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Tell HN: YouTube Subscription page is being deprecated

5 points·by csours·4 months ago·3 comments

Heritability of life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined

dynomight.net
2 points·by csours·5 months ago·2 comments

Ask HN: Textbook and Technical Book writers – are you creating LLM products?

2 points·by csours·10 months ago·0 comments

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csours
·3 days ago·discuss
98% of any particular audience at a live event is well behaved. Unfortunately, in an audience of 1,000 people, that means 20 people are not well behaved, and if each of those 20 people ruins the event for their neighbors, that means at least 200 people had a bad time.

If 2% of your users complain and leave bad reviews, and only 1% leave good reviews...
csours
·4 days ago·discuss
This is load bearing guanxi
csours
·16 days ago·discuss
I've lost my ability to believe that things will feel 'normal' at work.

I no longer want to make connection with any coworkers.
csours
·24 days ago·discuss
Implemented by intention vs implemented by history
csours
·25 days ago·discuss
Signal and noise. Lots of noise. SO much noise.

To be clear, I don't know which part is signal and which part is noise any better than anyone else.
csours
·30 days ago·discuss
The work product is not the work.
csours
·2 months ago·discuss
I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools.

Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream
csours
·2 months ago·discuss
"The Medium Is The Message" - Marshall McLuhan

People aren't nihilist - social media is.

People aren't shallow - dating apps are.

The world isn't shit - late capital is.

But of course, people are also nihilist, shallow and shit; and those same people are hopeful, complex, patient, kind and loving - but the internet rarely brings those stories to you.
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
Source?

Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerogen?

At any rate, this is why I would like to see a better investigation of the subject

Better Kerogen wiki: https://wiki.aapg.org/Kerogen
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
Well, there are a lot of planets, and a lot of time.

So I would say yes.

On average though, I would say no.
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
Thank you?

Solar panels don't convert air to fuel directly, but you could use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
I'd love to see an investigation into fossil fuel accumulation over geological time scales - especially petroleum.

From what I've seen, 10,000 barrels per year is a reasonable guestimate.

If that is the case, then just the electrical energy harvested from solar panels in the UK could convert air into fuel at a faster rate than the WHOLE earth (on average over geological time scales) (as long as the fuel conversion/production was at least 1% efficient at converting electricity to fuel).

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1owp09/if_oil_t...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209624951...
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
Something interesting to me is that YouTube doesn't even capture the majority of the value stream. They allow content creators to use things like Patreon and their own ad reads to capture their own value.

Of course, the preceding paragraph could be re-written in many different ways.
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
The fun thing about learning to juggle is that no one can teach you how to juggle, but they can teach you how to teach yourself how to juggle.
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
If it is a part with a regular maintenance schedule, it should be designed for maintainability.

Most maintainability conflicts come from packaging and design for assembly.

Efficiency more often comes into conflict with durability, and sometimes safety.
csours
·3 months ago·discuss
Yes propaganda and bullshit, but by way of exaggeration and puffery, not lying.

I wouldn't expect even a lightly informed mid-wit to think that this murderbot held the ground by itself; and I don't think the author expects that either. Thus something else is probably going on. To wit - puffery.
csours
·4 months ago·discuss
And here I assumed they sounded like red-tailed hawks!
csours
·4 months ago·discuss
Compared to the cosmic spacetime scale, "snaps" fits pretty well for me =)
csours
·4 months ago·discuss
I read the book before watching the movie - I'd recommend the opposite.

Watching the movie first will set the stage for a lot of details that work better in a book than a movie.
csours
·4 months ago·discuss
Not nearly as cool, but I was able to show a colleague the letters in a raster image section of a pdf using xxd by varying the output width