MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-18 23:01:00+00:00
Oh good Lord. In fact I have noticed that lately YouTube was tracking the "most-watched" periods in every video with a little bar graph below it, so that was inevitable.

I am a satisfied & loyal customer of YouTube Premium Family edition [my "family" consists of 5 separate Google accounts I operate.] However, I still see more ads encroaching from every direction. The latest method is merch -- a lot of influencers will have customized keepsakes on offer, and YouTube will display the wares in the dooblydoo as you're watching each video. Each will link out to the storefront where you can purchase it. You know, tee shirts, mugs, plushies -- the kind of swag that says "I spend my disposable income to line the pockets of obscure entertainers."

The other ads I've got are for show tickets. Any group or troupe or entertainer who tours live will be hooked into YouTube's algorithm to find tickets for their shows. YouTube once told me that the closest venue for my favorite act was next week in Finland. It often leads to consternation because I hate live shows at this point, for many reasons, and sometimes I will price out a single ticket to my most-hated live show to see if it's $300 or $500. Sometimes in guilt for coveting that live ticket, I will donate the same amount to my favorite charity. That is how much I hate live shows and advertising.
by keeda | 2025-05-18 23:01:20+00:00
This article, and Google's and Bing's AI overviews for "how did microsoft kill off beos", disagree with that premise:

https://lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0403.html

(Edited to add, another more detailed article: https://macfolkloreradio.com/be/)

People make this claim about a lot of software (Netscape being the poster child) but typically whenever I look into it, the nuanced answer turns out to be "Microsoft may have thrown it's weight around, but the product largely failed on it's own merits."
by riatin | 2025-05-18 23:01:37+00:00
> Traditionally, new developers cut their teeth on small, repetitive tasks – fixing simple bugs, writing unit tests, churning through minor feature tweaks. These tasks were mundane but crucial for skill-building. Now, a lot of that grunt work can be handled by generative AI.

To me, this is the salient point. There are more juniors coming through now who aren't learning the fundamentals, because there is a ready shortcut around the mundane tedious work. Which means they're trying to move onto higher value, higher risk areas without understanding the foundations
by montagg | 2025-05-18 23:02:14+00:00
Wait. Sync is “free” if you want to use some other service other than Obsidian’s. I pay for Obsidian sync partially for slightly more convenience (fewer non-integrated points of failure) and also to support the app itself.

I’d gladly pay $1000 over a decade for a crucial tool. If the concern is open source and true longevity, I get it, you don’t get that here. But cost for value? Holy shit. $1000 over a decade is absolutely worth it for something you depend on.

If you’re a regular at a bar or restaurant, you pay an order of magnitude over $1000 a year for THAT service. This one is probably worth more.

I can, however, relate to the “every five years my system changes” problem. It’s not fun. At the same time, this is a reasonable cadence to re-evaluate things. If you found something perfect for you that works >5 years, holy crap. You are blessed. That honestly should not be the standard for tools these days—ESPECIALLY in a today’s world.

All that said: I don’t knock the author for trying to build software that can work for someone for 20 years or more. I salute that attempt—and I hope they can do it!—even if I think the specific details of how they got there are flawed.
by shmerl | 2025-05-18 23:02:51+00:00
Nice!

I've been using virt-manager for a long time, but more KDE native solution is welcome.

Still waiting for virt-manager to add support for Vulkan rendering through libvirt.

Side note, not sure if it's specific to Kirigami, but a bunch of interfaces which use it have this excessive margin spacing feel to them.

Something like that happens with print-manager's configuration which is using Kirigami supposedly too.
by coryvirok | 2025-05-18 23:02:52+00:00
Apparently an unpopular opinion, but actually strong types are useful above and beyond editor linting errors.

- Jit optimizations - Less error checking code paths leading to smaller footprints - Smaller footprints leading to smaller vulnerability surface area - less useful: refactorability

Don't get me wrong, I love the flexibility of JavaScript. But you shouldn't rely on it to handle your poorly written code.
by atombender | 2025-05-18 23:03:34+00:00
The fact that this was a rollover doesn't seem particularly relevant? I must be missing something.

Imagine I write a check and send it to a friend, but a thief intercepts it and cashes it.

First, this is fraud, meaning a criminal matter to be referred to the police. Surely the bank has records of exactly who cashed the check, and it would be trivial to file charges against the offender?

Secondly, the bank's inability to correctly authenticate the person cashing the check surely puts the financial responsibility on the bank, not the owner of the account?

What happens with check fraud normally? If someone writes a fake check and successfully withdraws money, isn't the bank liable?
by canvascritic | 2025-05-18 23:05:01+00:00
this all makes sense and is honestly the most coherent humanoid startup thesis i've seen outside of figure.ai. You're right that the unit economics of hardware are a trap unless you can commoditize the complements. And humanoid hardware clearly wants to become a commodity, but no one's finished the job yet and it seems brutally difficult (see: the ghost of Willow Garage)

The tesla analogy makes sense to me but with a caveat: they still spend billions on CapEx and own verticals like battery chemistry and drivetrain design. In this case you’re betting that the value collapses upward into software, like the shift from phones to apps, but for that to work, your software has to deliver exponential delta per dollar

With that I think the real risk is that your "clean your house" package is deceptively hard in the long tail, and you will end up with the iRobot Roomba UX. Novelty fades fast when it constantly gets stuck under the couch or whatever the equivalent of that is for humanoids. To be fair iRobot/Roomba is a household name but still "only" a ~$1.5B company, which seems meager compared to ambitions in this space

As an aside I would love to see an RFC-style doc on how you think humanoid software standards should emerge. ROS is still a frankenstein, and someone needs to kill it gently lol
by rubitxxx5 | 2025-05-18 23:05:17+00:00
I disagree.

If I made ~15M USD/yr and was much younger, I’d strongly consider buying this, specifically because it seems wide open. Others will just buy it and won’t think about the cost, but they’ll probably consider the community. You can’t have community for something like this unless it’s open. If it’s open you’ll get early adopters which can help develop the community.

You must focus on making it better and cultivating a community first.
by andy99 | 2025-05-18 23:05:57+00:00
Cool, thanks!

Cette licence permet d'utiliser, reproduire, modifier et distribuer librement le code avec attribution, mais impose des restrictions pour les opérations dépassant 700 millions d'utilisateurs mensuels.

Interesting they only mention the 700 million users thing and not the other restrictions on use. Personally I could regard the prohibition against basically Google and Microsoft using it to be a minor transgression, it's the larger list of unacceptable uses that's the big problem.
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-05-18 23:07:37+00:00
That's a great idea. I was an early Anki contributor and ended up wasting a lot of time with SRS. Basically every language blogger I knew in 2008 was obsessed with it.

If I were to go back and learn Japanese again, (which I may do since I haven't spoken it in 20 years), I'd use Anki for the following:

- drilling the sounds, single syllables, 2-3 syllables, and identifying pitch accents in sentences

- relearning hiragana and katakana

After that initial phase, I'd probably make the core of my practice listening to podcasts for foreign learners while reading the transcripts at home and then re-listening to those same podcasts later while outside for practice. It's way easier and more helpful to recall words in a context you already understand.

I'd also use Anki for learning kanji if I hadn't spent years reading traditional Chinese. Since I have that background and Japanese character simplifications were so modest, I think I'd just read some audio books while listening to the audio and see if I could figure out all the kanji from context. TV series are also great once you can access them because they tend to use similar vocabulary and revisit similar throughout a season arc.
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-05-18 23:07:59+00:00
>As Camille Fournier bluntly put it, many tech managers who shifted to "senior-only" hiring are asking for trouble: "How do people ever become 'senior engineers' if they don't start out as junior ones?"

If I were a betting man, I would wager that those managers either don't care, or are gambling that by the time senior engineers are in short supply, AI will be good enough to replace them as well.
by canvascritic | 2025-05-18 23:08:49+00:00
I'm not a fan of neurophysiology analogies because it veer into pseudoscience, but I'll play along.

Roam implemented static bidirectional links and called it associative memory. in reality, it's closer to mind-mapping software with backlinks. So without mechanisms for reinforcement (surfacing old notes intelligently), pruning (forgetting irrelevant junk), or plasticity (reorganizing in response to use), the system becomes a junkyard of half-formed thoughts.

Brains forget for a reason, roam doesn't
by mmooss | 2025-05-18 23:09:34+00:00
Hierarchies vary based on the application and your point of view. For example, let's say you have an entry for beer bottles. Does that go under beer or under bottles, or under glass-making or Charlie's hobbies or something else?

And your perspective today might differ tomorrow or in a year or 20 years. Think about Wikipedia (and other wikis) - there is no hierarchy. You can start at any point and, in a sense, there's a hierarchy of pages with the starting point at the top.
by TheKidCoder | 2025-05-18 23:10:23+00:00
This is one of those stories that has the elements of a pessimistic view of cryptocurrency and it’s pitfalls but by the end of it makes you stop and think to yourself “Bad people want money, they will do horrible things to get it, that has always been true.”

Flashing your wealth on social media or being a high profile executive is dangerous, crypto-ties or not.
by vannevar | 2025-05-18 23:11:05+00:00
My understanding is the the bank holding the account that the money was drawn from is liable to the victim, then the bank that payed the forged endorsement is in turn liable to that bank (since that's who they have the direct relationship with).

https://boatmanricci.com/who-is-responsible-in-the-case-of-c...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-18 23:11:55+00:00
It occurs to me that Efilists don't need to do much of anything.

Normies (us) are making parenting more untenable every year.

My parents (and their gen) parented some hours a week. My kids required 24/7 adulting. Free-ranging was eradicated by car culture and trespassing culture. Adult-free peer time - where critical social and personal growth happened - was replaced with a series adult-curated, adult-populated boxes. Kids spend their days moving from one box to the next. Compounding the above is the difficulty/impossibility for a modern couple to fully support themselves on two typical wages.

I don't know that we need any Efilist's help to end procreation.
by Teever | 2025-05-18 23:11:55+00:00
I think you're kind of looking at this the wrong way.

As I understand it 'vision zero' type programs are often an aspirational goal, and they implicitly recognize the near impossibility of reaching the goal, but that near impossibility doesn't make the goal undesirable or not worth striving for.

If you set such a goal you start to analyze the systems involved which cause accidents and deaths in a different way and you seek change them on a fundamental level to significantly reduce if not outright eliminate the possibility of certain categories of accidents entirely.

So instead of doing moderately effective but ultimately fleeting stuff like cracking down on speeders and drunk drivers through police action you redesign the infrastructure so that it becomes much harder for a car to physically strike pedestrians through traffic calming[0] measures, creating physically separate pedestrian and bike infrastructure so that cars just don't come in contact with people, or implement mass transit so that you simple decrease the number of drivers on the road and again physically separate them from automobiles to eliminate the possibility that they're involved in car accidents.

In doing so you not only reduce the number of accidents that injure and maim people but you induce them to be more physically active and therefore healthier so that they're able to better car accidents, slips and falls, and illnesses which ends up paying for the infrastructure improvements over the long run.

This is so much better than the alternative where speeders consistently speed and kill pedestrians in an unmarked cross walk so we decide to play whack-a-mole by increasing the police budget for photo radar for a while until the public forgets that this particular street is dangerous to cross on foot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming
by jpgvm | 2025-05-18 23:14:32+00:00
With Redpanda you would need to build something external. With Pulsar the protocol handlers run within the Pulsar proxy execution mode and all of your authn/authz can be done by Pulsar etc.

Redpanda might be more resource efficient however and less operational overhead than a Pulsar system.

Pulsar has some very distinct advantages over Redpanda when it comes to actually consuming messages though. Specifically it enables both queue-like and streaming consumption patterns (it is still a distributed log underneath but does selective acknowledgement at the subscription level).
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-18 23:14:37+00:00
A couple of hinky issues here --

The statement from Mr. Handy indicates an amount of $114,000. That's very significant. However, the NYT mentions only $14,000. That's still a large number but, you know, an order of magnitude smaller. Where's the other $100K?

Also, what about enhanced scrutiny for such a large deposit/withdrawal? Aren't banks supposed to file extra paperwork if you're exceeding $10,000 or something? What happened, did the thieves go to an idiot branch or ATM or something? Can you drop into the CHECKS CASHED store on the corner in the ghetto and have your $14,000 [$114,000] worth of fraud?

Once when I took a girlfriend to see a film, we returned to find the car door slightly ajar. She had left her purse on the floor and it was still there. All good? Weeks later, it turned out that someone fraudulently filled and cashed a check that belonged in her checkbook. They had entered my car, found her checkbook, extracted the last one in the book sequence, and replaced everything without a trace. It's true that you need to safeguard your checks!

In Mr. Handy's case, what type of checks were they? Like an ordinary bank draft? There are cashier's checks and money orders too. You'd think that if this was such an important financial transaction that we'd be working with cashier's checks and certified mail. It also strikes me as so weird that they expected Mr. Handy to essentially be the middleman to receive checks he couldn't cash. They weren't made out to him! Why mail checks to him like he's a third party or mule!

Yes, NYT, this would've been far better accomplished by electronic means. There are a lot of things in your article that don't add up. Are we entirely sure that Mr. Handy is telling the whole truth here? Surely there are more irregularities to be uncovered!
by Animats | 2025-05-18 23:14:48+00:00
There are at least 18 humanoid robots far enough along to have YouTube videos.[1] That's from February 2024. As far as I can tell, none have an order page where you jut enter a credit card number and get the product. It's all "pre-order", "contact sales", or just plain vagueness.

There are a lot of "really great, real soon now" humanoid robot startups.[2][3] As far as I can tell, nobody has yet deployed one in a production environment.

On the mechanical engineering side, it's likely that a drone company will have the first big low-cost product. Drone companies have people who understand sensors, balance, navigation, reliability, and weight/cost/strength tradeoffs.

[1] https://james.darpinian.com/blog/you-havent-seen-these-real-...

[2] https://personainc.ai/

[3] https://gotokepler.com/
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-05-18 23:17:24+00:00
If you're speaking in the context of language learning, there definitely are some great tools for "mining" audio cards from YT/Netflix and also for getting text from the subtitle tracks. Some are open source, free and easy once you get used to working with them (much like Anki itself). They're not frictionless for first-time users, though. Others are paid and a bit more newbie-friendly.
by atombender | 2025-05-18 23:18:34+00:00
Pulsar's feature set is amazing, but it looks like a beast to operate? Especially compared to lighter-weight systems like NATS or Redpanda.

You need both Bookkeeper and Pulsar, which are both stateful, and both require ZooKeeper. (You can apparently configure Bookkeeper to use Etcd, not sure about Pulsar.) So three applications, each of which has several types of processes that probably demand a dedicated operator if running on Kubernetes.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-18 23:20:27+00:00
When I think risk of heart attack, I think of genetics first. Heart attacks seem fairly unlikely in my family. There's not even a rumor of an instance.

Contrasting that is a friend who's family were cursed with a precondition. The men died of heart attacks before their ~45th birthday. My friend dropped dead waiting to pay his restaurant bill with two paramedics standing in line behind him.

I met his younger brother at the funeral. He was in his early 40s and was the last living male over 40, anywhere in his tree.
by jsheard | 2025-05-18 23:20:31+00:00
As usual it's not so much that the scams and attacks are unique to crypto, it's that crypto makes them much worse by willfully ignoring hard-earned lessons in traditional finance. Kidnapping for ransom isn't new, but what is new is that if you kidnap a known crypto whale you can instantly, untraceably and irreversibly extract most of their net worth with a bit of "convincing", without raising any alarms until it's too late.
by musicale | 2025-05-18 23:21:39+00:00
> MSO -> Polished turd and uberused

I think this may be judgment in retrospect. The original combination of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint was undoubtedly useful and became more so with integration. It's too bad that competition from Lotus, Apple/Claris, WordPerfect/Novell/Corel, open source alternatives, etc. didn't affect Office's dominance. Google had a great head start over Office 365 with Docs but didn't pursue it.
by robocat | 2025-05-18 23:24:19+00:00
I live in a 240 Volt country with reasonably strong regulations.

Yet I'm regularly having to identify and resolve electrical safety issues because other people create risks. Sometimes issues are historical, or have developed over time.

Some of those risks are created by qualified and licensed people.

The most recent: a licensed electrician putting a female supply plug on a friend's bus (I think because he knows houses have female sockets) and then suggesting taking the power supply lead and replacing the female connector with a male one (male to male leads are rather unsafe and illegal for good reason and the friends were skeptical).

I see people that have done the study, training and certification create serious risks. So I don't blindly trust study, training and certification for my safety or safety of those I care for. I do use professionals but I'm very careful when choosing who to trust (for more than just electricity, water and gas).

We learn how to do things correctly because of our own interest in risks. I appreciated the comment because they didn't just say "don't", they also explained the engineering reasons for saying "don't".

However I am a risk-taker, and I take risks that would likely shock you. I am somewhat careful to avoid creating risks for others (when there is a floor level of risk, you can't go below the floor).

It's a balance. The logical conclusion of your world-view is that we shouldn't do anything for ourselves!

Don't fix that leaky tap without training! Too risky. Good example since I lent my pipe wrenches to a friend and told her to have a go at replacing her tap. Very successful. It was outdoors so low risk?

> just proding things until it either works or kills you

I am not suggesting that strawman.
by theamk | 2025-05-18 23:25:56+00:00
Key quote (IMHO):

> The fear within the auction world is that the bust’s flop could now taint casual perceptions of the overall health of the art market, when it was Sotheby’s, and the seller, who agreed to expose an object of economic importance to the risks of an unpredictable market.

In other words: Sotheby's decided not to sell, and now people are considering that paying $70 million for a piece of art might be a crazy idea. Maybe next time a piece of art is being sold for an outrageous price, buyer will instead think: "Wait, what I am doing? Am I really going to get $70M worth of satisfaction from this? And if not, will I at least be able to resell for the same price to next person?"
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-18 23:26:50+00:00
> Free-ranging was eradicated by car culture and trespassing culture.

Add on top of that the disappearance of shopping malls, arcade centers and other "third places". The game arcades went during my parents' generation. My generation, we had electronics stores that had game consoles where one could play some car race game or whatnot against a friend. Today's youth? They got to deal with "mosquito youth repellent".
by uselesswords | 2025-05-18 23:27:49+00:00
That’s because the default model is designed for the general user. If you sat down and really worked with the documentation, you would realize you shouldn’t be using decks or collections for management you should be using tags. Decks and collections are a different abstraction for different purposes.

I’m in medical school which has basically mastered Anki. The AnKing deck, used by over a million medical students, has over 35,000 cards, cross-tagged by numerous study resources that exists on a single “deck” which receives regular updates. I regularly run basically instant queries on over 40,000+ cards.

Medical school Anki has basically mastered this workflow and the original commenters complaints are completely wrong/come from a misunderstanding of Anki’s data model.

To be put simply, ignoring subdecks, filtered decks, cards vs notes, etc.: cards can only belong to one deck, but can have multiple tags. What exactly do you want to see differently in the data model?
by yaronsc | 2025-05-18 23:28:00+00:00
1. A user can always go into the generated code and make changes to it. The code generated includes explanations for what each step in the workflow does

2. Dapr has 9 APIs, one of which is Workflows which indeed competes with Temporal. Dapr Workflows isn't DAG based, it's code-first. This tool allows you to start with an external representation