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by srl 5y ago
> Last week, CDC came out showing how the obesity rates in youth has doubled during the pandemic. Do you have a link to the CDC saying that? I found [0], which claims the rate went from 19% to 22% --- far from doubling. [0] https:/
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Show HN: Molecular Dynamics in the Browser(ineffectivetheory.com)
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Letters from John Nash to the NSA [pdf](nsa.gov)
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Made in USA (2004)(paulgraham.com)
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Are Covid Restrictions the New TSA?(richardhanania.substack.com)
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by srl 5y ago
Compilers don't guarantee (or try to find) the absolute optimal allocation, right?
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by srl 5y ago
TFA notes that rustc is not a particular _efficient_ SAT solver, taking something like 10^4 times as long as a commonly used algorithm [1] would on a small example. So, I'm curious: what's the _strongest_ case one could make for i
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Do cosmic rays cause domain name bit-flips?(ineffectivetheory.com)
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by srl 5y ago
This is only a partial answer, but my understanding is that Lean is really not meant for software verification work. That's very much Coq's alley. I'm much less certain of this, but I think Lean is better for non-mathematicia
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by srl 5y ago
The entirety of the statement: > As we oppose all government intervention in the marketplace, we favor the repeal of intellectual property laws. Disputes between inventors, creators, authors, artists, businesses, and other such entities
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by srl 5y ago
OP focuses on extremely contentious issues, but these are (as OP and other commenters note) exactly where our own biases can make it most difficult to accurately decide whether a source is being truly neutral. I think the clearest evidence
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So you want to build a house more efficiently(austinvernon.eth.link)
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The Minimum Wage Paradox(journalnow.com)
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by srl 5y ago
Here's the arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206022 (for anyone who shares my pet hatred for researchgate)
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Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by srl 5y ago
Your first point is closely linked to a theory raised in a past thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20719010 ). Large, well paying companies tend to require everyone to use spaces, for pretty much exactly the reason
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by srl 5y ago
If you read the article closely, you'll see that they made some effort to control for programming language, and in particular they note that this effect occurs within each subpopulation. So, among PHP developers only, it's still
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by srl 5y ago
This is a huge effect. Implausibly huge? I'm reminded of Gelman et al's piranhas: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/pi... . The "folk theorem" version is that you
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by srl 5y ago
I think you're underrating heterogeneity. Not all people will agree that Tao's exposition is unclear. I linked it precisely because I found it more clear than other, "more physical" explanations (as a graduate student
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by srl 5y ago
Yeah... I'd be hesitant to buy a whole book. This is one of the topics where some expositions are really bad, some are really good, and some people just can't agree on which are bad and which are good. I've always had best lu
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by srl 5y ago
I'm _pretty_ sure that this is referring to gauge symmetry, so that's the term to search for. I dunno of a good article as an introduction. As a grad student, I found Terry Tao's explanation [1] rather helpful, but of course
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by srl 5y ago
(2017). Past thread here, from when the article was originally written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15830623
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by srl 5y ago
Relatedly, NICER (an X-Ray telescope) launched in 2017, and has been observing pulsars to get radius measurements since then. See for instance https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05705 . (I think there's a more recent measu
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by srl 5y ago
Just so you know, you appear to have been shadowbanned. I'm not sure why, probably for having a new account and getting quickly downvoted in this thread. (Admittedly you come across slightly strong, but... not outside of what I think i
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A zero-overhead linked list in Rust(aloso.github.io)
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by srl 6y ago
The actual study is paywalled, but you can view the main figure here: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/094169... I'm not sure "patients wait for Medicare" is necessarily the rig
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by srl 6y ago
Previous thread here, with 44 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227091
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by srl 6y ago
I think it's a maybe-too-clever variation on "look myself in the mirror". I've never heard it before either.
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by srl 6y ago
I believe the parent was asking why the BBC article didn't have a comment --- not why the founders hadn't commented on this page. I hope you'll agree that the social environment of HN probably doesn't have much influence
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The Framers and the Framed: Notes on the Slate Star Codex Controversy(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
6 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments

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