MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-09-13 16:19:48+00:00
See the fucked up thing is I can’t help but agree. It should be illegal because it tends to cause harm, but that doesn’t mean it causes harm in any particular case, and if it turns out okay I guess I don’t have any good reason to care. There’s the argument “maybe this guy will go forward and keep doing that to other people,” but I don’t disagree in a bubble.
by cubefox | 2025-09-13 16:20:00+00:00
This link doesn't contain any more recent information though. It's not decided yet which return option will be taken. However, judging from the original source, it seems that the first option (sky crane) is developed by NASA internally together with contractors, while the second seems to be some new fixed price contract by some external company. This wasn't clear from the Nature piece.

> During formulation, NASA will proceed with exploring and evaluating two distinct means of landing the payload platform on Mars. The first option will leverage previously flown entry, descent, and landing system designs, namely the sky crane method, demonstrated with the Curiosity and Perseverance missions. The second option will capitalize on using new commercial capabilities to deliver the lander payload to the surface of Mars.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-explore-two-landin...
by MartijnBraam | 2025-09-13 16:20:06+00:00
I always bring my telephoto lens. Since moving to a full frame camera I'm using a 70-300 most of the time and I rarely want a wider lens, more often I wish I brought my 600mm instead.

I also brought a 85mm prime which has been a lot of fun, while at the same time I've been lugging around a 35mm prime and barely used it.
by Kaibeezy | 2025-09-13 16:20:22+00:00
Were we not getting airships for this purpose? The ones with a butt?

A diagram comparing it to the 747s and oil tankers mentioned in the text would have been appreciated.

OK, looked it up. 108m v 72m. Kvikk diagram, pretty much to scale:

, || WR ============ ‘ || , \\ 747 ======== ‘ //
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-13 16:21:39+00:00
Yeah, looks like you believe this country is a democracy. That implies you're willingly ignoring all the logical arguments presented to you that show that it's not. If I'm so wrong about everything, why not simply refute the points that were made? Should be easy.

"Radical extremists" are just people who happen to have self-consistent philosophies and world views. It doesn't matter how "extreme" the conclusion is, so long as it's the right conclusion. If realizing the truth about things makes me an "radical extremist", then by all means.
by rmunn | 2025-09-13 16:22:16+00:00
Which is why I've seen lots of people recommend testing your software with emojis, particularly recently-added emojis (many of the earlier emojis were in the basic multilingual plane, but a lot of newer emojis are outside the BMP, i.e. the "astral" planes). It's particularly fun to use the (U+1F4A9) emoji for such testing, because of what it implies about the libraries that can't handle it correctly.

EDIT: Heh. The U+1F4A9 emoji that I included in my comment was stripped out. For those who don't recognize that codepoint by hand (can't "see" the Matrix just from its code yet?), that emoji's official name is U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO.
by Elfener | 2025-09-13 16:22:49+00:00
Laptop With Telephone Handset: https://anycrap.shop/product/laptop-with-telephone-handset

That is not how I imagined the handset to be attached! How would you even close the laptop?

Digital Watch With Parabolic Antenna: https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-watch-with-parabolic-an...

That's not a parabolic antenna. But I like the 3-digit minute.
by mihaic | 2025-09-13 16:23:08+00:00
> you've seen plenty of people that didn't do what he did?

Yes, because I've seen them build software that was actually used. And I've seen a few that did just like him, impressive sounding projects that had no usage.

I understand it's something subjective. I get the same feeling when looking at Damien Hirst's monstrouly expensive stuff that leaves me cold. Even after I get the concepts behind the works, my end feeling is of "so what?".
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-13 16:23:13+00:00
> The discourse would be more effective if we stick to the facts without end-of-world proclamations.

Your complaint is with science journalism, not science. Let’s look at the actual quoted scientists:

“It came as a surprise,” said Ralf Schiebel. . . “We’ve never seen something like this before.”

Andrew Sellers. . . “major repercussions throughout the food web.”

“The climate is warming, that’s putting coral reefs at risk,” said Dr. Aronson. . .

But if [the current] disappears repeatedly, then “it’s cause for grave concern,” Dr. Aronson said.

Dr. Schiebel said. . . “Our fear is now that it would also happen to other upwelling systems,” he said.

With the exception of “grave concern,” these are statements of fact and falsifiable predictions, not “end of the world” prophecies.

As to why the New York Times indulges in such histrionics, well, how else are they going to maintain relevance in the digital era, by which I mean, how else are they to extract value from their advertisers & subscribers? We’ve proven at this point that the only thing people click on en masse is clickbait.
by p_ing | 2025-09-13 16:23:30+00:00
Read the previous blog post [0] -- this one is disjointed without it. I dislike TZ selectors that use locations (cities, countries, etc.). Let PDT be PDT(-8) and PST be PST(-7). Why do I need to choose Cupertino, CA (or LA in the blog post example) -- locations over 1k miles away from me? And while I certainly understand where Cupertino is and how it relates to my TZ, what if someone else doesn't? Cupertino isn't a major population center.

Anyway, poor UX. But of course TZ names could also be argued as poor UX. What if you just did PST/PDT as Los Angeles, CA; Oregon, OR, and Seattle, WA all on separate line items? Sure, it's duplicate data but a backend system (Postgres config files, say) should only store the value of the TZ, i.e. -7 / -8. At least a user could recognize 'oh, I drive to xyz major city occasionally, that's the choice I want'.

To keep ranting, I checked macOS 15 TZ selector for PDT/PST. The selector itself is labeled "Closest city". It has numerous locations in California, a few in Nevada, and a couple in Mexico. No cities in Oregon, Washington, or Idaho (and Hyder, AK... neat [1]).

Closest is a stretch, like I said, over 1K miles from LA. But why several California cities, including minor ones like Oceanside (~175K people), but nothing in Oregon (Eugene, also 175K), Portland (652K), or Washington - Tacoma (220K), Seattle (740K). Note I did not look for the smallest city in the macOS CA list.

It's weird to me. Maybe it's because Oregon == Intel and Washington == Microsoft. ;-)

[0] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/11/debtz/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone#United_State...
by gregsadetsky | 2025-09-13 16:23:36+00:00
I was saying that in jest, ha. More like 2.5% of the code.

Very briefly, I contributed the CI pipeline that makes git push build the wasm and deploy it to a micro server that sets the specific required headers. I used the deployment tool I’ve been working on with a friend, which is called Disco.

There was something about wasm/the audio worklet requiring super specific headers - `Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp` … Nothing too complicated.

The other part I contributed is the loading/saving patches to Firebase, which lets people share compositions.

But all of the audio, grid, ui is all River’s!
by saltcured | 2025-09-13 16:24:59+00:00
Yeah, when I used it on a workstation many years ago, I layered it on top of an MD RAID-1 SSD array for the cache and an MD RAID-5 HDD array for the bulk store.

I used writeback mode, but expected to wipe the machine if the caching layer ever collapsed. In the end, the SSDs outlived my interest in the machine, though I think I did failover an HDD or two while the rest remained in normal operating mode.
by namibj | 2025-09-13 16:25:08+00:00
I thought 30 days are an option at least when you can explain the reason/necessity to stripe?

Could be an option to funnel default-risky (as distinct from chargeback-risky!) customers to a customer-selectable hold amount rolling the per-transaction flat fee into basically a per-bill flat fee thus indirectly giving volume/commitment discounts to those that select 30-day intervals with large holds?

I guess ideally offer an option to force a billing (transaction finalization) to release the hold if a customer changes their mind (or just happened to use a debit card)...

Though even with 7 day holds it'd allow you to offer service to poor people (which mostly overlaps "people with bad credit") without the APIs having to maintain revenue margins large enough to just eat that default risk, and without having to hold onto any funds yourself.
by vips7L | 2025-09-13 16:25:10+00:00
I think this is really just anecdotal to your experience. Don’t you need to install a specific version of a compiler or interpreter for every language? Isn’t trying to build any complex project a pray on the first try? I’ve worked in Go codebases where it’s not simply “go build”. It’s: try go build, oops you need to use the make/justfile, oops don’t forget you need to install jq or some other random tool. Complex projects are complex.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-13 16:26:37+00:00
More (many more?) of us are familiar with and have familial connections with the Mediterranean. We also have easier access to, say, olive oil than pickled plums.

Remember, the goal of marketing a diet is selling books. Books telling you to find, prepare and eat seaweed are a harder sell than books telling you to eat ingredients you're probably already cooking with (but maybe in different quantities) and use tools and techniques you're already familiar with.
by vunderba | 2025-09-13 16:27:09+00:00
I do the majority of my music composition on a desktop but it can definitely be nice to bring my 37-key midi controller + iPad for doing stuff on the go.

It's also not entirely uncommon for an App Store synth to offer both an iOS and a native Mac version so always check the store description to see if its universal. The ability to seamlessly bring your tracks over to a more full-fledged DAW on your Mac is really nice.

Example: Minimoog Model D Synthesizer

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimoog-model-d-synthesizer/i...
by zac23or | 2025-09-13 16:27:29+00:00
I read such news with a grain of salt:

However, when officials went to congratulate him on his 111th birthday, they found his 30-year-old remains, raising concerns that the welfare system is being exploited by dishonest relatives.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071 (2010)
by esafak | 2025-09-13 16:27:49+00:00
I shoot candid and I am at the age and stage where my philosophy is simply "Just bring anything and take the picture". Tomorrow's technology will easily fix it; it's already pretty close.

Former Magnum and NatGeo photographer David Alan Harvey can get by with a cell phone.

I will say that shooting with a camera was way more engaging, active, exciting in the moment. And I haven't done studio photography in years. But I still take pictures that give people joy, and that's ultimately what counts.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-13 16:28:42+00:00
Not everyone cares that much about their reputation outside FOSS circles.

Sun was aided by Oracle and IBM into the whole Java push during its early days.

Many apparently aren't aware of their roles into the whole Java history.

Oracle was the first RDMS with Java drivers, all GUI tooling rewriten into Java, JVM into the database, JSF famework, and acquisition of BEA and its JIT technology.

Also collaboration with Sun in the Network Computer thin client with its Java based OS.
by growingkittens | 2025-09-13 16:29:02+00:00
I remember the same thing. That doesn't mean they knew how to teach us to "learn how to learn". Neither does it mean that the underlying education system supported that goal.

Same goes for user-centered design. Trying to make something user-friendly is one thing, successfully doing it is another. Large organizations are especially poor at user-friendly design because the underlying structures which support that goal don't exist. Organizational science is still in its infancy.
by remus | 2025-09-13 16:29:41+00:00
You're right, but the proportion of leasehold is still somewhat high (about 7% of houses in the UK). Kinda weird that it's still a thing. There's also a good scam going where leaseholders will try and persuade you to buy out of the lease for X thousand £, because people want the piece of mind rather than paying the ground rent.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-09-13 16:30:35+00:00
Please wishlist it on Steam, it will help get the word out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3614060/CLAVIER36/

A Steam version is definitely coming - the biggest question re Steam Deck is how to deal with the input..

Do you use/like any other audio software on the Steam Deck?
by tialaramex | 2025-09-13 16:30:38+00:00
Having been on on the customer side it's frustrating how often the situation is: Me: "So, you got a bid which offers features A, B, C, and D we asked for, and you say it also has X and Y and hit our budget?" / Buyer: "Yes".

A week later. "OK, their install team says it can't technically do C yet, however there's an early 2026 preview scheduled which addresses most of C. The D feature isn't in the edition we have, our buyers are talking to their sales people and we may need to pay extra to unlock D. And you're correct that two other organisations in our industry confirm X is dogshit and you'd be better off without it but it can't be disabled. Still A does work, and we have filed bugs about the known defects with B so hopefully we can get those fixed"

Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am. I reckon if they were sent to the store to buy a whole roast chicken with a £20 note they'd come back with six expired chicken sandwiches and no change.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-13 16:30:50+00:00
> Subagents do not work well for coding at all

Subagents can work very well, especially for larger projects. Based on this statement, I think you're experiencing how I felt in my early experience with them, and that your mental model for how to use them effectively is still embryonic.

I've found that the primary benefit for subagents is context/focus management. For example, I'm doing auth using Stytch. What I absolutely don't want to do is load https://stytch.com/docs/llms.txt and instructions for leveraging it in my CLAUDE.md. But it's perfect for my auth agent, and the quality of the output for auth-related tasks is far higher as a result.

A recommended read: https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/08/29/context-engineering-slash...
by fsckboy | 2025-09-13 16:30:59+00:00
if you take a 35mm SLR with a 50mm lens and rotate it vertically (portrait) and hold the viewfinder up to one of your eyes, and leave the other eye open, your binocular vision will merge the two images with no problem/distortion, as if you were not holding a set of lenses up to one eye.

since what you see through the viewvinder is what the taken picture will look like, it is neutral like/wrt your eyes, at the zero middle between wide angle and telephoto. (it's worth considering "who says eyes are neutral?" it's the system we are used to and our brain develops to understand)

it's non obvious to a casual observer that the mm units chosen for the image size (the image gets focused on a 35mm rectangle (you need to know the aspect ratio)) and mm for the focal length are measuring different things, but that's why you just need to "know" that 35mm and 50mm "equal neutral". there are more things measured in mm as well, like the actual width of the primary lens which indicates how much light is gathered to be focused onto the same square.

i'm not a photographer. i don't quite know the mm lingo for what happens when the image sensor/film is wider then 35mm, the large/full formats. the focal lengths "work" the same, but a larger image would need to be focused and that seems like it would require some larger distances within the lens system.
by anta40 | 2025-09-13 16:31:35+00:00
I initially thought this was a PHP implementation in Rust.... but it's not

Will Mago implement a PHP runtime?

Absolutely not. The PHP runtime is incredibly complex. Major efforts by large companies (e.g., Facebook's HHVM, VK's KPHP) have struggled to reach full parity with Zend Engine. Achieving this as a smaller project is infeasible and would lead to community fragmentation. We are focused on tooling, not runtimes.

https://mago.carthage.software/faq
by vunderba | 2025-09-13 16:32:39+00:00
Having grown up with and used the vast majority of DAWs (Logic, Ableton, Bitwig, FL Studio, Reaper, Studio One, etc) - Garageband probably has the gentlest learning curve of any of them.

And it doesn't hurt that when need more power/features you can upgrade to its big brother Logic Pro X which offers a very similar interface.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-13 16:33:42+00:00
I think this is right but not quite.

Politically, social media lately has fractured into ideological spaces. I go on bluesky or truth social or X or a certain subreddit to keep up with the politics as filtered through my tribe.

A lot of people opt out of these spaces because of the huge amount of political content and the lack of nuance in discussion. But it also radicalizes the people who stay as they get their sides view of the political conflicts of the day. And they get addicted to winning arguments for their side.

It used to be that Twitter revolved around whatever Trump did. Now people go online to find a little club they can kanoodle and bemoan how their side is the ultimate victim. And people will justify a lot of horrible things if they think they’re the victim.
by estearum | 2025-09-13 16:33:42+00:00
Do you have the same reservations for the other 99.9% of drugs that haven't gone through "long term human clinical trials?" How long would a trial need to be to assuage your concerns? How large would it need to be?

Because even the one "significant" adverse effect we see with COVID vaccines (myo- or pericarditis in young men) is so uncommon that it would've required trials several orders of magnitude larger than the largest trials ever conducted to detect.

I personally don't mind people asking questions of them, that's the whole point of science!

What's frustrating is when people ask questions that 1) are easily answered by the reams of publicly available literature on the topic [and are truly difficult to answer in 240 character snippets], and 2) they never even thought to ask of the various other compounds they're ingesting which are generally far less well-understood than the COVID vaccines.

It's almost like it's not an organic and earnest curiosity...

Anyway to your direct question: no obviously you're not the only one. But according to all available data the calculus very strongly contradicts your intuitions. We make decisions with incomplete data every day and we don't generally call "filling in the blanks with whatever I need to in order to reach a contrary conclusion" a form of wisdom.
by ezst | 2025-09-13 16:35:11+00:00
You only really have two options there:

- a system of lords and peasants, where the lords are held accountable and kept in check by the peasants, as the social contract obliges, or - a system of lords and peasants, with no checks and balances

Obviously, corruption can creep in any system, but the one that states "let's give it all to the lords with nothing in return" seems asinine to me.
by District5524 | 2025-09-13 16:36:05+00:00
This is similar to the reasoning of Austria vehemently opposing nuclear reactors to be built in neighbouring countries, even if downstream on the Danube, even if 200 km from their border.

The latest decision (although on the surface, not on an environmental issue like the article is about, but on state aid measures - but actually not the real reason for Austria's opposition): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62...

So, I believe, yes, low HDI countries with high corruption do have the right to build nuclear facilities. This is not like a combination of low HDI and high corruption index awarded by some international organization has the approval rights to such questions of sovereignity. There is a whole range of special regulation regarding who can build nuclear stations and under what conditions, with a special agency to ensure the safe use (IAEA) - that should be the only criteria for letting nations build nuclear stations, not corruption, HDI or how rich the countries are.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-13 16:36:17+00:00
> If you can literally crawl underneath your house and touch everything, it's basically like cheating.

Maybe this is part of it. Where I live, the crawlspace under my home is a fully finished basement with my office and such.

But the more these comments get me thinking, the more I recognize that it’s more subjective than not. I weighted for problems I could tackle slowly over five years, many of them myself, because I worked from home and had two kids under 2. So the home is on a hill with a sump pump that’s dryer than the desert, a solid foundation and new roof, and a few dozen smaller issues like flooring, new carpet, replace lower deck with patio, etc.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-13 16:36:36+00:00
This is the argument populists make regarding Caesar, and there might be some truth to it, but it falls apart when you look at a Venezuela or North Korea; it’s easy to say that a nation gets the government it deserves when you aren’t the one having your life threatened.

Then again, outsized influence is a problem in democracies as well; this is what creates the conditions for a Caesar figure to emerge in the first place.
by vunderba | 2025-09-13 16:37:00+00:00
Has the Linux world gotten better in the past decade? I remember audio drivers/latency being a particular pain in the ass. In terms of ease of use from best to worst I'd rank them:

1. Mac Core Audio (Works out of box)

2. Windows ASIO (ASIO4ALL or just plugin a Scarlett/MOTU audio interface)

3. Linux Pipewire
by bubblethink | 2025-09-13 16:37:22+00:00
The "busts" are more theater than anything else. The DOJ also sued companies for not hiring enough immigrants (https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...) .

>The problem is not "good lawyers" but the fact that the only punishment for breaking the law is a pittance of a settlement.

That's how settlements go. The government gets to do its theater, the constituents believe that the government is fighting for them, and companies write this off as the cost of doing business.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-13 16:38:16+00:00
> Many, many famous photojournalists and artists embraced wide angle decades before skater culture did.

Photography threads are interesting because they arrive with so many different interpretations of history. There are multiple comments claiming that “everyone” did one thing until a certain famous photographer or specific subculture came along and disrupted the world.

Yet like you said, the only real driver was the affordability and availability of equipment. When it became attained, people started using it.
by tim333 | 2025-09-13 16:38:58+00:00
Well time will tell I guess.

I'm not sure how you figure there was an 'original plan of "levy a crushing defeat"' - don't know how that would have worked with zero NATO troops and minimal assistance to Ukraine. I think it was more hoping Russia would behave like a normal civilised country and not murder their peaceful neighbours. That one obviously didn't pan out but you can't win them all.