MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qqtt | 2025-10-14 20:41:21+00:00
I would argue the problem is multi-faceted, and screens are a convenient boogeyman which is a relatively easy thing to point to.

The harder problems are that both parents need jobs to make ends meet, meaning actual time with their children are both lower quality and less impactful due to lower energy and less time. Children are given devices to play with because the parents are exhausted and don't have the energy to fully engage with young children that are full of energy.

Education itself is also chronically underfunded, especially teacher salaries. Whereas before teacher salaries would pay something resembling a living wage, these days the cost of living has exploded and teachers are generally just simply left behind as an afterthought in public budgets.

So you have cohort after cohort of children with less quality education time with their parents being funneled into underpaid teachers who are expected to teach a class of 20-40 kids how to read, with poor support systems in place for everything from kids with behavior issues to even potty training in grade school.

As a society, we aren't valuing education - neither from the home side, to the workplace accommodation side, to the actual classroom. Until we all collectively agree that this is something worth investing in and we need to spend the time, money and energy to do it correctly, it won't get better.

Screens are a symptom but taking them away completely is just treating the symptoms instead of the underlying disease.
by nlawalker | 2025-10-14 20:41:52+00:00
Ah, thanks for that!

>Presumably it's a phrase you might hear from a boss who sees AI as similar to (and as benign/known/deterministic as) most other software, per TFA

Yeah I get that, but I think that given the content of the article, "can't you just fix the code?" or the like would have been a better fit.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-14 20:41:56+00:00
In the upper income public school my mom teaches at here in the Bay, the "problem kids" are overwhelmingly classified as low-med severity special ed for that reason - it solves the disruption problem while reducing the need to deal with Karens

Interestingly, in my mom's experience, kids from immigrant backgrounds (working class or undocumented Latinos bussed in and Asian Americans from all economic strata) never get in trouble. It's only the "American" parents that try to overstep on educators toes for "disciplining" kids.
by SkyBelow | 2025-10-14 20:42:21+00:00
I agree.

Our best technology at current require teams of people to operate and entire legions to maintain. This leads to a sort of balance, one single person can never go too far down any path on their own unless they convince others to join/follow them. That doesn't make this a perfect guard, we've seen it go horribly wrong in the past, but, at least in theory, this provides a dampening factor. It requires a relatively large group to go far along any path, towards good or evil.

AI reduces this. How greatly it reduces this, if it reduces it to only a handful, to a single person, or even to 0 people (putting itself in charge), seems to not change the danger of this reduction.
by skulk | 2025-10-14 20:42:22+00:00
Even treating it as a purely optional reward didn't work, at least for me. I remember doing AR and treating it like a game -- find the most points-dense book possible in the school library (for me it was The Hobbit, a whopping 70 points), read a summary of it online to get the details and ace the test. All without even opening the book. Well, I actually did try reading The Hobbit but I couldn't make it past the handful of pages without falling asleep.
by tailrecursion | 2025-10-14 20:42:24+00:00
I never did any real programming in APL, but I studied it over about 2 months. When you get used to the symbols, reading spelled-out words feels like reading in slow motion, or being stuck in molasses.

Most (not all) APL code I've seen uses very short names, often one letter names, for function names. And APL programmers are famous for cataloging "idiom" which are short phrases for common subroutines. In other words, it's best practice to repeat 3- or 4- symbol phrases instead of defining a subroutine.

Of course, there's nothing about an array language that requires using symbols; but for some reason most do.
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-14 20:42:47+00:00
Cheap energy is possible now with solar. There is a reason why it hasn't been done yet. Nobody has a need for it. Remember, you may think it would be nice to have an electric car you can charge for microcents a mile, but most people dgaf about putting gas in their car.

Machines doing dangerous jobs also is a thing these days.

High temperature superconducting can potentially be useful in a few applications that involve high current, which mostly deal with transportation. The only real advantage of this is drone delivery service becoming cheaper, but that has big hurdles to cross.

There is a reason why being a streamer is the top choice of "what I wanna be" when you ask kids. Everything is about the internet now in terms of motivation. And unfortunately there, we already hit a hard limit of the speed of light.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-14 20:43:12+00:00
> 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.

I observed that too. Polled a few people I know who upgraded and they all have the same impression that they'd rather turn it off. I shared the accessibility settings with some to help them out. I haven't upgraded my main phone might have to wait a while longer.

This has to be resume driven. I presume designers at Apple have to end the year with a review to justify their salaries. "So Bob, what would you say you do here?". The answer "Well not much, we designed things nicely already, and now we're just chilling, listening to podcasts and having 2 hour lunches" is not going to fly. They want to say something like "That flashy glass thing, we did that!". Except, in this case I wish they'd all just be chilling and having 2 hour long lunches, instead of messing with the interface since they apparently managed to make things worse.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-10-14 20:43:19+00:00
> The same is true of a piece of code that writes through the reference or returns it. That's how sub-typing works.

But it is not true that it is correctly typed with respect to a a supertype of A (it is not valid to call the code with a reference to a supertype of A).

Code that only writes through the reference is correctly typed with respect to a super-type of A (it is valid to call the code with a reference to a supertype of A).

> Have you ever programmed in a language with subtyping?

Sigh, keep that snark for the twitter battles. I don't care enough about this to get snippy about it or to deal with folks who do.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-14 20:43:42+00:00
For every coder doing some cutting-edge Computer SCIENCE there are 99 people creating one more CRUD API Glue application or microservice.

I've been doing this for 25 years and everything I do can be boiled down to API Glue.

Stuff comes in, code processes stuff, stuff goes out. Either to another system or to a database. I'm not breaking new ground or inventing new algorithms here.

The basic stuff has been the same for two decades now.

Maybe 5% of the code I write is actually hard, like when the stuff comes in REAL fast and you need to do the processing within a time limit. Or you need to get fancy with PostgreSQL queries to minimise traffic from the app layer to the database.

With LLM assistance I can have it do the boring 95% of scaffolding one more FoobarController.cs , write the models and the entity framework definitions while I browse Hacker News or grab a coffee and chat a bit. Then I have more time to focus on the 5% as well as more time to spend improving my skills and helping others.

Yes. I read the code the LLM produces. I've been here for a long time, I've read way more code than I've written, I'm pretty good at it.
by noobermin | 2025-10-14 20:44:50+00:00
While I sympathesise with the other recent posts about political freedom, this post is rather further along the line to just straight politics (namely, it is about acceptable rhetoric) and it isn't really even about policy.

It's fine to be appalled, I am. HN just doesn't seem like the forum for this, there are tons of fora out there online to discuss similar outrages.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-14 20:44:55+00:00
lol, if being one of the least reliable car companies for decades didn't hurt their sales, why would this? They are also stupid overpriced for what they offer.

There's a reason their slogan is "(you don't understand), It's a jeep thing"

They're a lifestyle product and have been for decades. Most of Stellantis is.
by lukewrites | 2025-10-14 20:45:40+00:00
There's really interesting research about children/people learning to read without formal instruction; as John Taylor Gatto points out in Dumbing Us Down, back when Thomas Paine was writing, there were ~600,000 copies of Common Sense printed for a population of three million. People learned to read on their own or with very little instruction because they were interested in reading.

There's a convincing body of evidence that the way you get kids to read books is pretty simple: read them books that interest them and then give them access to more interesting books as well as time to read to self. Unfortunately, the lethal combo of Common Core and No Child Left Behind has left teachers at best too time-strapped (or, at worst, uninterested) in doing so because of mandatory curriculum and testing.

I read to my kids, make sure they see me reading, and talk to them about both what I'm reading and what they're reading. They've done fine despite awful reading instruction at school.
by codyb | 2025-10-14 20:45:58+00:00
I've been using two decks, adding 20 new cards a day.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1631165043 - This is 5000 common Spanish words. Be warned, the pictures appear to have been pulled by some sort of automated process and some are risque. That being said, I learn words and then see or hear them fairly quickly while watching baseball en español, o leyendo las noticias o los librose.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/638411848 - Spanish conjugation. Super hard at first, especially since it starts with the most unique verbs. But patterns emerge, and incredibly useful.

Those two are the only... "formal" work if you can call it that that I'm doing. The rest is writing to friends and notes at work, watching baseball and tv (and with subtitles and audio where possible), reading the news sometimes (still difficult, but has added benefit that I read less news), setting interfaces to Spanish.

My Spanish is really coming along at this point, and it's very cool. Wishing you good luck in your endeavor!! The most important thing is to just stick with it.
by nradov | 2025-10-14 20:46:14+00:00
The only crime rate data which is really reliable is the murder rate. This peaked in 1991 and has been generally stable (not steadily declining) since 1999, with a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost all murders do get reported and counted.

https://www.consumershield.com/articles/murder-rate-by-year

I don't trust the statistics for lesser crimes because so many of the victims never file a report. In many cities the police now subtly discourage people from filing reports because they don't want to deal with the paperwork or have their statistics look bad. But I think we can generally use the murder rate as a proxy for the overall level of criminality.
by jihadjihad | 2025-10-14 20:46:37+00:00
> It doesn't seem to stop them from enjoying reading.

A confounding variable is how reading enjoyment is built and sustained across achievement levels. Presumably your kids and their friends are already high achievers, and as you said, nothing is stopping them from enjoying reading. I think that is great, and again, presumably in these households reading is encouraged as a fulfilling pastime.

The question is to what degree lower performers both come to enjoy and choose to engage in reading. If a household doesn't often engage in reading, or it isn't encouraged, or there is little parental support for a laggard reader, it stands to reason that "those at the bottom are seeing rapid losses."
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-10-14 20:46:44+00:00
For a while, if a person had COVID within the previous month, any subsequent death counted as COVID. Recover from COVID and jump out of a plane without a parachute? COVID. I believe that doesn’t happen much anymore, at least I hope.

I suspect what may be happening is that we have some very sick, elderly people with only weeks to months to live who catch COVID and die. Those deaths may still be counted as COVID deaths.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-14 20:47:14+00:00
Heh, ya it seems that the term objective truth has been ate by conspiracy theorists and psychos.

I like using the term thermodynamic truth myself. Such as what you would find if you ran time backwards. The problem we humans have is we attempt to put absolute truth on complex statistical systems. They don't realize they outcome they saw once was either random or by a set of circumstances that can't be replicated.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-14 20:47:38+00:00
"A clear policy story is behind these improvements: imposing high standards while also giving schools the resources they needed to meet them."

Resources doesn't mean iPads and software subscriptions, it means teachers. Good teachers.

There's been a catastrophic collapse in numbers in the profession, and many of the leavers are at the more talented end. They're the ones who have the skills and quals to get better jobs elsewhere.

There's no point "raising expectations" unless you provide the resources to change what's possible.

Individually, students have the least agency in the entire system. They're at the mercy of parents, school boards, and administrators who may be actively hostile to the very idea of a broad liberal education, of corporate opportunists who are trying to sell unproven study aids of all kinds, and of the disapproval of their peer culture.

The one thing that can cut through this - sometimes - is inspiration and motivation from educators.
by willdr | 2025-10-14 20:47:43+00:00
Recent Wikipedia articles are kind of an oxymoron; Wikipedia by design is meant to be a tertiary source, downstream of both news media but also mainstream scholarship. The problem is that it's "an encyclopaedia anyone can edit" — and that inherently means a rush to create or update articles when news outlets publish something novel.

While news media is an acceptable source, proper peer-reviewed journals and other scientific publications are preferred. People would do well to remember Wikipedia is NOTNEWS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...).
by t8sr | 2025-10-14 20:48:03+00:00
Berlin’s tech industry is to Zurich and London as Berlin’s art scene is to New York or Paris.

And yes, Switzerland, but especially Zurich, is on another level compared to the rest of Europe. (Except maybe London.) I’ve been a hiring manager at multiple large tech companies: Europe in general has less tech talent than the US, but in London and Zurich you can fill any role, from kernel, through ML, computer vision, hardware, manufacturing, robots, quantum computing, etc.
by hypfer | 2025-10-14 20:48:20+00:00
Having thrown one version of everest-server of _a_ CRL-200S firmware (which might not be the one OP's firmware is running) into Ghidra and having found the string, this "REMOTE CONTROL" to me really does not look like it's executing remote commands.

I mean it does, but not like shell commands but probably IR remote? The CRL-200S can be controlled via an IR remote, so it is possible that it saw something. The sun, perhaps?

Feel free to prove me wrong on this of course.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-10-14 20:48:33+00:00
While I do believe that China is surpassing the West on many points, I'd like to underline that a cashless society is not a good thing. It's a terrible, terrible idea.

With no cash, the citizen passport and the GFW, the dictatorship has total control of society. It's not that there are no homeless, is that they are pushed to even worse conditions, out of sight. It's not that there is zero crime, it's that the crime is from the state, the mafia, and there is a lot of corruption. But nobody can talk about it because there is no free press.

I do think it's important to state how much China is advancing, and surpassing the West, because they are going to rule the world as the Americans did, soon.

But let's not pretend it's some kind of utopia.
by altspace | 2025-10-14 20:49:02+00:00
I’ve been thinking the same… I have jetson Thor and only difference I can imagine is the capability to connect two DGX sparks together… but then I’d rather go for RTX pro 6000 instead of buying two DGX spark units, because I prefer the higher memory bandwidth, more Cuda cores, tensor cores and RT cores over 256 GB memory for my use case.
by glenstein | 2025-10-14 20:49:20+00:00
What's new or pertinent here is the specific real world use case and who it's impacting.

>It comes across like the model did something wrong. It did not, as factually wrong outputs happen per design.

Again I would say that's why context is significant. You are strictly right, but it was applied in this instance for the purpose of faithfully representing grades. So I wouldn't say it's necessarily a matter of misunderstanding design, the errors are real after all, but the fact that it was entrusted for the purpose of faithful factual representation is what makes it an important story.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-14 20:49:24+00:00
Everything is bifurcating now. Haves are having more and more, and have-nots are having less and less. Middle class jobs are disappearing in favor of a mix of 1. low-wage unskilled/service jobs and 2. "elite" jobs for the upper crust. There used to be a place in society for A, B, C, and D students, but now you're either top-college material or you risk being swept into a growing underclass.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-14 20:49:31+00:00
This is a new and bad definition of illiteracy. America is more literate than it has ever been; it started with Harry Potter, and grew with the internet. Everybody can read, and that was not true when I was a kid, because English is hard to read. You mostly have to read to participate on the internet. The lack of basic communication ability of the people on the early internet was shocking, and that's all gone. I rarely run into people who capitalize Every Single Word any more, and I never thought that would happen.

The problem is that kids are stupid, because their parents are teaching them (and demanding they repeat) a number of bizarre views of the world, and all of the media they consume is propagandistic and dumb. That's what's showing up on reading comprehension tests. Not that they don't understand the words, but that they lack the ability to put together a complex thought because they have been encouraged not to have them; that complex thoughts are suspicious, weird, and try-hard and make them feel like they're about to look stupid; and that having a thought by yourself is the surest way to be ostracized and to deserve to be.

They're scared to think, they've been crippled. They just want you to tell them what to say, so they can get back to their video game, or to TikTok.
by recallingmemory | 2025-10-14 20:49:33+00:00
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

- Carl Sagan, 1995
by yorwba | 2025-10-14 20:49:56+00:00
You can read the judgment here: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2... It looks like the CEO engaged in self-dealing, tried to revoke the CFO's bank authorization to transfer it to other people and after the CLO argued that this was legally inadvisable, tried to fire the CFO, CLO and COO. It's not explained how the Ministry of Economic Affairs got involved, but presumably one of those people alerted them to what was going on.
by benjiro | 2025-10-14 20:50:03+00:00
I really do not want to respond to this but your information is so wrong, and clearly off.

Foreign investment was already in a down trend from 2013, investment kept somewhat stable in the 2015-2019 periode. Until a little unknown virus hit the world, resulting in a total shutdown / disrupted market.

There was a peak in 2021 as of the resulting reopening of the Chinese market, you know, kind of hard to do business when your companies employees need to spend a month in a hotel in quarantine. So there was a strong recovery in those years, a known effect from the 2020 pandemic and the eventual recovery.

I do not even know where you get the peak in 2022 when it was 2021. 2022 was barely on the level of te 2015-2019 periode. In 2023 it ended up crashing to 1990's level of investment.

And has been a negative FDI for the past 3 years. That means more investment is being pulled out of the country, not in anymore.

So unless you want to dispute macroeconomic data, your information is highly off. I am not even going to touch the whole IP comment "massively overblown" as there are plenty of reports on how it absolute not overblown.

No offense but your comments read like a propagandist. I let the readers make up their minds, as my information can be easily google on.
by themafia | 2025-10-14 20:50:15+00:00
There are also 6 potential open reading frames in any span of DNA. 3 phases and two directions. You're looking at it backwards though. The fact that there are options means the DNA can have the same meaning but a different electrochemical signature. It's a structural memory. It's both your genes and the necessary gradient to cause them to arrange in your chromosomes correctly.

You call it stochastic. I call it scaffolding.
Show HN: BuzEntry – your apt buzzer answers itself
by deephire | 2025-10-14 20:50:27+00:00
Our apartment has one of those old buzzer systems that calls your phone when someone’s at the door. The system only allows a single phone number, so when my wife was expecting a delivery, she’d stay anxious and glued to her phone all day waiting for the call. Sometimes she didn’t see it, and the person couldn’t get in.

I built BuzEntry to fix that. It automatically answers your building’s buzzer and presses the unlock key. No app, no hardware, just a phone number that works in place of yours. You can also set an optional passcode that guests or delivery drivers have to say or type before the door unlocks.

I’d love feedback on the best ways to reach people who’d actually find this useful, other features that could add real value, and any buzzer quirks or edge cases worth testing.

https://buzentry.com