MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coastalpuma | 2025-11-22 17:37:41+00:00
I really wish homebrew supported this feature. There are a bunch of terminal tools I have installed through it (and wouldn't make sense to sandbox) that are basically one-person projects, and I imagine subject to supply chain compromises. I don't urgently need the very latest versions for any of them, as they are unlikely to have exploitable security vulnerabilities on my machine (due to not being involved with any network facing service).
by overfeed | 2025-11-22 17:37:41+00:00
You're not doing yourself any favors by labeling people who disagree with you undereducated or uninformed. There is enough over-hyped products/techniques/models/magical-thinking to warrant skepticism. At the root of this thread is an argument to (paraphrasing) encouraging people to just wait until someone solves major problems instead of tackling it themselves. This is a broad statement of faith, if I've ever seen one, in a very religious sense: "Worry not, the researchers and foundation models will provide."

My skepticism and intuition that AI innovations are not exponential, but sigmoid are not because I don't understand what gradient-descent, transformers, RAG, CoT, or multi-head attention are. My statement of faith is: the ROI economics are going to catch up with the exuberance way before AGI/ASI is achieved; sure, you're getting improving agents for now, but that's not going to justify the 12- or 13-digit USD investments. The music will stop, and improvements slow to a drip

Edit: I think at it's root, the argument is between folk who think AI will follow the same curve as past technological trends, and those who believe "It's different this time".
by Eextra953 | 2025-11-22 17:38:17+00:00
Across the US, the majority (2/3-ish) of children already live in families where both parents are employed. I don't see free childcare moving that statistic more than a few percentage points at best. I'm skeptical that this policy would encourage more parents to work and further raise housing costs, especially since this would mostly affect families with children who are pre-K. It is a big policy change but the number of families it will affect is quite small I think. If it does have any effect on housing cost I would expect to see it at the very low-end since it would help low-earners the most.
by kace91 | 2025-11-22 17:39:22+00:00
I can imagine an argument for checking basic abilities of a parent for extreme cases, where the kid's life might be in danger (extreme psychiatric problems, drug addiction, sex offenders, etc).

This is completely different and fully dystopic, though. looking at Rorschach tests? cultural trivia like asking about mother Teresa? What is happenning in denmark that allows this process to exist?

I feel this part is also particularly damning:

>Like Zammi, her son was meant to have been taken away immediately after birth.

>But because he was born prematurely on Boxing Day and social workers were on holiday, she and her husband Ulrik got to keep him for 17 days.

So the state decides that the child is in enough danger to justify removal from their family. Let's say they truly, honestly believe this is a dangerous enough situation to justify the measure. It is then fine to leave the newborn with those parents for weeks due to scheduling conflicts?
by drtgh | 2025-11-22 17:39:28+00:00
Intel's consumer processors (and therefore the mainboards/chipsets) used to have four memory channels, but around the year 2020 this was suddenly limited to two channels since the 12th generation (AMD's consumer processors had always two channels, with exception of Threadriper?).

However this does not make sense, as for more than a decade the processors have only grown increasing the number of threads, therefore two channels sounds like a negligent and deliberately imposed bottleneck to access the memory if one use all those threads (Lets say 3D render, Video postproduction, Games, and so on).

And if one want four channels to surpass such imposed bottleneck, the mainboards that nowadays have four channels don't contemplate consumer use, therefore they have one or two USB connectors with three or four LAN connectors at prohibitive prices.

We are talking about consumer quad-channel DDR4 machines ten years old, wildly spread, keeps being competent compared with current consumers ones, if not better. It is like if all were frozen along this years (and what remains to be seen with such pattern).

Now it is rumoured that AMD may opt for four channels for its consumer lines due to the increased number of pin connectors (good news if true).

It is a bad joke what the industry is doing to customers.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-22 17:39:37+00:00
Several of the UBI pilot studies included new venture creation (including solo self-employment, not just classic business creation) as part of their measurements. The last few I looked at had zero difference in new business creation between recipients and control group.

A lot of the UBI trials have actually had disappointing results. The arguments usually claim that it’s not a valid test because it wasn’t guaranteed for life, or the goalposts move to claim that UBI shouldn’t be about anything other than improving safety nets.

Unfortunately I think the UBI that many people imagine is a lot higher than any UBI that would be mathematically feasible. Any UBI system that provided even poverty level wages would require significant tax increases to pay for it, far beyond what you could collect from the stereotypical “just tax billionaires” ideal. Try multiplying the population of the US by poverty level annual income and you’ll see that the sum total is a huge number. In practice, anyone starting a business would probably end up paying more in taxes under a UBI scheme than they’d collect from the UBI payments.
by arunabha | 2025-11-22 17:40:01+00:00
I'm not from Brazil, so I'm curious if you're saying the court broke some law by imposing house arrest on Bolsonaro? This part of the article makes it seem like it was done pretty legally.

> In a statement, Federal Police said it executed a preventive arrest warrant > that had been requested by the police themselves and authorized by the > Supreme Court, CNN affiliate CNN Brasil reported.
by prymitive | 2025-11-22 17:40:04+00:00
> I'm not going to pay $5/month for every blog that I occasionally read

Would you pay per view? Most people (me included) would probably hesitate to say yes, because we’re used to not paying for that. But what if it meant that ad based model is gone and everything you buy is cheaper because the price does not include the cost of running ads?
by Retric | 2025-11-22 17:40:13+00:00
Trust is irrelevant, families gain the after tax income of working mothers but society gains not just the pretax value but the actual value of work generated. Thus subsidizing childcare and moving the needle to align society’s benefits and family benefits is a net gain without the issue of trust being involved.

The same is true of quality public education etc, however creating US vs THEM narratives are politically powerful even if they don’t actually reflect reality.
by TexanFeller | 2025-11-22 17:41:05+00:00
> the idea that, "Every should must come reinforced by a want."

I haven't heard that before...I need time to ponder and process that, but on the surface it sounds like gold!

The parents and town I grew up with were extremely religious and authoritarian. I grew up hearing how our personal desires should be ignored and suppressed, and only the will of God and authority figures matters. I think neurotypical people may be more able to function with such a mindset, but it's a losing battle for ADHD brains to try to force themselves too far from their natural wants/interests. Especially since lack of emotional regulation is a significant(but less discussed) difference for ADHD, focusing first on emotions and reorienting wants before focusing on getting the task at hand done might make a lot of sense for us.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-22 17:41:28+00:00
GPS was always intended for both civilian and military purposes, dating back to its inception in the 1970s. In response to the downing of KAL 007 by the Russians in 1983, civilian access to satellite navigation became an explicit guarantee. But that wasn't really an operational turning point, just a clarification of policy.

Before KAL 007, GPS was unaffordable to most users, and not widely developed commercially because there was still uncertainty about whether it would remain available in the long run.
Show HN: Santamon – Lightweight macOS threat detection agent
by 0x4d31 | 2025-11-22 17:41:47+00:00
a lightweight macOS detection agent that taps into Santa’s Endpoint Security telemetry, runs CEL detection rules locally on-device, and only ships high-signal alerts to a tiny backend. basically a poor man’s macOS EDR for home labs and small fleets!
by abigail95 | 2025-11-22 17:41:47+00:00
To extend the closing remarks from a SIGINT perspective, sure some fingerprints are non unique and short lived, have little data. But hang onto it long enough and sure enough some slower data from another band might eventually correlate it with something else.

The last time I looked at this seriously I was trying to find out how much fidelity (if it was possible at all) was necessary to identify someone by their mouse and keyboard input.

It's not just what you do but how you do it.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-22 17:42:05+00:00
Reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T-pVFp3qY4

Guy in Scotland gets drunk at a party and stumbles back into the wrong house and falls asleep on their couch. Greeted in the morning by strangers offering him coffee and a cigarette and everyone having a laugh about it. That's much more like the world I'd prefer to live in than whatever the fuck is wrong with this country and 40% of its population.
by retrac | 2025-11-22 17:43:00+00:00
Here in Toronto, every once in a while, someone has a meltdown (if you'll forgive the expression) when they rediscover that there is a CANDU nuclear fuel manufacturing plant in their dense and quiet suburb.

Now CANDU reactors run on natural uranium. So they're forming metal pellets out of uranium powder. The main risk is direct chemical toxicity from the uranium, not the radiation. But for many people "nuclear fuel" might as well mean hot nuclear waste.

The mystical level of dread it inspires in some is hard to overstate. Just to avoid drama from the neighbours it's understandable they try to keep quiet.
by dmoy | 2025-11-22 17:43:05+00:00
GP is pointing out that Medicare costs for the individual are about the same as ACA or cobra. It's not cheaper, unless you have the work credits to cut down on part A premiums.

So Medicare as-is for kids wouldn't be significantly cheaper than ACA for kids.

To make it cheaper, you'd need to either substantially increase the subsidy on Medicare, or decrease US medical costs (administration costs, drug costs, doctor salaries, etc)
by sudosteph | 2025-11-22 17:43:20+00:00
I'm not knocking it. My parents didn't use licensed daycare for preschool for me or my sister. Just dropped us off at some old lady's house and paid her cash for watching us. 99% of arrangements like that work out fine. It may be suboptimal, but usually it's at least fine.

I'm actually wondering if the program will make a big dent though. One issue with formal childcare arrangements is that the hours tend to not be flexible. Parents who have to work til 6 some nights, or who have nontraditional work schedules in general may not be better served by the state's option.
by rozap | 2025-11-22 17:43:32+00:00
Growing up, homeschool kids were absolutely weird as hell. Sure, some turn out fine, but it's very hard to do right, and requires parents putting their kids outside of everyone's comfort zone, which is... uncomfortable, so it rarely happens.

The homeschooled neighbor kid from a super religious family absolutely went off the deep end at 18. Many such cases.
by undeveloper | 2025-11-22 17:43:37+00:00
> Depression is literally a lack of meaning and beauty.

actually, "depression" or major depressive disorder is literally a mental illness, which has a genetic link. it is not a "lack of meaning or beauty" -- to suggest every depressed person who killed themselves had no "meaning" for life is deeply disrespectful to every parent, child, sibling, partner that killed themselves.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-22 17:43:56+00:00
> Don't forget the "1% of the recipients are fraudulent

It’s complicated. Having 1% fraudulent recipients despite having very thorough and deep vetting processes should be a clue that fraud is a big problem.

The fallacy is assuming that the fraud rate would stay the same if we removed the checks. It would not. The 1% fraud rate is only what gets through the current checks. The more you remove the checks, the higher the fraud rate.

When systems remove all fraud checks, the amount of fraud is hard to fathom if you’ve never been on the side of a fraud detection effort.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-22 17:44:29+00:00
I didn't say anything about school. This article is about childcare for children below school age. But basic education is also actually quite cheap and easy to provide. Abraham Lincoln was educated in a one room school house. We have made it expensive by turning it into a bureaucratic nightmare with administrators, school boards, lawyers, and PTAs, when all you really need is a few good teachers who are given the authority to set and enforce high standards.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-22 17:44:54+00:00
> Any UBI system that provided even poverty level wages would require significant tax increases to pay for it

Or cutting other things to pay for it, in addition to smaller tax increases. And the costs go down once it's bootstrapped long enough to obtain the long-term economic benefits that grow the economy (which will take a while to materialize).

Honestly, my biggest concern with it is that people will (rightfully) worry that it won't last more than 4-8 years because the subsequent administration will attack it with everything they have, and thus treat it as temporary.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-22 17:45:54+00:00
I have a suspicion a lot of the “why did wages stop keeping pace with the growth of the economy?” problem is because real productivity hasn’t been growing nearly as fast as our measures of it. But the measures are tied to ways for capitalists to extract more money, so that fake-growth does make line go up for owners. But there’s not nearly as much more actual work getting done as one might think from the numbers.

I mean what, 10ish% of our entire GDP in the US, and IIRC that’s generously low, is being throwing in a fire from excessive spending on healthcare for effectively no actual benefit, versus peer states. And that’s just one fake-productivity issue (though one that affects the US more than most). But our GDP would drop if we fixed that!
by pessimizer | 2025-11-22 17:46:41+00:00
> This is a largely non-commercial movement.

That's strange, because literally the only place I see blogs being back is on Substack. And the only way to get people to visit Substack is through social media; twitter, really. You start a Substack when you get good at twitter, then you start doing podcasts and cross-promotion after your Substack starts doing well.

I actually like this, except that the platforms are all pretty much monopolies in their spaces. But it's very commercial. 10000 people paying $2 a month, and you can make a nice living.
by bikelang | 2025-11-22 17:46:42+00:00
My blog is probably more detrimental to my “brand” than helpful. I also couldn’t care less about the self-promotion or monetization aspect or anything of that sort. I find writing and the act of creating to be a type of catharsis. I write exclusively for me.

If you feel the occasional urge to blog - maybe just be self indulgent about it? I get a strange sense of satisfaction from twiddling with the CSS on a rainy afternoon. Just my random 2p that nobody asked for :)
by labcomputer | 2025-11-22 17:46:47+00:00
> IPv6 without a NAT exposes information about different devices inside the private network.

In practice this has not been true for over 20 years.

IPv6 devices on SLAAC networks (which is to say, almost all of them) regularly rotate their IPv6 address. The protocol also explicitly encourages (actually, requires) hosts to have more than one IPv6 address active at any given time.

You are also making a wrong assumption that the externally visible address and port ranges chosen by the NAT device do not make the identity of internal devices easily guessable.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-22 17:46:50+00:00
> These homes where founded and administered by boards made up of the client's families. Importantly, they were non-profit; they lacked the massive overhead that comes with shareholder obligations and executive salaries+perks.

Paramedic here. Those are the good ones, where families come together. Or a family, investing heavily in taking care of their own, brings others in.

But sadly, it can go the other way too, where the other residents are just supplementing the household income to look after grandma while they slowly fade away in their rooms.

But I also have a special ire for the nursing homes that call 911 for anything larger than a bandaid, citing policy and insurance, all the while advertising for, and charging residents sometimes five digits a month, for "24/7 nursing care!"
by Frannky | 2025-11-22 17:47:31+00:00
I use CLI Terminals as agent frameworks. You have big tech and open source behind them. All the problems are solved with zero work. They take care of new problems. You don't need to remove all the stuff that becomes outdated because the latest model doesn't make the same mistakes. Free via free tiers, cheap via openai compatible open source models like z.ai. Insanely smart and can easily talk to MCP servers.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-22 17:47:55+00:00
A Danish supermarket had a loyalty program where you'd collect point and could get Duralex drinking glasses for the points. We got probably 25 of them, I don't think I'd consider buying anything else going forward, the quality is absolutely worth the minimal extra cost. You can get six for around €25EUR that is basically free.

I don't agree that they aren't price competitive, at least on normal drinking glasses.
by the_af | 2025-11-22 17:48:12+00:00
By predatory I meant addiction driven free 2 play games where players are encouraged to spend money on "coins" or whatever to speed up the game, gain more turns, or skip boring parts, with a lot of grinding. A kind of gameplay that preys on addictive personality and relies on "whales" to spend money they don't have.

Have they changed this? What good games not following this scheme have they done since 2022? A sibling commenter mentioned Zynga now does mobile casino games, which would indicate they continue to be predatory.

I really think videogame companies like Zynga are not worth saving: they deserve to crash and burn.
by Teever | 2025-11-22 17:48:32+00:00
This kind of dismissive attitude and condescending tone is a big part of why people don't trust people who say "trust us, you don't need to know what we're doing to those animals in the secret basement at the university."

For the record I am not American and I have sat in on a few institutional review board meetings that pertained to animal welfare relating to a project that I was involved with.
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-22 17:48:33+00:00
Yes but there has to be some kind of self-reinforcing circularity to the value of that story, or the price of a da Vinci would be roughly inflationary or even under it and therefore not a good investment. Da Vinci's story isn't substantially changing (and doesn't even have a bunch of aging, rich, nostalgic people at exactly the right age-wealth point relative to the material in question to drive prices like Superman) and there are only more famous people over time, so the percentage of all famous pointings taken by da Vinci will decrease. There are no new practical uses for paintings being discovered. While the older the work gets the more it is worth, it's 500 years old already, so even an extra 50 years is only a small increase in its relative historicity (0.2% per year, so well under the region of inflation)
by fragmede | 2025-11-22 17:48:35+00:00
> Mental health, addiction, and deep trauma cannot be solved with money

You use the money to pay for goods and services. Services like staff and therapists and psychologists and case workers. And yes, the occasional administrator as well. "Real treatment doesn't just happen. It's expensive, but under capitalism, you use the money to get it for the people that need it. The problem that I've seen volunteering is that money gets siphoned off, away from the people it's supposed to help, and it goes into pockets that part of the non-profit's stated mission.
by slg | 2025-11-22 17:48:40+00:00
This is a perfect summary of that "toxic and deadly" culture. Why are police treated as a dumb tool that will always respond to violence with more violence? Why is the onus on the criminals to deescalate the situation? Why doesn't the duty of enforcing the law come with a bigger burden to keeping the peace? And why do the police not have any culpability in violence they helped escalate?
by godelski | 2025-11-22 17:49:10+00:00
Doesn't the smartphone already far surpass the Telescreen's capabilities and presence? It does more and we carry them in our pockets.

Do people not realize we're beyond 1984? In 1984 the tech wasn't always listening, rather it had the capacity to. Much of it was about how not knowing meant you'd act as if you were just in case. It was making reference to totalitarian states where you don't know if you can freely talk to your neighbor or if they'd turn you in, where people end up creating a double speak
by shagie | 2025-11-22 17:49:25+00:00
That's the idea behind meal prep Sunday... and you get things like https://www.reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday/comments/1p365m1/ten... or https://www.reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday/comments/1ov08r8/get...

That is certainly cheaper than individual and gets benefits from the scale. It isn't something that everyone can do (or tolerate eating the same thing every day for the next week).
by meagher | 2025-11-22 17:49:56+00:00
This was a worry for me when leaving my full time job in 2022 to work on open source. Our OSS project was able to pay rent, but was concerned about healthcare costs for my partner and me (NY state has extended COBRA coverage, but it's extremely expensive). My co-founder lives in Australia, which has free basic health care, so he was up for leaving his job before I was.

Taking the risk was one of the best decisions I've made, but if I had a chronic health condition/higher healthcare costs, probably would not have been comfortable.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-22 17:50:09+00:00
The article doesn't even mention that this company already went bankrupt once this century, in 2008. Like some of the other posters, I furnished my cupboards with Duralex decades ago and never needed any more. In the same way, I filled my flatware drawers with Oneida decades before Oneida disappeared, and my plates are all from some long-forgotten Swedish stoneware maker, and I bought all my furniture from a dead Italian brand at a showroom that no longer exists in San Francisco. I have a personal pet theory on this, which is that the astronomical cost of housing has squeezed out all other aspects of home furnishing from people's budgets, in a race to the bottom where the last brand standing is Ikea.