MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munificent | 2025-05-14 21:06:49+00:00
> how do you feel about the aggregated will of citizens currently being enacted federally?

It's certainly not perfect, but it seems to work fairly well. I certainly haven't received any ballots to select, say, the next CEO of Meta, so I'll take it over ceding all authority to corporations.

> Bureaucracies are even worse and less accountable.

Less accountable than a corporation that is beholden only to faceless shareholders? Seems unlikely to me.
by SoftTalker | 2025-05-14 21:06:55+00:00
They do but not like they used to.

Edit: Actually two things killed bookstores. In the 1990s the megabookstores (e.g. Borders, Barnes and Noble) with coffee shops and living rooms for people to hang out in blew up and put a lot of the independent bookstores out of business. Then the internet blew up and Amazon put Borders and Barnes and Noble out of business.

Some independents have returned here and there, or managed to hang on through it all, but it's a shadow of what used to exist in most places.
by paddy_m | 2025-05-14 21:07:04+00:00
Ok, if we are all tagging and promoting our own projects, check out mine.

I created Buckaroo to provide a better table viewing experience inside of notebooks. I also built a low code UI and auto cleaning to expedite the wrote data cleaning tasks that take up a large portion of data analysis. Autocleaning is heuristically powered - no LLMs, so it's fast and your data stays local. You can apply different autocleaning strategies and visually inspect the results. When you are happy with the cleaning, you can copy and paste the python code as a reusable function.

All of this is open source, and its extendable/customizable.

Here's a video walking through autocleaning and how to extend it https://youtu.be/A-GKVsqTLMI

Here's the repo: https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
by aylmao | 2025-05-14 21:07:12+00:00
> New York's subways were built by private companies. So were America's railroads.

Didn't this cause a lot of problems, which is why they were eventually consolidated under a public authority?

I do find interesting and cool that private urban transport seems to work well in Japan and do wonder what's the system around this private ownership to have it work as well as it does.
by adfm | 2025-05-14 21:07:22+00:00
It reminded me of how brains form through wrinkling folds [^0], space filling curves[^1], and the emergence of form through origami[^2].

[^0]: https://www.livescience.com/47421-human-brain-wrinkles.html

[^1]: https://medium.com/@nico727272/drawing-hilbert-curves-using-...

[^2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold
by CelestialMystic | 2025-05-14 21:07:48+00:00
> Sorry to hear you got a bum toilet.

Firstly No my one works properly thank you. They just aren't as good as the old ones. Many of the plumbers have agreed with me on this.

> Who remembers the abject terror of watching the water rise in a clogged high flush toilet and just praying it didn’t overflow.

I don't remember the old ones clogging, because it rarely happened. So no I don't remember of this because it didn't happen that often.

> Your toilet might not have been seated right so the wax seal ring is partially blocking the sewer line.

It isn't fitted like that. I know because I took apart the old one (which was poorly installed). It quite frustrating on my end to read a post that when you make a bunch of assumptions about the fitting of my lavatory which are incorrect, while you are telling me I've got it all wrong.
by Bender | 2025-05-14 21:07:53+00:00
For what it's worth I just interacted with one of them and they appeared to be in good spirits and eager to assist. I let them know on Monday that one of their weather radio transmitters was offline and by Tuesday they had it back online which is impressive given the cause was out of their control. Maybe they were the exception but that was a very pleasant experience, probably one of the best out of all the federal agencies I have interacted with recently.
by marcellus23 | 2025-05-14 21:08:26+00:00
> Marketing note: I'm sure you're proud of P Core/V Core, but that doesn't matter to your users, it's an implementation detail. At a maximum I'd write "intelligent execution that scales from small files to large files".

Speaking personally, "intelligent execution that scales from small files to large files" sounds like marketing buzz that could mean absolutely nothing. I like that it mentions specifically switching between RAM and disk-powered engines, because that suggests it's not just marketing speak, but was actually engineered. Maybe P vs V Core is not the best way to market it, but I think it's worth mentioning that design.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-14 21:08:35+00:00
>The USPS does a lot more than ship junk mail. It's a fun joke but

Junk mail is well over 99% of their activity by any metric you can offer. Pieces of mail, revenue, weight, etc. It's not a joke. It's the fucking truth of it. And you're all bizarrely delusional if you can't or won't see it.

>everyone else rolls their eyes and thinks you're not very bright.

I've experienced that all my life. And yet I always out-tested everyone who thought that. Why would that change? The comment above yours talks about how he's always paying by check... what the fuck is grandpa going to do in the next couple years when that goes away? They can only postpone the deprecation of paper bank checks for so long. Guess he will either have to stop living in the 1950s, or just croak.

>It's a public service.

It's a goddamned public nuisance.

>It doesn't need to turn a profit because every dollar put into it generates economic activity.

???

We could also pay them to dig holes and fill them back in. That'd be an economic win too, eh? Though your comment probably comes closest to hinting at the real justification: a unionized voting bloc that without it the Democrats would become doomed to irrelevance.
by godelski | 2025-05-14 21:08:58+00:00
data + plural = number data - plural = research king - crown = (didn't work... crown gets circled in red) king - princess = emperor king - queen = kingdom queen - king = worker king + queen = queen + king = kingdom boy + age = (didn't work... boy gets circled in red) man - age = woman woman - age = newswoman woman + age = adult female body (tied with man) girl + age = female child girl + old = female child

The other suggestions are pretty similar to the results I got in most cases. But I think this helps illustrate the curse of dimensionality (i.e. distances are ill-defined in high dimensional spaces). This is still quite an unsolved problem and seems a pretty critical one to resolve that doesn't get enough attention.
by arghwhat | 2025-05-14 21:09:02+00:00
Absolute is also a funny size. From the perspective of human visual perception, an absolute brightness only matters if the entire viewing environment is also controlled to the same absolute values. Visual perception is highly contextual, and we are not only seeing the screen.

It's not fun being unable to watch dark scenes during the day or evening in a living room, nor is vaporizing your retinas if the ambient environment went dark in the meantime. People want good viewing experience in the available environment that is logically similar to what the content intended, but that is not always the same as reproducing the exact same photons as the directors's mastering monitor sent towards their their eyeballs at the time of production.
by mmooss | 2025-05-14 21:09:10+00:00
Public transit could use a lower barrier to adoption. I think people familiar with it - myself included - forget how uncertain it is for the first time - is the bus late or not coming? was it early? - and all the unstated conventions, etc.

Interesting about the lanes. But that metal has a large capital cost, training, etc.; we can't add and decrease capacity on demand like cloud computing resources. Maybe contract bus operation - including the metal - to multiple contractors and when customer satisfaction is low, give the route to another contractor.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-14 21:09:12+00:00
>And unlike your nonsensical reference points of the zoo or an orchestra they do in fact do this millions of times a day.

Facts not in evidence. It seems very improbable that they deliver "millions of letters per day". It's been many years since most bills or bill payments have been delivered that way (and notice that I'm not being stingy in defining what "letters" means).

>The ability to do that is a core function of government

In the 18th century, perhaps. Not in the 21st. Time to disband the pony express.

>and a basic building block of society

Nothing about our current society relies on this. Not even for nostalgic reasons.

>that was so fundamental it was written into the constitution.

So was the third amendment.

>is what’s giving the lie to this conversation as not being in good faith.

That's fine. You can pretend that it's not in good faith, but it just reminds me that there's no need for discourse with people like yourself, things need to be fixed despite you, without your consent, and ignoring your protests. The future may become unpleasant.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-05-14 21:10:04+00:00
i think the US lacks the regulatory structure and social character that's more present in Japan that make private-public services more successful there.

as a regular metro commuter, i don't think i'd be totally opposed to private transit in LA if it were heavily regulated. but without that, i'd rather deal with all the problems on the metro (stinky riders, drivers switching mid-route, track traffic) at 1.75 per ride, than any of my money go to making Uber shareholders (or anyone who profits by exploiting the "gig economy") more money.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-14 21:10:13+00:00
Walmart and Target probably are a lot less concerned with accuracy than a fare collecting entity would be; any benefit from facial recognition is a plus for them even if it often either is wrong or fails to hit when it should, whereas with toll collection it has to be near 100% to replace other payment mechanism, and nearly never get a false hit (though misses might be okay) to be a convenience method when people are still expected to have a reliable method for on hand for backup.
by seadan83 | 2025-05-14 21:10:24+00:00
The equality relationship is symmetric, "For every a and b, if a = b, then b = a" [1]. This holds for the negation as well.

Or, "Properties of Equality... The [equality] relation must also be symmetric. If two terms refer to the same thing, it does not matter which one we write first in an equation. ∀x.∀y.(x=y ⇒ y=x)" [2]

The 'is' relationship in logic is understood to be equality. The 'is a' relationship in logic is subset. Colloquially, the word "is" can be either one though.

I notice in your counter example you swapped the "is" relationship with "is a". Keeping the "is" relationship: "A rectangle is not square" (true generally, but false for specific cases for rectangles). That is really the distinction, the sometimes true vs always true.

Let's stick to the precise definition of "is" to mean a logical equality from here on please, and be precise when we use "is" vs "is a" and never infer "is" to actually mean "is a".

So, with "Math is a language" vs "Math is language". Which do you mean?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_(mathematics)

[2] http://logic.stanford.edu/intrologic/extras/equality.html
by Bjartr | 2025-05-14 21:10:38+00:00
Part of it is, if anything can be taken slightly out of context to imply something discriminatory, there are those who will abuse the system and sue. At a large enough scale this can become a real problem. If the company policy is "never say anything" there's nothing to be taken out of context, reducing the chance of a lawsuit.

I bet you this comes back to insurance, as many things do in the corporate world. Sufficiently large companies probably have insurance coverage for discrimination lawsuits, or at least employment disputes in general. The coverage probably costs less if you have a "no feedback" policy.
by cycomanic | 2025-05-14 21:10:42+00:00
It's not racing, but if there's a steep hill you will pick up some speed (it doesn't help that Christiania uses drum brakes not disk brakes). Also the whole point of a bike is that it's faster to go around than walk. Don't get me wrong I'm all in on cargo bikes and I used a cargo bikes for my kids in a hilly area for years (it was a leaning trike see my other post for what kind it was), but the trikes with the joint in the middle are just unsafe (yes I've also seen people tip over with them, and it really only requires a sharp turn where you have to accelerate a bit).
by johnmaguire | 2025-05-14 21:11:08+00:00
Passkeys are highly phishing resistant in a way that passwords are not and are not subject to credential reuse (though password managers somewhat solve the first problem and almost entirely solve the latter problem.)

In effect, though, 1Password is both something you have (the device with 1P logged in, login requires a Security Key that you don't memorize) and something you know (the master password) or are (typically biometrics can be used to unlock for a period after entering the master password.)
by taeric | 2025-05-14 21:12:02+00:00
Strictly, MetaPost is not Knuth's. It is a derivative of Metafont, but is different. I keep meaning to learn to use it, and keep failing. So huge shout out for getting this posted!

That it is a language somewhat designed to solve linear equations is something I have yet to really wrap my head around. I want to say it is far far more descriptive of what you are drawing than something like SVG. That said, I'm not clear if I could justify that claim.
by syklemil | 2025-05-14 21:12:17+00:00
There's no discussing taste, especially with syntax. Personally I find the Rust syntax unoffensive, while the Go syntax comes off kind of … weird, with type signatures especially looking kind of like run-on sentences by someone who hates punctuation. C's type signatures come off as a turgid mess to me; stuff like this https://www.ericgiguere.com/articles/reading-c-declarations.... is just a design mistake as far as I'm concerned. And Python … kind of goes into the "ah, I give up, slap an `Any` signature on it" territory.

And some people love that! It just ain't for everyone.
by derriz | 2025-05-14 21:12:21+00:00
> Static typing lets you build very large rigid structures where types ensure constraints. However, these constraints get in the way of moving quickly. If you change a signature of a function, you have to first change every piece of code that calls the function.

I strongly disagree that this sort of refactoring is "quicker" with dynamically typed languages, particularly with non-trivial (i.e. large) code bases.

You have zero feedback and no indication of how disruptive such a change is when working with a dynamically typed language. In fact, you have no feedback on whether you've actually finished the change at all.

While with static type checking, you have immediate and valuable feedback guiding you through such a change. Each line of code which requires updating is identified for you and communicated to you.
by prmph | 2025-05-14 21:12:40+00:00
I'm not sure you fully grasp what I'm saying.

I'm seeking to draw a distinction between disliking rust for the real (or perceived) difficulty of learning/using it, and disliking it on principle, because you don't like it's trade-offs, approach to achieving it aims, syntax, type system, etc. This dichotomy is meaningful irrespective of the level of experience one has with Rust, beyond a certain level (and for the record I believe I have the requisite level of knowledge of rust to have an informed opinion on it).

For example, I don't know much Haskell. It seems to me (and to many other I read online) like it would be difficult to learn (and maybe use), although I'm familiar with functional languages in general. However, based on the little I've learned about it so far, it is a language I'd absolutely love to dig much deeper into as time permits, because almost everything about it makes so much sense to me.

Here's something amazing, I started to design my ideal language, before I started learning Haskell, and almost every language construct in Haskell I learn about seems to match exactly how I'd designed my language by coincidence (even down to keywords like "where", "do" blocks, etc.)
by secabeen | 2025-05-14 21:12:41+00:00
> One of the stupidest takes about AI is that a partial hallucination or a single bug destroys the value of the tool. If a response is 90% of the way there and I have to fix the 10% of it that doesn't meet my expectations, then I still got 90% value from that answer.

That assumes that the value of a solution is linear with the amount completed. If the Pareto Principle holds (80% of effects come from 20% of causes), then not getting that critical 10+% likely has an outsized effect on the value of the solution. If I have to do the 20% of the work that's hard and important after taking what the LLM did for the remainder, I haven't gained as much because I still have to build the state machine in my head to understand the problem-space well enough to do that coding.
by eikenberry | 2025-05-14 21:12:55+00:00
Maybe the tool isn't intended for use in commercial environments. There is plenty of work done outside a those environments where this tool might be a better fit. E.g. most free software projects don't have all those other teams interacting with the bug trackers. To put it another way, this seems to fill a similar niche as Github's bug tracker and not Jira.
by sershe | 2025-05-14 21:13:17+00:00
I think Airbnb is net better than hotels, including places with agents that are basically condo hotels. Much more variety.. hotels are OTOH more predictable and reliable. If I don't need variety (a kitchen? A place very close to some obscure spot? Fancy? Cheap?) i'd pick a hotel. Or if I need weird checkin times and the airbnbs have in person check in.

Contrary to other comments I wish they'd actually focus on both the agent and the random host scenarios...

But personally my favorite things are weird places that are a bedroom in a house.

The mild form is when they have a dog you get to pet/play with. The less mild is staying with people who are weird in a non dangerous way.

My only bad experience was also with dogs, a place where when you step out to the bathroom at night two formerly friendly large dogs shadow you, growling cause, a rando walking around at night! Really helps the bowel movement.

And the weirdest experience I had was 2 girls roommates who advertised their open floor plan living room as a "separate bedroom" (it was not instant book and I'm very obviously a dude). With a cat that slept at my feet, and a dog that woke me up in the morning (they did offer to lock up both). Then when I was talking to one of them in the kitchen she told me without any context that they were not lesbians. I am in a relationship and it was pretty awkward so I didn't develop the subject further, but I am still wondering.
by radius89 | 2025-05-14 21:13:19+00:00
It's easier said than done, I suppose, but my first ~500 users for https://radius.to/ were from HN after hitting the front page. A year later, I still get a decent amount of traffic from that post.

I'd imagine you'd get pretty good results on both ProductHunt and Reddit as well if you can get enough upvotes, though the latter is pretty difficult to promote your products on these days unless it's legitimately relevant to the community you post in.
by jfengel | 2025-05-14 21:13:19+00:00
I've listened to all of his Revolutions and Rome podcasts. I look forward to getting to his Mars Revolution podcast, but I just can't stomach the thought of it right now. Maybe in four years.

I did manage to get through the first few episodes, and I was very pleased with how effectively he recreated the level of detail he used for his real Revolutions episodes. It's not like a novel, but it captures just how many different players there are in any real-world event -- very different from conventional storytelling.

At that, I think it might be most interesting to people who see it in terms of his other Revolutions work. As a pure work of fiction, it could be quite dull -- too many players with too little characterization, too many events with both too much and too little detail.
by sureglymop | 2025-05-14 21:13:20+00:00
No offense but even the readme is way too long and complicated. And the project itself seems like too much.

I often see people applying make this same mistake with their CV. They'll have a 5 page long incredibly overfilled CV with whatever they ever worked on. Instead, just make it one single clear and concise page so that the recruiter can quickly assess your selling point relevant to the position. They don't have time for all this so why would you?
by gxpcellators | 2025-05-14 21:13:23+00:00
A Good Clinical Practice Quality Management System (GCP QMS) is a structured framework that ensures sponsor companies maintain compliance with global regulatory standards throughout a clinical trial's lifecycle. Regulatory bodies such as the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), ICH (International Council for Harmonisation), and EMA (European Medicines Agency) emphasize the critical role of a robust QMS in safeguarding subject safety, data integrity, and ethical conduct in clinical research.
by tonystaunton | 2025-05-14 21:13:27+00:00
Wow, thank you for the excellent feedback and taking the time to go through Family Folder with such detail.

# Comparison - I'm currently working on comparisons page and explainer.

# Organization - Great point/question, there is a full calendar within Family Folder so I definitely need to emphasise this more.

# Screenshots - I will definitely add more screenshots. The FAQ is designed to help families remember things or have easy access to info such as WIFI codes. Also a family member can create specific folders for example a summer vacation folder which could contain several FAQs such as flight numbers, hotel details, etc (something I am currently using Family Folder for).

# TOS - agreed will amend this to be give the user total control, rights etc over what they upload. Thanks for pointing this one out. All data is your data.

# Header - will add it to the bug list :)

Again, really great feedback, thank you for taking the time.

Tony.
by miki123211 | 2025-05-14 21:13:52+00:00
My problem with congestion pricing is that it still doesn't provide great incentives for cities to improve walkability and public transit.

"What do you mean our transit is bad, look, our ridership numbers are 3x higher than all our neighbors combined!" *Does not mention the fact that congestion pricing in neighboring cities is 3x lower.*

In the worst cases, it could even become a regressive tax of sorts. If your city has safe districts with good transit where rich people live, and unsafe districts with terrible transit where poor people live, congestion pricing will allow rich people to choose between the convenience of taking a car with no traffic jams versus the cheapness of transit, while forcing poor people to choose between a car they can't afford versus walking down a street where they may be assaulted.

It's even worse if you have rich people living in the city center where they work, and poor people who also work there living in towns much further away. Then, only the rich are able to vote on congestion pricing.

This probably doesn't apply to New York specifically (not an American, have never been), but it's definitely something to have in mind in general.
by vunderba | 2025-05-14 21:13:59+00:00
I play multiple music instruments (piano, violin, guitar), play tennis, contact and pin juggle, and work as a software engineer.

The most important changes I made in my life which fixed RSI related issues (carpal, tendonitis, etc) permanently were:

- Proper ergonomic keyboard (consider a split layout)

- Posture (Alexander technique, Taubman technique)

- Trigger point therapy (with a Knobble tool)

I can highly recommend this book:

https://www.newharbinger.com/9781608824960/the-trigger-point...