MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-11-21 19:51:32+00:00
You're free to call contract law and private property law "regulations", but recognize that these branches of law have very different properties, history, and functions than what we traditionally refer to by regulations. Traditionally, when people talk about regulations they are talking about legislation, i.e., rules and decrees created by a legislative body, voted into law by some parliamentary body or created by an executive agency to support decrees of a parliamentary or similar body with the power to declare law. You can think of this as legislation or declaratory law.

Contrast this with contract and property law. These laws were created primarily out of common law, a long evolutionary process arising out of series of decisions from a judiciary attempting to reconcile conflicts between the parties. This is judicial or conciliatory law.

Crucially, most if not all the advances and the rise of extreme productivity from capitalism that supports populations in excess of 8 billion as opposed to about 0.5 billion, have come from emphasis and pre-eminence on the latter kind of law and the smashing of the former kind of law, i.e., the destruction of the guild system of privileges, removing or minimizing protectionist laws, etc. And the former kind of law has either been nominal, merely codifying the advances caused by the latter law like in the case of child labor, or it has been reactionary and hampered the progress of the latter sort of law.
by libertine | 2025-11-21 19:51:42+00:00
Cars it's not about safety, they have been made worse in terms of maintenance costs, and that's where a lot of the money is made.

You need OEM parts, or you can't simply buy a piece that broke, but you need a whole module.

The trend seems to be locking crap with software.

So in a way, while they improved greatly in terms of safety, maintenance and parts it's completely absurd.
by esbranson | 2025-11-21 19:52:10+00:00
Just like with mental health care (a noted contributing cause), the undeniable truth is that state and local governments are to blame for deteriorating quality of life, not the federal government. The states are piggybacking off Medicaid and SSI to house the insane in the community (pseudo-institutions pretending not to be) as a fraudulent and deadly workaround to the IMD exclusion, often backed by the imperial judiciary. SSI pays the rent, Medicaid pays the "community services", and Olmstead gives political cover. Everyone loses, not just those with SMI, but the addicted, the non-addicted poor, and everyone else using or depending on community and shared services.

Government-funded propaganda like NPR and PBS and their local affiliates have been instrumental in the obfuscation and half truths, so good riddance to them. Replacing them with blogs like this will be slow but ultimately better for everyone.
by toasterlovin | 2025-11-21 19:52:45+00:00
> My wife is fairly unusual in that she runs her own full-time business. Many moms don’t like her, presumably because they gave up their careers to do this and are jealous that she does both.

FWIW, my experience is that the dynamic at play in these situations is that women who run their own businesses or otherwise have high-powered careers tend to have a constellation of personality traits that is significantly shifted vs. those of stay at home moms, plus their daily lives are very different, so they don't really fit in. Saying that without value judgement, just an observation.
by dkhenry | 2025-11-21 19:52:49+00:00
No, my wife and I discussed putting them into traditional school as they got older, but now that they are older, they have all strongly requested to remain in their homeschool co-op. I think the biggest reason is they have a good group of friends that they connect with, and have been their class mates for multiple years. So there is a strong desire to continue in the program with people they know.
by ianferrel | 2025-11-21 19:52:54+00:00
>Everyone benefits from it except the consumer, who's the only party who can't choose.

But of course they can choose. They can choose to not go to those events and venues and do other things with their time.

And I expect that pro sports will look back on these moves and realize that they cannibalized their future fan growth for higher revenues today. I go to fewer pro sports games than I might otherwise both because of the absolute cost and because it feels bad to pay a bunch for a ticket and then also have to pay like $15 for a hot dog. And I take my kids to fewer than my parents took me to for similar reasons.
by negzero7 | 2025-11-21 19:53:02+00:00
You might actually be referring to yourself. Homeschoolers are better educated, more likely to get into college, and have better socialization skills than their publicly educated peers.

https://nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/#:~:text=r...

https://chewv.org/college-preparation/college-admissions/?ut...

https://nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/?utm_sourc...
by noboostforyou | 2025-11-21 19:53:29+00:00
As the parent of a small child, there is a very noticeable difference in social skills that develop immediately as a result of my child being in a daycare interacting with other children of a similar age. Compared to my friends' same age children who are mostly staying at home and babysat by a grandparent.

(as a disclaimer, the daycare has very good teachers/caregivers from what I can tell so I'm sure that's part of it as well)
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-21 19:53:42+00:00
And the "people actually want worse, cheaper products."

iPhone sales numbers, as an example, say otherwise. If it was universally true that people just want cheap crap, everyone would rush to get whatever $200 budget motorola android the carrier is hawking for "free."

I could seen an argument that people want cheaper products, but certainly not worse. Airlines aren't the best example because margins are pretty low, but food concessions? Insane markup, consumer should expect them to just eat the cost of making a better product for cheaper, they certainly have the margin to do so.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-21 19:53:49+00:00
Boycotts don’t work unless they are organized and articulate a concrete demand. I respect boycotts that have an organization behind them and a clear end goal, even if that goal may be far off.

When organizers ask for a boycott that may take years, their goal should be worthy to justify the consumer pain. BDS is a good example, it will take a while but stopping the apartheid Israeli regime is good.

https://bdsmovement.net/

A less intensive campaign is the Starbucks Union’s no contract no coffee pledge, which presumably will last only weeks to months.

https://www.nocontractnocoffee.org/
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by tcodeking | 2025-11-21 19:53:51+00:00
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by oceanplexian | 2025-11-21 19:53:53+00:00
Who’s to say that they wouldn’t be more socialized, not less?

It used to be folk wisdom that beating your kids built character, teachers would even slap kids with a ruler back in the 1950s. Could you say the same about bullies, cliques, popularity contests, and all the other performative nonsense that goes on in public schools?

Maybe it’s all bullshit and giving kids a safe environment to learn at their own pace without all these distractions makes them better equipped for the modern world?
by beloch | 2025-11-21 19:54:01+00:00
As for dating apps...

The great thing about the dating app biz is that the competition is universally awful at providing good matches that lead to long term relationships. The same goes for pro match-makers, speed-dating events, etc.. It's a hard problem to predict what makes two people click together, even if you get them to meet face to face.

These companies aren't enshittifying their products to make money. They were just never good to begin with. Dating success still boils down to the shotgun approach. So, it becomes a question about who can fool the most users with false claims and reach the critical mass required to load buckshot in everybody's blunderbusses.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-21 19:54:17+00:00
> can the law justly require me to avert my eyes as the emperor walks past?

Given that you chose to get the implant, I'd say the answer is yes. What you have done is no different than walking around with a camera and taking pictures of everything your eyes point at. So it can be regulated the same way.

> And what of the martian

If she sets foot in our jurisdiction, then she's toast.
by projektfu | 2025-11-21 19:54:32+00:00
The ultimate dating app/service would fill everyone's needs for a short period of time and make them feel good about it, to have them back the next weekend for another go. This means that people traditionally left in the cold would get something out of it, and people who feel like dating lacks meaning would find meaning, etc., but they would get their fill in a date or two, and be back looking again.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-11-21 19:54:40+00:00
This is very anecdotal. Here in the south, the "controversial, left-ish values" would be a breath of fresh air vs what is being taught here

> Schools have stopped educating in favor of test metrics, making sure the worst students pass

This is no child left behind in action, which was implemented during W's term

> With remote education during the pandemic, people have more visibility into their school's day-to-day teaching

^ This is the micromanagement that a ton of people claim to hate and get in their way on this site when folks are complaining about daily standups.

IMO, if you're worried about the quality of your kid's education then you'll either need to send them to a private or home school, which will stunt them socially because life isn't just one big private school or home, or encourage curiosity and learning at home to supplement their rote learning from school
by buran77 | 2025-11-21 19:54:45+00:00
> arguably, none of them should

Indisputably, once someone has a hammer, especially one that grants them this much extra power, they will go looking for nails. In 2025 those who still defend those "hammers" with the wide-eyed impression that they can somehow control them once they're out there are at best showing hubris, lack of foresight, and disregard for the history books.

To be more clear, when you push for "less sharing" and somehow get it, you aren't actually getting what you want, you're just getting less of what you didn't want. It's like when the waiter asks you how much spit you want in your soup, the correct answer is to kick the waiter out not to demand a minimal amount.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-21 19:55:06+00:00
I don't think it's likely, but I do think it's possible. If the US and EU get tired of helping Ukraine, they'll have a much harder time resisting Russian attacks. Once they do, why would Russia stop? Maybe they would. Maybe they'd pause, declare peace, and take the rest a year or three later. Maybe they'd just keep going. Putin saying he doesn't want it doesn't convince me in the slightest. He's a Soviet Union revanchist in terms of territory if not political system, and they owned the place before.

Not sure what the consequences of attacking NATO has to do with this.
by llbeansandrice | 2025-11-21 19:55:11+00:00
Is this not possible while exposing children to a variety of view points from different sources or does it require that children are not exposed to certain perspectives at all?

The original comment makes a very bold claim of "indoctrination" of an entirely undefined set of values.

There has been no evidence that exposing children to this (undefined and buzzwordy) set of values means that they can't be raised according to other values.

I find this idea pretty wild to encounter on HN which is generally focused on open source and widely available information so that people can educate themselves is suddenly gone in a puff of smoke and some buzzwords when talking about educating the most curious minds in the world.

Define the values. Cite sources that this is "indoctrination" and not simply exposing viewpoints. Then maybe we can have a productive discussion.
by jimmar | 2025-11-21 19:55:38+00:00
People might be fleeing public schooling because lawmakers are dictating what happens in the classroom. There are lots of good teachers who struggle with the resources given to them and the constraints imposed on them.

At home, parents can be flexible. They can let their kids use AI when appropriate or discourage its use. They don't have to wait for legislators to get involved. If there is a great math book, parents can just buy it instead of waiting for some committee to evaluate it.
by xmodem | 2025-11-21 19:56:15+00:00
At one stage in my career the startup I was working at was being acquired, and I was conscripted into the due-diligence effort. An external auditor had run a scanning tool over all of our repos and the team I was on was tasked with going through thousands of snippets across ~100 services and doing something about them.

In many cases I was able to replace 10s of lines of code with a single function call to a dependency the project already had. In very few cases did I have to add a new dependency.

But directly relevant to this discussion is the story of the most copied code snippet on stack overflow of all time [1]. Turns out, it was buggy. And we had more than once copy of it. If it hadn't been for the due diligence effort I'm 100% certain they would still be there.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674139
From idea to funding. Follow this
by MCWiggy | 2025-11-21 19:56:35+00:00
I have never written here and not entirely sure the best way to do this, but I'd like to share something I learned recently by both doing and listening.

It appears that a lot of people, including myself, have come up with an idea and immediately built a landing page to ask for funding.

This is generally a bad idea.

You want to come up with an idea, find a team of people who can make it happen, ChatGPT, Claude, Bolt, whatever, these all count as a team. Build a working product, not perfect, just make it work. Go to market with it, nobody remembers when Google launched and they won't remember when you did either. Just launch, get a few users, and now you are ready to get funding. Only after you've seen people actually want it should you invest more time and money into making it better. Investors follow shortly after.

So, short: 1. Idea 2. Team 3. Working product 4. Users 5. Investors (YC for example)

To put some pressure on this...

Apple: 1. Affordable personal computer 2. Jobs & Woz 3. Apple 1 4. ByteShop & friends 5. Mike Markkula

Zip2: 1. An online directory + city maps, listings, and nav for newspapers. 2. Kimbal & Greg Kouri 3. Global Link Information Network (original product) 4. The New York Times Company, Knight Ridder and Hearst Corporation. 5. Mohr Davidow Ventures
by pksebben | 2025-11-21 19:56:37+00:00
Maybe this ought to indicate to you that your low beams are blinding other drivers dangerously.

If you have OEM headlights, I can understand your frustration - neither you nor the other driver has control over that. I think this is what OP posted this whole thread about.

If, however, you've installed third-party LED headlights, then you're sort of on the hook for this.

I'd add that whoever it was that 'incorrectly' flashed you is long gone by the time you're leaving the highs on and blinding everyone in your path. That's aggressive and uncalled for.
by a2tech | 2025-11-21 19:56:46+00:00
It’s because this is a very simplified view of a classroom. What is presented above is the best case scenario, not a realistic one. For example, there’s no consideration of costs associated with any sort of handicapped student, or student with special education needs.

Real world costs completely spiral out of control when you look at the actual system—for example, the buildings are all built during the rapid expansion of the country so are now old enough to need expensive maintenance, and there isn’t money or interest from the community to tear them down and build new ones.

Also something else that isn’t being covered is that involved parents are pulling their kids out for home schooling, and well behaved kids are increasingly being pulled out and put in charter sschools. This is leading to a rapid collapse of the school system. Public school is being left as a place for students who’s parents don’t care enough to do anything with them, or with enough behavioral or special needs that charter schools won’t handle them.
by mikece | 2025-11-21 19:56:47+00:00
There are tons of clubs for such things. My kids are in a homeschool music program (and learning piano and, until recently, bagpipes); half of my kids are playing competitive sports via homeschool programs that compete with other high schools; one is getting his certification as a welder (as part of a State program that pays for it if one is still in high school). Because class times and locations are more flexible this opens up far more possibilities for extra curricular activities.
by general1465 | 2025-11-21 19:57:03+00:00
Technically you can just setup a political party and then offer membership in the party for a yearly fee like 100EUR - every member will automatically become a politician and thus won't be allowed to be tracked because that's literal exception in the Chat Control. If government will want to track them, it will need to expand tracking to themselves too, which they definitely don't want to do.

So now government is not allowed to track you and you can also make quite a lot of money out of this stupid law.
by jrm4 | 2025-11-21 19:57:05+00:00
Another nebulous but I think VERY observable factor would be the extent to which "parents are, and expected to be, involved in their kids school stuff."

Anecdotally, but I bet you see a lot of it, I can count on one, maybe two hands the number of times my parents went to anything at the school to see me do a thing. And for my kids, there's something just about every other week.
by godelski | 2025-11-21 19:57:09+00:00
I think you've confused some things. Pay careful note to what I'm calling a distribution. There are many distributions at play here but I'm referring to two specific ones that are clear from context.

I think you've also made a leap in logic. The jury's still out on whether LLMs have internalized some world model or not. It's quite difficult to distinguish memorization from generalization. It's impossible to do when the "test set" is spoiled.

You also need to remember that we train for certain attributes. Does the LLM actually have introspection or does it just appear that way because that's how it was optimized (which we definitely optimize it for that). Is there a difference? The duck test only lets us conclude something is probably a duck, not that it isn't a sophisticated animatronic that we just can't distinguish but someone or something else could.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 19:57:20+00:00
That's what my dad used to mod our OG Xbox. My neighbor (unmodded) and I would split the Blockbuster Gamepass (I think that's what it was called) for $30/mo (IIRC) for unlimited rentals, just 1 at a time. We'd take it home, rip it to my Xbox then put the disk in his and we'd play through whatever the game was until we finished or got bored, then rinse and repeat.

Had I been able to drive at that time I would have tried to get the family van that had pull down TV (tiny) screen in it so I could do what you did.
by stronglikedan | 2025-11-21 19:58:37+00:00
> me: It's more of a "I can't believe you're asking me that."

> interviewer: Great, we find that candidates who can't get this right don't do well here.

> me: ...

Shit attitude from that candidate, considering the interviewer is completely correct. I wouldn't hire them since they are obviously a problem employee.

For those that don't know, Fizz Buzz is less an aptitude test and more of an attitude test. That's why this candidate failed and didn't get the job.
by kodablah | 2025-11-21 19:58:42+00:00
> is it the dev ergonomics that's cool here?

Yup. Being able to write imperative code that automatically resumes where it left off is very valuable. It's best to represent durable turing completeness using modern approaches of authoring such logic - programming languages. Being able to loop, try/catch, apply advanced conditional logic, etc in a crash-proof algorithm that can run for weeks/months/years and is introspectable has a lot of value over just using queues.

Durable execution is all just queues and task processing and event sourcing under the hood though.
by toasterlovin | 2025-11-21 19:58:57+00:00
Optionality has costs. If you live your life like it's going to go astray, then you miss out on a lot of the upside if it doesn't go astray (such as by being a stay at home mom, if that's what you actually want to do). The statistic that 50% of marriages end in divorce is often bandied about, but it also means that 50% don't. Which means that going all-in on your marriage is a completely reasonable thing to do.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-21 19:59:19+00:00
It's eugenics. The debate is familiar. It was an extremely contentious and well-tread topic of discussion for many decades from then end of the 19th century onward.

There are thoroughly developed arguments that highlight its conceivable benefits when applied in way that someone judges ethical, and thoroughly developed arguments that highlight its conceivable threats and horrors when applied in a way that someone judges unethical.

The application of eugenicist principles to justify ethnic genocide during WWII, and the public surfacing of eugenicist policies put towards economic and racial oppression by the West when it was openly self-reflecting during the 60's and 70's, pretty much tabled the public debate because it provided evidence that convinced many that the threats and horrors were inescapable.

So yes, many "complainers" probably do understand exactly what you wish they understood, but they also understand the counterarguments and find them more convincing. You don't have to agree with them, but don't underestimate their breadth of their understanding just because they don't agree with you.