MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2026-01-01 17:04:39+00:00
Guilty party, here. I feel I can explain myself though, or at least offer context about why I own about a dozen records and no way whatsoever to play them.

I’m a recovering audiophile. I got into the hobby because I enjoy technology in its myriad aspects, and had discovered that good speakers can make things sound better. As I began accruing CDs and re-ripping into lossless audio, I also began collecting vinyls via Record Store Day events of bands or artists I found interesting at the time, or the odd Collector’s Edition bundles of albums or games. The thinking was that when I finally settled into my own place, I could invest into some Hi-Fi kit to play them back.

Well, I fell out of the audiophile sphere when I got into data analysis, physics, human biology, and psychology: I had become inoculated against the bullshit that permeates the space, but still recognized the value of my album collection. I’d also pivoted into preservation, and so I began accepting relatives’ collections of older formats, like 78s. I still lacked playback mechanisms, though I now had the space and budget - just more pressing projects than a record playback setup.

And so here I am in 2025, in an apartment that transmits energy between units, with an upstairs neighbor that does somersaults and tumbles all day (thus shaking the space slightly). The cost of everything has skyrocketed, but it’s no longer a matter of a turntable and a phono stage to get going (need isolation as well, and that ain’t cheap). I’ve also - shockingly - got other, more pressing projects in front of me, one of which is a bedroom Hi-Fi setup that has physical controls for music streaming instead of smartphone apps - again, not remotely cheap.

Right now, my meager collection sits in a crate under the sofa, languishing. One day I’ll get to enjoy them, but today is sadly not that day.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-01 17:04:54+00:00
Yes exactly. That would simply solve it.

In Holland there's even ISPs that filter porn and stuff, like https://kliksafe.nl . They're used by ultra-religious conservative communities (calvinists). Even adults use it there.

I view this as a much better solution. The people that want it can do their blocking and the rest of us aren't bothered with verifications and stuff.

Personally I belong to the sex-positive movement which thinks diametrically opposite about such matters :)
by reactordev | 2026-01-01 17:05:08+00:00
The point isn’t to power the main drive, the point is to preserve energy used elsewhere on the ship.

My experience sailing and dealing with vessels from 30ft to 180ft give me a perspective that you probably don’t.

Providing solar panels along the roof would give the ship a few KWh of power that would otherwise be drawing from the main batteries. This would extend the range of the ship by 5-10%.
by machomaster | 2026-01-01 17:05:13+00:00
Except that the paper did not compare different training methods. The used the same method since it has been long established that training to failure anywhere in the 5-30 reps (perhaps even more, the upper limit has not been established yet) gets the same results from the hypertrophy point of view.

So basically the study's results are "there are individual differences in how people respond to training". Wow, such news, so research, much insight. /s

Therefore study itself is dumb and the misleading title makes it even worse.
by michaelbuckbee | 2026-01-01 17:05:44+00:00
Analog purchases have become much more of a signaling mechanism than for direct consumption.

In my family group there were a good numbers of vinyls gifted this past christmas and none of them are going to be regularly listened to as the majority of music consumption they do is "on the go" in the car or mobile.

Similarly, I'm seeing them make more purchases of "trophy books" where they read the book on their phone or listened to the audiobook but liked the book so much that they want to have it on their shelf (there are also special editions with elaborate edge decorations, etc. that seem to feed into this).
by dhx | 2026-01-01 17:06:03+00:00
Compare at the same scale:

Vantor Legion-2 image of the BYD plant in Zhengzhou as captured on 18 January 2025: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/#mapCenter=113.9361%2...

Vantor WorldView-3 image of the Tesla plant in Austin as captured on 31 January 2024: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/#mapCenter=-97.6189%2...
by toast0 | 2026-01-01 17:06:13+00:00
> I mean i literally was forced to get a real ID since i was in the US for more than 10 days (you can't drive on a foreign license longer than that in California and they hand out real ID licenses now).

If you intend to reside in California, you need a California license within 10 days of establishing residency (assuming you drive); but if you're just visiting for a month, I think you can use your out of state or foreign license. If you've got some authoritative reference that states a temporary visitor (less than 6-month) to California needs a CA license, I'd like to see that...
by ctoth | 2026-01-01 17:06:40+00:00
2022/2023: "It hallucinates, it's a toy, it's useless."

2024/2025: "Okay, it works, but it produces security vulnerabilities and makes junior devs lazy."

2026 (Current): "It is literally the same thing as a psychic scam."

Can we at least make predictions for 2027? What shall the cope be then! Lemme go ask my psychic.
by nchmy | 2026-01-01 17:07:21+00:00
I was absolutely not advocating for not having any thought for the future, nor for "living in the moment".

I was saying that you must do both - dont just slave away and expect that you'll live when you're retired (a lifestyle which makes it less likely that you would even live until retirement age, let alone be physically or even mentally capable of enjoying retirement).

Instead, live in a way such that there it is meaningful while you do it, and it also prepares you for the future. Again, this would also have the benefit of showing your kids and others how to do this themselves.
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-01 17:07:37+00:00
> We're not talking 5 9s, here.

1 in 40,000 customer devices experiencing a failure annually is considerable better than 4 9s of reliability. So we are debating whether going from 4 9s to 5 9s is worth it.

And like, sure, if the rest of your stack is sufficiently polished (and your scale is sufficiently large) that the once-a-year bit flip event becomes a meaningful problem... then by all means do something about it.

But I maintain that the vast majority of software developers will never actually reach that point, and there are a lot of lower-hanging fruit on the reliability tree
by jules | 2026-01-01 17:08:03+00:00
That isn't the case. Conferences organize their own website to submit articles for review. Volunteers from the conference pre-filter submitted articles for spam, the rest is handled by the review committee.
There is no cost to submit. In fact, the eventual cost is often not even mentioned at that point. When the article is accepted for publication, the conference gives authors a link to an ACM website where the authors upload their PDFs. Only after that will the authors be asked to pay the fee (and if you wanted, you could refuse at that point, which presumably means that the conference will eat the loss, or maybe they'll un-publish your article).

I don't think spam is a huge issue. The conference websites and submission portals are niche and random people don't tend to find them or care enough to go through the trouble.
by teecha | 2026-01-01 17:08:13+00:00
I like Mehdi's description over here as a good starting point:

https://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5/intermediate/#rest-p...

Has a paper from 1976 but this seems in line with what I've read elsewhere

basically, 2-3 minutes is probably good for most of your lifting, you could go to 5 minutes if you are doing your heaviest lift of the day

this is also a reasonable way to make sure your workouts aren't going to take 3 hours at a time

some people really mix max this though if they're focusing on super heavy lifts. i remember being at the gym and watching people take 8-10 minutes between sets when they were putting up 400-500lbs on a squat. they also arrived before me and weren't done when i was leaving and, i'm assuming, they were interested in powerlifting competitions

i've actually started looking at reactive training system with mike tuchscherer who has a lot of interesting things to say about training, rest times, etc. been startin to build his stuff on RPE and fatigue percentages in to my training and it has already been super insightful and helpful

https://store.reactivetrainingsystems.com/blogs/default-blog...
by Insanity | 2026-01-01 17:08:14+00:00
To be charitable to both the article and the OP - his advice of “hard work over time” is still good advice.

I think many people tend to get stuck in premature optimization, which can take the fun away and thus you end up quitting. I did that a few times, so it might be a me-thing.

Nowadays I exercise 4x/week without really worrying about a strategy or about optimal protein intake etc.

But then again, nowadays my goal is just to live healthy rather than gain strength.
by OptionOfT | 2026-01-01 17:08:15+00:00
> https://thecybersecguru.com/news/ps5-rom-keys-leaked/#:~:tex...

Nasty filler to add that to the page.

General question: (I don't know enough about cryptography)

Are these symmetric keys or asymmetric ones? Both allow you to decrypt, but only the former would allow you to make changes to it, whereas the latter would still require you to find an exploit in the next stage. I think?
by slfreference | 2026-01-01 17:08:38+00:00
I don't care who the next hegemon will be; US or China. But please pray, can these people tell what their next strategy is for the rest of the world after the Cold War ends. Will the next regime advance sciences further after whichever side wins the Cold War? Can't that be done without the war? US has been hegemon since last 5 or so decades; has it worked out best even ONLY for the Americans if not for the rest of the world. I will ask a very obvious question taught as a intuition pump by Daniel Dennett, "Then What? Then What? Then What?". Do these blob forces have post-Cold War steps figured out for the best of humanity, if not for whole of humanity but a national subset.

Here is a fun representation I have in my mind:

Galactic Emperor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQbm8Wk2vU
by lioeters | 2026-01-01 17:09:17+00:00
Let's do a "best of" ACM, to list everyone's favorite articles.

First thing that comes to mind for me are the series of articles presented at HOPL conferences, History of Programming Languages.

HOPL II (1993) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766

HOPL III (2007) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1238844

HOPL IV (2021) https://dl.acm.org/do/10.1145/event-12215/abs/
by iamnothere | 2026-01-01 17:09:19+00:00
Unfortunately, you are under a curse. The only way to lift the curse is to build a physical space that attracts people. People cannot resist an interesting place.

Stack stones, hang lights, collect interesting things. Or join a project where people are doing this, like Sandland: https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/life/ottumwa-native-creat...

Joining may be easier and nobody turns down a volunteer. You may have to start something new if nothing is nearby.

But beware the monkey’s paw: once the people come, you will not be able to get rid of them easily.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-01-01 17:09:28+00:00
This discussion is missing the existence of the other type of real ids only for verified us citizens called "enhanced drivers licence", or edl https://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they.

This does guarantee that I'm a US citizen. Only about 5 border states have these as of now. I can cross the border with it in a car, boat, or in foot with one, but not a plane. It's indicated by a flag on your dl. These licenses are confusing and are poorly named. Then there are also passport cards.

This is a mess of confusing different documents that I bet most US law enforcement doesn't understand.

There are numerous reports of people arrested by ice who even have us passports on them, such as https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice...
by djoldman | 2026-01-01 17:09:33+00:00
It took a bit of digging but it looks like the ship can operate for 90 minutes without recharging:

> ... the batteries will power eight axial-flow water jets driven by permanent magnet electric motors. These will be able to keep the ship going for 90 minutes before needing to be recharged.

> The ship’s permanent home will be the Rio de la Plata estuary, where it will travel between the ports of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. The two cities are 60 kilometers apart, a distance Hull 096 is expected to travel in 90 minutes. Direct-current charging stations will be installed at each port and will draw energy from the two countries’ grids. A full charge is expected to take just 40 minutes.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-boat-battery-ship-ferry
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-01 17:09:40+00:00
I don't want to minimize what this guy went through, but it's important to emphasize that DHS did check within the hour whether he was a US citizen and did release him when they confirmed he was. Most citizens still have no realistic risk of being unpersoned, and it's important that people know that so that they feel comfortable being outspoken against the administration. (If ICE shows up in my neighborhood, for example, I would have a duty to be mean to them rather than hiding in fear.)
by microtonal | 2026-01-01 17:09:52+00:00
It also feels good to physically have and own something.

I gave all my CDs (probably more than a 1000) away about a decade ago. I find physical media annoying, they take up space and require more effort to use them. All those CDs became more of a burden. I guess it's because I grew up with cassette tapes, portable tape players, then CDs, then Discman, then Discman with buffering. Having gone through all of that, being able to play music on your phone is... excessively nice. I also care more about the music than the packaging -- if I want something nice on the wall, I would get a painting, litho, etc. instead.

The only thing I really miss is old-school music discovery. Reading reviews, then going to a record shop, listening a stack of records to decide, talking to record shop owners and friends for scoops, etc. was so much more fun than letting algorithms do recommendations. And after spending your monthly pocket money on two albums, you were invested in the music.
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-01 17:10:06+00:00
I was also blaming the OS for not having preemptive multi-tasking? And once we've blamed the OS and the browser... not sure who else is in this equation.

The web developer is not in this equation, because I have no way to know their server hasn't been hacked, and hence even if I trust them personally, anything they send me is explicitly untrusted
by walrus01 | 2026-01-01 17:10:07+00:00
Your math is far off. If you put 60kW (STC rating) of PV panels as quantity 100 of 600W premium panels on top, in Uruguay, it'll produce somewhere between 6800 to 8100 kWh per month if the panels are perfectly exposed to sun from sunrise to sunset.

If we say it's 7500kWh a month that's something like 250 kWh of production per day, which is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the amount of energy needed to charge the ferry.
Show HN: Handsom.ai – Vibe coding sites you don't have to rebuild
by justinThompson | 2026-01-01 17:10:19+00:00
This is my project trying to bridge the gap between vibe coded projects and production.

I love working on this project, working on web can feel very samey after a while, so I find this projects wacky problems fun.

The link is for a quick blog post, with a too long demo video at the bottom https://youtu.be/0N2QqwUaq0w

The site is built on the platform too, so feel free to poke about.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-01 17:10:58+00:00
BYD owns their own fleet of car carriers for export, with the capacity to have ~30k vehicles shipping to other markets at any one time on their vessels. From this piece:

> BYD Deliveries outside of China hit 1.05 million in 2025. The company has set a goal to expand overseas sales to between 1.5 million to 1.6 million units in 2026, according to a Citigroup Inc. report in November that cited a meeting with BYD management.

Edit: The debt is irrelevant, China isn’t America. They’ll nationalize and inflate away any institutional debt or wipe it out, but still have a third of the world’s manufacturing capacity. Tesla exists on vibes, Chinese EV makers build, for example. jmyeet’s comment mostly nails this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424124 (citations)

(global light vehicle TAM is ~90M units/year, and Chinese EV automakers are going to soak the market with their production capacity)
by Lerc | 2026-01-01 17:11:07+00:00
Therein lies the rub, when people are surprised to see a left wing person criticising the idea of othering, you have to wonder what principles they have left to call left wing.

>we can condemn actions that hurt innocent people and we can maintain skepticism of the ultra-wealthy and their motives without “bullying”.

Indeed and I do condemn actions. What I don't do is conddemn people.

I am for robust regulation, free expression, free movement, worker rights,
Limiting wealth inequality, free fundimental services of health educatiion. I want more police but with fewer powers. I support harm minimalization over punishing drug users, I favour rehabilitation in prison over training recidivists, I am against hate in all its forms. My most extreme views would be that advertising is inherently harmful to society, and teaching any religion as true to someone under the age of consent is child abuse.

All of these come from the principle that I think all people have feelings,worthless and rights, they deserve the best we can provide for them. If they disagree with you the first step is trying to understand their point of view.

To me, imposing your will on others, dismissing people for thinking the wrong thing, shunning them for saying the wrong thing or associating with 5he wrong people, these are all properties that stand at the other end of the spectrum to me. I don't particularly care what label you put on the ideology over there, but whatever it is, those are the attributes that have caused some of the darkest moments in h7man history.
by Retr0id | 2026-01-01 17:12:15+00:00
https://xcancel.com/notnotzecoxao/status/2006525981113332025

> news sites are overhyping the release/leak/whatever of the rom keyseeds, saying it could be used to fully unlock the ps5. i've already stated on twitter and i'll state it again. rom and seeds alone are NOT enough to pwn a ps5, you either need fuses and nandgroups to complement it

> ... or alternatively, you need to find bugs in the rom that you can use to exploit the ps5. neither of these are easy and require immense work. also, decapping a ps5 apu to retrieve the fuses optically will prove useless to the end user because those fuses are encrypted/xored/obfuscated
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2026-01-01 17:12:19+00:00
You're saying my 2000lb car poses a greater risk to other drivers than your 8000lb tesla? I think you skipped physics 101.

By your logic, we should all drive gigantic monster trucks. Lunacy.

Also, I already have a mom who worries about me. She likes the car. I don't need to be mothered by a stranger on the internet thank you.
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS | 2026-01-01 17:12:30+00:00
> the point of life is to live, not to work

I'd love to learn how you came to this definitive conclusion. At no point in human history have humans not worked (I'm sure there are some limited exceptions, none of which have been sustainable).

Perhaps you meant to say the point of life is to survive, but you have to work to make that happen.
by lkbm | 2026-01-01 17:12:31+00:00
Depends on the size of the pot (and how full said pot is).

Energy in - energy out == energy needed to boil.

If energy in per second is really high, and energy needed to boil is relatively small, you'll get there quickly, without energy out having time to have much effect. If the energy needed is very high, reducing the rate at which energy goes out can make a big difference.
by chaboud | 2026-01-01 17:12:53+00:00
I love that I can now just drop the link to this gem:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1165555.1165556

Aggregability is NP-Hard... Useful the next time someone insists that it's possible to find a "perfect" model for a non-trivial ML problem. (I get this ask 1-2 times per month.)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-01 17:13:11+00:00
Wait what? can you show me some sources to back this up? I assume you are exaggerating but still, what would be the definition of cheap is interesting to know.

I don't think after the fact that ram prices spiked 4-5x that its gonna be cheaper to self host by 100x, Like hetzner's or ovh's cloud offerings are cheap

Plus you have to put a lot of money and then still pay for something like colocation if you are competing with them

Even if you aren't, I think that the models are different. They are models of monthly subscription whereas in hardware, you have to purchase it.

It would be interesting tho to compare hardware-as-a-service or similar as well but I don't know if I see them for individual stuff.
by cyberrock | 2026-01-01 17:13:56+00:00
It's not like wired earbuds/headphones are invincible either. I've had a few wired ones lost due to cable damage, which constitutes more casualties than my wireless inventory, including noticeable charge loss. Of course, there are a lot more cheap wired options with replaceable cables now, thanks to Moondrop and gang.

I really wish the debate was more than jack vs Bluetooth, and more wired fans would consider supporting devices with multiple USB-C ports. Yeah, Sony still puts a jack on Xperias, but most audiophiles note that it's driven by Snapdragon's mediocre integrated DAC, possibly because Sony doesn't want it to compete with Walkmans. Yeah, Valve puts a jack on the Steam Deck, but SD OLED's jack has interference issues that users need to fix with electrical tape or loosening screws. If these devices had two USB ports, then it would be easy to use a better DAC with no interference issues (while also charging with a cable attached to the other port). Having a second USB port would increase device life, and tie wired earbuds/headphones to a more durable standard that's actively developed and backed by legislation. We know this is possible for phones because ASUS ROG Phone has 2 USB ports.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-01-01 17:13:58+00:00
There used to be a fig leaf of truth to the idea that the supreme court would interpret things and it would generally stick. That has changed with today's court reinterpreting many settled legal ideas, one obvious one being the recent "kava augh stop" turning America into a "show your papers please" country. It didn't used to be this way.
by Bluecobra | 2026-01-01 17:14:12+00:00
At my first job in finance I worked at a trading firm that recruited people off the street to electronically click trade futures. They would ride the intraday market moves and constantly open/close positions. At the end of the day they would be flat. It was a lot like gambling, but with CNBC on the TV instead of sports.

It’s kind of funny to see the similarities in this book. Like the bucket shops, there was a simulation environment with live market data where trainees had to prove themselves before they can move onto live trading. It turned out that a lot of folks were pretty good at the fake/simulation training but failed miserably with live trading due to their orders actually influencing the market. The firm only lasted a few years.