skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of topic, but:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-...

> The two papers, by Dr. Ed Nuhfer and colleagues, argued that the Dunning-Kruger effect could be replicated by using random data.
do you know what a hammer is? I tell you hwat
New Internet Thing, Chapter 16
Doc here. It’s hard to prove.

You can’t do a double-blind randomized control trial.

And we have barely learned to measure these nanoplastics.

But there are starting to be strong correlations between the plastic occurrence and terrible diseases. Recent data on atherosclerosis + infarcts is horrible.

Recent data on testes production of sperm cells also looks very damning.

In summary, there are a few unexplained things in medicine that might very well be caused by plastics. Eg. More colon cancer in young people in the west. Eg. Declining sperm quality in the last 30 years in the west. Yes, it could be foods, but it doesn’t explain the whole picture. Plastics could be it.

My guess is that a LOT of nasty studies will come out in the next years.

I switched to glass and metal for all my food and water, for as much as I can control it.
This is why the term ”common sense” is a good term
Ha! It figures. Further down that thread I wrote: "Also, I'm notorious for dropping three orders of magnitude when doing mental math using kilo/mega/giga/tera prefixes."

Turns out when you do the math right, Aluminium _is_ frozen electricity.
The scariest part for me is that there's essentially no escape from microplastics. If it turns out that they're greatly harmful, what can you really do?
Only because Americans insist on their self-harm health insurance system. Americans are both collectively wealthy and have a very small number HIV infections per capita
Why would it stop being a thing?

I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had needed Windows for a specific videogame or program, i would still be dual-booting today.
I don't want to undercut the very real physical toll of blue collar labor, but I'll note that the blue collar people I know who wore protective gear including knee pads, did things by the book, followed safety protocols and ate a healthy diet are doing so much better in late middle age than the ones who fit the construction worker stereotype.
You are probably right about interest rates, but I also saw a lot of price gouging going on at Home Depot and basically stopped shopping there. When I had to shop there I compared everything against Amazon. They seemed to use a strategy where the big things were similar price as everywhere else and then a foam paint brush was $16 compared to 3 for $5 at Amazon. It broke my trust in Home Depot and I don't see them getting it back.
I did that, then added IAP and quit my day job

https://reader.manabi.io
I want to talk to an AI for customer support as the first line so long as there is always a "Talk to a human" escape hatch.

And for less than about $50 a month, I understand why they need to spend less than half an hour per month to retain me. It'd be net negative profit otherwise. (unless they offshore, in which case the math is only slightly better).
There is a lot of anti fluoride hysteria that wants to eliminate water fluoridation, which has eliminated a cash cow for dentists = frequent cavities = fillings. The rise in fluoride made dental incomes decline as dental health improved. (sugar in soda drinks kept them alive). This paper notes that cleaning teeth and applying a topical solution and holding for 5-10 minutes and then washing is best. High fluoride toothpaste is also better than adding to water. The water method is automatic, while tooth painting = dental visit costs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK587342/
There are areas with high natural fluoride, that can stain teeth, but there is no apparent reduction in IQ in those areas. Most free fluoride is grabbed by teeth from the blood and is laid down as hydroxy fluoro apatite where it makes the tooth structure more competent as a solid by minutely filling the matrix so it has fewer flaws that bacterial acids can use to open gaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorapatite
How DevToys became cross-platform and extensible
Seems like a reasonable possibility considering the notable jump in PE in the kidneys.
Not sure what the point of this post was. The lessons 'articulated' are well understood, and was missing the additional context need to add flavour.
The author was 'happy to answer questions' - but isn't that the point of posting something in the first place? Anticipate the common / obvious questions and put that in the post, that's the missing context. Unless of course the point was to rant frustrations, which is fine too - I'd just request that be made obvious in the title or first paragraph.
> not make any difference to them.

It does to the US government... trademarks are industry-specific. It is absolutely legal for people to use the exact same trademark for different classes of business.

Of course they could still probably sue you into oblivion anyways, even if they're wrong.
It was a prototype. Lessons/code folded into uv.
You underestimate food insecurity in the 50s, especially at the lower end of the economic scale. Heck, it's still an issue today. Worse in the sense, that diets are under nourished *and* packed with sugar. Let's not forget meth.
Worth maybe calling out that there is a few academic language implementations using this name (turnstile, turnstile+) https://docs.racket-lang.org/turnstile. It's not a standalone language but worth pointing out
You can change the temperature after rush hour starts. I'm talking about turning off the rush hour crap entirely.
This distinction is only made by a small number of mostly constructivists.
It is not common usage, and most working mathematicians will have no idea what you're talking about.
Blaming shareholders is an easy cop out, but most people’s appetite for cheap plastic things is insatiable.

It’s not like corporations are taking plastics out into the wilderness just for fun.
True, but everything he produces is gold!
Is "person of color" still a thing? It always struck me as too close to "local color". It's just clumsy writing.
I assume you're in the UK based on your use of the term "sparky"? How are things supposed to be wired there? In the US, we have neutral bonded to ground inside our mains panels.

(I'm not an electrician, but I'll do most of my home electrical work myself. My dad taught me this stuff when I was 12, and I've only learned more and more since. I won't do everything, but it's honestly not as scary as some seem to think.)
Nice! I like the designs starting from 2022 because of the high information density. I'd double down on that, and not have any pagination (have all the content on the homepage).

My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/77fefc3182144643900a2a99edcdb6eb?...
:grimace: I tried to be vague enough that anyone who hadn't read it wouldn't put two and two together. Sorry! Unfortunately it was spoiled for me in the foreward of the edition that I read.

HN no longer lets me edit the parent comment.
I’d imagine you might be aware, but just in case, there’s a Wireshark networking software that’s been around since 1998: https://www.wireshark.org/
I just see that as opportunity cost. I want $15k. But I want to not work 2000 hours for it even more.
This will depend on your product. I have a side project where I get a few support calls per day. 95% of the calls can be handled by just quoting documentation/FAQ verbatim. The customers are typically not very sophisticated computer users.
No joke. I really like dry wall and painting.
This is an esolang and that's an academic language. I'm pretty sure neither one cares to optimize for searchability.
I thought they were from dead bodies?
After giving my electricity provider access to my EV for optimal charging pretty much killed the 12v battery (they were pinging it hundreds of times an hour, meaning it never went to sleep), I'm never going to give them access to anything.
Countries where micro plastics are more prevalent are ones where shareholders are less powerful (e.g. China).

https://www.newsweek.com/microplastic-map-reveals-countries-...

> When it comes to microplastic inhalation, Mongolia and China came in joint first place, with citizens of both countries inhaling more than 2.8 million microplastic particles a month. The United Kingdom came in third place, in joint place with Ireland, inhaling 791,500 particles per month. By comparison, the U.S. came in near the bottom of this list, in position 104 out of the 109 countries assessed, with only 10,500 microplastic particles inhaled per month.

Which country has the biggest stock market? US
https://www.statista.com/statistics/710680/global-stock-mark...

Which country comes near last in inhalable microplastics: US

So you should be thanking shareholders if you live in the US (most are probably voters too!).
News flash - most doctors all over the world are doing it for money and status. It's a job.
yes? my preferred desktop env is linux.
I just installed the new kernel. I might be using the terminology wrong, but I basically just booted into the command line instead of the desktop and got to work.
These were from autopsies.

It was different people who died in different years.
Some game developers do test under Proton. Saying that because I'm in the discord server(s) for a few, and they mention stuff they're working on/support/etc over time.
Maybe you need a good mystery.

I too had a big long project. But the moment I solved the main design riddle I couldn't bear the sight of it.

A proper mystery gets peeled back to reveal more, and more. Design can be incestuous tho. After the big taboo is transgressed it's just boring.
> Formalin-fixed tissue samples (approximately 500mg) were digested with 10% potassium hydroxide for 3d at 40°C with intermittent manual mixing to ensure even and thorough digestion.

"you think your job is bad, kaitlyn? get a load of what dr. campen's got me doing this week!"
To agree, Trust in professionals is often misplaced in my experience.

Ie, I'm in a builder grade house, most screws aren't tight -including on switches that used push in wiring - and the terminal screws were close enough to the adjacent switch that they arced. Door handle and hinge screws also weren't tight, a 5 minute task tightening things will make them last years longer.
People can point it out, no worries. Disasters happen. But it isn't fair to claim that the risks of a nuclear disaster are worse than solar one. We haven't seen what a big solar disaster looks like yet because it has been a serious contender for ~5-10 years and it takes a few decades to figure out what a disaster looks like for any given form of power generation. For solar it could easily be quite bad and impossible to design out.

We have, to date, 0 methods of generating electricity at scale that are free of catastrophic failure modes. Solar will not be free of them either, and we don't really have the data yet to figure out how they compare relevant to nuclear ones (which, on balance, are the mildest of all the tested options!). It could do well, it could do badly, but it is not entirely fair to compare a known low risk in nuclear to an unknown risk in solar.

> So you are kind of referring to mass extinction events. no?

No, I'm not. I included a wiki link to the sort of thing I think could be a problem. It doesn't mention extinction.
There’s a review on this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/

> Endocrine toxicity induced by MPs is an emerging issue, despite the subject being rarely documented, there is growing evidence for ingested MPs bioaccumulation in mammalian tissues and organs with deleterious outcomes including endocrine abnormalities, reproductive toxicity, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and defective immunological responses in rodents, rats and mice.

And:

> However, there are still no conclusive research reports that have determined the direct consequences of MPs and NPs on the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal gland.

However, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” These microplastics are definitely on the more suspicious side, just like tobacco use was.
No. The 130 MW remaining capacity was the amount available "in SCED within 5 minutes", which in super simplified terms means "the amount of energy available quickly and economically".

The grid actually had ~4 GW spare capacity (according to the graph) if it was needed, but it wasn't part of SCED.
Isn’t npm VC-backed?
Save Effort: Build a Bash One-Liner
A while back when the lawyers used it, chatGPT didn’t do lookups and citation links.
> The extent to which microplastics cause harm or toxicity is unclear, although recent studies associated MNP [micro- and nanoplastic] presence in carotid atheromas with increased inflammation and risk of future adverse cardiovascular events²⁻³. In controlled exposure studies, MNPs clearly enhance or drive toxic outcomes⁴⁻⁶. The mantra of the field of toxicology – “dose makes the poison” (Paracelsus) – renders such discoveries as easily anticipated; what is not clearly understood is the internal dose in humans.
Think of it this way: the release of VS Code didn’t mean people suddenly stopped using or updating Emacs/Vim. VS Code simply offered a more polished, beginner-friendly way of setting up and building software projects than the old TUI editors.

In the same way, none of the “fancy-pip-replacement” projects will outright obsolete pip or conda. They’re just tools that can work a bit more intuitively for new users and provide a bit of polish/UX value - but their niche fills the exact same role as pip/conda: managing the set of binaries on your PATH.
that feeling you get when you realize the person who lived ~2300 years before you is smarter than you now...
I am implementing a support system for my side project, which combines the knowledge base (FAQ) with the chatbot. You can access all the answers by browsing the FAQs. If you want to contact me, you first talk to the chatbot, which has been prompted to only answer based on what the FAQ says. If it cannot answer based on that, it will make sure all the details and problem description is there, and then forward the ticket to me. In other words, chatbot is the first line of support.
> It's particularly strange considering YouTube now has a wealth of videos showing practically all aspects of how to do something.

The problem is that those videos don't show when shit goes wrong. And that is almost always more important than showing when everything goes right.

The advantage of learning this stuff from another human is that you get their oversight which hopefully prevents you from doing something with catastrophic consequences.

For example: the best video I have seen about woodworking safety is YouTubers talking about their injuries. Specifically the Jimmy Diresta one where he did something dumb which injured his right forearm which took his attention which the caused him to put his left hand into the sawblade. That drove home why you use all the safety features every single time.

Caution: NSFL
https://youtu.be/Xc-lIs8VNIc?t=1091
In plain English? And is correlation causation or no?
I am. I made the decision to go ahead with this name assuming most people don’t know that Wireshark. I also understood search queries would be impossible but didn’t think that would be a deal breaker.

I’m considering this feedback I have been getting but I don’t know yet if it’s biased because many people I know are in tech. Changing the name is not a huge setback for the foreseeable future until there’s brand recognition.

Thanks for the feedback.
Never enable 2FA for accounts that you actually care about (2023)
seeking to be a pauper isnt the hacker spirit either.

maybe I overlooked something that is why I asked this question.

article seemed reductive and of unclear value. enlighten me if you found it.
When I had them hooked into my EV, I literally had to change my Kia password when they ignored my requests to disable the feature.

Presumably they similarly have some sort of cloud permission into your thermostat, which can be disabled by changing the password, resetting the device, or worst case scenario, get a new thermostat.
A lot of the VN games you see on steam are renpy. You can do quite sophisticated things with it. The syntax is basically python.

If you have a friend who is a writer or artist who loves creating original stories, doing a project in renpy is an interesting way to collaborate and create something together with them.
> The brain samples, all derived from the frontal cortex, revealed substantially higher concentrations than liver or kidney, at 3,057 μg/g in 2016 samples and 4,806 μg/g (0.48%, by weight) in 2024 samples, ranging as high as 8,861 μg/g.

Brains were 0.5% plastic by weight? The highest value was nearly 1% plastic.

That seems hard to believe.
if it's true that he was discharged and didn't leave against medical advice, that sounds like a fairly straightforward and expensive lawsuit against the hospital. And some hospitals only change their behavior when beaten by large expensive lawsuits...
For me, I learned when I wanted all my function calls to do the same thing no matter how many times, or order, I called them.

I often wonder how much "pain" is required to really learn something. I would claim that 90% of how I write code is the result of pain, not patterns, even though they often end up being similar.
Eh, knowing tech companies, we will end up with the worst of both
Acer Spectral MeatGrinder RPG Bazooka 16 ZXGT423LV-2024
Which should be unique enough, but then they just reuse the name and only change the code part

I write this as I look at an ROG Zephyrus G16 (2023) GU630HE (Last part is important, I think I had to check if it was the model with one of the RAM slots soldered)
> To me, the only formal distinction you can make between the two lies in the use of the excluded middle.

It's much dumber than that, since he's invoking the law of the excluded middle to use contradiction at all.
> Why would it stop being a thing?

Virtualization?
I see the Processing folks have not lost their touch for unnecessarily confusing names. Why on earth would they call this “py5”?
I think you overestimate the amount of skill a newb can quickly gain on their own. I taught myself to code, but it took a whole summer (aka free time that adults don't get) and I had access to my dad (who was a software engineer himself) to answer lots of questions.
> Why does DIY have to be male specific?

The GP didn’t say women couldn’t be involved in DIY. Men expressing their need to commune with other men in doing practical tasks is obviously not universally excluding women from those tasks, it is a historically common and healthy practice of male to male friendship. Men should be able to express their simple needs without it being turned into a civil rights battle.
Disagree. Most, but not all, electrical is not that complicated. It's a bit like plumbing where the access and the physicality are the harder part, but the tools and connections are relatively simple.
Durable locks have a partitioning problem. If the lock holder gets hit by a tornado or catches on fire then there is no recovery method short of manual intervention.

I took a formal class on distributed systems back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the implementation of Ethernet was still considered interesting. And even back then we talked about leases for locks.
Language models aren’t AI no matter how hard you squint. When we get actual AI (not counting on anytime soon) it will be more than the annoyed developer that loses their job
I think it's common sense that the title was chosen for marketing reasons, not as a factual description. (iirc He even talks about testing titles for the book in the book)

I do believe there could be weeks where it's only 4 hours of maintenance. But no one in their right mind believes they can build an asset base of recurring income sufficient for living on 4 hours of total effort per week. The real message of the book was about arbitrage. Geo arbitrage to live somewhere that costs 1/2 the price to work 1/2 as many hours. Eliminate the "80%" of the low value work. Use the same arbitrage to outsource the remaining low value/low skill work. Only do the high value hours yourself.

That's the idea at least.
An important note: If you plan on sticking to an editor that has LSP integration like Vim/VSCode and so, stay away from Ruby as Ruby's language server solargraph is just not good. Personally, this is my main reason for staying away from languages like Ruby, Kotlin etc.
Very amusing that after decades of warnings about microplastics, there haven't been any studies to move beyond the point of 'maybe they cause issues'. We can all only assume that they do, of course, because any normal society not entirely captured by capital would allocate money to research this topic thoroughly. The fact that we haven't means that they know it causes issues but it would be costly to do cleanup.
He should have read Bill Black’s classic The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.
> His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as well.

If you had to pick one book, which one would you select?
They're obviously not, or we would've seen the effects by now (around a century of plastics in use.)

Remember when RF was the boogeyman? Paranoia about microwave ovens and cellphones causing cancer and other illnesses?
> Fortunately UT2k4 is still fun and plays well, even on an ancient PC, and looks decent enough.

I’ve heard there’s still some folks on some self-hosted servers playing it, maybe I’ll have to look into that.
Your analysis sounds reasonable to the non-expert, but recent work on purely-functional trees suggests that the gap is smaller than you suggest ("orders of magnitude slower").

E.g., see the nice work on the PAM library (https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05665). Ideas from this work were used to build lots of cool things (immutable graph data structures, segment trees, databases) that are very fast, and all immutable.
24 and 27 samples? Seems like a pretty good setup for sampling errors.
> write inoffensive copy without considering their bias or the audience.

I think it could be simplified to: the euphemism treadmill is driven by fear of how those, other than the persons involved, will react to its use.

"Latinx" is a great recent example [1].

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/us/latinx-gallup-poll-prefere...
And it's partly because the screen clips don't play in firefox - it seems you have to scroll past them, then back up, then click, or something.
A sane bank CEO would never get taken by such a simple con. The guy must have been suffering of some kind of dementia. It can happen at any age.
What I want to know is how much we spent kicking crypto miners off the grid for a couple hours.
That depends on the local government, I guess. Where I live, I don't have to pull a permit to run a new GFCI outlet, and if I happen to do it wrong and my house burns down, the insurance company won't know who did the work.

Regardless, your post illustrates the entire point here: people are afraid to do their own work for nebulous "liability" reasons. It's sad, really.

I'm probably much more likely to die in a car crash than because of some botched DIY electrical work. Humans are terrible at assessing risk.
With experience in some of these countries*, I would say you want to investigate the healthy interplay between local shamanic traditions with imported technological culture ;)

(Assuming tlb is “wealthy” enough not to need to know people who schedule shaman appointments as a backup-plan in the 1% situations)

*shamans incorporate error correction into their practice here!

[also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309270]
> There was a UT reboot, but as the other poster mentioned, when Fortnite eventually took off, they removed everyone from the project around May 2017.

Yeah, I guess I was always holding out some futile hope that they may reboot it at some point.