MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by globular-toast | 2025-04-05 09:32:28+00:00
I did get fit and remain so. But I realised chasing higher numbers wasn't for me. I find the refusal to accept the natty limit in lifting weird. I'm stronger than almost everyone and I've proved this with real life useful work like moving house all by myself. Eventually you realise the lifting is just a sport and I don't like sports.

I find the whole thing super fake now. People eating 5 chickens a week that were slaughtered for them in horrible conditions. Burning fossil fuels to move their obese body to the gym every day to go do pretend work in air conditioned boxes. Tell themselves BMI is bullshit and doesn't work for extremely muscular outliers like them and they're just "bulking" and that somehow eating 3000+ calories a day is good for them. Oh and I guess tell themselves that not being able to walk after a workout is somehow good for them.

Nowadays I walk, run and cycle outside, do calisthenics at home, do intermittent fasting every single day, eat delicious food, remain shredded, take no supplements and still have my hair.

Gyms are good for adults to train from the general blob like form we all seem to regress to after childhood into the form they always should have been. I think the ideal would be just maintaining childhood strength all the way into adulthood, so just doing exercise basically. Gyms are only necessary because there are adults with so little functional strength that they'd injure themselves if they tried to do a single dip or lift a box.

Standard strength goals should be being able to walk 30km, 1000m ascent with a 10kg pack. Being able to cycle 100 miles. Being able to lift your own bodyweight from a dead hang. Being able to lift a 100kg box shaped load etc. Real strength.

I'm not saying nobody should do it for a sport, though. I love strongman (specifically World's Strongest Man). But you have to realise to compete there you need to be on copious amounts of gear, just like any other sport. You just have to be real with yourself about what your goals are.
by harshreality | 2025-04-05 09:33:31+00:00
Internet Archive has a 1961 edition, and it's mirrored on 4nn4's Archive.

https://archive.org/details/principlesofelec0000unse_a3j0

(AA can be searched using an archive.org file slug, e.g. "principles...a3j0", or obviously by using the title)
by kashunstva | 2025-04-05 09:35:13+00:00
The submission to personal aesthetic standards, which in some cases has required surgical procedures raises the question of where the dividing line between political movement and cult should be drawn. The entire movement seems to be characterized by devotion to a singular central figure who claims special authoritative insights which transcend the world of analysis, cause-and-effect and expertise - the sort of world that most of us here occupy. Advisors have told us to "Trust in Trump," when we question the administration's economic interventions. It borders on an appeal to a supernatural understanding.

Values, preferences and political orientations aside, there's something very cultish about this movement. Cult of personality, perhaps.[0]

[0]: https://archive.org/details/B-001-027-599-ALL/page/n1/mode/2...
by canucker2016 | 2025-04-05 09:37:02+00:00
One of the main technical nuances about the new Eclipse box mentioned in the book was the management edict for "no mode bit" in the machine architecture/CPU.

The book never explains how the team solved this restriction.

Someone asked that exact question and Carl Alsing himself (head of the Microkids) answers the question, see https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/44915/data-general-mv...
by fragmede | 2025-04-05 09:37:56+00:00
Damn. Because California has been rug pulled. The underground weed economy was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in black market revenue. That money's now gone to Oklahoma because the legal cannabis laws are more favorable there, leaving a absolutely gaping hole in California's economy that can't be replaced by growing alternative crops like saffron, or, in keeping with the illegal theme, poppies/heroin or coca/cocaine. Because it was illegal before legalization, there are scant few stats on just how large it was, but where'd growers used to get $4,000/lb, they're now getting $400/lb. (I have this conspiracy theory level theory, in that San Francisco used to be home to illegal grow ops which forced pg&e to upgrade transformers and substations to support pre-led grow lights, which were massively power hungry. since that power is now no longer needed because those grow ops are no longer viable thanks to legalization, but the upgraded substations remain, the rise of electric cars isn't quite the emergency it should be.)

So much of the arts and Burning Man and entire communities in the Emerald Triangle were propped up by that money, and it's gone.

Time will tell how things go for California. I remain hopeful, but there's just no real data about the black market thanks to its very nature, so it's hard to know just how large that gaping hole is.
by rapjr9 | 2025-04-05 09:37:57+00:00
Another possible retaliation is countries stop exports of particular products to the US. China has already done this with rare earth based materials. Asian countries could decide not to allow the US to buy specific small popular microcontrollers. This can be worked around, but it takes time to lay out a new PCB, port the firmware, and test it all, and that costs money.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-05 09:38:24+00:00
NNCP has modern security: full end-to-end encryption, onion routing, cryptographic signatures, and so forth. It also can use anything from synchronized folders to USB sticks as carriers, in addition to the regular Internet.

It turns out that all the most common MTAs (Mail Transport Agents; mail servers) still have the hooks for UUCP. So NNCPNET takes advantage of that, substitutes in NNCP plus some routing and verification logic, and poof: instant email network.
by rzk | 2025-04-05 09:38:54+00:00
GrapheneOS offers good OPSEC against Cellebrite: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

This comment, at the end of the thread, is particularly interesting:

My Pixel 6 was confiscated by the German police after a political rally. I was recently able to pick it up again. From an inquiry with my lawyer, the following emerged: The authorities tried to read the device with both UFED4PC and Cellebrite Premium Touch. In addition, software from other forensic providers was used without success. The software did not succeed in breaking the system. The device was in BFU mode and had a 30-digit PIN. USB port was deactivated. As of March 2025, I can therefore say that it is not possible for Cellebrite to break a secured GrapheneOS.
by lindenr | 2025-04-05 09:40:32+00:00
Really interesting! It does need an explanation - took me a bit of clicking around to discover the rules (which I actually enjoyed because it turned out not to be too complicated! But some will give up early).

One aspect I liked about the larger puzzle sizes it that the topology becomes nontrivial: you can work out for sure that a cell has to be marked without knowing the exact path from the edge inwards, which you later narrow down.

Feature request: can interior cells be marked? Right now it's disallowed which helps rule discovery but requires the user to remember more.
by orignklcx | 2025-04-05 09:40:37+00:00
I think the graph can be misleading because it groups all countries into a single homogenous groups. Western countries with more time and resources have indeed reduced the need to burn coal, but a lot of developing nations now tapping into industrialization haven't been so lucky.

Renewables are whole another beast, we've never been that great at storing energy, burning things is relatively simple in principle; just burn the amount you need at the right time.
by wruza | 2025-04-05 09:40:51+00:00
I don't talk due to disinterest in "people" things. I can say thousands of words if you project a stereotype in astronomy, physics, medieval/fantasy warfare, and so on. But most people don't do that, so all they hear is hi and mhmm/yes/no. Politeness apart, couldn't care less how's the day going, who seen whom and other people stuff.

Also I know/knew enough women who were mostly silent both in small and large groups (don't know the reason though).

I don't think it's gender-specific per se, but in my personal, opinionated experience the "women talk more" effect is due to the perceived uselessness of the talks that the most talkative of them have. When people talk about the topics you're not interested in, you think "they can't shut up can they" much more than when you're interested or neutral.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-05 09:43:22+00:00
> Funny he put like Martinique which is a territory governed by France

More 'funny': Diego Garcia (officially British Indian Ocean Territory).

An island in the Indian Ocean whose only inhabitants are UK and US military personnel.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia

* https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/5-bizarre-locations-hit-by-t...

It might actually be ha-ha funny if this wasn't creating havoc on international commerce and people's lives.
by sschueller | 2025-04-05 09:43:29+00:00
At this point you have a better chance of being freed from this prison camp being a citizen of any other nation than the US which is sending people there without giving them a chance to prove that they are innocent or a citizen of the United States.

At least another nation will do whatever they can to get you home unlike the US that just doesn't care. "We made a mistake but we don't care. Nothing we can do." Truly abhorrent especially when the US can do so much to get someone if they really want.
Ask HN: Where to find problems, users or ideas for a SaaS?
by Allyedge | 2025-04-05 09:45:06+00:00
Hello!

I claim myself to be a relatively good and fast developer, with the ability and experience in many various technologies from full stack web to mobile to embedded.

Yet I always have the issue of not knowing what to build, especially when it comes to a SaaS. I can never come up with a proper idea that could actually gain any users, let alone generate any money, and when I do, I never know how to actually gain those users or advertise.

Could anyone guide me on how to actually learn to build SaaS projects?
by re-thc | 2025-04-05 09:45:15+00:00
> I can't shake the feeling that I am not building anything novel and someone with basic software engineering background can replicate the idea with the help of AI.

Why are you so fussed about what tool is being used? The product should be novel, not whether it's AI or not.

As long as the product is good, why would customers care if it's AI or not? There have also been plenty of existing products calling themselves AI if that's all you're after.

The world is huge. Even without AI, there are enough people that can replicate most things these days. OpenAI thought it was "safe". No so eh?
by kevin-S0 | 2025-04-05 09:45:31+00:00
OxaPay: A KYC-free crypto payment gateway built for developers and startups. Multi-chain (BTC, ETH, USDT, etc.), real-time settlement, and APIs that don’t mess around—fast, private, scalable. Not the first, but maybe the most developer-ready.

Check it out: • oxapay.com • Docs: docs.oxapay.com • Blog: oxapay.com/blog • X: twitter.com/oxapay

Dev feedback welcome—especially if you’re into payments, APIs, or Web3.
by yoaviram | 2025-04-05 09:46:01+00:00
This is not true. Current CBP policy instructs officers to only inspect data residing on the device, not to probe your online accounts. Obviously any data loaded in apps that are already open when you hand over your phone are fair game, which is why the advice is to turn off the phone before handing it over.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/26/phone-sea...
Former BCPL compiler maintainer Simon Langley has died
by kevthecoder | 2025-04-05 09:46:27+00:00
Simon used to maintain the BCPL compiler at Warwick University and helped many people start their careers in Computer Science.

I knew him as a very funny and friendly near neighbour, and occasionally he'd tell some tales from computer history. He graduated from Cambridge and got his first job in Computer Science from an interview with Tony Hoare. It wasn't a technical interview in those days, it was a chat over lunch. This must have been the 1950s or 60s.

Amongst other jobs, he worked at Warwick University. He used to tell of the scramble to find people to teach computer science in the early days (I think he was Head of School?).

He has since helped many people start their careers in Computer Science, even until recently when he was a tutor for Open University. He was very sharp, but also had a great sense of humour, so I imagine learning from him was a pleasure.

He kept learning until the end. Before he started his cancer treatment he was worried it would affect his memory. He learnt Go so he could test his memory before and after.

Simon is survived by his lovely wife Eleanor. I think I just found his Phd thesis (https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/lazy-exact-real-computation) and his acknowledgements say this about Eleanor "I owe her more that I can say for this and for everything."

I just thought I'd mention his passing here in case anyone had interactions with him and would like to share them.
by fragmede | 2025-04-05 09:47:03+00:00
Sympathy involves understanding someone’s feelings from your own perspective and feeling sorry for their situation. Empathy means putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, imagining their feelings and experiencing their emotions as if they were your own.

Based on those definitions, mechanical empathy seems more correct. It describes the ability to understand and intuitively sense how machines or mechanical systems work, almost like understanding.
by OJFord | 2025-04-05 09:48:18+00:00
Alright take 2020 then: year started $1.32/£, ended at 1.37. The world was shaken by SARS-nCoV-2019, but I do not remember us feeling particularly extra shaken by Brexit crisis.

That is not really relevant anyway, the up-thread suggestion was that there was some current ongoing crisis more significant than anything happening in the US. That user didn't even mention Brexit, but if that is what they meant, no, I assure you it's predominantly Trump and tax year end stuff in our news.
by codedokode | 2025-04-05 09:49:06+00:00
It's great to see more freely available fonts. But the site shows examples of a font in an elephant size; this seems to be the font for the main text so it would be nice to see a paragraph in a small size (like 16px, 14px, 12px, 10px). Out of curiosity I did it using Developer Tools in a browser - seems legible.
by bakuninsbart | 2025-04-05 09:50:55+00:00
Bukele, who calls himself "the coolest dictator in the world" [0], won his first election in 2019, and his second election in 2024 in landslides. El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world and was basically dominated by brutal cartels. Bukeles solution to this was to use the military to round up everyone who is a suspected gang member. Note that this includes people who simply have too many tattoos or are young male who have relatives related to gangs. They built a mega-prison, aka concentration camp to contain these people, but it seems like it is significantly below capacity, estimated at 16k prisoners while being able to "house" up to 40k people. The conditions in the prison are aweful [1].

It is important to note that his policies seem to be very popular in El Salvador, and other latin american countries are thinking about emulating them. Internal security appears to be much higher now than just a few years ago.

But even if you support extremely harsh and unlawful action against cartels, I would hope that most people see the decision to "rent out" space for foreign "criminals" as a dangerous slippery slope. The government there is now planning to build a similar type of facilities for white collar criminals alleged of corruption, which is a classic in the fascist playbook of wiping out internal opposition. [2]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/26/naybib-bukele-...

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/17/americas/el-salvador-pris...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center#I...
by disillusioned | 2025-04-05 09:51:54+00:00
Interestingly, there aren't any listed on whosampled, but a comment there calls out that the bass line borrows extremely heavily from Curtis Mayfield's Tripping Out (and a bit more than the bass, if you listen to it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCR6ecWb064

Not quite a sample necessarily, but more than a bit of inspiration there.

And when you watch the Discovery sample deconstruction videos, it becomes obvious just how much artistry went into their albums... how they'd hear the tiny guitar riff and mix it into exactly what they need for so many tracks.

God, I love Daft Punk.
by ZeroTalent | 2025-04-05 09:52:05+00:00
The opposite is true.

We hedge our bets (hence the name hedge funds) so that in market downturns, we use the profits from these weird investments that hit the green without liquidating the typical stocks. We use that money to buy the dips on regular stocks, failing businesses, and cheap real estate. Then, the market rebounds, and we still have our SPX without taking losses. You only get richer once you hit approximately $20M net worth and understand this.

Institutional investors love recessions. At my trade desk firm in Chicago (CBOE) during Covid we were each making the firm like $300k/hour scalping retails with a 20% cut.
by praptak | 2025-04-05 09:53:20+00:00
I have this optimistic belief that there exists this platonic ideal of a configuration language which isn't a programming language but is still expressible enough.

I think of it as an algebra of configurations and there are at least two existing languages that implement this ideal. One of them is Jsonnet and the other is internal to Google (and might have influenced Jsonnet).

That said, obviously a good language is not enough. You still need good judgement about which stuff goes into configuration.
by infoSecer | 2025-04-05 09:53:46+00:00
It always blows my mind that nobody at Google thought it would be a good idea to very carefully review the answer of the AI. In the second screenshot, the prompt asks about CVE-2024-3400, and at first glance this appears ok.

But in the affected systems section it states:

> Also Hitachi Energy RTU500 firmware and Siemens Ruggedcom APE1808 firmware.

I cannot find any reference that this Hitachi device is vulnerable to that CVE. Hitachi has a nice interface to list all vulnerabilities of their devices, this CVE is not part of it. In the Mitigation section any mention of Hitachi is also missing. Almost as if this device is not vulnerable.

There is some more weirdness, like it doesn't mention the "portal" feature is also vulnerable.
by Symbiote | 2025-04-05 09:53:48+00:00
Britain took 4 years to negotiate and prepare for the new trading arrangement with the EU. It wasn't all smooth, but they did things like massively expand customs facilities at sea and airports to allow for the new inspections, train up inspectors for animal and plant imports. It gave time for people to move, companies to move their HQ, set up new warehouses, etc. Both sides were clear that the arrangement wouldn't be changed back with a change of government — the EU had no patience for that, opposition parties in the UK said they wouldn't aim for it either.

The USA hasn't done any of that, so the situation at this stage isn't the same.

Weeks after Brexit happened, when Covid started, EU governments quickly moved their focus to the pandemic. Since then, they've continued to tell Britain they aren't interested in reopening discussions so soon after new treaties were signed.

That's changed slightly with Russia/Ukraine/Trump, as the UK has positioned itself carefully between the USA and the rest of NATO.

All that time though, it remains a topic of debate in Britain since they haven't seen any of the promised benefits of Brexit. Some things have got worse, but I'd say it's generally a problem of stagnation, compared to improvements in comparable neighbouring countries.
by orwin | 2025-04-05 09:54:57+00:00
It's the consequence of having 'limited liability' for every company. People take advantage of those, and it start to define your business culture.

I understand limited liability is useful when going public, but allowing it for private companies is imho a huge mistake, and just me regulated. Or rather, to please my anti regulation friends: the regulation that prevents debt owners to go after executive/capitalists who owe them should be lifted.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-05 09:59:18+00:00
The burden of proof is not on the person telling you that a citation is needed when claiming that something is impossible. Vague phrases mean nothing. You need to prove that there are these fundamental limitations, and you have not done that. I have been careful to express that this is all theoretical and possible, you on the other hand are claiming it is impossible; a much stronger claim, which deserves a strong argument.

> I don't know why you can so confidently claim that neural models can mimic what humanity knows so little about.

I'm simply not ruling it out. But you're confidently claiming that it's flat out never going to happen. Do you see the difference?
by bob1029 | 2025-04-05 09:59:41+00:00
> I’ve spent pretty much every night in recent memory burning through video games, and I finally, inevitably, hit the wall with that approach.

I burned out on gaming a few years ago. I used to be able to power through weeks of the most inane incremental "game" slop as if it was a voyage to the new world. Now I struggle to force myself to play the most acclaimed AAA titles for 15-20 minutes. I still browse the steam store from time to time, but I finally stopped buying things.

The amount of time I spend on side projects has almost perfectly filled the gap. There have even been a few nights recently where I stayed up very late to watch an experiment unfold. We're talking about staring at a single chart that updates once a second for hours that is getting my heart rate up like a League of Legends game.

I think from a dopamine perspective, you can make a good trade here. The other side can feel even better. It's the transition period that hurts. You've got to get that first tiny bit of traction on the project so it feels like you might eventually have an impact in the world around you. The more it sucks during the first 48 hours, the more likely it will stick indefinitely. When you come back in the morning to a successful experiment run or a good stopping point, it can very quickly snowball into something that rivals the pharmacology of gaming.
by feelamee | 2025-04-05 10:00:41+00:00
Why not take an existing small language, which have good documentation and tooling? E.g. lua. It can be integrated very fast and anyone can learn it in a few minutes.

> In the pub after work someone quips, “we’re back where we started four years ago, hard coding everything, except now in a much crappier language.”

For me it's not the same. Four years ago - you hardcoding values in (probably) compiled language. So, you were need to recompile it each time the value changes. Now - you writing (probably) in interpretet DSL. So, your compiled app can reload it at runtime.
by thefounder | 2025-04-05 10:01:16+00:00
Well Hamas’s massacre didn’t buy Palestine any good will/support, did it? I think the approval rate of Hamas was at historic levels after the massacre so that should tell you about the people in Gaza/Palestine(politically speaking of course)

Now Israel can do whatever they want because “nobody” is going to support what seamed like a terrorist state.

They chose violence and violence they get. It didn’t pay off. Not many people want to get involved into Palestine now. Not even the Arab states.