MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Herring | 2025-10-14 19:46:49+00:00
That last link is like saying the density of sharks at the beach has gone down from 55% in 2024 to 30% today. Huge improvement let's go for a swim, right? Lives (and livelihoods) are at stake here. And who's to say it won't go right back up just in time for the next election, when Republicans nominate a straight-up KKK member .. Like I said, you're taking it too calmly.

Edit: In your first link first chart, look at the way the No's jumped up and the Yes's dropped ~2008 when Obamacare was on the table. Democrats got punished so hard they're not making that mistake again https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/under-obama-democ...
by mandeepj | 2025-10-14 19:46:55+00:00
I love the poorly educated - DJT.

Sure, that’s what republicans want and it serves them well. Dismantling, arms twisting, and attacks on universities - is all from their playbook. They’ve started saying universities are indoctrinating kids. If you don’t speak against these evil creatures now, there isn’t going to be another chance. They are just taliban in a suit!!
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-14 19:46:57+00:00
The PS3 had those too, but they were dropped for the PS4 and PS5. I did read that it caused a few headaches for the classics ported forward.

Speaking of oddball controller features, I was a bit surprised the PS5 retained the little trackpad, given how little use it seemed to get on the PS4— even in obvious situations like Assassins Creed where you're moving an on-screen cursor around a map, but only with the thumbstick.
by ashtonsix | 2025-10-14 19:47:04+00:00
Each Grace CPU has multiple cores: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/grace-cpu-superchip

This superchip (might be different to whichever you're referring to) has 2 CPUs (144 cores): https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-cpu-superchip...
by kube-system | 2025-10-14 19:47:08+00:00
It gets close to dancing around my point, but the article actually doesn't mention old age at all.

The article insinuates that we don't care about heart disease, because heart disease is boring and common.

But death is a lot more complicated of an issue to society than this. Society expects that a young healthy person in the prime of their life is going to be around for their family and their friends. Other people are probably counting on them to still exist tomorrow. By contrast when an elderly person has been suffering on their deathbed with dementia for 10 years, and dies of heart disease, it's so much different situation for society, that person may not have many friends or family left, and they may not be able to interact with them, even if they are alive for another year. And the friends and family they have left may have been going through the grieving process for years already.

Society does not see all deaths as equal things no matter the circumstance. And so it's silly for this article to pretend that the only thing different between any of these deaths is the cause listed on the death certificate.
by justapassenger | 2025-10-14 19:47:10+00:00
Owning entire stack has benefits for sure, especially if you're dominating market. But it also comes at a huge cost - you now need to pay for R&D for the whole stack yourself.

Tesla was dreaming of dominating market. But it looks like it peaked already and its sales are falling. Having to do R&D for entire stack without growth is a very very costly proposal. It often results in just not doing R&D, and falling behind.
by toredash | 2025-10-14 19:47:20+00:00
> Kyverno requirement makes it limited.

You don't have to use Kyverno. You could use a standard mutating webhook, but you would have to generate your own certificate and mutate on every Pod.CREATE operations. Not really a problem but, it depends.

> There is no "automatic-zone-placement-disabled"

True. Thats why I choose to use preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution instead of requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution. In my case, where this solutions originated from, Kubernetes was already a multi AZ solution where there was always at least one node in each AZ. It was nice if the Pod could be scheduled into the same AZ, but it was not a hard requirement,

> No automatic look up of IPs and Zones. Yup, it would generate a lot of extra "stuff" to mess with: IAM Roles, how to lookup IP/subnet information from multi account AWS setup with VPC Peerings. In our case it was "good enough" with a static approach. Subnet/network topology didnt change frequently enough to add another layer of complexity.

> What if we only have one node in specific zone?

Thats why we defaulted to preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution and not required.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-10-14 19:47:44+00:00
Cool post. I love that he rode a relatively affordable Endurance bike instead of some 10k high end aero bike. Even the tyre size is ~10 behind the curve. As long as you're fit enough and have a road bike you should be able to ride this as well, plus some extra days if you want to explore the route more, take more time for pictures, enjoy the scenery without having to watch the time all day. Even a touring bike should be able to handle this at lower speeds without issues.
by kakacik | 2025-10-14 19:48:01+00:00
Some form of life is probably quite common given the scale of entire universe, amino acids could be found in space for example coming from pre-solar times. If you understand what I just wrote you have to accept above as fact.

Now there are fuck tonne of filters we passed so far, may very well fail on next one (probably self-destruction), and we are lucky with so far stable good place for life. Given there are billions of trillions of planets, no way we are on the very top of that ridiculous number.

We may be one of the earlier civs but no way we are first neither. But how we would recognize a civilization that has say just a 1 billion years headstart? Dyson spheres are for fools ignoring dark forest stuff, not something really smart cautious beings would do. Matter holds enormous amount of energy, and there are other ways to extract it in a less obvious ways, ie black holes or probably some other ways.

Look at it this way - we are maybe building a small baby steps for one of big civilizations of universe. Still extremely primitive in all possible ways while arrogant enough to mostly not see it, but there is potential for true greatness. Otherwise we will perish, I dont see anything in between.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-14 19:48:34+00:00
Others have explained what Valedictorian means: highest class rank based on academic marks. His father was a basektball coach, mother was a "executive business coach" so likely middle class to upper middle class. That excludes making large monetary contributions to gain admissions (ex. Bush Jr.)

It really seems like his admission to Princeton was based on a combination of excellent academic performance combined with his athletic ability which is often a boost for applications in competitive schools like Princeton.
by drsupergud | 2025-10-14 19:48:41+00:00
> bugs are usually caused by problems in the data used to train an AI

This also is a misunderstanding.

The LLM can be fine, the training and data can be fine, but because the LLMs we use are non-deterministic (at least in regard to their being intentional attempts at entropy to avoid always failing certain scenarios) current algorithms are inherently by-design not going to always answer every question correctly that it potentially could have if the values that fall within a range had been specific values for that scenario. You roll the dice on every answer.
by Apreche | 2025-10-14 19:49:21+00:00
> School spending did not decline from 2012 to 2022. In fact, it increased significantly, even after adjusting for inflation, from $14,000 a student to more than $16,000.

Is this average spending per student? If so, then that is just a cover for inequality. Spending a vast amount on educating elite students, and spending hardly enough on the majority.

Other countries with much better education than the US spend less than $16,000 per student, but I imagine they are spending much more equitably. They don’t have one school that is incredible and then another school so broke that teachers and parents have to foot the bill for supplies.
by malux85 | 2025-10-14 19:49:50+00:00
If something that is true scares you, you should think about it and look at it, in little bits, until it doesn’t.

Accept your fragility, be grateful for what the universe gives you, be humble about your limits and faults, and spread happiness, joy and love to the other fragile, limited beings around you. There’s your cure for existential dread.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-14 19:49:52+00:00
You must read well to write well.

Writes and Writes not (October 2024) https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html

>I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.

>One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they're worried about; people who are good at setting up computers know how many people aren't; writers know how many people need help writing.

>The reason so many people have trouble writing is that it's fundamentally difficult. To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard. ...
by wat10000 | 2025-10-14 19:50:30+00:00
News is, by definition, unusual. If you consume it to learn about unusual events then it can be alright. If you use it to build a picture about common events, you're going to end up with a completely upside down picture.

My general guideline is: the higher up the news hierarchy (local, metro, regional, national, international) a personal risk is, the less you should worry about it. Car crashes barely make the local news most of the time, they're worth some attention and care. Airliner crashes make massive headlines, not worth worrying about. The news is very informative here, you just have to understand what it's really saying.
by mfro | 2025-10-14 19:50:34+00:00
A lot of discussion in this thread about the findings for Huel (I was concerned because I consume Huel daily):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Huel/comments/1o6j62j/consumer_repo...

Many commentors point out that CR's guideline for daily intake is arbitrary and well under the FDA guideline. I think it would be good to take this with a grain of salt and will be interested to see the response from Huel.
by rancar2 | 2025-10-14 19:50:41+00:00
I like the license (FSL) chosen for the project, but it may need some explaining for others. Can you comment on decision for selecting the Functional Source License (Version 1.1, ALv2 Future License), and the intent from the Metorial team with it including any restrictions on potential commercial use of the platform (i.e. free-to-paid without notice)?

For those who aren't aware of what FSL (https://fsl.software/) is: "The Functional Source License (FSL) is a Fair Source license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years. It is designed for SaaS companies that value both user freedom and developer sustainability. FSL provides everything a developer needs to use and learn from your software without harmful free-riding."
by fsflover | 2025-10-14 19:50:54+00:00
You screenshot doesn't show how you achieved this or that you're even using Linux. There is no option to start a secret chat for me on a right click. Where did you download your client?

This ticket suggests that there's no such option: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871

See also: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/6491
by tyleo | 2025-10-14 19:51:17+00:00
This was on HN a few weeks ago and provides a similar take: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choi...

It has examples of states which are seeing some improvements. Those states seem to be addressing one of the main problems this article highlights: they hold students to expectations and prevent them from advancing grades if they don’t meet the bar.
by anon291 | 2025-10-14 19:51:41+00:00
It's declined because a generation of students was not taught to read because teachers decided that phonics was a conservative dog whistle. To not be associated with George w Bush, they failed our children.

There's really not much else to it. Laura Bush's push for literacy was well intentioned but she did not anticipate the anti phonics backlash that would ensue due to her husband's politics.

The is not some kook take, yet no one talks about it in general discourse, despite plenty of reporting on it. Teachers unions and public schools in general, which typically lean left, have been fighting a war on phonics for several decades. My mother, who was a teacher herself, noted this. She was not born in the US, so didn't understand why it was seen as political to teach children sounding out words.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2022/04/12/lets-n...

We have this idea in America that conservatives are dumb and want lower standards for education. Of course, figures like Trump totally substantiate this idea, but in reality, both sides are invested in making America stupider. Yes, Democrats attract more educated voters, but often times these voters are exceptional and their kids wouldn't suffer the same fate as a typical child. Until at least one party takes education seriously, nothing will change
by a1pulley | 2025-10-14 19:51:42+00:00
This is (anecdotally) not true for families in the highest income decile (in California). Kids are pushed harder to learn things earlier than when I was growing up. For example, nearly all of my kid's classmates could read before they started kindergarten. All could do basic arithmetic. Now that he's in first grade, most can read chapter books and have a grasp of multiplication. My mom pushed me hard to get me ahead of my peers, but I didn't hit those milestones until a year later. The standards and expectations are extremely high now because it's never been harder to get a spot at a top 20 university—perhaps because a top 20 school is the best chance you can get to maintain your living standards.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 19:51:46+00:00
> they're holding off on going fully orbital until the Ship engines are relatively stable

They’re still re-flying Block 2 boosters. Hence intentionally leaving off heat tiles (and re-flying engines). Burning for orbit wouldn’t make sense on an, essentially, already-obsolete vehicle.

Block 3 launches on Flight 12. (It also validates a new pad.) Once that is debugged, SpaceX would be ready for an orbital attempt.

The crazy thing is right after orbital they go for propellant transfer. This is something our species has never done, and it’s ridiculously capability enabling if we can get it even within an order of magnitude of cost expectations.
by exabrial | 2025-10-14 19:52:17+00:00
With heart disease, we've narrowed it down to pretty much:

* get exercise (literally any amount is great)

* don't eat more than you should (avoid being overweight)

I wish we could do the same with Cancer.

California proceeded to elevate the signal-to-noise ratio so high on Cancer however, and it got scooped up in advertising there really is not any really good general advice. Every couple of years theres various trends or crusades for some minority substance that is never scientifically compared to outcomes or risk. Nearly everything could cause cancer, but the nearly everything also wont. Maybe it's just too broad?
Show HN: Wispbit - Linter for AI coding agents
by dearilos | 2025-10-14 19:52:39+00:00
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We're building wispbit (https://wispbit.com) - a tool that helps keep codebase standards alive.

With the help of AI coding tools, engineers are writing more code than ever. Code output has increased, but the tooling to manage this hasn't improved. Background agents still write bad code, and your IDE still writes slop without the right context.

So we built wispbit. It works by scanning your codebase for patterns you already use, and coming up with rules. Rules are kept up to date as standards change, and you can edit rules any time.

You can enforce these rules during code review, and because we have this rules system, you can run a CLI locally to review using these rules. You can think of it as a portable rules file that you can bring anywhere.

We put a lot of work into making a system that produces good rules and avoids slop. For repository crawling, we have an agent that dispatches subagents, similar to Anthropic's research agent. These subagents will go through and look for common patterns within modules and directories, and report back to the main agent, which synthesizes the results. We also do a historical scan on your pull request comments, determine which ones were addressed, filter out comments that wouldn't make a good rule, and use that to create or update rules.

Our early users are seeing 80%+ resolution rates, meaning that 80% of comments that wispbit makes are resolved.

Long-term, we see ourselves being a validation layer for AI-written code. With tools like Devin and Cursor, we find ourselves having to re-prompt the same solution many times. We still don't know the long-term implications on AI-assisted codebases, so we want to get in front of that as soon as possible.

We've opened up signups for free to HN folks at https://wispbit.com. We're also around to chat and answer questions!
by themanmaran | 2025-10-14 19:52:48+00:00
> Because eventually we’ll iron out all the bugs so the AIs will get more reliable over time

Honestly this feels like a true statement to me. It's obviously a new technology, but so much of the "non-deterministic === unusable" HN sentiment seems to ignore the last two years where LLMs have become 10x as reliable as the initial models.
by mainecoder | 2025-10-14 19:53:16+00:00
It is highly unlikely because the government has an explicit goal of bringing harmony, and the people have had such a uniform upbringing that even their discussions of politics is around policy effectiveness, economics of implementation and metrics where as here in the US it is republican vs democrat and the topic is about Transgender issue or something that is not policy but a belief or some intangible thing that does not make a material difference for the majority of people.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-14 19:53:32+00:00
Labor competes for compensation, CEOs compete for status (above a certain enterprise size, admittedly). Show me a CEO willingly stepping down to be replaced by generative AI. Jamie Dimon will be so bold to say AI will bring about a 3 day week (because it grabs headlines [1]) but he isn't going to give up the status of running JPMC; it's all he has besides the wealth, which does not appear to be enough. The feeling of importance and exceptionalism is baked into the identity.

[1] https://fortune.com/article/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase-ceo-a...
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-14 19:53:43+00:00
Thats a nice video, thanks for sharing. Everything shown there is old school automation of which China has a whole ecosystem for years. ALso they did they deliberately show only 1-3 steps of the process? Wheres the rest of the speaker? My video showed the speaker production from magnet to packaged box. I'm not convinced that there is a cost advantage yet since all of that technology shown existed in spades for years and yet my modern video shows people are still making speakers by hand. But it is making me think that maybe they can pull it off eventually. (Maybe the US can as well)
by legitster | 2025-10-14 19:53:59+00:00
> But the smartphone thesis has a few weak spots. It’s not just middle schoolers and high schoolers whose performance is declining; it’s also kids in elementary school. Phone use has certainly increased among young children, but not to the ubiquitous proportions of adolescents.

Easy. Parents of young children are on their phones more than ever before. That means less reading and more screen time.

One of the single largest determiners of schooling success is the number of books at home. Kids who are exposed to books and reading at home overwhelmingly out-achieve kids who are not. It starts earlier than people think and the effects are longer lived than people think. School standards have almost nothing to do with it.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-10-14 19:54:08+00:00
the problem isn't test scores. if anything, that kind of metrification of education is precisely the cause of this inability to comprehend and understand.

And that is what is actually happening here; it's not merely a matter of literally being unable to read and it's not merely limited to the written word. And it's frankly not even a matter of people being stupid or ignorant.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 19:55:10+00:00
> solved it by borrowing from the future and gutting their R&D

Not relevant to unit profitability. Tesla’s American competitors can’t turn a profit on each car production-wise.

> man also walks a very thin line between engineering outcomes and fraud

Sure. But the point is to the degree investors were misled, they were made whole and then some. That’s why they keep backing him. He’s done well by them, regardless of the methods.
by kulahan | 2025-10-14 19:55:33+00:00
I've not seen anything saying all kids are lacking in important skills these days, but rather they all seem (to me) to imply that we're on the way to an even more-stratified society. Smart kids will be just as educated as smart kids used to be - probably even moreso. Dumb kids will fall further and further behind, and the middle range of "kinda smart at a bunch of stuff" will disappear.

With the extreme stratification of wealth follows the stratification of... everything else, really.
by saulpw | 2025-10-14 19:56:28+00:00
I also didn't read for pleasure in my 20s and even much of my 30s. Forced reading in high school (of material I didn't enjoy, in quantity, and frequently fell behind on, and felt bad about failing) ruined it for me for about 15 years. But the trauma faded with time and now I read some 10-30 books a year. So maybe it's not permanent for your son's cohort either.
by 0xEF | 2025-10-14 19:56:32+00:00
I don't know for certain, but I believe it's because newpapers (aka "The Press") are at risk of libel or slander charges if they don't get their facts straight. That may also be a US-centric thing, too, I am not sure. To put a pin on it, we want to believe that the possibility of punishment for misrepresenting facts imposes some level of accountability on a print publication.

Still, despite the fact that they can be sued for lying by the people they are lying about, I'm sure they find plenty of ways to bend the truth while still technically telling it.

I suppose that calls into question why we trust any media source that we can't directly verify ourselves as an authority. It's all very confusing to me, to be honest and I simply don't know what to do about it. Not being able to trust information is maddening.
by Maxatar | 2025-10-14 19:56:41+00:00
Just doing a quick check on this, lifestyle choices slightly edges out net worth.

Living what is called a "low-risk" lifestyle (don't drink, don't smoke, maintain healthy weight, avoid junk food) results in an average life expectancy of 90 (93 for women, 87 for men), compared to being in the top 1% which results in a life expectancy of 87 (86 for men, 88 for women).

The overall average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78 (76 for men, 81 for women).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4866586/

https://www.abom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Impact-of-He...
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-14 19:56:46+00:00
But are those sweeping generalizations true?

> I’m also going to be making some sweeping statements about “how software works”, these claims mostly hold, but they break down when applied to distributed systems, parallel code, or complex interactions between software systems and human processes.

I'd argue that this describes most software written since, uh, I hesitate to even commit to a decade here.