MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradfa | 2026-01-15 16:38:57+00:00
My experience has been that SELV (safety extra low voltage, less than 60V peak and less than 240VA) is considered safe and anything exceeding that needs certain levels of protection.

But bus bars generally should be protected regardless of voltage as they carry currents from high current capacity sources so even a lower voltage can be a safety concern.

Many server power supplies can take AC or DC input, with the DC input in the 300-500V range as this is comparable to the boost voltage for the AC power factor correction circuit. I just assumed most data centers using DC would be distributing around 400V within each rack.
by bitwize | 2026-01-15 16:39:17+00:00
"Just works" in computing is an illusion. Modern computers have enough complexity and potential failure where their internal (usually software) components interact that they must be maintained and sysadmin'd. And if you're not doing that yourself, you're delegating that task to someone else—typically the OS vendor. That's why Microsoft considers Windows a "service" and will force updates at the least convenient possible time. That's why Apple has set up restrictions on running arbitrary software, even on Macs but especially on iDevices. The cost of having a device that seems to "just work" is a device you don't really own.
by lanthade | 2026-01-15 16:39:28+00:00
If they were only arresting people not in the country illegally and doing it with constitutionally guaranteed due process then you may have a point. But they aren't. They are arresting, injuring, killing people who are exercising their constitutional rights. ICE has no shred of credibility left. They are not making things safer.

I personally know people in Minneapolis (where I live) who's constitutional rights have been trampled on by ICE. ICE is the enemy, all who support them have blood on their hands.
by rozap | 2026-01-15 16:39:38+00:00
I think what op is getting at is that "no politics" rule is what allowed the frog to boil. So banning political discussion is political in and of itself.

I'd agree with your no politics preference if we were in a functioning society that wasn't actively spiralling towards fascism. I recognize that this line is blurry, and that's exactly the reason why no politics zones exist, there is always someone yelling about fascism. He might be a crazy guy on the corner who yells about everything.

I think the difference here is that there is a big critical mass of people who have recognized that the pillars on which our country sit are being actively sabotaged. It's not that everyone wants to be talking about politics all of a sudden, it's that the frog is finally boiling.
by tzs | 2026-01-15 16:39:42+00:00
> Renewables are good, but it gets cloudy, it becomes night, it might not be windy

...which is why China has 40 000 km of UHV transmission lines forming a vast network to move the energy from where it is abundant to where it is needed. They have 8 new UHV projects that started in 2024 or 2025 that will add another 10 000 km.
by quirk | 2026-01-15 16:40:00+00:00
A member of Governor Walz’s staff is the publisher of that newspaper.

Steve Grove has been the CEO and Publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune since April 2023. Prior to that, he served as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)—a cabinet-level position—under Governor Walz from 2019 until early 2023. Walz appointed him to that role, and Grove's departure from state government was publicly congratulated by Walz when he transitioned to the newspaper.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-15 16:40:12+00:00
Respectfully, this is cheap cope. The bomb maker didn't know when he made the bomb, maybe. Now he knows, as do all the people turning the gears on this meat grinder, including a bunch of people here.

If you value your comfy life over the well being of others and the future of not only the country, but without an ounce of hyperbole, the human race, then keep your head down. If you don't, fuckin DO SOMETHING.

You know all those times you've said or heard others say "well if I was in Germany in the 30's...." well, guess what, games fuckin real now. So act like the person you want to be.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-15 16:40:14+00:00
Europe cannot fight a peer war with America: on day one the Americans cut off our cloud services, and all government administration falls over.

(logical consequence of this is that the US invading Greenland is really bad for any US startups, such as one might find on HN, because it makes the EU much more likely to respond with "local only" rules)
by bpodgursky | 2026-01-15 16:40:15+00:00
My point is that China can sustain a naval blockade of Taiwan nearly indefinitely, and at some point Taiwan will have to decide whether they want to live under siege forever (poor, cold, getting everything via scarce and expensive air freight), or give up come to a political solution.

I'm not like, rooting for this, I'm just trying to be realistic.
by Erem | 2026-01-15 16:40:57+00:00
What did the 170 citizens detained in immigration raids last year do that was illegal?

If it was illegal, why were charges either dropped or never filed to begin with for the majority of these cases?

If you are open to understanding why people are so upset, do your mind the favor of reading this high quality reporting on the treatment of US Citizens by ICE

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 16:41:01+00:00
If all those things happened in Spain where I live, I'm 99% we'd have actual riots on the streets, together with a lot of other unpleasant-but-needed civilian action, until things got better, like we've done in the past (sometimes maybe went slightly overboard with it, but better than nothing).

Why are Americans so passive? You're literally transitioning into straight up authoritarianism, yet where are the riots? How are you not fighting back with more than whistles and blocking them in cars? Is there more stuff actually happening on the ground, but there simply isn't any videos of it, or are people really this passive in the land of the free?

Are people inside the country not getting the same news we're getting on the outside? Are you not witnessing your government carrying out extra-judicial murders and then being protected by that same government? I'm really lost trying to understand how the average person (like you reading this) isn't out on the streets trying to defend what I thought your country was all about.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 16:41:19+00:00
> It's a pretty long BOM you're adding to an already expensive BEV, so you don't really have thousands of dollars of budget to add to the production cost.

Agreed. And I don't think it will be cheaper. The Lightning was already selling for less than the comparable ICE equivalent, there is no way they will sell the Lightning EREV at the same price point after adding a generator along with the associated supporting parts. I bet it will be at least 10K more, and I won't be shocked if it's closer to 20K.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-15 16:41:19+00:00
If you want big: get 98” 4k TV, then two 55” TV’s as portrait wings. In portrait the heights of the 55” screens match the 98” screen perfectly.

Mount all three on a wall, with regular TV mounts. Your desk is now clear.

But I recommend just one large TV on your wall if you want to consolidate.

https://imgur.com/a/led-cove-lighting-0OBnR9j

But I still use the Vision Pro.
by roughly | 2026-01-15 16:41:27+00:00
I think there's something about both the myth of the unicorn and of the hero founder/CEO in tech that forces a push towards legibility and easy narratives for a company - it means that, to a greater degree than other industries, large tech companies are a storytelling exercise, and "giant corporate blob that sprawls into everything" isn't a sexy story, nor is "consistent 3% YoY gains," even when that's translating into "we added the GDP of a medium-sized country to our cash pile again this year."

Every time a CEO or company board says "focus," an interesting product line loses its wings.
by wtallis | 2026-01-15 16:41:57+00:00
> yes, if a chip doesn't make M4 Max, it can make M4 Pro. If not, M4. If not, A18 Pro. If not that, A18.

No, that's entirely wrong. All of those are different dies. The larger chips wouldn't even fit in phones, or most iPad motherboards, and I'm not sure a M4 Max or M4 Pro SoC package could even fit in a MacBook Air.

As a general rule, if you think a company might ever be selling a piece of silicon with more than half of it disabled, you're probably wrong and need to re-check your facts and assumptions.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 16:42:01+00:00
Atlantic? IDK if China even has aspirations to play World Police like the US. Military protection of things like their interests and the stability of Belt and Road, sure, but I don’t see China trying something like the Gulf War or OEF.

It’s very possible that they will be able to dominate South China Sea and their zone of the Pacific, even now, given the proximity advantages and ship/missile production; and I think that would be satisfactory to them.

20 years from now, China’s sphere and America’s sphere are separate, with China having a lead in competing for Africa, and Europe in a very weird place socially, economically, demographically, and WRT Russia/US competition.
by silverquiet | 2026-01-15 16:42:08+00:00
> JP Doherty did not want to sign the email. But he knew he didn’t have a choice. His son, Rhys, was scheduled to have strabismus surgery in January, correcting an eye issue that made it difficult for him to walk on his own. The procedure cost $10,000 out of pocket. Doherty discussed the decision with his wife, and while she wanted him to be able to quit, they both knew the kids needed his health insurance. [0]

Regarding Musk's "hardcore" ultimatum at Twitter.

[0]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-ultimatum
by bpanahij | 2026-01-15 16:42:15+00:00
As a dev myself, I see a couple of modes of operation:
- push to talk
- long form conversation
- short form conversation

In both conversational approaches the AI can respond with simple acknowledgements. When prompted by the user the AI could go into longer discussions and explanations.

It might be nice for the AI to quickly confirm it hears me and for it to give me subtle queues that it’s listening: backchannels: “yeah”, and non-verbal: “mhmm”. So I can imagine having a developer assistant that feels more like working with another dev than working with a computer.

That being said, there is room for all modes, all at the same time, and at different times shifting between them. A lot of time I just don’t want to talk at all.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-15 16:42:16+00:00
And, if you criticize them for building these systems, they'll trot out the usual excuses:

- Well, I'm working on interesting technical problems at massive scale. Leave it to the business guys to figure out how to apply it--not my problem.

- Well, I just move protobufs from one middleware API to another. I don't even talk to the application guys.

- Well, I just write the code my boss tells me to write. I don't want to be fired!
by fxtentacle | 2026-01-15 16:42:22+00:00
Let's call it "form over function."

That landing page example is devastatingly bad. You start with a page that has usage numbers, uptime, support 24/7 and a customer rating above the fold. You end up with a page that lacks all of these advantage and instead looks bland and has horrible typography and even less text contrast.

In line with that, the Dashboard looks more organized in the "after" picture, but that's because it lost most of its useful information.
by a456463 | 2026-01-15 16:42:26+00:00
Thank you all in this thread! I couldn't have put it better. I cannot stand "no politics rules". Politics divides and it is personal. But it shouldn't be either of those. We should be attacking policy and not people. No politics rules just deny reality because software doesn't exist in a vacuum without policy and money. Heck most people want to use software to get money which is a product of policy.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-15 16:42:31+00:00
Taiwan's TSMC foundries are their nuclear currency: they must keep them to remain protected by others, and yet the others didn't completely build interchangeable and resilient capacity elsewhere to do what essential for them that they had the money to do.

So now Apple, Nvidia, AMD (possibly), and most car manufacturers will be up a creek without a paddle when China invades in 1-2 years. That is unless China's Xi is bluffing to mollify domestic war hawks and reunification zealots by going through the motions of building an army of war machines without intent to use them, but I don't think that's probable. It's possible that Trump already made agreements with Xi to cede "Oceania" if they allow the US to take Greenland and South America for empire-building neocolonialism.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-15 16:42:32+00:00
Reminder to Americans with a strong sense of American exceptionalism (which is rather incredible given...{gestures broadly at everything happening in the US}): Sovereign states can apply whatever laws they want. They are not beholden to JD Vance, Elon Musk, or Donald "Conman" Trump. They do not care what Americans think about this.
by codebyaditya | 2026-01-15 16:42:37+00:00
Author here. Quick methodology notes:

Data: 20,225 H-1B LCA disclosures from DOL, FY2024, healthcare occupations only Analysis: Python (pandas), mapped ZIP → RUCC codes, median wage by volume quintile Key limitation: This is LCA data (intent to hire), not final USCIS approvals

Interesting rabbit holes:

Urban/rural split isn't binary—codes 4-6 show gradient effects

Wage level inversions strongest in codes 7-9 (most rural)

Happy to answer methodology questions.
by avtar | 2026-01-15 16:43:00+00:00
It's been ages since I used VirtualBox and reading the following didn't make me miss the experience at all:

> Eventually I found this GitHub issue. VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a regression that causes high CPU usage on idle guests.

The list of viable hypervisors for running VMs with 3D acceleration is probably short but I'd hope there are more options these days for running headless VMs. Incus (on Linux hosts) and Lima come to mind and both are alternatives to Vagrant as well.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-15 16:43:21+00:00
The leader of China literally publicly told his military to have “all options for reunification of Taiwan ready by 2027”

What options do you suppose the military might be working on?
Training to surround, and blockade? (Check)
Information warfare? (Check)
Building high numbers of landing craft? (Check)
Building high numbers of modular weapon systems that can rapidly increase the number of offensive ships? (Check)
Building numerous high volume drone warfare ships and airborne launchers? (Check)

Keep in mind that there are public language cues that preceded invasion such as declarations of the invalidity of the other country’s sovereignty, declarations that the other country is already part of the invading country.
Have you seen any signs of that?

Your persistent doubts require ignorance of strong evidence.
by Aerroon | 2026-01-15 16:43:28+00:00
I think the main "culprit" is energy. Europe has had expensive energy prices for decades. Even poor countries in Europe pay 2-3x more for gasoline than Americans do (because of taxes - The EU requires a minimum of $1.47 of excise taxes per gallon of gasoline). I think these energy prices compound to a lot of manufacturing and business not manifesting in Europe.

All the other stuff matters too, but it's crazy to think that paying 2-3x more for fuel wouldn't show up as a negative influence on the economy somewhere. This is particularly the case because Europe didn't go heavily into nuclear and it is one of the worse places for solar power.
by anoojb | 2026-01-15 16:43:55+00:00
So let's say TMSC reciprocated Apple's consistency as a customer by giving them preferential treatment for capacity. It's good business after all.

However, everyone knows that good faith reciprocity at that scale is not rewarded. Apple is ruthless. There are probably thousands of untold stories of how hard Apple has hammered it's suppliers over the years.

While Apple has good consumer brand loyalty, they arguably treat their suppliers relatively poorly compared to the Gold standard like Costco.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 16:44:13+00:00
The "under the control of the mayor" bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolmen%27s_Benevolent_Assoc...

> Approximately 4,000 NYPD officers took part in a protest that included blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and jumping over police barricades in an attempt to rush City Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_San_Francisco_P...

> The ACLU obtained a court order prohibiting strikers from carrying their service revolvers. Again, the SFPD ignored the court order. On August 20, a bomb detonated at the Mayor's home with a sign reading "Don't Threaten Us" left on his lawn.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/nyregion/chiara-de-blasio...

> Among the hundreds of protesters arrested over the four days of demonstrations in New York City over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, only one was highlighted by name by a police union known for its hostility toward Mayor Bill de Blasio. The name of that protester? Chiara de Blasio, the mayor’s daughter.
by xcskier56 | 2026-01-15 16:44:24+00:00
Here's an example. One of my friends works for a manufacturing company. He attended a protest. The next day ICE called his employer and he was informed that if he attended another protest he would be fired. All this b/c he had a small company logo on his jacket.

The ability to en-mass record, lookup and intimidate citizens is unprecedented and while I have no hard proof that this is due to Palantir, it sure smells like it
by lanyard-textile | 2026-01-15 16:44:38+00:00
You'd think I'd feel differently having seven parrots, but you may be surprised to find I agree with you. To an extent anyway. I struggle with it.

Don't bring a parrot into captivity from the wild. Separating them from the life they already know is cruel -- save for medical exceptions, after which you release them back.

But it's already been done, and we have domesticated parrots. They are raised by humans, hand-fed by humans, and they bond with humans. They have slim odds of reintegrating back into the wild, where they fend for their lives against other territorial birds. One swoop from a hawk and they're gone.

Gone, your buddies that are an integral part of your every day. They climb on your shoulder and attach themselves to you like velcro. They mimic your laugh and preen your hair. You trim their nails, you give them all kinds of delicious fruits and veggies every day. They throw fruit back at you that they don't want, like little children throwing a tantrum. They have a giant daytime aviary that takes up quite literally half your home, and their own night time cages to sleep and rest in.

All they know is you and the human touch. They integrated with you and you're their only flock now. The bond of a parrot is extreme and lifelong.

Imagine the devestation when their only flock abandons them. A prior owner of one of my birds left their cage outside an exotic's facility, like a child in a basket outside the fire station.

For another, she came from a flock of two. Her prior owner murdered the other -- the remaining one is laying an egg now.

For two others, their owner's parrots themselves had fertile eggs. She couldn't bring herself to boil, freeze, or smash the eggs as you're supposed to do with eggs you do not want to hatch.

For two others, their prior owner of 25 years passed away. And for one other, she simply needed a new home.

They all have a home here now where they will peacefully enjoy the rest of their lives with me. I hope to never let them go hungry, alone, abused -- so I have to outlive them and make sure I am their last owner.

But as we wish more for our children, I wish more for them. I wish they could fly to the end of a lake and back and know how it feels to feel the breeze under their wings. I wish they could be adopted by a flock of their own kind. That they could endure the harshness of the wild -- and perhaps even come home after a long, fruitful, eventful day outside.

... But who knows if they even want that. :)
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-15 16:45:09+00:00
I think OP has it right.

Tesla with lowest range has 430km, highest range 650. Let's average it to 500km.

The average American driver drives 60km per day. In other words you need to charge less than every 8 days.

You can charge to 80% in about 20-30 minutes.

In other words if you find yourself near a charge (easy) for 20-30 minutes a week (easy), then on average there is no range issue.

You're either in a rural area in a single-family home with home charging, or in low-density urban area with single family home charging, or in a dense urban area with lots of public charging. Very few sit outside these three categories that don't enable them home charging or 20-30 minutes a week public charging.

And that's only going one direction. The number of fastchargers 10x'd in ten years, the range of the model S grew by 50% in the last 15 years, the charging speeds roughly tripled. Sufficient charging infrastructure seems like a solved problem, resolving it is a matter of a mere operational roll-out everywhere rather than a political/technical/economical challenge, a matter of when, not if, and a matter of increasingly smaller pockets of the country that are yet to be fully connected. (whether it's 1% or some other small percentage, range shouldn't be a driving factor for tesla sales anymore).
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-15 16:45:11+00:00
This. I'm really bothered by the almost cruel glee with which a lot of people respond to SO's downfall. Yeah, the moderation was needlessly aggressive. But it was successful at creating a huge repository of text-based knowledge which benefited LLMs greatly. If SO is gone, where will this come from for future programming languages, libraries, and tools?
by br121 | 2026-01-15 16:45:15+00:00
The article doesn't say, "we shouldn't ban for children because it's bad for adults as well", it says, "we shouldn't regulate for the non-voting pouplation only". Alcohol is regulated for adults, not as much as for children of course, but it's nevertheless regulated (and taxed), and from the same people arguing that we should raise the drinking age (in europe, where it's indeed lower than health expert suggests), we hear argument on increased regulations for adults as well. The social media ban, on the other hand, is for children and children only
by AngryData | 2026-01-15 16:45:25+00:00
Why would foreign bodies interfere? Because it is easy money. Unless you limit the number of, and therefore access to, ID verification proofs it will inevitably be sold on the open market to any and all people. And when the problem comes up, will the state admit failure and cancel the program? Unlikely. They will more likely spend far more effort on personally identifying each person online "for the children" which just puts us back at the same problem again, except minus the cost of this whole ID verification scheme that shouldn't exist to start with.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-15 16:45:27+00:00
I now say that these Linux success stories are just like saying you've been married for a year and everything is going fine. It's great that you made it to the first big milestone, but that doesn't mean there aren't legitimate reasons Linux is a bottom contender for user OS. A long, scarring evening of frustration and pain is very likely coming down the road. Will The Verge publish stories about these problems, too? No, they won't!

https://xkcd.com/349/
by Tiberium | 2026-01-15 16:45:38+00:00
Small bug: the sim seems to double count residential population for taxes, industrial pop gets ignored. The duplicate logic seems to exist in UI but it's correct there.

Also I wonder if all the repetition could be reduced, or would it affect performance on MicroPython?

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity/blob/88d07cf98f13bb73...