MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-07-24 04:30:08+00:00
Please don't make me tap the "grade school biology is intentionally dumbed down because reality is complex" sign.

There are countless ways someone can have a Y chromosome and still be a woman.

There are countless ways someone can have no Y chromosome and still be a man.

Hell there are even a small population of people who are born visibly female with female genitalia (as every human starts female before they (optionally) sex differentiate in the womb (normally)) and they don't sex differentiate until puberty. [1] [2]

Biology is really really complicated and there is never any certainty other than the certainty that there is never certainty. "Gender" is a completely social construct and "Sex" is just a collection of heuristics we use to broadly group people into two common categories. But just like all heuristics, it's not perfect and it can't classify everyone properly. What sex chromosomes you have is one heuristic but it doesn't always work for any number of reasons. Whether the SRY gene activates during gestation is another heuristic and even it isn't perfect. What organs you have also can work but it falls apart in a bunch of edge cases. What hormones your body produces is another one that can generally work as a heuristic but like all the others it breaks down in numerous cases.

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Intersex people exist and make up about 1.5-2% of the population.

Trans people exist and make up about 1.5-2% of the population.

It is not an insane idea to recognise that both populations exist and that any single heuristic for differentiating someone into a black and white male/female category is insufficient for the endless complexity that is life.

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So to answer your question yes. Someone with XY chromosomes can be a woman either by their gender or by their sex or both.

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1. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%CE%B1-Reductase_2_deficiency
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-24 04:31:13+00:00
You must not mean C++ when you write about having to write everything in terms of classes. Java, yes, with the requirement that the nearest thing to a free standing function is a static method in a class (which becomes in effect a regular old module). But C++? You could, and many did, pretend it was fancy C and only deal with classes when it came to using things like collections and streams (because they were useful).
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-24 04:32:09+00:00
I like the company looking at a genetically engineered solution, and waste organic matter conversion.

It is cleaner from a sulfur content and long-term carbon cycle perspective, but is very similar to regular fuels.

The dilemma is whether B100 it more difficult to scale than trying to retool our entire global energy infrastructure with finite rare earth metals. =3
by mNovak | 2025-07-24 04:32:54+00:00
It's strange to note that a Dirty Martini, probably one of the most popular cocktails in the world, isn't on the IBA list. Likewise I've found many cocktail books also won't deign to list it as a 'real' cocktail. But I'd argue the heritage is the same as a great many now classic prohibition drinks -- adding ingredients to distract from low quality liquors.

I think that's a disservice, and it's worth standardizing; just like many of these, it can be surprisingly hard to get just right.
by DangitBobby | 2025-07-24 04:35:01+00:00
You could possibly have come to an arrangement about getting a 50 Amp (think dryer plug) hookup in the garage and provided your own charger. Also depending on your driving patterns a trickle charger in a 20 Amp socket may have worked for you as well. Mine takes about 48 hours for a full charge on the trickle charger.
by ddispaltro | 2025-07-24 04:36:52+00:00
My understanding is a model X is 20% heavier than a similar size mid-range suv like a telluride, which I would consider the same size SUV.

The Model X's curb weight ranges from 5,148 lbs to 5,531 lbs, while the Telluride's curb weight falls between 4,112 lbs and 4,482 lbs.
by spauldo | 2025-07-24 04:37:53+00:00
Did they fear a national army? Legitimately curious here. They certainly couldn't afford one, but military-lead coups weren't the problem then that they are today (or were during the Roman empire).

Sure, they chose to put a civilian in charge of the military, but I was always under the impression this was to keep the military from interfering with the normal process of government.
by hansmayer | 2025-07-24 04:38:25+00:00
Insulting, really? I merely made a statement about the nature of their work. That's not an insult. Please re-read and understand, before conflating. Also you fully misunderstood my comments about the LLMs. If I had disdain I would not have dished out thousands of USD for my team to use them. I am merely saying that they are not what the hype-makers would have you believe. Now show me that one killer app that someone successfully vibe-coded? All we see is theoretical bullshit, benchmarks etc. But no real-world a-ha moment.
by pengaru | 2025-07-24 04:38:36+00:00
> Low friction tires wear slower, not faster, on account of being ... Low friction. Friction is what wears tires.

They're not low friction tires, they're low rolling resistance tires.

Friction relates to the grip, rolling resistance relates to the heat generated by the deformation of the tire. A less compliant, often narrower tire may wear faster than a more compliant wider one.

It depends.

"Tyres account for about a fifth of the energy required to power a car. They provide friction, so that the vehicle can grip the road, but some of the power supplied to the tyres is then lost as heat. Indeed, Michelin, a French tyremaker, estimates that this “rolling resistance” accounts for 4% of the world's carbon-dioxide emissions. Tyre designers have therefore sought to improve fuel economy by reducing rolling resistance. However, this not only reduces a tyre's ability to grip, making drivers take corners sideways, it also wears out the tyres more rapidly."

from: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2009/12/02/ro...

without login: https://archive.is/TiIUk
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-24 04:40:11+00:00
> We're using our own non-standard and possibly ill-advised TLD, which is .tpl — short for The Promised LAN.

Not ill advised at all. The internet was never meant to be centralized; more should be done to resist the ICANN hegemony. The replacement for manually swapping host file entries ought to have been something that placed control over identity in the hands of the individual instead of selling it.
by Swizec | 2025-07-24 04:40:25+00:00
> My model Y can effect a very reasonable stop in traffic without touching the brake pedal except to hold the car at the end.

My manual car could do this 20 years ago. My fully ICE motorcycle can do it today.

I know engine braking is cool but it’s not some amazing new thing only EVs can do. Altho granted it only produces heat and noise in petrol vehicles. But it also makes your heart sing so that’s nice
by snikolaev | 2025-07-24 04:40:47+00:00
Complex boolean queries work great. Manticore also supports over 20 full-text operators — a lot more than Elasticsearch. That's one reason it's popular in areas like patent and legal search, where strong full-text matching is especially important.

Custom script scoring is available - https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Extensions/UDFs_and_Plugi...

Vectors - yes. Recent blog post on it https://manticoresearch.com/blog/quantization/

Pipelined aggregations - no.

Nested documents - no, but Manticore supports INNER JOIN and LEFT JOIN.
by echelon | 2025-07-24 04:40:55+00:00
American consumers want expensive and big cars, not cheap and tiny cars.

BYD margins in America would be razor thin.

BYD is going to kill in developing and emerging markets, but it doesn't stand a chance in the American SUV / truck / sports car market. It'll also push America out of international markets, but it won't be able to edge into American consumer markets.

It's not big auto that's the problem. It's the American consumer.

US automotive regulations have pushed for lighter, smaller, more fuel efficient coupes. Yet people keep buying the big and heavy trucks and SUVs.

It's cultural.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-24 04:41:25+00:00
Switch tire brand and type or get some advice. Whatever you are currently getting isn't the right tire for your car, obviously. You should be seeing much longer lives for your tires. Even with an EV. So, something is off.

And tires of course aren't created equally. There are many different types of tires and they are optimized for different circumstances. If you mismatch your tires to e.g. weather conditions, you are going to have issues. Not just with EVs, but with any car.
by sockaddr | 2025-07-24 04:41:44+00:00
I'm sorry but I've got two EVs and I'm not seeing anything like what you're reporting. On my first set of tires for a model S I got 60k miles which is longer than I usually like to run tires but they were still in good shape. My driving pattern is about 80% grandpa-mode and 20% speeding to loud music.

I assure you. If your EV tires are only lasting 10K miles you have one of the following cases:

- You are driving VERY aggressively

- Your car has an alignment issue or some sort of torque vectoring problem

- Your tires are absolute shit
by intermerda | 2025-07-24 04:42:40+00:00
Not just LLMs, but a lot of our institutions and information gateways seems to have a strong libleft bias. Universities and colleges are notoriously biased. Search engines are biased. Libraries are biased. Fact finding sites such as snopes are completely liberal. Wikipedia is extremely biased. Majority of books are biased.

The entire news and television ecosystem is biased. Although Trump is "correcting" them towards being unbiased by suing them personally as well as unleashing the power of the federal government. Same goes for social media.
by AnimeLife | 2025-07-24 04:43:05+00:00
In a sense this is similar to what Amazon has been doing in few countries. Find top selling products, get them cheaper from somewhere, rebrand them, rank them higher and sell them. They don't need to invest in market research like their competetors, they get all data from Amazon.com

At big tech scale, this is clearly anti-compete and piracy IMHO.
by skydhash | 2025-07-24 04:43:35+00:00
That's more of a reflection of the environment than the scripting language. On a mostly bare linux (debian netinstall or alpine), you are left with loads of text to parse. But as soon as that script becomes unwieldy, then the next option is write an actual program. Windows can afford to do that, because there's only few version out there. But there are lots of different Linux installations. And even the kernel is not guaranteed to be vanilla. So you're either write a script like this, or you go find programs that can help you out.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-24 04:44:12+00:00
They don't split the numbers among models - so it's stuck with the 'Other models' production. It is scaling back significantly - it was 24k cars produced in Q2 2024, down to 13k this Q.

Deliveries where ~3k lower than production each quarter, so there are 15k of them stuck somewhere. Given the pace of depreciation, they may even soon be available at the price Elon initially announced !
by csomar | 2025-07-24 04:44:21+00:00
China is making moves on the international stage that I think are unrelated to its internal economy.

They seem to be moving forward with this: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/china-says-it-will-remo...

A bit early to see if there are any fine prints but this seems like them trying to re-route the global economy. African countries are insignificant when taken separately but on the aggregate they make a sizable chunk with potential for some growth.
by echelon | 2025-07-24 04:44:52+00:00
Look at what consumers buy. You can't dispute the actual sales data.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g64457986/bestselling-cars...

It's trucks and SUVs.

It doesn't matter if regulations favor small and fuel efficient. That's not what consumers buy. In fact, they flock to the exact opposite.

Occam's razor here is that American auto isn't stupid. It's just building what the consumers want.

American preferences don't match that of the broader world.
by fortyseven | 2025-07-24 04:45:01+00:00
Whatever issues you have today, whether it's the quality of code, or recognizable "AI slop" output, frequent errors, or what have you... it isn't going to matter 6 months from now, a year from now, 5 years from now... You can stick your head in the sand about it, but this is just going to get better, and better. There's no going back on this; there's just too much benefit tied up in it. Nah, we are going to mine this fucker until we hit a brick wall. We need to figure out how to coexist, regardless of our personal perspectives. :|
by lisbbb | 2025-07-24 04:45:30+00:00
Legalizing drugs had a pretty bad outcome for Portland, which is why they re-criminalized some drugs.

Prostitution leads to trafficking, a word I absolutely despise, particularly when it is used as a past-tense verb: "trafficked." Ugh! What poorly educated government hacks do to our language should be criminal! Regardless, human trafficking is terrible and if that part could be fixed, then maybe prostitution wouldn't be so horrible, but it is because it is pretty much never a voluntary situation for the women, but always some kind of coercion.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-24 04:48:17+00:00
Not quite as long as you, but I don't think it's relevant to the point at hand. I entirely agree with what you wrote, and yet I think it's entirely in keeping with what I said. It's the things that actually happened that were the boondoggle, not the paradigm itself.

Similarly I'd like to suggest that there exist situations where waterfall is the obviously correct choice. Yet even then someone could still potentially manage to screw it up.
by jjayj | 2025-07-24 04:48:25+00:00
There's no garage, and the only driveway-facing outlet is at the front door - opposite where my parking spot is allocated (an extension cord would have to go under/through the landlord's cars.) I have to drive 60km to work every day.

Only laws (accommodate EVs and/or WFH) or spending time sitting at a gas station will help me here. No landlord is interested in accommodating an EV unless it's a net benefit to them (and thus a net negative to me, who already spends 40% income just to have a place to work.)
by neltnerb | 2025-07-24 04:49:03+00:00
I read it as similar to the US espousing how its researchers developed something.

Not really a big deal, though I'd have... you know... linked to the actual paper or maybe mentioned the professor's name more prominently.

I think most stuff I read emphasizes institute and researchers more heavily, but I can see why anyone doing public research might want to expand the scope of credit.
by chrini3930 | 2025-07-24 04:49:19+00:00
> Tesla?

Next time you’re in Asia (hell, anywhere outside USA) sit inside a BYD vehicle.

Tesla-like acceleration with Porsche handling with Italian interior with Toyota reliability for HALF the god damn price of Tesla.

US government does not want Americans to know China already won at EVs. It will hurt national pride.

Just like how the space station is going down in 2030 with no plans to replace. Meanwhile China already has their own manned space station live today. Would not be surprised if NASA is abolished in the next few years.
by snikolaev | 2025-07-24 04:49:20+00:00
If your setup works fine and doesn't need any maintenance, there's really no reason to switch to something else. But once you upgrade to a newer version of Sphinx and it crashes, I personally feel more comfortable knowing I can report the issue on GitHub and expect it to be fixed eventually. Unfortunately, that's not how it works with Sphinx.

Speaking of features, both Sphinx (as a closed-source project) and Manticore (as an open-source project) have added some nice improvements during last years. But again, if you're happy with the 20-year-old version, there's probably nothing to worry about.
by bruckie | 2025-07-24 04:49:25+00:00
I'll second this. We got a Chevy Bolt a couple of years ago, and I assumed we'd need to install a 240 V EVSE, but it turns out that regular 120 V 12 A charging is totally fine for us. I think there's been one time in the 2.5 years we've had it when we had to go to a nearby fast charger because the battery was getting low.

Of course if you're commuting 2 hours every day, things will be different. But for us, it's been great.
by fitsumbelay | 2025-07-24 04:49:45+00:00
this guy's work is pretty amazing I whole heartedly believe that I'll own a gang of (armed) quadrapets for home/property/personal protection within the next 10 years. I'm equally worried that once these become commodities they might be worse than an electric scooters have become to us bipeds on sidewalks but on balance I can't wait
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-24 04:50:17+00:00
While I think there is some merit to what you're saying, you're forgetting two major diferences between driving am ICE car and an EV charged on fossil fuel electricity.

First, EV engines are far, far more energy efficient than ICEs. Secondly, fossil fuel power plants are far more efficient at converting fossil fuels to energy than ICEs are (since the energy efficiency of a thermal engine is proportional to its volume).

The result is that the EV car mileage you'll get by burning 1t of oil in an oil power plant is much, much higher than the mileage you'll get from that same 1t of oil in ICE cars. I'm not 100% sure if this holds true for coal based power plants, but those should be getting relatively rarer.

Not to mention, fossil fuel power plants can have much better filters and some CO2/CH4 capture technologies, so the mileage you get per ton of greenhouse gas emissions is even better than the energy per ton of fossil fuels.
by slt2021 | 2025-07-24 04:50:25+00:00
remember, your regenerative braking comes at cost of tire life.

If driving Tesla, you can reduce the regenerative breaking from Maximum setting to Medium.

this will reduce regeneration and will increase the "breaking distance" when you just let go of accelerator pedal.

but it will increase your tire life significantly.

also make sure to buy the "commuter tire" models - tires with high mileage warranty (50k miles+) and harder compound. Even if it wears out faster, tire manufacturer's warranty will make up for it by giving you discount for the replacement tire purchase
by Kirby64 | 2025-07-24 04:52:52+00:00
The biggest problem for new EV drivers, in my view, is that EVs generally have extremely good traction control systems that prevent chirping due to the ability to cut back power to the motors much more quickly than you can with a gas engine.

What this means is that you can push tires to the absolute limit and not chirp them (which, is best for traction anyways) which absolutely roasts them. Most people associate chirp = too fast, but with EVs you can never hear a chirp even when you stomp on the accelerator so they might think everything is ok.

Nobody should be shredding a set of tires in 10k miles in any EV unless they’re super low tread wear (poor tire choice, hard to do that bad), there’s an issue with the car suspension, or they’re just being idiots.
by skydhash | 2025-07-24 04:54:16+00:00
Lots of people just went the traditional way of learning things from first principles. So you don't suddenly learn docker, you learn how visualization works. And it's easy because you already know computer hardware works and it's relation to the OS. And that network course has been done already since years so you have no issue talking about bridges and routing. It's an incremental way of learning and before realizing it, you're studying distributed algorithms.
by Helmut10001 | 2025-07-24 04:54:34+00:00
I first changed the brakes on my Mitsubishi Space Star (combustion) after 13 years. It is a small car, less than 1000kg, so there is little for the brakes to do. If we produced more percentage of small cars, many environmental risks would be reduced. And btw.: The tires are now 19 years old and still good (less weight, less abrasion!).
by adrian_b | 2025-07-24 04:54:39+00:00
It should be noted that this is a technology for producing a semiconductor material with very high performance, but also with very high cost, a cost that is impossible to reduce, because both indium and selenium are among the least abundant elements on Earth (both having an abundance similar to silver, but being much more difficult to mine than silver, because they are very dispersed).

This material will never replace cheap materials, like silicon or silicon carbide, or even gallium nitride, in the bulk of semiconductor devices, e.g. in CPUs and memories, or in power semiconductor devices.

It will be reserved for a few high-speed devices, in special instruments that need high-speed signal processing or in radars or communication devices used in high-frequency bands (obviously these include military applications).
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-24 04:57:07+00:00
Sure, if your working set always fits in RAM, you won't have problems. You wouldn't have problems with swap enabled, either.

It's only when you're consistently at the limit of how much RAM you have available that the differences start to matter. If you want to run a ~30GB +- 10% workload on a system with 32GB of RAM, then you'll get to find out how stable it is with VS without swap.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-24 04:57:46+00:00
It is like outsourcing, but even better, for business.

Similar quality, which most business have already proven they don't actually care, as long as it is cheaper than in-house.

With AI the numbers look great on the spreadsheet, now there aren't neither in-house humans, nor contractors/consultancies to worry about, only little digital gremlins like in any automated factory line.
by anonyonoor | 2025-07-24 04:58:40+00:00
I've seen several European initiatives similar to this before, and the same question is always asked: what does this actually do?

People (at least on HN) seem to be in agreement the Europe is too regulatory and bureaucratic, so it feels fair to question the practicality of any American initiatives, as we do for European ones.

What does this document practically enact today? Is there any actual money allocated? Deregulation seems to be a theme, so are there any examples of regulations which have been cleansed already? How about planning? This document is full of directives and the names of federal agencies which plan to direct, so what are the actual results of said plans that we can see today and in the coming years?
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-24 04:59:10+00:00
But they used material from a play published 2 years earlier?

> the plaintiffs discredit this denial because of the negotiations between the parties for the purchase of rights in the play, and because the similarities between the two are too specific and detailed to have resulted from chance.

For a movie an analogous scenario to publishing an archive with infringing material might be unknowingly capturing a copyrighted piece of art in the background of one of your shots and then being sued for it. Except in that case you're profiting from the movie (at least presumably). To make it analogous to publishing archives it would have to be something that isn't profitable, perhaps uploading an amateur short to youtube.

Actually this provides a perfect example. If you shoot enough documentary footage in the city you are almost guaranteed to inadvertently catch something that's copyrighted at some point. Unfortunately the scenario breaks down because unlike the internet you can't easily retroactively edit all distributed copies of your video. Unless perhaps it's only available via streaming services? But then we're back to profiting again.