MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by big_toast | 2026-01-07 23:03:15+00:00
Is there a reason wrong data isn't considered more broadly in its context as still valuable?

Shouldn't the model effectively 1. learn to complete the incorrect thing and 2. learn the context that it's correct and incorrect? In this case the context being lazy LMArena users. And presumably, in the future, poorly filtered training data.

We seem to be able to read incorrect things and not be corrupted (well, theoretically). It's not ideal, but it seems an important component to intellectual resilience.

It seems like the model knowing the data is LMArena, or some type of un-trusted, would be sufficient to shift the prior to a reasonable place.
by hunter-gatherer | 2026-01-07 23:03:30+00:00
> But I do think people (try to) follow the main strokes of what the government tells them is a healthy dietary balance...

Do you really observe that in your circles? I've lived in 6 different states, from Maryland to Idaho, and I've never got an impression that many people take any real though or consideration for their health at all. If anything, I'd armchair guestimate something like 10% of adults seem to put any real attention of effort into their health. I feel like late teens to late college year people put more effort in general, but only because they themselves are on the meat market and don't usually have complex lives (kids, careers)
by dheera | 2026-01-07 23:04:48+00:00
No. If you want affordability, make the government efficient and tax people LESS.

The government steals half of my money, half of my landlord's money, and I have to pay my landlord’s income and property tax in addition to my own income tax.

This is why I still cannot afford a home even though I work in a senior role in AI. After paying all those damn taxes and everyone else’s taxes there is almost nothing left.
by dang | 2026-01-07 23:04:49+00:00
It never feels tangential, and I'm not saying your point isn't a good one! It's just that if you zoom out far enough, it's obviously not the topic, and this sort of subthread has a way of attracting more attention (and therefore upvotes) than discussion that's about the topic and genuinely curious.

Here's my favorite way of explicating that guideline: it's not that these things aren't annoying—they are annoying! That's why people make posts like this and upvote them. It's just that, at a global level, they aren't optimal for what we're, er, optimizing for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Hence that guideline.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-07 23:05:27+00:00
They paid a total of 2 people...

That's not quite what TFA says. Rather:

"The UCSF researchers analyzed more than 340 documents, totaling 1,582 pages of text, between the sugar industry and two individuals...."

That is, this research (into industry influence) focused on the available and reviewed correspondence between the industry group and two specific researchers. There's nothing about this article or the referenced analysis which precludes additional other researchers being similarly influenced.
by nadis | 2026-01-07 23:05:36+00:00
Getting a 404 Not Found for this post - is the blog down?

I was really curious to read it given the comments + full disclosure my co-founder recently wrote about a similar topic ("To Tool or Not to Tool") https://blog.codeyam.com/p/to-tool-or-not-to-tool .

I wanted to see how this is similar or different with the focus on Claude Code + Skills in a more literal sense vs. tools in a more abstract sense.
by caditinpiscinam | 2026-01-07 23:06:13+00:00
> A vanishingly tiny number of people own almost all the wealth in the system

I'm not sure this is true. Based on a couple articles I found, this is what the current situation looks like in USA:

a) Billionaires, (of whom there are about 1,000) own about 5% of the wealth

b) Millionaires, (of whom there are about 25 million, or 7% of the population, excluding billionaires) own about 74% of the wealth

This tracks with my impression of the rental market. Most rent money isn't going to the billionaires or big corporations, it's going to the 10 million or so mom-and-pop rental property owners.

I'm not an expert on this stuff by any means, but my intuition is that it's a cycle, wherein the rental system is one of the largest drivers of wealth inequality in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-concentrat...
by zdragnar | 2026-01-07 23:07:09+00:00
If you don't need to be physically seen to make a determination, most hospitals and networks operate phone lines where you can speak with a nurse who will triage symptoms and either recommend home remedies or an appointment as needed.

I'm not sure if this has switched entirely to video calls or not, but when it became popular it was a great way to avoid overloading urgent care and general physicians with non-urgent help requests.
by dang | 2026-01-07 23:07:13+00:00
> Maybe it’s a real person and I’m being an asshole here, but it’s hard to tell.

The site guidelines are clear on this: you should assume that it's a real person and try your best to reel back these sorts of accusations, which are nearly always wrong, and nearly always driven by differences of background and (therefore) opinion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm rushing out the door just now but here are a couple of past explanations about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41948722 (Oct 2024)

(as well as https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... of course)
by usef- | 2026-01-07 23:07:43+00:00
The selling feature is that it's more polished (and has good accessibility etc), they're still intended to be customised, which you could use AI for. Why use Tailwind itself when you could generate one with AI? Because it's solidly tested and polished, similarly.

But the broader, more important point: an open source project previously could be funded by using attention to sell other services or add-ons. But that model might be gone if users no longer visit or know the creators.
by wiml | 2026-01-07 23:07:44+00:00
You can run an LLM locally (and distributed compile systems, where the compiler runs in the cloud, are a thing, too) so that doesn't really produce a distinction between the two.

Likewise, many optimization techniques involve some randomness, whether it's approximating an NP-thorny subproblem, or using PGO guided by statistical sampling. People might disable those in pursuit of reproducible builds, but no one would claim that enabling those features makes GCC or LLVM no longer a compiler. So nondeterminism isn't really the distinguishing factor either.
by tptacek | 2026-01-07 23:08:03+00:00
You're telling a just-so story, and you can tell because there isn't a simple schematic 1-2-3 story you can make from this about how these people exert control over home prices. Words mean things; wielding scarcity requires you to control enough inventory to manipulate scarcity, and REITs and corporate buyers empirically don't.

I get why people like telling stories like this: it suggests there's a single boogeyman that can be dispelled to solve the affordability problem without painstakingly goring people's oxes state-by-state and municipality-by-municipality. But it's a fantasy.

If you can tell this story in simple step-by-step form, you will. I think you could tell a story about how a large corporate buyer clears out all the marginal buyers for some thin market like an individual subdivision or tranche of new construction housing in the Sun Belt. But I don't think you can tell a realistic story for them being "a huge driving force in setting and manipulating prices" across the whole market. I look forward to seeing your attempt, though.
by halperter | 2026-01-07 23:08:07+00:00
Some beauties:

"I lost the game"

"Python is just executable pseudocode"

"How do I exit vim?"

"My stomach is speaking whale"

"Triforce Collected"

"Why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways"

"I wish I could double jump in real life"

"Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10 but buns in packs of 8?"

The website seems like a combination of shower thoughts, hot takes, and the occasional NSFW material.
by sliken | 2026-01-07 23:08:17+00:00
Sure. But it's a depreciation and there's numerous similar settings that are only available by tweaking settings manually or using gnome-tweaks. Right now nearly every linux app supports select with the left button and paste with the middle. It's fast, useful, doesn't require a keyboard, etc. Amusingly I've seen various logins block control-v, but middle click works. God forbid you use a password safe with your bank login.

When you use gnome-tweaks there's a ton of "WARNING you may break things" and of course anything off the default path is likely to receive zero testing.

Personally I find middle click to paste one of the differentiators between MacOS, Windows, and Linux. I'm pretty surprised it's not more common. I was amused the iterm2 added select without having to type control-c.
by watwut | 2026-01-07 23:08:42+00:00
Yes, it is clear there was local help. Someone who had a lot to gain, it could even be someone from government looking for promotion or seeing maduro as a threat, including the new president herself. That does not imply control over Venezuela. Nor alignment with American goals.

I mean, official American goals are "taking oil and getting money from it, putting it to offshore account". There is no "alignment on goals" possible, but there is a space for corruption and pressure. Venezuela is highly corrupt country after all.

> Or is it setting up a complete government like in Iraq, postwar Germany/Japan, etc.?

That would require actual invasion and actual control over land - military on the ground. Soldiers in high numbers, patrolling streets and shooting it out with militias. There is nothing of the sort going on. Besides, Iraq was failure.

Germany was literally defeated and destroyed after the war. Fight capable men were already killed in large numbers and Germans themselves seen themselves as losers of that war. And comfortably, their ideology of "might is right" meant that once they were destroyed they accepted to loss.

Trump and Vance may be able to peer it with militias, as another gang competing with local gangs, but they cant build equivalent of post WWII Germany. Because both sides are different - Venezuela is not defeated, there is no American military in there and American ideology is closer to that of past Germany then that of post WWII America.
by smeej | 2026-01-07 23:09:21+00:00
Also came looking for this comment. I get the symbolism of leaving grains at the bottom, but it's dumb.

Just turn the darn thing over. I won't even complain much about having the bottom bulk be "meat, vegetables, and fruit" with just a tiny layer of grains at the top. But this is a funnel, not a pyramid.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-07 23:09:22+00:00
There is a project under way to specify how to "sync" device-bound keys between authenticators: https://fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxp-v1.0-wd-20241003.html

Ideally this should have been hashed out before deploying passkeys everywhere, but I guess you can always register multiple passkeys for the sites that allow you to.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-07 23:09:27+00:00
The pre-paywall stuff makes it sound like this is about the 2025 METR study of time taken versus time reported. [0]

While the authors noted that they cant prove their experiences are broadly representative of the entire craft/industry, IMO that's a pretty high bar for anybody to clear.

[0] https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
by CPLX | 2026-01-07 23:09:37+00:00
It's not the opposite of a problem, it's orthogonal.

In this particular instance, what's happening is that it's crowding out and destroying diversity in the home builder market.

The model is built to rent out, and it's taking capacity out of the build-to-sell market. It's putting regional and smaller homebuilders that have traditionally provided most of the housing out of business because of their greater access to national capital.

We are seeing this everywhere in the economy. If you have access to Wall Street capital, you can put basically everybody outside of business and then set the price. That's exactly what's happening.
by derangedHorse | 2026-01-07 23:09:55+00:00
> All improvements are excluded from a land value tax, which actually means improvements are even more incentivized.

I'm not sure what this applies to with regards to my original comment. Improvements, insurance, and taxes are capital expenditures which need to be managed. This was to counter that landlording "is simply owning an asset."

> Yes that is correct if you occupy land while your community makes it more and more valuable, you should not get wealthier and wealthier for no reason. All of that should be taxed away.

Why assume that the landlord isn't getting the brunt of the cost for making the community more valuable? I don't think there's a strong case for saying a property manager is a job while denying landlording being one. Assuming landlording is completely passive is as far-fetched as thinking that property management is completely passive (both may require irregularly tasks to be performed or require no involvement in the ideal case).
by dang | 2026-01-07 23:10:19+00:00
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You're doing it quite badly. I don't want to ban you, but posts like this make it hard not to, because people will start accusing us of enforcing the rules unfairly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: perhaps this will help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41948722. More at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
by com2kid | 2026-01-07 23:10:26+00:00
Chatgpt helped me solve a side effect I had with a medication just by suggesting a changing to dose timing. Solid improvement to my QoL just from one small change. My doctor completely agreed with the suggestion.

When I got worried about an exercise suggestion from an app I'm using (weight being used for prone dumbbell leg curls) Chatgpt confirmed there is a suggested upper limit on weight for that exercise and that I should switch it out. I appreciate not injuring myself. (Gemini gave a horrible response, heh...)

Chatgpt is dangerous because it is still too agreeable and when you do go outside what it knows the answers get wrong fast, but when it is useful it is very useful.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-07 23:10:36+00:00
CrossDOS was a combination of mfm.device (asking the disk hardware to do funky things) as well as CrossDOSFileSystem (FAT12 filesystem handler).

What's interesting is not so much the 68K emulator (though that is interesting for Python), but rather that it's using VAMOS - the most amazing thing about the amitools project.

VAMOS is a full-on pretend version of AmigaOS in Python, that hooks everything up so that e.g. dos.library's Open() actually calls Python's open(), and so on.

https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools

Here is, for example, its fake implementation of dos.library: https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/blob/main/amitools/vamo...

The "libcore" code reads a .fd file (which on the Amiga is a parseable description of the API calls in a library, for generating include files and stubs), then it creates a fake library base in memory with fake jumptable entries... which jump to two instructions, an "ALINE" trap (any two bytes from 0xA000 to 0xAFFF, which trigger the 68000's ALINE trap handler, one is allocated for each library call), then RTS... That's enough to let Python take back control from the emulator when the trap arrives, and emulate the API call.

It does make me wonder how scalable VAMOS if there are no more than 4096 library calls possible.

Anyway, what concerns me about amifuse is that VAMOS has no BCPL internals. pr_GlobVec isn't filled out. AmigaDOS 1.x was written in BCPL (it's an Amiga port of TRIPOS), and AmigaDOS 2.x/3.x went to great pains to pretend BCPL internals were still there, even though they weren't. I'm sure I've seen a number of filesystem handlers that relied on BCPL internals... these just won't work in VAMOS as it stands, and therefore won't work in amifuse.

It's a little bit odd that amifuse only demonstrates working with PFS. Does it work with AFS (AmiFileSafe), SFS (SmartFileSystem)? What about FastFileSystem, CacheCDFS, CrossDOSFileSystem, MultiUserFS and so on?

For that matter, the native filesystem handler in AmigaOS 2.x/3.x was ROM resident. How would one extract it and patch it up to run outside the ROM, so that it could then be use with amifuse?
by dmayle | 2026-01-07 23:10:53+00:00
Fun...

This is something I have been thinking about and researching for awhile, because there is so very much confusing language out there.

Your quote says over the last century, so I'm going to use roughly 1920 as the baseline. It also refers to a per capita increase of meat consumption by 100 pounds, or about 45.4 kilograms (to make the math easier). This is roughly an increase of 124g of meat per person per day (or about 3oz if that makes more sense to you).

This equates to a daily increase in per-capita protein intake by 25-30g (depending on which meat and how lean it is).

In 1920, the average American adult male was about 140 pounds, and ate about 100g of protein per day, which works out to roughly 0.71 grams per pound of body weight (or about 1.6 grams per kilogram).

In 2025, one century later, the average American adult male is 200 pounds, and if he eats the same ratio of weight to protein, you would expect that he would eat around 140g of protein per day, which is slightly higher than the increase in per-capita meat consumption over the same time.

However, if you look at actual statistics of what people are eating in protein, you'll see that the average American adult male is actually eating about 97g of protein per day, or about 0.49 grams per pound (1.1 grams per kg), which is much less than we ate a century ago, which means that that the increase in meat consumption doesn't match change in protein, so is offset by either less non-meat protein, meat with lower protein content (e.g. more fat), or both.

There was some discussion lower in the thread about bodybuilders vs normal people, and about basing your calculations on lean body weight vs full bodyweight. Lean body weight calculations are often used for bodybuilders, but those numbers are elevated (typically 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body weight). For someone who is sedentary to lightly active (e.g. daily walks), the calculation is based on full body weight, not lean body weight, and is about 0.7 gram per pound (or 1.5 grams per kilogram), which matches this recommendation exactly.

Hitting these targets has been shown to greatly increase satiation, reduce appetite, but it does not make you lose weight, and it is not permanent (reducing your protein intake removes the effect, which makes sense). However, long term studies show that people who increase their protein intake to these levels and lose weight (through calorie reduction or fasting) keep that weight off.

Finally, from what I've been able to cobble together, high protein intakes combined with high fat and high sugar intakes does not have the same effect as a diet that matches the recommendations here (ie. it's not just about higher protein intake, it's about percentage of calories from protein, which should be around 20-25%... 200 pound sedentary to lightly active adult male, 140g of protein, or 560 calories, in a total diet of 2250-2800 calories, depending on activity level)
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-07 23:11:12+00:00
>Right now we have government guidance telling people to eat more processed carbs than meat

No we don't. Please show me where.

Are you claiming the old food pyramid is where?

Because Bush jr deprecated that in 2006, and his new, balanced pyramid was again replaced in 2011 by MyPlate, which did not tell you to eat more processed carbs, and was not even a pyramid.

Why do so many of you people think that something that was very clearly replaced twice is still somehow in effect? How much of the recent history of the US are you guys missing? Did you lose your memory or something?
by chem83 | 2026-01-07 23:11:23+00:00
Relevant callout from https://bikemap.nyc/about:

* Limitations *

The data only contains the start and end station for each trip, but does not contain the full path. Route geometries are computed for each (start station, end station) pair using the shortest path from OSRM.

This means that the computed routes are directionally correct but inexact. Trips that start and end at the same station are filtered out since the route geometry is ambiguous.
by bccdee | 2026-01-07 23:11:57+00:00
Assuming that "chemical modification" is when you modify something by adding a chemical reagent to it, milk is chemically modified to create cheese curds, sugars are chemically modified to create vinegar and alcohol, and breads & cakes are chemically modified when they rise.

However, this definition of chemical modification doesn't really include hydrogenated vegetable oil. Industrial hydrogenation is done by raising oil to very high temperatures in the presence of a nickel catalyst & then adding hydrogen. We modify it on a chemical level, but primarily by heating it, not by adding reactive substances. And if that counts as chemical modification, then so does cooking!

Anyway, no—people generally used "processed" to describe a particular vibe they get from certain foodstuffs whose production seems too industrialized. There's no rigorous basis for determining what is and isn't "processed" because people use it to describe their feelings about food, not any underlying property of food.

If you search a simple question like "is bread processed," you get a bunch of articles saying "well, since there's no agreed-upon definition for processing and the definitions we do have aren't particularly clear, there's really no answer to the question. But don't worry, because (given the overwhelming vagueness of the category), it's also impossible to say whether processed foods as a category have any health implications, so you shouldn't worry about it."
by halperter | 2026-01-07 23:12:49+00:00
How does cooling get implemented? I can only really think of a Pi500 as a similar concept, except that the Pi is (likely) much less power intense. If they're using a Ryzen 300, wouldn't heat dissapation become an issue? The keyboard looks too thin for extensive heat transfer. I guess they could use a undervolted Ryzen 300 but it just seems like there is too much power delivery needs inside such a small frame.
by wyre | 2026-01-07 23:13:27+00:00
>”economy is completely fucked and we are in a race to steal and horde all the data before people catch on”

Have you been following current events for the past year? This is not an absurd statement.

You can’t just dismiss news you don’t want to accept as ”doomer FUD”, call a leading economics an “huckster” and then not back it up with real data. Go to twitter or truth social if you want to cherry-pick the news you want to believe in.
by cmpalmer52 | 2026-01-07 23:13:37+00:00
There is no “social” media anymore, there’s just algorithmic feeds of dubious news, memes, ads, AI generated content (and AI generated ads), promoted content, and short form videos by people you don’t know. You have to really dig to keep up with your friends and people who have interesting things to contribute unless they have the numbers to break through. Or you click and filter a lot.
by zemo | 2026-01-07 23:13:39+00:00
this argument is also broadly true about the quality and correctness of posts on any vote-based discussion board

> Why is LMArena so easy to game? The answer is structural.
> The system is fully open to the Internet. LMArena is built on unpaid labor from uncontrolled volunteers.

also all user's votes count equally, bu not all users have equal knowledge.