MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nec4b | 2025-09-13 22:30:57+00:00
>> We're up to about 8 billion solar panels produced ever, maybe 2 billion or so a year now.

You need a lot of panels to match one nuclear power plant though, and they were/are heavily subsidized.

>> There's been about 700 nuclear plants. Not a lot of doublings.

Obviously, because there was/is a lot pressure against building them. I think China demonstrates, that they can be built rather quickly and cheaper and cheaper, if the obstacles are removed.

It's not really a fair competition when something heavily subsidized and the other thing is almost banned.
by andy99 | 2025-09-13 22:31:49+00:00
The original title is "Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease" which appears to be clickbait, with the title posted here being much more accurate.

Immune response to bacteria in arterial plaques can cause them to break up and cause the attack (my lay-interpretation) so the bacteria is a trigger, but "infectious disease" is a bit of hyperbole.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-13 22:31:51+00:00
I think the "neoliberalism contradiction" point was tired when Hegel noticed it. America is (and has always been) mired in inequality, the system we have today doesn't need a refit. Judging by the last paragraph, it seems like Rothbard agrees on this.

There's not much else to add that isn't buffeted in the essay itself. Representative democracy sucks dick, and the fact that Americans engage in politics vicariously ensures that our Volksgeist is reduced to petty arguments about Michelle Obama's penis. Appeals to transgression are a threat to all political systems, not just democracy. See my other comment about the Red Guard.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-13 22:34:45+00:00
For those who don't want to watch the clip, the context is a discussion that any homeless people who don't take aid should be involuntarily committed to asylums or prisons so we don't have to be "afraid" (inconvenienced) by them.

After that suggestion, Brian makes an off-the-cuff remark, "or involuntarily lethal injection, just kill 'em". Neither hosts even bat an eye. There's no rebuttal, just a continuation of the dialogue from there.

It's absolutely insane that numerous left wing people are being fired from their jobs this week for being unsympathetic to Charlie Kirk - because he was quite literally justifying school shootings and gun deaths as he was shot by a conservative - but Fox can primetime suggest imprisoning poor people who have committed no crime, suggest outright mass murder, and "discuss" stripping the passports of political opposition the next day with barely a squeek of opposition, let alone consequences.

Im glad we had our 3,500 comment thread yesterday calling the left violent and advocating the right can say anything they want as much as they want while the left need to hold their tongues.

EDIT: Oh, good, look at that, flagged and dead. "Neutrality" at work. Kirk post: alive and moderated. Democratic lawmakers assassinated and Fox threatening mass murder of innocent people? Banned.
by Lwerewolf | 2025-09-13 22:34:54+00:00
Stress hormones. Read up on cortisol's effects. XCM - cross country marathon (MTB race). 2700mD+ - 2.7km of vertical gain. A reduction of inflammation is a general effect of anti-inflammatory drugs, which tend to make you feel better. There's a LOT more than that (i.e. say, all the things that fall under the umbrella of "runner's high"), but the TL:DR is that significant physical activity / energy expenditure, combined with a lack of proper rest & nutrition leads to long-term undesirable effects that can definitely be masked and/or disregarded.
by pandaman | 2025-09-13 22:35:30+00:00
>That's the official opinion of the government, the judiciary, and the defendants.

If it has been an official opinion it would have been published and you had a link to it, would not you? Settlement is not an admission of guilt nor is it admission that the case can't be won on merit.

>A settlement for a pittance, as you said, is the mark of a good lawyer.

Different lawyer handle DOJ prosecution and immigration (immigration lawyers are usually not even members of BAR). The government settles this kind of cases because of politics, not merit. If there had been a modicum of will to go after lawbreakers, these cases would try themselves - tons of witnesses, tons of evidence zero traces of "good faith".
by jonorsi | 2025-09-13 22:35:39+00:00
Struggling with this right now at my current job as one of four lead devs tasked with implementing our design system with using a React component library.

I am of the opinion that we only theme the components and provide snippets for how to use them for larger UI elements; the rest are of the mindset that we should be building more components in addition to the library for simple things like: a button that has a chevron in it for dropdown menus; a specific component for combining a tooltip with an info icon; a dialog with just an okay button, in addition to the dialog with both cancel and okay buttons; etc. etc.

Just the other day I got flak for saying no to accepting another version of a tooltip that had a different icon -- what's hard about using the tooltip with the icon you want...
by ozim | 2025-09-13 22:36:17+00:00
No one is forbidding people creating little pieces of software.

But creating little pieces of software was already available, for example I make most of my DIY software in a spreadsheet.

There are tons upon tons of low code possibilities or already existing software packages that need a bit of configuration that one can use and using AI or LLM's is not bringing anything that is revolutionizing access to computation or tailoring software. Just get your head around Excel or LibreOffice Calc and most of your DIY software needs are covered.

What LLM's and AI is bringing to the table is illusion of being able to create software exactly like people who have all the theoretical background or experience in building it. (which seems the person I originally replied to be one of those)

So as my original comment the problem is: that people building a forest hut are convinced that only if they just put more sticks on top, they will manage to build a skyscraper.
by franga2000 | 2025-09-13 22:36:35+00:00
I really like the growing maximum owed limit idea and it would be really interesting to also make it possible to set an auto payment threshold lower than it.

The idea being something like "charge at X € owed but let it go up to N*X € if a payment fails before suspending service" where the N scales with something like the number of paid invoices or even total past spend.,
by b112 | 2025-09-13 22:37:25+00:00
That is patently false. The field of materials science and several branches of engineering deal with this constantly

Which still isn't much, conpared to if everyone cared.

Weren’t you originally trying to make the opposite point by using the B-52 as an analogy?

The B-52 is managed by the government, and from another era. Just as my Volvo example was.

Compare either to modern variants. Who maintains the F-35? Who profits from poor quality?
by fdavies93 | 2025-09-13 22:39:18+00:00
I've used neovim for a couple years now, but had trouble using it professionally for devops work because package managers and such tend to break in certain environments i.e. docker containers; remote servers. Rather than go with the graybeard option of using plain vim in unusual environments, I experimented with not using any package managers and just directly controlling the environment.

This worked surprisingly well, so I reworked my dotfiles into a shareable format - which is freak.nvim

Hope others who have similar problems or just prefer this type of control freakery find it useful. :)
by normie3000 | 2025-09-13 22:41:02+00:00
> it's completely unintelligible to anyone who learned Spanish

This is wild. The languages share a lot of vocabulary and grammar.

> I can't even pronounce the street names in Barcelona when I visit.

This is also wild. I can see there are some words like "passeig" and "plaça" which aren't immediately familiar, but they're not far from the Spanish equivalents. And you could have a good shot at pronouncing many other streets like "Gran Via" and "Diagonal".
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-13 22:41:06+00:00
- Make employees scared to point out flaws.

- Make employees less engaged in the success of the company.

- Encurrage employees to hide or mask issues.

- Encurrage employees to pretend to be more productive than they are.

- Make employees mentally and physically less healthy.

- Make employees shy away from taking on more responsibility or tasks.

- Make employees less happy to train up new hires in their work.

Yes. Gains. All those gains. I can only see gains here.
by nec4b | 2025-09-13 22:41:09+00:00
Thanks for the podcast.

>>Renewables have the potential to significantly lessen these conflicts compared to what's happened with fossil fuels.

I'm not too optimistic about it. As usual, on one side you have countries with big renewable sources, the producers and on the other side, you have countries with strong industry, which requires a lot energy, the consumers.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-13 22:42:02+00:00
I dislike this analogy because the "teleporter" is presented as a perfected and reliable risk-free device... which only needs to be made cheaper.

In our case, the much-hyped teleporter is known to unpredictably scramble the user's tissues (including their brains) in ways that we have no definite way to either detect or fix, and nobody rich is using it on themselves. They either prefer private jets, or they use it in ways where they can afford to fix any accidents.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-13 22:42:19+00:00
Google doesn't have market power in the market of this particular set of jobs.

Many companies are competing for people with these skills, including for the exact same type of work, and there's zero evidence of any kind of collusion going on.

You're going to have to be specific about what rigging you think is happening. This isn't anything like when Apple, Google, Adobe, etc. were colluding not to poach each other's engineers in 2005-2009 [1].

Job markets like aren't perfect-perfect, but they're mostly decently efficient and rational, as far as supply and demand and pricing goes, with just everyday normal friction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
by RyanOD | 2025-09-13 22:43:32+00:00
I had something like this happen to you me once, though not at Apple.

I was quite young in my career and ended up on an elevator with the CEO. I got super nervous and just started running my mouth about something I perceived as a problem within the organization (!).

On Monday he called me into his office and reamed me. Though I don't think chewing a young employee out in such a situation is the best approach, I'd say I at least deserved a, "Ok, listen youngster..." sort of dressing down.

My boss pulled me aside later and said, "Don't ever talk to a CEO. Nothing good can come from it." I followed that advice the rest of my career.

Oh and the CEO canceled my end of year bonus. :)
by ttoinou | 2025-09-13 22:44:18+00:00
But if you had an algorithm that would change directions of rays, you would have a resulting image with implicitly a different position of the camera (closer or further away), no ? Unless you do some kind of psychedelic deformation.

Anyway, I'd say you're technically correct but you might miss some angles and have some holes in the resulting images. But now with gaussian splats and AI we could reconstruct holes easily
by Spivak | 2025-09-13 22:44:55+00:00
This isn't even correct on Linux as it won't work if your user has anything other than or in addition to the dns module in their nsswitch.conf. You must use glibc's resolution on Linux for correct behavior. If it's software on your own systems then do what you want but you'll piss off some sysadmins deploying your software if you don't. Even Go farms out to cgo to resolve names if it detects modules it doesn't recognize.
by Lerc | 2025-09-13 22:44:59+00:00
>There a lot of money in social media, literally hundreds of billions of dollars. I expect the case against it will continue to grow, like the case against cigarettes did.

I don't think it follows that something making money must do so by being harmful. I do think strong regulation should exist to prevent businesses from introducing harmful behaviours to maximise profits, but to justify that opinion I have to believe that there is an ability to be profitable and ethical simultaneously.

>events this week have been an excellent case study in how fast misinformation (charitably) and lies (uncharitably) spread across social media

On the other hand The WSJ, Guardian, and other media outlets have published incorrect information on the same events. The primary method that people had to discover that this information was incorrect was social media. It's true that there was incorrect information and misinformation on social media, but it was also immediately challenged. That does create a source of conflict, but I don't think the solution is to accept falsehoods unchallenged.

If anything education is required to teach people to discuss opposing views without rising to anger or personal attacks.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-13 22:45:09+00:00
Yesterday, Fox News advocated "involuntary lethal injection" for innocent homeless people (that post has been flagged and [dead] already). They certainly won't be fired.

The day Kirk died, Fox was quite literally calling for war. Then when we found out it was a conservative shooter, it's still the left's fault because them not mourning Kirk is worse than the killing and the President says he "couldn't care less" about bridging the divide between Americans.

It's just ridiculous how brazen it is at this point.
by igouy | 2025-09-13 22:46:20+00:00
With a previous Pharo version:

$ bin/pharo --headless Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image hello.st

pharo is the unchanged VM (like the JVM).

Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image is the unchanged distro image file.

hello.st is a plain text file, the hello world program.

$ cat hello.st Stdio stdout nextPutAll: 'hello world'; nextPut: Character lf.! SmalltalkImage current snapshot: false andQuit: true!
by brandonb | 2025-09-13 22:47:07+00:00
This is a nicely-designed study. For decades, we've known that inflammation is a risk factor for heart attacks.

In this study, the researchers designed a custom antibody that binds to oral bacteria. Then they used histological staining to identify specific biofilm structures inside the atherosclerotic tissue. Bacteria released from the biofilm were observed in heart attack cases, which gives us evidence that when the body's immune system responded to these bacteria, it triggered inflammation which ruptured cholesterol-laden plaque. So now we have more insight into the mechanism behind why inflammation is associated with heart attack risk.

The "pantheon" of risk factors for heart disease are:

* hs-CRP (inflammation): the mechanism studied by this research. High inflammation roughly doubles your risk of heart disease.

* ApoB - 20% of people with normal cholesterol will have abnormal ApoB, and be at risk of heart disease (ApoB is a structural protein in lipoproteins which cause arterial plaque).

* Lp(a) - the strongest hereditary risk factor for heart disease (Lp(a) acts as a multiplier on ApoB, since it camouflages cholesterol particles from your liver)

* HbA1c - insulin resistance /diabetes is a risk factor for just about everything.

* eGFR - estimates the volume of liquid your kidneys can filter, and is an input to the latest heart disease risk models (PREVENT).

All of these risk factors can be measured with a blood test + doctor review. Easy to order online: https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-pa...
by decimalenough | 2025-09-13 22:47:25+00:00
We're not really disagreeing here? But wet paddy rice farming requires flat land, which in mountainous Japan is in notably short supply, so they planted other crops too.

This parallels China, where the warm, wet south is rice country but the colder, drier north grows other grains. The five grains (gokoku) idea is itself originally Chinese:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Grains
by dr_dshiv | 2025-09-13 22:48:39+00:00
We built scape in 9 months and ran it for 9 months, if I recall. We were all young and naive — it just felt like we failed to make something that “clicked.” Facebook had very few features (pokes and the wall), but they weren’t competing on features. We struggled to get more than a thousand people to sign up across a few NE colleges.

We had this whole social blogging and communication system — it was really very cool in concept. But we had too much of a “if you build it, they will come” marketing plan.

We gave up after a year and a half. We ended up selling a version of it to Teach for America.

I’d consider it a failure — we gave up. I rather wish we’d have tried to raise money, though.. I can’t believe we got as far as we did — different times
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-13 22:48:41+00:00
Pretty impressive. What is the laser link bandwidth between starlink satellites? Can any starlink node also be a relay station? I don't know much about the network, I guess I didn't really realize that links between satellites was a thing now, I thought it required that a node have LOS to you and a base station for the system to work.

(Edit) According to this (old) link there's something over 40pb of laser link traffic every day.

https://hackaday.com/2024/02/05/starlinks-inter-satellite-la...
by tomhow | 2025-09-13 22:48:45+00:00
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer...

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by kdps | 2025-09-13 22:48:50+00:00
> So, in theory, one can create 100K threads on one machine, but in practice that's going to keep burning processor for GC cycles.

The focus on "100k threads" and GC overhead is a red herring. The real win isn't spawning a massive number of threads, but automatically yielding on network I/O, like e.g. goroutines do. In an I/O bound web application, you'd have a single virtual thread handling the whole request, just like a goroutine does. The GC overhead caused by the virtual thread is minuscule compared to the heap allocations caused by everything else going on in the request. If you really have a scenario for 100k virtual threads, they would not be short lived.

> But if they access limited resources (database, another HTTP service), etc. in real application you face the standard issue: you cannot hit the targeted system with any data you want

Then why would you do it? That sounds like an architectural problem, not a virtual thread problem. In an actor system, for example, you wouldn't hit the database directly from 100k different actors.

> The good thing in reactive programming is that it does not try to pretend that above problem does not exist.

This compares a high-level programming paradigm, complete with its own libraries and frameworks, to a single, low-level concurrency construct. The former is a layer of abstraction that hides complexity, while the latter is a fundamental building block that, by design, does not and cannot hide anything.

> It forces to handle errors, to handle backpressure, as those problems will not magically disappear when we switch to green threads, lightweight threads, etc.

Synchronous code handles errors in the most time-tested and understandable way there is. It is easy to reason about and easy to debug. Reactive programming requires explicit backpressure handling because its asynchronous nature creates the problem in the first place. The simplest form of "backpressure" in synchronous code with a limited amount of threads is the act of blocking. For anything more than that, there are the classic tools (blocking queues, semaphores...) or higher-level libraries built on top of them.
by neilv | 2025-09-13 22:49:09+00:00
Very impressive.

I wonder how the great (better than "AI") human designers and copywriters and marketers will stand out, amidst all the good-enough-for-many-purposes, at scale, AI slop.

How will they even establish their career reputation and be noticed?

Or even get enough real-world experience to develop strong holistic creative+product skills, to become great?

(Will the job market become like software engineering IC jobs, in which it's mostly Leetcode fraternity pledging for the best-paying jobs, just to gatekeep, and then most other companies mimicking that? That might work for hiring large numbers of worker drones, but how can that find you top creatives?)
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-13 22:49:16+00:00
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/what-does-the-fl...

How does flu affect the heart? The virus only rarely infects the heart directly. Instead, the adverse effects of the virus on the heart are due to atherosclerosis of the arteries of the heart. Many people over age 50 have atherosclerosis — and in some people it has not yet been diagnosed. Because atherosclerosis narrows the arteries and reduces the flow of blood, less oxygen reaches the heart muscle. When the effect of the flu on the lungs lowers the amount of oxygen in the blood, this further reduces the supply of oxygen to the heart. This can lead to a heart attack or cardiac arrest (sudden death).

Is this risk more than theoretical? Many careful studies have shown there is an increased risk of heart disease following a bout of flu. In one study of 80,000 adults with influenza, nearly 12% had a serious cardiac event, such as a heart attack, during or in the weeks after getting the flu.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-13 22:49:55+00:00
Unfortunately algorithmic social media is one of the factors adding fuel to the fire

Saying social media fans the flames is like saying ignorance is bliss. Mainstream media (cable news, radio, newspapers, etc) only gives us one, largely conservative, viewpoint. If you're lucky, you'll get one carefully controlled opposing viewpoint (out of many!). As you say, our choices are usually evil and not quite as evil.

Anger is not an unreasonable reaction when you realize this. When you realize that other viewpoints exist, the mainstream media and politicians are not acting in anyone's best interest but their own, there really are other options (politically, for news, etc.). Social media is good at bringing these things to light.

There are no easy fixes to the divides you're talking about, but failing to confront them and just giving in to the status quo, or worse, continuing down our current reactionary transcript, is probably the worst way to approach them.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-13 22:49:57+00:00
> bacteria in arterial plaques can cause them to break up and cause the attack

“Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain[ing] shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix” whose rupture “result[s] in thrombus formation and ultimately myocardial infarction” sounds like infection more than careless bacteria kicking up muck.
by stevage | 2025-09-13 22:50:30+00:00
Strangely I never see political content on YouTube. Maybe the algorithm worked out quickly I'm simply not interested. Whereas twitter/mastodon/bluesky are awash in it, to the point of making those platforms pretty unusable for me.

I guess the difference is that YouTube content creators don't casually drop politics in because it will alienate half their audience and lose revenue. Whereas on those other platforms the people I follow aren't doing it professionally and just share whatever they feel like sharing.