MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2025-06-06 13:33:57+00:00
Again keep in mind that we are talking about a case limited analysis of that data within the privacy of the court system.

For example, if the trial happens to find data that some chats include crimes committed by users in their private chats, the court can't just send police to your door based on that information since the information is only being used in the context of an intellectual property lawsuit.

Remember that privacy rights are legitimate rights but they change a lot when you're in the context of an investigation/court proceeding. E.g., the right of police to enter and search your home changes a lot when they get a court issued warrant.

The whole point of E2EE services from the perspective of privacy-concious customers is that a court can get a warrant for data from those companies but they'll only be able to produce encrypted blobs with no access to decryption keys. OpenAI was always a not-E2EE service, so customers have to expect that a court order could surface their data to someone else's eyes at some point.
by timcobb | 2025-06-06 13:34:01+00:00
> You lack accountability.

Accountability for what? To who? And for what purpose?

> in 99% of cases, they are the problem, not genetics

Where'd you get that number? What are you basing it on?

> Your claim that "trying harder" is "akin to insanity" is such an overreaction that it's misleading exaggeration, not worthy of further not worthy of further dissection.

What does this even mean? How is my claim an overreaction? An overreaction to what? In what context or reference frame for appropriate reaction is my claim an overreaction?

In my comment above I am basically just saying "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
by pkwy | 2025-06-06 13:34:07+00:00
I was around 27 as well. I’m a big guy with a muscular frame but put on extra weight over the last 2 years of intense company building. If you can get a prescription (Hims will prescribe) you may have to pay out of pocket, but worth it IMO. They may want you to be at 30 BMI, but that is easy to fudge on their intake (they won’t do any validation of your intake numbers). Commit to a few months of extreme dedication and let the financial impact be a motivator.

Reassess progress towards your renewal (we did 3 months). It’s literally cheating, in the best way.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-06 13:34:29+00:00
But he still doesn't seem to get the seriousness of the situation, at all. Like, he's saying no-one should have used his stuff, but also "It would have been cool if the entire federal government used this script".

For instance, imagine you have surgery, and die of a complication. Your relatives will feel very differently, and be in a very different legal situation, if the hospital's explanation is "surgeon was the bottom of their class" vs "yeah, we just handed a visiting 5 year old a scalpel to see what would happen". Neither are ideal, obviously, but the latter is _criminal_.

The idiot in the article is clearly closer to the 5 year old than the scraping-a-pass surgeon; he is simply not in any way a proper person to have been given the sort of access or authority he was, this would have been obvious to whoever gave it to him, and whoever gave it to him is at least morally culpable.
by cx42net | 2025-06-06 13:34:58+00:00
I've been running PDFShift.io, an API to convert HTML to PDF for seven years now. It's profitable (around $12K MRR) and still growing.

It took quite some efforts to have a service of really high quality, resilient and bug-free but I'm nearing this and it's a real pleasure.

To answer all your other points :

- What's your API: An API to convert HTML documents (URL/Raw) to PDF - How much MRR: About $12k - Pricing model: Subscription plan with limits in the number of converted documents that depends on the plan. The rest is the same for all the plans (no features unlocked at certain level). - First paying customers: Mostly from IndieHackers and Quora at the beginning, and a successful launch on ProductHunt when it was still big. - Problem I'm solving: Not having to manage your own servers to handle conversion. It can be done locally for sure, but as the service grow, the need for resources increases too and can lead to issues down the road. With PDFShift, it's just set up and forget it. - Biggest challenge: I was initially at OVH Strasbourg, when it caught fire, and lost a lot. I had to rebuilt the database from data I had around and gave access to everyone for free until I had all sorted up (took 2 days). This was a good lesson to learn to not save the backup on the same service and at the same place! - I would definitely do it again. (I'm thinking of this frequently for other services too :D)
by millerm | 2025-06-06 13:35:20+00:00
Yeah, I can see that. I recently dropped good chunk of fat. For context, I'm a 5'11 (~180 cm) male (early 50s, ugh). I'd been going to my doctor yearly and my weight had been around 195 lbs (88.45 kg) for 5 years. I didn't like it anymore, as that is considered overweight. My doc didn't mind as she said since it was consistent she wasn't worried about it. Sometimes I'd catch my reflection in my car window as I walked up to it, or my shadow and thought "Hmm, I don't like that shape... at all." I didn't like the way my belt and pants felt when I sat. So, back in December I simply cut calories. I started counting my calories and knocked them down to about 1,200 a day. I also walk at a decent pace for 30 minutes at least once a day, but it's usually an hour or more (perhaps 2 30+ minute walks a day). Since then I am now down to about 170 lbs (77.1k g). I am now in the "normal" range, but just barely. I'd like to lose another 10 lbs (4.5 kg), but that is getting more difficult, as I need to pick up the exercise pace and well... I hate exercising. Sweating profusely is not my bag. It makes me angry, and full of rage. Yeah, I know that's odd, but it makes me feel mentally horrible.

I can say that my feet, knees and legs sure appreciate the change. I definitely don't feel that weight on me like I did before. I do like the occasional "Hey, you're looking good" or "You lost weight, didn't you?" That doesn't offend me. My facial structure looks better, as I have a better chin line now. My clothes are a pain, as I have to keep a tight belt as all my pants are too big now. My stomach is much flatter and doesn't poke out. Hah. I don't have a 6 pack but I sure don't have a mini-keg starting.

Anyway, after all my rambling, my point is that I wasn't addicted to food. I just sit in front of a computer too much, and was consuming too many calories. I do miss fun food. I haven't had things like ice cream since I started this thing. I'm not a fan of always being hungry. I deal with it, but I sure feel like I can eat all the time. The key is to just not think of it. Avoid being around it. I don't go out to eat with people, as that stuff is always a killer when it comes to calories. Usually, I meet up for a drink but when they all decide to go hit a table for dinner, I'll say my goodbyes and move along to something and eat later at home as I know what I'm ingesting.

For most of us that have too much fat on us, it's simply about calorie control. It's not food addition, or a mental problem. It's simply awareness. Though, in the US, we obviously have a huge mental disorder epidemic, but I believe that is just the disorder of "rampant cognitive dissonance." It covers so much of our issues here. "This soda is fine, I only have 4 a day." "Sure it's deep fried, but it's fish and that's healthy!" "He's a billionaire; he doesn't want your money! You can trust him to fix the government..." Cough Cough
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-06 13:35:43+00:00
>95%+ of North American intercity trains run on freight tracks, which are not designed to be as "smooth". On top of this, freight having priority means passenger schedules get messed up all the time.

Freight doesn't mean slow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_speed_limits_in_the_Unite...
by Rick76 | 2025-06-06 13:36:14+00:00
I was overweight my entire life up to when I was 21. In less than 2 years I went from 300lb to 198lb (136kg to 89kg). I'm 6'4 so 198 personally was not maintainable, but I was working out, and I felt my best at 205, which I sat at for 3ish years. Recently I hit 240, I got an office job, so working out and just life in general is harder to do right now but I'm actually doing pretty well about eating again.

I agree with what he is saying, but I think the trap starts earlier than that. I think a huge aspect is your eating habits as a child. I feel like my hunger is not normal, I can have a giant meal and still feel the need to continue eating, my brain just loves it. It is frustrating to feel the need to eat 24/7, I believe my family has some form of ADHD because we all have addictive personalities, mine and my sisters were eating. My eating habits as a child is something that I ALWAYS have to fight against, it can get pretty tiring.

What I can tell you though is losing weight is also a feedback loop, I'm not saying positive or negative because I believe it depends on who you ask. When I was losing weight, it was so much easier once the ball was rolling, I'm less hungry, I have more energy, but you also start thinking about everything you eat. I was refusing to have dinner with college roommates because it didn't fit my daily caloric intake, and I never truly felt like I looked better, I was never satisfied. At my skinniest you could see my ribs and my arms were twigs.

The inverse is true, I truly believe that most American food is designed to make you eat more than to provide enjoyable nutrition. I visited Europe once, and it was crazy how much weight I was losing because I could have a great meal and feel content, something that I rarely feel here.

The weird thing is I wouldn't change a thing, maybe I did overcorrect, but it taught me a ton about nutrition, and seeing my weight go down made me feel more passionate to keep going, I'm not sure if I had stuck with it if I did the healthier slow and steady approach.

I'm back on the grind and have been working out more, it sucks that I don't have the time to dedicate to my health that I used to during covid, but that's something I'll have to figure out.
by Balgair | 2025-06-06 13:36:39+00:00
I remember two churches I attended.

In the first one, the communion was actual wine. The priest was adamant about it being real wine. But, we had a guy who was a recovering alcoholic in the congregation. Now, if you know anyone that is recovering from alcohol abuse, then you know that even one sip of booze is enough to send you on a bender. But, our priest was adamant that we all take communion in full bodied wine.

The other church I was at had communion too. But this church has the communion wine as sugar free grape juice, and all the bread served was gluten free. Covered the diabetics and the alcoholics with the 'wine' and covered the ceiliacs with the bread. No one in the congregation ever complained about the tastes; we all grew to rather like it that way, thankyouverymuch.

Which, I dare ask, was the more christ-like way of taking holy communion?
by sedgjh23 | 2025-06-06 13:36:49+00:00
Just a heads up, the EcoBee doesn’t use a CO2 sensor, it just guesses what the value is. I have the same thermostat and was getting wildly different readings than my more expensive AirThings View Plus. Checked the EcoBee support website[1] and it made a lot more sense.

“Based on the VOC measurement, it can also estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. The sensor doesn’t directly measure CO2 but assesses CO2 levels based on the average correlation between VOCs and CO2 in exhaled human breath.”

[1] https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/air-quality-sensor-faq...
Show HN: Hackable ScreenTime iOS App with Home Assistant and JavaScript Plugins
by joshspicer | 2025-06-06 13:36:57+00:00
I’ve tried a bunch of habit tracking apps, but most of them don’t do much more than replicate checkboxes on paper. Meanwhile, I’ve got a Home Assistant instance running my entire environment. So I thought: what if my lights only turned off at night after I finished that chapter? Or the AC kicked in only after I went for that run? Maybe tying habits to the real world could make them stick.

I’ve been building HabitBridge as a way to track - and enforce - my own daily routines. It’s a habit tracker built with developers and hackers in mind, thanks to its JavaScript plugin framework. You can write your own “plugins” (and publish them here: https://github.com/joshspicer/habitbridgemarketplace) that run right in the app and define what a habit is—like conjugating 10 Italian verbs.

When a habit is completed, HabitBridge can fire a webhook to any URL you want (you’ll see the JSON structure in the app). I even put together a small Home Assistant add-on to receive that data and trigger automations based on your completions.

Check it out—it’s totally free. It’s still early days, and there are a few rough edges, but I’d love your feedback. Feel free to reach out here or on GitHub: https://github.com/joshspicer/habitbridge-release/issues
by kordlessagain | 2025-06-06 13:37:19+00:00
You were LABELED with ADHD by people without our condition. "Having" it is accepting the label and it's definitions. The school system (counselors) tried to label both my kids as having ADHD and suggested medication. Instead of giving my kids amphetamines, I told them to stop trying to force everyone at the school to learn using methods that require memorizing images, which neither one of them do.

Our brains are workhorses of indexing things. Of course we have varying attention, especially when we already "get" what was shown to us. When others have to practice it over and over, we just "get it" and move on to something more interesting (and worthy of indexing). Taking medication to "address" this active attention mechanism is going to affect our ability to form good indexing habits.
by twodave | 2025-06-06 13:37:19+00:00
The answer, I believe, is that we are unique among all other creatures in that we are not equipped to be able to master our own actions. We all do things we would say we ought not to have done. The whole concept of fairness is built around the fact that people don’t always do what they should.

And just because everybody isn’t fat doesn’t mean they don’t struggle with porn, or substance abuse, or some other hangup they can’t seem to shake. In fact it’s the people who deny having any issues that are sometimes the least self-aware, having the most glaringly obvious issues to everyone else around them.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-06 13:37:36+00:00
> it might astonish you to find out that most fat people are painfully and constantly aware that they are fat

I really don’t believe this is true. It may have been at some time in the 1900s when being skinny was the norm, but most people will look around these days and see that other people are fat just like them, and it just becomes accepted as the norm. The “fat” person is always someone fatter than them. And even if they know they are fat, most simply refuse to see it as a problem.

Most have been fat so long I do not think they are even aware how much better life could be if they were a proper weight, anymore than a skinny person thinks how much harder life would be if they were carrying an extra 45 pounds everywhere they went. I hear the little pains they feel everyday from being fat often getting attributed to age when really it’s just from being fat and inactive. If you take care of yourself you should feel just as good at 40 as you did in your 20s, and maybe even better.

But here’s the grim truth: it’s pretty much impossible for 99% of people to ever lose weight long term. Once you’ve reached a certain level of weight, you’re pretty much not going to be much lower than that for the rest of your life, no matter how hard you try. Nearly 99% of people who lose significant weight gain it back it after year. Imagine, when was the last time you were top 1% of anything? That’s the level of effort you have to go through to be one of the success stories, and I don’t think people realize this.

Your ONLY hope is stuff like Ozempic and other GLP-1s.
by achrono | 2025-06-06 13:37:51+00:00
I think it's time for creative solutions on this front. This plugin business is a little like a cop living in a house of thieves.

For instance, how about an app that will basically detect an ad and visually overlay a blank blob over the ad video (and of course mute, or even just transmute, the audio).

We'd still pay that tax in terms of time, having to sit through those 30-60 seconds, but it's way better than also surrendering your mind to the utter intrusion.
by arp242 | 2025-06-06 13:38:32+00:00
This seems far too harsh. Some people just poop out excess calories. Other people store excess calories as an energy reserve much more efficiently. Not everyone who is obese does that, but it's definitely a factor for many people.

For what it's worth, completely putting the environment at fault also doesn't seem right to me. But genetics absolutely plays a part, as does what is considered a "standard" meal/portion.
by SietrixDev | 2025-06-06 13:38:46+00:00
Another trap I see in your list is wasting 3-4 hours for unpaid work:

- 2 hours commute daily? This seems crazy. Never had such a commute and most of my life I could walk or cycle to the university/work, so I gained some free exercise time.

- 1 hour overtime daily? What for?

- Lunch outside of work? (This is where my additional hour came from) Thankfully this never happened to me in my actual career.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-06 13:39:00+00:00
Well, lawsuits have multiple stages. First the plaintiff files the suit, and serves notice to the defendant(s) that the suit has been filed. Then there's a period where both sides gather evidence (discovery), then there's a trial where they present their evidence & arguments to the court. Each side gets time to respond to the arguments made by the opposing party. Then a verdict is chosen, and any penalties are decided by the court. So there's not really any chance the judge only hears one side of the story.

That said, I think we do agree. The plaintiff should be prepared to refute a fair-use argument raised by the defendant. I'm just noting that the refutation doesn't need to be part of the initial filing, it gets presented at trial, after discovery, and only if the defendant presents a fair-use defense. So they don't have to prove it's not fair use to win in every case. I'm probably also being excessively pedantic!
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-06 13:39:41+00:00
To imitate.

There was order from the higher ups: protect the planes. There was no specific order like "build a garages for planes". So they put tires on planes and called it protection. Now soldiers have to move tires around, fill the journals, sign them up. New procedures are developed. Order is fulfilled. Everyone was happy. May be someone even got a promotion for creating a plane defence system so cheap.
by jrpelkonen | 2025-06-06 13:39:45+00:00
Hi Joran,

I have followed TigerBeetle with interest for a while, and thank you for your inspirational work and informative presentations.

However, you have stated in several occasions that the lack of memory safety in Zig is not a concern since you don't dynamically allocate memory post startup. However, one of the defects uncovered here (#2435) was caused by dereferencing an uninitialized pointer. I find this pretty concerning, so I wonder if there is something that you will be doing differently to eliminate all similar bugs going forward?
by sarchertech | 2025-06-06 13:40:18+00:00
Most of the rest of the world is where the US was 20-30 years ago when the US certainly had an “obesity pandemic”.

There are 127 countries with an obesity rate higher than 20% (roughly what the US was at 30 years ago).

In nearly every country in the world, your ancestors from 30 years ago would call you fat.

The US is just ahead of the curve for some reason.
by potholereseller | 2025-06-06 13:40:38+00:00
This seems spot on to me. It shows how some performers of popular music can be in an echo chamber. There are worlds beyond Rihanna, the Beatles, and Rascal Flats; there is more than I–V–vi–IV, 4/4, and verse-chorus; those other worlds have different barriers-to-entry than popular music.

In 2021, Coldplay released an album with a genuine prog rock song on it [1]; it was inspired by Dark Side of the Moon [2]. I have come across a few other bands who have pulled off something similar. I always enjoy it when this happens, because it shows that some musicians have wings bigger than the popular music world allows them to spread.

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloratura_(song)>, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUV5-frRU4>

[2] <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3PhWT10BW3Urh8ZXXpuU...>
by noduerme | 2025-06-06 13:40:58+00:00
LA to SF doesn't make a lot of sense to me as an overnight route. Suppose you leave at 10pm. You get in at maybe 4am, maybe you got 5 hours of sleep, and have to wait 12 hours to check into a hotel...?

6 hours is maybe justifiable for the comfort compared to getting to LAX in traffic, checking in for a flight, then crawling out of SFO... why not run it during the day? Save the sleeper portion for getting to PDX and Seattle?

Also, is the spa going to be open at 1am?
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-06-06 13:41:21+00:00
My guess is that Valve will wait at least 1 more generation, since Zen 6 will be on N2p which will be the first nanosheet generation (with promised 30% power reductions compared to the n3e that zen5 uses). Valve clearly is more interested in a console model with new releases only when there is a massive performance uplift compared to the prior generation, so I think we are at least 1 gen away. Specifically, I think their target will be 1080p/60fps on low settings (or higher settings using fsr).
by francisofascii | 2025-06-06 13:41:21+00:00
> There is a range of body fat percentage that is healthy. If you are outside (probably above) this percentage, you are damaging your health. The science is unequivocal on this.

Yes and no. I think it is more individual. Robert Lustig has an interesting assertion that about around 20% of slightly overweight people are metabolically healthy and they simply have a higher "normal for them" body fat percentage.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-06 13:41:29+00:00
> “I think that mistakes were made,” said Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months. “I’m sure mistakes were made. Mistakes are always made. I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake.”

Sahil Lavingia is a snake. I thought his blog post that was on HN a week or so ago displayed a frightening level of cognitive dissidence and now he wants to distance himself from it all. No way buddy, this will be a millstone hung around your neck. You encouraged this, you participated in this, you cheered this, you will live with the consequences.
by up-n-atom | 2025-06-06 13:41:46+00:00
They need to focus on the bot problem.

I don’t care about their own IPO grift. I’m a community server owner and I’m not interested in inflating my own server membership for the grandiose delusions of fame like a influencer on a follower high.

My community doesn’t need to be invaded by hundreds or rather thousands of bots training a few dozen LLMs on lazy internet speak.

My community doesn’t need to be on alert and woken by sleeper bots itching to advertise the latest grift or account stealer.

We kick hundreds of bots weekly because the core system is broken. If you want me to pay for a subscription focus on the community building experience, not the clickbait features (currently the server tag, flooding communities with apathetic members).