MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neogodless | 2026-01-08 15:35:37+00:00
Very nice!

One time I got a free Harman Kardon bluetooth speaker from Microsoft (the Invoke from 2017). They were $100* but went on sale for $50 and I snagged one.

Then Microsoft discontinued Cortana for it, but they didn't kill the speaker. They released firmware that turned it into a perfectly good bluetooth speaker (which I still use today.) And they sent me a $50 gift card* to buy something else from Microsoft. Good will! I was a big fan of Microsoft hardware. Shame about the software...

* Apparently $200 initially but they had some steep sales because Cortana as a voice assistant wasn't reviewing well. Reviews are a bit negative on the sound quality. Probably true enough at $200, but for $0-50, I think it's actually really good sound quality.

* https://news.harman.com/releases/releases-20200730
by dan00 | 2026-01-08 15:35:45+00:00
> The only country 1st world country not to have really obese people is Japan (~5% obese ~20% overweight). (~35% obsese ~70% overweight US) and I'd wager a large part of that is the fact that kids cook for themselves in school so they learn early what a reasonable meal is.

There might also be a genetic factor, why japanese are less obese or overweight, because the difference for diabetes patients between US and japan is a lot smaller.
by ricardonunez | 2026-01-08 15:35:52+00:00
This should be standard practice. Some companies have terrible policies around bricking their products.

When my kid was born, I bought a brand-new Snoo. After six months, I wanted to sell it since we no longer needed it. That's when I discovered stories of people whose used Snoos had been bricked by the company. For such an expensive product, that is such a waste. If I'd known about this beforehand, I never would have made the purchase in the first place.
by quadruple | 2026-01-08 15:35:54+00:00
The thing with Linux cheats is that they were significantly easier to make(you didn't have to think about bypassing the anticheat at all, you could just read the game's memory or LD_PRELOAD your cheat in), and a lot more were publicly available(in true FOSS fashion, a lot of Linux cheats were open-source). A cheat that could cost $30-$60 a month on Windows could be free as in freedom(and free beer) on Linux.
by moshegramovsky | 2026-01-08 15:36:42+00:00
> The proper decorum here is if the doctor made the wrong diagnosis. All fees and causal charges made by the doctor must be fully refunded and paid for. It’s only fair given the premium they were originally given to make a false diagnosis.

Do you think it would be better to live in a world with no doctors? You can already live in that world if you want. Thanks to doctors, millions of people around the world no longer die from treatable illnesses. Everyone in my family has either had their life saved, or saved from ruin, by a doctor at one point or another.
by undeveloper | 2026-01-08 15:36:59+00:00
> attention span

The meme of 'ADHD as the "fucked up attention span disorder"' has done immeasurable damage to people, neurotypical and ADHD alike. it is the attribute that is the least important to my life, but most centered towards the neurotypical, or the other people it bothers.

> modern life fucks up your attention span

That said, this statement is true, it's just a fundamental misunderstanding of ADHD as "dog like instinct to go chase a squirrel" or whatever. Google is free, so is Chatgpt if that's too hard.

> I'm not sure it's healthy to want to put a label on everything

I don't particularly care for microlabeling, but it's usually harmless, nothing suggest the alternative of "just stop talking about your problems" is better. People create language usually because they want to label a shared idea. This is boomer talk (see "remember facebook?" no)

> or medicate to fall back on the baseline

I'm not sure "If you have ADHD you should simply suffer because medicine is le bad" is a great stance, but you're allowed I suppose
by andsoitis | 2026-01-08 15:37:50+00:00
C# has a ton going for it:

- modern, cohesive language (strong static typing, functional features, first-class async/await, value types, spans, stackalloc)

- pragmatic, not ideological

- great runtime (.NET CLR) that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)

- can do native compilation

- one of the best developer experience (IDE, compiler, profiling)

- excellent for many domains (cloud/backend, desktop, mobile, game dev, data & ML, systems adjacent)

- language scales well with teams and code base size

- great performance / safety balance

- native interop
by seanhunter | 2026-01-08 15:37:51+00:00
In this case they probably are prompting it "wrong" or at least less well than codex/copilot/claude code/etc. That's not a criticism of the user, it's an indication of the fact that people have put a lot of work into the special case of using these particular tools and making sure they are prompted well with context etc whereas when you just type something into chat you would need to replicate that effort yourself in your own prompt.
by aldarion | 2026-01-08 15:38:21+00:00
Thing about the keto diet is that "hungry all the time" simply... doesn't happen. In fact, bigger problem for keto dieters tends to be being satiated all the time and consequently undereating.

"Hungry all the time" is actually vegan thing, but plants have so few calories and pass through so quickly that vegans end up being skinny despite eating literally all the time.
by user_7832 | 2026-01-08 15:38:28+00:00
I generally and broadly agree with your comment.

> Focus is, and always has been, something that can be developed through practice. Ability to focus starts to decrease when you don’t practice it much.

> The talk about “rewiring the brain” and blaming algorithms is getting too abstract, in my opinion. You’re just developing bad habits and not investing time and energy into maintaining the good habits.

> If you choose to delete those apps from your phone ...

I would like to add that focus is one of the many aspects of adhd, and for many people, isn't even the biggest thing.

For many people, it's about the continuous noise in their mind. Brown noise or music can partly help with parts of that.

For many, it's about emotional responses. It's the difference between hearing your boss criticise you and getting heart palpitations while mentally thinking "Shit, I'm going to get fired again", vs "Ahh next time I'll take care of this specific aspect". (Googling "RSD ADHD" will give more info.)

It's the difference between wanting to go to the loo because you haven't peed in 6 hours but you can't pull yourself off your chair, and... pulling yourself off your chair.

Focus is definitely one aspect. But between the task positive network, norepinephrine and the non-focus aspects of dopamine (including - more strength! Less slouching, believe it or not!), there are a lot of differences.

Medications can help with many of these, albeit at the "risk" of tolerance.

(I agree this is a lot of detail and nuance for a random comment online, but I just felt it had to be said. Btw - all those examples... might've been from personal experience - without vs with meds.)
by tptacek | 2026-01-08 15:38:55+00:00
No there aren't. "Responsible disclosure" is an Orwellian term invented by vendors to create the idea that publishing independent research without vendor permission is "irresponsible". It is absolutely not the case that researchers owe anybody 90 days, or are obligated to honor requests for extensions. Project Zero, which invented the 90-day-plus-extension system, does that as a courtesy.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-08 15:38:57+00:00
For the last few years, I have been using small Wacom Intuos S tablets as a replacement for mice, trackballs or touchpads.

I configure the tablets in the "Relative" mode, in which they behave exactly like a mouse, unlike in their default "Absolute" mode. I configure left click to be done by touching the tablet with the stylus and the 2 buttons that are on the stylus to generate right click and double left click.

The advantage over a mouse or trackball is the much more comfortable position of the hand and also the much higher speed and accuracy of positioning. Moving the pointer to any location on the screen is instantaneous and without any effort, due the lightness of the stylus and to the lack of contact with the tablet.

Because the stylus is extremely light, I can touch type on the keyboard while still keeping the stylus between my fingers. This allows faster transitions between keyboard and graphic pointer than with a standard mouse (because the time needed to grip the mouse is eliminated). Only when I type longer texts, I drop the stylus on the tablet.

The tablet is no bigger than a traditional mouse pad, so it does not need a bigger space on the desk.

After switching to use exclusively a graphic tablet, I would never want to use again a mouse, trackball, trackpoint or touchpad. I only regret that I have never thought earlier to try this.

Besides being a better mouse than a mouse, a tablet obviously allows to do things for which a mouse is inappropriate, e.g. drawing or handwriting (e.g. for signing a document).

I should mention that I have always used the Wacom tablets with Linux. I have never tried them on Windows, so I do not know if there they work as well.
by rsynnott | 2026-01-08 15:39:29+00:00
Okay, so on _your_ basis (that it is an identity), being, say, a bird-watcher, or a nerd, or from a rural area, or all sorts of other things, can be, and often is, treated as an identity, and is thus political.

(Ditto for left-handed people to some extent; less of a thing these days, but there _was_ a time they were kinda treated as an outgroup in many places.)
by saalweachter | 2026-01-08 15:39:35+00:00
So, regarding books, why do you think the methods of printing books varies based on the size of the printing sheets?

Regardless of the size of your printing sheet, you choose a page size that's based on dividing your printing sheet in half N number of times, typeset your document to that page size (which you can't even skip for ISO paper sizes, because you pick your font size independent of the paper sizes), print 2^N pages per printing sheet in a particular pattern, fold and/or cut the sheet up, and bind.

There's no difference in waste or time regardless of your paper size choices, unless you do something silly or artistic, like choosing to print a square book or some shape not derived from halving your paper size.
by swid | 2026-01-08 15:39:37+00:00
Every model update would be a breaking change, an honest application of SemVer has no place in AI model versions.

Not saying using major.minor depending on architecture is a bad thing, but it wouldn’t be SemVer, and that doesn’t even cover all the different fine tuning / flavors that are done off those models, which generally have no way to order them.
by dml2135 | 2026-01-08 15:39:42+00:00
I think it's less about that farmer's market produce being healthier, and more about it being tastier. I've encountered plenty of people saying things like "I don't like tomatoes" when it turns out all they've eaten are pale, out-of-season tomatoes from the supermarket.

A big part of getting people to eat better is educating them about seasonality and what good produce should taste like, so that they end up actually liking it.
by seanhunter | 2026-01-08 15:40:14+00:00
My favourite part of chatgpt voice is I have something in my settings that says something along the lines of "be succinct. Get straight to the point," or whatever.

So every single time I (forget and) voice prompt chatGPT it starts by saying "OK, I'll get straight to the point and answer your question without fluff" or something similar. ie it wastes my time even more than it would normally.
by 0xnick | 2026-01-08 15:40:21+00:00
Grok’s Media tab on X has become a surprisingly interesting stream of AI-generated images,
but everything moves fast and gets buried quickly.

I built this site to automatically collect Grok-generated images,
add lightweight AI-based tagging,
and make the content searchable and browsable over time.

This is a small side project / experiment.
Happy to hear feedback, ideas, or concerns.
by nuzzl | 2026-01-08 15:40:38+00:00
Exactly. I noticed that usage for the paid offerings tended to be sporadic for individuals. Research confirmed that Private Investigators and Law Enforcement operate on a case-by-case basis, so a monthly subscription model didn't align with their workflow. However, they still require capabilities beyond what the free tier (cylect.io) offers. For larger clients (like Security Operation Centers and MSSPs) that's where I see monthly working well.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-08 15:40:48+00:00
What I heard is that they make no profit. I'm sure they'll make revenue, but if they simply sold all cars at the cash price, they will be losing money, especially dealerships. But if you're certain they do make profit, not just revenue, then you sound like you know more about the industry than myself, so I'll concede that point.
by kurthr | 2026-01-08 15:40:54+00:00
The news, and with it politics, have largely deteriorated to the point where only a few percent of the highest quality sources are worth any attention. It's all simple narrative grievance and entertainment. NYT in particular has fallen into oblivion resorting to typo clickbait and hate reads. The attention economy has defeated the information economy, with this one weird trick...

My prediction for the New Year is that LLMs won't make it better.
by chubot | 2026-01-08 15:41:47+00:00
Ha, I also recall this fact about the protobuf DB after all these years

Another Jeff Dean fact should be "Russ Cox was Jeff Dean's intern"

This was either 2006 or 2007, whenever Russ started. I remember when Jeff and Sanjay wrote "gsearch", a distributed grep over google3 that ran on 40-80 machines [1].

There was a series of talks called "Nooglers and the PDB" I think, and I remember Jeff explained gsearch to maybe 20-40 of us in a small conference room in building 43.

It was a tiny and elegant piece of code -- something like ~2000 total lines of C++, with "indexer" (I think it just catted all the files, which were later mapped into memory), replicated server, client, and Borg config.

The auth for the indexer lived in Jeff's home dir, perhaps similar to the protobuf DB.

That was some of the first "real Google C++ distributed system" code I read, and it was eye opening.

---

After that talk, I submitted a small CL to that directory (which I think Sanjay balked at slightly, but Jeff accepted). And then I put a Perforce watch on it to see what other changes were being submitted.

I think the code was dormant for awhile, but later I saw someone named Russ Cox started submitting a ton of changes to it. That became the public Google Code Search product [2], and my memory is that Russ wrote something like 30K lines of google3 C++ in a single summer, and then went on to write RE2 (which I later used in Bigtable, etc.)

Much of that work is described here: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

I remember someone telling him on a mailing list something like "you can't just write your own regex engine; there are too many corner cases in PCRE"

And many people know that Russ Cox went on to be one of the main contributors to the Go language. After Code Search, they worked on Go for 2-3 years before Go was open sourced in 2009.

---

[1] Actually I wonder if today if this could perform well enough a single machine with 64 or 128 cores. Back then I think the prod machines were something like 2, 4, or 8 cores.

[2] This was the trigram regex search over open source code on the web. Later, there was also the structured search with compiler front ends led by Steve Yegge.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-08 15:42:39+00:00
You can use various programming languages with shebangs.

C#: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...

Java: https://dev.to/toliyansky/scripting-with-java-3i9k

Go: https://golangcookbook.com/chapters/running/shebang/

https://github.com/igor-petruk/scriptisto will let you generate shebang scripts for pretty much any language
by tombert | 2026-01-08 15:42:47+00:00
I am not entirely sure how I could provide evidence of internalized racism, so sure that’s more vibes based on my end. I am just saying that I do not think that “more POC voted for Trump so it couldn’t be racism!” is the slam dunk that you think it is.

I don’t think polls are useful at all if the questions involve anything embarrassing. If a pollster asked “why did you vote for Trump” almost no one is going to say “because I don’t like brown people”, especially when it’s trivial to come up with some contrived reasoning about the economy (even when it doesn’t make any sense).
by dahcryn | 2026-01-08 15:43:17+00:00
but cost is critical. It's been proven customers are willing to pay +- 20/month, no matter how much underlying cost there is to the provider.

Google is almost an order of magnitude cheaper to serve GenAI compared to ChatGPT. Long term, this will be a big competitive advantage to them. Look at their very generous free tier compared to others. And the products are not subpar, they do compete on quality. OpenAI had the early mover advantage, but it's clear the crowd who is willing to pay for these services, is not very sticky and churn is really high when a new model is release, it's one of the more competitive markets.
by bs7280 | 2026-01-08 15:43:31+00:00
You are right to call this out, and is why the legislation for this idea will require a lot of thought. But the important part of this idea is that only the "big" landlords will have a significant increase in cost.

In order for the economy to function there has to be ~ SOME ~ landlords. In my experience the random people that rent out their second property are usually good landlords, whereas the massive players treat people poorly. If this tax were implemented well, the latter group would be taxed more forcing them to stay honest. The small landlords would have a competitive pricing advantage over the big players, which should go a long ways to keep rents fair.
by dspillett | 2026-01-08 15:43:44+00:00
> I do not see the issue here, either.

Despite there not being an issue, there are many companies, including some very significant ones, that have restrictive rules about the use of GPL software just-in-case. Some flat out have a blanket “no GPL code at all” for the libraries and such that they use. I don't know if it still stands, but Android development at Google had a “no GPL in userspace” edict. If your service becomes big, you will get people asking you to change the licence so that they can use it.
by mint5 | 2026-01-08 15:44:03+00:00
“If Trump is not credible”!!??? If??!

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me 500 times, I want to be lied to”

Similarly no one believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to “denazi-ify” it as Putin and the kremlin claimed many times among other things.

Neither was the troop building up in 2022 near Ukraine purely for training as repeatedly claimed by the top Russian officials.

Trump is equally credible.
by echelon | 2026-01-08 15:44:11+00:00
Thank you so much!

It was gut-wrenching to hear after a weekend of sleepless effort. This was a community I've been a part of for decades, and I've never had my work received like that before.

But at the same time, this was right after the strikes and just as AI was looking like it might threaten jobs. I totally and completely understand these folks - most of whom are actively employed in the industry - feeling threatened and vulnerable.

In the past two years the mood has definitely lightened. More filmmakers are incorporating AI into their work and it's becoming accepted now. Of the films that used AI in last October's 48 Hour Film Project, none of them were booed, and a few of them won awards.

We animated all of the gore in ours with AI (warning - this is bloody and gory) :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m6eUR5V55QXA9p6SLuCM8LdFMBq...

(This link will get rate limited - sorry. An untold volume of indie films are on the "deep web" as Google Drive links.)

We really had to rush on this one. We only had 24 hours due to a scheduling snafu and had to roll with the punches. The blood didn't do exactly what we wanted, and we had to keep the script super tight. Limited location, serendipitous real party we crashed with a filmmaking request, ...

These are like hackathons and game jams.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-08 15:45:26+00:00
> refuses to go out of the way to stop blocking the road

This is false. In the video LEFT-full-duration-WARNING-GRAPHIC.webm [1] you can see she is making an effort to move out of the way, but is being careful as to not hit other folks around her and even waves other ICE officers to drive around her while she waits her turn.

>refuses to get out of the car

From 0:03 onwards, one ICE agent told her to move and the other told her to get out of the car. This is after they walk up to her and start hassling her.

> suddendly accelerates her 6000 pounds car

This is also false. She wasn't accelerating at full speed, nor was the cop right in front of the car.

Why are you lying? What is your goal?

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gb_IkGVK7WvsTAXfMvQU...
by aldarion | 2026-01-08 15:45:37+00:00
From what I have gathered (through research and by using myself as a guinea pig), there are two things about highly processed food that promote overeating:
1) high carbohydrate content
2) lack of nutrients

High carbohydrate content causes sugar spikes, which leads to insulin spikes, and insulin spikes both a) cause hunger and b) promote storage of energy in the form of body fat:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3894001/

Second issue is as I said lack of nutrients. Your body needs nutrients, and will force you to eat until nutritional requirements had been satisfied. Since processed foods have very few nutrients, your organism compensates by increasing dietary intake... which means increasing caloric intake.
by dpark | 2026-01-08 15:46:01+00:00
I believe that they try to, but I have serious doubts about how effective it is. Dietary science is littered with examples of incorrect guidance driven by data we misinterpreted. Remember when a generation of people were told to eat low fat and they all got fatter? Remember trans fats replacing saturated? Remember when we told everyone that drinking alcohol in moderation was healthier than not drinking at all?

Most dietary studies are observational, which means there is no control group and no blinding. It’s a deep dive into data (largely self-reported) with an attempt to control the endless variables by slicing and dicing the data to hopefully end up with groups that can be meaningfully compared.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-08 15:46:19+00:00
>Computationally, this translates to maintaining a polynomial spectral gap (Δ ~ n^-k) across the solution landscape.

(1) No, it doesn't, unless additional modeling assumptions are made.

>Witten-Helffer-Sjöstrand (1982)

(2) Cannot find that paper. (Will elaborate on this if you link the paper and show it isn't an hallucination.)

>The energy landscape of a 3-SAT instance IS a multi-well potential by construction.

(3) 3-SAT admits such encoding but does not inherently possess one.

>This isn't opinion—it's mathematics.

The inequality is correct but irrelevant.

>identify a non-standard axiom

See (1)(2)(3).

>Show where the 3-SAT → multi-well mapping breaks down

Could write an entire essay on this but will opt out to a simple counter-example. (x1 v x2 v x3). It has no multi-well structure.

>They'll see you questioned my competence instead.

Since my replies aren't prompt generated, requiring thought and time to write (atop the thought and time to read/explore the content), excuse me if I am not interested in debating a chatbot on a forum. Could open ChatGPT or whatever you're using and do it myself directly if wanted to.

>Run the compiler.

The program codifies the axioms which've already shown they're incorrect. Hence the result is useless. All it shows is that your formalization is inconsistent.