MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Balgair | 2025-04-02 18:56:22+00:00
David Epstien talks about this in Range.

Essentially, we have 'kind' and 'unkind' learning environments.

To be successful in a Kind environment, you drill-and-kill. The feedback is near instant and the ranking is clear. These are things like golf, classical music, and chess.

To be successful in an Unkind environment, you learn as much as you can. The feedback is infrequent and the ranking is murky. These are things like tennis, jazz, and business.

I'd think that the compounding interest only plays in the Unkind environments, as you can make new connections on the new data you've got going in. In the Kind environment, new data doesn't make a difference as you're just trying to be perfect at the thing you're focusing on; if anything it's an impediment.
by braza | 2025-04-02 18:56:25+00:00
The author gains a great insight into the social consequences of discussing politics with friends, but I think it might be part of something larger, a sort of intellectual signaling of meta-contrarianism.

At least in the countries where I live, debating politics is less about civic duty and being a citizen, and has become a substitute for sports; people prioritize their passions, and they are not concerned with getting the government to implement the policies it promised in the first place, but with defending a side.

In Germany, we see on state broadcasts every single day discussions about how the USA is bad, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, how some war in a distant place is bad, and so on; and nothing related to local politics.

If you invite someone to go to the municipal legislative service to talk with someone about why we still have underinvestment in kindergartens, even with record revenue, while other groups of society are capitalizing on social benefits, nobody will show up.

Getting in front of a keyboard and brigading online to talk about federal elections and/or officials of other countries is cool: it gives you the latest scandal of the day, you can congregate with people of your chamber, it provides audience for podcasts, and it generates talking points that sound intellectually tasty.

At least for me, the politics that matter most are local politics; and this is the craziest thing: it's the kind of politics where you can do something as an individual, you will have someone to hear you out, and with some effort, you can make a real and direct difference for your community.
by JCM9 | 2025-04-02 18:56:52+00:00
The map still amusingly mostly pretends that New Jersey and transit running into New Jersey doesn’t exist. For example, the PATH is very faintly represented but yet the JFK AirTrain (which isn’t part of the subway and the airport isn’t run by the MTA) is given more prominent status. PATH is owned by the same entity (PANYNJ) that owns the AirTrain but is nearly hidden on the map because it goes to New Jersey.

Back when the SuperBowl was in NYC there was a full transmit map produced that acknowledged and displayed the existence of New Jersey and its transit into and out of NYC. After the Super Bowl the MTA quickly took it down and New Jersey was returned to its former “we’re gonna pretend like you don’t exist” map.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 18:57:06+00:00
Yeah, I sort of have a counter-belief that, generally speaking the way to have the most.... Grounded understanding of everything is to be a bit dispassionate about whether or not you have the truth. Being truth seeking has probably a 80/20 chance of going conspiracy nut vs actually being honestly truth seeking. Especially if you're not trained or the subject isn't in your wheel house.
by packetlost | 2025-04-02 18:57:09+00:00
the distributed computing model is pretty nice in theory (maybe not in practice) and the uniform system APIs are also nice. The userspace tools in particular are just plain better (structured regex commands are quite a bit better than ed-style and I find myself using them far more frequently in vis than I do in vim, they're far more composable and intuitive).

The biggest thing is the heavy reliance on union file systems (and file systems in general) and an extremely simple syscall API. It's a heterogeneous-networked-node OS so it handles realistic workloads natively with primitives designed for it instead of piling complexity on top of Unix-like APIs (ie. Linux). I dunno, I just think a lot of the modern "cloud native" stack is unnecessary if you had an OS actually built for the workloads we have.
by infecto | 2025-04-02 18:57:40+00:00
I could not speak on the prior post. I did not flag it. But you are indeed projecting intent and feelings because you yourself have strong feelings in it. That’s ok.

I can speak for myself, I don’t care to see political posts that don’t involve anything new and also have low signal in the discussion. You end with either side either demonizing or praising. Again that’s simply my take on it which might differ from others. It’s not I don’t like the topic but rather I don’t want HN to be another space that gets overwhelmed with political talk. Same with discussions on Israel vs Palestine.
by lunatuna | 2025-04-02 18:57:49+00:00
As a thought, not tested, using wifi probe requests might be better through more dense material scenarios. Using a specific AP probe request "SOS Request" from the device would help discover over all the other AP requests that others are throwing. No idea if iOS or Android would let you hijack that process.

This is a bit more extreme, but some type of triangulation from multiple rescuers could be useful in closing in on a spot.

This is really interesting and thanks for sharing.
by sahilsuman933 | 2025-04-02 18:57:59+00:00
Hey HN, Sahil here from Vapi! Working here feels like we're hosting our own voice Olympics—juggling 10+ real-time models, dodging latency ninjas, and making every call sound like a chart-topping hit. It’s a wild ride, but nothing beats the thrill of watching our voice agents nail it (and sometimes even out-charm us humans). If you’ve got questions about our secret sauce or just want to chat about how voice tech is turning everyday calls into epic adventures, I’m all ears (pun intended)! Cheers to making voice as playful as it is powerful!
by maccard | 2025-04-02 18:58:06+00:00
I’m a fairly steadfast holder of the “I like apples walled garden, it’s my choice to be there” argument, and I think as a dissenting opinion on this forum I get a lot of flak for it. But that’s not a moderation problem, it’s the fact that my opinion is different and I have 10x the number of people disagreeing with me than agreeing with me.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-04-02 18:58:27+00:00
Very cool! More info on an equally charming old website here, including a remarkable letter from his wife:

http://josephoster.com/billsvoyage/index.html

I suppose every wife in any generation wants their husbands to be safe, but each generation has a different approach to risk and adventure. I know my wife would be resolutely opposed to any voyage like this (says the man with a dream of sailing a Hobie Cat across the Great Lakes...perhaps when my son is grown).

This page also includes a 100x136 pixel high-resolution color digital photo of the boat, and the year: 2002.

http://josephoster.com/billsvoyage/potter.html

There's also an update page with a GIF animation of the weather accompanied by the text "WARNING!!! file size: 1.5 MBytes"

From the article:

> The batteries were charged for about 1 hour daily using a Honda EU 1000 gasoline generator coupled with a 3-stage battery charger. The generator burned 1-1/2 gallons of gas in 24 days. ... There was no backup power source for charging the batteries.

24 hours of runtime and 1.5 gallons of gas equate to 0.625 gallon usage per hour. From the spec sheet, an EU1000 generator has a 0.55 gallon tank and can run for 6.8 hours at 225W output, that's 0.081 gallons per hour, so I estimate that the generator was operating at about 174 watts, given it ran for an hour that's 174 watthours per day.

23 years later, anyone would assume that your default source of 174 watthours per day would be a solar panel. A single 2x3 foot rigid panel would do ~100W peak and see the equivalent of 4-6 peak hours per day, easily beating that requirement. Any serious sailboat (even a little trailerable 19' coastal boat like this one) would have a whole array powering lighting and sensors and radar/radios and telemetry and would budget much more than that.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-02 18:58:36+00:00
Flagging does seem to primarily be a tool for moderation. But for comments, at least, I've mostly not observed flagging being used to hide things that shouldn't be; if anything, I think flagging is underused on comments.

(It's still regularly abused on stories as a downvote, perhaps in part because stories don't have downvotes. HN sometimes "rescues" stories that get over-flagged, but it's still a problem.)
by tripletao | 2025-04-02 18:58:47+00:00
If your standard for how hard the interrogator should try isn't "as hard as they can", then what do you propose instead? It's always possible to fool a sufficiently lazy human, so you need something.

> It sounds like what you want is something akin to a comprehensive test for AGI.

Since you mentioned Wikipedia, their first proposed test for AGI is Turing's:

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

I (generally, not from you) see a motte-and-bailey game, where the strongest versions of Turing's test are described as equivalent to AGI, and then favorable results on weaker versions are used to claim we've achieved it. I think those weaker results are significant, probably in economically important ways, though mostly socially destructive. I think this preprint is mostly good. I don't like that conflation, though.
by jimt1234 | 2025-04-02 18:59:11+00:00
I lived in China in the early-2000s, and one of the things I noticed is that no one ever talked about any sort of politics. Never. It was weird at first, as political discussion is so ingrained in the culture (in the US). Even just regular smalltalk, like, "How's it going, Bob? / It'd be a lot better if the city council would pull their heads out of their asses and fix these potholes!" - there was nothing like that.

I asked a few local friends about it, and got two basic explanations:

1. What's the point? No one is empowered to change anything, so why bother talking about it at all?

2. You can get in big trouble for saying the wrong thing in public.

The weirder thing I noticed is that I kinda enjoyed it. It was nice to not hear a bunch of bitching about the government (not saying the government shouldn't be criticized - it should; just saying it was nice to be completely removed from it for a time).

Not sure if it's still like this in China; I haven't been there in years, but yeah, this was really strange to me when I lived there.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-04-02 18:59:23+00:00
I was there since around 2015 and the evolution of that forum and its population/opinion has been very interesting, to say to put it mildly...

Remember when the biggest disagreements were about ORM & Frameworks? I miss those days. I didnt even mind the discussion about the ethics of Uber or Airbnb, but now, now it is different, & not for the better.
by gs17 | 2025-04-02 18:59:26+00:00
> It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself.

Is it? All the fake Musk things I've seen are, yes, positive, but they're also just scams (e.g. ads for a "Quantum AI" for picking stocks that he invented, where you get a free Tesla if you don't make a million dollars). I guess for the victims that end up in denial it boosts their opinion of him.
by pwython | 2025-04-02 18:59:33+00:00
I'm in the US and have never had a bad experience with Amazon. I signed up for Prime in like 2010 and even got their prime store credit card to get 5% cash back. No issues with returns, same-day shipping, prime video, etc. I don't know much about Bezos' business practices/morals, but gosh dang Amazon is a good bang for the buck.
by integralof5y | 2025-04-02 18:59:36+00:00
Borges and Herbert Simons are two great minds, but their conversation is not deep since is mostly shared view about the meaning of human and machine intelligence. Today, with LLMs we have a tool to explore the relation between intelligence and language, between number of parameters, neural nets architectures and much more. So that conversation give us no new insight but is delightful to share time with such great people.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-02 18:59:38+00:00
then she is being misleading, at best. To date no observed galaxies (versus galaxy clusters) have had the arrangement (as is in this image) wherein the galaxy is so perfectly in line with a background galaxy and close enough to estimate the rotation curves (and the background galaxy is of the right disposition to know if dark matter halos extend beyond the galaxy and estimate by how much space). Without both those factors it's really difficult to do a proper correlation of dark matter distribution around galaxies and the observed light bending.
by motohagiography | 2025-04-02 18:59:43+00:00
you (few?) do one of the biggest jobs on the internet. it's been a bit of a vice, but sufficiently rarefied that it doesn't lower anyone for indulging it. thank you.

it's said that perfect means lacking nothing essential to its whole. I've often speculated about the mechanics behind it, but really, it's a product that I think achieves today what apple and a lot of others aspire to be, where it does something well enough that almost nobody stops to question how. even if - or especially, when - that's probably the most interesting question of all.

how do you replicate it? you can't. that's the point.

may the odds ever be in your favour!
by raggi | 2025-04-02 19:00:25+00:00
In case y'all missed it in the first post, and you just want to try this out, it's working in this v86 image:

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=custom&m=768&vram=16&hda.url=ht...

You can start tailscaled and tailscale inside the VM. It may take a while to come online sometimes due to limited proxy availability.

Edit: alt gives you the third button. To start a terminal, hold alt and right click, select new, release alt, and right click drag to size the terminal window.
by tracker1 | 2025-04-02 19:00:48+00:00
I don't hate the wall art in your example... it's not quite my taste, but it doesn't make me pull my hair out. If you look at something like the link below, I'd hate having to be anywhere near it. Busy patterns and mixes of color just feel like noise and give me (sometimes literally) a headache.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/vintage-bathroom-makeover-p...
by mightyham | 2025-04-02 19:00:49+00:00
Was going to comment the same thing. I try to avoid politics with co-workers and family because they are people that you are obligated, on some level, to interact with and have decent social cohesion. Friendships are entirely voluntary, so I can't begin to understand choosing to spend time with people that you can't honestly share your thoughts and feelings with, political or otherwise.
by fhd2 | 2025-04-02 19:00:51+00:00
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by voodooEntity | 2025-04-02 19:00:53+00:00
Well im working alot with json in my job and privat coding life used from all sorts of different languages, and so far i always could sort stuff out.

And well - if anyone trusts external coders he should be damned (or isnt he already for doing so? never trust external data - the golden rule...)

Your case is interesting, i worked with Neo4j years ago in a PHP project and never run into such issues, but maybe i was just lucky.

Nowadays i code mostly golang and im always making sure that whatever an external party sends me is what im expecting (validation ...).

To your point of preventing somebody to write bad code - i've given up on that. Whenever i thought the environment will enforce someone to write proper code, people proof me to be wrong be finding new ways to do the most absurd things.

But ye, its worth a try.

So - why i question such a thing? Because i'm not a fan of adding more and more 3'rd party dependencies to my projects. And while confetti might be a good thing (i never said it can't be) it wont get into any default packaging in a forseeable future meaning i have to make sure that the dependency stays stable which adds another task and liability on my end. So instead of having to deal with the devil i know (validating json data) i have to deal with a new one to eliminate the old one.

Time will tell if confetti will make its way into stable reliable state for common languages - than i might give it a try.
by kmoser | 2025-04-02 19:01:02+00:00
It's not just about how far the train can take you; it's also about how far you have to walk to your destination once you exit. For example, the squashed height of the new map makes it look like if you exit at Central Park South, you can walk to Central Park North in a relatively short amount of time, when in fact it's about 2.5 miles.

Being able to determine relative distances also helps you decide whether it's worth waiting for the next train, or whether to switch from an express to a local or vice-versa.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-02 19:01:10+00:00
Note that JFK airport is already within the regular bounds of the map; it doesn't require anything to be shifted to include that information.

New Jersey requires the map to be shifted to include it, which means either going to a larger map, or shrinking the existing content of the map. There's a cost to doing so, and that cost may not be worth the extra benefits providing that information would.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-02 19:01:19+00:00
Very much this. The world has changed. It used to be that assuming other people have a low capacity for political reason was itself a "political position" - namely elitism. Folks like Orwell come from a long, long tradition of the educated and socially astute working class. Social media turned the joy of everyday political banter, rational scepticism, and good-natured disputation into a bourgeois pissing contest with seemingly life-or-death stakes.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-04-02 19:01:41+00:00
Well... they could just make enough stock for everybody, and there would be no need for scalpers. Just delay the launch a bit, fill up the warehouses, and when they start selling, everyone gets one, and the scalpers lose.

But no, any scarcity is a must in modern times, so people don't think twice before buying if they see it in stock somewhere.
by fouronnes3 | 2025-04-02 19:01:56+00:00
I'm really interested in this discussion. I started an open-source project [1], and I've been working on it for the past 6 months full-time on my own time and money (savings + benefits). First I was part of a batch at the Recurse Center [2], now I'm alone at home. I'd love to keep working on it because I have a big roadmap and ideas, but I'm not sure if I will be able to. It's heartbreaking to have to stop at version 0.0.1 when I know that 1.0 could be so good. If I just had the time...

[1] https://victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker/

[2] https://www.recurse.com/
by hardwaregeek | 2025-04-02 19:02:06+00:00
A lot of people are in a particular tribe because they literally cannot be in the other tribe because the other tribe sees them as subhuman, as people who should be deported, who should lose their rights, etc. A lot of them realize that they're in a tribe and don't particularly like it, but since the political system is set up in a way where you can't reasonably have more than two parties, they don't have a choice.

Basically, the author is making it seem like everyone other than a select few are tribal idiots, but that's a fundamental outcome of our political system. You can pick and choose your policies, but at the end of the day, you're voting for one of two parties.
by jokoon | 2025-04-02 19:03:14+00:00
> There are a surprising number of valid use cases that need cross-domain auth

I am not a web developer, but I would disagree with that.

Either web standards respect privacy or they don't, but I would not sacrifice privacy for anything.

Firefox was right to prevent tracking, it highlights how webstandards are just not good. I something doesn't work properly in a firefox private window, to me it should not exist.
by Zaskoda | 2025-04-02 19:03:24+00:00
Since you mentioned hackathons - A few years ago I was working on a game for the Ethereum Virtual Machine and I ended up going to EthDenver. While there, I discovered a rich and vibrant hackathon scene with a lot of monetary prizes. The hackathons were often for various blockchain platforms and, thus, those prizes were generally awarded in whatever cryptocurrency was native to that platform. From their point of view, it was a smart move. They create a network, retain a huge block of pre-minted currency, establish a market price, and then give out that currency as hackathon awards. As a competitor, you can cash you winnings in right away, so it works well enough. A friend and I cleared almost $30k one year in various contests. Unfortunately, winning a hackathon was often more about creating something that would make for good marketing buzz rather than creating something truly novel or even useful. And, frankly, the actual quality of your execution rarely mattered. We lost one contest where we had a fully working prototype deployed and live but lost to teams with ideas that sounded fun but were technically unfeasible. Still, if you're willing to play the game, it seems there's money to be made. My friend and I have since moved on and have not continued to participate - but it sure made for fun memories.
by techknowlogick | 2025-04-02 19:03:24+00:00
Hi, I'm on the TOC of Gitea, and I can definitively say that there is no cryptocurrency in Gitea or related to Gitea. As well, the project is not open-core, and you can verify that yourself by going to the project and seeing that all the code is MIT licensed: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
by jsight | 2025-04-02 19:03:35+00:00
It is because most of this was expected, even without turmoil. Model Y transitioned from the previous design to an updated design, leading to factory downtimes and a near complete sellout for this quarter. That one model represents ~2/3rds of Tesla sales volume. They kept sellable Model Y inventory to nearly zero, despite massive protests right at the end of quarter.

Q2 is the one to look at to measure actual sales impacts from the protests. The ramp for new Model Y has been fairly smooth, so it should be a full quarter of normal production if demand is there.