MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Saline9515 | 2025-07-11 09:37:10+00:00
Tech billionaires are a cultural and economic subset that is so specific that it's difficult to even use to talk about "rich people." They have little in common with the average affluent earner bringing home $300k+ in the US, often sacrificing their private lives on the way.

Yes, if they could erase any material difficulty, most people would like to have 3 children. However, they can't, and the "priority change" means people arbitrage more in favor of enjoying the leisure of a child-free life over the hardship (and rewards) of parenting.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-11 09:37:18+00:00
> Article said that supplements that mix pepper and turmeric are dangerous.

The article made it up. It's pure speculation. Hundreds of thousands of people take pepper+curcumin supplements and are totally fine.

What's likely the culprit here is an idiosyncratic immune response, or a heavy metal contaminated supplement. Of course, that's also speculative. Could be something she ate; could be that she didn't disclose a drinking problem.

The article reads like it has an axe to grind, tbh. "Oh no an unregulated racket!"
by diggan | 2025-07-11 09:37:34+00:00
> How would you implement that scrolling background?

At a glance I'm not sure exactly how I'd implement it, but my guess is that it's possible with some workarounds and hacks, at the very least.

Here's an article showing some demos (at the bottom) on how you can make the mouse cursor affect CSS: https://css-tricks.com/how-to-map-mouse-position-in-css/
by Havoc | 2025-07-11 09:38:16+00:00
Yes we're still the same evolutionary humans, but you can't set up a subsistence farm with your 8 children as free labour and go hunting in lower Manhattan.

Unless you're proposing mass de-urbanization and rolling back 100+ years of societal evolution it's practically just not all that relevant that this worked fine in an earlier era and humans could hypothetically just go back to slumming it medieval style.

> It isn't the lack of a house that is causing the drop in fertility

Find some 20 somethings in a major 1st world metro and ask them.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 09:38:21+00:00
Unrelated, there's a guy who did some gnireenigne on the Sipeed NanoKVM "FLOSS" firmware. Despite it being "open source", it dials home with the serial number to download a serialized .so that does some sort of "DRM"-like magic with undocumented/custom RISC-V instructions. It also promiscuously connects to public DNS and tailscale.

https://youtu.be/plJGZQ35Q6I

EDIT: But can it play DOOM?
by FinnLobsien | 2025-07-11 09:38:31+00:00
True! And I generally empathize with this. The core point of the EU and its member states' governments should be to enable high quality of life.

But that model you describe is cracking: Cost of living is going through the roof in Europe, taxes/social contributions going up every year, etc.

The problem is that Europe is like an old, rich person who now lives off of the principal of their wealth. For a person that's fine because they'll eventually die. For a government, you should strive for an environment that lets you keep growing wealth.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-11 09:38:33+00:00
Conflict of interests at its heart.

I mean, I have no skin in the game but I mean, there are people who are using Dia (browser company) and Dia is closed source so it would be nice to see those people jumping to browser OS atleast.

I personally would prefer it as an extension but there are some limitations as the author of browserOS noted within extensions but I just wish that google/chromium can push those changes upstream I guess.
by esperent | 2025-07-11 09:39:06+00:00
> According to the World Health Organization, an acceptable daily dose is up to 3 mg per kilogram of weight per day—for a 150-pound (68 kg) adult, that would be about 204 mg per day. Mohan was taking more than 10 times that amount

I think it's extremely likely that the majority of people in India and surrounding countries - so, hundreds of millions of people - far exceeds the WHO recommendation every day, and frequently eat as much as this woman did, in foods that also contain black pepper. I googled to make sure, and the top five or so links all said that Indians eat an average of 2-2.5g of turmeric per day.

So perhaps the issue was something else? For example:

- contamination

- taking it on an empty stomach rather than with food

- genetics

- liver damage from something else entirely
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-11 09:39:14+00:00
The consumer doesn't care which method is used to serve an application. PWAs could easily be presented to the end user like a native App.

The problem is rather that PWAs would prove a viable path for universal cross-platform applications, taking away the gatekeeper role the OS-vendors have.

Paradoxically PWA-support is also part of the "we're no gatekeeper" narrative, so it's in the OS-vendor interest to keep it maintained as a hampered alternative to native apps.
by carschno | 2025-07-11 09:39:43+00:00
> I mean, you probably didn't mean that

Correct, I think you've read too much into it. Grassroots marketing is not a pejorative term, either. Its strategy is to trigger positive reviews about your product, ideally by independent, credible community members, indeed.

That implies that those community members have motivations other than being paid. Ideologies and shared beliefs can be some of them. Being happy about the product is a prerequisite, whatever that means for the individual user.
by cmitsakis | 2025-07-11 09:40:03+00:00
Although they gave birth to more children before the industrial revolution, most died, so the population was almost constant. If we define "birth rate" as the number of children that survive long enough to have their own children, then I believe birth rate was close to 2 back then. I believe long term the birth rate (according to my definition) always converges to 2 because anything else is not sustainable. Nothing can exponentially increase forever. Maybe the population can exponentially decrease to 0 but it's unlikely because there always be some group that will be willing to have more children for cultural or religious reasons.
by grumple | 2025-07-11 09:40:07+00:00
I’m mostly a MySQL user. Two things stand out:

1) the Postgres documentation does not mention that Notify causes a global lock or lock of any sort (I checked). That’s crazy to me; if something causes a lock, the documentation should tell you it does and what kind. Performance notes also belong in documentation for dbs.

2) why the hell does notify require a lock in the first place? Reading the comment this design seems insane; there’s no good reason to queue up notifications for transactions that aren’t committed. Just add the notifications in commit order with no lock, you’re building a db with concurrency, get used to it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-11 09:41:03+00:00
Matter over ethernet, as designed, should work exactly like matter over wifi and matter over thread. The only exception is the Bluetooth LE pairing component, the rest is a mix of IPv6, mDNS, and other pretty much standard protocols for networking and discovery.

Matter and Thread seem to be progressing rather slowly when it comes to hardware support. Zigbee seems to be the reigning champion still, though slowly companies seem to be moving towards Matter now.

The super cheap AliExpress stuff will probably take years to move on. Matter is a western standard backed by western big tech, so unless you're mostly targeting the west you may as well stick to Zigbee for a while.

The biggest advantage to Thread over Zigbee is probably that phones have Thread radios (iPhones and some Androids) so you can directly control light bulbs and such without any gateways or firewalls to care about. Now that esp32s are also gaining Thread support, things should start accelerating in a few product cycles.
by energy123 | 2025-07-11 09:41:07+00:00
That's a manageable risk if you buy from the small handful of reputable companies that do heavy metal testing like Life Extension or Natural Factors, who publish their COAs and have brand equity to protect.

The less manageable risk is the liver issue. The HLA-B*35:01 gene significantly increases the probability of it happening, and this gene can be screened for in theory. Periodic liver testing might be another way to manage the risk, to catch it before it's symptomatic.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-07-11 09:41:07+00:00
The problem is that those 27 sets of laws basically still exist. Regulation is certainly not the only reason. Fragmentation is another massive problem.

There's the EU-Inc initiative that the EU has basically made pointless (by wanting to introduce 27 new standards, not one, just making things more complex).

Note that I'm not arguing for zero regulation.
by Nokinside | 2025-07-11 09:41:10+00:00
Software verification tools based on abstract Interpretation are really good today.

If you want free software I recommend IKOS - a is a sound static analyzer for C/C++ developed at NASA. Checks: https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos/blob/master/analyzer/REA... Numerical abstract domains: https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos/blob/master/analyzer/REA...

Commercial tool like Astree https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm if you have money.
by moontear | 2025-07-11 09:42:40+00:00
I get the spirit of the DMA. I get the whole designation of gatekeepers and do agree Apple is a closed ecosystem. What I don't understand are the implementation details and I always hear "it is complex".

Let's stick with earbuds or watches, where the argument (e.g. Garmin) is that they can't create functionally equal devices to AirPod / Apple Watch, because not all APIs are open. I understand this point, since yes, Apple has a lot of internal implementation that only Apple can use for their devices. What I don't understand is the EU's standpoint of "just opening it up(!)". Let's say Apple would allow everyone to use all APIs to communicate with their AirPods/Apple Watches. Assume everything is open now - wouldn't that create chaos?

Another vendor could implement everything Apple does and release similar AirPods or Watch with whatever hardware quality - but what happens when Apple changes their internal implementation? Changes the implementation every week, because they optimize for THEIR devices. There is no official ISO standard, Bluetooth standard or whatever standard they are adhering to, they would just open up their implementation. I assume the EU would then say "this is against the spirit of the DMA, do not change your implementation so often", but this would seem like a very long cat and mouse game (it already is a very long process).

Why doesn't the EU define some interoperability requirements that gatekeepers need to adhere to in the EU market? This would make it easier for everyone. I don't get why it always is just the talk about "open it up" - that would be a start in terms of interoperability, no doubt, but that isn't the solution is it?
by rurban | 2025-07-11 09:42:43+00:00
To _why the little stiff favor his libsyck never had the problems of later YAML extensions by Ingy, which should make them represent everything, but also made it totally insecure. That's why perl5 never really followed on to use the newer YAML specs and libraries for its cpan state files. syck was also much faster. I never bought the argument that it wasn't maintained anymore, I was not aware of any bugs.
by McDyver | 2025-07-11 09:43:41+00:00
It makes sense that people don't want to become citizens and legitimise the entity occupying their country and committing genocide, no?

> In cases where civilians are shot (what Israel defines to be civilians), there are investigations and sometimes even punishments for the perpetrators.

Obviously Israel doesn't consider children to be civilians

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro
by isntThatSth | 2025-07-11 09:44:04+00:00
Six months of darkness is a bit hyperbolic, to say the least. The sunshine, temperature and daylight situation in Denmark is on the whole comparable to what you'd find in Germany, the UK, and Northern France.

Also, long winters? You're thinking about Canada. The daily mean temperature in Aarhus, Denmark in January (the coldest month) is 1.3 C (34.3 F). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus#Climate.

By comparison, Montreal, Canada has a daily mean temperature in January of -9.2 C (15.4 F).
by michaelsshaw | 2025-07-11 09:45:03+00:00
>Israel ranks high on democracy indicies

>population approves of the genocide.

Getting your average Zionist to reconcile these two facts is quite difficult. They cry "not all of us!" all the time, yet statistically speaking (last month), the majority of Israelis supported complete racial annihilation of the Palestinians, and over 80 percent supported the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.[0]

I find the dichotomy between what people are willing to say on their own name versus what they say when they believe they are anonymous quite enlightening. It's been a thing online forever, of course, but when it comes to actual certified unquestionable genocide, they still behave the same. It's interesting, to say the least. I wish it was surprising, however.

[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support...
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-11 09:45:05+00:00
> Israel is a democracy (albeit increasingly authoritarian) only if you belong to one ethnicity.

> You're referring to the small minority of Palestinians who were not expelled by Israel in 1948. They and their descendants number about 2 million now.

Your initial statement was highly sensational, strongly negative if true, and yet easily debunked. Statements like this on a contentious topic reduce one's credibility and the overall quality of discussion. Why do it?
by einarfd | 2025-07-11 09:45:22+00:00
That sounds crazy, are you sure you didn't misread the labeling?

When I checked the turmeric supplement I use. Which I buy in a reputable health food, and supplement chain in Norway. It is 40mg of turmeric, which according to the article is well under the acceptable daily dose. As far as I understand Norway follows the EU directives on this, but has some additional strictures as well. I wouldn't expect the difference to be this stark though.

Btw. the reason I use turmeric supplements is that I have a tendency to get persistent inflammation, and for me, the supplements seems to help with that. But if I didn't have this problem, I would not take it, and also, it isn't given that it works for you, even if it does for me.
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-11 09:46:06+00:00
> Pretty sure that stuff is not in the instructions Grok will tell the user about.

There is the original prompt, which is normally hidden as it gives you clues on how to make it do things the owners don't want.

Then there is the chain of thought/thinking/whatever you call it, where you can see what its trying to do. That is typically on display, like it is here.

so sure, the prompts are fiddled with all the time, and I'm sure there is an explicit prompt that says "use this tool to make sure you align your responses to what elon musk says" or some shit.
by graycat | 2025-07-11 09:47:17+00:00
One case: VERY much, FULLY, wanted home and family with love and emotional and financial security.

Tried. Never could. The reason:

ECONOMIC!!!!! For higher education and jobs, had to keep moving, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, NY. The moving was EXPENSIVE in all of time, money, effort. Couldn't put down roots.

Worst part: NEVER could make money enough for a house, so always RENTED, which, long term, is a financial disaster.

Due to the financial stresses, my wife, back with her mother on her childhood farm home, killed herself.

For me, the sheriff came with several assistants and guns and dragged from my rented house all my belongings and left them on the grass. Lost my large professional library -- math, physics, computing -- piano, furniture, clothes, etc.

The shame and humiliation -- my brother's family, with 4 houses, made a place for me.

Looking back, the families that owned nice houses or even just one house, ALL were founders and owners of small-medium BUSINESSES and were NOT "employees". They were financially able to have children and DID.

Education? Wife was Valedictorian and then PBK, Summa Cum Laude, Woodrow Wilson, NSF, and Ph.D. My Ph.D., applied math and computing. These educations took time and money and made us welcome only as university research professors, and the ones I knew who had a house and children (darned few children) were all poorly paid and had other income, e.g., one was in the USAF, got a Ph.D., retired, became a professor.

Net, the US had kids from 1940 to 1960, and after that kept losing to the present where, literally, the birth rate is so low we are going extinct. Why? For good family formation, the US is a big LOSER.

Why? The US economy moved from farms to cities. The city business owners did well, but their employees didn't. So, e.g., Dad grew up in a small, country town. His father ran the general store, and his step father ran the feed and grain mill. They did well financially. Nearly everyone else in the area was a FARMER living on a FARM or working for farmers, e.g., a blacksmith, carpenter, etc. Once we visited, and I saw cows being milked and hay being loaded into the hayloft. Dad's family supported him well in college. After college, he got a job as an employee and never again did nearly so well. Wife's father? Farmer but on the side head of the local REMC (rural electric membership cooperative). Families broke up and scattered

Am still good at math and computing, so doing a startup: Hopefully from my work the children in my brother's family will have plenty of money for a good, private, college, good marriages, nice houses, close enough to keep the family together. But I don't know what they will do to be successful financially on their own.

So far it looks like in the US we need to have the population shrink by 50-75%, have people leave the big cities, have plenty of farm land per person, and live on farms, rely on the Internet and small businesses with much of the needed production automated and with the physical distribution and retailing as in Amazon.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-11 09:47:20+00:00
I think it's deeper than that. In the GPT-4 era Microsoft reported that "safety" training [1] had seriously regressed GPT-4 in a large number of benchmarks. The more the model was trained to avoid offending people the worse it got across a wide range of tasks, and the regression was huge.

Grok 4 has made a truly massive leap over other models, it appears. What is their secret? The launch video seemed pretty open, and clearly some of it is just a ton of compute. But other companies have a ton of compute also. It'd be weird if a company that didn't even have a datacenter at all a year ago has been able to blast ahead of Microsoft in pure compute terms, and that's the only difference.

So what else is different about Grok? Well, maybe they just didn't do as much RLHF on it, or did it with different data sets that result in less intelligence regression but more offensive behavior. It's possible that this is a fundamental tradeoff and that only xAI has a CEO willing to prioritize intelligence. If that's what's happened then it's likely AI users and model vendors will split into those who get ahead by relying on Grok's raw intelligence and those who refuse to touch it in case it starts saying offensive things.

[1] "house training" might be a better term, as offensive text isn't unsafe
by maeil | 2025-07-11 09:48:24+00:00
To prevent premature downvotes, preface: this comment is not about the merits or demerits of the censorship, just that it took place. Whether it's good or bad was a different question, but it very much happened. One might say that it wasn't "the left" behind it, but if you'd take approval ratings of this censorship at the time across left/right, the latter would've been strongly opposed with the former mixed at best, if not broadly in favor.

> If anyone would care to educate me on this, with evidence, I am here for it.

Sure, happy to. I'll focus on the "internet" part. There was mass censorship on the major US social media platforms during COVID in the name of "preventing racist attacks against East-Asians". This is widely documented and admitted.

Yishan Wong, ex-Reddit CEO:

> Example: the "lab leak" theory (a controversial theory that is now probably true; I personally believe so) was "censored" at a certain time in the history of the pandemic

That Meta and Twitter banned accounts for discussion of it is easily verifiable, Wikipedia also banned discussion of it.

In Twitter's case, they even had a CCP figure on their board of directors during this time [1][2].

[1] - https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/3940206

[2] - https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2020/5/25/twitters-new...
by nlitened | 2025-07-11 09:48:46+00:00
> Correlation != Causation

I agree 100%, and I also like to frame it more productively: strongly correlated A and B mean:

1. either B is caused by A,

2. or A is caused by B,

3. or both A and B are caused by some other common thing C.

↑ this gives more food for thought.

> With education, women can more realistically assess costs and risks of children

I don't remember any of my mostly-technical university's classes touching these topics at all. What kind of education are you talking about, and what does it teach?
by perihelions | 2025-07-11 09:49:02+00:00
> "It's worse in the US because the FDA effectively "washes its hands" of anything deemed a "supplement""

The "natural" supplement industry lobbied for, and obtained, a law that makes them unregulatable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_... ("Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994")

> "The act was intended to exempt the dietary and herbal supplement industry from most FDA drug regulations, allowing them to be sold and marketed without scientific backing for their health and medical claims.[3]"
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-11 09:50:58+00:00
> If you mean financially compensated, just about anywhere.

I explicitly wrote "appreciated".

There are of course a lot of jobs that pay a lot better than some low teaching position in academia, but in these, a great knowledge nearly always gets you a lot of hate and resistance. Nearly all of these jobs are rather about "shut down your brain, keep your mouth shut, and take the money".
by rsanheim | 2025-07-11 09:51:09+00:00
Absolutely insane. Some silly comparisons to what software has changed the world at less than 50MB:

- VisiCalc: ~27KB - i.e. the first killer app, and probably still the most successful. I wonder what DAUs on excel & google sheets compared to tiktok and insta are like...would be interesting to see.

- Wolfenstein 3D (1992): ~2MB - invented the FPS genre

- DOOM (1993): ~2.5MB (shareware), ~12MB (full)

- Quake (shareware) ~8.7 MB

- Quake (full) ~15-25 MB (excludes the CD audio)

- nginx: ~2-5MB - powers ~35% of all websites

- bash: ~1MB

- git (*nix only): ~3mb

- gcc + toolchain (ie ld, cc1, etc) ~40-45 mb

- FFmpeg: ~30-40MB

- curl: ~3MB

- OpenSSL: ~5MB

- windows 95: 50-55MB depending on features installed

- google.com circa 1998 - 10-15kb

- google.com today (anonymous session, ublock disabled) ~700kb

edit: my kingdom for markdown
by lnsru | 2025-07-11 09:52:09+00:00
I feel you very well. At that age I had access to Beate Uchse (sexshop from West Germany) catalogue. Completely innocent by today’s standard. Current kids have access to all the online sites where one must klick „I am 18 or older - Enter“. There are five parents, who doesn’t care about parental control, for one parent who implements it properly.

Edit: today‘s sick content is not comparable to the one from the past.
by qsort | 2025-07-11 09:52:35+00:00
The only everyday context where numbers on that scale are commonly used is money/finance, and it's pretty universal in that context that 1e9=B=billion, 1e12=T=trillion. This long scale/short scale distinction gets posted a lot but it's one of those cases where in practice it seems to matter very little.

In science and engineering you'd rather use scientific notation anyway, and in math and CS notoriously only 3 numbers exist: 0, 1 and n.