MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunrunner | 2025-05-18 13:36:09+00:00
With the recent surge in mindshare around language models and generative AI in general, one of the ideas that keeps coming up is unique content and experiences that are either tailored to the consumer or are at least unique for that person in some way.

But I wonder if this is missing something that you've touched on, the function of cultural artefacts as a means of connection (and perhaps trust building) through a known shared experience. Whether it's watching a TV show, reading a book, listening to music, playing a game, all of these activities essentially have two functions. The first is the thing itself (I'm enjoying this book, song, game, etc.) but the second is the opportunity to _connect with others_ around that, which only really works when some majority of the thing is known by everyone.

This doesn't say that there isn't value in unique experiences, except that these unique experiences are always unique _in the context_ of a shared and known thing.

Roguelikes are perhaps a good example of this. Every run is unique to a player and essentially unique across all players (seeded runs aside), but you can always talk with others about the specific events that happened in any single run because everyone understands them in the context of the game as a whole. The 'crazy thing that happened in my last run' still works because other people know how rare the event or combination of events might be, so it's still a valid shared experience but also unique.

Another more lightweight example might be the amount of NPC dialogue in Supergiant Game' Hades. I believe there's something like 80,000 unique lines of dialogue in the game, so players can go a long time without hearing the same thing again, and unless you play for a long time you might never hear certain lines that other people will have heard.

As for your example about conversations going nowhere when there's no shared experience, perhaps there's even an argument that the connection aspect of the experiences is actually the primary function even if we think it's a secondary function.

Tangential point related to generative models, but perhaps there's even a third function at play, which is that the the _process_ of creating the work may have been its own value for the creator, but this is more about the value of spending time and energy making a thing for yourself or others to experience (to connect over).
by InkCanon | 2025-05-18 13:37:30+00:00
There's some UX problems of SRS (that I'm working on) that makes it high friction 1) Time taken to create cards 2) Need for self marking 3) Creates a one to one mapping of prompt-answer 4) If you're an autodidact, you have to teach yourself first (alternatively called understanding, scaffolding, etc)

More fundamentally, SRS isn't a superpower because it's just very specific to creating a direct prompt retrieval. Generalization is poor. Even creating a graph of knowledge, is a chain of edges between bits of knowledge, isn't done very well here.

And I suspect there's a very deep, fundamental difference between recollection knowledge and logical-modeling knowledge. Recollection seems very similar to a dictionary access, and if you recorded the time to recall in humans I suspect they'd all be constant. But learning the knowledge of a logical model, like of a mathematical concept, appears to be vastly different and have very different time to compute.

Proponents of SRS will point out logical models need facts as well, like formulas, lemmas, etc. Which is true. But if you already grasped it before you'd grasp it faster the second time. So the practical use of SRS is a significant step above having a very well sorted and labeled notebook, but still way below becoming a genius.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-18 13:37:50+00:00
I thought the fundamental idea was to reduce carbon emissions. If the state doesn’t want the money, it can reduce plenty other taxes or debt. Or provide more services.

All solutions other than punishing fossil fuel use seem like “I want to feel like I did something, but not actually make any sacrifice” solutions so the public doesn’t revolt. See also plastic recycling.

The standard response here is “well what about poor people?”

And the standard response to that is “if a different fundamental problem is some people are too poor, then give them cash”

Less obfuscation and more transparency is always better.
by ajb | 2025-05-18 13:38:34+00:00
So giffgaff,who also use the O2 network, claim that they are unaffected as they have their own implementation of the service on top of O2s physical network. Which might be true, but I'm a bit suspicious as I know they are actually owned by the same company now,so consolidation is likely. If anyone tries replicating this on a giffgaff sim it would be good to know the result...
by watwut | 2025-05-18 13:38:37+00:00
First thing that comes to my mind is that it is basically impossible to make it show you both sides of all the cards you are about to see for the first time today at the same time. So that you can actually try to learn it in more effective and less frustrating way then flashing cards on you in random order.

Second thing, control over workload should not be that hard. Anki requires too much tweaking to work reasonably.

Third thing, both old and new algorithm have a notion of "you are pressing the buttons wrong". If you are pressing the buttons wrong, you will end up with absurd intervals - like 4 months interval on something you just learned.
Ask HN: AugmentOS.. have you tried it?
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-05-18 13:39:31+00:00
I think I have a use case for smart glasses that I want to explore, and augmentOS looks like it would be a way to get there easily, but I am not super comfortable with what I think ( based on available descriptions -- I did not look at their github yet ) doing everything on somebody else's server means for that use case.

I guess the question is: from privacy standpoint, do you take any particular steps to make smart glasses more local or, at least, more under your control?

Super new to smart glasses so feel free to share alternative resources/reading materials.
by alickz | 2025-05-18 13:39:47+00:00
I don't know if this will help you visualize it or not, but here's a photo of someone using a TV as a monitor on a desk

https://i.imgur.com/mjcqjfZ.jpeg

I use my 4K TV as a monitor (though from ~8ft away) and for me Windows' scaling (found under Display in Control Panel) allow me to easily read text from so far away

Maybe it could help you
by fidotron | 2025-05-18 13:40:30+00:00
> You should apologize to the people reading your comments for wasting their time. It is clear you are clueless about RISC-V and your foot is well into your mouth.

You're absolutely out of line.

> As for the J2, its creator does not request licensing fees, but Hitachi might require them.

"FUD". The whole point of the timing of the release of the J2 was it is based purely on now expired Hitachi patents, so they do not require any licensing fees.
by beyarkay | 2025-05-18 13:41:38+00:00
(author here) Apologies, I've (maybe mistakenly) put dead links for various essays that are works-in-progress, in order to figure out what to prioritize. I know it's annoying, but it does give me very good signal about what people want to read. For example, 2% of people clicked the essay `/hard`, but only 1% of people have clicked on the essay for `/expert_aesthetics`. So I'm frantically trying to finish `/hard` before a streamer reads the main essay tomorrow.

If I can ask for constructive critique, how annoyed are you? The metrics are really useful to me, but I don't want to be an arsehole <3
by saguntum | 2025-05-18 13:41:49+00:00
FWIW I had the wrong US state on my passport for a long time. Not sure how that happened but it didn't cause any issues traveling at all.

I called the national passport line for advice about this when renewing, and they said to mail in the correction form the other commenter linked along with the renewal form. I also included a letter explaining that I wanted the passport renewed, but that it had my wrong birth state, and I wanted that corrected along with the renewal.

I think I included my birth certificate showing where I had actually been born, also, but I don't really remember. I'd call the State Department national hotline to see what they suggest: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/contact-us/passpo...
by InkCanon | 2025-05-18 13:42:45+00:00
It's someone I wondered, what is the point of memorizing a proof if it only ever proves something you already know. The answer is you hope it generalises. There is a possible way you can do it in SRS, being inspired by RL training. Instead of cards you'd show options within a game or simulation. But this would need a lot of expert knowledge for a single concept.
by pipes | 2025-05-18 13:43:36+00:00
Automatic blaming of a driver is a horrific idea. Immediately unintended consequences spring to mind, cyclists purposely cycling into cars to get an insurance claim for one. This might sound far fetched but my friends in the UK police deal with pedestrians who throw themselves in front of slow moving vehicles in an attempt to get a damages claim.

I cycle to work, and I came here to ask if there's a crowd sourced city map that shows cyclist traffic accident black spots as part of my cycle route is genuinely frightening due to traffic.
by numpad0 | 2025-05-18 13:44:14+00:00
People that don't like East Asian monopoly of anime style contents. Manga and anime style contents are sold at completely broken price/performance ratio while it continues to invasively permeate into cultures globally.

There are increasingly more reports of foreign scalpers stocking couples of $5 doujinshi in weekend cons and demanding receipts, and authors are moving to block them. That's like mafias genuinely smuggling charity home baked cookies. It shouldn't make sense. This astronomical gap in supply and demand, alone, should be enough to create incentives for people to even just mess up and ruin the market.
by hengheng | 2025-05-18 13:44:59+00:00
I am still wondering what money it was that predominantly went into crypto. Lots of retail investors lucked out between Tesla stock and BTC, but that can't account for all of it. I suspect a lot of shady money coming in from outside the US that raised the water level. Yet people talk about it like it's a co-op pension fund.

National bailouts going into an international fund are going to be a global power readjustment. Fun times.

My personal guess for an inflection point is civil unrest. Doge are already tightening the belts for the lower class. Nobody has really figured out how far they can take it. Police has been arming itself for the last decade or two, that started way before Trump, and they have been ready to thwart any uprising. But I am wondering if something is going to happen regardless. Civil war is only a bad idea as long as there are other options.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-05-18 13:45:00+00:00
Non-parents have no clue. Example: a young friend said Let's go to the fair! OK, it'll take some assistance to watch the stroller while changing the baby, some time in the shade to feed her. Get the baby there, in the stroller. Five minutes later, the friend sees other friends, not encumbered, and See you! and she's off. Leaving me to pack up the baby and go back home.
by InkCanon | 2025-05-18 13:45:08+00:00
There was an interesting post here awhile back about autonomy and motivation. The gist was people's motivation is proportional to their autonomy. This is quite intuitive, you can see people are really motivated when they have autonomy (think kids with Minecraft, musicians with instruments). One terrible thing about Anki is that it probably is horrible for autonomy. Quite possibly using anki actually has a negative effect on motivation.
by ryao | 2025-05-18 13:45:24+00:00
Patents tend to expire at different times around the world, plus there is the possibility of submarine patents. Without a declaration from Hitachi, adopting any processor design using their ISA is likely considered a legal risk. Beyond that, SuperH just is not very interesting. It lacks 64-bit support and there is very little interest in it by the industry, so software support is not that great.

By the way, my comment telling you that you should apologize to the community received an upvote and likely will receive more. You really are wasting people’s time with your anti-RISC-V FUD.
by drivers99 | 2025-05-18 13:45:57+00:00
HamStudy.org is exactly this, an SRS site/app that already has the questions and some explanations to go with it (the site is free, but they also have an app which is a couple bucks and almost the same but in my opinion slightly better). I used that a couple months ago I studied for the technician class license and got a perfect score when I took the test. Then I studied the general class license and got one wrong (34 out of 35 = 97%. You only need 26/35 = 74% to pass.) I could probably go for the third one next but maybe it would be more useful if I actually go get a radio and start using it first.
by krembo | 2025-05-18 13:46:21+00:00
Wild thought: maybe coding is a thing of the past? Given that an llm can get fast&deterministic results if needed, maybe a backend for instance, can be a set of functions which are all textual specifications and by following them it can do actions (validations, calculations, etc), approach apis and connect to databases, then produce output? Then the llm can auto refine the specifications to avoid bugs and roll the changes in real time for the next calls? Like a brain which doesn't need predefined coding instructions to fulfill a task, but just understand its scope, how to approach it and learn from the past.
by baranul | 2025-05-18 13:46:29+00:00
This comes across as a poorly written article that has the intent to capitalize on controversy generated by V's adversaries. Sadly, the author appears to have spent little time doing any studying of the language or community, outside of seeing how such controversies can be used for click-bait purposes.

Raylib is not the main UI library of V nor is it promoted as such. Instead, VUI[1] (which is on the main site) would usually be used or related UI toolkits such as IUI[2], MUI[3], or GUI[4]. Instead of appreciation for how V contributors used C2V[5] to create an up to date binding to a popular library (Raylib) for their community, they are figuratively "kicked in the teeth" for their efforts. That's after taking an unneeded swipe at even the name of VPM (which is descriptive to its purpose).

Globals are not used a lot in V nor are they encouraged. Instead of globals, users of V would use struct fields that hold data between function calls. Globals are to be only used under certain circumstances or for specific compatibility reasons with other languages, and is activated only through a flag.

It is conveniently forgotten that V is many years younger than the other languages referred to. Despite this, it's forced to carry the unrealistic expectations of critics, from before it was even released to the public and while still in alpha and beta.

Amazingly, its older competitors are allowed to not deliver on their "promises" (twist the definitions of project goals), be hobbled by thousands of issues (per their GitHubs), and continue to fail at achieving 1.0 (and likely no time in the next few years).

Then the final "kick below the belt", is to give the impression that V doesn't challenge its older rivals. But if we look on TIOBE, we find that V is ranked 43 (May 2025). Zig, Odin, C3, etc... are not even in the TIOBE top 50. Jai at least has an excuse, as is not public, but is still several years older. Not only does V challenge the other so-called players, but appears subject to forces trying to derail or harm the project.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/ui (promoted on main page and documents)

[2] https://github.com/isaiahpatton/ui

[3] https://github.com/malisipi/mui

[4] https://github.com/mike-ward/gui (new)

[5] https://github.com/vlang/c2v

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20250515181418/https://www.tiobe... (TIOBE May 2025)
by TheDong | 2025-05-18 13:46:39+00:00
> there ought to be collections of notes (which might be things one would download or generate with an LLM or make yourself or share with friends or students). On top of one or more collections of notes are the sets of cards to want to learn

Is that not what anki does? You have a collection of cards, each card can be in one or more decks derived from the cards.

> There also ought to be a way to constrain what cards should be studied in a given session

That's also decks. You can have your 'Japanese' deck, and then the 'Japanese::writing' subdeck for the subset which require you to have your writing materials handy.

You can also use "Better Tags" to tag cards, and then create a sub-deck with an ad-hoc tag query to only study a subset if you want.

Does creating more decks and then studying the subset you want to in a session not work for what you want?

> Anki doesn’t seem to separate these layers at all. Everything is a monolithic database.

Decks are separate files which can be shared, edited, created, studied, and reasoned about independently.

The "spaced repetition model" in anki is obviously separate from the fact that there are multiple (FSRS and the old one).

> Export is unpleasant. Sharing is unpleasant

It's just files (zip files really). What's unpleasant about it?

> And, every time I try Anki, I get stuck when I can’t manipulate my own data outside Anki.

There's libraries to manipulate anki decks outside of anki for practically every programming languages. There are literally dozens of tools that can generate and import anki cards, such as the large family of japanese "mining" tools which create anki cards from media, dictionary entries, etc etc.

It's open source, and the code has clean library abstractions you can work with, so it's trivial to nab any of the data out of it.

> Is there any system out there that doesn’t have this issue?

Every issue you described is something that I experienced in other software, but which anki solved for me, so for me "anki" is that system.
by JackDanMeier | 2025-05-18 13:48:30+00:00
I was working on a product which has FSRS implemented, and is heavily inspired by anki. The change we made was that rather than rate yourself, you have to type your answer and its graded by an LLM. It also has a button to explain the concept to you as if you are 5 (eli5) and you get feedback on your answer. You can also create the flashcards by uploading a pdf and then generate them from it.

I've stopped working on it and am now building something highly similar aimed towards high school students, but any feedback is welcome. This version was built for uni students

mimair.com - I never got around to adding any payment option so its completely free
Show HN: 2.4x faster baai/bge-M3
by monatis | 2025-05-18 13:48:32+00:00
We published a a distilled version of baai/bge-m3 with 8 layers. It provides 2.4x higher throughput with Pearson Cosine = 0.9691 and Spearman Cosine = 0.965. It quickly became our default embedder model for all our projects.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-18 13:48:51+00:00
The Java 9 change was to remove access to unofficial APIs.

I agree it was somewhat painful, but not nearly to the level of the 2->3 change which ended up changing python syntax. Most dependencies worked throughout the change and still work.

> Furthermore, whenever you get the likes of Lombok or something that has any dynamic compilation ... there's less smooth sailing.

Not sure about c3p0, but Lombok goes out of it's way to inject itself into javac internals in order to make it's output changes. It's using the most internal of internal code in order to make that @Getter annotation work. Plenty of other annotation processing APIs are completely unaffected by javac updates because they choose not to use internal APIs. Immutables, Autovalue, dagger2, all examples of dynamic compilation that continue to work regardless the version of java. Lombok is a horrible little dependency that I wish people would abandon. It's making a mess and then complaining that it's somehow Java's fault because Lombok decided it needed access to the AST.

I get it, things have broken. But what has been broken is literally the undefined and non-public APIs which went so far as to call their packages things like `sun.misc.unsafe` just to try and ward off people from using these APIs. (With the javadocs to boot which told people not to use this).

And even with the break, the Java devs went out of their ways to make stand-in apis.
by SnowingXIV | 2025-05-18 13:48:55+00:00
Recently had my first son and it’s a lot of this, but mainly time becomes more scarce. I’ve got a number of hobbies but much less time to do them and less inclined to allocate to do nothing-activities, so getting a drink at a bar (which I don’t drink really) isn’t likely going to fit in nicely.

Now if you’re into playing musical instruments, hacking together a little project, or want to workout together or perhaps play a board game that’ll be much more plausible!

This was all true before parenthood, but much more enforced now. I think this is why parents often remain or develop friendships with friends and who end up having kids in the same activities.
by fao_ | 2025-05-18 13:49:25+00:00
> Dozens of apps, thousands of lectures, and it turns out its not really a silver bullet.

I mean, you say that, but I did mandarin for maybe 6 months, I did reviews for maybe a year or two on and off, I haven't done a review of mandarin for 8, 9 years now and I can still recall quite a bit of it. So for me it's worked quite well.
by jwrallie | 2025-05-18 13:49:28+00:00
If the phrases are found by yourself in context from your own exposure to the language, it is even better.

I got introduced to this idea a few years ago from AJATT [1] and my personal experience is that it works very well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100406173634/http://www.alljap...
by Ylpertnodi | 2025-05-18 13:49:41+00:00
>You wouldn’t, I’d presume, consider the Sistine Chapel or the Mona Lisa to be the same quality as a dickbutt scribbled on a napkin?

To paraphrase Frank Zappa...Art just needs a frame. If you poo on a table...not art. If you declare 'my poo on the table will last from the idea, until the poo dissappears', then that is art. Similarly, banksy is just graffiti unless you understand (or not) the framing of the work.
by logicalfails | 2025-05-18 13:50:02+00:00
This assumes the friendships were established and maintained in an environment that could potentially be friendly to kids. If your friend group is based around hanging out at barbecues at each other's home, or more child-friendly environments, it will be much easier and likely to maintain those friendships VS. friendships built on generally less child-friendly activities, like long-distance cycling, weekend trips to other states/countries, bar-hopping, etc... Friendships are often built within shared social settings. Changing up the terms minimizes the very shared experience your friendship was built on