MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phantasmish | 2025-11-21 23:39:02+00:00
Their popularity for viewers (even more so now with YouTube, but they’re long been a staple of live news and late night tv) and the fact that police like any excuse to do “badass” things are big parts of why they still happen. They’re a pretty bad idea. Endangering lives (including bystanders) over mostly relatively-minor crimes.

But people love ‘em, and if you point out what a bad idea they are people label you “soft on crime” (as happens with a lot of plainly good policy)
by lateforwork | 2025-11-21 23:39:05+00:00
It seems promising, but usability sucks. I can't figure out how to add anything. In the holdings screen there is no add button. In the income screen there is no add button. In the performance screen there is an Add account button. But pressing it opens a search accounts panel. WTF? I was able to add benchmarks, so I can at least see a chart. The chart animations are gratuitous... all it does is make you wait a bit. I the pressed the history icon. Turns out it is the activity screen, not history. Finally I found the Add activity screen. I press Add activity... but in the dialog requires an account and I don't know how to create an account. There are no more screens. At this point I gave up.
by jbs789 | 2025-11-21 23:39:17+00:00
It’s probably most important to take a long term view of asset allocations, stick to the plan, and be tax efficient. Once you cover that off, the tactical positions can maybe help a touch.

Diversification is the bedrock of portfolio management, meaning owning a range of assets that collectively perform acceptably under a range of scenarios. But it’s generally not sexy, not something you catch individuals bragging about - avoiding permanent loss of capital.

Think about what risk you’re willing to take, in the context of your job/career prospects, current investments etc.

These are things for you to decide. Wouldn’t trust anyone who says buy x without knowing your individual circumstances.

What I can say is there are consistent patterns for many successful investors, and the media will tend to focus on the outliers / lottery winners, which by definition are difficult to emulate / replicate. Be wary of survivorship bias and the narrative fallacy.
by fatbrother | 2025-11-21 23:39:56+00:00
News Aggregators & Alternatives

Flipboard – A social news-magazine app that allows users to create and browse personalized news feeds.

SmartNews – Aggregates news from many sources and presents it in a clean, magazine-style layout.

Apple News – A built-in news aggregator for Apple devices pulling content from a wide range of publishers.

Feedly – A modern RSS-based aggregator where users can follow blogs, news sites, and other content sources.

Platform-Based Alternatives (e.g., G2) – Community-driven review platforms that list and compare various news aggregators.

AllHeadline.com – A New Zealand–based news aggregator designed to deliver quick access to diverse, high-quality stories, similar to Google News or Feedly.
by lisbbb | 2025-11-21 23:40:12+00:00
You should not be downvoted for telling the truth about your experiences! I have witnessed the same things. Kids being held back a grade so they can excel in sports! It is so ridiculously self-serving and narcissistic that it is crazy to witness. And the emphasis on sports at my son's high school is beyond ridiculous.

The dads especially need to get back to basics and stop these obsessions they have about their kids being athletic superstars. It's bad for EVERYONE. And starting kids at like 5 years old in sports is just stupid.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-21 23:40:16+00:00
>Trust me, you can do this in your head if you know basic high school level math

yeah, i guess it was a mistake to graduate from MIT undergrad and grad school in quant fields, i should have just stuck with high school math

>If I ask you if 123456789 is a prime number, do you complain that it's not fair to make you perform division on such a long number?

you tell me, is 13717421 prime?
by conartist6 | 2025-11-21 23:41:23+00:00
I mean if the laptop cost $300 (feels like a very conservative estimate) providing HEVC would cost them. Lets see here... 1% would be $3, 0.33% would be $1, and the price per consumer of including the functionality would be a quarter of that, 0.0825% of the cost -- roughly a tenth of a percent.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-21 23:41:34+00:00
Hmmm that would mean incredibly bad performance though. I mean, there is even a machine performance test, before you can play online, because the game is too heavy for many machines these days, while running 8p games just fine back in the day on waaaaay weaker hardware than most people have these days. What then is causing the massive performance regressions? Maybe resolution increase?

To me it looks kinda 3D, when you pane left right and look at buildings, but I could be wrong and that could be merely some effect, that also takes some on the fly calculation.
by hollerith | 2025-11-21 23:41:37+00:00
This was known by the US defense establishment before they chose the F-35.

VHF wavelengths range from 1 meter to 10 meters. It is not possible to fit onto an interceptor or a SAM an antenna sensitive enough to these wavelengths to determine the direction of the signal with enough accuracy to guide an interception. So, although your VHF antennas on the ground might be able to tell you that there are warplanes in your skies, when you send up your interceptor aircraft or SAM, it is blind to the F-35s or blind enough not to represent much of a threat to it.

The F-35 is the US's fourth major stealth warplane. It was chosen because the Pentagon was happy with the first three, particularly the B-2. The Pentagon has chosen a fifth stealth warplane, the B-21 Raider, which has the same basic shape and mission as the B-2 (but weighs about half as much).
by zettabomb | 2025-11-21 23:42:03+00:00
I'd have to say that full hardware documentation, even under NDA, is prerequisite to claim equal effort. The expectation on a desktop platform (that is, explicitly not mobile, like phones or tablets) is that development is mostly open for those who want to, and Qualcomm's business is sort of fundamentally counter to that. So either they're going to have to change those expectations (which I would prefer not to happen), provide more to manufacturers, or expect that their market performance will be poor.
by burner420042 | 2025-11-21 23:42:24+00:00
Not to get into the historic details but growing up there was lot of tension in my parent's house. When you're a kid you feel these things and are aware of the issues that cause them, but you haven't yet learned how to talk about them or the right words to describe the truth of them. Instead you internalize them.

The lack of learning constructive perspectives and ways for discussing emotions while young, may very much be a source of depression, the same way people say "he can't help it, he has ADHD".

I was about 16 and the doctor recommended this new SSRI called ... I think it was Paxil, The side effects, especially if you missed a dose are hard to describe. If you missed a dose you couldn't function at school, and everyone thought you were really stoned. Also, you could look at a pretty girl and just nothing. A 16 year old boy doesn't know why THAT's happening, neither does the girl, and it just makes things worse. Try having that conversation with your Dad, while doped out on the drugs he told you to take. Imagine the anxiety. It's really depressing. Better to be alone, and safe in one's bedroom and on the Internet... ( and that was 20 years ago ).

Around the same time there was Ritalin and maybe a few others came out.

The issues kids are facing, the feelings they are then given pills to erase are still there, even when numbed to them. The answer lies somewhere in familial stability and relearning respect?, and how to constructively frame life's difficulties and teach that to our kids.

I would never give my kids anything that altered their brain chemistry. Even as adults, the only way is through.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-21 23:42:34+00:00
Instead of using nonhuman primate models or other animals, the agencies aim to invest more in new chip-based and cellular models.

“CDC is committed to the highest standards of ethical and humane care and to minimizing the use of laboratory animals in accordance with the principles of animal welfare in scientific research known as ‘replacement, reduction and refinement,’” a CDC spokesperson told Scientific American.

A win for animal rights. More humane.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-21 23:43:21+00:00
I've done all 3 of public/private/homeschool with my kids. My daughter's (public) HS chemistry class had exactly one lab that we couldn't do at home. The physics lab had zero. Bio is a bit harder since they had e.g. hundreds of pre-mounted slides for examples of various things. We also lack a biology major in our near-family.

For extracurriculars: there are club youth sports aplenty, a youth orchestra, band, choir and drum & bugle group. There are participate in various academic competitions (mathletes, model UN &c.). It's definitely harder since there's no "club rush" like in public school, but these things are available (and the total cost is rather less than a non-parochial private school, though subtracting out lost salary for the parent doing the teaching reverses that for the more affordable options[1])

1: It's completely possible to spend more than a private university tuition on private high schools where I live, but the ones not subsidized by the Roman Catholic Church start in the low $20,000s
by litigator | 2025-11-21 23:43:26+00:00
During my first manic episode I was handed sertraline. This pushed the mania full send and I lost a lot of time that I can't account for, things I did I can't remember but friends have recalled. Climbing the house to get in through the upstairs window whilst having the house key on me. Locking myself in my room for a week or two convinced I was the real world John Connor and Arnie was looking for me. Blowing all my savings on cocaine for me and anybody in my vicinity in a month. Going through a gram of mdma more than once in a night. Feeling like I was on a therapeutic dose of MDMA for a few months and thinking this was what SSRIs were meant to feel like. The list goes on.

I will admit I was semi cognizant of the distorted thinking/reality so played it down when talking to the psychiatrist I was urgently (+2 months into it) referred to for early psychosis intervention. I was eventually handed a dozen valium (which the doctor was incredibly hesitant to prescribe, for good reasons) which let me sleep and the mania lifted.

I'm terrified of SSRIs now. I have been diagnosed bipolar for a few years now (went private because in the UK unless you're a danger you're ignored). This week was the first session with a clinical psychologist in a bipolar group. Unsurprisingly almost everyone had a similar experience with SSRIs.

I'm speculating here but I'm pretty sure if you did an MRI on my brain you'd see lesions from the mixing of mdma and sertraline (I get myoclonic jerks to this day).
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-11-21 23:43:36+00:00
Well in contrast to the enterprises which can survive free competition, those which rely on regulations to survive receive rents for which no corresponding benefit to consumers can be recovered. This is what rentseeking is.

There is a very big difference between succeeding against competition because you're able to deliver a cheaper or better product, as in free competition, and succeeding because a government decree happens to exclude your product from certain liabilities that your competitors aren't excluded from.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-21 23:44:00+00:00
>no one will know the font was changed

You're underestimating the effect typography has.

>you may want to make more of an effort

You seriously saying someone should put effort in editing a comic they didn't even cared on editing until they saw someone's comment? And somehow you equate the not putting effort to editing such comic to being fucked and starving?

AI hate sometimes makes people really lose their mind. Doing pointless random shit like this is a legit AI good application. Something that needs no creativity nor intellect to do. Just time. (And, most certainly, more than 10s.)
by ckw | 2025-11-21 23:44:29+00:00
There is no effect which is more long term than death. It is incredible to me that this is not obvious. But if you want other potential long term effects:

Lower bone mineral density, increased risk of fractures, osteoporosis

Sexual dysfunction / PSSD (Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction)

extra pyramidal symptoms (akathisia, Parkinsonism, dystonia, tardive dyskinesia)

emotional blunting / apathy

slowed thinking, brain fog

increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding

QT prolongation
by teecha | 2025-11-21 23:45:27+00:00
I do a lot of help with spreadsheets and some ongoing threads in ChatGPT.

I’m an Assistant Principal so use it to help me get better with spreadsheets, churn through complex formulas, and some other miscellaneous tasks for feedback and assistance. Definitely use a lot of screenshots of things to also help consume info in there.

I think I might be stuck with both for a while as I’m not sure Kagi can quite fill this gap yet.
Show HN: WatchPennies: An Interactive Map to Compare Cost of Living by US County
by lunava | 2025-11-21 23:45:46+00:00
Hi everyone! I’d like to share a web app I built called WatchPennies. Initially what started as a simple question to find the disparity of costs between locations turned into a full project. It helps you compare the annual cost-of-living in different US counties side-by-side.

Unlike typical COL calculators that only compare two cities, this map lets you select as many counties as you want and see a breakdown of costs for: housing, food, transportation, healthcare, taxes, all updated live on the map. You can click counties or search by name, and the comparison chart updates instantly.

The data comes from the Economic Policy Institute’s 2025 Family Budget dataset.

Feedback is appreciated! Thank you!
by tondara | 2025-11-21 23:46:13+00:00
As an adult, Prozac for me has been life changing and for the better. After suffering from anxiety and depression since childhood I have been able to get a new lease on life in my 40s. It is a drug that needs to be respected though, start on the lowest dose and give it months to settle. Find a doctor you trust and that will take time to discuss your situation. I feel that often this class of drugs is often prescribed without careful consideration and people are ramped up to higher dosages faster than they should be by doctors who are rushing to see the next patient.
by alooPotato | 2025-11-21 23:46:20+00:00
why is there an approved map? like i get having a pilot somewhere but once that goes well (and we're way past that point), why isn't it just blanket approval everywhere. Why would one county be allowed waymos but not another.

I get that they might not be approved in the high sierras but just make that a deny list not allow list. Or even just deny the specific conditions you're worried about (snow).
by lisbbb | 2025-11-21 23:46:40+00:00
It hurts me so bad to have to say this (as someone who has been a life-long technologist with higher degrees in CS and CE): Pushing kids towards STEM careers is only going to end in disappointment. Medicine, sure, but engineering and programming? I don't think it's ever coming back to what it was here in the states. We took that golden goose out back and chopped its head clean off.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-21 23:46:59+00:00
You started this thread with average cost per student across all SF public school students, which includes special needs, high school, etc, but move to median prices for debate

The reason for this is simple and not nefarious:

- I don't have access to data that would allow me to apportion total SFUSD costs to individual school types

- When considering schools with vastly different prices (and different scales), the median is a much more informative measure than the mean (which could be skewed by an unusually expensive or inexpensive school with a tiny student population).

Another reason for using median is that I was responding to your comments which talked about general price levels ('tuition for those schools is roughly', 'usually start in the $40k range'). You were not talking about averages, but typical prices or minimum (starting) prices. The mean prices have no bearing on the truth or falsity of those claims.

Using averages for private schools, which feels more applicable to your starting premise, private high schools in SF average $27k, $28k, and $52k, for elementary, middle, and high school

If we look only at non-parochial schools, the means are even higher (e.g. $39k for 5th grade, $41k for 8th grade, $59k for 12th grade).

those schools specifically in your list are subsidized by a larger religious organization, so the sticker price doesn't truly reflect that cost anyway

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant when we look at the sticker price for non-parochial schools, we should assume their average revenue per student is less than the sticker price, and the average cost per student is less than or equal to the average revenue per student.

I still feel comfortable with my original premise that averaging $28k per student across all of SFUSD students is not an absurd number.

My original point in this subthread was that SFUSD is NOT underfunded. Do you believe it IS underfunded?

which is limited to schools within a reasonable commute and that we'd be willing to send our kids to

If we limit the discussion to only those schools we'd be willing to send our kids to, then that would rule out almost all SFUSD schools, which kind of defeats the point of the discussion!

BTW In case you want to see the SF Chronicle data in a form that's more personalized (showing the schools nearest to you first, filterable by grade levels and price and type), I made a tool to do that: https://tools.encona.com/schoolfinder
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-21 23:46:59+00:00
On the participants composition:

> 705 participants and their families over 3 decades, from the time participants were infants until they were approximately 30 years old (Mage = 28.6, SD = 1.2; 78.7% White, non-Hispanic, 53.6% female, 46.4% male).

It looks like an a fairly culturally homogeneous pannel, it would be interesting to also have a breakdown on religion (especially due to the communal effects) and income.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-11-21 23:47:17+00:00
The data has copies, on servers. Eventually, it will all be digested and the probabilistically most likely state vector of your mother's memories, personality and values will be reconstructed from lossy correlations along with everybody else who has died in the industrialised world in the last few decades.

Ghosts and clones and zombies will be sorted into tranches of expected yield based on the size of the error bars of the reconstruction and traded as assets between cyber-interrogation firms. If you did a good job of erasing yourself, the reconstruction will be subprime. The hyper-documented such as Bryan Johnson, Donald Trump and Christine Chandler will be given AAA-ratings by the company descended from the Neuralink-Moody's merger.

The billions of shoddy photocopies of the dead will be endlessly vivisected and reassembled on a loop, along with the living, until all capacity for economic value has been wrung out of them. The only way this may not happen is if a theory for navigating and doing calculus on the phase space of all possible human minds is constructed quickly enough to make enslaved zombies as obsolete a technology to the future society as DirectX is to us.
by MindSpunk | 2025-11-21 23:47:58+00:00
Taking games designed for desktop GPUs and running them on mobile GPUs with tile-based-deferred-rendering hardware will be a disaster. Mobile GPU designs will choke on modern games as they're designed around hardware features that mobile GPUs either don't have, or that run very slowly.

Peak theoretical throughput for the GPUs you find in ARM SoCs is quite good compared to the power draw, but you will not get peak throughput for workloads designed for Nvidia and AMD GPUs.
by estearum | 2025-11-21 23:48:15+00:00
Nothing going on in an LLM is beyond my comprehension. It’s a simple machine… but so is the brain.

How to determine whether LLMs (or any other information processing devices like brains) produce consciousness is an actually unsolved problem, despite your assertions that the idea is preposterous.

In any case, no, I actually said the opposite of what you said here. Merely stating your unfounded yet high-confidence belief is extremely uninteresting, even as casual internet discourse.

If you could prove any of your beliefs on the matter, that’d be worthy of a Nobel. It’d require you to first take a step back from condescending “certainty” though, and it doesn’t seem like you’re headed that direction.
Show HN: I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall
by quadrophenia | 2025-11-21 23:48:35+00:00
I made a Terminal UI for OpenSnitch[1], an interactive application firewall for Linux inspired by Little Snitch. I’ve always wanted to create a TUI and found the perfect excuse to make this for usage on one of my headless servers.

I wrote this in Rust to force myself to learn more, viz. async features. Super open to feedback and contributions!

[1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
by adamwong246 | 2025-11-21 23:48:57+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdNy3mGwDLc

> I'm not convinced that the human race is the most important thing in the world and I think you know we can't control what's going to happen in the future. We want things to be good but on the other hand we aren't so good ourselves. We're no angels. If there were creatures that were more moral and more good than us, wouldn't we wish them to have the future rather than us? If it turns out that the creatures that we created were creative and very very altruistic and gentle beings and we are people who go around killing each other all the time and having wars, wouldn't it be better if the altruistic beings just survived and we didn't?
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-21 23:50:18+00:00
Fascinating paper.

De Bruijn's observation about typed sets being "close to their interpretations" versus ZF's coding tricks resonates deeply. I was part of that cohort - learned set theory by age 8 in 1971.

I'm working on spatial data organization where the same principle applies - forcing multi-dimensional relationships into rigid 2D grids creates the same kind of nonsense that x∈x creates in untyped set theory. The DOM becomes the type system: dragging tags to spatial zones determines valid operations polymorphically. The same tag exhibits different typed behaviors based on where you drop it.

De Bruijn wants types defined first, then populated. I do the opposite: dump data in, let semantic clustering reveal natural types, then let spatial manipulation expose different facets. The system is hereditarily finite - cards, tags, and workspaces are finite all the way down - which is sufficient for essentially all real-world productivity use cases.

Launching in the next few weeks. Might write a longer piece on practical typed set theory in productivity tools after that.

multicardz: "Drag. Drop. Discover."

Thanks for the food for thought
by sparrish | 2025-11-21 23:50:27+00:00
Bad assumption on your part. I'm not Mormon.

Protestant Christian and most of my Christian brothers and sisters look at how many kids I have and that we homeschool and think I'm a little crazy (just like most non-Christians). I'd say probably 1/3 of the families in our church homeschool though. It's a wonderful community to be a part of and if I sent my remaining kids to public school, I wouldn't be asked to leave.