MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-11 19:15:32+00:00
There has to be a happy middle between "no protection" and "complete uniqueness"

The web without ad blocking is revolting. Browsers building in these features makes them more popular.

Aside: Fuck the Washington Post. They have a line in their privacy policy that acknowledges the existence of "Do Not Track" flags in browsers. Their acknowledgement: since there is no industry standard for responding to it, they ignore it.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 19:15:50+00:00
Less than $10M with the mortgage, my income will hit $5M this year pre-tax for the first time (almost half of that goes to the government)

Valuing my vast and eclectic empire of small websites earning between $1k and $300k per year is tricky because it’d presumably be tremendously hard to sell them all at once. Of course some reasonable multiple would arrive at some much higher number than my bank account+physical assets.
by robocat | 2025-11-11 19:15:53+00:00
Everybody seems to have an opinion on what someone more wealthy than they are should spend their money on.

Unfortunately we don't get to look at what the commenter earns or spend...

A normal car weekly payment in the US is ridiculously wasteful. If you live in the US its almost a given that you are ridiculously wealthy in comparison to many in the world.

A normal overseas trip is ridiculously wasteful.

It's hard to consider what an average person in the world would think is wasteful, because with our common developed country expenses we don't feel like millionaires.

We couldn't even ask a person with an average world income to comment, since do they even have the free time to waste? (edits)
by markusstrasser | 2025-11-11 19:15:55+00:00
Author here. Somehow the worst thing I ever wrote is on the front page of HN.

I wrote this fast so there's jargon and bad prose. The title is deliberately dry and bland so I wasn't expecting anyone to click it. Also I slightly changed my mind on some of the claims .. might write up later.

The main reason I like to think of creative work in a more abstract/formal/geometric way (acceptance volume, latency, sampling) is it's easier for me categorize tasks, modalities and domains and know how to design or work around it. It's very much biased by more own experiences making things.

Also, abstract technical concept often come with nice guarantees/properties/utils to build on .. some would say that's their raison d'être.

Re comments: * "this is just diminishing returns" -- ok and this is a framework for why: the non-worsening region collapses, so most micro-edits fail

* "bands record bangers in an hour" –– practice tax was prepaid. The recording session is exploitation/search riding on cached heuristics imo (and it still takes hours of repeated recording/mixing/producing to actually produce a single album track).

* music key example –– yes I should've picked a different one. Main point was that some choices create wider tolerance (arrangement/range/timbre) even if keys are symmetric in equal temperament
by woodruffw | 2025-11-11 19:16:02+00:00
I’m an open source maintainer, so I empathize with the sentiment that large companies appear to produce labor for unpaid maintainers by disclosing security issues. But appearance is operative: a security issue is something that I (as the maintainer) would need to fix regardless of who reports it, or would otherwise need to accept the reputational hit that comes with not triaging security reports. That’s sometimes perfectly fine (it’s okay for projects to decide that security isn’t a priority!), but you can’t have it both ways.
by taeric | 2025-11-11 19:16:03+00:00
Yeah, I confess I would have assumed that this was more common than otherwise.

Makes me curious how much of computing is losing perceived speed because we have moved to calculating everything on the fly? Easy example is website layout. Yes, some dynamic sites need to calculate a ton on the fly. Most sites, though, probably don't need to reflow everything nearly as often as they do. And fitting everything into the mechanism that is the document flow remains baffling to me.
by wiseowise | 2025-11-11 19:16:06+00:00
> I have not surveyed the Chinese but will not be surprised if the approval was higher than you'd imagine. If anything, the core ideas have clear demand in the west and people are voting for them when they are shown with a lipstick on top.

Ask other dictatorships while you're at it. Systems so great one wonders why stupid democracies haven't adopted the model still.
by znpy | 2025-11-11 19:16:10+00:00
worth noting that there are many casio watches that are very similar to the g-shock series but are not g-shock.

they're probably worse but still incredibly good. I have one of these (W-735H-1AV - https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/casio/product.W-735H-1AV/)... Got it for ~20 euros off amazon in 2018 and it's still rocking.

I never had to change the battery (so far) but I had to change the straps twice.
by pmontra | 2025-11-11 19:16:10+00:00
I more or less use those addons (uMatrix instead of NoScript) plus uBlock Origin. uMatrix doesn't load a large number of JS files. An example from an ecommerce site I'm browsing right now: the site is functional (at least in browsing mode) without the scripts from

bigcommerce.com classyschema.org doofinder.com elfsightcdn.com google.com grit.software gstatic.com hexgator.com klarna.com skeepers.io criteo.com googletagmanager.com

It needs only the JS from the first party domain. So they can track me from there but all the other guys don't know about me, unless they buy data from the first party. At least they have to do more work.

I also don't get advertising in any form, maybe because I don't have ecommerce apps on my phone and I block a lot of things with Blockada, but that's another story.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-11 19:16:13+00:00
I think there are a bunch of related questions though:

- Are the Mac Pro and Mac Studio getting yearly updates?

- Are they as intricate to design and manufacture as phones?

- Are they liable to eat into sales for more profitable models?

Personally, I'd be happy to get a new Mini if they made one, but I'm not shocked that they're not catering to that market.
by mywittyname | 2025-11-11 19:16:44+00:00
> I still don't know if the compression in the Loudness War was because of esthetics,

Upping the gain increases the relative "oomph" of the bass at the cost of some treble, right?

As a 90s kid with a bumping system in my Honda, I can confidently say we were all about that bass long before Megan Trainor came around. Everyone had the CD they used to demo their system.

Because of that, I think the loudness wars were driven by consumer tastes more than people will admit (because then we'd have to admit we all had poor taste). Young people really loved music with way too much bass. I remember my mom (a talented musician) complaining that my taste in music was all bass.

Of course, hip hop and rap in the 90s were really bass heavy, but so was a lot of rock music. RHCP, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Slipknot come to my mind as 90s rock bands that had tons of bass in their music.

Freak on a Leash in particular is a song that I feel like doesn't "translate" well to modern sound system setups. Listening to it on a setup with a massive subwoofer just hits different.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-11-11 19:17:09+00:00
Windows is not really just a gaming OS, at least after WSL was launched. Development experience using Windows Terminal + WSL has been pretty great when I did it 3 years ago - I can only imagine it being better today.

Also note that the cost of Windows machines is half the price of their Mac counterparts, even with the specs doubled.

For many folks Windows is an all-round multipurpose platform (gaming included) and they wouldn't want to invest in other machines just for doing development work, so they stick to it as their main OS. Yes we know of the horrible bloat, tracking and privacy invasion that the OS does to us, but many people tend to just ignore it and move on.
by zadjii | 2025-11-11 19:17:22+00:00
Notably this article was written based on Windows Terminal 1.18. That was before WT 1.22, which included this PR: [^1] which roughly doubled the terminal's throughput. That combined with a couple of other PRs in 1.22 made some scenarios up to _16x_ faster[^2]

[^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/17510

[^2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
by kees99 | 2025-11-11 19:17:23+00:00
> eBPF & XDP would be much faster than netfilter.

Netfilter is plenty fast, when configured sensibly. You'd probably want script to populate a "hash:net" ipset instead, and have just one iptables rule:

-A INPUT \ -m set --match-set geoblock \ -j DROP

(where "geoblock" is aforementioned set)
by derektank | 2025-11-11 19:17:24+00:00
>the track record of the effective altruism folks doesn’t seem all that great.

I've been donating 5-10% of my income to GiveWell[1] and their top charities like GiveDirectly[2] and the Against Malaria Foundation[3] for nearly a decade at this point and I think their track record has been fantastic. Effect altruism only gets shady when longtermists get involved and start speculating on the moral worth of lives in some distant future. If you focus on human beings alive today, effective altruists (and development economists) have done a great job identifying how to make your charitable donations go the farthest in reducing suffering.

[1] https://www.givewell.org/

[2] https://www.givedirectly.org/

[3] https://www.againstmalaria.com/
by Msurrow | 2025-11-11 19:17:25+00:00
In addition to your point, it seems obvious that disclosure policy for FOSS should be “when patch available” and not static X days. The security issue should certainly be disclosed - when its responsible to do so.

Now, if Google or whoever really feels like fixing fast is so important, then they could very well contribute by submitting a patch along with their issue report.

Then everybody wins.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-11-11 19:17:33+00:00
I work with elixir daily and I would concur. elixir's semantics line up nearly 1:1 with the clojure code I used to write a few years ago. Its basically if you replaced the lisp brackets with ruby like syntax. The end result is a language that is much easier to read and write on the daily with the disadvantage of making macros more difficult. I would argue that it should be difficult since you should avoid using it until absolutely necessary. Lisps on the other hand, practically beg you to use macros as the entire language is optimized for their use.
by talkingtab | 2025-11-11 19:17:35+00:00
MSDF is worth looking at:

https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen

and

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...

The context is GPU's, things like three.js

But yes, drawing text is hard.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-11 19:17:42+00:00
It’s not bug reports. It’s CVE.

There is a convergence of very annoying trends happening: more and more are garbage found and written using AI and with an impact which is questionable at best, the way CVE are published and classified is idiotic and platform founding vulnerability research like Google are more and more hostile to projects leaving very little time to actually work on fixes before publishing.

This is leading to more and more open source developers throwing the towel.
by jll29 | 2025-11-11 19:18:21+00:00
I appreciate the quality of the engineering and design, and that the hardware is open to being tinkered with by means of firmware update. The price seems fair for what is offered, and the device looks like it would be very useful for anyone who doesn't have any computer at hand or readily available. Kudos to the project team!

But it's unlikely that I buy one because (1) I tend to be close to computers most of the time, (2) my favorite "HP calculator" is the HP9000/715 due to its sizeable HIL keyboard, its 21" CRT color screen, and its support for HP-UX, pun intended; and (3) most of the mathematics I need beyond paper, pen and blackboard can best be done in a Python Jupyter Notebook (statistics) or Mathematica (symbolic derivations).
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-11 19:18:38+00:00
> One demo shows a drone flight controller - but any drone has enough motors and actuators to render the power consumption of the MCU irrelevant.

Lower power consumption for the brain-box that controls things always means smaller mass, and/or longer flight time. These are both admirable goals, and it is good to take these advancements where we can get them. Even if the improvements may seem like low-hanging fruit, they do accumulate.

> The operating voltage is a flex, but I'm pretty sure no battery chemistry goes this low while retaining a lot of usable power in it.

Supercapacitors are neat. They're capacitors, so they're really good at being charged and discharged many many times. But one of the things that keeps supercaps from being more broadly used is that they can have a good bit of power remaining in them even when their voltage is too low to directly power electronics, which reduces their maximum utilization (and by extension increases their size and expense in application).

This chip is stated to work at voltages as low as 0.4 volts.

This seems like a fine fit for a solar-powered sensor with fairly simple power management that is powered through the night by a supercap. And by avoiding the issues inherent with common chemical batteries, it may be possible for the sensor-widget to have a lifespan that is measured in decades.

> No power harvesting on board, no RF on board, no integrated buck converter.

It's just an MCU (though they do call it an SoC). Lots and lots of useful MCUs that are out there in the real world don't include these functions on-die. That's OK, isn't it?

(Besides, the UP201 is at the first released rev. The featureset is allowed to expand as time progresses. We walk before we run. If the company doesn't go belly-up, I'm sure it will include a kitchen sink and mail reader in due course.)
by Voultapher | 2025-11-11 19:18:52+00:00
> Measles, a dangerous illness that for decades has rarely infected Canadians, is back – and spreading. [...] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, now the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, stands with protesters in Olympia, Wash., in 2019, opposing a bill to tighten measles, mumps and rubella vaccine requirements for school-aged children.

Reading this, it's a challenge to feel empathy. Everyone deserves some degree of empathy, idiots too. Yet this topic seems so needlessly self inflicted. Maybe it's a more nuanced topic than I'm aware of, is there a strong argument against vaccination?
by tverbeure | 2025-11-11 19:18:52+00:00
You can make the same comment for pretty much any company that outsources (some of) its production, and it’d be irrelevant, pedantic and off-topic every time.

You’re also wrong. TSMC produces but a small part of the products that Nvidia sells: the silicon. They don’t produce any of the tens of thousands other components that go in a server.
by mrob | 2025-11-11 19:19:28+00:00
It's still a problem, although less consistently a problem than it used to be for the reason entropicdrifter explained.

There's a crowdsourced database of dynamic range metrics for music at:

https://dr.loudness-war.info/

You can see some 2025 releases are good but many are still loudness war victims. Even though streaming services normalize loudness, dynamic range compression will make music sound better on phone speakers, so there's still reason to do it.

IMO, music production peaked in the 80s, when essentially every mainstream release sounded good.
by benced | 2025-11-11 19:19:29+00:00
This is dumb. Obscurity doesn’t create security. It’s unfortunate if ffmpeg doesn’t have the money to fix reported bugs but that doesn’t mean they should be ignorant of them. I don’t see any entitlement out of Google either - I expected this article would have a GH issue thread with a whiny YouTube engineer yelling at maintainers.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 19:19:32+00:00
You don’t have to be “industry leading” to reach that kind of comp working for big tech.

I could be totally wrong, but in a world where plumbers and the likes can walk away with multimillion dollar profits you probably don’t have to be top <1% to pull that off either. Not taking shots at plumbers, but the point is that even something boring can and will pay off if you work hard at it.

My own work couldn’t be more boring, I’m not particularly smart or talented. I just grind out many little varyingly useful websites with card payment forms.
by palmotea | 2025-11-11 19:19:38+00:00
> Many in the FFmpeg community argue, with reason, that it is unreasonable for a trillion-dollar corporation like Google, which heavily relies on FFmpeg in its products, to shift the workload of fixing vulnerabilities to unpaid volunteers.

That's capitalism, they need to quit their whining or move to North Korea. /s The whole point is to maximize value to the shareholders, and the more work they can shove onto unpaid volunteers, the move money they can shove into stock buybacks or dividends.

The system is broken. IMHO, there outta be a law mandating reasonable payments from multi-billion dollar companies to open source software maintainers.
by hughw | 2025-11-11 19:21:03+00:00
I bought a 35s and found the ergonomics not as good as my old, dead 11C. So I bought an antique 15C on eBay, and it sits right by my keyboard all day.

I'll use the built in calc in macOS Spotlight for many things, but plenty of times each day I use the HP. Example: yesterday I calculated an angle in degrees by reading off approximate x, y coordinates from a graph on my screen. Swapping windows to a calculator app, repositioning them to see both at the same time, just too fiddly, and clicking the calc app moves the cursor so I have to remember the numbers as I switch context.. The physical HP in front of me leaves my screen undisturbed. Easy.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-11-11 19:21:19+00:00
When you already work 40+ hours a week and big companies suddenly start an AI snowblower that shoots a dozen extra hours of work every week at you without doing anything to balance that (like, for instance, also opening PRs with patches that fix the bugs), the relationship starts feeling like being an unpaid employee of their project.

What's the point of just showering these things with bug reports when the same tool (or a similar one) can also apparently fix the problem too?
by creer | 2025-11-11 19:21:30+00:00
> always asking the candidate upfront for their expected salary [etc - to respect and save everyone time]

Isn't that a dark pattern (in addition to being a time saver for everyone)? It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't kind of thing.

This is an adversarial question in a process which needs to be ruthless against the time-wasting applications, but also needs to be cooperative with future co-workers.

If you are open to a broad range of salary in exchange for perhaps working at a super exciting place, then there is no good answer. Even "I'm open to a broad range of salary if that's needed to work at a super exciting place" is not a great answer.

Leaving it to the legal requirement of posting an expected salary range and negotiating from there might be a better way.
by pmontra | 2025-11-11 19:21:46+00:00
My experience with uMatrix: most sites work right away. Others require fiddling with the matrix of media, script, xhr, frames and the third parties serving them. After a while it's easy to remember which ones must be temporary enabled and which ones don't. Sites with videos are a little more difficult. Sites with payments require care. I whitelist the minimum set of scripts that make the sites I use often work. There are usually many scripts that can be left out. If everything fails and it's a one shot site, I start Chrome.
by Msurrow | 2025-11-11 19:22:01+00:00
My takeaway from the article was not that the report was a problem, but a change in approach from Google that they’d disclose publicly after X days, regardless of if the project had a chance to fix it.

To me its okay to “demand” from a for profit company (eg google) to fix an issue fast. Because they have ressources. But to “demand” that an oss project fix something with a certain (possibly tight) timeframe.. well I’m sure you better than me, that that’s not who volunteering works
by port11 | 2025-11-11 19:23:18+00:00
Oh, I get it, I've worked fashion retail at H&M. The nonsense designer collections would sell out fast, even though it's a) still H&M and b) made in the same sweatshops. People like status items. But come on, this is some thread wrapped around a phone. Even Kanye's idiotic shoes had a better price-to-value ratio.
by andriesm | 2025-11-11 19:23:36+00:00
Shareholders voted for it. Don't understand how the will of Tesla Shareholders is a corporate governance failure... couldn't read the rest of the article behind paywall, but the premise seems so borked that I'm not going to bother.

Article reminds me of a Delaware judge who also ruled that shareholders were not properly informed about the implications of their vote ‐ then after a very high profile court case and ruling ‐ shareholders voted a 2nd time to retroactively approve the same pay package. Who was right, this activist judge or shareholders?

It's funny how judges and The Economist's writers tell shareholders how they aren't really able to make an informed decision by voting their shares.

You ought to vote in a way that activists agree with!

Elon is too rich, how dare you vote for something that will make him and shareholders a lot of money!

"We know better than shareholders what pay structure is appropriate!"
by robotresearcher | 2025-11-11 19:23:50+00:00
Not necessarily heavy (except sometimes as an effect), but some compression almost all the time for artistic reasons, yes.

Most people would barely notice it as it's waaaay more subtle than your distorted guitar example. But it's there.

Part of the likeable sound of albums made on tape is the particular combination of old-time compressors used to make sure enough level gets to the tape, plus the way tape compresses the signal again on recording by it's nature.
by the_pwner224 | 2025-11-11 19:24:23+00:00
Foldables get this job done well. My (OG) Pixel Fold is a great size & aspect ratio while folded, easy to use one-handed, but has a giant screen when you open it up. The newer Pixel Folds and the other foldables on the market have all grown the screen vertically but they're still more compact than most flagships.
by phkahler | 2025-11-11 19:24:24+00:00
>> Honestly, my favorite places aren't the place I'd want to take a first date. They're casual and cheap and wouldn't convey that I was trying very hard.

Unless you're talking about fast food, what's the problem?

Tip #2: Don't pretend your lifestyle is going to fancy places, she'll come to expect that. Just be you. You like the local Coney Island? Go for it. I mean... unless your norm is Taco Bell in which case yeah, take it up a notch.