MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheDong | 2025-09-27 12:55:38+00:00
> Covariates. All models adjusted for ... age, sex, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and log-transformed current household income.

Let's look at something else which wasn't controlled for at all: doing physical activities.

People who, for example, run every week or bike every week often do so because they have a group of friends who also does that, and doing such a physical activity also builds friendships better than not doing such activities.

Perhaps exercising is both correlated with health and with building groups of friends.

Or perhaps exercising is correlated with being attractive, and being attractive is correlated with building social connections.

... I guess what I'm trying to say here is that this study shows correlation only, and there are so many confounding factors I consider it pretty tenuous.
by Ekaros | 2025-09-27 12:55:41+00:00
People don't care about single specific change. But they notice and are annoyed when it becomes a trend and half of the market is turning to generic boring sameness. So they latch on to the current culprit.

I think people in general value identity of the brands more than many brands themselves do. And the change is in some ways attack to them, not to the brand.
by derbOac | 2025-09-27 12:56:16+00:00
For what it's worth, the dataset they used does in fact have measurements spanning 30 years of adulthood, and similar papers from that dataset leveraging the longitudinal data have found similar conclusions.

Why it happens is less clear. It could be stress effects, or it could be something like people with more social support are more likely to get help going in for preventative care etc.
by zbentley | 2025-09-27 12:56:29+00:00
Slower? In top speed maybe, but not in time-to-destination (or, given congested streets, average speed).

Trains “require” you to make a transfer? Depends on your city, I guess; many train systems are hub-and-spoke-like enough (and dense enough) that common commutes don’t require any transfers. Also, I’m curious whether bus-centric mass transit requires more or fewer transfers than train-centric or hybrid.
by jjulius | 2025-09-27 12:56:43+00:00
I'll allow being upset that something you love is changing because you're nostalgic for what it's always been, struggle with change and don't like how bland modern design is. I don't personally get it (though I've got solidarity regarding the blandness of design), but I understand those sentiments exist in others and am OK with that.

What I don't get, and what was truly excessive, is blaming it on "woke" and watching our politicians and president get involved. That was all beyond stupid.
by danabramov | 2025-09-27 12:56:47+00:00
Mastodon/AP is difficult to discuss because pointing to flaws of Mastodon leads to people saying "it's just a Mastodon problem", but AP doesn't by itself specify much so it's hard to critique it too. If there's a "flavor" of AP that's competitive with what atproto solves (can "walk away" without cooperation, can "revive" and "remix" data from other apps, can "fork" products with all their data), I'd like to read a condensed summary of that architecture.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-27 12:58:21+00:00
> 5 bloody files

For those that have to use latex for various reasons, but absolutely hate these files from intermediate compiler passes, here are two aliases from my .bashrc

latexloop() { latexmk -pdf -pvc -emulate-aux-dir -aux-directory=/tmp/latexcrap "$@"; } alias latexmk='latexmk -pdf -emulate-aux-dir -aux-directory=/tmp/latexcrap'

You can now `latexmk file.tex` and it will put all the auxiliary files in /tmp/latexcrap.

The `latexloop file.tex` invocation is just a helper that hot-reloads when you save the tex file.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-27 12:58:26+00:00
> I didn’t ask for your help other than accepting other opinions exist.

Perhaps you don't understand how HN works. When you give an opinion, other people can disagree.

If you don't like what they say, don't complain that you "didn't ask for their help". If that's your attitude, perhaps internet forums are not the place for you.
by ck2 | 2025-09-27 12:58:28+00:00
sorry for a dumb question but are old dead cells still dangerous just sitting around?

I discovered an ancient powerbank the size of a deck of cards that I had not charged in many years, was blown up like a football (imagine an a sealed envelope but full of air)

So that's a dead cell which shouldn't have a charge left but I guess the chemistry is releasing gas?

Scared me, wrapped it in aluminum foil and put it outside asap
by techblueberry | 2025-09-27 12:59:18+00:00
I think it’s a microcosm for the conflict for the fact that we’re all nostalgic for this world that doesn’t exist, and bizarrely that nobody wants.

I find nostalgia in general fascinating, and it was funny, I watched this Fox News / Gutfeld clip and I think maybe with one exception, none of them had been to Cracker Barrel, and it makes sense, if you’re a Fox News host, you’re probably a city person. I think even Christopher Rufo who led the culture war charge against it didn’t really go.

But it’s anger at this abstract attack on “Americana”(this is the best explanation I’ve seen for why some people have called it woke) that only some of our grandparents truly value anymore. And the weird thing is, if the brand really is dying, attempts to stop it from changing will only hasten its demise.

Anyways, fascinating.
by seec | 2025-09-27 12:59:32+00:00
This actually exists in every field to some extent.

Humans get bored and at some point, we need to make complicated answers/explications/justifications to stuff that are actually very simple.

Saying, just practice, pay attention and measure/test progress doesn't cut it for many; especially since some don't want to come to the realization that they'll probably never get better because of their own limitations.

This is why there are always people selling "solutions" that are mostly snake oil, the promise is always that it'll get better, faster, stronger, whatever.

One area that is ripe with those sorts of things is weight loss. It is an extremely simple problem, just eat less calories than you consume and you'll be good. But since humans are faillible and sometimes have hard time making progress, you get all kinds of protocols/tools and whatnot that only achieve the same goal but in a roundabout way.

If people believe in them, sometimes it helps (most of the time not). This is the exact same with keyboards, the problem is not at all with the keyboard, it's all lack of physical activity and bad posture. But saying: just take breaks, do calisthenics (or swimming or any full body workout sport really) and it will get better doesn't satisfy many. Those who want a "quick fix" they can buy are disappointed and those who want to sell a "solution" can't push their snake oil that would make them money (they often are believers themselves, so it doesn't matter if it doesn't really make a difference).
by api | 2025-09-27 13:01:52+00:00
Cracker Barrel is a nostalgic homage to the old country store, which often featured a barrel of crackers as in actual crackers and sometimes a block of cheese. You could cut a piece of cheese and put it on a cracker. Cue “people don’t know this but you can just take the crackers! I have one thousand crackers!” meme.

This was also a feature in some bars in the Midwest and South. I doubt the idea of a communal cheese block has survived into modern times, certainly not post pandemic, but I remember stopping into a pub as a kid in Ohio and seeing one and yes I did help myself and am still alive. That block of cheese had to have been one foot by one foot at least.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-27 13:02:33+00:00
People are beyond sick of the corporate soulless overhauls of things people like. Millennials and zoomers talk pretty often about McDonald's and other chains losing the "fun" atmosphere they had decades ago and looking like soulless office dining halls. Cracker Barrel is the only chain that still has that fun atmosphere. The rebrand was turning it into a soulless dining hall. It's not surprising it pissed people off.

And all the outrage I saw was from people getting pissed about it on discord. That's a lot harder to fake than random twitter posts, where bots all parrot actual trends in order to boost their views and shill some sort of scam/product.

If Taco Bell announced they were bringing back 90s style colorful interiors and decorations, I think the outrage would be zero. People would celebrate. People have no problem with interesting change.
by penchant | 2025-09-27 13:03:35+00:00
The thing is, Gecko is really insecure when compared to Chromium. Its sandboxing is asinine. Additionally, due to lack of WebView implementation, on mobile you have to use Chromium either way, leaving you with two completely separate attack surfaces.

Quoting GrapheneOS developers[1]:

> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

IronFox (an FF fork) developers[2]:

> While we do as much as possible to improve the situation, it should be noted that Firefox-based web browsers, including IronFox, have security deficiencies when compared to Chromium. This is especially notable on Android.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

[2] https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/blob/dev/docs/Limit...

An in-depth examination of this topic and a plethora of other sources can also be found here: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
by rpdillon | 2025-09-27 13:03:49+00:00
+1. I have two Boox devices and they're both excellent. One is a 10 inch reader that's quite thin, and the other is essentially the equivalent of an e-ink phone. Where to buy books is still a challenge for me, though. So far I've been relying on my decrypted library that I've been buying over the years, but now that Amazon closed that hole, I'm no longer buying from them.
by strogonoff | 2025-09-27 13:03:52+00:00
People prefer to avoid rejection because if you get denied, depending on stability of your self-esteem and feeling of security, you may enter a new reality where you are inconsequential, not loved/respected, and so on. It may end up being a vicious loop of self-fulfilling prophecies and self-hate.

Avoiding such negative consequences of rejection may require a confrontation and possibly very expensive dental treatment (or sponsoring one for the victim of your assault, which it may be interpreted as if you win even if you do not hit first) when it is between two men, and other concerns for personal safety if it is a woman against a man.

(Anecdotally, unfamiliar women seem to have less of an issue asking each other to change their behaviour this way, as do men asking women.)

So, it is more preferable to not complain and instead raise your social status such that you do not come in contact with those people (either real status or at least imagined one, through bottled-up contempt towards those rubes or whatever offending term the context calls for).

I’m not saying it is ideal, just describing why it seems pretty to me obvious how person A would often rather not “simply” ask person B to stop doing something or change something to accommodate person A.
by connorbrinton | 2025-09-27 13:04:34+00:00
Technically yes. But it can take months to years to experimentally obtain the structure for a single protein, and that assumes that it's possible to crystallize (X-ray), prepare grids (cryo-EM) or highly concentrate (NMR) the protein at all.

On the other hand, validating a predicted protein structure to a good level of accuracy is much easier (solvent accessibility, mutagenesis, etc.). So having a complex model that can be trained on a small dataset drastically expands the set of accurate protein structure samples available to future models, both through direct predictions and validated protein structures.

So technically yes, this dataset could have been collected solely experimentally, but in practice, AlphaFold is now part of the experimental process. Without it, the world would have less protein structure data, in terms of both directly predicted and experimentally verified protein structures
by orwin | 2025-09-27 13:04:49+00:00
In This case, gp should change to 'all extremes'. The extreme center is a thing. Boulanger is the origin, but he has adept, the most known in the Anglo world is probably Blair, but the closest ideologically is Macron (just read 'how democracy dies' if you aren't convinced yet, or read about 'retenue institutionnelle' if you want to dog into the concept of democracy more deeply).
by yowlingcat | 2025-09-27 13:05:21+00:00
Qwen3 Next and Qwen3-30b-a3b are pretty decent proxies for GPT-OSS 120B and 20B respectively (and in fact are both MoEs with 3B active rather than 8B active parameters), and they lap GPT-OSS pretty hard in this specific benchmark, getting to #17 and #33 respectively. That being said, it's hard to take benchmarks beyond a grain of salt because real world tasks that I try to use these models for always have a lot more variation than the benchmarks illustrate. I do view GPT-OSS as a pretty good alternative to the Qwen models in some cases but there are tradeoffs -- while I see better reasoning from GPT-OSS sometimes, the prompt adherence and overall flexibility of the Qwen models makes them a lot better IMO as general purpose local open weight models.
by rambambram | 2025-09-27 13:06:05+00:00
The most safe way to accomplish what you want is using postal pigeons, made stealthy with black spray paint.

All jokes aside, an educated guess on what to trust (or not) is necessary. Otherwise you wind up on a slippery slope that goes in circles and always results in 'we need more laws'.

Long way to say that I think 'owning' a domain name and publishing on there is way better than the silos we're accustomed to nowadays. The open web never stopped working as intended, the genie is out of the bottle for 30+ years yet, make use of it if you want.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-27 13:06:30+00:00
> The 15.18.5 update is also having an adverse reaction to sideloaded books. If you deliver a book using Send by Email or copy it to your computer via USB, a critical issue may arise, where a pop-up appears with an ‘Invalid ASIN‘ number. The new DRM system is attempting to locate the book in the Amazon store to decrypt it, but since it can’t find it, it reports that the book is invalid. Amazon claims they are working on the issue, but preventing sideloading would be downright tyrannical.

Ouch. This is how I deliver a lot of my DRM-free purchases to the Kindle app.
by oulipo2 | 2025-09-27 13:07:47+00:00
Yes! We're compatible with Gen 1/2/3 (but not "smart system" yet!) the battery is indeed 316 eur + about 40/50 eur for the cells (while a comparable Bosch battery would be 700/800 eur)

Perhaps you can send us an email at contact@gouach.com with more details on your setup, so I can transfer it to the technical team?
by penchant | 2025-09-27 13:08:00+00:00
The thing is, Gecko is really insecure when compared to Chromium. Its sandboxing is asinine. Additionally, due to lack of WebView implementation, on mobile you have to use Chromium either way, leaving you with two completely separate attack surfaces.

Quoting GrapheneOS developers[1]:

> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

IronFox (an FF fork) developers[2]:

> While we do as much as possible to improve the situation, it should be noted that Firefox-based web browsers, including IronFox, have security deficiencies when compared to Chromium. This is especially notable on Android.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

[2] https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/blob/dev/docs/Limit...

An in-depth examination of this topic and a plethora of other sources can also be found here: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
by eesmith | 2025-09-27 13:08:27+00:00
Exactly. Before Brexit people wanted it because they thought, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit:

'Opinion polls found that Leave voters believed leaving the EU was "more likely to bring about a better immigration system, improved border controls, a fairer welfare system, better quality of life, and the ability to control our own laws"'

Doesn't seem to have helped, has it?

So a justification based on a premise of alleviating some concerns about immigration has a long historical trail of failures behind it, as I'm sure the Windrush generation can share. The US and Canadian citizens along what was once pridefully called the world's longest unprotected border have also their misgivings.

As I read here, the UK passed the law that required employers to check employee eligibility. I'm sure that was meant to alleviate xenophobic concerns. Why wasn't that enough?
by kjellsbells | 2025-09-27 13:08:30+00:00
> am I just slow / a poor listener?

Don't fall into that trap. You like what you like. Bach wrote hundreds of pieces. There's no reason for anyone to "get" or "like" them all, or indeed any single one of them.

Personally, I like some of the piano and cello pieces but they only get played once or twice a year. Whereas his vocal works like the St John Passion and Ich habe genug from cantata BWV82 get played a lot. Everyone is different!
by karolinepauls | 2025-09-27 13:08:43+00:00
Sorry not to have made this clear: I am not a frontend developer. I'm a backend/infra developer who's forced to work on a React app abandoned by a frontend developer who incorporated their own wrappers-of-wrappers-of-wrappers.

Meanwhile the client is telling me is virtually impossible to find frontend devs willing to write HTML.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-27 13:09:37+00:00
Let me tell you something about people...

You can sit them down and explain precisely why buying something, like a new car, is a bad financial decision and that they cannot afford it anyway, and then watch them go buy it anyway. To the point where I have seen people laugh about how dumb of an idea it is, while in the act of doing it.

The "I wish someone explained to me..." that comes later when it all falls apart is largely just licking the wounds of their damaged ego.
by sfoley | 2025-09-27 13:10:53+00:00
No it isn't. This line of comments is explicitly in response to your claim:

> Isn't a larger issue the number of immigrants who are NOT contributing to the economy, living at taxpayers' expense

No one has yet mentioned illegal immigrants except you.

In any case it doesn't matter, since GP was specifically replying to:

> In my experience, immigrants have low paying jobs and regularly use cash to avoid paying taxes. Most have no sense whatsoever of cohesion with the country they live in and instead make groups of similar culture that don't really try to fit in.

They were simply giving their own opposite experience on the subject of immigrant wages and taxation, which is equally as valid.

If this thread was actually about illegal immigrants, both comments would be equally off topic. I find it interesting which one you decided to respond to.
by scythe | 2025-09-27 13:11:09+00:00
It's just another case of this generally awful trend. Here's the thing about the boiling frog: it's not true. Slowly heating a frog will not make it die peacefully. It still reacts when the temperature gets too high.

An awful lot of people I've talked to in real life (including me) are not happy about the encroaching minimal trend in design taking over everything. If it was just Cracker Barrel, it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal. But it is like the fall of Constantinople to the app icons. We're already cursed with hideous buildings and logos everywhere, so when the nostalgia was drained from the restaurant built on nostalgia people reacted.

And for whatever reason I saw people trying to make it a culture war issue, accusing anyone who objected of being right-wing. Thankfully a number of prominent Democrats spoke up, too, because it was never about "woke" or whatever.
by scriptedfantasy | 2025-09-27 13:11:23+00:00
I vibe coded index.lore.club, a minimalist exhibition directory surfacing exhibitions near you and I cant believe it actually worked. Currently sourcing 3500+ exhibitions from 1700+ exhibitors around the globe.

Tbh I have 0 clue how to write code. I simply built a workflow on sim.ai sourcing the data from newsletters a few months ago, and now prompted Claude Code to build the frontend iteratively.

Hard to put into words how enabling this all feels... Anyway, hope index will help you find shows you dig.
by devinprater | 2025-09-27 13:11:25+00:00
Thankfully I deDRM'd most of my Kindle books last year or so, so I can read them in Braille on my Braille display without needing to connect to my phone and use the Kindle app. Also luckily for me it's legal for me to do that since I'm blind. One of the few perks I guess.
by crims0n | 2025-09-27 13:11:52+00:00
In my vague recollection, there was some legitimate outrage. The logo was just what people rallied behind, people were really upset that they planned to remodel the whole restaurant/store with some generic corporate slop. The “woke” comments came after from the usual crowd.

If you have ever been in a Cracker Barrel, it has a very distinct feel of soulful agrarian Americana. I suspect most people used the fight as a proxy for preserving that part of our culture, which is getting more rare/unknown in modern America.
by ctrlp | 2025-09-27 13:12:00+00:00
That's surely true, but maybe you're generalizing from a smaller sample than I am. For context, I've spent significant time (years) in Boston, NYC (Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn), LA (West Side and Downtown), and several smaller American cities in the American NE and SE using libraries. For comparison, I've also used the libraries in Paris, Rome, London, and other European cities extensively. I've used the iconic libraries and university libraries and they are great for sure, but branch libraries are a different matter entirely.