MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j_w | 2025-05-18 23:47:41+00:00
It's not "just 250k." There are different classifications that the insurance covers. For example, a trust account (considered any account with a beneficiary listed) should cover 250k + 250k per beneficiary, with a cap (might not be implemented yet) of 1.25m.

In addition to that, most FIs purchase some form of excess share insurance to cover deposits beyond the 250k.

You would need a very large amount of deposits at a single institution to run up against the insured limits. If you are ever concerned about that, you can reach out to your financial institution(s) and ask them if you have any uninsured deposits.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-05-18 23:48:20+00:00
That is awesome. A list of power tools on Amazon went from 2.5MB of HTML to 236KB of markup. That is huge! Wow, thank you for sharing.

This is half the equation. Also, lot of the information in the markup can be used to query elements to interact with because it keeps the link locations which can be used to navigate or select elements. On the other hand, by using the stacking context, it is possible query only elements that are visible which removes all elements that can't be interacted with.
by MegaDeKay | 2025-05-18 23:48:25+00:00
Indeed, an alternative to virt-manager would be more than welcome. "What, you want to search the XML for a text string? Why would you want to do that? Undo? That's crazy talk!"

I had hoped KDE was over the K-named thing, but I guess not. At least Karton is better than Kvirt-manager.
by NiloCK | 2025-05-18 23:49:17+00:00
> Half the benefit of SRS comes from working out what the flashcards are. You have to circle around a concept, look for similarities, differences, examples, generalisations, properties, etc.

This is at least half true, but among SRS folks it's overstated.

The same argument stands for any creative endeavor.

Debussy had a greater experience than I did with Claire de Lune, because he composed it. In turn, my experience of it is probably greater than the next persons' because I learned it. Bottom of the heap is the lowly listener - but I think everyone would agree that listening is a wonderful way to appreciate music and shouldn't be diminished.

Same for literature, visual arts, etc etc.

The still greater reason that create-your-own has historically dominated for SRS decks is the specific curation aspect. Anything curated by someone else suffers from mismatch with your own intentions and prior knowledge profile.

(Plug time. Like most people, I am building my own grandiose SRS app. Some writing on it is here: http://patched.network )
by phatskat | 2025-05-18 23:49:25+00:00
I get that, and I think it’s a fine check for junior devs especially. In my experience, mostly with PHP mess detector, Cyclomatic Complexity smells typically manifest as nested conditionals. I’m at a point now where I try to keep that minimal myself, but I have peers that often have these diving sets of if statements that irk me. I’d rather invert a conditional and return early if needed, or at least separate the logic so that there’s maybe two levels at most.

I do agree that, in general, a senior engineer should be able to suss out what’s too complex. But if the bar is somewhat high and it keeps me from sending a PR back just for complexity, that’s fine.
by sasjaws | 2025-05-18 23:50:27+00:00
Thanks for having a look, I actually started out from traditional characters, but once I realized >90% of the students only do simplified I switched.

I also tend to believe to just convert between them is not the best approach. Better to find different content for both. If student wants to learn traditional script, they usualy want content from Taiwan and not from China, and the other way round.
by uselesswords | 2025-05-18 23:51:00+00:00
This is probably my biggest gripe. It’s so much information to digest at first, it’s a tough ask. And there’s so many rookie mistakes.

I made the mistake of just jumping in and I would say I spent the first 6 months using Anki “wrong” in the sense I would make bad cards, try to make mc questions, not enabling or optimizing FSRS, capping reviews, doing Anki before I knew the material, etc.

I’m someone who loves to learn from scratch/figure it out myself. I would never recommend watching a YouTube tutorial or following a guide for something you can figure out yourself, but I have to make an exception for Anki. Anki is one of those rare things where it’s simply just better to just copy what someone else is doing and figure out adjustments for your own workflow over time.
by madaxe_again | 2025-05-18 23:51:39+00:00
I hold that these people are deeply mislead at best, not well at worst, as their argument is essentially reducto ad absurdum but taken seriously. It’s as though they’ve encountered a shard of philosophy and hold it as a universal truth.

There’s also a facet of strict benthamite utilitarianism that falls into the trap of accepting reified societal norms as being objective reality - for instance, the core idea that pain and suffering are bad.

On an individual level, I would hold that they are the whetstones that sharpen the soul - through crushing trauma we grow, and find new meaning, and experience “goods” in our existence hitherto unobserved or unappreciated for their nature.

In a societal level, they are an essential facet of empathy, and the ability to build cohesive societies.

There’s a commonality in popular philosophies in that they attempt to provide a universal framework, an imperative system of being - yet they almost inevitably lean on inherited dispositions and concepts with only selective examination of their foundations. This results in a tendency to either say that everything matters, or nothing matters. It’s hard for me to see much of a distinction between much of the large schools of philosophy and religion.

Like with so many things, the truth, if indeed there is such a thing, lies in a murky middle ground, and is in the eye of the beholder.

I suppose baudrillard, to my mind, has come the closest to explaining where we are, without attempting to systemise a way of being.

Anyway. This kind of thing has happened, happens, and will happen, as long as there are humans to have ideas, and language to promulgate them. Fatalistic, perhaps, but manuscripts don’t burn - they just metastasise.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-05-18 23:51:41+00:00
Models move so fast I question if papers like this are worth much. Out of curiosity I ran the clocks through Gemma-2-27B

it did ok. Pretty consistently it would mix up the hour/minute hand but was decent at actually saying what they were pointing at. It never acknowledged the second hand and sometimes mistook that for the hour hand

Interestingly it got the roman numeral one spot on. (minus the seconds) I wonder if it had more training data with that style clock.
by slyall | 2025-05-18 23:51:45+00:00
Many years ago the Economist charged just $50/year everywhere for the Digital edition. They gradually increased it though.

Then at one point changed it to a reflect the local price of the print edition in your country. I live in NZ so price was relatively high. To reduce my costs I changed my address to the US (my employer at the time).

Here is a post I did 10 years ago on their pricing:

https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2015/03/parallel-importing-vs-t...
by Aurornis | 2025-05-18 23:52:10+00:00
Reading these comments as a parent is a reminder of much internet bubbles continue to exaggerate difficulties while ignoring anything that doesn’t fit the narrative they want to see. There’s a constant theme in the internet where people imagine the past as some golden era where life was easy and raising kids was a walk in the park. We’re supposed to believe that the modern era is uniquely terrible and raising kids is impossible.

Yet looking back, history doesn’t match this narrative. I’ve worked with younger people who get ideas from Reddit that everyone in the mid 1900s was living in giant houses and living a life of luxury on the income of a mailman (literally a meme that circulates on Twitter and Reddit). They all seem confused when I explain how my grandfather on one side had to work two full-time jobs, one of which was in a mine. My other grandfather operated a farm and still had to get jobs to make ends meet. Their kids slept 2-4 to a room in small houses. They worked hard and struggled. Kids were getting jobs in their teenage years to make ends meet at the house. The list of counter-examples goes on and on, but they just won’t believe it. They’ve been so convinced by the internet that the modern world is uniquely bad and history was easy mode for raising kids.

I think the weird internet communities discussed in this article are just an extreme version of this type of distortion: They gather together to reinforce some narrative, downvoting or banning the nonbelievers while rewarding those who amplify the message with upvotes, praise, and a sense of belonging. It’s scary stuff.
by hboon | 2025-05-18 23:52:47+00:00
I started building this a few months ago and have iterated quite a bit. Want to know your feedback. Login (free) with Bluesky account after you create an app-specific password at https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords.

(Initially scheduled posting was only for Bluesky, but I've recently added cross-posting to X because cross-posting seems the way to go and I wanted to try that hypothesis out).
by yencabulator | 2025-05-18 23:53:26+00:00
Pluto has some mean mountains. Think low gravity and no erosion.

> With peaks reaching 6.2 km (3.9 mi; 20,000 ft) in height, they are the highest mountain range on Pluto, and also the steepest, with a mean slope of 19.2 degrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Montes
by teleforce | 2025-05-18 23:53:36+00:00
Notice that all the all the languages mentioned depends on the external BLAS library for example OpenBLAS for performance.

D language have excellent support functional and array features with parallel support. On top that not known to others it has high performance native BLAS kind of library with ergonomic and intuitiveness similar to python [1].

[1] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen (2016):

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
by jleyank | 2025-05-18 23:53:37+00:00
Keep in mind that ancient times (60's and 70's) also saw save-somebody's-ass politics. There's been a strong undercurrent of (counter)culture on campuses since then. Perhaps that was always the case, as the students would be the ones being shot on the barricades. At least that's why musicals and histories say.

Perhaps the lack of an external threat or insufficient motivation vs. failure leads to a lack of focus? Certainly, helicoptering does horrible things to the younger participants. Might that see-saw from generation to generation, or have we not seen those participants becoming parents yet?

I recall "good luck, we'll do all we can do to help you. F*ck up, and you're on your own...".
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-18 23:54:37+00:00
I do this too yes. It's a great extra level of security though probably not too smart to rely on as the only one.

It's true you're already screwed if they get past the VPN and I also don't set up Auth for stuff that doesn't have any private details. But don't count on just the VPN for sensitive stuff. Like password manager.
by jonahx | 2025-05-18 23:54:39+00:00
Because that was the only evidence you offered to back up the claim you just quoted. I understood the claim... it might be interesting if you presented some specific example of your own as counter-evidence, instead of straw-manning the article's intentionally simple example as too simplistic.

Your argument sounds like, "I'm so smart and enlightened, I've moved beyond simple heuristics like this." Okay, but the author is also a smart, experienced programmer and is apparently still finding them useful. I am also experienced, and personally find them useful.

I'm not against some argument that there is actually an even better, deeper way to look at these things. But you didn't make that argument. And, perhaps unfairly (you tell me) I suspect your response to that will be that it's all too gossamer, or would take too long to explain....
by CapsAdmin | 2025-05-18 23:55:50+00:00
I find that these complex types often reflect the underlying complex code. This usually happens when you interact with something that is explicitly written for javascript and takes advantage of its dynamic nature. (usually the base javascript api)

window.addEventListener(event, callback), dispatchEvent(event) and removeEventListener(callback) is a good example. In a dynamic language, this api is at least unsurprising. It's easy to understand.

In a typed language, although strategies could vary, one would probably not write the api like that if you prefer to have simpler types.

Something like this would make more sense in a typed language:

import { onChange } from 'events'

const event = onChange.Add((event) => {

})

event.Remove()

// ..

event.onChange.Dispatch({value: "1,2,3"})
by trane_project | 2025-05-19 00:00:28+00:00
I am the creator of Trane (https://github.com/trane-project/trane/) which can replace Anki and similar systems for domains that have a well-defined hierarchy between subskills (turns out that's most of them, including learning vocabulary).

There are several unresolved issues with Anki, SuperMemo, at al.

1. Emphasis on memorization. I wanted something that could be applied to domains (music) whose scoring is not based on memorization, but mastery.

2. Lack of any hierarchical information limits how well it works to learn much larger skills. It's trivial to replicate the functionality of Anki with Trane: just have one lesson where you put all your exercises. Anki cannot replicate what Trane does, which is to use the dependencies of the many sub-skills to track and limit progress until mastery is achieved.

3. Emphasis on creating your own exercises. You are expected to come up with your own decks, which takes a lot of time. For complicated skills, you need to be a domain expert to really know how to do this.

Trane is pretty much done, and I have used it to teach myself music. It does not have a UI at the moment, so I am pretty sure I am the only user. Not that I mind, because I rather not work for free.

Currently working on a literacy tutor that will be built on top of it. When it's complete, it will be able to guide all students from learning their A-B-Cs to reading and writing at college level, backed by the most up-to-date research on reading and writing acquisition. Hopefully I will be able to release an MVP in the middle of the year.
by codethief | 2025-05-19 00:01:37+00:00
> For example, the way the Astro framework for building static websites generates types for your content collections is just delightful. I really hope more tools follow in its footsteps.

Oh god, I really hope not. Those generated types are an abomination and have caused me so much pain. And don't even get me started on the ridiculous number of bugs I've run into in their type checker (which more or less wraps TSC but does some additional magic to handle their custom .astro file format and others).
by MrFoof | 2025-05-19 00:02:03+00:00
Not California, but recently I had "SIXSPD" denied by a state after putting the first known 6-speed manual (all were sold as dual-clutch automatics) in an enthusiast car.

I was told that abbreviations weren't allowed. That was the denial reason.

Resubmitted it, not denied yet. We'll see if it shows up in another 3-5 weeks or if I get a denial letter followed by an another application refund 4-6 weeks after that.
by neilv | 2025-05-19 00:02:33+00:00
> My parents were definitely not financially secure [...] If you want kids maybe not think about it so much and just yolo it.

Same here. As someone middle-aged and thus far childless, I've been thinking that "just do it" would've been the way, maybe starting as soon as a couple years after graduation.

An exception might be career planning for the woman who'd be carrying, in some career tracks.

Other than that, even the US has various ways that young parents are supported, and there are safety nets.

While one is waiting for the perfect timing, maybe partly because one's parents didn't, most other people are busy having babies in circumstances no more ideal than one's own.
by lazyeye | 2025-05-19 00:03:23+00:00
Sorry but I'm simply not wasting any more time on this. You've addressed none of the points I've made, none of the extraordinarily corrupt behaviour of the previous admin and you are completely detached from reality on almost all issues of significance. Your arguments are weak and immature. I could equally make a moral argument about the enormous harm caused by the previous administration on so many levels but you'll of course, ignore that and focus on the one scenario you believes supports your case. I'II leave you to have the last word as it's clearly a waste of time engaging with you.
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by wozniacki | 2025-05-19 00:03:57+00:00
This.

This needs to be repeated early and repeated often no matter what non-abnormal ideology you subscribe to. In as many words.

If you consider yourself a kind, decent & some what enlightened person and you do not procreate, in all likelihood the unkind or less kind people will do the procreating on your behalf. Mind you I did not even use the word tolerant which implies some measure of altruism; I'm merely saying kind & decent.

I do not know why people much older than us do not repeat this mantra more often.

I do not understand what could belie such intransigence.

What is so offensive about saying that line?

Say it early say it often.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-05-19 00:05:23+00:00
> Next, the researchers examined how fitness was associated with the risk of dying in random accidents such as car accidents, drownings and homicides. They chose random accidents because they assumed that there ought to be no association between the men’s fitness in late adolescence and the risk of dying in random accidents.

Blank slatism is the curse of the sciences. Of course the kind of people who die in car accidents and homicides are not identical to everyone else but for random luck. They're less educated[1], they make poor decisions, they have dangerous neighbors, frequently they're immigrants from countries with lots of car accidents and homicides. We've known that "everything is correlated" since 2014[2], when will science figure it out?

1. https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9438197/traffic-accident-... 2. https://gwern.net/everything
by nickjantz | 2025-05-19 00:06:26+00:00
Im not the person you’re asking but this looks like it sits inline to the actual shaft that turns the blinds. Not the pole that hangs down you turn by hand.

I looked at doing this exact thing and on my blinds there’s plenty of room in the top construction of the blinds to put a servo in there you would never see unless you’re looking for it. The rod itself was even not perfectly round so you could 3d print a shape to go around it very easily. I’m honestly shocked there’s not an aftermarket company already doing this exact thing.
by Barbing | 2025-05-19 00:06:39+00:00
Uncomfortable with K1LLJ3W & don’t (deeply) need to see GOATSE in the neighbor’s driveway every morning.

Driving’s a privilege they tell us, makes sense they’d restrict plates based on sensibilities of the average taxpayer.

Meanwhile offensive, say, t-shirts might be seen on the sidewalk but perhaps not in around your usual hangouts as a boring, easily offended person (I kid!)

(Not married to these opinions, LMK of any obvious misses here)
by shoelessone | 2025-05-19 00:07:09+00:00
Same. Replacing all of my light switches with an app I have to use anytime I want to turn the lights on or off is indeed a huge step backwards IMHO.

Replacing all of the light switches with smart switches and monition sensors and things like this, plus automated schedules, to the point that you never need to switch any switches at all or think about lights, that is nice IMHO.
by dankebitte | 2025-05-19 00:07:16+00:00
> If you aren't comfortable with trusting them with control over your network

Wrt the possibility of Tailscale being compromised, there's the in-beta tailnet lock feature:

> Tailnet lock lets you verify that no node is added to your tailnet without being signed by trusted nodes in your tailnet. When tailnet lock is enabled, even if Tailscale infrastructure is malicious or hacked, attackers can't send or receive traffic in your tailnet. [1]

[1] https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock
by _dain_ | 2025-05-19 00:11:10+00:00
>Next, the researchers examined how fitness was associated with the risk of dying in random accidents such as car accidents, drownings and homicides. They chose random accidents because they assumed that there ought to be no association between the men’s fitness in late adolescence and the risk of dying in random accidents. This method is called negative control outcome analysis and involves testing the validity of your results for a primary outcome by comparing them with an outcome where no association ought to be found. If, however, an association is found, it may indicate that the groups studied are not actually comparable, and that the study suffers from what is typically referred to as confounding. The researchers found that men with the highest fitness levels had a 53 per cent lower risk of dying in random accidents. Yet, it is unlikely that the men’s fitness would have such a big effect on their risk of dying in random accidents.

I haven't read the underlying paper so maybe they addressed this, but: couldn't this just be because sedentary/unfit people tend to drive everywhere? So they're involved in more car accidents than healthier people, who walk places more.

Also if you're fat and don't exercise, you've got a lower chance of surviving emergency surgery after a car crash, or swimming to safety after falling in water, or dodging a knife ... I don't think it's a given that physical fitness is unrelated to surviving those things.
by alex1115alex | 2025-05-19 00:11:25+00:00
The Unitree robots look great in videos, kind of suck in reality. The motors in the humanoid (G1) overheat after shaking hands a few times, and the wheeled dog (GO2W) drifts like a broken RC car and constantly topples over in motion.

They also patched the known jailbreak methods early this year, so all newer models lack sensor access unless you pay Unitree massive $$$ for SDK access.

The base Go2 is a fun toy, though. There’s a high level web SDK you can use for free.
by ajross | 2025-05-19 00:12:18+00:00
> Unfortunately GDP is also dollar-valued

It... what? Good grief. If I buy a candy bar for $1, it counts to the GDP as $1. If it inflates and I have to pay $1.20 for the next one, you're saying that the GDP magically knows to adjust the accounting for how much it used to cost?! No, this is ridiculous. GDP counts currency.

The amount of bad economics being deployed in support of baldly political positions on HN is just astounding.
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-19 00:13:24+00:00
India and Pakistan are overall poor but there’s also a vast upper and middle class with wealth and those are the people buying subscriptions to the economist. They have equivalent wealth to, for example, Bay Area tech industry managers but have much better lives than in the USA with private drivers, live-in chefs, live-in child care… these are my friends and I know that they can pay more than me for a subscription to the economist.