MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmje | 2025-11-22 08:13:17+00:00
No, I totally get it. If you're home schooled maybe you get out to see a few kids, go do some lessons in a forest classroom or whatever. All good. But it's still not the dynamic, varied (sometimes uncomfortable) environment of school classrooms, corridors, playtimes, etc.

Again, to re-iterate, I don't want kids to be uncomfortable as a norm, but bashing up against other groups, cultures, opinions - finding your friends, finding people you dislike, learning how to work with social cues - all of this is important grounding for later life. What do you spend your life doing? Bashing up against other groups, cultures, opinions.

I also can't help but notice that amongst our friends who homeschool there is a very strong correlation between parents who didn't go to school and their kids not going to school. Around us this rarely seems to be about some kind of positive choice, mainly it's parent exudes strong "I didn't like school" vibes and kid picks it up and runs with it.

Creating silos where you closet away and attempt to "protect" people from the outside world has never, ever been good. Social Media (should) have taught us that.
by drekipus | 2025-11-22 08:14:09+00:00
That's a good consideration.

Meaning in life is hard and personal. Some might have no idea where to start.

But I'd argue (somewhat pointlessly as I'm not going to change anything) -- This is the role that society, traditions, family, etc. has: "to bring people up" swimming in the same stream, given a purpose and meaning, etc.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-22 08:15:48+00:00
I don't know if the prospect of being the "Intel of ARM" is very appealing when you can manufacture high-margin smartphone SOCs instead. The addressable market doesn't seem to be very large; any potential competition is stifled by licensing on both Microsoft and Softbank's side.

The legend of Windows on ARM is decades old, and people have been seriously trying to make it happen for at least the past two decades. They're all bled dry. Apple is the only one who can turn a profit, courtesy of their sweetheart deal with Masayoshi Son.
by achierius | 2025-11-22 08:15:57+00:00
What do you mean "perceive"? Why are there these "inner feelings" at all? They are not physical, and we can easily imagine a being that does not have them -- thus the whole p-zombie thought experiment. You're saying "qualia ... are just perceptions", and yes, that's the whole point. Defining qualia as qualia does not explain away the problem.

And clearly there is more to perception than informational content, unless you think that a copper wire transmitting video footage "perceives" in the same way as a human does -- which seems gargantuanly unlikely, given that how we transmit video is correlated with how our eyes work, so a priori you would not expect it to map onto "universal video footage" even if all matter were actually perceiving in some way.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-22 08:17:19+00:00
> or 2. it's indeed trivial, but the effort to fix it does not outweigh the costs I outlined above

And if you devote a whole team to simple fixes, those costs stop being a blocker. So I still like the idea.

And maybe those costs are justified at scale, but what comes with that is your small bugs affecting tons of users, so they shouldn't be ignored for scale-based reasons.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-22 08:19:16+00:00
Not knowing how to cook isn't the main problem. Really poor people don't have time to cook and don't have any disposable income to buy a luxury like a pressure cooker, so this is fantasy. Really poor people are on SNAP (which doesn't cover a lot of fast food) and food banks (which provide random/useless stuff like unhealthy ultra processed food, dented canned food like canned corn and tomatoes, and random produce that requires a lot of time to use).
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-11-22 08:20:03+00:00
Argue? I considered it a conversation, before your very rude and unwarranted ad hominem.

It seems that you really have no clue what you’re talking about, and are merely lashing out due to your own immaturity and insecurity. Maybe you can find a doctor who will prescribe you a pill that will fix your personality defects. It would certainly be easier than acknowledging your (massive) intellectual and emotional deficits.
by anarticle | 2025-11-22 08:20:11+00:00
The feeling for me is the market has bifurcated into: delivered expensive shit in a bag, or omakase sushi. The middle ground of cheap decent made to order food is largely gone or on the way out. There are diners in my area still but nearly everything is over 10 nearly 20.

The quality for delivery is astoundingly low for unbelievably high prices.

I cook way more and am healthier for it.
by mmooss | 2025-11-22 08:20:33+00:00
> The value was obvious almost immediately, but it was obscured by flashy get rich quick attempts. Google chose not to make money at first but that was a business decision, not a necessity: people were paying tons of money for ads and referrals years before they were founded.

All I can say is, that was the opposite of what I've heard. Did you participate?

Also, Google was many years after Netscape's IPO, seen as the first SV boom. And what about Windows 95, if the Internet's ROI was so obvious?
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-11-22 08:21:01+00:00
These are just backdoors as a vulnerability class. It does happen occasionally even in high quality widely used libraries, but it's very rare and usually quite sophisticated (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor in 2024). A lot of these attacks, even when highly sophisticated, only really work when the attack payload can be hidden in a binary--it's very very hard to insert a useful backdoor into the source code of an actively maintained project that receives regular code reviews without anyone noticing (which is not to say it's impossible).
by dns_snek | 2025-11-22 08:21:34+00:00
Of course they're not optional, but you shouldn't be starting a high speed pursuit over a seat belt violation, or for someone going 5 over the speed limit. Principle of proportionality should apply, you shouldn't be risking the lives of the public over anything but the most serious offences where them getting away poses a greater threat to the public than potentially killing a bystander.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-22 08:22:10+00:00
That shouldn't matter, after all, even if the plate is legit, you can't just find a person's location from the database. They usually have some legal address or something, not live location.

So unless there's an immediate danger, there is no reason for chasing people and create dangerous situations. You can just follow them around from the severance cameras and catch them once they are no longer on the move. Even if you don't have disability for one reason or another, it still doesn't make much sense to engage in high-speed driving around people minding their own business.
by phil21 | 2025-11-22 08:22:49+00:00
I’ve had McDonalds twice in the past 12mo. Once locally just because I was for whatever reason craving it, once on a late night last minute road trip in the middle of nowhere midwestern USA.

Hasn’t seemed to have a discernible quality difference since back when I ate it regularly a decade ago.

Prices noticeably up, but I refuse to use the app and am willing to pay extra for the privilege.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-22 08:24:07+00:00
One should remember that EUV is necessary only for obtaining profit from the mass production of integrated circuits.

For making a limited quantity of chips, for research purposes or for some special applications where the price is irrelevant, there would be no problem for China to make today ICs with e.g. a 2-nm CMOS process, by using electron-beam lithography. (Obviously, for developing a 2-nm process many other problems must be solved first, but lithography is not a roadblock, so the process can be developed before having EUV lithography, because test wafers can be made with e-beam lithography.)

Moreover, they have enough money and people to ensure that an alternative EUV technology will be developed, eventually. I might take them 5 to 10 years, but not more than that.

The attempts to sabotage China should have been started more than a decade earlier in order to have chances of success. Now it is too late and the cleverer way would have been to try to accelerate progress in USA, instead of trying to hinder progress in China, by using means that have totally discredited USA as a product supplier all over the world (i.e. by using the dubious legal theory that USA can dictate what to do to the owners of products that include components "made or designed in USA").
by pil0u | 2025-11-22 08:24:41+00:00
I live in a part of the world where the healthcare system is also spread across the society in a more equalitarian way than what you describe.

I don't understand your second point. One of my close friends is a farmer, they mostly grow organic apples. They work (insanely hard) across the whole year to prepare the crop and take care of the trees. They are not rich, but it starts to be sustainable. Locally, it's having a community of farmers that grow different things that make you fed across the year, as long as you accept eating exotic food only very occasionally.

Regarding calories, I honestly don't know. What I know for sure is that apples in the 50s had at least an order of magnitude more calories than apples today. Different times, different agricultural practices, different population also, fair.

Obesity has skyrocketed across the whole world. People already eat too much, too much hyper transformed, too much sugar, too many calories.
by discardable_dan | 2025-11-22 08:24:52+00:00
So, to be clear, you pulled your children out of public school because students were being educated to accept other people who do not adhere to their own set of religious and cultural beliefs, in a country founded on freedom of religion?

And now instead of learning science in a lab and socializing, they are forced to maintain your farm?

What an good job you are doing!
Show HN: Minimal Start/Stop app for tracking billable hours (Tauri)
by FlorinDobinciuc | 2025-11-22 08:25:28+00:00
I needed a super simple way to track billable hours, just Start when working and Stop when done. Existing tools felt heavy.

So I built a tiny desktop app (macOS + Windows):

- start/stop only - project/client - data stored locally - free & open source

Demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ijgUzdIawszL2qVmWDaF3lkQvg... Code: https://github.com/HustleCoding/time-tracker

Feedback welcome, especially what would make it useful for real freelance work.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-22 08:29:44+00:00
I'm the only person in my (large) family to go to university. In fact I went "all the way" and have a PhD. There's no way I could have been home schooled by my parents, they simply don't have a deep enough understanding of things beyond maybe age 10 for me. But, interestingly, it was my dad who taught me HTML, not school, and that's what I've ended up doing as a career. My dad never took HTML, or programming in general, that far, but it certainly set me on my way.

In a way this is a return to older times when children would learn the trades of their parents. I think that's great, but I do wonder how kids will acquire the broader education. Knowing how to program is really only a small part of what makes me valuable.
by saretup | 2025-11-22 08:30:31+00:00
Different tax loopholes depending on region etc, but basically like this:

I’m a billionaire earning $100M this year.

I owe $40M as taxes for that. (Too much!)

I find a dumb banana painting by a starving artist.

I buy it from him for $1000.

I wait 6 months.

I go to a museum to get it appraised by “professionals”.

I pay the professional appraiser’s wife $50K as a gift.

The appraiser says the painting is now worth $30M!

Wow that’s awesome, I have such a keen eye for art.

You know what, I’m gonna donate this painting to a museum instead because I’m such a patron of art and culture.

Oh, look at that, I get a tax rebate for the value of my donated painting ($30M)

Now I only have to pay $40M - $30M = $10M in taxes on my $100M income.

There’s more nuance to it in practice, but that’s the gist of it.

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Edit: For some reason I can't reply to the comments below so I'm gonna do it here.

> That wouldn't explain the price here, since in your scam the whole idea is to buy cheap and donate dear. not buy for 139M

Now we're getting in the details but it's very suspicious for an appraiser to appraise a work of art from an unknown artist at millions. But it's not that suspicious if they take Van Gogh's Starry Night which was previously appraised at $500M to now be valued at $1B. this way the deca-billionaire still gets to save his taxes while appraiser avoids suspicion.

> As far as I know, that's not how taxes work. You can't get a rebate for the amount of taxes you would have paid, you can get a deduction for the amount of money you made.

There are a lot of loopholes in the complicated tax system for the ultra-wealthy, not for us. This video (still a simple explanation in an animated way) covers a few more of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHy07B-UHkE
by chii | 2025-11-22 08:30:46+00:00
> The schools also get more funding if the students perform poorly.

that's such a weird policy.

The teachers can produce poorly performing students easily (without much effort i might add), but cannot do that very same for well performing students (even with effort). The incentive to produce poor performing students to get more funding means it's misaligned with the student's best interests.

Schools and students _should_ be incentivized to perform well, and funding ought to be a portion of that incentive.
by devsda | 2025-11-22 08:30:55+00:00
I wonder if at some point AI will help big tech extort money from businesses or individuals (similar to the mugshot publishing industry).

Google or its competitors can theoretically accept(or demand) money for its "Answer engine" to refuse answering certain questions that affect local businesses e.g. paid services (like plumbing services in the article) vs diy instructions based on the location of user.

Of course that assumes people will use only AI for discovery but I suspect that future is not impossible or too far.
by nialse | 2025-11-22 08:32:07+00:00
Interesting. A more dystopian take is that human interaction will be limited to a privileged class. The unprivileged will ”have to do” with machine interaction. It’s not really something new. Automation lowers cost. But it the perpetual growth economy there also needs to be more profit, which leaves charging more and/or lowering cost even more as the only viable options. See where this is going? As with food, the unprivileged will have to do with energy rich, low quality, mass produced interaction. Music is the next/current frontier. The privileged will seek out in person events, while the unprivileged will ”have to do” with energy rich, low quality, mass produced machine made culture.
by torginus | 2025-11-22 08:32:54+00:00
I think one is the feeling of community - we have a workplace leaderboard and we compete with each other, discuss solutions to the problems, how we overcame them etc.

The second is the timing and pacing - the fist few days are about warming up, then comes a couple decently challenging puzzles, after which the whole thing gets very difficult. Having the discipline to actually spend the time every day to do the puzzles feels like going back to the gym and actually sticking to it.

I also get to solve these kind of coding puzzles at work very rarely - maybe once every couple of months - so the whole thing feels like an intense workout for my brain.

The downside is of course is that it's exhausting - later puzzles often took 1-2 hours for me to solve - during days where I have work related stress, this is not easy.
by Aerroon | 2025-11-22 08:33:00+00:00
But federal spending has been historically high ever since like the New Deal.

Budget-to-GDP ratio in the US is close to 40%. (On that note, you should really consider federal + state combined rather than just federal.)

In early 1900s this same ratio was around 5-10%.

It has been increasing pretty much everywhere during the 20th century. It has made me wonder whether much of the prosperity we've seen and felt might not be a result of this ever-increasing percentage. Essentially we're spending more and more and that makes it feel like we're progressing faster than we are. Eventually it's going to have to stop though and I dread what happens when we do.
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-22 08:33:49+00:00
On the opposite end of the spectrum I grew up near a Mormon family whom exclusively homeschooled their children. Their 'homeschooling' mostly consisted of using the older children to assist and babysit the younger children as they had about ten or so children, and naturally could not equally provide schooling for such a wide range of needs.

They were a nice family, but when I was in community college I had a chance to talk with one of the eldest who was there getting her GED. Last I recall, she held some resentment towards her parents because she was held back fairly significantly by her upbringing. Well, except for the fact that they were wealthy which helps smooth some of the problems.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-22 08:34:21+00:00
Exactly. So instead of electing the people who will allocate the resources, the people who are successful in one thing are given the right to manage the resources for whatever they wish and they can keep being very wrong for very long time when other people are deprived from the resources due to the mismanagement and can't do anything about it.

In theory I guess this creates a demand that should be satisfied by the market but in reality it seems like when the wealth is too concentrated in the hands of the few that call all the decision the market is unable to act.
by squigz | 2025-11-22 08:35:10+00:00
Maybe because "Fixing society" (putting aside questions of what that even means...) is going to take a long, long time and a lot of effort. Which isn't to say we shouldn't continue to fix it (hint: we do!) but it doesn't mean we should just ignore other ways of helping our kids.

> we will impose experimental drugs on kids

What a terribly disengeuous way of putting it! "Imposing" implies there's not a choice. And all drugs are experimental in that we are constantly learning about the effects they have on us and adjusting our knowledge accordingly.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-22 08:35:33+00:00
Because ten years ago Go was a rather different language? Because I don't work only in languages where I would consider myself an expert and so be confident I know every feature ?

This reminds me of a C programmer confidently insisting to me that bool had "always" been a keyword. Nope, only since C23 - but it had been used like a keyword anyway. So it makes sense many practitioners wouldn't know that.
by azalemeth | 2025-11-22 08:35:45+00:00
Indeed. Martin's a great name in the field -- the thing that has actually made most clinical proton MRI substantially better over the last twenty years has been parallel imaging (acquiring the magnetic resonance signal from different spatially separated devices known as RF coils) and associated reconstruction techniques such as compressed sensing.

Given the fact that macrocyclic gadolinium complexes accumulate in the brain and the linear ones dechelate I think very few companies are pursuing new agents. I've done some work with different ions (like Dy, which has Curie paramagnetism) but a lot of focus in the field is trying to find alternatives to gad and reduce its use. There are plenty of great ways of getting more info out of a machine that spans quantum mechanics to medicine, from the established but now actually useful and routine (like advanced diffusion models) to the sort of utterly mad techniques I work on... [0]

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz4334
by IshKebab | 2025-11-22 08:35:50+00:00
> But have you ever DESIGNED a microcontroller

Yes... But in fairness I was just talking about the digital RTL, not the messy analogue stuff (PLLs, power/reset, etc.) I've never done that.

> but software is definitely easier to modify, iterate and fix,

Definitely true.

> which is why sofware tools and resulting applications can evolve so fast.

Not sure I agree here though. It seems to me that EDA tools evolve super slowly because a) hardware engineers are timid old fogies who never want to learn anything new, and b) the big three have a monopoly on tooling.
by stavros | 2025-11-22 08:36:13+00:00
As far as I know, that's not how taxes work. You can't get a rebate for the amount of taxes you would have paid, you can get a deduction for the amount of money you made.

So:

You made $100M owe $40M in taxes.

Your painting is worth $30M! You have such a keen eye for art.

Now you made $130M and owe $50M in taxes.

You donate the painting, you're back at having made $100M and owing $40M.

Otherwise we'd all choose not to pay tax and donate our tax money to charitable institutions instead.
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-22 08:37:00+00:00
Urm, did you read a different article then the one linked?

Because there's isn't really an argument innit - at least none that I took notice of. Isn't it just exploring the reasons why it is like it is today? They even made it abundantly clear in the beginning (and in the comments here) that the rating is fine for the app

And for what conceivable reason would this need to have sure underage people aren't using it?

A period tracker has relevance in the context of a sexual relationship, but there is really nothing about it that needs to be censored from underage people. It is not explicit content. It's a specialized journal, that's it
by WalterBright | 2025-11-22 08:38:05+00:00
> that's such a weird policy

Yup. I've taken adult lessons in things, and I don't continue to buy lessons if the coach is unable to teach me. But in the public schools, watch what happens if you suggest merit pay. Shields up, Mr Sulu!

Instead, teacher pay is based on years of service and how many credentials you have.
by logicchains | 2025-11-22 08:38:22+00:00
>Probably because the commenter is not a medical professional and isn't qualified to judge the veracity of anything they find.

The average medical professional is worst-placed to judge the veracity of any studies they find than the average engineer or mathematician who's done a solid statistics and probability course. Medical students are assessed on their ability to memorise and regurgitate facts, not on their ability to conduct statistical analysis.
by Fsen | 2025-11-22 08:38:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this toolkit because most Pokémon randomizers are static text lists, and I wanted something with more "game feel".

It's a web app built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion.

Key features: 1. TCG Pack Simulator: Uses CSS animations to mimic the physical pack opening experience. 2. Team Builder: Includes filters for competitive formats (VGC, Smogon OU) using data from PokeAPI. 3. No sign-up required (local storage used for basic state).

I'd love to hear your feedback on the animation performance and UI interactions!