MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toasterlovin | 2025-04-20 08:26:58+00:00
It is. I think you’re bringing a lot of baggage to the term. In common usage (verified on my phone dictionary), it simply means a couple and their dependent children. It doesn’t require that they live separately from extended family. It doesn’t require that all the children have the same biological parents. It doesn’t even require that the parents are different sexes. Or that the parents are married and live together. It’s just a more specific term to remove the “extended” sense of the more general “family.”
by jand | 2025-04-20 08:28:02+00:00
As we are sharing anecdotes:

One of my school math teacher had the same approach in another way: We were expected to use greek letters, not latin ones.

Same reasoning: It showed us kiddos that the letter was insignificant compared to the concept expressed by the letter.

So my take would be: Your friend taught the students for the first time what they were actually doing while handling equations with "a letter in it". That is no problem of algebra in itself. It just means their previous teachers sucked.
by achenet | 2025-04-20 08:29:10+00:00
> Our bodies are machines. We should do everything we can to repair them and make them better. It appalls me that we aren't making progress here.

unlike man-made machines, we do not fully understand our bodies yet, and as such should be careful when trying to make them better. Don't start randomly `rf -rf *` on a Unix system if you don't know what it does, don't start randomly using steroids if you aren't sure of the long term biological consequences.

Obviously, your proposed "monoclonal human bodies in artificial wombs" would help with that.

If you'll also allow me a quick remark on your upbringing, as someone from an intellectual Parisian family who grew up in God-fearing, football-loving Texas...

I'm sure that somewhere in the South, there is a little gay kid, or one born with an odd mutation, to his birth parents, who felt or feels the exact same way you did - as something of an alien. I believe that the vast majority of cultures will produce outsiders, and it's also very probable that somewhere in Paris, there is someone who doesn't feel at home in the midst of heavy intellectual conversation and would prefer a simpler world focused on traditional religion and football (possibly association football/soccer, rather than American football).

Humans can form 'tribes', in the loosest sense of the word possible, based on genetics, but we also form tribes based on similar beliefs, values and interests - for example, Hacker News :)
by namaria | 2025-04-20 08:30:05+00:00
I agree, it is absolutely not a skill. LLMs are a black box and the models keep changing under you, and their output can change if you try the exact same input more than once.

People claiming it's a skill should read up on experiments on behavior adaptation to stochastic rewards. Subjects develop elaborate "rain dances" in the belief that they can influence the outcome. Not unlike sports fans superstitions.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-20 08:31:53+00:00
If everyone runs, there will be nowhere left to run to.

Europe might look safe now, but a successful coup against the constitution here will embolden those who think they may be able everywhere else. AFD in Germany is emboldened and Le Pen was definitely a threat in France. UK's leadership hasn't been very inspiring either.

Far right movements have one core belief: there is "us" and there is "them" and we are in competition for finite resources including food, land, and wombs.

Some people will be harmed fighting for freedom. You cannot have freedom without some people feeling the pain of having fought for it. If you don't do anything that makes you afraid, your fear will become your chains.
by paganel | 2025-04-20 08:32:16+00:00
Because "forced history lessons" doesn't help said kids understand what history really is about, it just helps them accumulate facts, if that.

I'd say the same thing applies to math, where one can't really start understanding math until said kid is already an adolescent (unless they're a young Euler or something), so it always baffles me when I see parents filling their young kids with (fancy) arithmetics, most probably making said kids future therapy patients, all the while lauding themselves (the parents do, that is) that they're teaching their kids "maths".

Related, one of the best maths teachers I've had (this was back in high-school, in the mid-90s) was very quick to point out that we should forget almost all "maths" we had learned in elementary school, and the he very soon started to explain to us the definition of the real numbers. Or maybe this is just an Eastern-European thing, who knows? Maybe further West they do confuse arithmetics with maths until the Uni' years.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-04-20 08:33:04+00:00
The power issue with platforms is a bit like with polities : sure, a platform might be great when ruled by an enlightened despot (and there's probably a survival bias here for the most enlightened ones ?), but that's only a small fraction of its life of domination, and what happens once the enlightened despot goes away (in one way or the other) ?

So it's probably better to not rely on platforms in the first place...
by openplatypus | 2025-04-20 08:33:48+00:00
> The author clearly has very limited experience with raising kids. Most kids won't do difficult things if you don't push them.

Such a bold claim coming from some who does not share their credentials on the matter.

My kid will do everything as long as it is interesting. My sample of 1 contradicts your claim, but neither of us are experts on the matter.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-04-20 08:35:00+00:00
Many things we grew up with seem weird today. The good thing is that we (the X gen) have a very natural relationship to our bodies. Beaches were 50% topless as well. We had very good sex education at school. We speak about sex with our children without special issues.

As for this show: try to sing the "tu tu tu tu" music of the closing credits, everyone 50-60 will immediately understand. If you want to show off your culture, you can mention the Canal+ movies on Saturday at midnight - the encoding was weird: you could not understand the sound, but with some experience you could watch the movie :)

Ahhhh, good times :) (as a 14 yo I learned quickly about electronics to be able to automate the TV switch off when the parents were coming too close)

NB: the link you provided is to the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the official national body for preservation of French TV and movies. It is a good thing they preserved that one - not for the nudes but to show that times were very different in the 80's
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-20 08:35:12+00:00
One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts.

Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc.

edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
by londons_explore | 2025-04-20 08:35:15+00:00
> imprisoned for failing to provide encryption keys

This scares me, because I have plenty of old devices I no longer know the passwords for. I don't think I'm alone - plenty of people forget passwords they don't use in years.

If the police came and searched my house, they could probably find some ancient laptop or phone from a decade ago, demand I unlock it, and then put me in prison forever when I cannot do do so.
by acjm | 2025-04-20 08:35:54+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a solo developer building ResumeAdapter, a tool that helps job seekers analyze their resumes against job descriptions using AI.

After digging deep into how Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) actually parse, rank, and filter resumes, I wrote a piece that explains how these systems really work (and how they fail many great candidates).

The post covers:

How ATS parses resumes into structured data

Why certain keywords matter way more than others

What formatting breaks parsing (and what’s safe)

How the algorithm scores and filters before a human ever sees your CV

What you can do today to improve your chances—no fluff

Here’s the write-up:

https://www.resumeadapter.com/blog/Inside-ats-algorithm-expl...

Would love to hear your thoughts—especially if you’ve built ATS tech, been burned by it, or worked around it.

HN tends to know how to break stuff, so… feel free to roast it too.
by orbital-decay | 2025-04-20 08:36:07+00:00
The problem is that current AI companies are ignoring domain expertise in favor of overly generalist models. "Meh, we have AGI planned for tomorrow anyway, it will sort everything out by itself. Somehow." This is understandable (see the "Bitter lesson"), but particular knowledge domains are so deep that you can't just ignore them, you'll produce a metric ton of crap if you stay oblivious. No matter how advanced your model is, without consulting with actual experts for fundamentals it will always miss the mark and look off.

Anthropic used to do this with Claude's character until Claude 3, but then dropped it. OAI's image generation is consistently ahead in prompt understanding and abstraction, but they famously don't give a flying turd about nuances. Current models are produced by ML nerds that are handwaving the complexity away, not by experts in what they're trying to solve. If they want it to be usable now, they need to listen to this kind of people [1]. But I don't think they really care.

[1] https://yosefk.com/blog/the-state-of-ai-for-hand-drawn-anima...
by skydhash | 2025-04-20 08:36:49+00:00
Let’s take vim and emacs, or bash. People do not spend years on them only for pleasure or fun, it’s because they’re trying to eliminate tedious aspects of their previous workflows.

That’s the function of a tool. To help do something in a more relaxed manner. Learning to use it can take some time, but the acquired proficiency will compensate for that.

General public LLMs have been there for two years, and still today, there are no concrete uses cases that can have the definition of tools. It’s trust me bro! and warnings in small print.
by erik | 2025-04-20 08:36:51+00:00
> many people have never actually seen the colour "violet" which is a single wavelength of visible light

The violet seen in a rainbow (in nature, not a photo) is legit single wavelength violet. Same with the rainbows created from shining white light through a prism.

It's true that you don't really get to see it in isolation very often though. Maybe some flowers, birds, or butterflies? Or maybe the purple glow you get from UV lights?
by sysrestartusr | 2025-04-20 08:37:06+00:00
The important part is to start as early as possible and absolutely not trust the school/teacher or kindergarden staff. They are badly programmed to reinforce kids in what comes easy to them and stop encouraging them after less than a handful of attempts.

If you have to restart later, no matter at which point, even up into 'the kids' 20s ( ultra late bloomers, slackers, kids disgusted by most people for reason Z, drug- or "condition X"-induced deadbeats, repressed kids with and without ADHD, failed or successful attempts by psycho-social environments ) understand three things:

1) you are not pushing, even if you are, you are demanding sth for the sake of your child AND yourself. YOU WANT THIS first and foremost. It's not a bad thing, fuck what the little fucker wants.

It's imperative for the kid to know that YOU WANT THIS no matter the obstacles. You want to see the process and result. It's a form of accountability, I guess. Kids pushing back is some dumb implicit way to check how important THEY and THE THING really are to you _or someone else_ (that counts for the ugly stuff, too). It's part of our evolutionary, hard-coded OODA loop.

2) just start at the very beginning, so that it's easy, almost effortless. The kid will be annoyed on most of the difficulty increases, it always depends on the sub-topic so don't back down. Even 20 year olds will catch up with their successful piers within some time. Neuro-genesis is awesome. Most 'grown up' stuff is child's play and a matter of baseline-human character anyway.

3) your stress level is what matters. Stay cool, be equanimous, serene, check your posture, voice, tone, the discussion won't last 5 min and will be worth it.

Absolutely force your kids to do math.
by 7bit | 2025-04-20 08:38:17+00:00
The part I really liked is that the change ID is pre-defined. This makes it easy to reference it in the code that is about to be "committed"--something that git can't do because the commit's ID is the same as the content hash.

Other than that, using a different versioning system than git isn't really helpful for me personally, when the entire world uses git. Doesn't matter if Jujutsu even would be objectively better in all points.
by londons_explore | 2025-04-20 08:39:11+00:00
Phone cameras are better than anything else you can get in the same form factor. The very expensive patents behind image processing algorithms keep good cameras out of the hobbyist world.

Same for 5G modems. A $50 phone will give you gigabit 5G, but you'll pay $500 to get that in non-phone form factor, mostly because on patents on the 5G tech which are charged differently for phones vs dedicated modems.
by t-3 | 2025-04-20 08:39:33+00:00
To be fair, it has been the dominant mode of familial organization in colonial powers for the past 100+ years. When economics are stable from generation to generation there would be far less tendency to split households - only in times of abundance or want would it make sense for each generational unit to live separately. Killing off natives and taking their land and resources tends to create an awful lot of abundance. The nuclear family thus symbolizes prosperity and the right-wing mythological ideal of past abundance that can be regained by returning to "traditional values".
by sudoanon | 2025-04-20 08:39:38+00:00
Check out these Mac Knives, excellent Japanese cutlery with rounded tips:

https://www.macknife.com/collections/original-series

And the Victorinox "Swiss Classic Picnic Knife", very sharp, good for slicing fruit, spreading hummus, cutting bread & cheese, etc. Also available serrated but I figured the straight edge would be more useful overall for spreading stuff on bread -- and it is, this lives in my lunch bag along side a Snow Peak Titanium Spork:

https://www.victorinox.com/en-US/Products/Cutlery/Paring-Kni...

(shown here in Red and Black, but if you look around it's available in many other colors). I've found the Victorinox Fibrox line of knives to be a great affordable, high-quality option.
by sam_goody | 2025-04-20 08:39:54+00:00
The fact that Ansible doesn't allow feedback when a task is running, or give you access to the output of the task [it does give the response, but in a urlencoded json field that is useful but not friendly), makes it incredibly difficult for me to write tasks for, and uncomfortable to use.

The fact that it makes a new connection for every command, even when just doing a loop, makes it slow as mollasses. To add insult to injury, the name Ansible means "a tool faster than light"!

The fact that there is no way to return in the middle of a task, means that I cannot use task files as functions - that is, I cannot just tell Ansible that a given file exists it should stop running this taskfile, it will stop the whole playbook or nothing.

And because I cannot add conditions to a block, that means that the best I can do is make deeply nested layers of playbooks - ie. not the Ansible way.

These are just off the top of my head - I use Ansible heavily, and curse it all the time!
by lloeki | 2025-04-20 08:39:56+00:00
> but as a legitimate way to deliver production code.

Beyond the developer side of the hype that gets talked a lot, I'm witnessing a trend on the "company side" that LLM coding is a worthy thing to shell out $$$ to, IOW there is an expected return on investment for that $$$/seat, IOW it is expected to increase productivity by at least twice that much $$$.

Companies already have a hard time throwing away the prototype - god forbid you showcase a flashy PoC - and priorise quality tasks (which may need to run over a quarter) over product items (always P0), and in that ROI context I don't see that LLM-assisted trend helping with software quality at all.
by robocat | 2025-04-20 08:40:46+00:00
Mechanical: I was thinking more Meccano and home built steam engines - cars came later.

Chemical: I was thinking chemistry sets and the age when Chemistry was geeky cool (Du Pont, Uncle Tungsten).

My grand father was a structural engineer, my father studied chemical engineering, I studied electronic engineering (but got a job programming). So perhaps I was thinking more of the frontier of engineering shifting rather than technical hobbies.

It would be interesting to look at geeky hobby adverts in a magazine over time and see how the advert focus shifted.
by arrowsmith | 2025-04-20 08:42:08+00:00
I promise I'm asking this question in good faith because I would genuinely love to understand your reasoning: why does the term "transvestite" have anything to do with Nazism?

From what I remember, that word was common and acceptable when I was growing up in the 90s, and I don't remember any Nazis using it. Nor did anyone tell me that the word "transvestite" was derogatory or offensive, although if social mores have shifted then fine, I won't say it.

What did I miss?
by trinix912 | 2025-04-20 08:46:47+00:00
> As a parent of young kids, obviously I haven't gone through high school yet - but I don't think many children who reach their potential in math, english, music etc will have no pressure from their parents.

Well it depends. I had no pressure from my parents to learn about programming but still got really good at it. Could I have gotten even better had I been pressured to "practice"? Perhaps. But then I also wouldn't like it for the reasons I do (I like making stuff, but not solving riddles) and it would feel like the dad sport situation.

I also played the piano for 6 years, starting out because I liked it. My parents didn't suggest it, but a few years in they were pushing me to continue even when I didn't like it anymore. Finished the first level of music school (6 years where I live) and haven't touched it since. Just to clarify, they weren't using any directly abusive tactics to keep me going, but they did put a lot of pressure onto it.

There's a lot of nuance to all of this and I don't completely disagree that we should occasionally pressure our kids to push their limits. What we often fail to acknowledge is that kids easily change their minds after a while. Just because they liked something at a certain point doesn't mean they still do. The easiest way to get a kid to dislike something is to make it a chore. Additionally, I think we need to ask ourselves whether it's more important to us to have a kid that's average scoring but has a (mostly) stress free upbringing, or one that excels but is stressed out by the time they hit high school. Kids absorb stress differently than we (adults) do.
by Xiol32 | 2025-04-20 08:46:51+00:00
Not low enough, unfortunely.

Ran into this recently with Ansible 2.17 which can no longer fully run (dnf/yum modules don't work) on EL8 targets due to platform-python being 3.6.

2.16 still works but goes EOL in May, when the OS is supported until 2029.

Feels like a very deliberate attempt to get you paying for Red Hat's version. On one hand I can't blame them, but on the other, that's never going to happen at my company.
by rollcat | 2025-04-20 08:47:01+00:00
Try Anubis: <https://anubis.techaro.lol>

It's a reverse proxy that presents a PoC challenge to every new visitor. It shifts the initial cost of accessing your server's resources back at the client. Assuming your uplink can handle 300k clients requesting a single 70kb web page, it should solve most of your problems.

For science, can you estimate your peak QPS?
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-04-20 08:47:32+00:00
Something I've been thinking a lot about is "stealth edutainment" games.

When I was a kid, I remember "edutainment" games that were basically like normal computer games, except every so often a homework problem pops up.

I think that doesn't work super well. Better is a game which has you learning naturally, in order to play the game more effectively. For example, I've been enjoying the computer game Slay the Spire recently, and there is a great deal of mental math which is inherent to the game. If I had a kid, I think I might give them that game as a method to motivate them to learn arithmetic.
by lordnacho | 2025-04-20 08:49:14+00:00
Don't study it for usefulness, study it for beauty. Look for amazing insights.

Yes, you need some practical math as well. I did engineering, there's a lot of inelegant stuff there.

But that stuff actually tends to be right next to some very interesting things.

Here are three things you can find out.

First, there's more than one kind of infinity. You can't make a map from natural numbers like 1, 2, 3 etc to real numbers like e, 0.632268, sqrt(2) etc. Look for Cantor diagonalization.

Second, a random walk like a heads vs tails comes back to zero almost certainly. It also does so in two dimensions, like walking randomly in Manhattan. In three dimensions, it does not, and so for higher dimensions. Look for Polya.

Third. There is a way for you and me to communicate secretly, despite everyone in HN being able to see our entire exchange. Look for Diffie Helmann.

These days, there's a whole industry of people doing math videos with interesting stuff.
by ekianjo | 2025-04-20 08:50:22+00:00
Thanks for your answer. Let me elaborate a little bit. What diffentiates humans from most animals is not about solving complex puzzles (some birds are able to do that) or be able to learn things (birds and primates can do that as well) but in the ability of humans to plan for the future. As far as I know (but do correct me if you have better information) there is no animal that exhibits:

1) the ability to plan ahead of time 2) in a non innate way

The consequence is that humans actually build stuff by investing time and energy by visualizing a future benefit without immediate gratification. I believe this is unique in the realm of animals, at least for now.
by psittacus | 2025-04-20 08:50:40+00:00
There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location

https://timeguessr.com/

Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511

edit: found another game like OP in the linked thread https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-20 08:51:30+00:00
IQ tests are administration-sensitive and have changed dramatically since the beginning of such a Flynn effect study. The population makeup of many countries has changed in recent years to include many immigrants for whom the study would make exceedingly little sense to include. IQ tests do not cover and do not claim to cover a comprehensive view of human intelligence, famously lacking verbal and social components entirely. It is possible past IQ tests were simply overtuned and we’re now seeing the natural correction.
by indeyets | 2025-04-20 08:51:58+00:00
Well, jj is actually very nice in this regard, because:

1. it works on top of git — you keep using all the same infrastructure (GitHub, etc.) 2. in your local repositories you still have access to git-tools, as jj maintains git and its own states in sync.

After all of these months with jj I still find myself using GitUp when I need to review a long chain of commits or do some quick repo-archeology. And, from time to time, I even use Idea's merge tools because their "magic wand" saves a lot of time.

I mentioned this in the first part of series