MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TimorousBestie | 2025-06-17 13:47:58+00:00
A society with poor public services and UBI is better than a society with poor public services and no UBI; I suppose that’s my position. They didn’t need UBI to exist before they started cutting everything.

Most everyone is already dependent on the federal govt anyway. Barely a fraction of the country could survive a year without some kind of federal aid or social services.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-06-17 13:48:25+00:00
On the other hand, my liberal parent gave me stimulants for 8 years that made me anxious when I previously wasn't, and killed my appetite so hard I couldn't take more than 1-2 bites of anything at dinner, and now I'm 32 looking like a 16 year old but with the fatigue of a 64 year old.
by VeninVidiaVicii | 2025-06-17 13:48:27+00:00
I had the same exact issues on generic Vyvanse, which also causes me intense palpitations compared to the brand-name, I legit thought I was going to have a heart attack several times a day. So much so, that I quit it altogether—I couldn’t stand the side effects or the constant unavailability of the brand-name.
by bradley13 | 2025-06-17 13:49:20+00:00
Including asymmetry between the nostrils brings in physiological factors other than breathing, i.e. sinuses, etc..

Still, I can see it. My wife and I are probably equally fit, but she breathes much faster than I do. I also notice that I sometimes don't take a breath (or feel any need to) for several seconds, if I'm being sedentary.
by hbn | 2025-06-17 13:49:32+00:00
I know whenever this happens, a lot of HN-types like to act smug about how "you should have known to not trust a company with your data, do your own backups"

But for everyone else (skipping over the fact that you could have a little more compassion to someone who lost decades worth of important, sentimental data), running your own backups is way more work than should be necessary compared to the mainstream solutions. Especially since most people will likely not hit this scenario anyway, it's just a lottery of the unlucky.

And honestly why are we just accepting that these organizations sitting on infinitely growing wealth can use it to incentivize us to give us all their data for convenience and otherwise worry-free management of it, and then just lock you out one day based on bad algorithms, and offer next to no customer support to resolve it because they don't want to spend a tiny fraction of their operation budget on a department for that?

I'm not sure how you'd enforce regulation on something like that but if we're gonna let big tech run rampant and collect all this data on the population, it seems like the bare minimum to offer a better experience for stuff like this.
by anonzzzies | 2025-06-17 13:49:55+00:00
I dont know how people are so weird to trust any provider ever. Its nice for a bit and then it rots. You always keep everything on pathetically cheap drives at home. Always. You have to assume you will get screwed even if you pay in the age of AI flagging and 0 protections or recourse. How many stories do we need for this to happen?
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-17 13:50:15+00:00
Compilers are the ones who define what happens when UB is encountered. It'd be odd if they couldn't rely on their own behavior!

Some of it is deliberately undefined in the standard so that compilers can use it, e.g. it's UB to use a reserved identifier so that compilers & future standard versions can add new keywords. This is why C's boolean type first got named `_Bool` and C++ defines `__cplusplus`: identifiers starting with an underscore and a capital letter or with two underscores are reserved, and using reserved identifiers is Undefined Behavior.

Some of it is that the compiler authors know how their compiler will generate code, and can rely on changing internal uses of UB when they change the code generation.
by BorgHunter | 2025-06-17 13:50:38+00:00
It depends strongly on implementation. LEDs can produce white light at any color temperature and CRIs ranging from terrible to great. Quality LEDs are quite nice indeed (when they're not turning purple).

Most LED streetlights replaced sodium vapor lights, though, which produce the sickliest, most horrible orange color known to humanity. Just about any LED is an improvement over those.
by SamPatt | 2025-06-17 13:51:07+00:00
I don't believe ideas are eternal.

Their instantiations are based on either some physical hardwiring (instincts) or cultivated though observations. If an idea has the appearance of being eternal, it's because either there's a process in place for that physical structure to be replicated though time, or because new minds are making essentially the same observations.

I suspect even some of the most "eternal" of ideas are less so than you might think. If we were capable of communicating with a human from 100,000 years ago, in detail, how many identical ideas would we share? I think it would be very few, given that many people's ideas already differ subtlety even when they live in similar environments.
by tasuki | 2025-06-17 13:51:16+00:00
Otoh, the cost of hurting yourself in your 20s is way higher than the cost of hurting yourself in your 70s.

If you're a US male, average life expectancy ~76 years, then hurting/killing yourself in your 20s you lose ~50 years of life. Hurting/killing yourself in your 70s, you lose an order of magnitude less.

I hope to remember this in my 70s! Seeing most people don't, so not having particularly high hopes...
by hshshshshsh | 2025-06-17 13:52:00+00:00
All spiritual experiences are nevertheless an appearance in consciousness.

So consciousness can generate an infinity of experiences.

So no reason to think one experience is somehow more special than any other experience since all experiences passes and go no matter how profound you feel.

Even profound feelings are just appearance in consciousness.

Even if you die and go to heaven that's still appearance in consciousness.

Even time is an appearance in consciousness.

So given all that, is there anything to chase?

Are we stuck here forever?

Nothing to gain or loose.
Ask HN: In a guide to inner work for founders and engs, what topics to cover?
by cjbarber | 2025-06-17 13:52:44+00:00
Garry Tan had a nice video on twitter recently talking about how inner work is important for startup success.

Inner work being something like turning attention inward to surface the triggers and unprocessed emotions that drive your behavior so you can clear them and act with less inner friction and more integration, using things like meditation, coaching, and therapy.

I did my own inner work journey. Very helpful, top 3 life thing. I spent lots of money on different kinds of coaches over the years.

If I made a guide to all this what would you want to know?

I'm imagining that the focus of the guide would be a guide to inner work journeys, comparing different methods for processing emotions, things like Internal Family Systems parts work, different types of meditation, that kind of thing. Perhaps also methods for relationships too. I could give my review of all the different things I've tried plus what I'd do if I was starting again.
by modeless | 2025-06-17 13:52:54+00:00
> people driving at night may notice a moving object in their peripheral vision more quickly under bluish-white light than under yellowish-white light, [...] Gaining improved peripheral vision under blue-tinged light comes with a trade-off, however: once the moving object comes into focus, it becomes harder to see.

If we were switching away from LED to sodium vapor lamps instead of the other way around, they would have written the exact same article but in reverse, still claiming the change makes us less safe.
by myrmidon | 2025-06-17 13:53:21+00:00
Be very careful about considering this a "grassroots campaign" against "evil foreign megacorps".

This is lobbying effort directed at policy makers and the public.

As others have pointed out: There is an very simple solution to "solve" water waste/allocation: Just put a price on it.

BUT one big interest group, namely agriculture/farmers, absolutely don't want that, because they historically could pretty much use water for free (and/or underpaid massively)-- any rational discussion about water use/price/allocation is undesirable to them, because it is likely to make the situation worse for them comparatively.

This is also why the whole discussion centers round emotional arguments against allowing industrial water use at all, instead of arguing that small/local farmers should get a better price on it.
by Apreche | 2025-06-17 13:53:24+00:00
I was so hype for Google Wave. There is one major reason it failed.

They promised a feature that would enable waves to be embedded into normal web pages. This would allow me and others to collaborate on waves, but for the results of our work to be publicly viewable in a read-only fashion.

Because they never delivered on that feature, I never actually used wave much. There was no reason to because as a private-only space it was just a weird chat room / document.

Even if someone else doesn’t think that feature was important, I still think their biggest failure was simply not continuing development. They released it and hardly updated it at all. Even if it wasn’t getting traction out of the gate, they were on the right track. They just had to keep iterating and it would have ended up in the right place. They just gave up almost immediately.
by Taikonerd | 2025-06-17 13:53:47+00:00
I felt like Google was weirdly bad at explaining what it was. IIRC, they had all these vague phrases like "a new way to collaborate! Live! Shared spaces!"

Those phrases weren't wrong, but it was like the proverb about the blind men feeling the elephant: one man thought Wave was like email, one man thought Wave was like a wiki, one man thought...

In retrospect, maybe Google should have said, "look, we can't describe it with words. Please watch this 1-minute video and you'll understand." ;-)
by runamuck | 2025-06-17 13:53:50+00:00
For decades innovation died in the "Valley of Death" stage of the DOD acquisition lifestyle. R&D never quite made it to operations, especially if the tech would disrupt lobby heavy "Primes." The (pretty) new org, DIU helped champion some new contract vehicles - like the CSO, which makes it "easy" for the DOD to buy and deploy Silicone Valley tech. (I only base this on my reading of the book "Unit X" about the DIU, so I recommend you read it if you want to business w/ the DOD in 2025).
by kayodelycaon | 2025-06-17 13:53:56+00:00
I’m a Christian and here’s my perspective.

There’s a physical realm we exist in defined by space and time. Everything outside of that is the supernatural.

God is not bound by time and His true nature is not something we can fully understand. He is in our world, but not from it.

The Bible makes references to angels and demons, entities that cannot be seen or measured unless they choose to make themselves known. They can affect still affect the natural world. These effects can be observed, but it would be difficult to reproduce any experiments because they are an unknown variable.

Science has trouble differentiating between an effect without a cause (a miracle basically) and an effect with a mechanism we haven’t accounted for.
by hyperman1 | 2025-06-17 13:54:03+00:00
A good backup strategy is still hard. Over the years, it became clear to me that ther are not only technical but also legal failure modes. So 'a virus ate it' or 'the drive died' are not enough. We now also have 'I sent a photo of my kid to the docter and the kiddy porn alert went off' or 'The Google algo says no' or even 'Someone called the police on my neighbour and they just took the whole building to evidence'.
by xnorswap | 2025-06-17 13:54:26+00:00
The only game that I know that uses steam workshop for mods is Rimworld.

It works okay, but it's a little clunky. Discoverability is weird. It's concept of "recently trending" etc produces some dubious recommendations.

Actually installing mods is kind of okay, but it doesn't handle pre-requisites very well. It'll tell you that you're missing pre-reqs, but it doesn't offer to install them.

It's a positive feedback issue, where because games don't tend to use workshop, it doesn't get much love from valve, and therefore games avoid it.

I don't know how much workshop allows developers to do curation either, so perhaps games would rather partner with a platform they can better influence mod curation.

It's definitely preferable as a user compared to the worst-of-all-worlds that is Stardew Valley modding. There you have a combination of "Here, download this exe, it's fine we promise" (SMAPI), and nexus mods for the discoverability / install / updates of the mods themselves.
by brianjlogan | 2025-06-17 13:54:47+00:00
Honestly the comments so far don't line up with my experience.

Possibly for the very experienced devs/games on HN who are making their own mods Nexus was limiting and annoying.

For me it was the level of difficulty just low enough I didn't have to work to enjoy mods. I remember trying to install mods on Halo CE pre mod managers and it was a nightmare.

Did Nexus solve all of that? No but it was an easy enough experience that I could know one website, one tool, and be able to mod my games.

For the normies. For myself Nexus was a fixture throughout my teens and into my adult life.

I'm very thankful for all the hard work they put in.

It's impossible to keep everyone happy all of the time, but for some people like myself it just worked and we were able to enjoy it.
by camgunz | 2025-06-17 13:54:56+00:00
We may be being a little hard on him; I do think he's sincere (I think a lot of stuff gets audience captured, but I absolutely don't think that's the case here). Maybe the way I would phrase it is to me, Zitron's writing is preaching to the choir. But to someone kind of at the beginning of the "hey this feels... a little rotten" journey I think he's a great entree, and I love linking people there.
by sebstefan | 2025-06-17 13:55:16+00:00
Yes - lots of uninteresting discussion about the importance of having backups.

> This feels not only unethical but potentially illegal, especially in light of consumer protection laws. You can’t just hold someone’s entire digital life hostage with no due process, no warning, and no accountability. If this were a physical storage unit, there’d be rights, procedures, timeframes. Here? Nothing. Just a Kafkaesque black hole of corporate negligence.

^ This is what's worth discussing, not opinions about that guy's backups, or what the cloud is, or that this is known to regularly happen. We're already all tech-adjacent
by quietbritishjim | 2025-06-17 13:55:36+00:00
In what way is that better than "Hello. How do I do x?" If they never reply, that's of no practical difference from just sending "Hello" and not getting a reply.

In TCP, it's useful because it happens in a different layer of abstraction. Even then, QUIC was developed (partly) because it was realised there's no point waiting for the full SYN / SYN ACK / ACK before starting some of the higher-level exchange (although the early data transfer in QUIC is used for TLS initiation rather than application-level data).
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-06-17 13:55:37+00:00
Most egregious thing was didn't it have a forced password reset if you didn't log in for 6 months, so if you're a normal person you'd sign up, mod your game, come back in 6 months to a year to mod another game and then it takes 15 mins just to get back into the site after resetting your account and everything.

Really surprised such a big community hadn't gotten sick of it already and built an alternative.
by glenstein | 2025-06-17 13:55:48+00:00
It was a mystery at the time, but in retrospect it seems obvious that it was, at a minimum, a precursor to Slack and Teams. And could have been something else too, it was raw and open ended enough that new usage norms could have emerged and pushed it in any number of directions, setting the tone for any number of possible use cases. It could have been a social network, if the idiosyncrasies of community usage imprinted that on it.

As ever with Google ventures, especially during the DBE era, all they had to do was stick out and let it take on a life of its own. But I think what it takes for growing into an organic identity is more than the average time a developer works on a Google project.
by nyc_data_geek1 | 2025-06-17 13:55:59+00:00
It is smug because the average person is not a geek running a micro rack in their basement (nor does the average person possess the time, means or expertise to spin up and maintain all such should they even want to).

It is smug because, to GP's point, a dismissal of a very real problem with hyper-consolidated markets that allow the most powerful entities on earth to abdicate their responsibility, and foist it upon the people least equipped to handle it, all in the name of "personal responsibility".
by anileated | 2025-06-17 13:56:08+00:00
> a train from the airport, which then turns into a subway, then later on it becomes a train again.

This is confusing.

Subway is already a kind of train.

You mean to say that the train partly runs underground? That is pretty common. I actually can't remember any city where airport connecting train does not do the same at some point or another.

What's kinda interesting is does that train classify as metro transit that goes slightly beyond city to airport and such (making many stops all the way) or distance intercity train that happens to stop both at airport and city? Or does it change this classification? That would be actually unusual.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-17 13:56:36+00:00
> And yet some streetlights have suddenly turned a jarring shade of purple. It is hard to determine the exact cause without dissecting one of the defective lights, but scientists have a hypothesis: bright purple light suggests the phosphor layer around the lights has been “delaminated”—peeled off—exposing the blue LED light underneath, Brgoch says.

What an annoying/bad article. "Here are our guesses of this when we could have actually figured it out". It's not like these are in space and hard to get to, they are on the freaking street. Get a crew out there and figure it out.

Then they go on to do a _bunch_ of handwavy "science" about blue light while not really making any point (IMHO).

> One thing that Bullough suggests pedestrians and drivers do to stay safe under purple streetlights—or any lights, for that matter—is to remove sunglasses and blue-light-filtering glasses when walking or driving at night.

Ahh yes, for all the people that wear their sunglasses at night, I'll make sure to let Corey Hart know.

This just seems like an incredibly low-effort article with zero definite facts and enough hand waving to sprain your wrist.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-06-17 13:56:40+00:00
A naïve stab at the UX is to exclude the name of the hook(s) you want to skip in the command line via a flag. Then you can also provide a configuration that will skip it in a file as well that the command line option overrides - good for people who want to skip for longer periods and don't want to type it out.
by indigodaddy | 2025-06-17 13:56:52+00:00
It is on every system, kinda (well curl usually is):

~ $ curl -v telnet://1.1.1.1:443

* Trying 1.1.1.1:443...

* Connected to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) port 443

--

~ $ curl -v telnet://1.1.1.1:22

* Trying 1.1.1.1:22...

^C ~ $
by garciansmith | 2025-06-17 13:57:02+00:00
"When dragging files to another location on the same disk using Dolphin or the Plasma desktop, you can now have the system always move the files, rather than being asked what to do every time."

The default behavior of the file manager (always asking if you want to move or copy the files) might have been the only quirk that took some getting used to when I first started using KDE a few years ago. In the end I got used to it, even prefer it (you can hold shift or control while dragging to automatically move or copy), but it's nice that it's configurable now.
by derbOac | 2025-06-17 13:57:18+00:00
I share your skepticism about false equivalence in general, but have to admit this particular issue to me gets at the heart of serious problems in US healthcare, and I don't see either party really addressing it. The way in which these problems get ignored by each party, and the rationale for doing so, is very different but so far I see both parties as either turning a blind eye to these problems, or lacking vision.
by scythe | 2025-06-17 13:57:29+00:00
The only report of a bulk Fe16N2 magnet I remember reading about used a 2 GPa (300 kpsi) diamond anvil to compact the powder. I can see why that might be economically impractical right now.

Also there was a bombshell paper that came out claiming synthesis of bulk L10-FeNi which was later retracted [1] and may have put a temporary damper on interest in Fe16N2. It remains unclear which material will be available first.

1: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ad...
by raattgift | 2025-06-17 13:57:40+00:00
The (Newtonian) Shell Theorem is fairly sensitive to spherical symmetry. In General Relativity one can write down a metric wherein inside any boundary surface there is flat spacetime. It's easiest to do this for a spherical boundary, but one can work out a metric which is axisymmetric (e.g. oblate and spinning or prolate and tidally deformed) and probably all sorts of other weird shapes following ideas from Gauss's Law for Gravitation. Writing down a metric for that is hard though -- really hard if the idea is to make it time-independent, and really really hard if the idea is to make it time-dependent but static (as in a complex Gaussian surface doesn't relax into a more spherical shell). For example, bumps raised on each other by binary black holes will vanish after merger (or if they fly away on hyperbolic trajectories, having "grazed" each other), leaving you with a spherical horizon (if nonspinnning) or an oblate one (if spinning).

Essentially to break spherical symmetry (or axisymmetry where there's spin) and keep it broken you have to introduce something like a dark energy. One can do that outside (retaining flat space inside) or inside (leading to the equivalent direction-dependent attraction of outside objects).
by rhgraysonii | 2025-06-17 13:59:01+00:00
The modern developments are intriguing and they previously tied deeper into emotional and property value levels with precedent, but have taken a more modern approach based around environmentalism efforts that parallel the original lumber and forestry intents from things like free planting being legal but the cutting of another person's timber being treble damaged to disincentivize. It's all quite interesting. And with America's predisposition to single family homes with large yards (versus more dense urban cores with multifamily much more common in the rest of the world) there is a large well of potential disputes to flow to influence the law with real dollar risks of civil liability as things go onwards.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-06-17 13:59:22+00:00
There was some Hungarian? developer that runs https://rimworldbase.com/. I used to use it before I switched to Steam Workshop since it usually unfortunately falls behind (or at least did when I used it several years ago). That one is better for discoverability at least. The auto-update package management functionality of Steam Workshop is its killer feature. I can click a single button and get the latest updated versions of all my mods.

I'm usually opposed to Steam on principle, opting instead for DRM free options for my games, but it's basically impossible to maintain any decent amount of mods without a manager like what Steam Workshop offers
by AbstractH24 | 2025-06-17 13:59:31+00:00
What is their incentive to share this data? I’m not really understanding

They’ve leaned so hard into AI and agentforce that it doesn’t make sense to shoot themselves in the foot.

Except that Hubspot, their main competitor on the SMB/MM/startup side recently announced a deep integration with ChatGPT. Still seems like a shot in the foot in an effort to undercut a growing competitor in a part of the market that theyd be better off exiting.