MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2026-01-29 16:10:32+00:00
Any country where there's no robust free press and legal protections for things like criticizing the government is lying about nearly everything, in the direction where the government feels it is advantageous to lie. If they feel they get a benefit from inflating population, they will inflate population, and it won't be subtle. The WHO and other international organizations are not legitimate sources of information; they take direction from their host countries and report numbers as directed.

If you pick any country and look at proxies that have significant cost associated with them, at relative population levels of verified locations, the population of the world differs pretty radically from the claims most countries put out.

If you don't have independent verification free from censorial pressures and legal repercussions, then you get propaganda. This is human nature, whether it stems from abuse of power or wanting to tell a story that's aspirational or from blatant incompetence or corruption.

Population numbers fall under the "lies, damned lies, and statistics" umbrella.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-29 16:10:36+00:00
We're getting into hypotheticals but i will say in general i much much prefer being around Waymos/Zooxs/etc. than humans when riding a bicycle.

We're impatient emotional creatures. Sometimes when I'm on a bike the bike lane merges onto the road for a stretch, no choice but to take up a lane. I've had people accelerate behind me and screech the tyres, stopping just short of my back wheel in a threatening manner which they then did repeatedly as i ride the short distance in the lane before the bike lane re-opens.

To say "human drivers would notice they are near an elementary school" completely disregards the fuckwits that are out there on the road today. It disregards human nature. We've all seen people do shit like i describe above. It also disregards that every time i see an automated taxi it seems to drive on the cautious side already.

Give me the unemotional, infinite patience, drives very much on the cautious side automatic taxi over humans any day.
by trilogic | 2026-01-29 16:10:40+00:00
There is only one cure/hack for Nihilism or similar...

Go somewhere where you need to work physically you az off to afford daily food. You will be so exhausted eventually that:
1 you will not have any energy left for thoughts.
2 If you have any energy left, you will give it to angriness which will lead to other circumstances which are none related to find the meaning of life.

Ignorance may lead to happiness and friends :)
by countWSS | 2026-01-29 16:10:48+00:00
Quntity of exercise cannot build quality.
Its self-selecting the people who can handle running and injuries
better so they adapt. The rest get injured enough to stop.
II don't think trying to "push it to using 100% of potential" is
worth any long-term health risk, especially with no long-term reward:
so you win X race/competition once and then what?
by rconti | 2026-01-29 16:11:05+00:00
Got it. Yeah, the headlights and sound system on my (2018) 3 are AMAZINGLY good, especially (now) for the age. I drove a 2017 S fairly regularly-- so it's a first year (?) of the refresh, but pretty dated now. The sound system is abysmal (I'm sure it's the low end option) and the car generally feels less cohesive.

The yoke and button turn signals would be a deal breaker for me, but to each their own.
by larrywright | 2026-01-29 16:11:31+00:00
Speaking from personal experience, people react to different SSRIs differently. I took a popular one that had significant side effects without a whole lot of benefit, and so I stopped it and didn't try anything else for 10 years. Then I spoke to a psychiatric nurse practitioner who suggested trying several others until we found something that worked for me. I had (incorrectly) assumed that if you had e.g. sexual side effects from one SSRI, that you'd have them for all. That is not the case.
by pksebben | 2026-01-29 16:12:24+00:00
Steam is fundamentally different in very important ways.

Your phone is general purpose, steam is focused on a narrow band of market

The iOS store adds nothing but cost to the purchasing process, with hilariously terrible discoverability and sorting, steam makes navigating and discoverability breezy and easy

Your phone is arguably not an optional part of your life, whereas nobody ever missed an important call because they weren't on steam

Steam does not take any money from apps or companies for transactions it was not involved in. Here, and in other cases, the costs of doing business with apple extend to people who have no relationship with apple at all
by jcims | 2026-01-29 16:12:27+00:00
I've been building an 'sre agent' with LangGraph for the past couple of weeks and honestly I've been incredibly impressed with the ability for frontier models, when properly equipped with useful tools and context, to quickly diagnose issues and suggest reasonable steps to remediate. Primary tooling for me is access to source code, cicd environment and infrastructure control plane. Some cues in the context to inform basic conventions really helps.

Even when it's not particularly effective, the additional information provided tends to be quite useful.
by mindslight | 2026-01-29 16:12:27+00:00
Exactly. There should be no crowd control, because they shouldn't be interacting with the American public except as fellow citizens. If someone commits a crime against them, they can turn the details over to the local police for enforcement of assault, etc.

At this point after how they've been operating, they shouldn't even be allowed to carry weapons. No guns, no grenades, no pepper spray, no masks to escape accountability. These are supposed to be public servants, they should be accountable to the public. If someone they're trying to apprehend reacts violently then they can escalate the situation to the local police or maybe the FBI after the federal agencies do the work of regaining the public trust.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2026-01-29 16:12:40+00:00
> At least it doesn't try to snipe me into feeling bad, or scared about everything.

That's the guardian for you. They can't write an article without making sure the reader comes away feeling like a piece of shit. This piece should just be a celebration of Ginny's remarkable life, but they'll still make sure that you know that there are kids starving in Africa and elderly people working past retirement because they have no money.

I also love positive.news, and I subscribe to their newsletter. It's great.
by blibble | 2026-01-29 16:12:54+00:00
as a non-USian, I've been doing my part to increase the US trade deficit with my country

in the last year I've stopped buying any product from american companies if there is another viable supplier, even if it costs more

heinz, coca-cola, five guys, goodyear (I needed new tyres), aws/gcp, lays, mars, ... all removed entirely
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 16:12:55+00:00
Yep, people don't understand moving averages with a wide range. The old population getting older massively changes demographics. You start looking like Japan where a huge portion of the population is above retirement age.

And this fits for China where the standard of living has massively increased. What would throw off most Americans is that in 1962 the average life expectancy in China was only 50 years old, and has increased to roughly 78 today. 28 additional years of life is huge and it was so rapid that it would create a massive increase in population.

This also reverses causality on the one child population rule. They didn't add the rule because their population was huge at the time, it was added because increased life expectancy with nothing else would have increased their population now to something like 1.7 to 2 billion.
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-29 16:13:17+00:00
I have seasonal affective disorder and was taking a medication that sort of helped, but was causing mood swings if taken even slightly out of rhythm, increased my blood pressure, and was just generally not that effective, but it was better than nothing. Last winter I switched to vitamin D (it was already uncovered in blood tests I had a deficiency, which is what turned me onto it - when I started taking it, I felt a lot better) and omega 3 and I won't go back. I wish someone had told me a decade ago, probably would have saved a lot of damage to my organs (another reason I got off of it)
by ForHackernews | 2026-01-29 16:13:22+00:00
Is it niche? Scala is arguably the single most successful functional language. It interoperates with the whole JVM ecosystem. It's probably the #3 JVM language after Java and Kotlin.

Spark is Scala, Twitter was (is?) Scala https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala...
by panstromek | 2026-01-29 16:13:37+00:00
I have to respond to your point, though. Whether 30% cut is excessive depends on whether devs feel like they are getting a good deal. As far as I can tell, game developers don't seem to complain about Steam cut very much, it seems like the value you get is worth it.

For example, this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/10wvgoo/do_you_think... seems like majority is positive about it, even though people debate. When Apple tax is brought up, there's almost never even a discussion there, it's pretty universally hated.

Apple seems to have almost adveserial relationship to its developers. I deploy to App Store and I feel like I'm getting screwed. Even compared to Google, which takes the same cut, but does bahave a lot more nicely to its developers.
by dcanelhas | 2026-01-29 16:13:44+00:00
It does sound like a good outcome for automation. Though I suppose an investigation into the matter would arguably have to look at whether a competent human driver would be driving at 17mph (27km/h) under those circumstances to begin with, rather than just comparing the relative reaction speeds, taking the hazardous situation for granted.

What I would like to see is a full-scale vehicle simulator where humans are tested against virtual scenarios that faithfully recreate autonomous driving accidents to see how "most people" would have acted in the minutes leading up to the event as well as the accident itself
by nerevarthelame | 2026-01-29 16:14:09+00:00
Do you have specific examples?

This study published in Nature [0] says that rural populations in particular are typically UNDERCOUNTED (exactly like the Papa New Guinea in the OP's article), and that this happens at similar rates across poorer and wealthier countries: "no clear effect of country income on the accuracies of the five datasets can be observed."

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56906-7
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-29 16:14:12+00:00
You are missing the sheer soul-crushing magnitude of the infrastructure problem. You are missing the little inconvenient truth that live in a world full of roads that don't even consistently have asphalt on them. That real life Teslas ship with AI that does vibe-based road lane estimation because real life roads occasionally fail to have any road markings a car AI could see.

Everything about road infrastructure is "cheap to deploy, cheap to maintain". This is your design space: the bare minimum of a "road" that still does its job reasonably well. Gas stations and motels are an aside - they earn money. Not even the road signs pay for themselves.

Now, you propose we design some type of, let's say, a machine only mark that helps self-driving cars work well. They do nothing for human drivers, who are still a road majority. And then you somehow manage to make every country and every single self-driving car vendor to get to agree on the spec, both on paper and in truth.

Alright, let's say we've done that. Why would anyone, then, put those on the road? They're not the bare minimum. And if we wanted to go beyond the bare minimum, we'd plug the potholes, paint the markings and fix the road signs first.
by IncreasePosts | 2026-01-29 16:14:50+00:00
I call this the 12 fingered hitler, frequently seen on reddit.

It goes like this:

Person A makes up some unsupported fact about a despised figure. For example, "Hitler had 12 fingers".

Person B comes in and says "I think Hitler just had 10 fingers like normal"

And then person A or some other person responds "holy shit dude, I can't believe you're defending Hitler!"
by zxcvasd | 2026-01-29 16:15:08+00:00
if i were to guess, they are referring to CVE-2016-2183, which lead to deprecation of 3DES by NIST in 2019 (announced in 2017) and disallowing all uses in 2023. openssl also stopped including it in default builds starting in 2016 because it is considered weak.
by matt-attack | 2026-01-29 16:15:23+00:00
Exactly. That’s why I’ve always said the driving is a truly AGI requiring activity. It’s not just about sensors and speed limits and feedback loops. It’s about having a true understanding for everything that’s happening around you:

Having an understanding for the density and make up of an obstacle that blew in front of you, because it was just a cardboard box. Seeing how it tumbles lightly through the wind, and forming a complete model of its mass and structure in your mind instantaneously. Recognizing that that flimsy fragment though large will do no damage and doesn’t justify a swerve.

Getting in the mind of a car in front of you, by seeing subtle hints of where the driver is looking down, and recognizing that they’re not fully paying attention. Seeing them sort of inch over because you can tell they want to change lanes, but they’re not quite there yet.

Or in this case, perhaps hearing the sounds of children playing, recognizing that it’s 3:20 PM, and that school is out, other cars, double parked as you mentioned, all screaming instantly to a human driver to be extremely cautious and kids could be jumping out from anywhere.
by mlyle | 2026-01-29 16:15:25+00:00
> But if there are a bunch of children milling about an elementary school in a chaotic situation with lots of double parking, 17 mph is too fast

Hey, I'd agree with this-- and it's worth noting that 17^2 - 5^2 > 16^2, so even 1MPH slower would likely have resulted in no contact in this scenario.

But, I'd say the majority of the time it's OK to pass an elementary school at 20-25MPH. Anything carries a certain level of risk, of course. So we really need to know more about the situation to judge the Waymo's speed. I will say that generally Waymo seems to be on the conservative end in the scenarios I've seen.

(My back of napkin math says an attentive human driver going at 12MPH would hit the pedestrian at the same speed if what we've been told is accurate).
by dimitrov | 2026-01-29 16:15:26+00:00
To add another data point: 4,000 IU (two Kirkland capsules) daily keeps my Vitamin D levels at the high end of the reference range. I also take six Kirkland fish oil capsules which happens to hit the 1,500 mg DHA+EPA target suggested in the article.

Honestly, Costco supplements are hard to beat since they're both USP certified and are usually the cheapest.
by yalogin | 2026-01-29 16:15:47+00:00
Looks like they are not selling the larger vehicles at all, so why not kill the truck too? It’s god awful and a flop. Ego? Or thy want to try to revive it?

What they are really signaling though is with EVs they are not able to differentiate between the higher and lower cost models enough to show value to the higher end models. This is a huge failure IMO. Model S was the OG car that really was looked up to when it launched. It did have them luxury image, by not matching the build and interior of the car to the image Tesla really dropped the ball. Now the S is seen as inferior to the other luxury cars in that price range and so it’s becoming tough for Tesla to differentiate between the 3 and S.

This actually brings up the larger question, does musk care about cars at all at this point? Or does he just want to move on to robots? Feels like his heart is not on the cars.
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-01-29 16:15:53+00:00
>The rest of the world keeps ripping users off, and Apple's walled garden is as protected a thing as it gets.

This keeps getting repeated but it's not actually my experience. Not even Apple believes it, otherwise they could avoid a lot of legal and regulatory trouble by giving users a choice: Pay through Apple for an extra 30% protection fee.
by Shocka1 | 2026-01-29 16:15:56+00:00
I have friends in commercial sheet metal/plumbing/electrical, and the work is endless right now in my area in the Midwest. My immediate goal would be to get on a journeyman program making a fraction of what I make now, and then onwards and upwards from there as I know the more skilled people in these jobs are making top tier money in my area. When I was in college I worked part-time in residential, so it seems logical that I would gravitate in this direction, especially with the supply of work.

At the same time I'd be applying to senior software engineering positions geared towards anything energy/nuclear and possibly datacenter tech/engineering positions as well, but I would be extremely picky. Since everyone is so obsessed with AI/productivity, the electrical grid is going to be more stressed than ever. I'd target positions with no H1B competition, cleared positions and whatnot - this isn't a crack on H1B, but I would imagine there is higher probability in getting interviews without them in the picture. BUT I'm at the whim of hiring managers and whiteboards at that point, which isn't ideal, hence the trades route mentioned first.

I love software so much and have spent the majority of my life doing it, spent all that time getting a CS Master degree and whatnot. It would be a sad day for me, but you do what you have to do. I have a family as well, so not as much mobility and time to burn as a person without.

I think this plan is specific to my situation, but I hope it helps getting a few ideas kicking around in your mind. It is definitely a stressful thing if you think about it too deeply, but I try to distance myself from that mental mode and focus more on what I would have to do if that time comes.
by buran77 | 2026-01-29 16:16:14+00:00
Even for civil law where the bar for the evidence is lower, it's hard to make a case that someone who posted wrong details on a free blog and didn't make money off of it should cover the damages you incurred by traveling based on the advice alone. Not making any reasonable effort to fact check cuts both ways.

This is a matter of contract law between the two companies, but the people who randomly read an internet blog, took everything for granted, and more importantly didn't use that travel agency's services can't really claim fraud.

Just being wrong or making mistakes isn't fraud. Otherwise 99% of people saying something on the internet would be on the hook for damages again and again.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-29 16:16:15+00:00
Unlikely. EU countries are consistently restrictive about access to this kind of data. Even when it is available, it often has odd restrictive licensing. This is an area where the US, with its liberal data access policies, is far ahead of Europe.

Something else to keep in mind is that the data products are extremely large. It would be expensive to give the public access. I used to host these types of data sets for EU countries. The workload just from authorized users is resource intensive, it doesn't scale cheaply. (I once woke up to find a metaphorical smoking crater where my server racks were because an authorized user shared his credentials with a few friends overnight.)
by sethhochberg | 2026-01-29 16:16:15+00:00
I've personally had a decent amount of luck with trying to reframe this sort of sentiment from "being useful" to "having purpose".

Right now, yes, its true that a lot of my day to day purpose is driven by participating in the economy and setting myself up for the life I'd like to have in my later years, and I get genuine validation from solving problems and collaborating with people in my day job.

But sometimes, my purpose is to go snowboarding and forget about work. Or to help a friend fix their bicycle. Or to get lost in conversation with a new person I'm dating. As far as any of us know, we only get one turn to be alive on this rock, so we might as well purposefully enjoy it as much as we try to purposefully be useful.

If you look at Ginny Oliver from the article, it might be fair to question whether she was as useful on a lobster boat at 105 as she might have been in her youth. But I doubt she was concerned with usefulness since she had such sense of purpose.
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by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-29 16:16:33+00:00
I saw a thing from HealthyGamerGG youtube[1] that he said one of the things about depression is that it causes/influences one to avoid the things that would make their life less depressing.

eg just to paint the picture: you're depressed so you don't get out of bed, therefore you don't go do your workout, therefore you lack endorphins and look in the mirror and see squishy, you're sad about how squishy you are and so you get more depressed. You're more depressed so you also don't do your dishes, when you do get out of bed you are depressed you feel like a slob and you're squishy, so you get more depressed...

Whereas adding anti-depressants, and other virtuous cycle things like vitD/O3, exercise et al. Give the boost necessary to _make your life less depressing_ ...

So if you know someone who's depressed, it might be helpful to help them make their life less depressing too. (in addition to all the best medical advice!)

[1]- he's a real Dr... Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K), a Harvard-trained psychiatrist (MD, MPH) specializing in modern mental health
by manishfp | 2026-01-29 16:16:35+00:00
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by verdverm | 2026-01-29 16:16:45+00:00
It's an unsolved problem as I understand it. Key distribution, rotation, and revocation in e2e have no good options that also provide a competitive UX.

This is why you don't see it more ubiquitously. What you do see is individual data handled more this way.

A different approach would to not give individuals decryption keys for the data directly, rather give them access to a shared key JIT. This is how we generally operate with secrets in the cloud, and this would be doing the same to get access to the secret decryption key, preferably in a locked down env they do not control and have little permissions in, if even a human at all