MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2026-01-15 22:19:27+00:00
Sure. Outside already satisfies good faith discussion. There is nothing gained in duplicating the exact same thing online. Use the right tool for the job, as they say. Online discussion is a compelling in its own right because you can stop being you and take on someone else's persona to try and discuss from their vantage point. This gives opportunity to understand another side of the story in an environment that provides the necessary feedback to validate that you actually understand another side. Too often people think they understand other angles, but one will also want validation, which online discussion provides. More often than not you'll realize that you actually didn't understand it at all, so it is a valuable exercise.
by dfabulich | 2026-01-15 22:19:45+00:00
If you're looking for individual advice, instead of "solving" the whole epidemic, then here's mine.

To solve loneliness for yourself, you've got to get out of the house more. But, deep down, you already knew that, right? Just like we all know we should exercise more, eat better, etc. Self discipline is hard.

So, my advice for that is to work with a therapist. A therapist can help you do the thing that you know you need to do but can't make yourself do.

People often think therapy is only for "serious" problems, but it's great for just helping you to stop sabotaging yourself (and we all sabotage ourselves, in big ways and small).

Therapists have regularly scheduled appointments, which also helps in its own right. (You'll get better workout results if you exercise weekly with a trainer.)

Scheduled recurring appointments make it easier to attend other social gatherings, too. The chess club means every Tuesday night. People will be watching Monday night football at the bar. Church is on Sunday. (Temple is on Saturday, Jumu'ah is on Friday, etc.)

But you knew all that, already, too. To do what you already knew you need to do, try therapy.
by vbelenky | 2026-01-15 22:19:57+00:00
The tear layer only contributes a little bit--far-UV eye safety is mostly down to the fact that the 222nm only penetrates to outer epithelium (so cells that will be dead in a few days anyway), and the fact that your eyes get very little effective dose if you aren't staring directly into the lamp. You've got eyelids, eyelashes, eyebrows, hair, etc, so the effective dose to your eyes is actually much lower than the dose assumed by most safety standards (ANSI/IES 27.1-22, UL8802), which are fairly conservative. Check out this paper http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/php.13671
by jesse__ | 2026-01-15 22:20:16+00:00
Mostly the latter, but a lot of tools are so slow the former actually becomes a problem, too. Valgrind is a great example. For realtime applications, Valgrind and friends are pretty much a non-starter.

To your point about profile results, any profiler that adds more than a couple percentage points at runtime basically destroys the profile results (less than one percent is the acceptable margin, for me). Adding 50% is just laughable, and at the time I looked that was the best available option.

At the time, I was trying to profile ML models and some tooling surrounding them. There are several reasons you want your profiler to be low overhead:

1. If the profiler does a ton of useless shit (read: is slow), it has many deleterious effects on the program being profiled. It can evict entries from the CPUs ICache, DCache, and TLB entries to name a few, all of which can cause huge stalls and make something (such as a scan over tensor memory, for example) many times slower than it would be otherwise. You become unable to reason about if something is taking a long time because it's doing something stupid, or if the profiler is just screwing up your day. Introducing this kind of noise to your profile makes it nearly impossible to do a good job at analysis, let alone optimizing anything.

2. Somewhat unrelated to performance, but, you really want to know more than "this function take up a lot of time", which is basically all sampling profilers tell you. If you look at a flame graph and it says "fooFunc()" takes up 80% of the time, you have no idea if that's because one call to "fooFunc()" took 79% and the rest were negligible, or if they're all slow, or just a handful. That is key information and, in my mind, basically makes sampling profilers unsuitable for anything but 'approxamizing'. Which can be useful, and is often good enough, but if you need to optimize something for real, a sampling profiler exhausts it's usefulness pretty quick.

Anyways .. there are some random thoughts for you :)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-15 22:20:18+00:00
I am not the person that "ghosted" you, and don't think that I can give you what you want.

The suggestion I gave, was in good faith, but it seems that your "question" was not. I am truly sorry that you had a bad experience, but I wasn't the one that did the nasty.

Have a great day!
by bpodgursky | 2026-01-15 22:20:18+00:00
It's not even slightly the same?

The US has an embargo that doesn't impact other countries that want to trade with Cuba. China is going to put an actual cordon around Taiwan.

Also, the US has no historical reason for claiming Cuba and has no real domestic pressure to do so (nobody in either party is asking for it). China has been very clear they see Taiwan as a part of China and will reunite with it not for economic or strategic reasons, but for nationalistic ones.
by anon291 | 2026-01-15 22:20:23+00:00
Ignore the worst of the worst framing. Even a person who is unobjectionable but who is in the country without legal authorization is fine to be deported. I'm not going to pearl clutch over it. Estimates say that up 3-5% of the entire american population has no legal right to be in this country. I'm not a perfectionist. A few 100,000 would be totally reasonable to say 'good enough' at. But multiple millions? Not really sure where this line of argumentation goes really. The US government has made it very clear for a year now that people without authorization to be here should leave. They've even offered monetary incentives to go. At this point, people flaunting the law are doing so openly. Most of these people are not even refugees from war-torn regions. They're from our neighboring country of Mexico which has no war going on.
by nickg | 2026-01-15 22:20:27+00:00
Hey — I’ve been building fitness apps with small teams for many years.

We just launched a new version of GAIN after noticing more people using ChatGPT to generate workouts. That works well in some cases, but we kept running into a few fundamental problems with that approach:

1.) Data quality & safety. A lot of fitness content online is “bro science,” and LLMs inevitably absorb that. In training, bad info isn’t just wrong—it can be unsafe.

2.) Fitness-specific UX. A gym workout is hands-free and time-sensitive. Things like audio cues, rest timing, load tracking, pacing, and exercise sequencing depend on context and capability ChatGPT doesn’t really have (e.g. squat vs curl timing, user goal, fitness level, exercise preferences, injuries, fatigue, etc.).

3.) Missing location/equipment context. Over time, we want to know what equipment is actually in a given gym or apartment setup, incorporate geo-location, and generate around that. Vs. asking users to re-prompt every time.

Tying together a bunch of expert fitness knowledge, we built a rules-based + data–driven workout generator for personalized, adaptive training. It pushes one clear, daily workout and adjusts when you miss days, travel, or change constraints—without requiring you to “start over” each time.

This is early v1. We haven’t turned on many feedback loops yet (tracking, soreness, preferences, etc.), but those are coming. We’ve already mapped out generation for cardio, yoga, mobility, and recovery, including how to balance them over time and according to various fitness goals, user prefs and usage.

I hear people trying to get CGPT to do weight tracking and progressions, but there's so much bogus data to sort through and not much published, so we think we'll do that much better, too, collecting real-world data with a purpose-built tracking UX.

Would love feedback on the approach and the app itself. App is live on iOS and free for now.
by epolanski | 2026-01-15 22:20:44+00:00
> Averaging 10 years puts you at 2036 and is itself somewhat pessimistic.

The average time globally is 14 years. The latest point of reference in the west, Vogtle was announced in 2006 and came online in 2025, 19 years later. It took 7 years alone just to start building it.

There's no chance this would take less time in Italy, where you need to also find a suitable place, you don't have the know-how and there's an anti-nuclear referendum that's been voted 3 decades ago. So there is a lot that needs to be changed, starting from having a public voting.

Hinkley Point C, in UK, has ballooned it's cost from the planned 18B pounds to a 43B pounds in the span of a decade. These projects always go overbudget, badly.
by ratorx | 2026-01-15 22:21:24+00:00
It’s possible, but I think it’s typically used for ingress (ie same IP, but multiple destinations, follow BGP to closest one).

I don’t think I’ve seen a similar case for anycast egress. Naively, doesn’t seem like it would work well because a lot of the internet (eg non-anycast geographic load balancing) relies on unique sources, and Cloudflare definitely break out their other anycast addresses (eg they don’t send outbound DNS requests from 1.1.1.1).
by loeg | 2026-01-15 22:21:33+00:00
> So a car that's free to operate - zero maintenance, zero fuel cost - that cost $10k more than a regular car would not be a financial win?

You're just throwing around fictional numbers. EVs don't have zero maintenance costs or zero fuel costs. Real numbers for fuel can be lower than gas (in particular if you have home charging), and you could certainly color an argument that maintenance costs are lower. But it's not zero. Brand new gas or hybrid cars also have very low maintenance costs.

> Sticker price is a silly metric to solely focus on. Doubly so considering people rarely actually pay sticker.

Pretend I wrote "average out the door price" instead of "sticker." This number is higher than comparable ICE/hybrid vehicles, and for pretty obvious reason -- high capacity batteries are still enormously expensive. This is why range+price tends to be worse than similar gas/hybrid cars. I expect battery prices to continue to fall in the future, which will improve the economics for BEVs. But that's in the future! Not today.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-15 22:21:41+00:00
If the future has justice, Murdoch heirs will have to deal with the same consequences as the Sacklers.

The crime by Fox News is not that they presented a viewpoint, but that they did so at scale, in a knowingly disingenuous manner, to derive financial benefit, for decades.

The other children are also cowards for not taking the legal fight over the inheritance of Fox equity to the limit.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-15 22:22:31+00:00
> ZeroFS supports running multiple instances on the same storage backend: one read-write instance and multiple read-only instances.

Well that's a big limiting factor that needs to be at the front in any distributed filesystem comparison.

Though I'm confused, the page says things like "ZeroFS makes S3 behave like a regular block device", but in that case how do read-only instances mount it without constantly getting their state corrupted out from under them? Is that implicitly talking about the NBD access, and the other access modes have logic to handle that?

Edit: What I want to see is a ZeroFS versus s3backer comparison.

Edit 2: changed the question at the end
by mirabilis | 2026-01-15 22:22:47+00:00
Part of why I linked this was a genuine curiosity as to what prevention would look like— hobbling memory? a second observing agent checking for “hey does it sound like we’re goading someone into suicide here” and steering the conversation away? something else? in what way is this, as a product, able to introduce friction to the user in order to prevent suicide, akin to putting mercaptan in gas?
by weslleyskah | 2026-01-15 22:22:48+00:00
I understand completely.

I'm going through a computer engineering degree at the moment, but I am thinking about pursuing Law later on.

Looking at other paths: Medicine requires expensive schooling and isn't really an option after a certain age and law, on the other hand, opened its doors too widely and now has a large underclass of people with third-tier law degrees.

Perhaps you can try to accept the realities of the system while trying to live the best life that you can?

Psyching yourself all the way, trying to find some sort of escape towards a good life with freedom later on...
by anon291 | 2026-01-15 22:23:03+00:00
I can agree with (1) and (5).

(2) -- why can't you raid a church? A church is not a special place. America is not a theocracy which gives sacrosanct respect to some portions of land.

(3) The US has every right to revoke legal status with no other reason than it doesn't make sense for the United States. We can talk about how it's done, but that's rarely the issue at hand in these debates.

(4) Not sure what this means

(6) Politicians say incorrect things all the time to appeal to their base.
by ben_w | 2026-01-15 22:23:22+00:00
> Does anybody get the looming impression that the probability they'll die in war is approaching 1?

Not that high, but I know what you mean. I think there's a reasonable chance that the US system successfully redirects Trump away from actually ordering an attack on Greenland, and a reasonable chance the US military has an actual coup if that order comes through.

But if he gets to take it… the consequences need to be extraordinary, and misjudgement will have already been a precondition and therefore more misjudgement is likely, therefore escalation can be almost arbitrary.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-15 22:23:31+00:00
They sell data derived from the data. But it's not, like, a hash function - you can absolutely deduce the source data from it. In fact, that's the entire purpose. You use the aggregation and whatnot bullshit to find individuals, track them, gain insight into their living situation and patterns, and acquire evidence of crimes. Typically that requires a search warrant.

If you couldn't go backwards Palantir wouldn't have a market. So, I would consider that a loophole.
by navar | 2026-01-15 22:23:46+00:00
I interacted with the authors of these models quite a bit!

These are very interesting models.

The tradeoff here is that you get even faster inference, but lose on retrieval accuracy [0].

Specifically, inference will be faster because essentially you are only doing tokenization + a lookup table + an average. So despite the fact that their largest model is 32M params, you can expect inference speeds to be higher than ours, which 23M params but it is transformer-based.

I am not sure about typical inference speeds on a CPU for their models, but with ours you can expect to do ~22 docs per second, and ~120 queries per second on a standard 2vCPU server.

As far as retrieval accuracy goes, on BEIR we score 53.55, all-MiniLM-L12-v2 (a widely adopted compact text embedding model) scores 42.69, while potion-8M scores 30.43.

I can't find their larger models but you can generally get an idea of the power level of different embedding models here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

If you want to run them on a CPU it may make sense to filter for smaller models (e.g., <100M params).
On the other side our models achieve higher retrieval scores.

[0] "accuracy" in layman terms, not in accuracy vs recall terms. The correct word here would be "effectiveness".
by vlod | 2026-01-15 22:24:21+00:00
I once shard a flat/apartment with a female social butterfly. She once gave me some great advice, which is to NEVER turn down an invitation.

Going out and trying to be comfortable in non-ideal situations (i.e. you know hardly anyone there) is a skill you can learn. I often think it's probably like sales cold calling. After a while you develop calluses.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-15 22:24:25+00:00
I fit the

> sit alone every day and have no one to talk to, people of all ages, who don't feel that they can join any local groups

I do not fit the

> So they sit on social media all day when they're not at work or school

I'm bringing this up because, at least for me, the issue is has nothing to do with social media, at least not directly.
by tux3 | 2026-01-15 22:24:36+00:00
>What is this even for? Can't the US just focus on its existing problems

That is exactly what it's for. Starting new problems distracts from the old problems at home.

Always something new, never a moment to catch your breath and focus. Eventually, people will get tired, will stop paying as much attention, and hopefully forget about those older scandals.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 22:24:47+00:00
Framing this as "literally anyone who works" vs "everyone above that" is a dishonest slight of hand to distract from the fact that the top slice of that category spent decades peddling policy that made things worse for the bottom half (and in many cases kicked them into the non working dependent/welfare class) because it made asset values go up and those whiny blue collar types were just backwards and dumb anyway (or whatever they told themselves to justify it).
by Erazal | 2026-01-15 22:25:18+00:00
Encouraging people to meet up in everyday life and gathering them just to talk is where I’d simply start.

In that spirit I have created and deployed a vibe coded app: come have dinner.com (not the real website).

A simple website we share with my SO to our loved ones, friends, co workers and more. People can register to come have dinner at ours, with an attendance they don’t know.

The website has an admin interface with a simple password, some good jokes, email reminders and calendar invitations.

Should I open source it?
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 22:25:20+00:00
>…the Constitution they wrote and endorsed…restrains government in its treatment of “persons,” not just citizens.

Sure, it does now, but your original statement was “You should read more of the thoughts of America’s founding fathers”. But, do remember the founding fathers didn’t seem very concerned about the early government’s treatment or protections of many groups of people. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have needed:
The Bill of Rights
Amendments 13,14,15, and 19
The civil rights act
Title 9, etc

>Non-citizens (documented or not) still have due process protections, and law enforcement still has to stay inside Fourth Amendment limits.

Sure, and those protections aren’t being violated, as evidenced by the Supreme Court holding that doesn’t even find enough risk to the plaintiffs to temporarily pause these enforcement actions. Just like they also agreed that TPS could be ended, parole could be ended, 3rd country deportations were allowed, etc.

At a certain point, when Congress doesn’t care to legislate against it, the Supreme Court via rulings/shadow docket allows it to continue, and the President authorizes it, the action is legitimate.

You can not like it, and you’re welcome to vote against it in the midterms and in 2028, but that doesn’t make it unconstitutional.

Just as emergency order doesn’t equal constitutional, complaints about enforcement of existing laws does not equal unconstitutional.
by staticassertion | 2026-01-15 22:25:34+00:00
Do people really trust Redis for something like this? I feel like it's sort of pointless to pair Redis with S3 like this, and it'd be better to see benchmarks with metadata stores that can provide actual guarantees for durability/availability.

Unfortunately, the benchmarks use Redis. Why would I care about distributed storage on a system like S3, which is all about consistency/durability/availability guarantees, just to put my metadata into Redis?

It would be nice to see benchmarks with another metadata store.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-15 22:26:04+00:00
See perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807

Also:

> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has suggested President Donald Trump could attempt to deploy troops to U.S. cities under the Insurrection Act.

> Kavanaugh’s remarks came in a separate opinion after the court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.

> The high court declined the administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. Three justices—Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch—publicly dissented.

* https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-trump-use-insurrectio...
by harshasi | 2026-01-15 22:26:04+00:00
Microsoft Azure Data | Senior Software Engineer (Vector DB) | US Redmond/Remote

We build the engine (https://github.com/Microsoft/DiskANN) that brings vector search capabilities to Azure Databases and most other at-scale search/RAG systems at Microsoft.

Looking for Rust developers to join our team of researchers and engineers. Experience with performance engineering, OSS developments, Database internals, or numerical methods a plus.

https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers?query=200019455&...
by uriegas | 2026-01-15 22:26:39+00:00
I think LLMs are helpful for understanding code. I used to spend like an hour trying to find where something very specific was made, and now I can just ask an LLM and it finds it right a way and is able to explain how the code works. This is probably the thing that has saved me most of the time.

What is your take on LLMs for programming?
by blopker | 2026-01-15 22:26:49+00:00
After my dad died from cancer in 2018, I saw first hand the resulting loneliness and the lack of resources available. Being an engineer, I figured I might as well try to solve it, at least for some people. In 2020, I started a non-profit for small support groups[0]. We're small, and I've been mostly funding it myself, but it's growing. The main issue is we don't have the resources to cover every topic, so it's not for everyone (yet). Happy to chat if you have feedback, email is in my profile.

Everything we do is open source too[1].

[0]: https://www.totem.org/
[1]: https://github.com/totem-technologies/totem-server
by mNovak | 2026-01-15 22:27:04+00:00
So when can an AI call up the cable company and negotiate a discount? Asking for a friend.

But seriously, other tasks I've encountered recently that I wish I could delegate to an AI:

- Posting my junk to Craigslist, determining a fair price, negotiating a buyer (pickup only!)

- Scheduling showings to find an apartment, wherein the listing agents are spread over multiple platforms, proprietary websites, or phone contacts

- Job applications -- not forging a resume, but compiling candidate positions with reasoning, and the tedious part were you have to re-enter your whole resume into their proprietary application pipeline app

What strikes me as basic similarities across these types of things, is that they are essentially data-entry jobs which interact with third-party interfaces, with CRM-like follow up requirements, and require "good judgement" (reading reviews, identifying scams, etc).
by NemoNobody | 2026-01-15 22:27:21+00:00
Ahh, that was well written by a human, well done!

If that was more technical tho, like something more similar to technical writing... I would have had Copilot summarise it for me.

You are correct, the future is collaborative with AI, but not everything will still need to be collaborative...

Technical writing, like manuals and whatnots, that is simply akin to a math problem that, post calculator, has always calculated by calculators - even by people who didn't need them.

It will not be better, there is absolutely loss, it will still happen.