MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psunavy03 | 2025-09-27 02:36:16+00:00
Point of order . . . "the Ukraine" is what Putin and his ilk call it. Ukraine is the name of the country. Its etymology does come from the Slavic word for "march" or "borderland," but that's the point. Ukraine is its own sovereign nation since 1991. Calling it "the Ukraine" or "the borderlands" subtly legitimizes the Russian claim that it's nothing more than "Novorossiya" or "New Russia."
by moduspol | 2025-09-27 02:36:34+00:00
Not defending insurance but theoretically you do also get a better rate than the uninsured rate just by having it go through the health insurance.

I say “theoretically” because I’ve also heard they’re often willing to cut some pretty good deals if you don’t have insurance and pay cash. And I mean “good” relative to the initially billed amount, not “good” relative to what it should actually cost.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-27 02:38:47+00:00
For the articles from Quanta where I have a lot of prior knowledge, which is decidedly a small fraction of them, I think they mostly do a good job of accurately conveying the gist. It gives me more confidence in the articles that are outside my wheelhouse.

Quanta is one of the few examples in popular media I can think of where the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect does not seem to be operative. Or at least, if they are shoveling slop then they have a preternatural ability to hide it.
by Krssst | 2025-09-27 02:39:27+00:00
I guess it won't but it shows they absolutely don't care about pertinence of search results anymore, so their argument that DMA will make for worse search results does not hold much value when they are already worsening their search results out of their own volition. (those are ads but they take the entire page and are easily confused for results, so as a standard-issue user the difference between ads and search results is vague. It would be improved by reverting to the previous UI of ads where they were shown quite differently)
by ccvannorman | 2025-09-27 02:41:52+00:00
Yes, better prompting is absolutely essential, and I still love to let Claude do the heavy lifting when it comes to syntax and framing. But in trying to re-write the data model for this app, Claude continually failed to execute due to prompt size or context size limits (I use Claude Max). Breaking it into smaller parts became such a chore that I ended up doing a large part "by hand" (weird that we've come to expect so much automation, that "by hand" feels old school already!)

Oh, also when it broke down and I tried to restart (the data model rewrite) using a context summary, it started going backwards and migrating back to the old data model beacuse it couldn't tell which one was which .. sigh.
by surajrmal | 2025-09-27 02:42:42+00:00
What are the 100+ daily commits doing if not adding new features? Google is not spending any effort marketing the roadmap for the project, but it's very much still alive and in active development. There are RFCs published fairly often about technical designs for various problems being solved and you can see lots of technical discussions happening via code review.

Some new things that I can think of off the top of my head: * More complete support for linux emulation via starnix. * Support for system power management * Many internal platform improvements including a completely overhauled logging system that uses shared memory rather than sockets

Most project happenings are not that interesting to the average person because operating system improvements are generally boring, at least at the layers fuchsia primarily focuses on. If you've worked in the OS space, a lot of things fuchsia is doing is really cool though.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-27 02:42:45+00:00
Thanks for sharing your insight. Wouldn't hurt from a proofread. There are some typos / wrong words, that detract from the sense of authority lent by the article. Eg:

"It's clear that we this structure" --> with

"with out those protections in place" --> without

"Investors would be best to limit their exposer to losses beyond their investment" --> exposure

There might have been others, I had to go back and skim to summarize for you.
by bawolff | 2025-09-27 02:43:18+00:00
> I’ve disabled new page generation for now because someone ran a script overnight to endlessly click links and cost me $70. I don’t really understand why anybody would do that.

Guess it wasn't so endless after all.

Author is assuming malice, but honestly bots clicking links is just what happens to every public site on the internet. Not to mention going down the link clicking rabbit hole is common among wikipedia readers.

All that said, i don't really see the point. Wikipedia's human controls is what makes it exciting.
by comrade1234 | 2025-09-27 02:43:43+00:00
Here in Zurich we separate PET from other plastic and recycle the PET and incinerate everything else along with household waste to generate electricity and heating. The CO2 is captured (using some amine system) and piped to greenhouses and/or sold to bottlers. I'm not sure how they dispose of the ash.

It's probably not economically profitable but does make things better overall.
by zenmac | 2025-09-27 02:45:08+00:00
>It can be used to some extent via a browser using web clients, but it's best used alongside extensions for authentication and key management

Just wonder can the key just sit in the IndexDB? And it is decrypted on the client side (when user enters password to decrypt the key) to sign a message to send to peers or relay, they can verify your identity by checking against the corresponding public key.
by FridgeSeal | 2025-09-27 02:45:21+00:00
I have a Moonlander and I genuinely don’t understand why so many split keyboards do this.

“Here’s a really nice split keyboard. But we’ve removed everything except the alphanumerics”

Whhhyyyy.

“Oh but it’s programmable. And you can have layers. And you can have macros”

Cool. I actually didn’t want any of that. I just wanted a single row of function keys. My Moonlander can somehow make space for a “meh” key, a “caps word” key, 3 keys in 2 variations for “change layer” but a play/pause/ volume keys are simply out of the question.
by floren | 2025-09-27 02:45:59+00:00
Oddly, switching to a custom Lisp Machine-inspired keyboard has been better for hand/wrist pain than my Ergodox or the Kinesis Advantage I used before. It's a staggered key, non-split, flat QWERTY keyboard. I think maybe they're just good keyswitches? Here's the keyboard: https://jfloren.net/b/2024/10/23/0
by glenstein | 2025-09-27 02:47:09+00:00
>1) I find numbers like “3-fold increased risk” a bit meaningless without knowing the baseline risk.

Yeah, I don't see this talked about enough. If it's three fold from 33% baseline to 99%, thats a big deal. If it's a three fold increase from 0.000000033% to 0.000000099%, even the new number is minuscule.

It's why, say, blue M&M's increasing risk of cancer by 75% isn't necessarily as big a problem as it sounds.
by tpmoney | 2025-09-27 02:49:55+00:00
One of the nice things about QMK is the ability to get secondary functions on double / triple tap and press and hold combinations. I also couldn't get comfortable with big chording combos, so for example a lot of the keys in my thumb cluster do double duty.

1) My space key is right CTRL when held down.

2) I have two keys for "<RET>", one on each thumb cluster, one is Alt when held down, the other is left CTRL.

3) Page up and down have their own keys on one of those clusters because I no longer needed them for the modifiers, and so page up and down are also home and end if they're held down.

4) Auto shift is on, and I've tuned to to eliminate most of the accidental shifts while keeping it relatively quick to type CONSTANT_VALUES (I actually still have shift keys in the usual positions but on the ergodox I have it feels like a big stretch to hit them and type so I use the auto-shift most of the time, but I do admit this is the convenience function I have the most love/hate relationship with)

5) The shift keys themselves give me open parentheses (left shift) and close parentheses (right shift) when double tapped.

The only chording I have to do these days (that isn't normal keyboard shortcuts) is I have a dedicated key to switch to a layer for FN keys when held down. And the reality is I could (and should) probably map the number keys to be FN keys when double tapped since I don't think I ever hold an FN key down.

This[1] isn't my most current layout (missing the home/end on the pageup/down buttons) but it's pretty much what I've landed on after about a year of using one of these. And realistically there are unused keys there I could remap still. The CTRL where the capslock key would be is never used in favor of the thumb cluster versions, the left and right CTRL keys on the tops of the two thumb clusters are leftovers from older layouts and unused right now. I've never used the "Meh" key or the "'" and "Capslock" keys in the lower left. The "Command-enter" and "[" and "]" keys in the lower right are another leftover from an older layout that are also unused now. So lots of room to play around still.

Not saying you should definitely switch, there are still some things that I'm not 100% happy with (those inner symbol keys are a stretch sometimes and depending on what code I'm writing feel like I could move them around) and getting used to the ortholinear layout is a whole thing on its own. But if it's something that interests you, maybe that layout can help you find a good starting point.

[1]: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez-st/layouts/wzKWq/latest/...
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-27 02:50:04+00:00
Except their dataset is mostly the output of AlphaFold, which had to use the much smaller dataset of proteins analyzed by crystallography as input. This is really an exercise in model distillation - a worthy endeavor but it's not like they could have just taken their architecture and the dataset AlphaFold had and expect to get the same results. If that was the case, that's what they would have done because it would've been much more impressive.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-27 02:50:43+00:00
>LLM's summarization is a lossy compression algorithm that picks entities and parts that it deems "important" against its trained data, not only is lossy, it is wasteful as it doesn't curate what to keep or purge off accumulated experience, it does it against some statistical function that executes against a big blob of data it ingested during training. You could throw contextual cues to improve the summarization, but that's as good as it gets.

No it's not as good as it gets. You can tell the LLM to purge and accumulate experience into it's memory. It can curate it for sure.

"ChatGPT summarize the important parts of this text remove things that are unimportant." Then take that summary feed it into a new context window. Boom. At a high level if you can do that kind of thing with chatGPT then you can program LLMs to do the same thing similar to COT. In this case rather then building off a context window, it rewrites it's own context window into summaries.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-27 02:51:33+00:00
YouTube and wikipedia are better than quantmag for this

(Clebsch or Klein surfaces)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_surface#/media/File:Cleb...

https://youtu.be/lLBOiiFs87Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clebsch_surface

https://nathanfieldsteel.github.io/2019/10/15/27-Lines.html
by martythemaniak | 2025-09-27 02:54:40+00:00
I'd say it's definitely the colemak change. They keyboard by itself takes some getting used to, a new layout on top would be overwhelming.

I kept mine pretty close to a standard qwerty - the only customizations are where I put the "\|", backspace, dash and a few other keys, along with what to do with all the thumb keys. Even with these relatively minor changes, it still took me about a week to recover my WPM, and I had to use their touch typing software to practice for an hour or two. Making only a few changes also makes it seamless to switch to laptop keyboards, etc.
by kcplate | 2025-09-27 02:55:28+00:00
That was supposed to be inspired by a supposedly Hollywood legend that claimed that Gene LeBell easily manhandled Bruce Lee on the set of Green Hornet.

There is also another story where Gene supposedly choked out Steven Segal (who claimed his training would prevent it).

I have no idea if either is true, but personally if I was required to place a bet on a contest between a well trained and experienced grappler/shoot wrestler that outweighed his opponent (Kung Fu practitioner) by 75lbs…my money is on the grappler all day long.
by pdonis | 2025-09-27 02:55:34+00:00
Not defending DOGE, but it should be noted that much of what DoD pays for when it buys weapons is not the weapons, but reliable weapons and the logistics of supporting them under combat conditions. The apparently inflated unit costs often are given without looking at what's actually included contractually in those costs. Sure, any citizen can buy an AR-15 for $500, but that citizen isn't paying for a support structure that has to be able to deliver ammo or spare parts or spare units in a combat zone in time of war. Nor is that citizen paying for the guarantee that the contractor will be able to continue to produce all those things in the necessary quantities in time of war. Nor is the citizen paying for reliability guarantees about the weapon working under adverse conditions.

It's unfortunate that the reporting around such things doesn't actually dig into all this, but just gives quick sound bites without any real analysis.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-27 02:58:19+00:00
Methane in the form of natural gas is piped all over almost every city in North America, at least those areas where people need to heat their homes in the winter.

Any leakage from a pyrolysis plant is going to be negligible compared to what's undoubtedly already leaking from gas infrastructure installed in the 1950s (or earlier), as well as the continual accidental leaks caused by excavating.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-27 03:00:13+00:00
(this thread may blow up but anyhows)

>strange sort of liminal person

exhibits the sort of behavior I'd imagine Bell Labs would have wanted to encourage.

(It also gets me upset when in comparison charlatans manage to get onto the HN frontpage.. there's a deep strong vs weak link problem here that I need to calm down and think about)

I recall, now, with some guilt and regret, the times I've been approached by students, janitors with interesting technical hobbies, and profs while anchored to liminal spaces

--And I didn't seize the opportunities to collab (ok, the prof was Ginsparg lol, who used to be the most liminal tenured sort of person I could think of )

Maybe the problem here is that you somehow don't look interesting enough, or, more likely, the only liminal spaces next to where you work are shared labspace behind closed doors or next to a giant meteorite :)

Not advice: undergrads tend to be more excited at what they work on (I had a random grad student show me the NMR setup in the chem dept but I think I was more inspired than he was-- you need to listen between the lines for the unassigned problems which still stir some residual emotions in the grad student; that one was into quantum error correction.)
by tpmoney | 2025-09-27 03:00:18+00:00
I didn't like the default layouts for symbols either and wound up building this layout[1] (there have been a few minor tweaks since but nothing substantial). The parens as double taps on the shift keys is the big one for me for writing code. The other brackets on the inside are convenient enough to use but not occupying "prime" space, and I have "auto-shift" enabled so a top on "[" give that character, but holding it down (for > 160ms) gives "{" (and same for all the other keys and their respective shifted versions. And in case it isn't clear what's going on in the thumb clusters, the two enter keys and the space key do their respective actions on tap, and do Left CTRL, ALT or Right CTRL respectively when held down. Might be a place to start if you wanted to try again.

Also on the "muscle memory" thing, I decided early on to not try to modify any other keyboards in my life. Just the ergodox get the middlemak and super custom layout. I found that preserves muscle memory for laptop built in keyboards and using other people's and allows my brain to form a completely separate set of muscle memory that kicks in on the ergodox and neither seem to conflict with each other. Works for my brain, might work for you too.

[1]: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez-st/layouts/wzKWq/latest/...
by bawolff | 2025-09-27 03:01:42+00:00
> But if you buy a bundle of CAT bonds that focus on say California Earthquake, Florida Hurricane, Japanese Typhoon, and a Cyber Event, you can imagine the diversification benefit you get there.

Yeah, but imagine how bad a day you're having if all of those disasters happen at once, and then as a cherry on top you lose all your money.
by tpmoney | 2025-09-27 03:05:38+00:00
I found I couldn't get colemak to work for me. Like you said, too many key combos that just felt awkward. I wound up using a layout[1] called "middlemak" that feels much more comfortable to me, and preserves a lot of qwerty hand if not actual key positions, which helped in the initial switch. Took me a few months to get up to a relatively normal typing speed and a year in (of maybe 2-4 days of use a week depending on whether I'm working from the road or not) and I still have to look at my keys about 50% of the time, but it's improving and since I only customized this one keyboard, it doesn't seem to have broken my muscle memory for a standard qwerty keyboard.

[1]: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez-st/layouts/wzKWq/latest/...
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-27 03:06:34+00:00
A lot of those countries with water scarcity are oil rich. A lot of those countries that don't have water scarcity are oil poor.

Seems one forward step would be for countries that have an abundant source of alternative fuel to go for it and stop importing so much oil. Countries that don't have much water can import alternative energy sources or keep using the oil that they're rich in.
by am17an | 2025-09-27 03:07:02+00:00
The kind of person who doesn’t believe this is bad for children, is the same kind of person who would believe Big Tobacco sponsored studies about how cigarettes don’t cause cancer in the 80s. For the data driven like yourself, I remember a Jeff Bezos anecdote, “When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right"

Try spending time with a phone addicted teen and you might have a more sympathetic take.
by linkjuice4all | 2025-09-27 03:10:57+00:00
What's the actual point of doing this? This is another sneaky fossil fuel "idea" that just wants to make sure their product is still required in the electrified future. Hydrogen isn't an energy source, it's a storage medium. It compares poorly to batteries is a variety of use cases, fuel cells can be a consumable component, and you have to deal with storing the hydrogen before you convert it to electricity or burn it (have fun assembling all of those parts for a combustion engine).

I get it - it's cool science and there's probably a couple of edge cases or whatever where this does make sense, but solar panels, batteries, and electric motors are all here and mostly work. The technology for all of that will continue to get better and make any hydrogen use cases even less practical. Just leave the oil in the ground.
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-27 03:12:42+00:00
> he could just talk tough … and much bigger guys would all back down. The world doesn't work like that.

It kind of does though? I was a bartender at a very, very popular college bar. Often I was the only employee working Monday/Tuesday. I was a very scrawny, nerdy child-looking 20-year old.

I had to learn how to kick out championship D1 football stars, even pro NFL (actual) stars, if they happened to become belligerent those nights. We had all types of customers, including ones who specifically came in with intention to fight.

There was always some specific way to interact with them to make them leave of their own volition. Often with the biggest guys, it was to be aggressive and psychically “larger” than them. The smaller “fighty” dudes were usually the toughest, as they often felt they needed to prove themselves and I had to use a different tactic.

But what you describe “talking tough” was by far the most successful with the “much bigger guys”.
by jonah-archive | 2025-09-27 03:16:44+00:00
Huh, that's weird. I submitted at 2025-09-24T23:45:55 and that one was submitted at 2025-09-26T00:14:11, but the link text on mine says "3 hours ago" (currently) if I look at it from the front page but "2 days ago" (currently) if I look at it from my posted page.

I'm assuming it got the HN second-chance treatment but I feel like that doesn't make a ton of sense if it had a major discussion in the intervening timeframe? @dang might be something to look at
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-27 03:16:57+00:00
It's not cheap. It costs millions to $100 million depending on the model. I was responding to this tradeoff:

"A 10x increase in training costs is not necessarily prohibitive if you get a 10x decrease in inference costs."

Given millions and up, I'd like that to be 10x cheaper while inference was 10x more expensive. Then, it could do research or coding for me at $15/hr instead of $1.50/hr. I'd just use it carefully with batching.
by kimixa | 2025-09-27 03:17:40+00:00
But modern CPUs have even more capabilities on re-ordering/OOO execution and other "live" scheduling work. They will always have more information available than a ahead-of-time static scheduling from the compiler, as so much is data dependent. If it wasn't worth it they would be slashing those capabilities instead.

Statically scheduled/in order stuff is still relegated to pretty much microcontroller, or specific numeric workloads. For general computation, it still seems like a poor fit.
by monero-xmr | 2025-09-27 03:17:59+00:00
I also remember drivers ed. It was this enormous class of like 90 people over February break packed into the tightest room you can imagine. I sat in the same spot near the back every day. The girl in front of me also sat in the same spot every day, in front of me. She was extremely attractive and she wore a thong every day that stuck out of her low-rise jeans.

It drove me crazy. Absolutely insane. Every day, trapped in this stuffy room, with this insanely hot girl that drove me crazy. I couldn’t think.

On the last day, I asked if she wanted to go to the arcade or movies sometime. I had to take my shot. She said “No” with no emotion or any thinking really.

That is my overwhelming memory of drivers ed. The sexual frustration of my 16 year old body followed by embarrassment and failure.

The driver’s license was great though
by mmcgaha | 2025-09-27 03:18:53+00:00
I like that it is a well maintained unix like environment with full on vendor support. Since the pi 5 performance has been good enough for everything I do and the 400 is still my go-to when I need an extra machine for something. Given that, there is almost no way I will buy one but if I didn't already have a pi 5 workstation I probably would.