MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by subsection1h | 2026-01-14 01:47:06+00:00
> broke their workflows because of vague technical reasons

> I switched to Vivaldi

You refer to important security improvements as "vague technical reasons" and you switched to Vivaldi, a browser that is based[1] on extended stable Chromium, which is not "recommended for any team where security is a primary concern"[2].

It seems you don't care about security.

[1] https://help.vivaldi.com/android/android-privacy/security-fa...

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/p...
by hamdingers | 2026-01-14 01:47:16+00:00
> they assume that the website is adversarially "hiding" its content. They won't believe a random site when it says "Look, stop hitting our API, you can pick all of this data in one go, over in this gzipped tar file."

I'm not sure why you're personifying what is almost certainly a script that fetches documents, parses all the links in them, and then recursively fetches all of those.

When we say "AI scraper" we're describing a crawler controlled by an AI company indiscriminately crawling the web, not a literal AI reading and reasoning about each page... I'm surprised this needs to be said.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-01-14 01:48:00+00:00
Well you don't manage them. If you really find something interesting, you often start writing it down in some work already...for example `cargo new` and then add a bunch of packages, start getting it working on...

That's exactly what I've been having for the last 20 years. If something motivates you, you do it non-stop, until you are bored, switch to the next thing...it happens around 2 to 3 days during the "hype" period, then you suddenly got off to new things.

That's why I have hundreds of POCs and toy projects at hand, but only a few of them materialized.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 01:48:17+00:00
The conference sessions aren't what matters. The important thing about these kinds of industry conferences is the ability for investors, leaders, regulators, journalists, and others to meet with each other in a neutral zone. Multiple M&As are being negotiated, IPOs being considered, funds trying to raise a new vintage, and companies starting press junkets in preparation for a roadshow.

> it is possible that the entirety of California is built on top of one immensely large organism, and the particular spot in which the Westin St. Francis Hotel stands—335 Powell Street, San Francisco, 94102—is located directly above its beating heart. And that this is the primary organizing focal point for both the location and entire reason for the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Moscone Center tends to be the primary hub for industry conferences in the City (eg. RSA, Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld way back in the day), and more niche executive events are in the Four Seasons or St Regis. My hunch is that JPM has a multi-year deal with the Westin to host the conference at the Westin.
by kenjackson | 2026-01-14 01:49:01+00:00
After hearing his vitriol over the years I do see his comics and writing very differently now. As someone else said, he views everyone as idiots or below him, and needs an out group to target. Dilbert read in that light just seems hateful more than insightful or relatable. I never plan on reading any Scott Adams material for the rest of my life or introducing anyone else to it.
by krapp | 2026-01-14 01:49:57+00:00
>Is that “weird and kind of gross” too? To care about people suffering and dying even if you don’t know them personally?

I promise almost no one one here spent so much as a second being concerned about Scott Adam's health until this thread came along, and now people are acting like they lost a parent. But what they're really mourning isn't the death of a person, but the death of a brand.

Meanwhile ICE is shooting people in the face, the US is sponsoring genocide in Palestine, and real suffering and death abound but as far as Hacker News is concerned all of it's just "politics" that doesn't stimulate the intellect or curious conversation.
by treetalker | 2026-01-14 01:50:05+00:00
To begin, I simply posed a hypothetical to explore the topic.

Still, whether this (or any) federal officer violates a person's Fourth Amendment rights (by way of exercising excessive force) is subject to a standard of objective reasonableness under the circumstances. E.g., Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989). That applies regardless of state law (on account of the Supremacy Clause).
by quacker | 2026-01-14 01:50:29+00:00
Agree to disagree I guess, but IME, git history is good for low level detail, not for high level information. Git history is a poor source for understanding architecture, code organization, and other aspects of the codebase. More often, git commit messages tell me what changed - not why the change was made or who it impacted or etc.

Reading through git history should be my last resort to figure something out about the codebase. Important knowledge should be written somewhere current (comments, dev docs, etc). If there is a random value being appended to a url, at least a code comment explaining why so I don’t even have to git blame it. Yes, these sources of knowledge take some effort to maintain and sure, if I have a close-knit team on a smaller codebase, then git history could suffice. But larger, long-lived codebases with 100s of contributors over time? There’s just no possible way git history is good enough. I can’t ask new team members to read through thousands of commits to onboard and become proficient in the codebase (and certainly not 5x-10x that number of commits, if we are not squashing/rebasing feature branches into main. Although, maybe now an LLM can explain everything). So I really need good internal/dev documentation anyway, and I want useful git history but don’t care so much about preserving every tiny typo or formatting or other commit from every past feature branch.

Also iirc, with github, when I squash merge via the UI, I get a single squashed commit on main and I can rewrite the commit message with all the detail I like. The PR forever retains the commit history of the feature branch from before the squash, so I still have that feature branch history when I need it later (I rarely do) so I see no reason to clutter up history on main with the yucky feature branch history. And if I tend toward smaller PRs, which is so much nicer for dev velocity anyway, even squashed commits can be granular enough for things like bisect, blame, and so on.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-01-14 01:50:36+00:00
Caffine is quite interesting because I often got even more tired after 30 minutes drinking some coffee.

The first 30 minutes indeed got me very excited, but then I will fall asleep soon after.

The same thing happened to me right now with energy drink such as Redbull or Monster. Therefore I mostly drink them for some competitive activities that only last short hours
by asveikau | 2026-01-14 01:52:00+00:00
In some languages you can put a second person conjugation next to a noun that might otherwise use third person verbs, and it serves as implying that you are that noun. I'm not sure if older forms of English had that construct. I think many Indo-European languages do.

The part of the lord's prayer that says "our father who art in heaven" is kinda like this - father is linked to a second person conjugation. You could remove some words and make it into "father art in heaven", which you claim is ungrammatical. I'm skeptical that it was.
by furyofantares | 2026-01-14 01:52:04+00:00
Here is some text from the post

> You need to realise that if you use them, you’re both financially and socially supporting dodgy companies doing dodgy things. They will use your support to push their agenda. If these tools are working for you, we’re genuinely pleased. But please also stop using them.

> Your adoption helps promote the companies making these tools. People see you using it and force it onto others at the studio, or at other workplaces entirely. From what we’ve seen, this is followed by people getting fired and overworked. If it isn’t happening to you and your colleagues, great. But you’re still helping it happen elsewhere. And as we said, even if you fixed the labour concerns tomorrow, there are still many other issues. There’s more than just being fired to worry about.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 01:52:56+00:00
> And now, the strongest claim this blog can make is that some engineers in the US would disengage from recruiting?

The statement was specifically about top 1% engineers in Silicon Valley. That’s a very, very small subset of all engineers in the US.

The pointy end of the talent spectrum in SV is a very weird place because it has had a lot of engineers for whom work is life. Living at the office and having coworkers working 24/7 might be something they like.

I’m not condoning this or saying it’s common. It’s not common. However, once you narrow down to the extreme outliers in the long tail of talent distribution you will find a lot of people who are downright obsessive about their work. Their jobs also pay north of $1mm including equity, so spending a few years of their life 996ing on a topic they love with energized people isn’t exactly a bad deal for them.

In general, if a recruiter told an average engineer that 996 was expected that would be the end of that conversation. Average US engineers are not signing up for 996 for average compensation.
by hu3 | 2026-01-14 01:53:13+00:00
You're offering a very generous interpretation. To the point of extrapolating what's written. Allow me to exemplify:

> I genuinely don't mind if other people vibe code. Go for it!

> But that is not enough for the vocal proponents. It's the future!

The author is okay for others to voice their positive opinion about LLMs as long as it is limited to vibe coding.

It starts defining a gatekeeping threshold of what level of positive opinion is acceptable for others to have, according to the author.
by skmurphy | 2026-01-14 01:53:14+00:00
I found several Dr. Ned Hallowell's books helpful, see https://drhallowell.com/read/books-by-ned/ in particular "Delivered from Distraction" and "Answers to Distraction."

The Amen Clinics use PET scans of the brain to differentiate between seven types of ADD: https://www.amenclinics.com/conditions/adhd-add/ You may find these write-ups helpful in refining your understanding. Dr. Amen has a book that I found helpful https://www.amazon.com/Healing-ADD-Revised-Breakthrough-Prog...

I don't take stimulants beyond caffeine, I meditate most days at least once a day, which I find helpful, as well as not stay up too late. I keep a pad of paper by my bed to capture ideas. Working to music seems to help.

If you get a lot of ideas, you should reconcile yourself to only acting on a small fraction of them and worry less about all of the possibilities.

I try to take care to keep the commitments that I make, writing them down and tracking them. And here it is important to keep a close track.

I may be less impaired than you are, although many people have noticed I seem to get a lot of ideas. I collaborated with a partner on a book once, and at one point, about halfway through, he was frustrated with me and said, "You are a geyser of ideas. We don't need more ideas, we need to complete what we set out to do."
by lazylizard | 2026-01-14 01:53:29+00:00
btrfs?

this is the opensuse transactional server solution (snapper) isnt it?! -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMCoW

so rhel image mode is going the way of rpm-ostree, silverblue... but centos is going the way of opensuse microOS and snapper?
by mptest | 2026-01-14 01:54:17+00:00
also remember it's pretty much the only addiction you are compelled to partake in even when "cured". No other addiction are you biologically compelled to do it (that i can think of) but for those with addiction issues and food as one of them it's often the hardest to shake because shaking addiction is easiest done simply by never touching it. Don't have that option with food. Even healthy food can be eaten in excess.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-14 01:55:06+00:00
Full genome sequencing biotech companies don't make any sense. There already exist ways to cheaply ($200-500) do full sequence genomes, analyze and store them. All the benefits of such a thing are obvious to everyone in the industry. The problem is totally a cultural one, that is, every genome company is a B2C company in disguise. Regardless of what its founders say.

That means success in that space must deliver something far greater than a clever ad creative, which is already very, very hard to do. Given the trends in legal restrictions, making full genome sequencing a cultural norm is as difficult as winning an election.

So here's my feedback to you: the document you wrote that I just skimmed through doesn't seem to me as something that reads as "electable." It doesn't read as "creative" either - so even making the ad creative, campaign, whatever you want to call it, will be very hard. I cannot wrap my mind around so much negativity about biotech R&D, which is fundamentally motivated by the fact that people will pay very large amounts of money to live healthy, unconstrained lives. I'm jumping past all the other stuff here - of course this is a real conference, there isn't that much drama to it, and elected officials, political appointees, chief commercialization officers and other non-science people gather at lots of places to talk, of course there are going to be side meetings. I don't know what it says about California or Massachusetts or fundraising.
by bawolff | 2026-01-14 01:55:16+00:00
> What I "fear" from LLMs-in-coding is that they will provide an unlimited flow of "mess around until it works" drudgery tasks with none of the upside.

I feel like its very true to the hacker spirit to spend more time customizing your text editor than actually programming, so i guess this is just the natural extension.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 01:55:34+00:00
There are unionized engineer jobs in the United States. Every time this conversation comes up people act like we don’t have any unions, but that’s not true. There are unionized engineering jobs.

One of them even tried striking a couple years ago, quite publicly. They ended the strike a couple days later without gaining anything.

I think American engineers know their situation and options better than you think.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-14 01:56:08+00:00
It only applies regardless of state law to the extent that the officer is both up to and at that point acting without malice in an objectively reasonable belief that that there actions are within their lawful federal duties (not merely the policy directives and goals of the federal superiors), because otherwise Supremacy Clause immunity does not apply, and state law controls fully.

Given ICE's very narrow jurisdiction (despite their current aggressive actions and the clear approval of their federal executive superiors for that aggression) this is a real concern about their content even before the shooting.
by jen20 | 2026-01-14 01:56:55+00:00
> The average consumer needs to be educated that if a remote server can brick a device you have already paid money for, you do not own it. It has been leased.

This isn't even the case: generally leased things have to work for some defined period of time ("the least period").

I also think a distinction should be drawn between things bricked because they require a server connection, vs devices bricked because the rightful owner has chosen to do so because they have been stolen.
by themk | 2026-01-14 01:57:27+00:00
From what you just wrote, it appears you misunderstood what I said. Just to be clear:

Red kidney beans (50g): PDCAAS = 0.88, Protein = 11.25g
Basmati rice (50g): PDCAAS = 0.7, Protein = 4.5g

Red beans + rice (50g, 50g): PDCAAS = 1.0, Protein = 15.75g

Milk (500g..): PDCAAS = 1.0, Protein = 15.5g

So, from a protein perspective (according to PDCAAS), 500g of milk will give you the same amount of usable protein as the 100g rice and beans meal. There is nothing left on the table.

So, just eating kidney beans, PDCAAS would say that you aren't really getting the full benefit of the "protein on the label". But once you combine it with rice, you are getting the full benefit (according to PDCAAS).

You can't look at the digestibility of the two foods in isolation to make the calculations.

As long as you are eating a varied diet, PDCAAS is pretty pointless. If you have an eating disorder, or food scarcity issues, then it might become important.
by BurningFrog | 2026-01-14 01:57:35+00:00
That makes a certain kind of sense.

Then again looking at the table, laptop, and protein drink in front of me, I know that many people were involved in making and shipping them. Some were quite possibly rapists, racists and/or worse.

And I don't find myself caring at all.

This is something special about art, isn't it?
by tptacek | 2026-01-14 01:57:43+00:00
I'm unhappy to have had to watch a Scott Adams video to confirm this but that video appears to say the opposite of what this thread says: it says he was on exactly the course of hormone blockers his oncologist recommended (he put it off some indeterminate amount of time because he believed they wouldn't buy him much time, but they also alleviated his symptoms).
by CapsAdmin | 2026-01-14 01:57:55+00:00
I think maybe we're talking past each other then. I'm saying I don't agree with the argument that music necessarily needs to have a story to be widely consumed in a positive way.

While I personally like it when people put their heart and soul into something, even if the result is technically not very great, it's society who is the ultimate judge of whether that creation benefits them or not.

I know that the track I'm currently listening to is superior in every way to some modern pop song. The artists have practiced for decades, they have their own unique style I can recognize in other tracks. But I also know that 99.999% of people don't give a shit and think it's noisy music, and depending on your perspective, they're correct.
by sltkr | 2026-01-14 01:58:42+00:00
Are you referring to Imane Khelif? The allegation is not that she is transgender, but that she is male. And based on what is publicly known now, this almost certainly true. JK Rowling was right.

(There is a bit of confusion around this topic, due to how different groups use the term transgender. Gender activists generally use transgender to mean anyone who identifies as a different gender than the one assigned at birth; laypeople tend to use the term to mean any person who identifies as a different gender than their sex at birth. The difference matters in cases where a biological male is assigned female at birth [or vice versa], as is likely the case for Imane Khelif: in that case, gender activists would consider Khelif intersex but not transgender, since her gender identity as a woman matches her gender assigned at birth, despite the fact that she is biologically male.)

To recap for those who have not been following along: Imane Khelif is an Algerian boxer who was assigned female at birth and raised as a girl. She was disqualified from the female division by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after failing two gender verification tests, performed in Turkey and India. The IBA has ties to Russia, and amidst sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cut ties with the IBA, and no longer recognized their eligibility judgments. Since the IOC does not perform sex tests of their own, Khelif was allowed to compete and win gold in the women's division at the 2024 Olympics.

The argument that the IBA was lying about the sex tests was always quite weak, since it's not clear what the motivation would be: Algeria has traditionally been an ally of Russia rather than the West.

But the confirmation that the IBA was right came in 2025, when Imane Khelif refused to take the sex test required to participate in the 2025 world championships. Those were organized by World Boxing, an American organization, and held in the UK. They required sex testing performed either by the home country or the UK, so no corrupt Russians in the loop. If Khelif was in fact female, this would be the perfect opportunity for her to clear her name and prove to the world once and for all that she was not a male.

Of course, the opposite happened. She refused to take the test, and instead filed a lawsuit, claiming that it was unfair that she was required to undergo sex testing (even though all women had to undergo the same simple PCR test) and demanding that she be allowed to participate without a sex test. Her appeal was denied.

To any reasonable person this should prove with nigh-certainty that Khelif is male. Exactly as J.K. Rowling asserted based on the more limited evidence available in 2024.

> It's fascinating (in a horrid way) what they consider important.

It's fascinating (in a horrid way) how gender ideologues are willing to distort and deny reality. Truly Orwellian stuff.

And as to importance: this cuts both ways. Why is it so important for gender activists to allow males with DSDs to compete against biological women?
by grumpopotamus | 2026-01-14 01:59:15+00:00
Have you compared the versions of Stockfish in each?

In Lichess I think you can also choose different eval nets. There's a small one and a big one. That will affect N/s.

Have you compared how many threads each are using?

Furthermore, Lichess Stockfish is a WASM build while your local Stockfish is a native binary executable.

Many have already mentioned number of variations will significantly affect time to a certain depth.
by troad | 2026-01-14 01:59:57+00:00
> A lot of these attacks on the UK regarding free speech are coming from the American Right, an obsession which I can't quite understand the motive for.

> This particular article is an opinion piece from last April by "the world's oldest surviving anarchist publication" (apparently). I'm not sure why it deserves front page HN status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_(British_newspaper)

British Anarchism isn't the American Right?

Concern for free speech traditionally cuts across the left-right divide, as it should. Sadly, there's been a greater erosion of it on the left than the right, despite the absolute centrality of free speech rights to progressive causes throughout recent history: abolitionism, civil rights, gay rights, etc.
by maxbond | 2026-01-14 02:02:17+00:00
I think it is different in the continuous case though, because you can average two (reasonably accurate) chronometers and get a better measurement. But we can't average true and false, at least not in the context of this problem definition.

But the chronometers are will sync with each other if you don't store them apart, which would result correlated noise that an average won't fix.
by AGDNoob | 2026-01-14 02:02:56+00:00
I built AXIS as a learning project in compiler design. It compiles directly to x86-64 machine code without LLVM, has zero runtime dependencies (no libc, direct syscalls), and uses Python-like syntax.
Currently Linux-only, ~1500 lines of Python. All test programs compile and run. The one-line installer works: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AGDNoob/axis-lang/main/ins... | bash
It's very early (beta), but I'd love feedback on the design and approach!
by bloojeen | 2026-01-14 02:03:08+00:00
Ever wanted to just pose a biological query like a normal search query without needing to already know exactly what you want presented in a way that’s fully cited and quick and easy to use? In a way that is as simple as asking a typing in something as simple as “weight loss” or as complicated as looking for peptides related to your field of study or interest? So did I. But I couldn’t find it. So I created it. Would love to humbly submit bloojeen.com as a new tool to democratize biological search for everyone.