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Study Conclusion: Mouse brains track eye direction during REM sleep.

> Who cares if a social media site is offline for a day? Society will be fine. Users will be fine. Not just fine... better off.

> You can control the side effects you may get from a medication you take? You can eliminate unneeded medication to eliminate side effects. You can reduce or change your needed med…

I agree that the father appears lucky to have avoided issues such as debilitating disease due to random genetic mutation. Even the father acknowledges that "lots of good luck" was …

If you want to reason about the real world, then a top-left origin will typically be better as it aligns with a right-handed coordinate system of Forward-Right-Down; where the Forw…

> As the author mentions, the original moniker for Excel was VisiCalc VisiCalc wasn't actually a moniker for Excel. It was a predecessor. It was the first spreadsheet program, whic…

Humans have an instinctive drive to optimize genetic survival. Without it, we would not exist. One of the control mechanisms for this is our instinct for reproduction. We constantl…

Higher prices will result in increased production. We don't need to motivate producers beyond that. There's plenty of potential from non-Russian sources. It will take months though…

It makes you look like a genius rather than like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHFB40WOMOo

Constricting the pupil can certainly reduce the effect of defects in the eye lens by reducing the amount of lens used; however, it won't work well in dim light. Alternative: Increa…

Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299363

>...doesn’t have to be... That argues that there might be a first. To be clear, I’m not saying there isn’t a first. I’m just saying this particular argument doesn’t support the ass…

> In math there is the concept of having a first element... There is also the mathematical concept of not having a first element of a sequence, where each element has an infinite n…

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28717961

Similarly, periodical cicadas synchronously emerge in great numbers (more 370 per square meter) every 13th or 17th year.[1] This overwhelms predators and it's thought that the prim…

In my experience, 100x absolutely exists. It can be sustained in areas where someone has considerable amounts of closely-related experience; however, when innovating, it is only su…

Some very young children just absolutely do not want to be messed with. Even brushing their hair with a soft brush can be a major struggle no matter how clever you might be at dist…

Yes, I also strongly advise not riding dirt bikes either. With that said, over countless hours of riding the ‘burbs, rural back roads, and trails; I never had what I considered a n…

I grew up riding dirt bikes. Later moved on to street bikes. Wandered many miles of beautiful deserts, mountains, plains, and rainforests. Had truly awesome experiences. Also had a…

No, there is no survivorship bias apparent here. The samples appear to be representative of the populations they were investigating. They were looking at the risk of infection. Dea…

It is a positive feedback loop, not a negative feedback loop. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback .

The Project Zero stats imply three times the rate of detected zero-days versus last year. Apparently, this is largely due to the increasing output of private companies finding and …

> I think the underlying reason is when you have far more experience than your future boss they are intimidated by you. That is so true; however, they tend to be weak managers with…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_arbitrage