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by gregjor | 2025-11-22 02:53:44+00:00
Obligatory post of John Taylor Gatto's article The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher:

https://selfdirectededucation.neocities.org/pdf/JTG%20The%20...

A former teacher of the year, Gatto became very influential in early homeschooling movements.

Parents or potential parents interested in education and schooling might also want to read Maria Montessori, and John Holt's books "How Children Fail" and "How Children Learn."

We as a species actually know quite a bit about raising children, socialization, and education. I think we get duped by our surrounding society and government institutions hijacking those goals in service of control, indoctrination, conformity, and maintaining class and power structures. Schools serve just as much, if not more, to prepare children to work as "productive" members of a capitalist culture, to do what they get told, as they do to teach our kids anything or help them learn to get along with other people. Call me an anarchist or Marxist, I don't care.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-22 02:54:22+00:00
Stereoscopy is definitely possible, but it would be hard to hack it in without developer cooperation. I don't really see it happening for most flatscreen titles.

FWIW though, SteamVR already supports playing non-VR games on a "projected" display using any regular headset. It's not exclusive to the Frame, nor a future feature!
by jordanb | 2025-11-22 02:54:22+00:00
The oligarchs hated Kahn with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. If you listened to All In all they were doing is ranting about her and Gary Gensler.

That being said, Kamala's refusal to run on Kahn's record definitely helped cost her the election. She thought she could play footsie with Wall Street and SV by backchanneling that she would fire Kahn, so she felt like she couldn't say anything good about Kahn without upsetting the oligarchs, but what she was doing was really popular.
by syawaworht | 2025-11-22 02:54:24+00:00
Yea it's quite confusing and subtle, but there is something there. I'm not a teacher so I don't know how to phrase this to address where you are coming from, but I will say in general, our first reaction is to impose mental frameworks and preconceptions to try to understand things. Kind of what your first inclination is ("element of mind"), and of course the article and many of the posts here.

But I think it is all talking in circles, when the experiential truth can be directly observed (through practice). So I absolutely want to encourage your seeking.
by hippo22 | 2025-11-22 02:54:31+00:00
> Apart from the retirement of research chimpanzees initiated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a decade ago, the move would mark the first time a U.S. agency has ended its in-house nonhuman primate program. “It’s unprecedented,” says Sally Thompson-Iritani, the assistant vice provost responsible for the University of Washington’s animal care program.

Doesn't the fact that his has happened at least once before mean there is precedent?

Also, it looks like the animals are being replaced by something called "organ chips." I have no idea if those are effective are not, but, if they are, then this seems like it would be a positive development.
by Loughla | 2025-11-22 02:54:54+00:00
The out of touch leader is a trope that I'm willing to bet has existed as long as we've had leaders.

I remember first hearing the phrase "yes man" in relation to a human ass kisser my dad worked with in like 1988.

It's very easy to unknowingly surround yourself with syncophants and hangers on when you literally have more money than some countries. This is true now and has been true forever. I'm not sure they're more out of touch, as much as we're way more aware?
by okanat | 2025-11-22 02:55:35+00:00
Newer laptops come with extra power peripherals and sensors. Some of them are in ACPI tables, some are not. Most of them are proprietary ASICs (or custom chips, nuvoton produces quite a bit of those). Linux kernel or the userspace has poor support for those. Kernel PCIe drivers require some tuning. USB stack is kind of shaky and power management features are often turned off since they get unstable as hell.

If you have a dGPU, Linux implementation of the power management or offloading actually consumes more power than Windows due to bad architectural design. Here is a talk from XDC2025 that plans to fix some of the issues: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/contributions/425/

Desktop usage is a third class citizen under Linux (servers first, embedded a distant second). Phones have good battery life since SoC and ODM engineers spend months to tune them and they have first party proprietary drivers. None of the laptop ODMs do such work to support Linux. Even their Windows tooling is arcane.

Unless the users get drivers all the minute PMICs and sensors, you'll never get the battery life you can get from a clean Windows install with all the drivers. MS and especially OEMs shoot themselves in the foot by filling the base OS with so much bloat that Linux actually ends up looking better compared to stock OEM installs.
by veqq | 2025-11-22 02:55:48+00:00
The indices may be inflated but in this environment, treasury bonds guarantee losses (because of explicit inflationary policy. Just look at the real rate of return.) Besides, a 60/40 allocation has not made sense since the early 80s. Morgan Stanley e.g. advised a 60/20/20 with gold: https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/morgan-stanley-cio-fa...

> I'm not really an investor btw, this is just my intuition

Don't give advice when you don't know the subject. For a start, there are more than 2 assets. For some, certain corporate bonds look nice right now. Although indices are overpriced and carry risk due to the bubble, much of the wider market is extremely cheap. Developed and undeveloped foreign markets have also been outperforming the US. And commodities...
by eucyclos | 2025-11-22 02:55:58+00:00
I can give a very simple example - in my high school history class, the cold war was presented as a conflict between communism and democracy - despite the fact that on an economic field the conflict was clearly between communism and capitalism, while on a political field proponents of both systems were happy to subvert the democratic process whenever someone had the audacity to vote for the wrong economic system.

Ooh, as I was typing I thought of a better example - remember the four food groups? eight to twelve servings of grains per day? Less obviously propaganda, though I'd argue the farm lobbies pushing it count. But harms in terms of its link to obesity and heart disease are pretty damn stark.

Given that school children are a huge captive audience of future consumers/voters/employees it would be incredibly strange if the curriculum wasn't the target of all kinds of special interest groups that aren't perfectly aligned with public interest.
Show HN: I made yet another AI headshot app because the world needed one more
by CarlosArthurr | 2025-11-22 02:56:08+00:00
Look, I know. There are like 47 of these apps already. I'm aware. But here's the thing - I kept trying them and they all took forever (30+ min processing), need to be a prompt master or charged $200 for 5 photos. So I built one that does it in 60 seconds from any selfie.

The pitch is simple: LinkedIn, Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, your mom's WhatsApp profile pic - whatever. Upload a selfie, pick a style, done. Let people go wild with it.

Tech stuff: Swift app, nano-banana, no face training required. It's style transfer that keeps you looking like yourself, just better lit.

Free trial, no credit card. Built it solo from Braga, Portugal. Happy to talk about the tech or explain why entering the most saturated App Store category seemed like a good idea at the time.
by jedberg | 2025-11-22 02:56:34+00:00
> DBOS is tied to Postgres, right? That wouldn't scale anywhere near where we need either.

I would challenge that assumption. We have 50 years of experience scaling Postgres. It can scale pretty far, and then you can shard it for even more. Or you can use one of the new flavors of Postgres compatible database that has unlimited horizontal scaling.

> In the end, mostly everyone who can afford to solve such problems are gonna end up writing their own systems for this.

Hard disagree (granted, I'm the CEO of one of the companies selling a solution in this space). If done right with a good DX and lightweight enough, ideally everyone will use DE by default, and will use one of the frameworks provided. Most likely one of the new style frameworks that you see in this blog post and that DBOS uses, that don't use an external coordinator and black box binary with a shim.

DBOS uses in process coordination with a pure language library, which makes it far more performant with a lot less hardware. It's not an apples to apples comparison.
by no_wizard | 2025-11-22 02:56:48+00:00
> but for most applications is pretty negligible

Not all, and it is always preferable for it not to have a cost.

> I have yet to encounter a problem that genuinely makes it so impossibly slow that Clojuresript just outright can't be used

There’s a big swath of work that could benefit from the development streamlining that something like clojurescript or similar projects can give but any performance hit is deadly, like e-commerce.

There is also the fact that it doesn’t have 100% bindings to the raw JS and DOM APIs if I recall correctly, it’s often wrapped around React or assumed to be
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 02:56:49+00:00
As someone who did OpenGL programming for a very, very long time, I fully agree with you. Without OpenGL being maintained, we are missing a critical “middle” drawing API. We have the very high level game engines, and very low level things like Vulkan and Metal which are basically thin abstractions on top of GPU hardware. But we are missing that fun “draw a triangle” middle API that lets you pick up and learn 3D Graphics (as opposed to the very different “learn GPU programming” goal).

If I was a beginner looking to get a basic understanding of graphics and wanted to play around, I shouldn’t have to know or care what a “shader” is or what a vertex buffer and index buffer are and why you’d use them. These low level concepts are just unnecessary “learning cliffs” that are only useful to existing experts in the field.

Maybe unpopular opinion: only a relative handful of developers working on actually making game engines need the detailed control Vulkan gives you. They are willing to put up with the minutiae and boilerplate needed to work at that low level because they need it. Everyone else would be better off with OpenGL.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-11-22 02:57:40+00:00
I have difficulty remembering ten numbers, why do I have to say 1-212-487-1965 when I can just say Santa Rosita 71965? Maybe we should have just done another exchange name and added another name. Eg Hawthorne Santa Rosita 71965. I know its stupid, but 10 digit phone numbers are just so hard to remember and look at that I think its just human nature to gravitate towards the simplicity of telephone exchange prefixes.

Yet again, another fundamental misunderstanding (either genuine or not, I'm not sure) about the low-level technologies and their origins that underpin all of this. "Can't we just..."? No.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 02:58:05+00:00
It's around 16% of the total federal budget. To be fair about 1/3 of "military spending" is actually Salaries, Medical, Housing and GI/Retirement costs.

It's also the case that none of the CIA, NSA or DHS budgets show up under the military, even though they're performing some of the same functions that would be handled by militaries in other countries.

We also have "black appropriations." So the total of the spending on surveillance and kinetic operations is often unknowable. Add to this the fact the Pentagon has never successfully performed an audit and I think people are right to be suspicious of the topline "fraction of GDP" number.
by estearum | 2025-11-22 02:58:27+00:00
Oof.

1. I know what reasoning is theoretically. Humans do not do that though. Brains do not have the hardware to do anything other than probabilistic prediction. You've already acknowledged this, but now are in denial because the corollaries are awfully inconvenient for a conclusion you've already committed yourself to!

2. No one claimed externalization is necessary to reason. I am claiming that people use externalization (even in lieu of collaboration with others) because brains are in fact so unreliable at even basic logic, which you allege they have built-in hardware to do (they do not).

3. I'm not an LLM consciousness-believer. I'm not sure why you keep supposing that I am.

> Why is it difficult for you to believe that we have code that is, in fact, more complicated than guessing the next token

Because there is no evidence for anything going on in the brain other predicting sensory input and probabilistically transforming it into behavior and conscious experience. Show evidence for where in the brain any other process is occurring and I'd be excited to dig into it :)
by ggreer | 2025-11-22 02:58:50+00:00
Your pediatrician is either mistaken or lying. Children and adolescents who take SSRIs for major depressive disorder show increased rates of suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, and hostility towards others. These effects persist for at least 9 months after starting SSRIs.[1]

Common side effects of long-term SSRI use in adults include weight gain, emotional numbing, loss of libido, and sexual dysfunction. It seems to me that anyone taking SSRIs when their brain is still developing would be more likely to have these side effects, and to have them persist after ceasing use.

It's anecdotal, but I know some people who were prescribed SSRIs during puberty. It's not possible to know how they would have turned out if they hadn't taken these drugs, but as adults I pity them. Their lack of sex drive causes relationship problems, which is especially sad since they do want children. They're starting to get older, so I doubt it'll ever happen.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i...
by rmunn | 2025-11-22 02:59:51+00:00
Brilliant.

I use Tailscale myself, but if you want everything totally under your control (and don't want to go to the trouble of setting up headscale or something similar) then that's one of the absolutely simplest, lowest-effort ways of doing it. EDIT: Well, except for the VPS box I suppose, but if that provider went down or you had any reason to suspect they were doing anything suspicious, it would be quite simple to jump to a different provider, so that's pretty darn close to controlling everything yourself.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-22 02:59:56+00:00
>> If the project is about testing Claude's capabilities, the prompts will be more interesting to have.

> It's not like it's a single shot generation or anything.

Since you've submitted a "Show HN: Vibe Prolog" and shared in the repo:

I was working on something else and as a side effect accidently vibe coded a prolog interpretor on my phone over the weekend.

The GP's observation of the prompts being highly relevant is substantiated. Arguably even more so than the Python code committed.

Especially since there have been 82 commits in the span of 3 days.

EDIT:

And I am really interested in how you "vibe coded" the commit[0] which made this singular change:

- uv run pytest tests/ttest_additional_builtins.py -v + uv run pytest tests/test_additional_builtins.py -v

0 - https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/commit/0bf4beba70dea...
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-22 03:00:11+00:00
> Nothing should or would happen.

"nothing should" is correct; "nothing would" is fantasy

> The issue with Cuba was the stationing of nuclear missiles in Cuba, not merely its membership of a pact with the USSR.

Yes, putting nukes there brought things to a serious crisis, but the issue with Cuba

> The US didn’t invade Cuba, it assisted Cuban exiles to do so

Come on, let's be real here. Sure, _technically_ the US didn't invade Cuba. But it funded and assisted a mercenary force in a (very poor) attempt to do so. And that wasn't the only time the US tried to force regime change in Cuba, just like it did in Chile.
by deadeye | 2025-11-22 03:00:54+00:00
>That's on the kid, not contingent on whether school is public.

Yes and no. The interest of the kid to learn is on the kid/family, for sure.

However, the fact that a kid who has no interest in learning is forced to go to public school is a function of how public schools operate.

Again, free and required is a bad model. They should either be free and selective or, less ideally, available and costly.
by est31 | 2025-11-22 03:01:53+00:00
Centralized planning is needed in any civilization. You need some mechanism to decide where to put resources, whether it's to organize the annual school's excursion or to construct the national highway system.

But yeah in the end companies behave in trends, if some companies do it then the other companies have to do it too, even if this makes things less efficient or is even hurtful. We can put that onto the human factor, but I think even if we replaced all CEOs with AIs, those AIs would all see the same information and make similar decisions on those information.

There is pascal's wager arguments to be had: for each individual company, the punishment of not playing the AI game and missing out on something big is bigger than the punishment of wasting resources by allocating them towards AI efforts plus annoying customers with AI features they don't want or need.

> 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.

The usa has rid itself multiple times of its barons. There is mechanisms in place, but I am not sure that people really are going to exercise those means any time soon. If this AI stuff is successful in the real world as well, then increasing amounts of power will shift away from the people to the people controlling the AI, with all the consequences this has.
by jMyles | 2025-11-22 03:02:19+00:00
I'm not sure what I can do to recognize and steelman this position. There is no way to justify telling someone far away that they aren't allowed to capture photons which have bounced off of your skin that doesn't amount to a position of maximum egotism.

A person's existence does not entitle them to control and authority over every particle that interacts with them.

I'm allowed to see you. If you are in a place where I can see (ie, in public), then I can see you without even telling you I can see you. If I can see you - regardless of whether the technology I use is the result of biological evolution or electronic innovation - and you never even realize you've been seen, then by definition I have not harmed you with that act.

So, let's identify the _actual_ acts of harm. Trying to limit what CBP is allowed to see - when we can't even verify what they've seen - is not a path to relief from their tyranny.

I don't think that's hand-wavy. I think it's consistent. And unafraid to speak truth to power.

If you think you can summarize what I'm missing, I'd love to hear it.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-22 03:04:03+00:00
I'm absolutely empathetic to the European sentiment - the Gripen should be a mainstay in EU air forces on merit alone, F-35 be damned. But many of the nations buying the F-35 aren't being swindled into it, they're filling a capability gap that really does threaten Russia in a meaningful way. Both systems can work together to leverage their advantages, and are designed to cooperate using Link 16. It doesn't have to be one-or-the-other, and buying both systems hedges against the possibility of either side pulling support.

If Europe doesn't want a deep strike capability against Russia, don't buy the F-35. Fill the gap with a regional stealth-bomber program like China did, or pool the various European stealth fighter projects together in a serious joint project. As-is, the only competitor to the F-35 can be bought from China, who will be more capricious with the supply chain in the long run.
by diob | 2025-11-22 03:04:17+00:00
I think the reality is likely more nuanced than 'all good' or 'all bad.' While the side effects you linked are real risks that should be taken seriously, claiming these drugs are 'by no means safe,' cause 'mostly permanent' damage, or lack evidence is a pretty extreme generalization that doesn't align with the experience of millions of patients.

Speaking for myself, I took sertraline for years and it did wonders for my mental health. It didn't ruin my life or numb me, it gave me the ability to regulate my emotions when I previously struggled immensely with anger and crippling anxiety.

It’s possible for these drugs to be handed out too easily in some contexts and simultaneously be life-saving, effective treatments for those who genuinely need them. Suggesting they violate 'do no harm' ignores the massive harm caused by leaving severe mental health struggles untreated.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 03:04:50+00:00
I'm working with SDL GPU now, and while it's nice, it hasn't quite cracked the cross platform nut yet. You still need to maintain and load platform-specific shaders for each incompatible ecosystem, or you need a set of "source of truth" HLSL shaders that your build system processes into platform-specific shaders, through a set of disparate tools that you have to download from all over the place, that really should be one tool. I have high hopes for SDL_shadercross to one day become that tool.
by chongli | 2025-11-22 03:06:53+00:00
I have a math degree. I have been volunteer tutoring high school kids in math for 9 years. When a student comes to me for help I can always tell if their teacher has math anxiety. They teach the students extremely rigid methods and refuse to allow alternative approaches to solve the problems. They enforce this with grading and penalize students who don't toe the line.

Some of the methods these teachers use are incredibly awkward, bespoke approaches that baffle me for their obtuseness. It's incredibly frustrating to deal with and it has a negative effect on the students.

My approach has always been to try to find the method that makes the most sense to the student, and work with them on that. I don't have any issues adapting my style to the student's needs. I only struggle when the spectre of one of those bad math teachers looms over our shoulders.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-22 03:07:46+00:00
I do something similar using an openvpn tunnel (home->vps). Iptables rules on the VPS redirect services to the VPN client IP.

Client automatically deals with reconnecting, never have to touch it.

SSH tunnel would have been simpler, just didn’t want it open.

SSH tunnel probably needs the keep alive on, otherwise connection loss may not be detected.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 03:07:53+00:00
You don't have a tiny brain. Vulkan is a low-level chip abstraction API, and is about as joyful to use as a low-level USB API. For a more fun experience with very small amounts of source code needed to get started, I'd recommend trying OpenGL (especially pre-2.0 when they introduced shaders and started down the GPU-programming path), but the industry is dead-set on killing OpenGL for some reason.
by braza | 2025-11-22 03:08:04+00:00
Yes, it is. I've blogged since 2006, and after the content-oriented-to-SEO boom, I totally lost hope in writing online again. Part of me wants to write for the sake of sharing, but the other part thinks being a free content farm for AI is quite depressing.

On top of that, discoverability is dead, SEO indexing for attribution of original works does not exist, the culture of rehashing content for walled gardens like LinkedIn and Medium is out of control, and the substackzation of writing does not make things optimistic.