MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-06-19 08:38:47+00:00
There's a nice visual here [1] that shows excess mortality instead of relying on COVID numbers. This helps control for different standards in measurement/demographics, to some degree. After all was said and done the difference between countries was pretty small. The US had a relatively poor outcome for COVID and ended up with excess deaths of 434 per 100k. Australia had one of the best (amongst advanced economies), and ended up with 163. There were large relative differences, but the absolute differences were small - those values are (per 100k) 99.72% the same.

And behaviors were not really predictive of outcomes. Gibraltar, for instance, was the first 'country' (they put the micro in micronation) to achieve complete vaccination coverage. The media ran tons of stories on them being a window into a post-COVID future because cases there plummeted. Then the next COVID wave hit and cases skyrocketed there, just like everywhere else. After all was said and done they ended up closer to the US than Australia with excess mortality of 300.

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
by altairprime | 2025-06-19 08:41:40+00:00
Uncompensated use for unshared reward is, by definition, leeching. The BBS use of the term referred to leeching in the context your upload/download ratio, the torrent use in the context of your seeded/downloaded ratio.

ratio = (contributions - demands) : earnings

If you contribute nothing, demand nothing, and earn nothing, carry on. “Nothing” is loosely defined as “near enough to zero in the context of a specific project”.

If you contribute nothing, demand nothing, and earn (DL) a million dollars using it somehow, you’re a leecher. Your U/D ratio is 0.0. That should be an uncomfortable realization. One way to cope with that is to raise your ratio to 0.1. If you make a million dollars of revenue using libcurl, how much are you allocating to donate back?

If you contribute nothing and demand security fixes, then you’re not a leecher — you’re a parasite, because your demands exceed your contributions; your sign bit is still negative even if your ratio is 0.0 or NaN. It has been zero days since this workplace had a maintainer injury due to parasitic behavior.

Leechers are demoralizing when the revenue earned would let the author quit their day job to do more fun work instead. Parasites leave a trail of damaged and dead projects in their wake. libxml2’s maintainer made a policy change that cuts off the food supply for parasites; good. They’ll still burnout someday due to the untreated morale damage being done by the billionaire leechers, though.

If an author accepts contributions and you feel like a leecher, do something about it. If they do not accept contributions (including money) or if the anccepted contributions are incompatible (their code is in COBOL and you only know Rust, they only offer “donate bitcoin”, you’re a broke student funding school with your project) then maybe write them a thank you letter? and revisit this if your or their circumstances change someday.

As a former open source maintainer, I don’t mind it when people leech. That’s chill. Go for it. I don’t have a tip jar because I don’t expect a tip. But I mind when people DL a million dollars of revenue using my work and have a UL:DL ratio of 0.0 with me.

Corporations, formally do not care whether users are hobbyists, leechers, or parasites. Maintainers do. The OSI continues to reject as Open Source any licenses attempting to stop the morale impact of millionaire leechers and the time and effort drained by parasites.

Which is more important to the future of open source: the right to be a leecher or a parasite, or the maintainers that they feed upon?
by LoveMortuus | 2025-06-19 08:42:43+00:00
>excluding XREAL

You mean you haven't tested XREAL or you didn't find XREAL as too heavy?

I'm asking because I have Viture XR Pro which are basically a clone of XREAL and I find them too heavy after a few hours of use.

I would really like a solution that wouldn't be as heavy and that would have clear displays where text would be readable from edge to edge.
by guappa | 2025-06-19 08:44:14+00:00
I think it used to be like that before the GNU people made gcc, completely destroying the market of compilers.

> Also, as a lazy developer who is always trying to make AI do my job for me, it still kind of sucks, and its not clear that it will make my life easier any time soon.

Every time I have to write a simple self contained couple of functions I try… and it gets it completely wrong.

It's easier to just write it myself rather than to iterate 50 times and hope it will work, considering iterations are also very slow.
by supermatt | 2025-06-19 08:45:14+00:00
Are you being deliberately obtuse?

The grandparent comment was pointing out that it cost NASA 200bn, and spaceX 15bn.

The parent comment pointed out that spaceX are actually saving money because they already got what nasa spent 200bn on.

My comment pointed out that they aren't just saving money by using NASAs tech, but tech from the Soviet Union as well - suggesting that their savings are far beyond just 200bn R&D
by MPSimmons | 2025-06-19 08:45:30+00:00
In spaceflight, an anomaly is an anomalous outcome compared to what was expected. The severity of the anomaly varies. Typically, if the world outside of the organization hears about an anomaly, it was severe enough to cause a Loss of Mission (LOM) or Loss of Vehicle (LOV). Internally, when things behave anomalously, they're referred to as off-nominal, and are subject to internal investigations to determine the cause.

This is a _very_ off-nominal outcome and the investigation will absolutely involve outside organizations and halting the program during the investigation until the investigation completes with a sufficient determination of faults and accompanying remediation plans.
by imiric | 2025-06-19 08:46:36+00:00
> The benchmarks are make of questions that humans created and can answer, and are not composed of anything which a human hasn't been able to answer.

Sure, but they do it at superhuman speeds, and if they truly can reason and come up with novel solutions as some AI proponents claim, then they would be able to come up with better answers as well.

So, yes, they do have more capability in certain aspects than a human. If nothing else, they should be able to draw from their vast knowledgebase in ways that a single human never could. So we should expect to see groundbreaking work in all fields of science. Not just in pattern matching applications as we've seen in some cases already, but in tasks that require actual reasoning and intelligence, particularly programming.

> Also, they have no particular insight into their own codebases.

Why not? Aren't most programming languages in their training datasets, and isn't Python, the language most AI tools are written in, one of the easiest languages to generate? Furthermore, can't AI programmers feed its own codebase into the model via context, RAG, etc. in the same way that most other programmers do?

> I may have missed the marketing you have seen, but I don't see the big AI companies claiming that they are anything but tools that can help humans do things or replace certain human tasks. They do not advertise super human capability in intelligence tasks.

You are downplaying the claims being made by AI companies and its proponents.

According to Sam Altman just a few days ago[1]:

> We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence

> we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the output of people using them

> We already hear from scientists that they are two or three times more productive than they were before AI.

If a human assisted by AI can be more productive than a human alone, then why isn't this productivity boost producing improvements at a faster rate than what the tech industry has been able to deliver so far? Why aren't AI companies dogfooding their products and delivering actual value to humanity beyond benchmark results and shiny demos?

Again, none of this requires actual superhuman levels of intelligence or reaching the singularity. But just based on what they're telling us their products are capable of, the improvements to their own capabilities should be exponential by now.

[1]: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
by shakna | 2025-06-19 08:46:44+00:00
Human brain's aren't generalist!

We have multiple parts of the brain that interact in vastly different ways! Your cerebellum won't be running the role of the pons.

Most parts of the brain cannot take over for others. Self-healing is the exception, not the rule. Yes, we have a degree of neuroplasticity, but there are many limits.

(Sidenote: Driver's license here is 240 hours.)
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-19 08:47:59+00:00
The same can be said about just about any country.

Based on the way Americans vote, I don't think that hospitality is there for the majority of Americans. I know the way the American system of politics has shifted to a binary choice doesn't leave much room for nuance when it comes to specific policies, but when Americans were faced with a choice between a racist, misogynist, fraudulent, insurrectionist sex offender and anyone else, they showed their values.

Plus, the country's leader announced he was considering invading a close ally, that kind of threat cannot be ignored either, though it's only one of the more recent threats to world peace that only happens to hit close to home for me. I'm sure people in the Middle East and Central or South America will have heard this kind of talk before.

In the same vein, I hope people judge my country for the fact that right extremists that have held a significant amount of power for years now. There are hospitable, kind people in every street in every town, but I won't pretend the average person will be like that; voter demographics have definitely been a continuous source of disappointment for me. Perhaps that's one of the downsides of democracy: the people of a country show their true colours quite publicly, and can't hide behind "that's just what the regime thinks".

You're right about the beauty, though. America is a very pretty place.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-19 08:48:19+00:00
> F1 cars aren’t allowed to have active radios inside

This line didn’t make a lot of sense to me until I did a little bit more research. They absolutely do have active radios, but they’re incredibly limited/locked down. For example, voice communication is allowed, but all telemetry is one-way so that the pit crew can’t do any sort of remote tuning/tweaking/etc.
by NalNezumi | 2025-06-19 08:48:41+00:00
Hey that's me! I was even willing to do long distance relationship with my partner for it and almost landed a job offer.

I wouldn't say indefinitely but it did indeed put a dent after that 2 German tourists being detained for a week. I even got a US flight ticket (for tourism) as a gift from my mom since I had told her I want to visit SV but that one got on hold too.

I don't consider myself exceptionally competent or talented so I'm not sure you're missing out on much tho. At least big companies, probably not much. Top of the top talents are probably not deterred and big companies probably have framework to mitigate the turbulence
by BoxOfRain | 2025-06-19 08:50:44+00:00
>My building replaced all the outdoor lights with them, and now it's just too bright to sit on my stoop at night like used to be so common here in Brooklyn.

What I miss are the old low-pressure sodium street lights that used to be ubiquitous in the UK. Not everyone's cup of tea but they were highly efficient (outperforming LEDs for a surprisingly long time) and had this cool property of being so monochromatic they ate the colours out of everything. This made them useful for astronomers because their light was easily filtered, and reduced their impact on wildlife relative to harsh blueish LEDs. The main reason I like them is aesthetic though, they made night look like night rather than a poor approximation of day.

Thankfully my local area have given up trying to use the really harsh white they put in initially, and have at least starting putting in warmer LEDs.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-19 08:51:26+00:00
This is becoming a recurring issue; plenty of innovation being put in new and faster tooling to replace the JS-based daily drivers we've had for the past decade+, but there's a huge ecosystem of 3rd party addons to those now which is slowing adoption down; I'm also thinking of Prettier/ESLint vs Biome, the only thing stopping us from going full Biome is that we need some ESLint plugins.

That said, it's getting better; as another commenter pointed out, LSP is one of the best things to happen to this space. There should be a standard for editor plugins, too.
Show HN: Expose your local services to public users safely
by buhuipao | 2025-06-19 08:52:21+00:00
Hi, everyone!

I'd like to introduce you to a new proxy for securely exposing local ports or your entire private network to the public.

Here are some classic scenes: - Maybe you want to access your special system by SSH somewhere public - Maybe you want to access the self-hosted LLM on a local PC from a public host - Maybe you want to access the local media services in a public network - ...

Also, there is another usage for the proxy. You can start the `anyproxy-gateway` on an internal host with a public IP, and then deploy the `anyproxy-client` abroad, then your traffic can safely go out through the client abroad.
by floppyd | 2025-06-19 08:52:40+00:00
As someone who is starting very low — I very much agree. I'm basically a hobbyist who can navigate around Python code, and LLMs have been a godsend to me, they increased my hobby output tenfold. But as soon as I get into coding something I'm more familiar with, the LLMs usefulness plummets, because it's easier and faster to directly write code than to "translate" from English to code using an LLM (maybe only apart from using basically a smarter one-line tab completion)
by stdbrouw | 2025-06-19 08:53:11+00:00
This advice is insane. Except in specific settings (where a sensor may be misbehaving, where a survey respondent clearly just picked random choices) outliers are really just outlying values and should be kept in the analysis, or at most clipped / winsorized. When submitting to a scientific journal, admitting that outliers were removed without first inspecting why they are there can be enough for an instant rejection, and rightly so.
by ryao | 2025-06-19 08:55:21+00:00
The Latin alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet, which was based on the Greek alphabet, which was based on the Phoenician alphabet. In early Latin, C, G and K were all pronounced the same way. They later dropped G, only to bring it back when they realized that they used C to refer to two different consonants, and wanted to disambiguate them. They assigned the less common constant to G.

J was introduced because I had a similar problem, except I could be either a consonant or a vowel, rather than any of two consonants. The same applied to the introduction of U for V. Well, almost the same. In the case of I, they added J to be the consonant, while in the case of V, they added U to be the vowel.

Finally, people changed the pronunciation of V over time to be something new, and W was introduced to be the original sound in English. W does not exist in Latin since V fulfills its role, unless you are using a modern pronunciation that changes how V is pronounced and then you still do not need W. There were other sound changes (see Italian), but this is sufficient to explain all of the letters. Well, there is also Z, which they removed from early Latin and later reintroduced to represent a Greek sound.
by mrkramer | 2025-06-19 08:56:39+00:00
This is dystopia in the making, 1984 coming alive, first of all; why someone's social media activity would be the matter of the government? Everybody in the world has freedom of speech, it is a human right. US will no longer be free if it peruses politically motivated persecution and segregation. This is political hysteria akin to anti-communist and anti-Japanese hysteria during WW2 and after.

And secondly why would US government target only anti-semits, will they check for anti-white racism, African-American racism, anti native-American racism, homophobia etc. This is a mess of a policy. And Trump is openly homophobic and anti-LGBTQ+, what that should tell us?

Abraham Lincoln said: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
by osullip | 2025-06-19 08:57:19+00:00
Every website will suffer from this.

Fix is easy enough - check the http referer before showing a result. E.g in insites.io(or any liquid scripting site) you can check like this: {% assign is_internal_search = context.headers.HTTP_REFERER contains context.location.host %}

Just check the search is happening on a site or device you own. That attack vector is then gone (hackers cannot spoof the refer that google sends via ads.)
by strogonoff | 2025-06-19 08:57:20+00:00
Allegiance is not love. Allegiance is recognising yourself as part of some whole. It’s not impossible to feel that and also dislike or even hate the whole, though it probably would not come without psychological issues unless you channel that into political activity to effect what you think is a positive change to the whole. It’s complicated.

In terms of what dictates your action, true allegiance is more significant: it is possible to really love somebody and not do something for their sake, but if you really are a part of something then it’s not much of a choice.

Some people, culturally or temperamentally, have an allegiance to their family and do not care beyond that. Some feel allegiance to a community (whether defined religiously or geographically or elsewise). Some people feel allegiance to nothing. In the US specifically feeling belonging to one’s state I presume could be more powerful than belonging to the country. It is not always or not everywhere that people feel a strong allegiance to a country, even if they always lived in one and never thought of moving.

Among people who do feel country allegiance, I would imagine it is rare to feel belonging to two different countries with a similar force. Perhaps those people do exist (e.g., someone who mostly lived in country A but was born to immigrants from country B and also spent a lot of time in country B), and then it would be mighty unfair if they had to pick one, but people I know can usually classify one citizenship as “convenience” and another one as “true”.

Comprehensively assessing true allegiances (or lack thereof) of a prospective citizen is fraught, but as phrased the question does not actually require that. For 99.9% of people, “do you feel allegiance first to a foreign state?” is pretty unobtrusive and has a clear answer. The main caveat is, of course, that those for whom the answer is positive will almost certainly just lie.

In case using tangentially related quotes is considered smarter than original thought, I looked one up too and I raise you Orson Scott Card:

“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to and the ones she doesn’t belong to… a person who really believes she doesn’t belong to any community at all invariably kills herself, either by killing her body or by giving up her identity and going mad.”
by panick21_ | 2025-06-19 08:57:20+00:00
I don't necessary think its a problem with the engine as such. The problem seems much more to get the fuel to the right place in the right pressure at all parts of flight.

If an engine blows up, because its pulling in bubbles, its not the engines fault.

I think Raptor 2 has a few issues still but as we can see on the booster, the can perform fine for what most rocket engines have to do.
by julik | 2025-06-19 08:57:27+00:00
As a flicker-sensitive person: the sad part of it is that to do this properly you need to have your LEDs on a proper inverter, so for most scenarios getting rid of the flicker means "get expensive light fixtures _and_ rewire their supply _and_ you can't use your existing AC mains anymore, nor can you use switches". The PWM is a cheap way to do dimming given the AC input of the grid. And it will be especially prevalent when you do want LEDs but you don't want to "do anything special" to make them work well
Show HN: I built YT2Medium – turn YouTube transcripts into Medium articles
by Bytesaint | 2025-06-19 08:57:41+00:00
Hey HN,

my name is Ben, and I am an indie dev from Nigeria and I made YT2Medium – a simple tool that transforms YouTube video transcripts into readable Medium-style articles using AI.

It’s for creators, bloggers, or anyone who wants to repurpose video content quickly without writing from scratch.

Just launched it and figured I'd share here. Also open to selling it if someone wants to take it further.

Would love your thoughts!

— Ben
by gattodipiombo | 2025-06-19 08:57:44+00:00
Permissionless blockchains, the most common type of settlement infrastructure in crypto, attract increasing attention from the traditional financial sector. Adoption may offer cost and speed advantages vis-à-vis legacy solutions. There is, however, an oft-overlooked, tight link between volatile crypto prices and infrastructure availability and security. Most permissionless blockchains are operated by a decentralized set of independent validators, compensated in unbacked cryptoassets known as native tokens. Should such tokens incur a substantial and persistent loss in market value, validators might leave. Transaction settlement could slow down or halt entirely, and the infrastructure’s exposure to cyber attacks would increase.
by notarobot123 | 2025-06-19 08:57:49+00:00
At this point, why shouldn't the licences change?

Sharing the result of collaborative efforts liberally makes sense. Wanting to be able to modify software and redistribute modifications makes sense. Allowing software to evolve in a broader eco-system makes sense.

What isn't seeming to make sense is how OSS software is used commercially and the way that skews the culture and priorities of open source projects. What purpose does the lack of commercial restrictions serve?

No restrictions on commercial use at all seems naive (and perhaps plain ideological) at this point. I used to think that things were too embedded to change but it does feel like a major shift is fermenting and has been for a while.
by b112 | 2025-06-19 08:58:07+00:00
Not sure about parent poster, but to be fair NASA built on German WWII rocket/missile development, and Canadian know how after the collapse of Avro Canada.

How many billions was that?

This sort of "they're just building on" talk is weird to me, and not really relevant.

What SpaceX has accomplished is astonishing, and no belittling of their accomplishments should be tolerated.
by Bytesaint | 2025-06-19 08:59:05+00:00
Thanks for checking it out! I built this over the past few days and just launched it.

If you're into AI tools or content repurposing, I think there's a lot of potential here.

That said — I'm focused on other projects right now, so I'm open to selling YT2Medium. Happy to hand over everything (code, domain, brand, etc.) if someone wants to take it further.

Feel free to reply here or DM if you're interested!

my details are on the website.
Ask HN: Would you take a job where back end is only in PHP?
by nobitanobi | 2025-06-19 08:59:09+00:00
I am a java dev with 6 YOE working at Walmart. I got a job recently with really good hike but the work there will be writing micro services in PHP.

I don't have any PHP production experience. Does it make sense to take this job? Would having PHP on resume impact future opportunities? Will it affecting get job at FAANG or equivalent companies.

Any advice from senior devs is appreciated.