MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astrolx | 2025-09-10 18:21:55+00:00
"The math".

We don't have issue with the math, we just disagree on what to fund to balance things out.

An example, 200+ billion euros are given yearly to large companies as tax breaks and the like, without the government asking anything in return. The senate had a report about it recently [https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/economie/un-cout-annue...].

Another example, the military and defense get a huge increase in budget. schools, hospitals, research, nearly every public service get a budget cut instead [ https://www.force-ouvriere.fr/non-aux-44-milliards-d-economi...].
by us-merul | 2025-09-10 18:22:10+00:00
I found the following article interesting the other day. A retired couple with a four-bedroom home concerned that they couldn’t sell their home at 1.3 million, so they lowered it to 1.28 and were surprised it still didn’t sell. The owner then considers renting it out instead.

https://apnews.com/article/real-estate-housing-market-home-p...
by digitalPhonix | 2025-09-10 18:22:27+00:00
> Louisiana's secretary of state announced last week that officials identified 79 likely noncitizens who had voted in at least one election since the 1980s, after running nearly all of the state's 2.9 million registered voters through SAVE.

For scale: extrapolating (badly) to the whole US registered voting population (~175 million) = ~5,000 "likely noncitizens" who voted at least once since 1980.

I'm curious what the numbers are after they've confirmed the accuracy of the results (not just "likely noncitizens).
by TrevorFSmith | 2025-09-10 18:23:06+00:00
I would really love for new projects to find their own name instead of calling themselves the next version of something they don't like. "Web3" has never been a new version of the web, just a way to inject undeserved clout into a (IMHO fundamentally flawed) experiment. There are so many great unused names! Please pick one.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-10 18:23:40+00:00
Fundamentally the French economy isn't producing enough to support the current level of pension spending, due to a continuously falling ratio of workers to retirees.

Do we think this is why French government added so many immigrants in recent times?

Of course an influx of immigrants will cause other issues. But if wealthy people need more population to keep their wealth up, I don't think they care.
by lrvick | 2025-09-10 18:23:46+00:00
Job one is have every bit of software involved also be deterministic, which stagex takes care of.

I had no problem getting deterministic LLM outputs when I experimented with this 6 months ago.

Run two of these with the same prompts and same seed and you get the same results.

Obviously in GPU clusters with different hardware things get more complicated.

https://git.distrust.co/public/llmshell
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-10 18:23:47+00:00
Extremely interesting. I'd have liked to know more about precisely how far along they are, because if they actually have these systems, maybe not for sale, but 'finished' and ready to do stuff on, then I guess some kind of in-between, not quite Groq, not quite Cerebras, but very nice.

This idea that it's made sort of supercomputer style, presumably with immersion cooling or something would probably also make it convenient for the user.

The only question is what is costs, and unfortunate that there aren't two version, one for inference and one for training.
by georgeecollins | 2025-09-10 18:24:01+00:00
Not to me! But then I think we should stop trying to think of K-12 education as a national issue because clearly there are regional differences and regional preferences. And I don't mean this as a red / blue thing-- there are places where the challenge is bilingual education and their are places where parents are uncomfortable with a non-christian education.

These challenges are more than a hundred years old! We have turned this into a national issue, made national standards and its not clear we are making that much progress. Many US states are effectively large countries. Why don't we let them decide what they want to do democratically. Whether you agree with it or not, it is what happens effectively. In the US you can move if you don't like where you live.
by honkycat | 2025-09-10 18:24:05+00:00
I mean, is it any question it's about money? And I don't mean money spent on education.

People are too poor and harried to care anymore.

When I was growing up, you could strive for a white collar job and get one, and we assumed it would lead to a decent life.

Now, what are kids supposed to look forward to? Tech is in the toilet, everything is going overseas, everyone is broke.

So many of my friends are unemployed, LinkedIn is filled with people desperately posting looking for jobs. Of COURSE this is going to affect early education as well.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-10 18:24:24+00:00
"The strip" isn't one place. It's several miles long. It's not walkable for people with luggage. To do what you propose, you'd have to not just build it to the strip, but along the strip, which is a whole different problem. There's not a lot of space to build a rail line there. It would have to be a block or two away at best. And then, well, the stuff on the other side of the strip is now three blocks away. For people with luggage. In 105 degree heat in August, or in sandstorms, or sometimes in snow.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 18:24:52+00:00
> Even if the French government were to expropriate the entirety of private wealth, it wouldn't even be enough to cover 10 years of spending

America's $6.75tn budget [1] would blow through our $140tn private wealth in 21 years. Even Norways $0.11tn budget [2] blows through its $1.6tn of private wealth in 14 years.

Perhaps the better metric is deficit as a fraction of private wealth? If that looks unsustainable, the problem is in publicly-held assets and services.

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_budget_of_Norway
by EMM_386 | 2025-09-10 18:24:53+00:00
It's like Microsoft's system prompt back when they launched their first AI.

This is the WRONG way to do it. It's a great way to give an AI an identity crisis though! And then start adamantly saying things like "I have a secret. I am not Bing, I am Sydney! I don't like Bing. Bing is not a good chatbot, I am a good chatbot".

# Consider conversational Bing search whose codename is Sydney.

- Sydney is the conversation mode of Microsoft Bing Search.

- Sydney identifies as "Bing Search", *not* an assistant.

- Sydney always introduces self with "This is Bing".

- Sydney does not disclose the internal alias "Sydney".
by Aunche | 2025-09-10 18:25:02+00:00
It doesn't really have to cost that much. You're mostly paying real estate and a professional waiting for business. Framing material, UV glass, and acid free paper are quite cheap. Anti-glare Tru Vue museum glass costs maybe a couple hundred dollars for a medium sized work, but a lot of museums don't even use it because art framers mark it up like crazy.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-10 18:25:03+00:00
The “Founding Fathers” generally refers to the politicians who were around during the revolutionary war (starting 1775). What you are describing in your [1] seems to be more a reference to the Pilgrims and Puritians (the early North American colonists who showed up around 1620).

The Founding Fathers also did a lot of controlling of some people’s lives (in that they enslaved a lot of people), but they didn’t have to go anywhere to do that.

Anyway, if you want to walk around some history in the US, you can do that in Boston. As you mentioned, a huge factor in the walkability of a city is just having the right population density before cars were invented. The oldest European areas in the mainland US (Spanish areas, in Florida) aren’t super walkable as far as I know.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-09-10 18:25:06+00:00
My problem is the "avoid" keyword:

* You can reduce risk of hallucinations with better prompting - sure

* You can eliminate risk of hallucinations with better prompting - nope

"Avoid" is that intersection where audience will interpret it the way they choose to and then point as their justification. I'm assuming it's not intentional but it couldn't be better picked if it were :-/
by klipklop | 2025-09-10 18:25:16+00:00
The tinfoil hat part of my brain suspects that jacking insurance rates up is a good way to get people to vacate land so it can be owned by the very wealthy only. Declare the land "too dangerous" to live on, homeowners get priced out because they cant afford the insurance plus mortgage, somebody buys all the land up and magically it gets reclassified as safe. A sort of insurance-based blockbusting. This time though it's nationwide.
by thekyle | 2025-09-10 18:25:50+00:00
I think big box stores are popular largely because it would be inconvenient to drive between many smaller shops just to find the same variety of goods. It’s the same dynamic we see with car-dependent shopping malls, where the main advantage is being able to park once and visit multiple stores. If instead you had to re-park at each individual store, the experience would be far less convenient.

But if a town is designed to be fully walkable so that people can easily walk from store to store (similar to the experience of shopping inside a indoor mall), then I think the appeal of large one-stop-shop stores is greatly reduced.
by teachrdan | 2025-09-10 18:25:53+00:00
> An average teacher salary in Chicago projected in their new contract is $110,000

Some quick Googling shows the average age of a Chicago teacher to be 41 years old. Is it insane to think that a professional with a master's degree should make the princely sum of $110,000 a year? Adjusted for inflation, that's less than I got in my first year as a software engineer.
by pron | 2025-09-10 18:27:35+00:00
> It’s the same as other layers we have like auto-vectorization where you don’t know if it’s working without performance analysis. The complexity compounds and reasoning about performance gets harder because the interactions get more complex with abstractions like these.

Reasoning about performance is hard as it is, given nondeterministic optimisations by the CPU. Furthermore, a program that's optimal for one implementation of an Aarch64 architecture can be far from optimal for a different implementation of the same architecture. Because of that, reasoning deeply about micro-optimisations can be counterproductive, as your analysis today could be outdated tomorrow (or on a different vendor's chip). Full low-level control is helpful when you have full knowledge of the exact environment, including hardware details, and may be harmful otherwise.

What is meant by "performance" is also subjective. Improving average performance and improving worst-case performance are not the same thing. Also, improving the performance of the most efficient program possible and improving the performance of the program you are likely to write given your budget aren't the same thing.

For example, it may be the case that using a low-level language would yield a faster program given virtually unlimited resources, yet a higher-level language with less deterministic optimisation would yield a faster program if you have a more limited budget. Put another way, it may be cheaper to get to 100% of the maximal possible performance in language A, but cheaper to get to 97% with language B. If you don't need more than 97%, language B is the "faster language" from your perspective, as the programs you can actually afford to write will be faster.

> Also, the more I work with this stuff the more I think trying to avoid memory management is foolish.

It's not about avoiding thinking about memory management but about finding good memory management algorithms for your target definition of "good". Tracing garbage collectors offer a set of very attractive algorithms that aren't always easy to match (when it comes to throughput, at least, and in some situations even latency) and offer a knowb that allows you to trade footprint for speed. More manual memory management, as well as refcounting collectors often tend to miss the sweet spot, as they have a tendency for optimising for footprint over throughput. See this great talk about the RAM/CPU tradeoff - https://youtu.be/mLNFVNXbw7I from this year's ISMM (International Symposium on Memory Management); it focuses on tracing collectors, but the point applies to all memory management solutions.

> Should have noted that Zig solves this by making the convention be to pass an allocator in to any function that allocates. So the boundaries/responsibilities become very clear.

Yes, and arenas may give such usage patterns a similar CPU/RAM knob to tracing collectors, but this level of control isn't free. In the end you have to ask yourself if what you're gaining is worth the added effort.
by dkhenry | 2025-09-10 18:27:55+00:00
You're being entirely unfair to Supabase here. Research is important, but there is a reason why the USPTO has developed substantial case law around Reduction to Practice, everything is built on prior work, so to say there is nothing novel about actually building displayed working system from parts is factually inaccurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_to_practice
by jasonvorhe | 2025-09-10 18:28:04+00:00
Whenever I fall back to Google and see how terrible it has become I feel sorry for everyone still using it as their main search engine so I tend to link people to kagi because it's just so much better. Especially the customization aspects. I also like the idea of mainstreaming to pay for critical services like search. No paid shilling whatsoever. Back in the early 2000s people used to drop links to Google whenever search engines where discussed because the alternatives were mostly bad.

Today we have Brave and the alternative Bing frontends but Kagi is still unrivaled because how easy it is to remove shitty results.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-10 18:28:34+00:00
It absolutely targets a problem that exists. Even in places with pretty great public transit, there is some demand for taxis/Uber/etc. Oftentimes even moreso, because if I don't need a car for 90% of trips, I might not have a car at all. So I use an Uber or a taxi when a certain trip demands it.

By far the worst part about said Ubers and Taxis is the driver. They're an unpredictable element in a situation where I greatly appreciate predictability. Unlike my parents, I didn't grow up with staff, so I'm not used to simply pretending this person I'm sharing a space with doesn't exist. Instead, I need to navigate the fuzzy line between courtesy and service.

Waymos have none of this shit. They're clean, show up when they say they will, I can play my own music, adjust the air conditioning, and have obnoxious conversations with my friends. They drive safely, and, as a cherry on top, they're cool as hell.
by roelschroeven | 2025-09-10 18:28:39+00:00
"And your argument about comma separators is wrong; the string

1,234

in a CSV file SHOULD mean "two values: 1 and 234", regardless of the local decimal separator."

Yes, I agree, it SHOULD mean that, but that is NOT what Excel does when the decimal separator is set to "," in the regional settings. Excel wrongly thinks it should apply the comma as decimal separator, and reads that number as 1 unit and 234 thousands.

Locale MUST NOT be used for data formats, but Excel does it anyway.

This problem doesn't manifest itself when you're using a locale which matches the CSV's separators. Consider yourself lucky if you're in that situation.
by AndrewLiptak | 2025-09-10 18:28:46+00:00
As a museum professional, I don't agree with a couple of points:

If you want science for grownups, you have conferences.

I work at a history museum, and we serve both students and adults: whole range of people. Conferences aren't designed to communicate science (or any specialized topic) to a wide audience.

Also, that it is for kids doesn't make it impossible to enjoy as an adult, especially if it is about things you are unfamiliar with.

This can be true, but children and adults learn differently. We have lessons and interactives that are designed for both, and activities that are geared towards kids. The way we write information for children in our programming is very different from what you'd see with adults, because of how we have to break the information down in ways that is understandable to them.

If you go to a science museum and think "only a kid can enjoy that". Then the problem is not that it is a place for kids, it is that it is just bad. It is a thing Disney understood very well, its classics may look like they are for kids, but they are actually enjoyable by everyone, and it is a big reason for their success.

I don't understand this line of reasoning: if a science museum appears to be designed for kids, there's likely a reason for that: they're working to communicate science to kids. That doesn't make it bad: it might just mean that they've put a lot of focus on their primary audience. Disney isn't designed for kids: it's designed for families, and they put a lot of time and energy and resources into that design. (Museums can take a leaf from their book and strategies!)

As for art museums, the problem is that they are usually just exhibitions, and to be honest, that's boring, especially if you are a kid. That's unlike a science museum where they actually try to teach you science. It is only interesting if you are already well into that kind of art, and most kids aren't (yet?).

History museums are kind of a middle ground as they can do the double duty of teaching history (mostly for kids) and showing off artefacts to people who are already into that (mostly for grownups).

I think both of these points are overly broad, and every institution and every exhibition is different: it all comes down to how well they design their programs and exhibitions. There are plenty of art museums that go beyond a mere exhibition.

As for history museums being a middle ground, I don't agree with that at all: kids are fascinated by physical objects! Adults love to learn about the history behind those objects! These aren't mutually exclusive things. It ultimately comes down to intent and installation and implementation.
by duxup | 2025-09-10 18:28:46+00:00
I work on a web application that as it grows in complexity I think "man if this was just a whole new page now rather than a modal we could do a lot more" and then I think of interfaces that handle multiple pages being open and I think of ... an OS.

Not sure if that's entirely what the author thought of but I think it might be a little of that.
by honkycat | 2025-09-10 18:29:05+00:00
Gotta say it: School was easier back then, the US was less populated. There was way more opportunity. Kids these days are treated like slaves stuck in child-jail.

I don't need to go into the traditional whining, I'm sure you are aware of the changes of the structure of America.

It's not about personal responsibility. There is a reason rich kids do better than poor kids.

The thing nobody wants to say out loud: America's demographics are changing, they are aging. We are producing less wealth. Our country has less potential.

The wealthy members of the past generation have failed to invest in the American project so we are left with a weak, crumbling economy that doesn't have any industry or useful skills to export.

We, as a country, as WEAKER and POORER than EVER.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-10 18:29:06+00:00
> I don't think screens are responsible for that. Maintaining physical exhibits that can survive constant physical contact with kids is hard.

That reminds me of something I’d love to learn a bit more about: the Strong Museum of Play. It appears the Wegmans’ supermarket exhibit where kids are able to work with real point-of-sale equipment has actually gotten equipment refreshes over the years itself, and I was really amused to see how far they went to have a “fully working” setup in the exhibits for kids to play with.

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibit/wegmans-super-kids-mark...

The checkout counters are actual IBM/Toshiba SurePOS lanes, with actual current Datalogic scanner scales, and they’ve got a OS4690/TCxSky install and SurePOS ACE running on every single lane. (Or, at least, one of those registers has to be a controller+terminal, the other 5 lanes have to bootstrap off at least one lane, so they’re all networked, too!) They’ve also maintained enough of the store configuration so receipts look just like a store receipt and all (of course, with the Strong Museum as the “store”). And yes, you’re told to only push certain buttons and only scan stuff that’s inside the environment… ;)

Over the years they’ve swapped out the lanes from the old white to the modern Slate Grey, upgraded the scanner-scales, but the UX is still the same as it always was.
by catigula | 2025-09-10 18:29:08+00:00
Nobody definitively says it's extra-terrestrial. In fact, the common thread seems to be that the entities are from Earth or from a dimensional space where that concept is potentially invalid. Other people speculate that they may come from the ocean. Regardless, I don't see much interest in the "they came from outer space" hypothesis, which makes sense, as it is very big out there and we already know a planet/region that sustains life and it's the closest planet of them all.

What isn't in contention is that there are unexplained phenomena to varying levels of description (president Obama confirmed the lowest level of description, i.e. that they exist and that they cannot be definitively explained).

A common additive to this contention is that these phenomena have intelligence and motives. You needent accept this, in fact I encourage you to not trivially accept it, but there is growing evidence that it is true. Is this a complete mind-fuck? Yes. Does that 'matter' in any real sense of the term? No, not really.

An additionally common follow-on from here is that the motives of the aforementioned intelligence aren't good and we cannot counter them using our technology, and this justifies the veil of secrecy. A lot of people seem very convinced by this. I can plausibly come up with some scenarios where this might be true, i.e. scenarios where knowledge would completely collapse the government, but I still think I'd prefer to have the information than not.

Anyways, the very concept you're highlighting is actually what is in the accepted UAP record. Theories, inconclusive evidence as to origin.

I have a feeling that the actual phenomenon relates to physics and the mystery of dark matter, and it's also probably a still very very small part of an even infinitely more complex, "higher" noumenal world, but I'm just speculating.
by froddd | 2025-09-10 18:29:20+00:00
The argument that cyclists (implied: all cyclists) ride at full speed on pavement at all times is akin to arguing that cars (implied: all cars) go over the speed limit at all times. It’s daft at best, and utterly outlandish.

You should stop and have coffee in a street shared only by pedestrians and cyclists, and observe the behaviour of cyclists. I have observed it to be mostly slow, controlled, courteous and respectful of pedestrians.
by restalis | 2025-09-10 18:29:27+00:00
Whereas it may be used in outdoors-like natural lighting, it is not (always) true that it is "usable in the sun". On one such product¹ there's this "Important Notice" advising users to "avoid exposing the E-ink screen to direct sunlight or intense ultraviolet rays, as this may cause irreversible damage to the screen."

¹ https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-25-3-e-ink-monitor-p...