MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kbelder | 2026-01-14 19:37:40+00:00
Ice cream is being priced too high if the ice cream sellers would make more money by decreasing the price of ice cream. If they wouldn't, it is appropriately priced.

Or, from the buyer's perspective, it is priced appropriately if the total amount buyers would spend on it would go down if the price is lowered or raised.

There isn't a correct intrinsic price that an object should be sold at that can be calculated based on the ingredients and labor. That idea is one of the fundamental flaws of Marxism. Price is a compromise between the buyers and sellers, based on the values of each.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-14 19:38:01+00:00
You can enforce immigration laws without shooting people in the face, ramming into their vehicles, ripping them out and putting them in illegal chokeholds, shipping them to prisons in El Salvador, firing tear gas at legal observers and on and on.

It also wasn't an agency prior to 9/11. It should be dissolved. All ERO agents should be prosecuted and or barred from all future public service.
by cyrialize | 2026-01-14 19:38:08+00:00
https://cyrialize.dev/

Nothing special about my website. Hosted on Neocities, made with Jekyll. I still need to update my repo for it, but every time I do I think about trying to write up a SSG.

I think I've done this like 3 times now.

The one thing I'm proud of are all the themes! My favorite is Windows98.
by bluGill | 2026-01-14 19:38:12+00:00
That is my argument for EVs as well. One truck with an ICE for take the whole family on long trips, or towing. Then an EV for everyone else - whoever is making the long trip that day gets the truck.

Truck works well for those role because it can do so much. It isn't the best for most of those, but it can do them.
by zaphoyd | 2026-01-14 19:38:25+00:00
We recently moved to a more rural location that has needed more tools. It is shocking just how expensive and inconvenient it is to rent tools (and even vehicles to some extent) and just how much worse it is being even just a little bit rural.

The big box store in our town doesn't rent tools or vehicles. You have to drive 45-60 minutes to get to a store that does. This means the 4 hour rental prices (which for something like a wood chipper or chain saw might be sufficient for a lot of jobs) become nearly non-viable or highly stressful rushing through unfamiliar power equipment that really shouldn't be rushed.

A full day tool rental is often 1/3 to 1/2 of the price of a new mass market version of the tool. A week rental is almost always more. The tools are rarely in great shape. You are almost always way better off going to an estate sale or local marketplace and buying a used tool. If there is a job you end up doing 2-3 times or need for more than a week its even cost effective to just buy new ones. You save so much on labor doing things yourself that even with new tools you basically always come out ahead.

The best case is that you have a community run tool library that lets you check stuff out cheaply for a week and can have a relationship with the folks that run it. Similarly, getting to know the neighbors and being able to swap/borrow stuff. For vehicles this is a little more dicey because of liability & insurance issues.

We've definitely struggled with the vehicle for long and sheet goods. We really don't need a pickup truck and it would honestly be a hazard on skinny mountain roads... but we do need to move lumber, sheet goods, appliance sized things just enough that it's a pain without one. We settled on a midsized SUV with passable towing power (as an aside, EV power and control makes towing a breeze as long as your round trip fits in one charge). Renting a trailer is still annoying, but at least can be done close by. For larger orders delivery can sometimes be cost effective (vs renting a vehicle or buying and maintaining a truck) especially because places often subsidize delivery to win business.
by ptorrone | 2026-01-14 19:38:27+00:00
some are already words/abbreivations that are in my word list and some are me typing over later when i can, and some is a cut/paste if limor has something for me to add or does an edit as she looks at things. you can see my writings on the adafruit blog have caps, commenting on forums or hackersnews quickly, there will be some things someone does not like. we were at the doc with our 2 month old during this ... https://x.com/ptorrone/status/2011509017814659095
by pixl97 | 2026-01-14 19:39:01+00:00
It's probably something along the lines of "Monitoring solves the problems you expect to have".

For example you don't even question when you see latency going up on some service, you can see DB load going up, and you either manually, or script out another instance starting up.

Monitoring all this stuff allows you to call the DBA/app team/etc 20 minutes sooner when you see some component screw off an you have no idea why. Hopefully that person on the app team puts in a new means of showing what the problem was if it ever happens again, then it turns into the first type of problem you never thing about again (or hope was actually fixed in the application).
by IncreasePosts | 2026-01-14 19:39:15+00:00
The problem is there are a wide class of problems that you want solved but putting on the work will prevent you from actually doing the task because the cost isn't worth the reward. Because it's for a low impact tool. Or you can't imagine yourself dealing with this API again within a year or two by which time it will probably be completely different with v2 of the API.

So, you reach for AI and it works really well. So you start reaching for that more and more...
by bsnnkv | 2026-01-14 19:39:18+00:00
> If you don't want to give your software away for free, don't give your software away for free.

I don't, and I spend a lot of my time and efforts encouraging others not to, and doing the work to prove out alternative models :)

https://lgug2z.com/articles/normalize-identifying-corporate-...

https://lgug2z.com/articles/komorebi-financial-breakdown-for...
by alistairSH | 2026-01-14 19:39:36+00:00
For me, it's some intermediate trips where the EV really "fails" (though admittedly the gap closes every year and the use case below is basically a worst case scenario short of trying to tow trailer on the same route).

A common trip for me is DC -> Dolly Sods WV for camping. Less than 3 hours drive time each way, about 150 miles. I only need to stop for gas once during the trip and for only as long as the tank takes to fill (no meal needed).

In an EV, that ~6 hour round-trip takes about 9 hours due to 2 hours of charging and a 60 mile detour. That's using ABRP, with an Ioniq 5 from Reston VA to Dolly Sods Wilderness and back, no overnight charging because it's a wilderness location (gravel parking lot in the middle of nowhere).
by JonasN21 | 2026-01-14 19:39:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the developer of this tool.

Why I built this App:
I was hanging out on a Discord call with a friend, and we wanted to make a quick beat together. We had no music production skills and didn't want to install a complex DAW or sign up for a service. I couldn't find a tool that was instant and multiplayer, so I built this.

The Tech:
The frontend is built with React and uses Tone.js for the audio scheduling.
I also built a backend service using Flask and FastAPI. I use Flask specifically to process audio with librosa, which powers an additional feature that scores users on their rapping flow against the beat.

Feedback needed: Since this is my first web app, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the latency. Does the sync hold up if you open it in two tabs?

Thanks for checking it out!
by triceratops | 2026-01-14 19:39:50+00:00
> Which stores sell age-verification scratchcards?

Stores that sell other age-restricted products.

> How do you make sure they can't be traced back to the person who paid for them

How would they be traced? Pay cash. I've never had my ID scanned or recorded when I buy alcohol. And now I look old enough that I don't even have to show ID.

If someone can trace the store they're bought from and you're that paranoid, rotate between stores. Buy them from a third-party. Drive to another state and buy them there. So many options.

> How would a website know the person using the card is the same person who paid for them?

They don't. How does Philip Morris know the person who bought the cigarettes is the same person lighting up? It's clearly not that important when selling actual poisons so why would it matter for accessing a website? The system works well enough to keep most kids from smoking.

Rate-limit sales in a store (one per visit) and outlaw selling or transferring them to a minor (same penalties as giving alcohol or tobacco to a child). Require websites to implement one code per account policies with a code TTL of 6 months or a year, and identify and disallow account sharing. It's Good Enough verification with nearly perfect anonymity.
by elil17 | 2026-01-14 19:39:51+00:00
Yes, you can point this specific UV wavelength at your skin and be fine. People have done extensive animal trials and it is not carcinogenic. Many people have been exposed to a lot of far UVC and nothing bad has happened to them.

Looking right at it might not be good for your eyes.

I feel confident for myself that far UVC is safe.

However, the environments I'd want to use this in are those where many people are gathered. I am not sure whether it is respectful/socially good to use this in those situations (given that far UVC products are not subject to any special regulatory review).

Edit for some additional thoughts:

How does this compare to a air filter?

Pros of UV:
- You are helping support R&D for this very important technology
- Even this Aerolamp DevKit is going to be more cost effective at addressing certain pathogens which are highly susceptible to UV, such as COVID. My guesstimate is that the highest capacity/$ off the shelf air purifier you can buy (https://www.cleanairkits.com/products/brisk-box-ultra-black) has about a third to half of the COVID-removing capacity/$ vs. the Aerolamp DevKit. Ditto for energy efficiency.
- Less maintenance vs. an air filter
- Quietest option

Cons of UV:
- Less energy and cost effective at addressing other microbes, particularly mold
- No ability to address dust, another very important air quality issue
- May make others feel uncomfortable
by vel0city | 2026-01-14 19:39:55+00:00
The argument about getting rid of ICE isn't about having zero enforcement of immigration laws. It is about getting rid of this entire stack of management and agents. I guess that's what you're not understanding.

ICE is recent. We don't need ICE, the organization and people that are currently doing what they're doing, to continue to be a part of the government. If the whole organization is behaving badly, the whole organization should be scrapped and a new organization with different people and a different plan and enforcement style should be created.

ICE was created in 2003. We had immigration enforcement actions happen well before 2003. Getting rid of ICE does not mean "no longer enforce immigration laws".
by selfsimilar | 2026-01-14 19:40:06+00:00
The best training for immune robustness is going outside and get exposure to a wide range of stuff. But for indoor spaces, air quality is going to be dominated by the microbes and viruses of the people in the space itself. For public spaces and shared residential spaces with poor airflow this would be great - grocery stores, nursing homes, etc. For condos, apartments, SFH, etc. it's probably less necessary, but probably wouldn't hurt. Or nice to have when company comes over, or someone in the house is sick and "polluting" the air.
by lisdexan | 2026-01-14 19:40:51+00:00
Is it? It was (as far we know) a mild shitpost of a public figure like from a decade ago. Photoshopping someones head over the Pepe Silva meme is not nice, but its hardly harassment. To me the "worst" thing was registering the domain, which he gave to Torrone and apologized quite well in my opinion https://gist.github.com/NPoole/d9aab9dfa2a18f4141039f7ce3505....

Sure, if this was a pattern of behavior it would be ridiculous to play the victim, but there isn't as far we know. 9 years later, Torrone starts Mullenweg-posting because some random criticized him for AI stuff. He posts their private email taken from a receipt and when blocked he continues with sock-puppets. Sparkfun guy gives a (quite measured) opinion colored by the fact that Torrone is still is doing this shit to random people. Torreone acusses the Sparkfun guy of being his personal Moriarty.

The most unhinged (and cowardly) thing to me is bringing up his partner and his newborn at every turn in his Twitter shitflinging, when any "slights" just seem only directed at him.

(Dude, if you are reading this just log off, this might literally just sleep deprivation. Take focus on caring of your child instead of fighting on the internet)
by jmward01 | 2026-01-14 19:40:57+00:00
It would be interesting to see inflation indexes based on different typical buyers, to include the ultra rich. Basically, inflation isn't uniform and impacts people differently. Of course that brings up how you actually measure the impact of inflation to the ultra rich when the price of corn flakes is meaningless and their personal purchase are negligible. Maybe you look at how much the cost to buy a politician has gone up?
by iso1631 | 2026-01-14 19:41:09+00:00
Nearest pub

2023 Rateable Value £13,800

2026 Rateable Value £12,250

Change -£3,300(-23.9%)

I guess "no" would be the answer then.

Nearest town has 3 pubs where rates are going down significantly and 4 where they're going up. I wonder why, is it that the previous setup was unfair to those who are seeing their rates going down?

The pub I do go to each week is seeing rates going up +£3,300. That's not as big an impact from yet another inflation busting minimum wage increase.

However the much bigger concern is that people will be scared to drive there. Currently you can drive there, have a pint, and then go home, and be confident you're not triggering the limit. They're reducing this limit, which means no more trip to the pub.

I'm sure it's fine in big cities where people live in walking distance.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 19:41:09+00:00
> because I can't believe Adafruit of all organizations is in the wrong here.

I've been hearing about this drama through a group chat for a long time. To be honest, neither side looks good in this one. Both companies have behaved disappointingly at different times for different reasons. I'm not doing this is an arbitrary "both sides" dismissal. There have been actions from both companies that would have been unacceptable in isolation.

The OSHW world revolves a lot around conferences, social media, and IRC/Matrix/Discord servers. Not coincidentally, this feels a lot like old IRC and forum drama of years past.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-14 19:41:17+00:00
They're pricing at the point of pain, not maximizing efficiency. There are few enough companies (what, like, 3?) that own the majority of the brands so they don't even need to collude to figure out that they can all hover around "as high as we can get away with" together.

I've been nursing a minor Coke Zero addiction for years but usually get the store brand which is close enough at half the cost. For whatever reason Coke Zero itself dropped in price by about 30% recently but that's apparently not nationwide.

It really kind of blows my mind how much of that people drink. I'll get a 2 liter bottle that will last days and then I read about people going through entire cases of Mountain Dew Insane Flavor Combo Super Bacinator Blast in a day and it's like my god that's like 4000 kcals of corn syrup.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-14 19:41:28+00:00
I don’t think that’s fair. But i do get how others might read into that too.

Personally i read it more like “this project avoids having any political stance.” Similar to the HN guidelines on politics.

However i do agree that it’s better to remove that message and have no comment on politics, than to comment so visibly that you’re unwilling to comment. Even if you read charitably into the message, it’s still just a distraction on valuable page real estate.
by ajam1507 | 2026-01-14 19:41:41+00:00
You say that as if creative jobs haven't been obsoleted by technology in the past. How many sign painters or weavers do you see around today?

In fact, the theoretical turn in 20th century art was due in part to the invention of the camera. What's the point in continuing down the path of representational art if the camera can recreate a scene with infinitely more realism than the best painter?

Many of the same criticisms that people have of photography as art are being used against AI today, like that it's too easy, that it's soulless, or that the machine is the real artist.
by wffurr | 2026-01-14 19:42:16+00:00
>> The immune system needs something to train on and fight, otherwise you end up with autoimmune diseases and all sorts of crap.

If you want to train your childrens' immune system, get a dog. Don't intentionally expose them to pathenogenic viruses like COVID or the flu. https://www.science.org/content/article/want-fight-allergies...
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-14 19:42:31+00:00
I'm curious if plastics embrittlement is a problem with Far-UVC. I recently was putting a large evaporative humidifier [1] through its paces for someone to get my opinion, and a challenge was that you had to clean the water tank that was the foundation of the unit fairly frequently (every few days). I provided feedback to the manufacturer that a far UVC bulb in the tank might be useful for reducing cleaning intervals.

For use cases where the emissions are contained (HVAC, water tanks, etc), I think it's a slam dunk from an electronic antiseptic perspective. UV is somewhat common in water filtration today, but perhaps an improvement is possible if these bulbs last longer than existing UV solutions.

[1] https://levoit.com/collections/humidifiers-diffusers/product...
by t-3 | 2026-01-14 19:42:31+00:00
Bars and pubs aren't really competing against the store or restaurants, they're competing against you drinking alone or with only close friends. If stepping in to have a beer and shoot the shit would cost a significant chunk of a day's wages, you just won't do it, but if I can buy more beer with an hours wages than I can drink in an hour, it's not a bad time.
by nico | 2026-01-14 19:42:40+00:00
Great pointers, thank you

How would you go about allowing something like `ssh user@server "ls somefolder/"` but disallowing `ssh user@server "rm"`?

Similarly, allow `ssh user@server "mysql \"SELECT...\""`, but block `ssh user@server "mysql \"[UPDATE|DELETE|DROP|TRUNCATE|INSERT]...\""` ?

Ideally in a way that it can provide more autonomy for the agent, so that I need to review fewer commands
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 19:42:48+00:00
Yes! I genuinely don't understand the reason why this got flagged.

I also uploaded this news to hackernews (before discovering that this also existed) and the post I did wasn't flagged (atleast not right now)

I sincerely hope that healthy disucssions can take place in Hackernews and such articles shouldn't be flagged as they are important.

Edit: my post got flagged as well WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS COMMENT THIS IS CRAZY
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-14 19:43:06+00:00
Because the Democrat politicians encouraging the agitators are aligned with Obama.

Obama is a great orator, and a historic figure. If we don’t remind people that he used ICE much like Trump did, we could end up with a historic injustice. If you call Trump a monster for his use of ICE ( as the ACLU does ), you should also call Obama a monster ( also as the ACLU does ). It’s only fair.

If it’s still not clear, I’ll give a historical example. Bill Clinton molested several women, paid out large sums of money, etc. The man was a lech. But women’s organizations supported him and gave him cover for several years. ( I.e. NOW, the national organization of women ). Clinton was named ‘Father if the year’ by some organization. Can you imagine how this galled people on the other side of the political aisle? It seemed there was no end to the hypocrisy. Finally, thankfully, #MeToo came along and the truth was acknowledged.

That’s why I keep throwing this out there. The truth must be acknowledged. You can’t call Trump a monster without calling Obama a monster, too.
by JonasN21 | 2026-01-14 19:43:22+00:00
Thank you so much! That workflow—starting with low friction in the browser and moving to a DAW for the final polish—is exactly what I'm aiming for.

I'm actually thinking about adding a MIDI Export feature soon, so you could sketch a quick beat here and then drag the pattern directly into Ableton or FL Studio. Would that fit your workflow?
by bahmboo | 2026-01-14 19:43:27+00:00
The sense of entitlement is strong in these comments. If you haven’t built or maintained OSS I’m wondering why your opinion matters [edit: that's harshly worded I could have been more nuanced, hopefully the point is taken and it is a question]. There’s also the take that “this is fine” vs considering that the state of OSS things could be a LOT better with higher quality and more choices if we fed the beast properly.
by _blk | 2026-01-14 19:43:33+00:00
I agree that no person should be offended. Obviously that's not ground truth..

If we could all agree that life would be easier if people were offended less, then instead of only trying to get people to offend other people less by telling them what is acceptable to say we could also get people to try to not take offense as much when they hear what they don't want to hear we'd have solved the offense problem from both ends.

TL;DR: Just be nice. Life's easier when you're nice even when people aren't nice to you but it does take effort.
by doodlebugging | 2026-01-14 19:43:53+00:00
I can say that stopping every two hours on a long cross-country drive works great for reinvigorating the driver and passengers. It gives everyone an opportunity to move around, stretch out and focus on things more than 2' in front of their faces. This is what I have always done on long drives.

I see an opportunity here for a charging network built adjacent to or within smaller, less visible state parks that don't get much exposure or many visitors. By adding a few chargers and discounting fees (if there are any) for those who visit specifically to charge, it could boost attendance at the sites and help pay for maintenance costs or other normal expenses that keep the park operating and attractive to visitors. Even if all they did was offer discounts on visitor center items or short guided tours of the park facilities it may invite exploration by those who love to travel off of the main routes.
by xyzzyxy | 2026-01-14 19:43:58+00:00
For additional context to the context, here's Nick's account of the so-called 'long running harassment campaign' [1]: Nick made a joke site about Phil back in 2017, Phil emailed asking him to stop, Nick immediately transferred the domain to him with a heartfelt apology ("man... I just wanna be friends. I wanna support
you and Limor and also feel good about the place that I work (and kinda
live). [...] These social tools don't always translate, for that I apologize."), and they wrapped up the exchange on good terms.

[1] https://chaos.social/@North/115602441875664452