MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lovich | 2026-01-08 00:10:28+00:00
The only forms of matter are gases, liquids, and solids.

Anyone speaking about “plasmas” and “Bose-Eisenstein condensates” is just spewing woke horse shit they must have learned in a liberal indoctrination center(universities )

Sarcasm aside, a lot of people seem to act like no new information can be discovered by humanity beyond what was taught to them as a child in k-12
by pie_flavor | 2026-01-08 00:11:05+00:00
Rust is not‡ dynamically linked. The whole tree is compiled from source every time. The same compiler compiles all editions of the language together, and it is exactly the same as py3 interpreting a py2 script and allowing a py3 script to call it or vice versa.

Very few features are restricted to the 2024 edition; only those that actively introduce or leverage breaking changes. Most things released since 2024 are available in 2015 edition. If you want to upgrade to 2024 edition, that is a manifest flag; your code may break when you change it, and there's incompatibility lints available on the lower editions to tell you what will break when that happens and how to fix it.
by bhelkey | 2026-01-08 00:11:10+00:00
> Predicting well absent lawyering is really hard!

The author engages in rules lawyering of the evaluation of the predictions. The original predictions are clear.

Another example of this is the author's prediction that no robot will be able to navigate around the clutter in a US home, "What is easy for humans is still very, very hard for robots."

The author evaluated this prediction as not being met, "...I don't count as home robots small four legged robots that flail their legs quickly to beat gravity, and are therefore unsafe to be around children, and that can't do anything at all with their form factor besides scramble".

The author added constraints not in the original prediction (safe around children, must include a form factor able to preform an action, ...) then evaluated the prediction as accurate because no home robot met the original constraint + the new constraints.
by SecondHandTofu | 2026-01-08 00:11:11+00:00
It's the opposite in the UK. Most landlords are individuals, own one or maybe a couple of properties.

It's awful, rogue landlords who do everything they can to not do repairs or improvements and when they do it often comes after a long time. Often as they have underestimated all the expenses they're liable for and find that the profit is not very much.

Give me a company that owns a whole block every day, they've modelled the risk better, have economies of scale, and you have more recourse against them.
by dqv | 2026-01-08 00:11:12+00:00
There are nuts and legumes there in the bottom left.

So funny to see people reflexively defend those things being left off because it confirms their own beliefs. A deeper inspection of the actual guidelines has them being very fair to plant proteins:

> Consume a variety of protein foods from animal sources, including eggs, poultry, seafood, and red meat, as well as a variety of plant-sourced protein foods, including beans, peas, lentils, legumes, nuts, seeds, and soy.

The thing is... the pyramid is just a graphic, the actual words give more context.

https://cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 00:11:18+00:00
> the term "Trusted Publishing" implies everyone else is untrusted

No, it just means that you're explicitly trusting a specific party to publish for you. This is exactly the same as you'd normally do implicitly by handing a CI/CD system a long-lived API token, except without the long-lived API token.

(The technique also has nothing to do with Microsoft, and everything to do with the fact that GitHub Actions is the de facto majority user demographic that needs targeting whenever doing anything for large OSS ecosystems. If GitHub Actions was owned by McDonalds instead, nothing would be any different.)
by bs7280 | 2026-01-08 00:11:50+00:00
This is a good point, and I was curious to see exact numbers on the invest vs be a landlord opportunity cost.

The rich person gets to rent the house, while the "newly weds" are living in it. And most importantly - the house itself will appreciate in value at a rate near 5%

Assuming they both buy a $500k house w/ a 20% down payment and a 5% loan. Realistically the young couple would get a worse rate but lets say they both get 5%. Monthly payment is $2,522.29 w/ taxes and insurance lets call it $3000 a month.

The newly weds are just eating that entire cost every month for 30 years, whereas the Rich landlord rents it out. After a quick and dirty Zillow search lets assume $3500 a month rent to start, so he's making $500 a month profit on an asset thats already increasing in value 5% ish per year.

So, with these assumptions:
- Home cost increases 2% a year
- Rental price increases 3% a year
- Home value increases 5% a year

Total rental profit is $537k
Final home value is $1.56 M
Total Loan cost: $873k

Bringing the landlords return on 100k to be $1.224M in profit over 30 years (Final sell price - total loan cost + rental profit assuming they stuff it under a mattress). Whereas $100k at a 5% yearly return will be ~$430k

disclaimer: Im not the best with Excel and ive never actually bought property so im sure there are flaws in my math.
by myrandomcomment | 2026-01-08 00:13:16+00:00
We use our Apple Card for most everything day to day as the application for it in Wallet is first rate. I can see all the family spending. Any issues I had were quickly resolved by use of the chat feature to support. The cash back on Apple products is great, as well as the interest free monthly payment for those items. To be clear, I am in a position to pay it off every month and never carry a balance on any card (beyond the interest free Apple HW).

The other card we use is an Amex Platinum. We are very careful to use all of its benefits and more than cover the yearly membership fee. For example, $100 credit once a quarter for meals booked via Resy, free Walmart+ which gets you free Paramount+ or Peacock. Amex then has a streaming credit that covers the other one every month. Booked a family trip with Amex and received over $500 in hotel credits at that property. Amex is also great about just sorting any issue quickly as well as sorting hard to get dinner reservations and concert tickets.
by SpectralName | 2026-01-08 00:13:25+00:00
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by zamadatix | 2026-01-08 00:13:43+00:00
People are just downvoting you rather than discussing for some reason. It drives me bonkers when I see that happen here... :).

rendaw was pointing out the $50k in the article & parent comment was in terms of 2016 dollars, not that the mid 60s $25k in CodeWrite23's comment converts to $50k in 2016.

I.e. that the researchers would not be getting anything close to a house + charger + spare change for just half the $50k amount. They got more like $6k-$7k at time of payment in the mid 60s. Which is still a good chunk of change for the time... just not the amounts it was made to sound.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-01-08 00:14:24+00:00
Many people in the comments are worried about laypeople using this for medical advice.

I'm worried that hospital admins will see this as a way to boost profit margins. Replace all the doctors by CNAs with ChatGPT. Yes, doctors are in short supply, are overworked, and make mistakes. The solution isn't to get rid of them, but to increase the supply of doctors.
by neogodless | 2026-01-08 00:15:13+00:00
Don't mistake my snarky "people contradict themselves" post for my opinion :)

I love and prefer buttons. (I also demand Android Auto, though my car didn't have it initially - it was later added through a major software update.)

We all love screens but in a car, I think that buttons are better for the interface for climate, wipers, signaling, drive modes, cruise control, headlights, 4WD selection, volume, radio stations... while Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are excellent for navigation and other entertainment.
by fasterik | 2026-01-08 00:15:24+00:00
Well, there are two factors that go into the recommendations. As you mentioned, one is adequate micronutrients. The other is chronic disease risk reduction. The 5-10% of total calories from saturated fat recommendation falls into the latter category. The risk of meat and dairy is not just cancer, but saturated fat.

I would agree that with proper knowledge and planning, it's possible to reduce carbs and increase protein/unsaturated fats while maintaining adequate fiber and micronutrients. But in practice, I think it's much more common to see people taking low-carb diet recommendations as a license to eat a pound or more of meat per day, drink gallons of milk per week, and completely ignore fiber intake, which is objectively not healthy.
by noisy_boy | 2026-01-08 00:15:33+00:00
It should be much more punishing from the 4th home like 45%. One can understand 2/3 homes, e.g., one to live in and the rest as investment for retirement income. More than that is just greed. Also, if you don't live in one of your properties, either sell one to keep the total number within 3 or pay additional tax.
by csoups14 | 2026-01-08 00:15:58+00:00
That's clearly true, given people by and large know what's good and bad for them but their consumption choices need to factor in a much larger set of pressing constraints like price, availability, and readiness and more abstract constraints like "am I able to be at home with my child and cook for them or do I need to work a second job to make ends meet?" I will not trust a single word from RFK's mouth until he has something to say about food deserts and prices and a plan to do something about it. Until then, he's done the easiest part which bureaucrats specialize in, which is publishing an updated set of guidelines.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-08 00:16:01+00:00
The first paragraph is doing a tricky little sleight of hand. Yeah inflation reduces the power of a fixed wage. Nobody has that kind of fixed wage. The issues with wages and prices we face are not caused by inflation, which is really easy to compensate for.

The second part is just confusing. Inflation benefits the first to "receive/spend" new money? Receiving and spending are opposites, and inflation benefits anyone that's spending whether they got that money first or fiftieth.
by ShakataGaNai | 2026-01-08 00:16:01+00:00
Its unfortunate the way modern politics has gone. I see this site and am immediately suspicious. What bullshit is there? What ulterior motive should I be concerned about?

Rather than reading it, assuming it was fact based science. Maybe not the best because governments never get things 100%.... but at least able to trust it. Now specifically because this is RFK's MAHA world, I assume everything on this site is a lie.

After reading through it I don't see anything terrible or stupidly over the top. Yes, more proteins and vegetables good, less heavily processed foods.
by alextingle | 2026-01-08 00:16:03+00:00
"Rent seeking" has nothing to do with landlords and tenants. It's about buying legislation that forces people to give you money for nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Tenants who rent property get something tangible in exchange for their cash - exclusive use of the property.

Just because the word "rent" is common to both, doesn't mean they are connected in any way.
by immibis | 2026-01-08 00:16:06+00:00
That has not very much to do with money though. There are many ways to allocate scarce resources, such as rationing. Even if money is used, the mere fact of scarcity doesn't define the price of something. Silver is also finite, but it still costs $2.50 a gram and not $25000 a gram. Land was always finite but was still much cheaper in the past.

The main contributor to the price here is financialization. The more money the average buyer can raise for one of the scarce things, the more they cost. Nobody wins from this except the banks, so perhaps it should be more regulated.

Building regulations are also a problem. Legalize whatever you feel is the minimum safety standard of homeless encampment or slum, and watch house prices crash overnight, since prices are set at the margins and a lot of people (including me) would be happy to find a way to work with simple concrete box if it was cheap and secure, but it's not legal to build those.
by db48x | 2026-01-08 00:16:24+00:00
You are correct. Updating the firmware or the OS does not actually erase the TPM. What is really going on is that the TPM register holds a value that is like a hash. Each time you measure the system state you update the register with a hash of the previous value and the measurement. When you ask the TPM to hold a key you specify which register value is used to encrypt the key. Later when you use the key it will fail if the TPM cannot decrypt the key. This can only happen if the TPM register has the wrong value, which can only happen if someone has tampered with the system. But voluntarily upgrading the BIOS or the OS looks exactly like tampering.

The correct procedure is to unlock the keys, copy them out of the TPM, perform the upgrade, reboot to remeasure the system state, then finally store the keys back into the TPM.
by tokioyoyo | 2026-01-08 00:16:40+00:00
It feels like everyone is ignoring the major part of the other side’s argument. Sure, sharing the health data can be used against you in the future, but it can be used to help you right now as well. Anyone with any sort of pain in the past will try any available method to get rid of it. And that’s fair when those methods, even with 50% success rate, are useful.
by Imme_Play_5550 | 2026-01-08 00:16:44+00:00
I have no job and no health insurance. After crafting my prompt correctly (I have W symptoms, X blood markers, have Y lifestyle, and Z demography) ChatGPT accurately diagnosed my problem. (You have REDS and need to eat more food, dumbass.)

Or, I could've gone to a doctor and overloaded our healthcare system even more.

ChatGPT serves as a good sanity check.
by mint5 | 2026-01-08 00:16:58+00:00
Why is it as a soon as a politician announces they will start in the future to have a concept of a plan at tackling an issue, many people react as if it’s already done?

No actual implementation steps have been taken or explained. Will this happen before or after the health care plans are released? Before or after the still pending infrastructure bill?

“ Trump said he was immediately taking steps to implement the ban, which he would also call on Congress to codify in law. *It was not clear what steps he would take*”
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-08 00:17:07+00:00
Which myth? I have genuine trouble understanding what you disagree with.

Industrially processed food is a very recent invention. I'm not talking about modern fad like the Nova classification here. I don't care about bread as long as it's made with water, yeast and flour. I just don't want my food to contain any recent additives.

My take is basically that if it was fine a thousand years ago, it's probably ok-ish minus everything we know now to be poisonous. The blind spot is obviously plant selection and modern varieties being different but well, that's ok, nothing is perfect.
by gck1 | 2026-01-08 00:17:43+00:00
> Windows cheats here

Slightly off-topic: it also cheats in how TPM works for Bitlocker when you do TPM + PIN. One would assume PIN becomes part of the encryption key, but in reality, it's just used as the auth for TPM to release the key. So while it sounds like a two-factor solution, in reality it's just single factor.

So the Bitlocker without TPM is actually a better idea and Windows makes it very painful to do if TPM is on.
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-01-08 00:18:19+00:00
It's not keeping future liabilities off balance sheet. It's marking them at their current value. Same thing for assets. Nobody wants to see a balance sheet where 30 year government bonds are written down at the sum of all interest payments to be received plus the principal. If you did that, you'd have balance sheets jumping all around the place as companies just managed cash on a day to day basis.

The vast majority of the article is trash. It's wrong in many situations. The only reason the accounting issue was brought up is it's early, and so incredibly stupid that it renders the rest of the thing untrustworthy. The rest is bad. If you don't think so, you don't know the subject and are learning from bad sources.
by roughly | 2026-01-08 00:18:32+00:00
I used to have a Chase card, but decided I didn’t like dealing with them, so I closed the account.

And then they bought my bank, and I had a Chase account again. I gave them a chance and they were still awful, so I switched banks.

A couple years after that, they bought my bank, and I had a Chase account again. This isn’t a duplicate paragraph, it happened again. I gave them a chance again, and they were still awful, so I switched banks again (to a credit union, which, fingers crossed).

Now I guess I get to do business with Chase again, which is neat. I’m happy to be part of an economy where I can vote with my dollar like this.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-08 00:18:54+00:00
> That's quite an extreme political take.

We're in a weird timeline when pointing out that dramatic tax increases on the inputs to home building will increase the price of homes.

> A more humble basic economic theory question would be:

> If you ban large institutional investors from buying homes, and then you ban small institutional investors from buying homes. And only owners directly can buy homes, no renting. Would that be good?

There's nothing humble or basic about this question because it's so unrealistic that it could never possibly happen. Ban renting? What?
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-08 00:19:06+00:00
3-2-4-4 / day, I was told in California. Excess grains made sense in the old days when food was more expensive. Grains are cheap and easily stored. They powered progress through the 19th and 20th centuries, and only became problematic for the majority when physical labor became less common, simultaneously with the low-fat craze.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-08 00:19:38+00:00
> anyone pushing such reform would be obliterating the average Joe's net worth.

This what Obama calls the false choice dichotomy -- "Damned if you do, damned if you don't." In your scenario, if we build more homes, then existing home owners are "obliterated". This is untrue. We can easily build twice as much in high cost areas (with the strongest job markets) with little impact on existing home owners.
by parliament32 | 2026-01-08 00:19:59+00:00
> most/all of the most protein dense foods are vegetables/legumes

Are you abusing "dense" to mean calories over calories, rather than the expected calories over weight measure? Even a cursory search shows the latter to be untrue. The former is disingenuous, because despite "density", people do not eat kilograms of broccoli daily to hit minimum-viable protein targets.
by stan1389 | 2026-01-08 00:20:44+00:00
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by SllX | 2026-01-08 00:20:46+00:00
Like I said, I think your position is defensible but I think it falls short so I still disagree. If the people who bought into this contract can get it in front of a judge though, the judge might agree with you.

I am prepared to be wrong on this one, but I just don’t think that Trump & Rubio’s words after the fact are enough.
by devilsdata | 2026-01-08 00:21:06+00:00
While I don't have studies on hand, I recommend watching `Viva Longevity!` on YouTube. He makes a case for the Ancel Keys studies, and why saturated fat is bad and why fiber is good.

It's been nearly a year or two since I've looked into it, but basically there is a lot of money in marketing for the beef and dairy industries, and that includes lobbying and influencing the outcomes of scientific studies. It's worth scrutinising claims against the Ancel Keys studies soley based on the fact, in my opinion.
by tbirdny | 2026-01-08 00:21:10+00:00
"The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke." PMID 32562735 - Jun 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
by ropable | 2026-01-08 00:22:00+00:00
In Australia we've treated the family home as an investment, a primary mechanism for wealth creation (rather than an essential for life) for far too long. I fully agree that supply is the #1 driver for housing affordability, but like many things it's mult-factorial. Tax incentives, market forces, town planning, land use regulation, etc. all play their role.

I'm hopeful that successive governments over here show the courage of their convictions and enact enough change that my kids have a chance of getting into their own places, same as I did.

Tangent: how should we approach changing the housing mix in a city like Perth where 95% of new homes are large four-bedroom detached houses? It's all very well saying "That's what the market wants" when that's also all the market supplies. How do we bootstrap the idea of smaller, denser, affordable, more-diverse housing options?
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-08 00:22:02+00:00
It doesn't have to be a religion. I don't care when I eat out. The point is not to be absolutely consistant. It's just the guideline I use regarding what I eat.

I don't really eat prepared food. I mostly buy whole food to be used as ingredients. Cooking simple meals is not particularly hard. I think most people overestimate the complexity and time requirement involved.
by alexpotato | 2026-01-08 00:22:13+00:00
Short names for complex topics can be very handy.

I was once watching an old school survivalist talk about Native American/First Peoples legends.

These legends often had a bumbling main character who would usually cause some kind of problem b/c he forgot to do the key thing required for survival. For example, he would pick wet wood that wouldn't work for making a fire etc while his smart friend would pick the dry wood or the wood with lots of oil in it. Let's say bumbling dude is name "Chintatook" (made up name).

Now, when someone is starting to do the wrong thing or not think things through, you can say "Hey, don't be a Chintatook!" and everyone knows what you are talking about.
by immibis | 2026-01-08 00:22:27+00:00
If that's your goal, you probably shouldn't call the class bg-blue? It should be bg-blue-but-purple-on-mobile. But then it's definitely so specific it's the wrong way to select a style. If you want the page background to be blue but purple on mobile, write that in your CSS with a selector of "body" instead of ".bg-blue-but-purple-on-mobile"