MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Habbekuk | 2026-01-12 16:09:11+00:00
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by phil21 | 2026-01-12 16:09:13+00:00
The food deserts thing gets tired. It's a social media trope at this point. I lived in poorer neighborhoods growing up, and those who wanted to eat healthy made it happen. It just took more work, which is the point. Corner stores that stocked fresh fruits and veggies would just have them rot on the shelves due to no one purchasing them. It's consumer preference.

Almost nowhere in the US walks to go to the grocery store. Exceedingly small portions of major cities. Where I live in Chicago is quite walkable, but the vast majority of my neighbors load up the car for the vast majority of their shopping trips. There are pockets of course, but they are rare.

My neighborhood also happens to be much more fit than the national average - obesity is somewhat rare to see. The correlation is with wealth. Why there is such a correlation is much more interesting, and it likely is not as simple as people want to believe.

Same goes for the poor inner ring suburbs where I lived in my 20's in a different state. Very high rates of obesity. In the rich outer suburbs obesity levels were visibly less.

It's far cheaper to meal prep and make your own food from base ingredients. It doesn't need to be fancy. When I grew up poor (working class) this is how we made it work. By buying staples in bulk and buying other items opportunistically on sale. We didn't even own a car for most of that time - and the nearest grocery store was at least 3 miles away. It simply wasn't an option to exist off of junk food since it was too expensive.

Eating junk is easier and more convenient. It feels good in the immediate moment and is low-effort. It's the default, and the environment around you encourages it. Add in lack of any peer pressure and it being normalized by those around you and I believe that explains nearly everything. Lack of walkability certainly hurts, but it's not a primary driver anywhere I've lived.
by throwaway89201 | 2026-01-12 16:09:18+00:00
Claude Code mostly copies and amalgamates codes from others, without attribution. But you could argue that's very similar to what humans do.

In this case it's very likely that Claude Code used some library to parse DICOM (and not outright reproducing it), while the Shopify CEO passed it off as something very innovative or difficult. But that isn't plagiarism either.

It was more of a figure of speech to emphasize that nobody (and no tool) did the actual work here, and the party that did the work did not get any credit.

Perhaps we could call it paraplagiarism.

> I'd parse it the same way as for natural intelligence. If I ask Bob how to do it

Not to detract from your point, but Claude Code is a very much a tool, not another person with their own responsibilities. "natural intelligence" and "artificial intelligence" are not simply interchangeable here.
by lutusp | 2026-01-12 16:09:25+00:00
A much simpler remedy is to plug a computer into the TV, then program the computer to show the desired / appropriate content. This would be much simpler than trying to design a remote control meant to circumvent a TV manufacturer's extreme dedication to removing a consumer's control over their TV.

This remedy only requires a Raspberry Pi and an HDMI cable. Also, disconnect the TV from the Internet.
by godzillabrennus | 2026-01-12 16:09:46+00:00
Do you think most people under the age of 30 remember you can share a single computer between multiple users? When there was a single "home computer" or "PC" in the home, you learned about users and different rights. Unless you were a user back in those days or you've tinkered with any admin work, you wouldn't know this in 2026.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-12 16:10:24+00:00
"I'd rather expose a Wireguard port and control my keys than introduce a third party like Tailscale."

It's always perplexing to me how HN commenters replying to a comment with a statement like this, e.g., something like "I prefer [choice with some degree of DIY]", will try to "argue" against it

The "arguments" are rarely, "I think that is a poor choice because [list of valid reasons]"

Instead the responses are something like, "Most people...". In other words, a nonsensical reference to other computer users

It might make sense for a commercial third party to care about what other computer users do, but why should any individual computer user care what others do (besides genuine curiosity or commercial motive)

For example, telling family, friends, colleagues how you think they should use their computers usually isn't very effective. They usually do not care about your choices or preferences. They make their own

Would telling strangers how to use their computers be any more effective

Forum commenters often try to tell strangers what to do, or what not to do

But every computer user is free to make their own choices and pursue their own preferences

NB. I am not commenting on the open ports statement
by marzchipane | 2026-01-12 16:10:25+00:00
Very interesting and so many throwaway lines that could easily be entire blog posts by themselves!

I wonder how hamstrung Disney is by their chosen animation style (wide-eyed cutesy characters, rounded edges, bright colours). Given the technical prowess on display here, what could they create if they gave their artists free rein to experiment like in Love, Death, and Robots? Or is it more that these constraints provide structure to work inside?
by noisy_boy | 2026-01-12 16:10:35+00:00
Fedora 43 with KDE - have been using 140% scaling with my Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4k monitor - no issues whatsoever. I've noticed that the Dells do a pretty good job with Linux - I have used monitors of various sizes ranging from 27" to 43" and never had any issues on Linux.
by zobzu | 2026-01-12 16:10:44+00:00
put simply and fairly bluntly: because they do not know how things work.

but actually it's worse. this is HN - supposedly, most commenters are curious by nature and well versed into most basic computer stuff. in practice, it's slowly less and less the case.

worse: what is learned and expected is different from what you'd think.

for example, separating service users sure is better than nothing, but the OS attack surface as a local user is still huge, hence why we use sandboxes, which really are just OS level firewalls to reduce the attack surface.

the open port attack surface isnt terrible though: you get a bit more of the very well tested tcp/ip stack and up to 65k ports all doing the exact same thing, not terrible at all.

Now, add to it "AI" which can automatically regurgitate and implement whatever reddit and stack overflow says.. it makes for a fun future problem - such forums will end up with mostly non-new AI content (new problem being solved will be a needle in the haystack) - and - users will have learned that AI is always right no matter what it decides (because they don't know any better and they're being trained to blindly trust it).

Heck, i predict there will be a chat, where a bunch of humans will argue very strongly that an AI is right while its blatantly wrong, and some will likely put their life on the line to defend it.

Fun times ahead. As for my take: humans _need_ learning to live, but are lazy. Nature fixes itself.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-12 16:10:48+00:00
The most compelling and resounding message of his campaign was that he promised to grief MAGA's perceived enemies.

Whatever stuff he said in his stump speeches about foreign policy, domestic policy, economic policy, whatever, was largely ignored by his base. The real reason they voted for him (and the reason they still support him) was his promise of cruelty and to hurt people they didn't like, and that's the one promise he is delivering on and boasting about every day.

When brown immigrants' doors are kicked in, people are black-bagged and dragged away in an unmarked van, when families are torn apart, when "city people" get shot and are crying on TV, that's what really gets MAGA motivated and that's what keeps them excited about politics.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-12 16:10:54+00:00
> Clinton, Obama, and Biden were doing this? If so, please provide examples.

Yup. Primarily on the 3rd prong but, especially under Clinton, there was also significant defunding that went one. "The era of big government is over".

Clinton did welfare reform, which added much stricter means testing and work requirements to welfare. The "reinventing government" program was literally a hack and slash on government agencies not unlike DOGE. The student loan reform reduced subsidies for students. He signed in the crime bill which enabled the building of private prisons and ramped up the US incarceration rates. And he created Medicare part C which created a route to send government funds to private insurers.

Obama's signature bill, the ACA, was a giant handout to insurance companies in pretty much every way. By trying to force people into buying insurance and also subsidizing insurance purchases, it was a major gift to health insurers. Even the Medicaid expansion mostly resulted in private insurers getting more wealthy as most states implement Medicaid via a private insurance contractor. After the first midterm Obama got very little done mainly due to the republican's continuing the Newt Gingrich "we oppose everything you support" strategy and the filibuster.

Biden was mostly business as usual, however both the infrastructure bill and the chips act can't be seen as anything other than just massive giveaways to private industry. The build back better act would have been the same had it passed.
by slmslm22 | 2026-01-12 16:11:00+00:00
Code review tools are for engineers in the PR workflow. Gitmore is for people who never open GitHub, founders reporting to investors, PMs writing changelogs, stakeholders who want visibility without learning Git. If everyone on your team can read GitHub, you're right slim value. If you're constantly translating Git activity for non-technical people, that's the use case.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-12 16:11:10+00:00
I say this without hyperbole: we are (IMHO) on the verge of total systemic collapse.

We've had 50+ years of deteriotating worker conditions and a massive concentration of wealth to like 10,000 people. The 1980s crushed the labor movement, to all of our detriment.

The GFC destroyed the career prospects of many millenials who discovered their entry-level positions no longer existed so we created a generation that we're loaded with student debt, working as baristas.

A lot of people on HN ignored this because the 2010s were good for tech people but many of us didn't realize this post-GFC wave would eventually come for us. And that's what's happening now.

So on top of the millenaisl we now have Gen Z who have correctly realized they'll never have security, never buy a house and will never retire. They'll live paycheck to paycheck, barely surviving until they die. Why? All so Jeff Bezos can have $205 billion instead of $200 billion.

I'm reminded of the quote "only nine meals separates mankind from anarchy".

I believe we've passed the point where we can solve this problem with electoral politics. Western democracies are being overtaken by fascists because of increasing desperation and the total destruction of any kind of leftism since WW2. At this point, it ends violently and sooner than many think.
by solomonb | 2026-01-12 16:11:15+00:00
I write Haskell professionally and I can tell you that Opus 4.5 can do a great writing industrial Haskell code consistent with an existing code base.

I don't think it is capable of writing galaxy brain Haskell libraries, it absolutely missed the forest for the trees, but if you have an existing code base with consistent patterns it can emulate then it can do a surprisingly good job.

Here is an example side project I have done extremely heavily with Claude:
https://github.com/solomon-b/kpbj.fm

I built a library (without Claude) that wraps in an opinionated way Servant and a handful of other common libraries used to build Haskell web-apps and then have let Claude use that to build this site. There is absolutely some hairy code and I have done a ton of manual refactors on what Claude produces, but claude has been highly effective for me here.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-12 16:11:23+00:00
I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. I wonder if the Democrats didn't delay prosecution until late 2023/early 2024 in order to have it be a headwind against Trump running again.

If so, they have been well-paid for that bit of "strategy". Trump was able to delay the cases long enough that the election came first, and now he has immunity at least while in office.
by ben_w | 2026-01-12 16:12:23+00:00
The AI's benefits should be irrefutable, but this isn't as simple as "at least x10 better than human drivers", or any fixed factor, it's that whatever mistakes they do make, if you show the video of a crash to the general public, the public generally agrees they'd have also crashed under those conditions.

Right now… Tesla likes to show off stats that suggest accidents go down while their software is active, but then we see videos like this, and go "no sane human would ever do this", and it does not make people feel comfortable with the tech: https://electrek.co/2025/05/23/tesla-full-self-driving-veers...

Every single way the human vision system fails, if an AI also makes that mistake, it won't get blamed for it. If it solves every single one of those perception errors we're vulnerable to (what colour is that dress, is that a duck or a rabbit, is that an old woman close up facing us or a young woman from a distance looking away from us, etc.) but also brings in a few new failure modes we don't have, it won't get trusted.
by lunar_rover | 2026-01-12 16:12:32+00:00
You need tons of effort, plenty of experience in the field and a single unified direction to get them done well, and unfortunately the Linus Torvalds of Design currently does not exist.

Many underestimate just how much is behind everyday basic UIs.

Even the biggest native Linux desktop projects suffer from this. KDE is typical death by a thousand papercuts, GNOME tried but their amateurism is clearly visible.
by vasco | 2026-01-12 16:12:33+00:00
> That means 10-20% excess per person. If everyone started eating the right amount overnight, grocery spend would drop 10-20%

I doubt that $ spend on the top end of caloric intake scales linearly with # of calories because of high caloric density foods.

If I spend $500 a month on groceries, lets say I need $400 to keep me alive and hygienic and the last $100 are going to be the candy and sodas that make me fat. So to give an example, reducing the caloric intake by 50% could be achieved by reducing spend by only 5% if there's very caloric foods making me fat.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-12 16:12:36+00:00
This story is misleading and the author possibly having a case of AI Psychosis.

Most importantly, in the article there is no mention that Ontario Digital Service evaluated any LLM systems. The article only gives an unrelated anecdote about COVID, but there is zero mention of LLMS related to ODS. OP mentioned it in a comment in the thread but not in the article. This is extremely strange.

It also seems that ODS was disbanded in early 2024, giving a very short window where they could have possibly evaluated AI tools. Even so, AI has progressed insanely since then.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OntarioPublicService/comments/1boev...
https://thinkdigital.ca/podcast/the-end-of-the-ontario-digit...

The github repo that OP posted seems to be complete nonsense and that's why I feel that this is another case where AI has convinced someone they have made a breakthrough even though there is nothing coherent there.
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-12 16:12:51+00:00
Having a hard time imagining an article i disagree with more honestly lol.

And i think the cause and effect is all backward for Guatemala: the CIA wanted to overthrow the country, so they invited sympathetic journalists on a staged journey. That's a very, very far cry from the experience of a typical tourist, and i think i could make a pretty compelling case that journalists who've never been to {Iraq, Venezuela, Guatemala, Palestine, et. al.} are far MORE likely to write completely out of line imperialist propaganda than the ones who have.
by neutronicus | 2026-01-12 16:12:53+00:00
My experience, in my mid 30s, has been that I slim down pretty damn quick when I'm able to run 10k 3-4 times a week. Unfortunately, due to my knees and my childcare responsibilities that's "not anymore". More generally, anytime I've trained for performance at anything other than pure powerlifting (climbing, kickboxing, cycling), my experience has been that my weight more or less falls in line.

It's not like I live off McDonald's or anything. But I'll be overweight, change only my exercise habits, and notice big changes in body comp on the timescale of a couple months.

So clearly I'm out-exercising my evidently-bad diet.

IDK. Maybe it's different with this kind of functional exercise vs 30 minutes on the elliptical or whatever.
by amluto | 2026-01-12 16:12:54+00:00
I think you are confusing a logical network with a network namespace. A logical network is a construct of Docker or CNI or Netavark or whatever that acts kind of like a LAN. A network namespace is a collection of processes that the kernel treats as being one logical machine for networking purposes.

When you make a docker network that is attached three containers with hostnames a, b, and c, then those hostnames logically belong to the “network” (and your container engine may put considerable effort into making it possible for them to resolve each other and communicate), but there is one network namespace each for a, b, and c, for three total.

In Podman, but apparently not Docker, you can do --network container:foo to join another container’s netns. I assume that the reason that Podman and containerd support this low-level feature is that they both support some form of pod.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-12 16:13:16+00:00
It is a clear mandate on those companies that whatever used to be C or C++, should be written in Rust for green field development.

Whatever could be done in programming languages with automatic memory management was already being done.

Anyone deploying serverless code into Amazon instances is running of top of Firecracker, my phone has Rust code running on it, and whatever Windows 11 draws something into the screen, it goes through Rust rewrite of the GDI regions logic, all the Azure networking traffic going through Azure Boost cards does so via Rust firmware.

Adobe is the sponsor for the Hylo programming language, and key figures in the C++ community, are doing Rust talks nowadays.

"Adobe’s memory safety roadmap: Securing creativity by design"

https://blog.adobe.com/security/adobes-memory-safety-roadmap...

Any hobby language author would like to have 1% of the said modest Rust's success, I really don't get the continuous downplay of such achievement.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-12 16:13:28+00:00
The writing was on the wall the moment Apple stopped trying to buy their way into the server-side training game like what three years ago?

Apple has the best edge inference silicon in the world (neural engine), but they have effectively zero presence in a training datacenter. They simply do not have the TPU pods or the H100 clusters to train a frontier model like Gemini 2.5 or 3.0 from scratch without burning 10 years of cash flow.

To me, this deal is about the bill of materials for intelligence. Apple admitted that the cost of training SOTA models is a capex heavy-lift they don't want to own. Seems like they are pivoting to becoming the premium "last mile" delivery network for someone else's intelligence. Am I missing the elephant in the room?

It's a smart move. Let Google burn the gigawatts training the trillion parameter model. Apple will just optimize the quantization and run the distilled version on the private cloud compute nodes. I'm oversimplifying but this effectively turns the iPhone into a dumb terminal for Google's brain, wrapped in Apple's privacy theater.
by akagr | 2026-01-12 16:13:34+00:00
My Sony TV has android and is fairly responsive. Maybe a second lag, but definitely not 10-20 secs. I do need to give it time to “warm up” when I start it, though. I use it so rarely it’s generally turned off from wall outlet.

I still prefer Apple TV for various reasons, though, responsiveness being one of them.
by Hovertruck | 2026-01-12 16:13:45+00:00
My three year old would do the same thing if he was playing in his sandbox and I abruptly picked him up and carried him away from what he was doing though. In my experience managing transitions between activities is one of the most important things. If I let my him watch a video and I tell him "I'm going to turn off the TV when it ends", he just goes back to playing with his toys when it goes off.

Don't get me wrong, I think screen time can definitely be a problem. I just think it mostly comes down to whether or not the screen time is at the expense of something else more constructive.
by codelikeawolf | 2026-01-12 16:13:49+00:00
Ah, my bad. I apologize if I came off as too aggressive. I know these comment threads can get heated.

As far as the comp/transpiling thing, I was referring to something like ScalaJS, ClojureScript, Kotlin/JS, etc. I'll admit that the JS output isn't always pretty, but it's still JS. I think that compiling to a Wasm module is different than transpiling, because Wasm is more of a black box.

I think it's fine to ship a `.wasm` file that does some kind of computation and complements the app. But I think shipping a `.wasm` file that builds your UI is like using a drill to install a nail: technically, you could do it, but it's harder, slower, and you'll probably end up damaging something or hurting yourself.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-12 16:14:01+00:00
My grandmother figured it out enough to make sure her favorite soap was always taped. It was a "set it up once and mostly forget it" thing, with the real hard part forcing grandkids to stop using the TV during the hour it taped to avoid accidentally taping the wrong channel. (VCRs at the time had their own tuner for OTA and that shouldn't happen, but her stories were important enough to her she didn't want to risk it, and had risked it in a brief period of having a cable box passed through the VCR.)