MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2026-01-07 20:51:35+00:00
I have no argument really in favor of corporate ownership, but I don't find the arguments against convincing in terms of helping normal people.

Rental housing is an important part of housing, and giving access to the schools in suburbs through rental opportunities seems good to me. The people I know who have rented a SFH in my area have had better experiences with corporate landlords than home-owning landlords because the home-owning landlords frequently evict their tenants so that a relative can move in, which is super disruptive. California allows homeowners to evict people with very little warning that way, without cause. Corporations can't do that and also follow the law better.

As far as investing: Every home owner treats it as their primary asset. Which is the only reason that corporations are getting in on the game: people living in their own homes have changed regulatory structures so much that it's rigged in favor of owners.

Single family homes owed by corporations are rented out to people to live in them, giving access to neighborhoods that were not accessible before.

If you think that's "economist inspired" well it's no more inspired than your statements!
by ajross | 2026-01-07 20:51:42+00:00
POTUS literally, literally announced that the US had control over all (!) of Venezuela.

Now, sure, that's kind of a lie. But (ahem) By The Definition of The Bet, actual control is not required. Only a military offensive intended to establish control. What purer definition of intent can you have than the decisionmaker's literal statement? QED.

No, this is cheating. Now, sure, the bets placed seemed very likely to be fraudulent. Which is cheating too. But there's not "technically" here. Polymarket is playing games with its bets. And that's fraud, even if it's got company.
by avgDev | 2026-01-07 20:51:48+00:00
Then you have not dealt with doctors.

Some physicians are absolutely useless and sometimes worse than not receiving any treatment at all. Medicine is dynamic and changes all the time. Some doctors refuse to move forward.

When I was younger I've had a sports injury. I was misdiagnosed for months until I did my own research and had the issue fixed with a surgery.

I have many more stories of doctors being straight up wrong about basics too.

I see physicians in a major metro area at some of the best hospital networks in the US.
by maxloh | 2026-01-07 20:52:21+00:00
I actually meant something like that with Nushell commands. They output structured data that Python and JavaScript can easily leverage in theory.

C: > ls
╭────┬────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────────╮
│ # │ name │ type │ size │ modified │
├────┼────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ 0 │ Program Files │ dir │ 8.1 kB │ 2 hours ago │
│ 1 │ Program Files (x86) │ dir │ 8.1 kB │ 2 months ago │
│ 2 │ Users │ dir │ 4.0 kB │ 4 months ago │
│ 3 │ Windows │ dir │ 16.3 kB │ 4 days ago │
╰────┴────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────────╯
by 30minAdayHN | 2026-01-07 20:52:37+00:00
Exactly! I really loved the presentation. An interactive map with voice over, and at key moments zooming in, zooming out, coloring etc. Beautiful design. At the same time, not restricting the user. I was immediately glued.

I'm thinking that this can be a good pattern for photography portfolio sites. Voice over from photographer talking about his inspiration, walking through key memories, while letting the user browser around.
by troupo | 2026-01-07 20:52:50+00:00
1. It's a workaround for context limitations

2. It's the same workarounds we've been doing forever

3. It's indistinguishable from "clear context and re-feed the entire world of relevant info from scratch" we've had forever, just slightly more automated

That's why I don't understand all the "it's new tier" etc. It's all the same issues with all the same workarounds.
by masfuerte | 2026-01-07 20:52:55+00:00
If use an MS account the keys are backed up on MS servers. If you use a corporate account they'll be backed up in Active Directory. If you use a local account then, by default, the keys are backed up on the disk. In that case it's purely security theatre.

You are only a hostage of the TPM if you use a local account, you opt-in to managing your own key backup, and you don't actually do the backup. Who does that?

TPMs could be failing left, right and centre and nobody would notice.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-07 20:52:57+00:00
The current "thermal-only" safety guidelines (FCC/ICNIRP) are obsolete and ignore biological harm like oxidative stress, a known enemy of soft tissue integrity. The correlation between the 49ers' soft tissue graveyard and their chronic exposure to elevated magnetic fields is too strong to dismiss as coincidence.

A dedicated clinical study into a direct link between 60 Hz magnetic fields and specific Achilles/hamstring rupture rates would be a great step for science.
by jdietrich | 2026-01-07 20:53:41+00:00
Unless you're doing something blatantly wrong or have a very specific disorder like coeliac, diet just doesn't have very much influence on health. There are a very wide range of diets that are more-or-less equally healthy, within a margin of error. Humans are highly adaptable omnivores that have evolved to survive and thrive on a broader range of foods than pretty much any other species. The data seems so mixed because the effect sizes of reasonable interventions are so small - a tiny signal drowned out by noise.

The entire problem is that most people in high- and middle-income countries are in fact doing something blatantly wrong - they are consistently eating vastly more calories than they use. Some of those people are ignorant of what 2000 to 2500 calories actually looks like, some are deluded, but a very large proportion know damned well that they're eating far too much and do it anyway.

The obesogenic environment that we now live in is partly due to the influence of the processed foods industry, but in large part it's simply a product of abundance. Before the late 20th century, it was simply inconceivable that poor people could afford to become morbidly obese. Agricultural productivity has improved beyond all recognition and the world is flooded with incredibly cheap food of all kinds.

We've spent the last few decades trying to push back against that with all manner of initiatives intended to endgender behavioural change, with very little success. It doesn't really matter what guidance we give people when they have shown a consistent inability or unwillingness to follow it.

If we're actually serious about the effects of diet on public health, I think there are only two credible options - extremely heavy-handed regulation, or the mass prescribing of GLP-1 receptor agonists. All of the other options are just permutations of "let's do more of the thing that hasn't worked".
by Dig1t | 2026-01-07 20:53:41+00:00
Language police are extremely uncool; going around telling people which words they are allowed to use mostly just hurts your own cause. It has the exact same effect that an old Christian woman scolding kids not to use swear words has. Eventually people realize that your magic words give them power and it becomes cool and useful to start using them in the exact opposite way you want them to.

The only way for you to achieve the goal of making sure nobody’s feelings are hurt by words is to take away the power of the words. You only give the words MORE power by reacting to them.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-01-07 20:53:47+00:00
The "killer app" is that it's easy to string together multiple commands and have them work more reliably than shells that rely on plaintext. In other words, it's something in-between running individual commands and writing full scripts. I've not used Nushell before, but I'm very familiar with PowerShell which is similar, and it's ridiculously easy to manipulate and explore your file system with confidence that you don't have to rely on hacky and hard to read regex and similar suboptimal solutions.
by philipkglass | 2026-01-07 20:53:59+00:00
And tell us to limit our fish consumption?

The only recommendations to curb fish that I have seen are due to mercury exposure risks:

https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/advice-about-eating-fish

Coal burning and incidental industrial releases have drastically increased the amount of mercury in surface waters over the past century. The metallic mercury gets transformed by bacteria into organomercury compounds which are lipophilic and concentrate up the food chain, meaning that predator fish like tuna and swordfish can contain orders of magnitude more mercury than their prey or the water they live in.

There are plenty of fish with much lower mercury levels (like salmon, trout, and sardines):

https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/mer...

You can eat all the salmon you want without worrying about mercury, and I haven't seen government advice to the contrary.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-07 20:54:09+00:00
> He cited the studies that said increased Paracetamol during pregnancy correlates with higher rates of autism, and people should know that and be careful.

Don't mealy mouth it. He didn't say anything so nuanced as "be informed and careful".

He actually said it should be "minimized or avoided". Point blank. And then he said it should be "avoided entirely during pregnancy". It was only over a month later, when the WHO was clarifying that there was no conclusive evidence, and that acetaminophen is the safest pain relief to use during pregnancy, that he started suggesting "working with your physician".

Don't present RFK Jr's takes as reasonable. They're not.

> He cited the studies

He cited one fringe study that was discredited because it didn't consider confounding factors.
by MandieD | 2026-01-07 20:54:28+00:00
Yes, life in Bavaria, working in manufacturing, is nothing but miserable oppression. Horrible 35 hour work week. Wretched 6 weeks of vacation. Ruinously expensive 500 EUR/month daycare. The prospect of having to pay a couple hundred Euros per semester when my child reaches university.

The good wine is now 8 EUR/bottle.

Suffering and deprivation.

Do not come here, I beg of you. Save yourself.

I had to use extraordinary means to get this message out.
by ksec | 2026-01-07 20:54:28+00:00
256 Zen 6c Core. I cant wait for cloud vendors to get their hands on it. In a Dual Socket config that is 512 Core and 1024 vCPU per server node. We could get two node in a server, That is 1024 Core with 2048 threads.

Even the slowest of All programming languages or framework with 1 request per second per vCPU, that is 2K Request per second.

Pure brute force hardware scaling.
by btbuildem | 2026-01-07 20:54:32+00:00
Interesting that no ships were recorded going thru the Northwest Passage -- perhaps in 2012 it was still generally impassable? It's getting to a point where freighters / tankers pass thru unassisted by icebreakers during the warm months.

Re: the website itself -- the Mercator projection is an artifact of paper maps, and it greatly distorts features near the poles. Could we please use a true globe when rendering interactive maps?
by great_wubwub | 2026-01-07 20:54:42+00:00
The man is stark raving bonkers mad in that head-in-the-sand, if-I-ignore-science-then-it-can't-hurt-me way but (and OMG I think I'm going to throw up a little in my mouth even coming close to agreeing with anything that come out of his mouth) isn't that basically what we've been doing with dietary guidelines since the 80s?

Like, don't get me wrong, RFK will kill N*10^5, N*10^6 people with his outlook on diseases, but....how many people have had their lives wrecked by "fat makes you fat", "ketchup is a vegetable", and "eat a balanced diet composed entirely of sausage, flour, and sugar"? As a GenXer I've been dealing with the echoes of this for a long time.
by rmah | 2026-01-07 20:54:49+00:00
Many people seem to be assuming some sort of bias on Polymarket's part. Without evidence, these seems unlikely as whichever side of the bet wins, Polymarket makes the same amount of $. That is, they have no stake in the outcome. The only time you can blame them is if they pay out to neither side and pocket all funds at stake. Which, as far as I can tell, no one is accusing them of.
by roger_ | 2026-01-07 20:54:57+00:00
I personally don’t care who has access to my health data, but I understand those who might.

Either way, I’m excited for some actual innovation in the personal health field. Apple Health is more about aggregating data than actually producing actionable insights. 23andme was mostly useless.

Today I have a ChatGPT project with my health history as a system prompt and it’s been very helpful. Recently I snapped a photo of an obscure instrument screen after taking a test and was able to get more useful information than what my doctor eventually provided (“nothing to worry about”, etc.) ChatGPT was able to reference papers and do data analysis which was pretty amazing, right from my phone (e.g fitting my data to a model from a paper and spitting out a plot).
by TZubiri | 2026-01-07 20:55:20+00:00
You know there's crazy conspiracies and there's sensible conspiracies. That casinos are out to fuck you is a sensible conspiracy that no one doubts, so I will look like a naïve idiot when claiming that the casino/sportsbook isn't actually out to get you in this case.

What you ran into is a fairly standard term, and you were equally likely to be benefitted by it. If you would have bet that the team tied, and the match went to extra time before deciding on a victor, you would have gotten an unexpected payout.

There's other ways they fuck you over, this just isn't one of them.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-07 20:55:23+00:00
I usually look up my symptoms (not on ChatGPT) and when I finally go to a doctor I just let them do their job, but I usually do it just to have some idea of what's going on by the time I go there. My wife's a nurse (not a Doctor) so sometimes she can tell me if what I read sounds crazy or what have you based on her own personal experience with patients.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-07 20:55:39+00:00
The seasonal closure of northern ports is particularly striking in this visualization. What's really interesting is how it reveals the economic implications - not just that shipping slows seasonally, but how companies plan infrastructure investments around these natural bottlenecks. The cold-water port shutdowns create cascading effects throughout global supply chains that we rarely discuss explicitly.

It would be fascinating to see this data overlaid with commodity prices and exchange rates during those seasonal transitions. The interaction between maritime logistics and commodities trading is largely invisible to most people, but it fundamentally shapes everything from energy prices to agricultural commodity costs in ways that filter down to consumers.
by idopmstuff | 2026-01-07 20:55:58+00:00
> If they so choose to dissolve their teeth and decimate their guy bacteria, who am I to intervene?

In this case, I'm the American taxpayer who is paying for all of this food, and, perhaps more importantly, paying for all of the medical treatment they receive because of the consequences of these choices.

When your consumption is being paid for by other people, it's perfectly reasonable for those people to put limits on your choices, especially when they're footing the bill for the consequences of any bad choices you make too. We're a wealthy country and shouldn't let people starve, but you don't need ice cream or Coke or Pringles not to starve.
by antonvs | 2026-01-07 20:55:59+00:00
Since the advent of LLMs, I've used them to juice up my Linux setup significantly.

I was already using Ubuntu with Gnome (the "flashback" version) and the XMonad tiling WM, but I've since ditched Gnome and switched to LXQt, and am pretty happy with it.

Then I installed Nix to override Ubuntu's aggressive Snap usage for applications like Firefox. (You can try to install it some other way, it'll just silently revert no matter how hard you try to configure it not to.)

Next step will be to eliminate Ubuntu entirely, because it's so focused on "end user" friendliness, it creates a terrible experience for anyone trying to customize their setup.

I'm very aware that I'm moving further and further off the "mainstream", but if the mainstream means "you will accept all our poorly thought-out and inefficient UI decisions", then there's not really a downside to that.
by legitster | 2026-01-07 20:55:59+00:00
> How would you possibly enforce this?

The legal system.

If you see a bunch of Tailwind markup on websites without a license key, you can enforce your license. The LLMs can write the code for you, but they either have to negotiate their own license or instruct users to get their own.

The comparable I am familiar with is Font Awesome. Even if you want a free plan, you still have to create an account and get a key.
by jfengel | 2026-01-07 20:56:05+00:00
I suppose it depends on which people you mean.

The politicians don't think they're the bad guys, or they just don't care. They're getting whatever they want.

The 30% who approve of the President also don't think they're the bad guys. They're getting what they voted for.

But his approval rating was circa 55% when he was elected, and the delta of 25% are the ones who should be asking this question. They voted for this; this is exactly what he said he was going to do. Why have they changed their minds now that he's actually doing it?

I don't really think of the first two groups as "the bad guys" any more than I think of cancer and mosquitoes as bad guys. They're just doing what they do. Democracy was supposed to protect us from them, as long as they weren't a majority of people.

The third group... they're the bad guys. They should be ashamed of themselves. And I don't think they are. I think they're planning to make the same mistakes again and again, and keep wondering why they're unhappy about it.
by precompute | 2026-01-07 20:56:16+00:00
I used to hoard tabs, but these days I just switch profiles. If I have over 2000 tabs, I copy maybe a hundred over to a new profile. It's just easier.

For example, my HN-dedicated firefox window has ~900 tabs right now, from June. All save the recent 5 are unloaded. I probably won't look at them again but just going through the list is a chronological reminder of what I was doing. Honestly, I could close them all but there's a "what if I need that sub-list of tabs dedicated to XYZ again?" in my head that wins out.

I have a separate note/data management system so this is mostly just... something.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-07 20:56:19+00:00
The distinction between asking employees to document accomplishments versus systematically auditing them for "validation" purposes is important. While self-documentation is indeed common practice, the reporting suggests something more intrusive - essentially demanding proof of productivity in real-time.

This reflects a broader shift in corporate culture away from outcome-based metrics toward activity-based surveillance. The problem isn't knowing what was accomplished, but rather the implied skepticism that necessitates constant justification. It signals management has lost faith in trusting knowledge workers to manage their own time and output.

For someone in a knowledge work role, this kind of pressure actually decreases productivity because it shifts focus from solving problems to documenting that you're solving problems.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-07 20:56:24+00:00
OP's main argument is that Coffeezilla has shifted his focus away from crypto scams into other unrelated areas, and that he tends to report on scams only after they have already collapsed.

Maybe that's not what OP wants out of Coffeezilla, but I don't see how it makes the guy "overrated." He has a knack for understanding and explaining conspiracies in a grounded, level-headed and factual way. That is extremely valuable in today's media environment.
by runjake | 2026-01-07 20:56:40+00:00
Powershell is slow to start (~1-8 seconds on my PCs, even without a profile.ps1) and it performs pretty poorly in general (eg. processing texts and pipelines) compared to other options -- even Python by a wide margin.

I love Powershell and I wish MSFT would put a concerted effort into optimizing its performance.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-07 20:56:56+00:00
This frames an important distinction. The medical model of addiction has evolved significantly - we now understand that addiction involves changes in reward processing, decision-making, and impulse control in the brain. But that neurobiological reality doesn't negate personal agency or responsibility.

The key insight is that understanding addiction as a condition with biological components doesn't excuse behavior, it contextualizes it. Someone with dopamine dysregulation faces genuine difficulty resisting compulsive use, but that difficulty isn't an absence of choice - it's a choice being made under neurobiological duress.

What's most productive is combining understanding with accountability. Shame and stigma are counterproductive when they prevent people from seeking treatment. But enabling without consequences is also ineffective. The best outcomes come from treatment approaches that acknowledge the biology while preserving the framework that people bear responsibility for their recovery.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-07 20:57:45+00:00
This is a really impressive technical execution. The choice to use DuckDB WASM for querying parquet files directly in the browser is clever - it avoids the need for a backend server entirely while still maintaining the performance needed for 291 million rides.

What strikes me most is how this visualizes patterns that probably weren't immediately obvious in the raw data. You can likely see seasonal usage patterns, the expansion of the network over time, and how station availability evolved. These kinds of temporal spatial visualizations are often more insightful than traditional dashboards because they make patterns immediately perceivable.

One question: with 291 million rides spanning 12 years, does the animation maintain responsiveness when rendering, or do you throttle the rendering in certain zoom levels? GPU acceleration helps but that's still a massive dataset to push through the rendering pipeline.

Great work - this is exactly the kind of thing that makes public datasets actually useful to the broader community.
by observationist | 2026-01-07 20:57:58+00:00
As long as the liability precedents set by prior case law and current regulations hold, there should be no problem. OpenAI and the hordes of lawyers working for and with them will have ensured that every appropriate and legally required step has been taken, and at least for now, these are software tools used by individuals. AI is not an agent of itself or the platform hosting it; the user's relative level of awareness of this fact shouldn't be legally relevant as long as OpenAI doesn't make any claims to the contrary.

You also have to imagine that they've got their zero guardrails superpowered internal only next generation bot available to them, which can be used by said lawyer horde to ensure their asses are thoroughly covered. (It'd be staggeringly stupid not to use their AI for things like this.)

The institutions that have artificially capped levels of doctors, strangled and manipulated healthcare for personal gain, allowed insurance and health industries to become cancerous - they should be terrified of what's coming. Tools like this will be able to assist people with deep, nuanced understanding of their healthcare and be a force multiplier for doctors and nurses, of which there are far too few.

It'll also be WebMD on steroids, and every third person will likely be convinced they have stereochromatic belly button cancer after each chat, but I think we'll be better off, anyway.