MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cvoss | 2025-09-09 16:22:28+00:00
Perhaps there is something about the environment of an economically disadvantaged household that could be improved by a stipend which allows at least one parent the breathing room to dedicate full time attention to the child instead of a job (or multiple jobs). I don't think the findings you mentioned cut against that idea at all.

I hear you saying the benefit of dedicated caregiving for children mostly helps families with less economic advantage. I'd agree with that, and suggest that OP's proposal capitalizes on exactly that. I'm not convinced of what may be implied in your argument that low-earners make for bad parents and that children should be separated more from their parents for their own good. Let the internal dynamics of a family be solved first, before saying we need to separate parents from children more.

Moreover, those with more economic advantage are unlikely to take a stipend in exchange for staying home. That's not a good deal when keeping the job pays so much that they can afford to pay for childcare.

It is precisely those with less advantage who will take the deal.

So I don't agree with your prediction that such a stipend mostly benefits those who are already well off.
by 1-more | 2025-09-09 16:22:49+00:00
of all people my mortgage servicer is the worst about this. Your login is valid on like 3 different top level domains and you get bounced between them when you sign in, eventually going from servicer.com to myservicer.com to servicer.otherthing.com! It's as though they were training you to not care about domain names.
by yazanobeidi | 2025-09-09 16:23:20+00:00
You’re not wrong, but, I can literally see it get worse throughout the day sometimes, especially recently. Coinciding with Pacific Time Zone business hours.

Quantization could be done, not to deliberately make the model worse, but to increase reliability! Like Apple throttling devices - they were just trying to save your battery! After all there are regular outages, and some pretty major ones a handful of weeks back taking eg Opus offline for an entire afternoon.
by incomingpain | 2025-09-09 16:23:20+00:00
Not in the slightest; if they were, the measurement would be rather useless anyway. It's easy to skew the issue temporarily; typically this works for 5-10 years and then it comes crashing down. Greece did it come 2004 until their crash in 2009.

GDP per capita is the most reliable and closest measurement to a happiness measure.
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-09-09 16:23:30+00:00
Interesting to see the tacit endorsement of these ICE raids by a local union leader:

> Christi Hulme, president of the Savannah Regional Central Labor Council, said unions that are part of her council believe Korean workers have been pouring cement, erecting steel, performing carpentry and fitting pipes. “Basically our labor was being given to illegal immigrants,” Hulme said.

So far in the US, most labor unions have generally been fairly left-wing, including being pro-immigration. Wonder how long that will last.
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 16:23:30+00:00
I agree with you vigorously on both those points. I am skeptical however that NM will be able to create a lot of healthy, play-based environments for so many kids.

The market already has incentives to create them -- a ton of good places have waiting lists nationwide, showing unmet demand even at the current price. This suggests the price will need to go higher to attract enough people to do this job. It seems their "$12,000 value" estimate is based on an optimistic belief that they will be buying childcare for their citizens at current prices. When they realize there aren't that many slots available at current rates of pay, will they be okay significantly increasing the costs of the program?

So, my expectations for these facilities are very low and that's a big part of my concern.
by jimt1234 | 2025-09-09 16:24:02+00:00
Every immigrant I've known that's around my age has told me basically the same story. When they came to the US as a child, and got put into public school, they struggled with reading (they could barely speak English, much less read it), but they excelled at math. I've heard this from people born in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Iraq, Iran, Japan, etc.
by stanfordkid | 2025-09-09 16:24:07+00:00
Friedmans theory is basically a non-statement. It’s so banal as to be vacuous, except as a justification. It’s like saying the point of life is to procreate. Like no shit, but that’s not all that it is.

To put it in AI terms: you could dimensionality reduce a 1024 dimensional vector into 1 dimension and train a model on it. It may be the case that it’s the best reduction you could compute, but that doesn’t mean your entire idea isn’t shitty.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 16:24:08+00:00
> because it will show how much an economy can grow when women are allowed to work to their full potential

This feels like the wrong goal. Why does it matter how much an economy can grow? Is that worth not having a parent raise the child? In my opinion, it’s important for kids to spend more time with their families not less. Having one parent at home is very useful for bonding, development, etc. And frankly no childcare, even one with good ratios of workers to children, can substitute for it. I think the notion that “if the children are taken care of” is perhaps not recognizing that there are different levels of “taken care of”.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-09 16:24:09+00:00
I think the problem is, by the nature of being undocumented, it's hard to prove that these people are working illegally. I guess you could send in the FBI and put spy cams all over the facility, use facial recognition to identify improperly documented workers, tail them to their homes, and pick them up there. In fact, I'm probably more in favor of that kind of thing. Big sloppy raids on brand-name companies just looks heavy-handed.
by pseudosavant | 2025-09-09 16:24:13+00:00
I had a GPT-5 agent help me think through a pull-only controller/agent model for OpenWRT. The controller keeps desired configs in git and serves the current version as a tiny tar/zip over HTTP(S), using the last commit ID as the ETag. Agents poll every ~5s with If-None-Match, so it’s usually a 304 and near-zero overhead; when the version changes they fetch the archive and apply it. The controller location is advertised via DHCP; no long-lived sockets or SSH push.

On the device side, the agent only activates if there’s no WAN (so the main router isn’t a client). A new AP gets a LAN IP via DHCP, discovers the controller, pulls its config, and if none exists the controller can hand back a default Wi-Fi setup to come online immediately. Start with Wi-Fi-only changes (reload instead of reboot), aim for a “plug into LAN + power and it just joins” UX, and avoid OpenWISP complexity. It’s built from boring, reliable primitives: DHCP, HTTPS, git, tar, Lua.

I think I'm going to have an agent start coding this up today and see where it gets.
by anon7000 | 2025-09-09 16:24:24+00:00
The nx supply chain attack via npm was the bullet many companies did not doge. I mean, all you needed was to have the VS Code nx plugin installed — which always checked for the latest published nx version on npm. And if you had a local session with GitHub (eg logged into your company’s account via the GH CLI), or some important creds in a .env file… that was exfiltrated.

This happened even if you had pinned dependencies and were on top of security updates.

We need some deeper changes in the ecosystem.

https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-cxm3-wv7...
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-09 16:24:56+00:00
I'm not 100% sure that Hyundai (and/or the bosses who "oopsied" the paperwork) won't face consequences for this. The law is (famously) slow, ICE is fast. Give it time.

As a sidenote, the fact that this happened in the middle of tariff negotiations with South Korea probably was used as leverage to get more for the US, so Hyundai is probably going to get heat from the South Korean government over this gaff.
by thisisit | 2025-09-09 16:25:11+00:00
You do know economic data is not used only by "economists", right? Given that you seem to dislike the word "economic" data, focus only on the data part. Tell us how politicians/policy makers run the country without data? How do they know rates have to be increased/decreased if they don't have such numbers? Through wishful and magical thinking about focusing on the basics?
by mikewarot | 2025-09-09 16:25:11+00:00
Not Claude specific, but related to the agent model of things...

I've been paying $10/month for GitHub Copilot, which I use via Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, and about a month ago, they added ChatGPT5 (preview), which uses the agent model of interaction. It's a qualitative jump that I'm still learning to appreciate in full.

It seems like the worst possible thing, in terms of security, to let an LLM play with your stuff, but I really didn't understand just how much easier it could be to work with an LLM if it's an agent. Previously I'd end up with a blizzard of python error messages, and just give up on a project, now it fixes it's own mess. What a relief!
by giantg2 | 2025-09-09 16:25:21+00:00
Yes, I understand that and still don't think that adds up. Things like SNAP for a family of 4 would be less than $12k per year. And that increased tax revenue would have to offset the currently working and paying families that will now use the program. We would have to wait for the experiment to conclude to see what the increased earnings for participants will be.
by rapind | 2025-09-09 16:25:24+00:00
And yet, people's complaints about Claude Code over the past month and a bit are now justified by Anthropic stating that those complaints caused them to investigate and fix a bunch of issues (while investigating potential more issues with opus).

> But guess what? If you serve them open weights models, they also complain about models getting worse over time.

Isn't this also anecdotal, or is there data informing this statement?

I think you could be partially right, but I also don't think dismissing criticism as just being a change in perspective is correct either. At least some complaints are from power users who can usually tell when something is getting objectively worse (as was the case for some of us Claude Code users recently). I'm not saying we can't fool ourselves too, but I don't think that's the most likely assumption to make.
by cgh | 2025-09-09 16:25:36+00:00
Is the fundamental problem with npm still a lack of enforced namespacing?

In the Java world, I know there’s been griping from mostly juniors re “why isn’t Maven easy like npm?” (I work with some of these people). I point them to this article: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/why-namespacing-matters-in-pub...

Maven got a lot of things right back in the day. Yes POM files are in xml and we all know xml sucks etc, but aside from that the stodgy focus on robustness and carefully considered change gets more impressive all the time.
by optionalsquid | 2025-09-09 16:25:55+00:00
At one point (2020) they did intend for the difficulty to be similar to Hollow Knight:

> So Team Cherry is not out to make a more difficult sequel, then: they're hoping for it to be a "comparable" test of skill to Hollow Knight, Pellen says, while Gibson explains that starting with the clean slate of an entirely new kingdom with its own lore and new characters is another way in which Silksong is designed to be "a perfect jumping-on point for new players. We're trying to be really, really mindful that we want this to be a game that new people can come into, and experience as their first Hollow Knight game — that it sits alongside the original game, and the difficulty also sits alongside the game in that way."

https://www.reddit.com/r/metroidvania/comments/oebdg6/the_ho...
by declan_roberts | 2025-09-09 16:26:11+00:00
"Why do you want a thriving career?"

"So I can provide for my family"

"Why do you want to provide for your family?"

"So my children can have happy and fulfilling lives"

"What makes your young children feel happy?"

"Spending time with me"

A strong parent-child relationship is the biggest determination of life-long child happiness even into old age.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4784487/
by arduanika | 2025-09-09 16:26:13+00:00
I don't think that's an accurate recounting of the reasons for the American Revolution. That '/' is doing a lot of work, and "wealth inequality" was not a topical notion at the time.

That said, this is a fine thing for a state to experiment with. From other comments, it sounds like NM's ability to try this out is related to a recent oil and gas boom. We'll see how it goes.
by mescudi | 2025-09-09 16:26:18+00:00
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by cycomanic | 2025-09-09 16:26:20+00:00
Because there are lags in the system? Because we are not doing enough? Do you always expect immediate feedback on everything you do? If that's the case I guess you never invest in anything because that's by definition a bet that it will make things better (or less worse) in the future.

So your proposal is to further delay making anyone pay for changes, because previous generations profited? So at the end of the chain (which will likely not be very long anymore) some generation will be completely screwed.
by jdietrich | 2025-09-09 16:26:22+00:00
The US Postal Service has been running at a loss since 2007. It lost $9.5bn last year, despite a colossal bailout in 2022 that was supposed to return it to profitability. Most of these losses can be attributed to pension and healthcare costs. The USPS is pretty much the worst example of a sustainable nationalised business that you could possibly choose.
by khuey | 2025-09-09 16:26:32+00:00
It sounds like they had valid visas (or ESTAs), the question is whether they were allowed to do what they were doing on those visas. That question potentially has 475 different answers too, because there are certain sorts of what one would commonly refer to as "work" that are permitted on an ESTA or B-1 visa, so one would need to know the exact things each individual was doing to make an individual determination.

As for why they're pissed off, that seems obvious. If say Australia wanted to have a software engineering office, invited my employer to set up an office, my employer sent me over there to do something related to that telling me it was in accordance with the law, and then the Australia government arrested me, threw me in jail, and posted videos of this all over social media, I would be pissed off too.
by dudeinjapan | 2025-09-09 16:27:06+00:00
Here's a good read on OpenStreetMap in Korea (use Google Translate) https://medium.com/seoul-libre-maps/%EB%94%94%EC%A7%80%ED%84...

Apparently Pokemon Go was a major driver for OSM editors in Korea--Niantic used OSM and PokeStops wouldn't spawn due low quality OSM data.
by sniffers | 2025-09-09 16:27:19+00:00
Oooooof. Yeah, we should definitely let governments pipe their propaganda directly into every surface in our lives constantly. Surely that's something that's healthy and good for all of us. Governments have no incentive to lie and have no power to buy out all the bandwidth.

"Well, at least I made money on the government shutting down discussion" is deeply messed up.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-09 16:27:20+00:00
> I can't even get through Easy on DDR because the arrows move too fast

The trick to basically all of these games is not to actually try and look at the arrows. There are a lot of them, they are moving fast, your conscious mind can't actually track and respond to each one of them individually.

But with practice you can train your self to more-or-less automatically respond to the sequence - there are only a handful of variations, and you learn the patterns that they typically arrive in.

(For a little while I had too much free time on my hands, and was in the top-100 BeatSaber players)
Show HN: CoordTool – Offline Coordinate Converter
by Akzid | 2025-09-09 16:27:38+00:00
I built an iOS app for accurate offline coordinate conversion. It’s meant for anyone who works with coordinates in the field – outdoor users, professionals, military, or pilots.

Key features: • Convert between DD, DDM, DMS, UTM, MGRS, SWEREF99, RT90, and Plus Codes • Fully offline – no account, no tracking, no subscription • Built-in global VOR/NDB database • Interactive map with pin placement • Multilingual support (English, Spanish, German, French, Swedish) • Dark/light mode toggle

Privacy was important to me: all processing is done locally on-device. Location is only used (if enabled) to fetch your GPS position and is never sent anywhere.

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially what features you’d like to see added or improved.
by Theodores | 2025-09-09 16:27:40+00:00
Yes! Actually, there are times when the data needs a manual hack, there are countless places next to a lake with a mountain behind where I would have to put in the hack so the place next to the lake wasn't rounded up to the mountain or rounded down to the lake.

As for colours, we had those graphic designers that wanted to do their own 'mark' on the product, so the maps made by them were artist impressions with stupid colours such as blue for land and yellow for the sea. This makes things difficult if the animated gifs for the icons use yellow and blue, for things like the sun and the rain and it is your job to encode those gifs. That one was resolved by sacking the designer and making base maps the more scientific way, with AVHRR vegetation index, a bathymetry dataset and so on.

You would not believe the battles that have to be had to have maps that are fit for purpose rather than 'graphic designed'.

Other mundane tasks included setting the clocks at 2 a.m. twice a year, which would be easy, had it not been for the clocks costing £40k each, with them paired up for redundancy, and that pair paired-up for even more redundancy.

The clocks worked fine, however,timings could move around during the changeover from summer time since the clocks try and correct themselves. Change one and the other clocks would gang up on it and it would acquiesce. Costing £40k the clocks obviously did not show the time as that would be too obvious, there was just the timecode on wires going around the building. Then the only way to adjust them was to solder your own lead, plug it into a laptop and then telnet in.

As for deception, look at weather forecasting as more like gambling. Forecasters have gambling mentality and a very different way of understanding the weather to mere mortals. The behind the scenes chat on a daily basis is what you want, not the forecast. You get the bigger picture listening in to their chats.
by Supernaut | 2025-09-09 16:27:40+00:00
> I remember they tried to privatize water in Ireland a good few years ago

That is not what happened. The government simply introduced plans to charge for water usage. As you say, there was a backlash, albeit only from certain sectors of society. While it did cause the authorities to shelve the charges, it's not correct to say that "everyone" was destroying the new meters; as I recall, there was very little vandalism.

The result of this mob rule is that, like Britain, we have been left with an underfunded, ageing, leaky water network that is essentially incapable of supporting further expansion.
by Twirrim | 2025-09-09 16:27:47+00:00
So what? They're not replacing standard tooling like static analysis with it. As they mention, it's being used as additional signal alongside static analysis.

There are cases an LLM may be able to catch that their static analysis can't currently catch. Should they just completely ignore those scenarios, thereby doing the worst thing by their customers, just to stay purist?

What is the worst case scenario that you're envisioning from an LLM hallucinating in this use case? To me the worst case is that it might incorrectly flag a package as malicious, which given they do a human review anyway isn't the end of the world. On the flip side, you've got LLM catching cases not yet recognised by static analysis, that can then be accounted for in the future.

If they were just using an LLM, I might share similar concerns, but they're not.
by feross | 2025-09-09 16:28:00+00:00
Disclosure: I’m the founder of https://socket.dev

We analyzed this DuckDB incident today. The attacker phished a maintainer on npmjs.help, proxied the real npm, reset 2FA, then immediately created a new API token and published four malicious versions. A short publish freeze after 2FA or token changes would have broken that chain. Signed emails help, but passkeys plus a publish freeze on auth changes is what would have stopped this specific attack.

There was a similar npm phishing attack back in July (https://socket.dev/blog/npm-phishing-email-targets-developer...). In that case, signed emails would not have helped. The phish used npmjs.org — a domain npm actually owns — but they never set DMARC there. DMARC is only set on npmjs.com, the domain they send email from. This is an example of the “lack of an affirmative indicator” problem. Humans are bad at noticing something missing. Browsers learned this years ago: instead of showing a lock icon to indicate safety, they flipped it to show warnings only when unsafe. Signed emails have the same issue — users often won’t notice the absence of the right signal. Passkeys and publish freezes solve this by removing the human from the decision point.