MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-16 00:49:56+00:00
If you really want to work in VR, you probably need one of the more specialized and expensive headsets. I've tried watching movies in my Index and it was functional, but there's no way it could legibly render text at a comfortable size. For what it's worth, because it might matter, I wear corrective lenses, so maybe I don't have the best optical setup.

Pimax and Bigscreen I think work hard for that market? Bigscreen has those neat goggles which I'd like to try. Rumors are that Valve is building another headset, with better specs. That might put pressure on that market.

For monitors, I must confess I am somewhat wrong. My 32inch (or something) LG monitor might have been $400, not $200. But I used a giant TV for years thinking I didn't need "nice" monitors and I was so wrong. 1440p and over 120hz refresh rate are so worth it, even for work tasks. When I bought it a couple years ago, the caveats were that it's a VA panel, so it has really bad ghosting. It's noticeable in games, but somehow has not ruined my experience. The other types of panels have their own drawbacks I think. OLED is the best non-compromise for image quality but then you will have to keep burn in at bay.

I like my LG monitor. My girlfriend's ASUS monitor is nice. I hear nice things about BenQ, but you're better off with review sites than my anecdotes.

My window management "trick" is that no window is full screen, and every window is overlapped such that there's always a sliver of the "under" window I can click even if that window is otherwise not in view. I also make significant use of alt-tab. I think people who use the multiple desktop feature of modern windows and mac have a much better system. One desktop per "Task" I think works really well.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-16 00:50:06+00:00
No, I guess you missed the point. Rust's contains isn't somehow magically upside down like your weird C++ example but it does work on the actual built-in string literal, whereas C++ can't do that because its built-in string literal is the weird C string literal that's a zero terminated char array for some reason.

Notice how you needed to write "bar"s to make your code compile? That trailing 's' says you want specifically to construct a std::string not use the language's built-in string literals. So you'll need a full blown hosted C++ environment (otherwise there's no allocator for the string class)

The Rust string literal was inherently a &'static str, which only needs the core language, it Just Works™.

There's a weird asymmetry, Bjarne wants user defined types to have all the features the built-in types have, but, not vice versa. So you can overload the short circuiting boolean operators on your own types (don't, this is basically always a bad idea) but you can't call methods on built-in literals like "foo" or true or 'X'...
by astrange | 2025-10-16 00:50:19+00:00
> Do you complain that Windows doesn’t have a bash or that Linux doesn’t support ACLs easily?

Don't both of those exist now?

The reason the Mac is more "app-centric" is Conway's law; developers own apps so it's thought if you tried breaking apart an app it would fail, since previous "document-centric" efforts like OpenDoc failed.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-16 00:51:35+00:00
BMI isn't a good indicator for obesity for individuals with higher muscle mass, this issue surfaces multiple times a year, because a lot of manual labor professionals and law enforcement shows up as obese in their annual checkups.

The solution is not to change the BMI scale but use alternative ones that takes the muscle mass and subliminal/visceral fat accumulation into consideration. We're supposed to forecast someone's likelihood for weight related issues, and muscle is not the problem there.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-16 00:51:56+00:00
I spend a lot of time using pdf’s at work as well and I’ve often yearned for something that uses vim keyboard commands and allows some keyboard based tagging and also search functionality. I explored writing something, but my understanding is that muPDF is proprietary and not suitable for commercial use in many cases.

When I was researching building a third party pdf reader with super specialized functions, I found that pdf.js might be good alternative that could be used commercially.
by electric_muse | 2025-10-16 00:52:12+00:00
My use is more episodic than daily. But I love mine for many of the same reasons others have cited.

On a plane this is so useful. Flights go by much faster.

When traveling it’s so much less of a productivity drag to be able to pop this on and work with more real estate and focus.

The spatial videos and photos, whether taken with a real spatial device or upgraded later, are… so immersive. Seeing very old memories in 3d is emotional.

But I would pay so much to have a great gaming experience. Like a racing sim or something else realistic. The hardware is so impressive.

Frankly, I think this shines most as a consumption device for 3d content. There’s just not nearly enough yet.
by Pannoniae | 2025-10-16 00:52:39+00:00
Counterargument: security by obscurity does work. The common strawman is that it doesn't, but that's when it's the only defence.

See Spectre and Meltdown - if it was easy to exploit then we would all be pwned unpatched just by running the Windows installer - just like how Windows XP machines used to do that back in the day....

If your exploit requires lots of disassembling, decrypting random ad-hoc custom crypto, and even finding what you're looking for in some random 100MB .dll, that just isn't very likely to be found except by the nationstate guys. The signal-to-noise ratio is a wonderful thing. It's much easier to hide something amongst very mundane things (most secrets are boring) than to heavily guard something and advertise "SECRETS ARE HERE". There's quite a few examples of this in various programs and web services, you obviously don't know because you didn't find it!
by vineyardmike | 2025-10-16 00:53:30+00:00
Am I being dumb or does this not actually contain the facts about the tax code? Is the /demo/all-facts file supposed to be the “real” facts? Are the XML fact files provided in another location?

It’s pretty cool to see the way that the IRS handles defining and maintaining its tax calculations, but also a machine-readable tax code seems cool too.
by zaphar | 2025-10-16 00:53:34+00:00
Yeah I don't know that this premise is true. For a lot of examples you might give WRT war or security, I feel like some will take the approach that "if you can't do it transparently then you probably shouldn't be doing it at all".

If your enemy knows your entire plan of attack in a battle you will lose. This isn't theoretical it's just a fact. It's why military organizations invest so much in intelligence. Knowing what the other guy is planning gives you a massive advantage.

You could perhaps say "Well then you shouldn't get in a war". But that isn't really under your control. If someone else decides they are in a war with you. You are in a war. It doesn't really matter whether you wanted to be in one or not.
by uxp100 | 2025-10-16 00:53:51+00:00
My home price doubled over the last decade in my rust belt town (the desirable neighborhood in a less than desirable town). Houses similar to mine going 300k+ and average individual income here is still under 40k I believe. City and county services were in much better shape 25 years ago (when they were underfunding their pension programs). My bus service was cut and will be cut again soon and I went almost two months without garbage pickup at one point last year. It’s not all doom and gloom, I do have positive things to say too (parks and library programs are still quite nice), but things ain’t looking up in the rust belt.
by baubino | 2025-10-16 00:54:53+00:00
> By the time I’m done, it sounds like I something I would write.

As a writer myself, this sounds incredibly depressing to me. The way I get to something sounding like something I would write is to write it, which in turn is what makes me a writer.

What you’re doing sounds very productive for producing a text but it’s not something you’ve actually written.
by ggm | 2025-10-16 00:55:00+00:00
"The counterfeit man" episode (they show a picture) stars David Hemmings who went on to star in "Blow Up" with Vanessa Redgrave in 1966, and in 2000 was a dissolute political player in "Gladiator" alongside Russell Crowe and Oliver Reed. He had an amazing career acting, directing and producing. He died in 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hemmings
by BearOso | 2025-10-16 00:55:00+00:00
It was never an integral part of the windowing system of either operating system. That idea never panned out. Quartz's drawing functions included what was needed for postscript, but the UI was done solely with bitmaps and cached bitmaps. There's PDF APIs in there, but they're not anything special, like being super fast, efficient, or hardware-accelerated.
by ineedasername | 2025-10-16 00:56:02+00:00
It’s not random. You’re setting up a straw man of what such a change would be. You can arrive at the same chemical formulation through different means. You may also need to tweak a formulation to achieve a variant effect, ie increased resilience of decay from uv light or countless other reasons for tweaks that would necessitate a construction change. It’s the construction I used as the analogous engineering component of this, and that is where an engineer designing the production system would need to understand the changes that the formulation (comparative item to formulation in this metaphor being the model and its underlying components, chemicals, methods of arriving at the end product).
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-16 00:56:45+00:00
As always, it's the sales vs maintenance issue.

Maintaining any system is a lot of work, we don't see it much but even gas stations get broken or vandalized, but things get fixed. People tend to think that all we need to do is build things, but maintenance is a heavy task on its own, and nowadays everything is falling apart, especially when there are subsidies to only build these charging stations, so nobody cares about them once they're up and running even for a moment.
by acdha | 2025-10-16 00:57:02+00:00
It’s a bit more complicated:

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/comparing-the-costs-...

Basically some things have gotten cheaper – TVs, gas, etc. – but things like inflation-adjusted housing or college prices have increased so much that people affected by them have a very different experience. This is a constant refrain many people I know who are under ~50 or so have where older relatives simply don’t understand that, say, they could go to UCLA with a part-time summer job because prior to Saint Ronnie that meant book and lab fees, and at first tuition was an order of magnitude lower (adjusted for inflation).

That creates enormously different beliefs because someone who bought a house in 1982 and has been rolling equity forward ever since has no idea what the subjective experience is like for their kids who graduated with heavy debt service and rents 50% higher.
by eth0ws | 2025-10-16 00:57:44+00:00
"When compared to Intel-based systems, it delivers up to 86x faster AI performance"

I'm imagining the engineers responsible for running the tests finely tuning the test suite for days and days so they could get that number into the press release, lol. There's no way that's a coincidence and someone definitely advocated for that line being the way it is.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-16 00:58:06+00:00
That's terrifying. There are so many things (that make HIV look like a cakewalk) that can happen, when you inject blood.

I guess it is really about the same as "tranq" (xylazine), in the US. That stuff is pretty horrifying.

Back before I quit, PCP was the drug boogeyman. That's almost quaint, now.
by xtracto | 2025-10-16 00:58:16+00:00
You've had already several replies commenting in your attitude issues; but it seems you are still to young to see them. I really, really hope in my heart that you can still keep the way of life you are used to. Although, from what I've seen in the US and the world currently, it will be quite difficult.

It is a reality that us people from Xenials (myself), Millenials and Z have have lived our work lives in a generally confortable era. I myself ended my BSc in 2004, way after the dot-com bubble burst, and fortunately the 2008 crisis didn't hit me.

But, the advice you are calling "boomer coping" (or similar) has some experience in there, most likely from people that suffered the 2000 dot-com bubble burst. From the accounts I've read of older friends, there were people with plenty of experience and great CVs washing dishes at local restaurants.

Right now, the way things are moving in our field, with AI, outsourcing and everything else playing, it looks like the skillsets are getting cheaper. So, we are getting punched by reality and I believe it will only get worse.

Good luck.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-16 00:59:42+00:00
Folklore.org has many stories about writing Lisa OS code in Pascal, about rewriting various pieces in assembly for the Macintosh, and developing apps in Pascal, but I can’t find any mention of actually writing any part of the original Mac system in Pascal.

Nothing you’ve quoted says otherwise. The closest is the very first sentence, but all it says is that Pascal was in use at Apple when the Macintosh project began, not that it was used for that project.
by teleforce | 2025-10-16 01:00:01+00:00
I share the same OP sentiment, and I think most users are.

At my workplace I've most of the Acrobat software suites for free but cannot be bothered to install them no matter how useful for my workflow because their multitude of software are just bad and resource hungry.

This is a classic pain point, I'm surprised Microsoft or any other companies do not provide better alternative to popular Acrobat software. My take is that designing front-end desktop software are genuinely hard and pay little if you're the second players.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-16 01:00:05+00:00
> What does it mean for the license to say "within the US"?

It means exactly what it says; you have to read the whole thing (or at least the two sentences before the CC 1.0 Universal text, which is the operative mechanism by which the second sentence is effected), not a fraction of the first sentence.

> Does this mean this software cannot be used outside the US?

No. The license explains two things:

(1) Without any license, this is automatically public domain in the US because it is a federal government work.

(2) The federal government (as the owner of the copyright at creation outside the United States, at least anywhere that applies the common rules underlying the Berne Convention) waives copyright worldwide, and does so via the CC 1.0 Universal declaration (the text of which is then included.)

So, it is, to the extent that this is legally possible, copyright-free globally.
by pluto_modadic | 2025-10-16 01:00:42+00:00
personally, the golang highlighting is nice.

- dark blue: keywords (var, nil)

- light blue: variables (defines the scope you're looking at)

- blue-green: types (bool, string, your custom thing, the kind of the variables)

- dark green: comments

- yellow: functions/methods (jumping to another section)

- orange: strings (not variables, so static things here!)

- if/braces/parens/select/switch/defer/go: purple (control logic)
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-16 01:01:25+00:00
Yeah, definitely regulations affected the effectiveness, but also good things happened as well, we have a lot more power tools to use and we're not likely to lose our head just because we didn't deliver a job on time.

We have a lot more infrastructure around now, so much that we don't even see the wonders that tame the nature and make it comfortable for us.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-16 01:01:45+00:00
I think OLED burn in has been mitigated fairly well recently. At least, I have a Linux laptop from 2021 that I use for work as well as fun, no particular care taken to avoid it, but no burn-in so far.

Font rendering, hard to say, I think it’s just preference.

Terminals look very nice with actual-black backgrounds.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-10-16 01:02:03+00:00
You know, this gets brought up every time, and I scratch my head as China and some other countries are just mass implementing any possible energy source. There's no one solution to the problem that will keep being the best solution. You just build, maintain, then build more and more and more and more and more to generate more energy. We shouldn't be debating "what is the most efficient" and only build that, because with that attitude, we just end up building nothing.
by smcin | 2025-10-16 01:03:45+00:00
The profile named by the OP has been taken down since.

Don't expect LinkedIn to care much about policing messages or paid invitations; and many profiles are fake. At most, you report people and if they LI enough complaints they take the profile down. (Presumably the scammers just create another profile.) I think LI would care much more about being paid with a bad CC.

I suspect LI is doing AI moderation by this point. Maybe we could complain to their customer-service AI about their moderation AI...
by foobarian | 2025-10-16 01:04:01+00:00
I learned a word today! Thank you!

phat·ic

/ˈfadik/

adjective

denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions. Utterances such as hello, how are you? and nice morning, isn't it? are phatic.

Origin: GREEK: phatos (spoken)
by ddxv | 2025-10-16 01:04:48+00:00
"Compared to lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries have somewhat lower cost, better safety characteristics (for the aqueous versions), and similar power delivery characteristics, but also a lower energy density (especially the aqueous versions)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery#cite_note-:...

Also, recent CATL PR releases about sodium ion only mention 'future cost savings' rather than anything about a 90% reduction in prices.
by acdha | 2025-10-16 01:05:04+00:00
> But, the advice you are calling "boomer coping" (or similar) has some experience in there, most likely from people that suffered the 2000 dot-com bubble burst. From the accounts I've read of older friends, there were people with plenty of experience and great CVs washing dishes at local restaurants.

Also the early 90s weren’t great: the Cold War ending meant that a lot of defense contractors laid off very specialized workers. For an example of that circa 1994:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000816014209/https://philip.gr...
by Terr_ | 2025-10-16 01:05:56+00:00
P.S.: Imagine a world with "AI" (open-source, user-controlled) which can instantly detect ads on your screen, and pass the bounding-boxes to another program which covers them up.

You could even install them on some digital glasses for a kind of They Live sunglasses situation [0], but please never wear such things while driving...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrrh86WDG0
by renewiltord | 2025-10-16 01:06:11+00:00
People will just pull ads if the ROAS isn't there. Performance marketing teams aren't fools.

Altering data would mess with everything. Why is unverified traffic increasing? What's wrong with new marketing efforts? Marketing just requires fixed definitions. e.g. if you have 97% bots but it remains constant that's okay. I know I am spending $x to get $y conversions. I can plan over time, increase or decrease and I can plan. I won't be willing to pay as much as with 0% bots (will pay far far less) but I can set my strategy on this.

It's not that it's x% bots that is the problem. Growth team doesn't adjust strategy on percentage-bot. Growth team adjusts strategy based on return on ad spend. If 0% bots but no return, way worse than 5x ROAS with 99% bots.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-16 01:06:35+00:00
This might actually be causal to an extent. A sibling comment mentions the early-mover advantage they got for their software from originating the format (initially in a locked-down form—IIRC, they actually prohibited Microsoft from including a PDF export feature in Office in the 90s). But another contribution to this is that there’ve put an absolutely unbelievable amount of stuff into the format while they were still milking it (how many flavours of PDF forms are there? three I think, one of which is XForms submitted over something equally execrable? also JavaScript support of course, can’t forget about the JavaScript support); and Acrobat is the only piece of software that supports—has to support—them all.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-16 01:06:43+00:00
I think it's unfair to say that I post this every time when I've only mentioned it twice before, with the previous time being 2 years ago. I don't have a grudge, I just recognize it as an easy to reproduce bug that disqualifies me from using the software. I'm not itching to get off of nginx as I already have a site that works, so I have no motivation to do extra work to fix bugs in other projects.
by tecoholic | 2025-10-16 01:06:45+00:00
Thanks for pointing those out. Your comment and the others who responded tell me I don’t typically work with complex software. I am a web dev who also had to wrangle data at times, the data part is where I face the issues.

I looked at the function in the article taking in an int and I stopped there. And then I read the docs for SupportsIndex, I just can’t think of an occasion I would have used it.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-16 01:06:57+00:00
It's just like how all that panic of "Powdered alcohol" was absurdly bullshit!

All the news and the company's marketing was implying it was more concentrated by being "dried", like you would concentrate all sorts of things.

Except alcohol is a liquid, and cannot be "concentrated". The powdered alcohol was alcohol soaked into maltodextrin (or similar). By definition, it is less potent. In fact, if you make some and actually try to do things like spike a drink, or even just try to make normal drinks from it, it was flat out useless and worse than just sneaking in a flask to somewhere.

The media that IMO kinda "debunked" the whole thing was WIRED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XH_GD6TgTY&t=1s
by fabianlindfors | 2025-10-16 01:08:27+00:00
I think specs embedded into existing code is a good idea as well, in fact there is some work being done in this area, like the Kiro editor: https://kiro.dev/

We have gone the all-specs route for now because it gives us an opportunity to try build that DX that you mention (which will be critical), without having to adapt to existing codebases that are no covered by specs.
by NiloCK | 2025-10-16 01:11:05+00:00
I've had a really good time with Caddy on a hobby project over the past 7 years on a digital ocean droplet.

Automatic HTTPS, multiple domains, proxying specific routes to local services, etc etc, managed by one extremely legible config file.

I've had literally one service failure over that period, and it was my own error after running upgrades of the droplet's operating system.

Highly recommended.

Congrats to Mike on growing the project to the point where he can responsibly take a hand off the wheel now and then. And thank you!
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 01:11:34+00:00
Last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474419 and you also said "I have only brought this up once before on HN and it was over 2 years ago." in that same thread.

Still, only you and one other person with a similar grudge have ever complained about it (we've never had any github issues opened about it in years, neither on our forums) and nobody who cares has attempted to solve it with code changes.
by sudo712 | 2025-10-16 01:13:36+00:00
It analyzes the entire video along with the metadata so that the entire context is captured. It even extracts important info like it is a travel itinerary, it will give you a list of places with direct links to Google Maps, or if it is a movie review, it will give a button that will take you to the trailer on YouTube. I am supporting 9 different specific genres and 9 genre-specific UI.