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If you're a slave in antebellum North Carolina, you have rosin on-hand and an open fire, no oven. You can cook your potatoes on the hot coals and ash or boil them in water in a pot…

Is this the introduction of native call recording on iPhone? I've always had to use an app to record calls.

It's either smell, body heat, or easy access to skin. Maybe you sweat more than your wife, or the compounds in your sweat are more attractive to mosquitos, or maybe her hygiene is …

Better to whole-ass one thing than half-ass two things. Sleep allows a focused effort on cellular repair, garbage collection, memory consolidation, and learning. The 24-hour dark-l…

No, purchasing power is down. Costs of living have gone up more than median wages. How much gold can you buy with USD today vs. 10 years ago? Less because the USD is worth less tha…

Phrases like "the American economy is booming" or "America is out-performing Europe..." are simplistic and ridiculous. My least favorite part of getting a degree in economics was t…

How does that compare to the CEO's annual comp?

More like having a drug dealer in your AA group.

I wonder if you need to account for body language to get that figured out. A technical conversation on the phone is usually not as fluid as in-person.

Advice and verbal axioms like "eat more vegetables" probably don't work because they don't operate at the level of emotions and imagery, they're just words. People are not as ratio…

That cave location looks like such a prime piece of real-estate for a Paleolithic hunter group.

A legal fiction.

I meant it as a matter-of-fact observation. The headline was changed after my comment, but it was "Why We’re Deeply Invested in Making AI Better at Math Tutoring". The "why" is obv…

Because it's cheaper than paying people.

I've definitely noticed it on meat that has gone off, and previously was not iridescent. I wonder if bacteria create surface gratings.

What difference does it make if I meet him? Our lives and access to resources are still impacted by mega wealthy people. I pay taxes that build roads and schools which enable comme…

That looks really close to be a useful farm hand. $16k for a device that can dig a trench, spread mulch, pick weeds, and harvest stuff off the ground would be pretty awesome.

It's cool as an academic exercise, but there are things in life where the struggle is kind of the point. The messy learning process, asking other humans for help, is better for you…

Penalize tech companies for damaging children and put the money towards rehabilitation.

And 3 days after another HN submission on a self-powered sensor that harvest energy from soil microbes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046697

I think managers in tech companies are very often just really untalented as leaders. Good leaders create more leaders. Growing talent and getting the best out of people should be t…

That is not correct. AI safety is a subject on which serious books have been written, serious scientists have published research, and serious organizations have spent tens, if not …