MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-09-30 22:32:32+00:00
Age-standardized cardiovascular mortality dropped steadily from 1975 to 2010 (with no particular discontinuity when statins were introduced), and has not budged since 2010.

Since 2010, however, the number of statin prescriptions has gone up 75%, and there have been proclamations that not only is the science "settled" because of a meta-analysis laundering past studies (that could never find a convincing benefit to lowered cholesterol), but that 1) twice as many people should be taking statins, and 2) maybe we should just put them in the water!*

What passes for science in medicine is usually bad, but it's exceptionally bad in the cases of the two classes of drugs that are the most prescribed, meant to be taken for the rest of your life, and coincidentally the biggest moneymakers: statins and SSRIs. They both also, even at best, claim very small benefits.

This thread is just going to consist of sloganeering and people calling you ignorant. Or a "denier," in order to compare disbelief in the tiny effect that statins claim (25-35%, under particular conditions) to disbelief in the Holocaust.

* Which was suggested every five years before any of these new, "conclusive" studies appeared. They'll just keep pitching it until they get that payday.
by tzs | 2025-09-30 22:32:38+00:00
That link is looking at money donated which is not a very good measure because the amount a person donates is not fixed.

When you instead match up personnel and voter registration records you get that about half of the federal workforce was Democrats. Republicans were around a third in the late 1990s, but fell to about a quarter by 2019.

Polls of federal workers for specific elections also suggest that it is not nearly as imbalanced as the money totals. For instance in the 2022 midterms 37% of federal workers said they were voting Democrat in Senate races and 33% said they were voting Republican. In House races it 46% voting Democrat, 35% voting Republican.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-30 22:32:40+00:00
Possibly, at least compared to the previous M4 generation. For the lowest tier M models to this point:

M1 (any): 4P + 4E M2 (any): 4P + 4E M3 (any): 4P + 4E M4 (iPad): 3P + 6E M4 (Mac): 4P + 6E M5 (iPad): 3P + 6E (claimed) M5 (Mac): Unknown

It's worth noting there are often higher tier models that still don't earn the "Pro" moniker. E.g. there is a 4P + 8E variant of the iMac which is still marketed as just having a normal M4.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-09-30 22:33:06+00:00
Why zfs freak out is accepted as "normal" in a dev environment is beyond me. I use storage spaces on a daily basis in production and dev environment and have for nearly 10 years now and with only marginal use of PowerShell I have been able to restore every array I didn't destroy intentionally. This is the bare minimum I expect out of an redundant array of any type regardless of its speed or scalability promises.
by sorenjan | 2025-09-30 22:33:11+00:00
This looks really useful. I have a home server with various VMs and containers, but I don't do server admin very often, so whenever something breaks I have to find out how to fix it each time. Having terminals in a document just like you can mix code and documentation in a Python notebook can probably make admin easier for people like me who do it rarely. And of course in a professional setting something like this improves the bus factor in a lot of projects if you can keep things documented.
by bluGill | 2025-09-30 22:33:24+00:00
How old are you? I'm not a doctor, but my impression is treatment for cholesterol is not considered worth it until you are "older". Depending on how high, older can range from 35 to 50. (actually a better marker is probably when did your grandparents have heart attack, start treating somewhat before then). Which is to say get regular checkups because you will likely be put on treatment in the future, but not today.

Again, I'm not a doctor. I talk to my doctor and see what others hear from their doctors and am able to make some educated guesses off of that.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 22:33:24+00:00
LDL is a proxy measure that's cheap and easy to measure. It's widely used for screening despite not being perfect, which confused some into thinking it's the one and only thing measure of CVD risk. It's not, though. Many of the tests we look at are proxies and markers, not actually the sole factor for a disease.

More in-depth testing would check LDL-P (particle count) and ApoB along with hsCRP.

Though realistically, most people could simply look at their diet and lifestyle and work on improving both before investing in any extra testing. The testing can be useful to catch cases where genetics overwhelm even healthy lifestyles, but in many cases for younger people the testing basically serves as a wake-up call to actually do something about lifestyle and diet problems. It's easier to inspire lifestyle and diet changes when you're staring at bad numbers on the test results and getting a little preview of the consequences of your decisions.
by reincoder | 2025-09-30 22:33:30+00:00
I work for IPinfo, focusing on data adoption and supporting the wider use of our free services.

The dataset the user is accessing (IPinfo Lite) is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and does not come with an End User License Agreement (EULA).

Most free IP geolocation databases in the market do include restrictive EULAs. These usually require each individual user to register, obtain their own copy of the database, and limit usage to themselves only. In many cases, sharing the data or keys outside of the original intended scope is considered a violation of license agreement. Because of these restrictions, some providers also offer paid redistribution licenses, which can be expensive and typically targeted at enterprises.

Our approach is different. By licensing IPinfo Lite under CC-BY-SA 4.0 WITHOUT an EULA, we allow anyone to share or redistribute the data freely, as long as proper attribution is given. The goal is twofold:

- Make it easier for projects to use the data without legal barriers. - Ensure that any questions or issues about the data are directed to us rather than to project maintainers.

Some large open-source projects, major global enterprises, and governement institutes are already using IPinfo Lite right now.
by kianN | 2025-09-30 22:33:45+00:00
I’ve actually run into the exact same issue. At the time we similarly had to scrap bandits. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to do a fair amount of research into hierarchical dirichelete processes in an unrelated field.

On a random day, a light went off in my head that hierarchy perfectly addresses the stratification vs aggregation problems that arise in bandits. Unfortunately I’ve never had a chance to apply this (and thus see the issues) in a relevant setting since.
by taink | 2025-09-30 22:34:04+00:00
What exactly does your diet consist in? What other adjustments have you made, e.g. in sleep or exercise?

From what I've read[1] the risk with a long-term keto diet is an increase in cholesterol (LDL and total), which can be attributed to lower micronutrient and fiber intake, replaced by more animal-derived foods.

Reducing inflammation is interesting, I'll have to look into it.

[1] e.g. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmaa006
by lproven | 2025-09-30 22:34:24+00:00
No. None of this.

> Are trivially easy to set up

Done it. Been doing it for 25+ years.

ZFS is easier. MUCH easier, and much quicker too.

> expand

As easy with ZFS.

> or replace drives;

Easier with XFS.

> require no upkeep;

False. Ext4 requires the occasional check. This must be done offline. ZFS doesn't and can be scrubbed while online and actively in use.

> and no setup when placed into entirely different systems.

Same as ZFS.

> Anybody using ZFS or ZFS-like to do some trivial standard RAID setup (unless they are used to and comfortable with ZFS, which is an entirely different story) is just begging to lose data.

False.

> MDADM is fine.

I am not saying it isn't. I am saying ZFS is better.

I think you haven't tried it, because your claims betray serious ignorance of what it can do.

I built my main NAS box's ZRAID with the drives in USB-3 caddies on a Raspberry Pi 4. I moved it to the built in SATA controllers of an HP Microserver running TrueNAS Core.

Imported and just worked. No reconfig, no rebuild, nothing.

It moves seamlessly between Arm and x86, Linux and FreeBSD, no problem at all. Round trip if you want.
by toast0 | 2025-09-30 22:34:27+00:00
From quick reading, seems like if you serve at least 2 years (or leave from a service connected injury) and get an honorable discharge, you get VA healthcare, although lower priority levels have to pay copays, so not entirely free?

Looks like signing up for the military is an 8 year commitment, which is often at least 3 years of active duty and the remainder on reserves. Kind of a lot of commitment for health care, and kind of a lot of risk on the job. If you can manage to stay in for 20 years though, the pension seems pretty nice; I live near a navy base and a lot of parents of my kid's sports team are approaching 20 years, getting paid a pension while having a second career is pretty neat.
by flumpcakes | 2025-09-30 22:34:37+00:00
If you are serving the UK market, you follow UK laws. It's that simple. In this case they are misusing UK children's information, that's a no-no in a country that has actual consumer protection laws. I'll wait for the EU to catch up on this too.

While the UK and EU (and US) like to pass stupid laws, in this case it's just an American company misusing citizen's data and not giving a crap. Good riddance.
by academia_hack | 2025-09-30 22:34:49+00:00
I hear this a lot (that children learn languages faster, or the corollary from various app ads that the best way to learn a language is to do so like a baby does), but is it actually true?

It takes children a very very long time to learn a language and they're quite bad at it for many years. I've even met some teens/young adults who are only borderline literate in their native language after years of schooling and immersion.
by tomhow | 2025-09-30 22:35:11+00:00
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to.

Phrases like "You've bought into multiple cults" and "I think you're pretty lost. Study some history. Seek help!" are never acceptable on HN, no matter the context.

And, really, are we still arguing about masks in 2025? Nobody is changing their mind about it now. Please just let it go.

Discussion like this is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-30 22:35:13+00:00
> But if you follow the DMCA and qualify for safe harbor

Yes, it is only possible to qualify for the safe harbor, if you haven’t committed criminal infringement.

But, as criminal infringement is not part of the DMCA, following the DMCA has no probative value against accusations of criminal infringement. Criminal infringement means you aren’t qualified for DMCA safe harbor regardless of whether you follow the DMCA, but following the DMCA doesn’t mean you aren’t guilty of criminal infringement.

> Or to give you another example in backpage the founders where aquitted since the judge could not trace that the money came from a "criminal source"

Backpage has no relevance to criminal copyright infringement. About the only connection between this case and that is that Backpage was also a nexus for a lot of misinformation about a (completely different, Section 230 rather than DMCA) safe harbor provision.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 22:35:16+00:00
I got the pros. I think they are great in every way except (1) they fall out of my ears, but that’s cause I’ve got a genetic polymorphism that makes me make crazy amounts of earwax and my doctor warned me that one of these days I’m gonna wake up and not be able to hear cause my ears are clogged —- I don’t wear them outside, I just wear them where having them fall out is not a problem, (2) the noise cancellation is supposed to turn itself off when I talk to somebody and it seems like they always turn it off whenever I mutter to myself, but when I actually talk to somebody, they don’t, and (3) young people these days walk around with AirPods in and they just can’t hear you. It’s just like they’re 95 years old.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-30 22:35:42+00:00
She's so naive, she just hung around until someone found out the fraud.

It made me wonder what she was thinking when her $30M share landed in her bank account. "Whee, I got away with it", "it's their problem now"?

I don't think I would commit fraud, but if I did it for that amount, I would be on a flight to Malaysia or some other place with no extradition with the US!
by Escapado | 2025-09-30 22:36:25+00:00
I keep hearing this but sometimes I am not 100% sure if they are _much_ better so asking honestly: Is there any reputable quantitative analysis of this in the context of language learning?

For example: I have spent the last two years in japan (I am in my 30s) and just got back to my home country. Went to a language school in the mornings there, immersed myself in the language a little but did not go all out on studying at home except for some Anki and the homework we got. I would spend 1 or 2 evenings per week talking to japanese people in my apartment building for practice. I just took the N2 exam before I left and just failed by 1 point, without any extra studying specifically for it. I could have conversations with people in my apartment complex, make phone calls to get stuff done and get the gist of most news I heard if they were not hyper-specific and I can read easy novels. If I open the NHK news website I am still lost on a bunch of stuff and have to look up a lot. But again, that was 2 years and I was neither particularly good nor bad compared to the other fellow students and I did not go all out full immersion - lots of my interactions were still with foreigners in the afternoon. Anyway, I for sure know more kanji than a 2nd grade elementary school student. I also can say more than a two year old kid. I know of course children learn to navigate a language without explicit study in their first years of life but the point still stands. If time spent studying was equal, how much of a difference remains?
by atombender | 2025-09-30 22:36:43+00:00
I had another hairbrained idea once. Let's say you want to compress the number 5384615385. Find two numbers x and y so that x/y equals some number whose decimal part is 5384615385. In this case, that's 7/13. So the compressed output is just 7 and 13, which could be encoded very succinctly, thus saving lots of storage space; and decompression is just multiplying numbers.

Unfortunately, while the idea works for some input sequences, most numbers aren't rational, and most sequences would require numerators/denominators that would be larger than the input. So not practically feasible.
by bluGill | 2025-09-30 22:37:06+00:00
Careful. You are correct at what we want for primary prevent. However for primary prevention we need much larger sample sizes and thus data is much harder to get.

Lack of data doesn't mean the treatment won't work. There is plenty of reason to think statins work for primary prevention even though it hasn't been proved yet. For most the side effects are acceptable, and the cost is low. Thus for most it is worth trying as primary prevention even if we don't have data to show it works. Remember you are playing with your own life here, and the best evidence we have is on the side of stains for primary prevention - this may change in the future when we get data of course.
by serbuvlad | 2025-09-30 22:37:21+00:00
Yes but there is simply no reason to have two devices. There are a large number of Windows tablet-laptop combo machines that work perfectly well and prove touch apps work perfectly well on a desktop OS.

Yeah, that took a long time for MS to get to not suck after Windows 8, but touch and tablet interactions on Windows 10 and Windows 11 work perfectly well.
by nabla9 | 2025-09-30 22:37:27+00:00
Cholesterol can hide your inflammation.

Cholesterol -> Coronary plaque -> Dormant bacteria within the plague biofilm is shielded from the immune system and antibiotics. When it ruptures, bacteria is released, sudden death.

Viridans Streptococcal Biofilm Evades Immune Detection and Contributes to Inflammation and Rupture of Atherosclerotic Plaques https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.125.041521

>Of the bacteria detected, oral viridans group streptococcal DNA was the most common, being found in 42.1% of coronary plaques and 42.9% of endarterectomies.
by legitster | 2025-09-30 22:38:06+00:00
You're right, I misrepresented the idea. Part of the thing is that US roads are just so much more dangerous in every way. Here's the actual data:

US pedestrian fatalities 2 per 100k. US driver fatalities ~7 per 100k.

European pedestrian fatalities: 0.5 per 100k. European driver fatalities: ~2 per 100k.

So it's somewhat understandable that regulators may disproportionately favor crash protection for drivers.
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by greenavocado | 2025-09-30 22:38:30+00:00
You're goddamn right corruption existed under gold. Nobody's claiming it was some purity paradise. But here's the difference: gold didn't enable systemic looting on a planetary scale. Gold didn't prevent sin. it prevented the industrialization of sin. The robber barons were sharks in a pond. Today's fiat-enabled oligarchs are gods reshaping reality. When you can print the fucking rules, accountability evaporates. That's why Nixon's 1971 decision wasn't just policy. It was an engraved invitation for the largest wealth transfer in human history.

Greed and corruption absolutely festered under the gold standard. Boss Tweed embezzled a fortune from New York City coffers, Vanderbilt strong-armed railroads, and Rockefeller crushed competitors with predatory pricing. But here's the huge distinction: gold acted like a leash on a rabid dog. It didn't kill the beast, but it kept it from devouring the whole goddamn village. When robber barons got too greedy in the 1800s, their schemes imploded under gold's brutal discipline. Jay Cooke's bank collapsed in 1873? No Fed stepped in with trillions in printed cash to resurrect his corpse. Markets purged the rot, losers ate shit, and the system reset in years. Not decades of zombie corporations propped up by cheap debt. Corruption back then was like a bar fight: bloody, ugly, but contained. Tweed stole existing gold coins. He couldn't order the Treasury to mint him a fresh fortune overnight.

Vanderbilt couldn't borrow billions at 0% interest from a central bank to buy every competitor; he had to convince investors with real profits, not financialized vapor. Fast-forward to today: fiat didn't invent greed. It weaponized it. LBJ funded Vietnam and the Great Society without raising taxes because the printer go brrr. BlackRock gobbles neighborhoods with Fed-subsidized debt while renters bleed. Tyson jacks food prices 20%, blames "inflation," and pockets record profits because fiat decouples prices from real value. Banks peddle toxic mortgages knowing the Fed will bail them out. Politicians pass $6T "stimulus" bills while your paycheck buys less bread than a 1950s factory worker's. That's the cancer Nixon unleashed in '71. Not corruption itself, but its metastasis into a globalized, systemic looting operation where elites privatize gains, socialize losses, and inflation becomes a tax on the powerless. Gold didn't stop crooks. It stopped crooks from becoming untouchable gods. The 1800s proved humans will always be greedy. Fiat just gave them the universe's credit card and told your grandkids to foot the bill.
by Zagreus2142 | 2025-09-30 22:38:50+00:00
Having banged my head on years/decade old inconsistencies between Chrome and Firefox with respect to webrtc APIs, some of these inconsistencies will never be ironed out.

But also, imo, Chrome is way more entrenched that LLM agents. I'm sure people will be happy with chromium being containerized this way.
by timr | 2025-09-30 22:39:00+00:00
> Lack of data doesn't mean the treatment won't work

In drug development, that is the default presumption, and rightfully so: almost nothing ever works.

> There is plenty of reason to think statins work for primary prevention even though it hasn't been proved yet.

Define "primary prevention" -- do you propose giving this to a healthy 20 year old with no other signs of illness? Younger? Should we "put it in the water", as they say? How about older patients? How old? Or, do you mean someone with symptoms? If so, then what about the case I cited (which is quite common in "primary prevention") where you have multiple things in tension?

The evidence provides no guidance here, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. For what it's worth, though, we agree completely on the need for larger data. I think what drives me most batty about the "appeal to consensus" is that it's almost invariably used as a highbrow-lowbrow way of beating up on people who want to ask the question, which is the first step toward getting the answer!
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-30 22:39:34+00:00
1. Thanks for the reply!

2. Having now read the article, i see that my question was indeed already addressed in the article — sorry for asking silly questions

3. Your good-natured, approachable response is great marketing for your company! I’m not the target audience, but I did click through your marketing material, and probably trust it more because of your response.
by sublinear | 2025-09-30 22:39:46+00:00
I'm surprised people are still using work chat like this.

My workplace switched to Teams about 5 years ago. The app is of course janky and slow, but it had the side effect of pushing all the important conversations to emails and scheduled meetings.

Teams integrates with Outlook well enough that I never have to second guess my schedule and all the chatter is now just DMs, informal group chats that I would actually care about, and a bunch of broader group channels that nobody is expected to look at very often (not even every day).

I rarely feel distracted by chat anymore unless it makes sense because something is actually on fire.
by tomhow | 2025-09-30 22:39:54+00:00
Please don't engage in flamewar about the relative merits of nations or regions (or COVID masks in 2025) on HN. It's not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. This article is about the acquisition of a computer games company. The discussion ended up in a completely irrelevant and toxic place. Please remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to heed them in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ethanwillis | 2025-09-30 22:40:00+00:00
There have been lots of complaints all over the place that contradict your experience.

One article that talks about it: https://osxdaily.com/2025/09/19/why-im-holding-off-on-upgrad...

For less discerning users maybe the rough edges aren't that noticeable. But the point of choosing Apple products is you should be a discerning consumer.