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The Air Report -- Indoor pollution edition(cms.airthings.com)
1 points by gniv 3y ago|0 comments
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by gniv 3y ago
It seems that the answer from their study is mostly no (reading the conclusion), but they seem reluctant to admit it, so they focus mostly on results being mediocre and spammy.
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by gniv 3y ago
Also, they may want to create a habit of January layoffs, as a "stick" to go with the great-TC "carrot".
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by gniv 3y ago
> The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years. Not my experience. I've conducted 300+ interviews at FAANG in the last 15 years and haven't seen a meaningful drop in the hiring bar. B
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by gniv 3y ago
> It's a huge mature company. 56% in a year is unheard of. MSFT is up 60% yoy. To say nothing about NVDA. Anyway, the market rebounded. GOOG and most of the market are flat from 2 years ago.
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by gniv 3y ago
Gas and oil are also abundant and they are less polluting. Hawaii mostly runs on oil. https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/clean-energy-hawaii/our-cle...
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by gniv 3y ago
After reading all this talk about HEPA filters and 99.95% vs 99.5%, it's funny to read on that Sqair page "H12 HEPA (99.5%)". There's no such thing as H12 according to that wikipedia page for HEPA standards.
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by gniv 3y ago
This stuff is just unavoidable: "In what the researchers called an ironic finding, they also found plastic compounds in the water that matched the primary material in reverse-osmosis filters — suggesting that the plastics had leached i
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Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics: study(thehill.com)
3 points by gniv 3y ago|1 comments
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by gniv 3y ago
> This works by default, without any permission prompts. How come? Is WebStorage exempt from GDPR? (I searched a bit and found both yes and no answers.)
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by gniv 3y ago
It's a bit of a classic, from 2011: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10577...
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by gniv 3y ago
You're getting flak for this, but this kind of thinking is prevalent in Europe from what I see. Especially the car part. Almost everybody drives small cars. Pickup trucks that don't have a company name on them are as rare as exoti
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by gniv 3y ago
I wish the article had a picture like this too: https://twitter.com/ChamberofFit/status/1688607251316056065
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by gniv 3y ago
> Hacker News, but also lobster.rs First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs
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by gniv 3y ago
Is there somebody as dedicated to healthspan as him, but who does not ostensibly sell anything?
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by gniv 3y ago
I am not (Chrome on iOS).
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by gniv 3y ago
Meta: Since the text on the page is so dense, I tried reading it in Chrome's reading mode. Which was fine until the Appendix. All the results are missing, leading to confusion.
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by gniv 3y ago
With the rise of investors, second homes and single-person households, demand is going up even as population decreases. (This is a generic statement about what I see in the west. I don't know the situation in Korea.)
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by gniv 3y ago
From deep in the article: "(In 1989, an American ophthalmologist named Richard Stone found that he could induce myopia in chickens by manipulating light levels, and that there was less dopamine in the retinas of the myopic chickens.)&q
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by gniv 3y ago
This used to be the leading theory, indeed. Turns out it was wrong, as the article explains.
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by gniv 3y ago
There are significant differences: attribution and snippetting. OpenAI probably cannot claim these.
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by gniv 3y ago
Start typing something like age:8 and you'll get a relevant category suggestion.
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by gniv 3y ago
> I honestly don't understand how some websites have such awful search Good website search is hard. Funnily in some respects it's harder than web search, since there are no popularity signals a la pagerank. (There could be such
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by gniv 3y ago
On the other end of the spectrum, I've been impressed by Netflix search. I would search a name and they do not have that movie, but would suggest a mix of similar movies, movies with the same actors or director. It's pretty clever
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by gniv 3y ago
Exactly my feelings too. The reality of tech, especially big tech, is much more mundane. The vast majority of engineers work on maintaining and (slowly) upgrading the products that we use every day -- search, mail, maps, video. Each of thes
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by gniv 3y ago
You might reconsider that opinion when you get old. When you cannot see well at short distances, it's difficult to see the writing on the monitor, so the HUD navigation really helps.
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by gniv 3y ago
Yeah, you don't hear local politicians brag a lot about this, but the whole middle of US has tons of wind power. Texas alone has more than 40GW: https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/economic-data/energy&#x2F
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by gniv 3y ago
It is faster in RAM, on SSD, on HDD, for the same reason: the reads are done in blocks. Even if you want a single byte, the system (the controller) will read an entire block, typically on the order of 100k bytes. So if your B-tree node is a
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by gniv 3y ago
Not just SSD, but in RAM also it's faster, for the same reasons (page-based access to caches). Basically you should always use a B-tree whenever you need the functionality of an STL map.
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by gniv 3y ago
Yeah, the design is a bit too cutesy. An earlier version is clearer: https://web.archive.org/web/20230727005101/https://labs.goog...

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