MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hiQloIQ | 2026-01-08 04:28:51+00:00
GenX; our economic leadership raising prices on EpiPen, running ponzi schemes through big tech investment vehicles (for example but not limited to, various trade groups and standards bodies), insurance CEOs getting shot. The last gasp of 1900s American coke and booze binging wastoids. First generation of Americans handed a cubicle and Excel sheet as they got into the workforce, rather than a hammer, blow torch, or engineering book as those jobs were offshored. The make line go up pump and dumpers of NFTs and web3 and shitcoins the last 10-15. Chappelle and Gervais complaining about the world changing on them! Of all people how dare physics march on. Clowns

GenZ hasn't had enough time to fail so spectacularly.

GenX; the Daria generation of first wordlers who feel they have really seen some shit ...on TV, anyway... all those adults too shellshocked by endless war... oh wait no

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/gen-x-generation-di...

Oh those poor first worlders reliant on sweat shop kids.

The generation that 10-15 years ago chanted "disrupt!" GenX are now the age those Boomers were 10-15 years ago. Ripe for disruption

Fingers crossed they are being handed their hat https://fortune.com/2025/08/07/gen-x-ceos-decreasing-baby-bo...
by shagie | 2026-01-08 04:29:02+00:00
My read of it isn't about if it's legitimately debatable, but if it's productively discussable (in an online setting).

Topics about someone's identity aren't things that one can easily change - and certainly not from text on a screen from some stranger on the internet.

Discussions about things that are core to someone's identity (in that setting) aren't useful.

Religion and politics in that context extend beyond one's claims about a soul or which end of the political spectrum is more soulless. Asking about how to maintain an F150 in /r/fuckcars is similarly not going to be a useful discussion since the identity of the people in that subreddit is in conflict about something that is quite legitimately discussable.

Keeping one's identity small (and topical to the subject matter at hand) given that it isn't in conflict with one's identity makes for a place that is much easier to moderate and keep a civil discussion.

One can discuss the impact of Section 174 or ZIRP without invoking politics. However, once politics (or religion) is involved in a comment everything downthread of it becomes more difficult to moderate.

So it's not the "ignoring politics" that's at issue - many topics in today's world are intimately intermingled with politics. However, discussing that politics directly makes this an environment that people tend to not want to participate in.

Turn on showdead and look at the comments in this post to see the types of things people don't want to participate in... and how much worse the site would be if those were acceptable topics.

There are many places where one can discuss those topics. Not every site has to be all things for all people. This one is thankfully one of the places where discussion on politics and the related identities doesn't happen.
by fogzen | 2026-01-08 04:29:19+00:00
According to ChatGPT, RCTs do show correlation between coronary events and saturated fat intake compared with PUFs. Can someone with expertise shed light on the research appendix justifications for excluding this research?

> Randomized controlled trials do not show a step-function threshold (e.g. “below X% energy from saturated fat, risk disappears”). Instead, they show:
• Progressive reductions in coronary events as saturated fat is lowered and replaced with polyunsaturated fat (PUFA).
• Risk reduction tracks the amount of replacement, not merely crossing a cutoff.

In other words:
risk ↓ smoothly as saturated fat ↓ (when replaced appropriately).

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2. Magnitude of reduction seen in RCTs

Meta-analyses of classic RCTs (LA Veterans Study, Oslo Diet-Heart, Finnish Mental Hospital, etc.) show:
• ~2–3% absolute reduction in coronary events
• ~10–30% relative reduction
• Achieved when:
• Saturated fat is reduced from roughly 15–20% of total energy → ~8–10%
• And replaced primarily with PUFA, not refined carbohydrates

Key quantitative finding (Mozaffarian et al., PLOS Med 2010; Cochrane 2020):

For every 5% of energy replacement of saturated fat with PUFA → ~10% reduction in coronary events

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3. Why guidelines converge on <10% (and often <7%)

Because RCTs didn’t test ultra-low saturated fat intakes (e.g. 2–3%), guideline thresholds are pragmatic extrapolations, not mechanistic breakpoints:
• <10% energy: roughly the lowest level consistently achieved in long-term RCTs
• <7% energy (AHA): extrapolated from LDL-cholesterol lowering and event reduction curves

These are policy targets, not RCT-defined thresholds.
by themk | 2026-01-08 04:29:38+00:00
That seems to be searching for RCT's, which, I'm not surprised would struggle to replicate. Most of these had a duration of less than 5 years, while dietary related health outcomes are the result of decades of following a pattern. It's possibly also unethical, in some cases (i.e. the existence of effective LDL lowering medication would likely complicate things).

Many people seem to disregard epidemiology, especially when it comes to nutrition (I think because it tends to support unpopular positions). But epidemiology has performed some excellent feats in the name of public health: cholera, smoking, pfao.

It is unfortunate that the large time-lines on these things make more rigor difficult, but I wouldn't throw out the epidemiology.
by WackyFighter | 2026-01-08 04:30:35+00:00
Still doesn't make it an invasion. If they drone striked and thus killed Majuro it would not be an invasion. It would be an assassination.

Invasion in this context has a specific meaning. The bet on the market would have been done with this specific meaning in mind.

No invasion, means no payout.

It would be like making a bet where someone scores in Football/Soccer from a penalty, but in the game they score from a free kick outside the penalty box. You wouldn't pay out on the bet, because a penalty is not a free kick even though they are similar and had the same result.
by chaitjo | 2026-01-08 04:30:35+00:00
Author here. I recently defended my PhD thesis on Geometric Deep Learning. This post summarizes 4 years of research into three main questions covering:

- Theoretical expressivity of 3D molecular representations (Geometric WL test).

- Unified generative modelling for crystals and molecules (Diffusion Transformers).

- Inverse design of RNA structure/function with wet-lab validation.

Happy to answer any questions about the research or the PhD process!
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-08 04:31:36+00:00
The police rarely have ever been super responsive on shoplifting and basic trespass. I worked at a big box electronics store in the 90s, and we got looted when management did stupid shit like put hard drives on a retail shelf to save labor. The police rarely cared with some specific exception.

These cases are both minor and hard to prosecute.

The difference isn’t enforcement, it’s demand. The retail model as it stands today wasn’t designed for a world where there is a global market for everything. 95% people are honest, and most dishonest people are disorganized and easy to deter.

If you were to raid a drug store in 1986, your ability to unload stolen toothpaste and hair spray was pretty limited - maybe some mafias had a network of bodegas or independent stores.

Today, you have a major corporation that prides itself at having the “world‘s largest selection”. It’s also the worlds largest fence — Amazon.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-08 04:32:13+00:00
Can you point to me the part where she was interfering with their enforcement and duties? Because she was literally letting them pass, they chose to get out of their car and make her their problem. If you believe 'enforcing valid laws' means deliberately antagonizing people so that you can shoot them then you're already far gone. You just believe the law is a post-hoc rationalization for murder by the state.
by overfeed | 2026-01-08 04:32:31+00:00
> But that also doesn't seem like a very deep moat, or something Google can't catch up on with focused attention, and I suspect by this time next year, or maybe even six months from now, they'll be about the same.

The harnessing in Google's agentic IDE (Antigravity) is pretty great - the output quality is indistinguishable between Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 for my use cases[1]

1. I tend to give detailed requirements for small-to-medium sized tasks (T-shirt sizing). YMMV on larger, less detailed tasks.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-08 04:33:14+00:00
Read through my comments and those of others in this thread, the way you are thinking here is metaphorical and so disconnected from the actual math as to be unhelpful. It is not that case that you can gain a meaningful understanding of deep networks by metaphor. You actually need to learn some very basic linear algebra.

Heck, attention layers never even see tokens. Even the first self-attention layer sees positional embeddings, but all subsequent attention layers are just seeing complicated embeddings that are a mish-mash of the previous layers' embeddings.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-08 04:33:48+00:00
Third party observers have observed endless bad behavior from Ukrainian forces. Amnesty International even called them out, in spite of the inevitable blow back it would (and did) receive, for actively locating their military forces in residential areas, launching strikes from civilian areas, turning schools and hospitals into military bases, and more. [1] Ukraine's response was tantamount to saying that rules don't matter for them, because they're the defender and not the aggressor.

Given these behaviors Russian forces would be justified in just carpet bombing these sort of areas that Ukrainian forces are entrenching, but they have chosen not to. By contrast that is precisely what Israel does, and also what the US does not only in WW2 but e.g. in Iraq and Afghanistan where killing dozens of civilians to get somebody who might be an enemy is considered a justifiable engagement.

And again this gets back to what I just said about this not even necessarily being about morality or ethics. Israel is in a vastly worse place now than it was on October 8th 2023, and it's unlikely things will be improving for them in the foreseeable future. Behaving good in war is simply in one's own best interest on any sort of timescale beyond the immediate.

[1] - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-e...
by bruce511 | 2026-01-08 04:35:05+00:00
I think the benefits of "low fat" may have been dulled by how literally people took that message, and what companies replaced the fat with.

Most available "low fat" products compensated by adding sugar. Lots of sugar. That way it still tastes nice, but its healthy right?

Just like fruit juice with "no added sugar" (concentration via evaporation doesn't count) is a healthy alternative to soda right?

In truth your body is perfectly happy converting sugar to weight, with the bonus that it messes up the insulin cycle.

At a fundamental level consuming more calories than you burn makes you gain weight. Reducing refined sugar is the simplest way to reduce calories (and solves other health issues.) Reducing carbohydrates is next (since carbs are just sugar, but take a bit longer to digest). The more unprocessed the carb the better.

Reducing fat (for some, by a lot) is next (although reduce not eliminate. )

Both sides want to blame the other. But the current pendulum is very much on the "too much sugar/ carbs" side of things.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-08 04:35:47+00:00
> grass fed, free range... Because agribusiness doesn't make money with those.

Agribusiness absolutely makes money off of those. In fact they had a hilariously easy time adapting to the consumer trend because all they had to do to label a cow “free range” or “grass fed” was change the finishing stage to a lower density configuration instead of those abominable feed lots you see along highways. The first two stages, rearing and pasturing, didn’t change because they were already “free range” and “grass fed”. Half of the farmland in the US is pastureland and leaving animals in the field to eat grass was always the cheapest way to rear and grow them. They only really get fed corn and other food at the end to fatten them up for human consumption.

The dirty not-so-secret is that free range/grass fed cows eat almost the exact same diet as regular cows, they just eat a little more grass because they’re in the field more during finishing. They’re still walking up to troughs of feed, because otherwise the beef would be unpalatable and grow quite slower.

True grass fed beef is generally called “grass finished” beef and it’s unregulated so you won’t find it at a supermarket. They taste gamier and usually have a metallic tang that I quite honestly doubt would ever be very popular. The marbling is also noticeably different and less consistent. Grain finished beef became popular in the 1800s and consumers in the West have strongly preferred it since.

I’m not sure you can even find a cow in the entire world that isn’t “grass fed”. Calves need the grass for their gut microbiomes to develop properly.
by tfehring | 2026-01-08 04:36:51+00:00
Homeownership rates are only ~flat in aggregate because the population is aging and older people are more likely to own their homes. The homeownership rates of Americans aged <35, 35-44, and 45-54 are down ~10% since 1982 and continuing to decrease. https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf
by enjeyw | 2026-01-08 04:37:13+00:00
One of the big problems with Attention Mechanisms is that the Query needs to look over every single key, which for long contexts becomes very expensive.

A little side project I've been working on is to train a model that sits on top of the LLM, looks at each key and determines whether it's needed after a certain lifespan, and evicts it if possible (after the lifespan is expired). Still working on it, but my first pass test has a reduction of 90% of the keys!

https://github.com/enjeyw/smartkv
by ehnto | 2026-01-08 04:37:42+00:00
If said countries were part of the conversation at all you might consider that a weakness, but looking at actual markers for geopolitical power you might not stress too much about plumbing, with or without it, in your analysis.

Given the actual powers involved I do think you're underestimating the situation for the sake of talking down to a select few countries that don't really sway the needle much. There are absolutely countries worth worrying about on the global stage, plumbing not-withstanding.
Show HN: A safe CLI to clean up stale GitLab branches (dry-run, CI-ready)
by pmaheshwari15 | 2026-01-08 04:38:31+00:00
Hi HN

I built a small CLI to safely clean up stale GitLab branches.

It’s designed to be:
- Safe by default (dry-run enabled)
- CI-friendly (proper exit codes)
- Automation-ready (JSON output)
- Boring and predictable (by design)

I built it because repos tend to accumulate abandoned branches, and cleanup often happens too late or too manually.

Would love feedback, edge cases, or ideas for repo hygiene automation.
by m00x | 2026-01-08 04:38:33+00:00
The thing is that there is only a tiny portion of houses ever selling at any time. The only ones that would benefit from selling are people who are downsizing or moving away.

If you buy 60% of the properties on market, the rest will see this and adjust their own prices. Usually this only works when the macro is favourable (low interest rates, easy mortgage applications, etc.), but it is definitely a large factor. It sometimes creates a even hotter market, with people thinking that real estate goes up forever, then they sell.

You're right that it's not always large investment groups. Vancouver in Canada had the same thing happen, but mostly from foreign investors and criminals washing money. The latter was facilitated by politicians who cashed in big on this.
by bluegatty | 2026-01-08 04:38:44+00:00
We have to take the Presidents Statements are credible, firstly, because it's the closest thing to the truth anyone has. He has no real strategy, he makes things up on the spot.

Secondly, even if argument could be that 'some other, more credible president would lie' - this actually does not hold up, because nobody could operate in those terms.

The presidents statements in an official context are official, that's it. Except in rare cases.

"He tells people what to do on a whim" and "has longstanding personal beefs and gripes" - that's it.

We don't know what he's going to wake up and tweet tomorrow so all we have are his statements.

Also, I think we give way to much credit to this notion of '4d chess' - he lies in the moment because he can get away with it, not out of some well plotted deception. He's not servicing some complicated scheme - just his gut.

He'll say something else the next day, but for that moment, what he says is policy.
by UnderpricedApp | 2026-01-08 04:40:25+00:00
I’m a developer who started flipping/reselling last year, and I got tired of doing “thrift store math” on my phone—checking eBay sold listings, Google, and fee calculators while someone else scoops the deal.So I built Underpriced.app, an AI reseller app that tells you if an item is worth flipping before you buy it.ProblemResearch takes ~5 minutes per item, you miss deals while you’re comping, and spreadsheets for inventory/flip tracking are a pain.SolutionPhoto or screenshot → AI identifies the item → instant results:Profit potential after fees + [ROI]Demand and estimated time to sellBest platforms to list onRed flags + a Deal Score [0–100]Stack + featuresNext.js/React/Tailwind, Node.js, PostgreSQL, plus a Chrome extension for one-click analysis. Works for in-person sourcing and online sourcing, includes a flip tracker with analytics, and premium tools like listing generators + deeper market research. Typical analysis takes 15–30 seconds.StatusLaunched ~2 months ago. Start with 10 free analyses, paid plans from [ \$2.99 ]/mo, and early traction in the flipping community.Try it: underpriced.appHow would you price an AI flipping tool like this—and would you prioritize better valuations (depth) or more workflows/features (breadth)?
by Abishek_Muthian | 2026-01-08 04:41:17+00:00
Quoting Adam,

> And making it easier for LLMs to read our docs just means less traffic to our docs which means less people learning about our paid products and the business being even less sustainable.

> But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business.

NYT and other Billion dollar media house can sue the AI companies for copyright violations and get into cozy deals. But the individuals and small companies are left in lurch.

Instead of ganging up on developers for not making their product LLM friendly, they should force the AI companies to ensure that a part of their $20 or $200 goes to the sources of the data used in the LLM responses.

Something like Ad words, where people whose content is used by LLMs can register as a publisher and get compensated.

Oh it wouldn't be sustainable AI companies? Whose fault is that?
by myko | 2026-01-08 04:41:31+00:00
I love MUDs, they got me real experience coding and typing when I was 12 years old and I never stopped. I actually maintain the MUD I played as a kid now (up since 1992!) though we have very few players these days.

I have been (extremely slowly) migrating the Diku codebase to Swift, I hope to complete that and ship it this way someday (I've been too scared to ship these changes, though they work locally just fine). Maybe when I retire!
by cco | 2026-01-08 04:42:01+00:00
I only have "Your Order" notifications allowed for Uber Eats which will only send notifications about my specific order and I think reminding me to tip if I didn't already? That seems to be a subcategory at least.

Anecdotally, I've never received anything other than those notifications.

I only use Facebook Messenger for Facebook Marketplace, so I don't have much interaction with it, but I see "Reminders" as a category of notification, try turning that off.
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 04:42:13+00:00
> A State Guard is the obvious counter to a rogue executive branch when checks and balances have failed.

What checks and balances have failed? An election happened. People voted. Congress is free to act if they choose against the president, the Supreme Court still sits and interprets laws against our constitution. There is still a second amendment that serves to advise our government against tyranny against the people.

You are essentially advocating succession and a violence just because you don’t like somebody who was duly elected by the country to do exactly what he is doing…it’s not like any of this is a surprise. That is, frankly, a pretty fucked up position.
by intalentive | 2026-01-08 04:42:14+00:00
No, not alone, I find GPT far preferable when it comes to fleshing out ideas. It is much deeper conceptually, it understands intent and can cross pollinate disparate ideas well. Gemini is a little more autistic and gets bogged down in details. The API is useful for high volume extraction jobs, though — Gemini API reliability has improved a lot and has lower failure rate than OpenAI IME.
by bluegatty | 2026-01-08 04:42:15+00:00
"Actually establishing control is an occupational effort."

Not quite.

They're trying to establish control by threatening to kill or imprison the leaders and by blockade.

Venezuela apparently handed over a lot of oil, it seems like they've been able to do something.

That said - we don't really know how much 'control' that is.

If I were Polymarket, I wouldn't say that the US has control either, but, it's entirely plausible.

We'll see.

This could go the way of DOGE or the Trade War aka just a trailing mess of ongoing concerns that people forget about, though to play my own devil's advocate, ICE is consistently ramping up.
by HaZeust | 2026-01-08 04:42:37+00:00
Why would I watch the obfuscated view? Watch it up close and on the side closest to the so-called "hit" cop:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gb_IkGVK7WvsTAXfMvQU...

Watch the one titled "LEFT-full-duration". Watch it in slow motion. Everything in my GP is correct:

1.) The lady reversed to make room to drive away AFTER conflicting orders to "get out of there" and to "get out of the car";

2.) An ICE agent got in front of her car mid-reverse and hovered for his sidearm;

3.) The lady gets out of reverse and turns her wheels to face to the right, the ICE agent is now middle-left of her car, and commits to drawing his weapon;

4.) Lady commits to her right turn and didn't hit the cop, as evidenced by the fact that he was literally of the way, he didn't lose footing, and most of all - he was able to shoot the driver at point-black from the driver's side window. If the car was aimed for him - let alone if he was hit, it would have been physically impossible for ANY of those - most of all the point-blank shot from the driver's side window.

The agent who fired NEEDS to be tried for murder, simple as.
by chrledntsurf | 2026-01-08 04:42:44+00:00
If you watch the slow-mo versions of the video people have posted you can see the ICE agent in question actually fired his weapon when his arm was fully extended away from his body still in front of vehicle as he had moved his body out of the impact zone of the front of her car. That's a terrible way to discharge a weapon even if you think you life is in danger. Seems far more likely it was a panic shot out of fear he was still in front of her not realizing he was no longer in danger.

Even if she had floored it at that point, and overal she was driving pretty slowly like a panicked mom might do, his arm would have just been struck by the windshield as she passed.