MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dcrazy | 2025-07-30 03:59:25+00:00
There’s no analogue audio over Lightning, so if the 30-pin adapter is disabling volume level on the phone, it’s just picking a fixed gain for its internal DAC—perhaps because the DAC is only good within a certain gain range. The Apple USB-C to 3.5mm adapters are widely regarded as having excellent DACs irrespective of their size and price. I’m not as familiar with the reputation of the Lightning to 3.5mm adapters, but I would consider the ability to configure the DAC volume an indicator of superior quality DAC compared to the 30-pin adapter.
by Kozmik1 | 2025-07-30 04:01:51+00:00
Do not stay in Haleiwa or go to Waikiki. Consult a map, and find some uphill areas above 100ft to drive to. Drive towards Mililani and wait it out in the upland areas.

My kids are at camp right now on the North Shore and are being evacuated by bus to Mililani.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-30 04:02:03+00:00
> “fashion photographer thinks all portraits should look like the red carpet” wasn’t on my batshit opinions bingo card.

“Specialist thinks the broader domain should universally adhere to the way things are optimized in their area of focus” is not an uncommon thing to see on HN, though its more commonly seen with specialists in different kinds of programming than photography.
by _tik_ | 2025-07-30 04:02:32+00:00
It depends on your budget and interests. In terms of sensor size, Micro Four Thirds (from Olympus and Panasonic) is generally the most affordable, but it comes with a smaller sensor. APS-C offers a middle ground, while Full Frame is the most popular and typically delivers the best image quality.

Personally, I use Sony APS-C the most because of its smaller size, lighter weight, and more affordable lenses. Among APS-C systems, Sony and Fuji offer the widest lens selection. Fuji gear tends to be overpriced now, but it does have a stylish look.

Micro Four Thirds lenses are usually cheaper and more lightweight.

If you're shooting fast-moving subjects like birds or Formula 1 racing, Canon and Nikon are the most popular choices. They offer a wide range high performance lenses designed for demanding situations.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-30 04:04:14+00:00
https://archive.is/Vcde1

Preivously:

The TACO trade is the new Trump trade (4 points, 2 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120824

Trump Bristles at 'Taco Trade' That Bets on Him Backing Down (10 points, 2 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119150
by frm88 | 2025-07-30 04:04:35+00:00
I'm not familiar with American carpenter bees, but I have made it my mission to feed the European ones. They are extremely fond of clary sage and from what I have read online [0] this is true for all Xylocopa on the American continent too, so please consider planting some.

[0] https://www.fountainofplants.com/post/clary-sage-salvia-scla...

Edit: yet another typo I give up!!
by somenameforme | 2025-07-30 04:05:15+00:00
This is also in many ways what makes them so deadly in places that aren't used to tsunamis. It often just looks like a regular wave or a tide that will imminently break or recede, but they never do. Here [1] is a video of one of the later waves of Thailand's 2004 tsunami.

Even worse is tsunamis are also often preceded by a 'disappearing coast' effect where the water will recede back into the ocean for hundreds of meters. This often drives tourists or locals who don't know better to go check out the sea bed and the weird behavior of the ocean, then the tsunami comes in and they're right in the middle of it.

If you're ever at a beach where the water starts rapidly disappearing, yell tsunami and get away as fast as you can. Ignore the normalcy bias, because most people, even locals, will be just standing around taking videos or even walking out into it. And don't stop running even when you're well away from the beach. It's nature's warning sign.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7TZFBAlaE
by firefax | 2025-07-30 04:05:58+00:00
Maybe move to being a program manager or something? If you truly enjoy coding, don't stop, but try to make it a hobby?

I never enjoyed coding, it was a means to an end -- I was interested in systems administration and learned about infosec along the way, trying to protect my machine in an age when hard drive space was scarce and virtual machines weren't a thing -- you burned a CD and spun up Knoppix if you had decent ram...

Anyways, the things AI are doing is more "software carpentry" than "software engineering".

AI is not finding zero days. AI is not writing tight C to speed up I/O intensive processes.

OTOH, I don't have a career -- I bounced from UX research to policy to pentesting to being a SOC analyst, trying to find just... stability, respect, and a challenging environment.

When you're young it can be tempting to chase the perfect job but if you have one now, I'd try to get into a management position where you have a good work life balance. Find people you can trust to work under you, and treat them well. That isn't always a money thing -- letting them use their PTO, not screaming throwing things or hitting them, not forcing them to conduct every communication over email as if interactions that don't occur in writing are fair game to be manipulative...

Anyways I think the things AI will "solve" are stuff like when you're tweaking some code to parse a CSV or automating the standing up of a wordpress site.

As for trades? My dad was a carpenter. If things aren't being built, there's no work. It can be very boom or bust. Same goes for other trades -- having a salary and an office are big perks that a lot of folks take for granted.

One thing I didn't see mentioned is uni -- especially in AUS where it's lower cost, I'd do that if you have the chance. I struggled in high school, but when I got to pick my major, pick my classes, and be surrounded by others who actually enjoy learning I found I really enjoyed school. You'll get a chance to learn to write well, in a literary way. You can also dive deep on math and coding concepts you might struggle to teach yourself.

Try to find someplace that keeps your brain engaged, has good work life balance, and yes save aggressively... but your brain is still forming. You might not be the same person in ten years, in terms of ideas or tastes -- I used to be an XTREME dew chugging edgelord... now I listen to classical and drink tea.

Anyways, sorry to kind of ramble but it's annoying, seeing young folks like you buy into this AI hype.

It's not going to replace skilled coders, full stop -- and I'd focus on stuff like assembly, C, and other "bare metal" skills if you're truly concerned about that.
by 1659447091 | 2025-07-30 04:07:17+00:00
> are you interested in photography or do you just want to have photographs?

If it's the former, take the time to understand not only your gear but also light and image processing (whether digital or film). If it's the latter, and you are a stickler for pixels get a digital camera, if not stick with the phone.

I'm interested in photography, but I won't buy a digital camera. My last film camera was a Minolta 700si (in the 90's) and a camera bag full of lens and flashes and other gadgets (filters shades etc), but was a far cry from the $10k professional camera with professional studio film processing. If you understand your gear, light, and how the images are going to be output (film or digital processing) you can get great images from whatever you are woking with.

Photography vs Photographs isn't about how many pixels a camera has or other limitations of a camera. It's what you do with it. Back in the day I preferred black & white film because I could control the entire processing cycle (I wasn't very good at color processing when the local camera shop could do it faster and better). Now I like the challenge of Photography with the limitations of a phone. Does that make it not "real" Photography? or not a real interest in Photography?

To me that where the difference is for "photography", a phone and dedicated digital camera are still digital. They are still processed and captured with the same medium, so learn it and understand it.

One might have greater ability to capture more light and thus not need the same amount of processing or setup, but it's still processed and produced from digital pixels. Both allow for any amount of post processing, but you have to know how to shoot with the device especially if there are more light capture limitations like a phone. If you just want photographs, put either in auto mode and you get what you get. Paying more for a dedicated camera just makes it easier to do, that doesn't make it "photography" over a more physically limited but still digital, phone camera.
by croemer | 2025-07-30 04:08:08+00:00
> Physics really works out such that the smaller you make camera sensor, the smaller you can make the lens.

At some point the wave-like nature of light starts to bite. Can't really go much smaller than a micron per pixel. So a millimeter sized chip gets you 1 megapixel. 50MP mean ~7mm. (back of the envelope caveats apply)
by rahulbisht | 2025-07-30 04:08:25+00:00
The idea is great especially the popup scale.

Issues I faced: I use 27" Qhd monitor at 125% scale. The ruler showed 48cm width intially but when I shifted to 100% scale it became 60cm. If I shift to FHD, it goes to 36cm. I thought an actual size ruler will maintain width. Let me know if I am not using it correctly.
by firefax | 2025-07-30 04:08:32+00:00
When I worked in a SOC I can't recall seeing anything malicious from them directed at my network -- it was usually AWS or Azure instances.

I'd focus on behaviors rather than providers -- I found them to be stricter than other providers at times when I was more of a skiddie -- I got very angry emails when I accidentally used an Algo I had set up on their stuff instead of a separate one for "linux ISOs".
by majormajor | 2025-07-30 04:10:09+00:00
The biggest real differences between iPhone and whatever ye-olde-good-standalone-digital-camera are sharpening/edge enhancements and flattening of lighting.

If you take a lot of landscapes with detailed textures in high-contrast lighting you'll see the differences pretty quickly.

The iPhone photos will look better at first glance because they have a lot of tricks to deal with lighting that would otherwise give a photographer difficulty. For instance, that shot of the child could easily have a completely blown-out background in slightly different circumstances for a typical use of a digital camera's auto-exposure mode. But it results in a certain look that this article really doesn't show well, in terms of the more fake-looking aspects of it. The gravel in the shot of the child hints at it, and you can start to see it more if you view the image full-size vs the scaled down presentation. The asphalt under the car, too - there's something very harsh and fake about the iPhone texture rendering approach that gets worse the larger you display the image. This started around the iPhone 11, IIRC, with it's ML processing.

Both things can be avoided with Halide's raw mode (more "raw" than Apple's) if you want side by side comparisons on your own device. Though IIRC it doesn't support full-res on the newer phones.

The trick, though, is that if you want images that look better in tough conditions, there's a learning curve for using a standalone camera or to shooting in RAW with Halide. In terms of lighting it's not even "more realistic" right out of the gate, necessarily, because your eye has more dynamic range and your brain has more tricks than most any straight-out-of-camera non-ML-enhanced image.

But if you want images you can print out at 8x10+ you'll benefit from the investment.

(Samsung cameras are even wilder in their over-enhancement of photos.)
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-30 04:12:02+00:00
>You do realise that until very recently, America has gained an absurd amount of soft power through this defence spending, right? And was able to convert this soft power into a lot of GDP through indirect subsidies of its international companies? Just because the current administration has squandered this advantage, doesn't mean you did not get out more than you paid for the last couple of decades.

People always claim this, but they're rarely able to give compelling concrete examples.

It's hard to say for sure. For all we know, if it weren't for NATO, the US would've been able to sell much more military gear to Europe, since they would have greater need for it.

The US economy generally performed quite well in the pre-WW2 era, before NATO was created. I don't think our current relationship with Europe is at all essential.
by gorgoiler | 2025-07-30 04:12:57+00:00
IP addresses are routed in aggregate groups using BGP. The groups are called Autonomous Systems and are handed out to ISPs. Your home ISP has a bunch. The ISP that hosts your virtual server has some too. You can see the one you’re connecting from right now with tools like https://bgp.tools and https://bgp.he.net.

The number of these systems scales in a reasonably tractable way — on the order of the number of ISPs and physical Internet infrastructure around which traffic needs to be routed.

As well as making aggregate routing possible you can use the ISP’s registration details see what location (or legal jurisdiction) a whole chunk of address space has. Hopping around IP addresses will give you unique ones every five minutes but they’ll all still be inside 2001:123::/32 from AS1234 aka Apathetic Onion’s Finest Habidashery and Internet Connections LLC, Delaware, USA.
by dyoshikawa | 2025-07-30 04:13:00+00:00
I'm working on multiple projects, and I found it really tedious to configure .claude/settings.json every time. So, I created a Node.js CLI tool called ccsettings to solve this. It's super easy for anyone to get started with. Feel free to give it a try!

https://github.com/dyoshikawa/ccsettings

Simple Usage:

``` # Apply casual template to .claude/settings.json npx ccsettings apply --template casual

# Apply casual template to .claude/settings.local.json npx ccsettings apply --template casual --local

# Apply local template npx ccsettings apply --file /path/to/my-settings.json

# Apply template from GitHub URL npx ccsettings apply --url https://github.com/owner/repo/blob/main/my-settings.json ```
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-30 04:13:16+00:00
Regulations are not capitalist, definitionally free markets do not account for externalities. Only when an externality has such an effect that it affects market behavior, but then it stops being an externality. Again, definitionaly.

Full capitalism and full communism are not the only options. Not sure why you even brought that up, as I never claimed communism is better? I said capitalism is flawed.
by orbital-decay | 2025-07-30 04:13:18+00:00
How far back do I have to look, and what definition do you use? Because I can start with theorem provers and chess engines of the 1950s.

Nothing in that list is based on humans, even remotely. Only neural networks were a vague form of biomimicry early on and currently have academic biomimicry approaches, of which all suck because they poorly map to available semiconductor manufacturing processes. Attention is misleadingly called that, reasoning is ill-defined, etc.

LLMs are trained on human-produced data, and ML in general shares many fundamentals and emergent phenomena with biological learning (a lot more than some people talking about "token predictors" realize). That's it. Producing artificial humans or imitating real ones was never the goal nor the point. We can split hairs all day long, but the point of AI as a field since 1950s is to produce systems that do something that is considered only doable by humans.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-30 04:14:32+00:00
One element that can come into play is having a career where all you need is a decent job and you are OK.

No doubt this has drifted out-of-reach for more people across-the-board, but if you are in an area where a decent job alone is not enough and you are actually completely dependent on a decent job market in addition, that may be an unrecognized disadvantage.

Whether you are still young or not, if that's the kind of situation you've been involved in your whole life it may not be easy to realize there are still many other options out there. Not that you withdraw from market dependency completely, but it really can be overbearing if it acts as a dominating force.
by rahulbisht | 2025-07-30 04:16:14+00:00
The idea is great! Would also love for anime and manga to be included. I tried the Harry Potter game with concise and brief settings.

My thoughts: 1. Would be great to have a loader for both when I input responses and game start. 2. Got this error after I sent input (it's understandable :), since it would be getting good traction) "An error occurred while generating the story: Rate limit exceeded for shared resources. Please try again in 1 seconds, or provide your own API key in settings.. Please try again. If the problem persists, you may need to start a new game." 3. The story feels lackluster without Visuals. Even text based visuals or emojis we use in chat will be good to have. 4. Would be great if instead of chat we had dialogue selector on top of your character or story. 5. Can also change the background of the page based on book and settings selected.

Great work. Love the idea <3
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-30 04:16:17+00:00
So this comment made me go looking, and there _is_ a case that adds headphone jacks back to iphones, but literally not a single one for any model of android phone. I guess they figure that the people who care enough to buy such a case will go out and buy one of the dwindling number of android phones that still have such a jack.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-30 04:17:11+00:00
This doesn't make sense to me intuitively. It must be a wave.

Imagine you have a fault line. There is a left side and a right side to the fault line. If the left side lowers with a shift then that shift MUST be localized to the area around the fault. Because if it wasn't then that means there's an elevation change across the board for everything to the left of the fault. You see how that doesn't make sense? So if the entire country of japan was on the left side of the fault then the entire country of japan shifts in elevation which is unrealistic.

So that means, if what you say is semi-true then the shift in elevation is localized to the area left along the fault but the elevation further left remains the same. It's like a slight dip or bump along the fault line. It must be like this because the alternative is just unrealistic. This MUST be what happens when tectonic plates "shift". You won't see the ENTIRE plate shifting in elevation.

With naive logic, one would think that the water simply fills the localized gap but given how deep the ocean is relative to the actual shift way down in the abyss I'm betting if you were on a boat on top of the fault you wouldn't notice anything. But the movement does create a slight imperceptible "filling" that you don't notice. This is a "wave" but it's invisible.

The wave will translate leftward if the movement of the "shift" was sort of in that direction, but you don't see it. BUT as the sea floor gets nearer and nearer to the surface of the ocean the energy of the wave gets squuezed into less and less ocean water mass (i'm remembering how tsunamis work now) and THEN it becomes visible. Right? Just imagine a sideways cross section. As the tiny wave travels from big ocean with huge depth to coastline with no depth the energy of the wave gets concentrated into a thinner and thinner layer of water.

My intuition just sort of converged with my obscure memory of how tsunamis work so I'm pretty sure this is what's going on.

So it is indeed a "wave" that is acting on wave like phenomena beyond simply "filling a gap". In fact say there's an elevation lowering on the left side of the fault by 1 meter. The resulting wave on the coast line hundreds of miles away will be a wave that extends upward by MORE then 1 meter above sea level which is the opposite of water "filling up a gap." That's totally a wave.

Additionally water from tsunamis always recede. This wouldn't happen if the "wall of water" was simply equalizing. If that's the case the water would never recede.

Any expert who says otherwise, let me know.

edit: Actually why the fuck am I using my intuition to explain it? Just cite a source:

https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/science-behind-tsunamis

tsunamis are 100% waves as explained in the link. Anyone who says otherwise clearly doesn't know what they are talking about, that includes the person I'm responding to. End of story.
by hatthew | 2025-07-30 04:18:00+00:00
Yeah, and even with sharpening it's noticeably softer when you zoom in on the photo.

For fisheye, I guess it would have been more accurate to say: the perspective distortion is present in both photos and is stronger for the iphone photo due to a shorter effective focal length, and there is no noticeable fisheye/barrel distortion in the iphone photo.
by ijustlovemath | 2025-07-30 04:18:03+00:00
This is especially true if you simply increase the minimum password length to a certain amount. The major browsers include password managers for specifically this purpose which can generate passwords; why don't we move towards educating users how to use these tools instead of centralizing all the failure points of the web?

And yes, I understand the major conflict of interest in saving important passwords to Google, which I personally don't do and wouldn't recommend, but I think if they're interested in staying out of the Googleverse, we can also tell people about the good paid alternatives out there.
by fouric | 2025-07-30 04:18:18+00:00
The GP is factually wrong. There's plenty of empirical evidence to indicate that language influences thought, and that syntax is therefore important.

Although, I would point out that while your argument ad absurdum is generally reasonable (the fact that syntax can make the difference between a very good language and an unusable one), whitespace and malbolge also have terrible semantics that contribute to them being unusable.

As a former Lisp enthusiast (and still an enjoyer), I'd actually use my own darling as an example: Lisps have amazing semantics and are generally good languages. Their syntax is highly regular and structured and easy to parse...except that it's brain-hostile, and I'm convinced that it actively makes it harder to read and write - not just adopt, but actually use.
by scarmig | 2025-07-30 04:19:59+00:00
Extensive education in physics, so yes.

The most compelling reason at the time to reject heliocentrism was the (lack of) parallax of stars. The only response that the heliocentrists had was that the stars must be implausibly far away. Hundreds of billions of times further away than the moon is--and they knew the moon itself is already pretty far from us-- which is a pretty radical, even insane, idea. There's also the point that the original Copernican heliocentric model had ad hoc epicycles just as the Ptolemaic one did, without any real increase in accuracy.

Strictly speaking, the breakdown here would be less a lack of understanding of contemporary physics, and more about whether I knew enough about the minutia of historical astronomers' disputes to know if the LLM was accurately representing them.
by majormajor | 2025-07-30 04:20:10+00:00
I use it every day for work and every day it gets stuff wrong of the "that doesn't even exist" variety. Because I'm working on things that are complex + highly verifiable, I notice.

Sure, Joe Average who's using it to look smart in Reddit or HN arguments or to find out how to install a mod for their favorite game isn't gonna notice anymore, because it's much more plausible much more often than two years ago, but if you're asking it things that aren't trivially easy for you to verify, you have no way of telling how frequently it hallucinates.