MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jameslk | 2025-11-22 18:02:40+00:00
It’s good that it’s a state policy, not a federal one. We need more policies to stay at the state level, regardless of the policy. Federalism is how we can test the effects of competing policies under the same house. If the policy is a problem for you, it’s a lot easier to vote with your feet and move to a different state than to move to a different country
by Rebelgecko | 2025-11-22 18:03:47+00:00
The financials of childcare don't really make sense to me. YMMV depending on your situation, but childcare costs are basically equivalent to my wife's teacher salary. And because of our tax bracket, it'd actually be CHEAPER for her to quit her job and take care of 2 kids full time, vs getting paid teach like 20 kids. There's tradeoffs in terms of career progression, but it seems broken that there's a decent financial argument for leaving the workforce.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-22 18:04:01+00:00
Exactly. And it's a combination usually. It's really hard to do constructive therapy when you are depressed. Stabilise with the meds and then tackle the root causes with therapy.

But some people just are very prone to depression and need the extra help.

You wouldn't say "don't give that kid ibuprofen, let them just deal with the pain"?

And SSRIs are not very strong. They do have some nasty side effects especially sexually but this is not relevant at that age so that makes it even more suitable for kids than adults.
by echelon | 2025-11-22 18:04:01+00:00
It's because it runs like a business that we're able to enjoy a high standard of living.

If the economy stops growing, or worse, degrades, everyone will suffer incredibly. Job loss, investment loss, higher cost of living.

There's a wide gulf between childcare for none and childcare for all.

I'm an atheist, but some of the cheapest childcare is at churches. Orders of magnitude cheaper than private childcare because they already have the infrastructure for it. I've had affluent people turn their nose at the idea of Christians watching their kids. But there are entirely affordable options if you're not being choosey.
by owenversteeg | 2025-11-22 18:04:18+00:00
I see a lot of people claiming this sort of thing was “common” (JASON at the Royal Naval College London, MIT’s MITR-II, CROCUS at EPL) but there is a huge difference between these things. Kodak’s CFX was a small device the size of a refrigerator; it is a neutron source and not a reactor. CROCUS is a reactor, but also small (100W thermal) and JASON, while larger, is also low power (10 kW.) MITR-II on the other hand is nearly one thousand times larger at 6 MW thermal.

There are only three civilian reactors >1MW in the US: at MIT, UC Davis, and the University of Missouri. You could also count the RINSC MTR, which is owned and operated by the Rhode Island state Atomic Energy Commission but located on the University of Rhode Island campus and collaborates closely with the university. Similarly, there are only two >1MW in Western Europe (TU Delft and TU München.)

If this sort of thing interests you, I can recommend reading about the history of the TRIGA. Freeman Dyson and Edward Teller designed it as a reactor “safe even in the hands of a young graduate student” and the US government sent them around the world as part of Atoms for Peace.
by nradov | 2025-11-22 18:04:22+00:00
I agree with you. But to steelman the argument on the other side, their concern is that subsidizing care for children creates a moral hazard by encouraging irresponsible people to have even more children. It's a feedback loop which creates an escalating burden on the rest of society. I don't think that denying care to children is effective or morally justified; I'm just trying to explain what seems to be the underlying argument.
by TexanFeller | 2025-11-22 18:04:54+00:00
I think of ADHD and autism as brothers, or at least cousins. Lots of overlap, but not quite the same.

With the older concept and diagnosic criteria for autism there was less overlap. ADHD and autism used to be considered mutually exclusive diagnoses. Autism used to imply delays in speech and most people diagnosed also had significant intellectual disability. Autism is now a dramatically larger umbrella than it used to be with the last couple of DSM editions merging Aspergers and other conditions with it and making it not be mutually exclusive with ADHD. The shift in definitions makes autism extremely difficult to discuss in public because people have wildly different concepts of it depending on when they learned.

Side comment, merging Asperger's into autism was motivated in part by awareness of Hans Asperger's evil deeds and not wanting that association. It was also championed based on enabling help/protections given to autistics to folks with Aspergers as well, and maybe because being part of a larger and harder to ignore pool would help autistics with intellectual disabilities get more attention as well. So far I haven't seen a clear explanation of why it made sense in terms of better understanding the condition/difference, everyone that discusses it focuses on perceived potential social good.
by moinism | 2025-11-22 18:05:00+00:00
Dude, it looks great, but I just spent half an hour learning about its 'CodeAgents' feature. Which essentially is 'actions written as code'.

This idea has been floating around in my head, but it wasn't refined enough to implement. It's so wild that what you're thinking of may have already been done by someone else on the internet.

https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents/conceptual_guides/int...

For those who are wondering, it's kind of similar to the 'Code Mode' idea implemented by Cloudflare and now being explored by Anthropic; Write code to discover and call MCPs instead of stuffing context window with their definations.
by tetha | 2025-11-22 18:05:01+00:00
It reminds me of a game we played with students of data classification algorithms like ID3: How many yes/no questions do we need to uniquely identify everyone in this room?

With like 12 students, that's 4 bits, and it often ends up with 2-3 questions. It starts off with the obvious ones - man/woman/diverse, but then a realization comes in: An answer usually contains more information than just that one bit. If you have long hair, you're most likely a woman and/or a metalhead for example. That part will get shaken out later on.

And those thoughts make these browser fingerprinting techniques all the more scary: They contain a lot of information and that quickly cuts the possible amount of people down. Like, I'm a Linux Firefox user with a screen on the left. I wouldn't be suprised if that put me in a 5-6 digit bucket of people already.
by parineum | 2025-11-22 18:05:02+00:00
It takes a good idea and a willingness to take a risk to start a business. I don't think that risk aversion is what's stopping new businesses, there are a lot of people who do a lot of what I consider too risky.

Instead, what I wonder is how many new businesses wouldn't be viable under a tax structure that provides ubi and health care. Not to be dismissive but that's definitely a concern in a world replete with fledgling businesses that mostly fail.
by Terretta | 2025-11-22 18:05:03+00:00
> what if ... everything you buy is cheaper because the price does not include the cost of running ads?

Except in practice we see the opposite.

There's something interesting going on with companies when they want to get paid directly versus by ads: they demand 3x - 4x or more for subscriptions or pay per view versus what they make from ads.

Easiest place to see this is ad supported non-linear TV in the years you could get without ads, or with ads. You pay significantly more to not see the ads, than they make from the ads.

Perhaps this is justified because ad-free subscriptions reduce the audience size for ad buys, but when you look at the numbers watching with ads versus paying, it wouldn't seem like the "no ads" buyers make a dent in whatever pricing tier.

In the 90s when we were young and naive, we imagined a library card model, with a library fee and then you have fractions of a cent cost to read a post, and using (hand waving) technology to uncouple viewing history from payables to content creators. That, or the British TV license model, an Internet license of some kind.

It's curious to me the ad networks haven't gotten together to preemptively offer this. Arguably Brave tried, but from an adversarial (to the ad companies) stance. It would work better from the inside with a simple regulation: if you serve ads for ad-supported content, you have to participate in the library card system at CPM rates no greater than you receive for ads to skip the ads for card holders.
by runako | 2025-11-22 18:05:43+00:00
This analysis is incomplete for a couple of reasons:

1. any universal childcare scheme will involve groups larger than the median at-home familial group. Avery is watching ~1-2 kids, but if those kids are at creche, they are in a group of (say) ~4-5.

2. In much of the country, a) is financially out of reach for many couples due to cost of living generally being based around two-income households.
by HWR_14 | 2025-11-22 18:05:45+00:00
> And I wonder if “one light-day” would even be accepted as an answer.

Absolutely not. First, a light-day is a distance, not a unit of time. Second, Voyager 1 is almost 1 light day from the sun. The earth is approximately 0.5% of a light-day from the sun.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-22 18:05:46+00:00
I think that's offset by our ability to operate effectively "under fire". My lack of ability to direct attention is mostly a factor of modern convenience and work structure I think. Being assigned a presentation to deliver on architecture changes in two weeks doesn't really have the same stakes as being a hunter gatherer. I know most of what I have to do to earn money is bullshit at some level and that certainly adds to my inability to focus on it. But when things are crashing, the server is on fire and everyone is panicking, I'm at my most comfortable. There is a real and direct need and I can handle those situations better than most people based on my 20+ years doing this sort of work. It's when everything is humming along smoothly that I'm least productive.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-11-22 18:05:49+00:00
A few alternate, less paywalled, local articles on the same thing:

https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2025-10-13/childcare-univers...

> The state has spent years building early childhood funding — In 2020 it created a $10 billion trust fund using revenue from its booming oil and gas industry. Then, in 2022 voters approved drawing more from the Land Grant Permanent Fund.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/is-universal-childcare-sustai...
by notatoad | 2025-11-22 18:07:11+00:00
The PPV model has been tried a bunch of times, and it always turns out that the rate people are willing to pay per view is not a rate that is high enough to be a viable revenue source for the content owners.

it takes a lot of $0.10-$0.25 views to make up for the loss of a $5/month recurring revenue stream that might last for years.
by hintklb | 2025-11-22 18:08:19+00:00
taking kids from parents should almost never happen. Every family should be able to raise their kids as they wish.

I can only see a couple cases of clear abuse where this should happen.

But intelligence should NEVER be a reason to take kids from parents.

This is so dystopian. Next step is to take your kids if you don't have the right opinions or political views?
by bossyTeacher | 2025-11-22 18:08:36+00:00
> What is happenning in denmark that allows this process to exist?

Surprised at your reaction. It is well known that several of the Nordics have historically have fairly questionable processes when it came to the indigenous people. Eugenics sounding processes given the euphemism word "assimilation process". The Sami people are still suffering from the legacy of these processes in Norway and Finland. This is no different than the Canadian whitening policy via cultural assimilation via one way adoption, one way intermarry, residential schools, etc. Australia had the same thing. Virtually, every colonised country where the colonised population wasn't wiped out right had similar processes on them.

I think people on here often have an overly rosy views of the Nordics due to the surveys ranking them as the happiest people in the world.

Let us remember that this is the same country that has guetto laws defined as places with less than 50% western people. And yes, the Danish word for "guetto" was in the official documents and it actually only got removed 4 years ago
by crowbahr | 2025-11-22 18:08:43+00:00
> Because the problem's not a "neurochemistry issue" (that theory's been debunked and the "chemicals" in play have never been known), and the solution is "no better than placebo."

It most certainly has not been debunked and mind altering chemicals most certainly do work.

SSRIs have _questionable_ efficacy but that's not the same as proven to have none, which is an exceptionally high bar.

This is close minded dogma no better a religion.
by Opus_Warrior | 2025-11-22 18:08:52+00:00
Hi HN,

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The problem: Current AI "memory" is either expensive context window tricks or slow retrieval systems. Neither feels natural, and nothing persists across sessions in a meaningful way.

The solution: CASCADE - a 6-layer memory architecture running on consumer GPUs. Key specs: - Sub-2ms semantic search across 11,000+ memories (Faiss + GPU acceleration) - 9.68x computational amplification through optimization - 95% GPU utilization (up from 8% baseline) - True session-to-session persistence

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Why unrestricted matters: Researchers need tools without artificial limits. Enterprises need compliance-ready security. Both should exist.

Built in a basement lab on a single RTX 3090. All research, protocols, and code are open source (MIT).

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We're not a product company - this is a research lab that produces practical tools. No VC funding, no customers, just genuine exploration into making AI memory work properly.

Trade-offs we document honestly: - Research Edition requires trust (no guardrails) - GPU acceleration needs decent hardware (3060+ recommended) - Windows-focused initially (Linux/Mac coming)

Questions welcome. Looking for feedback on the architecture and anyone interested in reproducing the results.
by ordu | 2025-11-22 18:08:59+00:00
> My definition of terrorism was always more in the lines of destroying life, not spreading it

When you come to some place and change it drastically, is it a good thing or a bad thing? I don't think it is. There are some excuses that I can accept, but if you do it "just for fun" of it, I think it is an evil deed.

Places have their own history, their own shapes and forms, and then someone comes and wipes it off just because they can. It cannot be Good, can't it?
by nradov | 2025-11-22 18:09:38+00:00
Commercial health insurance is more expensive than Medicare because original Medicare Part A/B doesn't cover prescription drugs, and because commercial plans effectively provide a hidden cross subsidy to Medicare. Under a "Medicare for All" scheme, people would still need to purchase prescription drug coverage (Part D). And because Medicare reimburses providers at very low rates (often below their costs) they have to make up the difference by charging commercial health plans more.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-11-22 18:09:45+00:00
More like watching a weaving machine than watching a person hammer nails imo. Maybe like an old-time mill, with several machines if you think in terms of actual processing on an accelerator?

There's a wooden weaving machine at a heritage museum near me that gives me the same 'taste' in my brain as thinking about 'matrix' processing in a TPU or whatever.
by gedy | 2025-11-22 18:10:16+00:00
Yes seriously - I'm old enough to have enjoy reading magazines that had ads throughout them. They were fine.

I'd venture to say contextual advertising would be more effective than whatever we've been trying to squeeze out of fingerprinting etc. All this supposed "data" they are gathering feels like a scam perpetuated by ad companies about how important it is to the people who buy ads. It's not.

Even Facebook and Instagram, which pretty much should know you to a tee is completely ineffectual at advertising to me - like at all.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-22 18:10:38+00:00
> I understand that a comment such as mine would rankle.

It doesn't rankle. It just makes you look childish and immature.

> If I did, I'm not entirely sure how...

God you bore me. I'm not interested in having a discussion on the philosophy of art here. Just say he's your favorite musician so far and be done with it. Just like whoever was your previous favorite musician before bach.
by pheouk | 2025-11-22 18:11:16+00:00
looked intriguing until i had to deal with the conflicting 'we are for smb not enterprise' and then 'ha and sso only available in our soon to be enterprise pricing'

not sure how many SMBs some devs work with but anything more than a mom and pop outfit and things like HA and SSO become fairly critical, especially for desktop workloads

this pattern stifles adoption of so many otherwise great projects
by HWR_14 | 2025-11-22 18:12:13+00:00
> cultural trivia like asking about mother Teresa?

In 2024. For most parents the correct answer would be "someone who died before I was born", but in the case of this particular mother it is "someone who died before I was a teenager".

I'm not sure it's ever been relevant cultural trivia for Denmark and is irrelevant to modern culture anywhere.
by btilly | 2025-11-22 18:12:36+00:00
I don't mind advertisers knowing more about me. If they can display ads that are relevant to me, this is a better experience on both sides.

Unfortunately there is no way to tell advertisers, "No, I'm not interested in your product. I never will be. Don't waste your money."

The top offender is Hims. No, I don't have hair loss. I don't want hair loss supplements. I also don't have ED, and I object strongly to ads for that showing up unexpectedly when I'm showing a YouTube video to someone else.

The second top offender is whoever it is (they keep changing their name) who thinks that I need some kind of Christian motivational course to get control of "the P-word". (Their phrase, not mine.) No, I don't have a problem with pornography. I am very rarely interested in it. And when it comes up every few months, I don't feel any guilt about it afterwards. Furthermore I'm an atheist. A Christian motivational course isn't going to work well for me regardless.

Yes, Google does offer a report function, and a block function, for ads. The report function seems to have gotten rid of the unwanted ED ads. The block really doesn't work when the ads are all very similar AI slop that is rotated frequently. Block this ad, and then next unwanted ad from the same source will be coming along soon enough. (The reason why I particularly dislike Hims is that they are more aggressively rotating their ads.)
by toast0 | 2025-11-22 18:13:05+00:00
Most children don't have enough credits to qualify for Medicare.

OTOH, very few children have enough individual income to be disqualified from Medicaid, but it's based on household income.

My handwavey plan for universal federalized healthcare includes using the child's income as a qualifier for Medicaid, phased in so the system will hopefully adjust over time rather than get overloaded to collapse. Also reduce the Medicare eligibility age over time. A solution that takes decades to roll out leaves a lot of unsolved problems, but adding a large number of people to an existing program in one fell swoop feels like it's going to be a negative too.
by bentley | 2025-11-22 18:14:04+00:00
> gifted kids or the ones from religious zealots will all live in their bubbles

If you’ve read this thread, then you know most homeschoolers dispute that they live in a bubble.

> Sure, let's make homeschooling the norm, problematic kids will be the only ones who fill the ranks of public schools

I don’t see anyone in this thread advocating that. But I did see several arguing that homeschooling should be illegal. And homeschooling is illegal in countries like Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Part of homeschoolers’ outspokenness against the usual tired stereotypes is because there’s real risk of governments prohibiting home education even in situations when it would be superior to the local public schools.
by drnick1 | 2025-11-22 18:14:15+00:00
Firefox w/ the Arkenfox user.js is probably as good as it gets in terms of privacy. By default, this config burns cookies on exit, standardizes the time zone to UTC, spoofs the canvas fingerprint, and does other helpful things. Basically, it makes Firefox expose the same information as the Tor browser.

In addition, I block most known advertizing/tracking domains at the DNS level (I run my own server, and use Hagezi's blacklists).

Finally, another suggestion would be to block all third party content by default using uBlock Origin and/or uMatrix. This will break a lot of websites, but automatically rules out most forms of tracking through things such as fonts hosted by Google, Adobe and others. I manually whitelist required third party domains (CDNs) for websites I frequently visit.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-22 18:14:17+00:00
It may be suboptimal, but what isn't? The problem here is assuming that the expensive bureaucratic credential based system is optimal or even better at all. "Everybody knows $SOME_NEIGHBOR and she's great with kids" is just a much better indicator of quality in child care than "$SOME_DAYCARE is licensed by $SOME_BUREAUCRACY."

Also, I'm not even against state support for parents needing childcare, but giving $500 a month to each parent who needs it to find childcare in an informal system will actually be much better than a state run system that spends $2000 per kid.
by runako | 2025-11-22 18:14:36+00:00
The data on UBI isn't out there, but it is notable that countries with similar tax rates to the US manage to have universal healthcare and more expansive safety nets. Some examples: New Zealand (tax rate ~30% less than the US), Korea, Switzerland, Australia, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Norway.

Americans really should be asking why we're paying a significantly higher tax burden than New Zealand and not getting similar services as part of the bargain.

Put another way: the US is incredibly rich compared to other countries. Our poorest states have higher GDP per capita than most rich countries. And our taxes are not particularly low. Our social issues are 100% about how we choose to allocate our shared resources. The good thing is we can always choose to make different choices.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-11-22 18:15:04+00:00
https://www.childcareaware.org/families/cost-child-care/help... . In my country daycare is subsidized. Notwithstanding, it's not that high of a bar. Two-income households still bring in more net money despite expenses.

There is no "etc etc" in this context, we're talking about watching the kids while parents work.
by pdpi | 2025-11-22 18:15:18+00:00
> that I don't think about it quite that positively.

I don't think about that in a positive light, it's just factual information that helps me understand the shape of the problem. It's about recognizing that the places my focus goes to aren't random and arbitrary — I've never gotten stuck on, say, the intricacies of tap dancing, because I have little to no interest in tap dancing, and no reason to care. I did get stuck on knitting for a short while because I bought some pattern books as a gift for my mother, and had a peek inside — I _wanted_ to have a peek inside, what I didn't want was to lose a few hours to it.