MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-11-22 05:29:44+00:00
The greater LA area has Hollywood film and television and a lot of music stuff too. It has the 16th and 19th busiest container ports in the world (Los Angeles and Long Beach) [1]. It has the 11th busiest airport by passenger volume [2], and several other airports because that one isn't enough for the area. It has a pretty extensive computer industry. There's a lot of petroleum processing. There's a lot of agriculture. There's some financial services (many cities in the US are bigger in finance, but there's still a lot in the LA area). A pretty good amount of manufacturing. Several top tier universities. It drives a lot of tourism.

And then there's all the GDP that arises from the population itself: construction, healthcare, education, real estate.

If you take away the entertainment industry, it becomes a different place, but there's a lot of economic activity and most of it isn't film and tv and music production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_port...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_pa...
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-22 05:29:47+00:00
> These are not people getting pulled over because they rolled a stop sign.

Although if you watched "Last Week Tonight" recently (S12 E28, 2025-11-02), Mr Oliver's long segment is about police chases and IIRC he covered more than a couple of cases where people were, in fact, being pulled over / chased for trivial matters which then lead to crashes, deaths, etc.
by nemothekid | 2025-11-22 05:31:13+00:00
>And yet, from the App Store’s point of view, you can build a game with guns and cartoon violence and happily ship it to kids, while tracking your own body needs a 16+ “mature themes” label.

This really isn't an Apple problem, but an American culture problem. This is such a common trope in many forms of media:

* You can sell games with gratuitous amount of gore, but implied clothed intercourse gets you pulled from stores.

* You can get away with a lot of violence and possible sneak a PG-13 rating, but a single boob gets you rated R.
by mslt | 2025-11-22 05:31:34+00:00
Seems like people should be of whatever age we consider mature before they start capturing intimate data about themselves on random platforms. If we don’t think you’re able to understand the risks of pursuing your reproductive impulses, do we think you can measure the risks of sharing data about those impulses on a platform you don’t control?

Local data or not, if I were the steward of a marketplace I’d use that position to create this kind of teaching moment for pre-developed consumers. If young people had been warned since the mid 2000s of how much of their intimacy they were handing over to Meta, ByteDance, etc. before they started, the world would certainly be better off.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-11-22 05:32:42+00:00
I grew up in the 80s and 90s. In school environmentalism was a big deal. We did conservation trips to these ecology parks, we were taught to recycle, and often watched films about animals that might die off due to climate change.

I only felt motivated to annoy my parents to recycle more. Since the effects were not directly in front of me a strong emotional reaction didn't occur.

Perhaps there are children who already have anxiety and latch onto climate change and other problems.
by waltwalther | 2025-11-22 05:33:38+00:00
The solution, from a personal privacy standpoint, could be to obscure your license plate to prevent a proper photograph from being taken. I have read of invisible film and transparent sprays that purport to do just this.

There are also very affordable "license plate flippers" which, at the push of a button, rotate both your front and rear plates to different plates.

Both of these methods are likely illegal for driving, but may be legal when parked on private property.
by anovikov | 2025-11-22 05:34:37+00:00
I think this is mostly religious thinking. Gluttony is a sin and an attempt to "hack" it this way is subconsciously perceived as an abomination of God. I can't explain it in any other way.

You can't fix "lifestyle choices" on the population scale. Individually sure, but there is simply no way to force billions of people to eat healthy. Someone who's arguing in that direction is nothing but counterproductive and that line of thinking only contributes to suffering and death. Especially since obesity is immutable: poor lifestyle choices cause it, but switching back to good lifestyle choices does not reverse it. One can have a BMI of 30 and be malnourished, weak to the point of being barely able to function, and unable to lose any more weight. So even if one could fix "lifestyle choices", it will take a generation to see a result (like it happened with smoking - almost no one quit it, just that few young people newly picked up the habit and eventually they crowded out smokers due to generational change). Wegovy fixes this.

Also, in many cases, it's not even lifestyle choices. I was never obese just overweight and indeed, in my case it was mostly lifestyle choices: overindulging on steaks and wine. But my wife had a thyroid condition that GLP-1 also treated and she had weight she never had a chance to lose that only kept creeping up in spite of her doing a lot of gym and eating very little. She went from BMI of 33 to 23 in half a year and it resulted in almost miraculous improvement of all her health metrics. This simply won't be possible in any other way at all - even through bariatric surgery or a comparable radical intervention - because it was simply not about eating.

People who are against GLP-1 are mostly religious bigots who keep pressing on their medieval beliefs even if it means killing people, just like those who wish to deny abortion to a woman with a dangerous pregnancy with a deformed foetus.
by Fiveplus | 2025-11-22 05:34:59+00:00
The whole text regarding this reads:

"We’re exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it. If you have the change, if needed there is an option you can uncheck to disable this called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options, under View. Looking forward to your feedback! If you do encounter any issues, please file them in the Feedback Hub under Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer Performance, or Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer."
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-22 05:37:03+00:00
> so why do americans have more high speed chases?

Off the top of my head: 1) US cops are more likely to harass, maim, kill you than most other places (whether you've crimed or not); 2) US legal system seems a little hinky when it comes to certain people; 3) "three strikes" (not sure if that's countrywide or state-level? pretty sure it's still around tho'?) can mean life for three trivial crimes; 4) car-centric country - lots of them and everywhere is designed for cars[0].

[0] Imagine a car chase around London[1] or some other wackily streeted city.

[1] No, the godawful nonsense Hollywood comes up with does not count.
by wisty | 2025-11-22 05:38:27+00:00
A later comment notes that it works well for some patients and not others. The argument is that drugs probably don't fix things very well unless the cause is mostly just bad brain chemistry. Some people have bad brain chemistry, others have "real" (usually more external - financial, relationships, actual life issues) problems they need to fix, and hiding from them by just taking a pill to help ignore them might not work so well.

(OK bad brain chemistry is also a real problem, but one that's fixable with a pill).

Also yes that's all a bit simplified.

There's a stigma against pills for a number of reasons, some good and some bad, the fact that often they don't work being one reason.
by nighthawk454 | 2025-11-22 05:38:53+00:00
Simple, they’re arbitraging the overhead of switching. The game is not to balance quality and dissatisfaction. It’s to balance quality against dissatisfaction + cost of doing something about it. If you just make the switching cost really really high, you can justify pretty much arbitrary levels of dissatisfaction.

The gap between noticing something is unsatisfactory and successfully doing something about it (capital, time, effort, risk, market share, …) is massive. It’s really only the second line they have to worry about. If the customer is unhappy but it’s too hard/expensive to switch, or there’s no other options, etc that’s really not a problem. It might even be good for “engagement” or whatever.

The gap is even wider when there’s extra barriers like network effect (dating apps) or legal rights (tv, movies, music). And the more things tilt in that direction - inherently cheap products with huge artificial moats - the more power they have. Every tick up of market capture fundamentally justifies another tick down in quality and/or an increase in price, when needed. This is just the ‘enshittification’ concept we’ve come to know.

Worst case, like another comment mentioned, when the market occasionally does produce something notable - let them do the legwork then buy it. And the bigger entities get the easier that becomes. They get harder to catch up to, while gaining more money and influence to purchase a competitor.

This isn’t 2005 where you can just make a social network or streaming platform with no consequences and take over the world. You’re not even allowed to make the app without permission.

AND as the article mentions, our only classical defense is ‘vote with your wallet’. Which presumes that a critical mass of people would be informed, willing, organized, and able to structurally boycott. Clearly we’re not equipped for that kind of economic warfare on every front from burritos on up.

And as the consumer continues to weaken economically, we actually get less power.

> But if they are actually doing that (which is unclear to me) or if they are bad in some other way, then how do they get away with it? Why doesn’t someone else create a competing app that’s better and thereby steal all their business? It seems like the answer has to be either “because that’s impossible” or “because people don’t really want that”. That’s where the mystery begins.

Pretty much all the article’s examples are known to be happening. As to why - it’s essentially because it’s impossible, just not because no one can code a dating app. Consumers have no real leverage. There is structurally no back-pressure on this in any way, by design.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-11-22 05:39:39+00:00
the aesthetics of math and physics is by far the most boring discussion that can be had. i used to be utterly repulsed by such talk in undergrad - beauty this and that. it absolutely always felt affected and put on - as if you talk about it enough, you'll actually convince people outside of the major to give you the same plaudits as real artists.... yea right lol.
by dboreham | 2025-11-22 05:41:09+00:00
For anyone else who is super confused as to wtf this is about: 1) it's not "NAT Gateway " but rather "The AWS service called NAT Gateway" and 2) it's not "self-hosting" but "hosting in EC2", in the same sense that "running postgresql on an EC2 instance" wouldn't be "self hosting aurora".
by wat10000 | 2025-11-22 05:41:56+00:00
Our national debt is from our unwillingness to raise taxes to balance the budget. Federal spending is somewhat high historically, but not absurdly so. Relative to the economy, it's at about the same level as it was in the 1980s. Measured as a percentage of GDP, the current military budget is the lowest since before the Second World War, aside from a brief period at the end of the 1990s where it was slightly lower.

Comparing budgets by adjusting for inflation doesn't make any sense. A budget that served a country of 218 million in 1976 would, when adjusted for inflation, serve a country of 218 million in 2026. Percentage of GDP is what you want to look at.
by gh0stcat | 2025-11-22 05:42:56+00:00
For what it's worth, I have dealt with pretty severe depression for most of my adult life. I am only starting to have periods of coming out when I realized that most of depressed feelings come from a place of ego. I have an identity of who I am and what I like, and I seek things in the external world which might provide meaning for me. For me, it's because I always sought value from the things around me, rather than believing that I am already enough. Every single day, I have to beat down my instincts that tell me that I am worthless and remind myself that there is more beauty in the world and it's actually absurd that I am letting society tear away from me my natural instincts to want to live and enjoy life. You have to really sit with these feelings though... like really really get to know your voice vs the internalized societal voice. I have developed "tests" that help me discern which voice is which, but it has helped a bit. Also working out and taking care of your body is a bonus, and just taking pride in like... doing things to lead a peaceful life is underrated. Hope you feel better.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-22 05:43:42+00:00
>Growing up it was well-known that homeschool kids were strange,

Growing up, it was well-known that in highschool that there was always a small subset of students who were strange. It was so cliche that more than a few sitcoms were founded on that very premise. You could walk up to any stranger age 40 or older, say "you know those weird kids in high school" and they could almost certainly rattle off the list of names even today.

This is because in any large group of kids, some significant percentage of them will be weirdos. Thinking that this is somehow a result of homeschooling is more than simply fallacious, it reveals a prejudice of yours.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-22 05:44:23+00:00
> I bet there are restrictions on what constitutes a chasable offense in the rest of the world.

UK has stuff like [0] which contains a whole bunch of "is it worth it?" considerations. Also if a chase causes a death, the officer(s) can be prosecuted[1] - I suspect the nonsense of "qualified immunity" means there's no risk to a US officer for initiating a chase that ends in death.

[0] https://www.college.police.uk/app/roads-policing/police-purs...

[1] e.g https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58889155
by cyberax | 2025-11-22 05:45:35+00:00
> You're right, it's not a theory, it's literally just wrong. Like, obviously so.

OK. You're throwing around words like "obviously" without obviously bothering to check them. The commute time for large cities is longer.

The average commute time is less for small cities and suburbs.

Moreover, the average US commute for small cities (22 minutes according to the ACS) is faster than in ANY large US or European city. In particular, commute time in NYC is 37 minutes.

> Consider sanitation: why don't we have this in the suburbs?

Just sigh.

> Yes, there is obviously more friction to getting stuff done, but the amount of stuff you need to get done to impact the same people is orders of magnitude less. The cost ends up being much, much, much lower. This only works if you're comparing like and like though.

Have you ever deigned to actually verify your claims? Just to give you a hint, building a mile of subway in NYC now costs more than 1500 miles of 6-lane freeway.

You clearly have never actually looked into the subject in question, and you're just repeating whatever sounds right.
by tflol | 2025-11-22 05:45:45+00:00
> This is horrifying.

I agree with this.

I've learned a lot through life, one thing I've learned is about detrimental long term physical and even social effects of antidepressants, and other medications like adderal. Both I used to take.

At this point in my life, if I realized my parents gave me an antidepressant prescription when I was SEVEN years old because I said something stupid WHEN I WAS SEVEN I'd be very disturbed and disappointed in them, I'd definitely give both of them a solid scolding.

Before you respond to this remember I'm talking about me. Not your kid or your friends kid or your cousins kid.

EDIT: Quick edit to add when I was a kid I was a total outcast, I was weird, anxious, and definitely often depressed. A lot of kids in my religious schooling systems were.
by workworkwork71 | 2025-11-22 05:47:31+00:00
I really don't think you read this article beyond the headline because that's not what it's about or implying...literally in the slightest.

That article is about JPMorgan being able to charge Plaid or other providers for the middleman access. They used to be operating almost for free, now Plaid has to pay for access the same way companies like mine pay Plaid.
by toast0 | 2025-11-22 05:48:11+00:00
This doesn't feel like anything Apple has done in modern times. The last thing I remember them licensing was the iPod+HP from 2004-2005. Apple barely does enterprise support; they're very focused on selling their products to consumers and I don't think they're at all interested in selling CPUs to others.

Apple waffles and sometimes talks about gaming on Macs, but they lack the commitment that is needed. A lot of people like to buy a game and continue playing it for years, even after the developer went on to something else; or to buy years old games on sale. But you can't expect to run a mac os app compiled three to five years ago that is media and gpu heavy intensive on today's mac os. There will have been mandatory developer updates and it won't work.

Win32 is the only stable desktop ABI... and games need a stable ABI.
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-22 05:48:35+00:00
> it just gives you a facsimile of the inspiration you initially provided and not much more.

This is not at all my experience but I'm also biased currently making a fair enough living off providing software that does just that, using AI.

In favt I'd say that's the key to enjoyable AI experiences, without strong opinions from the person leveraging, the output is rather bland and corporate.
by zahlman | 2025-11-22 05:49:15+00:00
> The average sandwich artist has a tendency to dump the contents of an entire bottle of a given condiment on your sandwich, which I admit, could cause sogginess. This is because they think they are doing you a favor. I often use bold & dramatic hand gestures while bent over slightly, face pressed against the glass enclosure of the sandwich-making zone. "STOP! RIGHT THERE!" I will yell, several times, if necessary. Then again, I assume everyone knows this. Or else now you do.

This is mediated by culture and/or region and/or personal taste. I generally find that they default to fairly reasonable amounts and that their notion of "a little" or "a lot" of a sauce etc. matches mine well enough that I can make it work. The much bigger communication problem is getting them to stop assuming you want lettuce and tomato without being asked.

IMX, soggy sandwiches happen mainly because either the sauce wasn't applied neatly, or because (as you say) there are soggy things on it (the lettuce often has water on it, and condiment sauces add up, not to mention the marinara on pizza/meatball type subs).
by opello | 2025-11-22 05:49:26+00:00
> Their mother had held on to the comic books since she and her brother bought them between the Great Depression and the beginning of World War Two, Heritage said.

It seems unlikely that in that time frame it would have been a 5 digit purchase. It still may have been a significant proportion of liquid cash or net worth though. I think it'd be an interesting detail to have too.
by cyberax | 2025-11-22 05:50:28+00:00
> Suburbs cause more pollution per capita than cities, and you know that.

Nope. Most of the excess pollution is attributable to gas cars, and they're being replaced by EVs. And small/mid-size EVs have less carbon footprint than transit.

> It's not, at all. We 'solved' it by just pushing it somewhere else, and then we actually helped it by making more efficient processes.

We solved the pollution by forcing companies and consumers to clean up their act. And yes, this caused them to be less efficient initially.

> Everything you have - water, concrete, food, electricity - is coming from denser centers.

Now you're just incoherent. Food is coming from dense cities? Electricity is generated in office buildings? Sorry, but no.

> And, speaking of American culture - what you're advocating is very much the status quo.

No, I'm advocating the return to status quo ante, with improvements (EVs, self-driving taxis, remote work).
by H8crilA | 2025-11-22 05:51:08+00:00
I really hope you do or you will talk to someone about yourself again. You deserve it. For example to a counselor/therapist who doesn't even prescribe medication, if you are not interested in that. Off the top of my head these symptoms could match at least a few diagnoses, most of which are treatable, but it's by far not enough information in this post.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-22 05:51:57+00:00
If the child sees nothing but their parents they have no parallax view to assess and learn for themselves. At a public school they will experience many adult teachers & see which they respect for which reasons. Not respecting your teachers but having to get along anyway is also a thing. It just seems horrific to restrict a child to a single relationship that the parents have such control over. Monstrous.
by procinct | 2025-11-22 05:52:28+00:00
I can see their point if it genuinely is just a tracker/journal. It’s effectively just words. Should books that describe sex also be age restricted?

As they raised, games with gacha mechanics and violence receive a lower rating.

I feel the complaint is less about the app receiving that rating and more the flawed logic around how they are categorized given it’s effectively a health and wellness tracker.
by dash2 | 2025-11-22 05:52:39+00:00
Right. It also suggests two possibilities:

1. Maybe the measurements are just very noisy. In which case they may also have other biases. 2. Maybe there are systematic causes which the study didn't capture. If so, controlling for them might change the results.

Sigh. When I see a study headline like this I feel confident about two things. First, the study will have a weak design with no serious attention paid to causality, genetic confounding etc... second, the response to it will be full of people going "yes, that fits my N=1 anecdote" or "no that doesn't fit my N=1 anecdote", in other words, critiquing the weak methodology with an even weaker methodology (handwaving appeals to personal experience).

One reason social science is hard is there isn't much market for the truth. People just want a nice story to tell themselves.
by calebm | 2025-11-22 05:52:51+00:00
I was public schooled Kindergarten, homeschooled 1st-5th, and public schooled 6-12th grade. My wife was 100% homeschooled. I think it was a good mix for me. And in retrospect, I think it was good I was public schooled for at least some of high school, because I'm not sure my math education would have been as good if I was homeschooled during that period (my parents aren't math people).

But I am a math person, and we are homeschooling our 2 boys. My 12-year-old is able to understand mathematical concept and scientific topics that many high schoolers are never even exposed to. My wife does a great job with many other subjects as well. And we have many great homeschooling parents who group together to teach things they are specialized in (like construction, art, etc). Our homeschool group also has a lot of social time for the kids to just play together (mostly outside). It's awesome.

I think the quality of the education depends on the teachers. And a big part of being a good teacher is caring. Hopefully the parents will care more about their kids than any other teacher would. Additionally, we are in the golden age of homeschooling resources (mostly online).

Be very careful what your outsource to others.