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> You'll probably leave your home at dark in the morning and will return again at dark. That's what happened in my high school years in France, which still changes clocks twice a y…

Note that this won't work with reasonably performant CNNs. Passing an image batch through a large-ish ResNet takes half a second on our GPUs, several minutes at full load on CPU. T…

It's great, but how can one trust the unofficial clients? They aren't from a well-known developer, and AFAIK, you can't check that the build is from the same code as the GitHub rep…

How do we know that shorter sleep causes lower mortality, instead of, say, that better health or some genes cause both? Even if we assume that correlation is causation, I haven’t s…

That site is half hypotheses made up by the author, and half irrelevant things like "this study proves that you won't die sooner if you cut 2 hours of sleep". Nothing in there indi…

> Porn is almost as unavoidable as ads Where are these ads? I never see pornographic ads in my daily browsing. > The dopamine response to seeing porn is similar to crack (4). That …

> Kids are generally stupider than adults. Nope, by any measure, smart kids are way smarter than most adults I encounter. People who throw basic logic out the window because they w…

I think we should shut HN down now before someone actually gives ad companies new ideas.

I’m skeptical about that 5 degree bet. What’s your source?

One side clearly wanted WWII. Not sure about the first one.

Might be. Depends on your personality.

If I were behind schedule I would try to scrape StackOverflow so I don't get cut off from it. Edit: maybe someone's scraper was too efficient.

On the other hand, if pre-iPhone Apple could invest into inventing the iPhone, I don't see why today's Apple could balk at a new effort of this kind, since today's Apple is vastly …

They claim that "You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because [...]", so their definition implies that people's ability to switch from one to the other is limited.…

> You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because you have a time in your life where you prefer to be alone. Extroverts don't become introverts while grieving the dea…

> My daily exercise routine is - 2 hour cardio Do you have a full-time job? That would take most of my evenings if I decided to do it.

Very informative, thank you.

It's been decreasing so far, with financial safety, a saner schedule (no more absurd school deadlines for subjects I don't even care about), and more freedom of movement (one gets …

> You don't need a absurdly high salary to raise a comfortable family or live a comfortable life. I could do with absurdly high savings though. For everything from future projects …

> I should also point out that high salaries will be eaten up completely by the sky high costs of everything in the Bay Area. Interesting. Can you define "eaten up"? With my west-E…

Nothing I found is as simple and pleasant to use as Google Reader. Feedly comes close, but its default is an ML-curated "magazine" view, and the last thing I want to see is more in…

During his studies and very early career? That's completely normal and I don't understand why more people don't do it. Studies don't give you any idea of what a job is actually lik…

> If you are that smart to have a background in bio, and land the jobs that he did, your career would look very different. Is that really so impressive? Bio people do a lot of codi…

> Be prepared to be very lonely if you do not have a friends' circle already established here. That's an absolutely prohibitive cost, and not how I want to spend my 20s and 30s. Th…

> Why not try applying for some full remote positions at FAANGs or whatever big tech employers you have in your area? Machine learning-focused jobs at FAANG seem harder to get than…