MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by retsibsi | 2026-01-10 17:49:24+00:00
Partly, the issue isn't "they would have to learn about Linux, and that's bad", it's "they would have to learn about Linux, and they wouldn't want do that, and so they would get frustrated and quite likely give up on it, and my recommendation would have been a waste of their time".

The other part is that they're not necessarily wrong not to want to learn about Linux! Learning is great, when it's something interesting or valuable. But if I'm not interested in the thing, and my time and mental resources are limited, and I have a good enough alternative, I think it's absolutely fine to avoid it.

Most of us choose to drive a car that just works, and take it to a mechanic when it doesn't, rather than buying one that requires and rewards tinkering. Maybe you're into cars, I don't know, but I bet you take this attitude to at least some of the useful objects in your life.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-10 17:50:08+00:00
Yeah escaping can be annoying.

I've used the following, in addition to the "escape character" method (which is officially documented as the other commenter noted):

For in-line escaping, I use tilde-blocks ~ ~ ... as in ~~ . This type-sets in monospace (code format) in exports, which usually* is what one wants anyway, viz. to demarcate the symbol as being symbolised.

For non-code text blocks, "Literal Example" https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html This also gets typeset in monospace, in exports.

For special symbols, LaTeX-like syntax https://orgmode.org/manual/Special-Symbols.html
by giardini | 2026-01-10 17:50:19+00:00
A step back would not guarantee safety: had there been no ice, the car likely would have struck the agent (b/c she "gunned" the engine).

But yes, it was not safe to step in front of that car. The engine was running and the transmission was engaged at least some of the time. But that is one of the dangers officers face every day.

foldr says >...which anyone can verify is not the case by watching the video you've linked...<

I invite all to view the video and note that the

- wheels of the car are spinning or

- the car is moving forward

while the wheels are pointed (assuming the driver's perspective)

- first to the left of the ICE agent,

- then toward the ICE agent, and finally

- to the right of the ICE agent.

That is, she "swept" the position of the ICE agent while hitting the throttle of a moving vehicle.

foldr says >"...it would be completely insane to try to stop a moving car by shooting the driver..."

Shooting also encourages a driver to point the vehicle away from the shooter.

But the question is not one of sanity but of what is legal.

The spinning wheels point to interpretations favorable to the ICE agent. No denying that she gunned the motor and that she "swept" his position while the wheels were spinning and the motor racing.
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 17:50:22+00:00
Checkout forecast advisor. It ranks forecasting services for a location and gives you a summary forecast based on all the different services for that location.

Whenever I travel I find it pretty helpful. Certain services are just garbage in some areas.

For example, Foreca is like 84% accurate for my home location, but it's only 60% accurate for one of the cabins I frequent.
by thangalin | 2026-01-10 17:50:23+00:00
I've posted my feature matrix elsewhere in this thread:

https://keenwrite.com/blog/2025/09/08/feature-matrix/

The matrix, which you can download, aims to provide an objective comparison. Any idea what features are missing, or can you qualify what makes the other text formats "better"? From my perspective, they are largely equivalent.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-10 17:50:42+00:00
Abstract: "Global ocean warming continued unabated in 2025 in response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations and recent reductions in sulfate aerosols, reflecting the long-term accumulation of heat within the climate system, with conditions evolving toward La Niña during the year. In 2025, global upper 2000 m ocean heat content (OHC) increased by ∼23 ± 8 ZJ relative to 2024 according to IAP/CAS estimates. CIGAR-RT, and Copernicus Marine data confirm the continued ocean heat gain. Regionally, about 33% of the global ocean area ranked among its historical (1958–2025) top three warmest conditions, while about 57% fell within the top five, including the tropical and South Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, North Indian Ocean, and Southern Oceans, underscoring the broad ocean warming across basins. Multiple datasets consistently indicate ocean warming, as measured by 0–2000 m OHC, increased from 0.14 ± 0.03 W m−2 (10 yr)−1 during 1960–2025 to 0.32 ± 0.14 W m−2 (10 yr)−1 during 2005–2025 (IAP/CAS), the latter being consistent with EEI (Earth’s Energy Imbalance) estimates within uncertainties. In contrast, the global annual mean sea surface temperature (SST) in 2025 was 0.49°C above the 1981–2010 baseline and 0.12 ± 0.03°C lower than in 2024 (IAP/CAS; similar in CMA-SST, FY3 MWRI SST, ERSSTv5 and Copernicus Marine data), consistent with the development of La Niña conditions, but still ranking as the third-warmest year on record."
by thetemp_ | 2026-01-10 17:50:45+00:00
> an actual Emacs for mobile (actual emacs complete with elisp support, not the existing org mode apps)

There is an official fully graphical Emacs for Android (not just the terminal version in Termux).

> that was a pleasure to use

Oh... Well, it will probably get better in time, as new features are added. For now, it actually works great with an Android tablet of 8" or more and a bluetooth keyboard. The small screen of a phone doesn't lend itself well to Emacs's interface.
by aabajian | 2026-01-10 17:51:09+00:00
As an interventional radiologist, I want it to be easier to see images from outside hospitals. Epic has nearly solved the problem of seeing outside medical records. Yet, I still can't see the images for the CT scan you had from the hospital across the street unless I call the file room and get the images transferred.

I imagine once data sharing is more robust, it would be easier to validate AI models (at least specifically for radiology).
by thomasben | 2026-01-10 17:51:11+00:00
It made me code again.

Before I had not enough time to gather context, be in the flow, code and test.

Now I work throughout the day, as soon as I have 10/15 minutes I send a prompt to one of my Claude Code so they can make progress on tasks that the teams cannot undertake because too time consuming versus business needs (major migration, architecture changes, etc…)

I love it to be able to contribute more
by ncruces | 2026-01-10 17:51:20+00:00
Much of the world would have no problem with americans being in love with their McMansions.

But many would find them wasteful, and a terrible place to live, compared to a decently sized apartment (one 10m² - 100 sq ft - bedroom per person/couple and maybe an extra office) in a walkable town.

Just as we find american SUVs totally inadequate compared to our cars.

And it's not matter of cost, we're perfectly “happy” paying borrowing millions of euro for such apartments, and paying far more for our cars.
by skeledrew | 2026-01-10 17:52:32+00:00
Org is essentially the parent of _all_ other plaintext formats, and is able to treat them specifically at the native level. So for example there's a single command to run a code block, but the code runner is correctly resolved. And multiple blocks in different languages can communicate with each other. Entire projects can be placed in a single org files and still operate as though they're separate files. Literate programming is a breeze. Organization of anything is trivial.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-10 17:52:45+00:00
You say that 'there are not 100's of different engines' -> but there are 100's of different engines, even within the same manufacturer and in spite of the core being the same it is often extremely hard to swap an engine of the same basic geometry because of the different sensors, bolt patterns and so on. It would be trivial to require those bolt patterns to be standardized and for ECUs to be standardized to the point that they could be swapped between vehicles. It is the - in my opinion ridiculous - differentiation that leads to vendor lock-in resulting in the fact that even though the underlying component is supplied by Bosch and it is absolutely identical you still can't move it from one vehicle to another because they spliced a different plug onto it and other lock-in increasing tricks.

The automotive world is full of such bullshit and given that there is no need for it (wouldn't it be nice to be able to swap an engine from any brand into any other based on a generic form factor and standardized interface) it is clearly all about protecting the profits.

When you go to a VAG garage with an Audi the exact same part from Bosch will be 1.5 times as expensive (as will the mechanic that puts it in) as when you go there with a VW. And if you go there with a Porsche the difference will be even larger. And of course there will be tricks to make sure that the cheap parts don't fit the more expensive model. And that's within what is essentially one company, once you go outside of that your ability to swap parts without access to a machine shop drastically diminishes.

That transmission you mention is a great example: you could swap it out in theory, but in practice the manufacturers have made it impossible to do so, parts have their own identity, talk to the ECU using custom protocols and so on.
by kyboren | 2026-01-10 17:52:45+00:00
Warning: I am not in this industry and the below is speculation:

AIUI the idea is to predict the "correct" price for an individual premium, Y, which is restricted to being the result of some insurance model function, f(), that is itself restricted to the domain of age (A), location (L), and smoking status (S):

Y = f(A, L, S)

My impression was that the idea was that this would handicap insurers' natural desire to price premiums individually and have a smoothing effect on prices over the population.

But why is location useful for insurers to price premiums? I assume because healthcare has different costs in different locations, and different utilization rates: People living in coal mining towns or near oil refineries may be expected to use more healthcare and thus cost more to insure.

Thus, you can imagine insurers building a price map (like a heat map) overlay for the state/country, plotting each applicant on it, and checking the "color" there as part of their model function. So they are effectively embedding out-of-band information (prices and utilization rates for locations) into the model function f() itself.

What "AI", or large-parameter Deep Neural Networks, fundamentally change here is:

- They can approximate any effectively computable function, the same class of functions that a programmer can write and execute on a computer[0].

- They can be scaled up to an arbitrarily large number of parameters, i.e. an arbitrarily precise approximation limited only by the number of parameters and the amount and quality of model training data.

- Absolutely critically: They are programmed implicitly, through brute-force training on input-output pairs, rather than explicitly, with some programmer writing an explicit series of instructions to compute the function.

This last point is probably the most important.

Large insurers previously had sophisticated models for f() hand-built by math whizzes, but they were limited in the amount of out-of-band information they could encode into that function by the limited cognitive and programmatic capacity of a human team.

But now with DNNs you can scalably encode unlimited out-of-band information into the function f(), while also totally obscuring how you're computing that location-based price adjustment.

The result, in extremis, is that f() is not some fancy algorithm cooked up by a few dozen math whizzes. Instead f() becomes a fancy database, allowing the tuple (A, L, S) to act merely as an index to an individualized premium Y, which defeats the entire purpose of restricting the domain of their model function.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
by gavmor | 2026-01-10 17:53:01+00:00
Our concept of "Tailwind itself" should encompass, really, the economic foundations in which it's ensconced and from which it grew, even if it grew "on spec."

Ie, without the promise of some path to profitability, eg the plus package, the mere library cannot justify itself. So are we to stop building FOSS on spec?
by dmit | 2026-01-10 17:53:42+00:00
NixOS. Had prior Linux experience, so wasn't too worried about learning multiple new major paradigms in parallel. Also had been running a lil' NixOS server for half a year before that, so I could carry over most of my configuration.nix from there, and also the safe feeling of knowing that if I do mess up stuff, I could with very high probability just reboot to a previous generation and have everything back to working exactly the same as before.

Edit: the two configuration.nixen has since been merged in a single dotfiles repo, which also covers my Macbook via https://nix-darwin.org.
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-10 17:53:44+00:00
Yep, I'm in this boat. After years of macs my next will be a FreeBSD Desktop.

edit: Although phone is much harder. I guess I'll just turn all the 'stuff' like icloud off, use only signal and my banking/etc apps, and get a separate camera.. Anyone found a less painful way to live without an iPhone/Android?
by DANmode | 2026-01-10 17:53:56+00:00
> Additionally, landlords don't benefit from the higher prices (ie. market rate rent) either, since that also pushes house prices up.

You’re forgetting the large contingent of “landlords” sitting on and renting out 1-5 residential properties,

but doing absolutely nothing to them, and buying no new properties, for the remainder of their lifetime,

besides emergency repairs that the tenant demands.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-10 17:54:25+00:00
Not OP, but I don't think congestion charges are the most important part here. It's more about what type of infrastructure to prioritize resources and work for. Basically, the idea is that the town or city should not spend money on building parking, for example, and instead spend it on bike lanes, or two more busses, or some extension to the metro line.
by thangalin | 2026-01-10 17:54:40+00:00
> What it can't do (as far as I understand): complex layouts, precise typography, embedded binary content, anything that needs pixel-perfect rendering.

Please see:

* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

* https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf

* https://keenwrite.com/blog/2025/09/08/feature-matrix/pdf/jek...

* https://keenwrite.com/blog/2025/09/08/feature-matrix/pdf/sof...

Those are Markdown documents typeset using ConTeXt. Except for Jekyll & Hide, I wrote them all.
by Groxx | 2026-01-10 17:55:00+00:00
I did try Orgzly a bit (it's decent though a bit unique, definitely worth a try for anyone curious), but I ended up dropping it after finding out that what I had made in it wasn't compatible with some other thing (I think Emacs, but it has been a while). Possibly something covered in https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/9q9mn6/any_documen... though that's more about the reverse direction.

But that kind of inconsistency has been my overwhelming experience with anything except Emacs. CommonMark stuff has been practically flawless every time by comparison (though "markdown" in general, absolutely not, that's an unspecified mess)
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-10 17:55:09+00:00
huh, is this a problem people really have? I just have a plugin that lets me type before zsh loads and I don't really have a problem with this, even before that i didn't really notice a problem since my 'default' configuration is .12s.

time zsh -i -c exit
zsh -i -c exit 0.12s user 0.09s system 81% cpu 0.276 total
~
by fumeux_fume | 2026-01-10 17:55:18+00:00
Yeah, if the goal of the article was to convince Windows users to switch to Linux then Ubuntu would provide as frictionless an install as Windows. Since the author chooses CachyOS, of course there's going to be some important steps during installation that need to be handled with some forethought and extra software to handle all hardware issues. After all, CachyOS is based on Arch Linux and inherits it's minimal mindset. But the article about switching from Windows to Ubuntu has been already written a thousand times.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-10 17:55:33+00:00
And what about Carbon?

Gone.

32-bit apps?

Gone.

PowerPC stuff? Anything more than a few years old?

Forget it.

You can't even run versions of iPhoto or iTunes after they deliberately broke them and replaced them with objectively shittier equivalents. Their own apps!

Windows can still run programs from the 90s unmodified. There are VB6 apps from 1998 talking to Access databases still running small businesses today.

Can't say the same for either Mac or Linux.

It's not really a problem for Apple because their userbase is content to re-buy all their software every 5 years.
by thetemp_ | 2026-01-10 17:56:21+00:00
Both Orgzly-revived and Orgro support a lot more than a tiny subset of the Org format.

Do they support tangling of source code and export to all the formats that Emacs's Org-mode supports? Of course not. But they have all of what I expect for a knowledge-base on my phone, which is a lot more than Markdown was ever intended for.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-10 17:57:23+00:00
To ben_w's point about GDP being 'iffy,' it’s likely that in a post-labor economy, our primary metrics shift from labor productivity to compute-joule efficiency. > If labor is no longer the limiting factor, the 'State' is just whoever controls the energy grid and the data centers. We might see a transition where consumption isn't 'funded' by wages, but 'allocated' via compute credits or energy tokens. In that model, the 'systems contradiction' isn't that people can't buy things, but that the owners of the models have no incentive to trade with anyone outside their own infrastructure loop. The real risk isn't just lack of demand, but total economic autarky—where the 'AI owners' simply stop participating in the human economy altogether.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-10 17:57:38+00:00
> Perhaps Org Mode reskinned to look more like Markdown.

or, reskinned to look visually whatever one wants...

https://sophiebos.io/posts/beautifying-emacs-org-mode/

https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/

I mention this, because I am not particular about which character symbolises what as long as it is consistent and documented.

However, some people do want things to look just so, and for them, few tools come close to Emacs orgmode.

One can certainly reskin the plaintext rendering to show up however one wants. This has the downside of "two systems" though, e.g. type ** but see it insta-rendered as ###. Although, I rarely type headings like that (character by character). I use the keybindings to "make header", "indent", "de-indent" etc.
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-10 17:58:34+00:00
Rwd is definitely sketchier in certain circumstances, especially going uphill in low traction. Also pretty bad in the snow generally. but I’ve only had issues going around corners when it was very wet and I was driving faster that the speed limit. If you are running into traction issues driving normally (ie not flooring it) I would recommend having your tires and alignment checked, even with RWD that should not be happening in my experience.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-10 17:58:35+00:00
Given that our incompetent security policies apparently granted full access to people with no conceivable need to know (see also Manning), the bad guys already had all that stuff. If that wasn't the case before, it certainly is now, with Trump in office.

Law-abiding US citizens are pretty much the only ones who didn't know what was being done in their names. That's the only thing the Snowden disclosures changed.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-10 17:59:15+00:00
No one should care about fake pictures of celebrities. People have been drawing tits on pictures for centuries. Deal with it, you precious attention-seeking whiners.

But do not be ridiculous - Musk's AI generating child porn is not an "excuse" to ban it, it is a reason to ban it.
Banning the generation of child porn is not repressing free speech, it is enforcing decency and protecting children.

If Grok cannot be configured to prevent the generation of child porn ( can that be done, Musk ? ), it must be banned.
by elbci | 2026-01-10 17:59:17+00:00
> "2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism"

Ppl finally leaving legacy/corporate/virtue-signaling media is good news to me. The "free" western media being the exact opposite of free: owned by billionaires - is and old problem but a certain part of the population seems to notice only now when some of the owners took off the playlist their favorite "progressive" lullaby.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-10 17:59:21+00:00
7 deaths in 20 years out of who knows how many hundreds of thousands if anything is a testament to how safe the procedure is. If it was honest the article might attempt to estimate how many deaths may have been prevented if the baby had been circumcised. But that's neither here nor there since it is a fundamental religious practice for both jews and muslims, and maybe some christian sects. To restrict it would severely limit freedom of religion.
by dannyfritz07 | 2026-01-10 17:59:58+00:00
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. 15 years ago I was still looking up installation and driver procedures and workarounds to install Linux on my devices. I failed to install arch in college because I didn't have a driver for my SATA drive for example.

Today though. Yeah totally easy. Especially if you get one of the many machines with Linux support. Smooth sailing all around.
by emptybits | 2026-01-10 18:00:02+00:00
Thanks for the links but can you share evidence for the "public IP address" claim? Each time I've read this concept (intriguing! possible!), I search for evidence and I can't find any.

The MIC and yellow dots have been studied and decoded by many and all I've ever seen, including at your links, are essentially date + time + serial#.

Don't get me wrong ... stamping our documents with a fingerprint back to our printers and adding date and time is nasty enough. I don't see a need to overstate the scope of what is shared though.
by jackcviers3 | 2026-01-10 18:00:03+00:00
Isn't that true of python as well? I would argue that Github's decision to use markdown for formatting, more than any other, is what resulted in its widespread adoption to other use cases. The simple tool to share code ate the world.

I'm continually surprised that Microsoft hasn't completely cornered the market on LLM code generation, given their head start with copilot and ready access to source code on a scale that nobody else really has.
by xerox13ster | 2026-01-10 18:00:10+00:00
Please be serious, that straw-man is clearly not my point. (I thought you said it was 90# of CRT)

There’s definitely a balance between the newest of the newest bleeding edge hardware that we could only have dreamed of five years ago, and still functional hardware from five years ago.

Just like engineering is a balance between technical optimization and cost.

Seems like your mindset is one that chooses optimization at any cost, which is pitiable.

I bought an M3 when it was brand new but I also have a Dell XPS laptop that’s running an Intel 8th GEN processor. Both have their uses, and the existence of the M3 does not make the Dell worthless or unacceptable.