MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jordansmithnz | 2025-05-18 14:36:59+00:00
The article feels shallow. It’s real but my experience is that the reasons can be more complex.

- some friends are more selfish than you realized and that only becomes apparent when they put their preferences above short term needs you have

- some parents are exhausted and stop putting in the work needed to maintain friendships

- some friends don’t want to see their social circle become parent-filled, whether that’s because they’d feel left behind or because it doesn’t match their sense of self

- becoming a parent will lead to some sort of change in worldview or who you are, and that’s not always compatible with the friends you had

- as a parent you might just want to talk to people that ‘get it’

People grow apart sometimes and that’s part of life. Other times of course it’s about harder discussions and working through things.
by linux2647 | 2025-05-18 14:37:36+00:00
The folks at SaySomethingIn, that originally started with Welsh and other Celtic languages, have recently expanded to Japanese. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve found some decent success with one of their other courses. It’s all about spaced repetition and focuses exclusively on listening and speaking.

https://www.saysomethingin.com/en/
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-18 14:38:18+00:00
They already are; have been for decades now. AI is amplifying this, true, but art done for love and for money are already pretty much disjoint ventures, and in areas where they mix (like TV shows), it's an uphill battle for the artist - and they're not always right, either; a good show is more than just great writing or beautiful art.
by fennecbutt | 2025-05-18 14:38:39+00:00
I've always thought that LLMs are still just statistical machines and that their output is very similar to the superpermutation problem, though not exactly.

I just like to think of it as a high dimensional view of the relationships between various words and that the output is the result of continuing the path taken through that high dimensional space, where each point's probability of selection changes with each token in the sequence.

Unfortunately there's no thought or logic really going on there in the simplest cases as far as I can understand it. Though for more complex models/different architectures anything that fundamentally changes the way that the model explores a path through space like that could be implementing thought/logic I suppose.

It's why they need to outsource mathematics for the most part.
by parsabg | 2025-05-18 14:38:41+00:00
Thank you!

I like that suggestion. Saved prompts seem like an obvious addition, and having templating within them makes sense. I wonder how well would "for each of the following websites do X" prompts work (so have the LLM do the enumeration rather than the client - my intuition is that it won't be as robust because of the long accumulated context)

Edit: forgot to mention it does support Ollama already
by nytpu | 2025-05-18 14:38:48+00:00
Almost like those existing env vars made it clear that they were mistakes that make behavior inconsistent (especially libcurl) and they want to avoid repeating it with additional env vars. Having almost contributed to Curl before, they repeatedly note for contributors that just because old code does something questionable doesn't mean your new code is allowed to do it—if anything, you're just highlighting the questionable piece of old code as being important for them to rewrite soon (of course they can't remove the current env vars for compatibility reasons).

And the article specifically notes that the current solution doesn't work, but it requires discussion on what the best solution is instead of just taking the literal first solution suggested by someone.
by rblion | 2025-05-18 14:39:22+00:00
I asked ChatGPT and it said it 'means more than CS degree or working at a big company because it shows you are self-taught, scrappy, resourceful'.

It's not a big deal whether it is or not, I just haven't met anyone else who has gotten it. People who are a lot more experienced than me. I'm a bit of an outsider coming to the Bay Area, I've been cruising in Hawaii for a few years.

I'm moving to the Bay Area whether I am accepted or not. I believe in what I'm building and am ALL IN. I haven't been this excited to work 100 hours a week in a LONG TIME.
by JackDanMeier | 2025-05-18 14:39:26+00:00
My understanding of what is important to feedback into the SRS is, was I able to retrieve the memory, and does the representation in my memory align with what I recalled.

As an example Term: "What is the capital of France and how many inhabitants does it have?" Correct definition: "Paris, which has 2 000 000 inhabitants."

For me there is a difference in not having the answer at all, which falls into "again". But what about if I'm able to retrieve that Paris is the capital, but I remember that the population is 1 500 000. This is where the gray zone begins
by Muromec | 2025-05-18 14:39:40+00:00
>An HN-reading tech nerd can probably figure it out, but your average Duolingomaxxing normie? No chance.

Me, the person who reversengineered obfuscated code doing weird crypto primitives and submitted patches to linux kernel can't figure it out either. Maybe I'm not HN nerd enough, so I had to do the duolingo to pass my citizenship exams.

Anki seems like it works for a lot of people with a very specific flow, but I don't know what the flow is and why it doesn't work for me. It's weird.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-18 14:40:25+00:00
It's only something I've recently come up with since getting an old car of mine towed for restoration.

I was meant to get it back last week, but something extra needed doing. I haven't been all that proactive in following it up, and the reason is, whilst I really like the car, and I'm looking forward to getting it back and driving it (it's been garaged for six years), my happiness isn't dependent upon it; I've got a bunch of other things going on as well, such that I'm not sitting and biting my fingernails on the car being ready.

I play tennis, I roller skate and I'm learning some video editing to post outdoor trails with GPS overlays, I intentionally annoy my daughter and try to get conversations out of my son, I take my primarily indoor cats into the backyard for some rare outdoor time that they enjoy (and I enjoy them enjoying it), I have a job I enjoy with people I like working with, I try to find things my wife and I can do together (and I usually fail at that). My happiness is distributed amongst all these things. When one fails there are others to cling to. It means I don't dwell on the negatives (as much as I otherwise might).

There's always work to be done somewhere, so maybe it's distraction rather than happiness, but if it feels the same then what's the difference?

I look forward to wet weather because I can get computer stuff done without feeling guilty for not making the most of the nice weather. I look forward to nice weather because I can go for a skate or have a hit of tennis or play basketball with my daughter or just "be" outdoors (and slowly sip a warm drink).
by ednite | 2025-05-18 14:40:48+00:00
If you don't mind me sharing my story, here's my take on this discussion. A few decades ago, my wife (then girlfriend) and I were raising a child at the age of 18. That experience shaped my understanding of friendship more than anything else.

Back then, I often had to skip parties or show up at events with a toddler in tow. Some friends drifted away, but the true ones stuck around. They’d hang out with us, sometimes just chilling in the basement, tossing a one-year-old on their knees, while we were all still barely out of adolescence and rocking Guns N' Roses T-shirts.

Over time, those same friends had kids of their own, and naturally, life pulled us in different directions, careers, families, obligations… all the grown-up stuff. But as others here have commented, real friendships don’t vanish. The time spent together may change, but the connection remains.

Now that the kids are grown, those same teenage friends and I get together more often. What I’ve learned is this: don’t cling too tightly to friendships that can’t adapt to your circumstances. The right people will walk with you through different stages of life. And new ones will appear when you least expect them. Hope that helps.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-18 14:41:20+00:00
> But an operating system consists of thousands of independently changeable components, any of which can stop being available at any time. You'd have to vendor all your dependencies for your builds to truly be reproducible.

Er, yeah, that's why NixOS, like many distros, keeps public archives of packages and their source (see the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261492 )
by nadermx | 2025-05-18 14:41:43+00:00
As the guy on the other side of this. I had a few great friends known since 8th grade. Once they had kids, I have nothing in common to talk to them about. Still love when I heard just a whats up. But also know feel the shift in their priorities. And also when you have all the time and have to schedule very far out to see a friend who has no time due to family, it just kind of naturally makes it harder.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-18 14:42:05+00:00
(1) Comms apps are an interesting case. They usually run the "benign neglect" form of enshittification in that once the platform has traction they stop investing in improvements and maintenance. At first, smooth onboarding is a competitive advantage but when you have to use it for school or work or public participation it isn't.

What they have in common is that they do not interoperate except for XMPP systems which are popular with soldiers and cops. If they did we might have head-to-head competition between clients but instead we have competition between communication networks, and...

There is a certain amount of fragmentation in that they target different markets; I have been on winning teams with Discord but I wouldn't tell people at work to switch from Slack to Discord. Slack Huddles work pretty well but many people use Slack all day and never join a huddle, instead they just use Zoom. Your organization might have an all-access pass to Teams but central IT tells you they'd rather you didn't use it, etc.

Because there are these niches and the because mature platforms decay, there will always be ferment in comms apps.

(2) I think innovation in OS is almost impossible now. One could imagine an OS that eliminates a lot of "bloat" by changing the relationship between the OS and applications, but then you would have to build an entirely new userspace, but if you look like POSIX you can get the GNU tools and so much more.

(3) I would also point to the Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

as something that execs had heard of by 2007, so when it looked like laptops could be disrupted by tablets, Microsoft disrupted itself with Windows 8. Zuckerberg saw what happened to MySpace and vowed it wasn't going to happen to him. Nobody wants to be the next Kodak...

(4) And film photography is an example of a dethroned platform where a few regional monopolies (Kodak, Fuji, AGFA, ...) made a product that worked with cameras and lenses and stuff. You might still see Bluetooth speakers with the Polaroid brand at Big Lots but many old photo giants are gone. Photography at large is doing better than ever, and some of the old companies like Canon and Nikon went digital. The thing is, Kodak had a working digital camera as early as anyone and introduced all sort of innovation such as the digital Photo CD

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

but it didn't do them any good.
Ask HN: Does YC still do the SUS model where startups are grouped with a mentor
by tmatthewj | 2025-05-18 14:42:19+00:00
Checked out the current SUS - I see partner videos and a way to do weekly check-in. Was keen to learn if there's a way I can join the SUS with a new thesis (not the one I did SUS previously on), get grouped with a few other startups and do weekly check-ins for accountability and peer-learning.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-05-18 14:43:23+00:00
Those reasons are why I love Anki. I'd rather have a program that exposes every mechanism of how it works and allows me to access it than a program that doesn't and the program appears to appear to work by magic. Give me visible cogs that I can tune and a good manual any day of the week.

Anki is refreshing function over form design. It's beautiful.
by erkt | 2025-05-18 14:43:32+00:00
Fundamentally the lack of empathy demonstrated by your friends should make it evident that those determined to be child free are really just selfish. Why would you even want to spend time with people with those personality traits? My best friends younger brother was the first to get married and have kids. We only do things that the little dude can come along for, I can't even imagine forcing a decision that leaves them behind.
by Anamon | 2025-05-18 14:43:53+00:00
There is no precedent here. There are politicians advocating for this kind of stuff everywhere, that doesn't indicate the likelihood of a law like this passing.

Anyone can suggest a law. The stage this one failed in is explicitly meant to gauge if there would be any reasonable support to get it passed. The answer was a resounding No.

Even if it proceeded, it would have quite likely lead to a popular referendum due to Switzerland's system of direct democracy. I'd say not many places in the world have as strong defenses against laws like this as Switzerland.

Of course, it doesn't mean that it's not important to highlight when such ideas do crop up, and especially naming and shaming who/where they come from. I'm glad Proton et al. spoke out.
by necovek | 2025-05-18 14:44:23+00:00
The benefit of a big TV should be that you can move it farther out than the 6" you mentioned (and that the person is roughly sitting at), increase text size, but need fewer neck movements to take it all in — provided you can focus at bigger distances.

You are essentially keeping the same angular size, and by moving an 85" TV to 19" from your eyes, you get text to be sized just like your 27" at 6" (3 x 27" = 81").

Won't help with your neck issues though, since you'll have exactly the same issues.
by hulitu | 2025-05-18 14:44:56+00:00
> A lot of monitors that advertise HDR support really shouldn't. Many of them can decode the signal but don't have the hardware to accurately reproduce it,

You can lie as much as you like as an advertiser. At the beginning, HD meant 1080p. Then, 1080p became FullHD, only that 720p to became HD and to make HD digital television possible. (the original SD television is worse than analog)
by SvenL | 2025-05-18 14:45:23+00:00
I think recently there was here an article about a phenomenon called after a Roman defeat by Hannibal, which described how companies lost there competitive advantages by being overly confident in there successful business. There were example with Kodak loosing to upcoming video technology, or DEC loosing market by personal computer getting more & more popular. Even after searching for a while I kind find that article. It would fit here because it has could examples.
by wat10000 | 2025-05-18 14:45:34+00:00
The argument is indeed “they can afford it.” The addition of “screw the rich” is some bullshit that makes it sound like someone making $10 million and paying $5 million in taxes is worse off than someone making $10,000 and paying $0 in taxes.

Yeah, people who make more money should pay more to fund the government. Apparently this is a wild concept for some.
by wongarsu | 2025-05-18 14:46:06+00:00
Unless a specific piece reaches critical mass. Most people have an opinion on Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire or 50 Shades of Gray. Granted, if they aren't an avid reader it might be an opinion based on the movie adaptations instead of the books, and for some their opinion only reaches as far as the reason they haven't engaged with that specific title yet. But those are still opinions you can engage with
by gwern | 2025-05-18 14:47:00+00:00
> Work in progress (or 404)

I think it would be a lot politer if the target page was clearer. As it is, I could be 'voting' on a draft or it could just be plain broken and the intended page somewhere else.

Personally, I think it would make more sense to just put up what you have explicitly noted as drafts etc, and count the 'votes' that way.
by rererereferred | 2025-05-18 14:47:01+00:00
Toei Animation is looking to utilize AI in areas such as storyboarding, coloring, and “color specification,” as well as in-between animation and backgrounds. The specific use cases mentioned include: • Storyboarding: Leveraging AI to “generate simple layouts and shooting of the storyboards.” • Colors: Employing AI to “specify colors and automatically correct colors.” • In-betweens: Utilizing AI to “automatically correct line drawings and generate in-betweens.” • Backgrounds: Using AI to “generate backgrounds from a photo.”

Source: https://www.japannihon.com/toei-animation-discusses-ai-use-i...

I think this is fine. The director will still make sure there's no visual artifacts. On the other hand indies will be able to create their own works, maybe with some warts, but better than nothing.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-18 14:47:49+00:00
Similar to the piece of advice you were given, this is one that I use, because I'm a pessimistic optimist:

Don't worry, it's only for the rest of your life.

Get square with that as your number one priority. All the things you like doing, treat them as blessings every time you get to do them. Don't expect it, be surprised by it.

Everything else flows from there. Your kids are your most important job.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-05-18 14:48:23+00:00
>- let you pick a "max daily reviews" and then keep you from putting in too many new items up front, rather than letting you accidentally give yourself a huge daily workload after a few months

Anki allows you to do that. It's in the deck preset options under deck limits. Nowadays you can also set weekday workloads, to reduce workload eg. during the weekend.
by d_burfoot | 2025-05-18 14:48:46+00:00
I feel like we are due for a revolution in computer interface design that will free us from our desks. I want to be able to do work while walking on the bike trail or sitting in a lounge chair by the pool. All the core concepts of GUI design - "mouse", "window", "file", "folder", "desktop" - were developed in a previous era with far tighter constraints on what could be done. Now we have voice understanding, wearable computers, AR / VR, LLMs, cellular internet, etc. Even though the tech has advanced by leaps and bounds, the underlying UI concepts haven't changed much.
Show HN: Kek – a repository serializer (works great with Google Gemini)
by koakuma-chan | 2025-05-18 14:49:18+00:00
A repository serializer is a tool that takes your repository and serializes it into an LLM ingestable format.

I used to be a heavy user of yek[0] until recently, because my workflow is basically copy and pasting back and forth to and from Google Gemini.

[0]: https://github.com/bodo-run/yek

However, as I incorporated a practice of maintaining an llms/ directory in my project (where I put various docs, e.g. .md files from llms.txt), I found that the format yek used (basically ">>>> {file name}\n{file content}") was confusing the LLM; it didn't know which files were part of your project and which files were just docs (it was editing code examples).

So I wrote my own thing which categories your files into source code files, documentation files, and other files. Each category is labelled appropriately and the LLM is able to understand what it shouldn't attempt to edit.

Here is what the output format looks like:

<category>

<description> Immutable documentation FOR REFERENCE ONLY. </description> <files> <file> <path> llms/openai.md </path> <content> ... </content> </file> </files>

</category>

You can also pass a "task" as command line argument, and the tool will append <task>{your task}</task> to the end of the output.
by Alex-Programs | 2025-05-18 14:49:36+00:00
Good luck!

I personally used Anki the whole time, so if you're currently doing your exams some of my advice might not be super useful. I did maths, physics, and computer science. I didn't use flashcards much for maths - just for the irritating stats equations - but used it extensively for physics, and a little for compsci (I barely studied for compsci).

During my GCSEs I extensively used them for history, which is probably the closest analogue to the wordy questions you'll get in geography. I used it for facts, order of events, etc. I found that the process of organising history into a well-organised Obsidian database, then distilling it into flashcards, was as useful as the flashcard reviews itself. I recommend separating your rough working during class (e.g. the short essays you write at the end of a lesson) and your organised notes, which I split into separate, interlinked concepts with flashcards at the bottom of the file synced with Anki via an extension.

I suppose the advice I'd have is

- Cloze cards are excellent, and you should use them

- You can't flashcard your way to mental models. Absolutely don't rely on them alone, and you need to do practice questions for every separate question type you'll get until you're confident with the mental model itself.

- That said, it's easy to get into the trap of remembering the answers to flashcards as words. While this lets you "learn" quicker, and speed up reviews, I found that I had much better real-world results when I tried to actually "load in" the mental model into my head. So for example, if I had a flashcard about refraction behaviour, I'd not just answer the question, I'd also visualise a laser going from air into water and how the behaviour of the light changed as the angle changed.

For history, it's been a while, but if I had a question about one factor in a broader crisis (e.g. the Berlin Airlift) I'd try to think about the broader context of the question - not in my internal monologue, but just vaguely considering the various factors involved, the period of history, personally I instinctively visualise a map, etc, for a second or two before clicking for the answer.

Edit: Oh, and the heatmap extension is great. It gives you streaks and a heat map that you really don't want to break!
Gap in Database Landscape
by jpvega | 2025-05-18 14:49:38+00:00
Traditional postgres is cumbersome for ephemeral environments. On-the-fly solutions like Neon make postgres a utility.

Traditional postgres is cumbersome for embeddings and time-series. Real-time solutions like Timescale make postgres a powerhouse.

Timescale has some of its features locked in to their Cloud. Neon has most of its features locked in to their Cloud.

Where is the full Neon + Timescale experience in a single OSS package + single Cloud offering?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-18 14:49:45+00:00
FWIW, I didn’t realize how controlled the environment I was raised within was until I’d left home, which makes perfect sense as I had no point of comparison until then. Similar to your daughter I had friends whose environments were much less controlled, but they weren’t able to serve the same role as the personal experience I wound up spending a significant chunk of my 20s playing catch up on.

That’s not to advocate for unfiltered internet access or anything, just presenting my experience as a data point and food for thought.
by bwfan123 | 2025-05-18 14:50:07+00:00
Intead of "Step 1: Upload Your Diagram", if you could say "describe your diagram", that would take it to the next level. So you would generate a workflow from the description using an llm which the user could then edit. This takes out the painful part of diagram creation and makes it fun for the user. For example, for infra automation a description could be: "first download this from this url. then, run this command, then take the output and feed it to this, then reboot, email me if there is any problem".