skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a biological reality.

The biological reality being that at birth babies are clearly reproductively male or reproductively female in roughly 98% of cases.

It's less clear for roughly 2% and indeterminate by any single means (chromosones, gametes, external organs) in small percentage ( 0.02% ) of cases.

Because of that biological reality various countries allow for people that were born neither [F] nor [M] to have a third option to avoid them having to lie on their passport.

The Australian passport requires factually accurate information and therefore allows [M], [F], and [X].

How do US border accept this under the current administration in light of the recent note by the current POTUS?

https://www.dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/corporate/pass...
> if I knew it could cure him

Would you do the same if the chance of curing or killing him is 50:50?

Or if it’s uncertain that it works at all?
Why hire these guys? They give up way too easy.
It's funny because many people type full sentence questions into search engines too. It's usually a sign of being older and/or not very experienced with computers. One thing about geeks like me is we will always figure out what the bare minimum is (at least for work, I hope everyone has at least a few things they enjoy and don't try to optimise).
> I will now spend some time looking up five articles of American citizens detained in some way in Europe and other parts of the world.

While you're at it, you should stick your fingers in your ears and shout LALALALALA.

I love my country, but it's a real shitburger right now. Just because we haven't fully closed our borders to all foreigners doesn't mean there isn't some insidious nastiness happening right now.
Heat pumps have COP of 4 when reaching temperatures needed for room heating. Hot water is way hotter than that. The more the difference between outside air and heated water, the less the COP becomes. I don't expect COP of 4 at 200 fahrenheit
Wow, killer of a first paragraph.

>Around 95 percent of this figure is attributable to 3,000 developers worldwide. In addition, open-source software is included in 96 percent of all codebases.

Not shocking to see the big guns coming hard at FOSS.
> Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

> She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

> “He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

> He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

0. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder...
>3. Germany will not be able to perform the EV or heatpump transition. It'll be quietly sabotaged by the government, because there's no way to provide enough generation.

Here are a couple of studies from 2012 and 2013, charting a way to 100% renewable energy for Germany by 2050: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/veroeffentlichungen/studien...

This is a study from 2024, showing 4 different scenarios to reach 100% renewable energy by 2045 (!): https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/veroeffentlichungen/studien...

There are dozens of similar studies from academics and think tanks across the political spectrum. Everyone who actually does more than "napkin math" and doesn't have a vested interest in fossil fuels making money comes to the same conclusion: 100% renewable energy is inherently possible for a country like Germany, especially embedded into a European grid.

Is it expensive? Yes. More expensive than using increasingly expensive fossil fuels (the infrastructure for which also has to be renewed periodically) and the consequences of climate change? No, if you believe any serious study on the subject.
That definitely happens here in Aus, but I'd still prefer that over a brand new phone left on the verandah.
Downvotes help clear out false but emotive posts.

The sort of "gangs of [minority] on murder spree in [town]" posts that get so much traction on Facebook.

Even if most people dismiss it out-of-hand, it's so inflammatory that the gullible are much more likely to interact and you get exponential spread.

Maybe HN is just better than that, but I see it as a major differentiator of Reddit vs Facebook.
So... an avatar.

Why must people churn out an endless parade of non-descriptive BS, when we already have the necessary words? Depressing.
Sometimes, these questions are best left unanswered, and the objects, divorced from their creator…

I recall at one of my schools there was much fanfare about several boxes of slides found during renovations in the early 90s, of life in and around the school during the 50s and 60s. Fantastic photographs, from what I recall.

Anyway. They did an exhibition, creator unknown… and one of the teachers from the era came by. He immediately knew whose photos they were - a master from the time who had been rumoured to have been having an affair with a boy, and ensuingly shot his wife and himself. Back then, as when I was there, masters quite commonly lived in cottages, if married, or apartments at the school, some of which had become classrooms by my day.

The identity of the photographer immediately clouded the lens through which his work has been seen, as people suddenly thought to ask questions like “yes, why was there someone with a camera when the boys were dressing for school?”
I bought a knife on Amazon. Every step of the process says “you must be over 18 and show ID to the delivery driver”. The ordering page, follow up email, tracking page, even the parcel had in huge letters “over 18 ID required”.

I found the parcel outside my front door like all the other parcels.

Ultimately if the drivers are strongly incentivised to be fast, and not strongly incentivised to follow process, they won’t follow process.
> Clojure seems to be a more widely used and active version

This is a pretty gross oversimplification and it's also a mischaracterization to say it's "a more widely used and active version". I wouldn't even put it in the same catagory as traditional lisps since those will compile down to executables and clojure run in the JVM
That's pretty interesting, on the face of it its not a bad idea at all to just merge v and w... simplify language without losing much resolution.

although f and v would make more sense in terms of the actual sounds made?
> For a clause like x_1 OR x_2 OR x_3, we think of it as “the only forbidden combination is x_1 = \text{FALSE},\; x_2 = \text{FALSE},\; x_3 = \text{FALSE}.” Our task is to construct a gadget that eliminates this one forbidden combination while allowing all others. Here’s how: if both x_1 and x_2 are false (represented as the edge being colored red-blue), the node labeled x_1 OR x_2 must be blue. Similarly, the node labeled x_1 OR x_2 OR x_3 must be blue. You can verify that any other combination is acceptable.

I didn't follow this. I also looked at the graph and found that the node labeled "x1 OR x2 OR x3" is in fact connected to a blue node, so it can't be blue?

I didn't manage to work out how the clause gadget is meant to work so I can't tell if the graph is wrong or the explanation.

> Our zero-knowledge proof was interactive—a back-and-forth conversation between the prover and the verifier.

I think possibly the section containing your zero knowledge proof got edited out by accident?
Goalpost moved error.

It's not the job of the indie web to repair the damage that bungling regulators and lawmakers cause with their laissez-faire attitude towards the megacorps. Cleanig up this deeply corrupt system cannot be done by the indie web, however much we wish it could.
It doesn't sound reasonable at all. It forbids referring to trans men as men and trans women as women. It's draconian and horrifying.
"a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics"

So... an avatar. Let's all agree not to use this stupid "VTuber" term.
The browser is a platform lockin. One with shitty search and spam on most pages and javascript.

Maybe we need a new type browser that doesn't try to be an app platform but rather tries to be a document browser.
Russian disinformation 'infects' AI chatbots, researchers warn
For many travellers it would be hard to find a flight plan without a stop in the US though.
SoftBank Buys Chip Designer Ampere in $6.5B Deal
"to a varying degree" does an incredible amount of work in that sentence
If sex on your passport doesn't match your sex at birth then according to Marco Rubio you may have your visa rejected.
Keep in mind he's also a guy who, contradicting all the available evidence, is saying incorrect things about the nature of adhd and dips heavily into moral issues when discussing medical problems. So any facilities related to his ideas are unlikely to provide actually care.
https://archive.is/e6p79
I'm not sure for which aspect you are looking for a source. Erin Reed raised the alarm about the potential visa interruptions, as reported here:

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marco-rubi...

If you're wondering why transgender travellers don't have documentation that matches their birth sex, it's because (gender identity aside) it's usually more important for documentation to match one's appearance. Documentation that doesn't match one's appearance can lead to questions, delays, and confusions. I have no source for this.

If you're wondering why it's a problem for the conference, I don't have a source for that either. But from the tech conferences I've been to, I generally have observed a higher proportion of apparently transgender people than baseline. So by hosting in the U.S., the conference could potentially miss out on many transgender foreigners participating.
As the current US administration is breaching the ietf's own code of conduct [1] this should be a no brainer.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/administration/policies-procedures/code...
I just did 10 straight years of this. No daylight is common if the facility is strapped for land to build outdoor areas, or is inside a city where looking in or out would be discouraged. The hand towels they give you for showering suck.

I tried suing over those, but even though there is a statute saying they must be bath towels, laws in the USA don't necessarily have to be followed. There are two types of laws, mandatory and directory. Directory laws are laws that are just "if you wanna" and don't carry any weight. A large majority of laws governing prisoner rights are these type of laws and there is no enforcement mechanism when they are broken. [ironically these laws specifically use the word "shall" in their wording, but in most jurisdictions "shall" is legally read as "may" in the USA]
> Would Nix work well with GitHub Actions?

You can use Nix with GitHub actions since there is a Nix GitHub action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/install-nix. Every time the action is triggered, Nix rebuilds everything, but thanks to its caching (need to be configured), it only rebuilds targets that has changed.

> How do you automate running tests and deploying to dev on every push

Nix is a build tool and it's main purpose is not to deploy artifacts. There are however a lot of tools to deploy artifacts built by Nix: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix?tab=readme-ov-f...

Note there are also several Nix CI that can do a better job than a raw GitHub actions, because they are designed for Nix (Hydra, Garnix, Hercules, ...).
Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool
Hi,

I'm a high school teacher from Australia and I've built what I'd like to think is a pretty nifty ChatGPT powered presentation tool for teachers.

I'd love it if you could have a look at it and give me some of your feedback.

I don't think there's much overlap with the HN crowd and school teachers, but I've been coming here for many years and thought I'd post here and see what you all think.

Check it out if you have a minute and I'd be super happy to hear your feedback too.

https://www.slidehero.ai/

You can jump in and have a play with the tool all you like ;)

Cheers,
Eli
Hungary probably due to Orban, while Slovakia has ultra-nationalistic party in coalition.

I would evade Germany, Austria and also Italy in general, due to common racism against slavic people.
This is drawing a line between "us" (tax paying citizens + the government) and "them" (people on benefits). I don't think it's that simple.

I imagine just like with existing benefits, the majority of people wouldn't feel great about being on UBI doing nothing, and they would pursue something that gives them a better social standing, a better sense of purpose, a good challenge, whatever motivates an individual. It's why lots of people do volunteer work, work on important open source software, and so on. Sure, there's outliers that actually proudly slack off, but you don't address specific problems with generic solutions.

But more importantly, having the _option_ to fall back on benefits means people need to take fewer risks to pursue their talents and likely be of more value to society than if they did whatever puts food on the table today. Case in point: People born into a family that can finance them through college are more likely to become engineers than people born into poor households. On the flip side, some people do white collar jobs vs something like being a medic to uphold their standard of living from the higher salary, not out of preference.

I think it would need careful management, but I believe there's every reason to be optimistic.
Yes, I think so. But there would also some partially built starships there that might be retrofitted or scrapped, as mentioned in the article.
Increasing water heater capacity might be cheaper than increasing battery capacity.
It depends on your citizenship. Some European countries reject 50% Indian Schengen visa applicantions.

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/these-3-countries-rejected-...
>But that's the risk you take when you fail to adequately fund your military and try to get by on the cheap. Most of them had the option of joining at Level 1 at the time, and had they done so they would have much more leverage today.

Weird logic. US is equally unrealiable no matter what level you bought yourself in to.
Climate Zone Populations
Obviously I'm super into giving the trump admin the benefit of the doubt. It's like, the number one thing that I like doing.
AllSides correctly lists The Guardian as 'Left'. By adding 'far' to your characterization I can only assume you wish to advertise your own biases and / or denigrate the publication. It is a reputable newspaper with a long history of journalism awards - an appropriate example being this: https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2023/jun/23/gua...
That sounds like a simpler life/role, not a pointless one.
I had a drug problem once, and di something like that. It helped a lot. If there's no way to procure any drugs, it takes away a lot of the pain and anguish you feel coming off of drugs.

RFK might be an idiot, but even idiots might be right once in a while
Yes. It's much much worse.
> Well you have no rights when you expose a server to the internet.

Technically you don’t, but there are still laws that affect what you can legally do when accessing the web. Beyond the copyright issues that have been outlined by people a lot more qualified than me, I think you could also make the point that AI crawlers actively cause direct and indirect financial harm.
Good thoughts :)

And yes, "that could never happen here" as one of the reasons why it could happen here is plausible. There's a complacency that means the grifters get away with more.

I'm aghast that the Germans are walking this road. Of all of us, they should understand this process better. Though, again, maybe there's that complacency that "it could not happen here again".
Yes it’s much worse. With Wikipedia we all see the same output and can review it together.
> You can configure it with a GUI, or in XML, or using a type safe Kotlin DSL.

This is making me realize I want a CI with as few features as possible. If I'm going to spend months of my life debugging this thing I want as few corners to check as I can manage.
How the hell does NOBODY understand that everything you enter into a textbox on the internet will get sent to a server where somebody(es) you certainly do not know or trust will get to read what you wrote?

How the fck do people (and ones working in security-sensitive positions no less) treat ChatGPT as 'Dear Diary'?

I have a rather draconian idea - websites and apps should be explicitly required to ask permission when they send your data somewhere to tell you where they send your data and who will get to see it, store it, and with what conditions.
No mention of "torture" in the article?
It's like old "science and life" journals. If you have that experience, then you'll be appreciating it. Love it
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This#Don.27t_use_t...
You mean the best. Hamas have an explicit policy of using human shields. It's damn impressive to get so low number of casualties in such an environment.
Good for you! If only things like this were taught in schools so that by the time people find Hacker News, they'd already know about them. We would be having entirely different conversations.
Or maybe people should mind their own business and don't harass others
Before downvoting, do look at many available yt videos about his views of mental health. He puts that into much nicer words, but the comment is a good summary.
"Flag?"
I don't know the answer to my question. I just observe that it's a factor that sets San Fransisco apart from a lot of other cities. In my opinion it's worth investigating at least.
Can't we just have reusable space ships with engines that burn some kind of fuel and we just replenish that fuel?

It seems a waste to use rockets and replace the whole rocket or most parts of it after each flight.
Problem being that electric water heating is a lot more expensive in e.g. Germany where gas prices are lower than electricity prices per kWh delivered. (~12 vs. 39 eurocent per kWh)

So blindly converting a gas water heater to electric will roughly quadruple your water heating cost.
There is really not much you could learn from this article. The only thing that comes to mind is "don't give up, if your second attempt on product hunt fails". But that's basically all. Otherwise it reads mostly like advertising.
Sure, pretty much any cloud provider has detailed info.

For example, Tencent: https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1396101

The are, basically, two kinds of licenses, for websites participating in commercial activity (ads, shops), called ICP证，and for smaller websites, not directly involved into commercial activity, ICP备案.
I don't understand why there's no startups making open source modular electronics.

A collection of maybe 50 well chosen modules could handle at least part of pretty much everything, while allowing for upgrades as tech improves.

A microwave and a dishwasher and a dryer could all use the same controller and the same display module. A desk lamp and a flashlight could use the same LED and driver.

The current modular systems are educational or hobbyist oriented, or they try to do stuff that crosses high bandwidth links and needs lots of pins, but there's not reason we can't have standard LED drivers and other simple stuff like that.

The whole range of modules would probably be pretty cheap, it's just a matter of convincing everyone to use them, which I guess is why nobody does it.
Hi Jeff, thanks for these and congrats on the launch. Your docs mention supporting accents. I cannot get accents to work at all with the demo.

For instance erasing the entire instruction and replacing it with ‘speak with a strong Boston accent using eg sounds like hahhvahhd’ has no audible effect on the output.

As I’m sure you know 4o at launch was quite capable in this regard, and able to speak in a number of dialects and idiolects, although every month or two seems to bring more nerfs sadly.

A) can you guys explain how to get a US regional accent out of the instructions? On what you meant by accent if not that?

B) since you’re here I’d like to make a pitch that setting 4o for refusal to speak with an AAVE accent probably felt like a good idea to well intentioned white people working in safety. (We are stopping racism! AAVE isn’t funny!) However, the upshot is that my black kid can’t talk to an ai that sounds like him. Well, it can talk like he does if he’s code switching to hang out with your safety folks, but it considers how he talks with his peers as too dangerous to replicate.

This is a pernicious second order race and culture impact that I think is not where the company should be.

I expect this won’t get changed - chat is quite adamant that talking like millions of Americans do would be ‘harmful’ - but it’s one of those moments where I feel the worst parts of the culture wars coming back around to create the harm it purports to care about.

Anyway the 4o voice to voice team clearly allows the non mini model to talk like a Bostonian which makes me feel happy and represented; can the mini api version do this?
Show HN: Create courses in minutes with AI authoring
Hi,

I am the founder of coursegenerator.pro - an AI authoring tool to create courses in minutes, not weeks.

What you'll get:
- AI content generation (PDF, video & webpage training)
- Course form opt-in
- Paywall integration
- LMS export
I recall reading that rice field flooding in those parts is also helping with recharging the aquifers somewhat, the depletion of which has been a major problem in the CA central valley. The rice fields hold the water for longer than if it just drained into the delta, giving some of it time to percolate down.
Strikes me as quite a positive thing that the romance was removed from this situation.
Visualizing Big Data
I prefer to live my life by what I see and hear around me and not anonymous posts on social media and, at the moment, this HN thread is nothing but a social media post as you would see on on Reddit.

It bears nothing of the reality I see and hear around me.
So you do make mistakes. And despite having the documentation open you don't always read all of it, correct? Or are you trying to say you always read all of the documentation?

You see where I'm going with this right? Either you never make mistakes and always read all the documentation (which is impossible), OR it's beneficial to avoid functions where mistakes and missed documentation are highly likely to result in misuse.

That's just basic logic. Hopefully there are no skill issues understanding that?
Old people get sad by what modern tech has to offer them. My elderly non-technical mother is forced into "digital transformation", this mindless 'tech-is-good' hype that is marketed as making our lives better, but which is really mostly about disruption and cost savings and not serving the actual needs people have. To my mother each website that she is forced to use to do her administrative tasks, is a completely different app with its different look & feel and terminologies used. And all of it is not increasing her quality of life.
The reason for submitting this article was to highlight the fact that big companies are able to buy themselves regulatory favors from this administration. This is very, very problematic for startups.
I'm not a moron. I don't blame Tesla car owners. I put the blame where it belongs: Elon Musk