MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ranbato | 2025-11-21 21:39:40+00:00
Didn't homeschool here but started a charter school instead. Some of our neighbors did homeschool and I have mixed feelings about it. Some did very well, some not so well; but of course the same can be said of all of the kids in the area no matter which way they went.

A few things I'll note:

- educational spending has almost zero correlation with outcomes - the number one indicator of educational success is parental involvement - homeschooling and charter schools tend to attract the outliers from both ends. The smart who are underserved where they are and the kids with problems whose parents are involved enough to search for solutions. - the real losers are those whose parents can't or won't get involved and who aren't succeeding on their own

In the current educational environment, teachers are often viewed as babysitters whose job is to educate children "correctly" and parents are only there to ensure that "correctly" matches their expectations. In the "good old days" when parents and teachers beat children regularly, at least they were unified in their expectations that children would listen to and obey teachers and not disrupt class. Now it is more common to see underpaid teachers without any support confronted by angry parents when their children misbehave and fail to actually learn.
by andai | 2025-11-21 21:39:43+00:00
My summary of this thread so far:

- We can't even prove/disprove humans are consciousness

- Yes but we assume they are because very bad things happen when we don't

- Okay but we can extend that to other beings. See: factory farming (~80B caged animals per year).

- The best we can hope for is reasoning by analogy. "If human (mind) shaped, why not conscious?"

This paper is basically taking that to its logical conclusion. We assume humans are conscious, then we study their shape (neural structures), then we say "this is the shape that makes consciousness." Nevermind octopi evolved eyes independently, let alone intelligence. We'd have to study their structures too, right?

My question here is... why do people do bad things to the Sims? If people accepted solipsism ("only I am conscious"), would they start treating other people as badly as they do in The Sims? Is that what we're already doing with AIs?
by yencabulator | 2025-11-21 21:39:49+00:00
The performance hit is less because of WASM but because the Workers platform is fundamentally defined in terms of Javascript and WASM is just a thing the JS engine has as a feature, so everything has to be proxied through JS objects and code, serialized into byte arrays, handed to the WASM, and same story in reverse.

We need WASM-native interfaces to get common to get rid of JS.
by sbarre | 2025-11-21 21:40:12+00:00
I'm so mad about this, I need DDR5 for a new mini-PC I bought and prices have literally gone up by 2.5x..

128GB used to be 400$ in June, and now it's over $1,000 for the same 2x64GB set..

I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.
by TheGRS | 2025-11-21 21:40:20+00:00
That has been the case for a long time, and I guess something about the current generation of parents has gotten them to act more on it. My dad came from a very religious family and they all did private religious schools for their early grade school years. Then they went to public for high school years.

If I had to guess, its maybe something about the demise of church life that has gotten religious parents to just pull back entirely. It wasn't that uncommon for public schools to make nods toward Christian ideals/lifestyles before like the 90s, but now that stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 21:40:26+00:00
>This over-regulation will delay deployment of EV trucks by years

And we only need to look at Tesla to see what under-regulation could bring.

I don't know if 27 million is a lot for a business at this scale. It sounds like a lot, but I see 62 "contacts" at the company. 62 workers making 100k a year means a year of compensation is already pushing on half this amount after other benefits (and that's just this companies employees, who are mostly management. So I'm probably underselling compensation and other companies they work with).
by PhilippGille | 2025-11-21 21:40:28+00:00
Not mentioned yet in this subthread, but worth checking out because it runs fully local: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stoegerit....

It's not perfect, for example its monthly/yearly subscription detection didn't work great for me, but compared to all those apps that involve trusting a third party with your banking data it's worth a look.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-21 21:40:39+00:00
This post argues the burst is not only inevitable it's right around the corner - never mind their principal argument being "we're terrible at predicting technology revolutions in the near term".

This seems like a variation on the President's (and my CTO's) process of 1. go on record both supporting and denouncing all positions, but commit to none, 2. wait... 3. spin your previous wisdoms based on the actual outcome. A super-inconsistent & confusing track record is actually a major asset when executing this strategy!
by jfreds | 2025-11-21 21:41:23+00:00
I was homeschooled until high school. I couldn’t agree with you more. The value that the socialization the public school offers is underestimated.

Learning activities with other homeschooled kids is ok but not enough. A tight-knit neighborhood of friends is huge, but not enough. You need to develop a thick skin and a sense of self-assurance.

I have no counterfactual of course, but I think much of the social anxiety I’ve had to unlearn as a young adult came from homeschooling. And I had great circumstances
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-21 21:41:34+00:00
Novel is considerably more complex than just new and even new is more nuanced; your new car could be as old as the Colpitts oscillator. Novel carries with it the unfamiliar and how that unfamiliarity alters our perception of what was once familiar. When you drive about in your new Model T everything is different, you are sitting considerably higher than you do in your old 240Z that you have driven since 1973 and its vertical windshield gives a far more limited view, its lack of power steering makes you aware of how sharp those curves in the road are and everyone notices you when you drive by. Then you take you old Datsun on a milk run and now it is more familiar than it was, you are aware of how intimately you respond to it and it responds to you but also of how its power steering removes some of the intimacy of driving and people stop talking to you about what you are driving because you have been driving that car since 1973 and everyone knows you as the person who has driven the same car since 1973, they ask you how your day is instead of complimenting your antique car. But the novelty eventually wears off and the old Model T becomes as familiar as your 240z.

Most in electronics never learn to drive without power steering, they view passive circuits as simple little things that need active components between them so they don't interact with each other in maddening ways but those interactions are not maddening once you understand them and learn to exploit them.

I don't think anyone used novel to mean rare.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 21:42:13+00:00
> that 4 years was just arguing over which of three permits applied to them.

sounds like an average legal case for a business at this level, yes.

I'm all for overhauling the legal system and the meaning of "speedy trials", but the enforcement of regulations that seems tangential to if regulations are good/bad/over/under.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-11-21 21:42:38+00:00
Whenever I read a comment like this, I’m always curious if the commenter did some basic searching of their own. Just searching “chemical imbalance debunked” yields a wide array of sources. So why ask? It seems almost like a form of Socratic questioning. You want to debate the point, but for whatever reason, are not doing so directly.
by lukifer | 2025-11-21 21:42:57+00:00
The dilemma is, the one thing we can be sure of, is our subjectivity. There is no looking through a microscope to observe matter empirically, without a subjective consciousness to do the looking.

So if we're eschewing the inelegance / "spooky magic" of dualism (and fair enough), we either have to start with subjectivity as primitive (idealism/pan-psychism), deriving matter as emergent (also spooky magic); or, try to concoct a monist model in which subjectivity can emerge from non-subjective building blocks. And while the latter very well might be the case, it's hard to imagine it could be falsifiable: if we constructed an AI or algo which exhibits verifiable evidence of subjectivity, how would we distinguish that from imitating such evidence? (`while (true) print "I am alive please don't shut me down"`).

If any conceivable imitation is necessarily also conscious, we arrive at IIT, that it is like something to be a thermostat. If that's the case, it's not exactly satisfying, and implies a level of spooky magic almost indistinguishable from idealism.

It sounds absurd to modern western ears, to think of Mind as a primitive to the Universe. But it's also just as magical and absurd that there exists anything at all, let alone a material reality so vast and ordered. We're left trying to reconcile two magics, both of whose existences would beggar belief, if not for the incontrovertible evidence of our subjectivity.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-21 21:42:59+00:00
The internet was monumental and valuable, offering instant conveyance of media and data. AI is monumental, allowing instant access to near infinite data; but whether instant access is as valuable as instant conveyance yet alone five times the value, appears to be the question

Honestly anyone who thinks AI has intrinsic value to rival the GDP of nations is a bagholder in denial and I'll be happy to buy your puts.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-21 21:43:13+00:00
While I agree that there are big markets for AI without what most consider consciousness, I disagree there is no market for consciousness. There are a lot of lonely people.

Also, I suspect we underestimate the link between consciousness and intelligence. It seems most likely to me right now that they are inseparable. LLMs are about as conscious as a small fish that only exists for a few seconds. A fish swimming through tokens. With this in mind, we may find that the any market for persistent intelligence is by nature a market for persistent consciousness.
by inetknght | 2025-11-21 21:43:18+00:00
There's a safety cost for getting things sold before they're proven to be safe.

Don't get me wrong, I want air quality to improve. But I don't want shit products or snake oil to be produced which would only make air quality worse.

Instead of blaming regulation: blame businesses that don't want to demonstrate the positive benefits of their product and want to hide the negative affects.
by epistasis | 2025-11-21 21:43:20+00:00
It is a weird form of centralized planning. Except there's no election to get on to the central committee, it's like in the Soviet era where you had to run in the right circles and have sway in them.

There's too much group-think in the executive class. Too much forced adoption of AI, too much bandwagon hopping.

The return-to-office fad is similar, a bunch of executives following the mandates of their board, all because there's a few CEOs who were REALLY worked up about it and there was a decision that workers had it too easy. Watching the executive class sacrifice profits for power is pretty fascinating.

Edit: A good way to decentralize the power and have better decision making would be to have less centralized rewards in the capital markets. Right now are living through a new gilded age with a few barons running things, because we have made the rewards too extreme and too narrowly distributed. Most market economics assumes that there's somewhat equal decision making power amongst the econs. We are quickly trending away from that.
by ares623 | 2025-11-21 21:43:38+00:00
Not only that, but it’s devaluing the sacred cows of the very same companies that are investing heavily.

Search is dead or dying

Social media is dead or dying

Content creation is dead or dying

If they cant make AI work, then they are left with AI at a level that continues to devalue their core business.

They have no choice. They made a deal with the devil. And the devil means to collect.

This is why I think Apple is lucky their attempt failed so bad. They dodged a bullet. They have an opportunity to guide a lost tech industry through a post AI bubble world.
by a-fadil | 2025-11-21 21:43:39+00:00
It’s more about having the optionality to not be tied to a SaaS provider and trusting them with all your financial data and bank credentials. Having options to:

1– Install a piece of software and run it locally, no subscription, no cloud 2– Have to right to use a nicer app instead of a spreadsheet 3– not hand over your banking creds. Some banks will void your account insurance if you do 4– Reduce your exposure by not putting all your financial data on some startup’s servers.
by visarga | 2025-11-21 21:44:05+00:00
I think when it comes to LLMs, like software and books - usage is everything. You have to use it to get a benefit. LLMs by themselves produce no utility. And usage means a task coming from a person who puts something at stake, it is contextual. It is both a cost and a risk for the user. Benefits accumulate to the user. So LLMs are actually just a cheap utility, while context is king. It is democratizing.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-21 21:44:14+00:00
It's also worth noting that workerd is only a part of the Cloudflare Workers stack. It doesn't have the same security properties.

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd#warning-workerd-is-not...

(I know you know this, but frankly you should add a disclaimer when you comment about CF or Capnp. It's too convenient for you to leave out the cons.)
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-11-21 21:44:23+00:00
> The app really does enhance the experience, order exactly what you want without human error, roll up to the drive-thru, give them the code, and they begin making the order at that point.

They're particularly good at getting orders right compared to some other restaurants, so the additional value here to me is negligible. It's actually negative value to me, since if I can do a transaction without having to sign up, that's what I prefer. The value is entirely in the other direction: McDonald's wants to monetize their customer's identity information.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-21 21:44:30+00:00
Keep that argument going.

Jackson Hole residents complaining about "poor service" in stores and restaurants in town, because shocker, servers can't afford to live in Jackson Hole. And unlike even SF or NY (which may not be perfect but have at least functional transport), there's no easy way to travel from the next town, an hour away or more.

Residents have started banding together to rent coaches to bus people in, which seems the most reasonable solution, after all, no poors in town, still, and it doesn't hurt the residents that service industry employees in their town have a three hour commute. /s

It got so bad in Atherton, CA, that the school had to build accommodation for teachers in the school itself. Next step, they can do janitorial work for extra money!
by alwa | 2025-11-21 21:44:39+00:00
Taking this as an earnest question—no, I don’t get that sense from that word. To me it describes the direction of an error, not the error itself.

It’s a thing you’d prefer to avoid, sure; but some degree of prognostic uncertainty is totally routine (in fact I would call that definitional: no predictions are truly certain until they’ve come to pass, and by the time that happens it’s usually too late to act). It’s not “bad” any more than mortality is “bad”—it just is, whether or not we wish it were; wisdom lies in managing it as best you can.

In the sense that the gp used the word, I think they allude to a tradeoff: you can reduce the probability of an underestimate by increasing the probability of an overestimate. I took their comment to imply that it would be wiser to risk an overestimate than to risk an underestimate on questions of “can Chinese society achieve a massive goal on a tight timeframe if their leadership decides it’s important.”
by yannyu | 2025-11-21 21:44:53+00:00
I agree, evaluation of consciousness is another problem entirely.

However, the point I'm making is that even assuming an agent/thing is capable of achieving consciousness, it would have to have a suitably complex environment and the capability of forming an independent feedback loop with that environment to even begin to display conscious capability.

If the agent/thing is capable of achieving consciousness but is not in a suitable environment, then we'd likely never see it doing things that resemble consciousness as we understand it. Which is something we have seen occur in the real world many times.
by pyuser583 | 2025-11-21 21:44:57+00:00
I used to teach high school. The amount of time I spent doing crap work was insane. It was necessary. If you don’t remind students 100 times what the assignments are, they won’t do them.

You also have to spend an insane amount of time with the lowest performers, because with enough attention, they can improve dramatically.

But this creates tradeoffs. Should I neglect the students doing best?

One on one instruction is the best kind. It’s generally reserved for doctoral students.

I also tried homeschooling by eldest. It didn’t work.

Its insane more parents don’t homeschool.
by redwood | 2025-11-21 21:45:04+00:00
The value can be incredibly high... just like the value of the internet was incredibly high.. and it can still be a finanfial bubble. I feel like the people arguing against the bubble perspective are saying look the internet was actually valuable and so too will this.. and that's totally a valid perspective. The bubble is not about whether there's value but about whether or not the market will come down. All of the above can totally happen
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-21 21:45:37+00:00
The app drives me crazy on the occasions I do have to use it.

Picking fries brings me to a one-item category where I can... pick fries again.

Latency during the order process is insane, and then they add animations and little popup alerts throughout that actively interfere with me getting my all-important order code while I'm sitting like an asshole in the drive-through.
by pugworthy | 2025-11-21 21:45:39+00:00
Maybe? It would have to be a pretty big theft to go to all the trouble of finding the vehicle on camera, identifying the owner, figuring out if the thief was the owner, etc.

They aren’t going to do all that if it’s a relatively small value theft. And the big value stuff is usually locked down.

And if it’s for their own protection why be part of a bigger network shared with law enforcement for whatever they (LEO) wants?
by phantasmish | 2025-11-21 21:45:46+00:00
Sure, but I've figured out multiple Paradox game UIs, put many hours into a bunch of weird old crufty DOS games (Dominus, anyone? Darklands?), ran Gentoo as my main OS for several years (while preferring Windowmaker as my WM, for god's sake, hahaha)... and still got myself turned around in Kodi sometimes after many hours using it, in a way I never did in Netflix's UI (any of their UIs).

Kodi's got some really weird UI choices going on. I don't think it's the case that Netflix-alike UIs are anywhere near equivalently bad, but people are able to use them anyway just due to familiarity. I think Kodi's is simply a lot worse.

Even the parts of Jellyfin that don't resemble Netflix (as there's no user-facing equivalent in Netflix)—the server & library management portions—I find vastly easier to use than Kodi's equivalents.
by KK7NIL | 2025-11-21 21:46:09+00:00
Substrate is a scam; their marketing is misleading and they have yet to answer to the fundamental reason why X-ray and e-beam failed over 40 years ago (despite it being generally agreed they were the future of litho and optical would soon be dead): writing one line at a time is extremely slow compared to optical which can scan a whole reticle in a fraction of a second.

E-beam is still used for making DUV/EUV masks where the low write speed can be tolerated but no one in the industry thinks it will replace EUV in the silicon litho steps any time soon.

But lay people eat this crap up and journalists turn a blind eye either because they're literally paid PRC shills or because clicks are everything now a days.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 21:46:22+00:00
> Ahh, this chestnut. A short jump to "teachers are training preschoolers to be furries and LGBT" and litterboxes in the classroom/bathroom.

Exactly. Notice how, when people complain about the "deranged ideologies" that teachers are teaching their kids, they either 1. stop short of actually naming those ideologies or 2. spout fever dreams that are statistically vanishingly rare.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-11-21 21:46:23+00:00
Right stealing nukes you cannot immediately operate as a 0-year old nation, to me it doesn't seems like an incredibly bright idea in a world where the existing nuclear states doesn't want anyone else to get nukes too.

And in any case it's was not simply removing the safety devices on the weapons, you need to be able to target the ICBMs at Russia, which Ukraine could not do:

> In fact, the presence of strategic nuclear missiles on its territory posed several dilemmas to a Ukraine hypothetically bent on keeping them to deter Russia. The SS-24s do not have the ability to strike targets at relatively short distances (that is, below about 2000 km); the variable-range SS- 19s are able, but Ukraine cannot properly maintain them. [...] the SS-19s were built in Russia and use a highly toxic and volatile liquid fuel. To complicate matters further, targeting programs and blocking devices for the SS-24 are Russian made. The retargeting of ICBM is probably impossible without geodetic data from satellites which are not available to Kiev.

> Cruise missiles for strategic bombers stored in Ukraine have long been 'disabled in place'.[...] As with ICBMs, however, retargeting them would be impossible for Ukraine, which does not have access to data from geodetic satellites; the same goes for computer maintenance.

From SIPRI research report 10; The Soviet Nuclear Weapon Legacy

So Ukraine did not have usable weapons at hand. But it did, and does, certainly have the capacity to build entirely new weapons, if given time.
by bgnn | 2025-11-21 21:47:18+00:00
My own experience with SSRIs was very unpleasant. Sure, it worked to reduce my anxiety problems while I was on them for years. The first year I was off of them was the worst though. I didn't have that bad anxiety ever, as in constant panic and feeking of impeding doom. This made me realize that they aren't really an option of me. So began my long therapy journey. After 7 years of weekly therapy, a healthy work-life balance, and regular exercise I'm just feeling better than ever.

So, I'd buy that they don't fix your brain. They definitely reduced anxiety for me and I can see the value for stabilizing people so they can do the heaking work in therapy.
by Melatonic | 2025-11-21 21:47:42+00:00
If they did an AMD CPU using the same TSMC node that Apple uses for Arm CPUs it wouldn't be that much less power efficient and have much great compatibility.

They would realistically gain the most efficiency by getting Nvidia to design a modern super power efficient GPU like what was used in the original switch and Nvidia Shield. AMD GPUs can be great for desktop gaming but in terms of power efficiency to performance ratio Nvidia is way ahead

An AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU might be a hard thing to actually negotiate however given that AMD is big in the GPU space as well. As far as I know most "APU" aren't really that special and just a combo of GPU and CPU