MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-07 22:22:55+00:00
> Ie, You can disable all 'related videos'/feeds/home page on Youtube with Unhook

This is not specific to YouTube. It’s billboards, product placement, etc etc etc.

> You can also easily never speak to them. I know they exist, but as a consumer I can't think of anytime I've had a sales interaction with a salesperson

Ok, so you make every major purchase online, probably don’t own a car, never purchased a home or lived in a city where its extremely difficult to rent without a realtor, never go out to restaurants or bars in the US where the service staff essentially works on commission in the form of gratuity… sure thing.

Thinking Sony would sell just as many products entirely based on word of mouth is absolutely absurd.
by aucisson_masque | 2026-01-07 22:23:01+00:00
> They're not reading carefully. They're not fact-checking, or even trying.

It’s not how I do, and I suppose how many people do. I specifically ask questions related to niche subjects that I know perfectly well and that is very easy for me to spot mistakes.

The first time I used it, that’s what came naturally to my mind. I believe it’s the same for others.
by gen220 | 2026-01-07 22:23:22+00:00
Churchill was right!

We’ll try everything except for a land value tax, so that we can eventually prove once and for all that LVT is the right thing to do! :)

But actually, it’s good to see movement on the underlying problem (affordability of home ownership). This is The Domestic American Problem of our times, and it deserves to be closer to the center of the Overton window of our politics and policy-making.

Even if we think this step is kind of meaningless, it draws more attention to the problem, which is a good thing.
by Smalltalker-80 | 2026-01-07 22:23:41+00:00
Ditto on the working set.
For the 'crazy' bookmark lists:
I now have 220 bookmarks, max 4 levels deep, counting the bookmark bar as level 1.
And that's work and private combined.
Before I add a tab to the bookmarks, I ask myself:
Am I likely to need this again?
If the answer is not a full yes, I just close the tab.
It can also be found again quickly enough with a simple google search
or the browsing history.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-01-07 22:23:43+00:00
I mean, the comment above is now flagged and dead. Doesn't that mean the mods killed someone's comment solely for giving their opinion on the state of their own country?

EDIT: And [dead] removed now. Fascinating. I checked the unofficial guide on GitHub again to confirm my understanding:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...

> A [dead] submission (that does not also show [flagged]) is killed by a moderator or by the software. They will only be shown to users who have showdead enabled in their profile. A submission can simultaneously be [flagged] and [dead].
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by buu700 | 2026-01-07 22:23:50+00:00
You're right that extrapolating from one flaw to claim wholesale debunking is a common logical fallacy: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Logic-C....

Where I'd suggest you go too far is implying that saturated fat and sugar are similarly bad. Technically you do hedge the claim with "excess", which is effectively a tautology, so the claim isn't outright false. You also don't qualify whether you mean excess in absolute terms (i.e. caloric intake) or as a percentage of macronutrients.

In practical terms, I don't consider it useful guidance based on the available evidence. As far as I can tell, there's little to no evidence that saturated fat is unhealthy (but lots of bad studies that don't prove what they claim to prove). Meanwhile, the population-wide trial of reducing saturated fat consumption over the past half-decade has empirically been an abject failure. Far from improving health outcomes, the McGovern committee may well have triggered the obesity epidemic.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-07 22:24:19+00:00
To add to this: the "total stock" is also completely different to any other asset in terms of market forces, because it varies widely depending on the buyer in question. People don't shop for "a house" and address the entire available market of houses in the country. They shop for a house in a particular area/city, of a certain value, with certain amenities, in proximity to other things, etc. etc. etc.

In this way houses are virtually unique in terms of financial vehicles and it introduces all manner of complexity and otherwise strange forces into the market. You can't simply treat it like any other commodified asset.
by retrac | 2026-01-07 22:24:41+00:00
In rural Canada at least in some circles it's considered bad form to not make use of roadkill like deer or moose. It's much like hunting without eating the animal killed; both disrespectful and dysecological. This applies more to people who have the skill and ability, but that is quite common in rural areas -- if you can't do it yourself you give a heads up to someone who can.

Of course, a bear is different from deer. Anything higher up the chain of predators will concentrate toxins and will also tend to have more parasites.
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-07 22:24:43+00:00
Yep same, with the caveat that any actionable advice requires actual research from reliable sources afterwards (or at least making it cite sources).

i mean; i kinda get the concerns about misleading people but … are people really that dumb? okay if it’s telling you to drink more water, common sense. If you’re scrubbing up to perform an at home leg amputation because it misidentified a bruise then that’s really on you.
by usmanity | 2026-01-07 22:26:00+00:00
this seems to be a memory problem with ChatGPT, in your case, I bet it was changing a lot of answers due to that. For me, it really liked referring to the fact that I have an ADU in my backyard, almost pointlessly, something like "Since you walk the dogs before work, and you have a backyard ADU, you should consider these items for breakfast..."
by cloverich | 2026-01-07 22:26:05+00:00
Possibly but that is not the main argument. The main argument is about the lesser of two evils. Do we want to prioritize the open market of SFH ownership, or do we want to prioritize (maximize) the number of people who can own a SFH. Banning multiple SFH ownership would target the latter, with the tradeoff of a restrictive ownership path for wealthy individuals.
by NickAndresen | 2026-01-07 22:26:18+00:00
On Thinkish, Neuralese, and the End of Readable Reasoning

When OpenAI's GPT-o3 decided to lie about scientific data, this is what its internal monologue looked like: "disclaim disclaim synergy customizing illusions... overshadow overshadow intangible."

This essay explores how we got cosmically lucky that AI reasoning happens to be readable at all (Chain-of-Thought emerged almost by accident from a 4chan prompting trick) and why that readability is now under threat from multiple directions.

Using the thousand-year drift from Old English to modern English as a lens, I look at why AI "thinking" may be evolving away from human comprehension, what researchers are trying to do about it, and how long we might have before the window gets bricked closed.
by bredren | 2026-01-07 22:26:40+00:00
The premise of the steps you've listed is flawed in two ways.

This is more what agentic-assisted dev looks like:

1. Get a feature request / bug

2. Enrich the request / bug description with additional details

3. Send AI agents to handle request

4a. In some situations, manually QA results, possibly return to 2.

4b. Otherwise, agents will babysit the code through merge.

The second is that the above steps are performed in parallel across X worktrees. So, the stats are based on the above steps proceeding a handful of times per hour--in some cases completely unassisted.

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With enough automation, the engineer is only dealing with steps 2 and 4a. You get notified when you are needed, so your attention can focus on finding the next todo or enriching a current todo as per step 2.

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Babysitting the code through merge means it handles review comments and CI failures automatically.

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I find communication / consensus with stakeholders, and retooling take the most time.
by jcmfernandes | 2026-01-07 22:27:07+00:00
I have a very similar story. It went from ibuprofen and water to antibiotics the following day, to different antibiotics the next day, and finally to having my tonsils purged (i.e., cut open) with local anesthesia in 4 days. By this time I no longer could speak. It was the most pain I felt in my life.

I still trust doctors, but this made me much more demanding towards them.
by AstroBen | 2026-01-07 22:27:11+00:00
I don't think this is a purely financial decision - my position on that is it's not a good investment if you're buying a single home. Taking on 5x leverage on a hugely concentrated asset is insane to me if it's a large % of your net worth

The bigger thing, though, is so many people are currently priced out from owning something for themselves. Your home is such a fundamental part of your life and for a lot of people renting fucking sucks. They can't live their lives the way they want to. To have that be the case because others are buying it up to profit? Ehh..
by logicalmind | 2026-01-07 22:27:14+00:00
It's the same in Southern California. When I sold my first starter home it was bought by internationals to rent. There were already multiple homes on the block owned by foreign interests.

And at the new home I moved into, the house next door is owned by foreign interests and rented out to the highest bidder. It makes it extremely difficult to get anything done that involves shared areas (like common fence or overhanging trees) because the owner is essentially unavailable and doesn't speak english. Not to mention that every year or so we have to deal with renters who are minimally vetted. We've had a group of 5 college kids turn the place into a frat house once. There is also a property management company involved, but they can't get in contact with the owner either.

In my experience, this seems to be a bigger issue than wall street investors.
by dillydogg | 2026-01-07 22:27:18+00:00
I really don't see how this is so different than what nutritionists have said for years. This reads as if the guans before was to drink soda and eat fat free candy all day. The three sentence dietary guidance still holds:

1. Eat food
2. Not too much
3. Mostly plants

Though the government's position seems to be at odds with #3. I would encourage more beans and greens, personally.
by m4ck_ | 2026-01-07 22:27:43+00:00
I've dealt with both; anecdotal but I had a much better experience with the individual landlord than corporate. Ex: AC went out in both cases; Individual land lord showed up with a replacement window unit the next day after I reported it. Corpo landleech ignored my ticket and calls for 3 days while I slept in a house that was nearly 90F inside past midnight.

Corpo landleeches nickle and dime you (base rent + rent payment fee + pest control fee + trash fee + valet trash fee + fee for the service that bills water/sewage + mail room fee + others I'm no doubt forgetting) (but they only advertise the base rent), and they like to push straight up scams ( such as forcing mandatory renters insurance at 3x the market rate, expensive "benefits" packages with everything from HVAC filter delivery to credit monitoring, all heavily marked up.). The individual land lord? just a flat rent every month, no surprises.

I'm sure there are plenty of horror stories about individual landlords though; the same greed drives both to cut corners and maximize profits.
by nickjj | 2026-01-07 22:27:49+00:00
That's an interesting way to think about it.

I discovered media piracy long ago, but it was very acute before AI because only a small amount of folks pirated this type of content. I ignored them and put 0% energy into it because I wanted to focus on the happy path of people not pirating the content.

If you think of AI as pirating media, it's providing that media to everyone in a context specific form so yes it is a pretty interesting analogy. Not quite a 1 to 1 match but the end outcome is the same and that's all that matters here.
by piker | 2026-01-07 22:28:08+00:00
Houses are unique and have irreducible transaction costs which makes the market for them very inefficient and slow relative to a commodity. For one example, if you are in the market for a 3-bedroom house with a garage, the market is already segmented much more narrowly than can be the case in an efficient market like that for a commodity. If you have to move into one as soon as possible for a new job, and you know closing will take a minimum of 3 months, the market for your prospective houses is going to be extremely small without even factoring in other distinctive characteristics like driving distance and schools. 4% of the aggregate market may represent 25-30% of your “market” nonetheless.
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-07 22:28:21+00:00
Ah, the rare 'HN person who knows more about everything than everyone', what a joy to see one in the wild.

If you're getting bad troubleshooting it's because you're going to places that value moving units (people) as fast as possible to pay the rent. I assure you neither most mechanics nor most doctors are 'the worst debuggers in humankind'. There are plenty of mechanics and doctors that will apply a 65% solution to you and hope that it pays off, but they're far from the majority.
by conductr | 2026-01-07 22:28:31+00:00
Going back to the the article, you have to find a picture of your exact car online somewhere, then use GeoSpy to tell you it was stolen in the US and was photographed in Columbia, then you go to that place in Columbia to find it's not parked there anymore, so you contact the person who made the post/listing and try to arrange a meeting, then you confirm it's your vehicle, then... what exactly?

Local police are doing none of this btw.
by cjbenedikt | 2026-01-07 22:28:42+00:00
Surely, the Iranian people can't wait to get someone from that family back in power. :-p
1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia https://share.google/nmMIp7ZmOcSpV0aqT
"Mosaddegh was arrested, tried and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. On 21 December 1953, he was sentenced to three years in jail, then placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life. Other Mosaddegh supporters were imprisoned, and several received the death penalty."
by tremon | 2026-01-07 22:29:00+00:00
Second paragraph establishes that after intent, there must be de facto control of the territory.

The way I read it, the second paragraph serves as the definition of territory ("any portion of Venezuela"), not as a condition for resolving the bet. The invasion doesn't need to be successful, it just needs to have the intent you specified in 1.

...which makes the entire bet like quicksand, because it relies on the public statements from a regime known for its "inaccurate" messaging.

The more interesting question for rules lawyers is whether the president itself classifies as "any portion of Venezuela" -- the claim doesn't explicitly limit itself to only geographical portions.
by kortex | 2026-01-07 22:29:12+00:00
Going by the graph in the article, that's still ~13% of homes owned by investors with >5 properties. And that's total of what is currently held, it speaks nothing of liquidity. That number likely includes investors who have had that property for a long time, the current property buy-up likely means far greater than 13% of the market right now is going to those sorts of aggregators.

Dropping the price of a house by a few percentage points can be the make-or-break for some families. And small changes in availability can have large impacts on price.

If we banned (or severely penalized) all entities from owning more than 5 residential homes, this would probably reduce cost by a few percentage points across the board. That's thousands of dollars.

Personally, I think unoccupied homes in general ought to be penalized (beyond just tax burden, an actual vacancy tax).
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by umanwizard | 2026-01-07 22:29:12+00:00
Well, it's true that in the 17th century, sugar and rum production involved one of the most heinous forms of slavery ever to exist. What's not clear is that this necessarily has anything to do with the present; after all, slaves were emancipated a long time ago.

I think this is an instance of "large corporations in the 20th and 21st century have been intrinsically amoral" rather than "the sugar industry is intrinsically particularly evil (and has been since the 1600s)".
by thesz | 2026-01-07 22:29:27+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsEqV0Bjcs - that lecture refers a simple formulae to compute protein content from the amount of nitrogen. They count nitrogen in grams, then multiply by 6 to get amount of "available" protein. But, any antinutrients such as cyanides will count as proteins by this calculation.

Lentils contain trypsin inhibitors, which contain inordinate amount of nitrogen that is counted as protein.

While you do not eat these directly after cooking your lentils, you do not eat as much protein as you would think you do.
by blks | 2026-01-07 22:29:29+00:00
There’s a pretty versatile and tasty milk product called tvoroh in eastern/Central Europe. It has about 18g of protein, and 0-10% fat depending on what you’re buying. So for low fat options it can be as low as 70-90kkal/100g with 18g of protein.

What is the problem of consuming say 80-100% of whey protein? Not all of it has sweeteners.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-07 22:29:57+00:00
> If they then rent these houses out and keep them maintained I don't care that they own them...

Pension funds don't do that (it's a headache).

Instead, they allocate a certain amount of capital to funds specialized in Real Estate who will invest in real estate firms like Greystar who are forced to maximize revenue.

Much of the financialization people keep complaining about on HN is because institutional investors are now much more demanding in comparison to 40 years ago when institutional investing meant putting all your money in bonds and a bit of domestic stocks and hoping to get a 5-6% return.

Basically, the Yale, OTPPF, and ADIA model goes brrrrrrr as institutional investors now demand double digit returns.
by pmarreck | 2026-01-07 22:30:07+00:00
Having spent years doing software dev myself and now months with the latest frontier models, I don't see a path forward in any software-development capacity that values productivity where AI is not featured.

So I hope for your sake that you and others like you are pure hobbyists. Because anyone paying you to do this job is going to be firing you pretty soon in favor of those who lean on frontier LLMs, otherwise.
by subdavis | 2026-01-07 22:30:55+00:00
There are at least 3 different videos from different angles. Here are all of them.

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

I've watched them all repeatedly. It's clear she was blocked in at the front, trying to pull out, and yielded, waving the ICE vehicles to go around front.

They instead got out, needlessly attempted to drag her from her vehicle, and she freaked out and tried to GTFO by turning right to avoid hitting any of them. She was shot and killed for it.
by hug | 2026-01-07 22:30:56+00:00
I don't get it. It seems like they're doing largely what they said they would.

They wanted to push a feature, and they said they would if they didn't see any major regressions. Then they did see a major regression, so they pulled the feature.

Exact version numbers, timelines, and builds are pretty irrelevant to that process. Or are you actually saying you would prefer they had just left their product broken for a significant portion of users, just to keep aligned with the version numbers they mentioned in a blog post?
by StrauXX | 2026-01-07 22:30:59+00:00
The PR author posted a TikTok link [1] the thread later explaining their position. Their behaviour seems very unprofessional to me. Mayve the just want to increase engagement to their accounts. Tailwind definetly made the right call here.

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLjg284/
by lucideng | 2026-01-07 22:31:04+00:00
As the son of a mechanic, I was explicitly barred from becoming a mechanic. The hours can be long, but they are more inconsistent than anything. In the summer it's hot and even hotter under engine bays, in the winter it's cold and melting snow/ice cause constant drips from cars.

The physical demands are real, you will likely have back/neck problems from leaning into engine bays, looking up constantly, contorting your body to get at a bolt or connector.

You are constantly exposed to toxic fumes and chemicals in the air and on your skin. You will be burned from hot exhaust, cut open on dirty rusted metal, bruised from impacts or falling objects, hearing loss from air lines hissing, air tools and hammering on parts. Those are the lucky ones... unlucky ones get eye injuries (even with 'safety' glasses), severe burns or cuts and broken bones from crushing injuries or even death from a variety of sources.

The pay structure promotes cutting corners and speed. You are paid X hours for a task even if it takes you X*2 (oh no!) or X/2 (oh yeah!) hours. You don't get extra time and pay to clean dirt and mud from an area to prevent contamination or just do a good job in general.

Vehicles are generally designed to be easy to assemble, not repair. This is why a mechanic may spend 5 minutes cutting a hole in a plastic fender well to access a bolt and plug the hole afterwards. That bolt is easily accessible when the engine is removed, but dropping an engine (they come out the bottom easier) can take 2 hours. With a shop rate of $100/hr+, you'll want the quick hacky fix to replace that $10 gasket.

Often, there is no workaround like that, so you're racing the clock... hoping something else doesn't break along the way or you get hung up on a rusty bolt. And when something does break, you hope to any god that will answer you that you can get the part in a short amount of time.

$160k is not enough for some of those talented guys... they are like professional athletes in the sense that it's a young man's game and your body is getting used up every day you're in there wrenching.