MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by konmok | 2025-08-31 17:29:15+00:00
Thanks for providing sources! They estimate 180 giving birth every day, but over what time frame? Without a time frame, it's not really possible to estimate the total born.

As for the 60k count, every single source I have found suggests that 60k is a massive underestimate. You'll need to provide some very strong evidence to back up your claim to the contrary.

Regardless of the balance of birth and death rates, multiple sources have reported a significant decline in Gaza's population this year. So far, all evidence you have provided contradicts your own initial claim.
by cyberax | 2025-08-31 17:29:17+00:00
I don't know how it works in Canada. In the US, it's not hard. For example, you can use https://www.donefirst.com/ to get started.

And once you get the initial prescription from a provider, it's much easier to keep renewing it going forward.

> I can't fathom that an online questionnaire would lead to legal access here to stimulant medications, considering that even things like SudaFed are controlled.

Nobody ever accused the US drug enforcement policy of being consistent and sane.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-31 17:29:35+00:00
DNS is already the root of trust, certificates are domain-validated. We currently just depend on both DNS and an unelected group of random companies Google has decided jump through their arbitrary hoops often enough.

If your domain register or DNS provider is compromised in any way, all of the bullcrud the CA/B demands of certificates is entirely meaningless, the bad actor can legitimately request certificates.
by pcrh | 2025-08-31 17:30:00+00:00
Below is the original statement by Demetre Daskalakis [0]. The complaint is that changes to recommendations issued by the CDC [1] were made without reference to the CDC itself and are not supported by scientific or medical evidence, especially as the justifications "cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors."

Several of these new recommendations can be expected to result in increased deaths compared to previous recommendations.

[0] https://xcancel.com/dr_demetre/status/1960843433473376602?s=...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html
by dmfdmf | 2025-08-31 17:31:30+00:00
You don't actually own your phone if ownership implies control over your property. You just get to pay for it. This was always the goal of our corporate/government "partnership" AKA fascism.

Can't wait for Windows 12 to have a mandatory S-Mode and a Microsoft account tied to your PII, for your protection. No anonymous writer can publish the 21st Century equivalent of the Federalist Papers and our tyranny is safe.
by leoc | 2025-08-31 17:31:40+00:00
Getting diagnosed and medicated should absolutely be the first port of call and one should do it without delay. However I should add that they never made much concrete difference to my "clinical outcomes". Now I'm sure I was holding them wrong (or holding the wrong model of iPhone), and I should get around to getting prescribed again, but if your main problem is anxious procrastination I honestly think you should temper your expectations about what drugs (or certainly methylphenidate or amphetamine) will do for you.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-31 17:32:11+00:00
> I don't think phones were ever "user-controlled", each one is designed fundamentally to connect to corporate-run wireless networks.

And PCs connect to corporate-run wired networks. What you're saying is at best an argument for locking the only radio chip itself, at worst it's propaganda to justify stripping ownership rights from consumers - "The item you think you own can affect some corporate property, therefore the corporation will seize control of it."

Hell the ISPs, phone and wired, can already drop you as a customer, blocking your communications, if they detect you interfering with their network. So any arguments that they must also control your devices are simply lies, transparently so even if they were coming from someone with 1000-times the goodwill and honest record of ISPs.

Edit as reply because I'm "posting too fast, please slow down":

> your handset plays the role also of one of these unfree modems

No, only the cellular chip does. And non-free/locked firmware is nothing new, even in PC-land.

> but any alternative must rival what makes the telco system, for the most part, actually work.

But it worked (and still works) just fine with rootable phones on the network. So rootable phones are not in any way an "alternative" - they are the (dwindling) status quo.
by margor | 2025-08-31 17:32:57+00:00
The default city, but the process was that I paid out of pocket for psychological diagnosis and then used that to talk with psychiatrist. It seems to be the "easiest" route to be taken seriously, rather than drug-seeker.

And other comments - you NEED to look for people who specialize in ADHD specifically, both on psychologist and psychiatrist side. I got SNRI only because the doc said "it's used as last resort for ADHD, perhaps it will help you" - no, it does shit nothing for ADHD in my case. But it did help with many other things so I'm still grateful for that.

Also, keep in mind that non-stimulants also do work, but they don't work _immediately_ and that requires actual regime to make know whether they work on you.
by pstuart | 2025-08-31 17:33:09+00:00
I have a friend who is a devout evangelical (son of a preacher) and seems to be a follower of Christ -- who has voted for Trump every time.

I'm trying to find consensus with him and so far he's revealed that he holds no love for Trump (not even giving the line about him being a flawed vessel but still a gift from God).

He states he votes based on policy (which is an admirable thing in voting) and that he's a single-issue voter (not so admirable). The policy? Immigration. He believes that the Dems intentionally open the flood gates to migrants in order to create more Dem voters.

He cites how Dems have advocated for letting non-citizens vote as proof. And it's true, Dems have advocated for area residents to vote in some local elections in CA and NY.

When I pointed out the nature of those elections, and that Dems are always trying to increase voting participation across the board), as well as the fact that a majority of these new arrivals are effectively religious and conservative, he switches the conversation.

He's for single-payer health care and likely is for other "liberal" ideas, so I continue to try and engage with him on this in a gentle manner. I know that telling somebody to change their beliefs is a fool's errand, but seeds of doubt and providing new information might possibly let him arrive at a new conclusion on his own terms.
by nilsherzig | 2025-08-31 17:33:10+00:00
I don’t think so, but it’s getting harder to flash custom ROMs (locked bootloaders) and there are even legislations in planning which would make it illegal (at least in the eu).

It’s already cumbersome to run your banking app (and other „required“ apps) on a custom ROM with all the attestation going on. I assume these distributions will bleed users and see a reduction in new ones due to higher entry barriers.
by stackskipton | 2025-08-31 17:33:15+00:00
>We really need a management class that doesn't insist on continuing the cycle of abuse on their underlings.

This won't happen. Your manager puts pressure on you, they get pressure from their manager and so on until it reaches the CEO who might be getting pressure from investors/board.

Only fix is regulations from the government which seems to be a curse word by many posters on this site.
by CharlesW | 2025-08-31 17:33:36+00:00
Ah, now I understand what you meant. The OP assumed the "get diagnosed" part would be understood. I've made it explicit below:

> Here’s an example: you (having undiagnosed ADHD) try to set a schedule, or use a todo list, or clean your bed every day, but it doesn’t stick. So you [get diagnosed and then] get on medication, and the medication lets you form your first habit: which is using a todo list app consistently, checking it every morning.
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-31 17:33:57+00:00
Yes, "I am The Science", was another scientismic proclamation.

In fairness, I would allow that when emotions run high, the individuals involved are not as precise as they could be. Alternatively, we might take their words as stated and simply interpret it as Scientism. Either way a pattern is emerging.

If the individual resigning truly wished to communicate the potential harm, he would have been better served by explaining it more precisely. Assuming malicious intent makes it hard to take seriously, especially in today's media landscape.
by martin-t | 2025-08-31 17:34:01+00:00
How about instead abolishing privately owned companies?

Most western countries are democracies because people got fed up of being exploited by dictators (sometimes called "kings"), removed them and setup a system in which they elect who makes the decisions. This system has issues but is less bad than dictatorship.

Yet, companies kept their hierarchical power structures.

Workers should decide who makes the decisions. If they don't wanna invest time into selling their product, they hire a salesman. If they want somebody to make long term projections, plan what gets worked on and communicates with other teams, they hire an assistant. And they decide how much he gets paid according to how much value he actually brings them.

Managers should be assistants.
by 9rx | 2025-08-31 17:34:11+00:00
> The sad part is that no one forces you to work that hard.

Maybe I've been farming for too long, but my brain, at least, is wired to push until completion and until things are done it will consume me. If you're going to be up all night ruminating about it, you may as well actually work on it.

Of course, in farming you get a nice long break after you've pushed yourself hard. I've never worked at Microsoft, but I suspect, given what I've seen elsewhere, that as soon as it is done it's already on to the next thing, never giving workers a chance to stop for a while.
by jonahx | 2025-08-31 17:34:13+00:00
I was using Coinbase as a placeholder -- I am not up on current market share status but most people I know in the US use Coinbase. The point stands.

> so you can find someone in another country to convert you out through another currency

This is not so easy for large amounts -- the whole reason to use a Coinbase is institutional trust -- and is certainly inconvenient. In practical terms, across the ecosystem of users, it would not be some small roadbump but a massive problem.
by rcpt | 2025-08-31 17:34:22+00:00
+ He's still talking about masking in 2025.

+ He wrote articles comparing the US COVID response 1940s Germany.

+ He wants to defund mRNA research.

I don't know man. Given that he's a doctor and all his publicly stated views lie right in the middle of maga it's hard to call him a liberal. Is there something about taxes or something that leads you to believe he's actually a Democrat?
by alkyon | 2025-08-31 17:34:27+00:00
> Literature from before 1800, Davis notes, is ‘mostly unread, even by writers’

I strongly disagree. There are many counterexamples, some authors are still widely read. Besides Shakespeare, it's Defoe, his Robinson Crusoe is one of defining books for me, later I also enjoyed Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders. Swift's Gulliver's Travels is in top ten list all of the books I ever read.
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-31 17:34:52+00:00
> Pavlov-trained everyone to dumb-click through 'this page is not secure' warnings

Do we have any statistics for how many people are actually doing this? Such warnings are so rare in my experience that, by default, I don't trust a site that has no SSL/expired or invalid certs and won't click through if I see that warning.
by bcrl | 2025-08-31 17:34:59+00:00
For tuned, I don't need the bug fixed, as I simply don't want it changing any kernel settings at all. Uninstalling it achieves the result that I want.

The rest of the rant is valid and the issues are virtually impossible to get fixed.

Please enlighten me: how does one file a bug against spam filtering on gmail.com or get rid of broken AI summaries on google.com that will garner an acknowledgement and get the underlying issue fixed?
by pembrook | 2025-08-31 17:35:36+00:00
I find it very ironic your username is 'StopDisinfo.'

First, the idea there is no American integration is just funny, given millions of your countrymen moved to the US just 2-3 generations ago and yet French identity is essentially non-existent in the US.

In fact, there's more ethnically french people in America than in Canada, and yet Canada has very strong french cultural identity by comparison.

Second, I wasn't arguing against immigration and am not "far-right" (I'm absolutely pro-immigration), just explaining why Europe will never be able to do it en masse like the USA used to (they can't do it as much anymore either).

The reality: Socialist policy makes immigration an impossibility. The more socialist a country, the more aggressive its stance against immigration becomes. This is not a coincidence but a direct causal relationship.

People don't want to pay for random 2nd/3rd-world immigrants to suddenly get free healthcare, education and pension. It's that simple.

It's no secret that after America built its welfare state in the 1930s, this led to a dramatic shift to a closed immigration policy. And as the welfare state in the US has grown (from 25% of GDP in the 1950s to 35% today), the anti-immigrant sentiment just keeps rising.

European countries are no different, having grown their socialist welfare states dramatically over the past 60 years (from 25-ish% to 50% of GDP today). And thus, you get increasingly aggressive anti-immigrant backlash when times get tough.

The irony of the modern leftist is they don't understand the impossibility of their supposed beliefs. You cannot be both pro-immigration and pro-socialism. They are oil and water.

Either you believe immigration is a good force in the world, and thus want libertarian capitalist policy like the US pre-1930s. Or you want socialism, which leads to closed borders, and only pretend to like immigration to make people think you're a good person at parties.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-31 17:35:43+00:00
I often use LLMs for method level implementation work. Anything beyond the scope of a single function call I have very little confidence in. This is OK though, since everything is a function and I can perfectly control the blast radius as long as I keep my hands on the steering wheel. I don't ever let the LLM define method signatures for me.

If I don't know how to structure functions around a problem, I will also use the LLM, but I am asking it to write zero code in this case. I am just having a conversation about what would be good paths to consider.
by antonymoose | 2025-08-31 17:35:55+00:00
I would be curious to know what issues they are truly facing and aim to solve here, TFA really only talks about how mad these ultra-rich are about the tax.

Personally, I grew up in a coastal town in the South East that is too expensive to raise my family in. The problems are jointly migrants from HCOL areas with remote jobs, and AirBNB investors. Currently, the housing stock in the area is 1/5th AirBNB.

This particular tax strategy would largely do nothing for locals in a middle or lower income categories and their ability to live in the area. It would simply raise more money for the government.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-31 17:36:17+00:00
Sorry, didn’t mean to convey that. Just perhaps mild frustration.

I don’t believe you meant to speak inaccurately. But the chart clearly misquotes its source data. That was pointed out and yet we couldn’t get past it across multiple threads.

I pulled the source data and recompiled the true rates; they partly support your hypothesis (but not the chart’s). There was inflation before the Fed but, if those data are to be believed, very little of it was secular. The balance of inter- versus intragenerational stability (and how that may have changed with industrialization and computers) is a genuinely interesting question, and not one I’d have stumbled across in this context were it not for you.
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-31 17:36:27+00:00
Those interfaces are not likely designed by interface designers — they’re either assembled by developers using framework libraries trying mimic things that ‘look designed,’ or “designed” by visual designers that have no more business designing interfaces than Wordpress plugin developers have designing your network architecture. Your first clue is your citing the ‘mobile first’ design— The first step in any serious interface design is researching who your users are, what they need, in what environment, and with what tools. Something being mobile-first is an implementation detail that has nothing to do with the core design. You don’t notice well-designed interfaces because if it’s properly designed, you concentrate on solving your problem and not the tool that’s solving it. If you’ve got primarily technical users and you’re not giving them technical tools, or you have a lot of power users and aren’t giving them power user tools, you probably didn’t do the thing that every subsequent decision in the design process should be based on: research the who, what, where, why, and when of the interface.

The problems you cite aren’t caused by bad design, but a lack of design, altogether.
by api | 2025-08-31 17:36:41+00:00
No it’s dependent on donations, either monetary or content. It’s not really free. It has an economic model. You can get away with one that minimal for Wikipedia because serving mostly static content is incredibly cheap.

Wikipedia can also only work because the upstream scientific and academic work to produce what gets posted there is largely subsidized. Wikipedia posters and maintainers do not have to pay the true cost of the content they are posting and very little of it is original.

This model won’t work for, say, journalism, which is very expensive. It won’t work for difficult polished software products. It won’t work for truly original artistic or literary work which takes tremendous amounts of time to produce. If, for example, authors can’t charge for a novel, then only people with trust funds or who are independently wealthy can afford to invest the time it takes to write a book.

The people pointing out how bad ad supported content is are proving my point, which was that there must be some kind of economic model. If there is no working one, content producers default to ads which leads to enshittification.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-31 17:36:52+00:00
For those who don't know the specifics of intellectual property law:

Copyright is unwavering. The law says that the author/owner gets exclusive use of that content for a really fucking long time (something like life + a century, thank you Disney lobbyists). Full stop.

The courts recognize that that lack of nuance is unreasonable. Therefore, they have ruled that copyright law doesn't apply if the use is "fair," hence the phrase "fair use." There's no hard-and-fast way to know if something is fair use. You're basically betting that if you ever get sued, the court will be on your side. There are axioms that the court has given (for instance, if you are making money from your use, it's less likely to be fair) that help you guess if the ruling leans in your favor.

The reason for these exemptions is that it's in the public's interest for certain kinds of expression to transcend copyright, such as news and satire. (This is also where the folks belief that you can't get in trouble if it's a parody come from.)

"Clearance and Copyright," and "Free Culture" are both great books to learn more about this. The author of the latter, Larry Lessig, is the guy who fought Disney's copyright lobby in court. His experience inspired that book, and also inspired him to found the Creative Commons.

All of that is to say that there are carve outs to copyright where the public interest overrides the private content monopoly, and a public official speaking in an unflattering way certainly qualifies.

[update] apparently those axioms were actually codified into law in 1976, but they are still merely defensive - nudges for how the court might rule, not protections in their own right.
by bccdee | 2025-08-31 17:37:09+00:00
Since "I think therefore I am" is meant to be a foundation for reasoning, it precedes any real definitions of "I," "thinking" and "being." So I think it's really more of a set of definitions than a conclusion.

We have a noun, "thought," which we define very broadly so as not to require any other definitions, and another noun, the self, which those thoughts are assumed to belong to. I think this is presumptive; working from first principles, why must a thought have a thinker? The self is a really meaty concept and Descartes just sneaks it in there unremarked-upon.

If you take that out, all you get is "thoughts exist." And even then, we're basically pointing at thoughts and saying "whatever these are doing is existing." Like, does a fictional character "exist" in the same way a real person does do? No, I think it's safe to say it's doing something different. But we point at whatever our thoughts are doing and define it as existence.

So I don't think we can learn much about the self or consciousness from Cartesian first-principles reasoning.
by infecto | 2025-08-31 17:37:51+00:00
I would say more about general uncertainty than volatility but similar thought. Disagree on the reason though, tariffs like we are experiencing have not been in our existence for a couple generations. And especially not in the modern connected global market.

I don’t believe most if not all of us have experienced such an immature and erratic administration. We are taxing trade partners, flip flopping on rules and nobody knows what to make of it.
by phatskat | 2025-08-31 17:37:53+00:00
> because it cost me nothing at the time to proactively throw in a return statement

This is how I’ve generally always handled redirects, be it server or client - if I’m redirecting the user somewhere else, my expectation is that nothing else on this page or in this script _should_ run. Will it? Maybe, JavaScript is weird. To avoid the possibility, I’m going to return instead of just hoping that my expectations are met.
by phoronixrly | 2025-08-31 17:37:58+00:00
> And sometimes I find myself doubting, maybe they're right and it's something wrong with us?

Yes. The thing wrong with us is that our life style is not a good fit but we persist to it despite knowing that. But why? Well we are more or less forced into it because society currently values dicking around with the JS library of the day much higher than herding a flock of sheep.
by quectophoton | 2025-08-31 17:38:06+00:00
A fuzzy search engine with a better "semantic index"[1] than classic search engines, but the trade-off is that instead of returning links it returns a generated soup of words that are semantically close to your "query".

Mostly useful when you're only looking for the presence of words or terms in the output (including the presence of related words), rather than a coherent explanation with the quality of human-written text.

Sometimes the response is accidentally a truthful statement if interpreted as human text. The quality of a model is judged by how well-tuned they are for increasing the rate these accidents (for the lack of a better word).

[1]: EDIT: In the sense of "semantic web"; not in the sense of "actually understanding meaning" or any type of psychological sense.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-31 17:38:53+00:00
Tax revenue can be used to build affordable housing that is income or means tested and locked out from being acquired by capital (where rent would be raised to “market rate”). You can also issue bonds as a component of raising capital towards this outcome, debt which would be serviced and retired over time with tax revenue.

(Muni bonds typically have favorable tax treatment for investors vs corporate bonds)