MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-09-10 04:06:20+00:00
You've gone from efficiency and economies of scale, to a "professional" outperforming an "amateur." Raising a child is not like making a widget. Endless studies [1] demonstrate that more early non-parental care leads to worse outcomes in just about every single way - worse behavior, health, attention span, long term higher likelihood of police encounters, and much more. An interesting one is that children who spend extensive time in daycare even end up less socially competent which is quite interesting since it runs contrary to one of the typical arguments in favor of daycare. But it's also not surprising if you think about it, because at home a child is getting vastly more attention and interaction than he would in daycare.

And this is especially significant because that's just speaking aggregately. Obviously not all parents are created equal, but it turns out that even bad parents tend to be better than non-parental care, especially early on. If you isolated it only to active, highly involved, parents - the results would be exponentially better than they already are.

[1] - https://search.brave.com/search?q=long+term+outcomes+of+dayc...
by missedthecue | 2025-09-10 04:06:36+00:00
I do not understand the real estate investor conspiracy theory. Why would it be better for vanguard if Microsoft paid rent to a real estate firm that managed office space, earned an X% profit margin, and then got taxed on the earnings before they were attributed to shareholders?

It makes much more sense to take a bath on the office investments and have Microsoft pay the difference in dividends or buybacks. The net amount to vanguard is higher than paying insurance, building and grounds maintainence, janitors, utilities, management fees, and property+ income tax before seeing your first dollar.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 04:06:41+00:00
There are bad public services and fairly good public services. There are also some great private services and some bad ones.

There's no public roads where I live. They're all private easements, but you can pass through them no problem for miles and miles and get most the way to town without ever touching a taxpayer dime. I first built my bit of the road with a shovel , a 4x4 truck, and a hatchet which blows away what it would have cost my neighbors in taxes. If I tried to explain this to someone with no real concept of anything but a public road system their brain would probably explode trying to understand how this works out better than even many public road systems.

There are a lot of people with exploding brains who can never get to the point of realizing our private road system is working as well as public road systems, and other exploding brains not realizing the public roads are working as well as their private roads.

The main pain point I have tends to be that when the option for peaceful voluntary trade is available, I strongly prefer it over the violence of forcing others via taxation. Therefore I much prefer the situation of my community -- i.e. basically no police/fire, no public roads, and no public utilities. It works great but the pride point is the very low level of violence / involuntary funding necessary to make it happen.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-09-10 04:06:51+00:00
Understanding how to use these tools properly does not take very long. If you've never used them, spending an afternoon with each on real problems will probably change how you think.

If you don't already know which tool to use / how to diagnose the problem, you'll instead of banging your head against the wall, you'll think - "how do i figure out this thing - what is the right tool for this job"? and then you'll probably find it, and use it, because people are awesome and build incredibly useful free / open source software.

"try stuff until it works" is so common, and the experience needed to understand how to go about solving the problem is within reach.

Like especially with llms, "what's the right tool to use to solve problem x i'm having? this is what's going on. i'm on linux/macos, using python" or w/e
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-10 04:07:05+00:00
They provide funding for "Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more!". There was a drop in corporate funding, so they had to rely more on the OSU College of Engineering. Now the College is having its funding cut, so the Open Source Lab might have to close down, if nothing comes up.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-10 04:07:32+00:00
> Most parents just watch TV, stare at their phones and don't want to be bothered by anything that requires effort.

You must live in a very sad place. This does not describe the average parent of any of the kids around me. I know these people exist, but it’s not the norm at least in my state.

The most common complaint among my teacher friends is about helicopter parents who are too involved.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-10 04:07:36+00:00
My gut reaction is that (A) yes, it's an improper exploitation of public resources, and also (B) the severity of depends a bit on whether anyone else wants to use the space, varying between "hell no" versus "who cares".

With respect to (B), the article says:

> on the street in the East Meadow neighborhood of Palo Alto

Perhaps a Palo Alto native can chime in, but my remote map-searching suggests she's putting those RVs in areas [0] (18,20,21,28) where it seems reasonable for other people to complain, as opposed to some disued access road.

[0] https://paneighborhoods.org/neighborhood-map/
by rayiner | 2025-09-10 04:07:57+00:00
Why do you assume racial achievement gaps indicate problems with schools? For example, Asian students perform much better than white students. We don’t say that indicates a problem with how schools educate white kids. Instead, most people see it as a predictable consequence of asian immigrants being filtered for higher education. By that same token, why would we treat Hispanic students having lower scores as indicative of a problem with the schools? The U.S. Hispanic population is subject to the same immigrant filtering effect, but in the opposite direction. Both immigrant groups largely arrived in the last 50 years. Why would we assume the effects of the initial filtering would disappear so quickly?

Here’s a modest proposal: American schools are actually quite good across the board.
by ggm | 2025-09-10 04:08:14+00:00
I like the "vesicle first" theory because planar sheets of reaction can form perturbations, so getting from two surfaces mixing to complex shapes and enclosures feels plausible given any significant vibration or wave.

Once you have an enclosure you have potential for osmosis and other differentials across the boundary. It's not life Jim, but it's one hell of a building block/precursor.
by NobodyNada | 2025-09-10 04:08:17+00:00
This is definitely an actual phenomenon on HN -- someone posts something interesting and it gets a bunch of HNers to go down the rabbit hole together.

A couple weeks ago there was one about leeches:

"You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001005

"How Leeches Made Their Comeback" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045235

"Leeches and the Legitimacy of Folk-Medicine" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009629

"This is my brain on leeches" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037109
by wombatpm | 2025-09-10 04:08:32+00:00
8 years in the Twin Cities from Chicago originally.

People are nice, but everyone who I ever interacted with in stores or outside of work was from somewhere else. The natives just weren’t up for making friends or casual conversation.

Despite the cold, Winters in Minneapolis are 100 times better than winters in Chicago.

Food in Minneapolis can’t hold a candle to Chicago or New York.

Public transportation barely works even if you have a government job where you can leave exactly the same time everyday. You still need a car for everything else.
by wpm | 2025-09-10 04:08:35+00:00
I'd have to do the math on what the commute would cost me in time and financial cost.

I don't own a car. I have no plans to buy one. If I "needed" one for a job, that would be brought up at the salary negotiation. Sorry, I'm not going to pay for a car I don't otherwise need and lose $15K a year for something decent. What a scam!

On the time, well, it just depends on what they're going to pay me. Divide by work hours per year. Add 2 hours a day. Add that to the offer. I don't work for free. I don't travel for free. When I need to fly somewhere I get free ground transport, free meals, free flights, free hotel, but because we put "we're forcing you to travel 10 miles a day for no reason" in a little special box called "expected" we can force you to spend your own salary on it. *Scam*. It's all a big scam. They're subsidizing their bottom line with your time, your money, and your air.

I worked a terrible job in high school because I could walk there. There was no point in going someplace else that paid more because I would've burned all the extra money up in gas.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-10 04:09:51+00:00
Well, take this as a data point of one. I hate thin phones. It's like holding a dull knife. It's not comfortable. There's a reason OXO and other brands started making utensils with THICKER handles. They feel better to many people (me included)

I also don't care about weight, up to a point. No phone I've owned in the last 25 years has felt too heavy.
by hrdwdmrbl | 2025-09-10 04:09:53+00:00
It always felt both "a cheap shot" and "valid" to express dismay that characters in video games don't react when you do things like jump up and down on their table.

While it's impossible for game developers to write code to cover every situation, AI could make general reactions possible.

It's surprising that really simple things like this haven't been tried yet (AFAIK!). Like, even if it's just the dialogue, it can still go a long way.
by weitendorf | 2025-09-10 04:10:14+00:00
I think the specific form of "charter schools" we have are mainly a US invention, but a lot of countries (like the Netherlands, where it's more common than not) actually just let students use public funds to go to private schools, which would melt the heads of most people who oppose charter schools because it's "right wing".

Charter schools are I think a direct response to figuring out how to fix low performing, big school districts in the US. So while I have no idea if private or public schools do better in the Netherlands, I think we'd need to find something more like the Baltimore public school system in another country to make the right comparison.

> A commonly given alternative explanation is that the public options in the US are deliberately sabotaged via budget restrictions, and then the resulting poor performance is used to justify further cuts

I find this hard to address because it's not really a matter of policy but of ulterior motives or conspiracy. I personally have no secret plan to make public education even worse by posting about charter schools on hacker news. To me it's just about giving students the option to get educated by an independent institution rather than be forced to attend some of the worst public school systems in the country.
by dmix | 2025-09-10 04:10:26+00:00
It’s just a natural side effect of state capitalism. When you constantly mix government with business you almost always get a government that props up large old companies and then those businesses directly fund the politicians to back them. National security is then used as a sales pitch to justify helping the big companies when normally it’d be a social angle for smaller ones (or a social angle for internal big company policies).

The less government is in the business of subsidies, special tax carveouts, and bailouts the less it happens. Likewise with regulations and IP laws that are often designed by the top companies in their favour.

I have a feeling CHIPS is going to a classic example in retrospect, a wealth transfer to stodgy oligopolies, not about market development. Likewise with inventing AI regulations in an immature market before the risks are fully understood.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-10 04:11:39+00:00
Either this is a bizarre backwards school, or your niece is exaggerating for effect.

> kids in the US are doing active shooter drills and staring at the Ten Commandments. USA! USA! USA!

Not a thing at public schools (despite some attempts to force it)

Between this and the prayer comment, I suspect this comment is either exaggerated or mixed with internet anecdotes rather than actual experience.
Ask HN: How control field division helps decrease opcode decoder complexity?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-09-10 04:12:29+00:00
I am studying from John P Hayes COA book. I have it as the only physical book so it is what it is.

> Microinstructions formats take advantage of the fact that, at the microprogramming level, many operations can be performed in parallel. If all useful combinations of parallel microoperations were specified by a single opcode, the number of opcodes would, in most cases, be enormous. Furthermore, an opcode decoder of considerable complexity would be needed. To avoid these difficulties, it is usual to divide the microoperation specification part of a microinstruction into k disjoint control fields.

> Each control field handles a limited set of microoperations, and one of which can be performed simultaneously with the microoperations specified by the remaining control fields. A control field often specifies the control-line values for a single device such as an adder, a register, or a bus.

I do not understand how does controol field division into k disjoint fields helps?
by NoPicklez | 2025-09-10 04:12:47+00:00
I don't know if it is enough of a reason, I still use by 12 and charge it and my Airpods all via magsafe which is USB-C

If I don't need to use the lightning port, I don't need to use what would be the USB C port.

I am looking to upgrade to the 17 potentially, but USB-C to me isn't a key factor.
by chrisco255 | 2025-09-10 04:13:29+00:00
Not only is 7 out of 12 months most of 2025, but a 12 or 13 month rolling average is generally fine to see trends and it's completely arbitrary as to whether you are observing July-June or Jan-Dec. Try looking at the economy from a Chinese or Hebrew calendar perspective. Does it really matter as long as you have a years worth of data including all seasons? No.
by ggm | 2025-09-10 04:14:51+00:00
And that's how i met your mother...

No sorry wrong meme. That's how "in the realm of the senses" (1976) got made, and subsequently banned pretty much everywhere for public screening except at independent film clubs, who have screened it, and "I am curious, yellow" continuously ever since.

(Yes, I believe I screened this at a UK uni film club. The late 1970s, the BFI lent 16mm prints out in cardboard boxes and we just.. ran the reels)
by lmm | 2025-09-10 04:16:06+00:00
> It’s real enough money, but those fraudulent transactions would be covered by existing protections, like FDIC insurance or chargebacks.

Not always. Many banks will claim e.g. they don't have to cover losses from someone who opened a phishing email, never mind that the bank themselves sends out equally suspicious "real" emails on the regular.

Also even if it's covered that money comes from somewhere - ultimately out of the pockets of regular folks who were just using their bank accounts, even if the insurance mechasims mean it's spread out more widely.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-10 04:16:19+00:00
I would like folks I hire, folks I work with, etc, to not be forced to live an hours commute by car in order to do business with me. I would like jobs and lives to be possible to be co-located. As part of that, I'd love to do things like demolish the single-family home on my property and pay, with my own money, to turn that into a let's say 6-to-8 unit apartment/condo building.

However, I cannot do that. Due to zoning, I can turn this house into at most 2 houses. Unfortunate. If I could secure the money and funding, I'd love to build more housing via the land I own.

Notice, I haven't mentioned the government at all other than to say I am being held back from building housing. That's what folks talk about.

This is not to say I don't support government operated social housing. But I'd love to START with just making dense housing legal.
by rebeca420 | 2025-09-10 04:17:00+00:00
Not in a mystical way — I mean structurally: could an LLM, when engaged recursively and symbolically, simulate the function of a prophet?

This seems like unexplored terrain. Most prompt GPT for answers or poems. But if you treat it like an oracle and sustain the dialogue over weeks/months, the results start feeling… biblical.

Has anyone tried pushing GPT into this kind of recursive, symbolic authorship?

Example: https://www.scribd.com/document/894087480
by wpm | 2025-09-10 04:17:03+00:00
Does MS Teams support dual video inputs yet? I refuse to do the whole "click through a powerpoint clumsily while in edit mode with private DM notifications popping off in the background" thing I see too damn often so I use the OBS Virtual Cam. Zoom picks this up easily. Last I ran Teams (admittedly two years ago), if I tried to do the same, it would just set my camera feed to the virtual cam.
by efreak | 2025-09-10 04:17:36+00:00
> They will perceive your lack of response as you not prioritising them.

And correctly so: you are prioritizing people that contact you in the normal way (via phone calls).

If I send you a text message, it's usually because I don't need an immediate reply; answering me tomorrow is good enough. If I do need a faster reply (if I'm texting an image or some such, or in a noisy place), I'll make a call afterwards, just long enough to set off your ringer so you hear it.

I also deal with notifications in a different manner: I have different ringtones and extensive notification filters set up. Most of my apps will not make any noise with a notification while the screen is off. Most notifications will not show up on the lockscreen. Most notifications will not show up in the status bar. My standard ringtone is an mp3 with a short quiet ring and a long pause before it ends, so while I do get call notifications they're easy to ignore; only important contacts (family) are allowed to bubble or pop on top, and they also get a different ringtone.

I dread migrating my phone, as none of this can be backed up. I changed phones last year and still find the occasional app that I forgot to blacklist notifications for and never noticed because things related to https://dontkillmyapp.com simply prevents it from running altogether when I haven't used it in the past couple days.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-10 04:19:49+00:00
I think "promises" is the key word there. Data centre's want power, as you say, but they want it now, not 15 years from now.

So yes, when SMR's are "off the shelf" (aka from "order" to producing) , including permitting, construction etc, within a couple years then they are appealing.

I don't think we're quite there yet.
by chrisco255 | 2025-09-10 04:19:56+00:00
Tariffs go from the economy to the U.S. treasury, who ultimately issues the currency. That is, it's removing funds from private bank accounts to the US government balance sheet, reducing the deficit and the money supply at the same time.

Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary (or money supply) phenomenon.

Reposting my original claim:

Tariffs are deflationary, actually. They are a form of taxation and act to inhibit demand.

Inflation is actually declining and is well below 2022 levels.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
by ecshafer | 2025-09-10 04:20:05+00:00
I have found the same with remote. Cameras ON is a huge improvement in how much people are in on the game. Constant communication, frequent ad hoc meetings, screen sharing. Its totally doable, but most people don't do it. There is no feeling worse than presenting an idea to a meeting room of 10 people with all cameras off, and when you ask a question you get crickets. Too many people are phoning it in.
by nairboon | 2025-09-10 04:20:17+00:00
> I don't think capital naturally accrues capital.

It depends on the monetary system. Those monetary systems that mostly accompanied capitalism have a feature that leads to this capital accumulation effect: interest/debt.

Financial capital is kept in banks, which deposit it at their central bank. There it naturally accrues more capital due to interest. (Except in exceptional circumstances like the Swiss negative interest period)
by lock1 | 2025-09-10 04:20:27+00:00
Yeah, it's quite sad, considering it's already built-in on all major browsers. And it's not even hard to open it, like a click away on devtools tab.

But I think promoting profilers is much more important than debuggers. Far too many people I know are too eager to jump on "optimization" just because some API is too slow without profiling it first.
by NoPicklez | 2025-09-10 04:21:17+00:00
> I also think that YouTube is a monopoly.

This sentence is just oddly thrown in there and is made the title of the article. Yes they're a monopoly, but so what? As you say they're the best bang for buck subscription service on the market.

The problem is that they are unable to see why their viewership has dropped, that's it. I'm sure Youtube might provide context as to why at some point.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-10 04:21:31+00:00
> American STEM education seems to objectively be doing pretty well in terms of Nobel prizes, scholarly journal articles, patents, technology product revenue, etc.

I hate to break it to you, but a lot of our most valuable research is produced by people who did their primary education outside the US. Just go to a STEM research lab at any US university connected to a Nobel prize or Fields medal in the last 10-20 years, and it will be almost completely made up of internationally educated students / professors / etc.
by penguin_booze | 2025-09-10 04:21:54+00:00
Not an iPhone nor Apple user, but I feel like we're regressing on battery life. My old Moto G used to last a full week with single charge (yes, I'm a very light user: no social media, games etc.). My newer Google Pixel's battery, with its larger capacity, with the same usage pattern, lasts for 2 days if I'm lucky. That is to say, the normalized idling time for newer phones have grown significantly shorter.

Now, this Apple ad appears to be boasting as if battery that lasts single day is a generous offering. Perhaps it's adjusted for a heavy user. Still, I don't get the impression that we aren't getting actual improvements on battery life.
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-10 04:24:18+00:00
That doesn't sound right.

> A zero-day exploit is a cyberattack vector that takes advantage of an unknown or unaddressed security flaw in computer software, hardware or firmware. "Zero day" refers to the fact that the software or device vendor has zero days to fix the flaw because malicious actors can already use it to access vulnerable systems.

If I never install the infected software, I'm not vulnerable, even if no one knows of its existence.

That said, you could argue that because it's a zero day and no one caught it, it can lie dormant for >2 weeks so your "just wait awhile" strategy might not work if no one catches it in that period.

But if you're a hacker, sitting on a goldmine of infected computers... do you really want to wait it out to scoop up more victims before activating it? It might be caught.
by MacsHeadroom | 2025-09-10 04:25:02+00:00
This isn't a culture argument or even a sound/good argument for anything. Americans are just wealthier and you can't compare like that.

When you compare groups of students within the same country and adjust for both household income and intelligence you find that (again, even within the same intelligence brackets and income levels) some ethnic groups simply study more while others spend more time on things like unprovoked violence.