MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hagbard_c | 2025-07-30 12:28:20+00:00
That's because many of these so-called 'leftists' have centred their entire identity around activism and agitation and as such realise that actually achieving their purported goals would rob them of their targets. You can compare them to the pharma industry which is far more interested in finding treatments for conditions than they are in finding cures for those conditions since the latter would cut off the market for the former.
by sumtechguy | 2025-07-30 12:28:22+00:00
I had that same thing. It was a nice entry level. Still have the 'hot shot' on my wish list on amazon :) After my third set of tires and second set of struts I kinda stopped messing with it as I didnt have the money for that. I had already saved like crazy just to have the thing.

Tamiya was the top end stuff. I would go to Hobby Town at eastpark (the downtown original store had more stuff though) and drool over them. So I would get the other ones there were in my price range and go 'some day' well now I have other hobbies. Still have my eye on that f14.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-07-30 12:29:05+00:00
A decade of "the best smartphone camera competitions" by mkbhd have clearly highlighted what is happening here.

1: In a/b testing, nearly everyone including pixel peepers prefer a more vibrant photo.

2: the traditional perspective of "a photo should look as close as possible to what my eyes see if I drop the viewfinder" is increasingly uncommon and not pursued in the digital age by nearly anyone.

3: phone companies know the above, and basically all of them engage in varrying degrees of "crank vibrance until people start to look like clowns, apply a skin correction so you can keep the rest mega vibrant" with an extra dash of "if culturally accepted to the primary audience, add additional face filtering to improve how people look, including air-brushing and thinning of the face"

This is rightfully compared to the loudness wars and I think that's accurate. It really became a race to the bottom once we collectively decided that "accurate" photos were not interesting and we want "best" photos.
by eatonphil | 2025-07-30 12:29:14+00:00
There are a lot of strict limits so AFAIK everyone uses FoundationDB for fast, consistent, highly-available metadata while doing replication/storage of actual data elsewhere (such as in S3).

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/known-limitations.html

That is to say it's more like part of your solution and not the entire stack on its own.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-30 12:29:20+00:00
Personally coming from the film era, I don't think it's as clear cut as this.

Many of the post-processing an informed person does on a digital photo is an emulation of a process rooted in a darkroom, yes.

On the other hand, some of the things cameras automatically does, e.g.: Skin color homogenization, selective object sharpening, body "aesthetic" enhancements, hallucinating the text which the lens can't resolve, etc. are not darkroom born methods, and they alter reality to the point of manipulation.

In film days, what we had as a run of the mill photographer was the selection of the film, and asking the lab "can you increase the saturation a bit, if possible". Even if you had your darkroom at home, you won't be able to selectively modify body proportions while keeping the details around untouched with the help of advanced image modification algorithms.
Show HN: Pontoon, an open-source data export platform
by kalanm | 2025-07-30 12:29:25+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re Alex and Kalan, the creators of Pontoon (https://github.com/pontoon-data/Pontoon). Pontoon is an open-source data export platform that makes it really easy to create data syncs and send data to your enterprise customers. Check out our demo here: https://app.storylane.io/share/onova7c23ai6 or try it out with docker: https://pontoon-data.github.io/Pontoon/getting-started/quick...

While at our prior roles as data engineers, we’ve both felt the pain of data APIs. We either had to spend weeks building out data pipelines in house or spend a lot on ETL tools like Fivetran (https://www.fivetran.com/). However, there were a few companies that offered data syncs that would sync directly to our data warehouse (eg. Redshift, Snowflake, etc.), and when that was an option, we always chose it. This led us to wonder “Why don’t more companies offer data syncs?”. It turns out, building reliable cross-cloud data syncs is difficult. That’s why we built Pontoon.

We designed Pontoon to be:

- Easily deployed: we provide a single, self-contained Docker image for easy deployment and Docker Compose for larger workloads (https://pontoon-data.github.io/Pontoon/getting-started/quick...)

- Support modern data warehouses: we support syncing to/from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Postgres.

- Sync cross cloud: sync from BigQuery to Redshift, Snowflake to BigQuery, Postgres to Redshift, etc.

- Developer friendly: data syncs can also be built via the API

- Open source: Pontoon is free to use by anyone

Under the hood, we use Apache Arrow (https://arrow.apache.org/) to move data between sources and destinations. Arrow is very performant - we wanted to use a library that could handle the scale of moving millions of records per minute.

In the shorter-term, there are several improvements we want to make, like:

- Adding support for DBT models to make adding data models easier

- UX improvements like better error messaging and monitoring of data syncs

- More sources and destinations (S3, GCS, Databricks, etc.)

- Improve the API for a more developer friendly experience (it’s currently tied pretty closely to the front end)

In the longer-term, we want to make data sharing as easy as possible. As data engineers, we sometimes felt like second class citizens with how we were told to get the data we needed - “just loop through this api 1000 times”, “you probably won’t get rate limited” (we did), “we can schedule an email to send you a csv every day”. We want to change how modern data sharing is done and make it simple for everyone.

Give it a try: https://github.com/pontoon-data/Pontoon. Cheers!
by pdl27xl1c3 | 2025-07-30 12:29:36+00:00
Maybe it’s just “what you see is all there is”?

When the economy slows down, people and companies spend less. Less spending means fewer sales, which means less work and less money to pay staff. Since salaries are a big cost, companies cut jobs.

Before the downturn, spending was up, sales were up, and companies hired more people. Now they see they hired too many or inefficiently, so they cut headcount not only because demand is down, but also to fix those inefficiencies.

And about the argument of investing now to scoop up talent and push initiatives forward: downturns often come with higher interest rates. That makes it more expensive to raise money to invest. So why would companies do that now?
by jpadkins | 2025-07-30 12:30:25+00:00
I've done some research. I didn't find any arguments on why un-elected bureaucracies are better than the status quo. The Federal Reserve is the currently most independent "agency" we have (privately owned corporation with a board chosen by Presidents). It's hardly a poster child for good governance. Can you imagine if the DOJ was owned and operated by private corporations, where Congress or the President would pick a board? Sounds like tyranny to me. I asked genuine questions if anyone had arguments for why this is better. Clearly you don't have any.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-30 12:30:28+00:00
Neural networks are explicitly modeled on brains.

I don't know where this idea that "the things haves similar names but they're unrelated" trope is coming from. But it's not from people who know what they're talking about.

Like I said, go back and read the research. Look at where it was done. Look at the title of Marvin Minksy's thesis. Look at the research on connectionism from the 40s.

I would wager that every major paper about neuroscience from 1899 to 2020 or so has been thoroughly mined by the AI community for ideas.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-07-30 12:30:49+00:00
France wanted to activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument immediatly after the 30% tariffs were announced. The law was passed after the first Trump presidency supposedly to prevent Europe being pressured into the kind of situation Von Der Leyen voluntarily put us in. It's a set of retaliatory measures which can be taken very quickly: blocking the ability of a country's companies to bid for some European contracts, suspending technological transfer, relaxing IP law.

Anyway, as long as the PPE will be in charge and the comission is staffed with German rejects, the Union will go nowhere. European only have what they deserved. I'm just sad my country is dragged down with the sinking ship.
by pnt12 | 2025-07-30 12:30:52+00:00
"It’s worrying how much research seems to operate from the premise that they do."

They are testing an hypothesis, we don't know if they're optimistic or pessimistic about it. Is it even relevant?

They have studied that LLMs can be easily confused with non-sequitors, and this is interesting. Maybe prompts to LLM should be more direct and foccused. Maybe this indicates a problem with end users interacting with LLMs directly - many people have difficulty on writing in a clear and direct way! Probably even more people when speaking!
by lm28469 | 2025-07-30 12:31:12+00:00
Yep, it has absolutely nothing to do with the megacorps hiring behavioural experts to make their platforms as addictive as possible... it's all caused by the big mean GoBeRnMenTs

Letting kids consume 10 hours straight of AI generated bottom of the barrel 3d animated slop produced in some third world country is not "personal freedom"
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-30 12:31:41+00:00
Yep, that's a big part of it: a disengaging, large diaspora of secular Jewish-ish people who are thoroughly Westernized, open society ordinary folks who are mostly shocked by what's happening but don't have any familial, social, political, or economic influence.

I've been listening to Norman Finkelstein, Gideon Levy, The Salukie, Hamzah Saadah, and Corey Gil-Shuster for perspectives on what's happening inside and around the region.
by vntok | 2025-07-30 12:31:53+00:00
In your own allegory, stopping calorie intake would be akin to defunding " Science ". Obviously that brings death to the body and brain drain to the country, no one disputes this I think.

But that's not what is happening here, so I'm not sure why you would choose to use this allegory.

Indeed, cutting 100% of gov funding to Harvard Medical School results in defunding them by 20% or so. In your own allegory, that would be akin to reducing calorie intake of a particular type of meat (say, beef) but only by 20% . So: is it bad over the long term? Meh, who knows? It's not trivial to answer, right?
by giantg2 | 2025-07-30 12:31:54+00:00
It's not crazy, it's typical (sadly).

Anytime either side is pushing something the other side disagrees with, they claim the opposition is being partisan. Then there are the flip flops, like claiming the debt ceiling is a big deal, then ignoring the issue once you're the one in power. Complain about heavy handed tactics when dealing with protests or "legal" pot, but not about guns. Have the IRS audit groups you don't like. Etcetera
by Paradigma11 | 2025-07-30 12:32:08+00:00
I realized that this is something that someone with Claude Code could reasonably easily test (at least exploratively).

Generate 100 prompts of "Famous (random name) did (random act) in the year (random). Research online and elaborate on (random name) historical significance in (randomName)historicalSignificance.md. Dont forget to list all your online references".

Then create another 100 LLMs with some hallucination Checker claude.md that checks their corresponding md for hallucinations and write a report.md.
by jitl | 2025-07-30 12:32:46+00:00
I would only expect type stripping, although it seems you already have the TypeScript language server hanging out in the editor for completion and docs and such, it’s not much extra challenge to get the VFS hooked up enough to show red squiggles in CodeMirror. I built a CodeMirror + typescript for the React docs site and it’s definitely machinery but not too bad maybe 600-800 LoC (never got merged, sad)
by diggan | 2025-07-30 12:33:29+00:00
Best way of learning electronic music (including synths, both modular and non-modular) for me has been to have some idea in mind, then figuring out how to translate that to the synth I have in front of me. Currently experimenting with dub techno, so first step is figuring out what sounds are usually used, then recreating the classic synth chord stabs on a Summit, and take everything step by step but adjusted to what I want the end results to be. I've found this perfect because it's usually what I want to be able to do in the end, I have some sound in mind, I just need to adjust the hardware the right way to get it.

Basically the same way I've learn programming ("I want to be able to do X, what steps would let me get the closest?") where you start with the final result, then work your way backwards.

ChatGPT + Search tool been very helpful in figuring out the details.
by Funes- | 2025-07-30 12:33:40+00:00
We're going to see more and more crackdown on internet access, in the name of making it "safe", or "safe for kids", particularly. All they want is pushing for censorship and control, though, on top of collecting and selling even more data. We'd be wise to make an effort to migrate to censorship resistant overlay networks like Hyphanet (formerly Freenet) or i2p before it's too late.
by RickarySanchez | 2025-07-30 12:34:00+00:00
Any new rust based ML library is great in my book. I've taken a brief look at the candle tensor implementation and just took an even briefer look at the can-t tensor implementation. What was the reasoning behind a global equation to store all tensors grads etc ? My initial assumption would be that it might make more sense to store that data scoped within a `Graph` type or similar.
by styanax | 2025-07-30 12:34:09+00:00
> but I blame the "everything is an extension" model ...

100%. If you're not keen on self-hosting and want to use any one of the many, many public servers this becomes such a pain, and leads to the same "decision deadlock" trying to get friends to join Mastodon or Lemmy ("which one do I want? there are so many, how do I know if it's good"). Because this is a thing:

https://compliance.conversations.im/

"Hmmm, does xyz.com support XEP-1234 for message archiving?" or whatever it is; there's a real uphill social battle unless you make those choices for your friends to get started. While Signal is not perfect, it's easy onboarding without confusing XEP which-server choices for the average human. $0.02 I struggle to get people on Signal as it is.

Edit: found it, it's XEP-0313 and only 92% of public servers support it. Only 86% support Push Notifications, 94% OMEMO. One can argue server operators have disabled them but it points back to decision deadlock.
by safety1st | 2025-07-30 12:34:24+00:00
No, it's great that they took me to do a cheap recreational activity.

This is why I responded to you, you obviously didn't understand the dynamic at work.

Us poor people weren't ALWAYS busy starving and surviving. Like other humans, we too had free time. And the local government subsidized both admission and lessons at the public pool. So because of good policy this was a cheap form of both recreation and physical education, as a result lots of us filthy poors in my neighborhood availed ourselves of it.

What I object to here is the othering of the working class. They're not creatures that need to be placed behind glass and alternately studied or pandered to. America had the formula figured out a long time ago: invest in public schools, public pools and public libraries that everyone can use, and that serve as community centers for rich and poor alike. When there need to be user fees, sure subsidize those for people in the lowest income brackets, that's a great idea. But the bedrock of a healthy society is good public institutions where everyone's treated pretty equally. We screwed this up when we started privatizing or just straight up shutting down all those things. Then the rich built their own, the rest increasingly went without and some people seem to have forgotten that the other way of doing things even existed.
by flumpcakes | 2025-07-30 12:34:46+00:00
I'm surprised at the lack of care for children in commentary around social media bans, the UK's online safety act blocking discord/porn/etc without proof of age, and sexually violent video games being removed from stores due to payment processors.

If we see a child bullied in school, we don't say the parents of the victim are not doing enough parenting. If an adult flashes or cat calls a child in the street, we don't blame the child's parents for not doing enough parenting.

Why is it when it comes to social media/pornography/sexually violent games (that would not have received a rating if sold in stores 10 years ago) everyone is up in arms that things are going too far. All you see is conspiracy theory nonsense at how the state wants to mind control us.

Apple tried to fix some of this at the client end with CSAM scanning and automatic dick pic blurring but had to roll some of this back due to the uproar and accusations on spying etc.

We no longer live in a high trust society and children are paying the price for it, as well as adults.

I don't want my phone scanned or to be denied access to adult discord channels or have to submit an ID to visit "adult" content like home-brewing beer subreddits. But now that's the price I am having to pay because no one wants to be responsible. Especially the companies making money off of children.

But what are we supposed to do instead when everything has been shot down previously? The amount of children being groomed is probably the highest it has ever been, but because it's done in their own bedrooms over the internet everyone ignores it.
by irusensei | 2025-07-30 12:34:50+00:00
Aparently the person who recently started a censorship campaign against games that lead to delisting not only porn titles but also horror and other categories from itch.io is on the board to decide what its defined as adult content.

> Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.[1]

I have no idea what the hell is going on and it all seems very coordinated but I hope the pendulum swings back so hard next time it takes at least half a century for Tipper Gore to resurrect again.

1- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...
by rafael123 | 2025-07-30 12:35:10+00:00
Like a lot of folks here, I spend long hours at my desk — coding, reading, working. I know I should be standing up regularly, but I always forget. So I built a tiny web app to solve that for myself.

It's called StandUpBuddy — a minimalist timer that reminds you when to sit and when to stand. You can customize your own cycle (e.g. 40 mins sitting, 20 standing), and get friendly nudges via browser notifications.

Customizable sit/stand ratio Start, pause, and reset controls Runs in the browser — no downloads or accounts No tracking, no ads — just free and simple

Would love feedback from anyone who gives it a try — especially if you have thoughts on small UX tweaks or power-user features you'd want.

Thanks for reading!
by krageon | 2025-07-30 12:35:13+00:00
A stolen identity destroys the life of the victim, and there's going to be more than one. They (every single involved CEO) should have all of their assets seized, to be put in a fund that is used to provide free legal support to the victims. Then they should go to a low-security prison and have mandatory community service for the rest of their lives.

They probably can't be redeemed and we should recognise that, but that doesn't mean they can't spend the rest of their life being forced to be useful to society in a constructive way. Any sort of future offense (violence, theft, assault, anything really) should mean we give up on them. Then they should be humanely put down.
by kozika | 2025-07-30 12:35:22+00:00
I happened to be visiting Miyagi just before the tsunami struck, and I was really panicked. When I got out of the car, everyone's smartphones nearby suddenly started beeping. A message in Japanese, saying something like "TSUNAMI EVACUATE NOW," sounded throughout the area. At the time, my phone displayed a warning that a three-meter tsunami would hit the area within an hour. I waited on slightly higher area for about two hours, but the locals kept going about their usual business, and there were no announcements from the nearby police.

Fortunately, nothing happened, but it's difficult to know which information to trust. Still, it's good that there's a system in place for evacuation alerts.
by goda90 | 2025-07-30 12:35:38+00:00
You can target mosquitoes more directly with mosquito dunks. It's a block of dehydrated bacteria that produces a toxin believed to only impact the larva of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, and black flies. Basically you make sure all standing water in the area is drained or has a mosquito dunk in it. You can make buckets full of yard debris and water and a mosquito dunk to attract mosquitoes to lay their eggs that then get killed.

You can also try to increase the number of predators. Create habitats for bats, dragonflies, mosquito larva eating fish, etc.

I've found picaridin lotion to be much less annoying than DEET spray but still effective this year.
by lm28469 | 2025-07-30 12:35:41+00:00
Disable your yt history, it disables pretty much everything yt wants to push.

When I open yt I get an empty page with a search box, even clicking on the Shorts page it just says "Recommendations are off Your watch history is off, and we rely on watch history to tailor your Shorts feed. You can change your setting at any time, or try searching for Shorts instead. Learn more."
by Funes- | 2025-07-30 12:35:43+00:00
None, I'd bet. Can't you see this is just about tightening their grasp on our liberties, swaying our opinions, and selling our data? Organised religion could be going for that (minus the data, at least not in the current sense) in the past with a certain degree of success, but I don't see how they are even a tad bit as powerful as they once were. It doesn't seem sensible to associate these seemingly coordinated measures around the world to organised religion instead of corporations and the political elite. That's just a tone deaf take.
by exodust | 2025-07-30 12:36:11+00:00
Because the process of "arranging" requires an end goal, according to the definition of the word. No assumptions needed.

I was replying to the person who suggested the universe might be consciously exploring itself (goal) via an arrangement of molecules into humans. For fun, maybe the arranging process is at the beginning and the end goal is some kind of cosmic party after which everything resets again, or something.
by dfedbeef | 2025-07-30 12:36:28+00:00
Was the answer:

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:13:00 -i myvideo.avi -frames:v 1 myimage.jpeg

Because this is on stack overflow and it took maybe one second to find.

I've found reading the man page for a tool is usually a better way to learn what a tool can do for you now and also in the future.