MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dumbledoren | 2025-07-11 16:18:21+00:00
> Japan's economy is in trouble, and the tourist money helps and hurts at the same time. It creates tax revenue, yet inflates prices for locals

I lived in a successful major tourist region from its inception to maturity. You are incorrect in saying that it creates tax revenue: The Tourism sector generally gets tax breaks and subsidies, so it ends up eating up tax revenue to enrich whatever oligarchic structure or family dominates the landscape. Moreover, in any mild temporary crisi,s it risks collapsing and forces the government to bail it out by spending enormous amounts of money.

Tourism is like a tick that sucks away the productive forces and resources of a country - it diverts both budget (tax breaks, subsidies) and educated manpower away from actual goods and services production, provides sh*t jobs to those employed in tourism, causes inflation and CoL rise across regions and even the entire country. If you want to cripple a country's industrial and technological power, the best thing to do is to push tourism on it.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-11 16:18:22+00:00
It's practically never malicious intent from engineers, but that's not even the justification for prosecution. It's criminal incompetence.

Engineers are held to high standards of safety over their works. In Canada they can opt to swear an oath, similar to the Hyppocratic, that they recognize the moral weight of their career on other's wellbeing. In most developed countries there are specific licenses that imply added judgmental weight on their work; simply having an engineering degree isn't even enough to legally call oneself an "engineer" in some jurisdictions.

I'm not saying the bosses aren't equally guilty, but the footsoldiers who chose to carry out those "illegal" orders are, in this case, very specifically trained and warned to not do so.
by throwawayoldie | 2025-07-11 16:18:46+00:00
The tipoff is how at the very start they casually talk about the "Methuselah Treatment" in a tone that suggests that it's such a well-known thing that they don't need to explain the first thing about what it is.

After all, if it turned out there was a reliable treatment that extended human lifespan to 1000 years, it would be the biggest news since...well, ever. Or maybe second to "SINGULARITY EXPLODES IN 'BIG BANG': MATTER, ENERGY NOW EXIST".
by strken | 2025-07-11 16:18:47+00:00
My woodworking teacher in highschool was missing two fingers on his right hand. I don't think anyone is 100% safe around tools, child or adult, educated or otherwise. Life's about risks and how you manage them.

Which is not to say that kids can't be trusted to use tools! It's just that they're probably more vulnerable to overconfidence and complacency than adults, who are by no means safe from these things themselves, so it's probably better to let them cut themselves once or twice on a sharp knife before you let them use something with more permanent consequences, like a bandsaw.
by bill_joy_fanboy | 2025-07-11 16:18:48+00:00
> This is mostly used incompetently, but occasionally used maliciously.

It can also just be a good heuristic. If a person or group/org with a reputation for dishonesty tells you an "idea", it's reasonable to throw shade.

> I think I see this most commonly in politics, where if <obviously bad> person supports an idea, then that idea must be also bad.

The conclusion is not always this direct, but it is completely reasonable to question ~why~ the obviously bad person holds that idea. What do they gain from pushing the agenda? Some people are so intellectually dishonest that everything they say is suspect.
by duxup | 2025-07-11 16:18:49+00:00
These kinds of assumptions about fraud always make me wonder about the folks in charge.

I was at a company acquired by silicon valley company. Our tech support department was folded into another tech support department. Immediately the folks in the valley were upset that we closed more cases / had far higher customer satisfaction scores ... by far. They made no secret that they assumed that us mid-westerners doing the same job had to be inferior at the same job.

Eventually a pool of managers in the valley developed a full blown conspiracy theory that we were cooking the books by making fake cases and so on. It just had to be that right? No other explanation.

They finally got someone in an outside department to look into it. They found folks closing cases prematurely and even duplicating cases. The people doing it all worked for the managers pointing fingers at everyone else ...

Sometimes the folks who talk about fraud think those things because that's how they work.
by lproven | 2025-07-11 16:18:50+00:00
Good for you.

I've been doing tech support since 1988. I've seen many many PCs with hundreds of apps, some maybe heading into thousands, sometimes with custom hackery to get different versions running in parallel and stuff.

Yes this is a thing. It is common.

And the typical user does not know what an "app" is, or what OS they are using. I've lost count of the number of people that told me their computer was running Word or Office (not Windows), or who think they access the Web via Google because they don't know what a web browser is.

Here is some proof, in case you don't believe me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

If you can name the 20 apps you use the most often, you are the elite of the elite, the top 1% of 1% of computer users.

Normal people are not like that. They don't know what they use or what it's called or what OS they run or what an "OS" is, and they outnumber us by approximately a million to one.
by graemep | 2025-07-11 16:19:17+00:00
> to principles of buddhism like "be nice, be compassionate, to both yourself and others"

Principles shared with most religions and most non-religious people are hardly a mrk of Buddhism.

Buddhism is not a theistic religion, but it still requires a lot of religious beliefs (reincarnation, enlightenment, nirvana) and a lot of concepts such as detachment.

There is a BIG difference between "not monotheistic" and "not religious".
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by speak_plainly | 2025-07-11 16:19:34+00:00
The cynic in me thinks that destinations/countries are going to have to pay an influencer tax and have a strong social media policy that works to direct/redirect and educate potential tourists. Japan needs to start spreading tourism a bit more evenly across the country. They could probably work with hotels to use pricing to even out visitors. But you’re right, this is a huge problem that goes well beyond Japan.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-11 16:19:39+00:00
> Tech savy windows users that are trying out Apple are finding that it very much doesnt 'Just Work' anymore, and that sentiment is starting to creep out more and more.

Even with all the faults and degrading quality, it's still above any of proprietary alternatives, particularly Windows. I'm running the Tahoe developer beta, and in comparison to my Arm surface laptop 7, it's still light years better. I have no problems with Bluetooth, which is an endless struggle on Windows. I don't deal with windows update failures, windows installer service crashing and requiring a PC restart to install an MSI (happens constantly on the Arm devices), I don't have copilot being shoved down my throat, I'm not nagged to start an Office trial, or redirect my folders to OneDrive, or have ads in my app menu, etc.

Even Apple at its lowest is still a better experience than the alternatives because the alternatives just suck worse, and have chosen the path of data harvesting and monetizing the hell out of its user base over anything else.
by gmanley | 2025-07-11 16:19:59+00:00
The RAM has always been the biggest issue, for me. I'd almost always prefer to have my larger data on an external system. In my case an NAS or several RAID enclosures. Having the data "mobility" is important. My normal workflow is to have my active work on the system in question and then move it back forth as I finish or swap projects. In recent years, I have never maxed out my storage on my Macs. To be fair, I don't work with a bunch of 4K video editing, or other huge datasets, so maybe that's where it becomes more of a problem.
by dumbledoren | 2025-07-11 16:20:47+00:00
'Globe trotting' has been 'democraticized' only for the top income earners from the high-income countries. The rest of the world is not able to globe trot. Combined with digital nomadism, golden visas et al, this 'democratization' is a new form of colonization in which the high CoL countries' people can literally buy out poorer countries' most desirable regions or set themselves up as an aristocratic elite on top of the locals.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-11 16:21:00+00:00
> You are bringing your own interpretation here.

Yeah, that's how/why implying things works. Darkly whispering "Bob is always hanging out with underage girls and buying them expensive gifts" implies a conclusion. It is intended to cause you to "bring your own interpretation".

"Human for reference" heavily implies it should be considered a useful reference. There's no point to it otherwise!

Nah. I'll keep flagging undisclosed low-value AI posts like this. It appears others agree.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-11 16:21:32+00:00
With the recent federal block of click to cancel, states implementing this will be the way to go.

> Both bills passed the House with broad bipartisan support. If the legislation is agreed to by the state Senate and signed by Gov Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania would join several other states that have moved to create such laws over the past year since the FTC began working on its now-defunct rule.

> New York, California, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Virginia have all enacted state-level policies that include provisions similar to Ciresi and Borowski’s bills.

If you live in a state that has not passed such legislation, I would encourage you to hound your reps until they do. 45 states to go.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-11 16:21:48+00:00
I still have a smartphone, but I barely have any apps on it. I literally have a handful of email apps and two weather apps and that's it.

So yeah, I have a smartphone, but I barely use it compared to how I used to use it even 5 years ago. By unplugging, I've found myself way more productive. I'm reading two or three books a month now. Its an amazing feeling knowing you can drive what you want to do instead of having social media driving your life, manipulating you into using it more and more and not feeling like you're in control.

I've essentially logged off and I really don't miss it. I feel like I can't be the only one.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 16:21:49+00:00
Lots of people who want to read Norvig’s Principles of AI Programming (show up in the big discussion) who don’t know Norvig says it would be great to work the examples of that book in Python. Lisp cultism is part of the problem today because it keeps people from understanding the real genius of the Art of the Meta-Object Protocol or why Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming proved more durable than Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by msluyter | 2025-07-11 16:21:54+00:00
Is anyone arguing "all fringe ideas must be false" or, conversely, "widely accepted ideas are true?" That's basically just argumentum ad populum, and I don't think that's the argument of the paper. Rather, it's that those with fringe ideas tend to be over-confident in their beliefs.

IME, a scientific/empirical mindset tends to lead one to a state of epistemological modesty, in which few things are unassailably true, and beliefs are provisional until disproven. One crucial feature of that mindset is the notion of falsifiability. Knowing if/how ideas may be falsified helps one avoid leaping down conspiracy rabbit holes. <- (A likely unfalsifiable statement!)
by bokoharambe | 2025-07-11 16:21:56+00:00
I really don't think it's about social media. Conspiracy theories were a big deal on the leadup to the French revolution (look up the Famine Pact and the Great Fear), and there was no social media back then.

The conversation that no one wants to have is that American society is in a similar process of collapse, and conspiratorial thinking is only gaining traction because no one trusts that the state holds the general interest anymore. The real social challenge to overcome is government legitimacy.

If in our time conspiracies are perpetuated because of for-profit incentives, it is only because profit is what our society is structured around at a fundamental level. When the time for collapse has come, it brings itself into being by means of any and all existing institutions.

EDIT: and for the record, it's not about cognitive biases either. No one here has a real historical perspective.
by daneel_w | 2025-07-11 16:22:08+00:00
Contrary to popular belief, you can run many different off-the-shelf brand NVMe drives on all of the NVMe-fitted Intel Macs. All you need is a passive adapter. My 2017 MacBook Air has a 250GB WD Blue SN570 in it.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2015-mac...
by foldr | 2025-07-11 16:22:14+00:00
No, the Post Office doesn't have its own "law enforcement" (if you mean something like a police force) or its own judges.

Any company has the right to bring a private prosecution under UK law, and this was the basis for the prosecutions in question. It just means that the company pays for some of the costs involved.

Whether or not private prosecutions should be allowed is certainly a legitimate topic of discussion. Let's not muddy the waters with misinformation about the Post Office having some kind of parallel police and courts system. It just doesn't.
by viccis | 2025-07-11 16:22:23+00:00
Part of the problem is that most of these social media platforms have abandoned the "social media" paradigm entirely (which is to say, a platform that lets you interact and stay in touch with people you know via the internet) and shifted to an enshittified attention economy monster that turns users into content producers and content consumers, not always of content that has anything to do with socializing. It seems like this author is effectively struggling with marketing in the attention economy. It sucks, but honestly this just sounds like the same challenge that marketing has been grappling with for ages.
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by throwawayHpCvfn | 2025-07-11 16:23:08+00:00
Me: "Hey, I survived a suicide attempt several years ago, and I appreciate it when people who know the negative history behind 'committing suicide' say something else, because it shows that they care."

You (pre-edit): "The problem many of us see with saying 'unalived by suicide' rather than 'committed suicide' is the artificiality of the sentence and the implication that the language we speak has to keep up with the correct newspeak due to the latest euphemistic moral cleansing lest we appear uncouth and uncultured."

My point stands.
by Balgair | 2025-07-11 16:23:08+00:00
Lots of hot takes here in the comments. I think that reading the paper is more informative than just reading these comments (something I am often guilty of).

My thoughts on the paper:

These are economists, not demographers or social workers. Their tools are crude for this task and they acknowledge that many times in the article.

Honestly, the abstract is well written and covers a lot of what other HNers are saying here. But I'll just quote it again anyways:

"We review existing research and conclude that period-based explanations focused on short-term changes in income or prices cannot explain the widespread decline. Instead, the evidence points to a broad reordering of adult priorities with parenthood occupying a diminished role. We refer to this phenomenon as “shifting priorities” and propose that it likely reflects a complex mix of changing norms, evolving economic opportunities and constraints, and broader social and cultural forces. We review emerging evidence on all these factors. We conclude the paper with suggestions for future research and a brief discussion of policy implications."

These policy implications are at the very end of the paper and don't really amount to much:

"That said, we do have a better understanding of the kinds of policies that could make a difference. Policies that encourage births today may simply lead to a retiming of births, resulting in a short-term increase in births but no lasting effect on population trends. To be effective at boosting completed fertility, policies must influence the decisions women make early in their reproductive lives. Interventions targeting women well into their childbearing years are less likely to have large effects, as many life choices will have already been made. This may explain why past empirical studies often fail to find large effects of pro-natalist policies. Our review of the evidence also suggests that incremental policy changes or interventions are unlikely to have sizable effects, and boosting fertility will likely require much larger changes that alter the lifetime calculation to have and raise a child or multiple children given prevailing options, constraints, and social norms. "

What I think this paper adds to the pro-natalist discussion is that, yes, this is a really hard question with no easy answers or fixes. If it is a recipe that we must follow to get a higher birthrate, then it is not stir-fry but rather lobster thermidor. The one thing that we can say is that delaying childbirth is likely to be bad for fertility. But there are little resources for how to address that.

Good paper overall and well worth the read if you are into this pro-natalist stuff. Not a lot of new data, but a great summary of the economist viewpoint of the problem and it's tenacity.
by dsego | 2025-07-11 16:23:20+00:00
I recently paid 60 euros to get my 14" m1 macbook cleaned, it was extremely dusty inside, so much so that the left fan started making strange squealing noises and then a pinging sonar-type sound every few seconds. Luckily with the combination of the fan control app and the built in apple diagnostic tool I managed to determine it was probably the fan and brought it to the local service shop to disassemble and clean. Now the only things left are to replace the original battery which is at 75% and replace the rustling speaker which was damaged by ants getting inside through the vents and chewing on it.
by throw0101c | 2025-07-11 16:23:43+00:00
> Patents were probably a good reason, given the Oracle buyout of Sun

There is no reason to speculate as the reason is know (as stated by Jeff Bonwick, one of the co-inventors of ZFS):

>> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms.

> I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

* https://archive.is/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs...

* https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pi...
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-11 16:23:55+00:00
> I guess the branding and marketing worked.

Indeed; I remember watching one of their tech sessions around the Next.js 12 to 13 release and then watching a Microsoft one. One was very clearly a marketing ad.

We shortly ditched Next.js afterwards because of how janky the whole DX was the entire time and how much worse it was during the transition.

Now I'm back in a Next.js 15 project and it's amazing that the DX somehow feels even worse!
by dang | 2025-07-11 16:24:47+00:00
> as you are for sure aware

> Why lie?

Whoa—that's way too aggressive for this forum and definitely against the site guidelines. Could you please review them (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and take the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd appreciate it. You can always make your substantive points while doing that.

Note this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
by ximu | 2025-07-11 16:24:51+00:00
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by michael1999 | 2025-07-11 16:25:42+00:00
It's incremental, and goes back to things like clocks.

Imagine a witness says "I saw him go into the bank at 11:20. I know the time because I looked up at the clock tower, and it said 11:20".

Defence argues "The clock must have been wrong. My client was at lunch with his wife by 11:15".

Clocks are simple enough that we can presume them to correct, unless you can present evidence that they are unreliable.

This presumption was extended to ever-more complicated machines over the years. And then (fatally) this presumption was extended to the rise of PROGRAMMABLE computers. It is the programmability of computers that makes them unreliable. The actual computer hardware rarely makes an error that isn't obvious as an error.

The distinction of software and hardware is a relatively recent concept for something as old as common law.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-07-11 16:25:52+00:00
> an "unauthorized" modification of your own computer and void the warranty to install it

Citation needed. This modification doesn't look to me at all like it'd void the warranty unless you damage the machine while you do the installation.

If you need to make a warranty claim, you should of course reinstall the factory one before you do so, since the vendor doesn't expect users to replace that and won't have any practices of looking/removing so they can return it to you if you take your machine in for service with a non-Apple card there.

But voiding your warranty for this has been roundly rejected, in the US at least, as long as you don't damage your equipment by doing it.
by grantsingleton | 2025-07-11 16:26:05+00:00
The ai content should be created within an hour but sometimes it takes up to 24 hours. I'm thinking about adding a notification system. Im looking right now and all papers have content generated so whatever paper you added should be ready.

No search feature yet but the home page shows latest research in the order it was published so you can find the latest hot papers that way.