MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shagie | 2026-01-13 17:55:34+00:00
It's the difference in difficulty for the criteria.

https://www.pathlawgroup.com/o1b-visa-requirements/

For all other candidates, at least three of the following criteria must be met in order to qualify for the O1B visa:
Having been or will be performing a lead or starring role in productions or events which have a distinguished national or international reputation (as evidenced by critical reviews, advertisements, press releases, publications contracts, or endorsements)
Critical reviews or other published material in professional or major trade publications or in the major media by or about the applicant which show that the applicant has achieved national or international recognition or achievements
Evidence of performance in a lead, starring or critical role for organizations or establishments with distinguished reputations
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
Other comparable evidence (This category is not available for those in the motion picture industry)

For traditional arts, you've gotta be good.

For an influencer... some number of anonymous followers?

There are certainly some that would qualify... but it they should be held to the same standards as others.
Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)
by Aydarbek | 2026-01-13 17:55:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Ayder — a single-binary, HTTP-native durable event log written in C.
The wedge is simple: curl is the client (no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libs).

There’s a 2-minute demo that starts with an unclean SIGKILL, then restarts and
verifies offsets + data are still there.

Numbers (3-node Raft, real network, sync-majority writes, 64B payload):
~50K msg/s sustained (wrk2 @ 50K req/s), client P99 ~3.46ms.
Crash recovery after SIGKILL is ~40–50s with ~8M offsets.

Repo link has the video, benchmarks, and quick start.
I’m looking for a few early design partners (any event ingestion/streaming workload).
by goatlover | 2026-01-13 17:55:37+00:00
Law enforcement is trained not to shoot at a moving vehicle because you risk public safety if the drive is incapacitated. Also LE is trained not to put themselves in front or back of the vehicle, since you can get run over that way. Agent Jonathan Ross did not follow his training, despite being dragged by a vehicle months earlier.

You also have to ask why Renee Good decided to leave her wife behind who tried to get in the locked passenger door. Another agent was grabbing the driver door and reaching his hand inside. What was Mr. Ross doing with his free hand? He was holding his phone in the other hand to video the encounter for some reason, even though they're supposed to have body cams.

There's no way a judge or jury looks at this and thinks the agents involved followed proper training.
by gcanyon | 2026-01-13 17:55:50+00:00
I used to say the same thing about Ronald Reagan -- a president who did many questionable/bad things, but he lifted the U.S. out of the doldrums we experienced in the late '70s.

Over time I've learned context about how those doldrums occurred, and more about what Reagan actually did, and the trade seems much less worthwhile. :-/
by Eextra953 | 2026-01-13 17:56:16+00:00
I think you are correct about the political violence being higher in 20th century USA. For anyone doubting it, just look at the black experience in the south during the civil rights movements. Where I am concerned is that the violence we are seeing today from the federal authorities is being endorsed by the federal government. In fact all leadership is doubling down and turning up the rhetoric whereas during the 50's and 60's it was the federal government stepping in if things got out of hand. With what is happening today, who will step in to cool things down?
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-13 17:56:24+00:00
I wonder how many people are actually from the UK on these threads. There is always comments about "diversity" and "grooming rape gangs" and how everything labour do is bad, or about how the UK is an oppressive regime or somehow fundamentally anti-freedom. This always reads like fear mongering / Russian psy-ops propaganda to me.

I have many bones to pick with the UK government but a large number of people sprinting to these talking points at every chance they get is highly suspicious to me.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 17:56:35+00:00
Sure, there's a few. But 3 rodent studies isn't exactly enough evidence for a layperson to worry about, either. It's not even much of a signal for scientists in that area of research.

Ivermectin is pretty safe for people to use regardless of whether or not they have parasites, so sure, do the human RCTs. Maybe we'll get lucky and have another tool in our anti-cancer toolbox.

But trying to extrapolate out that it's reasonable for people to take it for cancer based on the current evidence is premature, at best.
by mothballed | 2026-01-13 17:56:36+00:00
Your position is completely untenable here and relies on it being easier to destroy multiple 'industrial bases' plus the US drone industry rather than your straw man of just the "entire" US industrial base.

Even going off your theory that the US drone industry is not easily sabotaged, it can't possibly be easier to sabotage the US drone industry plus all the import pathways (which you would otherwise have to re-establish).
by syncsynchalt | 2026-01-13 17:56:38+00:00
Don't forget his claim that master hypnotists are using camgirls to give him super-orgasms to steal his money. He was a nutter in more ways than just his politics.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201108112121/https://www.scott...

> In other news, for several years I have been tracking a Master Wizard that I believe lives in Southern California. It seems he has trained a small army of attractive women in his method. The women create a specialized style of porn video clips that literally hypnotize the viewer to magnify the orgasm experience beyond anything you probably imagine is possible. Hypnosis has a super-strong impact on about 20% of people. And a lesser-but-strong impact on most of the rest.

> Once a customer is hooked, the girls use powerful (and real) hypnosis tools to connect the viewer’s enjoyable experience (a super-orgasm, or several) to the viewer’s act of giving them money, either directly or by buying more clips. Eventually the regular viewers are reprogrammed to get their sexual thrill by the act of donating money to the girls in the videos. There are lots of variations tied to each type of sexual kink, but that’s the general idea.

> My best guess is that 10% of the traffic that flows through their business model literally cannot leave until they have no money left. The Master Wizard is that good. The women are well-coached in his methods.
by jdboyd | 2026-01-13 17:56:51+00:00
https://archive.is/ccbGQ

Since I get a paywall and it looks like no one has posted such a link yet.

FWIW, I think the Inc article is better: https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/scott-adams-dilbert-dies...

But the link posted to HackerNews isn't the one getting the discussion traffic.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-13 17:56:51+00:00
Related:

What we know about Iran's Internet shutdown https://blog.cloudflare.com/iran-protests-internet-shutdown/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602066)

Among a number of other posts previously getting into it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591974

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683
by teh64 | 2026-01-13 17:56:51+00:00
I have looked at 2018-2016, where the expenses are almost completely the main pycon and more local pycons. Also sponserships like "Pallets group, which maintains projects such as Flask and Jinja" (2018). Everything other than the main pycon is less than 1 million dollars combined in expenses.

I feel it is important to look at the facts, not just vibes.
by lumirth | 2026-01-13 17:56:53+00:00
Have you ever seen those posts where AI image generation tools completely fail to generate an image of the leaning tower of Pisa straightened out? Every single time, they generate the leaning tower, well… leaning. (With the exception of some more recent advanced models, of course)

From my understanding, this is because modern AI models are basically pattern extrapolation machines. Humans are too, by the way. If every time you eat a particular kind of berry, you crap your guts out, you’re probably going to avoid that berry.

That is to say, LLMs are trained to give you the most likely text (their response) which follows some preceding text (the context). From my experience, if the LLM agent loads a history of commands run into context, and one of those commands is a deletion command, the subsequent text is almost always “there was a deletion.” Which makes sense!

So while yes, it is theoretically possible for things to go sideways and for it to hallucinate in some weird way (which grows increasingly likely if there’s a lot of junk clogging the context window), in this case I get the impression it’s close to impossible to get a faulty response. But close to impossible ≠ impossible, so precautions are still essential.
by arielweisberg | 2026-01-13 17:56:59+00:00
It’s really not quite like that. https://youtu.be/Dyr87--SDuc?si=EPmTEPQfFtaWV2tt

The impact is more for bind and fly drones that are FCC approved so you don’t need a HAM license to operate them.

To me it also looks like there are also loopholes you could drive a truck through in terms of importing partially assembled drones that can be assembled by the end user as well as approving components by making their use not exclusive to UAS.

What actually happens remains to be seen because it really depends on what the enforcement actually looks like and how well work around a work.

I think the real goal of the regulators is to ensure an onshore supply chain for government use and there won’t be a focus on civilian usage.
by Foxboron | 2026-01-13 17:57:09+00:00
> Linux, clang, python, react, blink, v8, openssl... You know what I mean. I stand by what I said. Do you have a counterexample you think is clearly unfunded? They exist[1], but they're rare.

For Linux "all the major contributors and maintainers are on the payroll of one of the big tech interests or a foundation funded by them" is simply not true. It's trivial to prove this by just looking at the maintainers of the subsystems. Making this claim is nonsense to begin with.

Same is true for several major contributors to the Python compiler and subsequent libraries as well.

You will move the goalpost by trying to narrow down what "major contributor" means.

> It's software subject to economic coercion owing to the lack of means of its maintainership. It's 100% fine for you to write and release software for free, but if a third party bets their own product on it they're subject to an attack where I hand you $7M to look the other way while I borrow your shell.

So without knowing anyone you are making a value judgement on the (probable?) lack of ethics? Excuse me?
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-01-13 17:57:54+00:00
The codebase is only hard to work with in the ways it's meant to be - they are very easy to find with `git grep` and they are right next to the code in question so are easy to see when you're working on it. Conversely, they are hard to just 'lose' when some PM decides to have a "JIRA cleanup", which is also by design.
by zackmorris | 2026-01-13 17:58:07+00:00
I've been following a story where Elon Musk's xAI is building an 88 acre solar farm next to its Colossus data center near Memphis TN after public outrage due to running 35 methane gas turbines without a permit, which increased NOx emissions enough to allegedly impact health:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/trumps-epa-plans-to-ignore...

88 acres = 356,124 m2
4.56 kWh/m2 per day solar insolation (4.5 is typical for much of the US)
4.56 kWh/m2 per day \* 356,124 m2 = 1,623,924 kWh/day = 67,664 kW = 67.66 MW average
1000 W/m2 \* 356,124 m2 = 356 MW peak

They're estimating that they'll get 30 MW on average from that, but I'd estimate more like 15 MW at a solar panel efficiency just over 20%. Still, the total cost for that power should be less than for turbines, since solar is now the cheapest electricity other than hypothetical nuclear (assuming an ideal breeder or waste-consuming reactor and excluding mining/waste externalities/insurance).

30 MW is still only 10% of the the 300 MW used by the data center. But there's lots of land out there, so roughly 1000 acres per data center doesn't seem that extreme to me. That's a 4 km2 or 1.5 mile2 lot, or about 1 km or 1.25 miles on a side.

Basically every GPU server uses 1 kW (about 1 space heater), which puts into perspective just how much computing power is available at these data centers. Running a GPU continuously at home would need 24 kWh/day, so with > 20% efficiency panels that's 4.5*.2 = 0.9 kWh/m2 per day, so 26.67 m2, so at 2 m2 per commercial solar panel and assuming that my math is right: that's about 14 panels considering nights and seasons.

It's interesting to think just how many panels it takes to run a GPU or space heater continuously, even when they put out 500 W or 250 W/m2 peak. And how cheap that electricity really is when it's sold for on the order of $0.15 per kWh, or $3.60 per day.

I've found that the very best way to save on your electric bill is to have a few south-facing slider doors and windows, which is like running a space heater every square meter of window. There's just no way that any other form of power generation can compete with that. Also, I feel that we're doing it wrong with solar. This analysis shows just how much better alternatives like trough solar and concentrated solar (mirrors towards solar panels) might be cost-wise. On an ironic note, solar panels now cost less than windows by area, and probably mirrors.
by godelski | 2026-01-13 17:58:10+00:00
Honestly, with terminal emulators these days I'd love to see a new attempt at making a TUI based browsers. I don't need video, but we got sixel these days for images. But being able to stay in my terminal or put a Google search docs or some other thing in a tmux pane would be really awesome. I'm sure the LLMs would love them too, if that helps for any motivation.
by mrtesthah | 2026-01-13 17:58:25+00:00
Think about all the things people have done in the real world the last 50 years to combat bigotry. During the civil rights movement of the 60s, black people sat at segregated lunch counters and marched peacefully in the street, and were consequently spat on and attacked by white mobs, beaten by police, sprayed with fire hoses, attacked by dogs, etc.

In the last 10 years, the modern black lives matter movement has triggered similar violent backlashes, with every public gathering drawing a militarized police response and hateful counter-protesters. On a policy level, even the most milquetoast corporate initiatives to consider applications and promotions from diverse candidates of equal merit are now being slandered and attacked. In education, acknowledgment of historical racial and gender inequality is under heavy censorship pressure.

It really does seem like the more effective we are at acting IRL, the greater the backlash is going to be.
by rhettbull | 2026-01-13 17:58:45+00:00
> As far as I know, this is the only tool that restores albums and correctly round-trips all Photos item types while preserving location data, creation dates, and modification dates when restoring back into Photos.

My free open source tool osxphotos [1] does this. In addition to an "osxphotos export" command to create archival exports with all metadata, it also has an "osxphotos import" command that can restore all metadata including albums (with exception of named persons/face regions, though persons can be converted into keywords on import). It can also read XMP sidecar files to restore metadata from those. It's a CLI and definitely a power user tool.

It also includes an "osxphotos sync" command that can sync metadata between two libraries. Some people use this to sync metadata like favorites from iPhone library to the Mac library. (can't go the other way unfortunately)

[1] https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos
by quacker | 2026-01-13 17:59:02+00:00
Rebasing replays your commits on top of the current main branch, as if you’d just created your branch today. The result is a clean, linear history that’s easier to review and bisect when tracking down bugs.

The article discusses why contributors should rebase their feature branches (pull request).

The reason they give is for clean git history on main.

The more important reason is ensure the PR branch actually works if merged into current main. If I add my change onto main, does it then build, pass all tests, etc? What if my PR branch is old, and new commits have been added onto main that I don't have in my PR branch? Then I can merge and break main. That's why you need to update your PR branch to include the newer commits from main (and the "update" could be a rebase or a merge from main or possibly something else).

The downside of requiring contributors to rebase their PR branch is (1) people are confused about rebase and (2) if your repository has many contributors and frequent merges into main, then contributors will need to frequently rebase their PR branch, and each rebase their PR checks need to re-run, which can be time consuming.

My preference with Github is to squash merge into main[1] to keep clean git history on main. And to use merge queue[2], which effectively creates a temp branch of main+PR, runs your CI checks, and then the PR merge succeeds into main only if checks pass on the temp branch. This approach keeps super clean history on main, where every commit includes a specific PR number, and more importantly minimizes friction for contributors by reducing frequent PR rebases on large/busy repos. And it ensures main is never broken (as far as your CI checks can catch issues). There's also basically no downside for very small repos either.

1. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...

2. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...
by mcv | 2026-01-13 17:59:35+00:00
Scott Adams is a bit of a mystery to me. Like most here, I loved his comics in the 1990s and 2000s. I even joined the mailinglist for his werd rd and surely ironically intended Dogbert's New Ruling Class. Through Dilbert, he came across as a hero of underappreciated tech workers, and a critic of ignorant managers, so it feels really weird that he became such a supporter of the ultimate pointy haired boss.

I remember how he predicted Trump's victory all the way back in 2015, early in the primaries. He argues that Trump (and Kanye, for that matter) were super-convincers who used mass hypnosis techniques. Sounds utterly bizarre, and yet mass hypnosis struck me as the only possible explanation of Trump's popularity. Because there were certainly no rational arguments for it.

And yet, this seemingly critical (if unhinged) thinker who claimed to see through those alleged hypnosis techniques, somehow fell for it.

I don't think I'll ever understand Scott Adams.
by kamens | 2026-01-13 17:59:52+00:00
The minimum recognition Scott Adams deserves should be having updated the world model of those who read his blog.

It is hard to remember how thoroughly Trump's presidential run was seen as a joke in 2015. I bet most people can't remember and somehow think they always knew Trump stood a real chance. That is likely a lie.

Scott made specific, reasoned, unique arguments about why Trump would win, with high conviction. This was at a time when it was about as non-consensus and unpopular as possible to do so (it wasn't just that people didn't want Trump to win, there was a complete dismissal of the possibility from both sides of the aisle).

The fact that Scott was right, and continued to be right when forecasting much about politics, taught me a lot about the nature of the world we live in. Scott clearly understood something important that I did not at the time.
by Leonardm | 2026-01-13 17:59:55+00:00
I tend to work best with very simple productivity tools, and most task managers either don't let you work with teams, or are ridiculously expensive for just a list with extra metadata, especially if you work on many projects with different people. So I built a minimal one using HTMX + Bun + Hono.

It’s called Zadan (https://zadan.app), named after the Slavic word zadaniye (“assignment”). The goal is to keep it free and focused on getting tasks done, with only a few practical extras like file or image attachments for context which I am working on now.

I’ve only spent a few days on it, but it already feels solid and was even helpful for planning my wedding! Feedback welcome.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-13 17:59:57+00:00
> In its complaint, T3D charged Clinilabs, the contract research organization (CRO) that it paid $14.5 million to manage the trial, with covering up “all encompassing” fraud by five of the South Florida clinics that had recruited many of the subjects, administered the drug, and reported results. The trial sites are all for-profit companies with small offices—or, in one case, a mobile clinic plastered with patient recruitment ads—that specialize in clinical testing rather than routine treatments. T3D alleged they had manipulated data, boosted revenue by enrolling many candidates who did not have Alzheimer’s, and collected payments for screening out others who obviously should never have been considered.
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by ericmay | 2026-01-13 18:00:55+00:00
Depends. Is he actually fighting 450,000,000 in the EU? Is Portugal going to send troops to the front lines in Estonia? Will Germans accept being drafted to go fight in Ukraine? These are serious questions. Meanwhile Putin is very much able to draft Russians to fight wars, and god-forbid he takes over Ukraine he'll send Ukrainians too.