MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by appreciatorBus | 2026-01-01 16:57:03+00:00
> In Mead’s telling, the Samoans, having “no conviction of sin,” had “the sunniest and easiest attitudes towards sex.” They regarded lovemaking as “the pastime par excellence … based on the general assumption that sex is play, permissible in all hetero- and homosexual expression, with any sort of variation as an artistic addition.” Romantic love does not occur in Samoa, she further claimed, while many of the emotions that “have afflicted mankind” had been eliminated—“perhaps jealousy most importantly of all.” The islanders’ relaxed attitude towards sex meant that “frigidity and psychic impotence do not occur.” Instead, the “exceptionally smooth sex adjustment of adult Samoans [was] preceded … by a period of free lovemaking and promiscuity before marriage by adolescents.”

> Freeman provides a darker—but, he insists, more accurate—picture of Samoan sexual behaviour, replete with numerous anecdotal and recorded accounts of sexual repression, jealousy, and violence.

Headline seems to sum it up reasonably accurately.
by mm351206 | 2026-01-01 16:57:04+00:00
Well, if you’ve been excluded your entire life, like I have, if your invitations are rejected, if you’re never the one being invited, if you search for people who never search for you, and if every connection you manage to form is shortlived and ends in ghosting, it starts to make you doubt your own humanity a little. I think my experience, like the OP, allows me to entertain the idea that there’s something fundamentally wrong with me, as if I’m somehow not fully human.

I can understand being in the wrong contest once or twice in your life, but I’ve lived in five different cities. I’ve gone to college three times. I play multiple instruments and have played in bands and orchestras. And yet here I am: completely alone. I have no one to text for a little chat, no one to grab a beer with me on a Saturday night, no one to plan a coffee with, no one to reassure me when I’m struggling. I’m moving through life entirely on my own, rawdogging it, doing everything alone.

At this point, I’ve given up on relationships, on friendship, on love. The few people I’ve ever called friends eventually disappeared. It feels less painful to stop hoping altogether than to keep sinking my already low hope that it is actually all a misunderstanding and that someday I’ll finally find a circle of people who choose me back.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-01 16:57:14+00:00
> And if you buy on BC Friday [0] (next is February 6th), Bandcamp doesn’t even take a cut of the revenue.

Bandcamp Friday is such a fun day, I always have +5 purchases lined up from the previous month, and usually keep track of the social media of the artists I buy from that day, and many of them post something really wholesome about how much they made on that day :) Such a fun time all around.
by asimeqi | 2026-01-01 16:57:18+00:00
Yes please I totally agree. Something big must be going on there. I once bought an item through an Instagram ad. For about a month I got fake updates about shipping. Then one day I get an email that itvwas delivered 2 days ago, complete with a different shipping path and an apparently real USPS tracking ID. Of course I received nothing. Complained to PayPal, the complaint was closed within minutes as not valid.
by worldsavior | 2026-01-01 16:57:42+00:00
You shouldn't be stressed of what's in front of you. Training also trains you for that other than muscle/power building. If you don't compete, you have no reason to be anxious. You should maybe dig into what's causing you that anxiety, if it's "I worry I won't make this weight", remind yourself that nothing will happen if you do, and if you do, it's part of the progression. I get this anxiousness also, but I always remind myself that.

I think that what you do in the gym will reflect on yourself.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-01 16:58:08+00:00
Because they literally can't do anything. They can't make shitheads not shitheads because there's nothing illegal about being a shithead.

It's trivial, truly trivial, to not need a cookie popup. I never put them on my website. We must then conclude that people are putting them on their website because they want to annoy users.
by NovaX | 2026-01-01 16:58:18+00:00
Thanks for the corrected evaluation. Just for your awareness, the HotSpot team is working on offering a spectrum of AOT/JIT options under the Leyden project [1]. Currently one has to choose between either a fully open world (JIT) or closed world (AOT) evaluation. The mixed world allows for a tunable knob, e.g. pre-warmup by AOT while retaining dynamic class loading and fast compile times for the application. This will soften the hard edges so developers can choose their constraints that best fit their application's deployment/usage model.

[1] https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden
by maplant | 2026-01-01 16:58:18+00:00
Socializing is not a "dull chore" it is a essential component of healthy living[1]

By not socializing, you are avoiding (to quote the linked article) a "fundamental human need." This is not something you can simply live without, just like you cannot live a good live without exercise.

The view you are exposing is fundamentally unhealthy.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403199/
by fsmunoz | 2026-01-01 16:58:44+00:00
I haven't tried Wookie, since adding Clack+Woo was already a substantial change. Reading https://fukamachi.hashnode.dev/woo-a-high-performance-common... , where it compares with Wookie, I'm not sure if it would make a difference: it might be wrong, but "it says:

> Of course, this architecture also has its drawbacks as it works in a single thread, which means only one process can be executed at a time. When a response is being sent to one client, it is not possible to read another client's request.

... which for SSE seems to be similar to what the issue is with Woo. I wrote a bit more on it in https://github.com/fsmunoz/datastar-cl/blob/main/SSE-WOO-LIM... , and it can be more of a "me" problem than anything else, but to keep a SSE stream open, it doesn't play well with async models. That's why I added a with-sse-response macro that, unlike with-sse-connection, sends events without keeping the connection open.
by toss1 | 2026-01-01 16:59:03+00:00
>>seem exactly like the job of a state AG, or other form of regulator, vs private lawyers. ...Political dysfunction aside, of course.

And there's the rub — most regulators and AGs will have some political leaning, and ALL of them have limited resources and will be unable to pursue every case, so many cases with great merit will go un-prosecuted.

For all of warts of class actions, that is an overwhelming benefit — a private class action, or latent threat thereof, can bring pressure where an AG or regulator will choose not to, or just lacks the budget and/or bandwidth to pursue.

And yes, making it easier to 'pierce the corporate veil' and create a stronger direct liability, including jail time, for officers, directors, and shareholders for intentional actions and omissions could do a lot to reduce harm of corporations.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-01 16:59:12+00:00
Mastery of words is thinking?

That's the crazy thing. Yes, in fact, it turns out that language encodes and embodies reasoning. All you have to do is pile up enough of it in a high-dimensional space and add some feedback in the form of RL.

No one had the faintest clue. Even now, many people not only don't understand what just happened, they don't think anything happened at all.
by chasemc67 | 2026-01-01 16:59:14+00:00
Hey, creator of Social RV here! Awesome to hear you're enjoying what we're doing.

Some answers to your questions:
- the target pool has 275 targets in it
- we USED to use the last 9 targets as decoys, but changed to randomly sampling 9 targets from the pool instead several months ago. I've updated the FAQ to reflect that
- the unique identifiers we show the LLM for the decoy targets is not the file name but rather the DB primary key for that target. There should be no information in it the AI could use to bias a decision
- in regards to the tournament-style elimination, we have a new judge coming out soon that does a single pass. When this was originally built, the single-pass wasn't reliable enough on available models

Thanks very much for your thoughtful feedback and questions about what we're doing!
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-01 16:59:48+00:00
I’m not sure how that goes against what I said? If the man is confused and thinks the woman is very interested in him (again because he is confused), that could absolutely happen. I guarantee it’s happened in other cases where the two have gone on to happily date or marry. The only difference would be that in those cases the man wasn’t confused about the woman’s interest.
by cycomanic | 2026-01-01 16:59:52+00:00
I can only speak to my own experience, but for the last 1 year I have been by myself and my 2 younger daughters in a new town. I work remotely, but also have some very good friends that I can rely on when I need. Those friends are distributed all over the world and while I can call them any time off the day or night, there is a fundamental difference how I feel after a phone/video call to after a conversation over e.g. drinks/dinner. In fact I found that I sometimes avoid calling my friends because the phone call makes me feel lonelier.

So for me online communities can be a great thing, but they can't replace IRL communities, because the interactions make you feel different. I suspect that the social needs that evolution has imprinted on us can't just be fulfilled by online interactions, they require more senses than just hearing and seeing.
by majorchord | 2026-01-01 16:59:55+00:00
Complacency is complicity

https://tcpca.org/blog/2019/2/1/when-complacency-is-complici...

During the rise of the Third Reich, a German named Dietrich Bonhoeffer rejected the path of comfortable ignorance and valiantly chose instead to stand against the banality of evil in his land. May his words haunt the collective soul of our country:

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
by timcobb | 2026-01-01 16:59:56+00:00
> legally purchased land.

I think good-faith debates on this topic should steer clear of this as a validator, because kicking out tenants always pisses people off, even when that eviction is perfectly legal. Buying up large tracts of land from absentee landlords (in my understanding, like rich colonial governor type folks living in Cairo) and then evicting longstanding residents is legal, but let's not pretend it's not loaded.
by basisword | 2026-01-01 17:00:02+00:00
I don’t think other people are the problem here. Harshly judging others and only wanting to socialise with people that fit a strict narrow criteria is the problem. And it sounds like you have good reason to do that due to past bad experience. I’ve been in a very similar situation and used it to justify keeping a minimal social life. But discarding a rich social life due to some bad experience is the wrong solution. It’s like getting a car accident and deciding you should never travel by car again.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-01 17:00:12+00:00
Nitrogen narcosis is especially relevant to divers. Recreational SCUBA diving is usually limited to around 30m depth and some divers will start noticing effects (basically like getting drunk) near that depth when using air in the tanks. This is why different mixtures (e.g. trimix) are used at increased depths, though there are other important effects of breathing air at pressure such as oxygen toxicity.
by mettamage | 2026-01-01 17:00:29+00:00
> I’ve got no idea, I’m too busy gaming on my Playstation 5 and living a life of selfish consumption.

This is in another article of his about not having kids. But I think just focusing on enjoyment in life is a poor human experience. Life has much more to offer that is equally interesting. Enjoyment isn't the only game in town. And the other things that life has to offer, can be fucking painful. But I'd still say it's worth it to experience.

I appreciate it that life is bitter sweet. I wouldn't exactly say that I like it, but I appreciate it (and it goes up to a point, when we're talking about really rough tragedies, yea none of that please).
by toast0 | 2026-01-01 17:00:39+00:00
> If you want to quickly prove citizenship, a passport is what you need.

Yes, but there's no general requirement for a US citizen to have a passport, let alone carry it while in the US. Or really to carry any identification unless operating a motor vehicle on public roads, transiting an airport, or purchasing controlled substances like sudafed, etc.

The burden should be on DHS to disprove citizenship.
by teecha | 2026-01-01 17:00:42+00:00
i definitely agree it is more nuanced! might not have communicated it well that in the context of untrained people and beginners that these guidelines will work for quite a while and most of the nuance applies much more once you get past the easy beginner gains

for example, if someone new starts with low weight to work on proper technique and form, and adds weight each week they will continue to both get stronger and to gain muscle

i'd imagine the average person who is casually lifting might not even get to this point and could easily spend a couple of years before really hitting a spot where the nuance is more important
by abirch | 2026-01-01 17:00:52+00:00
You can look at DRS: https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/genius-group-sha... but if Jamie Dimon knows who I am (he doesn't) I can ask him not to allow people to short my stock. If he does, I can transfer them to another broker such as Citi and all the people who were borrowing my shares would have to move their positions or close them out.
by fsmunoz | 2026-01-01 17:02:03+00:00
The CL-SPICE library I used, that wraps the SPICE C library through CFFI, doesn't cover the type of SPICE kernel that I wanted to use for the Comms module. I could try and add it, but it could be more involved than what I expected and put the thing on hold.

So I used the FORTRAN SDK for SPICE, since I had used it before, and it's reasonably small and easy. The alternative coud be using the C SDK, but I went with FORTRAN since I already had most of the code from a previous project.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-01 17:02:26+00:00
> They utterly dominate globally outside of EU/NA where they face extreme tariffs.

Even inside of EU, seemingly BYD have reasonable prices, especially compared to their EU competitors. I'm an current Audi owner in Spain, who is currently very close of getting a BYD DM-i Touring, and compared to what I would get from Audi for the same price, BYD still offers a lot more in everything except "nice steering feeling", at least from what I've gathered from my test drives.
by ajdude | 2026-01-01 17:02:34+00:00
I've been on a physical media craze lately. It's been quite a few years since I stopped using Spotify, and I've been rebuilding my collection. Usually by hunting CDs at thrift stores to rip in iTunes to Apple Lossless. I own a bunch of vinyl records, and I've also ripped several of them.

After buying one vinyl album from a niche artist (djpoolboi), he actually then sent me a link to download the same tracks on flac, which I appreciated.

Lately I've found myself buying the same album both on vinyl for listening to at home, and on CD to rip for my digital music collection.

I work from home a lot so having to get up to flip the record gives me an excuse not to stare at my screen all day too.
by sorpigal | 2026-01-01 17:02:40+00:00
IMO this is the real future of Wayland. It should always have been "mere plumbing" for X; the few processes that really need the isolation and security (e.g. screen lock) can be native, everything else should just keep using X, and the "in between" programs can mostly be X programs and implement some wayland protocols for the extra bits they need. Best of both worlds, no compat break.
by lordnacho | 2026-01-01 17:02:47+00:00
I also work from home, together with my wife. So even though we have kids, there is no necessity of leaving the house, save for 15 minutes a day on weekdays to drop off and pick up.

The main thing people have to get over is passivity. You want to see your friends? Invite a bunch of people to come out. Nowadays it takes very little time to book a restaurant.

I do this every few months. I just think of three or four other people I want to have dinner with, arrange a time, and then invite everyone else I come across. Dinner ends up being anywhere from 4 to 12 people, out of maybe 20 invites. As for who to invite, just invite your friends, and your "friend seeds".

Everyone has a few peripheral people they know, whose bio seems to fit the template of your actual friends: live near you, studied with you, worked with you. People who in all likelihood have the same values as you, except you haven't hung out together due to lack of opportunity. We all know that guy: you know his name, you know he does what you do, you don't know anything else. So you bring that seed along and you and your existing friends water the relationship.

A more modern way to not be lonely is to play an MMO. This isn't quite like real friends, but it also isn't quite the same as being lonely. The big benefit of course is that you can do this at home.

These games are all about cooperating, sharing knowledge and experience. It's not really all that different from cooking a meal together, you're just in your PJs as you're slaying a dragon. You can also end up learning a fair bit about your online friends from just hanging around. Life stories, that kind of thing, they are a basic part of friendship.
by drivers99 | 2026-01-01 17:03:00+00:00
I really enjoyed this one as an introduction: https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...

It touches on both ray traced and raster graphics. It lets you use whatever language and graphics library you want as long as you can create a canvas/buffer and put pixels on it so you can target whatever platform you want. It includes links to JavaScript for that if you want. (I didn’t want to use a new-to-me language so I used python and Pygame at the expense of speed.)
by nchmy | 2026-01-01 17:03:10+00:00
> Was your schedule oversubscribed in these ?

I dont have any idea what this means. Could you try again in plain english?

Yes, not having a schedule makes for better travel, as I described in my later multi-year experience. I think most things could probably be made better by having a genuine life partner to share it with. But doing things solo absolutely does not preclude you from meaning. (moreover, I wouldnt describe most romantic relationships as anything resembling a genuine life partner).

Photos and writing are also not inherently meaningful. I did plenty of both and, again, I thought it was all meaningful in the moment, but since realized it was all largely misguided.

If someone were to travel in a genuine manner - where you integrate with local communities, get involved with their traditions, problems etc, then that's an entirely other thing. But just roaming (let alone an itinerary) is largely not actually useful, unless you put it towards something meaningful (eg genuine reflection and improvement, which would largely lead you to realizing that travels themselves are not necessary or even important).
by greggoB | 2026-01-01 17:03:22+00:00
Your entire comment reads a bit like an ad for Chinese cars, conveniently omitting the damage these automakers are doing to the global car industry by dumping cheap supply wherever they can to secure market share, all enabled by heavy state subsidies. [0]

> PS to Canadians: You could be paying ~50% less for the same car, even same model to same model by allowing Chinese made cars in and it'd help you screw over a country that threatened you.

Because given the chance, China 100% would never do the same (or worse).

[0] https://www.csis.org/blogs/trustee-china-hand/chinese-ev-dil...
by MegaDeKay | 2026-01-01 17:03:28+00:00
Well... I didn't say "time under tension". I said tension x time under tension. It's the integral. So high volume 50-70% can equate out to medium volume 70-85% for hypertrophy, all other factors being equal.

I'd guess that drugs come into the equation if you were training around pro bodybuilders and that unlevels the playing field between each person because of how much they might have been on. And amongst the pro's, you're going to hit those genetic Mentzer-like freaks that can somehow grow on 45min 3x a week.

100% agree that drive and intensity is key, and there is more than one way to get big from a program POV.
by balou23 | 2026-01-01 17:03:33+00:00
I'm by no means an expert, but I've recently implemented a small BLE based IoT device, and had a look at the security/privacy of a medical BLE device.

Some points:

* there's a real lack of quality, up-to-date documentation. I would have thought that at least on Linux you'd find some documentation, but most of it seems to be "RTFS".

* BLE is in general very unfamiliar to most developers. There's no client and server, there's central and peripheral. GATT profiles are a mix between TCP connections and binary REST-ish interface.

* Encryption/authentication is possible, but depending on the manufacturer's API/quality of documentation it's not really apparent a. how to select a secure connection method b. how to even check if and which authentication/encryption was chosen

* Coming from the previous point, many BLE devices have the same generic GATT profiles, sometimes with the same sample data. This looks like a lot of BLE devices just copy&pasted sample code from the manufacturer and added the minimal changes "to make it work"

* It's probably really easy to do passive/active fingerprinting to find out the manufacturer and/or chip version used in a device. Default services, ordering of advertising options etc

* Many BLE devices are not conformant. Uninitialised name fields with garbage in them ("Device Name: WHOOP\020��=u5״\023n"), manufacturers using random identifiers that clearly don't belong to them

* when doing passive BLE sniffing: the biggest obstacle isn't getting data. It's how to filter it. One of the most useful filters of the nRF Connect app for android is to filter out all advertisement packages for apple and ms devices, to cut down the overwhelming amount of such devices
by timcobb | 2026-01-01 17:03:34+00:00
> Most MENA Jews migrated voluntarily

This is silly... what mass migration happens "voluntarily" lol. MENA Jews weren't even Zionists until they force-became Zionists.

But yeah, good-faith debates should steer clear of the "legally purchased" bit, it's kind of absurd to ignore that buying land from absentee rich landlords and evicting the longstanding residents is not going to (rightfully, IMO) create a lot of animosity.
by nine_k | 2026-01-01 17:04:18+00:00
I sometimes see how artists who I follow on Bandcamp write about their struggle with ordering the production of vinyls, shipping delays and troubles, etc.

I'd rather them spend this time on doing their art, or going on with their lives. If you want to give an artist a token of appreciation, send them money. I always increase the suggested price of an album or track on Bandcamp to some interesting-looking number.

To produce, ship, and store an otherwise unused complex artifact just as a token of appreciation which is not otherwise enjoyed by the parties looks wasteful for me.