MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleyan | 2025-09-14 16:22:33+00:00
I have been using SVGs for charts on my blog for a couple of months[0] now. Using SVGs satisfied me, but in all honesty, I don't think anyone else cares. For completeness the benefits are below:

* The charts are never blurry

* The text in the chart is selectable and searchable

* The file size could be small compared to PNGs

* The charts can use a font set by a stylesheet

* The charts can have a builtin dark mode (not demonstrated on my blog)

Additionally as the OP shown, the text in SVG is indexed by google, but comes up in the image sections [1].

The downside was hours of fiddling with system fonts and webfonts and font settings in matplotlib. Also the sizing of the text in the chart and how it is displayed in your page is tightly coupled and requires some forethought.

[0] https://aleyan.com/blog/2025-llm-assistant-census

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22slabiciunea+lui+Nicu+fore...
by colinmorelli | 2025-09-14 16:22:56+00:00
It seems like the PFAS rules were set in prior administrations [1]. In fact, even in the article you've linked above, the text states:

> retaining its maximum contaminant levels for PFOA and PFOS but pulling back on its use of a hazard index and regulatory determinations for additional PFAS

Key word being "retaining," indicating the maximum contaminant levels were already in place prior to the change mentioned here. Putting aside allegations of "political bias," can you point to a source which clearly indicates the PFA limits were put in place by the current administration? Would like to learn if I'm wrong.

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration...
by yndoendo | 2025-09-14 16:23:00+00:00
It is cheap until it is not. Cost of energy is dependent on where in the world you live, how it is sourced, time of the year, and if there is a natural disaster. Some places in the world, like parts of rural India, only have access to solar.

Expect energy cost to also go up in the USA with the administration pushing to phase out renewable energy with fossil fuels. Fossil fuel never goes down in value. They may seem to go up and down but over time always increase.

As we keep adding more and more computers to the grid it will require more and more energy.

Second hand computers with this energy efficiency will benefit the poor and counties where energy is still a costly commodity. I don't mind paying the initial cost.
by WaxProlix | 2025-09-14 16:23:18+00:00
I encountered a theory that 'planet x' might be such a PBH, explaining its ability to gravitationally impact post Neptunian bodies and its elusiveness. Would be incredibly cool to have something so exotic (or commonplace?) so close to home.

Cool idea on Tunguska - would such an explanation make predictions that we could verify? Radioactivity or changes to carbon in stones or the rings of local trees... An interesting thought.
by lutusp | 2025-09-14 16:23:25+00:00
> [ ... ] and instatisfaction [sic] for the users

In-what? Unhappiness with a statistical outcome? Discouragement with events in one's home state?

Based on the many other uncorrected typos in the example SVG, I suspect that Inkscape has everything but a spell checker.

Apropos, Inkscape is a big app and does practically everything.
by avazhi | 2025-09-14 16:23:26+00:00
I mean, if we're talking about intention then yes there's a huge difference, that's the entire point.

But more to the point, your example is (as I'm sure you know) laughably simplistic. Cigarettes and PFAS play a probability game: the stats guys come to you and say, 'Hey boss, so if we sell 100,000 units of this product, there's a 20% chance than 5 people will be genetically susceptible to this particular novel molecule we're using, and 1 of them has a 10% chance of going on to develop bone cancer within 25 years. Should we sell it anyway?'

If you put it that way it isn't so obvious what the answer is. Most products have the potential to cause harm to some segment of the population. It's absolutely true that cigarettes and PFAS are two examples where the harms are much more rigorously established (especially with cigarettes, going back half a century), but the point stands: it's not a matter of chucking a chocolate bar at your dog. Again, you could plug the actual numbers in for the potential harms of PFAS and I don't think you'd be able to say that Dupont 'intended' to harm anybody, notwithstanding that they were clearly negligent.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-14 16:23:54+00:00
Energy density is unimportant. What matters is cost. A source that has higher energy density but also higher cost is a loser.

The whole energy density meme was propagated by Vaclav Smil. He observed in the past that energy sources had become more energy dense, and then took the irrational leap to proclaim this was some sort of iron law of energy development.
by fractallyte | 2025-09-14 16:24:57+00:00
Svija honed the process of creating SVG websites: https://svija.com/

There are some very nice showcases at the bottom of the page. For example, 2021: https://2021.svija.love/

Previously featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518845 [Show HN: All-SVG websites with complex animation]
by zyxzevn | 2025-09-14 16:25:11+00:00
I am thinking of some moderation systems that focuses on categorization instead of censorship.

There will be a bias in moderation, but that will have less of an effect when there is no deletion. If possible, the user could choose their preferred style (or bias) of moderation. If you want full freedom, you can let users select "super-users" to moderate/categorize for them.

Emotional responses and troll jokes could be a separate categories as long they do not call for violence and or break other laws.

Consensus is still group-think. I think it is destructive without any clear view where it stands within other options or other ideas. Like: "why exactly is earth not the center". A lot of consensus is also artificial due to biased reporting, biased censorship and biased sponsorship. During discussions, people within a consensus tend to use logical fallacies. Like portraying the opposition as idiots, or avoiding any valid points that the opposition bring into the discussion.

I think that people have becomes less intelligent due to one-sided reporting of information. With extra information, people will become smarter and more understanding of how other (smart) people think.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-09-14 16:25:14+00:00
Incorrect. There is more fructose in HFCS used in Coke, HFCS 55. Fructose is metabolized in the liver, and stored as fat there. Glucose is directly metabolized by cells throughout the body.

Also there is no single reason that HFCS is demonized, there are multiple good reasons why it is harmful in the US. It is also not a singular cause to all US diet related pathologies.

Staying on topic, the chemicals the EPA will no longer enforce the laws for pollution for are demonstrably harmful.

The EPA has unilaterally decided not to do its job because it doesn't care about the health of the citizens of the US.
by tyleo | 2025-09-14 16:25:19+00:00
> you're living in outerspace, but I suppose your position is that politicians are supposed to just say shit that has the correct hate-valence and then it's as-good-as-accomplished

Your reaction proves the point that this is a purity test.

I’m not taking a stance one way or the other but you aren't able to engage without arguing against points I didn’t make.
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-14 16:26:02+00:00
The trouble is where are you going to stop ?

Are you going to not allow the kid access to mainstream radio or TV incase they watch/listen to the news where you have eye-witnesses being interviewed, often live with minimal/no editing ?

Or not allow the kid to visit mainstream media news websites, because most mainstream media outlets copied the same social media clip you referred to and just edited out the exact moment. But the kid can still use their imagination for that half-second moment.

Are you not going to take them on public transport incase some adults start chatting about it in detail ?

Don't get me wrong, I see your perspective.

But the point is there are so many moving parts to today's fast moving world that you can't put them all back in the box, wave a magic wand and revert to the pre-internet days where there were only four TV channels showing highly scripted content.

Yes modern parenting is tough. But thinking everything can be solved just by throwing more and more broadly (and badly) worded highly-intrusive kitchen-sink legislation at it is not the answer either.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-14 16:26:27+00:00
The base has been, the representatives have been sclerotic. A good number of them came in with clinton and have had essentially the same politics as clinton.

Biden had a decent representation of left cabinet picks. But otherwise, the party has been pretty slow to change. Obama, in particular, gets remember as being progressive yet he truly was not. He took some antiwar stances and then failed to deliver on those promises. That was about the end of his left leaning policies.
by dlisboa | 2025-09-14 16:26:28+00:00
Unfortunately the number of different financial scams is the highest in the world in these countries. US and EU the banks wouldn’t have the capabilities either, it’s simply too much to deal with. You can’t flag everything as fraud.

It’s also a different kind of enemy. The biggest crime organization in Brazil has switched their primary focus from drug running to financial scams. They invest millions and set up legitimate companies with hundreds of employees to facilitate these schemes.
by nis0s | 2025-09-14 16:26:36+00:00
I feel like digital marketing did that to exhaustion, to the point that people seem to lose authenticity in order to belong somewhere. The cultural danger of this type of overfitting (either ideas to people, or people to ideas) is that you lose the chance to develop novel meme-complexes.

What will propagate if all that does is deterministic? I worry that such ideas will not be resilient or reliable across the kind of randomness life throws at you.
by adamwong246 | 2025-09-14 16:26:52+00:00
I sort of agree, but what I'm worried about is that our own desire for social connection and validation has been hijacked as a commodity. As I see it, "McDonalds" capitalized on our lizard-brain's desire for easy calories, as "Porn Hub" has done for sex, "Apple" for shiny things and "Facebook" for socialization. All these successful products take advantage of some base instinct which served us well 100,000 years ago but when given the opportunity, just run wild.
by arp242 | 2025-09-14 16:27:42+00:00
Scribus doesn't "deliberately" break compatibility; it was completely unusable with Wayland and they added friendly message. It also doesn't really go out of its way to do so as you're suggesting – it just checks Application::platformName() == "wayland" and that's it.

Maybe it's better now with Wayland and that check can be removed. I don't know.

See: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=16998 and https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus/commit/74d8d7ef7
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-14 16:28:12+00:00
You didn’t need “sources of information”. Trump was in office for four years before he was re-elected. It’s copium to think that people aré ignorant when in actuality, they are actively hostile to minorities, non straight, the college educated and non Christians.

They would rather feel the fallout of Republican policies as long as it doesn’t help or actively hurts people not like them. In my former home state GA, the Republican governor spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to get the Hyundai plant to GA that would have created 8500 jobs directly and no telling how many indirect jobs.

ICE invaded the plant and the opportunity is now lost potentially. The governor still can’t bring himself to criticize the President and the Republicans in GA are cheering the raid. The engineers from Korea were training Americans.
by nickjj | 2025-09-14 16:28:37+00:00
I didn't like the idea of pushing a pass git repo to a private GitHub repo.

For now I just temporarily drop the DB onto Google Drive manually (through the web site since I don't use the app) to quickly share it to the other devices without worrying about USB cables or running native apps on each device. Then I delete it from Google Drive.

I'm hesitent to use "sync" type of tools that run on each device because I don't have a central server. Also I really don't like the idea of running any type of cloud hosted network storage desktop app on each device to have a network drive.

We'll see how it goes I suppose.

I wonder if it'll involve writing a tiny shell script that I run on my desktop machine to handle syncing it across devices and it always ensures the latest copy makes its way onto each device. That would allow me to freely add new entries on any device and worry about syncing it across devices when I am 100% sure all devices are on the same local network. I think that will work out in the end.

I don't need real-time replication because if I'm on the road using my phone, I don't mind my desktop being outdated until I get back home.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 16:30:03+00:00
Yes, if you control the index, you can lie to pip about what the package's hash should be. This is why you have to opt in to using a different index, and why the connection to PyPI has been properly secured since forever (https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425 ; note the date).

Once pip supports installation from a PEP 751 lockfile (should be very soon, by my understanding), presumably this won't work, unless the lockfile is already compromised.

The clearly AI-generated README is also confused about how this works. It claims:

> Intercepts package index requests and rewrites URLs to point to the malicious mirror

but it's actually implementing a malicious mirror by forwarding requests to PyPI and then serving a modified version of the PyPI result. "Preserves and updates SHA256 hashes for modified packages" is also an incoherent description; preserving something and modifying it are mutually incompatible.
by adrr | 2025-09-14 16:30:08+00:00
The conservative masquerading as an independent blaming the left for fake issues of why as you can't support them. Trope is as old as time.

Strongest economies are from blue states. Poorest are red states. Same with crime. Health out comes(Life expectancy, infant. mortality). Who was the only president to run a surplus in recent history.
by avazhi | 2025-09-14 16:30:30+00:00
> the US Government is making the decisions they are in order to crush the population into submission.

Now we have what you're really trying to get at here: some tinfoil hat conspiratorialising where the US government is out to mind control/'crush' its population (or something). At least if you aren't telling me to read a subversive Socialist novel instead of just saying it outright it saves us both the time of trying to figure out what you really mean. I get it, big oppressive authoritarian government bad.

Look, I'm not a fan of much that the Trump admin is doing (certainly not this), I've never voted for him (I haven't lived in America in 20 years), and I'm fully aware of the US government's long history of pulling dodgy shit vis-a-vis medical research (pretending to treat syphilis in black people, anyone?) Nevertheless, I don't see everything that happens in the world, whether it involving US law or even ethically questionable administrations), as necessarily emanating from farsighted and ingeniously devious governmental planning. If anything, the last 10 years have demonstrated that federal governments are less competent and more inept than we ever thought they could be in the modern Big Brother world.
by wrs | 2025-09-14 16:31:55+00:00
Because if you want to get a good science education, you need to be in a place that supports science and education. The administration has disrupted the system that made the US the world scientific leader, a status it’s had only since the mid-20th century, which it achieved through concerted government and social investment. Which country is doing that right now?

In 1930, if you wanted access to the great science universities and literature, you learned German. Things can change. Quickly.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-14 16:32:39+00:00
> Android has an established way to handle permission dialogs that require the user to confirm their approval

With the advent of choicejacking I don't think I want to trust permission dialogs anymore.

> including use of fingerprint/PIN/password to authenticate

IMO if you have the UI layer able to grant root access at all, even with requiring re-authentication, it still already has root access itself and is therefore not sandboxed.
by Theodores | 2025-09-14 16:33:09+00:00
Where was this machine made?

I was using these in the UK at the time and ours were 'Made in Switzerland', which I liked.

You mention the Crimson in the article, another machine I knew in period. I was showing someone around one day and they rudely said that it was a 'very large box for a single CPU'.

My introduction to SGI was the Indigo and I usually had whatever was latest until I had O2s and a massive Onyx2 with Infinite Reality3. No machines have had the impressive presence that these machines had in period. Although nice hardware has came out since then, nothing just makes civilians drop their jaws in awe and wonder.

By analogy, it is like the difference between one of those vast organs that you get in cathedrals and the synthesisers you get in a music shop. Musicians would probably prefer the latter, but normies like me just don't get that wow feeling.

Although newer machines were better, I always felt that something was compromised each time. For example, the wonderful OG keyboards and ALPS mice, they got a little bit creaky and plastic over time. It was also the same with cases. I appreciated the design goals of O2 but it was very creaky and there was not the usual choice of video breakout boxes with genloc and all those fun things that we had back then.

For reference, my Onyx had 256Mb of RAM and 64Mb of graphics RAM, if I can remember correctly. This was less than the 384Mb I had in Indigo2 machines, which we had to boost due to a software memory leak just to get the runtime. This level of RAM was huge in period (when office PCs had 32K of video RAM, if you were lucky) and yet today a single tab running YouTube will take more than a gig of RAM.

I would like a mini-museum of SGI machines, however, without the hardware specific applications that I used these machines for, I feel that it would be a case of 'never meet your heroes'.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-14 16:33:26+00:00
Emphatically no. The evidence-based approach is to look at current evidence, and you've provided zero.

Past credibility/history is irrelevant. Just because someone went to jail 20 years ago for a theft in a town, we don't throw them back in jail every time there's a new theft, and then demand they prove they are innocent. But that's what you seem to be asking for. However, that is wrong and unjust.
by walterbell | 2025-09-14 16:34:04+00:00
https://accountinginsights.org/how-to-abbreviate-million-in-...

The abbreviation “M” for million can lead to confusion in finance. Historically, “M” derives from the Latin word “mille,” meaning “thousand.” As such, it has traditionally been used in some accounting or construction contexts to denote a thousand. For example, $5M could historically represent $5,000, creating ambiguity. To represent one million in finance, the abbreviation “MM” is widely used. This notation originates from “mille mille,” meaning “thousand thousands” in Latin, equating to one million. This clarity makes “MM” a preferred choice in financial statements and reports. Other abbreviations for million, such as “mn” or “mln,” are also encountered.. The Financial Times, for example, adopted “mn” for millions to improve accessibility for text-to-speech software. While these alternatives exist, “MM” remains a prevalent and widely understood abbreviation for million in American finance.
by PantaloonFlames | 2025-09-14 16:34:12+00:00
> Why do you think they put the JWST up there, if not to get better data and thereby improve our understanding of the universe?

Think about how much effort scientists had to make, to bring JWST into existence. The funding proposals, the design, the engineering to get it launched. Generations of effort, entire careers dedicated just to making it happen. All of that effort sings one song: we don’t know, and we want to learn.
by westurner | 2025-09-14 16:34:14+00:00
From "Perihelion precession of planetary orbits solved from quantum field theory" (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14447 :

> Abstract: [...] We derive the perihelion precession of planetary orbits using quantum field theory extending the Standard Model to include gravity. Modeling the gravitational bound state of an electron via the Dirac equation of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)], and taking the classical planetary state limit, we obtain orbital dynamics exhibiting a precession in agreement with general relativity. This demonstrates that key general relativistic effects in planetary motion can emerge directly from quantum field theory without invoking the geometric framework of general relativity.

Gravity of n-body planets from QFT, but not what else?

Where doesn't a QFT-extended or SQR or SQG or other Alternative Theory to GR correspond to real observations or to GR?

/? Testing of alternatives to general relativity:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relati...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310933

Re: gravity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37968618

Anyways, what's what here:

CM: Classical Mechanics (Newton, Leibniz, LaGrange,)

Quantum theory (Planck, Einstein)

SR: Special Relativity (Einstein (1905))

Photoelectric effect (Einstein (1905))

Minkowski spacetime; Lorentz group, Poincaré group

GR: General Relativity (Einstein (1915) nb. student of Minkowkski)

QM: Quantum Mechanics

QG: Quantum Gravity

QFT: Quantum Field Theory

QED: Quantum Electrodynamics

QHD: Quantum Hydrodynamics

Gödel's Dust solution (1949)

Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory (1945, 1949)

SVT: Superfluid Vacuum Theory (1950,)

SPH: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (1970s,)

SM: Standard Model (1960s, 1970s, 2012 (Higgs boson confirmation))

LQG: Loop Quantum Gravity

QCD: Quantum Chromodynamics

GRMHD: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

SQS: Superfluid Quantum Space

SQR: Superfluid Quantum Relativity (Fedi,)

SQG: Superfluid Quantum Gravity

...

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310970 :

> He said there's a newer version of this:

>> "Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2015) https://hal.science/hal-01248015/ .. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5114463164920978709...

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38034923#38061551 :

> Fedi's [SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity] also rejects a hard singularity boundary, describes curl and vorticity in fluids (with Gross-Pitaevskii,), and rejects antimatter

...

Evidence for scale invariance and magnetohydrodynamics:

"Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993092 :

>> One of the most exciting aspects of this research is that magnetohydrodynamics, the theory of magnetized plasmas, turns out to be fantastically scalable.
by subscribed | 2025-09-14 16:34:27+00:00
Okay, but it's very easy for you to build and sign your own builds that provide root access to the user.

I dint understand why you insist on this massive risk to be laid on on everyone.

GOS publishes pretty detailed documentation. They don't explain step by step how to build an OS with root specifically, instead assuming that the users knowing the immense risks also have the skils they need to achieve it without handholding.