MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobs | 2025-10-01 18:49:54+00:00
I think the problem is that this is the core of most companies. A core lie that they tell the employees and sometimes even the customers - "we value you" - "we care about our employees" "we want to serve our shareholders" "we build community" "we try to ..." vision statement type stuff, almost always suborned to "I want the C suite to make the most money possible RIGHT NOW" or "You can never make me look bad even when I am an idiot".

Anything that violates those core precepts are rejected out of hand, and often times for things that would support the companies stated principles.

I have worked 20+ jobs in my life, and either petty bullshit or greed rules the top of the heap in all but the most particular circumstances. I cant even remember how many meetings I have setup with CEO's to hand feed them information and cheer them on like a toddler so they can make the obviously correct decision.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 18:49:58+00:00
PCSK9 inhibitors do not universally lower hsCRP but still reduce cardiovascular events.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4876179/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779348/

MR studies on genetics show that LDL and Lp(a) are independent risk factors for cardiovascular events regardless of hsCRP

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1109034

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5483508/

https://europepmc.org/article/med/20032323

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article%3Fid%3D10.137...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1604304

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23083789/
by matx | 2025-10-01 18:50:02+00:00
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by jimswhims | 2025-10-01 18:50:28+00:00
Depends - i looked into it (with chatgpt's help) recently after getting quoted 270 euro for a spare fob for a second hand car I bought that only had one key.

It seems like a kind of niche field with a lot of pitfalls and poor availability of information but it seems like it's possible to do if you buy some budget key programmer, as long as you can figure out which encryption type the immobiliser uses. There should be an FCC id on the key fob somewhere, then it should be possible to figure out which type of encryption it uses, there's usually some codename like ID46 or something like that.

From that article it seems like it was easier to do for that car than it is for most new-ish cars.

These are 2 of the programmers i'm looking at getting, also expensive but worth IMO, if you can get the right one, make a couple of spares for yourself, family, friends etc, then sell it on or maybe even run a (less extortionate, hopefully) side hustle yourself.

https://www.xhorsevvdi.com/wholesale/vvdi-key-tester.html https://store.autel.com/products/autel-maxiim-km100
by mothballed | 2025-10-01 18:50:35+00:00
If the interest rates slam to 0, we already saw what happens.

Everyone closest to the money printer funnel becomes wildly rich buying appreciating assets on negative real interest rates.

As you get further from the sphere of influence with first shot at the money spigot, the worse off you are. The guy at the very end just gets a diluted jar of nothingness.
by bombcar | 2025-10-01 18:50:51+00:00
I don't know what they're doing, but Mikrotik can perhaps route that → https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2216_1g_12xs_2xq#fndtn-testr... and is about the cost of their used thing.

And I think this would be a banger for IPv6 if they really "need" public IPs.
by rappatic | 2025-10-01 18:50:52+00:00
I think Topological would more properly be called a "CAD startup" than an "AI startup." I know the distinction is a little nebulous but it's far more descriptive of what the company actually does. The foundation models are merely means to Topological's true end, which is CAD optimization.

It might sound like I'm splitting hairs here but I'm trying to illustrate the problem of defining a startup as an "AI startup" simply due to the presence of AI somewhere in its product. It would be like calling early-days Facebook (the actual website, not the diversified conglomerate that Meta has become) an "internet startup" instead of a "social media startup." Sure, the former is technically true but it's a near-meaningless description, because every company in the 21st century is an "internet company" in some respect.
by vidarh | 2025-10-01 18:51:11+00:00
This is hard to talk about because all of our terms for it involve assumptions of seeing.

But when I "imagine" something, there is unambiguously no visual whatsoever. I can't see lines, colors, points. Nothing, any more than if there was a wall between me and an object I have never seen.

But that doesn't mean I don't have knowledge of it.

> I also see while dreaming, in a way that is more like my day to day experience, and not at all how I would describe imagining things.

Then how would you describe imagining things? Because if you don't see something when imagining it while awake, then that sounds like aphantasia.

> If anything this is more mind's eye clarity than I have ever experienced. My mind's eye is nothing like looking at an actual photograph.

And yet what I experienced isn't even near the high end of reported experiences of people.
by jc11091005 | 2025-10-01 18:51:32+00:00
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by MountDoom | 2025-10-01 18:52:01+00:00
> "terrible technical decisions".

Another point worth bringing up is that sometimes, that stuff doesn't matter. I see so many engineers get hopelessly invested in technical debates that are, honestly, just silly: it's often better for the company to get something barely-good-enough done quickly than to flesh out the "optimal" design over the course of weeks or months, and over the dead bodies of people who have a different opinion about vi-versus-emacs.

And even if you accumulate tech debt, it is sometimes a wise decision to pay it back later, when you (hopefully) have more money and time.

So, I'd add "pick your battles wisely" to the list of tips.
by jc11091005 | 2025-10-01 18:52:04+00:00
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by CharlesW | 2025-10-01 18:52:08+00:00
Fascinating, thank you for this analysis! Currently pining for release of an updated Apple TV, which will have an SoC capable of hardware AV1 decode.

It'd be great to hear from someone at Netflix about the unexpected Bojack Horseman results. I'd bet that Netflix just isn't yet taking advantage of AV1 features designed especially for this kind of animation and synthetic content.
by GMoromisato | 2025-10-01 18:52:16+00:00
The premise of the article hinges on the fact that it's hard to make predictions, especially about the future:

> ... it’s impossible for us to know if a prediction is inevitable or not.

But I think that ignores that some predictions are more likely to happen than others. For example, here are two predictions:

1. ASI will be achieved in the next ten years.

2. LLMs will have a large impact on the economy in the next ten years.

I'm sure it's debatable, but I think prediction #2 is very likely to be true--I would say it's almost inevitable. But I don't think #1 is inevitable.
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-10-01 18:52:22+00:00
The HN perennial video, "You Suck at Excel" by Joel Spolsky [1] really changed my view on spreadsheets. I had never bothered to learn them enough to utilize naming or any of the features that make spreadsheets much more comprehensible. I was very happy to see Google Sheets added named tables recently, too.

I've recently been experimenting in Apps Script to write my own (physical) book collection record system with a USB barcode scanner. So far I have nothing polished enough to show, but it is a very cool platform. I found it a bit frustrating that I couldn't just import NPM packages, but at the same time it's a good excuse to embrace simplicity and skip a library like Axios, and rely on its built-in fetch()-like API.

1: The original YouTube video has since been taken down, but you can still view it through the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161118170705/https://www.youtu...
by sfink | 2025-10-01 18:52:29+00:00
I agree completely with this comment, though most often I see it for ADHD. It's a level of nuance that people don't seem to be able to handle, though. People want to be on either the "just suck it up, losers" side or the "the duty of society is to make sure nothing is ever hard for anybody" side. It pisses me off to see people take advantage of the accommodations that are needed by some, and saddens me when people who legitimately need accommodation for some things end up depending on it for everything.

It would be nice if there were objective tests that said exactly where someone is, but those are both impossible and would be subverted even if they were possible.
by JordanResiQuant | 2025-10-01 18:52:35+00:00
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by derefr | 2025-10-01 18:52:41+00:00
> like railroading whether to skip breakfast or not.

If you're talking about what happens after the first day, I think it's not due to any of the "stats" but rather because your first day is long and so you're running late on the second day, and for whatever reason you have nothing ready-to-eat at home. (Might be related to that option to go to the grocery store that you probably didn't take.)

In other words, it's seemingly a narrative-driven obstacle.

> it appears to be a personal vehicle, surely you, as the owner, can make the interior environment something that's as close to personally comfortable as possible? Maybe I'm missing the takeaway from the driving decisions.

Could be a rental car. Though my guess here is that the author actually comes from a place where the combination of culture and socioeconomics means they commute via public transit; and so they're actually trying to translate their experiences of the social impingement of public transit into analogous experiences when driving.

(Personally, I think a better translation would be being stuck in gridlock, or getting on a highway via an onramp where you keep getting cut off, etc, where there's an autistic itch there to get the other human drivers to realize that, when driving, they should "realize they're all cogs in a global optimization problem and so drive as predictably as possible, in order to decrease burstiness and so increase throughput, even at the expense of their individual perceived end-to-end latency.")

> Related, what is or isn't masking seems very confused. To begin with, it's not just code for "hiding or not hiding behaviors that appear socially irregular." But it's also not the case that deciding whether to participate in a non-working-hours event is or isn't masking in of itself.

AFAICT the "masking" gauge seems to be some rolled-up combination of 1. an odd domain-specific form willpower ("spoons" but you can only spend them on masking-related tasks, and when depleted you can't mask even if you still have motivation to do other things), with 2. a measure how close others are to deducing from your behavior that you are in fact on the autistic spectrum. (As if that's something you could ever expect to keep your coworkers and boss from realizing about you over years of continuous interaction.)

I say this because of the interaction I encountered about coming to a charity event, where literally being explicit about how you have a problem dealing with that kind of social situation... decreases the "masking" gauge. If it was purely #1, I'd expect the gauge to go up. It's only under interpretation #2 where it would go down.

(Or maybe you could describe the "masking" gauge in classical D&D terms as a WIS stat where masking attempts are Will-based saving throws?)

Honestly, I'd like to just see the source code for this. I'm surprised it's not linked; I feel like reading the source (hopefully with a lot of code comments about why the given heuristics were chosen) is the obvious "next step" to the game communicating what it wants to communicate.
by nathan_compton | 2025-10-01 18:52:51+00:00
All I know for sure about this is that the only platforms I use consistently have very strong moderation. I'm tempted to believe that for most practical purposes you cannot build a functional community without active moderation to which the users either explicitly or implicitly consent, so from my point of view many small, strongly moderated, platforms are better than one big unmoderated one, even if I can control what I see on it.
by jaymzcampbell | 2025-10-01 18:52:53+00:00
I've always used "we" when describing and presenting work done as part of a team, even if solo. There's a certain skill in knowing when to promote yourself, and how you do so. These days I tend to be positive in a group sense, and take direct specific ownership of failings. I may be lucky but I think this has led to a lot of respect from coworkers and c-suite that I've engaged with. I've never once felt like people don't know who is getting the work done in the end.
by mlejva | 2025-10-01 18:52:57+00:00
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by worldsayshi | 2025-10-01 18:52:59+00:00
> Internal combustion engine - inevitable

This fails to account for competing technologies. If batteries were good enough at the time when we sought to build cars we might've skipped ICE entirely and gone all in on electric cars.

At any point in time there are multiple possible outcomes. The one that ends up being dominant seems so in retrospect because it has been refined and we can follow all the events leading up to it. But we don't see all the paths that failed selection because they weren't competitive enough at that point in time compared to the alternative.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-01 18:53:08+00:00
There's also option 4: CxO was out golfing with some rich friends that happen to own <vendor of buzzword software> and/or is getting kickbacks, so now we have to use <crap buzzword software> instead of <old solution> or just not using it at all because what the software offers isn't needed, but CxO doesn't know because he's out golfing, banging hookers and snorting coke all freaking day.

And yes, this kind of shit happens regularly - sometimes, people even get busted for it like that Netflix executive who got kickbacks from, amongst others, Netskope [1].

Let's be real: no matter how good you are at networking - unless you come from Old Money or have a wildly successful exit under your belt, you are not joining the club of elite morons that actually pulls the strings.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 18:53:21+00:00
I'm not so sure. People also describe their visual experience such as if it was camera-like. A rectangle window out of their ead with colors, like a photo/painting.

Perception and experience are very hard to describe. We constantly automatically fill in things that weren't observed or explicitly imagined. It requires conscious effort to notice how foveation and saccades work, the blind spot, the less vivid color perception the further we are from the center etc.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-01 18:53:30+00:00
Are we looking at the same numbers? Looking at the graph you linked it looks like the EU is generating slightly more solar energy than the US, while using slightly above half the total electricity. In my book that constitutes doing twice as good as the US, not just slightly better. And while China's growth in renewables is impressive, the same can be said about their coal plants. Their energy mix looks way worse than the EU
by looping__lui | 2025-10-01 18:54:17+00:00
You are aware that the EU must choose between nuclear or gas to produce electricity when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. That backup capacity needs to be equal to the entire electricity demand. Renewables need to exceed that by a significant margin. So, either you build gas power plants and keep them idle, or you build nuclear power plants and switch them off when the sun is shining.

There is an interesting in-depth analysis by Fraunhofer: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p... (see page 25, for example).

Considering that the EU classifies nuclear as equally renewable as solar, why should we rely solely on solar?

PS: I built a low-energy house, heat it with a heat pump, and have PV on my roof.
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-01 18:54:24+00:00
> A regime attempting to kill a large group of people is also oppressive and much worse.

Indeed. But one should realize that thorny words are precisely what replaces physical violence.

Human nature doesn't change in a democratic society that allows free dialogue, what changed is the way it is expressed.

If you erase the horrible parts of ourselves we worked hard to banish onto paper, they will eventually remanifest themselves in reality.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-01 18:54:30+00:00
If you're in the Atacama Desert, I doubt it's 40%, but not really relevant.

This is ALL renewables, not just Solar - the article states that Solar is ~20% now in the EU.

Wind typically counts for ~15%, and Hydro (which may or may not be counted as renewable) counts as ~15%.

So most places can pretty easily get to ~40% solar, ~15% wind, ~15% hydro = ~70% renewable.

Throw in ~20% Nuclear (basically all of Europe before Germany sh*t the bed), and you're at ~90% - with limited need for storage - a large portion of which could come from infra that already exists for pumped hydro and regular overnight solar storage.

We're quite a ways away from diminishing returns.

We're ~8 years away from a global ~40% of electricity coming from solar EVEN IF it continues to grow at ~30% YoY.
by jlokier | 2025-10-01 18:54:47+00:00
I've just looked at the OpenSSH source, and I agree it should be configurable. That seems like an easy patch if you wanted to do it.

Or, better but more difficult, it should track the dynamic TCP window size, from the OS when possible, combined with end-to-end measurements, and ensure the SSH mux channel windows grow to accomodate the TCP window, without growing so much they starve other channels.

To your second point, you can't do data dropping and retransmission for mux'd channels over a single TCP connection. After data is sent from the application to the kernel socket, it can't be removed from the TCP transmission queue, will be retransmitted by the kernel socket as often as needed, and will reach the destination eventually, provided the TCP connection as a whole survives.

You can do mux'd data dropping and retransmission over a single UDP connection, but that's basically what QUIC is.