MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsder | 2025-09-12 00:16:12+00:00
From TFA: (archive link: https://archive.ph/5CeZe)

> Other factors that have been linked to autism include people being born prematurely or through cesarean section, as well as pregnant people having obesity, using certain medications (such as the antiseizure drug valproate) and the pain reliever acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol) and being exposed to air pollution. The strength of the evidence for these links varies, though, and the increases in risk tend to be small. The evidence is also only correlational, meaning it can’t establish what caused what.

> Acetaminophen is also usually used as a fever reducer, which pregnant people might take if they are fighting an infection. Both infections and uncontrolled fevers during pregnancy have been linked to higher rates of autism. “We know that the neurodevelopmental outcomes of having an uncontrolled fever are worse than what we’re observing for acetaminophen,” Mandell says.
by matrixripper | 2025-09-12 00:16:38+00:00
thank you for giving it a try, your feedback is invaluable! you could sign in and get 3 more free reports, if it's not enough you can send me your email and I'll add as many report credits as you want. As far as your suggestion I'm not understanding it too well do you mind elaborate on it, is there any UI or feature that you wish could be changed in a different way or added? Thank you I appreciate it!
by bertil | 2025-09-12 00:18:15+00:00
You would struggle to find a single example for any of those. Find two inflammatory quotes for each.

There hasn’t been a day in the last decade that Trump wasn’t making the news for a new insanely inflammatory remark—including in the last 48 hours. To help you remember when that was: that’s when he called for War on an American city, using the visual language of Apocalypse Now, a movie about war crimes. That was in the same breath as his new “Secretary of War” detailing that war would be violent, pro-active and excessive. This is true for almost everyone in his cabinet: daily dehumanizing remarks, threats, calls to attack.

One vs. many thousands: There are three to four orders of magnitude of difference in how inflammatory each side is.

You want to prove me wrong? Give me one date, a single date in the last ten years and if I can’t find Trump publicly insulting to someone that day, I’ll concede.

The only examples of call to violence you can find are people quoting Trump and his enablers, or mocking their style. Those horrible things you read? Those insanely callous dismissal of Charlie Kirk, victim of gun violence? Those are quotes of Charlie Kirk, reacting to mass shootings.

You are wagging your finger and scream "Here’s a monster!" but what you are looking at is a mirror.
by banashark | 2025-09-12 00:19:11+00:00
Well you say that.... https://openresty.org/en/

"Real-world applications of OpenResty® range from dynamic web portals and web gateways, web application firewalls, web service platforms for mobile apps/advertising/distributed storage/data analytics, to full-fledged dynamic web applications and web sites. The hardware used to run OpenResty® also ranges from very big metals to embedded devices with very limited resources. It is not uncommon for our production users to serve billions of requests daily for millions of active users with just a handful of machines."
by ksec | 2025-09-12 00:20:30+00:00
>The idea is that no one should be more than 50 km from such a store and it should prevent hoarding/panic buying as people will know basic food will be available in an emergency.

I dont think that is how it works? That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store. And do people visit it every day or are these "Emergency Stores". After all they need to replenish stock.

Or are these simply some form of marketing play?

Off-Topic: Its been while since I last visited a The Mastodon site and it seems a lot faster than before.
by gwerbret | 2025-09-12 00:20:52+00:00
This study's pretty wild -- but this approach has a major downside that they only mentioned in passing in the actual report in the New England Journal of Medicine (paywalled, unfortunately).

To gene-edit these cells, they had to use a lentivirus vector -- a (limited form of a) class of viruses that notably includes HIV. These viral vectors work by splicing themselves into random places in the host cell's DNA. Which is fine, except that there's a non-zero chance that in the process, the virus will initiate a cancer.

When you combine that with a cell deliberately engineered to hide from the immune system, you have the ticket to a very bad time.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-12 00:21:53+00:00
Humans think even when not being prompted by other humans, and in some cases can learn new things by having intuition make a concept clear or by performing thought experiments or by combining memories of old facts and new facts across disciplines. Humans also have various kinds of reasoning (deductive, inductive, etc.). Humans also can have motivations.

I don’t know if AGI needs to have all human traits but I think a Markov chain that sits dormant and does not possess curiosity about itself and the world around itself does not seem like AGI.
by alexgoodhart | 2025-09-12 00:22:30+00:00
hip hip, h$o$r$r$a$y!

Personally, I think that AI has already hit a grand plateau in terms of raw ability, and much more ingenious software solutions to augment its ability require not as much in terms of training and compute allowance, but syntax compaction/dynamic contextualization/multi-thread parallel statefulness that is tailored based on the activities a workflow involves.

I wonder though if the tools available now are at the cheapest they will ever be
by mrlongroots | 2025-09-12 00:22:54+00:00
> "oh it's just database joins" is about like me ripping your arms off and describing it as "chemical reactions"

This argument is both inconsistent and counterproductive.

Inconsistent as in, the harm to me from having my arms being ripped off comes from you deciding to effect the intent to harm me. No photograph or x-ray of my arms can produce the intent of wanting to harm me.

Counterproductive as in, the "good vs bad" framing is pointless because it does not help with solutions. If your solution is to ban joins, you will have a hard time gaining traction for your cause. Strategic advocacy requires understanding axes along which you may be able to produce a coherent argument and gain leverage. "Ban joins" does not help.
by TheDong | 2025-09-12 00:25:00+00:00
I think it will depend on if it seems like it's anti-competitive gatekeeping or has a legitimate use. The DMA specifically prohibits measure that are meant to gatekeep, but iirc it has allowances for things that have real technical justification.

Certifying devices to make sure they're safe for users, like "this cable is certified as compatible, it won't set your iphone on fire", seems fine.

Requiring your app to be "certified by apple to sell ebooks", and then only granting that certificate to Apple Books, not the Kindle app, that seems anti-competitive.
by pornel | 2025-09-12 00:25:26+00:00
Google Pixel Buds have a translation feature, and a bunch of other "Gemini AI" gimmicks, available in the EU.

Apple managed to get approvals for medical devices and studies (highly regulated everywhere), custom radios and satellite communication (highly regulated everywhere).

Apple already has machine translation, voice recognition, voice recording, and dictation features shipped in the EU.

But when EU hurt Apple's ego by daring to demand to give users freedom to run software they want on devices they bought (that could break them out of a very lucrative duopoly), Apple suddenly is a helpless baby who cannot find a way to make a new UI available in the EU.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-09-12 00:25:44+00:00
I think these features are or can be implemented. But they are definitely not obvious. And it’s possible they weren’t there when you first used an iPhone.

To clear all, swipe down on the top left to show Notification Center. You should see an X button right of the words “Notification Center”.

If you want to launch an app from control center, open control center (swipe down from the battery icon), press and hold on a clear area until you’re able to edit it. Add a control. Scroll down until you see the Shortcuts controls and pick Open App, then pick Settings.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-12 00:25:47+00:00
A shame it will not be joining the ranks of El Salvador and Nepal.

Brazil is not a democracy. These judge-kings prove it.

Trample the constitution? They do it on a daily basis. It was especially noticeable before the 2022 election when they engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship. I saw them do it.

Their profoundly destabilizing actions are a major reason why there was a "coup attempt" in the first place. If only the condemned had actually tried. At least they would have gone down fighting and might even have succeeded. Maybe we wouldn't be living under the rule of communist judge-kings.

Brazil and democracy in the same sentence is just disgusting. Not a single person voted for these judge-kings. They essentially make up laws as they go along. They walk all over our senate. Our elected representatives are nothing before them. They are so brazen as to raise taxes. They have been grabbing power since at least 2019 and by now have usurped every single function of the government.
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-09-12 00:26:27+00:00
Opening with "there are at least five python lock formats pre-existing" then proposes a 6th. I'd like to know if poetry, uv, etc are willing to adopt this before going forward otherwise we're just splitting the community further.

That said, I do think having reproducible builds as an explicit goal is important here, as several pre-existing formats like requirements.txt are too lax on that front.
by neilv | 2025-09-12 00:27:19+00:00
Unfortunately NSFW in parts. It might be insensitive to circulate the top URL in most US tech workplaces. For those venues, maybe you want to pick out isolated examples instead.

(Example: Half of Case 1 is an anime/manga maid-uniform woman lifting up front of skirt, and leaning back, to expose the crotch of underwear. That's the most questionable one I noticed. It's one of the first things a visitor to the top URL sees.)
by Whoppertime | 2025-09-12 00:29:12+00:00
Evil people are going to use whatever tools they can get their hands on to commit mass murders. Whether it is flying planes into the world trade center, a truck into a crowded market, or shooting up Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Mohammed. These barriers can be overcome by the ideologically motivated. Japan has very strict gun control and Shinzo Abe was still assassinated by a firearm, even if it was an improvised one
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-12 00:33:19+00:00
Security with io_uring is great these days. Many years ago it moved away from the original architecture that led to several security issues; its current architecture is no more prone to security issues than any other part of the kernel.

For context, the original architecture involved having privileged kernel-side offload processing that had to carefully drop privileges each time it did something on behalf of the userspace process. As you can imagine, that fail-insecure architecture was heavily prone to security holes.

io_uring got rid of that architecture years ago, in favor of running with the permissions of the userspace process. With that change, there's no longer any reason to consider io_uring any less secure than the rest of the kernel.
by solid_fuel | 2025-09-12 00:35:04+00:00
Genocides are not committed solely by governments. An armed and divided populace is just as likely to commit a genocide as they are to stop one. Look at the Rwandan genocide. Look at the mass shootings we have here by white supremacists.

All it takes is an armed populace that stands by while “those people” (their neighbors) are killed by extremists (their other neighbors).
by al_borland | 2025-09-12 00:35:15+00:00
As someone who can’t visualize things like this in my head, and can only think about them intellectually, your own imagination is still special. When I heard people can do that, it sounded like a super power.

AI is like Batman, useless without his money and utility belt. Your own abilities are more like Superman, part of who you are and always with you, ready for use.
by mathfailure | 2025-09-12 00:35:25+00:00
Oh, it was an error on my side, the link actually works.

If you are happy to share the code - I think quite some people would be happy. The openness doesn't guarantee, but usually leads to better security, performance, etc.

It is very nice of you to provide such a service (and for free, as I see), but your docs says we, users, better not update stuff faster than once per second and that's quite a big limitation for some big companies with lots of processes to track (which probably can't be grouped together into a single batch update as your docs suggest to do).
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-09-12 00:37:14+00:00
OpenAI has already started degrading their $20/month tier by automatically routing most of the requests to the lightest free-tier models.

We're very clearly heading toward a future where there will be a heavily ad-supported free tier, a cheaper (~$20/month) consumer tier with no ads or very few ads, and a business tier ($200-$1000/month) that can actually access state of the art models.

Like Spotify, the free tier will operate at a loss and act as a marketing funnel to the consumer tier, the consumer tier will operate at a narrow profit, and the business tier for the best models will have wide profit margins.
by wlesieutre | 2025-09-12 00:37:17+00:00
I’d be tempted by a foldable iPhone if (and only if) they have a stylus, but I don’t expect them to.

The form factor doesn’t lend itself to storing a comfortably sized “pencil” along with the phone, and god forbid an Apple accessory exist that doesn’t feel perfectly integrated with the product it goes with.
by diogenescynic | 2025-09-12 00:37:34+00:00
He wasn't even a hate monger though? Just because he was a republican means he's a hate monger and racist? I don't get it. I haven't seen one person accusing him of this stuff actually cite a quote that seemed like hate speech or racism? They just don't like facts being used in a debate that hurt their feeling. It's ridiculous. People need to grow up. There is a complete lack of maturity on the part of his critics. They want to live in a censored thought bubble and don't value the first amendment (or seem to understand it).
by JPKab | 2025-09-12 00:38:50+00:00
He was shot with a bolt action .30-06 hunting rifle. There has never been a proposed ban on these weapons. Your comment is essentially saying he deserved it, and that you see some form of cosmic justice here.

Meanwhile, I've been reminded by your comment that people like you will celebrate the deaths of people they disagree with politically, which makes me less likely to support gun control. With neighbors like you, I'm going to hang onto them. The irony of people like you is your perceived moral superiority warps you into being a bad person.
by lovemenot | 2025-09-12 00:39:12+00:00
Apple has clearly made very significant investment in creating a LLM small and efficient enough to do inference locally on an iPhone. This is excellent work and should be applauded.

For the EU, the issue is that Apple intends to recoup this investment through premium-pricing a different product in another category - one that has many low-cost competitors.

Wouldn't this best be resolved by productising the Apple LLM? Earphone API becomes open, as required by EU. However, use of the Apple LLM would be controlled by license. Earbud competitors could either license Apple's LLM, perhaps on a FRAND basis, or they could install their own LLM on an iOS device. Apple may bundle its LLM but must allow users to uninstall Apple's LLM, to free up space for alternatives.

In short, this isn't and shouldn't be about access to IOS for earbuds. EU is right in this. It's about monetising access to the Apple LLM, for which Apple deserves a revenue stream.
by diogenescynic | 2025-09-12 00:39:29+00:00
His argument was that we shouldn't disarm just because evil exists and guns can be mis-used. Using that as a way to suggest his death is justified or whatever people are implying is just gross and disgusting. Dude was 31 years old and had 2 young kids and simply went and talked to people. He was assassinated in front of his family for nothing more than talking. Nothing that he ever did was even close to deserving violence. If people can't take someone politely debating their ideas, then they're a whiny entitled baby and they're the problem.
by kazinator | 2025-09-12 00:39:48+00:00
This sounds like a spherical cow problem.

The one time in your career you run into it, the next day your boss will add the requirement that entries are going to be inserted and deleted all the time, and your sorting approach is fucked.

If the entries can change all the time, we can use two hash tables, U and D. U maintains the set of unique items at all times, D maintains duplicates. An item is never in both at the same time. In D, it is associated with a count that is at least 2.

A new item is inserted into U. The first duplicate insertion removes the item from U and adds it into D with a count of 2. Subsequent insertions increment the count for that item in D.

A deletion first tries to decrement a count in D, and when that hits below 2, the item is removed from D. If it's not in D, it is removed from U.

At any time we can walk through U to visit all the unique items, without having to deal with spaces of non-unique item.

That has implications for complexity. For instance suppose that for whatever reason, the number of unique items is bounded to sqrt(N). Then iterating over them is O(sqrt(N)), whereas if we just had one hash table, it would be O(N) to iterate over all items and skip the non-unique ones.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-12 00:40:46+00:00
> In geopolitics there are no morals, so it is also completely OK that we took a U-turn from all that a while later. The only interest is self-interest.

> My point is, a lot of these political positions are simply projections cast in order to achieve a certain goal, meaning to look at it from a moral standpoint is useless.

Claims like this can easily be used justify Nazism (which is alarmingly prescient considering the direction India's been going in recent decades)

I agree that many people use disingenuous moral outrage as a way to drive some political outcome, but many people with moral outrage are coming from a place of sincerity in reaction to the moral bankruptcy demonstrated by the world's leading powers.
by TheDong | 2025-09-12 00:42:12+00:00
Locked into iPhone.

I want to switch to Android, but I have all the following problems:

1. iMessage, unlike whatsapp etc, does not have an android app, and some of my family uses iMessage, so I would be kicked from various group chats

2. My grandma only knows how to use facetime, so I can't talk to her unless I have an iPhone

3. My apple books I purchased can't be read on android

4. Lose access to all my apps (android shares this one)

5. I have a friend who uses airdrop to share maps and files when we go hiking without signal, and apple refuses to open up the airdrop protocol so that I can receive those from android, or an airdrop app on android

6. ... I don't have a macbook, but if I did the sreen sharing, copy+paste sharing, and iMessage-on-macos would all not work with android.

It's obvious that apple has locked in a ton of stuff. Like, all other messages and file-sharing protocols except iMessage and airdrop work on android+iOS. Books I buy from google or amazon work on iOS or android.

Apple is unique here.
by mothballed | 2025-09-12 00:42:13+00:00
Loop to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45216655.

>st assigned "a large part" of the creation

Stated as generation/"generating violent conspiracies", not initial conception of mere idea which by itself might not even be illegal activity. You can't even have a conspiracy without an overt act, which FBI extensively aided and generated.

We're just looping now. End of loop.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-12 00:43:28+00:00
You make a good point, but you're still not refuting the original argument. The demand for high-power AI still exists, the products that Apple sells today do not even come close to meaningfully replacing that demand. If you own an iPhone, you're probably still using ChatGPT.

Speaking to your PC gaming analogy, there are render farms for graphics - they're just used for CGI and non-realtime use cases. What there isn't a huge demand for is consumer-grade hardware at datacenter prices. Apple found this out the hard way shipping Xserve prematurely.
by matznerd | 2025-09-12 00:43:47+00:00
"A large new study published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health provides evidence that exposure to certain workplace chemicals among parents may influence the severity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms and contribute to behavioral, cognitive, and adaptive challenges in their children. The findings suggest that occupational exposures—especially to plastics, ethylene oxide, phenols, and pharmaceutical agents—may have broader developmental effects beyond autism diagnosis alone."

"The effects of parental occupational exposures on autism spectrum disorder severity and skills in cognitive and adaptive domains in children with autism spectrum disorder" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143846392...

The person leading this study, Erin C. McCanlies, was forced out of the CDC, her division eliminated and she went into early retirement from the CDC. https://www.psypost.org/scientist-who-linked-autism-to-chemi...

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"The findings suggest that workplace exposures to several specific chemical classes were associated with worse outcomes in children with ASD. One of the strongest and most consistent patterns involved plastics and polymer chemicals. Fathers’ exposure to plastics was associated with lower scores across all cognitive and adaptive skill domains, including language, motor coordination, daily living skills, and overall functioning. When both parents were exposed, the deficits appeared to compound.

“I was surprised how strongly and consistently plastics and polymers stood out as being linked with multiple developmental and behavioral outcomes including irritability, hyperactivity, and daily living,” McCanlies told PsyPost.

Exposure to ethylene oxide—commonly used in hospital sterilization—was also linked to more severe autism symptoms, lower expressive language abilities, and poorer adaptive functioning. Similarly, parental exposure to phenol (used in construction, automotive, and some consumer products) and pharmaceuticals was associated with increased ASD severity and more pronounced behavioral challenges, especially hyperactivity and stereotyped behavior.

While the results do not imply that all children exposed to these chemicals will develop more severe symptoms, the patterns suggest that early life exposure to workplace toxicants may amplify certain developmental difficulties in children who already meet criteria for ASD. The study provides one of the most detailed looks to date at how parental occupation may relate not just to diagnosis, but to variation in how autism is expressed.

“Our findings suggest that certain parental workplace exposures may be related not just to autism, but to worse symptoms and autism behaviors,” McCanlies explained."
by coldtea | 2025-09-12 00:43:53+00:00
>All other rules/ethics seem to be dependent on resource scarcity

That doesn't make the rest of the ethics (as a rule and mechanism) any less useful to help nurture the species and its intelligence.

It just makes them not absolute but dynamic and condition dependent. But given a condition (e.g. resource scarcity) the appropriate ethics retain the utility we talk about.