MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjav | 2026-01-08 12:22:43+00:00
> Point is, it’s a great way to make money and that is why people become landlords.

If it is, why not do it and become rich too?

It's not really a particularly good way to make money. I've run the numbers on hundreds of properties over the last two decades and I've yet to find a scenario where I could buy something and rent it out with enough profit to be worth the hassle. You'll be much better off investing in some index fund instead.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 12:23:22+00:00
You know this is what I fucking hate about doctors. They think they’re so great but there really humanlike the rest of us.

The proper decorum here is if the doctor made the wrong diagnosis. All fees and causal charges made by the doctor must be fully refunded and paid for. It’s only fair given the premium they were originally given to make a false diagnosis.
by adriand | 2026-01-08 12:23:23+00:00
CC works amazingly well but I agree the permissions stuff is buggy and annoying. I have had times where it’s repeatedly asked me for permission for something I had already cleared, then I got frustrated and said “no” to the prompt, then asked it, “why are you asking me for permission for things I’ve already granted?” Then it said “sorry” and stopped asking. I might be naive but don’t we want permissions to be a deterministic, procedural component rather than something the AI gets to decide?
by 3dsnano | 2026-01-08 12:23:35+00:00
this is a lazy take. all software has bugs and defects.

part of what we do, as developers is to learn. to have an open mind to new tools and technologies.

these tools are… different, they’re changing the world (fast), and worth trying to understand. your mental rigidity to doing things “the right way” will hold you back and limit your growth. the world is changing. are you?
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 12:24:02+00:00
All of the recent “Shai-Hulud” attack waves leveraged build-time execution, since it’s a reliable way to actually execute code on a target (unlike putting the payload in the dependency itself, since the dependency’s own code might not run until much later.)

Sandboxing would be a useful layer of defense, but it’s not a trivial one to add to ecosystems where execution on the host is already the norm and assumption.
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 12:24:28+00:00
Maybe they are, but for most of my interactions with GP's in recent years, and several with specialists, for anything much beyond the very basics, I've had to educate them, and it didn't require much knowledge to exceeds theirs on specific conditions.

In one case, a specialist made arguments that were trivially logically fallacious and went directly against the evidence from treatment outcomes.

In other cases, sheer stupidity of pattern matching with rational thinking seemingly totally turned off. E.g. hearing I'd had a sinus infection for a long time, and insisting that this meant it was chronic and chronic meant the solution was steroids rather than antibiotic, despite a previous course having done nothing, and despite the fact that an antibiotic course had removed most of the symptoms both indicating the opposite - in the end, after bypassing my GP at the time and explaining and begging an advance nurse practitioner, I got two more courses of antibiotic and the infection finally fully went.

I'm sure all of them could have done better, and that a lot of it is down to dysfunction, such as too little time allotted to actually look at things properly, but some of the interactions (the logical fallacy in particular) have also clearly been down to sheer ignorance.

I also expect they'd eventually get there, but doing your own reading and guiding things in the right direction can often short-circuit a lot of bullshit that might even deliver good outcomes in a cost effective way on a population level (e.g. I'm sure the guidance on chronic sinus issues is right the vast majority of time - most bacterial sinus infections either clear by themselves or are stopped early enough not to "pattern match" as chronic), but might cause you lots of misery in the meantime...
by TechRemarker | 2026-01-08 12:24:57+00:00
"Of course their relationship with Apple could be different, but I doubt it'll be anything like the Goldman one" I can nearly guarantee this is completely wrong. It will be just like Goldman. That's literally the point of getting the card, is do everything through Apple and Goldman is just the backbone and support (through Apple's UI). Apple's contract with Goldman was until 2030, they wouldn't let Goldman out of it unless they were able to find a new partner with same or better experience and terms. They could have choose Synchrony, etc if Chase didn't agree. And clearly Chase was willing to concede to Apple since they don't even offer high yield savings, but agreed to for Apple since thats part of their existing offerings. Right now Apple decides the Promos for Apple Card, and at most maybe Chase will have a little more involvement in those but probably not. So in realty the only real world change is probably better customer support than Sachs, and Chase may not offer higher risks customers credit or as much like Goldman did and finally they may not offer the very low APR's that Apple card is known for, for it's best customers.
by Permik | 2026-01-08 12:25:35+00:00
Huh, this seems like a cool optimization problem that I gotta dig in later.
As sweeping was mentioned, there's an argument to be made that we could/should optimize for:
- longest possible strides, you can pick up speed and minimize used time
- allowing overlapping strides on "intersections", as intersections have more traffic and thus should have more grime and wear.
- back-and-forth sweeping along a stride. Like with grass or mopping a floor, if there's any "evidence" left of the sweeping, it'll be more aesthetically more pleasing.
- finally minimizing extra turning, as turning is slow

If someone has any extra suggestions on what restrictions/optimization targets there should be and the rationale for that, I'd be more than happy to receive them!
by servo_sausage | 2026-01-08 12:25:44+00:00
We have a significant number of problems related to housing; generally I would call it a demand side issue not a supply side however.

My reasoning is we have a massive construction sector compared to other nations, with a relatively high productivity in terms of dwellings built per capita. We also have pretty slack standards, with even weaker enforcement.

In addition to that, we have a very weak growth in productivity per capita; and since we are trying to rapidly grow, we have to play catch up to provide the same level of services. This needs to happen while our construction sector is stressed, so the same amount of wealth goes a shorter distance again.

You can also see this in rental prices; negative gearing should allow the capital price to decouple from the rental yield to a larger extent than without it; but we still see high rents...
by glenstein | 2026-01-08 12:26:53+00:00
>Agribusiness absolutely makes money off of those.

I took the heart of their point to be about local food infrastructure and co-ops and farmers markets, and the grass fed bring cited insofar as it was complementary to those.

You rightly note that "grass fed" beef is effectively the same as "made with* real cheese", technically true even if it's in the parts per millions, and not at all a signal of authenticity it might seem to be at first glance. But I feel like this is all a detour from their point about local food infrastructure.
by Lio | 2026-01-08 12:27:06+00:00
Yep, as it is some sizes are easier to work with.

Domestic drill sets don't seem to be designed for tapping holes but if you stick to M3, M6 and M10 the tapping sizes do correspond with the 2.5, 5 and 8.5mm drills[1].

I guess if it was based on a ratio system you would need special tapping drills for all of them.

e.g. M4 needs a special 3.3mm tapping drill already.

1. According to my trusty Zeus tables.
by bonesss | 2026-01-08 12:27:14+00:00
Programmers have the benefit of being able to torture and kill our patients at scale (unit and integration testing), doctors less so. The diagnostic skills one hits in any given doctor may be relatively shallow, plus tired, overworked, or annoyed by a patients self expression… the results I’ve seen are commonly abysmal and care providers are never shocked by poor and misdiagnosis from other practitioners.

I have some statistically very common conditions and a family medical history with explicit confirmation of inheritable genetic conditions. Yet, if I explain my problems A to Z I’m a Zebra whose female hysteria has overwhelmed his basic reasoning and relationship to reality. Explained Z to A, well I can’t get past Z because, holy crap is this an obvious Horse and there’s really only one cause of Horse-itis and if your mom was a Horse then you’re Horse enough for Chronic Horse-itis.

They don’t have time to listen, their ears aren’t all that great, and the mind behind them isn’t necessarily used to complex diagnostics with misleading superficial characteristics. Fire that through a 20 min appointment, 10 of which is typing, maybe in a second language or while in pain, 6 plus month referral cycles and… presto: “it took a decade to identify the cause of the hoof prints” is how you spent your 30s and early 40s.
by gosub100 | 2026-01-08 12:28:57+00:00
They should have some kind of controls:

- throttle how much a new account can wager, allowing more to be placed after the account gets older

- limit double-down bets to some fraction of your initial. To reduce the benefit of last minute wagers

- end wagering at a random time before the deadline.

- ban accounts that act in concert to evade the throttling. Or charge a hefty one-time fee or escrow that you eventually get refunded
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 12:29:26+00:00
If you had enough users and demonstrated the ability to securely manage a PKI, then I don’t see why not. But if it’s just you on a server in your garage, then there would be no advantage to either you or to the ecosystem for PyPI to federate with your server.

That’s why API tokens are still supported as a first-class authentication mechanism: Trusted Publishing is simply not a good fit in all possible scenarios.
Hypocritespy(HTTPS://github.com/Ronny12345-art/Hypocritespy)
by Ronny12345-art | 2026-01-08 12:29:41+00:00
this is a spyware which does Webcam capture + microphone recording + keylogging + screenshots and sends the records to an Email . it was made for pentesting.
Author: Ronny Rogers(Mugabo Rongin)
by DrScientist | 2026-01-08 12:30:21+00:00
> Granted, I know primarily expats, so, survivor bias may apply... but still.

Exactly - the views of people who have left Cuba, Venezuelan, or Iran are typically not representative - by definition they chose or were forced to leave.

Indeed if they have left - why are their views informing armed intervention - should Italian American's force political change through American might in Italy over the people that still live in Italy?

It's all just performative - bottom line Trump doesn't care about good governance and democratic in Venezuela - indeed he has just come out against fresh elections - all he cares about is the flow of money and resources.

But this isn't something unique to Trump - just look at the history if US meddling in central and south america. Democracy and the will of the people ( whatever that is ) isn't the driving factor.

BTW totally accept Europe has a very similar past, and to some extent present - and you could argue that the fact that the EU is less involved in this sort of thing these days is a question of capacity rather than desire.

However that's rather my point - in a globalised world - the differences in power will equalise meaning whether countries like it or not just going around doing what you want is going to no longer be an option - and it's better to gracefully accept that and adjust rather than rage against the dying of the light and inviting in the four horsemen.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 12:30:24+00:00
I get where you’re coming from. I would argue the mistakes doctors make and the amount of times they are wrong literally dwarfs the amount of anti vaxers in existence.

Also the anti vax movement isn’t completely wrong. It’s now confirmed (officially) that the covid-19 vaccine isn’t completely safe and there are risks taking it that don’t exist in say something like the flu shot. The risk is small but very real and quite deadly. Source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/12/myocarditis-v... This was something many many doctors originally claimed was completely safe.

The role of LLMs is they take the human bias out of the picture. They are trained on formal medical literature and actual online anecdotal accounts of patients who will take a shit on doctors if need be (the type of criticism a doctor rarely gets in person). The generalization that comes from these two disparate sets of data is actually often superior to a doctor.

Key word is “often”. Less often (but still often in general) the generalization can be an hallucination.

Your post irked me because I almost got the sense that there’s a sort of prestige, admiration and respect given to doctors that in my opinion is unearned. Doctors in my opinion are like car mechanics and that’s the level of treatment they deserve. They aren’t universally good, a lot of them are shitty, a lot are manipulative and there’s a lot of great car mechanics I respect as well. That’s a fair outlook they deserve… but instead I see them get these levels of respect that matches mother Theresa as if they devoted their careers to saving lives and not money.

No one and I mean no one should trust the medical establishment or any doctor by default. They are like car mechanics and should be judged on a case by case basis.

You know for the parent post, how much money do you think those fucking doctors got to make a wrong diagnosis of dementia? Well over 700 for less than an hour of there time. And they don’t even have the kindness to offer the patient a refund for incompetence on their part.

How much did ChatGPT charge?
by hackpert | 2026-01-08 12:30:29+00:00
These metaphorical database analogies bug me, and from what it seems like, a lot of other people in comments! So far some of the most reasonable explanations I have found that take training dynamics into account are from Lenka Zdeborova's lab (albeit in toy, linear attention settings but it's easy to see why they generalize to practical ones). For instance, this is a lovely paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24914
by machomaster | 2026-01-08 12:30:36+00:00
1. "Establish". Stabilize the control, not temporarily visit. Similar to flying a bit in the airspace does not count as establishing a control.

2. "Establish an area" also means that the area would be big enough and control significant/independent enough in order to maintain (!) it. E.g. imagine if most of the Delta were eliminated and only one guy survived, holding a maid hostage in the toilet. That would not count because the area is small, the control is insignificant and keeping the toilet space was not the original point anyway. Similar as attacking Brazilian servers would not count only because the traffic went through Venezuela's network.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-08 12:31:28+00:00
If you think I'm a Democrat or part of any party, you don't know me.

I'm virulently anti-tribalistic and it's hurt me professionally, socially and romantically my whole life. Trust me, I've got nobody. It's a big problem.

So yeah, the tribal claim, that's just you. You're just talking about yourself
by unsupp0rted | 2026-01-08 12:31:36+00:00
Not for quota hires.

If I had a black doctor in 1995 I guarantee that’d be the top-5% of doctors.

In 2026 that’s somebody who got into med school with 2 deviations below the other candidates, which puts me at risk as their patient.

DEI was the worst thing to happen to non-white-male doctors in the history of medicine. They can be the best clinician in the world but patients won’t trust them. I’m not even sure administrators or colleagues will either.

It put the whole system at risk.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-08 12:32:13+00:00
the chinese are definitely going to pull ahead, but we're definitely not going to see US fall like that.

it's too easy to assassinate world leaders for a state sponsored government so you have to beg the question: why has nobody done it? the relative peace we have is built on top of mutual destruction and realistically US won't fall without taking most of the world with it.

the reason I believe it's easy because US SS seemingly lost their edge as there haven't been many real threats against the president to begin with. I just can't imagine that there is much any government could do against a 400-500km/h drone specialized for a 20 second mission from being to accomplish the goal, the world leader would be dead by the time anyone even registered that there is a threat.
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-08 12:32:22+00:00
I published a formal, non-clinical protocol designed to assess the legal and ethical compliance of medical decisions that directly impact a person.

It is not medical advice and not a clinical guideline.
It is a procedural framework focused on informed consent, necessity, proportionality, written justification, and traceability of responsibility.

The protocol is neutral, auditable, and applicable by third parties (patients, institutions, authorities, jurists), independent of local practices or subjective interpretation.

The goal is not to accuse, but to make decision-making structures explicit and verifiable.

https://zenodo.org/records/18184956
by belatwing | 2026-01-08 12:32:30+00:00
Business class is designed for comfort and ease. Seats are wider and offer more legroom. On many long flights, seats turn into full flat beds. This allows travelers to sleep properly, which is a major advantage on international routes. Waking up rested can change how the whole trip feels.

Food service is another key benefit. Business class meals are prepared with care and served in courses. Travelers can choose from different dishes and drinks. The experience feels calm and personal, unlike crowded economy cabins.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-08 12:32:48+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45349597

Isn't this a delightful Catch-22.

If you forewarn about a developing Fascist movement, you're simply taking away the meaning from the word until it's too late and the Fascists take power.

You cannot call anything Fascist, for there may be something more Fascist that may need the power of the word.

But ah! We couldn't call out their fledgling movement full of dog whistles and double speak so no one was aware enough to stop them as a fledgling movement!
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-08 12:33:06+00:00
"Is it possible" is the conservative choice if you don't want to get an explanation of something that in fact, cannot be done.

But it seems "is it possible" also leads it into answering "no, it can't" probably modelling a bunch of naysayers.

Sometimes, if you coax it a little bit, it will tell you how to do a thing which is quite esoteric.
by kulahan | 2026-01-08 12:33:19+00:00
It’s a pretty bad assumption. You should pay a lot more attention to Hanlon’s Razor.

I don’t know much at all about Michelle’s actions. Similarly, I don’t know much about Melania’s actions. You say she tried to - so… she didn’t do it? If not, I don’t see how this makes my comment “objectively untrue”?
by msephton | 2026-01-08 12:33:22+00:00
Indeed. I made this because I grew up with CRTs and miss that vibe. As I say on the page: it's not scientifically accurate, but it looks good, and gives the same sort of feeling. And more than that uses minimal shader code so it works well on older devices. I'm currently making a 3D game that uses this shader and it runs at 60fps an iPhone XS (2018).
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-08 12:34:26+00:00
While the over-arc of this message is good (avoid packaged and processed food) I personally don’t like the advice that these are not top tier foods: non-GMO organic whole wheat (i.e., not soaked with pesticides), brown rice, and other pesticide-free whole grains —- all in moderation.

I also don’t like the emphasis on meat protein. Small amounts of meat protein a few times a week are definitely healthy for most people, but organic (not soaked in pesticides) beans, lentils, etc. are almost certainly a healthy way to consume extra protein.

I sense the ugly hand of the meat industry in realfood.gov. I think if more people understood how (especially) chickens and pigs are tortured in meat production, it would help people who are addicted to excess meat cut back on their consumption to just what they need for good health.

EDIT: the documentary movie The Game Changers (2018) is an excellent source of information. The scenes interviewing huge muscular vegetarian NFL football players really put the lie to the ‘must have meat’ addicts. That said, I still think small amounts of meat protein are very healthy for most people.
by dominicrose | 2026-01-08 12:36:40+00:00
I got my hands on the source code of a MUD. It was incredibly flat. Most of the code was if/else and output text. The data was in flat text files as well (1 line = one unit of data, an integer, range or an element of a list, similar to a .env file). The game dumps all the data at every save. It surprised me because I tried to be clever while making my own MUD engine but the result was exactly that, an engine, not a MUD.
by apaprocki | 2026-01-08 12:36:43+00:00
Funny you mention that. I did open a joint Chase account back when I was getting married and first order of business was paying for all the wedding expenses. We went to QR, Mexico for a weekend getaway prior to the madness and because I logged into the Chase account from Mexico they not only locked the bank account, but completely closed it with no way to reopen. We had to both go to the Chase branch at which it was opened with passports and even then the manager said Chase would mail me the money in 3-6 weeks, 2-5 weeks after the wedding. I politely told him I was not leaving the building until he handed me the cash in an envelope and after some time he finally caved and did it after making some phone calls.

Most bizarre experience. Never had a bank account with Chase ever again after that incident.
by sam_goody | 2026-01-08 12:36:49+00:00
While this is nice, it is not inherently related to an A4 paper.

You could have memorized the length of a cheapo Bic pen if that is common in your area; Or a Parker or a Monte-Blanc if you carry one of those.

All recent iPhones (regular models since `03) have a width of 71.5mm. Remember that, and as long as someone near you has an iPhone, you are good to go using it as a ruler. (And people will definitely be, um, impressed).

We have in my kitchen several brands of small forks, all are 19.2mm (just checked. The large forks have a range of sizes). Next time I need to measure something I could just request a fork...