MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrewingram | 2025-08-06 12:42:45+00:00
A few questions:

1. I can see there's an example of using it with React and Prosemirror, what's the gap to using it with Tiptap (for those who don't know, it's an abstraction on top of Prosemirror that aims to streamline the task of building editors)?

2. Is there any prior art or room in the design for supporting permissioned blocks of content _within_ a document? i.e things which some users aren't allowed to view (or edit)
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-06 12:43:03+00:00
Apple is the only thing keeping web standards in place. Many vendors we work with only support Chrome, including Chrome... on iOS. Which means because on iOS that's just Safari, the website has to meet web standards. So we know thanks to Apple, it'll work on Firefox!

Soon as this happens, Chrome is the web. The OWA knows this, it's their goal, it's an astroturf outfit.
by tushr | 2025-08-06 12:43:11+00:00
That's a fair point! Basic feature flags are just toggles, true and false. But they quickly become complex as you onboard new customers and scale. You need percentage rollouts to make sure things are working before everyone starts using the features. It only makes sense for engineers to spend time building actual features and testing them in production rather than spending bandwidth on building a feature flag management tool or managing the service for the same. This is a typical build vs buy debate. :D
by dement | 2025-08-06 12:44:25+00:00
This specific event is in regards to an overarching research about MIT's AI Lab history and particulary the feud between Marvin Minsky and Joseph Weizenbaum.

I originally read about the event in Daniel Crevier's book covering that overall MIT history, full PDF available at this link:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Crevier/publicat...

At the latter half of the pdf page 155.

The read itself has been very insightful, and by extent I do hope to one day read Weizenbaum's book "Computer Power and Human Reason".

I've been covering the topic in an essay but wanted to share these links here as appreciation for finding this forum site at all.

By extent I also wonder if anyone might have any more information I could dig into as the link in the title is as deep as I could get for this specific event.
by randomNumber7 | 2025-08-06 12:45:19+00:00
Real bread contains no additional sugar and is not made with 100% white flour.

I know it's hard to believe in the US as today it even gets harder in Germany to find it.

The problem is eating shitty cheap mass produced food.

Same goes for "vegetable oil". Check out how it is made and you will probably respect olive oil more or some good ol butter.

Also it is possible to drink water. You don't need soda from dawn till dusk .
by integralid | 2025-08-06 12:45:59+00:00
I used virtualenv for the past 15 years and I don't recall it changing significantly. I don't get why people use new fancy tools like pipenv/pyenv/poetry/uv and then complain that there are too many tools to learn. There is nothing wrong with just using virtualenv. It has its warts but it always worked for me and it's stable.
by minraws | 2025-08-06 12:46:08+00:00
Not really I searched up some of articles from 1996/97 dot com was already a bubble in 97...

But it had minor 15-20% corrections but kept rising for another year or two after that...

Bubbles are driving by irrational beliefs. And they won't be irrational if we could understand them.

AI is surely a bubble but it can go on for another 3-4 years when something possibly unrelated to AI pops it.
by have_faith | 2025-08-06 12:46:09+00:00
Depends on efficiency of compression I guess. If X bytes of data takes N time to transmit, and each slice of N takes Y CPU cycles during transmission, how many Y must your compression algorithm use, and how low must it lower N, in order to be more efficient from a CPU utilisation perspective? assumedly there's an inflection point from CPU use perspective, maybe a point that's impractical to achieve? I'm just vibe-thinking-out-loud.
Show HN: Lebenslauf – A CV builder with Markdown, templates, and local storage
by bimals | 2025-08-06 12:48:01+00:00
I've been job hunting for a while and have been finding the process of updating CVs somewhat frustrating.

So I decided to build something that tries to improve the overall experience of CV management.

Taking inspiration from several existing platforms, I put this together over the past week.

Thanks for checking it out!
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-08-06 12:48:29+00:00
1. Most everyone needs haircuts and licensure allows us to take it for granted that we'll get someone with basic competence and that there won't be a citywide outbreak of lice. So much so that we've forgotten the point of the licensure and cite it as folly.

2. Computing was new and mysterious and developed faster than lawmakers could understand it, and by now it's given so much power to the top 1% that they're for all intents and purposes above the law. Cosmetology licensure is from a time when legislation still helped us.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 12:48:32+00:00
> easy to see benefits of but really hard to see the downsides

I think like most hypothetical discussions, the commenters proposing these ideas aren’t interested in practical versions of the idea with tradeoffs. They imagine a perfect version of it in their minds with no downsides that accomplishes everything they want.

The demand for professional licensure doesn’t even make sense in this context. Is professional licensing supposed to stop developers from naming their packages names that LLMs produce? Is it going to force the package repos to check that everyone has a professional license before submitting packages from the United States (or other countries with licensure)? Can it be worked around by changing your country in the drop-down box to a country that doesn’t have licensing?

The calls for software licensure never seem to take into account the global nature of the Internet and software development.
by zacksiri | 2025-08-06 12:48:40+00:00
The problem described in this post has nothing to do with LLMs. It has everything to do with work culture and bureaucracy. Rules and laws that don't make sense remain because changing it requires time, energy and effort that most people in companies have either tried and failed or don't care enough to make a change.

This is one example of the "horseless carriage" AI solutions. I've begun questioning further that actually we're going into a generation where a lot of the things we are doing now are not even necessary.

I'll give you one more example. The whole "Office" stack of ["Word", "Excel", "Powerpoint"] can also go away. But we still use it because change is hard.

Answer me this question. In the near future if we could have LLMs that can traverse to massive amount of data why do we need to make excel sheets anymore? Will we as a society continue to make excel spreadsheets because we want the insights the sheet provides or do we make excel sheets to make excel sheets.

The current generation of LLM products I find are horseless carriages. Why would you need agents to make spreadsheets when you should just be able to ask the agent to give you answers you are looking for from the spreadsheet.
by holografix | 2025-08-06 12:48:46+00:00
I wouldn’t worry too much tbh if I was Airgradient. I don’t think anyone trusts Wired for serious tech reviews and the target audience would veer towards plug and play crowd anyway.

My airgradient monitor has been online for years and sending data to Prometheus reliably. I’ve been able to plot the air quality across a few climate events and the introduction of a Samsung air filter in my bedroom. It’s a good little product.
by ryao | 2025-08-06 12:49:04+00:00
I do not think that fits “If the money had not been there for all of that, how would the affordable versions exist today?”, but let’s agree to disagree.

That said, I see numerous things that exist solely because those with money funded R&D. Your capital markets theory for how the R&D was funded makes no sense because banks will not give loans for R&D. If any R&D funds came from capital markets, it was by using existing property as collateral. Funds for R&D typically come from profitable businesses and venture capitalists. Howard Hughes for example, obtained substantial funds for R&D from the Hughes Tool Company.

Just to name how the R&D for some things was funded:

- Microwave oven: Developed by Raytheon, using profits from work for the US military

- PC: Developed by IBM using profits from selling business equipment.

- Cellular phone: Developed by Motorola using profits from selling radio components.

- Air conditioner: Developed by Willis Carrier at Buffalo Forge Company using profits from the sale of blacksmith forges.

- Flat panel TV: Developed by Epson using profits from printers.

The capital markets are no where to be seen. I am at a startup where hardware is developed. Not a single cent that went into R&D or the business as a whole came from capital markets. My understanding is that the money came from an angel investor and income from early adopters. A hardware patent that had given people the idea for the business came from research in academia, and how that was funded is unknown to me, although I would not be surprised if it had been funded through a NSF grant. The business has been run on a shoe string budget and could grow much quicker with an injection of funding, yet the capital markets will not touch it.
by throwaway6041 | 2025-08-06 12:49:46+00:00
> Coincidentally we have one of the highest life expectancies in the world

Those numbers are relying on how long the older generation lives. If the younger people are physically more active, how do you know that they will also live as long? It could be that modern expectations of what a "healthy" body should look like takes it too far, and that you will end up with a shorter life.

I see a lot of former athletes dying in their 60s/70s from heart failures and other conditions. Perhaps the body has limits to how much abuse it can take.
by thrtythreeforty | 2025-08-06 12:50:10+00:00
100% yes. The actual format of the binary that the device interprets is treated as a trade secret, and the vendor tooling is the only documented way to target code at those parts.

This has various implications, such as smaller FPGAs being literally tooling-locked versions of larger ones, important features like partial reconfiguration being supported by the hardware but a huge pain to use from the logic, or vendor tools not supporting some language construct and you're stuck with that tool. (Admittedly they are far and away better than FOSS tooling for language support.)
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-06 12:50:14+00:00
The problem with that "no display" example is that the monitor isn't failing to do a thing they're trying to do, which AirGradient's did in the reviewer's perspective.

It's not a failure that the one without a display doesn't have a display. It's a design choice. The AirGradient unit has a display, but it's tiny and hard to read. Scrolling through the article, all the other units with displays have much larger and more readable text. You can read the biggest data points from across a room. The AirGradient has a display, but it fails to be a good display, hence the reviewer's perspective - it's not living up to its goals.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-06 12:50:36+00:00
I'm here for all of that that.

Using the Wikipedia example of a 1km, 5600g superconducting rail gun that launches at about 10km/s, we just need about a 10km gun to achieve 30km/s (length goes with launch speed squared).

Put it on the lunar surface for a roughly 2.5km/s penalty (I think, plus you obviously need to shoot it when the moon faces the right way).

No humans though, far too squishy. But you could launch a whole swarm of microprobes which could be a very effective distributed observation platform with a gigantic baseline.

If you haven't read it, the short story Maelstrom II by Arthur C. Clarke has a lunar rail gun in it. And the rest of the The Wind from the Sun collection is very good. The namesake solar sailing regatta story is great too.
by rayiner | 2025-08-06 12:50:40+00:00
> But let's see you determine the ratio of 'white people' (without saying whether they're racist or not) and people of color in this nice overview picture of the protests

A picture shows a group of mostly white people in a majority-white country. They must be connected by racism! Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point about the NPR mentality.

Also, the term “people of color” is more racist than anything that happened on J6 lol. It doesn’t reflect any anthropologically real concept, it’s simply propaganda created by democrats to promote an identity centered around supposed “oppression” to cultivate democratic political loyalty.
by cnst | 2025-08-06 12:51:39+00:00
> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application. An automatic reply informed me that they might take some time to respond and that they only notify applicants if they made it to the next round. After a few weeks without an answer, I had assumed they chose other applicants.

Wait, so, if it was a friend-of-a-friend situation, why did you not try to get a referral?

I've stopped applying to the big companies long time ago precisely because I'd never hear back regardless of the match or the credentials (the only exception has been JaneStreet — they contacted me almost right away after a cold application), yet going the referral route, it's relatively easy to get an interview almost anywhere.
by Macha | 2025-08-06 12:51:50+00:00
Computers of course were invented by a state controlled war economy, pretty much the opposite of trickle down.

Permeation of technology due to early adopters paying high costs leading to lower costs is not what trickle down generally means. Being an early adopter of cellphones, AC, flat screen TVs or computers required the wealth level of your average accountant of that era - it didn't require being a millionaire.
by tomsqra | 2025-08-06 12:52:05+00:00
Can't say that I "journaled", as I tried just a couple days.

But it was somewhat interesting, and it helped me to clarify some "shady" aspects of my thoughts.

Probably it's more effective if you're brutally honest about your feelings, to address the situations you're facing.

I've noticed that it can help you to organize and prioritize things: once it's written, many things just become more evident that aren't worth pursuing.

Hope it helps, somehow.
by pmontra | 2025-08-06 12:52:10+00:00
Don't know. A company can have a huge valuation on the stock market but that does not necessarily mean that they have cash to pay wages or can afford to pay a large team. If all they have are stocks they have to find somebody that buys those stocks with cash, then find a way not to run out of those money before selling more stocks. Eventually do an exit and stop worrying or become profitable.
by arp242 | 2025-08-06 12:53:58+00:00
Was already flagged. I vouched it and it became unflagged. Now it's flagged again...

(I don't think every story about this conflict should be on HN by the way, as a "major on-going topic". But IMHO this particular story seemed like a good one as it intersects with tech and is something actually new, at least to some degree).
by lm28469 | 2025-08-06 12:54:04+00:00
The truth is that we designed a system in which a majority of people cannot thrive and in which a lot of people end up developing problems like obesity or being labeled as ADHD. Now the same system designed a cure, one that you have to pay for and take for years if not for life, just so that you can rewire your perfectly normal brain to fit in the very imperfect mold of what the system needs

Taking antidepressant won't fix your depressing environment

Taking sleeping pills won't fix your sleep depriving routine

Taking ozempic won't fix your stressful job that materialized into an compulsive eating

The extreme vast majority of people have perfectly normal bodies/hormones/&c. but are evolving in unhealthy environments, you're merely fixing the last link of the chain, if you stop there, like a lot of people do when they're being advertised magic pills, you're setting up yourself for failure. The fact that all of these lifestyle disease increased 100 folds in the last 50 years should be a clear sign that the problem isn't the human body/brain, but whatever the fuck we're collectively agreeing to take part in.

Also the fact that plato was wrong about one piece of progress 2000 years ago doesn't mean every new thing since then was a net positive for humanity. You could have used the same argument for decades about asbestos, leaded paint, leaded gas, freon, &c. and yet here we are...
by tharne | 2025-08-06 12:54:16+00:00
Maybe, but another way to look at this is that if someone is going to hold back requesting a new machine because they don't feel like writing a few paragraphs, then they probably don't really need a new computer. On the other hand, if their current machine really is so bad that it's getting in the way of their work they won't hesitate to quickly bang out 4 paragraphs to get a new one. Obviously, this trick does not work with LLMs in the mix.
by waynenilsen | 2025-08-06 12:55:32+00:00
The software requirements phase is becoming increasingly critical to the development lifecycle and that trend will continue. I have started writing very short tickets and having claude code inflate them, then I polish those. I often include negative prompts at this point so claude may have included "add a progress bar for xyz" and i simply add "do not" in front of those things that do not make sense. The results have been excellent.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-06 12:55:36+00:00
Yep, overeating (and, to some degree, not enough moving around) is the reason. True.

But “just personally do better” doesn’t work very well when applied as a medical intervention (they have tried, and checked, over and over, a hundred different ways), even with lots of follow-up and monitoring, and it also doesn’t appear to be how other countries manage to be skinnier than the US. Between those two things, it really doesn’t look like a viable way to solve the obesity crisis—it doesn’t work when we try it, and it doesn’t seem to be what’s working anywhere else.
by DaSHacka | 2025-08-06 12:55:56+00:00
> Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again.

I can almost guarentee we will. Consumers love simplicity through centralization.

> Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded.

Where are you seeing that? I've seen general dislike of large corpos forever, and the anti-US sentiment is more common abroad from places like Europe that have never 'liked' US culture and companies.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-06 12:56:06+00:00
I think the GP is in a different world than you.

If you can grab an oscilloscope and gather meaningful data in 15 minutes, why would you spend several hours hypothesizing and modeling?

If you can't, then spending several hours or days modeling and hypothesizing is better than just guessing.

So I think that data beats informed opinions, but informed opinions beat pure guesses.
by BlackFly | 2025-08-06 12:56:34+00:00
The secret as stated is the comlexity of a JIT. In practice, that dynamism just isn't used much in practice and in particular in optimization targets. The JIT analyses the code paths, sees that no writes to the target are possible so treats it as a constant.

Java has similar levels of dynamism-with invokedynamic especially, but already with dynamic dispatch-in practice the JIT monomorphises to a single class even though by default classes default to non-final in Java and there may even be multiple implementations known to the JVM when it monomorphises. Such is the strength of the knowledge that a JIT has compared to a local compiler.
by jonathan_h | 2025-08-06 12:56:41+00:00
The missing piece is that the body does not burn a constant amount of energy, and often the body's response to calorie restriction is to reduce the amount of energy used. [1]

Play the weight-loss game with your body, and you'll find the goalposts get moved.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9036397/
by alistairSH | 2025-08-06 12:56:52+00:00
As noted in the article, and in some other posts here, the effects are seen in patients who are overweight or have diabetes (and thus generally qualify for Ozempic). None of the studies I've skimmed indicate Ozempic is directly slowing aging or whatever else - it's all a knock-on effect from weight loss and calorie restriction.

IE, if you can self-restrict, you get the same benefits. You just have to deal with that little voice in your head that keeps yelling "feed me a pizza!!!" (at least that's what mine usually says).

But, yeah, I hear ya, I wouldn't mind doing a few months at a low dose to get my body fat % back down near 10%, but I'm nowhere near "needing" the drug and the only way I'm getting a prescription is probably through a shady online doctor.
by whynotminot | 2025-08-06 12:57:01+00:00
Was that a pretty long time ago? Because I use o3 daily and have never hit a limit.

The only "limit" I have really with o3 is my patience -- it's a slow model for regular use. If I don't need its intelligence I'll use o4-mini or even 4o for speed, saving o3 for the prompts that really need it.

These days the only model I find I get rate-limited on frustratingly quickly is 4.5. It's clear OpenAI does not really want you using that one, despite the fact that's very good (and probably very expensive for them)! Pretty underrated imo.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-06 12:57:07+00:00
It’s a nice idea but couldn’t a big company simply move its engineering team to a subsidiary that doesn’t get sales revenue?

(I’m not an accountant!)

Would be hilarious to bury a clause like “Modified MIT license — head of HR must publicly announce any employment application rejections of the maintainers while wearing a chicken suit).”
by ascagnel_ | 2025-08-06 12:57:22+00:00
Normally, I'd agree with you -- defaults are a very, _very_ powerful thing.

But if you're using Google's web tools, they make it (too) easy to download their apps and push you in that direction in a million little ways. For example, GMail's native iOS app will either open a link in a WKWebView or Chrome (if it's not installed, it'll prompt you to install it), but you have to jump through some hoops if you want to open a link in the system's default browser. Similarly, if you're searching for something via google.com, they'll put up a prompt to download their search app, with the default "Continue" option taking you to the store rather than continuing with your current task (and then click-jack the back button).
by exprofmaddy | 2025-08-06 12:57:49+00:00
Agree on all points. It's worth asking: who maintains the academic incentive structures? If the social structures are harming science (e.g., promoting fraud), why do the social structures persist? Who or what stymies reform? As I've asked these questions, I am led to blame (i) scientists who gain power broker status by playing the game and (ii) university administrators who benefit from larger production numbers (dollars, papers, enrollment, awards).
by SamPatt | 2025-08-06 12:58:38+00:00
Of course it is an option - I lost 100 lbs this way, and kept it off more than 5 yeads. As you know, that's very, very hard.

But I think these drugs are awesome. I have family members who are obese and don't seem to have whatever I have that allowed me to lose weight the old-fashioned way. I hope they'll be able to lose weight safety with the drugs.