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by port11 | 2026-01-07 21:05:30+00:00
I could never afford Tailwind UI but then again I don’t really use Tailwind. That said, as an open-source styling solution, they could be supported in other ways. A lot — and I really mean a lot — of websites are built with Tailwind, yet very few consider donating or buying what they have to offer.

Plenty of F/LOSS is in the same state: businesses extract all value they can from open-source, but put back nothing. That’s mining The Commons. LLMs are just accelerating this trend.

It’s never gonna work in the long run. Let’s go back to writing everything in house then, since we’re 100x more productive and don’t have to pay a dime for other people’s work.
by prmph | 2026-01-07 21:05:39+00:00
Yet you are unavoidably eating micro-plastics too, which have been linked to adverse CV events.

Also:

- If you are eating more fish (as opposed to eating meat), you are likely consuming more mercury.

- If you are eating more fresh veggies you are probably ingesting more pesticides.

- If you are easting dark chocolate for its health benefits, you are also ingesting cadmium and other heavy metals.

So all the above should be done in moderation. Even things that seem like unalloyed good can be dangerous. A burst of exercise beyond your conditioning can lead to a CV event. Too much water can be poisonous. Some people get constipation for too much veggies in their diet.

For example, instead to sticking to a narrow faddish supposedly healthy diet, you can enjoy a wide range of foods, which will make it more likely you are getting all the nutrients that will do you good (of course clearly unhealthy food should be avoided).

The body is more complex than we can ever know. There are some general principles for good health (including CV health) that should be followed, but to me it is clear that good health does not arise from a slavish devotion to very detailed set of rules.
by epistasis | 2026-01-07 21:06:06+00:00
All housing is investment due to the way it's owned, regardless of who owns it. For most people, it's by far their biggest investment, resulting in extreme political activity.

We must confront that fact, or negate it, for example by taxing away the investment opportunity.

Investors buy housing to rent it out to others, that's the investment. People who own their own home implicitly pay themselves rent, by choosing to live in what they own versus renting instead.

Getting non-resident owners out of housing only means that renters have been banned from an area.
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-07 21:06:09+00:00
> Not sure if its a "significant" u-turn

I would say it is because they made a big marketing blog post about it at the time[1] (August 2025). So clearly they considered it a significant new feature.

The blog post ended with the words "If we don’t spot any major regressions with 1.86, the next stable release will likely turn on state encryption by default for all new nodes". It was then enabled by default 1.90.2 onwards (October 2025).

That is why I would consider it a significant u-turn.

[1]https://tailscale.com/blog/encrypting-data-at-rest
by SllX | 2026-01-07 21:06:22+00:00
There is nothing both public and credible to substantiate the claim by the POTUS.

It’s possible we have de facto control of the regime through some backroom that only the Trump Administration knows about, but that’s just speculative on my part. We don’t know this is actually the case, and thus far there hasn’t been anything to substantiate the existence of such a thing.

So we’re at at a point where if put on the spot, gun to my head, I had to answer whether the United States controls the Government of Venezuela in any meaningful way, I would have to say “No” despite what Trump himself said. This is subject to change, pending further evidence made available to the American people.
by Glawen | 2026-01-07 21:06:34+00:00
> Jobs are not being lost because of unskilled people, they are being lost to help the rich get richer.

Indeed, imagine you're part of the wealthy elite. What you want is to be able to move your cash around the world, chasing cash growth. You also want yourself to be able to travel wherever you wish with your Gulfstream.
Why would they care about local midwest job growth ?

Solutions exist, but it's too communist.
by codyb | 2026-01-07 21:06:51+00:00
Huge eyeroll.

Who said anything about scolding anyone lol. I responded very calmly.

I'm sorry, but you'll never win me over that the world be a better place if only we could bring back overtly prejudiced speech.

Actions have consequences. You can say whatever the hell you want, but doesn't mean you deserve respect, or not to be corrected, or not to face the consequences of saying overtly bigoted words.

The fact is... calling negative things gay implies being gay is bad, and therefore we should stop calling negative things gay if we want to support all the good people in the LGBTQ community.
by mellosouls | 2026-01-07 21:07:00+00:00
This may be a bit misleading.

Polymarket settles bets via a blockchain-based voting mechanism which, in theory, reduces to a simple YES/NO decision based on two inputs: the contract wording and whether the specified conditions were met by the relevant date.

While that sounds neutral in principle, in practice it’s vulnerable to interpretation of ambiguous wording and to classic vote-weight effects, where financially motivated participants can tilt outcomes away from the most reasonable reading in order to profit.

It’s actually a genuinely interesting system and an unresolved design problem - one that Polymarket doesn’t yet seem to have fully solved.
by bluGill | 2026-01-07 21:07:24+00:00
What is moderation? The volume (or mass) of a single apple of alcohol is going to make you very drunk (most alcohol is mixed with water: an apple's worth of beer is very little, that much Everclear is a problem).

That is what I hate about the everything in moderation. We need to do better since some things should be in much larger amounts than others.

I think we all would agree that any amount of rat poison is a bad thing, thought perhaps this is too much of a strawman.
by sgc | 2026-01-07 21:07:31+00:00
He's in real estate. Of course he has an angle. Hopefully they can get something worthwhile into the eventual bill anyways.

I would hard cap how many houses anybody can own to something like 4 - whether through an LLC or otherwise. Many countries do not or did not allow foreign ownership of residential real estate. It's definitely not in the interest of any people to have their very land taken from them. In the current climate that would likely take an extremely nasty turn so it's not the best time for it, but I would be very supportive of such a measure with an exception for permanent residents and spouses of US citizens.
by zsolt224 | 2026-01-07 21:07:57+00:00
LLMs were actually not that great so far in the preventative side / risk prediction. They are very good if you already have the disease but if you are trending there they were chill about it. The better way would be to first calculate the risks via deterministic algos and then do differential diagnosis. So something that specialized doc would do. This is an example of an online tool, that does it like that: https://www.longevity-tools.com/liver-function-interpreter
by precompute | 2026-01-07 21:08:28+00:00
Same here. Used FF+Sidebery (and Tab Center Reborn before that) for years. ~5k tabs and it worked perfectly. With Chromium/Brave I can open maybe a hundred before the browser croaks and takes up all available memory.

I don't open heavy websites in FF, though. For youtube links, I always use Brave.
by jibe | 2026-01-07 21:08:35+00:00
Fake job listings, possibly, but doubt. Fake low unemployment too?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

OK, how about employment, if the jobs are fake, this should be down:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

"Cope" is ignoring every stat that disagree with what you want to believe. We aren't in a great economy, It looks like it is flattening, but not bad, not shrinking, and there is an abundance of jobs.
by keeda | 2026-01-07 21:08:35+00:00
These are important conversations to have because there is so much hyperbole in both directions that a lot of people end up having strong but misguided opinions. I think it's very helpful to consider the impact of LLMs in context (heheh) of the bigger picture rather than in isolation, because suddenly a lot of things fall into perspective.

For instance, all water use by data centers is a fraction of the water used by golf courses! If it really does comes down to the wire for conserving water, I think humanity has the option of foregoing a leisure activity for the relatively wealthy in exchange for accelerated productivity for the rest of the world.

And totally, LLMs might not be able to come up with new ideas, but they can super-charge the humans who do have ideas and want to develop them! An idea that would have taken months to be explored and developed can now be done in days. And given that like the majority of ideas fail, we would be failing that much faster too!

In either case, just eyeballing the numbers we have currently, on average the resources a human without AI assistance would have consumed to conclude an endeavor far outweighs the resources consumed by both that human and an assisting LLM.

I would agree that there will likely be significant problems caused by widespread adoption of AI, but at this point I think they would social (e.g. significant job displacement, even more wealth inequality) rather than environmental.
by grvdrm | 2026-01-07 21:09:05+00:00
I don't feel so violently on one side of this or another, but I agree with the spirit of your comment as a child of the 80s.

I think I ate white bread or something very similar to it almost every day for lunch (in school). Cold cuts too. A shit-ton of pasta, but I'm my family is Italian, so that was a given no matter what. Tons of granola bars. Basically every processed baked packaged thing you can imagine.

Your point about sauce hits home too. Sauce purists may disagree but I despise ANY sweetness in your basic red sauce.
by reshlo | 2026-01-07 21:09:29+00:00
It doesn’t matter whether the US actually has control, only that the military action was taken with intent to establish control.

>This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela between November 3, 2025, and January 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".
by smallerfish | 2026-01-07 21:09:41+00:00
No doubt AI slop is a problem. Writing well with AIs is a skill -- there are lots of people who are uncritically just copy/pasting whatever the AI produced on first draft onto the web. But I'd argue that's a "content" problem rather than an AI problem - i.e. the imperative just to publish something to wrap ads around.

You _can_ write well with AI. You _can_ also create good products with AI. It's a tool. You need to learn how to use it.
by cronos | 2026-01-07 21:09:47+00:00
There are two new-ish features in Tailscale that use TPMs: node state encryption (https://tailscale.com/kb/1596/secure-node-state-storage) and hardware attestation keys.

Hardware key attestation is a yet-unfinished feature that we're building. The idea is to generate a signing key inside of the TPM and use it to send signatures to our control plane and other nodes, proving that it's the same node still. (The difference from node state encryption is that an attacker can still steal the node credentials from memory while they are decrypted at runtime).

We started by always generating hardware attestation keys on first start or loading them from the TPM if they were already generated (which seemed safe enough to do by default). That loading part was causing startup failures in some cases.

To be honest, I didn't get to the bottom of all the reports in that github issue, but this is likely why for some users setting `--encrypt-state=false` didn't help.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-07 21:10:02+00:00
Math isn't among the strong points of Gnome devs. Neither is honesty. If they were honest they would write the truth, like:

"100% of Linux desktop users love middle-button paste, but we want to muddy the waters for those 25% of them who are stupid enough to use Gnome, our sponsors will reward us for it."
by seltzered_ | 2026-01-07 21:10:06+00:00
Something to note here is that just yesterday (January 6 2026) the FDA announced changes around regulation of wearable & AI enabled devices: https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/fda-pulls-back-oversight... ("
FDA announces sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices
The changes could allow unregulated generative artificial intelligence tools into clinical workflows")
by oxag3n | 2026-01-07 21:10:16+00:00
Do your own research, it's not that hard:

* Select a subset of diets that might fit your lifestyle.

* Make a list of categories you consume: refined sugars, all kinds of fats, gluten, dairy.

* Look for published papers on diets and categories.

I did a few dramatic changes throughout my life based on researches I did, not the hype. The first one was refined sugars for me and my kids - they didn't have a single cavity in baby and now permanent teeth. Pediatric dentist actually it's impressive, but little sugar here and there wouldn't harm with proper hygiene. One thing I learned about medical doctors is that they are not scientists, and unless they follow a protocol to diagnose and treat you, their opinion is often B.S. For adult, removing refined sugars reduced body fat percentage over time, but what's most important - lipid panel came to normal in about a year.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-07 21:10:17+00:00
It is indeed true.

The truth is that lobbyists have a ton of cards to play, including that if such a ban were to go through, there would be a lot less demand for High Fructose Corn Syrup, which might sound wonderful, except that HFCS is a byproduct of corn, which is a major export of some very competitive swing states.

You fuck with that, your party gets trounced in the next election.
by snailmailman | 2026-01-07 21:10:21+00:00
Those issues are a surprising read. I would expect issues with TPM on old or niche devices, but not Dell XPS laptops, or a variety of VMs. But I guess I'm not entirely sure how my vms handle TPM state, or if they even can.

I'm running nearly all of my personal tailscale instances in containers and VMs. Looking now at the dashboard, it appears this feature really only encrypted things on my primary linux and windows pc, my iphone, and my main linux server's host. None of the VMs+containers i use were able to take advantage of this, nor was my laptop. Although my laptop might be too old.
by roenxi | 2026-01-07 21:10:21+00:00
Legal problem, absolutely. But it is hard to spin bundling a web browser as an ethical concern - especially from MS's perspective. Everything they put in the OS is a component bundled with the OS. Some components being legally special and problematic would have been quite confusing to them when it first hit. Web browsers aren't special and there is an expectation that an OS can access the internet using a variety of protocols.

The ethical issue would be around making it technically harder for competitors to create a web browser. Eg, standard practice on mobile phones (which is worse than anything MS ever did and has always seemed fine to me).
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-01-07 21:10:22+00:00
I've only realized this somewhat recently, and it happens passively, but the way people use some of these magic words helps me to categorize the person who said it.

Sure, use whatever derogatory or offensive words you want, I don't really mind, but I am damn sure going to judge you based on it.

I don't tend to be the "don't use that word" type of person though. But I'm absolutely the "get the fuck out of this 'will make me dumber' conversation" type of person.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-07 21:11:08+00:00
Sure, I already offered some thoughts up-thread.

And I didn't call the parent poster any names, just pointed out that the assessment he was relying on was nonsensical (and probably designed solely to generate ad revenue and brand awareness) and his conclusions were extremely pessimistic compared to the consensus.

Should I have invented my own biased metric (maybe based on land mass since very few of the larger US states are experiencing a recession based on the source provided) as a counterpoint?

What are your ideas concerning the displayed data and narrative?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-07 21:11:13+00:00
Even if I were to agree with you in principle, surely they only indulge in hypocrisy when it is convenient to them, and avoid it when it harms them immediately and directly. You arguments are childish and amount to "[people I dislike] are [dumb/mean/poopooheaded]" and aren't internally consistent or explanatory.
by pantalaimon | 2026-01-07 21:11:20+00:00
> I don’t know German history very well but I don’t remember hearing that non-Nazis were loudly opposing the Nazis.

There sure was opposition to them (while it was still possible), that sure changed after they had enough power to get you locked up and killed for trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbanner_Schwarz-Rot-Gold
by janviguliyan | 2026-01-07 21:11:40+00:00
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by notaustinpowers | 2026-01-07 21:11:54+00:00
He believes germ theory is a creation of Big Pharma to push "patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology"

He believes in the miasma theory and just maintaining a healthy immune is enough to keep you from getting sick.

Just read his book, "The Real Anthony Fauci" and you'll realize that this man shouldn't be trusted to run a kindergarten nurses office.
by jay_kyburz | 2026-01-07 21:13:21+00:00
I think my suggestion would unlock a lot of supply, without expanding our cities or adding to urban sprawl.

Keep in mind, about half of all adults are married, so each couple can own two properties. One to live in, one to rent.

I imagine we could figure out some way to handle inheritance, perhaps we could give somebody 12 months to decide which house the want to keep, and which to sell.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-01-07 21:13:22+00:00
You mean like this...

' "Here is an ampersand... &" '

To clarify, in PowerShell there is a difference between text between single quotes (e.g. '$test') and double quotes (e.g. "$test"). Single quote strings are literal strings, so whatever text is contained within them is reproduced as written. Double quote strings are expandable strings, which means that certain text inside the string is evaluated before it is returned. If you have double quotes in a literal string, you'll see double quotes within that string, and the same should be true for ampersands.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-07 21:13:25+00:00
I have a /fix-ci-build slash command that instructs Claude how to use `gh` to get the latest build from that specific project's Github Actions and get the logs for the build

In addition there are instructions on how and where to push the possible fixes and how to check the results.

I've yet to encounter a build failure it couldn't fix automatically.
by jacekm | 2026-01-07 21:14:07+00:00
There's "Ask ChatGPT" overlay at the bottom of the page, so I asked "how risky is giving my medical data to OpenAI?" Interestingly ChatGPT advised caution ;) In short it said: 1. Safer than standard AI chats, 2. Not as safe as regulated healthcare systems (it reminded that OpenAI is not regulated and does not follow e.g. HIPAA), 3. Still involves inherent cloud risks.
by dfee | 2026-01-07 21:14:12+00:00
I too try for 200g of protein/day, with meat and supplements by shakes. It’s difficult to eat more meat than that, because of how it fills you up, its prep requirements and its cost.

I don’t believe that the average American eats nearly a pound of meat per day. I do believe if the average American ate meat before carbs, we could get there, and all be a lot healthier, though.

For me, processed carbs make me much hungrier, but the kale salad I’m eating right now makes me less hungry.
by fabbbbb | 2026-01-07 21:14:16+00:00
Unfortunately there seems to be no good aligned definition of what (highly) processed food is. 1,2

Whole grain bread or infant formula can be “highly processed” despite very healthy.

In the end someone else cooks for you and packages it. They can cook healthy or not or in between, add a lot of salt or little, .. as always it’s more complex.

1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-022-01099-1

2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nutrition-research-r...
by striking | 2026-01-07 21:14:20+00:00
That's only true of people who overreact or use offense as an excuse to let off some righteous anger. Most people don't react that way, even if that is what you'll most often see surfaced on social media because it's the most exciting and engaging sort of reaction. Most people will just tell you it's not a good thing to say and let you quietly reflect on it, or just exit the conversation.
by icecube092 | 2026-01-07 21:14:35+00:00
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by sltkr | 2026-01-07 21:15:08+00:00
That conclusion may be too hasty. If min cut with k vertices is NP-hard on arbitrary graphs, that doesn't automatically mean that that applies to a 2D grid too.

Is NP hardness proven for just planar graphs? Those are closer to the 2D grid, but still slightly more general. All I could find was a reduction to densest k subgraphs, but Wikipedia tells me that whether that problem is NP hard for planar graphs is an open question.

To be clear, I would be very surprised if the problem turns out to be _not_ NP hard, but there is no trivial equivalence to min cut in general graphs to show that it is.
by gnarlouse | 2026-01-07 21:15:08+00:00
I’m not sure this is such a reality check. I remember figuring this out maybe a month or so after October 2023, when ChatGippity first dropped. Like, if it’s a “do anything platform” won’t the first anything be to cannibalize low hanging anything’s, followed by progressively higher hanging anything’s until there’s no work left?

Like play out AI, it sucks for everybody except the ones holding the steering wheel, unless we hold them accountable for the changing landscape of stake-in-civilization distribution. Spoiler: haha, we sure fucking aren’t in the US.
by jayrot | 2026-01-07 21:15:13+00:00
There are no "language police".

I think about this quote from Ricky Gervais a lot. He's had more than a few controversies, which you may or may not agree with but I think his take here is apt.

"Please stop saying 'You can't joke about anything anymore'. You can. You can joke about whatever the fuck you like. And some people won't like it and they will tell you they don't like it. And then it's up to you whether you give a fuck or not. And so on. It's a good system."