MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by opello | 2025-11-11 19:01:54+00:00
I was thinking MPEG-1 until around 1996 when MPEG-2 adds interlaced and transport stream support, among other things. But you're right, MPEG bitrates for quality were too high for what I was thinking. More like QuickTime Video or Smacker, which were used in games like The Journeyman Project or Diablo 1.
by RandomBacon | 2025-11-11 19:02:00+00:00
It's a joke even before looking at the price. "3D-knitted" WTF is that? Isn't all knitting in "3D"?

It's a crappy handbag, and it's just for a phone.

It looks like they had to use models to advertise it because they couldn't use "everyday people" in "everyday situations" to advertise because it looks like it would be garbage in that scenario.

Is Apple expanding to the "luxury" fashion market?
by marssaxman | 2025-11-11 19:02:15+00:00
Here in Seattle the traffic cameras are not used to limit speed, but to monitor intersections for red-light violations. The glue-squirting fellow in my anecdote objected to the fact that the for-profit corporation which builds and operates these cameras gets a cut of the revenue from the citations they issue. He felt that it was one thing to enforce the law, and quite another thing to run a profitable business doing it.
by mdriley | 2025-11-11 19:02:41+00:00
Obligatory oldnewthing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030929-02/?p=42...

> Multilingual support also explains why you see things like “1 folder(s)” instead of “1 folder” and “2 folders”. Why not have two format strings, one for when the number of items is exactly one, and one for when the number of items is two or more?

> Well, for one, that would significantly increase the number of strings we would have to carry around. (If you say “just add s to make the plural” then you really need to get out more!)

> For two, some languages (such as Slovene) have a “dual” number in addition to singular and plural. The Lahir language has singular (one), dual (two), trial (three), paucal (a few), and plural (many). So now you have to have perhaps five versions of every string that contains a replaceable number.
by jonhohle | 2025-11-11 19:04:13+00:00
As bad as anti-vaxxers are claimed to be, people conflating someone who has concerns about novel medical treatment or general distrust of the pharma industry with people who think all vaccines are bad are far worse. They suppress actual scientific discussion and information propagation through fear, intimidation, and suppression.

I’ve come to discount the opinion of anyone who earnestly accuses some of being an anti-vaxxer. They have no moral or scientific high ground and obviously do not understand nuance.
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-11 19:04:18+00:00
> It's just baffling they are still getting billions to spend.

When you realize that most investors at that level are degenerate gamblers, and that they're even worse about thinking "the Generals were due!" than your buddy who can't look away from the DraftKings app for more than five minutes, it's not so baffling anymore. The only difference is that when you have that much money, you own the casino.
by hamburglar | 2025-11-11 19:04:30+00:00
And somehow you inferred that because one person doesn’t need their phone to be productive in that way, that they want to limit everyone?

I use my phone for web browsing 99% of the time. I don’t need it to have AI processors or loads of brand new tech. I want it to be cheap, functional, and expendable. So I definitely question whether a phone needs to be super “productive” in that sense too. But people who want their aircraft carrier phones that don’t fit in their pockets and cost over $1000 can have that too.
by marzchipane | 2025-11-11 19:04:46+00:00
A bit of a digression: the article has the hieroglyphics presented as pictures, not as Unicode, even though Unicode has the entire(?) hieroglyph block already. After some digging, I found that this was because there aren't many (or any) popular fonts which implement the proper combinations of glyphs.

(While Unicode has combining diacritics, this isn't sufficient to e.g. stack the glyphs as shown in the article.)

However, it turns out that Microsoft has developed a tool that can modify an existing font to allow this, representing the hieroglyphyics properly. I've written a brief tutorial that shows how to actually use it:

https://marzchipane.com/notes%20and%20essays/interesting_uni...

(You may need to press Shift+F5 to reload fully if they don't show properly)

EDIT: hieroglyphs, not hieroglyphics
by heisenbit | 2025-11-11 19:04:50+00:00
Way back around ‘84 in the military I was doing the artillery survey calculations for the Lance (potentially nuclear) missile. We had to store first the program into the volatile hp memory, run check calculations before doing the real calculations. I always found the calculations very efficient - they had to be as they had to be done within certain time limits (and independently checked). It was a strange feeling thinking about doing the calculations under high pressure and what the stakes were if you would get the coordinates or directions wrong in case it would be used.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-11 19:05:14+00:00
If one takes the narrow scope of openly "wants political enemies banned from software conferences" as the only way one can be intolerant, this actually makes sense. Doesn't it seem obvious to you, though, that there are other ways to be intolerant?

For example, take this author's beef:

> Around the same time this Rubygems drama was unfolding, David published a post [exploring his confusion and fear](https://web.archive.org/web/20250915074221/https://world.hey...) of the diverse ethnic makeup of the city of London, in the United Kingdom.

In that blog post, DHH included this paragraph:

> Most recently, five officers(!) came to arrest comedian Graham Linehan for illicit tweets. When much of the media reports a story like this, it's often without citing the specific words in question, such that the reader might imagine something far worse than what was actually said. So you should actually [read the three tweets](https://web.archive.org/web/20250915093439/https://grahamlin...) that landed Linehan in jail, and earned him a legal restraining order against using X. It's grotesque.

Cherry-picking the tweet that seems most unreasonable:

> If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.

The author takes this to mean:

> In other words, that if you see a trans woman minding her business you should go out of your way to harass her – and then physically assault her.

So, since you brought up the question, and given this additional context, maybe there's something more to think about: which one is tolerant? Do you think it is unreasonable for the author to dislike DHH to the point that they would refuse to go to a conference at which he is scheduled to speak?

It's unreasonable and seemingly dishonest for the OP to have used the phrase "don’t share their opinions". It's similarly unreasonable and dishonest to refer to him as a mere political enemy. That's obviously not where the disdain comes from. You wouldn't think you simply "don't share my opinion" and that I'm just a "political enemy" if I think you should be excluded from public spaces simply for being different from me. You'd probably think I'm being intolerant. And there would be no shortage of folk coming out of the woodwork saying that actually you're being intolerant for not tolerating my opinion (that you don't belong for being different).
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-11 19:06:16+00:00
Having a stick with exposed contacts and no USB shell (like the yubikey has) is not possible in USB3 format. It requires springs on the stick itself, no chance of the easy, pretty much unbreakable yubikey format. That only works for USB2. USB3-A (and -C) reversed the part that is springy, what was previously in the receptacle is now in the plug. Of course USB3-A is a mixed standard so the USB2 part is still as it was for backwards compatibility.

The reason is that the springs wear the most. This ensures longevity of USB ports in laptops where they are hard to replace. A USB cable or device is usually much easier to replace, and also a PC is normally used with many devices so the wear is shared between them now. But it does mean the contacts on the plug side are more fragile now.

And without USB3, filling something at current capacity levels is going to be tedious.

Of course for a yubikey that just transfers a few bytes this is not an issue but for a USB key it is.
by KomoD | 2025-11-11 19:06:18+00:00
> More concerning than the detections is the observed behavior: - Random cmd.exe processes spawning periodically - Persistent background activity - BitLocker recovery triggered after offline virus scan - Suspicious network connections

Your own links disprove this. "No relevant DNS requests were made.", "No relevant hosts were contacted.", "No relevant HTTP requests were made."

> This goes beyond typical false-positive behavior seen with some Chinese development tools (which sometimes lack proper code signing or use aggressive system access).

No, it doesn't.

> Two possibilities: 1. Supply chain compromise - their dl.sipeed.com server is serving modified binaries 2. Aggressive false positive (seems less likely given the behavioral indicators)

One possibility: a regular false positive and a guy who doesn't know what he is talking about.

> If this is a supply chain attack

It isn't.
by notafox | 2025-11-11 19:07:05+00:00
Also profiles can be configured and used with CLI, no need for UI (old or new).

./firefox -CreateProfile "profile-name /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-path/" ./firefox -profile "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-path/"

And, you can run it directly, no need to launch default firefox profile:

Given that /usr/bin/firefox is just a shell script, you can

- create a copy of it, say, /usr/bin/firefox-hn - adjust the relevant line, adding the -profile argument

If you use an icon to run firefox (say, /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop), you'll need to do copy/adjust line for the icon.
by torstenvl | 2025-11-11 19:07:05+00:00
What ramp up? It's been less than a year since they discontinued the SE 2022.

Apple could have kept improving the CPU and camera and not much else and would have had a steady stream of income from those of us who want to use our actual pockets (not a weird swaddle) to carry our phones.

The iPhone SE accounted for 5-12% of the market, depending on year. The iPhone mini accounted for about 5%. Let's conservatively call it 13%.

Apple had iPhone revenue of $205bn in 2022. The average smaller iPhone is about .5-.67 the cost of a flagship model.

So fuzzy math, but .13 * .5 * 205000000000 = a $1.3bn market for iPhones you can use with one hand.

Thats nothing to sneeze at. Way more of a market than something like a Magic Trackpad.
by creer | 2025-11-11 19:07:47+00:00
> companies are in some sense bluffing with the "Didn't Qualify" category.

This is to the point that it's not "bluffing" but simply "how the world works." What's unfortunate is that many new grads (and some veterans) live with the impression that they need to meet (or lie about) all these "requirements". When the real world never operated like that.

Still, some job ads are written to show both "essentials" and "nice to have".
by mindslight | 2025-11-11 19:08:28+00:00
> They were basically saying, "We're not yet sure if they work well, but we're looking into it. But for now, supplies are limited, so let's not deprive healthcare workers who actually need them."

No, they could have said that. In fact, they should have said that. Instead what they said was some convoluted statement actually saying something like there was no evidence for masks working (null hypothesis), worded such that most people not skilled in critical reading would interpret it as an indication that masks didn't work.

It was most certainly a black mark on public health officials, along with the various closures of open air venues - parks, beaches, etc. (of course not that these things justify any of the abject denialist craziness of the "other side")
by IshKebab | 2025-11-11 19:08:39+00:00
> As is often the case with array programming, I revisited this last week only to realize I couldn’t read it

> The advantage of array languages in my experience has always been their immediacy.

They seem to have a lot in common with regexes in that regard. Super useful for interactive use cases in editors, search engines, etc. But if you find yourself saving a regex it's at least code smell and probably a red flag.

Some of the array language people seem to think it's sane to write an entire program in regex-lang, which is less red flag and more red banner flying through the sky.
by hobofan | 2025-11-11 19:09:30+00:00
Yes of course Google nurtures the SEO industry. The first hit I get when I google SEO is a best practice site from Google themselves.

The person/department/agency that is responsible for doing SEO is the same one that is responsible for spending ad money on Google. It's in their best interest to internally sell "search" (no matter if organic/inorganic) as a good advertising channel and that creates great stickiness for Google's ad business.
by DANmode | 2025-11-11 19:09:57+00:00
It’s all opportunistic infections, compounding on each other’s impact on the total capacity of an immune system.

Mold exposure drives immune dysfunction (including gut dysbiosis, and weakness of important barrier-type tissues) that allow these common infections to really thrive.

The environment described above leads to impaired cognitive function, and, if the glymphatic impact (detox inefficiency) is left unaddressed long enough, stuff like Alzheimer’s, dementia, more.

What you believe to be rare, reading my case, is quite common - but simply yet to be fully understood.

Slowly the lonely anecdata of hidden, missed chronic illness is being joined by data, and scientific fact:

ChangeTheAirFounation.org
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-11 19:10:06+00:00
Do you mean why doesn’t he make a search engine? If so, that’s very silly.

First of all, if he is working on a search engine, why would he tell people while complaining about Google? That would just make it seem spammy.

Also even if he isn’t working on a search engine, how will the people who have the skills to make a good search engine know that there is a market for it unless people complain regardless of their own lack of skills?
by van_lizard | 2025-11-11 19:10:26+00:00
The domain/name is fun.

The idea is controversial as proved by the resistance to Recall.

Morrissey should be your pet (stop me if you think you've heard this one before)

It should start doing what Instagram is doing and transform your activity into visual feedback that is fun to explore by you or the people that you want to show to, what you did throughout the day.
by vkou | 2025-11-11 19:10:26+00:00
You have no opinion on single-payer versus obamacare funded-mandate versus unfunded-mandate versus free-for-all deny-pre-existing conditions health insurance?

You have no opinion on the removal of the legislature as a branch of government, and concentration of all that power into an office held by one man?

You have no opinion on the country turning into a 'papers please, comrade' state for anyone who looks brown?

Your life isn't impacted when flights are cancelled because ATC stops getting paid?

You don't, or don't know anyone working for the federal government? You don't know anyone on EBT? Anyone who has ever done schedule 1 drugs? Your life isn't impacted when billion-dollar frauds escape prison and restitution, setting an example and roadmap for others to follow? Or when tax rates and benefits get adjusted up or down? Or when a complete quack gets put in charge of the country's healthcare and infectious disease control?

You aren't at all affected by any decade-long wars that the country's entangled in? You don't use any foreign imports? Or domestic products that rely on foreign imports?

You don't derive any value from living in a country that mostly follows the rule of law?

You must be incredibly privileged to not be affected by any of this.

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Society is a series of jenga towers. No particular brick is load-bearing.
by ZephyrBlu | 2025-11-11 19:10:56+00:00
Material and cut/design.

Material is not just about quality, but rarity or uniqueness. For example, japanese denim can get very expensive in part because it's very low volume. For dress pants, it might be a particularly interesting fabric.

A lot of more expensive pants also have interesting designs or proportions that are very unique or hard to find elsewhere. There is a lot of cool stuff you can get for under $500 USD though, that is still pretty expensive.

Some examples around that price range:

- https://stoffa.co/collections/trousers/products/lavender-woo...

- https://www.lemaire.fr/products/twisted-belted-pants-bl760-d...

- https://www.blueowl.us/collections/pure-blue-japan/products/...
by happy-go-lucky | 2025-11-11 19:11:07+00:00
Studied a listed company for about a year, invested a very negligible amount not knowing the share price was at an all-time high. Mr. Market doubled my principal in about 16 months. I realize my intelligence had no role here. It's a defense company being controlled by a democratically elected, nationalistic government. Mr. Market is doubling my money, not me.
by dpark | 2025-11-11 19:11:14+00:00
Not to be flippant but next time don’t buy the Max. I don’t know how to reconcile “I wish my phone were smaller” with “I buy the biggest phone”.

Apple is doubtless doing the same kind of “they say they want this but they buy that” calculation that automobile manufacturers are doing. “People say they want fuel efficient cars but they actually buy SUVs And giant trucks.”
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 19:11:54+00:00
It is hard not to love the degeneracy of Son Masayoshi as a gambler. The trick is to not take it seriously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799821

Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital Management is a close second (lost $20B in two days, and basically brushed off margin calls while his highly overlevered bets were collapsing, incurring $10B+ of losses at the investment banks he worked with).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-08/how-bill-... | https://archive.today/lM0SU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archegos_Capital_Management
by olivia-banks | 2025-11-11 19:14:01+00:00
I'm bound to get downvoted here, but I ran this by my own local model.

> No One Understands Software Because No One Understands Time

> All Programming Languages Converge to English Eventually

> The Best Database Is Just Two People Talking

> Stop Writing Code. Start Legislating Software

And my personal favorite:

> AI Safety Is Just the New Gluten-Free
by ganelonhb | 2025-11-11 19:14:09+00:00
Not too fond of maintainers getting too uppity about this stuff. I get that it can be frustrating to receive bug report after bug report from people who are unwilling or unable to contribute to the code base, or at the very least to donate to the team.

But the way I see it, a bug report is a bug report, no matter how small or big the bug or the team, it should be addressed.

I don’t know, I’m not exactly a pillar of the FOSS community with weight behind my words.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-11 19:14:09+00:00
I am fairly confident that this article is largely AI-generated. More generally, the whole site appears to be heavy on AI slop, e.g.: https://thenewstack.io/how-ai-is-pushing-kubernetes-storage-...

And maybe it's fine to have AI-generated articles that summarize Twitter threads for HN, but this is not a good summarization of the discussion that unfolded in the wake of this complaint. For one, it doesn't mention a reply from Google security, which you would think should be pretty relevant here.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-11-11 19:14:39+00:00
That's a good one for my younger friends. Most people my age don't really drink anymore other than 1-2 a night

Yes not only have the best movies aged well, but the old movies that you've never heard of (not the bad ones, there are plenty of those, but the good ones, which there are still plenty of) are BETTER than the new movies of today. It's unbelievable and it's creatively inspiring to me personally, even if it requires "time travel."

It's like visiting a museum, or a grand old architectural building. If you abstract even a tiny bit from the viewer immersion (which is great), you can't help but think "What craftsmanship! We don't get stuff like this anymore" And of course you also start to pick up on where everything came from, such that even the new stuff you love looks like a slightly sleeker yet baser, cheaper copy of the old.
by sputtagunta | 2025-11-11 19:14:49+00:00
I co-founded Civil Maps, an HD mapping and autonomy startup. In 2022, the company’s core assets were sold to Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ: LAZR) in a ~$10M asset acquisition.

At the time, I was the largest common stockholder. I was asked to assign my proxy but declined—because I hadn’t received full disclosure of key terms, including valuation method, insider compensation, and board incentives. The transaction closed anyway.

I’ve now published the internal documentation to raise questions about how private companies handle governance and accountability during exit events:

Executed Asset Purchase Agreement + closing docs Waterfall model showing $0 to common stock $10 waiver of the Management Bonus Plan Release agreements and payments to board members Vote math showing potential conflicts in the approval Delaware §220 action to obtain further records SEC complaints around material omissions in buyer filings

Full archive here: https://sputtagunta.github.io/civilmaps-files/

Thought I would share it with fellow founders if there are any lessons to be learned.

How should boards structure incentives when common shareholders are unlikely to recover?

What constitutes a material omission during asset transfers and wind-downs?

When employment or payouts are tied to a vote, where do fiduciary duties draw the line?

These are recurring issues in private-company exits—especially in distressed or M&A-driven scenarios—and they deserve more scrutiny.

Happy to engage with anyone thinking deeply about founder responsibilities, governance best practices, and shareholder protections.
by pndy | 2025-11-11 19:14:52+00:00
This makes me wonder how strong this thing is because on first sight it just asks for being cut by a random thug. Same goes for this strap thing they introduced.

I thought I won't be seeing anything else more ridiculous this decade regarding phones than people talking on speaker and holding them like piece of pie and here we are. There's no practicality whatsoever - I'd rather buy a strong case, probably that would cover both screen and cameras and a good urban backpack where I can put other stuff like physical wallet and a bottle of water, some charging cable.

It's more a gadget sold as a status symbol - bit like some cases had that small rounded window for apple logo.
by tavavex | 2025-11-11 19:15:12+00:00
> Keep in mind that HN is packed with people with salaries above $1M/yr and entrepreneurs with way higher income levels.

Is it really packed with those people? I know there's some, but I imagined that the average user here is probably some senior engineer in his 40s making six figures - not an executive or some industry-leading employee, and not the top <1% entrepreneur who manages to walk away with multimillion dollar profits. If that really is the common audience here, then I'm living in a whole different universe from what the average would work out to.
by jdsully | 2025-11-11 19:15:14+00:00
It was different where you were but the billG and early Ballmer years devs had a lot of power. Like to the point where PMs had training on "soft power" or more bluntly how to get a dev who doesn't want to do your feature to implement how you designed. A good dev certainly wasn't going to get into any trouble refusing a "brain dead" feature in those years.