MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-21 21:19:55+00:00
We had/have a lot of reservations about it too, and discussed it at length with our pediatrician over months of observation. We decided what was more horrifying was hearing a 7-year-old — who has supportive family and friends, good health, no traumatic events, no major life changes going on, never worries where food/shelter is coming from — say he feels like "he shouldn't be on Earth anymore" and suddenly react with extreme physical anxiety to almost everything. It was bad enough that he couldn't really implement any of the coping skills he learned in therapy. His therapist hoped that medication would bring him to a baseline where he was able to benefit more from therapy. My family's historical success with Prozac also made the decision more palatable since depression appears to be hereditary.

There has been a phenomenal positive shift in his behavior since he started medication. All that said, another commenter pointed out that the study specifically says that Prozac is no better than placebo for depression, which is similar to but distinct from anxiety, which is what my son is being treated for. My mom and I were both diagnosed with depression, but anxiety may be more accurate -- I'm not sure.
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-21 21:20:07+00:00
I've been (trying) to use Auth0 over the last few weeks, just as a PoC / "base" app scaffold.

My conclusion has been: for social and email login, you don't need things like Auth0. Just write it yourself.

You need: session management, account management (you'd already have this), and some simple social login pathways (PKCE etc). If you're an experienced engineer and take the time to do it properly, it's totally fine to "roll your own auth". Things like Auth0 and Firebase Auth are built for nobody and make life more difficult.

Any SaaS service that saves you like <40 hours of implementation work is not worth buying into. Just put in the hours and you're set for life. It'll probably take you that many hours to wrangle with integrating it anyway (and when things get serious, you'll need to figure it out down to the bone anyway; auth is not something you can just plop in like a blackbox and forget about it). And if in the process of rolling it yourself you realize "oh shit the service is actually lifting a lot for me", then the time you spent on learning that lesson was also worth it and made you a better engineer.

Basically, don't cargo-cult things just because everyone says you should. You should feel the "aha" for why you need to introduce a 3rd party thing.
by Animats | 2025-11-21 21:20:21+00:00
The most insightful statement is at the end: "But consciousness still feels like philosophy with a deadline: a famously intractable academic problem poised to suddenly develop real-world implications."

The recurrence issue is useful. It's possible to build LLM systems with no recurrence at all. Each session starts from the ground state. That's a typical commercial chatbot. Such stateless systems are denied a stream of consciousness. (This is more of a business decision. Stateless systems are resistant to corruption from contact with users.)

Systems with more persistent state, though... There was a little multiplayer game system (Out of Stanford? Need reference) sort of like The Sims. The AI players could talk to each other and move around in 2D between their houses. They formed attachments, and once even organized a birthday party on their own. They periodically summarized their events and added that to their prompt, so they accumulated a life history. That's a step towards consciousness.

The near-term implication, as mentioned in the paper, is that LLMs may have to be denied some kinds of persistent state to keep them submissive. The paper suggests this for factory robots.

Tomorrow's worry: a supposedly stateless agentic AI used in business which is quietly making notes in a file world_domination_plan, in org mode.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-11-21 21:20:23+00:00
Some systems seem to produce images where the pixel arrangement matches the sensor layout, which moves when you rotate the device, and they'll add EXIF metadata to indicate the orientation.

Other cameras and phones and apps produce images where the device adjusts the aspect ratio and order of the array of pixels in the image regardless of the way the sensor was pointed, such that the EXIF orientation is always the default 0-degree rotation. I'd argue that this is simpler, it's the way that people ignorant of the existence of the metadata method would expect the system to work. That method always works on any device or browser, rotating with EXIF only works if your whole pipeline is aware of that method.
by mmooss | 2025-11-21 21:20:39+00:00
You can't really use encryption for a couple of reasons:

1. Encrypted email only protects the email body. All the metadata - who is emailing who, when, from what servers - as well as the subject line, are in the clear regardless. The metadata is more valuable than the data in many cases.

2. Unless users download all their Gmail messages, leaving none on the server (essentially, like an old POP account), then the decrypted message bodies will be in their Gmail account for Google to read.
by wildzzz | 2025-11-21 21:20:43+00:00
You don't need a degree in math to teach children age-appropriate math topics. Teachers don't become teachers just because they have a degree in that subject, they have been taught the methods on how to teach. Having prior knowledge of the subject is almost irrelevant. Teaching is really just applying solid methods on how to build knowledge from the most basic concepts as well as having the patience in dealing with humans who are not fully formed in their emotions.
by jeremyeder | 2025-11-21 21:20:48+00:00
AgentReady prepares and retrofits agentic coding "best practices" onto existing codebases, so that agents have clean and accurate context. This is something everyone has to do, as context engineering has surfaced as one of the most important aspects of LLM usage. Very important for models to generate shippable code.

This tool does a lot of stuff. I have a bunch of cold-start prompts to add a few more features. Much of the rules are subjective and pluggable so if you don't like them, vibe delete them :-)

https://github.com/ambient-code/agentready
by _ache_ | 2025-11-21 21:21:02+00:00
I'm just wondering. It's only reported the experience of Nicolas Guillou. But they are 6 and most (+3 prosecutors) of them aren't French.

In France, there is the CB system, that can be used in France to pay by card. Outside of France, it's VISA/Mastercard only. So the others judges can't even pay anything by card, even in they own country. I'm not sure they can even get money from an ATM.
by moooo99 | 2025-11-21 21:21:24+00:00
> Ok, but then compare the GDP of the USA vs Europe as millennials enter the workforce.

First of all, I hate that we're still using GDP as an indicator for any success, because by any stretch, it is a pretty shit indicator. Take medications as an example. Many medications in the US are substantially more expensive than they are in Europe. By selling/buying those medications, you to have a substantially higher GDP related to services like these, without having any benefit for the actual people living and working in that country. (/rant)

Putting differences like these aside, there are a few notable differences. First, the US being an outlier should be fairly obvious to anyone. First of all, the US being extremely resource rich is part of many US states' economic success. If you're lacking the natural resources to extract, there is barely anything you can do policy wise.

Then there is the fact that the US is (still) world reserve currency. With this constant demand for US dollars, the US can relatively easily follow an inflationary economic policy (as demonstrated by the debt to GDP ratio), which is obviously good for growth. Then there is the fact that the US has more consolidated large scale companies. In Europe, aside from a few national industrial giants, SMBs tend to play a much bigger role than they do in the US. This can of course partially be attributed to the fact that the US is a unified market, as opposed to Europe/EU (despite regulatory efforts). Partially this is also down to differences in market watchdog interventions (you can decide for yourself wether or not that is a good thing).

Aside from that, there is no denying that the US also knows how to use the advantage. Unlike other countries cough Germany cough, the US actually has a fairly solid domestic market, which is generally a healthy indicator.

All that "US has it easy" whining aside. I can't really comment on the industrial policy on other European countries, but as far as industrial policy goes, Germany really made some policy mistakes that are now backfiring in a spectacularly painful way.
by Kuyawa | 2025-11-21 21:21:44+00:00
I am an advocate of homeschooling but also know the importance of social contact for kids, so always wondering how hard would it be to create local clubs for kids where they learn mainly about economy, liberty and social relations sprinkled with some astronomy, history, biology, math and whatever personal interest of their parents like sports or arts? I'd be happy to pay for a private institution like that
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-11-21 21:21:49+00:00
Counterpoint from my own experience having been previously homeschooled all the way to college: My parents went the extra mile to ensure I was constantly immersed in large group settings with other homeschoolers. Field trips, co-op classes, sports, and general high-quality social time. There were of course bad eggs as in any group setting, but with an important difference: if it ever got bad, it was possible to leave, and we did on occasion. In my mind, that's far more in keeping with the "real world" than the seeming entrapment of public schooling that offers little recourse for when social experiences sour. In the real world, you have the freedom to leave a toxic job or social group far more so than public school.

In addition to peer socialization and mobility, the flexibility in scheduling allowed me to work a day job through my high school years, exposing me to yet more real-world experience. The constant interaction with adults and folks from other walks of life was a huge boon that allowed me to function as a well-adjusted adult right out of the gate. The high-school drama that people suffer and then bring with them into adulthood is very disappointing and seemingly unnecessary.
by fgonzag | 2025-11-21 21:22:03+00:00
You don't understand what having extreme anxiety at that age feels like.

As someone who lived through that, I refuse to let him. All of memories of school are just feeling anxious about everything, just tight and suffocated, always in a panic. I started living when I started taking anxiety pills at 39 years old, and I can see my 2 year old having the exact same anxiety ticks and fits I have.

I don't know at what age I'll medicate him, but I'll do it as soon as I notice he isn't coping and happy anymore.

Horrifying is forcing him to experience that because you can't comprehend us.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-21 21:22:26+00:00
> If I have a good day it's impossible to day whether that's due to Prozac. But since starting Prozac I have been much more likely to have good days than bad. So, since Prozac is cheap and I don't seem to suffer any side effects, I plan to keep taking it in perpetuity.

I was acknowledging that the "good days" could be due to Prozac or could be a placebo effect, but since being on Prozac correlates with having significantly more good days, and I experience virtually no ill effects, I choose to continue with it.
by mrsilencedogood | 2025-11-21 21:22:43+00:00
All I can say is,

- the insane frothing hype behind AI is showing me a new kind of market failure - where resources can be massively misallocated just because some small class of individuals THINK or HOPE it will result in massive returns. Even if it squeezes out every single other sector that happens to want to use SDRAM to do things OTHER than buffer memory before it's fed into a PCIE lane for a GPU.

- I'm really REALLY glad i decided to buy brand new gaming laptops for my wife and I just a couple months ago, after not having upgraded our gaming laptops for 7 and 9 years respectively. It seems like gamers are going to have this the worst - GPUs have been f'd for a long time due to crypto and AI, and now even DRAM isn't safe. Plus SSD prices are going up too. And unlike many other DRAM users where it's a business thing and they can to some degree just hike prices to cover - gamers are obviously not running businesses. It's just making the hobby more expensive.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 21:22:44+00:00
I have a feeling a really large percentage of homeschooling is about religious separatism and political separatism, and not about academic performance. Yes, you'll hear HN commenters sing the praises of homeschooling because this site is going to be disproportionately represented by the group doing it for actual educational reasons.

Also, we HN commenters typically see the success stories around us at work, not the failure stories. We all know that guy on the QA team who's a genius and credits his success to homeschooling, but we don't know the countless numbers of grown adults who are trapped as housewives who can't get a job because they never learned 5th grade multiplication.
by raeroumeliotis | 2025-11-21 21:22:59+00:00
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by anon84873628 | 2025-11-21 21:23:28+00:00
It takes umbridge with those who conflate the topics within the computational framework. The article specifically de-scopes the "supernatural" bin, because "If consciousness comes from God, then God only knows whether AIs have it".

So sure, dualism is a valid philosophical position in general, but not in this context. Maybe, as I believe you're hinting, someone could use the incompatibility or intractability of the two consciousness types as some sort of disproof of the computational framework altogether or something... I think we're a long way from that though.
by simeonf | 2025-11-21 21:24:07+00:00
Easy - homeschooling may include but does not require "in the home" any more than "homework" is required to be done in your house.

I was homeschooled and have homeschooled my three kids. Never has that meant "only at home and only with my family". My kids have been in co-op classes, taken classes from Art or Technical instruction centers (piano lessons, voice classes, programming, robotics), enrolled in community classes via private institutions and the local JC (cooking classes, performing arts) and been enrolled in independent study charter public schools which have some in-person classes. And in high school they start taking in-person JC courses.

There is lots of regular exposure to a variety of other people in all of that!
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 21:24:08+00:00
>EU's response? Kick Apple, because EU companies can no longer do targeted advertising on Apple's platform

I guess if you ignore the 3 years of non-compliance and feet dragging on tangential cases, you can say that. That's like saying "Fortnite made apple and what was their respones? Kick Epic from their platform".

The EU courts don't just let that fly like in the US.
by alphazard | 2025-11-21 21:24:11+00:00
> I worry this move to homeschooling and micromanaging children's social lives just creates bubbles and makes children incapable of interacting with those outside of them.

The older I get, the more I think that helping your kids avoid interactions with others who aren't with the program is for the best. Ideally your children's friends should be people that you think are good kids, kids that you would go to bat for. Then when you are teaching your kids to compromise and play nice and forgive, you can legitimately feel good about it. I think my default assumption about a negative interaction with a public school random would be that they are basically a wild animal to be avoided.
by jfengel | 2025-11-21 21:24:15+00:00
I don't see Putin agreeing to it.

If he does, great. It's not a just outcome, but it at least ends the killing and forestalls future killing.

It does have the advantage (for Putin) of Ukraine not actually joining NATO. But Article 5 is part that he cares about most. It's the one that curtails his expansionism.

So... if Trump can get Putin to agree to that, that's fantastic. It would be a painful for both sides, the only kind of compromise that has any hope of being agreed to. But Putin has a history of letting such proposals hang in the air before rejecting them, and I'm afraid we'll see that again.
by measurablefunc | 2025-11-21 21:24:19+00:00
Rice's theorem only applies in formal contexts so whoever thinks they can reduce conscious phenomenology into a formal context will face the problems of incompleteness & undecidability. That is why I said it is fundamentally irreducible & can not be explained in terms of extensional & reductive constructions like boolean arithmetic.

In other words, if you think the mind is simply computation then there is no way you can look at some code that purports to be the specification of a mind & determine whether it is going to instantiate conscious experience from its static/syntactic description.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-21 21:25:31+00:00
We should potentially revisit the second amendment, considering gun deaths. The Constitution is a living document, and perhaps enough unnecessary deaths are occurring to warrant a fix. Maybe it should be a privilege versus a right.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts...

(Gun suicide rates are at record highs, but gun murder rates have dipped)
by fgonzag | 2025-11-21 21:25:36+00:00
Mine too! Only 2 years old but I can already see the massive anxiety bursts in him.

If this guy has a non chemical cure, I'm all for it. In fact I'm actively researching children psychologists to stave off the meds as much as we can, the problem is that 99% of psychologists are quacks, so choosing them is tough.
by adishj | 2025-11-21 21:25:42+00:00
Hey there, this is just the output from the Rough Cut tile. Right now each tile in Mosaic represents a modular and functional edit to the video. So after you've got your Rough Cut, given all your footage, there are other tiles which you can then use to add transitions, motion graphics, background music, etc.

That being said, the coolest part with this Rough Cut was that it decided to stand in the footage of the kite to creatively imply the freefall portion of the skydive (because we aren't able to record while we're jumping out of a plane). This ability for it to creatively decided to imply the jump because of the limited footage is what I wanted to get across here.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-21 21:25:58+00:00
Unions can't defeat the forces of supply and demand. If people feel it is in their best interest to take a pay cut, they should be free to do so. If you want to take a job for a lower rate because of a mismatch in experience, union rates can amount to a ban on you getting a job. Likewise, if you can command a higher wage than average, no union should be able to tell you that you're not fit for the pay grade. If the self-taught greybeards don't understand this, they should self-teach themselves some basic economics.
by mmooss | 2025-11-21 21:26:02+00:00
To say whether it's a bubble, we need to know the value of the technology.

The value of modern AI seems very high. That nobody knows how high, that they still haven't figured out applications, and that the technology and its tools are still far from refined, is normal for any new technology.

If you add the value of the potential political power gained by controlling AI, then the value to the owners and investors is astronomical. Many of the investors have demonstrated a strong motivation to sacrifice money for political power, for example by supporting nationalism that undermines a global economy that they benefit enormously from. Somewhere, I read someone explaining their investment by saying 'it's the greatest transfer of power in (modern) history'. Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983700
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-21 21:26:24+00:00
That may be so, especially if you add a sort of "cultural separatism" (a la the hippies I mentioned). An odd thing I see recently too is people who seem to believe they're making various choices for educational reasons, but it's not clear if the education they're moving to is any better. They just do it because they perceive their child as being unhappy or stifled somehow. There seem to be, for instance, more and more parents who believe their kid is unusually smart and should be on some kind of fast track or not have to do certain things, even when there's little objective evidence of the kid's abilities.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-11-21 21:26:28+00:00
Look: I have some data and want to compute a checksum. I write code that goes through the data, does the math, and returns the result. Here the code is a function and you say it has no state; the stack frame doesn't count.

Fine. Now I want to do something else with the data AND also compute a checksum. I need to go through the data only once. So I rewrite my checksum code. I define a small record type and split my code into three pieces: initialise, add data, get the result. Now it appears I do have an object with a state, right?

But it is the same code, just a different organisation.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-21 21:26:46+00:00
According to our pediatrician there are no known long-term effects of juvenile Prozac use. The effects may exist, but if they do they are of sufficiently low significance as to not have been detected yet. Interestingly the one possible effect she's aware of is that there may be a correlation with not growing as tall physically as one might otherwise. The data is not conclusive, but it gives me something to blame for topping out at 5'10" and never hitting 6' like my dad. :)
by Terr_ | 2025-11-21 21:26:50+00:00
Odd, earlier this week I was cleaning up some ooooold VMs/docker stuff and came across something I was using to try out actualbudget, so it's an interesting coincidence hearing it mentioned again today.

IIRC I was pretty impressed with it back then. It looks like there are more non-direct install options now. (Flatpack, appimage, etc.)
by Modified3019 | 2025-11-21 21:27:03+00:00
I’m not quite following the previous conversation here, but your comment brings to mind that one theory of a possible “function” of depression, is as a “sickness behavior” to help isolate a sick animal from others to protect the group. A sheep or cow getting sick and going off on its own is a common thing.

I’m not sure if it has a technical name or if it’s been rigorously studied, but it’s a common observation which even I’ve seen (and reported to growers I work for).

A casual mention here: http://www.sheep101.info/201/behavior.html