MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-09-09 15:33:43+00:00
> not useful for teaching at all ... _It pretty much only is relevant if you write the compiler or the standard library for rust_.

This seems a little hyperbolic.

> isn't really that useful for know what the "core" of rust is

In the same way it isn't useful for python developers to know what the stack and heap are, maybe.

> conflicts with the term of lib-core

I don't know what group of people might see this and get it confused with lib-core. Most people looking at this will never encounter lib-core directly, the rest are unlikely to look at this and think it has anything to do with lib-core.

> Deref,DerefMut, Index, IndexMut, the various Range types, the various operator aren't really special in any way except "hey they have first class syntax"

first class syntax makes them pretty special IMHO

> there really is little use for the overview outside of a curiosity

I think its a great way to get a high level view of the Types/Traits provided by Rust.
by pixl97 | 2025-09-09 15:33:51+00:00
But I mean, I remember hearing this back in the 80s, so in itself is not a great indicator unless we can see something that would point at why parents stopped caring as much.

Now, if someone came with a headline that said "Parents not involved in childrens education because they've been ragebaited into spending all their time yelling on social media" my biases would tend to lend me to believe it's true, even without sufficient evidence. There are other correlations, like cellphone ownership in the population.

Just having social media itself doesn't seem to be an exact fit, but that tells us nothing about the algorithms that social media was using at the time.
by chubot | 2025-09-09 15:33:51+00:00
Well maybe, but none of that implies that there will be fewer radiologists will be employed, or that people studying radiology now are fools.

The overwhelming likely thing is that radiologist jobs will change, just like programming jobs will change.

e.g. see my comment on: Did Google and Stack Overflow "replace" programmers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013363

That is, I do not think programmers will be "replaced". The job will just be different; people will come to rely on LLMs for their jobs, like they rely on search engines.

Likewise, you can probably hire fewer doctors now because Google appeared in ~2000, but nobody talked about them being "replaced". There is NOT less demand for doctors.

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It also reminds me of the prediction around self-driving cars, which is 13+ years ago at this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149270

I believe Hacker News mostly fell for the hype in ~2012-2016. And even though the predictions turned out to be comically wrong, many people are still attached to them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

i.e. I don't think Hinton will be proven "right" with ANY amount of time. The whole framing is just off.

It's not humans xor AI, it's humans + AI. And the world is not static
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-09 15:34:11+00:00
Exactly this.

There are so many benefits to day care for the children. It’s hardly the prison camp people make it out to be.

I don’t know if these negative comments are because HN in general dislikes the wider educational system, or if it’s because they dislike governments handing out “charity” to help less affluent families. Maybe a touch of both? But daycare can actually be a really rewarding experience for children.

So much so, that I have parent friends who one of them is a stay-at-home parent and they still send their child to day care at least one day a week to help the child’s independence, social skills and comfort when away from home. And they’ve found their child has been better for the experience

Edit: and the fact that I’ve been downvoted within seconds of posting this shows how ridiculous people are on here when it comes this topic.
by zackmorris | 2025-09-09 15:34:27+00:00
I just want to +1 this post before it gets flagged for being "political" or whatever.

I grew up in the 1980s and have watched America slide from being a civilization that was the envy of the world into something resembling empire or feudalism or I-don't-know-what. The US literally declared its independence from England to shrug off authoritarianism/aristocracy. Yet we've reproduced that wealth inequality here.

We're going to have to draw a line in the sand that says that we believe that we can build a dignified society together. That means that we've got to stop worshipping rugged individualism when our billionaires got rich on government contracts and let children starve in poverty. The hypocrisy has reached self-destructive proportions.

If free childcare is gonna sink the country, then we're already sunk. Same with free healthcare and free education. You want to know what sinks a country? When grocery prices triple and (waves hand at everything).
by benreesman | 2025-09-09 15:34:32+00:00
I personally regard posterior/score-gradient/flow-match style models as the most interesting thing going on right now, ranging from rich media diffusers (the extended `SDXL` family tree which is now MMDiT and other heavy transformer stuff rapidly absorbing all of 2024's `LLM` tune ups) all the way through to protein discovery and other medical applications (tomography, it's a huge world).

LLM's are very useful, but they're into the asymptote of expert-labeling and other data-bounded stuff (God knows why the GB200-style Blackwell build-out is looking like a trillion bucks when Hopper is idle all over the world and we don't have a second Internet to pretrain a bigger RoPE/RMSNorm/CQA/MLA mixture GPT than the ones we already have).
by JelenaMamontova | 2025-09-09 15:34:41+00:00
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by IAmBroom | 2025-09-09 15:34:43+00:00
Plex mysteriously began refusing remote connections, so I couldn't share with my friend outside my home LAN. Manually port forwarding didn't solve anything, and my firewall isn't the problem. That's as far as Plex help goes...

I went to Jellyfin (plus Tailscale VPN). Some things are really nice, but others... well, it's an open-source project, and people only fix what they see as broken. So, I've tried restarting, only to lose every single customization I did. It's not worth my time to fill out their tickets and play that lottery, so I just accept the UI issues.

Then, mysteriously, Jellyfin also quit broadcasting remotely. A month later, its server wasn't even visible on my own LAN to my TV.

So I uninstalled BOTH Plex and Jellyfin, and reinstalled both. Jellyfin still doesn't connect right. And Plex works... until suddenly it doesn't, and I have to cycle through Off/On with "Allow remote connections", until it works again, mysteriously.

PRO'S OF EACH:

Plex: Much better support in TV libraries. No need for a VPN. Simpler UI.

Jellyfin: Ability to create Collections, which are basically filter-defined libraries. Without rearranging any files, you can build a Collection of Star Wars movies, or all movies directed by Scorsese, or any arbitrary bunch of media files at all, really. Optionally, you can reduce your library clutter with these Collections: a library named Science Fiction can have all of your Star Wars movies listed as a single item (that Collection). Basically, sub-libraries, but they aren't restricted to one library's contents (Star Wars might contain a documentary on "The Making Of" that isn't actually stored in Science Fiction).
by pavon | 2025-09-09 15:35:06+00:00
The NM state government has had surplus revenue for a few decades due to taxes on natural gas and oil, first in the northwest, which has since dried up, and now in the southeast. Previous state governments had the foresight to structure things such that this money goes into a trust fund from which the state draws interest. Of course all that money is a very tempting source to fund programs, and every session there are debates about increasing the amount drawn from the fund, for something or another.

I have to admit that with everything else that has been going on politically, I haven't followed this latest push for universal child care, and don't know if the way they are funding it is sustainable. But previous pushes for preschool funding, etc weren't IMO; they were based on pretty optimistic estimates of both fund performance and economic returns from the preschool programs.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-09 15:35:08+00:00
Basically everybody who is not reinventing the wheel for political purposes.

Musk history is basically reinventing the wheel to fit political narratives not bona fide consumer need for a paradigm shift

Electric cars (reinventing the wheel to latch onto the left political narrative of climate change)

Twitter (reinventing the wheel to latch onto the right wing political narrative of censorship)

SpaceX (reinventing the wheel to latch onto the right/left political narrative of military domination)

The true paradigm shift that has a chance to change people's lives is AI and LLMs and Musk missed it completely, and spectacularly, like he was informed of everything that was being developed and still decided not to direct resources there up until ChatGPT shook the world, then he jumped on the bandwagon like everybody else who didn't have inside information
by kalleboo | 2025-09-09 15:35:15+00:00
> where does it go for a demonetized video

A "demonetized" video is technically called a "limited or no ads" video in YouTube Studio - it means YouTube has determined that advertisers do not want their ads seen on the video for reputational reasons. Premium views still pay out for them since they are not paid through showing ads.

A DMCA strike is something else.
by jonathanlb | 2025-09-09 15:35:17+00:00
> socialization, friends

This still happen at daycare. If you have sent your kid to daycare/preschool, you'll know that kids become friends wit nother kids there, and parents can become friends withnother parents. A community forms because playdates are necessary when daycare/preschool is out.

> parents

Sometimes economic realities are such that both parents have to work to make ends meet. There are single-family households that also exist. Childcare is a necessity in these and other situations.
by Y-bar | 2025-09-09 15:35:21+00:00
> you are asking for a new feature

I think we have vastly different definitions of what is a "new" feature. This is not about adding a new feature, but removing an old bug.

> If they want to offer you a way to still enable it, someone has to do it.

They can just use the iOS system settings to allow users to enable/disable backups. This would be zero code needed. Zero maintainability problems. Zero UX. Zero unexpected data loss for customers. The settings for this is for all sane apps at Manage Storage > Backups > [Device Name] > [App Name].

> I know, you will say "it's not much". But everybody asks for their "small feature"

It's less than anything, it's removing a "feature", which should make things easier to maintain.

Signal _added_ the "feature" to disable the default iOS behaviour that user data can be backed up securely. This caused, in many users life, a bug of unexpected data loss. Signal caused that bug and that data loss by introducing this "feature".

Again, fixing this bug would not require a new feature to be added, but rather an unwanted bug to be removed by removing code needed to maintain it.

> I find it totally valid if they choose that they won't offer features to lower their security, and instead they will work on features having sufficiently good security. Which in this case is the secure backup.

Not a single argument has been given why this would be more secure than the locally encrypted backup you can do yourself in iOS. In fact, it would be sane to suggest that any newly introduced claimed secure system is insecure until tested.

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Edit: It's also worth noting that their disable-backups feature is a bit hack:y (see https://blog.eidinger.info/prevent-your-apps-files-from-bein...)
by ben-schaaf | 2025-09-09 15:35:27+00:00
If we're comparing entire systems as products you're absolutely right. That's not what this discussion is about. We're trying to compare the efficiency of the ISA. What do you think would happen if AMD replaced the x86-64 decoders with ARM64 ones, and changed nothing about how the CPU idles, how high it clocks or how fast it boosts?

My guess is ARM64 is a few percent more efficient, something AMD has claimed in the past. They're now saying it would be identical, which is probably not far from the truth.

The simple fact of the matter is that the ISA is only a small part of how long your battery lasts. If you're gaming or rendering or compiling it's going to matter a lot, and Apple battery life is pretty comparable in these scenarios. If you're reading, writing, browsing or watching then your cores are going to be mostly idle, so the only thing the ISA influences won't even have a current running through it.
by Damogran6 | 2025-09-09 15:35:40+00:00
I don't, I'm a REALLY light user. smaller LLMs work pretty well. I used a 40gb LLM and it was _pokey_, but it worked, and switching them is pretty easy. This is a 12 core Xeon with 64Gb RAM...my M4 mini is....okay with smaller LLMs, I have a Ryzen 9 with a RTX3070ti that's the best of the bunch, but none of this holds a candle to people that spend real money to experiment in this field.
by mythrwy | 2025-09-09 15:35:52+00:00
New Mexico has some serious generational social issues. Extreme poverty, lack of education, lack of work (or most anything else) ethic are very common. Drugs and alcoholism are endemic.

I wonder if some of the intent behind this is to reduce some of the generational effects by exposing children early to at least some semblance of order and sobriety? Then when they enter school they have more of a chance.

I'm not by any means "socialist inclined" but I can't say I'm against this program because the situation is dire enough something must be done.
by bArray | 2025-09-09 15:36:18+00:00
Well, we only need to look a "democratic" dictatorships to see how the government helps to prevent you from voting from the wrong person.

And why stop at voting? The government could also be responsible for preventing 'harmful' thoughts. Police in the UK are regularly deployed for "non-crime hate incidents", so that they can tell people that they haven't committed a crime, but they will make a note of it in a secret database that affects your employability.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-09 15:36:25+00:00
At what point does a small bad thing, but one that impacts billions of lives, rise to the level of not acceptable? Google is stealing how many human years of peoples lives with these little things? Are we losing millions of years of people time a year to Googles slimy practices? That is unacceptable. I can't see how Google employees are OK with that.
by npteljes | 2025-09-09 15:36:28+00:00
Yeah, I play with my friend and we had good luck with the castle placement. First castle was of course in the first zone, and when we proceeded into the second, we settled in basically the very center of the map, a bit toward the top. That turned out to be a fine location, as on horseback, nothing was too far. Castle size as well, initially I built is to just fit the existing infra, but when I sensed that there are going to be additions, I built it a bit larger than it needed to be, and now we can fit everything, especially with the little in-house teleports.

I totally feel your way of beating the game on normal, and the bosses on easy. I did that with Persona 5 at points, and Unicorn Overlord as well. I really appreciate that games provide this option.
by siliconc0w | 2025-09-09 15:36:46+00:00
There are two tiers to MAGA.

There are the intellectual rationalizers and those that just listen to what Trump does and says.

Trump had no trouble celebrating the numbers when they were in his favor. Snap-firing the chief and installing a MAGA drone when bad numbers come in is a clear political firing with the intent of manipulating the data going forward - not an attempt to reform the agency.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 15:36:55+00:00
Why the sexist word "women"? Do you really mean to imply that men/fathers should not be stay at home dads? I know several stay at home dads who by all reports do a very good job of raising their kids while mom works. (granted the vast majority of stay at home parents are mothers). Fathers are people too, and they should be treated like the great parents they can be (until proven otherwise).
by sceptic123 | 2025-09-09 15:36:58+00:00
But the ad dollars are ruining the internet, ad revenue based on impressions/clicks/tracking is whe we end up with more and more invasive ads and more and more content farm websites trying to get enough eyeballs and clicks to earn some of that money.

The parallel universe I'd like is where websites/publishers had small, privacy protecting, static banners or ad text on their sites. In that universe lots more people would feel comfortable with not using ad blockers.
by ajot | 2025-09-09 15:37:11+00:00
I use NeoLauncher for this same reason: sometimes I don't remember the name of whatever app I use once in a while (eg WLANScanner or Ning).

It's available on IzzyOnDroid, though I installed the GitHub release. It does have some bugs, every now and then it freezes and you need to go to the Apps submenu in Configuration to restart it.

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
by motorest | 2025-09-09 15:37:26+00:00
> Good, we can ignore them.

Who do you think you're representing? At best you only speak for yourself. It's perfectly fine if you choose to never update any tool you use, but that's just your personal opinion. You are free to stick with older standard versions of even compiler releases, but that is no justification to prevent everyone around you to improve their developer experience.

> It's not a language for everybody (...)

You might believe it isn't, but that's hardly a sane or rational belief.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-09 15:37:31+00:00
I'm not sure there is equal value, in economic terms at least. A stay at home parent caring for 1-2 children comes at the opportunity cost of a full time worker, which would typically be a lot more than 12-24 thousand dollars this is saving them in childcare costs. On the flip side, a childcare worker in NM can care for the children of ~6+ such stay at home parents (depends on randomness of ages and number of children each had).

None of that is a statement that it wouldn't be nice for everyone to be able to be paid as a full time parent, just that the economic value is not necessarily equal with a waiver.
by hu3 | 2025-09-09 15:37:38+00:00
Apple reserves the right to evaporate your startup if your app is deemed to be in a "category that is already saturated".

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#spa...

> (b) Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience. Spamming the store may lead to your removal from the Apple Developer Program.
by patanegra | 2025-09-09 15:37:56+00:00
My provider of water is Thames Water. In the past 10 years, they did cumulative turnover £18,107 turnover, and profit -£1,180. So they in fact operate with a negative margin -6.52%.

In the UK, owning a utility company is nothing easy. Shareholders are definitely not stuffing their pockets. The biggest owner is Ontario pension fund (32%). I guess, poor retired Canadians are not very happy about this investment.

So I would say, your framing sounds interesting, until one digs deeper into facts.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-09 15:37:59+00:00
Tax $100 each from couple A and couple B. Couple A leave their kids at a daycare and work. They get $200 in childcare costs reimbursed by the government. Couple B has one parent stay home to take care of their kids. They get nothing.

Couple A: -$100 + $200 = +$100

Couple B: -$100 + $0 = -$100
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-09 15:38:07+00:00
I use a separate app like this because I do not fully trust browser security. The browser is such a tempting hacking target (hardened, for sure) that I want to know my vault lives in an offline-only area to reduce chance of leaks.

Is there some middle ground where I can get the browser to automatically confirm I am on a previously trusted domain? My initial thought is that I could use Firefox Workspaces for trusted domains. Limited to the chosen set of urls. Which I already do for some sites, but I guess I could expand it to everything with a login.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 15:38:08+00:00
Competition in rail does exist in the UK and privatization turned around the network's fortunes. The ridership graph is very clear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#...

Traffic dropped a lot in the Great Depression but stabilized immediately after, and remained stable right up until nationalization in 1948 at which point the network entered a period of continuous decline, eventually falling to a level of ridership last seen in 1865. That is a staggering failure.

The moment the railways were privatized ridership starts going up again, despite the privatization not being complete and being unable to roll back the huge damage done under the decades of state ownership (before nationalization the railway companies were entirely self sufficient, which they no longer are).

So to argue that privatization makes "no sense" you have to ignore the fact that when privately managed usage of the railways goes up and when run by the state it goes down. If the goal of the railway is to be used, then it does make sense.
by lucideng | 2025-09-09 15:38:28+00:00
The majority of the public school system has devolved into day-care, not education. Most parents just watch TV, stare at their phones and don't want to be bothered by anything that requires effort. A major societal shift needs to happen for this to be reversed. It's many factors... the parents, the food system, various inequalities, social media, technology, healthcare... the solution is multi-pronged. But if I had to choose id start with social media, smart phones, tablets, etc. Technoloy needs to be seen as a tool and a resource, not primarily as the brainwashing entertainment that it is, and brainwashing them with entertainment is how most people introduce tech to their kids.