MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-07 17:34:01+00:00
I have taken the stance to not argue with LLMs, don't give them any clues, and don't ask them to roleplay. Tell them no more than what they need to know.

And if they get the answer wrong, don't try go correct them or guide them, there is a high chance they don't have the answer and what follow will be hallucinations. You can ask for details, but don't try to go against it, it will just assume you are right (even if you are not) and hallucinate around that. Keep what you already know to yourself.

As for the "you are an expert" prompts, it will mostly just make the LLM speak more authoritatively, but it doesn't mean it will be more correct. My strategy is now to give the LLM as much freedom as it can get, it may not be the best way to extract all the knowledge it has, but it helps spot hallucinations.

You can argue with actual people, if both of you are open enough, something greater make come out of it, but if not, it is useless, and with LLMs it is always useless, they are pretrained, they won't get better in the future because that little conversation sparked their interest. And one your side, you will just have your own points rephrased and sent back to you, and that will just put you deeper in your own bubble.
by whizzter | 2026-01-07 17:34:34+00:00
Actually done some WebDAV, did a small client (talking to Apache) from JS that worked well enough for my purposes.

The nasty surprise was doing the server-side (for a hobby-project), many layers. Luckily found out that something called DavTest exists (it's included with Debian) so testing most basic things wasn't too bad.

Then tried mounting from Windows and running into a bunch of small issues (iirc you need to support locking), got it to mount before noticing notes about a 50mb file-size limit by default (raisable.. but yeah).

It's a shame it's all such a fragmented hodge-podge because adding SMB (the only other "universal" protocol) to an application server is just way too much complexity.
by isoprophlex | 2026-01-07 17:34:40+00:00
let me first post a shallow, obligatory complaint about the unreadability of this submission due to egregious scrolljacking.

for those interested without getting angered by weird scroll behavior, see below.

too bad there's such a focus on animal protein/products, which isn't all that good if you want to design a world-wide society of billions of people that's going to last into the next 1000 years. seems like at least half of the pyramid was designed by Big Agro lobbyists. other than that, i guess anything's better than what the average american eats now.

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Protein, Dairy, & Healthy Fats:
We are ending the war on protein. Every meal must prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein from both animal and plant sources, paired with healthy fats from whole foods such as eggs, seafood, meats, full-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados.

Protein target: 1.2–1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day.

Vegetables & Fruits:
Vegetables and fruits are essential to real food nutrition. Eat a wide variety of whole, colorful, nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits in their original form, prioritizing freshness and minimal processing.

Vegetables: 3 servings per day.
Fruits: 2 servings per day.

Whole Grains:
Whole grains are encouraged. Refined carbohydrates are not. Prioritize fiber-rich whole grains and significantly reduce the consumption of highly processed, refined carbohydrates that displace real nourishment.

Target: 2–4 servings per day.
by testfrequency | 2026-01-07 17:34:51+00:00
Food is so much cheaper (and better) in LA than SF.

SF has such mediocre food for what you pay compared to any other city I’ve lived in*. You either have to fork over a few hundred to experience some of the stellar fine dining options in the city, or end up at some brunch place that’s probably pretty decent but you’re not leaving without at least $100 between two people.

The good food in the Bay Area I’ve always found to be in a shopping center or random places sprinkled all round the south bay and peninsula. Which, may sound similar to how LA is too, but I’d argue LA has overall a healthier food scene and variety of amazing food all within central LA - and most importantly, more affordable.

* besides Seattle
by twodave | 2026-01-07 17:34:51+00:00
No, fiat currency has allowed our money supply to track closer to our GDP, preventing currency shortages and price manipulation by foreign adversaries, giving us the most stable economy the world has ever experienced over the last 50 years. Yes, it can be abused (and some Asian countries have taken this to dangerous extremes), but it’s better than all the alternatives so far.
by sublinear | 2026-01-07 17:35:12+00:00
It's not that people care about quality, but that people expect things to "just work".

Regarding the point about accessibility, there are a ton of little details that must be explicitly written into the HTML that aren't necessarily the default behavior. Some common features of CSS and JS can break accessibility too.

None of this code would obvious to an LLM, or even human devs, but it's still what's expected. Without precisely written and effectively read-only boilerplate your webpage is gonna be trash and the specifics are a moving target and hotly debated. This back and forth is a human problem, not a code problem. That's why it's "hard".
by okwhateverdude | 2026-01-07 17:35:15+00:00
> However, for some reason, both Gemini and ChatGPT tend to argue with me

The trick here is: "Be succinct. No commentary."

And sometimes a healthy dose of expressing frustration or anger (cursing, berating, threatening) also gets them to STFU and do the thing. As in literally: "I don't give a fuck about your stupid fucking opinions on the matter. Do it exactly as I specified"

Also generally the very first time it expresses any of that weird shit, your context is toast. So even correcting it is reinforcing. Just regenerate the response.
by labcomputer | 2026-01-07 17:35:20+00:00
The limiting factor for most turbine engines isn’t really operating hours, but “cycles”, which is to say starts and stops. From a maintenance perspective it’s not terribly important whether you start the engine at the gate or the runway.

Also, as far as maintenance goes, engine hours are weighted by operating power. So, an hour at idle doesn’t count as much as an hour at cruise power. One of the reasons airlines started using not-full power on takeoff when conditions allow it is because of “power by the hour” maintenance contracts, which incentivize that.
by ben_w | 2026-01-07 17:35:34+00:00
You want to tax foreign businesses that sell stuff to you?

Ok, given you can only tax stuff when it passes into your territory what you really have there is called a "tariff", it is paid by… the customer, when they buy the thing.

The seller has an entire planet to sell to. The US has about 25% of the money to buy things with, but even then only because we all like your money. Moment we stop liking your money, that probably drops to 20%.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 17:35:47+00:00
In general, and alluded to by the "rub your nose in it" comment, the cure for social awkwardness and anxiety is to force yourself to do the things you aren't comfortable with. Aversion doesn't help, and any kind of "method" that gets you to more interactions helps... but in the end, it's the act of doing in and of itself that leads to exposure that gets you more comfortable with it.

This isn't meant to be a boomer/Xer dismissive kind of beat, I recognize that it's hard... I've even had some really bad panic attacks before... that said, there is something to be said for, "Just do it."
by trentnix | 2026-01-07 17:35:59+00:00
Minimum wage goes up and buying power goes down as a result. This is the exact spiral that was predicted and dismissed as wrongthink. It has turned into another example of the Law of Salutary Contradiction:

The Law of Salutary Contradiction states that when an event or policy is initially dismissed as impossible or a conspiracy theory, it is later acknowledged as occurring—but framed as beneficial and morally justified.
by mannyv | 2026-01-07 17:36:08+00:00
Note that they were running psql on ec2 instances, which implies bare metal with SSDs.

Yes you can get actual hosts in AWS if you pay for them.

The article also implies that they were never able to get psql to replicate effectively.

Whomever their DBA was was couldn't do it, so they were like "fuck it, let's move to Aurora." Their database brought no actual value, so it make sense for them.
by Retric | 2026-01-07 17:36:20+00:00
Sure, that’s a reasonable take, but satiety research was also far less developed.

The general understanding at the time was basically a full stomach tells people they have eaten enough. We didn’t understand the multiple systems the body uses to adjust the hunger drive and how much a high carb low fat diet messes with them.

> I'm sorry, but this is simply nonsensical. Calories were EVERYTHING among a large portion of the population. What is your knowledge on the 1980s from, because it certainly isn't based upon observable reality.

Less vilified is on a relative scale, I was alive back then and there was plenty of nonsensical low calorie diets being promoted. However you also saw crap like the Fruitarian Diet where unlimited fruit meant people could actually gain weight on a diet that also gave them multiple nutritional deficiencies.

Low fat dieting is in part from that same mindset as fruitarian diet where it’s not the calories that are the issue but the types of food you were eating. Digging just a little deeper these ideas made more sense before global supply chains and highly processed foods showed up. Culture can be a lot slower to adapt than technology or economics, diet advice from your grandparents could be wildly out of date.
by overgard | 2026-01-07 17:36:38+00:00
I'm pleasantly surprised, this is actually really good. The reason I'm surprised is because of how corrupt the creation of the previous food pyramid was (the sugar industry likely paid to downplay the danger of sugar[1])

I find when it comes to health advice, generally government sources can't be trusted because there's too much special interests and money involved. You really have to do your own research.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
by MillironX | 2026-01-07 17:36:40+00:00
In the animal world, the genomic vaccine revolution has led to two new types of vaccine being produced.

1. The Autogenous vaccine, where a veterinarian submits swabs of offending organisms to a lab that cultures and produces a vaccine specific to that strain to sell back to the clinic. Genomics play a role in determining if the currently circulating strains match the culture that the vaccine is based on.

2. The prescription platform vaccine, where genomic sequences are used to create a custom antigen that is produced in a microbial factory.

The efficacy of these types of vaccines is hotly debated because they do not have to go through clinical trial before distribution. The development of "commercial" (i.e. clinical trial-burdened) vaccines appears to have slowed based on my observations. While I think some of these new vaccines show promise, many autogenous and prescription platform vaccines are just more expensive versions of vaccines already available, or they package organisms that are suspected commensals and market it as something that no one else has done.

It's hard for me to call today a "golden age of vaccine development" in that light. I hope that the article is only taking human vaccines into account and that there is appropriate efficacy data for every vaccine shown in the last chart.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-07 17:36:48+00:00
I don't think war is at all about doing the worst stuff you can to the other guy. Different countries approach it in radically different ways. The war in Ukraine is one of the deadliest wars in modern times, but civilians have made up an extremely small percent of all casualties. On the other extreme, Israel's war against Gaza is just a complete slaughter of civilians. And I don't think we should simply lower ourselves to lowest common denominator regardless of whether or not Japan would have done the same. This isn't even necessarily about morality either - it's simply in our self interest. The era when the US was something to look up to was also the time when we behaved in a principled fashion, or at least were perceived to be doing so.

The history of Korea is another example of this stuff, and nothing like people think. After the Korean war South Korea was ruled by a series of US backed brutal dictators. When the first was overthrown, he lived out his final years in Hawaii, just to be replaced by another, and so on. South Korea only started to become what you think of today in the 6th Republic, which began in the late 80s. The only difference between North and South Korea is that we aimed to economically attack North Korea and economically support South Korea. And given South Korea is now having an extinction level fertility crisis, the final page of how things turned out is still yet to be written.
by tannhaeuser | 2026-01-07 17:36:57+00:00
The syntax of Prolog is basically a subset of the language of First Order Logic (sans quantifiers and function symbols), it doesn't get any more minimal than that. What's special in Prolog compared to imperative languages including functional languages is that variables aren't "assigned" but implicitly range over potential values until satisfying the context, like in math formulas for sets. Yes you can express that awkwardly with tons of type annotations and DSL conventions so that you never have to leave your favourite programming language. But then there's the problem of a Prolog "engine" doing quite a bit more than what could be reasonably assumed behind a synchronous library call, such as working with a compact solution space representation and/or value factoring, parallel execution environment, automatic value pruning and propagation, etc.

The integration of a Prolog backend into a mainstream stack is typically achieved via Prolog code generation (and also code generation via LLMs) or as a "service" on the Prolog side, considering Prolog also has excellent support for parsing DSLs or request/responses of any type; as in, you can implement a JSON parser in a single line of code actually.

As they say, if Prolog fits your application, it fits really well, like with planning, constraint solving, theorem proving, verification/combinatoric test case enumeration, pricing models, legal/strategic case differentiation, complex configuration and the like, the latter merely leveraging the modularity of logic clauses in composing complex programs using independent units.

So I don't know how much you've worked hands on with Prolog, but I think you actually managed to pick about one of the worst rather than best examples ;)
by bikelang | 2026-01-07 17:37:01+00:00
I use my Bluetooth headset on discord, slack, and google meet without any problems on Pop and Bazzite ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Funny enough - I have less problems with audio on Pop/Bazzite than my Mac (where my headset mic can be muted by flipping up - but is unable to unmute without power cycling the headset) or Windows (which cannot ever remember which device I want to use for which app).

I held off on switching to desktop Linux because of horror stories on places like HN. But it’s seriously not been my lived experience. I can only think that maybe these were problems 5+ years ago - or it’s folks that went with super customized Arch installs or something.
by bruceb | 2026-01-07 17:37:08+00:00
One of the dumbest, frustrating things during Obama's Administration was the partisan Republican attack on Michelle Obama's push for healthier school lunches.

Democrats should not reflexive be against this just because they don't like the current president or HHS secetry. Same thing with the restrictions on buying soda and junk food with SNAP.

The supermarket is filled with processed food.
Black cat/White cat whatever catches the mouse. The push to eat real food is good. Embrace it even if you don't like people behind it.
by b40d-48b2-979e | 2026-01-07 17:37:10+00:00
As a prior contributor to PowerShell, I think part of this obscurity reason is how they neglected their community. This was evident in their merged PR history only containing commits from Microsoft developers.

I use nushell now, and its community is fantastic. It may face breaking changes every so often, but it has a much faster execution speed and more features if you're not tied into the .NET ecosystem.
by troupo | 2026-01-07 17:37:19+00:00
> For LLMs long term memory is achieved by tooling. Which you discounted in your previous comments.

My specific complaint, which is an observable fact about "Opus 4.5 is next tier": it has the same crippled context that degrades the quality of the model as soon as it fills 50%.

EMM_386: no-no-no, it's not crippled. All you have to do is keep track across multiple files, clear out context often, feed very specific information not to overflow context.

Me: so... it's crippled, and you need multiple workarounds

scotty79: After all it's the same as your own short-term memory, and <some unspecified tooling (I guess those same files)> provide long-term memory for LLMs.

Me: Your comparison is invalid because I can go have lunch, and come back to the problem at hand and continue where I left off. "Next tier Opus 4.5" will have to be fed the entire world from scratch after a context clear/compact/in a new session.

Unless, of course, you meant to say that "next tier Opus model" only has 15-30 second short term memory, and needs to keep multiple notes around like the guy from Memento. Which... makes it crippled.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-07 17:37:52+00:00
Speaking from personal experience, this is consistent with multiple doctors over the years recommending high-protein, low carb diets.

I don't understand people freaking out over this - outside of a purely political reflex - hell hath no fury like taking away nerds' Mountain Dew and Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

Nor do I understand the negative reactions to new restrictions on SNAP - candy and sugary drinks are no longer eligible.
by exographicskip | 2026-01-07 17:38:41+00:00
I run a lot of small form factor (SFF) machines including NUCs, Minisforums, and a Mac Studio.

At idle, they aren't loud or consuming much electricity compared to sleep/shutdown.

Fruit co devices in particular are extremely efficient; the Studio is rated at 6W idle, 145W max consumption (cf. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 )
by philipkglass | 2026-01-07 17:38:52+00:00
I don't know if the seismic signature from a 10 kiloton nuclear explosion underground is different from 10,000 tons of actual TNT exploded underground, but there was also radioactive gas evidence of North Korean testing:

https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2013-04-26/ims-detects-radi...

The xenon isotopes involved have short half lives (days) so if they were not produced by a nuclear explosion, they would have had to be released simultaneously by e.g. reprocessing a "hot" fresh batch of irradiated uranium at the same time as the underground explosion. This is not impossible, but it looks increasingly convoluted compared to an actual nuclear test.

Also, contra the upthread assertion that "Yields should've been higher for plutonium cores, it's not lightweight stuff," there is nothing about plutonium that drives high yield. The United States manufactured a large number of low yield (1.7 kiloton) plutonium warheads in the late 1950s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W25_(nuclear_warhead)

If North Korea aimed to make missile-deliverable weapons from the beginning (which makes sense because they don't have heavy bombers like the Cold War powers did at the beginning of their arms race), it also makes sense that their weapons tests would be focused on validating compact/lightweight designs instead of trying for high yield.
by overgard | 2026-01-07 17:39:01+00:00
RFKjr is generally an idiot, but saturated fat = good, seed oil = bad is actually correct. For instance: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/seed-oils-are-they-actual...

Saturated fats are good because they're more stable than poly-unsaturated fats for instance.

If you do consume a seed oil (which you really shouldn't -- there's no benefit), you should get a cold-pressed one. But that would be more expensive, so if you're paying more you might as well just get something good like avacado oil or coconut oil.
by anonymousiam | 2026-01-07 17:39:06+00:00
So the main theme of the article is that Bill Gates was a "good" manager, and it enumerates through a bunch of examples of his innovative contributions.

I've always held the belief that even though Gates may have been an effective manager, he was a terrible person. IMHO, his repeated anti-competitive, deceptive, and often illegal behavior was the main reason for Microsoft's success.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-07 17:39:31+00:00
They gave it as a defined term rather than a generic term with a printout of https://www.goodrx.com/drugs/medication-basics/which-is-the-... describing the ranges - I just neglected to include all of that detail in my comment :). Googling around, apparently these values are standardized in the US by the USP.

Hope that helps!
by pluralmonad | 2026-01-07 17:39:35+00:00
Do they manage context differently or have different system prompts? I would assume a lot of that would be the same between them. I think GH Copilots biggest shortcoming is that they are too token cheap. Aggressively managing context to the detriment of the results. Watching Claude read a 500 line file in 100 line chunks just makes me sad.
by bflesch | 2026-01-07 17:39:57+00:00
You are confidently incorrect. Consent is not needed if you only track for your own business and do not send the data to other businesses. One of the big GDPR-compliant website analytics tools, matomo, even has a dedicated page on this topic: https://matomo.org/gdpr-analytics/

"Matomo has also been approved by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) as one of the select few web analytics tools that can be used to collect data without tracking consent."
by znpy | 2026-01-07 17:40:15+00:00
> It used to be a constant headache to keep running

It’s been very easy to run for me since version 15 or something. Basically i just use the stock docker image and mount a few files over there. The data folders are bind-mounded directories.

As usual with anything php, it’s only a mess if you start managing php files and folders yourself. Php has a special capability of making these kind of things messy, i don’t know why.
by shrubby | 2026-01-07 17:40:19+00:00
Protein intale seems crazy.

0,9 grams per kg of LEAN weight is more than enough for normal activity.

You don't need to feed the fat any protein as it will only accumulate more fat.

And food produces a third of the emissions of humankind out of which full vegan would obliterate two thirds as in total of 25% of our emissions. Add the land use rewilding effect of 50-100 gigaton and we'd be net neutral with this one change.

Considering the iconic burning Macdonalds video and this recommendation we seem to be doomed.

I'm lovin it.