MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-07-14 01:58:43+00:00
> Most of what she found did not work, but wormwood did produce results.

TCM is interesting: There are countless different TCM preparations that do nearly nothing are can be actively harmful to the kidneys or liver, but every once in a while there is a a novel compound discovered in some plant somewhere that does something.

I can’t tell how much of this is because TCM has some treatments that actually work, or if it’s a case of a broken clock being right twice a day. I suspect it’s more of the latter.
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-14 01:58:54+00:00
Okay, maybe I will frame it another way. Public social media is like shouting your content on a public square to anyone who wants to view it. Eavesdropping is the wrong analogy here, as it is more a publishing of your own personalized newspaper that anyone can read if they so chose. To then expect privacy from that is unreasonable, hence why I call it the user's problem, of false expectations despite repeatedly being told to the contrary by the social media service itself. There is nothing unethical about reading said newspaper if you are giving it out freely, that is indeed the expected response from an onlooker on the public square.
by bigger_cheese | 2025-07-14 01:58:56+00:00
I think Snow Crash is an interesting book but I can see how people could be turned off by it. It kind of straddles a weird line where parts of it almost read like parody or an attempt to troll the audience but at the same time it explores serious concepts.

It kind of screams at you "look how absurd this is" but then plays it straight and explores the ideas seriously.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-07-14 01:59:16+00:00
And just who here is rejecting the viral model? Saying "other practitions have stuff worth exploring" is not at all the same as "the regular western medicine model should be abandoned". Why do you feel threathened? This makes no sense to me.

Yet the inverse is not true: the prevailing attitude on HN here is not "western medicine is here to stay as staple but other practitions can add value on top", but to dismiss other practitions wholesale based on their inability to conform to intellectual standards, regardless of measurable outcomes. This is "my god is the only god" all over again.

A chiropractor was able to heal my back problems where months of going to a physiotherapist failed to do so. Aren't we supposed to stay humble and curious for new avenues of scientific exploration, rather than dismissing everything we don't understand?
by greatgib | 2025-07-14 01:59:47+00:00
They can get a small celebrity, nothing legit can explain such a growth in term of stars or forks in just a couple of days in my opinion ...

https://www.star-history.com/#OpenCut-app/OpenCut&Date

Like when you have nothing to show off, after the first day, already gaining thousands of stars per day. And the last 5 days, with 2 or more thousands per day consistently, linearly...

And let's say that we believe in the stars, just look at the number of forks, why so many persons would fork the project so fast, to still do nothing, no contribution or personal commits. Accounts of new users, or almost empty, or shaddy like the following one: https://github.com/1234567891o12?tab=repositories

https://github.com/kietsyu?tab=overview&from=2025-02-01&to=2...

https://github.com/jakele86?tab=overview&from=2025-03-01&to=...

https://github.com/Lukriss98?tab=overview&from=2024-06-01&to...

Or the following one that is quite fun:

https://github.com/laga5074

In this one, the only other project is a AI generated SEO optimized recipe blog with all the boilerplate still there.
by xarope | 2025-07-14 02:00:28+00:00
I feel there's a major distinct difference between;

- a well off family who buys a 2nd home to make sure their kids are set

- a group of well off investors who pool funds, buys a 2nd home, with intention to "flip" it in the next 1-2 years and make 10%

Both are "investors", but I'd like to think the 1st are trying to build a better future, whereas the 2nd are just arbitraging.
by Aachen | 2025-07-14 02:01:34+00:00
I assume I would if I had them. Similar to keeping offline and online bullying in check (no matter if they're the victim or perpetrator), until a certain point I guess I'd keep an eye on what they're up to (less and less as they age, assuming it goes well). If I see sites super unsuitable to their development stage (e.g. afaik girls mature slightly earlier so I may stop monitoring their media consumption sooner, I'd do my research if I were a parent) then sure we can have an uncomfortable talk and see what action I need to take. But if they're a horny 13-year-old, heck no I'm not looking into their pornhub pageloads, they have their privacy too. I'd be super weirded out if my parents had done that until I was 14 or whatever the legal consent age is where you are! Would/do you do that to your kids?!

Anyway, I guess the more relevant question is whether I think it has no effect whatsoever. Nah, of course it does, potentially some good and also potentially some bad effects. I just thought many of the points on your list had a negligible risk level (where risk=chance*impact), since it's e.g. not like most people who've grown up with the internet freely now are aggressives without impulse control

I'm not an expert on the topic and I'm happy to look at studies that update my worldview. Yet it's evidently not the case that anyone born between ~1990 and ~2000 (widespread internet and thus porn but not yet social media) has the issues you've mentioned. Maybe elevated levels, and maybe some research can disentangle the various environmental effects to point to porn as a partial culprit, but clearly it's not a majority of the population and, among those who are affected, it seems unlikely that porn is a typical significant contributor
by tehjoker | 2025-07-14 02:01:55+00:00
This is the article that helped me become more informed about him. It is actually very difficult to find derogatory material about him, you have to know what to look for.

"Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek" (2023)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-je...

"Slavoj Žižek: From pseudo-left to new right" (2016)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/08/zize-f08.html
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-14 02:02:16+00:00
I've lost 120 lbs from my peak weight. I have about 130 to go before I'm comfortable with my weight. I was severely overweight, now I'm just very overweight.

I am at the second dose up from the starting dose (5 mg vs 2.5mg), and the side effects are about the same between the two doses. They didn't start out that way, but they ended up at about the same level of misery.

I tried Trulicity when it first came out. It was not as effective, but the side effects for me personally were less.

I'm on Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes, not weight loss, so my main focus is on how it treats my t2d. The weight loss is a nice side benefit.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 02:02:55+00:00
Well they helped me so I thought they were cool. I mean, my "prod it with a stick" would get it to go right down the middle of the road but not off to the edges, I wasn't brave enough to pick it up by the tail. Maybe I had this on my mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Redneck

It certainly breaks the stereotype that they all drive pickup trucks.
by incoming1211 | 2025-07-14 02:03:19+00:00
This isn't true at all. It's even stated in the article that TCM was popularized in the 50s. Prior to the 50s it was no different to medicine practiced anywhere else in the world before science figured out whats worked. Modern science extracted the specific elements from herbs and such that are effective and figured out dosages to apply. TCM is very much hit and miss. You're also not allowed to give it to children. Because they have no real idea of the dosage given.
by mariarezhylo | 2025-07-14 02:03:23+00:00
Using artificial intelligence, we analyze your athletic skills to match you with the best college athletic scholarships across NCAA Division I, Division II, and NAIA schools. Athletes contact only well-matched college coaches, improving response rates and avoiding wasted effort. By focusing on the right opportunities, including full-ride and partial scholarships, we help athletes maximize their financial aid and get a world-class college education.
by Qwertious | 2025-07-14 02:04:10+00:00
>Sure, but if the price of housing is too high then price controls won't fix it either. You'd end up with no availability

You're assuming a baseline of a functional market system.

If you have widespread price-fixing between landlords (say, via everyone using the same algorithm service that gives everyone the same recommendation) then rent control isn't introducing a price fix, it's just changing the level of price fixing.

If you can only rent for $X000, but the rent price is fixed to at least $X500, then for you, there might as well be no availability - the landlord is leaving the place vacant due to the price-fixing.
by emmelaich | 2025-07-14 02:04:36+00:00
I really hope they do it well. Some of the things that were new in Neuromancer are tropes these days. e.g. the payphone ringing, in the Matrix and more relevantly in Person of Interest.

It's going to be very hard to navigate between faithfulness to the book and still have it feel fresh.

That and inherent difficulty of taking Gibson's prose to the screen. Maybe it will be by voiceover.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-14 02:04:56+00:00
Wealth isn't "distributed" in a free market. People work and invest to get money in exchange.

Consider Jeff Bezos. He was roundly criticized for the profligacy of spending $80 million for his wedding. But look at it another way. He spread the wealth around by paying artisans, workers, craftsmen, photographers, travel agents, hotels, restaurateurs, etc.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-14 02:06:09+00:00
> this feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of how video game dialogue writing works.

Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft.

There are plenty of games where the whole story is driven by cut scenes.

There are plenty of games that shove your quests into their journal/pip boy to let you know how to drive game play.

Dont get me wrong, I loved Zork back in the day (and still do) but we have evolved past that and the tools to move us further could be there.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-14 02:06:32+00:00
The effects of the drug have helped me lose weight in two ways - one intentionally and one as a side effect.

The medication does make me feel fuller faster, so I eat less when I do eat, and I stay fuller longer. This helps me lose weight because it reduces the number of calories I consume.

The side effects make me feel so sick in those days after that I am effectively fasting all day (I have a small dinner, but keep drinking water so I don't dehydrate). That helps in losing weight.

That said, my original comment was meant slightly tongue in cheek - I know it is effective, but sometimes it's kind of darkly funny to think feeling bad from it is having the highest impact.
by maxbond | 2025-07-14 02:07:44+00:00
Let's say you get a notification from Facebook that an ex liked a post of yours from a year ago.

Were they authorized to do that? Sure. Is that creepy? Most people would find that creepy.

Everyone knows you could read every post that they ever put out there. There is an expectation that you know that's inappropriate.

I know that if I engage in discussion on the Internet, there's a good chance someone is going to get bent out of shape about something pretty innocuous I said. They have every right to do so. I still think they're a jerk every time. Is that a me problem? It's something I accept as a cost of doing business, but I think it's actually a them problem. (You've been perfectly civil, this isn't throwing shade, just an example I thought all of us could relate to.)

It is generally understood that we are able to do things that we probably shouldn't. Civil inattention makes the world go round.
by itake | 2025-07-14 02:08:17+00:00
Can you name them which countries this impacts?

China (basically) only has didi. Not much the USA can say here.

Southeast has Grab, and within each country there are at least 2 local competitors (Be, GoJek, Bolt, Line Man, Bluebird, etc). I believe Doordash just bought Deliveroo, making it the only American competitor in SEA.

In Europe, the main players are local food panda / Delivery hero and Just Eat.

India's winning food delivery is Swiggy.

What countries have both the talent to build a food delivery app and the USA is the dominant player?
by saratogacx | 2025-07-14 02:08:26+00:00
For drugs like these it isn't that different from a normal injection.

The pen has about 4 doses in it so you twist it to set your dose. You attach a needle tip to the pen and give yourself a poke, press an inject button on the top and a spring loaded ratchet system pumps in the dose amount you set (making a wonderful ticking noise as it progresses). Pull out and toss the needle and put it back in the fridge for next week.

I do manual injection which involves doing the full prep work. It takes about 3x as long to setup but is still only about a 3-5 minute process in total.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-14 02:08:41+00:00
I don't agree I'm not inclusive. I don't mind if other people have other opinions. I'm totally fine if they go to church, want to stay in the closet if they're gay etc. They're not doing themselves any favours but that's fine. I'm not trying to stop them from marrying.

Where it gets exclusive is trying to prevent other people from being what they are by campaigning for laws. The figurehead (not just any employee!) of an organisation that purports to be inclusive shouldn't be doing that. It's not opinions but limiting other people's rights that I have a problem with. It's the same reason I won't buy things from Musk.

When I said I was glad he left I was a bit harsh though, true. I would have been fine if he had stayed and disavowed his actions.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-14 02:08:59+00:00
It's typically a salad for lunch, usually lean protein over a complex carb for dinner (latest this week was slow cooked pulled chicken over brown rice), and typically a piece of fruit and a hard boiled egg for breakfast.

The hardest part about this diet for me has been finding sources of protein that get me at my goal with the small sizes of the meals I do eat.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-14 02:09:33+00:00
I'm not sure if that's the intent of everyone backing this; I think part of it amounts to parents who are legitimately worried. I may not agree with their means but I can understand that. I haven't personally met anyone who talked about baptizing the internet but that doesn't mean it isn't happening, and I'd oppose that.

I strongly agree with you on escapism and consumerism. I see pornography as a nasty end-stage manifestation of this, but not as the root issue. I've also seen peers spend way too much time rotting in front of netflix or tiktok or videogames, or addicted to shopping, or spending their money traveling to highly-instagrammable destinations and posting it. I have a huge beef with what you're describing, very true, and consumerist hellscape is a great characterization. Sticking with the drug analogy, I think it's like cocaine vs. fentanyl. It seems like many fewer people can consume is "recreationally" without some level of harm if they do it repeatedly over time. I also tend to key on it more because it so explicitly pertains to what I see as some of the most beautiful and sacred elements of creation (love, sex, marriage). But it's absolutely one manifestation of a greater issue.

I tend to agree with you that "purity culture" is bad and that America has a weirdly-victorian air about it that almost seems to tempt people more. I see alcohol as another example of this; I'd prefer my kids didn't drink until they were older and in the right place/at the right time, but our current set-up just makes most kids get blackout the first half-dozen times they drink.

To be honest, it's still not something I'd be comfortable sitting and discussing personally, but I think there's a difference between "not polite dinner-table conversation" and "God forbid anyone mentions it ever."

I agree with you that lawmakers don't care one whit about children, families, or people. I wish some of my fellow Christians weren't so quick to assume that "their guy" is actually going to fix anything, and see it as a way to disclaim responsibility for working on their own families and communities in particular. I think I've noticed more of this amongst my peer group, a basic distrust of particularly the federal and state governments across the political and ideological spectra. I hope this drives us to focus on fixing what we can. Work on our families rather than calling state assemblymen, work more to feed our homeless rather than expecting the feds to implement a perfect nationwide solution. And I hope rather than politicization, Christianity in America focuses more on the Second Great Commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
by dwattttt | 2025-07-14 02:09:59+00:00
> you can extrapolate that to an infinite set of colors in every single language and every single standard library, and the discussion on colors becomes meaningless.

It's more that discussion about most of them becomes meaningless, because they're trivial. We only care when it's hard to swap between "colours", so e.g. making it easy to call an Io function from a non-Io function "removes" the colouring problem.
by davidw | 2025-07-14 02:11:19+00:00
There was already money in preventing it. In a link I posted elsewhere about a hearing, the same people raised nearly $8,000 to try and stop one apartment building from going up in their neighborhood.

Not private equity, not 'tHe ChINesE' (or whichever 'bad' foreigners are currently in vogue), but wealthy local NIMBYs.
by _heimdall | 2025-07-14 02:12:32+00:00
I'm not sure how this would fall under a pedantry label. If we are okay assuming that a medication used widely for other age groups is safe for infants, why bother with an incomplete study that was never designed to produce statistically significant results?

The study is only useful if it can show safety and efficacy of the dosage levels for the test population. I'm not trying to argue that the study was even necessary if the safety and efficacy can be implied, only that if the study is to be done it should at least be setup with a chance of proving the needed results.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-14 02:12:34+00:00
For me it's those horrible cloudflare and recaptcha things. I get them soooo much. And also that stupid cloudflare "We're checking if you're human" page.

I am on Linux though. Perhaps Firefox on Windows or Mac fares better. But these problems are from the last year or two and don't happen in chromium also on Linux.
by alganet | 2025-07-14 02:12:45+00:00
You are mixing hypothetical scenarios with reality.

My argument was to inform high value targets first, since they are more at risk and capable of developing a fix.

I also argued for slowing down the development of technology that can help infiltrators.

Go back, read the discussion, see how far you are from the simple truth. Someone is making IT companies paranoid, either on purpose or by mistake. Probably, by greed or as a consequence to it.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-14 02:13:26+00:00
I wouldn't trust a compounding pharmacy with making this given some of the truly horrible horror stories I've heard, and I'm on it primarily for type 2 diabetes. This is the minimal dose that keeps my A1c and blood sugar where my internal medicine doctor wants them. The weight loss is a welcome side effect. That said, I have lost about 120 lbs in the last two years, so something I was doing before I got on Mounjaro was working. Mounjaro just helped make it consistent.

tbqh being extremely overweight sucks in a whole lot of ways. While the side effects sound miserable, they will only be temporary. The damage done to my body and metabolism as a result of being this heavy for this long piles up every day, so if I have to suffer like this then I'd rather do that than have a stroke and die in front of my family.
by conradev | 2025-07-14 02:13:46+00:00
Yeah, that totally makes sense!

It is revealing: I went to same PCP for the first 18 years of my life and he was incredible as a doctor. He ran his own practice. He was also a great IT admin: he managed his own records, paid to digitize all of them including mine. If he betrayed that trust I’d be sad.

But I hear you. A product just needs to come along that provides some benefit, or the practice could be acquired, etc
by massysett | 2025-07-14 02:13:57+00:00
“That value is exponentiated each time a note is shared.”

I disagree, I write notes for my eyes only. They would be less useful, not more, if I shared them: I world have to make sure others understand it, and would need to censor it to avoid offense.

A note that will be shared is called email, or a social media post, not a note. A note is for personal use. This notion of a note being more valuable if shared is baffling to me.
Ask HN: As an app developer, how can you generate passive income?
by ppkkK | 2025-07-14 02:14:09+00:00
As a developer,i am facing issues like:

1. Ads disrupting immersive gameplay, leading to poor retention and user feedback

2. Low in-app purchase conversion rates that only capture a small portion of users

3. Subscription models that are hard to scale globally and may cause user churn A fellow developer recommended PacketSDK to me: [https://www.packetsdk.com/?utm-source=PjPm64ou] It's a free monetization tool that pays based on user active time — no ads, no disruption to the user experience. Sounds perfect for apps that focus on user engagement and retention.

Anyone here thinking of giving it a try? Want to test it together?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-14 02:15:30+00:00
Followed here from your link on one of my other comments. Would you not agree that the bottom 95% of Americans have poor mortality versus most Europeans, based on this data? Comparing rich Americans to rich Europeans is not very compelling (as you mention); comparing most Americans to most Europeans (by wealth) is. The rich will do well regardless of where they are, as they are internationally mobile for the purposes of consuming healthcare services. Therefore, we should not be including them for comparison of majority outcomes.
by wging | 2025-07-14 02:16:57+00:00
Just a labeling issue. If you click on the 5k you get a detail popup on the right that says 5 miles, which is much more in line with several of the other times.

5 miles is not that uncommon a race distance in the US; 8k is very close, but you can still find both. (There are much fewer 3-mile or 6-mile races, those are mostly all 5ks and 10ks.) Though it's unclear if it was an organized race.

edit: it probably wasn't an organized race, there's a separate "races" tab.
Ask HN: What million dollar questions do you want answers for?
by sandwichsphinx | 2025-07-14 02:17:45+00:00
Whenever a new SOTA model drops, I ask if it can solve one of the millennium prize problems or tell us who was Satoshi Nakamoto.

What other concrete questions do you want answers for?

(Nothing silly like "what's the meaning of life" -> "42")
by therein | 2025-07-14 02:18:27+00:00
I am getting the feeling that this is not as inspiring as you think it is. I know you will be like oh it is so deep that you don't get it but I really think that's not the case. The scope is captured like one would expect and functions are resolved. It doesn't matter that it happens to be after it. So what? Runtime isn't eval-time.
by eviks | 2025-07-14 02:18:28+00:00
> But I'm sure you know what is meant...

Not really, you've explicitly said this

> Yet it's still more customizable for users than Chrome/ium is

And then rejected the fitting comparison: Firefox (the browser) is not more customizable than Chromium-Vivaldi (the browser)

I also don't see how the engine used for page rendering is relevant when discussing UI