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by xdfgh1112 | 2025-06-29 10:33:21+00:00
I've lived in Japan for a while and got N1 a decade ago and I still love using it every day and don't take it for granted. It's kind of like flying on a plane. It always seems amazing to me, that I am doing this. I started as 28 and always thought it would be impossible.

It is funny that at the start literally everyone is interesting, even the most boring conversations. I was more of a blank slate and more likeable too. That's gone away, but the things I enjoy are more enjoyable in a deeper way, and the scope of things I can do is larger. Goes both ways imo.
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-29 10:35:00+00:00
I don't hate bees. At all. But the aggregated buzzing sound of a lot of tiny buzzy insects means one thing to me as homeowner: wasps found ingress and a nest was built somewhere in your house. It is a sound I do not want to hear anywhere near my house, because you can't let them be, and getting rid of them is a damn stupid chore which more often than not involves dismantling part of the house to even get at them. I did this once, and that was enough (didn't get stung though).
by theandrewbailey | 2025-06-29 10:35:09+00:00
A few months ago, one of the Linux distros I used released a kernel update with a bug that killed IPv4 connectivity. I tried to set up some kind of VPN to my basement server to work around that, but it didn't work. I even installed WireGuard, so I wasn't too far off. I gave up and decided to use the older not-buggy kernel.
by tentoumushi | 2025-06-29 10:35:47+00:00
As a long time Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, Kanji and vocabulary - like Anki, but for the web. Originally, I created the website for personal use simply as a better alternative to kana pro and realkana (both of which I used extensively for brushing up on my kana), adding a bunch of aesthetic themes and fonts just for the fun factor. But, after a couple of my friends liked it, I decided to bring it online and see if it's of any use to the larger language learning community.

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Hyper customizable, with more than a dozen different themes, text fonts and color palettes - that way, you can customize KanaDojo and train in your own, personal playground tailored specifically to your taste and needs

Kanji characters and vocabulary words divided into small, pre-made sets - so that learning is easy, fun, linear and intuitive

Built-in Kanji and Vocabulary mini-dictionaries - so that you can look up readings and meanings right in the app without switching tabs

Mobile-friendly

Full keyboard-only navigation on desktop through the use of intuitive keyboard hotkeys

Live in-game stats and feedback

With a beautiful, minimalist design philosophy and a terrifying amount of different themes, fonts and other customizations, I seriously want to build THE most user-friendly, customizable, beautiful and fun platform for learning Japanese that there is, accessible to all and 100% free - with the community's help!

The platform is currently in its early alpha stages, and currently available at --> kanadojo.com.

どうもありがとうございます!
by prmoustache | 2025-06-29 10:36:05+00:00
OTOH I recently started a new position and was given both a win11 laptop and a win11 cloud desktop and the experience after having used Fedora at pro level for the last 10 years is frustrating.

Virtual Desktop is broken. You can't quickly move a window both on a different screen and virtual desktop at the same time. You need to do it in 2 steps. There are some type of windows (like auth ones) that will appear on all virtual desktop regardless of your wishes.

Windows updates that don't go through with obscure, non informative, codes. When you use a search engine for it, you are led to Microsoft Community with absolutely zero solutions. Sometimes after a random amount of days failing and random reboots, they end up going through.

Hitting win key and trying to search for an app or document randomly freeze. The popup menu appears but you can't type anything. Badically if you don't put apps icons in your taskbar you are never sure you will be able to start it without opening a terminal and starting it from powershell.

There are various stupid stuff, like why can't I create a symlink in my own user directory without being an administrator?

I can't put the taskbar wherever I want. I am fairly sure that last time I used a windows 10 years or so ago I could have the taskbar at the top or on the side. In win2000 and XP too.

UI is super slow all the time.

Peoole complain about appimage/flatpal/snap, this is worse on windows where you have random exe installer, winget, chocolatey, scoop and the windows store. Worse even when winget you seem to still have to go through the interactive installer. If I am using the command line, that's because I want a modern package installation and the app ready, not having to click next n times.

It also took my IT 2 weeks to solve an issue where whatever security tool they are using was complaining that my brand new computer was infringing a number of security policies and my access to some resources online would be limited.

And I am forgetting a lot of other frustrations but basically it feels like you are fighting the OS all the time and an insane amount of time is lost doing so. It doesn't help that I am not allowed to install WSL.
by trinix912 | 2025-06-29 10:36:22+00:00
Part of the appeal of Apple was that not everyone and their mom just had an Apple device. They heavily played on that, similar to how fashion does. That "exclusivity" (sort of) is gone now, and it shows with Apple trying to create likable, noncontroversial designs for the larger crowd. They try to make up for it with prices, but it misses the point.
by melvinroest | 2025-06-29 10:36:29+00:00
I'm currently a data analyst, used to be a software engineer. Weirdly enough I feel that data analysis (programming, visualizing, consulting and presenting) feels a lot related to making music. I think I just see the art of being a data analyst.

I want to "move up" in my career, but I simply don't see the (performative) art of data science and data engineering. It feels too narrow. Music and data analysis feels broad. I could take a higher paycheck but it'd cost of a lot of fun.

It probably helps that I on top of that get to integrate LLMs and create LLM flows, basically n8n but then programming it using the APIs of an LLM. So I'm still actually programming as well.

It's fun being a generalist.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-06-29 10:38:32+00:00
If we step away from the realms of imagination, then in the UK typical leaseholds are legally valid for about 100 years, with some going up to 999 years. Of course, many leaseholders - the rent seeking Landlords - may come and go within those lease cycles.

Or are you proposing State confiscation and management of the land? I can’t quite tell from your post.
by yurishimo | 2025-06-29 10:38:34+00:00
Definitely. The EU has weather satellites and Asia as well. Luckily, they tend to collect data around the entire world but what we lose here is the on-the-ground infrastructure that is woven together with satellite data to give better information about the facts on the ground.

Funny enough, this came up in the Netherlands a few months ago. The government released their own mobile app based on the data they collect and the private weather apps got all upset that the government was competing. What made it hilarious though, is that the private companies are all using the open source government data to power their apps!

So yea, this data will still be collected in the USA, but then sold to for-profit companies for basically nothing and then they will charge consumers for access to data collected with their collective tax dollars. Pretty messed up imo.
by edanm | 2025-06-29 10:38:42+00:00
> Thus, any proof that BB(748) = N must either show that TM_ZF_INC halts within N steps or never halts. By Gödel's famous results, neither of those cases is possible if ZFC is assumed to be consistent.

Isn't it more accurate to say that any proof that BB(748) = N in ZFC must either show that TM_ZF_INC halts within N steps, or never halts?

Meaning, it's totally possible to prove that BB(748) = N, it just can't be done within the axioms of ZFC?
by ringeryless | 2025-06-29 10:38:45+00:00
yes! i still have the songs i listened to last week echoing around in my head. i foind out i have some kind of memory based perfect pitch, as when i put thr recording on again it's in the same key i was playing it in my head in. i can literally hum every note of it, despite having heard it twice about a week ago, because it was poignant and stuck with me.

silence is golden and allows for reflection upon what we heard
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-29 10:39:20+00:00
We were discussing this on another musician forum.

It has been a double (triple, even) whammy for musicians, compared to mid 90s and back. There used to be a time where you could play in a band, not a huge signed one, and still make a living. Just off playing the door, on the regular bar / club circuit.

People went out much more back in the day. A regular weekday gig could bring you more money than a weekend gig does today. Unless you play in the most tourist-y hot spots, in the largest cities (think Nashville Broadway), you're not going to find places that play music all days. Not even 3-4 days a week. If you're lucky, it is going to be live music a couple of days, and almost only during weekends. Assuming you're paid $70 - $200 pr. gig, calculate how many gigs you need to play a year to not live in poverty.

Pay hasn't really changed much, either - for the musicians that play for a flat fee, that figure has been standing still for decades.

Almost every professional musician I know will have a battery of side hustles, these days. They will take every gig they can find, they will give lessons, they will do studio work, they will work as techs, become niche influencers, they will do whatever it takes.

But more often than not, they will have abandoned music as their main revenue stream, and rather pick up regular job that generates a steady paycheck, and gig during the weekends.

I can count on one hand the musicians / artists that have managed to make it "big", as in being C- or D-lister artists, and thus making a living off their recorded and touring music. They still spend equally much time on their social media, as that is what gets your name out. There is an immense pressure to play the algorithm, because that could make your tune blow up and become viral.

In fact, that is often how musicians become "famous" these days. Suddenly their tune becomes viral in tiktok vids, and that's how they manage to get millions of listeners...doesn't actually pay much, but it puts a big spotlight on your name.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-06-29 10:42:55+00:00
Mark Zuckerberg would in fact need to have 8 billion times better healthcare than me for your argument to matter

I don't know anyone who really thinks that absolute inequality is the problem. people need a high floor - there is no inherent reason to want to lower the ceiling of wealth/benefits. but since there's no such thing as free lunch, we need to calculate by how much each % of ceiling that is lowered raises the floor. If we can reduce the ceiling by 10% and raise the floor by 100%, then that's worthwhile.

The hard part is calculating the benefits. There are non-linear effects when you try to predict the benefits of having a healthy and educated population, although the benefit should be enormous.

On the other hand it is very easy to calculate the downside of people not being wage-slaves: not needing to accept bottom wages, having time to understand what's actually going on in the world, organizing for or against particular causes, etc..
by locallost | 2025-06-29 10:43:34+00:00
It's as if people that wanted to accomplish something called their method design, but the people that came after them wanted the design itself to be the achievement. We see this in the developer world, where the goal is not to have working software, but a work of art of engineering that is to be admired by fellow colleagues.

A slight nitpick to the section of Bauhaus - the goal was not industrialization, and in fact in the early days that "group" was completely against industrialization. Gropius was the first director of Bauhaus, but the school existed previously in other forms led by Henry van de Velde, who only left Germany because of WWI and the fact he was Belgian. And in fact, there was a clash in the group already in 1914 at one of their first exhibitions, where one fraction strongly advocated for industrialization and "typed" production. But van de Velde won, and Gropius sided with him. If you visit van de Velde's house, it's clear what he was thinking. The house was designed with his family and his work in mind. In a way that his many children and family could live there and he would have his space and peace and quiet to work. So the idea was to have living conditions adapted to the needs of the people, but it's clear that without industrial scale it would only be available to the rich. But still, "form follows function" is not necessarily industrial. Van de Velde's house is classical in appearance, but still the starting point was function not form.
by monobogdan | 2025-06-29 10:43:48+00:00
Hello! I'm sorry to bother you after 3 years of original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738552

I have two questions:

Could you please specify what have you meant by Fixed Function blocks on Adreno300+? Did you mean regular Rasterizer, DS and vertex assembler by this, or even portions of old FFP functionality just like lighting and etc from ES 1.x?

Because I think there is no need in HW 1.x support, since even Samsung in their FIMG emulated most of classic FFP functionality like combiners through shades.

I haven't investigated SGX53x drivers yet, but I think it was very same, since PVR MBX architecture was mostly abandoned in 2010.

And second question:

Why so many of early qcom android smartphones lacked GPU drivers at all? For example HTC Dream wasn't shipped with gpu drivers, as well as Magic and many Huawei models? For example, Moto droid has GPU drivers from the start.
by latexr | 2025-06-29 10:44:43+00:00
> and everyone here was like

Do you have links? Because every single time someone claims “everyone” on HN shared an opinion and I go check, the threads are split. What that tells me is that the people who accuse HN of being a biased hive mind are themselves biased to the point of being blind to other arguments.

> now they're boiling the frog.

That’s a myth.

> according to modern biologists the premise is false: changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild. A frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
by luckylion | 2025-06-29 10:46:13+00:00
There has been more fascism before there were modern computers than after, so I'm not sure how they "enable" fascism.

Exploitation? Slavery was (relative to population; and likely more so if you adjust for the changing definition) more numerous before modern technology, and it remains primarily in underdeveloped countries.

I get being unhappy about the world and what not, and it's fine to feel skeptical towards technology, but we shouldn't let it confuse our perception of reality.
by Veen | 2025-06-29 10:46:40+00:00
Lack of openness means a lack of privacy in theory, but in practice, openness often results in less privacy. The average user lacks the knowledge, time, and motivation to install and configure open systems to maximize privacy. They're likely to make mistakes that expose private data.

A closed system that prioritizes privacy will result in more users benefiting from greater privacy overall, even if it does give the platform more control than is ideal. And that's the issue with the wallet ads: Apple makes users more secure on average, but it depends on user trust, which it just betrayed.

Those who can take advantage of total control are a minority, and they are not really the people Apple cares about.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-29 10:47:37+00:00
I don't disagree with the benefits of community.

But the thing he describes with StarCraft Vs whatever the brainrot game is can be explained differently. I think the author likes the idea of liking StarCraft, but doesn't actually like playing it. Brainrot on the other hand is engineered to be addictive. Surely if he LIKED playing StarCraft he wouldn't have to be searching for motivation. Personally, I know that in my life I only need motivation for the things I don't like. The things I like I just naturally do a lot.

One insight that I've had is that people often don't really understand what they like and don't like. How many times have you heard "oh I wanna be a writer" "ok what have you written?" "I haven't written anything yet because I'm not a writer yet." These people like the idea of having achieved some end result, but they don't enjoy the process, and aren't even aware that the two are different.

In fact some times I think the word "to like" isn't that useful as it doesn't map well into anything in the mind. I think perhaps we should differentiate between the ideas of "things I planned to do", "things that I did", and "things that when I do make me feel such and such internally". If you re read the post with these ideas in mind, it makes a lot more sense what's happening: the author planned to do one thing and did another. You no longer need to invoke strange ideas like "I need community to give me the motivation to do the thing I already like doing because without motivation I do things I don't like".
by gen6acd60af | 2025-06-29 10:47:52+00:00
Please don't post AI-generated comments to Hacker News. This is a place for curious conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569734
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-29 10:47:59+00:00
My point is that a discovery always seems simple and inevitable once it has happened. Newton's laws are pretty simple, all things considered, but it still took most of human history for those to be discovered.

An average high school student doing physics today could derive Newton's laws. That doesn't mean that that student put in the same situation as Newton, would have been capable of discovering newton's laws.
by Teever | 2025-06-29 10:48:17+00:00
I'm not sure I follow. can you elaborate on that?

As I understand it Moore's Law doesn't address any sort of fundamental physical limitations other than perhaps an absolutely limit in terms of some fundamental limit on the smallness of an object, it's just an observation of the doubling of transistor density over a consistent period of time.

It seems more like an economical or social observation than a physical one to me.
by TheDong | 2025-06-29 10:48:24+00:00
> which I also haven't seen a screenshot of yet to be fair

The article links to https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/26/apple-wallet-se...

Which links to these examples:

https://x.com/ParkerOrtolani/status/1937551035825807545

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWallet/comments/1ljbjrs/how_do...

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/24/apple-wallet-notificati...

(and actually a few more too)
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-06-29 10:49:01+00:00
I found a solution for physics' One Size Fits All problem that works by removing all spatial and temporal dimensions bar none. Unfortunately the space in this book's margin is too narrow to write down the full theory complete with experimental data that shows how to use the theory to generate unlimited free energy and build an FTL drive but I will outline all of these in a future publication.
by daneel_w | 2025-06-29 10:49:22+00:00
Blasé comment. This isn't clinging onto "the past" like proverbial nostalgia. It's history and culture.

"Teaching kids today the wonders of that useless language called BASIC on 8 bit micros from the eighties amounts to cruel and unusual punishment."

I beg to differ. BASIC is a great introductory language for teaching kids the fundamentals of programming.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-29 10:49:34+00:00
> It's time for a Pax Europeana on European soil.

I support this 100%, and have said nearly these exact words in the past. However, the concept of Pax __ applies to the entire "world." Even the USA's supposed enemies benefited from the rules based global order, a lot of the time. If Pax Europa is to be a thing, it needs to have effects beyond Europe's borders. The democratic European way, surviving and thriving, is the last hope for a bright near-term future for all of humanity. I truly believe this.

note: I edited my gp comment prior to seeing your response.
by HocusLocus | 2025-06-29 10:50:01+00:00
> You could live off being musician, because people liked music

I like how you're turning the article around a bit. So many voices you hear these days are saying thing like, "My father was a [x]. I've been an [x] all my life. Since [y] it's been harder than ever to make a living. I've always looked up to successful [x]s as more able or refined in some way, but now I have stratification on the brain and I start to think that those [x]s are taking too big a piece of the pie, and they should give me some."

If you approached a club owner in 1960 and said "Look, you don't have to hire a band. I'll set you up with one of those open reel mag tape gizmos and you can spend $300 on a tape library and spend hours nursing it." They'd look at you and reply "That's a crazy joke. I'll hire a band."

Then in 1990 the club owner doesn't even participate in the music, and expects the bartender to keep the CD/cassette deck loaded. Or they play the radio. In 1960 that would result in jibes about the club owner promoting the radio station. In 1990 it just happens and goes unnoticed.

The problem is there has never really been a mass expectation of original live music in all these drinking-places. There has only been a social demand that music be present, which can be fulfilled in so many other ways now. It's sad that it can be stated in such a simple way that is an assault to the ego.

But it probably helps if you can allude to society changing in undesirable ways despite your best efforts, class struggles, or bad government.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-29 10:51:23+00:00
Making a custom OS for a gaming console is relatively easy compared to an actual, full desktop. You just need to allow games to access rendering directly (DRM or equivalent) and you make an "app" for your store that'll also launch the games.

FreeBSD was chosen as the kernel so that Sony could keep it locked down and not share the source, no other reason.
by latexr | 2025-06-29 10:51:51+00:00
> If everyone is getting the same annoying ad (in both wallet and App Store)

Not everyone is. I’m in the EU and did not get it. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was only in the US.

> then what individual user tracking or surveillance is happening?

That’s not at all what most people (including this article) are complaining about. It’s about an ad in an app which should never ever ever have them, the targeting is really low on the list of priorities compared to the rest.

> it’s clear they didn’t learn their lesson from U2.

The two cases are nothing alike. They both involved Apple and backlash, and that’s where the similarities end.

> But I don’t jump to the conclusion that “Apple is spying on me”.

Again, that’s not the major issue most people are complaining about.
by kalleboo | 2025-06-29 10:52:04+00:00
What Apple does is load all images in all emails on their server, instantly when they arrive, before you open the email or not. So the sender can't know if you saw the email and track email open rates.

I think Gmail does the same now too, I tested that site with my Google Workspace address, it got hard spam filtered (never even reached the spam folder) but it still saw 3 image loads from a google server.