MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Night_Thastus | 2026-01-14 20:14:38+00:00
This was really informative!

A recent job loss forced me to look harder at my own financials, and I was surprised just how much things like groceries accounts for in overall spending. I'm making a habit this year of, at the end of each day, recording what I spent and on what - so I can get better data.

I appreciate what NPR did here. Taking into account price per ounce/square foot/etc is essential so I'm glad they did.

It's useful to see these kinds of changes, can help make decisions. If company X is shrinking product Y, maybe it's time to look for an off-brand instead? That's what I'll be doing for a lot of things.
by bluGill | 2026-01-14 20:14:42+00:00
More importantly it is a significant source of calories. My brother quit soda years ago when he realized he was getting 1/3 of his daily calories from sugar - a little sugar is okay but you can't meet your daily nutrient needs when that much is from sugar. If it is just liquid soda is just as others (and probably better than alcohol), but there are other considerations.
by bobbob1921 | 2026-01-14 20:14:46+00:00
i know alot are joking / sarcastic about its a cyber attack- that said, Wouldn't it make more sense that whenever there is a "cyber attack" its more likely it would only affect one provider? ie, each has to have different systems / security postures ect, such that a non-public vuln useful to attack Verizon would likely not be exploitable/exposed at AT&T (or vise versa)?
by mlyle | 2026-01-14 20:15:02+00:00
I end up transferring 940kB (with a lot of blocking cranked up). Typing "hello" in the search bar takes it up to 1MB. Then the first page of search results is another 1.3MB.

Now, I assume all of this would start working before it's all transferred. But we're still talking about tens of seconds of transfer at 500kbit/sec.

(And Google at least acts like they care about bandwidth a little. So many 15megabyte pages out there...)
by psunavy03 | 2026-01-14 20:15:04+00:00
> IMO the sort of person who wants a vehicle like Elon's dumpster has a strong overlap with Elon's politics. Basically everything about its design and marketing was aimed at the sort of person who is focused on presenting a masculine image, who thinks they're going to be in a war zone on their daily commute, who wishes they could drive through a crowd of protesters, etc.

Elon is an ass, but this is still the most crudely and childishly stereotyped thing I've read on the internet today. Congrats.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-14 20:15:21+00:00
You can get Model 3 LR that will do it for $20k used.

Like everyone else, you are thinking in "gas car" trying to resolve an electric car problem.

You start every trip in an EV with full range (unplug from home base charger). You drive 300 miles. You full recharge. You drive another 300 miles. You plug-in and go to sleep.

600 miles. One charge. $20k EV.
by bahmboo | 2026-01-14 20:15:23+00:00
Or perhaps we should watch what happens in Australia and draw lessons from it? I have a hard time telling a teenager that they cannot socialize with people just because it is via electronic means. I also do not like teenagers identities manipulated for commercial ends. Though we have done this since the 1950s. Also shouldn't we ban MTV and rock and roll music in general? It's destroying the youth!
by dylan604 | 2026-01-14 20:15:36+00:00
I've reduced my ice cream intake close to 0 solely based on price. Specifically, I remember the prices from long ago to the current just under $10. To me, ice cream should not be the same price of a cheap bottle of wine or other alcohol as an example comparison. We all have our own individual red lines, but ice cream prices crossed mine some time ago
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-14 20:15:46+00:00
The problem with being a nationwide ISP - and Verizon runs mobile phones, fiber and all kinds of other stuff - is that you need lots of hands across the country. A lot of stuff can be done remotely and with automation, but often enough you still need actual physical hands on site, and you can't just say "eh, we'll come around tomorrow, we can't make it there faster".
by simonsarris | 2026-01-14 20:16:23+00:00
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by LeifCarrotson | 2026-01-14 20:16:33+00:00
It doesn't say that they accounted for possible changes in item quality. Tide detergent claims that their new 80-oz bottle of laundry detergent can wash 64 loads just like the previous 100-oz bottle because it's more concentrated, and I suppose NPR (if they'd retained a sample of the previous product) could have brought that to a chemistry lab to test and verify that claim, but I have no idea how you'd objectively prove that an ounce of salsa had truly remained the same product.
by SixFeetUp | 2026-01-14 20:16:34+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 20:16:38+00:00
> The fundamental question that needs answering is: should we actually prevent minors below the age of X from accessing social media site Y?

I suspect if you ask Hacker News commenters if we should put up any obstacles to accessing social media sites for anyone, a lot of people will tell you yes. The details don't matter. Bashing "social media" is popular here and anything that makes it harder for other people to use is viewed as a good thing.

What I've found to be more enlightening is to ask people if they'd be willing to accept the same limitations on Hacker News: Would they submit to ID review to prove they aren't a minor just to comment here? Or upvote? Or even access the algorithmic feed of user-generated content and comments? There's a lot of insistence that Hacker News would get an exception or doesn't count as social media under their ideal law, but in practice a site this large with user-generated content would likely need to adhere to the same laws.

So a better question might be: Would you be willing to submit to ID verification for the sites you participate in, as a fundamentally good thing for protecting minors from bad content on the internet?
by dabluecaboose | 2026-01-14 20:16:40+00:00
I specifically used the phrase "American Left" to try and head off this trite quip.

I was referring, in general terms, to the left wing of mainstream American political discourse without narrowing it down to just "Democrats". I was trying not to trigger the waves of "Ackshyually karl marx says under no pretext" comments that one usually gets.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-14 20:16:43+00:00
Almost; you need maintenance and monitoring but that doesn't take anywhere near 100k people - assuming they even use their own headcount for this instead of just outsourcing maintenance to their equipment vendor.

Big Tech companies operate much more complex systems (for starters, they actually build greenfield stuff instead of buying ready-made equipment from a vendor and plugging it in) and have way less headcount.
by ptorrone | 2026-01-14 20:16:43+00:00
user: xyzzyxy created: 2 hours ago ... ok, so you created it for this...

the individual you reference had already been removed from multiple retro and maker communities prior to this dispute for documented behavior. i contacted them privately using an email address they themselves used on the site they used, specifically to ask for a stop to the pile-on and to see whether there was a constructive way to resolve their grievance. their email included their first name, which i used in direct reply. there was no campaign, no public exposure of private information, and no intent to harm. labeling that interaction as “doxxing” is a distortion that collapses any private contact into wrongdoing.

with respect to sparkfun, yes, i sent a direct email to the founder, and ceo (and contacts i have there) calling out what i believe is a long-standing bully culture tolerated at the top. calling a company out for behavior is not harassment, even when the language is blunt. during this same period, fake accounts using my handle appeared and mass-reporting was clearly underway. my real account was likely caught up in that. retroactively attributing moderation actions for saying their first name on their email is inaccurate.

the various bans you cite did not occur after some calm, independent review of facts. they occurred in the middle of coordinated reporting, they said so.

as for etsy, i asked a seller who was publicly accusing me of “doxxing” a question: would placing an order would expose my personal information? that was it, there was a sticker in my cart already, i know this maker's work. etsy declined to take action that i know of, i just an etsy order, no ban (i did not buy the stickers). recharacterizing that as harassment is another example of inflation through repetition.

what your summary consistently excludes is the long, documented history of nate’s behavior and the impact it has had on employees, collaborators, and partners over many years. i dealt with that for a decade. i am not doing that anymore. drawing a line cost us purchasing a closed source board that only sparkfun makes, so we're doing an open source version.
by ryandvm | 2026-01-14 20:16:56+00:00
There are a lot of problems with age verification schemes, but you are doing your position a disservice by suggesting that anybody that doesn't want their kid to be bullied on Snapchat is actually just a puppet of fascist regimes trying to stifle political speech.

You should learn to appreciate the nuance of opinions that differ from your own if you actually want to, you know, convince anyone of anything.
by dugidugout | 2026-01-14 20:17:24+00:00
> For example, if police have a "hunch" you're selling drugs but not probable cause, they can just wait for you to ...

Whren doesn't seem to track in this case or am I missing something? In the example provided, the hunch directly ties the target to the crime ("drug selling"), which matches the stop's pretext. Natanson isn't accused of any crime, she's essentially writing about the "selling of drugs", not organizing or committing it.

Adjusting your example, if I'm simply friends (implying history of contact) with a known drug dealer, am I really at risk of my home being raided and communications seized solely because I might have evidence leading to their conviction?

Then extrapolating this to the implications on freedom of press... This doesn't sit well with me.
by roxolotl | 2026-01-14 20:17:27+00:00
He’s pretty clear in the fourth paragraph about one major issue. It only goes on more from there.

> Under Section 1201 of the DMCA, it's a felony to modify your own property in ways that the manufacturer disapproves of, even if your modifications accomplish some totally innocuous, legal, and socially beneficial goal. Not a little felony, either: DMCA 1201 provides for a five year sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense.
by paulcole | 2026-01-14 20:17:36+00:00
Culture, in my opinion, is the sum of all behaviors in an organization. Behaviors are driven by incentives and disincentives. When we talk about culture we talk about the behaviors that are generally incentivized and disincentivized. Core values are a way to quickly distill and define the culture of an organization in such a way that it can be discussed and broadly understood.

I've also heard it said that culture is what you let people get away with.

> What actually makes people hate their jobs over time?

This varies widely from person to person.

Someone else in this thread said that a job where they were working 10 hours a day, doing the job of 3 people with missed paychecks would be a cultural no-go for them. For others, the opportunity to learn new things by doing the job of 3 people is a dream. But for most, missed paychecks would be terrible!

I generally believe that (with a few extreme exceptions) that there are not "bad" and "good" cultures. There are just cultures that we do or do not want to be a part of.

The other thing to remember is that people change. A "good" culture for you today is not necessarily going to be a "good" culture for you in 5 years.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-14 20:17:37+00:00
> I hate cloud.

It doesn't matter, the choice is being removed from the market. The clouders are already front running and scalping the hardware retail, just like scalpers were doing to GPUs during crypto.

Today's excuse is AI but it's the same process, just on an industrial scale - the clouders buy in bulk at low prices, create shortages and exorbitant retail pricing, which forces you to buy from them, providing them with nice profits. The only difference from vanilla scalping is, they sell the services provided by the hardware, not the actual gear.

The process is unstoppable without legislative intervention, it works with or without the presence of inflation - front running assures the scalping of retail. The high tariffs on Chinese hardware and the draconian restrictions on selling them gear for semiconductor manufacturing remove the only natural remedy - competition.

On the other hand, the existing semiconductor manufacturers are highly incentivized to sell in bulk so some leave the retail market altogether to become exclusive suppliers to big cloud and big OEM - e.g. Micron.
by jvanderbot | 2026-01-14 20:17:44+00:00
I dont see why phones can't come with a browser that does this. Parents could curate a whitelist like people curate playlists, and share it, and the browser would honor that.

Combined with some blacklisted apps (e.g., all other browsers), this would be a passable opt-in solution. I'm sure there's either a subscription or a small incentive for someone to build this that hopefully isn't "Scam children".

It's not like kids are using PCs, and if they use someone else's phone, that's at least a severely limiting factor.
by metalman | 2026-01-14 20:18:06+00:00
more absurdity: I aprenticed with old time masters in more than one trade, and have worked in and around many other trades, and have taken on aprentices(officialy) in trades that I am unpapered in, have requests from trade schools to take on more aprentices, but, BUT, I cant work officialy in those trades, because I am unpapered, and cant get insurance, without going to trade school, and doing an aprenticship first.
by barishnamazov | 2026-01-14 20:18:28+00:00
Wondering if you plan to keep running the team on Discord forever -- I feel like larger companies who care about operations & privacy/security usually move to an enterprise solution like Slack or self-host a tool. Can Harmony join any kind of calls (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, etc.) in the future and implement the same functionality?
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-01-14 20:18:28+00:00
>Nowadays the scam is to find any recently closed, large firm and claim you worked there with whatever BS title you want.

This is likely why background checks even for non-sensitive/non-cleared positions are being applied. I just ran through one as a Senior Dev for a company. I guess it's more likely the more money you make too.

So if you're going to try this, you'll have to ignore companies with a background check or start forging W-2s or other documents, but who knows what data they have these days and how easy it is to fool them
by ianbutler | 2026-01-14 20:18:39+00:00
We shouldn't ban social media we should ban algorithmically curated feeds that push any specific type of content. Outrage sells and so platform curated feeds have curated outrage and extreme content.

In practice I haven't seen much useful political discourse by the average person, but as long as we don't selectively amplify voices through machine signals and they NATURALLY accrue followings then whatever I guess.
by hvb2 | 2026-01-14 20:18:42+00:00
Fine, I'll do your work for you.

Finland, Olkiluoto, license application 2000, construction started in 2005, planned operation in 2010, actual operation 2023.

France Flammanville 3, construction started in 2007, planned operation in 2012, actual operation 2024, so 17 years

Hinkley point UK, construction began 2017 projected commissioning is in 2029/2030.

Vogtle USA, permits 2006, construction started 2013, operation 2023/2024.

South Korea, shin kori 3 and 4 took 7 and 10 years. And those aren't new designs.

Japan, the newest commissioned reactor is from 1997? Sure, France built really fast in the 80s... Different requirements/rules/public opinion.

And this is all from the start of construction. The beginning of the project is actually waaaay before that.

Please send me some links when you've done your research to prove me wrong. And yes, I did leave out china because I don't see the us building a Chinese design reactor... And even if that was possible it wouldn't meet us standards so you can effectively start over.

> If people didn't start such medium-length projects out of fear of hypothetical future bankruptcy, there would never have been any infrastructure projects.

And who finances that? Not banks by themselves, governments always have to give out some loan guarantees or favorable treatment. No private investor can deal with that amount of risk. So the bureaucracy that you speak of, without it no nuclear plant would exist.

So why don't you point me to a commercial nuclear power plant that was privately funded without loan guarantees by a government and all of that.

> We live in a time where business people start space programs out of bloody boredom.

So if you're referring to SpaceX, no Musk started that to make life multi planetary. And he understood that no one will finance that so the company needs to first make money to finance that mars shot.

Bezos I'm less familiar with but I know he has a collection of space artifacts so I think it's an interest of his and he probably wants to show he can do what musk can.
by flowerbreeze | 2026-01-14 20:18:53+00:00
My favourite approach to documentation is the "4 kinds of documentation" - whether it's about an API, a library or anything else. I think it's a very clean way of explaining "good/poor" documentation.

In a nutshell, which type of documentation we need depends on the goal we have. Any API missing one of the kinds of documentation will feel like it is missing something. Once I read about it, I've been noticing how the documentation I like tends to have all these aspects covered.

https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/eu/2017/the-four-kinds-o...
by skinnymuch | 2026-01-14 20:18:56+00:00
That is not how people and society function. The status quo and culture is that open source is good for society and all. You are not told about why big corporations can use all this code for free. You’re actually told you’re doing a good deed by making code open source.

Then you jump on to a place like Reddit or HN and you have people mostly supporting the status quo. Of course people are going to do open source more than they should. And then if they complain later on, you will say they chose to make it open source. Reinforcing the status quo by blaming the individual.
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-14 20:19:09+00:00
I like that this article at least links to a document with the features they want under scrutiny, but they do avoid a definition, and nearly all networked systems have at least some of the features in the document[1].

Is google docs social media? It certainly has social features and I've been witness to cyber-bullying via a shared google doc.

What about Spotify? It has social features far beyond just sharing playlists

WhatsApp? Discord? MMS?

1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GVO7sNuCNmNwqVK64PHQ...
by lisdexan | 2026-01-14 20:19:12+00:00
More datapoints in USD (Chile) from checking various companies:

150GB-200GB ~15 USD

400GB-450GB ~19-20 USD

Unlimited (without throttling) ~21-27 USD

This is the price after the new client ~20% discount expires (generally 6 months). The unlimited and higher tier usually include stuff like Amazon Prime Videos subscriptions, local IPTV or roaming gigs. All plans obviously include calls and texting.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-14 20:19:13+00:00
> I'd argue If you're creating and releasing open source with the expectations of compensation, you're doing it wrong.

I think this is a little unfair, given that many (especially younger maintainers) get into it for portfolio reasons where they otherwise might struggle to get a job but stick around because of the enjoyment and interest. It still sucks that so many big orgs rely on these packages and we're potentially experiencing a future when models trained on this code are going to replace jobs in the future.

I think a lack of unionisation is what puts the industry in such a tough spot. We have no big power brokers to enforce the rights of open source developers, unlike the other creative industries that can organise with combined legal action.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-14 20:19:14+00:00
> I truly fear the harm that will be done before legislators realize what they’ve created.

Not defending the legislation as I overwhelmingly disagree with it, but if I recall, I don't think any of the age verification legislation specifies a specific implementation of how to verify age.

Requiring photos, or photo ID, or any other number of methods being employed, were all decided on by the various private companies. All the legislators did is tell everyone "you must verify age." The fault here is on Roblox as much as it is on the legislature and they should equally share blame.
by xhevahir | 2026-01-14 20:19:37+00:00
What's especially American about this remark isn't the experience of consuming alcohol in public. What is characteristically American, I think, is the assumption that we can pronounce a thing good or bad merely on the basis of its effect on the individual, with no regard for one's relationships with other people. Drinking in a pub is a social activity, and the alcohol is a lubricant for that activity. Yes, doing too much of it can cause great harm; doing any amount of it could cause some harm; it does not follow that the thing is a net detriment to society, and that it should be banned.
by al2o3cr | 2026-01-14 20:19:37+00:00
Welcome to Elmo-land where a mission:

with a spacecraft that has never been orbited

that will need to be refueled in-orbit, which has never been done

"crewed" by autonomous robots which have only been demoed with remote operation

is "50/50" for happening within 11 months

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight
by frocodillo | 2026-01-14 20:19:43+00:00
https://frodejac.dev is my personal site. Perhaps more interesting is https://notes.frodejac.dev which is more of like live journal, primarily built as a way to learn Go and SQLite. Wish I spent more time adding content to it, though. I have quite a few interesting topics to write about, but rarely find the time to do so.
by Fazebooking | 2026-01-14 20:19:48+00:00
When Elon the Shithead announced the Tesla Biohazard filter for China, I was annoyed.

Our Public Transports AC is so shit, that in a hot summer, the outside is cooler than the full SBahn.

And a single Car! Had such a good air filter in comparision.

I primarily communte by car now after the office moved and i'm def less often sick.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-01-14 20:19:50+00:00
Many people have written what you have written, trying to justify their life choices to strangers on the internet.

None of them have ever explained why alcohol, or any drug use, needs to be part of third spaces.

Society is losing third spaces, largely due to unchecked capitalism eroding the society it serves... but 'pubs' are just another form of rent-seeking by landlords. It has been proven without a doubt that third spaces as a commercial venture is ultimately non-functional, yet that is what pubs and bars have always been, and now they are dying out.