MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Semaphor | 2025-05-05 13:30:50+00:00
We use CSS paged media to create e-books and invoices (using weasyprint [0]). One of the most helpful resources for me was print-css.rocks [1], they cover a lot of what’s possible and include which tools support which parts of it (tools targeting paged media, browser support is essentially non-existent and outside using JS to fake it with paged.js, not relevant). The expensive tools tend to support more features, but thanks to some donations/sponsorships, weasyprint has really caught up and now supports a very large part of the spec.

> Especially in combination with headless browser pdf generation

I have no idea why you’d want to do that. Browsers are bad at it, dedicated tools are great at it.

[0]: https://weasyprint.org/

[1]: https://print-css.rocks/

[2]: https://pagedjs.org/
by stego-tech | 2025-05-05 13:31:11+00:00
The problem is that "harm" as defined by copyright law is strictly limited to loss of sales due to breach of that copyright; it makes no allowment (that I know of) to livelihoods lost by the theft of the work indefinitely, as AI boosters suggest their tools can do (replace people). The way this court case is going, it's an uphill battle for the plaintiffs to prove concrete harm in that very narrow context, when the real harm is the potential elimination of their future livelihoods through theft, rather than immediately tangible harms.

As a (creative) friend of mine flatly said, they refuse to use an LLM until it can prove where it learned something from/cite its original source. Artists and creatives can cite their inspirational sources, while LLMs cannot (because their developers don't care about credit, only output) by design. To them, that's the line in the sand, and I think that's a reasonable one given that not a single creative in my circles has been cut payment from these multi-billion-dollar AI companies for the unauthorized use of their works in training these models.
by tecleandor | 2025-05-05 13:31:11+00:00
In offices it would usually be from ~14h to 15h or 15:30h. Open to the public, street-level, small businesses (let's say, a butcher, a small hardware store, a bakery...) usually close from 14h to 16h or 16:30h. They open till later than other countries, though, often till 20h or so. That can vary per region and the size of the city, of course.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-05 13:32:08+00:00
> And we know that Pluto is the furthest away planet (sue me)

I don't need to sue you. It's just entirely incorrect by any sane definitions of a planet. It's not the further if you include similar bodies or not a planet. As I have no interest in saving American misplaced pride (because let's not kid ourself it's about anything else), I don't see the point of spreading misinformation.

> Because more people know about Pluto than Eris or Sedna

Only if you were born before it was retrograded which will be less and less likely as time goes on.

> My cosmological knowledge is above average, but I don't know off the top of my head if 700 AU is super-duper far away or still in the range of the gas giants.

I'm not convinced that giving it in multiple of the distance between Pluto and the sun is in any way more useful than distance between the Earth and the sun or that it helps conceptualise the distance relative to the gas giants.

Anyway, Pluto orbit is highly excentric so you have 20AU of wiggle room here when considering distance.
by nobody9999 | 2025-05-05 13:32:44+00:00
>You do understand this is a move to protect Hollywood, Right?

Protect Hollywood from who, exactly? IIUC, an increasing number of "American" movies (i.e., those produced/financed by American studios) are being filmed outside the US.

This isn't a bunch of foreign film makers ganging up on poor, beleaguered film companies like Disney, Paramount and Neflix.

They, of course, are going to go out of business any minute now because those evil foreigners are taking away their movies. /s

No. Those very profitable studios are choosing to make movies outside the US to bolster those high profits by reducing labor, physical plant and safety expenditures.

As such, how is charging Hollywood studios 100% tariffs to import the movies those same studios paid to make "protecting" Hollywood?

Don't mistake the above for my support of Hollywood studios. They are the OG rapacious scumbags that the SV tech bros are trying (and sometimes succeeding) in emulating.
by alnwlsn | 2025-05-05 13:33:34+00:00
In the old days you needed to be a lot more cautious with sharp corners.

If you print into a sharp corner, the hotend has to decelerate to a stop and then accelerate in the new direction. During this time, a little extra plastic will leak out of the nozzle. You can soften this transition with a rounded over corner.

Current printers usually have pressure advance, so this is a lot less important now.
by solomonlazio | 2025-05-05 13:35:14+00:00
Thanks Oras for your kind words. Yes, you are right, I'm currently pulling data from only public schools at the moment. Independence schools is part of our future roadmap. I've used Home track, Realyse and Spectre data and I constantly found them somehow incomplete, the reason I built this. Data via API is part of our delivery roadmap I'm currently building and MVP should be available by end of 2nd quarter this year.
by latexr | 2025-05-05 13:35:42+00:00
> For a chunk of the electorate the status quo wasn’t working for them.

No doubt. But voting for someone who openly makes the worst parts of the status quo worse isn’t a solution either. If the current situation isn’t working for you, choosing to make it more difficult on yourself is nonsensical.

> The ‘status quo’ may have been fine for you hence why you think that was better to continue

I’m not American. But please do elucidate me on which groups exactly were being handed a bad hand by the status quo and are now better off. I think the answer will be quite enlightening.
by eqvinox | 2025-05-05 13:35:49+00:00
Sure. And in a spherical cow world, assuming you want to make n emergency numbers work, you'd sort by population-using and take the first n.

…but even then 911 would only be an emergency phone number if n ≥ 3; first two places being taken by 112 and 110 (because China).

However, this completely ignores facts like people from China being far less likely to travel to e.g. the US… it's more of a "of the people who'd make emergency calls in XYZ, what numbers would they use" consideration…

…it's really not an easy question. GSM went with 112 and 911 and I guess that's as good as an answer this'll get.
by krisoft | 2025-05-05 13:36:25+00:00
> fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion

These are all good reasons for semantic closeness, but semantic closeness and being synonyms are not the same thing.

That being said while tailor (profession) is not a synonym of fashion (concept), tailor (verb) is a synonym of fashion (verb) and can be also a synonym of fix (verb).
by imtringued | 2025-05-05 13:36:36+00:00
This is such a confused blogpost I swear this had to be a teenager just banging their head against the wall.

Wanting to natively train a quantized neural network is stupid unless you are training directly on your microcontroller. I was constantly waiting for the author to explain their special circumstances and it turns out they don't have any. They just have a standard TinyML [0] use case that's been done to death with fixed point quanitization aware training, which unlike what the author of the blog post said, doesn't rely on terabytes of data.

QAT is done on a conventionally trained model with much less data than the full training process. Doing QAT early has no benefits. The big downside of QAT isn't that you need a lot of data, it's that you need the same data distribution as the original training data and nobody has access to that, because only the weights are published.

[0] https://medium.com/@thommaskevin/tinyml-quantization-aware-t...
by codazoda | 2025-05-05 13:36:42+00:00
I do not like to take pictures with my camera for exactly this reason. I want to be there in the moment instead of thinking about the shot.

I'm also opposed to nearly everything that FB does, but I purchased the Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses a year ago anyway. I was preparing to go on a family vacation and I wanted to test them for staying in the moment while still capturing memories. I also prefer candid images where people aren't posing for the camera but are acting naturally.

The great thing about having a camera on your eyeglasses is that you can still be in the moment; mostly. I do hold more still when I take a picture or shoot a video.

I make people in my party aware that I'm wearing them and that I'll be taking pictures. If I'm in public, however, I won't tell everyone around me. That's usually a case where people with me also have their phones out snapping pictures though, so it's pretty obvious that camera's are going.

I'm still struggling with the privacy implications.
by arthur-st | 2025-05-05 13:36:59+00:00
Having experience with digitizing a university textbook in physics by hand, this is a very nice LaTeX guide for everyone interested. One thing worth noting from 2025 perspective that the "default" local setup is most likely going to be VSCode with LaTeX Workshop[1] and LTeX+[2] extensions, and that you should use TeX Live on every platform supported by it (since MiKTeX and friends can lag). Also, use LuaTeX, as it's the officially recommended[3] engine since November 2024.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu...

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ltex-plu...

[3] https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/05/engine-news-from-the-latex...
The only multimodal database with semantic search capabilities
by itstomo | 2025-05-05 13:37:04+00:00
I'm developing a truly multimodal database by document db, object storage, and vector db into a nicely unified interface.

Traditionally, text and other media files such as images, video, and audio are treated separately requiring developers to set up pipeline to deal with multi modalities in their app.

Moreover, when they need semantic search capabilities over their multimodal data, they need to set up embedding pipeline with vector db.

I want to make an abstracted document DB that natively accepts multiple modalities inside JSON documents and automatic semantic search indexing.

Please check out the docs and let me know your thoughts.

https://docs.capydb.com
by ajuc | 2025-05-05 13:37:14+00:00
> Divide and Conquer

This is the most important, it's so much better for obvious and less obvious reasons.

I tried to print a front basket in one piece for my wife's bike 2 times before I got it to print. It broke the next week. I changed it from 1 part to 5 and joined them with zip-ties, thread and 3d-printed pins. Despite the assembly time I was finished in less than half the time, every part was stronger because it was in best orientation, the linkages had some give to them which provides surprising amount of amortization that wasn't there when everything was in one piece. It shakes the contents much less on uneven road because the linkage to the bike is only rigid one-way. It also prevents parts breaking easily, and if something breaks I just have to reprint the weakest sacrificial part that joins the bike with the basket.

And if I think of an improvement - I just need to reprint small part instead of everything.

BTW another very useful trick is preventing layer splitting by designing a vertical through-hole into which you put a zip-tie in tension. Some people use bolts and nuts for that, but that's more expansive and much heavier solution.
by Mbwagava | 2025-05-05 13:37:40+00:00
Whether or not Meta wins this case, I'm never going to support any government that supports both LLMs and IP. Like we have to put up with IP despite having no clear value to a digital society but as soon as it becomes inconvenient it goes out the window? Nah, let's just trash the state and start over.

It's going to take centuries to undo the damage wracked by IP-supported private enterprise. And now we also have to put up with fucking chatbots. This is the worst timeline.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-05-05 13:37:52+00:00
The defense angle us civilians are probably not seeing is important. One big advantage for example is they're hard to take down.

Let's say there's a war with China, one of the first things the PLA will do is take down any US government controlled satellites. The normal big ones you can shoot down but thousands of them that can be replaced within a day, not so much. The PLA would also be giving out their launch positions for retaliatory attacks.

Let's presume the PLA has effective radio and GPS jamming tech, one solution is to use cameras on satellites for positioning and laser as well as frequency hopping satellite radio comms. Small, easily replaceable constellation satellites are ideal.
by anthk | 2025-05-05 13:38:24+00:00
But not for siesta, for lunch. And, by lunch, for HNers, I mean a mid sized meal, not just a sandwitch.

The problem is Spain is that we have the breakfast and lunch kinda the opposite as the Brits.

Brits eat a big breakfast and a small lunch. We do the opposite. Some coffee and maybe a small pastry, and we are done for breakfast. For luch, we have a first and second dish and a dessert.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-05-05 13:39:18+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly with your last point. Pretenders are so easily seen by word choice and phrasing alone and yet these valueless additions are accepted and not immediately called out because it's not polite to call out. For example: when minimizing or distancing themselves from their failure or associating themselves with someone else's success.

There should be zero tolerance for these types of behaviors in my opinion. I see zero evidence of these behavior even being identified by most, let alone any thought on calling them out or stopping them.

You've helped me realize that folks using llms in replace of learning to write themselves are almost certainly giving up all thought of nuance on a topic and are, without realizing it, letting the llm either ignore or add nuance based on its training data and random chance.

Hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way and there's a public epiphany but given the loss of nuance over the decades I'm not betting on it
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-05-05 13:39:21+00:00
It's astonishing this is a thing. I'm thankful to live in Massachusetts where all kids can get lunch for free with no questions asked. Where I live, kids can get breakfast too, however I've heard that isn't universal in the state.

The article points out another issue that is so widespread. Often times, being right above or below a cut off line can make a huge difference and it's kids just above the cut off line here that are suffering. I have a brother with disabilities and there are "lines" drawn all the time with funding that are either all or nothing. If you cross a line, you lose funding. It encourages them to work less, save less money, and be more reliant on state funding. Why haven't we figured out gradients yet? For example, above this line you get 90% of costs covered. Above this line 80%. Above this line 70%. etc... etc... etc...
by anal_reactor | 2025-05-05 13:39:23+00:00
The fact is, for majority of people, life sucks, so when something appears that makes it suck a little bit less for a second, it's difficult to say no. Personally, I can't wait for AI technology to improve to the point that I could treat AI like a partner. And I guess that's something that will appear sooner rather than later, considering the market size.
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-05 13:39:57+00:00
As usual trump says some b.s. A bunch of articles get written analyzing the b.s. and trying to figure out what it means. This article is full of speculation and assumptions.

I think before I put a bunch of effort into understanding this I’d wait until whatever intern in the white house gets assigned this project starts writing rules and regulations.

But if I was in the industry I’d start buying trump coin for influence.
by rayiner | 2025-05-05 13:39:59+00:00
I’m not making a partisan argument. I attended the Iowa Democratic caucuses in 2019, and saw vibrant participatory democracy as de Tocqueville described. And I am trying to reach a shared understanding—what do we mean by “pluralism,” and how does that relate to “populism” and “democracy.” Your view seems to be that pluralism and populism are distinct but orthogonal to democracy. My point is that “pluralism” in practice seems to entail anti-democratic structures to manage the pluralism, and thus is less “democratic” than populism.

To put it differently, you characterized populism as a rejection of pluralism. And my point is that, insofar as populism has anything to do with pluralism, it’s more a rejection of the anti-democratic structures that have been installed to manage pluralism. Which just makes it democracy.
by makeitdouble | 2025-05-05 13:40:40+00:00
> hazing against the cash-first minority

That's...a pretty strong opinion.

Otherwise cash will still have it's issue during a blackout. For instance I'm not sure most shops would operate their POS during a blackout or without any connectivity, at least if there is any hope of resuming normal operations within days, it would screw the ledgers. ATMs of course are dead. Vending machines are also probably not ready for that (Japan has emergency ready ones, I can't imagine other countries doing that)

We're already in a world where cash is second class citizen, and it won't just get back to the "good old days" because of a temporary outage.

And it will also be a different story altogether if power/internet never comes back. Having cash stashed somewhere might not help you that much.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-05 13:42:46+00:00
I invite you to consider the possibility that even though that’s the case, it’s Amazon’s fault for this design choice and one that can be critiqued especially since metadata disclosure can be paired with other exploits. For example, if I know a bucket name then I know the bucket’s domain name since buckets are by default created open to the public.

There’s no inherent reason for treating metadata as less sensitive and there would be fewer problems if it were treated with the same sensitivity as normal data.

Said another way, some users expect the metadata to be treated sensitively and Amazon’s subversion of this is an Amazon problem not a user problem since this user expectation is rather reasonable.
by trollbridge | 2025-05-05 13:42:52+00:00
A very interesting post. I don't generally take photographs for religious reasons, other than for a mundane purpose (government IDs, taking pictures of receipts for an app, that sort of thing). I started following this shortly before my first trip to Israel.

Before I did that, my goal would have simply been to take as many pictures as possible to share with my friends elsewhere. But now that I was committed to not doing this, I instead had to simply treasure every sight and commit it to memory.

In retrospect, I am glad I did this. COVID permanently changed the landscape of things including in the Middle East. October 7 unfortunately changed many other things. I still have my memories, though, of some of the most ancient cities and civilisations and cultures in the world, some of which are irreplaceable.
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2025-05-05 13:43:00+00:00
>School provides structure, goals, timelines, and deliverables. The value of this cannot be understated.

That _may_ be true for the vast majority, but it's criminal to waste the time of bright young people by putting them though hoops. I would even speculate that that they phoney goals, timelines, and deliverables in school actually damage kids.
by scotty79 | 2025-05-05 13:43:03+00:00
I love the movie "I am mother". Terribly chilling depiction of "end justifies the means", "might makes right" and possibly "hell is paved with good intentions" from the POV of subdued party (which is humanity in this case). Also it's great because it makes you constantly re-evaluate characters intentions and truthfulness of what they are saying.
by czarofvan | 2025-05-05 13:43:13+00:00
I've looked at the codebase. The ones I listed do a significant amount of audio processing to get better transcripts, avoid the "Thank you" issues with whisper large turbo, handle bluetooth and noisy environments.

Hopefully VoiceInk gets there. It is a neat project and really well done for a first time dev but rough around the edges. Careless is ~20$ and if you just need dictation is the best option.
by RajT88 | 2025-05-05 13:43:19+00:00
> “What about the next Taylor Swift?” he asked, arguing that a “relatively unknown artist” whose work was ingested by Meta would likely have their career hampered if the model produced “a billion pop songs” in their style.

I have this debate with a friend of mine. He's terrified of AI making all of our jobs obsolete. He's a brilliant musician and programmer both, so he's both enthused and scared. So let's go with the Swift example they use.

Performance Artists have always tried to cultivate an image, an ideal, a mythos around the character(s). I've observed that as the music biz has gotten more tough, that the practice of selling merch at shows has ramped up. Social media is monetized now. There's been a big diversification in the effort to make more money from everything surrounding the music itself. So too will it be with artists.

You're starting to see this already. Artists which got big not necessarily because of the music, but because of the weird cult of personality they built. One who comes to minds is Poppy, who ironically enough built a cult of personality around her being a fake AI bot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_(singer)

You've definitely got counter-examples like Hatsune Miku - but the novelty of Miku was because of the artificiality (within a culture that, like, really loves robots and shit). AI pop stars will undoubtedly produce listenable records and make some money, but I don't expect that they will be able to replace the experience of fans looking for a connection with an artist. Watch the opening of a Taylor Swift concert, and you'll probably get it.
by shkkmo | 2025-05-05 13:43:21+00:00
Perhaps because they read the article:

> horses are big and react poorly to being wounded: a solid arrow hit on a horse is very likely to disable both horse and rider. And while light or archer cavalry might limit exposure to mass arrow fire by attacking in looser formation, as we’ve discussed, European heavy horse generally engages in very tight lines of armored men and horses in order to maximize the fear and power of their impact. Unsurprisingly then, we see from antiquity forward, efforts to armor or protect horses, called ‘barding’: defenses of thick textile, scale, lamellar, and even plate are known in various periods, though of course the more armor placed on the horse, the larger and stronger it needs to be and the slower it moves. Nevertheless, the size and shape of a horse makes it harder to armor than a human and you simply cannot achieve a level of protection for a horse that is going to match a heavy infantryman on the ground, especially if the latter has a large shield.
by indymike | 2025-05-05 13:43:33+00:00
> Using an LLM to do schoolwork is like taking a forklift to the gym.

I'm sure the time has come for college students to master using LLMs. It's just as important as grammar or basic math now. The software I build (and the entire tech industry) automates huge swaths of business processes with AI. Students need to be able to understand, work with, and manage swarms of AI agents doing work.

To stick to the analogy:

I need skilled forklift drivers, not big buff workers like I used to.
by sneak | 2025-05-05 13:43:47+00:00
Obviously, if you don’t dual license, you can’t make any money.

Linux and Python and Wordpress and Redis stand in stark contrast to your basic presumption here.

It’s not gatekeeping to say that if you care about software freedoms, you don’t promote or release nonfree software. It’s just logic.

The choice is not “release only free software xor be commercially successful”.