MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 15:50:44+00:00
I'm just gonna throw this out here: Well-off kids who barely know their workaholic parents have different but equally bad issues for society, than the poor kids do.

Those poor kids have learning deficits. The "well-off" kids often have morality deficits.

A mom or dad raising them properly might help them more than being Student #642 in a government childcare facility.

This isn't an argument against childcare. My children attended preschool for 3 years before Kindergarten. But I'd rather that people got equal support to have a stay-at-home parent so that people can choose.
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-09 15:50:46+00:00
The thing to keep in mind about New Mexico is that there are totally fine public schools here and there - Rio Rancho maybe, Las Cruces has some maybe, maybe some random ones in a few more remote small towns, Los Alamos, etc., but the state as a whole is extremely poor and has lots of reservations and pueblos which have huge complicated histories to overcome.

I will say that (and this is 20+ years out of date) coming from a good for New Mexico public school put me about a year ahead of everyone else in a decent California public school when we moved.

So overall my main point is that you probably want to look at schools on some kind of basis other than the state overall, especially in states like NM and AZ.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-09 15:51:08+00:00
Despite being told very early on about the 401k and saving for retirement when you're young to ensure that you will have enough I know there are many in Gen x that have not done that. They ignored it until they were in their 40s or '50s and are now worried about what they'll do. Because social security won't be enough to live even a simple life in many places in the USA for them. What they do have for retirements won't be able to supplement to live a simple life either.

Of course, I don't believe that this fact has gone unnoticed for many forward thinking countries around the world. Expats in retirement have always been a thing but has always tended to attract those who were predisposed toward international travel and living a significantly different lifestyle than the USA. What I see happening now in this many countries is about 5 years ago they've started planning to see when Gen x is going to retire and how they can attract those people. Just taking El Salvador for an example, crime has been reduced immensely, there has been a boom of middle class stores and shops. They continue to build out infrastructure that is more appealing to a casual USA citizen. Prices have risen dramatically in the country but those prices are still less than what you would see in the USA. You can come here with $3,000 in month and social security and live a very nice lifestyle. The downside is, it has begin to price out an exclude many of the citizens here from participating in that lifestyle. Some of the local citizens absolutely enjoy it as they have also increased their income to take advantage of these. In this country and several others I have seen this same trend. Certainly they're attempting to bolster their own citizens middle class but I'm not sure that's their primary focus. Because so many of their citizens are left behind and continue to remain impoverished and under-educated and they lack sufficient jobs to employ them at a level that is needed to take advantage of these things. Absolutely attracting retirees seems to be their main focus. They can continue to supply cheap labor for retirees and attract those dollars that they bring with them.
by afavour | 2025-09-09 15:51:10+00:00
As a parent I’m going to disagree with your disagreement.

I was lucky enough to get months of parental leave initially. I am glad I got it but at the same time I don't buy the tender, formative, vulnerable stuff too deeply. They're poop and vomit machines that nap and have very, very little interaction with the world around them. The primary benefit was for me to not have to work while deeply sleep deprived.

As my first got a little older I felt incredibly guilty dropping them off so I could go to work but that feeling very quickly subsided when I realised just how much they were thriving with the company of knowledgable teachers and bunch of peers their own age to interact with.

I still get plenty of time with my kids and we enjoy our time together immensely. And they also enjoy their time with their friends at nursery/preschool. “Stay at home with parent” isn’t actually that common when you look back historically. Childrearing has almost always taken a village.
by mrandish | 2025-09-09 15:51:23+00:00
There's a longer trend but also a clear inflection point around the rise of mobile phones and social media. N=1 but we delayed getting a phone for our kid until a few months after she turned 13, which was a good choice because now we wish we'd gone longer. We can see how social media and app snacking clearly have negative effects on attention span, attitude, etc.

Also choosing to close schools during COVID was as catastrophic as many predicted. Our kid was in 7th grade during COVID and teachers each year report the effects are still being felt across many students. Of course, naturally great students recovered quickly and innately poor students remained poor but the biggest loss was in the large middle of B/C students.
by bongoman37 | 2025-09-09 15:51:24+00:00
Many of the Persian Gulf GCC nations essentially had a form of generous UBI since the early 80s. It has certainly made people far less enterprising and productive. Inflation hasnt happened since they import the vast majority of their requirements. It has led to increased religiosity etc since people are freed up to engage in religious activities all day long and don't necessarily have to develop skills like social competency or engage with others.
by tuckerman | 2025-09-09 15:51:26+00:00
I mean, I’m a gay dad, so I get that what you are saying is a real problem, but I don’t think it’s a problem in this thread. If you had a goal of improving women’s ability to participate in the workforce you’d likely come up with a policy like this (that would also help some dads too, even if that weren’t the primary goal).

Women are far more likely to be the primary, stay at home caregiver if one exists and face a lot of discrimination in the workforce as a result of those expectations (on top of already facing other workplace discrimination issues).
by throwway120385 | 2025-09-09 15:51:53+00:00
I don't intend this as a dig against Spanish-speaking students. But many school systems in the US have tons of Spanish-speaking students who know very little English. But all of the homework, readings, and classroom instruction are given in English. If you don't know the language of instruction then it puts you at an immediate disadvantage. This might be what they're referring to.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-09 15:52:00+00:00
Worker productivity has consistently increased, yet workers are struggling to support their families or delaying having a family, because they cannot meet the cost of living. Instead of looking towards the inflation of the monetary base as a driver of price inflation, families are supposed to let the state raise their children. Pricing parents out of the house and into the workforce is instead marketed as "liberation". Liberty implies that a choice is given. Mothers or fathers should have the ability to choose to stay home and benefit from the increases in productivity.

Citing GDP growth is cute, but as nothing has been done to address the underlying drivers of price inflation, we can reasonably expect that socialized child care will become an economic necessity. Any potential benefits of productivity gains will continue to be eaten by those who are first to drink from the monetary spigot. While GDP and hours worked may increase, living standards may not.
by sunshine-o | 2025-09-09 15:52:21+00:00
> European security depends on winning the Ukraine war.

This is absurd.

Before 2021 and people were told to "care" about it, Ukraine was a "Westworld" type place for Europeans and others.

If European security depends on Ukraine, why didn't Europe sent any troops there?

This is very new, we fight an existential war now without sending any troops, money should be enough.

Anyway the fact is almost 4 years in Ukraine is probably dead demographically. You can't really reboot a country after having so much of its "fighting age" male population dead. Especially because the one who will be left will be deranged, violent and addicted to all sort of things.

And then having this type of nightmare on or within your borders is another pandora box. So now whether the EU declares it wins or looses the war, it has lost anyway.

On the EU internal politics side, we are literally living in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. No need for much explanations.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-09 15:52:30+00:00
Basically anything but hold cash, at least until interest rates are forcibly pushed to the moon to try to break out of stagflation. Assuming you can avoid selling whatever you've bought until the other side.

[EDIT] If you think we're in for a long period (decades) in which nobody will do what's needed to break out of stagflation and we're going to head the way of various inflationary South American economies over the past century, I guess look at Europe? IDK, it'll be bad everywhere if that happens.
by rekoil | 2025-09-09 15:52:37+00:00
I mean I've read a lot of what you've posted everywhere, and I can't really say I disagree with much of it, it's just a shame it all happened the way it did.

Hope "go back in later" isn't too far down the line, I have 10x8TB spinners, and 4x2TB NVMe disks that I'm looking to move from md-raid + BTRFS to something else, and I really want that to be an in-tree filesystem.
by hedora | 2025-09-09 15:52:43+00:00
Not sure where in California you are, but the SF Bay Area’s economy is heavily distorted by intentionally bad roads and artificial housing shortages.

Pretty much any blue collar or service worker is either living in a prop 13 house, has roommates, or is driving well over an hour to get to work.

That’s not true in many other places on earth. California could fix it, but the politicians keep actively making the problem worse.

For instance, there’s a statewide mandate to reduce commute miles (not carbon, and not time). If towns don’t comply, they get in trouble with the state government.

Similarly, construction permit departments are adversarial, and “affordable housing” initiatives routinely block market rate housing from being built.

On top of all that, the ‘08 housing crisis put a bunch of contractors out of business, and so did covid. Those people largely moved out of state. The result is that there’s no one to train new workers, and even if there were, there’s no reason for those new workers to locate here, since the pay scale doesn’t make up for housing costs. (This would be a huge opportunity if we fixed the roads so they could drive to work sites quickly, or allowed new housing construction, but we don’t.)
by brunooliv | 2025-09-09 15:53:00+00:00
Agreed! It’s been horrible recently, feels like a completely different model under the hood. Before I could use it as a real sparring partner for architecture designs and decisions and I actually would learn in the process. Now it’s like it’s sycophancy is tuned to the max, it just agrees with me, does the bare minimum and produces code that doesn’t compile. For that I have the humans, ah!
by soderfoo | 2025-09-09 15:53:14+00:00
I'm sure some ERP implementations go smoothly, but I've never heard of one.

About 10 years ago, I arrived at a company in the immediate aftermath of a failed implementation. There were many contributing factors, many of which I'm sure are common to other projects gone awry.

Is this problem as prevalent as it seems? How have these firms not developed a better methodology to avoid the most common pitfalls?
by midnightclubbed | 2025-09-09 15:53:26+00:00
> modern left wing goals like unlimited mass immigration.

Ahh and there we are. It's the immigrant's fault. Once all those illegals are out the of the country we'll be great again - the world will once more bend to Queen Victoria's will and Bobby Charleston will again lift the world cup for England, it's rightful owners (hard /s btw).

No major party on either side of the Atlantic are pro-illegal immigration or advocating unlimited mass immigration (or anything close to unlimited).
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-09-09 15:53:40+00:00
Charlie Demerjian of SemiAccurate thinks this will be the killing blow for Intel in the long run.

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2025/09/08/intel-reshuffles-sen...

Personally, I am worried Intel is approaching the point of no return in terms of a recovery plan.

What is going to happen to those multi billion dollar investments Intel made in ASML EUV machines?
by non_aligned | 2025-09-09 15:53:54+00:00
> But doing so would not only increase the costs dramatically (by a multiple) it would give money to many parents who didn’t need it for child care.

And while no-strings-attached payouts appeal to rational geeks, they usually lead to public perception problems. If you give a voucher for childcare to a parent struggling with addiction or a gambling habit, they will probably send the kid to childcare. If you give them cash, they probably won't.

It's a minority that might not be worth fixating on from a rational policy-making point of view, you bet it's the minority that will be in the headlines. Selfishly, I'd like cash in lieu of all the convoluted, conditional benefits that are available to me. But I know why policymakers won't let me have it.
by Tiereven | 2025-09-09 15:53:58+00:00
Integrating AlterEgo with the next generation of AR glasses could be the next generation of technology after these electronic bricks we carry in our pockets. My biggest frustration with wake-word assistants is that voice is inherently a broadcast channel.

There’s endless comedy about the confusion on a bus when someone's talking into Bluetooth and their neighbor thinks they’re being addressed. Silent Sense + AR gets your eyes up and around you, fixes posture, frees your hands and keeps the guy next to you out of the conversation.
by disintegrator | 2025-09-09 15:54:05+00:00
One of the team members working on Gram here.

I initially worked on a code generator for OpenAPI -> MCP in January but very quickly we found issues relating to poor quality operation (tool) names and descriptions. Not to mention that each API endpoint does not cleanly map to an MCP tool and yet it all gets dumped into the context window - sometimes exhausting it if you have hundreds of schemas and endpoints.

Gram is our attempt to make better use of API by adding a curation layer:

- You upload your OpenAPI document, or any number of other OpenAPI documents. - You then subset them into "toolsets" by selecting only the ones relevant to a domain (e.g. reading stripe charges) or business process (e.g. understanding customer health by reading info from your CRM, data warehouse and so on). - Optionally, you create custom tools (these are prompt templates under the hood) that describe how to make a series of tool calls to solve a problem. - Finally, every toolset is automatically exposed as a hosted/managed MCP server. No waiting for build or deploy steps. - You can edit the names and descriptions of all imported tools and they are instantly reflected in the MCP server.

The net result is you have a rapid iteration loop to create effective tools from your API.

I hope you have a chance to try it out. Will be around to answer any questions in the mean time :)
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-09 15:54:14+00:00
The final answer to the perennial question "What is algebra good for?" is found in the success or failure of society as a whole. The same can be said for many other oft-questioned values, like "What does it matter if I'm a hypocrite?" In truth no-one really knows what the future will bring - it's always possible to construct a scenario where ignorance and irrationality will save society from extermination. But in the "horses, not zebras" sense it pays, I think, to play the odds and consider the most likely scenarios that put a society at risk: invasion, revolution, natural catastrophe, and then ask those questions again. Much of history can be read as a set of experiments testing various social theories, and the failure modes of not knowing algebra (Cambodia), or not caring about logical consistency or truthfulness (Russia) are well-known. Education is an insurance policy against a threat that may occur a generation or two in the future, and so the feedback loop is very long. This says, to me, that any change to education policy or practice should be very slow, incremental, and based not in aesthetics or ideology, but on the need for society's continued existence. It would be optimal to have many parallel longitudinal incremental educational experiments going on all the time, and then adopt the changes that bear fruit. It would be optimal to require that ALL educational policy makers be experts in history.
by simonw | 2025-09-09 15:54:38+00:00
This feature is a little confusing.

It looks to me like a variant of the Code Interpreter pattern, where Claude has a (presumably sandboxed) server-side container environment in which it can run Python. When you ask it to make a spreadsheet it runs this:

pip install openpyxl pandas --break-system-packages

And then generates and runs a Python script.

What's weird is that when you enable it in https://claude.ai/settings/features it automatically disables the old Analysis tool - which used JavaScript running in your browser. For some reason you can have one of those enabled but not both.

The new feature is being described exclusively as a system for creating files though! I'm trying to figure out if that gets used for code analysis too now, in place of the analysis tool.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-09 15:54:43+00:00
We’re also trying to force the dropout rate lower. So naturally test scores will decline.

Gone are the days you are held back. It’s a classic Goodharts Law problem. We’ve focused on one metric and lost site of the bigger picture.

States improving performance (Mississippi of all places) now are holding you back at certain milestones. IE at 3rd grade if you can’t read, 8th grade for math deficits, etc.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-09 15:54:44+00:00
You could create a law that says regional/national advertising requires a company or person be in that jurisdiction and that they must hold $$$ in bond as a guard against false claims.

This would prevent foreign ads targeting domestic users, and/or give you an organization to sue domestically. In this case, it's likely that the Israeli govt would work through a US based org, and that in court that case would likely fail for free speech rights. Though a case/org in another nation might not hold up under that nation's laws.
by lordnacho | 2025-09-09 15:54:46+00:00
This will either result in a lot of people being able to sleep more, or an absolute avalanche of crap is about to be released upon society.

A lot of the people I graduated with spent their 20s making powerpoint and excel. There would be people with a master's in engineering getting phone calls at 1am, with an instruction to change the fonts on slide 75, or to slightly modify some calculation. Most of the real decision making was, funnily enough, not based on these documents. But it still meant people were working 100 hour weeks.

I could see this resulting in the same work being done in a few minutes. But I could also see it resulting in the MDs asking for 10x the number of slide decks.
by mjr00 | 2025-09-09 15:54:57+00:00
> That article doesn't include any ranking as far as I could see, and your use of that article is specifically the thing I'm taking issue with in this thread. Are you referring to a different source?

There are 23 entries since 2015 on that page, Hollow Knight included. By definition, it's one of the best 23 games during that period, according to that specific list.

> I think when you ask people to come up with a list of what they'd consider the best of something, most would max out somewhere between five and ten. Most people don't think of things along the lines of the AFI 100 Best Films list. They think in much smaller categories.

I don't agree at all. It sounds like you're making up bizarre exclusionary criteria to discount the fact that Hollow Knight is widely regarded by many people as one of the best games of all time, which explains the hype behind Silksong. This doesn't mean you have to like it, personally. I can acknowledge that Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Last Of Us are both widely regarded as two of the best games of all time, even though I personally found them both boring.
by nevir | 2025-09-09 15:55:09+00:00
Like all things: the extremes are never good, and it's all about getting a healthy balance.

- Kids need lots of time with their parents

- Kids need lots of time around other kids

You can do that by sending them to daycare, and ALSO spending lots of time with them when they're home.

You can also do that by taking time off work, and then taking your kid(s) to places with other kids.

Both work; and it depends on your context which works for you.
by trentnix | 2025-09-09 15:55:15+00:00
Despite being 31st in educational funding, New Mexico has ranked 50th in juvenile education for 8 years in a row per the Annie E. Casey foundation:

https://www.aecf.org/interactive/databook?l=35

You can research for yourself and see other evidence that the educational outcomes for children in New Mexico is generally very, very poor.

Expect similar results with New Mexico's "universal" child care.
by pkulak | 2025-09-09 15:55:22+00:00
So you use Google Photos and backup to Google Drive? Sorry to say, but if Google ever decides to deactivate your account (which can and will happen for any reason, real or imagined), you lose everything.

A stable release is only a couple months out. Maybe do a Takeout until then, and put it in S3 Glacier, or similar?
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-09 15:55:24+00:00
We're seeing more districts ban cell phones in the classroom. It makes sense; in my day, the most you could do is text and play Tetris. We didn't have apps that were weaponized to capture our attention and memory like the kids do now.

People keep talking about how catastrophic it was to close schools during COVID. We keep having catastrophes and no one does anything about it. If the kids missed school, make them go back longer. Large chunks of the country still have 2-3 months where the kids don't do anything; send them back then. If they are already doing year-round schooling, cancel after-school athletics and make them learn with that time instead.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-09 15:55:27+00:00
This is very bad analogy, there is no case of different layers of abstractions here.

The machines that ASML make are just a tool that TSMC uses, TSMC doesn’t wrap the machines. Nvidia is also not a TSMC wrapper, TSMC is just a contractor for Nvidia. LLMs happen to use Nvidia stuff a lot but, definitely no wrapping.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-09 15:55:46+00:00
Agree, but I'm not sure how much worse this is today?

I avoided English Lit in college but thinking back to High School I recognize the "I don't know where he's getting this" reaction. I just rarely engaged with the so-called "classic" stuff we had to read, and like you say I had no trouble reading the words but struggled with deeper meanings or even just getting past the archaic language. And this was in the early 1980s, no chance it was influenced by social media or mobile phones or AI. My parents probably blamed television.

At least we now have AI, where a student could (if motivated) ask questions about the meaning of a passage and get back a synthesis of what other people have written about it. Back then I used Cliffs Notes to do that.