MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 12:19:04+00:00
My daughter brings her phone to school with her

- If he bus doesn't show up, she can call and ask us to come drive her to school

- If she wants to go somewhere after school, she can call us and let us know she won't be home at her normal time

- If she forgot something at home, she can call and ask us to bring it

- etc, etc, etc

There's a ton of reasons for her to have her phone on her. Enough so that, when she gets punished with phone removal, we generally still let her bring it to school.

The fact that the phone doesn't contribute to the schooling itself (although it does when she forgets something she needs for school) doesn't mean that it doesn't contribute to QOL overall by being with her at school.
by koolba | 2025-04-30 12:19:20+00:00
> Amazon appears to be responding to the wishes of the President out of fealty or fear.

Ah yes. When a company does something at the ask of a Democratic administration it’s an act of valor or bravery. When they do it at the ask of a Republican one, it’s fear or fealty.

In reality it’s neither. It’s always just business.
by IAmBroom | 2025-04-30 12:19:21+00:00
How would access to food and freedom from hunger, sickness, and homelessness cause war and climate change? We already have enough food; it's poorly distributed. Medicinal challenges aren't solved with substantially more energy; they're solved with more information. Housing: plenty of room on this planet, just not situated between your San Fran tech job and the mall.

War and climate change are not caused by full bellies and healthy spleens, as you claim.

Overpopulation is the last problem to solve, and reproduction trends downwards in affluent, well-educated countries. So, possibly even that is solved by these three benefits.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-30 12:20:00+00:00
Cancel culture at its finest. Look at the company registration address:

Habr Blockchain Publishing Ltd. Diagorou 4 Kermia Building, 6th floor flat/office 601 1097 Nicosia Cyprus

You as a Western customer currently have no way to pay to a Russian legal entity, meaning that VAT and corporate income taxes from your payments are paid in EU and probably supporting Ukraine. I highly doubt that owners repatriate the profits to Russia or they cover operational costs in Russia from foreign income. It is also possible that part of that income goes into salaries of the staff which emigrated after 24.02.2022 and works for Habr remotely, as it happened with many Russian IT companies.

So question is, do you have any specific evidence that your money would fund the war or it is just application of collective responsibility?
by piva00 | 2025-04-30 12:20:24+00:00
The foundation you needed to even attend university was set during basic schooling. As much as you think you "learnt nothing" I don't think there's a way for you to have gone through university by learning absolutely nothing in basic schooling.

Should schools be reformed to better align to contemporary ways of living? Of course, I'm all onboard to have a better education system, finding ways to foster kids inherent curiosities in a less strict and authoritarian way, finding new systems that are both scalable while being more free for kids to pursue their interests at their own rate, and finding a way where every kid might have a decent shared baseline of knowledge to go on into their adult lives.

It doesn't mean tearing down all education, or that current education is useless and teaches nothing. It's inadequate but it's the most valuable asset any society can have, finding better ways to do it is a natural progression to improve it.

I wish the education system had allowed me to not waste countless hours in classrooms listening to lectures that I either had already learned through autodidacticism, or that I wasn't interested in at that moment in time, I had to "re-learn" a bunch of material that was presented in classrooms but I was too uninterested to focus on it at that moment. Still, I don't think it was a total failure, just an education model with flaws that needs to be fixed.
by absqueued | 2025-04-30 12:20:41+00:00
No license, no versioning, barely any documentation, and commit messages like "nothing really."

This isn't a boilerplate — it's a personal sandbox uploaded to GitHub. And with no license file, no one can legally use or modify this anyway.

If you want this to be a real boilerplate that people can use, here's what I would do:

- add a license - write a proper readme - tag the code and make a release - cleanup commit history and make period update

No one expects a side project to be perfect, but if you want this to boilerplate taken seriously - it could use some maintenance.
by edanm | 2025-04-30 12:21:10+00:00
In the sense that many anti-AI articles are shared and upvoted, and many anti-AI or AI-skeptical comments are upvoted. Of course, a lot of pro-AI and AI-enthuisastic content is also shared and commented.

HN has many, many users, and they're not all monolothic, which explains 90% of the questions along these lines that people raise.
by immibis | 2025-04-30 12:21:14+00:00
From what I know about Germany, they don't teach anything about the depths humans can go or how to prevent them recurring. They seem to just learn the Nazis were evil people and as long as you're not one of those, similarly evil things can never happen again. Also because only evil people can do evil things, calling out an evil thing is illegal because it implies someone involved is evil and that's an attack on their honour.

See Germany-Palestine relations. One third of weapons used in the Gaza war are paid for by Germany, and the remaining two thirds by the USA. Other countries contribute negligibly.
by tejohnso | 2025-04-30 12:21:32+00:00
Incompetence is rampant in government jobs. Schools aren't technically government jobs, but there are many similarities in terms of incentives, hiring practice, dismissal difficulty, talent pool, etc.

In any normal (private sector) job, if you can't perform the basic job requirements you get fired or retrained. Maybe you're moved to a different area that better suits your skill set. But you don't just sit in a position for 20 years screwing it up day after day as you see in government / lower education.
by xrdegen | 2025-04-30 12:22:18+00:00
chatGPT voice app can already talk in languages Duolingo doesn't have and will never have on their old path.

They obviously had to do this. It is already over for Duolingo. All we really need is some kind of Anki deck generator with audio and that plus the language model to have conversations with, it is over. They will look like a childish relic of the past.
Ask HN: DAO startup with shares based on commits
by zavg | 2025-04-30 12:22:50+00:00
What do you think about the new kind of model to build startups together (disclaimer: I am just thinking loudly)

It is a DAO on blockchain. - When investing money directly you receive some shares of equity - When doing commits to repo you receive some shares as well - Other activities (like marketing, copyrighting, etc.) could be measured and converted to shares as well
by ecocentrik | 2025-04-30 12:22:53+00:00
If the primary objective of tariffs was really to promote American manufacturing there would be an associated "Made in America" campaign that informed consumers that they're supporting American manufacturing. These types of campaigns are almost always popular and successful. I believe this isn't occurring because increasing American manufacturing is not the only stated objective of Trump's economic policies. His stated secondary objective, replacing revenue from income tax with tariff revenue, conflicts significantly with the first. If enough tariff revenue is never achieved, Trump would not have the excuse or the opportunity to disband the IRS. Informing consumers of their tax burden puts this objective in peril.

If a change in tax policy is the short term goal, is manufacturing a long term goal? Wouldn't a robust manufacturing sector mean decreased tariff revenue? The picture isn't clear because Trump is being very opaque with his policies.
by h2zizzle | 2025-04-30 12:23:19+00:00
That's quite unfair. Trump's support cut across a wide swath of (mostly white) Americans, including educated and/or well-off coastal and Midwest voters. Many, many people who considered themselves well-informed, in the mainstream, and in their right mind, voted for him. And nothing changes until you can convince those people of the truth, which is that they screwed up.
by corimaith | 2025-04-30 12:23:24+00:00
>The western capitalists are now pissed that china didn't "liberalize" and let them take control of the country and are attempting to retaliate. This is why you have imbibed this propaganda that they created.

And this is surely a well balanced opinion and not one shaped by highly ideological forces...

There is nothing particularly wrong with what OP is saying, with the deflationary price wars happening it's very clear they rely on open exports markets to stave off unemployment against their insufficient domestic demand. That itself is only a possibility in a world of free trade fostered in USA, not in a world of mercantalism pre 1945. The ironic thing is that they themselves are trying to suppress the development of India next up in the value-chain.

Anyways, Chinese economists themselves agree for the urgent need to shift to consumption today rather than double down on manufacturing, something that should have done decades ago like Western economists have been urging.
by asadotzler | 2025-04-30 12:23:40+00:00
Computing devices could have done that except the people making them built hellscapes with black hole level gravity to sell us shit we don't need so now we have to treat computing devices like cigarettes and begin limiting their use in meaningful ways and teaching society to shun them, not because they couldn't be amazing, but because they are not now and probably won't be given Big Tech's stranglehold and inherent evil.
by Tade0 | 2025-04-30 12:24:44+00:00
My sister's friend brought a microwave oven once and started making grilled cheese sandwiches during recess. He was told to unplug and never bring it again, but it was not confiscated.

My classmate brought a super-sized calculator to class for tests, as he had a medical condition which allowed him to bring "a calculator". The buttons made a lot of noise but, again, it was not confiscated.
by orwin | 2025-04-30 12:25:31+00:00
In my country, with a minimum wage, highschool students work seasonal jobs (including McDonalds) at a decent pay.

They are hired because it's expected they will only work 2 months, and are needed because we have 5-8 weeks of vacation per year and employers can assign 3 of those (usually in summer, when they hire students).
by probably_wrong | 2025-04-30 12:25:48+00:00
All of those problems can be solved without smartphones, as evidenced by literally every previous generation dealing with them. If anything, my grumpy self would argue that not having means to contact my parents if I forgot something ensured that I paid more attention the night before to what I had to pack.

But I'm open to compromise: let's give children bring dumb phones that can only call and text.
by IAmBroom | 2025-04-30 12:25:59+00:00
Fortunately that choice is pure fiction.

No one has ever solved addiction with slavery, as you suggest. Just the opposite: many addicts have been forced by their addiction and circumstances into sex work, and some abducted sex slaves have been forced into addiction to control them.

You seem to have a rich fantasy about what life is like for the impoverished and addicted.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-04-30 12:26:42+00:00
> The first several years of school is indeed childcare. Childcare mixed with education.

Yes. Former teacher here to tell you I cared about the children. :)

But seriously, in the United States teachers are considered "In loco parentis" which "refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_loco_parentis
by stetrain | 2025-04-30 12:26:56+00:00
I did all of those same things while in school with a Nokia candy bar phone. I did waste some time playing Snake though.

Per the article this is a ban on using smartphones during class time, not a ban on bringing them to school at all.

That seems pretty reasonable to me. When I was in school if a teacher saw you using phone during class you might get one warning and then it was being confiscated.
by testing22321 | 2025-04-30 12:26:57+00:00
For the third time I’m asking what is your definition of real truck. I’m starting to think you don’t have one, you just wanted to diss the cybertruck.

I’m also asking what the f150 lightning does that the cyber truck doesn’t?

Are they both not real trucks? Why/ why not.

When stating your opinion it’s helpful to give reasons and expand your ideas, otherwise you’re just blurting stuff out randomly. Bring people with you, instead of just attacking them when they ask for more clarification.
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 12:27:11+00:00
I'm not sure what brown flour is - at least where I live in the US that is not something I've ever even heard of before.

I know that our whole wheat flour is sometimes bleached. This doesn't change the color (much?), but it kills a number of nasties and thus makes raw flour safer. (you should still never eat raw flour, but if you do bleached is safer... I know many people do eat raw flour, but there are some things can can hurt/kill you if it isn't cooked). I'm not sure if whole wheat is what you mean by brown flour or not.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-30 12:27:24+00:00
That is not a debunking... That's someone running a similar experiment and getting a different result. That would debunk the claim that Teslas can never detect a painted wall. It does not debunk the claim that Teslas will sometimes fail to detect a painted wall.

And in a safety-critical system, the distinction is not mere pedantry.
by snthpy | 2025-04-30 12:27:25+00:00
These days I would like to pair this with a database of the supply chain of products which identifiers were parts are sourced from etc... I could then enter some preferences like "avoid products from countries engaging in genocide" and after scanning such a product it could tell me if a product failed one of my filters.

I did some research towards this end and found some existing tools that could be useful:

- https://github.com/Forceu/barcodebuddy/ (Barcode system for Grocy)

- https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ (Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food choices, and as it is open data, anyone can re-use it for any purpose.)

We tend to think that our only power is at the voting both and there it often feels negligible. I believe that we actually hold a lot of economic power through our consumption choices, especially those of us in first world economies or with higher income. Not only could this be more influential that casting a vote every four or five years, but it actually gives you the opportunity to express a much more nuanced view rather than picking one of two (or a handful of) politicians who represent a portfolio of policies that might not be that different from each other (thus offering no real choice) or where you have to pick the lesser of two evils (thus implicitly endorsing policies you disagree with). Currently this economic power is largely squandered (except for extreme cases like boycotts), like misaligned magnetic dipoles in a ferromagnet cancelling each other out in the absence of an external magnetic field. If instead we could get all the individuals to align, consumers in the economic force case or atomic or molecular magnetic dipoles in the magnetism case, then the same collection of individuals is able to produce a powerful force field with real effects.
by simiones | 2025-04-30 12:28:19+00:00
For the bigger open source projects, companies who use that code for making money. Such as Microsoft and Google and IBM (and many others) supporting Linux because they use it extensively. The same answer may end up applying to these models though - if they really become something that gets integrated into products and internal workflows, there will be a market for companies to collaborate on maintaining a good implementation rather than competing needlessly.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-30 12:28:47+00:00
> currently illegally distributing the TikTok app in their platforms

What's the text of the law about this? Was there a free speech lawsuit over it, or is state censorship of the app store fine now? Just asking because in another thread someone is complaining that EU doesn't have free speech compared to the US.

(edit: wow, we're already flagged off the front page, huh)
by dkersten | 2025-04-30 12:28:51+00:00
But the reality is that all things aren’t equal and you can’t fix all of those things, not in a way that is practical. You’d have to run everything serially (or at least in a way you can guarantee identical order) and likely emulated so you can guarantee identical precision and operations. You’ll be waiting a long time for results.

Sure, it’s theoretically deterministic, but so are many natural processes like air pressure, or the three body problem, or nuclear decay, if only we had all the inputs and fixed all the variables, but the reality is that we can’t and it’s not particularly useful to say that well if we could it’d be deterministic.
by cudder | 2025-04-30 12:28:59+00:00
I always felt like the teaching method in primary school was very much like "no pupil left behind". Teachers really tried their best to keep everyone up to speed on what they taught. If you were a huge troublemaker or just couldn't keep up with the (slowish) pace you would get moved to a special class where you would get more attention (even smaller class sizes) and wouldn't slow the rest of the group down.

As a "smart kid" it sometimes felt like waiting for everyone in class to grok something before moving on was a waste of time and that personally I'd learn very little, but ultimately I think it worked very well to ensure that everyone was on common ground.

At some point it was deemed that the current system wasn't inclusive enough so the special education for the troublemakers was gutted and they were put back into regular classrooms. At the same time, due to lack of funding and lack of teachers, class sizes ballooned from <15 to up to 30 or even 40 students per class in larger cities. I think there's some critical point where that system breaks down and now we're past it. The teacher has too many students to make sure everyone is up to speed, and giving too much individual attention in such a large class wastes everyone else's time.

Immigration has also played a role I think. Finland used to be quite monocultural, but that has changed. There are now more and more students who speak Finnish as their second or third language and as such have trouble keeping up. I don't think the solution is to stuff them into their own schools either as that promotes segregation and makes integrating into the society as an immigrant harder, and I don't pretend to know the perfect solution (if one even exists), but one thing's for sure: the Finnish school system was 100% unprepared for it.
by eviks | 2025-04-30 12:29:04+00:00
> But focusing on solid defaults and then opening up with options seems to make sense.

Since everything is entirely preferential, you can't claim the current defaults are solid

> As the kids say, "let them cook".

They had decades to cook

> I sure prefer an iterative release over even more delay on such a widely requested feature

This is just another bad excuse (and also universal), especially since the current design is more complicated (due to the extra UI element), so likely took more time to implement. Sometimes better is faster.

> You can start by measuring actual width instead of making up tiny numbers.

> And you don't think the designers and engineers at Mozilla did this and simply interpret a different benchmark from you?

How is this relevant to you making up 5px?

> challenge trying to accommodate such a range

There is no challenge here, waste becomes apparent as soon as you reach 100% width, 100 or 40k tabs doesn't matter.

> average tab count maintained is on the lower side.

You've said nothing specific here. What % of users have tabs that don't fit tab bar width? And which % counts as "anyone" from your perspective?
by xtiansimon | 2025-04-30 12:30:57+00:00
> “Calls for such research became louder in the 2000s. As visitation to national parks and forests increased, and climate change and human development put more pressure on public lands, the need for evidence-based approaches to human impacts became stark […] In 2009, the director of the National Park Service hired its first official science adviser.”

Sounds like necessary work— creative and effective management. I dont envy the choices.

I live now in NY we have the privilege of wilderness dispersed camping. In some of those areas you will find designated campsites.

I planned and took a camping trip to PA and they don’t have wilderness camping. Everything is designated AND they require reservation.

Some of the areas I go to in NY have these old outhouses. Kinda sketchy. There are some areas where the use pressure is high, and they don’t even have the sketchy outhouses. There you may find areas 100 feet from designated campsite a surrounded by a sea of toilet paper tufts.

In PA, when you reserve your spot, the reservation system directs you to odd or even numbered sites to reduce pressure and let the ecosystem recover. And the outhouse I found on my trip was literally a brick s#!thouse.

I think I can say peeps in PA have upped their game.

While I like the opportunity to do wilderness camping, of what I’ve seen in NY, unmanaged sites suck.
by rfrey | 2025-04-30 12:31:15+00:00
The other thing I'm surprised people (by which I mean makers of youtube videos) seem to worry overmuch about is feeding the starter. Everyone gets out the scale and has some view on ratios - 20g flour to 35.23g water or whatever.

Put a heaping tablespoon of flour in the starter, add enough water to make a paste, stir and you're done. Not enough water? Add a bit more. Too much water? Meh, add a bit less tomorrow.
by dagw | 2025-04-30 12:31:42+00:00
The levels of added fluoride are very low, it's been well studied at this point.

If you want to steel man the argument you should point out that the maximum allowed fluoride levels in US are quite a bit higher than in, for example the EU (on the order of 3 times higher), and that some recent studies have indicated some potential health risks for young children who consume a lot of water around the very top end of what the US allows.

Of course the correct response to this is to overhaul the recommendations and lower the maximum allowed levels, not to issue state wide bans.