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by mannyv | 2025-09-10 06:26:09+00:00
Why doesn't BLS use data directly from Social Security?

Everyone with a W2 pays into SS. SS also has everyone's birthdate, so it's easy to bucketize everyone into "can work" and "can't work."

They can join that with Medicare/Medicaid data to find people with disabilities. The can compare pay periods to see who's unemployed etc. They can find people on disability with help from Medicare.

Why is BLS waiting for state data? To find the unemployed and collecting?
by omegabravo | 2025-09-10 06:26:34+00:00
> One might say this is an advantage

I'm baffled that anyone could propose this as a good thing. I've worked in industries that are supported - just smaller than the US and the price gouging is substantial. Parts will be designed for the US market, we need to adapt. Bonus points when buying incompatible European / US designs.

Solar panels, batteries, and wind turbine have all the necessary ancillary parts in warehouses close to where they are needed. They also have all the expertise, the cranes, the transport regulations nailed down.
by lucyjojo | 2025-09-10 06:27:22+00:00
Unless the guys on tech circles the TFA is mentioning are all singles and plan to stay so voluntarily or not, a (good?) portion of them have, had, or will have 3 year olds!

In fact I maintain one of those setups mentioned by TFA with some neighbours (lots of tech people/artists with rare media in the neighborhood for reasons), and friends and family in other countries.

The whole point of most of these setups (for people with family), is to be safe, simple, efficient, and low-maintenance for the whole family to be able to enjoy media.
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by jdpage | 2025-09-10 06:27:49+00:00
I, also, would like a Star Trek tricorder.

I was going to come in with a set of reasons why these wouldn't sell, but... I think they could! Air quality fits neatly into Apple's health push, though I could see them making that a Watch feature rather than a phone feature (since your phone lives in your pocket, and quality sensors need time for the readings to stabilize). 3D imaging and synthetic refocusing both have a wow factor that would be easy to get people excited about. The only one I'm unsure of is multi-spectrum imaging; while I suspect pretty much anyone on this forum would jump at that, I don't have a good idea of whether the general population would get excited about temperature data. At the very least, it'd be handy for some kitchen tasks where you need a surface temperature.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-10 06:27:55+00:00
One from work: another team is willing to support exactly two build modes in their projects: release mode, or full debug info for everything. Loading the full debug info into a debugger takes 30m+ and will fail if the computer goes to sleep midway through.

I just debug release mode instead, where print debug is usually nicer than a debugger without symbols. I could fix the situation other ways, but a non-reversible debugger doesn't justify the effort for me.
by stevage | 2025-09-10 06:28:35+00:00
>I agree that it's an easy to fake demo and at the same time, if they're going to fake it, why make it seem so slow?

Honestly I have no idea if it's fake. I wouldn't be surprised if it's both fake and real: the actual video is entirely fake, but a reasonably accurate demonstration of actual capabilities (like a lot of tech demos at live events...)
by rob74 | 2025-09-10 06:28:53+00:00
5.6 mm? Pah! The Moto Z beat them by .4 mm almost 10 years ago: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2025/05/the-moto-z-was-so-a... And, more importantly, the Moto Z had a reason for being so thin: the ability to add "mods" that attached to the back of the phone magnetically.

What I don't like about iPhones in terms of practicality is that the corner camera makes it impossible to lay them on a table without wobbling. Google does a better job with its Pixel phones.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-10 06:29:56+00:00
It needs to be a global variable in C. A variable in a function scope or runtime malloc'd spot? No chance of finding a stable spot.

Thankfully, a lot of old games love to use global variables because you can't run out of stack space or allocatable memory. Modern games shy away from that because even the tiniest consoles these days come with gigabytes worth of RAM, even a memory leak has to be a gigantic firehose to bring the system to a halt.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-10 06:30:39+00:00
Rare 1% bugs practically require prints debugging because they are only going to appear only 6 times if you run the test 600 times. So you just run the test 600 times all at once, look at the logs of the 6 failed tests, and fix the bug. You don’t want to run the debugger 600 times in sequence.
by atoav | 2025-09-10 06:30:44+00:00
This is the main issue with it yes. Instead of having a compelling user- and/or howter-centric vision of how Web 3.0 could look and why, it was basically just like: like web but with blockchain and yet somehow more centralized and with changes, because we want to make a new thing.

That isn't how you elegantly solve problems and get people to use your solutions.
by maxbond | 2025-09-10 06:31:27+00:00
To be clear "notice" wasn't really directed at you specifically, more commenters in general. I'm sorry for wording that confusingly, originally I'd replied to GP with a similar comment to yours but your comment was more comprehensive than mine so I deleted it and replied as a sort of footnote.

I'm not really big on incarceration but I broadly agree.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-10 06:32:21+00:00
If that's your answer then you're vastly underestimating how much farmland there is. We have 1.6 million small farms, averaging a couple hundred acres. Large farms usually have a couple thousand acres.

If every farm in the US was around 3000 acres, we would still have a quarter million farms. Even 100k acre mega farms would leave us with 8000+ farms.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-10 06:33:06+00:00
> We should also imprison criminals but that goes without saying.

Obviously we need effective justice.

But since we are on the topic of ineffective schooling, there is an argument to be made that US prisons are more effective at punishment than rehabilitation. Which seems to please some people, but just adds another undertow to society.

A loss for criminal inmates, and everyone they impact, family or stranger, after they are released.

Education is worth looking at with respect to an entire culture, with many important contexts beyond/outside school. From before school age (huge), onward.
by soulofmischief | 2025-09-10 06:33:53+00:00
I mean our politicians and the idiots they manufacture with idpol in order to maintain power at the cost of degrading our communities. So, probably not you.

For example, in my state, it is an annual tradition to slash the budget of schools and/or libraries and funnel the money toward political goals and police retirement funds.

I attended the best public school in the state at one point and literally watched the Governor text someone for 10 minutes and then fall asleep in the middle of a budget presentation specifically put together in order to convince him not to cut more funding the next year, as it would mean the school would have to begin taking federal money and compromising on its values.

I also attended the worst public school in my state, a harrowing and illuminating experience which I've spoken about here a few times before. [0]

I also had my collegiate education robbed from me by a vindictive teacher who illegally falsified my grade out of spite, and an administration who protected her. I was homeless since 16 was and attending high school on my own in a rural community with no economic opportunity.

Due to my circumstances, her falsified grade meant I had to rescind a full-ride scholarship which had been offered to me including boarding and a job, but on condition that my credits included that core class. I had no adults in my life to fight for me, and even though I met with my guidance counselor, the principal, several teachers and the school board, I was not helped and fell through the cracks, despite high standardized test scores and a high GPA.

Instead, I continued to be homeless from 18 to 21 and struggled very badly, starving and sick. I am now employed in my field of choice despite these circumstances, but I overall had a very traumatic experience with the public school system. The institution ultimately failed me, despite my intellect and perseverance.

So I share your concerns deeply! I want nothing of the sort to happen to my kids or anyone else's.

Your work looks very interesting, by the way, leafing through one of your papers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823657
by yoz-y | 2025-09-10 06:34:02+00:00
Exactly. At work for example I use the dev tools debugger all the time, but lldb for c++ only when running unit tests (because our server harness is too large and debug builds are too large and slow). I’ve never really used an IDE for python.

When using Xcode the debugger is right there and so it is in qt creator. I’ve tried making it work in vim many times and just gave up at some point.

The environment definitely is the main selector.
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 06:34:14+00:00
I've followed you through this thread and I'm really curious about your political ideology. On the one hand you've been making the stark, cynical observations I expect from leftist: analyzing the company's behavior from a lens of profit motive, discussing how corporations will outsource to other countries to skirt labor law and pay slave wages, defending unions, discussing how immigrant labor is just another form of outsourcing; on the other hand you've engaged in hard-line liberal defense of law for the sake of law: never mind that a bunch of non citizens were just subjected to violence at the hands of the state, perhaps they violated the law and therefore they're subject to whatever degredation the legal apparatus throws at them! Finally, you, perhaps inadvertently, are defending the actions of America's most right wing government it possibly has ever had, continually pulling out their own propaganda lines: "they were violating the terms of their visa and have to go!"

I like meeting people like that, if you were open to sharing how you arrived at this more-complicated-than-normal political ideology, I'd be interested to know more.
by throejd84mrifmr | 2025-09-10 06:34:51+00:00
> A blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.15% is considered a very high level, resulting in severe impairment of balance, coordination, and muscle control, making walking and talking difficult. At this level, you may experience confusion, vomiting, loss of consciousness

How this intoxication level was measured? I seriously doubt they carried scales and analyzed blood samples, before asking for consent!
by lelanthran | 2025-09-10 06:35:07+00:00
> the schools are able to kick out any underperforming students

Being able to kick out disruptive students has a pretty big influence on the remaining students.

How do you distinguish between underperforming-non-disruptive students and under-performing-disruptive students, especially as the almost all the disruptive students are going to be underperforming anyway.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-10 06:36:35+00:00
> CHERI requires a lot of heavy lifting at the compile-and-link layer that restricts application code behaviors, and an enormous change to the microarchitecture.

Well, Apple already routinely forces developers to recompile their applications so if Apple wants to introduce something needing a compiler / toolchain update they can do that easily. And they also control the entire SoC from start to finish and unlike pretty much everyone else also hold an ARM Architecture License so they can go and change whatever they want in the hardware side as well.
by stevage | 2025-09-10 06:37:22+00:00
>Are you sure that's not it?

Well, I'm not certain, but there are plenty of comments about it in local hard rubbish groups.

>Why are you even assuming the items are functional?

Obviously I can't know for sure, but I have seen cases where someone has put out a fridge with a note saying "Free - it works! :)" and...cord is cut. etc.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-10 06:37:24+00:00
I think my complaint boils down to the fact that my usage can't justify a $1000+ phone. Rather than stuffing ever more features and processing power into the iPhone, I'd like the progress to be spend on making the phones cheaper and have more battery life. For people like me the iPhone hasn't improved in 10 years, the last feature I sort of cared about was TouchID. So given that I'm stuck in a 2015 use case, seeing no progress, why shouldn't I expect prices to come down significantly?
by 10111two | 2025-09-10 06:37:50+00:00
At JN Research, we are exploring a third path between mainstream traditional AI and descriptive neuroscience. Instead of scaling or optimizing trained function approximators, we build Adaptrons; artificial neurons that behave like biological neurons (subthreshold + graded + Action Potential) and autonomously adapt internally and with other Adaptrons in a system. On this substrate, our small artificial brain Primite 1.02 (500 Adaptrons) now shows: • Original thoughts (novel outputs not seen as stimuli). • Memory formation and consolidation (short/intermediate/long-term). • Anticipation: outputs that appear before the corresponding stimulus is presented. We ran 8 independent experiments with different genetic parameters and share detailed counts, timing, and example outputs. This is not ML training; it’s a principles-first cognitive substrate where higher functions emerge from the interaction rules. Furthermore, we also show that higher cognitive functions do not need bigger models or scale to emerge, we can see their early signs if the fundamental framework allows for it. If you are curious (or skeptical), we have included the full technical report and a data repo with outputs for verification, plus our prior 1.02 report on original thought and memory. Github Repository: https://github.com/10111two/primite-1.02
by cameldrv | 2025-09-10 06:38:05+00:00
This is because very few people have even an extremely rough understanding of the difficulties our nation (and world) are facing. This is an very difficult situation for a democracy. When people are confused about important matters, the most reassuring thing is to be told that there is a fairly simple and understandable solution, and that they should just let the adults get in there and solve it. People will always vote for people who say these things. The reality is that we've gotten ourselves into knots upon knots upon knots.
by Krei-se | 2025-09-10 06:39:56+00:00
Thanks a bunch for linking this. I had similar ideas doing system architecture, quit my job after seeing those concepts at work and after some years actually started writing a presentation with the city being a single entity for my hometown. Both the article and the book are for sure some reassurance for me i wasn't abstracting into madness ;)

It's an old mockup, please don't laugh - i soon hit walls and wrote my own n-dim graph engine since then: https://der-chemnitz.de/indexold.html

In my city this is kinda easy as the river is 1:1 named to the city, so any links between nature and human culture is faster to process.

Traditional engines proved unfit so i stubbornly continued working on a webgpu one allowing nestable entities for definition of laws across branches / groups in the graph. The graph is handed to compute shaders and calculates the world matrix for the scene tree per frame. Allows for portals too, etc.

Here's a demo of it doing 4D entities to animated 3D and the graph engine building a scaled universe without a fixed reference frame (dono if that's the right word, it just means there are no fixed world units or global grid, it's always derived from your position in the graph): https://krei.se/vid/demofinal.mp4

This is also halted for now as i'll go with Rust instead of TS in the future and handle the main graph logic on a central server handing out only trees to clients (similar to how ARMA and Battlespace works from what i read).

I'm not sure what i will get from the book, but if someone is poking similar ideas i'm always open for dialogue and/or wish you plenty luck and the best on this interesting journey!
by i_niks_86 | 2025-09-10 06:39:58+00:00
This is all because online casinos have become more accessible. And I don’t just mean for players (who can simply use a VPN to play even if casinos are restricted in their area) and no longer need to leave home to spin the slots. I’m talking about the business side. I recently wrote an article on 2025–2030 trends, and online gambling is growing at lightning speed. Just look at LCB https://lcb.org - every month 15–30 new casinos are added. And that’s only the licensed ones; imagine how many more don’t get listed there. These days, anyone can launch an online casino. For example, this offer https://2wpower.com/en/gamessystems shows you can have a fully working project in just 3–5 weeks, as long as the budget allows. And there are plenty of similar solutions. If you do the math, 30 new sites a month means around 360 a year. If so many are being launched, that clearly means there’s demand. And that’s exactly why land-based casinos are losing audiences - only those who can afford it and really enjoy the vibe of a real casino are sticking around.
by interpol_p | 2025-09-10 06:40:02+00:00
I'm in the market for this

I've been hoping for Apple to return to "thin" and it's nice that they're trying. I don't know whether I would buy this, but my current iPhone 14 Pro feels like a brick — thick stainless steel

When I go for a run, it's uncomfortable to have in a pocket depending on what running clothes I am wearing. The heaviness makes it feel far more likely to break all the times I have dropped it (and I have dropped it many times, without a case)
by 10111two | 2025-09-10 06:40:07+00:00
Few Anticipatory Questions • “Isn’t this just ML/randomness?” - No training or gradient descent is used. Only neuron-like rules (graded, subthreshold, action potentials). Outputs are logged and timestamped; anyone can verify them. • “How do you define ‘original thought’?” - An output is “original” if it was never presented as a stimulus during that system’s lifetime, yet emerges autonomously. • “What about controls?” - We ran multiple experiments with different genetic parameters; each yielded different system behaviors. One run was deliberately configured as a pure input/output machine, confirming that adaptability is essential for higher functions. • “Independent replication?” – We are open to live demos (reviewers choose inputs) and will provide full raw outputs. Under NDA, reviewers can also set genetic parameters and observe the system’s lifetime behavior. • “Why 500 Adaptrons?” – Our approach is milestone-driven: we demonstrate emergence at small scales first (memory, anticipation), then scale gradually (20k, multimodal, 1M).
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-10 06:40:29+00:00
> but what I mean by that is pretty much what a normal non-technical person would consider an useful piece of software

That seems like an... interesting... definition of "useful" to me. Why that definition?

> Photoshop, Figma, Excel, Chrome, Windows, Android, Blender, AutoCAD, Unreal Engine, any Office Suite...

To be fair, there is Rust in Windows and Android, and IIRC there's movement towards using it in Chrome as well.

> It would be a stretch to put any of the tool on either of those lists.

OK, but your second list has a different set of qualifications than the first. You originally just asked for "useful" programs, and that's what you asked for in the original comment I responded to. Now it's "very technically impressive". So which do you want?

I feel like it's probably not a bad idea to ask exactly what you mean by "technically impressive" as well, since I think it's hard to argue that ripgrep and polars don't at least have technically impressive parts in them.

> Given the popularity of Rust, and that it's now over 10 years old, I'd expect at least one major program that can serve as an example of "here's this very useful, complex software package, as proof that our methodology works and you can do cool things this way."

That seems like a bit of a questionable metric to me.

Given that Rust was explicitly designed and intended to be incrementally adoptable in existing codebases, it doesn't make sense to me to solely look for standalone programs since incremental adoption is very much part of "our methodology". This also sort of ties into your expectation in the first place - I'm not sure I'd expect the same given Rust's design and niche, as well as the general software landscape now vs. when C/C++ were a similar age.
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-10 06:41:27+00:00
I don't really get the hate that debuggers sometimes get from old hands. "Who needs screwdrivers if we always used knives?" - You can still use your knife, but screwdriver is a useful tool.

It seems to me that this is one of the many phenomena where people want to judge and belittle their peers over something completely trivial.

Personally, I get the appeal of printing out debugging information, especially if some bug is rare and happens in unpredictable times (such as when you are sleeping). But the amount of info you get this way is necessarily lower than what can be gleaned from a debugger.
by brookman64k | 2025-09-10 06:42:27+00:00
> The game runs on a Nintendo GameCube, a 24-year-old console with a 485 MHz PowerPC processor, 24MB of RAM, and absolutely no internet connectivity.

In fact, Nintendo did release an official add-on called the Broadband Adapter, which plugged into the bottom expansion port and provided an Ethernet jack. Only a handful of games supported it, one was Phantasy Star Online. I also used it to stream games/roms from a PC. This worked by exploiting a memory vulnerability in Phantasy Star Online to load arbitrary code over the network, though with slower load times compared to running from disc.
by phil21 | 2025-09-10 06:42:27+00:00
Education spending by all metrics has only gone up - beating inflation nearly every single year since I've been alive.

It might not make it down to teacher salaries or more educators, but the money is absolutely being spent at massive levels.

The best schools where I grew up and around me today have the lowest per-pupil cost. There is basically no correlation between budget spent on education until you get to the extremes on both ends.
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 06:43:00+00:00
> So far in the US, most labor unions have generally been fairly left-wing, including being pro-immigration.

The line up against which leftist ideology fails to cohere with capitalism. Labor unions are a leftist concept but their goal is to uphold worker's rights against Capital (corporations or whoever can swing money around, like lobbyists), a pretty stark Marxist concept. However another thing Marx pointed out is that capitalism is virulent - it will industrialize a country, lift out the working class to middle class and create petit bourgeois, and then move elsewhere to seek new forms of cheap labor. What does your local union do when that happens?

I suppose this is why it was always "Workers of the World" not "Workers of Local 816," but so far as I can tell there's not much organization across international worker's groups outside of explicitly communist groups that are basically clubs, not actual unions with any power.