MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by karthink | 2025-09-11 22:15:40+00:00
> emacs org-mode: There is no live, inline LaTeX preview.

There is, but we haven't managed to merge it into Org mode yet because we (the feature authors) and the Org maintainer have been busy with other things.

Here are some screencasts:

- https://share.karthinks.com/olp-auto-mode-env-1.mp4

- https://share.karthinks.com/olp-auto-mode-inline-1.mp4

Here's a longer explainer (this is part 2/2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44X_th6_oY

Here are instructions if you want to try the fork of Org mode that provides this feature: https://abode.karthinks.com/org-latex-preview/
by ryandrake | 2025-09-11 22:16:03+00:00
The overall lesson for your kids should be that a phone is a tool you use to accomplish some task that takes a limited time. You turn on the phone, do the task (whether it be making a phone call, looking up an address, whatever) and then you turn it off. A phone is not a consumption/entertainment device that you sit down and just use, without a clear end state. You, as the parent, need to internalize this, and live that attitude yourself, and chances are the kid will follow your good example.

Problem is, many parents are also addicted to their phones, and won't be able to have the discipline to use them this way.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-11 22:16:31+00:00
>They consistently rewrite the code of their acquisitions with a tiny team, fire everybody and are able to maintain and improve the product.

"improve" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Evernote and meetup are in worse states post BS. Shipping features and shipping value is very different in this landscape.

>It looks like next generation private equity, and my guess is more houses will start copying them.

Yes, that's why I hate it.
by seec | 2025-09-11 22:16:55+00:00
Basically this. But he is probably rich enough to not care because the effort that will be asked of him will be small relative to his purchasing power.

So, he can pretend to be "good" for doing the right thing, while more unfortunate people will pay the real cost without any guarantee that the climate situation will improve and that their children will have a chance at a "better life". Not that they care that much because children are becoming unaffordable for much of the lower class.

The problem with the green ideology is that it's a global problem and clearly global fossil fuel use reduction isn't happening. And the countries using it don't care because not using it is much worse than the promise of a better world in the future. If your life is shit right now (compared to the rich world) the promise of a better world far out in the future is just propaganda.
by ath3nd | 2025-09-11 22:17:02+00:00
I am not very interested in debating with a genocide apologist the finer points whether bombing hospitals, starving children and ethnically cleansing the Palestinian population has to be approved as genocide by 98% or 99% of experts.

There are people up to this very day who deny the Holocaust happened as well and call it a libel. Hitler was stopped regardless, the same will happen to the genocider Netanyahu. Its "Never again", not "Again, but this time we are doing it to others".

Israel is doing a genocide.
by nullocator | 2025-09-11 22:17:04+00:00
> However, they are obviously keeping their identities a secret because they know if they don't, they will become targets of violence.

This seems to be what ICE/The current administration are using as the justification for the masks, but I'm not sure it matches reality.

Federal law enforcement are effectively immune from accountability at this point (qualified immunity, and destruction of Bivens [1] leave effectively zero recourse if you are a citizen who's constitutional rights have been violated by a federal agent).

So now that they are masking up they are also immune from being called out socially or in the media. There is no excuse for the police to hide their identities, they have the full power of the state behind them and to protect.

> they will become targets of violence.

What about the targets of violence coming from ICE? There seems to be real and substantial video evidence of ICE using excessive and unnecessary force all over the country. I have not, however, seen concrete evidence that suggestions federal agents are being regularly harmed by the public (Yes I saw the sandwich throwing video, no federal agents were harmed other than maybe their ego). I have seen claims from the administration that this is occurring [2], but the claims are about percent increases and I've seen some reporting that seems to indicate the publicized increase is quite misleading [3][4] "...79 assaults against immigration enforcement agents between January 21 and June 30, up from 10 that took place in the same time last year." The increase is certainly concerning but it does not seem like there is tremendous violence occurring against ICE agents on a daily basis.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/court-again-rejects-exten... [2] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/15/dhs-announces-ice-law-en... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-prote... [4] https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1940047247229792320
by jemmyw | 2025-09-11 22:17:34+00:00
I don't really understand the current trend of using sqlite in place of a traditional database. It has it's place, I use it in a client side project and it's really great, although even there I have to be aware of the one writer only limitation.

20 years ago it was MySQL and now it's usually postgres, and these are both still fine. Easier than ever to get setup and going in production. Outside of quite niche needs, I can't understand why one would put up with the pain of using sqlite. Plus it's setting up an even more painful migration later if you do grow.
by istjohn | 2025-09-11 22:17:47+00:00
Personally, I'm underwhelmed by this model. I feel like these examples are cherry-picked. Here are some fails I've had:

- Given a face shot in direct sunlight with severe shadows, it would not remove the shadows

- Given an old black and white photo, it would not render the image in vibrant color as if taken with a modern DSLR camera. It will colorize the photo, but only with washed out, tinted colors

- When trying to reproduce the 3 x 3 grid of hair styles, it repeatedly created a 2x3 grid. Finally, it made a 3x3 grid, but one of the nine models was black instead of caucasian.

- It is unable to integrate real images into fabricated imagery. For example, when given an image of a tutu and asked to create an image of a dolphin flying over clouds wearing the tutu, the result looks like a crude photoshop snip and copy/paste job.
by _alternator_ | 2025-09-11 22:18:03+00:00
Wow that’s opaque. Full text:

> OpenAI and Microsoft have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership. We are actively working to finalize contractual terms in a definitive agreement. Together, we remain focused on delivering the best AI tools for everyone, grounded in our shared commitment to safety.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-11 22:18:08+00:00
Your characterization of the service provided is "adult physically present in the vicinity of children to take care of issues". That sounds to me like a lower quality "service" than what e.g. my wife provides, which is actually raising them, teaching them, giving them emotional support, taking them on errands around town, etc. Even with your own kids it's way more difficult to give them as much attention when there's 1 vs 2, so I find the assertion that quality of care doesn't drop after 1 to be dubious as well.
by themafia | 2025-09-11 22:18:54+00:00
> that takes honey sometimes

To them it's stealing the life blood of the hive.

> more honey than a bee would ever see in its lifetime

Bees move around the hive. They see all the honey. They individually _produce_ very little of it, but the total extent of it is surely known to them in some way.

> an eldritch horror

That's unironically how I view small winged creatures that follow their own rules and then inject me with venom, without warning, for not following them.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-11 22:18:58+00:00
>peace with Hamas is not possible since their aim is to destroy Israel and remove all Jews by any means necessary.

I agree, but that doesn't make how Israel conducts this war acceptable.

It has been reported pretty consistently how Israel basically accepts crazy high "collateral damage" in their work, and have demonstrated that they do not respect Palestinians as sovereign individuals who do not deserve to be bombed for being next door to a terrorist.

Israel has demonstrated that they will literally bomb things due to AI hallucination.

You don't get to freely kill anyone you want just because there are some terrorists in that country. Putin doesn't get a pass to bomb all of Ukraine just because some people really hate Russia in that country.

This is NOT an existential war for Israel, not at this time. They do not get to act like it's a free for all with who they kill.

They have killed tens of thousands in their attempts to harm Hamas, and despite demonstrating that they have the precision and power to do so with significantly fewer innocent deaths, they have no problem with the innocent body count they have undeniably stacked up.

Israel has chosen to do this with utter cruelty. That's not necessary. It's unacceptable.

Israel needs to give Palestinians who don't want to be under the yoke of Hamas some sort of option that isn't "die".

Israel needs to sort out how abhorrent their soldiers act. You don't get to act like rampaging colonizers and then cry foul when the modern world is unhappy about it.

The cruelty can only be intentional at this point.
by pretzel5297 | 2025-09-11 22:19:13+00:00
I like Helix. I couldn't get Neovim to stick after a few tries but Helix let me into the modal editor world. Just works, no config required and their editing model is better for newcomers because you can see what you're about to do. I eventually switched to Neovim after a few months though (thanks to Kickstart.nvim), because configuring with a programming language is just so much more powerful.

That said, I'm convinced people praising Helix because they "don't have to install 60 plugins" or "constantly keep tweaking their config" will just start blaming Helix when it gets plugin support and if it gets a dynamic configuration language.

You don't have to install 60 plugins (I have 6) and you don't have to keep tweaking your config (I haven't touched core parts of my config in years, just like to play around with logic sometimes). It's not a feature to not support these things just because you lack the self control to stop playing with your editor and focus on your work.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 22:19:25+00:00
> If a 3rd party maker cannot make their device work the same way with the proper access, it is their own issue and not something Apple should help them figure out.

This is NOT expected from Apple and explicitly noted in the ruling.

They are simply not allowed to restrict OS features from competitors in order to frame them as Apple accessory features, because this distorts the competition in this accessory market
by quantummagic | 2025-09-11 22:20:02+00:00
To be fair, we're the beneficiaries of nature generating the data we trained on ourselves. Our ability came from being exposed to training in school, and in the world, and from examples from all of human history. Ie. if you locked a child in a dark room for their entire lives, and gave them no education or social interaction, they wouldn't have a very impressive imagination or artistic ability either.

We're reliant on training data too.
by jzelinskie | 2025-09-11 22:20:15+00:00
I don't think my config works anymore (to my earlier point), but this is the balance I struck when I used neovim: https://github.com/jzelinskie/dotfiles/blob/426768c61078a77c...

I'd explicitly configure which servers were triggered which filetypes (aka autocmd and when I first started doing this, the binding for autocmd didn't even exist in lua yet) and have to bind lsp functions to keybindings across languages. FWIW, I have no idea what I would've done in vimscript, lua is a godsend with tables, loops, and lambdas. At this point in time, I was an early adopter neovim's built-in LSP and everyone else was recommending coc.nvim.

But the juxtaposition at the time was that Helix ships `languages.toml` that includes all of this already out of the box. You can override it, if you want, but actually all I wanted was cohesive keybindings for basic LSP functions.

What's the state of the world for neovim today?
by malshe | 2025-09-11 22:22:22+00:00
Abstract:

Statistical significance is often interpreted as providing greater information than nonsignificance. In this article we show, however, that rejection of a point null often carries very little information, while failure to reject may be highly informative. This is particularly true in empirical contexts that are common in economics, where datasets are large and there are rarely reasons to put substantial prior probability on a point null. Our results challenge the usual practice of conferring point null rejections a higher level of scientific significance than ­ non-rejections. Therefore, we advocate visible reporting and discussion of ­ nonsignificant results.
by plomme | 2025-09-11 22:22:44+00:00
This is the first time I really don't understand how people are getting good results. On https://aistudio.google.com with Nano Banana selected (gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview) I get - garbage - results. I'll upload a character reference photo and a scene and ask Gemini to place the character in the scene. What it then does is to simply cut and paste the character into the scene, even if they are completely different in style, colours, etc.

I get far better results using ChatGPT for example. Of course, the character seldom looks anything like the reference, but it looks better than what I could do in paint in two minutes.

Am I using the wrong model, somehow??
by cipherself | 2025-09-11 22:23:47+00:00
In the list of features, it mentions:

> vision-based search for comprehensive document understanding

but it's not clear to me what this means, is it just vector embeddings for each image in every document via a CLIP-like model?

In addition, I'd be curious what's the rationale behind using the plethora of databases, given the docs on running it in production spins them all up, I assume they're all required, for instance I'd be curious on the trade-offs between using postgres with something like pg_search (for bm25 support, which vanilla postgres FTS doesn't have) vs using both postgres and ElasticSearch.

The docs are also very minimal, I'd have loved to see at least 1 example of usage.
by andrewflnr | 2025-09-11 22:24:02+00:00
The second half of my comment still applies then. I think Earth-style eukaryogenesis is probably just one way to achieve the energy budget and complexity needed for complex multicellularity... bearing in mind, of course, that colonial bacteria that collaborate for survival definitely exist, spirulina for instance, stromatolites, and all the gross things that form biofilms.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-11 22:24:18+00:00
After reading your first sentence, I immediately saw an apple with three dots in a triangle pointing downwards on the side. Interestingly, the 3 dots in my image were flat, as if merely superimposed on an image of an apple, rather than actually being on an apple.

How do people with aphantasia answer the question?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-11 22:24:43+00:00
"Nah, I checked that place out 20 minutes ago... there are no flowers. It's not a real place at all!"

I mean, given how little study bee dance language has gotten, if there's another unknown word and was only performed once a year by a typical hive, no one would have ever seen it. And their vocabulary isn't taught, it's instinctive, so low frequency usage wouldn't be an impediment to transmission.
by epolanski | 2025-09-11 22:25:44+00:00
+1

I understand the results are non deterministic but I get absolute garbage too.

Uploaded pics of my (32 years old) wife and we wanted to ask it to give her a fringe/bangs to see how would she look like it either refused "because of safety" and when it complied results were horrible, it was a different person.

After many days and tries we got it to make one but there was no way to tweak the fringe, the model kept returning the same pic every time (with plenty of "content blocked" in between).
by saltcured | 2025-09-11 22:27:18+00:00
Thanks, I should have reminded myself that my intuitions are often non-mathematical. I don't even know how I decided that a change in angle would have a non-linear effect on density.

I also had an intuition that the aspect ratio change would squish the distribution. I guess this aspect ratio doesn't matter for the density distribution of dimensionless points.

But, if doing something like splatting a pixel/sprite at each point coordinate, would the sprite shape need to be transformed to match...?
by acdha | 2025-09-11 22:27:30+00:00
DC legalized in 2014, but the house republicans have added language preventing the DC government from spending any money implementing a licensing program for the last decade:

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/210566-house-gop-blocks-d...

I don’t use it so this isn’t directly relevant to me but I’d been looking forward to some Colorado-style boosts of tax revenue other than my property taxes.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 22:27:48+00:00
The statement “Charlie Kirk’s many documented years race baiting and knowingly spreading false conspiracy theories disqualified him as being considered someone to be taken seriously as a good-faith debater” is not disproven by “well I saw him not do that for a few minutes once”.

Your point seems to be that if you simply ignore almost everything he ever said, then a short clip proves that he was serious about good faith debate. I’m not entirely sure why those few minutes of footage count more than the hundreds of hours of the race baiting and knowingly spreading falsehoods, but I kind of have to assume that that contention is motivated reasoning bore from a desire to claim some sort of victory or gotcha. Unfortunately, the only way that what you’ve said proves my point incorrect is if you failed or refused to read or understand what I wrote. That’s not really a win though, that’s just misinterpretation.
by graeme | 2025-09-11 22:28:06+00:00
Ah, I see what you're saying. The thing is if it is a cut and dry violation it ought to be in principle possible to say so. And there have been features that were delayed and released and which function the same in the EU as elsewhere. So presumably the implementation is legal but plausibly wasn't.

Now there's a difference between building a feature and building interoperability. You have to actually work at it. And if you rush to do so on every feature:

1. You may modify features you didn't need to

2. You open yourself up to other countries demanding specific software changes

The simplest thing is just to make one version for the world, and wait for an ok. Big downsides to either rushing to release as is or rushing to make a change you may not need to make.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-11 22:28:10+00:00
Maybe in their enthusiasm they (both researchers and Uni PR) forgot that superconductors are not the first "perfect crystals" that comes to mind (nor is the perfection requirement so stringent)

The technique is the unsung star here: table-top 3d-printing crystals at what seems to be (mostly) ambient condition

(Also failed at the PR 10 years ago, so maybe they shouldn't be blamed?)

They won't be able to easily extend this tech to silicon/GAN. And I can't think of other "crystalline" materials that are porous only in the minds of insiders (ATM)

3d-printing molecular sieves/catalysts as a consolation prize?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-11 22:28:54+00:00
Funny that I see this while searching for this story here: https://ymcinema.com/2022/03/17/vimeo-we-are-a-b2b-solution-...

It makes sense. Without ad revenue or premium subscriptions, there's no viable way to pay for creators in the say way a proper "indie youtube". In addition, many creators who post on Vimeo very much did not want their content to be publicly viewable. That was a feature.
by TheDong | 2025-09-11 22:28:54+00:00
Garmin pays apple already for a developer license to have an app to pair garmin watches.... and yet 90% of the features of the apple watch simply cannot be implemented for a garmin watch, no matter how much they pay, because those APIs are private to apple watch.

Yes, apple did the R&D to figure out how to let their watch filter notifications by app, and it must have cost them so much to be able to filter notifications that it has to be locked into their watch. That's not them being intentionally anti-competitive, it's just R&D costs, sure, I'm sure it cost a ton to make that private API.
by jdboyd | 2025-09-11 22:29:31+00:00
Proxmox is not a hypervisor. It is a Linux distribution. As such it has a web server, kvm, zfs, and many other pieces. Maybe the acme client is built in to the web server. Maybe the acme client is built into their custom management software. Maybe they're just scripting around certbot.

I do tend to find that I need multiple services with tls on the same machine, such as a web server and RabbitMQ, or postfix and dovecot. I don't know how having every program have its own acme client would end up working out. That seems like it could be a mess. On the other hand, I have been having trouble getting them all to take updated certificates correctly without me manually restarting services after cert bots cron job does an update.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-11 22:29:45+00:00
I didn't intend it as name-calling, but as a more literal statement. Not caring about other people's health is a trait often exhibited in sociopathy.

I can understand people wanting raw milk and that's fair enough as it goes, but selling it or providing it to others is risking their health to some degree - this is shown by the relatively high level of people falling seriously ill from drinking raw milk - this is due to the high level of bacteria that is often found in it. If someone does care about the health of others, but believes that raw milk is safe to consume, then it's more a case of ignorance than sociopathy.

> Might as well call for violence against people who don't agree with you

You're out of order with that comment.
by foobar10000 | 2025-09-11 22:30:32+00:00
It’s not that simple - when implementing this one runs into the issue that detecting self speech is a solved problem - BUT detecting the speech of a person talking AT you in a restaurant is not nearly that easy - this is known as diarization. This needs custom models - and I am willing to bet the model for the iPhone is tuned specifically to the AirPods . How would they even provide that? And I’d bet that the customer microphones in the AirPods provide a much better time synced stream to the phone than just a random pair of phones - I’d be willing to bet this is not just Bluetooth, but also out of band clock drift, etc. Which allows for much better phase data - which makes training diarization models simpler- and makes the accurate. So - I’d bet there is a per headset model here - and one that probably requires more than just audio.
by bertil | 2025-09-11 22:30:43+00:00
You are the one using him as a reference. Neither of you care to understand what the other person is saying and grow from others’ experience; you only care to pretend to debate with people who already agree with you, and find witty quips if not.

Otherwise, you would have stopped your reply at the first line. That could have been a great question if you cared enough to read to the answer before dismissing it.
by etblg | 2025-09-11 22:31:12+00:00
> One could find systemic examples of inflammatory rethoric from almost anyone in US politics: Biden, Obama, Trump, Waltz, Harris, DeSantis, Newsome, etc.

Damn, sounds like more terrible people who encourage violence then, wish they didn't encourage it either, kinda sounds like a problem America and its politics has in general.