MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spamizbad | 2025-04-19 21:40:28+00:00
The second type of quality is necessary to achieve the first type of quality for systems with nontrivial levels of complexity. It doesn’t need to be perfect, or even close to perfect, but it does need to be “good enough” -

Your end users will eventually notice how long bugs take to get fixed, how long and how often outages occur, and how long it takes to get new functionality into your software.

But beyond your end-users, you likely have competitors: and if your competitors start moving faster, build a reputation of dependability and responsiveness, your business WILL suffer. You will see attrition, your CAC will go up, and those costs get absorbed somewhere: either in less runway, less capex/opex (layoffs), higher priced or all of the above. And that’s an entire domain AI isn’t (yet) suited to assist.

There’s no free lunch.
by jltsiren | 2025-04-19 21:40:32+00:00
That didn't really make sense. On the one hand, the author complains that proportional elections favor a limited number of parties, which don't always give voters good options to choose from. And on the other hand, the winner usually doesn't get the majority of seats, forcing them to negotiate with other parties instead of governing unilaterally.

Then there the focus on the left vs. the right, which is no longer as relevant as it used to be during the cold war. If you choose a single faction (such as the left, conservatives, or environmentalists), that specific faction is almost always smaller than everyone else combined. When there are multiple major issues instead of a single overarching question, political divisions become more nuanced than simple X vs. not-X.
by gwern | 2025-04-19 21:40:45+00:00
Bingo. OP is obviously LLM-written and is nothing but clickbait. (Did anything but that tweet even happen? Is any of it true?) And HN is falling for it hook, line, and sinker exactly as calculated.

Look at the author's previous blog posts: low effort, not even correctly spelled or written, like https://adelbordbari.github.io/album/2025-1-25-the-horror-an... (as expected from an Iranian ESL) - and then this one is suddenly boom: perfectly spelled, em-dashes all over, and where did all these <br> come from? Who writes a Github Pages Markdown Jekyll post with a bunch of <br>s in it...? An LLM, obviously.

https://adelbordbari.github.io/about/

> I’m studying artificial intelligence at university...I’m busy with my storybook that’s supposed to be published by June 2024 as well.
by ben_w | 2025-04-19 21:41:41+00:00
There's at least four common definitions of "woman", and I have in fact seen people use "has a womb" as one of them despite, as you may guess, all the people piling on immediately with a reply along the lines of what you yourself say — that this would exclude women who have had a hysterectomy.

The other three I've commonly seen are:

(1) as you suggest, developmental pathway — which tends to trip people up over androgen insensitivity, and is also why puberty blockers are part of the public debate

(2) chromosomes — which has the problem of 0.6-1.0% of the population doing something else besides the normal XX/XY

and (3) current external physical appearance — which tends to lead to confusion by both transvestites in public, and also in private by anyone who has had top surgery but not bottom surgery.
by zh2408 | 2025-04-19 21:41:51+00:00
Yes! This is an initial prototype. Good to see the interest, and I'm considering digging deeper by creating more tailored tutorials for different types of projects. E.g., if we know it's web dev, we could generate tutorials based more on request flows, API endpoints, database interactions, etc. If we know it's a more long-term maintained projects, we can focus on identifying refactoring patterns.
by DriftRegion | 2025-04-19 21:42:31+00:00
NASA branded things have been big in China since as early as 2019, peaking in 2021.

https://fashion.sina.cn/s/fo/2019-04-28/detail-ihvhiqax54682...

https://www.zhihu.com/question/337494558

https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/931153568796681979/answer/...
by flashgordon | 2025-04-19 21:43:16+00:00
So I feel like a grandpa reading this. I gave Claude code a solid shot. Had some wins but costs started blowing up. I switched to Gemini AI where I only upload files I want it to work on and make sure to refactor often so modularity remains fairly high. It's an amazing experience. If this is any measure - I've been averaging about 5-6 "small features" per 10k tokens. And I totally suck at fe coding!! The other interesting aspect of doing it this way is being able to break up problems and concerns. For example in this case I only worked on fe without any backend and flushed it out before starting on an backend.
by gbear605 | 2025-04-19 21:43:24+00:00
In my experience, directly hiring (or hiring through a local company) developers in a “low-income country” - in my experience, Eastern Europe and Latin America - goes a lot better than just contracting out a body of work to a third party. Especially if your company is already fully remote, you’re able to get developers who integrate onto your team just like American devs, and are just as good at coding.
by danielschreber | 2025-04-19 21:44:04+00:00
One of the many low/no code systems that existed before LLMs burst onto the scene - now with more Copilot.

When forced to use it several years ago, I thought about writing a transpiler of some reasonable language to the JSON import/export format to avoid the "easy to use" interface.

And make it feasible to have, like, functions and reuse of logic. But I didn't, so no "Show HN".

Has anyone made such a thing or does anyone want it?
by Muromec | 2025-04-19 21:44:07+00:00
>or listing the crimes they have been convicted for. This is pretty common when starting a new job

In the Netherlands it's not even that -- you can ask for a certificate of "good behavior" with a purpose and they just say yes or no. If the purpose is employment, the form asks which sector you will be employed in, because sex offenders can still work somewhere and so do people convicted of financial fraud. You just don't want them to work in specific places, i.e. near kids or banks respectively.

Data minimization is a thing.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-04-19 21:44:35+00:00
After I was bamboozled with a SMR drive, always great to just make the callout to those who might be unaware. What a piece of garbage to let vendors upsell higher numbers.

(Yes, I know some applications can be agnostic to SMR, but it should never be used in a general purpose drive).
by TylerLives | 2025-04-19 21:44:38+00:00
>Also, while polls say Ukrainians want peace, the part that is not reported says the majority of Ukrainians does not want to give up land for peace.

I find this hard to believe. Do you think it would be fair to confirm it via a referendum? That way all the political instability of elections could be avoided, but we could still make sure that it's what Ukrainians really want.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-04-19 21:45:39+00:00
This is something that was defined in the Constitution, however. Article 1, Section 3 called for the selection of Senators by state legislatures. This is superseded by the 17th Amendment, and calls for Senators to be elected by the people of their states.

This is important to understand, because the 17th Amendment is an on-again-off-again political issue; Republicans have, in recent history, held most state legislatures, so repealing the 17th Amendment would basically guarantee that the Republican Party would control at least one house of Congress for the foreseeable future, and give the party greater control over who is selected to the office.
by Animats | 2025-04-19 21:46:41+00:00
The actual scanners: [1]

Max range 12 meters. That's when it seems to start to get expensive. The light source, filters, and sensors all have to get better.

Good enough for most small robots. Maybe good enough for the minor sensors on self-driving cars, the ones that cover the vehicle perimeter so kids and dogs are reliably sensed. The big long-range LIDAR up top is still hard.

[1] https://www.ldrobot.com/
by kristopolous | 2025-04-19 21:46:56+00:00
Have you ever seen komment.ai? Is so did you have any issues with the limitation of the product?

I haven't used it, but it looks like it's in the same space and I've been curious about it for a while.

I've tried my own homebrew solutions, creating embedding databases by having something like aider or simonw's llm make an ingests json from every function, then using it as a rag in qdrant to do an architecture document, then using that to do contextual inline function commenting and make a doxygen then using all of that once again as an mcp with playwright to hook that up through roo.

It's a weird pipeline and it's been ok, not great but ok.

I'm looking into perplexica as part of the chain, mostly as a negation tool
by froh | 2025-04-19 21:47:30+00:00
and you can tell with the naked eye that an intersex baby is intersex, and neither "properly" male or female. except when the baby looks very female but is genetically male due to androgen insensitivity syndrome. then you need that microscope again...

kindergarten level logic fails at physiological sex ambiguity.

and it fails even more so at gender identity issues.
by musicale | 2025-04-19 21:48:05+00:00
> Alas, CopyLeft had not yet been invented, the UC sold the P-System and we lost legal access to the code we'd written.

Compare with UC Berkeley's BSD UNIX, which was originally open sourced in 1988 (though hamstrung from 1992-94 by the Unix lawsuit, opening the way for Linux), and happens to be running in the system I'm typing on...

It appears that UCSD eventually (2006?) made the p-System 1.5 source code available for download, but unfortunately non-commercial only (CC BY-NC-SA?) rather than BSD, etc.
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-19 21:48:52+00:00
I can certainly understand that perspective, and I think losing their ability to practice medicine and being sued into penury is adequate, our jails are full enough. On that note however they aren't full of enough DUI convictions, first time or otherwise, since we all know that the first time you get caught is statistically unlikely to be the first time you actually did it.

Personally I'd make the penalties for DUI much MUCH harsher, given how many people are killed each year as a result. Driving is a privilege, not a right, much like practicing medicine.
by jerkstate | 2025-04-19 21:49:03+00:00
ChatGPT makes it so easy to build a lesson/workbook for something your kid is interested in. I've used it to build workbooks on special relativity, tsolkovsky's rocket equation (including euler integration to build a scratch program), triangulation, logic gates, probabilities of simple dice games, etc. My pro-tip is to tell the LLM to format the document in LaTeX, so you get beautiful math typesetting.

You don't even have to get through the workbook. Get to a part that they need to understand better and make a detailed workbook on that part (for example, triangulation -> solving a system of linear equations).
by ein0p | 2025-04-19 21:49:23+00:00
I wish we could get such adverse effects stats for all other medical treatments from common medicines, to psych drugs, to other types of diagnostics (e.g. it is known that MRI causes cancer, too), all the way to vaccinations (especially the newer ones), ordered by the sizes of treated populations, descending. Guess which number is larger in the US, all homicides or deaths due to medical errors? The latter is 10x of the former, it's the third most prevalent cause of death, after heart disease and cancer. And these stats could blow the stats out even worse. It is not a coincidence that we at the same time over-medicate and don't live very long.
by spwa4 | 2025-04-19 21:49:24+00:00
That depends. Look it up. You will find there is a point where it switches. Normally the body (of both baby and mother) will protect the mother. Something goes wrong or just gets too far "out of spec"? Miscarriage. After a few months, the body goes so far as to sedate the mother and child before terminating the pregnancy. There is research claiming it actually shuts down the baby's nervous system before decoupling.

But about a month before birth things switch around. The womb partially disconnects from control systems of the mother's body and ... there's an extremely scary way of pointing this out I once heard from a medical professor: "you know just about the only thing a human body can still do when it's decapitated? It can give birth"

In less extreme circumstances, you actually have a switch in your circulatory system ... when pregnancy gets to this point and the mother's body loses power, it will initiate a rapid birthing process, and start shutting down organ after organ to give birth with the remaining power. That includes, eventually, the brain. Only the heart, lungs, liver and womb will remain operational. The body will shut down blood flow to the brain to continue giving birth. Once shut down it cannot be turned back on. So this kills the mother, despite the body remaining functional, in some reported cases, for over an hour, and is something gynaecologists get trained to prevent from happening.

Given how common it was even a century ago for women to die giving birth, one wonders how often this mechanism was involved.
by andai | 2025-04-19 21:49:55+00:00
My uncle said yesterday that man's harsh nature goes back to Rome: Homo homini lupus.

The article says it goes back a lot further than Rome!

> So if it’s a fight, what started it? The original bone of contention is this: you and your nearest relatives are not genetically identical. In the nature of things, this means that you are in competition. And because you live in the same environment, your closest relations are actually your most immediate rivals.
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by sneak | 2025-04-19 21:49:57+00:00
If everything scientific inquiry accomplishes is a “miracle”, then nothing is.

Is it a miracle I can go to JFK and fly through the air and be in Europe for dinner?

It’s a surgical procedure. It’s cool that it worked. We don’t need to invoke the supernatural here, especially given the oodles of hard work that went into this by very real and natural human beings.
by yorwba | 2025-04-19 21:50:57+00:00
It's interesting that it's possible to achieve proportional representation with respect to geographic distribution and party votes simultaneously. (Though, as the article notes, Iceland falls short of this ideal.)

This makes me wonder: why stop at two? Some places have explicit quotas for different ethnic or religious groups as a compromise to avoid civil war. Could they use a tripoportional system?

And why not add in even more demographic variables? Age, gender, income, level of education, ... I suppose at some point it stops being a secret election because the number of voters sharing all attributes becomes too small, or the parliament would get unwieldily large trying to represent every hyperspecific constituency.
by xoa | 2025-04-19 21:51:00+00:00
Can't tell if you're joking or not, but SpaceX has indeed been collaborating with astronomical observatories to reduce the apparent magnitude (brightness) to ground for Starlink satellites. It's not as if the potential issues weren't apparent and reported on pretty early on, ie, [0] in summer 2020 before the network entered beta. It's not perfect and the period during orbit raising before the satellites enter operational orbits is more challenging, but very significant reductions have been achieved per recs, see for example "Starlink Gen 2 Mini Satellites Photometric Characterization" [1] in 2023 and "The Brightness of Starlink Mini Satellites During Orbit-Raising" [2] in 2024:

>When magnitudes are adjusted to a uniform distance of 1000 km the means are 4.58 and 7.52, respectively. The difference of 2.94 between distance-adjusted magnitudes above and below threshold implies that mitigation is 93% effective in reducing the brightness of orbit-raising spacecraft.

So there has been progress, though more may be possible particularly as Starship gives them more mass to work with for less money. That may bring new possibilities to spend mass on "cosmetic" purposes to shade and further reduce magnitude even if it contributes nothing to the core functionality. Same as more mass may allow regulators to feasibly require higher levels of redundancy and more margin for deorbiting in case of issues or at EOL.

Of course, that does leave older unmitigated working sats contributing to light pollution for the rest of their operational lifetimes, though worth noting that one of many major advantages for low-LEO/VLEO operation is that by design such lifetimes are much shorter, and in turn generation refresh will happen more quickly. Perhaps more importantly long term, there aren't as far as I know any actual international standards and agreements towards responsible brightness mitigation (or other issues like disposing of expended upper stages responsibly, standardized end-of-life deorbiting, etc). SpaceX has, for both PR and simple corporate self-interest reasons, been a pretty good actor so far even if they get a lot of attention for being the leading first mega constellation. But I really hope follow on efforts from other players can hit the ground running with magnitude reductions at least as good, and that SpaceX itself continues to improve (or at a bare minimum not backslide).

High bandwidth fully global comms is simply too valuable a capability to really imagine going back at this point. But that's no reason not to pursue reasonable compromise mitigations, and potentially some sort of funds to ultimately create far more orbital telescopes as well as part of the package taking full advantage of what upcoming cheap megalift will make possible.

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0: "Impact of Satellite Constellations on Optical Astronomy and Recommendations Toward Mitigations" | https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/SATCON1-Report.p...

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.06657

2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12007
by hollerith | 2025-04-19 21:51:13+00:00
The AGPL says that you cannot use a derivative work of the licensed work to operate a server on the internet without releasing the source code of your derivative work. Since the server operator is not distributing the licensed work or any derivative of it, then according to you the AGPL has no legal force and can just be ignored. Ditto no-commercial-use licenses.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-19 21:51:32+00:00
I was one of the kids who didn’t learn to read until the 3rd grade. The only kid, as I was made aware at the time.

At first the urgency to rectify the situation propelled me into not only learning but reading a lot, but I didn’t know how much my peers were reading or what, so I started reading voraciously

Didn’t take long to outpace my peers. I have kept it up ever since
by rjbwork | 2025-04-19 21:51:55+00:00
Dependency injection is just passing your dependencies in as constructor arguments rather than as hidden dependencies that the class itself creates and manages.

It's equivalent to partial application.

An uninstantiated class that follows the dependency injection pattern is equivalent to a family of functions with N+Mk arguments, where Mk is the number of parameters in method k.

Upon instantiation by passing constructor arguments, you've created a family of functions each with a distinct sets of Mk parameters, and N arguments in common.
by laurencerowe | 2025-04-19 21:52:06+00:00
Hybrid buses were a huge win around cities before fully electric became viable and I expect they will continue to be important for rural routes.

Buses stop frequently so regenerative breaking is meaningful and crucially they avoid the horrible cloud of diesel particulates as they pull off. It was really noticeable as a cyclist. About 40% co2 savings over diesel in London.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-19 21:52:27+00:00
problem of today is not having enough knowledge, books, ... for storing that stuff or for generating more appropriate stuff to work with modern knowledge they did not had, but problem is not having workforce big enough to do this stuff AND live in current economic system on top of physical/planetwide system.

there is just too may people and only two things can solve that problem - A) what stalin, hitler, did [ graph in GIF https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH_C_MORTACRACIES.GIF ] B) culture of not having 4 children and having need to live energy expensive life.

after hitler in west, reforms were made. after lenin in east, stalinist came.

so without having everybody on board choosing B)... what is the answer? and you can not be peruan-style farmer when you have terrorists pumping oil from ground , building tanks, drones, paying people to burn buildings, cars, writing nonsense "red-pilling" people ...

USA was lucky not having wars, and not having war in USA was 99.999% because of geography - no land bridge. and 0.001% of "tyrrany" of state not allowing mass murder in rest of the world (yes redpill-ing oil here). but culture is changing, state no longer cares about that 0.001% (or atleast seem so ).

we do not care about transporting muck into our fields so we do not need to manufacture fertilizers. so yeah culture is not important but it is. he means culture as a "we do care about sitting next to your field and thinking about it [but that means not spending time programming healthcare system systems] and we do care about earth" [even without hippie drugs]
by Vinnl | 2025-04-19 21:52:46+00:00
If your source for "Dutch levels of weirdness" is just that article, then keep in mind that the VVD being "in power" meant that they were one of the parties in the government coalition. They have had to compromise with other parties through all of that time, and so it was not the case that those governments were only representative of a very small party of the electorate, as that article makes it sound.

(In my opinion, the Dutch system is one of the best implemented in practice, precisely because of its proportionality.)