MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-13 16:36:55+00:00
It's not worded very well, but the distinction has to do with whether the plant has a built-in system for adjusting flowering times based on heat (all necessary code already present, no genetic mutations needed for it to adjust flower timing), or whether the shift in flowering times is directly caused by favorable genetic mutations.

It's a bit like the distinction between being able to swim around, like a fish, versus just having offspring who end up a bit closer to some goal, like a coral. Both end up in a place where they can live, but only one got there by being the lucky survivor against a background of alternatives that were born elsewhere.

It's made clear in the title of one of their papers: "Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38212525/)
by justin66 | 2026-01-13 16:36:56+00:00
Merely the documentary function of small drones is a threat to the current US government - their game changing effect on the battlefield in Ukraine is (one hopes) less relevant here. Just the threat of people taking pictures of what's happening is enough for them to restrict flight over an entire large city when ICE moves in.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/02/faa-drone-zone-...
by tptacek | 2026-01-13 16:36:58+00:00
Oh, Groups sucks ass. I dream of figuring out a way to move the discourse even just to Reddit. But people talking to each other and keeping each other up to date on what's happening, with electeds and staff participating, and with decent moderation is going to trounce anything professional journalists can accomplish in this setting.

That's not true of regional and national journalism. We need someone doing that work in Springfield, the state capital. We'd all be better off if we pooled the money that was going to suburban local newspapers and sent it there.
by hedora | 2026-01-13 16:37:00+00:00
I’d argue they aren’t, but the number one threat actor in the privacy space is Google.

I occasionally have to use Chrome to test with it. Can someone explain concisely how it manages Google logins? They clearly bolted it in at some low level to help violate privacy, and or shove dark patterns.

Also, the out of the box spam and dark patterns are over the top. It reminds me of Win 95 bundled software bullshit.

That’s to say nothing of their B-tier properties, like Google TV or YouTube client:

When the kids use this garbage it’s all “Bruh, what is this screen?”, or “I swear I’m not touching the remote!”

(The official YouTube client loses monitor sync(!!) as it rapid cycles through ads on its own now. I guess this is part of an apparent google-run ad fraud campaign, since it routinely seems to think it ran > 5-10 ads to completion in ~15 seconds. We can’t even see all the ads start because each bumps the monitor settings around, which has the effect of auto-mute.)
by belval | 2026-01-13 16:37:03+00:00
I haven't kept up to date but does the US have that much more leverage over Canada anymore? Last I checked we have tariffs on most exports, including crude, wood, steel and aluminium (probably missing a bunch). General goods are tariff'ed at 35% while China is tariff'ed at 47.5%.

They could get us to ban DJI for sure but I'd assume it'd be more through carrot than stick, because at this point we've been pretty consistently beaten for the last year.
by Okawari | 2026-01-13 16:37:40+00:00
I think that supporting a wide spread of newspaper on the local level will alleviate all these issues in aggregate. This is what we do in Norway and I think it works quite well to be honest. My municipality of around 250k inhabitants has 4 newspapers that I am aware of, none of which feels very overtly influenced by activists nor political or financial pressures.

There are quite a few newspapers who are political and receive subsidies, but overall I think our system works quite well at providing high quality local reporting at affordable prices.
by zkmon | 2026-01-13 16:37:44+00:00
And the disconnection is .. ? Infact, forget it. Your comment proves that this is already at ridiculous level. The message I posted about alienation of old people with the changing world, close to my heart than anything else, as I went through painful experiences that lasted for decades.

And now treading the slippery slope of social forums of HN, where the floor suddenly slips and we fall into getting called as "ai-written". This world is done.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-13 16:38:01+00:00
It is essentially a bond return, with the caveat being that panels will last 25+ years with some degradation and reduction in output. To your point, the best arrangement (imho) is a standing seam metal roof (40-70 year lifetime) with the panels mounted via friction racking with no roof deck penetrations. This avoids the economic cost of pulling everything off the roof to re-roof, and should outlive any homeowner 40 years of age or older.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-13 16:38:10+00:00
Totalitarianism has the same end state whether it comes from the left or the right. It always results in suppression of the truth, broken feedback loops that lead to poor decisions by government, economic failure, and finally either bloody repression, war, or revolution.

It’s possible to move through this to a place of stability. After all, China only had to kill 15-55 million people in the Great Leap Forward and a couple thousand more in 1989. Today they are fairly stable and prosperous, even with tight controls on information. Perhaps the UK will have a similar path!
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-13 16:38:36+00:00
Poor management has played a role. They refused to invest in packaging to the extent that a separate company (astral) had to do it for them. Bugs closed for years with the excuse “we’re only volunteers.” Meanwhile, “outreach” was funded for several million a year. Not confidence inspiring. Maybe would have improved if the funds had been spent more appropriately.

Similar story with Mozilla.
by ericmay | 2026-01-13 16:38:56+00:00
Maybe, or maybe it’s just good policy to not import a network of drones from an adversary to democracies across the world, which includes the EU most importantly as China helps Russia with its invasion of Ukraine and is gearing up for some activity in Taiwan.

People can just record all this stuff on their iPhones that they already have. You don’t need a DJI drone to record police malfeasance. Maybe you do in China or Iran though. In Iran they are just mowing people down. In China you get disappeared. Interesting that there are no protests about those things though. I guess they just have better social media marketing.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-13 16:39:03+00:00
> I'm assuming you re-did your roof before you installed

In the UK I would expect the roof to be tile, which lasts basically forever unless a storm hits hard enough.

I did have to have my panels taken down and refitted, at a cost of well over £1000, because I hadn't bird-proofed underneath them (wasn't suggested by original installer). So watch out for that one.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-13 16:39:13+00:00
Betteridge to the rescue, here. Any question with "pinpoint" and "paleontology" can be confidently given a "no" answer.

Beyond vacuous answers, this isn't a good article:

We know the main reason why the age of the dinosaurs came to an end

No, not really. Dinosaurs stood a good chance of regaining primacy after the asteroid impact, due to generally having an "r" reproductive strategy. Dinosaurs had lived through other weird episodes, the Carnian pluvial episode, and the end-Triassic mass extinction. Close relatives of dinosaurs lived on: we still have crocodiles and alligators today. There's a lot of argument.
by vasco | 2026-01-13 16:39:30+00:00
Almost all simulations I've done across 3 countries with 3 different payback models for selling back to grid (one of the three doesn’t allow selling back almost anything above your consumption), I could never make investing in Solar not being a gamble.

You really need to gamble on odds of replacing equipment being very low for it to make sense. And in practice most people I anecdotally know that run it, after 5-7 years have already done additional purchases. The payback time keeps getting pushed back to the point that when payback will happen your panel will be worthless in efficiency compared to new ones. At industrial / commercial scale it makes sense, but humans like to move houses, and do stuff in the houses and that messes with the payback plans at the individual level.

So either I was in the wrong countries or most people just gamble on the equipment lifetime, but for that I'd rather buy SPY calls, less drama.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-13 16:39:34+00:00
If you count LSP (Language Server Protocol) as a VSCode plugin-compatible layer as LSP was built and standardized by the VSCode team (so many do), then Emacs and Neovim are full of VSCode-compatible plugins today. One of Neovim's selling points right now over bare Vim is better/more direct LSP support.
by t-3 | 2026-01-13 16:40:04+00:00
Very little time or work is required to cook dry rice. Bring water to boil, add rice, set timer. Actually not having time is very rare, limited to people with multiple jobs who never go home except to sleep. Those people exist, but they aren't typical. Most of the extremely poor I've met have an abundance of time and a lack of resources. Cooking is rarely something they need to avoid due to time constraints.
by jlokier | 2026-01-13 16:40:23+00:00
Pi falls out of infinite sums, exponentials and differential equations all over the place. It's a universal constant, first discovered via geometry, but it's independent of geometry.

For example,

pi = the square root of the sum of 6/x^2 over x = (1, 2, 3...).

pi = the smallest positive value of ln(-1)/i.

pi = half the period of non-zero solutions to the differential equation f = -f''.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-13 16:40:32+00:00
NYT obituary:

Scott Adams, Audacious Creator of the ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.htm...

non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.htm...
by coredog64 | 2026-01-13 16:40:40+00:00
I don't know that I would describe NPR as "great". One specific example that sticks in my mind was a story they did about firearms. The host kept using the word "automatic". Knowing something about firearms, it was apparent to me that it was being used as shorthand for "not a revolver", but the host was implying that it meant "machine gun". Revolvers are so uncommon that there's really not any useful value being passed in attaching the word "automatic" when describing a gun unless you're describing something that is subject to the NFA.

Or, more recently, there was a deep dive into the Chicago parking meter deal. I don't think anyone needs convincing that it was a bad deal, but one thing that they said was that the new owners have "already received back all the money they paid out". Okay, but please expand. This was for an economics show, so is the recovery just a gross dollar comparison (e.g. they've received back more than $1.1B), is it inflation adjusted, does it exceed the time value of the money that was given to the Daley administration? It wouldn't have taken but another 30 seconds to make it clear, but by not saying I'm 99% certain they were focusing on gross dollar comparison and ignoring the value of 2008 dollars vs. 2025 dollars. In turn, that sounds like it's playing towards the audience members that don't understand why the total of payments for their mortgage is so much more than the purchase price of the house.
by mbesto | 2026-01-13 16:40:42+00:00
It's wild how overpriced Tesla Powerwalls are.

16 kWh battery with all of the UL supported listings etc = $3300 [0]
13.5 kWh Tesla Powerwall is $12k~$15k

You would get your return way back quicker.

[0] - https://www.ruixubattery.com/product-page/lithi2-16-battery-...
by Aunche | 2026-01-13 16:40:45+00:00
> Jeff Bezos has already reaped many multiples of his investment in the Washington Post.

Has he though? The Washington Post has actually been a leader in primary reporting in Amazon's union busting activities [1]. He may have pressured them to not endorse Kamala Harris, but he likely would have better standing with Trump had he had never bought the Post in the first place.

For all the shit that mainstream media gets, much of which is deserved, alternative media is order of magnitudes worse with regards to manipulating public discourse.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/09/amazon-...
by j45 | 2026-01-13 16:41:01+00:00
My favourite part of stoicism is needing to use the example of an emperor ruling over people trying to stay grounded as he can given the unfortunate circumstances of being the ruler of everything as the way forward for every average man to deeply relate to.

Stoicism has its definite positives, but balancing the privileged emperor is always worth being mindful and expressive of.
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-01-13 16:41:09+00:00
LFP batteries are as likely to burn down your house as a stack of wood is. I'd be worried about the inverter or botched DIY wiring (especially not to spec torque on terminal connections and botched crimps leading to hot spots), but not about the batteries themselves. For a person who wants to save some money, but doesn't know how to work with electricity, the best move is probably to get cheap LFP cells from China, but have a professional install a BMS and the remainder of the solar system.
by pavon | 2026-01-13 16:41:16+00:00
Yes, the replacements for this equipment has been around for a long time. The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility was built at Marshall in 1957 and used for design testing of the Saturn engines, and by 1966 the A1 test stand was built at Stennis, to perform production qualification of Saturn engines. And unlike the PSTF, the A1 and A2 test stands at Stennis have been maintained over the years, and continue to be functional today most recently being used to test the new RS-25 engine design that the SLS will use when we are out of SSMEs.
by Nursie | 2026-01-13 16:42:04+00:00
> Arresting people for holding up a blank sign is very different and much worse.

On the contrary, it’s no different whatsoever from corralling away protest until it’s out of sight in an approved zone, and arresting anyone who expresses dissent in sight.

It’s exactly the same use of police in concealment of dissent by the state.

> Do you agree it was a problem

Of course, it’s fucking awful. It’s your contention that “nothing like this ever happened in the US” that I took issue with - it does and it’s entirely routine.

This is my very point - the UK is used as some sort of out-there example of Orwellian repression, but the US, often painted in contrast as some sort of bastion, albeit a troubled one, is usually doing exactly the same damn thing.

It’s in this thread. We have your assertions above, and below we have someone decrying how unimaginable it would have been for a government to attempt to wholesale spy on people’s communications two decades ago, seemingly completely unaware of the activities of the NSA in AT&T and other companies’ data infrastructure in the US, revealed in 2006.

It’s a weird mix of jingoism and ignorance.
by kaffekaka | 2026-01-13 16:42:12+00:00
Yes, my knees often/always bump into the seat in front of me, even without it being reclined. If/when it is reclined it means my knees are pressed harder backwards.

When I can, I pay for extra leg room or get an aisle seat.

My opinion is strongly that seats should not be reclined. It is inconsiderate.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-13 16:42:17+00:00
Absolutely not, no one claimed so either, and frankly, why continue discussing with you when you don't seem to be curious about a honest and straightforward conversation? Screw that noise.

Normally, in democratic countries, you have a process for changing laws. Enshrine your public media in those, or even better, in the constitution, and you've pretty much protected it short-term at least. Add in foundations or whatever concepts your country have, to add more layers of indirection, and it's even more protected.
by DetectDefect | 2026-01-13 16:42:20+00:00
Missing from this heartfelt plea is any indication of what code you were working on before the ban, or why you are so certain it was a result of credit card activities. We only get your side of the story - what does Github support actually tell you?

Regardless, hopefully a valuable lesson in mirroring public contributions to other source control systems (Gitlab, Codeberg, etc.) is learned.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-13 16:42:24+00:00
Basically everything the feds do winds up getting implemented state or locally in a backhanded national drinking age sort of way.

When you get into the minutia of policy changes and "yeah we'll just enforce what the feds say and let the official rules be wrong until someone sues" type behavior that comes about as a result it'll have you shopping for bulldozers on FBMP.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-13 16:42:26+00:00
I think the US military itself relies on big, sophisticated and expensive UAVs. Is there any US-only supply-chain to build millions of cheap drones for military applications? I don't agree with the ban, but if it forces a domestic supply chain, even for civilian use, that might be more tenable. But last I looked, I couldn't find any US vendor that makes similar quality drones, even if they manufacture overseas.
by nerdponx | 2026-01-13 16:42:59+00:00
I think that only holds if company ownership is not close with company leadership. Is a "subscriber owned" newspaper model possible? Like how co-op stores are at least nominally owned by their customers.

I could also imagine a system in which a local newspaper was actually run as a public utility by an independent corporation, but explicitly chartered and subsidized by a town/city/county.
by larkost | 2026-01-13 16:43:01+00:00
My wife's previous job was as an accountant with the endowment foundation at a mid-sized public university (San Jose State University). A lot of her time was spent making sure that the spending from the endowments many different funds corresponded to the rules that the donors had given when donating that money. Much of that was working with groups to shift spending around between accounts when they invariably made "mistakes".

One of her biggest projects was shepherding a large group of very old donations through a legal process to remove provisions in the donation agreements that were now illegal. In these cases the donors were long deceased, and the most common rule that needed to be changed was targeting race or ethnicity (e.g.: funds setup to help black people, or Irish, etc...).

The sheer number of different variations on "donor intent", or even just the wording on that legal document was astounding. There was always a tension between my wife's group and the group that was bringing in the money ("stewardship"), her group wanted things to be simpler and the "stewarding" group wanted nothing to get in the way of donations. It was remarkably similar to the tensions between sales and engineering in many software firms.
by hunglee2 | 2026-01-13 16:43:09+00:00
never been on Nextdoor but probably similar. Perhaps purpose would be the main difference - Nextdoor is residential and problem orientated, whilst our idea (we actually had it to MVP) was more like foursquare meets old twitter - basically verified local recommendations, news, updates from folks who were actually local to the area, rather than transients who know little. Our attempt then the limit the transients to read only translates really well today to online trolls / bots etc
by laurencerowe | 2026-01-13 16:43:41+00:00
More recent results from YouGov
(November 2025) put yes/no at 39/41 [1] while other polling companies put yes in the lead [2].

[1] https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/docume...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Scottish_in...
The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-13 16:43:49+00:00
No public announcement. Just quietly added to killed by google. Step 2 just fails with an error: https://developers.google.com/tenor/guides/quickstart

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by embedding-shape | 2026-01-13 16:43:59+00:00
> As for Swedish public media not taking sides

That's not what I said, I said that I've seen Swedish public media "disparages all sides of the political spectrum", which is way more realistic than "not taking sides". We all wish we can be perfectly impartial, but that's short of impossible, so the next best thing is that it pushes no matter where it comes from. That's what I've seen, but I no longer live in Sweden, maybe this last decade it's been different than how it was when I lived up there.
by afavour | 2026-01-13 16:44:06+00:00
The reaction to Adams death is simply a reflection of how he lived his life.

There’s this curious demand (often though not exclusively from right leaning folks) for freedom of speech and freedom from consequences of that speech. It doesn’t work that way.

You have the freedom to say reactionary things that upset people as much as you want. But if you do, then you die, people are going to say “he was a person who said reactionary things that upset people”.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-01-13 16:44:12+00:00
Yes, for the US with their unique historical and cultural differences, but it doesn't make it an international metric.

Everyone in the US agrees with the inequalities and segregation and find it acceptable that an individual has to become a predator to survive because they don't find it acceptable to help each other on a governmental scale.

Some countries have worse inequalities than the US but they don't think they need guns to have freedom in their daily lives.
by vga42 | 2026-01-13 16:44:21+00:00
I was vacationing in New York, and we went to some pretty standard-looking mall bookshop somewhere near Poughkeepsie some time in mid 90s. And I bought an interesting looking comic book, something I had never seen before.

I liked Dilbert for a long time, but Adams's Trump Dementia became so bad in the last decade that it completely tainted his legacy for me. His role in enabling Donald Trump to rise to power is undeniable, and his death makes me wish I had reserved a bottle of sparkling wine for the occasion.

I yearn for the time when it was possible to never meet your idols.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-13 16:44:33+00:00
True, now that you mention it I’ve seen the same sort of thing from people who are definitely not bots. Although, you can’t discount the possibility that they do some government or law enforcement work as a consultant. The full throated defense of police state tactics is unreal. (For what it’s worth, there are plenty of Americans who show up in Palantir/Flock threads doing the same thing, and I have the same suspicions there.)