MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsoukase | 2026-01-07 23:37:54+00:00
Greenland is extremely and much more than to any other country important to the US . Close geographical proximity, similarity with and existent experience from Alaska, bridge to sensitive regions of Russia and in the end of the tunnel a rich underground that hardly any other can extract. Ongoing climate improvement play a role, may be definitive. The potential take over is relatively easy (not like Canada): 50000 indigenous people that can be bribed, terrorised, forced or persuaded. Denmark is more like a distant relative than a mother nation. It will be a fascinating scene.
by Plasmoid | 2026-01-07 23:38:06+00:00
Because:

> Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking)

Given that renting out property you own doesn't meet this definition it can categorically not be called rent seeking. I'm always shocked that people apply this definition exclusively to property rentals, and not VHS rentals, without seeing the hypocrisy.
by sleepless02 | 2026-01-07 23:38:08+00:00
I just published the 2026 Edition of The Ultimate Guide to AI Testing.

Software testing is undergoing its most significant transformation since the invention of Selenium in 2004. For twenty years, we moved from manual, error-prone clicking to brittle, script-based automation. In 2026, that script has flipped.

I wrote this guide because the "Maintenance Trap" is killing engineering velocity. When teams spend 40% of their time fixing broken tests instead of building new features, the system is broken.

This guide covers the shift from Automated Testing to Autonomous Testing.

Key sections include:

• How Agentic AI is replacing legacy script maintenance.

• The 5 core capabilities of a modern AI test platform.

• Why teams are seeing a 70% reduction in maintenance time.

• How to transition your QA team into Quality Architects.

If you are still wrestling with flaky tests and hardcoded waits, this is for you.
by barrkel | 2026-01-07 23:38:11+00:00
The shorthand makes inline style more ergonomic, so you can see the wood for the trees, rather than long strings of style attributes in your markup.

Inline style is the thing. That's what tailwind is enabling in a readable way. And inlined style is what makes style more maintainable and less susceptible to override rot.

The separation between form and function is always a bit illusionary, but particularly so with CSS. Almost all markup is written to look a specific way, not a configurable way.
by belorn | 2026-01-07 23:38:17+00:00
The primary argument in favor of TPM's is the desire to assert against tampering to the boot system, and as a secondary effect it can be one of the solutions to reduce the need for users to type in passwords.

You can still use crypto without a TPM, including with full disk encryption, and for LUKS specifically you can use multiple passwords and mechanisms to unlock the system. Different solutions will give different benefits and drawbacks. Me and a friend wrote a remote password provider for Debian called Mandos which uses machines on the local network as a way for unattended boots. It does not address the issue of tampering with the bios/boot loader, but for the primary purpose of protecting against someone stealing the server/disks it serves the purpose of allowing us to use encrypted disk without drawbacks of typing in passwords, and the backup server, itself with encrypted disks, handles the risk of needing recovery passwords. At most one needs to have an additional backup key installed for the backup server.
by VanshPatel99 | 2026-01-07 23:38:17+00:00
Sorry to say but I see a lot of ill informed takes here on sugar, fats and their 'correlation' with CVD.

To put it bluntly, jut eat maintenance calories with most of it coming from good protein sources and eat good amount of fibre. No, dietary cholesterol isn't gonna kill you, nor is sugar but obviously that doesn't mean you eat tons of them.

And the most important is enough sleep and WORKOUTTTT. 240 min of cardio and resistant training combined. Is that a lot to do?

Why do you need to optimize each and every aspect of each nutrition? "Oh, I don't eat meat because it is correlated to heart disease, so I consume dairy. Oh wait it isnt exactly digestible so I consume vegetables. Oh wait, I will have to eat like KGs and Kgs of veggies to meet the nutrient requirement. Oh wait, that means I am eating tons of carbs". How about you stop brushing your ego and just keep it simple by having a sense of number of calories you want and then eat enough protein from natural sources.

Yeah, for sure if you have any beliefs which prevents you from eating something then by all means find alternatives and have processed food. Processed food is not necessarily bad. Whey protein is processed but it is very important for vegetarians. What grinds my gears is this push to find the ideal diet. Vegans hate carnivores. Carnivores make fun of vegans for eating veggies. Like bro, shut up.
by quantummagic | 2026-01-07 23:38:50+00:00
The standalone download worked great on Linux after compiling ironwail. It really looks great, having to choose whether to walk through the easy, normal, or hard doors in game to set the difficulty level was a nice touch i'd never seen before.

In case anyone tries to play it with a Logitech F310 game pad on Linux, it crashed for me unless +joy_rumble 0 was set on the ironwail command line.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:39:09+00:00
Tariffs on products like lumber and cabinetry were introduced or raise on January 1st of this year. It's an additional factor that will make a bad situation worse.

You can't tell me that increasing the pricing of construction materials won't have negative pressure on home construction.

> Materials may make up say 60% of the cost of a house, but only 50% of this is likely materials, with likely a minority of the materials tariffed.

And where does the construction equipment come from? The parts to repair that construction equipment? The parts that go into the trucks that the workers drive to the job site?

Focusing on a single input is myopic when the tariffs are so widespread that they touch everything.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-07 23:39:19+00:00
It was designed mostly for mechanisms where in the event of certain changes (BIOS upgrades, certain other firmware changes, some OS changes) there is a fallback mechanism to unlock the system and reset the key. This is why Windows BitLocker is so insistent about you saving your key somewhere else - if you do a BIOS update and it can’t decrypt, it’ll require your copy of the key and then reset the TPM-encrypted copy with the new BIOS accounted for.

A TPM’s primary function works by hashing things during the boot process, and then telling the TPM to only allow a certain operation if hashes X & Z don’t change. Depending on how the OS/software uses it, a whole host of things that go into that hash can change: BIOS updates being a common one. A hostile BIOS update can compromise the boot process, so some systems will not permit automatic decryption of the boot drive (or similar things) until the user can confirm that they have the key.
by Plasmoid | 2026-01-07 23:39:38+00:00
But rent-seeking isn't renting. They're different terms that don't have anything to do with each anymore.

> Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking)

This definition doesn't overlap with renting.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-07 23:39:44+00:00
Im suprised that nobody else has mentioned it, but back in the 90's "self-hyonosis" was briefly popular and it sounds like that's what the author is rediscovering.

Its basically guided meditation with visualization, but you guide yourself. It does exactly this, but faster, once you master it. It also allows you to fall asleep quickly.

Search "stair step induction" for a quick example to try out.
by sidrag22 | 2026-01-07 23:39:53+00:00
agree with the people that say you are moving the goal posts, but to answer this question anyway...

As someone who lifted for a good handful of years, there are a few reasons i used protein powder, it was a very affordable way to add 25-50g of protein and some random fruits or peanut butter or whatever(i'd usually blend up a shake).

It was also a good way as someone who struggles to eat a surplus, to hit my goals as it just went down way easier than an additional full meal.

It is ALSO easier to cut weight and maintain protein goals by utilizing simply water and protein powder.

when it came time for me to cut, im simply swapping milk for water, and removing the peanut butter, and suddenly that "meal" is ~400 calories less.

So the very simple answer? convenience/affordability.
by BanAntiVaxxers | 2026-01-07 23:39:59+00:00
You could have three parts to this "black box".

Part A emulates a USB drive to Device A.

Part B emulates a USB drive to Device B.

Part C is the eventually-consistent synchronizer. It can "see" into Part A and Part B.

If file exists on A but not B, copy the file from A to B.
If file exists on B but not A, copy the file from B to A.

To each device, the files magically show up.

To resolve conflicts, it would have to do it based on timestamps.

The synchronizer could be anything. Heck, it could even be rsync. This device could be 3 Raspberry Pi's crammed into a single box.

I would happily pay $100 or so for a device that could do this.
by parliament32 | 2026-01-07 23:40:04+00:00
> defined as those who, based on a recommended daily 2,200 calorie-diet, eat more than four ounces... daily.

This sounds like.. not very much. I eat 6-7oz of ground beef with breakfast alone, pretty much daily! Are people really eating less than ~1/2 cup of meat over all their meals combined?
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-07 23:41:01+00:00
> because their properties get leveraged, instrumentalized, and securitized, with derivative products, speculation, and all sorts of incentives that you don't normally want operating in the arena of housing.

I assume that you are already aware that regular home buyers use debt, and, thus lots(!) of leverage to buy their homes. The average down payment for first time buyers in the US is about 10%. That is a lot of leverage! Probably much more than corporate buyers of residential homes.

> instrumentalized

What does this term mean? I have never seen it before. My spell checker does recognize it as a word.

> securitized

Regular home buyers almost always enter into borrowing agreements with their bank that fit loan buying programmes with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This allows for most of these loans to be securitized into MBS.

> with derivative products

Can you give an example scenario / product? Else, this feels like handwaving. CDS on MBS is an absolutely tiny market these days.

> speculation

There is already plenty of speculation from regular home buyers in the US. Do you have any suggestions to reduce the existing speculation by these regular buyers?
by p-e-w | 2026-01-07 23:41:04+00:00
Yeah, that quote just reads like the typical “everyone is an idiot except me” attitude that pervades the tech world.

Of course people visiting a website specifically designed for evaluating LLMs do try all kinds of specific things to specifically test for weaknesses. There may be users who just click on the response with more emojis, but I strongly doubt they are the majority on that particular site.
by hdra | 2026-01-07 23:41:26+00:00
i bought Tailwind UI years ago and have barely used it outside of like a couple of abandoned side projects. I bought it knowing that is going to happen because it is a one-time payment, and the idea of supporting the project/Adam is prob a bigger factor that the product.

I definitely wont even consider it if its a subscription.

Selling UI components is a hard sell to begin with - i think they made the right decision with a one-time point payment at that higher price point. If it were a subscription, i probably would've cancelled it within 2 or 3 months.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:41:33+00:00
I've worked in new construction previously.

It's so much easier than the renovation work I'm doing.

> Try and do a new build of literally any structure and get back to me. Or worse, a construction type that is not the regional default for whatever it is you're doing.

Please don't be so condescending. I'm talking about my experience with home building in a thread about building homes. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with whatever you were building, but we're talking about homes.
by impossiblefork | 2026-01-07 23:41:44+00:00
I read an excellent parallel Greek and English translation when I was a kid, probably the one in the Loeb Classical Library.

They probably had this attitude, but I didn't find it objectionable at all, and I'm not a native English speaker. If a 19-year old engineering student can't read that, even in his own language, what's the point? The guy's a bore.

I think it's probably better to just read them having picked them off a bookshelf than in a class though.
by protocolture | 2026-01-07 23:41:50+00:00
You can use the vendor supported wakewords, and they are generally pretty good.

However-> These are device specific. The devices I purchased for this purpose have very few vendor supported wakewords, but even more prominently, refuse to integrate with HA. Possible firmware issue, but I have reloaded the firmware 30 times. I dont necessarily want to purchase something else for this purpose. Which is where building a bespoke HA audio box becomes its own can of worms.

But if you want a custom wake word, or more like a wake phrase, you go down a rabbit hole of training/cost/memory etc that starts to get annoying fast.

I kind of know I am being unreasonable. I dont want a device that just ships off everything it hears to an LLM, even local, that would suck. I just want a third way.

Then theres other stuff. Like HA has a hard time with providing context to an LLM, because it sends the whole conversation thus far off to the LLM for context. It can get really weird really quickly. This caused me a lot of issues with lights for example. It would remember switching a light on, and if that was in the context, would refuse to switch it on a second time if it turned off due to a rule or manual intervention. But if you dont send the context, you cant have deeper conversations. You cant ask subsequent questions basically.
by tukarsdev | 2026-01-07 23:42:00+00:00
It makes it look realistic with their likeness and body shape though, so it's not merely "pasting" from photos of other people. And quite honestly I find it morally objectionable to have a tool that makes violating consent and bodily autonomy so trivial. Filters exist, they should be used. It's nothing like photoshop. It runs on their servers, using their software, and then is uploaded, by them, onto their website. Yeah I definitely hold X and grok accountable for the harm it causes. It's nothing like offline software.
by imiric | 2026-01-07 23:42:11+00:00
Not just old games. There is a trend of modern "boomer shooters" that have similar visuals and mechanics as these classics. They're fun for a while, but none of them capture me as much as these games did back then. Part of it is because the originals were groundbreaking in many ways at the time, and seeing the same game rehashed with minor changes is not that engaging IMO.

This brutalist mod pack looks incredible, though, and I might just have to give it a try.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-07 23:43:34+00:00
'BobbyJo didn't say "no margins", they said "margins would tend toward zero". Believe it or not, that is, and always has been, the entire point of competition in a free market system. Competitive pressure pushes margins towards zero, which makes prices approach the actual costs of manufacturing/delivery, which is the main social benefit of the entire idea in the first place.

High margins are transient aberrations, indicative of a market that's either rapidly evolving, or having some external factors preventing competition. Persisting external barriers to competition tend to be eventually regulated away.
by zahlman | 2026-01-07 23:44:11+00:00
The founders have not been around for years.

The remaining community understands perfectly well why people have left. It's just deemed irrelevant.

Way too many people joined the site, way too quickly, based on a false understanding of the intended premise. Gradually they filtered themselves out as they realized the mistake. Those few who saw value in the actual idea remained.

It was always going to be relatively few people who truly want to participate in something like that. And that's fine. Ideas don't have to be popular to be worthwhile or valid.
by observationist | 2026-01-07 23:44:26+00:00
I don't mean to convey that it's intentional. There's no conspiracy of cigar smoking financiers in tuxedos smoking cigars in dark rooms. It's just like the Carlin observation - there doesn't have to be a big conspiracy. They just know what's good for them.

They behave accordingly. The do things that they can, and because those things are relatively new, it's a type of information asymmetry and policy / good intentions / competence arbitrage that we haven't had to cope with before.

You might end up banning certain types of institutional participation in the housing market, because there's no way to protect against the negative consequences that doesn't have even worse consequences for either the participants or the population at large.

It'll probably have to be arbitrary, and the cost will be a bunch of firms no longer get the opportunity to make a bunch of money by leveraging their resources in that way.

And we see the influence and impact constantly, with outlandish asking prices being immediately met by institutions that have decided they want a particular property in a particular region. Or house prices being set to an outlandish level with no reduction in price over months and months on the market, because they can afford to sit and wait for the market to change. And if they can afford to do that, then all of a sudden they've got an incentive to drive prices up in that region, because local and state governments, banks, and realtors tend to use the same basic rubric to evaluate price. If a lower valued area sees home prices go up, properties in the higher valued area will be raised accordingly. There's no secret quant voodoo, it's just using a level of liquidity and staying power not accessible to non-institutional homeowners.

Supply and demand normally influence pricing feedback at much more granular levels which benefits individuals, and our policy and regulation and evaluation models are largely built around those assumptions. Without the negative feedback driving prices down, bad things happen for consumers, good things happen for those who already have lots of money and property.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-07 23:44:37+00:00
The TPM was never designed to be the only holder of a key that cannot be reset. The idea was that it prevents you from typing in a password or reseting an attestation signature in a database for 99% of boots, but if certain things in the boot process change (as determined by the firmware, the CPU, the OS, and the application using the TPM) it’s designed to lock you out so those things cannot change without anyone’s notice.

For that purpose they’re pretty good, though there are advantages to a more signature-oriented boot security option like Apple’s Secure Enclave. But that only works so well because Apple simply doesn’t permit altering parts of the macOS boot process. For Windows/Linux, you have a variety of hardware, firmware, and OS vendors all in the mix and agreeing on escrow of keys for all of them is hard.
by tensor | 2026-01-07 23:44:51+00:00
Yes, but look at the comments. Americans are obsessed with meat. They actively believe that mostly meat diets are somehow much more healthy than mostly carb and vegetable diets.

None of them want to eat only grains and vegetables, and meat is both the most expensive food and also the most damaging to the environment, which I guess is a second thing Americans seem not to care about.
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-07 23:44:53+00:00
Fortunately I live in a country where one cannot be denied insurance, but yeah I didnt think of these really, was a bit of a “typed before i really thought” moment maybe i should put the keyboard down ;).

It seems like an easy fix with legislation, at least outside the US, though. Mandatory insurance for all with reasonable banded rates, and maximum profit margins for insurers?
by myk9001 | 2026-01-07 23:44:55+00:00
I don't feel like discussing my personal situation on the Internet. And was careful not to imply otherwise.

That said, I was considering relocating to Germany and researching the country as best I could. I do prefer European lifestyle, but the salaries are just a non-starter.

You can easily check the numbers I give though. Any specific mistakes there?

Btw, why are you so defensive about the fact comp is so low in Europe?

> your math is not mathing really (what 20% downpayment?).

> what 20% downpayment?

20% downpayment is generally expected by German banks if you want to take out a mortgage. Don't take my word for it, check yourself.

500K Eur x 0.2 / (12 * 1K Eur) = 8.3 years.
Show HN: app to find the best methods to achieve any goal by reviewing publicly
by arthurstarlake | 2026-01-07 23:44:55+00:00
Every content, digital or not, ever created can be more generally thought of as an answer to the question “how to be happy?”. We all want to be happy. Why are we not using anything we consume (e.g. social media) to be happy? Because sometimes we consume it with no goal. If we put the goal first and derive everything from there, we will be happier.

I started from that thought and built True Path Finder from it, a tool to facilitate collaboratively finding the truth about what will take a person from one state to another, using a very generic method:
1. Anyone can post any goal they have, or try publicly posted goals.
2. Anyone can try publicly posted methods to achieve that goal, or post their own.
3. Users try the methods and share their experiences as reviews. Repeated reviews are enabled and encouraged, to understand how their experience changes.
4. Users learn about each other’s experiences and may find a better method to achieve their goals.

There's a mode called "My Cave" in which you can do all that but privately. Following the cave analogy prompted me to make subsequent page's background color darker, and also making it so that you can only exit the cave through the page you entered. It was fun :) I hope it helps make it extra clear when you are interacting publicly or privately with the app, since everything else looks the same.

There are also "events" which anyone can create on any method, which are scheduled in advance, people RSVP to, and have 3 phases: Arrival, Practice and Close. A text chat is enabled only in the Arrival and Close phases. The text chat is accesible only in batches of 7 to 21 people, to ensure focused community discussion and allow the group to self-moderate. If all batches are full and a group would have 6 or less people, they would be allowed in full batches.

These events allow people to ask focused questions, reflect, foster community and discipline. They also avoid long asynchronous discussion which may distract from achieving goals. There's a 21 min daily limit for using the app, to drive the point further :)

There's a guest mode available so that you can do everything except post public reviews and chat in events unless you create an account.