MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2026-01-08 06:25:16+00:00
> To me it is not the question of whether they are right, but whether she had a good reason to be there.

To me that's irrelevant - FWiW I come from a largish extended family with more than a century of history in various military and civil conflicts.

Well trained personnel should handle the situation of a vehicle blocking traffic in a civilian non theatre of war context in a manner that doesn't lead to escalation.

> If she was following them around and ended up in that situation as a result, I might be more inclined to give ICE a pass. If she is an actual random individual that simply did not know what to do and panicked, then it is an actual problem.

Either way, regardless of her background, three agents gave conflicting instructions, acted in a bullying manner, escalated a situation and shot a citizen.

If she was there in protest, in a country that boasts free speech and the right to protest, that doesn't justify or give a pass to the clown show on camera.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-08 06:26:15+00:00
So there are (at least) six important aspects to the housing crisis.

1. Politically, this issue is a winner and it's crazy that the Democratic Party has refused to bang the drum on this, basically because it potentially upsets corporate donors. They have instead ceded this poopulist political ground to the Republican Party. The Democratic Party does not want to win elections and this should never have been more obvious than the 2024 presidential election;

2. Hoarding housing is state-sanctioned violence. You need housing to live. Housing affordability is the number one factor in homelessness [1]. That then subjects people to violence and danger that we, as a society, are allowing to happen. There is no reason that the wealthiest country on Earth can't provide a roof over the head of every man, woman and child within our borders;

3. The private sector will never solve the housing crisis because solving the housing crisis involves devaluing, definancializing and decommodifying housing. Wealthy people and large corporations who own a lot of real estate won't on their devalue their holdings. Things like Ezra Klein's Abundance claptrap are simply putting a Democratic bow on Reagan era trickle down economics and deregulation. This requires state action. That means the state needs to build significant amounts of housing to provide to people to regulate the housing market. The poster child for this policy is Vienna, Austria;

4. Voters have fooled themselves into thinking that increasing house prices are good for them. They're not. They're bad in virtually every way. There are people who bought a house for $100k in 1990 where that house is now worth $2M. Are you $1.9M richer? No. Because if you sell it what happens? You have to buy another house. And if every other equivalent house costs $2M you still only own one housing unit's worth of wealth;

5. Increasing house prices are simply stealing from the next generation and suppressing wages. Why suppressing wages? Because if you're laden with debt, you'll be a complaint little worker bee. You need that paycheck to not be homeless. You are in effect a debt-slave, particularly combined with student and possibly medical debt; and

6. The next wave of antitrust action will involve the use of AI as a means for market collusion and manipulation. A great and relevant example is RealPage [2]. If all the landlords use the same software and that software is designed to algorithmically increase rents, then that's market collusion. Honestly, dynamic pricing in general needs to be banned.

[1]: https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/0...

[2]: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
by rjzzleep | 2026-01-08 06:26:27+00:00
I'd argue, that while null ref and those classes of bugs may decrease, logic errors will increase. Rust is not an extraordinary readable language in my opinion, especially in the kernel where the kernel has its own data structures. IMHO Apple did it right in their kernel stack, they have a restricted subset of C++ that you can write drivers with.

Which is also why in my opinion Zig is much more suitable, because it actually addresses the readability aspect without bring huge complexity with it.
by jldugger | 2026-01-08 06:27:03+00:00
It really depends on the definition of catch. Citi Double Cash, Fidelity, Wells Fargo and US Bank all do 2%.

Personally, I use a 2.625% cash back card with the "catch" being that I have to have enough stock in their subsidiary brokerage to qualify for the top rewards tier. Since I just buy and hold SP500 ETFs, this is an easy requirement.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-08 06:27:06+00:00
"Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before a 56-year-old bodybuilder, Stein-Erik Soelberg, took his own life after “savagely” murdering his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Adams."

It's weird how Ars Technica is calling him a "bodybuilder"

Most reports of this case have called him a former "tech" worker

For example,

"Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August at the home where they both lived in Greenwich, Connecticut."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/12/12/open-ai-...
by trissim | 2026-01-08 06:27:49+00:00
Here ‘formalize SSOT’ means: treat the codebase as an encoding system with multiple places that can hold the same structural fact (class shape, signature, etc.). Define DOF (degrees of freedom) as the count of independent places that can disagree; coherence means no disagreement. Then prove:

- Only DOF=1 guarantees coherence; DOF>1 always leaves truth indeterminate, so any oracle that picks the ‘real’ value is arbitrary.

- For structural facts, DOF=1 is achievable iff the language provides definition‑time hooks plus introspectable derivation; without both (e.g., Java/Rust/Go/TS) you can’t enforce SSOT no matter how disciplined you are.

It’s like turning ‘consistency’ in distributed systems from a principle into a property with necessary/sufficient conditions and an impossibility result. SSOT isn’t a predictive law; it’s an epistemic constraint. If you want coherence, the math forces a single independent source. And if the same fact lives in backend and UI, the ‘truth’ is effectively in the developer’s head; an external oracle. Any system with >1 independent encoding leaves truth indeterminate; coherence only comes when the code collapses to one independent source (DOF=1).
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-08 06:27:59+00:00
Why would you think that anyone outside of the US cares about what your regime does to you?

I'm pointing out - for the umpteenth time - the sheer hypocrisy of the West, and especially the US.

What your regime has been practising since 1945 outside of your borders has finally reached your own towns and cities, and frankly the only question I have is, what took so long?
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-08 06:28:33+00:00
Depends on how your locality assesses the value of your home. You can probably do a web search for where you live specifically if you want to get into the nitty gritty. In the places I've lived, unless I added more square footage, these won't trigger an automatic property tax increase.

But if the improvements on your house makes the neighborhood more desirable and your neighbor's house sell for a higher price then your locality expects, then your house will be assessed at a higher value the next time the locality does their assessments, which means higher taxes.

Of course, improvements to your home that increase a sale value will affect the taxes, but the buyer has to deal with that.

Do some localities assess homes individually every so often? I wonder...
by jldugger | 2026-01-08 06:28:58+00:00
> so that customer support collapses the same day every year.

Every _month_. And it's not just the customer service desk that's a problem. With even distribution of billing and a large customer base, outflows match inflows and you don't have to do much to manage it. With all money coming in on one day you have a huge outflow of money and then it all rushes back in.

Much easier to borrow 1 dollar for a year than 30 dollars for a month.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-08 06:28:59+00:00
> but i hate that hn seems to have this penchant to point out that unreasonable assertions may still be true despite being ludicrous

Topics like this are hard on HN because a lot of commenters hold a deep, passionate hatred of something: Wall Street, Big Tech, OSes they don't use, even the concept of private automobile ownership. Once they descend upon a thread they're not interested in facts, they just want to tell stories that support their villain narratives. When it starts to get illogical they don't want to back down because doing so feels like an attack on their deep-seated beliefs.

There are some completely illogical economic theories being pushed all through this comment section. It's kind of fascinating to see how bad some of them are. Someone tried to argue with me that cars could be produced for a couple thousand dollars if not for all the regulatory overhead we impose on them in the US. It's almost hard to fathom how someone could believe that without stopping for a moment to wonder why no other country is building these $2000 full featured automobiles without these supposed regulations that increase the price by an order of magnitude.
by imperio59 | 2026-01-08 06:29:53+00:00
Sugar free coke is not as bad as sugar-ful Coke but it's still bad. Many of the cheap sweeteners have been linked to cancer. They still fuck with the brain and hormones and make you want salty foods and/or more sweet tasting things.

So yea, how about drinking water as your primary source of hydration?

If you are poor, the last thing you need is Diabetes, Cancer, Hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, etc.

The problem also is there is a huge amount of fraud with SNAP with people claiming benefits for multiple people and then reselling their SNAP cards to just make cash. The people buying the endless cases of Mountain Dew often have just bought a 50% discounted SNAP card off some other person who isn't starving at all.
by SamDc73 | 2026-01-08 06:30:42+00:00
As long as houses are treated as an investment, there will be all kind of incentives to make them go up in value.

China did "over" solve it by building loads of houses, so everyone's house value just crippled down like crazy.

If buying a house delivers 5–10× the ROI of the S&P 500, that’s not “smart investing” then there is a huge problem to be addressed ... (preferably by building more)
by hxtk | 2026-01-08 06:30:55+00:00
There's some real science there for a couple of reasons. Protein is a macronutrient you can be malnourished if you don't get enough of even if you eat enough calories and the right micronutrients, and if most of your calories are from protein then you're actually probably not getting as many "burnable" calories as you think you are because (1) the amount of protein you need to meet your daily protein needs never enters the citric acid cycle to oxidized for ATP regeneration, (2) protein is the macronutrient that feels the most filling, and (3) excess protein that goes to the liver to be converted into carbs loses around 30% of its net usable calories due to the energy required for that conversion.

The way we count calories is based on how many calories are in a meal vs the resulting scat, and that just isn't an accurate representation of how the body processes protein such that a protein-heavy diet doesn't have as many calories as you probably think it does, which makes it a healthy choice in an environment where most food-related health problems stem from overeating.

However I agree with your skepticism insofar as when they say "prioritizing protein" they probably mean "prioritizing meat," which is more suspect from a health standpoint and looks somewhat suspicious considering the lobbyists involved.
by mjbale116 | 2026-01-08 06:31:51+00:00
> Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are.

This is a common trope.

"It's not big conglomerates that buy and hodl the homes where families are supposed to live, its mom and pop investors so please be nice."

Having a home is not something to speculate with or leave it to the supposed "market forces".

Housing projects and regulation is what this country needs, yesterday.
by tensor | 2026-01-08 06:31:52+00:00
For a 2000 calorie diet, the previous recommendation was 5.5oz of meat a day [1], the new one is 9-12oz. The new diet gets 18-24g of protein from meat. Meanwhile they are saying on their flashy website that a 160lb person should have 80g of protein, which no doubt will lead people to eat 13 eggs a day instead of 3-4.

Suffice to say, I don't think any American actually followed the old guidelines, and I doubt any will follow this one either.

[1] https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2020-1...
by ianand | 2026-01-08 06:32:34+00:00
I'm not a fan of the database lookup analogy either.

The analogy I prefer when teaching attention is celestial mechanics. Tokens are like planets in (latent) space. The attention mechanism is like a kind of "gravity" where each token is influencing each other, pushing and pulling each other around in (latent) space to refine their meaning. But instead of "distance" and "mass", this gravity is proportional to semantic inter-relatedness and instead of physical space this is occurring in a latent space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuiJjkbX0Og&t=3569s
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-08 06:33:07+00:00
Full points for framing. No sale. I can give you it is a clusterfuck. As for untrained, well, I think based on the results, one could argue otherwise.

I think I will stop responding and start heading to bed. This day sucks.

Nevertheless, the conversation was interesting. Hope we can chat again at one point.
by gt0 | 2026-01-08 06:34:00+00:00
Would that be ideal though? Adding enormous complexity to solve a trivial problem which would work I'm sure 99.999% of the time, but not 100% of the time.

Ideally, in my view, is that the browser asks you if you are sure regardless of content.

I use LLMs, but that browser "are you sure" type of integration is adding a massive amount of work to do something that ultimately isn't useful in any real way.
by ninefoxgambit | 2026-01-08 06:34:01+00:00
I wish Adam had addressed the impact of competition in a bit more detail.

Shadcn has definitely taken a big chunk, the premium ecosystem around Shadcn is absolutely exploding. I know. I run https://www.shadcnblocks.com and we saw huge month on month growth in revenue for the entire year.

Even with strong headwinds from AI, I expect our revenue to continue increasing throughout 2026.
by postoplust | 2026-01-08 06:35:22+00:00
Indeed, chickpeas don't supply sufficient essential amino acids[1]. But sesame is[2] and goes well with chickpea! See falafel or hummus.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512000797

[2]: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14194079
by elbci | 2026-01-08 06:35:23+00:00
I also have this strategy to invest 800Trillions in a IPFS git for a distributed kernel and DAO with AI consensus running on RiscX - impervious to corporate capture. I will have a itinerant pick-up truck with ASML machines going to customers garages to operate their clean rooms made from vacuum cleaner filters and placed on really really thick anti-vibration bath sponges. For good measure I will spawn out of imagination another 800Trillions for a private army to defend my DAO.

My point is: EU dreams up its ability to print money at will just like FED but without a MIC to back it up – a total disconnect from reality (especially after the suicidal disconnect from Russian energy).
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-08 06:35:55+00:00
For the purposes of this post, American Express is not germane and thus omitted.

To fully understand this press release, we have to start with "the five circles" diagram which shows the simplest form of the entities involved in credit card processing:

/-----------------\
| Payment Network |
\-----------------/
/ \
/--------\ /-----------\
| Issuer | | Processor |
\--------/ \-----------/
| |
/-------------\ /----------\
| Card Holder | | Merchant |
\-------------/ \----------/

An example of a Payment Network is Visa.

Issuer and Processor are banks allowed to connect to the
Payment Network directly.

Card Holder is a person who has a credit card account
provided by an Issuer.

Merchant is a company which performs credit card
transactions via their Processor.

Now, companies which are neither a bank nor sponsored by a bank cannot directly interact with a Payment Network. Visa, MasterCard, Discover, none of them. Those companies must use a Processor (more on this later).

Which is why Chase (or bank equivalent) must be the "new issuer of Apple Card", since only an Issuer can do so (as illustrated above).

An important concept to revisit is that only banks or companies sponsored by banks can connect to a Payment Network. Companies sponsored by banks in order to enable them to directly communicate on a Payment Network are typically other banks and often have to give up an ownership stake to their sponsor.

Which means there must exist another element in the "five circles" diagram to explain offerings such as Apple Pay, PayPal, Stripe, Venmo, etc.:

/-----------------\
| Payment Network |
\-----------------/
/ \
/--------\ /-----------\
| Issuer | | Processor |
\--------/ \-----------/
| |
| /-----\
| | ISO |
| \-----/
| |
/-------------\ /----------\
| Card Holder | | Merchant |
\-------------/ \----------/

Here, "ISO" are the payment services such as the aforementioned Apple Pay, PayPal, Stripe, Venmo, and friends. Ultimately, though, it is a bank which is the Processor which powers them. And in the Processor space, Chase is the 800lb gorilla.
by Towaway69 | 2026-01-08 06:36:27+00:00
Berlin, Germany just had a blackout because a left from centre organisation decided to set an electric exchange on fire. Right over new years and at a very cold time of year.

Apparently the data on where the exchange was and how it would affect the surrounding neighbourhoods was openly available. The neighbourhoods affect were largely affluent.

It’s probably also the reason why this is being reshared.
by dillon | 2026-01-08 06:36:36+00:00
Apple Card can also sometimes offer 3% like at Walgreens and you can also get 6 months of free Uber One.

Another benefit of the Fidelity card is they reimburse your Global Entry or TSA pre check.

It’s not a bad idea to have both cards because the Apple Card is 1% with the physical card so having the Fidelity card with you for places that don’t accept Apple Pay is a good idea.
by astrostl | 2026-01-08 06:38:20+00:00
> That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar.

IDK, see the "BLOTS ON A FIELD?" by Science ("A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease") or "The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped COVID Kill" by Wired (regarding the anti-scientific refusal to acknowledge it as airborne) for a couple of recent examples. Once underlying assumptions stop getting questioned, I think anything is at least possible.
by lloeki | 2026-01-08 06:39:20+00:00
Coincidentally this was a feature unknown to me until I performed a SSD migration from one server to another and Tailscale failed to connect because ("of course!" in hindsight) it failed to decrypt whatever.

So not a TPM failure but certainly a gotcha! moment; luckily I had a fallback method to connect to the machine, otherwise in the particular situation I was in I would have been very sorry.

The "whoever needs this will enable it" + support angle makes total sense.
by smsm42 | 2026-01-08 06:39:34+00:00
The catch is it's very annoying to use outside of Apple ecosystem - e.g. if you don't have an iphone or don't want (or can not) use ApplePay.

Also, 2% cashback and no fees is nothing exceptional (in US market) - I mean, it's on the better end but there are a number of cards with similar deal from Wells Fargo, Fidelity, Capital One, etc. So it's not that spectacular - you can have the same deal without being hardwired into Apple's closed garden.
by nunobrito | 2026-01-08 06:40:16+00:00
Indeed what we do was never about the code, it is about the result and its usefulness.

There is an old German proverb that applies: "A fool with a tool is still a fool". For those who know how to use these tools, they'll see their own output grow by x25 when needed. Those who weren't good at structuring their thoughts before, they will certainly improve their output but likely won't do them much when compared to others.
by thesz | 2026-01-08 06:40:38+00:00
I learned that humans are apex predators a couple of years ago.

Meat contains essential fats to various degrees while protein powder does not at all. Usually, protein powder ([1] as an example) is not exactly matched to the human profile of amino acids [2], that means extraneous amino acids will be converted to glucose and stored as fat.

[1] https://explosivewhey.com/blogs/fitness-nutrition/what-is-wh...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11291443/

Notice that ratio between leucine and methionine is 3/1 in consumption profile and is much higher in the whey protein profile. This leucine most probably will be wasted.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-08 06:42:24+00:00
The level of "tech" for a lot of trade and local businesses is often just a mobile phone and word of mouth, no online advertising industrial complex necessary. Those are still very real businesses. When advertising is used it's likely "old school" advertising with no tracking or analytics.

Ironically, if you are looking for a tradesman and do stumble upon an online ad or very polished web presence, be wary as it's basically guaranteed to lead to a boiler room full of scammers who will overcharge you and farm out the actual work to the lowest bidder. Sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locksmith_scam
by kruffalon | 2026-01-08 06:42:33+00:00
No, they could not actually.

The important thing is to relate to other humans and to be sure of what kind of human you're interacting with: the creators of the game or other players.

The staleness that actually "shipping once"[0] gives is precisely the space where human player creativity grows and thrives in.

----
[0] I understand you can get the similar results and better base games if you patch things occasionally, but constant patches[1] hides the jank and repetitiveness with novelty.

[1] And dynamically creating "content" with LLMs is like a constant stream of patches.
by tensor | 2026-01-08 06:42:48+00:00
> Added Sugar: it says <50grams when its clear that NO added sugar is best as the new guidelines suggest.

False. Science studies show that up to 50 grams has little effect on your health.

>Fat: it says to choose low fat cuts 95% and low fat milk. There is no basis for these options. you are just reducing the nutrients from fat. You should just drink/eat less of the fatty food if it contains fat, not choose a processed version that removes part of it.

False, it says to choose lean protein and explicitly calls out to avoid processed meat. A lean cut of meat is not "processed" it comes that way.

> Protein: The protein section clearly skews towards plant based proteins which are fine but for the majority of people animal proteins are going to be healthier and easier to eat enough of. The protein amounts to around 35-60 grams of protein depending on the sources/amounts listed which is not ideal for a properly functioning human

False, red meat has been show to be associated with increased cardiovascular disease.

While the risk of fat and salt is likely overblown, overall the previous guidelines were pretty good. These new ones don't call out the dangers of things like red meat.