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by maxander 8y ago
Meditation retreats sound interesting, but they've always struck me as tending to have a fairly grueling, bizarre schedule- awake and breakfast at ~6AM, dinner at 4pm, lights out at 9PM (and no meal until breakfast the next day.) It s
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by maxander 8y ago
NKOS is probably the (or at least one of the) defining works on cellular automata and the thought around/behind them, at least when it was written. It will likely be as interesting as that sounds to you.
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There's an entire genre of posts on HN which amount to someone telling a terrible customer support story about some FAANG-y company, with the result (and likely intention) that the attention forces the FAANG to turn around, generously
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by maxander 8y ago
No, an invisible infrared beam reflecting off of dust or water vapor is still invisible infrared light.
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As others have noted, this doesn’t result in a uniform distribution. But what you can do, instead, is generate a uniform distribution over a square centered on the point of interest, and simply re-do points that land outside of the circl
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That's not how this sort of analysis is done. They separated people by push-up capacity, and compared the rate of heart disease in the low-capacity group versus the high-capacity group; those rates were 36 "cardiovascular events&
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The issue talked about here is distinct from the larger "reproducibility crisis"; the latter is a result of shoddily designed (or simply fraudulent) experimental work, whereas the issue here is the aggregate effects of the huge
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> We show that independently of age, sex, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status, higher worthwhile ratings are associated with stronger personal relationships (marriage/partnership, contact with friends), broader social e
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by maxander 8y ago
HNers may prefer reading about this from OpenAI itself: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/ I suppose you could also read about this system from the system’s own output, but that would (for now) be less pro
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by maxander 8y ago
For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you- but you should realize the gap between what your Wikipedia source says and what you originally asserted. Yes, Wikipedia is right that the existence of dark matter isn't proven , a
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by maxander 8y ago
That's a pretty awesome project. Instead of hacking the ARM, could you just call up a vet to ask if you can have some of their empty reagent bottles, and fill those with your homemade reagents? (As a bonus, if you can get it to work,
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by maxander 8y ago
The article doesn't really go into the scientific questions remaining, chief among them (IMHO) being the effect of weed on driving ability. There are some studies that suggest it's comparable to being drunk, but the evidence is s
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by maxander 8y ago
Not much more easily than making money off of anything else. The threat of a recession is widely known; for any financial maneuver that could take advantage of it, the "returns if a recession hits" factor is already priced in. Un
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What percentage of the city would have easy access to tunnel endpoints? It's a pretty difficult last-mile problem. At least in the short term, a good bet would be funneling stock to retail stores. In lots of neighborhoods, big trucks
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by maxander 8y ago
Dark matter is a stuff that exists, we’re pretty sure, and some explanations for what it is would involve expansions for the standard model; seeing if one of those explanations is right is therefore a (supposedly) promising avenue for post-
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by maxander 8y ago
Where does it say they sell 40% less volume? Under this scheme, the amount of US ethanol that can get in tariff-free is limited to two-thirds of the total Asian ethanol production. Does the US export that much anyway?
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by maxander 8y ago
A potential huge impact of this advance is inspiring further research into peptide-based drugs; this is a whole new paradigm with the potential to be comparable or better than the small-molecule drugs we currently focus on, but the poor mar
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by maxander 8y ago
> The government expects 2.99 billion journeys to take place over the holiday, an increase of 0.6 percent from the previous year [...] So assuming most are taking a trip somewhere and a trip back, that's about 1.5 billion people inv
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Not even- I don’t know the relevant numbers, but I’d bet there are many more AWS regions than factories making the same kind of chips as the one in the article.
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Every once in awhile, one hears about some accident like this one at a single, physical factory, followed by a laundry list of tech companies that are adversely effected. It powerfully demonstrates how awfully centralized microchip product
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by maxander 8y ago
“Flying cars” like this would be great to have! For instance, emergency vehicles that don’t get stuck in traffic could save countless lives. ...We just need appropriate noise regulations, which will almost certainly prevent private citizen
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> will tunnels be cheaper? Per person? It’s hard to imagine a subway being more expensive than flying cars... even with the US’ ridiculous public works costs.
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I find it fascinating that the prevalent comment on this are variations of "that can't be right, we still don't understand [things, such as dark energy, etc]." It demonstrates one of the most pernicious biases in scienc
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by maxander 8y ago
There's plenty of noble points that can be made about not playing God and handling the essence of life responsibly, and so on, but I think there's also some risk of losing sight of the fact that we're not just doing this for
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by maxander 8y ago
People driving taxis and Ubers certainly do have reason to be vetted at a higher standard than regular drivers, since for the most part they're spending much more time driving than anyone else; this leads to a much higher risk-per-driv
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by maxander 8y ago
No mention of the “ghost city” effect? [0] A good hypothesis for why there’s so much unoccupied housing is that it’s all in regions where the demand is slim, that were nonetheless highly developed due to various political factors. [0] htt
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by maxander 8y ago
It’s worth noting that all reasons to go vegan, if you don’t find them sufficiently convincing to actually become vegan, are also good reasons to simply eat less meat and other animal products.
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I think if “he left surveilled areas for no registered reason” is something that law enforcement observes and considers evidence of criminal activity, we’ll have well and truly lost any semblance of being a free society.
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It looks like each of those little bead thingies is a transistor; each has three wires leasing up to it with a little loop at the end. Presumably, a charge from the loop to the side can flip the bead, and this makes it conduct. It’s surpri
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“Supporting 32-bit time system calls after 2038” will serve future generations as an example of the lengths that developers are supposed to go to in order to ensure backwards compatibility, even in the face of apparent absurdity. Alternatel

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