Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | clumsysmurf's commentslogin

Yep, its the far right.

The Heritage Foundation (Project 2025, far-right, anti-climate) is working with the Heartland Institute (spreading climate science denial across UK / EU) / Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC, Jordan Peterson)

They do not like EU rules that hold US firms accountable to climate laws.

https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/10/donald-trump-uk-eu-maga-sl...


Sorry, I'm not saying the far-right isn't (whatever) anti-climate change.

I just meant that I don't think the lack of concern is necessarily due to them. I think it may have more to do with the reality that we are already on a good path.

Bill Gates famously wrote a "note" about it last year: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation...


Unfortunate, just recently I read

"Influenza vaccination is associated with significantly lower odds of myocardial infarction (MI), according to a large meta-analysis published late last week in BMC Public Health."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/new-analysis-l...


We will still have flu vaccines, just not this vaccine.

The question isn't whether or not we have vaccines, it is whether or not we have the most effective vaccines.

It’s a good thing the specific criticism of this trial is that they didn’t use the most effective vaccine for 65+ people, since you’re concerned about having the most effective vaccines.

How do you know if you don’t do a study?

You can call anything a criticism, but it doesn’t make it true.


So, the majority of us, people under 65 are completely unaffected. And yes, the vaccine can be approved for 65- while not approved for 65+.

The fall 2025 approval was limited to 65+/preexisting conditions.

If this vaccine wasn’t being tested for 65+, it might not be approved at all based on that.


Older flu vaccines become less effective, as there are many flu strains and the dominant one changes. Different flu vaccine is recommended every year.

Let's just be plain as possible because online commenters are some of the most obtuse people.

1. Vaccines are good, everyone should get the fucking flu shot

2. There will be new vaccines targeting current strains of influenza available this season from other manufacturers using older methods

3. I have no fucking clue if an mRNA flu vaccine is good or bad, but I also don't care

4. I get mrna vaccines can be developed faster, we might be better served, but we are not losing existing capabilities

5. If we are short on vaccines produced with older methods that is likely poor business planning and not an actual technical limitation

6. I hate you


I would like to see them provide -AI-free builds ... just to be sure.


> Note the paradox here: one of the principles of training is to stimulate the body, to “wear it out” at a given moment in time in order to trigger the physiological processes that will lead to improved capabilities, the fight against fatigue… and, ultimately, increased resistance to physical stress.

A somewhat recent paper:

Systematic review and meta-analysis of antioxidants with or without exercise training improving muscle condition in older adults

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12491480/

Seems to imply that as we get older, antioxidants might help the body recover from exercise. More specifically, antioxidants may help resolve exercise induced inflammation in adults aged over 55 years.

So it seems that, yes, as you get older, its easier for the body to wear down, but this can be mitigated somewhat.


DuckDB has experimental builds for Android ... I'm wondering how much work it would take to implement a Java API for it similar to sqlite (Cursor, etc).



Android doesn't use JDBC.


Yes, I noticed this too. I ran a lot in high school / university, and for some reason we mostly ran on the roads. In my late 20s a doctor told me my knees sounded like they were "65".

I read a book my Michael Colgan at the time, and he mentioned training athletes on the trails as much as possible to reduce injury, so I gave it a try ...

That was 25+ years ago. At first people looked at me strange, like I was running from an animal. But its common now, and I'm still running on the trail, and knees seem OK.

Yes of course, you can still trip, step on a snake, etc, but its a different kind of injury. You are adapting gait and balance constantly which is nice too.

Running on the trail is much more interesting, with constant change, ups, downs, variations. Whereas running on grass / asphalt I can go into autopilot mentally and start ruminating, this is harder on the trail and I am more in a state of "here and now".


I'm ignorant of mesh technologies, but can somebody explain to me why they are using MQTT in their stack? Topics and pub-sub over TCP doesn't sound like a mesh-y kind of thing. Does it work well in this context?


The mesh isn't doing MQTT or TCP. They're using MQTT to bridge between meshes, with mesh nodes that have an internet connection or are paired to a smartphone with an internet connection relaying mesh traffic with an MQTT server.


MQTT is used for map reporting, and sometimes as a "fallback" or to connect distant meshes.


Also very good way to instantly spend all your air time. Remember, legally you can only transmit at something like 10% of time. In some bands even less, afaik.


> Remember, legally you can only transmit at something like 10% of time

In Europe. See the duty cycle limits summarized at https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/lora/#region


It's best not to retransmit MQTT. Unless you want to set up some very specific link between two meshes, or just some private or non-default channel.


The Vitamin E / NAC relationship are interesting. As far as I understand, there needs to be a balance of anti-oxidants (C, E, Selenium, etc). To make it worse there are so many formulations of Vitamin E you can buy (tocopherols, tocotrienols, etc). Sometimes its hard to tell from the studies what forms exactly were being used.

You may also find this interesting:

"NRF2 activation is a predictor of poor clinical outcomes in lung cancer. Given the widespread use of NRF2-inducing compounds such as resveratrol and sulforaphane, these findings raise important concerns about their safety in individuals at risk for or living with cancer."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-025-01736-0

Many people eat high-sulforaphane containing foods for health benefits.

And finally from last week https://newatlas.com/diet-nutrition/vitamin-c-air-pollution-...

This was about 1000mg / day for humans.


I agree wholeheartedly. The app is unusable and unstable. I had to delete collections from the web because they were getting corrupted in the app.

One thing I notice is that it simply does not render many code snippets well, especially when using the "page" (vs "continuous" scrolling). I don't get the impression they are doing QA on rendering quality. Not only external publishers, but O'Reilly books themselves! I also had a lot of problems reading Manning books in their app.

Rendering e-books properly is a pretty big table-stake thing.


Some context:

"Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing."

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-war...


The dark side of all this is a propaganda network.

The government and who runs it should not be in business I'm sorry. This isn't free markets, it's manipulation and corruption.


This is what happens in markets without a functional regulatory body - when the regulator turns into a market participant. It’s closer to a jungle than anything else.


> This is what happens in markets without a functional regulatory body

It's almost more that we have semi-functional regulation. Trump's influence over this transaction entirely stems from his antitrust powers.


This really isn’t the free market, this is de facto cartels when like 90% of media properties are owned by 3 or 4 companies.


Thank you, I had no idea how this was politically related, and honestly cannot keep track of all the corruption these days anyways. How does anyone? This is pretty much a genuine question.


are executives breathing? then there is corruption. start following the money and you'll find it, we're in the new gilded age


The Bulwark is fairly on top of the pillaging that's happening in the US government.


"all" is a high standard. This issue has been in the news for awhile. Read a major, serious news source like The Economist or NY Times.


The news are flooded with these stories, for anyone who cares, but I imagine what we don't know is even more shocking.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: