MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by usef- | 2026-01-08 00:45:08+00:00
They made money by licensing their search technology to other sites, as well as selling physical search appliances for businesses. They were considered by some to be struggling to find a way to monetise well.

Computational cost is indeed higher than search (though remember, search has been heavily optimised for many years!), but search and web companies were one of the lowest cost, highest-margin businesses in human existence. Many higher-cost businesses have been supported by ads.
by Bender | 2026-01-08 00:45:18+00:00
If a topic is sensitive enough I might use email to ping someone and tell them a word that means get on my private server. I have taught a handful of lawyers how to PGP encrypt using Thunderbird, so simple a child could do it. It does leak some meta-data but that is sufficient to say "get on my private or semi-private server" or to have lawyers SFTP files to me. I tell them the passphrase over the phone. It also helps to have many aliases canaries on many domains to break some aspects of tracking. There is no single solution to privacy. It takes some facets of OpSec and embracing some friction. I am happy many people hate the friction as it moves them lower on the totem pole.

I might some day regret teaching lawyers how to PGP encrypt files and messages.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 00:45:33+00:00
Not the person you're responding to, but the thing that frustrates me isn't that they're saying to eat healthy, but that they're acting like that's the only thing we need to change, while actively deregulating pretty much everything else that also affects health.

Yes, obviously what we eat affects our health, I don't think that's ever been in dispute by any significant number of people (despite what the inbreds who love RFK Jr. seem to think), but part of the frustration is that they're acting that that can solely explain all chronic illnesses, ignoring things like air pollution (which they are actively deregulating).

Oh, also, RFK Jr. telling people to eat at Five Guys because they fry their fries in beef tallow is really dumb and is likely to lead to worse health outcomes.
by herewulf | 2026-01-08 00:46:52+00:00
Not the parent but a project (glorified Bash script) called vcsh[1] has served me well over the years for managing multiple Git repositories containing my dotfiles (separation of concerns).

Lately I have migrated some of that to Guix Home because the other half of the problem is having all the dependent programs necessary for the dotfiles installed automatically at the appropriate versions.

The latter one especially falls into the realm of tinkering. :)

[1]: https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
[2]: https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/guix-...
by ShakataGaNai | 2026-01-08 00:47:11+00:00
AI in health - makes sense.

OpenAI in health - I'm reticent.

As someone who pays for ChatGPT and Claude, and uses them EVERYDAY... I still am not sure how I feel about these consumer apps having access to all my health data. OpenAI doesn't have the best track record of data safety.

Sure OpenAI business side has SOC2/ISO27001/HIPAA compliance, but does the consumer side? In the past their certifications have been very clearly "this is only for the business platform". And yes, I know regular consumer don't know what SOC2 is other than a pair of socks that made it out of the dryer.... but still. It's a little scary when getting into very personal/private health data.

Gattaca is supposed to be a warning, not a prediction. Then again neither was Idiocracy, yet here we are.
by bigiain | 2026-01-08 00:47:11+00:00
Interestingly, sail cloth (for sail boat sails) is measured in ounces per square yard, and is just referred to by the weight with the square yard assumed - like "8oz Nylon mainsail" or "4oz ripstop spinnaker". (Or at least it used to be, my expertise here is more than 30 years out of date now.)
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-08 00:47:54+00:00
Yes, it could work. You would have to "disconnect" A and B for files to magically show up, because the drivers on A and B don't expect the filesystem to change "under their feet". It doesn't monitor the disk blocks for changes and rebuild directory indexes, file tables etc.

If you want a truly "automatic" solution, your magic USB device would have to pretend to be a network device to both A and B, perhaps with DHCP or ipv6 autoconfig, and export NFS and/or Samba to both ends.
by fwip | 2026-01-08 00:48:03+00:00
Sure, and the buildings are built to a slowly-evolving code, using standard construction techniques, operating as a predictable building in a larger ecosystem.

The problem with "all software" being AI-generated is that, to use your analogy, the electrical standards, foundation, and building materials have all been recently vibe-coded into existence, and none of your construction workers are certified in any of it.
by tptacek | 2026-01-08 00:48:06+00:00
My case is built on the empirics that corporate investors are a very small fraction of the available houses for sale. Notice the stories you're reading about places where corporations are disruptive: they're in thin markets. A corporate investors can totally (if temporarily) fuck up the prices in a single subdivision. But unless they can do that across a broader market, they don't have meaningful pricing control.

My claim would be that in any any of the top 10 markets by transaction volume (just to pick a handy metric out of the sky; you could choose others), corporate investors are literally a nonfactor.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-08 00:48:23+00:00
Also, some of us are amenable to changing our opinions when presented with strong evidence/arguments. I suppose the larger questions ("what do we want society to be like", "which values are most important to us") tend to be baked into ourselves so there's a limit to how much someone will change. However, there's examples of people leaving cults etc. and dramatically changing their opinions and personality.
by abustamam | 2026-01-08 00:48:41+00:00
There's a service called Arrived (I believe Jeff Bezos invested) that lets people buy fractional shares of single-family homes and earn a proportional share of the rent. If you sell, you're effectively selling your percentage of the property.

As a renter, I was drawn to this as a way to get some exposure to real estate, and I ended up investing in a vacation rental. At the same time, I'm pretty conflicted about it. Profiting from vacation housing feels different to me than profiting from people’s primary shelter, which is a basic necessity.

More broadly, I think as long as the incentives of property owners and renters are fundamentally misaligned, it will remain extremely difficult for middle-class folks who don't already own property to break into the market. The system optimizes for extracting rent, not for creating new owners.
by aatd86 | 2026-01-08 00:48:46+00:00
Because of asymmetry. Some people are more inclined toward certain things than others.
People who are excellent at math are much more likely to be able to advance AI for instance.
The goal of physical systems being to remain at rest/(humans included ;) the gradient of resources lean toward these people so that they can improve the technology allowing everyone to be able to conserve their energy (be lazy in a sense).
by cronos | 2026-01-08 00:49:22+00:00
On macOS we have 3 ways to run Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1065/macos-variants
Two of them have a GUI component and use the Keychain to store their state.

The third one is just the open-source tailscaled binary that you have to complete yourself, and it doesn't talk to the Keychain. It stores a plaintext file on disk like the Linux variant without state encryption. Unlike the GUI variants, this one is not a Swift program that can easily talk to the Keychain API.
by goalieth | 2026-01-08 00:49:45+00:00
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by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-08 00:49:51+00:00
It's about consent and respect for the user. If you build something awesome, you don't have to shove it down peoples' throats.

When more people Google "How to disable xyz" than "How to enable xyz," that would be a strong hint to most of us, but it doesn't mean anything to Microsoft's developers. ("Hey, at least they're engaging with the product," they tell each other.)
by Dig1t | 2026-01-08 00:50:19+00:00
tbh politely saying it bothers you is totally fine. That's not my argument.

All I'm saying is that making it your personal mission to make sure nobody uses the words in any context has lead us to where we are now, where we have a big backlash and young people are using gay and retarded more than they ever would have if we maybe just chilled out a little bit with the language policing.

We have taken this magic word mindset so far that we created a broad set of words that were so taboo you could get fired for using them in ANY context, even if you are talking about the word itself (like the case with the Papa Johns guy). And we had institutions like Stanford coming up with inane things like the "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" where they wanted to police words like "crazy" and "dumb".
by brimtown | 2026-01-08 00:51:22+00:00
This is @simonw’s Lethal Trifecta [1] again - access to private data and untrusted input are arguably the purpose of enterprise agents, so any external communication is unsafe. Markdown images are just the ones people usually forget about

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
by Schmerika | 2026-01-08 00:51:47+00:00
No, the entirety of ICE does. This incident is just the latest in a long series.

This unaccountable Gestapo analogue have, for example, been shown - in Congress - to be raping a whole lot of people. 'Losing' kids. Performing life-altering medical procedures without consent.

It's also worth pointing out that 'both' parties have raised ICE's budget every single year since their creation, including after the above reports were delivered.
by trelane | 2026-01-08 00:51:57+00:00
> we still don't have a filesystem that works on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux.

One of these things is not like the others.

In fact, that option supports the others as well as it can, despite stiff opposition from the other two.

Choose the "works as well as it can with everyone" option instead of the two options that try to keep their users trapped, at least, if you want to see increased interoperability.
by kiba | 2026-01-08 00:51:58+00:00
You're getting at the problem but you still don't understand the essence. Land is special because you can't make more of it. Even the Netherlands don't count since what they did is considered an 'improvement'.

Yes, you still need to solve the problem with 'money', or more accurately a tax. That tax is based on the assessed land value using market knowledge, but it would ideally be set to drive down the price of land to zero. However since we don't live in a world of spherical cow, tax would be set below that ideal to avoid land abandonment.

This is not even new by the way. The crisis we face is the same as in the 19th century when Land Value Tax and Georgism was proposed.
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-08 00:52:18+00:00
I will beat loudly on the "Attention is a reinvention of Kernel Smoothing" drum until it is common knowledge. It looks like Cosma Schalizi's fantastic website is down for now, so here's a archive link to his essential reading on this topic [0].

If you're interested in machine learning at all and not very strong regarding kernel methods I highly recommending taking a deep dive. Such a huge amount of ML can be framed through the lens of kernel methods (and things like Gaussian Processes will become much easier to understand).

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20250820184917/http://bactra.org...
by tptacek | 2026-01-08 00:52:22+00:00
Whoah, hold up, your (3) is doing a lot more work than you think it is. Comps matter but they don't literally break the market:

* They impact listing prices but not necessarily clearing prices.

* They assume all the sellers, who are not corporate investors, can mechanically anchor off those inflated comps, without factoring in buyer budgets and carrying costs.

Real estate is slower than most financial products, but it's still an actual market. You can't just buy a tiny fraction of the inventory at an inflated price and assume the whole rest of the market will follow you.
by striking | 2026-01-08 00:53:45+00:00
OP is not looking to get people fired for using particular words. OP doesn't appear to be fighting any sort of political battle. OP is telling people to be nice, and that's as much his right as it is yours to use the wrong words.

And I don't think elections or "the culture" should have anything to do with it. If that's how we made every decision, life would only improve for whoever exists in the overall majority. What if we each chose to have some integrity and do the right thing, even when there's nothing measuring it? It wouldn't kill us, I don't think.
by enceladus06 | 2026-01-08 00:53:59+00:00
Yes and for some weird reason, the bay and all the nice places to live are all single-family and expensive as hell. Just build some soviet or Chinese style apartment blocks and give people housing like Singapore does its not that hard. This is not a democrat or republican issue, it is a have versus have-not issue.

The logical conclusion is that the residents of these desirable areas like the bay / San Diego / Seattle / DC actually want housing prices to stay high.
by asveikau | 2026-01-08 00:54:19+00:00
Too late to edit but I googled "old lady smell" and here is the ai summary:

> ... aging odor, is a real biological scent caused by the compound 2-nonenal, produced as skin's antioxidants decline with age, creating a greasy, musty, or grassy smell that starts around age 40. While natural and not always a hygiene issue, it can be managed with specialized soaps
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by telui | 2026-01-08 00:54:20+00:00
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by xp84 | 2026-01-08 00:54:24+00:00
Honestly when it comes to SNAP there's no good answer that achieves all of the reasonable policy goals ('make sure the kids have something to eat', and 'avoid wasting benefit money on crap')

You can replace it with cash aid, and there's a good chance a good chunk of recipients will spend most of it on drugs, lottery tickets, or alcohol while the kids go hungry.

On the other hand, you can have the way it is now, where the same kind of person who would do the above, sells $200 worth of SNAP benefits to whatever corrupt bodega owner in exchange for $100 to spend on drugs, lottery tickets, or alcohol while the kids go hungry.

In both situations the government is spending $200 to buy the poor harmful vices. We're just choosing between fraudster shop owners getting a cut, or the addict being able to buy twice as much malt liquor.

And in case it isn't clear, I don't think the majority of SNAP recipients sell their benefits or don't feed their kids. But the responsible group, well, it makes little difference to them whether they have EBT or cash aid as they're going to buy food anyway.
by gcr | 2026-01-08 00:54:45+00:00
For those lacking context, ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today. An agent standing beside a car shot a driver through a car window, killing her and causing the car to lose control and crash into other parked cars.

Allegedly, the agent shot in self defense, but the shot was taken after the car started moving away from the agent.

The woman was identified as a 37 year old US citizen. She was not part of any ICE protest groups.
by cyberax | 2026-01-08 00:55:42+00:00
> I am curious how this intersects with a land value tax.

I have not run the numbers, but intuitively it seems that this tax will kill the SFH long before it starts affecting the dense office space.

> In the real world, though, a Georgist style LVT probably has about as much chance to be enacted as any of these other policies. Unfortunately I think we’re going to run the current system into the ground.

I think there is a real chance, there is this current of massive dissatisfaction. People _feel_ that something is just not right with the current situation. With the populists proposing the usual easy solutions: "it's all immigrants, ICE them out" or "it's all fault of the end stage capitalism, we need socialized grocery stores".
by stubish | 2026-01-08 00:56:00+00:00
If you want a gambling site, you need to ban insider knowledge. If you want to generate accurate predictions, you want to encourage insider knowledge. But even then, the problem you mention can occur when an insider extreme bet happens at the last minute, because although you end up with an accurate prediction it isn't very useful in the few minutes before it becomes a fact. I don't know if there is a solution.
by DMiradakis | 2026-01-08 00:56:06+00:00
I absolutely love Tailwind CSS, big fan of Adam, too, just watching his journey over the past several years. I'm a bootstrapped solopreneur, too, doing an open core business for my dotnet job orchestrator Didact. It's so difficult running a business, I feel for him and his engineers he had to let go. Maybe they can build some sort of app to go along with Tailwind. Heck, even if they made the base library itself paid one day, I'd probably pay for it. Using Tailwind is just that good for me.
by mindslight | 2026-01-08 00:56:08+00:00
No. The Constitution is the law, and everyone working for this regime is an anti-American traitor. I'm pretty sure the terror squads are wearing masks because if we could identify them, we would see most have been drawn from so-called "patriot" militias [0] and let loose to attack American cities (which apparently now includes executing citizens).

[0] the naming of which also turned out to be a lie, surprise surprise
by rl3 | 2026-01-08 00:58:02+00:00
>Microsoft would be such an easy fix to get back on the right path, ...

Why treat workers right, properly resource teams, and build quality stuff on a roadmap that looks beyond the next quarter when you can just treat your workers, product and customers as if they're all disposable trash.

Basically the standard Fortune 500 playbook with few exceptions.

>...but Nadella is not going to do that, and nobody is going to make you or me the CEO.

That's a good thing. When they eventually fail completely and sell their assets, it'll be a source of cheap datacenters for the competition—at least assuming demand eventually chills out.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 00:58:11+00:00
My wife is a US citizen now, and prior to the Trump administration's stupid policies (and deportation "quotas"), that would have allowed to have have a tiny sigh of relief. I would have been able to not worry about her being deported, or detained, or held indefinitely without charge, etc.

And now due to the alleged sex-pest whom America questionably decided to provide the nuclear codes and near-unchecked power, I have been denied that very basic privilege. We spent many thousands of dollars on lawyers, travel, and paperwork doing things the "right" way, and now I have to genuinely consider that Trump might effectively take that all away and we'll be stuck spending many more thousands in court or running away to a country that isn't quite as hostile to its own citizens.

I do not believe that anyone actually thought Trump was going to lower grocery prices, and I do not believe that anyone voted for him for that. I think they voted for him because they don't like brown people and they're too big of cowards to actually admit that, so they launder those beliefs through demagogues that they voted for three times in a row.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-08 00:58:25+00:00
Hey Rev, you're focusing on your own posts, perhaps you could review the guidelines, specifically:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

And share something that you're curious about (that isn't self-promoting)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-08 00:58:30+00:00
Agree, it's definitely a cultural thing.

I've also lived on a small island where on first meeting, two locals will work out how they're related. I guess similar to the cousin thing.

In the city I currently live in, it's fairly normal for locals to ask where another local went to school within 5 mins of meeting them, because that establishes an identity here.
by omgJustTest | 2026-01-08 00:59:07+00:00
I am not 400lbs... I don't know if you are implying that... if so check your math:

1.2g/kg * 90kg (~200lbs-lean) = 108g of protein.

each person, on average, in the US would be eating one 16oz steak or 3-5 hamburgers every day.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-08 00:59:16+00:00
Not sure why the downvotes, it's a coherent post, and certainly there is a perception that food, and particularly beef, is a partisan issue.

Of course Democrats haven't actually taken any steps to penalize beef farming or consumption. But that doesn't stop Republicans claiming they want to. And if beef consumption drops, well, we just get the (Republican) health dept to recommend it.

I would agree that comments like "sunset beef production" intrinsically sounds bad to those who eat beef. But farmers farm profit, so as long as people buy it, farmers will farm it. (And at least some proportion of land used for beef farming is unsuitable for anything else.)
by jordanb | 2026-01-08 01:00:05+00:00
There was a time when police were banned from putting a tracker on people's cars without a court order.

The argument was, yes it's legal to put a tail on a person when they're out in public because that's just a cop observing a person of interest out in public. But electronic trackers are something quantifiable different due to the ease of tracking many people without having to use manpower to do it. It's the thin-edge of mass, casual surveillance of the population.

In other words, putting a tail on someone should be manpower intensive because that's a check on police power, they have to really want to track someone to invest potentially several officers' time to it full time, whereas sticking a bug on a car is something they can do to dozens of cars per day per officer.

Of course now they don't even have to do that because our police state has normalized centralized cctv camera databases, license plate trackers that continuously track the movement of every vehicle in a city into a database. Now they're doing the same with facial recognition.

Now it's even a felony in Florida to do anything to block license plate trackers from tagging your vehicle (so you can't obscure your plate in a way that leaves it readable to humans but not to the automatic tracking software). No doubt we'll have such laws for facial recognition software soon as well.