MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 6mian | 2025-10-08 09:02:39+00:00
In visible range, would. The technique shown in the video work not perfectly clear sky conditions? Clouds are not uniform layer that moves with exactly the same speed in each point.

Are there reliable ways to figure out which pixels on subtracted frames are cloud movement and which are the few ones that are an aircraft?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but adding extra cameras doesn't seem to solve this problem, each source reporting "almost everything moves" would make solving intersections and tracking them impossible, because each target candidate can be assigned to many changes pixels in consecutive frames. Unless some additional pattern detection is done, but again it's hard for very small objects.
by gambiting | 2025-10-08 09:02:51+00:00
Well, correct me if I'm wrong - but according to this random website I found in 5 seconds of googling:

https://www.expat.hsbc.com/expat-explorer/expat-guides/germa...

The highest band of income tax in Germany is 45% and obviously that's only on any amount over the threshold - so even if you make that much money your effective tax rate will be closer to 30% than 50%.

So unless I'm missing something - I don't see how Germans could be paying 50% tax on their earnings?
by Etheryte | 2025-10-08 09:02:56+00:00
Many people recommend Ugreen, but looking at their entry-level 2-bay NAS it's nearly a hundred bucks more expensive than a 2-bay one from Synology. Sure, it has higher specs and whatnot, but that overlooks the fact that I don't care about specs. I just need a 2-bay device to backup my home devices, high performance is not a requirement.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-08 09:03:15+00:00
> Are you not aware about the countries that are seemingly OK with this already? There are countries that don't have their own national currency and instead rely on United States Dollar, so obviously what you say doesn't always apply.

This is generally making the best of a bad situation. Like, I'm from a country that was pegged to another country's currency for a long time, and it caused lots and lots of problems.

Now, I'm part of a currency union, and that too causes lots and lots of problems. I'm not sure why any government would want to give up currency control to Coinbase/Tether/Stripe, like it's bad enough when there's another central bank on the other side, but a bunch of tech bros seems like a step too far.

> Why? They're already in a "hard to imagine world" (from your perspective) since they don't have control over their own currency, wouldn't it be "easier to imagine" that they move to a currency no one control?

This is not true, there's always someone in control. The notion of perfectly algorithmic currency is beloved of a lot of people, but what happens when this hits the legal system? Fundamentally either the service gets banned or the algorithm gets tweaked (which indicates that someone has control).
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-10-08 09:03:36+00:00
I mean obviously the color space of most images you find online is still RGB although that is slowly changing, but until it changes print versions will probably be higher quality.

The colors afforded by your phone or camera probably have richer colors than is afforded by images you download of the place online, but may also be dependent on what you're doing and your camera settings.
by kakacik | 2025-10-08 09:03:38+00:00
That's an extreme take, venting off some inner fears and frustrations?

There are many use cases where this can add value. People these days live far from their families, what's wrong with connecting in a better/different way if desired?

Not everybody wants or can stay with their families for whole life and that's fine, something about personal freedom and right to self-determination, desire for massive personal growth that exposure to different cultures invariably brings in, adventures and so on.
by _petronius | 2025-10-08 09:04:45+00:00
If a thought like this has occurred to you, a dilettante, after reading a headline and/or cursorily glancing over the article, then you should assume that a study conducted by people with substantial academic training and deep expertise in the field have also had this thought and incorporated it into how they perform their analysis.

Drive-by anti-intellectualism like this is the death of interesting conversation, truly.
by 9029 | 2025-10-08 09:04:57+00:00
I have been planning to get either Witrn K2 or Power-Z KM003C. If just cable testing is enough, the Treedix one is probably good.

Related: If you are looking for cables, this guy has tested a bunch (mainly for charging capabilities) https://www.allthingsoneplace.com/usb-cables-1
by dns_snek | 2025-10-08 09:05:25+00:00
What percentage of German companies are owned and managed by its workers? What percentage are owned by capitalists, generating private profits?

Are those numbers indicative of socialism or capitalism?

> I recommend you read up on it a bit before making snarky comments on the internet.

It's not a snarky comment. Regulation and welfare are requirements even in a capitalist economy, otherwise you have people dying on the streets en masse and companies dumping toxic waste next to the fields where you grow food. You're essentially arguing that real capitalism hasn't been attempted yet - that more "freedom" (from regulation), more inequality will somehow fix things.

The US has more "freedom" in this sense than Germany - is the average person doing better over there? I don't think so, I certainly don't know any "average worker" currently living anywhere in the EU who would want to swap places.

Germany is a capitalist country with strong social welfare. If you think social welfare is a problem, feel free to argue that, but one thing that's not up for serious discussion is its economic model.
by benterix | 2025-10-08 09:05:43+00:00
My lessons so far:

1. Less fun.

2. A lot of more "review fatigue".

3. Tons of excess code I'd never put in there in the first place.

4. Frustration with agents being too optimistic which with time verges on the ludicurous ("Task #3 has been completed successfully with 98% tests failing. [:useless_emojis:]")

5. Frustration with agents routinely getting down a rabbit hole or going in circles, the effort needed to get that straight (Anthropic plainly advises to start from scratch in such cases - which is sound advice, but makes me feel like I just lost the last 5 hours of my life without even learning anything new).

I stopped using agents and use LLMs very sparingly (e.g. for review - they sometimes find some details I missed and occasionally have an interesting solution) but I'm enjoying my work so much more without them.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 09:05:44+00:00
> Even public libraries aren't free!

Because they aren't public. They are provided by a company.

> And let's not mention the health care system, which literally has two tiers, one for the poor and one for the rich, with of course the poor-tier being barely functional, and still expensive as fuck

This is because of inefficiency, an aging demographic and regulation, not because of capitalism. The "system for the rich" was worse back in the day, and only became "better" for doctors because they adjusted their rates for covered services. In fact, because the "poor tier" insurance companies have not adjusted their rates according to inflation for a long time [1], services are of course getting worse. The average dentist earns 50% of what he earned 1970 adjusted for inflation. [2] This is called the "Punktwert", it hasn't changed since 1980 ([3]) and it is the single most important factor why services are getting worse and worse. No one is getting rich off of GKV members. Not doctors, and certainly not insurance companies.

> "Social market economy" my ass.

Sorry, no. This is the direct outcome of a social market economy, when the economic motor isn't doing so good, you still have to pay for permanent social gifts that were given to the largest voting class (old people). The government mandated insurance companies are close to being bankrupt because of this exact policy. In fact, they would already be bankrupt if we didn't have a social market economy [4], which pays billions of tax dollars to prop them up.

> The only people getting any kind of social benefits are the retired boomers and if you were to do the accounting, even they got massively shafted by the capitalists, because those boomers would be 3x richer if their lifetime savings were properly invested.

Well, boomers, pensioners and those close to retirement make up 60% of the voting base. They got what they voted for, good and bad, a social market economic model that bleeds the workers to pay for pensions. That matches the definition of a large welfare system exactly. They also voted pretty clearly against an investment backed pension scheme and have been voting like this for 4 decades now. As always, economic models have disadvantages, and we are finding out now that models close to socialism stop working when you run out of other people's money.

[1]: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/amtliche-gebuehrenordnung-...

[2]: https://praxis-analysen.de/das-verfuegbare-zahnarzt-einkomme...

[3]: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/news/mehrere-vertragsarztliche-le...

[4]: https://www.pkv.de/positionen/bundeszuschuss/
by nicholasbraker | 2025-10-08 09:06:12+00:00
Ow wow, worked ISP support in 1997 - 1999 and indeed recalled having to reinstall TCP/IP stack and tweaking setting to make stuff work. Next to that, gruesome installation of ISDN drivers (which technically were out of support for us) for a specific brand of ISDN modems the incumbent telco provided to customers.
by Hamuko | 2025-10-08 09:06:28+00:00
>Critics say the entire episode has damaged Synology’s reputation. The company seemed to believe that after QNAP’s well-known ransomware troubles, it could tighten control of the market without losing customers.

Granted that there might be some bias at work as a Synology customer, but I heard a lot more about Synology's lockdown efforts than I heard of QNAP's ransomware troubles.
by instagraham | 2025-10-08 09:06:30+00:00
Love how the 2004 catalogue captures that iMac G3 colour scheme and vibe (even though, by then, you'd already gotten the more iPod looking G4).

When we try to remember how the design of a year "looks", it's surprisingly hard to document everything you were exposed to. I've been trying to find this particular graphics card demo animations I'd seen in computer stores in Saudi Arabia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I remember being induced into a right proper trance by some of them but I don't remember enough detail to find out what it was.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-08 09:06:31+00:00
ELI programmer

You have a function cleverly designed so that being zero is optimal. Closer to zero the better. It has 1000 dials to control it bit otherwise input and output.

So like a AWS Lambda with 1000 env vars!

Some clever math gal designed it so if you do this gradient descent thing it learns! But let's not worry about that for now. We just want to understand gradient descent.

So you have an input you like. And a desired output and thia function that makes an actual output and a way to turn that into a score of closeness. Closer to Zero better.

So you put the input, env vats, output and you get say 0.3

Not bad. But then you decide to wiggle an env var just a bit to see if it makes it better. 0.31 doh! Ok the other way. 0.29 yay! Ok so leave it there and do the next one and so on.

Now repeat with the next input and output pair.

And again with another.

Then do the whole set again!

You will find the average amount you are wrong by gets better!

This is sort of gradient descent.

One extra trick. Using maths and calculus you can figure out how to adjust the env vars so you dont need to guess and the amount you adjust them will be more optimal.

Calculus is about the rate things change, and if you say do A + B then a change in A becomes the same change in A + B but you can also do this in reverse! This let's you calculate not guess those changes needed to the env vars.
by imtringued | 2025-10-08 09:06:33+00:00
Deep Equilibrium Models

>We present a new approach to modeling sequential data: the deep equilibrium model (DEQ). Motivated by an observation that the hidden layers of many existing deep sequence models converge towards some fixed point, we propose the DEQ approach that directly finds these equilibrium points via root-finding. Such a method is equivalent to running an infinite depth (weight-tied) feedforward network, but has the notable advantage that we can analytically backpropagate through the equilibrium point using implicit differentiation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01377

What's fascinating about deep equilibrium models is that you only need a single layer to be equivalent to a conventional deep neural network with multiple layers. Recursion is all you need! The model automatically uses more iterations for difficult tasks and fewer iterations for easy tasks.
by graemep | 2025-10-08 09:06:46+00:00
> I also didn't say that the money disappear, I said the money may just end up getting parked in the modern day equivalent of dragon hoards. There's plenty of things to park idle money in hopes of returns.

You miss the point. What does the person who sold the assets in which the money is "parked" do with it? If they buy a bonds what does the seller of the bonds do with the money? Leave it in a bank account? The bank will lend the money to someone who will either spend the money (stimulating the economy) or reinvest it. They might buy another asset. If that asset is newly issued shares or bonds, the money will then go to a company planning to reinvest it. Anything else and it just pushes it another step to another person.

Eventually it goes back into the economy.

> I was just pointing out that the idea thaf it would just become investment in other parts of the economy is naive.

The naive assumption is that "parked" money somehow leaves the economy. its "parked" from the point of view of the person making the investment, but it has to go somewhere.

> I hadn't downvoted you, but I will do so now. I always downvote people that are butthurt about internet points.

How mature and charmingly expressed!

My point is that there is a lot of Dunning–Kruger in HN discussions of economics and finance.
by Netcob | 2025-10-08 09:07:55+00:00
Same - replaced my smaller Synology with a UGREEN, put TrueNAS on it first thing, runs great. The HDD thing was only the final nail in the coffin, but before that, there were plenty of ridiculous "upgrades" that made products worse than in the previous generation. Literally removing features, or continuing to use the same outdated hardware. That's what companies do that don't think they have competition.
by TurboHaskal | 2025-10-08 09:09:38+00:00
You say this because you are on HN, very senior and/or living in a bubble.

In the vast majority of programming jobs out there you are not paid to solve problems: you are told very clearly what to do, how to do it and what technology you have to use for the job.

People don't hire analysts they hire "Java programmers".
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-08 09:09:57+00:00
>I wish it was this simple

Why isn't it simple?

>but that strategy has been tried many times before and it always ends in violence

Then don't import people of divergent/adversarial cultures who aren't willing to integrate into your country and are only there to extract the monetary benefits of your society without conforming to the laws, customs, social contracts, cultures and obligations that society requires.

If you only accept people who gladly accept your culture and values, there is no violence. History has proven this yet it seems like uncharted territory to some people. "you mean putting the fox in the hen house ends in violence?!"

>First off, who is "our"? Is it the majority?

It's the amalgamation of culture, history, collection of laws, constitution, 'Volk Geist' and the voice of the democratic majority of the citizens of the country where you choose to emigrate that compose the concept of "our country", which you need to accept when you choose move somewhere, or GTFO. You can't move to a different culture and expect them to accept your alien values that might go against theirs. Their values hold precedence over yours.

> That leaves every minority group vulnerable

No it doesn't, this is just an empty appeal to emotional manipulation.

In most western democracies, minorities and legal immigrants have the same human rights and equal access to healthcare, education, justice system, etc as everyone else so they're not "more vulnerable" just because they can't wear a burka in public. To receive those rights, it requires them to accept and conform to the laws and values of the society they chose to move to, like the law of not wearing burkas for example, or the law to tolerate LGBT people. Not wearing burkas in public is not making the wearer more vulnerable. On the contrary, foreigners wearing burkas in public makes the locals feel uncomfortable and vulnerable in their own country.

>For example, some of the historical opinions of my fairly recent ancestors: All Jewish people should be dead;

You see, since all your arguments are just empty appeals to emotional manipulation or moving the goalposts from laws banning burkas to somehow being similar to genocide of jews, I will stop the conversation here since you're clearly arguing in bad faith. I've already covered all your points with arguments, there's nothing more I can add. If you want to accept them fine, if not, also fine. Good day.
by DamonHD | 2025-10-08 09:10:09+00:00
Yes, but no GB nukes load-follow either, so the same issue.

Economy 7 off-peak rate was invented to soak up some nuke power unused by industry in the night, IIRC.

"Cannot turn off" power can be as tricky to manage as "cannot turn on", and caused some difficulty for the GB grid operator during covid...
by indigo945 | 2025-10-08 09:10:33+00:00
That's a different case though. The Habeck meme thing happened somewhere near Bamberg, the CBS article recounts "state police [...] raided this apartment in northwest Germany".

Look, I'm not saying that the police or the ministry of the interior never abuse their power, far from it. (There was also the Andy Grote case a few years back.) But please remember that the original claim we are discussing, from a few comments up in this chain, was that Germany has neither "Freiheit noch Sicherheit" right now. It's ridiculous rabble-rousing to insinuate that because of these outlier events, while concerning, Germany has neither freedom nor security.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 09:10:56+00:00
> But if you think that Herr Merz, who I haven't voted for and politically dislike, is anything close to a tycoon, well I think we're swinging in two very different planes of reality.

Of course I don't. I actually like his history, he is a successful man. But he is again so far removed from my own situation that I do not trust him to do what is best for me.

> If you think that's anything close to problematic, I don't know what to say. Maybe you should research the order-of-magnitude differences there are between a millionaire and a billionaire.

It is problematic. Yes, he studied and worked hard. But he has been wealthy for a larger part of his life than he has not been.

> e: free healthcare: if you have the means, and you work, you rightfully PAY INTO THE SYSTEM. If you can't and you are poor, it is free for you.

So it's not free.

> The system is not perfect and could be better, but that is what "Free" healthcare is.

I too, can redefine words beyond their meanings to fit my narrative.

> Also, we're so good at freedom that we do have private healthcare, so you could have payed into that system and gotten yourself your little indivisualim-tingling services.

You forget that people with chronic illnesses can just be declined of that option.
by PanoptesYC | 2025-10-08 09:10:58+00:00
An easily searchable platform with curated high quality guides would be a good place to start when trying to do anything. Guides aren't something I'd want to stumble on, like YC posts, but something I would be seeking out. Probably a top feature would be a robust tagging system/search engine rather than the social Reddit elements like karma, hot page, trending subs, etc. Would be cool!
by zenmac | 2025-10-08 09:11:40+00:00
> Recommended: GPU (NVIDIA 20-series or newer; 40-series for faster thumbnails) or Apple Silicon (M2 or newer)

Very nice project, it is something what we all need right now in these days. Just noticed that you recommend Apple Silicon M2 or newer? Is there really a significant difference between M1 and M2? Is it running some LLM model in the background?
by bayindirh | 2025-10-08 09:11:54+00:00
ASUSTOR's latest gen hardware is ridiculous. Ryzen processors, upgradeable ECC RAM, 4xHDD + 4xNVMe, 10GbE plus a PCIe slot...

You need to add an external GPU for TrueNAS installation, but they have an official video for that. On top of that, they connected the flash which stores the original firmware to its own USB port, and you can disable it. Preventing both interference and protecting the firmware from accidental erasure.

All over great design.

Yes, it's not cheap, but it's almost enterprise class hardware for home, and that's a good thing.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-08 09:12:10+00:00
> Many governments do not perform this function. The Eurozone is a shared currency standard and it's not like most Eurozone countries have a domestic currency and keep a liquid market of EUR <-> Domestic Currency to transact in the Eurozone. Their credits and debts are denominated in EUR.

I live in a Eurozone country, and while it's not ideal on balance it's been pretty good for us (except for all the bubbles caused by inappropriate interest rates). But it's been absolutely awful for Italy (who are large enough that they probably could support their own currency). And there's a strong argument that the real estate bubbles in the periphery of the Eurozone was driven by extra liquidity and interest rates tuned to get Germany out of it's slump.

But fundamentally the Eurozone is very very different from a stablecoin, particularly around governance and democratic control. To pretend that crypto is the same is pretty misleading. Who is the lender of last resort in crypto? Does anyone know? If you remember the GFC, this should worry you (at least it worries me).

> Then there's countries that use other countries as legal tender, like El Salvador.

How did that experiment with Bitcoin as legal tender go?

There's countries that peg their currencies to other currencies like Gulf States to the USD and the CFA Franc Zone which pegs to the EUR.

So the Gulf states are weird here, as they definitely have the cash to support their currency, but given that their major export is denominated in dollars it makes sense. Then again, I'm not particularly familiar with their economies, so the previous sentence is speculation (like all of this is).

The CFA franc zone is too small to support their own currency. Like, very few countries choose to peg to another currency unless they don't have enough hard assets to defend their currency. It's a least worst option kind of thing.

> > And more generally, if this is your plan, it's profoundly idiotic to say it in public before you've accomplished it, as you're giving your counterparties more time to adjust (which you probably don't want).

> If you're going to call someone's plan idiotic it's best to get your own facts in order first. I mean this is the internet so you can say whatever you want and get internet points but some of us like to think in terms of facts.

To be clear, I'm saying that the CEO of Coinbase was foolish to say this in a public forum. If I wanted to accomplish this, then I'd try to remain as quiet about it as possible while I was doing it, until it was too late to stop me. I think that's a strategic mistake on their part (assuming they want this happen). I'm definitely not calling you idiotic and apologise if that's what came across.