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HN isn't killed on free speech completely yet, I occasionally see an anti-China post

When Reddit became a sanitized social media platform rather than a free speech platform, it brought in a swathe of users who liked the sanitized social media platform, so you can't undo it.

perthon Reddit files to go public

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing

perthon Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

in the future, students will put their desks in a circle around a dead body for exams

perthon Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

lmao

perthon Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6036338/

Viagra increases testosterone?

I wonder if this relates to other things that increase late-life testosterone like red meat (unprocessed)?

https://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/does-ea...

I've always thought about how big of a role testosterone plays in later-life health and I wonder why doctors don't prescribe it to restore testosterone levels to a normal (for a younger person) level to prevent osteoporosis and other hormone-linked diseases. Not saying this conclusion in the article is related to testosterone, but I have to speculate on it.

perthon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

DW, if you're a tech worker pretty much every silicon valley company is finding out they won't find talent in Texas, so I think you'll never have to go there as they pull out.

perthon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

Unless you bring a 6-shooter gun too, then it can be a public wild-west shootout at high-noon like the good old days.

perthon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

Ok but we're talking about people running away with cat converters being shot in the back here

perthon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

Just make sure you shoot 'em in the back several times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7ol1_pw6U

(/s)

perthon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

It just happens that Texas society's social contract is public execution and plastic bags.

perthon Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries

Reminds me of how Microsoft packages the Windows installer actually. If you’ve ever unpacked Microsoft’s install.esd it’s interestingly insane how heavily it’s compressed. I assume it’s full of a lot of stuff that provides semi redundant binaries for compatibility to a lot of different systems, because the unpacked esd container goes from a few GiBs to I think around 40-50 iirc.

perthon Forth vs Lisp

Extremely widespread embedded support and cross platform. Forth seems dead to me, whereas TCL is huge and has good docs, a good standard library with batteries included, and it's easy to implement on embedded hardware because of how well documented it is. Also the inherent linkage to Python keeps it relevant.

perthon Forth vs Lisp

The entire Python default windowing system relies on TCL, and companies like AMD use it for a lot of their internal test frameworks because it's easy to implement and well supported. So for embedded, which is people's argument for fourth, TCL is way more useful as evidenced by it winning the industry.

perthon Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

UI reminds me of the old awwapp before they went corporate. It’s nice

perthon Forth vs Lisp

Does Forth have a purpose when TCL exists?

perthon How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home

salt

perthon Websites should not use dithered images

Sometimes dithering is the right option depending on your use case. If it’s purely getting the smallest size, for example, go into Adobe Photoshop “save for web” and mess around with the various algorithms, formats, and dithering settings. Photoshop has a live preview with live updating file size. I’ve always found limited palette pngs and gifs with dithering tended to be the smallest. It also depends on the contents of your image and all of that. And there are many cases for complex images where a jpeg will be able to represent the image at a smaller size with greater clarity.

perthon My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack

I've certainly seen a lot of yc links to older comments in newer comment threads, so certainly a lot of people are saving comments in a way where they can retrieve them relatively painlessly.

perthon U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

Ok well this ycombinator post you linked confirmed my suspicions that the challenge is targeted based on location/network address.

> "ISTR that only works from the USA."

perthon U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

I'm still skeptical that location/network address doesn't have a "weight" in the equation; but yeah it could be un-related you make a good point.

perthon U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

Then how do they choose who to flip the switch on for it? Purely fingerprinting of searches completely at random with no direction?

perthon U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

And.. does doing something questionable for a long time make it good? Shouldn't abusing their dominance in the search engine marketplace to poach employees be a pretty big anti-trust thing?

perthon U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

Google hijacked my search result with that fine recruiting method at work a few weeks ago. I checked it out with a burner Google account and it seems like it was a recruiting method where they have you solve programming questions on that service[1]. I did a few of the "levels" and they're all just tricky programming questions. However..

Even not signed into an account, which, I don't sign in to any Google services at work in interest of protecting IP, Google was able to track enough via cookies / me being on an si corp network to throw that to me.

[1] Pic I took on my phone: https://i.imgur.com/7X7ybUv.jpeg

perthon U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

Not sure if this was mentioned but does anyone else think it's sleazy that Google tries to poach employees from other companies via Foobar[1]?

[1] https://foobar.withgoogle.com

perthon World’s first USB-C iPhone sells on eBay for $86,001

This blog post describes a design choice that would make the USB-C port far more likely to fail than the lightning port:

https://www.appledystopia.com/reviews/usb-c-vs-lightning-pag...

"With Lightning, the connecting tabs are on the cable itself. USB-C has connecting tabs on the port."

This reddit comment thread describes a flaw where the USB-C device-end becomes clogged with dust, sometimes possible to clean out with a toothpick:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9wdylm/usb_c_p...

This is a reddit post where people are complaining about lightning cables failing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/5cjvlf/durability_o...

If you were buying a device, would you rather the port on your device wear out, or the cable that connects to it?

perthon World’s first USB-C iPhone sells on eBay for $86,001

I guess that's kind of subjective. Personally I'm anti USB-C from a durability standpoint. USB-C is designed to fail on the device-side, whereas lighting and microUSB are designed to fail on the cable side. So I see all devices using USB-C as throwaways because the port will fail.

If Apple gets rid of lightning they lose their durability advantage vs competitors by using a poorly designed connector.

perthon Ask HN: How did Python become the lingua franca of ML/AI?

FWIW I tried looking a few up and standard library seemed hit-or-miss:

JavaScript it didn't work:

  class testClass {
    constructor() { }
    
    callHoHe() {
      console.log('ho', 'he');
    }
  }

  let hi = new testClass();
  hi.callHoHe();

  testClass.callHoHe = () => {
    console.log('haha');
  }

  let heh = new testClass();
  heh.callHoHe();

This ended up just printing 'ho', 'he' twice,

For Java people didn't think it was possible:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47006118/is-there-any-wa...

For Java they said here that you just have to use your own similar implementation.

And for C# they have some pretty intense restrictions on overriding standard library stuff:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21302768/where-we-can-ov...

Golang doesn't seem to have this functionality as well:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37079225/golang-monkey-p...

Ps. it would have been nice to have monkey patching when dealing with btoa and atob in JavaScript, since they have different function on NodeJS vs the browser.

perthon Ask HN: How did Python become the lingua franca of ML/AI?

You see exactly what I mean!

perthon A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next

Yeah I will admit I only tried Go for a few hours and hated it, so I don't have much experience with it.