MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattcantstop | 2026-01-22 17:39:12+00:00
I think Denver (I live here) is an example of our horrible zoning. We have entirely focused our cities (especially Denver and RTD (Regional Transportation District)) around people commuting in for work.

This is one of the main principles of BAD design, where you create an entire area around close to a single use (offices). That creates a very fragile city. This "single use" zoning that the US proliferated makes us really fragile to changes like working from home vs in-office work.

Another point is that cities are rather hostile for families. We create cities so they need to be fled as soon as people have kids. We have streets entirely of concrete and 1 and 2 bedroom apartments. If we want cities to be more resilient we need to rethink them. We need streets that have greenspace as a fundamental part of the infrastructure. We need permeable surfaces.

I went to Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin and stayed in a multi-family unit right along the park. There were tons of families with kids playing in the park, people riding bikes for transportation along the park bike paths, adults playing ping pong on outdoor tables together. It was wonderful. It made me rethink what a city can look like.

Denver needs to take notes. We don't need a single use city and a light rail system that only goes into that city. We made an incredibly fragile city. We can build better cities.
by Night_Thastus | 2026-01-22 17:39:17+00:00
It's not a legal problem. The reality is that the vast majority of homes with solar must be connected to the grid because that's how they're wired and designed. You can do a completely off-grid approach, but it's more expensive and requires large batteries. Most people just do the simple panels and don't have any intention of going off-grid.

Also: Even if half of a neighborhood doesn't need the connection, the work ends up being similar. It's more based on distance/area.
by altern8 | 2026-01-22 17:39:19+00:00
I'm not sure, prices here in Poland have skyrocketed because of the EU green initiative and we started exporting and prices went up 3-4 times.

I'm good with protecting the environment. Here, though, we're making European companies less competitive. They shut down, and Chinese companies fill the gap, flooding us with products that are worse for the environments because they have no laws, bad for workers because they have no laws, and bad for the environment again because instead of local they're shipped across continents on boats that burn as much fuel as a whole country for a year just to bring cheap plastic stuff that we used to make better ourselves.
by vpribish | 2026-01-22 17:39:21+00:00
there are definitely cultural issues you have to be aware of, and it's not just India, there are many cultures where questioning authority or admitting to uncertainty are less welcome - and some companies and managers reinforce these.

Always consider relative status and power imbalance regardless of nationality too. If someone is afraid to say no you have to factor that in - and 'calling them out on it' is maybe not the most effective reaction, especially if in public.

I always had frustrations with this as a manager until I could establish a personal relationship. Sounds extra hard with short-term remote contractors!
by kmeisthax | 2026-01-22 17:39:25+00:00
At least in the case of Harry Potter specifically, there's actually a few things that contributed to its success outside of it having a traditionally successful Real American Hero™.

First off, we need to remember that it was cribbing from a lot of other "kid goes to magic boarding school" books out there. The difference in sales success is down to the fact that JKR got a better US publisher. Scholastic has an unfair advantage in the young adult and graded reader markets called the "Scholastic Book Fair". Basically, it's a travelling bookstore event set up in US schools where they sell kids books. If you wanted to start a YA phenomenon in the US, especially back in the 2000s, that was the perfect way to do it.

For similar reasons, Bone outsold a good chunk of other western comics purely because of the fact that Scholastic was the only company willing to touch it.

Another factor is that its obvious Britishisms come across as fantastical to American audiences. I mean, who in America even knows what a boarding school is? This is the same reason why Naruto did so well in America, even though most of the things that seem unique about its world are just fantastic versions of bog-standard ninja tropes.

[0] This is the same reason why Naruto arguably did better in America than in its native Japan.
by Capricorn2481 | 2026-01-22 17:39:42+00:00
I'm not against the spirit of what you're saying, but are you aware the show itself made a meta episode about how comical it was that Homer could live in a house like that? That was never meant to be a reflection of current living conditions. That show is not the best example of what you're describing.

https://youtu.be/axHoy0hnQy8?t=29
Show HN: Use Git credentials stored on your host inside a dev container
by sam256 | 2026-01-22 17:40:04+00:00
git-credential-manager is great. Until you try to use it inside a linux docker container. You then run into the un-fun issue of how to set up secure credential storage in linux.

It would be easier if you could manage your credential in git-credential-manager on your macOS/Windows host but then have those credentials automatically used by git inside your dev container.

That's what this utility does. git-credential-forwarder sets up a proxy server on your host that uses the git credential interface to pass credentials back and forth between host and container. Nothing ever gets stored in your container, git just requests credentials via the proxy when it needs them.

This is the same trick VS Code uses to achieve this outcome. Only this is open source and doesn't require you to be using VS Code.
by autoexec | 2026-01-22 17:40:21+00:00
> but I haven't met a single person who doesn't like the experience of Waymo.

Just last week a Waymo was driving on train tracks and the rider had to jump out of the car and run because the car stopped while trains came at it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26KJvL2clTs) I bet that guy'd have something to say about the experience.
by HanClinto | 2026-01-22 17:40:32+00:00
Oh? Because Copilot might have trained on code it shouldn't have?

Assuming a ReactOS developer used Microsoft / Github Copilot to work on this codebase, then if Microsoft attempts to sue (themselves?) over their own Copilot tool injecting their own copyrighted code into a user's codebase, then that would be next-level irony right there.

I would chip in my $100 to fund whatever side of that legal battle is necessary just so I could see that case be argued in court.
by bradfa | 2026-01-22 17:40:47+00:00
A FIM or completion model like this won't have a large prompt and caching doesn't work anyways (per their notes). It'll get maybe a few thousand tokens in a prompt, maximum. For a 1.5B model, you should expect usable CPU-only inference on a modern CPU, like at least hundreds of tokens per second of prefill and tens of tokens per second of generation, which is decently usable in terms of responsiveness.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-22 17:40:53+00:00
> That's because you're rich like most people on HN.

Probably, but I also haven't been rich all my life, I've also been broke and borderline homeless, and my point of view of paying taxes so others get helped, hasn't changed since then. In fact, probably the reason my perspective is what it is, is because money like that has helped me when I was poor, and I'd like to ensure we continue doing that for others.

And I agree, poor countries can't afford to think about "luxury problems" like the pollution in the world, but since we're talking about people living in such countries where we can afford about these problems, lets do that, so the ones who can't, don't have to. Eventually they'll catch up, and maybe at that point we can make it really easy for them to transition to something else?
by djfdat | 2026-01-22 17:41:16+00:00
Abstracting away redundancy could make it harder to understand exactly what the code is doing, and could introduce tech debt when you need slightly different behavior from some code that is abstracted away. Also, if the boilerplate code is configuration, its good to see exactly what the configuration is when trying to grok how some code works.

You bring up a good point with snippets though, and I wonder if that would be good information to feed into the LLM for autocomplete. That snippet is helpful if you want to write on condition at a time, but say you have a dozen conditions if statements to write with that snippet. After writing one, the LLM could generate a suggestion for the other 11 conditions using that same snippet, while also taking into consideration the different types of values and what you might be checking against.

As for RAM/processing, you're not wrong there, but with specialized models, specialized hardware, and improvements in model design, the number of people working under such restricted environments where they are concerned about resource use will decrease over time, and the utility of these tools will increase. Sure a lower-tech solution works just fine, and it'll continue to work fine, but at some point the higher-tech solution will have similar levels of friction and resource use for much better utility.
by lithocarpus | 2026-01-22 17:41:39+00:00
I'm for subsidizing agriculture that improves long term soil quality and abundance. i.e. kind of the opposite of what most big ag row crops do now.

It's tricky to implement any subsidy in a way that's not exploited by big companies. But a place to start would be not subsidizing synthetic fertilizer and pesticides or anything that degrades soil long term, to encourage farms of every scale to focus on natural long term soil improvement.
by ch_123 | 2026-01-22 17:41:42+00:00
That's (part of) my point. A project like ReactOS which clones Windows down to the kernel level solves for a very small set of practical use cases which are not covered by real Windows, or Linux+WINE.

It's worth noting that 30 years ago, there was a definite advantage to an open source operating system which could reuse proprietary Windows drivers - even Linux had a mechanism for using Windows drivers for certain types of hardware. Nowadays, Linux provides excellent support for modern PC hardware with little to no tinkering required in most cases. I have seen many cases where Linux provided full support out-of-the-box for a computer, whereas Windows required drivers to be downloaded and installed.
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-22 17:42:03+00:00
Little bit offtopic; is anyone getting more reports of site vulnerabilities I wonder? There are how many AI tools claiming to find those automatically and we get a lot of reports, some even have the tool name on. Thing is, most, well, all so far in the past months, are not true. They seem hallucinations or false positives. We have closed source SaaS products, so these are external scans making these reports.
by treis | 2026-01-22 17:42:04+00:00
The zombie lots can be consolidated and moved to less desirable areas.

And I think there's some demand shifting that can happen. People get driven to the office in the morning. Deliveries happen during the day and then people are driven home.

It also eliminates the need for parking for a lot of places. A restaurant doesn't need a parking lot if people are primarily arriving in self driving cars.
by petsfed | 2026-01-22 17:42:04+00:00
My number 1 complaint with Ubi games is that they all feel the same. Sure, in this one you stab, and in that one you shoot, and in that one over there you stab AND shoot, but it's all fundamentally the same. You've got a drone or a bird or a droid to tag enemies for you, and there's a straightforward shopping-list style crafting mechanic. There's also some vehicle combat, but its very limited, and its pretty rare that you're part of a larger group of vehicles attacking together - at best its a group of enemy vehicles coming after you (and the comedy of errors of those enemy vehicles crashing into each other trying to get to you, because apparently they didn't turn on pathfinding while in "alert" mode...). The whole thing looks like its chasing the annual-release pattern of Call of Duty, and the major sports franchises.
by dormento | 2026-01-22 17:42:17+00:00
Not working here, some CORS issue.

Firefox, Ubuntu latest.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://isometric-nyc-tiles.cannoneyed.com/dzi/tiles_metadat.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 429.

Edit: i see now, the error is due to the cloudflare worker being rate limited :/ i read the writeup though, pretty cool, especially the insight about tool -> lib -> application
by bityard | 2026-01-22 17:42:29+00:00
Well, if you look at the prompts, they are basically told to sound like that.

And if you ask me, I think these models were trained on tween fiction podcasts. (My kids listen to a lot of these and dramatic over-acting seems to be the industry standard.)

Also, their middle-aged adult with an "American English" accent sounds like any American I've ever met. More like a bad Sean Connery impersonator.
by PyWoody | 2026-01-22 17:42:50+00:00
Heh. This reminds me of the time when our newly hired "Salesforce Expert" improved our support queue:

Every time Support received a new email, a ticket in Salesforce would be created and assigned to Support

Every time Support was assigned a new ticket, Salesforce would send a notification email

The worst part is he wouldn't admit to the mistake and it took us forever to find where he buried the rule.
by philipkglass | 2026-01-22 17:42:54+00:00
Solar hardware is so affordable now that it's booming even in poorer countries. The most remarkable recent example is Pakistan, which has seen explosive growth of rooftop solar power, most of it receiving no government subsidies:

Pakistan has imported almost 45 gigawatts worth of solar panels over the last five or six years, which is equal to the total capacity of its electricity grid. Almost 34 gigawatts have come in only in the last couple of years.

It’s a very bottom-up revolution. This is not government deciding this is the route to take. And it’s not being driven by climate concerns, it’s all about the economics. Renewables are out-competing the traditional sources of energy.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/pakistan-solar-boom
by Topfi | 2026-01-22 17:42:58+00:00
I'll wait for post release reviews, but have always been very interested in the concept, especially if using desktop grade apps and window management isn't restricted solely to a connected display, but can also be run on the phones screen. Using a keyboard like Clicks on an iPhone makes remote use of desktop grade operating systems incredibly feasible on a smartphone, both because input is much more reliable and because the virtual keyboard doesn't take up valuable screen real estate.

Have a suspicion that the Nexdock team will have a sudden and quite strong spike in competition within the coming months though, because I could see Apple allowing proper windowing on the upcoming foldable iPhone. And, for better and worse, once Apple does something, everyone else follows, occasionally even throwing their own sometimes superior existing solutions out with the bath water. If e.g. Dex starts borrowing heavily from Stage Manager and loses some of its capabilities, it wouldn't surprise me.

Course, Dex, whatever Apple may do and Androids desktop mode are currently more restricted then this is likely to be, but that is merely a feature flag if we are honest and could change at any moment. Heck, Dex once did support Linux applications, that could return.

With my experience regarding Windows on Arm application support vs x86, I don't even see a major advantage there, especially if Valves investment in Fex pays off.

Concerning my personal and very peculiar way of using my phones, my dream would be a foldable iPhone with iOS unlocked to allow terminal and Xcode plus a Clicks Keyboard with a trackball. Get that I am probably very lonely in wanting something like this, but I could honestly leave my laptop at home most days if that existed.
by HillRat | 2026-01-22 17:43:19+00:00
Traditionally you use a lot of paper and experiential prototypes to iterate on, which doesn't cover everything but helps refine assumptions (I sometimes like starting with mocking downstream output like reports and report data, which is a quick way to test specific assumptions about the client's operations and strategic goals, which then can affect the detailed project). When I can, I also try to iterate using scenario-based wargaming, especially for complex processes with a lot of handoffs and edge cases; it lets us "chaos monkey" situations and stress-test our assumptions.

More than once early iterations have led me to call off a project and tell the client that they'd be wasting their money with us; these were problems that either could be solved more effectively internally (with process, education, or cultural changes), weren't going to be effectively addressed by the proposed project, or, quite often, because what they wanted was not what they actually needed.

Increasingly, AI technical/functional prototyping's making it into the early design process where traditionally we'd be doing clickable prototypes, letting us get cheap working prototypes in place for users to test drive and provide feedback on. I like to iterate aggressively on the data schema up front, so this fits in well with my bias towards getting the database and query models largely created during the design effort based on domain research and collaboration.
by pseudony | 2026-01-22 17:43:34+00:00
Same issue (I am Danish).

Have you tested alternatives? I grabbed Open Code and a Minimax m2.1 subscription, even just the 10usd/mo one to test with.

Result? We designed a spec for a slight variation of a tool for which I wrote a spec with Claude - same problem (process supervisor tool), from scratch.

Honestly, it worked great, I have played a little further with generating code (this time golang), again, I am happy.

Beyond that, Glm4.7 should also be great.

See https://dev.to/kilocode/open-weight-models-are-getting-serio...

It is a recent case story of vibing a smaller tool with kilo code, comparing output from minimax m2.1 and Glm4.7

Honestly, just give it a whirl - no need to send money to companies/nations your disagree with with.
by ricardo81 | 2026-01-22 17:44:08+00:00
Agree. It seems to be a fairly unique problem that intermittent energy sources introduce.

Charging batteries definitely seems like part of the solution and electricity tariffs that adapt to wholesale costs on a shorter time basis help incentivise it. There are times over weekends/holidays where the wholesale price enters negative territory, essentially paying you to charge your battery.

Creating hydrogen to burn is inefficient vs that kind of thing but at least acts as a battery itself, though there's costs/problems in storing it.

And the general problem of how long do you need to store energy vs what the weather forecast may be.

It seems like it's not a solved problem and it'd be exciting to move towards a point where it is. Hard to believe in the 50's they thought nuclear would solve everything and would be "too cheap to meter"
by Nevermark | 2026-01-22 17:44:20+00:00
I don’t think anyone is making the claim that data science has no merit, or data scientists are universally ignorant of anything.

Simply that some data scientists, formally trained or titled by themselves or others, have been known to apply their skills to data without having special knowledge regarding the data.

It is a bit of a cliche in some of our experiences. The consulting company that analyzes data for a decision paralyzed organization, that seeks outside guidance in lieu of getting better leadership, is something I see.

That is a real phenomenon, and despite good intentions, can have all the effectiveness of reading tea leaves.

Because there is always data to be scienced. Competently or not.
by boringg | 2026-01-22 17:44:25+00:00
Talking about hard numbers without a real "hard number" in your comment. 0$ upfront - how much did you pay for the system / what is the size of the system / whats your azimuth and what are you paying for electricity currently. Its super easy to run the math on this stuff - not rocket science - theres even a free to use API that generates your monthly production estimates.

I run energy modeling - I ran the numbers last month with the new programs and newest panel prices. 12-14 years without any op costs and a 3% per year escalator on electricity. You can get it down to 8 years if you have a great spot without having to put on ballasts but it isn't braindead yes for everyone (especially if they have to watch their money).

Current price: 7.6 kW AC; Installed: 26,155.65 - 5,000 Grant = 21,155.65$. << Hard numbers.
by JoblessWonder | 2026-01-22 17:44:29+00:00
But if only one person feels that way, wouldn't it no longer be universal? I genuinely believe there has to be one person out there who would think it is moral.

(I'm just BSing on the internet... I took a few philosophy classes so if I'm off base or you don't want to engage in a pointless philosophical debate on HN I apologize in advance.)
by jjk166 | 2026-01-22 17:44:39+00:00
> Obviously a door with a handle shouldn't be a push door, I don't really think you need to write a book about it.

And yet we've all encountered push doors with handles many times.

> And the types of people creating bad design are generally constrained by cost, time, or practicality, not necessarily by education.

Good design is far cheaper and easier than bad design in the long run. Being able to articulate the benefit of good design such that stakeholders provide the resources for good design is perhaps one of the most important reasons to have such an education.