MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2026-01-08 01:00:48+00:00
What witnesses are desribing in Minniapolis is a public exicution, by ordering a woman to drive away, but there was no room to turn around, and he ran up to the car and shot her 3 times in the face as she was trying to manouver and follow orders.
The authorities are trying to call him a hero.
On topic, for the life of me I realy cant imagine ICE possesing the capability for surveillance no matter what they buy, and it is clear that government and media company
are providing direction ,or sometimes specific actions, other than just go fuck some people up in this area code.
by baubino | 2026-01-08 01:00:50+00:00
Not saying that he’s sending the guard after ICE (he doesn’t say that and I’m not suggesting he is saying that). But he is calling the National Guard to “protect” into a condition in which there is another law enforcement agency. The places where the National Guard would be “keeping the peace” are the places where people are protesting against ICE which are places where ICE is conducting raids.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-08 01:01:08+00:00
A couple of ways:

1- Having each game have negative odds for the player to begin with.
2- Making it conveniently easy to deposit, but very hard to cash out, at that point compliance and KYC suddenly becomes very important to casinos.
3- Using shady jurisdictions to avoid law enforcement (Curacao, isle of man,etc...)
4- Banning players that find an edge, like in BlackJack. (Was way worse before, using physical coercion)
5- Prosecuting players that find an edge and recovering the money when they lose (see Phil Ivey's case)
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-08 01:01:33+00:00
It helps if you have some linear algebra, for sure - matrices, vectors, etc.. You don't need to know pytorch, which is introduced in the book as needed an in an appendix. If you want to really understand the chapters on pre-training and fine-tuning you'll need to know a bit of machine learning (like a basic grasp of loss functions and backpropagation), but that is not required so much for the earlier chapters on the architecture.

The best part about it is seeing the code built up for the GPT-2 architecture in basic pytorch, and then loading in the real GPT-2 weights and they actually work! So it's great for learning but also quite realistic.
by Dlanv | 2026-01-08 01:01:37+00:00
Joined the wait-list. Can't wait.

AI already saved me from having an unnecessary surgery by recommending various modern-medicine (not alternative medicine) alternatives which ended up being effective.

Between genetics, blood stool and urine tests, scans (ultrasound, MRI, x-ray, etc), medical history... Doctors don't have time for a patient with non trivial or non obvious issues. AI has the time.
by rayiner | 2026-01-08 01:01:39+00:00
The starting point for that data is 1909, when average life expectancy was under 50 years and child malnourishment was a major problem. The change since 1970 has been much quite modest: http://ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detai...

Also, you need to adjust for demographics. In 1900, 35% of the population was under 15: https://demographicchartbook.com/index.php/chapter-5-age-and.... Today it’s only 19%. Children and babies obviously eat a lot less meat than adults, and they make up a much smaller share of the population today than back then.
by yencabulator | 2026-01-08 01:01:46+00:00
Last I looked, Nushell

- error handling is neglected in the basic design: <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10633>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10856>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8615>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6617>

- control-C interrupts its internals with obviously-wrong error: <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8828>, is mishandled in other ways <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8206>

These bugs have existed for so many years I've 100% given up on Nushell. I recommend you don't subject yourself to software that is this level of unreliable and unbothered about being so unreliable.

(There's a lot of missing/misimplemented features, but the above is so severe they're not even worth mentioning.)
by dpark | 2026-01-08 01:02:15+00:00
There’s a substantial body of evidence that consuming the average American diet while also being mostly sedentary is terrible for you. I’m unclear how much of the data gathered about red meat specifically can be meaningfully decoupled from all the confounding factors, though.

A study of people who eat almost exclusively whole foods that do not include red meat vs people who eat almost exclusively whole foods that do include meaningful amounts of red meat would be really interesting.

When so much red meat is consumed as greasy burgers coupled with white bread buns and deep fried potatoes, I don’t know how to decouple the impact of the red meat from the rest of it. I fear the “red meat bad” stuff might be the inverse of the “oh, it’s clearly the wine” silliness for why French people are healthier.
by jasonlotito | 2026-01-08 01:02:29+00:00
> Because nobody else changed the food pyramid to be somewhat not-garbage until him.

The food pyramid hasn't been a thing for more than a decade. He did bring it back.

> Who else would you congratulate for this specific action?

The people who pushed for stuff like this more than a decade ago, but conservatives opposed it because it was done by a black lady.
by TheAlchemist | 2026-01-08 01:02:57+00:00
I like the title - average food in the US is absolute shit - both in taste and from health perspective. It doesn't even taste like real food most of the time. Just like sugar with some flavour...

I don't get the 'For decades we've been misled' though - what guidance prioritiezed highly processed food ? From the look on both pyramids, they pretty much recommend the same things, in different proportions (more proteins now, less carbs) - but I don't think any reasonable guidance promoted highly processed sweet carbs before.
by fhsm | 2026-01-08 01:03:08+00:00
This is a suboptimal characterization of this site.

I think it would be less wrong to say this is where covered entities that discover reportable breaches of PHI (whether their own or that of a BA) that trigger the immediate reporting obligation report them.

This is a narrower scope of coverage and shallower depth of epistemic obligation than you implied.
by SamDc73 | 2026-01-08 01:03:41+00:00
I see a lot of people complaining about red meat.

It’s not the healthiest food, but it’s a much weaker risk factor than diets high in processed foods (including processed meats), refined carbs, added sugar, and excess salt.

For adults (25–64), the biggest diet-linked contributors to cardiometabolic death were sugar-sweetened beverages and processed meats. [1]

also form the paper:

High sodium intake → ~66,000 deaths (9.5%)

Low nuts & seeds intake → ~59,000 deaths (8.5%)

High processed meat intake → ~57,000 deaths (8.2%)

Low seafood omega-3 intake → ~54,000 deaths (7.8%)

Low vegetable intake → ~53,400 deaths (7.6%)

Low fruit intake → ~52,000 deaths (7.5%)

High sugar-sweetened beverage intake → ~51,000 deaths (7.4%)
Low whole-grain intake → ~41,000 deaths (5.9%)

High unprocessed red meat intake → ~2,900 deaths (0.4%)

(Full table is on page 5 of the linked paper)

[1] https://episeminars.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/754...
by mcmoor | 2026-01-08 01:03:47+00:00
Funnily I've heard that one reason why obesity is prevalent is that we have too many variations of food. Seems like our hunger controller suspends satiety when we eat a food too much, but when we eat few of lots of different foods, it's broken.

It'd be funny if lots of fad diets actually works because people are forced to eat a single type of food and that's entirely enough for it.
by porphyra | 2026-01-08 01:04:19+00:00
Both of these can be true at the same time:

* Elon has been making wildly exaggerated and over-optimistic claims for a decade and continues to do so

* Tesla has recently made huge strides in capability and has a clear path to full autonomy

And to be fair, many other car companies also promised self driving cars, e.g. Audi in 2014 promising driverless cars by 2016 [1]. It's just that Tesla is still executing on the promise whereas many other carmakers have fizzled out on their ambitions. As the Rodney Brooks article itself mentions,

> As a reminder of how strong the hype was and the certainty of promises that it was just around the corner here is a snapshot of a whole bunch of predictions by major executives from 2017.

[1] https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/a610930/audi-promises-to-del...
by WhyNotHugo | 2026-01-08 01:04:34+00:00
When working on pimsync[1] and the underlying WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV implementation in libdav, I wrote "live tests" early on. These are integration tests, which use real servers (radicale, xandikos, nextcloud, cyrus, etc). They do things like "create an event, update the event, fetch it, validate it was updated". Some test handle exotic encoding edge cases, or trying to modify something this a bogus "If-Match" header. All these tests were extremely useful to validate the actual behaviour, in great deal because the RFCs are pretty complex and easy to misinterpret. For anyone working on the field, I strong suggest having extensive and easy to execute integration tests with multiple servers (or clients).

All servers have quirks, so each test is marked as "fails on xandikos" or "fails on nextcloud". There's a single test which fails on all the test servers (related to encoding). Trying to figure out why this test failed drove me absolute crazy, until I finally understood that all implementations were broken in the same subtle way. Even excluding that particular test, all server fail at least one other test. So each server is broken in some subtle way. Typically edge-cases, of course.

By far, however, the worst offender is Apple's implementation. It seems that their CalDAV server has a sort of "eventual consistency" model: you can create a calendar, and then query the list of calendars… and the response indicates that the calendar doesn't exist! It usually takes a few seconds for calendars to show up, but this makes automated testing an absolute nightmare.

[1]: https://pimsync.whynothugo.nl/
by TZubiri | 2026-01-08 01:04:36+00:00
> You think the cost of building a home is more than the cost of buying a home? (Obviously not.)

Common misconception, I used to have this as well.

Building is more expensive than buying for 2 reasons:

1- People can build custom houses to their taste, they pay a premium for that.
2- House prices fluctuate, most of the time house prices are below maximums, it's only during brief periods of time that building houses is suddenly bottlenecked by capital.

Yes, there is an industry behind building houses.
Sure people can build homes themselves, that's cheaper than both buying a home, and building a commercial home, but for homes that are both a commoditized asset with general appeal and a house to live in, it's a different type of asset.

A house you build by yourself will never be worth much, but you'll live in it for sure. You can even spend a lot in improvements, but you end up with YOUR house, not with a resellable asset.

FWIW, building your house is quite independent of market conditions, so if that's your game you shouldn't care about the macroeconomics of industrial residential construction or tariffs on China's iron.
by liftmind | 2026-01-08 01:05:05+00:00
Hi HN, I’m the solo dev behind this.

I’m a dev in recovery. When I looked for addiction recovery apps, I realized the user isn’t the customer; their data is the product. Most "free" apps sell behavioral profiles to advertisers (or worse, gambling networks).

I built LiftMind to be an AI strategist and journal that is hostile to surveillance.

The Stack & Privacy Model:

Pseudonymous Intelligence: To provide pattern recognition and addiction-breaking insights, the system does process your journal entries. However, because I collect zero PII (no email, no phone, no name), this data remains completely decoupled from your real-world identity.

Blind Proxy: I use an external LLM for intelligence but treat it as a calculator, not a database. Your prompts are stripped of metadata before being sent. The LLM provider sees a request from my server IP but cannot link it to "You."

No KYC/No PII: You register with just a username and password.

Payment Privacy: I accept Monero (XMR) for those who want payment anonymity to match the auth anonymity. (Standard methods also available).

My goal is to offer "Smart" recovery tools without the "Surveillance Capitalism" business model.
by bar000n | 2026-01-08 01:05:13+00:00
HN is not the rest, it is not the majority. It's for a specific tech-savvy social category. This category does want skepticism and criticism because they tend to be perfectionists. This is not "negative sentiment" anything but very positive "evrika!" sentiment for members of the aforementioned category.

Would one say: nice attempt trying to tell people how they are supposed to feel around here?
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-08 01:05:31+00:00
Well, the "I'm Marcus" part is saying "I would like you to call me Marcus" I guess.

You're right, it is easy to say. But there's an identity and professional pride and all sorts of stuff wrapped up in the job title that isn't so easy to let go of.

It also leads on to questions like "and what are you doing now?" which get to "I'm lazing around doing nothing because my mental health took a hammering while I was IT Director", and so on. It's all so much easier and tidier with the job title.
by thephyber | 2026-01-08 01:05:32+00:00
There’s a restaurant in Las Vegas, the Heart Attack Grill, which sarcastically plays on this trope.

> It has become internationally famous for embracing and promoting an unhealthy diet of incredibly large hamburgers. Customers are referred to as "patients," orders as "prescriptions," and the waitresses as "nurses." All those who weigh over 350 pounds are invited to unlimited free food provided they weigh themselves on an electronic cattle scale affront a cheering restaurant crowd.

> The menu includes the Single Bypass Burger®, Double Bypass Burger®, Triple Bypass Burger®, Quadruple Bypass Burger®, Quintuple Bypass Burger™, Sextuple Bypass Burger™, Septuple Bypass Burger™, and the Octuple Bypass Burger™. These dishes range in weight from half a pound to four pounds of beef. Also on the menu are Flatliner Fries® (cooked in pure lard) and the Coronary Dog™, Lucky Strike no filter cigarettes, alcohol, Butterfat Milkshakes™, full sugar Coca-Cola, and candy cigarettes for the kids!

https://heartattackgrill.com/press
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-08 01:05:33+00:00
This entirely flew under the radar because of FTZ BS.

66 including:

- U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

- UNESCO

- Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation

- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

- Global Counterterrorism Forum

- Carbon Free Energy Compact

- United Nations University

- International Cotton Advisory Committee

- International Tropical Timber Organization

- Partnership for Atlantic Carbon Free Energy Compact

- Pan-American Institute for Geography and History

- International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies

- International Lead and Zinc Study Group
by recallingmemory | 2026-01-08 01:06:37+00:00
This is not accurate. Please link to your source.

A healthy, whole-food plant-based diet is linked to a lower risk of ischemic stroke, with studies showing reduced risk compared to meat-eaters. The conclusion of this paper[1] for example reads that "Lower risk of total stroke was observed by those who adhered to a healthful plant-based diet."

Additionally, researchers at Harvard found that a plant-based diet may lower overall stroke risk by up to 10%. [2]

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8166423/

2: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/healthy-plant-based-diet-assoc...
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-08 01:06:44+00:00
I generally have several thousand tabs open at a time. Hacker News is a big source of them. I use Simple Tab Groups and it takes a few seconds to switch from one group to another but I've become fairly okay with that. I use Auto Tab Discard so that most of the tabs are "hibernated" and don't consume so many resources.

Still, it always baffles me how poorly browsers handle high tab counts. Browser tabs should be able to proliferate as freely as spreadsheet rows. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to have 100,000 tabs open, or even a million, and switch between them smoothly. Only the tabs that are active should impose a meaningful performance cost. The tab itself is just a tiny UI element with some text and an icon.
by pianopatrick | 2026-01-08 01:06:49+00:00
I'd be fine with a policy of "you can rent housing you build" for American corporations.

If a corporation thinks there is demand in some city, goes and build housing for that demand and then rents that housing, that is good for the world.

Would be a better policy than letting corporations use their access to capital markets to outcompete individuals trying to buy a house.
by MrMember | 2026-01-08 01:07:03+00:00
I don't see this at all. Staple foods are cheap and abundant. Fruits and vegetables don't cost much at all. Some animal proteins can get a bit pricy (beef mostly) but chicken and pork aren't that expensive. Eggs are like $2 a dozen.

I love my meat but if I switched to a vegetarian diet it would be trivial to make varied, delicious meals at $1.50-$2 a portion.
by water-data-dude | 2026-01-08 01:07:11+00:00
One thing that I, and many others, have issue with is the fact that the agents are masked, which makes it hard to hold specific actors accountable. With the way they've been deploying facial recognition against citizens, I feel like using it against ICE agents would just be sousveillance.

Especially with the second video, it seems like there should be enough footage of the guy's face to figure it out. Ideally her relatives could then SUE, but qualified immunity is some powerful bullshit. At the very least, maybe we could track bad actors. Does the guy regularly use unnecessary force?

The counter argument is "if you DOX people, especially unpopular people, they'll be subject to death threats, possible violence, etc. and you'll be partially responsible", but man, it's obvious that the agency itself isn't holding its people accountable. I'd want to know if he was in my city, still performing ICE activities.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-08 01:07:42+00:00
> Landlords have to allocate capital to fixing and improving the house, as well as taking care of insurance and taxes.

These costs aren’t that high though, compared to rent. 3 months of rent covers a year of property taxes where I live. Major repairs are about a couple months rent. There is still another half year of rent that’s pure profit. Then they raise your rent every year, demonize rent increase caps, and then vote for reduced housing builds. I find it very difficult to accept them. If I had the money and the capital I absolutely would own a dozen homes and rent it all out, you would make insane money. Not to mention the mortgage costs being so low during ZIRP days. At the rate of AI coming for SWE jobs, landlords seem untouchable.
by saghm | 2026-01-08 01:08:04+00:00
I'm not saying it's not worth trying to buy a house in a way that ensures privacy. I'm saying that there are probably better ways to consider the risks than looking at a site like this when it literally shows more people I've never met or even heard of than people actually related to me.

If someone is concerned about being stalked, they certainly should consider how to protect themselves if they're purchasing a home, but that would be equally true even if sites like this didn't exist. For someone who isn't otherwise already considering using an LLC to purchase a house for other reasons, I don't think a site like this is worth taking into account.
by braincat31415 | 2026-01-08 01:08:39+00:00
It's a tragic event, but I would wait a few days until the dust settles before making conclusions.
Notice that the bullet hole is in the windshield, so it is very unlikely that the car was moving away from the agent, unless it was going in reverse. In order to hit the driver, he would have been standing at the front of the car off-center.
To be fair, I didn't read the news article, nor do I want to.
by briHass | 2026-01-08 01:09:27+00:00
TPM keys are great for things like SSH keys or Passkeys, which surprisingly works well even in Windows.

The private key is safe from any exfiltration, and usage only requires a short PIN instead of a long passphrase. The TPM ensures you're physically typing that PIN at the machine not a remote desktop window or other redirection that could be hacked.

Obviously, this is problematic/annoying for scripts and things that can't share the SSH session, because you need to PIN with every authentication. Also, for encryption, you want to use something where you can backup the private key before stashing it in the TPM. Windows allows you to do this with certificates that are exported for backup prior to encrypting the private key with an unexportable TPM key in Hello.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 01:09:38+00:00
She is a naturalized citizen and we were very sure to make sure that literally nothing on the paperwork could be considered dishonest.

That said, you're objectively wrong, and if you had read the article in discussion you'd see that. The Trump admin has been detaining natural born citizens, and they've even been given permission to racially profile in the process.

This requires about ten seconds of research to find out, so you are being dishonest by posting stuff like this, either directly or intellectually.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-08 01:09:42+00:00
Grandchild: "Grandpa, what was it like back then, when ICE was snatching innocent people off the streets and the President was putting some them in dictator prisons without trial? Before the super bad stuff started?"

Grandpa: "It was a very controversial time, yes. Lots of people doing what they believed was best."

Grandchild: "Did ICE ever go after you?"

Grandpa: "I worked for the--it was only office--I mean, I was unemployed then. Yes, that's right! Tricky economy, don't you know. Only odd-jobs. I lived in a place where those things weren't happening. In fact, most of us didn't really know about it until it was all over. You remember that, right dear?"

Mother: <frustrated death-glare> "...Come along, let's wash your hands before dinner."
by subscribed | 2026-01-08 01:10:05+00:00
Out of all the possible angles to attack the product you chose some really weird ones.

Bike in question: https://gearjunkie.com/motors/verge-motorcycles-ts-solid-sta...

- range: it's quite.... obvious this is naked and not a sport bike, so the air resistance (or Cx if you prefer) will be very high. Compare any super sport with any naked bike. It's just the profile.

- charging time/rate: you compare maximum hardware capabilities of the raw battery with a vehicle, set up for longevity. Look, there are reasons I don't charge my 18650 batteries with their maximum 5C current, but at a gentle, slow rate. Virtually all the electric cars have default maximum charge set to 80-90% - not because a car maker lied

- and finally handling: we have yet to see it tested, an you already categorically claim this bike will not be easy to handle because of the "high mass distribution to the outside of the wheel" - i refer you to the pictures above. Almost all the mass is low or central to the bike. Just perfect. Far from the awkward, top heavy adv bikes some people ride. Also claimed 1000Nm / 130 HP is far beyond the usual beginner segment, so I'd expect experienced riders will handle it easily.

All in all - maybe your expectations re:battery are true and it's all snake oil. But using the bike as a proof of the falsehood based on your GUESS is not acting in a good faith.