MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-10 04:26:15+00:00
> And that's a homeschool network, not a charter school.

They were registered as an online charter school, which is why the Ohio DOE got involved at all. They wouldn’t have investigated an individual homeschooler. (Many “homeschool networks” or the like do this because it makes it easier for their clientele to prove they’ve met the meager legal requirements of homeschooling. Justifies the price tag, yknow?)

> Honestly, this might be a good opportunity for you to think about why you find charter schools such a nonstarter JUST because they tend to have more support among those on the right (which I'm not) than those on the left

You’ve imagined a whole backstory and character arc for me, which is sadly more interesting than the truth. I think charter schools are repugnant because they operate under little to no oversight and, around these parts, have a reputation for abusing students (see reason one).

You seemed to imply earlier that the right wing connection was irrelevant or unimportant to the concept of a charter school. It isn’t, really. It’s an essential feature of the system, and why they’ve become so popular as of late after decades of failed leftist attempts at the same thing.
by Retric | 2025-09-10 04:26:20+00:00
7 out of 12 for CPI is not 7 out of 12 for inflation. Also, 7 out of 12 may be a majority of X but it’s not “most of” X.

> Does it really matter as long as you have a years worth of data including all seasons?

Using the correct words for something makes a big difference for communication. After jumping through all these hoops we understand what we each mean at this point, but it definitely didn’t need to take this much back and forth.
by rtpg | 2025-09-10 04:27:14+00:00
> The rare ones show up maybe 1% of the time

Lucky you lol

What I've found is that as you chew through surface level issues, at one point all that's left is messy and tricky bugs.

Still have a vivid memory of moving a JS frontend to TS and just overnight losing all the "oh shucks" frontend bugs, being left with race conditions and friends.

Not to say you can't do print debugging with that (tracing is fancy print debugging!), but I've found that a project that has a lot of easy-to-debug issues tends to be at a certain level of maturity and as times goes on you start ripping your hair out way more
by meshugaas | 2025-09-10 04:27:43+00:00
It would be fascinating to see numbers behind how many AI boosters are religious. Feels like a similar central belief. No matter the current state, boosters believe it will get better: essentially they have faith. Critics take it at current face value and don’t believe it can become AGI.

Although, people creating a digital god would be pretty blasphemous. Tough one.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-10 04:27:51+00:00
It wasn't written by chatGPT — I myself like to use dashes. There are no contradictions and I never mentioned anything personal. Going to personal insults and remarks is a strategy for people who have no logical argument so they resort to alternatives.

The replication crisis doesn't apply. IQ is one of the most studied and replicated statistics in psychology. IQ IS in fact the exception to the replication crisis. Your beliefs are a myth.
by jahooligan | 2025-09-10 04:28:12+00:00
"There has never been a successful, widespread malware attack against iPhone. ..."

b your iphones BEEN pwned for YEARS and it was done in minutes LOL. gtfoh

with help from ChatGPT: Apple claims “never been a successful iPhone malware attack” Reality: WireLurker, Masque, XcodeGhost, YiSpecter, jailbreak 0-days, Pegasus/Predator/Reign 0-clicks.

iPhones pwned for yrs — by kids in pajamas
by ricksunny | 2025-09-10 04:28:36+00:00
‘…now has access to a server-side container environment’

Headline demonstrates why SWEa don’t have to worry about vive coders eating their lunch. Vibe-coders don’t know what a container is, nor why it would be good for it to be in the context of an environment (what’s an environment?), or be server-side for that matter. Now if there were a course that instructed all this kind of architectural tradecraft that isn’t taught in university CS courses (but bootcamps..?), then adding vibe-coding alongside might pose a concern m, at least till the debugging technical debt comes due. But by then the vibecoder had validated a new market on the back of their v0, so thank them for the fresh revenue streams.
by RoyTyrell | 2025-09-10 04:28:44+00:00
Oh boy. Unless highly moderated or some kind of real-world social capital needed for posting, this is going to quickly become a dumpster fire of red-pill, hustle culture, anti-woke, anti-vax /r/im14andthishappened insanity. If they're unlucky it's going to become /b.
by dtkav | 2025-09-10 04:28:48+00:00
I'm with you. I've been working on making Obsidian great for work with real-time collaboration, SSO, and the ability to have fully private document collaboration [0].

Performance aside, it's crazy that in the age of Claude Code people don't insist on having their docs local, private, and in markdown.

[0] https://relay.md
by anon22981 | 2025-09-10 04:28:53+00:00
Those lazy employees need that strict supervision!

Maybe these c suites and other employee hating assholes are projecting their own lazyness. Or maybe they think they are so superior compared to ”common” people that the ”common” people must be lazy trash.

I don’t know, but it is weird to assume most people won’t do their job without ”strict supervision”. Like super weird.

(Btw, anecdotally, most people I know work more efficiently from home with fewer breaks)
by EchoReflection | 2025-09-10 04:29:54+00:00
"In a recently-unsealed search warrant reviewed by Forbes, ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered to leave the U.S. in 2023, but is believed to still be in the country. Investigators learned last month that before going to Utah, he’d escaped prison in Venezuela where he was serving a sentence for murder, according to the warrant. He’s also suspected of being linked to gang activity in the country, investigators said."

slippery slope, I know...
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-10 04:30:38+00:00
Yeah. I get that now.

It's an interesting, if horrifying thought -- stripping someone of their citizenship because folks don't like his religion and/or level of melanin.

It's disgusting.

I said it already, but I'll say it again -- I have no idea whether or not Mamdani will make a good mayor -- but he's far and away the best candidate in the race.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-10 04:30:47+00:00
If I sell you a banana for $1, and you sell it back to me for $1, we have just created $2 of GDP. The trick is we need to repeat this process faster and faster over time. Luckily computers also get faster every year due to Moore’s law, so growth shouldn’t be an issue.

In fact, every person in the country could take turns with the banana for a brief period of time (provided they quickly sell it to the next person) which should enable broad prosperity for all.
by enobrev | 2025-09-10 04:31:48+00:00
I grabbed a cheap one for my 5 year old with some blank tapes. I remember how much I loved recording my voice, or the TV, and eventually LOTS of radio. Tangible media has more weight than just the physical object. Especially in something as durable as a cassette.

It comes in bursts but when he's into it, he has a ton of fun, The manual nature of it is confusing for him (he's used to instant gratification), like waiting a few seconds at the beginning of the tape so he can record, but something about a cassette makes the whole process easier to explain and, I hope, to understand and visualize.
by AnonC | 2025-09-10 04:31:57+00:00
Identity verification depends on the country. In certain cases there may be limitations. There are many eSIM sellers, like Airalo, Jetpac, Saily, Holafly and more. You can buy the eSIM with an eSIM package (for data, mostly, but some also sell voice/SMS) for a country or region, activate it (or wait for it to activate when the phone connects to a local network at the destination) and use it.

It’s so simple and convenient. Once you’ve returned back, you don’t necessarily have to delete the eSIM from the device. The iPhone models that have had eSIM support allow you to have a total of eight eSIMs on the device. You can activate (i.e., turn on) only two lines at any point in time.

So even if you have two numbers where you live, you can turn one off, use that slot and turn on your travel eSIM and then later switch back.

All the eSIM sellers provide clear and detailed instructions on how to install and activate the eSIM.
by Spivak | 2025-09-10 04:32:36+00:00
I was ready to agree with you but then you went to blame her and not the economic environment that made this viable—even desirable compared to alternatives. I could never imagine paying for one of these things unless I was in a truly desperate position. It's the zeroth responsibility of government to keep people from being desperate by providing better alternatives. Both because of empathy but also because desperate people have nothing to lose and people with nothing to lose are a powder keg waiting for a spark. This woman should have no customers because there's an alternative better than living in a RV with no plumbing.
by rayiner | 2025-09-10 04:32:47+00:00
I think it’s the opposite—it is a fairer comparison. White Americans are a relatively homogenized population that reflect the entire spectrum of economic class, where immigration effects have been attenuated by time. Is it unfair to compare the median white american to the median Japanese, just because the U.S. also has a large Hispanic population that mostly descends from low-education post-1970 immigrants from impoverished Latin American countries?
by graycat | 2025-09-10 04:33:00+00:00
Spent a lot of time in education, K through Ph.D and as a college professor. Net, it seemed that the keys to good or better quality K-12 public school education was simply the parents, their quality that also showed in careers, income, standard of living, socialization, etc. A lot of that quality gets inherited, and Darwin wins again.

But here is a surprise: In college my wife made both PBK and Summa Cum Laude, won both NSF and Woodrow Wilson graduate fellowships, and got her Ph.D.

Her high school? Her family lived in Indiana, in a house her father built from some plans in Good Housekeeping magazine, on a 33 acre farm, surrounded by farms raising mostly corn, soy beans, wheat, and chickens. The local town consisted of a church, a school, and a tavern. The school building was a good accomplishment by the community, big enough for the number of students, taught grades 1-12, but had fewer than 12 classrooms and fewer than 12 teachers! Net, the facilities were poor, but the parents made sure the schooling was good.

The school I went to was relatively large, the pride of the city with a quite good Principal for 1-6 and another for 7-12, no bad teachers, and some good ones. They taught Latin, Spanish, and French and had a good math program. The year before me three guys went to Princeton and two of them ran against each other for President of the Freshman Class. In my year, myself and two others did the best on the Math SATs, all went to college, one MIT.

In both of the schools, 100% of the students were well behaved, i.e., no disruption in classes; this was just expected and without any particular efforts.

I really liked math and physics and wanted much more than the classes offered. So, the classes were beneath me and mostly taught myself from the books. So the school put up with that independent approach and sent me to a Math Tournament and some summer enrichment programs, which was good education: The good parents wanted good education.

Later there were some race riots with that school a target. So, the city changed to teaching cosmotology, etc. and picked another school to be a good one.

Net, with good parents, a school can be plenty good with modest facilities.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-10 04:34:01+00:00
> Someone recently advocated that there's substantial subterranean infrastructure under the pyramids.

Ah yes, those giant subterran pillars beneath the pyramids. That actually interested me, so I decisively delved deeply into it, to do my due dilligence. Only to discover an early case of advanced AI-sloppery with no proven source at all. Completely made up.

And everybody copy pasting the shit! GRRR! :(
by nemothekid | 2025-09-10 04:34:27+00:00
Almost every reply has pointed to TikTok as some sort of counterfactual.

1. TikTok exists today, and the author still feels like YouTube is a monopoly. If TikTok was actually a viable alternative to YouTube, this article wouldn't exist.

2. Futhermore, TikTok is not a substitute for YouTube, especially for the kinds of content that the author is watching. People don't treat TikTok as a video library - how many TikTok videos are posted straight to HN? TikTok does not have the same diversity of content as YouTube.

3. TikTok addressed point (2) of my post - ByteDance launched in the US with the acquisition of Musically, and even then still had to pay for content. The creator fund, and now also the TikTok shop is a huge part of TikTok's content strategy.

>The vast majority of YT content is not monetized by creators, often not even eligible for it in the first place.

This is a social quirk, not something that a newcomer can replicate. The problem is, for a new platform, your best content creators will quickly defect to other more monetizable platforms once they get the eyeballs. This is what happened to Vine. If you want to have a sustainable platform you have to keep your creators. YouTube doesn't have the existential threat of the next PewDiePie defecting off the platform. TikTok paid AlixEarle millions to ensure they didn't lose her.
by lmm | 2025-09-10 04:35:44+00:00
> Also include in your answer why just living somewhere affordable is no longer an option, seeing as that is what seemingly everyone else so far in human history has done. In fact, it wasn't all that long ago that Palo Alto itself was just some undesirable hayfields. Every place you don't want to live is just a few decades away from being someone else's coveted dream home.

Until the '50s nowhere had zoning laws, that's the big difference. Not to mention all the other ways to make housing illegal by stealth, like building code and electrical code and plumbing code requirements that make it illegal to work on anything yourself. It is now functionally illegal to build anything in cities (occasionally a developer who pays a big enough brib^H^H campaign contribution to the mayor's reelec^H^H an unaffiliated PAC supporting candidates that align with their interests gets to build a couple of buildings); if you're willing to build in an empty hayfield then sure, you can build a handful of houses for people who don't need jobs until there are enough people living there that they vote to incorporate and make building illegal. It's now functionally impossible to obtain a house near where the jobs are unless you are a boomer who got one back when it wasn't illegal, or are descended from one, or otherwise have generational wealth.

The people who built when that was a small town growing into a bigger town have pulled the ladder up behind them; that's new, and happening everywhere, and unfair. Especially because the whole scam only works because existing homes are grandfathered in. If you made the existing homeowners play by the same rules they're imposing on everyone else, and tore down any house where the guy who did the wiring back in 1955 couldn't prove that they had the required 4 years of college or what have you, things would get sorted out pretty quick.
by allisdust | 2025-09-10 04:38:32+00:00
Thank you for the suggestion. I just gave it a try and thoroughly impressed (its actually $6 with $3 being the first month price). It fixed an issue that previous version of sonnet/opus could have fixed (but they cannot anymore due to Anthropic fucking up the models) in a couple of minutes and with minimal guidance.

What is even happening with Anthropic anymore.
by wpm | 2025-09-10 04:39:02+00:00
>why a high end and highly sought after community needs to use the power of the government to force development for anybody at all please do let me know.

Why should they be able to use the power of government to force everyone to not develop please do let me know.

Palo Alto is filled with rambleshack little 60's starter homes. It's fucking preposterous they're a walking commute to the HQs of some of the largest employers in the region, some of the largest companies on the planet in history, and the houses near by are basically the same size and style of the ones in the Midwestern suburb I grew up in, but with less land and pissier neighbors! And because its lacking in density, every fucking road is a horrible shithole loud stroad, so don't even give me that bullshit "its so natural and pretty", it's an ugly strip mall. The land isn't expensive because it's nice, it's because of where it is, and the insane, overreaching rules that keep the built environment exactly the way it was 50 years ago, that makes it expensive.

The entire Bay has a natural growth boundary. If it hadn't been unnaturally ossified in amber, it'd be a wonderful, confederated metropolis of taller multi-unit, lots of 3+ flats, multi-use, even plenty of SFHs, and transit to link it all together. Instead, it's a ponzi scheme for the rich and the lucky who got there first, who are starving the state of voters for the 2030 census, the middle class schmucks clogging the roads in their car, and all the poor who can't afford to live there, but can't afford to leave, so they pitch a tent in a park to get out of the rain and get their face plastered on Fox News. It's short-sighted, selfish, and fucking stupid. Absolutely brain-dead land-use policy all around.

Ain't no one fucking dreaming of a $3.1M ranch home with < 1400 sq ft. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/527-Rhodes-Dr-Palo-Alto-C...
by gnulinux | 2025-09-10 04:39:50+00:00
I don't want to debate, I just want to note that as a person who writes $1_G$ everyday, and also maintain Unicode char'd codebases (Agda) where have subscript G would be life saving: We understand that Unicode people think ^x _x is a formatting issue. It simply isn't any more than quotes, parenthesis, brackets are formatting. Subscript and superscript are their own thing regardless of formatting and they carry meaning and semantics. The simplest proof is $^{-1}$ which means "inverse" and has nothing to do with minus or 1 symbol, it's not a formatting thereof, it simply means "inverse", the same way recycle emoji mean "recycle".
by VogonPoetry | 2025-09-10 04:40:23+00:00
This is on the verge of pedantry - CHERI determinism isn't strictly true, garbage collecting abandoned descriptors is currently done asynchronously. Malicious code could attempt to reuse an abandoned descriptor before it is "disappeared". I think it might be possible to construct a synthetic situation where two threads operating with perhaps different privilege in the same address space (something CHERI can support!) have an IPC channel might be affected by the timing.

There is a section in the technical reports that talks about garbage collection.

I don't think CHERI is currently being used with different privileged threads in the same address space.
by laggyluke | 2025-09-10 04:41:14+00:00
> The studio didn't spend this money for the heck of it, they spent this money with the hope of recouping their investment.

I wonder if the world would be a better place if we had fewer financial incentives to do things, in general?

> But why would a studio spend hundreds of millions making a blockbuster movie?

Under this hypothetical scenario, I believe there wouldn't be a "studio" in the first place. There could be a group of people who want to express themselves, get famous or do something just for fun, without any direct financial gain. Sure, they wouldn't be able to pull off Avatar 2, but our expectations as consumers would also be different.
by DauntingPear7 | 2025-09-10 04:41:32+00:00
Yeah. For this to work, something like git worktrees would be needed, or multiple clones of the repo. Claude loses the plot if you reject a change, and fix a line manually, and don’t tell it to explicitly recheck files. There’s no way this can be done in parallel on the same codebase without something like worktrees being used. Additionally, I can’t imagine, with how sweeping Claude’s changes can be, that there aren’t merge conflicts absolutely everywhere, crippling development speed.
by bauruine | 2025-09-10 04:41:47+00:00
They aren't a tier 1 but they also aren't paying for most of their bandwdith. They peered very liberally in the past so have zero settlement peering to most networks and if you're a big enough eyeball network you can request a caching server from them where you pay for rack space, power and network and google just pays for the server hardware. [0]

[0]: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809
by AnonC | 2025-09-10 04:42:13+00:00
> I was saying that maybe, Signal did not want to push their users to trust the Apple backup by default.

The gap in understanding here is that Signal already trusts iOS by providing an app. It trusts it even more by providing notifications (with sender and content) that go through Apple’s systems. It integrates with CallKit to work with the Phone app. Putting iCloud alone in a separate bucket doesn’t make sense. They could’ve done this same backup with a 64 character recovery key and stored the data in iCloud. Signal made an intentional choice not to allow backups on iOS.

One can only hope that the point about supporting other backup endpoints/storage gets implemented sooner rather than having to wait several more years.
by mek6800d2 | 2025-09-10 04:42:48+00:00
A reminder to everyone: Social Security is NOT a retirement plan, it is an insurance plan. When your 401(k) is cratered by the stock market or your pension goes the way of Enron, SS is supposed to be there to hopefully keep you from being dumped in the gutter. Tying SS to the stock market would not be a smart move.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 04:42:55+00:00
I'm so used to bouncing between environments my code's running in (and which project I'm working on) that I tend to just assume I don't have debugger access, or at least don't have it configured for that environment, even when I do. Like I'm just in the habit of not reaching for it because so often it's not actually there. It rarely matters much anyway (though when it does, yeah, it really does).
by dh2022 | 2025-09-10 04:43:22+00:00
Two of the benefits listed (call stack and catch exceptions at the source) are available in logging as well. A good logging framework lets you add the method name, source file and line number for the logging call-after a few debugging sessions you will construct the call stack quite easily. And C# at least lets you print the exception call stack from where it was thrown.

I agree that adhoc dynamic expression evaluation at run time is very useful and can only be done in a debugger.
by anticodon | 2025-09-10 04:43:40+00:00
I don't understand. The point of my comment was that from my experience PHP code always has worse quality than code written in other programming languages. It's a broad assumption and I have no proofs. But it is my experience, I've never seen exceptions. Any PHP codebase I've looked at, had lots of issues with code readability, maintainability, robustness, security.

I think it was a huge mistake to allow mixing code and HTML. On the other hand, without this feature, PHP probably wouldn't become popular at all.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-10 04:43:44+00:00
Interesting POV. I see it exactly the opposite: using a debugger most of the time feels like trying to see the current state of things without understanding what set of inputs led to it. Print debugging feels more like trying to understand the actual program logic that got us to this point, based on a few choice clues.

I’m not saying you’re wrong or I’m right, just that we have diametric opposite opinions on this.