MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exceptione | 2026-01-13 18:06:35+00:00
> You are conflating two things here - business models and sustainable operations.
> Even NGOs can be said to have "business models"

The narrative force is strong here. I will let you free. A public service doesn't need a business model. They don't do business. Anyone dealing with a budget isn't automatically a business.

The principle of a public service is that it focuses on its service, given its budget constraints. Completely different from a business, they don't have a model in common.

> Someone needs to pay for this, and ideally it would be a self sustaining manner

Yeag, you end up with a niche. Too small to be relevant to function as the Fourth Estate. These things exist already. Your average citizen isn't going to pay for it. You are basically proposing Fox News, that is the consequence. It is about the whole of society that needs to be informed.

Government funding allows public services to be independent. This is a matter of judicial oversight. "But government bad, market good". It will take a generation of detoxing from the cultural memes and sponsored narratives, to reverse decades of cultural programming.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-01-13 18:06:36+00:00
Even easier is to do it in quart mason jars imo after heating the milk to 190f for 30 mins in a pot and allowing to cool to 110f before seeding with bacteria. No need to strain with cheesecloth after incubation, just pour out off the top if desired. 12hrs incubation seems to work best for me. Going from frozen definitely needs 12hr as the bacteria will be slower starting than unfrozen source. You can get away with merely some scrapings off a yogurt ice cube as sufficient for seeding. Seems it can keep for a lot longer than 6 months in freezer fwiw; my freezeback is probably over two years old and still just as viable.
by iso1631 | 2026-01-13 18:06:36+00:00
If you are selling a house you have to list on rightmove. You're not going to choose to list on fewer sites. The question then comes if you're selling, why list anywhere else.

As a buyer it's terrible - I want to be able to see size of property (from the EPC, as I trust that more than the estate agent), the sale history, the EPC data, the council tax band, the map of the plot.

I can find that all out manually by hunting for the real address and going from there, but it should be there directly (and filterable)

As a seller you're forced to use rightmove as that's where all the buyers are

As a buyer you're forced to use rightmove as that's where all the sellers are

As a competitor how can you argue to an estate agent they should spend money with you as well as rightmove
by allenu | 2026-01-13 18:06:36+00:00
That brings back memories. They were definitely popular. In the early 2000s, I worked at a small company and one coworker had a bunch of Dilbert strips all over one of her cubicle walls. It wasn't an insane amount, but her cube was on the way to the break room, so it was visible to everyone passing by. Apparently the owners of the company did not like that and had her take them down.
by mempko | 2026-01-13 18:06:49+00:00
In any period of history, there are people who know things are wrong and are vocal about it. There are artists prior to the Civil Rights Era that were not bigots. The problem you have is the artists that were celebrated AT THAT TIME which we know about were also those accepted by the status quo which allowed them to be known.

People knew slavery was wrong when slavery was happening. People knew child labor was wrong when child labor was happening. People knew segregation was wrong when segregation was happening. Those people were not rewarded by society.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-13 18:06:57+00:00
In the modern era it's usually said because the dead person cannot defend himself.

Now, Adams had plenty of opportunities to defend/explain his comments on certain issues, and he did not satisfy many people with those or perhaps dug himself in deeper (I myself really only know him from Dilbert in the 1990s, and am only superficially aware of anything controversial he did/said outside of that).

But I don't see anyone saying anything about him now that was not being said when he was alive.
by Jblx2 | 2026-01-13 18:07:12+00:00
>emotions as things that flow from a source, and need to be expressed

Yes, this does seem to be the assumption that many are (uncritically?) making. I wonder where this idea comes from. Anyone know the provenance of this? Has this concept been handed down from antiquity? Or Jung or Freud or ? Or is this something relatively modern?
by nedbat | 2026-01-13 18:07:14+00:00
> Also sponserships like "Pallets group ...

Those are "fiscal sponsorships" meaning the PSF holds money for other organizations. The PSF is not funding Pallets (or Boston Python or North Bay Python, etc, etc). They accept money earmarked for those organizations and provide administrative support. Details: https://www.python.org/psf/fiscal-sponsorees/
by shimman | 2026-01-13 18:07:16+00:00
That's not purging at all, words have meaning. If you grep my comment you might be encountering a massive bug if you found the word purge.

You can still stream all of Crystal Castles songs on every platform, you can still buy their music, their albums still have hundreds of seeders on trackers. Just as I'm sure you can buy your Dilbert books.

Telling people to maybe look up to better humans, which it needs to be stated have always existed and aren't a modern invention, should be encouraged.

One of the other threads in here an OP states that we should use this moment to reflect and do better in our own lives, what is wrong with this viewpoint?

We've seen countless examples of people getting sucked into social media holes and I've yet to encounter a single case where this has ever led to healthy outcomes.
by riazrizvi | 2026-01-13 18:07:20+00:00
Elements of society slowly wise up to how they are being manipulated, as they are increasingly exposed to it. Now with modern AI the online manipulation tactics are getting worse. So as we find ourselves in that pool of ppl who see what is happening, we just stop using those platforms, and increasingly trust more human-human contact or long form video where people have a chance to state their positions.

Perhaps?
by ericmcer | 2026-01-13 18:07:24+00:00
Influencers as the future of culture is not great. Hollywood had a ton of issues but it at least had some... class? If you watch an interview with Mr. Beast or other famous influencers they are concerningly ignorant, have little self-awareness and a child-like approach to reality. It makes total sense given these are teenagers who were lauded with fame for entertaining other teenagers on social media.

I watched the Mr. Beast episode of David Letterman's show, and I had no expectations but figured he must have some charisma as the most watched youtube person. He was unable to explain basic concepts, had no self-awareness, and generally seemed detached from any sort of reality. It was shocking to think that is who is shaping young peoples minds.
by rpcope1 | 2026-01-13 18:07:38+00:00
Reading through the notice from the FCC, it sure feels like they've also banned a lot of the critical components that go into line of sight RC airplanes. It really sucks, I kind of wonder if this won't crush the hobby and cause a lot vendors like Horizon or Hobby King to go under if they can't bring in planes or parts. Maybe they think someone is going to do a terrorism with their foamie Crack Yak or Turbo Timber..
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-13 18:08:19+00:00
It's a meaningful distinction because adaptation has the potential to introduce novel mechanisms while plasticity doesn't. So if you mistook one for the other, you might assume that a given crop will continue to adapt to a warming climate when what's actually happening is that it's approaching the bounds of its plasticity and yet another degree of warming will cause it to fail.

You could also make bad assumptions related to rates. One might assume that adaptation will occur within some time window when actually they're extrapolating based on plasticity.

Sure, plasticity and its limits are themselves the result of natural selection, but there are still experiments you can do to distinguish the two (e.g. does the change show up in the genome versus the transcriptome or the proteome?). I guess I'm just uncertain about how useful it is to split hairs beyond a certain point. Like, you could say that everything is caused by the big bang, case closed, but that's not going to affect any subsequent decisions that people might make.
by tencentshill | 2026-01-13 18:08:20+00:00
Good job being skeptical, it's a good first instinct to have with any media. However, reading the actual article is a good choice as well.

- They link to several of the accounts (now suspended) in the article.
- The geolocation was easily spoofed with a VPN, as stated in the article.
- They never claim these account have any significant standing, only that they have "thousands of followers", likely in aggregate.

The news here is that they were previously known to be Iranian-linked. This blackout is further evidence, because they all stopped posting when Iran went offline.
by mooglevich | 2026-01-13 18:08:33+00:00
Dilbert was great, and one of my favorite comics for a long long time. But yeah. Adams turned out to be kinda a jerk, at best. Of late, I've kinda concluded that no single piece of art or single artist is so great that I can't live a full life without it, regardless of how much I love said work or artist. I think individuals should have the right to read and enjoy Dilbert, but I also think if you don't like him and can't let that go, don't give your limited time and attention to the comic. There are lots of other great comics out there!
by tdb7893 | 2026-01-13 18:08:43+00:00
Most of the scientists and engineers I know are on different visas. The US has gained a ton from being largely the cultural center of the world so it's good that there's a visa to take in cultural figures (even if I don't personally connect with influencer culture). As social media is new and fairly spread out, especially compared to traditional recipients like models and actors, it seems really unsurprising they are a ton of these now. I would say the problem is less we are taking in influencers and more we aren't accepting other people.
by appplication | 2026-01-13 18:09:09+00:00
Intent is of course tricky to prove, but there is overwhelming evidence that’s Chinese government views the role of Chinese companies in the consumer electronics supply chain as a strategic, exploitable asset.

> Huawei has a history of IP theft and security incidents related to backdoors and malware going back nearly 20 years.

> ZTE has been accused of including unusual backdoors in some products and was caught selling equipment containing U.S. technology
to Iran and North Korea, in violation of trade agreements. … Security researchers, however, noted that the backdoors were “highly unusual” and appeared intentional because they were supporting software updates.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/112475/documents/...
by rtaylorgarlock | 2026-01-13 18:09:28+00:00
I've struggled a bit on this: LinkedIn's positivity echo chamber vs. the negativity-rewarding dunk culture here. No greater power exists on HN than critical thinking using techno-logic in a negative direction, revenue and growth be damned.

Opencode don't have to maintain Zen for so cheaply. I don't have to say anything positive nor encouraging, just like I don't have to sh!t on youtuber 'maintainers' to promise incredible open source efforts which do more to prove they should stick to videos rather than dev. Idk. Not exactly encouraging me to comment at effing all if any positivity or encouragement is responded with the usual "hm idk coach better check yoself"
ya honestly I think i know exactly what to do
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-13 18:09:38+00:00
I just wanted to point out that while Texas is completely disconnected, the regional grids are still only partially connected, but I guess this is only relevant for the west where areas of sparse population densities make strong connections very difficult. This is relevant when someone complains about EVs on the west coast using coal powered electricity rather than hydro and renewables that makes up much of the west coast's energy mix. Technically kind of true since Utah is connected via socal (they are changing this to a renewable link though), but not really since the other connections are pretty small.
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-13 18:10:04+00:00
>> You don’t choose family

> Maybe it's because of my upbringing, and moving away from home when I was about 15, but why not?

I'm sorry you had that experience.

There are very good reasons to leave / avoid family. I have an extended family and I've seen it all: One cousin recently had to kick her husband out for being an alcoholic; a different cousin was kicked out for being an alcoholic and met his 2nd wife in AA. Fortunately, my ultra-conservative aunt and uncle tolerate their transgender grandchild, but it creates a lot of friction between them and my cousin (transgender child's parent).

For most of us, our families are a positive experience. As we get older, we also learn that families are an exercise in learning to accept people as they are, and not as we wish they would be. We just can't go through life changing our people whenever they don't live up to what we want them to be.

As you get older, please try to find people who you can love unconditionally until you die.
by lep_qq | 2026-01-13 18:10:54+00:00
This resonates. We run a similar setup (managed K8s + managed DBs) and hit a comparable issue last year with a cloud provider's CNI update that broke pod-to-service networking for 6 hours.
The irony is that "managed" services often abstract away the problems you can fix (config, scaling, backups) while exposing you to problems you can't fix (vendor infrastructure bugs, dependency conflicts between their managed components).
What helped us:

Redundancy across failure domains: We now run critical stateful workloads with connection pooling that can failover between private and public endpoints. Yes, it's more complexity, but it's complexity we control.
Synthetic monitoring for managed services: We probe not just our app, but also the managed service endpoints from multiple network paths. Catches these "infrastructure layer" failures faster.
Backup connectivity paths: For managed DBs, we keep both private VPC and public (firewalled) endpoints configured. If one breaks, we can switch in minutes via config.

The DaemonSet workaround is... alarming. It's essentially asking you to run production-critical infrastructure code from an untrusted source because their managed platform has a known bug with no ETA.
Your point about trading failure modes is spot on. Managed services are still worth it for small teams, but the value prop is "fewer incidents" not "no incidents," and when they do happen, your MTTR is now bounded by vendor response time instead of your team's skills.
Did DO at least provide the DaemonSet from an official source, or was it literally "here's a random GitHub link"?
by dangus | 2026-01-13 18:11:22+00:00
“The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people” -Scott Adams

Is it more effective to put on kid gloves and treat bigots with dignity and respect that they themselves refuse to give out?

Are we supposed to sit back and say nothing? Is that more effective?

Yes, making it shameful to be a bigot has reduced it, if you ask me.

I encourage everyone to do some research on the way Black people were spoken to in public a few decades ago in America. You’d be pretty shocked at what was considered normal and not shameful.

Scott Adams can rest in piss. One less bigot in this world.
by jnwatson | 2026-01-13 18:11:22+00:00
My working hypothesis is that some jobs are inherently isolating and that gradually leads to mental deviance. CEOs and cartoonists are similar in this way.

He didn't have peers to challenge him on anything, and after a couple decades of that, he was just high on his own supply. Elon Musk and Kanye West have the same issue.
by leptons | 2026-01-13 18:11:23+00:00
The money that was paid to build those weapons went into the American economy, to all the companies that built them, to the employees that work for those companies, etc. Nobody is saying they were "free", but the military industrial complex has always been a jobs program. It employs plenty of Americans, it pays the bills when weapons get made. So we had a bunch of old stock that needed to be replaced, and giving them to Ukraine is an easy win, for a lot of reasons. If Ukraine fell quickly and then Putin goes after Poland and other countries, it's going to cause a lot worse problems for the US and the world. So, giving these older weapons to Ukraine is saving money in the long run. Some people have no ability to see how actions (or inaction) have consequences, and they never think about the wider perspective, only their own little pocketbooks, so it might appear that giving weapons to Ukraine is somehow stealing money from you personally. And if that steak in the fridge is already freezer burned, do you really want to eat it? We're not talking about a brand new steak here.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-01-13 18:11:25+00:00
It is no surprise given the issue at hand. I mean it is people who failed at dieting and managing weight using the methods shouted from rooftops for a century or more now. Doctor could say whatever and its clearly in one ear out the other. A lot of these patients are taking it as a silver bullet, a quick fix. If you have to actively manage your diet anyhow while on the drug, the whole issue around diets and exercise the drug attempts to surmount, one wonders at the purpose of the drug.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-13 18:11:56+00:00
I think you're pretty confused about what most of these drones are doing.

DJI drones aren't being used as weapons platforms in the US...

They're being used for industry (agriculture, real estate, land surveillance, fire monitoring)

No one gives a shit that it's not difficult to make a flying grenade. They care that all the features you're in here mouthing off about as "not important" are actually important.
by mcv | 2026-01-13 18:12:02+00:00
At some point he had a mailinglist called Dogbert's New Ruling Class (DNRC) which would soon come to rule the world. In it he wrote lots of really weird, unhinged, occasionally funny stuff. At the time I thought it was all one massive joke, layers of irony and trolling. But more recently I've been wondering if he was actually serious.
by overgard | 2026-01-13 18:12:02+00:00
I haven't followed everything Scott Adams has done recently (largely because most of his stuff ended up paywalled), but in the past I'd note that he'd have an interesting take on something, possibly hard to defend but not intrinsically "bad", but then he'd get lumped in as having a "bad" opinion by people that just wanted to create headlines. One example was his assertion that Donald Trump was a "master persuader", and much more skilled in his speech then people were giving him credit for. I remember, at the time at least, that he always prefaced it by saying it wasn't in support/antagonism of Trump, just an observation of his skill, but it quickly got turned into "Scott Adams is a MAGA guy." (Since then, I don't know if Adams ever became a MAGA guy or not, but it's an example of how at the time his statements got oversimplified and distorted). Anyway, I saw a lot of examples of that -- he'd have a relatively nuanced take probably expressed too boldly, but people wanted to just lump him in to some narrative they already had going.

I think Scott Adams' biggest problem in life (although partially what also made him entertaining), is that he'd kind of pick fights that had little upside for him and a lot of downside.
by rpcope1 | 2026-01-13 18:12:36+00:00
Until the FCC wakes up and decides to change any detail of how they certify (which can happen easily), and then everything becomes no longer certified, and you'd basically have a full blanket ban of any transmitter, receiver, esc, motor, completed drone (or anything else that even incidentally emits EMI) that wasn't built in the US. The cards are set up there that it's extremely easy for them to just "incidentally" change a few things and hey no more drones of almost any sort, or RC planes, or hell parts for a whole lot of things.
by voxleone | 2026-01-13 18:12:44+00:00
By 1994, I was in triumphant optimism. I was young-ish, my country was in for its most beautiful decade ever, and the internet seemed to herald a time of final Liberation, with the Earth becoming home to a single, global scientist-philosopher society.

And so, suddenly, we find ourselves mired between traditionalist discomfort and pragmatic acceptance, an unglamorous terminus for earlier dreams of Human synthesis.
by oooyay | 2026-01-13 18:12:50+00:00
I live in Portland, OR. The Oregonian/Oregon Live actually broke the story that the mayor was quietly pushing shelters out. Their news broke before I got the city mandated postcard I should have received living next to the proposed shelter.

KGW broke that the shelter process was occurring without community involvement and feedback processes. Frankly, the Mayor and three district councilors came to our neighborhood meeting. That just doesn't happen in East Portland and was not possible without the involvement of local news.

Willamette Week is a gem, I agree. They broke the Shamaya Fagan story as well as numerous others. I'm saying it's not all bad, especially compared to other localities.
by addaon | 2026-01-13 18:13:45+00:00
> 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

Is this idea that top 25% is "very good" at something innumeracy, or a subtle insight I'm missing? There's got to be a million skills that you could assess rank at -- writing embedded C code, playing basketball, identifying flora, PacMan, archery, bouldering… I can't imagine ever being able to not continue this list -- and you should expect to be in the top 25% of roughly a quarter of those skills, obviously heavily biased towards the ones you've tried, and even more biased towards the ones you care about. It's hard to imagine anyone who's not in the top 25% of skill assessment in a dozen things, let alone two or more…
by chuckadams | 2026-01-13 18:13:46+00:00
It seems to me the "Not Rocket Science" invariant is upheld if you just require all PRs to be fast-forward changes. Which I guess is an argument in support of rebase, but a clean merge counts too. If the test suite passes on the PR branch, it'll pass on main, because that's what main will be afterward. Ideally you don't even test the same commit hash twice.

If you have expensive e2e tests, then you might want to keep a 'latest' tag on main that's only updated when those pass.