MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by consumer451 | 2025-10-14 20:06:30+00:00
The reason to fight against university education was laid out plainly in the 2012 Texas GOP platform. While not directly related to TFA, it clearly shows the reasoning to limit aspects of education.

> Yes, you read that right. The party opposes the teaching of “higher order thinking skills” because it believes the purpose is to challenge a student’s “fixed beliefs” and undermine “parental authority.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/07/01/texas-go...
by constantcrying | 2025-10-14 20:06:58+00:00
I think the most important thing for literacy is a nationwide culture of reading.

That has stopped existing over the last decades. Parents do not read and so neither do their children.

Reading is now a niche hobby. If you visit a book store you will also find out that most "readers" are a very niche group, who mostly read genre fiction or crime slop.

The amount of people actually reading intellectually challenging literature is miniscule. Is it any surprise to have an illiteracy problem in a country where nobody reads?
by mindcrash | 2025-10-14 20:07:07+00:00
Seemingly remote kill command, very likely punishment due to not receiving telemetry because that particular address was blocked through firewall:

"2024/02/29, 14:06:55.852622 [LogKimbo][CAppSystemState] Handle message! cmd_id 501 RS_CTRL_REMOTE_EVENT, len 8 serialno 0"

Note something being named RS_CTRL_REMOTE_EVENT
My New Project:)
by toxi360 | 2025-10-14 20:07:20+00:00
I'm selling my project that I've been developing for a while. This project is a SaaS for freelancers. It runs various models with the OpenRouter API in the background and has features like smart price predictions, pre-prepared proposal templates, and AI-assisted proposal creation. If anyone is interested, my Discord is: toxi360. If anyone wants to try out and use the project, they can go to bidora.org. Currently, the only missing feature of the project is the payment infrastructure.
by altairprime | 2025-10-14 20:07:41+00:00
Hi, thanks for describing what you’ve found — but the details shared aren’t enough for the community to reproduce your findings.

What hostname/s did you block? What filename prevents auto-reboot? What firmware version is your device? Were any credentials necessary to access your robot’s internal syslogs? Was the remote always precisely 8*86400 seconds after you powered on the repaired model?

The repository contains only the barest “how to repurpose this device” details with no supporting material evident for your post’s topic, “what the OEM OS was doing”, which makes the final paragraph either wrong or misleading. Do you have a timeline in mind for when that will be published to GitHub?

The story is marginally interesting, but without the technical details, it’s more “this is completely unsurprising, see also nearly all in-home smart devices” and less “this is novel and interesting”. (I concur with the outrage, but outrage alone does not satisfy.)
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-14 20:08:42+00:00
The news revolves around "new" stuff, not reporting things people generally know. At young and even middle ages, people dying of anything is highly unusual and skews more towards some of the unlikelier causes compared to the breakdown of all deaths. And it's general knowledge that the elderly commonly succumb to heart disease and cancer. I love the site and the article is interesting with good data but I don't think the premise of this article was quite right.
by nickff | 2025-10-14 20:09:08+00:00
The Fighter Pilot Podcast is probably the best of them, both in terms of production and content, though recent episodes have drifted away from the ‘core content’ where it really shone. War on the Rocks has had some good ones as well, but not as interesting (in my opinion). There are many other military-focused and leadership-focused podcasts where you can glean something interesting every once in a while, but not really enough that I’d actually recommend following them.

edit: some NASA astronaut interviews contain interesting info about (retired) military astronauts’ careers, which tend to be interesting as well.
by dijit | 2025-10-14 20:09:54+00:00
I know it's trite to bring in logical fallacies, but you're hinging a response on an appeal to authority without tackling the logic head on. Worse so, you're also engaging in a bit of hyperbole.

E2EE provides strong theoretical guarantee's, but not so if the client is under the network providers control. Governments have already pressured companies to alter clients (Australia's "Assistance and Access Act" allows compelling backdoors in software).

If you don't trust the operator, it's irrational to trust the client they supply, they can do anything before E2EE even kicks in.

I'm not saying E2EE is useless technology, it's just useless in cases where the provider and the network are the same thing. You are gaining very little over TLS in those cases. You can configure "self-deleting" messages if you're worried about other clients logging in.

Regardless, most reasonable security researches I know are actually more concerned with supply chain attacks than ensuring E2EE everywhere, which is precisely what I'm arguing.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-14 20:10:40+00:00
If it's an open clone that can be reasonably distinguished from software side and from looking at the part and it doesn't violate IP laws other than software patents, no biggie.

Every clone of any sufficiently complex Thing will have subtle quirks and edge cases compared to the original and as long as I can work around them for only that specific clone model, that's easy.

But clones that have no way of determining if the part is a clone? That's bad to even exist because unscrupulous actors will go and repackage "legitimate clone" chips into faked originals if the price difference is big enough.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-14 20:11:28+00:00
Yes, some of it is due to lack of safety etc. must I must say the majority of it is the complete lack of competence in modern times because it’s now being built by normal folks.

I assume it was a limited number of people how knew how to make things and they kept roaming around setting new sites etc. Similar to bridge engineers etc. most of what they make just disappears in the background but they keep building things that makes our modern life possible.
by toast0 | 2025-10-14 20:11:49+00:00
I've certainly done some things where outsourcing hosting meant I didn't have to manage infrastructure. For services running on vm instances in gcp vs services running on bare metal managed hosts, there's not a whole lot of difference in terms of management IMHO.

But any infrastructure that the product I support use is infrastructure I need to manage; having it outside my control just makes it that much harder to manage. If it's outside my control, the people who control it better do a much better job than I would at managing it, otherwise it's going to be a much bigger pain.
by coliveira | 2025-10-14 20:11:50+00:00
This is not necessarily a problem. Any programming or mathematical question has several correct answers. The problem with LLMs is that they don't have a process to guarantee that a solution is correct. They will give a solution that seems correct under their heuristic reasoning, but they arrived at that result in a non-logical way. That's why LLMs generate so many bugs in software and in anything related to logical thinking.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-14 20:11:54+00:00
It's not interdisciplinary. I'm an archaeologist, albeit not practicing these days.

Wouldn’t a digital reconstruction just have whatever textures were selected?

Yes, but the point is that we don't know a lot of the context around these layer III T-pillars to make informed choices in depicting them. For clarification, I'm using the GT stratigraphy because I haven't looked up the KT chart.

But just to highlight some knowledge gaps, it's usually not clear what damage was caused during the backfill process, what the exposure conditions for these pillars were during their lifetimes (e.g. roof or not, though these earlier rectangular rooms are generally agreed to have covered with wooden beams), and even the dating is a bit suspect in this area.

Plus, the relevant team may not even have a LIDAR scanner to do that properly as that's fairly specialist equipment. Etc.

Getting to the point where it's possible and reasonable isn't easy.
by Hamuko | 2025-10-14 20:12:08+00:00
Approval rating for a president seems like a pretty poor relation to "feeling like one is living under the rule of law".

Meanwhile El Salvador is ranked 130th out of 180 in the Corruption Perceptions Index with a score of 30/100, and has mostly been sliding lower in the past decade.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024/index/slv
by magnuspaaske | 2025-10-14 20:12:09+00:00
There was also an article in Wired about this and I'll just say this: the fact the most discussed thing about the new iOS version is how to make their terrible new UI (that no one asked for) off is telling something about the state of innovation at Apple. It's annoying to see apps adapt to the new design, making a lot of the navigation in the top and the bottom worse (and great to see a couple of holdouts like Bluesky). A design philosophy where the full width of the screen is used is pretty good, not sure we needed Apple to prove it with a counter example.

Can't wait for them to release iOS 27 and announce they've made a useable UI again. "Hey friends, those accessibility settings you've used for a year? You don't need them anymore. Apple is where innovation happens!!"
by empath75 | 2025-10-14 20:12:27+00:00
Of course you can imprison your way to a safe society. At the limit, you can just put everyone in prison. Nobody would ever say you can't imprison your way to a safe society. What people actually say is that the consequences of attempting to do that are not worth the trade off. Most people would not want to live in a dictatorial police state even if it is "safe".
by darth_avocado | 2025-10-14 20:12:39+00:00
Silicon Valley is full of immigrants. Any place that actively dislikes them and is hostile to them is probably not going to replace it.

And contrary to popular narrative, the Bay Area boast school districts in the country. And if you look at top school districts in the country by any measurable metric, most of them are in blue states. I think Silicon Valley will be fine where it is.
by worldsayshi | 2025-10-14 20:13:04+00:00
> power resides where men believe it resides

And also where people believe that others believe it resides. Etc...

If we can find new ways to collectively renegotiate where we think power should reside we can break the cycle.

But we only have time to do this until people aren't a significant power factor anymore. But that's still quite some time away.
by rezonant | 2025-10-14 20:13:05+00:00
Actually this isn't the whole picture. Because a lot of funding for schools comes from local property taxes, affluent areas tend to have more resources for education than poorer areas, regardless of how they school their kids. And if a lot of higher income students aren't utilizing public school, that's less students to spend the increased money on, which would exacerbate the view when looked at as a national per-student average.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 20:13:13+00:00
> Bukele has 91% approval. If that doesn't meet the formal academic definition of people feeling like they are living under the rule of law

A starving man will rate highly someone giving him an ounce of food. That doesn’t mean their life is good. Just better than the hell it was.

El Salvador’s economy is middling [1]. It is growing faster than when it was ridden with crime. But it isn’t growing like a developed economy with the rule of law. (It can’t.)

El Salvadoreans made the best choice they could. When confronted with security versus long-term prosperity, most choose security. And who knows, they might slough off dictatorship as a transitional period like Korea and Taiwan did after all.

TL; DR It’s a straw man to claim what Bukele did was some revolution in social thought that confounded thinkers outside El Salvador. It wasn’t. Martial law has always existed. And Duterte had literally just wrapped up doing the same thing.

> they said you can't just discipline people

Who said this?

I can just as easily invent conservative straw men who didn’t like their idiot kids failing grades and getting their states to not implement ESSA. It’s narratively cohesive. But it isn’t credible, same as this allegation.

[1] https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/elsalvador/overview
by anon291 | 2025-10-14 20:13:21+00:00
Teachers unions are political organizations that lean left. They are never going to want to get behind anything Mississippi does. Their sole purpose is to siphon off as much public funding for their members, not to teach children. In fact failing kids justifies more money spent (guys, this is literally in the article as a point where liberal assumptions are being challenged; please read the article before downvoting me at least).

While all this sold a story 'whole word' nonsense was going on in public schools (my mom was a public school teacher), our Catholic school (non union) used a phonics based curriculum. It was the teachers unions circulating misinformation to public school teachers about the efficacy of the 'whole word' method.

EDIT: Because I'm getting downvoted, let's go straight to the source. Here is the California Teacher's association itself highlighting its efforts to ban mandatory phonics-based instruction:

https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/04/read...
by dwoldrich | 2025-10-14 20:13:22+00:00
I needed to build an internal admin console, not super-scalable, just a handful of business users to start. The SQL database it would access was on-premises, but might move to the cloud in future. Authorized users needed single sign-on to their Azure-based active directory accounts for login. I wanted to do tracing of user requests with OpenTelemetry or something like.

At this point in my career, why wouldn't I reach for microservices to supply the endpoints that my frontend calls out to? Microservices are straightforward to implement with NodeJS (or any other language, for that matter.) I get very straightforward tracing and Azure SSO support in NodeJS. For my admin console, I figured I would need one backend-for-frontend microservice that the frontend would connect to and a domain service for each domain that needed to be represented (with only one domain to start). We picked server technologies and frameworks that could easily port to the cloud.

So two microservices to implement a secure admin console from scratch, is that too many? I guess I lack the imagination to do the project differently. I do enjoy the "API First" approach and the way it lets me engage meaningfully with the business folks to come up with a design before we write any code. I like how it's easy to unit/functional test with microservices, very tidy.

Perhaps what makes a lot/most of microservice development so gross is misguided architectural and deployment goals. Like, having a server/cluster per deployed service is insane. I deploy all of my services monolithically until a service has some unique security or scaling needs that require it to separate from the others.

Similarly, it seems common for microservices teams to keep multiple git repos, one for each service. Why?! Some strange separation-of-concerns/purity ideals. Code reuse, testing, pull requests, and atomic releases suffer needless friction unless everything is kept in a monorepo, as the OP implied.

Also, when teams build microservices in such a way that services must call other services completely misses the point of services - that's just creating a distributed monolith (slow!)

I made a rule on my team that the only service type that can call another service is aggregation services like my backend-for-frontend which could launch downstream calls in parallel and aggregate the results for the caller. This made the architecture very flat with the minimum number of network hops and with as much parallelism as possible so it would stay performant. Domain services owned their data sources, no drama with backend data.

I see a lot of distributed monolith drama and abuse of NoSQL data sources giving microservices a bad reputation.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-14 20:13:22+00:00
Before the government suspended it; the murder rate was nearly the highest in the world, and every attempt previously failed.

Freedoms sometimes break down at scale given the right conditions. That's not comfortable to contemplate. If even 20% of people were involved in the gang and using GrapheneOS, you bet that freedom would be revoked. There is no guarantee in natural law that freedom is self-sustaining or chaos-resistant.

Freedom is the privilege of a stable nation that can hopefully stay stable, but freedom does not guarantee stability. Thus why we have outliers like Singapore - very stable, minimal freedom; and outliers like El Salvador previously - very free, very unstable. Stable always beats free, because unstable makes freedom a purely academic exercise in nonsense (sure, the government might not arrest you for saying something, but the local thug will happily do worse; bragging "I have habeas corpus" is idiotic when the local drug lord is your problem and he doesn't honor it).
by amiga386 | 2025-10-14 20:13:37+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog

> The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event (such as a man biting a dog) is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences (such as a dog biting a man.)
by jjice | 2025-10-14 20:13:41+00:00
Just got back from a trip to Japan and I found that Tokyo and Kyoto also met most of your criteria.

Cash is still pretty common there and definitely can't go cashless (nor would I personally like to), and there's no delivery drones that I'm aware of (I also don't particularly care for that, personally).

I'm not even sure it's that they're ahead, I think we've just fallen behind in a lot of those cases.
by estearum | 2025-10-14 20:13:55+00:00
It’s pretty unbelievable how many people think “give one person unlimited power to fix our problems” is a novel solution to anything

Throughout all of human history, the vast majority of awful people in power were consciously put there by people who wanted solutions to real problems

Our Founding Fathers’ insight was to say that it’s actually better the state struggle to solve some problems (including important ones!) than to create an extremely powerful apparatus that can be abused (whether that be with good or poor intentions, with or without popular support etc)

We’ve tried the whole dictator thing! Literally countless times in history! The reason we instead accept some amount of crime and “what the fuck why can’t we solve this?” is because dictators almost always end up being absolutely awful!
by DSMan195276 | 2025-10-14 20:14:53+00:00
"Bugfixes" doesn't mean the code actually got better, it just means someone attempted to fix a bug. I've seen plenty of people make code worse and more buggy by trying to fix a bug, and also plenty of old "maintained" code that still has tons of bugs because it started from the wrong foundation and everyone kept bolting on fixes around the bad part.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 20:15:23+00:00
> How meaningful is that approval statistics in a country where the government can put people in prison more or less arbitrarily without any kind of habeas corpus protections?

There is diverse polling to support Bukele’s popularity [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_Nayib_B...
by tptacek | 2025-10-14 20:15:25+00:00
The dubious unstated premise of this piece is that, "newsworthiness" notwithstanding, all causes of death are equally impactful on society. But that's not true. Violent crime and terrorism are destabilizing in ways heart disease and cancer are not. Independent of the prurient interests of the news audience, there can be strong arguments for giving outsized coverage to homicide.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-14 20:16:11+00:00
Borrowing money got expensive... the Fed rate is largely responsible for that and there's been a big push to adjust it. As it stands, during and since COVID a lot of people maxed out their credit, or significantly increased their debt for a number of reasons, from home/household needs during the shutdowns to increased cost of living (starting with overpriced groceries).

This has taken an effect. A lot of people are strapped and no longer participating in larger purchases beyond the basic needs as just those have gone up in price so much relatively to income. Initially a lot of it was just greed and taking advantage of the pandemic as an excuse, now people are genuinely stretched thin.
by selectodude | 2025-10-14 20:16:11+00:00
Bukele has 91 percent approval according to Bukele. There are plenty of dictators with sky high approval ratings. I would also “approve” of somebody who has the ability to throw me in torture prison for the rest of my life on the flimsiest of evidence.

People obviously prefer safety to lawlessness, and El Salvador was uniquely awful. The issue is that once you jail everybody who might possibly be a criminal, you’re left with the entire extrajudicial infrastructure that now needs to find a new reason to exist. Not to mention in this particular circumstance that the government seems to have decided to pay off the cartels and use state violence pick winners and losers in order to quash the drug war. It works until it doesn’t.
by michaelbarton | 2025-10-14 20:16:19+00:00
There is already a lot of research into this, and as with most things there no one size fits all answer.

“ Along with being more educated and reporting poorer health status, the majority of alternative medicine users appear to be doing so not so much as a result of being dissatisfied with conventional medicine but largely because they find these health care alternatives to be more congruent with their own values, beliefs, and philosophical orientations toward health and life.”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/187543
by amalcon | 2025-10-14 20:16:29+00:00
I've kept about 1/3 of my investments in a non-US index fund for years, basically as a hedge against some unforeseen event in the US (having 100% exposure to the economy that my job is in seemed suboptimal). In 2016, all that really changed was that the event was now foreseen -- my domestic investments still outperformed that portion until this year.

This year is the first time that fund outperformed the rest of my portfolio. Not massively, since I do have some holdings that benefited from the AI boom, but noticeably. Just adding 1 to n here. Thanks for reminding me to rebalance, and maybe find another non-AI-related hedge just in case.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-14 20:16:37+00:00
His policy will not work. You cannot pivot America into a second-sector economy while denying China the third sector. Macro 101 stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sector

America has two options; either become the slave of China and enter our century of humiliation, or deny Chinese access to free trade by competing in market economics. Protectionism does not balance America's trade deficits, and US citizens cannot compete against Mexican labor (let alone Chinese prison labor). The economics of it genuinely don't get any simpler than this; American manufacturing will be for naught if we cannot compete in a free market. We already have a successfully financialized economy, throwing out Reaganomics for an even more shit deal is peak neoreactionary nonsense.