MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jdefr89 | 2026-01-08 17:55:19+00:00
What is with people and their need for enums? Functionally using go const with iota gives you the same damn thing and people use enums that way 99% of the time. I find Rusts reliance on enums annoying as hell. At this point I consider Rust a bandwagon language. The syntax is abysmal and we have had memory safe languages far before Rust. That I wont get into because as a Vulnerability Researcher I find the Rust push super misguided and it sets me off.
by genewitch | 2026-01-08 17:55:37+00:00
you're correct, my eyesight gets worse as the day goes on and i saw the second "9" as an 8. that only partially reduces the impact from my claim of X, Millennial, Zoomer; as i am gen X and i was still in "middle school" when the food pyramid came out, and my millennial sister assuredly was. the older Gen X (from the early 1970s) may or may not remember (as in an only child and childless until after the poster was no longer used) this from their younger years in classrooms.

My main point was (i think!) that really the only people seeing these posters on a regular basis are schoolchildren. I think i've seen the pyramid a dozen times in the last 20 years, on cereal boxes or websites or whatever, but if you don't recognize it, it's easily written off. Maslow also had a pyramid, etc.
by nextaccountic | 2026-01-08 17:55:51+00:00
You experience reality to understand the true nature of reality, to see things as they are. This is what leads to reduced suffering

You also need to calm your mind, reduce your anxiety etc but as a prerequisite

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samatha-vipassan%...

Meditation as a form of relaxing is practicing Samatha, and meditation to see things as they are is Vipassana. in reality both work in tandem, but Vipassana is the goal. (Vipassana is Buddha's innovation here - meditation in other religions is more like Samatha)

The main thing is that learning about the true nature of things at an intellectual level isn't enough in Buddhism. It's, like.. there are parts of your mind that are unaffected by what you learn intellectually, you need to actually experience things yourself to influence your unconscious mind
by gen2brain | 2026-01-08 17:55:53+00:00
This is an older thinkpad I am using, 4 cores, 16G of ram. LLVM is now dependency you cannot get rid of. That is painfull, but in the morning, after several hours it is usually done. Rust is LLVM plus I am not sure what, really painfull. And Gentoo also forces many different arches and flags for some reason, use flags are masked, you cannot easily disable them.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-08 17:56:01+00:00
Immigration can be enforced without murdering, gassing and viciously assaulting bystanders. Never mind the violations of human rights (like sending deportees to hellholes like CECOT), lying about citizen observers and continually having lawsuits tossed by grand juries.

It's a rogue agency with no accountability that will continue to cause untold harm while making everyone less safe.
by big-and-small | 2026-01-08 17:56:02+00:00
It's not like consumer electronics contain top secret tech like EUV machines. All supply chain for firmware / software of 99.99% devices is very boring, contains absolutely nothing secret and the only reason why it's "difficult" is because IP owners was not bothered.

Once single EU / US legislation introduced that force manufacturers into opening end-of-life products all IP right owners will either immediately make it possible or go out of business.

Since everyone will be forced to do the same no one will gain any advantages.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-08 17:57:47+00:00
>If the majority of your customers don't value it that much, then you are pretty cooked.

cries in gamedev

Sadly my options are to either sell a few thousand copies on pc and deal with complaints on how my game isn't an 80 hour long timesink, or go into mobile and employ all the dark patterns I hate about marketing.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-08 17:58:13+00:00
IDK for sure, but might be harder to maintain, monitor, and block.

One characteristic of v4 is it's somewhat reasonable to do a straight forward block on a range of addresses to shut down access. This is still somewhat possible with v6, but harder as there's simply a much larger portion of ip addresses that can be all over the place. It's theoretically a lot easier for anyone that wants to bypass a simple filter to grab a new public IP address.
by mywittyname | 2026-01-08 17:58:39+00:00
Housing prices are rising due to inflation, and specifically inflation on the raw input for houses - lumber, building materials, and labor. Granted, this is not the only reason in all regions, places like California have much more complex, systematic reasons for increased housing prices. But the bulk of the US has housing prices that are somewhat in line with the cost of building, since there's no limit on land to throw cookie cutter subdivisions on.

They don't want to admit that their abhorrent policies are hitting the pocket books of their supporters, so they latch onto popular sentiment instead of solving the problem. Typical of this administration.

I built a house in 2018 for $350k. To build the same house again today would be $650k (and it would probably take twice as long). Surprisingly, the cost of land is not much more than it was 8 years ago. All of that cost increase is in materials and labor.

The problem is, the market value of my house is $550k, at the most. Meaning it's not profitable to build new houses as the market can't sustain them. And who is going to sell their house at less than they can get another one for? Only people who are forced to move, which is probably why the there is such low inventory in the historically cheaper markets.
by in-silico | 2026-01-08 17:58:47+00:00
> They're going to diverge if the underlying manner in which data gets memorized and encoded, such as with RNNs, like RWKV.

In the original paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987) the authors also compared the representations of transformer-based LLMs to convolution-based image models. They found just as much alignment between them as when both models were transformers.
by gruez | 2026-01-08 17:59:25+00:00
>One team is a feckless collection of timid hesitators who is trying to defend a social welfare policy from 70 years ago

What is this referring to?

>and the other team believes their volatile leader is infallible and will direct revenge at whatever they are pointed to by the latest 3am tweet.

>It's just not the same.

What does this have to do with gp's claim about cycle of reprisals by both parties? It can be simultaneously possible to admit that the leader of one party is more sane than the other, and to observe that both parties are engaging in cycles of retaliation when they get in power, and that egging on even more retaliation is going to make the situation worse.
by nradov | 2026-01-08 17:59:38+00:00
You seem to be unclear on the basics of how this works. There's no need for any new laws. If you want to negotiate a value-based care agreement with a healthcare provider instead of paying on a fee-for-service basis then you're free to do so. Existing laws allow for that.

As for your absurd assertions about what every patient wants, you're just lying and making things up. Many patients (like me) don't want that or have no strong preference at all. Your comparison to North Korea is just deranged and bears no relationship to objective reality.
by zuminator | 2026-01-08 17:59:50+00:00
This is really just bothsidesism. In reality there are fundamental differences between groups in the way that people evaluate events, evidence, even their own party's questionable actions. Papering it over with by claiming criticism is all just mindless tribalism just serves to excuse those with the worst behavior. In this specific case, government food policy has been drastically changed to suit the peculiar ideology of one man, with no public hearings, no debate, and no scientific consensus. Is it not appropriate to be skeptical, regardless of one's "tribe"??
by akpa1 | 2026-01-08 17:59:53+00:00
Medicated, diagnosed ADHD-haver speaking.

Unmanaged ADHD is dangerous, and incredibly detrimental to people's lives, but the level of such may not be entirely apparent to somebody until after they receive treatment. I think the attitude of being against medication for neurological issues where that is recommended by medical professionals (including where that for something perceived to not be detrimental) is, to say the least, risky.

To answer your questions, though:

* Medication vs coffee: yes, I don't notice any effect from caffeine

* Meds weakening over time: nope

* Medication cost: so worth it (£45/mo for the drugs alone in the UK) because I was increasingly not able to adapt or cope and continuing to try to do so may well have destroyed me
by lm28469 | 2026-01-08 18:00:11+00:00
> it is the attribute that is the least important to my life

still one of the most common symptom, and the one everyone use to self diagnose...

> because medicine is le bad

idk man, I've seen the ravage of medicine one people close to me. Years of adhd medicine, anti depressants pills, anti obesity treatments... They're still non functional, obese and depressed, but now they're broke and think there truly is no way out of the pit because they "tried everything" (everything besides not playing video games 16 hours a day, eating junk food 24/7 and never going out of their bedroom, but the doctors don't seem to view this as a root cause)

Whatever you think, I believe some things are over prescribed to the point of being a net negative to society. I never said adhd doesn't exist or shouldn't be treated btw, you seem to be projecting a lot of things. If it works for you good, personally I prefer to change my environment to fit how my brain/body works, not influence my body/brain by swallowing side effects riddled pills until death to fit in the fucked up world we created and call "normality"
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2026-01-08 18:00:16+00:00
Looking at the ingredients list on Wonderbread white bread, could you make that at home?

You can make bread with salt, flour, yeast, and water. Most breads in the grocery store, however, have considerably more ingredients, which are more in the purpose of treating the foodstuff as an industrial product rather than for nutritional purposes.

(That's not automatically bad btw. The amount of ultraprocessed food you can eat is actually probably quite a lot in relative terms before it starts causing health problems --- the problem is when it becomes 70-80% of your diet.)
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 18:00:51+00:00
If you disagree with me then it is better to say you disagree and state your reasoning why. If the reasoning is too foundational than it is better to state it as such and exit.

Saying something like my "credibility is wrecked" and impossible to take me "seriously" crosses a line into deliberate attack and insult. It's like calling me an idiot but staying within the HN rules. You didn't need to go there.

Yeah I agree I think the conversation is over. I suggest we don't talk to each other again as I don't really appreciate how you shut down the conversation with deliberate and targeted attacks.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-08 18:01:35+00:00
> This thread reads like an advertisement for ChatGPT Health.

This thread has a theme I see a lot in ChatGPT users: They're highly skeptical of the answers other people get from ChatGPT, but when they use it for themselves they believe the output is correct and helpful.

I've written before on HN about my friend who decided to take his health into his own hands because he trusted ChatGPT more than his doctors. By the end he was on so many supplements and "protocols" that he was doing enormous damage to his liver and immune system.

The more he conversed with ChatGPT, the better he got at getting it to agree with him. When it started to disagree or advise caution, he'd blame it on overly sensitive guardrails, delete the conversation, and start over with an adjusted prompt. He'd repeat this until he had something to copy and paste to us to "prove" that he was on the right track.

As a broader anecdote, I'm seeing "I thought I had ADHD and ChatGPT agrees!" at an alarming rate in a couple communities I'm in with a lot of younger people. This combined with the TikTok trend of diagnosing everything as a symptom of ADHD is becoming really alarming. In some cohorts, it's a rarity for someone to believe they don't have ADHD. There are also a lot of complaints from people who are angry their GP wouldn't just write a prescription for Adderall and tips for doctor shopping around to find doctors who won't ask too many questions before dispensing prescriptions.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-08 18:01:52+00:00
Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.

Besides the cost of serving an LLM request - using someone else’s infrastructure and someone else’s search engine is magnitudes higher than a Google search.

Besides defaults matter. Google is the default search engine for every mobile phone outside of China and the three browsers with the most market share
by jerf | 2026-01-08 18:02:27+00:00
Another thing companies miss is that the second-value is priced in to the price. If I know I can resell a thing for some value, that makes it more valuable than if I can't resell it all, and I can pay more for it. Contrary to what the companies think, they were in fact compensated for the after market value, and it's even better then they hoped, because that compensation occurred at time of first sale rather than some random time years later.

The most amusing anti-example of this was the Switch generation: $60 for a cartridge, or $60 for a digital license. Guess which is actually more valuable? Guess which you were more likely to find discounted, even if only by a marginal amount, by some store desperate to move stock out of the way?

By contrast, I'm not worried about the fact I can't resell my copy of Game X I got on Steam when I only paid $5 for it in the first place.
by resumenext | 2026-01-08 18:02:32+00:00
Your reasoning is flawed. The man could have parked his truck in front of her car and her ability to ram it wouldn’t make a difference. Most car jackers and would be rapists do not approach their victim on foot at a 0 degree approach angle, from the front, they come from 270 degrees (the driver side), where the door they will open is located. They cannot jack the car or rape without that side approach.
by weitendorf | 2026-01-08 18:02:34+00:00
I’m pointing out that proto’s enums are wrappers around proto field numbers, which are numerical ids for proto message fields that enable forward/backward compatibility across proto message version changes. These field numbers are necessarily sparse but don’t even need to be assigned sequentially, and in fact, because of the leaked implementation details from the internal field number range you have to assume they are non-sequential. So field numbers are sparse, which makes them non-enumerable even though they’re represented with numeric tags.

Hence, proto enums are essentially non-enumerable wrappers around numeric values. And this is (almost certainly) why Golang’s enums are structured the same way, as transparent wrappers around values that are not necessarily sequential or enumerable.
by dzdt | 2026-01-08 18:03:46+00:00
If you install 100 apps on your phone, and 50% are participating in the kind of ad network that this data is sourced form, and 10% of the apps convince you to enable location services either by having a plausible need for it or by dark patterns or by your carelessness, that means there are still multiple sources where this information gets out. The math is on the trackers' side, not the users'.
by d-us-vb | 2026-01-08 18:04:00+00:00
He's talking about "wonder bread" and other factory breads that have had much of their nutrients stripped and some put back, to the detriment of their absorption. Some also are concerned with artificially included preservatives and the unknown unknowns of putting them in places (even if there's a common natural source in another food).

Homemade bread is certainly not ultraprocessed (especially if made with unbleached flour or even better, whole wheat flour), but factory bread most certainly is considered ultraprocessed.
by sbargaoui | 2026-01-08 18:04:17+00:00
We've been building agents with pydantic-ai in production. The framework is great for defining agents, but we kept rewriting the same infrastructure to actually show them to users.

The pattern we landed on: agent runs in a background worker, emits events to Redis Streams, frontend consumes via SSE. Multiple clients can listen to the same stream. If the user navigates away or hits stop, we delete a key and the agent aborts gracefully at the next node boundary.

pydantic-ai gives you Agent.iter() and streaming primitives, but wiring this up - structured events, reconnection, history across turns - is a lot of glue.

This library wraps iter() and handles the lifecycle:

begin → [llm-begin → part-deltas → llm-end]+ → end

Each event is typed: text delta, tool call with args, tool return, error. Frontend gets structured JSON it can render directly.

It's thin (~400 LOC) and doesn't patch pydantic-ai internals. You bring your own session storage by implementing load/save.

Feedback welcome, especially on the event protocol.
by twoodfin | 2026-01-08 18:04:43+00:00
Property taxes have to be set high enough to fund services: Voters want more services, they pay more property taxes. The policy goal is delivering services the voters want to households and businesses.

LVT is designed to achieve a different policy goal: Maximize the efficiency of land use. So its rates have to be set to achieve that goal and, for example, force grandma to move out of that condo in a newly revitalized downtown so a young tech kid who can pay more & benefit from it more can move in.
by pianopatrick | 2026-01-08 18:04:54+00:00
"The key is increasing supply" assumes the goal of new housing laws should be to increase supply and bring house prices down. But a lot of people do not agree with that goal. Many people are homeowners who will get tens of thousands of dollars richer if there is less supply and prices rise. And in America at least, homeowners have more votes than renters or builders or landlords or the homeless or other groups. So new housing law tends to favor the goals of homeowners, not the goals of other groups who want more supply.
by noncoml | 2026-01-08 18:04:56+00:00
This shows how flawed the idea is that individual gun ownership protects people from a rogue government. Acting alone with a firearm does not stop tyranny. It only leads to prison or worse.

Real resistance to authoritarianism has never come from isolated individuals using violence. It requires organized collective action where people stand together and refuse to comply. History shows that meaningful resistance often begins with simple nonviolent acts like refusing unjust rules or asserting basic dignity rather than a lone person reaching for a gun.

Owning a gun by itself does not meaningfully protect anyone from government overreach. Organization solidarity and collective action do.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-08 18:05:14+00:00
Hmm point #2 is not really required here either. In the past I have been skimmed once and I was notified by the bank before I even noticed the transactions. They had noticed because several cards used at a specific public ATM had been skimmed and abused, they removed the transactions immediately and sent me a new card. Very proactive, I didn't have to do anything.

Point #3 doesn't really play here because the credit card is simply a loan in your name and you are liable for the full amount regardless. You could simply not pay the bill but then the insane interest builds up.

I will never move to the US though anyway. I won't even visit until the situation improves.
by jrowen | 2026-01-08 18:05:17+00:00
I don't think it's really fair to call it racism. That is such a loaded accusation to levy today that it should only be used if someone really wronged another person.

We all have cultural biases and familiarities, is that wrong? By this definition, we're all racist. Maybe that's true but it kind of ceases to be a useful distinction at that point. I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentence, but I don't know if throwing around the r-word is helpful.
by adolph | 2026-01-08 18:05:42+00:00
ianal and kudos to Bose for their relatively graceful hardware depreciation approach and releasing their API documentation; the license for said documentation does not appear to be easily recognized as "open source" by using a standard GPL, MIT, Apache, etc license.

Has anyone read the API documentation EULA and can comment on if it really meets some recognizable standard for "open source?"
by cogman10 | 2026-01-08 18:05:55+00:00
I grew up on the KJV, but it really is a bad translation. It injects a lot into the text and has bad sources vs modern translations.

The new king james translation is better. As is NIV.

If you are really up for studying the bible, then you can't do much better than getting the Oxford annotated bible (which is based on the NRSV). That has all the footnotes pointing out translation choices and giving historic context to passages based on the current best biblical research.
by philjohn | 2026-01-08 18:05:56+00:00
Not just for coding. I've been working on design docs, and find ChatGPT 5.2 finds more edge cases and suggests better ideas than Gemini 3. I sometimes feed the output of one into the other and go "ok, another AI says this, what do you think?" which gives interesting results.

Gemini often just throws in the towel and goes "yeah, the other one is right", whereas 5.2 will often go "I agree with about 80% of that, but the other 20% I don't, and here's why ..."

And I'm always impressed with the explanation for "here's why" as it picks apart flat out bad output from Gemini.

But, as with everything, this will very much be use-case dependent.
by Tostino | 2026-01-08 18:06:10+00:00
You can do a rough distill through the APIs. You don't need the weights.

It was much easier when companies had models on the /completion style APIs, because you could actually get the logits for each generation step, and use that as a dataset to fit your model to.

That isn't to diminish the efforts of the Chinese developers though, they are great.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-08 18:06:23+00:00
> GrapheneOS isn't magically exempt from cell tracking, and both android and ios phones can go into airplane mode and have location disabled, which provides similar privacy.

You practically can't do anything on a Googled Android device or iOS without a Google or Apple account, so no, they don't provide "similar privacy." The point of a FOSS system is that the user fully controls it, and can install apps privately from any source.
by tonyarkles | 2026-01-08 18:06:27+00:00
> SIM-free phone

Is the modem completely disabled? Does it still show the "SOS" option that allows you to call 911 without a SIM? If so, and if it's ever been turned on in your residence, there's a decent chance the IMEI could be traced back to your house just based on pattern-of-life movement.
by jordanpg | 2026-01-08 18:06:32+00:00
More to the point, it's the collapse of the carefully balanced entente around things like WMD and war crimes that will be our undoing.

Recent events have brought this into sharp focus.

This is really the glue that holds it all together -- that we and our allies haven't even had to think about these things for our entire lives up until now.

I hate to be hyperbolic, but I fear that fear of these things will soon become a looming presence in our lives. For the rest of our lives. And kids' lives. And grandkids' lives.