MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sbehrman | 2025-06-10 15:14:25+00:00
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by lou1306 | 2025-06-10 15:15:03+00:00
> the Mean Value Theorem for integrals is a theoretical tool for proving the existence of this particular x'. It does not, however, offer any method of finding the value of x'. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine how the Mean Value Theorem for integrals could be employed in Pemulis' Eschaton calculations.

Knowing the character, at least this one could be explained as yet another parlour trick from Michael Pemulis. God knows how he actually calculated those values.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-10 15:15:16+00:00
I agree, protectionism is bad most of the time but it has its place. It is bad when you are ahead, it is useful when you are behind(You want them to be exposed to the cutting edge market but before that you want them to be able to exist in first place even if they are not the best at this very moment).

China's EV dominance is a result of local governments investing and buying from local businesses.

It would be the same with Russia&China. They will receive money from the governments and will sell to local buyers and will aim to expand to foreign markets.

As I said, most AI talent is not American but it is concentrated there. Give them a reason to be somewhere else, some will be somewhere else.
by laurent_du | 2025-06-10 15:15:58+00:00
Not really? These people will simply disregard the clips, claiming they are a piece of right-wing propaganda, and that the protest are peaceful, because how could it be otherwise? Of course fighting ICE, feds, and helping criminals (in some case drug dealers and even at least one murderer) is inherently peaceful, just like the BLM riots were.
by thalissonvs | 2025-06-10 15:16:10+00:00
I don't think it's similar. The library has many other features that Selenium doesn't have. It has few dependencies, which makes installation faster, allows scraping multiple tabs simultaneously because it’s async, and has a much simpler syntax and element searching, without all the verbosity of Selenium. Even for cases that don’t involve captchas, I still believe it’s definitely worth using.
by siver_john | 2025-06-10 15:16:17+00:00
Went to a show in Nashville with some friends, I think last year. And drones were definitely incorporated in (interestingly showing Star Wars and then US military assets), but it was done in tandem with the fireworks. Which as a distraction during transitional elements does seem like a good use for them.

Honestly I think the biggest threat is also fireworks NIMBYism, people don't like the loud sounds disturbing their lives, their pets, etc combined with the general pressure of bigger and better exacerbating those problems.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-10 15:16:18+00:00
Question: Why do things move?

Before Aristotle: Um, Zeus’s will I guess. No need to look further.

Aristotle: Great question! I don’t really know. But maybe that’s something we should investigate and reason about so that we can understand how our world works. Hmmm, maybe… like this?

After Aristotle: What he said. No need to look further.

I think he’d have been horrified at the idea that we could stop investigating, and yet.
by visarga | 2025-06-10 15:16:20+00:00
If they really want to improve MacOS they should add synonym based search in Settings. I should not be forced to know by heart the arcane speech their marketing department chose to replace consecrated terms. Just today it took me 5 minutes to unearth the Speech Rate settings.

It feels like using Siri and not knowing the magic words. Come on Apple, synonym matching is easy. Just use a LLM to generate synonyms to all things a user might query in settings! Use a small embedding model if you feel daring, it works fast enough.

Oh, this reminds me that Azure, GCP and AWS also need AI assistants that actually know their way around instead of declining to help for anything above looking up some docs. Why can't I ask Azure in what region the still have A100 GPUs? That's what the assistant should be good at - integration with live data and ability to solve cloud problems.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-10 15:17:23+00:00
> There would be no incentive to compete.

Why not ? First of all there would be plenty of incentives for EU companies to compete with one another (and plenty of capital flowing to them as the European market is big enough), then there would be competition with US actors in the rest of the world. That's exactly how the Asian economic model has been built: Japan, Taiwan, South Korea all have used protectionism + export-based subsidies to create market leaders in all kind of domains (from car manufacturing to electronics and shipbuilding).
by lsy | 2025-06-10 15:17:44+00:00
The new icon looks weird not just because it's a change, but because if you think of the face as being 3D and illuminated by a light source, the new icon doesn't scan as easily as the old one. You'd have to assume the face is turning away from you but the light is slightly backlighting them and putting the closer part in shadow. Anyways it's a small change but I do think it indicates people internally aren't thinking about whether the design makes sense.
by brailsafe | 2025-06-10 15:18:00+00:00
The overwhelming majority of people I know in real life haven't actually been on the platform for years, if they ever were, and some of those have used X by default in the rare case in comes up. It's slowly changing, but was quickly dying before Trump and Elon got their hands on it. Mileage may vary, but I imagine there's an association between Twitter still being the old place where tired millennials shout about nothing to bots all day
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-10 15:18:06+00:00
> Why would you do that?

TBH, it's better if this new generation of Apple's UI designers waste their energy on such trivialities instead of trying to "improve" Finder features (not that Finder is all that great to begin with though).

Let them tinker with icons, fonts, colors and "evoking emotions" all day long, at least then they don't break any actually important stuff.
by daseiner1 | 2025-06-10 15:18:08+00:00
philosophy isn't really about answers, it's about questions. it's also not really about knowledge. a philosopher, literally, is a friend or lover of wisdom.

there are decent arguments, for instance, that reasoning about God (yes, angels dancing on pinheads) laid the groundwork for things like calculus as it necessitates reasoning with the infinite.

"objectivity" has been used to justify lots of bad things. and hate to be the bearer of bad news but "stuff people made up" is kinda the definition of society and culture.

> confidently making stuff up and declaring it as fact because they thought it made them sound smart.

pots and kettles.
by staplung | 2025-06-10 15:18:22+00:00
Fun. It's basically Borges Library of Babel[1] where each book is a 4K ROM!

If you do the math based on the specs given in the story (and crucially, you assume that each possible book appears once) you end up with a library several times larger than the observable universe.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-10 15:18:32+00:00
This is completely wrong, as the other commenter stated. This would certainly fall under the work-product doctrine [1,2], where documents prepared for the purpose of future litigation are protected from discovery and could be considered analogous to attorney-client privilege (but is actually much more broadly defined than attorney-client privilege[4]). Even if opposing counsel is able to obtain discovery on a work-product, only fact based products, not opinion based are allowed. In other words, the court removes anything related to “mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, or legal theories of an attorney or other representative of a party concerning the litigation” [3]. For conversations with AI about how to conduct your case, that would exclude basically everything since it is an opinion work-product, not a fact work product. A fact based work-product would be things like “statements or interviews of now deceased witnesses, photographs or video of an accident scene taken at the time of the accident”[4].

[1] https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-journal/the-work-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-product_doctrine

[3] https://coxlawflorida.com/florida-rules-of-civil-procedure/r...

[4] https://tenthings.blog/2019/06/05/ten-things-a-primer-on-the...
by kennywinker | 2025-06-10 15:18:56+00:00
Fair point. I was talking about iOS devices which are much more locked down than macs. As i see it there are two issues with no-longer supported macs:

1. The security issue i mentioned earlier applies to macs. It’s a bit easier to mitigate because an older mac can run a newer non-system-linked browser. But e.g. firefox is dropping support for 10.14 (released in 2018) this year (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-macos-101...)

2. If you keep your os up to date as long as possible, new features will drag performance down to the point of being nearly unusable. So you’re forced to tradeoff between security+features and performance.

Of course, with a old mac you can always install linux to extend its lifespan… but that’s not thanks to apple
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-10 15:19:03+00:00
Interestingly, there is no actual reference to Pythagoras for this discovery until 5 centuries later, by Greek authors Plutarch and Cicero attributing this theorem specifically to Pythagoras.

However, Pythagoras’ Theorem is often linked to the Babylonians. There are implications of the theory on a fragment of a clay tablet from Babylonia in the Plimpton 322, dating back to approximately 1800 BCE.
by rsync | 2025-06-10 15:19:12+00:00
I think about this a lot …

I think the key aspect of a company with “soul” is humans directing the company rather than the company directing the humans.

I think the biggest inflection point where this flips is when companies “pivot”.

The human founders of a company should have a well-defined philosophical Vision of what it is they are building and who it is for. If this doesn’t work out, the business should be terminated.

It is the zombie husks of corporate organizations that have been repurposed to other ends by finance that are dangerous.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-10 15:19:49+00:00
People keep talking about grand things like new paradigms, but given current limitations I wouldn’t be surprised if for the most part, the best AI winds up being that which you can’t see (the strategic application you mention). Think less miraculous everything machines and more specialized models enhancing things that already exist.

The tendency for LLMs to flub and hallucinate gets downplayed but I think it’s actually the main blocker for it becoming a “smartphone killer” kind of thing. The problem is that fixing this issue is anything but easy and might even require actual reasoning capabilities (not the current Markov chain ping-pong “reasoning”), e.g. something adjacent to AGI, and I think we’re probably still many years away from that.
by TheChaplain | 2025-06-10 15:19:57+00:00
To me fireworks are enjoyable because of the light, sound and smell experience, plus the slightly chaotic/unpredictable behaviour.

Drone shows are pretty but.. well, quickly becomes kind of predictable and dull. Like any CGI in movies these days, just never amazes me or gives any "wow"-feeling like it did when Terminator 2 came out.
by griffzhowl | 2025-06-10 15:20:17+00:00
Just to note all those points of Aristotle were corrected by Galileo, before calculus.

One thing that Galileo did more systematically than his precursors was that he found ways to treat time geometrically, as a spatial magnitude, so then he could draw distance-time graphs, and velocity-time graphs, which helped him in coming up with his law of fall (distance in free fall is proportional to the square of the time taken to fall), and then to deduce that the trajectory of a projectile is a parabola
Show HN: I built an AI agent for a mobile robot
by ponta17 | 2025-06-10 15:20:47+00:00
I've developed an AI agent for the TurtleBot3 mobile robot using ROS2. This agent can interpret commands such as “move to (X, Y)” or “check surroundings,” and dynamically selects from a toolkit of actions, including movement, sensor data retrieval (from odometry, LiDAR, or camera), and basic navigation decisions. So far, I've tested the agent in the Gazebo simulator. If you're interested, please check out the demo video in my repository linked below. My next step is to deploy the agent on a real TurtleBot3 to evaluate how it handles the complexities of real-world environments.

https://github.com/Yutarop/turtlebot3_agent

I'd love to hear feedback or ideas from the community, especially regarding the challenges of transferring a robot from simulation to real-world deployment. Also, I'm wondering whether MCP might be a better fit for robotics applications. Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated!
by nathan_compton | 2025-06-10 15:21:37+00:00
Please elaborate. Genuinely curious.

I'll be frank with my perspective: trying to understand recent (say the last 50 years) of US history on a "materialist -> idealist" axis is hilariously absurd. There has been literally no moment in the history of the united states that I can think of where anything like a truly materialist public facing justification for policy has ever been offered.

And while its true that the failings of the ruling cast tend to be mercenary in nature, which is to say that they are mostly out for themselves, this really is neither here nor there philosophically, and is more a condition of ruling classes everywhere and one not deeply related to the navel gazing of philosophers.
by moralestapia | 2025-06-10 15:21:44+00:00
I enjoy fireworks. A lot.

Some of the reasons you brought up are valid, but, at the end of the day the world is a collection of personalities and there is one collective personality that likes fireworks. That will never go away :).

The nice thing is that we can both coexist. You have a right to be against them, I have a right to be for them. We both enjoy times when there are no fireworks and times when there are many.

Since you seem quite knowledgeable about the topic. What do you think could be done to ameliorate the issues you mention, while also letting firework enjoyers enjoy their thing once in a while?
by yeahforsureman | 2025-06-10 15:21:49+00:00
Tsk, tsk! You're using thorn (ð) for two different 'th' sounds. Old English used 'eth' (þ) to mark both sounds but it'd be more precise to use both letters like in Icelandic, eg for the above: þings, ðe (although the vowel in 'the' is actually more of a schwa [ǝ] usually, or [i] before vowels). Also, you're still sticking to some English spelling pecularities there...

In a fictitious modern, phonology-based spelling system, you could write the above something like:

“Bat sač þings gou in sajkls, änd wan dej ðí Ingliš längwidž wil bí simplifajd.”

;)
by rglover | 2025-06-10 15:21:52+00:00
Because they want to have their own belief—that AI is more important than others believe it to be—reinforced. They think it's important and significant, so anybody who doesn't must be an uninformed, unimaginative idiot (or a failing company).

This will play out exactly how you think. The hubris will be confronted with harsh reality at some point, all of the chest puffers will get real quiet, and companies like Apple will look wise for not getting too involved, too soon.
by panzi | 2025-06-10 15:22:11+00:00
Yeah, system() should definitely be deprecated and you should never use it if you write any new program. At least there is exec*() and posix_spawn() under POSIX. Under Windows there is no such thing and every program might parse the command line string differently. You can't naively write a generic posix_spawn() like interface for Windows, see this related Rust CVE: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576/ Why is it a CVE in Rust, but not in any other programming language? Did other language handle it better? Dunno, I just know that Rust has a big fat warning about this in their documentation (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.Command.html#me...), but e.g. Java doesn't (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/ProcessB...).
Show HN: I built this to stay sane on ArXiv, now it handles any technical doc
by _josh_meyer_ | 2025-06-10 15:22:30+00:00
Hi there o/

Like a lot of people, I try to stay up-to-date with ML papers on arXiv. But, it's not easy.

I tried pure audio overviews (like notebooklm), but still found the experience not great. It's hard to stay focused on a pure-audio overview when things get technical. Chatting with Claude feels like I'm just getting a wall of text, albeit a shorter one. For me, the visuals are really important (e.g. diagrams / tables / charts), and pure text or pure video misses that.

So, I made TLDR to convert (ideally) any technical document into a visual presentation with audio narration. I've been using it daily for a few months, and recently decided to polish it and put it out there.

I hope you like it!

-josh
by herbst | 2025-06-10 15:22:45+00:00
I was travelling Spain this year and there was nowhere to hide. The most remote places turned into outdoor festivals and everywhere else everyone below 20 or so was shooting around. My dog hated it, I did too. I never saw fireworks, just "boooom" going on for days.

The real surprise was that there was no major place advertising to at least ban the "boom" things. And that it was going on for about a week.

Compared to that being loud one night, in a civilized matter, focusing on beautiful and not loud stuff would be a tame alternative.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-10 15:22:56+00:00
> because it's trivial to find P(H) that makes it false

As I already said in the comments you read, it's proportional to the bias. A few hundred multiplied by the ratio between heads and tails or vice versa will never be reached.

> when you don't even say what your N is

Number of outputs?

Look, if you want to invoke concepts like exponential time then you tell me what N is. Exponential of what?

> All they need to be given is a coin whose bias they don't know beforehand

See first answer.

If someone expects the bias to not matter, even a one in a million coin, they're the one with the problem, not the algorithm.

If they accept the bias affects speed, things are fine.
by Galanwe | 2025-06-10 15:22:59+00:00
Well it can be abused of course, but capthas are used abusively as well, so I would say it's fair game.

Lots of use cases for scraping are not DoS or information stealing, but mere automation.

Proof of work should be used in these cases, it deters massive scraping abuse by making it too expensive at scale, while allowing legitimate small scale automation.
by larrled | 2025-06-10 15:23:45+00:00
The administration tears down another Chesterton fence. Herein lies the rub: nobody thinks they are rubber stamping. Finding people who are less likely to approve vaccines because they lack experience in pharma is just another way to be what his critics accuse him of, an antivax simpleton. It’s not necessarily neutral or pro-science to approve less. You might approve bad ones, and not approve good ones. You need people who are experts. You know who are probably the experts in pharmaceutical risk management? Pharma companies.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-10 15:23:47+00:00
It is kind of a journey in an annoying way. Like, do we really need to know all the stuff about: this man page says to sanitize input, this one doesn’t, blah blah blah.

Or, let’s just look at an excerpt, here’s the section “proper solution:”

I’ve emphasized the actionable advice.

> The proper solution would be dropping that broken tool immediately, securely erasing it from your hard-drive, then running and screaming that tool's name out-loud in shame... (Something akin to Game of Throne's walk of atonement...)

Joke

> I'm not kidding... This kind of broken tools are the cause of many stupid bugs, ranging from the funny ups-rm-with-spaces (i.e. rm -Rf / some folder with spaces /some-file), to serious security issues like the formerly mentioned shellshock...

Joke/contentless stakes raising.

> So, you say someone holds you at gun point, thus you must use that tool? Check if the broken tool doesn't have a flag that disables calling sh -c, and instead properly executes the given command and arguments directly via execve(2). (For example watch has the -x flag as mentioned.)

Here it is, the paragraph that has something!

> Alternatively, given that most likely the tool in question is an open-source project written by someone in his spare time, perhaps open a feature request describing the issue, and if possible contribute with a patch that solves it.

This doesn’t seem practically actionable, at least in the short term—most projects might ignore your patch, or maybe it will take multiple years to get pushed out to distros.

> Still no luck? Make some popcorn and prepare for the latest block-buster "convoluted solutions for simple problems in UNIX town"...

Dramatic buildup/joke.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-10 15:23:52+00:00
>Increasing immigration is a good way to revitalize a stagnant economy.

Then why is Canada's economy stagnating with all that emigration? When is that supposed economic boom coming?

The second issue is, if that economic boom is gonna trickle down to the Canadian working class or only to the top 1% of Canadian business and asset owning class while everyone else is left holding the bag?

Because we've been duped for decades with this uncontrolled immigration trickle down economic fallacy.
by drcongo | 2025-06-10 15:23:58+00:00
All this fuss about which side the blue is on has made me think about the Finder icon for the first time ever, and I've decided I hate it, it's stupid. It doesn't convey the use of the Finder app at all, and worst of all, it's smugly smiling at me like it knows its app is going to annoy the hell out of me today.
by candiddevmike | 2025-06-10 15:24:08+00:00
> we build in verification and deterministic checks, so customers can confirm it was done right

I didn't see this in your demo, how is this being implemented? You're entering fairly important information into EHRs like allergies and medications, that's more than just high-stakes, that's medical malpractice territory. I think you folks are really pushing the limits of the FDA's medical device exemptions for administrative work here. Are you working with the FDA on any kind of AI medical device certification?

What EHRs do you integrate with?