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If that's all you do then your work is very valuable, but you have no business being a coauthor on any of the papers. The dean of the university also secures funding for the university, hopefully you can see that that doesn't make them a coauthor.

Please don't spam HN with LLM generated slop. The value of HN is the human discussion, everyone here is perfectly capable of asking an LLM of their choice.

I can't even begin to count the number of codebases I've seen where developers rolled with this idea and ended up with royal spaghetti. Everyone thinks they can build these frameworks from scratch, but they overlook the unknown unknowns. Nearly every custom implementation of state management, complex forms, async flow management, etc I've seen in the wild is riddled with countless bugs that could've been avoided if they just picked a boring and widely used library. And I've seen plenty, because I'm usually the guy that gets called up when no one else can untangle it anymore.

Yes, I have seen that countless times too. Developers that have no idea how to write original software think they can go without a framework and then write a framework. That is stupid, and its because those developers know something about frameworks but never learned to program. Stop toying with irrelevant nonsense and actually release a product for users that solves from some real business requirement, which is certainly not a framework.

Ah yes, nothing like giving unsolicited advice without even knowing what medical condition the other person has. You mean well, but it's a crude oversimplification to think every problem is just a matter of just work out the same way I do. For some reason, this phenomenon seems to be common in people who found sports a bit later in life, I'm guessing it's had a big positive impact and they want everyone to experience the same. Coaches and athletes tend to be much less quick to give shotgun advice, as they understand there's considerable depth to the problem.

Suggesting that people work out a few times a week and eat well is not the bad thing you are making it out to be

You're framing a very opinionated (and hotly contested) take "high protein, low fat, low carb" presented as universal truth as just "suggesting to eat well".

Suggesting lifting weights three times a week when all you know is the person has a problem with their joints is not only unhelpful, it can be downright detrimental to their health. It's like recommending someone morbidly obese go for a run. It might be fine, but it might also destroy their joints for the rest of their life, and you can't know which it is without knowing more about their situation and condition.

A wide variety of joint issues are improved by performing a slow and steady progressive overload with lifting weights. Not all of them, of course, and yes there are some issues that preclude lifting, but this seems rather pedantic. There are a trillion things that most humans can do with no detrimental impact that a small subset can't. Trying to couch every suggestion based on edge cases is silly.

The overwhelming majority of people would benefit from doing resistance training 3x a week, cardio 3x a week, and shifting their diet towards more protein and less carbs and fat. People who fall outside of the large majority due to specific medical conditions need to understand their medical conditions and how they impact their daily life, because expecting everyone else to always take into account these issues is unreasonable and unproductive.


> It's like recommending someone morbidly obese go for a run

To be frank, this is a dumb point. The morbidly obese person probably can’t even run for 30 seconds. It won’t destroy their joints for the rest of their life. Suggesting activity over inactivity is good advice for basically every human alive.


Hardly so. I worked as a coach when I was younger and the number of people who hurt themselves this way is considerable, likewise for many completely preventable injuries at the gym. Usually people only turn to professional help once some damage is already done. To exemplify my point, the average BMI in the US is roughly between overweight and obese. If someone in that weight range decides that the treadmill is the way to turn their life around, they will most likely come away with serious injuries if they keep it up.

Suggesting activity is good, yes, but suggesting someone should start with lifting specifically when they have issues with their joints without any further context is moronic.


The topmost comment in this comment thread starts with the fact that there are over a thousand studies on this already, no? Even if the whole effect isn't well understood, it seems like there is some science behind this.

One could argue that the research goes all the way back to Dr Frederick Cook aboard the Belgica during an Antarctic expedition I which they became trapped by the sea ice. The men suffered from multiple maladies, scurvy included, with one of the prescribed treatments being to stand nude near a blazing fire for an hour. If his notes are to be believed, the men saw some immediate changed in their overall health beyond simply getting warm. By some accounts, he became a bit of a fanatic about how much we humans need the sun, after that.

Or it could be vitamin D, or sunlight killing ticks, or fungal pathogens, or it could be the release of endorphins due to mild sun burn, or any number of other things.

I'd say it's all those things, likely in different combinations based on the circumstances. Cook's notes indicate that he may have considered it a panacea of sorts, triggering a bunch of different stuff that helped overall health, but keep in mind this was something to tune of 150 years ago, so the information he was working with may have limited the scope of his understanding. For all his otherwise infamous reputation, his work aboard the Belgica was nothing short of pioneering for the time. His life after that expedition over-shadows any positive contributions to science he made, unfortunately.

As placebos go, feeling toasty warm has to be way up there.

There maybe a thousand studies.

How many well-designed double-blind studies in humans? That’s the question


How come every time there's a new fear unlocked, it's adjacent to the sea. Drowning, rogue waves, being eaten by a whale, none of it is a good time.

Here's a new one for you:

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

"Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in marine environments. On average there are about ten million of them in one milliliter of seawater."

If enough people get seawater up their nose, it's just a matter of time before there's a crossover event :)


Shall we tell him about the Portuguese man o' war‘s 100 feet tentacles, or spontaneous methane clathrate eruptions?

If they were likely to crossover into mammals, they would probably have crossed over into seals by now.

Considering how common is swallowing and aspirating seawater is, how significant is this risk?

We have a microvirome so the mere existence of viruses is not necessarily a bad thing in itself

Based on the historical record of humans at the sea, and the folk belief that seawater is healthy, not a significant risk at all.

Ingesting bacteriophages could even be beneficial if you have bacterial issues.


I cannot give statistics but I think viruses in the sea are for marine life and mostly they don't target humans. Also we are already inhaling lots of viruses.

> viruses in the sea are for marine life

Yes of course.

The Wikipedia article says "Most of these viruses are bacteriophages ... Bacteriophages are harmless to plants and animals ... Viruses are the main agents responsible for the rapid destruction of harmful algal blooms"

Likely next to none can infect land mammals. Such viruses would not have a way to replicate to large numbers in seawater, not in land mammals.


old home remedy if you suffer from a blocked nose/sinuses: "inhale" sea-water through your nose to clear it all up.

Nasal irrigation/sinus rinsing. There are accessories that make it more comfortable too. I think salt water in particular is just because non-isotonic water inside your nose hurts and irritates the membranes.

You can get sterile saline solutions for this purpose, in case you don't want "natural" seawater. Yes, too little (or too much) salt in the water will be painful.

You can just dissolve a teaspoon of salt to half a litre of any warm fresh drinkable water (tapwater is fine if it’s even reasonably good quality). Should be hundreds of times cheaper than sterile solution :)


Point taken.

> CDC officials, citing a 2021 survey, say about one-third of U.S. adults incorrectly think tap water was free of bacteria and other microorganisms. Nearly two-thirds say tap water could be safely used for rinsing their sinuses.

> The CDC recommends using boiled, sterile or distilled water.

Flesh eating bacteria? Yeah, no, thanks.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-to-know-about-anoth...


I may be biased by the quality of tap water where I live. Pharmacies around here definitely advise just using warm tap water, although they do of course also sell more sterile stuff too.

Sinus rinsing is one of those things that gets recommended a lot without thought. For many conditions, it's great relief, but on the flip side, if you have e.g. inflamed sinuses or the like, it can make your condition considerably worse. As always, it's best to consult your doctor, because there's more nuance to human health than handy tips online would let on.

Take more pills and don’t ask questions.

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

- Joseph Conrad


To be fair, being eaten by a whale is a pretty old sea-based-fear. I think Jonah was knocking around the place around 2800 years ago...

There is still much about the ocean we do not know.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceano...


As the video shows, being eaten by a whale is not something to be concerned about.

> being eaten by a whale is not something to be concerned about.

Humpback whale, sure, what with their infamously tiny throats[0]. Killer whale? Probably a different experience.

[0] I was going to link to QI here but that was a blue whale. Same kind of sized throat though.


It could happen on accident, but to my knowledge killer whales have never done that to a human in the wild. Killer whales have most definitely attacked and killed humans while in captivity. It's also extremely obvious that it was deliberate behavior. Unless you work at SeaWorld, the risk is very low of this happening.

Cthulhu fhtagn.

Thats a very egoistical point of view - every ex-passenger of the titanic was for a moment part of a beautiful ecological bloom on the ocean floor. DeCaprio was the best crab human-carpaccio

If that's true, then where did all the order that is there come from? Lots of open questions in that regard, plenty to agonize over.

Drones are used in active warfare as we speak, legality in civil use is pretty irrelevant in that context.

So you’re clarifying that for 0.1% of HN the legality is not an issue as if those in war zones were wondering?

I use this a lot too, often with cherry-picks and reverts that can't be merged into this or that branch yet, too. It's very convenient and works everywhere without installing anything.

You haven't outlined why this is a problem? Population growth overshot with expanding abundance and developed countries are now normalizing to a more sustainable level.

when you had to farm to eat, you needed more farm hands. And lots would die young, or from simple injuries and diseases.

better to have a couple more extra kids in case some of them croak at 8 or 13. with the plus side that now you have extra hands to work on the farm / shop / artisanal cooperage, etc.


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