MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threetonesun | 2025-09-17 13:40:31+00:00
The mobile app had a notice about iCloud for a long time (I forget if it's gone now or not), but usually you're running into Obsidian trying to sync all of the files and rebuild it's internal cache when it opens instead of being able to do any background sync.

As for why is it better than Notion at that point, well, if you wanted to you could use a "faster" app like iA Writer on your phone, or anything that can open Markdown. That remains its biggest benefit, you're never locked in to files that are only on someone else's server.
by nickpinkston | 2025-09-17 13:40:51+00:00
Upvote just for good historical reference!

Murex were the shells whose excretions were used to make the Tyrian purple of the Mediterranean. Tyrian referring to Tyre, one of the major Phoenician city-states.

It was so iconic that the "Punic Wars" are called that because Punic = Phoenicia = "Purple People".

Carthage was the Phoenician colony that outlasted the home country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple
by supermatt | 2025-09-17 13:41:59+00:00
If Apple do not want to provide iPhone mirroring, then so be it.

But since it is obvious the capability exists, they should allow other vendors the permissions needed to offer similar functionality with their own technology. These companies have been requesting this for years for their own mirroring apps, long before Apple introduced iPhone mirroring (long before even airplay).

iPhone mirroring is not innovation when you simply take your competitors product ideas and then block them from competing by giving yourself exclusive access to the very features they have been requesting for over 15 years...

Apple need not worry about being forced to "tweak the feature" if users are given the option to use an alternative solution on equal terms. Unless, of course, the aim is simply to stifle competition and keep users locked in through anti-consumer practices..
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-17 13:42:54+00:00
Depending on where you're from you might have used another orthodox file manager. For some reason they've been very popular in central and eastern European countries.

For example i've worked three Polish gamedev companies and in every single one of them most people (including people who weren't even born in the days of Norton Commander) used Total Commander (it is GUI-based but the shortcut keys and overall layout are almost the same).

(FWIW Notepad++ was ubiquitous too)
by aiono | 2025-09-17 13:43:01+00:00
That's the point I tried to make. All my bachelor education there was no single mention of sum types even though we learned about the visitor pattern. Instead of having to model sum types with object hierarchies, the language should provide a straightforward way to represent them since it's a very basic concept. I think that while things have improved a lot compared to past, sum types concept is still not known as much as objects for instance. Today all mainstream languages added direct support for sum types but awareness of it lacks.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-17 13:43:11+00:00
Saw an interview with one of these guys yesterday, maybe on bbc or dw, and his concluding remark is worth repeating. After describing what sounded like truly horrible treatment, when asked if he’d ever come back to the USA, said he would but never to Georgia. That confirmed my suspicion that this was more of a Georgia issue than a national one.
by Ntrails | 2025-09-17 13:43:15+00:00
I'm not a mac guy - but I was playing some sts and for some reason my _data_ was embedded inside an Application which is kind of a package of files and I have to "unzip it" from a context menu to see the save games (but everything still functions the same).

That is, imo, awful. I'm not sold they've got everything right
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-17 13:43:33+00:00
My neighbor works construction and my son did for a while. They were working on the new Texas Instruments silicon prefab. The people that do the actual work with their hands are expected to do just about everything. We are talking about advanced metal work in a place with liquid nitrogen and harmful chemical agents.

The actual engineers just walk around to validate the work conforms to the written plans. That is why these large engineering companies prefer to hire only from labor unions in a location that is extremely anti-union, because the union has the social resources to validate the candidates in ways the employer does not.

Even in that environment there are more experienced people who are 10x producers.
by indrora | 2025-09-17 13:43:46+00:00
Speed. It all comes down to speed.

Processing RAW can be expensive time wise. If you’re sorting through a session of 10,000 photos, you want the speed that comes with the jpeg variant, which allows you to quickly sort out blurry, smeared, severely mis-exposed, and other various defect photos.

The storage cost is negligible (JPEG75@10MP is cheap) and the workflow benefit is immediate. Additionally, cropping and early white balance corrections (as well as a handful of other things) are much faster to preview with a non-RAW version of the image; since you’ll be processing that detail later anyway from scratch in the RAW later, it’s functionally free to do it on the jpeg version before you dig into the raw.

Additionally, there’s a cheap debugging aspect that you saw here: was it Apple Photos mishandling ORF? Was it something else? When working with both, you have a “reference” that can be used to make sure your digital development pipeline is set up correctly; finer details about the imager can sometimes get mangled by some RAW developers like pixel order and sub pixel blending. Not every CCD is a linear grid, not every LCD looks the same, but if you can get your RAW pipeline producing ≈the same as your camera did, it verifies that you have things mostly set up correctly.
by neworder56 | 2025-09-17 13:43:48+00:00
Considering the fact China controls most of the world supply of rare minerals, considering the fact the US is lead by a incompetent leader, considering the fact Nvidia looses a big market, I think China can compete with even the leading Nvidia chips in a couple of years time.

If that happens, China in turn can export those Chips to countries that are in dire need of Chips, like Russia. They can export to Africa, South-America and the rest of Asia. Thus resulting in more competition for Nvidia. I see bright times ahead, where the USA no longer controls all of the worlds chip supply and OS systems.

I see this as an absolute win.
by josephg | 2025-09-17 13:43:57+00:00
Photography is the same way. Most SLR / DSLR / mirrorless cameras have a mechanical shutter which is expected to last around 200k-1m activations. I've had a camera for a bit over a year. I've used it quite heavily, and my shutter count is at about 13k photos. At this rate, the shutter will probably last for 20+ years - which seems fine. If I'm still using the camera by then, spending a few hundred dollars to replace the shutter mechanism sounds totally reasonable.
by thyristan | 2025-09-17 13:45:11+00:00
Query statistics is valuable data you can sell. Client DNS queries are in that regard similar to search queries and a default search engine setting, you can sell that to the highest bidder. So browser makers are incentivized to implement their own resolver with its own set of DNS servers instead of just the system ones. Either because they want to sell those statistics themselves. Or because they want to protect their users from the statistics collection of the underlying OS resolver or ISP resolver.
by db48x | 2025-09-17 13:46:12+00:00
See my longer reply <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275565>, but the short version is that 720×400 has a 5:9 aspect ratio, but the CRT display was 4:3. The CRT compensated by scaling the vertical height of each line by 135%. An LCD simply cannot do that. The best anyone can do is to scale the 400 lines up by the same non-integer scaling factor to 540 lines. This gives you an ugly image where some lines are 1px tall but others are 2px. It does get less ugly if you scale to 1440×1080 (on an HD display), or to 2880×2160 (on a 4K display), but the artifacts are still obvious and undesirable.
by moffkalast | 2025-09-17 13:47:09+00:00
The EU doesn't implement any of its policies by itself, ergo it should not require an executive branch of its own. There is no EU army, no EU police. We already have an instance of that in each member state which is required to implement EU laws on its territory, the Council of Ministers coordinates on that afaik.

The general process is a bit like this, simplified:

- the Council of heads of state appoints the Commission

- the Commission proposes laws

- the Parliament approves laws

- the Council of ministers implements them

- the Court blocks any unconstitutional laws

The problem has been for the longest time that the Commission appointments are not elected, somewhat mired in cronyism, and they keep proposing nonsense laws while the elected parliament can just stand there and vote no while not being able to suggest any legislation we actually need.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-17 13:47:11+00:00
There are special brackets for mounting HDDs, where there are rubber rings interposed between the mounting screws and the bracket, in order to prevent the transmission of the HDD vibrations to the chassis, which usually greatly amplifies the HDD noise.

With such brackets the noise is usually reduced a lot. There are some computer cases that are advertised as silent cases and which include such brackets by default (e.g. from Fractal Design).
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-09-17 13:47:18+00:00
>and the LLMs, which almost certainly didn't have a lot of "assemble these items" in their training data

I don't think this assumption is sound. Humans write a huge amount on "assemble components x and y to make entity z". I'd expect all LLMs to have consumed every IKEA type instruction manual, the rules for Jenga, all geometry textbooks and papers ever written.
by robertlagrant | 2025-09-17 13:47:26+00:00
I thought while it did "facial recognition", it was to draw boxes round faces, and not to identify people. And the labels were things like "ENERGISED".

I don't actually see the difference between this and a crowdcam at a sporting event, other than many privacy-oriented publications have reposted pictures of the people at the Massive Attack event, presumably without their permission.
by seec | 2025-09-17 13:47:28+00:00
I think his point is that you don't need the Play Store at all. There are plenty of alternative sources where you can just download APK without ever having to login.

Good luck doing that with iOS. I'm an iPhone user since the very first one and I think the control they have on app install/management is completely bonkers. The app store even sucks for keeping track of what your purchased/care about efficiently.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-17 13:47:48+00:00
It is not mandatory that backup alarms be 97 to 112 db. They only need to be "above the surrounding noise level". The loud beeping alarms were installed on most vehicles because most of them operated at loud constructions sites, so needed to be louder than that. it was easier to just buy the loud model to CYA, even if it was a delivery truck. They also don't need to 1000 Hz or to actually beep. White noise backup alarms are allowed, and in use in many delivery trucks now, and make a sound attenuated above 4000 Hz, which is much more localized and dissipates over much shorter distances. Waymo could absolutely have installed 85dB white noise alarms but chose to install 112dB beeping alarms. This is not a regulation problem.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-17 13:47:59+00:00
You can try them with simple short loops detectors, or perhaps with the "turtle and hare" method. If I do that and a friend ask me how I solved it, I'd call that "bruteforce".

They solved a lot of the machines with something like that, and some with more advanced methods, and "13 Sporadic Machines" that don't halt were solved with a hand coded proof.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-17 13:48:13+00:00
> And yet, they both still suffer from the flaw that the parent comment cites.

I dunno; the flaw is not really comparable, is it? The skill and discipline required to write C bug-free is an orders of magnitude less than the skill and discipline required to write C++.

Unless you read GGPs post to mean a flaw different to "skill and discipline required".
by cowboylowrez | 2025-09-17 13:49:12+00:00
labeling information as pollution is sort of a red flag for me. I see this tactic used often, and its often followed up with accusations that don't even address the information labelled as pollution. now don't get me wrong, this tactic does work, it won trump two terms didn't it? I guess its just sort of a red flag for me as I'm not a trump fan. at least you didn't call it "fake news" so have an upvote, I'll take progress where I can get it lol
Show HN: YamChat – Chat with Multiple LLMs from one location
by cabyambo | 2025-09-17 13:49:15+00:00
Hey! I'm Chris. I got tired of opening multiple tabs to chat with different LLMs, so I built YamChat to solve that. You can talk to multiple LLMs from one place.

One of the standout features, and the main reason I built YamChat, is you can ask a question to multiple LLMs in parallel. For technical questions I rarely trust just one LLM. I was getting tired of opening multiple tabs to ask the same question to various models, so I consolidated all of that into one location - YamChat.

I also didn’t like paying for multiple LLMs. I wanted to be able to pay one price that gave me access to everything, which YamChat also provides.

I've built it using NextJs and Convex, with WorkOs for auth and Polar for payments. It's still pretty bare bones so I would love pressure testing! The free tier is admittedly pretty small, so if you run out of credits and want to give it a solid go shoot me an email, I'd be happy to make you a discount code for a free month.

Let me know what you think!
by duxup | 2025-09-17 13:49:19+00:00
I agree that regulation is likely the only option.

With the caveat that it is very clear people want this horrible social media we have. They consume outrageous content, they pass it on, they create it for these platforms.

A lot of proposed regulation frames it as big bad tech companies making people do things like they're victims. But without people participating there would be nothing on there and in reality the human factor feeds back into these loops ... and keeps them going.

I think a lot of the proposed legislation comes at it at the wrong angle and is unlikely to fix it because in the end the users are a key component, not just some terrible algorithm or creepy CEOs.
by josephg | 2025-09-17 13:49:20+00:00
You can put your apple photos library on an external / network attached drive. Thats what I do, since my photo library has grown to ~300gb. And I'd much rather buy a hard drive than rent one from apple.

There's also the excellent osxphotos utility which can export / backup / migrate photos in and out of apple photos:

https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos
by mcflubbins | 2025-09-17 13:49:36+00:00
I had a weird issue with at least one photo in Apple Photos recently (possibly more that I haven't found) where the photos app showed the image, but I couldn't export it - like it was only a preview. I've upgraded my photos database over many release so I don't know if that's a part of it, the photo in question was from 2018 or so
by coredog64 | 2025-09-17 13:49:36+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if a fair portion of Amazon's Bedrock traffic is being served by Inferentia silicon. Their margins on Anthropic models are razor thin and there's a lot of traffic, so there's definitely an incentive. Additionally, every model that's served by Inferentia frees up Nvidia capacity for either models that can't be so served or for selling to customers.
by prof-dr-ir | 2025-09-17 13:49:36+00:00
Frankly I am so tired of this whole branch of research where people try to be foundational about "quantum theory" but at the same time boil it down to qubits, gates, bell tests and, well, two-by-two matrices.

Here is my viewpoint, which somehow some people find controversial: quantum theory is first and foremost a description of individual particles. To describe their time evolution, we use the Schrodinger equation:

i d_t Psi = H Psi

What is that "i" there? Oh right, the imaginary unit. So... quantum theory uses complex numbers.

Now you are free to search for another theory without the "i", and perhaps even find something that is somehow mathematically consistent. But that theory either describes experiments just as well as ordinary quantum theory, in which case it is physically equivalent and of no advantage (except to those with strong allergies to complex numbers), or it does not, and then it is wrong.

Of course the last logical possibility is that your theory might do better than quantum theory... but that is the dream only of those who do not known quantum field theory.

/rant, with apologies
by lentil_soup | 2025-09-17 13:49:38+00:00
You're right, but I believe the problem is that populists use arguments and ways of speaking that are deceiving and very hard to counter even if absolutely wrong. This makes a public debate a bad platform for engaging them.

For example, with the idea of "survival of the fittest" claiming that some genes are better than others and we should prioritise them sounds simple enough to some poeple, but explaining all the ways in which that's not only wrong but dangerous to the human race is nuanced and by then people stopped listening. Then the populist claims you're an elitist and the debate is over.

But I understand your concern it's a difficult topic to tackle.
by quuxplusone | 2025-09-17 13:49:47+00:00
At one point you say "precompiler" when I guess you mean "preprocessor"?

Also I think the C preprocessor would be relatively unhelpful with the file format you explained in the post: As soon as you reached the first unmatched, unquoted apostrophe, cpp would assume it was inside a really long character literal and refuse to substitute any macros until the next apostrophe.

cpp is great, but it does basically require a grammar that assigns broadly the expected meaning to ' " # // /* */. Curly-brace languages fine, running English text not so much.
by senordevnyc | 2025-09-17 13:50:05+00:00
I so wish Tesla had gone Waymo’s route and focused on delivering really safe LIDAR-based level 4 with cheaper hardware. I think they’d be well-positioned to take the market by storm.

But instead they made an ideological stand on cameras only, and they’re helmed by an unhinged drug addict who lies constantly, to the point many who once would have loved to buy an actual self-driving Tesla now won’t touch them with a ten-foot pole, even if they do someday deliver an L4 experience.

I really, really hope Waymo licenses their tech. I think that would stomp Tesla into the ground once and for all.
by belval | 2025-09-17 13:50:15+00:00
> If CUDA isn't that strong of a moat/tie-in and Chinese tech companies can seemingly reasonably migrate to these chips, why hasn't AMD been able to compete more aggressively with nVidia on a US/global scale when they had a much longer head start?

It's all about investment. If you are a random company you don't want to sink millions in figuring out how to use AMD so you apply the tried an true "no one gets fired for buying Nvidia".

If you are an authoritarian state with some level of control over domestic companies, that calculus does not exist. You can just ban Nvidia chips and force to learn how to use the new thing. By using the new thing an ecosystem gets built around it.

It's the beauty of centralized controlled in the face of free markets and I don't doubt that it will pay-off for them.
by Citizen_Lame | 2025-09-17 13:50:18+00:00
China doesn't control the supply of rare minerals but rather production. Rare minerals are not really rare, but the processing them is a "dirty" business and does lot of damage to environment.

China has managed to monopolise the production (cheap prices) and advance the refinement process, so other domestic projects to extract rare earth minerals were not really profitable. To start it again would take some time.
by KalanaPerera | 2025-09-17 13:50:52+00:00
thank you very much for the feedback and the utility suggestion. I understand what you’re saying, already there are 1000+ of resume builders and career tools, and also some are prefer to use GPT and get things free,

Our main focus is on the non-technical segment. We’re also have ideas like voice AI and agentic mode, auto-apply etc

So far, we’ve reviewed and tested around 100 sites and their feedback pages on platforms like Trustpilot and Google Reviews. around only 1–2 sites offer a free download option. Most redirect users to payment pages. Very few allow Word file downloads, and none of them are free. Each has its pros and cons.

At the end of the day, the market is definitely competitive, but we believe there’s still room for good and usable tools. Once again, we truly appreciate your feedback. :)
by lelanthran | 2025-09-17 13:51:02+00:00
> Have you written significant amounts of C or C++?

Yes.

> Most of the time when someone says something is "written in C" it actually means it's C++ without the +± features.

Those "someone's" have not written a significant amount of C. Maybe they wrote a significant amount of C++.

The cognitive load when dealing with C++ code is in no way comparable to the cognitive load required when dealing with C code, outside of code-golfing exercises which is as unidiomatic as can be for both languages.
by sampullman | 2025-09-17 13:51:07+00:00
I am aware, I live in Taiwan. While TSMC engineers can be poached "move between countries freely" is not true because moving from China to Taiwan is not so easy.

The key word you mention is "replicating." They'll be chasing for a while still, and it's not clear that they'll be able to leap ahead. Copying is much easier than real innovation.
by stillworks | 2025-09-17 13:51:09+00:00
Is this downvoted because of the last line i.e.

What's the purpose of RAW+jpg though? Seems rather redundant?

Otherwise, it is wise to highlight that "delete after import" is not a good choice in general.

I personally would not let device A to automatically delete files from device B while files are being copied from B to A.

My workflow is quite manual when bringing pictures in from camera to my MacBook.

- I simply take the SD Card from the camera and then use the SD Card reader on MacBook itself to copy the files (RAW + JPEG) into a working directory.

- Move just the JPEGs into Apple Photos library

- The ones which I think I can/should improve using RAW processing, are processed in DxO Photo Lab and exported to JPEG with a *_DXO.JPEG filename

- DXO Processed JPEGs are added to Apple Photos again. This time due to the naming scheme, the DXO processed JPEGs and camera baked JPEGs are next to each other which helps in quickly checking the results.

- Delete the camera baked JPEG once I am happy with DXO's output

Regarding...

What's the purpose of RAW+jpg though? Seems rather redundant?

...as others have pointed out. Shooting RAW+JPEG is like an insurance policy where if the camera was unable to produce a result which I would like to keep, I have the RAW to play with.

I only keep JPEGs in Apple Photos as all of my image library is backed up to iCloud and don't want that duplication.

RAW files get backed up to another SSD. Looking into a better backup for RAW files.

Also, since I switched recently to a camera which uses CFeB cards for best experience (but also has a SD card slot), the onboard SD Card reader on my MacBook will become useless for this once I get an external CFeB reader.