MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antihipocrat | 2026-01-11 00:51:28+00:00
No race is a homogenous group equally benefiting and suffering from historical and societal privilege and disadvantage.

A large proportion of the majority ethnicity in the U.S live in and suffer from generational poverty. As an absolute number it would far exceed the number of people suffering the same from minority ethnicities. If it weren't for other influences strongly promoting awareness of non-economic differences, I'd like to think (perhaps naively?) that these groups of people would find strong commonalities with one another and organize activities as a united front to change their circumstances.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-01-11 00:52:00+00:00
Yeah, big plus one from me. I recently tried to investigate some sort of alternative encoding to/from “the prompt,” and was swiftly told that was both not possible and would work against me. As you pointed out, the LLMs are trained on language and language itself is often not terse. Trying to skirt that will cause the LLM to calculate the vectors poorly because the relation between the input tokens and its training data doesn’t really exist.
by Krasnol | 2026-01-11 00:52:02+00:00
Why does it HAVE to be profitable?

Why can't we just leave some things out of the whole madness?

It's not like we don't have enough stuff that can be made profitable already.

Just let your customers be healthy, have a roof over their head, water, electricity, internet. They'll have more time and money to spend on all the other profitable stuff.

It doesn't have to be EVERYTHING!
by otoolep | 2026-01-11 00:52:10+00:00
rqlite creator here. I have performed a fair amount of performance testing, some of which I outlined in a talk to the CMU Database Group a few years ago. Details:

- https://www.philipotoole.com/2021-rqlite-cmu-tech-talk - see slide 33.

- There is also a recording that goes with the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlIAWjvHxM

You can also read about Performance in the docs at: https://rqlite.io/docs/guides/performance/

An important thing to note: this testing was done 4+ years ago, on moderately-powerful hardware for the time. With higher-end, more modern hardware you may get even better results.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-11 00:53:41+00:00
Even if you don't know C its influence has clearly poisoned your thinking about this issue.

The whole point of the billion dollar mistake is that the null pointer isn't actually a pointer, we would not have a type which is "Either a String or, sometimes just for fun the integer 19" because that's silly, so we shouldn't have a type which is "Either a pointer to T or, sometimes just not".

The huge difference is that if you don't make this mistake you only have to care about that "it wasn't a pointer" case when it might not be a pointer. Once you've handled that you're done, but with the C-style pointer that Tony's lecture is about you can't tell whether that was done, at every point in the program if you see a pointer maybe it is null.

In both Rust and Ada the type system is strong enough to express this. It is very silly to pretend that Err(AllocError) is invalid, it's not invalid at all, maybe that value wasn't what you were hoping for but it's entirely valid.
by lucb1e | 2026-01-11 00:54:07+00:00
> a clone of HN I've been working on that adds subscriptions and ad slot bidding

Wut, what's the purpose of that? Is this just a toy learning project? Would it be to make money off of people who don't know that an ad-free version of HN exists at news.ycombinator.com? Will you try to sell it to Ycombinator?
by tptacek | 2026-01-11 00:54:23+00:00
"Containers" are that, and fast, in part because they share kernels, so there's no serious rebooting happening. But the consequence of that design is you share a kernel with untrusted cotenants.

And then there's just the idea of being able to pull these out of the sky literally whenever you want one. If you want to try something new out real quick, it makes no sense to figure out which of your existing Sprites to use. Just make a new one. If you're a little OCD, like I am, every once in awhile you can go prune, if you really care.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-11 00:54:52+00:00
COUNTRY: AVERAGE HOUSE SIZE IN SQUARE FEET 2025
#1 Australia: 2,303
#2 United States: 2,299
#3 New Zealand: 2,174
#4 Canada: 1,948
#5 ...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/house-siz...
by nhma | 2026-01-11 00:55:57+00:00
The prototype in the linked video was first tested back in 2023, and since then a few startups have set their sights on the technology (e.g. Nomadic Drones and Voltair).
When working on the linked prototype we ran into some fundamental issues. Firstly, the recharging will only work with AC lines, and there's currently a lot of hype around UHVDC lines which are not compatible. Secondly, the AC lines must carry substantial current (ideally thousands of amps) for the recharging to not take forever. You can of course carry a much larger transformer on the drone to compensate, but this will in turn severely limit your flight time (ours was 1kg on a drone of 4.5kg and we could charge with 50W from 300A line current). You also have to account for significant daily fluctuations in the line current. It'll be interesting to see how the tech evolves, and I'll definitely be following these startups closely.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-11 00:56:11+00:00
Huh the government is the ideal party to do that. Because it can set its goals to best serve its constituents instead of making money.

Don't forget there are so many countries with government healthcare and their care is a lot more accessible than the US's. I've lived in many countries and a nationalised healthcare system is one of the things I select for.

Even a poor country like Cuba has one of the highest numbers of doctors per capita. Unfortunately a bit hamstrung by the US's illegal and needless sanctions so they can't get proper equipment but I've been told healthcare is still pretty excellent there.
by defrost | 2026-01-11 00:56:14+00:00
Australia has a proportional voting "washminster" system with two and half major parties ..

( Labour Vs. Liberal+Nationals OR (cartoonishly) "Masses" Vs Urban-Capital+Rural-LandOwners (comically grotesque oversimplification) )

There are, however, many smaller parties that a great many people vote on first in proportional run-offs.

Australians are well aware that the smaller parties often don't get a seat but they're also well aware that the voltes are tallied to reveal the issues championed by smaller parties and how the secondary preferences "run off" to the majors.

eg: (say) Labour only squeaked in ahead of the Liberals because people that care about {X} first preferenced Labour second .. expecting Labour to address that issue.

Fail to address an issue and the margin votes switch secondary preferences.

( That said, a number of small parties do hold independant seats )

Much of this small party preference voting kicked off from The Australian Democrats, a centrist political party founded in 1977 with the slogan

Keep the Bastards Honest.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-11 00:57:11+00:00
> Expressing complex HTML or LaTeX constructs in org-mode is more complicated than writing the raw HTML or LaTeX.

Eh? This makes no sense! You can embed any HTML and LaTeX easily in the doc. And you could since I encountered org over 15 years ago.

Since 2009 all my LaTeX and Beamer docs have been written in org. I lose nothing by using org.

> I've recently converted my blog from org-mode to markdown. 1000 lines of elisp, replaced with 200 lines of Python, and a 50x speedup.

I use Pelican which uses rst. But it was pretty trivial to write a plugin in Python to have it support org files.
by nyrikki | 2026-01-11 00:57:34+00:00
Like most cults, you ignore direct links with cites from multiple governments agencies, but here is another.

https://www.upturn.org/work/comments-to-the-cfpb-on-data-bro...

> Most employers we examined used an ATS capable of integrating with a range of background screening vendors, including those providing social media screens, criminal background checks, credit checks, drug and health screenings, and I-9 and E-Verify.29 As applicants, however, we had no way of knowing which, if any, background check systems were used to evaluate our applications. Employers provided no meaningful feedback or explanation when an offer of work was not extended. Thus, a job candidate subjected to a background check may have no opportunity to contest the data or conclusions derived therefrom.30

If you are going to ignore a decade of research etc... I can't prove it to you.

> The agency found that data brokers routinely sidestep the FCRA by claiming they aren't subject to its requirements – even while selling the very types of sensitive personal and financial information Congress intended the law to protect.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-propo...

> Data brokers obtain information from a variety of sources, including retailers, websites and apps, newspaper and magazine publishers, and financial service providers, as well as cookies and similar technologies that gather information about consumers’ online activities. Other information is publicly available, such as criminal and civil record information maintained by federal, state, and local courts and governments, and information available on the internet, including information posted by consumers on social media.

> Data brokers analyze and package consumers’ information into reports used by creditors, insurers,
landlords, employers, and others to make decisions about consumers

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_fcra-nprm...

And that CFPB proposal was withdrawn:

https://www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2025/05/...

Note screen shots of paywalled white papers from large HR orgs:

https://directorylogos.mediabrains.com/clientimages/f82ca2e3...

Image from here:

https://vendordirectory.shrm.org/company/839063/whitepapers/...

But I am betting you come back with another ad hominem, so I will stay in the real world while you ignore it, enjoy having the last word.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-11 00:57:38+00:00
If your dialysis clinics have the worst outcomes in the industrialised world, it should make you go hmmm.

And usually it's not a problem, of "Throwing more money at it", but lack of regulations and enforcing them.

That said, Physician Owned Clinics have better outcomes, there is no reason why that shouldn't be the standard model of operating them. Usually they have more moral scruples about worsening care for profit.

Also there is naturally more competition, if there are multiple small operators instead of only Fresenius Nephrocare or DaVita

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/death-rates-at-u-s-dialys...
by raincole | 2026-01-11 00:57:41+00:00
I think you live in a conspiracy world.

> Improving accessibility to compute power would hurt Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Yeah, if they were not competing against each other.

> If suddenly CSS became pleasant to use, Tailwind would be in a rough spot. See the irony?

Honestly, I don't. If people suddenly adopted a heathier lifestyle, doctors, at least dentists, would be in a rough spot.

See the irony? Well, again I don't.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-01-11 00:57:57+00:00
> The only possible entities who could buy a company are either a bigger company, or private equity.

The American mind virus at work.

My (non-US) state government literally purchased a private hospital late last year. Now it’s public.

Keep telling yourself that corporations are going to save you. Maybe it’ll happen eventually.
by tptacek | 2026-01-11 00:58:59+00:00
If you have an LXD setup working for your own workloads that's working well for you, that's awesome. Why would we want to talk you out of that? Fundamentally you're getting at the difference between "elastic" cloud services and personal infrastructure. Personal infra is great!

If it helps: Jerome has been working for a couple months on a local, open-source Rust version of Sprites, so you can use the same DX with your own infrastructure. We just think this is the right "shape" for modern sandboxes, wherever you actually run them.
by idoubtit | 2026-01-11 00:59:09+00:00
The reporter rightly queried other researchers about this article, and all of them were skeptical that a "supply shock" could be the cause, or even the main cause. My own skepticism is because the death rate went down many months before any sign of shortage appeared.

I haven't read the paywalled Science paper, but The Economist extracted a graph which shows that the purity of Fentanyl pills was stable till the first months of 2024, then dropped sharply. The purity of the powder peaked in 2023, then went down in 2024, back to its older levels. They suppose that it proves the supply was short, but another researcher even states that the supply of Fentanyl precursors didn't change until the end of 2024.

Anyway, the epidemic plateaued by the start of 2022, then went down after August 2023; Source https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

Why did the death rate slow down for one year, then go down many months before any sign of supply changes?
by ecto | 2026-01-11 01:00:59+00:00
Harsh words bossyTeacher.

I don't think you're right though. I write code every day, since my dad taught me C++ on his lap decades ago. I like building things :) also, I have been an executive, and I don't think any of my teammates would agree with you

Further, your argument is a straw man. That's not my point at all, so much so that it appears your argument is in bad faith.

You are correct in that I have a privileged life, and I dedicate my labor to making the world a better place every single day.

I put a bit of my art into the world today, and you attacked it. Please consider the human next time before you write nasty words :)
by just6979 | 2026-01-11 01:01:22+00:00
Many of the sleep issues these days are actually Microsoft's fault. They tried to impose AlwaysOn AlwaysConnected but did a terrible job of specifying it and quality controlling implementation.

I had a Dell Precision from 2020 that never woke from S3 sleep properly, because Dell didn't care about S3 because they expected AoAc (which Windows now defaults to) to actually work. Except A) people don't want laptops that act like phones, and B) it was terrible and munched so much battery it was way better to just hibernate all the time.

Switched to ThinkPad from 2020 and it has a BIOS setting for "classic sleep" and S3 sleep works perfectly.

And Fedora gets 3-4x the battery life than Windows did for general use on both, with much less heat and fan usage, right out of the box. Not to mention bullshit like Windows taking literal seconds to show a directory's contents in the file manager... I'm completely done with Windows for anything beyond gaming (but Valve is changing that rapidly), and dual-booting to a bare Windows install for corporate remote access apps or such, on everything in my house.
by 20after4 | 2026-01-11 01:01:27+00:00
> Perhaps now that prescription is reigned in, we are seeing a lot fewer oxy->fent cases which has cut back on the deaths.

This is definitely part of the story. When your primary source of new addicts is prescription opioids and you cut down on the prescriptions then over time, as people die off from OD, then the OD rate is bound to drop.

The most tragic part of it, to me, is that it's usually the people who got clean who eventually OD. Once they've been clean for a short time then their tolerance for the drug drops drastically, then if they break down and do "just one dose" they make the fatal mistake of thinking they can still handle the same amount they were used to doing before.
by tom_ | 2026-01-11 01:01:38+00:00
The Citroen Saxo was notably terrible. It was remarked upon even at the time, especially due to the target market of its sportier versions: foolish young men. Here's another hatchback from 2000, faring noticeably better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXNgKwWFs - not to say for a moment that you wouldn't still want a 2025 car.
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-11 01:02:20+00:00
I didn't downvote, but I suspect it's an easy answer: the fix was like four lines.

At the end of the day, #1 and #3 both probably add a fairly significant amount of code and complexity that it's not clear to me adds robustness or clarity. From the fix:

```
// If our first node has non-standard memory size, we can't reuse
// it. This is because our initBuf below would change the underlying
// memory length which would break our memory free outside the pool.
// It is easiest in this case to prune the node.
```

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/17da13840dc71b...

#3, it seems, would require making a broader change. The size effectively is immutable now (assuming I'm understanding your comment correctly): non-standard pages never change size, they get discarded without trying to change their size.

#2 is interesting, but I think it won't work because the implementation of MemoryPool doesn't seem like it would make it easy to test ownership:

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/17da13840dc71ba3...

You'd have to make some changes to be able to check the arena buffers, and that check would be far slower than the simple comparison.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-11 01:02:31+00:00
This whole thing reminds me why I never wanna work for someone again. From what I saw at Google it all just ends up being classist top-down BS of who isn't allowed at the big kids table, or bottom-up BS by insisting they aren't the SME just the IC and we can't do anything until the XYZ PM SME TL and/or manager approve.

It is unparsable Dilbert nonsense to anyone outside of specific scenarios. And it causes interminable discontent. Because what if the SME is the PM because they know business and tech but the SME is actually the IC because they know the tech and its tech but what if the manager is actually the SME because they're running the tech and may need to redelegate if the IC needs vacation, blah blah blah.

(job history: college dropout waiter => my own startup, sold => Google for 8 years => my own startup)
by esskay | 2026-01-11 01:02:59+00:00
Even so, it was hard to take LTT's attempt at using linux seriously when part of it included Linus bitching about how right clicking a list of files on github and clicking "save link as..." didnt give him a copy of the file. It just highlighted how utterly clueless he was and made it clear he couldn't be trusted for the rest of the video either.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-11 01:03:14+00:00
What do you consider the purpose of life to be? To me being in good health is immensely more important than health insurance, a government health plan, or a job.

I know that neither health insurers nor any government agency nor anybody else have even 0,0000000000000001% as much interest in my health, well being and survival as I do.

When it is the matter of my health and my life, I care as much about what an insurer or employer thinks as I would care about what the Ayatollah of Iran thinks. Or what you think. Ie: Those opinions are without any value at all.
by frozenseven | 2026-01-11 01:03:14+00:00
I don't think I quoted you out of context. In any case, Terence Tao and co. are doing wonderful work in this area. I'd encourage everyone to bookmark the following link: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...

It's a rapidly evolving story and I expect H1 2026 to bring much clarity on this topic. Especially with upcoming model releases and more professional mathematicians taking an interest.
by ggm | 2026-01-11 01:03:51+00:00
I would personally continue to own and buy Mac hardware, if they opened up the platform. I don't see any specific value as a mac, being closed hardware. I do see how an integrated vertical market suits the predominantly ipad and iPhone based profit centre, but people like me who want a mac, would want it even if the tpm-like trust state had to be reset to install a third party OS.

But Apple don't see it that way. I am glad ports to older Mac hardware exist, but the walled garden learns better defences each cycle.

Mac OSX is a fine system, enshittification not withstanding. I'm not massively impeded in my desires to run what I want, given homebrew and other software suites. I'd just like the choice to run FreeBSD or Linux or whatever else people port.

I truly do not see any downside risk to apple in doing this. A small documentation cost, at worst.
by ympatel | 2026-01-11 01:03:55+00:00
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by jamesponddotco | 2026-01-11 01:05:01+00:00
If the data is present in one of the extractors, yes, but I think only Amazon and similar stores keep this kind of data right now. We don't have a extractor for Amazon yet.

After v1.0.0 is out I plan to add the ability to add books manually to the database, at which point we'll be able to start improving the database without relying on third-party services.
by deepsun | 2026-01-11 01:05:23+00:00
Well, addiction or not, the main question is what medics call "quality of life" -- whether a patient can life their life to the full potential.

There are millions of people addicted to caffeine, the most popular psychoactive substance in the world, but as it usually doesn't prevent them to live their life and "be a productive member of society", no one cares of treating caffeine addiction, save for religious societies.

My point is -- is methadone addiction "better" than fentanyl in that regard? If yes, than that's ok.
by locusofself | 2026-01-11 01:05:49+00:00
My daughter is “on the spectrum” and dealing with these therapy places was just a huge waste of time and money. I don’t know if the places we went to were owned by private equity or what but the quality was really bad and this is in a major metropolitan area that is also affluent. The therapist seemed like good hearted people, but they were paid so miserably that there was constant turnover. The billing practices were always shady and complicated and frustrating. Not to mention most of these places have 6 to 12 months waiting list to see anybody in the first place.
by overfeed | 2026-01-11 01:06:26+00:00
> Can you elaborate here?

Dogs (and the prey) can do burst sprints, but will easily overheat, and will need to stop periodically to cool down. Humans are furless and sweating is sufficient to regulate our internal temperature, so we can keep jogging for hours on end. Additionally, dogs are great at sniffing out hidden prey at the beginning of a hunt, and once found, humans are excellent trackers.