MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toddmorey | 2025-07-17 19:35:02+00:00
I have a funny story: I went to go to a notion doc and just intuitively pressed command-O in the app to open the notion doc I wanted. Of course that command doesn’t open notion docs—what that does is turn on audio transcription.

So two hours later, I realize I’ve transcribed at the bottom of our team overview page what read like the diary of a madman from fragments of conversation I was having with my wife and dog. I am glad I caught it and deleted it.
by throw123xz | 2025-07-17 19:35:03+00:00
That's a completely valid position to have.

The thing to keep in mind is that for some people, and this includes some of your customers, there are things that are more important than your mission. Right now, some people avoid anything that is related to Israel. When the US invaded Iraq, some avoided US companies. I won't touch anything related to Musk after the two sieg heils and other things. The guy that complained clearly has an issue with what Russia is doing in Ukraine and doesn't want their money to end up in Russia.

It's a free market. You should do what you think it's right and then people will do the same with your product. Some will care more about search quality and pay, while others will care about the companies you decide to work with and use something else.
by condiment | 2025-07-17 19:35:52+00:00
To summarize, the problem with gene therapy is simply that it's extremely expensive and the list of qualified clients is extremely small. That's because these therapies have been necessarily targeted towards ultra-rare and assuredly fatal diseases.

That approach developed the technologies, but what if a mass market approach is what is required to create the economies of scale we need to actually benefit from this science long-term? Consider a cure for the common cold. All of the technology exists. We can take a tissue or fluid sample and extract viral genomes, comparing against a database of over 100k viruses. We can develop MRNA vaccines that target specific viral proteins. We can do both of these things using current technology in a timeframe of less than a day.

To me this is the next great leap. Gene therapy is less a technology problem than it is an infrastructure problem, and rare diseases cannot support the infrastructure. But there are plenty of wealthy people who would pay $10k, maybe even $50k, out of pocket to cancel a cold. Rare diseases bootstrapped the tech, common diseases can scale it, and once scaled, everyone benefits.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-17 19:36:04+00:00
Related imec coverage over the years:

Memristor cell scaled down to 10nm (46 points, 2011, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3355357

Imec Demonstrates FinFET Devices with Integrated Tungsten Buried Power Rails (37 points, 2020, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23550158

Imec Demonstrates Capacitor-Less IGZO-Based DRAM Cell with 400s Retention Time (17 points, 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26003964

AMD, TSMC and Imec Show Their Chiplet Playbooks at Isscc (30 points, 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287868

Imec demonstrates logic and DRAM structures using High NA EUV Lithography (39 points, 11 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222632

Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm lines High NA EUV single patterning (31 points, 5 months ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207040
by throwaway7356 | 2025-07-17 19:36:05+00:00
> >Ah, so not blocked. Thanks for confirming. > > A killfile is blocking, thanks for confirming.

Lol, charliebrownau's antisemitic mails don't get blocked, they get approval:

- https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Hosting-git-for-xlibre... - https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Hosting-git-for-xlibre...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

Seems like a party is going on in the Nazi bar of "well behaving adults" as you call them.

I'll stop discussing with you defending antisemitism, "investigating" preteens and conspiracy bullshit (including the antisemitism). Feel free to enjoy further discussions with folks like charliebrownau or metux in the Xlibre community.

I think overall Xlibre is still a win for the Linux community as the toxic parts of the community like those mentioned above hopefully leave for Xlibre or related projects. I fully support you attracting all the charliebrownaus.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-17 19:36:08+00:00
> I always interpreted those sort of stories as kind of… somebody doing something they consider at least a little duplicitous.

Often it's a situation where someone doesn't really know what programs are, they just know that the blue E is the button for Internet. In that case it's not trickery to keep using the blue E on the Internet button, just practical labeling.
by ivape | 2025-07-17 19:36:08+00:00
Slower in initial delivery maybe, but the maintenance and debugging of production applications requires intimate knowledge of the code base usually. The amount of code AI writes will require AI itself to manage it since no human would inundate themselves with that much code. Will it be faster even so? We simply won’t know because those vibe coded apps have just entered production. The horror stories can’t be written yet because the horror is ongoing.

I’m big on AI, but vibe coding is such a fuck around and find out situation.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-07-17 19:36:09+00:00
I've been tinkering on and off with a javascript hack that I hope would prevent swiping through files/chapters, but I could never get it to work right. There's not alot of documentation even saying what javascript is permitted in epub... there are a few of the Jackson Fighting Fantasy books that I'd like to convert and keep the hit points and dice rolls entirely within epub (I think CYOA had this as well with a "flip a coin and if it's heads turn to page X").

Oh well.
by WalterGR | 2025-07-17 19:36:14+00:00
Mercury documents may consist of the following octets: * 0x0a (newline) * 0x0d (carriage return) * 0x20-0x7e

0x20 - 0x7e is the range of so-called printable characters in 7-bit ASCII. [a-z][A-Z][0-9], space, and some punctuation. That would seem to exclude several human languages.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-17 19:36:15+00:00
Anecdotal evidence:

In the early 2000's when the dot com bubble burst, a well known commercial real estate developer here had the same idea because many of the large corporate buildings went empty or went into foreclosure or had various other financial issues.

He bought one and I was told by several contractors who worked for him that he would brag about the sweetheart deal the city gave him and how little he would have to pay to convert the buildings into town homes. Because of the dot com bust, he also got a bottom floor deal on the price of the building.

It took several years to convert, but that's kind of when the wheels started to fall off. 9 people (at last count) were charged with mortgage fraud in a kick back scheme. They tried to buy up a bunch of the condos and then planned to resell them at higher prices. They were using ghost buyers to get financing.

Ironically the developer was never charged, but several real estate agents and their brokers plead guilty to fraud. The developer had also bought several other buildings with the intention of doing the same. None of them ever came to fruition and by the time the 2008 housing crash rolled around, he had lost two of the other three buildings to foreclosure and I'm not sure what happened to the other one.

The developer just got lucky. Right time to buy low and sell high, but then once he was straddled with market cost of the building and no sweetheart deals on labor and tax breaks from the city? It quickly became apparent unless you have very, very deep pockets, a conversion like this is very expensive and takes a long time for you to see any return on your investment.

On the bright side if you google the name "Cloud 9 Sky Flats Hopkins MN" you'll see the building they used. There are several local real estate companies who still sell the flats and they are amazing with incredible views of the city.

Here's some articles about the Cloud 9 Flats fraud:

8th Guilty Plea Entered in $14M Cloud 9 Mortgage Fraud https://tcbmag.com/8th-guilty-plea-entered-in-14m-cloud-9-mo...

Developer Jerry Trooien unlikely to be charged in condo fraud case, attorneys say https://www.twincities.com/2013/02/12/developer-jerry-trooie...
by cjensen | 2025-07-17 19:36:41+00:00
Conflating "hype" with the "business cycle" is not a good choice. The content is interesting reading once you move past that.

The business cycle would likely exist in the absence of emotional choices. Part of it is that businesses that are near-failure tend to fail when the economy declines, which causes additional decline. This means that near-failure tends to build up during good times and then fail en masse during a decline.
by Topfi | 2025-07-17 19:37:06+00:00
As per my source, the iPhone 13 outsold both the Pro and Pro Max together, so no the cameras could not have been the reason:

> Combined, all four iPhone 13 models made up 71 percent of iPhone sales, with the standard 6.1-inch iPhone 13 responsible for 38 percent of sales. The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max weren't quite as popular as the iPhone 13, but sold much better than the iPhone 13 mini.

In fact, the iPhone 13 alone sold more (38%) than the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max combined (30%). The plain old 13 was the most popular SKU, because no, most people do in fact not spend more for an added telephoto camera only a specific few have a true need for. The regular non Pro iPhone has across most years been the best seller, because it is a solid middle ground for the vast majority of people, making it the best basis for a small SKU to have any hope of succeeding. A 13 Pro Compact would have absolutely sold as poorly, maybe even worse than the 13 mini, considering both Pros did not outsell the regular 13 by itself. But even if a 13 Pro Compact had sold twice as well as the 13 mini (a very generous assumption considering it would have been 300usd more expensive), that would still be only 6% of total sales, a drop in the bucket.

Lastly, there are the Xperia 5s and there have been the Zenfones, both having better battery life than their large competitors, both being as (un)popular as Apples efforts.

Again, I like small smartphones, I'd love there to be a significant market for them. There simply is no way to look at the data and claim there is one beyond a tiny niche that a company such as Apple cannot realistically serve.

Apple tried converting their most successful SKU into a small smartphone. That failed to sell even a tenth of its large brother, despite being 100usd cheaper.

Sony literally scales their flagship down and gives it better battery life. Not really a success either.

ASUS made their own, fully dedicated line of compact smartphones which again, had better battery life than most large competitors and even included a 3.5mm jack, getting a second niche of customers to bolster sales. They too saw so few sales that they were forced to pivot to gigantic phones.

No matter what conditions, no matter how favorable, the same result.
by shigawire | 2025-07-17 19:38:41+00:00
It's just about going outside your expertise.

There's some things I know a bit about... But if I was spouting off about skydiving when I know little about it, that makes me an asshole. Especially, to extend the metaphor, if I was spreading misinformation that led to people being hurt.

Anyways, like I always say, parachutes are optional really.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-07-17 19:38:45+00:00
What is doubtful? I agree 100% that her detention was a clear violation of the fair application of the rule of law and is offensive. Also it's true that other countries apply uniformly what was arbitrarily applied to her. Both are true.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/we-jews-are-just-arr...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/31/germanys-immigr...

https://www.wusf.org/2025-04-20/germany-seeks-to-deport-an-a...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/10/germany-british-palestin...

https://www.visaverge.com/news/germany-targets-deportation-o...

I mean there's too many examples to list.
by ajuc | 2025-07-17 19:39:01+00:00
There's 3 smaller daughter-libraries in nearby villages. I'd say 20 minutes walk to the nearest library for everybody in the whole gmina is realistic. Less if you include school libraries (but they suck).

I had no idea how many books, checked right now and apparently it's 32 000. It's not really serving 500 people, it's got 1100 regular readers. Which means people are going there from other villages.

It also has all the multimedia stuff, audiobooks, internet access, printers, etc.
by overfeed | 2025-07-17 19:39:13+00:00
> This used to be a good example of innovation that is hard to copy.

Steve Jobs did say they "patented the hell out of [the iPhone]" and went about saber-rattling, then came the patent wars which proved that Apple also rely on innovation by others, and that patent workarounds would still result in competitive products, and things calmed down afterwards.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-17 19:39:22+00:00
From Wikipedia:

"On 13 July 2016, Facebook deleted his fan page of 1.5 million fans. Baumgartner subsequently claimed that he must have become "too uncomfortable" for "political elites".[48]"

Because of his pro-right viewpoints. For one thing, it's slightly amusing considering Zuckerberg's own politically convenient pirouettes on politics and management. Secondly, it reminds me why the argument was very much on the mark that social media in those days absolutely did work hard to shut don all kinds of opinions that didn't fit with dominant groupthink.

It's idiotic that a famous figure should be subject to such a deletion as soon as they deviate from a specific progressive discourse, even if one disagrees with its opposite in so many ways.
by colechristensen | 2025-07-17 19:39:30+00:00
Yeah, no. You don't get to monitor my anything in order to provide features. I was never a user of notion and I definitely won't be. It is just an oversight of the OS that your process is allowed to see the list of other processes.

I do not want to be spied on and have 0 trust for any company wishing to do any kind of monitoring of my usage in order to provide or advertise "features" to me.
by anon291 | 2025-07-17 19:40:13+00:00
It's a decent school, but beset by the same 'Portland problems' that ruin it for the people who would be starting businesses. For example, during the last riot in Portland, the PSU library was taken over and rendered unusable for several quarters. If you were using this public space to do research or to work with friends to start a business... good luck... It's just gone in a day, and the university does nothing, and even encouraged the rioters.
by the_duke | 2025-07-17 19:40:25+00:00
That's Gemini Pro now in general. The initial preview was pretty good, but the newer iterations are incredibly verbose.

"Be terse" is a mandatory part of the prompt now.

Either it's to increase token counts so they can charge more, or to show better usage growth metrics internally or for shareholders, or just some odd effects of fine tuning / system prompt ... who knows.
by tim333 | 2025-07-17 19:40:58+00:00
Same here. Stuck with SE2 till it stopped catching pokemon properly. Currently pleased with the iPhone 13 mini. I think part of why I like small phones is I carry a laptop and hate web browsing / typing on the phone. It's mostly a modem and camera for me.

Also having a laptop means the battery doesn't matter that much as you can just charge it off that.
by Jach | 2025-07-17 19:41:36+00:00
Sure, though I'm curious if you think some voluntary pyscho-analyzing changes anything about the truth. Or are you just looking for paper links? It's one of my minor hobbies over the years to sometimes browse various papers for fun (childhood mastery of conservation of volumes is pretty interesting) or to check what the scientists actually claimed about various things, the Slate article wasn't the first I'd heard of this particular myth being a myth but it still seems like a good reference to point out the problems that I could quickly find again, and it's got links to enough papers (like the 'maturity index' one https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3135376/) that it didn't seem necessary to find or recall more. It's not so much that I have a very strong opinion on this in particular so much as I have negative opinions about false popsci memes being spread in general, and today I decided it'd be fun to try and briefly swat at another one. I had an aside to Dunning-Kruger at the start. Dunbar's number is another false meme. Here's a small collection of others, though I'd say the chess one isn't particularly damaging apart from being false: https://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/

Sometimes a meme claim just doesn't stand up if you actually look at the paper(s). First you have to find the papers, if a citation isn't forthcoming, but if there even is a literature you can just read some of it. To check if a meme matches, you don't even need to be an expert or have real scientific training, or read the whole thing, all that's needed in many cases is just: read the abstract, the conclusion, check if it matches the meme. Sometimes looking at charts or seeing wait a minute they are basing this supposed human universal on one undergrad subject (or finding fMRI brain activity in a dead fish) can also be illuminating. There's a lot of bunk science out there, and reproducibility is a problem everywhere. This is irritating, though it's not like I'm thinking about it much of the time or crusading to correct everyone wrong on the internet.

More directly on the brain maturity thing, I suppose part of the interest also comes from how I really find the ongoing infantilization of western society grotesque and see the meme as part of it. I also just remember being a teen, and remember many teens around me from then. Some were scouts, some had jobs, a lot of us drove carefully, some not so carefully. There were temptations, some succumbed and some didn't. We were alright, overall. People change, but not usually by a huge degree, this cuts both ways for those who were more responsible and those who were more reckless. Still, comparing stupid stuff done then with stupid stuff done now by 30-somethings... a lot of the time it's a tossup which is really more stupid. The 30-somethings can cause a lot more collateral damage though, generally having greater assets and responsibilities.
by rglullis | 2025-07-17 19:41:37+00:00
> First, you have to want to do it, then you have to commit time and effort to doing it

Implementing a Gemini to HTTP gateway seems like a perfect type of weekend project for someone that wants to play with a new programming language. With that, any barrier that you think you have is gone. Crawlers will get to you no matter what.

> So using a separate, custom tech stack is what keeps the threshold of effort in front the threshold of desire.

You know what else you could do? Just run your web server on a non-standard port.

Seriously, the more you try to rationalize this as anything else other than hobby, the less sense it makes. Just go with "it's a hobby and I enjoy spending my time with it", and I promise I will get out of your hair.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 19:41:41+00:00
The fallacy here is that we're somehow, magically, required to move on to more extreme forms of the same logic.

No we're not. We can decide to stop at any time. We don't have to be logically consistent in how we decide rules. And, in fact, we aren't.

Consider, for example, free speech restrictions in the US. You can't yell "fire!" in a theater. Why not? Because it incites distress, and can cause harm.

By that logic, shouldn't we also ban all mean words? I mean, they might incite distress, and they can cause emotional harm, and even physical harm if someone gets too offended.

But wait, wait... isn't "mean", in it of itself, subjective? So then doesn't this mean that this same logic could go for any arbitrary words, technically? Okay, then we should ban all words, right?

No. Wrong. We shouldn't do that. Everything is a case-by-case basis. WE decide when to continue and when to give it up. Not you, not logic.
by legitster | 2025-07-17 19:41:48+00:00
This is especially true if your wealth comes from capital markets.

If I buy a bunch of baseball cards at 1c each and later it turns out that the market values them at $100 each, I never actually "took" money from anyone. Yes it's patently unfair that I got that lucky, but it wasn't necessarily at anyone's expense.

Now, when I actually go to sell those cards then I do actually "take" money from someone else, but while those gains are unrealized it's just paper wealth.

In such a case it's also not clear who I am "taking" from. The person buying them off of me gave me the money, but you could also say the baseball card company was exploited and lost out on pricing their cards at $100?
by pedro_caetano | 2025-07-17 19:41:51+00:00
From what I understand the situation is quite the opposite, there is a huge pipeline of investment both in startups as well as very large corps on the development and application of gene therapy.

As anecdata, Luxturna costs north of a quarter of a million per vial, it treats a fairly rare disease (Leber congenital amaurosis). Roche still poured millions into development.

Bio-tech, specially in a Medical field, is a very difficult business. The strategy for must startups is to get bought by a very large pharma company. The issue is that these companies often run out of runway, specially when dealing with later pre-clinical, clinical, and regulatory costs.
by tombert | 2025-07-17 19:42:02+00:00
Maybe "failed" is a strong word.

I just don't see Ada used a lot anymore. This isn't a value judgement on it being "good" or "bad", lots of bad languages (like PHP) end up getting very popular, and lots of cool languages (like Idris) kind of languish in obscurity. Don't mistake me saying popularity is proper metric for how "good" something is.

When I say "anachronistic", I don't mean it as a bad thing either, just that it's not used a lot anymore. I've literally never heard of anyone writing an Ada application in the last twenty years outside blogs on HN.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-07-17 19:42:37+00:00
No, they wouldn't be put through this horrible detention, they would just be removed from the country, or have their visa revoked and be barred from entry to Schengen after that. It is a much calmer, humane, and efficient process with what I consider to be a much more restrictive and aggressive enforcement regime.

Germany's 'freedom of speech' is just qualitatively different and much less meaningful. It's illegal to burn the German flag, use a diminutive to address a police officer (du vs sie). More troubling it's illegal to insult a foreign leader (and the government must determine whether criticism is 'abusive', which would constitute a crime)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair

Chanting 'from the river to the sea' is illegal. Publishing statistics that suggest that refugees commit crimes at a higher rate. Calling a politician a 'criminal'. And of course the nazi stuff you mention. In general, 'human dignity' is considered more important that free speech.

I agree, the detention is insane, unnecessary, arbitrary, and a complete abuse.