MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by farceSpherule | 2025-09-09 17:11:35+00:00
I am not sure why this is news. Classic economic warfare.

Parents with higher education and stable incomes have the resources, time, and knowledge to supplement their children's education. This includes tutoring, enrichment programs, monitoring social media and phone use, and advocating within schools, as well as sending their children to smaller, private schools.

Most Joe Six Pack parents hand their children unrestricted iPhones and let the schools raise and baby sit them, while the parents sit back getting fat soaking up social media and TV.
by thepryz | 2025-09-09 17:11:58+00:00
I think it’s more a matter of both extremes.

I’ve seen stay at home parents who put their kids in daycare so they can spend the day shopping and effectively have someone else raise their kids. Their kids end up largely just being status symbols. I’ve also seen parents that go everywhere with their kids, schedule every moment of their day and won’t even let them stand at the school bus stop by themselves. The parents build their entire lives around their kids and live vicariously through them.

IMO, kids need a proper balance and I don’t think a lot of them are getting that.
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-09 17:12:02+00:00
True enough, but that has always been true. Something has changed on the institutional side such that it is no longer willing and/or able to simply reject batshit insanity and continue teaching children such that they are as well informed or better informed and capable as the last generation. What results is a positive feedback loop where a poorly educated public puts increasing pressure on an institution who's members are themselves poorly educated. The result is paralysis, and eventually, societal death.
by toast0 | 2025-09-09 17:12:15+00:00
> Regardless who provides it, more workers would be required to deliver the service, and new facilities as well. What industries will those workers come from, who will now see reduced services and higher prices as a result?

Paid for child care frees up some stay at home parents to enter the labor force; it's kind of circular, but some of those parents will work in child care. This won't fill the whole gap, but it will fill some of it.
by jimt1234 | 2025-09-09 17:12:32+00:00
> What’s frustrating about this is that conservatives are always warning about the decreasing child birth rate. But fight against policies that would help support families who have children.

Didn't the Big Beautiful Bill include $5K for newborn babies? I thought I saw a headline that said that. But anyway, yeah, 5-grand is gonna solve everything. /s
by j45 | 2025-09-09 17:13:03+00:00
I hit a limit this morning so fast and the quantization makes me think of different models.

Sonnet was nearly unusable without a perfect prompt and it took a separate therapy session with another sonnet chat to deconstruct how it was no lager working.

There appear to be hard overrides being introduced that overlook basic things like using your personal preferences.

Vague or general descriptions get weighed less important vs the strong and clear.
by lysace | 2025-09-09 17:13:06+00:00
This reads like a joke that's missing the punchline.

The post's author's resume section reinforces this feeling:

I am a skilled force multiplier, acclaimed speaker, artist, and prolific blogger. My writing is widely viewed across 15 time zones and is one of the most viewed software blogs in the world.

I specialize in helping people realize their latent abilities and help to unblock them when they get stuck. This creates unique value streams and lets me bring others up to my level to help create more senior engineers. I am looking for roles that allow me to build upon existing company cultures and transmute them into new and innovative ways of talking about a product I believe in. I am prioritizing remote work at companies that align with my values of transparency, honesty, equity, and equality.

If you want someone that is dedicated to their craft, a fearless innovator and a genuine force multiplier, please look no further. I'm more than willing to hear you out.
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 17:13:11+00:00
I was also frustrated by this. I got about 25% of the way in and was annoyed that they still did such a poor job of communicating what their product is. An advertorial like this can often save the "And that's why Our Product is so great, it can protect you from attacks like these!" for the end, but here, where the article is about how merely installing their product gives Huntress the company full access to everything you do, it leaves me with more questions than answers.

As a corporate IT tool, I can see how Huntress ought to allow my IT department or my manager or my corporate counsel access to my browser history and everything I do, but I'm even still foggy on why Huntress grants themselves that level of access automatically.

Sure, a peek into what the bad guys do is neat, and the actual person here doesn't deserve privacy for his crimes, but I'd love a much clearer explanation of why they were able to do this to him and how if I were an IT manager choosing to deploy this software, someone who works at Huntress wouldn't be able to just pull up one of my employee's browser history or do any other investigating of their computers.
by cowbertvonmoo | 2025-09-09 17:13:29+00:00
I maintain ses, the compartment primitive LavaMoat relies on. The ses shim for hardenedjs.org creates compartments that deny guest code the ability to inspect the true global object or lexically reference any of its properties. By default, each compartment only sees the transitively frozen intrinsics like Array and Object, and no way to reach the genuine evaluators. The compartment traps the module loader as well, so you can only import modules that are explicitly injected. That leaves a lot of room for the platform to make mistakes and endow the compartment with gadgets, but also gives us a place to stand to mount a defense that is not otherwise prohibitively expensive.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-09-09 17:13:58+00:00
> If the total sales of a market = 100 and Tesla has 20% share then it has 20 in revenue.

Okay. And if the total sales of a market = 1000 and Tesla has 10% share then it has 100 in revenue. That's how percentages work.

Losing market share as a percentage is expected in a growing market as new players enter.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 17:14:55+00:00
It turns out that kids raised by their parents still get a lot of time with other kids though. Their parents don’t just keep them at home. They meet with friends. Go out and play. Their parents take them to classes and activities. Your view is “our kids are fine”, but most parents may say that about their own kids without knowing what the alternative could be. I’ve experienced both situations myself and also observed it as an adult. I think most childcare is a lot more of a free for all than parents think, rather than some sort of well designed experience. If you reduce the ratios significantly by having two kids per worker, maybe the quality improves to approach what a parent can provide. But that’s a lot more expensive.
by npalli | 2025-09-09 17:15:17+00:00
Not to be a Doomer but the last time I recall a revision around this magnitude was during the GFC[1].

Summary of the benchmark revisions The March 2009 benchmark level for total nonfarm employment is 131,175,000; this figure is 902,000 below the sample-based estimate for March 2009, an adjustment of -0.7 percent. Table 1 shows the total nonfarm percentage benchmark revisions for the past ten years.

https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/benchmark/ces-benchmark...
by hungmung | 2025-09-09 17:15:40+00:00
Superdelegates hamstrung the process. Kate Brown for instance, the governor of Oregon at the time (who btw was an unelected governer during that term, as her predecessor had stepped down) voted against the will of her constituents for Hilldog -- Oregon had overwhelmingly supported Bernie. Let's not forget some of the caucuses in other states which were outright rigged. An auditorium blew up for Bernie but the presiding party official put it in for Clinton. When shit like that just happens out in the open you have to wonder what's going on behind closed doors.

I believe Republicans actually have a democratic nomination process without superdelegates, which is how they got Trump -- IIRC he had a few early wins and snowballed from there.
by westurner | 2025-09-09 17:16:11+00:00
Are those the revised numbers (after the termination of the BLS commisioner this past month)?

From https://www.threads.com/@thestockmarket.news/post/DOY2Cu8DP-... :

> The US just wiped out -911,000 jobs in one revision.

> That’s 76,000 jobs per month that were never real.

> Even worse than the Great Recession’s revisions in 2009.

From https://www.threads.com/@thestockmarket.news/post/DOY2FtejG1... :

> Once a year, the BLS reconciles its survey estimates with the tax ledger. This process is called the benchmark revision.

> Most years, the difference is modest maybe a few hundred thousand jobs either way.

> This year, the correction was massive.
by daveswilson | 2025-09-09 17:16:20+00:00
As a resident of New Mexico I can tell you that it is a miracle that we can afford to launch this program at all. Perhaps when the long-term economic benefits begin to pay out, we'll be able to pay people to support their personal preferences. As it stands, while I don't have kids at home anymore, I can see the long-term economic benefit to the state, and am very pleased that my tax dollars are helping to get this done.
by crises-luff-6b | 2025-09-09 17:16:21+00:00
The answer NYC schools have come to is to relax /TEACHER/ basic knowledge requirements: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-teach...

Without bonus points, DEI-hires at the school would not survive; these racist school districts need a way to ensure these lousy teachers create entire generations of people hostile to learning! The whole system needs to have an emergency cut over to vouchers.. $27k/year/pupil in NYS to get a teacher that looks like me but is functionally illiterate.

These public teachers aren't heroes, they are actively keeping us behind with their pro-union/anti-student behaviors.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 17:16:57+00:00
> The good news is that these economic problems are entirely the result of bad policies and can be reversed.

I think one danger for western countries is having governments that just move from one bad policy of one kind to a bad policy from the other end of the political spectrum. Look at what’s happened recently with resignations at the highest levels of government in multiple countries. And in America, if Trump gets replaced by someone who is put forth as a reaction to him, are they going to really do any good? Even if they had great policies, they’d be in danger of being undone a few years later. There isn’t the same guarantee of consistent forward progress that a country of China seems to be enjoying.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-09 17:17:05+00:00
The premise of some sort of "dilution" of the term nazi doesn't seem true -- usually I see that assertion in the context of an actual increase in nazi-like actions. Thus the more likely explanation is that the term 'nazi' isn't diluted at all, but more applicable now than in quite a while!

I assume the connection to israel perpetrating a genocide upon Palestinians is that, in similar fashion, a small, vocal minority is claiming some sort of "dilution" of the term 'genocide', and receiving a similarly weak reception?
by panick21_ | 2025-09-09 17:17:07+00:00
> They're fixations on the wrong question. The dominant issue is delivering competitive unit economics.

The problem is. The regulation around safety, waste and land-use is what make the economics the problem.

But you are right, it is difficult, or just straight up impossible with the current state or regulation and policy.

Just for reference, since NRC was establish, basically new nuclear has been approved. During the AEC, innovation was rapid. Basically, no longer a balance between concerns, but simply all out focus on safety for a specific set of reactors. That's not the only factor, but its a big one.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-09 17:17:41+00:00
I think that's just an accurate and mostly genuine indicator of who is left on twitter nowadays.

The people left on twitter earnestly believe that it is better now that you can shout racial slurs at people, buy your way to the top of any chain, get literally paid for ragebait, and genuinely think this repo is meaningful.

It's a massive self selection bias.
by pear01 | 2025-09-09 17:17:58+00:00
Make it a progressive tax then? The point was many people can afford to help others to make society better for all. But you only want to pay taxes for what you're personally interested in? If you think stay at home needs to be prioritized in some way, as another comment mentioned, that's a separate argument. You are also relying on scenarios that don't even sound plausible. If someone can barely afford stay at home and this tax makes it that painful for them, then make it more progressive. Then again I'm not sure they are equivalent. At the end of the day a majority deciding something like this is in the common interest and you having a problem because you won't personally take advantage of it sounds like greed to me. No one should be going broke because of this tax. If you think capitalist mommy is making too much while you foot the bill then wouldn't the remedy be to tax her more? Are you worried about people who can't afford the tax or do you just resent some people for getting societal benefits while also making more than you?
by julienchastang | 2025-09-09 17:18:08+00:00
Parent here with school-aged kids. I think this sub-thread blaming the parents is particularly depressing and not founded in reality. Here is the way I see it. The social media companies with quasi infinite resources have won. They hired the best and the brightest engineers to hack our minds and steal our attention and they have succeeded beyond expectations. As evidence look that the market capitalization of Meta, etc. The data showing that children are reading way less compared to when I was growing up is consistent with what I see, but I did not an infinite ocean of distractions available via device that has become indispensable for modern living (i.e., the smart phone). By the time I was thirteen, I had read the Lord of the Rings to completion, but if I had grown up in present times I doubt that would be the case.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-09 17:18:27+00:00
You don’t want just kids, you want well raised kids. Badly raised kids are easily a net negative, so just paying people to be parents isn’t going to work.

The only thing that might incentivize people to think about the long term is getting rid of all old age benefits (including continuous bail outs of broad market assets by the federal government by sacrificing the purchasing power of the currency).

Right now, we take productivity from people who sacrifice to raise kids well and give it to those who don’t raise kids well, or not have them at all.

This obviously leads to an arbitrage opportunity (as evidenced by DINK lifestyles).

I do not see any other way other than to remove this arbitrage opportunity. Which probably will not happen in any democracy due to old people’s voting power.
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by ck2 | 2025-09-09 17:19:00+00:00
It would require admitting policies were wrong

And obeying the Constitution

And a lot of other things that are never going to happen

It will take a decade to dig out of this hole

And then there will be 11 million people "disappeared" from labor market

They are on a crime-spree, you don't do this much damage without malice

Look at what they are doing to the WhiteHouse Oval Office, Rose Garden, ballroom, look at the BILLION dollars stolen from nuclear missile maintenance for a personal jumbo jet, etc. etc.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-09 17:19:04+00:00
The other big difference, I think, is that Hollow Knight starts you out with a very straightforward downward attack that you can use as a pogo to mitigate a lot of damage/environmental hazards.

Hornet's 45º downwards attacks are significantly harder to aim/time, and pogo chains (where they are even possible) take a lot of practice
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 17:19:27+00:00
A friend’s company ended up changing their entire business because of this problem. They were providing services as a contractor but kept running into problems with their client’s union workers, who felt like no one should be able to do certain things that seemed very trivial and not specialized (like tightening a bolt or whatever). This work was officially approved but the union workers responded to it in hostile ways - like taking a long time to do their part of the jobs or doing other odd things like making people wait for hours on the floor before anyone showed up.

The company gave up and decided to just sell their product without any services - like having the customer do all the work themselves. It was very inefficient because they had to train their customer’s workers and put together huge amounts of documentation and there were a lot of issues making it work. But the company was able to charge for all of that and basically ended up having the same profit margin anyways. In the end the only person paying the cost was the customer, since they had to deal with work getting done more slowly due to the overhead of training people and a lot of (billed) back-and-forth communication.
by b112 | 2025-09-09 17:19:46+00:00
It's funny how it's never "don't" too.

A guy I knew needed a car, found one, I told him to take it to a mechanic first. Later he said he couldn't, the guy had another offer, so he had to buy it right now!!!, or lose the car.

He bought, had a bad cylinder.

False urgency = scam
by rimunroe | 2025-09-09 17:19:48+00:00
> I feel like you're being pedantic here and transforming the statement "X is one of the best of all time" into "X is one of the top N of all time", where N is a number you've arbitrarily picked to exclude X.

> Like, yeah your statement may be true. I, too, can pick N such that Hollow Knight is not in my top N games

A) I haven't chosen a specific number. I've even been deliberately hazy about the range because that's how I hear most people discuss their "best ofs" and favorites.

B) As per my previous message I wish you'd stop acting like I'm fabricating this argument just to exclude Hollow Knight. My objection is with your reasoning. I've tried to be as clear as possible about this.

C) You have to bound your category of what qualifies as "the best" somehow, even roughly, because otherwise the term loses what little meaning it had in the first place. I tried to make this point earlier, though maybe I didn't do it well enough:

>> 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.

If you want to say it's widely considered one of the best of all time, that implies some very large percentage of the general public or critics would say "I think X[0] is one of the best games of all time". If you asked a random person to list which games they personally believed to be the best games, they'd probably only come up with a handful. I think that list is probably a decent predictor of what people would respond with if you asked them for the best game in a specific year, but that it would do a much worse job of predicting agreement across all time.

[0] you can take this to mean either an arbitrary game or the Egosoft one :p
by Someone | 2025-09-09 17:19:53+00:00
I do not have data, but I do have arguments.

If the economics do not work out, why did they chose to create infrastructure and take on the burden of supporting it instead of implementing backups to the popular cloud providers, and not having that extra operational burden?

Also, iCloud gives individuals 2 terabytes of storage for $11 a month. OneDrive and Google Drive are similar. S3 is less than 3 cents/gigabyte (with extra costs for reads and writes)

I guesstimate backups will take less than 100GB per user. At Apple’s consumer pricing that is slightly over half a dollar.

So, if they buy storage at bulk and get a sufficiently high number of customers, I do not see why they couldn’t make money on $2/month.
by viccis | 2025-09-09 17:20:11+00:00
They mention in the write up that they correlated certain indicators with what they had seen in other attacks to be reasonably sure they knew this was an active attacker.

The problem to me is that this is the kind of thing you'd expect to see being done by a state intelligence organization with explicitly defined authorities to carry out surveillance of foreign attackers codified in law somewhere. For a private company to carry out a massive surveillance campaign against a target based on their own determination of the target's identity and to then publish all of that is much more legally questionable to me. It's already often ethically and legally murky enough when the state does it; for a private company to do it seems like they're operating well beyond their legal authority. I'd imagine (or hope I guess) that they have a lawyer who they consulted before this campaign as well as before this publication.

Either way, not a great advertisement for your EDR service to show everyone that you're shoulder surfing your customers' employees and potentially posting all that to the internet if you decide they're doing something wrong.
by jimt1234 | 2025-09-09 17:20:21+00:00
Unfortunately, no. My niece's mom, my sister, called her school to ask wtf was going on. They gave her a lame, lawyer-approved response about their responsibility to protect children and the drills are mandated by the state, blah blah blah. So yeah, my niece said they practice how to respond (call 911, not your parents?), what to do if the teacher is shot (they don't use the word "shot", though), and they talked about tactical gear, like bullet-proof backpacks, which my niece wants now.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-09-09 17:20:23+00:00
The nice neighborhoods have parents that prioritize spending with their children, reading with them and helping them work through things they are struggling with and due to that they then score better on the standardized tests.

The curriculum is just a net zero, and could be argued that it's a net negative because it wastes the kids time with useless knowledge that they will never need or use.