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If this were an observational study, I'd completely agree. In that case, it could be that people who eat better diets and do exercise happen to have lower iron levels, but it is the diet and exercise that makes them live longer, not the iron.

Our study actually used a different method! We found that the genes that raise iron levels in the blood also have an effect on how long and healthy we live. Since you don't get to choose the genes you are born with, this method is more robust to confounding. It's not perfect by any means, but it does provide reasonably robust evidence for a causal role of iron rather than just a correlation. Still, we would like to verify this in follow-up experiments, possibly using animal models.
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Searching this page for " eel " or " eels " yields no results. Why?

Do the tracks increase or decrease the likelihood that a hovercraft will fill up with eels?
Link to 9.520 https://cbmm.mit.edu/lh-9-520
I don't know that they're a fantastic engineering company. I don't know what Google is great at - a few things, which feel like they're successful almost because they're treated as separate from the rest of the organization.

OKRs are one of many parts of that, in my opinion.
Thanks, this is helpful feedback. I was thinking about this, and where it comes from in my writing. I’m not going to erase these details, because it documents who I am, and my frame of mind. If you leave with a poor opinion of the writer because of it, that’s something we share in common. I think people should keep their egos in check, and I try my best to do so. But you cannot erase ego entirely, and to hide it would be disingenuous. Ego is part of who we are as human beings, and part of what gives us motivation. This blog is partly a research journal, and partly because I seek validation from Hacker News. I am no genius, I just listen to the right people and write about ideas that interest me. If it makes the reader uncomfortable, I can completely understand that. I’m not trying to hide anything, ego included.

Anyhow, I just wanted to say I appreciate your taking the time to write this comment!
Fuck youtube. The content creators also know ppl use adblock, yet they're still producing content arent they ?
Why didn't the other companies that were those things succeed then? (Yahoo, Altavista, etc)?
Saying that it's the same force might provide some additional info but it is not really answering the question about why there is a force.

The idea that atoms are mostly empty space is a great analog to his rubber band example. Our attempts to explain atoms in terms of electrons cleanly orbiting a nucleus gives people the wrong picture. Atoms are not mostly empty space, electrons become standing waves when part of an atom and it's not just that we cannot measure their position with accuracy, their position does not exist. The solar system metaphor for the atom has probably caused more harm than good.
Virtue signaling for blm is allowed though?
You can have enough coins, but if they aren't circulating, then it doesn't really matter. If I'm hording a thousand dollars of coins, those coins are part of the inventory but aren't helping anyone.
I read and appreciate that blog post. Yet to address any China problems without recognizing any Chinese government fallacies means we're not even having a complete discussion here. I acknowledge the fear of including them, but one's stance on government policies is required to really get their thought on the whole topic.
It's weird to me that the google search for "сибиряки" shows these old photos. I guess the term has fallen out of use? Here's a more modern search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%...
"I test in prod (2019)"
Yeah but what happens in rust if your match doesn't match the pattern? The compiler won't let you. In erlang, it throws an error, which you can let the runtime eat up. This can be a strategy for extremely lazy error handling.
I've been using a "936-style" (a clone of the famous Hakko 936) iron with an analog controller for many years and I see excessive complexity as a liability --- a soldering iron certainly does not need a microcontroller to function.

That said, I haven't seen any models with an analog temperature gauge...
A pension is nothing special. It is just a lifetime annuity that you can buy yourself. Who wants to beholden to one company their entire career? I would much rather make more money and save it.

https://www.immediateannuities.com/

While social security of not a great “pension” for most people, if it continues to give the same inflation adjusted benefits today when we retire at the maximum benefit rate. It will give a married couple where one earned at the maximum contribution rate $4500/month. Since the couple with the lesser lifetime earnings can choose to get 1/2 of the higher earnings benefit while both are still living.

We could easily live off of that amount with a paid off house.

While I realize that’s not a realistic scenario for the average American, that’s very realistic for a tech worker living in any major city in the US.
I chose to focus on computational biology because I had an amazing professor that I wanted to work with. That being said, an amazing professor != amazing advisor... something I discovered when trying to finish my PhD and he decided to take a sabbatical to Kenya to do missionary work :(.

I got enough statistics and machine learning experience in graduate school to be doing machine learning research now as part of the defense industry. Even if machine learning seems like it might be too hot to touch, it will aid you in any number of jobs you could have in the future: automation, data science, etc. It really is perhaps the easiest sub field to cross disciplines. I've always been a PC gamer and the TD-Gammon paper really pushed me forward in my desire to do machine learning -- check it out, its a classic (https://www.bkgm.com/articles/tesauro/tdl.html).
Elixir is arguably better with dialyzer than erlang, for various reasons, like the way that structs work.
This isn't a bad thing.
Ah, now logic is something that has a very clear formal definition- actually, many, because there are many different logics. For example, there's propositional logic, first order logic, temporal logic, description logic, default logic, etc etc.

So, how do you decide whether something is logical? In particular, if we have some system S that exhibits behaviour H in context B, can we tell whetehr H is, in some sense, "logical"? Why, yes we can: we can apply the rules of whatever logic we think S may be following with H and see if we can reproduce H in the context of B, starting from the same premises as S.

For example, if S is producing a behaviour H that can be described as {A → B ≡ B → A} and we think that S is trying to reproduce propositional logic, we can say that it's failing, because H is not correct by the rules of propositional logic (to clarify, H could be something like "If it rains it will be wet therefore if it is wet, it has rained", which is not correct).

Of course the problem with GPT-3 and friends is that they are not trained to output statements in a formal language (at least not exclusively) so it's very hard to formalise the logic, or lack thereof, of its output. Though it would be interesting to "hit" GPT-3 with some prompts representing the beginning of natural language versions of formal problems.

Could expert systems be used to generate training data for GPT-3? Maybe. If an expert system could generate good quality natural language, even only natural language restricted to some limited domain. Then yes, why not? You could probably train GPT-3 on its own output, or that of its predecessors, as long as it was curated to remove nonsense (which is much harder than it sounds).
Any tips on how to get good paper?
> it's a valid correlation

could you show us that data on that correlation to us from somewhere besides out your ass then?
I agree. It seems the epaper market is missing a niche. The 'cheap remarkable'.

1. e-ink screen of more than 5", less than 18"

2. sd card (aside from the Likebook Mars, this is just about impossible to get in most eReaders, let alone one for less than $500!) and an open format (ODF-based linked files, json / svg in sqlite etc)

3. syncthing access (android or native Go binary)

4. headphone jack / built-in microphone

5. stylus (wacom or whatever, can take or leave pressure sensitivity just not-battery powered plz)

6. low latency, even if ugly artifacts drawing of the lines

I guess if someone wanted to buy it it would exist and could be purchased, but I ended up settling on the likebook mars since it did all of the above except the stylus and low latency drawing.

Remarkable has apparently pushed the low latency way down and good for them, but they IIRC off the top of my head do not support syncthing or sd cards, and they are far, far too much for the average joes of the world to purchase. $300 USD is expensive, and it barely gets you halfway to the ~700 USD (IIRC) they go for. Clearly a high-end product.
Well let me just quote Wikipedia here: ...in three-dimensional space, the maximum probability density occurs at the location of the nucleus and not at the Bohr radius, whereas the radial probability density peaks at the Bohr radius, i.e. when plotting the probability distribution in its radial dependency.
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The spin of the atoms in my finger are not aligned at all, why would there be any force?

Also if it's the same force and it is much stronger when aligned, why don't magnets pass through each other? The much stronger aligned magnetic force should easy overwhelm the weaker force that keeps my hand from going through the chair.
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> Have you honestly never seen a review of a closed source program? Never seen anyone write about their likes or dislikes? Never seen any shareware/try before you buy/free tier software? Never seen anyone use some, decide it was bad, and change to another vendor? Never seen someone try the free version of SQL server or comment about their experiences with IIS or review a new release of Windows?

For enterprise software? Pretty much no. You don't tend to get shareware-style free trials, the more common model is a fully functional (and sometimes even open source) free version and then a paid version with additional features. Companies do switch vendors but it's hard to impossible to connect that with the actual user experience. You see case studies but usually published by the vendor themselves; a neutral reviewer doing comparisons is virtually unheard of. And it's pretty common for the licenses to forbid benchmarking or reviews (Oracle famously does).

When you're talking about software that only makes sense on the scale of a multi-machine network, who's going to go to the trouble of reviewing it? My experience is that hobbyists sometimes will, but only for the open-source stuff. Back when I worked for a Fortune 500 client we did do full-scale evaluations of proprietary systems, but they were always internal-only. If you're big enough to have your own evaluation department then sure, knock yourself out (this company was also big enough to do things like use their own internal programming language). But for a medium-sized company it's just too risky IME.
Co-author here. One of our primary constraints was power usage. I’m not sure exactly why, but the camera we used, by Himax, uses much less power than any omnivision camera we were aware of.
I agree with your distinction, but for a long time I wrongly believed the -ian in Debian was a suffix meaning "relating to" as in reptilian or antediluvian. I didn't have a guess what the first part meant, but I thought it might be a nonsense syllable.
The concept of failure domains is baked into the runtime, and not an afterthought.
It's what you get when the leading factor determining your values is profit. The NBA doesn't have American values, it has Capitalist values.
Interesting. So in the frame of reference of the electrons, the protons are moving and so closer together due to length contraction, and in the frame of reference of the protons, the electrons are moving and so closer together due to length contraction. When the cat in the video is stationary, it's in the same frame of reference as the protons, and with the electrons closer together will see a net negative charge and be attracted to the wire. I suspect that this argument is incorrect, however.
100 pair of clean white dry socks to hand out to the many homeless is so much better than one branded pair with better quality.

If you are able to give one homeless person 100 pairs it makes a bigger difference because washing fancy socks isn't possible and they can add additional socks for layers.
I don’t really understand what the post is trying to say or whom it is targeted at. But maybe that’s because I only skimmed it. It feels like a big brain dump of random notes rather than anything cohesive or particularly complete.

I found the frequent self-quotes odd and the self-congratulatory introduction more odd. An example of the lack of target audience would be the section “what are graphs?” It starts with a paragraph which seems to be for someone who has never heard of graphs (yet it doesn’t actually define what a graph is, but maybe that’s because there’s so much variety in what different things may be graphs). It also calls graphs “data structures” which I don’t think I would agree with. It’s then followed by a big list of links and then a paragraph referencing Kotlin∇ and talking about trees and such even though the previous paragraph seems to be for someone who doesn’t know what a graph is.

I found other sections weird. E.g. the author seems to think that it is important to treat a matrix as a function between vector spaces but somehow misses the main point (this function must be linear and the numbers in a matrix are in some sense unimportant because they are relative to some basis). Then there’s a section about raising matrices to a power except when you look at it you realise it’s actually a product of different matrices and actually the topic just changed halfway through the paragraph.

The “matrix multiplications” in the section on data flow graphs don’t make sense to me, even with the random extra rules given above (the third entry in S' the second row should be 5, but this causes the next row to not have the idempotence property the author wants). It also seems to be confusing matrices with manipulating random numbers in a grid.

I don’t want to be overly negative. There’s probably some good stuff in here but at the moment it just appears to be a dump of the author’s notes and thoughts.
Ask HN: Have you had issues with unwanted traffic from Azure?
Hello,

I work for a large startup and we've had major issues with Microsoft Azure sending us unwanted traffic. We've attempted to block some of it but their IPv4 ranges for Azure are numerous and it is fairly hard to capture all of them. We've reached out to them for months asking them to do something about it but they seem completely unwilling to do so. Have any of you noticed this as well, and has anyone had luck getting it to stop?
>> How can you say "someone has to do the actual work" in the same comment you end by advocating UBI?

>Why can't I say that? You think everyone is going to stop working if we implement a UBI?

No more than you think everyone is presently "a manager, financier, or passive business owner".
Sponsored by Facebook or Twitter? Good luck sueing a mayfly without an instacourt in place.
>While it is still an advancement in NLP, I'm more interested in getting a super accurate or generative AI system to explain itself than one that cannot

Why? People can explain ourselves because we rationalize our actions, not necessarily because we know why we did something. I don't understand why we hold AI to such a high standard.
You literally can get SSH access to the linux running on a remarkable, I doubt syncthing is impossible. And since the v2 is announced, you can buy v1 right now for $299 new.
You're right and wrong. People buy iphones despite the cost and lack of user serviceable battery.
They are a luxury item and a way to signal status. If people stopped buying iphones due to battery life then Apple may change. But Apple has a strong brand and the status of the item is important to people so they act against their own interests and pay lots of cash rather than use a $100 dollar android that's 90% as good.

Batteries aren't a feature to most people.

Also there's lots to be said about the scope of what most 'phones' do these days. The batteries are powering serious computers rather than just phones.
I wasn't a local ethnic minority, which makes all the difference.

And "curiosity" doesn't quite explain it. It's curiosity plus lack of respect. Local political bosses are undoubtedly subjects of similar curiosity, but everyone respects (and/or fears) them enough to be courteous.
This looks nice and I bet with a little bit of experience you can make a great coffee. It's not as convenient as capsules though. The capsule machines just takes two seconds to pop in a capsule and once you press the button it's all automatic.

This thing doesn't even boil the water for you.
if org-mode would support Ctrl+V pasting a random image or file into it, and if it could have rudimentary inking support, it sounds just about perfect to me.

Sadly, the combo of (rich optional) text, easy paste in pictures, inking, file embedding, easy linking, open file formats / all in a sqlite file you can sync / stick on a flash drive, that runs on Windows/Android/Linux/maaaaybe web is just not there yet that I can see.
Hey Daniel, I'm really interested in the solution you made because I've been thinking of a similar architecture.

What's the best way to contact you? I can't find your email on your website or Github.
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> The fact that it can produce working code from a prompt in some cases shows rudimentary non-trivial reasoning.

It doesn't at all. It indicates that it read stackoverflow at some point, and that on a particular user run, it replayed that encoded knowledge. (I'd also argue it shows the banality of most React tutorials, but that's perhaps a separate issue.)

Quite a lot of these impressive achievements boil down to: "Isn't it super cool that people are smart and put things on the internet that can be found later?!"

I don't want to trivialize this stuff because the people who made it are smarter than I will ever be and worked very hard. That said, I think it's valid for mere mortals like myself to question whether or not this OpenAI search engine is really an advancement. It also grates on me a bit when everybody who has a criticism of the field is treated like a know-nothing Luddite. The first AI winter was caused by disillusionment with industry claims vs reality of what could be accomplished. 2020 is looking very similar to me personally. We've thrown oodles of cash and billions of times more hardware at this than we did the first time around, and the most use we've gotten out of "AI" is really ML: classifiers. They're super useful little machines, but they're sensors when you get right down to it. AI reality should match its hype, or it should have less hype (e.g. not implying GPT-3 understands how to write general software).
Yes! This is so much more precise and productive, and stands in stark contrast to a blunt stereotyping heuristic. You're engaging in discussion, analysis, and identification of cognitive biases and memetic complex traps. Then applying all of that appropriately, understanding where you can and cannot trust a person's ideas, without categorically dismissing the balance of that person's ideas indefinitely.
I have a Nespresso, but the novelty of home espresso quickly wore off. They also do regular coffee pods for the machine I have, but I ended up going back to the Keurig for its easier to find consumables.
> “They’re racist because they exoticize other cultures, present ‘Joe’ as this default normal, and then the other characters — such as Thai Joe, Trader José, Trader Joe San — falling outside of it,”

I'm confused. "Trader Joe" and "Trader José" both follow the "Trader <common name from country of origin>" pattern. So why is one "presenting as this default normal" while the other is "exoticizing"?
In the same way, Flagship SoC is great perf but not great for battery so we can choose to buy middle spec SoC.
That one beats the size of the slightly larger https://ams.com/naneye which has a bit higher resolution.

They are not cheap: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ams/NE2D-CHIP-B-W-...
No. This is actually nonsense.

Nobody has read the Eula. Nobody has knowingly and willingly agreed to those terms (if they exist). No vendor has expected those terms to be read (if they even exist). No vendor has explained those terms to a customer.

There is a contract for exchange of ownership. You can't actually break that contract with unconscinable means such as fine print that nobody reads nor is expected to read nor has had explained.

Read a EULA if you like but it will do absolutely nothing for you nor will it alter the law and the application of the law. Maybe you'll enjoy the read though?

It is an item, purchased in a shop in exchange for money. There's rather a lot of established law about that.
This characterization is inaccurate and misleading. A game engine is a basic framework with which to build a game - responsible for things like platform abstraction, memory management, and the basic rendering pipeline - but much of what is identifiably part of any specific game lives on top of that. Unreal Engine and Unity don’t ship with “inventory systems” and neither are “designed for an RPG”.

Having worked on multiple Frostbite and multiple Unreal games, both engines are capable of building a wide variety of games. The discrepancies in my experience aren’t technical but organizational. It is hard to compete with the scale of Epic’s developer support organization and the wider industry inertia around their technology.
They are doing their part. There are Marxists in their ranks.

21st Century Marxists focus on exacerbating all of the fault lines in society they can find. Old school techniques that relied on economic disparity didn't work in the West.

The West doesn't have serfs like Russia and China did so 20th Century Communism didn't take. Also, most Western countries were rich enough and democratic so they could implement reforms that answered many of the 20th century communist charges without requiring a Marxist revolution.

Today, Marxists focus on anything and everything that can divide, including economic issues.

As soon as Trump leaves office, the mass media will flip to supporting the President (assuming he or she is not GOP) and all this will die down.

The media already seems to recognize that antifa is not helping their cause so they do not report honestly on the violence in Portland. As soon as the US has a Democratic Party President, antifa will be re-branded as rioters or anarchists. In the mean time they are lionized as defenders of freedom.

Note, I don't think this latest Marxist action will change America, any more than the earlier attempts.
No, they literally do hate meritocracy. UCSF medical school didn't get more meritocratic by reducing Asian admissions from 60% to 20%.
IMO avoiding 16:9 aspect ratio is no longer important on dedicated monitors but still important on laptop monitors.
Maybe? Tesla's working on a million mile battery suggests to me that battery lifespan will start to dramatically improves.
Great, now I can overthink about how I think about overthinking.
I suspect that so many of us overthink most of the time, such that it's one of the reasons that the most productive times seem to be in the early morning or late at night.

Early morning our brains have been largely reset and it's a clean slate, thoughts haven't had the chance to build up yet. Late night our brains are tired, making it easier to be single-minded in focus during coding.

Balmer's peak could be related to this (though I haven't personally found alcohol to work for me).
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