MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apparent | 2025-09-10 18:05:01+00:00
You're sort of not allowed to mention culture in the context of education. Otherwise people might realize that different cultural groups have very divergent education outcomes. For example, Asian students study 2x as much as white students and 3x as much as black students. It is likely not unrelated that Asian students have much better educational outcomes, regardless of class. For example, Asian students whose parents have no HS degree perform better on the SAT than black students whose parents have a doctoral degree.
by kulahan | 2025-09-10 18:05:20+00:00
Worth mentioning that literally any video under 60 seconds is forced to be a short, which is that stupid type of YouTube video where they remove a bunch of controls and make the overall experience miserable.

So maybe that’s pushing longer-form content as well. Some people making 30 second videos moves to 90 second ones to avoid the bad format, this crowds the format and pushes others up as well?

Totally talking out of my ass here.
by losvedir | 2025-09-10 18:05:43+00:00
Huh, that shocks me. I'd say half my day my phone is on my desk here. I'll occasionally swipe/tap it to deal with notifications and various other things.

But I came up using Nexus/Pixels, which had an "always on" display very early, a great UI around "glanceability" putting all kinds of useful and interesting things front and center, a much better Swipe keyboard, and a much more functional notifications experience, so maybe that trained this behavior.

Do you not? Do you just... leave your phone in your pocket all day?
by constantcrying | 2025-09-10 18:06:09+00:00
But in how many cases is the "why" more important than the "how"?

People can drive a car, without understanding any of the mechanical and electrical systems of a car. In fact understanding these does essentially nothing for what most people use a car for.

>If you can’t produce a comprehensive answer with confidence and on the whim the second you read the question, you don’t have the sufficient background knowledge.

And then what? Why would this matter at all? You can successfully use a workout schedule without understanding what its strengths and weaknesses are and how they align with your goals.
by delichon | 2025-09-10 18:06:25+00:00
I think you would get over that perception if you attempted to live in a primitive style for a while. Hunting and gathering food while avoiding predators, finding mates, and staying warm is as complex as anything we do routinely in the modern world.

And even if it were less complex under some rubric, the complexity of such primitive skills is still more than sufficient to saturate our capacity for it.
by amluto | 2025-09-10 18:06:29+00:00
I disagree, strongly. Here are the relevant docs:

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_...

I would like to see an explicit discussion of what permissions are needed for what operation. I would also like to see a clearly specified model in which backups can be created in a bucket with less than full permissions and, even after active attack by an agent with those same permissions, one can enumerate all valid backups in the bucket and be guaranteed to be able to correctly restore any backup as long as one can figure out which backup one wants to restore.

Instead there are random guides on medium.com describing a configuration that may or may not have the desired effect.
by DanTheManPR | 2025-09-10 18:06:47+00:00
I'm much younger than you, but I had the experience of having a difficult-to-find-info-on-the-internet subject for a high school paper, and the opporunity to researching the subject at a well stocked library. There was a lot of friction to the process that I wasn't used to, but the serendipity aspect was absolutely revelatory. There is something fundamentally unfiltered about walking past shelves of books with titles on subjects you never even knew existed.
by maeln | 2025-09-10 18:07:10+00:00
> France is in trouble because people don't want to face the math.

I disagree, a lot of people here are quite aware that we are in very difficult financial situation, from all side of the political spectrum. The main issue is that there is a very big disagreement on how to solve it (i.e how/who to tax more, and where to cut spending). And with a fragmented national assembly, everything is at a deadlock right now.
by jtbayly | 2025-09-10 18:07:16+00:00
Sorry if I wasn’t clear initially. The point is that women should not stay home. Yes, this is “fully gendered” because reality is fully gendered. Far and away the majority of childcare is performed by women. Always has been. Always will be.

The emphasis on jobs over children as where we want women’s energy, time, and attention to go is what is being demonstrated by this policy. We will pay you to leave your children with others. We will not pay you to take care of your children.

Why anybody thinks this will result in more children being born is beyond me. Sure, it might make it “easier” in some sense to have children, but what it teaches is job > children, and that is going to result in people learning to deprioritize children. As intended.
by AndrewLiptak | 2025-09-10 18:07:20+00:00
Something I've noticed with academics of all stripes is that they don't always recognize that not everybody shares their assumptions / views / insights / knowledge, and that's not a good mindset to go into building an exhibit or interactive.

You have to understand your audience, not design them. I frequently hear from folks who stop by our museum who tell me that they haven't been to ours since they were a kid, and they're generally not someone who keeps up with the field. I don't like the phrase "dumbing down", but it's something that we need to do in order to reach patrons.
by paulnpace | 2025-09-10 18:07:26+00:00
> Waymo has been a good actor in every way I can think of so far. They're transparent, their expansion is cautiously paced, and their safety record exceeds that of human drivers. I'm not sure what more we could ask for. Tesla on the other hand seems determined to put cars on the road ASAP and just hope for the best, but local regulatory hurdles seem to have stopped them for the most part. Zoox, from what I can tell, is taking the Waymo approach.

Why change the topic to safety?
by rglover | 2025-09-10 18:08:15+00:00
> My guess is that this will happen in the US soon as well.

As it should. The younger generations have been and are actively being fleeced by the older generations. The scary part is that it's all but flaunted at this point, with the tactic of choice being to gaslight younger people into thinking it's all their fault. That's the stuff of revolution and frankly, I think it will do the U.S. a world of good to see that level of rebellion.
by nicce | 2025-09-10 18:08:23+00:00
Yeah, I have unsubscribed/stopped viewing many specific creators because of this.

They start cycling content and using innovative ways to make videos artificially longer. Some videos of have "what this video is about" and "Summary" sections which can be even half of the video length in total. Sponsored sections are getting longer. There are longer pauses and less editing. The list goes on.
by 3RTB297 | 2025-09-10 18:08:37+00:00
You know, it's possible the cure to an adversarial internet is to just have some non-profit serve as a repo for a universal clearnet index that anyone can access to build their own search engine. That way we don't have endless captchas and anubis and Cloudflare tests every time I try and look for a recipe online. Why send AI scrapers to crawl literally everything when you're getting the data for free?

I'll add it to the mile-long list of things that should exist and be online public goods.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-10 18:08:48+00:00
Yeah, I had a chance a few months back when I was the backup programmer in a game development hackathon and my team was developing with Unity which uses C#. It was fun.

People talk about tradeoffs with GC, the worst one is that I've seen an occasional game that has a terrible GC pause, for instance Dome Keeper based on Godot which also runs in .NET. I used play a lot of PhyreEngine (also .NET) games on the Playstation Vita and never noticed GC pauses but I think those games did a gc on every frame instead of letting the garbage pile up.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-09-10 18:09:07+00:00
Article 4 is practically a call to discussion.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49187.htm

All the saber rattling is worrying because it seems like people have forgotten this portion from UN Charter: “… save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind …”

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text
by royvijay | 2025-09-10 18:09:28+00:00
We’ve been noticing something interesting as AI copilots become common in software teams: they generate a lot of production code, but when incidents happen, Ops teams still have to manually investigate. From our conversations with SREs, ~80% of incidents are still being dug through by humans, even though many originate from AI-generated modules that devs don’t fully understand themselves.

We wrote up a short post on why this gap exists and what might be next. Curious if others here are seeing the same?

https://medium.com/@vijayroy786/why-ops-teams-cant-keep-up-w...
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-09-10 18:09:29+00:00
At least one wealthy family in NYC I met doesn't use surface transport for much... they use helicopters or have things/people/shopping/restaurants brought to them.

Had an experience where a store sent tailors, stylists, a manager, and a ton of inventory so that they could clothes shop while still in their home. Apparently, this was "normal". My shock was a source of great amusement to them.

They did the same thing with restaurants, movies, concerts, even a play... the staff, etc. came to them.

I have no idea just how wealthy they were (Brazilian who owned many businesses in oil and gas production) but I had never seen (or even heard of) such service.
by moralestapia | 2025-09-10 18:09:32+00:00
>It's powerful but dangerous, and is intended for developers who understand how to safely configure and test connectors.

Right in the opening paragraph.

Some people can never be happy. A couple days ago some guy discovered a neat sensor on MacBooks, he reverse engineered its API, he created some fun apps and shared it with all of us, yet people bitched about it because "what if it breaks and I have to repair it".

Just let doers do and step aside!
by cogman10 | 2025-09-10 18:09:42+00:00
This sort of post really makes me appreciate what's gone into the JVM. A lot of these optimizations are things that the JVM has long implemented. That's not a knock on C# either. Besides the JVM the only other place you'll see these sorts of optimizations are the likes of V8.

It makes me happy to see MS investing in C# like this. I love the notion of having competing VMed languages.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-10 18:10:01+00:00
There is no paying by users - which is replaced by ads. But in my experience the number of ads on YouTube sky-rocketed. I had no problem watching 15 seconds of an ad, skipping and then watching the rest of the video. But I used to watch long-form videos - and now I have skip ads every 7-8 minutes.

I almost stopped watching YT. In the few instances I watch I will for a8 minutes or so and at the first ad I am leaving. I am wondering if behavior like this explains the drop in views, but the fact that revenue stayed the same....
by constantcrying | 2025-09-10 18:10:14+00:00
>Still, I think we should keep books as available to citizens as possible.

I agree. But it is obviously far more cost effective and useful to have that access be digital first.

Do not understand me wrong, I like physical books. But for doing research it is almost always preferable to have the books be available digitally. And students should learn to make use of that.
by bwb | 2025-09-10 18:10:50+00:00
That is why you have capital gains, which is ~30% in France.

Investment income is flat taxed.

And inheritance taxes, which are very high in France.

If you want to increase taxes, consider taxing income more and capital gains at a progressive rate. Although I haven't seen good data on effects of say a 70% capital gain tax, might hurt th,e economy. I did some reading on this subject last month and the sweetspot was around 20% to 35% on that classification of income.

Do you want to take people's wealth and cap it? IE, nobody is allowed more than $5 million? What are you advocating for instead?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 18:10:56+00:00
> An ugly painting doesn't become any more interesting to me when I learn about the struggles the artist went through

Personal struggles? Sure. An ugly painting that opens the door to me learning about a war or revolution or system of government I was previously unaware of? Or a style or medium enabled by a new technology of the time? That can be fun.

I live near a large collection of wildlife art. I can't say many of them are beautiful. But noting how wolves have been portrayed over millenia, and across cultures, was a genuinely interesting exhibit. (In America, they went from ferocious creatues to essentially dogs. Most wolves in art today are not physiologically wolves. Akin to how most butterflies in art are dead.)
by cpach | 2025-09-10 18:11:04+00:00
Haven’t seen much interest for Klarna here on HN which I find slightly surprising.

Now the IPO is completed: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-b...

The rise of Klarna has been a bit controversial to say the least, but still, this is big news for the Swedish tech scene. I guess a bunch of Swedish tech folks have become incredibly wealthy because of this IPO. Here’s hoping that a big chunk of that money gets re-invested in new startups and other exciting projects in Sweden!
by jerlam | 2025-09-10 18:11:12+00:00
I poked around on their site and read the press releases; Zoox seems to be limited to only pickups and dropoffs at a few set locations.

> Simply open the Zoox app to take a ride from several destinations on and around the Strip.

This puts it dramatically behind Waymo where I can walk out on any block in the coverage area and tell it to take me to any other block in the coverage area, not to mention Uber and Lyft.

I'm sure Zoox can improve this, but right now it resembles a self-driving shuttle more than a taxi service.
by graemep | 2025-09-10 18:11:17+00:00
> If you want science for grownups, you have conferences.

Adults outside a field do not go to conferences.

> As for art museums, the problem is that they are usually just exhibitions, and to be honest, that's boring, especially if you are a kid.

Some kids are interested in art. It can be well presented. You can have guided tours aimed at kids.
by inhumantsar | 2025-09-10 18:11:46+00:00
I've seen that same figure for YT ad revenue alone. sponsorships can range from $0.015-0.030 per video for channels with 1k to 50k subscribers.

at a biweekly cadence, they'd need ~6M views per video to hit $150k with ads alone. if you figure another $0.025 per view for sponsorships, then they would need 6M views per year or about 240K per video.

looking at Patreon stats, it seems reasonable to assume that a channel with 25K subscribers could pull in about 1K Patreon subs with effort. if each is paying $5/mo, then that would add another $60K/yr in revenue (though I imagine a lot of that would get eaten up by fees and extra costs.
by losvedir | 2025-09-10 18:11:52+00:00
I do this all the time, but I switched to iPhone only this year after a decade as a Nexus/Pixel user. I really wonder if this behavior comes from people who got accustomed to using phones with iOS vs Android, because it's certainly much more frustrating on iPhone.

Basically, whenever I sit down at my desk, I always have my phone sitting there, too. That's how I keep tabs on my personal life during work. But it works much better in Android:

* The Always On display came to Pixels a long time ago, so it was very useful to have your lock screen showing the date, time, and what sort of notifications you have.

* The notification management is just light years better in Android, so you don't have to even unlock your phone all the time to see what's going on.

* The Swiping keyboard was introduced a long time ago in Android, and is far superior in my experience, to the iPhone one, so it's pretty tolerable to type up quick things with the phone lying flat on the surface.

I'm actually kind of surprised that you don't interact with your phone on a desk or table. Do you just leave it in your pocket all day? Do you leave it on your desk, too, but just find it too cumbersome to deal with there and are constantly picking it up?
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 18:11:59+00:00
I know about reference libraries, government libraries, etc. -- believe me. I use them professionally.

It sounds like you had an exceptional high school library. On the other hand, my high school "librarians" knew how to check books out and shelve them when they were returned and that was pretty much it. And this was one of the best high schools in the area, one of only two that had AP classes.

So my original comment was questioning the utility of book lending in high school libraries specifically. And specifically asking if the focus shouldn't be on public libraries instead, where they do have the funding to hire actual real librarians and put together book collections that are actually decent.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-10 18:12:33+00:00
Mostly to play firefighters and many countries in Europe, business people actually rather not deal directly with offshoring teams in English.

Which is what the on site team does, besides firefighting, handling the cultural interface.

For many businesses even if it looks a failure from engineering point of view, as long as it is within the budget, many businesses see it as a success, versus having paid a whole team onsite.
by ergonaught | 2025-09-10 18:12:34+00:00
The actual central point is that the brain requires conditioning via experience. That shouldn't be controversial, and I can't decide if the general replies here are an extended and ironic elaboration of his point or not.

If you never memorize anything, but are highly adept at searching for that information, your brain has only learned how to search for things. Any work it needs to do in the absence of searching will be compromised due to the lack of conditioning/experience. Maybe that works for you, or maybe that works in the world that's being built currently, but it doesn't change the basic premise at all.
by logicchains | 2025-09-10 18:12:41+00:00
Total French private wealth is around $15 trillion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_pri... ), French government spending is around $1.8 trillion/year. Even if the French government were to expropriate the entirety of private wealth, it wouldn't even be enough to cover 10 years of spending. Fundamentally the French economy isn't producing enough to support the current level of spending, due to a continuously falling ratio of workers to retirees.
by lrvick | 2025-09-10 18:12:47+00:00
Fair. I should have expanded.

If everyone signed commits with well published keys, -and- if NPM would stop rejecting every PR and feature request for clients to verify signatures from authors that opt in, this problem would not exist for packages from those authors.

Unfortunately the official position of NPM since 2013 is that hashes solve the same security problem as signatures and that the signatures might make non signing package authors second class citizens. So no security for anyone, to avoid scaring off lazy maintainers.

https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/4016
by masklinn | 2025-09-10 18:12:52+00:00
while the article does not provide specific dates for the “prehistory” the Not Rocket Science piece refers to an automated integration system working circa 2000~2001:

> February 2 2014, 22:25 […] Thirteen years ago I worked at Cygnus/RedHat […] Ben, Frank, and possibly a few other folks on the team cooked up a system [with a] simple job: automatically maintain a repository of code that always passes all the tests.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 18:13:02+00:00
Lol. Yes. I honestly thought it was TicToc, which is funny because the title of the story we're commenting on clearly says "TikTok." Actually an honest mistake. Not an attempt at some snide linguistic side-eye.

That's cool to hear there's some wheat among the chaff. Seems like most technology comes with swings and roundabouts. My suspicion is it's simultaneously wonderful and horrible. That's how I remember the year I was on Twitter. I'm going out of my way to avoid installing the app cause I know my self-control isn't as strong as I often pretend it is. But I'll look for @etymologynerd on other platforms.
by juhovh | 2025-09-10 18:13:06+00:00
I actually use the non-mobile Flint 2 myself at home, and it's one of the devices in my tailnet. I worked with their engineers on the forums to get better IPv6 support for their WireGuard tunnels. Running both Tailscale and WireGuard on it can mess up the routing at times though, so I prefer to stick to just either or.

It's a bit unfortunate they decided to go with Broadcom for their Flint 3 router, since Broadcom is known to not play well with open source. One of the reasons I got Flint 2 was its Mediatek chip, since stock OpenWRT support for that should get reasonably good eventually. They're all still way more open than TP-Link Decos.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-10 18:13:45+00:00
> There's also not a nuclear physics Snowden, or F-47 Snowden, do you think there's nothing to leak?

There might be, but even if there was, a leak in those fields would still have no bearing on whether or not there are actual things to leak regarding UAPs.

Maybe the info is simply not public because publishing it would let the very likely other humans responsible for said UAPs know that we do and don't know what they're up to.

And it could also be that that info on UAPs isn't leaked because (unlike the Snowden leaks), they aren't actually relevant to Americans and to their liberties, and so the people who have access to that info see no point in leaking it.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-09-10 18:14:03+00:00
I found the density of Manhattan oppressive and stifling. Coming from Wrigleyville, in Chicago, it felt very impersonal and alienating.

I ended up buying a house in an internal suburb (a former suburb from the 1930s that had been swallowed by the city) that is also a historic neighborhood (so it's character cannot be destroyed by developers).
by bwb | 2025-09-10 18:14:12+00:00
I have not seen any solutions by either the left or the right that mathematically solve it. In fact, the last time I checked, the far right was advocating for a lower retirement age and increased spending.

The left seems to want things we all want, but we're unsure how to afford them. They never seem to have math to back it up as taxes can only go up so much, and they are already some of the highest as a percentage of GDP in the world.

Can you point me to a real proposed solution by either side?
by verzali | 2025-09-10 18:14:20+00:00
Mm, the constant strikes are not a positive. I was not able to attend a funeral of a close friend because of a strike, for example. And other strikes, though not all, are very hard to explain why they are happening. Plus, the damage from the last time the burned the centre of city I live in now still hasn't been fixed. I just hope they don't burn it again in the next few weeks.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-10 18:14:27+00:00
Also at the end of the day, humans aren't machines. We are goopy meat and chemistry.

You cannot exclusively do hard things back to back to back every 8 hour day without fail. It will either burn you out, or you will make mistakes, or you will just be miserable.

Human brains do not want to think hard, because millions of years of evolution built brains to be cheap, and they STILL use like 10% of our daily energy.