MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KPGv2 | 2025-05-18 22:09:05+00:00
I do this with my kids' "exam review" materials. I'll take a photo of the pages marked "study this for test" and send to Gemini and say "make a test out of this" and it'll create an exam with questions, answers, multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, etc.

It's really impressive. So I just tried it to do what you were asking:

> Give me the first three paragraphs of Genji Monogatari in Japanese (I've only done this for an initial seed text; you'd probably instead use your own source text)

Here are the first three paragraphs of Genji Monogatari (源氏物語) in Japanese:

いづれの御時にか、[snip]

> Create spaced learning repetition of those three paragraphs using cloze detection for any word that is not in the top 5000 most common Japanese words

Okay, I can help you create a spaced repetition exercise for those three paragraphs from Genji Monogatari. This will use cloze deletion (fill-in-the-blanks) for words that are generally less common in modern Japanese or are characteristic of classical Japanese. Since I don't have a real-time tool to check against a specific "top 5000 words" list, I'll select words based on common knowledge of Japanese vocabulary and classical forms that would typically be targeted for study.

Please note that the third paragraph you provided contained "тревоしき", which appears to be a transcription error. [This is true. Gemini's first three paras of this novel did contain this transcription error.] I will substitute it with "あさましき" (asamashiki), meaning "shocking" or "deplorable," which fits the context of referencing Yang Guifei and potential societal disruption. If you believe another word was intended, let me know!

What I received was a canvas I can export to Docs, and it begins with:

Genji Monogatari - Spaced Repetition Cloze Exercise This exercise is designed to help you learn and recall less common vocabulary and classical expressions from the beginning of Genji Monogatari.

Paragraph 1 - Cloze Test いづれの ______ にか、______ 、______ あまた ______ たまひけるなかに、いと ______ き際にはあらぬが、すぐれて ______ たまふあり ______ 。はじめより我はと ______ たまへる ______ 、______ ものに ______ そねみたまふ。同じほど、それより ______ の更衣たちは、ましてやすからず。

Paragraph 1 - Answer Key いづれの 御時（おんとき）にか、女御（にょうご）、更衣（こうい）あまた さぶらひたまひけるなかに、いと やむごとなき（やんごとなき）際にはあらぬが、すぐれて 時めき（ときめき）たまふありけり。はじめより我はと 思ひあがり（おもいあがり）たまへる 御方々（おんかたがた）、めざましきものに おとしめ そねみたまふ。同じほど、それより 下﨟（げろう）の更衣たちは、ましてやすからず。

Paragraph 1 - Vocabulary 御時 (おんとき): reign, era (honorific) 女御 (にょうご): Imperial consort of high rank 更衣 (こうい): Imperial consort of lower rank than Nyōgo あまた (amata): many, much (classical) さぶらひ (saburahi): (archaic form of 侍う - saburau) to serve, to be in attendance (humble) やむごとなき (yamugotonaki/yangotonaki): exalted, of very high rank, distinguished (classical)

[it continues the same way with para 2, 3]
by canvascritic | 2025-05-18 22:09:10+00:00
Clearly a labor of love. Props to you

I suppose if one is teaching or evangelizing constructor theory, this could be sort of like an interactive textbook

Needless to say, constructor theory hasn't really earned a stable foothold in mainstream physics, and there's a lot of hype in this space, but that's not a criticism of this particular project, just good to know for anyone not familiar

The quantum gravity + graviton tasks stuff especially. without a falsifiable physical model backing it, this can feel like mathematized cosplay. But that has more to do with constructor theory vs this project

Would love to see someone do a pluggable backend so you could test different "task ontologies" against each other.

Mainly I came here to say that categories can likely be used to great effect here a la Geroch

For instance you can start by modeling tasks as morphisms between substrate states (objects), and then enforce composition explicitly. define constructors as functors that map tasks and substrates while preserving structure.

for quantum or irreversible effects, use monads to encapsulate branching and decoherence. Then one could represent task sequences as categorical diagrams and check for commutativity. Or embed substrates via Yoneda to expose behavior in terms of available tasks
by MostlyStable | 2025-05-18 22:09:54+00:00
I don't think what I wrote would be very generally useful, other than the basic idea of it. I wrote it with some pretty narrow assumptions about card layout etc that work for my exact deck, and it's not designed to be flexible. It wouldn't be hard to adjust it I don't think, but also it's such a simple script, that once you have gotten to the point of changing it, you aren't much beyond writing it from scratch either.
by lzbobr | 2025-05-18 22:10:26+00:00
Enzzo is a platform to help product managers to be more productive, and try to be part of their daily workflow. It has build-in knowledge about the product, hardware, software, and also, it can refer user’s data, public data plus Enzzo’s own data when it is doing any tasks. Enzzo won’t just do what you asked, but also will based on the context to make suggestions or provide feedbacks to help you build a better product
by clockwork-dev | 2025-05-18 22:10:51+00:00
I've been liking Explainable Boosting Machines lately (kind of a cross between a GAM and a tree). They also have decision trees. Haven't tested them in production yet but they're pretty to look at.

[0] https://interpret.ml/docs/ebm.html [1] https://interpret.ml/docs/dt.html
by al_borland | 2025-05-18 22:11:48+00:00
I wish all markdown editors just had their markdown files in a simple folder like Obsidian does.

I wanted to like Bear, which advertises that it uses markdown. But when I went looking for the files, they were locked away in a database. This was many years ago, so if this has changed, I’d be happy to hear it.

I’d love to be able to easily jump between apps, which markdown should allow in theory, but in practice view apps allow for. I don’t find using a text editor to be ideal here as a solution, as I want my notes to look like notes and hide away the syntax when the cursor isn’t on the syntax. Obsidian handles this well, most text editors do not.
by echelon | 2025-05-18 22:12:00+00:00
Why shouldn't a law firm be owned by non-lawyers? That limitation seems ridiculous.

Hospitals are owned by non-doctors. Engineering firms are owned by non-engineers. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the ones that fail are owned by the practitioners and the ones that succeed are led by former outsiders.

Toymaking companies are owned by adults, gynecology practices can be owned by men, wheelchair companies can be owned by those who can walk, record labels can be owned by non-vocalists, etc. Most sports teams...

Why should lawyers get special treatment?

If someone is a good operator, that's orthogonal.

Most ICs are not good at leadership, logistics, product, long term vision, etc. or at least not everything that a well-rounded CEO or owner might be. While hiring leadership from within the ranks works, it's not a necessary condition for success.
by brudgers | 2025-05-18 22:12:16+00:00
In the US, that sounds rather normal for normal triple-net commercial space for a normal new business run by people without established commercial relationships.

Typically, new businesses don’t get very much credit on favorable terms without established commercial relationships.

Dealing with failing or failed businesses is just not worth the hassle for most established businesses working in the established business market segment.

Silicon Valley is probably different because the business relationships are different. And of course month to month and short lease real estate are an entirely different market segment than triple-net.
by laidoffengineer | 2025-05-18 22:12:20+00:00
i'm a laid off senior engineer (or at least that was my level when i was employed). i apply to junior roles all the time and get rejected without interview. feel like there are other senior engineers out there in the same boat.

this could be an amazing time for companies to pick up more experienced engineers at junior position/salary. but they aren't biting.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-18 22:12:31+00:00
They are run by partners laser focused on making money, just over a longer time horizon than private equity would be. Equity partners have most of their own wealth tied to the firm.

Grads are cheap. Partners can dangle the future senior associate/partner carrot over the head of a hopeful junior for many years while that junior brings in money that goes into the partners’ pockets. The junior brings in more money as they grow professionally.
by Henchman21 | 2025-05-18 22:13:03+00:00
I thought the term came from a speakeasy in Manhattan that had an exit on 86th street. So when ejecting a patron who'd become too drunk & disorderly, they'd "86 'em!", which roughly meant pushing them out the exit onto 86th street. I've heard this particular tale from multiple bartenders in Manhattan. I've always questioned its veracity, as it feels a bit too good to be true!
by musicale | 2025-05-18 22:13:26+00:00
Fortunately you can connect a replica PDP-8 front panel to an emulator!

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8

Or an FPGA-based hardware version:

https://hackaday.io/project/180081-opencores-pdp-8-on-fpga

http://fpgaretrocomputing.org/pdp8x/

etc.
by millzlane | 2025-05-18 22:13:35+00:00
Espanso looks promising but Atext (paid) fits niche very nicely for me.

With atexts gui it makes building new entries easy. I even have a keyboard shortcut to use highlighted text to quickly make a new entry.

I have used it to write emails, make automation's for certain websites that take keyboard shortcuts. I use it to build query searches for certain websites I use frequent (kinda like firefox back in the day).

https://www.trankynam.com/atext/
by skeledrew | 2025-05-18 22:14:36+00:00
I did see that a while back, but I haven't had any issues so didn't look into it. A quick search just now though shows Syncthing-Fork on F-Droid, so it should be an easy migration if there does come a need. I did the same with Orgzly a few months ago as it too was forked due to the original dev going MIA, and there were a few annoyances I wanted resolved.
by KPGv2 | 2025-05-18 22:14:58+00:00
Anki has AnkiConnect which is exactly this, I think

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2055492159

IIRC Yomichan (been a long time since I needed tools like that) is a Chrome extension that lets you mouseover words and it'll show you the meaning. I think you can invoke something in Chrome that will trigger the Anki Connect API and send the info to Anki to create a card.

I've never bothered with this, but I think that's what you're looking for.
by immibis | 2025-05-18 22:15:16+00:00
> Israel is composed of people who just went through a legitimate holocaust and genocide themselves.

This gives them a free pass to commit a second one, right?

Also, no it's not. That's just not true. Israel is not composed of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. The youngest survivors of the Nazi Holocaust are over 80 years old now. Is Israel composed of people over 80 years old? And is 80 years ago a time that "just" happened?
by pedalpete | 2025-05-18 22:17:06+00:00
You're completely right on so many levels.

We're not hobbyist level, I'm the co-founder of https://affectablesleep.com, so consumer grade sleep eeg, but the main point is to increase the brain's restorative function, not just measure sleep, your watch/ring is good enough for that.

We spent a LOT of time designing our dry electrodes, which work well, but in our final hardware, we've still decided to go with active electrodes (amplified signal, for those not familiar). You definitely need an RLD as well.

The ability to move a mouse with just occipital electrodes and ref and rld has been done quite a bit, and there are projects such as this (https://openelectronicslab.github.io/eeg-mouse/) which show how it's done, as well as many published research papers.

However, that isn't to suggest it's easy. As you've said, movement noise is a significant challenge. You'll need to be very still or else the electrode movement just causes a ton of noise.

Your noise level comes less from the board than the electrode set-up.

You mention [2] that does impedance measurement as well, but no link, can you post that?
by t-writescode | 2025-05-18 22:17:07+00:00
There’s a lot to be said about this comment, but I’ll stick to two things.

1) it’s a waste of resources for seniors to be doing the work that the juniors and 2s can do. Hunting down infrequent or low priority bugs, fixing small layout issues, etc. they’re perfect for someone paid less and growing and learning the codebase.

There is *always* plenty of junior-ready work and the day a week of work to schedule, prep and help those juniors to do it pays dividends.

2) a Junior leaving because you won’t pay them, have a toxic culture or won’t give them a promotion when it’s time speaks more about a broken company culture and one of a style that’s rampant in the tech industry and business at large than it does about loyalty and willingness for the employee to stay at the company.

Good leadership and skilled organizers can easily solve the problems you’ve listed; and, even better, create a culture of longevity for all the employees at a company, not just the juniors.

Speaking as someone that has worked for companies that give a shit about their workers and who helped raise me up from a low SDE.
by krrrh | 2025-05-18 22:18:09+00:00
I love it too, I actually decided to never read the book because all the book readers I have talked to hated it.

Highly recommend the upscaled to 4k fan edit on YouTube. They splice in lost footage that was cut from Lynch’s initial edit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=faHQA_0d9Mo
by nicwolff | 2025-05-18 22:18:13+00:00
Why did they leave the Seaport on the flood tide? Low tide was 5:37 PM EDT, so at 8:30 the current up the "river" (really a tidal strait) was just about at its fastest – if they'd lost way there four or more hours earlier or later they'd have been washed out into the harbor, probably safely but at any rate not under any bridges.

At 8:30 PM, even if it had gone well, they'd have been motoring against a 3 knot current that they could have had going their way instead.

I fear the reason they left then was so they could have their light show with the cadets on the yardarms just after sunset for greatest effect and audience... but then they should have picked another day.
by canvascritic | 2025-05-18 22:18:35+00:00
Heh. This landing page takes me to somewhere between deepmind circa 2014 and tesla's AI Day press decks.

I mean if you're actually training humanoids in under an hour with sim-to-real transfer that "just works" then congrats, you've solved half of embodied AI

the vertical integration schtick (from "metal to model") echoes early apple, but in the robotics space that usually means either 1) your burn rate is brutal and you're ngmi, or 2) you're hiding how much is really off-the-shelf

Clearly the real play here, assuming it's legit, is the RL infra. K-Sim is def interesting if it's not just another wrapper over Brax/Isaac. Until we see actual benchmarks re say, dexterous manipulation tasks trained zero-shot on physical hardware, it's hard to separate "open-source humanoid stack" from the next pitch that ends in "-scale"
by CPLX | 2025-05-18 22:19:02+00:00
Because lawyers occupy a quasi-public role in our legal system. They aren’t entirely separate from the system itself. The legal system depends on the enforcement of ethics and responsibility in a way that might be incompatible with a purely profit motive.

This point is arguable of course. On one hand legal services are expensive and often inaccessible for many. On the other hand more aggressive competition and consolidation has absolutely ruined society in a couple situations, medicine being the obvious example.

So there’s more than one point of view on this.
by sberens | 2025-05-18 22:20:32+00:00
I wish IDEs had more features/tooling around types. For example, something like "expand all types by one level" where

{ foo: Bar } would expand to { foo : { bar1: string, bar2: Baz } } (and you could trigger it again to expand Baz)

(this would be especially nice if it worked with vscode/cursor on-hover type definitions)
by codekansas | 2025-05-18 22:20:50+00:00
Oh sorry about that, actually we are still putting together the hardware specs for the robot - we just launched the software SDK today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022106 Planning to make an announcement about the hardware later

We do have an entirely 3D printable robot with build guide here, if you're interested: https://docs.kscale.dev/docs/zeroth-bot-01#/
by dogcomplex | 2025-05-18 22:22:12+00:00
This. Except one should also disillusion themselves of the idea that there will always be a higher quality to the 'hand made' versions. AI will almost certainly outpace us in every way, including the ability to make something beautiful that looks 'hand-made', even with artificial flaws and illusions of the history and natural rugged beauty of the piece.

The only discernable difference that won't be replicable is a cryptographic signature "Certified 100% Human-Made!" sticker, which will probably become the mark of the niche industry.

Somewhat more accurate analogy would be the custom car market. Beautiful collectible convertibles with fine detailing everywhere, priced thousands of times higher than normal cars, that actually run far worse and basically break apart after a few thousand miles and are impossible to find parts for. Automated factories certainly could churn them out but they don't because they're impractical poorly-designed status items kept artificially scarce for the very rich to peacock with.

Except AI will probably still produce equivalent impractical stuff anyway, just because production (digital and physical) will eventually be easy enough that resources are negligible, and everyone can have flashy impractical stuff. So again, only that "100% Human!" seal will distinguish, eventually.
by godelski | 2025-05-18 22:22:39+00:00
1) Why does Apple make "gobsmack amount(s) of profit"? Perhaps there's a strategy that leads to this. I believe the memes version is "Says 'because they're rich'; refuses to elaborate; leaves"

2) My example was clothing. I certainly think this makes sense as a setting in such an environment. Let you look and try. Directly sell most common sizes, transfer to online purchase for others. You can even have employees measure customers to get the right fits! Now you could even do the virtual tryons. This is very different than racks of clothes.

3) I think you forgot about stores like Sharper Image, Electronics Boutique, or Brookstone. Customers frequently would go into these stores to just see all the random gadgets and stuff. I can certainly remember going into Brookstone dozens of times yet not actually buying anything. Thing is, what these stores were good at was advertising products. But they were terrible at selling them because you could always find the same things somewhere else for cheaper, like Sears.

Like I've said, the value of many of the physical stores was not just in direct sales. That was a fine metric in the old days, but things changed and so did many other things. My original comment was a claim that a myopic view was applied, hyper focusing on the limited direct sales metric. But coke doesn't advertise to make you aware of coke nor do car companies advertise to make you aware of cars. They do things differently because their size and markets are different.

My point of a lemon market is that with the loss of ability to physically scrutinize products, you cannot tell the difference between a lemon or a peach. What I didn't say, is that this incentivizes more dark patterns like making returns difficult. Part of Amazon's quick adoption was free returns, making the downside of buying a lemon low, only costing you time. But the idea of tricking you into buying something, especially with a subscription, and making you live with the purchase sounds more like the strategy of an infomercial penis pill scam, not a blue chip business.
by robocat | 2025-05-18 22:24:23+00:00
xtracto doesn't understand security. An individual with crypto must not advertise that they have any or they will be spear targeted (up to and including lead-pipe analysis by distributed anonymous resources). https://archive.ph/PJTZP

Internet anonymity might be a temporary defence, until AI doxing analysis improves or one's government decides to change their rules (good luck securing against that).

I don't have any crypto: firstly because I lack the opsec skills. Also because I travel to other countries, and the best defense is to actually not have anything worth being stolen (or limited financial exposure e.g. my physical wallet was stolen last time I was in Brazil).

People immensely more skilled than I will ever be, still have security failures (e.g. Troy Hunt fell for a phishing attack recently).
by josephcsible | 2025-05-18 22:24:47+00:00
> services he expects Apple to provide after he doesn't pay them for their hardware

The problem is that Apple didn't just disable these services on the device he didn't pay for. They disabled them even on the devices he did pay for.

> Should your Corolla's cloud based gps routing stop working when you break your contract with Toyota over your Camry? Arguably yes. The car didn't default on the loan, you did. You broke your contract, why would you expect the other party to continue allowing you to be their customer?

Because the contract says what happens if you default, and that isn't one of the things it says.
by lolinder | 2025-05-18 22:25:20+00:00
> it’s a waste of resources for seniors to be doing the work that the juniors and 2s can do. Hunting down infrequent or low priority bugs, fixing small layout issues, etc.

These are tasks that in the current environment often get pushed back for "later" indefinitely. These tasks aren't un-resourced because the company isn't hiring juniors, the company isn't hiring juniors because they no longer have the funds for small fixes.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-18 22:25:26+00:00
No login view of tweet: https://xunroll.com/thread/1924120334598385821

In searching for more info, Wikileaks popped up: https://twitter-thread.com/t/1924015516802318428

Elsewhere: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114511579261109659

NewsHour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trumps-sanctions-on-iccs-...
by bccdee | 2025-05-18 22:26:48+00:00
I think people overcomplicate note-taking.

Make topic-specific folders for discrete topics (e.g. recipes). Anything generic, put it in a big diary file with daily entries. It's easy to scroll through my past few days of notes, and after a few days I don't really need to reference uncategorized miscellanea for the most part. If I do, I can usually find it with ctrl-F-style text search.

At the end of the day/week/whatever, feel free to #tag anything you think you'll need to come back to or copy it into a topic-specific file. I mostly don't do this though. People feel a need to retain this big body of knowledge from their notes, but I think most notes are disposable. It's easier to wait a little while before reviewing & then decide what's worth saving, which is typically not much.
by mrtksn | 2025-05-18 22:28:13+00:00
French deny this, so I guess is true but more nuanced: https://x.com/francediplo/status/1924129503800127999

Anyway, the election was held and the pro-EU candidate won with a large margin and had one of the highest turnout in decades.

I was impressed by the Romanian counting and reporting. Apparently they were able published live participation numbers since they used tablets log people who came to vote and they had the full results in about 2 hours.

This is the website for it: https://prezenta.roaep.ro/prezidentiale18052025/?region=roma...

Fun fact, the winner is a mathematician who had perfect scores at the international mathematics olympiads in 1987 and 1988.

Here's his profile: https://x.com/francediplo/status/1924129503800127999