MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ludston | 2025-12-10 03:27:02+00:00
This article isn't really about AI. It's about how this blogger doesn't value high-school education beyond it serving as a day-care. Talking about AI is for dressing this up as a controversial hot-take for click-bait.

The root of the flaw in this thinking is a common assumption that school is designed to create drones for the workforce rather than to round out human beings. Giving youth an opportunity to be a part of a shared understanding and a shared culture that is rooted in the history of the previous generations.

This kind of essay is on par with a general theme of discrediting and devaluing teachers and school in English speaking countries that is reinforced by Hollywood and out of touch billionaires. It's not doing us any favours because kids pick up on this disdain and make if part of their own identities.

I'm even more convinced by this when I look at other things this person has asked GPT to write for them. Their core focus is on convincing people not to value traditional education so that they can sell their own competing product.
Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
by ftonato | 2025-12-10 03:27:18+00:00
Throughout 2025, I've been following job boards like YC Jobs, RemoteOK, NoDesk, WeWorkRemotely, and others. Across all of them, I keep seeing a recurring pattern:

Many companies advertise "remote" roles, but hiring is limited to the US, Canada, UK, or Germany. Sometimes they add one or two more countries, but rarely anything beyond that.

Given that it's the last quarter of 2025 and remote work is more established than ever, I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind this.

A few questions I'm hoping founders, hiring managers, or people with international hiring experience can shed light on:

- Is the main blocker regulatory complexity? (employment law, compliance, local registrations, PE risk, etc.)

- Is it primarily about taxes and payroll overhead when hiring abroad?

- Are there security or liability concerns that make certain jurisdictions easier to work with?

- Is it simply the cost of maintaining compliant employment structures worldwide, or are there deeper strategic reasons?

- And finally: Is there evidence that the value produced by strong engineers abroad doesn't offset those costs, or is the issue not economic at all?

I'm asking out of genuine curiosity, from the outside, it seems like a global talent pool should be an advantage, especially for remote-first companies. But the hiring restrictions persist, even as tools like Deel, Remote, Oyster, etc. mature.

I'd love to hear perspectives from people who have dealt with this firsthand.
by schwentkerr | 2025-12-10 03:27:56+00:00
Jay Graber, Bluesky CEO, moved to Seattle during pandemic, now leading 40M+ user decentralized social network built on AT Protocol. Company runs with 30-person team, no official headquarters. Graber describes herself as "pragmatic idealist" stewarding what she calls "collective organism" rather than commanding traditional startup. Protocol designed to outlast any single platform. Secured independence from Twitter before Musk acquisition, positioned Bluesky as infrastructure layer not just destination. Advocates user-controlled AI agents on social networks, sees parallels between printing press chaos and current tech transformation period.
by bix6 | 2025-12-10 03:28:19+00:00
Why do you need aerospace?

I have browsers on desktop 1, music on 5, etc. I can jump to each numbered desktop with key binds. What am I missing?

Same with raycast, is that just a command space replacement?

Command tab / shift tab are huge favs for me when I’m cycling 2-3 apps.

Vimium looks cool gonna try that out.
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 03:28:28+00:00
No, not as a general rule they aren't. And remember, the DNSSEC record delivery problem isn't an issue for the majority of all browser sessions, just a small minority that are on paths that won't pass DNSSEC records reliably. Since you can't just write those paths off, and you can't really reliably detect them, you end up needing a resolution fallback --- at which point you might as well not be using DANE.

This was a big enough issue that there was a whole standards push to staple DNSSEC records to the TLS handshake (which then fell apart).
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-12-10 03:29:08+00:00
I really like Alfred, it's a worthy descendant of QS for sure. To be fair, it is possible to use Spotlight for the same kind of "invoke, start typing, hit return to launch" workflow (it's just uglier, and not extensible). Lots of Linux DEs have similar searchable launchers, and if you squint, Windows does too (but packed with extra crud - I think maybe PowerToys has something more QS-like?)
by seg6 | 2025-12-10 03:29:38+00:00
Yes, exactly, a workspace for each one of those. A snippet from my Aerospace config:

[[on-window-detected]] if.app-id = 'com.microsoft.teams2' run = 'move-node-to-workspace 7' [[on-window-detected]] if.app-id = 'com.hnc.Discord' run = 'move-node-to-workspace 8' [[on-window-detected]] if.app-id = 'com.spotify.client' run = 'move-node-to-workspace 9'

They're 'persisted' in the sense that when I open them, they automatically open in their relevant workspace. You can also make them auto-start, so when your system boots up, they'll be in the right place.
by schwentkerr | 2025-12-10 03:31:37+00:00
I. Observation

Graber secured legal independence from Twitter before the Musk acquisition, positioning the AT Protocol as substrate rather than product. 30-person team, no HQ, "high agency, low ego" structure mirrors the decentralized architecture. She chose pragmatic adoption over purist decentralization when Dorsey pushed for purity, held ground, survived the $13M contract termination.

II. Reflection

Background spans digital rights activism, blockchain, crypto mining, privacy tech. The pattern: operator-educator who builds then teaches. Her AI framing cuts through hype: question isn't whether AI is good/bad but who controls it. Envisions users running own AI agents locally versus platform-optimized systems extracting value.

III. Question

Can protocol-as-substrate outlast platform incentives when VC returns require concentration not dispersion? Does pragmatic path toward mass adoption ultimately recreate centralization under different aesthetics? Can user-controlled AI agents compete with centralized providers given training costs and compute requirements?

IV. Paradox

Company must be expendable for protocol to become foundational. She explicitly unbundles company success from protocol success: "If the protocol becomes widely adopted, that's huge success" even if Bluesky fails. The accessibility that drives adoption creates lock-in that resists the promised portability.

V. Prediction

Near-term: 100M users, limited protocol adoption outside Bluesky. Critical juncture at 3-5 years: either multi-app ecosystem emerges or network effects concentrate around single implementation. Regulatory interoperability mandates (EU DMA expansion) could force protocol standardization. Wildcard: Bluesky fails but protocol outlasts company, another AT Protocol app achieves scale.
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 03:31:51+00:00
A fun note: I vibecoded a dumb thingy that monitors the top 1000 zones on the Tranco research list of popular zones for DNSSEC status:

https://dnssecmenot.fly.dev/

Obviously, the headline is that just 2% of the top 100 zones are signed (thanks to Cloudflare). But the funnier thing is: in 5+ months of letting this thing run, it's picked up just three changes to DNSSEC status among all the zones it monitors. The third happened just an hour or so ago, when Canva disabled DNSSEC.
by kbolino | 2025-12-10 03:32:57+00:00
Yes, it is fair to say that domain names are not the sum total of identity. However, the EV certificate experience showed that, at least in terms of WebPKI and the open Internet, there really isn't anything better than domains yet.

We have clear and seemingly easy go-to examples like proving that yes, this is THE Microsoft, and not a shady fly-by-night spoof in a non-extradition territory, but apart from the headline companies--who as of late seem to like changing their names anyway--this actually isn't easy at all.

Walled gardens like app stores have different trade-offs, admittedly.
by jama211 | 2025-12-10 03:33:39+00:00
This is like saying the typewriter won’t make a newspaper company more productive because the biggest bottlenecks are the research and review processes rather than the typing. It’s absolutely true, but it was still worth it to go up to typewriters, and the fact that people were spending less effort and time on the handwriting part helps all aspects of energy levels etc across their job.
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-10 03:33:51+00:00
Brilliantly said.

In the Good Old Days, part of the role of a good education was to set oneself up to join influential social groups. These groups contained smart, interesting, learned people. They tacitly or overtly selected new members based on how smart, interesting, and learned they were. You can get the grades but remain excluded if your interviewer at Oxford or Harvard thinks you are boring, or the chaps at the Worcesthampton Natural History Club think you’re an uncouth moron, or the managing partner at Wasper & Vanderson LLP doesn’t find you engaging enough. It’s not just these posh elite groups either. Hacker cliques, artists communes, and the like have always focused on cultivating an elite membership on some axis or other through exclusivity that rewarded interestingness.

What is the equivalent nowadays? Are these groups being taken over by fakers who are constantly all pretending to each other, to the extent that the entire ranks fill up with people who can’t spell competence without a computer? If someone makes an interesting remark about a poet or artwork or engineering practice does everyone else excuse themselves for a bathroom break in order to open up Wikipedia and find something interesting to say in response?

Do they actively reward fakers, seeking out their ilk to the point that the most influential groups are the ones filled with the best self-promotion soloists? Or perhaps the whole ideal of influential social groups is just going to disappear?
by dataviz1000 | 2025-12-10 03:34:40+00:00
I wonder myself this too. Would people have to say "If NYC was a country would its GDP be 11th largest in the world compared to being the 12th largest GDP in the world like in 2024?"

What we can quantify is the economic impact the San Antonio River Walk has or the impact the Atlanta Beltline has which is billions of dollars in added economic activity. Based on those examples, likely it will increase the NYC GDP by millions if not hundreds of millions. We can prove with dollar amounts getting rid of cars in these cases increase the GDP by billions but in NYC they are only decreasing them so probably won't have the positive impact completely getting rid of cars does.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-10 03:34:42+00:00
"There is no such thing as a free lunch" is a very strong argument for tolls, I hope you realize.

> everyone paying the tolls who now needs to engage in additional pollution-causing economic activity merely to offset the costs of government-mandated congestion pricing

I don't think that's how economics work. People are already doing their best to generate money. Also even if that did happen, the thing you're describing as "pollution-causing" is GDP growth, which is overall desirable.

> tariffs

Whether a tariff is good depends on what the goal is (and whether it works toward that goal).
by daemonologist | 2025-12-10 03:34:56+00:00
Yeah, burying this on page 8 is a bit suspect imo (the eval datasets are listed on page 3, so if you were familiar with them you would have a hint then).

The distillation of a student that predicts "anchor layers" and then acts as a backbone for classification is perfectly cool on its own; no need to stretch the title/abstract so much.
by johnthedebs | 2025-12-10 03:35:52+00:00
Thanks for sharing your process and config! I went on a pretty similar journey, though I've been on macOS the whole time. I've gotta say, Aerospace is one of my favorite pieces of software. It really makes it so much less tedious to move around my computer.

I tried vimium and homerow too, and I liked them, but lately I've been using mouseless more (https://mouseless.click) and overall would recommend it.
by JimDabell | 2025-12-10 03:37:14+00:00
> people will continue to use it how they see fit.

And whenever they do so, this pointless argument will happen. Again, and again, and again. Because that’s not what the word means and your desired redefinition has been consistently and continuously rejected over and over again for decades.

What do you gain from misusing this term? The only thing it does is make you look dishonest and start arguments.
by mattegan | 2025-12-10 03:37:18+00:00
Aerospace looks neat - might have to give it a try.

However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem.

If I could instantaneously switch between virtual desktops I'd be so happy. I've wanted this for years.
by parineum | 2025-12-10 03:37:30+00:00
Either the article chose some bad examples from this list or the list is underwhelming. After browsing a few comments explaining a bit of context for some of these entries, I read the article (comments first, always...) only to find that there wasn't much more to it.

> The Timeline series profiles a few of the women whom it describes as prime examples of the Matilda effect, including Dr. Lise Meitner...

Explanation in another comment is, long story short, she was Jewish amd the work was published in Nazi Germany. Previous to the referenced ommision, jer name was included on many published papers with the men who omitted her name on a paper published at a more tenuous time.

> Likewise, the name of Alice Augusta Ball has been “all but scrubbed from the history of medicine,” though it was Ball, an African American chemist from Seattle, Washington, who pioneered what became known as the Dean Method, a revolutionary treatment for leprosy.

This one seems egregious. After looking at a few other sources, it seems to be consensus.

Dean published their/her work in his own name and, while giving others credit for their contributions, completely ommitted Ball who, seemingly, made the most significant contribution.

> Other women in the Matilda effect series include bacterial geneticist Esther Lederberg, who made amazing discoveries in genetics that won her husband a Nobel Prize...

This also seems to be a good example but it was interesting to see that her husband seemed to steal the credit. They later divorced but not until 10 years after the Nobel. I tried to find more information on it but didn't find anything not paywalled that addressed that.

> Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, but was excluded from the Nobel awarded to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish and astronomer Martin Ryle.

Addressed in another comment, she was a student at the time and they, apparently, don't award the Nobel to students in most circumstances. She, herself, doesn't believe she should have won it.

> A similar fate befell Dr. Rosalind Franklin, the chemist excluded from the Nobel awarded to her colleagues James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of DNA.

A similar but different circumstance as Burnell. Franklin died well before the prize was awarded and they don't give the award posthumously. Allegations of stolen research seem disputed and the authors did give her credit for her research in the paper.
by seg6 | 2025-12-10 03:39:14+00:00
I really love the trackpad on the MacBook; it's been the best experience by a long shot coming from other laptops. The problem is, most of the time the MacBook is docked and I prefer to use my external keyboard and display. And Vimium is just very fun to use, especially if you're using Vim/Neovim/Helix.
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-12-10 03:39:14+00:00
Huh, I guess it's best to think of each site's NIST NTP servers as 'load-balancers' in front of a single 'application server'.

Fun fact: Per [0], if you provide enough servers, the NTP client can detect a "falseticker" that is not providing accurate time. The number of NTP servers required is `2n+1` where `n≥1`.

Of course, that requires each NTP server use its own time source.

So, note for me: If I want NTP redundancy and I'm using NIST's servers, pick one NTP server from each of NTP's three sites.

[0]: https://support.ntp.org/Support/SelectingOffsiteNTPServers#U...
by wdutch | 2025-12-10 03:39:44+00:00
> students actively benefit from struggling through the act of the craft itself.

Hard agree! Although I'm biased as a foreign language teacher :)

Geography is a great example actually because it can be "factoid based" or it could be based on investigation. Off the top of my head, students could make rivers through sandpits to investigate erosion. Hopefully AI inspires a change to the latter approach.

I often see people online saying "We were never taught this in school!" as if the point in education is to memorize all the factoids. But we should be teaching people how to do experiments, look things up and apply critical thinking.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-12-10 03:39:56+00:00
"average daily peak concentrations of PM2.5 dropped by 3.05 µg/m³. For context, background pollution levels in the region typically hover around 8-9 µg/m³, making this reduction particularly significant for public health."

I think that the numbers are already low enough that the drop is actually not very significant, at all. Is there any data that shows better health outcomes at 8 vs 13 for PM 2.5 levels? From my understanding adverse health outcomes come at exposure over the long term to higher levels like 30 minimum

For context I have several air purifiers in my home and I'm all for better air quality but the percentage difference makes it sound like a much bigger drop but when these numbers are already so small I just am skeptical it really makes a difference...
by BobbyJo | 2025-12-10 03:40:08+00:00
> It's just that kids are less disciplined, and more prone to attention deficits.

I think this puts the blame too much on the kids. Its not their fault we've created a world where they are surrounded by dopamine treadmills.

I know you go on to say that we need to change their environment to solve the problem, and I wholeheartedly agree. I just wanted to point out that kids today are the victims in all this mess.
by listenallyall | 2025-12-10 03:40:26+00:00
The article says "average daily peak concentrations of PM2.5 dropped by 3.05 µg/m³. For context, background pollution levels in the region typically hover around 8-9 µg/m³, making this reduction particularly significant for public health."

But 8-9 was already considered a safe level: "Most studies indicate PM2.5 at or below 12 μg/m3 is considered healthy with little to no risk from exposure. If the level goes to or above 35 μg/m3 during a 24-hour period, the air is considered unhealthy." (https://www.indoorairhygiene.org/pm2-5-explained/)

So, good job on reducing pollution, but you already had very safe levels (well, the article doesn't tell us what the old "peak concentrations" were). Since the levels were "little to no risk", the claim of "significant health benefits" (i.e. reduction in disease or death) should be challenged.
by d_silin | 2025-12-10 03:40:40+00:00
I think there must be a different angle to win this game.

If you play fairly, the skills and knowledge you learned are truly yours. But if you are outsourcing all your proficiencies to an AI, than what will become of you?

Kids want to be cool unique snowflakes, if one can master a skill without the resorting to cheating, one will gain the ability to impress the peers.

Push in that direction.
by nickv | 2025-12-10 03:40:52+00:00
You act like driving in NYC is free even without the congestion price. You realize how much it costs to park in Manhattan right? $50/day? And if you are coming from the Jersey side, you realize how much the toll is for the tunnel? $17-27.

So yea, if you're poor, you're not driving your beater to SoHo and parking in a lot for $50 daily.
by rerdavies | 2025-12-10 03:41:03+00:00
hamburger icon: originally, in older Android UI guidelines, provides access to a list of items that can be used to navigate between parts of a large UI. But at this point, pretty much evolved to mean "click to access a menu" on UIs that don't have a menu bar.

Three vertical dots: "More stuff that doesn't fit on a toolbar because the display on your current device isn't wide enough".

Three horizontal dots: click this item to access a dialog.

Point-down triangle: Select an value from a list.

There may be slight variations depending on the UI guidelines for the platform you are using (or designing for).

All enormously useful icons that provide specific context and meaning. I can't say that I've ever seen a piece of serious software that abuses those conventions.
by jama211 | 2025-12-10 03:41:58+00:00
Nope, wrong again. Lots of important medication such as SSRI’s or cancer medications have withdrawal symptoms too but it would be ridiculous to say they were addicted to them. Withdrawal symptoms are not a good enough indicator of addiction. Addiction is far more complicated and you’re trying to force a square peg through a round hole.

Also I was obviously talking about behavioural patterns in general, not judging that specific persons behaviours. The fact that you’d take what you’re doing (being judgemental) and try and paint me unsuccessfully as doing the same thing is an extremely bad faith tactic, and reveals to everyone here that you know exactly what you’re doing here.

This isn’t reddit mate. Acting this way is not appreciated.
by masterphai | 2025-12-10 03:42:00+00:00
A charge on the marginal driver looks regressive if you only examine who pays the toll, but not who’s been paying the externalities all along. Once you include the benefits - faster buses, cleaner air, better reliability, and the ability to reinvest revenue into transit - the incidence flips pretty quickly.

We’re basically shifting costs from people who can’t opt out of congestion to people who can. That’s about as progressive as a transport policy gets.
by chairmansteve | 2025-12-10 03:42:23+00:00
My entire (non American) education career was exam based. The exams were tightly supervised, no books etc. Every thing had to be memorised. Cheating was impossible.

Funny thing is, memorising something is a big help to understanding it.

In that system, AI is a very useful tool. AFAIK, this is how they still do it in many Asian countries.

It worked pretty well. Produced a lot of educated people.
by rainonmoon | 2025-12-10 03:43:20+00:00
Given that “social media” is in fact not banned and all this does is impact a select (and frankly logically inconsistent) list of services, this seems very unlikely. Children are still free to be groomed and gamble on Roblox and join servers belonging to The Com on Discord. To be clear I don’t think those services should be regulated by this obscene law either but this isn’t going to bring back any kind of halcyon era for kids. It will expand the surveillance of and shame around young people’s internet use, however.
by airstrike | 2025-12-10 03:43:21+00:00
From that one quote alone you can likely tell this was written by AI.

Other comments suggest the same. Ironic, isn't it?

The city I once knew as home is teetering on the edge of radioactive oblivion.

A three-hundred thousand degree baptism by nuclear fire.

I’m not sorry, we had it coming.

A surge of white hot atonement will be our wakeup call.

Hope for our future is now a stillborn dream.