MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torginus | 2025-04-06 14:46:44+00:00
I think it's useful for young people to be exposed to what's widely regarded as some of the best-written books out there, so that they might get an idea of what a really well-written book looks like.

What good pacing, characterization, plotting looks like, how to convey a great idea to the reader, without sounding preachy or bore him to tears. And most importantly, how to weave all these elements together into a cohesive whole, as most masterpieces do.

This way they can have a somewhat more critical eye of the more mainstream fiction they'll likely consume in much greater quantity.

I find that most mainstream SF or fantasy books consist of the same foundational elements - but add fantastic concepts or spectacle to the mix, which might grab a certain amount of interest, but must get these foundations right in order for the novel to remain compelling

I think the act of writing is a lossy transformation - someone raised on a steady diet of only sci-fi novels is bound to be only be capable of writing a lesser sci-fi novel.

In order for a writer to reach at least the level of mainstream fiction, the writer must bring some extra from his own - either coming from non-fiction literature, life experience, the rare spark of original genius, or well-executed fundamentals in books like the ones mentioned on the reading list.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-06 14:47:22+00:00
Infinite jest is a bad book. No, I will not read your fking calculus page alongside the other 1000+ pages of nonsense. The idea of assigning it even to mensa kids is exactly why Mensa has such a poor reputation. Mensa famously has the reputation of its members being extremely autistic. Books like this all but guarantee it if they are read by young, impressionable minds.

Ulysses is only good because Joyce was a coomer.

Candide is actually good and more people need to read it.

The others you listed are post modern neo Marxism or drug abusers which will teach your kids to hate your teacher and the whole idea of education. Why not just throw on “pedagogy of the oppressed” to put the final nail into the coffin of your kid giving a fk about what your teacher teaches (“sorry, I’m not doing your homework you colonizer shitlord, I refuse to participate in the banking model of education”.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-06 14:47:37+00:00
The only criticism I could leverage is that the difference between five and zero incidents is very hard to extrapolate information from.

The author kind of plays this up a bit by insinuating that there are incidents we don't know of, and they probably aren't wrong that if there are five fatalities there are going to be many more near misses and non-fatal fender bender collisions.

But for the number of millions of miles on the road covered by all vehicles, extrapolating from five incidents is doing a lot of statistical heavy lifting.
by SalmoShalazar | 2025-04-06 14:47:37+00:00
I really dislike your suggestion to eliminate the timer. You frame it like it’s objectively the better choice since you’re a professional - however it’s not. It’s a design decision that leads to a sense of urgency that many players enjoy. Games don’t need to be for everyone. This drive towards the most universally appealing, milquetoast design decisions neuters games.
by p3rls | 2025-04-06 14:48:38+00:00
Don't care about the war but there some weird tribal dynamics going on in this conflict that I find fascinating

This forum being basically being the h1b aspirant phpbb I'd expect more pro-israel sentiment from our indian cohorts like on other platforms-- but they overwhelmingly seem to be pro-palestinian here. I suppose the typical rss hindutva pro-israel accounts we see allover the rest of the internet might be lower class indians while ycombinator selects for more california-aligned values and gets more international ones with the precooked contemporary neoliberal value-set?
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-06 14:48:50+00:00
> Any sort of aggregated comparison of places to purchase from can be considered advertising

This is where your confusion stems from, I think. Any sort of independent third-party review site is totally not advertising as far as I'm concerned. The problem with sites like Yelp is that they accept money from companies and are susceptible to astroturfing. But truly independent reviewers like Consumer Reports, are pretty clear not advertising.

> Now, on that site, is this company allowed to advertise different brands that they carry to me? By definition of advertising, no - the whole purpose of showing me products is to make me purchase, which is the definition. So then do we reach a true communist state where there is only one option to purchase? If so, can I still not see it because it's considered advertising? Okay, fine, I need to be able to see at least one guitar, we can concede that point.

This seems like handwringing about the most extreme possible form of legislation possible which nobody is proposing. I am not sure what definition of "advertising" you're thinking of, but having a list of what products your store sells isn't advertising by any reasonable definition.
by SamBam | 2025-04-06 14:49:50+00:00
Are there any non-English books? When I go to the search page, language isn't even a pull-down option, so I'm guessing not.

There is a huge world of out-of-copyright non-English texts, and Project Gutenberg has many thousands of them. I wonder if any interest could be generated to help bring them in by posting on foreign language subreddits or something.
by l1tany11 | 2025-04-06 14:50:15+00:00
Not if it’s below regulatory threshold. Which they seemed to say it was in the article (they said it’s below EPA threshold, so I assume that means the OSHA threshold too).

The article never says how much they detected. I can only assume it’s because it’s a nothing amount. If it was significant they would have been saying how much. It’s hard to take the article seriously as a result. We have crazy sensitive tests now, they do nothing in the article to show it’s not just another story about how sensitive testing is these days.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-06 14:50:44+00:00
> Other brands might have so bad FSD that people simply not trust it and basically never use it

The issue is not quite how good the automation is in absolute terms, it's how good it is vs. how it is sold. Tesla is an outlier here, right down to the use of the term "FSD" i.e. "Full Self-Driving", when it's nothing of the sort.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-04-06 14:50:51+00:00
I just want to compound on this one.

If you get rear ended at a stoplight or stopsign it’s very likely the motorcyclist is not at fault. The motorcyclist suffers significantly more bodily injury than a car driver would in a similar collision. As a motorcyclist, you can tell that sometimes people just don’t see you because their brain is looking for something car shaped.

When I ride, every time I stop at a stoplight or stopsign I am watching my rear view mirror to judge if the person behind me is going to stop, and I have an exit strategy if they don’t. Ive had some close calls.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-06 14:53:03+00:00
Hopefully an expert can chime in, but from what I've gathered we were fairly lucky to catch that one.

First off, it needs to happen when enough detectors are operational to get a good localization. Back then there were just three and all happened to be operational during the event. Just two won't cut it, as you can see from this[1] using just LIGO data versus this[2] which also includes VIRGO data for GW170817[3].

Next the detectors have a limited mass window they're sensitive to, with low frequencies (high mass) limited by seismic isolation and high frequencies (low mass) due to quantum effects. And the noise floor at peak sensitivity limits the maximum range to the objects.

Current sensitivity means we're at the edge of the binary-neutron star population, so we wouldn't expect to see many of those.

With more detectors coming online soon and existing ones getting further upgraded, presumably it'll not be such a rare event in the future.

A nice recent talk which touches on this was given at PIRSA here[4].

[1]: https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0146/G1701985/001/bayestar_no_vi...

[2]: https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0146/G1701985/001/bayestar.png

[3]: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P170817/public

[4]: https://pirsa.org/25030061
by marcusb | 2025-04-06 14:53:41+00:00
I think we have a lot of proof that human visual detection works well enough to “only” kill around 40k people/year in the US from traffic accidents.

I have had a Tesla for several years now. The visual object detection display very frequently misidentifies objects. Just the other day, it detected my garage (which the car was parked next to) as a semi truck.

I have never, with my wildly imperfect human vision, mistaken a building for a semi truck.

More to the point of the OP, sometimes objects show up and disappear repeatedly.

As I’ve said in other comments, I think EVs and autonomous driving will eventually improve the lot of humanity greatly, but there’s a lot to be desired in the current tech and not any point in trying to pretend it is better than it really is.
by memhole | 2025-04-06 14:54:16+00:00
I personally like cooperatives too. I’ve always wondered if instead of a tech union a cooperative might be a better fit. No solution is perfect, though. Lots of people want to make an income and not deal with the now governance part of their job. You also have people that are attracted to those kinds of organizations who also desire the governance part. Which goes back to the trope about those that should have authority don’t often want it.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-06 14:54:21+00:00
> There's a big difference between advertising and information

I recommend looking up the videos they made in the 1950s about how to use modern appliances, telephones, etc. and then noting that those videos were mostly paid for by the companies that manufactured those goods because they had a vested interest in people knowing how to use the tools so they would buy the tool.

> What we wouldn't be able is to be paid by someone to have a specific public discourse.

Widecast public communications always cost money. Always. Somebody is putting money forward to put a message on that billboard, or on that radio, or on that website. If we ban advertising but we aren't banning billboards, radio, and websites, we are tying off one category of communicator. Cynically, I would expect the result to not be an end to commercial advertising, but for more commercial advertising disguised as other things. I don't know that we would be able to disambiguate the two ideas, not in a world where, for example, public television programs are supported by the Sears Roebuck Corporation.
by khaledh | 2025-04-06 14:55:40+00:00
This is just one of an endless string of lies from Israel. Hind Rajab? World Central Kitchen? and many others that we don't know about. They even shot their own hostages waving white flags. Their first reaction is to lie, and if they get caught they say they will investigate. How can anyone believe them anymore, and how can anyone expect their investigation to lead to full accountability and prevention of future incidents? It just baffles me.
by audunw | 2025-04-06 14:55:45+00:00
I don’t see any way you can spin this in a positive light. Yeah, there may be many more FSD miles on Tesla, but if that leads to a bunch of motorcyclists getting hit, then maybe that’s exactly the problem.

We know this is one of the core issues of Tesla FSD: its capabilities have been hyped and over promised time and time again. We have countless examples of drivers trusting it far more than they should. And who’s to blame for that? In large part the driver, sure. But Elon has to take a lot of that blame as well. Many of those drivers would not have trusted it as much if it wasn’t for his statements and the media image he has crafted for Tesla.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-06 14:55:52+00:00
Depends. Your module can have top level member fields or declarations. (By convention these modules would be capitalized) and in that case it would be instantiated as a struct (no objects in zig)

MyModule.zig

somefield: u32, fn get(self: @This()) u32 { return this.somefield; }

main.zig

const Module = @import("MyModule"); // note there are build parameters necessary to make this a module fn main() void { var x: Module = .{.somefield = 42 }; _ = x.get() // => 42 ...

A module is an import external to your project. Whether or not the import has top level fields or declarations, the mechanism is the same for structs, imports, and modules. For all imports (including modules) you should imagine an implicit `struct{...}` expression surrounding the code in your file.
by alesso_x | 2025-04-06 14:56:21+00:00
The article gives a pretty misleading impression of where FSD stands today. It treats highway behavior as if nothing has changed, but that’s not accurate.

Before October 2024, the highway stack was still running on Tesla’s older software. A major shift happened with version 12.5.6, which brought the end-to-end neural network to highways for the first time.

Then in December, version 13.2.2 pushed things even further by scaling the model specifically for HW4/AI4. It’s a major step up from earlier versions like 12.3.x from April.

I absolutely feel for anyone who’s been involved in an accident while using FSD. But at the end of the day, the system still requires driver supervision. It’s not autonomous, and the responsibility ultimately falls on the person behind the wheel.

If you’re going to evaluate how FSD performs today, you really need to be looking at version 13 or greater. Anything older just doesn’t reflect what the system is capable of now.
by mxuribe | 2025-04-06 14:56:36+00:00
Its specifically melting the underneath of North america....because, the earth is flat...everyone knows that! /s

But, let's not worry, because Trump will build a wall, er, heat shield, and no more pesky nuclear fusion-based heat will ever penetrate our 1%-er bunkers, er i mean, our atmosphere to melt our continent....and if some heat should get in, well, then ICE will be there to help save the day! /s

:-D
by kragen | 2025-04-06 14:56:49+00:00
Almost any other order would be better, though I agree that a truly random order would be slightly worse. These are mostly fiction, so in the library they are shelved by the author's surname. (If this idea didn't occur to you, presumably you have never been in a library, which makes me wonder why you are commenting at all.) You could also group them by century, by original language, by country of origin, by mood, by difficulty, by length, or by primary themes. Any of those would be superior in suggesting to you what books you might want to read next on the basis of books you had already read.

While we're at it, just listing that information for each title would also be very valuable, even without reordering the list.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-06 14:58:22+00:00
>I learn so many more things so much faster today because of the new AI tools.

Which could allow more time for recreational reading . . .

Doing both has got to be better than only one.

>those who use AI to learn faster and accomplish more, vs those who use AI to avoid working or thinking

Could be already underway :\

btw not my downvote, corrective upvote actually
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by jonanz | 2025-04-06 14:58:46+00:00
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by pkdpic | 2025-04-06 14:58:52+00:00
He's not a perfect figure but I always really valued Haseebs perspective and energy. I used to have access to an old lecture of his explaining memory management through whiteboard sketches of original mario that I really loved in addition to dozens of energetic insightful lectures on foundational computer science concepts that he basically did for free before his AirBnB position.

I think he played a big role for a lot of pre-pandemic bootcamp imposters like me.

But seeing this pop back up on HN I'm wondering how radically the tech world / job market has changed. I've been hiding in kushy underpaid remote jobs basically since the pandemic so I have no real idea whats going on out there.

How applicable is this perspective to the present day market for software engineers? How much have things fundamentally changed?
by Gerardo1 | 2025-04-06 14:59:26+00:00
I don't think that's a useful lens to view the problem through, or a useful way to have a conversation about MCP security.

That a system is hard to secure doesn't negate the need for it to be secure.

Though I agree about third-party MCP services. They're in a weird spot and I'm not sure that they're viable for many use cases.
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by netsharc | 2025-04-06 15:00:11+00:00
Gotta love character assassination by screenshot, but I guess that's "cancel culture" for you.

A quick google doesn't support your assertion that he made those comments on "their" (BBC's) social media. And for me "a journalist they've worked with" doesn't equal "one of their correspondents".

But oh well, it's the age of emotions overriding our judgements, the question is, who's doing more of that between the 2 of us.

And your "general thread" is inaccessible since it requires making an account on a Nazi website...
by pfannkuchen | 2025-04-06 15:01:20+00:00
You do want them to be better than humans, but vision quality is not really a major source of human accidents. Accidents are typically caused by driving technique, inattention, or a failure to accurately model the behavior of other drivers.

Put another way - would giving humans superhuman vision significantly reduce the accident rate?

The issue here is that the vision based system failed to even match human capabilities, which is a different issue from whether it can be better than humans by using some different vision tech.
by randallsquared | 2025-04-06 15:01:34+00:00
I don't know when they added it to iOS, but my iPhone does this. I get a text from some new number and the message includes (e.g.) "Hey this is Tom." and a notice right in Messages says it "found" a contact that this may be and asks if I want to add the number to that contact. I could imagine having this happen correctly a few times in a row might make one trust that it knows what it's doing.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-04-06 15:01:55+00:00
All of these guys have SCIFs at their homes and offices, and if they're traveling they have access to a SCIF. They can absolutely get secure messages across agencies in real time - Waltz even says this in the group chat when he tells them to check their "high side inboxes". They just can't get them as texts to their personal phones - for very good reason. It's a more inconvenient system by design.

What these guys are arguing is that there's a case for using Signal for something like what Waltz was initially doing - telling people to check a more secure system and asking them to name a point person. But of course the risk is that a) even that information is extremely useful to an adversary; b) once the more convenient system exists, you're relying on people to carefully adhere to the rules about what should go on it, and guys like Hegseth are morons who don't feel like they need to follow the rules.
by dahart | 2025-04-06 15:02:25+00:00
Free speech has exceptions that include commercial speech and advertising, especially false advertising. So are you talking about US free speech laws, or about some other kind of free speech?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

US law is not a natural right and does not grant the right to say anything. You can claim and exercise a perceived natural right to say anything, you just won’t be protected from punishment under US law for saying certain things.
by CRConrad | 2025-04-06 15:03:02+00:00
I was going to ask exactly that question!

But, given that

96% of books sold less than 1,000 copies in 2020

and assuming, like the author of TFA seems to have reason to believe, that the overwhelming majority of authors don't get more lucrative deals than she did, it... Pretty much can't be for the authors.
by frereubu | 2025-04-06 15:03:07+00:00
I love this. However, I couldn't find an alphabetical list of authors, which is the way I wanted to browse on my first visit. Instead my only option is to show 48 on a page and paginate through, which is tedious. I know there are author pages - e.g. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackera... - so I presume it's feasible. An author index would significantly increase my likelihood of understanding what's available and engaging with the content.
by dagw | 2025-04-06 15:03:46+00:00
That's kind of my point. We don't know from the data if the problem is that Tesla has worse FSD than the non-accident brands, or if all brands are equally good/bad and Tesla owners are more likely to use the feature. Tesla could very well have the best FSD software on the market and still lead the accident stats simply because how their users are (ab)using the feature (which I suspect is closest to the truth)
by moralestapia | 2025-04-06 15:03:49+00:00
>This made me realize he is not the genius he is made out to be but instead he is a fraud/charlatan and over the years his statements on different topics have only hardened that belief.

That was Karpathy's decision [1] and, yes, I also have that perception of him.

I know this is not going to be well received because he's one of HN's pet prodigies but, objectively, it was him.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/10/31/former...

(one of many)
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-06 15:03:56+00:00
>oh, a company wants to give me a job! What a relief!” As though having a job were in itself some special privilege for which a company is the gatekeeper.

A global recession is happening. Let's see if this advice will withstand the times or will age like milk. I predict the latter; the Great Depression wasn't fake news.