MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfabulich | 2025-09-26 23:07:40+00:00
Mailing lists aren't federated. Everyone has to email one particular address at one particular domain; whoever controls that email address + domain can censor/block emails. (That's a good thing when you're blocking spam!)

If you're OK with the fact that mailing lists are somewhat centralized, there are actually got a ton of great alternatives to pure mailing lists.

All popular open-source web forums support email notifications, and most of them support posting by email, (I know phpBB and Discourse do,) and all of them have sitemaps with crawlable archives.
by drewg123 | 2025-09-26 23:08:16+00:00
There are benefits to ZFS for spinning drives. Eg, a metadata-only L2 ARC on an NVME drive, with the data coming from a spinning drive would likely perform better than UFS. This is because with UFS, the head has to move around at times to read metadata, where with ZFS and metadata cached on NAND, it could just read data in an ideal case.

FreeBSD has "fire and forget" behavior in the context of several common hot paths, so the need for io_uring is less urgent. Eg, sendfile is "fire and forget" from the application's perspective. If data is not resident, the network buffers are pre-allocated and staged on the socket buffer. When the io completes, the disk interrupt handler then flips the pre-staged buffers (whose pages now contain valid data) to "ready" and pokes the TCP state machine.

Similarly, FreeBSD has OpenBSD inspired splice which is fire-and-forget once 2 sockets are spliced.
by techblueberry | 2025-09-26 23:08:55+00:00
This is interesting, everybody I knew IRL was affected by this, maybe this is one of those opposite scenarios where a thing really matters offline but not online?

But for me personally, funnily enough, I think the Cracker Barrel debate was a microcosm of basically everything we’re going through in our political world, I found it deeply fascinating.

But also, clearly Christopher Rufo was talking to real people about the boycott. I dunno.
by rrjjww | 2025-09-26 23:09:48+00:00
Correct on every point and great insight, hello fellow insurance person.

I will clarify that CAT bonds can have industry loss triggers OR actual indemnity triggers. If an indemnity trigger then the insurer has to prove the actual loss. But you’re right on ILWs (Industry Loss Warranty) in that there is additional model/basis risk considerations.

Insurance companies try to minimize this basis risk. Because while sure it’s great to be in the situation where your CAT bond recovers when you didn’t have large losses, it’s NOT good to be in the position where you had big losses and you don’t recover. Certainty of recover can affect things like how much regulatory credit you get for your reinsurance.
by rajman187 | 2025-09-26 23:09:50+00:00
My main keyboard has been a 34-key split Ferris. I usually have either a trackpad between the halves if I’m using a Mac or an ergonomic Logitech if on my Linux desktop. Not having to move my hands at all while being able to reach any keys/characters I need has been a welcomed change, worth remapping my brain.

https://arjtala.github.io/2022/09/17/ferris-compact.html
by comfysocks | 2025-09-26 23:10:48+00:00
On the one hand, in interviews, Tarantino always seems to have contrarian opinions about everything. When Kill Bill came out, he’d verbally knock Lee and praise lesser known movie practitioners.

On the other hand, if you watch the movie until the end, it’s obvious that the movie has an unreliable narrator. We all know how the Tate/Labianca murders actually turned out. Not at all like the movie…
by bb88 | 2025-09-26 23:11:29+00:00
Depending upon the cost and how much they mean to you there are a couple of options.

One is to replace the switches. If they're hot swappable then it's easy. If they're not, it's hard -- but easy if you're willing to spend money on a desoldering iron. Depending upon your feelings here, I would consider it maintenance to keep it going if you love it -- particularly if you use it to prevent RSI.

A quick look shows matias does sell replacement switches -- which is usually the thing to go. Springs, crud, etc end up in the switches. Sometimes you can tear them apart to fix them, sometimes it's easier to toss them and replace them.

The typical desoldering tool for keyboards is something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/ENGINEER-Engineer-Solder-Suction-SS-0...

They also have things like this that are maybe more functional than trying to do it two handed:

https://www.amazon.com/zycllycx-Electric-Automatic-Desolderi...

But the hakko is the gold standard here. If you have keyboards you absolutely love but are soldered, this is the way to go.

https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FR-301-Portable-Desoldering-Too...
by kyeb | 2025-09-26 23:11:37+00:00
- Learn their default layout first, then iterate on your personal preferences. I similarly tried a bunch at first, but realized switching layouts constantly was making it impossible to build up the new muscle memory.

- Spend time practicing away from important coding tasks (e.g. gaming, writing, a side project, a one-off script, etc.). Being able to learn in a forgiving environment, outside of deadlines, gives you the space to allow mistakes and time to correct them
by nick__m | 2025-09-26 23:11:46+00:00
Since you get exactly the kind of music you want, I think it leads to extremely small bubbles, which is pretty much the opposite of homogeneity.

For example, I had never heard epic power metal about birds, but with Suno I got exactly what I wanted. Sure, the sound quality (I only used v3.5) could be better and the songs could be longer, but I don’t care, I now have epic songs about my Bourke’s parakeet. However, I’m not pretentious enough to think those songs are interesting to anyone other than my wife and me, hence the smallness of the bubble.
by Theodores | 2025-09-26 23:11:49+00:00
In the UK we recently had a test of the emergency alert system. Most people had an alarm and a message on screen, with phones locked. There were a few incidents of motorists ending up in road traffic accidents in the immediate aftermath, and some phones reportedly spoke the announcement rather than just beep loudly.

Since the 'beep' is just an audio file, my hunch is that some A/B testing was going on, with most people getting the 'beep' and some getting the message read out.

I imagine that broadcast capability is fully built in, so that mobile phones can replace what we had in the olden days when the government could take over the TV and radio to broadcast whatever they thought was important. I can't remember the last time that the U.S. President spoke to the people in this way, but it used to be fairly common.

I don't think that calling every phone is plausible. In a competitive telecoms market, no provider would build that out. Instead they would keep capacity just above what they know is needed on a daily basis.
by conorflan | 2025-09-26 23:11:50+00:00
My response as to the difference is the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Something that has already been branded as the Brit Card is simply something that wouldn't work in Northern Ireland, and that the name passed any scrutiny say an awful lot.

Ireland is not Britain, and people from Northern Ireland can chose to identify as British, Irish or Both by birthright.

A "Brit Card" is not something a significant portion of people would want.

I personally am more disgusted by the nationalistic naming, but I also don't like the idea of needing a smartphone or my walle when walking.

If these aren't true details then the messaging has been poor, per form, and needs to be addressed, quickly.
by kevinyar | 2025-09-26 23:11:50+00:00
Searching and working with omics data (protein, rna, dna) can be messy and tedious. Wet-lab researchers struggle because they have to wait for the internal bioinformatician to pre-process, clean the raw output. In my previous company we spend 4 months cleaning and preparing RWD just to find out that the quality is mediocre. I built Lobster, an open-core, modular agentic bioinformatics framework to work with on-premises datasets. Main features: - Iterative dataset search - Pre/processing, QC, Batch-correction - Embedding training, clustering, visualization

Built so that adding new agents, tools, services and adapters can be done in less than 30 mins using coding agents.
by slashdave | 2025-09-26 23:11:58+00:00
> it's just running a simulation of your protein surrounded by some water molecules for the same number of nano-seconds nature do.

No, the environment is important. Also, some proteins fold while being sequenced.

Folding can also take minutes in some cases, which is the real problem.

> which is a complex problem involving Quantum Mechanics

Most MD simulations use classical approximations, and I don't see why folding is any different.
by ohyoutravel | 2025-09-26 23:12:02+00:00
I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean. At the time of the original post, where people were condemning “leftists” and saying “this means war against the left,” there was zero evidence. No one had been caught (I guess they may have piled drived a poor janitor or something at this point), no idea who it could even be. This was days before it was revealed to be some MAGA splinter group.
by floralhangnail | 2025-09-26 23:12:11+00:00
True music enthusiasts will holdout for a while but I think AI music will easily replace most Pop currently on the radio and streaming for your average Joe. That stuff has been "fake" as early as the mid 2000's by being quantized straight to the grid, pitched, with programmed drums, guitar, even vocals and then churned out like widgets on a conveyor belt.
by khedoros1 | 2025-09-26 23:12:37+00:00
It doesn't seem like this is a new thing. These are case reports from 2006 and 2007 describing similar situations:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16330268/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17189928/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18309693/
by constantcrying | 2025-09-26 23:13:15+00:00
Call of Duty is not an EA product.

Currently EA is getting very positive responses to the previews of their new Battlefield title, after the last ones where underwhelming.

>EA has invested all their energy maximizing profits and that has worked well but those micro transactions are like all coming from such predictable near dribble... the rest of their development has long been skewed to games that create "platforms" for micro transactions, along with the significant shift to mobile,

Is that true art all? They were quite tame with micro transactions in their previous Battlefield titles and BioWare games.
by godelski | 2025-09-26 23:13:58+00:00
Extra helpful if you can add a photodiode to the system that can adjust brightness accordingly. It costs effectively nothing in parts and should take any competent engineer less than 5 minutes to include it. Better, use multiple because redundancy is better! I wish my car had redundancy so it's entertainment panel could go back to adjusting from being visible during the day to not being blinding at night (it has brightness adjustments but that's insufficient for a car and living anywhere outside a major city)

For people doing software, press for the love of god just make that shit adjustable. Only fucking noobs hard code variables. Practicing good habits will help everyone, including you. Unless you got a serious reason not to, expose that to the users. Even if you don't think anyone will want it, I promise you, someone does. There's a lot of people and everyone thinks differently. So only lock down what needs to be locked down.

Unless you're trying to create e-waste or piss people off. Which in that case I only have two words for you and they aren't nice
by rrjjww | 2025-09-26 23:14:29+00:00
The lack of information was my inspiration for building Riskvest. I called my own broker and when I said catastrophic bonds they asked if I meant buying bonds already in default.

On the risk side - your comments here are part of the myth I’m trying to dispel and will have lots more to say in future posts.

Yes for a single CAT bond you are exposed to potential 100% principle losses. 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.

I’ve already created a very very simple model for people to play around with and learn the intuition for CAT bond return patterns. A default means 100% loss and this is unique vs. other bonds. I plan in the future to build a much more robust model.

https://www.riskvest.io/data-lab/cat-bond-portfolio-simulato...
by its-kostya | 2025-09-26 23:16:17+00:00
Muscle memory is exactly what it sounds like, you need more repetition. If you are becoming frustrated, you can try to reduce your cognitive load. ZSA has an app for all platforms called "Keymapp". It's primarily used for flashing firmware but shows the key assignments in real time. I use only 1 monitor but I've repurposed my laptop screen to always display keymapp so I can see which key/layer has the symbol I am looking for when I don't have the mental capacity to remember.

The default layers are pretty good, but I found programming the keys/layers to what made sense to me to be more beneficial. I use the heat map to see which keys get the most milage and program layers around that. Then I only program a few new keys at a time and get a feel for things. My words-per-minute went down initially but now it is back.

I have been tweaking my layout for about a month and am close to being happy with it. I've set myself a milestone that when I don't make any tweaks for 6 months I will buy custom keycaps that have my exact symbols/layers on each key.
by jameshilliard | 2025-09-26 23:16:25+00:00
> who knows better than the united fucking nations

The UN is one of the organizations that is heavily responsible for perpetuating this conflict, from promoting terrorism via UNRWA schools[0] to employing terrorists[1] and those who sympathize with terrorists[2]. These[3] sort of biased UN reports in general tend to be deeply flawed and do not stand up to even basic scrutiny[4].

> thinks murdering children is ok because heyyy some of them are child soldiers. Sounds good.

Do you really think 17 year olds can't also be combatants? The Gaza(Hamas) Health Ministry last I checked counts children as anyone below the age of 18.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/your-tax-dollars-are-being-used-tea...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/gaza-unr...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-securit...

[3] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-geneva-inquiry-israel-gaza-...

[4] https://unwatch.org/un-watch-rebuttal-legal-analysis-of-pill...
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-26 23:16:31+00:00
Their politics were expressed as behaviors: proclaiming "I'm a nazi" publicly, taking over leadership of GNAA from Stormfront's administrator, etc. These were not private beliefs that were uncovered through surveying. There was no survey.

Or by behavior do you mean that public support of terrorism isn't grounds for an employer to avoid hiring or termination? That the standard for that would be actual terrorist acts?
by Yizahi | 2025-09-26 23:16:35+00:00
There was once a blog (maybe it still exists, idk) called Bitfinexed, which researched fraud perpetrated by the Bitfinex/Tether creators. He forecast every month for multiple years an imminent Tether crash, based on the multiple data points and logical conclusions. His prediction was wrong, since Tether org is still alive and out of jail. But this doesn't mean that his chain of arguments and logic was wrong. It was simple a case when fraud and stakes were so big, that through corruptions and some assets infusions, the whole scheme had been saved.

Just because something is a case of "old man yelling at clouds" doesn't mean that underlying logic is always wrong. Sometimes markets can be irrational longer than we expect.
by Timwi | 2025-09-26 23:16:55+00:00
What I found most exciting while reading this article was the promise that you can “up and leave” and take your data with you without breaking links, because the links are based on a domain name you control.

This is not so in ActivityPub. The data you post is owned by/controlled by the instance you're on. In the language of the article, you're still a row in somebody else's database.

I was on Mastodon for a while until the instance I was on shut down. I naively assumed that I could export and re-import my posts but that was not so. Everything is deleted. I technically have an archive of it in the form of some JSON files, but as illustrated by the article, this is now dead data. The same will happen again if/when my current instance shuts down. The only way around it is to run my own instance, which for the vast majority of people is a ludicrous proposition.
by anyfoo | 2025-09-26 23:22:33+00:00
Nothing is ever "proven" in non-theoretical physics including cosmology, if your definition of proven is "cannot be falsified". I can trivially replace any cosmology statement with "well, it all just popped into existence five minutes ago, our respective memories included".

But with the discovery of background radiation, contending models were falsified. Most notably the "steady state model", which was considered somewhat more elegant and beautiful.

Had I been alive and into physic back then, I totally would have backed steady state over the big bang. Alas, the data speaks louder than what I consider "beautiful".
by its-kostya | 2025-09-26 23:23:17+00:00
Whatever solution to increase competition and bring down prices - great. The solution should also either increase bus capacity and/or bus routes to more desirable locations so people would _want_ and _need_ to take the bus.

Are 40 foot buses the right option when ridership is so low in the states? Europe has small van-like busses but more of them. Sure less people fit on one sitting, but routes are tighter, more frequent, and transferring between bus lines doesn't require going waaay out of the way to a hub to transfer. 40 ft busses are great once riders are dependant on it... Seems like a classic case of over optimization.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-26 23:24:09+00:00
As an ex-employee of Flock, I can guarantee that this most likely came from the top down. The founder has a vision that isn't just aspirational, but literal, in his eyes, "Flock should help eliminate all crime." Very much Minority Report. He sees Flock as the unsung heroes of the community, and any collateral damage is an acceptable price to pay, despite lip service being paid to ethics:

For example, their "suspicious behavior". Cameras reporting to HOAs and to LE of vehicle behavior that is suspicious or aberrant to their AI (changes in parking behavior and times, for example).

Sharing of data between entities that aren't meant to be sharing (HOAs sending data to LE, for example, when prohibited by the state. Flock's position is "not our job to stop you, even if we know that your state says not to").

A very ... opaque ... "transparency report". In my county alone, there are at least four agencies using Flock that are not listed in their "Agencies using Flock" data.
Show HN: Family Chess: Play across firewalls and Internet cultures
by kelvinquee | 2025-09-26 23:24:09+00:00
Hi HN! I built a simple chess game so that my son in Singapore can play chess with his grandfather in China.

Why? There is currently no service or open source software that has all of the following:

* All processing and assets on a single server (Critical to workaround a firewall) * No email account required (Chinese Internet services typically login via WeChat) * Works on Android browser * Simple to install and config

I built it, together with Claude Code, using simple and boring technologies (Django + Client-side JS). I hope that when you use it, you will find it simple to understand (everything is done server-side), deploy, play, and maybe even hack. :)

Live demo: https://family-chess.quee.org (Please be gentle, it's a tiny 2GB VPS!)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 23:24:20+00:00
> Depending on the neighbours, may be asking for more trouble

Idk, I’d consider it highly provocative if a neighbour installed anything on or tampered with my property without not only my permission but even the decency of notification. At that point, they not only lose the benefit of doubt but the benefit of civility since I’m not sure what other social conventions and laws they may be comfortable casually violating.
by jodrellblank | 2025-09-26 23:24:43+00:00
Any ideas how leaving the european convention on human rights, deporting some barbers, takeaway owners and illegal construction workers, and stopping small boats in the English channel will reinvigorate Sunderland, fix South Wales after coal mining stopped, restart British Steel, bring life back to coastal holiday towns in the aftermath of cheap flights to warmer places, fire up the tired overworked Londoner on the crowded tube, bring European finance investment back into The City, tempt foreign industries to open factories in the UK, cause more doctors and nurses to be trained and paid better, and give little Sally and Timmy something to look forward to in life?

"Freeze Non-Essential Immigration. Essential skills, mainly around healthcare, must be the only exception" - Reform manifesto page 5.

The main thing Farage supporters are voting for is to see fewer Muslims and brown people and Pakistanis and Africans, and the main thing Farage is doing is stirring up is racist hate and division; Reform's own manifesto tells their supporters that they will still be seeing an awful lot of foreigners under a Reform government.
by hackingonempty | 2025-09-26 23:26:15+00:00
The "big bang theory" just describes the evolution of the universe to what we see today from an earlier, hot and dense state. It doesn't say anything about what went bang, how it went bang, why it went bang, what was before the bang, etc... it is a "bangless theory" according to cosmologists like Alan Guth, and the preceding is a loose quote from the first lecture in his intro to cosmology course at MIT.

So yes, discovery of the CMB did prove the big bang theory. Only the universe being small, hot, and dense can explain the CMB but we still don't know what the big bang itself is or whether the universe always existed.
by nradov | 2025-09-26 23:26:56+00:00
You can hold the person (or corporate person) who owns or used the LLM accountable for its actions. It's like how dogs aren't really accountable. But if you let your dog run loose and it mauls a toddler to death then you'll probably be sued. Same thing.

(Yes, I am aware this isn't a perfect analogy because a dangerous dog can be seized and destroyed. But that's an administrative procedure and really not the same as holding a person morally or financially accountable.)
by godelski | 2025-09-26 23:27:05+00:00
> To people outside the field

So what?

It's a research paper. That's not how you communicate to a general audience. Just because the paper is accessible in terms of literal access doesn't mean you're the intended audience. Papers are how scientists communicate to other scientists. More specifically, it is how communication happens between peers. They shouldn't even be writing for just other scientists. They shouldn't be writing for even the full set of machine learning researchers nor the full set of biologists. Their intended audience is people researching computational systems that solve protein folding problems.

I'm sorry, but where do you want scientists to be able to talk directly to their peers? Behind closed doors? I just honestly don't understand these types of arguments.

Besides, anyone conflating "Simpler than You Think" as "Simple" is far from qualified from being able to read such a paper. They'll misread whatever the authors say. Conflating those two is something we'd expect from an Elementary School level reader who is unable to process comparative statements.

I don't think we should be making that the bar...