MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 20:51:57+00:00
It's not really an argument. It's an observation that they sat on their hands while other industries out-innovated them. They were complacent and now they're paying the price.

We have laws and rules, but those are intended to work for society. When they fail to do so, society routes around them. Copyright in particular has been getting steadily weaker in practice since the advent of the Internet, because the mechanisms it uses to extract value are increasingly impractical since they are rooted in the idea of printed media.

Copyright is fundamentally broken for the modern world, and this is just a symptom of that.
by kube-system | 2025-11-11 20:52:41+00:00
They probably weren't tracking you, that was probably a case of directing a user toward a supported browser for customer support purposes. I would imagine that was a requirement in somebody's Jira ticket, solved with a few lines of code.

By contrast, tracking people on the web is a multibillion dollar industry, and there are out of the box commercial libraries that do very sophisticated tracking. None of these solutions rely on user agent string alone.

The vast majority of websites by count are not doing anything sophisticated. But some are.
by john_moscow | 2025-11-11 20:52:45+00:00
If you know how to get stuff done yourself, start your own company, get stuff done, and enjoy the profits (or losses, depending on how good you are). It's your risk and your reward.

If you are working for someone else, the unwritten rule #1 is that a single employee should not amass too much influence within the company to start dictating their own conditions. So, the management culture averages decisions across multiple people, to make sure the loss of one-two team players won't be noticed.

It can be extremely demotivating if you are smart and capable, but these are the rules of the game. Be nice, get paid, accumulate some savings, make connections with other smart people, learn the market, and eventually start your own game on your own rules. Until then, trying to stand out will get you labelled as a troublemaker, and will hamper your progress in the long run.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-11 20:53:15+00:00
What if I, sometimes, annually paint a canvas with an artistic interpretation of a canary bird? Can a government compel me to make an artistic expression with specific content, at my own expense? What if I'm just not in the right kind of creative mood to make it a good painting?

Or maybe I can bill the government for the compelled artwork -- I'm afraid I'm tremendously expensive as an artist.
by throwaway713 | 2025-11-11 20:53:31+00:00
> Every time you see collaboration happening, speak up and destroy it. Say “there are too many people involved. X, you are the driver, you decide.” (This is a great way to make friends btw).

Corollary for managers: Do not say "it's your call", then once the decision has been made (and you skipped all the meetings pertaining to that decision), comment about how you would have done it differently and then retroactively request your report to go back and make changes. This is a great way to lose employees.
by stringsandchars | 2025-11-11 20:53:49+00:00
Disappointed to see that the first reactions on HN are so dismissive.

I'm both amazed and really pleased to see anyone attempting to launch a totally new scanner in 2025, and genuinely hoping the actual scans are really made at the resolution and color-depth claimed in the text: too many recent scanners are simply upscaled, lower bit-depth devices marketed with exaggerated specs.

I also have a Nikon Coolscan 9000, so I'm not immediately in the market for this. But I don't expect the Coolscan to last forever, and the Firewire connections on the machine are already abandoned by Apple, who chose not to support the cables in their latest Operating System - so eventually I won't be able to connect it to a new computer.
by vel0city | 2025-11-11 20:54:23+00:00
> just at the quality your hardware and software can support.

I assure you, Android phones have been able to render video of far higher quality than what Apple devices would send to them through MMS.

iMessage is a cloud ecosystem. I cannot install iMessage on my Android device.

> Rather than work with Apple on bringing an iMessage app to Android

Apple has been free to release this app at any time. There is nothing Google is doing that prevents it from being made. The only people preventing this app from existing are the people at Apple.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 20:55:06+00:00
Experiment if you want. But leave it at that until it's polished. I shouldn't have alpha features forced on me as a default.That's the primary problem with this AI push. Google keeps trying to push "AI mode" in my face, Microsoft tries to stamp Copillot on my main Taskbar.

At least when Rider asked me about it, I say "no" once and that's the end of it.Cool, no hard feelings. You're $15 a month is earned.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-11-11 20:55:08+00:00
There's some weird online effect where people assume everyone they talk to on the internet makes essentially the same exact amount of money they do.

I've noticed this most in a forum for a country I used to live in where foreigners would come in and post "What's an affordable hotel/restaurant/bar/travel experience".

Uh, I have no idea what "affordable" means to you!?
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-11 20:55:09+00:00
I’m not sure that your test is conclusive. It would be if the only way that OpenAI indexed new websites was to find them linked from other places, but I think they have other methods as well.

This article from Cloudflare is about the behavior of Perplexity’s crawler: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-unde...

Basically Cloudflare put up a website with a robots.txt file that banned Perplexity’s crawler, and Perplexity crawled it anyway. The article was focussed on the rudeness of the crawler, but there is something else interesting here too. About their test domains they said, “These domains were newly purchased and had not yet been indexed by any search engine nor made publicly accessible in any discoverable way.” I think that this would mean they didn’t do anything to have other websites link to them.

One way that you could find websites that aren’t linked to by anyone would be to use something like zmap, which can scan the whole ipv4 address space in about 45 minutes with a good internet connection. You would tell it to send packets to ports commonly used by https servers, and then after a scan you would have a list of all homepages, whether or not they are linked to from anyone. In fact, you’d even get ones that don’t have a domain name, but are just IP addresses. It is harder to scan ipv6 because it’s so much bigger, but most things are still ipv4 I believe, and I think there are still supposed to be ways to do it. I think there are blocks of IP addresses that are more likely to be used. There is a search engine called Shodan that let’s you search for servers, and they do scans like this. Scanning in this fashion might be illegal in some places, but I think it’s legal in America, where Shodan and Perplexity and OpenAI all are.

So that’s one way you could do it. There might be another way too though. I own a couple domains that I haven’t done anything with yet, and I used Ahrefs’ backlink checker thing on them, and even though I hadn’t done anything they were actually linked to by some websites that were like “List of newly registered domains for this month”. I don’t think these people found my domains by scanning, because I didn’t have servers running so a scan shouldn’t have picked them up unless Cloudflare had some response, but I don’t think they did. They may have gotten the information somehow from the registrar, or maybe from a higher up like ICANN. It’s public information what is registered, and they might have gotten a list somehow.
by deinonychus | 2025-11-11 20:55:33+00:00
I almost missed the price. Wow you're right that's a lot! And the final retail price is 1599 euros. I have a good Plustek that cost me $300 or $400. Automated transport and unantiquated software sounds nice, but those features are not worth an extra $600-1,100 to me.

Am I missing something or is this supposed to be in another tier of image quality?
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-11 20:55:55+00:00
And it is the right thing to do as otherwise the question to which day a train belongs will be confusing. Just take it %24hours before intersecting trains.

It is also how I personally record time spans. It makes it much easier as you do not need to deal with the case where the start is larger than the end time and you can only have a single date field.
by codegeek | 2025-11-11 20:56:51+00:00
"Unfortunately for me, not all collaboration can be rooted out, and even I will admit that some collaboration is useful. Ian and Andy edited this newsletter after all."

So "good" collaboration does work. It is just that the post is talking about things that are not really true collaboration and those should be avoided. Title is click bait but posthog is famous for these.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 20:56:55+00:00
> If anything, it has improved my esteem of PSL that they were willing to hold one of their "inner circle" up to scrutiny.

Their scrutiny is utter nonsense, as demonstrated by even a superficial examination of the facts.

He was (and still is) well loved by many (including myself, despite our political disagreements) specifically because of his demeanor.

> The problem with the "reasonable person" standard

And yet it's good enough to appear all over the law. None of the examples you describe bear any resemblance to the current situation.

Again: Tim Peters did not do anything wrong. We know what actions the list in https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co... refers to; most have been characterized unfairly or are even flat-out false. For the rest, if you have an argument as to how the action taken was actually in violation of what is described in https://policies.python.org/python.org/code-of-conduct/, you are welcome to present it.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-11 20:57:13+00:00
In general it is not good when companies get too much power. See how shopify is eating away the ruby infrastructure right now after RubyCentral panicked when shopify blackmailed the community by taking away funding. Of course it is their money, but the whole ecosystem suddenly submitting to one huge company, really really sucks to no ends. Hobbyists are at the weakest here.
by de_nied | 2025-11-11 20:57:30+00:00
That's because the author in question is the one who had their funding cut.

Their research revolves around "Critical Data Theory" which sounds very stemmy at first, but looking deeper it has nothing to do with stem and is in the sociology department that focuses on oppression. Based on critical theory (remember critical race theory?), they study oppression in how people archive historical records.

Another professor pretending to be of a technical nature, yet in reality is just writing op-eds. No different than a NYT hit piece.

Go look at their undergrad degree and google their field. It tries everything in its power to attempt to look like a technical field, while just being another DEI course.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-11-11 20:57:40+00:00
Doesn't your (proverbial) Costco membership card track every time you enter and leave the store? Doesn't seem like anyone is suing them...

Also, if they were logging you specifically, you may have grounds to stand on. But if they're logging every customer that comes in/out (like websites do), I think there is a lot less grounds for a restraining order or anything

Edit: Found out I'm using 'proverbial' wrong but I think you get the idea either way.
by franga2000 | 2025-11-11 20:57:45+00:00
This is cool, but the last two just awful. The most annoying part of typing in credit card info is getting into the flow of typing in numbers from a card, then having to switch to "number to month name, then scan a dropdown", then to "convert two to four digit year and scan another dropdown of seemingly random length", then back to typing numbers for the CVC. On a computer, you need to switch between keyboard and mouse and back, on mobile your keyboard open and closes, reflowing the whole window and moving elements around a handful of times.

In contrast to a "just type it" date picker (as in example 4) and staying in "just typing numbers" mode the whole time.
by altairprime | 2025-11-11 20:58:11+00:00
> Would there have been the same ruling if it were not sex scenes?

The core of the problem boils down to, "Would a reasonable person in Denmark view this supercut as presenting the actors in a disreputable light?", and that's not possible to answer in generic without case-by-case consideration. Answering your question would require a court judgment, but perhaps these supercut examples will help you predict the outcome for any specific topic.

> In Denmark, the “right of integrity means that even in cases where you are allowed to make use of a work, you are not allowed to change it or use it in a way or in a context that infringes the author’s literary or artistic reputation or uniqueness”

Is a supercut of one thousand actors nude without any additional context infringing on their artistic reputation? Yes, by court decree, it is; sexuality and nudity are 'fraught' topics with significant cultural connotations, and a judgement affirming that such is misuse under Danish law has been issued, and this is an easy outcome to predict taking cultural mores and contexts into account.

Is a supercut of one thousand actors saying the word "Ballast" without any additional context infringing on their artistic reputation? Probably not; the word "Ballast" is not a 'fraught' term with significant cultural connotations, and so a judgment of this specific sort is unlikely.

Is a supercut of one thousand actors saying a racially-charged word without any additional context infringing on their artistic reputation? Most likely; if the word is a 'fraught' term, then that supercut is painting the actors in a disreputable light, and that's the sort of infringement that's prohibited by Danish law.

The most challenging case to predict I can think of would be whether a supercut of actor blooper reels, which are released to the public with the full awareness of the actors, would impose an additional degree of disreputability that is not already imposed by the previously-released reels.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
by threetonesun | 2025-11-11 20:58:22+00:00
Depends what you're using it for. Typing? I agree, it's not, although I'd argue the original wasn't either, but other people thought the original was too small.

However as a camera? With the new camera button position it works pretty fine with just one hand. As a thing you tap and while it's in a mount? Also an appropriate size for one handed use.
by an0malous | 2025-11-11 20:58:22+00:00
Are you serious? That video is nothing like the tests in the telepathy tapes, they have kids who don’t need to be touched at all and spell completely independently.

I hate this whole “skeptic” culture so much, it’s just as religious as the people who believe things without evidence. You have a preconceived agenda about things you were told are wacky and you don’t even bother to review the evidence before drawing a conclusion.

There is more rigorous peer-reviewed, published evidence for psychic abilities than most sociological and biological fields.

The Ganz experiment has been reproduced 78 times by 46 different researchers, but sure it’s all fake and a blogger and an one obviously fake strawman instagram video are suddenly enough evidence for the skeptics who constantly demand the highest standard of academic rigor from the other side.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11134153/
by yndoendo | 2025-11-11 20:58:30+00:00
Kingston stopped making the one I really liked. A truly small microSD to USB adapter that could fit in a wallet. This was perfect for always having a USB drive around and not taking up space in your pocket.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/658398-REG/Kingston_F...
by fusslo | 2025-11-11 20:58:32+00:00
I wish the fancy scroll nonsense would go away.

For example I wanted to look at the first picture in the horizontal gallery that scrolls horizontally when you scroll vertically. However, there is no way for me to view the whole image. Either it is cutoff at the bottom, or it starts horizontally scrolling. Switching from vertical to horizontal scrolling is awkward and I just want to skip the gallery.

scrolling on that page feels slow, sluggish, and if you switch to spacebar, you actually miss significant content since it only loads/becomes visible halfway into the page.

Like others have said, dust is a huge issue. Some film labs cut film into short strips. some film is just a single image (for example if previously cut to fit into slides).

The film is designed to form into a coil. So, if there's grit or any hard material you'll end up with scratches on the negative itself.

--is it only 35mm as well? I don't think I see any mention of formats it supports. So I can only assume it's just 35mm.-- EDIT: found the 120mm section in the FAQ.
by NobodyNada | 2025-11-11 20:58:32+00:00
CDs use 44.1kHz because your sample rate needs to be double the highest frequency you want to encode to avoid aliasing artifacts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...

20kHz is the top of the human hearing range, and picking something a little bit higher than 40kHz gives you room to smoothly roll off frequencies above the audible range without needing an extremely steep filter that would create a large phase shift.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-11 20:58:42+00:00
You mean, Google reports a bug, and ffmpeg devs say "GTFO"? Let's assume this is a real bug: is that what you would the ffmpeg developers to say to Google?

I absolutely understand the issue that a filthy-rich company tries to leech off of real unpaid humans. I don't understand how that issue leads to "GTFO, we won't fix these bugs". That makes no sense to me.
by zrn900 | 2025-11-11 20:58:48+00:00
> pigeons are perceived as dirty birds due to its presence in urban environments, but they are the same species of doves which is perceived as clean

The delirious doublespeak of the English public discourse, that is. You dont see it in the rest of the world, ie, in the Mediterranean, even in Europe. There are gigantic plazas with flocks of pigeons that live there as a policy because people dont want to see plazas without pigeons.

For some reason, the English public discourse is hostile to living creatures - the same kind of 'flying pest' rhetoric is being applied to the colorful indian ringnecks that populated the ghastly, damp English public parks. Its like hating things is a cultural trait in the English public discourse, for some reason. Makes one understand where the English tabloid press that spreads hate to everyone comes from.
by jesse__ | 2025-11-11 20:59:04+00:00
While I don't agree with Charles' (clearly nuts) distaste for sparkling water, I'm happy to see people finally talking about this issue publicly.

I've suffered through this at several companies, down to the level of sometimes spending like 3x the time it took to implement the actual feature on answering and 'fixing' pedantic stylistic nitpicks during code reviews. While having a homogenous style is important, I'm solidly in the camp of "if you want to give me style nitpicks, just change them yourself, tell me, and save us both some time". This extends to like 80% of feedback I see in code reviews.

Be weird and do stuff. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DjvVN4Vp_r0
by joshvm | 2025-11-11 20:59:05+00:00
Filmomat looks fun. Many money. Love the hipster flex with the Weber HG-1 in background of the demonstration video. I do own an Intrepid enlarger (sort of experimental?), and I used to live near Ars Imago in Zurich who sell a "lab in a box", similar to Filmomat's Light system. The independent dev scene is pretty great, though none of it is particularly cheap and is rarely open source, which is disappointing.

> I'm also not sure what kind of workflow improvements it actually offers.

The obvious one is auto-feeding and portability, but without using it who knows. It doesn't offer IR, but even Filmomat's system needs a modified camera. You get that with most flatbed and Plustek-style scanners. I have a V850 Pro which wasn't cheap either, but it'll do a full roll in one go and I can walk away. Even if I shot a roll a day it would be more than fast enough. It has occasional focus issues, and you need to be scrupulous about dusting, but it works well enough. I've never been a huge fan of the setup required for copy-stand scanning and it's tricky getting the negatives perfectly flat in/frame. The good carriers are also not cheap, look at Negative Supply for example.

Frankly it also looks great, like the Filmomat. I think some of the appeal is a chunk of modern looking hardware and also the hope that it's maintained? My Epson works well, but I ended up paying for VueScan because the OEM software is temperamental.
by consumer451 | 2025-11-11 20:59:50+00:00
"AI won't replace you, but someone who knows how to use AI will replace you" appears to be too short a phrase.

There is no better recent example than AI comedy made by a professional comedian [0]

Of course, this makes sense once you think about it for a second. Even AGI, without a BCI, could not read your mind to understand what you want. Of course, the people who have been communicating these ideas with other humans up to this point, are the best at doing that.

[0] old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1oqnwvt/ai_comedy_made_by_a_professional_comedian/
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-11 20:59:57+00:00
Ya, I agree, my main point is that arguments from ignorance are acceptable sometimes. My main claim to schiffern is something like "Being convinced without the ability to explain the argument is sometimes fine." As specific examples, I propose chemtrails and how-motors-work. I think it is totally acceptable to dismiss the in-depth explanation for most people, because for most people they just aren't that important.

Are you claiming that you never dismiss anything without fully understanding it? Do you completely understand all of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Baha'i, etc? I think it is possible to generate an infinite list of things you don't fully understand. And yet you of course have to take a practical stance on some of these things for your everyday life.
by stevage | 2025-11-11 21:00:00+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> The Hierarchical navigable small world (HNSW) algorithm is a graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search technique used in many vector databases.[1] Nearest neighbor search without an index involves computing the distance from the query to each point in the database, which for large datasets is computationally prohibitive. For high-dimensional data, tree-based exact vector search techniques such as the k-d tree and R-tree do not perform well enough because of the curse of dimensionality.
by mritchie712 | 2025-11-11 21:00:03+00:00
This was too perfect of a setup, had to record a video[0] showing how we do this.

Yes, you definitely need need for a codification layer.

I think a semantic layer is the best way to do that for analytics. Having an LLM write bespoke SQL to answer every question will fail fast.

e.g. if you ask for "revenue by month" against a Snowflake warehouse with hundreds of tables, you are guaranteed to get different answers over multiple attempts.

We[1] use an agent to build a semantic layer over time at Definite so you get consistent results.

0 - https://www.loom.com/share/2da829dd440e489a8f7e3906c7083048

1 - https://www.definite.app/