MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-05-09 17:42:52+00:00
> Tangent: Protestantism is not a religion. The religion is called Christianity. I have seen this trend for quite a while of Protestants (or people born in Protestant countries) of referring to Christianity branches as religions.

Deciding what is a “branch” of a religion versus whats is an independent “religion” is more subjective than objective. This might become clearer if we move away from Christianity for a moment, and look at the same question for some non-Christian religions

Consider the southern Indian religious movement of Ayyavazhi - most people, both in India and outside it, consider it a branch/denomination/sect of Hinduism, including even many followers of Ayyavazhi - but some of its followers and leaders insist it is a separate Dharmic religion [0]. The question is (in part) political - Dravidian nationalists and Tamil nationalists are more likely to call it a separate religion, Indian nationalists (Congress) and Hindu nationalists (BJP) want to view it as part of Hinduism

Meanwhile, most people consider Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism to be separate religions from Hinduism - but the British courts in India decided they were branches of Hinduism, a classification still followed by the Indian legal system to this day. Many Hindu nationalists promote the idea that these traditions are branches of Hinduism, even though most of the Indian followers of those religions reject the idea.

It is standard to classify the Alevis in Turkey as an Islamic sect - yet the Turkish government wants to insist on the idea they aren’t even a sect, just a “cultural movement”, to promote the fiction of a homogeneous Turkish Islam - but while some Alevis are fighting for government recognition as a separate sect of Islam, there is a movement among Alevis (Ishikism) which claims it is a separate pre-Islamic religion, and its Islamic content is just a superficial distraction (dissimulation) to prevent persecution. Meanwhile, many hardline Sunnis around the world agree that Alevis are a non-Islamic religion - and some of the most hardline Sunnis will even say that of mainstream Twelver Shi’a.

So, the boundary between “branch of a religion” and “separate independent religion” is more subjective (theological and political) than objective.

[0] https://m.economictimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/tamil-n...
by aaravchen | 2025-05-09 17:43:39+00:00
You have to download everything in your Drive to your local system first, then unzip it all, but then you can upload the entire folder to CryptPad.

Google isn't going to make it easy for a competitor to transfer content, and I'd rather the CryptPad devs work on the product and not a feature users will each only use once at most.

The only annoyance I had was "converting" the uploaded files to the "native" CryptPad format. It doesn't actually have a different native type, it just seems to be a registering with the CryptPad internals which of its predefined types the file is (E.g. Document, Presentation, etc). And you don't have to do it for the file to open and edit just fine. But you have to open each file "as <Type>" from the right click menu, then save it back out and delete the "original" to convert it.
by igouy | 2025-05-09 17:43:48+00:00
For example

• … manages the retirement savings of 5.5 million users • … for a value of 23 billion Euros • … with a team of 30 developers over 7 years

https://erwan.lemonnier.se/talks/pluto.html

https://janvitek.org/talks/dls09.pdf
by schmichael | 2025-05-09 17:43:56+00:00
A great point! All of the libraries I mentioned are created and maintained by corporations. Hobbyists, as always, are free to do as they please without judgement from me. :)

I will say I get great satisfaction from the little envparse library I wrote needing near-0 maintenance. It’s a rare treat to be able to consider any project truly done.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-09 17:44:01+00:00
People who advocate for right to repair (which I'm in favor of by the way) sometimes ignore the economic realities.

For example, my dad was an electrical engineer who could fix any radio or TV. Reality: radios & TVs were relatively expensive AND the circuits within them were relatively large (observable with the naked eye or at least a magnifying glass). Today "repair" means at most replacing a capacitor although it's often cheaper & more efficient to just swap out a board. That of course assumes the board is still being manufactured and there are costs for companies to continue doing that, especially how fast technology moves forward.

Of course there are reasonable rights to repair we should have like being able to replace the software with software of our choosing, being able to modify parts within things we own, etc. But it won't be like it was prior to the 2000s where you could actually meaningfully enact repairs on electronic components by swapping out small easily available generic parts.

There are also secondary considerations like security that we haven't figured out technical answers to for right to repair (i.e. right to repair today also often means right to inject security vulnerabilities).
by _aavaa_ | 2025-05-09 17:44:45+00:00
The macOS App Store is still around despite having competition, so I see that as a point against the iOS one going away if there is competition.

But even if it does, the profitability of Apple's business is Apple's problem. If their iOS store is only profitable through anti consumer (I can't install my own software on my own device) and anti competitive measures (you must give apple a 30% cut off all sales and they have veto power over your app at any point) then perhaps it shouldn't exist in it's current form.
by dan-robertson | 2025-05-09 17:45:34+00:00
Plenty of people who don’t work for Amazon already buy stuff from there. I guess I mostly see the jobs as exchanging labour for something that society values and so by automating, there is more labour available to do things society values and so society gets more of what it values. And if you think working for Amazon is bad for people then you should be happy if automation is decreasing the number of people suffering that bad thing (though automation won’t always decrease this, eg see rise in number of bank tellers/branches in the US). But that isn’t really the way that lots of people talk about jobs and so if what you want is for people to have somewhere local where they can exchange their time for money to spend on goods and services then I guess automation and efficiency don’t really matter because the point of the job is to ensure the worker has money coming in rather than to ensure that something useful comes out of it. That latter point of view is pretty popular and I think I’m describing it pretty terribly – I’m sure there is a much more reasonable argument for it.
by calepayson | 2025-05-09 17:46:08+00:00
My time in rescue gave me a ton a faith in good samaritans. To try to do something in an emergency is productive 99% of the time (imo).

The only case I've experienced where it wasn’t was when someone in our area was actively listening in in emergency channels and trying to preempt ambulances. The issue was that they had training in the basics but often went past that in care they provided. Something that I believe is not covered by Good Samaritan laws.

I’m much more worried about folks like that than people who find themselves in an emergency and are trying to help.
by zahlman | 2025-05-09 17:46:21+00:00
I only see two short gaps between paragraphs labelled "advertisement". I don't use an explicit ad blocker - just NoScript.

I have a personal policy of blocking JavaScript content by default, and only enabling it when I judge that it would have a clear, legitimate purpose (i.e., not "make the article content visible" or "display an image inline with text" etc.). I can't really imagine using the modern Web any other way.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-09 17:46:43+00:00
The relationship between time and distance is presumed to be a system constant, which we named c.

So, a galaxy-sized lifeform would take a very long time to experience stuff. It takes a tiny but measurable amount of time to go from your brain choosing "Press button" to your muscles all that distance away firing to cause the button press, and then for the button press to have effect - at galaxy scale these periods would be much larger than all of human recorded history.
by dredmorbius | 2025-05-09 17:46:46+00:00
For another Chicago example, there's the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, a/k/a TARP (not to be confused with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis project with the same initialism).

The Chicago TARP was commissioned in the 1970s and won't be completed until 2029. It's cost > $3 billion to date.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan>
by snickerbockers | 2025-05-09 17:48:58+00:00
>In the end Christianity is just a branch of Judaism ;)

hoo boy, be careful who you say that around, some of the jewish denominations have some very strong opinions about Christians calling themselves jews lmao.

anyways, I think beyond there being a major disagreement on whether there's any legitimacy to jesus being worshipped as a messiah or the new testament as a whole, the primary reason why they're considered separate religions is that judaism is ultimately centered around the fathers of the jewish/Israelite ethnic identity making a sacred covenant with God that cements them as his chosen people, whereas christianity's basis lies in Jesus' sacrifice forging a new covenant between God and all peoples (jewish and gentile alike). The reason why there's so much undying support for israel among modern evangelicals is that they believe judaism is still a legitimate religion because in their view there's no reason why the old covenant shouldn't still be valid for Jewish people who never partook in the new covenant.
by turtlebits | 2025-05-09 17:49:47+00:00
Too many devs rely on a single tool to try to do everything, at the cost of complexity. The amount of knowledge you need to use any Javascript framework is IMO, insane, let alone try to keep up with the latest and greatest.

The enshittification of the web partly is shipping giant JS bundles for no reason. (Developer needs > Consumer)
by calmbonsai | 2025-05-09 17:50:50+00:00
Preach! It even touched high-schoolers.

I got a high school internship on an NSF grant to study ground penetrating radar for landmine detection. It was my first exposure to Maxwell's equations, Unix, networking, and most importantly how real research gets done.

I took away lifelong management and research mores, a love of Unix, and ended up getting my degree in EE.

These cuts will have huge follow-on costs that we can't later simply re-budget to recover.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-05-09 17:51:01+00:00
> won't be the last time we hear about quantum research that has been foundational to a lot of work

This research wasn't foundational to a lot of work. Most of important/foundational works in quantum (doesn't matter if computing or general, I'm not sure which one you meant) are verified. How can you possibly base your experimental work on someone else's work if you can't replicate it?
by haberman | 2025-05-09 17:51:56+00:00
I was speaking in the context of my original post, which was specifically talking about traffic lights at intersections and what combination of lights are allowed to be green at the same time.

I think it would be fairly straightforward to enumerate, given a set of lights at an intersection, which combination of lights can be green without allowing cars to cross paths. In other words, we're ruling out combinations that are fundamentally unacceptable and would never be seen in the real world (like "all lights are green at the same time").

That gives the AI a set of acceptable combinations that can be considered. Essentially the AI is choosing an integer in the range 1-max for each intersection at each point in time.

This doesn't eliminate the possibility of car crashes if someone runs a red light. But it lets us constrain the optimization problem to the set of green light configurations that are actually feasible to deploy.
by lotharcable | 2025-05-09 17:52:05+00:00
If you are going to do weird shoot-self-foot things with writing custom EBF scripts to do ill advised network traffic manipulations things then it is probably a good idea to pay attention to RFCs.

I mean I have a small book of notes I built up based on various network RFCs and I am don't even have a CCENT and CCNA certifications.

This sort of thing isn't unreasonable.

Of course this isn't a dunk on the author of the article (except the part about doing weird DNS games, which sounds like a nightmare for whoever needs to figure out what he did months or years from now). Everybody has run into situations were they think they know how something works and it turns out they are wrong and get a nasty surprise from it.
by ativzzz | 2025-05-09 17:52:08+00:00
Talking about rails, which is what the vast majority of ruby is used for:

- the dynamic piece is exactly what allows you to ship quickly

- most slowness is due to waiting for IO (database or external API calls) and can be easily solved by handling expensive work in the background

- concurrency is solved by having more web workers, and web workers are cheap (database is the bottleneck anyway)
by cyberax | 2025-05-09 17:53:20+00:00
Neutron loading is not the limiting factor (for now), it's the magnetic field pressure and its homogeneity. That's actually what is driving the humongous size of the ITER.

To solve the homogeneity problem, you need the central column to be as thin as possible. That's where a lot of the recent advancements can help.

Also, fission research and fusion are actually aligned in designing materials that can tolerate more displacements per atom.

> And in no future world is the power density of DEMO going to be anywhere close to that of a fission reactor.

That's for sure. Modern fission reactors are close to magic, with the amount of heat they produce for a given volume.
by gadders | 2025-05-09 17:53:36+00:00
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/leaked-interv...

KAISER: Okay, so since you brought it up, kind of skipping around here, but so as you know, as you may not have seen the story. But we had heard it too, that there's going to be a policy canceling collaborations, foreign collaborations.

BHATTACHARYA: No, that's false.

KAISER: Is there going to be some sort of policy that...

BHATTACHARYA: There was a policy, there's going to be policy on tracking subawards.

KAISER: What does it mean?

BHATTACHARYA: I mean, if you're going to give a subaward, we should be able—the NIH and the government should be able see where the money's going.
by ClaireGz | 2025-05-09 17:54:29+00:00
We say "data vibing" so it feels unique to the data community! But in all seriousness, this is already an issue, people are already asking ChatGPT (or Cursor/whatever else) to generate SQL for them, but the next steps do not exist, if you "vibe code" for data you want to have the easiest feedback loop you can get to check if the output is good, and that's what we are working on: identifying the downstream impacts in the IDE and proposing fixes, a table diff view, new UI/UX to test your outputs.

The goal for us is to be the best way to do data with AI.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-09 17:54:59+00:00
Just my two cents on this topic.

What we are looking for, are easier migrations in cloud I suppose and multi cloud strategy.

I am pretty sure that 37Signals had gotten their servers set up in a lot of countries for easier latency but a lot of companies can't.

We are then forced to use S3 or the likes and honestly I am starting to wonder about S3....

Like I was watching theo's video on everything being a wrapper and he mentioned that in some sense he basically created uploadthing because s3 was cheaper but had higher egress and cloudflare r2 was more expensive but had no egress and so he wanted a way to optimize it... thus uploadthing.

But this whole idea seems so bizarringly stupid to me, I had seen a website which compared such providers pricing and to be quite frank, cloudflare was in the lowest maybe only more expensive than backblaze or wasabi but both of these had a sort of fair use limit which might be vague...

In the meanwhile, I have found another website giving some decent comparisons and though I don't like its UI as much as the other website which had some really cool graphs.., its also well built and professional https://www.s3compare.io/

and I have to say, somebody might see the amazon 4$ per Tb compared to cloudflare 15$ per tb and could've said wow maybe theo was right... untill they saw the 90.00 USD/tb...

I mean, I get that but if that has to be an archive / very rarely accessed, then why not just use wasabi or backblaze (I was going to prefer backblaze untill I saw the 10$ per tb egress for backblaze and 0 $ for wasabi.... yeah)

wasabi/backblaze both seems to be really great options, they are just fractionally more expensive than Aws s3 glacier (4.99$ per Tb) and they don't have egregious egress fees....

For something more frequent, use cloudflare r2 and for archiving/backup, use wasabi/backblaze , maybe even the 3-2-1 strategy... I am not sure if wasabi/backblaze already follow that
by karaterobot | 2025-05-09 17:55:03+00:00
> What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough—as they might do for example with another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown—some one person will come forward and say 'give me total power, and I will solve this problem'. That is how the Roman republic fell: Augustus became emperor not because he arrested the Roman Senate, he became emperor because he promised that he would solve problems that were not being solved.

> If we know who is responsible, I have enough faith in the American people to demand performance from those responsible. If we don't know, we will stay away from the polls, we will not demand it, and the day will come when somebody will come forward, and we and the government will, in effect, say 'take the ball and run with it. Do what you have to do.' That is the way democracy dies, and if something is not done to improve the level of civic knowledge, that is what you should worry about at night.
by guywithahat | 2025-05-09 17:55:46+00:00
I think you messed up your grammar which makes the sentence hard to read but I think what you're getting at is right. College is a service, which is why you pay for it. If it didn't provide value, nobody would use it. Free college is a danger because there's no good way to assess its market value or whether we need it at all.

It's only by adding value that we create wealth, and some of these NSF grants are just jobs programs for engineers.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-09 17:55:48+00:00
> There is widespread concern. It's just not reported, because that's not a news story.

No, it is annews story, and widepsread concerns are often reported on; its not widely reported on because the media is a mix of institutiins which tend to be either in support of the Administration doing it or in fear of being targeted in retaliation for reporting on topics like that.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-09 17:55:56+00:00
As I mentioned:

>People on the left don't recognize it [populism] because they don't recognize the tools that right wing people use to stimulate the working class.

I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole because it takes years to escape the ideological camp you grew into. But suffice to say, both sides ultimately want the same things and disagree on the route to take to that destination (while telling their base that obviously they are right, and obviously the other side is just evil).
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-09 17:55:57+00:00
Isn't it weird that they don't actually show what you can do with it?

I mean, I guess they have some capabilities mentioned in papers a few pages back in their website, but it doesn't pass the skink test of, "OK, show me how it works."

IDK, give me an actual code snippet right on the front page, or shut up.

I'm obviously not the target audience, but their marketing is aligned with the sort of "we made this look pretty because we want as many people remotely interested as possible to buy this thing."

Otherwise it could have been a lot more plain, and people seeking out this sort of technology would have found it.
by tombert | 2025-05-09 17:56:17+00:00
Sorry, I think I read a bit more indignation in your message than you intended.

I mostly have a visceral reaction to "people should just.." arguments because I heard stuff like that brought up a lot during abortion arguments, particularly in regards to birth control.

"Teenagers should just stop having sex!!" was something I thought was particularly dumb, because a) have they never been a teenager? that's all a lot of them think about cuz hormones and b) whether or not they should, they're going to anyway.

Anyway, sorry for the kind of pissy response, no offense meant.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-05-09 17:56:41+00:00
>> This was of course before confirmation hearings became rubber-stamps when the President's party held the Senate

Souter was nominated in 1990. The President's party held the Senate in 2005 when Harriet Miers nomination didn't even make it out of committee.

If you're talking about an actual vote for a nominee, looks like there were only four rejected candidates in the entire 1900's and 2000's so far (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful_nominations_to_th...), and only one of those was when the President's party held the Senate. That was in 1930. Things don't seem to have changed much.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-09 17:56:58+00:00
The marketplace wants an affordable truck that runs on electricity.

What Tesla offers instead is an expensive vehicle that just screams "Musk fanboy".

In other words, Musk's ego is a very real liability for Tesla.

Jeff Bezos has just announced the anti-Cybertruck.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64580484/slate-truck-ev-p...
by gitremote | 2025-05-09 17:57:24+00:00
In April 2025, Trump called for investigations into pollsters who determined that Trump has a low approval rate, calling the pollsters "criminals".[1] If Trump criminalizes publishing data that shows disapproval for his party, then there would be no public data that works as a checksum to detect rigged election results.

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-me...
by wtallis | 2025-05-09 17:57:32+00:00
This issue is less about Intel's fab failures and more about their inability to decouple their architecture update cadence from their fab progress. They stopped iterating on their CPU designs while waiting for 10nm to get fixed. That left them with an oversized P core and an outdated E core, and all they could do for Alder Lake was slap them onto one die and ship it, with no ability to produce a well-matched pair of core designs in any reasonable time frame. We're still seeing weird consequences of their inability to port CPU designs between processes and fabs: this year's laptop processors have HyperThreading only in the lowest-cost parts—those that still have the CPU chiplet fabbed at Intel while the higher core count parts are made by TSMC.
by lesuorac | 2025-05-09 17:57:33+00:00
In general, just Google has access to your search history and advertisers ask Google to target say 18 year olds with a sugar affinity for their Coca-Cola ads but Coke isn't actually told who you are.

If Google is forced to allow a competitive marketplace for placement of ads then other companies need access to that data in order to provide targeting.

There are a bunch of holes everywhere when you dig into the details but that's the gist. A large hole is the third-party cookies which allow a lot more than Google to track you. Another hole is some advertisers aren't really advertisers and just plug into the ecosystem in order to learn data about people they could potentially advertise to.

Who also knows if we'd get real privacy laws if it become really common knowledge how much your devices track you and how easy that data gets shared around.