MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tade0 | 2025-11-22 18:43:08+00:00
My SO spent a few months collecting the neighbour's daughter along with our own from kindergarten and in exchange the neighbour would make dinner for us. This arrangement started because the neighbours' shifts didn't align with kindergarten hours.

At some point it struck me that this is all labour, but there was no money exchanged for the services rendered and certainly no taxes collected. Even worse - without this our neighbours would have to take an inordinate amount of time off, as getting a babysitter was too expensive.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-11-22 18:43:46+00:00
I just got this update, and the design is utter trash. Beyond the fact that it doesn't follow any of the principles of UI design, it's also huge now with no way to resize. As always, Microsoft, you've outdone yourself. It actually manages to be a worse decision than your last worst decision. Why is it so hard for you guys to understand that we just want a simple start menu that shows ONLY the pinned items unless we click a button to show all. Not recommendations. Not everything. Not ads. Just what we put there. Do you have something against it? Why does MS put so much effort into creating a bad product when it would be so much simpler to create a good one?

Oh well. Keep shooting yourselves in the foot while Linux is quickly pulling up. A few more years of this and Windows may actually begin to become a thing of the past.
by bdangubic | 2025-11-22 18:44:06+00:00
> labeling people who disagree with you undereducated or uninformed

I did neither of these two things... :) I personally could not care about

- (over)hype

- 12/13/14/15 ... digit USD investment

- exponential vs. sigmoid

There are basically two groups of industry folk:

1. those that see technology as absolutely transformational and are already doing amazeballs shit with it

2. those that argue how it is bad/not-exponential/ROI/...

If I was a professional (I am) I would do everything in my power to learn everything there is to learn (and then more) and join the Group #1. But it is easier to be in Group #2 as being in Group #1 requires time and effort and frustrations and throwing laptop out the window and ... :)
by gruez | 2025-11-22 18:44:14+00:00
>The only efficient protection against fingerprinting is what Orion is doing — preventing any fingerprinter from running in the first place. Orion is the only browser on the market that comes with full first-party and third-party ad and tracking script blocking, built-in by default, making sure invasive fingerprinters never run on the page.

sounds like they block "known" fingerprinting scripts and call it a day.
by sfink | 2025-11-22 18:44:30+00:00
Homeschooling, and more generally schooling, and more generally raising kids. They're hot-button topics that bring out the strong opinions and searing anecdotes, and the resulting "discussion" always seems to be depressingly useless. (I won't exempt this comment from that criticism.)

I'm just going to say that "homeschooling" is not a single thing and it's useless to pretend it is. In fact, "public school" is not a single thing and it's mostly useless to pretend it is.

I went to public school. My kids were a combination of public primary school, home schooling, and local community colleges. That experience gives me... well, very little in terms of predicting or understanding what others' experiences were like.

50-kid public schools (the size I went to) can be great for interacting with a diverse group of people -- like, actually interacting with them, not just attending the same school as them. It's also common for "diverse" in this case to mean "kids from a range of socioeconomic situations who are 95% the same race or religion" -- most small schools draw upon a small rural population that is often pretty homogeneous. (That was my experience.)

500-kid public schools naturally have much more diversity in total, but are totally random in terms of what an individual kid will actually experience. It's common for the kids to rigidly stratify themselves. It doesn't matter if there's a kid of a different color from you in your math class if you're surrounded by people like you and he's surrounded by people like him. Athletics are better at mixing people (by forcing a different stratification!), but it's easy to avoid having to deal with "them" even there if you don't want to.

Home schooling varies even more.

Yet that whole argument is also pushing a narrative of "good" vs "bad": being forced together with diverse people is good, so environments where that happens are better! But that's not true either, there are tradeoffs. I'll describe it in terms of stereotypes: public school kids get more exposure and experience with a wider range of kids their age. Home schooled kids get more exposure and experience with adults and kids of other ages. (I'm not saying either of these is universally true, but just go with it for now.) Which is better? You can argue that it's critical to survive the social pressure cooker of traditional schooling because you'll have to handle the same situations as an adult. But you can also argue that if you look at what's happening in public schools, those kids may be good at dealing with each other but they're often failing when faced with the real world. They depend on the collective consciousness that comes from being surrounded by similar-aged people physically and electronically, they're helpless when the responsibility is no longer diffused and they are actually the one and only person who can solve a situation, and they have a sense of entitlement that anything hard is unfair. The stereotypical homeschooled kid is vastly more prepared for many life situations.

So which environment is "better"? mu
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-22 18:44:36+00:00
I would be a bit sad if most mega projects (space stations, battle ships, international probes, dams, etc) do not have some kind of honorary tribute to the many people who came together to make it happen. A little plaque costs nothing but would be meaningful.

For many years now, NASA has let random people get their name printed on the Mars missions on a little plaque. Perseverance has 11 million names bolted onto the frame. My buddy boasts that he has been on Mars N times.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/nea...
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 18:44:52+00:00
Pianists don't find beauty in written maths, but mathematicians don't usually find beauty in sheet music either. It is the performance, accesible to our senses, that can convey beauty even to amateurs.

Accidentally - in the parts of maths where the concepts can be visualized, such as fractal theory, non-mathematicians seem to love what they see.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-22 18:46:10+00:00
Unleavened bread is trivial to make in this way. You weigh the water and the floor in the baking vessel, you mix them, then you bake.

Leavened bread is slightly more tricky, because you need to know how to knead.

For kneading dough made from 500 grams of wheat flour (high-protein flour, which is usually sold as "bread flour"), I use a big glass bowl and I knead with a single hand, while keeping the bowl in the other hand. This is much less messy than when kneading in the way used for big amounts of dough. At the beginning, kneading consists mostly of opening and closing the hand through the dough, while at the end it consists mostly in pulling the dough upwards, which becomes very elongated while one end of it sticks to the kneading bowl, then pressing again the dough into the bowl.

At the end of kneading, the dough becomes extremely sticky, so I keep ready a so-called "pie server" that I use to remove the dough from the hand that has been used for kneading, and for aiding in the transfer of dough from the kneading bowl to the baking vessel. The same pie server is also useful after baking, to detach the hot bread from the baking vessel.
by quantum_magpie | 2025-11-22 18:46:26+00:00
I would be very cautious advising SSRIs for anyone, especially developing children, considering my own experience (on sertralin), which was complete disappearance of a libido, and massive weight gain, +40kg (70 -> 110) in ~10 months. 5 years later I still have not undone the damage from it.
by sdsd | 2025-11-22 18:46:33+00:00
I mildly disagree with your take but it's still mindblowing how I can read some random political flame on HN and it's WALTER FUCKING BRIGHT. Your one of my tech heroes, so cool to spot you on here. If this were real life I'd ask for a selfie to prove that this happened but maybe you could, idk, sign a message with your PGP key so I can prove I interacted with you
by ncr100 | 2025-11-22 18:47:06+00:00
This is factually accurate!

It's going to be one party, or the other, in my opinion .. a party that is more overtly favoring the business- / owner-class. And today it happens to be GOP.

The fascinating / interesting part to me is how Lying, a socially-unfavorable trait, is overtly deployed more and more often by a specific political party.

And so it reinforces, in my mind, the "Post-Truth Era" labeling by some political scientists, for today. Where society itself is complicit in accepting the GOP, I assume because it feels good to "win", while the GOP gratuitously lies.

Their leader, Trump, is re-explained by his supporters, "what he meant when he called for the execution of other Government leaders was ..." and similar such intentional misdirection / lying.

As a tactic, it's remarkable to me how Lying is successful. I expect to see more of it, from popular and even unpopular business leaders, going forward, perhaps enabled by increasingly capable automated information generation technology like AI & (mis)info-spreaders like social-networks.
Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
by foxbarrington | 2025-11-22 18:47:08+00:00
This started as a reaction to a conversational trope. Despite being a tranquil place, even conversations at my yoga studio often start with, "Can you believe what's going on right now?" with that angry/scared undertone.

I'm a news avoider, so I usually feel some smug self-satisfaction in those instances, but I wondered if there was a way to satisfy the urge to doomscroll without the anxiety.

My hypothesis: Apply a 40-year latency buffer. You get the intellectual stimulation of "Big Events" without the fog of war, because you know the world didn't end.

40 years creates a mirror between the Reagan Era and today. The parallels include celebrity populism, Cold War tensions (Soviets vs. Russia), and inflation economics.

The system ingests raw newspaper scans and uses a multi-step LLM pipeline to generate the daily edition:

OCR & Ingestion: Converts raw pixels to text.

Scoring: Grades events on metrics like Dramatic Irony and Name Recognition to surface stories that are interesting with hindsight. For example, a dry business blurb about Steve Jobs leaving Apple scores highly because the future context creates a narrative arc.

Objective Fact Extraction: Extracts a list of discrete, verifiable facts from the raw text.

Generation: Uses those extracted facts as the ground truth to write new headlines and story summaries.

I expected a zen experience. Instead, I got an entertaining docudrama. Historical events are surprisingly compelling when serialized over weeks.

For example, on Oct 7, 1985, Palestinian hijackers took over the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Reading this on a delay in 2025, the story unfolded over weeks: first they threw an American in a wheelchair overboard, then US fighter jets forced the escape plane to land, leading to a military standoff between US Navy SEALs and the Italian Air Force. Unbelievably, the US backed down, but the later diplomatic fallout led the Italian Prime Minister to resign.

It hits the dopamine receptors of the news cycle, but with the comfort of a known outcome.

Stack: React, Node.js (Caskada for the LLM pipeline orchestration), Gemini for OCR/Scoring.

Link: https://forty.news (No signup required, it's only if you want the stories emailed to you daily/weekly)
by m-schuetz | 2025-11-22 18:47:32+00:00
Exactly the reason why I haven't switched from OpenGL to Vulkan. Vulkan is just ridiculously overengineered. Cuda shows that allocation of GPU memory and copy from host to device can be one-liners, yet in Vulkan it's an incredible amount of boilerplate to go through. Modern Vulkan fixes a lot of issues, like getting rid of pipelines, render passes, bindings, etc., but there is still much more to fix before it's usable.
by StillBored | 2025-11-22 18:47:41+00:00
I have a couple generation back amd laptop that can 'standby' for months.. its called S4 hibernate. Although at the same time its set for S3 and can sit in S3 for a few days at least and recover in less time than it takes to open the screen. The idea that you need instant wakeup when the screen has been closed for days is sorta a niche case, even apple's machines hibernate if you leave the screen closed for too long.

That isn't to say that modern standby/s2-idle isn't super useful, because it is, but more for actual use cases where the machine can basically go to sleep with the screen on displaying something the user is interacting with.
by dmix | 2025-11-22 18:47:52+00:00
America is #3 in the world in per capita public education spending (Luxumberg being #1). Which is the education system I always see Europeans maligned as producing “dumb Americans”.

US also ranks #1 in public healthcare funding both as per capita and as percentage of GDP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_spending_as_percent_of_...
by stevekemp | 2025-11-22 18:48:01+00:00
It is a good read, even now.

I read it for the first time in my early 20s, and reason I read it was because when I was about 11 years old I saw an old black and white movie of it, and I had nightmares for quite some time (over the ending/fire).

It wasn't the only film to give me nightmares as a child, but it was definitely the first!

For me it is one of those books I re-read every few years, along with LotR, Amber chronicles, the Dune series, etc.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 18:48:44+00:00
"first and foremost because I'm not subject to their laws"

People often shop for good jurisdictions when founding companies or even concluding contracts which need an arbitration clause. Countries which have a reputation for quick and neutral justice tend to attract foreigners for this purpose. In Europe, either UK or the Netherlands are on the top of this ladder.

IDK where precisely Brazil stands on this ladder. They seem to attract quite a lot of FDI, so maybe not as bad as the GP said.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-22 18:49:06+00:00
> That's much more like the world I'd prefer to live in than whatever the fuck is wrong with this country and 40% of its population.

Agreed, when I had this happen to me (once with a dorm in college, another time in an apartment) I just kicked the guy out, didn't give him coffee. Unlike rolph, my first thought wasn't, "I know, I should shoot this guy sleeping on my couch." What a sad world some people exist in and want to spread to the rest of the world.
by programjames | 2025-11-22 18:49:13+00:00
Parents as a group have lobbied to pretty much own their children. It's hard to justify that ownership if the state is constantly intervening for basic things like healthcare, food, and education.

I disagree with this ownership, as it's pretty bad or at least not as good as what the children could have. Think about how few children received an education before the state took ownership. This doesn't mean I don't understand why it is the way it is. A large part of it in America is for religious reasons: "don't teach my children your Satanic ways." But even without religion, most people have ideas about how their children should grow up and don't trust other people to raise them better than themselves. Even if someone is a shitty parent and recognizes it, they still might prefer more control over less control because they care more about being a parent than their children.

I think, moving back to the topic of the state providing childcare, there's also two more reasons this can be bad. Too often, child support payments end up being misused to fund the parent's lifestyle and leaving the children without basic necessities. You can instead just give the children food/clothing/shelter directly, but you kind of have to provide the bigger, stronger adults in their lives the same things. This creates a perverse incentive for neglectful people to have children. They don't care about the children, just the ticket to free food/housing. Second, people who grow up poor have a lot of disadvantages in their future. Do we want to be creating a financial incentive so that a greater fraction of our population grow up disadvantaged? If the state is not cool with eugenics or taking away children from poor people, then poorer people who would otherwise choose not to have children will suddenly find it more financially feasible. Because the tax dollars came from a richer couple, maybe that richer couple now do not feel they can maintain their lifestyle with another child. Of course, you probably end up with more total children, but the balance has shifted and more people in your society will end up in the lower classes.
by zaptrem | 2025-11-22 18:49:15+00:00
Latency may be better, but throughput (the thing companies care about) may be the same or worse, since every step the entire diffusion window has to be passed through the model. With AR models only the most recent token goes through, which is much more compute efficient allowing you to be memory bound. Trade off with these models is more than one token per forward pass, but idk the point where that becomes worth it (probably depends on model and diffusion window size)
by jquery | 2025-11-22 18:49:15+00:00
Indeed. We are all "conscious" in our dreams (well, technically unconscious, but we have phenomenal experiences and qualia). But our dreams, for the most part, are unstable, very inconsistent, and not persistent. Most mornings I wake up completely oblivious to the dreams I had. Some people always remember their dreams, and some never do and may even think they don't dream.
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-22 18:49:17+00:00
I don't know if Target specifically use all of these, but I would bet they have data based on at least some of facial/gait/demographic recognition, wi-fi/Bluetooth beaconing, vehicle registrations, time and location tracking, statistical analysis of your purchases and clustering of people you have made purchases next to (e.g. you bought something at same time and till as your mother more then once). I'm sure they have other methods too. They can also combine datasets from brokers that do have a face:name link (say you used a card at another store that captured it and sold the data) and resolve you within their own data that way.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 18:51:21+00:00
This is not maths, and nothing is shared by everyone in a human society.

I am actually an algebra major and I always felt that the need of some of my peers to stuff the entire outside world into mathematical definitions does not lead anywhere. Please don't mathematize societal concepts ("a set with a total order"), you will only mislead yourself and others. Maths isn't a good tool to understand people.

Let us talk about humans in a human language instead.
by g9yuayon | 2025-11-22 18:52:41+00:00
> so we have been unwilling to invest in our own children.

The school districts like SFUSD are actually sabotaging the growth of our kids in the name of equity. They're committed to ideas from people like Jo Boaler, and they tried very hard to dumb down the curriculum. The real tragedy is that kids from wealthy families will just get other means of education to make up the difference. It's the kids who desperately need the quality education who are going to be left behind.

If it were up to me, I'd send those people to jail (yes yes, I know. I'm just angry and lashing out)
by gruez | 2025-11-22 18:53:09+00:00
The difference is that there's implied consent to run arbitrary (albeit sandboxed) code when you visit a website. Moreover it's not the website causing the code to be executed, it's your browser. Otherwise if the bar is "code is being run but the user doesn't know about it", it would lead to either any type of web pages with javascript being illegal (or maybe without javascript, given that CSS turing complete), or a cookie banner type situation where site asks for consent and everyone just blindly accepts.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-22 18:53:24+00:00
I did not say that. I was responding to a person who engaged in banal snark implying that making food for oneself is a herculean task, but it all depends on what you're making, and things can be extremely stream lined. In the case of what we're talking about (mcmuffin stuff), you can even cook and freeze them in arbitrarily large quantities and it's way cheaper, healthier, and even faster since it's in your freezer instead of having to go out.

I do think that the fast food (or even eating out in general) starts to lack any real selling point for households that are capable of cooking, and so this is probably going to weight the customers, especially regulars, of these sort of places away from households that do cook. I suppose you'd argue time is the selling point, but one can even remain competitive on there with things like pressure cooker meals. There are even one pot rice cooker meals which are also great.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-22 18:54:00+00:00
> which is a huge privacy invasion, and Apple's normal screens are rather good at noticing that

Do you have any better evidence? Apple's App Store screens are notoriously useless; famously, Lastpass had to tell people to stop downloading their app from the App Store after Apple's "normal screen" replaced their app with a trojan horse: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...