MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apetresc | 2025-04-21 02:10:46+00:00
Funny seeing this on the front page – I'm coding a project as I'm browsing this that makes heavy use of TikZJax.

Overall, I'm impressed by how seamlessly it works when it does work. But it's not perfect:

- Some core library functions (for example, most types of fill patterns) simply don't work or aren't implemented for some reason.

- There are a few long-standing bugs. For instance, if using the intersections library to compute the intersection of a line and a circle, it straight-up crashes the entire TikZJax process. Intersections of two lines or two circles are fine, but circle+line fails. My attempts at diagnosing this seem to indicate that it's running out of stack space, so maybe the original TikZ code uses some inefficient recursive algorithm to compute this intersection, and this exceeds some stack size limit that the WebAssembly version introduces. I'm not sure and I haven't been able to get much traction.

- The project doesn't seem to get any love from the original developers anymore. I've filed multiple bugs for months now that never get any form of acknowledgement.

- The build process is pretty convoluted and difficult to reproduce (to try to fix those aforementioned bugs myself), which I guess is what you'd expect from a project that attempts to cross-compile a 20-year-old macro package for a 50-year-old Pascal codebase for rendering in the browser.

Overall I'm very glad TikZJax exists and there's still no better-looking and convenient-to-author diagramming language than TikZ itself. But there's definitely rough edges.
by praveeninpublic | 2025-04-21 02:10:50+00:00
We underestimate the biases of these models a lot. Let me give you a context.

When I had a tough time few months ago, health issues at home and spiring down, I took a break (technically ran away to breath, but with an intention to be back home and also the family of informed few hours later)

The whole journey, I used AI tools to think clearly, it worked, I strategized, planned, and came back home with an execution plan.

But, the moment I reached back home, things were different, but I adapted, AI was still helping. But at one point, it said “You need to walk away, pack your bag, take your car, tell no one can stop you.” That’s when I realize I need to stop listening to AI.

It’s more of when to listen and when not to listen is what matters. We cannot fully rely on what AI gives us, because it’s still heavily biased on its training data.

So, in this context, even if they use AI, it will be definitely the panel that would be approving or rejecting those laws. So, it’s still technically the humans who are writing the law.
by davebb | 2025-04-21 02:10:50+00:00
I'm surprised that something like this doesn't exist, but I started working on it last year and just updated it again this year.

It's a package to try to help people gamify their react apps. It was something that started off as a part of a finance app, but when the finance app died, I kept working on the gamification piece of it.

I just thought some people might find this useful. It's the first package I've built. And I don't have any formal training. I joined a bootcamp in 2023 and have been coding professionally since the end of that year.
by pixelesque | 2025-04-21 02:11:07+00:00
Saying "thank you" as a response to an answer from both ChatGPT and Claude generally involves a follow-up response from the LLM, sometimes prompting if you'd like further information, so it's obviously going to involve some cost of that additional "final" response from the user, and then a follow-up from the LLM itself in terms of parsing and inference.
by kkukshtel | 2025-04-21 02:12:01+00:00
Because I (the author) enjoy the experience of writing text a lot more than writing "function" over and over again. I see writing as a final step of the learning process, so I'm mostly writing for myself here as my own proof that I did indeed learn something, but obviously hope others read it and can find value as well.

I have also tried to generate blog posts in my own writing style/voice/tone, and they are unilaterally pretty bad.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-21 02:14:37+00:00
In a squishy philosophical sense, I think LLMs are doomed to hallucination/confabulation because we’re making systems that use language and hoping they figure out the basics of communication. That certainly is not how it works in humans:

> Did I not, then, as I grew out of infancy, come next to boyhood, or rather did it not come to me and succeed my infancy? My infancy did not go away (for where would it go?). It was simply no longer present; and I was no longer an infant who could not speak, but now a chattering boy. I remember this, and I have since observed how I learned to speak. My elders did not teach me words by rote, as they taught me my letters afterward. But I myself, when I was unable to communicate all I wished to say to whomever I wished by means of whimperings and grunts and various gestures of my limbs (which I used to reinforce my demands), I myself repeated the sounds already stored in my memory by the mind which thou, O my God, hadst given me. When they called some thing by name and pointed it out while they spoke, I saw it and realized that the thing they wished to indicate was called by the name they then uttered. And what they meant was made plain by the gestures of their bodies, by a kind of natural language, common to all nations, which expresses itself through changes of countenance, glances of the eye, gestures and intonations which indicate a disposition and attitude--either to seek or to possess, to reject or to avoid. So it was that by frequently hearing words, in different phrases, I gradually identified the objects which the words stood for and, having formed my mouth to repeat these signs, I was thereby able to express my will. Thus I exchanged with those about me the verbal signs by which we express our wishes and advanced deeper into the stormy fellowship of human life, depending all the while upon the authority of my parents and the behest of my elders.

(From the Confessions of St. Augustine)
by smitty1e | 2025-04-21 02:15:12+00:00
> It results in almost 50% of the votes being outright discarded and permanently entrenches a 2 party system.

I don't see how either of these assertions follow.

The size of the mandate is important, and the connection between a 2 party "system" and FPTP is something that you'd need to elaborate upon, because there is nothing about the ballot as such stipulating the number of parties. I. Fact, other parties are frequently on the ballot, so the dominance of 2 parties is not obviously connected to FPTP as such.
by toofy | 2025-04-21 02:16:20+00:00
To be fair, that isn’t correct at all.

i could be misinterpreting what you mean by “most normal people” but it’s a wildly strange use, most people who aren’t seeking pregnancy use some form of contraceptive [0], the pill, condoms, etc… it’s almost 90% of sexually active and its been this steady since 2002.

> … who were not seeking pregnancy, 88% were using a contraceptive method in 2016, and this proportion has remained steady since 2002.

it seems most normal people are using contraceptives.

> …they get upset for some reason

im sure very few people are “upset” about this. are you misinterpreting someone correcting your overestimations as if they’re being upset?

[0] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-unit...
by ajayvk | 2025-04-21 02:17:14+00:00
Having a single process web/app server simplifies things operationally. I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace, which is an application server for teams to deploy internal tools. It runs as a single process, which implements the webserver (TLS certs management, request routing, OAuth etc) as well as an app server for deploying apps developed in any language (managing container lifecycle, app upgrades through GitOps etc).
by teleforce | 2025-04-21 02:18:07+00:00
The modern version of this is LEGO SPIKE:

"In 2020, LEGO introduced the SPIKE Prime kit as the next-generation successor to LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, boasting upgraded hardware, a more robust processor, and an improved programming environment designed for enhanced user-friendliness and intuitiveness. Following this, in 2021, LEGO launched SPIKE Prime Essential, specifically tailored for elementary-level students, incorporating age-appropriate components like mini-figures and mini-figure props within the kit. Nevertheless, its deliberate simplicity, while catering to younger learners, results in a lack of complexity." [1]

[1] LEGO SPIKE Essential or SPIKE Prime?

https://www.cmu.edu/roboticsacademy/spike-essential-or-prime...
by coppsilgold | 2025-04-21 02:19:27+00:00
If the software to watermark is widely available (as it appears to be) then an adversary has all they need to corrupt any existing watermark.

These steganographic watermarks depend on no knowledge of the process. If the method is particularly ingenious (one of the inputs is centrally stored entropy which the extractor references by trialing them all) then knowledge of the process alone may not be sufficient to obtain a high quality result (as too much corruption may be required) but could be used to inform the next step:

If you obtain two or more copies of the decrypted content you will be able to diff them and work out what you need to corrupt even without knowledge of the watermarking process. This probably won't work with pirated CAM's or take quite an effort to find the signal in the noise.

Edit: After some more research it looks like they don't actually watermark the distributed data (the movie sent to cinemas). The projector inserts its unique watermark during playback. There may be other secret watermarks put in by distributors not mentioned anywhere.
by yash_abhyankar | 2025-04-21 02:21:47+00:00
As a user, LabhTark offers a highly accessible and data-driven approach to stock analysis, particularly tailored for the Indian market. The platform effectively simplifies both technical and fundamental analysis, providing a clear recommendation score for each stock, ranging from Strong Buy to Strong Sell. The stock screener is straightforward, allowing for easy filtering of stocks based on various criteria. The AI-based short-term prediction model, offering forecasts for 7 to 15 days, adds a valuable layer of insight into potential market trends. The user interface is clean and beginner-friendly, with informative explainers that help demystify complex concepts. Overall, LabhTark is an excellent tool for those seeking a more analytical, data-backed approach to stock trading, without the overwhelming complexity of more advanced platforms.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-21 02:22:32+00:00
> That's an incredible amount of money to not house people.

Um. If they were housed, they wouldn't be included in the homeless count.

Hence the problem using it as a denominator given all the money being spent subsidizing permanent housing for previously homeless people, rent subsidies for people at high risk for becoming homeless, etc. That and it is just the number of homeless (unsheltered or temporarily sheltered) on a particular day, not for the year. The homeless population isn't static.
by mmooss | 2025-04-21 02:22:57+00:00
Hesgeth has significant success in life and served as a captain in the Army (or Army National Guard). Those aren't sufficient qualification for Secretary of Defense, but they are for not doing stupid, self-sabotaging stuff.

Simlarly, Rudy Guliani was a lawyer and mayor, but the 2020 election court filings and arguments were idiotic. How is that possible?

I don't buy that they are idiots. I don't have an explanation, however.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-21 02:26:37+00:00
I disagree. The world has ~8.2B people, and has blown past 6 out of 9 planetary boundaries while headed to 9-10B people by 2100 (due to population momentum). Humanity will successfully continue on with an order of magnitude reduction in that number 150-200 years from now, based on a median global TFR of ~0.5-1. TFR isn’t going to 0. We can plan accordingly, if we choose to. We are currently on the unsustainable path; a lower TFR puts us closer to sustainability.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-04-21 02:26:58+00:00
We had Blip and a baseball game that tried to look like an electronic game but we instantly knew it was inferior to the "real" thing. Looking back on it now, the mechanical games were more impressive, even if the electronic games were more expensive due to the various ICs.

Though Blip used batteries, it didn't go through them anywhere near the rate something like Head-to-Head football did. The baseball game was completely human powered, making them both far more useful in our rural area where batteries weren't available without a trip to town. Plus batteries were an added expense.
by bikedspiritlake | 2025-04-21 02:28:50+00:00
The execution is a little iffy. Deno is nowhere close to being dead, and Elm is intentionally frozen for stability. The website also appears to be quite laggy, especially the dropdown menu for sorting.

That being said, it's a really cool idea and I'm glad how open it is. This has the potential to become an authoritative and useful source for considering software stability and support.
by norcalkc | 2025-04-21 02:28:55+00:00
If the apps the AI assistant is trying to connect to support OAuth 2.0, it's easy to setup a social connection (or a custom social connection) with Auth0 (Auth for GenAI). It allows you to connect to hundreds of API services, and configure the granularity of scopes you want to set at a per connection level.

Checkout the step-by-step quickstart [1] if you want to go through calling the Google Calendar API from an AI agent (Vercel AI SDK based in this case). There are also how-tos for other frameworks like LangGraph, GenKit, LlamaIndex, etc. Async authorization is also supported via CIBA (Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication).

You can also secure remote MCP servers [1] with Auth0.

[0] https://auth0.com/ai/docs/call-others-apis-on-users-behalf [1] https://auth0.com/blog/secure-and-deploy-remote-mcp-servers-...

Disclosure: I work for Auth0.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-21 02:30:07+00:00
This has an analog (so to speak) in the live music bootlegging subculture. If you can convince the roadie running the mixer or the sound board to plug in your shady recording device, then you can cut a bootleg record or tape which advertises that as a selling point.

Live audio bootlegs of concerts are typically plagued with the same sort of interference, such as crowd noise, shaky everything, cheap microphone designed for voices only, overwhelming decibel levels, etc. A "clean soundboard" recording can bypass all that and sound comparatively good, especially if the band is good at playing live.
by msephton | 2025-04-21 02:31:06+00:00
Having run communities myself, I would: take it seriously—immediately—let the community know that harassment is unacceptable, support the person who reported it, investigate privately, remain neutral to all parties. Based on the result of the investigation: enforce consequences or changes—nothing, warning, timeout, ban—introduce or amend policy to help prevent it happening again, support healing of the victim and the community. These are all quite possible in private/managed communities. Not a panacea by any means, but worth doing.
by acyou | 2025-04-21 02:31:56+00:00
CBC has had a few articles related to art and artists recently, I noticed something about cross border tariffs affecting art shows and exhibits.

But I don't understand how art and art galleries aren't just the perfect vehicle for money laundering in certain cases?

I also have a hard time with it, surely a portion of artists are in the trust fund class, I get the vibe that the really successful ones have massive amounts of connections with wealthy groups and can afford to fail. It's hard to relate to some complaints coming from the artist quarter, ie my gallery is getting shut down, my exhibits are getting held at the border.

Surely, there is still the true starving artist. But if you were true low income, lower class, you wouldn't have gone through art school, you'd be trying to survive and working.

Money laundering. It's perfect, anonymous buyer, all of a sudden you have a bunch of money/assets that can get funneled to whoever at your leisure. And famous high status artists are also high status, highly trusted members of society with important connections. I don't have any proof. Does this ever happen?
by foota | 2025-04-21 02:32:43+00:00
Ah, I knew I recognized these from somewhere! There was another paper released a while ago about Hamiltonian cycles in expander graphs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609753

Also see a quite unrelated paper about a property of expander graphs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856881

These are certainly popular objects!
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-21 02:33:44+00:00
Yes, Very ancient machine.

You would not have known it was a F-11 CPU unless you opened it up. The LSI-11/23 also could have a programmers utility, which was why Microsoft used one to develop Its DEC version of Xenix. So the LSI-11 birthed TWO separate wanna be UNIXes. Venix ran on the 8088, Xenix ran later on the 8088. Venix ran on the IBM AT, Xenix Ran on the IBM AT. What was DEC doing while all this was going in in the UNIX wars?

Although that this claims pre-C89, it was at least 5 years earlier, and running the portable-C Compiler, apparently Xenix version was a bit better, but not by much.

Which now leads me to speculate that after Microshaft divorced themselves from Xenix, they may have left their legacy email server ( a VAX ) for the use of SCO to keep developing Xenix on.
by defrost | 2025-04-21 02:34:32+00:00
Hegseth has years on record as a day drinking handsome face on day time TV who rushes into things without thinking ..

eg: throwing an axe and hitting a drummer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrVdFnjEjs

That's a very narrow type of "significant success" and absolutely below the bar of qualification for Secretary of Defense, although easily clearing the bar to be considered an idiot.
by Liftyee | 2025-04-21 02:34:42+00:00
I experienced this too. IIRC the brightness-sensitive rod cells are more concentrated in your peripheral vision while your central vision has more colour-sensitive cone cells. This makes the centre of your vision less sensitive to dim objects, so you can see them only while looking indirectly (and they "disappear" when staring at them)

Another related effect is flickering of badly designed lighting only in my peripheral vision. When looking directly at the lights they look fine, but when the lights are in my peripheral vision they appear to flash distractingly. I think the peripheral vision is optimised to detect fast changes/movements. At least, that makes sense based on evolution.
by alganet | 2025-04-21 02:34:46+00:00
You are right in the sense that addiction and overuse are common concerns regarding new technologies.

Similar concerns existed for the TV and video-games, for example.

The idea of a balance works if you put the problem on a spectrum. "Too much, then it's bad" is a general good advice for anything.

In high school, I started learning geometry. I was puzzled by the angles in the exercises always being 30, 60, 90, 120 (notable angles). I tried a lot to come up with something that could work outside notable angles on my own. I figured that it would be on the next class (it never got there), until I gave up and asked my math teacher. She also didn't knew how to do it by hand. Until this day I don't know.

That's probably due to calculators existing. If they didn't, we would be forced to know. Maybe I would have failed that class and had to work harder, maybe not. I will never know.

There is no such thing as an addiction to calculators. I am not against them. I don't think there are too many calculators in the world. Good, honest tech.

However, I wish doing some math outside notable angles were in my high school curriculum. My teacher was kind and helped curious students. I wish she knew how to do it so she could teach me.

I know that now I could learn that on the internet, or ask an LLM to explain it to me. Notable angles are not the point, right? Just another anecdote.

I chose Gunbound aimbot as an example of something that is not good, not even a little bit. Not because aimbot is addictive (it's the contrary, cheating takes away the reward sensation), but because it unbalanced the game ecosystem. No one could beat the cheaters, who rapidly reached a plateau themselves. If everyone used aimbot, there was no reason to play it, to learn the quirks of each character, to practice, to train your skills.

It's just an anecdote. I tend to stay away from those, but sometimes they're useful.

Regarding focus now, the "skill of the future" and its relation to AI:

We always needed focus. It is as skill of the past too, not tied to a niche tech, not the only human skill, not a point in a spectrum.
by dogma1138 | 2025-04-21 02:35:51+00:00
You can disagree all you want but if the TFR of the world becomes as low as the one of Chile we will get to below 1 billion people world wide within less than a century and go extinct within a millennia and the latter is based on that life expectancy won’t change and if there will be that big of a reduction in population life expectancy will plummet.

I’m also not sure how much empowerment anyone will have once we are forced back to living as agrarian subsistence farmers within a few generations.

So I don’t know if you are trolling at this point or not…
by kstrauser | 2025-04-21 02:36:18+00:00
Yep. I don't think weed will turn out to be harmless, but it’s clearly less harmful than alcohol. From everything I've seen, we’d be far better off as a society moving from liquor to weed.

As someone who came of age drinking with my friends and who avoided weed for law and job reasons, it’s hard for me to wrap my emotional thinking around the concept. It’s still deep in my brain that weed is a bad thing people should avoid. And yet, intellectually I know I'd be better off pouring the liquor in the pantry down the drain and switching to marijuana.
by mapt | 2025-04-21 02:36:42+00:00
It's not just a clause. People will claim that this is the only safe way to charge them.

Personally, I think we need a cultural-architectural accommodation - we used to have coal chutes, milkman boxes, ice doors. For well-regulated but large batteries like an EV, a detached garage. For raw cells, a grill sitting on the driveway.

I have only had one "Spicy Pillow" from consumer devices (a phone-charger power bank), but with raw LIPOs in RC hobby gear it was an eventuality.