MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-14 18:15:21+00:00
>We're capitalist through thick and thin.

Exactly, people didn't used to even imagine there was any way to change nor think free-enterprise should be compromised for any special interests, the outcome had always been negative when lobbyists got their way too often with either party.

Remember why Ronald Reagan and the bulk of the American people from both parties absolutely hated Communism so much?

It wan't mainly the economic differences from a free-market system; that barely made it onto the radar and was largely academic.

It was the dictatorship aspect that was so disgusting and anti-American as can be.

Dismal economic considerations under Communist governments were well-recognized as a logical result of dictatorship, that had been obvious for centuries.

Otherwise there wouldn't have been as much ambition for subjects to withdraw from dictator/monarchy regimes and settle in America to begin with.
by everyday7732 | 2026-01-14 18:15:39+00:00
It would probably flag that multiple people are using the same photo or same persons name/ id, but I expect you could get away with doing using someone known to you. iirc the reason people are using game screenshots is because it's not going to match any image that the recogniser has seen before.
Use tor for the things you don't want to google and have associated with you.
by TyrunDemeg101 | 2026-01-14 18:15:41+00:00
Replying to myself for anyone that sees this... but I just have to say - within a day of posting, someone purchased my entire discography! I'm so blown away!

So validating to know someone enjoyed my work enough to buy it.

Thank you to everyone who's taken a listen, and thank you to the person that bought it!

<3
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-14 18:15:50+00:00
I can't tell if this is a tongue-in-cheek comment or not, but all of that is shipped off to 3rd party "recyclers" who pinky promise that they will dispose of it properly. Very often those 3rd parties rely on other 3rd parties until the it ends up in a waste pile in a developing country, but with a long enough chain of differed responsibility that nobody can be held accountable.

The fundamental problem with "recycling" is precisely the fact that we just hand it off and don't ask questions about where it ends up, all while feeling great about ourselves afterwards. Bestbuy and Staples are offering accountability laundering so that you don't have to feel bad and in exchange are more likely to become a customer. The 3rd parties working for them do the same thing, but they usually want cash for it.
by sfink | 2026-01-14 18:15:59+00:00
Yes. "Is language X faster than language Y?" means "Is language X better than language Y?", which means "Do you like language X more than you like language Y?", which means "Do you have more experience with language X than language Y?" (well, good experiences, I guess).

So "Is language X faster than language Y?" is totally answerable, but the answer depends on the answerer.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-14 18:16:08+00:00
> At the size of Ford, sales numbers can be at a different mark for what is considered successful than others.

Does this really hold when Tesla has a considerably higher valuation?

Tesla is sitting at an egregious 30x market cap of Ford. If anything... I'd expect them to have sales targets that are ~30x the size of Ford.

When you consider that Ford also makes many more models than Tesla (Tesla has like 8 core models incl the cybertruck [and the not-yet-for-sale semi...] , Ford has like 20+)

By all measures - Tesla should be considerably more aggressive with sales targets for a core model, and it seems pretty clear the cybertruck is just a slow rolling market failure.
by cedws | 2026-01-14 18:16:10+00:00
The days are numbered on this technique working. After enough countries enact their own age verification laws tech companies will just make that the global default policy, and I'm sure the opportunity to harvest user data will not be left to waste. Many sites already block and throttle VPNs.

When that day comes I'll stop casually using the internet or search for the underground alternative.
by rpozarickij | 2026-01-14 18:16:37+00:00
> 4,000 tons

I did some math out of curiosity to better visualize this amount in my head. If we assume that a typical serving of potatoes in a meal where potatoes are an important part is 200g, then with 4 million kg of potatoes you can make 20 million of such meals (1/4 of Germany's population).
by everdrive | 2026-01-14 18:16:51+00:00
Heartbreaking but true. The most popular pickups today are not the most useful pickups. There are no more basic utilitarian pickups any longer, at least in the US.

Pickups are a little bit interesting in this regard. For any given model (eg: Tacoma, Frontier, etc.) the more premium the truck, the worse it is at being a truck. Each feature you add reduces its payload, and in the case of the Frontier, you could drop from a 6' bed with ~1,600 lbs of payload on the base model all the way down to a 5' bed with ~900 lbs of payload for the most premium offroad model.
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-14 18:17:04+00:00
I have one and it is an amazing vehicle. However, what they are planning with their new EREV system coming out in 2027 seems pretty interesting too. You get your usual battery only mileage and then a generator kicks in to recharge the battery for longer trips. I would imagine it wouldn’t be required in 95% of most people’s trips but it gives folks the option n long road trips or heavy tows.

I like it because it skips the usual hybrid approach of switching over to an ICE engine that drives your wheels in a different way and simplifies things immensely.
by dchftcs | 2026-01-14 18:17:16+00:00
> I have to learn their processes/tools/etc from reading the docs.
> So I'm probably coming in at like 20% better than junior.

There are firms that take that to heart, and there is indeed a lot of truth in it. A large amount of skills and knowledge just aren't transferable when switching jobs. But I think it's not hard to create more than 20% of the value. And even if it really is 20% of the value, the profit generated from the work might actually be more than the salary gap anyway, and the 1-year growth curve might be faster for a senior than a junior.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-14 18:17:27+00:00
To be clear, I'm not waiting for it at all... I'm not that interested in EVs for my own use so much... I work from home and not going to buy a new vehicle any time soon. I'm just more interested in it conceptually. Much like I was interested in the Local Motors Rally Fighter, I wasn't ever going to buy one, just thought it was cool. Well, maybe not the same, as the Slate could be something I would actually buy if/when it hits market in any numbers.

If it's got a good level of repairability beyond the body/form, then the company collapsing may be a lot less of an issue. The way it's being done does remind me a lot of the original GP (General Purpose) vehicle. Though not necessarily fit for military/combat environments; As fuel is easier to transport than electricity to the middle of nowhere.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-14 18:17:41+00:00
> I think the truth is, they just want your face.

Agreed. They treat people as data points and cash cows. This is also one reason why I think Google needs to be disbanded completely. And the laws need to be returned back to The People; right now Trump is just the ultimate Mr. Corporation guy ever. Lo and behold, ICE reminds us of a certain merc-like group in a world war (and remember what Mussolini said about fascism: "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." - of course in italian, but I don't know the italian sentence, only the english translation)
by scottyah | 2026-01-14 18:17:43+00:00
I get the fight to keep one word to remain non-offensive, instead of changing it every ~10yrs. It might be a locality thing too, when I was going to school the teachers used "special education" but now I've unintentionally offended with that as well. Google says it's "Intellectually Disabled" now. It's hard to keep up, and pretty annoying to constantly be tip-toeing around certain words.

I leave it to others to fight that fight, but I'd take any word.
by vel0city | 2026-01-14 18:17:46+00:00
> Are there any countries that don't enforce their immigration laws?

I don't think there are many developed countries where their immigration officers are routinely tear gassing students and bystanders, no. I don't think there are many developed countries where their immigration officers are detaining indigenous peoples in private, for-profit detention centers without charging them with any kind of crime.

Feel free to point out other developed countries where this is now just a routine occurrence though.
by busyant | 2026-01-14 18:17:46+00:00
> Were these people trustworthy?

It was a long time ago (obviously). In general, yes, they were trustworthy, but they themselves could have been victims of misinformation--I don't really know is the short answer. But this is true for just about any bit of "news." Unless you have direct knowledge of a piece of information, you evaluate the information (and the person relating the info) and you make your best guess as to its "truth/falsity."

These days, I find it extremely difficult to trust a lot of federal "truth", so I get your overall point. :-(
by ortusdux | 2026-01-14 18:17:52+00:00
I think the dealership monopoly is partly to blame. Dealers get more reoccurring revenue from ICE vehicles, so they are incentivized to not stock EVs and to steer customers away from them. Ford seemed to understand this and attempted a direct sale program for EVs, but they canceled it due to dealer pushback.

https://fordauthority.com/2025/02/ford-ev-inventory-hub-syst...
by woah | 2026-01-14 18:18:19+00:00
Distributing (trucking, rent and employees at grocery stores, etc) the potatoes costs more than growing them. Even if they are available for free at the farm, the market price in the city cannot go below the cost of distribution without grocery stores and shipping companies working for free, which they have no reason to do. These are already some of the lowest-margin businesses out there.

In this case, it seems that Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia are doing shipping and distribution for free, for PR reasons or maybe as some kind of charitable volunteering project. It's nice of them to volunteer their time, but it seems strange to talk about “a story about the absurdities of our food system”. Are they saying that it is absurd that a newspaper doesn't permanently turn into a money-losing grocery distributor?
by milesvp | 2026-01-14 18:18:35+00:00
Same. I was afraid that there was some bad egg that managed to get into Adafruit, or maybe someone was having a real bad day. You never know what kind of person someone is off camera, but Adafruit as a company has always managed to give off the most wholesome vibes.

I'll be interested to see how this unfolds. I have little skin in the game being mostly upstream of the supply chain, but I've had reason to purchase from both companies, and hope this doesn't blow up into a huge thing.
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-14 18:18:36+00:00
Interesting to see, Gabor. I don't like the "stop" thing. I think the verbosity can be tuned down a bit in that case, but I understand the small-talk message passing need for "Out write". Am I allowed to use just write "out" instead of "Out"? I assume case sensitivity, but I couldn't find in the docs anything about it.

I have used RedBeanPHP for many things and contributed a bit. Thank you.
by Lammy | 2026-01-14 18:18:38+00:00
> I do admire that they dared to do something different and took a big gamble on it. So many vehicles, especially in the truck space, are almost indistinguishable and lack any kind of imagination.

I 1000% agree with this, in fact I love the way it looks, like something out of a SEGA Saturn game. But I would never buy one for the same reasons I would never buy any Tesla, or in fact any EV, or any post-2014 car at all. But the looks of it are not one of those reasons :)

I do have to laugh every time I see a Tesla with one of those “Bought this before we knew Elon was crazy!!” stickers, because to me they just read as “Wahhh I bought my car to make a statement and now it makes the wrong statement and I am self-conscious about it!!”. It's weird to me to think that other people are thinking that way about their automobiles, because I bought mine (Prius C) based on its features and how they fit into my needs and my life. I guess the Prius line was a popular “statement car” of the pre-Tesla era, though, like how Brian drives one on Family Guy, or the “Smug Alert” episode of South Park, but it was never that for me.
by bgentry | 2026-01-14 18:18:52+00:00
Yeah, River generally recommends this pattern as well (River co-author here :)

To get the benefits of transactional enqueueing you generally need to commit the jobs transactionally with other database changes. https://riverqueue.com/docs/transactional-enqueueing

It does not scale forever, and as you grow in throughput and job table size you will probably need to do some tuning to keep things running smoothly. But after the amount of time I've spent in my career tracking down those numerous distributed systems issues arising from a non-transactional queue, I've come to believe this model is the right starting point for the vast majority of applications. That's especially true given how high the performance ceiling is on newer / more modern job queues and hardware relative to where things were 10+ years ago.

If you are lucky enough to grow into the range of many thousands of jobs per second then you can start thinking about putting in all that extra work to build a robust multi-datastore queueing system, or even just move specific high-volume jobs into a dedicated system. Most apps will never hit this point, but if you do you'll have deferred a ton of complexity and pain until it's truly justified.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-14 18:18:59+00:00
My kid has recently just quit playing Roblox because of the sketchy facial age check process. She said that her and all her friends know not to ever upload a picture of themselves to the Internet (good job, fellow Other Parents!!) so they're either moving on to other games or just downloading stock photos of people from the internet and uploading those (which apparently works).

What a total joke. These companies need to stop normalizing the sharing of personal private photos. It's literally the opposite direction from good Internet hygiene, especially for kids!
by shimman | 2026-01-14 18:19:17+00:00
Take your pick homie:

https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-more-14-...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

This one is a PDF, so warning:

https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/news/news-logo...

So right now, there are nearly 400,000 verifiable deaths due to the cuts of these programs. It's on track to be way worse than what I imagined, several million to 14 million.

I'm sorry but that's just straight up evil behavior.
by TyrunDemeg101 | 2026-01-14 18:19:19+00:00
I'm really proud of this - vibe coded the hell out of it with Claude, but I love how I was able to step out of the annoying and nit picking css and browser incompatibilities I've dealt with for the last 20 years and just do the art direction and push the limits of what's possible.

https://aaronholbrookmusic.com
by jandrese | 2026-01-14 18:19:38+00:00
Looks are subjective, but what I don't understand is why they put an enormous vision obscuring frunk on it. The vehicle could have been considerably easier to maneuver in tight spots and safer to pedestrians at the loss of just some dubious storage space with no loss in bed capacity. Or it could have been the same length or even a little shorter and have a full 4x8 bed in the back.

If anything the vehicle was designed more for aesthetics than for practicality. There is no engine up front. There's no need for all of that space in front of the driver. It's entirely possible to engineer crash resistance without needing 4 goddamn feet of crumple zone. They could have had both a crew cab and a full size bed. Or the short bed but a more practical size.
by eterm | 2026-01-14 18:19:40+00:00
I always think by law any ISP that advertises speed and a has a cap must express the cap in terms of the advertised speed.

So telcos can advertise "Up to 200Mbps" for their package.

But then if they have a 2GB cap, they also need to say, "Caps at 80 seconds of usage".

Because that's what you're paying for at that speed, 80 seconds of usage per month.

Sure, you're not always (or indeed never) doing 200Mbps, but then you're not getting the speed you paid for.
by a4isms | 2026-01-14 18:19:58+00:00
> A pickup truck should just be max utility

A working truck should be max utility. Around the core market of "working trucks," there are various wannabe truck products that do not have to be max utility. For example, a Subaru Brat or a Hyundai Santa Fe. Niche products compared to an F-150, but they had/have their fans.

I personally can't stand the design, but the idea of an impractical "halo vehicle" that appeals to a niche audience but burnishes the brand as "forward-looking" is not a bad one. It's just the execution of this particular halo vehicle that I would have a problem with were I in the market for a lifestyle look-at-me vehicle.
by menaerus | 2026-01-14 18:19:59+00:00
You can compute the confidence intervals all you want but if you can't be sure, in one or another way, that what you're observing (measuring) in your experiment is what you actually wanted to measure (signal), not even confidence interval would help you there to distinguish between the signal and noise.

That said, at your CPU base frequency, 80ns is ~344 cycles, 70ns is ~300 cycles. That's ~40 cycles of difference. That's on the order of ~2x CPU pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions. Or another example is RDTSCP which, at least on Intel CPUs, forces all prior instructions to retire before executing, and it prevents speculative execution of following instructions until theirs results are available. This can also impose a 10-30 cycle penalty. Both of these can interfere with the measurements of the scale you have so there is a possibility that you're measuring these effects instead of the optimization you thought you implemented.

I am not saying that this is the case, I am just saying it's possible. Since the test is simple enough I would eliminate other similar CPU level gotchas that can screw your hypothesis testing up. In more complex scenarios I would have to consider them as well.

The only reliable way I found to be sure what is really happening is to read the codegen. And I do that _before_ each test run, or to be more precise after each recompile, because compilers do crazy transformations with our code, even when just moving a naively looking function few lines above or adding some naive boolean flag. If I don't do that, I could again end up measuring, observing, and finally drawing the conclusion that I implemented a speedup without realizing that the compiler in that last case decided to eliminate half of the code because of that innocuous boolean flag. Just an example.

radix tree lookup looks interesting and it would be interesting to see at what exact instruction does it idle on. I had a case where the function would be sitting idle, reproducible, but when you look into the function there is nothing obvious you can optimize. It turned out that the CPU pipeline was so saturated that there were no more available CPU ports for the instruction this function was idling for. The fix was to rewrite code elsewhere but in vicinity of this function. This is something flamegraphs can never show you, which is partly the reason I had never been a huge fan of.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2026-01-14 18:20:07+00:00
Data point: I'm in the US on an old pre-paid plan that gets me 5GB per month at fast speed, dropping down to unlimited "2G" speed after that cap is hit, which I've done only twice in the past 12 years. $30 per month, and I always "bring my own device" (ie, I only buy unlocked phones, not through the carrier). I haven't shopped around for a while.
by instagib | 2026-01-14 18:20:10+00:00
The physical size of charmin changed during the pandemic.

Good to track this yearly since some standard metrics are useless versus the shrinkflation, reduction in quality ingredients, and other manipulation we’ll learn about sooner or later.

Many ice creams are now dairy desserts due to not having enough ingredients to make the cut. Same with milk chocolates and now declared chocolate candy due to not using enough real cocoa.
by MostlyStable | 2026-01-14 18:20:11+00:00
I can do a ten hour road trip with a family of four plus a dog in a used (2022) EV that I got for ~30k last year. I think the idea that price and range are problems is exactly the misconception that op was taking about. They are somewhat more expensive, although when I originally did the calculus, fuel savings made up the difference in monthly payments for a new vehicle, but that's going to vary a lot. The is a very small proportion of people for whom range is a legitimate concern.
by arwhatever | 2026-01-14 18:20:13+00:00
Do you (or does anyone) see possible value in a CI tool that just launches your script directly?

It seems like if you

> 2. Don't have logic in your workflows. Workflows should be dumb and simple (KISS) and they should call your scripts.

then you’re basically working against or despite the CI tool, and at that point maybe someone should build a better or more suitable CI tool.
by bluegatty | 2026-01-14 18:20:33+00:00
It's clear as day, and it's hard to understand that someone could be confused by this.

It's literally on the census form.

'Race' is a cultural euphemism for broader ethnicity.

AKA 'European = White' - 'African = Black' - more or less.

These are not arbitrary groups of 'self identification' like 'emo' or 'punk'.

These groups are even self organizing - every single US city is built around small enclaves of groups - they pop right out on urban maps.

We've been fighting tribal wars since the dawn of time, it's not hard to imagine how the 'Flemish' vs. 'Dutch' is not going to extend to 'European vs. African'.

Elon Musk, on twitter, 2 days ago, was interjecting on this horrible bit of 'race war' nonsense, talking about 'blacks eviscerate whites' etc..

Again - while there's feeble support for the notion of 'race' in the field of biology (although I think it's more controversial than stated), we obviously have cultural foundations around those concepts.

Honestly - this kind of argument is plausibly the 'worst thing' about HN. I don't understand how something so common and obvious could be devoid in the face of some, odd, hair-splitting rhetoric.
by rlt | 2026-01-14 18:20:54+00:00
I read a bunch of the relevant social media posts and emails and concluded that all parties are acting deeply childishly.

Nate shouldn’t have made a website with a domain name with Phil’s name and photoshopped meme, and brought it back up on social media years later.

Phil shouldn’t have been so aggressive in emailing Nate’s and his wife’s employers.

Sparkfun shouldn’t have overreacted by cutting off ties with Adafruit.
by dwoldrich | 2026-01-14 18:21:06+00:00
I am not having fun with GitHub Actions right now! Why does everything have to be so hard?

I like being able to run self-hosted runners, that is a very cool part of GitHub Actions/Workflow.

I appreciate all the other advice about limit my yamls to: 1) checkout, 2) call a script to do the entire task. I am already half-way there, just need to knuckle-down and do the work.

I was dismayed that parallel tasks aren't really a thing in the yaml, I wanted to fanout a bunch of parallel tasks and I found I couldn't do it. Now that I'm going to consolidate my build process into a single script I own, I can do the fanout myself.