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by vonnik 3y ago
I love this, and it strikes me that one of the main differences between then and now is that we are awash in cheap objects. Isolation from trash in the service of taste seems almost impossible. Secondly, I can’t think of a contemporary nati
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Fwiw, OMRON produces high-quality blood-pressure monitors for consumers. https://omronhealthcare.com/blood-pressure/ Even these, though, tend to overestimate your actual blood pressure, sometimes by as much as 10 point
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This is a permutation of the Hawthorne Effect, which is individuals' modification of behavior in response to being observed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect Most effective if you are being observed
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I love how the pop up I get from Medium for this piece is telling me to subscribe for $5/mo.
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To be very clear, Lahaina burning up is not the result of colonialism, but of poor fire prevention measures, including the government response after the fire started. https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-offic
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Hubris syndrome: An acquired personality disorder? (2009)(academic.oup.com)
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TLDR: some people and organizations make us to tedious work. Personal opinion, when that person is your boss, just do your job. When that organization is supposed to serve you but makes you do work, look for an alternative.
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Not quite true. The US offers a foreign earned income tax credit for incomes up to $120k (in 2022). https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/figu... . That means that for your first $120k earned, if
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But what I'm saying is: they're privatizing and selling walkability, as long as you get inside them. So walkability is no longer part of the commons. Agree with you that the parking lots contribute to sprawl, and in general v sad
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> “urbit would win” I wonder what Urbit will win, and whether it is a prize worth chasing.
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I kind of agree about rap, and more agree about mass media. More broadly I'd say popular music has eaten poetry. The ballads all got instrumental tracks. Maybe poetry faded because broadcasting became easier. High-bandwidth information
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This one reminds me of Robert Service’s Cremation of Sam McGee in its rhyme and how it scans. Whatever you think of these poems, it’s interesting to imagine a time in the US when they could be popular among a wide readership. Poetry seems t
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Our work was precisely in optimization over massive numbers of possible scenarios amid multi-dimensional uncertainties. Again, significantly outperforms LP. Not surprised that you are an advocate of math optimization. Most people working on
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Speaking from years of experience comparing RL results to those of LP done with tools like Gurobi on industrial operations and supply chain optimization problems while at my former startup, which was acquired two years ago, so I am not shil
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Fwiw, reinforcement learning offers objectively better optimization and more efficient inference than LP in many cases.
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The reasons why startups did not capture a lot of value in the last wave of AI was because incumbents held the data and ML was primarily a feature added to someone else’s product and distribution channel. The reason why ChatGPT changed that
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I respect Simone Weil and also have to ask how her philosophy differs in any practical aspect from Buddhism or Christian monasticism.
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The main use of DJI drones in Ukraine is not to kill directly, but to collect intelligence that facilitates killing by enabling precise fire correction and target identification. Highly unlikely that this data has been aggregated or will ev
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Like much advice that is supposed to apply universally, this is false. There are some kinds of startups so capital intensive that they came only built with massive external funding, notably hardware and biotech (and probably most deep tech)
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More benefits of Klotho in model organisms: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335176/
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Annotation is comment, with the flexibility of going much more granular on the object of comment. We are already commenting on ideas and links for free on HN. No reason not to do it with a greater focus on the text.
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Its founder Dan Whaley is a fascinating guy, and hypothesis has a neat backstory. He was trying to get factual feedback on climate change news, a bit like Twitter community notes now. Built a web annotation system to enable that.
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There’s a deeper structural problem that affects almost all military supply chains. Modern military equipment is incredibly expensive, complex, bespoke, and made in small batches. Even in cases when that is not true, as with artillery shell
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by vonnik 3y ago
Mary Helen Immordino Yang has some interesting thoughts about how to change education to make it nudge kids towards doing more interesting work: https://youtu.be/S8jWFcDGz4Y
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Just landed in DC. In the air, the pilot told us it was an air traffic control malfunction. Circled for 30 min. Other planes diverted to Pittsburgh. Dulles, Reagan and Baltimore affected.
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Nir Barzilai and a team of researchers are leading a large clinical trial to test the benefits of metformin in slowing the aging process, which is upstream of so many diseases that yeah, it could just be a cheap cure-all. Sadly requires a p
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Only the Feds have the money/ability to borrow. Newsom spent CA’s surplus. Yes, it would enable more policies like this. For those involved in promulgating such policies, that is the whole point. But even assuming they changed policy,
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Rob's anecdote about the precarious Yale lecturer who won't take a lower-status job at a Midwestern University is surprisingly widespread but rarely shared publicly, because if the people working high-prestige low-pay jobs reveale
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If anyone ever wondered what the symptoms of urban blight were before NYC became the mess it was in the 1970s, SF is exhibit A. The city's leadership has driven out its anchor businesses, tax base, corporate travelers, and much more. F
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A lot of rural hospitals (and indeed many healthcare providers) are really poorly managed as businesses. This has been exacerbated by the labor shortage in healthcare, which is one of the industries that immigration alone can save at this p

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