MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-09 15:38:35+00:00
Sewage doesn't have to be dumped. Simply separate your black water and grey water. Storm drains can go to rivers (if the rivers have capacity – if not, it's sometimes easier to give the river more capacity than to build more sewers), and the amount of water in sewage pipes will be independent of the amount of rain.

Sure, the sewers might not currently be designed that way, but that can be changed. (It's a logistical challenge, but it needs to be done.)
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-09 15:38:46+00:00
There's Detroit but theres also thousands and thousands of small towns everywhere where the main industry was coal/minerals or other resources that were outdated and left to poverty.

And the "regulation" argument is very popular but I feel it ignores the real problem for us: there is no democracy.

With the regulation argument you're basically hoping that one of the two parties full of billionaires, that we explicitely do not control, shoot themselves in the foot.

And as to adding value to the chain, that is what workers currently do, thats why they get paid. Which is what sparked this argument. The economy is not infinitely flexible, not all will be able to adapt, and according to the rules of capital the adaptation will be competitive and exclusive, so many people will be left out.
by username332211 | 2025-09-09 15:38:48+00:00
The no child left behind act was enacted in 2001. If you check the article, it has a nice little chart, showing a decline that starts in 2015. Prior to 2013, the results show a clear trend of improvement (in regards to the percentage of students achieving a minimum level of proficiency).

How would you explain that temporal gap? If the No Child Left Behind Act is the problem, why was the trend positive for the first 12-14 years of the time it's been in force?
by elric | 2025-09-09 15:39:24+00:00
I don't think signed email would solve phishing in general. But for a service by-and-for programmers, I think it at least stands a chance.

Signing the packages seems like low hanging fruit as well, if that isn't already being done. But I'm skeptical that those keys are as safe as they should be; IIRC someone recently abused a big in a Github pipeline to execute arbitrary code and managed to publish packages in that way. Which seems like an insane vulnerability class to me, and probably an inevitable consequence of centralising so many things on github.
by nodesocket | 2025-09-09 15:39:27+00:00
We can start with this reading. Average monthly job growth dropped from 147,000 initially to just over 70,000 a reduction of approximately 52% from their data. This at precisely when the Fed needed to start cuts when the administration has been aggressively hammering them. Hopefully the Fed is not too late this time, and their 6+ month delay cutting won't result in a recession or serious economic impact.
by cs702 | 2025-09-09 15:39:30+00:00
As he raised the federal fund rate to 20%, Volcker became widely hated indeed. Businesses and consumers suffered because of his actions.

Politicians of course tried to take control of the Fed. They also tried to fire him. At one point he needed Secret Service protection. Here's an article from the 1980's about it:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-05-fi-492-st...
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 15:39:42+00:00
Even if it is only 5% stay at home fathers, that is still 5% that is ignored. Staying at home as a parent isn't the right choice for everyone, but when society assumes that it is only mothers that is a disservice to the fathers who want to (and in some cases the couples who want a parent staying at home but it never occurs to them that it could be dad)
by Muromec | 2025-09-09 15:39:49+00:00
>I think it would be much better to provide a one year paid stipend so that a parent can be home with the children during their tender years.

Or just learn from the best proven strategy -- 3 years maternity leave, free childcare from the year of 3, early retirement for grandparents who can be bothered to stay with kids so parents can have some time off.

That of course would be totally haram and communism, so instead the policy is to have immigration from places, but that is also totally haram and communism.

Pick your poison.
by vintermann | 2025-09-09 15:39:49+00:00
Sure, it's how I see them. My view of them has been pretty good for me personally, for predicting what they're going to do, though.

I'm sure they have considered a very limited number of mitigations, but nothing radical. But they always end up with the default choice. Do you disagree? If so, tell me when they did something the slightest bit imaginative or radical, or even surprising. I don't think you even disagree with me, you just think it's good that they don't.

> Why would we not embrace an open and free market.

Because it's not actually on the table when dealing with Trump?
by franktankbank | 2025-09-09 15:40:34+00:00
Incentivize our basic necessities and come down hard on fraud. If a bridge needs to be rebuilt pay to have it done. If shipping infrastructure needs to be modernized pay to have it done. If we need more mining get it done. Get it done and get it done fast. If bids are won but they go and fuck all the money away send them to jail. This is how stuff worked before people became obsessed with metrics.
by smeeth | 2025-09-09 15:40:41+00:00
Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them.

It's extremely sad, but a consistent finding in early childhood education is that the children who thrive most in daycares tend to come from the least advantaged backgrounds.

So a policy of paying parents to stay home would mostly benefit kids who are already well off.
by babblingdweeb | 2025-09-09 15:41:03+00:00
(reposting a version of my comment somewhere below)

The BLS (USA) does adjust the numbers every month (for two months after the initial release) and annually. Regardless if the numbers go up or down, this is fairly common with statistics and forecasting in general. When actuals come in, the forecast is adjusted closer to reality.

Anecdotally: It gets lost in the mix of headlines when those adjustments show that the initial projections were on trend, or "close enough the talking heads don't care enough". However, it gets "interesting" when it's off-trend; or confirms prior notable good/bad news. In this case, it confirms* what was suspected, mostly confirms what was reported. As actuals came in, the reality was worse than projected.

*"Confirms" use case here: job growth is poop right now.
by agentcoops | 2025-09-09 15:41:06+00:00
I’m originally from a US state that currently sits at a 40% literacy rate, but I’ve lived for the last decade in various European countries. I say this only because, even if still anecdotal, I feel like I have a decent basis for comparison. Certainly there are educational disparities from center to periphery and across income brackets everywhere, but I have never lived somewhere that the division was as stark as the US.

France — with all its problems — ensures the same incredibly high standard of curriculum across the country and perhaps most importantly it is actually expected that top university performers who will become researchers teach at high school in the periphery. It’s even a nation-wide competition by discipline (look up the “aggregation”) to obtain these highly sought positions. The idea is something like you teach high school outside Paris while preparing your doctorate and then either return triumphant to the big research institutes or continue teaching in the provinces. Something like this in the US would have immeasurable impact, since probably one of the biggest issues is just convincing well-educated people to teach in rural areas.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-09 15:41:09+00:00
A lot of current conservative grousing about the deficit is priming the electorate for destroying social security. That's why they always highlight it as the main cause of the deficit, even though it has a totally separate income stream from the rest of the budget.

Republicans have done the exact opposite of balancing the budget at least since Reagan (inclusive) non-stop, zero R presidents have even done as well as democrats at pursuing a balanced budget since then, so they're not serious about it, including and perhaps especially Trump—but they really, really want to get their hands on social security, it's so much money out of the hands of rich people that they just can't stand it.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-09 15:41:10+00:00
I prefer the death per people metric as I am more interested in how likely I am to receive some bad news than some metric based on distance.

Both measures have bias, the "per people" metric doesn't take into account when people are actually driving while the "per kilometer" metric puts too much emphasis on long distance driving, which is usually done on motorways where it is the safest. Maybe the best metric would be "per time spent on the road, including as a pedestrian on the sidewalk", but I guess it is harder to estimate.

Anyways the UK is doing well on both metrics.
by hkt | 2025-09-09 15:41:37+00:00
It seems plausible enough that they're trying to squeeze as much out of their hardware as possible and getting the balance wrong. As prices for hardware capable of running local LLMs drop and local models improve, this will become less prevalent and the option of running your own will become more widespread, probably killing this kind of service outside of enterprise. Even if it doesn't kill that service, it'll be _considerably_ better to be operating your own as you have control over what is actually running.

On that note, I strongly recommend qwen3:4b. It is _bonkers_ how good it is, especially considering how relatively tiny it is.
by hollerith | 2025-09-09 15:41:42+00:00
OK, how about this: how would someone who knows nothing about you other than your 2 comments here determine whether you think MA police take DUI seriously enough or whether you think they go too easy on DUI?

Read did drive under the influence and police and prosecutors laid harsh charges against her, but they could've laid those harsh charges (first- and second-degree murder IIRC) against her even if she had been stone sober that night, so it seems to me that the Read case says nothing about how harshly police and prosecutors treat ordinary DUIs.
by cyphar | 2025-09-09 15:41:52+00:00
> v29.0 will have support for nftables. It'll be marked as experimental in the first few releases to allow us to change anything without worrying about backward compatibility.

It would've been nice to at least link to the EPIC[1] to provide some kind of evidence that it is actually been worked on. Sorry to be a bit snarky, but this has been a known issue for 9 years now[2,3,4] with no development despite claims to the contrary by Docker Inc (Mirantis now, I guess?).

Out of interest, is this being merged with libnetwork or is being implemented separately (a quick look gave me the impression it was being implemented separately but libnetwork was re-merged to Docker a while ago). Also I guess your comment in [5] is outdated and it will actually be in v29?

[1]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/49634 [2]: https://github.com/moby/libnetwork/issues/1998 [3]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/26824 [4]: https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/1472 [5]: https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/1472#issuecomment...
by bicx | 2025-09-09 15:41:56+00:00
Maybe if you fully hand over the reigns and go watch Youtube all day.

LLMs allow us to do large but cheap experiments that we would never attempt otherwise. That includes new architectures. Automation in the traditional sense is opposite of plasticity (because it's optimizing and crystalizing around a very specific process), but what we're doing with LLMs isn't that. Every new request can be different. Experiments are more possible, not less. We don't have to tear down years of scaffolding like old automated systems. We just nudge it in a new direction.
by mystraline | 2025-09-09 15:42:02+00:00
I dont think the sat photography companies are providing false or manipulated data.

I would believe that Google and other "free" sites would be potentially under orders to edit tile data by federal mandate.

A colleague of mine back in the early 2000's put gas/water/sewer/electric maps on GIS. All from public sources. And within a few weeks, the feds caught wind of this and classified his combined maps.

Thats why I suspect editing on gas pump stations. And to be fair, they're ill-defended targets that could cause a massive chemical and pollutant spill if they were targeted (like the MAGAs shooting substations). And theres obvious national security aspects with shutting down energy grid operations.

Now yeah, there is the Chinese datum problem. But again, non-Chinese sat companies can map in accordance to their government in whichever country they are operating in.
by xrd | 2025-09-09 15:42:16+00:00
Me too. Since he migrated his wealth from the place he earned it for thirty years to a tax haven in Florida the realities are different. With warming tropical waters, he will need to spend more money on a yacht that can handle the bigger storms. It's not a problem you or I need to worry about, but he does, and that's probably why he is a billionaire and I'm not.
by groby_b | 2025-09-09 15:42:28+00:00
"that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not"

FWIW, Codex-CLI w/ ChatGPT5 medium is great right now. Objectively accelerating me. Not a coding god like some posters would have it, but overall freeing up time for me. Observably.

Assuming I haven't had since-cured delusions, the same was true for Claude Code, but isn't any more.

Concrete supporting evidence: From time to time, I have coding CLIs port older projects of varying (but small-ish) sizes from JS to TS. Claude Code used to do well on that. Repeatedly. I did another test last Sunday, and it dug a momentous hole for itself that even liberal sprinkling of 'as unknown' everywhere couldn't solve. Codex managed both the ab-initio port and was able to undig from CC's massive hole abandoned mid-port.

So I'd say the evidence points somewhat against random process, given repeated testing shows clear signal both of past capability and of recent loss of capability.

The idea that it's a "random" process is misguided.
by ForHackernews | 2025-09-09 15:42:34+00:00
He's not the final word on the matter, but Nate Silver writes...

> I've worked a lot with data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other federal agencies. In fact, an economic index based on a half-dozen of these statistics is part of our presidential election forecast, so we’ve pulled this data all the way back to World War II.3

> And I consider it to be of very high quality. When BLS data is revised as more information becomes available, it’s meticulously documented and explained. For more on how this works, including just how difficult the BLS’s job is and how it’s being made harder by declining survey response rates and cuts to federal agencies that track economic activity, I’d strongly recommend this edition of the Odd Lots podcast with Bill Beach, the former BLS commissioner under Trump 1.0 and Biden. It might not be the most riveting interview, but one thing that comes through is just how much of a straight-shooter he is.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont...
by bilekas | 2025-09-09 15:42:52+00:00
> First you claim that the lack of tech companies rivaling with the US ones is because the EU countries had to rebuild themselves after the war and now you claim that is because the EU itself was just a baby back in the 90s and that somehow stopped Europe from producing these types of companies.

There are more than one single reason for things to happen, again highlighting that the EU had other priorities at the time.

> The same can be said for the defense of the EU countries which basically has consisted in the EU countries joining NATO because they decided that outsourcing their own defense was cheaper instead of building a proper European military alliance between themselves.

I completely agree with you here, NATO is our saving grace but really even this feels uncertain these days.

> In fact the NATO agreement specifically stipulates that all member countries need to invest a set amount each year in their own defense and guess what, only a few of them actually fulfill the term of this agreement. So who is at fault here?

Complete complacency and thinking that there will not be any war once everyone is economically dependant on eachother and the US is always there. Agreed.

> It's time for the EU leaders to grow up and make amends and course correct or be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Again I agree with you, I'm not saying there wasn't some complacency, but it's not as simple to get things to move in EU, which again, is both a blessing (everyone is 'kind of' catered for) and a curse, things move unacceptably slow. The sentiment seems to be changing and I have to be optimistic about it and push my local politicians to get the finger out. I don't accept the nihilism I'm seeing though.

I really am not saying that the EU did everything right, just that it's not as simple for the EU to get everything done as it seems to people. I would have much preferred we had our defense infrastructure in place properly before we started investing in tech.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-09 15:42:54+00:00
If a company can become a mega company by having billions of users, small violations must be treated as larger. At some point impacting millions/hundreds of millions of human years a year by your practices rises above the 'it's a small inconvenience to a single person'.

You are costing society/humanity millions/hundred of millions of human years. That is not a 'small inconvenience' at this scale.
by m00x | 2025-09-09 15:42:55+00:00
The Obama administration reversed this in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015.

Many of the schools with the most funding per student, like Washington D.C. and NYC currently underperform.

NYC has a spending of $36-40k per student with only 56% ELA, ~47% Math. Washington DC has $27k-31k of spending per student and only 22% proficient in reading and 16% in Math.

Charter schools have been the best bang for the buck. The best all-income schools are catholic schools, averaging at 1 grade level higher. Then private schools do even better, but aren't accessible to everyone, and then the top spot is left to selective high-performing schools, unsurprisingly.
by naugtur | 2025-09-09 15:43:07+00:00
It's based on HardenedJS.org

The sandbox itself is tight, there's a bug bounty even.

The same technology is behind metamask snaps - plugins in a browser extension.

And Moddable has their own implementation

The biggest problem is endowing too powerful capabilities.

We've got ambitious plans for isolating DOM, but that already failed once before.
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 15:43:18+00:00
Apparently until now they've been providing this only to families below 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. FPL is $32,150 for a 4-person family, so $128,600 combined family income (2 people working for $64,300 each -- and that's before fed and state taxes are deducted). Since that is far from being wealthy enough to "just" spring for expensive care, I'm glad to see this.

My only question is who the heck is going to be working in these childcare centers?? Right now (granted, I don't live in NM so this is in California) most places that are decent have waiting lists - indicating that they could expand but are unable to, instead they're already leaving money on the table. I don't think there are enough people willing to work a very grueling job for a wage that the current costs are enough to support. So, if this is a new entitlement program the state may find its costs doubling soon as they try to force the market to provide, or are forced to directly provide, care.
by jhanschoo | 2025-09-09 15:43:50+00:00
Quote 1:

> That is because South Korean laws require that companies store core geospatial data locally, something Google has long refused to do.

Quote 2:

> That's because the SK government has refused to give Google access to their official map data, because of "security concerns".

Quote 3:

> Google said Tuesday it will accept the South Korean government's security requirements to remove coordinates for the Korean region from its map in order to secure approval to export high-precision map data overseas.

(via https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20250909/...)

(Quote 1) from the article is my prior understanding of the situation. Your claim (Quote 2) doesn't match my prior understanding either. I did some googling, and found additional reporting (Quote 3), which seems to be more precise and accurately contextualized than (Quote 1).

I am personally quite sympathetic to the posture of KR's government, regarding data sovereignty of high-precision map data. I understand that Google and other tech companies were always legally able to serve maps of SK of comparable quality from a datacenter in SK.
by prasoon2211 | 2025-09-09 15:43:55+00:00
RLHF is not the "RL" the parent is posting about. RLHF is specifically human driven reward (subjective, doesn't scale, doesn't improve the model "intelligence", just tweaks behavior) - which is why the labs have started calling it post-training, not RLHF, anymore.

True RL is where you set up an environment where an agent can "discover" solutions to problems by iterating against some kind of verifiable reward AND the entire space of outcomes is theoretically largely explorable by the agent. Maths and Coding are have proven amenable to this type of RL so far.
by yardstick | 2025-09-09 15:43:57+00:00
Kids are social and like playing and learning from other kids. Daycare lets them do just that. It’s a great thing and every toddler I’ve met who wasn’t in daycare was behind in something. Especially verbal skills.

Plus daycare allows women to continue their career progression. It’s soo important. Not every woman wants to end their career as a mother to a young kid. Daycare enables successful women to thrive and still have families.
by trynumber9 | 2025-09-09 15:44:08+00:00
Perhaps, but the percentage of Americans foreign-born is at a 100 year high. And the percentage of under 18s who have a foreign-born parent is at an all-time high (25.6% of students, the previous peak was 21.6% in 1920).

And if their children are underperforming in schools it would be important to know.
by thro1 | 2025-09-09 15:44:13+00:00
Shallow FUD tactic ??

"The feature is often the source of significant security issues."

(how often ? - I see ONE potential security issue there, so long since a month ?)

"Browsers currently support a ~25 year old version of XSLT"

----

As usually, the programmer basically and ignoring Users Case for his reward ($ impedance mismatch), is saying that the later is better than the former as he likes to use some JS magic (..there is nothing going on?) - because then.. he can debug it (!):

<xsl:template name="book"> <div class="book"> <img class="cover" src="{cover}" alt="" /> <div class="book-info"> <div>.. <span class="author"><xsl:value-of select="../name" /></span> </div>.. </div> </div> </xsl:template> [..] const bookHTML = (bookEl) => html` <div class="book"> <img class="cover" src="${bookEl.querySelector(':scope > cover').textContent}" alt="" /> <div class="book-info"> <div>.. <span class="author"> ${bookEl.parentNode.querySelector(':scope > name').textContent} </span> </div>.. </div> </div> `; [..]

(or no job for JavaScript Document Programmer)
by idontwantthis | 2025-09-09 15:44:27+00:00
Is it uncommon to be getting contacted frequently by recruiters?

I’m getting 1-2 cold emails or linkedin messages per week and then setting up interviews. Am I unusual in this? I’m not seeing the supposed effects of this AI war. I haven’t had to fill out a single application to get at least 10 interviews so far. Some went to the second round, but I haven’t gotten an offer yet.