skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
historically speaking, it has occasionally been progress by my definition (you can't do much at all if you're crippled by minamata disease, although the chemicals and processes that caused minamata disease weren't prohibited, just done more carefully) but much more often it has been pure superstition (like the european union borax ban), racist paranoia (like the us ban on marijuana), or regulatory capture aimed at preventing market competition and boosting the profits of the currently dominant lobbyists
Will be interesting when they become able to autocomplete current research topics correctly.
MASSIVE count fan here. Been using it over a year and nothing else comes close for exploratory analysis.

I've not felt as impressed by a tool or had it so quickly change how I work ever before.
I think the civil burden of proof should apply here. Upon the preponderance of the evidence. Given so many studies that exhaustively show correlative effects of phthalates with metabolic and endocrine disruption, especially strongly during developmental stages, I think even that burden of proof is met.

Sure, you can't prove something doesn't exist, but you can make a reasonable determination that given exhaustive study, given correlative negative effects can be ascribed to no other known cause, and given that this is natal and pediatric health especially at stake, we should say until such time as a causative link is proven to lie elsewhere these chemicals should not be used in consumer goods out of an abundance of caution.

The redirection of that claim would be "these profits are more important than moving to protect bodily health especially for those unable to protect themselves, given what we currently know."

Honestly, no knowledge is perfect, but upon the balance we must rest our sacrosanct right to health.
Nondeterminism in Formal Specification
I don’t think so because all the berry containers have holes in them. But the other produce don’t have holes and either have a harder but flexible plastic top, or plastic film, or just shrink wrap around the package.
I agree! We were definitely motivated by the emergence of AI tools for video when building Revideo - as mentioned in the post, we think that a lot of video creation can be automated using AI. Currently, there are probably some higher-priority challenges related to the core rendering library that we need to solve, but we’ve definitely already thought about building a universal client library for common AI services that are useful for generating videos (e.g. text-to-speech, text-to-image, text-to-video)
I meant going to a non commercially owned distro.

While Ubuntu for instance is a good experience, you still need to trust Canonical. Granted it's a lot easier when it's OSS at its core and there's a whole community watching.
I wonder if there is a need for wall-piercing search now. That might be against user agreement, but when that had stopped anyone motivated?
> Are you under the impression that Musk has no familiarity with the remaining board?

These weren't just discussions between friends at a bar or something. These were business meetings and should have been treated as such.

If I were giving my friend a house, it would have likely been done considerably more informally.

> Like, they well and truly are fundamentally people. Groups of people, to be sure, but people all the same.

You're handwaving away an important distinctions; a group of people is not the same as a person.

A group of people is much more capable of working non-empathetically than an individual. This is why we have the term "mob mentality".

> The person who fired those 12,000 people almost certainly did feel bad.

It wasn't a "person". It was certainly a group of people. This might seem like splitting hairs but it's a distinction that I really do think needs to be emphasized.

> Google, if you want to think of it as some kind of distinct entity, absolutely did not fire anyone.

"Google", as defined as the board of executives that run the company, did fire 12,000 people. I seriously doubt a "person" did it, the group did. A group is not a person, even if every single individual in that group felt bad for the 12,000 people they fired, the group still made the decision to do it.

A collective seems to lack empathy. An individual doesn't.
The more fundamental issue was that the first iteration of gPay was born from Tez, which was explicitly created by Google's NBU (Next Billion Users) team led by Cesar Sengupta out of Singapore, for the Indian market with UPI compliance. It was extremely well-received and that justified the investments to port it to the US and some EMEA markets. But those markets already had Google Wallet for storing cards and because of how siloed product teams historically are at Google, there ended up being parallel tracks for GWallet & GPay.

As far as I can tell, a couple of years ago attempts were made to merge the key features of the two, at which point there was a time where US users had access to both gPay & gWallet. Now, it's come mostly full circle and Google's got most of the non-P2P features from gPay into gWallet and is deprecating gPay.

It'll be interesting to see if they add P2P to gWallet. I like to think so, but on the other hand I'm perfectly happy continuing to have a half dozen (not quite) other apps for the same purpose. CashApp, Venmo, Zelle, Paypal, not to mention the other platform apps that have P2P built in.
Who do you think is Netflix's customer if not you?
not trusting any of the privacy/security mumbo-jumbo when their icloud free tier still allows for a paltry 5 gigs, when even google offers thrice as much for their public service.

i am happy for those who see the positives here, but for the skeptic a toggle to prevent any online processing would be more satisfactory.
Yep, loss of a prominent HN-relevant person.
Louvre v2.0.0 Release (C++ Wayland Compositor Library)
Hello,

Yesterday we released Louvre v2.0.0 (C++ library for building Wayland compositors):

Main New Features:

- Screencasting: Compatible with PipeWire via xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.

- Session Lock Protocol: For locking the user session and displaying login windows.

- Layer Shell Protocol: For wallpapers, panels, notifications, etc.

- New Input Events API: Enhanced with support for touch events, pointer gestures, and pointer constraints.
Training an AI to Extract Information from PDF Files with Varying Section Titles
How can I train an AI to extract details from PDF files? The sections I want to extract may have different titles for the same content.
For example, let's say we have 1000 PDF files of essays. Each essay has a section for "background," but the section might be titled "background" in some PDFs and "my story" in others. The AI needs to identify these varying titles, determine where the section starts and ends, and then copy that content into an .xls file.
I understand where you're coming from but in addition to offline first, having cross-platform support is also a priority. Although it's possible to run Qt/GTK apps on win, linux, mac, ios, and android, it still misses a huge platform: the web.

Also, even if we exclude the web, you still have to deal with app stores, code signing, separate builds for each platform and whatever else you'd have to do to distribute your app everywhere (not my area of expertise). But with a PWA, you make a website that uses Service Worker and you're done.
Thank you, and for the Jonathan Haidt link
Sure, and that takes 24 hours to be processed (business days only). And IBANs are not very user friendly.

In the US, this is solved by PayPal. Not sure what's taking so long for europe to launch a competitor.
What did Jonathan Payne say?
I used to be a huge fan of John Baez when I was an aspiring theoretical physicist and into category theory. His weekly finds in mathematical physics column was my HN before HN.

Didn't read the post but I wonder whether it relates to this "photomolecular effect" discussed here? https://youtu.be/17Y82tJDk2o?si=YjJAIhP3MkF8N6pT

The high level idea of reducing the cost per molecule of breaking those hydrogen bonds by having whole groups of molecules evaporate makes sense to me.
Show HN: Gptx – GPT for the Unix command line
I was doing a community service project and stayed up all night the final night. I fell asleep on a couch and woke up without the keys to the building in my pocket. Apparently someone had found me, I'd gotten up took the keys out of my pocket and given them to them and fallen back asleep - I had no recollection of doing so.
What do we want computers to do?
Oh. So it's just a result of locked-down walled gardens being so widespread that they influence the world around them. Depressing, but thank you for pointing it out anyway; on my phone I can just run picotool itself and it's easy to forget how dystopian it all got outside of the niche I'm in.
No, that isn't it, re-read the article. The illusion is supposed to be that three flashes that are not evenly spaced, or are even spaced out of order (1--3-2) get perceived by the brain as evenly-spaced an in order.

Look at the explanatory diagram with the labels "What our eyes see" and "What our brain "sees"" (the third image on the page).

The gif is just broken. It's supposed to have a space between the second and third flashes.
> Maybe it can add tiny details or structures to large prints though

Combine it with their rather enthusiastic article on printing your own children

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/elegoo-making-3d-pr...

> Just imagine printing a piece of furniture, a near life-size statue, ...

"Such a lifelike figurine, with real plastic spaceship accessory"

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zPi4gpbczzvoGR34Rds7D8-120...

If the Galaxy Quest aliens happen to glance this way lately...
Jut aXe the tweet for eX-friends.
My understanding is that the low level APIs are different, CUDA vs. whatever Android provides vs. whatever Apple provides. However, higher abstraction like PyTorch may be able to target different platforms with less code changes.
Home Lab: Scraping and processing stock market data
For those curious without reading:

> The front power seat motor on the affected vehicles could overheat because of a stuck power seat slide knob, potentially resulting in a fire and increasing the risk of injury.

(Not what I was expecting.)
Not super successful yet but I've been working on https://nativi.sh on nights/weekends. It's a tool to help make your writing more fluent when you're working in a non-native language.

We have a fair amount of users who've worked it into their daily professional and personal writing, which I'm pretty stoked about. I've pretty much only worked on B2B stuff professionally so it's fun making something that an individual gets utility/happiness out of.
Someone already commented about pthalates themselves but I'd also like to point out that a big problem with microplastics isn't the microplastics themselves but the fact that they absorb other chemicals which can then be released/absorbed when they get inside your body or even just on your skin:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/toxic-microplastic...

More:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220216112233.h...

Microplastics are like little buckets for all sorts of toxic compounds and pharmaceuticals (that you probably don't have a prescription for like cancer treatment drugs).
I did say "for all their problems" ;-)

I still trust LTT more than a channel pumping out faceless review videos or one so unknown that there aren't enough viewers to even provide any scrutiny. To butcher the eponymous Linus's law: given enough eyeballs, all mistakes are shallow?
Quite disappointing to hear; I know the feeling on discovering unfortunate things coworkers believe :(. I can scarcely imagine the feeling of seeing real progress happen on trans acceptance, only to then see a blowback coming, right at the end of your life. Glad she will be remembered positively.
Sample size of 1.

A disc herniation caused me pain all night until it eventually destroyed my circadian rhythm. Even after it healed and the pain went away I had terrible sleep disruption. Up every 90 minutes, couldn't fall asleep until 4 am, waking up at 4 am. The works. Going on a few months.

Then I found sleep restriction.

First two weeks were brutal, but then biology takes over. And just like that, in a couple weeks, you rebuild you ability to fall asleep naturally and you're back to normal.

And in retrospect, this is exactly the approach we took to sleep training our young children. I swear by it.
This and the android equivalent (chrome/google) are very common methods. It’s only in enterprise spaces that they’ve adopted the likes of 1Password, Bitwarden, etc.

Really no big difference, you’re still technically using a password manager.

Also you can access those passwords on Mac as well, it’s in settings just as you would find it in your phone. No need to copy from your phone and paste it, Mac can autofill. It can also autofill on other browsers through the dedicated right click menu, but it’s a bit more clunky than on Safari.

Fun fact, those same passwords can be accessed on windows now, install iCloud for windows and enable passwords. It uses a dedicated app on Windows.
It's hard to compare theories that don't have well-developed mechanisms. If we're naive theorists comparing miasma vs tiny organisms, but you have no sense of how those organisms operate, its functionally just a comparison between one miasma and many miasmas, i.e. one vs. many nebulous non-mechanistic effects. In that case one miasma would be preferable. But that's not a demerit to the concept of minimizing entities as a theoretical virtue.

>i don't agree that 'count of entities' is the correct criterion for what makes a theory more or less parsimonious/occam's razor preferred.

I mean, its literally in the original formulation of Occam's razor: "plurality should not be posited without necessity". But there are many ways to justify this. My preferred argument is that fewer entities means fewer resources with which to "bake in" the explananda into the theory. The more knobs to turn to generate your empirically adequate theory, the less likely your theory will capture reality.

>[Copenhagen] just proposes that it collapses when measured by the apparatus

Measurement isn't limited to an "apparatus". Collapse of superposition is a feature of large scale interactions. While there is branching, in practice it is bounded because interactions tend to cause collapse.
I always assume the stack people choose is based on what they know. Given that we’ve seen a huge number of people learn web tech over that last decade or so, it’s sort of unsurprising to see so many people go that direction. I’d assume a secondary factor is portability, although given that you can achieve portability with other stacks too, I generally think it’s tech familiarity that drives it more than anything else.
It would be easy to build a bomb that could show a login screen.
Surprised they aren't moving it to Youtube too.
And of course there’s a Simon Tatham version.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mine...
Our current plan is to price Pipedream Connect in a similar way to how we price Pipedream's existing product (https://pipedream.com/pricing), which is a combination of a platform fee + a usage-based fee.

However, rather than based on workflow executions, we expect the usage-based fee to be based on the number of users with an active connected account.

This is a key element of our early discussions with customers and we look forward to hearing feedback.
Twitch’s overall UX since I got into it has always seemed fundamentally about funneling you into a live stream as soon as possible and nothing else. If the entire Software and Gaming Dev community there kick off an alternative that would be such a great thing overall (does this exist?) but the big dev streamers would likely never make that sacrifice. Let Twitch be for gaming or whatever their current strategy is, but please, dev streamers, I beg you.

Wasn’t there a Show HN a few months ago where the dev had live streaming integrated with interacting with the running code? That’s what I want to see get big. Lemme see if I can find it now that it came to mind
Thank you for sharing!! Fascinating and really helpful to those of us who are undergoing our own gender transitions!
Musk went big on long-form video content and streaming. I don't know if he is still bullish on that.

He projected X as a Twitch competitor where a lot of gaming would move.

I think that's what this integration was about.
Our self-serve dashboards feature is the most used feature on our platform according to our analytics. Our customers include many Fortune 100 companies and our company was acquired for some billions of dollars.

I largely agree with the sentiment but it's just not what we've seen in practice.
As a former submariner (but not an astronaut, tbf), I think they’re on-par. They both actively want to kill you at all times.
It’s brokered via NFC now. Tap to pay with no business account.
User viewable docs should be Anglo-Saxon and dev docs should be Latin (or Attic Greek?) Publicity materials should be medieval Arabic, and the secret documentation that isn't shared should be in Mandarin.
Show HN: Arewedownyet.com
We've built this to quickly check the status of several popular services on a single status page.
Not all that infrequently (though not in the last week iirc) I find myself in a state which I think of as being, “half asleep” (or (3/4) asleep, or whatever. Various degrees of “asleep”) and I’m still able to kind-of think about things, but such that it is easier to accidentally forget what I was thinking about, such that I’m not able to keep as much in working memory, more distract-able by random thoughts, etc. .
(On rare occasion I find my breathing while in this state to be concerning to I get scared and wake myself up. I’m pretty sure it’s been over a year since that last happened. I think it was mostly when sleeping face down or something?)

I suspect the type of state I just described (not the breathing part) is something most people sometimes experience. I don’t think it is unusual. Though I don’t think I’ve often heard people describe it in detail.

Does it seem plausible to you that you were perhaps, “20% asleep, but 80% awake” during that time?

Edit: also, my understanding is that lying still and resting can work as a partial imperfect substitute for some amount of sleep (though not like, in a way that can be sufficient long-term)
That's why I emphasize "unreviewed".

It is an uncontroversial fact that LLMs make mistakes.

If a human being has reviewed the output of GPT and is willing to stake their personal reputation on that content being "correct", then I'm happy to read it.

If nobody has done that then it's slop and a waste of my time.

(Unless of course I requested that information from GPT myself, in which case it's on me to review it before sharing it with others.)
the whole point of the third-party stores currently is to help you avoid doing all of that
Podcasts. Any other podcast app.
And having enough savings to be able to not care whether you get pushed out by the new round of redundancies is great for your mental health.
＞ Microsoft removed Minesweeper from Windows 8 and instead published it as a free game on the Microsoft Store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Minesweeper
My answer would be the ecosystem, let's say you've to implement a note editor, a calendar and a dnd module and what not. You move fast because it has already been solved. And you don't reinvent the wheel.

Also have a look at the frontend iceberg there's a lot more to frontend systems.
Show HN: I worked on a Source Code Generator for architectural models
I worked on a Source Code Generator for Architect.Nexus, an IT architecture solution similar to Bizzdesign or Orbus. This tool is something I believe has never been done before and can be incredibly helpful for IT architects. It's a free tool, and I can send you the link if you're interested.

I helped design and develop the core engine, which supports multiple languages and frameworks. We integrated it seamlessly with the platform’s existing tools, focusing on accuracy and efficiency. This generator automates the conversion of architectural designs into executable source code from your models, saving time and reducing errors. It also facilitates rapid prototyping and maintains up-to-date documentation. If you want the link or have questions, let me know.
HTTP. Even the most basic "what happens in a redirect" has caused panic.
> Especially for hobby projects, I don't think anyone is really in the business of counting up the savings of 0.01" in the hobby world. Like, how small are you actually aiming for, and is it really so bad that you can't add another 0.5" to your board?

It's not really about saving board space. Decoupling capacitors need to be placed "close" to the chip, and at higher clock frequencies this can be an issue. There's enough decoupling caps needed on a RP2040 that doing them in 0805 would require moving them quite a bit further away from the chip just to have room to place them all.

An ATmega (Arduino) at something like 8MHz is really forgiving and you can take a lot of liberties with the layout. The RP2040 runs much faster at 133MHz, so presumably the tolerances are much tighter. Admittedly, I didn't try a doing a design with 0805s for the RP2040 but I read enough from people more experienced than me that gave me the impression that compromising the layout with larger passives had a greater chance of things not working right.

Since assembly is so cheap at places like JLC these days, even in small quantities, it really wasn't worth the hassle. I've done many other boards by hand with 0805s and and agree they're pretty easy to deal with.
Yes, have a look at ISPC - it's amazing. I especially like that it can generate code for multiple architectures and then select the best implementation at runtime for the CPU it's running on.
The missing punctuation in the HN title had me wondering what coins have moving parts?
"Apple invented FireWire" is maybe not fully accurate (but actually a good example of the point here).

Wikipedia:
FireWire is Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. Its development was initiated by Apple[1] in 1986,[3] and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Sony (102 patents), Apple (58 patents), Panasonic (46 patents), and Philips (43 patents), in addition to contributions made by engineers from LG Electronics, Toshiba, Hitachi, Canon,[4] INMOS/SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics),[5] and Texas Instruments.

What might be interesting in this regard is that Sony was also using its own trademark for it: "i.LINK".
Thank you for the inspiration as I continue my gender transition. I appreciate your struggles and dedication to living a life that was "for you" and not for anyone else. RIP.
The new app sucks balls too. I just want to go back to viewing a list of my subscriptions. I don't need the most active one shoved in my face.
I think you meant to end that with "phone calls" rather than "to deliver SMS?" SS7 was used for that, but had a significant amount of idle time since most phone calls are much longer than the time needed to setup the connection.
> You can't prove things are safe, at best you can say harm hasn't been observed under these test conditions.

Are we doing that?
Victim blaming? I'm explaining that children are at less risk than the crude statistic would suggest. I think maybe you're mad about that because it undermines your intent to radically restructure society with this child pedestrian safety pretext.
you need to pick one that isn't owned by a company or government that can shut it down. currently, of these, bitcoin seems to have the widest adoption
Honestly for a lot of things I could just say Facebook instead of X and nobody would know the difference.
Musk actually was (and probably still is) bullish on long-form video content on twitter. He projected it as the twitch dethroner.

I think that's what it was about.

Being able to stream directly to twitter from Xbox/PS.