MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zero0529 | 2026-01-15 11:25:33+00:00
This is pretty cool. But what gets me really excited is the new generic <Permission>[0] element. I had to implement a webcam element one time for some CV pet project and I had a lot of trouble getting the basic api to just work (Highly likely a skill issue). So seeing that this will also expand to webcam and other IO seems like a really good UX improvement.

- [0] https://github.com/WICG/PEPC/blob/main/explainer.md
by artemavv | 2026-01-15 11:25:39+00:00
I now know that in Italian I should say 'mi piacciono' to convey my liking of things (plural), e.g "mi piacciono i libri" means "I like books", as opposed to singular 'mi piace il libro' (I like the book).

When I refer to likes of multiple people, e.g. "we like this book", I should use "ci piace il libro". Plural people speaking about liking plural books would be "ci piacciono i libri".

One of my goals for 2026 is to reach level B1 in Italian language.
by vintermann | 2026-01-15 11:26:41+00:00
Alcohol doesn't create social cohesion chemically. This is a learned effect - there are societies where they had different beliefs about alcohol, and there it doesn't have this effect. This is a really old finding of anthropology. (Of course, in today's global world, beliefs about alcohol get homogenized, so there are ever fewer of societies where they have diverging beliefs about alcohol effects.)

Moreover, it seems likely to me that just like the "relaxing" effect of nicotine, this advantage is "stolen" from daily sober life. If we as a society agree to judge each other less harshly when we're drink, I think we will just naturally judge each other more harshly when we're sober.

However, unlike with nicotine, where the effect is physical and individual (you relax when you get nicotine because you get stressed by physical addiction when you don't), for alcohol it's social and collective. You suffer the negative effect (social pressure to basically be more uptight in everyday sober life) whether you participate or not.
by reify | 2026-01-15 11:26:48+00:00
real title;

when ai becomes your on call teammate inside wix-s airbot that saves 675 engineering hours a month.

the usual manipulative massaged spiel.

675 engineering hours a month. Thats nearly 3 team members entire months working hours.

It appears that prior to employing the use of wix-s-airbot.

They were paying 3 members of their team full wages as qualified engineers to spent their entire working days sitting on their arses manning the phones.

highly unlikely

They can safely sack 3 members of staff now.
by goku12 | 2026-01-15 11:27:22+00:00
> If you think that the ozone problem was remotely of the same level of difficulty as climate change, then you don't understand the problem.

Ozone depletion too was a global problem that needed international coordination to solve. But the reason why it was solved while the climate change crisis wasn't, isn't the 'level of difficulty' you're referring to. It's the perverse economic incentives behind the centralized fossil fuel trade. Unlike ozone depltion, climate change issue was known at least as early as 1892. We had more than enough time to find and implement the solutions. But even today when we have viable long term solutions, the pervesion of global politics against them is splendidly evident. We really could have solved the climate change crisis if we wanted to.

That's why I always emphasize shifting the market dynamics - the supply and demand balance. That's the only way we can overcome those perverse incentives. But people simply refuse to connect the dots that deep, instead preferring to insult those who do. And the reason is simple. It will break the comfort bubble that you're in, if you have to take some responsibility to solve it.

> There is no much harder goal than surviving on Earth, and we are measurably not only completely failing, but we keep accelerating in the wrong direction! We are making it worse, faster everyday.

If only there was/were some solution(s) for that.... Oh! Wait!
by spaceman_2020 | 2026-01-15 11:27:37+00:00
Daal is great, but just not nutritionally dense. You will have to drink it by the bowlfuls to get enough protein from daal alone.

Chickpeas have the problem of digestion + prep. You have to soak them overnight, boil them, and only then cook them. There's a reason they're usually reserved as a high-effort Sunday dish in most household and not a daily meal
by darkwater | 2026-01-15 11:28:01+00:00
Reading the description of his previous life, I think there is some background issue/reason that should have been addressed, rather than just go farming. I hope he is and will be happy for a long time now though.

I have an acquaintance - not into IT at all - that did something similar, went to work as a solo eco-farming projects (no fertilizers, just let the soil rest, no pesticides obviously, I'm not sure if he went as far as no artificial irrigation either though) and now after a few years he decided he wanted to come back to civilization and he is now working in a factory, in an assembly line.
by piva00 | 2026-01-15 11:28:07+00:00
> If a european connects to my server in the US where was the service sold?

Did you sell something? If you sold something, it's in Europe.

> American companies can easily argue the sale was made at the server in the US.

No, they can't, the server's physical location has nothing to do with the delivery of the sale.

> European countries would of course disagree, but that doesnt actually mean anything because the company doesnt have any assets in the europe and then it's just a political battle of american government vs european governments.

If there are no assets or representation in Europe then there's nothing the justice system can directly affect, so of course it becomes a political matter between governments to enforce it in case the importing country determines the product is doing illegal stuff, that's not a secret and it's how it's worked for a long time.

The internet being global doesn't mean it's lawless, no idea why people still believe that.
by plaidfuji | 2026-01-15 11:28:50+00:00
Nicer to ride in in what sense? I find single-pedal to be nauseating because many drivers can’t control their foot raise well enough for smooth or gentle braking, and the suspension feels chunky as hell, most likely due to how heavy the car is. But maybe that’s just Teslas. Their ride is just categorically worse than most ICE vehicles.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-15 11:29:24+00:00
Depends on the whisky.

You could buy a bottle of Teachers and serve yourself 25ml for 70p. You could buy a bottle of 30-year aged Macallan matured in sherry oak, and serve yourself 25ml for £160.

In a pub, you should be able to get a shot of blended whisky for about £4-6, and mass-market single malts (the kind you also find in supermarkets) for about £5-£10.

If you don't ask for a specific whisky, they should ask you which one you want, and/or say "is name alright?" and give you one of the cheap ones.
by sdoering | 2026-01-15 11:29:45+00:00
Not quite accurate anymore. The UK was indeed the world leader from 2008 until around 2021, but has since fallen to second place behind China. China now has over 41 GW installed (>50% of global capacity), while the UK sits at ~15 GW (~22%). [1][2]

Still impressive for a country of that size, but "world leading" is technically no longer correct.

[1] https://www.renewableuk.com/energypulse/blog/uk-wind-and-glo...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1489147/uk-offshore-wind...

ps.: Per capita it's also not #1 — Denmark and the Netherlands both have higher offshore wind capacity per person.
by CTDOCodebases | 2026-01-15 11:29:57+00:00
> Wasn't this the reason behind different versions of the game for PAL and NTSC etc.? So I imagine the games would play quite similarly, just with a lower refresh rate in Europe?

Yes and no. Some games play at a similar speed but some (most if I recall correctly) weren't modified for the PAL market so they play slow and the image is squashed down. Street Fighter II on the SNES (PAL) is a classic example of this.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-15 11:30:03+00:00
> I don’t see AI doing either of those things well.

I think I agree, at least in the current state of AI, but can't quite put my finger on what exactly it's missing. I did have some limited success with getting Claude Code to go through tutorials (actually implementing each step as they go), and then having it iterate on the tutorial, but it's definitely not at the level of a human tech writer.

Would you be willing to take a stab at the competencies that a future AI agent would require to be excellent at this (or possibly never achieve)? I mean, TFA talks about "empathy" and emotions and feeling the pain, but I can't help feel that this wording is a bit too magical to be useful.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-15 11:30:49+00:00
>insulting

As as writer, you know this makes it seem emotional rather than factual?

Anyway, I agree with what you are saying. I run a scientific blog that gets 250k-1M users per year, and AI has been terrible for article writing. I use AI for ideas on brainstorming and ideas for titles(which ends up being inspiration rather than copypaste).
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-15 11:31:05+00:00
The problem is that so many things have been monopolized or oligopolized by equally-mediocre actors so that quality ultimately no longer matters because it's not like people have any options.

You mention you've done work for public transit - well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeable drop in revenue? Doubt it. Firing the technical writer however has an immediate and quantifiable effect on the budget.

Apply the same for software (have you seen how bad tech is lately?) or basically any kind of vertical with a nontrivial barrier to entry where someone can't just say "this sucks and I'm gonna build a better one in a weekend".
by automatesocials | 2026-01-15 11:31:14+00:00
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by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 11:31:16+00:00
Yeash, but not as good as an alternative to a PI back then, since 8 year old notebooks 10 years ago (so 18 year old notebooks today) were too bulky and power hungry to be a real alternative. Power bricks were all 90W and CPU TDW was 35-45W. But notebooks from the 2018 era (intel 8th gen) have quite low power chips that make a good PI alternatives nowadays.

The mobile and embedded X86 chips have closed the gap a lot in power consumption since the PI first launched.

Now you can even get laptops with broken screens for free, and just use their motherboard as a home server alternative to a PI. Power consumption will be a bit higher, but not enough to offset the money you just saved anytime soon.
by quotz | 2026-01-15 11:31:31+00:00
Braco! I come from Macedonia too and yeah I am quite familiar with the schemes and reasons people go and stay, I know a few folks who've immigrated that way as well. But I thought people in Serbia do that too, didnt know that its harder for them. In fact I've also met a few folks from Montenegro inside the US that clearly overstayed, but they were doing quite well, opened up a restaurant etc.

P.S. I go to Montenegro every summer I have a place there its amazing!
by al_borland | 2026-01-15 11:33:29+00:00
> 3) Accept that it's hard to focus on stuff that doesn't interest me, and plan accordingly.

A former boss noticed this about me, years before I knew I had ADHD. It was pretty great. I tended to turn things around extremely quickly when I found them interesting. If he saw something was taking me a while or I wasn’t making progress after a couple days, he’d just give it to someone else. The net result was I got to pick my own projects, found the job much more interesting, and was significantly more productive. On the flip side of this, there were projects other people would struggle with for weeks that he’d give to me and I’d turn it around in a few hours.

These days I don’t find anything interesting and I’ve been trying to will myself to work on the same thing for 2 months (and another for 6+ months) and I can’t seem to do it. I really want to get past these things to find something new to do, but it’s been hard. The one project is massive as well. It had me looking at new career options yesterday.
by physicles | 2026-01-15 11:34:26+00:00
I can't get over how expensive these observability platforms are.

Last I looked (and looked again just now), if we were to take all our structured logs from all services and send them to Datadog with our current retention policy, it would just about double our current IT spend.

Instead, we use Grafana + Loki + ClickHouse and it's been mostly maintenance-free for years. Costs under $100/month.

What am I missing? What's the real value that folks are getting out of these platforms?
by schnitzelstoat | 2026-01-15 11:35:21+00:00
Yeah, it seems like one would have to either store it physically (for which the battery technology doesn't exist. Or sell it and buy it again in winter, where you lose some money as the energy is worth more in the winter.

It's an interesting blog though, I switched to Octopus Energy a few years ago and it's been the best electricity company I've ever had, far better than the others here in Spain.
by imtringued | 2026-01-15 11:35:31+00:00
This looks pretty nice for what it is. However, the RAM is a bit oversized for the vast majority of applications that will run on this, which is giving a misleading impression of what it is useful for.

I once tried to run a segmentation model based on a vision transformer on a PC and that model used somewhere around 1 GB for the parameters and several gigabytes for the KV cache and it was almost entirely compute bound. You couldn't run that type of model on previous AI accelerators because they only supported model sizes in the megabytes range.
by valdiorn | 2026-01-15 11:35:32+00:00
Try this as a reply; "hello everyone. This seems to have all gotten out of hand. We want to continue selling teensy units, We've made a lot of sales working together and I want to salvage this working relationship and ensure we continue to do business together and sell as many Teensy units as possible. Why don't I, sparkfun and Paul Stoffregen get together for a zoom meeting next Monday and discuss this. At the end of the day I'm sure Paul S would prefer his product to be as widely available as possible and we want to help with that. Best regards - ptorrone".

That would be the mature and professional response which ensures continued sales for you, sparkfun and PJRC.

And for Christ's sake stop arguing business issues on social media and messaging boards. What are you doing, man?! :)
by piltdownman | 2026-01-15 11:36:24+00:00
// A big thing we need to do is shut down...anything that promotes the same addictive behavior.

Oh great, we're back to the 'destroy the pinball machines' faux-moral outrage. If it wasn't gacha-gaming it would be Coin Pusher machines, or Pinball, or Arcade Machines, or POGs, or Pokemon, or cigarette/bubblegum card collecting or...

//I also think Fanduel and DraftKings should be illegal. I'm even leery on young people playing fantasy draft games, even for no money, because it's a gambling pipeline.

Moral hand-wringing masquerading as ethics. As often attributed to Twayne, "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it"

//Algorithmic feeds in general I think are bad but particularly for young people. Because they're designed to induce addiction and "engagement".

Ones designed to sell toys, services, or adspace (such as it ever was). Whereas for people of the age of majority (and particularly those in retirement) those same algorithms dictate elections and, increasingly, what constitutes political or domestic 'reality'. I know which I'd prioritise addressing.

//I think phones will soon be good enough (if they're not already) to do background age verifications to make sure the user is of appropriate age via the camera and processed locally

They currently can't do this at emigration points - see the amount of asylum seekers claiming to be unaccompanied children with no birth certs whose claimed age can't be disputed:

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/08/27...

With the best will in the world, and the resources and governance policies of a governmental agency tasked with this specific action, it fails constantly. As such, outsourcing it to the tender mercies of Silicon Valley VCs via some App and SaaS solution is farcical.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/nearly-200-asylum-seek...

//I think we as a society need more barriers.

I think those with the least restraint and control are the loudest to request their current privileges to be stripped away at a societal level, lest they indulge to the point of detriment.
by instig007 | 2026-01-15 11:36:47+00:00
You're conflating types with the encoding/decoding problem. Maybe your paying jobs didn't provide you with enough room to distinguish between these two problems. Types can be encoded optimally with a minimally-required bits representation (for instance: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/flat), or they can be encoded redundantly with all default/recovery/omission information, and what you actually do with that encoding on the wire in a distributed system with or without versioning is up to you and it doesn't depend on the specific type system of your language, but the strong type system offers you unmatched precision both at program boundaries where encoding happens, and in business logic. Once you've got that `Maybe a` you can (<$>) in exactly one place at the program's boundary, and then proceed as if your data has always been provided without omission. And then you can combine (<$>) with `Alternative f` to deal with your distributed systems' silly payloads in a versioned manner. What's your dynamic language's null-checking equivalent for it?
by sdoering | 2026-01-15 11:37:28+00:00
I once installed a private DNS with advertising block lists on a home network level. My SO was not amused, as her Android based games with "watch an advertisement for ingame credits" now did not work anymore.

Nowadays only the TV sets and my own devices are set to use this (pihole) DNS server. So that I can at least watch Disney+ without ads.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 11:37:41+00:00
The UK is just weird about that.

Decades of hooliganism (mostly a thing of the past thankfully) has meant that you can't be in possession of alcohol within view of the pitch in the top 5 tiers in the UK. (And by the 5th tier you're looking at matches that have attendances anywhere down to 400 or so, although some clubs in the 5th tier still manage to attract 10000 fans to home games).

This spills out into the local community around stadiums too. Many pubs really close to the ground will have extra restrictions on matchdays, that's probably what you've experienced. But that's not just the UK, I remember going to a River Plate game in Buenos Aires 20 years ago and being amazed that on match days there was no alcohol served within a mile of the stadium or some such rule.

I've been to Champions League games in the UK sponsored by a variety of alcoholic drink companies and they weren't serving alcohol anywhere in the stadium (well, I guess they still do in the hospitality sections).

Even when the stadiums do serve alcohol they do strange things like stopping serving as the second half kicks off. As someone who wants to watch all of the football I've paid to go see it's a very odd thing getting a pint at half time and drinking it in under 10 minutes in order to be back to the stands in time for the second half to kick off. Us Brits just accept it and deal with it.

Compare that to watching rugby or cricket in the UK where you have no fan segregation and alcohol allowed at the seats.

It's also much more relaxed at the lower tiers of UK football. I've watched a few Dulwich Hamlet games with a friend and they allow to bring your own beers in (may have changed, haven't been for a few years), and sometimes have a "pay what you want" admission price.

Wherever I go in the UK I try and keep a look out for a local game, even if the football is terrible the people watching is often amazing and worth the admission price alone.
by Dilettante_ | 2026-01-15 11:37:58+00:00
Is your perspective here "these things need to be useful/stable/secure, how do we make them/create incentive for them to be what we need them to be"? Because my view is more like "open source is a sprawling wild garden and occasionally a tree bears fruit, and anyone gets to have some for as long as it does."

The assumed base state we're looking to augment via open source software being: "Fully working software"(Augmented: free) vs "No software" (Augmented: yes software)?

Like, what you seem to want is business, plain and simple. Pay a guy, have your specs filled, get guarantees. That would be expecting open source to fill a role it just isn't made for.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-15 11:38:08+00:00
I'm not pointing at them as a source of society's ills. I don't think society (as in socially) is ill at all, except for conservatives that are trying to tell us how to live our lives.

I do think the human population as-is is unsustainably big though but I'm not blaming individuals for it. And luckily enough the population growth seems to be plateauing anyway. I think it would be great if we shrink by half or so, life would be a lot easier. Yes, the wealth distribution is a massive issue too, but decreasing this will actually make things worse. All these ultra-rich are just sitting on their money. They have as much money as say 100.000 normal people but they are not buying 100.000x as many things. In fact I often wonder why they care so much about accumulating ever more wealth if they already have so much more than they could ever spend in a lifetime.

But once all the poor people in China and India will want to have a big house, a car etc like us then we will really have a resource problem.

But for me having kids is not a purpose at all. Perhaps that colours my ease with which I dismiss it. I just know several parents that mainly talk about their kids in a dismissive/nuisance way and I wonder why they ever bothered to have them in the first place.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-15 11:38:54+00:00
>betrayed

This is the big deal. Don't think of it as petty. From nations to individuals, betrayal destroys built trust and changes the landscape. Even Kissinger admits that Trust can maintain an anarchic/international order until the trust is broken.

This is why I'm am a realist, power is more important than Trust, and when you need Trust, use verification mechanisms. This idea is technically an 'Information Hazard' because it causes arms races and costs everyone more resources.