MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-08 01:40:42+00:00
> "Rent seeking" has nothing to do with landlords and tenants

They're orthogonal. In a competitive market, landlords earn no economic rent. In a market with supply restrictions, however, landlords will earn a return "in excess of the costs needed to bring that factor into production" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
by wat10000 | 2026-01-08 01:40:54+00:00
When the Nazis fell, the occupation forces didn’t say “you can’t abolish the Gestapo, we need police, otherwise it’s just anarchy.” They got rid of the Nazi machine and replaced it.

ICE is rotten to the core. It should be abolished and replaced. Create a new organization with new leadership. Ban anyone from a leadership position in ICE from being employed by the new organization. Maybe allow the rank-and-file to apply, but they have to start fresh and are treated like any other applicant at best.

“Abolish ICE” isn’t about immigration enforcement. It’s about bringing to heel a reckless, out of control, proto secret police. “Abolish ICE” is about immigration enforcement as much as shooting a US citizen in the face is.
by MrMember | 2026-01-08 01:40:59+00:00
I do most of my grocery shopping at Target. In my large Midwestern city 12 large eggs are $2. A 3 lb bag of apples is $4. A 3 lb bag of oranges is $4.29.

>When people talk about these cheap meals, I wonder if they just expect everyone to eat the same thing every day at the lowest quality.

Eating cheap doesn't have to mean eating the same shit meal every day. I like to have a framework to work from where I have some structure but can vary it a lot based on what I want to eat. Rice+vegetable(s)+protein has endless variations. One week I might do a taco style rice bowl. The next maybe I do an Asian bowl. Stews are also great for this. By varying the ingredients a bit and using different spices I can get stews with very different flavor profiles that taste great.
by AstroBen | 2026-01-08 01:41:02+00:00
> an estimated 13.5 million people in the United States have low access to a supermarket or large grocery store [0]

That's 4% of the population. Food deserts explain some of it but not the majority

The rest yeah I absolutely agree with. People are stressed and time deficient, don't have food storage and prep skills

Maybe in a roundabout way it just comes back to money? If you need to work or study too much and don't feel you have the time to cook, you'll get the easiest options you know

Part of it can be overcome with strategy. I spend 15 minutes a day on food prep and couldnt imagine how I'd make my diet healthier. I'm sure what you make is much more elaborate though haha

0: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2011/december/data-feat...
by buu700 | 2026-01-08 01:41:36+00:00
I'm not going to dogpile criticism on Tailwind or Adam, whose behavior seems quite admirable, but I fundamentally agree with the thrust of the parent comment. It's unfortunate for Tailwind and anyone who was invested in the project's pre-2022 trajectory, but no one is entitled to commercial engagement by unaffiliated third parties.

Here's a similar example from my own experience:

* Last week, I used Grok and Gemini to help me prepare a set of board/committee resolutions and legal agreements that would have easily cost $5k+ in legal fees pre-2022.

* A few days ago, I started a personal blog and created a privacy policy and ToS that I might otherwise have paid lawyers money to draft (linked in my profile for the curious). Or more realistically, I'd have cut those particular corners and accepted the costs of slightly higher legal risk and reduced transparency.

* In total, I've saved into the five figures on legal over the past few years by preparing docs myself and getting only a final sign-off from counsel as needed.

One perspective would be that AI is stealing money from lawyers. My perspective is that it's saving me time, money, and risk, and therefore allowing me to allocate my scarce resources far more efficiently.

Automation inherently takes work away from humans. That's the purpose of automation. It doesn't mean automation is bad; it means we have a new opportunity to apply our collective talents toward increasingly valuable endeavors. If the market ultimately decides that it doesn't have sufficient need for continued Tailwind maintenance to fund it, all that means is that humanity believes Adam and co. will provide more value by letting it go and spending their time differently.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 01:41:38+00:00
What I'm describing is a systemic dysfunction due to financial incentives.

The "crisis" is specifically the high cost of housing. So if whatever you do doesn't lower the price then by definition you've failed to solve the problem.

It's certainly a dichotomy but I don't see how it's false?

> We can easily build twice as much in high cost areas (with the strongest job markets) with little impact on existing home owners.

It's certainly possible to encounter nonlinear behavior. If some aspect has saturated then we might build quite a bit without seeing any substantial price movement. But eventually prices would start to decline.
by eru | 2026-01-08 01:42:36+00:00
Singapore has free and fair elections that international election observers never have found fault with. LKY regularly won elections, and his party still wins elections.

> * Well not for houses, but like half of Singapore is immigrants that can be taxed to pay for the other half's houses so it works out for them.

The proportion of immigrants is lower than what you say, and we are not taxed more than residents. (I'm an immigrant to Singapore.) In fact, they once even gave me a 50% income tax one-off rebate just because in that year they took in more money than they needed. If I were a politician, I would have only given that one-off rebate to citizens, you know the people who can actually vote for you.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-08 01:42:47+00:00
I think this phase of centralising power is part of the never-ending cycle of centralisation and distribution - mainframes -> PCs -> websites -> apps, and so on round we go. We will get a "data centres -> Personal LLMs" phase of the cycle which distributes it again.

So my hope is that LLMs become local in a few years.

We've been sitting around 16Gb of RAM on a laptop for 10-15 years now, not because RAM is too expensive or difficult to make, but because there's been no need for more than that for the average user. We could get "normal" laptop RAM up to 16Tb in a few years if there was commercial demand for it.

We have processor architectures that are suitable for running LLMS better/faster/efficiently. We could include those in a standard laptop if there was commercial demand for it.

Tokens are getting cheaper, dramatically, and will continue to do so. But we have an upper limit on LLM training complexity (we only have so much Internet data to train them on). Eventually the race between LLM complexity and processing speed will run out, and probably with processing speed as the winner.

So my hope is that our laptops change, that they include a personally-adapted very capable LLM, run locally, and that we start to see a huge variety of LLMs available. I guess the closest analogy would be the OS's from "Her"; less typing, more talking, and something that is personalised, appearing to actually know the user, and run locally (which is important).

I don't see anything stopping Linux from doing this too (but I'm not working in this area so I can't say for sure).

Obviously we'll face the usual data thieves and surveillance capitalism along the way, but that's part of the process.
by monooso | 2026-01-08 01:42:48+00:00
You're clearly not a fan of Tailwind, and that's fair enough.

However, stating that Adam Wathan (AW) "basically forced [Tailwind] onto the world" is nonsense. People chose to adopt it because it solved a problem.

In case you're not familiar with the origins of Tailwind, AW was building a SaaS live on stream, and everyone kept asking about the little utility CSS framework he'd built for himself (rather than the short-lived SaaS).

That's how it all started. Not through a big SEO campaign, or the mysterious ability to force others to choose a CSS framework against their will, but because people saw it, and wanted to use it.
by michaelmrose | 2026-01-08 01:43:29+00:00
Raw score is often quite frankly crap. It's often still easy to surface the negative reviews and since people don't at least at present fake those you can find out what they didn't like about a product. If a given products critics are only those whining about something irrelevant, not meaningful to your use case, or acceptable to you and it overall appears to meet spec you are often golden.
by liftmind | 2026-01-08 01:44:24+00:00
That’s a great question, and you’re right—the premium features are where the real "intelligence" of the tool lives.

The reason I kept the free tier basic is that I wanted to create a "Trust Bridge." In a niche like addiction recovery, asking for $9.99 upfront is a huge hurdle because users have a lot of "privacy trauma" from apps that mine their data. By keeping the free tier as a simple, gamified logger, people can verify for themselves that the app actually respects their anonymity before they ever open their wallet.

To answer your question about the differentiation:

No Email Required: This is the big one. I collect zero PII (no name, no phone, no email). You register with just a username. Even if my database leaked, there is nothing there to link a user’s private mental health logs to their real-world identity. I even encrypt sensitive data at the application level as an extra layer of defense.

The "Cold Start" Solution: The free tier acts as the data collector. Recovery often starts with the manual act of just "showing up" and logging. Once a user decides to upgrade, the AI doesn't start from zero—it "wakes up" with all that historical data already available to find patterns that a human might miss.

Sustainability: LLM tokens and vector storage aren't free, and since I refuse to monetize through ads or selling behavioral profiles, the Premium tier is what keeps the lights on. I’d rather be transparent about charging for AI intelligence than have a "free" app that secretly sells your data to gambling networks to pay its API bills.

Essentially, the free tier is a secure safety net for anyone at rock bottom who just needs a private place to track a streak, while Premium is for those ready for active, strategic analysis.
by eru | 2026-01-08 01:44:27+00:00
Ireland is richer if you look at labour income, too. I agree that its GDP numbers are a bit weird.

China is poorer than the EU.

> The regulations put in place in the 30s after the great depression were relaxed by Reagan, and unsurprisingly it lead to the reemergence if financial crisis after half a century of financial stability.

The US had inane financial regulations right from the start. And I'm not sure what you are smoking: have you heard of the Great Moderation? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moderation
by epolanski | 2026-01-08 01:44:47+00:00
> I don't understand people freaking out over this

Personally I'm not a fan of any diet that recommends high meat consumption and I say that as someone who eats everything.

Cattle outweighs the total livestock on this planet by a 10 to 1 factor.

While governments pretend to do stuff for the environment, they seem to always ignore the extreme cost on the environment and pollution caused by cattle. Even focusing on CO2 emissions by industry avoids the elephant of the room of the insane levels of methane produced by cows, a gas that's 200 times more harmful.

There is little evidence that a meat heavy diet is good for people, but there's plenty of evidence of the contrary.

So, to be honest, while I don't freak out and I'm all for freedom, there has to be also some kind of consciousness into how do we use the resources on this planet, and diet is by far more impactful than the transport of choice.
by robhlt | 2026-01-08 01:45:01+00:00
Shooting the driver of a car that's driving at you is not self defense. Cars don't instantly stop if the driver is incapacitated. You'll likely make the situation even worse because the incapacitated driver's foot will press the accelerator down (exactly what happened here). If your actual intent is to defend yourself the only move that makes any sense is to get out of the way.
by fhsm | 2026-01-08 01:45:07+00:00
I’m from a culture in which family use a very small number of very highly conserved names and non standard name positions. I’ve noticed this is sufficient to confuse the low rent data brokers that do statistical linkage. My parents and grandparents and my siblings and my children have all at various points shared addresses landlines and have overlapping names. The brokers are very unclear on how many people are involved , what sex , what generations what states.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-08 01:45:34+00:00
FWIW all of the obfuscation techniques make it easier to track you through the store. Then, unless you use a different card each time you go, or only use cash and never use the wegmans rewards stuff, then you pwn yourself immediately.

Better to just avoid altogether, however every possible store is using this (I was pitching this to Target as early as 2016) and govt reps are active supporters of this tech.

There aren’t really any alternatives that aren’t “grow your own food.” Even local retailers can use these systems and are increasingly cloud-SaaS
by pdonis | 2026-01-08 01:45:43+00:00
> owned by everyone

There's no such thing. Even if on paper "everyone" has an ownership share, in practice it's going to be a relatively small number of people who actually exercise all the functions of ownership. The idea that "everyone" can somehow collectively "own" anything is a pipe dream. Ownership in practice is control--whoever controls it owns it. "Everyone" can't control anything.

> I really like AI models, but I hate monopolies. Especially ones that treat us like cattle and depopulate the last vestiges of ownership and public commons.

I would dispute whether the tech giants are "monopolies", since there's still competition between them, but that's a minor point. I agree with you that they treat individual coders like cattle--but that's because they can: because, from their standpoint, individual coders are commodities. And if automated tools, including AI models, are cheaper commodities that, from their standpoint, can do the same job, that's what they'll use. And if the end result is that whatever they're selling as end products becomes cheaper for the same functionality, then economically speaking, that's an improvement--we as coders might not like it, but we as customers are better off because things we want are cheaper.

So I'm not sure it's a consistent position to "really like AI models" but also not want the tech giants to treat you like cattle. The two things go together.
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-08 01:45:44+00:00
In California you can use food stamps for fast food.

I haven't been there in a while so it might be different now.

Let's think about it.

Your homeless or in an unstable living situation. You don't have access to a kitchen, where are you going to make a home cooked meal.

How are you going to prepare raw chicken without a stove. Some homeless encampments do have people trying to cook, which sounds neat until a fire starts.

Let someone down on there luck buy a sandwich with SNAP. Maybe a shake too. Keeps the fastfood franchise in business, keeps people employed there.

The money is going to flow right into the local economy. I'd rather my tax dollars stay here than funding military bases all over planet earth.

I agree with you though. Just give people money. I feel like a UBI is the way to go. A single Flat tax rate for everyone. Everyone gets 1000$ a month( just off the top of my head, could be higher or lower).

The bizzaro welfare cliff...
If you and your partner have kids it can be smart to not get married and have the kids live with whoever makes less.

They get free healthcare with the less affluent parent and you just hope you don't get sick.
by epolanski | 2026-01-08 01:46:03+00:00
I think we're far past the point where you can avoid being tracked anywhere in the world, and that's even if you wear sunglasses, a hat, and you use no technology (no phone, etc).

Israeli cyber security companies have long trained models capable of recognising anybody (mostly used at checkpoints to catch terrorists), even by lower resolution cameras and when the person tries camouflaging. Police in wales even openly admitted to using it to conduct mass surveillance "to find criminals".

If you've taken an international flight, your face has been scanned, and you will be recognised and spotted wherever you go and there's a camera.
by silexia | 2026-01-08 01:46:16+00:00
Can you see which way a vehicles wheels are pointed when you are standing right in front of it? Especially when the engine is roaring as the criminal tries to floor it backwards then forwards at you?

If she had simply complied with police officers command to stop and exit the vehicle, she probably would have just received a warning and gone home. So dumb to try to murder a cop with your car.
by zerocrates | 2026-01-08 01:46:27+00:00
Which ones? The guidelines this replaced were "half your plate should be fruits and vegetables, the other half protein and grains (at least half of which should be whole grains)." That's not way different from this.

There are differences: the previous guidelines are very down on saturated fat, for example. But I feel like a lot of people are imagining that this is replacing the old food pyramid with the huge grain section at the bottom bigger than everything else, when that's been gone for over a decade.

Realistically I don't think these guidelines really have much effect at all, except maybe things like school lunch programs that may be downstream of them.
by lamontcg | 2026-01-08 01:46:29+00:00
> She was being commanded to step out of the vehicle

She was given conflicting order by different officers. One order to drive on, one order to step out of her vehicle.

Which is standard cop practice to just yell conflicting orders out and then wind up killing someone for not complying with one of them.

> and refused to do so while accelerating the vehicle quickly with an officer standing in front of her vehicle.

Cop was off to the left of her hood, and she had her wheels hard to the right and drove around him. She wasn't aimed at him. He wasn't in danger.
by defrost | 2026-01-08 01:47:03+00:00
Clearly not what happened when viewed from multiple angles.

The driver backed up, turned wheel prior to moving forward, and drove forward to leave.

During this, the ICE officer advanced, drawing his weapon, stepped into the turn circle of the vehicle, fired, and then jumped out of the way.

It's unclear whether he was hit, it is clear that he moved in front of the vehicle to fire with the intent of then moving out of danger.

At worst he skimmed across the rounded corner of the bonnet as a result of his own actions.
by eru | 2026-01-08 01:47:12+00:00
> In situations where we still care about dollars, so no hyperinflation or total collapse of the United States, the current market value of a Treasury bond can't actually vary that much. And the amount it can reasonably vary is mostly proportional to how many years are left in the bond.

Well, it was enough variance to bring Silicon Valley Bank down.

> By the time your bonds reach maturity, you always have more dollars than you started with. Long term you always profit.

I'd be very happy to have you as my investor in some long term bonds---with terrible below-market-but-barely-positive interest rates.

> I'm saying you're too worried about "withdrawal requests" a normal bank would see.

Silicon Valley Bank saw massive withdrawals, because their liabilities exceeded their assets.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-08 01:47:16+00:00
The municipality cares about the taxes, sure but it goes far beyond that. Literally everyone in every department is more convenienced by attracting the well off and being hostile to those who aren't. Those rich people in those big houses with their big assets are much "easier to own" for the town than a bunch of rowdy generally noncompliant trailer trash who crank out a bunch of kids who need services, have poor elderly who need services, don't goose step in line without a bunch of enforcement, can't pay the taxes to pay for the "do we really need this" equipment and facilities government, the working parents can't pick up the slack if the schools slip and scores will show it, etc, etc, etc.

Growing municipalities kind of have to choose if they want to become bedroom communities or industrial/business communities and if they choose the former optimizing for rich people is the easy lazy not sticking their neck out choice and what does government employment optimize for if not retaining people disposed toward that sort of decision making.
by christopher8827 | 2026-01-08 01:48:05+00:00
Location: Currently in Sydney, Australia.
Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Only in Australia - however, I am a resident of Spain and an Australian citizen.

About: I'm looking for any AI/ML engineer roles at the moment. I have experience applying ML to biology in research so I am looking to see if anything fits.

Technologies: - Web Dev: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux - Data Science: Python (SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter), Neural Networks, SVMs, PCA, MDS, Decision Trees, Random Forests, R, OpenAI Agents SDK

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jw4LC83GZvNqHLVucDDPtpuqA0k...

Email: me [at] christopheragnus.com
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-08 01:48:09+00:00
> This is pure whataboutism

This is by definition not whataboutism. Whataboutism is when you distract from a thing with unrelated things (e.g. "but there are more important bad things going on in the world than this!"). It is not whataboutism to bring up legitimate related counterarguments for a policy.
by bikelang | 2026-01-08 01:48:17+00:00
Why is JS, in particular, so deeply afflicted with these issues? Why hasn’t there been an effort to create a more robust standard library? Or at least first party libraries maintained by the JavaScript team? That way folks can pull in trusted deps instead of all the hodgepodge.

Go did a lot wrong. It was just awful before they added Go modules. But it’s puzzling to me to understand why as a community and ecosystem its 3rd party dependencies seem so much less bloated. Part of it I think is because the standard library is pretty expansive. Part of it is because of things like golang.org/x. But there’s also a lot of corporate maintainers - and I feel like part of that is because packages are namespaces to the repository - which itself is namespaced to ownership. Technically that isn’t even a requirement - but the community adopted it pretty evenly - and it makes me wonder why others haven’t.
by calmbonsai | 2026-01-08 01:48:39+00:00
Merely "using drivetrain components as structural members" is not a monocoque, but it's a start.

You're correct on the chariot.

A monocoque incorporates ALL components as stressed members so even a classic Lotus Esprit would fail that strict definition given that both hood and trunk are free-floating cantilevers, but point taken.
by websiteapi | 2026-01-08 01:48:43+00:00
? the chauvin case wasn't the same at all. he choked flyod needlessly for 10 minutes. completely unnecessary and good that chauvin was convicted. I follow these cases since I'm part of a police justice group - I've never seen a case similar to what happened here where the officer was convicted. there's just too much precedent that if a car is going towards you the officer is justified in shooting

if you have an example of a similar situation where the cop is convicted I am very very interested.