MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-09-19 04:53:22+00:00
Something I wasn't aware of before this event is that broadcast licensees, such as ABC, are required to 'serve the public interest' as a component of receiving and retaining their broadcast license, probably because there's a limited number of such licenses available and they are publicly broadcast for free. It's a significant aspect of their operational obligations including each renewal requiring a further description of how they have continued (and will continue) to serve the public interest.

This is not the case for cable licensees, which goes a long way towards explaining why ABC/NBC/CBS/etc have all remained relatively sane in an era where it's clearly become most profitable to pick a side, pander, and confirm their every possible bias. This is because e.g. Fox News or MSNBC can get away with far more than ABC. And this is probably simply an example of something that you cannot get away with on public broadcasts.

Deciding to try to 'joke' about a domestic political assassination, for which countless people are still grieving was dumb. Stating, "We hit some new lows with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them." was very dumb. I think the only issue that makes this debatable for people is the radicalized nature of politics.

If this had been a white wing extremist who murdered a liberal guy who made a living posting public (and atypically respectful) debates, and Kimmel was then mocking it in a similar way, while further implying that killer himself was a Progressive or whatever, then obviously nobody, and I include conservatives there, would see any issues with him being canned.
by ghssds | 2025-09-19 04:55:55+00:00
>Way back in the early '90s, Windows provided a color-scheme editor. Users could set up any color scheme they liked, and all properly-written apps would inherit it and work fine.

It was barely usable. Many developers used the colors of the default theme no matter what. Others used the Windows-supplied colors for the background color and maybe the main foreground color, then used fixed, non-customizable colors for everything else, making everything invisible or hard to see if you used anything but a white-ish background. Trying to use what we now call dark mode was a big no. At best you could replace the wallpaper by an all-black screen so you feel a little less irradiated by your crt.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-19 04:56:08+00:00
The vans are probably a wash, carbon-wise, because they are taking cars off the road.

I hardly ever drive anywhere these days. Pretty much everything we buy in the household comes through Amazon or another online seller, and gets delivered by vehicles that would have been on the road anyway, delivering other things to other people. The "larger picture" may be larger than you think it is.
by reify | 2025-09-19 04:58:25+00:00
The wonderful pharma industry.

They prescribe you a drug that does not cure mental illness, that you have to take your entire life, On top of that they make you obese, so you have to take another drug to help you lose weight.

Then the patient has to go through a long and arduous behavioural program to change their life style and eating habits, caused by the drugs in the first place,

The wonderful pharma industry.

High risk of weight gain anti-depressant drugs:

Amitriptyline, citalopram, clomipramine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nortriptyline, paroxetine, phenelzine.

I have seen this over many years in secure psychiatric wards, with those who take antipsychotics.

Drugs do not "cure" mental illnesses. There is no chemical imbalance.

The drugs are either; chemical coshes or highly advertised and ineffective placebo.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-19 04:58:27+00:00
I'm pretty sure Luigi was celebrated on the left far more. I'm pretty sure CK's death was celebrated on the left far more too.

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/12/20/1-4-americans-sympathize...

> It found 28% of people who identified as liberal supported the murder, compared to 5% of conservatives.

Both the left and the right (which tends to be poorer right now) are massively affected by the cost and non-coverage of insurance. The LEFT WING is violent right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0z9ZwFpE8
by throw10920 | 2025-09-19 04:59:47+00:00
The problem is not the Constitution. No democratic-adjacent political system can survive the majority of its constituents being apathetic and disengaged (as is currently the primary problem. Our current Constitution was designed to assume some measure of engagement from the citizens because that's a hard constraint that bounds all democratic systems.

The problem is the citizens, which are chronically disengaged (a fact which has ample evidence behind it), not the legal framework. If you disagree, then feel free to point to a functioning democratic system at the same scale as the US that can survive 99% of its voters not caring enough to do anything more than spend 15 minutes voting once every two years, which is where we're at now.

The only way to keep a democratic government is to keep Huxley at bay.
by jraph | 2025-09-19 05:00:01+00:00
No, I mentioned that this is solved with a couple of clicks to do once if you are bothered by this. I see few reasons to complain really. One could prefer having different defaults (and I would, actually), but it's not like their are awful neither.

Had the toolbars been difficult or impossible to customize or remove, I wouldn't say, but here ulyou can make it look to your taste completely. The issue is a taste question and is a "meh" at best.
by al_borland | 2025-09-19 05:00:09+00:00
A speech or LLM based device is only more simple if it works perfectly. As it stands today, it’s far from perfect. When it makes a mistake, if there nothing to fall back on, I would think that would be very frustrating. I run into these types of issues on a daily basis with current LLMs.

I would liken it to a non-responsive touch screen. The magic of the modern smartphone evaporates if it stops responding to touch.

I missed the early iPhone as well. I actually setup my Home Screen on my phone to be the same app setup as the original iPhone when iOS 26 released. I still have other apps in the App Library if/when I need them, but I have my basic setup how things were in 2007… At least for now. I’ve actually liked it quite a bit so far.

I’m curious if Siri with Apple Intelligence will live up to some of what they showed in the ads last year, but at this point I need to experience it working with 0 issues for an extended period of time before I even start to think about an AI-first device, and especially for an AI-only device. I haven’t seen AI from anyone that can perform at that level. Much like full-self-driving, I feel like this is going to be something that is perpetually 5 years away.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-19 05:00:40+00:00
Hrrm. 'Beauty' is in the eyes of the beholder. Regarding XP I can't stand its default look, which can only be called 'teletubbified' or 'Fisher-priced'. Switched back to classic Win2000 appearance it's more bearable, but the colors are still fugly.

The general handling is OK, though I tended to put the taskbar to the top.

I think it's possible to easily reach something ergonomic and unobtrusive with actual Plasma/KDE, without distracting Bling! Bling!, while still being easy on the eyes.

The keywords are 'Breeze'(light) for the widget style, window decorations, and icons.

If you'd take the time to go through the settings, there are several options to tone all animations, wobbling and such down. Not at one single place, but not more than a hand full or a dozen, either.

'Start menu'-> System -> System Settings -> Quick Settings

It's all available from there, or whereever Bizarrian reordered it to be in their menus ;->

> uptime 22:57:54 up 94 days, 8:58, 1 user, load average: 0,22, 0,37, 0,41

Do this once, even if it takes time, and be done with it.

Instead of arranging with constant irritations.
by dodos | 2025-09-19 05:01:11+00:00
Librewolf is great, but from my experience the default settings are painful for daily use. My biggest gripe is the auto-clear cookies on restart. I understand why it could be useful to some users, but for most I doubt they'd want that in a daily browser. This makes Librewolf need tweaking just as much as Firefox does which kind of ruins the point of it in my experience. (although you are tweaking for usability rather than privacy)
by k_bx | 2025-09-19 05:02:43+00:00
After jumping from no-embedded-knowledge to a forced situation where I needed to produce something working, I've played a bit with Rust-for-Embedded, and it has exactly this approach when working with various ports and devices (UART, clocks etc.). And oh by is this approach practical! While still very possible, it does make a large move towards compiler not letting you shoot in the foot.
by btreecat | 2025-09-19 05:02:47+00:00
> >DOGE never seriously tried, or even discussed, tackling that problem. > > They got shut down and the Trump-Musk thing flared up more or less the nanosecond they looked at the DOD. Sad, but they never had the political capital to win that fight. They probably could've done some good slashing around in there.

What "good slashing" did they actually do anywhere to assume they would have done good there?
by suzdude | 2025-09-19 05:03:06+00:00
If you want to allow sweeping generalizations:

"Left wing" kids are not brought up being taught violence is an acceptable solution to life's problems, or for the rage they may feel against others. That could be why there is an order of magnitude fewer deaths from "left wing" extremism compared to "right wing" extremism according to the DOJ [0].

"Left wing" kids are not given as easy access to, or training with, firearms. Conservatives, especially rural, are [1].

And please do not pretend that knowing, loving, or being a trans person prohibits one from holding conservative view points, that's rather hateful [2].

[0] https://www.scribd.com/document/918595498/Wayback-Machine-NI... [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts... [2] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-caitlyn-jenner-sophia-...
by valine | 2025-09-19 05:03:17+00:00
Here's my version, took about 5 minutes to create inside the ChatGPT web interface. https://valine.github.io/vibe-coded-ant-game/

I don't know if this game was vibe coded, but it certainly could have been. Most notable thing about this post is probably that vibe coded games are good enough now to fool HN.
by cptskippy | 2025-09-19 05:07:04+00:00
> The main thing I learned from this submission is how much people hate Nvidia.

I think there's a lot of frustration with Nvidia as of late. Their monopoly was mostly won on the merits of their technology but now that they are a monopoly they have shifted focus from building the best technology to building the most lucrative technology.

They've demonstrated that they no longer have interested in producing the best gaming GPUs because those might cannibalize their server technology. Instead they seem to focus on crypto and AI while shipping over priced knee capped cards at outrageous prices.

People are upset because they fear this deal will somehow influence Intel's GPU ambitions. Unfortunately I'm not sure these folks want to buy Intel GPUs, they just want Nvidia to be scared into competing again so they can buy a good Nvidia card.

People just need to draw a line in the sand and stop supporting Nvidia.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-09-19 05:07:40+00:00
Heh, interesting you call this "Contact Us Jail". I met sales and engineering staff from EdgeCortix at DSEI Japan 2025, and was very enthusiastic to pick up some of their products as alternatives to the Hailo-8L RPi cards.

So far....nothing. Not even an ETA on when they will be shipping hardware.
by palmotea | 2025-09-19 05:07:42+00:00
> I recall my high school chemistry teacher's response when I was trying to understand why certain reactions happened: "just accept that these reactions happens and memorise them for the test. Don't try to understand it"

> I did not become a chemist.

That kinda sounds like you got tripped up by the lie-to-children phase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children), demanding an explanation requiring advanced concepts before you've mastered the basic ones.
by yellowapple | 2025-09-19 05:08:07+00:00
> what good reason would I need to run it through an emulator, specifically when a modern OS is already sandboxing things.

One good reason would be that “Which OS specifically?” is a question with at least 4-5 mainstream answers (and even more not-so-mainstream answers). That's what motivated the push from WWW-as-a-bunch-of-interconnected-documents to WWW-as-a-bunch-of-remote-hosted-apps in the first place: to be able to develop and deliver applications without having to worry quite so much about the client platform.

WASM is in this regard analogous to the olden days of Java/Silverlight/Flash, with many of the same tradeoffs (and some of the rough edges filed down due to lessons learned around browser integration and toolchains and such).
by eviks | 2025-09-19 05:09:16+00:00
Yes, that's the downplaying part. Configuring bad default away doesn't make a user happy the bad default existed and required wasting time fixing it (of course it's not a couple of clicks, that's also downplaying, you'd have to first acquire the knowledge that it's possible (not all UIs can be customized) and how to do it (e.g., some DEs require installing some DE Shell Extension to be able to find the relevant config))
by reify | 2025-09-19 05:09:37+00:00
There is no "Cure" for mental ill health.

Drugs do not "cure" mental illnesses. There is no chemical imbalance.

The drugs are either; chemical coshes or highly advertised and ineffective placebo.

depression is a natural response to sadness and loss. We humans are well prepared to work through sadness and loss, we dont need drugs to do that.

25 years as a psychotherapist, 99% of my clients should not have been prescribed anti-depressants for, bereavement from, family death, relationship breakdown or job loss. They just needed to work throught the loss with compassion, support and love.
Show HN: AgentSea – private AI chat for sensitive work
by miletus | 2025-09-19 05:09:42+00:00
Today we’re excited to introduce AgentSea, a private AI chat built for sensitive work.

When you use closed-source AI models, your data can:

– be stored

– pulled into training pipelines

– shared with third parties

That might be fine if you’re making memes or drafting LinkedIn posts. But it becomes a serious risk when you’re pasting contracts, health info, financial data, or business secrets.

That’s why we built AgentSea. In Secure Mode, all chats run on open-source models or models hosted on our own servers. Your data never leaves, is never used for training, and is never leaked.

Agentsea also gives you access to 100s of community-built agents, along with tools like Reddit, X, and YouTube search.

Try it here: agentsea.com

Would love feedback from the HN community.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-19 05:10:07+00:00
Supreme Court case 22-842 last year, National Riffle Association of America, Petitioner v. Maria T. Vullo

"Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors."

This gives the legal grounds that he KNEW what he was doing is a violation of law/the Constitution. It is not a grey area and the Trump admin would not be unaware of a case that the NRA WON last year.

https://bsky.app/profile/barbarasobel.bsky.social/post/3lz4u...
by riffraff | 2025-09-19 05:10:33+00:00
I'm glad this article explained how much the building speed increased.

I was in Barcelona a couple times in the 00s and the work seemed slow and frozen in time.

Visited again in the late 00s and the building seemed to have grown by a lot.

Saw a picture of where it is now and it seemed it went even faster.

I remember at some point the target date for completion was in the '40s, I would be happy to visit the complete building earlier, it's one of my favorite buildings.
by newhuser | 2025-09-19 05:11:44+00:00
SNAPSHOT: 800 GB of historical usenet articles in 648 selected newsgroups

compresses to ~260G on ZFS with compression=lz4

https://pugleaf.net/snaps/rocksolid-us-2025-09-03.torrent

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AGOX5YEUUNOKVZOSXQCA3O66R2VRVKR6&dn=rocksolid-us-2025-09-03&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce
by dsign | 2025-09-19 05:12:52+00:00
The first level "why" at least is straightforward: Christianism. Even when not directly imposed, it's still the basis of the Western system of values and morals.

But it's fascinating to think about the second level "why": what made people encode monogamy and heterosexuality into their cultural canons (including their mainstream religion)? Was it property and rules about property? Was it to maximize the number of children, so that the group/tribe/kingdom would be militarily stronger than the neighbor? Or maybe it was to prevent some sort of very specific and concrete problem, real or perceived, that arose from tolerating free love, and that we today have no clue about?
by suzdude | 2025-09-19 05:14:16+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.g...

Why lie? Just because you have a short memory, and cannot recall:

* A right wing extremist killed the MN speaker of the house, her spouse, and their dog

* A right wing extremist attacked Speaker Pelosi's house in an attempt to kidnap her, and attacked her husband with a hammer (an incident that republicans were happy to crack jokes about)

* January 6th, 2021

* 2022 A right wing extremist shot and killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo NY.

* 2025 A right wing extremist shot up a school in Colorado

* 2018 A right wing extremist sent mail bombs to democrats

Or do you think attacks on matter if the people killed is someone you like?
by yellowapple | 2025-09-19 05:14:44+00:00
Back when I tried to daily-drive a Chromebook Pixel it was, like, one flag in the settings app to enable Crostini and run whatever (GNU/)Linux program my heart desired, and that was many years ago; can't imagine it's gotten any harder (especially now that even Android is starting to offer similarly-turnkey Linux app support through the newfangled Terminal app).
by VerifiedReports | 2025-09-19 05:15:32+00:00
"Barely usable?" WHAT was? The scheme editor was perfectly usable, for well over a decade.

"Many developers used the colors of the default theme no matter what"

Which is what they were supposed to do, resulting in usable software that honored the user's preferences. And developers didn't have to dick around with color palettes. Win/win.

"Others used the Windows-supplied colors for the background color and maybe the main foreground color, then used fixed, non-customizable colors for everything else, making everything invisible or hard to see if you used anything but a white-ish background"

Yep, some did. And? If developers issue defective software, the OS should be degraded? What's your point here? Let's say developers somehow mess up sound reproduction: Should the OS no longer support audio playback?
by trabant00 | 2025-09-19 05:16:31+00:00
> “It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”

If we go by the above then Sagrada Familia is far from perfect. I guess it depends on taste but I found it extremely kitschy. The lighted signs inside make me think more of a bar than a church. And I found the actual Barcelona Cathedral beautiful. There's also a pretty heavy discussion if the present thing is what Gaudi intended.
by niwtsol | 2025-09-19 05:17:37+00:00
I just started a company in May to address exactly this! There is so much cyber security tech, but we just felt that no one has really focused on that aging group of users who are historically not technical and very susceptible to phishing attacks. I would love to chat with you about what kind of features you would want to see in that kind of product and/or invite you as a beta user
by Oreb | 2025-09-19 05:18:34+00:00
Many churches were in construction for over a century, yes. Today? I’m not familiar with any examples other than Sagrada Familia, and even that one is almost finished. These multi-generation building projects seem to be a thing of the past.

Imagine trying to get funding today for a building project that is scheduled to be completed long after everyone alive today would be dead. I can’t imagine that being possible. It’s a pity: I wonder what wonders we could have built using modern technology over such a long timescale.
by inasio | 2025-09-19 05:20:35+00:00
There was an auction of a lot of his memorabilia a few months ago, it included a lot of Festool stuff. He was an avid woodworker (the sale also included furniture he made). I like how the work table where you can see the miter saw is made of the most utilitarian plywood, it feels like he was working until his last days
by Starman_Jones | 2025-09-19 05:22:49+00:00
We didn't, though! At least, not for that purpose. When India's PM Nehru said to the UN, "We are the third world," it was a profound statement that had absolutely nothing to do with economics. "Developing" and "developed" were introduced to the public conscious as a desperate attempt to stop the ignorant masses (including, at one point, me) from ruining a useful descriptor.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-09-19 05:23:13+00:00
I have to ask (and I don't mean this combatively) - given the ongoing realization of the replication crisis, how likely is it that the book you mention reflects a summation of the "too pat" studies about human behavior that, en masse, always seem pithy in an interesting headline, but years later end up being completely bunk?

I've noticed over the years many chains of reasoning - made up of what I believe someone called "cocktail party" pithy takes - that only last as long as you don't dig into the nuts and bolts of them. Pleasant little takes on our psyche and behavior that makes for nice reaffirming thoughts of our views but break down under later analysis.

It feels like we have sometimes accreted an amalgam of these pithy takes based on very small, one off, studies (never replicated) that let us comfortably assemble an affirmation of our broader takes.

This is a rotten thing to say about your book recommendation, given I have never read it (I hope you'll forgive me), but based on the last few years of the replication crisis, do you think, in your heart of hearts, that what you are describing truly does stand up?
by suzdude | 2025-09-19 05:23:36+00:00
Wow. If you haven't met folks who don't fit, or don't consider themselves aligned with the "left/right" spectrum of American politics, you're missing out. The "us vs. them" mentality is juvenile, and it is sad you subscribe to it.

If you cannot comprehend the shades of grey in the world, maybe you need more exposure to it.
by joules77 | 2025-09-19 05:24:01+00:00
It's an example of what sociologists call "Compressed Modernity". The Japs jumped from a racist feudal society to a top down American imposed order after the nukes dropped. They have a long way to go to repair that brainfuck.

The West took thousands of years to learn how to get along with other cultures and they are far from perfect. Population level Learning takes that much time. Always the hard way.

Say our chimp brain can update 100 of its beliefs a year. That rate drops drastically the larger the chimp troupe gets. So institutions and populations update beliefs maybe 2-5 times a decade. Culture/Religion/Social Norms all take centuries.

There is no free lunch. Things will take their own sweet time.
by rashunain | 2025-09-19 05:24:27+00:00
Daily current affairs updates are available in English, including news headlines, GK questions, and answers. Overall, the Current Affairs 19 September 2025 covers a range of topics, including national and international news, sports, education, and daily current affairs quizzes. It is essential to stay updated with the latest news and developments to remain informed and prepared for competitive exams and other challenges.