MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by overfeed | 2026-01-07 20:22:05+00:00
> governed by how much a bank will lend [...] Very small but affordable houses will never be built because a bank will not finance a $10,000 loan over 30 years.

Banks typically won't hold onto to your loan for 30 years. Mortgages in the US have been thoroughly fiscalized: your typical bank/mortgage lender bundles up a bunch of loans and sells them to another servicing party as soon as the ink dries on the closing documents. The specialized servicer package them, and offer them as securities to investors who in turn will get a monthly return based on aggregate mortgage installments.

All this to say: lending banks would be happy to finance thousands upon thousands of 5-digit mortgages, and sell those to securitization specialists.

New houses aren't built in existing neighborhoods because dense housing is unpopular, as is a distaste of having "poorer" people as neighbors. Static zoning, terrible transport networks and no funding for new public infrastructure tag-team to discourage new developments on undeveloped farmland.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-07 20:22:11+00:00
If we truly hit the point where we have more people than jobs. That we hit AI improving at miraculous paces that we cant even reskill people. I think it would be better to essentially have make work programs. Have basic qualification programs where you are guaranteed a job. People need a purpose. Throw every person capable of getting an engineering or science degree into labs. Massively expand teaching, nurseing and medicine so there is extremely personal care just by the sheer numbers.
by canucker2016 | 2026-01-07 20:22:26+00:00
One major hire that you rarely hear about is when Microsoft hired an outsider (formerly at at IBM and Boeing) to take over as President and Chief Operating Officer.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/20/business/business-people-...

But less than two years later

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/04/business/microsoft-presid...
by Symbiote | 2026-01-07 20:22:39+00:00
Many, many people want to double or halve documents.

Teachers at school would print (or photocopy) A4 in half to save paper, or doubled for the blind girl in my class.

I'd do it myself at university to save paper (money).

I don't print much nowadays, but I use this feature occasionally to print something as a booklet. I printed some lost board game rules on A3, since it was an A4 PDF.
by xtracto | 2026-01-07 20:22:48+00:00
Exactly. I dare to say that it was a matter of UX. The experience i got was that you arrived at a SO question from Google and the accepted answer was from years ago and irrelevant at the present time.

They did a quick patch by letting you sort answers by some attribute, but darn, that's low effort product/ux dev. What did those teams do in 10 years??
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-07 20:23:13+00:00
Frankly I just don’t trust federal health info while RFK jr. Is at the helm. 2 days ago they reduced the recommended scheduled vaccines from 19->11 with absolutely no evidence or process. All vibes and conspiracies.

Why should I trust them with the food pyramid? How do I know if anyone who actually has expertise was consulted when his signature move has been axe experts and bring in “skeptics” with no actual background since day 1?

Everybody expects us to be so sympathetic to the general distrust of government by conservatives based on their experience (especially with Covid) but when the shoe is on the foot suddenly I’m supposed to play ball and accept health advice from Robert Fucking Kennedy Jr.? The antivaxxer who has led to countless unnecessary deaths? Who walked up with the president and said “Tylenol is linked to autism” with no evidence?

No way.

Edit: it’s worth mentioning that he and a bunch of “MAHA” proponents cite the natural and healthy food in Europe but never want to use the dirty word that makes it happen: regulation. If we are serious about unhealthy additives and other food concerns, then we need robust regulations. They aren’t serious about change. It’s easy to go “we’re gonna have everyone eat healthy and natural stuff” but when it counts they won’t do what is necessary.
by chuckadams | 2026-01-07 20:23:16+00:00
How would you possibly enforce this? I can disconnect my laptop from the internet and the local LLM will still autocomplete TW classes. Does JetBrains therefore owe TW every time it does this? What if it was actually completing UnoCSS class names that happen to overlap? How about when it's just simple autocomplete based on what classes are visible and what I've used within the same file?

These might sound like snide rhetorical questions, but when you start demanding payment, they're very real.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-07 20:23:17+00:00
If the claim is that a lack of meat in our diets is what is causing these issues then I'd expect there to be some connection in the data. It is possible that all of the benefit we get from our meat eating habits are overwhelmed by other harmful effects. But if that is the case then surely "change those other harmful effects" is more valuable than "increase meat consumption further."
by falcor84 | 2026-01-07 20:23:38+00:00
It's from Joel Spolsky in that post linked by the grandparent, from 2006. And that's exactly what I'm saying - it was one honking great idea. Microsoft saw how central the web is becoming, and integrated it into the OS

As for legality, I'm not a lawyer and definitely not an antitrust one, but as I see it, an OS is almost by definition an amorphous collection of tools that users need to make proper use of their computer and nowadays I can't imagine an OS that doesn't come with a browser, so would argue that they were absolutely right in integrating it. If anything, I see much more merit in suing them for abusing their OS monopoly to go into the solitaire gaming space.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-07 20:24:14+00:00
> A couple calls from Coke, Pepsi, etc lobbyists shot that down.

Fucking hell, if this is true, I don't know how those people sleep at night. Really, It's a failure if my imagination, but I don't imagine how people like this function. I'm sure I've done my share of indirect harm in this world, one way or the other, but being so on the nose about it would make me absolutely nauseous.
by sxp | 2026-01-07 20:24:18+00:00
> Naina Raisinghani, 00 needed a name for the new tool to complete the upload. It was 2:30 a.m., though, and nobody was around. So she just made one up, a mashup of two nicknames friends had given her: Nano Banana.

Ah, that explains the silly name for such an impressive tool. I guess it's more a more Googley name than what would have otherwise been chosen: Google Gemini Image Pro Red for Workspace.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-07 20:24:26+00:00
Not bad.

I mean, the site runs like ass on my machine and gets the scrolling wrong a lot

But the recommendations are actually pretty good, and I even think the wording and tone is right, and I think it could stick in the minds of modern generations.

It does a good job of not pushing or engaging in any sort of BS conspiracy against seed oil or telling you to eat raw bull testicles or any bullshit.

Though, to be frank, this is what the entire medical establishment has been saying without fail for over 30 years. This was known when we built the original Food Pyramid. We expanded the grains category in it because of grain grower lobbying, and it was known to be not that important, though a grain heavy diet would have been a beneficial recommendation a hundred years ago when America was less wealthy.

The food pyramid shown here was replaced by the Bush Jr admin 20 years ago. Then we had a short lived pyramid that made no suggestions on amounts, and encouraged physical activity, and that was replaced by MyPlate which hilariously puts "dairy" in a glass as if you should regularly drink milk and not otherwise consume dairy.

My one qualm is that 100g per normal sized person of protein per day I think is a bit much, but Americans already do that for diet choice reasons. It really should be more plant food than meat.

But the official medical guidance has been identical for my entire life at least: "Eat a varied and balanced diet, don't over snack, don't drink calories, eat lots of plant fiber, eat basically anything in light moderation, exercise"

Oh sure, the tabloids at the checkout always have some diet fad. It was never supported by science or recommended by the actual field of medical science. Even during the 90s when we supposedly demonized fat, that was primarily diet culture.

The reality is knowing "what is a healthy diet" hasn't been the limiting factor in several generations. People aren't fat because they think chips, soda, and chicken nuggets are healthy for heavens sake.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-07 20:24:27+00:00
Yes, lamination can be done with almost any fat, but the more you laminate (more layers / folds), the more that liquid fats sort of absorb into the dough, and stop having the desired separating effect. So while oil layering works well for e.g. paratha-style roti, scallion pancakes, and things that only really get one or two "layers" or "folds", oil is just fine. But when you get to something like a croissant, or even just a rough puff pastry (e.g. https://www.seriouseats.com/old-fashioned-flaky-pie-dough-re...), liquid fats are usually a complete non-starter.

You might be able to achieve something if you can somehow freeze your olive oil and chill your dough, and work very quickly during lamination, but you should, even with a lot of work and tweaking, still expect to get a noticeably inferior product for something like croissants.

Depending on how picky you are/not, you might still be personally happy with the texture and taste, but don't expect to get even remotely close to an actual good butter croissant, by more objective standards. Here in Canada we had a minor problem with the butter texture due to what we feed our cows here ("buttergate"), and this was preventing professional bakers from achieving quality croissants with just the Canadian butter. This should make you highly skeptical that you can get anything good with something as different as olive oil.

Still, I do love the idea of an olive oil croissant, it would be delicious.
by wubrr | 2026-01-07 20:24:30+00:00
> I have learned that this is our custom in Toronto. We assume everything ...

Don't assume everyone else is as insecure and intellectually-dishonest as you.

> How do you racially identify?

The fact that this is still your main concern only continues to demonstrate that you are:

- racist
- insecure in your own identity and beliefs
- intellectually dishonest
by guywithahat | 2026-01-07 20:24:43+00:00
Why do they not link Trumps posts? I would really rather be able to see what he said, and this was something he posted online to truth social

Edit: I think this was the post https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1158550595275...

I guess they didn't link it because it changes the meaning of the article, his post reads more like he's going to discuss it and wants to do something about it.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-07 20:24:59+00:00
>the US is terrible at protecting american jobs for americans.

I recently finished Peter Zehan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning and in it, it explicitly says that the American economic order was created in such a way that the loss of American jobs over time was by design.

Basically, as the American worker and consumer expects more and more, we need a larger international system to support that ("a rising tide..." analogy). However, we let the profits derived from such a system wind up in a smaller and smaller group of self-interested people who don't give a damn if the whole system goes belly up, because they've "got theirs". Such short-sighted thinking.
by jrussino | 2026-01-07 20:25:14+00:00
This one stood out to me even more:
> I'm used to have 495 tabs open on my iPhone

iOS Safari lets you have 500 tabs max in a "tab group", including the default tab group which is the one that shows "N Tabs" when you open the browser.

I tend to hit this limit every few months and end up saving everything that's currently open into a new tab group with a name like "Old Tabs January 2026".
by jesse__ | 2026-01-07 20:25:23+00:00
Interestingly they do not cite calculating a signed distance to the surface of the shape as an approach to doing AA, as described in the Valve paper [1]. I suppose this is more targeted at offline baking, but given they're suggesting iterating every curve at every pixel, I'm not sure why you wouldn't.

[1] https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-07 20:25:36+00:00
I'll bite. I think there is a difference between "should they" and "should they be able to."

Most liberals I know think they shouldn't but that its stupid to police this aspect of people's behavior if they are on EBT. Most liberals might even feel more comfortable regulating everyone's behavior by taxing unhealthy foods than they would just bothering poor people with it.
by newtonsmethod | 2026-01-07 20:25:40+00:00
I think you're getting your facts wrong: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/01/business/trump-furniture-...

"President Donald Trump has delayed new tariff increases on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets, and vanities for a year, pushing their implementation to 2027, according to a White House statement."
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-07 20:25:51+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532033

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532004

It costs relatively little to create an LLC. This is not an uncommon pattern for people in groups commonly targeted by hate-motivated doxing and similar attacks. This is not a "rich-person trick", and if you can afford a house, the cost of an LLC is a very tiny expense by comparison.
by ryandv | 2026-01-07 20:26:18+00:00
> The fact that this is still your main concern only continues to demonstrate that you are:

> - racist

As an ethnic minority, I cannot be racist, as societal and institutional power is a necessary condition for racism to exist [0].

Perhaps you should get an education, instead of just being a white truck-driving yokel.

Although mainstream definitions of racism are typically some variation of in-
dividual “race prejudice”, which anyone of any race can have, Whiteness scholars
define racism as encompassing economic, political, social, and cultural structures,
actions, and beliefs that systematize and perpetuate an unequal distribution of
privileges, resources and power between white people and people of color (Hil-
liard, 1992).

[0] https://robindiangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/White-F...
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-07 20:26:26+00:00
We published an institutional, non-normative audit of a 27-document cognitive framework (CP27).

Core idea: the most important output of an AI system is sometimes STOP.

The work focuses on:
- placing decision boundaries as early as possible,
- enforcing STOP / SILENCE as a valid result,
- strict separation between narrative, methodology, and governance,
- human-only decision authority (AI limited to measurement & verification).

Think edge security logic, applied to cognition and AI systems.

No certification claims, no normative authority.
Fully auditable, falsifiable, and institution-ready by design.

Interested in discussion on structure, not beliefs.
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-07 20:26:59+00:00
I bought their Plus thing a while back and not I can't find myself a reason to use it.

If I was considering that purchase in today's landscape, I would surely not buy it. At $299 USD I can have a decent model do the job of writing custom tailored components for me and iterate extensively on them.

Hard sell with a "UI Kit" versus a "UI Brain".

If I were Adam I would drop to $29.99 and accept the status quo, but not make it lifetime access to try and not piss off existing owners, and I would pivot to building a Frontend AI Agent and a Tailwind Labs Model.
by pikdum | 2026-01-07 20:27:13+00:00
Only an anecdote, but I was working on a side project with another dev who wanted to use Tailwind Plus components. It wasn't immediately obvious whether this was allowed under his personal license or if we'd have to get a team license instead, though.

We decided to go with a FOSS component library instead to avoid any potential issues down the road. After re-reading the license page now, I'm still not sure.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-07 20:27:42+00:00
Well technically that’s true, in the same sense that the only way to roll back inflation is demand destruction (and an extended recession or depression).

The problem with this is that you can’t forcibly reduce population. Halting growth in one area just displaces it. This can be a good trade if the area into which growth is displaced is underdeveloped with few other potential uses. But it can also create Atlanta or Houston style sprawl, or destroy natural areas that would be better to preserve.

Japan is an unusual example because most job opportunities are in a handful of areas. You can get impossibly cheap properties in the countryside but there are few jobs or young people. Properties in the city keep getting more expensive because of demand and because building codes are constantly evolving to keep up with new developments in earthquake protection. There are older urban properties available for cheap outside of trendy areas, but the cost of renovation is often too high to be worth it. There’s also a cultural stigma around older properties.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-07 20:27:55+00:00
> Sometimes you have to use common sense or try different diets to see how your body reacts.

I sometimes wonder if the complexity of the human body doesn't stop us from seeing things that can have great positive effect on a set of people because it's counteracted by the effect on another set of people so the result in the whole is cancelled out. I now wonder if the statistic methods used in these studies take this into account.

All this to say that I approve of controlled self-experimentation, but you need to be very rigorous and brutally honest. Most people are not.
by chasd00 | 2026-01-07 20:28:06+00:00
i can see what they mean. Another way to think about it is like how adding a lane to a highway doesn't decrease traffic it increases it. There's no shortage of demand in densely populated areas otherwise they wouldn't be densely populated. Adding more units will be met with more demand like adding a lane to a highway is met with more cars on that highway. Fix it by making the area less dense and prices will drop like how the way to fix a busy highway is to decrease the cars on it and traffic will lighten up.
by thrance | 2026-01-07 20:28:14+00:00
Antivax, avocated against pasteurization, thinks fries are healthy when fried in beef tallow, swam in sewers with his grandkids to prove the human body is naturally immune to diseases and vaccines are unnecessary, tried to ban paracetamol based on bad research linking it to autism, and much more if you care to dig a little.
by rayiner | 2026-01-07 20:28:30+00:00
Didn’t those professionals give us the original food pyramid that told us to stuff our faces with bread? Weren’t they the same people that told us not to eat eggs because of cholesterol? And tell us to limit our fish consumption?

Maybe different areas of expertise aren’t equally valid, and even good experts often can’t see the forest for the trees in terms of developing actionable advice.
by Terretta | 2026-01-07 20:28:33+00:00
Wait — what button is this?

Oh: [moon|F6]

“If you are smugly thinking to yourself, “I knew that!”, Then, my question to you is, why didn’t you tell ME???” — https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2023/09/do-not-disturb-key/

It goes on to answer the next question:

“But that got me to wondering how long the F6 has had a dedicated Do Not Disturb function. I did some research and it looks like it was introduced when Apple came out with the first Apple Silicon MacBook Air in 2020. The previous keyboard shortcuts had F4 key dedicated to Launchpad, and if you had a backlit keyboard, F5 and F6 were dedicated to up/down keyboard brightness keys.”
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-07 20:28:35+00:00
> And yes, I've known plenty of vegans who literally want to outlaw meat regardless of need...

Okay, whether or not this is true, projecting such motivations onto me is prejudice. Until you experience it firsthand, you cannot fathom the way American society often treats you the moment you mention you don't eat meat, or advocate for less meat consumption in general.

Everyone's insecurities and prejudices come out, just like now. Lecture after lecture... and then I also have to hear about how non-meat-eaters aggressively push their views on everyone. My experience is the opposite. So let's dispense with the prejudice and graciously interpret each other's comments.

> can you honestly say that a half a century of "low fat" and mostly fat sources that are woefully incomplete on essential fatty acid profiles

This is another straw man. I am not advocating for low-fat products. I am not even vegan. You don't know anything about what I support and are putting words in my mouth.
by jklinger410 | 2026-01-07 20:28:36+00:00
> There is another fallacy in play where people pushing these debates want you to think that there is only one single cause of CVD or health issues: Either sugar, carbs, fat, or something else. The game they play is to point the finger at one thing and imply that it gets the other thing off the hook. Don’t fall for this game.

Okay but right now we're talking about science getting corrupted by money. Which did happen in this instance, so that companies could hide the damage that sugar does to people.

Sugar does damage and scientists were paid to downplay that fact. It is not the first time. This is concerning when we talk about principles and public trust.
by pklausler | 2026-01-07 20:28:44+00:00
I think that it would be easier to get younger people to study Quenya to be able to read fragments of Tolkien in the "original" than it would be to somehow get them to learn to read classical Greek. But it's not that hard to learn to just read Attic and Homeric Greek, and then there's a lifetime of really great stuff that opens up for one to enjoy.
by wrs | 2026-01-07 20:28:59+00:00
Typical paulg overgeneralization from his bubble. Just because many political opinions are legitimately debatable doesn’t mean that every opinion about every topic you call political is equally valid. That’s just silly.

I don’t see Paul acting like every opinion is equally valid when it directly affects something he cares about. He seems to happily participate in “useless” political discussions when he has a strong opinion.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-07 20:29:11+00:00
Single and few number family residential and owner stuff gets all sorts of exemptions in just about every town's zoning code because if not the townsfolk would revolt.

This is why everyone on the internet screeches "well I put up a deck and it wasn't so hard". Try and do a new build of literally any structure and get back to me. Or worse, a construction type that is not the regional default for whatever it is you're doing.

Reality for new construction is way, way, way worse than homeowners think.

Unless you know a guy, in which case it's all open doors and green lights because that's how local politics always is.
by purrcat259 | 2026-01-07 20:29:12+00:00
I don't think WOL works over Wi-Fi and whether you can get WOL from a USB ethernet adapter.

My proxy doesn't attempt to handle security. Most folks use either Tailscale or some other VPN solution. In my case I use the wireguard server in my router to VPN into home which gives me access to the proxy and consequently to the machine.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-07 20:29:21+00:00
I'm young-ish transitioning to middle age (36).

The job market is AWFUL for my generation, and pretty much always has been since we entered the workforce.

Unemployment might be low if you think that folks with advanced STEM degrees can go and get a part time gig at McDonald's.

If you look at meaningful employment - where one can make enough to live near where they work, save a bit, pay food/rent, and spend a bit for their leisure or health, well....no we are not over-employed. We are in a death spiral.