MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colechristensen | 2025-09-09 15:27:49+00:00
The problem with more people entering the workforce is that the people never end up better off. Prices just go up and people end up working more for the same result.

Changing the definition of full-time hours to 30/week would do far more for families and children than giving free childcare so mothers can work more.

Making mortgages with a > 20 year term illegal, putting limits on the total principal allowed to loan as a multiple of income, and barring entirely non-human (i.e. any business entity) ownership of single family homes would do far more for families and children by removing the burden of ridiculous housing costs by removing the ability for people to compete for ridiculous housing prices.
by Kapura | 2025-09-09 15:28:28+00:00
early on in the bush (ii) administration, they passed a bill called "no child left behind" that would cut funding from schools that couldn't achieve desired standardized test scores.

while this may seem to align incentives, in reality a school that has struggling students needs MORE resources, not less.

the outcome, in reality, is an extreme desire to "teach to the test," where developing actual skills is secondary to learning the structure of test problems and how to answer them correctly enough to keep the school from being obliterated.

teachers are one of the most valuable, most undervalued positions in society. my mother taught elementary school for 20 years; when she retired, i was making 3 times her salary doing my computer job. this is the sad but inevitable outcome from the policies put in place by a class of people that can afford to educate their children outside of the systems forced upon the working class.
by joshuaissac | 2025-09-09 15:28:40+00:00
Privatisation should be accompanied with legal responsibility to build/maintain infrastructure for the future. If a government agency blocks the development, this liability should shift to them, to disincentivise unnecessarily blocking development.

But for something like water supply, there should be more competition via legally mandated unbundling, like with Internet service providers and energy suppliers who use the same delivery infrastructure while competing with each other.
by jonathanlb | 2025-09-09 15:28:56+00:00
A quick glance at https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/child-care-...

It looks like it's 1:6 until kids are 27 months, at which point the ratio becomes 1:10. When kids are 3-4 the ratio is 1:12, and when they're 5 and up, the ratio is 1:15. These are numbers from 2011, so not sure how that's changed over time.
by OrderlyTiamat | 2025-09-09 15:29:00+00:00
> what happens when most people are incapable of following your "reasonable" rules?

The black death returns? I am only half joking. RFK jr believes in miasma theory of illness and thinks the germs theory is wrong. If all of us start to act like him, we will have millions of deaths. I vehemently dislike the "believe in science" ~crowd~ [e: I should say dogma], and on other issues I've said virtually the same thing as you've said in this comment.

But not here. If we truly can't agree that something as stupid as reviving the miasma theory of illness ought to be mocked, then we are lost.
by mbirth | 2025-09-09 15:29:06+00:00
The technical details don't matter in this case. You're doing a 1:1 copy/clone. You're not manipulating anything and thus you're not circumventing anything. No special care is taken about the certificate or anything else.

Just because the Switch can't tell the difference between an original cartridge and a cloned one doesn't make it illegal per se. (What's the protection measure that was circumvented there?) It's just that the law is "broken" as it was made by those people making money from it.
by vondur | 2025-09-09 15:29:41+00:00
As a counter point, go look at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It's a publicly owned municipal utility and is notorious for its corruption. The DWP doesn't perform any maintenance, lettings things break completely and then having to fix huge issues. They were the group who failed to fill a reservoir in the Pacific Palisades to save some money where firefighters weren't able to use to fight the fires.
by mothballed | 2025-09-09 15:29:50+00:00
> The more broadly you spread the money, the less benefit each person receives. If you extended an equal benefit to parents who were already okay ...

By your own argument, this policy dilutes the value New Mexico / Feds were prior giving to the poorer parents who met the means testing New Mexico used before, then, no? Because this isn't the beginning of "free" childcare in NM, they are just expanding it beyond the prior poverty-line times 'X" means testing.

Ergo per your logic "real outcome would be reduced benefits" to the poorer parents who already had subsidized childcare.

Edit: accidently switched "childcare" to "healthcare" a few times, flipped back
by rimunroe | 2025-09-09 15:30:12+00:00
> 100 games over 40 years is not a lot.

You continue to miss my point, as your comment about concurrent player count indicates. 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.

> If being one of the top 23 over the span of 10 years of something doesn't make it "one of the best" in your book, you are entitled to think that.

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?

> By comparison, the Pro Football Hall of Fame had 28 inductees since 2022 -- are you willing to argue that being in the HoF doesn't make you one of the best?

I'm willing to argue that judging something as being "one of the best" because it's in a list of a hundred things isn't very different from saying something is one of the best because it's in a list of a thousand things. I think most people--critics included--don't rank things in such large numbers, and as the numbers get larger then what little meaning the term had to start with diminishes even further.
by drivebyhooting | 2025-09-09 15:30:19+00:00
Just looking at the picture triggered me. Why are the students sitting in groups and cutting paper with scissors?

There’s a huge teaching gap between USA and Asia.

See for yourself:

https://youtu.be/wIyVYCuPxl0?si=f6wFv2G3Iru7QFTy

https://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/James_W._Stigler

Edit: since it may not have been clear from the video, this is my interpretation:

* in the Japanese math class the teacher teaches at the board and then walks around the class to look at the students. Students are not sitting in large groups.

* in the American class the teacher spends practically 0 time at the blackboard, the students sit in large groups, the teacher spends most of the time with one or two groups.
by amaranth | 2025-09-09 15:30:19+00:00
One factor is that a part of their measurement is tracking how many new companies are founded and estimating how many employees a new company is likely to have. These numbers have been trending down and rapidly fell due to a lot of new companies being one person LLCs for gig economy work. It appears they haven't kept up with this trend so they overestimate how many jobs these companies will have.
by mcbobgorge | 2025-09-09 15:30:22+00:00
I'm not the user you're asking but the same logic holds true for UBI, yes. The societies with the most effective social welfare programs do it via a robust and de-stigmatized social safety net. I think most of the common criticisms of UBI (it will make people lazy, its not fair, it will cause inflation etc) are silly, and I also generally support universal programs over means testing or exemptions. Still, I will be a skeptic until I see a somewhat large scale successful rollout of a UBI program beyond just studies and pilots.
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-09-09 15:30:24+00:00
I've done this as well. My employers setup guide was super long winded and tried hard to suggest MS Authenticator was the only one that would work without outright saying it.

However, I've gathered that this is a setting that is up to the organization so your YMMV. Since some employees work at secure sites without wifi/mobile connections they aren't able to turn off TOTP.
by agentcoops | 2025-09-09 15:30:31+00:00
I’m from a US state with a 40% adult literacy rate (=above eighth grade reading level). At least there, none of those three things are even close to the root causes. The average school in the US outside of the big cities, especially the farther you get from the coasts, is just not fit for purpose — and funding only seems to ever go down (not that throwing money at the problem alone would solve it).

Honestly — and I’m not being at all utopian/overvaluing the present state of the technology — I think AI is one of the few prospects for even just marginal improvement, especially since it’s accessible by phone. Much as I wish it wasn’t the case, it’s hard to even imagine all the things that would have to change (from funding, to legislation, undoing all the embarrassing “teaching the controversy” curriculum, to say nothing of staffing) for a “non-technical solution.”
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by maurin | 2025-09-09 15:30:43+00:00
I missed the GitLab integration of Claude Code for GitLab, but it should be usable with GPT models. That's why I forked an existing half-working solution, switched over to OpenCode, and added an MCP server with the most important tools. Hope you like it!

In the future I want to make the MCP Integration more modular so that it is easy to configure new MCP Server.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-09 15:30:55+00:00
Any decent engineer could immediately tell you that wireless charging is not very efficient.

It works for a cellphone mainly because the battery is small, the device can be placed very close to the charger and the convenience is worth the wasted energy.

None of this applies in a case like the Cybertruck. But I suppose it makes for good hype.
by mojoe | 2025-09-09 15:30:58+00:00
Some of you may remember me as the publisher of Compelling Science Fiction magazine (2016-2020).

I missed being involved in the science fiction community, so I decided to start a "Year's Best" anthology series dedicated to finding the best concept-driven, near-future short fiction published every year.

If you have a moment to check out the landing page please let me know your impressions, either in the comments or by answering this single multiple choice question: https://forms.gle/YWRqycjpVpoNgx2B9

Thanks for your help!
by mythrwy | 2025-09-09 15:31:12+00:00
I live in rural New Mexico and medical services are very bad here.

I took my GF to the emergency room once with chest pains (turned out to be a lung infection). After an hours long wait we got to see the "doctor". The doctor came in in street clothes which were wrinkled jeans and a frumpy polo. He was not smart and from appearance, speech and thinking patterns easily could have been the janitorial mid level manager (no disrespect meant to janitorial staff). They did a chest scan, he said he would review it, then told her to go home and take a Motrin and then she got mysterious bills for the next year from the event.

I would go to Texas which isn't far if the emergency permitted it, and in fact they do airlift most serious cases directly to Lubbock.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 15:31:27+00:00
> With this policy, those who needed childcare but were priced out of the market will be able to access the service they needed.

And the rich parents who can afford childcare are also given a subsidy. A married parent who wants to stay home but can't quite afford it is forced to work. Is this really what you want? If it is the poor your care about why not subsidies just them?
by Scene_Cast2 | 2025-09-09 15:31:44+00:00
Just like with their last release, they only released the architecture and not the weights. It may be useful for analyzing the system if you're a competitor (but from my last dive into it, it seemed like a strict subset of fancier, industry-leading rec systems), or perhaps getting into rec / retrieval systems as a newcomer.

However, this gives roughly zero insight into how Twitter's feed behaves.
by bArray | 2025-09-09 15:31:47+00:00
> In the UK, 'self-harm' is used specifically to refer to what used to be called cutting [one's] wrists. It's not intended to mean any action that has negative consequences for oneself.

Definitions slip over time. Violence, abuse, sexual assault, etc, were previously all physical acts. Then they became mental acts, and now just the perception is devastating.

> Remember, these are politicians: they have no understanding of abstraction and generalisation, and think that generalisation is the act of creating stereotypes.

In the moment. But a future politician can reasonably interpret the same idea differently.
by midnightclubbed | 2025-09-09 15:31:50+00:00
> The US is a very right wing country. It's politicians are better able to avoid populist price controls. Maybe with Mamdani that's now changing.

Rather than placing price controls on private companies the US slashes taxes to the point where public services then cannot invest in infrastructure and maintenance - and then use that as an argument why public services should be privatized.

If tax cuts aren't populist policies I don't know what are. The magic trick of the right wing parties has been to sell tax cuts as a great thing to the very people who don't benefit from the cuts and are hurt by the fiscal fall-out. That and attaching themselves to Christianity while not following any of Jesus's teachings.

When a service is a monopoly there is no good reason for turning it into a for profit company outside of feathering the pockets of the rich. If the electricity supply to my house (and by extension my street and my city) is controlled by one company and they own the cabling and infrastructure then what is the motivation for them to not jack up my prices to generate profits to their shareholders, as they should as a shareholder owned company? What is their motivation for encouraging renewables or improving infrastructure when those would reduce profits and reduce shareholder value?

Mamdani hasn't even been voted in yet. Keep sowing that fear so that the people his policies might benefit don't actually vote for him - because he's a scary socialist (in the loosest, most American, definition).
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-09-09 15:31:51+00:00
This exactly. It's actually wild how much valid emails can look like phishing emails, and how confusing it is that companies use different domains for critical things.

One example that always annoys me is that the website listing all of Proton's apps isn't at an address you'd expect, like apps.proton.me. It's at protonapps.com. Just... why? Why would you train your users to download apps from domains other than your primary one?

It also annoys me when people see this happening and point out how the person who fell for the attack missed some obvious detail they would have noticed. That's completely irrelevant, because everyone is stupid sometimes. Everyone can be stressed out and make bad decisions. It's always a good idea to make it harder to make bad decisions.
by photonthug | 2025-09-09 15:32:00+00:00
After we fix the all the simple specious reasoning of stuff like Alexander-the-great and agree to out-source certain problems to appropriate tools, the high-dimensional analogs of stuff like Datasaurus[0] and Simpson's paradox[1] etc are still going to be a thing. But we'll be so disconnected from the representation of the problems that we're trying to solve that we won't even be aware of the possibility of any danger, much less able to actually spot it.

My take-away re: chain-of-thought specifically is this. If the answer to "LLMs can't reason" is "use more LLMs", and then the answer to problems with that is to run the same process in parallel N times and vote/retry/etc, it just feels like a scam aimed at burning through more tokens.

Hopefully chain-of-code[2] is better in that it's at least trying to force LLMs into emulating a more deterministic abstract machine instead of rolling dice. Trying to eliminate things like code, formal representations, and explicit world-models in favor of implicit representations and inscrutable oracles might be good business but it's bad engineering

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasaurus_dozen [1] https://towardsdatascience.com/how-metrics-and-llms-can-tric... [2] https://icml.cc/media/icml-2024/Slides/32784.pdf
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-09 15:32:07+00:00
And it is telling that a certain flavor of partisan is finds it novel.

"No Matter Who Is President, Don’t Trust Government Data"

>There isn’t clear, undeniable evidence that officials at the BLS are editing or making up the jobs numbers that go out to the public. But it’s easy to see why people think that they are when you look back at the series of dramatic downward revisions the Bureau has made in recent years—especially during Biden’s presidency.

>The monthly jobs report is a recurring, previously scheduled drop that all major media outlets publish immediately. And whenever the headline number is dramatically large or at all higher than expectations, White House officials are quick to seize on the news to frame it as a consequence of their brilliant economic agenda. However, when these jobs figures consistently get revised at a later date—ostensibly due to new information—the revisions are rarely given the same level of attention by the media and are therefore only really noticed by the small subset of the population that is closely monitoring economic data.

>So, as an example, the Biden administration was able to loudly celebrate BLS reports showing dramatic job growth month after month. And when almost all of that growth was revised away in future reports, very few people noticed. The consistently inaccurate jobs reports gave the public the false impression that the economy was booming. The fact that this was due to the same kind of mistake apparently being made over and over again struck many as suspicious. And rightfully so.

>It is important to note, however, that this has continued after Biden left office. So if the BLS really was propping up initial jobs reports to make the economy look stronger under Biden, then by every meaningful indication, they have done the same thing under Trump—at least so far.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-matter-who-president-dont-tr...
by legacynl | 2025-09-09 15:32:13+00:00
Can somebody who knows about this stuff, please elaborate on if it's 'fair' in the first place to compare apple chips with amd/intel chips?

AMD and Intel chips run on loads of different hardware. On the other hand Apple is fully in control of what hardware (and software) their chips are used with. I don't know, but I assume there's a whole lot of tuning and optimizations that you can do when you don't have to support anything besides what you produce yourself.

Let's say it would hypothethically possible to put an M4 in a regular pc. Wouldn't it lose performance just by doing that?
by ramses0 | 2025-09-09 15:32:25+00:00
Sorry to have missed your comment.

Basically:

--- import foo, bar, baz --- # Markdown * Goes * <https://here.com>

eg: https://docs.github.com/en/contributing/writing-for-github-d... ... https://jekyllrb.com/docs/front-matter/ ... and google search for "rst yaml frontmatter"

If you take an `*.mdx` file and run it through a typical markdown renderer, you'd get something like... well... lemme give the counter-example: if you had the "dashes" delimiting your "frontmatter" from the document, you'd get something like:

<hr>import foo, bar, baz<hr>\n<h1>Markdown</h1><ul><li>...etc...

...the critical part being to relatively unambiguously demarcate "junk" from "content" in the markdown ecosystem. In the far future when this project is but a forgotten memory of time, people can still just straight up render the markdown and "obviously" delete the stuff between the <hr's> up at the top.

The contrarian is that there's ambiguity as to when your `*.mdx` "import junk" stops and when the actual content starts. Do you stop parsing [for imports] after the first blank line? Do you stop parsing when you get a syntax error? Do you only parse lines that begin with [import ...]? What about [from ... import ...]?

More google searches: `http header demarcation rfc`, and eg: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

...strong recommendation: demarcate "headers" from content (a-la HTTP). Your format effectively becomes `---\n $PROG_LANG_GOES_HERE ---\n $CONTENT_HERE`, and you slide 1000% into "pure HTTP":

GET /foo.mdx Content-Type: application/mdx Date: 2020-10-10 01:02:34 --- import SomeComponent --- <SomeComponent>My Header</SomeComponent> * Some * Content
by pfdietz | 2025-09-09 15:32:32+00:00
You're just trying to smear a conclusion you don't like with fatuous insults.

The argument that this time, for sure, nuclear will be much cheaper has worn quite thin. Why do you think anyone in power is going to listen that song again?

BTW, do you think the dominance of renewables over new nuclear construction in China is due to "pearl clutching" there?
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-09 15:32:35+00:00
I've worked a bit in Poland and UK (before Brexit) and all i had to do was to take a plane and fly to the target city. I do not remember having any particular difficulties, if anything finding a place to live was the hardest thing but that is an issue with moving in general (including within the country), not moving across EU.

I'm not into traveling but i'm pretty sure i can grab a plane/train/bus/whatever and go any EU city i feel like.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-09 15:33:19+00:00
> This entire structure is set up to keep the boss happy while a stranger raises your child during their most formative and vulnerable years.

I can agree. I had grandparents to take are of me. During a family emergency I stayed with a friends family for a few weeks. We had a lot of people in our family and friends to step up who were all located in the same city.

Now everyone moves a thousand miles away from their existing support networks for a tech job.
by ponector | 2025-09-09 15:33:29+00:00
That is always funny how ruzzian supporters follow victim blaming patterns.

Ukrainian war could be ended anytime, ruzzians can simply go home instead of dying for $20000.

The second option to end the war is for Ukrainians to surrender. To surrender their country, culture and future. And become in 10 years a part of ruzzian occupation army somewhere in Estonia.
by sfdfdfdf | 2025-09-09 15:33:38+00:00
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by ceejayoz | 2025-09-09 15:33:39+00:00
> The more broadly you spread the money, the less benefit each person receives.

But this is true in the other direction, too. Means testing costs money, time, and ensures some needy folks fall off the program.

For example, Florida did drug testing as a condition for welfare benefits... and it cost more than they saved. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/us/no-savings-found-in-fl...