MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-09-09 16:03:10+00:00
A weird side-effect of this is UAE/Dubai, and to a lesser extent some of the other gulf states, have become far more open to relative free trade and immigration as a result now that the citizen's cake is assured and immigrants are not much a threat. Now Dubai is a burgeoning hub of relative "free trade" and international commerce, with pretty lax visa rules for people from surrounding more trade hostile countries to run a business in a more business friendly environment, in a region that prior was fairly impenetrable.
by orwin | 2025-09-09 16:03:29+00:00
If it's like in my country, it's probably because you have more and more people "self-employed", and the average "small business" went down from 3.8 employees to 2.2 over the last 6 years (made up numbers, but i've read it almost halved which caused a lot of issues).

I think we created a new status for Uber/Deliveroo and other workers to put them out of the category three years ago and it fixed a lot of our employment data issues.
by fragmede | 2025-09-09 16:03:37+00:00
There will obviously be abuse and other issues. The question is, does New Mexico give up at the first sign of trouble like a bunch of losers, or do they push through, because of, or despite all the voters. It just takes one shitty person, in just the wrong place, and not enough good people fighting against him or her no matter, (or especially) how righteous he or she thinks they're being, to fuck it up for everyone else.
by mandevil | 2025-09-09 16:03:41+00:00
Yes, and both William Beach (the one confirmed under Trump in 2019 who served through most of Biden's term) and Erika McEntarfer (the one confirmed under Biden who was just fired by Trump) talked about how they wanted to improve the methodology.

Because these numbers are so important- to journalists, to the Fed, to financial markets, etc. they wanted a few million dollars extra, over a few year period, to run the new methodology and the old methodology side-by-side for a significant portion of a business cycle, to understand the differences before they switched, and to gain confidence in the system. Because an important part of this particular data set is what it signals to those others, it is important not to move quickly with this data set, but to give time for everyone to understand all the nuances. It's things like, how the market views the meaning of corrections would be different under a different system, and so they want time so that they themselves and all those other people whose jobs depend on understanding it to be fully aware.

Basically, they wanted to run a blue-green deployment strategy for their updates, but couldn't get the budget for it- and their budget has instead been cut so far. So they have prioritized continuing the system that everyone understands rather than experimenting with new things that no one understands. Because these are smart, well educated people who spend their entire lives thinking about these problems, and understand how the data is used, this is something they have thought about a lot and want to do the best job they can.
by milesvp | 2025-09-09 16:03:59+00:00
The interest rates were wild in 1982. My dad said that no one would lend for a mortgage, and we ended up doing seller financing to buy my childhood home.

Also, not enough people talk about housing prices in high interest rate environments. Mortgage payments are the thing that tether housing prices, and act as a lever. We see it today with just an extra 4% with low housing volume and people reluctant to sell, because then they’d need a new mortgage at the new rate. People who would like to downsize don’t since their mortgage payments often ends up similar.
by Windchaser | 2025-09-09 16:04:01+00:00
I don't think it's quite accurate. Historically, lower-class mothers and a fair chunk of middle class mothers also did some work outside the home: as maids, nannies, teachers, gardeners, etc.

The 1950s USA "golden era" where lower-class mothers could afford to stay home was a statistical anomaly, gifted to this country by virtue of our unique position as the major economic superpower untouched by WWII.
by username332211 | 2025-09-09 16:04:24+00:00
That's by design. France has a cabinet with full control over education in the entire nation. In the United States, education is in the hands of locally elected school boards and the role of the federal and state secretaries of education seems to be mostly limited to dumping money on those people. (And attaching conditions to that money in general seems to be fairly controversial, as the present discussion shows.)

There's no way such a system can produce uniform results.

(The wisdom in forcing voters to elect all sorts of local commissions is another matter entirely. I struggle to see how anyone can make an informed choice, in ballots with 10 or more elected positions, but they seem normal in America.)
by simonw | 2025-09-09 16:04:32+00:00
It works for me on the https://claude.ai web all but doesn't appear to work in the Claude iOS app.

I tried "Tell me everything you can about your shell and Python environments" and got some interesting results after it ran a bunch of commands.

Linux runsc 4.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 15:06:54 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Python 3.12.3

/usr/bin/node is v18.19.1

Disk Space: 4.9GB total, with 4.6GB available

Memory: 9.0GB RAM

Attempts at making HTTP requests all seem to fail with a 403 error. Suggesting some kind of universal proxy.

But telling it to "Run pip install sqlite-utils" worked, so apparently they have allow-listed some domains such as PyPI.

I poked around more and found these environment variables:

HTTPS_PROXY=http://21.0.0.167:15001 HTTP_PROXY=http://21.0.0.167:15001

On further poking, some of the allowed domains include github.com and pypi.org and registry.npmjs.org - the proxy is running Envoy.

Anthropic have their own self-issued certificate to intercept HTTPS.
by Bender | 2025-09-09 16:05:09+00:00
must feel utterly helpless

Absolutely. Damned if they defend themselves and damned if they do not. More parents need to take legal action against schools, school boards, counties, states, insurance companies that cover schools and individual administrative staff. Where that fails, they should pull their kids out of the school and move to places with better statistics on violent crime in the schools if that is an option. Voting with tax moneys and rewarding the states / counties that are not failing to empower and protect kids.
by bmacho | 2025-09-09 16:05:12+00:00
"Mini Kore is a 120-word subset of the Mini language designed to be a complete language in itself. [...] Mini Kore is an intellectual descendent of Toki Pona, but distinguishes itself from its progenitor through its richer and more comprehensive grammar and its more useful vocabulary. [...] Mini Kore began as a relexification of Toki Pona: I started with TP’s vocabulary and replaced each word with a more recognizable global derivation."
by perching_aix | 2025-09-09 16:05:34+00:00
What if then? Should they have just bodied the thing for the love of the game? So that people uncaring for their wellbeing then wouldn't have appreciated it as a sacrifice anyhow?

Quite often I find that if people stopped holding fundamentally broken dynamics together and just let the thing fail and fail hard, the overall long term outcome would be better off. Much to the opposite of your suggestion.

It's just that turns out, things being properly bodied or properly broken take coordinated action. People deciding one by one, one way or the other, is what actually enables and sustains pathological dynamics like this.

But then how does one single out any specific decision? Well, nohow, not with any rigor for sure.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-09 16:05:35+00:00
> I like how it's handled in Herb's cpp2/cppfront. If the type implements certain methods (like size()), and you turn on bounds checking, then the indexing operations (which are unsafe) are wrapped in i < c.size() ? c[i] : <throw or abort>.

For what it's worth, something similar was proposed in the C++26 core profiles paper [0] and that particular bit got some pushback. From a reponse paper [1]:

> The paper’s suggested approach includes adding bounds checking to containers solely based on a duck-typed deduction using the availability of operators and member functions without knowing for sure what purpose the container serves, what those members do, or even whether the class is, in fact, a container at all. [P3081]’s proposal would cause a wide variety of existing, perfectly valid code to fail unpredictably at run time:

> — Containers that are not zero-indexed

> — Sparse containers

> — Map-like types the compiler cannot detect as being map-like

> — A two-color image where size() is in bytes but for which indexing is by pixel (i.e., by bit)

> — Ring-like containers

> — Containers that automatically grow.

> [P3081] also fails to consider that some library vendors already (and will continue in the future to) choose to put contract preconditions on their operator[], which would result in double and possibly inconsistent checking.

[0]: https://wg21.link/P3081

[1]: https://wg21.link/P3543
by sgc | 2025-09-09 16:05:49+00:00
This does nothing for the case of receiving a fake coinbase sms with a fake contact phone number.

I have had people attempt fraud in my work with live calls as follow up to emails and texts. I only caught it because it didn't pass the smell test so I did quite a bit of research. Somebody else got caught in the exact same scam and I had to extricate them from it. They didn't believe me at first and I had to hit them over the head a bit with the truth before it sank in.
by koolba | 2025-09-09 16:05:50+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.

On the American side it’s not that they want people to be less educated. It’s the adversarial system of education being run by people whose interests are not aligned with students excelling.

Teacher’s unions, which predominantly exist in the public school system, are not in the business of educating children. They’re in the business of raising costs (their salaries and benefits) and lowering requirements (the work they actually have to do). They’re against measuring progress. They’re against firing for lack of progress.

Compare that to a private system where you only stay employed if you’re actually doing a good job of educating kids. There’s also the advantage of private schools being able to fire their students, but that’s more of an anti-disruption thing.
by motorest | 2025-09-09 16:05:51+00:00
> There are many things that may be better overall, but because they're not financialized, they don't show up on GDP and so are deemed "worthless."

I think you're confusing GDP with a measure of worth or quality. It is not. Just because you can earn money doing double-shifts in a coal mine that doesn't make it better than spending the same time at a beach doing nothing.
by pkulak | 2025-09-09 16:05:53+00:00
Waste your time? You know what would waste my time? Building out my own deployment of Redis/Postgres, all the dependencies, systemd services, ML server, and backup solutions (yes, the compose takes regular DB backups for you) and then keeping it all updated manually, just to host photos on my local network for my family of 4. Do you think making your life needlessly difficult is a feature? Then read the docs and deploy to a K8s cluster. Nothing is preventing you from doing that.
by afavour | 2025-09-09 16:05:58+00:00
> Worse. Not just a "stranger" but a subset of strangers running "real businesses".

Real businesses subject to real inspections and real assessments, you mean? With "strangers" who need to have qualifications and background checks?

To each their own of course but I'd prefer somewhere I know is actually judged to be a safe environment than some under the table option.
by tim333 | 2025-09-09 16:06:11+00:00
Explosions rely on having a lot of energy producing material that can suddenly go off. Even if AI starts self improving it's going to be limited by the amount of energy it can get from the power grid which is kind of maxed out at the moment. It may be exponential growth like weeds growing, ie. gradually and subject to human control, rather than like TNT detonating.
by com2kid | 2025-09-09 16:06:22+00:00
Video has far less information density than a blog post. Heck 2 hour long podcasts have an information density of damn near zero. Yet those are the dominate form of online content consumption now.

I agree for productivity use cases it isn't suitable, but that is only important for information workers, which are not the largest segment of society. The fact is, Gen Z and Alpha are already having issues using the high information density desktop paradigm, and technology like this will only work to further erode the needed capabilities of the average citizen. Doesn't bode well for democracy and all that.
by ux266478 | 2025-09-09 16:06:25+00:00
While interesting on a surface level, I find this paper curious. What it describes here is essentially a roundabout way to try and express open type associations ("extending the data set" as it calls it) when the class hierarchy is already occupied as a primitive cognate to sum-types. This is more or less just a grammar to express type classes stapled over a class hierarchy grammar. I think the almost pun-like structure of that is funny, but in all actuality this feels pretty needless.

The strangest aspect of it is that they cite Haskell. Given the date of the paper, I would understand unfamiliarity with Haskell given the implementations[1] that were available at the time weren't very "useful" if you had any kind of latency requirements on your software. That being said it's strange that somebody in 1998 would write a paper like this, know that Haskell was a thing, and also have no knowledge of type classes, which are explicitly designed to fill the role of open type sets.

For those note in the know, functional languages tend to be able to express this open type association in various ways. Type classes are one way, another example beyond Haskell is MaPLe[2]. SML (and ML-only style OCAML) has a somewhat restricted form by way of its module and functor system, and eqtype. MLPolyR has an unrestricted form by way of row polymorphism.

[1] - https://www.haskell.org/hugs/

[2] - https://github.com/MPLLang/mpl
by OtomotO | 2025-09-09 16:06:39+00:00
This, so much this...

I signed up for Claude over a week ago and I totally regret it!

Previously I was using it and some ChatGPT here and there (also had a subscription in the past) and I felt like Claude added some more value.

But it's getting so unstable. It generates code, I see it doing that, and then it throws the code away and gives me the previous version of something 1:1 as a new version.

And then I have to waste CO2 to tell it to please don't do that and then sometimes it generates what I want, sometimes it just generates it again, just to throw it away immediately...

This is soooooooo annoying and the reason I canceled my subscription!
by mikewarot | 2025-09-09 16:06:50+00:00
>The only "anticipation" that is happening within those tools is on token level

When you were composing your reply, did you just start typing, then edit and compose your thoughts better a few times before hitting the reply button?

I ask, because that's what I do. Most of the time, I never know what the next word is going to be, I just start typing. Sometimes I'll think it out, or even type out a whole screed until I run out of thoughts... then review it several times before hitting "reply".

By your logic, I'm no more advanced than any other LLM. I think there's a serious misunderstanding of the depths at which the internal state of the LLM is maintained across token outputs. It's just doing the same thing I do (and I suspect most other people do, which is decide then make up a convincing story that agrees with the decision, on a word by word basis)

Other times, when I'm trying to explain something technical or complex, there's a word, or a name I can't remember... it drives me nuts, if I'm in a hurry, I'll just use a synonym that's almost as good, and work around it. Yesterday, for example, it took a while to I remember the name Christopher Walken via the Fat Boy slim video on YouTube.

The only difference is we have the ability to edit it first, before the all powerful "reply" button. Then of course, there's edit... but that's like agentic LLMs.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-09-09 16:06:59+00:00
You don't understand how economics work if you think this is actually going to be helpful. By providing "universal" child care, you just moved the cost of childcare from the individual to the tax base so now everyone has to pay an ineffifient system that often eats up 30-50% of the incoming money in bureaucratic inneficiencies before it will even reach the child care system.

On top of that the increased taxes are going to raise prices of everything because the businesses don't just eat the cost of taxes, they pass it off to the consumer. So all these families that get free childcare are going to be paying more for their groceries, rent, unilities and everything else.

To top things off, you now have random strangers with no bond with your children looking after them in a ratio of maybe 1:8 or 1:10. So your children are going to be stressed out and anxious and are going to act out both at the childcare place and at home, so you're just going to be getting phone calls all day about your children fighting other children.

All in all, you might feel like you're better off but once you do the math you're at about the same place if not worse off.
by 9rx | 2025-09-09 16:07:05+00:00
Assuming by education you actually mean schooling, this is the very same thing. The question is really only about at which age subsidized schooling should first start. This moves that age of first subsidized engagement to approximately birth, as opposed to waiting until age ~3-5 (varies by jurisdiction).

Historically it was considered a beneficial necessity to gather the children to write down knowledge so that it could be brought back home for the whole family to learn from, but in the age of the internet perhaps separating children and parents is never good at any (young-ish) age?
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-09 16:07:29+00:00
There are more important things women - and other people - can do than simply grow the economy.

One of the reasons you must have a two-income household to be economically middle-class in most American metros now is because two-income households became the norm. When I was growing up 25-30 years ago, that made you comfortable. Then people realized that there was "untapped" value in that extra income and raised prices accordingly. If you're looking to buy the things that make up the "American Dream", you are now competing to buy against people who are willing to throw two incomes at the problem.

Now that there are two incomes, the only way to grow is to start shedding other things that keep people from creating more value for their employers. Kids, home improvement, community involvement, all are - or have been - going by the wayside.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-09 16:07:38+00:00
I don't think this really helps. I use Bitwarden and it constantly fails to autofill legitimate websites and makes me go to the app to copy-paste, because companies do all kinds of crap with subdomains, marketing domains, etc. Any safeguard relying on human attention is ultimately susceptible to this; the only true solutions are things like passkeys where human fuckups are impossible by design and they can't give credentials to the wrong place even if they want to.

Passkeys are disruptive enough that I don't think they need to be mandated for everyone just yet, but I think it might be time for that for people who own critical dependencies.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 16:07:53+00:00
Education in the US as a whole may be on the decline, but for math specifically I’m not sure that we ever figured out teaching methodologies that work for all children. Every math teacher I’ve ever had was very theory-minded and could barely understand students who weren’t — those who learn through practical example and hands-on activity for instance usually get left in the dust.

Reading teaching on the other hand was for the most part figured out a long time ago but trendy experimental methods keep getting cycled regardless.
by Y-bar | 2025-09-09 16:07:56+00:00
Sorry for a Swedish-only wiki link to disprove your prejudice, it seems to translate will with Google however: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samverkansr%C3%A5det_mot_terro... and for example https://sakerhetspolisen.se/ovriga-sidor/other-languages/eng...
by scubbo | 2025-09-09 16:07:59+00:00
No, the people who made it so that there was no way for humans to enjoy those reasonable comforts without contributing to pollution.

> Are you posting these comments from a computer powered by solar panels?

That's precisely the point. It shouldn't be individual responsibility to improve our infrastructure (though, in point of fact, I actually _am_ posting using solar power). A good society is one in which everyone _is_ using solar power _without realizing it_, because those responsible for providing power to society do so responsibly.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-09 16:08:24+00:00
To add to your list, in my kids' school district, they spent about 4 - 5 years trying to compensate for kids who didn't do well during COVID by basically slowing every class down to the pace of the kid who struggled the most.

Combine this with an emphasis on single-tracking students and a de-emphasis of grading in general, and it's not surprising to me that scores are declining.
by bityard | 2025-09-09 16:08:45+00:00
It's weird to me that cell phones in the classroom is even controversial. When I was in school, some kids had Walkmans, CD players, and game boys. You could bring them to school but they weren't allowed in the classroom without prior approval. In class, you were expected to pay attention to the teacher, even if you didn't want to. If you got caught with a device instead of listening, the teacher simply took it away until after class. If you kept bringing it in, you'd lose it until the end of the week, semester, or school year.

This doesn't seem to be a thing anymore, and there probably multiple sad reasons why.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-09-09 16:08:51+00:00
And what choice do you have regarding rising cost of living?

There are many public services we already rely on and there are many countries that offer free child care already in some form. What you call (forced) liberation is just societal specialization and not bad per se.

Focusing on fiscal/wage issues is a big and important topic though. I bet over time, budget hawks will reduce this public service like others and like in many other countries too. We are so many humans on our plentyful earth, we could achieve many things, yet, "we" lack money.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-09-09 16:09:13+00:00
Sounds great.

>average annual family savings of $12,000 per child.

How is NM paying for this? They currently have a 'D' grade from Truth in Accounting[1] with a $9.8 billion debt burden driven by unfunded obligations of pension and retiree health care

[1]https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/NM-2020-2pa...
by shafyy | 2025-09-09 16:09:22+00:00
> I hope they succeed and there is no abuse or other issues, because it will show how much an economy can grow

I know you are meaning well, but while the economy growing can be a nice side effect of this (and probably is), I always find it a bit sad when economic profit is used as a reason to justify to create a more fair and equal society.

It's similar with those studies showing hiring a diverse workforce is actually good for your business. It might be, but, like, it's also the right thing to do to not discriminate against minorities.