MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-17 04:19:44+00:00
> *RTK or “remembering the kanji” is a system that teaches all kanji before student learn their first word. It’s quite popular online as it lends itself very well to solo studying.

For those unaware, the OP probably means this three part series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji

One thing I have found over the years, I have never met a foreigner living in Japan who has used it extensively. (Many were aware of it, but few used it heavily.) However, there is a lively community of online learners who use it. (Don't read that as a judgement against using it; this is simply an observation.)

I was surprised to read this part:

> a system that teaches all kanji before student learn their first word

I have never heard this description before. I always thought it was a learning aid to use mnemonics to remember the meaning of individual kanji. If someone can complete all volumes of RTK before "learn[ing] their first word", I would be stunned. It would be a feat of super-human level of memorization and recall. That said, the Internet is a huge place with billions of people. There will be somebody, somewhere who took this path and is happy to tell you about their success using it.
by chauhankiran | 2025-12-17 04:20:35+00:00
With this, people will come here and the go. I mean consider the example of many GNU/Linux users I know who use GNU/Linux (or for them Linux means Ubuntu) system and can ask them to try out Waterfox. But, about installation - can't we have .deb? I know we can easily install from tarball and then setup the .desktop file and then adjust the icon to properly display, and what not...But, Can we make a bit simpler to try?
by eszed | 2025-12-17 04:22:48+00:00
I don't know about that. I've only ever been properly good at one thing in my life - I'm a dilettante at everything else, including my current career - but in my experience (in common with even more talented artists with whom I've worked) is that the polishing is where the fun begins. You get to a point where you're working at such a finely detailed level that only you, and others equally invested, will ever notice, and you're pursuing perfection that you know isn't ever possible, but you get moments where it's just... Yes: that was it, and then you're chasing that feeling again. I dunno, there's maybe something egoistic about that, and you obviously have to really care about what you're working on, but I've never experienced anything else remotely as satisfying. I can easily imagine that generalizing to swimming, or writing code, or driving a racecar, or pretty much any other activity that humans engage in.
by dijit | 2025-12-17 04:22:49+00:00
“not my money” thinking will always indirectly lead to bad things for you on a long enough timeline.

Edit: this got flagged, but if you end up in an unprofitable position because you chose Oracle as a vendor and they squeezed your company so hard they need to choose between paying you (either via a raise or via actually employing you) or staying with a vendor thats squeezing them; they will choose the latter, as its short term cheaper.
by firesaber | 2025-12-17 04:22:50+00:00
Thanks! The last mile injection idea is exactly how I think about it too.

I realized that for 90% of 'summarize this' or 'debug this' tasks the LLM doesn't really need any specific PII or sensitive information, it just needs to know that an entity exists there to understand the structure.

That's why I focused on the reversible mapping, so that we can re-inject the real data locally after the LLM does the heavy lifting. Cool to hear you're using a similar pattern for credentials.
by ryanjshaw | 2025-12-17 04:23:36+00:00
I had a relative ask me to buy them an Amazon voucher as a birthday gift, because they lived on the other side of the world, didn’t want to eat the SWIFT charges, and didn’t know how to offramp cryptocurrency.

For some reason every card I put in wasn’t accepted, and then my 10 year old Amazon account was banned. I was even using a Fire TV at the time with the same account. Had to create a new account. Very annoying.
by fpoling | 2025-12-17 04:24:59+00:00
Even when it is extremely cold like -50 Celsius, one can still walk outside for hours with sufficiently warm clothes. But try the same when it is +50. And then spending weeks in air-conditioned apartments was strictly worse for me than in a heated home during the winter. Plus there is no insects when it is cold. So my preference is for colder climate.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-17 04:24:59+00:00
IMO no ORM. I've only had issues with ORMs. They work okay-ish in the very bare-bones usecases, like inserting one record into one table or fetching one record. After that, their semantics just impede your velocity.

You can represent really, really complex data retrieval and consolidation semantics in SQL. ORMs are really more of an organizational tool in my mind.

I just throw all the SQL functions into a repository class around one "thing". Not even object, it can be related functionality or operations.

SQL in code can be awful, if spread out across your codebase. So I think just don't do that.

We have a monolith that gets maybe ~1000 commits a day. We don't use an ORM, just SQL and query builders. It works out if you have good modularization.
by hatefulmoron | 2025-12-17 04:25:08+00:00
Dafny and similar languages use SMT; their semantics need to be such that you're giving enough information for your proof to verify in sufficient time, otherwise you'll be waiting for a very long time or your proof is basically undecidable.

I'm not sure about benchmarks comparing languages, but Dafny goes through a lot of tweaking to make the process faster.
by echelon | 2025-12-17 04:25:50+00:00
The Blender previz reskin task [1] could be automated! New test cases could be randomly and procedurally generated (without AI).

Generate a novel previz scene programatically in Blender or some 3D engine, then task the image model with rendering it in a style (or to style transfer to a given image, eg. something novel and unseen from Midjourney). Another test would be to replace stand in mannequins with identities of characters in reference images and make sure the poses and set blocking match.

Throw in a 250 object asset pack and some skeletal meshes that can conform to novel poses, and you've got a fairly robust test framework.

Furthermore, anything that succeeds from the previz rendering task can then be fed into another company's model and given a normal editing task, making it doubly useful for two entirely separate benchmarks. That is, successful previz generations can be reused as image edit test cases - and you a priori know the subject matter without needing to label a bunch of images or run a VLM, so you can create a large set of unseen tests.

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-x8t1ij...
by rasz | 2025-12-17 04:27:35+00:00
True.

https://www.em.muni.cz/en/student/7582-erasmus-couples-alrea...

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-erasmus-gives-europe-opportunity-lo...

"A study of the 27-year-old student exchange showed that over a quarter of people who took part had met their current life partner during their studies abroad."

Very good for EU unity, intermingling cultures and building common identity.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-17 04:27:52+00:00
About 25 years ago, I studied Hebrew. It is a fascinating language to me (as is Arabic). One of the features, weirdly similar to furigana, is the "dots" placed above vowels to indicates how to pronouce words. (Sorry, I don't know the technical linguistic term to describe these dots.) In regular texts, these dots are excluded, and readers are expected to (essentially) have the dots memorized. I always struggled to read Hebrew text without the dots.

In the last 10 years in Japan, more and more goverment documents are now available with furigana. Sometimes the edition is called "Friendly Japanese" (yasashii nihongo / やさしい日本語). The best explaination I can think of: There has been a dramatic rise in the number of non-university-educated foreign workers who have come to Japan on labor contracts -- factory workers, farm workers, hotel staff, shop staff, etc. They need to live their daily lives in Japan, but will struggle with native-level Japanese documents, so the gov't (both national and local) make an effort to reduce this friction. I expect the level of support from local gov'ts will be very much correlated to the number of foreign workers in their districts.
by suryao | 2025-12-17 04:28:37+00:00
Small to mid sized OSS projects benefit heavily from this. There is a size beyond which the free runner sizes become insufficient, but the assumption is that some form of monetization is figured out by that time. For example, we have a lot of OSS projects using WarpBuild because performance and fast CI is important for productivity.

Without GitHub's free CI for public repos, the small projects and indies will get hit the hardest imo.

However, I do not know hard numbers to quantify the impact.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-17 04:29:21+00:00
And they'll keep paying the premium. I haven't looked at the Tesla website since Musk turned the corner, but is anyone actually paying this charlatan $8k for "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)"? After years of empty lies how is anyone still sucker enough?

And then... "Currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on development and regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions."

I can't believe they aren't forced to say that this may never happen, which is the reality given the history of it.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-17 04:30:22+00:00
Amish 2.0?

I realize this sounds out there, but I'm not entirely joking. I feel there is a significant subset of all people that are not particularly happy with the direction of society at large. And the great thing about places like the US is that you're free to develop your own little sub-societies. There's no reason a group of like-minded people could not work to develop a technologically embracing society, but one that aims to focus more on decentralization, and utilizing digitization as a convenience rather than a necessity.

Think about something like a 'Google Smart City' except from an entirely different ideological foundation, such that the entire project doesn't sound like something out of Black Mirror. The reason this would be beneficial as a social project, instead of the vastly more viable independent one, is that a lot of tech is generally seen as undesirable, certainly in certain contexts (like smartphones at school), yet it spreads virally making its adoption a defacto necessity. Get rid of the virality and you could create a better life, and a better situation, for many people.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-17 04:31:04+00:00
See this is kind of hitting the nail on the head here.

Mozilla is treated like a PhD holder and nobel prize winner, and Google is treated as a stupid baby.

When the stupid baby shits his pants, nobody cares. In fact, they expect it. But when the PhD student gets a tiny piece of information wrong about the French revolution, they're crucified and called an idiot.

Mozilla makes mistakes, but the objective reality is that even if you add up alllll the mistakes, they're MILES ahead of Google when it comes to how they treat their users.

Google Chrome users get fucked up the ass and then beg for more. Firefox users get sent flowers and chocolate and then complain the chocolate has nuts.
by al_borland | 2025-12-17 04:31:13+00:00
I worked in a small DC (I think it had about 10k servers at its peak). The only time there was noise outside was if the generators were running due to an extended power outage or maintenance. We had a few trailer generators that were added on as capacity increased. Where I worked was right on the other side of the wall to one of the computer rooms and I don’t recall hearing anything. It only got loud when the door was physically opened to walk in the room, that noise was mostly from fans.

I also toured one of our larger data centers, and even inside the small cube farm area it felt like a normal office. The noise only picked up once inside the room with the servers.

Noise during construction would probably be worse than noise during operation.
by rayiner | 2025-12-17 04:32:13+00:00
> For months on here you have defended and cheer-led the most nakedly corrupt administration in our lifetimes.

The fact that I think Trump is the lesser of two evils doesn't change the fact that New Jersey has higher corruption levels than Minnesota. Is it really your contention that communities settled by Italian immigrants are as well governed as those that were settled by Scandinavian immigrants?

Ironically, Trump himself reflects the third-worldization of the American body politic. Our first-past-the-post system guarantees two parties, but cultural change alters what platforms can win a majority. Immigration has killed small-government conservatism--a concept that exists almost nowhere outside the Anglosphere--but a third-world strongman populist can still win the popular vote: https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2... ("Our best estimate is that immigrant voters swung from a Biden+27 voting bloc in 2020 to a Trump+1 group in 2024."). Little Bangladesh swung a net 50+ points to Trump in 2024.

> That does not include me, so if I were an immigrant today you would not let me in. If you were an immigrant today, would you let yourself in?

I made an argument based on evidence, so why are you responding with personal feelings? Whether any particular immigration policy would have allowed me or you to immigrate is totally irrelevant. Immigration is about the mass movement of people, who bring their culture with them and reshape the parts of America where they move. It's stupid to talk about it in terms of individuals.
by compiler-guy | 2025-12-17 04:32:14+00:00
I used SLIP all the time back in the day, and I use MIDI all the time in my home music setup. The wikipedia articles don't tell me anything I don't already know.

I suppose someone somewhere has done it (and I have always said that you can), but my best internet searches with a wide variety of terms don't show any old tutorials or products that explain how. Nor can I find anything else that uses MIDI to send tcpip packets over the MIDI connection. Not even a mention.

My Google-fu may be totally weak, but whatever.

I freshly, happily and totally concede that people have in the past used MIDI to send SLIP packets, and it is well understood how. Great. You are totally correct.

But all of this just proves the original point. It either precedes anything on the internet today, or is so obscure that no search engine can find it. Either way, if no one uses it or even bothers to explain how, I think it is pretty fair to conclude that it is rather unergonomic, and hacky, and doesn't provide all the features one really wants in a network connection.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-17 04:32:35+00:00
> Yeah my impression was the Orthography is pretty consistent compared to English.

As a native English speaker, I have learned this watching non-natives try to learn English spelling over the years. It is hell! I studied French in middle school and high school. I remember there being a similar level of ambiguity in their orthography (similar to English).

One weird thing that I have noticed when Japanese native speakers write emails in English: Why don't they use basic spell check? I'm talking about stuff as basic as: "teh" -> "the". Spell checkers from the early 1990s could easily correct these issues. To be clear, I rarely have an issue to understand the meaning of their emails (as a native speaker, it is very easy to skip over minor spelling and grammar mistakes), but I wonder: Why not spell check before you send?
by tasty_freeze | 2025-12-17 04:34:46+00:00
and there is a linked article about Waymo's data reporting, which is much more granular and detailed, whereas Tesla's is lumpy and redacted. Anyway, Waymo's data with more than 100M miles of self-supervised driving shows a 91% reduction in accidents vs humans. Tesla's is 10x the human accident rate according to the Austin data.
by ursAxZA | 2025-12-17 04:35:07+00:00
> There are curiosities like karaage which is "kara" (crust) + "age" (fried thing).

Slightly off-topic, but “karaage” (kara + age) isn’t “crust + frying.”

The kara comes from a country name and refers to a style of cooking — it’s a “country-name + cooking method” compound.

this is the commonly accepted explanation, though whether it’s strictly historical or a later interpretation is still debated.

If you fry something without coating it, that’s usually called “su” (plain) + “age” (frying) instead.
by famahar | 2025-12-17 04:35:24+00:00
I think there's thin consumption and thick. Reality TV and YouTube/Tik-tok shorts being thin. Slow cinema or a documentary being thick. One is primarily entertainment that is easy to digest and acts more as a way to fill the time and quiet thoughts. The other requires deep engagement and confrontation with new ideas and a build up of contemplation through deep prolonged focus.

The first mode of consumption is understandably popular given the amount of noise in the world that distracts us. So many people are trapped in dopamine holes. It's mental withdrawal to try to attempt a sudden switch to thick consumption. They are so opposite of each other.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-17 04:35:31+00:00
I picked an intentionally contrived case where MATLAB is undeniably a really bad choice here. Most real world situations are not so ridiculous and would not justify such a simple decision, but if you can't see that MATLAB wouldn't be a horrible choice in this specific contrived situation, I would suggest it is in fact you who has the bias. I agree in general anyone making funding decisions solely based on MATLAB vs. other is not to be trusted, but that is NOT the situation I so carefully presented.

And yes, clearly, based on what I linked, this MATLAB issue is a solved problem on Canadian SLURM HPC clusters too. It's just, so much more is solved by e.g. modern Python libs like Ray, Lighting, and etc., it is really silly to pretend that MATLAB users can as easily make as good use of HPC clusters as everyone else can, especially today if GPUs are involved.

I'm still going to upvote you here because I think you are engaging honestly and fairly, and we just generally disagree here.
by phyzome | 2025-12-17 04:35:36+00:00
Even if we ignore things like "they're chasing AI fads instead of better things" and "they're adding attack surface" and so forth, and just focus on the disabling feature toggles thing...

... Mozilla has re-enabled AI-related toggles that people have disabled. (I've heard this from others and observed it myself.) They also keep adding new ones that aren't controlled by a master switch. They're getting pretty user-hostile.
by Rendello | 2025-12-17 04:35:46+00:00
I'm glad you caught on it was supposed to be praise haha. If someone threw my speech patterns on the table and started dissecting them, I'd probably stop speaking entirely ;)

It is praise; you are my favourite speaker. A lot of what you cover in talks or on the podcast is (or was) unknown to me, but I listen because it's never made to seem uninteresting, there's a passion that comes from the heart (true of the other Oxide podcast staff too). I learn a lot of information, and the anecdotes actually stick it into my brain like thumbtacks.

As for tripping: I mean to say that in natural [non-verbetim] speech, there's natural moments where we find our footing. In a speech/talk setting, it's easy to feel like you lose that footing and fall into the volcano, if you're unsteady. You show that speed itself isn't the issue and you can actually run around the volcano without falling in (–this is still praise, I swear).

Also, I must ask: (when) will the people see the release of Netris?
by ajross | 2025-12-17 04:36:11+00:00
FTA: "For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles."

Does anyone know what the cite for this might be? I'm coming up empty. To my knowledge, no one (except maybe insurance companies) tallies numbers for fender bender style accidents. This seems like a weirdly high number to me, it's very rare to find any vehicle that reaches 100k miles without at least one bump or two requiring repair.

My suspicion is that this is a count of accidents involving emergency vehicle or law enforcement involvement? In which case it's a pretty terrible apples/oranges comparison.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-17 04:36:16+00:00
I live next to their Chattanooga (US) production facility. Lots of my neighbors work there, both on the lines and in the offices.

They silo'd the entire third shift, this past summer. Hours are weakening. The recently-won UAW (union) membership is up for a challenge vote to dissolve it — before ever ratifying a contract.

Wouldn't surprise me that if UAW remains in place, VW will close down this facility (moving it elsewhere, if at all).

Fingers crossed VW starts making better vehicles, because they are a major employer in this city. Suggestions: hybrid drivetrains (not full EV).
by array_key_first | 2025-12-17 04:36:56+00:00
It's because, I think, these people need moral plausible deniability.

I think maybe they truly, deep down, want to use dell - for their convenience, availability, sleekness, and mainstream appeal. But they can't just do that. They need to find the right place to jump from their moral high ground. So they basically search for any excuse at all to ditch.

I know people who were so upset, supposedly, with Mozilla that they switched to chrome. Fucking chrome, dude.

I don't care how much you think pocket is advertisement. Chrome is basically 3 ads in a trenchcoat. Can we please be for real?
by moleperson | 2025-12-17 04:38:27+00:00
Right next to my apartment building is a crosswalk that crosses a fairly busy street. The crosswalk is well-marked, and it has a sign in the median specifically stating that stopping for pedestrians is required by law. In the time I've lived here I've nearly been hit by cars several times on this crosswalk, and I've witnessed countless people almost get hit here as well. Once I saw a pedestrian yell at the driver, and the driver yelled back that they didn't have to stop because "I don't have a stop sign".

I noticed recently that the city installed a flock camera pointed directly at this crosswalk, and while I'm generally opposed to this kind of surveillance, and I wish they would implement other measures to make this safer, I really would love nothing more than for drivers speeding through here and not stopping for pedestrians to get ticketed. It's unclear still whether that's actually happening (and not that it matters once you're dead), but I'm finding myself empathizing with the argument for more surveillance for the first time in my life.
by css_apologist | 2025-12-17 04:38:52+00:00
const body = JSON.stringify({ model: "gpt-4.1-mini", messages: [{ role: "user", content: "hii" }] }); const r = t.fetch("https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", "Authorization": `Bearer ${API_KEY}` }, body }); const json = JSON.parse(r.body);

.. no async? i wonder how they are doing this & how they plan on more js interop
by ThailandJohn | 2025-12-17 04:38:52+00:00
Would be really cool to compare notes :D Sent from a "non tech" company email so it doesn't get filtered lol.

My speed really depends on language and what needs indexing. On pure Python projects I get around 220k loc/min, but for deeper data flow in Node apps (TypeScript compiler overhead + framework extraction) it's roughly 50k loc/min.

Curious what your stack is and what depth you're extracting to reach 1M/min - those are seriously impressive numbers! :D