HumanReadable's comments

I was very unhappy until the day I dedicated my life to helping others.

Now I am the founder of a non-profit and despite taking a much lower salary, working many more hours and feeling much more stress, I have become a very happy and fulfilled person.

Once the center of your life revolves around helping others, rather than yourself, it becomes a lot easier to endure all the crap life throws at you.

My issue with reddit is the polar opposite. It's not moderated remotely aggressively enough!

Any interesting subreddit immediately falls to the lowest common denominator without aggressive moderation. /r/askhistorians is a good example of the level of moderation a subreddit needs to remain sane as it grows.

People like to complain about gatekeeping, but societies build gates for a reason. I would like a forum that actively encourages gatekeeping and bans users who consistently post low quality comments.

That really doesn't seem like the core issue to me. Once child is born parents have tons of obligations towards them, and severe neglect can cause a prison sentence.

I'm not American, so forgive me for barging in, but it seems to me you have two core issues:

First there is the debate over when a Fetus should be considered a person and receive the rights that come with it.

Secondly there is a debate over states rights and what topics the federal government should get a say in.

Fair enough, I agree.

I actually didn't intend for my comment to be an argument in favour or against, and I am a bit surprised it is the most upvoted of the section.

I agree that there's a pretty interesting discussion to fair-use and the limits of copyright, and that my original comment was not conducive to having that discussion. In my defense, neither was the tweet this thread is about!

Sorry for the unproductive tone of this comment, but there's something about the attitude of this tweet that really grinds my gears.

Any time someone invents something new and incredible, there's always a crowd of negative nancies eager to discredit and explain why the invention is nothing new and a detrement to society.

I don't understand why someone would willingly share their code on github where it is publicly available just to complain when others make use of that knowledge.

'co-pilot just sells code other people wrote' is such a ridiculous understatement of what co-pilot does. Instead of marvelling at the human ingenuity that went into creating it, they sneer at the audacity of openAI to do something without first asking their permission.

As someone who is pretty decent at go (6k OGS, for those who know what that means), I teach go in a pretty unorthodox way, which has so far produced much better results than the way I see other teach it.

The way I teach both the rules and basic strategy of go is to start with the smallest possible board 1x1 and work our way up.

on a 1x1 board, it's impossible to place any stones because it has no liberties. Great now the player knows about liberties.

Then we move to a 2x2 board, where it is possible to place a stone and capture the opponent's stone. Great now we know about captures and ko.

Then we move to 3x3, where we find ourselves able to create our first live shapes, and get to score the board. Now we know when the game ends and how to score it!

Then we move on to 5x5, where we play our first 'real' game, now knowing all the rules.

yup, I'm 24 and single which probably gives me a lot more free time than many on this forum.

That said I think you can get very far with a 35 minute workout 2-3 days a week, if you do the right compound exercises and push yourself.

My god there are many people in this comment thread who trivialise weight loss, clearly having never done it themselves.

I'm a healthy weight, do heavy workouts 5 days a week and am in very good shape. When I cut my body fat down to ~10%, I go through hell in terms of hunger. There's not a minute I'm not thinking about how hungry I am, and how much I want to eat. I'm completely unable to do productive work, spending a majority of my mental energy restraining myself from getting food.

It's very clear to me, that the only difference between me and someone obese is at what point our brains start telling us that we're hungry.

The only purpose this article serves is to make people who have never struggled with diet feel superior.

like for example, after writing this comment I just tried creating a new account again (using my facebook to login).

Half the videos are in dutch for some reason (I'm from Denmark, I don't speak dutch nor have I ever lived there). I tried searching on some topics that interested me, and found some of them pretty compelling. Then I went back to the feed, and it just kept showing more dutch content.

Every time I've tried tiktok it's more or less been like this, except with less dutch.

I tried on multiple occations to get hooked on tik-tok, but each time after spending an hour scrolling through the feed with absolutely nothing interesting appearing I gave up.

Was I doing tik-tok wrong? I am a sociable 23 year old, so it's not like I'm way out of their target audience or anything. I am a bit confused as to why the algorithm seemed to be so poor at finding anything interesting for me, when have needed to disable youtube-recommendations because they take so much of my time.

As important is to recognize that even if the price cannot be negotiated, oftentimes the service you receive can!

If the waiter seats you somewhere you don't like, don't be afraid to ask for the nicer table! At the hotel, don't be afraid to ask if they have a nicer suite you can have instead.

Often employees are not able to negotiate the price, but they have flexibility in what they can offer you!

It's pretty easy to spot mold in your pu'er whether it's shu or sheng. I wouldn't worry about it.

Go try dramatically changing your weight and see how it makes you feel.

For the record I've never been obese, I'm in excellent shape and lift weights ~5 times a week. When bulking, eating enough calories to increase by weight by 25% requires significant effort. Similarly when I have do my cuts I find it incredibly difficult to get down to 10-12% body-fat.

My body clearly has a weight it wants to be at, and deviating from that requires a significant mental effort. I imagine someone obese trying to lose weight struggles the same way I do. The body wants to be at a certain size, and forcing it to change is difficult.

wow I thought it was just me with the problem!

I've been torn because I really want to play the game after almost a decade, but out of principle have not wanted to pay them twice.

Or maybe we just use the same words to convey different things over time.

I often find myself saying "I feel like <some argument> might be the case" when it would have been just as accurate to say "I think <some argument> might be true"

I don't think it makes me any less rational to use the word "feel" over "think", what makes me more or less rational will be the content of <some argument>

I'm 23, so I'm likely less wise than many commenters, so grain of salt!

I used to worry a lot about this, but over the time I noticed that I should expect to have slumps and peaks! It would be pretty unnatural to expect my performance to be completely consistent with no variance! Now when I'm in a slump, I know that I will eventually get out of it and that I shouldn't let it bother me too much. As long as the overall trajectory is upwards, I worry less about the monthly variance.

I have also worked out some fundamentals I always try to meet. Exercise, good sleep and a healthy diet are constants for me that I don't compromise on. I expect to slowly add more to this list as I grow older.

Worked for IBM for three years, this is accurate. To solve some clients problem we would build an ML solution from scratch just like everyone else, and then try to shoehorn some Watson service into it so we could use the Watson Brand to distinguish our product.

The solutions we built were generally pretty good and our clients were happy, but the Watson part was never anything more than marketing,

This is a very misleading title and should be changed. The EU Parliament has NOT banned these ads. Rather they have voted yes to the act. Unless the council votes yes as well, nothing is going to happen.

The politico title is correct, please change the title to that.

I agree there are no shortcuts, but just like the scales will come much more easily to someone naturally gifted at music, so will algebraic operations to someone gifted at math.

We can all improve our abilities, but those not gifted has a much steeper hill to climb.

I agree, but I still consider it a step up to what we had before. There's always been institutions whom people are told to trust. For a thousand years it was the church. I think for most people to trust credentialed scientists from government institutions is a vast step up, even if they have sorely disappointed during this pandemic.