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by sxyuan 2y ago
Last substantial discussion, on Day 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219 Day 7, morning: https://www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of-the-trump-musk-trea... This ongoing story is in a sense about ha
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by sxyuan 2y ago
Apologies, updated to include a link that should hopefully work without sign in.
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by sxyuan 2y ago
The choice isn't just between talking and violence. Here's a helpful thread that gives some examples of intermediate options at the end: https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social/post/3lh5gch3..
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by sxyuan 2y ago
This is a popular history cliche that isn't grounded in actual history. See, e.g., https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-... for an accessible critique by a professional historian.
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by sxyuan 3y ago
Came here to post the exact same comment. It's a fun read, especially since I remember enjoying the occasional bag of smashmallows years ago, but the Theranos comparison is ridiculous. By their definition, any failed startup is no diff
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by sxyuan 3y ago
There's an increase in incidents because ATCs are overworked and understaffed. The knee-jerk reaction is to try to automate the work away. A few problems with that kind of thinking: - Automation already exists - e.g., the collision det
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by sxyuan 4y ago
A wrinkle to your wrinkle: a cursory glance at this source [1] suggests that the rise of adolescent suicide in the 1970s and 1980s was greater among young men, which is the opposite of what we're seeing today. [1] https://ww
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by sxyuan 4y ago
These baseless speculations about ChatGPT are somewhat ironic given that the article itself alludes to what has unlocked this specific advance: "The RDRE achieved its primary test objective by demonstrating that its hardware – made fro
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by sxyuan 4y ago
"Crypto Prices Plugin"... I suppose it's only a matter of time before the SEC is investigating GPT-5 for securities fraud. Perhaps that's how we'll eventually decide as a society that an AI is a legal person. Intere
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by sxyuan 4y ago
I see this as a near-miss. At my work, there'd be a post-mortem written explaining what went well and what went poorly. Just because not every line of defense was breached doesn't mean everything's peachy. The first failure w
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Alex Haley Interviews Martin Luther King, Jr. (1965)(alexhaley.com)
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by sxyuan 4y ago
I think you're confusing two different Mother Angelicas: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/12/pope-francis-slams-mothe... To be fair, Google's results also mess this up. Pope Francis is referring to
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by sxyuan 4y ago
It's not so hard to reconcile. Moving humanity to Mars is clever marketing; real long-term thinking would focus on keeping Spaceship Earth livable and biodiverse. Stirring up Twitter controversy is similarly about marketing: learning (
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by sxyuan 4y ago
> In retrospect I think of this as a failure of leadership on my part. Many years later when Chrome eventually inevitably switched to using Git only, I think it was a multi-year project to dig out from SVN. Had I spent a little bit of ti
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by sxyuan 4y ago
If this is interesting to you, I also recommend Ray Huang's "1587, a Year of No Significance": https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/815857.1587 I'm only halfway through the book but it&#
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by sxyuan 4y ago
Haha, that's true - human nature hasn't changed much over the millennia, whether it's our desire to invent new ways to communicate and keep ourselves entertained, our fear of new technologies, or love of ragging on the next g
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by sxyuan 4y ago
> He has a fanbase for his videos and clearly gets his needs as a human being (attention, validation, connection) met by posting those videos. This statement scares me a little. That type of attention/validation/connection seem
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by sxyuan 4y ago
Almost all of the studies blinded the participants in the outcome assessment. That avoids bias when asking patients about their pain. It's difficult to imagine how you would blind the acupuncturists performing the treatment. I suppose
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by sxyuan 4y ago
Here's one meta-analysis of RCTs showing benefit for pain in fibromyalgia patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6365227/ That's in comparison to a sham acupuncture placebo. And the
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by sxyuan 5y ago
You're assuming McDonald's has a much higher profit margin than it actually does - it's a restaurant chain, not a software company. In other words, the wages for the guy making the burger isn't the only input to cost. E.
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by sxyuan 5y ago
As others have already noted, that's not how tax brackets work. The real problem might be government programs like Medicaid - it's hard to tell if eligibility requirements are inflation-indexed, and since it seems to be determined
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by sxyuan 5y ago
Xeno comes from Xenopus laevis, a species of frog. It's a commonly used model organism and I believe often the source of the cells used in xenobots.
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by sxyuan 5y ago
Cars and trucks get a "cost based adjustment": https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/ According to this, hedonic adjustments and cost based adjustments are two ways that the US BLS performs quality
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by sxyuan 5y ago
Couldn't find data for the 60s and 70s, but FRED data shows that median real wages were essentially flat from 1979 to 2015ish: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q The picture gets worse if you look a
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by sxyuan 5y ago
For those without access to the full text, here's a related news article on Science with a bit more context: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/stunning-dragon-man-...
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by sxyuan 5y ago
The paper discusses this: https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(21)02046... I believe the name for what you describe is "positive predictive value" or PPV - defined in the paper as the "pro
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by sxyuan 6y ago
I agree with where you start out, but I think a proliferation of partisan platforms would simply lead to more filter bubbles and more polarization. I would much rather see the Fairness Doctrine reinstated (in the US, anyhow) and expanded t
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by sxyuan 6y ago
A lot of short, knee-jerk reactions on this thread, not to mention snark and downright flame. Seeing as this is at the top of HN right now, can we try to elevate the level of discourse a little bit? A few questions to consider: 1. Is conten
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by sxyuan 6y ago
Rather than focusing too much on the he-said she-said of this post and the response from the Intercept, I think it's more interesting to read Glenn's article for yourself, along with the email exchange that precipitated the resign
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by sxyuan 6y ago
Investing outside your region leads to currency risk. Currency hedged funds tend to incur slightly higher costs. I don't know if there are additional tax implications as well. Not only is historical performance no guarantee of future p

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