MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thunderbong | 2026-01-03 02:57:09+00:00
The article just puts poverty as a cause of loneliness. But I'm sure there are other factors which also add to it. Culture, shared rituals?

One of the reasons, mentioned in the article, seems to be family members moving away looking for employment.

The definition of loneliness used is - the painful mismatch between expectations of social connection and what happens in reality.

But I'm not sure if people in the survey are also including familial connections there? Would this change between societies of large families versus small?

I just feel that although poverty might be a major cause, there might be other reasons s well?
by 3A2D50 | 2026-01-03 02:57:21+00:00
I connected two portable LCDs I have that support HDR. Both LCDs didn't automatically detect HDR and looked washed out initially. I had to manually change them to HDR. The signal according to the AVR was...

Resolution: 4K60

HDR: HDR10

Color Space: YCbCr 4:4:4/BT.2020

Pixel Depth: 12bits

FRL Rate: ---

...for both the LCDs.

Here are their specs:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q5L245X

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08131MVGT

These LCDs definitely don't have the same range as the OLED! They seem almost equivalent to the OLED with HDR off. With the HDR off for both the desktop and LCD, the HDR video seems flatter. I could increase the monitor's brightness to match the planet when HDR is on, but space would be washed out. I could lower the brightness for darker space but the planet becomes muted. When HDR is off for LCD and desktop I do still see a difference between Youtube's HDR and SDR videos. For example, at the 19s mark I cannot see most of the debris scattering between the viewer and the planet in the SDR video. That should be the case for you too.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-03 02:57:22+00:00
Software support is a big one. I ran pfSense. It did not support changing IPv6 prefixes. It still barely does. So something as simple has having reliable IPv6 connectivity and firewall rules with pfSense was impossible just a few years ago for me.

Android doesn't support DHCPv6 so I can't tell it my preferred NTP server, and Android silently ignores your local DNS server if it is advertised with a IPv4 address and the Android device got a IPv6 address.

Without DHCPv6 then dynamic DNS is required for all servers. Even a 56 bit prefix is too much to remember, especially when it changes every week. So then you need to install and configure a dynamic DNS client on all servers in your network.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 02:57:42+00:00
> HTTP->HTTPS was this kind of scale, and it was smooth because they changed as little as possible while also being very careful about default behaviors.

HTTP->HTTPS is not equivalent in any way. The payload in HTTP and HTTPS are exactly the same; HTTPS simply adds a wrapper (e.g., stunnel can be used with an HTTP-only web server). Further HTTP(S) is only on the end points, and specifically in the application layer: your OS, switch, firewall, CPE, ISP router(s), etc, all can be left alone.

Whereas the primary purpose of IPng was to expand the address space, which means your OS, switch, firewall, CPE, ISP router(s), etc, all have to be modified to handle more address bits in the Layer 3 protocol data unit.

Plus stuff at the application layer like DNS (since A records are 32-bit only, you need an entire new network type): entire new library functions had to be created (e.g., gethostbyname() replaced by getaddrinfo()).
by wat10000 | 2026-01-03 02:59:00+00:00
The reason rideshare drivers have stickers is because they don’t want people using the emergency release. It makes an alarm sound and scrapes the glass on the trim a bit when you use it.

I have one of these cars. I’ve never had a passenger who couldn’t immediately open the front door from the inside. I have had most of them try to open it the “wrong” way.
by userbinator | 2026-01-03 02:59:12+00:00
If you made people actually use their own product (do they?!)

Yes, they do. Unfortunately even MS employees are powerless to do anything about the crap that gets shoved into Windows by other employees working at the company, and the ones who complain about it are quietly shown the door or have already left of their own will, leaving only those who are completely apathetic or...

Then again, I get the biological desire to put food on the table for one's family and therein lies the problem

Exactly. That and the desire to remain in the country --- part of the reason why companies like H-1Bs so much is because they are going to be far more docile and less willing to resist doing things they feel are wrong.
by MindSpunk | 2026-01-03 02:59:22+00:00
> - I don't have a shortage of IPv4. Maybe my ISP or my VPN host do, I don't know. I have a roomy 10.0.0.0/8 to work with.

What happens when multiple devices in your /8 want to listen on port 80 and 443 on the public address? Only one of them can. Now you're running a proxy.

> - Every host routable from anywhere on the Internet? No thanks. Maybe I've been irreparably corrupted by being behind NAT for too long but I like the idea of a gateway between my well kept garden and the jungle and my network topology being hidden.

It's called a firewall. You want a firewall. IPv6 also has a firewall. NAT is not a firewall. NAT is usually configured as part of your firewall, but is not a firewall.

> - Stateless auto configuration. What ? No, no, I want my ducks neatly in a row, not wandering about. Again maybe my brain is rotten from years of DHCP usage but yes, I want stateful configuration and I want all devices on my network to automatically use my internal DNS server thank you very much.

DHCPv6

> - My ISP gives me a /64, what am I supposed to do with that anyways?

What are you supposed to do with a /8? Do you have several million computers?

> - What happens if my ISP decides to change my prefix ? How do my routing rules need to change? I have no idea.

What happens if your ISP changes your IPv4 address?
by solaire_oa | 2026-01-03 02:59:47+00:00
I can confirm, this is sensible advice. I backed the FxTec Pro 1x during a depressive period in depths of COVID. It took ~years of hamstringing for them to deliver, but they did eventually deliver the phone. Even aged as the phone is, it's really well designed, and I occasionally use it with Claude from my couch in the evenings.

Being LineageOS capable is a strong selling point (for the Pro 1x), so if that's on the table with this new phone then I would consider reserving one. But I wouldn't hold my breath that it will ship in 2026.
by handbanana_ | 2026-01-03 03:00:16+00:00
I really don't understand what is different about my installs of Windows 11 compared to what I read in all these types of articles.

I have zero issues with the platform day in and day out with heavy workloads like Pro Tools and Unreal Engine devkit. Games run without stutter and issue, all my features are snappy, Explorer loads instantly, etc. Even search is performant and gives decent results. I have tweaked a few settings but nothing you can't find in settings menus.

I'm not sure a lot of people having issues with pretty damn stable platform are going to have a better experience in something they have zero familiarity with and isn't exactly going to be intuitive when things go sideways, as they most undoubtedly will.
by al_borland | 2026-01-03 03:00:55+00:00
Industry was where Microsoft seemed to find a home for the HoloLens, but it ultimately died as well.

In videos, cooking with the Vision Pro seemed really cool. When my dad is making a holiday meal he has his iPad up with multiple timers to try and keep track of everything. With the Vision Pro you can pin timers to each pot in space, while having all the recipes up. This all seems very cool. However, the bulk may be an issue in practice, as well as steam and other things encountered in the kitchen. The kitchen also tends to be where people socialize or want to help out, and the Vision Pro would make both of those things difficult and awkward.

I only did the in-store demo of the Vision Pro and the immersive videos were the most striking to me. When it went up high in the mountains my stomach dropped as if I was actually up high and about to fall. I’ve been sky diving and I didn’t even have the feel of unease in real life while sitting on the edge of a plane, but I had it during that video. The one with the Alicia Keys concert did it too. I wasn’t expecting it and all of the sudden she was in my personal space; it was uncomfortably close. I don’t know how you’d get that experience in any other medium. It was cool, but with the limited amount of content, it wasn’t $3,500 cool.

Most people I’ve seen talk about it online find using it as a monitor for their Mac to be the killer app, but that feels like kind of a lame killer app, especially when devices that are much less capable can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost.

The fact that we’re even talking about this is a failure on Apple’s part. They’ve successfully launched multiple new device categories where others have failed. Each time they presented the problem that the device solved. They failed to do that here and seem to be hoping the market figures it out. This is a losing strategy.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-03 03:01:45+00:00
The issue is encoding is an art, especially as it's lossy. You choose how much data to throw away (kind of like when you pick a quality in JPEG). Further, for video, you generally try to encode the differences between 2 frames. Again, because it's a lossy difference, it's up to the creator of the encoder to decide how to compute the difference. different algorithms come up with a different answers. There result still fits the spec.

Let's just say we were encoding a list of numbers. So we get a keyframe (an exact number) and then all frames after that until the next keyframe are just deltas. How much to add to that keyframe number

keyframe = 123
nextFrame += 2 // result = 125
nextFrame += 3 // result = 128
nextFrame -= 1 // result = 127

etc... A different encoder might have different deltas. When it comes to video, those difference are likely relatively subtle, tho some definitely look better than others.

The "spec" or "codec" only defines that each frame is encoded as a delta. it doesn't say what those detlas are or how they are computed, only how they are applied.

This is also why most video encoding software has quality settings and those settings often includely the fact higher quality is slower. Some of those settings are about bitrate or bitdepth or other things but others are about how much time is spent looking for the perfect or better delta values to get closer to the original image as searching for bettter matches takes time. Especially because it's lossy, there is no "correct" answer. There is just opinion.
by AndrewOMartin | 2026-01-03 03:02:22+00:00
The thing that annoys me most about the lottery is the tradeoff between risk and reward is so dumb as to become actually dangerous. The linked site says the Eurojackpot has a 1 in 139,838,160 chance of a jackpot and a payout of €10,000,000, where for most people a payout of €50k-€250k would be completely life changing and I expect there exist risky bets/gambles/investments which would give you that payout for much better odds.

Not to mention that once your winnings goes over a certain threshold the chance that you end up dead from bad choices or straight up murdered seems to skyrocket.
by bdangubic | 2026-01-03 03:02:41+00:00
I heard this about NVDA in 2020 and 2021 and 2022 and 2023 and 2024 and 2025 and now 2026… if the stock is going up it is 100% time to buy if you know what the F you are doing. if you don’t know what you are doing then you sell when the stock is going up :)
by mccoyb | 2026-01-03 03:04:49+00:00
There are no concepts in this blog post. It is the author's opinions in the form of a pseudo-Erlang program with probabilities. If one reads it like it is a program, you realize that the underlying core has been obfuscated by implementation details.

I'm looking for "the Emacs" of whatever this is, and I haven't read a blog post which isolates the design yet.
by xmddmx | 2026-01-03 03:04:54+00:00
The CFR is pretty clear, and I have experience with this (being both an IRB reviewer, faculty member, and researcher). When it says "is exempt" it means "is exempt".

Imagine otherwise: a teacher who wants change their final exam from a 50 item Scantron using A-D choices, to a 50 item Scantron using A-E choices, because they think having 5 choices per item is better than 4, would need to ask for IRB approval. That's not feasible, and is not what happens in the real world of academia.

It is true that local IRBs may try to add additional rules, but the NU policy you quote talks about "studies". Most IRBs would disagree that "professor playing around with grading procedures and policies" constitutes a "study".

It would be presumed exempted.

Are you a teacher or a student? If you are a teacher, you have wide latitude that a student researcher does not.

Also, if you are a teacher, doing "research about your teaching style", that's exempted.

By contrast, if you are a student, or a teacher "doing research" that's probably not exempt and must go through IRB.
by bsder | 2026-01-03 03:05:08+00:00
Avalanches start with small movements ...

I'd argue that its drips and papercuts all over. Everything is trying to extract rent, and that makes things unreliable enough that even basic users are starting to notice.

Um, can't connect to the Internet? Nope, you can't play a game on your machine, and you may not even be able to log in. Service hiccup? Booted from whatever you were doing because we can't extort your if we leave data on your machine. And, oh, if you have the nerve to complain, you ungrateful serf, we will kickban you with no recourse. etc.

And this is before we even bring the AI bukkake into the picture ...
by mbirth | 2026-01-03 03:05:44+00:00
I’ve recently downgraded my 10 year old used-only-for-obscure-firmware-updaters laptop to Windows 7 and enabled the “Classic” design. The snappiness of that GUI is unmatched even with Win 10/11 on much better hardware. Makes you wonder about the rest of Windows when Microsoft can’t even optimise the most basic things in modern Windows anymore.
by manytimesaway | 2026-01-03 03:05:50+00:00
This particular sequence in the movie (which is actually named Interstella 5555) is one of the most important ones in the plot.

Discovery has been explained many times by DP to be about childhood, not having any specific "theme" besides mixing disco and rock. Hence the name "disco very" and the "pun" in Veridis Quo. (which also happens to be a major sequence in the movie. Although DP never cared to enter the details of that particular composition, most likely memory hole'd by the protagonists.)

So no, this is definitely not the theme of the song. There are several years between the actual songwriting and the release of the movie.
Heck, if you actually see the movie, the ending sequence kinda explains that this is "one" of many interpretations of the record...

Taking a look at past interviews, it is more likely that 5555 is about what surrounded the actual release of Discovery (hugely anticipated sequel to a magnum opus that was wildly different from expectations) rather than an idea that was here from the start; see also Human After All for a continuation on this theme.
by haswell | 2026-01-03 03:06:38+00:00
I think “king” may be overstating it somewhat. While it’s true that there are some big titles with anticheat that won’t work on Linux, there are quite a few major titles that work fine, and in practice I’ve been able to use Linux as a gaming system for awhile now without issue. I primarily play Overwatch, The Finals, ARC Raiders, Rocket League and Age of Empires.

I think the success of the Steam Deck has really helped the situation, and the titles that are broken because of anticheat are not important enough to me to keep a Windows system around.
by LeoPanthera | 2026-01-03 03:06:46+00:00
Windows 11 is a thin client for the Microsoft cloud. It's not surprising that you have to activate it online, and that you can no longer use it without a Microsoft account. That's the whole point.

People who complain that Windows isn't what they want are missing the point. Windows isn't for you. macOS, Linux, and more obscure choices still exist for general purpose computing. SteamOS or various Steam focused Linux distros exist for gaming. ChromeOS exists as a less offensive and more reliable thin OS.

Trying to force Windows into being something it isn't is a waste of your time.
by metadope | 2026-01-03 03:06:54+00:00
Sounds interesting but I get a blank page with javascript disabled.

Tried your other page (https://graph.henryn.ca/ featured here on HN >1 year ago) and I got a Too Many Redirects error, followed by an attempt to visit your 'front page' (https://henryn.ca/) and got the same error.

Not a criticism, just FYI.
by jonnyxu | 2026-01-03 03:07:07+00:00
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by tiffanyh | 2026-01-03 03:07:11+00:00
What people often overlook about lottos is that for a few dollars, you’re buying the chance to dream about a better life.

And that dream lasts right up until you check the numbers.

That’s the part rational investors tend to miss … the power of dreaming.

And I’ll admit it - I play the lottery too, even though I already live a pretty comfortable life.
by SergeAx | 2026-01-03 03:07:32+00:00
My point is not that Russia can win the war with Europe, it definitely can not. My point is that Europe can't even start the war with Russia. It is economically and politically unsustainable for the EU locomotives: Germany, France, Netherland. It will be devastating for the entire EU political canvas when Russia's marionettes Hungary and Slovakia, backed by right-wing EU and US actors will start peddling pro-Russian (masked as anti-war) rhetoric at scale 10x from now.

My point is that the EU has a unique opportunity to outsource that war to Ukraine, but seems like blowing that opportunity.

Update: I hope you are right about RS-26/Oreshnik, but you can't spread hope on your sandwich, as an old Russian proverb goes.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-03 03:07:33+00:00
the short version is there's nothing wrong with it for your use case.

The author's POV is that the handbrake is a lossy conversion and often people use it in cases where they could have used a different tool that is lossless.

My uses of handbrake are that I always want a lossy conversion so no issue. A good example is anytime I make screen capture and want to post it on github. I want it to be under the 10meg limit (or whatever it is) so I want it to be re-encoded to be smaller. I don't mind the loss in quality.
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-03 03:08:00+00:00
Working on the tech department of a big slow non-tech corporation, like a railroad or a bank or something. Make a low end software engineer salary, ime little pressure to overachieve or work extra hours, usually have an excuse to delay stuff (waiting on another department, bureaucracy, etc). I've found those jobs pretty low pressure without a ton of actual work to do.
by pcchristie | 2026-01-03 03:08:07+00:00
What would be cool is being able to enter a ticket price, and keep a running count of financials to show how underwater you are on a net basis.

Could also change the cadence for tallying purposes (so 1 second = 1 week/fortnight/month) to keep track of how many weeks, months or years one has been doing this for. But that might get depressing!
by nine_k | 2026-01-03 03:08:19+00:00
I agree that age + minisign comprise a much neater stack that does basically everything I would need to use PGP for.

Neither of them supports hardware keys though, as much as I could see. OTOH ssh and GnuPG do support hardware keys, like smart cards or Yubikey-like devices. I suppose by the same token (not a pun, sadly) they don't support various software keychains provided by OSes, since they don't support any external PKCS11 providers (the way ssh does).

This may reduce the attack needed to steal a private key to a simple unprivileged infiltration, e.g. via code run during installation of a compromised npm package, or similar.
by pdimitar | 2026-01-03 03:09:14+00:00
Anecdotal evidence and all such, but in my environment actually good managers were rarer than UFO sightings.

Environments and local markets matter a huge amount.

I believe the better question here would be: why would the reverse be claimed at all? Many people in the USA, and a lot of them are over-represented here on HN, are privileged and this is not obvious to them, leading to cringe-worthy reactions like "just find a better company".

I guess I am barking up the wrong tree. I do dislike how over-represented certain perspectives are on HN. It's a very classic filter bubble, and the fact that it's about privileged people makes this even worse.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-03 03:09:50+00:00
There are several reports of people getting 12+ hours out of a Lunar Lake based laptop running Linux. Still a ways away from the 20 Intel claims for them, but likely a more realistic scenario.

Intel claims Panther Lake will be even better, and we should be seeing results within days as there should be Panther Lake desktop released during CES this week.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-03 03:10:04+00:00
Without NAT my computer isn't on the internet, because my ISP only affords me one IP which my router uses. If it's not on the internet, and adversary can't send my computer any packets.

With NAT, an adversary can't send my computer any packets either unless I explicitly set up port mappings.

So, if you can't send my computer any packets, how is it not providing security?

Of course, it doesn't provide full security like a firewall can do, since there's ways to punch holes in the NAT from the inside. But it seems just as incorrect to fully dismiss "NAT == security".

NAT provides some functional security. It is not a replacement for a proper firewall.
by faldor20 | 2026-01-03 03:10:35+00:00
I'm a staunch believer that watches should be small enough to never annoy, always show the time, and never have to be charged but I think this finally does all those things well enough that it's a legitimate option.

What is that warranty though? 30 days is pretty rough for a new and untested product. It's definitely enough to make me hold off for a year just in case.
by Jeaye | 2026-01-03 03:11:15+00:00
We have a working nREPL server, but it's not yet merged into the jank repo. https://github.com/kylc/try-jank

There's a Clang bug getting in the way of the progress we want, so we'll need to work around. There's a lot I'm juggling, but this is high priority.

Thanks for the broken link report. That should be fixed now.