MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 00:46:43+00:00
Something can simultaneously be a pseudo-science and still work. Do some aspects of TCM have benefits? Sure, probably – it's a huge field. But that's more coincidental than anything else, and their mechanisms of action are unrelated to TCM's pseudo-scientific theories. If you go to a forest and start eating random stuff then some will also have some benefit.

I'm not familiar with the history of meditation or mindfulness, but I've seen people claim some pretty ridiculous things about yoga, perhaps the most ludicrous was someone claiming that some positions will prevent certain cancers due to "massaging your organs". Yoga absolutely has benefits but that's just nonsense.
by sgrove | 2025-07-14 00:46:45+00:00
There's a followup study to identify the actual cause of such a surprising outcome https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.19823

The combined use of faithful-chain-of-thought + mechanistic interpretation of LLM output to 1.) diagnose 2.) understand the source of, and 3.) steer the behavior is fascinating.

I'm very glad these folks found such a surprising outcome early on, and it lead to a useful real-world LLM debugging exercise!
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-14 00:47:15+00:00
Sure, but if the price of housing is too high then price controls won't fix it either. You'd end up with no availability, or a decades-long waitlist for rent-controlled apartments like Stockholm.

The issue with housing affordability is that the market is often prevented from responding to high demand and low supply by regulation. SF is very restrictive with permitting housing construction, despite the incredibly high rents. It's not that the market forces are failing to incentivize housing construction, it's that developers are prevented from responding to market demand.
by bradly | 2025-07-14 00:48:42+00:00
Key part of the article to me:

> Of those, mom-and-pop investors, or those who own between 1 and 5 homes, account for 85% of all investor-owned residential properties

In my social circle, if you are going to buy a new house, you are doing everything you can to keep your current house while purchasing the second. It is the clearest path to retirement from traditional 40hr/week employment for the people around me.

> Institutional investors that own 1,000 or more homes account for only about 2.2% of all investor-owned homes, the firm said.

Talking about these two cohorts in the same article may be problematic as they such vastly different motives, operating procedures, and (please don't light me on fire) different regulations needed.
by glp1guide | 2025-07-14 00:49:38+00:00
Let me try again:

1. People do not stay on GLP1s for long, despite how effective they are

2. People often rebound harder from other forms of weight loss (dieting, temporary lifestyle changes, etc)

3. GLP1 reduces a LOT of health risks linked to obesity (heart disease being the most important IMO)

4. Older people are taking GLP1s in droves

5. Once these drugs are everywhere (they will be soon IMO in < 7 years obesity will probably be ~gone), the effects will get "priced in" to actuary tables.

No social commentary or dark humor intended -- GLP1s aren't miracle drugs but the effects (and relative lack of side effects) is miraculous.
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-14 00:50:10+00:00
> There is a gap between how much the renters could conceivably pay and the minimum for which the house could be built and maintained. The actual price will be somewhere between the two.

No, not necessarily. If there's enough competition for renters, then the homeowner may have to rent at a loss. Renting at a loss is still preferable to no collecting rent at all. Getting $90 on a $100 investment is bad, but better than getting $0 on a $100 investment.
by wisty | 2025-07-14 00:50:13+00:00
People are single but romance scams exist.

Scammers are good at the scam. They are good at telling the right lies, they often work in teams (lead finders, closers, and everything in between), use automation where appropriate, etc.

A single dev might have trouble cracking the lead finding code, the resume code, the interview code, etc while and avoiding telling any lies that will get then fired 3 weeks into the job. But a team who all treat the application process as a full time job? It's a lot easier.

Also when a dev gets good at finding a job, they stop looking. Scammers get good at it and then keep getting better.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-14 00:51:37+00:00
It's a different kind of lawlessness.

I have little worry about some muggers and slumlords creating substandard construction and some restaurant paying off the inspector. I greatly worry about the HN demographics (rich white collar people, generally) voting for solutions to those problems that are worse than the problems while not solving the problems, something they do all over the US.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-14 00:51:40+00:00
The economist Alan Kohler on Australia's ABC News has a great quote: "For housing to no longer outstrip incomes, it has to become a bad investment."

The "how" of it doesn't matter. Could be changes to taxation, investment rules, foreign buyers, whatever. The point is that no matter what, for housing to stop getting more expensive faster than people's incomes, it has to be a bad investment.

Right now, in Australia, housing is a fantastically good investment, earning ludicrous incomes for people basically doing nothing but sitting on some property. It has created a new social class of the "landed gentry" that can earn income without usefully contributing to the economy.

The new nobility will not give this up willingly.
by sfilmeyer | 2025-07-14 00:52:51+00:00
I'm not in near deep enough to have any ideas what you're talking about, and the link didn't really help. Can you explain?

Who is Tim Peters? How were they slandered? What did the author do that you disliked? Who is Glyph Lefkowitz? Why is citing Glyph Lefkowitz an indictment of the author?
by StopTheWorld | 2025-07-14 00:53:49+00:00
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was won by Tu Youyou.

During the Vietnamese resistance war, Vietnamese moving down the Ho Chi Minh rail were contracting malaria in the jungle. The Chinese were asked for aid, and Tu Youyou was tasked with assembling a team to help.

One thing Tu Youyou did was consult "traditional Chinese medicine" with how to aid victims of malaria. Most of what she found did not work, but wormwood did produce results. Tu Youyou again consulted traditional Chinese medicinal texts and they said wormwood should be used with cold water. The team extracted artemisinin from the wormwood in cold water, and a new (and old) way of fighting malaria was born.
by dmbche | 2025-07-14 00:53:50+00:00
1. So investments can be in other sectors than housing, I've heard. I'm sure you can look it up. Or you're welcome to lecture me too.

2. If a homeowner has more than one property, why not sell one of the properties when you become cost burdened? Also, I think at some point you stop paying a mortgage, right? I don't think that's the case with renting.Oh and it's a neat financial tool too, a mortgage.

So yeah renters would be better off owning, other than in some niche situations.

I don't understand what brings people to move for jobs if the salary doesn't make housing trivial for them. You're saying people on a 50k salary will move cities rather than change jobs?

Edit0: and that link I sent earlier that you probably didn't open shows that renters on average pay 30% of income on housing, while owners with mortgages paid 20% and 10% without a mortgage. Renters are the in the absolute worst situation however you want to cut it.
by GZGavinZhao | 2025-07-14 00:53:56+00:00
Not OP but I've been consistently running for ~4 years (consistent := >=200K every month). The #1 advice I'd give is start short, start slow, e.g. start with 1 mile and as long as you're not walking you can consider yourself running. It's about finishing, not about speed.

Also unlike many people I know, I don't listen to anything while running. Running is a time for me to think about stuff that I'm too busy to think about during the day (e.g. contemplating life issues or is 1*0=0 because of 1 or 0)
by rubyn00bie | 2025-07-14 00:54:41+00:00
Not when they’re funneled through states like Wyoming and Nevada which an enormous amount of them are… both have very good privacy laws protecting the owners identity. Often times there will be a local LLC which is owned by (at least one) separate out of state LLC in Nevada or Wyoming obfuscating who the true owners are. There’s a whole industry behind this.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-14 00:55:46+00:00
Someone should do a startup that focuses on designing a sort of RV that can be mass produced, for millenials, genZ, and so on. Maybe they could be modular, link them up for communal living, that sort of thing.

Climate change isn’t going to be stopped. Don’t get tied to some dirt that’ll be inhospitable before too long. And houses are generally full of obsolete crap anyway, like bad electric wiring, rooms without ethernet, and big empty rooms that need to be inefficiently climate controlled.

Tech folks should really lead the way on this. If you are remote and have a high wage, why don’t you live in some futuristic RV off in some idyllic countryside?
by wepple | 2025-07-14 00:56:42+00:00
> In my social circle, if you are going to buy a new house, you are doing everything you can to keep your current house while purchasing the second. It is the clearest path to retirement from traditional 40hr/week employment for the people around me.

That’s fascinating to me. Generally, the homes people buy to live in aren’t optimal investment properties. Why not sell and buy something optimized for return and growth?
by xphos | 2025-07-14 00:57:16+00:00
Yeah I agree with this here. Its simply to hard to build housing and the number permits and zoning restrictions have lead to localized housing shortages where people want to live. Its simply a difficult poltical issue to solve because most of the time zoning is handled at the local level and old people who have houses attend town hall meetings where zoning is discussed (if seldomly ever). Homeowners who have treated housing as a speculative centeralized asset have little to gain in allowing the market fixing itself.
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-14 00:57:31+00:00
I wish you the best of luck, but these days the main problems you're going to be facing are political, not technical. What makes people start to display "signs of hostility" these days is almost always tribal politics, and when you ban that, you are (at least from their POV), engaging in politically-motivated censorship. If it gets any kind of traction or visibility, your tool will be pinpointed as a weapon of The Enemy for suppressing truth and entrenching the powers that be, and you'll start getting threats to match.

Not to say you shouldn't do it, but you should be aware of what you're signing up for.
by StanislavPetrov | 2025-07-14 00:57:33+00:00
How about we start with no home-based deductions for corporations. The means depreciation, vacancy, any sort of loss is not tax deductible for a corporation. If a corporation owns 100 homes, it may cost them nothing (or close to nothing) to keep 10 (or more) of those homes vacant, because they can simply deduct the costs from those vacant homes from the massive profits they are reaping on the other 90 and lower their tax burden.

The average person who owns a second home for rental purposes is highly motivated to get that home rented out, even if it means lowering the rent to attract a renter, because it can be financially ruinous to pay for the taxes and an upkeep if it stays empty.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-14 00:59:00+00:00
> I believe even cholesterol-reducing statins come from traditional medicinal herb.

Yeah, lovastatin comes from red yeast rice, which is also TCM. The other statins are downstream of it.

> Naturopathic medicinal cultures aren't totally bullshit. They're just "unscientific" i.e. they haven't gone through the rigors of the scientific method to establish their efficacy, or often their etiologies and mechanisms of action are completely made-up.

I agree 100%. But natural products are -- and always have been -- the great repository of drug templates. All modern pharmacopoeias owe a real debt to TCM in particular.

Instead of complaining like the guy who wrote the article in OP, it's best to try and take what's good and discard what's bad, without preconceptions or prejudice.
by mattmcknight | 2025-07-14 00:59:04+00:00
"Mom-and-pop investors, or those who own between 1 and 5 homes, account for 85% of all investor-owned residential properties, while those with between 6 and 10 properties account for another 5%

Institutional investors that own 1,000 or more homes account for only about 2.2% of all investor-owned homes, the firm said.

And that number could get smaller, amid signs that large institutional investors are scaling back home purchases.

Out of a group of eight of the biggest companies that own and lease single-family houses, including Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent, six sold more homes in the second quarter than they bought, according to data from Parcl Labs."
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-07-14 00:59:57+00:00
I don’t think this is true! Days of your life are (imo) not defined by the date line, but by the 24-hour periods you experience. If you accept my rules, then as long as you always have flights shorter than 24 hours, you can still run on sequential days.

Edit: you could also potentially run on the plane. I admit that would be pretty weird though
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-14 01:00:37+00:00
I think it's as much a social problem as a numbers one. The greatest generation and the silent generation were rich enough to buy up tons of property but mostly didn't. In contrast every thousandaire boomer and gen X is trying to get into the rental game.

So it's possible we get to a point where a minority of the people own enough housing that the rest just vote to say fuck 'em.
by mattmcknight | 2025-07-14 01:01:07+00:00
It's not even a long article, but why are so many of the comments ignoring the end of it? "Indications are that institutional investors are scaling back home sales." from the article would seem to contradict a large number of the comments.

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"Of those, mom-and-pop investors, or those who own between 1 and 5 homes, account for 85% of all investor-owned residential properties, while those with between 6 and 10 properties account for another 5%.

Institutional investors that own 1,000 or more homes account for only about 2.2% of all investor-owned homes, the firm said.

And that number could get smaller, amid signs that large institutional investors are scaling back home purchases.

Out of a group of eight of the biggest companies that own and lease single-family houses, including Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent, six sold more homes in the second quarter than they bought, according to data from Parcl Labs."
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 01:04:01+00:00
Kinda funny, but I've been noticing a lot of rednecks driving compact cars lately -- probably because that's what they can afford. This weekend one helped me move a turtle out of the road (I wasn't sure if it was a snapper, but he wasn't afraid, he just grabbed it by the tail) and another helped me jack up a 79 Thunderbird with a flat tire.
by NoPicklez | 2025-07-14 01:04:08+00:00
I see these types of stats often, x number of companies now control over x% of x. On the face of it, what's the issue?

Food delivery starts out as this awesome new tech that allows delivery and its prices are cheap for early adoption, lots of small players come to the market to try and ride the hype. The service grows in popularity and becomes steady state, companies start to look to drive further profit, companies consolidate where possible to avoid shutting down altogether. Global markets impact fuel prices, food costs and sees the delivery services grow further in price for all those across the supply chain.

How we have a number of steady state food delivery companies that have the capital, and/or subsidy capacity to run across different markets globally.

Also fun fact, Deliveroo doesn't operate in Australia and had to close due to high costs. Australian Government has been looking to increase rights of gig-economy workers, a cost that smaller player wouldn't be able to handle.
by darth_avocado | 2025-07-14 01:05:09+00:00
Problem is absolutely lack of housing and population growth has nothing to do with it.

Average house size was about 1000 sqft in the 1900 and average household size was 5. This remained relatively the same in 1950 where the average household size was 4. These days, the average size of a house is 2600sqft and household size is 3. We have created a system where we build fewer larger houses. This is because policy (often dictated by people who already own houses) makes it impossible to build small high density housing or even if it is possible to build it, it’s not profitable.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-14 01:05:24+00:00
Shit even if not something like that, 5 homes in the middle quintile in my city would be around 2.4 million dollars. That's the entire net worth of a middle class family at the end of their earning years, including their house. The only people whose mom and pop have that kind of money to invest are rich folks. It's just as much a problem as the other thing in practical terms.
by fkrkrkgkgk | 2025-07-14 01:05:53+00:00
It’s a feature to exercise the whole display stack at every update, to make sure it works, for example when running remote desktop (or any other similar protocol/stack like citrix), where you can observe if the network still can send packets every second. Otherwise you need to wait a minute before noticing connectivity issues. Both rdp and citrix are extremely fragile and a clock that updates every second is a very good visual indicator for monitoring the connection. https://xkcd.com/1172
by greenie_beans | 2025-07-14 01:06:31+00:00
i no longer buy the YIMBY argument as the sole reason we have a housing crisis. it's a very convenient narrative if you work in/around real estate and a lot of smart people have been duped by it. we had no problem in the past building housing with current regulations: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

to be clear, regulations is part of the problem in some markets but not everywhere. how are local regulations causing a housing crisis everywhere? this problem is happening everywhere, and local municipalities across the country didn't coordinate to cause this.

they stopped building after GFC bc it was too risky. market dynamics, the profit incentive, and now the cost for labor + material + borrowing costs is the problem.

this is a better solution: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5119633/housing-crisis-...
by dheera | 2025-07-14 01:06:46+00:00
Well, mine doesn't work, so I'm still using Chrome. When they make it work, I'll switch to Firefox. There should really be a big fat "report bug" button on all these apps that captures logs and sends it with 1-click permission and a voice recording to explain what's wrong, like Tesla FSD's bug reporting system. I don't have bandwidth to deal with their community forums and all the crap it takes to register for them.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-14 01:07:36+00:00
I don't think personal reprisal because you posted something critical is generally the most scalable or realistic concern. It seems far easier to just let citizens know that if they're disruptive, you don't have protections; for everyone else, who knows if others can even see what you post?

The current american administration clearly wants to stamp down on disruption, too. If they can't deport us I think they'd be fine with prison or working us to death. Future administrations won't be so dumb to think this is just related to criticizing Israel, either, but anything.... disruptive.
by skydhash | 2025-07-14 01:07:49+00:00
Here is mine as an example. I started with oh-my-zsh, then moved to bash and just keep the basic information I need.

# Simple prompt function set_bash_prompt { status=$? container="" if test -f /run/.containerenv; then container="($(cat /run/.containerenv | grep name | cut -d\" -f2)) " fi if test $status -eq 0 ; then # Last command succeeded, set prompt to green PS1="\[\e[0;32m\]" else # Last command failed, set prompt to red PS1="\[\e[0;31m\]" fi PS1+="$container\w \$ \[\e[0m\]" } if [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ]; then export PS1="\u@\h: \w \$ " else # export PS1="\e[0;32m\]\w $ \[\e[0m\]" PROMPT_COMMAND=set_bash_prompt fi export PROMPT_DIRTRIM=1 # number of trailing directory to retain when using \w

Note: I've used toolbox and distrobox, so the function at the top was just to add what current env I'm in. Kinda like venv.
by tehjoker | 2025-07-14 01:08:34+00:00
The LinkedIn thing is very weird, what about all the guys that worked for another company for a long time and didn't bother with LinkedIn? I don't buy that, but the trend of these guys not showing up in-person at all is very suspicious, though not impossible. There are all kinds of reasons people want to do remote work, and some of those reasons might preclude an in-person meeting (like you might find out about a disability).

Still, I agree that's pretty suspicious. However, they didn't offer any proof whatsoever these guys are from North Korea or any motivation for why they would be doing this from North Korea. So, that sounds like potential U.S. propaganda.

They said they worked with the FBI, which honestly is a red flag for that kind of thing. Rather, if a company states without proof they're from NK, it's very likely BS. If the feds say it's North Korea without proof, it's definitely BS (they have resources to prove it!). If the Feds say it and provide proof, then we can talk about the proof.
by dwattttt | 2025-07-14 01:08:47+00:00
Function colouring created a lot of angst when it first came about, particularly because of the difficulties of calling a function of one colour from another. Whether that was possible, what it actually meant, wasn't really well defined.

As other comments have said, there's nothing special about "colouring"; sync/async functions are a case where those above problems are tough, but simpler versions of the problem are everywhere and we don't freak out about them e.g. call a fallible function from an infallible function.

It really all turns on how easy it is to ultimately make the call to the other "function" colour. In Zig's case, if its easy to get an Io in a function that didn't take an Io, it's a non-issue. Likewise for the "fallible function call from infallible function": if it fails, do something that doesn't result in the infallible function failing (do something else? Terminate? Anything will do).
by paulcole | 2025-07-14 01:09:41+00:00
Will Shortz (NYT crossword editor) had a table tennis streak that was going to be affected in a similar way.

> You cannot fly from New York to Bangalore without missing a day in the calendar. So I flew to Dubai and stopped there for two and a half days, played table tennis at clubs there, and then flew on to Bangalore. I’ve been to China and Japan multiple times, and, because of the time change, the flight leaves New York at, say, 11 a.m. and gets to China or Japan late afternoon the next day. So I play early in the morning, like seven or eight, go directly to the airport, fly to Beijing, get off the plane, and go directly to a club to keep my streak alive.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/w...
by kccqzy | 2025-07-14 01:10:15+00:00
I would say that starting slow is more important than starting short. And the important part of starting slow is having a full acceptance of slow running as valid running.

I used to think anything slower than 10:00/mile is jogging and doesn't qualify as running. This harmed motivation since when I was just starting I couldn't actually get faster than that every single run.