MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orsenthil | 2025-05-14 15:08:35+00:00
The flashcards app is not great. It can improve.

More serious comment.

It seems like there is less space (in our mind, and time) for yet another app. If you have this, vs youtube for course, people will still flock to youtube. Why don't you add the value that you are giving here by directly integrating or enhancing youtube. A chrome plugin or a youtube browser?

I really like the motivation behind this product. Learning is hard.
by Yizahi | 2025-05-14 15:08:37+00:00
Cost of living in those countries is extremely expensive and so is buying any type of housing. New families who don't inherit an empty place to live must work a lot to afford anything, so both partners have to work and that leaves no or much less time for kids.

Second is universal education which rapidly advances, means that women are no longer content with being a nanny plus housemaid forever, and often want to have something more meaningful, leading to no or much less time for kids.

Basically kids require at minimum one adult taking care of them during most of the awake time. And due to various reasons gaps in that coverage can be a deal breaker. For example kids going to day care until 15:00, but parents busy until 19:00. 4 hours gap is not a lot but at early age can be a deal breaker. Etc.

In my opinion we won't reverse this trend until next world war (after such event humanity will partially reverse development and due to loss of life and work, many people would have time for kids). So in the mean time countries need to attract skilled educated immigrants while suppressing housing prices, and the most successful countries in that would win in the long run.
by Tanoc | 2025-05-14 15:09:03+00:00
Tactile input is very very useful when you're piloting a complex piece of machinery at high speeds and need to keep split second awareness in all directions. Having turn signals be a pinkie flick for example is a major reduction in cognitive load. Having door handles be mechanical and within normal reach is an ergonomic and cognitive load reduction, because you can feel when the door handle disengages and the mechanics of your wrist facilitate your ability to feel that change.

Same with having the speedometer be in front of you. The further your eyes have to travel from their current point of focus the more mental effort it takes to readjust, and with the majority of your vision now being entirely new elements your brain takes longer to search within those elements for what you need. It works the same way as reading, where your brain positions itself in relative space according to the direction you're reading and where elements are on the page. Words are arranged in a straight line to facilitate fast consumption and understanding with minimal effort, even in pictographic languages. Speedometers are below the windshield and framed by the steering wheel because your peripheral vision already rests on the edge of the steering wheel, meaning your eyes travel in a single line and interpret very few new elements. This is why the speedometer, tachometer, charge indicator, and lap number on an F1 car are on the steering wheel, directly at eye level with the driver.

>What they were selling was the proper user experience for a device that transports me from a to b

What they were selling you was a lifestyle device, no different from an iPhone or a Pebble watch. That was what catapulted Tesla in front of Nissan, Renault, and General Motors, despite the fact that all three had electric vehicles on sale in 2012 when the Model S stopped being an experimental model and entered widescale production. Nissan, Renault, and General Motors all used their EVs as compliance devices and expected for governments to get off their back about emissions. That's why the Leaf, Volt, Spark EV, and ZOE were all Class B economy hatchbacks. Tesla came in and Steve Jobs'd what was in reality something no different than an Impala or a Taurus with a different drive train. However as their competition caught up, such as with Lucid, Karma, and the multitude of Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi in range, or the automatic steering and parking from even basic manufacturers like Ford, Tesla sought to try and keep that lifestyle device differentiation by making changes that were objectively worse for the end user, like moving the gauges to a central touch screen, removing the turn signal stalks, and turning the steering wheel into a yoke. In other words, gimmicks.
by chneu | 2025-05-14 15:09:31+00:00
What a good patriot you are. Consume more. You must keep consuming. Your power comes from over consuming and taking lives. You can only be strong and well respected if you consume as much meat as possible. /S

Beef is a status symbol food. The propaganda around it is strong and constant in countries like the US, where we're blasted with Christian-Patriot conquerer messaging constantly. (god gave us the earth and all animals to exploit. As the conquerers it is our right to exploit all things.)

Start looking at all the ways US culture still pushes the over consuming conquerer mentality. We all joke about how capitalism is bad and then we fall for the propaganda to eat more beef. Look at how primed people are and how constant the messaging is. You can't go 5 minutes with beef being thrown at you. Once one starts to look at the constant capitalist advertising and societal propaganda telling us to keep over consuming it becomes really obvious.

A lot of Americans get deeply offended at the mere idea of eating less meat. The propaganda and advertising is strong.

Be a good patriot. Eat more beef to be a strong man. /S

(The sarcasm in this comment is meant to convey how stupid the beef mentality is in countries like the US. Phrasing it in a sarcastic way showcases how obvious it can be )
by LurkandComment | 2025-05-14 15:09:43+00:00
Responding to some of the comments in the thread.

1. The assignment isn't simply to understand the "Great Gatsby" it's to be able to read, synthesize your thoughts into a formal coherent argument or perspective on the book. If you cliff notes or AI, you are missing the point.

2. [OPINION] The fact that we are still teaching the same book is a bit of an issue. There are many well written books you can do this with.

3. [OPINION] at the same time, having everyone read the same book across the nation over time does help create the base for some sort of collective cultural and intellectual identity.
by ysavir | 2025-05-14 15:09:43+00:00
I think this is one of those ideas that sounds good on paper but breaks down in practice.

One immediate problem that comes to mind is that you need a smartphone to take public transit. So if there's a teen without a smartphone, they can't take the bus, nor can someone who's phone died, etc.

One of the amazing things of the current system, as simple as it is, is that it's predictable and doesn't require coordination. You can walk to a bus stop and know that a bus will arrive and take you where you expect to go, same as the last time you've taken it and the time before that. You don't need to look up a map to see what today's route is, or to see where the stop is, or to let the bus know you're waiting for you. You just show up at the bus stop and the rest just happens in a predictable and reliable fashion.
by keepamovin | 2025-05-14 15:09:53+00:00
You're right - I should have been more clear! But I'm not seeking someone to provide me an answer for me. I'm seeking to know what other people think, to inform me as to the ways how other people think about this - to inform my way of thinking about it. So I can form my own answer for me. Hmmm...how to phrase?

But generally I think your priority list has a very good shape! So let's say those were your prios - where would you go?
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by nautical_dog | 2025-05-14 15:10:06+00:00
Hi, first time poster here!

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It is heavily inspired by the output from "git describe --tags".

Why use anything else then? The output is not fully SemVer compliant and therefore I was modifying it in all my projects separately, which I wanted to avoid. Single binary, single predictable output.

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by ranger_danger | 2025-05-14 15:10:12+00:00
I was referring to phones not having headphone jacks, there are still other uses for it on laptop/desktop that I think are more widely used.

> not a very convincing argument

I still believe it either way, but you don't have to.

> If so many people are still complaining about it

I don't think they are, at least not so many relative to the majority of phone users in the world. Tech savvy users are a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.
by klausa | 2025-05-14 15:10:14+00:00
I understood OP post as an admission, that the "too revered" and "people being pretentious" thoughts he held previously were due to him being "a bit of a contrarian"; and he doesn't believe those things anymore.

Now re-reading it, I am not sure if that reading is entirely justified given the "removing all the bullshit and serving a slap in the face" in the latter sentences. Oh well!
by irf1 | 2025-05-14 15:10:40+00:00
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by 404Foundcom | 2025-05-14 15:10:49+00:00
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by gwern | 2025-05-14 15:10:52+00:00
A subtext here may be his current AI work. In OP, Carmack is arguing, essentially, that 'software is slow because good smart devs are expensive and we don't want to pay for them to optimize code and systems end-to-end as there are bigger fish to fry'. So, an implication here is that if good smart devs suddenly got very cheap, then you might see a lot of software suddenly get very fast, as everyone might choose to purchase them and spend them on optimization. And why might good smart devs become suddenly available for cheap?
by Jensson | 2025-05-14 15:11:09+00:00
> They arguably did do a good job investing their resources but it was mostly in buying, not building.

They did build a large part of those products, Keyhole is just a part of Google earth google maps in general has many more features than that.

For example driving around cars in every country that allowed it to take street photos is really awesome and nobody else does that even today. Google did that, not some company they aquired, they built it.
by lars_francke | 2025-05-14 15:11:45+00:00
Anyone looking for an open-source Cloudera alternative based on Kubernetes operators. We're building one (~5 years old now): https://stackable.tech/ & https://github.com/stackabletech/

On-premise open-source S3 is a problem though. MinIO is not something we're touching and other than that it looks a bit empty with enterprise ready solutions.
by the_sleaze_ | 2025-05-14 15:11:52+00:00
Am I the only one who -hates- these springy animations? I feel it introduces an artificial lag. When I tap I want instant response, I don't want to have to wait a half second for the boxes to complete their scale transforms.

My canonical example is deleting message threads out of iOS Messages app. For every row in the list you need to swipe allll the way over to the left, wait for the stupid animation, click delete, wait for the stupid animation, click the confirm. Maybe it would improve if the component was responsive during its animation cycle. But ugh.
by CPLX | 2025-05-14 15:12:18+00:00
The postal service, obviously, is capable of transmitting messages and packages.

If you understand the problem perfectly what’s your solution for a system that accomplishes that in a way that’s not at the whim of some monopolistic corporate entity.

Posting a link to an article describing how they successfully avoided an attempt by the sociopathic Silicon Valley mob to privatize the service isn’t exactly convincing.

No I don’t want fucking Peter Thiel to have anything to do with delivering my mail to me, thanks.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-14 15:12:19+00:00
>Any information on ocean depth in that area?

Multiple km's deep in most of that area. That's if it missed the Sunda trench, which goes down to more than 7km in places (hint: it's a subduction zone where tectonic plates slide into Earth's interior. So ehm... deep).

Unlike eg. the Gulf of Thailand (max. 85m according to Wikipedia) or large parts of South Chinese Sea, which are very shallow in comparison.
by _hyn3 | 2025-05-14 15:12:22+00:00
Trying removing consent to receive text messages on that number, or that it's only a land line and only phone calls are accepted.

You might even try to block incoming SMS. In fact, you might also try a forward with Twilio or free Google voice number, since a lot of SMS TOTP refuse to with with those numbers :)

I've even had success removing my phone number entirely from certain types of accounts, but sometimes I had to deliberately break the account (eBay) and then it tries to get you to confirm on each login which you can sometimes bypass by changing the URL or clicking the company logo.

Be sure to have strong security in other ways; strong, non repeated passwords.

But this is truly insane. Large banks don't even offer the option of TOTP but instead require far more insecure SMS. Maybe they'll offer RSA dongles, because they never bothered to remember when they all got completely leaked ten years ago or how they accepted $10M to completely compromise their constants.

What can you say, large enterprises are behind the security eight ball, as always! It's a tale as old as time.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-r...

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-mill...
by reaperducer | 2025-05-14 15:12:23+00:00
This is also true for consumers. I don't own a single 4k or HDR display. I probably won't own an HDR display until my TV dies, and I probably won't own a 4k display until I replace my work screen, at which point I'll also replace one of my home screens so I can remote into it without scaling.

People in the HN echo chamber over-estimate hardware adoption rates. For example, there are millions of people who went straight from CDs to streaming, without hitting the iPod era.

A few years ago on HN, there was someone who couldn't wrap their brain around the notion that even though VCRs were invented in the early 1960's that in 1980, not everyone owned one, or if they did, they only had one for the whole family.

Normal people aren't magpies who trash their kit every time something shiny comes along.
by flobosg | 2025-05-14 15:12:26+00:00
In this particular case you can consider codons coding for the same amino acid as synonymous, restricting, as you mentioned, the possible mappings to the ~20 proteinogenic amino acids.

Another possibility for expansion would be to take advantage of the genetic code’s degeneracy/redundancy and reprogram it to allow non-canonical amino acids in certain synonymous codons.
by asnyder | 2025-05-14 15:12:49+00:00
Seems there's either too much supply of drivers, and/or this whole cat/mouse gambling game, is overall adding waste and inefficiencies in the system. Seemingly by design to hold on to the driver pool while the drivers not realizing they're cogs being shelved in the system at the drivers own cost time and monetarily.

Pretty amazing how far behind regulation is compared to all these dynamic dark patterns. Not only in Uber, but in most everything we encounter these days, we're being guided, routed, or decided upon by unregulated dark patterns that would clearly be illegal if the details of which were exposed and explained in a way that anyone could understand.
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by newyankee | 2025-05-14 15:13:05+00:00
May be in the West. However more practical countries like China with a huge population and clear incentive to provide healthcare to a large population at reduced cost will have incentives to balance accuracy and usefulness in a better way.

My personal opinion is that a lot of Medical professionals are simply gatekeeping at this point of time and using legal definitions to keep changing goalposts.

However this is a theme that will keep on repeating in all domains and I do feel that gradual change is better than sudden, disruptive change.
by jasonlotito | 2025-05-14 15:13:09+00:00
> To be fair, I think this is just definitional? If you would normally do one behavior, but an increased cost to it causes you to do something else; I think it is fair to say the first would be your preference?

Good point, but I don't think people prefer the car. Rather, I think they prefer the convenience a car provides. Sure, there are some people that love driving, but for the rest of us, I'm pretty sure driving is a means to an end. (As an aside, I'm also pretty sure that by-and-large people that love to drive aren't wanting to drive into NYC ).

Rather, if people prefer the most convenient method of travel, and if something becomes more convenient, they will take that.

All this is to say, driving isn't their preferred method of travel. Rather, it just happened to meet their preferred levels of convenience. And not all of that is money related. Being able to take public transit and sit and relax and enjoy the ride and not deal with traffic and listen to an audio book, I love that. And if it's good enough, I don't drive. But I do still have a car and drive more than I take public transit. Not because my preferred method of travel is car. Rather, my preferred method of travel is whatever gets m to my destination in a reasonable amount of time, price, comfort, and safety.

I'm sure this is more likely a thought experiment and not as useful, but you had an interesting question, and it got me thinking.
by the_af | 2025-05-14 15:14:08+00:00
There's a pretty good video on YouTube (more than one, actually) that explains how careless use of HDR in modern cinema is destroying the look and feel of cinema we used to like.

Everything is flattened, contrast is eliminated, lights that should be "burned white" for a cinematic feel are brought back to "reasonable" brightness with HDR, really deep blacks are turned into flat greys, etc. The end result is the flat and washed out look of movies like Wicked. It's often correlated to CGI-heavy movies, but in reality it's starting to affect every movie.
by andrewflnr | 2025-05-14 15:14:17+00:00
According to that wiki article, the hydrogen was mostly lost in the form of water vapor. The hydrogen and oxygen in the magnetotail are in almost a perfect 2:1 ratio. At least,

> Currently the main ion types being lost are O+, H+ and He+. The ratio of hydrogen to oxygen losses is around 2 (i.e. almost stoichiometric for water) indicating the ongoing loss of water.

Also Earth didn't have an oxygenated atmosphere until relatively late, a couple billion years in, so I didn't know if that could be the thing that saved it.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-05-14 15:14:37+00:00
The solution is to not care that we've hired people to mow our lawns, because we don't want to mow our own lawns (as a society).

But if you do want to mow your own lawn, then do it, just expect that it will cost you more to mow your own lawn than to hire it out.

Replace "lawn mowing" with any other industry of your choice.
by bunderbunder | 2025-05-14 15:14:38+00:00
That's not an A/B test because it has no way of controlling for broader economic trends over time. How do you figure out if what you're seeing is because of that one thing that changed, or the enormous list of other things that also changed around the same time?

A more valid design would be randomly assigning some cities to institute congestion pricing, and other cities to not have it. Obviously not feasible in practice, but that's at least the kind of thing to strive toward when designing these kinds of studies.
by gwern | 2025-05-14 15:14:41+00:00
> has been externalized to customers in search of ill-gotten profits.

'Externality' does not mean 'thing I dislike'. If it is the customers running the software or waiting the extra couple of seconds, that's not an externality. By definition. (WP: "In economics, an externality is an indirect cost (external cost) or benefit (external benefit) to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity.") That is just the customers picking their preferred point on the tradeoff curves.
by belly_joe | 2025-05-14 15:14:53+00:00
I would say generally speaking that people who assume AI will replace somebody else's job believe that these jobs are merely mechanical and there is no high-level reasoning involved that would basically require AGI (when that comes about nobody is safe). So the model of the AI radiologist assumes the only job of a radiologist is to classify images, which is pretty vulnerable to near-future disruption.

I imagine, given the training involved, the job involves more than just looking at pictures? This is what I would like to see explained.

The analogy would be the "95% of code is written by AI" stat that gets trotted out, replacing code with image evaluation. Yes AI will write the code but someone has to tell the AI what to write which is the tricky part.
by bityard | 2025-05-14 15:15:04+00:00
I think this falls into the category of learning how to be a good mentor.

In my case, this happened a few times. My solution to that is: whenever I get the impression that I'm becoming a critical path for someone else's day-to-day work, I start to wean them off the direct advice and start pointing them to where else they can find the answer instead. If they ask how to do X, I'll say, "Sorry, I'm a little busy with something else but here is the documentation for it. You might start by looking at Y or Z first. I'll check in later if I get a chance, let me know if you have any questions at that point."