MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jscheel | 2025-07-29 14:33:13+00:00
I've had a Lamy Swift (palladium) for about 8 years now. It's a great pen with a unique clip mechanism. The Lamy rollerball refills are really nice, but they don't have a fine point version, so be ready for thick lines. I actually like the broad tip though. I just checked the Lamy website, and it looks like this pen has basically doubled in price since I bought it... yikes.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-29 14:33:22+00:00
Especially since different countries/cultures have very different sentiments on most topics. For example Western Europe and the US mostly agree that minors should be protected against alcohol, drugs, pornography and excessive violence, but the thresholds are wildly different.

Europeans like to joke about the Americans being fine with gratouitious violence in kids movies as long as there's no blood, but a single female nipple immediately makes it R rated. Now consider that even France and England have different nuances on what is considered acceptable. If you extend beyond Western culture it becomes even more diverse. In some of the more religious Muslim countries a women shaking her full head of hair might be seen as erotic content. A lot of Japanese anime skirts very close to sexualizing children (from a Western perspective).

If every country became serious about enforcing age verification for their value system you could post barely any image or video content without marking it as age restricted for some jurisdiction. And the lines wouldn't neatly follow communities but you really would need a judgement for each piece of content. That's obviously not going to happen, so you will always have people from one place visiting communities in places that are more lax on one specific measure they are interested in.

And that's assuming all software and platform operators want to follow the restrictions, despite the obvious profit motive of not doing so. Restricting the supply isn't completely useless, but also provides huge incentives for those able to meet demand
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-29 14:33:30+00:00
I agree.

So here is a map of who owns the railways so we can ascertain who would be affected by the merger.

https://stb.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap...

I think this is bad becasue it will kill CSX as their lines will be less used for cross country deliveries.

CSX already had ana anti-trust suite against Norfolk which was rejected during this administration.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/supreme-court-wont-hear-cs...
by shinycode | 2025-07-29 14:33:32+00:00
There is apps like Halide or Photon that have a Process Zero or TrueRaw mode that is more natural. Of course a phone is just an other tool with different constraints. I gave up paying 2 or 3 times the price of my phone for a dedicated camera. I like the lightness and integrated software to edit photos and share them on the spot. I made that sacrifice knowing I’ll never have the same quality but I don’t have to carry a big camera now. But for passionate people who want the best you can’t replace a dedicated camera with a phone
by turnsout | 2025-07-29 14:33:37+00:00
I like the comparisons! I think it's 100% fair to compare the "out of the box" images from the iPhone to other cameras. With that said, some notes:

I think a lot of the differences you're seeing are the result of FOV differences; the iPhone camera is a ~24mm equivalent, which is much wider than most people would shoot on a dedicated camera. That wide-angle distortion is just a natural part of the 24mm focal length, but not really the iPhone's fault.

The other effects you're seeing are related to Apple's default image processing, which, at this point, most people would agree is too aggressive. This difference goes away if you shoot in ProRAW and process your photos in an app that allows you to dial down (or ideally turn off) local tone mapping.

If you have an iPhone that shoots 48MP ProRAW, don't be afraid to crop the image significantly, which increases the effective focal length and makes the image look more like a dedicated camera. It also increases the apparent bokeh, which is actually quite noticeable on close-ups. With the RAW you can then quickly edit the image to end up colors which are much more faithful and natural.

If anyone out there doesn't have a Pro model, they can shoot RAW photos in 3rd party camera apps, including Lightroom, which is free.
by exasperaited | 2025-07-29 14:33:56+00:00
The point I am making is that everyone in the USA is somehow absolutely certain that Britain is a hell-hole of authoritarianism because of this law, and yet 25 US states have enacted laws which are in some cases basically lunatic porn censorship (whereas our OSA is not) and HN just ignores it because the Brits, eh?

The fabric of the USA is being ripped apart by a kleptocratic authoritarian fascist-at-least-wannabe government that makes the most extreme country in the EU (Hungary) look exactly like a trial run, and you guys are worried about the Brits implementing a relatively measured law that affects fewer people than all those US porn laws combined.

HN's weird little "no politics" bubble encourages you all to think that it is outrageous that US companies should be held accountable to the laws of the countries in which you trade [0], while your president is, for example, imposing actually illegal tariffs on Brazil, abusing a power you won't take away from him, because they insist on prosecuting Bolsonaro under their own laws for something he did within their country.

Yes: we made a law you don't like. It's a stupid law. It's still a fairly measured, stupid law compared to the ones your states are passing and your own supreme court thinks are A-OK, or the silly one in France, or whatever.

Collectively you should maybe stop fretting about the UK while your country is reverting to quasi-monarchy.

[0] and yes, you are trading here if you serve porn to UK customers. This is the same standard as the US Supreme Court-approved Texas anti-porn law applies.
by FredPret | 2025-07-29 14:33:57+00:00
My entry-level mirrorless camera with its kit lens can take photos that blow my recent-model iPhone out of the water.

Add a nice lens and there's no comparison.

However:

- The iPhone is always in my pocket (until I crack and buy a flip-phone)

- The iPhone picture always turns out, but the Canon takes a modicum of skill, which my wife is not interested in, and I'll never be able to teach passers-by when they take a group picture for us

- The iPhone picture quality, though worse, is still fine

Looking back at travel and family pictures, it has been very much worth it for me to have a dedicated camera.
by edent | 2025-07-29 14:34:11+00:00
Anything with under 7 million users in the UK is a "smaller" service - so has lighter requirements. See https://ofcomlive.my.salesforce-sites.com/formentry/Regulati...

If it allows unmoderated communications, it might be higher risk. See https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli...

But most of the requirements are stuff that Mastodon services should be doing anyway - responding to complaints, have a code of conduct, have moderators, perhaps use a CDN to filter out CSAM etc. See https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli...

If you're self-hosting purely for yourself, there are no users other than yourself - so no need to worry.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-29 14:34:12+00:00
A couple of nits: Land I might give you, but capital? I cited a bigger bank merger and a bigger telecommunications/broadcasting merger. Both of those involve enormous amounts of capital.

Second, railroads are more efficient at hauling stuff longer distances. They are not more efficient at local pick up and delivery, though. Letting trucks take over that part makes things more efficient, not less. Your "closure of small farm roads" analogy is therefore off base.
by churchill | 2025-07-29 14:34:14+00:00
I think your point has some merits, but ultimately, intent doesn't matter: action does. if the West keeps funding Israel's genocide in Gaza, then yes, it's because they believe the Palestinians are sub-human. Haven't you seen the outpouring of support for Ukraine since they were invaded? Yet, Western nations are funding (not overlooking, but actively paying for) something worse - a continuous, ongoing genocide - and it's supposed to be an oversight?
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-29 14:34:16+00:00
Beyond the bribery aspect this article notes, this is in direct opposition to overturning the "fairness doctrine" that existed in TV and radio broadcasting before Reagan. The fairness doctrine was said to be in direct opposition to freedom of the press, and hence had to be gotten rid of. Now, an actual political commissar has to exist to ensure lack of bias. I honestly do not see how to square the two actions. Either stopping enforcing the fairness doctrine was wrong, or a commissar is wrong.

I'll also note that "bias monitor" is a phrase that will at least colloquially, lose its literal meaning, to mean almost exactly the opposite. You may not like that evolution, but it will happen, a lot like "freedom of speech absolutist" has come to mean something quite different than its literal, previous, meaning. It would seem that President Trump and his base are (a) doing duckspeak themselves and (b) creating Newspeak without a guiding bureaucracy.
by daveguy | 2025-07-29 14:34:17+00:00
Well, I agree with that argument in the sense that their punishment should be relative to their size. But I was just talking about plantiff strategy. A judgement against Anthropic of any magnitude might open the floodgates for class action lawsuits by creators against major tech companies. I also think that's a good thing, because AI models are clearly laundering work done by original authors.
by tpmoney | 2025-07-29 14:35:02+00:00
I’ve been thinking recently that an overhaul to the copyright system could solve this. Return to a very low default (10 years? 20?). Allow extensions but a requirement for extension is submitting the work to a government managed digital data set that is licensed out to people to use as training data for these sorts of systems (or anything else a massive digitized cataloged library could be useful for). Licensing is some nominal amount of money and the revenue from that is distributed to copyright holders who have submitted their works in proportion to the recency and volume of content (with some cap to avoid flooding the system with content just to get more payouts.

I’m sure there’s lots of unintended problems with this, but it does feel like a common base set of training data like this is exactly the sort of thing the government can and should do.
by dagmx | 2025-07-29 14:35:29+00:00
The points really boil down to:

1. Difference in focal length/ position.

2. Difference in color processing

But…the article is fairly weak on both points?

1. It’s unclear why the author is comparing different focal lengths without clarifying what they used. If I use the 24mm equivalent on either my full frame or my iPhone, the perspective will be largely the same modulo some lens correction. Same if I use the 70mm or whatever the focal length is.

2. Color processing is both highly subjective but also completely something you can disable on the phone and the other camera. It’s again, no different between the two.

It’s a poor article because it doesn’t focus on the actual material differences.

The phone will have a smaller sensor. It will have more noise and need to do more to combat it. It won’t have as shallow a depth of field.

The phone will also of course have different ergonomics.

But the things the post focuses on are kind of poor understandings of the differences in what they’re shooting and how their cameras work.
by throw101010 | 2025-07-29 14:35:31+00:00
> keep your cash, pay you some yield

The GENUIS act and I think MICA both disallow that part, exactly for this reason... traditional banks were seeing the writings on the wall and lobbied for such yield distributions to remain their own privilege only. For now.

But you can pretty easily find similar/better yield using DeFi and stake/bond some of your crypto assets in various strategies.

The difference is that there are virtually no minimum and usually no KYC... but there are also not many guardrails/gatekeeping, which leave the place to many scams/traps. It's best to stick to the largest platforms/communities and not fall for insane APY claims.
by SilverElfin | 2025-07-29 14:35:49+00:00
It’s very hard for companies to go public these days. There isn’t a willingness for institutions or people to invest in companies that haven’t made it yet. Think about how small companies like Microsoft or Google or Amazon were when they went public. Then think about giant private companies like Stripe or Figma. Now you have to be much larger and more mature, which takes a long time.

For employees it means waiting 15-20 years for a payday. How many people can take such a big risk, going half their career underpaid waiting for their options to become something? Companies are meanwhile forced to raise capital that isn’t from the public stock exchanges and that can also go on only for so long. Meanwhile you have these giant companies like Google or whatever who can just copy your great idea/business and throw money or people at it, eventually killing you before you get to exit. Look at how Microsoft abused their Office sales contracts to give away Teams to kill Slack. Eventually that forced Slack to sell to Salesforce.

I guess I view it as chicken and egg. If the huge mega corp companies were broken up or heavily regulated maybe smaller companies wouldn’t need mergers and acquisitions as much because they would be more stable in a fair competitive environment.

But I’m not an expert in any of this. I’ve just seen others talk about all this when lurking on this website.
by ivell | 2025-07-29 14:36:31+00:00
"in the iPhone photo, the player is "leaning". His (long) feet are on the left and his head is on the right of the image. In the right image, the image accurately portays his balanced and confident stance. "

The subject seems to have moved. His expression is different, how he holds the stick is different. Hard to believe that the stance remained the same meanwhile.
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by playsong | 2025-07-29 14:36:33+00:00
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by bloomingeek | 2025-07-29 14:36:38+00:00
I've been a Nikon user for decades, once I purchased a digital Nikon SLR, I was in heaven. Now, with my cell phone camera taking really nice pics, I don't carry the SLR as much. If I want to print and hang a photo, if it's a close up shot, I use my phone. If it's a larger view pic, I use my SLR.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-07-29 14:36:39+00:00
> No deps is great, but what I'm looking for is no bugs

I don’t think I’ve ever used a piece of software in my life that had no bugs. At least with no deps (vs say a nodejs project with 500 of them) then the bugs will only be in one place, the main software so ideally they can be fixed quickly.
by ortusdux | 2025-07-29 14:36:41+00:00
There are two metrics - softness and ease of separation. Ideally there would be a 2nd force sensor that measures pull on the berry and then releases the grip if a max value is hit.

That being said, ripeness is best detected by measuring water and sugar content. I'd imagine a more mature version of this tech would be the standard in a decade - https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-engineers-use-wi...
by gwd | 2025-07-29 14:36:44+00:00
OK, so having poked around the documentation a bit, I do think the Pony documentation could use a lot more examples. But there's one reasonably concrete example here:

https://patterns.ponylang.io/data-sharing/isolated-field

Basically what I gather is:

1. Actors are like threads, but have data structures associated with them. Actors have functions like methods associated with them called "behaviors", which are called asyncronously. BUT, any given Actor will only ever have one thread of execution running at a time. So calling a "behavior" is like sending a message to that actor's thread, saying, "Please run this function when you get a chance"; "when you get a chance" being when nothing else is being run. So you know that within one Actor, all references to Actor-local data is thread-safe.

2. They have different types of references with different capabilities. Think "const *" in C, or mutable and immutable references in Rust, but on steroids. The extra complexity you do in managing the types of references means that they can get the safety guarantees of Rust without having to run a borrow checker.

So in the above example, they have a Collector actor with an internal buffer. Anyone can append a character tot he internal buffer by calling Collector.collect(...). Code execution is thread-safe because the runtime will guarantee that only one thread of Collector will run at a time. The data is of type 'iso' ("isolated"), which ensures that only one actor has a reference to it at any time.

Once the internal buffer gets up to 10, the Collector will transfer its buffer over to another Actor, called a Receiver, by calling Receiver.receive(...) with its own internal buffer, allocating a new one for subsequent .collect() calls.

But its internal buffer has a reference of type 'iso', bound to Collector. How can it transfer this data to Receiver?

The magic is in these two lines:

let to_send = _data = recover Array[U8] end

This creates a new local variable, to_send. Then it atomically:

- makes a new Array[U8] of type iso

- assigns this new array t; Collector._data

- Assigns the old value of Collector._data to to_send

Now Collector._data has a new reference of type iso, and to_send has the old one.

Next we do this:

_receiver.receive(consume to_send)

The "consume" ensures that to_send can't be referenced after the consume call. So the compiler can verify that Receiver.receive() will be the only one able to access the old value of _data that we passed it.

Sounds like an interesting approach; it would be nice to see more examples of realistic patterns like this; perhaps simple sequential programs broken down into multiple actors, or things like a simple webserver implementation, with some sort of shared state.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-29 14:36:57+00:00
If you like this post, I would recommend “BPF Performance Tools” and “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud” by Brenden Gregg.

I have pulled out a few miracles using these tools (identifying kernel bottlenecks or profiling programs using ebpf) and it has been well worth the investment to read through the books.
by nirui | 2025-07-29 14:37:31+00:00
I wouldn't blame that on people, most people ARE fundamentally peaceful, rather, it's the (as I like to call it) "different interests" causing all these troubles.

Everyone is different in their personalities and their means to achieve what they want, so eventually someone may have conflict with you and makes you feel bad. But I've live long enough to realize all of those conflicts are just part of (good old) living, you can hate someone while still find a way to corporate efficiently to make both of you happy.

However, the story of The Expanse told me that, as long as we as human beings refuse to learn how to resolve or moderate our conflicts, we'll bring it along no matter where we go, different country, different continent, different planet or even different galaxy etc. We'll find a way to differentiate each other and attack.

That's why it's sometimes good to go back to the fundamentals, think what do we want to fill our lives with? Hope or hate?
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 14:37:36+00:00
I don't have any sympathy for big orgs, they can follow the same rules as the rest of us, and should be slapped even harder for this than an individual accused of the same thing, however, I'm curious, why can't they buy digital copies in the first place?

Is there some nuance to the law that allows them to scan/copy them if they're physical but not if they're digital?