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qclibre22··on Svante Pääbo: ‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’
According to this pop-sci article : https://owlcation.com/stem/8-Neanderthal-Traits-in-Modern-Hu... :

    Hair Color and Type
    Immune System Benefits
    Sleeping Patterns
    Depression and Addiction
    Blood Clotting Issues
    Protein Malnutrition
    Eye Color
    Light and Dark Skin
qclibre22··on [dead]
clinicaltrials.gov : https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT05305560

"No Results Posted"

I think we need to see the write up in a journal before claiming "proof".

qclibre22··on We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files
gzip and xz are usually installed these days, zstd isn't.
qclibre22··on BlackRock 2023 Outlook [pdf]
There's old saying in finance: "Never trust an analyst".

If the analysis is so great, it won't be distributed on the internet for free. These financial management firms are always "talking their book", that is they cherry pick their data to support their portfolio.

Black Rock has seriously underperformed compared to XLF ( ETF for finance) year to date.

Perhaps they are just looking for excuses.

qclibre22··on Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
Worked!
qclibre22··on Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
Still getting "inference service could be unavailable".
qclibre22··on Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
Not sure what's up. No idea what the local filter software is. I'll fill out the local complaint form. wasm files are being served up from github.io , so wasm files, per se, are not the problem.
qclibre22··on Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
I'm getting content blocked at work:

Content blocked by [redacted]

Reason: This Category is filtered: grayware

Are there security concerns with wasmer.io ?

qclibre22··on Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Also, can you not "upgrade" but still run new models?
qclibre22··on Fred Brooks has died
We are standing on the shoulders of giants. He was one of the tallest.
qclibre22··on Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
Plus (during normal times) you get an interest rate that equals inflation. Mattress loses during inflation.
qclibre22··on US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
Which is interesting because Nixon pressured official to make "cheap money" : https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/1970s-gre...
qclibre22··on US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
Some claim you can: "The historical evidence indicates that when inflation is as high as it is today, and the unemployment rate is as low as it is today, the probability of a recession over the next one and two years is extraordinarily high" source: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcb...
qclibre22··on Ask HN: My political party knows I haven't voted yet. How?
Voting history is available to political parties and candidates.
qclibre22··on Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders
Might be a good time to go back to one share one vote corporate structure.
qclibre22··on Ask HN: What's Going on with the HN Algorithm?
There's bias at HN. Comes with being a message board.
qclibre22··on Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says
Crime increased ... or crime reports increased. Perhaps people are now reporting crime because the police and DA will actually do something.
qclibre22··on As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing
"Unknown to the public". Not true. People that read the news knew something was up and that they couldn't control the spread. Some smart money was trimming stock positions before the Senators.
qclibre22··on Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low
38% of population has no trust in the media, 28% has not very much confidence. About 2/3 of folks don't trust the media. I wish "the media" would go back to reporting the news instead of repeating talking points.
qclibre22··on A Universal Cancer Treatment?
Othes by Stillman : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ANthHuAAAAAJ&hl=en...
qclibre22··on US National Debt Tops $31T
Higher returns in equities.
qclibre22··on Peter Daszak has a new grant from the NIH to study bat coronaviruses in the wild
The optics of this are bad. I'm surprised NIH bureaucrats let this one through. While the science objectives may be okay, perhaps another group could have done it.
qclibre22··on Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors
Any hope of solving it using quantum computing?
qclibre22··on iPhone = Privacy?
Leave it at home or turn it off.
qclibre22··on Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings
Interesting who funded this study: Institute for New Economic Thinking was founded with an initial pledge of $50 million from businessman and philanthropist George Soros . I'm sure researchers try extra hard to not be influenced by the funders and pursue real science. Let's hope they did in this case.
qclibre22··on H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act
It is puzzling that lower income is associated with obesity. Perhaps reforming SNAP to exclude more sugary and processed foods might be good policy.
qclibre22··on [dead]
Get a checkbook.
qclibre22··on FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
Mail box theft is up, too: "Mail theft is on the rise nationally; so are check washing scams" ( https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/25-investiga... ).
qclibre22··on US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)
Congress and the previous and current administrations are also responsible for the "free money", not just the Fed. Lot of blame to go around.
qclibre22··on Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
"We haven't tried real pacifism before"
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