MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2026-01-07 22:57:30+00:00
Thanks for that! I guess I don't see how there could be market manipulation without also damaging the manipulator, especially in a market that is as transparent as housing, with nearly every sale being at a public price.

Rental manipulation is much much easier, and probably more prevalent. But unfortunately the price-gouging lawsuits from using software to share pricing information have been settled with the landlords paying peanuts.
by tzs | 2026-01-07 22:57:39+00:00
Most home routers also have some addresses that are outside the range managed by DHCP, or if DHCP is set to manage the entire range of LAN address have a setting where you can reduce that range. This gives you a third way to manage static assignments.

Let's assume the LAN is 10.0.0/24, so addresses of devices on the LAN are 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.254. In the following I'll omit the 10.0.0. part of an address, so will just refer to addresses 1-254.

Find the range DHCP manages, which should be somewhere in the router settings. If it is 1-254 reduce it. Let's say it is 1-200 (either by default or after you have reduced it).

Then you can simply go the settings on your server or other device that you want to have a static address and configure it to use a hard coded address outside that range, such as 201.

A possible downside of that is that on some devices if you want to give it a hard coded address you also have to hard code the gateway address and the name servers.

Some devices though have an option to use a hard coded address but still get the gateway and name servers from DHCP.

In summary, there are three ways to manage address for a given device on most home routers.

1. DHCP assigns the address. It can choose any address in its pool. Each time the device needs an IP address, such as after a boot or when its lease expires, it could get a different IP address.

2. DHCP assigns the address, but you can tell it to give a specific address from the pool to a given device identified by the device's MAC address.

3. Tell the device to use an address outside the router's DHCP pool. It's up to you to decide how to assign these address and how to make sure no conflicts arise.

For #2 if you want some device to have a fixed IP address but you don't actually care what that address is, many routers have an easy way to do that. Connect the device under #1, so DHCP picks the address.

Then go find the table in the router's web interface that shows all currently connected devices and find your device. Many routers will have a toggle in there to tell it to switch to #2 for that device. From then on the device's current address will be reserved for it.

That's a little easier than going through their "assign an IP" dialog, because that usually makes you enter the MAC address. If you go through the connection table details it doesn't have to ask you for the MAC address.
by apical_dendrite | 2026-01-07 22:57:58+00:00
NBC News reports that this was contrary to the officer's training and DHS' own policies.

> ICE officers are trained to never approach a vehicle from the front and instead to approach in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent injury or cross-fire, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News.
> Officers are also instructed not to shoot at a moving vehicle and only to use force if there is an immediate risk of serious injury or death, the official said.
> ICE officers are also instructed that firing at a vehicle will not make it stop moving in the direction of the officer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/minnesota-ice...
by floitsch | 2026-01-07 22:58:00+00:00
You are absolutely right, and a follow-up CL fixed the non-Zba code path. At the time of writing of the blog post, the generated code was however still using the 4 instructions instead of just two.

V8 is a huge project and ports almost have to start from backends of existing architectures. Over time we (I recently worked on the RISC-V port) improve the situation.

Note that it's also crucial to stay somehow similar to the x86 and ARM backends as the V8 team frequently makes changes to these and keeping up with them would be a nightmare if the RISC-V backend was too different.

"Does no one at Google know RISC-V"
This work wasn't done by Google. Also, you don't hire RISC-V experts, but V8 experts (or other similar VMs) for such a port. I, for example, had never worked with RISC-V before. As such, it can happen that some code of the RISC-V backend is written by engineers that aren't yet experts in RISC-V.
by schwarzrules | 2026-01-07 22:58:09+00:00
I understand all the chatter about LLMs hallucinating, or making assumptions, or not being able to understand or provide the more human/emotional element of health care.

But the question I ask myself is: is this better than the alternative? if I wasn't asking ChatGPT, where would I go to get help?

The answers I can anticipate are: questionably trustworthy web content; an overconfident friend who may have read questionably trustworthy web content; my mom who is referencing health recommendations from 1972. And as best I can imagine, LLMs are going to likely to provide health advice that's as good but likely better than any of those alternatives.

With that said, I acknowledge that people are likely more inclined to trust ChatGPT more like a licensed medical provider, at which point the comparison may become somewhat more murky, especially with higher severity health concerns.
by angoragoats | 2026-01-07 22:58:17+00:00
> I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay area because of the importance of working in an office to reduce communication hurdles.

This is toxic behavior by these companies, and is not backed by any empirical data that I’ve ever seen. It should be shunned and called out.

As far as the remainder of your post, I think you’ve uncovered solid evidence that the abilities of LLMs to code on their own, without human planning, architecting, and constant correction, is significantly oversold by most of the companies pushing the tech.
by jonplackett | 2026-01-07 22:58:20+00:00
Diet advice is always way too complex.

For most people ‘stop drinking sugary drinks ever’ would probably make the biggest life change.

And ‘the athletes plate’ would be the runner up bit of advice if you want something simple - half th plate veggies, 1/4 complex carbs, 1/4 unprocessed meat.

If you want to do it with complexity, count your macros.
by com2kid | 2026-01-07 22:58:36+00:00
This is very true, and something that people pushing keto (myself included) had to learn the hard way.

There are satiety indexes for different foods but they are not universal. I can eat almost unlimited carbs and never feel full. I'll eat multiple plates full of bread or a thousand calories in french fries and then move on to the main course.

6oz of lean meat and some salad and I'm good with 500 or so calories on my plate.

I honestly don't get how potatoes supposedly fill people up. I have made twice baked potatoes before and eaten an easy 2000 calories of them along side thanksgiving dinner.

In contrast right now I'm eating clean and doing a body recomp. Eating clean is super satiating, for me at least!
by TulliusCicero | 2026-01-07 22:58:40+00:00
I think it's possible to make apartment/condo living more attractive in the US, but you'd need a few changes. For example:

* American apartment complexes are typically ugly as hell. They're little building islands in a sea of asphalt, disconnected from the wider street grid too. They'd be more attractive if they were more like the complexes I saw while living in Munich: more green up front, car parking basically all underground.

* Require substantial backyards/courtyards for said complexes.

* More tenant protections that prevent landlords from arbitrarily non-renewing a lease, so that people in apartments can have stability. If you break the rules repeatedly or severely, then sure, landlords should be able to remove you, but otherwise you should be left alone.

While in Munich, we lived in the Solln neighborhood. It's mostly apartments of some kind (we lived in an apartment, and then a backyard duplex), but they just look a lot less ugly than they typically do in the US. Example area: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Munich,+Germany/@48.081098...
by orangecat | 2026-01-07 22:58:45+00:00
This would make the situation slightly better for people who want to buy houses.

To the extent that it has the effect of transferring some properties from rentals to sales, it's only better for the renter who wants to buy and who just barely wasn't able to. It's worse for renters who either don't want to buy or who still can't afford it, because rents will increase due to reduced supply.
by pksebben | 2026-01-07 22:59:03+00:00
(forgive me if I don my aluminum chapeau going forward)

> Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are.

So in '08 we saw the veil drop on the mortgage folks. For a brief moment the sort of advantage they were taking of individual homeowners (I'm including landlords here) was plain for all to see, because the systems they had built to extract that value had been pushed too far and started to break.

The really clever/evil/nasty thing that happened next was that they all said "we're sowwy" and pretended to close up shop on the Mortgage Backed Securities markets, while sowing the seeds for a resurgence in mortgage lending by having Fannie run REO-to-Rental programs that sold foreclosed homes in bulk to investors. It would have been too obvious in the numbers if large institutional investors had bought those directly, so they let mom and pop go into business as landlords, effectively buying obfuscation of the stream of finances for the cost of whatever margins they had to take a hit on to allow for low interest rates to pump housing prices up to a place where, like in 07, they could go back to fucking around with mortages.

In less word salady terms, the plan looked like so:

- "oh fuck we pushed it too far and here come the torches and pitchforks"

- Stop making money on mortgages, but we're investment banks as well as mortgage lenders, so we can make up for the loss of mortgage money by buying a more significant fraction of the housing market at near-zero interest rates

- Wait for low interest rates to pump housing prices over time

- Okay cool, people have forgotten about the whole 08 thing and we've peeled back all the subsequent regulation so we can go back to making our money bundling risky ass mortgage securities again <--- we are here>

The essence of the problem as I see it is that finance has gotten so byzantine and complicated that the only people who understand it in real time are the people who are actively trying to manipulate it to maximize their profits, and by the time it becomes clear what dirty tricks they're pulling they've moved on to the next grift so it looks like they're innocent.
by StackRanker3000 | 2026-01-07 22:59:06+00:00
The way I understand it (and my understanding is certainly poor, so I welcome well-supported pushback on it), is that few, if any, components in the food that we in developed countries eat today are actively harmful in themselves (with the caveat outlined below)

The main issue is overconsumption leading to overweight and obesity. Food that’s high in refined sugars and/or saturated fats tend to contribute to this, because it’s palatable and calorie-dense

So in that sense, yes - I believe that as long as your diet is varied enough that you get sufficient intake of all, or at least most, of the essential nutrients, and you don’t eat too much (i.e. in moderation), the ratio of macronutrients doesn’t make a big difference to your health outcome

The crux is that moderation is hard when the food is jam-packed with calories, and it’s so delicious you just want to keep stuffing your face
by drdeca | 2026-01-07 22:59:26+00:00
If a definition can be changed in a way that makes it both simpler and removes an edge case, I think that is often (but not always) a sign that the change may be a good one.

(Though, that doesn’t imply that the best available definition won’t have any edge cases like this.)

I think it works better to define whether or not something is advertising based on, rather than whether the viewer wants to see it, instead by whether those putting the media where it is intend for viewing it to be (as far as they can make it) a requirement for something else.

Though, I’m not sure that even that should be considered a requirement.
It seems to me like the things businesses paid money to get put on the million dollar website, should count as “ads”. I don’t see why we should define “ads” to refer exclusively to objectionable ads.
by gmueckl | 2026-01-07 22:59:41+00:00
So you agree that font rendering had to be extended to support color modifiers as specified in Unicode? That is the kind of completely creep that I am pointing out.

A bunch of control codes are historically part of character encodings, and their encoding is very consistent within codepages of the same family (ASCII/ANSI and EBCDIC). You don't have to have any awareness about the active codepage/language to handle them correctly.

Terminal escape sequences are a poor form of in-band signaling between devices (now virtualized), not text. I comsider that out of scope.

Anyway, as we get into the weeds here, I do not want to dispute the enormous practical utility of Unicode and I am glad that it exists and covers so many of the world's writing systems and alphabets. It is one of the central standards that connects people today. But from the purely technical perspective, the steady complexity creep is undeniable and brings somewhat hidden costs to software systems.
by toss1 | 2026-01-07 22:59:59+00:00
Ummm, not really, No.

The shorthand "gsm" is a completely standard alternative in some industries.

I work in advanced composites. Different weights and weaves of technical fabrics such as carbon fiber, kevlar, fiberglass, etc. are always specified in "gsm". For example, some common fabrics would be a "Carbon Fiber 3K 200gsm Twill" or a "High Modulus 12K 380gsm Carbon Fiber Plain Weave". (the "3K" and "12K" refer to the number of carbon fiber strands in each yarn in the weave, and the "Twill" and "Plain Weave" refer to the pattern in which the yarns are woven into a fabric.)

I'm sure "gsm" came to be commonly used instead of the more scientific "g/m²" or "g/m^2" because no one is doing that kind of math about the materials, and it is a lot easier to type "gsm" vs either of the other two which require at least a Shift for the caret or getting out the superscript font attribute.
by BenFranklin100 | 2026-01-07 23:00:57+00:00
Supply and demand sets prices.

The gobbledygook you posted, “ properties get leveraged, instrumentalized, and securitized, with derivative products, speculation, and all sorts of incentives that you don't normally want operating in the arena of housing”, is just that, gobbledygook. Just because a buyer as Inc. behind its name doesn’t give it magical powers to set market prices.
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-07 23:01:05+00:00
>The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products

Wall that's the problem, and it's tractable problem. Seems like tailwind needs a sales strategy beyond hoping people read the docs. And that it gives rise to a perverse incentive--making a less intuitive product to drive the need for documentation--is bound to affect the product.

If LLMs are really the problem, and it seems possible that they are, then you might need to lean in. Maybe selling access to mcps and skills. I'd still bet on hiring someone to chase down some contracts is going to be the easiest way out of the hole though.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-07 23:01:16+00:00
This should be the top comment IMO. Land Value Tax, coupled with much saner zoning laws and removing artificial restrictions on safe building proposals, would be the 1-2-3 move to resolving many of the worst aspects of the housing issues we face, as well as resolve many of the worst aspects of owning a home, IE having to defer proper maintenance simply to avoid a big tax adjustment
by Plasmoid | 2026-01-07 23:01:27+00:00
Let's expand on this.

People assume that renting out property is rent-seeking literally only because they both have the word rent in them.

I would note that people don't use the word rent-seeker (or parasite) when it comes to banks renting out money. I assume this is partly because banks use the word `loan` and partly because referring to bankers as parasites would be a little too close to dog-whistle antisemitism.
by svieira | 2026-01-07 23:01:31+00:00
So when you build a sewage farm on your back 40 you should get wealthier (while your neighbors thank you because their land tax went down), but if someone snaps a photo of your area that goes viral on {THE PLATFORM DU JOUR} thus making your county more popular and driving up a bidding war for postage stamp sized lots of land (leading to the land being valued at a higher rate than it was a year before) you suddenly have a massive tax bill because "we noticed you are living in a popular county" and the benefits of living in a popular place should be taxed away? Or do we need some kind of a standard for "more valuable" that deals only with tangible things? And if so, which tangibles?
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-07 23:01:52+00:00
> Unless you know a guy, in which case it's all open doors and green lights because that's how local politics always is.

LOL, in my city, which is the capital city of our state, the city planning committee and property developers are all friends. By which I don't mean "having a drink at a community event", I mean openly posting on social media about their families going on vacation together, "Loved our family spending the week at this airbnb with the X family! So many good times and memories!"
by aboodman | 2026-01-07 23:01:55+00:00
But that is a kind of silly way to compare. Broccoli isn't very filling _and_ it doesn't have very much protein in it. That doesn't change the fact that it lack protein.

The question is if I'm preparing a meal that I want to be filling, healthy, and energizing, how should I do it. Broccoli isn't a good answer to the protein part of that question.
by OhSoHumble | 2026-01-07 23:02:00+00:00
I have something similar that I built a long while ago. It's a large Do Not Disturb sign. There is a raspberry pi mini that controls power going to it. There is a corresponding daemon running on a PC that checks Discord call status. In call? Power to sign. Not in call? No power to sign. The client/server daemons are in Golang and communicate over RPC.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-07 23:02:00+00:00
I'm simply observing the trajectories we're on due to climate change, input costs, and the aging out of beef cattle ranchers (in this context, projected beef supply, cost, and downstream consumption patterns from those inputs). We simply have to do nothing as the economics shrinks beef herds over time, pushing prices up. Think consumption death spiral as the the affordability of beef dwindles.

Beef ranchers are uncertain of the future, so they are sending more heads to slaughter, capitalizing on very favorable prices, versus expanding their herds for the future. What does this do to future herd sizes and therefore supply and cost to the consumer? Add the gestational period of cattle to that mental model. When these processing plants close, how long will it take to build new ones or start mothballed ones back up if herd sizes increase years from now? Will you be able to find communities who will accept these plants again? Where will you find the workers?

More US Beef Plants May Close as Cattle Herds Keep Shrinking - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/more-us-b... | https://archive.today/vccTl - December 19th, 2025

What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362052 - December 2025 ("Tyson says it’s closing the plant [Lexington, Nebraska] to “right-size” its beef business after a historically low cattle herd in the U.S. and the company’s expected loss of $600 million on beef production next fiscal year."

Beef prices have soared in the US — and not just during grilling season - https://apnews.com/article/beef-prices-record-high-cattle-st... - July 21st, 2025

Droughts, complicated by climate change, result in US beef herd hitting historic low - https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/03/13/droughts-complicat... - March 13th, 2024

U.S. Cattle Inventory Smallest in 73 years - https://www.fb.org/market-intel/u-s-cattle-inventory-smalles... - February 5th, 2024

(think in systems)
by mickle00 | 2026-01-07 23:02:15+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/comments/1q6to5j/...

HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE agents today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics presentExtensively reported
by rayiner | 2026-01-07 23:02:16+00:00
Correct. More specifically, your upper middle class neighbors whose incomes have grown far more than middle earners over the past few decades: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/03/cb...

The people responsible for the cost crunch middle class people feel isn’t billionaires. Bezos isn’t using his money to buy up houses or daycare spots in your neighborhood or Disney Word tickets. It’s upper quantile white collar workers. They are competing with the middle class for the same goods and services, but make much more money relatively than they did in past decades.
by austhrow743 | 2026-01-07 23:02:50+00:00
>It will make very little difference in the end.

It will make very little difference if Wall Street investors hold very little property.

Putting a finger on the scale of how much real estate is individually owned definitely makes a difference though. It makes it worse.

100,000 individuals who own 100,000 properties have far more political power than 10 companies who own 100,000 properties.

>If you want housing to be cheaper and renters to be better treated, increase supply. Everything else is window-dressing.

Yes. However supply is artificially restricted by government, to the approval of the average property owning voter. So more specifically, that is what needs to be changed. Everything else is window-dressing.

This is a country sliding further towards being us, with their housing being more restricted and more expensive.
by com2kid | 2026-01-07 23:02:59+00:00
I started tracking everything I ate, every single bite.

The average western diet may over consume meat, but I have to work my butt off to hit my protein goals for strength training.

A slice of bacon has 3g of protein. 150 calories though. Eating enough protein through bacon isn't the best of ideas, even if someone is doing a ketogenic diet!

60-80g of protein is about right for a man who has a moderately physical job or who exercises some small amount. 100g is the minimum for putting on muscle and getting stronger.

The average western diet over consumes everything, it could do with less sugar, less processed foods (which are hyper palatable and don't satiate hunger), and more pure protein.
by blacklion | 2026-01-07 23:03:15+00:00
Windows officialy removed support for WebDAV. It still works, but nothing is guaranteed. It has stupid limitation on file size of 10MB, it can be lifted to 2GB (max signed 32 bit number) in Registry, but it is still not very much in modern world (I wanted to share my medial library via WebDAV and failed due to this limitation). It lose credentials on regular basis, errors are too vague («Wrong credentials» means both mistyped password AND expired server certificate), etc.