MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlubarov | 2025-09-26 20:13:50+00:00
If you're basing this on the Lancet letter about indirect deaths, that's an estimate that includes future deaths that could be linked to past events of the war. So "have been" isn't the right tense.

It's also non-peer-reviewed, and based on rather arbitrarily picking a multiplier of 15x from a range of past conflicts' multipliers. One author described the figure as "purely illustrative" in a now-deleted tweet.
by decodebytes | 2025-09-26 20:14:17+00:00
sure, just starting to get some up on HF. A good example might be GSM8K as this shows the structured output where every result is strictly formatted - I am using this right now to train models and managaing to get a small qwen model up in the 60% range, which wildly is higher then llama2 and xAI Grok 1

GSM8K: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukehinds/deepfabric-GSM8K-c...

also some others

infra failures reasoning / CoT: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukehinds/deepfabric-devops-...

Medical (multi-turn): https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukehinds/deepfabric-7k-medi...

Programming challenges: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukehinds/programming-challe...

If there is anything in particular you need, drop me a message or feel free to open an issue and I can create something for you.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-26 20:15:02+00:00
> Isn't a larger issue the number of immigrants who are NOT contributing to the economy,

The bigger issue is people not contributing to the economy. Let’s not peg laziness as an immigration problem because British people are equally lazy.

> The other complaint I often see is immigrants' failure to assimilate to British norms, language, and culture.

If we forced people to conform to British norms then we wouldn’t enjoy the variety of takeaways that Brits have enjoyed for decades. Which is ironic because a kebab is now considered a British norm for post drinking meals.

Plus it’s not as if British people are particularly good at integrating with other cultures. Most Brits can’t even speak a second language and don’t even attempt to learn the customs and language of any other countries they visit.

> People who complain about these things seem to often run into the UK's limitations on freedom of speech.

I think the opposite is the problem. People have been far too vocal about the mythical problems that immigrants bring and anyone who attempts to present actual facts gets shot down as “woke” or “leftard” etc.

We need to stop blaming other people for our own problems.
by maxbond | 2025-09-26 20:15:14+00:00
Sure, I'm not saying those projects should be automatically deleted or something. Just that it's worth looking into. Maybe you put a message on the package's page notifying potential users and put it into a moderation queue. Maybe a volunteer takes a look at it, and if they find something, they hit the "report malware" button. Maybe you ask for confirmation if they try to add such a package on the command line.

Just spit balling.
by protimewaster | 2025-09-26 20:15:21+00:00
Doesn't a physically held digital ID also do that? Assuming the encryption is strong, verifying that the data on the ID has the proper cryptographic signature should provide assurance that the ID is real, shouldn't it?

I guess, depending on how it's implemented, maybe an ID could be cloned and still appear valid, but that seems like a possibility for the UK's approach as well (the clone would just point to the same database entry).
by o11c | 2025-09-26 20:15:45+00:00
Literally any open-source forum or wiki meets all the requirements except possibly "federated" (depending on whether people set up a dump->restore to another machine), but is much more welcoming to ad-hoc contributors who don't want to subscribe to 10,000 emails per day just to get replies to their own posts.

If mailing-list users actually used CC properly this would not be a problem, but THAT IS NOT THE REALITY WE LIVE IN. Bad technical etiquette on behalf of the habitual mailing-list users is the main reason people hate mailing lists.

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Editing to also reject some of the points from the article:

"1. Mailing lists require no special software" is utter bullshit. If you accept "must install a mail program", surely you can accept "must install lynx or curl"?

The contrast of 3/4 to forums is utter bullshit. What security/privacy risk is there in using a forum? Are they going to leak my email address or something?

... I don't even want to respond in detail to the rest of the nonsense that follows. Are they talking about some particular forum that hasn't been updated since 1999 or something? Yes these are problems which is why people have made solutions to them ...
by cassonmars | 2025-09-26 20:15:49+00:00
There's different proof constructions, but many are depending on recursive SNARKs. You basically have an execution harness prover (proves that the block of VM instructions and inputs were correct in producing the output), and then a folding circuit prover (that proves the execution harness behaved correctly), recursively folding over the outer circuit to a smaller size. In Ethereum world, a lot of the SNARKs use a trusted setup — the assumption is that for as long as one contributor to the ceremony was honest (and that there wasn't a flaw in the ceremony itself), then the trusted setup can be trusted. The outsized benefit of the trusted setup approach is that it allows you to shift the computational hardness assumption over to the statistical improbability of being able to forge proof outputs for desired inputs. This of course, assumes that the trusted setup was safe, and that quantum computers aren't able to break dlog any time soon
by roflcopter69 | 2025-09-26 20:16:48+00:00
How's a database being columnar irrelevant to vector search? This very vector search extension shows that brute force search can work surprisingly well up to a certain dataset size and at this point columnar storage is great because it gives a perfect memory access pattern for the vector search instead of iterating over all the rows of a table and only accessing the vector of a row.
by javier_e06 | 2025-09-26 20:16:56+00:00
My backyard neighbor installed a backup generator with a very annoying green led that shines right through my kitchen window. I hate HOA's and I don't live in one but I really lost sleep about this. One night I just went a back there and put a small green sticker on the plastic case. Still shines on but the annoying glow shines elsewhere. Inspection passed.
by paxys | 2025-09-26 20:16:56+00:00
Inability to work is going to be a far bigger deterrance to illegal immigration than any kind of border control you can put up. Regardless of all the propaganda immigrants aren't coming into the country in droves to bum around, commit crimes and get free services from the government. They want to be able to work and live a normal life. If you deny them that, they will look elsewhere.
by throw7 | 2025-09-26 20:17:36+00:00
So in my area, believe it or not, there is experiments with uber-style point-to-point pickup/dropoff and electric car short term "rentals".

https://www.cdta.org/flex https://drivecdta.org/

The few flex areas are small and I've never tried the electric rentals.

Every once in awhile I do use the bus system to check out how things are going and I get how depressive an empty bus is... I was just on an empty bus to the airport (which I have to take two routes to get there, another tough negative to solve).
by whyrusleeping | 2025-09-26 20:17:54+00:00
The default pds packaging takes care of SSL, but thats not a requirement, just something we try to make easy for users.

Also at:// URIs are of the form at://DID/..., and your human readable handle is bound to your DID through DNS TXT records _atproto.roshangeorge.dev, but applications all know to render that as just roshangeorge.dev. That DID points to a document that specifies where your server lives, so the HTTPS/WSS routes can live wherever you want them to.

Also likes/replies/etc on your posts go in their authors repos not yours, your intuition is correct there.
Show HN: Beacon – Lightweight deployment and monitoring for self hosters
by matebajusz | 2025-09-26 20:18:39+00:00
Hi HN, I've been hosting my side project on AWS, like any developer who is also a hustler would. I was paying an okay price for not managing infrastructure at all. I moved everything to AWS Ligthsail after my startup credits run out. My project was not making me much money, so I financed it all by myself. Then one day, after some ignored spam AWS emails, I got a huge bill. 700% increase from previous period. WTF?? I said to myself while I logged into the dashboard to look at what the issue is. No DDOS, misconfiguration, nothing unusual. I log into the root account to look at the billing page, and I see it: RDS PostgreSQLl legacy fee ~200 EUR because I was running Postgres 13 in 2025. I was baffled. I paid monthly 25 eur (with 27% tax) for the smallest RDS instance, then I see this monster fee for something I think should cost maybe 2 EUR. I mean AWS just has to run it in a different environment. For 200 I could buy them a new server to run it for me. I thought to myself, I have a spare Raspberry Pi 3, I will just host it on that. Then my journey on self hosting started, I decided to cut ties with AWS or any cloud provider. I faced many challenges, particularly due to resource constraints with the tiny 1GB ram and slow storage. Then to solve my own problems I made Beacon, and I'm sharing it now to help others who face similar challenges.

Beacon solves a problem for self-hosters (or if you host on bare metal), IoT homelab users. It's an open-source agent that makes it easy to deploy apps and monitor devices (like Raspberry Pi) without the overhead of traditional tooling. Forget bloated stacks like Jenkins, Opensearch, Grafana, or Datadog. Beacon is a single ~15 MB Go binary that:

* Automatically deploys new releases from Git tags * Monitors endpoints, ports, and system metrics with custom commands * Forwards logs from files, Docker, and commands

Note: Beacon is currently in Beta development — APIs, configs, and features may change as it evolves. Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Show HN: Embeddable Interactive Components in AI Responses for Enhanced Learning
by abdulmuminyqn | 2025-09-26 20:18:51+00:00
Hey folks,

I was frustrated by how static and passive most AI-generated educational content is. A perfect explanation is great, but it doesn't guarantee "learning".

To fix this, I built a system to dynamically inject and render interactive elements into the LLM's response, turning what would rather be walls of just text into a live learning environment.

An example of it in action is this super cool explanation on the rules of basketball - https://thirdpen.app/article/FN3IbjLa/lens

Or a simple DSA question of how bubble sort algorithm works: https://thirdpen.app/article/QRV7MYmu/lens

We are able to see in this examples that "learning" with AI does not have to be just about text.

I would love to confirm whether or not we're innovating in the right direction with this.

you can try it here: https://thirdpen.app
by eigencoder | 2025-09-26 20:18:55+00:00
Loved the breakdown of a topic I wasn't familiar with.

I just can't help but think that the whole ethos of Open Social Media is misguided. I think that social media isn't good for us -- not just because of the big companies making it worse, but because the technology itself doesn't promote health.

It feels like trying to make cigarettes open-source. Sure you can stick it to big tobacco but at the end of the day you're still making cigarettes.
by extraduder_ire | 2025-09-26 20:19:25+00:00
You don't need to know how any of those features or websites work to use them. I'd also argue that most users have no idea who the people working on the site are. (even if reading the replies under their personal posts gives a different impression)

The end user just sees they can subscribe to a moderation list that hides any post labelled as "Beans", or that they can have a feed next to their Discover feed that's an endless stream of people getting ligma'd.

Or that they can use their account to log into a seemingly unrelated site.
by analogpixel | 2025-09-26 20:19:26+00:00
> How do you facilitate discovery? IE, what if I want to know about replies people have made without subscribing to their /social page?

That's what makes this system so great, you don't see what other people you don't even know say, and you should be ok with that. Don't look for validation from the trolls on the internet. Reading what random people you don't know say is how you get spam and harassment.

> How can I add this to my website?

currently this is a thought experiment, but if anyone wants to work on it, let me know, my contact info is on the post.

Also, this wasn't meant as "the solution" to the problem, more just maybe we should be looking for small solutions that don't require a huge amount of infrastructure to run.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-26 20:20:21+00:00
Thank you! That is very helpful.

I'm very surprised I haven't come across it on HN before. Seems like CaMeL ought to be a front-page story here... seems like the paper got 16 comments 5 months ago, which isn't much:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43733683
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-26 20:20:49+00:00
With all the cameras and phone tracking you've brought up, what does the ID give to the government that they don't already have? I get where you're coming from; I think about this myself. However, I usually come to the conclusion that concern around this is being penny wise but pound foolish, considering both the point you've brought up and also that I have a tracking device in my pocket with me at all times that already keeps track of where I am, what I'm doing and what I'm thinking. I don't really trust Google, Apple, etc. any more than the government. I've also seen governments punish people extrajudicially (or just trump up charges) when they want to, without this.
by refulgentis | 2025-09-26 20:21:31+00:00
You read a comment saying it’s rare to have more than 200 moves, then a reply noting more than 50 is also rare, then suggested you were confused and maybe it was unreadable and asked “What?” because…some games have above 50 moves. shrugs

Thanks for note re: upper bound with 75 moves without pawn advancing constraint.
by teeray | 2025-09-26 20:21:31+00:00
I set one up for our HOA as a unified conversation and notification platform. Everyone now has exactly one email address to remember to notify everyone of, say, a graduation party where there might be some extra cars. Nobody needs Facebook, or a Google account for Groups, etc. When people move, their addresses just get updated in the list.

The only trouble I had moderating it is people just love searching for whatever email was sent last to the list, necroing the thread and changing topics to whatever is on their mind. I had to set threads to auto-lock after a week or two of inactivity to force people to start new topics for things that are, well, new topics.
by ascorbic | 2025-09-26 20:21:33+00:00
I've had a very similar journey. I also campaigned against them, rejoiced when the hard drives were shredded after the election. I am now less worried. The devil is in the detail, and the issue last time was in the database rather than the cards. That said, I think since then we have bigger concerns, and if an ID app alleviates some concerns about immigration then I'm fine with it. One big thing that has happened since then is GDS – the various GOV.UK apps tend to be actually good. I recently used the new GOV.UK One Login app to renew my driving licence and it was impressively good.
by burnte | 2025-09-26 20:21:51+00:00
> However, if Flock was really being evil, they could argue in court they are losing on the value of spying on the American populace.

We don't know they won't say this! All the surveillance they do absolutely has value in being able to sell it to other government agencies and private security. Later on, once they've been around a while each customer is less important, but right now every single one is key so I would not be surprised if they fight to keep the cameras up so they can gather metrics for internal use and marketing/sales. They very well may say, "the contract calls for the surveillance to be active. Removing the cameras reduces our ability to further improve the system, so we're financially harmed by that." They won't win, but they very well may try it.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-26 20:22:19+00:00
Hi Kenton,

Thanks for that reply, I’ve never seen my thesis from Can programmers escape the gentle tyranny of call/return[1] expressed so perfectly.

Let me explain: First, I think we are in violent agreement that there is a mismatch between, for example, the REST architectural style of the WWW and the call/return architectural style that we have in most programs. An architectural mismatch that needs to be bridged with great effort. Second, we can probably also agree that the call/return architectural style is hard-coded into pretty much all of our so-called “general purpose” programming languages (C, C#, C++, Java, Rust, Swift, …). I call this architectural/linguistic mismatch.

And third, we as software developers are so used to this state of affairs, the we pretty much perceive “programming” to simply be “writing procedures/functions/methods”. Mary Shaw writes pretty much the same in Myths and mythconceptions: what does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow?[2]

So REST is not “wrong”, it is different from what we are used to. And it is also not “weird”, that is, again, a function of what we are used to.

And REST is clearly not “wrong” because somehow call/return is successful. The world’s largest software system, the WWW is built on REST. (And no, REST was not invented afterward to shoehorn something into something, REST is the architectural style of the WWW[3]).

When I saw teams writing ungodly amounts of code to wrap REST APIs in “nice” procedural APIs”, again and again, the waste also struck me. However, I took the opposite route: In-Process REST[4] uses REST to structure programs internally. The results were amazing whenever I applied it, partly because REST is much, much more composable than procedure calls. And that was in languages that did not support REST natively.

I then created a language that does support REST natively[4] and you get a nice concept of a Storage Combinator out of it[5].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3397537.3397546

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3480947

[3] https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/abstract.htm

[4] https://objective.st

[5] https://2019.splashcon.org/details/splash-2019-Onward-papers...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-26 20:24:00+00:00
Nope, just regular singlespeak. Violence can plainly be non-physical.

> Redefining words in service of authoritarian political ideology.

This isn't a description of doublespeak. An example of doublespeak could be someone using their speech to call for violence against others and then saying speech can't be violence.
by jacobgkau | 2025-09-26 20:24:27+00:00
My public school buses in a decent Midwestern suburb had no AC cooling as recently as a decade ago (only heat, since heat comes free with an engine). I wouldn't expect them to have AC cooling today.

Buses you pay directly to ride may be a bit different, but I'd also expect AC isn't ubiquitous in those, or wasn't until very recently.
by analogpixel | 2025-09-26 20:24:37+00:00
> there is zero discoverability, you can’t even encounter people through conversations.

based on the spam and harassment on most social sites, I'd call this a feature.

If you read something interesting you can email the person with your thoughts , and if they find it interesting they'll follow you. If you are a troll, they'll delete your message and they don't need to use their platform to support your comments. If everyone used this system, trolls wouldn't have a platform anymore.

Here is a great example of discoverability without comments : https://herman.bearblog.dev/misc-updates/

Herman from bear blog posted about a topic, a bunch of people emailed him their thoughts, and he created a follow up post with the best of those thoughts listed out.

This system definitely won't work for people that have FOMO, or need validation through votes on their comments.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-26 20:24:56+00:00
>We’ve created a glut of code, but the constraints on the rest of the system remain largely unchanged. We do not have a scalable repeatable way to metaphorically digest this influx of code.

This is the multimillion dollar deficiency. Now everything else is a bottleneck except the code.

But how much code do you really need to get the job done to begin with?
by nextos | 2025-09-26 20:26:31+00:00
> Can we add back MSA now?

Using MSAs might be a local optimum. ESM showed good performance on some protein problems without MSAs. MSAs offer a nice inductive bias and better average performance. However, the cost is doing poorly on proteins where MSAs are not accurate. These include B and T cell receptors, which are clinically very relevant.

Isomorphic Labs, Oxford, MRC, and others have started the OpenBind Consortium (https://openbind.uk) to generate large-scale structure and affinity data. I believe that once more data is available, MSAs will be less relevant as model inputs. They are "too linear".
by taeric | 2025-09-26 20:26:46+00:00
I'm not sure that is the reason, honestly. Used to, the government could spend a TON of money with relatively little resistance. Even programs that did get a lot of resistance could still be done without worrying about the political capital of fighting people that were largely on your side.

At the federal level, this was somewhat easy to do, because the vast majority of government spending would go to domestic recipients. Yes, we were spending a lot, but local places would see and could celebrate in the results.

At some point, though, we switched to the idea that taxation is punitive. And we stopped taking pride in big things the government can do. Quite the contrary, people are still convinced the F22 is bad. Meanwhile, many of us still revere the SR-71 as a beautiful thing. (Which, I mean, it is.)
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 20:27:00+00:00
The voluntary way of capturing future ROI with present investment is loans (or if you don't care about ROI, donation). Now I'm not saying that is necessarily the only option but it's the one you're gunning for based upon your economic argument.

Based on your criteria it's the most textbook case for an individual loan imaginable, your argument is the 22 y/o needs a loan for some healthcare, that he can more than pay it back, and that both parties will benefit. In the absence of charity, some kind of trade, family or friend assistance, then in any rational market (US market is regulated to hell so no guarantee it works there unless you free that market) it's a no brainer and as sure as an apple will fall from a tree, someone would be happy to make that trade although the kinetics and packaging might be up for debate.

I don't see how you can possibly presuppose a requirement for public assistance, in that scenario, in order for the health care to happen. Public assistance is only economically necessary to complete the health care if there is negative ROI and all donation or voluntary options are exhausted.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-26 20:27:07+00:00
My problem with forums is that I am forced to use a web browser and access them through their provided interface. A lot of them, especially the older ones, are seriously hard to use and even worse on mobile.

Mailing lists I access with my preferred mail client and environment.

Receiving "10,000 emails per day" would only happen on a very active list. In most cases you're talking about a dozen or at worst a few hundred. Your email client can easily filter those into a virtual folder, and quickly find the messages where you are addressed or threads you're interested in.

Once I have the emails, I have them forever. I am not dependent on some forum remaining online five years from now if I want to go find an old message.

Web forums and wikis just suck for message-based interactions. Email is designed for that and it works really well.