot product instruction on a CPU, and I want the memory bandwidth to keep it loaded up. Intel should be able to deliver that, with none of the horrible baggage that comes from CUDA and nvidia drivers.

> For obvious reasons I couldn’t attempt searching for datasets of children sleeping.

Go onto LAION 3B and do a text based search as well as embedding search based on the images you have. I'd guess there are enough out there to make a decent data set.

People want to use the specter of climate change to play politics and advocate radical socialism instead of solving a technical problem. We could easily go nuclear, sequester carbon, mitigate what changes we can't stop. But that doesn't address anyone's political aims, so instead we have a silly proxy argument between people pretending climate change isn't real and people demanding that other people sacrifice lifestyle and embrace their politics. Until we get past that and address the real issues, nothing will change.

Propaganda and misinformation is apparently ok when it's part of a popular religion?

Every now and again there are brief periods where it says "We're having trouble serving your request". It happens when they change something?

I remember decades ago reading a study that said there is statistically more bacteria in the drink ice at fast food restaurants than on the toilet seats in the bathrooms...

Are there any good freely available multi-modal models?

The big ranges is a logical consequence of such stupid rules. People are not commodities, and only in the most trivial of work can you a priori know what an individual brings to it. It's typical government thinking that makes no sense in the real world. So employers are stuck publishing an absurdly wide band that reflects the difference in what different people might bring to the position.

This is effectively populism, a simple and wrong solution to a much more complex problem.

I found this interesting: despite her locally being a big star, Bruce Springsteen sold his music for $550 Million recently which must deflect decades of staying power. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/arts/music/bruce-springst...

Otoh, Bob Dylan sold his for only $150-200 M. I wonder if he didn't have full rights, or if I'm overestimating his popularity. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bob-dyl...

Anyway, I'd expect these long standing acts to have more long term value than more modern pop acts like Perry. It would/will be interesting to see the valuations of different artists work.

They're not all identical and they don't share with each other. The article didn't mention it but I'd also suspect lack of strong family ties is a big contributor. It's going to be people who didn't have kids or have estranged kids and are widowed or unmarried that are most exposed, and that demographic will only keep going up.

Parasitic plants as well.

I don't have great links but look at mistletoe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe and Indian pipe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora for example.

Being a poor performer is not the same as being a bad person . There are lots of reasons for poor performance like you say that are probably all present to some extent or another. But from a company's perspective, it's better to keep people who are doing well under their circumstances and drop those that aren't. It is also better for the employee not to be in a bad situation where they can't perform well. Probably most of us have been there. None of that is a judgement about a person's objective worth.

People don't like to admit it, and companies will never say it, but a lot of recent "layoffs" have been polite ways to get rid of low performers. It's not a surprise that after dropping some dead weight companies want to bring in some new people. It's just that they can't come out and say it like that.

Canada has given them an 11 figure subsidy to build EVs here... I wonder how that will play out if there is not the demand.