MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by emursebrian | 2025-05-29 14:11:23+00:00
I've been developing with .NET since version 1.1. I feel like it's always been pretty easy to use for beginners. You install Visual Studio, create a new project and BOOM you've got a program that builds and runs.

Having used Turbo Pascal and Turbo C prior to Visual Basic and Visual C, Microsoft's "Visual" IDEs and other Windows based IDEs of the 90's were a step up in ease of use even if they did require more files to build a project.
by jonhohle | 2025-05-29 14:11:44+00:00
My oldest son was similar and when he did start reading he wouldn’t stop. We restricted screen time but never books (until he was up all night reading, rushing through work to read, etc.).

You may want to look into having your son tested for gifted services when he reaches school age and if he’s highly gifted and your district offers it, enroll him in a comprehensive gifted program. Someone with abstract reasoning like that may benefit from a modified educational environment.
by noosphr | 2025-05-29 14:12:08+00:00
https://www.xp-pen.com/product/artist-pro-24-gen-2-4k.html

4k and quite affordable. And it's a real screen the rest of the time.

Like I said the main quality of life improvement has been xournalpp. Development in the last year has taken off and it's one of the most pleasant projects to contribute to.
by viraptor | 2025-05-29 14:12:37+00:00
I meant the method, not the benefits - that one kid reading at 3yo doesn't say anything about the method used. Also, that paper classifies early as starting reading between 0-7yo. Also, in twin studies they show quite high heritability compared to environment impact (which is higher to be fair). Also the impact they showed was between early reading and positive outcomes, but it doesn't show that (simplifying) you can make kids read earlier in some ways.

So it's an interesting study, but it's not really discussing "How I taught...". It's (simplifying) "do early readers have better life", not "can you use method to give kids better life via earlier reading". (Which may still be true!)
by programjames | 2025-05-29 14:12:44+00:00
I've seen people with a great deal of natural ability. I'm certainly one of them. But most never got as good at maths as me, because my father began teaching me before an age I can remember. I also never got as good as some others, with arguably less natural ability, because my father didn't know what an amazing maths education looks like either—he grew up in the middle-of-nowhere, went off to college, and realized, "I really should have learned all this stuff earlier," and did his best to do so for me, but he was learning about competition maths at the same time as me. This is not to say that competition maths make an "amazing maths education", just that competition maths coaches exist, and they know exactly how to best teach students maths, while I learned mostly through trial and error.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-29 14:12:46+00:00
> it's also the opinion of Tim Berners-Lee, which I would hope carries at least some weight

Not at all. He's famous for helping create the initial version of JavaScript, which was a fairly even mixture of great and terrible. Which means his initial contributions to software were not extremely noteworthy, and he just happened to be in the right time and right place, since something like JavaScript was apparently inevitable. Plus, I can't think of any of his major contributions to software in the decades since. So no, I don't even think that's really an appeal to authority.
by WillAdams | 2025-05-29 14:12:55+00:00
The former.

The crux of the lawsuit as I understood it from hearing about it from letters my parents received from involved parents was that a student who was unable to learn at the accelerated pace and graduated with only a high-school diploma sued to either be allowed to continue to attend the school for 4 additional years, or to be granted funds to attend a college.

The school was the only public school in the county, and was attended by all the local residents (the student who initiated the lawsuit was one of them) and the children of the personnel of the local Air Force Base --- it was the matching DoD funding which made the school system possible.
by freedomben | 2025-05-29 14:13:23+00:00
Fantastic talk and a terrific write-up. Whether or not you agree with Doctorow's proposed solutions, I think his analysis of the problem and how we got here is pretty compelling.

If you want to watch the talk (linked to from TFA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw

I you want to go even deeper, I also highly recommend his book, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation"
by ancillary | 2025-05-29 14:14:09+00:00
Yeah, the world in which human-generated indie content is noticeably better (in terms of clicks) than blogspam or AI content seems better for Google. Each of those indie players is happy for some traffic, and they're unlikely to muscle together and negotiate hard. Why would Google want to destroy that world to negotiate against players more comparable to its size?

My guess is that differentiating human- and AI-generated content at anything approaching Google scale has become hard, and Google's best option is to prioritize known information sources, which are necessarily large firms with some amount of reputational proof (though I'd also say that Forbes is not my go-to example of a good actor in this space).
by blooalien | 2025-05-29 14:14:22+00:00
Yeah, no. I'm not an "AI fanatic" by a long-shot, but whatever... I use A.I. sometimes, and other times I don't. When I do use it, I use it for what it's good at. When I don't, it's because it's simply not capable of the task at hand. Simple as that. :shrug:
by Xcelerate | 2025-05-29 14:14:39+00:00
To be fair to [0], Leonid Levin (co-discoverer of NP-completeness) makes a similar but slightly weaker claim in a more formal sense: that no algorithm or even random process can increase mutual algorithmic information between two strings (beyond O(1)), which includes any process that attempts to increase mutual information with the halting sequence (https://cs-web.bu.edu/fac/lnd/dvi/IIjacm.pdf).

Nevertheless, we clearly do have some finite amount of information about this sequence, evident in the axioms of PA or ZFC or any other formal system that proves an infinite number of programs as non-halting (hence why the Busy Beaver project has been able to provably confirm BB(5)). We presume these systems are truly consistent and sound even if that fact is itself unprovable, so then where exactly did the non-halting information in the axioms of these systems “come from”?

Levin stops short of speculating about that, simply leaving it at the fact that what we have so far cannot be extended further by either algorithmic or random means. But if that’s the case, then either AI is capped at these same predictive limits as well (i.e., in the sense of problems AI could solve that humans could not, both given unlimited resources), or there is additional non-halting information embedded in the environment that an AI could “extract” better than a human. (I suppose it’s also possible we haven’t fully exploited the non-halting information we do have, but I think that’s unlikely since we’re not even sure whether BB(6) is ZFC-provable and that’s a rather tiny machine).
by ty6853 | 2025-05-29 14:14:45+00:00
There is nothing even remotely close to a 'free market' in pet clinics.

A free market would be me with a sign in the corner, offering to perform surgery on your dog, with my engineering degree printed on a piece of paper and anesthetics I manufactured in my basement.

North America has severely limited the number of veterinarians and regulated the care, the monopolistic elements are likely largely a result of government intervention.
by nradov | 2025-05-29 14:15:13+00:00
I don't know about EPO, it probably wouldn't have been that useful. But it was an open secret that a lot of the elite ground troops used illegally purchased performance enhancing steroids to build muscle and accelerate recovery. Long patrols through rough terrain while carrying a heavy load are extremely grueling and a little enhancement was tremendously helpful. Use of those drugs was technically a violation of military regulations. But officers often looked the other way because they didn't want to endanger the mission, and regular urine tests didn't check for steroids.

Now that the GWOT is over, the peacetime military has been cracking down on steroid use.
by evanelias | 2025-05-29 14:16:08+00:00
No, that's not correct. MariaDB is a "hard fork" of MySQL, and they've both grown in different directions. MariaDB used to cherry-pick code from MySQL 5.x, but hasn't been "drop in" compatible for quite a long time, especially since MySQL 8.0 which came out 7 years ago.

Even just looking at table design and schema management functionality, here's my increasingly-long rundown of subtle differences in features and syntax: https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/05/10/mysql-vs-mariadb-schem...
by cratermoon | 2025-05-29 14:16:25+00:00
That Sherpa was born and lived on the mountain his whole life. Everything he is was molded by his life. His ability to make the climb came from years of experience and knowledge.

The foreigner huffed some gas and slept in a high-tech tube a week before the climb.

I'll leave to the reader to decide which one deserves respect and admiration.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-29 14:16:39+00:00
You have a point. Here's what Alta Vista looked like.

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

Google's simplicity and clarity became part of the brand. No one else was doing that at the time. Even "efficient" designs were maximalist, so extreme minimalism with a splash of colour was a real innovation.
by username223 | 2025-05-29 14:16:54+00:00
100%

I've climbed some mountains, and while I don't know if I would be capable of doing Everest, I do know that I wouldn't want to (unless I could do it like Goran Kropp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göran_Kropp). I guess I could brag if I doped myself, took a helicopter past the Khumbu Icefall, and had servants carrying my stuff the whole way to the summit, but I could never be proud of myself for doing that.
by roenxi | 2025-05-29 14:17:40+00:00
> ...by showing them what happens if they don't.

So do the poor not have any resources, or do they have sufficient resources to bully the rich? Because if they have enough resources to cause other people problems they should maybe consider trying to use those resources to better themselves instead.

They don't have much, but they have more than enough to get much better results if they behaved in a sensible and organised fashion. If nothing else, a lot of poor people live in democracies and have the numbers to ram policy through if they have enough neurons to separate good ideas from bad [0]. I suppose it depends on what you want to call poor, but if they've got the numbers, time and energy to wreck things then they've certainly got the numbers to effect positive change.

I'd agree most people probably aren't up to the challenge; but searching for a better way is a much better strategy than being all "we're going for a replay of la Terreur!".

[0] The political process is pretty devastating evidence that they don't, it appears the best effort in a well educated place like the US was either Trump or the US Democrats. Hard to tell which attempt is more pathetic. Most voters have nearly no idea abut complex issues like creating prosperity.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-29 14:18:17+00:00
> They do, if you read them.

I did read the article, which is how I knew Lukas Furtenbach was involved. Please don’t accuse people of not reading the article when they’re specifically talking about content of the article.

Anyway, my point was that if these articles wanted to be serious about the science, they’d lead with the studies and science.

Instead, they tack on weasel words (literally “some experts say” and “some research” as in your quotes ) in an attempt to make it feel like a both-sides style journalism while leaving Furtenbach’s claims as the headline and the main story.
by electroly | 2025-05-29 14:20:21+00:00
> It is far superior to the likes of Python, and would easily be the best in the areas of machine learning...

The fact that Python is the language of choice for ML makes it clear that technical superiority was not necessary or relevant. Python is the worst language around. The lack of better languages was never the problem. Making F# technically better wasn't going to make it the choice for ML.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-05-29 14:20:29+00:00
"Back during the 2000 dot-com boom crash I met a guy who got into a top business school in part by writing about the challenges of climbing Everest. He confessed drunkenly at a party to me that he'd never even left the USA..."

It kind of makes sense. A lot of business success is about being able to bullshit convincingly.
by gorjusborg | 2025-05-29 14:20:34+00:00
Censorship is about filtering out messages that are somehow 'undesirable'.

That is not what is happening here. What's happening here is that someone has built a business that relies heavily on search hits from Google, Google made changes that negatively impact the number of hits.

I'm not trying to minimize what is clearly a significant problem for the author, I'm just saying that misusing words like 'censorship' can water it down to the point that it has no impact.

I abhor censorship. This isn't it.
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-29 14:20:41+00:00
Ben Shneiderman's the "hyperlinks should always be blue" guy. ;)

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperli...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29897811

Seriously, while he was the first to use blue for links in HyperTIES, there was a historical context (like the IBM PC's color palette), and he never meant it in a "640k ought to be enough for anybody" way. His reasons for recommending blue are based on empirical studies, measuring visibility, comprehension, retention, etc.

Blue is good not just because users recognize it (they didn't in 1983), but for how it stands out, because of how the human visual system works. He was originally a fan of cyan aka "light blue".

Ben Shneiderman wrote:

>"Red highlighting made the links more visible, but reduced the user’s capacity to read and retain the content of the text… blue was visible, on both white and black backgrounds and didn’t interfere with retention,"

>"We conducted approximately 20 empirical studies of many design variables which were reported at the Hypertext 1987 conference and in array of journals and books. Issues such as the use of light blue highlighting as the default color for links, the inclusion of a history stack, easy access to a BACK button, article length, and global string search were all studied empirically.”

>"My students conducted more than a dozen experiments (unpublished) on different ways of highlighting and selection using current screens, e.g. green screens only permitted, bold, underscore, blinking, and I think italic(???). When we had a color screen we tried different color highlighted links. While red made the links easier to spot, user comprehension and recollection of the content declined. We chose the light blue, which Tim adopted."

HyperTIES Discussions from Hacker News:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperties-discussions-from-hac...
by overu589 | 2025-05-29 14:21:13+00:00
There is a civil war within us.

I would really like to share details, however I would be immediately flagged.

Let’s just say, our problems are your problems too, they are merely incubating and festering in America, where these are calmly patiently subverting yours.

The “problem” is not maga or Trump, the problem is an enthusiastic supporter of Trump/maga. Trump/maga is the dream cover for America’s “little problem”.

All sides have it, the shit show merely swells around certain issues setting “sides” off.

These are among all sides, even yours. Your communities have become their havens, all squawking whichever virtue signaling.

America’s Americans aren’t the America they think they are. Americans are the America thought controlled.
by WillAdams | 2025-05-29 14:21:32+00:00
I've actually been using OpenPythonSCAD for this sort of thing:

https://pythonscad.org/

paired with:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/

it lets me rough out an algorithm (see the section on arcs in: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre... ) interactively, seeing the result on-screen --- then once I have the rough concept, I can re-write it in Python, retaining this interactivity.

EDIT: next step is to work up a batch file which has me running OpenSCAD on a series of files to output .png and .svg files to read them back in and place the output at the appropriate places in the document.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-05-29 14:22:12+00:00
The main significant difference, Electron bundles it's own version of Chrome which means you have very few cross platform issues when shipping Mac/Windows/Linux. This trades off a few hundred meg for consistency in rendering.

Tauri uses the OS engine which means Windows uses Edge presumably and Mac uses Safari's Webkit so you're going to have rendering differences and feature differences there.
by Hilift | 2025-05-29 14:22:59+00:00
> PowerShell scripts running all the glue/infrastructure stuff.

I'm pleased to report it is usually not possible to do that. It would only create a huge mess. C# is more conducive for anything more than a few methods. And there is almost no barrier. PS is great for smaller ad-hoc stuff, and it is the "script that is on every Windows platform" component similar to what VBScript was a few years ago.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-29 14:23:01+00:00
>Did we ever have someone try learning to verbalize thoughts with the sign language, while vocalizing different thoughts through speaking?

Can you carry on a phone conversation at the same time as carrying on an active chat conversation. Can you type a thought to one person while speaking about a different thought at the same time? Can you read a response and listen to a response simultaneously? I feel like this would be pretty easy to test. Just coordinate between the speaking person and the typing person, so that they each give 30 seconds of input information, then you have to provide at least 20 or 25 seconds out of 30 responding.

I am pretty confident I could not do this.
by naijaboiler | 2025-05-29 14:23:35+00:00
His mistake was in couching it language of Internet adoption rather than the gross impact on economic productivity. He was wrong on the former and mostly right on the latter. It is very possible for a technology to have dramatic effect on society without a big impact on overall economic productivity

Darren acegmolu is making only the latter argument. I’m betting he’s right.
by lesuorac | 2025-05-29 14:24:07+00:00
Are they?

I thought nowadays the sherpas practically carry you up there so it's of low risk to you.

Both wikipedia [1] and an expedition company [2] seem to put the deaths per year as <10 with it being dominated by people from Nepal who are presumably the sherpas doing all the work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbi...

[2]: https://www.climbing-kilimanjaro.com/mount-everest-deaths/
by uludag | 2025-05-29 14:24:39+00:00
I can confirm that pretty much anything that can be done in VSCode can be done in Emacs from my seven yeas of experience. I guess the only hurdle would be having to spend some time to configure some things, though for the most part installing packages in Emacs is very hassle free. A lot of companies, probably to promote their product, will create VSCode extensions. These never seem to be absolutely necessary.

To me the biggest thing would be company politics. There's some companies that have a policy to use a certain editor (to share config and whatnot).
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-29 14:24:40+00:00
It's not the neutrinos themselves that are dangerous, it is the showers that are produced when the neutrinos interact with 'shielding' material between the source and the victim.

It's related to the problem in space colonization that the optimal amount of shielding is maybe 2 meters of lunar soil. Less than that and moderate energy particles are harmful. High energy particles mostly blast right through you but if one is stopped by a nucleus in the shielding, that nucleus will be blasted apart and particles from that could blow up more nuclei so a large amount of dangerous and penetrating (muons, pions) radiation is produced. It seems that some very high energy particles (neutrinos?) can pass through the earth and cause a shower, so it's not reasonable you can stop all of them. The earth's atmosphere is spread out over a long distance that gives particles a chance to decay so a shield that is better than the 2 meter shield would be difficult to construct so space colonists are going to accept a minimum level of radiation than we have on Earth.
by taylodl | 2025-05-29 14:25:24+00:00
I'm sure it's simply a means to funnel more money to SpaceX. I'm old enough to remember the original Star Wars (both Reagan's idiotic missile defense system and the movie). The problem hasn't gotten any easier since then, in fact quite the opposite, and the requisite technology has not really advanced much, either. What it really boils down to is mad men want the ability to lash out at the world without facing any consequences. It's good for all of us that physics doesn't allow that.
by eadmund | 2025-05-29 14:25:43+00:00
Honestly, I believe that the Web would have been better had we stuck to those expectations more diligently and evolved more slowly and thoughtfully. That one can does not imply that one should.

Blue links and purple visited links were fine. And now on most sites there is no differentiation, and it’s sometimes difficult to tell what is a link, and a lot of sites don’t even bother linking. This is not an improvement!
by wiredfool | 2025-05-29 14:25:50+00:00
First Child: ooh I know nothing. Nothing works. Second Child: Ok, We've got this. Except, No, completely different. Third Child: At least we've got the range. No. No you don't.

Big issue we had with the first was that he was reading several years above grade level, and we ran out of interesting things for him to read that were age appropriate. When they can read the Hobbit at 7, but are scared, it's really difficult.

Of course, he's now reading things like type theory and scares me with Nix advocacy, so I guess it all comes around.
Ask HN: Any AI-powered PM tools exist for SaaS founders?
by artur_makly | 2025-05-29 14:25:55+00:00
I'm looking for an AI-powered PM tool that will help manage various needs for a growing SaaS. Basic key things like:

- Help brainstorm various outbound marketing and customer retention strategies/tactics.

- Help generate a timeline plan for the best tactics in a calendar with actionable steps.

- Track progress over weeks, generate a report, and analyze outcomes of each tactic/campaign.

- Daily Stand-ups ( for all members )

+1 for a Kanban view!

Note: Perplexity is just suggesting ( Monday, Clickup, Wrike )..but I'd thought perhaps someone is building something here more fine-tuned to SaaS and not a one-size-fits-all platform. If not, I'd love to hear what works for you!
by lotharcable | 2025-05-29 14:27:07+00:00
> Disabling the 'backdoor' seems to just involve disabling SSH.

Maybe. My guess these are essentially Linux systems, so if attackers know that their exploits are widely known then they will likely try to figure out ways to install kernel mod rootkits.

It'll then end up in a situation with Windows XP/Vista days were IT desktop support staff would run malware removal tools to get rid of porn pop-ups on desktops only to have "reinfections" pop up a day or week or two later.

They'd blame users for this, but really they just never actually removed the command and control botnet features. They just addressed their payloads. The machines were never actually fixed in the first place.