MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isatty | 2025-08-02 20:53:36+00:00
I don't understand the sentence in question any way.

"TikTok, Pornhub, Candy Crush, Sudoku" has never been a replacement for "meet for drinks, work out at the gym, go on dates"

To be fair, I have not used TikTok or Candy Crush, but let's say Youtube Shorts and a random video game instead. Still does not compute.
by munch117 | 2025-08-02 20:53:54+00:00
Thank you for making this.

I have an idea for a gameplay that I think I would enjoy more:

- If the first guess is within a factor of sqrt(10), then you win. - If not, you are given two choices for the second guess: Up or down. - Up and down are 10x higher and lower guesses (making them adjacent ranges to the first guess). - If the second guess is wrong, you lose. No more guesses.

The point is that the second guess makes you rethink the original question once more, to figure out what it was that you missed. Which is more fun that doing bisection.

I wrote 10x and sqrt(10) to make a game literally about orders of magnitude, but you could of course you smaller numbers, like 4x and sqrt(4), to make it harder.
by throw0101d | 2025-08-02 20:54:23+00:00
> I recently switched ISP to one that supports IPv6 and I have had nothing but problems.

I was previously with an ISP that support IPv6 and had zero problems.

In fact IPv6 worked "too well" at one point: I had put "facebook.com" in my /etc/hosts file pointing to 0.0.0.0 at one point to reduce tracking. I then noticed I got the little FB icons again at some point and couldn't figure out why things were 'broken' (i.e., not blocking).

Turned out that after IPv6 was enabled I had to add ::1. That blocked FB again. IPv6 made connectivity to FB work again.
by hectormalot | 2025-08-02 20:55:02+00:00
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by ath3nd | 2025-08-02 20:55:17+00:00
> So they hurt quality of life by making it more painful to get anywhere, taking time away from everyone’s lives

The average American mind can't comprehend European public transport and not sitting in a traffic jam and smog for 1 hr to go to their workplace. Some of us walk or cycle for 15 min on our commutes, and some of us even ride bicycles with our children to school. It takes me as much time to reach my workplace with a bike as with a car if you take parking, and one of those things makes me fitter and is for free.

I guess that's one of the reasons people in the US live shorter and sadder than us Europeans. Being stuck in traffic sure makes people grumpy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-08-02 20:55:34+00:00
I have nearly 20 years of experience in technology, and have been writing toy scripts or baby automations for most of my career. I started out in a managed services help desk and took that route many folks take across and around the different IT disciplines.

I mostly spend my days administering SaaS tools, and one of my largest frustrations has always been that I didn’t know enough to really build a good plugin or add-on for whatever tool I was struggling with, and I’d find a limited set of good documentation or open source examples to help me out. With my limited time (full time job) and attendant challenges (ADHD & autism + all the fun trauma that comes from that along with being Black, fat and queer), I struggled to ever start anything out of fear of failure or I’d begin a course and get bored because I wasn’t doing anything that captured my imagination & motivation.

Tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and even the Claude app have absolutely changed the game for me. I’m learning more than ever, because even the shitty code that these tools can write is an opportunity for debugging and exploration, but I have something tangible to iterate on. Additionally, I’ve found that Claude is really good at giving me lessons and learning based on an idea I have, and then I have targeted learning I can go do using source docs and tutorials that are immediately relevant to what I’m doing instead of being faced with choice paralysis. Being able to build broken stuff in seconds that I want to get working (a present problem is so much more satisfying than a future one) and having a tool that knows more than I do about code most of the time but never gets bored of my silly questions or weird metaphors has been so helpful in helping me build my own tools. Now I think about building my own stuff first before I think about buying something!
by crote | 2025-08-02 20:55:52+00:00
That's not how it works. It's a 30km/h speed limit for one kilometer in your local neighbourhood until you hit the first through road, then it'll be 50km/h / 60km/h / 80 km/h / 120 km/h as usual, and another one kilometer at 30 km/h at your destination.

In other words, it's 2km at 30km/h plus 48km at 80km/h, versus 2km at 50km/h plus 48km at 80km/h. That's a difference of 1 minute 36 seconds.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-02 20:56:47+00:00
I believe you're referring to Braess' Paradox, right? This was a very surprising effect for me to learn about, just recently Veritasium covered it in their video on a mechanism that becomes "shorter when you pull on it": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTkPfq7w1A

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27_paradox
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-02 20:57:16+00:00
It’s absolutely the case that public health coverage will benefit some people who make bad health decisions at the cost to some of those who make good decisions (or the decisions themselves must be made by a central authority).

That doesn’t make it the wrong policy decision. Lots of systems we happily manage with similar dynamics. But I don’t think denying that basic fact is the right path forward. The moral hazard is real and worth acknowledging.
by tlogan | 2025-08-02 20:57:50+00:00
Maybe Helsinki isn’t special: just fewer cars. And they apparently only 21% of daily trips used a private car.

Helsinki has about 3x fewer vehicles per capita than the average U.S. city. So it’s not surprising it’s safer since fewer cars mean fewer chances of getting hit by one. Plus their cars are much smaller.

In fact, there are probably plenty of U.S. towns and cities with similar number of cars that have zero traffic deaths (quick search says that Jersey City, New Jersey has zero traffic deaths in 2022).

So maybe it’s not about urban planning genius or Scandinavian magic. Maybe it’s just: fewer things that can kill you on the road.

I wonder how the numbers will change when majority of cars are autonomous.
by Elfener | 2025-08-02 20:58:01+00:00
The trackpoint and the nice keys are one thing, but what I really want all laptops to have is dedicated home/end/pgup/pgdn keys and in a normal-looking layout (as in 7-row or as in a full keyboard).

I find it weird that even framework has gone with a keyboard where a bunch of keys are missing.

(Sent from my Thinkpad T410)
by YZF | 2025-08-02 20:58:12+00:00
I have a few km getting out of my city to the highway as part of my commute and then quite a few kms in the city I'm commuting to. This is a pretty typical North American experience (I'm in the Greater Vancouver area). There is no realistic transit option, my 30 minute car drive would be 2 hours on transit each way.

So let's say 10km (might be a bit more) in city traffic. 12 minutes of my commute each way [EDIT: impacted by speed limit, not counting lights, corners etc.] Total 24 minutes. That would turn into 20 minutes each way, total 40 minutes. Huge difference.

Most of this "city" driving is in streets that are plenty wide (sometimes 3 lanes each way with a separation between directions) and have minimal to no pedestrian traffic. On the smaller streets you're probably not doing 50 anyways even if that's the limit since it will feel too fast.

Vancouver has been looking at reducing speed in the city to 30km/hr. It's hard to say if it will reduce traffic deaths (maybe?) but it's going to have some pretty negative economic effects IMO. Some of the smaller streets are 30 anyways. There are probably smarter solutions but city and road planners don't seem to be able to find them.

I'm willing to bet Helsinki is denser and has much better transit.
by HaZeust | 2025-08-02 20:58:44+00:00
I mean partly, but it's because you’re mixing up aggregate vs within-group numbers. In this BLS table [1], the housing tenure lines do the work: 85% of under-25s rent, 58% of 25-34 rent, and only 22% of 65+ rent, while 53% of 65+ own outright. That’s exactly the exposure I’m talking about: young adults are mostly renters, so the rent surge bites them first.

1 - https://www.bls.gov/cex/tables/calendar-year/aggregate-group...
by mcphage | 2025-08-02 20:59:19+00:00
> I will note that we have a great tool for this problem that is (or at least can be) "statically typed": the relational model. Databases are precisely what you want for this sort of problem

Relational databases still lock you into a specific design, and trying to work contrary to how your application was designed 10-15 years ago leads to terrible performance, high costs, and bugs galore.

It may be better than other options, but it's still not exactly a solved problem.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-02 20:59:22+00:00
> English is not really phonetic anymore, so this approach doesn't quite work well.

For each letter you can find a way it is pronounced most frequently, and then take a subset of English consisting of words that follow those rules completely. (For example, the word "cat" is pronounced as a concatenation of the most frequent way to read "c", the most frequent way to read "a", and the most frequent way to read "t".) You learn to read these words. Later you start adding exceptions, for example you teach how to read "ch", and then you add the new words that follow the new rules. Etc, one rule at a time. (You leave the worst exceptions for later grades.)

>> This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do

If you feel "colonized" by reality, I guess you can rebel, but you shouldn't expect reality to reward you for doing so.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-02 20:59:37+00:00
All true. My previous laptop was a 2014 MBP, and the two basically feel the same. I’d say the MBP’s layout is marginally worse because of the stupid power key and the half-size left and right arrows, and of course the MBP’s construction makes your life hell if you spill liquid on the keyboard and need to replace it. (Framework’s prohibition on freight forwarding makes my life difficult in the same situation, but that’s a me problem—I should have taken the hint that I wasn’t wanted when I was jumping through hoops to buy it in the first place.)

It’s not a bad keyboard. As far as laptops of the last decade go, it’s even a good one. But the up/down arrows sucked on the MBP and they (though not left/right) suck on the FW13, I expect(?) because a rectangular keyboard ends up cheaper than one with protruding arrows.

Furthermore, my (grandparent) comment was about how vertical shrinkage made the keyboard smaller but the FW13’s taller screen didn’t restore the missing keys, and if half-size up/down arrows just suck to use, Home/End/PgUp/PgDn hidden behind Fn suck to a Pavlovian extent: I didn’t realize how much the MBP trained me out of using them before I had to use an older ThinkPad for a bit that had them on separate keys. I won’t even mention Ctrl-Break except to look in its direction wistfully.

Finally, the Copilot key is of course a distraction. I don’t know what it actually sends on those keyboards, but if I can map that to Compose I couldn’t care less about what’s drawn on it. It’s just sad that, after everything, that distraction is what ended up being the first substantial change to the FW13’s keyboard.
by camgunz | 2025-08-02 21:00:25+00:00
APM keeps pushing phonics, but the UK tried it and it's been a disaster: reading ability craters after a couple years. It's not the solution.

https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/19/focus-on-p...
by kccqzy | 2025-08-02 21:00:59+00:00
For me I don't think walking 20 minutes a day is enough. I did more than that right after graduation. It didn't change any of the metrics usually used for measuring healthiness: my resting heart rate didn't change, my VO2max didn't change, my weight didn't change, etc. it was when I started regularly running 2 hours per week (aka around 20 minutes per day) that I started observing my health improve. YMMV.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-08-02 21:01:21+00:00
This can fun a fun and practical vehicle, and it has a lot nifty solutions, and should serve sub(urban) life well.

but if you really need a pickup truck, this cannot compare to a Tacoma

That said I dont think anyone buying a Tacoma will be tempted by this vehicle, and I dont think the buyers of the MT1 will be comparison checking the Tacoma either.

Separate markets the way I see it, as do they

""EV pickup for urban living and weekend adventuring""

So why the comparison?
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-08-02 21:01:43+00:00
A mereological nihilist will never have anything but primitive types.

Everything more complex than those building block aren't in reality a Type.

Reality doesn't consiste of: X type made up of these primitives and other defined sub-types and let's hide the primitives as far down as we can.

It's instead primitives arranged X wise.

Or mapped a little better to programming terminology: A Schema.

It's about having the mental model that complex types can be useful as an abstraction but they aren't real and aren't worth fighting for or defending.

Types are for devs, devs aren't for types.
by xorcist | 2025-08-02 21:01:46+00:00
Investors gets ruined on PPAs all the time. With renewables, there's usually some sort of wind turbine or solar park attached, so after declaring bankrupcy the new owners can settle out of court and continue production.

Here there's realistically no way to continue electricity production so the assets will likely be chopped up and sold, if possible. Nobody owns anyone anything and Microsoft doesn't have to pay a dime. They won't get their power of course, but there's no downside for them.

These types articles where a PPA contract is confused with an investment is really common, mostly for nuclear and renewables, but that doesn't make them any more true. Microsoft hasn't invested anything, likely because they know this is (pardon the pun) hot air.
by luckydata | 2025-08-02 21:01:57+00:00
As an immigrant to the USA teaching in this country is a mess. Teachers apply a lot of semi scientific mumbo jumbo to justify a completely inadequate amount of work required from students to learn.

I know it's not popular to say it but my son learns anything I teach him, he might not enjoy the process very much but he never forgot anything I taught him because I make him work. His teachers don't make him do anything with the results you can imagine. If you point it out they say if they did parents would complain.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-02 21:02:16+00:00
Not to the same ability. Sedans and mid size SUVs have far less space, and also less ground height. If you’re traveling on gravel roads or camping, most sedans and smaller SUVs aren’t ideal. If you have kids, space fills up quickly even for small trips. If you’re moving something larger (like drywall or a TV) it may not fit at all in a smaller vehicle. Even most full size SUVs also have less space than a full size truck (even one that isn’t one of the larger models).
by badpun | 2025-08-02 21:02:23+00:00
A side note, but I don't think all homeless are helpable. Some just have some kind of self-destruction about them and are beyond helping, unless they really want to start living differently. I personally know one such guy - a combination of bad upbringing, big ego, a defiant character (that got him fired from every job) has set him on a path that ultimately made his own family kick him out to the streets.
by up-n-atom | 2025-08-02 21:02:44+00:00
What’s idiotic is Canada has TeleSat which was established by the Canadian Government in 1969, although it’s private today. It’s also headquartered in Ottawa so I don’t know how the provincial government is ignorant of its existence. But this is a provincial government that has a proven record of corruption and in all likelihood was bribed by Starlink.
Show HN: TwoAuth – an offline, zero-data 2FA Authenticator
by wtshex | 2025-08-02 21:03:25+00:00
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by darth_avocado | 2025-08-02 21:03:53+00:00
“Homes are not selling” is a narrative that seems to be a little exaggerated. Months of supply has been constant year over year and median days on market is 6 days more for SFH and 8 days for condos. The number of homes sold are also up yoy. The number of homes for sale are up 15% yoy which could explain why houses are in the market for slightly more, but I am yet to see a concrete measure that suggests homes are not selling.

The median sale price is also slightly up for SFH and slightly lower for condos/townhomes yoy. Seems to me that a lot of these articles are low information clickbait’s.

(All data available on redfin: https://www.redfin.com/us-housing-market)
by mindcrime | 2025-08-02 21:03:54+00:00
Not sure what specifically happened in your case, but FWIW... My ISP (Spectrum, previously Time Warner) has supported IPv6 at my location for a decade or more now. And I have been running with IPv6 enabled on my router, and on all my Linux boxen, and have had approximately zero problems related to IPv6 in that time. During that time I've had boxes running various Fedora versions, and PopOS and both have handled IPv6 just fine.
by Modified3019 | 2025-08-02 21:04:00+00:00
Or more likely, their kids are still going to be renting and living paycheck to paycheck at 50, so they aren’t going to have time, space, energy, or money to take care of the parents when they are barely treading water.

I encounter a lot of people my age and younger whose own retirement plant is basically:

Plan A: Miraculously get rich

Plan S: When severe disability or pain hits, find the exit.

Maby it’s the lifelong depression, the disappointment at what the future’s become, or the hopelessness that society can escape neo-feudalism to something better, but there’s a noticeable decrease in the desire to keep living at any cost. Who knows whether we’ll actually see this start to see this express in the next few decades.
by infecto | 2025-08-02 21:04:30+00:00
Isn’t the depreciation story kind of an outdated idea? While yes that was the case but it was also true that the 50s-90s comes were generally not very modern, built with not much comfort in mind and so it was expected you would be rebuilding. In most of the larger cities I am not sure that is the case except for severely outdated units.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-02 21:04:36+00:00
Does it have to be an off road adventure specifically? I feel like most people will want to get two vehicles in their family that can do many things, since that’s what they have room for, rather than more. A truck could be used for off road stuff but it could also be used for taking kids and gear to their games, or for a weekend camping trip, or just for commuting. It can do whatever you need without needing to rent a different vehicle or borrow from a friend or whatever. That’s peace of mind and flexibility. I don’t even own one but I do appreciate that aspect.
Ask HN: Anyone else getting forced auto-dubbing on YouTube Android app?
by mfiro | 2025-08-02 21:04:42+00:00
I live in Germany and speak both German and English fluently. Some English videos on YouTube (Android app) now get auto-dubbed in German with no option to switch to the original audio. The dubbed voice sounds so annoying and artificial, like Google Translate reading text aloud. On the web version, you have the option of changing audio tracks back to the original, but not on Android.

Has anyone else noticed this recently? Is this a new rollout? Anyone from Google here who can explain or fix this? This is the most annoying thing I’ve ever experienced on YouTube.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-02 21:04:56+00:00
> English is not really phonetic anymore, so this approach doesn't quite work well.

I presume you mean it's not particularly 1-to-1 spelling <—> phonetic.

It is highly phonetic, but it does have alternate mappings between individual or adjacent letters and sounds. And silent letters or syllables.

But alternate rules are rarely random. There are usually many words represented by each rule. And those words often have similar overall spellings and phoneme patterns.
by 15155 | 2025-08-02 21:05:12+00:00
> You won’t find these GAA in KiCAD or OpenROAD.

Is this actually because of legal requirements, or because of reality?

Nobody with access to a bleeding-edge node is using vastly inferior FOSS tools that can't actually work with a brand new fab PDK (which was produced specifically for Synopsys or Cadence tools.)
by throw123xz | 2025-08-02 21:06:30+00:00
> an end product that isn't even reliable let alone having a long life

What's unreliable on a modern EV? And what do you mean by "long life", because you now have 10-15 year old EVs that are fine.

Obviously some cars aged poorly, like some Tesla which had poor build quality (not an EV problem, but a company problem) or cars like the Nissan Leaf that didn't have battery cooling for years, but what's exactly unreliable on a modern Polestar or a Hyundai?
by hackyhacky | 2025-08-02 21:06:59+00:00
> The secondary point is that the Clojure system may be more malleable - if you want to add a new state, you just directly add some code to handle that state at the appropriate points in the process.

That's all certainly possible. But the same could be said of Python or JS. So if the big point here is "we can model business decisions as code!", I fail to see the innovation because we've been doing that for 50 years. Nothing unique to Clojure.

You could even do it Haskell if you want: just store data as a Map of properties and values, emulating a JS object.