MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ljf | 2025-05-19 15:10:45+00:00
Yahoo Auctions - not thought about that for ages - as a huge Yahoo auctions fan (and seller) it was really frustrating to see eBay win - when yahoo was free, had better features and at least in the UK had a better user base too in the early 2000s.

I remember images were free on yahoo auctions so I'd add images to those auctions, then hot link to the files on different places, like forums and basic sites where the hosting didn't allow for free images. Fun days!
by Anon1096 | 2025-05-19 15:10:50+00:00
It's almost unheard of for there to be a 6 yoe principal but yes the money is right, Microsoft pays a lot lower than you'd expect if you went in thinking they pay like FAANG. And there's a massive cliff after 4 years due to virtually no refresher, there's principals who don't even crack 300k. (also principal is what other companies would call staff)
by song | 2025-05-19 15:11:08+00:00
> A governour for the child maybe?

That's very much country dependent. I live in a country where anyone middle class has a house keeper either from Phillipine or Indonesia (cost about 10-15k usd a year if you're not an asshole and don't pay the lowest possible salary). That housekeeper's work is to take care of the children and do the housework. Upper middle class people have two. Then the next level up is to also have a private driver.

Governor/Governess is after that, I know two people who do it, they hired someone directly from UK for about 45k usd a year. That person takes care of their child and helps with education/homework etc.. Main advantage compared to the housekeeper is that the governor is more educated and so will be able to actually teach things to the child. But it's not necessarily super common and I know plenty of rich parents who decided not to do that and instead invest more heavily on tuition/activities and later (starting from 9-10 years old) summer camps at Oxford, Cambridge, John Hopkins, etc...
by Timon3 | 2025-05-19 15:11:08+00:00
> If a few dozens of people could reliably demonstrate that they see the same aura, that would be a disaster for science as a religion, because a phenomenon apparently exists, yet you can't build an aura detector.

I fundamentally disagree with the idea that science is a religion to many people, but even if it was, I don't think what you said is a necessary conclusion.

If people objectively and reproducibly saw the same aura, it would allow scientists to actually study the phenomenon & try to build an aura detector. Since (AFAIK) this hasn't happened, science can't approach the topic due to the objective basis missing. But you're assuming that these auras would automatically be non-material, which doesn't seem like a fair assumption - given that we don't seem to have encountered any such thing so far.
by mannykannot | 2025-05-19 15:12:27+00:00
I don't recall if this is covered in the video, but here are two pitfalls I have noticed from my own attempts:

1) If I am considering possible objections to my position, I have to be very clear which points I am raising only for the sake of argument, and which are the ones I am actually advocating for, or else it will appear confused or self-contradictory.

A related issue is to preempt possible objections to the point where the reader might lose track of the main issue.

2) After making several passes to hone my position, it can seem so obvious to me that what I write for the reader is too terse for anyone who is approaching the issue for the first time.
by brewmarche | 2025-05-19 15:12:43+00:00
I used to be a big fan of easymotion until I discovered that / is also a motion and that with inline search enabled you can use CTRL-G to cycle through results.

Example: d / foo, first foo will be highlighted, use CTRL-G to select the next one if not correct (repeat if necessary; CTRL-T cycles backwards), ENTER to delete until highlighted section.

Unfortunately CTRL-G is not implemented in IdeaVIM.
by robomartin | 2025-05-19 15:12:46+00:00
That comment is 100% dislocated from reality. To be sure, entry dynamics vary by country, person and other circumstances. Law enforcement is different in philosophy and approach all over the world. For example, in the US you are not met with soldiers carrying machine guns, which is something you are likely to encounter in Italy. To some people, being met by soldiers with machine guns is terrifying, to others, it is normal. To some people being asked questions in a terse manner is rude and scary, others understand security theater and the role these people play. It's shades of gray, not black and white.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-19 15:13:06+00:00
I've been interested in the idea of E-Prime (e.g. write a classifier that can tell if a text is in E-Prime, something that rewrites text in E-Prime, etc.) Eventually I lost interest because you can write just as bad E-Prime as you can in English.

For instance, sci-fi writer Charlie Stross wrote "Keir Starmer is a fascist" which is a clear abuse of "to be" but you can stuff adjectives just fine in E-Prime: "Fascist Keir Starmer never stops pushing fascist policies with his fascist attitudes and fascist friends." You could make the case that E-Prime frequently improves on English but some constructions become terribly tortured.
by dagw | 2025-05-19 15:13:11+00:00
If that is really all you want, either get a job where you get to go climbing and mountaineering as part of your job. Or reorganise your life you that you can live off of whatever you can earn in 4-8 month of working and then spend the other 4-8 month climbing.

I like to pretend that all I really want is to go skiing, but it turns out I also want to live in a nice house and be with my family. And for some reason I actually want that more.
by seanw444 | 2025-05-19 15:13:26+00:00
The (much more complicated) middle ground is to put a second GPU in your PC, boot Linux with that GPU, and then reserve the primary GPU for your gaming virtual machine (and pin CPU cores so cache isn't useless while gaming). End result: more reliable gaming experience in a sandboxed environment. There are some anticheats that will detect you're in a VM and lock you out, but there are ways around that if you're persistent enough. Or just don't play such games, which is my preferred approach.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Wi...
by whereistejas | 2025-05-19 15:13:43+00:00
After using remnote for months, I eventually switched to Mochi (Anki, but prettier). My personal experience was:

- it has a clunky and complicated UI: interactions with blocks/line was clunky on mobile and web.

- The table UI for showing your cards, can also be very limiting.

- Converting blocks to cards by adding `<==>` is an ingenious idea.

- The use of "AI" is really over-rated.
by Johanx64 | 2025-05-19 15:14:16+00:00
So you don't see the difference between:

1. I'm not going to have children because it's WRONG, unethical and unjustifiable to inflict serious harm and suffering (without their consent)

2. I'm not going to have children, because it will inconvenience ME, because then I'll have less time and money to jerk off and play video games, travel, etc? Or some temporary economic circumstance.

Like even if you don't have children because you perceive the world to overpopulated at this moment in time, you're still pretty firmly in the (2) camp. There's quite a lot of people that claim to be antinatalists that are simply in the economic circumstances camp.

And lots of things have changed now, contraceptives, less societal pressures, etc.
by wtf242 | 2025-05-19 15:14:47+00:00
that's awesome! I've had many many side projects launched in the past 2 decades, but the only one still going is my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org

I created it 17~ years ago mostly as just a tool for myself and now it gets roughly 8 million views a month.

The hardest part of any side project is actually launching it and making it somewhat production ready. I always spend the vast majority of my time dealing with devops/deployment issues/tasks
by tuetuopay | 2025-05-19 15:14:51+00:00
It's especially painful since they don't translate all subtitles.

I'm french, but my browsers are configured for English. Some (but not all!) english titles are translated to french, and some french titles are translated to english. This actually caused me to miss a few uploads from channels I'm subscribed to, as the language of the title is part of my mind-filtering for those channels.
by tocs3 | 2025-05-19 15:15:16+00:00
P.S. Why can't we just have a simple 1990s-style Toyata truck with an electric drive train and a robust battery with well-designed and tested firmware that doesn't need OTA updates and smart phone app and telemetry? I don't need an 'infotainment center' if I have a phone or tablet, either.

I would like to second this. A very very simple vehicle would be welcome. I have some small hope with the Slate truck[1], but will wait and see. For now my 2006 Toyota Rave4 is fine and might be my last car.

[1]: https://www.motortrend.com/cars/slate/truck
by osigurdson | 2025-05-19 15:15:27+00:00
The internet, and now LLMs have always been bad at diagnosing medical problems. I think it comes from the data source. For instance, few articles would be linked to / popular if a given set of symptoms were just associated with not getting enough sleep. No, the articles stand out are the ones where the symptoms are associated with some rare / horrible condition. This is our LLM training data which are often missing the entire middle part of the bell curve.
by colinmorelli | 2025-05-19 15:15:36+00:00
The point is not that those things were meant when we said self driving cars. It's that, at every step along the way, there were a group of people who doubted that cars could do that thing, and then they did that thing. And then the thing we said they can't do changed to something else.

Today, you absolutely can "get in a car, tell it where you want to go, and it goes there while you read a book" - it's literally what Waymo is and has been doing. And now we're saying it can't do it in Mumbai, so it's still not self-driving.

At some point, the distinction seems pointless. We are undeniably continuing to make progress on the road to autonomous driving, and it does work in certain scenarios today. To suggest things are slowing down because we haven't met the most reason interpretation of the words is neither helpful nor correct.
by guywithahat | 2025-05-19 15:15:52+00:00
This anti-Tesla sentiment seems to be purely isolated to online communities, specifically reddit. I have been sitting on my hands waiting for used tesla prices to come down and they never have. The people I know who own teslas still vouch for them and make no mention of Elon. I visited a dealership last friday and it was busy.

I would believe sales are down, consumers are looking for more affordable vehicles while Tesla prices have remained high, however I have never seen anything like what this article mentions in real life.
by tuetuopay | 2025-05-19 15:17:31+00:00
Can we also stop tying e-commerce languages to the commercial zones?

Yes, I want my HPE or Dell or FS.com website to be in English but still get the French catalog and warehouses and VAT. Especially for tech, where the lingua franca of english goes so deep that most people don't bother to translate technical terms to their native language. Heck, I don't know most of those in french!
by PaulRobinson | 2025-05-19 15:17:33+00:00
Around this time we know there was a rise in human migration and settlement across Europe in particular. A human Y-chromosone haplogroup associated with the Near East shows up in Italy, and Western Hunter Gatherers start to move across Europe replacing the Magdalenian cultures.

I wonder if this event prompted people to think about the World around them differently in any way.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-05-19 15:18:16+00:00
Last time I was in Odesa, the shelter (which was our underground parking garage) had maybe 20-30 people each night. At the time, russia was firing cruise missiles and drones at the city literally every night.

I suspect the future reconstruction effort is going to involve quite a lot more investment in underground shelters. I don't think Ukraine is going to trust russia for at least the next 100 years. Similar situation to Finland.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-05-19 15:18:54+00:00
> Hundreds of millions of American taxpayers are fully behind DOGE.

Exactly how many people do you think there are in the United States?

How many of those are eligible to vote?

Now, of that group, how many voted for Trump, how many voted for Harris, how many voted for someone else, and how many didn't vote for president at all?

Of those subgroups, the one that comes closest to triple digit millions is "didn't vote at all". And it's still 10M short of the 100M mark.

~244.6M eligible voters in 2024. ~89.3M didn't vote at all. ~77.3M voted for Trump. ~75M voted for Harris.

Your phrasing reminds me of Pam Bondi's recent claim that Trump's policies have saved 258 million American lives. She claimed that they saved 2/3 of Americans from imminent death from fentanyl overdose. The claim is farcical on the face of it. Nowhere near 2/3 of Americans were, or are, at risk of a fentanyl overdose. She could have used the more accurate phrasing of "the amount of fentanyl seized or prevented is sufficient to make N million fatal doses" but that's not what was said. Instead she said "saved 258 million lives", which is a completely ridiculous claim that should be ridiculed for the unrealistic hyperbole that it is.

Your claim isn't quite as bad, but it's a similar mishandling of numbers.
by empath75 | 2025-05-19 15:19:26+00:00
The consequences of a new thing being invented are not entirely dependent on progress of innovation in the thing itself. It takes quite a long time for people to build _on top of_ a new technology. LLMs could not appreciably improve at all, and we've still barely scratched the surface of applying what we have.

Your car example is a perfect one -- society was _completely reordered_ around the car, even though the fundamental technology behind the car didn't change from the early 20th century until the invention of the electric car.
by gtowey | 2025-05-19 15:19:33+00:00
That's a silly statement.

Pine is well suited to its use, otherwise, well, we wouldn't use it!

It's by a massive margin, the most common lumber used in construction. Its strength and other properties are well understood and all you have to do is follow the specifications and it performs great.

I mean what would even be the advantage to using other woods for home construction? Using a "stronger" wood means what? You can make your structural members smaller than 2x4? What would be the point? Walls need space for insulation and wires and pipes, there's no good reason to use a more dense wood. And it would still be more expensive! Pine is perfect for what it does because it meets the practical and engineering needs at the least expensive price.
by garblegarble | 2025-05-19 15:19:39+00:00
That's funny, I had the exact same thought in the US - so many road signs, so much to read. It was quite overwhelming. I think it may come down to familiarity: as you get familiar with the signage of a particular country they blend into the background (and you, presumably, just take in what they're saying subconsciously). By the end of the US trip I was much less overwhelmed by the amount of text on and around the roads.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-19 15:19:42+00:00
It's hilarious of you claim survivorship bias and then go on to cheerlead for Toyota. Take a step back and apply the same logic.

Of course a brand that sells appliance commuter and family hauling cars to people who are generally rich enough to buy enough extra capacity they're not flogging it and just pay to have it well maintained is gonna have them go to high miles. The first owner or two are basically "free" from a wear and tear perspective.

Meanwhile the average Nissan is getting driven hard right off the lot, missing fluid changes and the owner's kids are doing WWE in the back seat all right off the lot.

Unless you really wad it up any car will keep going until you stop maintaining it and get in a maintenance hole. If you never neglect to maintain it you'll never be in a hole where the sum total of needed maintenance is more than it's worth barring exceptional circumstances relevant to specific models with exceptionally high costs or low values.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-19 15:19:50+00:00
I sometimes feel like that. All of the side projects I've done in the last 25 years have been mostly for my own enjoyment. I haven't done a single side project for money. I also used to run a blog for enjoyment. I stopped enjoying it, so stopped doing it.

I do sometimes feel like, if I'd spent 25% of the time I spent on these side projects on something that would have made me $$$$$$$$ then maybe I could now spend all my time on anything I want, or live in a nicer place and that sometimes dissuades me from some new side projects.

I think probably the biggest thing that gets me to start something is if I believe (even wrongly) that I can make tons of progress quickly. Usually that means I think I can get to something working in a few hours.
by davedx | 2025-05-19 15:20:35+00:00
Sounds great! I'm interested to hear, how does this solution compare with open source, self-hosted authn components like Keycloak and Ory Kratos? While it's a bit more leg work integrating those, I've found that it's useful that they're self-contained and run in their own environment/container; but I have also sometimes wished that the data was more tightly integrated with my own application, which I guess is what you're aiming for.
by igouy | 2025-05-19 15:20:52+00:00
Is that a True Scotsman exclusion?

> iirc

49.88—55.68 secs wall clock 7.66 5.51 27.85—27.91 83.79—87.16 10.94—11.09

How long a runtime would be required exactly, on what class-of hardware, to pass the True Scotsman?

Please provide alternative benchmarks that you accept.
by codingdave | 2025-05-19 15:21:17+00:00
What a strange attitude. It certainly is not anyone else's job to maintain the home I own and live in. That is my job. If something breaks, I don't get to tell someone else that they have not done their job. I am responsible for fixing it. Yes, I can delegate a specific fix to a professional electrician or plumber, but that is a project-by-project choice.

If people want to approach life by hiring out every little thing, they can certainly do so, but those choices do not make my home maintenance someone else's job.
by janice1999 | 2025-05-19 15:21:36+00:00
> This anti-Tesla sentiment seems to be purely isolated to online communities

The dramatic decline in Tesla purchases in European countries proves otherwise. Here in Europe, I've heard Tesla discussed negatively in office canteens and doctors' waiting rooms a lot since Musk's 'arm gestures'. One of the doctors at my local surgery had his Tesla covered in red paint recently.
by zozbot234 | 2025-05-19 15:22:25+00:00
> Gnome3 targeted a weird mix of incompatible devices, like a windows 8 interface, and kinda failed as a design given the devices it optimized for never took over the market.

I'm not sure about that. Convertible laptops are quite popular as a product category, and GNOME 3 works great on those. Besides, MATE and Xfce are still around if you prefer a traditional desktop interface.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-19 15:23:04+00:00
Cosine similarity works for this but the right way to think about it is as a classical ML classification problem with all the tools from

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/supervised_learning.html

For instance you will probably get better results with SVM or a not-so-deep perceptron or maybe random forest model than you will with cosine similarity. You can also probability calibrate such a model

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/calibration.html

which is quite useful.
by karmakaze | 2025-05-19 15:23:18+00:00
I was at first confused in that error correction is already in use. Then I realized that "qudits" is not a typo.

> A recent study by researchers from Yale University published in Nature created qudits—a quantum system that holds quantum information and can exist in more than two states. Using a qutrit (3-level quantum system) and a ququart (4-level quantum system), the researchers demonstrated the first-ever experimental quantum error correction for higher-dimensional quantum units using the Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) bosonic code.

I'll be interesting to see if these are more scalable than qubits or more applicable than decimal digital computer counterparts.
by Festro | 2025-05-19 15:23:21+00:00
Normally a GPU creates images on your monitor generated by the video game. If you move in game, your character moves on your screen. There's a near imperceptible amount of delay inbetween your action to move your mouse or hit keys on your keyboard and the creation of that image. The number of images your GPU can make per second is constrained by how powerful it is and how much imagery the game is asking it to create. Reflections, shadows, high detailed textures, all reduce the number of images being created per second.

Typically we want to see at least 30 images per second to feel like motion is happening. 60 if we want it to be 'smooth'. 100+ if we really don't want to see any stuttering.

With DLSS 4 the GPU cheats a bit. Instead of generating the images from the game and your inputs it takes an image, and the image after it, and uses a special process to blend the 2 images into a series of images that visually connect the two. Think of a ball being kicked. In image 1 the ball is on the left of the screen, in image 2 it's on the right. DLSS would add images showing the ball going from 1 to 2.

Instead of needing lots of power to create the image from the game, it's just comparing two images and guessing what should be in any images inbetween. Suddenly you can go from 60 images per second to 300! Because you're adding 4 extra images inbetween the others, all generated by a quicker process than generating them normally.

What you lose, is a bit of power to generate images normally, and you gain an extra unwanted delay in getting the images to your monitor.

And not in ELI5 language:

So you'll go from 60FPS at a 35ms latency to 300FPS at 45ms by adding 4 extra frames from DLSS 4 to every 1 frame generated by the game engine. It'll be very smooth, but with a little lag, and the chance of seeing visual artifacts that the game didn't generate.

Some people are happy with the tradeoff. Others are not.
by robomartin | 2025-05-19 15:23:21+00:00
> They've got boxes to check.

Yup. That's it. And the people running entry and customs at airports around the world are not necessarily the most capable and accomplished among us. I have lots of stories.

For example, entering into Mexico (Cancun), there are probably twenty passport check booths. The line for passport checks easily had 500 people in it. Every single agent left their station, with only one left to process 500 people. That remained so for about an hour. As could be expected, tempers were flaring and interactions with this one person, in some cases, where, well, less than ideal. No supervisor in sight. About an hour later five agents showed-up. It was horrible, the agents had an attitude and travelers were tired and angry. I've been going to Mexico for a decade, this was the only time I've seen something like this. Someone for whom that trip was their only exposure would likely come out of it with a very different perspective.

Here's another one. I won't name the country because this was a thing at a moment in history for them and no-longer the case for probably the last twenty years. When travelling to this particular country is was an unspoken rule that you had to put money into your passport (typically $100 per traveler) in order to gain entry without being hassled. If you did not, the consequences were in a range between having to pay serious "taxes" on your stuff to having some of your things confiscated (typically your electronics).

As I said in another comment, this isn't a black and white issue, it's shades of grade.