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Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on The News is Never Neglected · 2025-02-12T19:06:54.089Z · LW · GW

More annual links:
https://hntoplinks.com/year
Magnum forums like this one:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
https://lesswrong.com/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
https://progressforum.org/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
https://forum.fastcommunity.org/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
and subreddits:
https://reddit.com/r/*/top/?t=year

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity · 2025-02-10T05:05:59.226Z · LW · GW

https://kyhealthnews.net/2022/02/14/a-healthier-diet-could-add-years-to-your-life-study-says-more-than-a-decade-in-your-20s-and-eight-or-nine-years-even-at-age-60

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Shortform · 2025-01-06T04:35:38.617Z · LW · GW

impressive LLM benchmark/test results seemingly overfit some datasets:
https://x.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Draining the swamp · 2024-11-13T19:09:49.659Z · LW · GW

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57906379-extra-life tackles similar questions and claims fertilizers, sanitation, and vaccines saved billions of lives each:

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-01-25/20000-days-history-life-expectancy

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Eric Neyman's Shortform · 2024-06-25T20:43:26.446Z · LW · GW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect seems like a decent entry point to rabbit hole similar phenomenon

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on ChristianKl's Shortform · 2024-05-05T23:54:39.377Z · LW · GW

shut your phone off

Leave phones elsewhere, remove batteries, or faraday cage them if you're concerned about state-level actors:

https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/nsa-can-reportedly-track-cellphones-even-when-they-re-turned-off.html

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Notice When People Are Directionally Correct · 2024-01-16T01:18:35.586Z · LW · GW

Shipping piracy graphs over the decades:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266292/number-of-pirate-attacks-worldwide-since-2006/
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/19/maritime-piracy-is-on-the-decline-globally.html

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on leogao's Shortform · 2023-12-22T19:32:43.830Z · LW · GW

https://xkcd.com/386/

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Childhood Roundup #3 · 2023-10-11T21:44:25.801Z · LW · GW

Studies keep showing sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.

I assume the sugar myth is because food dye causes hyperactivity:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32006369/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573786/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321798/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3441937/

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on AllAmericanBreakfast's Shortform · 2023-05-26T22:26:19.635Z · LW · GW

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Moving VPS Again · 2023-05-04T07:57:45.620Z · LW · GW

Free static page services offer previews:

https://jace.pro/post/2020-12-17-cloudflare-pages-netlify-zeit-github-pages-and-gitlab-pages-where-to-host/

https://github.com/rossjrw/pr-preview-action

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Olli Järviniemi's Shortform · 2023-04-30T21:35:24.115Z · LW · GW

Lots of related concepts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on AWS Has Raised Prices Before · 2023-04-03T18:11:26.422Z · LW · GW

https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/blob/main/archive.md

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Pat Myron's Shortform · 2023-02-05T05:09:14.574Z · LW · GW

+1 to be able to check notifications, messages, and specific posts here without seeing newsfeeds:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Feature Request: Self-imposed Time Restrictions · 2023-02-04T23:27:18.413Z · LW · GW

opened Github issues to track / +1:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Pat Myron's Shortform · 2023-01-29T22:22:26.590Z · LW · GW

+1 for these forum logos to be added to FontAwesome:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/19536

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on riceissa's Shortform · 2022-10-03T02:05:57.790Z · LW · GW

wackier stuff

mind elaborating? 

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Welcome to Pittsburgh Rats [Edit With Your Details] · 2022-09-11T05:24:23.737Z · LW · GW

Only saw this event:
https://www.lesswrong.com/events/AhzqngXFmiSiC3wtw/pittsburgh-pa-acx-meetups-everywhere-2022

UPDATE: active Pittsburgh group: pghacx@gmail.com and discord