MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hrldcpr | 2025-12-12 14:26:06+00:00
clickable links in case it's helpful for anyone:

- Sunscan, by the STAROS team : a fully integrated open-source solar imaging kit : https://www.sunscan.net/fr

- Eric Royer's binocular 24" dobson : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/124758-bino600/

- The Slim400 by Laurent Bourrasseau : https://www.cloudynights.com/forums/topic/920950-the-slim400...

- Astrowl, an electronically enhanced astronomy kit : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/151807-projet-astrowl-de-visu...

- The smallest, an open-source 6" portable dobson : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/176898-un-dobson-150-f5-facil...

- A dedicated astrophotography power supply : https://github.com/Antiath/Open-Power-Box-XXL
by staticassertion | 2025-12-12 14:27:12+00:00
Isn't this just the same value judgment mistake? You're just presupposing that things like "smaller code base" are better in virtue of themselves the same way that "rewritten in Rust" might be as well.

The parent poster's point is seemingly to reject "this is simply the better thing" (ie: "small code is better") and instead to focus on "for what we are doing it is the better thing". Why would "basic" profiler use be better than "niche" or "advanced" profiler use if for that context basic would actually have been inferior (for whatever value of basic we choose to go with)?

It seems to me that the reality we're often confronted with is that "better" is contextual, and I would say that "basic" or "smaller" are contextual too.
by quadVision | 2025-12-12 14:27:31+00:00
hi! nice website, tho at least for Hungary, it has some invalid area codes (for example: 06 07 408 3945 is invalid because there's no 7 area code here). also dont forget to patch your next.js version if u havent did it yet :) (there are 2 new vulnerabilities since react2shell was disclosed)
by ericol | 2025-12-12 14:27:39+00:00
This applies to many different things, depending on the pair of languages you are using.

In Spanish the closes approximation would be "ni mal ni bien" (Not bad not wrong) but I understand the Chinese expression has a strong lean on "not being wrong".

Not so long ago (I'm 50+, Spanish native speaker, and I've spoken English for the past 30 years almost daily) I learnt about "accountability".

Now before I get a barrage of WTFs, the situation is that in Spanish we only have "Responsabilidad" and that accounts for both responsibility and accountability, with a strong lean on responsibility.

So basically we recognise what is it to be responsible of something, but being accountable is seriously diluted.

The implications of this are enormous, and this particular though exercise I'd leave for people that spend more time thinking about these things than I do.
by sofixa | 2025-12-12 14:28:37+00:00
It would be brilliant. Currently the Paris-Milan train line is barely competitive with flying between the two; knocking off 2-3 hours from the trip would make it around 4 hours in total, which is very competitive with flying (1h30 flight, but both CDG and Malpensa are big airports far outside the city, with significant time wasted getting to them, through security, etc). And of course it would be massive for Lyon - Turin, and Lyon - Milan too, where flying wouldn't even make sense any more.
by naasking | 2025-12-12 14:28:57+00:00
> Most if not every single thing I was taught in school that a lot members of this group did/invented turned out to be an exaggeration or outright lie, I came to find out later.

I think this (unfortunately common) impression comes from a misunderstanding of how scientific work actually happens. No one is working independently in their own labs and doing all of the work without help from anyone else, ultimately culminating in a Eureka! All of this work is collaborative, and recognition of individuals who had a particularly compelling insight or experimental result in this collaborative process is not a dismissal or denigration of anyone else who may have contributed.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-12 14:29:07+00:00
I’ve had plenty of RokuTVs and my previous home had wired gig e Internet in every room. I plugged the TV to the Ethernet to get software updates, unplugged it, set the TV to always switch to the HDMI port with my AppleTV connected and never thought about the Roku again.

The AppleTV supports CEC and controls the power and the volume.

No nagging
by kotaKat | 2025-12-12 14:29:25+00:00
I’ve slowly been working on building a Honeywell burglar alarm panel (a Vista15P/20P) into part of a Pelican case for travel. I can just stick up sensors where I need them temporarily (a PIR, a glassbreak, a couple motions), and then use an ECP bus decoder (like the old AlarmDecoder board[1]) to kick notifications and alerts out where they need to go with an LTE-connected miniPC/Pi.

When I need to secure an area (eg, vending at a convention at a hotel, locking up the room with stock), I can just pop down the Pelican, plug in the keypad (which doubles as the RF transceiver), stick up sensors, and I’m off to the races.

[1] http://www.alarmdecoder.com/
by Goofy_Coyote | 2025-12-12 14:29:32+00:00
Question: If I do a search for say crypto on your blog, how does Google gets to index the resulting page?

I’m imagining something like “blog.example/?s=crypto” which only I should see, not Google.

Edit: Where they linking to your website from their own? (In that case the link with the bad search keywords can be crawled)
by ivankuznetsov11 | 2025-12-12 14:29:33+00:00
Solo dev here, been generating a ton of videos with Wan 2.2 the past few months for my side-project.

Needed somewhere cheap to dump thousands of clips + checkpoints.

Found Rabata while looking for S3-compatible storage, filled 3-field grant form, got approved for $100k credits the next morning. Zero cost since day one, uploads are fast, zero changes needed in code beyond the endpoint URL.
Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful)
by Boulderchaim | 2025-12-12 14:30:04+00:00
Hi guys,

In middle of a stripe Shakedown and feel like I this is something to warn others of.

We rent vehicles and implemented stripe in 2017. We process a massive volume and must have spent 1B+ with stripe so far.

We love stripe, the tools the software ect. But recently they have been closer to a mob boss than a vendor as they must know their customers are highly locked in.

Over time, our deal evolved into a multi‑year minimum annual fee commitment with “enterprise” pricing. On every renewal, the pattern has been:

Stripe pushes the minimum annual fees higher.

If we don’t naturally hit that minimum, they expect us to burn the difference on add‑on products and “nice to have” features just to satisfy the commit.

We’re warned that if we don’t find a way to hit the minimum, they can just take the full amount out of revenue.

What I would think of before picking stripe.

Make your integration portable. Don't use vender form/card logic. 2. Use an invoices platform that can easily switch card provider. 3. Push back on the small yearly minimum, as they will just raise it next time instead of focusing on you making more money stripe focuses on itself.

To anyone working at stripe, you guys built an awesome product, just wish you could maintain the culture that got you to where you are.

Good luck
by immibis | 2025-12-12 14:30:18+00:00
Your attention is convertible into money through showing you which things you should spend money on. You can also convert your own attention into your own money by not spending money on those things.

At least it was originally like that. Nowadays political propaganda is also massive. The monetary value to Russia or Israel, of the majority of the USA supporting their side of their war, is immense.
by tim333 | 2025-12-12 14:31:01+00:00
The "Russia-Russia hoax" wasn't that hoaxy. Form Wikipedia on the Muller report:

>The report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion", and was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts. It also identifies multiple links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

I guess the US people just decided they were ok with a Russian backed president?

Europe is the sick and dying man is maybe overstating things. They've been understandably a bit anti-war following the centuries of war culminating in WW2.
by sandworm101 | 2025-12-12 14:31:19+00:00
Lol. And in north american train news, canada's newest rail line in only 10km long, was way over budget, years late, and is slower than jogging.

>> A CBC Toronto reporter rode the entire 10.3-kilometre line from east to west Monday morning, finding it took roughly 55 minutes to complete. As a reference point, over 400 runners ran this year's Toronto Marathon 10-kilometre event in under 55 minutes

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/finch-west-lrt-first-...
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-12-12 14:31:20+00:00
The alternative is to treat all bugs as security bugs, which is valid since they by definition prevent the expected functionality of the program and are thus at least a DoS. This is essentially what Linux does. People don't like this because they often don't care about DoS bugs and it makes the CVE system pretty useless if they only want to see other sorts of security issues.
by immibis | 2025-12-12 14:31:38+00:00
Stack Overflow famously ran on a half-rack of servers, duplicated in two locations for redundancy. This stopped when they got acquired by a cloud company - they were moved into the cloud. But it's clearly both possible and not too expensive.

I see prices around me for $500-ish/month for half-rack colo. Of course you have to bring your own servers if using this option.
by gruez | 2025-12-12 14:31:48+00:00
>Well, thieves cannot pawn electronics with cracked cases

Can't, or they'll get less money? I'm also not sure if I ever saw a laptop with a cracked case before, not to mention macbooks are the most recognizable and can't have cracked cases (because they're aluminum), and other laptops aren't worth stealing because their value drops sharply.

>But slap a tux logo and an "i l9ve truecrypt" banner on you device and nobody short of the NSA would even attempt a maid attack.

truecrypt is actually very susceptible to evil maid attacks because it doesn't use secureboot/tpm, which means all a baddie has to do is installed a backdoored version of truecrypt and wait for you to enter the password.
by k310 | 2025-12-12 14:32:20+00:00
> "There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them," the Trump administration official said.

Rodrigo Duterte is currently on trial[0] for his murderous war on suspected drug dealers (and users). [1] Warrant (PDF) for murder, torture and rape.

The U.S. is also demanding charges be dropped against Netanyahu and others.

I'd say it's less "Might Makes Right" as refusal to take responsibility for actions.

Saint Peter might be assigned the case by 2029.

[0] https://www.icc-cpi.int/victims/duterte-case

[1] https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/CourtRecords/090...
by techblueberry | 2025-12-12 14:32:21+00:00
> For instance, look at nursing, where there doesn’t seem to be any rush to get more men into the field.

Why we need more men in nursing: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school-of-nursing-and-mid...

The nursing workforce needs more men: https://www.arizonacollege.edu/blog/nursing-workforce-needs-...

The benefits of increasing the number of men in nursing: https://www.nurse.com/blog/benefits-of-increasing-number-of-...

Why male nursing shouldn’t be a rarity: https://www.intelycare.com/career-advice/why-we-need-more-ma...

Men wanted: new efforts to attract male nurses: https://www.arizonacollege.edu/blog/men-wanted-new-efforts-t...

People talk all the time about needing more male nurses, teachers, guidance counselors, etc.
by ben_w | 2025-12-12 14:33:48+00:00
> Does this come from a Big AI talking points memo?

It comes from the evidence I linked you to.

Which includes, to repeat, *Greenpeace*.

Also to repeat: I think this is a bubble, I also want it to be a bubble for various reasons.

As in, I do not buy into Big AI's talking points about how this is "it", and we're on a path to radical AI-based abundance. Not yet. Plus I think it would be bad even if we were on that track at this point, so I want it to be "not it".

> ridiculous

The global meat market is around 1.5 trillion USD, give or take. That is literally the value of meat, which like all things in a free economic sector can be measured in money.

You may also notice from me saying that AI is 0.5-0.25 of that, that I'm not using "Market Cap" of AI in this comparison. Market cap != market size. This is about what revenue AI and meat gets per year.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-12 14:33:57+00:00
Why does it have to be cheap?

It doesn't have to be --- but you may be wasting your money if you run in "store mode".

As noted above, "store mode" will usually max out the brightness, saturation and contrast while removing user control. This looks pretty "normal" with cheaper models. More expensive ones can become overbearing.

It appears to me that in some cases, the difference between cheap and more expensive is mainly the color adjustments.

In order to take advantage of economies of scale, they may use the exact same screen panel on multiple different models but limit the cheaper ones in software so it doesn't look as "bright" and "eye catching" in the store as their more expensive "killer" model.
by swiftcoder | 2025-12-12 14:34:04+00:00
> the cost of feed

Note that in the scenario I was responding to, they are arguing for input-neutral chickens, so they can't just buy in feed, and have all the complications of maintaining their feed source as well

Average household probably isn't going to produce enough food scraps to feed 25+ chickens (we've done it in the past, but we had a restaurant kitchen to supply the food scraps)
by CyberDildonics | 2025-12-12 14:34:11+00:00
The vast majority of CG is replicating stuff like set design or replacing a location shoot.

Says who?

We don’t usually call that an “effect”

Who is "we" ?

This is basically going from "CG is bad" to "not all CG" to "that's not an 'effect'". These arguments never hold up because any explanation ends up full of holes and inconsistencies.

Usually it just ends up being a variation of "I liked the movies I saw when I was a kid". Most of what you're saying here is just that you liked an old movie.

People have been making the argument of 'models look more real' since the 90s, but when it comes down to it, they don't know what is CG and what isn't and can't tell the difference. It's a combination of nostalgia and thinking they know better when they aren't actually being tested.

Then there is the fact that shots in modern movies can't be made without CG. You can't do the same things with models and have the camera freedom, long shots, wide shots etc, and that's just hard surfaces.

Saying "I love this black and white movie, therefore CG is over used" is an opinion that most people would never hold and a connection that doesn't make a lot of sense, but the a cold hard fact is that the same movies can't be made. Eventually seeing a half second jump scare of an alien is going to get old even if the man in the suit looks good.
by classicasp | 2025-12-12 14:34:17+00:00
I think the chance that your Rust application is going to be more performant or efficient than C, is whether you are focused on writing performant and efficient code. Out-of-the-box, I’m guessing people will use too many cargo packages, each that are over-engineered or written by less-experienced developers, so it will be less efficient and less performant.

In addition, you could more easily inadvertently introduce security problems.

Is Rust the right choice for Tor? Sure. Is Tor the right choice for security? If they moved to Rust, they increased security risks to make it easier to manage and find help from younger less-experienced developers, so no.
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-12-12 14:34:17+00:00
That's not the way it works.

I live in Norway, have residence and stuff. I can travel freely through most of europe without much hassle - but I can only travel 90 days out of 180 days - then you gotta go out of the area (or back to your home country if it is inside), stay out or home for 90 days, and then start anew. The closest border to me - one to Sweden - has no real security. A customs office because there is border shopping in the area and I know they very occasionally stop folks. A crossing an slightly inconvenient distance north just has signs.

Anything outside of this requires paperwork.
by rasz | 2025-12-12 14:34:47+00:00
Microsoft Bus/InPort was the fastest PC mouse interface until PS2, and easiest to emulate. Checking mouse position cost one interrupt + 10 in/out port opcodes. PS2 is one interrupt + 4 in port opcodes + out interrupt acknowledge, but there is tons of commands one has to implement. Serial mouse is simple but costs 3 interrupts and uses slow data transfer speed (default 1200bps).

Microsoft didnt totally abandon its older InPort mice, they actually sold InPort to Serial/PS2 adapter (C3K9ILMA) allowing one to reuse old inport mouse in newer computer https://www.ebay.com/itm/375576855239

Good info on Alps 64H101. Long time ago when looking at inPort card I couldnt figure out how it worked with only one cd4020 counter. I guessed incorrectly 64H101 to be some 74H101 version. Now its obvious cd4020 is used for generating interrupts.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-12 14:35:06+00:00
> whereas I am sure a C/C++ large project of a similar size wouldn't run out of memory

This is a common issue on large C++ projects for users with limited resources. You typically have to tinker with build settings and use a different linker etc.. to get the project building without OOMing.

> A lot of the tooling reminds me of NPM

My feeling is that you'd have the same criticism about a lot of other modern ecosystems because they allow you to pull dependencies easily. With things like vcpkg, that's also possible in C++ but even without it: nothing stops the same behavior of importing "random" code from the internet.
by bluGill | 2025-12-12 14:35:17+00:00
There are language issues as well. 99% of C programs are valid C++, and if you compile with a C++ compiler instead of a C++ compiler will be slightly faster! C++ ha a stronger type system and so once in a while (very rarely) those C programs compile but give incorrect results since C++ allowed the optimizer to make an assumption that wasn't true. Fortran is often even faster because the language allows for even more assumptions. I don't know where Rust fits in here (Rust is hurt today because the better optimizes are designed for C++ and so don't take advantage of extra assumptions Rust allows - it was designed to allow different assumptions from C++ and likely could be better would a ground up optimizer but that would take a large team a decade+ to write: expensive)

Most of the difference in speed is the optimizer/linker. Assuming a fair competition the difference between Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Rust, Zig (and many others I can't think of) is very rarely even 1% in any real world situation. Of course it isn't hard add pessimization to make any language lose, sometimes accidentally, so fair competitions are very hard to find/make.

Then again, the article was clearly sarcastic.
by emih | 2025-12-12 14:35:22+00:00
You can't just put words in the author's mouth.

It's also not true at all. For instance, teaching in primary school is a field that is dominated by women where I live, and I (and I agree with the points described in the article) think it would be great to have more male teachers, so that girls and boys can both have rolemodels when growing up. This would also actually help to solve one of the problems that is described in the article, that boys feel unmotivated in school and fall behind.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-12 14:35:34+00:00
It used to be the case that movies had to be made carefully, with the intended look in mind when they were shooting it. Compositing, etc aren't new, as we both know, but the way they're used has changed; they're used far more than ever before, with important design decisions about the look of the movie deferred to the very last minute ans everything up to that point done in such a way to facilitate making late last minute changes. This is absolute poison for cinematography as an art. Very few big budget movies made in recent years has any artistic merit for this reason. Producers now feel like they have the technology to make all the decisions that, by technical and logistic necessity, the directors/cinematographers would have to make themselves years ago. And the producers are just assholes with money, they cannot make art.

With respect to Mad Max, I think it aged like a fine wine. I didn't first see it when I was young, I saw Road Warrior first. But Road Warrior and everything after it is very camp. Mad Max is more grounded and feels like a commentary on our times, not pure fantasy spectacle. I think the best time to watch Mad Max was the 70s, and the second best time is probably today. In the 90s or 00s it wouldn't have hit right.
by chasd00 | 2025-12-12 14:35:47+00:00
> It is mostly within budget, estimated in 2005 were 5.5 billion €, total cost as of today are 5.9 billion €

That’s incredible! The project managers and contractors should collaborate on a book about how they did it. Heh staying on budget should be the norm and not the exception but irl a 20 year large infra project coming in that close is something to celebrate and learn from.
by veidr | 2025-12-12 14:37:02+00:00
I've been waiting so long for this DE, but as a longtime KDE user who really doesn't like GNOME, GNOME is literally the only DE on Linux that can do Windows/Mac-equivalent remote desktop on Wayland.

COSMIC isn't yet close to a solution for remote desktop, so I expect to have to wait a few more years. (T_T)
by Goofy_Coyote | 2025-12-12 14:37:05+00:00
Had one of these a few weeks ago.

Just putting it here in case anyone has to do it (I hope no one ever needs it): it is NOT painful at all.

I was told “it’s like a grenade explodes in your spine” by a (stupid) friend, it caused me to refuse to do it for the first time, which if I went through with it, things would’ve been very different for me, I would’ve been diagnosed days faster.

Again, it’s NOT painful at all, they use Lidocaine, you’ll feel way less than when they draw blood from your arm.

If it’s needed, don’t hesitate.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-12 14:37:53+00:00
> My biggest gripe with the Tor project is that it is so slow.

It’s not supposed to be a primary browsing outlet nor a replacement for a VPN. It’s for specific use cases that need high protection. The tradeoff between speed and privacy for someone whistleblowing to a journalist, as an example, is completely reasonable.

Having too much bandwidth available to each participant would incentivize too much abuse. In my past experience, a Tor associated IP was already highly correlated with abuse (users trying to evade bans, create alternate accounts to break rules, and then of course the actual attacks on security).
by teddyh | 2025-12-12 14:38:04+00:00
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by fragmede | 2025-12-12 14:38:12+00:00
It sounds like you have dug into this problem with some depth so I would love to hear more. When you've tried to automate things, I'm guessing you've got a template and then some data and then the same or similar input gives totally different results? What details about how different the results are can you share? Are you asking for eg JSON output and it totally isn't, or is it a more subtle difference perhaps?