MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-09 16:41:14+00:00
> on the US tariffs thing, congress can put Trump back in his box and revert to normalcy any time it wants to

We’ve already lost export market share. China, Russia and India have already begun building a trade bloc. FDI has already been trashed.

We’re already in for a world of hurt. And personally, I’m eager to ensure it lands disproportionately on his voters and donors.
by nikanj | 2025-09-09 16:41:24+00:00
Vetocracy and nimby are ensuring the country barely shambles on until the boomers croak off. No point in putting up with construction and paying for the investments, if the current infra is juust barely good enough to last until the average voter shuffles off this mortal coil. When the older generations vote reliably and young people are apathetic, you get the current situation
by underbluewaters | 2025-09-09 16:41:26+00:00
This was surprising to me too. I think there was some guilt around having a child and not spending 100% of our time caring for them. The reality was that quality daycare teachers have a lot of experience and a support network that enables them to create a great environment for learning. Socializing with peers from a young age was a huge benefit. While I'm sure they'll catch up, when observing kids the same age who hadn't been to "school" yet, it was clear that these kids hadn't developed at the same rate. Even if I had all the resources in the world, I'd still send my kids to a good daycare vs trying to replicate these learning opportunities at home.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-09 16:41:42+00:00
> Of course electricity at night is highly desirable. But there are no economic incentives to build it.

Wait, what? Who is going to accept having no power at night at their house? Ignoring the fact that the intra-utility trade does provide a direct economic incentive, nobody is going to live somewhere the power companies can’t keep the lights on 24 hours a day most days (in the developed world anyway).
by coolspot | 2025-09-09 16:41:44+00:00
Likewise, Obama’s new house in Hawaii is shown as empty lot: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pKKkR17trBiz7b9w6?g_st=ipc

It was built more than three years ago.

Looks the same on Google and Bing. You can see it on Apple Maps though: https://maps.apple.com/place?coordinate=21.324794,-157.67986...
by jprjr_ | 2025-09-09 16:41:44+00:00
Well there's a few things that have to go right for that scenario to work. It's not impossible but I'd imagine the number of people that could take advantage of it is small.

If I have a passenger that can use the phone - it will be infinitely easier to have them place an order via app. They can look at the map, set up navigation, read through the menu and handle getting the order in, etc.

The driver needs to know where the restaurant is. A lot of time when I'm getting fast food - I'm on the interstate, I don't really know where I am, I just know I saw a sign saying the next exit has a Taco Bell. If anything asks me to confirm the restaurant location as 123 Main Street or in some city - I have no idea if that's right or not.

Maybe if it integrates with Android Auto and Google Maps so I can place an order and get navigated, that could work.

Another big issue is knowing the menu. I definitely wouldn't want to sit and have a robot read me the whole menu. There are some places where I could order without seeing the menu but - if you don't go very often you probably need to see the menu. And if you're not going very often you probably don't have their app on your phone anyway.

The apps don't take how busy the restaurants are into account. If I get to a place and it's slammed, I'll look around a bit for something else less busy, because I want to get back on the road. So I'm not really all that committed to a particular place anyway.

I also tend to not trust the apps. I can't tell you how many times I've placed an order only to find out they're out of something when I get there. If I order at the speaker I get that feedback immediately and can pick something else (or somewhere else).

Basically you need to have all of the following be true:

* Have nobody else in the car that could operate the phone for you * Know the restaurant location * Know the menu * Have the app * Ready to commit to any wait * Trust the app is correct
by nine_k | 2025-09-09 16:41:46+00:00
My intention was not to redefine the word, but to merely offer my opinion that this war is very unlikely to end with any kind of resolution, other than a complete defeat of one of the sides. This conflict is not like e.g. Soviet-Finnish war of 1940, when USSR annexed 10% of Finland and hostilities stopped. It's more like the Napoleonic wars on early 19th century, when Napoleon would not stop attacking, no matter how much land he had already conquered, until a comprehensive and total military defeat.

Of course things could become different if the current Russian leader dies, or is deposed.
by logifail | 2025-09-09 16:41:48+00:00
I'm not sure why you'd claim that. BLS figures have been revised downwards repeatedly over recent years.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/21/economy/bls-jobs-revision...

"US job growth during much of the past year was significantly weaker than initially estimated, according to new data released Wednesday.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary annual benchmark review of employment data suggests that there were 818,000 fewer jobs in March of this year than were initially reported."
by yazanobeidi | 2025-09-09 16:41:51+00:00
Have you run into the bug where claude acts as if it updated the artifact, but it didn’t? You can see the changes in real time, but then suddenly it’s all deleted character by character as if the backspace was held down, you’re left with the previous version, but claude carries on as if everything is fine. If you point it out, it will acknowledge this, try again, and… same thing. The only reliable fix I’ve seen is to ask it to generate a new artifact with that content and the updates. Talk about wasting tokens, and no refunds, no support, you’re on your own entirely. It’s unclear how they can seriously talk about releasing this feature when there are fundamental issues with their existing artifact creation and editing abilities.
by troupo | 2025-09-09 16:41:53+00:00
> You can't just also ship a installation media of word 95 and windows into the ISO standard, right?

That's what they almost literally did. The spec is littered with "behavior of this program that has no specification and to see it you need to install it and run it"

And that's on top of re-inventing a bunch of specs in MS-only and MS-specific manner (like dates, for example)
by k_g_b_ | 2025-09-09 16:42:19+00:00
End consumer prices are utterly unusable to determine success or failure of the Energiewende. They are also utterly useless to compare across nations, as they are made up of very different components - e.g. in Germany only 40% is determined by market factors, in France the price is held artificially low by massive subsidies https://www.lemonde.fr/en/energies/article/2023/04/21/france... and so on.
by drivebyhooting | 2025-09-09 16:42:28+00:00
They are cutting paper. You can see scraps of paper on the desk.

Of course “active” learning is better than passively sitting in a lecture. But these kids are not learning. They’re sitting in a group with scissors and markers making a X-y coordinate graph.

Your long diatribe fails to recognize the obvious: that middle school math class has turned into an art and hand labor class / day care.
by mrspuratic | 2025-09-09 16:42:33+00:00
Irish Water/Uisce Éireann have delivered on two new reservoirs in the last few years: Saggart and Stillorgan (technically a rebuild of an 1860s open reservoir). A third, Peamount, is in the planning stage. All of these are around Dublin, the driest and most populated area. Perhaps there are more, their website doesn't make it easy to find them. We still get hosepipe bans, occasional pressure reductions, and frequent "boil notices".

At the other end of the pipe they have opened/upgraded many waste water treatment plants recently too, large EU fines being a motivator, including one in Arklow which took nearly 4 decades to get over the line (its planning predating the existence of IW).
by empath75 | 2025-09-09 16:42:34+00:00
You can't just look at every action the administration is taking on this in isolation. This is part of a larger program of demonizing and abusing immigrants in this country. I don't think they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

In any case, there are ways to handle this that are less abusive of people who were just trying to do their jobs. This honestly could have been handled with an email. "We have been notified that some of your employees have been doing work A, B and C in violation of their visa agreements. Please take action to correct this before we have to take legal action, which could involve arrest and deportation and fines."

That is the way this would have been handled in the past, and would have resolved the problem, but they were more interested in putting on a show.

When enforcing the law, there are broad spectrum of actions available between doing nothing at all and launching a drone strike, and this administration seems to want to do the latter more often than not.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-09 16:42:35+00:00
If I'm in those situations and staring at my phone, it's because I forgot to bring a book. Staring into the middle distance while my kid sits on the bench for fifteen minutes and a bunch of kids I don't know ineptly play soccer, or closely watching my 500th hour of kids playing "tag", is a last resort. Hell sometimes I'll just start trying to find weird bugs or something.

I do also play with them, but I'm not one of the parents who's always playing with them any time they're playing, they also need space to figure their own stuff out. Adults can do other things a lot of the time, it's fine.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-09 16:42:38+00:00
> This policy appears to disincentives children staying with their mother even when it is preferred.

It does no such thing. If you could afford to be a stay-at-home mom before, this isn't going to make any significant difference to that.

Think of whether it would make sense if you applied your logic to other areas -- do public schools disincentivize people sending their kids to private schools? That would be absurd to say. Creating choice where there wasn't any before doesn't "disincentivize" anything. It gives people options to make the choices that are best for them.
by aeternum | 2025-09-09 16:43:03+00:00
People said similar things about the internet: never before has all human knowledge been available in one place (they forgot about libraries apparently).

I think it's more likely that AI is just a further concentration of human knowledge. It makes it even more accessible but will AI actually add to it?

Why doesn't the logical culmination of technology require quantum computers?

Or the merging of human and machine brains?

Or a solar system-scale particle accelerator?

Or whatever the next technology is that we aren't even aware of yet?
by trod1234 | 2025-09-09 16:43:19+00:00
Its hard to ascribe individual responsibility in that way when the only two choices were existentially awful.

"You elected an idiot president...", the choices were Communism, or Fascism; which is recoverable and better for people. Certainly not the former, but to be clear neither are a real choice when you vote for democracy, and not voting is a vote for both fascism/communism at the same time.

Such was a similar failure and rise of demagogues that ruined Rome.

First-passed-the-post voting is fundamentally flawed, and so is ranked choice...
by gyanchawdhary | 2025-09-09 16:43:20+00:00
Post Musk Twitter is amazing. It lets you see how stories, opinions that you support or don’t are attacked from all sides and Community noted / @grok fact checked … a lot of UX changes too .. pre Musk, the moderation / banning was biased and arbitrary (who is watching the watchers?) .. my personal fav was to see the special tick removed from journalists ..
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-09 16:43:28+00:00
It's easy to blame the teachers unions, but if their goal was to only raise their own salaries and benefits, they are doing a very poor job at it. Teachers do not get paid well. They also tend to get paid more at the elite private schools. So if you want to compare, then you would be advocating for public schools to match private school salaries.

While not always the case, "measuring progress" makes things worse because they tried this and what you get is standardized tests and teachers teaching to the test (Goodhart's law). Most (not all, there are crap teachers out there) are doing their best despite the rules imposed on them by local schoolboards (which are often a shitshow), and by curriculum mandates which they have no say in. And when given too large classes and next to no resources or support, they are then blamed when the kids don't prosper in that environment. There's grade inflation also, this happens at private schools too. Which teacher is more likely to get fired/disciplined; one who fails a lot of students and hardly ever gives and A, or one that hands out A's like candy and the worst non-performing students get a maybe C- (brought up to a C or C+, once the parents come in to complain to administration).
by KetoManx64 | 2025-09-09 16:43:53+00:00
You wouldn't have to if the government didn't own the roads. Plenty of examples of this, private companies creating their own roads and charging people a small fee to use them so they can maintain them.

Wouldn't be that hard give people a little device that tracks the roads they use and charges them $0.05 per mile that they drive and then have the company be a co-op that's owned by the people living in that town.
by jtbayly | 2025-09-09 16:44:16+00:00
The real reason this is “bad” is because the policy actually being implemented is, as the GP comment demonstrates, to get women into the workforce. This requires the goal to be getting them out of the home away from their children. Thus, you must relatively penalize mothers who stay home and care for their children, which is what this policy does. Of course, it is worse for children, worse for families, worse for mothers, worse for just about everything except “business.”

Edit to add: It is only better for the business and the economy short term, because ultimately it results in a lower birth rate and below replacement level fertility is the main problem we currently have for the near-future economy
by _petronius | 2025-09-09 16:44:23+00:00
In Berlin I enjoy exceedingly cheap daycare for my kids (80€ for 2 per month, would be lower if I didn't pay the optional extra costs), as well as generous parental leave in the year after a child is born, with salary subsidy from the state.

This is not an unusual policy situation at all in Europe, although indeed not universal.
by 3036e4 | 2025-09-09 16:44:29+00:00
Great post! Pretty much all that is said about the user interface also applies to the ~contemporary Autodesk Animator for DOS (open source here: https://github.com/AnimatorPro). It has the advantage of running in DOSBox.

Not having layers is frustrating, but also in some way fun. I have not used Deluxe Paint much, but in Animator there is a second Clip screen, it is possible to save and load the clipboard (i.e. "CELs") as well as the current image using keyboard short-cuts, and then there are some other nifty features like "copy everything that changed in this frame since I came here"... The more I play with it the more workarounds I find for things that otherwise would have been easy to do if there were layers.

Also have that set up on my phone, with a lot of on-screen buttons configured in DOSBox. Works well and doesn't come with any of the annoying in-app-purchases and/or ads that all the app painting programs seem to be full of. I even bought a stylus to use with Animator on my phone.
by mickdarling | 2025-09-09 16:44:39+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?

As to whether typing speed is a bottleneck for most people, maybe not most people, but definitely some people, and it's a massive bottleneck for me personally.

I think better when I'm talking and since I have started using speech to text, it has increased my writing speed and coding speed by at least an order, maybe two orders of magnitude.

But you are right, the AI filling in gaps can really cause trouble using speech, goodness knows what it's doing using sub-speech.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 16:45:04+00:00
Indeed, this only occurs with unions and rising wages, where a single income from a secure job can support a family while a parent stays home to perform childrearing. Are we there? When will we get there? These are important questions to ask if this is a dependency to improving household financials to encourage the outcome in this context (a stay at home parent).

If jobs are tenuous or insecure, long term financial obligations will not be made (the cost to raise a child in 2023 dollars is $330k, not including childcare or college). If jobs do not pay enough, people will need to put their kids in childcare (which will have to be subsidized) or they will forgo having children [1] [2].

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/07/29/fewer-adults-ha...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/reasons...
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-09 16:45:14+00:00
This might be a difference between the US and UK?

Preschools in the UK have curriculums they have to follow. That includes maths, reading and writing too.

I’m not going to comment on preschools in your country, but in the UK the kids who attended preschool are IN GENERAL the stronger students, socially, emotionally, and academically, when it comes to starting infants/ elementary school. Particularly in the less affluent areas. Though there might be some selection bias here too due to the kinds of parents who can sand their child to daycare verses those who cannot.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-09 16:45:15+00:00
It's legit kind-of great, because you can't be doing much productive, so the dozen things you should be doing (most of them due to kids...) if you were at home are out the window. You can just chill for a long stretch of time, without concern. Taking your kids to the park or whatever is awesome, it's one of the best breaks a parent gets during daylight hours.

Or you can knock out some schedule stuff or teacher-emailing or bill-paying or whatever that you'd otherwise have to cram in some other time, that's nice too.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-09 16:45:30+00:00
My youngest is now 19, but all of my kids had "common core" math in Denver Public Schools. That was an utter travesty. I had the tail end of the "new math", and it was obvious even then that arithmetic drills were monumental wastes of times. Apparently, the common core folks had not heard of pocket calculators, or calculator apps on cell phones.

If "math" does not account for reality, of course people are going to treat it as a meaningless barrier to be overcome rather than learned. Also, math is more than arithmetic. Using picture of coins. For Chrissake.
by benoau | 2025-09-09 16:45:45+00:00
Working for a fintech and being responsible for the software made me very wary of dependencies and weeding out the deprecated and EOL'd stuff that had somehow already found its way into what was a young project when I joined. Left unrestrained, developers will add anything if it resolves their immediate needs like you could probably spread malware very well just by writing a fake-blog advocating a malicious module to solve certain scenarios.
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-09-09 16:45:46+00:00
The world isn't black and white, but your scenario makes no sense regardless.

- If Hyundai is using illegal labor to build the plant, what would stop them from operating the plant with labor from the same illegal pool? The motivation for labor selection here is not type-of-work, it's cost.

- If Hyundai is allowed to employ illegal immigrants in that way, what precedent does that set for other similar plants?

- Of course tradesmen are going to advocate for their trade. They don't care about some second-order effects on employment that doesn't effect them. (I'll save you some typing, they don't care about the imaginary third-order externalities that plant workers will use their services later, either).

I think what the administration did is stupid as hell, but if those are truly jobs meant to go to Americans, why shouldn't locals be upset?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-09 16:45:53+00:00
> If a bridge needs to be rebuilt pay to have it done. If shipping infrastructure needs to be modernized pay to have it done

This is what they did in Weimar Germany, Erdogan’s Turkey and Argentina. You’re describing massive deficit spending and inflation.

> If bids are won but they go and fuck all the money away send them to jail

Add in Ba’athist Iraq.

Also, guess what you do to fuck over your competitors in this system? You sabotage their supply chains. The politically connected wind up with all the tenders because they’re the only ones who can build.

> This is how stuff worked before people became obsessed with metrics

Literally never how it has worked in any functioning society. When you see this sort of strong arming, it describes a society in decline. The Late Roman Empire. The British in Suez. The French in Indochine. The Russians in Ukraine.
by lazide | 2025-09-09 16:46:32+00:00
Notably, public utilities are often seen as ‘above consequences’ too when part of the gov’t, since usually governments make it impossible to sue them or give them real consequences either.

In theory, with privatization the gov’t can arrest people or the like. The gov’t very rarely does that to itself.

Politicians can be swapped out of course, but most smart ones setup scape goats and a lot of levels of abstraction so they can claim successes and point the finger elsewhere if it goes wrong.
by logifail | 2025-09-09 16:46:36+00:00
> This is the furthest thing from a null hypothesis

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

Q: Why would one trust initial BLS jobs figures under this - or indeed any other - administration?

> This is dressing your conscious biases in sciensism

BLS figures being revised downward month after month after month is data, not bias.
by kragen | 2025-09-09 16:46:38+00:00
I wasn't able to find good information about how many instructions per subroutine call computers typically run these days. Probably I'm not using the right search terms, but here's what I found.

I just ran Emacs a few times under valgrind --tool=callgrind. Perhaps surprisingly, it was usably fast once it started up. I analyzed callgrind's output file with the following highly sophisticated methodology to determine the total number of subroutine calls (and presumably returns):

print(sum(int(mo.group(1)) for line in sys.stdin for mo in [re.match(r'^calls=(\d+)', line)] if mo))

This, plus some division by numbers of executed instructions reported, revealed that it had a subroutine call for about every 55–59 instructions, and about a hundred and fifty thousand extra subroutine calls (and 7.7 million extra instructions) per character typed.

This suggests that, at least in Emacs, the cost of subroutine call and return is probably higher than 15%, maybe 25%.

Other programs I tested:

- GNU ls: 79 instructions per call

- PARI/GP: 360 instructions per call

- CPython with Numpy: 88 instructions per call

- Minetest (rather unplayable): 88 instructions per call