skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A former colleague once gave me some of the most important advice I’ve ever received a few years ago:

> Spend your money on what goes between you and the ground.

For about a decade I sat on a version of an IKEA chair, with a mesh neck and foam cushion. They’re good for the price, but I wish I upgraded sooner. The foam only ever lasted about 2 years.

The Aeron is a nice chair, but use one first before you buy. They’re often available second hand for cheap, which is great value. For me, I found them to be a bit uncomfortable.

My main chair now is a Herman Miller Cosm, with the high back. I love it, it looks great, and the leaf arms are the first chair arms I’ve ever left on a chair. The main draw for me was the single mesh across the whole chair. I find mesh more comfortable, and it doesn’t wear like foam.

I also have a qor360 active sitting chair. These take getting used to, but they’re pretty good. Definitely keeps me alert.

Finally I got one of the cheaper folding desk treadmills (walking pad I think?). I found I can walk for hours if my brain has something interesting to do.

Overall I spend most of the time in the Cosm. I’ve spent more on fixing back pain than any of these, and each has meaningfully improved that.

As our bodies all vary in shape, size, weight and proportions, you need to try as many different options to find what features are best for you.

The Cosm and qor360 ain’t cheap, but they’ve been worth it for me.
Yeah, that's a pretty huge assumption. I struggle to imagine more than 50, even when cooking something moderately elaborate. So one order of magnitude there. Perhaps someone cooking a lot (e.g. for a large family) cuts more. But then that microplastic exposure is shared between everyone in that family. Pity we can't access the paper to check...
TeamFourStar on YouTube are renoknowned for their comedian efforts on making an abridged version of the DragonBall series
How is this possible? One onion probably is at least 25 or more cuts. Anything chopping or mincing is going to be a lot.

I’m sure it is variable based on diets. But full home cooking, 500 doesn’t seem that far off to me.

Edit: I just tested this. 30 for half an onion.. so 60 for a whole onion.

I’m pretty certain when I make stew tonight; I’ll hit several hundred just for that.
Its a dirty drug people. Herion too yeilds theraputic benifits. Ketamine is sold next to dope and coke in the cities. Is causes olney lesions, bladder issues.. it has an intereating effect but life has interestong muses and artifacts all over so realy what are we seeing pushed on people???
Ceramic fiber? I don't know if this is a joke, but I'm curious.
So where are the articles about Bill Gates, Elon Musk etc getting scurvy from their path to become billionaires?
I recommend seeing an ophthalmologist specializing in dry eye disease. They have tests for measuring tear breakup time (TBUT) and imaging equipment for viewing meibomian glands, which are specialized sebum glands that coat the eye surface in oil to form the tear film. Fish oil helps for that reason - Omega-3s improve sebum quality.

Personally I use preservative-free eye drops with hyaluronic acid [1] and they help out tremendously. I also use a heated dry eye mask, but I don't know if that helps with Lasik cases.

But it's best to try to treat it sooner rather than later. I ended up seeing my ophthalmologist in the first place because my cornea got damaged and infected, and he said that the eye dryness could have been a contributing factor.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967738/
I really like the Lämplig one, as it's properly sized instead of the small 10×20cm things that some people seem to use; having space to work is just so nice. And at €15 it's the same price or cheaper than most of those plastic ones (when I first got it I believe I paid €10 for it, or maybe even less, and I couldn't believe how cheap it was).

> One cool thing about wooden cutting boards is that they are somewhat self-healing. Wood swells with water so small incisions can close by themselves.

I believe it's also more hygienic, because with plastic cutting boards the bacteria stay on the surface, whereas in wooden ones they're "absorbed" by the wood (or something along those lines, I'm too lazy to find a reference).
The average person is not mincing, or often even chopping, on a daily basis. And when they are, they are doing a couple dozen slices each through a few vegetables.
re: your edit, yeah, i've often wondered if bayer/monsanto just let that chemical "tank" in the role-playing / MOBA sense, all of the negative publicity, so down the road when they are forced to show data/science - or, they release a new chemical - they can point at glyphosate and say "see, it wasn't even that bad!".

If you look at the literature, say for "roundup inert ingredient toxicity", lots of papers explain that each manufacturer (or different use pesticides from the same manufacturer) will contain different ratios or mixtures of inactive ingredients, and there's a lot of what i consider damning evidence against the surfactants.
I got inspired by your stuff (and other links on this post) that I ended up getting a Scratch account and made an analog clock https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/910890145

My 8 year old does scratch every day and I often help him when he has questions. I was pretty fun to just make a silly project (with unnecessary animation) for fun! Thanks for the inspiration!

And by the way, a catch phrase in our house is now "Hurry to love! Hurry to love!"
The benefit of chair recommendations is that you've likely spent longer timespans in your chair than I can reasonably spend in a store. In my experience, recommendations tend to yield better comfort long term than my own opinion in a store. But maybe others are better able to extrapolate. Honestly I've never found an office chair that I'd call comfortable.
I am familiar with that view and I don't agree with that conclusion

> I do think that plants have capacity for suffering but it is incomparable to the suffering of a cow, for example.

why? why is it incomparable.

the fact that you even consider "genetic relatedness" or "that plants have capacity for suffering" is an expansion that requires admitting a simpler view that many vegans have was simply wrong! there are plenty that are like "anything without a central nervous system can't suffer!" and the goal posts keep moving as they have to accept that more and more organisms avoid negative stimuli because they can predict it or don't want it.

if plants could yell and howl in pain they would. which way would be incomparable?

if plants could uproot and move out the way, they would. which way would be incomparable?

and that entire view is based on the vegan feeling so uniquely enlightened, as if the rest of us could not perceive suffering of mammals or suffering of other species. but it was only you, the anti-suffering vegans, that ever needed the validation of additional institutions to accept this already widely held perception that killing organisms for consumption is something those organisms actively react to and avoid because of sensory inputs.

and for solutions, it is arbitrary to manifest that as a dietary preference.
All profits?

Why not a licensing fee with retroactive pricing?
Bamboo is very hard, so while durable, blunts your knives faster than wood. Or so I've heard.
Mmm. I am not enthusiastic about choices to explain UB as actually not that bad. Even when they're strictly correct they're too often likely to mislead exactly the audience who needed the warning.

There's a C++ talk by Alistair Meredith which ends up saying that UB can't delete client files unless you the programmer wrote code to delete those files...
The leap is great, I used to have one at a previous office. The "Think" is nice too, which is what I have now. I bought it at the start of the pandemic, "renewed" from Amazon, which cut the list price in half.
If I recall correctly, the crew of the Ethiopian flight that crashed were very experienced and they did understand what was happening. They just couldn't mitigate it in the short time they had.
Good thing this was nixed. Can you imagine the danger to life if it springs a leak? CO² is a killer at concentrations above 5%
That was GP's point.
Started on a standard generic office chair sitting for hours. Then decided that an ergonomic big-name brand chair would be my silver bullet.

The next step, sit/stand desk. But still had some aches as I would either stand for 3 hours or sit for 3 hours.

The current setup is a mix of sit/stand desk and regular short breaks every 30 minutes or so.
Even a glance away for 1 or 2 minutes to stretch but still keep a mental image of the work intact so you don't lose focus and flow.

The key for me, reaching a point where stretching and movement are incorporated into my day.
Yes, now imagine what you're breathing by just being anywhere on planet earth!
This reminds me of the recent New Yorker article on indigenous Pacific Northwest oral histories about climactic flooding that can be directly correlated to ancient written Japanese tsunami records.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
Marketing what? Wooden cutting boards?
Ikea Pöang recliner, you know the one. Because you are reclined its difficult to be hunched over but you need to positions your monitors accordingly.
If you're in either the Bay Area or the LA Basin, you'd better have earthquake insurance...
This simply doesn't pass the common-sense test:

> “Our study assumes that the average person makes 500 cuts per day on a board, or over the course of a year, 128,000 cuts. Given those numbers, the cumulative microplastics exposure ranges from 7.4 to 50.7 grams per year.”

> For context, a plastic credit card weighs about five grams, so the highest end of this estimate amounts to 10 credit cards per year, shed onto your board and food.

I have several plastic cutting boards I've used close to daily for probably 10 years. But they still have the same shape and weight as when I bought them, based on simple visual inspection. Yes, the surfaces are positively covered in probably hundreds of thousands of scratches from each cut I've made, but the surface is still visibly the same height in the middle of the board where it's most scratched, vs. the edges that don't have any scratches at all.

Yet according to this "study" my cutting boards ought to have developed entire holes in their middles by now.

I can quite confidently say that I haven't removed even one credit card's worth of plastic in a decade. A tiny fraction of a credit card's worth across all the boards, maybe.
No great reason, other than a vague unease at the tacit promotion (to people, and/or to future spiders/bots) involved in citing the name of a specific corporate - it being a largely irrelevant side element of the greater point I was here to make.
I don’t think it’s ethical to breed, farm, and kill sentient beings just because you don’t abuse them before you bolt them in the head. “But my slaves have a great life!” would be a similar example.
I am expecting to send around 2000 messages a month as we scale. Yes, there are some paid tiers for enterprises but it is a long shot and is not immediate.
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That's not trust in the bank though, that's trust in the system/fdic.

I think many would lose trust in their bank if they heard it was being robbed with abnormal regularity.
That sounds like the right ballpark for making a big stir-fry, including a lot of mincing of ginger and garlic and peppers. Not something I do every day, though! I feel like this is off by an order of magnitude.

However... as soon as you do something like use a serrated knife to cut bread on a cutting board? There's no way that wouldn't produce a ton of microplastics. Or if you scoop chopped vegetables by sliding a sharp knife -- that's also going to produce a lot of plastic particles. So it might not be a terrible estimate for some sizeable fraction of the population.
Any chance you've got pictures? It sounds like a few of us here are happier without the padding, and I've been passively looking out for a sit/stand solution for my in-office days.
I just bought a new bottle of Miracle Ointment™ (3.5 grams , $30) because, after 4 months of peace, my cornea decided to rip itself open again last night. Sigh. This is after 6 months of diligent application before bed every night, in order to finally heal a recurrent erosion stretching back 8ish years before.

Hopefully they'll get to us soon.
Senior seems to be lacking knowledge that OP has and acts like it. No matter his backstory he shouldve acknowledged his defieceny. Since OP seems to be newer in the industry comparing success isnt really fair, he might make it out on top in the future, we dont know.
Yep! It's on GOG and Steam if you still want to play it. There's also the sequel, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh, which came on 5 CDs.
> If the device is nonfunctional, and has encryption enabled (e.g. Bitlocker or FileVault) you MUST give them your password if you want it repaired and cannot afford to lose data.

In corporate settings key escrow may be used. Windows for example can store bitlocker credentials in AD.
1930s oak "banker's chair", re-finished, wheels replaced with felt pads. When you find something that fits your body, you stick with it.
check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32800642
It's biased towards uniformity. What we observe in the article above is a distinct lack of variance in the model's output. One way this lack of variance comes across is as cultural bias, but it is also striking how flat and homogeneous are the results, even for 100 generations, given the same prompt. You'd expect some variety- but all the Indian men aren't just 60-year old sadhus, they are all slight variations of essentially the same 60-year old sadhu.

For me, the salient observation is the complete lack of any kind of creativity or anything approximating imagination, of those models, despite a constant barrage of opinions to the contrary. Yes, if you asked me to draw you "a mexican man" (not "person") I'd start with a somberro, moustache, a poncho, maybe a donkey if I was going for a Lucky Luke kind of vibe. But if you asked 100 people to draw "a mexican man" and it turned out they all converged on the same few elements you'd nevertheless have 100 clearly, unambiguously different images of the same kind of "mexican man", often with the same trappings, but each with a clearly distinct style.

It is this complete lack of variance, this flattening of detail into a homogeneous soup, that is the most notable characteristic, and limitation, of these models.
It's valid to discuss stereotypes originating in the US, or (closer to what I meant) social issues present specifically in the US - but it's not valid to generalize from them to the entire world, or even just the entire English-speaking world (especially considering the on-line parts).
Alcoholic beverages are a level 1 carcinogen (definitely carcinogenic) according to e.g. the Internal Agency for Research on Cancer. The "safe number" according to various such agencies is zero. And has been for quite some time.
Wow, my "banker's chair" is the same thing, but it swivels.

My attention span limits how long I can sit.
The cool kids brew/drink kefir now.

If you don’t have middle eastern or Slavic tastes you’ll probably think it tastes gross tho.
kitchen nerds and or (growing?) microplastics OCD among such crowd
I sit on the floor. I think it's silly so many people invest so much time sitting to be uncomfortable. If I have to sit at a desk, many years ago, I used an exercise ball. It was great as my position sitting was super neutral.
Yes, this is what I am seeing. The more the regulation, fees and others as the users grow, it does not feel like viable option after some time. Maybe building an app and using push notifications would be better
Developers for Nintendo consoles have been using C the whole time, even moreso after the SNES. I can't imagine how long it would take to make a N64 game if I had to do it all in assembly.
It's how react works, though, and react is absolutely dominant... do you think that's despite the "terrible idea"?
HIPAA creates huge amounts of friction in delivering medical services without actually improving security much
I personally strive to consume 0.0 grams of plastic per year
Why would any institution take security of the people data seriously if it take a lot of resources if all they had to suffer is to offer 12 months of free credit monitoring?

And they even have the audacity to call that Industry standard.
This is not just a problem in engineering. Read a news article. Talk to anyone about anything. The lifting that poorly defined abstractions are doing is toxic.
To the extent anything’s to “blame” for the seemingly massive escalation of the “UB Wars”, I think it’s C++.

C++’s main contribution to the C evolutionary line is rich, zero-cost abstraction.

The main determinants of the residual cost of your abstractions in a language like C++ are the effectiveness of heuristic or profile-driven inlining and the aggressive application of fairly basic optimizations (constant propagation, common subexpression elimination, dead-code elimination, …) to the resulting inlined code, which for good reason “looks” like no code any self-respecting developer would actually write.

This is where reasoning from UB becomes essential. The developer didn’t write this code, didn’t express a direct intention: The compiler synthesized a new program from inlined and rewritten pieces of the AST. “Warning” about possible UB in this code doesn’t make any sense, nor does being conservative about “should-be-impossible” states.
Antisocial? By selling tokens it lowers the price bringing it closer to the true market value. Preventing people from overpaying is a social good.
Another way to talk about experience on your resume
This article is pretty good but, looking at comments so far, nobody seems to have made the obvious/predictable point that it's terribly Nvidia specific. That would be understandable perhaps a few years ago. But the era where there was no reasonable alternative is over. Sycl is a good language which performs well across multiple hardware vendors. Sapphire rapids is very good hardware. AMD's MI300 looks amazing. Nvidia has run out of GPUs. It's finally time for GPU development to stop meaning CUDA, but I guess it's going to take the world a while to realise this.
Google Android diverged from AOSP long ago and already has hundreds of pages of requirements. https://source.android.com/docs/compatibility/14/android-14-... Likewise Google abused their monopoly for years, so why not use that power for good? https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/14/23341207/google-eu-androi...
It’s not the waiting that’s the important part. It’s that lots of people want to get gas and they can’t all wait 20-30 minutes to recharge.
Benito Mussolini famously equated fascism with corporatism, although the latter term has a somewhat different meaning in Europe from how Americans would typically read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
> This leads to some neck and back pain happening a couple of times during the year

As someone who made the mistake of getting older, I have some extremely bad news for you.
I love the idea of wood cutting boards, they also inhibit bacteria better than plastic.

But we bought all sorts, IKEA to Williams Sonoma $100 hardwood boards, religiously washed and dried them, oiled them monthly. But they all split and crack so quickly

Bamboo seems nice enough, but those are bound in plastic/resin and coated with something other than mineral oil — not sure they are better.

We stock up on the polypropylene thin cutting boards from IKEA. They are made in Taiwan which has a bit better regulation than other places, and polypropylene is an old plastic that is known to be very inert if not the most inert.
It's an asbestos joke.
Microplastics are scary but not as scary as salmonella. Are wood boards safe for raw meat? What’s the alternative to plastic for chicken?
Aren't the M1 and friends relatively capable for LLM tasks?
the current running narrative is that he explicitly financed himself.
anyhow, those money we going to paying various salaries, etc. so if those transfers wouldn't be approved then israel would have been blamed for making people go hungry because salaries can't be paid. in fact it (blaming) did happen

it's a loose-loose game
Maybe this is an issue for professional use, but for normal home use you're using a knife for what, maybe 5 to 10 minutes a day on average? I'd be surprised if it makes a noticeable difference, especially if you're otherwise taking care if your knife: get a sharpening steel and use once on every side of the knife after use and for normal "home use" this will keep even cheap knifes more than sharp enough for most people.
Currently on a couch with a laptop since I've been too lazy/cheap to set up something like an Altwork Station (imagine a, $8,000 dentist's chair with a monitor above it). Hopefully Apple Vision Pro will be good enough that I can strap one of those on and working from almost anything where I can recline (sofa chair, couch, bed, car seat, etc.)
How could I stop using them? I never started using plastic cutting boards.

That said, my wooden cutting board is getting to be quite hollow...
Never had, never would. We buy olive wood cutting boards as they are also naturally antiseptic.
Maybe 25 years ago tried to estimate what it would cost to build a bunch of housing to alleviate some of the conflict. I think I came up with back then $10-15 billion. That seemed grossly worthwhile to me.

Could do that and kick the religious nutters out of the west bank and things would probably settle out.
Herman Miller Embody, picked up with a Veteran discount early COVID lockdowns. Noticed significant improvements in reduced pain about a week into having it, still feels as good as it did almost 3 years later.
Neither is Whatsapp, thanks to push notifications.
We have external dependancies requiring this. We can't change the specific cipher suites ourselves.
Your just not looking. 2 min google https://electrek.co/2019/11/18/tesla-supercharger-station-fi...

Not to say they are unsafe or anything but it’s not unheard of
It almost feels like they're just clickbaiting people with headlines like this.
I had terrible dry eye. I was treated for other medical problems which prescribed anastrozole and now I'm on TRT. My dry eye is now much better and I can feel it come back with the end of the TRT cycle. Back when I started these meds I wasn't expecting this and the only papers I found were about females. My doc didn't have a good explanation for the side effect.
> they also inhibit bacteria better than plastic.

Huh? That’s news to me and the opposite of my understanding. Can you elaborate?

I have no issues with cracking or splitting with my wooden boards. Are you running them through the dishwasher?
Herman Miller Aeron chair. Bought it used 20 years ago and I could sell it for more than that now. Still looks like same condition when I bought it. Dragged it from one gig to the next instead of accepting the crappy office chairs. Major impact on lessening fatigue and productivity.
>It's also generally not allowed

That's because the US government at least hates competition. If people get too good at discovering the value of something those methods become illegal because it isn't fair to those who don't want to actually go after information and just want to read news headlines and earning reports.
It was Cryengine 2 when Amazon bought the rights? Cryengine 3 is used in Wolcen for example, it seems some devs still chose Cryengine 3 over o3de, at least the Wolcen devs did. I would be curious what the differences are by now between o2de engine and the latest Cryengine version because there is quite some time past after "the split".

And they have to pay to use Cryengine 3.
I'm not sure clinical trials were actually involved here, though.