MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by serf | 2025-09-13 18:07:00+00:00
seems silly to embrace the design of a plane that is made to move 2 static length blades when even longer blades have been shown to continue the trend of cheaper MW.

the article mentions that 3d printing is a no-go due to the facility needed to print the blade in -- seems like it'd be better to pursue an unfolding container factory with a printer in it and how to transport that thing with conventional craft than to go all-in on a new unproven airframe made for very specific parts.

plus that way the length of the product isn't set in stone, either.

I say this as a total layman -- i'm just taking the articles stated reason for no 3d printing and running with it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-13 18:07:22+00:00
When I did this shoot

https://www.behance.net/gallery/232094025/Dragon-Day-2025

I got frustrated with switching between a wide and relatively long lens and having to clean up dust spots afterwards that I got one of these

https://outdoorx4.com/stories/field-review-tamron-28-200-f2-...

which is great for just walking around and I use it for outdoor running events where I can get pretty close and the long end is long enough but the wide end is good useful for crowds

https://www.behance.net/gallery/232159469/Skunk-Cabbage-Run-...

Thing is I sent out my old α7ii body out to be repaired and got a monster backpack

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114866454342061662

so now I go out with two bodies and even more lenses though I tend to have a cycle of having a heavier and heavier pack until I get an injury, lightening up, healing, and then getting a heavier packer again.

I definitely enjoy prime lenses too, I have more 50mm's that I can rationally explain, also the Sony 90mm macro lens which DxO says is the best lens Sony makes

https://dustinabbott.net/2020/09/sony-fe-90mm-f2-8-macro-g-o...

which is not just good for macro work but also portraits and just random stuff. There is definitely something fun to spending a lot of time with a prime lens and working your perception of space around it. Back when I had a Canon I had just a 20mm full frame lens fitted to an APS-C body.
by bostik | 2025-09-13 18:07:28+00:00
It was meant as a compliment, and it was not intended as hyperbolic. But since you ask...

In this case I thought it would fit with the already absurd tones exhibited in the thread. More generally, the technique is not "hyperbolic phrasing" as much as deploying a comedic angle. Comedians (especially oneliner and short-form comics) often seek ways to emphasise a visual image. The more vivid the mental imagery, that much more effective the double punch of the words and the internal visual hit.

The same technique is also occasionally used by some of the most effective tech talks; if you manage to combine a factually correct detail distillation with a punchline that invokes a strong and somewhat controversial mental image, that has a high likelyhood of being remembered.
by kqr | 2025-09-13 18:07:47+00:00
Yes, people's brains selectively modify contrast, saturation, detail, framing, and just about every parameter there is.

When it comes to visual experiences, it is meaningless to talk about "honesty" because they are so subjective. That's one of the greatest joys of looking at other photographers' interpretations of familiar subjects: they see things so differently.

Restrictions on processing make sense, but they are not easy rules, because they depend on the purpose of the image. I suspect the most restricted are people in news -- they operate on similar principles as those who write the articles. In other words, there are no forbidden technical procedures, but the end product must effectively convey a real-world event (from some perspective -- news is always biased.)
by toast0 | 2025-09-13 18:08:10+00:00
> In turn, this situation makes it extremely hard for independent-minded developers to form businesses for any software that doesn't lend itself well to SaaS.

People and companies don't want to pay for software. That's what makes it hard to form a business around selling software.

If your software is actually free, then it is easier to get people to use it, but that doesn't help you form a business.

A few decades ago, people and businesses also didn't like to pay for software, but saw fewer actually free options available.
by neuroelectron | 2025-09-13 18:08:19+00:00
Furthermore, if you simply try to push certain safety topics, you can see how actually can reduce hallucinations or at least make certain topics a hard line. They simply don't because agreeing with your pie-in-the-sky plans and giving you vague directions encourages users to engage and use the chatbot.

If people got discouraged with answers like "it would take at least a decade of expertise..." or other realistic answers they wouldn't waste time fantasizing plans.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-09-13 18:08:21+00:00
> 1) to actually generate the energy (steam!)

Secondary loop can be made closed system. This reduces efficiency, but this could be acceptable considering water scarcity. Of course there would be some leaks etc. so water needs to be resupplied, but in much lesser amounts.

> 2) to cool

Not necessarily true, because primary loop doesn't need to have water (HTG, MSR, LMR reactors). HTG reactor actually doesn't need water at all and can power gas turbine directly. LMR, depending on chosen coolant, can do this as well, though it requires heat exchanger.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-13 18:08:26+00:00
It is disgusting.

And it’s also free speech to gloat about it. Is it legal to sack someone who is gleeful?

The consensus on Hacker News was that New Zealand made an error blocking and banning the video of the Christchurch mosque shootings.

What’s the right way to handle these scenarios? Kirk was a free speech advocate with strong views on gun violence, further complicating things.
by frugalmail | 2025-09-13 18:08:33+00:00
Harm in the physical sense, agreed. But "harm" newly defined 2013-2025 mutated into "speech I don't like" by the government.

"Offend" is subjective, and US Citizens should not have punitive governmental consequences as a result.

But private organizations, should be able to make their own decisions on all the above.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-13 18:08:37+00:00
I highly recommend anyone interested in these processes read “The Democratic Coup”.

It tries to explain the circumstances where a coup such as this can lead to democracy.

Key interesting example include Portugal in 1974 ... and the American Revolution against the British.

It’s happened before and it could well happen again here. My heart goes out to the protestors. May they fill the power vacuum with strong leaders who can make their country better for future generations.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-13 18:10:13+00:00
I had a phase when I only had a 35mm-equivalent prime and was happy for a long time, I have a lot of lenses now but I can imagine having just that 9 and not getting bored for a long time though I wouldn't be doing sports -- if you can find flower beds that are exceptionally deep it even takes good flower photos but the only beds I can find that deep are the ones my wife maintains, if I got to Ithaca or Cornell flower beds just aren't deep enough that I can hold the lens over them and have flowers all the way to the edge.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-09-13 18:10:19+00:00
The 4th Amendment prevents police from conducting searches without a warrant. There are criminals who are going to escape detection because of that, and there are known criminals who go free because of that, and every year some of those criminals are going to commit murder and other crimes that they would not have been able to commit if it weren't for the 4th Amendment. And the 4th Amendment is not the only other amendment in the Bill of Rights that makes it harder to catch and prosecute criminals.

Is it worth it to have a cost of some deaths every year so that we can have the Bill of Rights? Yes, it is. If you think that makes me callus, you need to develop a thicker skin.
by pydry | 2025-09-13 18:10:20+00:00
The French, Germans and Poles keep talking about doing just that - with "reassurance" forces or whatever the name for it is these days.

If they deploy those forces they will be wiped out. There is no question of that.

European leaders' main hope was that they could sacrifice some troops to provoke the yanks over to save the day.

Trump has comprehensively and publicly ruled that out though. He refuses to be drawn in.

And what would you do in that situation? with a bunch of dead troops, an infuriated Russia and no US to come to the rescue?
by hvb2 | 2025-09-13 18:10:33+00:00
You cannot compare between years like that. There are ups and downs, currently we're certainly not in an up except for special skills I guess.

5 years ago all of big tech massively overhired, they let go a lot of people later, so that's not a fair comparison.

Also, you cannot expect a hiring manager to do everything. If the company decides I shouldn't be spending my time screening candidates then that's not what I do.
by boothby | 2025-09-13 18:10:39+00:00
> If there’s anything that this horrific event has taught me it’s to step away from social media political rabbit holes.

This presents a conundrum to somebody wanting to stay abreast of current events. The president of the US is always-online to the point that not posting to twitter for a few hours sparks rumors that he's died. And if you look back a few decades in American history, assassination of politicians and activists happened long before the advent of social media.
by __david__ | 2025-09-13 18:10:52+00:00
Their GitHub readme has a section answering this.

https://github.com/antlr-ng/antlr-ng#future

Basically they feel the main problem with the original antlr is it’s being stifled by its batteries included nature. They’re hoping that splitting it will make each of the runtimes more agile. They don’t mention why the core was rewritten rather than just forking the original.
by majkinetor | 2025-09-13 18:11:04+00:00
You don't know that. It's just hypothesis.

I knew a woman that had 101 years when she died. She was vital until 99 or so, not even wearing glasses. She had a very hard life, including the fact that both her husband, only son died. So, I guess, luck is out of question for this case.

Its anybodies guess why she was living that long. Genetics for sure do not exist in vacuum and environment may activate or do nothing to your genes. You can also brute force specific genetic dissorders by taking copious amounts of vitamins.
by p3ob7o | 2025-09-13 18:12:12+00:00
Everywhere else where you have to pay for hosting, you mean?

On WordPress.com, you can pay for hosting plans, some of which give access to plugins and themes, but you also have free hosting without.

Elsewhere, you pay for hosting; there's generally no free option. Then you get plugins and themes included with that.

In the end, to use WordPress with plugins and themes, you pay some amount to the company that hosts it for you.

Disclaimer: I work for Automattic, but the opinions here are my own.
by lif | 2025-09-13 18:12:17+00:00
a horrible investment, esp. for a country of that size (geogr. & econ.)

“The utter stupid waste of war, not only material but moral and spiritual, is so staggering to those who have to endure it. And always was (despite the poets), and always will be (despite the propagandists)"

-JRR Tolkien
by M95D | 2025-09-13 18:12:23+00:00
UEFI and ACPI had nothing to do with it.

X86 and servers existed well before ACPI, or even PCI, or even ISA PnP(!) were invented. X86 always had standards, they all had the same two 8259 interrupt controllers, same CMOS RTC, same timer, same 16550-compatible UART, same floppy controller, same VGA framebuffer addresses, even the IDE controllers were all using the same driver. Even now, x86 needs only 3 USB drivers to support basic input: UHCI, OHCI and EHCI, and all of them can be discoveded by PCI PnP - ACPI/UEFI isn't needed for this.

ARM has dozens of UART implementations, dozens of USB controllers, dozens of RTCs, probably hundreds of timers, dozens of specialized internal buses with no auto-init or discovery (PnP), each and every one turned off by default to save power and requiring specialized init by a specific driver to be functional.

That's what's wrong with ARM. Not UEFI. That and the fact that chip manufacturers don't bother to PR to mainline any of thir driver code.

UEFI will not change anything. It's a closed-source devicetree equivalent that can compromize any system at ring -2. Of course it will never be updated.
by melling | 2025-09-13 18:13:20+00:00
Stephen King made the mistake of chiming in on X then having to apologize.

I never heard of Mr Kirk until the shooting so I don’t want to support his beliefs or dismiss them but I think we need to promote freedom of speech/expression. People say things we disagree with, things that are truly horrible, etc. At least in the United States, we should be a bit more tolerant when we disagree.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-13 18:13:44+00:00
You'll want to look into the "groypers," who are the group the alleged shooter may have been most closely affiliated with. They and Kirk's Turning Point USA had a falling out over TPU's unwillingness to be as ultra-nationalist, isolationist, or white supremacist as the groypers are. They assert that Kirk's brand of conservatism was carrying a kind of stolen valor over claiming they got Trump elected when the groypers would argue they were the ones most instrumental in cementing Trump's support among traditionally disenfranchised white nationalism.

It's too early to know, but it may be the case that this shooting was the right-wing equivalent of Stalin having Lenin removed as an ivory-tower elite obstacle to "true communism."
by voidhorse | 2025-09-13 18:14:11+00:00
Cybernetics was the birthing place of neural networks. Hardly niche.

I don't think commenters should be expected to provide full overviews of topics just to inform others. Parent gave plenty of pointers beyond metacybernetics, all of which are certainly discoverable. If you are curious, read about it. It's not the responsibility of random strangers to educate you.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-13 18:14:14+00:00
I’m not sure there’s much use to “staying abreast of current events” for most people. Media (social/traditional) focuses on amping up your anxiety and putting your side against there’s. Rather than a balanced view of the details. Alarmist headlines and hand wringing tweets are engineered to anger and outrage you. It’s very hard to keep up with news while keeping your rational brain engaged.

If something truly momentous happens about it, you’ll hear about it.

If something happens that impacts you, you’ll find out when it happens and then you’ll get informed if there’s anything you can do about it.
by tobyjsullivan | 2025-09-13 18:14:53+00:00
To your second point, the average reader is not a scientist (wrt this topic, at least). Scientists equate proving with knowing. To the average reader, however, there is little correlation between what we know and what we’ve proved.

The scientists don’t know why it happened, because they haven’t proved why it happened.

I’d wager that the average reader knows perfectly well why it happened.
by majkinetor | 2025-09-13 18:14:57+00:00
Its not, your thinking is way to simplistic. Body is not a simple machine. Hormones have dominant role here. Produce more insulin for whatever reason, you can eat whatever and you will be fat. Produce less insulin, you can eat whatever and you will still be lean. Exercise more, have more appetite.

What is unrealistic is caloric deficit, that is unsustainable, not sure why people have such a hard time understanding that. It is never about deficit on the long run.
by ForOldHack | 2025-09-13 18:15:01+00:00
Maybe, but I don't know. Although I would like to channel as many snarky remarks as I could, to be more constructive, I would use the IDK model, as I have with programming questions and use the psychotic one for questions like "are we in a simulation?" And "Yes, I would like fries with that and a large orange drink."
by sokoloff | 2025-09-13 18:15:34+00:00
I asked the appraiser what he was looking for on one of my refinances. "I pretty much just verify the house is real, measure the foundation [for square footage], count the floors, bedrooms, and bathrooms, then find some local comps to justify the appraisal."

I don't think any of the appraisers were inside for even 10 minutes.
by exodust | 2025-09-13 18:16:32+00:00
> "I know my words sound harsh"

Your words sound unhinged. Like your anti-fascist label maker is unrolling a mini manifesto of regurgitated anti-Israel nuggets. You're harbouring an array of ideologies, all intersecting and spilling on the page. A diatribe of disturbance.

Meanwhile, my approach is grounded in a singular idea: That Hamas are the enemy in a war. It's a serious problem. Wars are like that.

Not just the enemy of Israel, but of any civilisation that values civil liberties without the punishing cloud of oppressive fundamentalism and stone-age brutality looming over every aspect of life.

Qatar is useless. After 2 years of "negotiating", a few drip-fed hostages including dead ones. Israel released more Palestinian prisoners than there are hostages. What a disgrace that hostages still remain in captivity. A disgrace that Qatar "hosts" the Hamas leaders, and that the Iranian regime funds the whole lot.

An unforgivable situation. Israel is responding to the threat. Obviously the eventual goal is peace. I won't click your links thanks anyway.
by tom_m | 2025-09-13 18:16:33+00:00
Exactly. If you know how the whole thing works end to end, AI makes you incredibly dangerous. Anyone who specializes or never really learned how everything works is at a huge disadvantage.

However. There's also good news. AI is also an amazing tool for learning.

So what I see AI doing is simply separating people who want to put effort forth and those who don't.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-13 18:16:41+00:00
The things is... The things said do have consequences. Stochastic terrorism is real. Say people deserve to die (or are expendable) long enough and loud enough and someone ends up convinced.

Kirk literally died in the act of making the case that mass shootings aren't statistically meaningful because most violence is black-on-black gang crime. He didn't get to finish his thought because someone turned him into one of those bloodless statistics.

It seems that what many are reeling from in this moment is the consequences of speech like this had never blown back to harm someone they identified with, who looked and acted enough like them to engage all their empathy.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-13 18:17:18+00:00
What sort of nonsense statistic is fatalities per watt hour?

People agree with fatalities per hour of travel because it makes sense. If you're a really frequent flyer, you are more likely to die. In nuclear, I don't give a crap how many watt hour the plant 1000km away from me is generating, I don't want it to affect me. I am however OK with the plant next door affecting me, because I have a say in that. I can choose to live elsewhere.

Someone mentioned rooftop solar causing more deaths. If my rooftop solar falls on my head, only I die.

You can't just reduce everything to aggregate statistics. The relationship and proximity of the affected to the thing that causes the accident also matters.

> Coal

Yes, but the miners die, and only his family face the consequences. Some unrelated guy 50km away doesn't. BIG difference.

Now, modern nuclear plants have way better containment, and e.g I advocate heavily for SMRs [1]. But the fear of nuclear pre-SMR is completely justified and correct as I argued above.

[1] I suppose practically, the ones with 10km radius are also OK. Gen III I think? That is a reasonable region to tell people "if you live here, you might have to evacuate and you might be screwed". Any system with a zone beyond that should always be opposed.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-13 18:18:03+00:00
I've been through this with sports, the hierarchy is

(1) good portraits

(2) photos that show players in opposition to each other

(3) photos that tell a story

Developing the habit to do (1) consistently is important because photos like that are still usable. If you just chase the action in most sports the ball is between you and a player and you get a lot of shots of people's behinds so looking for the places where people are open is foundational.

(3) is tough because a play involves a number of events that don't usually appear in one frame except for a few shots in a game like:

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114849463914827733
by Sophira | 2025-09-13 18:18:41+00:00
I realise the license doesn't bind the original copyright owner. That's not what I was arguing.

I'm saying that if the original licensor (ie. the copyright owner) offers software that they fully own to people under the terms of the GPL, they're binding the licensee (ie. the entity receiving the software) such that further redistribution of the binary that the licensee received has to come with an offer to receive the source code - which is something that the licensee cannot offer if they don't have access to the source code themselves.

I'm arguing that such a situation (ie. the original copyright owner not offering source code, but at the same time saying that the people receiving the software have to offer the source code if they want to redistribute the binary) is unreasonable to the point where it feels like there may be some legal action that could be taken, as at that point the license is asking people to do things that they literally cannot do.
by majkinetor | 2025-09-13 18:19:18+00:00
By American standard, basically anything is more healthy, so that is not really a good point. Do you think Italians, French, Spain or Serbians have worse food than Japan - they do not. Researchers thought it was something in red vine, then something in blue cheese, then olive oil, then fish, etc. Maybe its about so much Iodine, that is specific to Japan. I doubt its pristine environment and unique genetics.