MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jandrese | 2026-01-14 18:39:03+00:00
I have a conspiracy theory take on traditional manufacturers being so anti-EV.

Basically the primary differentiator between car companies and the primary barrier to entry in the combustion vehicle business is the engine, especially in the US. Look at the marketing, horsepower and torque are always the topline numbers. Zero to sixty and quarter mile drag races are the favored metrics. Each company spent decades perfecting the engines and the majority of the engineering effort goes into them. Even the transmissions get second fiddle status.

But now EVs come along and the electric motors are commodity parts that are always highly optimized. There's little one company can do to make the motor significantly better. Battery tech is cutthroat and also largely outside of the car company's scope, although Tesla does more than other companies. If EVs become successful there's little to stop competition from sprouting up everywhere and killing profitability for the legacy auto manufacturers.
by vunderba | 2026-01-14 18:39:21+00:00
Love the idea of auto‑charting based on BPM, but I couldn’t get it to work in practice. Tapping WASD on the keyboard never increased the 0/5 counter, which I assume is the number of key presses needed to establish a tempo?

It also says "tap to ARROWs" (typo "tap the ARROWs"?) but there aren't any arrows to tap either.

https://imgur.com/a/cVgQecw

Tested on: Chrome Version 144.0.7559.60

Couldn't get beyond this screen unfortunately.

Slightly related, there was a VR game (that unfortunately got absolutely buried under the significantly more successful Beat Saber) some years back called Sound Boxing that let people create step tracks to songs on YouTube, and you would punch, duck, bob, and weave to the beat. I absolutely loved it.
by binarylogic | 2026-01-14 18:39:25+00:00
You're right, it's not always binary. That's why we broke it down into categories:

https://docs.usetero.com/data-quality/logs/malformed-data

You'd be shocked how much obviously-safe waste (redundant attributes, health checks, debug logs left in production) accounts for before you even get to the nuanced stuff.

But think about this: if you had a service that was too expensive and you wanted to optimize the data, who would you ask? Probably the engineer who wrote the code, added the instrumentation, or whoever understands the service best. There's reasoning going on in their mind: failure scenarios, critical observability points, where the service sits in the dependency graph, what actually helps debug a 3am incident.

That reasoning can be captured. That's what I'm most excited about with Tero. Waste is just the most fundamental way to prove it. Each time someone tells us what's waste or not, the understanding gets stronger. Over time, Tero uses that same understanding to help engineers root cause, understand their systems, and more.
by erikpukinskis | 2026-01-14 18:40:17+00:00
Also worth noting that it’s often not single-node performance that caps throughput… it’s replication.

Databases are pretty good at quickly adding and removing lots of rows. But even if you can keep up with churning through 1000 rows/second, with batching or whatever, you still need to replicate 1000 rows/second do your failover nodes.

That’s the big win for queues over a relational db here: queues have ways to efficiently replicate without copying the entire work queue across instances.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-14 18:40:25+00:00
Which is irrelevant if you're truly trying to "pay it forward".

That is the core of my observation: people claim to publish to benefit society, but push come to shove, they care more about getting credit and having oversight over who is benefiting, to the point of refusing to publish further (and sometimes unpublishing things) if that credit/control isn't given.

The problem isn't in wanting these things - it's in not being up-front about it.
by sfink | 2026-01-14 18:40:37+00:00
Huh. I expected two main advantages on Rust's side: usable multithreading (as mentioned) and stack allocation. For the latter, the ownership model makes it possible to stack-allocate things that you wouldn't dare put on the stack in either C or C++, thus saving malloc and free time as well as second-order effects from avoiding fragmentation.

Does Rust not do this for subtle reasons that I'm missing, or does it just not matter as much as I'd expect it to?
by masfuerte | 2026-01-14 18:40:40+00:00
> This farcical situation extends into the UK's broken citizenship model where there are 6 different types of nationality, none of which give any rights you can't build through a hodgepodge of other different statuses.

There is one right. If you are British at birth they can't strip your citizenship and kick you out. Everyone else's residence is at the whim of the Home Secretary.
by giglamesh | 2026-01-14 18:40:46+00:00
> ... most pickup trucks aren't designed for maximum utility. They're designed to sell a lifestyle.

Yes, but that lifestyle can and sometimes does include actual needs for some of the utility. There is a great observation from Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat from Washington’s 3rd District in an NYT piece a couple of days ago. I included a perhaps too long quote in lieu of apologizing for the paywall.

> “Spreadsheets can contain a part of truth,” Ms. Gluesenkamp Perez told me. “But never all of truth.”

> Looking to illustrate this, I bought the recent book “White Rural Rage” and opened it more or less at random to a passage about rural pickup trucks. It cites a rich portfolio of data and even a scholarly expert on the psychology of truck purchasers, to make what might seem like an obvious point — that it’s inefficient and deluded for rural and suburban men to choose trucks as their daily driving vehicles. The passage never does explain, though, how you’re supposed to haul an elk carcass or pull a cargo trailer without one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/marie-gluesenkamp...
by lurk2 | 2026-01-14 18:40:50+00:00
> Reporters are not federal employees and it’s not illegal for them to have or discuss classified materials. Most of what Snowden leaked was classified, and remains classified to this day, but you and I can read about it on Wikipedia.

CNN tells viewers its illegal to read Wikileaks emails (2016)

“Also interesting is—remember—it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning from us.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBppdC1h_Y
by tshaddox | 2026-01-14 18:40:56+00:00
It's kinda funny. There is a popular claim that goes something like "silence or inaction is implicit support for the status quo." The point is that there's not really such a thing as "not taking sides."

I don't quite agree with that, simply because no matter how many things you do take a stance on, there's always an infinite number of things that you haven't taken a stance on.

But when you go out of your way to explicitly mention that you're refusing to take a stance on all social or political issues, that actually does feel pretty close to explicit approval of the status quo for all social or political issues. Of course this likely was not the intent! So why say it at all?!
by acdha | 2026-01-14 18:41:10+00:00
You’re welcome to try to get the entire industry to stop referring to junior and senior developers, engineers, etc. but most people know that experience is a distinguishing characteristic. The other huge mistake you’re making is assuming that compensation is based on performance in non-union shops. It certainly can be but almost everyone will collect counter examples as they get more career experience.

I would suggest considering who stands to benefit the most from the belief that high-performers don’t need unions, and whether the same companies which have been found guilty of wage-suppression would be above funding amplification for that sentiment. Tech workers gave up a ton of bargaining power for decades and while we certainly aren’t badly paid it’s worth remembering how, say, that settlement with Apple, Google, et al. didn’t fully make up the difference, not to mention the number of former high-fliers who hit things like the ageism wall long before they wanted to retire. In an uneven market with a huge imbalance in data visibility and negotiating power, unilateral disarmament by the weaker side doesn’t seem like the winning strategy.
by f1shy | 2026-01-14 18:41:12+00:00
Thank you. I have to admit I did not take time to real all. I was just shocked by the 1 in 5. I kinda suspected is not the same definition of poverty and malnutrition in the 1st and 3rd world (I lived in both and know there are big differences) but is still was shocking high. But as you point out, is little more nuanced, and I will not keep the 20% figure in my head.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-14 18:41:25+00:00
The lighting is fine for towing, especially the type that people usually do. You can tow up to 10,000lbs and the truck has ridiculous power to pull it.

What you can't do it tow it long distances (>90mi, worst case) without 40 minute stops every 1.5 hours. That sucks.

But the truth is very few truck owners are towing huge loads long distances.

However, if you are pulling your lawn care trailer around town, you will not have a problem, because every day you start with a full charge.

As an aside, the main killer of range for a trailer is a function of speed and drag. Low drag trailers driven at highway speeds (60-65) have marginal impacts on range, regardless of weight.

Again, the whole thing is ridden with misconceptions and misunderstandings. The majority of people who tow stuff, can still tow stuff while reaping cheaper operating costs.
by lassejansen | 2026-01-14 18:42:10+00:00
I think the approach of HTMX is that UI state is primarily managed by delegating DOM updates to the server and then modifying the DOM with the response.

With hyTags one can do a lot of things without server calls and without resorting to javascript (e.g. inserting and deleting new rows, showing a loading indicator, validating input, animations, ...).
by LexiMax | 2026-01-14 18:42:13+00:00
I agree in spirit, but in actual fact this subversion of intellectual property is disproportionately beneficial to those who can afford to steal from others and those who can afford to enforce their copyright, while disproportionately disadvantageous to those who can't afford to fend off a copyright lawsuit or can't afford to sue to enforce their copyright.

The GP can free-ride uncredited on the collective work of open source at their leisure, but I'm sure Disney would string me up by my earlobes if I released a copywashed version of Toy Story 6.
by daemonologist | 2026-01-14 18:42:43+00:00
I assume they want to attract as many customers has possible while they have that monopoly - eventually they're going to need to compete with Amazon (Leo) and China (Qianfan, although I assume it'll be banned in the US). The cost of the phased-array terminals probably means there will be some stickiness.

Also as has been noted, in some markets they do compete on price: https://restofworld.org/2025/starlink-cheaper-internet-afric...
by usrusr | 2026-01-14 18:42:48+00:00
That FAQ is directed at organizations willing to act as a _distribution point_. So mostly charities who think they can spare the time and effort. I guess a better written FAQ would put it "Wie viele Kartoffeln bekommen _wir_?", making it more visible that it's directed at organizations. I just sampled a few of the distribution points already acknowledged and those do look like they will be passing them on to individual consumers.
by disqard | 2026-01-14 18:42:56+00:00
I have always supported Adafruit -- Limor's principles shine through in the products, the website, the tutorials, and in the long-term track record of standing by their products. Even when I can source things from AliExpress, I often get them from Adafruit.

Speaking for myself, SparkFun has lost me as a customer.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-14 18:43:03+00:00
...misconceptions and misunderstanding, rather than actual practical matters.

What's the range of an F-150 Lightning when towing a small travel trailer? The Rivian R1T is ~150 miles give or take. I assume the F-150 is similar.

At least for towing, the math isn't great. Especially when you add in the cost - my Honda Ridgeline was $42k in 2021. EV trucks are roughly double that amount.
by aeternum | 2026-01-14 18:43:08+00:00
Fred Lambert (Electrek founder) was pro-tesla and was using his site to get a huge number of referral credits. Then Tesla changed the rules on that referral program.

That's what triggered the beef. Fred sold all shares, took down all the pro-tesla articles, and posts nearly exclusively only negative tesla articles since.

Seems both parties were/are within legal rights, but it is clearly bias.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-14 18:43:47+00:00
I'm with you 100% -- shrinking tees and shrinking sleeves were the bane of my existence, I'd buy my proper size but they would only be wearable like 5 times until they got too short. But if I bought a size up, I'd be swimming in them horizontally even after they shrank. (The people here saying that shrinkage isn't a problem anymore, I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they wear a baggy/long style of clothing so it doesn't matter? And I don't care how supposedly "preshrunk" cotton is, it's not preshrunk enough.)

Now I just wash on cold and hang dry all my cotton shirts, tees and button-ups. Just use a folding drying rack as simple as this:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/mulig-drying-rack-indoor-outdoo...

It's a little annoying to have to leave the rack out in the middle of some room to dry overnight, but zero shrinkage ever. The way it fit in the store is the way it still fits three years later.

And no, stretching with conditioner/shampoo doesn't work, because there's no easy way to stretch it the "right" way -- as you tug on spots at the neck and the waist to pull them apart, they stretch but in weird, inconsistent, lumpy ways. The final result just looks like you've had small kids trying to hang from different spots on your shirt and it's all out of shape. Maybe in theory if you had some kind of stretching system with long clamps or something it could work, but who has that? Doing it by hand, it's definitely not a solution.
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-14 18:43:53+00:00
I wouldn’t be so sure about what will happen or not in general, and in that case it’s certainly an option as

- people already do eat maggot without noticing (and pretty sure some *do* notice)
- if you don’t know about cheese you wouldn’t believe I’m eating fat’s mold.
- our siblings ape, pigs and other animals eat them too, it’s a good nutrient source
- someone from the past wouldn’t believe modern humans eat stuff made from petroleum, animals from gigafactories
- being *not-vegan* is like a religion for some and I’m wondering if they would think about cannibalism before realizing they get plenty of nutrients from the plants already on the menu.
by jsight | 2026-01-14 18:44:15+00:00
Exactly, price is a huge problem. IIRC, the average selling price of F-150 is ~50k.

The extended range Lightning tended to be $60k and up. Sure, it had AWD, but lots of people didn't need that. The Cybertruck is even more expensive.

Both had huge preorders when they were announced at ~50k.
by subpixel | 2026-01-14 18:44:17+00:00
Time will tell. I have experience losing weight but could never lose 10lbs - my goal is at least 20. And I have experience taking and tapering off other medication.

I also play sports and work out and am making time for those pursuits - literally calendering workouts as opposed to maybe sometimes doing it.

In years prior the stakes were pretty low. My last bloodwork was a wake up call. I’m optimistic I can stay where I want to be once I get there.

I’m more concerned about alcohol, and falling back into the habit of saying yes to that weird desire to have a drink at 6pm on a Tuesday that turns into a few more.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 18:44:35+00:00
While safety does play a role, it isn't the primary driver of decisions.

For example, if consumers were truly worried about safety, most consumers wouldn't drive without seatbelts or car seats for minors.

Across Asia - be it India, Vietnam, China, or Korea - traditional norms remain strong, and not being able to even afford a $4-6k car bodes poorly on your earning power and thus your marriageability given that traditional status milestones like a 2LDK, kids educated at private school, destination tourism, and higher education abroad are difficult if you cannot afford that.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-14 18:44:50+00:00
The default for all people should to cold wash and hang dry what they care about taking care of, and to use extra-low-heat on what they don't care about.

Indoor hang drying is easy. Get a box fan, and a de-humidifier. Both are about 20$ USD. Now you don't even need to open the windows or worry about what's going on outside.

I went from zero to hero with clothes when I realized I should care about them, and seeing the night and day difference in how long my clothes last has been jarring. Shrinkage is a thing of the past.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-14 18:44:53+00:00
No do the range/time/stops calculation with a travel trailer.

Yes, if we're talking about normal family travel, an EV works fine for many trips (though there are still charging "dead spots" in parts of the country - looking at you WV).

But, "truck stuff" like towing, they aren't there yet. Maybe in a few years when we get the next generation of battery and charger tech.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-14 18:44:56+00:00
I gave up on netflix years ago for unrelated reasons but never had any sort of issue both VPNing between various countries and traveling between them. My wife would pretty regularly want to watch netflix as if she was in Japan or the UK and so we'd turn a VPN on for the TV network and their own TV app never complained at all that it was suddenly on a different continent.
by imzadi | 2026-01-14 18:44:56+00:00
I think the problem is just how big the US is. People outside of the US really don't understand this. For instance, I'm about 2300 miles from DC, also known as 3700 km. It just not logistically possible for me to march on the capital. I do what I can locally, a lot of us do, but with everything so spread out, it is hard to make an impact.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-14 18:45:09+00:00
In theory plastic food 'waste' could be far more recyclable if it were standardized on plastics that were recyclable and we had a deposit system.

Needless to say the food and drink industry has spent an epic fuckton on lobbying to ensure that doesn't happen. Remember to give a proper fuck you to the Coca-cola corp about this.
by evereverever | 2026-01-14 18:45:19+00:00
I love my EV, but for anything that needs the range they should have a super-efficient gas or diesel engine that can charge the batteries? It could be a much less complex engine.

That said, they big car makers only chased the government incentives, which was a great reason to have them.

Electric everything is the future. It is obvious (e.g. heat pumps, EVs).
by instagib | 2026-01-14 18:45:21+00:00
Maybe they can sell them at the announced prices instead of the inflated ones. Used is selling around $40k with 20-40,000 miles.

New started at 40k, went to 60k for sale, pre-order fulfillment fell off a cliff so it sunk to 56k, and settled around 50k.

2022: 15,617 sold

2023: 24,165

2024: 33,510

2025: “Around 27,300 units sold in the U.S”

$4k-$6k per battery module replacement. Full pack $25k-$50k.
by cloudfudge | 2026-01-14 18:45:49+00:00
This makes me wonder if there's a business case for a privacy-preserving identity service which does age verification. Say you have a strong identity provider that you have proven your age to. Just as the 3rd party site could use SSO login from your identity provider, perhaps the identity provider could provide signed evidence to the 3rd party site that asserts "I have verified that this person is age X" but not divulge their identity. Sidestep the privacy issue and just give the 3rd party site what they need to shield them from liability.
by btown | 2026-01-14 18:45:54+00:00
One aspect of this normalization of photo uploading is that, if a platform allows user-generated content that can splash a modal to kids, a bad actor can do things like say “you need to re-verify or you’ll lose all your in-game currency, go here” and then collect photo identification without even needing to compromise identity verification providers!

I truly fear the harm that will be done before legislators realize what they’ve created. One only hopes that this prevents the EU and US from doing something similar.
by karianna | 2026-01-14 18:46:11+00:00
Hard agree on the data waste, noise to signal ratio is typically very high and processing, shipping and storing all of that data costs a ton.

Previous start-up I worked on (jClarity, exited to Microsoft) mitigated much of this by having a model of only collecting the tiny amount of data that really mattered for a performance bottleneck investigation in a ring buffer and only processing / shipping and storing that data if a bottleneck trigger occurred (+ occasional baselines).

It allowed our product at the time (Illuminate to run at massive scale without costing our customers an arm and a leg or impacting their existing infrastructure. We charged on the value of the product reducing MTTR and not on how much data was being chucked around.

There was the constant argument against approach of always on observably or “collect all data JIC”, but with a good model (in our case something called the Java Performance Diagnostic Method) we never missed having the noise
by helloiamvu | 2026-01-14 18:46:27+00:00
Thanks for the question. Rolling is how we keep an index continuous even though the underlying markets expire. For the NBA index, each game market resolves, but the rating just updates after the final result using the pre-game odds and carries forward through the season. Weather is a clearer “rolling” case: the index is a blend of the active near-term contracts (today/tomorrow), and when those resolve we drop them and swap in the next equivalent markets, so the index stays continuous while the inputs change.
by Rendello | 2026-01-14 18:46:28+00:00
In 2021 I made a post here entitled "Just make the damn blog!", which was directed at myself. I'd hoped I'd finally cracked the website code and found something I'd want to maintain, but I ended up forgetting about it a week later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026864

https://web.archive.org/web/20210503161408/http://rendello.c...
by badeeya | 2026-01-14 18:47:09+00:00
Hi all, just read the attached URL and while I was initially excited to go through this book, I was disappointed to see that it did not cover these fundamental (albeit newer) features like cgroups, namespaces, and io_uring.

Does anybody have recommendations for books or an online interactive resource that includes such newer concepts? Or should I just slog through this linked tome and supplement this part somewhere else?
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-14 18:47:17+00:00
That's not the problem being discussed here, though. That's normal usage, and you can hardly blame AI companies for shitty scrapers random users create on demand, because it's merely a symptom of coding getting cheap. Or, more broadly, the flip side of the computer becoming an actual "bicycle for the mind" and empowering end-users for a change.
by xethos | 2026-01-14 18:47:40+00:00
> the cycle has been like this since 2001

> The US is getting less stable instead of more stable

> I hope they are more long-sighted than that

Quoting you out of order, but when one puts all three together what do you believe the long-term plan should be? America is, by your own admission, becoming less stable, and currently threatening annexation of multiple countries. What exactly do you think "less stable" looks like after this?