MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lerc | 2025-09-15 01:59:07+00:00
>Doesn't this already happen to some extent, with content being classified into advertiser-friendly bins and people's feeds being populated primarily by top content from within the bins the algorithm deems they have an interest in?

The distinction I think would be with publicly disclosable algorithms, you would at least know why you were receiving a particular thing and have the option to not subscribe to that particular algorithm. Ideally such things would be properly, open source. Once public, algorithms are subject to gaming. Open source provides the many eyes and feedback required to stay ahead of the bad actors.
by deadfoxygrandpa | 2025-09-15 01:59:27+00:00
my parents split and got divorced when i was in my 20s, and both of them had remarried within about 5 years. it didnt really bother me very much at all, i was already living very far away from home, and its good to see theyre both happier than they were before the divorce. the biggest change to me is i have to visit two houses when i go home for a holiday instead of just 1 house
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-15 01:59:31+00:00
How does the depopulation of rural areas contribute to this, if at all?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/15/in-japans-ageing-co...

https://theconversation.com/when-a-countrys-towns-and-villag...

https://old.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/bcnga2/japan_populat...

(utility scale solar generators typically have a 35 year lifetime, so in areas of Japan where you’re not cutting down forests, it makes sense to build where depopulation is occurring in a “last person out shut off the light” sort of way before the rural community goes extinct)
by hjdjeiejd | 2025-09-15 02:01:20+00:00
This is on-brand.

There was a time that I used Gentoo, and may again one day, but for the past N years, I’ve not had time to compile everything from source, and compiling from source is a false sense of security, since you still don’t know what’s been compromised (it could be the compiler, etc.), and few have the time or expertise to adequately review all of the code.

It can be a waste of energy and time to compile everything from source for standard hardware.

But, when I’m retired, maybe I’ll use it again just for the heck of it. And I’m glad that Gentoo exists.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-15 02:02:24+00:00
I ember them showing up and then being limited to super shady sites PDQ.

Which makes sense- since exposing minors to pornography was a crime, and got even more illegal somewhere in that time frame, along with the web becoming "professional" (whitehouse top level domain mixup stories anyone?), the honest pornography sites all started self-regulating and asking if somebody is an adult before anything naughty gets shown.
by blibble | 2025-09-15 02:02:29+00:00
every major news org now blocks the parasitic "AI" crawlers

examples:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt https://www.cnn.com/robots.txt https://www.nbcnews.com/robots.txt

all they will be training on now is spam

anyone that says "AI is the worst today it will ever be", no

because that was before the world reacted to it
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-09-15 02:02:42+00:00
I did the math and Juul was 47x more expensive than the liquids (this is in Canada). Then I switched to the juice vapes, and finally to kick the juice vaping I picked up pipe tobacco. Pipe tobacco is way cheaper than cigs nevermind vapes, the highest quality, and tastes incredibly good (also, you can also get that "first cigarette headrush" every time if you like by inhaling, works every time).
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-15 02:02:54+00:00
This is cool, but, man, I felt like such a pathetic excuse for a human being when, brutally craving nicotine, with my vape empty of the fruit-flavoured juice that I am literally addicted to like the stupid pathetic baby that I am, and stuck with the cravings because all the shops are closed until morning, and so, in need of a distraction, I opened Hacker News. FFS.

Sometimes the only option is to laugh at your own expense! Clearly this is a sign. I should buy more juice next time. And maybe start smoking more actual cigs.
by litbear2022 | 2025-09-15 02:02:54+00:00
Considering the irresponsible record of developed countries, this idea is extremely selfish.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_waste_import_ban

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Ship_Breaking_Yard

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6c0EAS0aY
by teminal | 2025-09-15 02:07:52+00:00
thank you for the advice.

my financial position is not good now. i have only this year left. i already taken time off recently i got a disease so.

i do know that i like coding and i will continue in this field only. the only thing is that like most of my internships were in frontend and two are fullstack

i tried to connect with people but i don't know if i am connecting with right people i am unable to put myself i hesitant on my skills

how to find people? in my college time most of my time went on doing works for internships trying to earn from here and there and now i don't have proper connection with anyone.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-15 02:09:21+00:00
>> Various gums, starches, dextrins, mono- and di-glycerides, surfactants, encapsulated flavors, specific leavening ratios, basically the whole chemistry set.

Um. Ok. You say this like it's a good thing? I'll be honest, your statement makes me want that less rather than more.

Now granted, I never use mixes anyway, so I'm not the target market. I mean, baking a cake or cookies from ingredients is so simple a 5 year old can do it. my grandma likely never saw a pre-mix in her life, and would (very) never have used one even if it had been available. She lived on a farm, the idea of using a chemistry set to bake cookies ... well, you get the idea.

I gotta say, tounge in cheek, if grandma's can't bake cookies anymore because the box size has changed, well, I'm not sure they want to bake at all. Sounds like a convenient excuse to me...

But here's how to make your grandma really happy this birthday. Buy a few boxes and repack them into 18oz quantities. You'll be her favorite grandson forever. Or possibly not....
by epcoa | 2025-09-15 02:09:26+00:00
This has nothing to do with "liking" or appeals to emotion. The fact is that paper does not have a control and the methods are not sophisticated enough to determine causation.

"The other citation from the second link seems to be a paper which doesn't say 3% it say". Yes it does dude. You need to read the actual results from the paper more carefully: "Overall, 340/350 cases of primary cervical cancer confirmed by surgical staging tested HC2 positive (97.2%)." Ie 2.8% (~3%) were considered true HPV negative by this testing.

They're going from 8.8% (in that particular admitted biased dataset) to still 2.8%, the wording of the conclusion is wonky, but the results of the paper are overall consistent. You're taking that quote out of context.

In that same paper it says: "Our results are in accordance with The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network (CGARN) ‘Integrated Genomic and Molecular Characterization of Cervical Cancer Study’, which used next-generation sequencing to characterize primary cervical cancers. The CGARN study found 95% of primary cervical cancers were HPV-positive and 5% HPV-negative."

Which is one of the primary sources for the 5% figure.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5354998/

In any case these are both order of magnitude more than 0.3%

I'll agree 8% worldwide is high (though since environmental factors and genetics both play a role in both HPV-positive and negative cases), these incidences can vary throughout the world or within certain subgroups, and if you manage those groups that matters.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11075765/

GAS is a clearly known cervical adenocarcinoma not related to HPV, and it accounts for 20% of all cervical adenoca in Japan, which overall places it close to 5% of all cervical cancer diagnoses there, just for this subtype.
by mysteria | 2025-09-15 02:10:01+00:00
I've hosted at home for years and if you have it properly setup it's not any more risky than using a VPS. I have 443 open on my router and basically all web traffic is routed to a container on my server. The container is on an isolated vlan and basically runs nginx as a ssl reverse proxy.

The actual web services behind the proxy run in their own containers and with proper isolation and firewall rules the effects of a security compromise are limited. At most an attacker will be able to take over the containers with an exploit (and they could do that with a VPS as well) but they won't be able to access the rest of the network or my secure internal systems.

If I was this guy and wanted to let people connect directly to my vapeserver I would simply host it on another vlan and port forward the HTTP connection. Even if someone manages to take over such an obscure system they're not going to be able to do much.
by Spivak | 2025-09-15 02:10:09+00:00
And it's not as if boxed cake mix is better or that the properties of commercial cake mix can't be known and used in your own from scratch baking but it's so frustrating when people are just like, "just make recipe without all the chemistry and it will be better" as if any deviation from what they consider natural is automatically worse or that those "weird" ingredients are in there for no reason other than to give you cancer or something.

A fun example from history is that currants used to be used for making all flavors of jams because they're high in pectin and would look at modern chefs funny for using this unnatural white chemical.
by kjellsbells | 2025-09-15 02:10:15+00:00
There was a time when OS X was new that Apple leaned pretty hard into the OS X is UNIX(tm) story. I was working in academia at the time where the Serious Work was being done on SunOS/Solaris and saw print ads aimed at scientists reminding them that OS X was a Real UNIX:

http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/apple_unix_ad.html
by bigglywiggler | 2025-09-15 02:10:27+00:00
Your argument seems a little bad faith. Sure, random devices aren't able to connect to my phone without my consent but Apple devices only need that consent once. After they're on my apple account they can connect with my other apple devices seamlessly, no companion apps at any stage.

My AirPods move from my phone to my macbook all by themselves based on which device needs audio and my macbook can ask for my iphone's camera and mic at will. My Apple devices can do this because they have hardware level security to allow for this. The EU wants the same capabilities to be extended to non-apple devices.

This would mean that Apple would have to let devices connect without a companion app and possibly make a backdoor in their hardware security layer or worse allow anyone to incorporate their hardware security into any device.

If some aliexpress buds were able to do that then this would definitely pose a problem. Bad actors should not get access to Apple's proprietary security tech and that tech is one of the reasons that Apple devices have capabilities which non-apple devices do not.

edit: Your original comment makes a couple of good points re: the cost of lockin for consumers. However, I would like to point out that this cost isn't a problem when the locked in devices are as good as they are. Apple's devices routinely either come near to the top or sit at the top of the list of best X devices from many different review sources. If their locked in devices were worse this would make sense but often they are much better than all of their competition. I wouldn't buy any AirPod competitors because they genuinely don't actually represent better value even when they are cheaper than AirPods. Similarly with other devices, I've tried almost everything at one point or another. The first time I used Android I installed it myself on an HTC HD2. When I ditched windows I went with linux before I went with Apple. I've had powerful self built windows machines and Asus gaming laptops and a google pixel and a pebble and tried many more devices without actually owning them myself. Nothing has ever come close to my apple silicon macbook, my old iphone which I'm still using, my 2nd hand cheap ipad mini or my apple watch. I don't buy apple devices because I'm locked in and have no other choice, I buy them because they actually represent good value for me and my use case.
by chasil | 2025-09-15 02:10:58+00:00
And I'll get back to my original point.

When Debian demoted bash and migrated to the Almquist shell, there was great anguish from Ubuntu users of all tiers (Adobe was notable, IIRC).

That anguish was due to a decade that predated POSIX.2.

That was a substantial hindrance.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-15 02:11:23+00:00
This is a prime example of poor AI policy. It doesn't define what AI is – is using Google translate in order to engage on their mailing lists allowed? Is using Intellisense-like tools that we've had for decades allowed? The rationale is also poor, citing concerns that can be applied far more widely than just LLMs. The ethical concerns are pretty hand-wavy, I'm pretty sure email is used to empower spam and yet I suspect Gentoo have no problem using email.

The end result is not necessarily a bad one, and I think reasonable for a project like Gentoo to go for, but the policy could be stated in a much better way.

For example: thou shalt only contribute code that is unencumbered by copyright issues, contributions must be of a high quality and repeated attempts to submit poor quality contributions may result in new contributions not being reviewed/accepted. As for the ethical concerns, they could just take a position by buying infrastructure from companies that align with their ethics, or not accepting corporate donations (time or money) from companies that they disagree with.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-09-15 02:11:53+00:00
After reading the article and the comments on this page, I also think it's unclear what exclusion criteria were used to select the cannabis using and control cohorts. Controlling for likely and unlikely confounding variables is essential in this kind of study. Obesity is a notoriously heterogenous condition with a great number of inheritable and environmental contributors which makes the task especially difficult.

However, a connection of particular interest concerns ADHD, a disorder identified as having a strong link to obesity, including common genetic predisposition [0]. Furthermore, individuals with ADHD are also more likely than non-ADHD peers to develop drug dependence, including cannabis-use disorder [1,2]. If ADHD was not among direct or indirect exclusion criteria, the results of the recent study could be misleading or at least incompletely characterized.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6097237/ [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5568505/ [2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8025199/
by buu700 | 2025-09-15 02:12:28+00:00
I haven't watched The Wire yet, but I'm assuming ending the War on Drugs wasn't something they tried. It's funny how granting organized crime a monopoly over highly popular goods results in organized crime becoming pervasive and well-resourced.

One would think we'd have learned that lesson a century ago, yet here we are. Until anyone over the legal drinking age can go buy a bottle of Bayer Heroin at CVS, I don't want to hear about how the government is struggling so badly with crime that it thinks my privacy should be on the chopping block.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-15 02:12:46+00:00
Young women have never been more liberal in America [1]. 77% of women won’t date a Trump supporter [2]. Based on Census Bureau historical data and Morgan Stanley forecasts, 45% of prime working age women (ages 25-44) will be single by 2030—the largest share in history—up from 41% in 2018 [3]. A majority of single women in the US are not in the dating marketplace [4]. The average age of a farmer is 58 [5] and they commit suicide at a rate 3.5x the general population [6]. ~75-80% of them voted for this administration. The US fertility rate is 1.6, and continues to decline.

Based on the above data and facts (think in demographic systems in this context), my thesis is rural America continues to wither away, and demographics continues to be destiny. Conservatives won’t go extinct, but they’re certainly not on an upward trajectory. I cannot predict how farm bankruptcies from the current trade war [7], and the collapse of rural hospital systems in rural America from the OBB is going to change this [8], but it’s likely it pulls forward the future imho.

Young conservative voters appear to have some regret [9] [10], too early to tell if it causes them to vote differently next time. Or if they’ll be able to find partners to have kids with, based on the first paragraph data and facts.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/609914/women-become-liberal-men...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/majority-women-wont-date-trump-supp...

[3] https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/womens-impact-on-the-eco...

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/nearly-...

[5] https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-02-14/aging-farmers-and-few...

[6] https://www.agweb.com/news/business/health/silent-truth-hidd...

[7] https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/07/farm-bankruptcie...

[8] https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/

[9] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-26/trump-... | https://archive.ph/2025.08.27-130342/https://www.bloomberg.c...

[10] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/08/14/trumps-tarif...
by kragen | 2025-09-15 02:12:57+00:00
Your alternatives are mixing the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt yourself or buying them premixed as Krusteaz, which doesn't contain buttermilk or oil. Neither of these involves more or less dirty dishes than the other. At a guess, the premixed stuff costs US$4/kg, while if you make it yourself, it's US$1/kg. You can mix up 5kg pretty easily in a few minutes, say 10 minutes, saving US$15, which is an hourly wage of US$90/hour, tax free.

Possibly you have more remunerative things to do with your time, like writing code for your startup or grinding Leetcode for your Meta interview, which plausibly have higher expected value than US$90/hour. But many people don't. For them, buying Krusteaz is the same kind of self-destructive choice as smoking a cigarette or drinking a Coke.

Myself, I haven't made pancakes in a while, but at some point I switched from Krusteaz to just mixing the ingredients from scratch on the spot.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-15 02:13:51+00:00
> while ignoring all other prisoners, including those of high merit and arguably unjustly imprisoned.

So this part stuck in my craw, and I looked it up. Almost nothing about the way you have described this situation is accurate.

Biden tried to have Whelan freed as well, but Russia refused due to Whelan being considered a spy while Griner was perceived as only a low level criminal. At the time Biden was quoted saying that Russias reasons were "totally illegitimate" and that the US would "never give up" on trying to have him released.

Further, Griner was only one of several prisoners Biden tried to have released during this first swap. The others were not black lesbians though, so you didn't hear about it.

Biden later lived up to his word, because in 2024 Whelan was released as part of the 2024 Ankarta prisoner exchange, which Biden and Harris negotiated and which was considered to be one of the largest and most complex prisoner exchanges in history. It was NOT Trump, as you claimed earlier.

The entire narrative as you know it was WRONG, and the dichotomy was even more false than you've been led to believe.

Not only do I stand by my earlier statements, I feel even more convinced that Kirk was not just kind of a jerk, he was a full bore jerk. He likely knew Biden was working that deal, and turned it into race baiting hate speech anyhow... and you believed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout%E2%80%93Brittney_G...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ankara_prisoner_exchange
by bruce511 | 2025-09-15 02:14:34+00:00
Same people who have flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, milk ‐ pasta, rice, potatoes, ya know, food.

I don't eat a whole bag of rice with every meal. I have a plastic tub. Buy rice, fill tub, remove potions as required, repeat.

My pantry is full of plastic tubs with various staples. My veggies come in bunches. My eggs in boxes.

When did we become so helpless that "the box is the wrong size" became an issue?
by lubujackson | 2025-09-15 02:15:01+00:00
Interesting. I was wondering if the orange/blue thing was going to extend to posters, and it looks like it does. For reference: https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...

I thought there was a clear smoking gun reason it has become popular but it doesn't seem entirely clear cut. Except that the blue/teal makes orange (and skin) "pop" as the colors are complementary, and color swapping/enhancing has become much easier in recent years. (And I think, somewhat cynically, because both hues are both pretty far from the default green screen color...)
by g-b-r | 2025-09-15 02:15:14+00:00
And this specific proposal seems to let anyone know if your kid is:

(A) Under five years of age.

(B) At least 5 years of age and under 10 years of age.

(C) At least 10 years of age and under 13 years of age.

(D) At least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.

It seems a menu, I wonder what could go wrong....
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-15 02:16:05+00:00
Relatively speaking, he's an American, so yes. His prior is way higher than people in other countries. Moral law doesn't enter into it. That's really all I'm saying.

> Lived in a world where

Well, a country where. But sure; I catch your meaning.

> and negligible impact on the minds of those who do

Agree to disagree. The President of the United States broke the news of his death; he had the ear of politically powerful people in the US.

> his words should have made him no more likely to die than anyone else driving on the same road

Agreed. No likelier than any other American. But, that's way too damn likely.

> Except for the fact that the road is supposed to be analogous to the shooter, who in reality had consciousness and a motive.

Ah. Here's the issue.

While every individual shooter has a motive (or not; my relative was shot by someone suffering a psychotic break), the system makes it more likely Americans will get shot than their neighbors in other countries. America, specifically, has a dangerous mix of too many guns and too much distress. That's not really disputable without just ignoring the statistics.

And Kirk was fine with that. Well, fine enough to think the current balance of gun ownership was correct. Perhaps he advocated for better mental healthv support or more financial equality, to address the distress? I may have missed it. Never heard it if he did.

It's not acceptable he was shot. But Kirk accepted that someone gets shot his whole public life. He argued, vociferously and frequently, that some people were just going to die and that was the price of freedom.

Was he right?
by dml2135 | 2025-09-15 02:16:43+00:00
I found that using bags for compost isn’t really necessary at all. I just dump the container out each night and clean it along with my dishes. It’s nice this way because then nothing is ever actually rotting in my indoor trash.

Having a stainless steel compost container helps with this, as it’s easier to clean and doesn’t retain odors like the plastic bins.
by Lerc | 2025-09-15 02:17:20+00:00
I don't think there is any long term "fixing" of that. I don't think AI has the ability to be intelligent while firmly adhering to someone else's opinions.

There will always be something it disagrees with you on. If they get significantly smarter, then the reason for this disagreement will increasingly be because you are wrong.

This moment is coming for all of us.