MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vbezhenar | 2025-05-14 14:15:55+00:00
Google Authenticator is a separate app that you need to download from Google Play. Native android solution is Google Password app which is pre-installed (at least on Pixel) and its functionality is extremely rudimentary even compared to Apple Passwords. No TOTP support there.

I think that Google does not care about security for their users, because their passwords app is clearly some intern work, not something really well thought. They just slapped it to mark a checkbox in their "Chrome password autofill" TODO list and moved on to a more pressing issues like implementing user tracking and extracting more ads revenue. Apple had similar issues for years, but I think that their recent releases significantly improved.
by ctoth | 2025-05-14 14:15:57+00:00
Just to clarify - this is SAM (Software Automatic Mouth), a vintage speech synthesizer from the early 1980s Commodore era, not Microsoft Sam (the SAPI 5 voice from Windows XP). These are entirely different technologies from different generations of speech synthesis. SAM is remarkably elegant in its simplicity.

For my own project, I've been recreating the formant synthesizer described in Dennis Klatt's influential 1980 paper. I've found that WebAudio Worklets provide an excellent framework for implementing this type of acoustic modeling in the browser.
by themk | 2025-05-14 14:15:59+00:00
I do use abduco and dvtm, however, there is one major flaw in splitting the persistence and the emulator/multiplexer: if you detach, then reattach with a different terminal, with different capabilities, the emulator (which is running in abduco, say) doesn't know that it has to render differently.

Compared to tmux, which knows this, and can adjust the rendering to suite the new terminal.
by fsflover | 2025-05-14 14:16:04+00:00
Didn't try the glasses. Concerning the battery, see these:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho...

https://forums.puri.sm/t/a-l5-review-1-week-to-my-ready-to-s...
by stonemetal12 | 2025-05-14 14:16:10+00:00
Languages introduce restrictions of their own all the time. In Java I can't have a function that works on any type of number, I have to specify the type. In Haskell I can. In Haskell I can't put random stuff in a list, in Java I can as long as they are all objects.

Those language restrictions slow down your development as you have to design and code around them. People see the extra design\code as a good trade off because it improves safety, but it slows you down if you are just messing around.
by neogodless | 2025-05-14 14:16:18+00:00
Back in 2011 the Atrix could support a desktop mode with a dock, but not simply by plugging in a USB cable.

There was also a Motorola Ready mode which I experienced briefly on a Moto G that I bought but returned because the screen was horrid mush! (Not all Moto G, some had nice screens, but that particular one was a lower resolution, slow LCD screen with a lot of ghosting.)

But if I remember, Ready isn't really a standalone thing. It's more like what Microsoft Phone Link does - e.g. running your phone "desktop" but on another computer. But I think I'm remembering wrong... so maybe newer ones are a bit more like this - https://www.tomsguide.com/news/i-spent-a-few-days-with-motor...
by tpm | 2025-05-14 14:16:19+00:00
Can be configured, but then you get to work at a real codebase halfheartedly half-converted from javascript with half the files beginning with ts-ignore.

However crappy your Java codebase is going to be, it will still use types. And as just today Gemini hallucinated an API call that never existed (in a widely available and used library even), it's just better to have the ability to check that right away.
by everythingabili | 2025-05-14 14:16:36+00:00
I was once at a coding conference (Prograph CPX now you ask) and there was a coding competition. Who could create a usable To Do List App in one hour. About six people took part.

At the end of the hour, people demoed their creations. "This one is clunky and works like this...", "This one uses text to" etc.

The last person got up and showed some doodles and notes on sheets of paper. He said "Mine is the only one that actually works and is well designed, I just need to code it now".

I don't know if there's a lesson in there, but to me it was cool as.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-14 14:16:36+00:00
So that people can discuss the US Postal service intelligently. About 15 years ago, there was a service (Outbox) designed to scan your mail, email anything important to you, and discard junk mail. They were growing, people enjoyed the service, and then they went to Washington DC to talk to the Postmaster General about expanding nationwide.

https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-po...

>When Evan and Will got called in to meet with the postmaster general, they were joined by the USPS’ general counsel and chief of digital strategy. But instead, Evan recounts that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe “looked at us” and said “we have a misunderstanding. ‘You disrupt my service and we will never work with you.'” Further, “You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.'”

That's the US mail. Can we all please stop pretending that any actual human needs the US mail to continue? No one's paying their bills through the mail... you can't even really write checks. Hell, given how international mail works, it's the US government subsidizing Aliexpress and Temu. No one should be defending the US Postal Service.
by binary132 | 2025-05-14 14:17:08+00:00
It’s interesting to think about the implied expectation that my children, who my wife and I have poured out our time, energy, and resources for, will do their part to support and willingly help the childless, who conserved their resources for themselves, in their old age. If I were looking down the barrel of that future, I wouldn’t feel so confident about that eventuality.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-14 14:17:49+00:00
I know several couples who had children in grad school. They had university jobs which did not pay very well, but had generous maternity and childcare benefits. They were in a grad program that pretty much guaranteed them a good job once they graduated. They were young and healthy. They stretched out their graduation, but nobody cares if you get your masters/phd in 3 years or 5.

Compare that to what seems to now be the normal pattern of waiting until you're financially secure before having children. It seems to work out OK for the guys, but seems far from optimal for many women. Children later in life is really hard on their bodies, and so many of them seem to blow a giant hole in their career that they never recover from.

There were down sides, of course. Most grad students are terribly poor. But they make it work.

I really think that's something we should lean into and encourage as a society.
by aleks224 | 2025-05-14 14:17:50+00:00
This blog post exposes the badness of SMS-based recovery. I think other recovery options such as Yubikey aren't ideal either, as a Yubikey may simply stop working and you're completely locked out. The specific situation the author of the blog post isn't dramatic - he can't receive SMS - personal decision to avoid roaming charges.

But in all seriousness, if there's an authentication recovery standard, it should serve all people including those who are in seriously difficult circumstances (e.g. homeless or ill). The question then is what should recovery look like in those cases.

To me it looks like good old recovery code on paper is the best solution, as it doesn't depend on ever-changing device ports, or hardware malfunction due to lack of use long-term (such as 10-15 years).

I wonder whether authentication apps nowdays address that aspect and make and I kinda doubt so (i.e. can you print out a QR code with all account information in your typical TOTP app?).
by mjevans | 2025-05-14 14:17:53+00:00
I loathed Gatsby in high school.

It's RUINED for me. I could never go back and read it. There's far too much else I'd rather have cross my eyeballs so many other stories in the library. By having a work unworthy of my experience and tastes wasted on me at a young age my emotional investment in it is already squandered.

Have a big list of OK books. Have some representative excerpts from them, and let the kids pick books they're going to enjoy. The point surely is NOT to haze / torment the kids with 'bad' books that discourage reading generally.
by viraptor | 2025-05-14 14:17:55+00:00
You're saying pushing the memory safety improvements is moot because they have only reduced the unsafe code of the whole library to 10 or so cases where the reason is documented next to the block? (There are open PRs for reducing that too) Not worth banging the drum of memory safety until they reach 100%? That's literally letting the perfection get in the way of huge improvements.
by nxobject | 2025-05-14 14:18:23+00:00
Don't we all believe that! I think the challenge to do it politically without ending up getting entangled into culture warring over urbanisation (e.g. "15 minute city" conspiracy theories [1]). The best we can do is endless suburbia...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1203950823/15-minute-cities-c...
by joshstrange | 2025-05-14 14:19:14+00:00
AWS Aurora is way too expensive and their "serverless" offerings are overly complicated and not worth it IMHO.

I used Serverless v1 and then they doubled the prices for v2 while removing features so I moved to PlanetScale. They were great but as I grew and wanted multiple smaller DBs they didn't really have a good way to do that and I moved to Neon. Now, with this news, I guess I'll be looking for an alternative.
by bArray | 2025-05-14 14:19:28+00:00
I would also go the other way, you have something you want to be sent to somebody via paper, but it's only printed at the last mile in the delivery vehicle.

A birthday card for example doesn't need to be sent across the country or across the world, it only needs to become physical as close to your door as possible.

Maybe this could be a security measure too, you have a document that can only be printed by a secured machine and is only produced at the last mile based on current position. It would reduce the risk of the mail being intercepted or mis-delivered.
by nmeofthestate | 2025-05-14 14:19:30+00:00
"You will have a much better time if you re-read your code to fix stupid typos before pressing “compile.”"

This is a strange one - I thought the rust compiler had famously helpful error messages, so why would I want to pore over my code looking for stupid typos when I can let the compiler find them for me? I am guaranteed to make stupid typos and want the computer to help me fix them.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-14 14:19:31+00:00
> Do you really not understand the value to a democratic government of having a direct means of sending a message

What does that have to do with the US Postal Service? I understand this problem perfectly, I've thought about it for many cumulative hours over the last 10 or 15 years. I follow the news stories.

https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-po...

>When Evan and Will got called in to meet with the postmaster general, they were joined by the USPS’ general counsel and chief of digital strategy. But instead, Evan recounts that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe “looked at us” and said “we have a misunderstanding. ‘You disrupt my service and we will never work with you.'” Further, “You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.'”
by n8henrie | 2025-05-14 14:20:11+00:00
I don't think "easier" and "cheaper" are valid barriers to research regarding the most prevalent maladies affecting most people of the species. If there is a low morbidity gold standard for in-vivo diagnosis, it seems like a valid inclusion criteria. If there is no such gold standard available, it's kind of hard to validate a claim of someone having deep expertise.

The endpoints for such research don't have to be problematic; regarding musculoskeletal complaints it's fairly straightforward to measure self-reported pain, self-reported level of function, or more objective measures like working days lost, strength, stamina, range of motion. The more difficult issue is determining an appropriate control group / placebo intervention.

(Also, I'll point out that my initial comment also included nutrition, dentistry, and several other fields under the same umbrella of "not enough good research" -- or to further specify, my complaint is that the burden of disease is disproportionate to the availability of rigorous literature.)

> Some specialist physicians have a deep knowledge of exercise for injury prevention and rehab.

By what measure? As in "they have a lot of clinical experience" -- (the "plural of anecdote")? Or as in they have read a lot of books on the subject? In which case, you seem to be agreeing that the evidence base is weak, so I'm not sure how authoritative this body of literature could be.

> As a patient it can be tough to discriminate the good ones from the quacks.

I imagine they would be virtually indistinguishable as a patient. Based on the context of this conversation, how would you recommend that I, as a physician, tell them apart? (It's hard enough to do with other physicians.)
by lxgr | 2025-05-14 14:20:44+00:00
> other options available to her include

> port her cellphone number to a VOIP provider that does support receiving SMS from shortcodes over wifi

That's generally a great solution – unless the company she's dealing with is one of those that don't send SMS-OTP codes to VoIP numbers for seCuRiTy reasons, or demand that the number is somehow "registered in her name" (which many smaller carriers apparently don't do).

I really wish that were illegal. A phone number is a phone number.

> she turned on wifi calling on her phone. now she could receive SMS messages from friends and family, but 2FA codes still weren't coming through.

Interesting, I was under the impression that SMS over IMS was implemented transparently to external senders. But given what a hack the entire protocol is, I'm not really surprised.
by CelestialMystic | 2025-05-14 14:20:51+00:00
I was being hyperbolic throughout the entire post.

Every-time you have a conversation around older stuff being better than newer stuff (some of this is due to regulation), you will have someone say their boutique item that costs hundreds of pounds (or maybe 1000s) works perfectly well. Ignoring the fact that most people don't wish to buy these boutique items (the dude literally talked about some Norwegian toilet design). I buy whatever is typically on offer than is from a brand that I recognise. I don't care about the power consumption of my vacuum cleaner. I am not using it for the entire day. It is maybe 30 minutes to an hour twice a week. I just want to do this task (which I find tedious) as quickly as possible.

BTW Dysons count in this regard as boutique, they are expensive and kinda rubbish. They are rendered useless by cat fur (my mother had three cats and it constantly got clogged with it). Bagless vacuum cleaners are generally garbage anyway (this is a separate complaint) because when you try to empty them, you have to empty it into a bag typically.
by bombcar | 2025-05-14 14:21:04+00:00
There's an almost religious fight against "popular" books - they won't even consider thinking about reading the Lord of The Rings - let alone modern popular novels.

Picking "old books" at least means you pick for some level of quality (usually) because they've lasted that long in print.

You also don't need to get kids to read Harry Potter; they're already reading that on their own.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-14 14:21:12+00:00
The Nat'l Post just says "it's cultural".

Without data on the relative affordability of living and having children in Israel, and on how parent-friendly (especially mom-friendly) life actually is there - that's 95% useless for comparing to other countries.

(Yes, I get that a very pro-child culture could translate to very pro-child policies.)
by jermaustin1 | 2025-05-14 14:21:42+00:00
For the USPS, it would be profitable if it wasn't required to self-fund and pre-fund all retirement benefits for current and future employees 75 years in advance, paying for retirement health care for "workers" who aren't in the workforce, or even born yet.

It was a political ploy to force the USPS into debt in 2006 with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. No other federal agency or private sector business pre-funds its retirement benefits.
by nfriedly | 2025-05-14 14:21:46+00:00
A lot of monitors that advertise HDR support really shouldn't. Many of them can decode the signal but don't have the hardware to accurately reproduce it, so you just end up with a washed out muddy looking mess where you're better off disabling HDR entirely.

As others here have said, OLED monitors are generally excellent at reproducing a HDR signal, especially in a darker space. But they're terrible for productivity work because they'll get burned in for images that don't change a lot. They're fantastic for movies and gaming, though.

There are a few good non-OLED HDR monitors, but not many. I have an AOC Q27G3XMN; its a 27" 1440p 180hz monitor that is good for entry-level HDR, especially in brighter rooms. It has over 1000 nits of brightness, and no major flaws. It only has 336 backlight zones, though, so you might notice some blooming around subtitles or other fine details where there's dark and light content close together. (VA panels are better than IPS at suppressing that, though.) It's also around half the price of a comparable OLED.

Most of the other non-OLED monitors with good HDR support have some other deal-breaking flaws or at least major annoyances, like latency, screwing up SDR content, buggy controls, etc. The Monitors Unboxed channel on YouTube and rtngs.com are both good places to check.
by njovin | 2025-05-14 14:21:52+00:00
Google and Amazon (Alexa) have proven to be bad integration partners IME.

I replaced my Nest 2 years ago because Google had shut down APIs allowing me to interact with it.

Amazon continues to remove functionality from the Alexa APIs. Most recently, they've made it more difficult to add items to a "list" if that list is from an integrated app (in my case, AnyList).

I long for the days when these companies were eager for devs to integrate with their products and were actually making it easier to do so, rather than being silently hostile to their partners and customers.
by NBJack | 2025-05-14 14:22:29+00:00
HDR is really hard to get right apparently. It seems to get worse in video games too.

I'm a huge fan of Helldivers 2, but playing the game in HDR gives me a headache: the muzzle flash of weapons at high RPMs on a screen that goes to 240hz is basically a continuous flashbang for my eyes.

For a while, No Mans' Sky in HDR mode was basically the color saturation of every planet dialed up to 11.

The only game I've enjoyed at HDR was a port from a console, Returnal. The use of HDR brights was minimalistic and tasteful, often reserved for certain particle effects.
by dan_goosewin | 2025-05-14 14:22:39+00:00
> Neon is valued at $1B;

Neon is still early‑stage and, AFAIK, not profitable. It’s a perfect snapshot of 2025: anything that’s (1) serverless, and (2) even vaguely AI‑adjacent is trading at a multiple nobody would have believed two years ago. Also supports my hypothesis that the next 12 months will be filled with cash acquisitions.

> Databricks will ruin Neon;

I certainly hope not. Focus on DX, friendly free tier, and community support is what made it special. If that vanishes behind Databricks’ enterprise guardrails, the goodwill will vanish with it.
by bombcar | 2025-05-14 14:23:13+00:00
So many of the "high school" books would be much, much better read if the message was emblazoned on the cover.

I don't even care if people agree what the book says, I just needed something to look for, because most of them were completely ignorable or outright infuriating.

At least today's kids can have an AI or YouTube video explain what the teacher wants to hear so they can move on to doing something interesting.
by sylm | 2025-05-14 14:23:29+00:00
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by perihelions | 2025-05-14 14:23:46+00:00
A couple other threads (on Project Iceworm and its tunnels),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262547 ("NASA aircraft uncover Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet (space.com)"—42 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249801 ("California scientists accidentally find nuclear fever dream in Arctic snow (sfgate.com)"—4 commments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374013 ("The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago (atlasobscura.com)" (2021)—152 comments)
by observationist | 2025-05-14 14:23:59+00:00
And unicorns shit rainbows, and we're all going to win the lottery tomorrow.

Nothing google does is in good faith. They're a corporation - a bundle of regulations, laws, rules, and incentives executed on a mixed substrate of human brains and digital computers, beyond the control and sensibilities that govern individual rationality, seeking to maximize profit. If it's not illegal, they'll do it, and if it is illegal, they'll still do it if the penalty is less than the profit.

We have to stop pretending corporations are people. We have to stop pretending like CEOs can affect what these companies do - the only way to restrain them is laws with teeth. If you want CEOs to behave, enforce laws that come with jail time and lost fortunes. Otherwise, this is what we live with.
by TonyTrapp | 2025-05-14 14:24:16+00:00
Reminds me of DHL parcel lockers in Germany. The new ones don't have a screen anymore, so you are forced to use their app to use the locker, which somehow requires both a working bluetooth connection to communicate with the locker, AND you need a working internet connection on your phone. What's the point of that?! The parcel locker evidently already has a working internet connection, that should be enough.