MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2026-01-14 16:08:37+00:00
I don't know whether you've noticed, but being armed is simply giving the Federales more reasons to kill you first. The woman shot in Minneapolis was shot on the pretext of using her car as a weapon.

How do people really expect this to work? In detail? You show up with an armed militia at a school and the ICE guys just drive on past (and then raid someone else)? Or are they expecting more of an Amerimaidan situation? Jan 6th situation?
by alwillis | 2026-01-14 16:08:53+00:00
> The existence of the subscription price tag on them is evidence against what you're claiming.

I disagree. Apple doesn’t need the money, but they also know consumers don’t value free apps the same way they do for pay apps.

It also plays into people’s desire for something better than what everyone has. Everyone gets Numbers, Pages and Keynote for free, but if you subscribe, you get bonus content and features.

So while Apple doesn’t need this to be a blockbuster product, they’re not going to leave money on the table either.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-14 16:09:10+00:00
While this is a decision-making problem, it is also an engineering incompetence problem. No matter what pointy haired boss is yelling about "priorities" ultimately software developers are the ones writing the code, and are responsible for how awful it is.

When it comes to priorities about what to write and what to focus on, the buck stops at management and leadership. When it comes to the actual quality of the software written, the buck stops at the developer. Blame can be shared.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-14 16:09:25+00:00
> "They're gonna take my guns away!" Yet that never happens

That never happens because the parties vested in that right resist every single time. Effectively. With real numbers. Not media campaigns or propaganda social media mechanisms. Largely without protesting, with no need to get into degrees of legality in doing so.

You don’t get to say “that never happens” as if it isn’t the explicit goal of an entire political party. You get to realize “we don’t let that happen”.

As to current events… the mass deportation guy won elections, why is it you expect armed resistance to federal officers carrying out the exact thing the majority of voters wanted?

You can disagree on anything you like, but, I find the “why aren’t people shooting federal officers who are enforcing immigration law!?” posts to be extreme affirmations of echo chamber. If you don’t like it, get your reps to change the laws, not suggest murdering people who you don’t like.
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-14 16:09:27+00:00
Thanks for the answer. I know many are scared off by the closed bootloader of the teensy (though I feel it's a fair thing to do). The lack of on-chip debugging is another shortcoming the Teensys have.

I've been working on an audio project recently, and the the ease of use and feature set that TeensyAudio has is incredible.

Teensy 4 does currently fill a pretty unique niche in terms of processing power though. There isn't much like it outside of professional eval boards.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-14 16:09:51+00:00
People aren't mind readers.

It's not "handholding". And it's not about a "resources" mentality or wanting to "make it rain".

The best engineers can have wildly different and incompatible communication styles at first. Nobody is wrong, just different.

I don't know what to tell you, except that your approach is basically wishful thinking, in my experience.

And things like standups and retrospectives are where your employees come together as a team.
by bagacrap | 2026-01-14 16:10:10+00:00
I think this is an opportunity for that bell curve/enlightenment meme. Of course as you get a little past junior, you often get hung up on the best way of doing things without worrying about best being the enemy of good enough. But truly senior devs know the difference. And those are the ones that by and large still think LLMs are bad at generating code where quality (reliability, sustainability, security, etc) matters. Everyone admits that LLMs are good for low stakes code.
by nativeforks | 2026-01-14 16:10:19+00:00
Yep, I’m aware that many FOSS projects use in-app payments, but for MBCompass, I want to keep it free on every platform, regardless of the audience. Without funding or community contributions, it’s hard to maintain a FOSS project with meaningful features and improvements, rather than just vague “bug fixes/version bumps.”

As a FOSS advocate, I started this project as a community contribution to address the gap between user needs and available apps.

I can maintain it long-term without major contributions, but support really helps (especially maintaining in different apps stores). I’m planning a non-intrusive in-app prompt to remind users about donations something subtle, because many users forget once they start using the app, rather than only seeing the donation info in the README.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-01-14 16:10:24+00:00
Some international law is "voluntary", some is not. You cannot for example commit a genocide by opting out of the law.

And yes, of course, it can sometimes be hard to enforce international law, just like it can be very hard to enforce national laws. It is illegal to murder people in most countries, yet people murder each other and some people get away with it.
Show HN: A simple CLI for running ML jobs (or any jobs) with cloud compute
by iwantmyhatback | 2026-01-14 16:10:39+00:00
For my ML projects, I wanted a way to run jobs with cloud compute that was as simple as running commands locally. I also wanted it to be language agnostic (I work with Python and Julia), and easy to string together jobs, run in different environments, into ad hoc pipelines. Finally, I wanted it to be cloud provider independent.

So I created o-o, a CLI for easily running jobs on GCP and Scaleway (more cloud providers to come) and would appreciate any and all feedback. Please check it out:

homepage: https://o-o.tools/

source | issues | mailing-list: https://sr.ht/~ootools/oocli/
by Incipient | 2026-01-14 16:10:48+00:00
I think the best outcome would really be the US' current allies are just waiting until trump goes and he doesn't break too much and the new person goes back to a more stable posture.

It's probably a more realistic outcome however is that no one really trusts the US any more and trump has just hastened the decline as the EU looks inward more, and other areas move more quickly to get support from china.
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-14 16:10:52+00:00
> I feel like Github actions should just be a call to some bash or python file. Bash has its issues so I prefer python

...and that's how it is supposed to be used. The YAML file is mainly there for defining the runtime environment (e.g. the operating system or docker image to run in), and to describe the job dependency tree. The actual actions to execute should be delegated to scripts outside the GH YAML.
by tagraves | 2026-01-14 16:11:18+00:00
This is one of the big problems we solved with the RWX CI platform (RWX.com). You can use ‘rwx run’ and it automatically syncs your local changes, so no need to push — and with our automated caching, steps like setting up the environment cache hit so you don’t have to execute the same stuff over and over again while writing your workflow. Plus with our API or MCP server you can get the results directly in your terminal so no need to open the UI at all unless you want to do some in-depth spelunking.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-14 16:11:35+00:00
Business prices should be figure 6 in my link, while the difference is a lot smaller, Lithuania is definitely one of the cheaper countries, beating the EU average slightly.

> As per my response to the initial comment - there is no way a datacentre in Europe is paying 30c/kWh

Hetzner prices it at 33c/wh as of last year I believe, previously it was 40c (after the pipeline was destroyed)

But Germany is pretty much in the 3 most expensive countries wrt electricity cost in the EU - both for consumers and commercial pricing
by HNisCIS | 2026-01-14 16:12:25+00:00
I understand what you're saying, but we as a society need to have some sort of baseline above the law and order view of the world. I know a lot of people are either too stupid or too tied up in the propaganda machine but we DEEPLY need to agree on some sort of universal ethical standards as a country or we will die.

We used to have at least vague concepts like that but the admin has eroded that in the pursuit of "anything goes" political maneuvering.
by alexandre_m | 2026-01-14 16:13:17+00:00
[1] essentially says that there is no value for people who got infected by SARS CoV-2 to get vaccinated:

"our findings suggest that once an individual has fully recovered from initial infection, prior SARS CoV-2 infection protects against subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection and its related negative outcomes. Moreover, the level of effectiveness seemed similar in both the recovered and fully vaccinated cohorts. With a paucity of vaccine doses, this should be one of several aspects that should be considered when deciding whether or not to prioritize vaccination of previously infected adults."
by jatora | 2026-01-14 16:13:26+00:00
that's an interesting point. i wonder if the vast swaths of S tier media in the future will have the reverse effect of diminishing the drive for it all completely (regardless of the source). Triggering the descent for us all down to bedrock sources of animalistic enjoyment and contentment. Things like socializing... or hunting and gathering and building your little tribal village in the forest, or just perpetually living in a womb lol.
by no-dr-onboard | 2026-01-14 16:13:54+00:00
> sparkfun chose to publish a vague public accusation. once you do that, speculation is inevitable.

Ok sure, but the explanation provided strikes me as equally vague. I don't think anyone who isn't familiar with this situation has any idea what the hell is going on between these two orgs tbh.

If a dispassionate observer can't figure out situation without significant effort, then it's very easy to handwave this away as unimportant.

Personally I'd very much hate for that to happen here if something truly noteworthy happened.
by gvedem | 2026-01-14 16:14:22+00:00
This would only be true if ICE cared to obey the law, which they do not. They are not observing even the most basic facsimile of due process or probable cause. Protesting them is being treated as grounds for brutalization or arrest. They are actively flaunting their contempt for the Constitution while "conservatives" cheer from the sidelines.
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-14 16:14:40+00:00
I actually have a small lot of the Teensy boards for a USB hardware hacking project I was running for a while. For example, I used them to emulate a USB keyboard to automatically press 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Path of Exile over and over to avoid wrist strain during a time in that game where every player needed to constantly hit those keys in a loop to play at decently high levels.

These boards were an endless nightmare to work with. I had to cycle through many different USB controllers and it was really more like voodoo. I tried buying a few boards from different suppliers and every board had the same voodoo so I gave up and moved on.

I ended up getting ATtiny85 to work for what I wanted which sucked too, but at least it worked and was a fraction of the price so I could actually send them to all my friends.
by Quarondeau | 2026-01-14 16:14:54+00:00
Wouldn't the proverbial reasonable person jump out of the way of a vehicle that's already nearly on the verge of colliding with them? Pulling out a gun seems to be the less instinctual thing to do in such a situation.

I also wonder if they'll ever find out who screamed "F*ing B*tch" at her in that moment.
by qwertfisch | 2026-01-14 16:14:57+00:00
As with many languages that compile to a VM, I always ask myself: that’s all nice, but how do I interact with anything OUTSIDE of my program?

Can I do networking? Can I do system calls to my OS? Display graphics and sound? Can I import a C library that will do all that and call its functions? And if so, how? I just can’t see it from any documentation. Yes, I can call functions from other BEAM-based languages, but then I’m going in circles.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 16:14:58+00:00
Depends region to region.

Once outside Tier 1 cities, density significantly reduces. Additionally, the Indian consumer is aspirational, and if forced to purchase a new vehicle would prefer a used car over a new 2-wheeler.

Anecdotally, in my ancestral village, my relatives preferred buying a used Maruti Suzuki for 1 Lakh (roughly $1k) instead of spending the equivalent amount on a new bike.

In the Vietnamese side of my family, everyone is ignoring the recent diktat to upgrade to electronic motorbikes for the same reason (why spend almost a year's income to purchase a vehicle when inflation for daily staples has been high)

I feel there is an opportunity for EV cars, but they face stiff competition from Kei/900-1100cc cars that cost around $4k-8k.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 16:15:12+00:00
Does it really matter if its a global install of uv or not especially on Github Actions

Also if this still bothers you, nothing stops you from removing the first x lines of code and having it in another .py file if this feels obnoxious to you

> Oh, and later the author suggests the script modify itself after running. What the fuck. Absolutely unacceptable way to deploy software.

Regarding author suggest its removes itself its because it does still feel clutterish but there is virtually 0 overhead in using/having it still be if you are already using uv or want to use uv

Oh also, (I am not the Author) but I have played extensively with UV and I feel like the script can definitely be changed to install it locally rather than globally.

They themselves mention it as #overkill on their website but even then it is better than whatever github action is
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-14 16:15:36+00:00
It's stupider than any notion of the deep state. It's rich billionaire assholes like Ronald Lauder that pushed stuff like the annexation of Greenland because they money-induced rotting brains and have never encountered pushback for anything in their lives. And if there's anything Trump loves more than gaudy fake gold, it's trying to be one of the big shots.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-14 16:15:50+00:00
yeah this was my first thought too.

they don't want to use AI cuz they don't want anyone else using AI on their shit.

GW is publicly traded company that aggressively chases copyright issues and 3rd party 3d-printed minis, and it's hard to make that stick if you're also using the same stuff.

protecting your art means protecting the art of everyone, and in that sense is the goal. if/when it becomes more profitable not to then I'd imagine GW changes tack immediately...
by parineum | 2026-01-14 16:15:50+00:00
> People have been stealing and killing other people as many years if not longer. That doesn't mean you cannot do a bit of legislation and obtain some positive results against that.

This thread is/was about prohibition of smoking. I was making the point that tobacco/nicotine is a drug that has positive psychoactive effects, that's why people use it.

People seem to have this misconception that smoking is just some thing tobacco companies tricked people into doing and so prohibition would work. It wouldn't. We can already see in places where the prices of cigarettes create a nearly de-facto ban that it creates black markets and we know that black markets create crime.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-14 16:15:53+00:00
>Just a few years ago, their own supporters were smugly saying that standing up to the government is a fantasy for paranoid whackjobs.

One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

Yeah, it is a fantasy. Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.
by toomanyrichies | 2026-01-14 16:15:58+00:00
His name was Keith Porter. [1]

Relatedly, here's a fuller list of recent shootings by immigration agents. [2]

1. https://www.foxla.com/news/ice-shooting-keith-porter-northri...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immi...
by njovin | 2026-01-14 16:16:18+00:00
I don't know if it's fair to say we're chilling - there have been fairly organized (although admittedly not very large) protests around the nation related to the killing of Nicole Renee Good. I live in southern California and there were at least 6 within easy driving distance this past weekend.

Whenever ICE goes into a new city, they're meeting more and more community resistance. The protestors have mostly been very smart about remaining civil, which continues making ICE look worse and worse as they tear gas and arrest peaceful protestors.

The supreme court has ruled (somewhat surprisingly) that Trump can't deploy the National Guard into cities any longer.

Trump's approval rating has continued steadily declining since he took office, and the midterms are shaping up to be a bloodbath.

I'm mid-40s and this is the best-organized and most successful demonstration movement I've witnessed in my lifetime. Occupy got close, but that felt like something that the more 'extreme' ones were actively participating in, with more passive support from the populace. Now it feels like everyone is getting directly involved in one way or another.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-14 16:16:34+00:00
They can and do make whatever they want illegal, but you're correct not to make a moral claim about it. I'm not making a moral claim, either, but a pragmatic one.

At the same time, it's entirely legitimate to look at a set of laws and think "fuck that". Just because you're correct that bad things might happen to folks doesn't mean I have to be happy with it.

At the end of the day, having bad laws doesn't make the rest of us cower in fear.

Rather, those laws help us understand that the folks protected by those laws (and the systems that they are using to harm us) neither have our interests in mind nor have any legitimate claim to authority.

So while your "bad things will happen if I break the law" is maybe pragmatic, consider a similar pragmatic point:

"writing laws that folks feel justified in breaking might lead to shifts in how legitimate people see that government".
by catlifeonmars | 2026-01-14 16:16:34+00:00
I find that shell scripting has a sharp cliff. I agree with the sentiment that most things are over engineered. However it’s really easy to go from a simple shell script running a few commands to something significantly more complex just to do something seemingly simple, like parse a semantic version, make an api call and check the status code etc, etc.

The other problem with shell scripting on things like GHA is that it’s really easy to introduce security vulnerabilities by e.g forgetting to quote your variables and letting an uncontrolled input through.

There’s no middle ground between bash and python and a lot of functionality lives in that space.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-14 16:16:37+00:00
(also a Brit)

Biden was no longer a candidate even by the time the last election happened.

Look to Mamdani. Note that the real election there was in the primary. If you squint a bit, the US electoral system looks like the French one. There's two rounds of voting, and in the first one you get to pick who is the crook that will be put up against the fascist in the final round.

It's going to be boring and time consuming, but people have to use the levers they do have available to do internal Democrat party politics if they want to improve the situation.
by reducesuffering | 2026-01-14 16:16:42+00:00
If you're talking age, the US just had a 60 year old run in the last election and the party that complained to no end about the elderly running for office still voted for the 80 year old. Next election, the other frontrunner is currently 58.
We had a strong 38 year old candidate in 2020 but the South collectively still doesn't like gay people enough to have him win the primary.
by ge96 | 2026-01-14 16:16:51+00:00
Makes me think if you can take maggots and make it look like steak would people eat it knowing what it used to be... it's like that video on YouTube of kids watching a guy blend random chicken parts and asking if they'd eat it, then he turns it into a chicken nugget and asks again, all the kids raise their hands.

It's the Snowpiercer food bar
by cjs_ac | 2026-01-14 16:16:52+00:00
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...

2. Modern societies are really complex, and a great deal of information-processing work is required to keep them functioning. Authoritarian governments maintain control by concentrating power, which means there are too few people available to make decisions about the behaviour of the system. A good example is the centrally-planned economy of the Soviet Union, which was outperformed by 'the invisible hand of the market', which is really a metaphor for the collective decisions of all participants in market economies. Consequently, authoritarian governments always collapse in the end. It's interesting to note, however, that the Soviet Union and the fascist or quasi-fascist governments in Spain and Portugal lasted much longer than Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy, because they built up some institutions that resulted in less concentration of power.
by ajross | 2026-01-14 16:17:16+00:00
> hardware support, like 600Mhz clock, CAN, FPU, RTC, other hardware peripherals which the RP2350 lacks

FWIW, those are all NXP-provided features on the chip, not something Sparkfun has any particular connection with. There are other iMX devices on the market, just not in this form factor. And there are other vendors with SoCs offering similar performance.

Really one of the biggest problems in this market is that everyone is putting the abstractions in the wrong place. We've all collectively decided that this stuff is scary and we need comforting IDEs and hardware uniformity to deal with it.

But... portable software and frameworks are hardly new ideas. Come over to Zephyr and see all the stuff you can run on boards from basically everyone, including NXP.

There's a lot more great hardware for your project than just Teensy, so stop locking yourself in.