MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-13 17:37:41+00:00
One thing that is often missed in this narrative is that the UK has a voting system which was explicitly designed to counteract this issue reaching definitive results with the minimum amount of consensus.

I agree with you but I think this idea of being "fair" is something that is said but no-one actually believes in. Most recent government is one of the most extreme examples of this: do things that annoys everyone, say you are just being "fair" because everyone is annoyed...it doesn't make sense.

To say this another way, there is genuinely an easier option: stop doing things that people do not want.
by data-ottawa | 2026-01-13 17:38:22+00:00
I put up with Numbers awful pivot table mechanics (why do they have to be manually updated?) because it genuinely allows you to create nice information displays with your tables.

I have a numbers file for my personal finances and it is so nice having some tables at the top with mortgage info and then details below. It makes running what-ifs super easy. Charts in excel and GSheets just kinda float over your content awkwardly.
by buildsjets | 2026-01-13 17:39:04+00:00
On January 1 1999 the USA switched from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for reporting mortality. (ICD-10 was not used for non-fatal clinical coding until 2015.) And as with all new things, morticians likely stuck with the more generic codes from ICD-9 and gradually started using some of the more specific iCD-10 codes over time. ICD-10 has 55,000 different codes compared to 17,000 codes available in ICD-9.

Could the gradual adoption of a more granular coding system in 1999 explain the increase in reported deaths due to falling that starts in 2000?
by jancsika | 2026-01-13 17:39:06+00:00
> Nothing had changed and the country wasn't "saved".

Let's be precise and remove those scare quotes.

In 2015/2016 Trump was literally talking about saving U.S. critical infrastructure:

1. Promising to fulfill a trillion dollar U.S. infrastructure campaign pledge to repair crumbling infrastructure[1]

2. Putting Daniel Slane on the transition team to start the process to draft said trillion dollar infrastructure bill[2]

By 2017 that plan was tabled.

If anyone can find it, I'd love to see Slane's powerpoint and cross-reference his 50 critical projects against what ended up making it into Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OafCPy7K05k

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdvJSGc14xA

Edit: clarifications
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-13 17:39:16+00:00
There was some research[1] that strongly suggested that varied use makes them last much longer than the steady use that most battery tests do. That is, bursts of high-current draw followed by moderate draw etc vs the constant current load typically used when evaluating battery performance. From the paper:

Specifically, for the same average current and voltage window, varying the dynamic discharge profile led to an increase of up to 38% in equivalent full cycles at end of life.

This was unexpected, hence explains why they fared better than predicted.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01675-8 Dynamic cycling enhances battery lifetime (open access)
by teh64 | 2026-01-13 17:39:43+00:00
In 2019 [0] they only had 2.5 million of total expenses, of which 75% was pycon. So even if everything else was on "outreach" (it was not), that would only be $642,500, which is not "several million a year".

In 2020 [1] 48.1% went to "Packaging Work Group/Infrastructure/Other" (I assume because in person pycon was canceled).

I also checked 2021 [2], which was 32.7% pycon and 31.2% pip etc...

Also 2022 [3], 57.8% pycon, 26.6% Packaging Work Group...

In 2023 [4], 60.5% pycon, and Packaging Work Group expenses decreased to 9.6% because of fastly now provides the bandwidth/hosting: "We are grateful to Fastly for making the online services that the PSF provides possible, so that we can
invest time and resources into advancing our infrastructure to better meet community wants and needs."

So your assertion seems to have never been true.

[0] https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2019/

[1] https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2020/

[2] https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2021/

[3] https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2022/

[4] https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2023/
by xrd | 2026-01-13 17:39:47+00:00
When I first started working in tech 25+ years ago, I really enjoyed Dilbert. It was ubiquitous in my circles and seemed accurate.

Then, I had my own startup, and as a manager of people, had to come to terms with a bunch of personality defects I brought in that I was blind to. Those blind spots really made me a bad manager. I'm grateful I got to learn about myself in that way.

But, then I started to view Dilbert differently. It felt like only some of the characters deserved empathy. I bet Scott Adams would hate that I used that word to critique his comics.

Is it just me? I always felt like half of the people were stupid no matter what the situation. Did I miss a more complex part of Dilbert?

I haven't been able to separate who Scott Adams was, or more specifically, the racist things he said, from his cultural commentary, no matter what insights there are. And, I can't admire "4d chess" because it feels like it is bragging that you can predict the winner if you throw an alligator and Stephen J Hawking into a pen together.
by handsclean | 2026-01-13 17:39:54+00:00
Your experience is starkly different than mine. Are you sure you aren’t thinking of Pixelmator, Pixelmator Pro’s much more toy-like predecessor from ~10 years ago?

My experience is that while there’s a feature and community gap for both Pixelmator Pro and Affinity, Affinity just tried to copy Photoshop, positioning it as a worse but cheaper Photoshop, while Pixelmator Pro feels like an attempt to make a better photo editor, losing some familiarity points but also being tangibly better than Photoshop at most use cases it can handle, which is many. It’s also an excellent macOS citizen. Between those two factors, it seems much more up Apple’s alley.
by fallingfrog | 2026-01-13 17:40:18+00:00
The line between "falling" and "not falling" is extremely blurry for children- they will often do things like jump around, tuck and roll on the ground, hop like frogs and then scamper up the stairs on all fours and then flop down and roll around. Does that constitute a fall? Who knows. When i was young I remember reading on a form at a doctor's office "have you fallen in the last year?" And finding that an extremely humorous question. "Have you fallen in the last 5 minutes" would have been a more meaningful one but still very silly.

Even now at my age (40's) this fall I was crowd surfing at a car seat headrest concert in a black dress, and when I got to the front I was dropped in front of the stage, and then I stood up laughing and walked off to find my friends. Was that a fall? I don't know. Its just not really a question that makes sense when youre physically fit or young.

So yeah, i don't think that's it.
by nerdawson | 2026-01-13 17:40:22+00:00
That seems like quite the leap and will more than likely result in you being escorted off the plane when you reach your destination.

It may well be an inconvenience to you if someone chooses to recline their seat but nobody owes you an explanation. Expecting them to justify themselves to you isn’t a reasonable stance. And given that you don’t know what someone is going through, whether they have a hidden disability, whether they’re in chronic pain, I really wouldn’t advise asking, let alone shouting at them.
by rendall | 2026-01-13 17:40:26+00:00
I think it's a great idea.

In my experience this kind of thing works only with the discipline and will to actually get to it, and that really depends on the project, team and management dynamic.

I've been receiving a "stale issue, closing soon" notification on an open source project every two months for over a year, which I dutifully bump and the issue continues to be studiously ignored. Much respect to that team, but the techno-fix of quarterly reminders are not addressing the core issue of missing will, process or personnel. It's a bit like setting a clock ahead in order to leave on time: the will to be on time is the driver, not the clock.

However, for those teams with the will and process to address old TODOs, seems like a nice reminder. I might use it!
by superkuh | 2026-01-13 17:40:33+00:00
You can because unless you rock the boat you're unlikely to be charged. But according to the FCC original statement, https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-416839A1.pdf

... the import of any foreign made drone parts is also blocked. This includes things like ESCs and flight controllers. Not just items that actually transmit radio signals like camera modules and so are traditionally regulated by the FCC re: import.

The best coverage of the FCCs over-reach attempting to regulate all parts, and then their subsequent very tiny walking of it back is Joshua Bardwell's video: https://youtu.be/Dyr87--SDuc (9m47s)

Almost all the new exceptions are for government users. The only thing relevant to human persons is the back-stepping change that as long as the components of a drone are 60% made in the USA the entire thing can be considered domestic and imported. Or US retail importers can take the risk of saying that a tx'ing camera module has alternate uses, like as a security camera, and try importing it regardless of the ban.

"FCC Updates Covered List to Exempt Certain Drones and Releases FAQs" https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-exempt...
by throw8383833jj | 2026-01-13 17:40:39+00:00
Also, these ultra processed foods set up unrealistic expectations of what "good" food should taste like. years of eating UFP ruins the taste buds. So, once you start eating real foods like whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables (especially if its cooked without truckloads of oil), you think it doesn't taste good when actually the problem is your ruined taste buds.
by techjamie | 2026-01-13 17:40:46+00:00
I imagine that would be one positive effect of endless entertainment being ubiquitous- since people can zone out in front of a screen with any entertainment medium of their choosing, they are less likely to opt for alcohol.

Though interestingly, drunk driving fatalities are rising despite lowering alcohol consumption[1], even discounting the pandemic contriting large jumps up. So of the people that do drink, they're more likely to drive after doing so? It seems like an interesting topic to study.

[1] https://www.safehome.org/resources/dui-statistics/
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-13 17:41:04+00:00
There's a lot of information in a traditional western score that cannot be easily represented in a pianoroll, at least not losslessly.

Considering them as alternate views of the same data model gets problematic when the composer uses the full bag of tricks that score notation allows (notably repeats, but also the problem of representing tuplets correctly when a pianoroll can offer no clues about how to structure them). So for example, the user can create a set of notes in the pianoroll that will never be played correctly by anyone reading the score; the user can create dynamics in the score that cannot be correctly presented in the pianoroll version.

I'm not saying it isn't possible to do an MVC-style system with two different views of the same data model - it clearly is. It's just moving between the two views is not lossless, and moving between the two controllers (i.e. editing) is not equivalent.
by 542354234235 | 2026-01-13 17:41:17+00:00
After Mcviegh, shouldn’t all U-Haul’s be seen as unarmed vehicular large IEDs? A drone isn’t like an artillery shell because an artillery shell is for putting in an artillery gun. A drone is for flying. Just because something can be modified to serve as some sort of weapon, does make it basically a weapon.
by bzmrgonz | 2026-01-13 17:41:20+00:00
I do suspect it is the grounding effect, not bare feet, but walking on bare dirt ground and among trees and plants. The logic would be that whatever causes allergies, say pollen, nature creates the antidote as well, but we have been living in our modern concrete sanitized houses for so long, that we don't expose our noses to nature's chemicals.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-13 17:41:20+00:00
It is. If you're at the mountain, on the right trail, and have the right clothing and equipment for the task.

That's why those tiny steps of scientific and technological progress aren't made by just any randos - they're made by people who happen to be at the right place and time, and equipped correctly to be able to take the step.

The important corollary to this is that you can't generally predict this ahead of time. Someone like Einstein was needed to nail down relativity, but standing there few years earlier, you couldn't have predicted it was Einstein who would make a breakthrough, nor what would that be about. Conversely, if Einstein lived 50 years earlier, he wouldn't have come up with relativity, because necessary prerequisites - knowledge, people, environment - weren't there yet.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-13 17:41:27+00:00
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by MaxGL | 2026-01-13 17:41:29+00:00
In case anyone is familiar with our app [Jumper](https://getjumper.io), we built this exact search functionality, which comes with a Final Cut Pro plugin (aka Workflow Extension). Sharing my thoughts on this announcements with respect to how it affects Jumper, in case anyone cares

While this news is obviously not something to cheer about for us, it's not the first time - Adobe launched their Media Intelligence solution back in last year. While that is great for some, we still have a lot of customers on Premiere for a few reasons:

* Most accurate video search models out there. So far I've tested every other solution I could find with the same footage doing the same searches. The most accurate models in Jumper has always been more accurate, often dramatically better.

* Face detection and person search. In Jumper you can also find all the unique people in your footage, give them names, enabling searches like "John eating a sandwich". The ability to extremely accurately distinguish different people is crucial in many scenarios (e.g. editing reality TV). Trying to find specific people by describing their appearance will be way less accurate and unreliable.

* Integrations and interoperability: when you install Jumper you get a standalone app for macOS and Windows and fully integrated plugins/extensions for FCP, Avid, Premiere, and Resolve. The analysis data that is created and lets you search with Jumper can be shared across computers and NLEs. Meaning you could have one fast computer do the analysis continually / overnight, and use a shared location like a network drive to access the analysis from every editor machine, where in theory you could have every editor use Jumper in a different NLE and operating system, and searching just works.

* Searching using a frame or an image as input is something I'm not sure is possible in this new feature from Apple? In Jumper you search using the current frame from your source footage or timeline (or any image/screenshot), to find similar shots. We have customers using image-to-image search functionality to do conforming work. They tell us it is incredibly effective and time saving for this use-case.

And a final point is that we support older versions of the NLEs. This is not as big of a "selling point" for FCP I think, but it's very common that companies are on older versions of Avid and/or Premiere.

If anyone wants to try Jumper, it's free to download and try at [https://getjumper.io](https://getjumper.io)
To get the more accurate search performance, you can go into the settings tab and change the visual search model to "Most Accurate"

I'm very curious how we will compare against Apple's solution, and we'll be testing once we have the chance. If anyone beats us to it, please come by our [Discord](https://discord.gg/3JFNYAfwSb) and tell us about it!
by RansomStark | 2026-01-13 17:41:31+00:00
That might be true, but the votes (not seats, first past the post, almost guarantees people are represented):
Labour: 9.7M
Conservatives 6.8M
Reform: 4.1M
Liberal Democrats 3.5M

The point clearly stands that had Reform not been a thing, 2014 would have been a conservative landslide.

What we got was a Labour landslide, what we should have got was some coalition.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-13 17:41:31+00:00
FOSS was born because the cost of sharing information rapidly approached nothing. BBS and Usenet were loaded with shared software, simply because it was easy to share and there was incredible demand for it.

FOSS doesn't need the US or 1980s counterculture to succeed. It just needs cheap disk space and someone willing to share their code. The price of storage and internet continues to fall, and I think FOSS will be fine as long as that continues.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-13 17:41:34+00:00
> If journalists had taken a neutral political position and called out wrong doing equally, they'd have at least 2x the paying subscriber base now.

Or they'd have no paying subscriber base because everyone is pissed off at them.

I prefer sources that just report on local happenings (including the activities of our local government) and am fortunate to have at least one that is non-partisan, but I don't think their success is assured, especially in an area that leans far in one specific direction.
by throwaway7783 | 2026-01-13 17:41:35+00:00
I avoid rebase like plague (perhaps because of my early experiences with it). I used to get continuous conflicts for the same commits again and again, and the store and replay kinda helped with it but not always. Merge always worked for me (once I resolve conflicts, thats the end of it). Now I always merge main into my feature branch and then merge it back to main when ready. Does it pollute the history? Maybe, but Ive never looked. It does not matter to our team.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-13 17:41:43+00:00
> Not that I'm steeped in dilbert lore, but wasn't the the main villain was a stupid balding white manager guy?

I'd bet dollars to donuts that (if there is truth at all to him being told what he claims) the superiors making the promotion decisions so that told him he was being passed over because he was a White men were also White men. If he had to justify it, he might say that PHB also became a manager before the wave of political correctness.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-01-13 17:42:06+00:00
I see where you’re coming from. But I’d argue that there’s broad consensus that his bigotry at the end was bad. So in this one moment, when we’ve just learned that he’s died, we can recall the good as well as the bad.

It is shameful to have those views. But perhaps we can bring it up tomorrow rather than right this minute.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-13 17:42:12+00:00
Just government power? Corporate media is no less afflicted by this problem. Small-time journalism is just as capable of being tendentious. Advertising also shapes coverage, as subscriptions and reader purchases never cover operating expenses.

In any case, this is not a problem to be solved. I do think the media should stop concealing or misrepresenting their political leanings. They will always be there. Everyone has a POV. You might as well openly advertise what that POV is. Then it is up to readers and viewers to draw from multiple POVs (which they might not do, but that's just life).
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-13 17:42:32+00:00
> the zeitgeist is taking people’s opposing views online and distorting them, removing context, to outrage our own audience and align it to our cause.

This is 100% the case, with very infamous baddies, but people don't want to acknowledge it. It's a sad reality of this always on media we ingest. No idea what can be done, other than slowly ignoring more and more algorithmic stuff, and choose your own adventures based on content providers you have known for a long time, and still have their backbone intact.
by epistasis | 2026-01-13 17:42:36+00:00
Residential solar with batteries greatly aids the grid and reduces costs for the entire system.

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

Lithium and sodium, the two most promising battery metals, are not usually mined, though in Australia I hear there is mining. It's more of a brine process. All across the US, frackers are finding that all that water they are pulling out is a fairly rich lithium brine.

The amount of metal needed for 2 weeks of batteries is pretty trivial compared to the system we've built for extracting fossil fuels, and iron, etc. The bigger demands for electrification are acutally copper! Gotta wire everything....

Grid batteries on the GWh scale make a ton of sense financially and environmentally, and are revolutionizing the grid. Never before has the grid had a way to store electricity on a grand scale, which changes the entire nature of the beast. It's was one of the only massive systems we had where there wasn't buffering!

With storage, we can alleviate congested transmission without super costly transmission upgrades. On exist lines, we can the usage massively, reducing costs, because now we can buffer across time to shave off the peak demand.

Batteries are easy to build, environmentally friendly, and like a swiss army knife in their number of applications. We will be producing TWh of batteries a year in modern economies, and they last ~20 years, meaning that for the foreseeable economic growth in the coming decades, we'll easily have a peta-watthour of battery storage in use at a time.
by apitman | 2026-01-13 17:42:40+00:00
What I love about this is the reduction in complexity compared to how something like this would typically be built today.

If I were to build a synth a year ago I probably would have used Rust compiled to WASM and running in the browser. This thing has a lot of the same functionality, but you have about -30 million lines of code for the OS, -30MLOC for the browser, and another -30MLOC for Rust/LLVM.

And that doesn't even get in to the cost of materials or power savings.

Obviously it's not apples to apples but it really makes me wonder how much of that stack we need for most programs.
by CrimsonCape | 2026-01-13 17:43:16+00:00
Just looking at the injection molded shell of my Mavic Mini makes me cringe when thinking about the startup cost. It's the plastic shell; not the motors, nor the circuitry, nor the optical parts...and to think you could build that in the USA is laughable. DJI releases 2-3 models every 2-3 years... if you could even find a company in the USA machining the steel molds at that frequency (i don't think it exists) how are you going to afford the bill?
by tetha | 2026-01-13 17:43:28+00:00
And now that I've read that the second time, this is very close to various kinds of therapy.

For example, anxiety exists and sometimes occurs, and it means parts of me are trying to be very careful and precise about something. This can be a problem at times if it overcomes you, but it can also be leveraged into a strength once you figure why it's flaring up at the moment.

Another example, travel used to be a nuisance, but now I've setup and continue refining some packing and preparation checklists for trips of varying length. Now it's a big no-brainer to be well-prepared for a short work-trip and I'm usually very calm about it.