MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torpfactory | 2025-04-30 11:17:58+00:00
What’s the skill though? Most everything you do on a smartphone is trivially easy thanks to all those hard working app developers. We all know from experience that the vast majority of actual phone time is spent consuming some kind of media. I’m not at all worried about kids not learning to use a smartphone well enough- that part will sort itself out. It’s all the other (boring) skills that get pushed aside in the mindless scramble for dopamine that concerns me.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-30 11:18:13+00:00
I am not implying anything.

>Or, what do you think would be valuable then to do (purposely not saying learn) during those twelve years?

I think that this is different between children.

Actually I think it could be extremely valuable to learn, but then the child's activities should actually focus on learning effectively. And sitting in a classroom with children not that interested in learning and a teacher trying to find some middle ground is not helping that.

Personally I believe that with a good school system I would have been perfectly fine doing university courses at 16 and a good school system would have encouraged me to accomplish exactly that.
by cruzcampo | 2025-04-30 11:19:31+00:00
> Restrictions on speech always begin by something that many will argue is sensible, then they start growing into what boils down to totalitarianism.

May I introduce you to the Paradox of Tolerance, formulated by the Austrian Karl Popper after seeing the rise of Nazism?

> Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

> But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
by closewith | 2025-04-30 11:19:47+00:00
Trust is by far most often given and earned (or lost) post facto. In fact, that's an essential characteristic of a society.

> Depends on what. I can't even trust the 40 year developers in my team at work. "Hacky if foreach loop will fix later"

Whenever people make statements like this, I always wonder what their peers think of them. This dismissive attitude is so off-putting.
by theshrike79 | 2025-04-30 11:20:21+00:00
From the Anki search on iOS App store:

One is made by AnkiApp Inc. (28€-99€ IAP subscription)

One by Ankitects Pty Ltd (30€)

Which one is the official one?

The problem isn't the format of the source, I COULD write it in windows .ini -files. The point is that I want to learn the language, not spend time writing the book about the language first. How do I know what words to add to the deck? Should I add different inflections? How about pronouns, does the language use gendered pronouns? What's the best way to study them, are there rules for it?

I'm willing to pay money for a properly researched and made Anki deck for a language rather than spend time building it word by word.
New AI Platform Partners with Animation Studio, Putting Animation in Fans' Hands
by emmanol | 2025-04-30 11:21:25+00:00
While Runway leads video generation with its well-funded platform, animation remains ripe for AI disruption. The global animation market is projected to grow from $433.12B (2023) to $801.78B by 2032 (Precedence Research), with AI animation specifically expected to reach $23.6B by 2032, growing at 39.3% CAGR (Polaris Market Research). There is a lot of promise in the animation sector.

Several startups are already transforming animation: Wonder Animation (now part of Autodesk) converts video to 3D scenes; Pixelz AI creates anime from text; DeepMotion specializes in AI motion capture; Colossyan develops business video avatars; D-ID generates talking heads from images; and Synthesia creates multilingual AI presenters.

Now a new contender has entered the arena. On April 22, 2025, Animait launched its AI animation platform featuring an industry first: an official partnership with Animotion Media Group that legally allows fans to create using established IP. The technology enables anyone to generate complete animated episodes through text prompts, combining multiple AI models to produce videos with cohesive storylines and synchronized audio. Where animation once required specialized skills and expensive software, Animait lets fans easily create within established universes or build new ones—democratizing content creation while respecting IP rights.

"We help anyone bring creative ideas to life, regardless of animation skills," says Animait Co-founder Alexander Fonarev, PhD. "Our model ensures IP owners' content is protected while they benefit from AI advancements."

The collaboration with Animotion Media Group (46B+ views globally) allows fans to create within the "Question Club" universe — the first officially licensed IP for AI animation. Animait is now rolling out access to waitlisted users at animait.com, with early features available through Discord.

This partnership is consequential for the animation industry. This is the first instance where an AI animation platform secures an official licensing agreement that allows users to legally create and distribute content using an established intellectual property.

While others formed partnerships to protect and monetize IPs in the realm of Generative AI - like Vermillio - these collaborations focus on safeguarding the artist’s rights and managing the use of their likenesses. In contrast, Animait partnership with Animotion moves into yet uncharted territory by actively encouraging user-generated content within a licensed animation universe - a precedent in AI-driven animation.
by a3w | 2025-04-30 11:22:14+00:00
For some reason, we learn math as if we were farmers in the early 1900s. We do not learn (Bayesian) statistics early enough to tell fact from fraud, what city dwellers and voters could probably use instead.

And applied math on a PC would be great, but we barely have applied math on a calculator.

And kids love calculators: only digital numbers are numbers. 2/3 is cleary not a number to anyone below 20 years of age, that is two numbers, we have to write .6666666\dash_over{6} down as a solution instead.
by BdR1976 | 2025-04-30 11:22:40+00:00
CSV Lint plug-in for Notepad++ adds syntax highlighting, csv validation, automatic column and datatype detecting.

The plug-in can update the column separator, datetime format, decimal separator, sort data, count unique values and convert data to an SQL INSERT script. Supports both csv and fixed width text data. The plugin can be used for data quality control on text data files.

The latest update includes improved enumeration sorting, improved generation of Python and R scripts and minor updates.
by bhasi | 2025-04-30 11:23:34+00:00
In my experience of having learnt Sanskrit via what I now realize is the comprehensive input method (thank you for introducing that term to me via your comments on this thread), I absolutely think that the "basics" - enough to recognize the seven (eight if you count the sambodhana) vibhaktis (declensions) and the simple past, present, future and the subjunctive tenses - are required in order to get past the huge roadblock of parsing a word.

Once parsed, I can look up the meaning of the word on ashtadhyayi.com or elsewhere, but not before.
by dragontamer | 2025-04-30 11:23:52+00:00
> Ranger or Colorado

Are you claiming that the Cybertruck is aiming at the low-end Ranger or Colorado market?

People aren't upgrading to a F150 or Silverado to "compete" with a Ranger or Colorado. They're doing it so that they can cosplay having a better truck than the people who "only" bought a Ranger, Colorado, or Maverick. (Or maybe they're actually people who can use the full-sized truck like a F150. But as a city dweller I 100% admit that most of what I see in my area are cosplayers).

This is important because the F150 Lightning is right there and available as a competitor, and somehow launched years before the Cybertruck despite being announced afterwards.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-30 11:24:45+00:00
For ordinary US citizen without a broad worldview, this thing i wrote seem like writings of a mad man. As Kennedys presidential address says:

"...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

My duty is to warn ordinary citizens, this is it, you were warned.

answer to your question follows:

because product is Russian, programmers are Russian, so your data will be under influence of Russian government directly or indirectly - his family is in Russia.

so HN bots want to be edgy but failed to comprehend that Russian regime IS directly involved in making life for US citizens difficult, even tho Russian regime had 20 years worth of chances to not do that, not be bad actor, but they did not want that. they want to be bad actor and they act as bad actor. im not saying anything about Colonial Pipeline attack of course that would be silly.

Russian people are not outsiders, they are complicit in Russians regime activities. but it is so hard to explain this to people because even XTwitter is allowing Russian propaganda / soft power activities of Russia unimpeded.

Also a lot of Israeli people have family, ancestors in Russia so they project their feelings for them, towards Russia uncritically.

Russia is not democracy, Russia is not USA. Russia IS Russian people. Russia IS acting as a bad actor so call it as it act as.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-04-30 11:25:05+00:00
I think this would be reasonable except for all the billion dollar companies pouring their money into researching how to keep the kids on their phones. The solution supposes that there's a state of mind the child could have that would give a smaller intrinsic need for the phone and that would be that, but this falls down when there are better funded and more powerful entities than the schools and parents pushing extrinsic motivations to stay on the phone for longer and longer.
by lmm | 2025-04-30 11:25:18+00:00
> Sequences, trees and graphs are core abstractions to most programming, why try to flatten all trees and graphs to sequences?

Because "trees" and "graphs" aren't actually single concepts, they're families of concepts that can vary along many dimensions. Most programming languages offer one or a small handful of sequence types, because most sequence use patterns are the same. Most languages don't offer a tree or graph type, and as soon as you try to implement one you see why: there are multiple different kinds of trees and graphs, and multiple different representations that are appropriate for different use cases, and any one you might pick would be unsuitable for most programs people want to write.
by pzo | 2025-04-30 11:25:20+00:00
yeah especially that this simplifies e.g. doing mobile app for 3rd party developers - not extra cost, no need to setup proxy server, monitoring usage to detect abuse, don't need to make complicated subscription plan per usage.

We just need Google or Apple to provide their own equivalent of both: Ollama and OpenRouter so user either use inference for free with local models or BringYourOwnKey and pay themself for tokens/electricity bill. We then just charge smaller fee for renting or buying our cars.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-04-30 11:25:59+00:00
I’m not blaming you. But as intelligent as you may be, you have discounted all the possibilities for the failure of you school or your particular teachers. Because you had a bad time, then the whole system is malicious right?

I know a high school teacher with a PhD and has tutored and lectured at the university level. But they are a teacher now. Guess I’ll paint them with the same brush as all teachers.
by andrepd | 2025-04-30 11:27:11+00:00
> I'm very confident that early discrimination/segregation ("gifted" and "idiot" tracks in school) is a net negative for society and encourages unethical outcomes on top.

I'm curious about this, can you elaborate more? My feeling is that in a class of 25 kids grouped by age being taught by 1 single teacher, it's basically impossible that the teaching pace and style is adequate for more than a handful of them. You're going to have kids bored out of their minds learning nothing and being unengaged, and you're going to have kids that can't keep up and would need extra support / a different kind of support. You're not doing either of those any favours.
by Tade0 | 2025-04-30 11:27:36+00:00
The main (literal) takeaway is that teachers can now confiscate phones.

Over here, at the other end of the Baltic sea, there's an ongoing debate about phones in the classroom and some schools have regulations in place regarding the use of electronic devices, but these are largely toothless as otherwise they would infringe on the right to property.

I graduated high school before the smartphone era, so I don't have much of a point of reference, but I'm leaning on disallowing at least Wi-Fi/mobile data - that's the largest source of distraction in my view.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-30 11:27:54+00:00
The blob itself isn't, exactly: you cannot just reencode a movie and claim copyright protection over the resulting blob.

What's protected is the content of the movie, and it's protected because it derives from human creativity.

> The copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the mind.”

> […]

> Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author.

source: https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-...
by n_ary | 2025-04-30 11:28:06+00:00
It depends… There are really good people and there are bad people. While there is room to improve, I have decent number of colleagues who praises the system and decent number who have points that they deserve more respect. That being said, there is a secret saying, if you hate foreigners then you work in immigration to make their life hard and derive pleasure. Other than that, the rules change too much than necessary, because immigrants are the powerless scapegoats for any political and social failure of the nation, so the case workers are always playing catchup to the new changes and commit mistakes both unintentionally and intentionally(to avoid legal issues).
by genewitch | 2025-04-30 11:28:22+00:00
My neighborhood and community is more important than the hospital; the friends i mentioned specifically are also radio operators, so they have more important things to do during a disaster than be a warm body at not that type of hospital. A sanitarium.

The low-wage workers can get triple-time and take weeks off "later in the year" for covering the stop-loss, so they also benefit.

I don't call fire fighters, because they are emergency responders. Please note i said what i do, not what i think other people should do. The people i tell this to are free to do with that information what they want, i don't demand it or anything.

Consider this a contextual error on my part. It's more of an "inside baseball" snippet of conversation than anything that requires judgement.
by Etheryte | 2025-04-30 11:28:34+00:00
See the Metal Gear franchise [0], the Dead Internet Theory [1], and many others who have predicted this.

> Hideo Kojima's ambitious script in Metal Gear Solid 2 has been praised, some calling it the first example of a postmodern video game, while others have argued that it anticipated concepts such as post-truth politics, fake news, echo chambers and alternative facts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-30 11:29:31+00:00
The algorithms are definitely not deterministic. That said I agree with your general point that experimenting on LLMs as if they're black boxes with unknown internals is silly.

EDIT: I'm seeing another poster saying "Deterministic with a random seed?" That's a good point--all the non-determinism comes from the seed, which isn't particularly critical to the algorithm. One could easily make an LLM deterministic by simply always using the same seed.
by justlikereddit | 2025-04-30 11:29:54+00:00
Last time I did that I was also impressed, for a start.

Problem was that of a top ten book recommendations only the first 3 existed and the rest was a casually blended hallucination delivered in perfect English without skipping a beat.

"You like magic? Try reading the Harlew Porthouse series by JRR Marrow, following the orphan magicians adventures in Hogwesteros"

And the further towards the context limit it goes the deeper this descent into creative derivative madness it goes.

It's entertaining but limited in usefulness.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-04-30 11:30:14+00:00
This is reasonably close to a continuation of what the Biden administration did.

Though they did it with tax credits not tariffs. To get the tax break you had to buy a car made in America. (Which pissed off car makers outside the US)

If I understand the below from NPR, then few electric cars qualified back then as wel, and one of the few was Tesla Model Y

"As of May 3, 2024, eligible vehicles include the best-selling Tesla Model Y, the budget-friendly Chevrolet Bolt (which is no longer in production, but can still be found on some dealer lots), the Volkswagen ID.4 "

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1219158071/ev-electric-vehicl...
by sieve | 2025-04-30 11:31:47+00:00
Sanskrit grammar is complicated enough for basic knowledge of the cases and the tenses/aspects/moods to be less useful than one would otherwise assume. You have sati-saptami prayogas, krdantas are often uses as adjectives while basic text books talk about them in limited contexts. It is a huge mess.

Take this story (https://www.adhyeta.org.in/sa/k/samskrita-chandamama/198404/...). Assume you have a gloss available for some words. Do you really need to know the pratyayas for the nouns and verbs for you to be able to understand the story?
by constantcrying | 2025-04-30 11:32:05+00:00
>We don't actually have to choose a single goal - everyone can have different goals. If schooling isn't compulsory then you could have a mass of different people doing different things for different reasons and it all gets called 'schooling'.

I completely agree. If I wanted anything from current schooling it would be giving students more abilities to develop themselves. Obviously that doesn't mean a 16 year old playing videogames for 12 hours a day, but students who like doing sports should be doing much more of it and those who like learning should be doing much more of that and so on.
by messe | 2025-04-30 11:32:21+00:00
> That assumes they're using a stream decompressor library and are feeding that stream manually. Solutions that write the received file to $TMP and just run an external tool (or, say, use sendfile()) don't have the option to abort after N decompressed bytes.

In a practical sense, how's that different from creating a N-byte partition and letting the OS return ENOSPC to you?
by ctapobep | 2025-04-30 11:32:27+00:00
I don't think it's possible with ANY set up. All you get is that some replicas are more outdated than others. But they won't return 2 conflicting states when ReplicaA says tx1 wrote (but not tx2), while ReplicaB says tx2 wrote (but not tx1). Which is what Long Fork and Parallel Snapshot are about.

So Amazon Multi-cluster seems to replicate changes out of order?
by cornholio | 2025-04-30 11:33:04+00:00
Is it displaying some low luminosity logo or the time of day? I think this is common on OLED mobile devices and does not actually deplete the screen. Unlike led backlight, where the pixels need to actively fight the illumination source that slowly ages just to display a black screen, in OLED as long as the pixel is not lit to a significant level it will not deplete that pixel. Displaying full black is "free" even if the monitor is turned on, and keeping power on in solid state electronics is generally better than thermal cycling a dozen times per day.

Still, it's a feature I will definitely turn off first thing; off means off, if I want "full black on" I will set a black screensaver.
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-30 11:33:22+00:00
I don't trust them and they prove to me I can't. They don't own to their mistakes nor fix their problems.

Now your left with a code base forever with tech debt because of a hacky foreach if loop.

You're telling me you've never worked with anyone who does half arsed work? Where you need to pick up their slack? Lucky you.

Because if you can't do a proper job at least on elementary level then what do you do then when they refuse to fix their mess?
by rad_gruchalski | 2025-04-30 11:33:31+00:00
No, I don’t think that’s true. The 12 years of the pre-uni education set you up for being a member of society. You don’t see it because it became a part of you. You also learned to read, write, all basic math, geography, …

The uni taught you more real-world expected skills but I‘m certain you learned more before uni.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 11:33:32+00:00
So very agreed and i did this when i wrote my trilogy. My theory when doing it was what's wrong with Captain Marvel.

Your main hero cant be just invulnerable to everything and never get hurt. Having amnesia isnt a kryptonite.

Your bad guy cant be just a total jerk who can be trivially beaten as soon as you've had enough. You bad guy needs to be the baddest of them all with the essentially no weaknesses. That 1 weakness and how they'll be defeated is that optimistic view of the future.

My fun twist in my third book. The main hero comes back to earth on a superpower alien battleship. Absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.

He bluffs that his plan to be emperor on earth and that his first action is to end all violence. That all violence is banned and he's judge jury and executioner from orbit. If violence detected his battleship blasts the criminal and vapourizes them.

But its a bluff, so it's 1 timezone at a time so criminals might not catch on easily and he puts on a show where criminals and named and vapourized on the show. But its all machine ai produced. There are actual shots down to earth which make lightning like booms and leave craters; but nobody is actually hurt.

Slowly but surely violence ends on earth. Then I make my predictions on what life is like when people never fear violence.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-30 11:33:55+00:00
>German schools expect quite a lot from students that do actually want to go to better schools.

Not my experience.

>But yes, it is possible to slack through it all if you want to slack.

I was a good student though and did really well. I never learned for anything though and was bored in basically every subject.

There never were any expectations on me which I didn't trivially meet.