MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jorvi | 2025-05-08 18:02:10+00:00
Right. But taking the combined $140 billion net worth of Bill and Melinda, about 30% (or whatever 'fair' rate you want to assume) shouldn't have been theirs to give away. Let them spend the other part however they want.

What I find kind of interesting is that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet argue that they should be taxed more, but they don't do anything to further that goal aside from media soundbites and headlines. They could fund an incredible war chest for a lobbying apparatus who's sole purpose would be to create a more fair tax system. But no such thing happens.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-08 18:03:32+00:00
I have: A = {a, b, c, d, e}

I want to write: B = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g}

But I don't want to write duplicate code

So I write:

B = B(A) = {A, e, f, g}

aka I use inheritance.

Are there easier ways? No. Inheritance is the most fundamental way of doing this. Composition is just a work around as it results in arbitrary nesting. But ultimately it's the same thing too.
by kragen | 2025-05-08 18:03:53+00:00
It's 100 years, not 1000 years, and it's a fight for Chinese well-being, not global supremacy, though it's understandable that people who believe Chinese well-being is incompatible with US hegemony would confuse the two: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-long-game-chinas-gran...
by kotaKat | 2025-05-08 18:04:05+00:00
I’m already finding it in niche listings by way of shipping price inflation.

What was free shipping to the US is now $60 on this item: https://www.ebay.com/itm/388222776222 (a $200 shipping version at https://www.ebay.com/itm/405822192434).

Here’s a keyloading adapter for one of my radios at $600 shipping(!) - https://www.ebay.com/itm/146313261605

Absolute frustration.
by vkou | 2025-05-08 18:04:07+00:00
> Pretty sure the US presidential election is on par.

Contested US elections are logistically, a huge mess that takes forever to resolve, and even when the writing is on the wall, everybody waits and hemms and hawws because <some other network hasn't called it yet>, <so we can't call it>. (And that's not even counting the potential faithless electors, a potential coup in the House, conspiracies to commit election fraud directed from the president's office, etc.)

Canadian elections are figured out and their results are broadcast to the world before Western Canada even finishes voting. (Spoilers: It's always all blue starting from Manitoba and going all the way to the eastern fringes of Greater Vancouver.)

They are, of course, utterly uninteresting, with the last one coming and going without even a mention on the front page of Hacker News.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-08 18:04:31+00:00
Renewable suffers a little bit from having renewable infrastructure costs considered a new subsidy, while fossil fuel costs are just kind of baked in.

If we included the cost of cleaning up fossil fuel byproducts… well, we don’t even know how much it will cost to clean up all that carbon.

Then we will have to work out how we bill the international relations cost of having to deal with petrochemical producers…
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-05-08 18:04:43+00:00
I'm just looking at this out of statistical curiosity: of these bishops you mention, were they in a position in the hierarchy that would be subject to this responsibility during the 80s or 90s? They always select popes that have been high up in the hierarchy for a while. Not that they have to select cardinals, but it takes that much to be a cardinal no less.
by ViktorRay | 2025-05-08 18:04:53+00:00
"The most controversial doctrine associated with him, the filioque, was rejected by the Eastern Orthodox Church."

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

I wonder how much ordinary people over the thousands of years in the Western Churches and the Eastern churches care about this sort of stuff.

And today we think internet fandom nerd rages and so on are bad....but the modern day nerdy internet forum rage over minutia of anime and other stuff is similar to the doctrinal rage and discussion like the Filioque.

The word fandom comes from fan which comes from fanatic. And many nerdy things like gaming and superheroes and so on seem to operate on the same level as religion in the minds of people in terms of the neural pathways and you get the same effects perhaps...

EDIT: I forgot to say what filioque is. From the wikipedia article:

Filioque , a Latin term meaning "and from the Son", was added to the original Nicene Creed, and has been the subject of great controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity. The term refers to the Son, Jesus Christ, with the Father, as the one shared origin of the Holy Spirit. It is not in the original text of the Creed, attributed to the First Council of Constantinople (381), which says that the Holy Spirit proceeds "from the Father" (Greek: τὸ ἐκ του Πατρὸς ἐκπορευόμενον) without the addition "and the Son"
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-05-08 18:04:53+00:00
Nobody said "progressiveness" except you. People can judge it on its moral grounds.

If we dismiss criticism as being invalid because it happens to be another person's idea of "progressive," then that's surely the opposite of ignoring the crowd. That's using political labels to distract from the actual thing being discussed.

Considering there were literal pedophiles given more grace than openly gay bishops, it's a disheartening to hear "progressive" used like such a dirty word. But I guess the Overton window has shifted that much.
by jacobyoder | 2025-05-08 18:05:23+00:00
> I think the total reliance is a legitimate concern that needs to be addressed.

> I still think this approach to addressing that issue is complete madness.

You're assuming the 'total reliance' argument and corresponding actions are being done in good faith. The original 'emergency' declarations justifying large initial tariffs in February were because of a 'fentanyl crisis'. Which then morphed in to 'well, we should be manufacturing here for defense purposes' and assorted other arguments along the way ("we're getting ripped off!", etc).

There's a danger in being cynical about this, but also danger in taking everything at face value. There's been no coherent communicated policy with justifications and expected outcomes or timelines ever put forward the same way twice from this administration.
by 20thr | 2025-05-08 18:05:26+00:00
These suggestions make a lot of sense.

At Namespace (namespace.so), we also take things one step further: GitHub jobs run under a cgroup with a subset of privileges by default.

Running a job with full capabilities, requires an explicit opt-in, you need to enable "privileged" mode.

Building a secure system requires many layers of protection, and we believe that the runtime should provide more of these layers out of the box (while managing the impact to the user experience).

(Disclaimer: I'm a founder at Namespace)
by psychoslave | 2025-05-08 18:05:30+00:00
I'm not sure what technology you have in mind here. Correct if this is wrong, but China has required for transfer of technology when some business wanted to produce on its territory and has produced basically everything we can think of under the sun.

As the famous roll pen examplify, China can definitely make high tech products and it's more a question if economical relevance whether they will intensify in that direction

https://theasymmetric.substack.com/p/china-ballpoint-pen-mac...
by darth_avocado | 2025-05-08 18:05:50+00:00
This. Literally last week, I had to go to the ER and they ran a PCR test to identify the infection. But they also started broad spectrum antibiotics immediately. But since it was a Thursday and the lab only works weekdays, I couldn’t get the results back until Tuesday. They adjusted the antibiotics to a more targeted one once the results were back.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-08 18:05:57+00:00
That is true, but doctrine does need to not violate scripture. So if the Bible prohibits something (which IMO it pretty clearly does prohibit gay relationships), the church can't say "well actually it's ok now". If that did happen it would cause quite a crisis for the church, since it is a Catholic article of faith that God guides the official dogma of the church as he guided the humans who wrote the books in the Bible. So if the two are in disagreement, the whole faith kinda collapses.
by miki123211 | 2025-05-08 18:06:05+00:00
> you could message without user assignment

> It was basically Nextel DirectConnect for texting / “the wire” for corporate people

What does "without user assignment" mean here. Not an American and not that familiar with the American telecoms environment of the early 2000s, so while those names ring a bell (no pun intended), I think the comparisons escape me.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-08 18:06:29+00:00
Prooftexting is not a good idea. If you think you have a gotcha, then you should get in line with the multitude of teenagers who think they've bested the Church with a verse, and from a bad translation at that.

Think about it. It's been thousands of years. A little humility is called for. You're not the first or the last to make flippant remarks like this without understanding.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-05-08 18:07:25+00:00
The most expensive electronics the typical American experiences is often their phone, and I think this won't matter too much, because I believe a majority of people basically get them on an installment plan from their cellular carrier. They'll own the phone in 4 years instead of 2, but they probably would have upgraded to a new phone in 2 years and would have been paying the $200/mo. anyway.

Timing is good for phone makers here honestly because phone innovation is slowing down so high prices for the same stuff can be blamed on tarriffs instead of lack of innovation.

The second most expensive electronics would be game systems, and that'll be painful, but I do wonder if e.g. Nintendo would pair with cellular companies and do installment plans like phones, and/or if PS/Xbox would try to do something similar with ISPs (e.g. AT&T Gamer Deal) or rent their consoles instead of selling them.

Gamer PCs are gonna take a serious hit though, and the price of individual games is certain to increase.
by mtrovo | 2025-05-08 18:07:43+00:00
You know, as much as I want to agree, it feels a bit shallow to look at life that way. I've got tattoos, sometimes people ask me "What does this represent to you?" and honestly I never really know what to say because I don't overthink them. What I do remember is where I was, what I was doing, and my whole vibe back then. It's a cool reminder that nothing stays the same and that I'm a different person now. It's kind of like asking your grandpa the story behind a scar he has.

Now lately I feel like the speed on which trends are born and die, the non-stop over sharing, and that constant itch for "what's next" is really pushing us all to become these kind of formless blobs, scared to show any real "edges." For example:

- Cars all kinda look the same now and are mostly some shade of grey. Same deal with phones and pretty much all tech.

- Buying clothes with bland colors with almost no originality with the expectation that it will probably be in the bin the next season.

- The whole clean girl aesthetic on putting in a ton of effort to look like you put in zero effort.

- And don't get me started on how sad beige parenting is not a joke

You only live once, there's no scoreboard at the end. Just do what you want with your life. More often than you'd probably like to admit, nobody really cares that much anyway.
by ravenstine | 2025-05-08 18:07:52+00:00
Some people like to show off their new tattoos and ask my opinion, or I will just compliment someone on a tattoo they have that caught my notice. And sometimes that leads to "You got any tattoos?" or "You ever gonna get a tattoo?"

As far as the woman thing goes, guys have a tendency to talk about women, and sometimes the topic of tattoo'd women comes up. I've been on this planet for nearly 40 years, so while this isn't really a common conversation, I've encountered it enough times to notice recurring themes.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-05-08 18:08:40+00:00
If they are just looking for a few signature metabolites, you can easily do that on a single quadrupole for <$100k. Realistically, I would expect something more precise for medical purposes. Say a QExactive orbitrap -gives you phenomenal performance (<5ppm accuracy) and can be had for $500k.

The only mass specs I think of costing multiple millions of dollars are accelerator mass spectrometers (AMS) which are meant for isotopic analysis.
by psb217 | 2025-05-08 18:08:42+00:00
To be fair, the "trick" part of the kernel trick involves implicitly transforming the data into a higher dimensional space and then fitting a linear function in that space. Ie, you're transforming the inputs so that a linear function from inputs to outputs fits better than if you didn't do the transform.

The "trick" allows you to fit a linear function in that higher dimensional space without any potentially costly explicit computation in the higher dimensional space based on the observation that the optimal solution's parameters can be represented as a sum of the higher dimensional representations of points in the training set.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-08 18:09:01+00:00
The thing is, your "roll your own" auth is likely way smaller and less targeted than the library everyone uses. So the new exploits may simply not apply to your case.

Many famous vulnerabilities happen in parts of software people don't actually use. For example, the "Heartbleed" vulnerability in OpenSSL targeted the "heartbeat" feature few people actually used. In the "Log4Shell" vulnerability the exploit targeted LDAP support in log4j, which I have never seen used and didn't even know existed.

In addition, the "experts" maybe aren't. You may think that whoever is writing that popular library has a team of experts in security, it is used by big, serious companies after all. But in reality it may just be one overworked guy, and people only notice when the system has been publicly compromised. And that's if the developers themselves don't have malicious intent, or have accepted someone with malicious intent in the team (for the latter, see the xz story).
by no_wizard | 2025-05-08 18:09:32+00:00
>I completely agree. But this a little bit contradicts with your original comment that caught my eye:

Its a good rule of thumb that you may want to evaluate if a microservice is appropriate. Thats the point in context[0]. If you think it might be a relevant solution, that is a pretty good heuristic that evaluating it may be worth the time.

What I seem to be coming up against when discussing this is people conflate worthwhile evaluation with worthwhile solution. Thats where the nuance and details need to live is in solution discovery, but how do you arrive at the right solution if you don't first evaluate what solutions might fit a given problem?

I stand by it being a good rule of thumb. If you think there are actual benefits - not perceived, but quantifiable benefits - of something being a standalone independent service, you might have a case for a microservice. I feel its a good heuristic for narrowing solution evaluation.

It doesn't equate to saying microservice is the solution if it meets that one criteria, only don't rule it out.

>And based on my experience, there will always be some benefits that can be used to justify factoring something out into a separate service. The challenge is that it's often easy to overemphasize those benefits, even when they don't outweigh the downsides. Your example with the auth service and the added friction is, in my view, a good illustration of a justification that might sound reasonable but can lead to unnecessary complexity.

Bias is hard to overcome. Technical decision makers need to be keenly aware of this. I wish it was easier to identify when this comes into the situation as it plays a bigger role in all this than is often realized. I go to great lengths to validate my thoughts when making big technical decisions for this reason, and deciding on something like this is a big technical decision that deserves that approach, in my opinion.

One good quality of a good technical decision maker is taking the time to quantify why its a good solution and why other solutions are not, and that must hold up to technical scrutiny of your peers. This challenges any assumptions missed. Ideally, your peers should be able to see through anything that wasn't given enough evaluation, like if the benefits of doing something is overemphasized.

>good illustration of a justification that might sound reasonable but can lead to unnecessary complexity.

I agree, which is why I state elsewhere that it shouldn't be used solely for this purpose, but I'm not going to leave out a real benefit we saw. If there is a persistent organizational problem that engineers seem to want to put code inside of something that is in broader context inappropriate or adds complexity where it shouldn't, you may benefit from such friction and its okay to evaluate that aspect too.

[0]: By which I mean in the context of the article, which I think dismisses microservices as a potential solution with prejudice
by pqtyw | 2025-05-08 18:09:47+00:00
He also said 'Love your neighbor as yourself' and a bunch of similar things. Which kind of makes it complicated. I guess selling other people to slavery is fine as long as you also sell yourself (just like mistreating others).

> didn't change anything about slavery, mistreatment of women, etc.

The "fulfill" bit is rather ambiguous. AFAIK the most popular interpretation (certainly when it comes to ceremonial rules like not eating pork/shellfish/etc.) is that his intention was to "bring the law to its intended goal/purpose" rather than to maintain it in perpetuity.
by coldpie | 2025-05-08 18:10:21+00:00
I wrote about this here[1] but it seems like Passkeys are fundamentally incompatible with open source software. I tried them out, and was initially quite excited for them. But it turns out the spec has first-class support for banning passkey clients, which I feel makes the spec incompatible with open source software. The spec authors feel this is a good thing and regularly threaten open source software with bans for not following the spec, and they even maintain a list of non-compliant clients[2], which relying parties could use to ban clients that allow users to manage their own data how they wish instead of how the spec demands.

It's a pretty ugly situation, and I'm quite disappointed by this. It could've been a cool technology, but until they straighten out the story of whether users are allowed to own their own data, I cannot support it.

[1] I initially wrote this as a pro-Passkey article, explaining how the marketing around Passkeys is ludicrously confusing for what is actually a pretty simple tech. But then I found the spec authors threatening open-source implementations with bans and had to revoke my endorsement. https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/01/04/passkey-marketing-...

[2] https://passkeys.dev/docs/reference/known-issues/
by Terr_ | 2025-05-08 18:10:27+00:00
My "this implementation ticket is not actually what the customer wants to achieve" senses are tingling. :p

What is the fundamental harm or injustice that needs to be fixed or reduced here?

I'm confident there are much better ways to tackle those things (e.g. pollution, consumer waste, moral failings) than a blanket import tax on an entire country-of-origin, even one done in a proper and legal way.
by daft_pink | 2025-05-08 18:10:47+00:00
I think the reality is that nimble adaptive companies won by quickly moving production and identifying suppliers in China (ie Amazon/Costco/Walmart/Target).

These are the same companies that are going to quickly identify suppliers and redirect operations to other countries that don’t have massive tarriffs. The same way large American companies adapted to globalization and the pandemic, you’re going to see a quick rapid adaptation where American goods are made in other countries faster than anyone thought possible.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-08 18:10:51+00:00
Voters have given republicans a crazy double standard since reconstruction.

Believing that any of this will result in a precedent for any future democrats means you haven't been paying attention.

Only democrats have to follow the rules. Republicans voters support them even through blatantly unconstitutional acts like "take the guns first, due process second" and forcing schools to display christian symbols. Republican voters do not give a shit that Trump's family has taken billions of American dollars. Trump voters don't even care that they paid Steve Bannon millions to build a wall he never intended to build, and still voted for a Trump admin with Steve Bannon!

These people believe anything is acceptable to topple the democrats because the democrats forced desegregation onto the southern states.
by deng | 2025-05-08 18:11:12+00:00
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but this answer by Francis was wildly over-interpreted. He simply cited the Catechism that the church should be welcoming to gay people, and not marginalize them. However, in no way did he ever mean by this that the church should be accepting homosexual relationships. What he was saying is that the church should see this as a sin like any other, and that the church needs to be open to sinners that search for God and show them the way. There is nothing revolutionary about this, it's literally in the Catechism.

You can read his original answer here

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2013/ju...

He further expanded on this in his books, see for instance

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/33231/pope-francis-e...
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-08 18:11:16+00:00
This getting-ahead-of-the-tax-hikes/inflation thing was probably why the segment of households with meaningful disposable income (top quintile or so) increased spending in Q1 even as everyone else was pulling back.

We did it with air conditioner upgrades, among other things. Now? Five figures of previously-probable, but optional, spending for the rest of the year is on hold indefinitely. Prices on lots of things (construction materials, holy shit) are already way up, so we'll be sitting on as much cash as we can until that eases up. We don't need that much, really....
by ivape | 2025-05-08 18:11:31+00:00
Yeah.

Most people have not deployed enough critical code that was mostly written with AI. It's when that stuff breaks, and they have to debug it with AI, that's when they'll have to contend with the blood, sweat, and tears. That's when the person will swear that they'll never use AI again. The thing is, we can never not use AI ever again. So, this is the trial by fire where many will figure out the depth of the valley and emerge from it with all the lessons. I can only speculate, but I suspect the lessons will be something along the lines of "some things should use less AI than others".

I think it's a cool journey, best of luck to the AI-first crowd, you will learn lessons the rest of us are not brave enough to embark on. I already have a basket of lessons, so I travel differently through the valley (hint: My ship still has a helm).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-08 18:12:08+00:00
> Believing that any of this will result in a precedent for any future democrats means you haven't been paying attention

I’m arguing a Democrats who fights with the tools they’ve been given will be popular. Like, want to cancel student loans? Fuck process. Just declare them cancelled and shred the loan records before anyone can get to court.

This is a stupid endgame. But the system doesn’t work if one side constrains itself by rules the other doesn’t follow, because that means only one side will ever affect policy.
by yodsanklai | 2025-05-08 18:12:19+00:00
My issue with Gates is that he wants to fight climate change, yet he's personally an environmental disaster with his yachts and jets. I'm not saying he has to live like a monk to be credible, and maybe his foundation is doing a good job (never looked into it), but either he's an hypocrite, or I disagree with him on how to fight climate change.