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by buu700 | 2025-09-10 19:25:35+00:00
Agreed, I believe its success can potentially be replicated to some degree, but not its particular formula. I left a few thoughts on that in a follow-up comment below, but fundamentally my thinking is that comprehensive well-designed integration of AI throughout the system could allow schools to move toward leaner administrations with smaller numbers of higher-quality better-compensated teachers. Furthermore, technology like Waymo's could potentially make it viable to shuttle larger numbers of students to a smaller number of higher-quality schools.

I'm also optimistic that physical goods as a whole will become much more affordable over the next decade or two for various reasons, which would further enable the median public school to approach the level of 00s MHS without relying on local concentration of a disproportionate share of national wealth.

All that being said, my point wasn't "look how well-funded my high school was". Regardless of the reasons, it's a bright spot in a narrative of doom and gloom. Only the horror stories seem to get any attention, and if you listen to anyone with strong political views on the topic you'd think each state's governing party had turned its entire school system into a network of indoctrination camps. It's also clearly the case based on my disturbingly bad elementary school experience, and from what I've heard of some other local schools that should have comparable financing to MHS, that money isn't sufficient to provide a top-tier educational experience.

I think it's important to look at schools and counties that perform well and carefully evaluate which elements can be used as a model to help improve public education as a whole, rather than assuming that absolutely nothing is replicable without gobs of cash. For example, off the top of my head, what if the federal government provided an annual budget for a handful of top-ranking districts across the country to have their best teachers of different subjects at each grade level oversee production and maintenance of open source course materials, video lectures, and possibly LLM chatbots? What if teachers all had some equivalent of GitHub to share and collaborate on that stuff? It wouldn't fix problems like rundown facilities or availability of computers and textbooks, but it would allow the worst Latin teacher in the country to provide something a lot closer to the Mr. Bigger experience, and that's just one idea.
by pomian | 2025-09-10 19:26:29+00:00
On the other hand, an app for your phone, or digital display placed by an artifact, it a bar code: could have as much detail as possible, with more and more in depth lessons that you can investigate depending on your own level of curiosity. (Or age.) A fantastic museum of the world - natural and human history in Ottawa, was great. But imagine, they have a diorama depicting a historical scene... Then there is a display counter in front where you can read what's going on in the diorama. Also a few selected elements from the display, shown behind that glass, but visible up close for us to admire. What is the description of a brass ring, in the display: "A brass ring."! We can see that! WTF? But we want to know: where was it found, what was it's purpose, why is this down here not something else. What era is it from? You could dig deeper: how was it made? Who made it? Where? With what technology? Brass? How did they blend the raw materials? Who wore it? Etc etc etc. A little electronic display could have that, It a link for everyone to follow - bar code for example we could scan. It could even link to a Wikipedia page, whatever. But, something! More than: "A brass ring"
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-10 19:27:01+00:00
I don't think he is advocating for ageism. He is merely making an observation, which is absolutely true in most companies. You are more likely to get away with overworking and mistreating a youngster than someone with more life experience (who may also have other options and/or savings which gives them the ability to quit), so from an employer's perspective it's a no-brainer (just don't put it in writing, or handwave it as "culture fit" or similar BS).

There are of course some companies who value and capitalize on the experience of older people and have good work-life balance... just don't expect that in your average JS/blockchain/AI shop which is all tech seems to be currently.
by qingcharles | 2025-09-10 19:28:26+00:00
The big benefit of this for my work is being able to run sites on smaller and cheaper boxes every year. It's not just the speed, but they've made huge strides in the last couple of versions in massively reducing the memory use of different object types.

This is only being compared to last year's v9, but if you compare against v7 from a couple of years ago, the changes are huge.

And this only reflects the changes to the underlying framework compilation, and doesn't factor in changes to say the Kestrel web server and static asset delivery that have taken a ton of load away.

Intel are also regularly checking in changes before they release new CPUs now so that the framework is ahead of their releases and takes advantage of new features.
by m0llusk | 2025-09-10 19:28:31+00:00
Didn't have every aspect nailed? Definitely trailblazers? Quibi is a prime example of an absolute business wipeout. They got a bunch of investor money together, showed no interest in what viewers actually want, and then went down in flames immediately upon public release of the product. The whole thing was a disaster that didn't accomplish anything beyond putting a bunch of capital in the pockets of C grade C suite players.
by tossandthrow | 2025-09-10 19:28:46+00:00
I didn't.

I setup up a dichotomy, but I didn't define what equality consistutes.

A reasonable conversationalist would interpret it as either we allow inequality with its consequences or we seek a more equal society where people are being helped out of their misfortunes.

Regardless, this is a wild detour you are taking? It is completely fine to just stop and use your time on something more productuve.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-10 19:29:33+00:00
> I don't like the assumption you're making that Waymos are the only solution to ubers, taxis or driving yourself. Well designed and well working public transportation (Which is doable and exists in the world) is far cheaper and far more predictable than any form of car-based transportation.

I very literally did not make that assumption. I pointed out, in a sentence you quoted yourself, that public transit can drastically reduce the amount of point-to-point personal transportation an individual wants or needs. However, sometimes, you really can't beat the convenience of "I am at point A, I want to be at point B, and I don't want to deal with a series of stops and transfers to get there". Maybe your starting or ending point is an unusual location. Maybe it's an unusual time of day. Maybe you're wearing a tuxedo or a cast and don't want to do the amount of walking public transit normally requires.

In any case, point-to-point transit is sometimes worth the expense. And when it is, self-driving taxis are fantastic. Compared to driving myself, I don't have to commit at least 75% of my attention to not killing myself or others. I can just read a book, or watch a movie, or do the morning crossword. Compared to taxis or Uber, I don't need to deal with a driver.
by Cyph0n | 2025-09-10 19:29:59+00:00
You know what I mean, but I will expand.

No phone company is releasing a flagship SFF phone because there simply is no mainstream consumer demand for one. In fact, demand has been dead for many years now.

Good for you that you have a iPhone mini, but I would wager you won’t be seeing a new mini model anytime soon. Unless of course mainstream consumer demands shift, at which point HN dreams will become reality once more.

What is for certain is that complaining about this on every phone-related HN thread will not help change anything.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 19:30:00+00:00
> Compared to?

It's EU peers.

If France wants to support Ukraine and rebuild it's army, it will be required to borrow heavily to purchase arms.

If France wants to rebuild manufacturing supply chains domestically, it will be required to borrow heavily to invest in infra.

The above two will be in the tens to hundreds of billions of Euros range.

France ALSO spends tens to hundreds of billions of Euros on social services.

France ALSO needs to pay it's existing interest on debt, which is in the tens of billions of Euros a year and rising.

France needs to cut 2 of the first 3 choices - they cannot cut the 4th one due to EU regulations and if France does not want to become the next Argentina.
by ktallett | 2025-09-10 19:30:29+00:00
I feel they can make a change through protest and it feels like an inherent part of their life that they get to protest when the government or officials have made a change that isn't what the people want. Whether it makes a significant difference is hard to judge without living there. Likewise who knows what life would be like if they hadn't protested. They have great working rights though, and a less stressful life in that respect so that is a positive.
by troupo | 2025-09-10 19:30:53+00:00
> Nor to world hunger.

Ah, the good old ad absurdum.

These companies literally hail themselves as "future of transportation".

> A hypothetical applicable to every mode of transit, private and public.

These are private companies looking for profit. These are not hypotheticals given what is happening to other cars and car manufacturers.

> Also, you're the one who originally argued these services' "entire social context is 'never encounter another human as you go from A to B'."

These are literally robo taxis. A taxi is literally a car that is taking you from A to B. And they are also removing the driver from them. Oh, and don't forget the existing of things like Boring Co. which exists almost solely to undermine public transport.

Their intended future is nothing but endless roads with isolated vehicles going from A to B. There's no other "social context".
by nowittyusername | 2025-09-10 19:31:21+00:00
I am baffled that I still run against these statement years after LLM's have been around. LLM's are deterministic and always have been. The reason people are having issues with them is because they are basing their assumptions on api based experiments. Like my man, how can you be making these statements when you haven't done the due diligence of running the LLM on your own hardware with all of the variables locked down and accounted for? If you do just that it would become obviously clear that they are deterministic and most of the time the reason you see the non deterministic behavior is because you have not controlled for a variable. Usually prompt caching, batch processing or some other obvious variable. Now this is related to within same system deterministic behavior. You might get different answers when running on a different gpu, but at least for same systems the behavior is 100% identical if you account for all server startup flags and properly account for things like prompt cashing, slot contamination etc...
by kridsdale3 | 2025-09-10 19:31:32+00:00
This is true, but switching to that mode is frustrating and you often have to use AWFUL mobileOS software to get the images. And my DLSL shoots like 25FPS and each raw file is 80MB. This is NOT fast to send over the wifi.

Waiting until I can plug in the 2TB memory card to my Mac and use a huge screen to review all the photos is far more efficient even if it has much higher startup latency.

Honestly this is a good reason to choose the iPhone Pro over the Air or Standard: 10gbps USB port. Plug the Nikon in to the phone for cloud upload. This would be the fastest path of all. Most people are only focused on the USB bandwidth in the iPhones for download from the phone.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-10 19:31:35+00:00
I couldn't help noticing you called the day to day stuff "bullshit". Which is worse: the HR bullshit or the day-to-day bullshit in one of the breadwinner teams?

From an outsider's perspective, things seem miserable around there but from the sound of it, they're worse than I thought.

I've heard the stories of the Not Invented Here syndrome, but to me the worst part of working a company like Google or Microsoft is the fact that they hire thousands of people who lack the work ethic or competence to code as "project managers" and then allow them to have a part in your work without helping in any way.

I could not imagine spending 70 hours in a week doing the drudgery of programming, then having to share the credit with someone who was a non-contributor at best and at worst a detriment.

I remember the way things used to work: you start by implementing things yourself, and only when the size and scope of your work grows beyond the capabilities of one person do you get to start telling other people to implement your ideas.
by drob518 | 2025-09-10 19:31:51+00:00
It’s very difficult to make money in developer tools. Microsoft could easily squeeze Borland by simply making MSDN tools free. Borland tried to diversify with databases, word processors, and spreadsheets, but Microsoft countered with Office, trying them altogether, and it became the default in every single business. Borland had great technology and was super innovative and I used Turbo C++ and TASM for years. But in the end, they just couldn’t find a cash cow market to keep them afloat.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-10 19:32:02+00:00
Truth be told, I do not know that much about Apple, I have no clue what their reasonings are, but you have heard of the old and tiring "think of the children" one, for example. Seemingly it seems benign and way too many fall for it, unfortunately. No one wants to seem, or even feel evil about themselves. Can you give me any references to Apple's convincing points I could read about? I wonder if it is something akin to that, or "anti-terrorism". We have to take away your freedom in the name of national security, fighting terrorism, and protecting our children, as it is the case in the political sphere.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-10 19:32:36+00:00
Yeah, so how do you fold a Yoyo with a newborn in the arms? You can't really, and some stations have a lot of stairs. Regarding drug addicts, I saw many, it really depends on where you live. My son was born in Paris, and we left as soon as we could because it felt really stupid to endure all of this. Buying a car felt like I discovered a time travel machine.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 19:32:38+00:00
I wonder if this means Paramount will try to launch a trek branded email client and social media site? I mean... there are probably worse strategies. I'm guessing we'll see a lot more... uh... alignment... between games, online and scripted entertainment.

Personally? I would be happy if they went back to making episodic stories about ideas instead of people. I don't dislike Strange New Worlds, but it seems like it's a soap opera. And that's fine, but I'll be over in the corner reading the old Jim Blish trek books if that's what the future holds.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 19:32:41+00:00
That can happen, but often the story isn't interesting (at least to me). It is the same story: someone decides the world is out to get them and they won't "sell out". I don't care, I don't agree with their world view, and in any case they are not unique. If anything they need mental help - but they are plenty of other people around who also need such help who didn't paint.

Do not mistake what I said for some claim that all art is bad/ugly. There is a lot of art I do enjoy. What I enjoy is personal. I do not fault someone else for enjoying art that I don't enjoy in general.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-10 19:32:54+00:00
I appreciate you using the calculator! It's at [1] for anyone who wants to futz around with it.

$3000 per TB-year is accurate to my knowledge, and yes, it is at least one, and probably two, orders of magnitude what you can get with more general purpose systems. Backblaze B2 is $72 per TB-year; AWS Glacier is $12 per TB-year I believe; purchasing two 20 TB Seagate drives for $300 apiece, mirroring them, and replacing them every 3 years gives you about $10 per TB-year (potentially - most of us don't have 20 TB to back up in our personal lives). Those are the best prices I've been able to find with some looking [2].

To me, when I was building out the digital resiliency audit, the pricing and model just seemed to tell me that tarsnap was for very specific kinds of critical data backups, and was not a great fit for general purpose stuff. Like a lot of other people here I also have a general-purpose restic based 3-2-1 backup going for the ~150 GB in /home I back up. [3] My use of tarsnap is partly a cheap hedge for the handful of bytes of data I genuinely cannot afford to lose against issues with restic, Backblaze B2, systemd, etc.

[1]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/tarsnap-calculator/

[2]: https://andrew-quinn.me/digital-resiliency-2025/#postscript-...

[3]: https://andrew-quinn.me/digital-resiliency-2025/#general-bac...
by Spivak | 2025-09-10 19:33:29+00:00
Yes, that's exactly the implication I'm challenging. The amount of times I've heard the "they're cutting thing-i-think-is-important but keeping the football program" but who don't know that it's because the football program is self-sustaining is so frustrating. They're not choosing football over music or art or whatever. For sports which aren't local cash-cows the parents are having to buy the new equipment and uniforms. Sadly, no one stepped up for the music program like that.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-09-10 19:33:34+00:00
IIRC youtube enables maximum monetization on videos that are at least 10 minutes long. So you end up with a mixed bag of 10-minute videos where some are content that could've been said in a couple of sentences and been 30 seconds, that were stretched out into 10 minutes of filler, and some where the content should've been 30 minutes or more, squished down to just over 10 minutes to try not to have an intimidating video length.
by p12tic | 2025-09-10 19:34:38+00:00
> Today it's a bit more complicated when you have servers with 100+ cores as an option for under $30k (guestimate based on $10k CPU price).

If one can buy used, then previous generation 128C 256T epyc server is less than $5k. For homelabs that can accept non-rackmount gear it's less than $3k.
by vkou | 2025-09-10 19:34:58+00:00
And this happens on such a regular and systemic, and party-lines nature, so that all these liberal cities consistently undercount homicides by such incredible margins, despite all their police forces leaning heavily towards authoritarian-right?

Do you have any proof for this, or is this a 'the earth is flat' sort of assertion? Can I just as confidently assert that it's actually the Republican-ran states that dramatically doctor and undercount homicide stats?

Maybe Memphis actually has 10x the homicide rate of NYC...
by astrange | 2025-09-10 19:35:08+00:00
> shooting for white balance or tone mapping with a color card and calibrated monitor if you care about that level of accuracy

You need to do this if you want to see the image at all, and it involves a lot of subjective choices. The objective auto white balance algorithm usually described is objectively quite bad; for instance it's always described as a single transformation on the image, which doesn't make sense if there are multiple light sources.

The reason you'd want to render humans differently in the image is that a) if you don't get skin tones just right they'll look like corpses b) in real life you can choose to focus on a subject in a scene and this will cause them to appear brighter (because your eyes will adapt to them) but in an image there isn't that flexibility and so it helps to guess what the foreground of the image is and expose for that.

I forgot to say recent iPhone cameras let you turn off the sharpening effects anyway, just move the photographic style control down to Natural. It is true that the sharpening is kind of bad. This is because someone taught everyone that digital images are bandlimited so they use frequency-based sharpening algorithms, but they aren't, so those just give you ringing artifacts. For some reason nobody knows about warp-sharpen anymore.
by dang | 2025-09-10 19:35:22+00:00
Thanks! I was just coming here to mention that. Macroexpanded:

%CPU utilization is a lie - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110688 - Sept 2025 (162 comments)

Also these past discussions of the OP:

CPU Utilization Is Wrong (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580006 - July 2023 (57 comments)

CPU Utilization Is Wrong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23827032 - July 2020 (1 comment)

CPU Utilization is Wrong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301739 - May 2017 (91 comments)
by RockyMcNuts | 2025-09-10 19:35:33+00:00
OpenAI should probably consider:

- enabling local MCP in Desktop like Claude Desktop, not just server-side remote. (I don't think you can run a local server unless you expose it to their IP)

- having an MCP store where you can click on e.g. Figma to connect your account and start talking to it

- letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud

ChatGPT MCP support is underwhelming compared to Claude Desktop.
by jama211 | 2025-09-10 19:36:26+00:00
Depends how complex the task is. Sometimes I’m handed tasks so simple but tedious that AI has meant I can breeze through these instead of burning myself out on them. Sure, it doesn’t speed things up much in terms of time, but I’m way less burnt out at the end because it’s doing all the fiddly stuff that would tire me out. I suspect the tasks I get aren’t that typical though.
by slowdoorsemillc | 2025-09-10 19:37:14+00:00
How do I block someone on HN? I hate ad-hominems. There may be a hardware backdoor in the 5th Gen Intel and Zen 1 and newer CPUs. I can tell my computer is hacked when I use anything newer than my 3rd Gen Intel that's in my 2012 Macbook Pro.
by horizion2025 | 2025-09-10 19:37:29+00:00
Isn't that just another guardrail that can be bypassed much the same as the guard rails are currently quite easily bypassed? It is not easy to detect a prompt. Note some of the recent prompt injection attack where the injection was a base64 encoded string hidden deep within an otherwise accurate logfile. The LLM, while seeing the Jira ticket with attached trace , as part of the analysis decided to decode the b64 and was led a stray by the resulting prompt. Of course a hypothetical LLM could try and detect such prompts but it seems they would have to be as intelligent as the target LLM anyway and thereby subject to prompt injections too.
by jmkd | 2025-09-10 19:37:53+00:00
> 2. Curators often see "taking care" of the exhibits as more important than actually exhibiting them. Not to mention they're often art/history majors with very little clue about anything digital.

Museum curators used to be called keepers and this only changed in the mid-late twentieth century. The philosophy of preservation runs deep and you won't struggle to find curators whose favourite day of the week is when the museum is closed to the public.

Curators tend to make exhibits and displays that appeal to their own scholarly reference points. You need a different role - interpretation - to literally interpret this scholarship into what the public might be interested in. Few museums can afford to apply the lens of interpretation, so for the most part we are stuck with what curators think and its limited crossover with what the public want.