MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-08 19:23:28+00:00
When I hear "gift card" I reach for my gun. Relatives have been warned that nobody in my nuclear family will accept gift cards for a gift.

(Last time it happened my sister-in-law bought a Burger King gift card for my son although she didn't know that Burger King had gone out of business in my town. They had trouble spending all of it after making several out-of-town trips. I made my son give it to me after he screwed up. I almost used it down at the Oculus in NYC but didn't want to wait in line for 20 minutes to wait another 20 minutes to get a burger and just ate at the salad place across the street instead.)

I don't know exactly how, but I know stablecoins will eventually lead to big trouble. In 2025 it seems easy to run an honest stablecoin because with current high interest rates you can put the money in US treasuries or a bank account, collect some nice yield, spend a little to run the system, and make a profit. Trouble is that a lot of people won't be happy to hold a coin that pays 0% yield when you can find a bank account that pays 4%

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...

so people are going to insist on interest bearing coins and the trouble with that is that people aren't going to think 4% is enough and that's going to lead people into things that aren't honest and aren't safe.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-05-08 19:24:07+00:00
Something my half-brother said ...

"Cheap foreign products are a necessity when so-called American companies don't love Americans enough to pay them what they're worth. It's the whole reason things went overseas in the first place. It's gonna be nice if we can finally get American companies to actually support America and pay citizens what they're worth."

The above sounds nice, but it's oversimplified, like a lot of political rhetoric recently. Now, if this does end up making real living wages for the American worker a commonplace thing, that's awesome, but I'm pessimistic given the history of things, how money can influence politics, and how corporate lawyers can find loopholes.
by neilv | 2025-05-08 19:24:32+00:00
That beats my similar anecdote.

At a high-profile place, I too used an automated IT thing to make a first-name email alias for myself, and there was a semi-famous person there with the same first name.

It played out much like this story: I started getting email for the VIP, so I told them, and switched it over to them. I don't recall them being as gracious as Steve Jobs that time. Then, the only other interaction I had with them was them during my time there, was them declining my request to participate in something. :)
by brutuscat | 2025-05-08 19:24:58+00:00
Nice! And with what he will be left he could, if he deploys it also during 20y, help 1200 people per month. With 1k daily give aways.

https://ayudaefectiva.org/simula

Or with 10k daily, 310k monthly, adjusted by historical inflation it’s 100 million during 20 years.

That’s 3 million people helped.
by goa | 2025-05-08 19:25:17+00:00
Ok you are right, my initial post was tongue in cheek and aimed to reference the dropbox hackernews meme.

1. Are current agents running on the same machine, and with the future A2A they can play across the internet?

2. How many agents can play/cooperate right now?

3. Can you also control enemies? Might be fun to have a generative adverserial setup?
by raddan | 2025-05-08 19:26:18+00:00
I understand that somebody might want to generate static pages from code that generates it dynamically, but I fail to appreciate _why_. Are people using this for a handful of pages they want to load quickly and whose contents rarely change, or are people building entire static sites using things like React? If it's the latter... uh... why? It's been awhile since I was a web developer, so maybe my pain threshold is inappropriately low. I think Jekyll is fine and use it pretty regularly.
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-08 19:26:27+00:00
Slightly related: the movie "Conclave" (2024) is a great and surprising thriller. Critics consensus from RottenTomatoes:

> Carrying off papal pulp with immaculate execution and career-highlight work from Ralph Fiennes, Conclave is a godsend for audiences who crave intelligent entertainment.

[video trailer] https://youtu.be/JX9jasdi3ic?si=sYwqRlK-4hYUnsAa
by gambiting | 2025-05-08 19:26:27+00:00
>>This is just mental gymnastics on the level of "it's not murder when the military does it!".

What definition of embezzlement includes both parties willingly engaging in exchange of labour for financial compensation? I think you are right, there is mental gymnastic happening, just not where you think it is.

>>No, because it's not relevant to the discussion.

How so?
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-05-08 19:26:35+00:00
Imagine deciding in your early 20's back in the 1990's to put on that awful floral shirt and those jeans torns and ripped with paisley patches. Your mullet hairstyle, your 10 earrings.

Now that's your fashion decision for the rest of your life because you thought this is such a cool look, you'll wear it until you die.

That's tattoos.
by sneak | 2025-05-08 19:27:13+00:00
Don't hold your breath for Darktable; the devs are hellbent on being as user-hostile as possible. It needs to be forked or replaced to make any progress.

Somebody forked it and was trying to do just that; I don't know the status of that project.

https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-08 19:27:15+00:00
Build an AI to figure out what DOGE employees get sent to jail.

Alas, AI is a tool to make decisions without accountability. And rarely does the blowback make its way upwards.

This seems so flaggrantly stupidly awful & illegal. Innocent until proven guilty isn't going to go away, and the AI here is not capable of being a real arbiter, judge and jury. So painfully obviously. Seeing such a weird fucked up religion as AI spawn and take root, in such areas that have to be done right, is going to be the single worst thing for AI's chances, is going to malign any honest attempts at AI. Fuck these fucking fuckers.
by kragen | 2025-05-08 19:27:27+00:00
The particular kind of pathology I see here is a strong centralization of the Rust community under the control of an unaccountable leadership caste. The point of free-software licensing is to minimize the control "owners" of software have over their users, protecting those users from abuses by leaders. Somehow Rust users seem to have, to a significant extent, abdicated the rights guaranteed to them by the software license.

For example, in your example of "inserting two mandatory ads to be watched during each Java compiler run", the OpenJDK license guarantees your right to remove those ads from your copy of javac, and to redistribute that copy of javac as the official Debian or Ubuntu version of javac. F-Droid does this routinely to such "antifeatures" in open-source Android applications, and of course Android itself exists because the open-source licenses of projects like Harmony, IDEA, and Eclipse protect Google from such malfeasance.

I'm not sure what the "average open-source project" is. Maybe something like https://github.com/justinasr/FantilatorOS/, the firmware for a redundant array of 64 inexpensive muffin fans that someone set up at CERN? https://web.archive.org/web/20231010215437/https://onlyfans.... Or https://github.com/antimatter15/splat, a Gaussian splat renderer in WebGL? I think those are both "non-average" in that they have a very above-average number of forks and stars. But, like the overwhelming majority of open-source projects, neither of them has a community in any meaningful sense, so I think the question doesn't make sense, given that it's a question about community dynamics.
by probably_wrong | 2025-05-08 19:28:04+00:00
I'd argue that, Vikings aside, it is a bit weird to use the term "America" to describe lands that neither Christopher Columbus nor Americo Vespucci visited in their lifetime.

The USA may have been the first recognized country, but the term "America" was coined much earlier. But I'm a reasonable person - if we really want to keep it as two separate continents, "America" and "North America" works for me.
by andrewpareles | 2025-05-08 19:28:30+00:00
Interesting, thanks for sharing! We planned on spinning up a new Git branch and shallow Git clone (or possibly worktree/something more optimized) for each agent, and also adding a small auto-merge-with-LLM flow, although something more granular like this might feel better. If we don't use a versioning tool like JJ at first (may just use Git for simplicity at first), we will certainly consider it later on, or might end up building our own.
by danso | 2025-05-08 19:28:31+00:00
Well I don’t think much of the OP’s argument. “America”, whether we like it or not, has come to be popularly synonymous with “United States” among English-speaking audience. There’s little risk for ambiguity because Western news agencies almost never use “America” alone when referring to the region or continent — they would say “American continent” or “North/South America”

In 50 years, when the U.S. has decided to call itself something else, then yes, this CNN breaking news headline will be ambiguous. But breaking news writes headlines for its current audience, it’s not meant to be a taxonomically accurate index.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-08 19:28:37+00:00
I hope this Pope recognizes that the only way to lead is a personal martyrdom of self interest.

A true leader must pave the way, not merely point to it. "I must decrease so that my children can increase" in the words of St. John the Baptist and the actions of St. Joseph, who St. Luke calls the father of Jesus, and who is the living image of the father.

St. Joseph's staff only sprouted the life of lilies because it was dead first (Hebrews 9:4, which book the Blessed Virgin Mary probably wrote).

(Also Chicago represent!)
by xenadu02 | 2025-05-08 19:29:27+00:00
No, China imposes rather large tariffs on external goods to force internal consumption. That's beyond a bunch of other measures that prevent foreigners from starting businesses or owning property.

Of course as other comments in the thread have pointed out: a much smarter way to roll out tariffs to encourage domestic manufacturing is by slowing ramping them up to give industry time to react.

My lathe was $3400. A week later the price is now $4000 thanks to tariffs. There are no domestic manufacturers left and banks/Wall Street aren't going to finance someone spinning up a machine tools company. The difference in price isn't enough to erase China's excessive subsidies to their industry combined with their lower labor pay rates so even if someone did try to compete they still couldn't match $4000. My best guess is more like $6-7k. In the end all the tariffs are doing is making it more difficult to get into machining.

If idiots and sycophants weren't steering the ship the US would have a state-run investment bank that partnered with private capital to offer investments to anyone who wanted to start a business. Frankly I think there is lots of opportunity in various spaces like machine tools to make innovative products at all scales from the small hobbyist to big industrial shops. It won't be a 1000x return though so no one cares.
by j_w | 2025-05-08 19:29:37+00:00
I think this is good retort to what was argued.

What's missed in me saying roll your own auth, even though I did say it, is that you aren't implementing the network stack or crypto. As long as you keep your dependencies up to date you shouldn't have any increased risk over using a third party library.

If there is a novel security flaw discovered, consider the first SQL-injection or XSS attack, then you definitely should know about it. The idea that not rolling your own security related functionality absolves you from the responsibility to know or understand major security considerations is incorrect. It is the responsibility of every programmer to be knowledgeable of the security risks in their space and the patterns that protect against those risks.
by Mithriil | 2025-05-08 19:29:52+00:00
In the original paper, it is said that of the 117 metrics they used to identify technical debt (3 of the 10 categories, TBE):

> The results were disappointing, to say the least. No single metric predicted reports of technical debt from engineers; our linear regression models predicted less than 1% of the variance in survey responses. The random forest models fared better, but they had high precision (>80%) and low recall (10%–25%).
by fedsocpuppet | 2025-05-08 19:30:11+00:00
I love McMaster but the multi-tab experience could really be better. Search filters don't carry through opening a link in a new tab (try searching M3 screw then ctrl-click socket head screws). Sometimes ctrl-clicking product numbers/product detail doesn't work at all. IIRC the back button sometimes breaks too. Pretty annoying since 80% of the time I'm researching the best component and want to backtrack easily.
by BJones12 | 2025-05-08 19:31:15+00:00
That's the thing...you would not be fortunate. The institution exists because it is a net benefit to humanity.

> Is there a single entity to have ever existed in the history of humanity that has more blood on its hands?

Depending on how you count, probably many. In wars, more than 98% of casualties are attributable to political wars that had no religious motivation, and fewer so of Roman Catholic motivation. So, whatever those political entities are.

A confounding factor in answering the question is that the Catholics have been around for 2000 years, and many violently bloody entities fell after comparably short periods of time. For example, the Khmer Rouge existed for 4 years and killed 3 million people, no religious entity could attain the same level of bloodshed over their long existence even if they tried, which they don't.
by caseyy | 2025-05-08 19:31:31+00:00
Everyone’s super concerned about security and control, but the best places I worked in were more concerned with freedom. Yes, be savvy about security, protect key assets, but “permissions oversight” about claiming an alias seems excessive.

You’ll have 1,000x more headaches and burned operational cash getting everyone to approve everyone else’s every step than handling one security incident in a decade. And even with very tight security, something will still happen. It’s best to have backups, a good restore plan, and a relaxed culture*. Or that’s what I think, anyway.

I’m in SME land though, not big tech. But then again, 99.99% companies are.

* common sense exceptions apply.
by silisili | 2025-05-08 19:31:48+00:00
That reminds me of the WinPhone days. The Moto Q was an awesome device built like a brick.

Samsung knocked it off with the BlackJack, which itself was an obvious copy/knock on Blackberry. It felt like such a downgrade - cheap plastic, hollow, and really buggy. Sounds like not much has changed since those days...
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-08 19:31:57+00:00
It’s part of the hierarchy of the church.

Diocesan priests “work” for the bishop in a particular geographical area and are in the “corporate” hierarchy of the church.

Religious orders are sort of independent from the the church hierarchy and report through to the leader of their order, at a global level. They often focus on specific things and may have different vows. Franciscans are known for their work with the poor and personal vows of poverty, for example. Also the order is a community that has its own governance.

I have friends who are in a similar organization as nuns. They govern themselves democratically and globally. It’s pretty amazing - we helped them setup their real-time voting system to manage their community. Each group is different.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-08 19:32:19+00:00
>security culture in tech was really quite non-existent

This is 1991, the actual number of people on the internet was tiny back then. Things like SMTP servers were commonly open relays (for some reason I'm remembering sendmail being an open relay out of the box).

A lot of the internet culture wasn't based on security, but of the premise you shouldn't be a dick.

It quickly changed in the next few years as the number of people online exploded.
by quesera | 2025-05-08 19:32:48+00:00
I'm pretty sure you cease to be a Catholic when you call the Pope the anti-Christ. Infallible, God's representative on Earth, etc.

Though in USAmerica, we're pretty flexible on the meaning of "Christian" anyway. Certainly the loudest proclaimers have no resemblance whatsoever to the expected meaning.

Those troublesome CINOs.. Gosh Darn them to Heck.
by kyleblarson | 2025-05-08 19:33:02+00:00
I live in an area with tons of rattlesnakes and deal with at least 6-10 per year on my property. They generally just want to be left alone which I usually oblige unless they are near the house or shop. I heard an old timer say that the majority of snake bite victims in our area are young males and the most common pre-bite words are "hold my beer, watch this."
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-08 19:33:18+00:00
> USAID funding for AIDS research wasn’t given to another organisation.

USAID isn't clinical trials, it's treatment subsidies in foreign countries and studies on the administrative efficiency of foreign healthcare bureaucracies.

> Similarly, right now, actual research is being halted

Obviously if you reallocate funding from trial A to trial B, trial A loses its funding. Whether this is a net cost or benefit depends on how they compare with each other.

It also depends on how institutions respond. If Harvard is doing trials A and C and that funding moves to trials B and D somewhere else, and as a result trial A gets canceled but Harvard chooses to continue to fund trial C out of its endowment, you now have three trials going instead of two. Maybe that's better. I doubt they were doing that on purpose, but if that's the result, it isn't necessarily bad.
by hwillis | 2025-05-08 19:34:30+00:00
Using these techniques, never. The electrode methods can only see a tiny section of processing and are missing all the information elsewhere. fMRI is very low resolution. Because of this they are all very overfitted- they cue off very particular subject-specific quirks that will not generalize well.

More importantly, these techniques operate on the V1, V4 and inferior temporal cortex areas of the brain. These areas will fire in response to retina stimulation regardless of what's happening in the rest of your brain. V1 in particular is connected directly to your retinas. While deeper areas may be sympathetically activated by hallucinations etc, they aren't really related to your conception of things. In general if you want to read someone's thoughts you would look elsewhere in the brain.
by nostromo | 2025-05-08 19:34:35+00:00
I worked there and would encourage you not to do that.

It'd be smarter to see who they are giving money to (which is all public) and give directly to those orgs. The Gates foundation itself spends a lot of money on consultants, "government engagement" (aka lobbying by another name), and fancy dinners.

That's fine or maybe even noble for a family foundation, but it's probably not something individuals would want to fund.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-08 19:34:40+00:00
Why would that even be a good thing? Religion is inherently above politics. Politics is concerned for the temporal good of its subjects.

Religion is concerned for the ethical and spiritual good of its subjects. Politics are short sighted and can never produce a paradise. Religion can produce a paradise in the soul of one even in the worst political and economic circumstances.

Jesus was homeless and broke.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-08 19:35:11+00:00
The book you want to read about what he was about is this one (reprint): "The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII" [0]. You can find his encyclicals, speeches, etc. here [1].

[0] https://a.co/d/gmUTo49

[1] https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en.html
by kazinator | 2025-05-08 19:35:21+00:00
The source is the English language, do you speak it? :)

Nouns that appear as modifiers in a compound noun are singular, and the need for a singular is so strong that English speakers invent singulars forms of plurale tantum words such as "jean jacket" rather than "jeans jacket".

There are certain cases in which a plural modifier cannot be avoided, mainly because a plurale tantum doesn't singularize. We cannot singularize "goods" in "goods distribution network"; if we drop the "s", we get an adjective which completely changes the meaning.

However, consider the word "supplies" which normally doesn't go to the singular word "supply" denoting one item. Yet in business we have "supply chain", not "supplies chain".

There is a strong urge to eliminate plurals from the non-head position of a compound noun; the urge only loses in cases when a special kind of plural cannot be eliminated.
by jonfriesen | 2025-05-08 19:35:23+00:00
These are all great callouts. We've worked hard to address some of them, some are future endeavours.

To address your points:

1. In our testing, uprobes add a statistically insignificant amount of latency and in comparison to a MITM proxies it's nearly identical to native.

2. True, we're focused on Linux right now. I'm looking forward to exploring Microsoft's eBPF implementation and exploring how we can support the Windows ecosystem.

3. You're right that the technique we are using for OpenSSL will not work for other runtimes. That said, there are other techniques that we've implemented in our Pro offering for the JVM, Go, and NodeJS. Rust is in the works!
by Boogie_Man | 2025-05-08 19:36:12+00:00
I am not Catholic and priests should be permitted to marry.

The zeitgeist is inaccurate. Sexual abuse and subsequent cover ups were a massive problem that has largely been addressed, but the numbers of offenders are proportionally lower than those in public schools. From wikipedia:

"Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft, the author of a 2002 report on sexual offenses in schools, said sexual violence is much more prevalent in schools than in the Church.[315] Ernie Allen, former president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, stated: "we don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this [sexual abuse and pedophilia] or as a place that has a bigger problem [with this issue] than anyone else."[316]"