MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomel | 2026-01-14 20:26:13+00:00
if you think your code is art like mozarts music, then you're probably part of the first group rather than the group trying to simply get something practical done with software as a means to do it.

Should Mozart have constructed the instruments himself? Or plucked the strings himself? No, he had someone else take care of all that so he could compose music. AI can be used the same way: take care of boring stuff so I can compose a solution to a real world problem. No, that doesn't mean AI has to do everything for you, which outright bans don't seem to be able to comprehend.
by eli | 2026-01-14 20:26:14+00:00
Surprised to see this seemingly presented positively on HN.

Social media "feels" like it should be uniquely bad for children but the evidence is low-quality and contradictory. For example, high social media use is associated with anxiety and depression, but which direction does that relationship run? Meanwhile there are documented benefits especially for youth who are members of marginalized groups (e.g. LGBTQ). Don't get me wrong, I think there are a lot of problems with the big social media companies. I just think they affect adults too and that we should address them directly.

But setting that aside, the practical implications of age gate laws are terrible. The options are basically to have an LLM guess your age based on your face, or uploading sensitive identity documents to multiple sites and hope they are stored and processed securely and not reused for other purposes.

But OK let's assume social media is always bad for kids and also that someone invents a perfect age gate... kids are just going to find places to hang out online that are less moderated and less regulated and less safe. How is that not worse?
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-14 20:26:17+00:00
>they cannot socialize with people

they can socialize online perfectly fine. Excluded from the ban in Australia are among others, WhatsApp, Discord, Steam and Facebook Messenger. TikTok, Twitter or Instagram are not and never have been platforms in which people form social communities with their peers.

>Also shouldn't we ban MTV and rock and roll music in general?

No, because there was never any evidence that rock has harmed the youth. Jonathan Haidt, author of this piece, has conducted extensive research to show that social media does.
by lanfeust6 | 2026-01-14 20:26:34+00:00
I went through it.

- Have a plan. Set yourself a time limit for unemployment, after which you can opt to re-train (even part-time, if you need to work immediately). Explore the options and pick the best ones for you.

- build a portfolio, actively work on your interviewing skills, CV, and leetcode ahead of interviews

- schedule time outside and for activity, stop moping and overconsuming social media

Actions determine your identity, not the other way around. If you persevere and adapt, you aren't a failure. If you indulge in self-pity and do nothing, then you are letting that define you.

Anyone who doesn't fail is not being challenged enough. Failure is part of learning and improvement. Notwithstanding that, some factors are out of your hands.
by bahmboo | 2026-01-14 20:26:48+00:00
That's a good point. The problem for me is where the line is drawn. Is a car enthusiast forum social media? How about youtube comments? I think society is generally improved when the teenage generation is at least part of discussions. We need to protect the young people but excluding them and suppressing them leads to unintended consequences. I am not a tiktok apologist. Hey Facebook used to be enemy number 1 and now it's an afterthought for many people.
by dabluecaboose | 2026-01-14 20:27:14+00:00
> The post I responded to basically said the left alienated people by restricting 2a,

Incorrect, but judging by the responses here I conveyed my point poorly. I wasn't trying to say that the Left alienated existing gun owners. I was trying to say that their actions and positions prevented the formation of a grassroots population of responsible gun owners in their ranks. Specifically, a population that might be more ready to stand up against ongoing injustices.

> and it’s really not at all restricted. Some states are more restrictive than others

Your AR-15 you smugly mentioned that you bought last year in "15 minutes" is in spite of Democrats best efforts. If they had their way on gun laws any time in the last 30 years, that transaction would be impossible. You'll note that there's a pattern with those "some states" that are stricter than others. The fact that their overreaches have been successfully fought is not evidence that they aren't constantly trying (Paid attention to the docket in Virginia lately?).

But that's not what I was trying to say anyway, you (like many others) just jumped at the prospect of sticking it to a perceived ideological enemy with a pithy reddit quip.
by bonzini | 2026-01-14 20:27:38+00:00
The first paper they link to is not about string theory. It's using math that was developed for string theory, and is perfectly valid outside it, to make predictions that can be (and are) experimentally validated.

It has exactly none of the problems of string theory, and I am not sure why it's clumped with a physics paper in the blog. How is it a problem to say "hey they used string theory tools!" in a press release? If anything it might get other people to look at the math and get something good out of it...
by ben_w | 2026-01-14 20:27:55+00:00
If it were not for all the geoplitics, the one place where Musk is still reasonably impressive is SpaceX. Yes, still late and pricy, but much less so than everyone else.

No orbit? Aye, but that's deliberate until reusability is sorted. No reusability of the second stage, that's a big killer for a lot of this.

In orbit refueling, I agree with you.

Crew… you're correct, but also it won't matter much. Landing on Mars has to be autopilot (and not in the Tesla sense) anyway, the robots won't be flipping switches. When (or if) they're on Mars, very slow very laggy remote with minimal autonomy is the current state of the art for all the rovers.

But the geopolitics… I mean, at this point I put 25% on NATO ending, 10% on Musk personally getting enough sanctions to end Tesla, 7% on enough financial contagion that SpaceX gets nationalised. The Trump admin is more interested in the moon than in mars.

Not high odds, but enough to materially reduce a 50/50 even if those odds were correct.
by ongytenes | 2026-01-14 20:28:06+00:00
I've for decades have opted to use pvc conduit for underground installations. This way I can pull/replace wire. Reading this made me realize that putting fiber inside conduit in inaccessible areas would be a safe way to go.

Years ago some electronics sensors were replaced and started having problems. I came to realize it was a voltage drop with the new increased load. I was able to pull in new larger wire by using the old wire as the puller.
by LiquidSky | 2026-01-14 20:28:20+00:00
>When skiing in the US, people see it as an opportunity to use a hobby to gain an advantage, to network, to talk business, to flaunt, to compare, to use an escape as a entrance.

I'd like to see any evidence of this because this has not been my experience at all, ever. I've skied all my life, just went with my family over the holidays, and neither we nor anyone we met, or anyone I've ever met on ski trips, was doing it for any reason other than fun.

>why else would a ski lodge need a boardroom?

Just because a venue has the capacity to host business events does not mean that that is its sole or main purpose. The obvious answer is that offering this amenity gives the lodge the option of attracting corporate clients in addition to its normal patrons.

This is like saying because the Tour de France exists no one in France bikes recreationally.
by xmprt | 2026-01-14 20:28:26+00:00
Who bears the cost of that improvement? Either the manufacturer, the retailer, or the customer. The problem is that the waste created by vapes is a negative externality so there's no incentive to improve their design. Until the government starts requiring safe disposal of these things, we won't see a change. Think about what people used to do with old car oil before new environment protection regulations.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-14 20:28:27+00:00
Similar around 2000-2001 or so. It sucked, a lot.

I'd add that there really wasn't much detail from OP in terms if the types of study/work or social aspects that may be at play. For better or worse, things like "nose ring theory" exists and depending on a given environment may or may not be an issue even if it isn't mentioned.

As to specific technology, as others have suggested, side projects, freelance, personal projects and even volunteer work can help.

I had to deal with community service for a ticket about a decade ago, since I'm not really phyxically able to do a lot of what was available, I spent a fair amount of time just searching/asking different orgs if they needed any software developed... I found one, did the project they needed and it was all good.... Of course with the search, I only had a week to do the project in, on top of my regular job I worked 90+ hours that week (that sucked, a lot).

The point is, it doesn't hurt to ask/volunteer. Even on your own, make something cool if you're able to do so.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-14 20:28:35+00:00
Many reasons not do use the provided DNS. First, you don't want to give the ISP more information on your browsing habits than it can already gather otherwise. Second, in some countries, ISPs censor websites at the request of of the movie and music industries. Those are enough reasons to rely on a neutral DNS provider like Quad9 or your own DNS server.
by pradmatic | 2026-01-14 20:28:41+00:00
Tacking on to this: find other people in the same boat (surely there are others from your class or adjacent years). Talk to each other about problems you see in the world. Talk about how you could solve those. Even if you don't raise VC or anything like that, simply working with other people to ship some working product is extremely valuable experience. Even better if you can find others to work with that have different backgrounds (e.g. design) to get that cross functional experience.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2026-01-14 20:28:42+00:00
Kinda wish there was some way to quickly scroll through the pages... Also data seems to be different when ordered by different values?

When ordered by RV£ there are 43703 entries with data. Most negative RV£ change is -£137,500 for 33 Main Road

When ordered by RV% there are 43303 entries with data. Most negative RV% change is -87.0% for PAVILLION HOTEL
by milkytron | 2026-01-14 20:28:50+00:00
I've tried this. It's hard to get people to switch platforms when they don't perceive any major existing problems with their current platform.

My neighborhood that I'm on the HOA board for has been entirely on a facebook group. When I joined, I made sure that we communicate all necessary communication via email (for others like me not in the group or on FB). I created a website for the neighborhood that does everything the FB group does and more, but people don't see a reason to visit another website when FB has everything they want, so they still only engage on Facebook.

I'm okay with being the problem (green bubbles are a whole nother thing for friends and family), but without sufficient pressure to switch, people generally prefer what they're comfy with.
by potluri | 2026-01-14 20:28:55+00:00
I'm not a web designer by trade. I did recently decide to launch a personal website after dragging my feet for many years:

https://www.potluria.com

I only have one blog post, it's effectively a host for my resume and there's a lot of work to do to make it nicer. For one, while I'm trying to convey an aesthetic with the three.js-powered background, it is _not_ performant on some devices. Choosing a SPA architecture in order to keep the background seamless is also biting me in the butt. From an SEO perspective, for example, I can't implement proper OpenGraph metadata on the blog posts since crawlers don't execute JS.

I'm happy though. I'm excited to make it a long-lived shrine.
by tzs | 2026-01-14 20:28:56+00:00
If you do it right the only sensitive information exposed to the age gated site is that your age is above their threshold.

The party that actually has to at some point verify who you really are of course has your sensitive information, and there is no obvious way to work around that. However, there is a way to make it so that it doesn't matter.

That is by making them be a party that already has that information. Probably the simplest would be to make it be the same government agency that issues your physical identity documents like passports or drivers licenses. If we don't want it to be a government agency or we want to have competition banks would be a possibility.
by barishnamazov | 2026-01-14 20:29:17+00:00
NBC has posted the full list here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/us-sto...

> A U.S. official confirmed the full list of countries will include Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-14 20:29:20+00:00
The extreme danger of marijuana and its role as a “gateway drug” was also extensively studied and “proven” by a handful of moralist researchers and groups who had an agenda to push. The highly biased “researchers” who pursued this were often directly funded by the US government.

And now? This research has been debunked. It’s likely bad for people prone to mental illness, especially when taken regularly and in excess, and even stable people shouldn’t overdo it, much like alcohol. But it’s not going to cause lasting harm to most people.

Regarding porn, your argument from authority is extremely suspect. Porn is considered morally suspect due to lingering Puritan values, and if there is a research deficit (which I doubt) then it is likely because reputable researchers avoid the topic due to reputational damage. Sex researchers in general have often faced harassment, targeted government inquiries, and threats. So in short, I don’t believe you here.

I haven’t personally met anyone whose life was negatively affected by porn, except for a couple of people who were in relationships where one partner considered porn to be a form of infidelity. Utterly ridiculous from my perspective.

Edit: Total bunk. After looking into it, reputable meta-studies have showed no link between porn and sexual violence, ED, or mental health issues. It’s trivial to find this research, search for it if you care.
by ricree | 2026-01-14 20:29:31+00:00
> how much sugar water people buy, cases and cases

One confounding factor here is that oftentimes the price is only reasonable in bulk. I don't know about walmart, but around me the best deal typically is "buy 2 get 3 free". I rarely buy/drink soda, but on the occasions I buy at all I'll be getting many cases at a time.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-14 20:29:42+00:00
> sales taxes, property taxes, tariffs, tolls, etc and the % is already pretty high.

These taxes are even higher in many EU countries than the US, especially sales tax. Same for tolls, tariffs, etc. they're all higher here. Also commodity products and services are generally more expensive here than in the US.

I see on youtube the hobby stuff Americans do in theri garage with home labs, electronic measuring equipment, power tools and stuff, and if I want to replicate their setups it would cost way more here(from a smaller wage), not to mention buying a house with a garage in Europe is very much of out of budget to most working class in Europe to begin with.

>After factoring the cost of benefits that are free/subsidized in other countries, and the cost probably averages out to the same.

True, but a lot of free stuff you get back from the government is sometimes of low quality due to never being enough money for everything everyone needs and not being able to attract and keep qualified workers to stay in the public system when they can earn more privately, and it's only getting worse since Covid and Ukraine.

For example, I am now paying ~1000 Euros for private physiotherapy after my accident, since the free government one is abysmal, which I am forced to pay for anyway out of my salary even though it's useless.

Another example, after my jaw surgery at the public hospital here they just strap cold packs to your face like in WW2, while in the US, my ex-boss who went through a similar procedure at a hospital there they had specialized head cooling devices instead of medieval ice packs, while also being free from his employer insurance. So you might pay more in the US for health insurance, but you also get more in return.
by hnuser123456 | 2026-01-14 20:29:45+00:00
You would need to go back to ~2005-era Intel x86 CPUs to have x86 without a backdoor baked into the silicon (as far as we know), like Pentium 4. The Core 2 / Q6600 / P35 chipset already had an early version of it. Wikipedia says AMD added their equivalent, the Platform Security Processor, around 2013, so their best CPU from 2012 would be the FX-8350.
by rconti | 2026-01-14 20:29:49+00:00
For submitter, I sympathize hugely even though I've never gone through it myself. I know myself, and I know if I was unemployed, I'd spend all of my waking minutes either applying for jobs, fretting about applying for jobs, and counting my savings as they dwindle. I would have an extremely hard time enjoying unemployment. I'm sure your situation is much harder, mentally, because you'd have existing successful work history to fall back on.

But +1 to all of these points. Learning to time-box your job hunting and recognizing the declining marginal utility of each extra minute is a useful job skill in and of itself.

Any time you can redirect away from doomscrolling to productive/fun/values-based activities (hobbies, volunteer work (especially if job-relevant, but even if not) is time well-spent. Importantly, it has to matter to you and be enjoyable. If you're timeboxing 3 hours per day job-hunting, and then the remaining hours of your day are grinding away on personal projects because you hope they'll pay off in the job hunt, you're really spending all day on the job hunt.
by mrtesthah | 2026-01-14 20:29:50+00:00
No matter how many people vote for something, congress and the president do not have the right to infringe upon peoples’ fourth (searched & seizures) and 14th amendment (due process) rights. Federal agents are systematically violating those rights and not being held accountable due to a blatantly partisan supreme court. With no other alternative, it will be up to every day citizens to stop those offenses and seek justice.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-14 20:29:53+00:00
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by peab | 2026-01-14 20:30:01+00:00
I see, I can understand the argument better now, thanks!

Looking it up, it seems that ICE used to be part of INS, which was broken up into:
-USCIS: Handles services (green cards, citizenship).
-CBP: Handles the borders (Border Patrol and ports of entry).
-ICE: Handles interior enforcement (raids, investigations, and deportations).

So I'm not really sure I follow. If we get rid of ICE, who handles Handles interior enforcement (raids, investigations, and deportations)? Another org?

This feels like people who argue to get rid of the police, and replace it with "Community Security Forces", or something of the likes.
by gmuslera | 2026-01-14 20:30:12+00:00
There is a lot of crap that is and will ever be useless when debugging a problem. But there is a also a lot that you don't know if you will need it, at least, not yet, not when you are defining what information you collect, and may become essential when something in particular (usually unexpected) breaks. And then you won't have the past data you didn't collect.

You can go in a discovering path, can the data you collect explain how and why the system is running now? There are things that are just not relevant when things are normal and when they are not? Understanding the system, and all the moving parts, are a good guide for tuning what you collect, what you should not, and what are the missing pieces. And cycle with that, your understanding and your system will keep changing.
by Nemi | 2026-01-14 20:30:16+00:00
The point is that the 'maximum motivation level' for an employee is an inherent trait. It is a ceiling. Some people have high ceilings and some don't. If an employee has a low ceiling, no manager can motivate that employee higher.

But if someone has a high ceiling, the most a manager can do is create an environment that allows the employee to achieve their max potential. A bad manager on the other hand, can very easily bring a normally high-potential motivated employee down to mediocre levels.

If you are one of those self-aware leaders that knows how to create an environment where people can excel, then hiring highly motivated people is the winning strategy.
by mywittyname | 2026-01-14 20:30:43+00:00
> I have no idea about this. Can you explain what you mean and give some examples of such countries ?

Probably countries like Ireland, Montenegro, Belize, etc which act as tax havens for foreign corporations. Or Singapore, while also a tax haven, acts as a center for regional trade.

They could also mean resource rich countries that sell mineral rights to foreign corporations, who made investments in infrastructure in order to facilitate their operations, and they pay back dividends to the state, which offset the tax burden of the local population.
by Greenpants | 2026-01-14 20:30:46+00:00
https://blog.greenpants.net – my actively maintained blog where I write about my thoughts on AI given my Master's, share personal stories, tutorials and more. Lots of drafts coming up soon, like the ideal home server architecture. Hopefully inspirational to some, at the very least the randomized quotes at the top might be.

Let me know :)
by mips_avatar | 2026-01-14 20:30:48+00:00
You might consider taking this opportunity to travel. You don't need a ton of money to do this, a few thousand dollars goes really far in South America and Southeast Asia. It's also a really exciting time to be building software solo, it's just harder to get paid for it. I never would have been able to bite off the projects I'm working on right now without Claude code. If there's something you want to exist in the world you can really just will it into existence, I assume that will also mean money eventually. TBH it was nice to get the big tech pay a couple years ago, but they weren't as amazing places for actually building software as you might think.
by nico | 2026-01-14 20:30:52+00:00
You are right, and that's great for queries

How do you provide db access? For example, to access an RDS db, you have to connect from within the AWS/EC2 environment, which means either providing the agent ssh access to a server, from which it can run psql, or creating a tunnel

Additionally, with multiple apps/dbs, that means having to do the setup multiple times. It would be nice to be able to only configure the agent instead of all the apps/dbs/servers