MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-05-04 02:29:00+00:00
Well, that's the thing. Web fonts are hard. PDF fonts are super hard. Both at once is...actually maybe not hideous these days. Oh, I would not wish the task of devising such an algorithm, but the subset of vector fonts supported in PDF and that in browsers aren't totally disjoint, I think.

Modern processors can handle the relevant conversion math without really waking from sleep, which will no doubt make it more frustrating when some W3C third party resource security model WG fistfight from 2013 makes it impossible to both construct and use a webfont on the client. (There may be some hideous blob URL magic, but those are length constrained so you could up in N subset nonce fonts bucketing M custom glyphs from the source document, with a hideously complex fifty-case rewrite for all the p90 ways of mapping fonts in PDF (or is that 90 cases and p50?) to render the document in the editor. And then have to handle the actual editing cases, like what happens when your subset nonce font of a subset embedded font doesn't map any character to the keycode you just saw, and you want to try to give the user something with metrics sorta matching what they wanted instead of Helvetica or Times New Roman out of a naïvely constructed fontset.

I may have worked with PDF in browsers one time too many, before. But the idea of using WASM to smuggle real tools into this impoverished environment actually makes a lot of sense to me...
by lunr | 2025-05-04 02:29:22+00:00
Find your state's bar association website for the speciality you're looking for. For me it was an attorney specializing in probate court.

Find 2 or 3 that are close to your home (It's nice not having to drive 30 min across town to sign or pick up documents) then give each of them a call.

Most will offer a free consultation to hear why you need their services, they offer what they can do for you, or maybe recommend a specialist.

Then they'll tell you their billable hour rate, or retainer fee* for something larger (probate court takes months) to get started.

If the price is right and you feel good about this attorney, then you're all set. Easy and worth every penny.

Reviewing contracts is probably one of those 30 or 60 min deal that might cost you $200-400 depending on their billable rate, but spending $14k on a mover, $200 is a rounding error.
by ryukoposting | 2025-05-04 02:29:56+00:00
> I've always been confused about what Americans always seem to be doing at the DMV

Getting your car registered in your state of residence, renewing your driver's license, stuff like that. The exact details of the process can vary wildly from state to state, but no matter where you live, it's gonna be a waiting room in a drab government office.

Here in Wisconsin, I got a title for my car, and plates and tags all online. Never stepped foot in the DMV. This is incredibly high tech stuff by state government standards.
by whatarethembits | 2025-05-04 02:33:50+00:00
This issue doesn't get enough attention; apart from the obvious implications on bad UX, I find myself losing interest in a project after realising its broken in so many subtle and non-subtle ways due to the underlying tech. I, like many others, got into programming due to the joy of creating something beautiful and attempting to follow (influencer led) JS trends nearly killed my interest in this field at a time.
by chunkmonke99 | 2025-05-04 02:35:00+00:00
No. I am saying that the broader scientific community probably cannot run experiments on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini as they would be able to on say a mouse's brain or even on human subjects with carefully controlled experiments and that can be replicated by 3rd parties.

As for "understanding" you have to be more precise about what you mean: we created LLMs and Transformer based ANNs (and ANNs themselves) and it appears we are all mystified by what they can do ... as though they are magic ... and will lead to Super-intelligence (an even more poorly defined term than regular-ass intelligence).

I'm not trying to be difficult: but I sometimes wonder if all of us were to take a step back and really try and understand this tech before jumping to conclusions! "The thing that was designed to be a universal function approximator approximates the function we trained it to approximate! HOLY CRAP WE MAY HAVE MADE GOD!" It's clear that the the technologies we currently have are miraculous and do amazing things! But are they really doing exactly what humans do? Is it possible to converge at similar destinations without taking the same route? Are we even at the exact same destination?
by anenefan | 2025-05-04 02:38:18+00:00
Going by the results around my locale and a comment from one of the party's faithful handing out how to vote material yesterday, many likewise saw it as just BS. Since the percentage of the count was little changed I could assume most voters in my parts just ignored it all as a stunt - I'm actually surprised - I'm in a voting area that's long held by conservative parties but expected a large swing given the serious amount of money that would surely have been ultimately wasted investigating further where the power plants would go despite being fairly sure they'd never get off the ground.

Given the level of sunshine or heat inland areas typically get in Australia, solar power or advanced thermocouple panels makes perfect sense. Solar power doesn't necessarily have to be distributed though a major grid - there's plenty of inland small gas fields that would serve as a good source to make ammonia. That at the moment that might not seem greatly useful for energy requirements, but as fuel cells become more popular and available, it'll help stabilise any shortfalls.
by Fnoord | 2025-05-04 02:38:26+00:00
macOS has both these features, sort of.

Startup chime in SGI machines depended on model. So an Indy had a different one than an Onyx. My first PC (80286) also had iconic sounds when it started up. Never forget.

Micro distro, is recovery OS. All three major desktop OSes have such, or a key combination to activate such. Android has two recovery partitions I believe, redundancy is key.

If you like the power of snapshots, yep filesystems with CoW like ZFS can show a list during boot. An OS like NixOS wouldn't even need such. Works perfectly fine with Ext4FS, including boot menu with snapshots, rollback feature, etc.
by Retric | 2025-05-04 02:38:37+00:00
~10x as dangerous checks per km checks out if you assume the same distance is traveled either case. (1 fatality per 100k flight hours * 200KPH would be 1 fatality per 20 million km.)

However people who fly regularly tend to have crazy high total mileage compared to the ~15k miles/year of a typical American. Which is why so many general aviation pilots die relative to car crashes, it’s just inherently a very dangerous hobby.
by MisterBastahrd | 2025-05-04 02:39:18+00:00
I sat in a jury for a civil lawsuit between an employee, a company, and the insurer for the company. Guy was driving a company vehicle for work and got T-boned on a rural highway by some kids riding through cane fields. His line of work was cleaning those giant shipping vessels, which requires you to climb about 60 feet vertically. Well, the company didn't want to pay more for insurance, so they tried to get the guy to take a foreman gig so they could skimp on his payout.

Long story short, the counsel for the plaintiff was VERY good, made the insurance company's people look like amateurs, and was successful in pleading his case and getting everything he asked for. Very nice fellow, and I didn't notice until driving over a shipping canal that his face was plastered on a giant billboard for maritime injury cases, lol.
by gnulinux996 | 2025-05-04 02:40:18+00:00
> At 94, Buffet has witnessed history and has represented a vision of betterment, a just society, and sound economic stewardship

How exactly did he "represented a vision of betterment, a just society, and sound economic stewardship"?

> But for many, it seems, the lessons about co-operation, stable economic growth. the sane application of democratic principles, and the rule of law must be learned again.

Who are these "many" that need to be taught about those "democratic principles" and the "rule of law". How are these related to Buffett?

> It's the end of an era bona fides and respect for truth and accountability as the structural integrity of democratic society.

What?
by mikewarot | 2025-05-04 02:41:12+00:00
The reason is simple, HTML is not a hypertext markup language. Markup is the process of adding commentary and other information on top of an existing document, and HTML is ironically incapable of doing the one thing it most definitely should be able to do.

It's so bad, that if you want to discuss the markup hypertext (I.E. putting notes on top of an existing read only text files, etc.) you'll have to Google the word "annotation" to even start to get close.

Along with C macros, Case Sensitivity, Null terminated strings, unauthenticated email, ambient authority operating systems, HTML is one of the major mistakes of computing.

We should have had the Memex at least a decade ago, and we've got this crap instead. 8(
by HumanOstrich | 2025-05-04 02:41:23+00:00
Seems like overkill to bring in a framework just for inlining some static html. If that's all you're doing, a self-replacing script tag is neat:

<script> function includeHTML(url) { const s = document.currentScript fetch(url).then(r => r.text()).then(h => { s.insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin', h) s.remove() }) } </script>

...

<script> includeHTML('/footer.html') </script>

The `script` element is replaced with the html from `/footer.html`.
by terribleperson | 2025-05-04 02:41:26+00:00
Real life is rarely as simple as discrete causes and effects. The dollar being a reserve currency is the result of both advantaged position America was in at the end of WWII combined with subsequent economic policy. Economic policy alone would not have resulted in the powerhouse America became, and it certainly could have squandered its post-WWII position with bad policy.

The dollar becoming the reserve currency has given America a lot of power, however. It certainly is a factor in the way America is able to run a trade deficit and yet still benefit.
by zwaps | 2025-05-04 02:42:13+00:00
Nobody knows what the AGPL actually says, since it has not been determined sufficiently in court (at least in the EU) which is why the license is blacklisted by most companies.

If you want corporate adoption except AWS, you still cannot use AGPL.

I feel like there should be a license that doesn’t allow hyperscalers alone to fork without releasing source while being palatable to smaller companies
by chunkmonke99 | 2025-05-04 02:44:33+00:00
Oh man I was not aware of this aspect of Turing's work thank you for sharing!!

Honestly, trying to reverse engineering something to understand how it works is interesting and potentially worthwhile! To me it's obvious that "broadly mechanistic" or causal explanations of specific cognitive functions can be created. I am not doubting that a "machine" can mimic human cognitive abilities -insofar as we can state them or "tokenize" them precisely. I am pretty sure that is the whole basis of Cognitive Science.

But just because we can mimic those capacities: does that imply that those are the same mechanisms that exist in nature? Herbert Simon made a distinction between "Natural" and "artificial" system: an LLM's function is to model language (and they do a damn good job of that!) does the brain have one function and what is it? If you build a submarine does that mean it tells you something about how fish swim? Even if it swims faster than any of the fish?
by terribleperson | 2025-05-04 02:45:36+00:00
There are barriers to trade besides tarriffs. That's literally the only sensible part of the nonsense justification for the initial values of Liberation Day tarriffs. The E.U., for example, has barriers to trade like food regulations and PDO and such. Protectionism takes forms besides tarriffs. Tarriffs are probably among the least useful, most damaging, most blunt protectionist tools.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-05-04 02:45:55+00:00
Server-side includes FTW! When a buddy and I started making "web stuff" back in the mid-90s the idea of DRY also just made sense to us.

My dialup ISP back then didn't disable using .htaccess files in the web space they provided to end users. That meant I could turn on server-side includes! Later I figured out how to enable CGI. (I even went so far as to code rudimentary webshells in Perl just so I could explore the webserver box...)
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-04 02:46:35+00:00
"Some threshold" is doing a lot of work here, since the requirement is a million signatures (which also need to be from multiple countries).

I made a small mistake, the response will be from the Commission, not Parliament, because only the Commission can propose laws anyways - but you do get a hearing in parliament.

But essentially, even crossing the million signature threshold doesn't win you anything but a slightly bigger soap box and the promise of the Commission giving you a "no" in writing rather than just ignoring you. There is no requirement to actually act on it, and no way to force it (unlike e.g. in Switzerland where actual binding popular votes can be initiated with enough signatures).
by zwaps | 2025-05-04 02:46:45+00:00
Aws killing off an oss company by shady anti competitive tactics and inherenting their code for free is certainly not in the spirit of oss

So if you are only saying it is their right, well, as per know CLA it is well within the oss companies right to change license for new version

You also knew this when you started using it. Why do you call it a rug pull now when you knew it could happen?
by kristjansson | 2025-05-04 02:47:36+00:00
At some life stages and situations, this makes total sense. I’d think those are predominantly when one is embarking on a new stage, and moving as a part of that. Graduations, retirement, marriage, divorce, … . But someone moving involuntarily (job change, new posting, …), perhaps with a partner, perhaps with children … it’s hard to begrudge that person bringing many of their things along to ease the transition.

There’s a reason the US military pays for movers.
by autoexec | 2025-05-04 02:48:03+00:00
There's no way to do anything in today's society without being surveilled and the data being collected never goes away. We all make choices on how much to we're okay with handing over knowing that it will all be used against us later. I'll leave the robots to you and just hire a few young men to do the job. I'll sleep better knowing that at least in this case, I won't face negative repercussions for the rest of my life as a result.
by serf | 2025-05-04 02:48:13+00:00
what's the reason? it surely isn't ride smoothness, it's control.

similar to a race car -- you don't compensate the speed with damping and spring rates in order to maximize a smooth ride , you do it to more quickly transfer the movement energy OUT of your car, into the ground and traction patch so that the car can remain dynamic for the next force.

this does not equate to ride quality, most race cars (and bikes) are bone-shakers.
by wordofx | 2025-05-04 02:48:30+00:00
GraphQL is the new mongodb. This fancy new thing that people want to use and makes no sense in reality and just causes more problems than it solves. It solves a very specific problem that makes sense at Facebook. It makes 0 sense for companies that have a web app or web and mobile app. And nothing else. Anyone deciding to use graphql is making a dumb decision.
by xgstation | 2025-05-04 02:50:01+00:00
sure there are hype around MCP, but how does that bridges to "MCP Is Mostly Bullshit"?

the title is more or less click bait, even author admits it

> I am not even saying MCP is bad tech or useless. It’s just one way among others to provide context to AI assistants/agents. If you have ever built an LLM-based application, you have more or less done something similar.

but beyond just similar, it's very good to see there is a standard protocol that everyone adopts it, and the MCP will make the existing tools & services immediate ready with better models being released in the future much easier
by raincom | 2025-05-04 02:51:05+00:00
Crux:

"Metagenomics technology uses cutting-edge genomic sequencing, which can identify all bacteria, fungi or parasites present in a sample by comparing them against a database of millions of pathogens.

[if you] do a separate test for each and every one and if you've got an infection with something that's unexpected, rare or not previously known, you won't find it."
by creakingstairs | 2025-05-04 02:51:31+00:00
I’m split on this. I used to agree with you but when I talked to internal users and customers, they really liked having a back button in the app. I would tell them the browser back button is there and we haven’t broken history so it should work to which they just often shrug and say they “just” prefer it.

My hypothesis is that they’ve had to deal with so many random web apps breaking the back button so that behaviour is no longer intuitive for them. So I don’t push back against in-app back buttons any more.
by hwillis | 2025-05-04 02:52:44+00:00
> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933

> Our main finding is that AI chatbots have had minimal impact on adopters’ economic outcomes. Difference-in-differences estimates for earnings, hours, and wages are all precisely estimated zeros, with confidence intervals ruling out average effects larger than 1%. At the occupation level, estimates are similarly close to zero, generally excluding changes greater than 6%.
by serf | 2025-05-04 02:52:51+00:00
it was a great car. the 1UZ-FE was one of the few motors in a consumer-available car that had a flight-rated version AND a marine-rated version . It was one of the first 300+ WHP sedans. Bullet-proof. Great.

If you don't mind old cars you could explore the rest of the lineup that touched the 1UZ/2UZ motor/3UZ; they're all pretty good. SC430,GS430,GS400,LS430,LS400. [0]

As far as modern Toyota goes.. I couldn't make a recommendation. I like the newer Prius, but it's a different market and I wouldnt vouch for the reliability, although i've had good luck.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_UZ_engine
by hilbert42 | 2025-05-04 02:53:29+00:00
Fine, people often disagree with me.

All I can add is that I lived through both conversions and witnessed them from day-to-day.

They were planned by greater minds than mine to follow one another with the metric building on the momentum of the first. Outcomes are what ultimately matter, both conversions along with those in NZ have been recognized as some of the most successful of all time.

Decimalisation is different to metrication but they were not perceived that way, instead they were a political matter and that required a political solution involving Parliament, and that's an altogether different matter.

BTW, well before the French Revolution when the Franc was set in stone the French currency followed the same divisions as the UK pound, the livre was divided into 20 then 12. Similarly length, the French inch if I recall is marginally longer than the Imperial one. Again, it's politics at work here, both currency and measures are often closely aligned.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-04 02:55:11+00:00
Nothing wrong with being anti democracy. Peter Thiel said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” and I find it hard to disagree with him at this point. The average American is at a 7th-8th grade reading level, for example. Not much pride in being dragged by that quality of electorate.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/the-biggest-predicto...
by neom | 2025-05-04 02:55:12+00:00
The demo in the page of the "NIO ET9 SkyRide Fully Active Suspension system test"? - I presume they included that to show the legacy systems? If you do a technical dive through the CM technology it's clearly not just a magnetic fluid/hydraulic, this site gives a good breakdown: https://mf-topper.jp/articles/10003931
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-04 02:55:21+00:00
Sure, I think your analogy is a reasonable point. There are certainly many different places where the boundary around a functional unit could reasonably be drawn as it pertains to copyright law. There's nothing wrong with having a variety of available choices in that regard when selecting a license.

I think I agree with your analogy. It does sort of seem like SSPL is closing a loophole in the AGPL (which was itself arguably closing a loophole in the GPL). At the same time I don't inherently see an issue with drawing a line about what the ideology does and doesn't include.

One way of interpreting it is that it's a choice that the ideological tenants can include users directly interacting with your program via the network but can't extend to backend network interactions.

Another way of interpreting it is that backend network interactions aren't the issue but rather constraints based around the interpretation of the purpose of a program. The GPL and AGPL arguably regulate based on technical distinctions - is the functional unit constructed using a specific component, is the functional unit what's driving the user interaction. The SSPL on the other hand (specifically the final version that was proposed before being withdrawn [0]) contains the phrases "the primary purpose or features of such Software As A Service" and "the value of the software component of such Software As A Service".

Yet another way of interpreting it is that the current religious leaders just don't want to poke that particular hornets nest right now. That pragmatically speaking the SSPL appears to have a disproportionate impact on an awfully specific business model whereas the existing licenses are much closer to neutral (at least in that regard).

If the boundary is truly being drawn in the wrong place presumably that will be corrected if the error is clearly demonstrated. If the SSPL or something substantially similar becomes widely adopted and ends up facilitating the goals of the ideology in practice then people might be convinced to update their opinions. Even if they don't, as long as user needs are being met I'm not sure it matters what the OSI or FSF or whoever else puts on their list. False negatives (ie omissions) don't seem particularly important here while false positives (ie erroneous inclusions) do.

[0] https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists....
Show HN: GoVisual – lightweight, zero-config HTTP request visualizer for Go
by arifliftos | 2025-05-04 02:55:31+00:00
Hello HN,

I kept losing half my debugging sessions to hunting down why a request failed, or which middleware added that header, or why my JSON response was malformed—too many tools, too many context switches. So I built GoVisual, a tiny Go library that wraps your existing http.Handler and gives you a live dashboard at http://localhost:8080/__viz.

- Real-time monitoring: Requests show up instantly via SSE - Deep inspection: Headers, request/response bodies, status, timing - Middleware tracing: Visualize execution order and durations - Zero external deps: Pure Go, drop-in middleware; works with standard lib, Gin, Chi, Echo, Fiber

It’s strictly for local development—no setup, no config files, just go get and wrap your mux if you pass a -viz flag. I use it every day instead of shoving everything through Postman or hacking logs. It’s MIT-licensed and on GitHub here: https://github.com/doganarif/govisual

Would love to hear if this solves a pain for you too, or any ideas on making it even more useful. Thanks!