MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bawolff | 2025-06-12 22:11:57+00:00
You should stop viewing it as a tech start up and view it more as a physics experiment.

In some ways it is similar to fusion. People have been working on it for a long time. The benefits are potentially significant (shor is cute and all but really the big deal would be a cheap way to simulate other quantum systems) but the challenges are also significant. Real progress is being. Things that were super challanging 10 years ago are solved now. The field is advancing. But we still have a long way to go.

It is not a scam itself, but a lot of scammers use the language of quantum to sell their scams. You should treat anyone convincing you that they will have a useful quantum computer in the next 5 years the same way as someone offering you a fusion reactor (i.e. full of shit).

Its still a worthwhile pursuit, even just as a physics experiment. It pushes the "weirdness" of quantum physics to the limit - by literally disproving the extended church turing thesis. If we make a real quantum computer - that is proof that quantum physics is really how are world works. Its not just something else that is being misinterpreted.
by KwanEsq | 2025-06-12 22:12:17+00:00
Yeah audio CDs do (or at least can) carry those bare bones of metadata, which can be used by some CD players with built-in displays to display the currently playing track title etc.

It's defined by the CD-Text extension[0] to the Red Book standard.

I think classical releases probably make greater use of it to encode things like composer and arranger, since they are more important to that audience, but for the average popular music release you're only going to get the artist and title, and maybe the ISRC that few are going to care about/display anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-06-12 22:13:05+00:00
My 2017 Focus ST still has a CD player with CD text, and I actually do listen to music on CD in it, the bluetooth quality is noticeably worse for whatever reason. I got my first iPod in about 2007 in middle school, and I only ever had about 10-20 CDs growing up, but I started getting into CDs about a year ago. It seems like there is a minor resurgence now that vinyl is expensive, since CDs still cost the same as they ever did, and a lot of them are cheaper even without inflation. I picked up a copy of Pretty Hate Machine at a Walmart for $8 the other day.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-06-12 22:13:19+00:00
Interesting. Seems antithetical to the 'git centered' view of being for source code only (mostly)

I think I read somewhere that game dev teams would also check in the actual compiler binary and things of that nature into version control.

Usually it's considered "bad practice" when you see, like, and entire sysroot of shared libs in a git repository.

I don't even have any feeling one way or another. Even today "vendoring" cpp libraries (typically as source) isn't exactly rare. I'm not even sure if this is always a "bad" thing in other languages. Everyone just seems to have decided that relying on a/the package manager and some sort of external store is the Right Way. In some sense, it's harder to make the case for that.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-12 22:13:39+00:00
I thought it was explained well enough in the previous reply, but to break it down:

The ability to live on other planets and in freefloating crafts does a few things. First, it cracks open access to vast amounts of resources to support populations and allows many environmentally detrimental processes to be moved away from Earth. Second, it gives infinite space to expand into. Third, it opens up a permanently available frontier for the most resetless individuals to pursue, acting as a societal pressure release valve that enhances stability. More people means more artists, philosphers, scientists, researchers, etc, which naturally means both a greater quantity and wider variety of art and science being pursued, meaning more ideas and more problems solved. By contrast, staying bound to Earth puts a hard cap on everything (especially if sustainability, which necessitates a much more limited existence, is a goal).

Hopefully somebody else can express it more eloquently, but that’s the general idea.
by blueflow | 2025-06-12 22:13:46+00:00
> ssh chooses to unquote the string > splitting it into two parts

wrong, ssh does no argument splitting

> then running the program echo

wrong, it passes the string to the users login shell, whatever program that is. See sshd(8).

> The fact it does this via a separate program is irrelevant

just gently caress yourself.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-06-12 22:14:08+00:00
This. Didn't Denmark try this before and fail? Didn't some German town do this and went back?

It's also file compatibility.

But yes, the big thing is AD. AD has been out since 2000 and was/is the standard. If you have/had AD and Group policy you move to AAD and Intune for cloud. There is no competitor to this. Zero.
by keybored | 2025-06-12 22:15:02+00:00
> Yes, and the parent's answer to this was "allies of Western governments are also morally inferior". But I never said that allies of Western governments should have cyber weapons, nor did I make any claims on their moral status. Hence parent's comment not addressing anything I said.

First they said that the West did a coup against the Iranian government. Hence according to them they are not morally superior (or rather: “Who’s the evil one again”). That directly addresses your claim.

Then they also went into the bonus topic of arguing that the US doesn’t even make their allies based on who is “moral”, further but more indirectly undermining the shining city on the hill argument.
by brailsafe | 2025-06-12 22:15:18+00:00
> I'm sure phones are just as stimulating for some. We all have our vices.

Hard agree, and yes we have our vices, but wouldn't life be better if we had more agency over them?

My phone is overwhelmingly a detriment to my life, it's just disguised as a necessary utility by doing the same things I could do anyway if I didn't have it. It's not never uniquely valuable to me, but those rare signals don't need to be tightly coupled with so so so much noise.

The big one for me lately is the aptly named tethering. It's wild that it's not just built into my mac at this point, if it weren't for that, (maybe 2Fa as well) I'd leave the phone at home so often I'd probably forget about it, and I long for that future.
by wnorris510 | 2025-06-12 22:15:21+00:00
Our app uses LiDAR for portion and is a lot more accurate than ChatGPT, ChatGPT doesn't have access to LiDAR and is less accurate.

Our app is free to use the most accurate model, ChatGPT is paid for the most accurate model and has usage limits.

Our app plots your data on nice charts and has visuals specific to understanding your data over time visually (e.g. how has my sodium intake been changing day over day or what has my average weekly caloric intake been when deducting active calories from fitness trackers).

Our app integrates with Apple Health and soon will integrate with Android Fit so you can export your data to other apps, share with health professionals, etc.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-06-12 22:15:39+00:00
>Half the team runs Linux, and the only real constraint is using Edge for SSO. (Firefox works too - you just have to actually log in like it's 2008.)

So everything in the backend is still MS? Office 365, Intune, the full stack? That is the point of the comment you are rerplying to.

The "terminals" dont matter that much if the goal is to get rid of MS dependancy and they run Office 365... whats the point.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-06-12 22:15:41+00:00
> VCS + Nuget: half the things are in the VCS, you checkout the project and then you have to hunt down a bunch of packages from a separate thing

Oh, and there's things like x509/proxy/whatever errors when on a corpo machine that has ZScaler or some such, so you have to use internal Artifactory/thing but that doesn't have the version you need or you need permissions to access so.. and etc etc.
Show HN: GratefulTime - a modern open-source gratitude journal (iOS & macOS)
by eszhd | 2025-06-12 22:16:17+00:00
I’ve been building GratefulTime over the past month while learning mobile development for iOS.

It’s a minimalist gratitude journal, focused on privacy, clarity, and consistency

Key features:

- Daily notifications based on preferred time and time zone

- Entry of three gratitude items + a writing prompt

- Calendar view for browsing and reviewing past entries

- Adjustable settings for unlock time and time zone

- AI-generated monthly summaries of your gratitude entries

Built with:

- Frontend: React Native (Expo)

- Backend: Python (Flask) + PostgreSQL

Fully open source at https://github.com/eesazahed/gratefulness-mobile

Screenshots & more: https://gratefultime.app

Let me know your thoughts or questions
by realityfactchex | 2025-06-12 22:17:18+00:00
Really, it exists?

Please, if anyone can name or link just one such tool that actually satisfies what I described, I would be very appreciative.

I think the closest I've seen is Aider or even ChatGPT, but I don't think they actually meet these requirements.

As far as I have seen, to correctly make anything above some moderate threshold of complexity has the LLMs or even LLM-system requiring a human in the loop.

I am willing to put in the work. Please nudge me toward what to explore more, if you really think what I wrote exists as described. I am very eager to explore more. I know to do it. Point me there. Thank you, really.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-12 22:17:53+00:00
I don't wish to kill off anyone, because I think individual rights trump peace.

Based on the population over/under killing off all of Gaza seems to be the most peaceful solution. Israel would work but it has a bigger population, and only one side or the other would have to be eliminated to achieve gaza-israel peace in that conflict.

Of course we don't have any real say in the matter. They're being starved to death as we speak, and once they all perish I don't think they'll be able to defend themselves or engage in hostilities.
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-12 22:18:00+00:00
This is a bit too heavy on the feature side. As in, here is what this is, not what it will do for you.

What would you say if you were going to focus on a pain point and a problem that this specifically solved for you, that it can also solve for the other lawyers who are not using this and that is not being met by the other options?
by brailsafe | 2025-06-12 22:18:31+00:00
Yep, this is pretty much the process I had in mind for going about it, and yes all the other variables are conveniently in place. I have a lot of respect for nature, mountains, and difficult potentially dangerous recreational sports, so I don't mean to trivialize the endeavor. I should have articulated the thought in a slightly different way, such that I meant something more akin to "One of the things I'd like to pursue is outdoor climbing, but I have a sense of the path to doing that, it's not as much of a mystery as this other thing"
by lipowitz | 2025-06-12 22:19:37+00:00
Nothing I bought in the produce aisle today had instructions for use. Should I leave it to rot?

AOSP recipes themselves list reference devices and they could have updated this with their announcement in March if they didn't want external developers procuring these things as bricks for their gardens. GrapheneOS is just a community of a AOSP derivative there are any number of AOSP derived things people may have been doing with these devices.
by ogurechny | 2025-06-12 22:20:38+00:00
Sure, that has been done since the late '90s release of the source code, both by converting visible objects to triangles to be drawn by the accelerator (glDoom, DoomGL), or by transplanting game data and mechanics code into an existing 3D engine (Vavoom used recently open-sourced Quake).

However, proper recreation of the original graphics would require shaders and much more modern extensive and programmable pipelines, while the relaxed artistic attitude (or just contemporary technical limitations) unfortunately resulted in trashy y2k amateur 3D shooter look. Leaving certain parts to software meant that CPU had to do most of the same things once again. Also, 3D engines were seen as a base for exciting new features (arbitrary 3D models, complex lighting, free camera, post-processing effects, etc.), so the focus shifted in that direction.

In general, CPU performance growth meant that most PCs could run most Doom levels without any help from the video card. (Obviously, map makers rarely wanted to work on something that was too heavy for their systems, so the complexity was also limited by practical reasons.) 3D rendering performance (in non-GZDoom ports) was boosted occasionally to enable some complex geometry or mapping tricks in popular releases, but there was little real pressure to use acceleration. On the other hand, the linear growth of single core performance has stopped long ago, while the urges of map makers haven't, so there might be some need for “real” complete GPU-based rendering.
by rendx | 2025-06-12 22:20:49+00:00
Exactly? I agree that identity is a fuzzy construct which includes socially constructed elements, and is not a fundamental "thing" that can be observed externally and then named "identity". I disagree that it is therefore "fiction"; as a concept, it is very real? My point was that I don't see how you can claim that identity is nonexistent ("lack of identity"), since the moment I use the term, I "create" and "have" it; it is a flexible enough umbrella to include the distributed system of my body, since I cannot exist separately from it? What "belongs to me" contributes to my identity.

To pick one possible simple and broad definition from WP, "Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, or expressions that characterize a person or a group." -- you made it sound like that set is empty, which doesn't make sense to me. My identity is part of "I". Every being has an identity; it's not something you can get rid of?
by zahlman | 2025-06-12 22:21:09+00:00
Back when I was a lad, we called that a "web site". And a "computer program" was something that just ran on your local device (which was almost certainly a desktop computer), using its CPU, and directly gave you what you wanted, no network required.

And if it used a GUI at all, it implemented its own GUI directly using the API provided by the OS (or some library built on that; originally quite obnoxiously thin ones, but nowadays you can get some very nice abstractions). It didn't delegate HTML or CSS rendering to a web rendering engine, because those basically didn't even exist outside an actual dedicated web browser. Nor did it express the GUI layout in those terms at any point; it was expressed in terms of widgets again defined by whatever SDK, specifically for the purpose of creating GUIs - not hacks on top of the hypertext model.

You know, much like what had to be done to make the ROMs in the first place (although using SDKs oriented around receiving input from a controller, rather than a mouse and keyboard; and around displaying things like scrolling tile grids rather than movable windows).

(And it turns out it's still completely possible to make things this way, and I still do.)
Show HN: Testimo – Get client feedback without awkward follow-ups
by Usef | 2025-06-12 22:21:14+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm a 16-year-old indie hacker building small tools for freelancers.

I recently launched Testimo – a simple tool that helps freelancers collect feedback from clients without awkwardly chasing them or getting ghosted.

The process is dead simple:

Send a clean feedback page link to your client

They answer a few guided questions

You get a testimonial you can reuse anywhere

I built this after being ghosted by clients myself after finishing freelance video editing projects – wanted to make the process feel more natural and automated.

I’d love feedback on:

The landing page: https://www.usetestimo.xyz

Is the value clear?

What would make you try it?

Thanks in advance!
by panick21_ | 2025-06-12 22:21:24+00:00
And what would having millions of cheap phones meant for Mozilla? Not much if you ask me. Basically just Indian and Chinese ultra cheap phones that pay very little back and do little development.

Chrome might have only had a third of the market, but anybody around at the time could see that this was only a matter of time. Chrome was just better in so many ways. Mozilla needed to buckle down and focus all their engineer on the browser.
by wnorris510 | 2025-06-12 22:21:39+00:00
We published in the top conference of computer vision a peer reviewed study of our accuracy. On average we are twice the accuracy of a professional nutritionist. The product is free to try. If you're not happy with the accuracy, don't pay! We have around half a million people each month coming to our app and a vast majority stick around and are happy with the results.

If there's something we missed on your food shoot me a DM, I'd love to dig in.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-12 22:21:50+00:00
> it cracks open access to vast amounts of resources to support populations and allows many environmentally detrimental processes to be moved away from Earth

What resources? What "environmentally detrimental processes" actually possibly justify expending the energy required to leave and re-enter earth orbit?

Sorry but I've looked into this, and unless you can provide specific examples I haven't encountered (none of which make sense mathematically), you're just sharing sci-fi vignettes.

And in any case, none of this requires manned space flight.

> Second, it gives infinite space to expand into.

We are nowhere near any constraint on physical space on earth and we will not be near this constraint any time in the near, medium, or even far future.

> Third, it opens up a permanently available frontier for the most resetless individuals to pursue, acting as a societal pressure release valve that enhances stability.

Do you have any evidence for this claim?

> By contrast, staying bound to Earth puts a hard cap on everything.

A cap that we are absolutely nowhere near hitting and that continues to get pushed further away with every dollar spent on technological investment on earth, which space-fetish dollars pull from.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-12 22:23:44+00:00
Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available therein

However, words are words but software is better:

- https://github.com/vmware/open-vmdk#specifications is Apache 2

- the link they cited is bitrotten but Internet Archive has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411181842/https://www.vmwar...

1: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf
by xg15 | 2025-06-12 22:23:50+00:00
Sounds like "No, AOSP is not dead. You can still run it in an emulator if you want. Have fun..."

> For years, developers have been building Cuttlefish (available on GitHub as the reference device for AOSP) and GSI targets from source. We continue to make those available for testing and development purposes.

I'm a complete noob regarding AOSP, but if someone with more knowledge of the ecosystem reads this: Are those alternative reference targets actually useful for custom ROMs and would allow updating roms for Android 16 on Pixels as well, or is this a smokescreen?
by thwarted | 2025-06-12 22:23:52+00:00
The MFA is getting out of control too. Go to vendor's tool/website, which uses some SSO method and redirects/prompts me to login with the SSO provider. Authenticate to SSO providers, which requires an MFA. Redirects me back to the vendor's tool/website, which prompts for its own MFA. And the vendor's tool's configuration has a security setting that requires all accounts to have MFA, even if they are authenticated via other means.
by hluska | 2025-06-12 22:24:27+00:00
She->her (like everything in English) makes a lot more sense if you start in the roots of English. She was “hio” or “heo” and her was “hire”. By the 13th century, the pronunciations of he and heo had converged and become synonyms so “she” was introduced.

She shares a letter with seo, which was the root of both he and heo.

Simple pattern matching really can’t work in English - the roots are way too messy. And it’s absolutely amazing that people can become reasonably fluent if they only start learning as adults.
by philsnow | 2025-06-12 22:24:32+00:00
I pine for a DSL for legal documents, both because it’s tedious and tiresome to parse prose like this:

> Except for persons who manufacture, process, produce, or initially transfer for sale or distribution self-luminous products containing tritium, krypton-85, or promethium-147, and except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, any person is exempt from the requirements for a license set forth in section 81 of the Act and from the regulations in parts 20 and 30 through 36 and 39 of this chapter to the extent that such person receives, possesses, uses, transfers, owns, or acquires tritium, krypton-85, or promethium-147 in self-luminous products manufactured, processed, produced, or initially transferred in accordance with a specific license issued pursuant to § 32.22 of this chapter, which license authorizes the initial transfer of the product for use under this section.

... and also because it is ambiguous / error-prone / subject to interpretation, especially when figuring out antecedents of pronouns, referents, and textual boundaries.

I tried four times to read the above by paragraph without reformatting it with some parentheses etc, but failed.
by juancampa | 2025-06-12 22:24:54+00:00
This quote about New Horizons is puzzling

> The New Horizons spacecraft [...] reached Pluto in 2016 and is currently exploring other distant features of the system [...]. Keeping it running today by receiving its transmitted data and making sure it remains on course costs about $14.7 million a year, or less than 2% of its total price tag.

Does anyone know why this would be so expensive? A slice of Deep Space Network time must be expensive but it still sounds like an outrageous figure to me.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-12 22:26:29+00:00
You just need to switch of job, if you don’t feel rewarded when doing it then it’s just not the right fit for you. And even then, something fun can become boring later on.

I know electricians for instance who love doing their stuff, so they have no issue in being motivated, while they were a mess in their previous work field.

And vice versa.

It’s not always possible of course, but the solution is not to ‘gameify’ your life, it will only work for a little while before getting bored of it.

And for the « home » task, I believe it’s more of a routine. If you know every Saturday morning will be to clean the whole house, you just do it without thinking much.
by pvillano | 2025-06-12 22:26:51+00:00
The minimum you can do is not allow the AI to perform actions on behalf of the user without informed consent.

That still doesn't prevent spam mail from convincing the LLM to suggest an attacker controlled library, GitHub action, password manager, payment processor, etc. No links required.

The best you could do is not allow the LLM to ingest untrusted input.
by mihaaly | 2025-06-12 22:27:02+00:00
There are combination of frequencies, tempo, volume, shortly specific music that acts as psychotropic agent on me, altering the way my mind works for the duration of the song. I am the type laughing at trance and meditation and other hyped-in-certain-circles blabla, but what I feel then may be something related.

"Music is to me proof of the existence of god It is so extraordinarily full of magic And, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference" - 1 Giant Leap - Daphne
by bigyabai | 2025-06-12 22:27:22+00:00
> Last week I propped my phone on the breakfast table, opened ChatGPT’s voice mode (just updated to be more lifelike), and introduced it to my kindergartener.

I don't care what happens next, you are inviting disaster here. Absolute trainwreck idea and whatever blood you spill is on your hands, not OpenAI's. And I say that as a Sam Altman detractor.