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This reminds me of the current research in ML of "simplifying" models for inference (pruning, distillation, etc.). Our model of reality is so imprecise, can we be confident that al…

The question was how to reduce your exposure, not eliminate it. Of course you can't be 100% clean from microplastics, but why not do what you can given what we currently know? Yes,…

Silicone -- easy to throw in the dishwasher, too.

Yeah, people aren't paranoid enough about this IMO. Legislation needs to catch up with research coming out about the serious health impacts. Reducing personal exposure seems possib…

Same here! My introduction to programming was trying to customize my Neopets shop, creating graphics in MS Paint, making little "blogs" to share with friends. In reminiscing, I jus…

> The book asks, even in the face of that kind of cynical and over-intellectualized view of the world, why and how do we try to find meaning in our lives regardless? This. I don't …

I've had similar experiences with psychedelics. It seems like once you lose touch with some sort of "self-image", it can be very hard to get back. Wish this was talked about more. …

That museum is great. Spending a day there gave me a deep appreciation for Van Gogh, maybe even art in general. Pictures online definitely don't do it justice. The museum also has …

I bought and played it the day of release, because of the hype and since I loved BotW. Yeah, they added some new mechanics and items and overall the gameplay seems more refined, bu…

This. They made BotW to sell the Switch, and this sequel doesn't add any novel elements to it. This game deserves the success if BotW didn't exist, but as a sequel the hype is pure…

How did OP manage to get rid of ~/.mozilla? It's the only offending dotfile left in my $HOME and the stickiest. Until Mozilla fixes their 19-year-old feature request to support XDG…

From the article: The project of the guides is utopian, but they’re a symptom of deep pessimism. They belong to a fractured culture in which symbolic gestures are preferable to con…

I've also struggled with this question since working in industry. There isn't an objective answer to this. I think it largely depends on the narrative you tell yourself about the w…

Maybe just an untimely experience, but I visited Austin once a little over a year ago during the summer, and downtown was basically a ghost town. I assumed it was because UT was on…

Unlikely that he's still alive, but the evidence of a controlled landing makes the whole thing more puzzling from a psychological perspective. Why slowly and consciously drag it ou…

This is what I don't understand. How is this and other public WEF content not guaranteed bad press/fuel for social unrest? Or is that the intent?

Came here to say this, though I don't know if "comfortable" is the right word. I think a fulfilled live involves a balance between freedom and responsibility. This post and discuss…

This. I felt an almost cringe-like reaction from reading the article. It reminds me of Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. At some poin…

I feel like all these articles about magical self-transformation through psychedelics are misleading and somewhat inaccurate. I would have liked to see more about the actual psyche…

Would also like to know this. It looks like they're processing the audio file in 30 second chunks, so a naive approach of keeping a buffer of 30-second input stream chunks and just…

"You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes" A poetic, bittersweet line. In a way, the sadness is the "good" part, when you feel the most longing for what's been lost. The…

Came here to link SSC as well. I find the predictive coding theory to be a pretty compelling model of cognitive function/dysfunction. There seems to be another related but separate…

Wow, I've never realized just how often I do this. There's some sort of a reward pathway in my brain connecting my right index finger to seeing that orange bar and lines of text.

This caused me a small but concerning amount of anxiety that I'll probably meditate on as I fall asleep now that HN is back up.