Hacker News: james4k

New comment by james4k in "New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms"

james4k — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:20:17 +0000

I wish it was a matter of education. Unfortunately that has little to do with the problem.

New comment by james4k in "Apple M5 chip"

james4k — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:23:51 +0000

Those marketing claims are each about a very specific workload, not about general performance. Yes, it is often misleading.

New comment by james4k in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

james4k — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 04:07:50 +0000

As I understand it such diets allow the immune system to work more effectively, not suppressing it like, say, corticosteroids do.

New comment by james4k in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

james4k — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:28:38 +0000

I misinterpreted you as implying a libertarian anti-state argument. I had thought I was returning the same energy.

My apologies.

New comment by james4k in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

james4k — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:02:07 +0000

You are right. Empathy in the literal sense of only being able to relate with others that have the same experiences and interests. I appreciate that clarity.

New comment by james4k in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

james4k — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:56:41 +0000

Everyone is so informative here. Thank you.

New comment by james4k in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

james4k — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:20:15 +0000

Thank you for expounding. I can only assume we're talking about empathy from the real estate lobbyists who control housing policy.

New comment by james4k in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

james4k — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:31:39 +0000

Empathy created the housing crisis?

New comment by james4k in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

james4k — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:56:42 +0000

On average I agree. Dog noise doesn't carry nearly as far. But if you're neighbors with noisy dogs, it's probably at the top of your mind.

New comment by james4k in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

james4k — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:53:02 +0000

We already know pollution from cars increases childhood asthma, and I imagine those pollutants could affect brain development as well.

Edit: Also I would be curious to know how dog barks affect children's brains. Of all the environmental noise, dogs are often the loudest and most jarring, anecdotally.

New comment by james4k in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

james4k — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:35:55 +0000

I've been leaning into Rust almost purely to escape from the mess that is C/C++ tooling which always makes considering a new dependency a time sink.

Can someone explain the obsession with combining ECS with generational arenas?

New comment by james4k in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

james4k — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:08:18 +0000

Interestingly enough, NCRI is almost exclusively funded by pro-Israel lobbying groups.

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/network-contagion-rese...

New comment by james4k in "House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold"

james4k — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 10:09:40 +0000

Can you describe how US children are being targeted?

New comment by james4k in "House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold"

james4k — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:37:34 +0000

Let us lean into McCarthyism without hesitation. Nothing can go wrong.

New comment by james4k in "Magnesium Depletion Score and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults"

james4k — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:03:15 +0000

I don't know but I could imagine the extra oxidative stress and inflammation etc. might mean your body would need more of certain minerals than it otherwise would? Just speculating, not a doctor/nutritionist/biologist.

Edit: Processed food definitely lacks magnesium to be clear, but it's interesting to think about how it might even be more costly than it appears.

New comment by james4k in "Magnesium Depletion Score and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults"

james4k — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 04:08:36 +0000

Magnesium is very important but of course the big confounding factor is that a higher magnesium depletion score is also a good indicator that you're consuming more processed foods and fewer whole foods.

New comment by james4k in "Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future"

james4k — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:35:05 +0000

Even in decentralized networks, power concentrates to the very few. We need to figure out how to democratically own and operate our platforms (and the world, lol).

New comment by james4k in "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

james4k — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:33:06 +0000

And who are the highest bidders?

New comment by james4k in "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

james4k — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:06:44 +0000

And how do you think a government reinforcing a monopoly comes to be?

New comment by james4k in "Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors"

james4k — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:52:17 +0000

It's almost like you're describing the current system.