skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an avid lifter and last year had to get 2 surgeries on both elbows. This kept me from doing any upper body training for about 8 months, and I just did basic things for my legs that I could do. I.e. no squats, no leg press since I couldn't even carry the weight plates myself. Basically just leg extensions, leg curls and biking on a stationary bike.

I kept most of the leg strength and muscle mass with even just this but my whole upper body basically went back to not looking like I lift at all.

The upside though and what proves your point around muscle memory is as I'm writing this it has been 12 weeks since my second surgery finished. I started going back to the gym after about 6 weeks with the lightest dumbells on the rack, literally starting from 5lb on every exercise.

In just this 6 weeks I basically look like I never stopped lifting and have approximately 85-90% strength back on all of my upper body lifts (for example 6 weeks ago I couldn't even bench press the bar and struggled to do 10 reps with a 5lb db, yesterday I'm back to hitting 225 for 6-8 reps) and I'm sure if it wasn't just due to surgeries and was just a long break I'd probably be back at 100%, that's how powerful muscle memory is.
It's slightly disingenuous to call carotenoids "additives". Although it might technically be true, carotenoids are naturally present in tons of vegetables (hence carrots) and are a good antioxidant with other known health benefits.
www.spacejam.com
Muscle mass is lost quickly during detraining, but the additional myonuclei gained when someone puts on muscle are retained for much longer, potentially years. Myonuclei govern protein synthesis, so when training resumes, muscle returns more quickly.
That's a good one. I don't think I saw it in Linux's collection tho. It should be.
It isn’t as if his code is written in COBOL, right?

(That is actually a very serious problem in quite a few banks)
Yes, of course. My point is that those standards apply only to specific domains where software is applied, not to the software development industry as a whole.
Before answering your question, I quickly checked your history to confirm my suspicion that you don't give a fuck about racism unless it's against white people and found this gem:

> You're assuming there is no genetic component whatsoever to human skills and interests, and the only reason women are not studying computer science/car repair/welding is sexism.

Your outrage against our hiring practice is 100% performative. So no, I'm not going to engage with you any further.
If OCR is a solution designed to recognize documents and it does not recognize all documents, then it is an imperfect solution.

That is not to say there is a perfect solution, but it is still the fault of the solution.
Me thinks it sounds possible from the described symptoms, but there are plenty of toxic substances in use with similar effects.
first, i need to post the classic joke again...

> A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the US?” The Russian replies, “I’m studying the American approach to propaganda.” The American says, “What propaganda?” The Russian says, “That’s what I mean.”

then, based on all the defenses and copes for this contract (and USAID) that I have seen here, I take back the conclusion that I naively drew earlier:

> Americans are heavily misled by propaganda.

No, Americans are not misled by propaganda, Americans are participating in the propaganda

such a great work, so much to learn
I began reading the book (The Demon Haunted World) and it shocked me how casually Sagan states that he hallucinated, and it gave me an epiphany:

The schizophrenic doesn't understand that other people are sane!

Suddenly, it makes perfect sense - a schizophrenic (or perhaps a group of them) somehow came up with science. And for them it was a world changing event, as they could disprove their hallucinations one by one. It turned them from something that was barely surviving on the outskirts of society into somewhat functional beings.

But, for the same reason why he was insane in the first place, sooner or later he corrupts his science as well.

However the schizophrenic doesn't uderstand that others are sane.

So, when he was convincing the sailors that scurvy isn't from the lack of fruit, he fought their insane belief, like when he believed a leprechaun stabbed him. When he is convincing you that there are more genders than men and women, he is fighting your insane delusion, like when he disproved that there were fire spitting dragons flying in the sky! He's merely trying to bring you out of darknes, just like he did himself.
Ask HN: Is there a quick way to validate a research idea?
There's a big step for startups to find a product market fit, is there something similar for research ideas? I can only think of talking to your PhD advisor, or applying for small grants like https://manifund.org or https://experiment.com/, are there any other options? Is there a place online to discuss research ideas before working on them?
My VPN/Fileserver VPS is not behind Cloudflare, and I haven't had any trouble for years. Only the SSH port is accessible from outside (which is probably not even necessary), with password login disabled. I use fail2ban and a few other extra layers of security.
You've got to imagine there are limits, tho. I note that Trump backed off most tariffs, at least for now, when the markets got unhappy (I mean, you could believe it was due to symbolic troop movements if you wanted, I suppose?) And cloud services to Europe are _big_ business; it would not be a small market shock.

If there were to be a major migration from AWS and Azure to the likes of Hetzner, OVH and friends, also, that would likely be _permanently_ lost business for US megacorps; no-one does that sort of migration unless they really have to, so it's improbable that anyone would move back if and when the situation was resolved.
The Ruby world is feeling a revival for the last year. More and more people using it and lots of new libraries coming out or being updated.
Late to the party, but I know of at least two highly-paid coworkers that already had plans to retire, but are now just hoping for several months of extra pay (it's essentially the only situation where I would recommend someone take this offer-- if it works out, great for them; if it doesn't, well they were going to leave anyway)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-06/hhs-websi... | https://archive.today/EvjAR
The biggest problem with the USA is people look at the current state of the government and somehow don't see pre Nazi Germany. If the percentage of these sympathizers is large enough then there is no course correction that will be possible in two years.
Although left out, I would definitely count CO2 as pollution. It may not be toxic, but it certainly is on track to be the most deadly.
Yes, but they are likely dramatically accelerated in the AI timeline.
Isn’t the most interesting pollutant, CO2, missing here? Wikipedia at least counts CO2 as an air pollutant.
Muscle mass comes back quicker too, independently of strength. See this forum post and the attached paper. https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/muscle-memory-revisted/1...
Wait is it??
o1 is more expensive I think
Credit cards are an ancient insecure technology that needs to go away. There are systems in Europe like iDEAL that are much more 21st century appropriate.
Cool, let’s work on plastics!
What do you do with chicken corpses in the country? Burn them?
This grant [1]. "SUPPORT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) CARE CLOSE TO THE DISPLACED POPULATIONS. [...] Place Of Performance //XGZ GAZA STRIP GAZA STRIP". Though I don't think that it will be used exclusively for condoms, the one paragraph description doesn't give much details about how exactly the 45 million dollars will be spent.

[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SPRMCO24VC0339_19...
A lot of those claims about water physics used to market homeopathy are based on real experimental observations- see the link in my other reply, water really does do some strange and complex stuff.

But the problem is that these observations do not actually support the claims of homeopathy at all- the attempt at connecting the two is entirely nonsense. I like to try to be open minded about fringe science and medical ideas... but homeopathy really takes the cake, and is the type of total nonsense that gives the rest of that type of stuff a bad name.
I use AnyDesk daily, but sometimes have to use RustDesk when it can't reach clients in certain regions.

Performance is great, supports multiple monitors, keyboard sync and everything you'd expect for a remote tool. One lacking feature is account naming, which AnyDesk has.
And if this were Congress passing a budget then people would be upset but wouldn't be calling it illegal.

There's a huge difference between Congress passing a budget (within its constitutional powers) and the Executive just killing anything and everything that seems "woke" them with no legislative authorization.
Do you also consider Musk's nazism odious?

There is a reason people are angry and the truth is Musk/trump have gone too far. It's bizarre to say but we are watching the downfall of the USA in real time. The country has been captured by criminals who are working to destroy it–folks are going to be angry about that.
I got a little fish in my first capsule (along something useful that I can't remember, maybe a suit). I kept it the whole game, then passed it on in my own capsule. It's silly, but I still think about that fish.
Don't worry, the Trump admin will "fix" that with their intent to push ICE vehicles over electric [0] and coal power over wind/solar [1].

[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5272749/donald-trump-ev...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-war-on...
You can certainly disagree with whether we should be doing it, but the fact remains that Congress made a law saying that we are doing it. The vehicle for changing that is to change the law, not for the President to decide to break the law.

On a separate note, assuming that "it's good to help people if you can" doesn't move you, the cynical reason for USAID's existence is marketing and soft power projection. For a tiny fraction of the US budget, we get to look good for how nice we're being to people, and get other countries to want us to come in and get our hands all over their infrastructure until it'd be painful for them to oppose us and lose that aid.

(Also, HIV specifically? That's something where lowering the levels of it in foreign countries will directly help the US, because it makes it less likely that US citizens will get exposed to it when people travel.)
What tool is used for embedded code? It’s really nice! I like the folding of non focused snippets
Real-world is an interesting concept in modern society. It reminds me of the ideas we see in the film Paprika (2008).

The internet (and AI) are much like dreams in that they impact our reality. The amount of time people spend looking at feeds on their phones creates thoughts and impacts a persons perception of the “real world”.

Not surprised more people believe in aliens … with these modern devices an odd form of shared (perhaps manipulated) version of reality emerges.

What is really “trending”
What is really “news worthy”

What is the top issue affecting the EU or affecting Americans?

What is important?

What am I scared of?

How much of this is the “real world” how much of this is some odd blend of both?
Really cool. Make the extension action automatically make the <article> content typeable.
Beyond embarrassing that those bootlucking fucking crybabies at a16z flagged this so hard, as if their brand isn't already in the absolute toilet.
> Lack of enforcement mechanisms, captured courts, feckless political stooges, gullible public.

> e.g., Virginia governor illegally purged voters within a certain time window. Courts said "yeah that was illegal, you need to stop" VA attorney gen said "no I don't." And while the court of appeals agreed with the lower court "yeah simple violation of the law. Reinstate revoked registration." The VA supreme court was like "nah fam, let's let the governor do his thing and we can figure this all out after the election." And everyone kinda stopped talking about it.

The fact that he won the case means that it was not an illegal purge. It was expressly legal. The SCOTUS agreed as well: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-30644/supreme-court-virg...

You can't claim the result of a case is "illegal" simply because you don't agree with it. Or is the very act of appealing a ruling itself an illegal act because you do not immediately bend the knee to the first judge that sides with your opponents?

> As a poll worker I had multiple people who had voter ID cards come in last November but required filling out paperwork to re-register them and have them cast a provisional ballot. Feels like they were connected as I hadn't dealt with that in the near dozen elections I've worked prior.

Were they people who checked the box on their driver's license form explicitly stating that they are not a US citizen? Because those are the people who were removed from the voter rolls by that clean up.
Completely agree with all these points and that without the 6502 the ARM1 would not have looked like it did. One might say ARM1 was inspired by the 6502 and it prevented them going down the CISCy 68k route.

But I don't think that ARM 'ARM borrowed most of its design from 6502' or (to my mind at least) looks like a refreshed 6502. There are just too many fundamental differences:

- ARM1 was a load/store architecture / 6502 wasn't.

- 6502 had a few special purpose registers / ARM1 had loads of general purpose registers.

Plus there are lots of key innovations in ARM1 that weren't in either 6502 or RISC 1 such as conditional execution. Furber and Wilson were really quite innovative and didn't just borrrow ideas from other ISAs.
Not sure if replies purposely ignore the point, thereby proving it, or if I am expressing it badly (Edit: OK, so it is indeed the former...)

If we want to use fancy proverbs to show our deep wisdom, I think the following French proverb is more apt to the situation: "If you want to kill your dog, accuse him of having rabies."
gleeful displays of cruelty and obedience

will age like black milk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todesfuge
Energy density is only an issue if you move the battery around, grid storage doesn't care so a bit concerning they don't mention that usage either.
>> simplicity: https://cs16.samke.me

Nice UI, can you add more elements?
I understand the age issue but you can always get a 42" display? LG C2/3/4 are amazing.
Sadly formatting well written pandas and Polars code cannot be automated but current tooling.
Trump listens to the last person who talked to him. You can find superclips of his schedule, and then giving a speech or press conference parroting the same ideas of the people he met with earlier that day. Then a couple days later saying the opposite, because he met with someone else that day.
Works great both Windows and Linux.
Only difference I noticed with Teamviewer is that it asks for windows Administrator permission to take control meanwhile Teamviewer I think it does not.

Apart from that (and if you tell your users in advance it means nothing) experience is on par.

I also installed my own server for vanity domain but went back to free cause I was not vane anymore.
My father was a machinist for 25 years, then went into education for trade skills programs. One thing he tirelessly hit on with anyone who would listen was the mid to long term impact of the erosion of manufacturing and trade skills in America. This erosion was due in part to economics, raising kids to eschew blue collar jobs, and finally automation. Indeed, one of his later projects while still a machinist at Eveready Battery was working on automated production lines. His point relating to automation, other than the fact that not everything can or necessarily needs to be automated, was that automation still requires skilled labor, and in his experience, abandoning the next generation of workers results in a crisis of competency and ingenuity. Attrition of a workforce to install, maintain, improve, and integrate machines is a recipe for disaster down the line. Attrition of experts in systems and processes means we will have trouble innovating and reacting to changes in the world, and increases our reliance on black boxes– which provide the same capabilities to your competitors, by the way– and the jackals that sell them to us. My father was not opposed to automation; in fact, he appreciated that it sometimes made his job safer, or more productive, or less strenuous. However, he watched delusional and myopic managers with dollar signs floating in their eyes chasing their tails relentlessly for more and more automation with fewer and fewer people with the knowledge, skill, and responsibility to clean up their constant messes and keep the thing running.

No one gives a shit about Gumroad, but I fear similar problems in this industry at large. We have entered a time when we all feed from the same exorbitantly expensive, increasingly less nutritious, thin, gray gruel and will be fucked when the tap it comes from clogs or gets shut off.
The idea that people aren't comfortable on a team that doesn't have other people matching their immutable sex/race characteristics, and that we should encourage this fragility is insane to me.

If this is the starting point, then wouldn't small, diverse teams be totally dysfunctional?

I have no sympathy for someone who can't work on a team of people of the opposite sex. In fact, in multiple jobs I've been the only man on an all female team. Not once did it occur to me that that could be a problem.
How did you include the real voice in a plans text message!?!?
These are just the disclosed ones. The weaponized ones (as mentioned) found or bought kept secret by the NSA, etc. such as from Zerodium (ex-VUPEN) and similar aren't counted obviously. ;)
The Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970 (2014)
FYI I was able to get the original to run in an in-browser Virtual Machine by navigating to https://infinitemac.org/1998/Mac%20OS%208.1, clicking on "Macintosh Garden" at the bottom of the browser window, finding the app, downloading it, decompressing it, installing it, and configuring it.

Also the documentation for the original app was helpful. http://poubelle.com/DarkSideDocs.html
I am not sure about a "professional" experience. But my personal one is that I had my parents install it on their machine years ago, and since it's running stable and without great changes or weird banner or any other silly stuff that would break the flow.

I can log in remotely and help them. It is also easy to install and run, which is also bonus points.

For me, this smooth experience has been a godsent. When I used TeamViewer I feel like every time I would use it, sometimes months apart, it would break or something would change.
If you're unable to focus at work because of some personal trauma, then the best thing to do at most companies is talk to your line manager about it to explain the situation. That's entirely reasonable and I would think that most people will respond empathetically in that situation.

I don't think that's typically what is meant when discussing 'leaving politics out of work' though.
Does it still install a Chinese root certificate on Windows?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493
Single-photon Lidar delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer
> Complexity exists, you can't make it go away, managing it and understanding it is the only thing you can do. Simple systems only displace complexity.

My thoughts, exactly. And considering that so much unnecessary complexity keeps being added to software (through poor understanding of requirements, technical debt, etc), it's an extremely valuable skill.
*Electron, you almost got it :)
If murdering people was on the agenda, believe me they would have come with guns instead of using uncertain means. Your priors still doing ok?
> after this liberals are going to be proud members of the NRA.

I grew up an active NRA member, shooting since I was 6. I have long since disassociated myself with the group but want to make it clear - a lot of liberals have guns and regularly practice using them.

We don't need the NRA (a Putin funded organization) to do that!
Songlink
Easy, just hire people who constantly say “thank you for your leadership sir.”

I often talk about encouraging a truthseeking culture at work, because people naturally tend to gravitate toward easy or popular ideas.

But this is more like a lie-seeking culture.
Scrawl it! *thump. clap. thump thump clap thump*

Erase it! *thump. clap. thump thump clap thump*

Pass it! *dun dun dun dun dun dun*
I am not a medical professional, so take this opinion with a grain of salt, but it seems like it should theoretically be possible to test for a concentration of misfolded proteins that propagate themselves.

How complex or expensive this could be is not something I have any insight into at all, it could be something that takes millions of dollars and 20 years per test.
- Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque

- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- and also somehow The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Fruit Jam RP2350B credit-card mini computer with all the fixin's
It’s not the cholesterol itself that’s “good” or “bad”, but there are lipoproteins in the body that transport the cholesterol that have differing effects on CVD risk.

The evidence would suggest that dietary cholesterol does increase CVD risk, but the impact really tails off quickly. So if you have little to no dietary cholesterol, consuming eggs will likely raise your blood lipids. If you already have some dietary cholesterol, the impact on blood lipids will likely be small. However, I think there are genetic differences that can change the risk profile significantly.

I suspect that the main modifying effects of frying would be:
1. increasing saturated fat intake
2. increasing calorie intake
I might be a contrarian, but I think it makes sense for the NSA to hoard 0-days. They should disclose only after they burn them.
> the services themselves continually change

Nothing is perfect, and nothing is immune to change, but that's why I'm attracted to open, and non-commercial social networks. Non-commercial networks have less incentives to enshittify, and being decentralised/open can act as a relief value to give more control to users (like Bluesky's labellers) and help counteract any changes they do make for the worse.

> won't someone think of the kids?

not me. I don't see why I children using social media should impact my decision about how I spend my time?
What Happens to Your Used Clothing
Most of our customers have decent sized backyards - I would say on average from clips people have shared, most yards are about the size of a tennis court or more (which is more than enough for 4-6 hens). Basically we look at it as, if you have a backyard, you have enough space for 4-6 chickens. Also, It's funny you mention My First Million - Sam Parr is a good friend of mine and I've been trying to get him to invest in Coop, lol.