MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voidUpdate | 2025-05-16 10:51:27+00:00
I really dislike using ANC because of that feeling of pressure on my ears, and the increased battery usage. Annoyingly, my main headphones (Bose QC 35 II) default to it being on at power-on, and the app doesn't let you turn that off, only reassign the action button to toggle between high, low and off, so every time I turn them on I have to click it twice
by pjmlp | 2025-05-16 10:52:00+00:00
Almost two decades predating it, and sadly no OS vendor picked up on it.

Many people forget C++ is a C sibling, born at AT&T on the same building UNIX and C were being handled, thus it was quite an easy win for C compiler vendors, to add C++ support to their toolchains.

Note that Objective-C also never made it outside NeXT, GNUStep was never that good clone, and had it not been for Apple's acquision and success, maybe we would no longer speak about it.

When Facebook or Remedy Games played with D, we hoped it would somehow improve adoption, that was never the case, and both companies no longer use D.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-05-16 10:52:14+00:00
You need billions to cover multiple cells, you don't need many for a cell.

The counterintuitive part is how fast thermal motion is relative to the size of dna.

In body temperature water, the thermal velocity of water molecules jostling around everything is ~600m/s. The nucleus of a human cell is ~6µm in diameter. That is, your average water molecule bounces around at a speed that makes it move from one end of the nucleus to another roughly 100 million times per second.

Larger molecules move more slowly, but they still zip around fast enough that nothing needs to "seek" to a specific position in a cell to get there, everything will touch everything just from thermal random walk in a very short time. So how biology works is that inside the cell there might be just one messenger, which will have to hit a specific piece of dna just right in order to do anything, but that's still nearly instantaneous from our perspective.
by mchusma | 2025-05-16 10:52:17+00:00
my thoughts on the email design: - Comparison is strange. One email has an image, the other text. Not the same email. - Hiding the previous parts of the thread seem good by default, but how do you easily get them back? - Where is "from" in new design? - Where is "to" in new design? - I do like expanding attachment a bit so you don't have to click twice to attach a photo (for example), but I'm not sure how often some of those options are used, may be too much. I could see a photo icon and general attach icon both showing. - Back arrow looks broken in new design.
by vidarh | 2025-05-16 10:52:28+00:00
They've written most of the recent iterations of X11 bindings for Ruby, including a complete, working example of a systray for me.

They also added the first pass of multi-monitor support for my WM while I was using it (restarted it repeatedly while Claude Code worked, in the same X session the terminal it was working in was running).

You do need to reign them back in, sure, but they can often go multiple iterations before they're ready to make changes to your files once you've approved safe tool uses etc.
by zachrip | 2025-05-16 10:52:29+00:00
People are using tools like cursor for "vibe coding" - I've found the canvas in chatgpt to be very buggy and it often breaks its own code and I have to babysit it a lot. But in cursor the same model will perform just fine. So it's not necessarily just the model that matters, it's how it's used. One thing people conflate a lot is chatgpt the product vs gpt models themselves.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-16 10:52:50+00:00
If you're kidnapping a generic very rich person, how are you expecting them to pay the ransom, a big burlap sack of cash? There's a lot that can go wrong there. A bank transfer or other conventional financial instrument? Few criminals would be comfortable with that approach. (John Grisham novels, and 'Archer's beloved bearer bonds, aside, it's virtually impossible to make this untraceable). Magic internet money is presumably far less messy.

Also, a decent proportion of crypto-millionaires came by their riches in... not entirely above-board ways (in particular, securities fraud; all those pump and dump scamcoins are paying off for _someone_), and may be reluctant to involve the authorities. And the crypto industry as a whole is unusually comfortable with extortion; hacked crypto companies paying a kind of bounty to hackers to get the rest of the funds back is a common thing.
by nottorp | 2025-05-16 10:52:58+00:00
Heh, I skimmed through the docs. It looks like it's extra work on the merchant's end to enable it.

So someone like BackerKit just didn't bother catering to EU customers.

Plus I saw a chapter about "reducing friction" in the Stripe docs. Via such honest practices as charging automatically after a free trial if the customer has a credit card on file? This has been discussed on HN recently wrt to i-forget-what-service.

I suppose not requiring the extra 3d secure step is also "reducing friction".
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-16 10:53:06+00:00
Definitely not soon, there's a lot of conditions at the moment for this to be applicable (from what I gather, I'm no expert, just a HN commenter), and well before wholesale gene editing is a thing there will be the legal aspect.

I mean the precursor to gene editing is selective breeding, which on humans quickly leads to eugenics.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-16 10:53:37+00:00
The "we're doing so bad at preventing murder and not just white people are dying" is the worst defensive I've ever seen. It makes the numbers sus at best. How many murders go undiscovered when police are doing that bad of a job?

How many murders go undiscovered because police cant safely enter an area? The numbers are much worse than reported and when that's happening, that's usually a genocide.
by stringsandchars | 2025-05-16 10:53:40+00:00
> Crypto isn’t synonymous with anarchy, just like the internet isn’t synonymous with pornography. Both are cliches from long ago.

Saying crypto isn’t synonymous with anarchy, like the internet isn’t with pornography, sidesteps the point. Pornography is just one use of the internet — not its central purpose.

But crypto wasn’t just built to host financial activity — it was designed to restructure it, removing reliance on central authorities. That core intent isn’t a cliché; it’s a defining feature.

Comparing it to incidental internet content is a rhetorical deflection, not a real counterpoint.
by shakna | 2025-05-16 10:54:32+00:00
The loop most definitely exists. It's rather odd you're not seeing it. Everything I can use to talk to the server gets the 301/302 redirects.

Using yet another machine and curl:

curl -vvv --insecure https://spacejam.com < HTTP/2 301 < date: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:45:08 GMT < content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < content-length: 233 < location: https://www.spacejam.com/ < server: nginx < cache-control: max-age=600 < expires: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:51:34 GMT < <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.spacejam.com/">here</a>.</p> </body></html> ... \* Connection #0 to host www.spacejamanewlegacy.net left intact curl -vvv --insecure www.spacejamanewlegacy.net < HTTP/1.1 302 Found < Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:46:53 GMT < Server: Apache/2.4.62 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips < X-Powered-By: PHP/8.0.30 < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000 < Upgrade: h2,h2c < Connection: Upgrade < Location: https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 \* Connection #0 to host www.spacejam.com left intact
by margorczynski | 2025-05-16 10:56:02+00:00
When it comes to UX I find it that even when it's good it will eventually get broken because the people responsible for it need to come up with new ideas to show they're needed.

I guess the failure doesn't lie so much with the peons (designers, product people, etc.) as with maligned goals, metrics and management. Change for the sake of change and as we know any change when you're near the maximum means it getting worse.
by russellbeattie | 2025-05-16 10:57:43+00:00
LOL.

You're criticizing a satirical book excerpt written by Mark Twain in the middle of the 19th century. It is not meant in any way to be taken seriously, nor does it reflect modern American culture as a whole. Around 70 million Americans speak a second language.

The reason we're talking about it ~150 years later is because it resonates with anyone who has tried to learn a second language, especially one as complex as German.

You might want to keep your pompous kneejerk anti-American sentiment in check until you educate yourself a bit more.
by cometapi | 2025-05-16 10:58:17+00:00
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by umanwizard | 2025-05-16 10:58:23+00:00
True, but for what it’s worth the rulings of the French Academy are usually widely ignored. You would be hard-pressed to find a French person who says “courriel” for e-mail.

Some of the French neologisms instead of English words are more popular in Quebec (but on the other hand, Quebecers also use a huge amount of English loanwords that French people don’t).
by ur-whale | 2025-05-16 10:58:32+00:00
> everything Twain rants about here we attribute to French

The part where you have to have the equivalent of a LIFO stack in your brain, piling stuff up and praying you won't overflow, until the effing verb finally shows up and deigns informing you of what is actually happening in the sentence, well that is not, I believe an attribute of French, and definitely specific to German (I believe Japanese has that to a certain extent has well).
by lupusreal | 2025-05-16 11:00:00+00:00
Unless I understand compression all wrong, isn't the point to make the quiet parts loud? So in one case you have a song peaking at 102dB and in the other case virtually the entire song is that loud.

It's already known that hearing damage is cumulative, longer exposure to loudness is bad, so it seems like a common sense result in line with all existing research.
by stringsandchars | 2025-05-16 11:00:01+00:00
> You're right that it does seem extremely callous and is honestly a disturbing mindset to have. Hopefully you never experience terror like the victims of the last few months in France experienced in your life.

Thanks for the tone-policing. But instead of implicitly suggesting that my mindset or tone is inappropriate, it would be great if we discussed the substance of the points.
by kuschku | 2025-05-16 11:01:31+00:00
> First of all, it is not German, but Old English, which is not particularly more similar to German than it is to any other Germanic language e.g. Icelandic.

While English is changing relatively quickly, German isn't. Children today read original texts from the Gutenberg era in school without any trouble.

Where I grew up, we actually read some old english texts in school. It was hard, but certainly doable, using just our knowledge of modern German and English and the local dialects (north frisian and low german).
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-16 11:02:13+00:00
Your point is merely a non sequitur: a change in banking isn’t related to paying taxes or the state as a whole, nor anarchy.

You’re not supporting your central thesis that disintermediating finance is in any way related to removing government — and people using Coinbase, a service that is centralized and does collaborate with government regulation seems to directly counter your stereotype of the customers.

Their point is correct: people who match your fantasy wouldn’t be Coinbase customers — you’re relying on old tropes.
by derbOac | 2025-05-16 11:02:31+00:00
> reflect whatever they think the bulk of their consumer base supports.

I've been trying to put my finger on what seems so strange to me and I think this is it in part.

Someplace like the US is pretty heterogeneous, and their customers' attitudes aren't going to change overnight.

I'm not naive about why some companies do what they do. What's strange to me is the speed with which some of these changes were made, and neglecting their particular customer base, which they might have built up for a long time.

In some of these cases, fear of legal persecution, maybe based on inside information, makes much more sense to me than following trends. I guess you could argue they are the same thing, to which I'd say I think that's true at one level but not at another functional level.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-16 11:03:22+00:00
Most genetic diseases only occur when two parents happen to have it, but they won't necessarily be aware of it; would it be unethical for people who are unaware of their genetic defects to have children?

Second, according to a quick search, 10% of cases of Huntington's Disease are due to new mutations; I suspect (but I'm a HN commenter, no geneticist) this is the case for many other genetic conditions.

So the other ethics question to ask: should people be able to get DNA tests for genetic conditions (voluntary)? I'd say yes. Should people be mandated to get DNA tests and be forbidden to procreate if there's something in there? No, that's eugenics. Should people who know they have a genetic condition and there's a chance their child has it too have children? That'd be their choice. I don't think it's fair for people to intentionally place a burden on health care systems like that, but thing is, there's very, very few people that have children with that as the intent.
by mjburgess | 2025-05-16 11:03:38+00:00
That's not what it was designed for, that's just a mixture of propaganda and confusion.

It was designed to solve the double-spending problem with digital currencies, replacing the need for "a authoritative ledger" with a one difficult to forge.

The political project around this was to provide people with a deflationary currency akin to gold, whose inflation could not be controlled by government.

The lack of government control over the inflation of this particular currency, and the lack of an authoritative ledger, are an extremely minimal sense of currency protections (, freedoms). They have as much to do with anarchy as the internet had with porn.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-05-16 11:04:23+00:00
Ear fatigue is a real thing. No surprise deliberate listeners also are generally more interested in higher dynamic range material (speaking of loudness here, not encoding).

It's much easier to deliver reasonably dynamic masters nowadays than, say, 10 years ago, but the fight is still not over. Loudness normalization is still inconsistent between streaming platforms and one lagging/idiosyncratic actor (usually some smaller, locally-important one) can spoil the impression, breaking uniform listening experience, and force an author to reconsider what loudness and dynamic range they aim for.
by watwut | 2025-05-16 11:04:53+00:00
> I think this, not because I know anything about that time back then, but because I learned in the last decades how heavily the perception or meaning of words can change.

Yes, but did you considered that original meaning could have been, roughly, "getting wasted and going to strip club"? That is how I have seen it being used in older books I read. It was not meant to be about women, it was meant to be about certain kind of men, certain kind of partying and lifestyle.

>What I want to say with all that: we are almost unable to comprehend how people back then thought, talked and meant the stuff, they said back then. Because we are pretty much blinded by our own current perception and moral of things.

We can get some idea tho, we are not completely helpless here. When you are making an assumption that it was positive, you are being heavily influenced by how you want it to be. Not even being influence by what it might mean today (fun sentence that means nothing), but by how you want the past people to be.

Reinterpreting past so that it appears more positive then it was is equally incorrect. And it is a bit me pet peeve, because it is frequently used to discount actually factually correct statements about history. It is used to make it sound more conforming to our norms then it actually was in practice.

> This is what you learned and interpreted about that phrase and time. For me this is a possible situation you describe, but there are also very different situations, where this phrase could come from. In my social circles, the word "Weib" was used in a very endearing, appreciative way towards women.

That is todays interpretation word and also of women breaking past social mores. In todays movies, a 19 century woman smoking cigarettes is cool. Because it is always an emancipated strong character dealing with tough guys.

But back then, women smoking cigarettes were scandal and looked down on by polite society. They were not emancipated, they were outcasts with all disadvantages that it brings.
by Ukv | 2025-05-16 11:04:57+00:00
> > There is no bright line [...]

> Except for, you know, being able to spend it where you buy things? [...]

The extent to which you can use it to buy things is a good metric, but I think that comes in varying degrees rather than being a sharp line or binary true/false. There are at least some things you can buy with cryptocurrency, and arguably there are some forms of "regular" (fiat, national, government-issued) money that aren't very widely accepted.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-05-16 11:05:54+00:00
These don't increase usability much for me.

Since long ago and still now, I had good ideas for usability (self-judged) and would have loved to have worked on them at Google to beat iOS perhaps. But their leetcode interviews (for SWE, not design) completely barred me from stepping foot in and being able to suggest changes.

Perhaps I'm just another soul who thinks they have valuable ideas. But this makes me wonder how many people with impactful ideas they've passed up on because they didn't fit into their leetcode-shaped prototype.
by agumonkey | 2025-05-16 11:06:29+00:00
Depends on how deep you want the belief to be, but a lot of people will hold weird beliefs. I've seen colleagues express so much pride, joy and pleasure for things that I consider bogus at best (and totally detrimental if I'm being harsh), so I wouldn't be surprised people who live in UX land to be in that kind of bubble. The worst part to me .. is the blend of cutesy-butterfly projects with "scientific study" practices. So now they have stats on how their emotion framework is the best for the future.
by umanwizard | 2025-05-16 11:07:21+00:00
> I do think English has deviated more from its Germanic roots

That’s fair, but so have German and many other Germanic languages. For example, Proto-Germanic had six cases whereas German only has four (and colloquially spoken German mostly only has three). Dutch has only vestigial remnants of a case system and Afrikaans has none at all.
by tomhow | 2025-05-16 11:09:23+00:00
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by oezi | 2025-05-16 11:10:12+00:00
I wish multimodal would imply text, image and audio (+potentially video). If a model supports only image generation or image analysis, vision model seems the more appropriate term.

We should aim to distinguish multimodal modals such as Qwen2.5-Omni from Qwen2.5-VL.

In this sense: Ollama's new engine adds vision support.
by leejo | 2025-05-16 11:12:02+00:00
The "d" in 3d means "domain", so three domains: the merchant, the card issuing bank, and the card scheme(s). The first two have to opt-in to the process for it to be enabled, and most (all?) card issuing banks already have so it's down to the merchant.

Not all merchants will opt-in to 3d Secure as they might see a greater loss in revenue due to the friction it creates versus the risk. They might be taking payments in a low risk sector and use other fraud checking factors, or it might not make sense for them - examples where you end up having to produce the same card in person anyway so "card not present" fraud doesn't factor in so much.

Some merchants don't opt-in as it would lose them millions of dollars of payments an hour due to the friction: Amazon for example.

I worked on the 3d Secure (and, formally, "Verified by Visa") integration at my previous job, and for a long time I was thinking I should write a blog post on what a complete mess of a protocol and implementation it [still] is. Haven't ever gotten around to that though.
by umanwizard | 2025-05-16 11:12:38+00:00
> we actually read some old english texts in school

How old? “Old English” is a term of art meaning the language exemplified e.g. by Beowulf or the writings of Aelfric, which I would be very impressed if you could read without special study, so perhaps you meant Middle English or Early Modern English.

As an example, the beginning of Beowulf reads: “Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.”

Middle English is the language of Chaucer and Early Modern English that of Shakespeare.

As a native English speaker (who can also read German at an intermediate level), I can read Shakespeare with some difficulty (relying on the copious footnotes that modern editions are peppered with), Chaucer with extreme difficulty, and Beowulf not at all.
by culebron21 | 2025-05-16 11:13:22+00:00
I had no troubles with the things Twain laments. You can rather quickly learn (but not internalize) the rules, which are exactly the same as in other Indo-European languages. Compound past tense as in Romance languages. Declination like in Slavic, and in Instrumental case the ending is almost the same!

The biggest trouble nowadays with learning German is that all textbooks are DUMB and don't give enough practice. Basically they're tests on steroids. This is not the way you can internalize the grammar. You may know the rules, but still unable to use them correctly when speaking or writing.

All the books are shiny, with lots of drawings, photos, bells and whistles, even media content over an app, etc. But, as said, none of them contains enough excercise to practice grammar. Over last 6 years that I did an effort, I've never seen a textbook step away from this format.

Teaching by Goethe Institut is equally awful: most time you excercise by inserting just one word in a sentence spellt for you. When finally you reach speaking at length and not to the given pattern, everything falls apart, and you're told off: "oh, so many mistakes, go repeat the grammar rules." (No wonder most students choose the strategy to just speak at the kindergarten level. Das Bau ist grün. Berlin ist die Haupstadt Deutschlands. Ich möchte in einem Vorstadthaus leben.)

Germans! Admit, you conspired together to not let us learn your precious language!