MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulKeeble | 2025-08-27 10:36:53+00:00
Shell at one point started doing that in the UK, they installed a number of offshore wind turbines. Then they sold them and doubled down on oil.

What I think is really weird in the world today is the power companies don't seem interested in selling more power. A parallel branch of Wind and Solar companies are doing all the installations and running the power but not to the extent of bringing new capacity online, its all purely for replacing the old coal and gas systems. Quite a lot of companies are having to buy their own installations and run them so they can have their new data centre.
by lrvick | 2025-08-27 10:38:22+00:00
I have never heard of a bank that has a hard requirement of a mobile app. Certainly none of the major banks like Wells Fargo or Chase require one. I do not own a phone and managers at times have to come up with undocumented fallback methods, but there is always a way.

I cannot imagine a legal defense for forcing someone to accept the terms of service of Apple or Google to use their bank account.
by Agraillo | 2025-08-27 10:38:57+00:00
> I've not seen anyone talking about the significance of the set of countries where this is rolled out to first: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand

This was really interesting and somewhere there was a comment/quote that these countries are affected most with the malware distributed with side-loading, I can't find this comment now. But while trying to find some information, I found the info about 2023 Alphabet/states $700 m. settlement. It came mostly unnoticed on HN [1] (two posts, 2 comments), but there is interesting timings coincidence in the settlement text ([2])

...6.9.2 For a period of at least four (4) years from the Effective Date, Google will maintain the following functionality in Android version 14+ for Mobile Devices: (a) Google will support APIs that enable sideloaded app stores that have received User consent to install apps to avoid automatic updates taking place while the User is using the app....

2023 (settlement) + 4 years = 2027 (mentioned for other countries). This can be related to apps like F-Droid, this ruling might prevent Google from making F-Droid comply if the US was announced to meet the new rules earlier (before 2027). There are other formulas that might end up 2026/2027 when calculating so to be on the (legal) safe side, Google probably made US join later. Probably those countries are also for beta-testing both in the technical and legal sense.

The settlement might be interesting in other other respects also. Even the forces (the states, U.S Attorney) that drove the suit in 2021-2023 might join here though during this admin it's really questionable.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691926

[2]: https://www.oag.state.tx.us/sites/default/files/images/press...
by aurareturn | 2025-08-27 10:38:59+00:00
It's all so ironic considering Denmark took control of Greenland purely by conquest/claim and many Greenlanders view it historically as colonial/imperial.

Isn't that what the US is doing based on this article? Create a bit of story around the people of Greenland wanting to free themselves from Denmark (even if just minority of Greenland believes so) and then come in as the hero?
by extraisland | 2025-08-27 10:39:23+00:00
It is more likely they just don't care about the oil industry and focus their attention elsewhere. I would wager that most people assume that large corporations have dirty secrets.

e.g. I listen to a guy that goes exposes the conmen in the UFO community. The reason the guy focuses on UFOs is because he believes that when he was younger he saw a UFO. Over time he slowly realised over time that he had been lied to by these conmen. He isn't interested in the truth about the oil industry, he cares about the truth around UFO encounters because that is what he cares about.
by o_m | 2025-08-27 10:40:19+00:00
Counter argument: people want simple systems that are easy to update, secure, deploy etc. I've been burned so many times by being an early adopter of a simple product for it to add too many features and shifting focus along the way, leaving the early adopters as second class users. This usually happens because investors wants a return on their investment by enshittifying the product.

As self hosting with Docker and getting help from LLMs gets easier I can totally see a future where more companies self host. Having to deal with SaaS companies also takes a lot of time (licenses, hidden limits you can reach at any time, more complex privacy policy, approval from management), especially as they usually end up selling after a couple of years. The responsibility to self host isn't that bad all things considered.

I don't think we'll see companies vibe code the replacement of their software, but it might help them self host open source alternatives.
by DrScientist | 2025-08-27 10:40:31+00:00
> Often wind typically need to be subsidised heavily by the government and are not cost effective over its lifetime.

Have you looked at the government subsidies for nuclear in the UK and the massive lifetime cost? In terms of offshore wind - initially it was subsidized to get it up and running - but now it's established those have dropped and dropped.

> Typically wind needs to be backed up by fossil fuel or nuclear power generators as it is unreliable or you need to buy capacity from elsewhere.

Sure - but no-one is claiming 100% wind is the target - total strawman argument. The UK goverments own net zero plan actually still includes gas generation!

One of the more bonkers arguments in the UK was when there was a massive fossil fuel price shock a couple of years ago due to wars and rising global demand - the fossil fuel lobby blamed rewnewables for the high prices!
by rpdillon | 2025-08-27 10:40:32+00:00
Yeah, words just change meaning and it's frustrating because people generally change them in ways that make their usage more sloppy, less precise. I've had multiple arguments on HN about this with the term open source, but unfortunately you've already lost the battle with sideloading, at least according to Wikipedia.

> When referring to Android apps, "sideloading" typically means installing an application package in APK format onto an Android device. Such packages are usually downloaded from websites other than the official app store Google Play. For Android users sideloading of apps is only possible if the user has allowed "Unknown Sources" in their Security Settings.[1]
by tomp | 2025-08-27 10:40:35+00:00
Do you have any source for that?

From my perspective, as an European, there's plenty of forces / population within the EU that doesn't want federalization.

Even myself, I'm generally pro-federalization (necessary to solve some structural problems, border, army, money), I definitely don't want to give even more power to Germany (biggest and most powerful EU country), so the only way forward would be for Germany to massively diminish their power... but then they probably wouldn't want that.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-27 10:41:02+00:00
> What do you need this accurate time for?

Synchronising the clocks on network connected audio devices (ADCs, DACs, DSP processors) on a LAN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging), or over the internet (broadcast-grade live streaming). This, and related standards, are more or less the norm in live sound and high-channel-count digital recording setups.
by account42 | 2025-08-27 10:41:04+00:00
AMD had developers working on radeon (the older open source kernel driver) and radeonsi (the open source user-space OpenGL driver backend for newer cards in Mesa that now sits on top of amdgpu) before the switch to amdgpu (the newer open source kernel driver). While the kernel driver isn't irrelevant for performance, it depends more on the user space portion (radeonsi and r600 before that) which was kept with the amdgpu switch. What the amdgpu driver brought is more sharing of display code with their windows drivers. The main difference in performance is between r600 (mostly developed without financial support from AMD) and radeonsi (mostly developed by AMD). Of course these days the most relevant user-space portion is radv (open source Vulkan driver in Mesa) which is NOT developed by AMD but rather funded by Valve (and at least initially Red Hat). There is also the open source amdvlk Vulkan user-space driver developed by AMD which is the same as their proprietary Vulkan driver except with the proprietary shader compiler swapped out for the same LLVM backend that radeonsi uses. And if this all wasn't confusing enough, AMD also calls the full driver package with the proprietary Vulkan driver and some snapshot of the open source OpenGL Mesa drivers (radeonsi) "amdgpu-pro".
by sgerenser | 2025-08-27 10:41:31+00:00
Air France 447: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Inputs were averaged, but supposedly there’s at least a warning: Confused, Bonin exclaimed, "I don't have control of the airplane any more now", and two seconds later, "I don't have control of the airplane at all!"[42] Robert responded to this by saying, "controls to the left", and took over control of the aircraft.[84][44] He pushed his side-stick forward to lower the nose and recover from the stall; however, Bonin was still pulling his side-stick back. The inputs cancelled each other out and triggered an audible "dual input" warning.
by numerogeek | 2025-08-27 10:41:47+00:00
I’ve built a lot of projects that went nowhere. Most died before launch. Some launched but nobody cared. This one makes $50/month MRR. Tiny, but it’s the first time I’ve ever seen real money come in from a side project.

It’s called Colorazen. It’s just coloring pages for adults. Sounds boring. But I needed it. I was coloring with my daughter during a stressful time and the sites I found were all clunky and outdated. So I made my own.

I built it with the tools I already knew (PHP/Symfony). Nothing fancy. Launched fast, shipped imperfect, fixed things as I went. People found it through SEO, Pinterest, Facebook groups. That was enough to get to $50/month.

This week I added AI-generated coloring pages. Now every user can get fresh designs, unlimited. It’s early but people like it.

Next steps: • Let users publish their own coloring pages. • Auto-categorize those pages, even create new categories based on demand. • Keep growing with SEO and slowly build a small community around it.

It’s not a “big startup.” It’s a tiny side project. But for me it’s proof that something can actually work.

If you’ve been through this stage: how did you onboard new users so they stick around? Any advice is welcome.
by AndyMcConachie | 2025-08-27 10:42:38+00:00
Russia weaken NATO? Wut?

Denmark is in NATO. What does NATO even mean if the leader of NATO (USA) is attempting to take territory from another NATO country?

The point of NATO is to keep Europe tied to and subservient to the USA (ie. Atlanticism). Or at least that used to be the point of NATO. I have no idea what the point of it is now.
by akvadrako | 2025-08-27 10:42:46+00:00
These batteries last a few minutes when they are fully charged. In the winter it's not unusual to have close to zero wind power for a few days and it could come after a few weeks of lower output, so they aren't fully charged.

You'll notice in your article they are almost always talking about power instead of energy because energy is the problem.

We still need about 100 - 1000x improvements to rely on batteries without reliable power plants, depending on how much the generation capacity is overbuilt.
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by tialaramex | 2025-08-27 10:43:15+00:00
The whole point for them is ownership and while you can in effect own oil fields and these companies do, you don't own the wind -- the oil companies weren't smart enough/ early enough to persuade major governments to say oh, actually the wind belongs to BP and Exon.

So Hill Farmer Bob can just put a turbine up on the big hill and get "free" electricity. If there was magically Oil everywhere, and Bob was legally allowed to just drill for it, that's what he would obviously do, but in most places there is no oil and oil companies ensured they control the rights so Bob couldn't drill.

This is what capitalism is about, you own stuff therefore you get free money forever. But you don't own the sun or wind.
by dark-star | 2025-08-27 10:43:25+00:00
Packets don't need to be routed. Sometimes you just want to communicate with a host on the same Layer-2 network. I said "Broadcast" (not Multicast) on purpose.

Sometimes you don't even want TCP/IP on the wire. Heck, sometimes you maybe don't even want DIX Ethernet on the wire.

Anyway, this discussion is going nowhere. Handcrafting packets is possible (it's basically what the kernel does anyway), sometimes it's useful, and if you could write a user-space program that could just open /dev/eth0 and write its own handcrafted packets to that stream would be helpful.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-27 10:43:29+00:00
Danes aren't stupid. They know that guarantees from Russia are not worth the paper they are printed on. Besides that they are in the EU, part of Scandinavia and whatever is left of NATO without the USA. Between all of these there are parts of a solution to be found that include neither the USA or Russia, which would be far better for Europe in the long term. Ukraine is a test case about whether or not the remainder of the free world can be salamied or not, that's the Russian side of it (and who knows, maybe the Baltics or more likely Moldavia would be next) and Greenland or Canada are the same thing from the United States' side.
by cameronh90 | 2025-08-27 10:43:35+00:00
I'm a happy sertraline user, but your experience sounds like the exception.

Most people are prescribed antidepressants by their GP/PCP after a short consultation.

In my case, I went to the doctor, said I was having problems with panic attacks, they asked a few things to make sure it was unlikely to be physical and then said to try sertraline. I said OK. In and out in about 5 minutes, and I've been on it for 3 years now without a follow up with a human. Every six months I do have to fill in an online questionnaire when getting a new prescription which asks if I've had any negative side effects. I've never seen a psychiatrist or psychologist in my life.

From discussions with friends and other acquaintances, this is a pretty typical experience.

P.S. This isn't in any way meant to be critical. Sertraline turned my life around.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-27 10:44:02+00:00
What I think is really weird in the world today is the power companies don't seem interested in selling more power.

They do. It's just not as lucrative as oil so they sell the business and go back to oil. Say an oil company has $100 to spend on new energy. A new oil field nets them back $500 over 5 years. Wind nets them $200 over 5 years. Why would they invest in wind other than for PR?

China has to import 70% of its oil so it needs to focus on renewables. If the US doesn't produce enough oil for its own needs, it too would be building solar and wind at scale I presume. But the US is a net oil exporter.
by mothballed | 2025-08-27 10:44:32+00:00
Can you explain why building more American steel mills would improve labor or even the human condition for the Chinese? It would be great if things were better for the common man there, but them having the comparative advantage at being dirt cheap is not an envious position I would imagine anyone is rationally wanting to change places with, especially if you change that to "me" vs "other guy."

What's more likely, as I stated in another comment, is if you destroy their comparative advantage at a tariffed industry, the Chinese guy that had the steel mill as his best option now has to move to the next even shittier one. Tariffs are usually economically worse than zero-sum.
by aurizon | 2025-08-27 10:44:40+00:00
Humans are animals, adaptable animals. We have seen how pigment faded when people moved out of Africa and the energy cost of melanin was saved as men lost melanin to allow Vitamin D internal synthesis, and as they went to Asia they regained melanin in the South-East and even changed to another pigment in China etc - might be dual pigments. Hot climates often had ample food = over-population and competition for food = war and internecine conflict for resources and people optimised for combat. As you went North food became seasonal and people starved at time = crops/storage = less fighting = Eskimos are non combative against people, but their enemy was the climate = they learned to combat that quite intelligently with tooth/bone/sinew - also animals are high calory food, but deficiencies can lead to 'rabbit starvation' can occur, but in Eskimos was abated by fat from seals etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rabbit_starvation So we are like cats/dogs/hamsters and the same for birds = hundreds of chicken variants. We are just meat in varied shapes/minds I recall an SF book by Jack Vance called 'Dragon Masters' where there were 2 habitable planets, one with Earth men and one with smart lizards and every few thousand years they would pass nearby and the higher tech lizards with space ships would raid the 'Earth' for slaves/plunder and would also lose some lizards to Earth capture. In the long period between orbital intersections, each side would breed their captured slaves into combat beasts of varied types. The lizards bred variants from massive Gorilla types to medium and smaller warrior variants, much like we bred cats/etc. The lizards also bred Juggers, Fiend, Blue Horror, and Murderers - all optimised for combat role against the other race. Vance created many highly creative novels, many with race variants as well as species on various planets. Often they had devolved from fallen interplanetary societies, near savagery, in a complex web of interspecies trade/conflict after the ancient fall when space travel was lost. SF in those days differed a lot from now. Even so, I found Vance's novels fascinating as a teenager. He is long gone, but not forgotten but his novels live on as e-books/audio books and are worth reading.
by oliwarner | 2025-08-27 10:45:48+00:00
It seems like an odd claim to make but it's not like we've collectively behaved well before. Is software engineering (and the bevy of construction metaphor titles) really earned?

Of course these LLM-dependent are not developers any more than being able to operate PowerPoint makes me a skilled orator or Word a bestselling author. Unless they're trying to waste your time in your hiring process, what does an idiot calling themselves a genius really matter? The truth will bare itself soon enough.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-27 10:46:24+00:00
I only want to point out that showing scepticism to chineese scientific claims when so few details are given is well grounded.

Microgravity is not the target environment for the technology , and it verifying its operation in microgravity feels like a very minor breakthrough compared to the tech itself.

So sending it to space is performance to show off and make headlines.

Its very important tech. If their claims are true its amazing... but doing it in orbit is not the amazing part.

China is doing alot of great research, and the idea that china is behind is laughable in many sectors. But sorting through the real science is so much harder in the noise of empty papers and puffy articles.

> That's quite optimistic.

Urgh. One can dream i guess
by roenxi | 2025-08-27 10:46:25+00:00
Maybe; he is advocating for a safety net. But I note he didn't say that either and, being an economist, he would probably have had the standard reservations - what exactly is the upper limit of care being provided to someone for "cancer"? It is very vague. If people still sometimes die of cancer when spending $X there is always room to spend $X+1 until the money runs out. No entity in existence can cover that sort of cost. If we lose the lighthouse of the free market pricing then it isn't at all clear how we'd work out what is reasonable.

The "genuinely insurable risks" and "few individuals can make adequate provision" comments he made in that quote are serious caveats on what he said. He clearly isn't advocating for what would be called universal state-funded healthcare in the modern context. He appears to be talking about a bare-bones public insurance scheme [0] for certain rare events where he didn't go into detail on what he thinks is reasonable to cover. I'd like it if everyone reverted to that sort of scheme, any English speaking country could get a tax break if they went back to that sort of system. The expectation would be that most people don't use it.

[0] Actual insurance, not this modern scheme of branding a welfare system as "insurance" to fake that it is financially responsible.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-27 10:47:47+00:00
Fact: There was a brief moment during the pandemic when Faucci tipped his hand on the ineffectiveness of disposable masks. He did a week-ish of suggesting we wear TWO masks. The only reason to do that was - as a seasoned virologist - he KNEW one mask was not good enough. Why else would he do that?

https://www.today.com/health/dr-fauci-shows-how-wear-2-masks...

More recently, on NPR’s The Pulse was this:

Back to School in a Rapidly Changing World

https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_12369_085cdf46-2a33-4f24-...

Let’s just say “the science” we were fed during COVID was lacking in a number of ways.

Please note: The above our not my opinion. These are real things that happened. Please don’t down vote simple because you can’t come to terms with your cognitive dissonance.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-27 10:48:15+00:00
not being dismissive of the effort or other tools and languages, not trying to convince anyone

After decades of Java (ant/maven), then Scala (sbt), then JS (npm), then TS, switching to Go (Make) some years ago made many problems go away.

The tooling (test, ...) inside the main tool (Rust still a little better I think), now tools/versions inside go.mod, the result of my work being a binary I can run with systemd, embedding files into the binary, all of that removed a lot of dep management issues, building issues, bundling issues, and the need for e.g. Docker for many use cases (which I feel many people only use to package .jar files or gems into something that can run in production).

Seems rv wants the same, "Our end goal is a completely new kind of management tool, [...] Not a version manager, or a dependency manager, but both of those things and more. I’m currently calling this category a “language manager”"
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-27 10:48:42+00:00
> When I worked for big tech the US was always the most profitable market, usually followed by the UK. Albeit that was a long time ago. But the EU has economically declined since so I doubt things changed much.

Again, I've been away from FAANG for a while, but the EU (note that this is 27 countries) was super, super profitable.

From an ads perspective, you made money from selling to a bunch of relatively rich consumers (the EU) AND (this is more important), lots of EU companies spent loads of money on US advertisers. This is what pushes up prices and thus revenue in the EU.

Yes, the US consumer does spend a lot of money, but their super high revenue from tech is more a function (rather like their equity markets) of lots and lots of foreign money coming in.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to think about what happens to these markets if/when the Europeans stop spending as much money in the US market.