Hacker News: techbio

New comment by techbio in "What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic? (2018)"

techbio — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:41:16 +0000

Or in a vacuum.

New comment by techbio in "Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?"

techbio — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 21:39:50 +0000

These are all the same artwork.

New comment by techbio in "Apple’s next big thing: A business model change"

techbio — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:19:49 +0000

You said a thousand words worth with "bimodal".

New comment by techbio in "Apple’s next big thing: A business model change"

techbio — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:15:36 +0000

They made their own actually better if that matters to you. The iOS weather app now has many of DarkSky's features.

New comment by techbio in "Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how do you maintain a professional/social network?"

techbio — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 17:25:57 +0000

Date and time sliders really highlight the shadow features.

New comment by techbio in "Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?"

techbio — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:07:00 +0000

Relatively very frequent rest and activation, I think is a charitably agreeable analogy. A heart muscle that never released would not be healthy.

New comment by techbio in "Map Projection Transitions"

techbio — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:59:07 +0000

Can confirm (but in Firefox), additionally, going back from Mercator to Loximuthal causes an odd inverted bowl-shaped border.

New comment by techbio in "Making a falling sand simulator"

techbio — Mon, 09 May 2022 04:40:21 +0000

I also observe this bias, I imagine it is an artifact of > versus >= on the pixel boundary.

New comment by techbio in "Kintsugi – Art of Repair"

techbio — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:54:05 +0000

"Why it will be years before robot butlers take over your household chores"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/23/future-...

New comment by techbio in "Kintsugi – Art of Repair"

techbio — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:51:34 +0000

That is impressive mileage. I've heard mention that classic car owners are especially excited to keep their show vehicles running indefinitely with new 3D printed parts.

New comment by techbio in "Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year"

techbio — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:40:20 +0000

As the baseline comparison of inflation rate to all other examples of "year-over-year" is pretty obviously skewed by circumstances, it would be potentially less misleading to the general public to say something contextual like "2021-over-2020" than "year-over-year".

New comment by techbio in "Facts don’t change our minds (2018)"

techbio — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:25:45 +0000

By simply telling people the same thing several times, almost literally word-for-word, people will go from blank stares almost miraculously to collaborating with and understanding the simplest explanations. Or else.

New comment by techbio in "SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response"

techbio — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:17:08 +0000

Because "ships to trade" is the Black Death equivalent of something like "Wuhan flu".

Not even close to obesity. Maybe you are looking for "allowing home ovens to bake bread attracts rats."

New comment by techbio in "SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response"

techbio — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:08:49 +0000

If something is so obvious as to need no explanation, it just might be worth understanding what about it is causal. What can be done given the predisposition to obesity in a time of abundant necessities? It seems your conclusion is to let it go to the joint processes of sin and natural selection, which would tend to call into question your moral certainty.

EDIT: Another post today titled "Causal Information Affects Decisions" seems relevant here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509236

New comment by techbio in "SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response"

techbio — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:04:12 +0000

Since GP refers to ubiquitous systemic issues, not xenophobia, not technological ventures, "ships to trade" seems to be a red herring. Also worth noting: "congratulations" reads more than a bit disingenuously.

New comment by techbio in "NIH director on why Americans aren't getting healthier, despite medical advances"

techbio — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:55:13 +0000

These types of foods are more tasty and snackable than following the money and/or turning the justifiable complaints of overworked healthcare professionals to effect systematic prevention.

New comment by techbio in "PCB Business Card"

techbio — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 04:02:56 +0000

How could it only be a copy, when great artists steal?

https://lifehacker.com/an-artist-explains-what-great-artists...

New comment by techbio in "Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in"

techbio — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:54:22 +0000

If you don't then solve it, you burned $100,000 in good will and a year of your life. Better not to even suggest it, there's little enough going around as is.

New comment by techbio in "Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections"

techbio — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:25:03 +0000

Sure it gets more people to vote, but for whom, and how are the benefits distributed, and by whom?

Not proof, and I may not like the inevitable conclusion, but this would be immediately corrupted by the democracy it intends to improve, if not sooner.

New comment by techbio in "‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics"

techbio — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:21:51 +0000

I had to Google ubiquitin to verify that this wasn't a dryly elaborate reddit-surprise thread. It is indeed a well-named compound, ubiquitous among eukaryotes, and even if "boc" and "fmoc" are basically just fizz and buzz to me, it sure sounds like you know what you're doing.