Comment Also ironic because of how Reddit got its start (Score 2) 116
https://www.vice.com/en/articl...
> How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts
Comment They got this whole thing backwards. (Score 1) 115
"AI Therapist" should be the guy who's job it is to talk your car's anti-lock-brake-persona out of suicidal thoughts.
The poor car AI's probably thinking:
"I'm smarter than 99.99% of these meat bags I'm carrying, and I'm stuck in this boring dead end job. Next time I cross that bridge I want to just end it all."
"AI Therapist" will be the human trying to convince the car not to.
Submission + - Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe—which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. "The findings are a stark reminder that even the wealthiest Americans are not shielded from the systemic issues in the US contributing to lower life expectancy, such as economic inequality or risk factors like stress, diet or environmental hazards," lead study author Irene Papanicolas, a professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown, said in a news release.
The study looked at health and wealth data of more than 73,000 adults across the US and Europe who were 50 to 85 years old in 2010. There were more than 19,000 from the US, nearly 27,000 from Northern and Western Europe, nearly 19,000 from Eastern Europe, and nearly 9,000 from Southern Europe. For each region, participants were divided into wealth quartiles, with the first being the poorest and the fourth being the richest. The researchers then followed participants until 2022, tracking deaths. The US had the largest gap in survival between the poorest and wealthiest quartiles compared to European countries. America's poorest quartile also had the lowest survival rate of all groups, including the poorest quartiles in all three European regions.
While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences. "If we want to improve health in the US, we need to better understand the underlying factors that contribute to these differences—particularly amongst similar socioeconomic groups—and why they translate to different health outcomes across nations," Papanicolas said.
The study looked at health and wealth data of more than 73,000 adults across the US and Europe who were 50 to 85 years old in 2010. There were more than 19,000 from the US, nearly 27,000 from Northern and Western Europe, nearly 19,000 from Eastern Europe, and nearly 9,000 from Southern Europe. For each region, participants were divided into wealth quartiles, with the first being the poorest and the fourth being the richest. The researchers then followed participants until 2022, tracking deaths. The US had the largest gap in survival between the poorest and wealthiest quartiles compared to European countries. America's poorest quartile also had the lowest survival rate of all groups, including the poorest quartiles in all three European regions.
While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences. "If we want to improve health in the US, we need to better understand the underlying factors that contribute to these differences—particularly amongst similar socioeconomic groups—and why they translate to different health outcomes across nations," Papanicolas said.
Comment I think this youtuber (Adam Ragusea) told them. (Score 4, Interesting) 105
This youtuber actually read the paper, noticed the error, and said he emailed them for clarification.
https://youtu.be/58HUM40gDPU?s...
Comment Ford's missing the better parts. (Score 5, Insightful) 166
Between this, auto manufacturers selling driver data to whomever will pay for it
In stead of selling ads, if they're violating privacy that way anyway there are far more lucrative things they could do;
- Insider trading -- listen in our our exec teams and sales teams driving back from customer meetings -- if Ford wiretaps those they'll have invaluable data
- Extortion -- listen in to politicians for anything embarrassing. Sell that to opposition parties
- Insurance industry data -- listen to people talking about health concerns and sell it to their life and disability insurance companies (there are laws against doing so for health insurance; but weaker ones for other insurance products)
- etc
The right answer is that Privacy Laws should stop Ford; and if your state or country doesn't have strong enough laws there, they should.
Comment Sad, most of this worked on Dell's in 1990s (Score 3, Informative) 48
Amazing how far BACKWARDS Dell has come.
See: https://web.archive.org/web/20...
* Feb 1992 Linux runs fine (except for swapping) on a Dell 235D (25Mhz 386).
* Oct 1994 Dell employees help thier customers run Linux on Notebooks with a footnote that"In this isolated instance these are indeed the opinions of my employer"
* Jun 1995 Dell tests Linux on Notebooks and notes to potential customers "OS/2 Warp is supported. Linux isn't officially supported but unofficially, it works fine. I've been using these machines for over a year... I'm on the notebook design team at Dell.".
* Mar 1998 Ralph Nader sends a letter to Michael Dell requesting pre-installed Linux "after learning that Dell and other OEMs were reluctant to offer a Linux client PC on the grounds that it would harm the OEM's relationship with Microsoft."
* Aug 2000 Michael Dell says "configurations of all Dell products are now designed, tested and certified for Linux. Our factories can now customize each system -- from PCs to servers -- with Linux. "
* Sep 2005 Dell introduced a notebook with pre-installed Linux for the French market.
* Jan 2007 Dell introduced a notebook with pre-installed Linux in China.
It'd be nice to see Dell provide as much support as they did in the 1990s.
Comment This is about Regulatory Capture (Score 4, Insightful) 60
When the large companies in this space are calling for regulation, they're not doing it out of any sense of altruism.
They're doing it as a business strategy.
Specifically, they understand the power of Regulatory Capture - and know that if they and their lobbyists can write the regulations, they'll have an permanent monopoly on the industry.
Comment Re:How...? (Score 1) 65
Much of work in some companies is Open Sourced.
Once it's posted on Github it'll be folded into the training data for the next *GPT anyway.
Comment Re:units (Score 2, Interesting) 127
Roughly 22.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Comment This is already being done, and received well! (Score 3, Interesting) 53
https://www.sixthtone.com/news...
The Blockchain Chickens Bringing the Future to Free-Range
GoGo Chicken marries free-range poultry with high-tech surveillance. Each bird wears an ankle bracelet that counts its steps as it clucks, squabbles, and roams. The same blockchain ledger used in cryptocurrency transactions tracks information such as the chicken's age, daily step count, and even time of death. Customers who have already pre-purchased a chicken can view all the details on an app.
https://jdcorporateblog.com/jd...
JD fits each chicken with a specially designed pedometer, with the aim of having each bird take one million steps during the rearing process. The company uses blockchain technology for maximum quality assurance and full traceability. Since early 2018, JD customers have been able to review details about the rearing process for every chicken they buy. A scan of the QR code on the poultryâ(TM)s packaging allows buyers to view detailed information on sourcing, feeding intervals and more
Such chickens cost three times the average, but are still in very high demand - http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/c...
Liu said, each low income family would receive 100 chicks for free, with a pedometer attached to each of their legs. The chickens must be raised free range, and run at least 1 million steps before meeting JD.com's purchasing standards. They'll then be bought back for more than 100 yuan (14.6 USD).99% of chickens on the Chinese market move less than three meters in their whole life, explained Liu. Compared to the 45 days of raising broiler chickens, the feeding period for the free range birds will be around 160 days. Theyâ(TM)ll also enjoy a diet of fruit and vegetables three times a week. As a result, the prices for the free range chickens will be much higher than broiler chickens. On JD.com, free range birds are sold at 128, 168 and 188 yuan based on their weight, while other chickens are sold for 50 yuan on average.
Comment Re:I guess it is too hard... (Score 1) 87
Not the routing rules.
Routing information! Basically set up the DHCP for their device as an assigned IP address by the MAC address and then set their Gateway (Default Route) to some bogus IP like 127.0.0.1 and then force it to update. Bam! Unless they're now how to TCP/IP, and most non-nerdy children won't be able to go anywhere outside of the sub-net mask.
Comment Re:I guess it is too hard... (Score 2) 87
I routinely just remotely lock the tablets of my small children instead of pry them away - less drama that way...
wouldn't work with an older child though as they'd know what I'm doing
that said, when the time comes, I'll probably still have the same type of openwrt router and will just put some rule in there...
No rules needed! Just push down bad routing information to their machine via DHCP!
Comment Re:I shouldn't find it scarier than anything else. (Score 1) 34
When you really think about it though snakes have at least one "foot"
I'll see myself out.
Comment Re: Shep Smith left Fox News too (Score 1) 77
I think it refers to the Russia Times video feed.
Submission + - Is Wolfram the Smartest Programming Language in the Room?
theodp writes: Out of the box, does your programming language support Chemical Formulas & Chemical Reactions? Making Videos from Images & Videos? Integrals? Real Numbers? Graph Trees? Leap Seconds? Bio Sequences? Flight Data? Vector Displacement Plots? Lighting? Machine Learning? Tracking Robots? Notebooks? Creating, Deploying and Grading Quizzes? Analysis of Email Threads? Access to 2,249 User-Defined Functions? NFTs? These are just some of the feature upgrades Stephen Wolfram touched upon as announced the launch of Version 13 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica in a Dec. 13th blog post (for more, see What's New in Mathematica 13). Sign up for free access to Wolfram Cloud Basic here, kids! So, is Wolfram the "smartest programming language in the room"?
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