MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Brybry | 2025-09-10 09:07:56+00:00
The NAEP site has performance by student group sections. It includes breakdowns for Hispanic and English/non-English learners and includes a section on demographic changes (ctrl+f Group Population Percentages).

Reading: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g12/p...

Math: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/mathematics/2024/g...

Hispanic population has shifted (+3-4%/report) and English learners have shifted (1-3%/report). [Note that reports have variable number (~2-5) of years between them]

English learner scores went up (or stayed the same) and non-English learner scores went down.

The big caveat of course that the English learner average score is still much lower than the non-English learner so if that population increased enough it still drags down the average. (Click the English learners to see their scores or see the National Student Group Score Distributions section for graphs that make this apparent).

But it has to be more complicated than "the English-learning Hispanic population increased" because if you look within racial groups: all groups except Asian are down within their own group.

Or, for example, girls' scores are down more than boys' scores even though girls' scores are still better than boys' on average in Reading (but worse in Math).

I think it's probably multiple factors all adding together. For example, % of public charters has increased but public charter schools have worse scores than public non-charter. % of economically disadvantaged has increased and economically disadvantaged students have worse scores than those not. % of students with disabilities has increased and students with disabilities have worse scores than those without.

The weirdest thing to me is how the population statistics are different between reading and math. From 2019->2024 the reported Hispanic 12th Grade population shifted 3% for Reading but only 1% for Math?
by roelschroeven | 2025-09-10 09:08:19+00:00
I think this network effect and the discoverability aspect are the main reasons why it's extremely hard to compete with YouTube. Why would people use another site if the content they want to see is not there, or is too difficult to find? Why would creators put videos there if they can't find a large audience?

The YouTube algorithm is problematic in many ways but it does succeed in viewers being suggested videos they want to see, even if the signal-to-noise ratio is not very good. That's hard to replicate when starting a new service.
by lan321 | 2025-09-10 09:09:15+00:00
Outside of the US but past the daycare, covid, etc issues that have been mentioned everywhere I see a focus on money making. Highschoolers are still kids but I feel the new generation is more aware of the fact that the end goal is making as much money as possible, so if they feel like learning something they lean more towards reading/watching about investing/hustling which doesn't translate well into academia.
by paintbox | 2025-09-10 09:10:41+00:00
"a supercomputer inside a camera that fits in your pocket" stopped being a novelty 15 years ago. We call it just "phone" now!

"lying flat on a table" is a critical feature for a device that on a daily basis lays on the table.

If it clanks and thuds every time you press it (and pressing it is the only way to use it) while lying on the table, then it is bad design that should be addressed.
by arkh | 2025-09-10 09:11:13+00:00
> Characters repeating the same scripted dialog over and over again is one of the biggest immersion breakers.

The real immersion breaker and the holy grail of RPG is the fact NPC have no life or goal outside of what the player does. Imagine a game where NPCs have wants and goals and do things to get those done. Where you could leave it running for 10 years and things would have happened without you.
by qwertox | 2025-09-10 09:11:33+00:00
"to just ignore people capable of speaking two or more languages"

I'm terribly annoyed by this, and even more so with their latest push to translate the titles, so now you have to click and listen in on the video in order to know which the original language is.

I speak 3 languages, and I want the title and voice to be in the original language. And I won't bother nor would settle with watching an AI translated video even if it is translated from a language which I do not understand. Then I simply do not want to see that video.
by troupo | 2025-09-10 09:11:43+00:00
> It seems like windows, ide and languages are all pretty nicely integrated together?

Not only, and not really. After all, for all its warts Visual Studio is still a decent debugger for C/C++. IntelliJ has pretty good debuggers across all of their IDEs for almost all languages (including things like automatically downloading and/or decompiling sources when you step into external libraries).

Even browsers ship with built-in debuggers (and Chrome's is really good). I still see a lot of people (including my colleagues) often spend inordinate amounts of time console.log'ing when just stepping though the program would suffice.

I think it's the question of culture: people are so used to using subpar tools, they can't even imagine what a good one may look like. And these tools constantly evolve. Here's RAD Debugger by Ryan Fleury: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1920345634026238106.html
Ask HN: How soon will AI take over traditional recommendation algorithms?
by solatrader | 2025-09-10 09:11:50+00:00
I’ve found that people around me are now very used to asking AI instead of typing keywords for searching, since AI chatbots are much smarter than search engines. It seems that this kind of intelligence can also outperform the click-based recommendation algorithms used everywhere nowadays. Are there any attempts or progress in this area already happening?
by skywal_l | 2025-09-10 09:13:19+00:00
If the US government was a function body, it would force Youtube to separate the hosting business and the website itself. The hosting would be a low margin low risk business which doesn't care about traffic either way. It's just selling infrastructure the way telecom companies do. It would be paid by websites to offer a frontend to users.

This way there is real competition on what matters, the user experience and still a economy of scale on what costs a lot which is actually storing and delivering videos.

Some frontend would be free with ads, some with a paywall but without ads. Some low quality, some high quality, some both. The user would have a choice. Each creator would be free to choose its licensing model. The hosting company would then only provide the video to frontends following the creator's wish.

The creator would pay by the bytes stored and the frontend by the bytes transferred. No incentive for the hosting provider to favor either of them.

Not perfect as the hosting company is still a monopoly, but it could be regulated to be neutral and behave like a utility.

The frontend has to cater to users and nobody else. They have competition and disappear if they enshittify.

Creators are free from the tyranny of google. They become the clients of the hosting company which makes steady money whatever the content.

Everybody wins, except google, which is fine by me.
by Jotalea | 2025-09-10 09:13:23+00:00
>Seems like a waste of space

It's quite the opposite.

My laptop has a small 11.1'' screen, so using a traditional desktop with smaller windows is not practical for me. Plus, not having the windows overlap with each other by default gives a more structured workflow.

unrelated to the comment: I wrote this answer 3 times, but the damn process killer on Android kept deleting it so I had to re-write it each time. if I sound mad, it is because I am.
by 0xEF | 2025-09-10 09:13:28+00:00
I'd like to see what a "full-spectrum crackdown" on anti-intellectualism in the US would look like, given that most of its population struggles to discern fact from fiction in the news cycle, healthcare and legal proceedings. The introduction of generative AI has only made that worse, pushing more distrust of any information that didn't come from a source counted among "one of us." Our problem stems from an intentionally poorly educated populace that still heavily relies on idolatry, allowing whatever demagogue with the means to rise and essentially manipulate the masses.

I'm pretty sure, at this point, this was intentional, individuals and orgs with the resources to create finely tuned systemic problems having been at it since the country's inception.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-10 09:13:37+00:00
> If you get laid-off, employer has to give you a severance package for any number of reasons (local labor laws, agreement with the union, corporate PR). This is not a standard deal and is, simply put, more expensive than if the employee just quit of their own accord.

I don't think this is true in the US. And severance packages are cheaper than you think. Most people only get a couple of months of pay.
by ameliaquining | 2025-09-10 09:13:47+00:00
npm ci wouldn't trigger this, it doesn't pick up newly published package versions. I suppose if you got a PR from Dependabot updating you to the compromised package, and happened to merge it within the window of vulnerability, then you'd get hit, but that will likewise not affect all that many developers. Or if you'd configured Dependabot to automatically merge all updates without review; I'm not sure how common that is.
by Aldipower | 2025-09-10 09:13:48+00:00
I just produced 150 cassettes of my new album and people like it to have it on cassette, even if they do not have a player. But they can hold something physical in there hands while listening on-line.

And yeah, I've produced, mixed and mastered the whole album, so I can say for sure, the cassettes sounds much much better and organic then the _same_ master on Spotify. It's a subtle mixture of tape compression, saturation, hiss, eqing, jitter that makes it somehow lively. And it will sound slightly different on every owns tape player.
by jajko | 2025-09-10 09:14:30+00:00
Don't expect much when (from what I see) most adults are properly addicted to their screens. If parents are already not up to the bar kids will seldom be, leading by example and all that.

Now show me parents, hell even here on HN, who openly admit that they are addicted to the screens and various 'social' cancers and consider it something profoundly bad and damaging, and that they as parents should really do better and actually try. A rare sight, mostly its brushed off and some even brag how 'digital' and modern their kids are.

But its fine, we all know how these things really are. This is one area where even otherwise disadvantaged parents (ie due to their poor upbringing or ie coming from undeveloped places) can raise their kids to be well above sea of future desperate population with severe social anxieties and addictions (lets not forget addictions ball up since they change personality for the worse).

Think how much lack / minimization of those will give them various advantages in their adult lives, be it professional (focus on work, ability to better socialize and communicate in person) or personal (all kinds of relationships, and finding one's purpose and drive in life). I just mentioned basically whole core of adult existence, no small things by any means.

And its not that hard, we do it with our kids and often see it around us in their peers, just need to put a bit more effort and spend more time with them instead of doom scrolling or binge watching TV. Which are anyway good parenting advices, but one needs to start like that from beginning and lead by example.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-10 09:15:15+00:00
> My iPhone 11 still feels very much good enough (which I imagine must be terrible for Apple)

I think Apple has come to terms with the fact that people are no longer upgrading their phones every 1-2 years. They are probably happy just to keep you in the Apple ecosystem where they can sell you apps, services, accessories, other compatible apple products - and hopefully get your repeat business when you do one day feel the need to upgrade.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-10 09:15:55+00:00
Hostile to whom and on what basis?

If two companies decide to merge, is it by default a hostile action? I don't think so. And what if later anti-monopoly agency decides that it was an infraction and blocks the merger? Then I think it was.

Does informing voters about something is a hostile action by default? I don't think so. But if it was later decided that there was a law breach, then it would be hostile action.

All people and even megacorps are innocent until proven guilty. Maybe even until accused of being guilty by some authority, though it is pushing it. But until someone at least does something to show their displeasure and point fingers, then yeah, no hostile action has happened, it was fair play.

So to answer your question - vote bribing is 100% a failure of the organizer of said vote and of the law enforcement system (in bigger cases) IF that organizer or govt never complained about it or did jack shit in general. But if they at least complained or better did something about the problem, then yes, vote bribing failure would be a shared responsibility of both bad actor doing it and the people who hadn't done any reasonable prevention in advance.

Since it is obvious that assigning equal weights to the countries can and did lead to the vote manipulation, I can say that ISO committee had NOT done reasonable prevention of vote manipulation and so is also guilty, just as bad actor MS.
by Alifatisk | 2025-09-10 09:17:01+00:00
Whenever Apple releases a new phone, I like to visit this page to actually compare it to previous models

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare

Also, It's a bummer that they didn't launch something for the mini series. I prefer smaller screens that fit into my pocket, I don't care about thinness. 13-mini will be the last iPhone I can upgrade to in a few years, after that I'll have to look into other phones

Another thing that stuck out, what's the point with having such a thin phone, yet the camera system points out? I would much prefer a complete flat backside

I'll vote with my wallet
Show HN: Get LiveKit Agents complete observability in seconds
by mehrad_1 | 2025-09-10 09:17:50+00:00
Heads-down with the team building Whispey SDK for LiveKit voice agents — sharing a small win that actually saves time in production.

We turned LiveKit telemetry into something you can act on: → Session overview (turns, traces, bugs) → Waterfall timeline across STT → LLM → TTS (with each OpenTelemetry span broken down in a structured format) → Click any span → side sheet with full request + raw JSON (super helpful for debugging at the atomic level) → P75 and P50 latencies surfaced at a glance

The setup “aha”?

Just one flag: enable_otel=True

94 spans → Structured insights you can actually ship with.

LiveKit gives the data. Whispey makes it production-ready.

If you’re running LiveKit agents in prod — what’s the one insight that would save you the most debugging time right now?
by RossBencina | 2025-09-10 09:18:09+00:00
I have those books. I can confirm that your citations are correct. That said, Fowler's presentation is brief and doesn't really pass as "pattern form" in my view. POSA has its own slightly different pattern form Context/Problem/Solution/Structure/Dynamics/Implementation/Variants/Known Uses/Consequences:benefits/Consequences:liabilities/Credits(Trygve Reenskaug)
by xn--yt9h | 2025-09-10 09:18:39+00:00
Installation was easy, and it works as expected without interfering with i3 window controls.

However, the sole reason I'm keeping an eye out for raycast-compatible launchers is the ability to integrate the raindrop.io extension - which seems to be broken when used through Vicinae.

Maybe someone else running raindrop got it to work; "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'subscribers')".
by lbschenkel | 2025-09-10 09:19:19+00:00
Twelve is a quite high ratio of children to carer. In Sweden what is considered a healthy ratio is 5:1, and many places do meet that rate or are very close to it. 10:1 would be considered a very poor daycare, and most people wouldn't want to put their children on it — only if they have no other choice.

Regarding pay being bad this happens over here as well, unfortunately. Teaching in general is not paid as much as it is worth.
by bmacho | 2025-09-10 09:19:39+00:00
> Schools have very little to do with teaching, and really are just about baby sitting and trying to correct social issues.

Is that wrong? The government takes away your kid for 12 years, every weekday all day, they might as well solve social issues in the country even if that means, say, kids are 1 year behind Asian kids, or their parents 30 years ago. If they figure out how to solve personal issues, that's even better.

I think there is a logical fallacy here. People assume that the only purpose of school is education. The more the education the better, even if that means deepening social issues, or making kids unhappy (BTW being a kid is like ~20% of someones life, not insignificant in itself). I think they assume it just because 'school' is called 'school', but I don't think the name of an object should determine its purpose.

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When I look at the social issues in my country, I think the school system would be a very natural place to start to solve them (and arguably the current school system just worsens them). Even at the cost of "fall in reading and math scores".
by thecupisblue | 2025-09-10 09:19:50+00:00
I speak at least 3 languages at a native level. Google's autotranslate 80% of the time selects a language I'm not just unfamiliar with, but can't even read due to the writing system difference (i.e. sudden arabic appears).

Considering I'm using it with an account that is about 20 years old now, that gave Google all of the permissions in the world and has all the possible data one might need to make the conclusions on which language I prefer, it is absolutely absurd that it cannot make a solid guess.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-10 09:20:08+00:00
> min-maxing your own stats

So many people fall in this category, but a lot of them seem to min-max their gear more than anything. I know casual runners with $400 carbon plate performance shoes, I run with them, in my $7 decathlon shoes, unless you're paid to run or aim for a record I really don't see the point, especially since these thing barely last a few month of serious running. Same for hikers with $3k of ultralight gear, they spend more time reading reviews and flexing their 0.1g hacks than actually hiking.

There is a huge overlap between tech nerds and "gear hobbyists", I assume because they have too much money for their own good.
by Rendello | 2025-09-10 09:20:39+00:00
Hacker News will bias against emoji. Certainly there is a question of whether the consortium should keep adding emoji, which ones to add, whether emoji should be encoded in the first place, etc.

For perspective, this update also brings 4316 new CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters, which "pushes the number of CJK ideographs to over 100,000" (quoting from the release).
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-10 09:22:55+00:00
We don't see into the Russians' heads, but it would be very advantageous for them to be able to close the Rzeszów airport (a major NATO logistics hub in eastern Poland) for hours by sending a few cheap "oh, certainly jammed" drones in its direction.

They absolutely, under no circumstances, can be allowed to gain such capability to deny NATO/Poland its own operations on its own territory at will.

A no-fly zone 100 km into Ukrainian territory is a way to prevent them from trying this again.
by nairboon | 2025-09-10 09:23:13+00:00
In the private market: yes the interest is a compensation for the risk taken by the lender.

However certain institutions like banks have access to so called "risk free" lending. They can (must) deposit capital at the central bank and get paid interest. In the US this would be the "interest on reserve balances" or through reverse repo transactions, where the FED pays the interest. From the point of view of the bank (inside a financial system) this is risk free profit.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 09:25:21+00:00
> My solution to endless teams convos is to just say "I'll head over to your desk" and then we work it out in person.

A good replacement for this is a voice or video call with screen sharing. As a bonus, you can rope in folks who are at another site just as easily as you can the first participant. Need to see notes on paper or a whiteboard? Pay the one-time cost to up another camera.

If the folks you work with don't have a "Always respond quickly to urgent messaging requests" habit, then they'll need to develop that. But, IMO, not having that habit is roughly the same as being the type that is rarely at their desk (whether because he's off helping others, or because he prefers to work on a laptop somewhere else in the building).
by IshKebab | 2025-09-10 09:25:26+00:00
I think it would be hard to argue that working all together in an office - like before covid - isn't more productive. In-person meetings are easier. Whiteboarding and brainstorming is way easier. Spontaneous conversations are easier. Helping junior people is easier. People actually pay attention in meetings. You get to know colleagues better.

Have you ever had to "now click on the left... no, up a bit. No go back you were just there. It's the third one from th... I'll just paste the link in chat" when you were standing next to someone's desk? No.

The only benefits of working from home are:

1. No commute.

2. Can do life stuff (we finally have a solution to the dumb problem that shops etc. are only open when people are at work).

3. The company doesn't need to spend money on offices.

The first two are huge bonuses for employees, but the company doesn't give a shit about them. At best they care about paying for offices, but that's pretty minor (especially when they've already paid for them and they're sitting there empty).
by jajko | 2025-09-10 09:26:39+00:00
Yes? You mention it too - parents glued to their phones, part of the problem. Kids seeing their parents reading a book vs being glued to their phones really isn't the same thing, far from it. They can come and see pages of printed text in a book, vs some endless tiktok/instagram feeds of shallow video entertainment. Guess which they will stay around and stare endlessly without even blinking.

Screens and especially active content are incredibly addictive and small kids have no way of being rational and throttle their use. If they see the same behavior in their parents that's it.

Its not about having stay-at-home parent, but about spending the time with kids to be 100% physically there for them and them only, no running screen of any type anywhere in sight. Lets be honest, this is a rather rare sight.