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throwaway519on Eating from plastic takeout containers can increase heart failure risk

The headline made me think it was about eating delivery/takeout food from plastic containers specifically vs eating plated food that had been in plastic containers.

Which seemed curious. So I read TFA.

And no, this is about all hot food put in plastic containers for delivery/takeout regardless of how it's later eaten.

When I was in China, I saw that food delivery was massive, cheap and easy. And the food is often piping hot and put in plastic containers.

Edit: Link to paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014765132...

throwaway519on Show HN: I open-sourced machine translation models for 12 rare languages

MIT license. Free.

throwaway519on I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

Both probably higher than taking the subway to work.

throwaway519on Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)

Thank you for links that add critical analysis, depth, and academic follow up.

These types of comment are what keep me coming back to HN.

throwaway519on I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

Choking on the mixture is the main danger.

throwaway519on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

Front line airport security is outsourced to entirely unsalaried, unwaged workers.

throwaway519on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

In the spirit of your observation, I encourage you to make your observation again.

throwaway519on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

It's suffiiently understood to be usable in th3 right context.

Ling's another. Both diminuitive but slightly differently.

throwaway519on Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies

It won't be needed with inflation caused by the new import taxes.

throwaway519on Show HN: RocketKitty – family of self-hosted sharing and social platforms

This is really well polished.

throwaway519on Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time

There should definitely be a more convenient way to 'forget this site'. In Firefox it's hidden in right clicking on the site entry in History. For Chromium it seems to be a 7 step process unless invoking developer tools as History doesn't present a 1-click way to remove a whole site.

Edit: And for mobile even more obscure.

throwaway519on Sand trafficking in Latin America

A big slow barge can carry $200-500k, depening on how big the barge is. That's a fair amount of cash.

From there, you've got 40-100 truck runs from wherever the barge unloads to wherever the sand's in use, assuming you can't run the barge straight to the customer. Again, that's not a huge amount +to the CFR above.

Above using barge capacity of 20-50k tons, and truck capacity 50 ton.

throwaway519on Sand trafficking in Latin America

About $10 per metric ton end customer price (wholesale, CFR), if anyone's interested.

throwaway519on Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era

147 reported crimes in a month in NYC's very busy subway. That's it.

Don't let social media fool you. The US is not becoming a crime ridden cesspool, the only stinking I smell is from scaremongers that profit from your fear.

throwaway519on Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?

haha, I just asked ChatGPT and it references this HN post.

It's a small world.

throwaway519on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender

They're actually paying to give it up then. That's a hard fail.

throwaway519on Ask HN: What's your opinion on automatic light/dark mode switching on websites?

To add the counter: A website shold always have a manual control and not try to guess my timezone or preferences based around that. Since I typically use a device in well lit conditions and detest dark mode as it is, not having a manual switch for when things go wrong kicks off a bad experience.

throwaway519on Introducing deep research

throwaway/anonymous.

not just for when discussion of the content not the personality behind it is important.

throwaway519on More than 130 Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches to close

UK high street banking is a fate almost as dire as equities in Dallas.

throwaway519on Ask HN: I have $5k to spend on a local AI machine, what should I get?

Why get an Apple? Even th3 keyboard lacks required keys for development. They're purely tech bro poser machines.

throwaway519on What are people using for email?

You manage your email. Take an extra hour per day to get cto or close to inbox zero, a5 least nothing pending your non action by the end of th3 day.

Microsoft make fin email solutions. F500s run themselves on Outlook email and Calendar. Forget Teams or other timewasters that give you multiple inboxes, forget MS's own 'focused' inbox or Google's confusing attempts.

And keep a backup. Of everything. When you understand retention policies and audit, which hopefully should be a few years down the line, delete strictly according to your retention policy.

throwaway519on Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

I ride a horse to work. But I will admit the lack of watering holes and places to tie her up outside the supermarket has become a pain.

throwaway519on What's OAuth2, anyway?

It's the manifested fear of AOLesque internet silos to hang on to their ~prey~ users by the claw. It creates a less open, less federated web.

throwaway519on DeepSeek, Unitree and Game Science all are based in Hanghzou

It must be the feilaifeng buddhas in their grottos at lingyin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple#/media/File%3...

throwaway519on Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

Why do you feel compelled to omit the subject from each sentence?

> Loved this site for a long time

>> I loved this site for a long time

throwaway519on Poll: What is your preferred Search Engine?

Facebook search..

Twitter search??

Wechat search!!

A lot of people use social media search.

throwaway519on Poll: What is your preferred Search Engine?

I'm sticking with AltaVista for now. They came back against Lycos so could do it again. Anything but Yahoo! though.

throwaway519on Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

Great to see some community efforts.

throwaway519on Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

Element have a perfectly good implementation written in Go called Dendrite. I run it. It's good.

But support is deprioritised in favour of Synapse (Python).

Moving the goalposts with Synapse does not rejuvenate Synspse, it creates a fragmented system.

Get used to being boring. I am not moving to an ever centralised Synapse only ecosystem - a single implementation is not a federated protocol. That the new Element mobile client only supports Synapse was a huge red flag.

If diversity in implementation is not encouraged with action I'm back to XMPP (+ Jitsi).