MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tombert | 2026-01-08 01:27:29+00:00
No shit. I'm making an assertion as to "why", not "who". "Simply" is doing a lot of work in your statement.

Trump's entire first campaign was based around a stupid, expensive, and racist "wall", and he openly mentioned during his debate that he wants to get rid of immigrants because they're eating dogs. Unless these people were living under a rock they saw all this, and at best they were ambivalent to this, but I think more likely supported it.

You could argue that maybe during his first campaign they had plausible deniability, but when all these people voted for him again, they have lost any sense of that. They knew what they were voting for, and they knew that the person that they were voting for was a racist sack of shit.

People should grow up and own their terrible decisions.
by danny_codes | 2026-01-08 01:27:30+00:00
> In almost all cities land has run out, so the only way to actually increase supply is to increase density. That means fewer single-family-homes, and more townhomes, multi-family, condos, and apartments.

Existing property owners can only afford to hold this opinion because land rents are insufficiently taxed. Through some sort of monumental stupidity we decided to tax labor instead of land. In this sense the SFH, “Americans like suburbia” problem is just a function of poor tax strategy. If homeowners were faced with the economic reality of their choices then markets would fix land use by themselves.
by corpoposter | 2026-01-08 01:27:42+00:00
LVT is a tax on the value of the land specifically, not a traditional property tax. This encourages development on valuable land that is currently being put to unproductive uses.

For example, if you own a lot in a downtown metro which is a parking lot you pay low property taxes because parking lots have low property values. You are disincentivised to develop it because your property tax would go up. Opposite incentives with a LVT.
by bawana | 2026-01-08 01:28:22+00:00
Medical training is designed to produce operators who will add value to corporate health systems - prescribe pills, do procedures, or anything that can generate 'billable hours'. Actually educating patients to be healthy will only reduce corporate health system profits. Why do you think we have been fighting the 'war on cancer' since the 60s? Now 'personalized medicine' and synthetic peptide and complex immunotherapies are the latest twist with costs into 5 figures (orders of magnitude greater than standard therapies)and efficacy only better by a factor of 2 at best. Many treatments promise improved 'partial response rate' increases from 10 % to 50% yet a partial response is not a significant improvement.

AI is a disaster waiting to happen. As it is simply a regurgitation of what has been already said by real scientists, researchers,and physicians, it will be the 'entry drug' to advertise expensive therapies.

Thank goodness our corporations have not stooped to providing healthcare in exchange for blood donation, skin donation, or other organ donation. But I can imagine United HEalthcare merging with Blackstone so that people who need healthcare can get 'health care loans'.
by tootie | 2026-01-08 01:28:32+00:00
There is no key word here. It's an aspirational assertion on social media. Everyone asking about how it will be implemented is asking questions Trump has spent zero seconds considering. He will maybe sign some EO that will have very limited scope but mostly he is asking Congress to figure it out. Given the makeup of the Senate it will require bipartisan support which means at least months of haggling if they even consider his request. So we really have no idea what the policy will be or when we'll see it.
by sib | 2026-01-08 01:29:12+00:00
This is very cool.

Some years ago I was on a small (12-passenger) boat doing an 11-day photography tour in the Svalbard archipelago. One evening, we were at 82' north latitude and I was on the bridge talking to the captain. He said, "we might be the northernmost people on the planet, aside from naval subs" - looking at this map, it's possible he was right.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 01:29:19+00:00
> Fair enough but the brass tacks of the matter is more Americans liked what Trump had to offer than what the DNC was selling (stability, more of the same)

I agree. What he had to offer was getting rid of brown people. He wasn't secretive about this. This isn't in conflict with what I said.

> IME a lot of trump voters are in the "fuck the government" camp and voted for him purely to throw a wrench in the political machine

So they voted for a guy who bragged about how he was going to use the government to go after his enemies? Yeah I don't buy that.
by kazinator | 2026-01-08 01:29:33+00:00
I came across this number when determining a certain resistance value for a filter circuit.

Turns out it has a name.

Previously ignored:

[Feb 2020] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25242530

[Nov 2020] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22284104

Suppose we have some resistor R that is in a circuit (e.g. circuit board). Suppose we can solder something to its terminals in parallel, but we may not open the circuit: we may neither replace the resistor, nor insert anything in series with it.)

R determines a filter cut-off frequency f. If we attach another R in parallel, we make the total resistance 1/2 R, which doubles the frequency to 2f.

What parallel value can we add that will change to the frequency that is geometrically between those two, namely √2f ~ 1.41f?

For that, the resistance has to drop to R/√2 or around 0.707R. Obviously, the parallel resistance must be substantially higher than R, which we know cuts the resistance in half.

When you do the little bit of algebra, it turns out that the parallel value needed is (1 + √2)R: the Silver Ratio times R.
by mgerdts | 2026-01-08 01:29:52+00:00
It seems pointless to issue flush commands when writing to an NVMe drive with a direct IO implementation that functions properly. The NVMe spec says:

> 6.8 Flush command

> …

> If a volatile write cache is not present or not enabled, then Flush commands shall complete successfully and have no effect.

And:

> 5.21.1.6 Volatile Write Cache

> …

> Note: If the controller is able to guarantee that data present in a write cache is written to non-volatile media on loss of power, then that write cache is considered non-volatile and this feature does not apply to that write cache.
by sfRattan | 2026-01-08 01:31:05+00:00
> ...tab hoarding is directly connected to exceedingly poor bookmark UX/UI in browsers. Despite being a core browser feature, it's barely improved in decades...

I'm often a visual person, similar to what the twitter longpost also describes---I miss Apple's spatial file manager and made heavy use of the drag-and-drop grid on the Windows 10 Start menu to pin apps in logical groups---but I don't really have any problems with bookmarks as they exist now in Firefox. I have as many bookmarks as some tab hoarders have tabs (last count around 2,000), and I drag them into a well-ordered hierarchy with the Firefox Bookmarks Sidebar (Ctrl+B to toggle show/hide).

A hierarchy in a vertical sidebar has always seemed... Plenty visual, I guess? Do folks who have hundreds or thousands of tabs open also have as many files in their Desktop and Download folders and just search there too? What upgrades to bookmarks would make them significantly better than they are now?

Hierarchy-as-directory is a good conceptual abstraction, and it has useful, well-established visual representations. I get ornery when software tries to conceal a useful hierarchy from the end-user (most often... the file system itself, as in the iPhone).

I'll note that Firefox's "keyword" option for bookmarks is a killer feature for me: assign a keyword to a bookmark (e.g. "hn" for news.ycombinator.com or "yt" for www.youtube.com) and you can type those letters into the URL bar and instantly load the bookmark. It's kept me on Firefox for years, even though I'd prefer some of the security features and better process isolation of Chromium/Blink. I have a row common bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar with favicons and names matched to their keywords and I've never needed or wanted a landing page with favorite sites.

Bookmarks do seem worse to me in other browsers without keywords. Oddly, if I import my Firefox bookmarks into other browsers the keywords I made in Firefox still work, but I can't edit them or add new keywords in those other browsers. Maddening.
by mrj | 2026-01-08 01:31:16+00:00
Well maybe your health data picks up a heart condition you didn't know about.

Maybe you don't know but your car insurance drops you due to the risk you'll have a cardiac event while driving. Their AI flagged you.

You need a new job but the same AI powers the HR screening and denies you because you'll cost more and might have health problems. You'd never know why.

You try to take out a second on the house to pay for expenses, just to get back on your feet, but the AI-powered risk officer judges your payback potential to be %.001 underneath the target and are denied.

The previously treatable heart condition is now dire due to the additional stress of no job, no car and no house and the financial situation continues to erode.

You apply for assistance but are denied because the heart condition is treatable and you're then obviously capable of working and don't meet the standard.
by baubino | 2026-01-08 01:31:22+00:00
> The strongest advantage of the US has always been the ability to absorb global talent.

Among the many inexplicable things the current US administration is doing, abandoning soft power in favor of returning to militaristic brute force makes the least sense to me. Soft power costs less, is easier to maintain, and creates a vast moat. Giving that up is nuts.
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-08 01:31:37+00:00
Cool idea and pretty fun. At least for this particular puzzle (island countries) though, I found myself ignoring the feedback and first and just typing as many as I could think of. Then when I did look at the feedback, I mostly just cared about the first letter, not the stuff about number of words.

There are some glitches.

For some reason the size of the grid increased periodically, but I couldn't understand why.

There is inconsistency in the answers. As another commenter mentioned, Ireland was not included. The answers also included both East Timor and Timor-Leste, but these are the same country. Also it seems that Timor-Leste was counted as three words.

Might want to include some kind of ASCII comparison as many people aren't going to type "São Tomé and Príncipe" out.

The hints don't seem to take account of what answers have already been guessed, which makes them useless in many cases. People are probably most likely to ask for a hint when they just have a few left they can't think of; in that case it's kind of crucial that the hint actually be a hint for one of the ones they haven't already gotten.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-08 01:32:18+00:00
Doctors that treat shit that you can treat on the spot and it gets better or it doesn't tend to be really good. Surgeons in particular. Doctors that treat shit that don't have clear causes and that you give medicine to, and sometimes it kinda improves, they tend to be pretty bad.

This is both a liability and a connectedness issue.
by oco101 | 2026-01-08 01:32:25+00:00
I mean, I have no idea what the point of this is, but I’d give it a 99.9% probability that this is some kind of joke, scam, publicity stunt, or social experiment. There’s just no way that anyone in the world could come up with such spectacular tech and nobody has ever heard about it. Let alone a 22-person company that not only claims to have developed the most advanced, production-ready battery in the world, but also plans to scale a battery factory to the size of Tesla’s Gigafactory within a year. But hey, maybe that’s possible, because the CEO is “a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record.” If you're curious here are all the details about the team behind this : https://www.donutlab.com/about-us/
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-08 01:32:30+00:00
This is really useful, thanks. In my other (top-level) comment, I mentioned some vague dissatisfactions around how in explanations of attention the Q, K, V matrices always seem to be pulled out of a hat after being motivated in a hand-wavy metaphorical way. The kernel methods treatment looks much more mathematically general and clean - although for that reason maybe less approachable without a math background. But as a recovering applied mathematician ultimately I much prefer a "here is a general form, now let's make some clear assumptions to make it specific" to a "here's some random matrices you have to combine in a particular way by murky analogy to human attention and databases."

I'll make a note to read up on kernels some more. Do you have any other reading recommendations for doing that?
by xphos | 2026-01-08 01:33:23+00:00
I disagree I think nutrition guidence is extremely important and in the precense of horrible examples nations get really unhealthy. The only country 1st world country not to have really obese people is Japan (~5% obese ~20% overweight). (~35% obsese ~70% overweight US) and I'd wager a large part of that is the fact that kids cook for themselves in school so they learn early what a reasonable meal is. They also learn how to cook not that they do that forever but setting reasonable food expectations is extremely important.

Being obese as a kid is almost causal for being obese later in life[1] as becoming obese screws up a lot of your bodies biology permenantly. You can of course change and become healthier but many lingering symptoms linger regardless of you losing weight. While still 70% obese adults were not obese as children 80% of obese children end up being obese.

Open to other ideas but school meals and peoples relationship with food is extremely important to maintaining weight in my experience.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26696565/
by pixl97 | 2026-01-08 01:33:37+00:00
>but it's still an actual market

It depends on the swing of the market if it's a buyers or sellers market.

In the past there was far more spread in housing prices. These days real estate agents tend to follow a few market making sources for setting those prices, along with personal home sellers looking at 'internet prices'.

>inventory at an inflated price and assume the whole rest of the market will follow you.

When you target particular areas you absolutely can.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 01:34:04+00:00
> businesses extract all value they can from open-source, but put back nothing

This has always been the case. Sometimes they give back by opening one or more of their components. Other times they don't. I don't see it as a problem. It doesn't usually detract from what's already published.

In cases where it would detract, simply use an appropriate license to curb the behavior.

> LLMs are just accelerating this trend.

LLMs might not prove sufficiently capable to meaningfully impact this dynamic.

Alternatively, if they achieve that level then I think they will accomplish the long stated goal of FOSS by enabling anyone to translate constraints from natural language into code. If I could simply list off behaviors of existing software and get a reliable reproduction I think that would largely obsolete worrying about software licenses.

I realize we're nowhere near that point yet, and also that reality is more complex than I'm accounting for there. But my point is that I figure either LLMs disrupt the status quo and we see benefits from it or alternatively that business as usual continues with some shiny new tools.
by bballer | 2026-01-08 01:34:24+00:00
Do the math of what it costs a city per resident - napkin math it, total tax intake divided by population. Now compare that to the additional taxes and money that person (who is wealthy) is not injecting into your city.

So out of touch to think the net spend of a gov directly on an individual would be worth sacrificing all of that additional capital injected to your other neighbors and their businesses.
by slyn | 2026-01-08 01:35:07+00:00
Respectfully, I think 'individuals' is doing a lot more work in GP's 'But most of the "investors" buying up property are individuals purchasing investment properties.'

The average 21+ US resident may own 2+ properties but I'd be surprised if the median equivalent owns 1. It kinda hides the equivalent of the top x% of individuals owns y% of the stock market where y is unreasonably disproportionate to most.
by fn-mote | 2026-01-08 01:35:34+00:00
Fox news video from a closer perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNnVbXPCEDU

A man approaches her car and tries to pull the door open. She attempts to drive away. It seems clear to me that the woman is trying to escape. Watch the clip yourself. Note the direction the front wheels are pointing, both before and after the agent attempts to pull open the door.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-08 01:36:09+00:00
> there even should be a cap on how many homes an individual can own for rentals

India still has this in some states [1]. You wind up with everyone in the family owning a house. After that, other people own it and pass on most of the rent.

Better: progressive capital-gains taxes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Land_(Ceiling_and_Regula...
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-08 01:36:31+00:00
Not to mention, going to an ER for something that doesn't turn out to be an emergency carries a high risk of coming back home with something significantly worse.

Last time I was in ER, I accompanied my wife; we got bounced due to lack of appropriate doctor on site, she ended up getting help in another hospital, and I came back home with severe case of COVID-19.

Related: every pediatrician I've been to with my kids during the flu season says the same thing: if you can't get an appointment in a local clinic, stay home; avoid hospitals unless the kid develops life-threatening symptoms, as visiting such places carry high risk of the kid catching something even worse (usually RSV).
by michaelmrose | 2026-01-08 01:36:33+00:00
The average human is a moron you wouldn't trust to watch your hamster. If you watched them outside of the narrow range of tasks they have been trained to perform by rote you would probably conclude they should qualify for benefits by virtue of mental disability.

We give them WAY too much credit by watching mostly the things they have been trained specifically to do and pretending this indicates a general mental competence that just doesn't exist.
by mlmonkey | 2026-01-08 01:37:08+00:00
It's a question of incentives. From what I've heard: ICE agents are incentivized to the tune of $5000 for every immigrant deported. So they go after the low-hanging fruits: the immigrants coming in for their periodic immigration court hearings, the Home Depot parking lots, etc.

This is why you hear about old grannies being arrested and deported and random immigrant workers with no criminal history being nabbed.

Basically, ICE is a group of bounty hunters and they have no qualms about breaking the law if it leads to a nice payday.
by swat535 | 2026-01-08 01:37:40+00:00
> To be an invasion there needs to be a sustained on the ground presence of the invading force.

What exactly do you think is going to happen to the oil in Venezuela? Are you under the impression that they will simply leave them be and hope for the best?

United States will be placing military assets to secure it, just like they did with IRAQ. The entire point of this was to secure the oil and now they have to to guard it.

Establishing military bases on sovereign nations that you captured by force illegally is an invasion.
by xeonmc | 2026-01-08 01:37:53+00:00
I’m more thinking in terms of mailbox-as-identity being a single point of failure leaving you at the mercy of choosing one reliable provider, whereas mailbox-agility means you can migrate transparently. An analogy I would make would be akin to your personal website having your own domain name and hosting on GitHub pages, instead of having your GitHub pages address as your permanent handle.
by halperter | 2026-01-08 01:37:58+00:00
> American taxpayers have spent billions on these organizations with little return, while they often criticize U.S. policies, advance agendas contrary to our values, or waste taxpayer dollars by purporting to address important issues but not achieving any real results.

>By exiting these entities, President Trump is saving taxpayer money and refocusing resources on America First priorities.

Taking a look at the actual list, many of these organizations deal with issues such as climate change, environmental protection, and education. I think this means two things: One, the U.S. is further breaking away from the rest of the world. Trump's "America First" policies have effectively broke alliances and trust. Two, the current administration is quite heavily biased against clean energy. A majority of the organizations left are governing/advising on environmental issues, namely renewable energy and climate change. Trump frames the decision as "pro-America"; Trump says "our" values, he means his/his party's. I don't think that many people who have put at least a little research into the subject would agree that a) Climate change is not an issue and b) Renewables are (or at least getting to be) a good alternative to our currently climate-change exacerbating sources of power. The U.S. is going to be divided more and more along party lines, and it's going to get harder and harder to stop.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 01:38:42+00:00
I don't understand the claim: is it that farming diets are unhealthy, or something else? I'd expect subsistence lifestyles to have higher all-round mortality, but probably not CVD specifically.

> People in India smoked just as much when they weren't living such sedentary lifestyles.

I suspect they also lived shorter lives for the aforementioned all-round mortality reasons.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-08 01:38:43+00:00
> Controversial, but for affordability reasons, there even should be a cap on how many homes an individual can own for rentals.

Here in Norway the solution, as with so many other things, is taxing. Your home is evaluated at some "market rate", but if it's your primary residence the effective tax value is just 25% up to $1 million (70% on value above $1 million). For reference, a typical 3-room apartment in Oslo, the capital, is around $400-500k.

However, if it's not your primary residence, then you pay tax on 100% of the "market rate". The tax rate is 1%, so not insignificant.

Until a few years ago, tax on non-primary residences was much lower, and hence we had a lot more people buying to rent if they inherited money or similar. Some even had a dozen or more properties. These have now exited, so policy is working as intended.

One thing of course politicians for some reason didn't think of is that if most of the landlords suddenly sell, rental market will shrink. So now it's super-expensive to rent, and those who rent usually do so because they can't buy for one reason or another (no stable income to support a loan for example).
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-08 01:38:55+00:00
1. Minnesota will absolutely prosecute, Walz has already announced a criminal investigation.

2. We'll let the jury decide but ICE is specifically trained not to shoot at moving vehicles and not to approach them from the front.

3. The president can't pardon someone convicted of murder in a state court, he can only pardon people convicted of federal crimes.
by TheAlchemist | 2026-01-08 01:39:17+00:00
Because news shouldn't be what is on the front page on HN, and I generally agree.

However, we're not living in normal times. US is speed running the book to become a dictatorship, or probably worse. And it's in no small part thanks to the tech community, which HN is all about.

Recent story about how Grok is used to produce naked pictures of any women or girl, including young kids, was killed very quickly on HN. I feel like a lot of people working in tech should take a good look in the mirror.