MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by canucker2016 | 2025-05-18 20:36:35+00:00
You were a fast collegiate-level runner, became a wealthy financial adviser, who now has three sons who are doing well in high school long distance running.

What do you do? You convince one of your old running buddies, who now coaches elite runners, to coach your son. The son sets the national high school indoor record for the 800m.

Son decides to go pro after graduating high school.

Then Covid19 hits. Access to outdoor 400 tracks is limited. What do you do?

You build an 8 lane 400m track with running surface to match the quality at the site of the Word/US track and field championships. Cost: ~$4M

You hire the best coaches for your kids. Coach needs a place to stay nearby - no problem, buy a townhouse for him to stay at. etc.

see https://www.letsrun.com/news/2025/05/how-josh-hoey-went-from...
by shadowpho | 2025-05-18 20:37:34+00:00
> if we could install a device which increases the likelihood of everyone surviving a car crash by 0.001%, but it costs $100,000 should it be mandated in every car

I mean we can do that right now and we don’t.

However we do mandate rear back up camera which costs $1-2k and saves some percentage of lives when backing up.

So it’s all about balance.
by thruflo | 2025-05-18 20:37:55+00:00
There are lots of options to stream data out of Postgres, including:

- https://electric-sql.com (disclaimer: co-founder) - https://feldera.com - https://materialize.com - https://powersync.com - https://sequinstream.com - https://supabase.com/docs/guides/realtime/broadcast - https://zero.rocicorp.dev

Etc.
by quantadev | 2025-05-18 20:38:07+00:00
Being from the 15th Century the obvious reason to encrypt text was to avoid religious persecution during "The Inquisition" (and other religion-motivated violence of that time). So it would be interesting to run the same NLP against the Gospels and look for correlations with that. You'd want to first do a 'word'-based comparison, and then a 'character'-based comparison. I mean compare the graphs from Bible to graphs from Voynich.

Also there might be some characters that are in there just to confuse. For example that bizarre capital "P"-like thing that has multiple variations seems to appear sometimes far too often to represent real language, so it might be just an obfuscator that's removed prior to decryption. There may be other characters that are abnormally "frequent" and they're maybe also unused dummy characters. But the "too many Ps" problem is also consistent with just pure fiction too, I realize.
by kouru225 | 2025-05-18 20:39:00+00:00
A post on Obsidian and a post on Roam today?

I don't know about you guys, but I'm an Obsidian lover and that's not gonna stop anytime soon. IMO the big problem about what this guy is saying can be boiled down to this:

>My most common behavior is to Actually Write the Notes. That’s why Roam needs to help me with the thought, ‘I don’t know where to put this.’ If it does that well, it makes the vast majority of my time spent in the app a breeze. If it does that poorly, it makes my experience so painful that I want to switch systems.

The lesson of Obsidian for me has been that organization is creativity. If what you want is to have an ideological maid that can organize all your thoughts for you, then you're gonna have a bad time with any note taking service (although I'm sure you can develop llm plugins to do this in a way that you personally enjoy now.) What's beneficial about these note apps is that they put this issue directly in front of your face. Either rise to meet it or go back to pretending like organization doesn't matter and avoid the responsibility of creativity.

Using Obsidian goes through stages much like a growing business. You start and you have personal relationships with all the notes so you can remember them, but once you get enough notes you realize it's too much to manage just using personal relationships and you need to start implementing a system. As you get better, your system changes, leaving a paper trail of notes with different systems. That's why the only thing that I think these note apps need is a deprecation system, but otherwise IMO they're perfect.
by bumby | 2025-05-18 20:40:44+00:00
Definitely agree that it doesn’t have to be that way, but doesn’t the US already use rail for commerce at a much higher rate than other nations? Rail in the US is mostly freight, not public transit. I also believe the highway system provides more redundancy in terms of national security, because rail is has higher upfront costs, constraints, and less resiliency (but I could be wrong).
by TuringNYC | 2025-05-18 20:40:49+00:00
>> I mean if you couldn't stand using the device long enough to test it (not that you should have to - i agree on that), maybe the problem was that the device simply wasn't in anyone kind of ready state to be shipped as a revolutionary new way of interfacing with computers. Like christ, it would overheat after 25 minutes?

Well the usage for these types of devices (e.g., Apple Watch, Google Glass) is meant to be notifications driven and event driven. So the unit was sufficient for regular Production usage (though not great for all-day use.) However, development is basically a constant stream of tests, etc -- so the development experience is continuous and thus much more taxing than the Production user experience.
by transpute | 2025-05-18 20:41:25+00:00
pKVM is upstream in mainline Linux.

AOSP, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/V...

GrapheneOS, https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_modules_Virt... & https://x.com/tuxpizza/status/1900431745146888488
by akshay_galande | 2025-05-18 20:42:08+00:00
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by andy12_ | 2025-05-18 20:43:21+00:00
I have just tried this afternoon to create with Gemini 2.5 Pro Anki cards to study for my exams. I've been doing it raw: I just paste the whole material (like 100k worth of tokens) into aistudio and generate the flashcards in txt format.

For now it's going great, and I think that the cards are good enough as they are (there might be a couple here and there that I would remove or edit, but they don't get in the way of learning).
by thegrim33 | 2025-05-18 20:43:35+00:00
Not to mention the discussions around risk are too coupled to political positions / zealotry now, so they can no longer be civilly discussed. If you ever take the position of wanting to accept what you believe to be reasonable risk, it's standard practice for the opposition to slander you as an evil person that wants to kill people/babies/homeless/whoever. For example: the other person in this very comment thread that interpreted you saying we don't have acceptable levels of risk anymore as people like you wanting to poison the water table.

An illustrating example might also be the US cities like Seattle that have their "vision zero" programs. A "vision", and related actions, to get to zero traffic related deaths or serious injuries every year. It's the official position of these city governments that literally any non-zero death rate is unacceptable. No matter how low the death rate is (and it's already very low). They officially accept zero risk. Is that reasonable? Is it even about the death rate or something else? Either way, it's fully undebatable.
by swah | 2025-05-18 20:44:35+00:00
(Long time Emacs user, abandoned since VSCode became a thing because it hurt my wrists so much.)

Do you think what you're talking about is hard to demo?

"- The act of writing is programming your environment (Org markup becomes executable functions)

- Tools aren't discrete entities but fluid expressions of your current mental state (e.g., I can run a shell command piping it to grep and then pipe the results into a text buffer)"

I haven't seen an impressive demo of this kind of stuff tbh.
by windowshopping | 2025-05-18 20:44:39+00:00
Hmm, I have Anki and I don't see an option for this algorithm. Anyone know how to enable it? The preferences say I'm on the "V3 scheduler" but have no option for an algorithm. I don't think I'm on the algorithm described in the blog post because whenever I don't know a card it goes back to 1 day as if it was new. Or maybe I am on it and I'm just misunderstanding how this works? I'm on Mac, Version ⁨2.1.66 (70506aeb)⁩.
by yearesadpeople | 2025-05-18 20:44:48+00:00
That tutorial guy on YouTube, Derek Banas, swears by Anki. He's quite the voracious learner as well as being a pretty good contractor. I've used it myself (sparingly, when taking on new projects with new technology stacks), and never really committed to it because of the somewhat static and predictable nature of the learning session (as described in the article; the algorithm). However, from learning about the upgrade (well, 2023 upgrade), I will try it out again: high hopes.
by bumby | 2025-05-18 20:44:50+00:00
>If you ban gas cars by mandating EVs you have the same problem

Yes.

The point is you shouldn’t trivialize the problem and need to account for second order effects. If you want to mandate EVs, fine, but now you have to solve the problem of reduced infrastructure funding when it’s already below sustainment levels. That doesn’t sound very smart, and you can’t just hand wave the problem away. Other people in the thread have pointed out it’s “dumb” to levy an EV tax without understanding they are related.
by RulerOf | 2025-05-18 20:44:51+00:00
This could have been solved with regulation. Mandate delivery of all available phone call metadata to every digital telephone. Mandate that mobile phone operating systems must expose that data to apps approved by the user.

We'd have hundreds of enshittification-ready VC-backed apps to fix spam calls overnight.

Instead, we got STIR/SHAKEN mandates, which is just a soft way of having the legacy telcos "promise to fix it for you."
by libraryatnight | 2025-05-18 20:45:05+00:00
Thanks for not banning me - I know it's wrong but shits dark right now and people are getting hurt and sometimes when it feels like people are looking past that deliberately I get lost. You may have noted some gaps in posting, usually me stepping away when I feel like I'm too far gone down the internet ego machine.

I'll do better, and if I don't - I know I'm wrong and deserve what I get. You're an great mod, appreciate you.
by raydev | 2025-05-18 20:46:40+00:00
Interesting. I've found YouTube to be so good at recommendations that I've kinda forgotten to subscribe to some channels I watch often, YT is good about promoting them when they release new videos. This applies to a few small channels as well, I don't think they're "partnered" in any way but they do have good engagement/long form content.

But reading through replies here, it looks like people are disabling features like history. Not sure why one would do that, I want to be able to quickly find something I passed by 3 months ago but can't remember the name of.

If I had to go through my browser history to dig up a YT video I'd probably be at a loss, there aren't thumbnails there.
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by rexthebuilder | 2025-05-18 20:46:41+00:00
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Would love to hear what you think — any feedback or feature ideas welcome!
by annyma77 | 2025-05-18 20:46:50+00:00
I’ve seen a bunch of AI tools try to replace PM work, but most just summarize meeting notes or generate OKRs. This feels more ambitious.

How deep does “Enzzo PM” go — is it more of a super-powered doc assistant, or does it have an internal mental model of product lifecycle / hardware constraints? Curious how much guidance it can give vs just executing prompts.

Definitely interested if it can help us move from vague ideas to real specs faster.
by quantadev | 2025-05-18 20:47:20+00:00
Like I said in another post (sorry for repeating) since this was during 1500s, the main thing people would've been encrypting back then was biblical text (or any other religion).

Maybe a version of scripture that had been "rejected" by some King, and was illegal to reproduce? Take the best radiocarbon dating, figure out who was King back then, and if they 'sanctioned' any biblical translations, and then go to the version of the bible before that translation, and this will be what was perhaps illegal and needed to be encrypted. That's just one plausible story. Who knows, we might find out the phrase "young girl" was simplified to "virgin", and that would potentially be a big secret.
by braebo | 2025-05-18 20:47:26+00:00
CSS is incredible technology, but holy shit does it feel archaic in a large Typescript project to have a massive design system in a string.

Why can’t I click an element and see the css files that apply to it? Why can I get autocomplete for my utility classes and custom properties? I would happily nuke CSS from a project for a typescript library that could marry the two worlds with minimal trade-offs, but I’ve yet to have the time or courage to dive into a library like vanilla-extract: https://vanilla-extract.style
by swah | 2025-05-18 20:47:36+00:00
Tana, Capacities, Bear, Lgseq all have backlinks and other stuff from Roam for years now or so, thanks to Roam IMO. I wish they were able to make some good money from this innovation but they moved too slow at some crucial moment.

OTOH the app that really won was Obsidian, due to flawless execution with the "local first" principle. Being closed source and "not listening too much to the community" weren't issues, they just focused and improved consistently.
by getnormality | 2025-05-18 20:47:45+00:00
> But there’s one main reason that I don’t use it anymore: when I write my notes the thought, ‘Where am I going to put this?’ plagues me every time. It’s a direct and immediate pain. And it sometimes gets in the way of me even taking notes at all. I have this sensation many times a day and it’s deeply uncomfortable.

I had a similar problem when designing my personal management system last decade [1]. Every system you use, you have to stick to in order to get results. Sticking to a system can be emotionally draining to the point where you give up.

IMHO, that sense of emotional drain you get with fancy note-taking systems is tapping into something true. Only a small fraction of what we think we need to remember actually matters and will benefit from so much care to structuring it. The rest is a waste and a drain on our limited cognitive resources.

My solution is to initially write in a designated place that allows for less structure. In the to-do system, the main doc has a "landing zone" for action items to be quickly jotted down, then structured and organized later. In the project system, I'll have a "dump" file where I dump project thoughts that I'm not sure are important. I trust that if the ideas I jot down are actually important, the structure they deserve will come to me later.

Is that trust always right? Maybe not 100% of the time, but it seems like a more useful heuristic than "everything I put into this system needs lots of structure I don't feel like providing, so I don't, and it makes me feel like a failure".

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/renormalize/p/my-markdown-proj...
by ezst | 2025-05-18 20:48:22+00:00
Does Silverbullet support amending existing instances with the updated metadata when modifying the template? Does it let you extend templates from templates (e.g. a "Colleague" is a "Person" + some specific properties like "Department", "Joined on")?

One way to go with your experiment would be to create an inbox¹ where all the new notes go (or use a day note² if you want calendar support) and a side notes hierarchy called "Collections" with subfolders like "Persons", "Companies", … each having their own Template³. That way, when you are in a new note and need to create a reference to a note that doesn't yet exist, it will pull from the available templates and create the new note from it. The template note under "Collections" will retain the backlink to all instances. Just like that you got yourself something as capable as Tana's supertags⁴.

¹: https://triliumnext.github.io/Docs/Wiki/attributes.html ²: https://triliumnext.github.io/Docs/Wiki/day-notes.html ³: https://triliumnext.github.io/Docs/Wiki/template.html ⁴: https://tana.inc/supertags
by tasuki | 2025-05-18 20:49:57+00:00
> Are you able to access them on your phone?

Yes, with caveats.

I actually publish my wiki on the web with about fourty lines of bash to transform the Markdown into a static HTML website[0]. So I can access it through the web browser. When people ask me for recipes or whatever, I can just give them a url.

I host one of my git remotes on GitHub (an extra backup, a service which is usually up and gives me a way to sync my notes should all my other devices be offline). I understand and admire that you didn't want to do that. Probably it's possible to install git on a phone and use a markdown editor? I don't particularly trust my phone tbh. Certainly not enough to put my git signing key on it!

[0]: https://github.com/tasuki/vitwiki/blob/master/build.sh
by chris12321 | 2025-05-18 20:51:30+00:00
You can also set up DNS records pointing to your home server's VPN IP, which, with Tailscale, I've found to be pretty static and then a reverse proxy on your home server. So I have my home network apps running on app1.my-domiain.com app2.my-domain.com, app3.my-domain.com etc, which only work when I'm connected to the VPN.

The downsides are that I need to be connected to the VPN at home to use the domain and I currently don't have SSL set up on the domains, so browsers complain when I connect to them. The second problem I could fix, but I'm not sure if there's a solution for the first.
by kordlessagain | 2025-05-18 20:51:35+00:00
Last year, I had a newish friend with a 9-year-old daughter who, completely unprovoked, kicked me barefoot with her boot. I hadn’t even spoken to her that day. Her mother saw the whole thing.

Afterward, she jumped into justifications. She asked if I was deaf in one ear and maybe her daughter had said something I didn’t hear? I didn't hear anything. She claimed the kick happened only because I didn’t answer. The only thing she said to her daughter, who ran off immediately, was that she’d have to “work on rebuilding trust.”

This wasn’t isolated. The girl regularly told anyone who’d listen that she wished I wasn’t around. She constantly hurled rude comments my way. She had a filthy mouth too casually describing adult scenes in front of other adults like it was normal. She was in third grade. Her mother and grandmother called her a “love bug.” She was anything but.

That was a good enough reason to end the relationship.
by notahacker | 2025-05-18 20:52:28+00:00
> maybe consider sales a job for the founders because outsourcing sales requires incentivizing solely by money and your former salesperson’s behavior is the kind of behavior common when money is the sole motivation

If founders took that approach, they'd never hire anyone to do anything. If anything, salespeople are probably less likely to surreptitiously work for competitors than most jobs, because there's generally as much financial upside to doing a job well as doing two jobs badly, they're much more likely to get found out, and companies fire much faster for underperformance (and are much more likely to involve lawyers if they discover someone is moonlighting for their competitor).

Founders should do sales if they're good at sales and like doing it
by robocat | 2025-05-18 20:52:33+00:00
Modern society tends to severely overemphasize money as the optimisation goal. This is an emergent behaviour of our good capitalist system.

Your time is precious. You spend it once and you can't predictably get any more of it.

I suggest you choose your optimisation goal function very very carefully to suit the outcomes you want (money is only an intermediate step). It's hard to decide what we really want. Money is the default game that we see our peers playing (and it's easy to gain moderate success at the money game). It requires more attention to find and learn from people that have had success playing less common games.

Cynically (or even conspiratorially) investigate the suggested life defaults for you by your society as though they were dark patterns designed to mislead you.

I like what Naval wrote about status games (money is only one aspect of status). Paraphrased:

Status is a zero-sum game, not a positive-sum game. There’s always a subtle competition going on between status and wealth. For example, when journalists attack rich people or the tech industry, they’re really bidding for status. The problem is, to win at a status game you have to put somebody else down. That’s why you should avoid status games in your life – because they make you into an angry combative person. You’re always fighting to put other people down and elevate yourself and the people you like. Status games are always going to exist; there’s no way around it. Realize when you’re getting attacked by someone else and they’re trying to look like a goody-two shoes. They’re trying to up their own status at your expense. They’re playing a different game. And it’s a worse game.

Disclaimer: I've had moderate success at chasing money. I've had less success at optimizing for other goals (work in progress in my 50s).

Money has no maximum so it's a weird goal to try and reach. I wonder why Warren Buffett waited until 95 to decide to retire? He would easily be the richest man in the world if he hadn't charitably given so much away.

Another relevant paraphrased snippet from an interview about better lives for the elite: https://archive.ph/kF0YR

There’s this study called the American Freshman Survey [edit:snip] In the 1960s, 50% of students said making as much money as possible was a really important goal. Today, that’s 80% to 90%. That change shows that this is not human nature. It is culture.
by goda90 | 2025-05-18 20:55:04+00:00
I've got Home Assistant set up and the app on my phone. But the only light switch I have automated is done with a standalone, battery powered timer with a motor to turn a dumb switch on and off. It's on my porch light so it turns on and off without me needing to be home or paying attention. Only have to override it on Halloween and shift it with the seasons.