MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dns_snek | 2025-09-26 20:36:48+00:00
> A bus has a road footprint of about 15 cars

What's this supposed to mean? I can't even try to take it at face value, it's ridiculous.

In bumper to bumper traffic they might take up 2 cars worth of footprint. At higher speeds it's even less as the footprint of each vehicle equals "vehicle length + following distance". At 30km/h (8.3 m/s) and minimal 1s following distance, the "footprint" of a 5m long car is 13m, and the footprint of a 12m long bus is 20m. At highway speeds their footprint is almost equivalent to cars.

> it also occupies the road during stops

I've never seen a bus block a busy city road. Either way this is an easily solvable problem stemming from poor design and lack of investment and not some inherent issue with this mode of transportation.

> They pollute WAY more than cars

Citation?
by Brybry | 2025-09-26 20:37:08+00:00
I don't think anyone gets paid a lot more than $51 but it's possible I read it wrong.

It read like more people get $51 but no one gets more than $51.

It wasn't 100% clear to me if some people could maybe get up to $51 twice (ie. automatic claim followed by manual claim) but it read fairly explicitly to me that they couldn't get it more than that.

The bit at the end where they pay out all the extra money doesn't read like it goes to the same people multiple times but instead opens up to an ever expanding pool of people (there are hundreds of millions of prime members).
by kentonv | 2025-09-26 20:37:57+00:00
Yes, I'm aware of the fallacies of distributed computing. I literally linked to it in my post. You quoted the place where I linked it in your original comment above.

> you can't solve fundamental distsys problems at the language level (lasp &c. notwithstanding)

The "fundamental distsys problem" here originates in the language level: the problem is the attempt to hide the existence of a network protocol from the application code. The network protocol itself isn't at fault for this; the client library is.

So yes, of course it can be solved at the language level.
by visarga | 2025-09-26 20:38:06+00:00
> But more than that, I think, it shows that there was no magic to AlphaFold. The details of the architecture and training method didn't matter much. All that was needed was training a big enough model on a large enough dataset.

People often like to say that we just need one more algorithmic breakthrough or two for AGI. But in reality it's the dataset and the environment based learning. Almost any model would do if you collected the data. It's not in the model, it's outside where we need to work on.
by therein | 2025-09-26 20:38:38+00:00
Maybe you're thinking of the drama involving Caddy putting sponsorships into its Server header. They walked that back relatively quickly and hasn't been a problem since then.

Back when they both were on the rise, they felt equivalent. I haven't deployed Traefik in a long time but as far as I remember, Traefik's configuration is more service-discovery oriented. While they both are capable of working with a static set of hosts, it felt like Traefik made it harder to configure for a static set of upstream servers while Caddy made it much easier. Traefik almost started off with the assumption that you would have some service discovery of some sort.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-26 20:39:13+00:00
> All it takes is one breach or vulnerability and then yes, they DO have access to all your data.

No they don't. If they breach the health system, they don't have access to tax returns.

Just because people are identified by a single ID number doesn't mean all their data is being stored on the same server. And for purely organizational reasons, that's incredibly unlikely to happen.

And I don't know what you mean by "steal your identity". People's names are date of birth are generally a pretty unique identifier already. It doesn't really matter if systems use that or a single ID number to identify you, or if hackers look you up by your name.
by BrokenCogs | 2025-09-26 20:39:24+00:00
It's human nature to want to feel like we've accomplished something. AI generaters like Suno, where all you have to do is type in a prompt and you get the final result, take that sense of accomplishment away from us.

However, if we start working on a project where we're assisted by AI, for example, we're making a game where the sprites are generated by AI or the background music is generated by AI, but the overall game is still directed by humans, that sense of accomplishment stays.

But at some point we're going to reach the stage where the entire game can be generated in high quality, at the same level as humans. What then?
by cnst | 2025-09-26 20:39:30+00:00
But how would anyone know it's Gmail or Apple if the IP address is new?

That's exactly my point, that the reputation need is overstated by all those services that claim to solve a known problem that everyone has heard of, but noone has actually experienced, because, guess what, it might not actually exist.

I've seen plenty of cases where the emails sent out through Sendgrid et al, end up in the Spam folder, or these "professional" services don't even attempt to retry, thus, never getting through the greylisting, or other bugs which cause deliverability issues, which would never happen if you were to run your own real mail-server on your own hardware yourself.
by wildzzz | 2025-09-26 20:39:42+00:00
The section above seems to explain why this article is written the way it is. Many people do experience sensations or see things that we otherwise cannot. They may have heightened sensitivity or could have a mental or neurological condition that produces these experiences. Some people may feel like they are going crazy seeing or hearing things that aren't actually there. Others feed into the experiences and believe they exist, like targeted individuals do. Someone that may be unsure if they are really seeing lasers or feeling indeterminate heating may and hasn't totally fallen down the DEW or TI rabbit hole could benefit from seeing something that basically says "I believe you're hearing/seeing/feeling these things, there may be medical explanation so you may want to see a doctor."
by bdangubic | 2025-09-26 20:39:53+00:00
> Some people are sick and cant control themselves.

If people being sick and not being to control themselves required an intervention phone number in general, we'd run out of 10-digit numbers faster than Elon lasted in the government :)

> It provides entertainment, same thing tickets to the event provide. A lot cheaper than seeing the game in person too.

This 100% is the reason most if not all of my friends put money on the games. Not sure why this is so hard for A LOT of people to understand, putting money on the games gives many people I know more of a rush than sky diving
by Muromec | 2025-09-26 20:40:01+00:00
>The government cannot stop this credential from being used except by physically confiscating it or by waiting (years) for it to expire. Distributed storage in action.

Not really. It's part of identity management or whatever it's called to have an ability to recall ids, because they get lost, stolen and people to who they are issued die.

>When (not if) the database becomes an attribute store across a wider scope, the implications are scary.

What are the scary implication really? Most of the EU and beyond has some kind of login to the government capability. And?

What's the threat model really? The government will revoke your fancy thing to report taxes digitally for no reason and bankrupt you? They can do so without such roundabout ways.
by diordiderot | 2025-09-26 20:40:04+00:00
It isn’t hard to parse. If you’re very literal minded, forget the mapping and just engage with the story on its own terms, then we can parse it.

Otherwise, I can only assume the trade offs are too uncomfortable (cognitive dissonance, you're a gentle soul!) or it’s a bad-faith feint to shift the burden while posing as “too rational” to engage.

No analogy is perfect. The question is whether the trade off it illustrates applies. Engage with that.
by louthy | 2025-09-26 20:40:47+00:00
I absolutely love his performance in Airplane, the facial expressions are perfect and the way he looks around after “the hell I don’t” shows he really has great comedic timing and movement.

Incidentally, for anyone that didn’t know, the film Airplane was an almost shot for shot remake of a film called Zero Hour [1] and the copilot in the original film was a famous NFL player (Elroy ‘Crazy Legs’ Hirsch), hence why they’ve got Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to play the copilot in Airplane.

We have clearance Clarence. Roger, Roger. What's our vector Victor?

[1] https://youtu.be/8-v2BHNBVCs?feature=shared
by zerocrates | 2025-09-26 20:40:47+00:00
I still have electrical tape right now over the power LED on my computer case: it's a pretty bright white LED that pulses in sleep and as far as I know my motherboard won't let me turn that behavior off. I guess I could have just pulled the leads to the LED instead.

Now that I think about it, that was probably actually one motherboard ago and it might be different now... but the tape's working just fine so who needs to check?
by popcar2 | 2025-09-26 20:40:54+00:00
I don't have a horse in which decentralized protocol wins, but while ATProtocol sounds great on paper I'm still inching closer to liking ActivityPub more. I'm pretty active on Lemmy[1] which is quite active and fun to browse

1. 99.99% (literally) of AT users are on Bluesky, which is helmed by a for-profit corporation. The argument is that they don't control the protocol but considering it is THE dominating instance of that protocol, what's stopping them from strong-arming the protocol and changing how it works to benefit them? Better yet, what's stopping them from doing a rugpull and closing off their open service? What if bluesky decides 5 years from now that you aren't allowed to move your account? This isn't some hypothetical scenario, this already happened before. A lot of social medias started off with fairly open features and APIs and slowly choked them out for profit.

2. Users don't really care about protocol, they care about momentum and userbase. Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin are all popular-ish Reddit alternatives using AP. It was already a struggle to reach a point where posts could get over a hundred comments a day, how are you going to convince people to move to another platform again? I'm worried this will just end in splintering an already niche community and cause people to just give up and go back to using popular platforms.

Being able to move accounts is a very neat feature but it's not a reason enough to move. You can already export your settings and make an account on another instance in 20 seconds then import your settings again, which would bring back your subscriptions and blocks and all you set up from account 1. To me it's not a huge deal.

See also: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

[1]: A fediverse Reddit alternative, e.g https://lemmy.world/ and https://programming.dev/ . See also Piefed which I think is better nowadays https://piefed.social/
by hashta | 2025-09-26 20:41:11+00:00
To people outside the field, the title/abstract can make it sound like folding is just inherently simple now, but this model wouldn’t exist without the large synthetic dataset produced by the more complex AF. The "simple" architecture is still using the complex model indirectly through distillation. We didn’t really extract new tricks to design a simpler model from scratch, we shifted the complexity from the model space into the data space (think GPT-5 => GPT-5-mini, there’s no GPT-5-mini without GPT-5)
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-26 20:41:46+00:00
That's basically how the existing share code system works for non-citizens. You the worker ask the government for a share code. You provide that to the prospective employer and they can check that it is valid. The same or similar system can be used for driving license validity.

The digital ID is presumably (this is my pulling a guess from my rear end, but if I had to implement it, I'd use the existing system) an extension to cover citizens too. In fact, in principle of that's how it works, it will marginally improve privacy because current status quo is basically that citizens provide their passport to the employer to demonstrate right to work via citizenship.

I also assume that the universal use of a single system means that spot-checking any workers status becomes easier. Currently if police, say, to use a common example, stop a food delivery rider and ask for their right to work they can say they're a citizen and just don't have ID on them. The UK has long derided the idea of everyone being expected to have ID with them with phrases like "papieren bitte", but it does mean that the authorities basically cannot check working statuses unless there's a physical workplace they can raid. Which is a weakness app-platforms and many people without the right to work have figured out.

A cynic might think that that kind of problem sounds a lot like a problem the government could already have solved in several other ways, but by letting it fester might finally garner public acceptance for the universal ID system they've always wanted.
by EasyMark | 2025-09-26 20:42:51+00:00
If what they did was illegal and against city law then the contract with flock is not binding anyway. A bookie can't force you via "the legal system" to pay him back for a bet you made since gambling is illegal. However, he has the option to hit your knee cap with a ball peen hammer until you pay up, also not legal, but effective. Not sure if Flock has similar remedies.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 20:43:01+00:00
> the machines are getting better than us at "contemplating the mysteries of the universe"

No they aren’t. Relative to idiots, of which there are many, sure. But for anyone on this board who should be able to distinguish meaningless babble from deep thought, LLMs are not yet doing any heavy lifting.

LLMs can assist great thinkers, like a great lab assistant or analyst. But that’s about the limit right now. (Of course, being a great lab assistant or analyst is beyond many peoples’ capabilities, so the illusion of magic is sustained.)
by Muromec | 2025-09-26 20:43:39+00:00
> Prove that the validity of a statement (like "I am a citizen that is authorized to receive benefits") without revealing your precise identity.

but... why? the agency that gives out benefits has to mint this credential and has to assess your dossier. Or they can assess your dossier, write you a snail mail with a result and wire the money.

What's the use of this fancy crypto other that finding a but in this token-minting service and getting those benefits without actually being entitled?
by jrowen | 2025-09-26 20:44:06+00:00
the entire economic foundation of social media is predicated on high exit costs

No I think it's predicated on creating a product that people like to use. That's the Step 1 that OSS zealots miss when they focus entirely on these niche lofty ideals. I highly doubt the average Instagram user is yearning for - or would even be enticed by - a version of that same experience that has a lower exit cost.

That's the problem with these Twitter clones. "It's just like Twitter, but RESPECTS your data ownership" is not compelling. Just create a freaking compelling and original user experience (the actual hard part that made the big platforms successful) and secretly do whatever you want on the back end.
by grayhatter | 2025-09-26 20:44:58+00:00
Sure, with the caveat that thinking exclusively in procedural terms is a mistake. I feel like all my comments still stand. Given the company already removed the cameras, which obviously imply that they agreed that the city had the right or at least the position to demand their removal. What procedural grounds did they have to reinstall them? Their behavior demonstrates they already accepted the modification of the contract. If they were planning to contest it why remove them? Why reinstall them?

The comment you replied to was quite banal. Fines are the remedy for a company invading the privacy of citizens. Then when you assume the company executives or agents knew the contract was terminated because of the violation of state law, reinstalling them demonstrates the intent to continue violating the law. The remedy for that is being arrested.

The comment seems to me to be slightly hyperbolic, and expressing frustration about how individuals make clearly malign decisions, and then get away with that asshattery because they hide behind documents of incorporation. But even if you think it was literal, arrested and charged is still operating within the bounds of the law, is it not?
by jmward01 | 2025-09-26 20:45:16+00:00
Documenting the downfall isn't enough. What are people going to do about it? Get involved with your local government. Go to city counsel meetings. Join local boards. This is one city that is doing the right thing but more cities could do the right thing if people showed up and demanded this type of invasive blanket search is blocked. We slipped slowly into this but we can claw it back by just showing up.
by esafak | 2025-09-26 20:45:50+00:00
SLT typically uses empirical risk minimization, leading to the bias-variance decomposition and a unimodal extremum as the monotonically decreasing bias supposedly balances against the monotonically increasing variance. We now know this does not accurately model overparameterized models, which exhibit double descent, and other phenomena like grokking. To explain them you have to look past classical statistics to statistical mechanics.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 20:46:02+00:00
> you're aware that the space shuttle was "reusable" though, right?

Shuttle was reüsable on paper. It couldn’t unlock high-cadence launch because it was not built on an assembly line and had long, manual and error-prone refurbishment requirements.

Put practically, one couldn’t build a LEO constellation like Starlink or aim for in-orbit refuelling with the Shuttle. One can do the former with Falcon 9. One can attempt the latter with Starship.
by westurner | 2025-09-26 20:46:46+00:00
"Turning rust into fuel: Green rust catalyst developed for cost-effective hydrogen storage" (2025) https://phys.org/news/2025-09-rust-fuel-green-catalyst-effec...

ScholarlyArticle: "A Catalyst for Sodium Borohydride Dehydrogenation Based on a Mixed-Valent Iron Hydroxide Platform" (2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5c01894
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-26 20:46:47+00:00
Okay, so this sounds like you'd want to run an appview + pds. (and possibly a relay, depending on some details.) Except for one thing:

> or dependent on Bluesky.

If you want to take this to an extreme, and are uncomfortable with how did:plc has not yet moved into its own org, then you'd want to also run your own plc server, etc. The problem with doing this is:

> If people wanna follow on bluesky they can

You lose this. Because you're now not running on the main atproto system, but instead a fully parallel one of your own.

Anyway, you could start on this by running a PDS via the reference implementation here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds and then building your own appview (application).

You could also take a look at Blacksky's implementation https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky and if you end up using it, consider throwing them a few dollars. Alternative implementations are super important!
by fmap | 2025-09-26 20:46:55+00:00
Apologies if this came across the wrong way. I really do want to know what the novel contributions of the post are, because the author implies that something about what they're doing is solving previously open problems:

> I figured out how to solve manifold Muon in the square case late last year, but I was unable to solve the full rectangular case and thus posed the problem as an open problem on the Modula docs. Jianlin Su solved the problem this summer

It sounds like the generalisation of projected gradient decent to "Muon" is what they're focusing on, but the derivation is all about the retraction map on the Stiefel manifold? I think I'm missing some background here.
by Muromec | 2025-09-26 20:47:28+00:00
>(Did I miss any talking points?)

Silently pointing out to the whole world that does this already and nothing scary happened that can't happen otherwise.

The only reason we have ids is the borders and codified inequality anyway. I can't go to certain places with one id and can go there with the other. In some specific places I can go in, but would not be able to get out.

Somehow I haven't seen a lot of intersection between people who believe we should not have borders and people who believe we should not have ids.
by hennell | 2025-09-26 20:47:31+00:00
I bought a Dreo fan early spring, anticipating a hot summer, and it's brilliant. Doesn't pureify the air like this Dyson, but it's a big corner tower unit, has 9 speeds that go from old ladies dying breath to weather-warning-windy, and has a pretty decent remote control + surprisingly good app to set schedules or connect with Google home / Alexa.

Ended up buying one of their air circulators too, which has only 4 speeds, but is amazing at pushing the air out the window when my poor UK house is hotter than outside. Downside is it uses the same ir remote, so you have to math out how to get to the speeds you want as the plus & minus speed buttons loop around. (Or ask google for the speeds directly).

Height of the heat wave it was lovely to say to Google "I'm boiling" and it would go into my built routine, turning both up high and oscillating for a bit, then calming down automatically after 5 mins, and then slowly reducing more over time.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-26 20:47:49+00:00
Doesn't really sound very different and I don't see how it helps here. This attack is just a vanilla library that you hope someone adds as a dependency and you attack the users of whoever runs the code. I fail to see how Chainguard helps at all here (not to mention this is Rust and not whatever "build 3p packages" means in a JS world).
by mrj | 2025-09-26 20:48:09+00:00
I'm plenty familiar with Open Source and do contribute as well. But I would also be paying for Zulip if we were to move the company to it.

I think you missed my meaning.. Mattermost is open core and recently removed things from their community version. Also, it's really not cheaper given the features I need, so my concern is that I'm just jumping providers to another company that'll eventually pull the same rug. I like and want to contribute to Zulip to avoid that problem but am not sure if the product experience will work for my particular non-technical users.
by Narishma | 2025-09-26 20:48:32+00:00
The game directly supports Hercules [1]. Plenty of games did back then, 500+ according to Mobygames [2].

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/196/prince-of-persia/specs/do...

[2] https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/4/
by arduanika | 2025-09-26 20:49:00+00:00
Sorry dang, but I have to disagree. Nothing about this site design is "too common to be interesting." The whole thing is highly irregular. In an extreme case like this, the weirdness of the layout has to be considered a *principle feature* of the website, not a side distraction. Another commenter mentioned Time Cube, and that's not far off.

Commenters are correct that the whole thing reads like a meta joke, where the site itself is a mess. We have to at least consider the possibility that the author is in on the joke.

Petition to eliminate this stub, and merge this discussion of *the website's primary distinguishing feature* into the main conversation.
by tehjoker | 2025-09-26 20:49:10+00:00
Such a counterintuitive study, when there are highly motivated political actors trying to deprive people of social benefits, makes me highly skeptical. Catching bad things early is almost always better. Diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc, cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to treat caught late and prevent people from working or doing things they like to do, and mere thousands to treat early while preserving their quality of life.