MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by savef | 2025-09-04 21:07:03+00:00
What examples of this are there? I've usually found Wikipedia to be quite equal opportunity, well rounded, and factual.

They have their NPOV[1] policy, and seem impressively unbiased to me, given the various divisive situations they have to try to cover.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_v...
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-04 21:07:07+00:00
> At least they got OLED style touch screens, and for a while it looked like everything would go that way but at least in cars some are going back to physical buttons.

On that note, physical buttons are tactile and easier to navigate while driving and thus safer. You don't have to take your eyes off the road and worry about a fussy touchscreen registering your tap. You just feel around for the control and manipulate it.

The appeal of a touchscreen is that you can change the interface. It can assume a wide range of control panels, which, in a car, isn't always useful. For functions you need immediately, you can't beat a fixed physical widget.

Now, what would be interesting is a surface whose physical texture and physical controls could be dynamically changed and reconfigured. So, a flat surface becomes a series of buttons, and then maybe a rotating knob in the next. Perhaps tactile holograms. I don't think something like this could beat physical controls for reliable and lasting function either, however.
by murderfs | 2025-09-04 21:07:32+00:00
> * Carbon free energy is cheaper to produce these days, so the premis is wrong

If it's cheaper to produce, then there's no point in doing anything special, because it'll just take over via market forces. The "problem" with renewables is that the economics are fantastic in the marginal case, but if you need it to take over baseload when the sun is down, wind isn't blowing, etc., it's much more expensive because you need to build energy storage, which fossil fuel generators get for free. Going from 50% of power generation to 100% is going to be many multiples more expensive than 0% to 50%.

Until things like flow batteries become economical, in places without rivers you can dam for generation/pumped storage, it's probably not going to be feasible to go 0% carbon unless you just replace all of your baseload generation with nuclear or something.
by zahlman | 2025-09-04 21:07:41+00:00
> I don't know if that's considered high or not.

The target has been a 2% long-term average (although there has been recent language indicating a shift towards "just try for 2% going forward"). It peaked at something like 9%, which hadn't been seen in decades. Nothing compared to e.g. Weimar Germany, Brazil circa 1990, or even modern-day Argentina; but undesirable and concerning.
by visarga | 2025-09-04 21:08:16+00:00
> This doesn't mean that there's no such thing as truth, or that we can't generate knowledge

Oh I agree we can generate knowledge, but it is never the Truth, it can't be. Any knowledge is composed from imperfect abstractions, the edge cases of which we don't know.

We are taking patterns from our experience, and coining them as abstractions, but ultimately we all have our own lived experience, a limited experience. We can only know approximatively. Some people know quantum physics, others know brain surgery, so the quality of our abstractions varies based on individual and topic. We are like the 5 blind men and the elephant.
by ansgri | 2025-09-04 21:08:47+00:00
100% this. At that time if one needed a simple custom database client with GUI and analytical reports, the go-to solution was MS Access and it was working well. Could even be placed on a shared drive. Now, as accepted solution, you either pay for different SaaSes, each with a fraction of functionality, or have to code a bespoke website using overcomplicated frameworks.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-09-04 21:09:27+00:00
I took an online quiz, then told my doctor, then my doctor administered an online quiz to me and subscribed me Adderall. It has taken me a year and a half to make sense of what Adderall means to me but it’s quite helpful. I’m 40. I had never had stimulants like that before! Be careful with the euphoria. For a while my dose was too high and it felt great at first but I crashed on the weekends. Now I keep my dose lower and it’s helpful without being too much. Mindfulness and self control are important here.
by dsign | 2025-09-04 21:09:48+00:00
Awful idea #1: If you are one of those advanced-age president-dictator of a big super-power, you know, one of those guys that get caught in a hot mic talking about immortality, you could seal your pact with the devil by forcing anybody in your big chunk of the planet who doesn’t ace their STEM topics to wear one of these suits. Who knows, maybe if the youth get properly scared of their old age, they will stop being a subversive thorn and instead focus on fixing the ending of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Awful idea #2: Just listen to your grandmother when you are young. She will tell you how brutal is to be old. Read the science, not just biology but all the connected sciences, specially mathematics. And then listen to the priests (critically!), and read the writers, and peruse the written record of the human civilization, which almost begins with the Epic of Gilgamesh. It will reveal shadows you didn’t know were in your mind. None of it, of course, prevents you from becoming old, but it puts most things into perspective, and it digs out a certain light that we have lost and which we very much need if we are ever going to do anything about the suffering that aging brings.

Awful idea #3: Take a shortcut and paste everything I wrote before this paragraph into an LLM. Any LLM which is reasonably state of the art. Prompt with “what’s the meaning of this?” It will significantly change the intended meaning of what I said in “awful idea #2”. That’s the bias/zeitgeist in our vast cultural recent corpus, that the LLMs swallowed for training, being regurgitated at you in condensed form. And they said that LLMs aren’t useful! Repeat the experiment, but this time use Simplified Chinese to prompt. Observe the very slight cultural drift. Meditate. Now abandon this shortcut and execute awful idea #2. Borrow somebody else’s grandmother if you must.
by awareunlikeu | 2025-09-04 21:11:01+00:00
This is exactly what they are doing!

This is my take, Google trying to pull this sheeit is them trying to push further into Enterprise while at the same time giving Big Brother way more keys to more of our doors!

with the added positive (negative for us) of recouping money from lost ad revenue, AKA: UNADULTERATED GREED!

They don't want people side loading ReVanced/NewPipe and apps like them because they don't have an answer for it! And you can clearly see this with the steps they've tried to take in the last couple years, slowly locking down the Chrome browser and punishing people using things like Ublock Origin.

When they look over at Apple devices they see that in order to load similar apps on their platform, the user not only have to be somewhat technically savvy, but also have to go way out of their way and pay money to share a developer account to sideload apps at least here in the US.

And the amount of people doing that is not that many so Apple allows it while all the other norms have to pay for their YouTube premium monthly while still receiving ads!

YOU WANT TO FEEL SAFE, GO BUY AN IPHONE EVEN THOUGH YOU WON'T ACTUALLY BE SAFE! My take is if you're going to use technology learn how to use it properly and know the risks associated with it!

All of this eerily reminds me of how anti-firearms laws try and get made into legislation here in the US! It's all feel good measures that are voted on/talked about with complete ignorance of the subject matter and if actually become law, only hurt the law abiding without actually solving any of the problem! The problem being the people..

If this gets enacted I hope it ruins Google, but it won't they're too big to fail unfortunately! They are literally destroying the only reason to buy an Android device, FREEDOM!
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-09-04 21:11:18+00:00
What is complicated? It takes seconds on my phone, must less complicated than writing a comment on HN!

The processing fees are lower for vendors than credit card fees if they accept LN Bitcoin. For me the “savings” account is completely self custody held in a non-inflationary non-depreciating currency called Bitcoin.

Massive value for everyone by cutting out the legacy banks. As I said earlier, unless you actually do it, and use it, you won’t understand how rapidly crypto is embedding itself and likely will take over in next decade for sure.
by Y_Y | 2025-09-04 21:11:18+00:00
> As of 2025, there were 41 members in SEPA,[2][3] consisting of the 27 member states of the European Union, the four member states of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), the United Kingdom, as well as five EU candidate countries.[4][5][3] Some microstates participate in the technical schemes: Andorra,[6] Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City.[4] As of 2025, Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia are the five countries negotiating to join the EU that are included in SEPA.[2]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

I don't know if I'd call that a "unified economic zone" without some qualifications.
by buildbot | 2025-09-04 21:11:29+00:00
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb; yes it’s basically a fusion bomb with a different casing but also can be tuned to put a good deal of that energy into very high energy radiation vs. thermal radiation.

What I don’t understand is how neutron activation can be avoided. In particle accelerators this happens to whatever is around the collision point, you end up with lots of radioactive sensors.
by mandevil | 2025-09-04 21:11:46+00:00
The scale of energy released is the problem. Tohoku earthquake (which caused the Fukushima tsunami) released ~600 million Little Boy's worth of energy. Yeah, modern bombs are bigger- you'd only need a few hundred thousand Tsar Bombas to get that much energy- but still we're talking an absolutely gargantuan amount of energy.

This is why no one looked at the idea until Putin needed something to threaten America with after GWB did a really stupid thing and pulled out of the ABM Treaty. And I don't believe that the official Russian sources claim it can make a tsunami, I think that's mostly propaganda.
by greyb | 2025-09-04 21:12:00+00:00
From what I recall, there are retirement homes (the examples I'm thinking of are in Asia) that make use of these suits in their onboarding processes, where they need to wear these suits for a few hours to understand some of the challenges their patients experience, and develop empathy when they can't walk as fast or do things that we'd expect in short order.

I would love to see more widespread adoption of these suits in training and employee onboarding in these facilities, mostly because if I'm in that situation or I want to think about a retirement home for my family members, I'd want to see that no one is losing their temper because my mom can't sprint 12km/hr to the elevators for breakfast.

This being said, anecdotally, it seems elder abuse is more the norm, simply because of compassion fatigue, so I suspect that even in however many years time, I'll be punched by a PSW for no good reason.
by AngryData | 2025-09-04 21:12:12+00:00
That is an interesting idea and it follows some patterns I previously noticed with friends. The ones who are not or never were physically active are all complaining about aches and pains and acting like they are old men twice their age just doing basic household things. I kind of just chalked that up to them not being in shape, but it never really fully explained the extent of their complaints. However I grew up with a very physical life working on the farm and doing trade work since forever. By every measure I should be the one complaining about aches and pains and old injuries and such, but perhaps because im so accustomed to pains just from work and more intense physical activity the age related stuff just hasn't hit me hard enough to really notice like they do.
by crote | 2025-09-04 21:12:56+00:00
Wikipedia also tends to suffer from fiefdoms, where even seemingly low-controversy articles become impossible to edit, as someone has decided that article is now their personal pet and they'll spend an absurd amount of time undoing and preventing other people's edits.

The same applies on a larger scale with moderation. There are plenty of poorly-sourced database-like stub entries for STEM subjects, but try to make a page on a "softer" subject and there's a pretty good chance someone will try to nuke it with WP:PROOF, WP:NOTE, and/or WP:OBSCURE if it isn't perfectly fleshed out in the very first draft.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-04 21:13:38+00:00
> But outside of that context, it's problematic to argue that "you can't tell if something was created by AI just by looking at it. And if you can't tell the difference, then the difference doesn't matter."

I agree wholeheartedly. This argument is just "the ends justify the means" in different words. Sadly, there are far too many people who actually think that's true.
by munificent | 2025-09-04 21:13:49+00:00
> removing the levers of power from world governments

A lever of power is never removed unless the act itself can no longer be performed. All you can do is take someone's hand off the lever and hope that whoever grabs it next is better than the last hand that had it.

I find it very unlikely that wresting power away from government—which at least has some level of citizen participation—will end up with it in better hands. The most likely scenario is that some billionaire will end up owning it.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-09-04 21:14:00+00:00
I can't argue if it's 'healthy' or not, but anecdotal accounts say that going meat only cures most of these pains in about 30 days. I've tried it. 65 year old dad tried it. Coworkers and friends. It worked for everyone. No one has remained meat only, but it taught us all to watch what we eat like hawks.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-09-04 21:14:04+00:00
I don't accept and embrace the minor pain, I treat exercise as a way to fix what I did wrong that led to the pain so I'm more resilient and don't develop it chronically. There are many aches I used to get (elbows while washing hands, hip socket, sleeping with my neck to the side) that are years in the past because I figured them out. I just realized right now that I haven't woken up with sore collarbones this year, which I can probably attribute to incline bench.

Cracks and pops are another case where constant introspection and following tips on TikTok has made many of them go away. The received wisdom is they're not proven harmful, but in my case they at least represent using muscles in wrong patterns that pull things off center.
Show HN: A small browser game (PC only) built with Phaser 3
by jose-cl | 2025-09-04 21:14:46+00:00
Hi HN! This is my first game — something I’ve always wanted to do.

It’s a small browser game built with Phaser 3, React, and the phaser template (https://github.com/phaserjs/template-react-ts/).

I made it in 2 days (like 8 hours in total real time) using gemini-cli. About 90% of the code was generated with AI, but I learned a lot by making fine tweaks.

It only works on PC since it’s a typical WASD + R (reload) shooter.

I’d love feedback on: - Gameplay (is it fun, too hard?) - Ideas for new features

Thanks in advance!

ps: I used cubes as a prototype, but now I kind of like them. Should I keep them or implement proper sprites?
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-09-04 21:14:48+00:00
> > One more reason I'm glad not to have a car-centric lifestyle

> I'm always amazed at this logic.

Not OP and maybe it's just my European showing, but I own a brand-new car yet frequently go 4-5 days without actually driving it. Because going to work and dropping off kids at daycare using a bicycle is literally faster than doing it in a car.
by isaacremuant | 2025-09-04 21:14:57+00:00
You're missing the point. You get banned in coordination.

> I don't think anyone has a fundamental right to post whatever they want on these platforms.

You don't have a right to anything if you fall for the bullshit of "they are private companies".

These private companies exert tremendous power and are also an arm of the government when the government wants it. The government uses them to censor things and hides the hand. It was very obvious before different US elections and during covid policies authoritianismathon.

> I suppose the same argument could be made that I don't have a fundamental right to use Gmails mail servers, but as I pointed out above, it is more than just an inconvenience, it could actively be harmful to my digital life, because Google has its hands on almost all things digital.

So you get my point but want to hiper focus on your exact circumstances. There's no need. Think of the worst case scenario and fight to protect yourself and others from that. Don't support it when it's "the bad guy getting the stick".
by trhway | 2025-09-04 21:14:58+00:00
A couple of neighbors adopt older dogs. We never discussed that specifically, yet it seems to be a smaller commitment lifetime-wise (few years instead of 10-15 for a young dog), and you'd have to train and deal with a puppy energy (which is a great thing if you have the time and energy to engage in it) if you adopt younger dogs, while the older ones seem to be well set in their good behavior ways. Long walks, established routine, no drama. Also of course fostering is a gateway drug into getting a dog as well as good way to learn what dog would be a match for you.
by wduquette | 2025-09-04 21:15:11+00:00
The OP says that 8-bit CPUs couldn't handle Pascal well, and that Action! (release in 1983) was the first IDE for 8-bit machines.

But Apple Pascal was released for the Apple II in 1979. Based on UCSD Pascal, the Apple Pascal system was basically an OS that simply was an IDE; and it worked perfectly well on 8-bit hardware. I had quite a lot of fun with it back in the day.
by garbthetill | 2025-09-04 21:15:35+00:00
ngl you are not wrong, I've never thought of it like that. Is there an argument that it can never really be regulated? sure if the US gov stops circle from buying treasury bills & you cant get a stable usd, whats stopping you from pegging it to another currency like a yen, pound, euro etc or gold, silver etc

I think it is useful and is here to stay
by zahlman | 2025-09-04 21:15:37+00:00
> I'm always amazed at this logic. It makes me wonder if you either have an incredible amount of free time or you don't rely on any service provided to you with a vehicle, or are you just not considering them when pondering this way openly?

Not really sure what you're getting at. Yes, I would get in an ambulance, or even a taxi, if I really needed one. That's not what "not car-centric" is about. No, I don't need things delivered to me and I don't need a car to access goods and services. I don't buy a lot in the first place; public transit works acceptably here; I'm capable of walking several km (and I'd spend the time on other forms of exercise otherwise); I mostly cook my own meals.

And there are parts of the world where public transit is actually good and it's often rational to take it even if trip time is your only consideration.

> That has almost no accessibility for the disabled or has accessible functionality that's terribly tacked on as an afterthought.

Yes, I didn't say it was good. But you can also still just talk to a cashier at the front counter here.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-04 21:15:40+00:00
if that was the only difference. the fact the ball is designed to get softer the longer it is played makes it so hits at the start of a game are different than at the end. fielders would learn this and change tactics based on that. normally, when the ball goes flat during a game, it is replaced. that in and of itself made it interesting to me as a standout feature.
by jacobx | 2025-09-04 21:15:42+00:00
There's definitely a cost: everything is type-erased and there's a lot more indirection than there would be if the code was compiled. But you usually don't hit performance issues because most app code (especially in the UI) is just a thin layer calling into the OS frameworks. The framework code does the heavy lifting and is all compiled.

The places you can hit performance issues are things like when the app itself has a tight loop that's doing a lot of work.
by postmodern100 | 2025-09-04 21:16:23+00:00
(Sorry I already forgot the password to my recently created account!)

> There's a misconception in this thread and commonly elsewhere. Scientists aren't after truth. They're after facts. Truth depends on context. Facts are indisputable. Imagine you're looking at your computer screen and you see green. Someone else looking at their computer screen might be red/green color blind and might see a shade of brown. The color being green and red can simultaneously be true. But the fact might be that the displayed color is a mix of certain EM frequencies, and each person's brain interprets those frequencies differently.

This to me reads as semantic games; let me rephrase your example:

"Imagine you're looking at your computer screen and you see green. Someone else looking at their computer screen might be red/green color blind and might see a shade of brown. The color being green and red can simultaneously be factual. But the truth is that the displayed color is a mix of certain EM frequencies, and each person's brain interprets those frequencies differently."
by hulium | 2025-09-04 21:17:04+00:00
I think Finland just has a large enough extent from south to north that solar might be starting to become viable in the south but not in the north. While Iceland already produces more electricity per capita than any other country, using only hydro and geothermal, so solar is pretty much non-existent.

Comparison of solar share:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-share-energy?tab=li...

Solar potential:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Iceland#/media/File:...
by hnhnhnaccount | 2025-09-04 21:17:07+00:00
My dad is going through that shit right now. He fell a few weeks ago and hasn’t walked since.

I live abroad to make more money and feed my ego and I only see him 3–4 times a year. On top of that selfishness, every now and then I catch myself selfishly thinking I don’t want to go through that, which makes me feel like an even worst piece of shit.

Life sucks.
by sheepscreek | 2025-09-04 21:17:37+00:00
AI may not affect tech jobs in NYC and other marquee locations and big city hubs in the near future. We could see a trend of smaller office locations get shuttered, and more people asked to relocate to major hubs/HQs. So I can understand the picture in NYC.

But if they’re talking about New York state as a whole, then I’d question their data/or inference. Companies in the area haven’t hired much in the last couple of years. Now we’ve got more layoff pressure on top of the non-existent hiring. The other day, Mark Benioff (Salesforce CEO) very clearly said on TV that his main problem is that he “need(s) fewer heads”.

Edit: Lightly updated my outlook to sound less decisive because I don’t really know anymore. So much is up in the air. Policy decisions at the government level could alter how it all plays out.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-04 21:17:47+00:00
One of my best friends is now in a wheelchair for life, thanks to high school football.

You are always taking a risk. Sometimes it's just that it won't work out financially. Sometimes it's more serious than that. It's a small risk, but non-zero. Even successful football players suffer from much higher rates of mental health issues, among other poor health outcomes.