MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stackskipton | 2026-01-13 18:25:06+00:00
>The voices that are silent are the ones that are shouting from the rooftops when Israel does this to Palestinians.

Depends on the protester and what they are protesting but many of Israel protests have been against US continuing to support/fund Israel and want US government to do something different.

Iran on other hand is US sanctioned and US actively works against it, very different relationship then with Israel.
by Foxboron | 2026-01-13 18:25:12+00:00
> Who exactly are you thinking of that needs a job but doesn't have one?

That is not your claim. Your claim is that they "are on the payroll of one of the big tech interests or a foundation funded by them". Which is simply not true.

You can easily find several maintainers of these projects doing this as their part-time hobby project, have cut a deal at work or simply don't work at place that funds Linux development.

I'm not going to call out individual I know the situation and/or their employment history.
by averysmallbird | 2026-01-13 18:25:35+00:00
As someone very vocal on Iran, I find these recriminations shallow and generally intended to be punitive about those positions in those others places.

By the same precedent, it opens up Iranian human rights activists to the same endless accusations — when were you vocal on M23, Haiti, Kashmir, Kurds, Muslims in India, etc etc. I don't think it's countless silent organizations, and those organizations or activists are generally not in position to be able to influence the IRI or IRGC.

I think you have distinguish between feckless organizations like the ITU, and say, college student campus activists.
Show HN: XAI-style recursive FOL logic tree engine with GUI (2002)
by JAnicaTZ | 2026-01-13 18:25:37+00:00
A recursive logic-tree engine for first-order logic, originally built in 2002 as part of a mathematical logic diploma project.
It uses explicit AST/NNF decomposition with De Morgan transformations and a GUI for step-by-step, explainable (XAI-style) reasoning.
Includes propositional logic, CNF/DNF minimization, and FOL proof search.

Source code: https://github.com/JAnicaTZ/TreeOfKnowledge
by tdeck | 2026-01-13 18:25:38+00:00
> The voices that are silent are the ones that are shouting from the rooftops when Israel does this to Palestinians.

When Israel does this to Palestinians with US made planes and US made bombs, bought largely by US tax dollars? Over and over again for more than 2 years? Shielded from consequences in the UN by the US? Seems pretty sus that Americans would protest that in particular.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-13 18:26:08+00:00
> DJI collects a massive amount of telemetry data and terrain data

At first I found it hard to believe that this is data they wouldn't get more reliably, more extensively from a satellite. But then I imagine, if you were a bad actor, you wouldn't want all the video, all the exact terrain data, etc, but maybe only that near certain points of interest like energy infrastructure, transportation, etc. So this, paired with satellite data is super powerful.

Then again, for most of the US, Google street view exists so there's that, a lot of the data is already out there.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-13 18:26:18+00:00
> This topic is not on the front page for me, yet it was on the front page for you.

I'd suggest checking again. It's around #12 right now. I suspect you didn't actually look and just wanted to make something up to complain about. Which is a strange thing to do, but there are stranger things people do on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603431 - The link in case you want to keep avoiding the front page.
by zahlman | 2026-01-13 18:26:26+00:00
> but at the end of it your only artifact is a bunch of CLI commands executed

That sounds like a failure of process. Executing the commands is supposed to result in a Git commit history, and in principle nothing prevents logging the agent session. I'm told that some users even prompt the AI afterwards to summarize what happened in the session, write .md files to record "lessons learned", etc.
by Yoric | 2026-01-13 18:26:32+00:00
It's a really hard line to walk.

If you put too much in your Telemetry/crash reports, yeah, users become fingerprintable.

On the other hand, if you return spoofed values, it means that Firefox developers cannot debug platform/hardware-specific crashes. If you disable Telemetry, improving performance becomes impossible, because you're suddenly unable to determine where your users suffer. If you remove WebGL, plenty of websites suddenly stop working, and people assume that Firefox is broken.
by anon7000 | 2026-01-13 18:26:40+00:00
Well, for starters, one person really can’t care about every possible issue, even if they wanted to. So people and groups may get very passionate about one thing that really pulls on the heartstrings, hits close to home, or is more related to their own country’s policies. (For example, those protesting Palestine may protest US’s typically very strong support of Israel.)

What am I going to do when I wake up to the news that yet another country under the control of religious fanatics is abusing their people? Demand the US invades them? Go to the streets every single day for every new issue (of which there are countless)? Demand sanctions against their government (already broadly exists)? Fly there myself? (Not sure if possible, and what help would that do?)

Who is choosing to be silent about Iran? Lack of knowledge, maybe, but deliberate planning? That would be the fault of media and perhaps the wealthy controlling the media, if it’s happening. Not the everyday person. I guarantee you, next to no one wakes up and decides “hm, I will choose to not talk about X atrocity today.”

You’re angry at the wrong people.
by whatshisface | 2026-01-13 18:26:49+00:00
That is the intended conclusion of my post, that body fat is obviously regulated biologically, and suggestions that changes in obesity rates are due to the increased availability of food (implying that it was regulated by some sort of precise cycle of starvation in the past) or individual choices (implying that most people are measuring portions and keeping a running tally) are in conflict with that.
by nbpname | 2026-01-13 18:27:32+00:00
The value brought by NixOS is on line 6.

--config ${config.sops.secrets."rclone.conf".path} \

NixOS let you build the abstraction you want, and mix them with abstractions provided by others, and this single line illustrates this point extremely well as `sops` is not yet part of NixOS.

Secret management would likely come in NixOS in the future, but in the mean time you can add either use https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix or https://github.com/ryantm/agenix to make it possible to manage files which have content that should not be public.

Other package managers also provide some abstraction over the packages, and would likely see the same systemd configuration abstracted the same way in post-install scripts. Yet, the encrypted file for `rclone.conf` would come as a static path in `/etc`.

You could resume NixOS as having moved the post-install script logic before the installation, yet this tiny detail gives you additional abilities to mix the post-install scripts and assert consistency ahead of making changes to the system.
by robomartin | 2026-01-13 18:27:34+00:00
> I've been saying it for ages, but a decent easily available western equivalent to the ESP32 (meaning easy WiFi) needs to happen

- Texas Instruments SimpleLink CC32xx (CC3220 / CC3235)
- TI CC3235MODA module
- Renesas DA16200
- Microchip PIC32MZ-W1
- Microchip WFI32 module family
- Silicon Labs SiWx917 / SiWG917
- Silicon Labs SiWx917Y module
- Nordic Semiconductor nRF7001/7002 WiFi 6 IC
- Use with nRF52, nRF53 or nRF91 series SoCs
- STMicroelectronics STM32 with ST67W series pre-certified WiFi modules

These solutions are priced well for commercial and industrial solutions at scale.

If necessary one can use any cheap hobby solution for initial development and then port to an industrial-class SoC solution. We've done this a few times during pandemic era shortages; using the RP2040 to get through prototyping and development and then switching the design to an industrial-grade chip.
by Yoric | 2026-01-13 18:27:35+00:00
> Disabling Javascript or even just third party scripts does lead to major breakage, but reporting spoofed values for identifiers like Tor does not. The Arkenfox user.js does all of this and more, but these options are not enabled by default. This shows that Firefox does not care much about privacy in practice.

I suspect that it shows that Firefox developers do a good job at making Firefox work, and this good job enables forks to work.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-01-13 18:27:51+00:00
That doesn’t suggest it isn’t a human willpower issue. If anything it suggests there is a fundamental flaw in human willpower in general. That when we get fat, happy, sedentary, peaceful, that most humans are susceptible to taking it easy, becoming lethargic, chasing easy quick neurotransmitters.

I think the reason I am not obese myself is that I am aware of all this. The hedonic treadmills. Calories in calories out. What processed food actually means. Understanding what the ingredients actually do. Maintaining an active lifestyle.

For me, the way forward was simply education. Once aware of all this, it becomes impossible to live another way. Maybe that is what we should market to people: knowledge that empowers lasting changes to behavior instead of quick fix shots/pills/diets.
by zahlman | 2026-01-13 18:28:20+00:00
> Next, I generally treat the agent like a mid-level engineer who answers to me. That is to say, I do not try to convince it to code like I do, instead I treat it like a member on my team. When I'm on a team, we stick to standards and use tools like prettier, etc to keep the code in shape. My personal preferences go out the window, unless there's solid technical reason for others to follow them.

Do you suppose it would work to prompt a separate agent to infer coding style preferences from your commits and then refactor the first agent's work to bring it in line?
by raddan | 2026-01-13 18:29:38+00:00
I installed a 16.5kWp ground-mount array a month ago. I live in the US Northeast, in a mountainous location that means we get late sunrises and early sunsets. Nevertheless, based on my one month of data, it looks like we can generate all the power we need for our household on a sunny winter day, excluding electric vehicles. Even on overcast days, we can sometimes offset a significant portion of our usage. My locale does not have time-of-use rates, so there’s no point trying to do arbitrage for electricity prices. So right now I just have our battery configured for backup. My hope is that during the summer months I can reconfigure the system to use the battery to reduce grid reliance instead.

The expiring tax credits were what forced my hand. I’m the kind of person who likes to install things himself, and I probably would have gone that route for solar too, because the materials costs (sans battery) aren’t even half of the total cost.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2026-01-13 18:29:44+00:00
This has been mentioned a few times in this thread. But it doesn't really make a lot of sense, especially in the case of someone famous.

If two or three days ago, not knowing he was sick (which I didn't), I had said to someone "That Dilbert guy seems to be sort of a whack job," why would it matter that he was alive to hypothetically defend himself? It's extremely unlikely that he would ever be aware of my comment at all. So why does it matter that he's alive?
by zackmorris | 2026-01-13 18:29:44+00:00
Came here to say this. Journalism is increasingly seen as part of the commons (public good), like utilities. Under free market forces, it turns into propaganda for capitalists (moneyed interests - not workers), the same way that private utilities charge extortionary prices because people have little alternative.

So the litmus test I use is that if a politician works to undermine public funding of journalism, then they're the product of lobbyists, or at least beholden to moneyed interests in some way, and not a public servant.
by gowld | 2026-01-13 18:29:49+00:00
> For traditional arts, you've gotta be good.

> > advertisements, press releases, publications contracts, or endorsements

> > box office receipts or record, cassette, compact disk, or video sales

> > Evidence of having commanded a high salary or other significantly high remuneration for services in relation to others

I fail to see the distinction you are trying to draw. Commercial value and celebrity has always been one of the metrics of "achievement".

The overall gist is that the visa application should be someone who is not easily replaced by an existing local worker that can generate similar value.
by triceratops | 2026-01-13 18:30:29+00:00
How do you measure the depreciation? The panels deliver at least 70%, but probably closer to 80%, output after 25 years. The batteries need replacing after maybe 15 years. Assuming that knocks a couple percent points off the return (batteries can only get cheaper and cheaper) that's still a solid 7% long term yield with no default risk. Share your math if you disagree.

EDIT: Two more things that will juice the return

1. Grid electricity prices will go up over those 25 years, at the very least tracking inflation.

2. Unlike bond coupon payments, the "return" from a solar installation isn't taxable. Because you're saving money, not getting paid.
by andrewl | 2026-01-13 18:30:55+00:00
I would say USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has done good work overseas:

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

Like all large organizations and projects they are not absolutely perfect or ethical, as you can see in the Concerns and criticism section towards the bottom of the Wikipedia page. Still, I think they made some contribution to humanity. I have seen articles saying the withdrawal of funding has definitely hurt communities USAID had been helping.

I know the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) do (or did) disease prevention work outside the US. There are other examples like these. I don’t know if the government did more good than bad, but they certainly have done some good that is not just designed to benefit American big capitalists.
by Yoric | 2026-01-13 18:31:32+00:00
I feel that, at some point around the Brendan Eich-gate, the Internet decided that Mozilla was always wrong. Change the shape of tabs? We received rape threats. Change it back? Bomb threats. Bringing in new APIs for add-ons that make Firefox faster, more secure, more stable and doesn't break all the time? No, we want addon $X, we don't care about security.

I'm not going to claim that everything Mozilla has done is right, but the bad will of the tech crowd is a bit exhausting.

Writing this as a former Firefox contributor.
by emil-lp | 2026-01-13 18:31:41+00:00
Here it is, unabridged

Make a will.

Pay off your credit card balance.

Get term life insurance if you have a family to support.

Fund your company 401K to the maximum.

Fund your IRA to the maximum.

Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it.

Put six months’ expenses in a money market account.

Take whatever is left over and invest it 70 percent in a stock index fund and 30 percent in a bond fund through any discount brokerage company and never touch it until retirement

If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issue), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges you a percentage of your portfolio.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2026-01-13 18:32:22+00:00
This progressive movement is absolutely totalitarian.

As long as you adhere to all mainstream tenets, you're good and virtuous, like pre-2018 JK Rowling. Gay Dumbledore, yay!

But if the mainstream tenets change, and some previously loyal followers disagree with some of them, they should be ostracised, cancelled and vilified, like post-2019 JK Rowling.

The funny thing is that this is what real fascists and communists did to a T, yet, progressive people view themselves as anti-fascists.
by gowld | 2026-01-13 18:32:50+00:00
> Hollywood had a ton of issues but it at least had some... class?

Hollywood took a bribe from the tobacco industry to make smoking "cool" and infect our nation with cigarettes.

> have little self-awareness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mpUxn7NybY : "A big opportunity for us is that there are no gatekeepers. There's no one I have to convince to let me do things."

:-)
by tartoran | 2026-01-13 18:32:59+00:00
> He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared language for everything broken about corporate life.

Same to me when it comes his comics. There is an ugly part I did not like about Scott Adams but, that doesn't mean I will like his work (Dilbert) less. I have to admit it felt disappointing to to find out about his vitriol online. Best wishes to his family and rest in peace for Scott.
by Spivak | 2026-01-13 18:33:02+00:00
Huh? I have this permission in Firefox right now. It looks like Safari handles this with the OS local network permission.

True I did assume machines are single user, I haven't seen a shared computer in ages. Doing local development I have insecure/incomplete software listening on localhost all the time while developing it. And lots of people have passwordless sudo, or unprivileged access to the docker socket so protection against local processes running as me is not part of my threat model. And I know this is pretty dev centric but OpenCode is dev centric as well.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-13 18:33:03+00:00
this is not really about VCs as much as wealthy tech billionaires who have learned that no one listened to their political thoughts & beliefs, but they can now use their technology & money to circumvent the need to gain a democratic mandate. Peter Thiel has literally stated this strategy, and you've recently watched them all fall in line, even if it meant massive whiplash from their previously stated positions.
by taeric | 2026-01-13 18:33:06+00:00
Fair that I think it is valuable to know some things are stronger adaptations than others. I just don't see the point in claiming it is not, itself, an adaptation. Feels very "not actually evolution" in claim. It is, but there are obvious limits to what it can achieve.

As an easy example, to your point, would you say that adaptation and evolution lead to land creatures? There are obvious limits to how quickly and how well that could have possibly worked. But it also feels safe to say that some organisms almost certainly had a level of plasticity that made it more likely for them to survive the process?
by order-matters | 2026-01-13 18:33:06+00:00
im a systems engineer and cost analyst who has put together some modeling myself as well. as a personal investment on your house, i agree. The economic value of solar seems to be best applied as neighborhood or block purchases, like as part of a co-op or hoa. they would need dedicated infrastructure like a communal parking lot with solar overhead, or running them on the property line borders with an easement underneath for servicing, using property fencing as main support (with upgraded fencing)

basically, the way it really makes sense (to me) is to integrate it as part of a micro-grid system, possibly with generator backups and everything to also keep the lights on in the entire neighborhood if the main grid goes down.

its a higher upfront cost on paper, but way less variables with the roof and you are grouping multiple peoples needs together so the gamble goes down on repairs. the poles for ground-mounting can be used for 40 - 60 years, so you would get multiple panels out of them

probably a bureaucratic nightmare though
by twalla | 2026-01-13 18:33:06+00:00
Ignore the numbers - the gist is being good enough at the right two or three things can create similar value for you as being the best at one specific thing.

Everyone (for the sake of my argument) wants to be an engineer at a FAANG but there are tons of folks making more money with more autonomy because they've found a niche that combines their good-enough technical ability with an understanding or interest in an underserved market.
by AuthAuth | 2026-01-13 18:33:24+00:00
No, its not misleading it says right there in the private policy.

Apple isnt suddenly private just because they have enough data about you that they dont need to link to 3rd party data. They do exactly what 3rd party sites that are considered privacy invasive do. They serve you ads based on your private data like what you watch, what you read and what things you do on your device.

It doesnt say that they only store all this information on device. Apple is only using a random identifier when its sharing information about your habits and personal data on its ad platform, that info btw is shared with 3rd parties. But dont worry that data suddenly becomes non personal because they used a random identifier.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-13 18:33:27+00:00
The difference is that the purpose of government in China is to govern effectively. They dedicate resources to producing leaders who have proven they can govern at lower levels to some degree (you always find that the corruption in China comes from leaders who came up through SOEs or similar). In terms of civil service and province-level leadership, it is just incredibly effective.

In the UK, you have leaders who are incredibly unpopular, they have no real skills, and they spend most of their time pandering to very small groups of people for various reasons. There is no real incentive to do anything relevant to voters, in fact you have seen over the last five years that political engagement has dropped significantly in a way that has generally benefitted incumbents.

To say this another way: the point of the UK system is so that people who are manifestly unfit to govern end up governing, and a small rotating group of special interests are continually pandered to (there is complete blindness to this in the UK, people often assume this is wealthy people when wealthy people are largely ignored...a politics grad working in research for a think tank will have more power in actual government than someone who gives £10m to the governing party).
by andrepd | 2026-01-13 18:33:35+00:00
> The voices that are silent are the ones that are shouting from the rooftops when Israel does this to Palestinians.

As the comment you just replied to says, Iran is already sanctioned and bombed, while Israel gets billions in military (and other) aid from US and the rest of the West. It's abundantly clear that there's a difference.

And furthermore, so you have to have a decibel meter perfectly calibrated for every tragedy that happens on planet earth, or your arguments are nullified? Preposterous.