MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nyc_data_geek1 | 2025-09-09 15:44:29+00:00
>>IQ is highly linked to genetics.

Citation desperately needed.

How can you prove that empirically? What is your methodology for controlling for environmental factors in making that assertion, including factors associated with access to resources, tutors, having a full belly every morning, and not being constantly flooded with stress hormones as a result of grappling with the daily reality of living in poverty?
by kgermino | 2025-09-09 15:44:46+00:00
they're regularly revised up or down because they're (very openly) preliminary numbers released just days after the month ends and before many employers have even answered the survey. When the economy reaches an inflection point they tend to be streaky (multiple revisions down or up in a row) but that's nothing new and mostly just means that the economy has been getting worse over the last year and a half, which... that's one of the big arguments for Trump's victory so I'm not sure why it would be a surprise.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-09 15:45:00+00:00
Not sure about Google but on Bing Maps they were definitely messing around with fake images.

Some of the airbases showed some fields where the actual jet bunkers are, and if you zoomed out you could see it was just a copy/paste of a field nearby. Total fakery.

They have stopped doing that since, probably because there is no point with the amount of imagery available today.

And yeah countries like China messing with their map datum is weird. And so easy to compensate that it serves no military purpose.
by lordnacho | 2025-09-09 15:45:19+00:00
For me, the big takeaway that everyone cannot leave high school without is statistical critical thinking.

When you come across a meme with a graph, what should you say about it?

To me, that kind of thing comes before the stuff we think of as math. Calculus, matrices, geometry, all that stuff. People can learn those things if they are interested.

If they are bamboozled by bad statistics, society is finished.
SharedVolume – a Kubernetes operator to sync Git/S3/HTTP/SSH volumes across pods
by bilgehannal | 2025-09-09 15:45:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I built an open-source Kubernetes operator called SharedVolume to make sharing data between pods and workloads much easier.

The problem: In Kubernetes, syncing data from Git, S3, SSH, or HTTP usually requires init containers, sidecars, or custom jobs. Each workload often stores its own copy of the same dataset → wasted space. Volumes can’t easily be shared across namespaces. Keeping data updated (new Git commits, S3 changes, etc.) usually means cron jobs or pipelines.

The solution (SharedVolume): Define a SharedVolume (namespace-scoped) or ClusterSharedVolume (cluster-wide). Operator automatically pulls and keeps the data in sync with the source. Only one copy of the data is stored in the cluster. Pods just attach the volume by adding a simple annotation.

Docs & examples: https://sharedvolume.github.io

It’s still beta, so I’d love feedback, questions, and ideas for improvement If you find it useful and want to support the project, giving it a on GitHub would be amazing—it really helps open-source projects get noticed!
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-09 15:45:37+00:00
I think this is because Asian governments want their populations to more educated and American governments want their populations to be less educated.

For the former I'd guess its because they have very strong control on people's behaviors so they just want them more capable to innovate, grow economy, etc.

For the latter I'd guess its because they fear a more educated population will be harder to manipulate and hence erode government power.
by braebo | 2025-09-09 15:46:02+00:00
It was also everyone’s first global pandemic emergency so we can cut teachers some slack for not wanting to die for 40k USD. When schools go without funding and we’re devoid of regulation in industries like tech, and the cost of basics like a good school and healthy food becoming unaffordable for many parents, I feel like we have plenty of reasons to explore before we blame the people doing gods work for peanuts.
by babblingdweeb | 2025-09-09 15:46:19+00:00
Trust in the numbers is extremely important and we should all be calling out that we need to trust the numbers and the methodology. It should also be transparent.

However, it's extremely common in forecasting to revise the forecast once actuals come in. In the case of the BLS, it's the documented approach for a very long time.

Every month the numbers are adjusted and annually. All of the notes as to why, the method, etc are in the actual reports*.

*I don't recommend reading them or the footnotes unless you have insomnia. :)

** Also, if the source data is inaccurate, corrupted, etc; if the models are non-transparently adjusted, that would be horrible and cause for alarm. At the moment, we don't know if that is the case. Yet.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-09 15:46:25+00:00
> If it's such a great language, when will we see a useful program written in it?

I think it should have been simple enough to find examples, though I suppose there might be some dependence on what you mean by "useful".

For standalone stuff, some examples might be Ripgrep, ruff, uv, Alacritty, and Polars. Rust is also used internally by some major companies, such as Amazon, Dropbox, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Volvo, Discord, and CloudFlare.
by VoidWarranty | 2025-09-09 15:46:29+00:00
So uh, I'm the first person in my family to break the cycle of poverty. I have nobody I trust to follow advise with money. I do all the 'standard' boring investment strategies (401, index funds, roth, etc). I don't bother with crypto (scams). What does one do if stagflation is coming? Float more cash? Buy real estate?
by cushychicken | 2025-09-09 15:46:53+00:00
This is awesome.

I suspect that for every one job the government would subsidize for a daycare professional, that we’d see three women enter the workforce.

That’s a net of four people employed.

I have no proof of this aside from my own experience watching parents struggle to find care for their kids. Even well off ones where I live. In Massachusetts!

Good for you, New Mexico. I’m rooting for you.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 15:46:58+00:00
Sixty percent of Americans cannot afford a basic quality of life on their income in the US [1] [2]. Half of American renters are cost burdened [3]. I find it wild someone thinks "Why don't you just stay home with your kids?" looking at the macro. Can't all just live on a farm and homestead to raise kids in an unfavorable, punishing macro. Parents work because they have to work. To work, they need childcare and flexible work arrangements.

> "The economic machine demands sacrifices apparently."

Indeed. Is the solution to sacrifice for it? Or tax it to care for the human? [4] We can make better choices, as New Mexico shows. I'm tired of hearing its impossible. It isn't, it's just a lack of will and collective effort in that direction, based on all available evidence.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-o...

[2] https://lisep.org/mql

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119657

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY

(I am once again asking to think in systems)
by layer8 | 2025-09-09 15:46:59+00:00
Not only is the standard overly complex, it’s also missing clarifications to the extent that it has to be considered underspecified. Moreover, MS Word in particular doesn’t precisely implement the OOXML standard (or any reasonable reading of it), but a buggy and subtly different variation of it.

Complexity alone would just make it laborious to implement, but the underspecification and subtle deviations of Microsoft’s implementation makes it virtually impossible to achieve full compatibility.
by toshinoriyagi | 2025-09-09 15:47:31+00:00
What is the video supposed to suggest? I think it's extremely hard to conclude anything from a plot of the teacher's position over time throughout the classroom.

Is staying at the front a sign that the teacher is lazy and not helping students? Or is it that the students are competent enough without aid? That could be good if it indicates your students have been taught well enough to master the material. But it could also be bad, indicating your school does not offer enough incremental challenge, and students who are beyond their current level, but not high enough for the next level (honors or whatever), never reach their full potential.

There's far too many uncontrolled variables here. Also, it seems the wikipedia-on-ipfs page for Stigler is down.
by jacekm | 2025-09-09 15:47:42+00:00
I just want to remind our overseas friends that the EU is not a country and Mistral is French company. The EU rarely bets on a single firm in a single country, there are always 26 unhappy countries when something like that is about to happen ;)

I am European and I do agree that we should support the European companies but such decision are always results of lengthy deliberations.

Does anyone know if there is any company that is proactively supported by the EU?
by motorest | 2025-09-09 15:47:46+00:00
> D is the result of lack of interest by the C++ committee, and I had little interest in spending literally years trying to get useful things adopted into C++.

I think you are leaving out the fact that your comment applies to the post-C++98/pre-C++11 hiatus.

Once C++11 was released, the truth of the matter is that whatever steam D managed to build up, it fizzed out.

I'm also not sure if it's accurate to frame the problem with C++0x as picking up features from D. As I recall, D's selling point was that it was scrambling to provide the features covered by C++0x but users weren't forced to wait for a standard to be published to be able to use them. Once they could, there was no longer any compelling reason to bother with D anymore.
by snerbles | 2025-09-09 15:48:06+00:00
One specific example was Camp Bucca in 2007, around the time local insurgents managed to successfully inflict casualties with a rocket attack [0]. In an onboarding briefing I recall some officers lamenting the delay in getting Google to "delete" the base from Maps, though I am unsure if there are any public sources that reflect this.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6737159.stm
by nine_zeros | 2025-09-09 15:48:07+00:00
> Neither of the major political parties could legitimately be considered pro-school or pro-education. The Democrats are certainly pro-teacher's union — but their interests are often diametrically opposed to actual student education.

At this point in time - mid 2025 - I will take democrats over anything republican. I don't need a perfect party with perfect policies. I only want a non-destructive party - and Republicans are just harmful to the country.
by rexpop | 2025-09-09 15:48:18+00:00
Capitalism historically depends on the unpaid reproductive labor of women in the domestic sphere, work that is socially undervalued and made invisible, which supports capitalist systems rather than liberates women. Instituting a paid stipend for home parenting, while superficially supportive, risks reinforcing this systemic isolation by formalizing the separation of caregivers (mainly women) from the workforce and political arenas where power is exercised and negotiated.

Women confined to domesticity become disconnected from their own potential and larger societal participation.
by aleyan | 2025-09-09 15:48:23+00:00
That's an amazing addition! Once I read about Simpson's paradox[0], couldn't help but seeing it or suspecting it everywhere. Luckily, it is not a true paradox, and it can resolved if underlying data is available and not just summary statistics.

I recommend putting together the Quintet in one image, so that the original 4 charts, plus the new one are all visible and interpretable together. It will be learning aid for decades to come.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
by Bender | 2025-09-09 15:48:36+00:00
Indeed. Anti-depressants, SSRI's, Anti-Psychotics used off-label, extremely unhealthy addictive foods, social media via cell phones, left vs right media wars for attention and clicks, not teaching kids how to deal with bullies and not fully supporting kids defending themselves, experimenting on kids with hormones and now AI. The kids have a massive burden on their shoulders and a monkey on their back.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 15:48:36+00:00
The difficulty of getting people to vote for tax rises is a good justification for privatization. This difficulty isn't some uniquely right wing thing. The Democrats and Labour don't campaign on general tax rises either. At most, the left are willing to campaign on "tax rises for people who aren't you". That's because any party that wants to raise taxes on the majority loses.

So, governments of any color have to work with that as a constraint. Given that nobody has worked out how to convince everyone to accept big increases to their tax bills, you can either pay for new expenditures with borrowing or with cuts elsewhere. Sometimes cutting elsewhere is also hard, so either:

1. Everything gets put on the credit card. This ends badly.

2. Stuff is privatized. This yields an immediate cash influx, and voters are usually happy with the results which is why very few privatizations have been rolled back. The reason is that outside of very left wing spaces most people trust private companies on pricing much more than governments. Private companies run special offers, sales, sometimes cut prices even in the face of inflation and can be visibly seen competing on price. Government owned organizations never do this.

It's also (quietly) popular with governments on both left and right for another reason - it means they have less stuff to manage and less stuff that can blow up. If there's a problem with a privatized industry they can just tell you to switch to a competitor instead of needing to campaign on it and promise to do better.

Natural monopolies do exist and sometimes governments just have to bite the bullet and run such things themselves. But there's a lot of room to debate what is and isn't a natural monopoly.
by wetoastfood | 2025-09-09 15:48:41+00:00
Childcare doesn't end at 1 year though. If you look at public schools as child care, most don't start until kindergarten (about 5 years old). What do you do for the remaining 4 years? And during summer break? And after-school care? This program covers all of those.

Forcing parents back into the workforce early is unfortunate and does need to be addressed. However, this program seems to be addressing a different and still vital issue.
by parliament32 | 2025-09-09 15:48:43+00:00
> it's clear that the current 2FA approach isn't good enough. I don't know how to improve on it

USE PASSKEYS. Passkeys are phishing-resistant MFA, which has been a US govt directive for agencies and suppliers for three years now[1]. There is no excuse for infrastructure as critical as NPM to still be allowing TOTP for MFA.

[1]https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/M-22-0...
by yesfitz | 2025-09-09 15:48:58+00:00
I'm sorry you feel so powerless about these things. I hope you find a way to take control in ways that matter to you.

Personally, I've largely replaced my car usage with walking and biking, installed insulation in uninsulated parts of my home, got more comfortable with less heating/cooling (sweaters and fans), and am planning to upgrade to a heat pump when the time comes.

It's good to live your values without falling into scrupulosity, both for yourself and others.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-09 15:49:11+00:00
Anthropic are looking to make money. They need to make absolutely absurd amounts of money to afford the R&D expenses they've already incurred. Features get prioritized based on how much money they might make. Unless forced to by regulation (or maybe social pressure on the executives, but that really only comes from their same class instead of the general public these days) smaller groups of customers get served last. There aren't that many blind people, so there's not very much profit incentive to serve blind people. Unless they're actually violating the ADA or another law or regulation, and can't bribe the regulators for less than the cost of fines or fixing the issue, I'd not expect any improvement.
by Hilift | 2025-09-09 15:49:15+00:00
> privatised water companies have built no new reservoir capacity

Of course not. The water company was in terrible shape (read: lacking funds) before it was dumped on a commercial company that does not have deep pockets like Chevron. Thames Water owes £16.8 billion. That money is already gone.

No one is going to swoop in to save the day. Taxpayers will eat the bill, and invest even more to reverse decades of neglect. All of those hard decisions labour committed to make are unnecessary when nothing is done and they are made for you. The country has limited funds, and is spending funds it doesn't have on things like billions on hotels for 29,000 unauthorized travelers so far this year.

UK external debt is £2.7 trillion, and whats her name said yesterday it may be necessary to ask the IMF for a loan? Water company indeed.
by joncrocks | 2025-09-09 15:49:47+00:00
I think that this might be some useful context.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/30/in-charts-h...

Overall the debt held by the company has ballooned since the 90s, meanwhile large dividend payments went out to shareholders. This appears to be extraction of value out of Thames Water (TW).

It's hard to see those graphs and then take TW seriously when they complain they need money for investment.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 15:49:51+00:00
> The best all-income schools are catholic schools, averaging at 1 grade level higher. Then private schools do even better

These are not equal comparisons. People who send their kids to a private school are choosing that, and thus care about the education their kids get. While Catholics are all income and choosing for religion reasons, generally catholic implies cultural care for education. Public schools take everyone including those who don't care about education.

In general public schools in the US are very good. However a small number in every school are kids that would be kicked out of private (including catholic) schools. There are also significant variation between schools with richer areas of a city doing better - despite often spending less on education.
by BoingBoomTschak | 2025-09-09 15:49:54+00:00
On the other hand, you have games like Borderlands that force you to finish the game once (or even twice) to unlock an "acceptable" level of difficulty (via lazy bullet sponge metamorphosis).

Same with Bioshock Infinite that needed a hack to unlock "1999 mode" or Bloodstained its harder difficulty (still easy, though).

Balance and fair difficulty really are some of the hardest and most important things to get right in video games.
by rgbrgb | 2025-09-09 15:49:58+00:00
> Programs that commit to paying entry-level staff a minimum of $18 per hour and offer 10 hours of care per day, five days a week, will receive an incentive rate. New Mexico estimates an additional 5,000 early childhood professionals are needed to fully achieve a universal system.

Is this a reasonable wage in New Mexico? Here in Southern California you could not find qualified candidates for that but I know general cost of living is higher.
by seanw265 | 2025-09-09 15:50:02+00:00
I'm still not sold on liquid glass as a whole. It can be quite beautiful, but in the demos provided (and even in Apple's promotional materials) I think readability of UI elements suffers tremendously.

That said, I've seen many attempt to recreate the effect on web but you've outdone them all. The variety and mathematical modeling of edge shapes elevates this implementation above the rest.

If you decide to continue with this, I would love to see:

1. chromatic aberration along displaced areas

2. higher resolution in the refraction

Many people discussing performance issues but this runs like butter on my M3 Pro.
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-09 15:50:11+00:00
Heh, I had a discussion with a security guard about rattlesnakes once while working in rural NM. "If you get bit by a rattlesnake, man, get on the radio and call me. I'll get you to the hospital. But we're going to Cruces... I'm not taking you to the hospital in T or C... you'll fuckin' die there."
Show HN: Rkik – A light, efficient NTP diagnosis tool written in Rust (v1.10)
by aguacero7 | 2025-09-09 15:50:23+00:00
I’ve released rkik v1.10, a lean Rust tool to inspect NTP servers, compare offsets/RTTs, and optionally perform a one-shot system clock sync on Unix.

Repo: https://github.com/aguacero7/rkik

For those who dont know what it does: - Probe a single NTP server or compare multiple in one shot - Text / Simple / JSON outputs for humans or scripts - Fractional timing controls: sub-second --interval and --timeout (e.g., 0.1, 0.25) - Optional one-shot sync to “server UTC + half RTT” (Unix only) - Dry-run mode to validate the sync workflow without touching the clock

What’s new in v1.10

Clippy integrated in CI with lints as errors (consistent quality) - Sync module public API cleaned up (no more rkik::sync::sync double path) - Sync feature enabled by default in builds/packages - "--interval" and "--timeout" now accept fractional seconds - "--dry-run" for sync to verify flows in CI/scripts

Usage

Installing it is very simple using cargo: cargoo install rkik

Single server probe: rkik time.google.com

Compare multiple servers (10 requests, 200 ms apart), simple text: rkik -C time.google.com time.cloudflare.com --count 10 --interval 0.2 --short

JSON output (pretty-printed): rkik pool.ntp.org -jp

One-shot sync (Unix; needs root or CAP_SYS_TIME): rkik --server time.google.com --sync

Notes / caveats - Sync requires privileges (root or CAP_SYS_TIME). Dry-run works without them. - If a time daemon (chronyd/systemd-timesyncd) is active, it may readjust your clock afterward; that’s expected.

Roadmap / feedback I’m aiming to make it a PTP / NTS protocols Diag tool, I want rkik to become a real Time servers monitoring and analysis toolbox. Suggestions on output ergonomics, useful stats for CI/observability, or packaging for your distro or even github contributions are very welcome.

Happy to answer questions and take feedback!
by eatsyourtacos | 2025-09-09 15:50:26+00:00
>Or more precisely, that you could be rationalizing what is essentially a random process?

You mean like our human brains and our entire bodies? We are the result of random processes.

>Sucks for those of us who are stuck in the now, though

I don't know what you are doing- but GPT5 is incredible. I literally spent 3 hours last night going back and forth on a project where I loaded some files for a somewhat complicated and tedious conversion between two data formats. And I was able to keep going back and forth and making the improvements incrementally and have AI do 90% of the actual tedious work.

To me it's incredible people don't seem to understand the CURRENT value. It has literally replaced a junior developer for me. I am 100% better off working with AI for all these tedious tasks than passing them off to someone off. We can argue all day if that's good for the world (it's not) but in terms of the current state of AI- it's already incredible.
by Freak_NL | 2025-09-09 15:50:41+00:00
I'm somewhat fine with the unix epoch timestamp, but this thing is not just seconds or microseconds since x, it is days since x, plus the rest of the time bits as a fraction. One second to midnight on January 1st 2008 is… 39448.9999884259.

Oh, and while 39448.5 is fine, 39448.0 makes Excel throw an error and refuse the whole document. Midnight January 1st 2008 is just 39448. The parser cannot handle 39448.0.