MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eptcyka | 2025-06-11 20:09:28+00:00
The heart transplant will have them live in a state of uncertainty, most likely having to use a defibrillator until a suitable heart is found, if it is found. It is risky, with many points of failure. As such, a certain death of their own terms might be more valuable than a chance of a life with the certainty that they will have to go through the suffering that has already driven them to disable the defibrillator mixed in with some more risk and pain. It would be a rollercoaster ride for the hungover, except they don’t know id they will get to step off. And the loved ones get to watch on from the side lines. Even with all that, it is tough to imagine not opting for the transplant, but this should just serve to help you empathise with pain they are going through.
by creaturemachine | 2025-06-11 20:09:58+00:00
Just knowing what is bought together with menstrual products can influence how they're marketed. It can influence where certain products are placed on shelves relative to menstrual products, where and how they're marketed, which brands in your conglomerate to co-market with, and so on. This is the most innocent use of data in aggregate. The real creepy shit follows now that it's individualized and easily deanonymized.
by orev | 2025-06-11 20:10:58+00:00
Apple makes a big deal about how much they focus on accessibility (which they honestly do), so it might be that the Accessibility team is the only group that has the internal clout to push back on these types of design changes. As long as the setting is categorized as accessibility, the design teams might just have to live with it.

It’s very possible that if the settings weren’t under accessibility, they might not exist at all.
by chrisco255 | 2025-06-11 20:11:01+00:00
People also used oxen and mules for personal transport (we don't even have numbers for these and the equine count is probably less than accurate as well), back when the population was less than 70 million (and couples had upwards of 8 or 9 children frequently, so much of the population was younger) before mass migration at the turn of the century (itself made possible by advances in transportation with steam engines in use at sea and by rail). By 1920 cars were already commonplace, but either way, most of the population was doing subsistence farming in the late 1800s and went to town maybe once or twice a month for supplies. We were much poorer before cars, and raising and maintaining a horse requires land and resources.

You can see SF in 1906 as cars started to take the place of horse and buggy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkc83XA2dY. The early automobiles even fit the same profile as a buggy.
by ian-g | 2025-06-11 20:11:35+00:00
i don't think it's honestly that startling. extrapolating that number gets you to a total of 323k deaths, probably under a percent of canada's complete population based on their 2021 census population of about 37 million.

in 2021 there were 305k deaths in 2023 there were 326k deaths, and we learned that one sixth of MAID requestors died before they were deemed eligible or ineligible

and 70% were in pallative care

a lot of people die slowly and painfully, and a lot of people think long and hard before making that request.
by steveklabnik | 2025-06-11 20:11:57+00:00
I recently did something similar, but different: gave Claude some code examples of a Rust-like language, it wrote a recursive descent parser for me. That was a one-shot, though it's a very simple language.

After more features were added, I decided I wanted BNF for it, so it went and wrote it all out correctly, after the fact, from the parser implementation.
by stevenbedrick | 2025-06-11 20:13:06+00:00
At least one county prosecutor in WV is, in fact, discussing investigating routine miscarriages: https://www.wvnstv.com/news/local-news/prosecutor-warns-of-p...

From the article:

> State law does not require a woman to notify authorities when she miscarries, but Truman said that women who miscarry in West Virginia can protect themselves against potential criminal charges by reporting the miscarriage to local law enforcement. > > “Call your doctor. Call law enforcement, or 911, and just say, ‘I miscarried. I want you to know,'” advised Truman.

Now, in fairness, the state's association of prosecutors has clarified that this is not official policy and that the association as a whole does not support it. But it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2025/06/pros...
by mrtksn | 2025-06-11 20:14:04+00:00
Isn't time a human invention useful to model the nature? It's literally just a defined interaction as a reference, i.e. the sun rising up and going down which is the rotation of the earth.

So IRL there's no time, there's no need to have a beginning or an end. Whatever happened when all the matter was close together isn't the beginning of anything, just a phase.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-06-11 20:14:16+00:00
As an American minority who has emigrated to an Asian country known for strict immigration enforcement and ethnocentrism, this is just a bizarre take to me. On HN, where there are regular posts about cybersecurity and vulnerabilities, for some reason people fail to grasp the concept of national-level Physical Access Control. For a country with a trillion-dollar security budget and an all-too-cozy relationship with the jailers of the world's largest open-air prison (Palestine), we should not have millions slipping through the cracks. We should not have repeated offenders committing high-profile violent crimes.

"Our domestic systems are broken and ruin more lives so anyone who opposes foreign criminals preying on our citizens is a racist." No. Some of us minorities appreciate law & order too.

Immigration enforcement is low-hanging fruit from a policy perspective IMO, with real, tangible positive impacts on the quality of life of the citizenry. Going after the monied class that benefits from the prisons-for-profit is a MUCH harder objective (but also absolutely necessary and SHOULD be done in conjunction with the street enforcement). I find nobody hates criminal immigrants quite like law-abiding immigrants; we end up stereotyped due to the actions of the high-profile idiots.

All that said, I find that many actions which would be "government doing its job" in other countries bring out the worst low-IQ racists in the US in support.
by bitpush | 2025-06-11 20:15:06+00:00
What a weird article. It is one thing to drink the kool-aid, but how can a reporter suspend their critical thinking and lap up company PR.

Ofcourse, Apple is going to say AI doesnt matter. But if you've been paying attention to anything in tech, you know that AI is profoundly changing how we operate. People are using LLMs for search, for analysis, even for companionship.

And yet, they write

> Call me a skeptic, but I don’t think AI Siri will be the determining factor of whether or not most people rush out to buy this year’s iPhone. It’ll be cameras; it’ll be a thinner form factor;

Really, you think people are clamoring for thinner phones?
by asveikau | 2025-06-11 20:15:22+00:00
I guess that's a joke, but it's actually kind of serious that causality, personhood, identity, free will, etc. are all social constructs.

They are useful to us, but every now and then it's helpful and humbling to remember it's a fiction we assign, rather than fundamental.

Criminal justice or the concept of culpability is one of these areas. I know I've seen material by Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist who does not believe in free will, talking about how off the mark criminal justice and punishment for crimes can be.
by mvdtnz | 2025-06-11 20:15:48+00:00
I'm not trying to be presumptuous about the state of your CSS knowledge so tell me to get lost if I'm off base. But if you haven't updated yourself on where CSS is at these days I'd recommend spending an afternoon doing a deep dive. Modern-day CSS is way less kludgy and hacky than it used to be. It's not so hard now to manage large CSS codebases and centering elements is relatively simple now.

Having said that I still lean heavily on AI to do my styling too these days.
by threemux | 2025-06-11 20:15:55+00:00
You are sharing an important perspective. 1 in 20 people die from assisted suicide in Canada today. You can't tell me the process is sound every time. That's a huge number.

It's false dignity, and false compassion. Dignity does not come from control over one's life, and it does not come from the absence of suffering. Dignity comes from being made in the image and likeness of God. If anyone reading does not agree, well, that's fine, but I feel compelled to say it that someone might read it.

How many people will we lose to despair that could have been helped? I say this both as a Catholic and someone that has suffered and recovered from mental illness.
by bluGill | 2025-06-11 20:16:01+00:00
The freights respond if Amtrack would keep their schedules things would work, but once a train is late they have to do extra work to find places for that train that isn't running schedule. (and one badly maintained local railroad early in the trip is enough to ensure Amtrak is always late)

I'm not sure who is right in the above, but it is important to at least consider all sides of the argument.
by const_cast | 2025-06-11 20:16:38+00:00
What laypeople consider as "happened" and what those in the know consider as "happened" are very different IME.

For most people, they'll consider self-driving as "happened" when most cars are self-driving. Similarly, the consider the smartphone as "happened" not when the palm came out - but somewhere around the iPhone 4.

Like, right now, immunotherapy for cancer has "happened" - there's real patients really doing it, for real. But most cancer patients don't consider immunotherapy as "happened", they're still getting chemo. Once chemo is obsolesced, we can consider immunotherapy as "happened". From then, to now, may be on the scale of decades.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-06-11 20:17:46+00:00
Oh yeah? We'll I'll meet you tomorrow at high noon on the tennis courts next to 1 Nevins Hill Way Brighton Ma 02135 with a polygraph machine and we'll really settle this buddy!!!!!!!

Really though I think I'm right but I don't care at this point and I'm probably being an ass so sorry about that. I did start the re read after the comments but that doesn't really matter. I apologize for being rude to peeps sometimes I get obstinate.
by dcminter | 2025-06-11 20:18:08+00:00
A few years ago I downloaded some of the Gutenberg version [0] of Pepys' diary which is a transcription of the Wheatley edition which contains this rather odd paragraph in the introduction:

"It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be made public, with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly be printed. It may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an unnecessary squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are therefore asked to have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where any passages have been omitted marks of omission are added, so that in all cases readers will know where anything has been left out."

When I read that I looked it up in Wikipedia [1] and it turns out that it's hilariously disingenuous and it absolutely was an "unnecessary squeamishness" (i.e. censorship of the "dirty" bits) that motivated the omissions.

I therefore picked up a cheap copy of the Latham & Matthews complete paperback edition and am rather slowly making my way through that. It's in eleven volumes - one for each year plus a supplementary overview. I'm still on 1662 but it's very entertaining in short doses. This edition, as well as including the bits that Wheatley sought to obscure, has rather nice illustration of London landmarks on the covers.

There are some other good bits in that Wikipedia page by the way - one of my favourites is the stuff about Lord Granville painstakingly deciphering a few pages of the "encoded" content while the instructions for decoding them were in the same library a few shelves away!

Some or all of this may be in the linked article, but alas it's paywalled (and archive.today didn't work) so my apologies if I'm just repeating its contents!

Pepys' writings nicely precede the stuff about Hooke [2], to whom someone linked yesterday, because Hooke collaborated closely with Christopher Wren (famously the architect of St Pauls Cathedral in London) in the rebuilding of many of the churches destroyed by the conflagarion of the city that Pepys observes and writes about in 1666.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4200

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232699
by sowebegin001 | 2025-06-11 20:18:14+00:00
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by bmacho | 2025-06-11 20:18:35+00:00
> The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence.

It is indeed "often described" in the media as such. However, that is _not_ the currently accepted theory. "What if there were no space and time before the Big Bang" is just Stephen Hawking's pet theory.
by TFromForge | 2025-06-11 20:18:48+00:00
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You type a prompt — Forge builds the app, runs it, explains the code, and even deploys it live.

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by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-11 20:20:44+00:00
Perhaps you'll also believe me when I say I've read Infinite Jest too many times to warrant another reread right now, but best of luck on yours and the nascent book club, lol.

I think there are some less blink-and-you'll-miss-it type questions that are too broad to Google but that most people who read it would remember...

- Which location in ETA got its name from an infamous player?

- What fictional cartoon character is popular during Subsidized Time?

- What mortifying experience does Gately have in the hospital?

- What's Lyle's second-favorite beverage?

Or one that requires a longer reply and doesn't have a "correct" answer, but props to anyone who takes a stab at it, because I still don't have a satisfying explanation:

- What the fuck is wrong with Orin? Like in general?
by derefr | 2025-06-11 20:21:14+00:00
Seems like the largest industrial customers would still need metered usage, though.

There are quite a few businesses that can scale limited only by power consumption — but due to that, they today need connections massively overbuilt compared to their current usage (as they project their usage growth to be extremely fast, potentially as much as doubling each year) in order to not need to be constantly re-trenching connections or browning out. Which in turn means that, under a leased-line electrical system, they'd be massively overpaying for unused power capacity at all times — possibly to the point of being unprofitable.

To achieve profitability, they'd need to negotiate billing based on only the fraction of the capacity of the available grid capacity that they're actually demanding on any given day... or, in other words, metered billing.
by dang | 2025-06-11 20:22:10+00:00
Nothing to do with "special users", unless emailing us makes you "special" (which I suppose it does! but that's another story).

This is a standard moderation practice we've used for years when people email and ask us to take down a thread. We generally won't take down a thread that has significant comments. At the same time, the people who email in such cases are often feeling distressed, and sending them away with nothing would be mean. That's not how we run HN.

What we usually do is say "We try not to delete posts that got replies, because doing so would be unfair to the other commenters in the thread. However, if you want, we can reopen the thread so you can post your side of the story" (or the relevant information they feel is necessary, etc.—whatever is appropriate to the case).

This is a nice balance between the community's desire to preserve history and eschew censorship, and individuals' need to correct or augment the record. I particularly like that it solves the problem by adding information instead of removing it. It leaves the thread in a better state for readers to make up their own minds.

Most users who we help in this way have nothing to do with YC. It's more general than that: it's how we address the reality that sometimes people change, or feel a need to correct something said about them online, and so on. Surely you can empathize with that? If not, I'd be perplexed.

Trying to stir up a drama about this, as you've done here and at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207198 (while hiding behind an anonymity cloak, unlike the person you're going after), feels a bit strange. To me this is one of the kinder things we do, while preserving the values of the community.

I wouldn't want to suffer forever over something I'd posted on the internet years earlier, and I doubt you would either. If you have a better solution for cases like this, I'd love to know what it is.
by freejazz | 2025-06-11 20:22:23+00:00
> If nothing else, I hope AI finally forces a re-evaluation of copyright and patent law.

Is AI even controversial in the patent space? I do not think so. I'm not aware of any AI patent cases that destroy the business model like the AI companies claim licensing copyrighted media would require.

>Instead, they've become a brutal sledgehammer in which massive companies and rights holders can entrench their dominance and enrich themselves forever in a way that a smaller entity has almost no hope of competing with.

I don't know why you equate the two. They are completely different paradigms, protecting completely different things, completely different ways. Is the problem competing with Disney now? Didn't seem to be a problem for Mr. Beast...
by runarberg | 2025-06-11 20:23:17+00:00
As I understand it (I‘m not a cosmologist by any means), saying that the observable universe began at big bang simply means that anything that happened before the big bang has no effect on what happens afterwards.

There may be other universes out there, with their own big bangs, but that has no effect on ours.

Reading this article, I think they are simply disputing the necessity of singularity inside a black hole, and hypothesize a universe which expands from non-singularity black hole, while staying inside its own event-horizon.

That is how I understood it at least, somebody please correct me if I misunderstood it.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-06-11 20:23:21+00:00
Wow, that makes it even dumber. That idea was literally also in Genesis as the original sin of man: "You shall be as Gods."

Edit, for posting too fast: I don't consider the response below to be in good faith, for if there is a God, nothing could be more offensive than to deliberately try to knock him down a few pegs to be "plausible"; while considering the Big Bang to be "plausible" because that doesn't count as "fantasy style magic."
by jlmcguire | 2025-06-11 20:23:34+00:00
My experience is this mostly between men and generally not as common as it used to be.

My dad is called by his surname by some of his high school pals and call some of them by surname when he's around them (but not in reference to them if he's talking to me). Thinking back to my high school days in the late 00's I can only remember athletes being called by their last name. Perhaps because of football or sports that you just have your last name on your jersey. It would be an interesting thing to understand more.

I could be regional too. I'm from the US in the midwest.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-11 20:24:32+00:00
If you read the book you should know your little game is antithetical to the book, you are reducing discussion to the chasing of carrots and recitation of OED entries; trivia, easy but empty rewards. So according to my test, you are the one who has not read it.

Why not contribute something of worth and demonstrate that you have read it by engaging in discussion about it instead of playing games?
by exDM69 | 2025-06-11 20:24:36+00:00
Cool. I've also built a bar stool with green wood but it's a fairly crude shop stool rather than a fine chair.

A green wood specialty in my neck of the woods is sauna ladles (used for throwing water). You can buy wooden ones but they are made from seasoned lumber with CNC machines and don't survive more than a year before they crack. The one I made from green wood is still going strong after 7 years in extreme humidity and temperature environment.
by thih9 | 2025-06-11 20:24:37+00:00
Speculation:

AI companies want the cultural shift, i.e. get everyone used to having their data, art, work, etc, turned into models. Plus they want the PR, i.e. AI agents to be seen as helpful, friendly and genuinely useful. They want this to happen fast and before legislators react too. Releasing for free seems safe and efficient.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-11 20:25:03+00:00
Tough for me as well. I'm at an age where I can expect a lot of my icons to head out. And already so many have.

There is something I think undeniably innocent about the time in the U.S. when The Beach Boys were on top of their game. Never mind Milner from American Graffiti "I don't like that surfin' shit. Rock and roll's been going down hill ever since Buddy Holly died."

They were a part of an America I don't even recognize anymore. Thank god those of us old enough got at least a glimpse of that time. And I suppose to the degree Brian captured it in The Beach Boys music, maybe we can hold on to the memory of it at least.

And I think that's what's toughest. I'm seeing the luminaries of a better time winking out one by one.

Lest I sound too down, I am always hopeful though for the generations that are coming up being able to make a brighter future for themselves.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-11 20:25:33+00:00
It's almost certainly better for the vast majority of humans to die on their preferred schedule from something that wont cause them to suffer. The old joke goes:

"I want to die like my grandfather, peacefully in his sleep with no pain, unlike his passengers who all died screaming and in agony"

Most "natural" deaths are just various forms of suffering. You decay while still technically alive, your body stops working, your brain turns to pudding despite your physical fitness and healthy life.

Why WOULDN'T more people choose to die peacefully, if they don't have religious or moral problems with suicide?

I would expect, in an imaginary utopia, that the vast majority of non-accidental deaths would be by choice.

The alternative is laying in an expensive bed for an indeterminate time while a doctor pumps you so full of opioids that you are barely you anymore anyway. Or like my Memere, you die by choking on your own vomit, alone in your home, with everybody coming to see you for your birthday in a few days but miss you, because you die first. She probably would have preferred to schedule it.
by spencerflem | 2025-06-11 20:25:36+00:00
There's plenty of policy that I can agree to disagree on.

But this is such blantant, needless, willful cruelty.

Gleeful, even.

I've talked to someone with opinions like yours IRL before and one thing we disagreed on is that he was unable to name a single person that he considered to be 'evil'. Do you feel the same way?