MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-01-13 17:29:57+00:00
> (Also makes me wonder if they still have a Microsoft employee running the PSF… always thought that was odd.)

You might be confusing the Python Steering Council - responsible for leadership of Python language development - with the PSF non-profit there.

The PSF is lead by a full-time executive director who has no other affiliation, plus an elected board of unpaid volunteer directors (I'm one of them).

Microsoft employees occasionally get voted into the board, but there is a rule to make sure a single company doesn't have more than 2 representatives on the board at any one time,

The board also elects a chair/president - previously that was Dawn Wages who worked at Microsoft for part of that time (until March 2025 - Dawn was chair up to October), today it's Jannis Leidel from Anaconda.

Meanwhile the Python steering council is entirely separate from the PSF leadership, with their own election mechanism voted on by Python core contributors. They have five members, none of whom currently work for Microsoft (but there have been Microsoft employees in the past.)
by jdoe1337halo | 2026-01-13 17:29:58+00:00
Hey guys, I have been seeing a lot of concerning things happen with Github recently (Accounts banned, private repos being scaped for LLMs, and the whole Github Runners fiasco). I think a lot of people, including myself, are moving to self hosted instances of Gitea. I found it annoying to migrate each repo individually, because I have hundreds of repos. I created an Electron app to help bulk migrate all of my repos and it works great. I did use Opus 4.5 to assist me with this build. Please let me know what you think!
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-01-13 17:30:00+00:00
The part I'm more excited for is all the image-like/bundle of image like data that until Jpeg-xl didn't have any good codecs (usually implemented as folders of images). One clear example of this is PBR in blender and friends. (e.g. a combo of normal map, roughness, color, metalness etc)
Show HN: The Kitchen Table – a quiet space to unload your thoughts
by gossa | 2026-01-13 17:30:12+00:00
I built The Kitchen Table because I kept trying to journal and always quitting. Writing started to feel like a task with expectations, and when I stopped, I felt worse about stopping. What I actually wanted wasn’t "self-improvement" or structure. I just wanted a place to put thoughts down without feeling like I was doing it wrong.

The idea comes from a simple memory, coming home, dropping my bag, and talking at the kitchen table. No fixing, no goals, just being able to say things out loud and feel listened to. I tried to recreate that feeling digitally.

The app lets you sit down, pick how you’re feeling, and respond to gentle prompts. You can save moments you want to keep and look back on them later. Everything is private and encrypted. There are no streaks, reminders, feeds or social features.

This is still early and mostly a learning project for me. I’d really appreciate feedback on the experience, what feels off, and what feels unnecessary.
by jjmarr | 2026-01-13 17:30:14+00:00
If one of America's main exports is culture, why would you ban factor inputs?

They're also not fungible and extremely mobile. People get attached to specific OF stars and the medium inherently requires remote work. So it's an inherently global labour force that protectionism won't help. American OF models won't magically make more money if you ban immigration unless you also ban cultural imports.

The government isn't displacing local talent by importing OF models and gets tax dollars for essentially doing nothing. Those tax dollars pay for schools/hospitals/etc.

OF also skews towards young, unmarried women, which balances the gender surplus of unmarried men that generally tries to immigrate. Since they're young, they also have more productivity before drawing on benefits like Medicare or Social Security.

By any objective standard OF models are the ideal migrant.
by tdeck | 2026-01-13 17:31:05+00:00
I was curious about the "blank sign" story because it's slightly different from what I remembered reading. As far as I can tell, this is the incident you're referring to:

On 12 September, Charles addressed parliament as king for the first time. The Metropolitan police called in reinforcements in case of protests. Powlesland, who works nearby, walked from Parliament Square to Downing Street and back with his blank piece of paper. “Then a guy from Norfolk police came up and spoke to me, and that was the video that went viral.” Powlesland recorded the encounter on his phone. “He asked for my details, I asked why and he said, ‘I want to check you’re OK on the Police National Computer.’ I said, ‘I’ve not done anything wrong, so I’m not giving you them.’ I wanted to test it without getting arrested. So I asked, ‘If I wrote “Not my king” on the paper, would I get arrested?’ and he said, ‘Probably, because it would be a breach of the Public Order Act; it would be offensive.’” Was he right? Powlesland laughs. “No! Just having something someone else finds offensive is not a criminal offence because then pretty much anything could be.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/the-crowd-we...
by bob1029 | 2026-01-13 17:31:08+00:00
The rooftop solar game in Texas is strongly into scam territory. Most homes I see with panels on the roof are two story homes where you have a negligible amount of area to work with relative to interior space. There was a point where you'd have to deal with a door-to-door salesman approximately every 48h for an entire summer.

The most realistic residential installation I've seen was firmly on the ground at a ~2 acre property. The panels were much larger and heavier (i.e., capable) than what you'd typically find on a roof. It's much easier to build and maintain a solar array when you don't need a ladder/crane to move things around.

I think that it's great that we want to participate in making things better, but not every situation makes sense. When you factor in all of the downstream consequences of sub-optimal, fly-by-night installs, it starts to look like a net negative on the environment. I'm not trying to claim that all rooftop solar projects are bad, but most of the residential ones I've seen make absolutely zero economic sense.

Large scale wind and solar projects are the best way forward. You get so much more bang for buck. I'd consider investing in these projects or their upstream suppliers and owners if you want to get involved financially in making the environment a better place.
by diego_moita | 2026-01-13 17:31:40+00:00
I stopped paying attention long before he became a freak.

After a couple of years his jokes became repetitive, formulaic, obvious,...

For some people that might be a good thing. Chuckling at an old joke is like trying again the food or music they used to love when they were young. Being funny or revealing isn't the point, being familiar and reassuring is what matters.

He had a moment at his time. A few more years and no one will remember him.
by twalla | 2026-01-13 17:31:42+00:00
"If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing. 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."

I'm certain at least some small part of my own success can be attributed to my exposure to this idea, and for that I give my respects to Adams. As far as Adam's character (or lack thereof) is concerned, that's already being discussed elsewhere in this thread by others more eloquent than myself, so I'll leave that to them.
by leptons | 2026-01-13 17:32:01+00:00
I'm not sure why you would think I would blurt that out on the internet.

And are you sure it's giving you good info? "AI" is famously subject to hallucinations, so you may not be getting the "good info" you think you're getting. Be careful with "AI", it's not an all-seeing-all-knowing infallible oracle.
by ahtihn | 2026-01-13 17:32:30+00:00
I've literally never been on a 5+ hour flight where anyone in the row in front of me didn't recline at some point.

I've discussed this with various people IRL. No one, including taller people than me, ever complained about people being inconsiderate for reclining. Every tall person complains about leg room.

The vast majority of people do not think it's inconsiderate to recline. They think it's normal and that the function is there for a reason.

I actually think it's inconsiderate to complain to the person in front if they want to recline. The only time that is acceptable is when meals are served.
by coffeemug | 2026-01-13 17:33:21+00:00
My experience has been that "chosen family" is a thing that works when you're young, but almost always falls apart when you get older. This has happened to countless people I know. Life throws all kinds of curveballs, incentives change, conflicts arise, sometimes very intense conflicts. Empirically, chosen family is a structure that works in a particular place and time, then disintegrates when conditions change. Real family isn't like that; there is a very strong anthropological connection wired into us that doesn't go away when the situation changes.

Of course it's different for everyone, some families are so tragic they may not be worth preserving, etc. But that's an outlier-- the modal experience is that the power of family is precisely in the fact that you don't get to choose it.
by wussboy | 2026-01-13 17:34:02+00:00
Is "calling out the bigotry" useful? I feel like the Internet has been used for this purpose pretty consistently for the last 15 years. Is it effective? Is there less bigotry now than before?

I would argue it has not in fact been useful, that making it shameful hasn't reduced it, and that calling it out in death is not useful in reducing it. I think we do it because it's easier than doing something useful and it makes us feel good.

I hate bigotry as well. I encourage to do something IRL about it.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-13 17:34:09+00:00
> Why is this post being shadowbanned?

If it were shadowbanned we wouldn't be able to comment on it. People have flagged it, it triggered the flamewar detector, or both. That's why it got downranked.

If you think the topic of his death has been "shadowbanned" (for some non-standard definition of shadowbanned), check the front page. There's another discussion there about it.
by scottLobster | 2026-01-13 17:34:11+00:00
Yeah, unless there's some automatic backup/snapshot implemented before any actions are taken, hard pass on this. Or at least I won't be using it on anything I'm not willing to 100% lose. Maybe give it read-only access and have it put results in a designated output folder?

Particularly in a work environment, one misfire could destroy months or years of important information.
by sophacles | 2026-01-13 17:34:23+00:00
Most of the money "given" to Ukraine was older stockpiled weapons that were approaching EOL or at least "refresh cycle" anyway and needed to be replaced. Instead of throwing it away or selling it, they gave it to Ukraine, and most of the actual money spend went to US armaments companies.

The price tag you quote is the same as the "an $X value thrown in for free" you see in "deals" from shady companies.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-13 17:34:33+00:00
Most of us have experienced a family member who got caught up in a corporate (or worse) news addiction.

It’s so common that we barely remark on it any longer. So I don’t think it’s really a mystery, it can happen to anyone who’s not getting outside enough.

My first clue something was wrong was when he didn’t understand the criticism around the Iraq war of the early 2000s. Which even most conservatives have come around to acknowledge as a disaster.
by intended | 2026-01-13 17:34:41+00:00
You are conflating two things here - business models and sustainable operations.

Even NGOs can be said to have "business models" in the sense that it was being used here. It doesn't have to be profitable, but it has to at least match operational costs.

Reporters have to eat, and pay costs, its not free. That money has to come from somewhere.

And we are only talking about the production of news copy.

The production of good quality local journalism is itself in the service of a more informed polity and information economy. An information economy that is currently using every trick in the book to suck attention out of the polity.

So you will need even more money to ensure you can compete effectively at scale.

Someone needs to pay for this, and ideally it would be a self sustaining manner, which allows local news agencies to remain independent.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-13 17:34:47+00:00
He definitely blamed both the end of his career in banking and at PacBell on alleged discrimination against promoting White men in/into management (and I think he claims responsible people at both told him explicitly that that was the reason he was being passed over).

Somewhat later (but still quite a while before what people describe as him “turning”), he would also claim his Dilbert show on UPN was cancelled because he was White, making it the third job he lost for that reason. (More likely, it was cancelled because its audience was both small and White and UPN was, looking at where it had successes and wanting a coherent demographic story to sell to advertisers and in an era where synergies between the appeals of shows on the same network was important to driving ratings, working to rearrange its offerings to focus on targeting Black audiences.)
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-13 17:34:51+00:00
Wolves work together to bring down large prey and with their large digestive tracts they "wolf it down".

Foxes have a small digestive tract (makes them lightweight so they can jump and pounce on prey) and can't even eat a whole rabbit so they eat a bit and bury the rest under a layer of dirt (to hide it from other animals) and leaf litter (to hide it from birds.) A fox will lose an occasional cache to another fox but will occasionally find a cache from another fox so it evens out. Foxes in a given territory usually have some family relationship so it works from a sociobiological level, it's their form of "social hunting".

For me this week it's been about practicing autonomic control, I've been building biofeedback systems and getting to the bottom of heart rate variability and working towards a biosynchronization demo. Also working to start an anime theme song cover band (Absolute Territory) where I am clearly the "kitsune" (AT-00) but more of a band manager than a mascot. I've got the all-purpose guitarist (AT-01) but I'm still casting AT-02, AT-03 and such.

... and boy do I have a technique now to find out people and places that are identity driven and those who are not.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-01-13 17:35:00+00:00
I've seen something like this tried before. What ended up happening was that not all TODOs were handled in a short period of time, some of them expired, then everyone was cross the build failed and the offending TODO was promptly given an extension.

Maintaining code quality and TODOs turns out to be a surprisingly hard problem, but it's far more of a social / organisational one than technical, which is why technical tools don't solve it.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-13 17:35:05+00:00
You see comrade, the government represents all of us, so when the government deems something beneficial and worth doing we all benefit /s

Me dumping oil on the ground -> bad.

megacorp paying some engineers to make up a number for just how much oil is ok to dump on the ground and paying for government permission -> good

Diddy flying hoes around -> bad

OF models paying the .gov to fly around -> good

(I'm joking here, but not nearly as much as I wish I was)
by kimixa | 2026-01-13 17:35:32+00:00
Yup, it's their right, as it's their right to crank their seat back. Both are available, and expected. I see some take issue with people doing them at all, but I don't really mind much. Might be related to being 180cm or so - about 5"11, when most complaining seem to be larger.

My issue on my original post isn't really them moving the seat, but the lack of notice. It would have taken barely a second to lean over the seat and let me know. But I suspect they didn't even think about how that might affect anyone else.

It would be kinda crazy if someone didn't say they wanted to get out to the aisle and just started trying to climb over you with no warning.
by matwood | 2026-01-13 17:35:40+00:00
Part of practicing Stoicism is to bring emotions up to the understanding, examining, and choosing level. You still have emotions, but you don't let them control you.

I love JiuJitsu because many parts of it are like microcosms of life. The first time someone lays on you and you feel like you can't breath, you panic. That's an emotion. After a few times you realize you can breath and eventually you will feel the panic and instead of succumbing, it'll wash past you. By practicing feeling emotions, especially negative ones like being uncomfortable over and over, eventually they move into your higher level thinking and no longer control you. You absolutely still have them, but your reaction to them has changed.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-13 17:35:44+00:00
> If you're motivated enough about a topic to post about it online, you're probably emotional about it and unable to see it in a clear-headed manner.

> The people I know who have the most reasonable political opinions never post about it online.

And here you are posting your opinions online! How fascinating. I hope you recognize the extreme irony in the fact that you were motivated enough about this topic to post about it.
by ewoodrich | 2026-01-13 17:36:01+00:00
> prompts where we'd ask for e.g. 15 sections, would only do 10 sections and then ask "Would you like me to continue?".

I can’t speak to any kind of identifiable pattern but man that behavior drives me up the wall when it happens.

When I run into a specific task that starts to trigger that behavior, even a clean session with explicit instructions directing it to complete ALL sub steps isn’t enough to push it to finish the entire request to the end.
by windowpains | 2026-01-13 17:36:12+00:00
Always give the benefit of doubt. Perhaps him acting aggressively and blocking you was a misunderstood attempt at humor. A lot of comments I make online are tongue in cheek but people take everything very seriously. Adding emojis doesn’t solve that problem and can even make it worse. It’s really impossible to know for certain. Online communication is totally different from the real world where feedback is instantaneous. Better to assume good intent, even when there’s a very high likelihood of being wrong. If nothing else it’s better for you to err towards rose colored glasses.
by Tade0 | 2026-01-13 17:36:12+00:00
I remember stealing my dad's newspaper to read the included Dilbert strip and it shaped my understanding of corporate life. Fortunately it proved not to be this grotesque, but I have a few stories to share, like anyone who was ever put in such an environment.

I recall having a "huh?" moment when I once saw the titular character say that there's no evidence for climate change.

The strangest thing is that I hail from a particularly conservative region of the world and I've met many such Scotts Adamses in college (some of whom went on to work in FAANG companies). I don't share these views and I could never wrap my head around the idea that a clearly intelligent and often otherwise kind person could be like this.
by ganelonhb | 2026-01-13 17:36:24+00:00
nobody really cares about whether or not you’re going to mourn for someone, but I think it shows the content of your character that you felt the need to share that you won’t be mourning him because XYZ. Nobody is perfect, and I wager to guess even the almighty You has a few things in your past you wouldn’t want people to remember about you if you died slowly and painfully very publicly.

Scott Adams said some really stupid, poorly thought out things about minorities and women, and he faced real world consequences for his actions. But he also died slowly and painfully of cancer, and he died crying out for help very publicly. That’s objectively very sad, and if you should ever share the same fate I truly and genuinely hope your loved ones are there and with you, and choose to forgive you of any of your perceived sins.
by nkg | 2026-01-13 17:36:29+00:00
It resonates with me. I live in a small country (luckily an European one) where investments do not flow into tech.
I have talked with many of my fellow countrymen that feel the same. Maybe we will never reach our full potential (professionally) by working here.
Remote work is part of the solution for now, but it remains rare and requires a trust signal.

My only suggestion is to keep pushing until you make it.
by ericmay | 2026-01-13 17:36:33+00:00
Yea but those weapons are still highly valuable and effective. If you need help you aren't going to be super picky whether the apples and potatoes come from Whole Foods or Kroger.

> The price tag you quote is the same as the "an $X value thrown in for free" you see in "deals" from shady companies.

So I don't think this is very accurate. Unless you want to suggest that funding, equipment, and more given under the Biden Administration, never mind US actions like sanctions, are the product of "shady deals".
by alex43578 | 2026-01-13 17:36:35+00:00
It’s reassuring to know the courts don’t apply your perfect hindsight standard.

Graham V Connor:
“The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving.”

It’s wild to think you can drive towards a Fed, inches from your bumper, and not get shot because “you weren’t intending to hit him”.
by andrei_says_ | 2026-01-13 17:36:36+00:00
TailwindCSS is useful for applying styles to isolated components, in paper-shredder scenarios. Devs using it get to ignore the cascade, don't have to name things, and can use the predefined spacing and colors.

It is of course quite unmaintainable (good luck with updating the class soup for a bunch of components across a project).

I personally just ... cannot. CSS in 2026 is incredibly powerful and beautiful. Embracing the cascade allows for minimal CSS (see ITCSS methodology). Standardizing spacing and type with https://utopia.fyi is brilliant. Standardizing colors with custom props is trivial.

But, it seems that a lot of people are not paid to think about CSS. Tailwind embraces that. LLMs love it, because it reduces the complexity of pure CSS.
by rendaw | 2026-01-13 17:36:43+00:00
Isn't this just `--first-parent`? I think that should probably be the default in git. Maybe the only way this will happen is with a new SCM.

But the git authors are adamant that there's no convention for linearity, and somehow extended that to why there shouldn't be a "theirs" merge strategy to mirror "ours" (writing it out it makes even less sense, since "theirs" is what you'd want in a first-parent-linear repo, not "ours").
by MBCook | 2026-01-13 17:37:27+00:00
I know what you mean. I really liked Dilbert, but I don’t think I read any of his other books.

At some point I stopped reading because the RSS feed kept getting broken and it was just too hard for me to follow.

I didn’t hear about Adams again until maybe 7-8 years ago when I found out about the socket puppet thing and he had seemingly gone off the deep end.

From the meager amount I know, it only got worse from there.

It makes things very odd. Given who he was/became I don’t miss him. But I did enjoy his work long long ago.
by LukeShu | 2026-01-13 17:37:36+00:00
First they said you wouldn't be able to travel unless you had a Real ID by 2008. Then they delayed it. Many times. Based on which airport/facility and what state your ID was from, some enforcement started in 2014. Not all states were even issuing Real IDs yet in 2019. Finally, in 2024, all states and territories are issuing Real IDs, but full enforcement won't be until 2027.