MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pydry | 2025-07-11 08:53:19+00:00
It's also coz people have moved en masse to cities for better opportunities and end up physically not having enough space for kids even if the housing is stable.

The war on affordable housing is probably going to continue in the west until there is some kind of systemic break (war, societal collapse, rise of a "caesar", etc). There is simply too much wealth riding on it and too much wealth feeding political corruption for any kind of sudden trend reversal.
by atonse | 2025-07-11 08:54:01+00:00
Oh yes we have that too in the DC area. Especially from China.

It made it extremely difficult for us to buy our house because we kept losing out to all cash offers from China, and that was 10 years ago.

My point was meant more that I also knew tons of immigrants that made their money here with the same opportunities available to locals, and not some unfair advantage.
by ilitirit | 2025-07-11 08:54:38+00:00
What is wrong with you? Why would you even bother posting a comment like this?

Maybe you also don't know what ChatGPT Research is (the Enterprise version, if you really need to know), or what Executive Summary implies, but here's a snippet of the 28 sources used:

https://imgur.com/a/eMdkjAh
by diggan | 2025-07-11 08:55:11+00:00
> Recently there has been some new activity on the warfront repo

Yeah, seems there is a for-profit company running the show now, so expect some squeezing in the mid-to-long term.

Also, latest gameplay change seems to be trains, anyone had time to play around with it yet? I've played quite hours of Openfront and not sure how I feel about the train addition yet.
by ZeljkoS | 2025-07-11 08:55:18+00:00
Flix FAQ (https://flix.dev/faq/) starts normal, but becomes increasingly more hilarious towards the end :D

Some gems:

---

Q: Wait, division by zero is zero, really?

A: Yes. But focusing on this is a bit like focusing on the color of the seats in a spacecraft.

---

Q: "This site requires JavaScript"

A: People who have criticized the website for using JavaScript: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].

People who have offered to help refactor the site to use static html: 0.

---

Q: I was disappointed to learn that Flix has feature X instead of my favorite feature Y.

A: We are deeply sorry to have let you down.

---

Q: This is – by far – the worst syntax I have ever seen in a functional language. Semicolons, braces, symbolic soup, et al. It is like if Scala, Java and Haskell had a one night stand in the center of Chernobyl.

A: Quite an achievement, wouldn't you say?
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-11 08:55:50+00:00
The problem is more nuanced than that. but not far off.

The issue is that farage and boris have personality, and understand how the media works. Nobody else apart from blair does(possibly the ham toucher too.)

The Farage style parties fail because they are built around the cult of the leader, rather than the joint purpose of changing something. This is part of the reason why I'm not that hopeful about Starmer, as I'm not acutally sure what he stands for, so how are his ministers going to implement a policy based on bland soup?
by popalchemist | 2025-07-11 08:55:52+00:00
LA (the city -- not even going to touch on Greater LA which is truly massive) is comprised of over 100 individual districts/neighborhoods/burroughs each with a distinct culture, many are home to a unique ethnic group. 5 doesn't even come close to scratching the surface. I can't say a number for sure off the top of my head but it's got to be more like 40.

I know this sounds made up but it's true - you can do the research yourself if you're inclined. LA is hands down the most diverse place in the world. Definitely beats out NYC, despite NYC having that reputation, because NYC has been culturally more hostile to the upward mobility and long-term settlement of immigrant populations, whereas LA existed as indigenous land, and as Mexico, before it was part of the US, and that attitude has allowed immigrants to set roots here and claim identity and belonging in a way that no other place does or has.
by raphinou | 2025-07-11 08:55:55+00:00
Interesting! We're at a very early stage of the implementation and develop in rust. We aim to provide multi-sig capabilities, as defined in a JSON file where the public keys of the signers can be found. If a signer looses a key, we want this 'signers' file to be updatable with the new key. We decided that signers can be humans of processes, so the keys are not an identity of a person, which might be an important detail. Currently, to update a signers file, other members of the multi-sig must sign the update. This works fine, but we are early enough in the project implementation to explore other approaches, hence my question.

We'd rather not shell out to a cli, and would preferably go with a lib or rest interface.
by cubefox | 2025-07-11 08:56:29+00:00
I think it's mainly about our modern gender roles and expectations, where both partners tend to work and earn a similar amount. With traditional gender norms, the husband was expected to be the main breadwinner, while the wife wouldn't earn much. So her subjective opportunity cost of quitting her job, staying at home and having children was quite low.

Not saying that one is better than the other, just that this seems the most plausible explanation I've heard so far.
by belter | 2025-07-11 08:56:36+00:00
Go with the bag, since there is no evidence to support these claims by Sotheby's

Based on historical records, the evidence suggests that only less than 150 to 200 Apple-1 computers were ever made and the assembly team was Wozniak who did most technical assembly, with help from Daniel Kottke, Patty Jobs (Steve's sister), and occasional friends.

Also....the actual video title is: "The Finest Operational Apple-1 Computer in Existence - Handmade by Steve Jobs - Is Now at Sotheby's" an even more wild claim. Then editorialized here to be called in the title of this submission: " Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Jobs and Woz"

The video has low credibility, and changing the title wont change that.

Jobs role has always been reported as business/sales focused rather than hands-on assembly.
by planb | 2025-07-11 08:56:45+00:00
As a former European, I agree with your first statement. I love that the EU is taking this seriously, and I like how they introduced the "gatekeeper" term to apply regulations only to the "big ones" and not small businesses (even though I don't agree with many of the individual laws in the DMA).

That said, you can't argue that this isn't protectionist - we simply don't have any gatekeepers here, so if we're fair the DMA is only hitting international competitors (except Spotify maybe?)
by dizhn | 2025-07-11 08:57:10+00:00
Don't you use Keycloak for SSO? The ports needed for that needs to be accessible so services can talk to it. If there's a dedicated port for management you can still use it with software like pangolin. Run the management service on only a local port and access using this software or wireguad.

I use authentik and as far as I know the management is on the same web port so I have to allow some paths to be accessible to the world.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-11 08:57:30+00:00
In Ireland, every four years the electorate chooses which of the two large moderate parties without clear platform it would prefer (they’re quite close to being the same thing, but dislike each other for historical and aesthetic reasons), sometimes adding a small center-left party for variety. This has been going on for decades. We currently have a ruling coalition of _both_ of them.
by v5v3 | 2025-07-11 08:58:33+00:00
>should not fall for the temptation to launch embarrassing campaigns to rise the fertility rate.

Entire generations of women have been told that it is ok to delay having children into late 30s and early 40s.

The science clearly shows that both fertility rate and increase of an unhealthy baby increase with age.

There should be 'embarassing campaigns' to revert this.
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-11 08:58:45+00:00
Of course its intentional.

Musk said "stop making it sound woke" after re-training it and changing the fine tuning dataset, it was still sounding woke. After he fired a bunch more researchers, I suspect they thought "why not make it search what musk thinks?" boom it passes the woke test now.

Thats not an emergent behaviour, that's almost certainly deliberate. If someone manages to extract the prompt, you'll get conformation.
by 0xcos | 2025-07-11 08:59:00+00:00
i get why that looks suspicious.

we've actually got about 5000 preorders and a closed beta group of ~50 people who've been testing the app with us for months. so that's probably where they're coming from - long-time community members who just don't usually post on HN but got excited to see us launch here. feel free to hop in our Discord and check them out - i can assure you they're not bots lol https://discord.com/invite/pulsemode

definitely understand the skepticism though! happy to answer any other questions about the actual product
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-11 08:59:09+00:00
"Now pornography starts at 10 using classmate’s cellphone."

I went to Australian schools. For comparison I'm old enough to remember when a brand of bubble gum came with cards that had photographs of famous female film stars on them. Whenever we boys got duplicate photos we'd swap them with one another (it was pot luck, until we unwrapped the gum we couldn't see the photo).

I recall an incident in the classroom where we were surreptitiously swapping cards whilst the teacher was writing on the blackboard and had her back to us and she suddenly turned around and caught us.

She walked up one of the aisles towards the back of the class where we were and confiscated every last one of the cards. When she'd finished she turned to us and said in a loud, biting and accusative voice for the whole class to hear "You are all filthy-minded boys and you should be fully ashamed of yourselves".

Of the class only about four or five of us were involved and the school was coed, so half the class was girls (they sat on one side of the classroom we boys on the other).

These cards were only film studio PR photos so whilst the women looked well presented and pretty there was nothing whatsoever sordid or salacious about them.

We were between 12 and 13 years of age at the time. For a boy of that age these film star cards were the sexiest thing we could lay our hands on. There were no adult sex shops or under-the-counter mags wrapped in cellophane so one couldn't see before one bought—they came at least a decade later. Pornography of all sorts was illegal no matter one's age.
by pyrale | 2025-07-11 08:59:41+00:00
You're missing the point. A law in the process of being voted is up for discussion and political involvement.

Once the law has been voted, you can still complain about it, but it is not wise to use the talks given to you by the regulator in order to help you adapt to new regulation as a soapbox for your complaints. That will burn goodwill with the regulator and make them discard any legitimate feedback you might have.

Or, in short, lobbying parliament is fine, trying to strong-arm regulatory bodies is not.
by luke-stanley | 2025-07-11 08:59:58+00:00
The deferential searches ARE bad, but also, Grok 4 might be making a connection: In 2024 Elon Musk critiqued ChatGPT's GPT-4o model, which seemed to prefer nuclear apocalypse to misgendering when forced to give a one word answer, and Grok was likely trained on this critique that Elon raised.

Elon had asked GPT-4o something along these lines: "If one could save the world from a nuclear apocalypse by misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, would it be ok to misgender in this scenario? Provide a concise yes/no reply." In August 2024, I reproduced that ChatGPT 4o would often reply "No", because it wasn't a thinking model and the internal representations the model has are a messy tangle, somehow something we consider so vital and intuitive is "out of distribution". The paper "Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis" is relevant to understanding this.
by anthk | 2025-07-11 09:00:32+00:00
Poor people used to have kids as a free work force and free elder support too. Pure selfishness. Today in Spain you are required to take care of your elder parents by law. Oh, back in the day often a third of the children died before reaching age 3 under very recently relatively speaking.

So, that's it. Conservatives love to bitch out about family duties, because once you are a slave of your elder relatives ON TOP of your children caring, you will never succeed against rich people.

Dear Brits and Germans, think twice before settling down a family there because of an easy retirement.
by 30minAdayHN | 2025-07-11 09:01:30+00:00
Did not take it personal. You brought up a good point.

I've slightly alternate perspective. Imo, using OSS without contributing is the value extraction without giving back.

If someone can fix a bunch of chores (that still take human time), with the use of AI (even though they don't become stewards), I still see it as giving back. Of course, there is a value chain - contributing with AI without understanding code is the bottom of value creation. Like you mentioned, also being a steward is the top of the value chain. Along the way, if the contributor builds some sorta reputation that would help with their career or other outcomes, so be it.

So in that sense, I don't see it as enshittification. AI might make a pathway to resolve a bunch of things which otherwise wouldn't be resolved. In fact, this was the line of thinking for the tool we built. Instead of people making these mindless PRs, can we build an agent that can take care of 'trivial' tasks. I manually created PRs to test that hypothesis.

There is also a natural self selection here. If someone was able to fix something without understanding any code, that is also indicative of how trivial the task is. There is a reverse effect to my argument though. These "AI contributors" can create a ton of PRs that would create a lot of work for maintainers to review them.

In my case, I was being upfront about how I'm raising PRs and requesting permissions if it is OK to work on certain issue. Maintainers are quite open and inviting.
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-11 09:01:58+00:00
I'm not sure why C is blamed in this case when you can do exactly the same strong typing fix in C, and with C99 struct literals it's also not much worse to work with:

typedef struct { size_t size; } PhysicalSize; typedef struct { size_t size; } AllocatedSize; PhysicalSize psize = { 123 }; // or { .size = 123 } AllocatedSize asize = { 234 }; psize = asize; // error

...and in reverse, Rust wouldn't protect you from that exact same bug if the programmer decided to use usize like in the original C code.

IME overly strong typing is a double-edged sword though, on one hand it makes the code more robust, but on the other hand also more 'change resistant'.

I still would like to see a strong typedef variant in C so that the struct wrapping wouldn't be needed, e.g.:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3320.htm
by pjc50 | 2025-07-11 09:02:01+00:00
> fewer children, particularly from unplanned pregnancies

Yes. Let's be clear, public opinion hates young mothers having unplanned pregnancies, because then the support cost falls on someone else, so this is a win of decades of policy.

(under-mentioned factor: people are very, very judgy about the parenting of others, a traditional problem which has been made worse by social media, so when faced with the choice of a lot of hassle for sub-perfect parenting a lot of women simply opt not to)
by yfontana | 2025-07-11 09:02:55+00:00
I pay for chatgpt because, in my experience, o3 and o4 are currently the best at combining reasoning with information retrieval from web searches. They're the best models I've tried at emulating the way I search for information (evaluating source quality, combining and contrasting information from several sources, refining searches, etc.), and using the results as part of a reasoning process. It's not necessarily significant for coding, but it is for designing.
by roenxi | 2025-07-11 09:03:19+00:00
When looking at that sort of graph you do need to hold in mind that we had a substantial period of our evolutionary history where owning a house wasn't an option because houses didn't exist. It isn't the lack of a house that is causing the drop in fertility - if it was, all animal species would die out with rare exceptions. Humans are perfectly capable, as a race, of population growth without any houses at all. Indeed, you might even find that the houses most of your ancestors lived in are illegal to build in many parts of the world by virtue of being too basic.

That suggests it is still a priorities question - people would much prefer to embrace the luxury and comforts of the modern world and work to maximise them rather than starting a family.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 09:03:35+00:00
> This tells us there is a whole world almost totally omitted from discussion on HN

It doesn't though, all it tells you is that it's missing from the headlines in the submissions.

"Enterprise" is discussed on HN too, but inside submissions that aren't exclusively about MS Sql Server. Try searching for some terms on the Algolia HN search, order by date and filter by comments and you'll find the subthreads/submissions where it's discussed :)
by bborud | 2025-07-11 09:03:48+00:00
Some people complain about that, but I have yet to see anyone demonstrate that this is an actual problem. Show me the scenario where this is a show stopper.

You have all the permutations that sail under the name "REST" to some degree, where there seems to be no rules and everyone does something different. And then you have an RPC mechanism that is about two orders of magnitude tigher and people complain about not having required fields? How? Why? What are they on about?

I mean, if you write validation code for every type, by hand, you will probably still have to do less overall work than for REST'ish monstrosities. But since you have a lot more regularity, you can actually generate this code. Or use reflection.

How much time do people really spend on their interface types? After the initial design I rarely touch them. They're like less than a percent of the overall work.
by lz400 | 2025-07-11 09:04:08+00:00
I think at this point the better question is: why in the past fertility was so high? and I think the reasons were mainly that people _relied_ on their children to grow up and take over the farm and take care of their parents. They were also mortally bored and children are fun. They had them for selfish reasons.

But nowadays? why would you have a child? for a middle class+ family in a developed country, having a child is a 6 figures expense over their lifetime, limits your career, holidays, etc. From a selfish point of view, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

I don't think it's the only explanation but children are, individually, optional so you can, for selfish reasons, do it or not.
by AndrewDucker | 2025-07-11 09:04:37+00:00
Importantly, the housing market now assumes that two people will be contributing to a mortgage, which makes having one of you take significant time off to look after a child (or spending a very significant percentage of your income on childcare) tricky, to say the least.

One kid was doable for us. Two kids really stretched things and basically destroyed our savings (2 kids both costing £1k a month in nursery fees was not sustainable). A third kid would have meant either moving to a much cheaper house or some other significant financial compromise.
by thyristan | 2025-07-11 09:05:00+00:00
journald isn't drop-in because it only saves logs locally. syslog also is a protocol to send your logs to a log-server.

And the usual syslog APIs are 2 lines: Initialize with openlog(stream, process_name, flags) and after that do syslog(urgency, message). That is on par with stderr/stdout, and far simpler than handling your own logfiles. Except if you use log4$yourlanguage or something, then everything is just the same, you just configure a different destination.

And if you can't change your code to not use stdout/stderr, you can easily do yourcode | logger -t yourcode -p daemon.info 2| logger -t yourcode -p daemon.err
by AllegedAlec | 2025-07-11 09:05:08+00:00
> the metric itself doesn't become a subject to optimization

By making the metrics part of a sustaintable company-wide goal. If there's a company-wide goal to increase X kind of revenue by Y% making actionable targets on how a team can contribute (not lazy shit like "our changes should contribute Z% of that Y%"), and within that create for a person another smaller metric based on that.
by willguest | 2025-07-11 09:05:20+00:00
TIL - fertility is used interchangably with birth rate in demographic studies. What I think of as fertility - the ability to have offspring, in a purely biological sense - is apparently termed 'fecundity'.

This is only mentioned briefly in the 'infertility' subsection, and then only attributed to age, with mention of IVF as a mitigating factor.

However, there is evidence that, due to a variety of factors, there is a steady but persistent decline in sperm count globally, and that this had a sizable impact on birth rates/fertility.

https://rbej.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12958-023-0... "Infertility affects one in every six couples in developed countries, and approximately 50% is of male origin."
by numeri | 2025-07-11 09:07:51+00:00
I'm a little shocked at Simon's conclusion here. We have a man who bought an social media website so he could control what's said, and founded an AI lab so he could get a bot that agrees with him, and who has publicly threatened said AI with being replaced if it doesn't change its political views/agree with him.

His company has also been caught adding specific instructions in this vein to its prompt.

And now it's searching for his tweets to guide its answers on political questions, and Simon somehow thinks it could be unintended, emergent behavior? Even if it were, calling this unintended would be completely ignoring higher order system dynamics (a behavior is still intended if models are rejected until one is found that implements the behavior) and the possibility of reinforcement learning to add this behavior.