MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-09 21:53:47+00:00
> The biggest difference is that Washington’s bill explicitly addresses HOAs and landlords. Utah’s bill only constrains utilities. If you’re a renter or live in a condo in Utah, your landlord or HOA can still prohibit balcony solar even though the utility can’t. Washington’s bill amends the HOA statute directly: governing documents “may not prohibit the placement or use of a portable solar generation device by an owner or resident.” Landlords face the same restriction.

This is really great to see. I understand it is an issue of freedoms, and that HOAs are technically private agreements people are entering into. But in many places, you have no choice but to buy or rent property that is subject to an HOA. That’s just where the supply is. And I think it’s a problem to be subjected to their arbitrary rules or corrupt HOA leadership.

It’s also a problem for discrimination. Many HOA rules are selectively enforced. Are you friends with the HOA president? Maybe you have the right ethnicity? Your issues may be overlooked. But if you’re not on the right side of things, maybe they will make your life hell.
by kbanc9 | 2026-01-09 21:53:59+00:00
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by Roark66 | 2026-01-09 21:54:04+00:00
Exactly. Also the smaller stupidity - inability to add your own root certificates to the system store.

In fact this is what led me to unlocking the bootloader, swapping the OS and rooting my phone. The infuriating situation where if you setup so called "corporate owner" (or mdm) during the first login you can add your own certificates, but if you don't... Basically the "corporate owner" of your phone is Google.

Yes, literally, you do not own it.

Also it is worth noting certain countries where "rooting/bootloader unlocking is illegal" - namely China and the horrible stupidity of people claiming EU Gdpr prevents manufacturers from offering simple bootloader unlocks for their phones.

We absolutely need to vote with our walkers. I bought a Samsung before and a Xiaomi recently only because both allow relatively simple unlock (ok the Xiaomi requires you to wait to press "request unlock" exactly at midnight Beijing time", and it only works for non-Chinese phones, but still unlocks fine.
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 21:54:37+00:00
> And you are falling into the trap of thinking that if a person is busy deconstructing what used to be one of the larger democracies in the world that their other words are going to be taken at face value, which obviously is not going to happen.

No. I'm identifying this one statement as factual, regardless of the person saying it. Surely then, you would not deny the color of the sun to be yellow just because Pot might have observed it to be that way?
by observationist | 2026-01-09 21:54:43+00:00
Yes.

Also, it doesn't seem like it would be all that much more expensive for these high end GPUs to start getting x86/64 SoCs with midrange specs baked in, and these AIO GPUs could be tailor made for standalone AI and gaming applications. If it's the equivalent of a $10 bit of gear in terms of cost, they could charge an additional $100 for the feature, with a SoC optimized for the specs of the GPU - get rid of the need for an eGPU altogether and stream from the onboard host?
by dang | 2026-01-09 21:55:06+00:00
We don't. That account has been banned for months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545661.

If you're seeing they're other comments, it must be because you have 'showdead' turned on in your profile. Anyone is welcome to turn that on and see all the comments that have been killed for various reasons, but it's important to understand that in that case you're signing up to see the worst that the internet brings to HN.

As I mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538728, users sometimes forget that they turned 'showdead' on in their profile, and then wonder why they're seeing such dreadful stuff in the comments. I wonder if that's what happened in this case?
by shevy-java | 2026-01-09 21:55:26+00:00
This kind of makes sense. Most forms of depression have to do with
not wanting to do something or lacking motivation to do so. Whereas
in sports, people get busy usually, they do something, even if it may
just be soccer playing. Exercise is also usually good for one's
physical well-being, blood circulation increases, muscles may improve,
pain may go away (depends on the exercise, but usually say, two days
after some heavy work out, most people may feel better than before,
unless it was some extreme exercise that caused injury).

I don't think this works for all type of depression though.
by wombatpm | 2026-01-09 21:55:27+00:00
Medication is the fastest way to make some positive progress before you completely spiral and majorly fuck up your life.

Would you rather take a pill and keep working while you sort things out or would you try to rebuild everything after you burn it all down? Talk therapy and exercise may be just as effective or more so long term, but may not be effective enough in the short term.
by ratrace | 2026-01-09 21:55:44+00:00
It is actually 100% accurate based on the evidence that has been provided, especially the video that was released today which pretty much proves in no uncertain terms that she hit him, and did it on purpose, and not only that but that they were there with the intent of aggravating and provoking conflict with ICE agents, and that she was trying to flee what she knew was an arrest.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-09 21:55:45+00:00
> If there is a series of buttons you can press to circumvent the anti-scam measures, then the scammers simply walk you through pressing those buttons. If you cover them in giant warning labels the scammers simply add explanations into their patter. The buttons must physically not exist, for gullible people to not get scammed out of money.

We shouldn't be protecting someone that gullible at the expense of everyone else who is smart enough to actually read whats on the screen and not fall for such simple scams.

Not that long ago most of this forum was very much against giving up freedoms in favor of catering to the lowest common denominator. What happened?

People need to take responsibility for their own actions and educate themselves, not rely on a lack of freedom to protect them.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 | 2026-01-09 21:55:51+00:00
It's only an example. Where do you draw the line? Some call Windows telemetry spyware and others don't. Should everyone be forced to abide by where you personally draw the line or should users just have freedom? I have relatives who managed to install spyware without root on their iPhone or android devices.

I have my own tangential hot takes where users are less safe in a walled garden because they assume they're safe and drop their guard. Or that taking away freedom means they don't need to learn tech literacy.
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-09 21:55:52+00:00
It was clearly a simplified example, like I said endless bikeshed.

Here is a real one. I was using the much lauded new Gemini 3? last week and wanted it to do something a slightly specific way for reasons. I told it specifically and added it to the instructions. DO NOT USE FUNCTION ABC.

It immediately used FUNCTION ABC. I asked it to read back its instructions to me. It confirmed what I put there. So I asked it again to change it to another function. It told me that FUNCTION ABC was not in the code, even though it was clearly right there in the code.

I did a bit more prodding and it adamantly insisted that the code it generated did not exist, again and again and again.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-09 21:57:41+00:00
> This video unambiguously shows the car accelerating towards the officer

It unambiguously shows her steering hard in the opposite direction of her murderer. She was very clearly not trying to hit anybody.

> You can't obstruct federal law enforcement, refuse lawful commands

Sure, those thing are illegal. But to insinuate that the the punishment should be death at the scene rather than having guilt and punishment decided in court is not just unamerican, it's evil.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-09 21:57:46+00:00
None, obviously, and it's barking up the wrong tree. The genie is already out of the bottle as there are zillions of similar free services and software that do the same thing, and there's no quick-fix panacea technological solutions to social and legal problems. Legislation in every locality need to create extremely harsh penalties for impersonating other people, and elders need to be educated to ask questions of their family members that only the real people would know the answers to.
by ebiester | 2026-01-09 21:57:46+00:00
I think the major problem we have is we are lumping depression and anxiety into the same category.

Some people probably do have issues quickly resolved by SSRIs. Others are magically fixed by bupropion while it spikes anxiety in others. Others have major trauma that they have to work through and many therapies (like internal family systems therapy, as one example) are great at handling that. Others are stuck in cognitive distortions and merely learning about them and handling them (through cognitive behavioral therapy) can be life changing.

But if you have major trauma in your past, exercise is probably not going to do much. If you are heavily overwhelmed and your body is stuck in perpetual flight or fight) exercise and meditation might be a giant help.

But right now the practitioners are aware of this, but it's really hard to double blind test these divisions until people can do the analysis first. And at that point, you've basically already started therapy.
by nis0s | 2026-01-09 21:58:00+00:00
My issue with reading (nonfiction) books these days is that they’re essentially extended opinion pieces. While I am open to learning a talking head’s perspective (not everyone who gets a book deal is necessarily an expert in their topic), my main gripe is that many writers don’t incorporate a multifaceted point of view on their subject. I don’t expect encyclopedic information, or comprehensive analysis, but I think including choice perspectives across the entire history of a given subject matter is important. Otherwise, I’ll just chat with a bot about the topic, and get text books or journal articles for deeper understanding. Book writers need to do a better job, maybe we need digital books that enable chatting with the author’s book/bot. Free idea for whoever has the bandwidth to do it.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-09 21:58:16+00:00
I don't know. Depending on what kind of conservative (and from where) and what kind of christian (and from where), you might be very much closer to a lot of HN people than you might think.

If your view is that we should conserve western values and institutions and walk in the footsteps of Christ, ultimately that's not too far from universal human values that many people do in fact agree with.

The devil is in the details, of course.
by bluerooibos | 2026-01-09 21:58:42+00:00
All you need to do is go to sleep before 12 every single night and wake up at 7am without fail, hit the gym and crank out a few sets of squats, hit the pool and the sauna, read a chapter of that book, and then cook yourself an amazing breakfast, all before 9am.

If you're a real go-getter, though, you'd wake up at 6am and do some vibe coding for an hour on that side hustle.

Super simple.
by 90788d3a | 2026-01-09 22:00:00+00:00
He actually praised Vance role as a defender of democratic values, but Vance is known to deny Greenlands souvereignity, ready to capitulate to a russian dictator, indifference to police killing a protester recently, etc.

His idea of free speech does not include critical reporting. The wider US government is trying to shut down the BBC with a lawsuit or has public officials threaten individual journalists to their face, basically nothing is too large or too small.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-09 22:00:05+00:00
> saturdays from 16 to 18 is house cleaning time.

> Routine can be used for bad things but also for good things.

So your willpower causes such routines to work. Not everyone
works that way. And not everyone not working that way has
depression. I don't think one can generalise this to "routines
will fix your depression".

> but after some repetitions your mind (and body) begin to get used

I also don't buy into that. A good counter-example is tobacco
smokers. Some manage to quit the moment they decide they want to
quit, with no substitutes. Others try with substitute and interestingly
for many who try, that also works, but for some it does not. And some
can barely ever quit smoking. And a lot of this has to do with how
their brain works.

Matthew Perry spoke about that with regard to his alcohol addiction.
People are different. I personally never started with smoking, for
instance, because I never trusted myself to be able to (want to)
quit again - so at the least I was consistent in this regard (plus
also, because in our youth, so many others started to smoke suddenly,
and I always felt it was a very stupid reason to smoke merely because
others would do so, even at an early age. Their rationales would not
be mine and I failed to see the point in adopting their positions and
make them my position).
by brk | 2026-01-09 22:00:44+00:00
Tried a few random images and scenes, overall wasn't that impressive. Maybe I'm using the wrong kinds of input images or something, but for the most part once I moved more than a small amount, the rendering was mostly noise. To be fair, I didn't really expect much more.

Neat demo, but feels like things need to come quite a ways to make this interesting.
by nxobject | 2026-01-09 22:00:44+00:00
Sheer incompetence. I hope (probably in vain) that police departments and local governments become more savvy technical evaluators of fancy tech solutions.

There was a huge fracas re: ShotSpotter in my town, where both the municipality's CIO and auditor (+ their internal research capacity) were sidelined. It took a sad amount of handholding elected officials through ShotSpotter's technical claims for them to shelve a planned deployment.
by 16bytes | 2026-01-09 22:01:33+00:00
"Trigger happy" means an affinity to shoot with little or no provocation. Effectiveness with a weapon is unrelated. This is absolutely the definition of trigger happy.

The officer chose to engage and close on the vehicle and chose to circle from the front. If the officer was concerned about being run over, they shouldn't have stood right at the bumper. The car was clearly in gear, moving forward was an obvious expectation.

Did the officer have an escape route? Obviously yes, since they only had to side step to avoid the car. Was there an exigent circumstance? No, the officer could have retreated and nobody else was clearly in harm's way. Was the driver clearly a threat? Again, no.

No, this was straight-up murder from a trigger happy psychopath.
by xnx | 2026-01-09 22:01:40+00:00
That website tries too hard to write clever marketing copy and does a bad job describing what actually is.

Better description: Pinokio is a free, open-source "AI browser" that simplifies installing, running, and managing complex, open-source AI applications and creative tools (like Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI) with one-click scripts, removing the need for coding or complex command-line setup.
by dang | 2026-01-09 22:02:50+00:00
Can you please not post like this, especially in Show HN threads? It's good to let people know when your attempt to use their software runs into problems. But please do it in a helpful way, not a dismissive way.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

It's also good to remember that there are special rules for Show HNs in https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html:

Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-09 22:02:51+00:00
This is ultimately a form of slavery though.

A country that is a dictatorship - I can understand why their slaves have to go through this. I fail to see why a true democracy would do this though. There is zero need to be required to have a smartphone; all those transactions work perfectly fine on a desktop computer system too, under Linux. People then may have a second device at home, some card reader and/or a thing such as Yubiko or something like that. IMO not even this should be required, but to mandate an app that would not be permissive under Linux - that is true dictatorship. I am surprised the government of Vietnam went that way.
by Roark66 | 2026-01-09 22:03:08+00:00
So wait, the solution for malicious spy ware installed by corporations like Meta is giving ownership of our devices (and consequently all our data) to corporations like Apple?

Got it.

And remember the consequences when Apple starts scanning all your photos and sends a SWAT team to arrest a father who took a picture of his son's rash and sent it to a doctor, because surely he was engaging in child abuse.

I rather have Meta steal info of the 100mln idiots that install their root kits on their devices than have Apple and Google do the same for Billions (with a B) to protect from the former.
by cgriswald | 2026-01-09 22:03:17+00:00
Ah, apologies for my misunderstanding. Maybe I should be more generous in interpreting others words. I don’t think we disagree about that either. To me it isn’t about “What it’s called” but about the concept itself. Intervals are “hidden” in this ear training. You get them for free but you don’t necessarily learn that the pattern is there at all. I can agree that the doing ability is more important than the concept but it’s not just about the name. That’s just what we have to use to talk about it.
by parl_match | 2026-01-09 22:03:39+00:00
chicken breast is more than twice as "good" ratio wise.

> Anything where P*10 > KCAL is a very good protein source, imo.

for the average person's protein intake, yes.

try doing 200g of protein a day with tofu. for firm tofu, that's over 5 pounds of tofu a day! and that's over 2000 calories.

it's doable but i also challenge you to eat 5 pounds of tofu every day of a week and tell me if that's any fun, lol.
by vunderba | 2026-01-09 22:03:39+00:00
That's good question. While I think my app might help with your ability to pick out notes - it's not going to assist with stuff like proper pianistic ergonomics, fingering, etc.

I’ve heard some people say that the Piano Adventures Player app is a nice little tool because it serves as a supplement to the books themselves.

https://pianoadventures.com/resources/piano-adventures-playe...

Good luck on your journey!
by BeetleB | 2026-01-09 22:04:25+00:00
People have given most of the answers, but here's another one: At work, when I write code, I spend a lot of time designing it, making good interfaces, good tests, etc. It gave me joy to carefully craft it.

At home, I never had the time/will to be as thorough. Too many other things to do in life. Pre-LLMs, most of my personal scripts are just - messy.

One of the nice things with LLM assisted coding is that it almost always:

1. Gives my program a nice interface/UI

2. Puts good print/log statements

3. Writes tests (although this is a hit or miss).

Most of the time it does it without being asked.

And it turns out, these are motivation multipliers. When developing something, if it gives me good logs, and has a good UI, I'm more likely to spend time developing it further. Hence, coding is now more joyful.

And it turns out, these tend to
by Havoc | 2026-01-09 22:04:27+00:00
I get what you're saying about general purpose computing. I do a bunch of selfhosting flavoured stuff so we're on the same wavelength in a way.

...but I don't think that's the lens legislators look through here. I think it's more like "Last week and upset constituent lost all their savings". This politician cares more about protecting gullible constituent than a hypothetical stallman-esque freedom argument.

Not saying I agree, but rather that I can see why a politician might land on that conclusion
by simonw | 2026-01-09 22:04:30+00:00
I couldn't figure out where to go from the homepage. Eventually I spotted the grey-on-black GitHub link but that took me to an organization page, not a repository.

Here's the repo for anyone else who didn't find it: https://github.com/photon-hq/flux

Key detail from the README to help understand what's going on:

Now text +16286298650 from your phone to interact with your agent!

So photon are operating a currently free relay service at fluxy.photon.codes (that's the address that flux talks to). You register your own phone number, then any time you send a message from your number to their +16286298650 they pass it back to your agent.

... but that means your agent needs to stay connected and running on a server somewhere. That's what this command does:

flux run --prod

It stays running and maintains a connection to their relay and triggers your agent code any time you send a message to their number.

Based on https://github.com/photon-hq/imessage-kit my best guess is that Photon achieved this by running a Mac server somewhere that scripts iMessage via AppleScript against their own Apple ID account that owns that +16286298650 number.

Question for danielsdk: does your paid enterprise plan involve you running a Mac that's signed into a separate iCloud account that's assigned the phone number that your paying customer wants to use?
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 22:04:52+00:00
> He actually praised Vance role as a defender of democratic values, but Vance is known to deny Greenlands souvereignity, ready to capitulate to a russian dictator, indifference to police killing a protester recently, etc.

Horrible stuff. I agree. His statement about free speech in the EU, when removed from him as a person, is still true. Progressive media sources agree [1]. If both aisles, as well as European free speech activists, think something is going horribly wrong in Europe, we should listen.

[1]: https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/germany-insult...
by juris | 2026-01-09 22:05:07+00:00
personally I was interested in the capabilities of the pci-e bus as I abuse it in every other computer I can get my hands on (the rpi4 really did not like that treatment).

to your point about 'meaningful' though, indeed the ole College Try to run Crysis on a Samsung NC-10 would be far more glorious! But I assure you this was very fun for me.
by walterbell | 2026-01-09 22:05:39+00:00
Going in the other direction: recent Intel laptops with Thunderbolt should support USB gadget mode. In theory, this would allow a Linux laptop to emulate keyboard and mouse input to an iPad Mini portrait sidecar, with seamless kb/mouse context switching onto USB, as the cursor moved into the configured virtual viewport of the iPad "monitor".

Similar to synergy/barrier/input-leap, but using USB gadget mode instead of local network, since iOS wouldn't allow installation of non-Apple keyboard-mouse remoting software, https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
by jmyeet | 2026-01-09 22:05:41+00:00
It astounds me that purists still push this narrative despite all evidence to the country over decades of computing.

It is better for the vast majority of people that they don't have root access to their PC or phone or tablet because they are unequipped to securely manage that AND it has basically zero upside for them. They can't manage updates. They install random programs from the Internet to get smiley faces in Outlook.

This may offend your sensibilities. Sorry. But you're living in a fantasy land if you still hold onto this narrative, particularly without explaining to ordinary people how this will practically benefit them beyond theoretical platitudes about "freedom".