MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mandevil | 2026-01-07 23:26:50+00:00
It is possible that the article has changed, but that is not in the article that I see right now, which is this: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-instituti...

Looking at Google, I see this press release for a 2024 study says that "3 companies own nearly 19,000 metro Atlanta homes" across 190 LLC shell companies: https://news.gsu.edu/2024/02/26/researchers-find-three-compa... (1). But even so, that 19,000 represented 11% of the single-family rental market in the Atlanta metro area, meaning that even if it's 38,000 then we're talking 1 in 5 of the rental homes available in Atlanta, which the article says has many more large investor owned homes than anywhere else in the US- an expert is quoted as saying that it has more than the next 2-3 cities combined for large investors. If that 38,000 is correct (and I only have your quote for that number) then more than 10% of all large investor-owned homes across the country are in the Atlanta metro area, since the Reuters article that this gives large investors (more than 1k homes) a total of 345k rental single-family homes across the US as of 2Q 2025. A 2022 GAO study found that institutional investors owned about 3% of all rental single-family homes across the US.

"Rich Dad" style investors simply own the vast majority of rental single-family homes across the US. According to the bar chart in the Reuters article, investors who own 1-5 single family houses available for rent (the classic dentist who went to a "Make Money in Real Estate" seminar) own 87% of the national market. Looking at the GSU press release, they claim Atlanta is an unusually attractive market for large investors- they particularly call out the lack of tenant protections- and that means that it has concentrated the activity, and it is still not particularly large a part of the market. Enough to dominate some neighborhoods of Atlanta, probably. But the solution is not some nationwide ban by executive order that can't possibly be constitutional, but for Georgia to get better tenant protections so that institutional investors aren't as attracted to the market.

1: I'm going to presume that the 38,000 is from later work finding more shell companies. I also can't read the underlying research article because I am unwilling to pay absurd journal fees.
by hopelite | 2026-01-07 23:26:58+00:00
Why not simply say “Somali piracy” since that it what is happening and the Somalis are doing as a feature of their nationhood, if one can call it that. The piracy is not a disease afflicting the Somalis, they are perpetrating it just like how a robber robs you, he is not afflicted with robbery against you. Where does that kind of nonsensical mentality even come from. I’m old enough to remember being taught to avoid the passive voice, but these people today are something else with their mentally detached perspective. Are you shooting yourself in your own feet or are you afflicted with being shot in the feet?

Edit: Also, yes, I noted correctly what it said, I’m not sure why you felt the need to act as if a reframing of the claim causes some inaccuracy. But also, neither are the waters afflicted by piracy, it’s still just Somalis engaging in piracy… human’s engaging in piracy, not some disease or animal afflicting the water like a pestilence … just humans choosing to be dirty, as evident by their choice to engage in piracy.

I see people really don’t like seeing Somalis as humans with equal agency and responsibility. That’s the kind of racism that is so pernicious.
by imclaren | 2026-01-07 23:27:25+00:00
I built a go caldav server and client for my task management app (http://calmtasks.com) and had a similar experience, which surprised me. Go generally has at least one good, working, and well documented implementation for all standard protocols.

Apple calendar supports caldav but in a way not specified in the spec. I basically had to send requests and responses to figure out how it works. I would be willing to open source my server and client (alot of which was built using/on top of existing libraries) if there is interest.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-07 23:27:47+00:00
I also note that the most recent changes to amitools / VAMOS are from the amifuse guy, e.g. https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/commit/7be270c4c844127e...

That's a lot of PRs from him: https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%...

There's a lot more AmigaOS API calls and infrastructure that filesystem handlers rely on than just BCPL, e.g. I see here he added a fake input.device to make FFS happy: https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/pull/231/files#diff-938...

And to answer my earlier question, how does one get the filesystem handler out of ROM, the answer is amitools's "romtool" based on data taken from the Amiga ROMSplit tool.

So I guess he's working hard on beefing up VAMOS's AmigaOS emulation to get filesystem handlers working. Great stuff!
by closeparen | 2026-01-07 23:27:51+00:00
A website where you can upload POIs to a shareable map seems like one of those things that's so obvious and so useful it exists almost under any economic arrangement of the advertising industry.

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.
by gushie | 2026-01-07 23:28:21+00:00
> You are, generally, supposed to put the new answer on the old question

If you're asking the question, you don't know the new answer.

If you're not asking the question, you don't know the answer needs updating as it is 15 years old and has an accepted answer, and you didn't see the new question as it was marked as a dupe.

Even if you add the updated answer, it will have no votes and so has a difficult battle to be noticed with the accepted answer, and all the other answers that have gathered votes over the years.
by kgeist | 2026-01-07 23:28:22+00:00
I think they mean that they trained the tool-calling capabilities to skip personal information in tool call arguments (for RAG), or something like that. You need to intentionally train it to skip certain data.

>every time the whole conversation history gets reprocessed

Unless they're talking about the memory feature, which is some kind of RAG that remembers information between conversations.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-01-07 23:28:47+00:00
A skill that creates other skills can be very useful as well.

E.g. you could have:

- a set of skills to use design patterns of a library

- a skill to add to this skill-set -- either when prompted by user or autonomously via a stop-hook

E.g. I set up this combination for design patterns for the Langroid[1] LLM-Agent framework:

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/pl...

[1] https://github.com/langroid/langroid
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-07 23:29:32+00:00
I think Gemini 3.0 the model is smarter than Opus 4.5, but Claude Code still gives better results in practice than Gemini CLI. I assume this is because the model is only half the battle, and the rest is how good your harness and integration tooling are. But that also doesn't seem like a very deep moat, or something Google can't catch up on with focused attention, and I suspect by this time next year, or maybe even six months from now, they'll be about the same.
by pmul | 2026-01-07 23:30:06+00:00
On 3, Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS) will be making things look tidier (and safer) for many of the more organized flows.

In a TSS, you have to drive on the right, and if you're crossing one, your heading (not your track) must be as close to 90 degrees, to minimize your exposure time.
When you're sailing this can be a big pain. The anti-collision rules are altered in a TSS.
by defrost | 2026-01-07 23:30:52+00:00
During wartime justifications for carpet bombing do matter .. see Geneva Conventions et al.

Not that these things are enforced, of course, see bombings throughout SE Asia during Vietnam and the international punishment dealt out to Kissinger.

> I think that's the point you are broadly missing.

Did I?

Let me be clearer. There was no particular examination of the justifications for killing civilains specifically in the cases of the two cities destroyed by atomic weapons.

Why?

Because any such moral examination had already taken place many many months before; broadly in the case of heavy bombing campaigns in Europe and more specifically at the start of the Japanese bombing campaign that most appear to have forgotten.

Before H & N were bombed with the first atomic weapons 72 other cities had already been destroyed, including Tokyo. H & N were 'just' two targets on a list more than a hundred cities in length.

> Therefore any action we take to end that war was justified

Yeah, maybe take some moral and ethics classes, look into why there's pushback over actions in Gaza, etc.

There's no simple 'therefore' here.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-07 23:30:59+00:00
Right. But what if you dropped the human-facing UI, and instead exposed the backend (i.e. a database + CRUD API + heavy domain flavoring) to LLM as a tool? Suddenly you not only get a more reliable recognition (you're more likely to eat something that you've eaten before than completely new), but also the LLM can use this data to inform answers to other topics (e.g. diet recommendations, restaurant recommendations), or do arbitrary analytics on-demand, leveraging other tools at its disposal (e.g. Python, JS, SQL, Excel are the most obvious ones), etc. Suddenly the LLM would be more useful at maintaining shopping lists and cross-referencing with deals in local grocery stores - which actually subsumes several classes of apps people use. And so on.

> Just having an LLM is not the right UX for the vast majority of apps.

I argue it is, as most things people do in software doesn't need to be hands-on. Intuition pump: if you can imagine asking someone else - a spouse, a friend, an assistant - to use some app to do something for you, instead of using the app yourself, then turning that app into a set of tools for LLM would almost certainly improve UX.

But I agree it's not fully universal. If e.g. you want to browse the history of your meals, then having to ask an LLM for it is inferior to tapping a button and seeing some charts. My perspective is that tool for LLM > app when you have some specific goal you can express in words, and thus could delegate; conversely, directly operating an app is better when your goal is unclear or hard to put in words, and you just need to "interact with the medium" to achieve it.
by cyberax | 2026-01-07 23:31:01+00:00
> Interesting theory, although I don’t know if US based remote work will continue to be as common as it is now.

During the pandemic, some research had shown that something like 70-80% of jobs can be remote.

The kicker is that remote work is less efficient. So in the long run and on average, companies with in-office jobs outperform fully remote companies. This is just like the situation with pollution: a company that spends money on waste recovery is less competitive than a company that can just dump toxic sludge into a nearby river.

And just like with pollution, centralized regulatory changes are needed so that all companies are affected similarly.

> The policies you suggest also seem difficult politically since most environmentalists seem to want more density, not less.

Yet they are misguided because they keep looking at the very tip of an iceberg. It's just one example out of many (see: nuclear power plants).

To give an example, light rail is more efficient than individual EVs. So it's great that Seattle is building light rail, right? It'll result in fewer "headline" CO2 emissions.

But then you realize that Seattle is going to spend $180B ("B", as in "billion") to build about 50 miles of tracks. It's more than the yearly GDP of 130 countries! All these resources could have been spent on something else, perhaps on building more renewable generation.
by rayiner | 2026-01-07 23:31:20+00:00
Okay, I amend my statement to say “we raised an entire generation to think you should eat multiple times as much carbs as protein.”

I learned the 1992 food pyramid in school. I was in college by the time they changed it, and I have no idea what the current one says. When the government undertakes a mass campaign to socialize children into a particular idea that’s what happens.
by fragmede | 2026-01-07 23:31:24+00:00
I've been totally AI-pilled because I don't see why that's of questionable utility. How is a regexp going to tell the difference between "asdffghjjk" and "So, she cheated on me". A mere byte count isn't going to do it either.

If the computer can tell the difference and be less annoying, it seems useful to me?
by jcranberry | 2026-01-07 23:31:49+00:00
The tweet says blackstone. Thats a separate firm from blackrock. And the tweets misleading in the first place, it's looking at the bottom of a candle which wasn't even the current price at the time of the photograph? And the stock closed at about 154.

Besides all this says is that it matters for blackstone...not for the housing market at large.
by remarkEon | 2026-01-07 23:31:53+00:00
I think the hyperbole in your comment is clouding your point, which appears to be that you are skeptical that immigration restrictionism is on balance good for the United States, to which I’d say that immigration restrictionism is actually the default setting and the current era of high immigration is unprecedented and new. This is the same pattern in Europe as well. The US achieved its super power status during one of the more restrictionist periods for immigration in its history, so I don’t follow how moderating immigration just a little bit equates to “throwing it away”.
by phs318u | 2026-01-07 23:33:00+00:00
The article makes valid points about users misunderstanding how OneDrive works (and ascribing the misunderstanding to “dark patterns”), but I’ve been using Linux (first pop-os and now cachyos) for years, while at the same time shadowing most (not all) of my home directory to OneDrive[0] (I have an annual x365 subscription and that 2TB cloud storage is hard to ignore). I’ve had no issues whatsoever, though admittedly I’m not your average user (40 years in tech). I also make local backups of course, but tbh the utility of having my files available from anywhere is pretty useful to me. YMMV.

[0]. A huge shoutout to the folks behind the amazingly solid https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive
by tshaddox | 2026-01-07 23:33:18+00:00
> People assume that renting out property is rent-seeking literally only because they both have the word rent in them.

It's not a coincidence that they have the same word in them. It's literally just the same word with the same definition and etymology in both cases. Rent is a payment demanded by property owners from people who want to make productive use of that property.
by malloryerik | 2026-01-07 23:33:48+00:00
Btw Datomic is free now that Nubank supports it (and runs a large bank on it).

There's also a fantastic kind of mini, FOSS, file-based Datomic-style Datalog DB that's not immutable called Datalevin. Uses the hyper-fast LMDB under the hood. It's called Datalevin. https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:33:54+00:00
> Drying doesn't mean anything... The nutrients are still there you're only really losing water.

The problem with the number is that people see it and imagine pounds of meat like they see at the grocery store, but it's measuring pounds of meat that go into the meat processing plant.

> What evidence do you have that the loss adjusted numbers have gone down while the preprocessed numbers have gone up so dramatically?

No, the two numbers show the ratio.

The "pounds of meat consumed per person" from the FAO is a pre-processed weight.

The pounds of meat consumed per person from the USDA is the end-user weight. It's about half of the FAO number.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-07 23:34:23+00:00
Oh good, you have demonstrated how money is somewhat fungible and therefore any moralizing about what welfare is spent on is a little odd

>SNAP's stated purpose is nutrition

SNAPS purpose is dual, and it was always also about ensuring american farmers had more demand, including for corn syrup. Horrifically, EBT being spent on soda is intentional.

If that bothers you, we can reduce corn subsidies without taking candy from literal children, or keeping poor parents from buying chips.
by sliken | 2026-01-07 23:34:27+00:00
In theory I'd agree as well.

In reality such features are often dropped, no settings in gnome-settings, and non default features are not tested in new builds.

So you end up googling how to get that feature back and the answer is manually navigating the config tree or using gnome-tweaks, both with large disclaimers that any changes might break your system.

No thanks, I'd rather have left click to select and middle click to paste, do we really have to involve the keyboard by default?
by Merrill | 2026-01-07 23:34:42+00:00
Starch is the preferred carbohydrate, since digestion depolymerizes it to pure glucose which can be used directly by cells.

Cane sugar, a disaccharide, is split by digestion into its constituent glucose and fructose molecules, and the latter must be further processed by the liver. It is 50% fructose.

High fructose corn syrup is 55% fructose.

A variety of other sugars, such as maltose and lactose occur naturally in a variety of foods. However, they are in low enough concentrations to not be a health problem.
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-07 23:35:41+00:00
I wasn’t saying there is no danger — just that I didn’t really think about it or see the problem, your sibling comments have changed that. Maybe i am naive but i was asking genuinely not stating i think otherwise.. Unfortunately i have family members in the us and pretty much all of them happily sent their dna off to various services so im fucked either way at this point…
by mrcode007 | 2026-01-07 23:36:10+00:00
It’s not gobbledygook. I think for most people it’s hard to grasp the scale of the entire industries outside of their area of professional expertise so you can look at some numbers here:

https://www.milliman.com/en/insight/mortgage-market-and-hous...

https://www.sifma.org/issues/market-structure/housing-financ...
by dheera | 2026-01-07 23:36:19+00:00
If you tax land the only thing you will end up with is higher rents. You are punishing the wrong people.

Want to punish the right people? Cut taxes so that people can save cash faster, afford houses earlier and stop renting from their landlords.

Build more actually-affordable housing, too. Not these blocks of luxury apartments with swimming pools that nobody uses. (See HDB, Singapore -- that’s what the US needs more of)
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:36:23+00:00
Too late to edit, but I see I'm getting downvoted.

To clarify, I'm not in support of the actions or the administration. I'm just pointing out that this is becoming a trend where they say one thing but do something milder.

Regarding the NHS: Here's a link showing NHS COVID-19 vaccine eligibility, which is highly restricted relative to the access we enjoy in the United States: https://staustellhealthcare.nhs.uk/surgery-information/news/...

Again, I'm not saying the current system is good or that the NHS has it right, but trying to put it in perspective.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-07 23:36:36+00:00
...use a unique randomized ID as the key...

33 bits is all that are required to individually identify any person on Earth.

If you'd like to extend that to the 420 billion or so who've lived since 1800, that extends to 39 bits, still a trivially small amount.

Every bit[1] of leaked data bisects that set in half, and simply anonymising IDs does virtually nothing of itself to obscure identity. Such critical medical and billing data as date of birth and postal code are themselves sufficient to narrow things down remarkably, let alone a specific set of diagnoses, procedures, providers, and medications. Much as browser fingerprints are often unique or nearly so without any universal identifier so are medical histories.

I'm personally aware of diagnostic and procedure codes being used to identify "anonymised" patients across multiple datasets dating to the early 1990s, and of research into de-anonymisation in Australia as of the mid-to-late 1990s. Australia publishes anonymisation and privacy guidelines, e.g.:

"Data De‑identification in Australia: Essential Compliance Guide"

<https://sprintlaw.com.au/articles/data-de-identification-in-...>

"De-identification and the Privacy Act" (2018)

<https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-guidance-for-organis...>

It's not merely sufficient to substitute an alternative primary key, but also to fuzz data, including birthdates, addresses, diagnostic and procedure codes, treatment dates, etc., etc., all of which both reduces clinical value of the data and is difficult to do sufficiently.

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Notes:

1. In the "binary digit" sense, not in the colloquial "small increment" sense.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-01-07 23:36:42+00:00
Unless (and even if) you choose to live your life as a sort of survey of all possible human practices, the things you will never have the chance to try will vastly outnumber the things you try.

Also, many practices confer the best benefits after a significant time commitment, so even if you optimize for number of things, you still won't actually be experiencing them in the same way as their proponents do.

Given the vast amount of experiences, practices, and tools available to us, I think it's pretty reasonable that most people seek out at least some level of external curation.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-07 23:36:46+00:00
I kinda assumed they wouldn't need any money because AI companies give them free credits to evaluate the models, and users ask questions and rate for free because they get to use decent AI models at no cost...

Beyond that there is coding up a web page, which as we all know can be vibe coded in a few hours...

What else is there to spend money on?
by giantg2 | 2026-01-07 23:36:46+00:00
1.5g/kg for a 90kg person is 135g. You can get almost half that daily need from a chicken breast or a few ounces of fish. Two meals of that and a few non-meat things like rice and beans, lentils, peanut butter, etc and you're set, even towards the higher end of the recommended range. That's doesn't seem outrageous at all.
by mountainriver | 2026-01-07 23:36:49+00:00
Doctors are wrong all the time as well. There are quite a few studies on this.

I would in no way trust a doctor over ChatGPT at this point. At least with ChatGPT I can ask it to cite the sources proving its conclusions. Then I can verify them. I can’t do that with a doctor it’s all “trust me bro”
by bigyabai | 2026-01-07 23:37:06+00:00
Honestly, I agree with the XMPP author here. The model described in this post isn't congruent with how FOSS is developed. I think Wordpress very succinctly proved that holding your code for ransom is the fastest way to hemorrhage developer goodwill. You'll never be able to compete when the alternatives to your program reject your arbitrary limitations.

FOSS has ignored this model for good reason. The majority of people who grandstand for attention or money have a negative bus factor, the value of their "work" is rarely worth what they appraise it as.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-01-07 23:37:28+00:00
I remember Uber hit this pretty hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277501 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 For them though the mobile-data thing was extra important since a first-time Uber user is likely to not be at home and needs the app in order to get home.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-07 23:37:47+00:00
Well, my experts disagree with your experts :). Sure, the supply of available fresh data is running out, but at the same time, there's way more data than needed. Most of it is low-quality noise anyway. New models aren't just old models with more tooling - the entire training pipeline has been evolving, as researchers and model vendors focus on making better use of data they have, and refining training datasets themselves.

There are more stages to LLM training than just the pre-training stage :).