MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-08 00:22:27+00:00
Or maybe just stop telling people what cases are "legitimate" reasons to protect themselves and what cases aren't.

I know multiple people who have gotten death threats because of technical comments they made online, or just for having the temerity to exist as a member of a minority group. Not the vague "I'm going to kill you" kind, the "here's a picture of your front door on Google Street View, and an unsolicited pizza, I could SWAT you at any arbitrary 3am, have fun being afraid" type.
by chrislqta | 2026-01-08 00:22:30+00:00
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by ShakataGaNai | 2026-01-08 00:23:10+00:00
Unfortunately I don't think that's a good solution. Memories are an excellent feature and you see them on.... most similar services now.

Yes, projects have their uses. But as an example - I do python across many projects and non-projects alike. I don't want to want to need to tell ChatGPT exactly how I like my python each and everytime, or with each project. If it was just one or two items like that, fine, I can update its custom instruction personalization. But there are tons of nuances.

The system knowing who I am, what I do for work, what I like, what I don't like, what I'm working on, what I'm interested in... makes it vastly more useful. When I randomly ask ChatGPT "Hey, could I automate this sprinkler" it knows I use home assistant, I've done XYZ projects, I prefer python, I like DIY projects to a certain extent but am willing to buy in which case be prosumer. Etc. Etc. It's more like a real human assistant, than a dumb-bot.
by myk9001 | 2026-01-08 00:23:14+00:00
> My feeling are hurt by this

Well, my feelings are hurt by seeing so many talented engineers getting compensated so badly.

How come that for all the signing and dancing about worker rights protections when push comes to shove it's US companies EU offices that are ready to pay their employees fairly? What kind of hypocrisy from EU companies is that?

If you think EU companies just cannot afford to pay that much, just compare what Siemens pays to the same level SWE in EU and US. (Have no relation to Siemens whatsoever, just an example).
by jsheard | 2026-01-08 00:23:19+00:00
Browsers have clamped down on that somewhat by enforcing stricter referrer policies by default if the originating server doesn't specify one. It used to be a total free for all where everyone could always see the full referring URL, then it was changed to completely blank the referrer on secure-to-insecure transitions, then it was changed again to also blank the path on cross-origin transitions so only the referring origin is revealed.
by Aerbil313 | 2026-01-08 00:23:20+00:00
Hey, the author, if you are reading this, I was stuck in the bog too. But in my case it was neurological rather than psychological. Turns out the "insufficient activation energy" you mention is an ADHD symptom. Meds worked total wonders for me, so much I like to say I was reborn the day I started my treatment.

I still find your post very valuable and insightful in addressing the psychological bog.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-08 00:23:35+00:00
I watch movies and tv shows where fictional people die all the time, and I don't have a problem with it. But I make it a point not to watch videos of real people or animals dying. The difference (to me) is that I can sleep happily knowing that the actors in the films went home to their families after filming, but the people in real life didn't. It's much more profound to know that a real human lost their life, and I don't want to lessen the gravitas of these situations by watching it as casually as I watch fictional characters die.
by redhale | 2026-01-08 00:24:03+00:00
I get your point, but I'll just say that I did not intend my comment to be interpreted so literally.

Also, just because SOMEONE planted a flag in 2023 saying that an LLM could build an app certainly does NOT mean that "people were not claiming that LLMs "can't write a full feature"". People in this very thread are still claiming LLMs can't write features. Opinions vary.
by lawrencechen | 2026-01-08 00:24:16+00:00
They were perfectly positioned to build a Lovable/Bolt/Replit back in the day... might not be too late now either.

They could sell training data too. Though, UIs are relatively solved. But great UIs and criticizing UIs aren't.

Learned a lot from Refactoring UI, and I know (from trying) that it's impossible to make a code review bot based on out of the box sota models today. Vision capabilities are lacking here, and I can see demand for more data here. And Adam's taste likely fits well here.
by ranger_danger | 2026-01-08 00:24:18+00:00
> NTFS is the closest you can get

Disagree, exFAT has been r/w on all 3 OSes for many years now, and it also supports files >4GB.

We shipped an appliance about 15 years ago and it had a requirement that it must be able to write large video files to USB thumb drives in a format that was read/writable from all 3 OSes, we chose exFAT and never had any complaints.
by db48x | 2026-01-08 00:24:23+00:00
I suspect that they do not actually contain the encryption key. It is more convenient if the disk encryption key is stored on the disk, but separately encrypted. You actually want to store the key multiple times, one for each unlock method. If the disk can be unlocked with a password, then you store the key encrypted using the password (or encrypted using the output of a key derivation function run on the typed password). If it can be unlocked with a smartcard, then you store a copy that is encrypted using a key stored in the card. When Bitlocker uses the TPM, it no doubt asks the TPM to encrypt the key and then stores that on the disk. To decrypt the disk it can ask the TPM to decrypt the stored key, which will only succeed if the TPM is in the same state that it was in when the key was encrypted.

The reason it's done this way is to allow multiple methods of accessing the disk, to allow the encryption password to be changed without having to rewrite every single sector of the disk, etc, etc. You can even “erase” the disk in one swift operation by simply erasing all copies of the key.
by snuxoll | 2026-01-08 00:25:24+00:00
It is used for tracking, that's the whole point of the header. "Who's sending me all of this traffic" is a useful, non-invasive thing for websites to have access to. You can use rel="noreferrer" on a link to disable the header on a specific link, as well as the `Referrer-Policy` header and `<meta name="referrer" />` to have some additional control (the 'origin-when-cross-origin' value can be useful in some cases, so destination sites can attribute what origin traffic came from, but not the specific page, while still being able to track it on your own origin - I think this is actually the default behavior in browsers these days).
by tombert | 2026-01-08 00:25:33+00:00
If the symptoms are severe enough, sure.

For better worse, even before the advent of LLMs, people were simply Googling whatever their symptoms were and finding a WebMD or MayoClinic page. Well, if they were lucky. If they weren't lucky, they would find some idiotic blog post by someone who claimed that they cured their sleep apnea by drinking cabbage juice.
by jpollock | 2026-01-08 00:25:38+00:00
Speaking as someone who just sold a house in the Bay Area (Dec!), house prices here are very much "buying the payment".

The valuation of the property goes up and down directly with the interest rate.

The ROI of the house (we bought in 2016) was ~8% on the down payment over the past 10 years, excluding maintenance and interest charges. As an investment, property is not a very good one.

To get that 8% on the down payment, I spent 4% on the remainder. It really doesn't net positive after the mortgage interest (with a 20% down payment). It's about "forced savings" and having control over your environment.

As an aside, since people are stuck in houses (mortgage rates and prop-13), there is a definite lack of starter homes. Everyone adds the second bathroom, meaning there aren't any single bathroom homes to be found. That increases the market floor.
by amluto | 2026-01-08 00:25:59+00:00
> So, if I'm using physical buttons, how do I set the temperature to 24° (75° for US-folks) without looking away from the road?

You don’t. Instead you observe it’s a bit too warm and press the down button once or twice. Source: I used to do this regularly when I owned a car with excellent buttons.

> Or set the radio to 106.9MHz?

By pressing preset 6 by feel. Or by glancing for 1/4 second to find preset 6 (which is a clearly labeled button that never moves) and pressing it.

> Or the cruise control to 88km/h (55mph)?

By driving 55mph and pressing the stalk in the appropriate direction?

This stuff was all worked out very nicely in the late 1980s by UX experts who put very serious effort into making cars with an excellent user experience.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-08 00:26:46+00:00
Renting should be viewed is a negative in society. Imagine if car dealerships moved to a rental model instead of ownership..oh wait, they sort of already are, they just call it "financing", they make no money from cash buys because of that economic perversion.

Rent income is not wages, that's the critical part you're mistaken. Income and wages are not the same thing. Rent income is as much wages as Elon Musk selling stocks is to him, or a bank making income on interest payments. Renting is a business, it's income is business revenue, not wages.

There is this terrible view that landlords are "just like you and me, hard working regular people" - not that it's false, but so are the people that own mom & pops shops, or a local subway franchise, they're all business owners making business profits, not wages.

Business practices that harm the public should be regulated and curtailed. With taxis for example, the medallion system was used to limit the number of Taxis in operation. Similarly, not only should an individual be limited to (directly or via an ownership/shareholder interest in a company -- even with them or their family) a reasonable number of properties, but the number of rental properties in an area should itself be limited. Property owners can either sell houses, or sell condos and make income via condo (regulated) condo fees.

Food, shelter, health-care/medicine should be heavily regulated, if private parties take part as intermediaries between individuals and their food, shelter, health-care, they should expect lots of red-tape and limits. Ideally, the government itself would be driving these markets directly by building and selling properties, hospitals, pharmacies, grocery stores, etc.. that's not socialism or communism. That's just common-sense capitalism, everyone, especially the richest make more money this way. not only that their money will spend better this way.

The kind of capitalism we have now is a short-sighted parasitical money-grab. The kind where if fully realized, you'll build your own mansions and sky scrapers but you'd be complaining about the slums and crime nearby, how you can't get good help, skilled labor, and spend a ton of money on bribes instead of paying a fraction of that in taxes.

In theory, reaganism and trickle-down economics could have worked. A rising tide does indeed lift all boats. But in reality, it's more of the "scorpion and the frog" story. In this case, landlords can own a reasonable number of decent homes and make decent income, and then diversify the money in other markets. But currently, it's a race to become the biggest slumlord or until the markets collapse again.
by zeryx | 2026-01-08 00:27:33+00:00
Actual access to reliable healthcare is a massive assumption to make, not everyone has incredible health insurance or lives in a country with sufficient doctors/med staff. Most places are in crisis for lack of resources, I'd rather ask chatgpt or Gemini for something urgent rather than wait 5+ hours in ER for the doctor to say "just take some aspirin and go to a walk-in tomorrow"
by Alupis | 2026-01-08 00:28:09+00:00
It's strategic from a military perspective, not economic perspective.

Very little of anything actually goes on in Greenland. It has a population of less than 57,000 and a GDP of less than $5B. The US maintains significant military presence, including airbases, missile launch and intercept capabilities, and ensures the US controls the North Atlantic, instead of Russia.
by Jblx2 | 2026-01-08 00:29:01+00:00
What if I like Euler's number better than pi?

e^4 + 5*e^2 + 16*e + 2*e^0 = 137.03594

That's a lot closer to 137.035999177 than the pi approximation (137.03630)

EDIT

better yet:

3*e^4 - 5*e^3 + 20*e^2 - 28*e + 2*e^0 = 137.035996
5*e^4 - 9*e^3 + 11*e^2 - 9*e - 12*e^0 = 137.035998
2*e^4 + 22*e^3 - 61*e^2 - 6*e + 53*e^0 = 137.03599937
by DannyBee | 2026-01-08 00:29:11+00:00
Thanks - it is truly and greatly appreciated :)

I wonder if this was the LOL[1] days - looking back on it, it's hard to believe how much people outside the org cared about the name, and us trying to not take ourselves too seriously.

[1] For everyone else, at one point we named the org Languages, Optimizations, and Libraries. People either loved or hated it.
by nemo | 2026-01-08 00:29:18+00:00
Out of curiosity, what about calling someone a racist, a fascist, a Nazi, a bigot, etc.? Are those all fine too and better to just put out there so no one is, I guess, disempowered? Should we let everyone throw around racist and hateful slurs casually, and also label people using them with the traditional labels for those who engage in that kind of behavior?
by moralestapia | 2026-01-08 00:29:47+00:00
I find it really really really hard to believe that there exists a person in this planet who:

1. Is transexual but does not tell anybody they are and it is also not blatantly obvious

2. Writes down in a health record they are transexual (instead of whatever sex they are now)

3. Someone doxxes they/them medical records

4. Because of 3, and only because of 3, people find out that said person is transexual

5. And then ... the government decides to persecute they/them

Let's be real, you're really stretching it here. You're talking about a 0.1% of a 0.1% of a 0.1% of a 0.1% of a 0.1% situation here.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-08 00:30:00+00:00
When I replaced a motherboard (rest of the hw was OK) Microsoft was of the opinion I had a 'new computer' and would need to buy a new Windows 10 license (of IIRC 150 EUR → scoundrels). I went to G2A and bought one for 20 EUR. Then it hit me. This occurred before when my previous motherboard/CPU was broken, and back then I actually called Microsoft where they insisted on selling me a new license. I did exactly the same back then.
by jltsiren | 2026-01-08 00:30:03+00:00
I meant that the person writing the contract must be a pedant. Vague everyday language can only lead to bad things, when someone inevitably interprets in a different way.

In this particular case, the bets were clearly about military operations with the intention to take control of Venezuelan territory. This is the established meaning of "invasion", in contexts where people care about distinguishing between different types of military operations. But because people could plausibly interpret the word in a different way, the rules did not use words "invade" or "invasion" at all.
Show HN: I upgraded my open source, zero knowledge, self destructing note app
by gigamick | 2026-01-08 00:30:14+00:00
In 2021 after getting thoroughly sick of Privnote, i built "Burner Note". Even though i didn't promote it in anyway other than a post here and a post on reddit, it ended up getting about 7000(ish) unique users per month.

I kinda let it die about 18 months ago but i've resurrected it with some big upgrades. Most botable the app is now truly end to end encrypted (previously was just server side), and I've added dark mode as well as a few other bells and whistles.

Feedback welcomed.
Show HN: Formal Verification via Spectral Geometry (Lean 4)
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-08 00:30:22+00:00
I know the history of P vs NP claims on Hacker News. I know the skepticism, and usually, it is warranted. Most attempts are 100-page PDFs hidden behind dense, unverified notation.

This is different.
We decided that human-readability was no longer the standard for a claim of this magnitude. Machine-verification is.

We have formally verified the logical inconsistency between the P=NP Hypothesis and Spectral Geometry (specifically the Witten-Helffer-Sjostrand Tunneling Theorem) using Lean 4.

The Logic (Verified in `src/Impossibility.lean`):

1. Complexity: If P=NP, then for any problem, there exists an algorithm (flow) maintaining a Polynomial Spectral Gap (Δ ~ n^-k).
2. Physics: Standard Spectral Geometry (Witten 1982) proves that landscapes with multiple local minima (Multi-Well potentials) enforce an Exponential Spectral Gap (Δ ~ e^-n) due to quantum tunneling effects.
3. The Contradiction: We mapped 3-SAT instances to these multi-well manifolds. The compiler confirms that n^-k <= e^-n is logically impossible for large n.

We are not asking you to check our arithmetic. We are asking you to check the compiler.

The Repo: [Link to your GitHub]
The Formalization Paper: [Link to your Academia.edu PDF]

To Reproduce:
1. git clone [repo_url]
2. lake build
3. Run `test/Verification.lean`

If the build passes, the logic holds.
Roast my axioms.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2026-01-08 00:30:37+00:00
Heh. The shareable map is operated by someone and that someone has information that other people crowdsourced for them for free is even more valuable. If you want a more relatable example, I would like to point to defuct effort ( karma or something.. I can't find the specifics now ), where people were invited to crowdsource all sorts of info on other people. It only got shut down, because it was too on the nose. On the other hand, items like the shareable map like the one you mention is more easily defensible...

<< I get that data brokers and big tech are a much sexier topic, but this breach - like so many of the most pressing threats to our privacy - are mundane shortages of competence and giving-a-shit in the IT activities of boring old organizations.

I posit that both could be true at the same time.
by roger_ | 2026-01-08 00:30:56+00:00
I know what you mean, but the issue the parent comment brought up is real and "bad" chats can contaminate future ones. Before switching off memories, I found I had to censor myself in case I messed up the system memory.

I've found a good balance with the global system prompt (with info about me and general preferences) and project level system prompts. In your example, I would have a "Python" project with the appropriate context. I have others for "health", "home automation", etc.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 00:30:59+00:00
Yeah, I was about to say this.

Even before RFK Jr rubbed his metaphorical nutsack all over our healthcare system, doctors pretty much always told me to eat better. They told me to avoid processed foods, avoid sugar, and focus on fiber and protein.

I don't know why RFK Jr. is getting credit for telling people to eat healthy, especially since some of his recommendations (e.g. telling people to eat french fries if they're fried in beef tallow) are actively bad and will likely lead to people becoming more overweight and less healthy.
by deet | 2026-01-08 00:31:17+00:00
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by serf | 2026-01-08 00:31:29+00:00
OK. Well, the way you wrote this sentence :

> I used to drink protein shakes, but now I am actively against these. Artificial sweeteners provoke insulin release [1] [2] that leads to type-II diabetes.

makes it read , structurally, like the artificial sweetener is the reasoning behind why you're against protein shakes.

Call it what you want , but to an outsider reading in it looks like you're later moving the goal posts from 'artificial sweetener is bad' to 'unnatural diets are bad' later in the dialogue.

What most people would have done , if their opinion was that unnatural diets were bad, would be to say that rather than a specific subset of that unnatural diet (artificial sweetener).

With that explained as such can you see why some might think of it as goal-post moving ? If not, why?
by fluidcruft | 2026-01-08 00:31:46+00:00
You asking how reductions in protections related to processed food (that already allow ultra processed foods) will affect safety when the new advice is to eat "real food" and seems to emphasize items that are pretty easy to confirm visually?

(I mean besides the fact that the FDA came into existence due to things like selling watered down white paint as "milk")
by kiba | 2026-01-08 00:32:12+00:00
Land is taxed but improvements are not. That tax is not passed down because landlords are already charging the highest price they can.

The tax simply redirect the unearned income to the public coffer which are either spent on public investment that further increase land value or redistributed as citizen's dividend.

Meanwhile landlords are free to construct as many buildings as they can without being penalized by higher taxes.

Empty lot, parking lots, and self storage facilities would be penalized because they wouldn't generate enough income to cover taxes on land, leading to more efficient utilization of land, as improvements are no longer penalized.