MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vanc_cefepime | 2026-01-13 17:23:38+00:00
Outside transfer switch and a 10-20kw portable generator is like $4-5k. It requires manual switching but it works for us in our hurricane-prone region. Helped with last years 1 in a 100 year winter storm in our southern region.

Battery/solar doesn’t make sense in my opinion. Too many years to break even like this parent comment said and by the time you break even at 10 years, your system either is too inefficient or needs replacing. At least with the portable generator, you can move it with you to a new home and use it for other things like camping or RVing.
by superfrank | 2026-01-13 17:23:48+00:00
It's funny, early on it says

> The O-1 category includes the O-1A, which is designated for individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business or athletics and the O-1B, reserved for those with “extraordinary ability or achievement”.

Then later it says

> The O-1B visa, once reserved for Hollywood titans and superstar musicians, has evolved over the years.

I understand those two aren't necessarily contradictory, but the wording of the first sentence paints a very different mental picture than the second one (at least it did for me), especially since they throw in the O-1A and then almost exclusively talk about people applying for the O-1B after that.

Personally, I don't want the US choosing to give visas to influencers over scientists, but if this visa was already being heavily used to bring in actors, musicians, and athletes I don't see what the hubbub is about. I don't use TikTok or OnlyFans and I don't find e-sports entertaining, but I have a hard time arguing that a screen actor, Victoria's Secret model, or soccer player should be worthy of a visa and a social media star, OnlyFans model, or a professional Counter Strike player shouldn't is not. It's all just entertainment.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-13 17:23:52+00:00
Let's say, hypothetically, that the president was taking tariff revenue and transferring it into a Trump-owned bank account rather than into the Treasury. Yeah, you'd have to prove it. But that would absolutely be outside the scope of his legitimate presidential power.

In real life, it wouldn't be that simple. There would be a veil of plausibility, and so it would be harder to prove. But I claim that he can still be prosecuted. He has the presumption that what he does is within the scope of his office; the burden of proof is very much on the prosecution. But he does not have complete immunity.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-13 17:23:53+00:00
It’s edited well for its purpose, perhaps; it is not edited well for the purpose of understanding the context and intent of the Scott Adams quote being discussed, which is very much not its purpose. From the perspective of someone trying to understand the evolution of Adams’ views, it is badly edited, which is different than saying Berger is a bad editor, or even that it is badly edited from any other perspective.
by mbesto | 2026-01-13 17:23:59+00:00
That's fair.

Better comparison:

Author's config:

3x Powerwalls + inverters = 40 kWh

4.2 kW array

£39,360 = $53k USD

Alternative:

EG4 18kPV Hybrid Inverter = $5000

3x RIUXU = $9600

10x Trina Solar 435w panels = $1580

Cabling, installations, etc. = $5000

Total = $21k

It's not even close...
by Firehawke | 2026-01-13 17:24:23+00:00
I'm getting off-topic with this, but a quick aside:

In my teens I began to learn that most of the people on my father's side of the family were horrifically broken people with severe issues. There's at least one town in New Mexico where I wouldn't want to use my last name because an uncle of mine has run it deeply through the mud and 20' underground so to speak.

I've actively cut those people out of my life. I've decided that blood isn't the only thing that makes family, and that I can choose who I want to treat as family.

The infighting bastards who happen to share my last name are not my family.
by Ir0nMan | 2026-01-13 17:25:07+00:00
It's worth considering: Run the PiVPN script on a Ubuntu/Debian based VM. Set it to use a non-standard random port. That will be your only port exposed to the internet.

Add the generated Wireguard key to any device (laptops, phones, etc) and access your home LAN as if it was local from anywhere in the world for free.

Works well, super easy to setup, secure, and fast.
by matwood | 2026-01-13 17:25:11+00:00
You should read "A Man's Search for Meaning" sometime. While not exactly Stoicism many of the ideas are similar/related. How a person views and responds to their situation, has a huge impact on them. No one is saying any of this will remove all of someone's acute pain, but as crazy as it sounds, accepting that suffering can lead maybe the pain not being quite so bad.
by DIVx0 | 2026-01-13 17:25:12+00:00
Are you enjoying the taste of the boot so much your eyes are closed in ecstasy? You think it is not brutal state violence to go door-to-door, kicking some in and extracting people who are, at worst, suspected of misdemeanor? Have you ever been the victim of a Kavanaugh stop? I have, and I live in Minneapolis and have personally witnessed ICE jumping out of SUVs, chasing someone who simply pointed at them, knock them down and get back into their SUV to go on terrorizing people.

You like this? What is wrong with you?
by showerst | 2026-01-13 17:25:15+00:00
Both making and removing regulation boosts my business, as my clients care about changes. That said, I assure you that one regulation getting made out of millions has no effect on my bottom line.

The drone thing is a personal opinion. If the US ends up in a war (whether it’s one I agree with or not, likely not), I don’t want millions of drones to be remote controllable by the folks we’re fighting.
by yesfitz | 2026-01-13 17:25:46+00:00
Could someone with more familiarity in reading scientific papers tell me if the paper shows any material difference in the types of Bluetooth headphones tested (in-ear, over-head, neckband)?

It's shown in some of the figures, but all I found in the discussion section was: "Given the thyroid's high sensitivity to radiation, long-term exposure to NIR, especially from Bluetooth headphones worn close to the neck, might intensify the impact on this organ."

I've got a small Bluetooth receiver with a 3.5mm aux port that I'm planning on using with my wired over-head headphones, but my initial plan was mounting the receiver onto the headset itself. Maybe it would be better to keep it further away.

Or perhaps it doesn't really matter and time is the most important factor that I can control for (Figure 7).
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-13 17:25:48+00:00
A similar read that expands on the Ivrea town:

Olivetti’s Ivrea: How an Italian Tech Giant Built the World’s Most Progressive Company Town

https://medium.com/@danielstone/olivettis-ivrea-how-an-itali... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957377)
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-13 17:25:56+00:00
And further, my position has been that learning the correct methods, paying a lot of attention to details, and not being cheap with tools is -still- cheaper and probably more reliable than paying contractors. I have only used my hydraulic crimper for a pair of cables, but it was the correct tool and did good work.

I'm not interfacing with a grid, and there are already code issues with my places- I'd probably feel different if I could get insurance on my place.

Cheap chinese tooling and youtube (plus pretty good general literacy) go a long way in this world.

And FWIW, I live in the US west and am way more worried about fire coming from outside than from the batteries.
by bartilg | 2026-01-13 17:26:02+00:00
Definitely one of the best options. I think the biggest obstacle here is actually getting that information public so it can be analyzed and summarized. Local government meetings often have no recording to analyze, and in the cases where it is most important, there is often incentive to keep it private from the public. Additionally, government moves extremely slow, with local government being one of the worst offenders. Mandatory public recordings of government functions would probably be the biggest step towards solving this issue.
by Havoc | 2026-01-13 17:26:14+00:00
>a model will probably know its user so well that it will be painful to switch to a different one.

Very keen to avoid this sort of life lock-in personally.

I'd much rather build a local version that is half as capable. Use cloud for inference via API but have the core data storage etc local. Already made some progress replacing pieces with own MCP servers

>A.I. companions

Another thing I'm absolutely not doing hosted. Certainly not the emotional connotations of "companion".

I can see both strategies working commercially though
by boplicity | 2026-01-13 17:26:20+00:00
Why would you need to replace the batteries? Do they fail outright at around 10 years, become unsafe, or do they just lose capacity?

Curious!

Even if they're at 50% capacity, they would still work, right? But if there are other considerations, especially safety ones, then that would definitely be a consideration. I'm not sure where to learn about this type of thing.
by darth_avocado | 2026-01-13 17:26:28+00:00
I have no judgement on these models. Everyone can make money through legal means as they deem fit.

But at the same time, the immigration system historically penalized anyone who engages in prostitution and actively denied entry to people found to be engaged in it. There is an explicit question about this in all immigration forms. Which is why it’s surprising that O-1 visas are being awarded to OnlyFans models. Maybe OF isn’t prostitution according to how it’s being interpreted, but it’s very surprising.
by throwawaysafely | 2026-01-13 17:26:36+00:00
Anything that would make my resume standout. I do not have that "wow" factor that screams, "I want to work with this guy." As a result, even for the jobs that I am qualified, I can't get an interview. It is average. Super average.

Plus I feel that no one wants to work with me. Current work environment has made me question my skills. I believe I am sub-par at what I do.
by Fileformat | 2026-01-13 17:27:00+00:00
<self promotion>

One thing that would be nice is to have the feed be human readable. It is as easy as adding a single line to the XML and setting the content type [1].

Your feeds are also missing a bunch of the headers that readers use to avoid over-fetching your feeds. I build an feed analyzer [2] to help debug things like this.

[1] https://www.rss.style/

[2] https://www.rss.style/feed-analyzer.html

</self promotion>
by fsflover | 2026-01-13 17:27:03+00:00
Some of such articles and comments do get a lot of upvotes and positive attention, if they get to the main page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25142405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053872

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504641

Even not very well-written or globally relevant articles on the topic of mobile freedom attract a lot of attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193198#44193459
by intended | 2026-01-13 17:27:15+00:00
This position is suitable, for the 1990s. Even then, the BBC showed that public journalism != propaganda.

In fact, the evidence is that if you build institutions, you can actually have very effective public options.

However, in the current era, news is simply being outcompeted for revenue. Even the NYT is dependent on games for relevance.

And the attack vectors to mould and muzzle public understanding have changed. Instead of a steady drip of controlled information, it is private production of overwhelming amounts of content.

Most good people are fighting yesterdays war, with yesterdays weapons, tactics and ideas when it comes to speech.
by teunispeters | 2026-01-13 17:27:27+00:00
Don't forget large scale purchasers using property for tax evasion, money laundering or other such uses. They largely don't even care if the property is maintained.

(eventually properties collapse, but if they keep the values inflated this way, that won't matter to them)

If you want to know more, look into RCMP reports on high property prices in Vancouver BC/Canada circa 2010s+, for example.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-13 17:27:28+00:00
When I was a lot younger I thought the comic strip was funny but I read a review of it circa 2005 which pointed out it was dangerously cynical and that Dilbert is to blame for his shit life because he goes along with it all. That is, if you care about doing good work, finding meaning in your work, you would reject everything he stands for.

It's tragedy instead comedy and it doesn't matter if you see it through the lens of Karl Marx ("he doesn't challenge the power structure") or through the lens of Tom Peters or James Collins ("search for excellence in the current system")

I mean, there is this social contagion aspect of comedy, you might think it is funny because it it is in a frame where it is supposed to be funny or because other people are laughing. But the wider context is that 4-koma [1] have been dead in the US since at least the 1980s, our culture is not at all competitive or meritocratic and as long we still have Peanuts and Family Circle we are never going to have a Bocchi the Rock. Young people are turning to Japanese pop culture because in Japan quirky individuals can write a light novel or low-budget video game that can become a multi-billion dollar franchise and the doors are just not open for that here, at all.

Thus, Scott Adams, who won the lottery with his comic that rejects the idea of excellence doesn't have any moral basis to talk about corporate DEI and how it fails us all. I think he did have some insights into the spell that Trump casts over people, and it's a hard thing to talk about in a way that people will accept. What people would laugh at when it was framed as fiction didn't seem funny at all when it was presented as fact.

[1] 4-panel comics
by vasco | 2026-01-13 17:27:30+00:00
It could be as simple as a different model. In one of those it was easy to make it feasible if you had no cap on how much to sell back, but it was limited to consumption plus like 10% or something like that. Since the property used very little energy but had a big roof we thought itd be a good thing to produce green energy while making a little money or even just breaking even, but to break even we'd have to use way more energy which was completely against the original objective. So its not like the technology isn't able to do it but the rules can make it very hard and a few years less of operation for some components make the math very difficult if you're conservative and want to ensure break even within some reasonable timeline
by MKuykendall | 2026-01-13 17:27:43+00:00
I did not expect a reply sorry!

A record is one unit of structured input handled by the system, such as a JSON document, an NDJSON entry, or an API request body. An obligation is a single requirement evaluated against that record, for example a field must be present, a value must satisfy a constraint, or a record must be accepted or rejected based on its contents.

A boundary execution model refers to evaluating those obligations at the system boundary where data enters, rather than deep inside downstream application logic. The intent is to make decisions as part of intake handling, before the data is handed off to other components.

:)
by charcircuit | 2026-01-13 17:27:49+00:00
>if you go messing around with your configuration enough, you will eventually break something

If changing a setting breaks your OS that badly, that is a high priority bug that your OS vendor should fix immediately.

>You are effectively your own QA department in this case.

Linux users should hold their OS vendors to a higher standard than accepting that a user should become QA.

>You just need to look something up quickly to fix something and you are in front of the server.

Typically if you are in front of a server you have a client capable of running a web browser.

>Or you need to download a configuration file from GitHub and the URL is really long

Copy paste is fast even with a long URL.
by kekqqq | 2026-01-13 17:27:51+00:00
I am personally not a fan of TODOs, use tasks instead. TODOs are embedded in codebase - difficult to work with, that's why we have Jira where you can manipulate, filter and aggregate tasks. The only acceptable case of TODOs in my opinion is to leave them as suggestions to a future person in the case of refactor. Then you could have a task that says something like "Refactor feature xyz and solve TODOs".
by alex43578 | 2026-01-13 17:27:53+00:00
>I'm inclined to think Ukraine is fighting our war for us.

Is there a war we needed to fight with Russia in this decade, the next decade, or the last, and if so, is Ukraine even damaging the parts that matter?

Russia nukes hold America at threat, not a bunch of conscripts and some old BMPs. America isn’t safer if Ukraine scores another 100K Russian casualties, and there’s even an argument that a destabilized, volatilized Russia would be more dangerous for America.
by thechao | 2026-01-13 17:28:09+00:00
> which would probably hae been another 3-5k if I could have found someone to do it.

Yo. If you can find an electrician to stop by my house and turn a light switch off for less than 1000$, please inform me. I got a quote for 25k$ to install a system that size, and that price. City code has me by the balls: I can't modify my main panel without inspection, the inspector won't show up without a licensed electrician, and electrician wants the labor. I pointed out that we're talking 8 hours of labor — call it 2500$, lawyer money — and he was like "what's your choice". I'm in Texas.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-13 17:28:14+00:00
Its obvious that she was resisting arrest and trying to flee. But as for the ICE agent being in front of the car... barely. I don't believe he genuinely feared for his life, he could have simply stepped out of the way. I think he saw the woman fleeing, figured he was close enough to being in harms way to justify himself, and shot the woman because he was mad at her.

I've been in situations like that in Walmart parking lots, where a car jolts forward and I have to jump out of the way, and maybe I say "That crazy bitch just tried to kill me" but while saying that I understand it to be a hyperbolic albeit justified anger at reckless driving, and that nobody was actually trying to kill me, and shooting the driver in the face instead of diving out of the way would be a suboptimal survival strategy even if homicidal intent was there.
by mikaeluman | 2026-01-13 17:28:34+00:00
This is indeed nice for a well-to-do home. But there is a tragedy of the commons issue here.

The grid needs to be up 24/7. And while peak usage is just that, the grid capacity still needs to support peak usage.

This can theoretically be done using batteries but not for an extended amount of time. To say we can have batteries for 2 weeks of normal consumption is highly improbable.

The metals do build those batteries do not exist. Or put in a worse way, the mines do not exist.

An off the cuff calculation of costs and the massive amount of batteries required in the context of Sweden can be found (you need to translate) here: https://www.tn.se/naringsliv/40181/utrakning-60-globen-batte...

In other words, 60 full scale Globen arenas of batteries to replace current Swedish nuclear production.

So for small houses these investments can make sense currently. But from a larger perspective it's not that interesting.
by Palmik | 2026-01-13 17:29:01+00:00
I don't follow. If the model was open-sourced under this GPL-like license (or a compatible license), then it would follow the GPL-like license. If the model was closed, it would violate the license. In other words, it would not affect open-source models at all.

Similarly, I could imagine carving out an exception when training on copyrighted material without licence, as long as the resulting model is open-sourced.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-13 17:29:05+00:00
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/scott-adams-prostate-can... / https://archive.is/W57Vg

> In his May stream announcing his cancer, he said he’d used anti-parasitic medications ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat himself, but they didn’t work. There’s no evidence that ivermectin works as a cancer treatment.

I don't really think bureaucracy was his downfall.
by LudwigNagasena | 2026-01-13 17:29:20+00:00
If you are a professional in a sphere like engineering, then getting eg 10k views on your videos is very remarkable and acts as a indirect proof of acclaim. But when it is the whole metric, then it just overvalues public professions where in itself 10k views is nothing remarkable. That's the core issue as far as I understand.

(But even for professionals, it's a very gameable metric. There is a whole industry that helps getting published material and appearances for O-1 applications.)
by simpaticoder | 2026-01-13 17:29:24+00:00
There's a difference between speaking out against injustice when there is real risk involved, and speaking against a person because you don't like their views. Silence is appropriate in the latter case; or even better, express your own positive (in the logical sense) positions. Bloodless, priggish condemnation of individuals with fascist views makes fascism rise even faster than silence.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-13 17:29:26+00:00
> I agree that sounds frustrating. Respectfully though, it sounds like you're a special case

It would be interesting to know the numbers on this. Height is not going to tell the answer though, you as people of the same height have wildly variably limb length.

I know half a dozen people who have the same issue and they vary from 1.9-2.1m tall.

I don't work in a circus.
Show HN: I built an auto-scheduler to help me decide what I'm watching
by rubb3rDucc | 2026-01-13 17:29:41+00:00
I kept making watch lists but rarely watching anything and I spent more time browsing than watching. After stepping away from streaming services for a bit, I realized I missed having a TV schedule.

So, I built this to help me decide what I’m watching ahead of time by auto-scheduling episodes or movies into time slots. So far, it’s worked better than a watchlist. I actually look forward to watching things now.

This is a working early version. I’d love feedback on the UX/UI, how easy it is to use, any criticism, and whether this approach holds up for other people.

NOTE: It is free to use for 7 days and there are no ads.
by showerst | 2026-01-13 17:29:46+00:00
I build hobby scale drones for fun, mostly sub250g micros with no military value.

I’d pay more for domestic parts, because I think the capability is strategically valuable, and the quality of Chinese stuff is super variable.

There’s basically no industry here because the aliexpress parts are so cheap, so I support some protectionism, understanding that it will make the hobby more expensive.

I think you’re probably right, but I think going for million dollar drones from anduril while wiping the rest of the market is a miscalculation.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-13 17:29:46+00:00
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 spmartin823 | 2026-01-13 17:29:49+00:00
NPR member stations in many communities have _not_ made up lost federal funding through donations, in fact many are at risk of closing: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2025/07/22/kotz...

Donations are definitely a piece of the puzzle but local journalism will never reach the level it was in the early 2000s without a new revenue stream.