MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mynameajeff | 2026-01-15 16:29:59+00:00
If you don't mind me asking how do they fit around your shoulder to bicep area? I tend to need to size up a lot not just for height but for space in that area for myself. A lot of more slim fitting stuff fits me nice overall but basically strangle my armpit and surrounding area. I've resorted to an extremely baggie style to get better space around the sleeve, especially on t-shirts.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-01-15 16:30:05+00:00
This is the real killer feature.

The most exciting place is being in the game without having to play it.

TV does all this stuff with camera angles and views and it's still not better than a "crappy" ringside view.

But we've never been able to BE the players, the horse in the race or feeling the ground shake at the polo field, the herding dog rounding up multi ton cattle, that would be a truly new experience.
by footy | 2026-01-15 16:30:06+00:00
Atmospheric CO2 is currently around 430 ppm. It's minimally variable based on seasonality, think a 15 ppm difference between the lowest and highest points.

It's been a long time since University for me but the standard measurement location is the Mauna (sp?) Loa Observatory in Hawaii, if I recall correctly due to it being the longest-running continuous measurement site.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-15 16:30:50+00:00
is as a matter of fact I didn't even read it.

You're reaping what you sowed. The article is propaganda, and can be dismissed as such because it uses the trappings of economics, but not the numbers, to try to justify a solely ideological point. That is, they're lying. Since this is from the Libertarian Cato Institute, I guess we knew that anyway. Don't know what I expected from them.
by eightys3v3n | 2026-01-15 16:31:15+00:00
Syncthing-Fork, the primary Android app for Syncthing, isn't exactly reliable anymore. TLDR a new completely unknown dev has taken over maintenance and doesn't communicate well; it's probably not reliable without checking if someone has recently audited the source code.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing...
by karagenit | 2026-01-15 16:31:19+00:00
I would highly recommend giving this excelled LessWrong post a read: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rarcxjGp47dcHftCP/your-llm-a...

It isn't a perfect fit, since the article talks a lot about the scientific method which doesn't apply super well to philosophy+math, but I think there are some strong parallels here.
by br121 | 2026-01-15 16:31:44+00:00
Cigarettes and alcohol are more strictly regulated for children than for adults, but are regulated for both, because adults are allowed to harm themselves, but there is a general agreement that the law should discourage that. Yet the call for a social media ban on children is (or at least that's my impression) never accompanied with proposed regulation for adults, or a stricter enforcement of already in place but unenforced rules. I totally agree with you on how the "we shouldn't ban A, because then we should ban everything else" is a false argument, although it didn't seem to me that was the argument on the article (but close to everyone on HN catched that, so I'm going to read the article again with a fresh mind in a couple of days, maybe I just missed that)
by speff | 2026-01-15 16:32:14+00:00
It’s hard to prove without knowing the app devs, but for points 1 & maybe 2, we can look at whether Americans think the raids are justified.

28% of them think they are [0]. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that the devs would be part of that number

Edit: it looks like the poll it’s for the recent incident of the woman who was shot - my mistake. Then I would assume the number for the raids themselves is higher

[0]: https://x.com/YouGovAmerica/status/2010853750618063016
by aaronbrethorst | 2026-01-15 16:32:25+00:00
That’s exactly the CO2 monitor I have ;)

Actually, the entire new line of Ikea smart home devices are really fantastic. They're all equipped with Thread radios and use Matter, which means they integrate directly into Apple's Home app without needing a separate hub.

And they're dirt cheap. I haven't been able to find another Thread/Matter button for less than $20, but Ikea's is like $6.
by sowbug | 2026-01-15 16:32:45+00:00
Good luck on your quest. Part of the issue might be lack of good ingredients. I watched a depressing YouTube video the other day about why US restaurant prices are so high but the food is uniform and uniformly bleh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RsJ5a_QVVA). The TL;DR is (1) Sysco and US Foods control most of the supply chain to restaurants, (2) they've raised prices aggressively since the pandemic, and (3) listeria and salmonella outbreaks have caused chains like Chipotle to stop sourcing ingredients locally, preferring factory-prepped food from Sysco et al, further increasing their dominance. This means it's increasingly difficult for even your neighborhood hole-in-the-wall restaurant to find local, fresh, authentic ingredients.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 16:32:51+00:00
The standby account -is- 500 kbps, probably it's the same mode, so I'd expect the same performance.

Anecdotally, even though I'd have told you that 500 was probably enough for non-streaming stuff that I do most of the time, in my experience when my connection switches over to Starlink (I have Comcast primarily, but it has had reliability problems the last few months), it usually hits the Starlink limits pretty hard. I've never identified any nefarious activity, it just seems like all the little things on my workstations and various devices that chatter add up to enough to trigger Starlink's controls.
by c0nsumer | 2026-01-15 16:32:59+00:00
With the advent of new RGB (three column, like most LCD) OLEDs I wonder if Apple's next high-end display is going to use that. It'd be a whole bunch of things aligning for a good ecosystem.

And I know this is a whole lot of personal preference, but I like macOS. It works well for me. It's a good UNIX(-like?) with professional-level apps.

I support/maintain/use Windows systems for a living so I'm comfortable there as well, and I'd be mostly fine on a Linux but the lack of pro-level apps for some of my hobbies (namely, map making) and sufficiently-user-friendly equivalents for a few other apps (eg: rubiTrack, Hazel, Photos.app) is a problem.

(A bunch of years back I made a conscious choice to do less sysadmin-ing at home, even if I have to pay a bit more. It's freed up mental capacity for using computers as a means to an end vs. an end itself. And it means I don't have the flexibility of Linux or other OSS things at times, but I've been able to work within that. But I'm getting way off topic here...)
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-15 16:33:11+00:00
"Ultra" isn't even binned - it's just 2x "Max" chips connected together.

Otherwise, yes, if a chip doesn't make M4 Max, it can make M4 Pro. If not, M4. If not, A18 Pro. If not that, A18.

And even all of the above mentioned marketing names come in different core configurations. M4 Max can be 14 CPU Cores / 32 GPU cores, and it can also be 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores.

So yeah, I'd agree that Apple has _extreme_ binning flexibility. It's likely also the reason why we got A19 / A19 Pro / M5 first, and we still don't have M5 Pro or M5 Max yet. Yields not high enough for M5 Max yet.

Unfortunately I don't think they bin down even lower (say, to S chips used in Apple Watches), but maybe in the future they will.

In retrospect, Apple ditching Intel was truly a gamechanging move. They didn't even have to troll everyone by putting an Intel i9 into a chassis that couldn't even cool an i7 to boost the comparison figures, but I guess they had to hedge their bet.
by Rohansi | 2026-01-15 16:33:12+00:00
You do still have access to the GPIO. This HAT [1] stacks on top of the GPIO connector but passes through all the pins so you can still use them. This one is connected through PCIe so it shouldn't be blocking off any pins from use, unless you wanted an NVMe SSD hooked up!

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-ha...
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-15 16:33:26+00:00
For a top-10 Internet website it's not "bloated" at all, if anything it's still running on a shoestring budget. And the fundraising ends up supporting a huge variety of technical improvements and less known "sister" projects that are instrumental in letting the community thrive and be relevant for the foreseeable future. Sure, you could keep the existing content online for a lot less than what they're asking for, but that's not what folks are looking for when they visit the site. Keeping a thriving community going takes a whole lot of effort especially in this day and age, where a vast majority of people just use the Internet for 100% casual entertainment, not productive activity.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-15 16:34:20+00:00
But do you use any ai services like chat gpt, Claude, Gemini? If so you’re offloading your compute from a local stack to a high performance nvidia gpu stack operated by one of the big five.
It’s not that you aren’t using new hardware, it’s that you shifted the load from local to centralized.

I’m not saying this is bad or anything, it’s just another iteration of the centralized vs decentralized pendulum swing that has been happening in tech since the beginning (mainframes with dumb terminals, desktops, the cloud, mobile) etc.

Apple might experience a slowdown in hardware sales because of it. Nvidia might experience a sales boom because of it. The future could very well bring a swing back. Imagine you could run a stack of Mac minis that replaced your monthly Claude code bill. Might pay for itself in 6mo (this doesn’t exist yet but it theoretically could happen)
by vbelenky | 2026-01-15 16:34:53+00:00
Yeah, what responsibly deployed far-UV is definitely not is an instant kill beam that immediately inactivates exhaled pathogens. I estimate it takes 100 mW of far-UV about 5 minutes to inactivate 90% of the flu/covid in a 250 sqft room (10 minutes to get to 99%), assuming the air is well-mixed. Far-UV should be thought of as a super-powerful quiet air filter more than anything else--it prevents infectious aerosols from building up in a space, which can matter a lot. You don't necessarily immediately get infected just because someone infected coughed near you--you might only get infected if you spend a long time near them, sharing their air. Continuously cleaning the air prevents these kinds of infections, and can make the infections that do still happen less severe.

You're totally right that circulating the air is important though! Definitely don't use far-UV in totally still air. But you don't necessarily need a LOT of air movement to achieve "good" mixing. Often just an air-change or so of ventilation is enough--just think about what would happen if you started smoking indoors. The smoke would be ~everywhere pretty fast.

The oxygen absorption at 222nm is not significant however--it's enough to produce a bit of ozone (less than you'd get from just opening a window), but not enough to actually absorb a significant amount of radiation. 222nm lamps are generally less powerful than 254nm lamps anyway, but because 254nm is much less safe, those systems have to be deployed in ways that often reduce their efficacy--in special louvred fixtures that kill most of their output or in portable units/ducts that constrain their effectiveness.

222nm seems to be more effective per-photon at inactivating viruses than 254nm too: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c08675
by dkarl | 2026-01-15 16:34:59+00:00
> Can people keep a good mental model of the repo without writing code?

This is the age-old problem of legacy codebases. The intentions and understanding of the original authors (the "theory of the program"[0]) are incredibly valuable, and codebases have always started to decline and gain unnecessary complexity when those intentions are lost.

Now every codebase is a legacy codebase. It remains to be seen if AI will be better at understanding the intentions behind another AI's creation than humans are at understanding the work of other humans.

Anyway, reading and correcting AI code is a huge part of my job now. I hate it, but I accept it. I have to read every line of code to catch crazy things like a function replicated from a library that the project already uses, randomly added to the end of a code file. Errors that get swallowed. Tautological tests. "You're right!" says the AI, over and over again. And in the end I'm responsible as the author, the person who supposedly understands it, even though I don't have the advantage of having written it.

[0] Programming as Theory Building, Peter Naur. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
by drpepper42 | 2026-01-15 16:35:19+00:00
Moral "imperatives" and "think of the children" are major red flags. The genie is not going back in the bottle - technology only moves forward. The answer is simply education - both for children and parents. This is a multi-generational effort but humanity will adapt.

Throwing bans at the problem is not the answer. Legislation is almost never the answer. As many have highlighted this will be twisted into even worse control over human thought.

The problem is simply algorithmic feeds. They are just as destructive for adults and society at large. Maybe there can be some general regulation or tooling in this space, however society really needs to arrive at this itself. Governance originates from society not the other way around. If you need governance to enforce your societal "fix" something is wrong with it.

You can not anticipate the next technological impact - and they _are_ coming. Throwing shit at the wall in the form of law is only going to make things worse for that next change. Education and upbringing has to be much more experimental and adaptive.

The answer is get better at parenting - nobody wants to hear that but that really is it. Look how people bemoan the education system these days. If you trust anyone in education it is a total disaster. Everyone wants an easy fix and the economy places no value on time spent in these pursuits. You can't paper over that with naive laws, trying to do so is only going to make things much worse, both because undoing stupid shit is hard and it ignores the real problems.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-15 16:35:22+00:00
Well, expectations vary widely.

On one hand, recent models seem to be less useful than the previous generation of them, the scale needed for training improved networks seems to be following the expected quadratic curve, and we don't have more data to train larger models.

On the other hand, many people claim that what tooling integration is the bottleneck, and that the next generation of LLMs are much better than anything we have seen up to now.
by simgoh | 2026-01-15 16:35:27+00:00
As your link implies, they're not marching because they've joined ICE. Last year [1] Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys, announced an app where people could report "undocumented immigrants" for crypto.

[1] - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-proud-boys-leader-e...
by crazygringo | 2026-01-15 16:35:51+00:00
This is just about elementary communication skills.

You're arguing that obfuscation is somehow a good thing. How does that make any sense?

When people communicate clearly, it makes the world a better place. People understand each other more easily. They don't have to waste as much time figuring things out. It's the golden rule, treating others the way you'd like to be treated.

If you don't understand that, I genuinely don't know what to tell you.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 16:36:12+00:00
> It is also close to impossible run any node ecosystem without getting a wall of warnings.

Haven't found that myself, are you talking about TypeScript warnings perhaps? Because I'm mostly using just JavaScript and try to steer clear of TypeScript projects, and AFAIK, JavaScript the language nor runtimes don't really have warnings, except for deprecations, are those the ones you're talking about?
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 16:36:21+00:00
I need to go improve my knowledge, I haven't paying enough attention to the options lately, and I experience the same phenomenon -- I have a few workstations along with some IoT trash and Starlink standby mode pegs just from the chatter from the devices. As you say, on WiFi they don't bother controlling themselves and they are constantly finding things to do.
by mmarian | 2026-01-15 16:36:45+00:00
Had a look at your resume: https://resume.kurtisknodel.com/. I'm struggling to figure out what you're good at; is it C#, is it PHP, is it React, or is it something else. I'm suspicious of the 7-years programming exp as well; the freelancing gigs with little specifics seem to do the heavy lifting for that statement.

Are you going for junior dev roles? If you're not getting them, maybe consider applying to tech adjacent roles (IT, customer support at tech companies, etc)?
by plorg | 2026-01-15 16:36:57+00:00
There have been some insane politics (especially "culture war" stuff) that got laundered through the HN "reasonable discussion" filter, especially from 2021 through 2024. They still come up all the time. HN loves talking about politics when the commenters can get critical mass to grind the libertarian or "anti-woke" axe.

Not to mention every leader of YCombinator has had some kind of wild politics that come from having money that separates you from any kind of consequence.
by estebank | 2026-01-15 16:37:03+00:00
> constant breakage

Can you mention 3 cases of breakage the language has had in the last, let's say, 5 years? I've had colleagues in different companies responsible for updating company-wide language toolchains tell me that in their experience updating Rust was the easiest of their bunch.

> edition migrations

One can write Rust 2015 code today and have access to pretty much every feature from the latest version. Upgrading editions (at your leisure) can be done most of the time just by using rustfix, but even if done by hand, the idea that they are onerous is overstating their effect.

Last time I checked there were <100 checks in the entire compiler for edition gates, with many checks corresponding to the same feature. Adding support for new features that doesn't affect prior editions and by extension existing code (like adding async await keywords, or support for k# and r# tokens) is precisely the point of editions.

> dependency hell in Cargo.lock

Could you elaborate on what you mean?
by Jgoauh | 2026-01-15 16:37:14+00:00
They're not following stoic practices, they're rebranding alpha-havingemotionsisforwomen-broness as stoicism, and yes therapy leads to better outcomes then this, fight club came out 26 years ago get with the program

"Do you really think going to therapy will lead to a better outcome for Tyler Durden than following regular exercise and community with his friends ?" this is what you sound like
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-15 16:37:22+00:00
Buried in this mix of 25-year commemoration pages, the release they put out today:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01/15/wikipedia-ce...

Which includes a section about Wikipedia in the age of AI: New partnerships with tech companies support Wikipedia’s sustainability

> several companies — including Ecosia, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Pleias, and ProRata — became new Wikimedia Enterprise partners, joining existing partners such as Amazon, Google, and Meta.
by jasomill | 2026-01-15 16:37:23+00:00
The main things I use Pis for are

1. Testing images to be deployed on customer Pis.

2. Testing software on ARM64 Linux. Pis are still cheaper than used Apple Silicon Macs, and require less fiddling to run Linux. I currently have a free Oracle Cloud instance that would work just as well for this, but it could go away at any time and it's a PITA to reprovision.

3. Running Mathematica, because it's free on Pi, I only use it a few times a year, and a fully-loaded Pi 5 is cheaper than a single-year personal license to run it on any other platform.

4. Silly stuff like one Pi 3 I have set up to emulate a vintage IBM mainframe.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-15 16:38:02+00:00
The main difference is that with Windows the work is mostly front loaded. From 2000/XP forward, as long as you set up the correct drivers post-install, they for most intents and purposes, barring shitty hardware, really did “just work”.

There’s something to be said for “Windows creep” though, where the install decays over time and a reinstall is required. Back in the 2K/XP/Vista days this could be pretty bad, but that improved with 7 onwards. It still exists today, but the decay takes years to become noticeable instead of months.

Linux isn’t without its own issues there however. Even on a more friendly distro like Ubuntu or Fedora, eventually one will end up with things like config files that slipped through the cracks and didn’t get migrated correctly, very slowing degrading the desktop experience.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-15 16:38:08+00:00
I've never seen an article like that, other than for people like Epstein, who are primarily famous for their crimes. I just went and checked the pages of some famous people where you might expect this kind of treatment if Wikipedia were indeed biased in the way people seem to think (like Donald Trump or Ted Cruz), and they're not like that.

There are a lot of comments in this thread talking about a strong bias in Wikipedia, but I don't see any examples. I have no doubt that there are some articles that are biased, particularly in less popular areas that get less attention, but overall, Wikipedia does a great job maintaining a neutral point of view in its articles.

I do get the impression that what people perceive as bias is often simply neutrality. If you think yourself the victim of an evil cabal of your political opponents, then a neutral description of the facts might seem like an attack.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-01-15 16:38:30+00:00
searching for "емайлирани съдове" in bulgarian..

https://elcishop.com/product-category/емайлирани-съдове/

https://www.mira-n.net/emailirani_rom_black.html

https://zana-bg.com/kuhnya/sdove-za-gotvene/emajlirani/kupro...

so 16L - and 50L - pots do exist.. but you have to find some importer around you. Manufacturers Seems russian, romanian, bulgarian..
by vaindil | 2026-01-15 16:38:45+00:00
Everything I've gotten from 2tall has fit a bit differently, some are a bit roomier there and some are a bit more restricting. I have to order two different sizes of each top I get, because some will fit better in the smaller size and some fit better in the larger. Tall Slim Tees has a smaller selection, but their sizing has been much more consistent for me.

I've never had an issue with feeling restricted in the shoulder area like you're saying though, so I'm probably not the best person to judge that, unfortunately.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 16:38:57+00:00
Does your partial amnesia also affect the part where US tech companies such as Facebook actively embedded engineers within political campaigns who then ran fake news campaigns for extreme candidates, resulting in the two-time refusal of US voters to vote for a woman?

There was also significant Facebook involvement in fake news concerning Brexit, Rohingya genocide, anti-EU and anti-Ukraine sentiment.

Now that we have established that US tech workers have significantly harmed free people and societies in various countries, I have to point out that also your reasoning is all wrong.

Brexit, Hungary, and Trump are not an example that the EU "rules based" model is not working, quite the opposite. When the EU flourishes as a free society due to free trade between people with extremely different cultural backgrounds, the people living under autocrats notice that this is could also be an option for their own future.

Due to this fact, the EU has been under massive attack by autocrats for quite some time, and workers at US tech companies have played a vital role in amplifying these attacks.