MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimnotgym | 2026-01-26 11:09:47+00:00
There are lots of replies stating that their MP gave them a cookie cutter response, so it is a waste of time.

I can tell you that isn't entirely true. When they get a lot of messages about the same thing, or better still you meet them in person, they may keep giving you the 'party line response', but they will also be feeding back that there is discontent to the whips.
by dougall | 2026-01-26 11:10:25+00:00
Hi, author here. My version definitely shouldn't be faster unless something very weird is going on with the runtime (though I think with the benefit of hindsight some further optimisation of it is possible). I have never seen a good use for this, aside from as a proof that it is possible, but I can imagine it coming up if, say, you wanted to write an exploit for an esoteric programming language runtime.

If you still maintain this code and want to optimise it, I don't think you should need a full powers-of-two table, just having log(n) powers of two should do in a pattern like:

if (v > 2**1024) { v *= 2**-1024; e += 1024; }
if (v > 2**512) { v *= 2**-512; e += 512; }
...

That's a straightforward memory saving and also leaves v normalised, so gives you your fraction bits with a single multiplication or division. This is a little less simple than I'm making it look, because in reality you end up moving v to near the subnormal range, or having to use a different code path if v < 1 vs if v >= 2 or something. But otherwise, yeah, the code looks good.
by daversa | 2026-01-26 11:10:40+00:00
Following up on this! Instead of just patching the empty state, we built out a proper 'Local Nature' integration using OpenStreetMap.

International cities now have their own dedicated row showing real local reserves and parks (e.g., Tiergarten for Berlin) instead of a broken generic fallback. It's live now if you want to take another look. Thanks again for highlighting this early.
by hnben | 2026-01-26 11:10:43+00:00
I selfhost for >10 years, but only for receiving, i.e. I can not send anything from my domain, because I thought that would have been to much stress to set up.

My setup: I have a root server with DNS attached to it. On there is a postfix, with a minimal config that forwards all emails to my real address on posteo.eu. And posteo has not given me any trouble with any of my emails at all.

I use this setup, so I can easily give new email-addresses to individual web services, and it gives me the option to selectively block these addresses.

Last year I brought the big abo from proton, which includes throwaway mailadresses, and I am thinking about migrating my mail setup there.
by c0n5pir4cy | 2026-01-26 11:11:22+00:00
I believe a whole host of VPN providers have no real need to comply with this amendment if it passes the Commons.

The providers are structured in a way that makes forcing compliance difficult and have built their whole business model around this. NordVPN is registered in Panama for example and Mullvad lets you send cash in the mail and doesn't store any user details (even a hashed email).

It'll be interesting to see how & who reacts if it does pass.
by vintermann | 2026-01-26 11:11:24+00:00
It's not literally the same of course. But you should wonder, how much of the difference is due just differences in how much they need to do?

If South American dictatorships could have their way with less blood and less noise, don't you think they would prefer that?

I'm reminded of a tragicomic recent admission from Nate Silver of 538 fame. He said Disney almost never interfered in their editorial process, as if that was a good thing. What that really meant, after all, was that Disney was perfectly willing to interfere in their editorial process, but almost never felt the need to. (As you would expect. I mean, why would Disney care about political polling?)

Could it similarly be that the UK government is perfectly willing to engage in brutal political suppression, but rarely has a need to? In that case maybe people are right to sound the alarm even though we haven't reached South American dictatorship levels yet.
by humanfromearth9 | 2026-01-26 11:12:43+00:00
I have spent the last week with Claude Code, instructing it to find all it can about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).

This paper is the result _so far_.
Specifically, I asked the AI to propose treatment protocols for people with severe ME/CFS, which should yield significant improvements quickly. With the hope to give them back quickly a decent quality of life and the emotional and physical means to fight against this disease in the long term.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor.
This work is the result of careful instructions given to an AI, including requests for the AI to formulate novel hypotheses, make links to other diseases with similar symptoms or underlying mechanisms.
So, while a part of the paper is generated in a brainstorming mode, the protocols of chapters 16 and 17 are not, and most of the paper has been generated and documented with explicit request of honesty, strictest math. and logic rigor and correctness, rigorous citations of sources.

It also proposes several research directions, sorted from most promising to least promising.

This paper provides additional information and insights (not medical advice - that, you might get from your doctor, maybe sharing the paper with them), I wish it will help those out there who need help managing ME/CFS or who face a continuous lack of energy, wherever it may come from.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 11:13:13+00:00
There are very great differences in light quality between various kinds of LED lamps.

You may have various LED lamps, all of which appear to have the same white color, but their spectra are very different. Those with narrow spectral peaks are very bad lighting sources, while those with wide spectral peaks, achieved by using multiple kinds of conversion phosphors, are much better lighting sources.

With the best LED lamps, there is not much difference in comparison with incandescent lamps. While incandescent lamps are best from the point of view of their continuous spectrum, their yellow light strongly modifies the perceived colors. While bluish white LEDs (e.g. of 6500 K color temperature) are also bad, neutral white LEDs (e.g. 5000 K or 5500 K) provide much better color perception than incandescent lamps.

For home lighting I prefer a white that is only very slightly yellowish, i.e. 4000 K lamps, instead of LED lamps with a higher color temperature or of incandescent lamps, which are so obviously yellow that no clothes have the same color as in daylight.

The best quality of lighting can be achieved by incandescent lamps in conjunction with frequency-selective filters, which modify their spectra to resemble the spectra of a blackbody with a higher temperature, like the Sun.

Such filtered incandescent lamps were used a very long time ago, to provide lighting for color photography, movies and television (e.g. for the original white point of NTSC), but they were abandoned due to high cost and due to an exceedingly low energy efficiency.

As I have mentioned in another comment, filtered incandescent lamps might see a revival, but implemented with very different technologies than those used a century ago.
by ciconia | 2026-01-26 11:13:24+00:00
I'm not sure but I'm guessing gray water (or treated waste water) is not suitable for cooling purposes? Particle charge in small pipes and scaling may be a problem. Also, collecting gray water or channeling treated waste water - depending on the location that might be a problem.

Not that I'm in favor of using drinking water for cooling slop factories, but I guess the reason we don't see waste water being used for cooling is cost (unless governments start mandating that...)
by palata | 2026-01-26 11:13:47+00:00
> You assuming my comment was just a personal list of my favorite apps is way off base

Well I am saying that it is a list of apps I have never used (if I have heard of them at all), so it sounds arbitrary for a comparison between iOS and Android.

> Because I was researching possible coding strategies for a new smartphone app

Sure, yeah, it makes sense there. I just don't feel like "ChatGPT released their Android app 2 months after iOS means that iOS is better in terms of apps".
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-26 11:14:36+00:00
I would do more video, but video editing is really difficult.

I think that today’s video influencers have gotten really good at “one take and done” recording.

I couldn’t do that. I’m way too much of a perfectionist. I always edit my text, and I’ve been writing all my life. I don’t think that I’ve ever written something perfectly, the first time (including HN comments. I tend to go back and edit for correctness and clarity).

A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed for a podcast. The process was fascinating, and the woman that did it, obviously does a great deal of editing and refinement. I don’t know if I have that much patience.
by TechRecruiting | 2026-01-26 11:15:09+00:00
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by spragl | 2026-01-26 11:15:27+00:00
Manuals are fairly easy to find, but in my experience they are dumbed-down. They mostly contain simple Ikea-like instructions and a lot of legalese CMA warnings. That is not a dig at Ikea. Their instructions are great for assembling flatpack furniture. But servicing a faucet, a garage door or a lawn mower is on another level.

This state of affairs is partly due a change in the nature of products. They are in general more complex and no longer meant to be repairable. They are meant to have shorter life spans, and if serviceable are meant to be serviced by professionals. How much that is an improvement for the consumer, is questionable IMO.
by bjackman | 2026-01-26 11:15:55+00:00
I don't think it's possible? You could imagine some sort of certificate scheme where the govt issues a thing that says to a 3rd party "we certify this person is 18 but in a way that doesn't reveal who they are". You could also implement that in a way where, even if the 3rd party reports the details of an authorisation to the govt, the govt can't say who was involved in that auth.

But in the latter case, the system is wildly open to abuse coz nobody can detect if every teenager in the country is using Auth Georg's cert. The only way for that to be possible is if the tokens let you psuedonymise Georg at which point it's no longer private.

The answer is to leave this shit to parents. It's not the government's job. It's not the government's business.
by shippage | 2026-01-26 11:16:00+00:00
I have DID and am also curious how it would affect the measurement. I'm just waking up so I've only skimmed the paper so far, but I suspect the results would differ depending on which of us was fronting.

We've noticed that each of us integrates not just sensory information differently, but we also seem to be "wired" differently.

For instance, we are AuDHD, and I, the primary host, lean strongly to the autism behavioral side, my co-host is somewhere between, and a secondary host leans strongly to the ADHD behavioral side. Things that are easy for me can be hard for another.

We also experience senses very differently. There have been many times where one of us can smell something strongly, switch, and the other can't smell it at all.

This affects other senses as well. When I watch a 24 fps movie at a theater, for about the first 10 minutes, all I see is a strobing of still images before I finally adapt and see motion. My co-host sees continuous motion right from the start. This may relate to the temporal binding window discussed in the paper as a motivation for their research.

Our working hypothesis since we were finally diagnosed has been that identity is, at least in part, an integration of both sensory information as well as how strongly various brain regions are activated by whichever identity or identities are most active at a particular time.

Lastly, we have the ability to "take control" over just part of the body. For example, for whatever reason, the motion of stirring a sauce is difficult to me, but it's trivial for another, so sometimes they'll take control of our arms to stir the pot while cooking. To me it feels like my arms have disappeared and someone else's arms are now attached and stirring the pot. This may be temporal binding window related because we do seem to experience sensory information at different speeds and this might cause us to get that alien hand feeling, which is sort of opposite of the rubber hand illusion.

So, I suspect that each of us would react differently to the rubber hand illusion test.
by palata | 2026-01-26 11:16:04+00:00
> I think it’s more about picking your battles.

Often it is not so much about "not using Google" (they are pretty much a monopoly, they don't care). It's more about "supporting something that is not Google".

> and am happy to move if

In order to move, you need for an alternative to exist. And alternatives exist because some people use them :-).
by jwally | 2026-01-26 11:16:13+00:00
Thanks for sharing.

For the past month or so I've been slowly having claude build something in the same ballpark. Basically something to nag you to take care of grown-up things so your boss/spouse/local municipality doesn't have to.

I was going to call it "Nagatha Christy", but the joke gets old after 48 hours. At the moment, its called "Jarbis" (old Simpsons reference).

For me, checklists are useful but I suck at creating them, maintaining them, etc. I want this thing to be able to look at my calendar/email/groupme and be able to say things like:

"Hey, you have 2 kid birthday parties this weekend and a soccer game - you're bringing snacks. You want me to update your shopping list?"

or

"The dentist office just sent out a reminder - you have an appointment on Thursday that's not on the calendar. It conflicts with your daily standup. You want me to create a task for you to resolve it?"

Its using:
- AWS CDK
- Telegram as primary chat interface
- Trello/Jira/Something Custom
- Integrations into GoogleCalendar and GMail
- Ability to use Claude/OpenAI and different models

FWIW, if someone figures out how to create a reliable "secretary in a box" that I don't have to DIY but doesn't scream data-collection-watering-hole (facebook) I'd _happily_ pay $200 / mo for it. ;-)
by toofy | 2026-01-26 11:16:54+00:00
for context for those who don’t know about the dead fetal pig:

a couple years ago ebay had to pay out millions to a couple it was trying to intimidate into silence, ebay didn't like the negative publicity the couples writings were generating.

ebay harassed and stalked them with tons of horrifying shit, including like mailing cockroaches, live spiders, a dead pig, a funeral wreath and a book on how to survive the death of a spouse.

it’s incredible how few people in this sphere have heard about this. the witness tampering, physical stalking, insane online harassment and on and on etc..

again, ebay was forced to pay them millions. i don’t remember all of the specifics but it was the max the law would allow and it was in the millions.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-26 11:16:59+00:00
Yeah, just last year I had several issues with a Gigabyte board that refused to boot Linux regardless of the UEFI incantation, paritions being used, or distribution, yet it had no problems booting the very same M.2 SSD if plugged via an external case.

Eventually it gets tiring, I still remember Yggdrasil, my first distro was Slackware 2.0, bundled on Linux Unleashed first edition in 1995.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-26 11:17:00+00:00
I don't exactly go around saving advertisements, but plainly informational ones do exist here and there. Off of memory, an example of an indie game trailer I think is well-made is that of Wargroove[1]. It's a simple and clear clip reel of gameplay showing off a variety of content and features, and if I recall correctly, advertisements for it were simply smaller slices of the trailer. I think there's nothing offensive about advertisements like this existing (although, that said, the number of times I wish to see such an advertisement is still exactly once).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nqJxq3E-4
by concinds | 2026-01-26 11:17:05+00:00
What blows my mind isn't the pervasive bugs throughout the system, which you could attribute to a poorly-run division or dysfunctional company.

It's that the basic shit is now so broken. Safari is unusable with too many tabs because it won't suspend them. The Tahoe app launcher will randomly remove apps from the list, and you need to open Finder to get it. Apple Books is unusable; the book keeps blanking out, it displays random error messages, search is slow and cumbersome because you need to scroll the search results list each time.

There's a collapse in basic functionality where it's obvious they don't use their own products.
by s_dev | 2026-01-26 11:18:24+00:00
Fascinating, I do love street art and tastefully done graffiti. Some of it is obnoxious. I think it does add to the character of a city e.g. New York, Berlin, Montreal, Paris all have some amazing work etc.

I submit Irish Graffiti I see here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Graifiti/

Though I think displaying these things as a map is more useful: https://streetartcities.com/cities/sanfrancisco

There is a an Irish artist called Dan Leo and I have bought lots of his prints. https://www.danleodesign.com/ so they are dotted around my office and home.

I think they're great! He does animals and I love the style, clean lines and bright colours, they remind me of US football team logos.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-26 11:18:55+00:00
At the moment I'm fairly OK using docker + integration scripts / tools that expose host OS functionality (like if it needs screenshots etc).

I know there are lots of good arguments why docker isn't perfect isolation. But it's probably 3 orders of magnitude safer than running directly on my computer, and the alignment with the existing dev ecosystem (dev containers, etc) makes it very streamlined.
by LinXitoW | 2026-01-26 11:19:18+00:00
What the poster meant wasn't that the LLM itself is an entity with a preference, but simply that because of the training, LLMs are better at doing stuff in a standard Linux environment. If you have to teach it a new environment it either needs to waste time and context every time to look up stuff, or you need a company to do RL to teach it that new stuff (unlikely).

It would probably help if the sandbox presented a linux-y looking API, and translated that to actual browser commands.
by prashnts | 2026-01-26 11:19:21+00:00
> packet-loss

For one it can adequately show if your WiFi is performing well...

In a home network setting I've got a UDP display sink (64x64px, RGB) with a custom protocol. It works fine-- no hard number as the performance varies based on other factors, including congestion. I've been able to push it to >90fps, but around 42fps there is virtually no flicker.

For context in my protocol I use all 512bytes, with 3 first being the "line number and such" data and the rest containing ~128 pixels.
by PedroBatista | 2026-01-26 11:20:20+00:00
Ironically, Google is the safer bet and this might have been a correct decision from Tim Apple.

AI is changing at a rapid pace ( still ) and OpenAI is no longer the only game in town at the top, plus their finances are.. something we’ll hear about the next year and Sam Altman is an incredible unscrupulous person with past actions and decisions catching up to him. Not exactly the situation you want to partner with.

At this point you don’t need your AI on Apple devices to be revolutionary, it needs to work and be better than the current situation which is not difficult.

Gemini 3 is quite good for the general public, Google has the money to keep playing the AÍ games and also played ball with Apple, OpenAI only has 1 or 2 of those going for them.
by LoganDark | 2026-01-26 11:20:27+00:00
"App attestation" means different things for Android than for iOS. On iOS, it verifies the app was installed from the right place. On Android, it tries to check if the device is tampered with, or hasn't been fully certified by Google, or etc... Android's far more finicky because Google uses this process to crack down on OEMs and hobbyists, while Apple implicitly trusts itself.

Also, "checking the status of app attestation" is the wrong approach. If you want to use app attestation that way, then you should sign/encrypt communications (requests and responses) with hardware-backed keys; that way, you can't replay or proxy an attestation result to authorize modified requests.

(I believe Apple attestation doesn't directly support encryption itself, only signing, but that is enough to use it as part of a key exchange process with hardware-backed keys - you can sign a public key you're sending to the server, which can verify your signature and then use your public key to encrypt a server-side public key, that then you can decrypt and use to encrypt your future communications to the server, and the server can encrypt its responses with your public key, etc.)