MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lordnacho | 2026-01-01 12:09:37+00:00
I think there's something to this idea in the article. I remember my childhood well, perhaps because the cast is still somewhat intact, and we all had a good time. The time after finishing school is more blocky: a few years working in certain places, meeting my wife and having kids. My adult life takes up more calendar time, but less "experienced time". My cousin was on a chat last night, explaining that his day is taken up by taking three kids to different schools, then picking them up again. Over and over, but somehow it is one experience. Plenty of people will tell you the same about going to work.

By contrast, you remember things in your youth that happened only once, like spraining my ankle at a crossing with a train oncoming (it was less dramatic that it sounds lol), or going to a music festival, or finishing high school.

One thing that maybe needs to be talked about is that you can simply relive your life. This works best if you had a good time. So the answer to the question is not just that you should look for new firsts, you can replay some old tapes.

I'm lucky enough that I know people from every time in my life. I have a chat group with three other guys that I met when we were 4 years old, over 40 years ago. They sent messages last night. I got a message from my first grade teacher, and my high school English teacher. I have a chat with all my buddies from school, where we exchange messages that are about as mature as when we were teenagers. People I worked with, I keep in touch with.

I have an online photo album that is basically the only data I care to have a backup of. Now and again, I flip through it, and I see what I was up to, and have nice thoughts about that.

It might sound a bit weird for a mid-40s guy to be so resigned to being old. But I was talking to one of the mentioned buddies from nursery, and I turns out the big milestones have happened already. We already finished school, got jobs, had kids. There's a lot of little things to tick off, but they are little things: visiting various interesting sites, going to some concert, and so on.
by Yokohiii | 2026-01-01 12:11:41+00:00
I think moralism is an side effect of the demise of spiritualism in the west. We somehow have to shape moral values, the lack of a framework for it makes it feel blunt and chaotic.

That being said, I find it odd to moralize on moralism. We have way too many people in power that are awful humans and do a bad job and never get punished.

Meanwhile, stealing a car because you are hungry can be the begin of a ruined life.

There is no balance.

(This isn't about buffet, idc, just about your interwoven opinion.)
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-01 12:12:25+00:00
EU law is not at fault here. At fault are the websites that feel the need to be so obnoxious in their behavior, that they are told to have those consent prompts for all the obnoxious shit they engage in. Basically, the EU is doing the Lord's work here, making there sites annoying, so that people might be persuaded to leave those websites. Unfortunately, the EU does not persecute harshly enough, so that all kinds of grifters do not follow the law and get away with it.
by samiv | 2026-01-01 12:12:34+00:00
Depending on the exercise you can also do this without a spotter.

Either do cheat reps and focus on the negative (works with small exercise such as bicep curls) or drop set or super set.

My personal fav is the cheat and negative and I do it a lot for example in cable pulldown. Use a bit of bodyweight to pull it down and then 5s negative.
by beAbU | 2026-01-01 12:12:44+00:00
This uncertainty of what things cost would kill me. It must be terrible!

We had a baby 2 weeks ago, which included 4 nights in the hospital before and after the birth, a surprise c-section, various specialists, follow ups, consultants and blood tests.

Our total outlay so far is about €30 for the parking at the hospital every day.

We have insurance, but we did not use it for the baby. I need to see a dermatologist next week. Cost will be €300, which I can claim back from my insurance afterwards. I just punch the doctor's name into my insurance portal, and they list the procedures and the amounts I'm covered for each.

If I asked my GP to refer me to a public dermatologist, I would have waited longer for an appt, but I would have only had to worry about parking at the hospital, everything else would be free.
by anthk | 2026-01-01 12:13:22+00:00
"Children" (teens, actually) could just join their own social media sites. Or use proxies, or whatever.

Kids at 13 and 14 are pretty much on a different level. Back in the day we used to self host
games, networks, kick pedos away (specially girls which made good laughs on them and dealing with them as dirty scum) and so on.

What _older_ kids need it's both accountability and tools to kick idiots away between their own group.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-01 12:15:49+00:00
I want to add that any formula that contains exponentials of real arguments, e^x, and/or exponentials of imaginary arguments, e^(i*x), can be rewritten by using only binary exponentials, 2^x, and/or unary exponentials, 1^x, both having only real arguments.

With this substitution, some formulae become simpler and others become more complicated, but, when also considering the cost of the function evaluations, an overall greater simplicity is achieved.

In comparison with the "e" based exponentials, the binary exponential and the unary exponential and their inverses have the advantage that there are no rounding errors caused by argument range reduction, so they are preferable especially when the exponents can be very big or very small, while the "e" based exponentials can work fine for exponents guaranteed to be close to 0.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-01-01 12:16:14+00:00
We need to ban internet for humans under 18. There is nothing of value on the internet that can't be provided with a few cds worth of text and low resolution imagery, maybe a gig or so. Better yet, a decent set of old school encyclopedias is fine, and give the kids a dumb phone with parent white listed phone numbers and the kids have all they need.
by eesmith | 2026-01-01 12:17:17+00:00
Also, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-hap...

> In 2008, Sears CEO Eddie Lampert decided to restructure the company according to [Ayn] Rand's principles.

> Lampert broke the company into more than 30 individual units, each with its own management and each measured separately for profit and loss. The idea was to promote competition among the units, which Lampert assumed would lead to higher profits. Instead, " ... the divisions turned against each other — and Sears and Kmart, the overarching brands, suffered."

See also the 2013 Salon article "Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire" at https://www.salon.com/2013/12/10/ayn_rand_loving_ceo_destroy...
by imtringued | 2026-01-01 12:17:21+00:00
You see they don't care. They give you a OS image on Google Drive with a forked kernel and call it a day.

Silicon hardware companies have one of the dumbest business models, when it comes to programmable chips. They want to sell chips, because it makes them money through sales. They don't want to spend money on software support, because you cannot link the software to a sale. So software to them costs money and produces no benefits.

But when you think about it even a little bit, you start to wonder. Who is going to write commercial grade software for a commercial hardware product that they don't make money off? Nobody. What you'll get is an anemic volunteer effort at best. The volunteers might even do a good job, but since they are not involved in the hardware development process, they will always be playing catch up and take a year until the latest hardware is supported. So even in the theoretical best case scenario the hardware will be sold when it is least attractive.

This business model is completely illogical and Nvidia doesn't follow it. Instead Nvidia proactively invested in a software ecosystem for their hardware, thereby leading them to their current valuation.

The same applies to Intel and x86. People prefer x86 boxes, because the software ecosystem of drivers, UEFI/booting and so on is fully mature, whereas ARM SBCs are a fragmented mess.
by seblon | 2026-01-01 12:17:41+00:00
My thoughts:

- Allow enter/leave Driver mode even while sound is playing

- Hide the "tab to minimize" after several seconds

- Allow customize the pattern. Now it's hard coded perlin noise animation, before it was blank screen white/black without texture.

- Cannot enter email address to unlock private beta while sound is active (chars getting deleting while typing).

- Loses Focus rapidly on multi monitor setup, even when not touching the browser. It seems it's sensitive to focus/unfocus events, not sure what's the exact cause. PS: Regular full screen videos form for example youtube never lose fullscreen with my browser.

- Fullscreen does not full whole screen, there's black border left and right, it seems you're animating a square, not the full landscape rectangle.

- The jump from gain 1 to gain 2 is quite big, so i have to reduce the volume on the system sound, that's quiet annoying, since it's for all browser tabs then / even the whole system, depending on mixer settings.

And several more bugs, i do not remember them all.

One important question, that comes in mind all the time: Is this project vibe coded? Don't get me wrong, i also startet to begin vibe coding my projects, but it seems there's a little mess in the code (without looking into the obfuscated code).
by codingdave | 2026-01-01 12:17:58+00:00
I wouldn't use this. First of all, you are asking for my information to generate the emails, so saying "no sign up" is one of those things that is technically true, but you are getting my data anyway. Secondly, it might not be an expensive subscription, but it is not free. So with those two stretches of the truth, I already don't trust you. And not trusting you, there is no way I'm letting anything you create run scripts in my mail clients.

If you are really wanting to provide this service, you would provide templates and let people fill in their own info.
by mcv | 2026-01-01 12:18:47+00:00
Or just stick to regular sims. They're very reliable, esims are not.

I don't really see the case for eSims. In theory they could save a bit of time: activating immediately upon ordering your subscription online, instead of waiting days for delivery, but my new telco still sends you a plastic card with a QR code to scan before you can download it, completely nullifying that advantage. Besides, when you want to keep your number, you can rarely activate the new subscription anyway. On top of that, there's too much that can go wrong, and recovering from problems is harder than with a regular sim which just works.
by samiv | 2026-01-01 12:19:08+00:00
If you were a newbie just getting started.. the ligaments and tendons take much longer to strengthen than the muscle. So the muscles getting stronger will outpace the connective tissue.

Second potential issue is too much training vrt recovery.

A good way to add safety margin when training to failure is to reduce the weights and slow down the exercise and increase the time under load.

For example bench press, do 5s down (eccentric), 5s pause (isometric) and then (optionally) 5s press (concentric). Your weights will go way down because this exercise will be so hard. But the stress on the joints and ligaments will be reduced.
by jokoon | 2026-01-01 12:19:19+00:00
To me it feels like rust is barely readable sometimes. When I read some rust cost, I am often incapable to guess what it does, so it does not feel intuitive.

I wish they made something simpler. At least C and C++ have a low barrier of entry and any beginner can write code.

I don't think the borrow checker forced rust to be such a complicated language.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-01 12:21:16+00:00
The Guardian article glosses over a few things that are actually interesting about this ship:

- It's made out of aluminum instead of steel. The resulting weight savings make it a bit more efficient. That's something this shipping yard specializes in.

- Because it is going to run in shallow water on the river Plate, it doesn't actually have propellers but a water jet propulsion system.

Fully charged did a video on the construction of this ship early last year: https://fullycharged.show/episodes/electric-ferry-the-larges...

The project of getting this ship from Tasmania to South America is also going to be interesting as well. It can't do it under its own power; it's designed for a ~50km crossing, not a trans Pacific/Atlantic journey. At the time, they were thinking tug boats.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-01 12:21:56+00:00
Why would this matter? The borrowck is (a) not needed during bring-up because as its name suggests it is merely a check, so going without it just means you can write nonsense and then unbounded undefined behaviour results, but (b) written entirely in Rust so you can just compile it with the rest of this "exotic hardware" Rust compiler you've built.
by well_ackshually | 2026-01-01 12:22:25+00:00
> Electric taxis will be welcomed once they are certified and economical.

Do you believe helicopters are noisy because they're not electric ? Your electric taxi will do the same thing: they need propellers. Propellers that can carry up to 1 ton are fucking loud.

Electric taxis will never be welcomed because they are a dumb idea.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-01 12:22:48+00:00
Extreme mental and drug issues are always in the picture with those outcomes, though. The real "safety net" when faced with the possibility of real homelessness is to get the hell away from uber-expensive places like SF and move to at least a semi-rural area where getting access to good shelter is going to be orders of magnitude easier. These are not bad places or areas of poverty or marginalization, people have literally been settled there and building functional livelihoods for generations.
by huevosabio | 2026-01-01 12:23:39+00:00
Love this!

My general problem with Pokémon (at least the older versions, haven't played the latest) is that when playing against others it frequently just boils down to the same set of legendary and overpowered mons.

You sort of addressed this running the milp without certain mons as options, which makes sense.

But you already have the machinery for a better constraint: max total base stat. You could think of it as "weight classes" in box.

So, for a given weight class, your team can only add up to Y in total base stat. You can squeeze one of the OP mons, but then the rest are slackers. Or you could balance them.

It makes it a lot more interesting and invites for diversity. And you could run it for many different values of Y.
by georgefrowny | 2026-01-01 12:24:10+00:00
4000 times purer seems a questionable claim to me. 4000 times purer then what? Current Earthbound state of the art? A guy in shed with a vacuum pump and a heater?

High vacuums aren't at all impossible on Earth and silicon boules are already single crystals.

What exactly about their process permits such a huge quality improvement?
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-01 12:25:21+00:00
Recently, I helped a family member getting set up with e-newspaper of a local newspaper. The deal is to get paper newspaper at the weekend and e-newspaper on working days.

When the time of the switch came, the newspaper maker/agency, whatever one calls that, fumbled hard. (1) We hadn't gotten a login or token or anything we needed to log in. (2) After calling them and getting access to the account, the subscription for the digital newspaper had not been properly set up, and we didn't have access to any newspaper online. (3) After calling again and after a while finally having access, they still hadn't managed to send us a bill for the subscription, so in their system we were non-paying customers, who wanted access... (4) The person delivering the paper newspaper still hasn't got the memo, that we should only receive the paper newspaper at the weekends.

So, with this kind of utter incompetence and disorganization, I am not surprised they are struggling to do anything in the digital realms correctly, let alone doing it well.
by tristramb | 2026-01-01 12:26:00+00:00
I recently came to realise that my memories of my experiences of early childhood are probably greatly affected by seeing my younger siblings going through those same experiences a few years later. At age five or six I would see my mother reading to them on the sofa and they would be lying with their heads on her tummy feeling her warmth and listening to her heartbeat and stomach gurgles. Seeing this would remind me of when I used to do that, thus reinforcing those memories and probably somewhat distorting them. One of the distortions is that this memory is set in the house we moved to when I was four, and most of my own relevant experiences would have been set in our previous house. I think the accumulation of memories is a bit like training an LLM on a combination of new data and its own data.
by torginus | 2026-01-01 12:26:09+00:00
I feel exactly the same - C++ might be a much more complex and arcane language when you consider its entire feature set, and all the syntactic machinery (I figured out by looking at STL or Boost code, just how much of C++ I don't know or understand), you can choose to not engage with most of the language. Hell, even stuff like unique_ptr is optional when you're just starting out.

But with Rust, you have to understand almost all of the language very intimately to be a productive programmer, and Rust is not that great at hiding complexity, as in fairly innocious decisions often have far-reaching consequences down the line.
by joa- | 2026-01-01 12:26:29+00:00
I don't think they are looking to date eachother. I think rather what they mean is:

When 2 enterprises love eachother very much,they don't sue eachother, they don't lie and tell customers they are the only one having this problem and most importantly,they stay together in a partnership and maybe work together to improve the product.

Valuable advice I once received was: sales is about trust, and this kind of breaks that. I think that the sane customer would explore option to migrate their services to other things.
by TakeFlight007 | 2026-01-01 12:27:06+00:00
Mathematically invalidated by the temporal anchor in the artifacts.

The spindump captures a precise 2.00-second window (2025-12-31 13:35:14) where mDNSResponder (PID 10252) is in an active execution state with Priority 31 scheduling. Real-time thread activity and kernel buffer management do not occur for "historical" data.
by Dumblydorr | 2026-01-01 12:27:13+00:00
Classic debate: labor theory of value, adding physical manipulations into the world is true value, the works of bankers, marketers, etc. are not “true” work creating true value.

This ignores the enabling and empowering effect of those actions. You wouldn’t have many companies without banks to loan money for capital investment. How could a new but better product make headway without some form of marketing? In our world, Physical workers need some help to get their products made.

It’s like saying the goal keeper, midfield, and defense aren’t valuable since only the striker scores the goal.
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-01 12:27:48+00:00
No, he's really humble, guys, trust me. He has only owned JUST ONE private jet in his life and has upgraded it only ONCE guys. He also currently owns the world's largest private jet operator NetJets [0] via Berkshire that he uses regulary to leverage its fleet now. I'm dying in the light of this humility.

0 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DLB-28383
by tialaramex | 2026-01-01 12:30:00+00:00
If you write correct Rust code it'll work, the borrowck is just that, a check, if the teacher doesn't check your homework where you wrote that 10 + 5 = 15 it's still correct. If you write incorrect code where you break Rust's borrowing rules it'll have unbounded Undefined Behaviour, unlike the actual Rust where that'd be an error this thing will just give you broken garbage, exactly like a C++ compiler.

Evidently millions of people want broken garbage, Herb Sutter even wrote a piece celebrating how many more C++ programmers and projects there were last year, churning out yet more broken garbage, it's a metaphor for 2025 I guess.
by samiv | 2026-01-01 12:30:17+00:00
Your point about the injury risk going up is valid. That being said going to failure and beyond is extremely effective way to train.

As I mentioned in another comment a possibile way to mitigate the risks is to reduce the load and make the exercise harder and increase the time under load by slowing down the exercise.

Also it's a good idea to swap from a higher risk exercise to a safer one to crank out the last reps.
For example from squat to leg press.
by huevosabio | 2026-01-01 12:30:31+00:00
Follow up thought: it would be cool if you imagine a match to consist of three sets each for a different class.

So each player comes with three teams of small, mid and large base stat classes. You can't repeat monster across teams. Whoever wins 2/3 wins the match.

...

And if this was my college house, we would have a price system for the mons so you wouldn't be able to repeat mons even between players. But that's a different thing altogether.
by torginus | 2026-01-01 12:30:58+00:00
Imo the worst thing about starting out with C++ (which is much better with Rust), is the lack of credible package management/build system that allows you to just install packages.

This used to be even more true previously than today. Nowadays, there's stuff like
vcpkg, and tons of resources, but I still wouldn't call it straightforward compared to something like nuget or cargo.

It tooke me more time to figure out CMake than entire other programming languages.
by jokoon | 2026-01-01 12:31:25+00:00
This is sadly why windows will always prevail. You can't expect volunteers to deliver correct drivers, even if they spend a lot of time reverse engineering things.

It's 2025 and I would have expected the linux foundation or canonical to at least create a label "linux compatible" or "linux tested", so that brands can license it, and maybe spend money to collaborate with hardware vendors so they can write correct drivers, but that has not happened.

I am not saying linux/OSS is at fault here, but I am confused why the situation is still so bad. You can even find several governments ready to use linux, but it's not reliable enough yet, or maybe they're too tech-illiterate.

Open source/linux folks are so politicized against capitalism, proprietary software and patents that they excluded themselves from the economy. Only valve and the steam machine might have a chance of changing that situation but it's not even guaranteed.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-01 12:32:19+00:00
For everyone unaware, this repo is a meme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0kvn1/corroded_upda...

As a follow on to the corroded meme crate:

https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded

> What Is This

> The rust compiler thinks it knows better than you. It won't let you have two pointers to the same thing. It treats you like a mass of incompetence that can't be trusted with a pointer.

> We fix that.