hn thread: Lead is not a toxin, but is essential for the brain.

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dammit we had a good 5-year run on the last iteration of this, post your dumb takes about politics in c-spam and leave this for gentle albeit cutting mockery of bad posts on...

hacker news

what is hacker news?

quote:

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".[1]

what is this thread?

this is where you post dumb poo poo from hn

you should probably just read the summaries on http://n-gate.com/ each week

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 13:55

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 13:00

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i like rust and 'rust evangelism strike force' is a good burn, lighten up a bit

# ¿ Nov 2, 2019 03:32

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DaTroof posted:

that's not how taxes work

that's not how any of this works

hn.txt

# ¿ Nov 8, 2019 18:39

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Maximo Roboto posted:

This is the shittiest thread I've seen in a while

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21855280

there�s a lot of bad comments but the top stuff seems alright. 5 storey apartment buildings and municipal consolidation would solve a solid 90% of the bays issues, housing-wise.

ofc no one is really incentivized to do that because can you imagine how much money the poor landlords/homeowners would lose if there wasn�t artificially constrained supply?

# ¿ Dec 22, 2019 19:08

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Maximo Roboto posted:

Who wants to read an HN thread on homelessness? Of course you do!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900429

quote:

thrwaway69 1 hour ago [-]

I don't have a magic solution but I would like to add few thoughts:

1. Homeless people destroy environment and don't practice sanitation on the same level (non homeless folks) That imo is true and we shouldn't ignore it. But why? I have a few explanation depending on the place so it's not an apply all hammer, alcohol & drug abuse/mental illness are one of the reasons why there are homeless in big rich cities (combined with other) but wouldn't that cause itself will lead to people caring less about environment and things that don't directly affect them? When was the last time you were depressed and wanted to hole up in your bed doing nothing? Consider that and with not a good overall health condition, lacking empathy (of course why would they for the society that failed them), poverty mindset and resource constraints with no hope for a brighter future. It's a self destructive mindset.

Oh to make it more suitable for HN in analogy, think of those anti homeless spikes as walled garden of the big companies. Imessage? Yeah, you can't connect with your friends anymore after you can't afford an iPhone. Maybe you contributed to society in tax and other spheres and now you can't anymore, you don't deserve whatever crumbles are left there.

Of course I am exaggerating.

2. Throw money at them and it will go away. I hope that worked, I really do but that doesn't solve any of the problems. US puts a lot of money more than countries with free healthcare (controlled for population but not size) yet people aren't getting it. The system is dysfunctional or benefits some people more than others due to lack of awareness, discrimination (advertising towards one gender or race is an example), collective empathy, and tendency to put pressure on your career/home/bank as an identity.

Maybe those homeless shelters are far away. I don't know but why blame anyone without any evidence or data on those things.

hn: anti homeless spikes are like imessage

# ¿ Dec 28, 2019 21:59

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Mr.Radar posted:

i posted this when i thought this person was done, but they apparently spent another day asking how to break their browser and berating people who tell them it's not possible/ask why they would want to. here are the highlights:

they posted this screenshot with their "preferred" font rendering of a reddit post (it's eye-searingly ugly)

they got caught editing wikipedia to inject their nonsense about how directwrite is "broken" to "prove" their point to another commenter

they refused to answer any and all questions about what type of monitor they were using; other posters dug out that this person is using a ~10 year old laptop with a 1366x768 TN panel

they started blocking anyone who posted anything other than direct instructions on how to do what they want (which is literally impossible)

someone suggested they switch to the Pale Moon fork of Firefox which apparently does somewhat support this insane thing, and that's apparently not good enough either

they seem to be done now, though.

amazing

# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 05:59

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Oneiros posted:

aazaa 55 minutes ago [-]

> The most undeniable evidence for climate change would be if people are making a ton of money from accurately anticipating its results. I�d invest heavily in such a fund, if it existed.
Rather than shorting, another option might be to buy undeveloped land that should appreciate as climate change predictions come true. For example, the land in the Canadian territories might be an option if you believe thawing will occur. Or possibly further south in the northern US.

If your model says rain patterns will change, invest in desert real estate in those areas set to get the most rain.

i mean people are almost certainly doing this but they're just not making a lot of noise about it. exxon mobil covers its fuckin bases.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 01:07

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bob dobbs is dead posted:

I got on n-gate

quote:

An Internet tries to invent digital Methadone. Hackernews recommends the same procedures for disciplining teenagers over the internet. Half of the comments are about which Python script Hackernews uses to pirate Youtube videos. The other half are struggling with the ontology of gratification. On one hand, spake Hackernews, it cannot be wise to gratify oneself instantly and frequently. On the other hand, quoth Hackernews, it's fine to jerk off constantly until you chafe your genitals to stone and die of dehydration, as long as you can quote economics textbooks to people who are only present to wait for their turn to quote their favorite folksy street philosopher.

congratulations

# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 17:01

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NihilCredo posted:

KO boomer

lol

# ¿ Feb 28, 2020 19:30

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hn posters are extremely dumb

# ¿ Feb 28, 2020 23:15

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Xik posted:

grecy 36 minutes ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who print...

COVID-19 is bringing to the surface more and more fascinating cases where under "normal" circumstances Capitalism and making a profit is a good thing, but under just a little bit of pressure, suddenly it's evil.

Canada have just made it illegal ($5000 fine) for trying to profit off sales of toilet paper or sanitizer, and listings for them have been banned from eBay and Kijiji (Canada's version of Craigslist). Of course, under normal circumstances it's perfectly fine for Nike to make a pair of shoes for $3 (paying people terrible wages) and then sell them for $300 dollars. Their share price goes up and the Capitalists are happy.

Under normal circumstances patents are a good way to protect IP, and nobody cared last month that a part was $11,000 dollars and they had a monopoly on making it.

As one twitter post said "COVID-19 is a blacklight and it's revealing a lot of nasty stains on our Capitalist society"

so close, and yet so very far away

# ¿ Mar 18, 2020 05:06

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fart simpson posted:

harman kardon

karman hardon would be a good name for a european pornstar

# ¿ Mar 30, 2020 03:50

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mrmcd posted:

Topic: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker (nyc.gov)

hn:

Plus, like several dozen people all posting "the logistics of this must be insane!!! how???" without doing like the most basic amount of reading and grasping they are just using the kitchens of closed public schools

the world would be a better place without these people in it.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2020 00:25

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the point isn�t to punish the individual employee so much as it is to send a warning to everyone else. the settlements are nothing to the companies, but the lesson pays for itself many times over.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 04:53

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Cybernetic Vermin posted:

i agree with that post. it is not at all obvious how it'll all turn out, and e.g. having a generation of kids just not getting to go to school for a year will gently caress so many over in so many ways, and here "the economy" is actually largely code for the poorest and most unfortunate getting screwed over the worst.

because US political discourse is the dumbest in the world it of course needed to be decided whether the left or the right was going to be the side in favor of lockdown. now that it has been decided that it is a leftist position the central idea is to roll ones eyes about ~the economy~, pretending that anyone actually rich is suffering at all from this poo poo, when the reality is far more grim.

r0 of 4, 2-5% CFR gives us an optimistic 2.2m dead Americans alone so no I�m pretty sure we need some changes in order to avoid like 100x 9/11s

# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 17:34

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Neon Noodle posted:

bikeshedding the ethnostate

yak shaving but terrifyingly literal

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 04:16

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Lambert posted:

For one, sex work is still a part of Patreon. Also, why would you quote "someone on Street Fight". Garbage podcasts aren't sources.

Is this thread HN?

gently caress off, dipshit

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 03:11

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given that the literal easiest thing on the internet is to see naked people, i have to imagine that anyone who is naked on the internet for a living is putting out some really primo poo poo so it's probably a harder job than touching computers

# ¿ May 18, 2020 23:48

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NihilCredo posted:

a good post:

numpad0 3 hours ago | unvote [�]

Docker at this point is InstallShield infrastructure for startup production quality freewares

lol

# ¿ May 25, 2020 05:42

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Maximo Roboto posted:

This is Goon/Redditor levels of DIY health solutions

cachestash 7 hours ago [�]

You're all going to think I am a crazy, but I instead elected to tape my mouth closed with 3m tape right when I go to bed. This to me is superior and should be your first port. Not only did it fix my apnoea and huge lack of energy during the day, but also my chronic sinus issues that had plagued me for years. Its also a lot cheaper, much easier to use / travel with and gets me into a good habit of nose breathing during the day. A CPAP machine is still reinforcing the poor habit that may well have contributed to your sleep abnormalities in the first place. Mouth Breathing. It costs $2 for a roll of 3m tape, so it's not like it costs a lot if its really not working for you.

Mouth breathing is horrendous for your health and well being. There is a good reason why it was ostracized in the past ("mouth breather" was an insult). It was a clear sign of poor health in an individual.
It's one of the best unknown health hacks out there.

https://askthedentist.com/mouth-tape-better-sleep/

i can't tell if this is stupid or genius.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2020 05:16

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taibbi is mostly right in that substack piece

# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 14:14

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weev is still alive? I�d have figured he would have od�ed on research chems by now

# ¿ Jul 25, 2020 19:38

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Suspicious Dish posted:

alexander1100 1 hour ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twi...

I personally lost $6000 dollars, is there any way I could prove that I was a victim and get my crypto back?

imagine being dumb enough to fall for this and then dumb enough to admit it on hn

# ¿ Aug 2, 2020 01:04

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how the gently caress is that not greyed out lmbo

# ¿ Aug 2, 2020 18:29

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holy gently caress that thread

quote:

I wouldn't be surprised if you knew a lot of pedophiles personally, you just don't know they are pedophiles because they never told you, don't engage in illegal activity, and are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of society.

my "you probably know a lot of pedophiles" shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

# ¿ Aug 2, 2020 18:32

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mrmcd posted:

My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks

i went and read the blog in question and it read more like someone who was ESL rather than GPT-3 but i guess if he was doing minor edits to it then that makes sense.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2020 14:25

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Xik posted:

dpc_pw 24 minutes ago
People chearleading lockdowns here, are completely misguided. There's really no evidence that it were masks or lockdowns. (There's really no evidence that mask and/or lockdowns do absolutely anything to COVID or flu, now or in the past, BTW).
It's more likely that COVID just out-competed the normal flu.

wasn't non-covid flu at a record low this year because of masks and lockdowns?

# ¿ Oct 18, 2020 01:01

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FamDav posted:

If you are unproductive when coding C++, you are Doing It Wrong. Good C++ code flows like water. If you are finding it complex, you have gone down a side alley, and need to get back to the wide, sunny boulevard.

I frequently sit down and write 2000 lines of C++ code, and when it compiles, it works. Aim for that.

i can believe that someone wrote this but it fills me with a sense of pity i cant quite describe

# ¿ Oct 29, 2020 02:56

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big yikes

# ¿ Nov 28, 2020 05:17

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NihilCredo posted:

AltruisticGapHN 2 hours ago [–]

I’ve been thinking about an alternative to tailwind but I have no idea how to implement it.

I think what would be even more powerful is you configure all the classes with some kind of regexp. They need to be unique. You could provide a function as well that returns the correct css for any given captured units in the class name so eg. "mb-4em" you have template "mb-(\\d+)em" declared. The tool recognizes it and either just puts the number there, uses a mapping (4 becomes 16), or calls a function to return the resulting css properties.

What I like about it is you could just as well create more advanced utilities and the parser never generates any classes in advance. It would need some kind of watcher though to detect any new class aded to templates that match the definition file.

Then there would be no need to purge anything. Kind of a vague concept I’ll admit, but for me starting with a figma or sketch where designer typically does not folow a consistent guideline, it means I can just start writing templates and keep declaring utilities as I go because in the real world you bet that happens.

what if we just remade dreamweaver but figma

# ¿ Dec 7, 2020 22:17

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presumably the oil and gas industry still has some level of pull in TX so i imagine theyre all pretty loving happy with their enforceable noncompetes

# ¿ Dec 17, 2020 23:47

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this discussion made me go look at the analytics for my blog to see if i had gotten anything posted onto HN, one thing got posted there a few times with rather few comments but this one made me lol

quote:

permo-w 16 days ago [�]

Without even going into why denigrating something as �white� is harmful and counterproductive, the author seems to be arguing that singing in large groups is an occurrence confined solely to white people.

Do I even have to provide a counterexample? Was any thought put into this article at all?

# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 00:43

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i only work at startups, its more of an organic farm to table sort of evil, you know

# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 01:10

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dads friend steve posted:

cool story imo

honestly thats pretty rad yeah

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 04:39

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management theory is just astrology for dudes who wear patagonia vests

# ¿ Jan 24, 2021 20:36

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suffix posted:

(about the guy who decided google was too darn ethical so he nabbed a bunch of lidar schematics and left for uber...)

you so rarely see a reverse Godwin�s law invocation any more

# ¿ Jan 25, 2021 05:23

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blugu64 posted:

as dumb as it is, i do know a guy who gets their smart meter reads/feeds wholesale pricing data in to their �home automation� system which will flip stuff on/off automatically.

i however like being married.

lol

# ¿ Feb 22, 2021 22:05

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thread title never really stopped being true

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 21:34

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they let RMS back on the board? FSF is garbage, glad I stopped giving them money

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 05:13

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 13:00

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i appreciate that he accurately identifies that the destruction of society can be traced back to economic factors and then veers into "so that's why i should have my own mcdonaldland playplace with no poors"

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 03:47

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