MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chriswarbo | 2025-06-02 17:00:57+00:00
This is the second time I've seen Lottie mentioned this week, without hearing about it before.

Maybe it's targeting a different use-case, but these things (at least on the Web) appear to be more-heavyweight and less-capable than the things people were doing 20 years ago with Macromedia/Adobe Flash, e.g. compare the animated-GIF-like examples linked from TFA ( https://thorvg-perf-test.vercel.app/ ) to the animations and games found on sites like Newgrounds. Last I checked, the latter make heavy use of emulators like Ruffle, or (based on loading screens) 3D game engines like Unity etc.

As someone who's been out of that scene for a long time: what's the overall state of things, if I want to make long, complex, 2D vector animations? (i.e. not using a 3D engine; and not rendering to video). SVG seems pretty established; but for animation, how capable is Lottie? Does anyone still use SMIL (outside of DVD menus)? Am I better off "rendering" to a big pile of JS + CSS transitions?
by NunoSempere | 2025-06-02 17:01:01+00:00
I did briefly look into how much the estimated $7B was as a proportion of GDP: 7B/2T = 0.35% of GDP, which feels like a lot. For 41 planes it'd be $170M per plane, which seems reasonable when compared to US bombers, but unclear for Russian ones, but my guess is it's not too far off. This source (https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250601-ukraine-says-it-...) says $2B for the planes alone, but then you also had the airbases &c, and maybe a submarine base <https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/major-explosion-hits-russian...>. I'd still expect it to be a bit exaggerated for propaganda effects, but it does seem reasonable all in all.
by dantastic | 2025-06-02 17:01:20+00:00
There are loads of companies having a trademark with Vanta in it and a lot of companies are also called Vanta "something". But they are in different sectors. Myself I think of the Finnish airport (Vantaa).

I'm surprised that the Chicago equity firm didn't have vanta.com registered (they're on https://vantaglobal.com).

You weren't even the first to have Vanta registered in your sector. Nvidia has that registered at one point but didn't use the name and it became "dead".

All I'm saying really is that maybe you should look at yourself before you ask someone else to change their project's name.
by drdaeman | 2025-06-02 17:01:41+00:00
> Flow (2024)

"Flow" was a huge disappointment for me. I couldn't get past the animation jerkiness and overall unrealistic look. I have two cats, and cats simply don't move like pictured: while most of the keyframes were perfectly fine, the transitions between them were off, which completely broke it for me. Heck, "Stray" (the video game) had much more realistically moving cat than "Flow" and I think it's supposed to be the other way around. I get that it was "indie" stuff done on a relatively small budget, but those broken movements became sort of an uncanny valley for me.

I guess, I also had wrong expectations from the beginning. The movie was heavily advertised as non-verbal, so - naturally - I expected it to portray the behaviors of non-human consciousness (with slight allowances for plot reasons, sure). And then the animals behaved as if they were unquestionably and heavily anthropopsychic.

To sum it up, "animals don't move like this and don't behave like this" paired with some invalid pre-expectations, sadly, was too much to break my suspension of disbelief and ruin the movie for me.

But yeah, it's certainly not a "mindless banter in between sex and explosions".
by vitaflo | 2025-06-02 17:01:52+00:00
The interactions I get when people send me messages from my site are also more meaningful. They tend to have searched the info out and the dialogue can be really beneficial for both parties.

I had a popular site once 25 years ago. Popularity is fun but it’s also demanding and draining. I much prefer a slower pace online now that I’m older.

I’ve also shifted from trying to be “smart” or insightful to just documenting random niche things that don’t have a lot of other info about online. Everyone has something like this in their life/career however seemingly insignificant. That makes the few connections I get from my site even more special.
by listeria | 2025-06-02 17:02:02+00:00
weirdly enough, the provided implementation of rand_float() actually generates numbers in the interval [0, 1).

I haven't read the implementation of _generate_canonical_generic(), but the following special case in generate_canonical() applies here:

if constexpr (prng_is_bit_uniform && sizeof(T) == 4 && sizeof(generated_type) == 8) { return (static_cast<std::uint32_t>(gen()) >> exponent_bits_32) * mantissa_hex_32; }

which boils down to:

return (static_cast<std::uint32_t>(gen()) >> 8) * 0x1.p-24;

that is, a number in the interval [0, 2^24) divided by 2^24.
by philipallstar | 2025-06-02 17:02:36+00:00
> just look at silicon valley culture

Well, that is a similar place. If you have plenty of money sloshing about coming from some commercial process you probably disagree with, whether you're a SV day-in-the-life-of employee or a social sciences professor, you probably can have plenty of ideas that are never disproven because you're so insulated.
by Suppafly | 2025-06-02 17:02:56+00:00
> if we divide an object into 3 pieces, no matter what that object was we can never add our 3 pieces together in a way that recreates perfectly that object prior to division. Is there some sort of "unquantifiable loss" at play?

When you cut a cake into 3 slices, there is always a little bit of cake stuck the knife.
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-02 17:02:59+00:00
> in some cases is ok. Note it’s very different from the world where dishonesty is accepted.

"In some cases", maybe. In a world where the majority of cases are effectively punished, we could start talking about that. Today, we live in the world where it's accepted, even when the offender is just an entitled college brat. We should change that.

Oh, and "but my boss/my friends/the president does it" remains exactly as valid excuse as it always has.
by kbenson | 2025-06-02 17:03:05+00:00
If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend reading The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”. It's not that it maps to reality perfectly, but it's an interesting lens through which to look at work and your relation to it. It helped me soften my view on some of my coworkers by understanding their motivations better, and also helped me to accept a point of view much more similar to yours about the work I do. Also, if you're a fan of The Office, it's fun to revisit it and examine it in a new way.

1: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-06-02 17:03:08+00:00
if it was efficient, then there would be no incentives for market makers, and as such there wouldn't be anyone working to make it efficient.

Many market makers work with others people money. So they don't need an inefficient market as an incentive.

Market makers also could have a distorted view of the market. Thinking it is inefficient while it is not. So they have an inefficient market as incentive even though it does not exist.
by KamranKowsari | 2025-06-02 17:03:13+00:00
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by adarshd | 2025-06-02 17:03:23+00:00
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by mullingitover | 2025-06-02 17:03:31+00:00
It's gonna be, at least in part, vaccines[1]. If we invented drugs today that did what routine vaccinations did for Alzheimer's prevention, it would be hailed as a medical miracle.

> Patients who received the Tdap/Td vaccine were 30% less likely than their unvaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer’s disease (7.2% of vaccinated patients versus 10.2% of unvaccinated patients developed the disease). Similarly, HZ vaccination was associated with a 25% reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (8.1% of vaccinated patients versus 10.7% of unvaccinated patients). For the pneumococcal vaccine, there was an associated 27% reduced risk of developing the disease (7.92% of vaccinated patients versus 10.9% of unvaccinated patients).

[1] https://www.uth.edu/news/story/several-vaccines-associated-w...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-02 17:03:48+00:00
We cannot build great things on poor foundations

If your small stuff contributes to a strong foundation for other people, then they should care

It's a shame people lose sight of the ground beneath their feet when reaching to the sky

I'm very guilty of this too, partly because any time I try to look down the people I work with rush in to discourage me from doing that - it's not part of the sprint, after all

Anyways, I am not sure what stuff you build, but thank you for being the sort of person that builds strong foundational stuff that helps other people. We need more people like you. I should try and be more like you
by whatarethembits | 2025-06-02 17:04:03+00:00
Honestly, its mind boggling. Am I the worst prompter ever?

I have three python files (~4k LOC total) that I wanted to refactor with help from Claude 4 (Opus and Sonnet) and I followed Reed Harper's LLM workflow...the results are shockingly bad. It produces an okay plan, albeit full of errors, but usable with heavy editing. In the next step though, most of the code it produced was pretty much unusable. It would've been far quicker for me to just do it myself. I've been trying to get LLMs on various tasks to help me be faster but I'm just not seeing it! There is definitely value in it in helping to straighten out ideas in my head and using it as StackOverflow on roids but that's where the utility starts to hit a wall for me.

Who are these people who are "blown away" by the results and declaring an end to programming as we know it? What are they making? Surely there ought to be more detailed demos of a technology that's purported to be this revolutionary!?

I'm going to write a blog post with what I started with, every prompt I wrote to get a task done and responses from LLMs. Its been challenging to find a detailed writeup of implementing a realistic programming project; all I'm finding is small one off scripts (Simon Willison's blog) and CRUD scaffolding so far.
by pca006132 | 2025-06-02 17:04:33+00:00
I am curious how the last algorithm is an order of magnitude faster than the one based on sorting. There is no benchmark data, and ideally there should be data for different mesh sizes, as that affects the timing a lot (cache vs RAM).

I work on https://github.com/elalish/manifold which works with triangular meshes, and one of the slowest operations we currently have is halfedge pairing, I am interested in making it faster. We are already using parallel merge sort for the stable sort, switching to parallel radix sort which works well on random distribution is not helping and I think we are currently bandwidth bound. If building an edge list for each vertex can improve cache locality and reduce bandwidth, that will be very interesting.
by n1b0m | 2025-06-02 17:04:39+00:00
“Women have a greater risk of developing dementia during their lifetime. The main reason for this is thought to be because women live longer than men. Age is the biggest risk factor for dementia so living longer means that the risk of developing it is greater.”

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/why-dementia-different-wo...
by dingnuts | 2025-06-02 17:04:46+00:00
Can you imagine if Excel worked like this? the formula put out the wrong result, so try again! It's like that scene from The Office where Michael has an accountant "run it again." It's farcical. They have created computers that are bad at math and I will never forgive them.

Also, each try costs money! You're pulling the lever on a god damned slot machine!

I will TRY AGAIN with the same prompt when I start getting a refund for my wasted money and time when the model outputs bullshit, otherwise this is all confirmation and sunk cost bias talking, I'm sure if it.
by ckitchens87 | 2025-06-02 17:04:57+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-02 17:05:21+00:00
"Smoking increases the risk of vascular problems (problems with the heart and blood vessels). These vascular problems are also linked to the two most common forms of dementia: Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.

Toxins in cigarette smoke also cause inflammation and stress to cells, which have both been linked to Alzheimer's disease."

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/managing-the-ri...
by trehalose | 2025-06-02 17:05:34+00:00
> I think the article is better without the pearl clutching of how could our righteous and holy OpenAI promote such sinful language—

Where did you get the impression the author of this post viewed OpenAI as anything like that? I thought she came across as skeptical and/or unapproving of them.

> like yeah this is a hilarious blunder for them but the incel world itself the far more interesting part. Even the author spends more time talking about incels after presumably falling down the inevitable research rabbit hole than the fact it is the #6 lifestyle AI or whatever

She clearly found it interesting too--why this "Even the author" bit? Are you upset that she mis-titled her post in your opinion? I think it's worth noting that this bot is currently as popular as it is, and that OpenAI is fraturing it as such.
by deanmoriarty | 2025-06-02 17:05:37+00:00
I think this is a very reasonable take, I’m not sure where the hate for dating apps comes from.

I am a very average looking man (I’d say look wise I’d be considered a 7/10) and never had a problem using dating apps in the Bay Area, they worked as intended for me, I had experiences with Tinder, Bumble and OkCupid mostly.

Sure you have to work a bit for it, but I dated dozens of women, had very fun times, and ultimately met my wife there.

Most of my friends had a similar experience. The convenience that dating apps brought to my life is remarkable, in my opinion.
by atifh148 | 2025-06-02 17:05:42+00:00
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by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-06-02 17:05:54+00:00
My dataset is here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/dleemiller/irish_penny_journ...

It’s fairly simple — I essentially just split the original text into chunks and then used some bigger models on openrouter to clean it up and provide translations to modern English (seemed to be pretty easy for an LLM).

After that, I just trained a MiniLM2 model to classify the texts. I used this in a reward function for reinforcement learning and changed the system message as a simple instruction to write in the prose of the IPJ.

I debated whether or not to use any SFT, and decided not to. I think if the style would be too hard to learn you might need some seed/cold start SFT data.

I’ll try to get my scripts up in github for you to look at. It’s just a few short training scripts.
by chasd00 | 2025-06-02 17:05:58+00:00
Adafruit is your friend. Get one of their feather boards, an imu breakout, motor controller and then a simple robot chassis + motors from Amazon. Code in circuit python and save yourself the build chain and debug hell that is traditional embedded programming. Circuitpython / micropython is great, well supported, and makes embedded programming more fun. You’ll encounter the haters see it as training wheels but trust me, it’s great.

Edit: you could take a more top down approach and get like an ardupilot, use it in rover mode, and just really learn how to configure and use it to its full potential which is pretty far out there. There’s also a lua scripting capability last time I checked.
by geo_v | 2025-06-02 17:06:25+00:00
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by ben_w | 2025-06-02 17:06:33+00:00
I live in Europe, and we have (usually) sensible consumer safety rules for everything.

So, here's my equivalent: https://www.action.com/de-de/p/2520398/pro-max-verlangerungs...

Germany's mains is 230 volts, so the 3680 watt limit implies 16 amps.

Other than hard-wired things like the oven and heat pump, I'm not sure my house has even one single item that draws 3.7 kW…
by jfengel | 2025-06-02 17:06:35+00:00
The article writer seems confused about what a "debt" is.

An entry fee is not a debt. If they let you in and sent you a bill later, then yes, they'd have to accept cash. But before they let you in, you don't owe them squat.

Maybe it's not a good idea to go digital-only. Maybe it's weird for a government agency not to accept cash. But this is an op-ed by a guy representing an industry group, and his failure to grasp the basic terminology he's using does not make me terribly compelled by his argument.
by int_19h | 2025-06-02 17:07:01+00:00
You don't need to know anything about files and folders to install and use Steam, which represents most of PC gaming and have done so for a very long time now.

People still learn those things to manually install mods and cheats, but it represents a fairly small subset of the overall gamer crowd. And if you look at the kinds of questions people ask on Steam forums that are related to that, it's clear that many users today have no concept of file system at all.
by kentonv | 2025-06-02 17:07:38+00:00
The secret token is hashed first, and it's the hash that is looked up in storage. In this arrangement, an attacker cannot use timing to determine the correct value byte-by-byte, because any change to the secret token is expected to randomize the whole hash. So, timing-safe equality is not needed.

That said, if you have spotted a place in the code where you believe there is such a vulnerability, please do report it. Disclosure guidelines are at: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/blob/ma...
by toast0 | 2025-06-02 17:08:08+00:00
I don't know how you determine causality of dementia. But smoking leads to poor heart and lung health and function, and that's got to have follow on effects on brain health. And there's correlation linking smoking to dementia [1]. So, I think it's fair to say grandma smokes a lot who had dementia got it from smoking even without a specific link.

[1] https://www.heart.org/en/news/2021/07/06/smoking-harms-the-b...
by nunoarruda | 2025-06-02 17:08:14+00:00
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by sandpaper0897 | 2025-06-02 17:08:27+00:00
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by stego-tech | 2025-06-02 17:08:27+00:00
You really should read the papers and reporting coming out about the sheer cost of these AI models and their operation. It might seem significantly cheaper in the context of immediate impact, but those humans provide knock-on impacts that can decrease their environmental impact (especially if done in concert), while the current crop of AI is content burning NatGas turbines and guzzling up groundwater just so a human isn’t tasked with reading a full paragraph of information, or a white paper of important content - and that’s the most optimistic view, at present.

Evaluating a technology in a vacuum does not work when trying to assess its impact, and in that wider context I don’t see the value-add of these models deployed at scale, especially when their marketing continues focusing on synthetic benchmarks and lofty future-hype instead of immediately practicable applications (like this one was).