MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kouru225 | 2025-10-14 20:50:33+00:00
What I’m most surprised by is how visually illiterate the older generations seem to be.

As a video editor, I’ve encountered multiple moments where an older person is incapable of even noticing that we’ve cut from one angle to another, and the amount of times I’ve had to convince them that “yes the audience will absolutely notice that incredibly obvious mistake and we need to fix it” is astronomical.

I’ve seen video after video of old people seemingly incapable of identifying even the most basic CGI or AI videos. And all you techies know how clearly this issue extends into the basic usage of a computer interface. How many times do I need to remind my dad how to turn on the subtitles?

We can sit here and lambast the younger generations all we want, but I refuse to do it without accurately comparing them to the previous generations, which IMO were clearly less capable than we previously thought.
by mindslight | 2025-10-14 20:50:45+00:00
Why would a group chat full of straight white cis men be joking about killing all straight/white/cis men? More likely they're making the same Nazi jokes as everyone else.

The real problem is the propaganda industry of adults that have set up shop casting childish behavior as part of some "culture war" - "see what THEY won't let you say?!?!"
by oleganza | 2025-10-14 20:50:47+00:00
exactly my thought. I never made it to Vista. In 2007 I changed WinXP (always used it with the classic grey theme) for OS X Tiger on a MacBook and never went back to Windows since then.

I wonder where a decent alternative will be lurking in the next few years? Apple is losing some grip, but all others are still worse overall.
by greenie_beans | 2025-10-14 20:51:08+00:00
It still refutes your original point:

> Teachers unions are political organizations that lean left. They are never going to want to get behind anything Mississippi does.

This teacher's union supported improved literacy rates in MS. Would be insane for any organization to not support that effort.

Also, the most effective left leaning organizations prioritize uplifting the South, including MS.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-14 20:51:37+00:00
I will tell you something you do not want to hear.

Your understanding of this problem is superficial at best.

We are not alone in our own minds.

A secret culture among us is waging a secret war through “Power” which is essentially our entangled consciousness and those who control the voices in our heads.

These government and (more prominently) private secret interests are in a paranoid grab to control those who control us.

Their grab over us is controlled by their controllers.

This is our shared reality, we are not alone in our own minds, and those dominant in Power are taking advantage of us all.

https://anonpaste.com/share/american-thought-control-and-tho...
by thehours | 2025-10-14 20:52:03+00:00
I have an iPhone SE 2nd Generation. After a recent repair I was forced to upgrade to iOS 26.

My biggest gripe is the buggy keyboard. It shrinks a bit horizontally every time I open it. When using a mobile browser (I tested on a few), website footers and similar elements will get stuck above where the top of the keyboard would normally be, as if there was an invisible keyboard.

These tweaks to minimize the glass effect go a long way, such that I'm not as put off by the overall design as I was in its stock configuration.
by Theodores | 2025-10-14 20:52:11+00:00
Most lives can be summarised with a birth certificate and a death certificate. For most people, everything that happens between birth and death is not newsworthy by any stretch of the imagination. I count myself in this demographic and this does not mean I live a totally dull and boring life!

You could spend your whole life as the pillar of the community with time for everyone and without an enemy in the world, to live a whole 100 years. Along the way you might have made hundreds of friends and given so much to the world. However, you aren't going to make the news.

Meanwhile, a five year old that gets to meet an nasty brutal end could be in the paper for weeks, with the whole town turning out for the funeral and the whole nation taking note. The five year old would not have lived long enough to 'achieve' anything beyond potty training, yet many words could be written about them.

This is just how the world works. The thing is though, there has been much progress in recent decades on what works for longevity. It is not complicated, you just have to eat mostly plants, get about mostly with your own feet, say hello to people, stay away from the toxic chemicals and keep the old grey cells busy. Accident and communicable disease permitting, you should be able to live longer than your ancestors ever did, with a better 'healthspan'.

If you look at the adverts that pay for the news, everything is working against you. They want to get you to be car dependent and wasting lots of money on highly processed food that slowly gets you. Even by watching the news, you are spending time that could be spent in the company of actual human beings.

If the news was to report on what people do die from, as in the non-communicable diseases that go with car dependency and a high-fat diet devoid of fibre, then they would not be 'advertiser friendly'.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-14 20:52:25+00:00
It's because they still spank children with paddles there, and you know that since Trump (and especially Trump 2.0) they've been ratcheting it up in magnitude and intensity.

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

also "They can toss bunks, they can swear, and yes, they can put their hands on recruits." from our drunk boi.

I'm mostly being glib (as usual) but consider that the general trend in recent times has been for a conservatification of reality, especially since covid. Places that are violent/authoritarian against the homeless are attracting more folks to move to them, hence why red sunbelt states are now doing well. Folks want violence on their children to be used to make sure they stay conforming.

It's the Singapore strategy.
by jedberg | 2025-10-14 20:52:26+00:00
Way back in the 90s, I had a hacked satellite dish. This meant that I could get local channels from across the USA. My roommate used this for a school assignment. He looked at how much time local news spent on each topic, categorized by city. Here is what he found:

- All newscasts featured crime more than anything else ("if it bleeds it leads").

- All newscasts had a local feel-good story.

- All newscasts had weather (although East Coast and Midwest stations spent more time on it).

- All newscasts had a local sports update

But what was most interesting was what they spend the rest of their time on:

- In New York, it was mostly financial news.

- In Los Angeles it was mostly entertainment news.

- In San Francisco it was mostly tech related news

- In Chicago it was often manufacturing related.

That homework was really what drove home for me that the news is very cherry picked and I basically stopped watching after that.
Are AI coding tools fundamentally changing Agile/team software development?
by justdep | 2025-10-14 20:52:40+00:00
I'm an engineering lead wrestling with some fundamental questions about how AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, etc.) should change... or not change... how we build software as a team, and I'd love the community's perspective.

The Core Tension:

We're facing pressure to adopt a more "startup-like" approach: bigger PRs, fewer tickets, individual engineers taking on massive chunks of work solo with AI assistance. The argument is that AI tools let one engineer build in 5-6 days what used to require parallelizing across a team.

But this seems to violate core software engineering principles:

- Knowledge silos: One person becomes "the GraphQL guy" with 8,000-line PRs that are impossible to meaningfully review

- No knowledge sharing: Junior engineers don't learn from participating in the work

- Bus factor: What happens when that person leaves?

- Code quality: Can you really review an 8,000-line PR, or does it become "ship it and fix bugs later"?

The Counter-Argument:

- Startups move fast this way and win

- AI tools ARE changing everything.. maybe we're the ones using "punch cards" by sticking to old practices

- The customer doesn't care about our internal code quality, only that features ship

- Does tech debt even matter anymore if AI can navigate messy codebases?

My Current Thinking:

AI tools absolutely make us faster, but they're a multiplier on existing skill. A senior engineer with Claude can maintain good architecture and patterns while moving 10x faster. A junior engineer might just produce 10x more mediocre code faster.

I believe AI should enhance our existing workflow... better ticket planning, faster implementation of small chunks, AI-assisted code review.. not replace the workflow entirely with "hero engineering."

But I'm genuinely uncertain:

- Are traditional Agile practices (small tickets, parallelized work, thorough code review, documented backlogs) becoming obsolete?

- Is this a genuine paradigm shift, or are we just rediscovering why those practices existed in the first place?

- How do you balance "move fast" with "build maintainable software" in the AI era?

- Does code quality matter if you can ship features quickly and customers are happy?

Context:

- Team of ~20 engineers across 3 teams

- Using Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

- Pressure from leadership who built solo/small-team projects quickly to adopt that approach at scale

- Some engineers still not using AI tools effectively (or at all)

Has anyone successfully navigated this transition? What does "good" software engineering look like in 2025 with these tools? Am I clinging to outdated practices, or are there real risks to the "move fast, big PRs, worry about quality later" approach?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-14 20:52:56+00:00
We find similarly old structures across Eurasia, like the epigravettian mammoth bone huts. The late PPNA when KT/GT were seemingly built is when we find the first monumental, stone structures that we know of. It's entirely possible that ancient near east is where these kinds of things were first built. There's reasons I can go into why that's thought to be the case, but we can't rule out that there could be a streetlight effect happening. The ANE is where we expect to find this sort of early structure, and it's also one of the most heavily studied areas alongside North America and Europe. North Africa, particularly Tunisia where there's already a number of known epipaleolithic sites, is substantially less accessible for this kind of research.

To directly answer your question though, the Tas Tepler sites survived because they were buried and the locations they're in are pretty bad places for people to live today. They're way up on hills around the urfa/harran plain where there's outcroppings of the stone used to build them, but also without water. People seemingly just carried water up the hills from cisterns farther down. The locations of those cisterns also suggest that there may be further sites we haven't found, because some of them don't correspond to anything we know of.
by heathrow83829 | 2025-10-14 20:53:07+00:00
i agree with that. It's as if they tried to outlaw poverty. i mean look at all the insane housing regulations (zoning laws, regulations, permit costs, land usage policy) that prevent low cost housing from being built.

I've seen in thailand, how even the poorest can just build a small hut on a piece of land they own and actually live in it. You'd be risking jail time if you did that in the US.
by dijit | 2025-10-14 20:53:52+00:00
That’s fair for a purely malicious provider in client/server mode (they’ve got the plaintext on the server, no fancy footwork needed), but that’s missing the forest: if the provider is adversarial, E2EE doesn’t magically fix it either. They control the client codebase and distribution (app stores, updates), so backdooring it to snag plaintext pre-encryption is trivial—it’s basically a built-in supply chain vuln they own.

Point is, E2EE only “protects” against server-side compromise if you assume the client is golden, which loops back to trusting the provider not to mess with it. If they’re bad actors, they can (and govts do compel them to) inject client-side leaks (again, see Australia’s TOLA Act forcing software mods), or historical cases like Lavabit’s key handover pressure.

In trusted-provider scenarios (which is most users’ reality), client/server + TLS + encrypted storage suffices against external threats, with less complexity than E2EE’s multi-device key mgmt headaches.

If distrust is total, bail! Because neither model’s your friend. Supply chain worries aren’t a distraction; they’re the real vector, as SolarWinds and Jia Tanning of xz remind us. E2EE’s great tech, but you are pretending that it is a cure-all, which ignores practical realities.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-14 20:54:15+00:00
The proper job of teachers is to provide far more than simple "inspiration and motivation", especially to students who are at significant risk of failure. Teachers must be given the skills they need to provide clear and understandable information and direction to these students in the course of their job duties. They should actively educate, not just act as coaches who simply expect their "inspired" students to learn the school curriculum on their own, as with the now-popular "sink or swim" approach.
by criddell | 2025-10-14 20:54:24+00:00
Back when high def TVs were relatively new and cable TV and separate channels for SD and HD feeds, it used to drive me crazy that my parents would watch the SD channel with the image stretched to fit the screen. I’d show them where the HD channel was (it was something like SD channel # + 200) but they just didn’t care. The stretched SD image was good enough.
by solatic | 2025-10-14 20:54:53+00:00
I don't really understand why you think this tool is needed and what exact problem/risk it's trying to solve.

Most people should start with a single-zone setup and just accept that there's a risk associated with zone failure. If you have a single-zone setup, you have a node group in that one zone, you have the managed database in the same zone, and you're done. Zone-wide failure is extremely rare in practice and you would be surprised at the number (and size of) companies that run single-zone production setups to save on cloud bills. Just write the zone label selector into the node affinity section by hand, you don't need a fancy admission webhook if you want to reduce chance's factor.

If you decide that you want to handle the additional complexity of supporting failover in case of zone failure, the easiest approach is to just setup another node group in the secondary zone. If the primary zone fails, manually scale up the node pool in the secondary zone. Kubernetes will automatically schedule all the pods on the scaled up node pool (remember: primary zone failure, no healthy nodes in the primary zone), and you're done.

If you want to handle zone failover completely automatically, this tool represents additional cost, because it forces you to have nodes running in the secondary zone during normal usage. Hopefully you are not running a completely empty, redundant set of service VMs in normal operation, because that would be a colossal waste of money. So you are presuming that, when RDS automatically fails over to zone b to account for zone a failure, that you will certainly be able to scale up a full scale production environment in zone b as well, in spite of nearly every other AWS customer attempting more or less the same strategy; roughly half of zone a traffic will spill over to zone b, roughly half to zone c, minus all the traffic that is zone-locked to a (e.g. single-zone databases without failover mechanisms). That is a big assumption to make and you run a serious risk of not getting sufficient capacity in what was basically an arbitrarily chosen zone (chosen without context on whether there is sufficient capacity for the rest of your workloads) and being caught with zonal mismatches and not knowing what to do. You very well might need to failover to another region entirely to get sufficient capacity to handle your full workload.

If you are both cost- and latency-sensitive to stick to a single zone, you're likely much better off coming up with a migration plan, writing an automated runbook/script to handle it, and testing it on gamedays.
by mhink | 2025-10-14 20:55:03+00:00
An article posted elsewhere in the comments (https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choi...) has a take that might explain a distinction:

> Billions of dollars are spent — and largely wasted — every year on professional development for teachers that is curriculum-agnostic, i.e., aimed at generic, disembodied teaching skills without reference to any specific curriculum.

> “A huge industry is invested in these workshops and trainings,” argued a scathing 2020 article by David Steiner, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. “Given, on average, barely more than a single day of professional support to learn about the new materials; knowing that their students will face assessments that lack any integration with their curriculum; and subject to principals’ evaluations that don’t assess curriculum use, teachers across America are barely using these new shiny objects — old habits win out.”

> Mississippi improved its training through a 2013 law mandating that elementary school teachers receive instruction in the science of reading. It also sent coaches directly into low-performing classrooms to guide teachers on how to use material.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-10-14 20:55:06+00:00
The interesting places to find new archaeological sites are places where we know there were lots of people nearby, and where for some reason human habitation ceased and the sites were preserved.

I hold some hope for new methods of underwater archaeology to uncover sites on the southern coast of the Black Sea and in the Persian Gulf. The latter especially because it was vast, rich floodplain during the last glacial maximum, and the oldest known true cities sprouted into existence on it's northern shore pretty much instantly after it flooded. I like to think that the oldest city ever built lies submerged in mud and water somewhere in there, just waiting to be found.

(Not that there would be necessarily much to find anymore, they probably didn't build out of rock.)
by rurp | 2025-10-14 20:55:08+00:00
> And to be quite honest, the prospect of a massive biotech revolution is downright scary rather than exciting to me because AI might be able to convince a teenager to shoot up a school now and then, but, say, generally-available protein synthesis capability means nutters could print their own prions.

Yep this type of pandora's box is scary. Our culture demonstrably has no good mechanism for dealing with these kinds of existential risks.

Humans are fortunate that nuclear weapons turned out to be very difficult and expensive to build even with the theory widely known. If they were something anyone with an internet connection could create we would probably be extinct by now. There is absolutely no guarantee that future developments will have similar restrictions.

If bio-engineering gets accessible enough that any random motivated individual can create a new super bug we're pretty much doomed. Seems like something to worry about!
by qingcharles | 2025-10-14 20:55:10+00:00
I asked GPT to pull real stats on both. Looks like the 50-series RAM is about 3X that of the Xe3P, but it wanted to remind me that this new Intel card is designed for data centers and is much lower power, and that the comparable Nvidia server cards (e.g. H200) have even better RAM than GDDR7, so the difference would be even higher for cloud compute.
by tptacek | 2025-10-14 20:55:16+00:00
I mean, maybe? To engage seriously with the argument, you'd have to account for iatrogenic effects of media intervention. That's an established concern, first with suicidality and increasingly with mass shooters. But you'd also have to consider that poorly covering events that are certain to percolate through the public consciousness might do worse things than covering them accurately. It's a tough question!
by throwup238 | 2025-10-14 20:55:19+00:00
That is correct, as long as the injury doesn’t take out the nail bed. That implies that there is some sort of growth factor involved with the nail bed as a signaling center, but regrown finger tips are a very simple case compared to actual appendages.

Finger tips are mostly fatty soft tissue minus the muscle, which is known to regenerate. Stuff like nerves are a completely different issue and children who regrow finger tips usually lose finer sensory input like two point discrimination.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-14 20:55:24+00:00
*I'm going to preface this as a take that is a generally unpopular view whose intent tends to be misunderstood.

At what point do we see our culture of envy or cheap "wins" or the replacement/conflation of present, active, and involved role models with the fast-fashion idol worship of celebrities/sport stars or tech-bro/influencer billionaire as helping to wire the brain in a way that rewards fast money thoughts like gambling.

When we grow up modestly and have this glamorous fast money jet-setting lifestyle of people who mostly lucked into right time/place/genetics thrown in our face at 30-60 second intervals every 10+ mins everyday of our lives (worse with social media), it's not the betting that we are not wired to defend against.

If there's a solution to course correct the culture of needing hyper-excessive things & external-validation to feel worthy I dont know what it is -- but if it involved its prohibition I would be against it as being an extension of the problem. There is a correlation between sports events and incidences of domestic violence[0], if we care about sports betting causing violence to others and wish to stop it, then by that logic stopping sports altogether solves even more harm. But cutting the sickly branches of a live oak is not the way to prevent oak wilt from spreading through the community

Betting is benign in itself, but when the belief becomes that $_thing can quickly solve all of life's problems, people get creative in their pursuit of it. Crypto itself benign, but a tool for quick money; large swaths are harmed financially and some physically (not whataboutism, its related root causes). The war on drugs didn't do so well in their protecting of others either. Targeting bets to shield people from misuse will push it back underground where the most "vulnerable" addicts have 3 problems now. (gambling, law, broken limbs) It also inadvertently reinforces the culture that they are not whole in themselves, enabling them to continue to skirt their part in being responsible for their own life and feelings of worthiness.

The top comment* here is, imo, one of the more balanced takes in terms of time to impact and coverage over the calls for hamfisted prohibition type regulations. It also minimizes harm by still treating adults as adults but also by sending the message that the predatory behaviour (e.g., gamified mobile betting, betting adverts on Premier League kits) won't be tolerated.

*"Legislation needs to target the industrialization of the delivery not the act itself." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581785

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10087409/