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New comment by sceptic123 in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"

sceptic123 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:36:29 +0000

Life expectancy is a useful summary statistic but not really a guide to healthy.

The main reason for the increase there is a reduction in child mortality, not an increase in overall healthiness. Ironically, one of the main factors improving the adult population statistics is the decrease in smoking.

But look at something like HALE (Healthy Life Expectancy from WHO[1]) that's much lower and is currently decreasing.

https://data.who.int/indicators/i/48D9B0C/C64284D

New comment by sceptic123 in "I've sold out"

sceptic123 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:20:47 +0000

You're absolutely right ... it's strange that someone would post a personal message about something on their personal blog.

New comment by sceptic123 in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

sceptic123 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:26:17 +0000

But why is it different? Why does it need to be? I don't write code the same as other devs so why would/should I use AI the same?

Is this a hangover from when the tools were not as good?

New comment by sceptic123 in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

sceptic123 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:29:48 +0000

but not if it's entirely made up

New comment by sceptic123 in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

sceptic123 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:52:09 +0000

Fun fact: you shouldn't have sensitive files with API keys, passwords, DB credentials, etc. in your repo

New comment by sceptic123 in "Goodbye to Sora"

sceptic123 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:10:05 +0000

translation: "we got all the data we needed"

New comment by sceptic123 in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

sceptic123 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:35:04 +0000

No it's not, it's like saying it's written in SwiftUI

New comment by sceptic123 in "Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to LocalStack?"

sceptic123 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:33:13 +0000

Background: https://blog.localstack.cloud/the-road-ahead-for-localstack/

Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to LocalStack?

sceptic123 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:30:42 +0000

Given LocalStack is going paid for commercial use, are there any alternatives for testing services locally?

I think there are lots of alternatives for S3, but if there is no direct alternative for other services, what strategies are people using to develop software that is using these AWS services locally?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320916

Points: 1

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New comment by sceptic123 in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

sceptic123 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:26:57 +0000

| COMING EARLY FEBRUARY 2026

Oops

New comment by sceptic123 in "Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience"

sceptic123 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:26:05 +0000

But it's okay because

> Your access token is encrypted and stored securely. Only the permissions you grant will be used.

New comment by sceptic123 in "Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?"

sceptic123 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:33:33 +0000

AI companies just much quicker in removing don't be evil than previous tech companies. Having and removing them is at least some kind of canary.

New comment by sceptic123 in "xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems"

sceptic123 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:58:48 +0000

I find it's always helpful to read any praise of X/Grok/Elon in a heavily sarcastic voice. That way it all makes sense.

New comment by sceptic123 in "Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare"

sceptic123 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:23:29 +0000

Why is a loan comparison site doing this kind of research? Why would you trust this kind of research from a loan comparison site?

New comment by sceptic123 in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

sceptic123 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:44:37 +0000

It's just the continued slow death of the open internet

New comment by sceptic123 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

sceptic123 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:29:39 +0000

I'm assuming BT? If so then their blocking is DNS based and if you are not using their DNS then they will block these sites

New comment by sceptic123 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

sceptic123 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:15:08 +0000

My ISP currently makes them not resolve (with scary sounding domains):

  ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @192.168.1.254 annas-archive.li
  ; (1 server found)
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18716
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;annas-archive.li.  IN A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  annas-archive.li. 845 IN CNAME www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk.
  www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk. 511 IN CNAME ukispblk.vo.llnwd.net.
  ukispblk.vo.llnwd.net. 845 IN CNAME ukispblk.vo.llnwd.net.edgesuite.net.

  ;; Query time: 3 msec
  ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
  ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 18 12:06:25 GMT 2026
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 169

New comment by sceptic123 in "How not to answer the salary question"

sceptic123 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:44:13 +0000

Being productive isn't the same as being an expert

New comment by sceptic123 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

sceptic123 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:42:50 +0000

> Why this matters

Hello AI (Claude?)

New comment by sceptic123 in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

sceptic123 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:35:14 +0000

You're not going to be any good for hunting, farming or keeping warm if you have the shits though.