MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-27 00:31:03+00:00
> Anyone who was old enough to remember 9/11 whom I've spoken to can recall several mundane aspects of that day.

The subtitle addresses this:

BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event[0]

0 - https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/why-do-we-remember-some-mom...
by avar | 2025-09-27 00:32:05+00:00
> Technically it expensive because demand exceed supply.

How prices are determined in general isn't relevant to your claim that something is "very expensive currently because of X".

> with the war that source was cut off

What war was going on in August 2024 that wasn't going on in September and October 2024?

I don't see why you're insisting on this passive and inaccurate description.

Someone unfamiliar with this might infer that Russia considered Helium a strategic asset and forbade its export, when the reality is that to the extent that your initial claim is in any way relevant to Helium prices, it's the other way around: The EU forbade the import of Russian helium.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-27 00:33:43+00:00
Maybe a light bar for the rear of the car and some reflective material for the sunvisor?

I once came up behind a semi on a rural stretch of I-80 with my brights on. He hit me with a set of rear-mounted flood lights.

Probably illegal, but who's going to stop him? Plus, I got the message.
by DrAwdeOccarim | 2025-09-27 00:33:48+00:00
I don’t disagree with your point, but I just would like to point out that there are over 100 known post-transcriptional modified RNA bases [1]. In fact, tRNA are more modified bases than canonical if taken as a whole. AND! the ribosome can’t function without all of its modifications. If I were to put money toward “targeting an RNA to make a drug” rRNA is where I’d aim…

Source: PhD in RNA modifications

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9073955/
by arp242 | 2025-09-27 00:35:17+00:00
What if you're not subscribed? I don't usually care about the day to day of Linux kernel dev, but that one thread might be of interest to me. Actually, I might have something to contribute, but since I'm not subscribed the UX on that sucks too.

"Just use mutt" as a reply to "I want to read this one email thread" is rather missing the point. Plus the reality is most people neither use nor want mutt. Many people think the UX on mutt is horrible. Nice if it works for you, but it doesn't for many. So there's that.
by tropdrop | 2025-09-27 00:35:21+00:00
Articles like this [1] (re: Rochdale gang) are contributing to the impression of a link in the UK. There's also the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal [2] which affected an estimated 1,400 girls specifically in Rotherham. Population of Rotherham is 265,800, for reference. In both these cases, girls were charged and the offenders are Pakistani.

There is also a recent video of a girl wielding an ax and knife to protect her and her sister in Scotland [3]. She has been charged with brandishing weapons. Interestingly, the BBC has issued an article [4] claiming that it was a "Bulgarian couple" that the girls approached, and to not "spread misinformation." I am a researcher of Slavic languages, so I can tell you from watching the video in [3] that the accents featured in this video are not Bulgarian. I am not willing to stake a claim in what they actually are (someone else is welcome to comment).

Actually, I'm quite alarmed that the BBC is claiming this, as I generally consider the BBC reputable.

1 – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd2rld9mj2o

2 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfpSbLgiBc

4 – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r40gylxpwo
by NedF | 2025-09-27 00:35:34+00:00
> This is basically an article describing <snip hot take>

This is entirely wrong and missing basic high school mathematics for non-theater kids.

The original claim is not archived, if you can be bothered you can track it down and do the correct 'hot take'. You can't just grab the first statistical principal you think of even if everyone else on Hacker News does.

Article - "it violates the likelihood principle", this seems wrong and Nakamura seems right, but you'd have to look at the original claim.

They were finding patterns in a long biased list of numbers, probably.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-27 00:37:16+00:00
False. Nobody does this. They hold pieces of context and summaries in their head. Nobody on earth can memorize an entire code base. This is ludicrous.

When you read a function to know what it does then you move on to another function do you have the entire 100 line function perfectly memorized? No. You memorize a summary of the intent of the function when reading code. An LLM can be set up to do the same rather than keep all 100 lines of code as context.

Do you think when you ask the other person for more context he’s going to spit out what he wrote line by line. Not even he likely will remember everything he wrote.

You think anyone memorized Linux? You know how many lines of code is in the Linux source code. Are you trolling?
by djtango | 2025-09-27 00:38:23+00:00
As someone who listens to a lot of "Classical" music (more late Classical, early Romantic if we're being specific) I've never really understood the modern universal appeal of Bach.

I find so much of his music quite impenetrable and kind of overwhelming. Things like the Cello Suites with their single line of music very demure. Whenever I try to listen to the Well Tempered Klavier as a set I'm quickly saturated by the third or fourth pair...

It's usually not until I sit down at the piano and play Bach and read the score that I'm then suddenly profoundly moved by the almost divine quality of his music and the "just so" genius writing of his music. But being truly honest I struggle to hear it at face value often - am I just slow / a poor listener?
by pcherna | 2025-09-27 00:38:29+00:00
I believe cosmologists generally refer to the Big Bang theory as the progression from the hot dense state to the modern shape. This Hot Big Bang part is very well understood in theory and very well supported in observation, with the Cosmic Microwave Background being a pre-eminent discovery supporting that.

What preceded the hot dense soup involves conditions that are a problem for both theory and experiment. For theory, those conditions involve both quantum gravity and general relativity and we don't have any accepted way to resolve those yet. And, for experiment, the hot dense soup is opaque to our observations. There are educated guesses as to what might have come before, and one guess is that it leads back to a singularity, and the popular view of the Big Bang theory is often that singularity as the kickoff, but we don't have anything resembling evidence. And whether anything came "before" even that is super speculation, even the concept of "before" may not apply.

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” -- Douglas Adams
by nyrikki | 2025-09-27 00:39:09+00:00
Here is John Backus' original paper[0], which is an easy read, but note what he calls functional programming_ has nothing to do with lambda calculus, Haskel etc... it is the APL family.

He is absolutely one of IBM's historical rockstars. IMHO they are invoking him to sell their NorthPole chips which have on-die memory distributed between the processing components and probably has value.

> In its simplest form a von Neumann computer has three parts: a central processing unit (or CPU), a store, and a connecting tube that can transmit a single word between the CPU and the store (and send an address to the store). I propose to call this tube the yon Neumann bottleneck. The task of a program is to change the contents of the store in some major way; when one considers that this task must be accomplished entirely by pumping single words back and forth through the von Neumann bottleneck, the reason for its name becomes clear.

IMHO IBM is invoking John Backus' work to sell what may be an absolutely great product but are really just ASICs and don't relate to his machine or programming language limits.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359576.359579
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-09-27 00:39:26+00:00
Interesting, I wonder if this is the thing that happens to while playing this videogames. At some point after hours (30+) struggling against the same boss,you realize you see everything in slow motion,at that point you know it's the end, you mastered it. I literally say "ok it's done, time to defeat it".

Is this Chi

I always thought of it as muscle memory, the movement becomes so ingrained in your body that you can focus on things at a higher level. Keep going up the levels and at some point everything looks like trivial details
by zug_zug | 2025-09-27 00:39:34+00:00
I feel like this article is a bit too confident for the evidence provided.

I recall going to a Steven Levitt speech (Freakonomics) speech where he was talking about looking into what miraculous star teachers were doing to educate their students who scored incredibly well on standardized tests.

Turns out those teachers were cheating -- which they figured out when they saw the tests and they were covered in eraser marks (the teachers simply erased the wrong answers before handing them in!)

I'm not saying that cheating is necessarily happening state-wide here, but when you do create an incentive for teachers to cheat without any oversight, and an incentive for principals and districts to not notice.

Now its possible the teaching methods and incentives help too, that should be looked in to, but I don't think this is concluded until replicated.

[He estimated that a few percent of classroom may cheat in a high-stakes testing environment]
by Terr_ | 2025-09-27 00:39:50+00:00
> If someone shows up and asks me for something they technically aren't supposed to have, how am I supposed to know

Well, in this case, you know because "you" happen to be a ~$3.5b company with a legal department that already works regularly on negotiations and compliance to state/local rules, and likely months to calmly investigate and decide on a policy.

Has Flock Security made any statements claiming they were tricked or rushed by the feds?
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-27 00:41:01+00:00
The 2 bus contracts were with the same manufacturer, which is headquartered in California.

The wikipedia entry for SORTA claims that in 2024 they took delivery of 19 buses: 7 diesel-electric hybrid and 12 diesel. They also list four more hybrid coaches on order. Presumably some or all of these are the 2023 order.

RTD's web site shows far more than 10 buses delivered in 2023 and nothing beyond that. They talk a bit about diesel hybrids but from what I can tell RTD does not operate any 40 ft hybrids.

Unsure what to say about the Bloomberg article but it smells like bullshit to me. Regardless, hybrid drivetrains will increase the unit cost significantly.
by arp242 | 2025-09-27 00:42:40+00:00
Spent some time on this a few years back and have a half-finished project for it. The thing that proved to be a huge roadblock was importing existing archives since many don't provide a good interface to it.

The https://lore.kernel.org site is actually fairly decent, but limited to Linux kernel stuff and some adjacent projects. Gmane was quite nice too, but now defunct (the web UI anyway).
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-27 00:43:28+00:00
>What does it buy you?

Well, for one thing, it's not a transactional question of what it "buys". It's a matter of principle and defense against future repression or manipulation by politicians on a power trip.

For example, given Trump's current and blatant attempts to crush free expression against his own policies and bullshit, or even those who constantly insult and criticize him (whining about it like a little kid actually) imagine how much easier he'd have had it if there were no U.S 1st amendment to use against him.

There's an example of its value. It's just one of many.

If you think being able to protect free expression and the ability to speak out freely against power and its abuse is anachronistic, then I don't know what else to say except that you're a naive or dishonest fool, and possibly part of the very problem in places where péople just don't seem to care that under pretext X or Y, they can be stifled at any time.

Yes, the social media companies produce, or facilitate the production of, vast amounts of misinformation, disinformation and even hate speech, but guess what? All that shit gets produced en masse anyhow by repressive authoritarian regimes with narratives to construct and agendas to maintain. Free speech certainly isn't at fault for its existence, given that such things have existed since there's been propaganda or a perceived need for it.

At least, in a place like the U.S, where free speech remains protected (for now at least), any misinformation, disinformation or whatever speech by those in power or outside of it who create it, can be countered by others trying to speak more truthfully.

Try doing the same against misinformation and disinformation by government in Russia, or many other countries where "anachronistic" free speech is curtailed right to hell.

In essence, when governments can legally censor speech they decide is misinformation, disinformation or "hate speech", they can create all sorts of um, interesting, rubrics for deciding what fits under these labels, and then oops, by coincidence it can be anything that goes against their agendas. Going back to the Trump example, just pause for a moment to think about all the uncomfortable facts and opinions he loves to label as "fake news" or "misinformation" or even as hate speech. Now imagine him having the legal authority to sweep them away.

Nothing in any state guarantees against a future leadership with similar authoritarian proclivities from forming to use anti-free speech laws in similar ways.

There, my good faith response to your completely absurd line of rhetorical questioning.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-27 00:44:34+00:00
I'll argue that if you want to fail at a cause just join it up with "the unicause" and you make failure certain. On the other hand you might think marginalization is moral superiority and you can win by failing, in which case the unicause is for you.

I believed in the unicause in 1993 and had the good fortune to be told by black nationalists that they didn't want no honky to tell them what to do and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
by m-hodges | 2025-09-27 00:45:28+00:00
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m currently reading Journey To The Edge of Reason,¹ which is nominally a biography of Kurt Gödel but the first third is about the rise and fall of Austrian intellectual dominance and the Vienna Circle is a central piece of that story.

¹ https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Edge-Reason-Life-G%C3%B6del/d...
by Rendello | 2025-09-27 00:45:46+00:00
This reminds me of the Citycorp Center near-disaster:

> LeMessurier's original design for the chevron load braces used welded joints. To save money, Bethlehem Steel proposed changing the construction plans to use bolted joints, a design modification accepted by LeMessurier's office but unknown to the engineer himself until later.

> With the tuned mass damper active, LeMessurier estimated that a wind capable of toppling the building had a one in fifty-five chance of happening any year. But if the tuned mass damper could not function due to a power outage, a wind strong enough to cause the building's collapse had one in sixteen chance of happening any year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_...
by billy99k | 2025-09-27 00:46:49+00:00
"One line in the records dated 6 December 2014 reads: "Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)"

It's a nothing burger. Musk already said he was invited and declined, which matches what they found.

Even Trump admits he was friends with Epstein. If they actually had evidence of wrong doing, it would have been released a decade ago to the press.

Friends != guilty of anything. Democrats have been friends with evil dictators over the years and it's never mentioned again.

If you have proof, let's see it.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-27 00:46:52+00:00
What master account are you even talking about? That's not what this is.

The subject was a system being breached.

And the account you set up for a driver's license is generally different from the one for your health care. If you're reusing the same password for both it doesn't matter if they're linked by the same digital ID number or the same email address or just the same name and birthday.

A digital ID number isn't changing anything here.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-09-27 00:47:37+00:00
Not just that, but currently, requiring real data to register to eg. social networks (reddit, hn,...) is hard. With everyone having a digital ID on their phones, tying their identity to their real ID will be easy, you'll just "sign" (or whatever) your reddit registration with your ID and your real name will be tied to that account. Combine this with EU chat control (and UK alternatives.. and well, EU digital ID alternatives), and the era of semi-anonymous internet use is over.
by somat | 2025-09-27 00:48:20+00:00
Off topic: but in regards to UV protection, poly-carbonate(common in lenses) is UV-opaque. Completely clear uncoated PC lenses block most UV light.

https://www.apollooptical.com/material-transmission-data-gra...

Note the sharp drop-off in transmission for wavelengths shorter than 400 nm.
by acdha | 2025-09-27 00:49:24+00:00
How often are you offline like that but on a network you can trust isn’t malicious? If I’m at home, my printer is more protected from eavesdropping by the WiFi password than a self-signed certificate. If I’m at the coffee shop, it’s insecure because I can’t trust the dozens of other people not to be malicious or compromised, and the answer is to clearly tell me that it’s unsafe.
by kulahan | 2025-09-27 00:50:59+00:00
As I understand it, we’ve already started designing new instruments to see through that dense hot soup.

The biggest problem is that it gets massively more dense and hot the closer you get to the beginning (whatever the hell “the beginning even is). So the tech needed to see a few seconds after the Big Bang is unimaginably more complex than the tech needed to see a minute after the Big Bang. We would probably need to see the first microseconds in order to truly understand the event well.

I’m just a hobbyist, so others please correct me if I’ve gotten something wrong here.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-27 00:51:47+00:00
>Apple solution which has actually been implemented

Why lie about stuff that's so easy to check?

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiat...

I expect there are many other falsehoods of yours in this thread, but I'm not going to try to identify all of them. I just want to know: What motivates you to make claims which can be refuted with a 30-second Google search?
by roxolotl | 2025-09-27 00:53:34+00:00
Had been looking at these for some time. A few days of pain where I couldn’t type much and the threat tariffs turning on at the end of the month, this was early August, caused me to pull the trigger on a Voyager, ZSA’s low profile keyboard.

Couldn’t be happier. I’ve used QMK, even writing some C for a board, and limited key keyboards before and their software really does make it a lot simpler to configure. It’s also really nice to have leds indexable per key so you can color code things when you’re learning.

They cost a lot more now for those in the US[0] but I’d still recommend them. My pain hasn’t come back and honestly even at +20% that’s worth it.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/zsaVoyager/comments/1n9en4b/us_tari...
by cloudking | 2025-09-27 00:53:45+00:00
What languages do you use?

- HTML, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Rust

What kind of projects?

- Web apps (consumer and enterprise), games

Do you maintain these projects or is this for greenfield development?

- Both, I have my own projects and client projects

Could you fix any bugs without Claude?

- Yes, I have decades of software development experience

Are these projects tested, who writes the tests. If it's Claude how do you know these tests actually test something sensible?

- For serious projects yes, I will define the test cases and have Claude build them out along with any additional cases it identifies. I use planning mode heavily before any code gets written.

Is anybody using these projects and what do users think of using these projects?

- Yes, these are real projects in production with real users :) They love them
by cowsandmilk | 2025-09-27 00:53:57+00:00
1. I would be hesitant to not categorize folding@home as statistics based; they use Markov state models which is very much based on statistics. And their current force fields are parameterized via machine learning ( https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00355 ).

2. The biggest difference between folding@home and alphafold is that folding@home tries to generate the full folding trajectory while alphafold is just protein structure prediction; only looking to match the folded crystal structure. Folding@home can do things like look into how a mutation may make a protein take longer to fold or be more or less stable in its folded state. Alphafold doesn’t try to do that.
by atombender | 2025-09-27 00:54:11+00:00
It's a really unfortunate historical accident, especially in the US.

Dentistry evolved relatively late compared to regular medicine, and early oral procedures were mostly tooth extractions, which ended up being predominantly done by barbers, who would also do surgery (!). These procedures were often considered crude and beneath that of a trained doctor, and they were generally performed by self-trained practitioners. There were several attempts in the 1800s to integrate dentistry into mainstream medicine, but they failed, both because the doctors of the time didn't think of dentistry as being a real science, but also because, as dentistry started to legitimize itself, the dentists themselves preferred being separate.

For some reason the same separation also evolved in the U.K., but it's more integrated in other countries. For example, basic dental coverage is part of national healthcare in Germany and Japan. In the U.S., dentists have their own schools and licensing boards and so on, which isn't the case in the rest of the world, where dentistry is usually accepted as a regular branch of medicine and taught at the same universities.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-27 00:55:16+00:00
Huh?

Why not have identifying paint? I can't even imagine what would give you this idea. Like, they've got to be some color or set of colors.

Do you think police officers should just wear street clothes rather than us paying for their uniforms?

Should taxis that you hail from the street be indistinguishable from regular cars because you think the little illuminated sign on top is enough?

We color things and make them distinctive because it helps us tell them apart. If you don't understand this, I don't know how to help you.
by scoots_k | 2025-09-27 00:55:47+00:00
Moondream 2 has been very useful for me: I've been using it to automatically label object detection datasets for novel classes and distill an orders of magnitude smaller but similarly accurate CNN.

One oddity is that I haven't seen the claimed improvements beyond the 2025-01-09 tag - subsequent releases improve recall but degrade precision pretty significantly. It'd be amazing if object detection VLMs like this reported class confidences to better address this issue. That said, having a dedicated object detection API is very nice and absent from other models/wrappers AFAIK.

Looking forward to Moondream 3 post-inference optimizations. Congrats to the team. The founder Vik is a great follow on X if that's your thing.