MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 16:53:39+00:00
Of course it affects your situation. It’s paid for from taxes so it takes away from other things you as a taxpayer could have, right? But also if the goal is to incentivize raising children, someone who wants to raise their child in a family centric way rather than outsourcing it should have help too right?

But leaving those arguments aside, I also think that only subsidizing daycare is too one size fits all, just like with public schools. If people want to raise their kids differently, they should be able to get assistance. Like if I want to not have a single daycare provider but want to instead take my kids to a few different activities during the day (like to a museum and then a swim class and then baseball or whatever), why shouldn’t tax funds be made available to offset the costs of those things?
by erikgaas | 2025-09-09 16:53:42+00:00
Right. I agree, but I think you are appealing to generosity when it works just as well if you appeal to greed and selfishness.

If I'm a parent who does not intend to take advantage of the program and therefore not to get any benefit directly, and I assume the program is done well and not rushed, I could reasonably expect:

- More parents able to be in the work force (immediately) - Better metrics for the young children entering. Especially for at risk. - Savings from less crime in the future. - Higher attainment of students when they enter the work force later. - Higher birth rate??? (probably not but this one is interesting regardless)

My understanding so far is that this leads to spending savings in addition to QOL of life improvements. And that's just for me. I want to live with less crime and less tax liability.

Asking for additional waivers imo just increases the cost in areas that will not as directly achieve the benefits of the program as stated. The only reason to ask for it is as a negotiation tactic.

I think the most important thing is to focus on the quality of the program and make sure the resources are there. And to make sure opportunities persist to prevent "fade out". I think that might have been the difference between Oklahoma's success in pre-k vs a program in Tennessee.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-09 16:53:54+00:00
> Charter schools have been the best bang for the buck.

That is a lot easier when you can require a transcript from the prospective student, review it, and say, "Uh, no thank you".

There's a private technical college near here that offers EMT and paramedic training. They "guarantee" "100% success in certification and registration" for their students.

How do they get there? They boot students out after they fail (<80%) their second test in the class.

I'm not necessarily opposed to such a policy. It is, however, intellectually dishonest of them to try to tout it as a better school for that reason. Charter schools are free to reject students who will bring their grade averages down.
by jcrawfordor | 2025-09-09 16:53:56+00:00
I wouldn't take these Truth in Accounting reports too seriously. They're linked to ALEC and take a very hard-right stance on fiscal issues, and in particular, this report on NM (which is also nearly five years old) seems to ignore the permanent funds---as best I can tell they are lumping them all under "restricted" and ignoring them, even though the land grant permanent fund, the largest of them, is totally at the discretion of the legislature and the others are very broad. The permanent funds are also now significantly larger than that report shows.

While NM has debt it has been servicing it fine and state revenue has increased year over year pretty much since that report was produced in 2020 (either 2020 or 2021 were the worst years for the state's financial position). It's projected that 2025 will close out with nearly $3.5 billion in unspent revenue, and the state has about $50 billion saved in various permanent funds. The state's financial situation is currently so good that it has allowed things like universal free college tuition in a largely revenue-neutral way due to the significant balance of the invested funds.

One of the main criticisms you will hear of the NM legislative on the fiscal front is that they are too hesitant to spend money, since NM has serious issues with underperformance in areas like education while also having billions of savings that could be spent down in an effort to address those issues (and in fact the state supreme court more or less mandated the state to start doing so several years ago). However, since NM's revenue is so tied to the oil and gas industry and its boom-and-bust nature, the legislature likes to keep a substantial cash reserve to manage the bust years. That may be particularly important right now as the Trump administration is radically reducing the amount of federal funding that NM receives, which has always been a critical revenue source due to the state's high level of poverty (third highest in the US or so, depending on year and how you measure).
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-09 16:54:04+00:00
I don’t see where race comes in, necessarily.

We just need to compare with country of origin performance. If a family relocates from a place with low scores to a place with high scores, can you explain why you think we would expect their scores to rapidly increase to match the new place? I can think of many factors that would work against this that have nothing to do with race or genetics.

If the study is not controlled for this, then the education system at large may not have the kind of problem we would think about if we ignored this aspect. That seems pretty important to the discussion, I think?
by x0x0 | 2025-09-09 16:54:15+00:00
I watched a presentation from Stripe internal eng that was given I forget where.

An internal engineer there who did a bunch of security work phished like half of her own company (testing, obviously). Her conclusion, in a really well-done talk, was that it was impossible. No human measures will reduce it given her success at a very disciplined, highly security conscious place.

The only thing that works is yubikeys which prevent this type of credential + 2fa theft phishing attack.

edit:

karla burnette / talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z20XNp-luNA
by rpcope1 | 2025-09-09 16:54:21+00:00
I agree with you except the part about the policy making a dent. Scandinavian countries have all sorts of "universal childcare" and benefits, and their TFR is still going straight into the shitter. All this talk about expanding the GDP and going towards total workforce participation IMO is why family formation is slowing to a crawl (I mean look at South Korea, where it's all about being a workaholic and they basically will cease to exist in maybe 50-100 years, literally). If we want to continue as a nation or entity of people, I believe the people and the government are going to need to put their thumb on the scale in a way more aggressive way, including both childcare credits for all, paying stay at home parents a salary, major cultural changes (including our own version of the Soviet Mother Heroine/Order of Parental Glory that carry real status with them, perhaps), and economic and cultural pushback on being a DINK or similar. We have no future the way we're going, and these sort of policy interventions have been tried elsewhere and they don't do shit. We really have got to rethink a lot of things, in a way that's probably painful or irritating to the readership here, otherwise we're basically done.
by chabons | 2025-09-09 16:54:26+00:00
Intuitively, I can understand that English Second Language students would struggle in classes other than English, but are the demographics really shifting enough to explain the drop in attainment shown in the article?

The best demographic data I can find is here: https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/103-child-population...

The best data I can find on language spoken at home is here: https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/81-children-who-spea...

The above shows the share of "Non-Hispanic White alone" children (who I'll assume speak English as a first language) going from 52% to 48% from 2015-2024, and the percentage of "Children who speak a language other than English at home" staying flat at 22% from 2013-2023. From 2015-2024, math attainment goes from 62% to 55%.

At a glance, it would seem that the shift in math attainment cannot be explained by demographics/language alone.
by brnaftr361 | 2025-09-09 16:54:32+00:00
I think you have a point, at the resolution of personal liability shit is and has been cooked. Without being able to hold people to account for their misdeeds, misdeeds are de facto allowed and especially when you can obfuscate information. It's Goodhart's law in action, the sector looks good because we're shooting for targets in a heuristic measure but the reality is glum.

Worse is when fundamentals are [effectively] meaningless and everyone is a betting and hoping to pass it on to the greatest fool, even worse when that greater fool is the general public who are too with their own lives to fixate on the intractable nuances of the effects that Algerian hornet slayers are having on the price of tangerines which is buoying banana prices in Rwanada because legislation was passed last week in Kentucky.

Paradoxically, scale and complexity, but also psuedocomplexity (read:obscurantism) drive us towards these heuristics and effectively incentivise deeper cycles of Goodhart derangement. I expect this is a peculiar aspect of America's largess, though. The American cultural diaspora is actually pretty diverse from my experience.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-09-09 16:54:38+00:00
I regularly have this happen:

1. Ask Claude to fix something

2. It fails to fix the issue

3. I tell it that the fix didn’t work

4. It reverts its failed fix and tells me everything is working now.

This is like finding a decapitated body, trying to bring it back to life by smooshing the severed head against the neck, realizing that didn’t bring them back to life, dropping the head back on the ground, and saying, “There; I’ve saved them now.”
by therobots927 | 2025-09-09 16:54:40+00:00
I think we're in agreement. Personally I compare Trump and the project 2025 folks as nazis probably once a week in casual conversation. But it bothers me when I see neoliberals saying that and ignoring Palestine. So I think it depends on the comtext, so maybe I'm just being pedantic. But I do think there are edge cases where it's been counterproductive:

> For example, my views on the Trump regime doesn't reliably indicate my views about IDF.

This is true. But the reverse is not: Someone's views on the IDF do reliably indicate their views on ICE (opposed to both).

The Democrat leadership abdicated their moral high ground when they refused to halt arms sales to Israel. Biden never stood up to Netanyahu like he should have.

So their words about facism ring hollow now. And they are the ones that diluted the Nazi comparison.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-09 16:54:43+00:00
I'm not sure I follow, but I'm open to being wrong. The point of this subsidy is not to encourage people to move from paid-childcare to stay-at-home. That's a totally separate economic decision. The point of it is to ease/eliminate the burden of those who require paid-childcare.

If we think there is a societal advantage to financially incentivize parents to stay-at-home with a subsidy, I'd be open to looking at the cost/benefit, but it's a different issue.

And I am not significantly worse off if my neighbor's childcare burden is lifted. Not every tax dollar I spend needs to come back to me in the form of a benefit.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-09 16:55:24+00:00
Well if you were following sound financial advice and understand the economics from an Austrian perspective you'd likely be diversified into several equal buckets with one of those buckets designed to offset the losses. You do this when it doesn't matter because you can never time the market. No one can.

In the case of inflation/stagflation it would be physical assets that increase in value under such circumstances. Gold/Silver meet this, as do many other assets. Under such environments counterparty-risk must be carefully evaluated.

All of your mentioned standard strategies have opaque and significant banking counter-party risk. There are also details such as the YTM loophole where the assets you hold may not have been marked to market (when interest rates go up).

This is particularly true of any bonds, or bond backed securities, and the leverage involved in many such markets is next to impossible to discern, and as a result the average advice of passive investment breaks down towards losses in the near term but not long-term.

None of this is financial advice, just reiterating things people should already know about. The stock market's synthetic share problem coupled with dark pools, and the commodity market's (COMEX) fail to delivers and failure to loadout (physical delivery), are things to know about. Unspecified risk from bad actors.

Its all paper with substantial counter-party risk until you hold it in your hands.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-09 16:55:34+00:00
>Most parents just watch TV, stare at their phones and don't want to be bothered by anything that requires effort

This lazy "answer" to every parenting problem makes me roll my eyes nowadays. It's the equivalent of an umbrella hypothesis, a convenient excuse for not having to consider things in-depth, further justified by seeing parents when they are taking a break and assuming they're always like that.
by mjr00 | 2025-09-09 16:55:47+00:00
I feel like you're being pedantic here and transforming the statement "X is one of the best of all time" into "X is one of the top N of all time", where N is a number you've arbitrarily picked to exclude X. To go back to sports analogies, this entire comment thread has been analogous to:

Person: "Who was Kobe Bryant, why does anyone care that he died?"

Me: "He was one of the best basketball players of all time."

You: "No he wasn't. Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Oscar Robertson, and LeBron James are better."

Like, yeah your statement may be true. I, too, can pick N such that Hollow Knight is not in my top N games, because it's not my #1 all-time favorite game[0]. However, in the context of "why does anyone care about the sequel to Hollow Knight?" it's fair to say that many people consider it one of the best games of all time. It doesn't really matter that you, personally, may rank it behind 10, 15, or even 50 games.

[0] That title belongs to Doom 2.
by ziml77 | 2025-09-09 16:55:54+00:00
What's also frustrating is not knowing if I've walked into an area that is hard because I'm not really supposed to be there yet or if it's hard because I'm just trash at the game. I ran in circles for way too long at the start of the game because I kept thinking I was going the wrong way due to entering a different named zone without finding any objective in the first zone and also due to the enemies in that new zone feeling awkward to fight, like I was missing an ability.
by probably_wrong | 2025-09-09 16:55:54+00:00
The first comment claims that Anthropic "are having to quantise the models to keep up with demand", to which the parent comment agrees with "This can't be understated". So based on this discussion so far Anthropic has [1] great models, [2] models that used to be great but now aren't due to quantization, [3] models that used to be great but now aren't due to a bug, and [4] models that constantly feel like a "bait and switch".

This most definitely feels like people analyzing the output of a random process - at this point I am feeling like I'm losing my mind.

(As for the phrasing I was quoting the OP, who I believe took it in the spirit in which it was meant)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183587

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182714

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183820

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183281
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-09 16:56:08+00:00
> Laws and regulations aren't intended to be "productive" so that's a total non sequitur.

Saying that the current way isn't productive isn't the same as saying that laws and regulations are designed to be productive. Actually I've acknowledged that first thing when I said that laws are burocratic. But you have to agree that some form of productivity is expected, otherwise why even bother if nothing is gonna get done at the govt level?

> The US Constitution has some flaws but it's still the closest anyone has come to perfection in the governance of human society.

How can you even falsify this claim? And should I take your word for it? From my point of view that makes little sense when corporations can buy elections like Elon did for Trump, and when Trump can just do as he pleases like it's happening now with university sensorship and the sacking of government officials that doesn't subscribe to the president's ideological agenda.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-09-09 16:56:19+00:00
It doesn't work that way. The US Welfare programs have created multi generational families that have never worked and do not have any parents or grandparents that have ever worked a real job because if anyone did they would risk losing $100k's worth of free benefits to work a minimum wage job that would only pay them $30k. It has created a permanant underclass of people with no job skills that are wholly dependant on the system for their survival.

This is just an extension of that.
by esjeon | 2025-09-09 16:56:27+00:00
This one is where ICE’s operation is completely fair. Koreans have systemically abused ESTA on a massive scale for a long time. Korean companies treat ESTA as the de-facto business visa. US Homeland Security did tighten up the screening last year because of that, but the Korean government chose to do absolute nothing about it. No mention of ESTA & VISA issues was made during the recent US-SK summit meeting. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.

And I say all this as a Korean. This article is politically biased rather severely.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-09 16:56:42+00:00
There's two things I think you've overlooked. One thing is that politically it's easier for benefits to remain sticky if everyone benefits from it vs a subpopulation. That's why universal income has stronger support than welfare benefits. Additionally, when you don't have means testing, the bureaucracy is a lot more straightforward and politicians can't mess with it by effectively cutting the program by increasing the administrative burden.

> We are lucky that we can afford to do this.

This is the second piece. What about people who are on the margin who aren't wealthy enough to do this and the subsidy would hep them achieve this? The subsidy could help the mom stay home and maybe do part-time work from home even. The thing that's easiest to miss when you're well on one side of a boundary is only looking at the other side of the boundary instead of also looking at where that boundary is drawn.
by macintux | 2025-09-09 16:56:46+00:00
> 1. NEVER EVER login from an email link.

I receive Google Doc links periodically via email; fortunately they're almost never important enough for me to actually log in and see what's behind them.

My point, though, is that there's no real alternative when someone sends you a doc link. Either you follow the link or you have to reach out to them and ask for some alternative distribution channel.

(Or, I suppose, leave yourself logged into the platform all the time, but I try to avoid being logged into Google.)

I don't know what to do about that situation in general.
by sdovan1 | 2025-09-09 16:57:01+00:00
Hiroshi Abe [1] is a Japanese actor whose official website is run by a fan. The site has a nostalgic look with a minimal design (40kB, images included) and is still actively maintained today.

Instead of ping 8.8.8.8, some will test their internet connection with Hiroshi Abe's homepage because of the speed. There are even challenges where people try to speedrun the site or conversely, make it load as slowly as possible [2].

Google translated page: https://abehiroshi-la-coocan-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sch=ht...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Abe_(actor)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKjBw_jEcZk
by danans | 2025-09-09 16:57:26+00:00
> Trump has certainly dragged his party towards the left economically speaking

Only rhetorically, but that's just fodder for his blue collar base.

In practice he's done the opposite. His massive tax cuts for the wealthy and gutting of the social safety net is Reaganism/Thatcherism at its most explicit, and his broad tariffs are a tax on people who spend most of their income in survival.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-09 16:57:31+00:00
People are going to respond to incentives whether you think they should or not.

I think it's less "mindsets" that have changed so much as the incentives themselves. People no longer need to have kids in order to have sex or to have a comfortable retirement, so many simply don't. Though I'd agree there's certainly a mindset shift that has developed along with that.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-09 16:57:48+00:00
> It’s paid for from taxes so it takes away from other things you as a taxpayer could have, right?

I don't expect every tax dollar I spend to come back to me in the form of a direct benefit.

> Like if I want to not have a single daycare provider but want to instead take my kids to a few different activities during the day (like to a museum and then a swim class and then baseball or whatever), why shouldn’t tax funds be made available to offset the costs of those things?

I would be 100% open to this sort of taxpayer-funded educational enrichment for families who can't afford it themselves, depending on the usual criteria, like how well-run/efficient it is and so on.
by CPLX | 2025-09-09 16:58:24+00:00
> An ESTA or B1 visa lets you attend business meetings. How do you draw the line between “work” and “meeting”?

This is a construction site. Do you have a tool in your hand? Then you’re not in a fucking meeting. This isn’t that complicated.

> A sibling comment to yours [1] describes a situation where moving office chairs from one meeting room to another was considered union work. How are Korean experts supposed to know you shouldn’t do that when attending a meeting or you risk being thrown in jail for violating your visa?

How are you supposed to know the laws of any country you visit? Do you have some kind of universal rule you’re applying here? If I don’t know what kilometers are can I get away with speeding in Switzerland?

> That’s an extreme case, but it illustrates that this isn’t some clear-cut case of knowingly doing work that wasn’t permitted.

The details here seem to be in short supply but if they were acting as construction workers or even foreman on tourist or B1 visas what they were doing is clearly illegal. Hyundai is a multi billion dollar company they’re well capable of knowing and following US labor laws. If they can’t they have no business building a factory in the US obviously.
by Jnr | 2025-09-09 16:59:06+00:00
As a "Linux at home - macOS at work" user, I can't stand Window management on macOS. It is so inefficient and hard to manage.

AeroSpace tiling window manager finally changed my work day from constant struggle to only occasional struggle with macOS. I use it with sketchybar which is not yet perfect, but it could become quite good and performant with some work on it.

I currently use Gnome on Linux, not a tiling window manager, and I would gladly go with Hyprland, but about a year ago while I was trying it out, it crashed quite a few times so it clearly was not ready for production use back then. Will give it a shot again.