MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bflesch | 2026-01-07 15:08:16+00:00
It is a horrific disease and there are many who have it much worse than me. But I also nearly died from this.

> If you've correctly concluded that your symptoms were caused by something other than COVID-19, then by definition you did not have long COVID.

The symptom onset correlated both with covid infection and with covid vaccination.

> "Long COVID is actually caused by IKEA furniture fungus" is misinformation, and your experience with a similar condition doesn't give you immunity from criticism.

Feel free to critize, but I don't see evidence strong enough to immediately reject my theory with such a certainity. Of course not every long covid patient has IKEA furniture. But in my informed opinion there is a correlation, just as with the covid vaccine, and it would make sense to do both scientific and judicial discovery of this correlation.

Due to lacking medical methods one might most likely never be able to show that long covid is caused by a certain mycotoxin plus a certain covid strain hitting the body at the same time, or a certain mycotoxin weakening the immune system enough for long covid symptoms to appear.

But IKEA is/was aware of the problem as they change color from white to gray, they actively hide facts about these materials from their product detail pages, and their own videos demonstrate that it is very likely that shipments of their product were soaked in humidity. And if you soak wood in water, wrap it in plastic paint, and then put it into a room with 30% humidity it is like a fungal growth booster no matter what the person who lives in that apartment does. The water wrapped inside plastic will create micropores in the plastic and try to diffuse outside, thereby creating perfect conditions for mold growth. This is what I think IKEA has done, and I think they tried to hide it.

As mold-based materials are growing in popularity both due to lower costs and sustainability factors, the dangers of mold-based materials that are shipped with too much internal humidity need to be researched and remediated.

PS: There are some books/podcasts by doctors who themselves got long covid and felt the gaslighting by their peers and reported about it.
by recursivedoubts | 2026-01-07 15:08:24+00:00
OneDrive is an absolute cancer. I teach Computer Science and my students are constantly accidentally checking their repos out onto onedrive which, of course, makes the performance absolutely atrocious to the point of unusability, and it often affects the weakest students who are most likely to get knocked out of CS by unrelated issues like this.

The UI in Windows is intentionally designed to confuse the issue so people unintentionally end up using One Drive, which is free until it isn't and then they can jam you with a subscription. Many of my students barely have an understanding of what a file system is and how it works now due to this horrible user-hostile UI.

MacOS is headed this direction as well. Congrats linux: you just need to continue to get worse at the relatively slow rate that you always have and you will be the best desktop/laptop OS within a few years.
by logicallee | 2026-01-07 15:08:50+00:00
That's a good question! You can read through the entire source code for the latest version:

https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/jan2026/171toy-browser.py.t...

it doesn't look like it would be easily derived from Chromium or Firefox, because this code is Python and those don't use Python this way.

By the way is there any feature you'd like to see added to the toy browser? The goal is that one day it's a replacement for Chrome, Firefox, etc. It's being built by ChatGPT and Claude at the moment. Let me know if there are any feature ideas you have that would be cool to add.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-07 15:09:21+00:00
Not sure what country you live in, but where I live, a receptionist doesn't have access to any data processing tools that are not within the realm of a receptionist, and therefore this mobility does not happen. The receptionist ends up redirect the query to someone who has access to the relevant systems.

What sort of companies are those were receptionists have access to tools beyond their role? and why are people approaching the receptionists asking for data queries?

Like having to run a script on that data when your machine doesn't have the permissions to run arbitrary software without permission from the IT team
by vel0city | 2026-01-07 15:09:22+00:00
First mover advantage, brand awareness, word of mouth, early reviewers, etc. People then build a brand connection of "robot vacuum" == "roomba", everything else is just a fake imitation.

Imagine you're a normal random consumer and not an electronics nerd. You've heard people on the morning TV news show talk about these robot vacuums and showed a Roomba. You have a friend that got one last Christmas and said their Roomba was pretty cool. You go to the store, and you see a few Roombas and some other brands you've never heard of. You're probably only going to spend a few minutes looking at the shelf. Which one are you likely to get?

And in the end iRobot managed to coast on that brand connection of "robot vacuum" == "roomba" for a lot of people for nearly 20 years. It really only took until competitors were way cheaper and way better that got people to really start to switch. Their products have not been competitive for over a decade and yet they've only finally died. That power of linking a brand to a specific item or service is powerful, and its not purely push advertising and forced video ads that build it.

Its somewhat the same thing for Google. Sure, they do some amount of advertising especially at top of line events, but overall it seems their direct outbound marketing is kind of low overall. They spend a bunch of defaults and continue to build the connection that to search the internet is to Google, even as they continue to inject more paid results and the quality declines. Other competitors are out there which are comparable or better, but even with them heavily advertising they fail to unseat that brand connection.
by joakleaf | 2026-01-07 15:09:29+00:00
Yes. You are right. Unfortunately, many countries that were/are part of EU sent forces to Iraq (not all).

You mention that Asia was suspicious, but the "coalition of willing" actually included Asian countries such as Phillippines, South Korea, Japan, Uzbekistan, Singapore.

I believe the current overarching feeling in Europe is that we were mislead by the US administration more than our own politicians. Already back then, there was quite a lot of skepticism and significant doubt in the media all over Europe about the justification of that war. Also in the coalition countries.

And Indeed, there were no consequences later. But what should have been done and by whom at that point? How do you prove that it was deliberately misleading? Why would it be the job of nations of Europe or EU?

I agree that it wasn't pretty, and that the European nations and EU should have opposed more, but even as it was back then, it was not a clear "cheering on" moment. I remember having discussions about Iraq with people from Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France back when the invasion started. Although a large group did support the war (I think many were still emotionally affected by 9/11), I actually don't remember talking to any one of them.

The reality is that the US is the most powerful geopolitical entity and Europe is a continent consisting of many individual countries. Even the EU is a divided group of nations, and even if united would not be as powerful as the US is currently.
by latexr | 2026-01-07 15:09:42+00:00
The use of “blames” feels a bit off in this instance. Whenever I read “<company> blames <whatever>” posts, it usually means they are using <whatever> as an excuse for the blunder. But here they completely owned it. In their words:

> We dropped the ball here. This is an inexcusable mistake. We're extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused.

And they link to a FAQ page which explains the situation and how to fix it. I’m not a fan of Logitech, but good for them, it seems they handled it well. Looks like people won’t even be losing their settings, so while a mistake, it was an inconvenient but excusable one.
by solumunus | 2026-01-07 15:10:07+00:00
Not the OP but, easily. My tasks are usually taking at least that, but up to hours of brainstorming and planning, sometimes I’ll do this over days in between other tasks just so I can think about all and pros and cons. Of course this has always been the way, but now I have an ongoing Claude session which I can come back to at any point, which is holding the context along with my brain. It’s much easier to keep the thread of what I’m working on across multiple tasks.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-07 15:10:29+00:00
The Pen EP-7 is the same size as the older EP-5. With any of the Olympus prime lenses, it's about as small as you get (ignoring the Pentax Q, which was ridiculously tiny).

But 100% agree on the OM-1 and OM-3. They're smaller than many APS-C bodies, especially once you add a lens, but they're nowhere near pocketable, not even in a jacket pocket. And I feel like the OM-3 was a bit of a miss - it should have been a "rangefinder" form factor (no pentaprism hump) and a few mm smaller in each dimension. And marketed as a Pen-F. That said, the camera itself seems to be pretty darn good - basically a slightly smaller, vintage-vibe OM-1. Once used examples hit the market, I'll be tempted to buy one.

My parents both shoot Nikon DSLRs and I chuckle every time they break out their birding lenses (400mm NIKKOR of some sort). It's as big as my forearm and fills half a backpack. My Lumix 100-300 (yeah, not quite apple-to-apple) is minuscule in comparison. [I don't do enough wildlife to bother with a more expensive telephoto).
by bruce343434 | 2026-01-07 15:10:36+00:00
As the ice expands, I think the ship gets lifted upwards slightly. Water freezing and expanding in pipes and enclosed spaces is the real problem. There's several ways to cool a ship engine, I suspect these all use a system where the "radiator" is a hull feature where anti-freeze engine coolant goes through exposed veins in a closed loop to exchange heat with the cold water under.
by saalweachter | 2026-01-07 15:10:40+00:00
With carpentry in particular, it is extremely powerful to make multiple cuts at the same time -- set a fence once and then cut everything that needs to match at the same time, or stack multiple pieces together, or cut a board to length before ripping it into several pieces that need identical lengths.

Sure, check your measurements to be sure they're correct, but the more times you can cut based on the same measurement, the less measurement error can creep in.
by palmotea | 2026-01-07 15:10:59+00:00
> If skilled workers can't come here, then the businesses who need them will just open up satellite shops there. Not an opinion on H-1B, just an observation.

They're already doing that, because if the workers stay there, the businesses can pay them much, much less than if they bring them here on an H1-B. And it seems like that's much more common now, since the pandemic further normalized remote work.
by 0x_rs | 2026-01-07 15:11:04+00:00
Google's Photos application is intentionally designed in such a way to hold people's files hostage. It will ask to back your stuff up on startup without the user being able to permanently disable it, with only the classic "Not now, I'm sorry my digital overlords, ask me about it next week" option being available. What will happen is that people that don't know better accept it to get it out of their way, have all their personal pictures uploaded to Google's servers where they are abused in all sort of ways (including getting a father reported to police for CSAM and permanently blocking his account for taking a picture of his son to send a doctor), and because the free plan has a limited space available but won't be respected during upload, they'll start panic-bombing the user with "All your pictures are going to be deleted if you don't pay up or clean". This is all intentional, of course: Google and its developers know the vast majority of its Android users don't know or care about all of this and will exploit that. The Gallery app doesn't have the same Google Drive constant reminder and is what I usually install when I see the above repeatedly happen on other people's devices, which is well over a dozen times now, but Photos cannot be removed, of course.
by encyclopedism | 2026-01-07 15:11:15+00:00
Please do read up on how farmers are doing with this race to the bottom (it hasn't been pretty). Mega farms are a thing because small farms simply can't compete. Small farmers have gone broke. The parent comment is trying to highlight this.

If LLM's turn out the way C-Suite hopes. Let me tell you, you will be in a world of pain. Most of you won't be using LLM's to create your own businesses.
by samiv | 2026-01-07 15:11:21+00:00
It's really sad if you think about that delivering the best desktop UX is all about just not actively sabotaging it on purpose.

Win the game by doing nothing while the competition drives themselves into the ground via enshittification.

After 40 years of computing this is the best we can do? No wonder we can't have nice things.

Maybe the Windows users should be called "victims" at this point.
by sensanaty | 2026-01-07 15:11:22+00:00
> You should trust your team members to write good-enough code...

That's the thing, I trust my teammate, I absolutely do not trust any LLM blindly. So if I were to receive 100 PRs a week and they were all AI-generated, I would have to check all 100 PRs unless I just didn't give a shit about the quality of the code being shit out I guess.

And regardless, whether I trust my teammates or not, it's still good to have 2 eyes on code changes, even if they're simple ones. The majority of the PRs I review are indeed boring (boring is good, in this context) ones where I don't need to say anything, but everyone inevitably makes mistakes, and in my experience the biggest mistakes can be found in the simplest of PRs because people get complacent in those situations.
by jazzypants | 2026-01-07 15:11:26+00:00
OOB swaps are exactly what I'm talking about. That's imperative state management that would be easier with a client side framework. You shouldn't have to manually write out every single part of the app that relies on a single state transition. Do you really think that's scalable? Why would you choose to do that instead of using a tool that completely negates that concern?
by carefulfungi | 2026-01-07 15:11:36+00:00
My impression is that people who are exploring coordinated multi-agent-coding systems are working towards replacing full teams, not augmenting individuals. "Meaningful supervising role" becomes "automated quality and process control"; "generate requirements quickly" -> we already do this for large human software teams.

If that's the goal, then we shouldn't interpret the current experiment as the destination.
by robtherobber | 2026-01-07 15:11:40+00:00
Whilst I much favour bikes over any other transportation means in urban zones, I think it sometimes makes sense to create pedestrian-only zones. Furthermore, cycling is overall good but not all cyclists are reasonable people - I've personally been involved in an accident caused by a cyclist (nothing broken but serious pain for a week or so) who would act as if the cycling lane belonged to him personally and it wasn't shared with pedestrians.

As -- I hope -- we move closer to banning personal cars in the cities, we should start looking closer into the dangerous behaviour of those using now-alternative modes of transportation.
by watwut | 2026-01-07 15:11:51+00:00
What you are saying is that it is possible to catch the most blatant and frequent inside traders. Insider information does not have to be "frequent" to be profitable "insider information" situation.

Which is specifically unlikely to cover senate people or even most people having access to inside information in this or that special circumstances.

> This sentence kind of suggests to me that you might be thinking of some atypical case of insider trading, perhaps involving politicians rather than corporate insiders?

The OP specified "members of the US Congress" as his group of interest. However, I think that yours "it is atypical to be engaged in insider trading that does not involve high frequency of trades" is just incorrect.
by spudlyo | 2026-01-07 15:12:12+00:00
I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned how pleasant it is to create coffee stains using Typst, and if only LaTeX wasn't the de-facto standard in academia and stain-related journals, they would have already switched to it.

Of course, you can create coffee stains in HTML as well, but it's not something you can do in Markdown.
by ModernMech | 2026-01-07 15:12:12+00:00
But why should it be though? You haven’t really addressed that. It’s like saying “Haskell shouldn’t be its own language, it should just be a couple of features like lambdas integrated into a JavaScript library”. Well if you do that you get some nice features in JavaScript but you’ve done away with the whole value proposition of pure functional programming. That’s an actual loss, there’s something to be said for maintaining a pure set of features that gives languages different properties and guarantees you can’t get with “everything is just a lib to an imperative language”
by tehwebguy | 2026-01-07 15:12:55+00:00
Better question: who the hell is giving these apps (or really any apps) five stars?

I don’t rate the apps I use unless other than to give it 1 star for doing something I hate. My banking app’s transaction search doesn’t work at all, so it gets 1 star. But 1.9M ratings resulted in a 5 star average — who are the freaks giving their banking app 5 stars and why?
by Aryezz | 2026-01-07 15:13:03+00:00
Maths Youtuber Noel Friedrich recently made a video about A4 paper[0]. It turns out that since the ISO specification rounds the side lengths down to whole millimeters, with compounding errors, more than 2^10 A10s (smallest paper size in the standard) fit into one A0 (largest size in the standard).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKBCIMkDbw
by rbanffy | 2026-01-07 15:13:17+00:00
> why do you think lightweight uses will ever scale to lots of cores?

Because the cores will be there, regardless. At some point, machines will be able to do a lot of background activity, learn about what we are doing, so that local agentic models can act as better intelligent assistants. I don't know what will be the killer app for the kilocore desktop - nobody knows that, but when PARC made a workstation with bit-mapped graphics out of a semi custom built minicomputer that could easily serve a department of text terminals we got things like GUIs, WYSYWIG, Smalltalk, and a lot of other fancy things nobody imagined back then.

You can try to invent the future using current tech, or you might just try to see what's possible with tomorrow's tools and observe it first hand.
by madmountaingoat | 2026-01-07 15:13:20+00:00
One side of my brain agrees that's a dumb way to judge anyone but then when I think about the accepted filtering mechanism they really aren't any better or any worse. You cannot interview everyone and ultimately you're looking for some combination of competence, alignment, drive and social fit. Filtering on where you worked previously or where you went to school or whether you can pass some coding challenge only partially fills in the matrix. And the size and shape of the organization can drive how much people in the hiring loop look at each data point. This senior engineer's ideal for alignment and social fit probably favored people who think like them or their department's head.
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-07 15:13:24+00:00
> You're aware that there will continue to be immigration without the h1b visa, right? That's just a common way big corporations use to import cheap labor, at least that's what I looked like to me - because id be fully at the mercy of the company I'd be unable to really negotiate my contracts etc

I believe the parent is referring to the knock-on effects of all the other immigration enforcement actions.

I largely agree with you about h1b specifically but this move doesn't exist in isolation. It's increasingly clear that the US is determined to make life hard on immigrants in general (or at least harder) and this is just another data point.
by BurningFrog | 2026-01-07 15:13:33+00:00
Satellites are only visible when it's dark on the ground but sunlight at their orbit. Which is for a short time around sunset and sunrise.

During the actual night sky, you don't see satellites.

As civilization moves into space, it will have to be visible! Imagine if cities were only allowed it they were invisible. Let's not be this stupid!

That said, I'm sure a lot can be done to minimize reflections using paint and materials.
by tetromino_ | 2026-01-07 15:13:49+00:00
> It doesn't make any sense.

It makes perfect sense to me. I rely on that feature. My monitor is big and it's much easier to use the big screen to sort vacation photos and delete the 90% which are garbage and not worth preserving. When I delete the garbage ones, of course I want to delete them everywhere. (And if I accidentally deleted the wrong photo, I can undelete within 30 days.)
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-07 15:14:02+00:00
enshittification of the NET and now OS continues. The problem is that students nowadays have very little opportunity to learn this. My daughter does not understand what a pendrive is and when the data is on her phone and when on the SD card (meanwhile sd card slots are being sunsetted in all the brands).

This is cartel to remove the data ownership possibility from people. Recently Polish youtuber got his video blocked because he showed how to play locally stored mp3 files (accused of breaking yt policy on allegedly showing people how to download illegal files)

If we allow companies to put an equals mark between not storing your own data in cloud and piracy, this will finish the cartel's objective very fast.
by sanderjd | 2026-01-07 15:14:14+00:00
Linear progression feels slower (and thus more like a plateau) to me than the end of 2022 through end of 2024 period.

The question in my mind is where we are on the s-curve. Are we just now entering hyper-growth? Or are we starting to level out toward maturity?

It seems like it must still be hyper-growth, but it feels less that way to me than it did a year ago. I think in large part my sense is that there are two curves happening simultaneously, but at different rates. There is the growth in capabilities, and then there is the growth in adoption. I think it's the first curve that seems to be to have slown a bit. Model improvements seem both amazing and also less revolutionary to me than they did a year or two ago.

But the other curve is adoption, and I think that one is way further from maturity. The providers are focusing more on the tooling now that the models are good enough. I'm seeing "normies" (that is, non-programmers) starting to realize the power of Claude Code in their own workflows. I think that's gonna be huge and is just getting started.
by jwnin | 2026-01-07 15:14:52+00:00
I use OneDrive at work for all of my documents and have never encountered the horror stories I frequently read. I read these stories often enough where I believe there genuinely is a problem. But I do wonder why there is a difference for some and not others. Perhaps I've conditioned myself to live with its faults?

I will say that the Microsoft Office OneDrive save experience is completely subpar. It behaves completely separate & unlike Windows Explorer and is just unpleasant to work with.
by yoz-y | 2026-01-07 15:14:58+00:00
For incremental changes 1-2 sentences are usually enough. Also, since the program itself is a workout app with live reload, I can actually fix bugs while I’m using it.

As for too long of a wait I agree, it makes the sessions longer. Ideal window is after a heavy superset where waiting for 3-5 minutes is not a waste.

(Note that I’m not doing this for my real job, just for my personal project)