MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Retric | 2025-05-09 15:15:17+00:00
Ripping off Calvin and hobs sure but not Lego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Page#Kiddicraft

LEGO is based off of earlier designs of interlocking bricks, they are well known because they got really good at affordability, high tolerances, and durability not because they invented the concept. Beyond that the original functional patents have long expired.
by troyvit | 2025-05-09 15:15:21+00:00
> The company estimates it will save more than $10 million over the next five years, reducing its annual infrastructure bill from $3.2 million to less than $1 million — all managed by the same technical team that previously handled the cloud.

It would be cool to get more into this. One of the reasons my (much smaller) org insists on S3 (or possibly R2) is that they feel they are paying rent for the infrastructure management that they would otherwise have to hire for. If there was data out there that showed that an org could switch to a less managed infrastructure without pulling people off of other projects to fill in the gaps it would be an awesome selling point.
by graemep | 2025-05-09 15:16:14+00:00
The middle ground could be a lot of different things. One might be a reformed copyright system.

The economist I know of who calculated a socially optimal copyright duration, Rufus Pollock, came up with an estimate of 20 something years.

This makes sense from the point of view of finance because the NPV of extra years beyond this is very low. To put it in qualitative terms, no one is thinking about their grandchildren's pensions when they decide to create a work.

Personally I would also have different durations and rules for different types of work: a book, a video, and a piece of software are very different works and need diffferent incentives
by the_af | 2025-05-09 15:17:46+00:00
I'm basing my opinion in this analysis of ACOUP (Brett Deveraux), who's a military historian and specializes in dismantling this kind of pop culture myths.

https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

While the Spartans weren't a disaster, and in some respects they were marginally better (but in others, worse), the statistics don't lie: they had an average track record, certainly not on par with their current reputation. They didn't excel at any particular strategy, they were just hoplites like every Greek at the time. Their track record is disappointingly average:

> We get 12 victories, 11.5 defeats and 0.5 draws

Hardly impressive, right? And this is excluding naval battles, if we include them the Spartans do slightly worse.

> Sparta had a formidable military reputation, but their actual battlefield performance hardly backed it up. During the fifth and fourth centuries, Sparta lost as often as it won. Spartan battlefield tactics were a bit better than other Greek poleis, but this is damning with faint praise. The spartiates themselves were mostly like every other group of wealthy Greek hoplites. But the Spartan military reputation was extremely valuable – the loss of that reputation during the Peloponnesian War does much to explain the rough decades Sparta would experience following its end.

He also explains Sparta was also a self-defeating, ever-shrinking society, which ultimately proved to be its demise. But you're not disputing this, so this is just a side note.
by inverted_flag | 2025-05-09 15:17:47+00:00
> I mean, I guess we'll try to find competent and sane leaders again in 4 years. I don't know? There's not much else we can do at this point if this is the level of irrationality you're dealing with.

There are absolutely not going to be free and fair elections 4 years from now. People really need to start preparing for this reality.
by swores | 2025-05-09 15:18:43+00:00
In case anyone else has the same memory fuzziness I had that led me to thinking "I could've sworn it was ARPA, not DARPA, that the internet came out of"... it was ARPA, but they aren't separate organisations as I for some reason thought they were. To quote Wikipedia:

> "The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996"
by nextos | 2025-05-09 15:18:44+00:00
Serious universities do often revoke doctoral degrees if plagiarism is proven. I've seen Oxford University going as far as demanding someone to issue a correction of a journal article to cite prior work because they were making some claims of novelty that were not true.

> When someone is a professor at a prestigious institution and they fabricate data, why are they still teaching the following year?

Internal politics. Committees judging potential misconduct are not independent. If you are sufficiently high up in the ladder, you can get away with many things. Sweden recently created a Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct (Npof) to address this problem. I think this is a step in the right direction.

But, ultimately, I think academic fraud should be judged in court. However, e.g. Leonid Schneider (forbetterscience.com) has been taken to court several times for reporting fraud, including fraud that led to patient death, and some judges didn't seem to care much about data fabrication / misrepresentation.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-09 15:18:57+00:00
That's what a lot of it was. In 2016, the establishment was offering us a choice between another Bush and another Clinton, with Cruz being set up as the Buchanan, the conservative who would be allowed to win a state or two before gracefully stepping aside for the real nominee. So voters said screw this, we'll take a shot on the guy who might be crazy, rather than just another one of the same gang.

Surprisingly to many of them, he wasn't crazy, and actually tried to do a lot of the things they were hoping a non-establishment president would do. But then the bureaucracy dragged its feet, ignored his orders, and generally did its best to spoil his first term, giving a middle finger to the voters and saying, "Screw you, we're doing things our way." So in 2024 the voters said, "No, screw you," and here we are.
by neilv | 2025-05-09 15:19:08+00:00
And when you're sued and/or criminally charged, your lawyers can bring that up that your vehicle passed inspection (unless it was still being built in your garage), before the lithium battery fire that involved the "ZombieVerter that you built from plans you found on the Internet".

Even if it can eventually be proven (to the judge/jury) that the ZombieVerter performed perfectly, and that you were not at all negligent or reckless, that's going to be drawing suspicion and blame.

While defense costs bankrupt you.
by cmontella | 2025-05-09 15:19:56+00:00
Please read my sibling reply about DARPA grand challenges. This knowledge was built using public dollars by people who publish papers, which are being read today by people building products. That's the great cycle of progress.

Notably DARPA felt the need to do this because they didn't trust private industry to do it on their own; with no money in driverless cars, the government figured industry would get there only if there was some catalyst, which they provided (successfully).

If you only ever go where the work is, then you're going to be left behind by societies that have a vision and leadership that will work to make it real.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-09 15:19:56+00:00
> wildly guess it is a DNS issue

Riding around in Waymos here, in the Jaguar models there is a button on the console labeled "DNS" and I have no desire to grab the steering wheel or adjust any other control, except every time I climb in, I am sorely, sorely tempted to press this "DNS" button because (1) I do not know what it does and (2) I have always had a soft spot in my sysadmin's heart for DNS in particular.

Please do not reply to tell me what "DNS" means in a motor vehicle, because you will ruin the mystique.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-09 15:20:42+00:00
Which injustice exactly? It is just a basic corollary of private property.

If you read my comment further, I explain this, but here's an example:

Tesla existing has nothing to do with Musk. He bought his way into Tesla, even pushing out one of the founders. This further proves the point that he was comfortably able to buy & bully his way into leadership positions because of the wealth and connections he was born into.

Of course the person in the article is an enormous hypocrite

Username checks out :)
by hajile | 2025-05-09 15:21:04+00:00
> If the rule required bishops to be married then a large chunk of the bishops consecrated by the apostles were not legitimate. Nobody thinks that.

Can you point to a bishop appointed by Jesus' 12 disciples who was not married with children? If not, then you are making a baseless assertion.

> Point to anybody in the first 1500 years of the Church that takes your position.

Paul does in 1 Tim 3. We also have reformers like Martin Luther who after discovering the Bible for himself rejected his vows of celibacy, got married, and had several children. Luther would not have rejected his vows before God had they not conflicted with what he read in the Bible.

> You are being prideful and assuming that you are reading it correctly despite nobody agreeing with your interpretation.

You are jumping straight into the ad-hominems. The Bible says what it says and everyone agrees that there is no mistake or mistranslation. It's like when modern Mormons reject polygamy when it is espoused as critically important by Joseph Smith. You can't take a very clear and intentional meaning of what you believe to be inspired and ignore it just because you don't like what it says or it goes against current tradition and norms.

> Everybody just reads whatever they want into scripture.

If you can just make up whatever you want, then the whole thing would certainly be a farce. Are you simply arguing against Christianity and the Bible as a whole?

> If you actually want to convince somebody maybe you should have some charity and humility.

Another ad-hominem. I addressed the facts. You took issue with the clear writings in the Bible and went on a crusade to prove the unprovable.

> Maybe you should learn basic Christan beleifs. No Christian, including those who believe in Sola Scriptura, believes everything can be found in scripture.

Yet another ad-homenem. Setting that aside, you are making a non-sequitur here.

If I fully agree that not everything is in the Bible, that has zero bearing on what IS in the Bible. If we were discussing the nature of the divinity of the Christ, your point may have merit (though those arguing on all sides believe they can scratch together an argument), but we are talking about a very clear "Bishops should be married to one woman with well-mannered kids". There is no room for debate and you won't actually find much debate -- just outright ignoring what was said.

> Premise 1: The apostles are bishops.

What evidence do you have for this? Apostle means "messenger" or "sent forth". This is far different than Bishop which means "overseer". Paul was certainly familiar with both terms (calling himself a "servant of God, called to be a apostle (messenger)").

Ephesians 4:11 (KJV) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Paul sees a clear distinction between the messengers and those who would oversee the churches. This is why he doesn't see his writings as hypocritical and why the other two premises simply do not matter to the conclusion.
by solarkraft | 2025-05-09 15:21:29+00:00
I thought “This sounds a lot like the logical next step to what Damien Maguire has been working on” and sure enough it is!

This man has been working for years on repurposing old EV hardware and using it to electrify cars, sometimes in really wacky (and extremely entertaining) ways on the Youtube channel “evmbw” - I suggest giving it a watch! Some of the cars are really scrappy, but he obviously knows very well what he’s doing.
by aleksandrh | 2025-05-09 15:21:47+00:00
Tried this last night and it works really well so I figured I'd share it here, even though it's a few years old. It can even take advantage of your GPU to run faster. The sample song I tested with is 5:56 and it only took 30 seconds for this tool to split it into separate .wav files for vocals, guitar, piano, bass, etc. I recommend following this guide here: https://www.reddit.com/r/musicproduction/comments/1704kob/co...
by ValdikSS | 2025-05-09 15:23:19+00:00
I don't know about the country you live in, but the usual 100% bullet-proof method to make your message seen by the living human being is to send a paper snail mail.

You won't necessary receive the answers for your questions, but you'll get back your account.

If the simple message did not help, you file a pre-trial claim and send it to them.
by wang_li | 2025-05-09 15:23:22+00:00
When you speak in abstracts and generic terms about the value of government funding research, you are saying nothing meaningful in terms of knowing whether the government should spend more or less on research. If the OP's specific research was into The Changing Mating Habits of the Delta Smelt Due to Habitat Destruction, then probably it was money that could far better spent paying tuition for, say, medical students or even just letting tax payers keep their money and spend it in a way that directly benefits their family, their community, and themselves. Otherwise you are just handwaving and demanding everyone assume that all research is good and should be publicly funded.

In terms of cutting NSF budget, they have issued grants for things that explicitly violate Title IX of the Civil Rights act.[1] You can't justify all NSF spending by cherry picking successful past spending. We can evaluate the benefits of proposed research and whether it aligns with the intentions and values of society at large. We don't have to spend because someone incanted the words "Because SCIENCE!" over a bubbling beaker.

1. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2424507&His...
by hmsimha | 2025-05-09 15:23:26+00:00
Regarding the URLs containing the decryption key, of course a strong password is a big benefit here, but if you're not syncing history that could perhaps eliminate big tech from the loop (though you may also need to turn off all telemetry by your browser)

Using a browser without extensions installed would prevent against extension-based exfiltration.

The only way to prevent against a malicious server would probably be to build the frontend yourself and use it with the server (I haven't tried doing this)
by trollbridge | 2025-05-09 15:23:44+00:00
And OMNY will either accept a tap to pay credit card, a phone with tap to pay (including Apple's express card option, where it works even if your phone is dead), or a prepaid value dedicated OMNY card.

It does not actually run the transaction through the entire way - if a transaction fails, the card info gets placed on a blacklist and that particular NFC device won't receive an instant authorisation next time. Generally speaking, people don't have an easy way to generate lots and lots of fake NFC devices, so this hasn't been a problem for widespread fraud (vs just jumping over the turnstile).
by orange_puff | 2025-05-09 15:23:57+00:00
As others have mentioned please add more docs / details to the README

I want to mention my current frustration with cursor recently and why I would love an OSS alternative that gives me control; I feel cursor has dumped agentic capabilities everywhere, regardless of whether the user wants it or not. When I use the Ask function as opposed to Agent, it seems to still be functioning in an agentic loop. It takes longer to have basic conversations about high level ideas and really kills my experience.

I hope void doesn’t become an agent dumping ground where this behavior is thrust upon the user as much as possible

Not to say I dislike agent mode, but I like to choose when I use it.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-09 15:24:11+00:00
> appears to be driven in part by President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the agency’s $4 billion budget by 55%

NSF is essentially investing in the future and $4B is already a very small amount compared to the whole federal budget. If anything NSF's budget should be increased. Why are they looking to save pocket change when the real money is in the DoD?
by hookedonwinter | 2025-05-09 15:24:19+00:00
You can still manage packages, but it's similar to pip list in that it shows all the dependencies, so it can get cumbersome.

Additionally, the context it gives you when you're trying to read release notes isn't great, and it tries to upgrade to the absolute latest release, even if it's only a release candidate.

Heard on the name, I'll think more on it. Thanks!
by Jasper_ | 2025-05-09 15:24:22+00:00
Most GPU drivers these days are DRM drivers, which implement fbdev support for backwards compatibility only [0]. The fbdev API is primarily "fake" these days.

DRM/KMS using dumb buffers are the preferred API if you want to do software rendering and modesetting. You can find several examples of this online if you search for drm_mode_create_dumb.

[0] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds...
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-09 15:24:26+00:00
Something from l Ron Hubbard’s mission earth scifi series has stuck with me for years. Basically in preparation for an undercover mission to earth the protagonist (who’s more of an antagonist really) goes to a place in his city full of fusion plants and orders a bunch of gold to bring with him. It ends up being so much gold that it would crash the earth’s economies…

But what stuck with me was this idea of ordering elements on demand.
by taylodl | 2025-05-09 15:24:50+00:00
> Despite initial projections of producing 250,000 units annually, it appears Tesla might struggle to sell even 20,000 Cybertrucks per year in the current market climate.

I don't think it's the "market climate", instead, this truck doesn't suit many truck users' purpose. I know blue-collar general contractors who were genuinely looking forward to this truck, especially at the original price point. They were thinking all their projects were around town so they wouldn't need to worry about charging, and being an EV it would require less maintenance, which costs both time and money. The Cybertruck isn't fit for their purpose as a truck.

Ford and Chevy have better offerings, but they cost more than the Cybertruck's original price point, and people are concerned about Ford and Chevy's dealerships being able to support and service these vehicles. They were thinking Tesla had the answers.

On the upside, the market is still there for the taking...
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-09 15:25:00+00:00
"Not thinking about package management careful makes me sloppy."

Isn't the point of a memory safe language to allow programmers to be sloppy without repercussions, i.e., to not think about managing memory and even to not understand how memory works.

Would managing dependencies be any different. Does Rust allow programmers to avoid thinking carefully about selecting dependencies.
by yurishimo | 2025-05-09 15:25:04+00:00
I would argue Walmart is quite high tech! They’ve been approaching their business goals from lots of different angles. Tech, finance, logistics, etc are all a huge part of their business operations.

It’s a shame that the problems being solved are embedded within a business that embodies throwing things away at the first sign of weakness. I’m still upset they bought what seemed on track to be a nice successor to Simple Bank. Now it’s been pivoted again for the third time since acquisition.
by TheFreim | 2025-05-09 15:25:14+00:00
> America is hardly a very Catholic nation

Interesting Fact: There are about as many—if not more—Catholics in the United States (~45-72 million [0]) than there are people in Italy (~60 million [1]). American Catholic theologians, priests, and bishops have a larger impact than many seem to realize.

I'm generally sympathetic with the idea that it is ideal to have an Italian pope—I recall hearing that Pope Benedict XVI thought having a close connection to the diocese of Rome was important—but I also don't mind having popes from different parts of the world so as to better represent the catholicity (universality) of the Church.

I also think an American pope might have a fuller understanding of the global impact of American media and political power. I felt that Francis often did a poor job of navigating the media landscape—oftentimes being represented as saying things which he did not really say or intend, so perhaps an American pope will be better in that regard.

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0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_United_... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Populati...
by os2warpman | 2025-05-09 15:25:35+00:00
You can go to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...

And then sort by year.

They weren't all started in the 1800s, they were all started in the past and you're squishing 300 years of history into a single chunk of time, ignoring that there were decades-long gaps between foundings.

In my state there were four waves of foundings: colonial pre-USA land grant institutions, rich guy vanity projects a century later, post-WWII expansions 80 years after that, and biotech/health care market growth in the 2000s.
by CafeRacer | 2025-05-09 15:25:36+00:00
AgGrid, for example, virtualises the dataset and easily render a 100k records: https://www.ag-grid.com/example/

On our app we render large datasets (e.g. 40-50k records) and provide filtering/searching with rxjs.

Search even uses a levenshtein distance and the entire collection is sorted based on the similarity score.

Works like a charm.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-09 15:25:38+00:00
Being a married Anglican priest is basically the only conventional way to do that. The discipline of celibacy is otherwise strictly observed.

Of course, if a married Eastern Catholic priest decided to join the Latin Church with the rest of his family, this could happen too.

But generally, a married man will want to discern the diaconate, as the priesthood will simply be out of the question, except in these exceptional circumstances.
by shalg | 2025-05-09 15:26:11+00:00
There are exactly 2 reasons we might want quantum networks.

1. 100% secure communication channels (even better we can detect any attempt at eavesdropping and whatever information is captured will be useless to the eavesdropper)

2. Building larger quantum computers. A high fidelity quantum network would allow you to compute simultaneously with multiple quantum chips by interfacing them.

The thing that makes quantum networking different from regular networking is that you have to be very careful to not disturb the state of the photons you are sending down the fiber optics.

Im currently doing my PhD building quantum networking devices so im a bit biased but I think it’s pretty cool :).

Now does it matter I’m not sure. Reason 1 isn’t really that useful because encryption is very secure. However if quantum computers start to scale up and some encryption methods get obsoleted this could be nice. Also having encryption that is provably secure would be nice regardless.

Reason 2 at the moment seems like the only path to building large scale quantum computing. Think a datacenter with many networked quantum chips.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-09 15:26:35+00:00
Starts already that Rust won't support architectures not available on LLVM, but on GCC, otherwise having a Rust frontend project for GCC wouldn't be a thing.

And the systems language remark, I am still looking forward when sorting ABI issues for binary libraries is finally something that doesn't need to go through solutions designed for C and C++.
by tzs | 2025-05-09 15:27:07+00:00
> Oracle introduced a paid subscription for Java in September 2018, and in January 2023 decided to switch its pricing model to per employee rather than per user, creating a steep price hike for customers

So...if you have 1000 employees and 100 developers using Oracle Java you need to spin off those 100 developers into a new company and then hire that company to do your Java development?