MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AngryData | 2025-08-31 08:26:35+00:00
I don't buy that eating McDonalds or ice cream or pop even regularly is inherently bad for you. People don't call a loaf of bread junk food, but is mostly just starches and sugars. A McDonalds burger may have a lot of fat and calories, but it still has beef in it which has lots of nutrients. Pop may be mostly just calories from sugar, but nobody is drinking pop as their only source of food and if your other foods are nutrient dense, I don't see much of a difference.
by johnfn | 2025-08-31 08:26:56+00:00
It also doesn't make any sense; it feels as if the overview was written by AI and not double-checked by a human. And you can verify this by scrolling down the page and seeing how the writing quality drops off after the comparison table. Why is React marked a "No" on incremental adoption? Of course React supports incremental adoption. Is React really a no on lazy loading? There is React.lazy. React "needs" Redux as a third-party dependency? What? It says React needs a build step, but that's not actually true, and the way that Q constructs nodes looks like the way that React constructs nodes without a build step. If the memory usage / performance on SSR/render truly outperforms these other platforms, let's see some benchmarks rather than just saying so.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-31 08:27:03+00:00
Panels are warrantied for 25 or 30 years at a specific level of performance, with 30 year old installs still working today and 40 years is an expected lifetime for a modern panel before it will dip below that warranted level but still be producing energy with minimal upkeep.

Why do think the two countries you mention as being capable of quickly building nuclear are in fact much more quickly deploying renewables?
by imtringued | 2025-08-31 08:27:57+00:00
>Men deserve sex!

I think you got this one backwards.

The messaging I've seen is the opposite "Men don't deserve sex!".

The dead bedroom is particularly popular when the boyfriend in question is, in the words of the girlfriend in question, "gentle and treating his girlfriend better than any of her previous boyfriends".

Okay, but don't get surprised if men listen to you and avoid having sex.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-08-31 08:29:21+00:00
>> I'd suggest that only people who are already overweight will be trying intermittent fasting. Needs a study with randomly selected people who are put into two groups - overweight and lean, then half of each group start intermittent fasting.

Came here to comment on this. There is no mention in the article (and I can't access the paywalled study) that the researchers controlled for BMI so there is no way to tell whether the participants of the study who were more likely to have cardiovascular problems were also the ones who were expected to have them because of overweight conditions.

I'm not advocating for intermittent fasting, to be clear. I tried it a while ago and it didn't do anything (I lost a couple of kg then got them back again when the seasons turned) but the study seems shoddy and uninformative. Or I'm just in reviewer number two mode.
by atoav | 2025-08-31 08:29:26+00:00
As a former film student I can say from experience that licensing rights can be expensive. And how expensive depends on the usage. E.g. playing a song at a live event is different from using it in television which is different from using it in your youtube video which is different from using it in a film for cinema.

Want to play any popular music in your cinema film? The license can easily cost 25.000 € (for film students that is typically more than the budget).

Smaller labels make better prices tho and sometimes the artist lets you use it for free (if it is their choice to make).
by DoctorOW | 2025-08-31 08:29:47+00:00
When comparing V and Golang, I feel like V serves as a warning for why the Go maintainers say "No" so often. You can see the author being weirdly confused both by bugs and ambiguity in the language.

> This is a double-edged sword, with Go, you get what you got. With V, I got what I got but I wonder if what I got can be gotten differently.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-31 08:30:03+00:00
To a certain extent I think it depends your level of activity. If I'm sedentary and I eat a big dinner I usually won't feel hungry at least until 3pm the next day and sometimes it can be full 24h before I really feel hunger kick in again.

It's been that way as long as I can remember but I try to make sure I eat something in the morning anyway because I noticed that I function better that way (duh!)

I think avoiding sugar makes a significant difference. I love sweet treats but I've eliminated the vast majority of sugar in foods and drinks that I consume on a daily basis. Occasionally I'll start eating cereal for breakfast and I notice that it makes me hungry more often and it completely messes with my energy levels, so I stop.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-31 08:30:22+00:00
> in Beato's case they would continue to go to YouTube to discover new guitar content

He's in a unique market position though because he's got industry respect. Joe Bloggs in his bedroom can't compete with "guitar content" because Dave Gilmore, Pat Matheney and Glynn Johns aren't all going to sit with him for a 2 hour long interview.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-31 08:30:54+00:00
There is no "fairness enforcement" in life, and biology is no exception. The closest we get is conservation laws, and those do not forbid living healthily well into your 500s.

You're out looking for "tradeoffs" that may not be there, or may not be worth caring about. There is no "balance of tradeoffs" in everything. There isn't an Authority on Biology that says "if you get good X then you must take bad Y to keep things fair for everyone". There are just shitty local minima you get stuck in unless you manage to climb your way out.

Do you want to get 50% less cancer, or to live to 120? The answer is "yes". You can have both. Nothing forbids you from having both. Is it easy to get both? No. It's not easy to get even one of those. But nature barely even tried. Humans can do better than that.
by neumann | 2025-08-31 08:30:58+00:00
My company has no idea what it wants. It just released its new 5 year strategy with big bets on AI to enhance both our offerings to clients and internal efficiencies. Town halls around the globe about AI delivery.

Great. Especially because my team is the AI team in the region. Except half the AI related sites are blocked by IT who are gatekeeping access and demand every "use" of AI is audited. And then need a 5 step approval process. It's mental. They blocked access to metals models because they labeled it unlicensed platforms.
by yunohn | 2025-08-31 08:31:30+00:00
Exactly. Don’t blame exporters; nothing ships without an order.

Same with illegal immigration: Trump & others could hire only legal locals at their hotels/resorts/farms - but don’t. So we go in circles about how to “solve” it.

Unpopular, but same with drugs: dealers/cartels aren’t forcing anyone to snort cocaine or do heroin. They do horrific things otherwise, but users share blame for the actual drug use.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-08-31 08:31:44+00:00
In some sense of the word “manufacturing” china has several thousand years of experience in silk production. It also has - and had for much of it’s history - a stable government overseeing a high order society. The situation makes a lot more sense if we stop thinking about “the rise” of china and more “return to the historical norm”. There are a lot of other countries with cheap labour and governments desiring to industrialise that have achieved nothing like china did.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-31 08:32:04+00:00
> the only vision of the future being offered is one of impending doom and urbanist intellectual memes

I agree with this. Far too many European countries have no optimistic or even productive outlooks on the future, instead seeming to trade in a form of pessimistic reductionism. Eat less, do less, be less.

However:

> it's no wonder that immigrants wouldn't want to buy into your culture

Then why do they stay as long as they can drain resources? I would never move to a country I don't respect, let alone stay to drain resources and give nothing back. That mentality is alien to me. That isn't to say every immigrant is a drain on resources, but the ones that do not buy into the culture, do not buy into the vision (or lack thereof), and do not contribute -- why are they here? Simply because despite all of that it's better than where they came from? If so, we're doing both ourselves and them a disservice by not denying them entry, because both parties end up miserable.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-31 08:32:26+00:00
It's still better than things like Spotify.

I listen to a lot of traditional Irish music and love to do things like shuffling a playlist of all the same tune by different performers.

To do that on Spotify I need to search the tune name, then create a new playlist and manually add them all.

With my local files I can just grep, even the metadata, and pipe it into a playlist for mpv to play instantly.
by isodev | 2025-08-31 08:33:46+00:00
I think the premise that app stores, notarisarion and such protect users is false. It’s like saying sunglasses protect you from the sun - they help you not get blinded by it right away, but you still need sunscreen, wear a hat etc.

Apple/Google rejecting some obvious scam apps doesn’t mean people don’t get scammed or hurt in other ways. Just like online age verification doesn’t actually protect children or make you a better parent… its just straw man of sorts, designed to remove agency from users through a false sense of safety.
by rsp1984 | 2025-08-31 08:35:01+00:00
It gets even crazier when compared to other IP law:

Engineer makes an invention: Write 30-Page patent application. Multi-year patenting process with USPTO, pay 1000s of $ if DIY, 10x that if using an IP law firm. Multiply by 4x if going international. With luck, patent gets issued 3 years later. It protects you for 25 years, but only if you have deep pockets for an IP lawsuit in case someone does copy you -- and with uncertain outcome.

Artist releases a song: automatically enjoys 100+ years of protection, even for minor samples, hooks, melodic elements. Lawsuits are easily won as long as you can prove you are the copyright holder.

I have my theories about how we ended up in this state of affairs but no jurist with a sliver of common sense can seriously claim that this is fine.
by procaryote | 2025-08-31 08:36:15+00:00
Fwiw, I'm running a NAS on btrfs (on top of mdadm raid as I don't fully trust the btrfs raid, and the recovery tools seem worse). It seems to be working well so far.

Being able to do snapshots easily is really nice. I have a script that makes hourly snapshots and keeps the N latest, which protects me against a bunch of pebkac errors

I do periodic backups to non-btrfs storage though. I need backups anyway so it seemed like an easy way to de-risk
by y-curious | 2025-08-31 08:37:19+00:00
I was far from sold. The entire article feels more like a lifestyle challenge on YouTube than a convincing life change.

The author makes great sacrifices to make the phone work in his life. He mentions: - The phone needs to be put in his pocket a certain way or it takes input - The phone loses keypresses when typing quickly - It can only render readable Google maps when set to the slowest setting - The phone forgets your fingerprint and requires pin, which suffers from dropped inputs

The author brings up the point that 2 developers work on the phone. The author doesn't mention, but I think should mention, that this phone WILL have vulnerabilities not found on flagship phones. Anyone security minded is going to be lost here.

Overall, I want a phone like this, but the sacrifices are way too numerous to justify it.
by neilv | 2025-08-31 08:38:09+00:00
Yes, with some of the fancier Scheme/Racket syntax transformers, you can do that string parsing at syntax expansion time.

Sometimes it makes sense (e.g., if you want to support chunks of hairy SQL pasted into the code).

I could go either way on how to specify Web server routes, but decided to go with the way I did, for 3 reasons:

1. Looks more familiar to Scheme programmers, without bindings coming out of strings (which I don't think is idiomatic Scheme).

2. Can be implemented more portably, including in Schemes that have only `syntax-rules` as a transformer.

3. If more semantics are added to the route specification later, such as type or validation, you might want want to be doing it in s-expressions rather than in a string.
by breppp | 2025-08-31 08:38:18+00:00
> What's Gaza? Gaza is just a region of Palestine. Gazans have the full right to fight against the occupier of Palestine. Besides, Gaza was still considered occupied due to the complete control Israel exercised in it (you confuse occupation with colonisation).

No I do not, I don't know anywhere else in the world where occupation was defined as a blockade. Occupation is troops on the ground. Gaza was only considered occupied by Hamas and related propaganda, internationally it was not considered occupied, in fact it was the only time and place in history where Palestinians had full sovereignty

Israel previously had civilian population settled in Gaza, military bases and military government (hence occupation). It then retreated to the internationally recognized borders and removed all civilians from their homes, in a deeply expensive internal political effort.

Naively expecting the international community to give it the needed backing. However as was discovered it was never about occupation all along.

> Israel doesn't need to downsize its occupation. It needs to end it. Whatever consequences it suffers while still occupying land that it doesn't have a right to, are just consequences and it can't complain. How is this not clear?

Oslo accords was a process of progression towards Palestinian independence. This was derailed by Hamas suicide bombings in Israeli towns and PLO rejecting peace offers and initiating the second intifada. Just as the Gazan independence was removed due to Palestinian actions. It is quite clear to me that the Palestinians are ironically doing anything within their power to prevent independence.
by umbra07 | 2025-08-31 08:39:10+00:00
Industries cannot be "laissez-faire". Economies, or systems of governance, can be laissez-faire.

> Governments around the world have let these industries do whatever they want with almost zero oversight and almost zero repercussions for anything. For decades. These companies and industries do whatever they want. Its only in the last few years that a couple of governments have finally start push back a teeny tiny bit.

Are you claiming that the tech industry wasn't bound by intellectual property laws until recently?
by matwood | 2025-08-31 08:39:37+00:00
I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt debilitating acute pain. I had nerve pain in the past to where my leg felt like it was on fire. It was then I understood how people get addicted to pain killers. I was able to address the problem and I’ve been fine for many years, but it hurt more than any pain I’ve ever had - and I have had many from sports.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-31 08:40:14+00:00
Radical life extension within our lifetimes has become secular religion substitute. It’s driven more by hope and faith than by scientific fact.

While a lifespan has no limits in theory if technology is advanced enough, the belief that it can be achieved by a living person is based on hope rather than evidence.

- Possible in our lifetime.

- Affordable to the faithful.

You remove these two, and the faithful lose their interest in discussing the matter.
by cyberax | 2025-08-31 08:41:36+00:00
Visitors additionally allow you to decouple graph traversal from the processing. It is still needed even in the languages with pattern matching.

There's also the question of exhaustiveness checking. With visitors, you can typically opt-in to either checking that you handle everything. Or use the default no-ops for anything that you're not interested in.

So if you look at compilers for languages with pattern matching (e.g. Rust), you still see... visitors! E.g.: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/64a99db105f45ea330473...
by boulos | 2025-08-31 08:41:56+00:00
To put it in perspective, China installed 277 GW of new solar capacity in 2024.

For coal, the "started construction" number there isn't the same metric as began operation. You want to look for "commissioned" and you get 30 GW. From https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/when-coal-wont-ste...

> Note: In 2024, 66.7 GW of new coal power capacity was permitted, a decline from previous years but still above the subdued pace seen earlier in the year. New and revived coal power proposals totaled 68.9 GW, down from 117 GW in 2023 and 146 GW in 2022, indicating a potential slowdown in project initiation. Meanwhile, construction started on 94.5 GW of new coal capacity — the highest since 2015 — suggesting continued momentum in project development. However, the pace of new coal plants entering operation has been more moderate, with 30.5 GW commissioned so far in 2024, down from 49.8 GW last year but in line with 2021 and 2022 levels.

China is well positioned to do solar + storage, but a lot of that coal is probably (a) for base load, (b) for steel production and (c) to keep the coal miners in business. From the same write up:

> In 2024, more than 75% of newly approved coal power capacity was backed by coal mining companies or energy groups with coal mining operations, artificially driving up coal demand even when market fundamentals do not justify it.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-31 08:42:03+00:00
Your own link shows coal, gas and biomass production as flat throughout a day while solar ramps up and "crushes the grid"? They all pay a price for doing so when cheaper cleaner energy is avaialable and they presumably find it a better choice than ramping down their boilers.

Why do market based financial incentives to shift demand and balance supply and demand freak you out so much?

Do you have the same visceral reaction to cheap prices used to shift demand towards overnight periods for nuclear? The frequency of that increased as people built nuclear too. Some even spent millions on storage systems to take advantage of it.
by calini | 2025-08-31 08:44:25+00:00
Lived in Romania until I finished high school. Professors would always push us to compete in the olympiads, there was an informal system where some professors, even if they were not the one teaching your class, would take you under your wing to prepare you to hit county/national/international level, you’d be allowed to skip school for a week/month depending on the level you got to, there was even some prestige to be gained.

I was personally never motivated to go past county, but it was a fun time.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-08-31 08:45:43+00:00
"to equate a job interview to a test at school, assuming that there is some objective bar and if you pass it then you must be hired"

This is excellent advice in general.

When you're on Reddit long enough, you'll see posts from men about how they were kind and considerate to a woman, and she still didn't want to date them. But that's not how life works. It's not about putting kindness, skills, effort, and good intentions into the machine and receiving success in return.

You should do these things because you want to. For yourself. Not because you will definitely get any reward in return.

Aim to excel in a job interview because you are good at what you do. Aim for being kind to others because you're a good person. Aim to learn a new skill because you're curious and love learning. Help a friend because you value your relationships.

And be happy because of what you do, because of who you are, because you can be proud of yourself.
by obarthel | 2025-08-31 08:46:23+00:00
The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference" manuals were a set of books published by Addison-Wesley which detailed the Amiga operating system APIs, its data structures, purpose and architecture. Three editions were issued between 1985 and 1992. The complete set of the final edition would comprise the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries", "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Devices", "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries" and "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes & Autodocs". The "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, 3rd edition" and the "Amiga user interface style guide" were published at the same time but did not cover the same ground as the ""Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual" set.

What was always absent from the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual" set was good coverage of the AmigaDOS component of the Amiga operating system. While documentation was available as part of "The AmigaDOS Manual" (published by Bantam Books), it barely scratched the surface. The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference: AmigaDOS" volume you quoted from was not written by the Amiga and Commodore developers, but by Amiga operating system software developer Thomas Richter, quite recently. It is based upon earlier research conducted by Amiga software developer Ralph Babel and others, filling in the many blank spaces which the "The AmigaDOS Manual" did not even address.

Note well that this volume is not to be mistaken for the "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, 3rd edition".
by sdeframond | 2025-08-31 08:47:32+00:00
I wonder if I would really like to pour billions of taxpayer money into aging when we are not even able to live a basic healthy lifestyle.

Sleeping well, eating well and exercising does work. Science about this is well-established. So why arent we?

It would not raise the life expectancy to 100 years but it would considerably reduce the health burden on the economy.
by anfilt | 2025-08-31 08:49:24+00:00
The owner of a device should have the final say. The way a lot of this is set up basically deprives the owner of one of their core property rights, in particular the right of exclusion. Instead, in many systems the decision about what software to include or exclude is made cryptographically by a third party rather than by the device’s owner. I don’t think we should support limiting people’s property rights for “safety” or other reasons. iOS is probably one the worst in this regard and it sad to see android moving more and more towards this direction.

I have posted multiple times before that this effectively limits people’s property rights. Here are some other posts I have made on the subject:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39349288

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236853

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35067455

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727203
by imtringued | 2025-08-31 08:50:35+00:00
When you have an inexplicable and paranoid disdain for a group and blame said group for the ills of everything wrong in the world, it's because the mere existence of said group disproves your worldview.

It's like a scientific discovery, a mathematical proof or evidence of a crime. The go to strategy is to get rid of that evidence, but how do you get rid of evidence if the evidence is a person?
by sylware | 2025-08-31 08:51:45+00:00
It is amazing that risc-v is getting performant large implementations in 'a market' completely dominated by others (with extremeley toxic PI locks).

It is really refreshing to see that people with significant resources are trying very hard to do the right thing. This is some sort of beacon of hope in the silicon world.

Now, the hard part: will they manage to access the state-of-the-art silicon process?

And we all know the even harder part: migrate the whole software stack, including closed source application like games...