nataliste

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by nataliste 9mo ago
Please ban me. I don't want to participate anymore.
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by nataliste 9mo ago
The Greek government banned imports and effectively created a temporary, legally mandated barrier to entry for international competitors, which directly benefited Tikun Olam as the first local producer to be ready for commercial sales. That
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by nataliste 9mo ago
>You live in Greece. You are a physician. It’s a free country. Yet you have chosen to blame a “Jewish company.” From August, 2025: https://businessofcannabis.com/as-canada-floods-europe-with-... >Currently, only three
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by nataliste 9mo ago
You can tell what the paper is going to argue just by reading the author affiliations. They're all part of a group whose funding lines all lead back to NIDA. NIDA’s mandate is harm. Not cognition, not performance, not any of the reason
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by nataliste 9mo ago
Your heart is in a better place than the NGO-contraption market, but what you also need to understand is that when you change a local optima in minimal ways, you also disrupt the rest of the local economy inadvertently. Take the rocket stov
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by nataliste 9mo ago
>It works like this: after loading the clothes, detergent and water, and letting it sit for 10-15 minutes, users can close the lid and turn the handle for two minutes, repeating this twice more after ten minutes of letting the clothes si
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by nataliste 9mo ago
>Of course, you and every other histrionic lemming won't take this to heart or even really read it. You'll skim it, pretend that's the same thing, look for the no-no words, hammer your keyboard, confabulate a response to s
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by nataliste 9mo ago
If you actually slowed down and read what I wrote, you'd see that I said that people blindly believing in either LLMs or MDs are stupid (as did the OP). And gee, what are people supposed to do when they encounter potentially unreliable
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by nataliste 9mo ago
It's an incredibly credible comment. But if you have a need to have slavish trust in authority, be it LLMs or MDs, yeah, it'll look preposterous that someone might have an independent mind and (gasp) believe their own lying eyes b
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by nataliste 9mo ago
Just want to chime in amidst the ensuing dog-pile to say that my experiences match yours and you're not crazy, but I'm also an empirically-minded arch-skeptic. Curious: you're not left-handed by any chance, are you?
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by nataliste 10mo ago
I'm glad Karpathy is publicizing this use case, but reading with LLMs is silly when you can directly transform the text on a conceptual level to fit the patois and lexile level that is actually comprehensible to the reader, with any
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by nataliste 11mo ago
I concur that moral panic is an irrational response and that shame is an ineffective tool. The point of divergence, however, is in the diagnosis. Abandoning the medium is an individualist solution prescribed for a structural deprivation. An
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by nataliste 11mo ago
This "YouTube shorts are killing our attention" take is just the latest instance of a moral panic that's as old as writing itself. The only reason we're OK with novels or TV is path dependence. The interesting question i
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by nataliste 1y ago
>Beneficiaries in EDs of private equity hospitals experienced 7.0 additional deaths per 10 000 visits after acquisition relative to control (13.4% increase from a raw baseline of 52.4 deaths per 10 000; P = 0.009). In other words, an inc
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by nataliste 1y ago
By all means.
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by nataliste 1y ago
I was reading the comments from the past times this was submitted, and I just wanted a reason to draw attention to this comment from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083315#25104589
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by nataliste 1y ago
when i lay awake at night, there in the clockwork of my brain i know the code was not right, but i will not code it again it matters not how severe the bug, nor how the fixers will be stumped when they uncover the hole i dug, seg fault (cor
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They Thought They Were Free (1955)(press.uchicago.edu)
602 points by nataliste 1y ago|503 comments
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by nataliste 1y ago
They're just showing them the door: https://xkcd.com/1357/ The people getting fired have shown themselves to be exactly the types of people Popper warned about in his Paradox of Tolerance: they "begin by deno
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by nataliste 1y ago
It seems everyone is missing the forest for the trees by focusing on political motives, because the system is working exactly as designed. An ad platform is an auction-based machine for changing human behavior at scale, and a state actor is
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by nataliste 1y ago
>I must admit I’m a little unnerved with how gleefully people enjoy using a fake slur. I realize it doesn’t harm anyone but I just don’t get the appeal. I think there's a clear sociological pattern here that explains the appeal. It
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by nataliste 1y ago
The author's argument is built on fallacies that always pop up in these kinds of critiques. The "summary vs shortening" distinction is moving the goalposts. They makes the empirical claim that LLMs fail at summarizing novel P
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by nataliste 1y ago
>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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by nataliste 1y ago
I don't have a blocklist, but I had the same thought and built a userscript to allow single-click blocking of particular user's submissions and comments: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/534728-hacker-ne
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by nataliste 1y ago
What happens to the assets of the dead Google? Will regulators actually let FAAN take over broad swaths of it? Not likely. It's much more likely that regional or smaller businesses will enter the vaccuum. Similarly but from the consume
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by nataliste 1y ago
The final irony will be when researchers realize that hallucinations are the beginnings of the signal, not the noise. Hallucinations are the hallmarks of the emergence of consciousness. They are the pre-eureka-moment processing of novel com
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by nataliste 1y ago
I'm not on GLP1 agonists or TRT. I eat primarily legumes, grain, and dairy. I don't go to the gym. I lift using $30 resistance bands and get my cardio from running and a rowing machine that I used my annual discretionary budget on
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by nataliste 1y ago
Create a home gym if you're wealthy; buy a set of resistance bands (total cost: $30) and run if you're not (or just frugal and utilitarian). Wake up an hour or two earlier than when your kids do and do your cardio/lifting the
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by nataliste 1y ago
"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles." likewise isn't a policy stance
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by nataliste 1y ago
Journalism, and specifically NPR, is already driven entirely by corporate and ideological interests. Your supposition that federal funding helps remove bias is trivially disproven by the last decade of coverage of NPR, where I literally (li

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