skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of us who aren’t brilliant, but want to learn well anyway, Anki’s (my preferred SRS) is a godsend when used in the right domains — foreign language vocabulary is the best example.

I don’t see spaced repetition as one of those get-fit-fast schemes. I see it as going to the gym as opposed to generally living an active lifestyle. Some gifted people can get very, very fit without going to the gym, just by playing sports and other physical activities. Gym isn’t that fun compared to playing soccer, and it takes a lot of time and consistency to be worth it.
What I've been seeing is people saying that Canada is the source for most fentanyl coming into the US, not Mexico.

(This is also the US's stated reason for tariffs on Canada)
Your comment is not related to my comment even though you quoted it.
I'm not criticizing anyone for asking how loud the boom was. I'm telling you why they didn't provide that answer unprompted.
A lot of research NIH funds because there is low outcome of a market product at the end of that research. This is because investors won't spend the money or only fund research that has no money incentive in its outcome. The way I see is it is progress is about to stop because investors will only fund thing that can have a direct money outcome for them in the future...
Sounds like Gödel was right.
AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned
> It isn't banned

Yet. They have clearly voiced their desire for this.

> it just won't be state funded.

This isn't just "The government is not funding research into this", this is the government maintaining a list of thoughtcrime and banning researchers from using words.
Awesome! I write LLM powered scrapers and stuff all the time and one of the biggest pain points is HTML is full of so much crap that isn't meaningful and overwhelms the context. And being a data science guy idk how to solve this.
That is correct, and was a major motivation for dropping green threads way back in 2014.
> Also some people just find it fun to go through their Anki deck instead of doomscrolling while on the subway or waiting in line. Whether there's any real benefit for that person is debatable. It's “fun“ in the same way going to the gym, or drinking kale smoothie is fun.

I'm probably one of those people, but commuting is one of those examples where you have a small (hopefully) amount of relatively low value time, time that is somewhat interrupted. What else of value would you do in it? Maybe listen to a podcast, catch up on blogs. All fine, reasonable choices, but doing a bit of Anki is a reasonable alternative.

Only time I feel like I've wasted those periods is when I end up wasting it (just scrolling through social media or random videos). Anything else is I think a reasonable choice.
Voting for a demonstrably corrupt person is voting for corruption.
Fine, time AND energy. HN is entertainment. SR feels like work. When I have an hour at night on average to yourself, I don't want to spend it studying. I've tried taking breaks at work to do it, but you need those mini breaks at work to be a bit unproductive as well. I can't be "ON" 100% of the time, I need rest.
Tested this out with quite a few images. It works great. Best AI background removal tool I've tried so far.
Would make for an interesting First Amendment case.
Managing Secrets in Docker Compose – A Developer's Guide
> Why can’t Russia and China build and innovate like the USA can?
> Because they spend a lot of time censoring and covering things up.

What a statement! How did you come to this conclusion?
Startups can be as siloed and prone to messianic cults of personality as large corporations do. It would be themed differently from Severance, sure, but there are other shows that tackle that.
As an American citizen and library user.. Is this really Armageddon? the panic headlines seem to claim it.. First off, how many of you actually rely on one source only for these documents.. is this a document issue really? or are the pages (and sites) part of policy statements and their ephemera ?

Maybe elsewhere you have seen links to Archive.org or personal data mirror efforts.. more of this please! Vote with your wallets! It seems naïve to rely on single-source for important content.

lastly, physical print materials apparently have a role to play in the future, right?
Always wondered the same, re: updates. To be fair, macOS I believe is downloading an entire OS image each time. macOS is immutable root, like Fedora Silverblue, so OS updates download the entire OS image each time.

On a package-based system you're doing a diff update, essentially.

Then again, even Fedora Silverblue image updates don't take nearly as long as macOS.

At least both are better than Windows, god knows what's going on in Microsoft's update process.
Sure, so to clarify, the study that claimed to find differences in trans brains:

* Did not control for sexual orientation (same-sex attracted people exhibit preferences and behaviours of both sexes, and many adolescents who start as trans desist and come out as gay)

* Did not control for whether the person was on HRT or puberty blockers (people on opposite sex hormones start developing behaviours and preferences of the opposite sex)

* Did not control for body perception disorders (body dysmorphia results in distorted perceptions of one's own body)
This code doesn't assume that q follows p, that's the trick to it. The way you are trying to explain this to me, I feel like you haven't read the article or understood the code snippet.
I went through some of the issues to see how aggressively they close them and found this gem: https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/issues/1824#issuecomme...
This has been pursued by researchers like Rodney Brooks.
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
I guess for the first one you weren’t around to enjoy the exact sort of nonsense in insane, soulless soviet bureaucracies. To me it doesn’t really seem anti-capitalist, it’s more anti obscure, sprawling, inhuman and unintelligible authoritarian power structures. Cults and philosophers have been inventing those long before anyone thought up capitalism.
HTML/CSS can still be used for the frontend even without Electron. Some frameworks use the OS bundled web renderer instead:

- For Rust apps: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

- For Go apps: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
I used the same binding for a kanji learning app (https://shodoku.app).

I had some problems with their documentation though. Following their examples was pretty straightforward, but I always had trouble e.g. what is the difference between State.Learning and State.Relearning, or what does fuzzy mean in FSRS parameters, or reps on a Card. You have to either read the algorithm explainer or the Anki source code to understand that.
> For if animals are capable of reasoning

Are they? Which animals? Some seem smart and maybe do it. Needs strong justification.

> probably through being trained on many examples of the laws of nature doing their thing

Is that how they can reason? Why do you think so? Sounds like something that needs strong justification.

> then why couldn't a statistical model be?

Maybe because that is not how anything in the world attained the ability to reason.

A lot of animals can see. They did not have to train for this. They are born with eyes and a brain.

Humans are born with the ability to recognize pattern in what we see. We can tell objects apart without training.
Leading mathematician Terence Tao says yes, with a lot of guidance.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132503432772494
That crap could kill you in a life-threatening way.
If you are looking to prove that something happened after a certain timestamp, you can use a randomness beacon[0]. Every <interval>, the beacon outputs a long random number. Include the timestamped random number into your artifact.

You are relying upon the authority of the beacon to be random, but good practice is to utilize multiple independent beacons.

[0] https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac...
Spaced repetition is the cherry on the cake: learn by practicing, but create your own cards along the way, and when reviewing just focus on making a recall effort, not nailing everything.

For language, 10-20 mins / day is great, and if you are putting enough effort, 6-8 reps is enough to learn a card with 2 new concepts at ~15secs / rep, which really makes a difference long term.

I made a tool[1] with that approach in mind and tailor-made for language acquisition patterns. The key part is that creating cards (audio included) must be super-easy and fast, but they need to come from you nevertheless.

[1] https://thehardway.app
I don't disagree, however my point was that if this research was already biased/filtered/self-censored as above it really diminishes their ability to complain about openness. True or not laymen will view it as a double standard.
I really appreciate you taking the time to read all of that and I appreciate your supportive reply.

Preserving one's privacy to the fullest extent should be one of the main characteristics of a well-informed citizenry and not an excuse to demonize people who exercise their rights to withhold private information from entities that have no business obtaining that private information.

It's too easy today for information to be collected, profiles built, and those profiles used to silently discriminate against a person or a group of people who have something in common. There is limited or no accountability in the system since many of these capabilities evolved much faster than any regulatory framework could. Once the money started flowing in the data collection space, it acted to restrict the pace of regulatory development since some of those monies were spent to lobby individuals or groups who had the ability and the responsibility to protect privacy rights.

Those of us normal people out here who all contributed to the widening of the data stream by signing up as users of these predatory apps and services are the ultimate losers, having effectively ceded control of our own privacy rights to the extent that we can all be easily profiled, monitored, and predictive tools can be configured to allow any new business relationship to be an adversarial relationship where a profile of the new customer informs the service provider about how they should treat the new customer in order to maximize profits from that individual.

It's wrong. It's predatory. It's an unfortunate consequence of the selfish greed that has become an acceptable lifestyle choice for many in the software industry.

But, here I sit. I'm old and I ramble and at the end of the day my words are weak signal in a high background noise stream that looks exciting to the adventurous ones too inexperienced to understand the risks they ask us all to accept.
doesn't iphone already has this built-in?
Works okay — tried two images from a newspaper and failed on both — but I'm sure for some it works well. Client-side though so that's something!
> You like the slop you make because you’re in control

This seems wrong. When others show me AI-generated content it's not enraging because I know to skim it. I'm also not paying close attention because I'll need to fact check everything anyway.

AI-generated content becomes obnoxious when I'm lured into thinking it's to be taken seriously only to, almost always no more than two sentences in, realising what it is.
This made me think of C&P as well. Specifically how Raskolnikov developed his own half baked ideology where “great men” were free to act with impunity. It’s not hard to draw parallels with “longtermism” and effective altruism.
Worst reason not to build something is because someone already has/it already exists. Two of my least favourite responses: why? and doesn't x already do this?

This is hackernews, not consumernews.
Name of the game now is not to get fired at all costs and weather the storm until the dust settles...
Massive props to the founders for having the stones to even enter this space. I couldn't imagine the difficulties and setbacks these guys will encounter. But I think humans figuring out how to effectively mine stuff outside of our planet will be one of the great leaps forward for humanity and will likely become a proficient industry in our lifetimes.
AI generated writing is slop just for the reasons the author said. It can never be more than average and it will never have a consistent voice like a writer would have.
> Now, when people introduce their "partner" in a context where it's ambiguous whether it's personal or business "partner" I have to wonder in which sense do they mean it.

You could use the power of the spoken word to ask them directly. You can ask probing questions if you’re not comfortable being that direct.
All of Hegel, and most of his descendants, are fashionable nonsense. All types of "Dialectics" are fake and don't exist. It's telling that the most common version of the term "Dialectics" that everyone thinks Hegel coined was actually coined by one of his (many butthurt) students, Fitche.

Philosophy will continue to be bankrupt for as long as Hegel's stranglehold on Philosophy remains. Kill his thought, Kill "dialectics", Kill the "world spirit" or "Geist". Otherwise philosophy continues down the "post modern neo marxism" loony world that has led so many to turn reactionary.

Edit (in response to the comment cus I can't reply faster since Dang's HN policies are bad):

I cover to cover read his shitty books. They weren't worth opening, let alone reading. This is the same for most of the rest of the "postmodern" canon.

Competitive debate meant that we weaponized these long dead idolaters for our own needs. I've (unfortunately) read Zizek, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Sartre, Heidigger, etc. I regret most of the time I spent reading these authors. They are all intellectually bankrupt and many of them are straight up pseudo-scientific charlatan snake oil salespeople (Lacan).
What if we're alone? The philosophical paradox of a lifeless cosmos
I'm guessing it's gonna be 4000
It is significantly more work to return an item than to buy one, it’s very asymmetric.
Couldn’t you make an ablative heat shield possibly from waste materials on the same asteroid? Then lob your metal toward a shallow sea on earth?

Or take it back to some stable earth orbit then pick it up there?

Do we know what their reentry plan is?
This is spectacular!

Not nearly enough bespoke work going into building such forward-looking technology standards

Best of luck with it
If I write a book that contains Einstein's theory of relativity by virtue of me copying it, did I create the theory? Did my copying of it indicate anything about my understanding of it? Would you be justified to think the next book I write would have anything of original value?

I think what he is trying to say is that LLMs current architecture seems to mainly work by understanding patterns in the existing body of knowledge. In some senses finding patterns could be considered creative and entail reasoning. And that might be the degree to which LLMs could be said to be capable of reasoning or creativity.

But it is clear humans are capable of creativity and reasoning that are not reducible to mere pattern matching and this is the sense of reasoning that LLMs are not currently capable of.
I’ll try to dig some up soon (I’m on my phone now). But of course the output contains errors sometimes. So do search engine results. The important thing for difficult questions is whether the right answer (or something pointing toward it) is available _at all_. Of course this assumes you can verify the answers somehow (usually easy with programming questions), but again, search engines have the same limitation.
I'm sure we will leave some impressive fossils.
And this was the only website on the internet with information about it? People are going to die because this one website was taken down and there is no other place to possibly read about it?
My Jewish family, too, left Europe. In the 1890s—from Ukraine, they left to evade the Tsar's pogroms—Kropotkin had not yet penned "Mutual Aid". Why that wasn't enough writing on the wall for my Austrian and Polish family, I don't know.

You're right that Nazi Germany fell to the tanks of Liberalism and Bolshevism.

There are so many strange and, to be, baseless assertions in your replies that fear we're simply not going to discover common ground in this venue.

Godspeed.
Yes, the USA has massive leverage over Canada on basically every front. We are a small child standing next to a massive person with a gun. But what is the point of destroying us?

Our economy is already down. All of our tech elite move to Silicon Valley. Our energy infrastructure cant get off the ground. The USA dictates so much of what Canada is able to do.

What is the point of squeezing us more? We have so little we can offer you.

We've already given you the lives of our soldiers as we follow you into pointless wars. What more do you want? The pennies in our pockets?
That actor undoubtedly calls Canada ''Can-a-der'', as some Brits unfortunately do. Likewise with the Nigerian-British singer Sade (pronounced Shah-day) being called "Shar-day".

> Nigerian-British singer Sade
I made this tool recently to help with creating custom accessible color palettes for web/UI design: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

There's lots of color tools but I couldn't find one with the features I really wanted in one place: full control over every color (vs some being autogenerated), checking accessible contrast between any color pairs (like against off-white background colors, vs only against white), and having a live preview of what the colors look like on a mockup.
Oh good. It does here, unsettlingly.
They’re right until they’re wrong.

AI is (was?) a stochastic parrot. At some point AI will likely be more than that. The tipping point may not be obvious.
Is it at all relevant that the answer it gives is wholly incorrect?
I'm doing the same. It's mostly correct on my end, though sometimes it fails in humourous ways. I have a friend who does gig work as a food delivery driver, and delivered to someone who was consuming cannabis and mentioned both in a message. It summarized as delivering cannabis to someone.
"There are no shortcuts, you have to put in the work." Spoken like someone who doesn't use an SRS system, then. They're actually extremely hard to use, because the focus is on feeding you the toughest possible version of every recalled card. Part of why people quit using them is because it's mentally exhausting!
Apple's AI and AR Struggles Show It Has Lost Some of Its Product Edge
Renting money is yet another way to exploit people and concentrate wealth.
Vote with your actions, on ballots, and sure, with your wallets (I'm back to using cash predominantly, and being okay with less convenience), just keep in mind that "vote with your wallet!" as the dominant mindset is an oligarch's wet dream.
> How's Henri Cartier-Bresson different from prompt engineer

Does the prompt engineer gets the copyright ? Or does the company (i.e. the photo camera) ?
Le bureau des légendes was a great series from start to finish! I honestly enjoyed all of the characters, even when they seemed a bit manipulative or cold.
https://archive.md/2025.02.02-160135/https://www.bloomberg.c...
I watched the full series again a few years ago. I’m not sure it held up. It wasn’t bad, it was just that so many of the plots would end in just a few minutes if they had cell phones or smart phones.

One of the classic Seinfeld episodes is where they are stuck waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant. The whole time George is freaking out, because some guy is on the pay phone and he needs to make a call. This was a very relatable frustration when the show was released, but something people today have no concept of.

I found a lot of episodes fell into this category, to the point that it was my primary takeaway from the series (at least for the re-watch, I originally watched it when it first aired and this obviously wasn’t a problem or something of note).
Exploring the Urtica Dioica Leaves Hemostatic and Wound-Healing Potential
> "we can't figure out how to crack it"

To be fair, this is the theory that all security guarantees boil down to (excluding the "so it's uncrackable" part)
Exactly. Above all, my concern is that, at least from the linked article, I don't see why an attacker wouldn't be able to train a neural network himself to then decrypt the data. Hopefully they addressed this point in the paper.
The whole internet mainstream zeitgeist with dating among men has become identical to incel talking points from 5 years ago.
A good 2.5 inch RC car is 30 bucks on AliExpress now, A standalone 5.8 GHz analog camera is 25 bucks.
Just for those that may be more interested in the outcome than just a fun project to do
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_box_show

I will never forgive Lost (which I originally watched in real time) and almost always wait for shows to conclude now before giving them my time.

Nonetheless, I'm enamored by Severance. The attention to detail by the show runners is amazing[1]. It's absolutely gorgeous to look at[2]. It's downright funny at times. I've re-watched the entire first season and there's so many details I missed the first time through. I will likely be satisfied even if it doesn't answer all its questions, but I have a feeling it will.

[1] BTW, the first eight chapters of The You You Are were released on Apple Books yesterday in both eBook and Audiobook form (read by the author).

[2] I watch in a home theater on a 120" 2.39:1 screen. I love that recent shows are being released in scope (see also Silo).
not exactly a rationalist thing, but a lot of bay-area people will tell you that exponential growth exists, and it's everywhere

i can't think of any case where exponential growth actually happens, though. exponential decay and logistic curves are common enough, but not exponential growth
Just built this over the weekend: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=weloveoo...

Takes your open code file, chunks it, explains each chunk over tts.
There's another way! Instructions: https://paul.kinlan.me/use-bookmarklets-on-chrome-on-android... Summary:

1. bookmark any page
2. change the url to your code
3. give it a title like !script
4. to activate, tap the address bar and type !script

Works on Android Chrome and Firefox, and probably other browsers too. More people ought to know about mobile bookmarklets.
I don't think subtyping is something you should probably be using very often. I wouldn't say never, but you can go a very long time without finding a legitimate use for the feature, and your code will generally be better for it.

It's a bit weird, given how these elaborate class hierarchies were touted as such a big and important feature in Java originally, but when the dust settled it turned out more often than not to complicate the code.
Interestingly, the trolley problem is decided every day, and humanity does not change tracks.

There are people who die waiting for organ donors, and a single donor could match multiple people. We do not find an appropriate donor and harvest them. This is the trolley problem, applied.
Well we do manufacture TPMs..
This one is about savanna.

If you meant to say that the Amazon forest never had human development in it, this is true for almost all of the forest. Nothing was demolished.

But then, I'm not sure what you mean by "primordial rainforest". It is a very young forest if that's your question.
Doesn't bother me much more than when people write garbage - which they do. I get that same annoyance when it's a shitpost. AI can just do it at scale which is annoying.
I would argue this extends to all systems and behaviors that aren't formally verified. Bugs notwithstanding, breaking current encryption is a mathematically backed concept. The issue is broken implementations.