Hacker News: metamuas

Graph of Federal Debt Held (6.2T) (258% increase since 2020)

metamuas — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFRBN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31919187

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by metamuas in "Fear and Loathing in FreeBSD"

metamuas — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:29:24 +0000

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

New comment by metamuas in "Fear and Loathing in FreeBSD"

metamuas — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:29:05 +0000

Can you elaborate on CUDA? I thought nVidia prided themselves on FreeBSD support.

New comment by metamuas in "MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips"

metamuas — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 23:49:04 +0000

I downloaded Brave after googling it and got a .pkg instead of a .dmg because someone wanted to hack my new laptop, and didn't want to risk a hack that leveraged an exploit only nation states know about. They are sMArt. Like me! I still installed it because I am gullible and lazy.

Ask HN: What to do about no work ethic?

metamuas — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:03:09 +0000

I feel like I have zero work ethic. I do not know why. I want to work, I do not wish to feel awful about doing nothing, but I do nothing all the time. I do not care or feel respectful or grateful for having a job, and I do not know what to do. I am a terrible programmer, and I am unmotivated to become a better one, despite daydreaming about being a 10x programmer.

I remember watching a documentary on indie games, and the developer of Super Meat Boy showed how he just keeps a to-do list on a piece of paper, and I feel awful because I feel so incompetent I cannot work off of a simple to-do list.

What should I do?

Are there any tricks you can recommend to learning how to function as a normal employee?

How do I go from uncaring towards caring?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31694374

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by metamuas in "Entropy Is Fatal"

metamuas — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:29:06 +0000

The main mistake you made was not realizing artificial complexity exists, that it is not natural, and that it is a form of control, possibly the most important. Evidence A: C++.

New comment by metamuas in "Ask HN: Co-Founder pivoting, what are my options?"

metamuas — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:25:05 +0000

Stay true to your path, dear sir: you have conquered one quest, only to question another. The path ahead is fraught with forks in the road, but stay true to your ossified idea and question yourself as you do others.

New comment by metamuas in "A social analgesic? Acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces positive empathy"

metamuas — Thu, 05 May 2022 01:41:42 +0000

Just remember, don't take Tylenol if you are in pain, as you can die from liver poisoning quite quickly. "Engstrom suffered an accident in the lab when a monitor fell on his foot. He took too much Tylenol which caused liver toxicity, and died on December 1, 2020"[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Engstrom

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:29:57 +0000

Well the stock market succeeding depends on people having irrational faith in the stocks like Tesla, despite making most of their money from Bitcoin than selling cars[0], so that isn't really a valid counterfactual point, since market opinions are based on psychological beliefs.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210427112905/https://www.wsj.c...

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:26:48 +0000

If you have the time, please find out what traffic noise is closest to. I tried to find out but couldn't get any further than this wikipedia page[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadway_noise

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:51:49 +0000

"Diagnoses of autism have risen dramatically over the past few decades, from an estimated one in 2500 children thirty years ago to one in 150 today." is one of the first lines of the article. If you are so smart, and only you are so smart, what environmental factor has increased that rapidly?

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:49:37 +0000

Basically, humans are pattern seeking creatures, and children exposed to white noise will try to find patterns in white noise, when there are none, thus leading to the brain maladapting to random patterns. My theory, but I couldn't find a good definition of traffic noise being related to white noise or classified in particular, but who knows.

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:42:53 +0000

Precipitation means the kids stay inside and are more likely to watch television[0]. This was influenced by another paper about the link between precipitation and autism[1]. Why do you think it is joke research? Why did you criticize before looking into it?

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989648

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/articlepdf/3...

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:32:32 +0000

Corrected, thanks.

New comment by metamuas in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:17:33 +0000

Proximity to freeways increases autism risk, study finds [0].

Having a mother who lived within 1,000 feet of a freeway while pregnant doubles a child's odds of having autism [1].

Basically, white noise can cause autism. People are screwing up their kids at an exponential rate [2].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210609042055/https://www.latim...

[1]: https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20101217/fast-lane-t...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=childre...

Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

metamuas — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/bah/does-watching-television-trigger-autism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31213295

Points: 38

# Comments: 82

New comment by metamuas in "It’s the Billionaires’ Internet, and We’re Just Posting on It"

metamuas — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:03:38 +0000

Turning a decentralized internet into a centralized one seems like a threat, I mean with centralization of all knowledge then we are creating a situation where a centralized system would know everything. That is why we have to stick to decentralization, it allows knowledge to flow more freely and openly. /s

New comment by metamuas in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

metamuas — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:23:48 +0000

I hope they do something about government officials from random nations shitposting with proxy accounts.

New comment by metamuas in "“Multiple personality disorder” probably doesn't exist"

metamuas — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 01:47:25 +0000

Connecting a manshonyagger doesn't work out; see the death of Shardik. It would be horrible if 'connecting' someone lead to ananaphylactic shock.

New comment by metamuas in "Summoned Tesla Collides with Jet"

metamuas — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:47:17 +0000

Can someone explain to me why Tesla didn't bootstrap itself with cameras/LIDAR, then remove the LIDAR? I mean teaching an AI depth perception and the ability to model objects by vision, without including training data from LIDAR just seems kind of silly.