MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by binarycrusader | 2026-01-13 16:30:51+00:00
Some states such as Virginia (although with an exception if the person has a high school diploma or equivalent):

https://www.vccs.edu/application-information/

To qualify for general admission to a college, you must have a high school diploma, its equivalent, or be 18 years of age or older.

Unclear whether that is statewide or just a requirement of this state institution. I suspect many of the ones that do have this age requirement also have the diploma exception.
by mindslight | 2026-01-13 16:30:55+00:00
No, endlessly going around in circles responding to the same emotional (and often factually wrong) talking points is an abuse of our principles, and we're finally starting to say we've had enough of it.

I'm a libertarian who actually believes in a society based around individual liberty and limited government, and doesn't just pay lip service to it. If we had a blue-flavored government, and it was performing similarly liberty-abhorrent actions on a different topic, I would be criticizing those as well.

But we don't, and the current government has escalated so far beyond even the hanging-by-a-thread norms that we previously had, I think it's utterly naive to think any of this is about "immigration enforcement" in the first place.
by koala_man | 2026-01-13 16:31:04+00:00
I will try to remember him for his far too relatable Dilbert comics about corporate office life, and not his, uhm, later work.

One of my favorite strips was Dilbert in the 90s only being given a 286 PC for 3D rendering work, with the boss saying "besides, how often will you do 3D rendering in your career?"

Dilbert replies "Once, if I hurry"
by nosianu | 2026-01-13 16:31:04+00:00
> It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality.

What on earth??? There is not a trace in that statement that fist that description! Stop making stuff up that is not there. The text is right in front of you, no need to invent words never said or written.

> Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions.

Even more insane. None of that is anywhere in that sentence, not even with an "interpretation".

In threads like these, some people are reacting to the shadows found in their own mind.

Why don't you just stick to the mentioned statement? "Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son." Nothing you said can be found in there. That is all something you added ("interpreted" does not quite fit it when you hallucinate something new entirely into existence).
by monkaiju | 2026-01-13 16:31:31+00:00
I mean I'd be more than willing to pay/donate/support a local paper if we had any that weren't just tailing the narratives of power. Our local "paper of record" (Salt Lake Tribune) is basically a platform for the powerful to launder their actions as well as a police stenography platform.

I do subscribe to some larger papers, specifically the Guardian, and they're far from perfect. I would happily support a local paper with even those same compromises.
by Daveenjay | 2026-01-13 16:31:32+00:00
This is something I kept bumping into when building my own tracker (Simple Wallet - https://simplewallet.app).

You're right that "$100 at a supermarket" is useless but I found even knowing "I spent $400 on groceries" wasn't that useful either. I kept asking myself "okay, but on what?"

So I leaned hard into making categories the starting point instead of the endpoint. Groceries breaks down into what I'm actually buying. Turns out I was spending way more on coffee than I realized.

Did you ever consider going deeper into categories, or do you find users just want the high level view? I've been torn on how much detail is actually helpful vs. overwhelming.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-13 16:31:36+00:00
That would probably also be considered a "distraction" by HN. Electron isn't built by the Chrome team.

It also wouldn't be directly revenue diversification. You can't beat Electron by selling an alternative.

Firefox has somewhat tried to target developers. There's Developer Edition with a "direct to the dev tools" focus. Firefox's Dev Tools still generally are somewhat ahead of Safari's and Chrome's (though not always Edge's, even in the Edgmium era one of the few teams that still exists that doesn't upstream everything immediately is Edge's Dev Tools work). Firefox was directly ahead on Flexbox and CSS Grid debugging tools, though now everyone else has copied them. (Not to mention that the history of Dev Tools in the first place all points back to Firebug and other Firefox extensions that went mainstream and then made sense to prioritize as out-of-the-box tools.)

Firefox probably can't do much more to target developers on its own, from a browser perspective. Targeting developers doesn't seem to move the needle enough in marketshare, either.

It's not just Electron that developers are stuck in "develop and test for only chromium based browsers" modes. There's also all the top-down pressure in corporate environments to standardize on only one browser to "cut down" on "testing costs". There are the board room-driven development cycles of "I only care if it looks good on the CEO's iPhone" or "the CEO is into Android this year, that's the focus, everything else is garbage". There's also the hard to avoid spiral of "Firefox marketshare is low, don't worry about it" to more sites not working as well in Firefox to Firefox marketshare getting lower to more "don't worry about it" websites and so on.
by rendall | 2026-01-13 16:32:17+00:00
On the contrary, I think we are entering a new golden age of local journalism in the US, but it does not look like the old one, so we do not recognize it yet.

What is collapsing is the legacy institutional model. What is emerging is a procedural one: individuals showing up locally, documenting power directly, publishing primary evidence, and forcing accountability through visibility rather than prestige.

Projects like Honor Your Oath, Long Island Audit, Guerilla Media, and even single-person operations with a camera and FOIA literacy are doing real journalism. They attend meetings, record encounters, publish receipts, and focus on consequences that are immediate and specific.

The cost of presence is now low. The cost of obscurity for local officials is higher. Credibility increasingly comes from raw evidence rather than narrative authority. These outlets are not trying to inform everyone. They are informing the people affected directly.

It feels messy, personal, and sometimes abrasive because it is not professionalized in the old sense. Historically, that is what journalism looked like before it was institutionalized.

For example, Jeff Gray quietly stands in public with a “God Bless Homeless Vets” sign. People often assume he is homeless and attempt to violate his rights, frequently including police officers. The resulting interactions, all on camera, expose how poorly basic constitutional rights are understood or respected at the local level. https://youtu.be/-um41lMH3c4

Ronald Durbin of Guerilla Media is a muckraker in the classic sense, repeatedly confronting local power structures in person. He recently had a gun drawn on him at a town council meeting. https://youtube.com/@guerrillapublishing

Sean Reyes from Long Island Audit has been arrested multiple times for filming inside police station lobbies despite clear New York law allowing it, and has been physically attacked and had firearms brandished at him while attempting interviews, all documented on video. https://youtube.com/@longislandaudit

There are so many others. This is what local journalism looks like now.

https://youtube.com/@lacklustermedia

https://youtube.com/@audittheaudit

https://youtube.com/@amagansettpress

https://youtube.com/@susanbassi

Many, many others.

Here are lawyers giving their perspectives on these interactions:

https://youtube.com/@southerndrawllaw

https://youtube.com/@thecivilrightslawyer

https://youtube.com/@americasattorney

https://youtube.com/@legalbytesmedia
by brk | 2026-01-13 16:32:21+00:00
I agree on the need to create an ESP32 equivalent. But the ESP32 doesn't really correlate to DJI here. DJI collects a massive amount of telemetry data and terrain data, forces the average user to upload this data, and isn't exactly forthcoming about what is collected or how it is used.

An ESP32 can, for the most part, be fully audited in what it is sending. Yes, the wireless drivers are binary blobs, but the developer has extensive control over the device, and it is easy to monitor/filter/firewall the data sent.

3D printers, as a general category, are also more similar to the ESP32 than to DJI.
by tptacek | 2026-01-13 16:32:54+00:00
Our local newspaper is the Wednesday Journal. I don't know that I'd call it petty so much as a status-quo amplifier staffed with people who aren't really engaged with what's going on here.

I understand people's distaste with Meta, but at least where I live, if you're avoiding Meta, you're avoiding basically all the important civic discourse. I poasted my way to getting a law passed... on Facebook Groups.
by gortok | 2026-01-13 16:33:33+00:00
We say things like "you gotta separate the art from the artist" when we talk about folks like Scott Adams, whose take on the corporate world were unique in the comic industry and funny in general.

However, Scott Adams as an individual was deeply problematic and I would not ever stand him up as a role model for my children or behavior in general.

Of course, I wouldn't do the same for a vast number of famous people, politics aside.

The "problem" (which is in scare quotes because it's not a discrete identifiable sole-source issue but a complex and dynamic phenomenon that permeates every aspect of our modern-day life) is that we have collectively determined that if you're good at your art, you must be a person we should listen to for topics outside of your art.

To use an inflammatory but real-life example: Donald Trump is a great showman. He knows how to incite a crowd, and he knows how to feed into this modern-day mess we've made of our world. He is objectively a terrible manager of a country, and objectively a terrible human being.

But, for some reasons that have to do with politics, and some reasons that have to do with identity, folks who like Donald Trump as a showman are unable to disassociate his showmanship from his policies. To the point that if you were to write down the actual actions taken and attribute them to a leader of the other side (famous examples: Biden, Obama) as their policies, the same folks who are loudly cheering Donald Trump on would immediately castigate those actions if taken by someone on the "left".

It's a problem with no easy solution, and it requires more growth from humanity than we are at this moment exhibiting we possess. Scott Adams is a shining example of both this problem and our reaction to it, and while I mourn the passing of his art, I do not mourn his passing, and reading this comment section instead mourn our present state of wrapping ourselves in the cloth of identity politics while not engaging seriously on the fundamental underlying problems we face as a people.
by dpark | 2026-01-13 16:33:47+00:00
Reddit was an also-ran to Digg for half a decade. They literally were not the first mover. Meanwhile, Claude Code very much has a first mover advantage that Anthropic is trying to entrench and capitalize on.

> Plus its product utility scaled with user count.

Which should mean it’s more impactful for Reddit to lose a set of engaged users. The value that Reddit brings to its customers is directly proportional to how many customers maintains. The same is not true for Anthropic.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-13 16:33:47+00:00
Why does leg length matter? Reclining doesn't impact leg room much since only the upper part of the seat is moving backwards any significant distance, and the space under the seat where my feet go is completely unaffected.

Are your legs so long you have to sit with your knees pressed against the back of the seat in front of you or something? If so I suppose that's understandable.
by lewisgodowski | 2026-01-13 16:34:04+00:00
I'm 6'4" with a lot of my height in my legs. Sitting comfortably (not slouching, mind you), my knees already barely rub against the seat in front of me. As soon as that seat is reclined, my knees get crushed and I have to either sit up even straighter or twist to the side, neither of which are comfortable. Or, I have to pay to be in a higher fare class with more space.
by DrPimienta | 2026-01-13 16:34:34+00:00
It used to be that you could buy a home and start a family and have a stay-at-home-wife on whatever bullshit job you stumbled into after high school. You used to be able to afford to rent an apartment by yourself by working part-time at the minimum wage. Now that's financially impossible. The problem isn't young men being angry at the system, the problem is the system and the people who made it.
by mdhb | 2026-01-13 16:34:38+00:00
The gap between the rules as they are officially written down and the rules as they exist in practice is so wide that it’s basically unrecognisable when you start putting them side by side.

The mods will just gaslight you as well about the entire thing. I know for some unknown reason it’s considered bad form to have anything other than a high opinion of the job they do but I think they do a bad job. I’m not saying it’s not a hard job or anything, I just think they are actively bad at it.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-13 16:34:57+00:00
Absolutely. Social media is designed to elicit a constant stream of dopamine hits, prey on our need for social validation, keep the amygdala engaged, stoke conflict, and bolster whatever beliefs we carry (no matter how deranged). It’s the ultimate distortion machine and is wildly dangerous, particularly for individuals who struggle to keep it at arm’s distance and fail to equip mental PPE prior to usage.
by Foxboron | 2026-01-13 16:34:59+00:00
> but for almost any economically important project all the major contributors and maintainers are on the payroll of one of the big tech interests or a foundation funded by them.

"almost" is the load bearing word here, and/or a weasel word. Define what an "economically important project" is.

> Also just to be clear: node is filled with povertyware and you should be extremely careful what you grab from npm.

Is "povertyware" what we call software written by people and released for free now?
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-13 16:35:08+00:00
I think tribalism is the simpler explanation. One of the worst offenders I saw was a guy on here who wrote one of the new generation shells written in go...went out of his way to say the US had the same behavior as the UK, arresting people holding a blank sign, except his evidence was the disproportionate shooting of black people by police. An entirely unrelated issue. The point was though he was flailing due to feeling defensive, and unable to take a step back and analyze the criticisms objectively. This is super common behavior in pretty much all countries, and I think it's a huge problem.
by magicalist | 2026-01-13 16:35:13+00:00
> If you look at the issue tracker, the creator of Webp killed it because of untrue claims

I think for most modern software it's difficult to name the creator, but if you had to for webp, it would be hard to argue that it's anyone but Jyrki Alakuijala, who is in fact one of the co-creators of jpegxl and the person backing up the long-term support of the rust jxl-rs implementation, so I'm not even going to ask for a source here because it's just not true.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-13 16:35:23+00:00
I still think this is where the framing quietly breaks down.

What you’re describing is not “masculinity” being toxic, but a particular sales pitch that smuggles bad norms under the masculinity label. Historically, this is exactly how language like “that’s so gay” operated. People didn’t mean “homosexual” in any literal sense. They meant weak, unserious, emotionally incontinent, indulgent. If pressed, the defense was always the same: I’m not talking about gay people, I’m talking about the stereotype society wrongly attaches to them.

The move is familiar because it works rhetorically. You get to criticize a behavior while outsourcing the moral weight to an identity category. The identity absorbs the stain, even if everyone insists that’s not what they meant.

We’ve seen this pattern over and over:
“Real men don’t cry.”
“Be a man” meaning suppress emotion, not develop discipline.
“That’s gay” meaning fragile or contemptible.
“Masculine energy” marketed as dominance without responsibility.
“Feminine energy” marketed as intuition without accountability.

In every case, the failure isn’t gendered. It’s human. But the label does the work of making it feel natural to aim the critique at a group rather than the behavior itself.

This is why the analogy matters. Society eventually realized that using “gay” as a stand-in for negative traits was lazy at best and corrosive at worst, even when people swore they weren’t talking about actual gay people. The word still carried the freight.

I’m just applying the same standard here, as a proud champion of masculinity and part-time custodian of its reputation.

If the problem is emotional suppression, call it emotional suppression.
If the problem is social pressure to perform invulnerability, call that out.
If the problem is dominance without accountability, say so plainly.

Masculinity, like femininity, is a broad distribution of traits, not a slogan. Strength and restraint. Risk-taking and responsibility. Stoicism and emotional regulation. The pathologies show up when any of those lose balance, not because they’re “masculine.”

We spent decades correctly arguing that femininity itself wasn’t the problem, only the caricatures imposed on it. I’m simply extending that courtesy to masculinity, which seems overdue.

As a non-toxic, extremely moral male biological specimen and self-appointed advocate for masculine dignity, I’m fully in favor of men crying, feeling, and communicating. I just don’t think masculinity needs to be rhetorically sacrificed to achieve that outcome.

If anything, masculinity should be defended, rehabilitated, and held to a higher standard, not permanently prefixed with an asterisk.
by jonathaneunice | 2026-01-13 16:35:34+00:00
That's Dan Frye's article, and it is um, a little Dan Frye-centric. He was a legitimately important contributor to IBM's technology management team around Linux and open source, especially as and after IBM made the turn.

But it reads as if he called the shot and piloted the turn. That is not my recollection or understanding. Other folks contributed as much or more to driving the Linux/open source pivot. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the late Scott Handy, _et al_. It's IBM, so there were a ton of folks involved and contributing.

My source: I was an industry analyst and consultant in the server / system software space at the time, and I was in at least a few of the rooms where it happened.
by kilpikaarna | 2026-01-13 16:35:46+00:00
> Is there a way to meaningfully be wary of it?

Refusing to participate. May involve accepting lower productive output and thus "standard of living".

Considering how society-at-large handled the smartphone, I can definitely see concern for general cognitive decline as a result of externalizing ever more mental activity to machines. As well as the concerns voiced by Frank Herbert in the concept of Butlerian Jihad.

> There was a point when being a dev required things like download size optimization and performance profiling. How many devs today even conceptually know of those, yet alone do them?

Way too few, with a general decline of quality and much waste as a result.
by bilekas | 2026-01-13 16:35:49+00:00
News next week : "Donald Trump Jr opens US Drone company with exclusive import license from China."

> DJI responded publicly that month that they had nothing to hide, and subsequently spent a year trying to convince the U.S. government to begin the audit. But no federal agency even began

There's your answer. There was never any concern over Americans data being sent to China.

Also they didn't "Follow through", they simply let the clock run out without even evaluating DJI's reponse to the claims.
by nerdawson | 2026-01-13 16:36:06+00:00
> It’s different when there’s a compelling physical need here. If the person in front of me has a hurt back and can’t bear sitting upright, and I knew about it, I’d put up with it as best I can in the interest of we’ve all got to get along. But in the scheme of things, not that many people are unable to sit up and not crush their neighbors.

How would you know whether or not the person in front of you has a compelling physical need? Are they supposed to explain their health concerns to you in the hope that you deem it sufficiently acceptable for them to do what they can to be comfortable? It’s unreasonable to expect someone in physical pain to suffer the indignity of explaining themselves to someone they don’t know.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-13 16:36:15+00:00
> duplicating largely what AVIF provided

That's not a great bar since both of them showed up around the same time. And importantly JXL hits many use cases that AVIF doesn't.

> while being written in an unsafe language

They put little emphasis on that part when they were rejecting JXL. If they wanted to call for a safer implementation they could have done that.
by teh64 | 2026-01-13 16:36:22+00:00
If we go by the explanation from wikipedia [0], Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage would not be considered English, as their families are not part of the English or Celtic ethnic groups. Their ancestors are Turkish and German who came to the UK after 1850. Do you believe they are not English? I mean even the current King of the UK would not be considered English by your definition! He is descended from Greek, Danish and German people [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_monarchy_of_the...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-13 16:36:25+00:00
It was extremely cynical. I could absolutely relate. At one time, I had every single one of his books. My favorite written book was The Way of the Weasel, which was probably one of his least popular publications.

I stopped viewing the comic after his infamous tirade (sometimes, the artist's personality can be so overwhelming, that the art gets obscured -a couple of actors are similar). I'd always disagreed with his personal outlook, but it didn't spoil his work for me.
by dathinab | 2026-01-13 16:36:35+00:00
> Has anyone in any country ever got successfully sued for violating ToS terms like these?

yes, less private people but definitely companies

> What's the difference?

e.g. YT had been forced to reinstate (and not shadow ban) channels in the EU multiple times because judges ruled that terminations did not had legal basis and they don't have the right to arbitrarily refuse doing business with the people in question (for various reasons, including but not limited to it being clearly a retaliation for suing for right you have. Through the market dominant position of YT also played a non negligible role there).

Or in other words, by itself it might not mean much but in combination with other laws, especially iff claude code because the marked dominant AI editor.
by antonvs | 2026-01-13 16:36:40+00:00
> The CRAY-1 was so ridiculously ahead of its time that it took until the Pentium MMX ...

You'd need a different comparison to show how the Cray-1 was special. If the comparison is to single commodity CPUs, like the Pentium MMX, you could make much the same comparison for many mainframes and supercomputers. Several supercomputers in the 1980s exceeded 1 GFLOP, for example, and it wasn't until the 2000s that you could get commodity CPUs with that performance.