MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-30 16:48:56+00:00
The item was promoted on a China e-store site for awhile, and caught my eye given a video encoded streaming kvm at that price point seemed like "optimistic" marketing. I spend a lot of time sourcing electrical parts, optical components, and metric 304 steel fasteners on these sites.

It might be possible something popped up that looked very similar to the Kickstarter ad. Could also just have been a 4th container product run common with China CM exports. =3
by TechRemarker | 2025-10-30 16:48:57+00:00
Been curious what the Oct 10 announcement would be. It seemed most likely an acquisition since they wanted enough time of not selling existing products to avoid dealing with a month of refunds. Appears Canva bought with it now being a single app that is "free" but paid for premium features. While many may rejoice at a solid free options it's certainly an unfortunate day for those who rely on it. As Canva makes money on people using the paid version so attention will be at making that version more enticing over time and free less. If people all just used the free and not the premium for AI, then they would either start charging for the "free" version or take away features from the free version to make the "choice" easier to upgrade. All in all good for Canva, and good for more casual users who can jump ship any time to free options but would be quite worrisome for those who have looked towards Affinity as the alternative to Adobe.
by mlmonkey | 2025-10-30 16:48:59+00:00
When I started working at 24, a friend of mine (a few years older than me) asked me if our company had a 401(K) and what was the match.

I was confused. What's this gobbledygook? So I asked around and got him the answers, and he responded with: max out your 401(K). Just do it. And do not ever think about taking money out of it.

So I followed his advice. At that time, the ~$5500 cut in paycheck (my gross was around $35K, IIRC) stung a little. I was single, footloose and fancyfree, and those extra few hundred dollars a month would have been fun to have. But I stuck to his advice.

Today, almost 30 years later, thanks to that, I have a nice nest egg and don't have to worry about retirement (modulo catastrophic illnesses, of course).

So recently my friends' kids started working, and I gave them the same advice: Max out your 401(K), pick a Vanguard Target Retirement fund, and forget about it. If your place offers a "Mega Back Door" option, use it to the fullest extent possible. And if your company has a HDHCP, put funds in your HSA too.

We have a lot of avenues to save these days. Make full use of them.
by northlondoner | 2025-10-30 16:49:01+00:00
In engineering and sciences practice, existence of time is vitally accepted and measured.

We have experiments verifying not only existence of time but relativity of time is established strongly. There are couple of prominent topics supporting this view, links to peer-reviewed works.

1. Einstein's general relativity is first experimentally verified by Sir. Eddington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment The deviation is actually about time as well, interplay between geometry and gravity.

Subsequently for special relativity "Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time' https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.42.400

This is actually what Carlo trying to explain in his YouTube interview.

Experimental Tests of General Relativity https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...

2. Existence of Biological clocks measuring time is understood by gene regulation and molecular setting:

Biological clocks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.96.16.8819

3. Entropy production

On material systems. Evolution of time is tied to entropy production, for example using fluorescence spectroscopy

Measurement of Stochastic Entropy Production https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97...

4. Relativistic effects on GPS.

Relativity of GPS measurement https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.06...

Satellite test of special relativity using the global positioning system https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.44...

These support's Carlo's explanations quite well.

5. Quantum Metrology

Even though causal ordering is not definite in quantum mechanics, once things measured they "collapse" to ordering.

Experimental aspects of indefinite causal order in quantum mechanics https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-024-00739-8

Once things are measured, things should obey thermodynamics.

6. Atomic clocks and synchronisation, they are used to measure "time" in all sorts of scenarios.

The Measurement of Time: Time, Frequency and the Atomic Clock https://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Time-Claude-Audoin/dp/052...

7. Stellar navigation. Even though this sounds science-fiction, but it is indeed possible to measure time using pulsars.

Spacecraft Navigation and Timing Using X-ray Pulsars https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2161-4296....
by dannyw | 2025-10-30 16:49:10+00:00
I’m also a loyal Serif customer, love Affinity, and I work at Canva.

This is not the first step in that. It’s not anywhere close to our plan.

We want to make Affinity, and professional design, the default tool. And a huge part of that is free, forever.

AI features; like generative fill, have COGS and incremental inference costs. Hence that’s an _optional_ subscription.

I understand why you feel that way. Having being involved, the biggest factor to acquisition & joining forces was our shared mission and beliefs; not things like financial engineering.

I hope you can judge us by our actions. It’s you, who we try to build the product for <3
by kbolino | 2025-10-30 16:49:23+00:00
Yes, and that's not what I meant. I'm sorry for the confusion, but I have clarified already. I meant charging the host from the peripheral, which could be a wall charger, a battery pack, a monitor, etc. I was thinking of laptops when I wrote the original comment.

I also elaborated that, even when we consider the other direction, i.e. host-to-peripheral charging, many USB-C ports on PCs only provide baseline USB power levels (aka "slow charging"). The implication (that I now make explicit) is that such poor charging performance would not justify removing all other ports from the computer. I didn't mention this originally, because I didn't think of it then, but now that you have brought it up, I would add it to my argument.

The crux of that argument was: USB-C as the only port type is acceptable as long as those USB-C ports are full featured. That means (again, to be explicit) that they support Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, and bidirectional USB-PD (aka "fast charging"), though obviously one of those directions is not applicable to hosts that have no battery (e.g. desktops).

In other words, if the USB-C ports are no better than USB-A ports, then they are not good enough to take the place of other, dedicated port types.
by Mawr | 2025-10-30 16:49:24+00:00
Really? This is your go-to argument? And nobody's pointed out to you before how bad it is? Well then.

Do the opposite thought experiment for me: Pick any two points of interest on the map and see how well connected they are with roads. Keep doing it until you find somewhere not accessible via car. See the issue yet?

We've paved over the entire planet to the point that you can get anywhere you'd like with a car. We have not done so whatsoever for any other mode of transportation. Pedestrian walkways come close but we prioritize vehicles over those too. The investment into public transport & cycling infrastructure is a statistical error in comparison to roadways.

So no shit it's more convenient for you to take a car than a train, that's the entire point―it shouldn't be.

A 20 lane highway should be a train track, intra-city roads should be dedicated to bikes, not cars.
by jraph | 2025-10-30 16:49:38+00:00
The last thing we want for a user-friendly interface is nondeterminism. Some procedure that works today must work tomorrow if it looks like you can repeat it. LLMs can't be the answer to this. And if you go to the lengths of making the llm deterministic, with tests and all, you might as well code the thing once and for all and not ship the local llm to the end user at all.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-30 16:49:53+00:00
> What scenario does a kiosk at the mall get control of my phone number but not control of my phone?

You can e.g. smooth-talk the customer service at a kiosk to give you replacement SIM card for the one you've "lost".

This is why banks increasingly don't trust your phone number, and their apps tie themselves to the phone itself, i.e. to hardware and OS IDs. But to trust those IDs, they need the phone to pass remote attestation.
by questionableans | 2025-10-30 16:50:13+00:00
It’s different for different people, but IMO, knowing something significant about everything is easier than knowing everything about something significant.

And if you understand the organizational dynamics, being in a position to fix (or recommend the cancellation of) projects that aren’t working gives you more control over your destiny than being just another person trapped in a dysfunctional org.

So I’m not saying higher level roles are easier for everyone, but I am saying lower level roles can actually be harder for someone who has mastered higher level roles.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-10-30 16:50:44+00:00
When I used to be active on reddit I was following r/graphicdesign (me being a graphic designer) and one day someone asked a question about Inkscape.

Not 5 minutes after that someone else on the comments went on a weird rant about how allegedly Inkscape and all FOSS was "communist" and "sucked" and capitalist propietary stuff was "superior".
by dang | 2025-10-30 16:51:04+00:00
Related. Others?

About the BLOBs in Ventoy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810281 - Aug 2025 (57 comments)

Ventoy Is Saving Me Time, Money, and USB Sticks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933664 - May 2025 (2 comments)

iVentoy installing unsafe Windows Kernel drivers? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909824 - May 2025 (8 comments)

Ventoy: Remove BLOBs from the Source Tree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689629 - June 2024 (49 comments)

Ventoy – Bootable USB Solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619822 - June 2024 (19 comments)

Ventoy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38672112 - Dec 2023 (111 comments)

Ventoy: A New Bootable USB Solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36055765 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Ventoy, ISO USB Solution 10/10 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901483 - Sept 2022 (4 comments)

A New Bootable USB Solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28889392 - Oct 2021 (47 comments)

Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273289 - Aug 2020 (11 comments)

Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241485 - Aug 2020 (106 comments)

Ventoy – A New Bootable USB Solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394714 - June 2020 (6 comments)

Ventoy: Boot different ISO files from a USB stick - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23060019 - May 2020 (1 comment)
by nyrikki | 2025-10-30 16:51:06+00:00
In a perfect world, in my opinion is that they are incompatibles, and the equality operation should return False in both cases.

But equality is a very complicated concept.

I guess if the values are incomparable != preserves PEM

But Boolean algebra is a lattice, with two+ binary operators were two of those are meet and join with a shared absorbing property.

X == not not X being PEM, we lose that in NP vs co-NP and in vector clocks etc…

But that is just my view.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-30 16:51:07+00:00
A lot of the contemporary formal scientific process is done incredibly badly, for a variety of reasons including overt political bias on the part of individual scientists working in the academic system, pressure to publish any results including poor ones, and outright laziness and fraud. In general we shouldn't assume that if a bunch of public scientific studies purport to show that some phenomenon is happening, that that phenomenon is actually happening. It takes substantial time, effort, and experience to evaluate whether a claimed scientific result is valid; and all the moreso when that result has immediate political policy implications.
by acuozzo | 2025-10-30 16:51:12+00:00
> People who try to time the market

If you have doubts about the long-term __existence__ of the market, then investing in the first place necessitates "timing the market" since you'll need to determine when to sell before the panic sell-off which inevitably comes before the global minimum is reached.

Mind you, I'm not talking about figuring out whether or not to "hodl" through local minima. I'm talking about rolling into a different store of value (e.g., cattle, crops, ammunition) before the whole thing goes up in smoke.
by winkelmann | 2025-10-30 16:51:43+00:00
I've been using an IODD 2531 enclosure for many years now, and it's doing pretty much exactly that. It works with any ISO I throw at it and has no issues with Secure Boot. It’s also platform-agnostic as it acts as a USB optical disk drive.

There are some shortcomings, like a bug where it doesn't remember the last selected ISO if its filename is too long, files also need to be fully sequential. These might be fixed in their newer models (the 2531 is fairly old).
by mystraline | 2025-10-30 16:52:03+00:00
Upon a reading, a "cybercrime" can be as simple as saying 'Kim Jong Un is a fat dumbass' on social media.

And since it was said on a computer, combined with insulting 'His Glorious Leader (spit) ' is a death penalty, thats a extraditing cybercrime.

Sure it could be argued thats not a real example. But given OFCOM's recent stunts of sending british compliance letters to US firms with no british presence, I'd rather not have other countries manufacturing shit laws and exporting to us as a "treaty".
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-10-30 16:52:22+00:00
It absolutely was a trend right before LLM training started — but no way this was already the style of the majority of all tech docs and PRs ever.

The „average“ style, from the Unix manpages from the 1960s through the Linux Documentation Project all the way to the latest super-hip JavaScript isEven emoji vomit README must still have been relatively tame I assume.
by mbrubeck | 2025-10-30 16:52:48+00:00
We're commenting on an article about IEEE 754 floating point values. Following the IEEE 754 standard, we have:

>> isNaN(Infinity) false >> Infinity == Infinity true >> Infinity / Infinity == 1 false >> isNaN(0) false >> 0 == 0 true >> 0 / 0 == 1 false

Also, you say NaN ("not a number") is "defined as a number" but Infinity is not. I would think every IEEE 754 value is either "a number" or "not a number". But apparently you believe NaN is both and Infinity is neither?

And you say 0 / 0 is "undefined" but the standard requires it to be NaN, which you say is "defined".
by didibus | 2025-10-30 16:52:51+00:00
That's a bad example, because here you're explicitly looking for links to websites that offer apartments in Seville.

But if you were looking for any information about anything? Say, what's the average cost of an apartment in Seville? That's where on Google, yes the search result is fast, but then you have to click through the links and those websites are often very slow to load and full of ads, and you might need to look at a few of them to get the information you wanted.

If you have a few added follow up piece of information you're interested in as well, what's the typical apartment size, have the prices been going up or down, what is the typical leasing process, etc. You can bottom out with the info much faster on ChatGPT.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-30 16:52:55+00:00
Right. For most people, gimp is not only overkill but also overwhelming. It's hard to intuit how to perform even fairly simple tasks. But for someone who needs it it's worth learning.

The casual user just wants a tool to crop screenshots and maybe draw simple shapes/lines/arrows. But once they do that they start to think of more advanced things and the simple tool starts to be seen as limiting.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-30 16:53:08+00:00
> For example, the convention requires states to have laws that compel internet services to collect certain data, and does not require that requests for such data be transparent. There are limited cases when member states may deny a request for data, although there is a provision to do so if a state believes a request is due to "sex, race, language, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, or political opinions". The latter statement was weakened during negotiations, and challenged by Iran and Russia until the end of negotiations.

Ok, so it's basically a "five eyes" style agreement for sharing intel on citizens. Why would anyone want their government to support this?
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-10-30 16:53:23+00:00
> Rooftop residential solar is still 3x-5x more expensive than ground mount

which is puzzling to me, because most feasible rooftop solar needs close to zero prep work to be able to mount the panels on the roof. Ground mount needs either helical screws or concrete footings, both of which are relatively expensive in terms of either material and/or labor/time.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-30 16:53:37+00:00
Time IS the evolution of state. The fact that things evolve is what allows us to define time.

In a universe without states that evolve, you cannot create a clock.

>The more I learn about theoretical physics & physicists the more I'm convinced these people are basically idiot savants.

This is an incredibly bad faith thing to say, when you admit you know nothing about the relevant field.

Physics is hard math, and has been that way for a century. Simpler mechanisms of information description are no longer accurate and unambiguous enough to clearly define what we have the data to demonstrate.

But the public gets really really mad when you tell them "Sorry, you need 8 years of math education to ride this ride" because the public is mostly convinced that math is "useless". So people with adequate training in writing to a lay audience and zero physics training keep asking physicist questions, and the answer is in math nobody will understand, so they have to approximate what math they are trying to convey or describe with some shitty analogy or words that don't actually mean the same thing. The lay public then makes all it's inferences based on broken analogies and comes to outright wrong conclusions.

This is why the lay public is still convinced quantum is magic, or allows faster than light information transmission, or magically speeds up computation, even though the math has always been clear about how that's not what is meant.

Stop thinking that vague words a physicist says are actually meaningful. They are struggling to convey difficult but crystal clear math to an audience that can barely read at a 6th grade level.

There are even "physicists" who have taken frank advantage of this system to make money by lying to the public full stop. People like Michio Kaku. Some of them are nice enough to openly label themselves "futurists", but not all.
by ValdikSS | 2025-10-30 16:54:09+00:00
Most people don't need computer (full feature power, full power of choice) to solve their task, as could be seen with the smartphones, which are designed as appliances more or less.

I don't want most of consumer electronics to act like a computer, it is a deficiency for me. I chose "dumb" Linux-based eBook reader instead of Android-based, because I want it to read books, full stop.
by pxc | 2025-10-30 16:54:22+00:00
Yes. It's been a few years since I regularly used Handbrake, but I remember thinking of it as very simple, especially with its presets-based workflow. I was used to stuff like various CLI tools, mkvmerge and its GUI, and avidemux at that time.

It struck me as a weird example in the OP because I don't really think of Handbrake as a power user tool.
by taylodl | 2025-10-30 16:54:30+00:00
The real problem is the Ready, Fire, Aim! approach to developing that starts with writing code first. As the article states, successful teams begin with architecture: define the components of the solution and how they interact, along with identifying data flows and data management. You can use AI to assist in that effort - and capture the result in an architecture diagram: preferably using a standardized modeling language such as ArchiMate that we can feed back into an AI in the future.

The same process can be applied to design. Again, designs can be captured in a modeling language such as UML that we can feed back into an AI in the future.

With those models in hand comprehending the code is relatively easy - and it doesn't matter whether the code was written by a person, an AI, or a combination of the two. But when you just jump straight to coding? That's problematic even without an AI.
by nicce | 2025-10-30 16:54:36+00:00
The issue list is full of bugs with segfaults. At least used to be when I last time checked it. But that is what you get with C/C++/Zig et all. It takes a lot of time to get good enough fuzzing and testing process to eliminate all that. In Chrome, for example, you could get $20,000 bounty just for demonstration of memory issue without an actual exploit.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-30 16:54:42+00:00
It's been the historical norm for all of time, except the extremely recent past.

The norm is that you're born somewhere and you stay there forever. Everyone there knows you and they've known you since you, or they, were born. If a traveler happens to show up, everyone can recognize immediately, by looking at their face, that they're from somewhere else. Strangers get low levels of trust.
by bananapub | 2025-10-30 16:55:04+00:00
it's fair to be very worried about the future of the apps, but this:

> Also I paid every upgrade for NOTHING.

is ridiculous. you (and I) paid for upgrades for software we liked, and then in exchange for that money got upgrades to said software.

it's completely ridiculous for you to now whinge about this particular thing.
by MerrimanInd | 2025-10-30 16:55:16+00:00
I understand where y'all are coming from and this is not a judgement against Canva specifically. But you can't be surprised that people are concerned after so many years of anti-consumer anti-patterns in software that start exactly like this. This has nothing to do with Canva or Serif but the industry as a whole has squandered goodwill for so many years that actions like this no longer get the benefit of the doubt.

So unfortunately due to the rug pulls of many bad actors y'all will have to explain exactly how this doesn't end poorly because damn near every other time a company has followed this trajectory it is not in the consumer's best interest.
by defanor | 2025-10-30 16:55:28+00:00
The advice looks sensible, but not sure if it does more good than harm. I recall simplified user interfaces standing in the way, hiding (or simply not providing) useful knobs or information/logs. They are annoying both when using them directly as a "power user", and when less tech-savvy users approach you (as they still do with those annoyingly simplified interfaces), asking for help. Then you try to use that simplified interface, it does not work, and there is no practical way to debug or try workarounds, so you end up with an interface that even a power user cannot use. I think generally it is more useful to focus on properly working software, on documentation and informative logs, sufficient flexibility, and maybe then on UI convenience, but still not making advanced controls and verbose information completely inaccessible (as it seems to be in the provided examples).