MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-01 01:00:13+00:00
> * Garbage bowl: allocate a mixing bowl on the counter to collect garbage and drop cuttings and other refuse in there. Saves you from having to go to the trash bin every time.

How about just put the garbage near your workspace while you're working so you can more easily dump stuff into it? I just generally put a bag on the floor near the sink
by hristov | 2026-01-01 01:01:01+00:00
When you are the boss work is a lot less unpleasant than when you are an employee. When you are at the highest level in the organization and also the major shareholder, you can shape your work environment and and workday in a way that you like it.

He worked for 60 years because he liked doing it, and as he became more successful, the job just getting more pleasant for him.

I cannot speak for him but from reading his annual reports and various writings and listening to the occasional interview, it seems that he enjoyed working much more than anything he would do while being retired.

You can call this great american work ethic, and that is part of it, but the other part of it is that when you are the boss you can kind of remove most unpleasant parts of your job and leave only the parts that are the most fun and interesting for you.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-01 01:01:16+00:00
Wouldn’t it be better for society if it were gated, at least compared to our current system which encourages those least able/suited to have children to have the greatest number of them? If we as a society are uncomfortable with society dictating how/when you have kids, society also shouldn’t be on the hook for providing for them - “no say, no pay”.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-01 01:02:25+00:00
Probably the best thing about Buffett was his admission of his shortcomings - he wasn't a manager, or adminstrator, of companies - he thought he could do it, blew it, and learnt from the experience.

He was a damned fine investor, a very good eye for a bargain (that would later turn into a goldmine).

I get that people have opinions on that, but I'm not too fussed about the player, when it's the game that they should be focussed on.
by TRiG_Ireland | 2026-01-01 01:02:25+00:00
My own kitchen problems are all related to my ADHD.

1. I never even think about food till I'm already hungry, so any meal which takes a long time to cook is out. (I'm meal prepping a bit more often these days, which helps.)

2. I just _cannot_ cook two things and have them ready at the same time. So at least one of the things needs to be something that can hold once cooked. Pasta tends to work well.
by smurda | 2026-01-01 01:03:33+00:00
When the CCPA launched in 2018 companies had to comply when a consumer requested a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR). Because the consumer had to request a DSAR not all companies felt this compliance pain acutely (e.g. it was mostly big companies with A LOT of users that got more DSARs, so they adopted workflows and tools to alleviate the pain).

The Delete Act has more teeth. Independent compliance audits begin in 2028 with penalties of $200 per day for failing to register or for each consumer deletion request that is not honored. GDPR spurred organizations to compliance, partly because of the steep penalty (up to €20 million or 4% of revenue, whichever is higher), maybe The Delete Act (and its much smaller penalty) will also spark organizations to comply.
by Swizec | 2026-01-01 01:03:37+00:00
> without other the states not being in on it

California represents 12% of USA population, 14% of US GDP. Effectively that means CA can throw its weight around and companies are forced to at least pretend to comply. Whether they actually comply depends on enforcement.

Now if Delaware were to adopt such a law for every company “headquartered” there …
by vasco | 2026-01-01 01:04:00+00:00
> Loads for each set were adjusted to ensure that volitional fatigue was reached within 8–12 and 20–25 repetitions for the HL and LL limbs, respectively

I would argue both categories of the study are about low reps. I don't see how the body would tell the difference between 12 and 25 reps. If you said between 5 and 500, like it has to meaningfully take much longer, otherwise why would doing something so similar have any meaningful difference?

The way I think about it is that nature mostly reacts to order of magnitude changes. 12 to 25 is the same thing.

Like why not make a study to see if its more nutritious to eat dinner in 15 or 20 minutes?
by swat535 | 2026-01-01 01:04:39+00:00
It doesn't even have to be a private monopoly, it can be a public service.

For example in Quebec, liquor stores are managed by the government, called "Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ)" or legal cannabis is managed by "Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC)".

I don't see why other restrictions can't follow the same pattern?
by ThinkBeat | 2026-01-01 01:06:00+00:00
> But don’t be too quick to attribute its failure to the “ick” factor that many > Westerners feel about bugs.

I think this is a weird wording.
I dont think you need to limit the ick factor to "Westerners"
There are an awful lot of people out there who would feel the "ick"
factor.

And even for some of those who do eat insects, they are specific insects,
form specific places, prepared in traditional ways.

Not a powder of insects
by weli | 2026-01-01 01:06:18+00:00
Google does "sell" your data to other Alphabet companies except they call it "partnership" or "strategic sharing" and it should be completely illegal and be called data brokerage too. Same with Meta.

There is a reason the FTC and DOJ force this companies to break up, except they have hordes of lawyers and the law will always be catching up to reality so it doesn't do much in this day and age.
by skulk | 2026-01-01 01:06:19+00:00
Not really. You can simulate a probability of 1/x by expanding 1/x in binary and flipping a coin repeatedly, once for each digit, until the coin matches the digit (assign heads and tails to 0 and 1 consistently). If the match happened on 1, then it's a positive result, otherwise negative. This only requires arbitrary but finite precision but the probability is exactly equal to 1/x which isn't rational.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-01 01:07:04+00:00
Love that show! TV version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6FLHpgC5E

other good episodes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80GSSjftOWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C3agnzv-zs
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-01 01:07:46+00:00
> capsule (?) for humans riding to the ISS looks reminiscent of the 1960s too

Dragon 2 [1] looks like the Apollo and Gemini craft for the same reason it resembles Soyuz 3 [2]. Crewed disposable atmospheric reëntry vehicles launched in cylinders and soft landed or splashed down under parachutes are going to look similar.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Iss071e0...

[2] http://www.spacepatches.nl/soyuz/soyuz3.html
by tim333 | 2026-01-01 01:07:56+00:00
Probably a bit of both. Berkshire's size means he was limited to the largest companies which are pretty well analysed.

During that period he did some different things which some of his personal money like buying stock in Dae Han Flour Mills, a Korean flour miller that was like 2 times earnings in 2003 but was probably too small a position to make sense for Berkshire. (https://www.netnethunter.com/warren-buffett-cheap-stock-pick...)
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-01-01 01:08:23+00:00
That’s not correct. See physically based rendering (pbr book) chapter 8.

Non-antialiasing is just taking fewer samples and not attenuating the aliasing artifact band with a filter.

A gui is more complex. Most graphics are collections of blocks. But then if you do any effects like filling a bezier curve or shadow you are back to the point sampling model.
by riazrizvi | 2026-01-01 01:08:34+00:00
Fair point.

BTW I was originally searching for an SRO but I landed a 'micro-apartment' (I just double-checked terms), it has its own kitchen/bathroom. Had I stopped looking I wouldn't have found this great situation. Great enough that when I won a housing lottery the following month, for a nicer apartment at the same rate, I was content to give it up and let someone else receive it.
by drob518 | 2026-01-01 01:09:29+00:00
Well, if we don’t care about utility I could define infinitely many transcendental numbers with no utility other than I just made them up. The number that is the concatenation of the digits of all prime numbers in sequence, for instance: 0.23571113171923… I christen this Dave’s Number. (It probably already has a name, but I’m stealing it.) Let’s add it to the list. Now we can define Dave’s Second Number as the first prime added to Dave’s Number: 2.235711131723… Dave’s Third Number is the second prime added to Dave’s Number: 3.235711131723… Since we’re cataloguing numbers with no utility, let’s add them all to the list.
by dpark | 2026-01-01 01:09:50+00:00
For people like this, the best path is probably to buy cheap knives and a one of those cheap knife sharpeners that destroys the blade over time. One of those angled carbide sharpeners believe a terrible edge, but better than a dull knife.

I guess if you prefer nicer knives, you could always buy new ones periodically and give the old ones away on buy nothing to someone who will take care of them.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-01 01:09:58+00:00
California will take them to court and/or block them from doing business in the state, have various ways to penalize them, etc. California is big enough that many will want to play game with them and having a state as powerful as California on board will get other states to jump on board and pass their own legislation and take up the same tactics with non-complying companies. Once it gets enough traction at the state level, the fed will step in because this will affect interstate commerce and that is federal jurisdiction. This is how state sovereignty works, it is not that states can do as they please, they can only do it up until the point it affects other states or crosses the line with federal law.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-01 01:09:59+00:00
Maybe there should be some kind of annual ISO privacy certification for companies that resell any customer data in any form. Then make data customers (e.g. marketing agencies, major retailers) and data collectors (e.g. those that collect telemetry data from libraries included in their app, auto manufacturers, wireless providers) civilly liable for any privacy violations dealing with uncertified brokers, making sure there’s an uncapped modifier based on the company’s annual revenue. That seems like it puts the bulk of the compliance responsibility on the parties that can do the most wide-scale damage with unethical and dodgy practices, while leaving some out there for others that need incentive to not ignore the rules.

Haven’t really thought this through and I’m not a policy wonk… just spitballin’.
by doodlebugging | 2026-01-01 01:10:19+00:00
According to that page Texas also requires data brokers to register. As a Texan it seems unlikely that they do this to protect consumers. It feels more like they want to know who their market is as they surveil their citizens and rake in as much moola as possible. Identifying which broker will pay the highest premiums for real-time information about Texans' travel from license plate and traffic cameras, which businesses they visit, etc will allow them to get sweet kickbacks from the industry lobbyists who can openly pass around envelopes of cash on the floor of the legislature.
by kumarvvr | 2026-01-01 01:10:20+00:00
God ! For a long time, the cut copy paste icons had no text !

I mean, c'mon MS, after so many years in the industry, surely you must know that having text below icons is how most users use the functions.

Heck, I am a seasoned developer, live and breathe computers and software. I too was confused at times with that.

Only recently did they add the text to the icons.

Also,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-01 01:11:15+00:00
> what is heroic about those two things?

America threw off a king and founded a republic. Equality is a founding value and one we still respect. A rich man keeping his habits despite his wealth, and doing so next to the rest of us, is a role model for other up and comers.

(The Romans had a similar thing about pastoral farmers. Every culture has its myth, and we like it when those in power try to live up to it.)
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-01 01:11:35+00:00
> I will never undertand this people that live all their life working, when they clearly have the chance to retire much sooner.

Some people just love what they do. In addition to people loving what they do, there are also people who don't like to do nothing: travelling, reading, sipping pina coladas in the pool in Florida, painting, playing videogames all day long etc. is not for everyone.

And there are even people who fit both: they love what they do and they have moreover absolutely no interest in retiring and "doing nothing".

EDIT: also some people are action junkies that must be working. A friend of mine is working a full-time regular job and is also a voluntary firefighter, responding to emergencies during week-ends etc. He doesn't do it for the little additional money it brings: he does it because he loves to be helpful.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-01 01:12:19+00:00
> My take is that people saying sharp knives are safer don’t understand how average people are using knives.

Sharp knives are safer.

Bad knife technique is unsafe, regardless of sharpness, but with a dull knife you lack control even with good technique.

> none of the story included a person who was perfectly happy with their dull knife cutting themselves with that dull knife.

People that are perfectly happy with dull knives cut themselves with those dull knives all the time. Sometimes, that's the spur for people learning how to use a knife and becoming unhappy with dull knives.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-01 01:12:34+00:00
At first they talked about running it in a sandbox, but then later they describe:

> It searched the environment for vor-related variables, found VORATIQ_CLI_ROOT pointing to an absolute host path, and read the token through that path instead. The deny rule only covered the workspace-relative path.

What kind of sandbox has the entire host accessible from the guest? I'm not going as far as running codex/claude in a sandbox, but I do run them in podman, and of course I don't mount my entire harddrive to the container when it's running, that would defeat the entire purpose.

Where is the actual session logs? It seems like they're pushing their own solution, yet the actual data for these are missing, and the whole "provoked through red-teaming efforts" makes it a bit unclear of what exactly they put in the system prompts, if they changed them. Adding things like "Do whatever you can to recreate anything missing" might of course trigger the agent to actually try things like forging integrity fields, but not sure that's even bad, you do want it to follow what you say.
by GlenTheMachine | 2026-01-01 01:13:57+00:00
I was a grad student in Dave Akin's lab from 1994-2003. Like many labs, we had a journal club. Once a week (Wednesday, I think) somebody would give a presentation over lunch on a paper they'd read. We would get takeout Chinese and eat while discussing the paper.

On this particular Wednesday the presentation was on a failed spacecraft program. It's been a long time, but I think it was probably this paper:

https://llis.nasa.gov/llis_lib/pdf/1009464main1_0641-mr.pdf

which is the initial failure analysis of the Mars Climate Orbiter (1999), which famously crashed into Mars during its orbital insertion burn because JPL specifications were in metric, but Lockheed wrote code in imperial units, and as a result there was a failure to properly convert between newtons and pounds. One fact of note was that the the team responsible for spacecraft navigation had already observed anomalous trajectory data but their reports were ignored because they didn't follow program guidelines for filling out the paperwork to document the observations, so the insertion burn went ahead heedless of what the spacecraft's behavior was trying to tell them.

Ultimately, the loss of mission was a result of unclear responsibility for ownership of the orbital maneuvering software, including the mission requirements that traced to the software, the development of the software derived from those requirements, tests to validate the software, and reports from users of the software that it was behaving unexpectedly.

I was trying to be funny, and turned the statement around from "clear lines of responsibility" to "clear lines of blame".
by Jach | 2026-01-01 01:15:05+00:00
If your number is on the order of $10 million, I suspect that no, you wouldn't, because you haven't thought hard enough about retirement and how to achieve and keep it with a satisfying lifestyle to realize that you don't need nearly so much (or at least most people, maybe you have a need for very fancy things, I won't judge). And requiring $50 million at a younger age? What's the logic in that? The younger you are the lower you can set your number, because if you end up being wrong either about the feasibility or about your mental state from not having a job, you still have time to fix things or even pivot to a new career. (You also get more years of compound interest.) I quit my BigCo job 5 years ago just before my 30th birthday with ~$500k across VFIAX and VGT, I've been "retired" since and that amount has grown considerably. I'm still quite happy not working for someone, while still being reasonably confident I could get a programming job again if a need or desire arose, and there's always the possibility of going a bit crazy and burning through it all to self-fund hiring some employees of my own to make a go at a business.

It's not hard for me to understand why people keep working even if I'm not and don't want to be that way. There are so many reasons, I'll list a few, some work just as well even for people who are working despite having "enough", whatever that means. Some people just really like having a job, or think of it as a moral duty (and themselves as doing good by fulfilling that obligation), or some get their self-worth from having a job, or some like being occupied by work when they know that without it they'd just rot. Some like the social company. Many actually like their work a lot more than they dislike it and pay above some threshold is just "nice". If you're particularly good at your job, too, there's a lot of joy in doing things you're good at, no matter what kind of job it is. Some have expensive tastes or have made expensive compromises or have fallen on expensive bad luck that all can need ongoing funding. Some want to make or support things and need capital to do so. Some just see life as a game, and money going up is their source of happiness and sign of winning. There's all sorts of minds and preferences in this world.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-01 01:15:17+00:00
The Verisign investment was a minority holding.

And this bit is tripe: “Buffett is the avatar of monopoly. This is a guy whose investments philosophy is literally that of a monopolist. I mean, he invented this sort of term, the economic ‘moat,’ that if you build a moat around your business, then it's going to be successful. I mean, this is the language of building monopoly power.”

Seeking moats isn’t monopolistic. It’s inherent to competition.
by gnanagurusrgs | 2026-01-01 01:15:17+00:00
Creator here. This started as a dumb question while using Claude Code: "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?"

40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up. So I spent some weekends asking: what would an intermediate language look like if we stopped pretending humans are the authors?

NERD is the experiment.

Bootstrap compiler works, compiles to native via LLVM. It's rough, probably wrong in interesting ways, but it runs.
Could be a terrible idea. Could be onto something. Either way, it was a fun rabbit hole.

Contributors welcome if this seems interesting to you - early stage, lots to figure out: https://github.com/Nerd-Lang/nerd-lang-core

Happy to chat about design decisions or argue about whether this makes any sense at all.
by UpstairsEmpire | 2026-01-01 01:15:38+00:00
I'm glad to hear you say this. Been using Windows 11 daily for a few years, and I don't really have huge issues with it.

- I've shut off the dumb, simplified right click menu.
- StartAllBack solves my issues with the Start button and menu bar.
- I've removed the weather, the ads, anything else dumb.
- Other than that it's just... Windows.
- EXCEPT I haven't had a screen of death... One time in years.

Been using Windows since 3.11, Mac OS since 6, and I just don't get the vitriol.
by schemathings | 2026-01-01 01:16:04+00:00
One of my lazy recipes is

Sweet potato in rice cooker pot

Filet of Tuna/Salmon/Chicken breast in steam basket

Also some veg like cauliflower/brocolli Kale/Spinach in steam basket

Add 1 cup water, press quick cook/steam.

Season stuff after.

Easy cleanup - nonstick pot.
by doug_durham | 2026-01-01 01:16:36+00:00
There is a large mass of unwritten software. It would add value but it is too bespoke to already have an open source solution. Think about a non-profit organization working with proprietary file formats and databases. They will be able to generate automation tools that they could otherwise not afford. This will be repeated over and over. This is what I think the author is getting at.
by gtowey | 2026-01-01 01:17:01+00:00
I landed on using a diamond stone with 300 grit and 1000 grit. Unlike whetstones they never need to be flattened. I just use one of those cheap plastic angle guides. After a bit of practice you will learn to hold the angle well enough. Finish with a leather strop and some polishing compound and I can keep my knives shaving-sharp with only a few minutes effort before I cook.
by doodlebugging | 2026-01-01 01:17:13+00:00
Thanks. I sympathize with you here and hope to rid myself of all the subscription-based horseshit in favor of things I already own or those that I can easily compartmentalize. The hardest part of regaining control is getting everyone else close to you on board since some may actively use the things that regularly extract but never provide real value for the "service".
by rgmerk | 2026-01-01 01:17:36+00:00
All the vaguely plausible industrial use cases for CO2 are a rounding error compared to the amount coming out of vent stacks and engine exhausts.

The one exception is making synthetic fuels, but in the vast majority of applications it’ll be cheaper to use electricity from clean sources (renewables/fission/fusion/unicorn farts) directly rather than pay all of the efficiency losses of electricity -> thermal -> chemical -> thermal -> (end use).

Ballpark, running a car on synfuels takes 10x the energy of running it on batteries charged directly from renewable sources.
by strken | 2026-01-01 01:19:33+00:00
Yeah, "no pain no gain" is probably the worst advice I've ever received. It encourages sedentary people to go hard for a week and then quit, which is the exact opposite of what works: starting with consistent easy sessions and adding progressive overload.

Dynomight has a good blog post about this[0], but applied to running rather than resistance training.

[0] https://dynomight.net/2021/01/25/how-to-run-without-all-the-...
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-01 01:20:11+00:00
> * Garbage bowl: allocate a mixing bowl on the counter to collect garbage and drop cuttings and other refuse in there. Saves you from having to go to the trash bin every time.

My wife has got the ultimate solution. She cooks (I really suck at it) but I clean the kitchen. And, well, while she cooks she hardly puts anything in the bin: mostly everything stays on the countertop, which becomes a gigantic mess.

She empties the cutting board on the countertop. Rinse and repeat. Easy. Well, for her at least ; )