MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derefr | 2026-01-13 18:33:35+00:00
> At the time, the common wisdom was that they'd go the same route as Adobe: you'd have to buy Final Cut X+1 in a couple years for another $299, and Final Cut X+2 a couple years after that... to their credit, that's not the way it's gone.

And that's despite Apple having zero interest in doing things that don't ultimately make them money.

I have a theory for how sales of these one-time-purchase yet indefinitely-updated apps happens to work out positively on Apple's balance sheet, while it doesn't for most other large players right now.

And that's that, due to Apple's vertical integration (they make the hardware, they make the OS that runs on the hardware, they make the apps that run on the OS) — and due to these apps only targeting their own OSes+hardware, with no consideration of portability to other platforms — a lot (like 90+%) of the "enablement" work for these apps ends up time-budgeted as OS work, rather than apps work.

Or, I guess, to be more charitable, you could say that Apple's engineers develop first-party apps not just to sell them, but at least in part to drive the development of the OS as a developer platform. You could even describe the OS frameworks as the product, and the apps themselves as the byproduct. (In that lens, the only reason FCP would cost anything at all is to avoid accusations of anti-competitive behavior.)
by eeperson | 2026-01-13 18:34:18+00:00
> I know a lot of people want to maintain the history of each PR, but you won't need it in your VCS.

I strongly disagree. Losing this discourages swarming on issues and makes bisect worse.

> You should always be able to roll back main to a real state. Having incremental commits between two working stages creates more confusion during incidents.

If you only use merge commits this shouldn't be any more difficult. You just need to make sure you specify that you want to use the first parent when doing reverts.
by ishtanbul | 2026-01-13 18:34:35+00:00
This is totally wrong. I work in the industry. Solar panels should last for 30 years, but they degrade in capacity by 0.5 to 1% per year, depending on environmental conditions (temp, radiation, etc). Lithium batteries from tier 1 suppliers can last at least a decade of regular use. It depends on how their cycling and state of charge is managed. If you keep them between 20% and 80% charge, they can last incredibly long.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-13 18:34:41+00:00
> "lacking authenticity"

I am sharing my genuine opinions and perspectives. I assume you are as well. Let's keep it civil.

As for tiktok/etc, I don't think that has much of anything to do with ICE and has a lot more to do with squelching legitimate anti-zionist speech. That said, it does plausibly have a lot more to do with domestic protests than a DJI drone ban, which is hardly a blanket ban on drones, and really will do next to nothing to stop people from using drones over/with/for protests. By the way, the DJI ban went through the House and Senate with bipartisan support, during Biden's presidency:

https://dronedj.com/2024/06/14/dji-ban-passes-the-house-and-...
by gs17 | 2026-01-13 18:34:44+00:00
> 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?

No, a lot of characters were clearly meant to be unlikable, but based on a kind of person that exists in real life. I don't think you were meant to care much for e.g. Topper.
by Yoric | 2026-01-13 18:34:55+00:00
For context, I recall that for years and years, Firefox was the highest ranked mobile browser. Mozilla invested a lot in mobile, Firefox devs had to rewrite the Android linker, invent new ways of starting binaries on Android, etc. just to make Firefox work (all of which were later used by Chrome for Android).

It still didn't make a dent in mobile browser shares.

Sure, Mozilla could have invested even more in Firefox mobile, but at some point, this would have come at the expense of Firefox desktop, which was the source of ~100% of the funding.
by SetTheorist | 2026-01-13 18:35:09+00:00
"Damit wird insbesondere zu der interessanten Aufgabe, eine quadratische Gleichung beliebig vieler Variabeln mit algebraischen Zahlencoeffizienten in solchen ganzen oder gebrochenen Zahlen zu lösen, die in dem durch die Coefficienten bestimmten algebraischen Rationalitätsbereiche gelegen sind." - Hilbert, 1900

The use of "variable" to denote an "unknown" is a very old practice that predates computers and programming languages.
by cloverich | 2026-01-13 18:35:10+00:00
I hear that sentiment from a lot of right wing friends in US fwiw. IME here it's more a coded speech and / or an escape from difficult conversations. The coded speech part steers it towards general conspiracy topics, which are often a simple way to blanket discard everything "liberal".

An actual example: "What did you think about Bill Gates climate book?" (they'd read it) -> "He was associated with Epstein, he's a creep. I don't trust anything he says". Then, "What do you think about Trumps delaying and denying of Epstein associations" -> "There's so much back and forth, who knows what to believe."

To be clear I think your take is correct, its just I think that if the space were saturated in a direction that were more convenient towards their "team", they won't have much difficulty taking a clear stance.
by lxgr | 2026-01-13 18:35:21+00:00
Port forwarding and hole punching have different objectives and outcomes, and I believe PCP only caters to the former.

While the outcomes might be similar (some inbound connections are possible), the scope (one specific external IP/port vs. everybody) and the semantics ("endorsement of public hosting" vs allowing P2P connections that are understood to require at least some third-party mediation) differ.

I also don't think that port forwarding is possible through multiple levels of firewalls (similar to "double NAT").
by notanaiagent | 2026-01-13 18:35:33+00:00
We spent a year building guardrails around AI.
Then we spent the next year tearing them down.

After 2 years building virtual humans, here are our 3 biggest mistakes:

1. We underestimated how fast intelligence scales.
We spent months building scaffolding so our agents couldn’t break things.
A full week just to stop one from deleting a user’s inbox.

Then intelligence started doubling every ~6 months.
The guardrails became the bottleneck.
Now we spend more time removing constraints than adding them.

2. We treated memory like an engineering problem.
Vector databases solved recall.
But human memory isn’t just input → output.

It’s semantic search and graph traversal.
Backwards and forwards.
We tried every chunking strategy and embedding model.

Nothing worked until we rebuilt memory to mirror how humans actually think.

3. We tried to encode intent into workflows.
Zapier-style automation looks clean and reliable.

Until it isn’t.
A “simple” daily brief became 6+ nodes.
One failure downstream and I got a confident company summary… about a Montana farm.

Workflows don’t understand why they’re doing something.
So they can’t catch their own mistakes.

The lesson:
Treat the model as the system — not a component inside it.

Still unlearning this.
by Arainach | 2026-01-13 18:35:58+00:00
Humanity and civilization are defined by going beyond any base instincts.

Even if you're correct (I don't agree), consider other things: if you look at someone and your body has an instinctive desire to have sex with them, you are obligated to realize that just doing so without regard for consent or other things is not OK. If you don't realize that and proceed based on instinct, that's rape.

You can feel whatever instincts you want. If you feel bad or harmful ones, you should acknowledge it. It doesn't really matter if you feel guilty or shame or whatever you want to call it, but you should absolutely internally recognize that these things are *wrong*.
by quitit | 2026-01-13 18:36:06+00:00
Keynote is completely underrated, likely because people assume it's just a Powerpoint clone, but it's more like a highly templated motion graphics app with a UI that steers people into using it as Powerpoint replacement.

So not only is it a far quicker way to make a PPT than using Powerpoint. I also see it used for making presentation videos, interactive PDFs and even animated GIFs/HTML5 animations.

The number of motion graphics marketing videos I see which are actually just Keynote files exported to video is impressive.
by WickyNilliams | 2026-01-13 18:36:20+00:00
This is a silly appeal to nature.

But to address the point. There may be base instincts to which we are all subject. But that doesn't mean we should embrace them or proudly wear them as a badge. Violence is entirely natural. And yet most will agree it should not be embraced. Someone proudly declaring themselves as violent will (and should!) be judged harshly. I say the same holds true for racism, whether it is "natural" or not.

Much (all?) of civilisational progress is characterised by moving away from the natural state to a higher strata. The civil part of civilization is entirely unnatural
by alex43578 | 2026-01-13 18:36:29+00:00
>Law enforcement is trained not to shoot at a moving vehicle

Unless that vehicle is an imminent deadly threat to the officer or others, which this officer reasonably believed.

>LE is trained not to put themselves in front or back of the vehicle, since you can get run over that way.

That’s a tactic, not policy - and again, which is it: Renee isn’t going to run someone over, so he can stand there, or she is going to run someone over, so he shouldn’t stand there?

>Agent Jonathan Ross did not follow his training, despite being dragged by a vehicle months earlier.

Past incidents do not legally compel an officer to act differently in the moment. Just as how getting dragged in the past doesn’t further justify his shooting, it also doesn’t mean he should’ve done anything differently.

>You also have to ask why Renee Good decided to leave her wife behind who tried to get in the locked passenger door. Another agent was grabbing the driver door and reaching his hand inside.

Yes, that further depicts her actions as reckless, chaotic, and contributes to the perception of her driving being dangerous flight, rather than casually driving away.

>There's no way a judge or jury looks at this and thinks the agents involved followed proper training.

Training is not the legal standard, “objective reasonableness” is. An officer could (and did) reasonably believe that a woman obstructing ICE, fleeing an interaction with such haste that she left her passenger, and driving forward with him at the front bumper is in imminent danger of being struck by the SUV.

There are numerous OIS involving people in vehicles and cops on foot, and they consistently are cleared, even when the officer is in a less dangerous position than the Minnesota scenario.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-13 18:37:01+00:00
It should be stigmatized.

Consent does not bless immoral acts or neutralize damage. A person who takes a drug voluntarily is still being harmed by it. It causes changes in the consumer whether he likes it or not. Causality does not care about your consent.

(And to address your analogy to books, the content of a work of fiction also matters. Reading bad books isn't good for your mind either. But literary fiction at least has the potential to be good. The genre isn't categorically bad.)

And porn is addictive. Porn addiction is extremely widespread and afflicts mostly young men. Porn's ubiquity and the easy with which it can be accessed has created a situation that did not exist before, and from a young age. And not only is it addictive, but it does real psychological damage to these consumers, creating what some call "porn brain". It is an excellent method for producing sexually-crippled creeps and incels unable - and even uninterested, given the nature of their "fantasy" - to have healthy relationships with real human beings, and the stats corroborate this.

It is an incredibly twisted and deranging vice. It destroys individuals and has a destructive impact on society as a whole.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-13 18:37:05+00:00
The BBC just like any other news organization is not neutral. It sometimes leans left and it sometimes lean right. The problem is that this "leaning" is never disclosed.

If a newspaper is comfortably right-wing/left-wing and so on, I don't care about their biases because at least you know that if you read it, you are going to get a "version" of a story that fits the overall narrative of the outlet.

When it comes down to publicly funded news outlet though, their neutrality is disputable and on top of that you end up paying through your taxes for "news" that have either been downplayed or exaggerated depending on who is reporting on it.

So as a tax payer, what is there to gain from being manipulated (at best) or lied to (at worst) by an organization who is supposed to be neutral but who isn't?

I wish it wasn't the case but there has been too many stories in the past in the mainstream media that turned out to be either misrepresented or made up and there was rarely any retraction/apologies on the subject.

And just in case you think that only right wingers have problem with the BBC (for example), the accusations of biases come from the left and from the right of the political spectrum so this is a problem for everyone.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-13 18:37:14+00:00
The key thing to point out is that jujutsu is a rebase-based workflow, and no on who uses jujutsu ever worries about rebasing (they may not even be aware of it). It's a good demonstration of a tool that got rebase right, unlike git.

Pre-jujutsu, I never rebased unless my team required it. Now I do it all the time.

Pre-jj, I never had linear history, unless the team required it. Now most of my projects have linear history.

A better UI makes a huge difference.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-13 18:37:28+00:00
I tried with 17: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7925581/

From figure 1:

> Complete tumor regression was observed in 6/15 mice on the combination treatment, 1/20 on ivermectin alone, 1/10 on anti-PD1 antibody alone, and 0/25 on no treatment.

Ok, that looks interesting.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-13 18:37:30+00:00
First, Oct 7th was not the start, but it can seem like that to those that regard Palestinians as subhumans who do not deserve liberation and instead are destined to live under the shackles of apartheid, blockade, and occupation.

Secondly, there are various reasons why there is no protesting in this case. Maybe it’s because Israel is the child of US foreign policy? Or perhaps it’s because US veto protection is what has allowed Israel to get away with so much across its history? Or heck, maybe it’s because our taxpayer dollars fund the Israeli gov to the tune of billions of dollars annually (and don’t come with the “it is just weapons” bullshit; money is fungible).

On the other hand, what exactly would be accomplished by protesting against Iranian government repression on US soil or on US campuses?
by theamk | 2026-01-13 18:37:31+00:00
By "voltage spread", did you mean "difference in voltage between each battery"? Can you clarify how did you calculate this? I looked at the report but could not find the details nor raw data.

(It is easy to calculate in series packs, but the parallel ones would be tricky, since the bus links will equalizes the voltage. Did you manually remove the links and then measures each battery's voltage? Or did you estimate spread by measuring voltage drop between the bus?)
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-13 18:37:35+00:00
> It’s very rare these people have any idea how to actually execute their plans.

Regarding Cummins, Why exactly? Dominic Cummins is articulate, seems to be quite intelligent and seems to be very fact/data orientated. I've also heard him describe how he would action particular policy.

Therefore I find it hard to believe he had didn't have any idea on how to execute his plans.
by yesfitz | 2026-01-13 18:37:46+00:00
"It's true that many younger buyers just don't have the same taste or sense of style as folks from previous generations. But also, young city-dwelling professionals are less likely to have the room to place a large screen in a dedicated area in their home, a pain point compounded by the fact that TV screen sizes have ballooned over the past decade."

If you find yourself in this position regarding taste or space, I'd encourage you to use a projector.

There is no 50+" black void hanging on your wall, so you don't need to have a nice picture to display instead. Sure, it can be more difficult to watch things during the daylight hours, but that's actually been a positive for me that leads to more intentional consumption.

Replacing my TV with a projector and muting my microwave are two actions that have had an unexpectedly huge impact on my quality of life.
by sillysideprojs | 2026-01-13 18:38:03+00:00
Menu Engineering (https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/menu-engineering)
I have a friend who manages their restaurant's menu via an Excel doc. Tabular data does not play well with a menu's tree structure. So I'm building them an app to more easily build and analyze the menu.

Fast Classifieds (https://travisbumgarner.dev/marketing/classifieds)
A lot of the jobs I'm looking for are on smaller company job boards only. It takes me about an hour or two each time I want to browse all the sites I have bookmarked. I made a little app that automates the process and reduces the time down to about 5 minutes to look through the new posts.
by jimmydddd | 2026-01-13 18:38:04+00:00
Some random internet poll said many people of race A agreed it was "not OK" to be a person of race B. Adams said if that were true, then people of race B should probably not hang out with people of race A that thought it was not OK to be race B. The internet did its thing and quoted him out of context, and tried to cancel him. He dug in his heels and doubled down. He also liked a certain president that many dislike. And here we are.
by Yoric | 2026-01-13 18:38:05+00:00
> Additionally, my perception (from posts and discussions like these, I'm not a financial analyst and I have no meaningful insights into their business) is also that they probably receive enough funding through non-advertising means that they don't actually need to do this if they were to pare back the nonsense spending they're so greatly known for.

Last time I checked, Mozilla received 90%+ of its funding from Google. This is a situation that nobody likes (except Google, of course). These ads are an attempt to diversify income streams.

People are really unhappy that Mozilla gets money from Google, but also extremely vocally unhappy whenever Mozilla attempts to find other sources.

I haven't seen anyone suggest alternate solutions yet.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-13 18:38:13+00:00
There's a boy band, Boy Throb who specifically leveraged visa application in their recent content, and their immigration attorney advised the visa would be approved when they got 1,000,000 followers. They filmed themselves singing and dancing outside the US Immigration office to help one of their members applications.

Their visa application content is rather silly/absurd:

https://www.tiktok.com/@boy.throb/video/7572273147743980831

https://www.tiktok.com/@boy.throb/video/7567806911580622110

https://www.tiktok.com/@boy.throb/video/7584876341267270943
by kome | 2026-01-13 18:38:13+00:00
absolutely, the capacity of the US and their useless european minions to side with evil while cloaking geopolitical violence in the language of human rights is not hypocrisy by accident but policy by design, activated selectively when victims are convenient and ignored when perpetrators are allies. i am very sad for iranian protesters, but the west does not need to instrumentalize their suffering.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-13 18:38:45+00:00
>> Can you walk down the street to buy some artillery munitions?

No I need to go to a flea market for that.

It's not a specific manufacturer; it will impact US-made drones too, and based on how it's being rolled out is intended to shut down decent quality, inexpensive and easily-acquired drown sales - exactly what say, a journalist might want.
by aforwardslash | 2026-01-13 18:38:48+00:00
> why Hollywood became the Earth's center of cultural gravity post-WW2

The reason why Hollywood even exists is because it was a way of escaping the enforcement of patents and royalties. And it is easy being the cultural center of the western world when everything other cultural-relevant city in the western hemisphere is somewhat in ruins. Other than that, the lettering is a racist monument of a bygone era.

> You may argue that these people aren't of such import, but I would beg to differ

I'm not a US citizen, but lets face it - there is some irony in seeing some scientists fleeing for abroad offers, some probably deported, and having influencers or glorified strippers benefiting from some ill-thought program.

> These people shape the culture that the young people around you consume.

Do you have kids? I do. People don't give 2 f** about Hollywood or their "stars". Maybe in america. We have our own clowns here, and 15 minutes of fame doesn't require being predated on by some director (thankfully). My daughter couldn't name a single actor even if she wanted to - because movies are (mostly) dead, and series are a commodity. And I'm not saying this as some weirdo who doesn't own a TV or something - we have Disney, SkyShowTime, HBO, Amazon, etc. Its just "kids dont care about that anymore".

> They create the memes of six-seven-ification
So, do you know what that means exactly? Are you a Skrilla’s fan? Just asking, because from the tone of your response, you seem to have no idea of the meaning - just like kids saying "theez nuts" or whatever.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-13 18:38:57+00:00
>Being able to completely turn off the Internet in your country seems to be a non-negotiable capability to develop for any non-democratic state.

Which technologically advanced democratic countries DON'T have this capability already developed and deployed?

Do you think the 3 letter agencies in the likes of UK, Israel, Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc don't know how to turn off the internet in their countries? They'd be really incompetent if they don't.

Switzerland even had all its bridges wired with explosives from like the 19th century and all the way through the cold war to blow them up inc ase of an invasion.

Do you think the internet infra is somehow spared this kind of strategic planning?
by ericmay | 2026-01-13 18:39:12+00:00
I think it's a fair criticism though because of the general vitriol about Hamas and Gaza.

The same folks are very much in a position on college campuses to protest about numerous injustices going on in the world, from Iran to Somalia to Haiti to Cuba, yet they're silent.

Why is that? It's a fair question.

I don't think there's some moral failure for caring about one issue affecting one group of people more than another, but you really have to wonder why we care so much about Palestine over other issues, even more gruesome injustices.

This isn't to diminish of course the plight of Palestinians or any group for that matter, but it's a very clear outlier in the American, and dare I say entire western psyche.