<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Eisenstein</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eisenstein</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:19:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Eisenstein" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "How to survive boiling water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But if we want it to be steam, isn't that a bad thing?<p>Not if we want the steam to be hotter.<p>> Don't we want a nice big safety margin between our active steam temperature and the temperature it condenses?<p>Water is in one of three states: liquid, gas, solid. It has to be one of those. Where does the margin come from?</p>
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<p>Doxycycline is also a prescribed for acne, so there are a lot of teenagers getting 12 prescriptions every year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:39:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092410</link><dc:creator>Eisenstein</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "How to survive boiling water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If the steam condenses to water (for example due to raising its boiling point above the autoclave's temperature of ~125°C) that'd probably be bad<p>If water boils at 100C then steam condenses at 99C. If water boils at 120C then steam condenses at 119C.<p>> higher-than-atmospheric atmospheric pressure.<p>What does that mean?<p>> I don't see an explanation that fits all the mentioned facts<p>Is it really a difficult concept? If the boiling point rises so does the condensation point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:35:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092378</link><dc:creator>Eisenstein</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "How to survive boiling water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably frowned on to bring in food stuff and make it in a bio lab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:46:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089699</link><dc:creator>Eisenstein</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "How to survive boiling water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm pretty sure it is because when there is high pressure the boiling point of water is higher.</p>
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<p>> So the "political football" characterization is itself very political.<p>According to your description it sounds completely accurate.</p>
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<p>You should look into emergence. An ant in a colony, an offer in a market, a drop of water in a weather system are all evidence that irreducibly complex things have simple mechanisms at their core.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:36:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056650</link><dc:creator>Eisenstein</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are we socialist because we don't charge people for investigating crimes they report?</p>
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<p>Sounds like something we should remedy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:25:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031508</link><dc:creator>Eisenstein</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Love to hear all the time how the "free market" is ruining healthcare. Of course everyone knows a "free market" is when you have profit caps, supply restrictions (residency cap), government-run marketplaces, byzantine tax subsidies tying insurance to employment for no reason, etc etc<p>What people are talking about with regard to health insurance being ruined by being market based is that the profit motive should not be applied to it. The basic fact is that it should be some form public service and not reliant on a system which has as its incentive maximizing profits, and attempting to regulate it into being patient first and not profit first will always have side-effects like you pointed out.</p>
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<p>Unless bots subscribe to the subreddit they wouldn't count as members.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029300</link><dc:creator>Eisenstein</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Eisenstein in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Brave is on iOS and will block 'use the app' notifications'.</p>
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<p>Here are stats from from a 100k member subreddit with 15k unique visitors a day.<p>* <a href="https://imgur.com/UTJyyl8" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/UTJyyl8</a></p>
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<p>I shall assume that as much thoughtfulness goes into your stock trading as went into that response.</p>
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<p>What does influence your stock purchase decisions?</p>
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<p>For those confused about what this means, my understanding is this: when quantizing a wave you can use sampling rate to derive missing bits, so using even one bit can work if you do it fast enough, but jitter is a problem because it means the clock doesn't cleanly sync and it doesn't help non-quantization noise like those generated from switching supplies. Corrections welcome.</p>
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<p>Some peer criticism from: Vanhove, J. (2026). Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Critical comments on Amoruso et al. (2025). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–10.<p>"As the authors correctly point out in their discussion, their observational study does not allow them to establish any causal links between the degree of multilingualism in a country and the extent to which its inhabitants show signs of accelerated ageing. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have kept this insight in mind when they came up with the title (‘Multilingualism protects …’) and the abstract (‘These results underscore the protective role of multilingualism …’) that grabbed the media's attention."<p>"The authors use country-level data on multilingualism, namely the estimated percentage of monolinguals in the country (the Mono variable in BAG_OR_cross.csv), the estimated percentage of people in the country who know exactly one additional language (One), those who know exactly two additional languages (Two), and those who know at least three additional languages (Three), always at the time of data collection."<p>"According to a simple OLS regression model at the country level with the monolingualism percentage as its sole predictor, a 10-percentage-point difference in monolingualism is associated with a difference in the average GAP value of about 0.36 years (some 133 days; 95% CI: (58,207) days). If log-per-capita GDP is controlled for, a 10-percentage-point difference in monolingualism is associated with a difference in the average GAP value of about 0.29 years (some 105 days; 95% CI: (22,188) days)."</p>
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<p>I thought it was normal for the AI field to confuse people by repurposing other terms of art? To: "transformer", "lora", "diffusion", "hallucination", etc, we can now add "bubble".</p>
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<p>So the batter runs towards the bowler? 102 runs? Can a run score more than one? What was the down by 6 thing? It's not really that simple?</p>
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<p>> I know that someday, I won't have a choice (Home Depot only has cashiers for contractors, nowadays, so I'm forced to use the auto-checkout), but, where one is given, I take the human.<p>Just hit the 'I need help' button on the self-checkout and an employee will show up and you can ask them to ring up your items.</p>
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