skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly correct, but perhaps not in the way you think.

Having excess retinol does not offer 'protection' in the literal sense.
It does not shield your DNA as it replicates to replace the cells that died at the elevated rate of death due to UV exposure.

Rather, retinol is rare (% of bodymass) and is a key component of the chain of cell duplication. Having excess retinol available means your processes won't 'run out' of it when they need it. This protects from the biological equivalent of 'cutting corners' in manufacturing and THIS is how it reduces transcription error.

It's preventative by way of avoiding a deprivation.

If you are anticipating any excess cell death for any reason, it is better to have a slight oversupply of retinol as well as a variety of other antioxidants.
The benefits are (literally) microscopic but are cumulative over a lifespan.

Think of it a bit like brushing your teeth. You're not rebuilding enamel, you're preventing it's loss.
heh yeah tier 1 provider, not t1 line. Blast from the past - I still remember people bragging about their 1.5Mbps T1 connections.
That's pretty unfair. They never said it was evidence let alone weighty evidence, they offered examples of where they see this phenomenon in their life and in our culture. This is clearly a subjective interpretation/critique of another text ("I read this as"). That's perfectly reasonable to include in a blog post primarily about personal experience.
> The fallacy here is assuming planning something is draining or bad for you.

Executive Function is a term commonly thrown around in the autistic and ADHD spaces. When read in that context, it makes a *lot* more sense.

From what I hear, neurotypical people have a much higher tolerance for bullshit work and wasteful process. I wouldn't know what that feels like. Beyond 1 or 2 wasted steps and I get mad that someone has designed a process that's actively hostile to its users.
On a side note, the author's example is exactly why I have chosen to not use FSAs. Sure, it saves me 20% or so since it's pre-tax money, but is my stress, time, executive function, and sanity all worth that? Plus if I screw up and don't spend the money or file something wrong, I lose it or pay penalties.
As a general rule (there are notable exceptions), I don't watch any movies made past 2019/20. Most of them seem to have some sort of a messaging embedded inside. Regardless of the nature of the messaging, I figure that they should pay me for watching it, not the other way around. I hope this would change soon. John Wick was awesome though...
The people that commit these opportunistic crimes is statistically small. You can't make valid conclusions either way. "feels true" is just as good as any conclusion. People that make shoplifting their career will continue to do what they know. No bail makes it so much easier, at some point it just doesn't matter if they get caught.

The issue is that we want all criminals prosecuted to the max but we don't want to pay to house them. This has caused overcrowded jails. Even now the prison system is so full that the governor has to figure out how to fix it. Imagine, if everyone has to post bail. It's not going to work.
Didn't they put someone in prison in China for doing this to babies?

https://www.science.org/content/article/chinese-scientist-wh...
I just went and checked. By default extensions are hidden and can't be changed. If you hit the menu thing and select "Show all extensions" you can now edit file extensions.

Seems appropriate to me. Changing a files extension is pretty unusual and will break things in ways users don't understand. But if you do know what you are doing, it took me 20 seconds to work out how to do it without reading a manual.
Idk why but even highly knowledgeable people capitalize random tech words. In the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate, Tanenbaum regularly calls it LINUX (maybe a habit because UNIX is smallcaps'd per the trademark?). Lisp is often called LISP (check Wikiquote for ample examples), although this is forgivable since Lisp really did used to be an all-caps acronym.
Don’t they? This part of the article stood out and rung true to me:

> The thief has chosen to prioritize their executive function over another person’s and, having found that this makes their lives easier, repeats this behavior unless it is disrupted.

(Emphasis added.) By imposing the executive function-depleting responsibility onto others, they reserve EF capacity of their own which they wouldn’t otherwise specifically by extracting that cost from others.
I'd like to see a comparison to GTK4.jl [1] and GTKObservables.jl [2].

[1] https://docs.juliahub.com/Gtk4/rFcBQ/0.5.0/
[2] https://juliagizmos.github.io/GtkObservables.jl/stable/
This is an interesting question!

Here is one suggestion that made for a fun read, though people argue over the particulars: https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools...

In that story, it’s not that everyone is intelligent. There is still a Bell curve, meaning that people are mostly average but that smaller percentages are very smart or very dumb. Instead the author describes a world where the average is higher than it is in ours. The average IQ in that world, if we used our tests to measure it, would be about 140. The author then speculates, in a humorous fashion, about the ways that this higher average intelligence has caused the civilization of dath ilan to be different from our own here on Earth.

In particular, he posits that computers would be slower, everyone would already use self–driving electric cars (but they would be limited to underground tunnels, because that makes it much easier to implement self–driving). There are far fewer surface roads, just large arterial roads every mile or so for moving consumer goods and houses around. Obviously it is much simpler to bring your house with you when you move, rather than to try and find a house at your destination that you like and all of your stuff will fit in. Cities look like gardens or forests dotted with houses.

Their political system is in some ways much more complex than our own. One aspect that I liked (although I now realize that this might have been taken from another document, written after this one), was that nobody was allowed to work their way up in politics. It was quite easy to enter politics at a “local” level, but once you had officially done so you couldn’t then run for election as a Legislator, or a President. You could go the other way though.

Apparently Earth is better at the mathematics of macro economics, however. Not because it’s not useful, but because they tended to use brute force instead. Virtually everyone in dath ilan is smart enough to understand price inflation, so they implemented the obvious fix: just have a holiday once a year where everyone lowers their prices. Simple, easy, problem solved. Thus, nobody ever noticed that you could adjust the supply of money instead.

All in all, a fun story.
Is this related to Active Inference?
To save others a google, Jeremiad: a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes.

This description fits very well.
Not only are you mastering the art of flight training on a vintage plane, but you’re also moonlighting as a creative tech guru with your Nav log printer project.

Your kneeboard “cargo pants of the air” are legit, and turning the cockpit’s windshield pillar into prime real estate for receipt prints? Genius move.

Your journey from regex to JSON wizardry is like a flight plan through the tech skies.

Keep soaring, my friend!
Choosing the "wrong" genre is definitely a thing tho. Take an example: Pyre, from the developers who made Transistor and Hades.

Transistor was quite a big success among indies[1]. Hades was the indie game of the year[2]. Then why Pyre, the game between these two big boys, flopped[3]?

In my opinion it's mostly the genre. "Fantasy" + "Sport" didn't work so well, cause the main audience of sport games are mostly also fans of real-life sport teams.

[1]: https://steamdb.info/app/237930 says 1.08M ~ 2.66M owners.

[2]: https://steamdb.info/app/1145360 says 4.63M ~ 12.73M.

[3]: https://steamdb.info/app/462770 says 251.3k ~ 628.2k. It's not bad, but considering its astonishing quality and the track record of the devs, I'll say it's an disppointing number.
Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii...
Learn X in Y Minutes, where X=LOLCODE
It's Shameless Self-Promotion Time again!

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/culture-at-google-part-o...

I started the Cinema Club at Google, which is still going on, AFAIK. You can download the list of the 300 or so movies which I put on.

I really don't care about MCU, Harry Potter, Hollywood studios, AI, or Rotten Tomatoes. It's pointless to rage about it. Just offer an alternative. I'd rather show a great movie that no one comes to than a garbage one that attracts big crowds. Once in a while we had a film that was both: Chinatown, Rashomon.

Our reaction to anyone was, "You can start your own movie club. We'll help you; here are all the secrets." The big secret was just to ask the boss for the money; 10 in a row said Yes.

The most common thing people said to me was, "You guys show some great movies. But I have to leave to catch the shuttle!"
Yeah, I've found in the rare times that I require knowledge of coding, such as CSS or JS or something, or really any IT-related topic, I can't start with a search engine, because it's clogged with noob-level glurge.

One thing I've found is that certifications offering CEUs often reward entry-level bloggery, and so it's these guys who are just writing to fulfill a requirement, writ large, like thousands and thousands, and they're all ad-supported and indexed. The other type you'll find is a vendor who blogs and they've basically written an opinionated advertisement for some product they're selling, and that's not neutral tech info.

The best bet, as it always has been, is to seek out the vendor documentation, the standards bodies, the authors who've published books and established themselves as authorities on the topic.

These sources are not difficult to find! They may sometimes cost you money, but they're not obscure and they're not hidden. Go find them.

As an educator, I get so frustrated with any colleague who encourages and instructs students to go ask an LLM or go use Google Search, because they're the bottom-of-the-barrel worst places to find and learn information. My tech interview for $currentjob actually hinged on using Search to find some info, and I paused a moment to explain to the interviewer how Search results were clogged with crap, and we'd need to separate out a diamond in the rough.

The compounded problem also, is that students who do use LLM or Search will frequently find comprehensive solutions to the questions they're asking, and they will be sorely tempted to copy-paste those into their homework, and then we have to deal with it. A disservice to the student all around, who never learned anything to begin with, because they didn't even try.
Maybe they wash it with a proprietary bluing agent.
Nah, not really. It’s just TLS SNI + old-fashioned Host: headers.
I had a pretty strong negative reaction when reading this and had to sit with it a while to figure out why. I kept coming back to the idea that something about this seems childish to me without initially being able to articulate what, exactly, it was that seemed immature. After I'd had some time to thing on it it occurred to me that the underlying idea is that people are somehow responsible for the author's emotional well-being, that they are somehow owed something, or that perhaps they simply deeply misunderstand work relationships.
Your example is not what's claimed.

In your analogy, it would be more like I'd contacted the housing association to force you to mow your driveway, denying you the time to properly manicure your lawn. I'm not gaining any improvement to my lawn in that case.
Project Hermes a network agnostic ultra-fast communication solution for Java
Nobody knows if they did or not, since the Russians are not talking. There was only speculation as to how much poisoning the troops likely would have suffered (which would depend on the actual soil composition where they dug). The dosage was not zero and most certainly not safe.

That's a far cry from "OMG PROPAGANDA!"

The main point, of course, is how reckless and stupid it was.
Hello HN! Author here. This was an absolutely _fascinating_ topic to research and write about. So many different perspectives and so much depth to each of them.

I am not sure I got all the parts about the geology right and would love any chance to learn from those who know better!
And the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) uses magnets that generate magnetic fields of up to 8.3 teslas.
This reminds me of another bit of psudeo-science bullshit, claims that bullet wounds can be matched to close bullet size, like saying someone was hit by a 9mm vs .45 cal vs .40 cal if there is no bullet to recover.
Is "eliminates" the right word here? My reading of the article abstract is that the treatment kills virus particles and in higher doses, the macaques showed increased white blood counts. But that's not to say that the monkeys are cured. Maybe "reduces viral load" might be a better phrasing?
What specifically should I have said to change it from fulminating to a declaration of the inherent problems in the technology industry that causes the concerns listed in the article (and nearly everyone else's comments) ? Should I just have said "I dislike very strongly ..." ?
Unless I’m missing something, one still needs to scan the QR code though. That’s a smartphone feature.
It’s official: LK-99 isn’t a room-temperature superconductor
I am the same way, after having royally screwed up one year (on a similar employer-provided benefit, not a health FSA). I donated several thousand of my pre-tax dollars to the state of California because I missed a deadline and the funds were use-it-or-lose-it.

The ADHD tax is real, and this article calls out its mechanism exactly, though not by this name.
I’m probably the HN dismissive you are talking about, but I don’t understand the purpose of writing something that establishes a negative emotional reaction to something without engaging with how that something can be fixed.

It’s like saying “I’m happy to put a lot of work into making my readers feel bad for person X, but I can’t be bothered researching how to help person X or others who could become X in the future.”

What am I missing?

On second thoughts maybe it’s useful to separate the emotional articles from the pragmatic ones. Maybe this author is better at empathy and not good at problem solving.
but they could have. still could. and you might not even know. and the fact that one of our political teams has been fighting SO HARD against net neutrality is a big red flag.

protections are important even if someone's not actively and noticeably abusing people right this minute.
A Lucky Two Percent of People Have a Gene for Stink-Free Armpits
It's called ECH now
I remember this being discussed on HN before. It felt a bit like "till receipts are killing us" which in the context of someone flying a 40 year old plane with noted defects might not be a primary concern.

I wanted to buy a thermal printer myself but couldn't find a definitive answer or evidence of the BPA part being a risk. I got one that uses BPS instead - other papers also raised concerns about this, but again I couldn't find direct evidence of health issues associated with the handling of till receipts.

I decided as the receipt printer will be used infrequently and I have been handling till receipts for the last 4 decades I wouldn't worry about it. BPA is also present in food cans and plastic bottles - the link you sent states the concentrations are higher in receipts - but at the same time I don't intend on eating the receipts or rubbing them into my skin.

Generally I'm quite cautious about chemicals in everyday life, I try and reduce the amount in our house using natural products for cleaning for example.

At the same time we're constantly surrounded by toxins so I often find myself having to do this sort of rationalisation to avoid worrying about seemingly everything all the time.
Thanks very much for posting this - I got a similar vibe (and I'm also getting the sense a lot of these comments here are just about the title and from folks that didn't actually read the article).

Basically, it felt like the author was trying to weave a narrative that Lorne Michaels is as toxic as, say, Scott Rubin ( https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/everyone... ), but his evidence just came off as way, way weaker, and so in the end it felt like a hit piece to me.

My guess is a better analogy is someone like Anna Wintour: someone notorious for being demanding and difficult to work with, but also someone who engenders loyalty of people that work with her - more of a "very tough but ultimately fair" sort of vibe.
Why do one in four Edinburgh students attend private school?
> enabling subtitles was a profound difference for a subset of viewers (those who enjoy foreign media and the deaf) but even that came about with DVDs, not Blu-ray.

Closed captions were available on many, but not all, VHS tapes. Not all DVDs had subtitles either. The problem with CC on VHS was that it was often the first thing to degrade before the picture and then the sound.

Foreign films often had subtitled releases "baked in" to the video. Here's another hit of nostalgia. There were times you'd walk into a Blockbuster in the USA and the only available version of a hot new Hollywood release was the Spanish or French subtitled version. You had to deal with the lost sections of image dedicated to subtitles in a language you might not even understand!
So the question on my mind as a rural resident of the US North is, is this going to happen to the US North soon? Are we in the same boat as Canada in terms of drying forests and undergrowth accumulation?
I see Paul Newman's face on my salad dressing every time I open my fridge, but I guess I don't really think about it.
None of these are "unproven ideas", except maybe Celeste.

Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight were so "proven" that they were cliche. Stardew Valley is the most typical example of porting a proven idea to a new platform I can think of.
I read all 8 of those paragraphs, assuming it was related to the original post.
Well I suppose that if you treat value types like a variation of an object reference rather than a variation of an object, then it would make sense that they cannot be mutated (since neither can object references but only their targets), with the added wrinkle of allowing such mutation during value constructors. To me this still feels less general than C or Go structs, which can have individual fields mutated in place (and even take the address of stack variables and pass pointers around, though that's unsafe in C and may require heap/GC allocation in Go unless escape analysis proves otherwise).
> why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas

Because my mother would die if guests saw her stack of dirty dishes next to the sink.
I wish the hyperbolic phrase "X is in fire" would stop.

The entirety of BC is not currently on fire (obviously). And if "BC is on fire" right now, then it would also be "on fire" when there is one single forest fire burning in the province.
i call it "choice-gas" and yes it does run low and is expressly frustrating when it's constantly taxed needlessly.

a good example is microsoft outlook. meeting invites would pop a mandatory three way choice of "send the response now, send the response later or edit the response before sending" every time the accept button was pressed.

a truly infuriating case of eft.
I've harped on this on the past, the "official" hardware support list is tiny: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h...

But, it's worth noting there's different levels of "support." With ROCm 5.6, the 7900XT and 7900XTX RDNA3 cards, while not "officially" supported are gfx1100, which have rocBLAS/MIOpen kernels and work w/o jiggerpokery w/ PyTorch nightly and various HIPified inferencers I've tried like ExLlama.
We could move into a new dark age if we lose too much data.
If anybody is wondering why that article feels off, Cris Italia was responding to this article wherein he was called out for pretty obviously pushing vaccine-autism stuff in October of 2020.

https://sethsimons.substack.com/p/the-comedy-club-owner-with...
Me too, but they were much closer to the hobby side than the research side (it's really weird how distinct culturally the hobby and research sites of astronomy are).

Cerro Tololo isn't a single telescope, it's a site with multiple ones (nearly every observatory is now), and it sounds like Gemini North (in Hawaii) was the actual one affected, but that they've basically disconnected all the different sites from each to avoid possible infection.
and the toilet fountain
Replacing windows isn't expensive compared to a house rebuild. Seems like an entirely reasonable tradeoff for more light imo, as long as you have a safe room somewhere.
This is a wonderful trend. Cooking goes on, mixed with kids homework or peers socializing, and it pulls everyone together.

Another nice trend is street level shops and restaurants mixed with housing above. This fights the "estate for everyone" mcmansion trend that separates people.
> the 7900XTX is the first (and only) desktop GPU from AMD that _might_ be worth buying.

Unless you need RT for gaming then most of AMDs cards are better value.
The author is proposing that these “Workplace EFT” examples need some sort of fix, but I think it’s actual preferable to make the same decision as your coworkers and neglect them until they become a larger problem, since the alternative is taking them on by oneself and growing increasingly resentful that your coworkers don’t prioritize meeting notes or get well cards to the same extent you do. Otherwise, you’re really just inflicting you’re own personal expectations on everyone else instead of acknowledging that they have different standards than you do.
Of course you can. There's been at least 10 years of people talking about metrics to track in various forms, and before that there was scrum and kanban. Literally the simplest possible metrics are things like ticket rate of change, mttr, deployment rate, etc. It's not perfect, but if you're not measuring anything it's much better than nothing.

People just don't even try to measure, at a lot of places I've worked. There's no adult in the room even looking. They just take the devs' word for it that they're being as productive as they can. Henry Ford would weep.