MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-13 18:00:57+00:00
1) because git rerere remembers the resolutions to the ..

2) small conflicts when rebasing the long lived branch on the main branch

if instead I delayed any rebasing until the long lived branch was done, I'd have no idea of the scale of the conflicts, and the task could be very, very different.

Granted, in some cases there would be no or very few conflicts, and then both approaches (long-lived branch with or without rebases along the way) would be similar.
by tdeck | 2026-01-13 18:01:36+00:00
Personally I think this (admittedly long) video makes a good agument on the subject.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5EpzGmAtA&pp=0gcJCTIBo7VqN5t...

My TL;DR Choosing not to financially support a creator for ethical seasons makes sense as an ethical stance. But that doesn't mean the media we like needs to always reflect our values.
by yogibear678142 | 2026-01-13 18:01:41+00:00
Kettlebells. Double bells I can bang out a quick set in my home. So it's easy to make a daily habit.

cleans, press, squat, rows, farmers carry. It may not be the best tool for all things, but it gives you a bit of everything. Strength. Power/explosiveness with cleans. Endurance, heart pumps.
by sethhochberg | 2026-01-13 18:01:48+00:00
The thing about trademarks is that, if you want to prevent other people from using them, you generally have to still be using it yourself and be able/willing to justify to a court that you're still using it. (At least in most legal systems that I'm familiar with)

Since the original company both changed names and was subsequently liquidated in bankruptcy nearly 20 years ago... that seems unlikely. There's only so many names out there, and occasionally they get fairly recycled.
by kolbe | 2026-01-13 18:02:15+00:00
> LLVM and Linux get more cash than they can spend. GNU stuff is comparatively impoverished because everyone assumes they'd do it for free anyway. Stuff that ships on a Canonical desktop or RHEL default install gets lots of cash but community favorites like KDE need to make their own way, etc... Also just to be clear: node is filled with povertyware and you should be extremely careful what you grab from npm.

This is often the problem with charity in general. It's hard to find good organizations that actually need your money. Great ones self-sustain on their own revenue. Good ones are saturated with donations from their own users. There's just a small sliver of projects that are awesome, and could productively use financial support. From personal experience, identifying these is often far more costly than the act of writing a check.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-13 18:02:20+00:00
For a Youtube influencer I can see them meet 3 of the criteria by showing their influence on others, money earned, Youtube awards for viewership (by Google!). Maybe some platforms lend themselves more to being used for this sort of evidence than others.

- Evidence of a record of major commercial or critically acclaimed successes in the performing arts, as shown by box office receipts or record, cassette, compact disk, or video sales

- Evidence of significant recognition for achievements from organizations, government agencies, or other recognized experts in the field

- Evidence of having commanded a high salary or other significantly high remuneration for services in relation to others
by igburstpartners | 2026-01-13 18:02:37+00:00
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by dabeeeenster | 2026-01-13 18:02:39+00:00
I just had Solaredge battery installed in my house in the UK (Had a solaredge PV and inverter so made sense even tho it was more than other setups). If you are up for a challenge https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/ is AMAZING and basically optimises when to charge and discharge your battery.

I've got a heat pump and think my paypack period is going to be about 6 years.

Hit me up on bluesky (in profile) if you want more info!
by pmyteh | 2026-01-13 18:02:41+00:00
Yes, though I'd be careful about assuming that votes are Conservatives <-> Reform on a left-right median voter model. The other aspect that Reform has (and will have at least until it forms a government) is anti-system/populist credentials. Labour had a little of that last time (they are a deeply establishment party, especially under current leadership, but they were coming off a period as very public opposition to the government and the current state of things) but will have very little next time.

It's certainly not a given that all the 2024 Reform vote would have gone to the Conservatives: a good chunk of it would have likely been disgusted abstention, another chunk to other anti-system parties (mostly of the right fringe, I suspect, but not excluding the Greens despite wild ideological differences), and likely a further (if smaller) chunk to other parties which were simply not the Conservatives (including Labour and the Lib Dems).

Edit: the best analysis on this is likely to be in the latest volume of the long-standing The British General Election of XXXX series, which has just been published online[0]. I haven't had time to look at it yet, though.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95952-3
by dylan604 | 2026-01-13 18:02:46+00:00
They don't need to be that hard to develop. It's not like you need a return to base feature. Sort of like wanting to learn how to fly a plane, but not take off and land the plane. You don't need to have the full feature set of a DJI drone to make it a weapon. You also don't need to worry about the battery life of coming back, so you've essentially doubled your distance capabilities, so maybe a stronger radio. Do you need the video return signal too? I guess that would be some decent PR footage on the nightly news propaganda stations though, so might be worth the expense??? You also don't need to be burdened with the GeoFencing features of a DJI, but would be funny to see a bunch of attack drones all hover just outside a map boundary because the target has their base listed in the GeoFence library!

So while not duct-taping a GoPro (we'd use Gaff tape anyways), they could use bailing wire with a grenade or c4 bundle to attach it.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-13 18:02:46+00:00
So far, I have never seen any article or even comment online explain explicitly why this is the case.

Almost everyone can see quite visibly that crime is not decreasing but then you have people with a clear political and financial motive saying: the stats, you are just a loon or (even worse) someone who might not be from London.

If you read the best source on this, hospital admissions, you will see that ~95% of the drop in "violent crime" is due to decreases in alcohol consumption. That is it. Ex this impact and in relative terms, violent crime in cities has been increasing significantly. And violent crime is supposed to be the rare subset of crime when, obviously, other categories of crime are generally increasing.

Btw, the group that publishes this data is also (strangely) unwilling to make this known and, afaik, do not include this information in press releases.

The other factor is that the composition of London's population has naturally changed over the last ten years. As London has continued to dominate economically, the poor have been emptied out from certain areas contributing greatly to a reduction in crime stats (and, unfortunately, an increase elsewhere in the country). For example, Camden has seen a huge reduction in violent crime, is this a surprise? If you look at areas that have stayed the same, crime has got worse (again, in relative terms/ex the above factors, crime in the UK is falling in many areas and rising in others).

I will say this another way: data is not collected fairly or accurately. There are massive political and financial incentives against accurate data. In London, this has always been the case because it is not possible to win elections in some areas in London with high crime if you admit that crime is high in those areas...you have to blame society. Twenty years ago, you had the same thing: city has never been safer, politicians doing so well, Met doing so well...once you have seen this a few times, you should start to wonder whether it is true...particularly as the current line is that crime was rampant twenty years ago...when it obviously wasn't. Anecdotes will always tend to represent the reality better than data which is produced for political purposes (and I think people know this, the stats exist in part so that people can hop online and say that everyone is doing a great job, you see the same thing online with central government...it is very weird).
by weinzierl | 2026-01-13 18:02:51+00:00
That is true, but it is also true that FinalCut lost big time against DaVinci for all semi-professional users which are exactly FinalCut's main target group.

I'd argue that it is very likely that Final Cut X+1 was Apple's plan. It just did not pan out and they were busy with other things. Now they made the first step correcting that (or cutting the losses, depending how you want to see it).
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-13 18:02:52+00:00
People are seemingly very unhappy with the status quo, but also even unhappier when the Government tries to legislate around real issues. For example, people in hacker news seem to bring up grooming rape gangs specifically when talking about "Diversity" in the UK as a cudgel when the UK tries to introduce safety laws.

Meanwhile some of the most prolific child abusers are being sent to jail (who happened to be young 20s and white) who were only enabled to abuse hundreds of young people over a matter of months due to online platforms.

The latter example is the type of thing the UK Government is trying to tackle. The abuse is rife, but people would rather talk about "Diversity" and complain about laws clearly designed to protect children.

Do I want the laws? No. But other people have ruined it, and now we no longer live in a high trust society. I certainly want something that will try to lower the abuse women and children face from the Internet (and men).
by zemo | 2026-01-13 18:03:07+00:00
I personally would go with no, because you're still propagating their cultural product. One rarely consumes media with the intention of keeping it a secret; half the point of watching a movie or tv show is to talk about it. The entire sociological function of celebrities is that we talk about them. "I am doing research on Scott Adams and I want to consume some Dilbert as a research device", um, sure, I guess, I dunno, why are you doing research on a recently dead bigot, what is the purpose of that. etc.

I'm not -your- conscience, I can only explain my own. To me? No, that's not fine.
by jfancherla | 2026-01-13 18:03:17+00:00
I have been paying my bills by computer since the early 80s. The key feature I wanted was check printing. These days I only write about 3 or 4 checks a month. For the past few years I have been using Banktivity but they have gone to a subscription model so I expect soon my copy will no longer run. I use it mostly for cash flow planning. Mac based so I would have to gin up something in Numbers to track expenses. Not looking forward to getting Numbers to print checks. Are you aware of any open source budget app that might give me a head start? If Apple ever gets around to running iOS apps on my MBP I would certainly consider your utility.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-13 18:04:00+00:00
That percentage of total usage is tiny, I agree.

We have one car and charge it quite often.

I just checked last month: 184kwh went into the Leaf. We used 557kwh in total (excluding the car charging).

We generated 1170kwh.

The key thing for me is the wild energy usage from the house. It’s a lot.

Edit: Your car energy usage calculation works out awfully close to what we use.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-13 18:04:16+00:00
https://devclass.com/2025/03/10/pypi-repository-takes-steps-...

> CPython core developer Paul Moore described his involvement in the
> packaging community and said: “it’s struggling under the weight of its own
> popularity … the individuals involved are doing their best under what are
> frankly near-impossible conditions.”

> Moore questioned whether the fact that so many businesses now depend on
> Python and PyPI meant that “maybe a purely volunteer basis simply can’t
> work any more,” though he hoped this is not the case.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-13 18:04:29+00:00
Agree with this. I didn’t agree with it in the past, but I can see now that it has caused the issue you raise. I don’t know if this is a great insight, but one reason I think people have not connected the results (Stephen Millers in the White House) back to the action (not speaking ill of the dead) is because THEY are not the ones affected. When Stephen Miller is in the White House, it’s all the non white people - including legal immigrants and naturalized citizens and citizens born here - that are living in fear of where the administration will go. I doubt others are aware that there is this fear, or even that the DHS’s official account tweets out threats to deport a third of the country.
by diydsp | 2026-01-13 18:04:51+00:00
I've been using it for a few months. Great project. I especially love adding i2c peripherals from M5. E.g. a bank of 8 rotary encoders.

Also love how absolutely minimal it is in size and if you didnt notice, the screen is a touchscreen. And they have a basic set of ui widgets.

Also interesting, the gfx lets you overlap sprites, bitmap, and text mode. You can tell the designers have lot of XP on 8-bit systems. And the bitmap is a little larger than the screen so you can do some superbitmap stuff. It's bot terribly larger, just a bit.

I havent been using it as much for its synth capabilites, ironically, but for making sequencers for external instruments. I believe it also has audio in...

Also the discord is helpful. 10/10
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-13 18:04:53+00:00
Find a solar coop if you can to avoid the sales pain. They will assemble a group of homeowners and bid the entire group install out to achieve cost efficiency. Ground installs are cheaper and easier, imho, whenever possible (but depends on land availability and favorable solar insolation).

http://solarunitedneighbors.org/ | https://solarunitedneighbors.org/locations/
by jll29 | 2026-01-13 18:04:55+00:00
For what it's worth, as a O-1 scientist you have to provide evidence that you:

...are a member of scholarly/professional organizations;

...have published original research works scientifically and internationally (peer reviewed publications);

...that you have judged the work of others (supervised and/or examined Ph.D. candidates);

...that you have consulted to governments;

...that you have repeatedly been invited as guest speaker at conferences, trade fairs or universities;

...that you won major international scholarships and awards (e.g. best paper awards at conferences, Masters's/doctoral scholarships from prestigious universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard or MIT;

...that three referees that are themselves O-1 level equivalents deem you worthy of receiving O-1 status;

...that you are a named inventor on patent applications and granted patents;

...that you have received media coverage;

...that you abilities are reflected in higher than typical compensation/salary/remuneration;

...that you won major international scholarships and awards (e.g. best paper awards at conferences, Masters's/doctoral scholarships from prestigious universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard or MIT; or

...that you have published significant works (i.e., works that created impact through citations, business creation, or software systems using the methods described therein).

Usually, from an official ist similar to the above (which I re-wrote from memory here), three out of nine or so checkboxes is the lowest bar for an O-1, and if you tick all of them and work with a specialist law firm, then it should be a slam dunk; my O-1 took about six months from application to grant back in 2008 (no payments of any "expediting fees" if they exist were made as far as I know).
by mooglevich | 2026-01-13 18:05:25+00:00
I think he literally said white people should stay away from black people.

I forget which video it is and don't want to re-watch it anyways. I Googled the specific quote and it sounds about right with my memory (which admittedly could be faulty):

"I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people."

"Just get the f— away. Wherever you have to go, just get away".

I guess we could discuss whether this is straight up racist, but it sounds pretty bad to me.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-13 18:05:25+00:00
We'll just let Boeing build them. They have the know-how.

Plus, if we're talking military drones vs civilian drones, they wouldn't need plastic shells. That'd just be more weight reducing distance. Then again, military industrial complex would probably try to make them stealth capable, be designed by committee from 22 nation states, be micro-USB mandated to comply with EU standards, blah blah. Yeah, you're right, we'd never be able to build them here.
by josephautomates | 2026-01-13 18:05:38+00:00
Hi HN,

Foldernest started as part of a Google Workspace consulting project for a client who needed a reliable way to create structured Google Drive folders from spreadsheet data and form submissions.

During onboarding, their team was manually creating the same folder trees for every new project (contracts, assets, reports, deliverables). It was repetitive, inconsistent, and easy to mess up.

I built a Google Sheets add-on that:
- Defines a folder structure once
- Automatically creates the folders with subfolders and files in Google Drive when a new row is added or a form is submitted (Google Forms, Typeform, Tally, Jotform, etc.)

It’s built on Google Apps Script and runs entirely inside Google Workspace.

After the project, I generalized it into Foldernest so other teams facing the same problem could use it.

Website: https://foldernest.flowbetta.com/

I’d love feedback, especially from people who work with Google Workspace, internal tools, or ops-heavy workflows. Happy to answer technical or architectural questions.
by komali2 | 2026-01-13 18:05:48+00:00
> The common modern idea that Stoicism is merely about emotional repression and a totally "unemotional" stance is quite a misconception.

Honestly, I blame Mr. Spock. Another thought I've been chewing on is emotional repression from a certain crowd of people who grew up as socially isolated nerds and / or autists that identified strongly with what they perceived as hyper rational characters like Spock. Sprinkle in high technology and the fact that these characters succeed at things nerds love and you get hero worship and emulation. Then add in all the masculine marketing we get from "stoic" characters like the dude from Drive to get another layer to the equation.
by ilamont | 2026-01-13 18:05:50+00:00
Concluding he would need an M.B.A if he wanted to climb the corporate ladder, Adams got into UC Berkeley, with the bank footing the bill. As he closed in on his master’s degree, he learned that an assistant vice president position was opening up but figured he wouldn’t get it because the bank was leaning toward hiring a minority, he said.

Adams jumped to Pacific Bell and completed his degree, thinking he was on the fast track to upper management. But in his book, Adams wrote that as was the case at Crocker National, his new employer was also coming under fire for a lack of diversity in its executive ranks.

Instead of getting mad, Adams got to drawing. Believing all this was a sign for him to revive his dream of cartooning, he purchased a primer on how to submit a comic strip and went about creating Dilbert.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/scott-ad...
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-13 18:06:03+00:00
1.9m is 6' 3", already in the 93rd percentile of US adult males according to this chart. https://preview.redd.it/oruqlgczepp91.png?auto=webp&s=cb797f... 2.1m is in the 99th percentile. Maybe you just have a lot of very tall friends.
by seanhunter | 2026-01-13 18:06:12+00:00
Yeah likewise. The book I read had a completely wrong “explanation” of Bell’s inequalities that said that FTL transmission of information was going to be happening in the future as soon as we’d got some of the technical details around entanglement ironed out. It wasn’t a joke it was pseudo—scientific magical thinking. I knew then that he had either always been, or had turned into, a crank.
by rationalist | 2026-01-13 18:06:14+00:00
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-...

Adams was talking about a poll:

> He said it revealed that 26% of Black respondents said it’s “not OK to be White” and 21% said “they weren’t sure.” With a degree of amazement, Adams said: “That’s 47% of Blacks not willing to say it’s OK to be White. That’s like a real poll. This just happened.”

> Adams said that the poll demonstrated that there is “no fixing” current racial tensions in America, which is why White people should live in largely segregated neighborhoods.

> “Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old author exclaimed. “Just get the (expletive) away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”

...

> “I’ve been identifying as Black for a while because I like to be on the winning team,” Adams continued. “And I like to help. I always thought if you help the Black community, that’s sort of the biggest lever, you could find, the biggest benefit.”

> “But it turns out that nearly half of that team doesn’t think I’m okay to be White,” Adams said.

> Given the poll results, Adams said he’s now “going to re-identify as White,” arguing that he doesn’t “want to be a member of a hate group,” which he claimed he had “accidentally joined” with his supposed Black identification.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-13 18:06:22+00:00
AI assistants can’t magically “do stuff” without “tools” exposed. A tool is always an API that someone has to write an expose to the orchestrator whether it’s AI or just a dumb intent system.

And ChatGPT can’t really “do anything” without access to tools.

You don’t want an LLM to have access to your total system without deterministic guardrails and limiting the permissions of what the tools can do just like you wouldn’t expose your entire database with admin privileges to the web.

You also don’t want to expose too many tools to the system. Every tool you expose you also have to have a description of what the tool does, the parameters it needs etc. Ot will both blow up your context window and start hallucinating. I suspect that’s why Alexa and Google Assistant got worse when they became LLM based and my narrow use cases don’t suffer those problems when I started implementing LLM based solutions.

And I am purposefully yada yada yadaing some of the technical complexities and I hate the entire “appeal to authority” thing. But I worked at AWS for 3.5 years until 2 years ago and I was at one point the second highest contributor to a popular open source “AWS Solution” that almost everyone in the niche had heard of dealing with voice automation. I really do know about this space.