MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by int0x29 | 2025-11-22 00:54:15+00:00
My general experience with Waymos and safety is that while they are generally quite safe and communicative drivers (They have a pedestrian yeild indicator that should be required by law) they tend to create safety issues because people drive stupidly around them. A lot of SF drivers seem to see them, think I know better, and then proceed to do something dumb.

I'm not really sure how to fix this problem.

Also if any Waymo engineers are reading this please make the pedestrian yeild indicator icon visible on the front of the LIDAR. In narrow streets the front is much more visible to pedestrians than the sides as the LIDAR is pretty far back on the car.
by ash_091 | 2025-11-22 00:54:58+00:00
In the spirit of genuine curiosity, who is making you feel like less of a person wrt the choice of main/master, and how are they doing that?

It sounds like you're saying that git maintainers are intending for you to feel like less of a person because you don't agree with their choice, but I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion.
by mmooss | 2025-11-22 00:55:18+00:00
That's the same mistake made with every new, and eventually successful, technology - we haven't found a valuable application yet, so the technology is not valuable.

Finding the valuable application is often the hardest part. That it hasn't happened yet is meaningless. Some technologies sit on the shelf for decades.

AI seems to have a lot of potential: It may be the most valuable technology ever; it may not provide more value than it does now, or something in between. Nobody actually knows. The challenge of innovation is managing that irreduceable risk. It starts by accepting risk, accepting that you don't know. One wrong way is to deny the risk - denying uncertainty - by either saying it's worthless or that success is guaranteed.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-22 00:55:25+00:00
Yes, everything is just physical reactions when boiled down to its simplest state. Again, this is trivialising complexity. The nature of those reactions are where the brain differentiates itself. Even if the chemical reactions were purely mathematically-driven (not necessarily the case), the nature of the calculations is completely different. LLMs are calculating next-token-probability. That is literally the only thing they calculate. Your special "reasoning machine", then, would be code that instead calculates logic-adherence-probability. If you want to treat the brain as a computer, then we have such code somewhere in our DNA program. It's really self-evident that no part of an LLM's code is oriented towards genuine reasoning, therefore they cannot reason. Perhaps if a sufficiently powerful machine was coded in a way that was conducive to reasoning, it could be described as conscious. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that consciousness could be attained in electrical circuits outright. LLMs are simply not the mechanism by which that can ever happen. They are merely a mechanism that is good at creating a fascimile of reasoning output with non-reasoning input.
by astrange | 2025-11-22 00:55:38+00:00
Japan Rail is public-private and many of the other train lines are fully private. "Public" is kind of an empty distinction here, Americans associate the two concepts because they think mass transit is a kind of gift you give to poor people instead of something everyone actually uses.

But there is plenty of need for car-shaped transit in Japan and people take taxis and use cars all the time. You might have luggage/equipment to take somewhere, it might be raining and you don't want to walk the last mile, etc.

(It's surprisingly hard to take luggage through transit in Tokyo. For instance, maps apps won't give you a transit route that uses elevators, even though everyone with a baby carrier would use it.)
by kace91 | 2025-11-22 00:55:52+00:00
The funniest thing is that somehow the executive class is even more out of touch than they used to be.

At least before there was a certain common baseline derived from everyone watching the same news and reading the same press. Now they are just as enclosed in their thought bubbles as everyone else. It is entirely possible for a tech CEO to have a full company of tech workers despising the current plan and yet that person being constantly reinforced by linkedin and chatgpt.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-22 00:56:32+00:00
I had a similar experience growing up to what you describe, but in my adult life I ended up living around all upper middle class and wealthy people and I don’t think my earlier experiences have really been very relevant or helpful. So I think it might depend on what the child’s expected adult environment will be like? Like do we need to be around or interact with the sort of people you need to stay away from or watch your mouth around?
by sarchertech | 2025-11-22 00:56:48+00:00
Most of the businesses people are complaining about are inherently local. Doctors, dentists, sports teams, plumbers, electricians.

When PE buys them in the majority of cases they continue to market them like local business and in most cases they go out of their way to lake them look like local businesses.

What you’re talking about happened decades ago when Walmart, McDonalds etc… ran a huge chunk of the mom and pops out of business. This is the next round where they go after businesses that don’t benefit as much from nation wide advertising and branding.

People don’t tend to pick their dentist based on nationwide advertising/brand recognition.
by hintklb | 2025-11-22 00:57:26+00:00
> Believing my "research" is better than my specialist's education is a path back to the dark ages.

Doing your research should not be in competition with your specialist's education. It should be complementary as yet another source of information.

I'm not saying experts are wrong but I also don't think they are particularly always right. They are human and they have strong groupthink. They will agree and disagree with some takes based on their personal or political beliefs.
by nphardon | 2025-11-22 00:57:49+00:00
My guess is that this is related to the conservative attacks on education in the U.S., and it's especially insidious because, again I'm guessing, it's mostly liberal minded people who are buying into home schooling in part due to anti-education right wing propaganda. I live in Santa Cruz county, would not be surprised if we had one of the highest home school rates in the country. It feels like a combination of constant anti-education propaganda and the "snowflake syndrome" where parents think their kids are too special to be treated the same as other students in a classroom.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-22 00:58:30+00:00
Thanks "Open""AI", Trump for making us pay for the "AI" infrastructure. In the original deal "Open""AI" claimed Samsung would scale up production:

https://openai.com/index/samsung-and-sk-join-stargate

The Samsung announcement contains no reference to scaling up production:

https://news.samsung.com/ca/samsung-and-openai-announce-stra...

Semiconductor companies have been bitten in the past by scaling up production into a bubble, so of course Samsung just raises prices. When you buy DRAM, remember that you are financing oligarchs and that Stargate has lied yet again.
by acdha | 2025-11-22 00:58:36+00:00
You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and environmental protection. It took the Reagan era cuts to start rolling back investment in the country—I grew up in California during the 80s and 90s and each of the schools I went to had visible decline because they had built infrastructure prior to Prop 13 and then couldn’t afford basic upkeep.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 00:59:16+00:00
Interestingly my son has an identical twin! I like to joke that one is the control and sleeps in the house and the other has to sleep in the storage shed out back, and when they're 18 we'll publish a paper comparing their emotional development. :)

I always thought DNA determined pretty much everything, and we raised them exactly the same, but they have distinct personalities and some different physical features, although of course they're much more similar than they are different. My other son shows some symptoms of anxiety but not as much, yet.
by vrinsd | 2025-11-22 00:59:49+00:00
Wow, super hard disagree, comment here sounds like the typical arrogance hardware engineers face from people in software who've never really done the job or have some superficial experiences.

I won't blindly state "software is easier" but software is definitely easier to modify, iterate and fix, which is why sofware tools and resulting applications can evolve so fast.

I have done both HW & SW, routinely do so, and switch between deep hardware jobs and deep software so I'm qualified to speak.

If you're blinking a light or doing something with Bluetooth you can buy microcontrollers that have this capability and yes that hardware is simple.

But have you ever DESIGNED a microcontroller, let alone a modern processor or complex system ?

Getting something "simple" like a microcontroller to reliably start-up involves complex power sequencing, making sure an oscillator works, a phase-locked-loop that behaves correctly and that's just "to make a clock signal run at a frequency" we're not talking about implementing PCIe Gen5 or RDMA over 100Gbps Ethernet.

Hardware engineers definitely welcome better tools but the cost of using an unproven tool or tool that might have "a few" corner cases resulting in your $5-million SoC not working is a hard risk to tolerate, so sadly(and to our pain) we end up using proven but arcane infrastructure.

Software in contrast can evolve faster because you can "fix it in software". New tools can be readily tested, iterated on and deployed.
by throwattached | 2025-11-22 01:00:01+00:00
In case this can be helpful to somebody else, I spent my ~twenties ignorant of what attachment styles were, while definitely exhibiting some very, very obvious attachment patterns. And I made a lot of mistakes, and made a lot of people close to me sad.

Reading the "Attached" book was a huge wake-up call. According to the questionnaire, for what it's worth, I was exhibiting ~100% avoidant behavior.

This led to therapy, and to a lot of atonement, and growth.

I just came here to say - if you have a minute, give it a read. And for fun, try the questionnaire:

https://archive.org/details/AttachementTheory/page/n37/mode/...

Best of luck
by mmooss | 2025-11-22 01:00:02+00:00
> 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, might be a sign that the technology shouldn't be valued this highly at all

That might be true, but it also might be true that it's tremendously valuable. The conditions you identify exist for every new technology; obviously the outcomes vary greatly.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-22 01:01:13+00:00
Your original point was not that it's "not underfunded," it was that it's overfunded

Here's my original comment. I didn't say it was overfunded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007623

(But I do think it's overfunded.)

My only argument here is that I don't think $28k is unreasonable, particularly when viewed against the cost of private alternatives.

OK, so we agree SFUSD is not underfunded?

We go to our attendance area SFUSD school and love it.

That's great! At my attendance area school, two thirds of students are behind grade level in math, and there's no opportunity to be grouped with kids in other grades.

Annoying, unsolicited feature request would be to allow addresses or zip codes rather than requiring geolocation :)

If this is for privacy, don't worry, it's all front end code and your location isn't sent to the server. (You can check the network tab or just look at the code.)
by hintklb | 2025-11-22 01:01:51+00:00
sorry but your take seems to be the anti-intellectual here.

You seem to think that the educated class got a monopoly on knowledge on that field, yet after that claim to know that experts are wrong all the time. The anti-intellectual take is to give up on trying to understand as much as you can in a field because you don't have the right credentials to do so. Yes, medical papers are not that complicated to read.

That doesn't make you more competent than your doctor. But it probably makes you a better advocate for yourself than your doctor is.

My point is: Don't discount yourself reading papers and doing your own research. Then work with your "credentialed experts" to come to an agreement. Don't ever think that the "experts" got your best interest at heart.
by lovich | 2025-11-22 01:02:23+00:00
> 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.

As someone who advocates that we only use capitalism as a tool in specific areas and try to move past it in other, I’ll defend it here to say that’s not really a market anymore when this happens.

Hyper concentration of wealth is going to lead to the same issues that command economies have where the low level capital allocations(buying shit) isn’t getting feedback from everyone involved and is just going off one asshole’s opinion
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-11-22 01:02:47+00:00
I’ve seen these videos. They depict what it would be like to be a human in the body of the animal, not what the animal would go through. There’s presumably a lot of suffering that wouldn’t be useful as a signal to the tripod fish. For example, the weight of the pressure on its body would be a distraction and thus a hindrance to reproduction. The same goes for the depiction of its attitude towards a partner (presumably these aren’t social animals). The goal of the video is to exaggerate the horror of the animal’s life for entertainment and ad revenue. It’s also, of course, something we don’t have an immediate capacity to change through political and social means. We could probably make farm animals’ lives infinitely better and improve the food quality they produce with very little reduction to our quality of life.
by mmooss | 2025-11-22 01:04:01+00:00
From what I've read, people spent a long time looking for the 'killer application'. Google didn't know how to make money off its search engine. Social media didn't exist in any mass form. Internet access on phones, beyond email, didn't exist in any usable way.

Proprietary, walled garden services, with their own dial-up numbers, such as AOL and CompuServe, were seen as the future. Microsoft thought their similar service (MSN?) was the way forward and didn't integrate the Internet into Windows 95. That was after Netscape's browser was released and (relative to the time, I'm sure) very popular.
by typeofhuman | 2025-11-22 01:05:34+00:00
Popular misconception of homeschooling. At least in my experience. We homeschool our children. We do a couple of hours a day of curriculum. The rest is being a member of a few homeschool coops. Parents are close, yet it's big enough that there are still "groups". Kids are making friends and socializing in a much more fruitful way than the chambers of public school. There's play, then there's exploration. We go on nature walks and clean ups, the theater, the naval base, we have soccer, gymnastics, and jiu jitsu, we go to the museums, libraries, and recycling plant.

Our kids have friends. We have made friends (tough at our age). And our kids are 1-2 years above their peers on diagnostics.
by hintklb | 2025-11-22 01:06:09+00:00
By extending your statement you are essentially saying that the credentialed experts have a monopoly on knowledge in their fields? As anyone else reading a paper probably think he understands but actually doesn't? What a weird take.

The knowledge is out there. Yes there are a ton of bogus papers and a ton of bad research. Not everyone got the critical knowledge to figure this out but I also don't think this is only reserved to the "experts". They are also subject to groupthink and other political pressure to think a specific way.

At the end of the day, do your best own research and work with your "expert" to agree on a solution.

Pushing back on people reading paper is an anti-intellectual take (to use the same wording as another poster below).
by eduction | 2025-11-22 01:06:40+00:00
I can’t stand the way he rewrites headlines, mostly because he’s bad at it. They are so painfully long and complicated.

I don’t philosophically oppose rewriting headlines, god knows there are manipulative or just plain bad ones out there. But keep it simple and short!

Otherwise it’s a nice free resource that doesn’t spy on you or shake you down for money, and that’s nice. Yay open web.
by arjie | 2025-11-22 01:06:57+00:00
> Americans associate the two concepts because they think mass transit is a kind of gift you give to poor people instead of something everyone actually uses.

Huh, funny. This model actually explains American behavior to me greatly. Now I understand why the emphasis on transit in the US is primarily on cost and shelter rather than on quality of service. I always thought it seemed odd that they'd emphasize making things that are not useful free rather than making them as costly as is required to make them useful.

But I was modeling 'useful' as optimal transportation across fare-classes. They are modeling 'useful' as 'compassion to the less well-off'. This also explains opposition to HOT lanes and so on.
by bentley | 2025-11-22 01:06:58+00:00
Childhood and youth are anything but “low‐stakes.” The social experiences I faced in public school were far worse than even the worst parts of my adult life. The direction I was headed was one of dark cynicism and misanthropy thanks to the bullying I faced and the lack of care from the adults in the system. When I switched to homeschooling, I began interacting with rational adults (my parents’ friends) and in turn learned what functioning human relationships look like. My ability to weather the difficult storms of adulthood in a healthy way came from the social growth I gained through homeschooling, not the regressive “socialization” that public school inflicted on me.
by xpe | 2025-11-22 01:07:39+00:00
> Every corporation is a (not so) little pocket of centrally planned economy.

This is confused. Here is how classical economists would frame it: a firm chooses how much to produce based on its cost structure and market prices, expanding production until marginal cost equals marginal revenue. This is price guided production optimization, not central planning.

The dominant criticism of central planning is trying to set production quantities without prices. Firms (generally) don’t do this.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-22 01:09:14+00:00
> But how does that make anyone "tied to one vendor"?

Because you can't, in the general case, recreate the setup on a different platform? That's like the definition of that expression.

BTW here's Deno saying Deno Deploy is process-per-deployment with seccomp. No idea if that's always true, but I'd expect them to boast about it if they were doing something different. https://deno.com/blog/anatomy-isolate-cloud

Process-per-deployment is something you can reasonably recreate on top of K8S or whatever for self-hosting. And there's always KNative. Note that in that setting scheduling and tenant sandboxing are not the responsibility of the hosting provider.

Personally, I haven't really felt that cold starts are a major problem when I control my stack, don't compile Javascript at startup, can leave 1 instance idling, and so on. Which is why I'm pretty much ok with the "containers serving HTTP" stereotype for many things, when that lets me move them between providers with minimal trouble. Especially considering the pain I've felt with pretty much every "one vendor" stack, hitting every edge case branch on my way falling down the stack of abstractions. I've very very much tried to use Durable Objects over and over and keep coming back to serving HTTP with Rust or Typescript, using Postgres or SQLite.

Pretending you don't see the whole argument for why people want the option of self-hosting the whole real thing really comes across as the cliched "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-22 01:09:28+00:00
Bit of a shame that it didn't directly cover Marx. Many of Marx's works are reactions to and critiques of people like Adam Smith. I think Marx even calls him delusional at one point.

Locke probably wouldn't have come up, but 19th century European philosophers were all influenced massively by Locke and Marx is extremely European. Marx isn't on a different side from them, just a large part of an even larger conversation.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-11-22 01:09:56+00:00
This is totally unsurprising, given that, in some parts of the country, public schools teach controversial ideas about gender.

Also, I see a lot of people arguing that exposure to “bad” kids is a point in favor of public schools, which seems insane to me. Growing up with a friend group of good kids is probably the biggest predictor of what a child’s adult life will look like.
by typeofhuman | 2025-11-22 01:10:00+00:00
Propaganda being the incorporation of political ideology into much of the lesson plan - even when banned.

Whatever it is, public schools are an absolute failure. But that could be attributed to the immigration in the US over the last half decade. North Carolina lost like 20% of their student base following mass ICE raids.

Many teachers around me have mentioned how the portion of non-English speakers has dramatically increased and is causing significant degradation to their effectiveness in the classroom and the outcomes.
by leo60228 | 2025-11-22 01:10:16+00:00
It does not. AirDrop, and to my knowledge all other Apple functionality, still uses AWDL. For backwards compatibility reasons, the EU did not require Apple remove AWDL, just that any improvements benefiting AWDL also affect Wi-Fi Aware. The EU also did not require Apple make AirDrop interoperable, only that they stop disadvantaging third-party competitors in certain ways (and those changes aren't implemented in iOS 26, the deadline for it is next year). Google's implementation was purely done via reverse-engineering, similarly to the existing OpenDrop project.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-11-22 01:10:52+00:00
> I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.

This is generally not true, as far as popularity correlates to having better social skills and a better understanding of social dynamics. Not saying income is the sole definition of success, but here is one study that found that teenagers with more friends earned more as adults: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27337
by arjie | 2025-11-22 01:11:26+00:00
Are personal blogs back? My personal blog ten years ago (even twenty years ago) received a lot of direct traffic on all sorts of things from the primary search engines and so on. Nowadays, the only search engine that delivers any traffic to my site is Kagi! Looking back, I haven't changed my style of writing very much, so I suspect the reality is that I've just fallen behind in a comparative sense. There are much better things nowadays to access.

It's probably similar to the street-side musician. In old times, he may have been the only musician around you might hear. Nowadays, he's got to compete with a perfect recording of Hotel California by the Eagles.
by nickreese | 2025-11-22 01:11:56+00:00
It isn't open... but drop me an email and I can send you it. Basically just tracks a list of known lmstudios on the network, queries their models every 15 seconds and routes to the ones who have the requested models loaded in a FIFO queue tracking the number of tokens/model (my servers are uniform... m4 max 128gb studios but could also track the server) and routes to the one that has just finished. I used to have it queue one just as it was expected to finish but was facing timeout issues due to an edgecase.