MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by floydnoel | 2025-05-18 12:32:14+00:00
who are the idiot investors propping this thing up for a billion USD to just create more pollution and scam the public? but of course, it's us!

> The Swiss company says it has raised or received approval for around eight hundred million dollars, and is therefore worth at least one hundred billion Icelandic krónur. The largest part of the capital comes from the US Department of Energy

interesting that this is widely-known as a scam, and yet the DOE still pays for it. i can't imagine how they sleep at night.

> Al Gore gave a TED talk in 2023 where he discussed the carbon capture and disposal industry and specifically mentioned Climeworks. He made fun of the company, calling the capture industry nothing more than a cover for oil and gas companies to keep their businesses afloat.
by n8henrie | 2025-05-18 12:32:20+00:00
I love espanso! The cross-platform support is huge (I use it on macOS, windows, and X11 and Wayland-based Linux systems).

Moreover, the original creator (Federico) and the current head maintainer to whom he has handed most of the day-to-day (AucaCoyan) are two of the kindest people I have ever come across in open source. All issues and contributors are treated with respect, it really is refreshing to feel so welcome when trying to contribute.
by vozni | 2025-05-18 12:33:07+00:00
Thanks for the Policy review, I will follow up on that to make it more clear about the third party services and collected data.

The submission data is only being kept to be able to make suggestions to the user on new forms based on previous submissions, and the user can always delete that data.

In other words, that data is only kept for a good user experience and is not used for any other purposes.

Once again, thanks for the feedback. I will make sure it is addressed more clearly on the privacy policy page.
by sanderjd | 2025-05-18 12:33:43+00:00
I agree that DOGE is bad. But I also think it's unhelpful to claim evidence of a bad outcome directly caused by what they've done. It muddies the water and bolsters people who want to argue that people are only criticizing them out of bias.

If it's true that they got all the tornado warnings out because they were able to be "all hands on deck" for a night they knew would have high risk, then I think this just isn't the example of DOGE getting people killed that the article wants it to be.

I fully believe that understaffing these offices could get people killed. But we don't need to claim it did until it does.

And that doesn't mean we should wait for something awful to happen to criticize the risky situation!
by ryao | 2025-05-18 12:33:57+00:00
So far, patent lawsuits have been more of a problem for those using ARM designs (Qualcomm) than those using RISC-V designs. The Raspberry Pi foundation, Western Digital and Nvidia have successfully put RISC-V designs into their products without any issues. The first two even made their core designs open source (see Hazard3 and SweRV).
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-18 12:34:23+00:00
I still watch a lot of youtube. I'm subscribed to lots of youtubers providing me with more interesting stuff than I can manage to watch. I'm not aware of a better platform for watching stuff like that.

The trick with youtube (if you are not paying, like me):

- Use Firefox and a decent ad blocker to skip the ads. I never see any. It think Google just gave up on doing anything about that and just focuses on making life miserable for Chrome users only. Whatever it is, if ads are the reason you are no longer watching Youtube, Firefox is the fix.

- Ignore recommendations and the glorified more of the same shit algorithm that produces them. It's just not very good. And you can't really potty train it to better. The controls are there but they don't do anything useful or productive. I just bookmarked the /subscriptions page and only bother with the front page if I'm really bored.

- Ignore shorts. They are easily recognized because they are portrait mode instead of landscape mode. So, just don't click them. I find them disappointing and bland. And stupid. I have no patience for that.
by bearjaws | 2025-05-18 12:34:43+00:00
Spaced repetition has been all the rage for 20 years now.

Dozens of apps, thousands of lectures, and it turns out its not really a silver bullet.

There's nothing really wrong with it, it's just that people tend to fall off the same way they do on any other education pattern.

A couple years ago I was thinking "If Google and Apple really cared about kids they would make a spaced repetition unlock system", where by you have to make note cards every week and then have to answer correctly to get into your phone. (obviously requires some bypass system, other rules, etc)

You could probably jury rig it with a popup that comes up after you unlock, but people would never install it anyway.
by pdimitar | 2025-05-18 12:35:09+00:00
You mostly can use Elixir libraries in Erlang but due to how Elixir macros are done and their pervasiveness, the usefulness of that feature is effectively limited. F.ex. Phoenix and Ecto, both extremely prominent and important libraries in the ecosystem, make heavy use of macros due to their nature and feature-set. And they are unusable in Erlang code.

Or at least that was the case some year ago. Haven't checked lately. I know there are ongoing efforts towards convergence.
by markus_zhang | 2025-05-18 12:35:48+00:00
A quick track from juniors to experts is to convince someone to let you build something big from scratch.

It is going to be messy and likely difficult to maintain. But you gain immense experience from that project, so much that you can be a semi expert (and an expert in that specific domain) in just a couple of years.

That was how tons of young people who trampolined to senior in just a few years, bagging a lot of experience in the CVs.
by latexr | 2025-05-18 12:36:00+00:00
Yes, but that doesn’t mean good things aren’t being made today. In fact, plenty of recent shows are better (in every regard: pacing, animation quality, character development, themes, …) than most popular stuff we had in the 90s. Heck, they’re better than many live action shows today. Quality from the 90s era looks skewed in the West, because we had such limited access that what even crossed the barrier were outliers in their own right.

YouTube channels like Mother’s Basement help picking out something to watch. Geoff has routinely pointed how he literally watches anime for a living and it’s still hard to watch everything worthy he finds.

Video titles are pretty self-explanatory. If you want to find something to watch, fire up one of “The BEST Anime of [season] [year]” and you’ll get plenty of recommendations, nicely ordered and with some short explanation of what it is about and why it’s noteworthy.

https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement/
by pbasista | 2025-05-18 12:36:20+00:00
You seem to suggest that you have a device which does not allow you to watch YouTube videos on it without ads. Is that the case?

The uBlock Origin browser extension removes all YouTube ads. It works fine on Firefox, even on mobile. With Chrome, it is possible to use the "lite" version of this extension that seems to block at least the YouTube ads without issue.

On Android, there are several apps which can do it, for example NewPipe or Grayjay. At least NewPipe works fine on Android TVs as well. Also on Android TVs, it is possible to use Kodi with YouTube and InputStream Adaptive add-ons which can also be used to watch YouTube without ads.

I would avoid buying devices which claim to support YouTube but do not allow watching it without ads, for whatever reason.
by cherryteastain | 2025-05-18 12:36:50+00:00
When it comes to receiving USD, EUR etc these countries do not tend to have restrictions, as the point of forex restrictions is to keep capital in the country. Hence, these countries are usually quite lax about KYC/AML stuff because they want hard currency inflows, wherever it's sourced from. The utility of crypto comes in when

1. You want to convert the "hard" currency into the local currency

2. You want to convert the local currency back to the hard currency

3. You want to send hard currency back

Often there are official rates set by the central bank in these countries, and then there are black market rates. Banks etc will convert hard currency to local currency only using the official rates, which tends to be a lot lower than the black market rate, so you get shafted by that in the first instance. Then, when you want to convert the local currency back, banks won't sell it to you because the government does not let them sell hard currency to the general population. Finally, sending hard currency abroad is usually de facto (and sometimes also de jure) banned so your money can't leave the country once it's in. And as a last resort if you say screw you I will withdraw e.g. USD notes and take a flight, banks will refuse to give cash hard currency.

Obviously crypto lets you sidestep all that as nothing can prevent you from sending USDT from your wallet.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-18 12:37:02+00:00
> If it was just slow because it was interpreted they could easily have added a good JIT or transpiler by now, but it's also extremely dynamic so anything can change at any time, and the type mess doesn't help.

See Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Self.

Their dynamism, image based development, break-edit-compile-redo.

What to change everything in Smalltalk in a single call?

a becomes: b

Now every single instance of a in a Smalltalk image, has been replaced by b.

Just one example, there is hardly anything that one can do in Python that those languages don't do as well.

Smalltalk and Self are the genesis of JIT research that eventually gave birth to Hotspot and V8.
by api | 2025-05-18 12:37:06+00:00
What’s funny and sad is that the evolution of YouTube toward a chum feed that pulls people toward rubbish may have broken some peoples addiction but overall it has probably increased it.

One of the things that flabbergasts me about YouTube and TikTok is the utter bilge that people will watch. TV had some of this: trash daytime TV, late night infomercials, soaps to some extent. But the stuff social media runs on today is a whole other level.

If you went back in time and told me that millions would spend endless hours watching other people play video games while monologuing about nothing and randomly doing the same juvenile reactions over and over, I would not have believed you. Same goes for obvious zero effort AI slop, machine voices reading Reddit posts to a slide show background, incoherent rambling, or for kids videos of people unboxing toys for eight hours… it’s just astounding.

There seem to be these “hooks” that if mastered can take the place of plot, aesthetics, information, and everything else, and mesmerize people.

Sometimes it seems like the banality and bizarre nonsensical nature of it is the hook, like people just want to stare at nothing.
by seafoamteal | 2025-05-18 12:37:10+00:00
I still find videos I like on YouTube from the people I subscribe to, and I've also noticed that YouTube sometimes shows me interesting videos for new or smaller creators, but that second one is very hit or miss.

What really got me using YouTube less was using uBlock to zap the shorts feeds. That alone improved my experience by orders of magnitude, along with disabling (not deleting, unfortunately) YouTube on my phone.
by sbarre | 2025-05-18 12:37:13+00:00
I think we're seeing machine generation of derivative visual materials.

There's a difference, in my mind at least. "Art" is cultural activity and expression, there needs to be intent, creativity, imagination..

A printer spooling out wallpaper is not making art, even if there was artistry involved in making the initial pattern that is now being spooled out.
by ednite | 2025-05-18 12:38:34+00:00
I couldn’t agree more.I'm experiencing the same issue. I rarely watch TV or movies (still hoarding my binge list). My routine used to be a quick 30-min mind reset before bed.Usually it's some random, oddly fascinating YouTube rabbit hole. My wife still hasn’t recovered from the video about a remote tribe brewing beer with spit.

But lately? It’s like the algorithm gave up. Same thumbnails haunting me. I used to feel like YouTube knew me. Now we are stranger's.

Makes me wonder, either the algorithm broke, or we’re part of a marketing experiment.
by keiferski | 2025-05-18 12:38:37+00:00
I’ve been using Anki for about a decade now, and as far as I’m concerned, the only real improvements needed are design/UI based. It is functionally irrelevant if the algorithm is optimized or not when the actual user interface seems boring to potential users. While I do like that Anki has power user options, it’s also very unintuitive to the average person just looking into it.

Which is really a shame, as the spacing effect itself is such an underrated aspect of human learning that it almost feels like cheating.
by xbmcuser | 2025-05-18 12:38:42+00:00
But that is the thing China wants to move on to exporting high value items themselves instead of manufacturing it for others and letting them take most of the profits. The bans and stuff has just started but this will result in China moving towards RISC-V the same way export of latest node tech has resulted in China doing it themselves and rapidly catching up. If you read my original comment what I said was over the next decade China will move away from Arm and x86 for RISC-V. It takes years to plan and built devices 5-6 years from now we will find out what I am predicting comes true or not.
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-18 12:39:01+00:00
The irreversible transfer is a large part of the attraction isn't it? Your business policy may be "no refunds", but customers paying with credit cards have a decent chance of a refund from Visa or MasterCard. Now your "no refunds" business, which might be on the scammy side, has to deal with Visa's lawyers per charge backs.

Irreversible transactions make scammy businesses more profitable.
by yesnomaybe | 2025-05-18 12:39:05+00:00
Been on Kafka (MSK) for a couple of years. I find the programming model and getting everything perfectly set up to be sitting behind a steep learning curve, to my surprise. For example, at some point I had a timestamp header but only very much later realised that it all ends up as number[] on the consumer side. So I lost data. My fault, but still. I came to the realisation that the programming model especially in MSK is rather unintuitive.

I found it hard to shift mentally from MSK and its even triggers back to regular consumer spun up in containers etc. but that also it rather MSK than Kafka.

I am currently swapping out the whole pub/sub layer to MongoDB change streams, which I have found to be working really well. For queuing it attempts to lock on read so I can scale consumers with retry / backoff etc. Broadcast is simple and without locking, auto delete in Mongo.

I will have to see how it really scales and I'm sure I'm trading one problem for another but, it will definitely help to remove a moving part. Overall, app is rather low volume with the occasional spike. I would have stayed with Kafka were there be let's say >100rpm on the core functions.
by penguin_booze | 2025-05-18 12:39:46+00:00
The spelling of the word, and its assigned gender, are two different things. Spelling makes you recognize the word. Gender doesn't contribute anything to semantics, is my point. It's not also the case that 'der' is merely a 3-letter prefix to any or every other word. It is rather irregularly applied, completely unrelated to the function the word serves. Not only that, the entire sentence has to be phrased differently depending on what the gender is. So, no: gender is not just longer spelling. Gender exists even if you decide not to write down the word.
by donatj | 2025-05-18 12:39:54+00:00
The search is absolutely infuriating!

You search for something you 100% know exists to show someone and it just gives up after a couple videos and starts showing recommendations.

Just the other day I was out at my parents house and I wanted to show them this channel my young daughter likes, a young woman who is herself learning to play banjo.

When we're home, to find her videos for my daughter I simply enter the girls name and "banjo" and her channel comes up. At my parents house however this just returned famous banjo players and completely ignored the name I had entered.

I was frustrated, shocked, and baffled as I scrolled through results where YouTube entirely buried this tiny creator behind giant creators, even when searched for explicitly by name. I then entered the exact same query into Google on my parent's computer and she was the top result.

My advice these days would be to just avoid YouTube search entirely and head straight to Google, as that still kind of works.
by sanderjd | 2025-05-18 12:40:15+00:00
Thanks! The information here is why I think it's extremely plausible that staffing shortages were disastrous here. But it also doesn't make the direct link. I think it's probably just too soon to know whether all the warnings went out as they should.

But another problem with our current government is that I'm skeptical any investigation to answer those questions will ever happen.
by rollcat | 2025-05-18 12:41:01+00:00
Can I go to any grocery shop, check out, and pay by sticking my watch to a terminal for one second? Can I go to any website, have my browser fill in the credit card details, and click "pay"? Can I submit a dispute if I get charged incorrectly?

Because that's my bar for "does payments really well".

Sure, I can't spend my Amazon gift cards for my Warframe platinum. Yeah, Amazon could strike a deal with Digital Extremes. And maybe I could even use that platinum on Fortnite skins. But their respective deals will happen in dollars, not dogecoins.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-05-18 12:41:44+00:00
Tugs were nearby; one had helped it back away from the pier it had been docked at, but none were hooked up at the time of the collision.

Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University - saw indications that the ship's engine may have been stuck in reverse.

See video edited from his livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2p9bYfFhHE
by geocar | 2025-05-18 12:42:12+00:00
Hi. I checked your profile and it says you like to be referred to as a "black hat hacker" who is being "pursued by multiple agencies".

Can you explain exactly what you hope to do with this knowledge?

Or is it not obvious when pointed out to you that you would have a different IP address accessing a .onion address and a .com address at roughly the same time?
by cherryteastain | 2025-05-18 12:44:33+00:00
Kleptocrats, dictators and warmongers have been around for way longer than crypto. If sanctions worked, the likes of Kim family or Iran's ayatollahs would have fallen in the 90s or 2000s.

Crypto allows my family members to bypass arbitrary restrictions set by one such kleptocrat right now so the benefit is very much more than marginal.
by api | 2025-05-18 12:45:15+00:00
I think a more equal society would, if it were using fossil fuels, emit more carbon.

A more equals society would have fewer people in poverty. It would have more active services for people who need them. All that represents a lower entropy state. Lower entropy states require more external energy input to maintain, not less.

Allowing vast numbers of people to rot in squalor while a few rich people live it up is a lower energy higher entropy state.

Individual rich people may use crazy amounts of energy but there are not many of them. Bezos’ jet consumes a tiny fraction of the power required to provide continuous modern health care to everyone, for example.
by AngryData | 2025-05-18 12:45:55+00:00
You look at the what the people you enjoy listen to or read or watch. Want more of a certain music? Find a streaming radio of that music and its just like the old radio DJ except its not 95% pop unless you want pop. Like particular videos? Look at what those video creators are subscribed to. Like certain books? Read what other people who liked that book call out or suggest om forums.
by Pooge | 2025-05-18 12:45:56+00:00
I'm sorry, I didn't read the article but I thought my experience would be a good anecdote.

I've used Anki for multiple years and learned around 18'000 Japanese words. It's difficult to say but I'd say I've learned how to read around 5'000 kanji. When I studied in Japan, my kanji reading—don't mix that up with comprehension!—was way above everyone else's. And most of my classmates were either Korean or Chinese.

That's what 10 minutes of free time—I did that during my daily train rides—can get you! Keep practicing. Being ignorant is the first step towards becoming more knowledgeable.
by arrowsmith | 2025-05-18 12:47:09+00:00
I love Anki but it’s an archetypal example of “designed by an engineer”.

It’s powerful, with a lot of depth to its features - but it’s also hideous, clunky and unintuitive, and it takes a long time to figure out how to use it effectively.

An HN-reading tech nerd can probably figure it out, but your average Duolingomaxxing normie? No chance.
by mrtksn | 2025-05-18 12:47:10+00:00
I'm not sure there's anything new under the sun except that they tried pushing decade ol videos. I have one fairly popular video on my channel that dropped to less than a hundred views a day and suddenly it was pushed to a lot of people for a week or two and I got people complaining in the comments about why they are seeing this 16 years old video. Then it went away.

Anyway, it's the reason why I pay extra for music streaming despite having Youtube Music for free together with my Subscription. YouTube for some reason thinks that I want to keep listening the same stuff over and over again.

It's also why I love TikTok. Most of my find on TikTok happen to have a YouTube channel too but for some reason YouTube never bothered to show me any of those. It was for TikTok to let me try something new and drill down from there.

I still like YouTube a lot, it has some very high quality content that shines brightly among the slop that the wider internet has become but YouTube really needs to up its content discovery game.
by dedup | 2025-05-18 12:47:48+00:00
People don't, organizations do. I spent 25 years employed by large corporations, and for literally anything that claims to improve team morale, productivity, etc. there is always a sufficiently high-level person that once attended the training, reckoned it wasn't a total disaster, and hired the vendor to cater to their team to get a bullet point on the "team building" section of their performance review.
by wongarsu | 2025-05-18 12:49:42+00:00
There has always been slop in animation. Some of it quite successful. "Why does this anime have fewer frames than the manga it's based on" has been a reoccurring topic over the years.

South Park looks like MS-Paint drawings hastily animated by someone without access to Adobe Animate. It still manages to be a good and beloved show because it shines in other ways

The world of entertainment is big enough for both Studio Ghibli productions and South Park to exist. AI slop will find its niche too. It will consume some animation jobs just as all the automaton and tooling coming before has, but I'm of the strong belief there will still be a market for good handmade art
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-18 12:50:19+00:00
Crypto is the way it is because there are behaviors that are driven by perceived anonymity. We’ve seen it time and time again and fail to learn or understand the lessons.

I’m a child of the 90s. The exuberant promise of the wonders of free access to information really fell short and transformed the world in odious ways. We gave access to a vast swath of human knowledge, but instead consume gambling, porn and think the world is flat.

Crypto is no different. We created a means to transfer wealth like the modern financial system without any controls… and shocking… we created a fertile environment for cons and criminals of all stripes to operate at greater scale than ever before.