MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-08 17:53:29+00:00
We lived in a rural area when I was a kid. My dad told me once that his buddy had to measure the ptarmigan[1] population in the mountains each year as part of his job.

He did this by hiking a fixed route, and at fixed intervals scare the birds so they would fly and count.

The total count was submitted to some office which used it to estimate the population.

One year he had to travel abroad when the counting had to be done, so he recruited a friend and explained in detail how to do it.

However when the day of the counting arrived his friend forgot, and it was a huge hassle anyway so he just submitted a number he figured was about right, and that was that.

Then one day the following year, the local newspaper had a frontpage headline stating "record increase in ptarmigan population".

The reason it was big news was that the population estimate was used to set the hunting quotas, something his friend had not considered...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_ptarmigan
by wongarsu | 2025-05-08 17:53:34+00:00
Good point, "Reducing population growth" is a more accurate portrayal of what Gates actually said.

But in practice they are the same thing. Almost the entire developed world has a fertility rate below the replacement rate. Even the upper half of developing countries are below replacement rate. If you bring health care, urbanization and the economy across Africa to levels comparable to Russia or Brazil we can expect their birth rate to similarly fall below the replacement rate too.
by pqtyw | 2025-05-08 17:53:45+00:00
Not the New Testament. Christianity has the luxury (compared to some other religions..) of having very few "divinely ordained" rules. The teachings of Jesus supersede the stuff from the Old testament (the one with all not very nice things) however they are rather vague and undefined.

So various churches can freely pick/discard almost whatever they want besides the 10 commandments while Muslims can't exactly just throw away the Quran or Hadith (which are much more specific)..
by afavour | 2025-05-08 17:54:07+00:00
> "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-c...
by sepositus | 2025-05-08 17:55:09+00:00
Yes, this is accurate, they have a whole element of "tradition" that gets encompassed into teachings. However, I may be wrong, but these "traditions" mostly came out of areas where the Bible wasn't super clear. I suppose that's where the debate is, then, because it seems to be a minority view that the Bible doesn't have a clear definition of marriage.
by SkyBelow | 2025-05-08 17:55:18+00:00
One benefit is when working on multiple code bases where the size of the code base is larger than the time spent working on it, so there is still a gap of knowledge. Agents don't guarantee the correctness of a search the same an old search field does, but it offers a much more expressive way to do searches and queries in a code base.

Now that I think about it, I might have only ever used agents for searching and answering questions, not for producing code. Perhaps I don't trust the AI to build a good enough structure, so while I'll use AI, it is one file at a time sort of interaction where I see every change it makes. I should probably try out one of these agent based models for a throw away project just to get more anecdotes to base my opinion on.
by maxdemarzi | 2025-05-08 17:55:26+00:00
I’ve had tattoos removed and currently removing two more. They are all 20 years old, very faded, blurry they honestly just didn’t look good any more.

The first removal 5 years ago would leave me bleeding and require bandage changes for a week.

The new tattoo removal lasers leave you feeling like a sun burn for two days. No blood, no bandages.

It will become way more common.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-05-08 17:55:36+00:00
Here's a somewhat different description of the situation, which I found useful:

"[A] priest convicted of sexual abuse of minors was allowed to stay at an Augustinian priory near an elementary school and continue functions as a priest until later removed, and then laicized in 2012. However, Prevost is said to have never authorized that particular situation, the priest was not an Augustinian, and it took place before the Dallas Charter."

https://collegeofcardinalsreport.com/cardinals/robert-franci...

Edit:

There is also this discussion of an incident in Peru:

"More recently, questions were raised about Prevost’s knowledge and handling of abuse allegations in his former Diocese of Chiclayo. Two priests were accused of molesting three young girls, with the allegations surfacing in April 2022 during Prevost’s tenure as bishop. The case has been a source of frustration for local Catholics due to its slow progress and unclear resolution.

"Some accusers have claimed Prevost failed to properly investigate the allegations and covered up for the accused priest, but the diocese has firmly denied this, stating that Prevost followed proper procedures. They stated that Prevost personally received and attended to the victims, and reportedly opened an initial canonical investigation. He also encouraged the victims to take the case to the civil authorities. In July 2022, Prevost sent the results of the investigation to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) for review. His supporters stress that he has documents from the DDF and the Papal Nunciature in Peru which also indicate that he was not only attentive to the presumed victims, but that he did all required in Church law in following procedures set out for these cases.4

"However, in May 2025 allegations emerged that the diocese paid $150,000 to the three girls to silence them. Described as “longtime public critics of Prevost,” the girls reportedly blame Prevost for covering up their sexual abuse by the priest.

"The allegations, reported in InfoVaticana, described the Peruvian scandal, which was the subject of a national television report including an interview with the girls last fall, as the “stone in the shoe for Cardinal Prevost.”
by andrewpareles | 2025-05-08 17:55:42+00:00
Void dev here! As others have mentioned, VSCode strongly limits the functionality that you can build as an extension. A few things we've built that aren't supported as an extension: - the Accept|Reject UI and UX - Cmd+K - Control over the terminal and tabs - Custom autocomplete - Smaller things like ability to open/close the sidebar, onboarding, etc

It's been a lot harder to build an IDE than an extension, but we think having full control over the IDE (whether that's VSCode or something else we build in the future) will be important in the long run, especially when the next iteration of tool-use LLMs comes out (having native control over Git, the UI/UX around switching between iterations, etc).
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-05-08 17:56:15+00:00
You do know that the French grid would crash during every cold spell without 30 GW of fossil fueled power production? With the majority coming from their neighbors, reversing said flow?

What they have done is outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors fossil fuel power plants, and then only when they truly have to they reduce the output of their nuclear power.

Stick two French next to each other and they would in short order crash.
by roguecoder | 2025-05-08 17:56:20+00:00
Sure!

Functional programming precludes encapsulation, so it doesn't scale indefinitely the way fractal paradigms can. Eventually, the complexity becomes overwhelming.

One effective solution to that is introducing microservices: programmers can still write entirely functional code, but have encapsulation in the form of services. They have to be micro, though, because conventionally-sized services are still big enough to strain the paradigm.

But I see junior engineers who aren't expected to think about the "architecture", by which they mean the modular design. They are handed a spec and they implement it, Mythical Man Month style. That treats organizing lines of code and organizing services as two completely-distinct activities, and depending on the company junior engineers are often not exposed to modular design until five or ten years into their careers.
by kragen | 2025-05-08 17:56:21+00:00
> "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.

> Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html (April 02005)
by echelon | 2025-05-08 17:56:49+00:00
100%. Microsoft can't interfere with Zed.

Additionally, Zed is written in Rust and has robust hardware-accelerated rendering. This has a tangible feel that other editors do not. It feels just so smooth, unlike clunky heavyweight JetBrains products. And it feels solid and sturdy, unlike VS Code buffers, which feel like creaky webviews.
by simul007 | 2025-05-08 17:56:54+00:00
Hey fellow founders,

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And then, on top of ALL that, you need to find investors. Going website by website, LinkedIn profile to profile… what a time drain when you’re already swamped. It’s a massive pain.

I built my own startup and got sick of this, so I had my team create a big database of VCs and Angel investors. It saved us a ton of headaches.

Figured it could help others too. So, I'm giving away a chunk of it: 450+ VC and Angel investor contacts to get you started. No catch, just hoping it helps you get those first investor chats going.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-08 17:57:07+00:00
How men of cloth treat gay people is a good litmus test for whether they’re following the Christian tenets of love and forgiveness. Like, you’re dealing with one of God’s creatures, per the Christian worldview. You can’t claim to respect God’s plan and then turn around and say you know better when it makes you feel icky.

> job is to deal moral teachings, rather than follow the crowd

An American Catholic hating and despising gays is very much following their crowd.
by jordanb | 2025-05-08 17:57:50+00:00
Globalization was a policy!

There was always this doublespeak that came to trade deals where they say "globalization is inevitable and uncontrollable and therefore we must make these trade deals to facilitate and guide it to be good."

Of course if it's an inevitable force of nature then it does not need to be facilitated by nor can it be controlled by trade deals. There's no enabling legislation for gravity.
by jasonjayr | 2025-05-08 17:58:03+00:00
I think the crux of the problem is that with all the statements the Bible makes, at a plain reading of the text, who are we, as mere humans to decide which parts should be strictly adhered to, or which parts should not, or which parts mean something completely different from the plain reading? As far as I can tell there is no consistent application of logic and understanding what parts matter and which parts do not. And depending on who you talk to, those parts change.

I understand that as part of the faith, it is not our place to know the reason God has chosen. However, I believe that there are very serious concerns about the intentions of the people 'qualified' to interpret the texts. Relying on "just trust us" gets us into big trouble, fast.

As the saying goes, the devil may quote scripture too.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-08 17:58:05+00:00
This is what I don't quite get? What is the impetus for their government to want to play ball with us?

The incentive for their companies is that they can access US markets. But their government is a bit different. That government has clearly been serious about 2 things for the past couple of decades, one is developing an internal market. (Which, prior to our imposition of tariffs, they were failing miserably at). The other is their pivot to the global south. (Which, prior to our imposition of tariffs, they were wildly successful at).

Now that we started a trade war, they will be more successful at both. Especially the pivot to the global south. I guess I just can't see why the government of China feels more urgency to talk with us, than it feels to accelerate their pivot to, and development of, markets in the global south for instance? Why is talking to us the better choice for their government strategically speaking?

I mean, if I were sitting in their shoes, I'd just be like, "Man, this is be the perfect illustration of why it was so important to pivot to the global south in the first place."
by tom89999 | 2025-05-08 17:58:10+00:00
I am thinking what all that stuff written and drawn on people should tell me? I cant even talk to them while commuting, they only stare in their phones. What is it my business when the litte daughter was born or a half readable scribbling above the boobs is there? I dont get many tatoos, some of them you see around the world in the same manner. Some are complete bullshit. But well, as long as people have money for getting and then removing them, all is fine.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-08 17:58:18+00:00
I imagine if your volume is high enough it could be worthwhile to at least check to see if simple preprocessing gets you anywhere.

Basically compare model performance on a bunch of problems, and see if the queries which actually require an expensive model have anything in common (e.g. low Flesch-Kincaid readability, or a bag-of-words approach which tries to detect the frequency of subordinate clauses/potentially ambiguous pronouns, or word rarity, or whatever).

Maybe my knowledge of old-school NLP methods is useful after all :-) Generally those methods tend to be far less compute-intensive. If you wanted to go really crazy on performance, you might even use a Bloom filter to do fast, imprecise counting of words of various types.

Then you could add some old-school, compute-lite ML, like an ordinary linear regression on the old-school-NLP-derived features.

Really the win would be for a company like Hypermode to implement this automatically for customers who want it (high volume customers who don't mind saving money).

Actually, a company like Hypermode might be uniquely well-positioned to offer this service to smaller customers as well, if query difficulty heuristics generalize well across different workloads. Assuming they have access to data for a large variety of customers, they could look for heuristics that generalize well.
by jsnell | 2025-05-08 17:58:33+00:00
In your example, the attacker already has the session key for the TLS connection, so they don't need to run this attack to decrypt the traffic on that connection. And running the attack does not help them decrypt any other connections.

Sweet32 depended on the attacker being able to send an arbitrary amount of traffic over a connection where they did not control either of the endpoints, and with that connection also carrying the data they wanted to steal. That doesn't map at all to the proposed "infinite stream of EHLOs" attack.
by sherief055 | 2025-05-08 17:59:13+00:00
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by sepositus | 2025-05-08 17:59:13+00:00
I don't think that's a fair statement. For example, a large majority of denominations (I'd say >80%) agree on something like the Apostle's Creed [1]. But yes, for less core doctrines, there are sometimes dozens of flavors.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-05-08 17:59:26+00:00
How did nuclear slip into your list of power sources that dominate the Chinese grid? You skipped over two other sources that generate double what nuclear does and are growing faster:

Coal 58.2%

Hydro 13%

Wind 9.8%

Solar 8.3%

Nuclear 4.4%

https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-05-08 17:59:27+00:00
> That's why for vulnerable/high-benefit target groups better be safe than sorry.

Yes, but let's be practical. I'm not one of these people, in all likelihood you're not a high ranking member of government either. The attacks we are vulnerable to are wide-sweeping well-known vulnerabilities that are trivially exploitable, untargeted, in a browser or in user installed software. These exist, but we can learn about them and know if we are vulnerable, then make the judgment for if it's within our risk tolerance & risk appetite.

Security is not an absolute. It must be informed by the real-world threat landscape, then modulated by individual risk on a case-by-case basis. Too many "security people" preach well-intentioned but incomplete advice.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-08 18:00:06+00:00
A bunch of Buddhist monasteries were also banks, back in the day.

Medieval Catholic monasteries were basically corporations where the board lived together and spent tons of time praying and celebrating festivals. Prayers were like NFTs and they traded them to nobles in exchange for traditionally-productive capital, which the corporation would then manage to provide them goods and monetary revenue.

Here I was tempted to write "the past was weird" but then we have actual NFTs and those are amazingly silly, so, how weird was it really?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-08 18:00:31+00:00
>Why would we assume that? If the objects are entirely distinct, why are you combining them together into one class at all? That doesn't make any sense. Let distinct types be distinct. Let consumers of those types combine them however they like.

Human = torso, legs, arms. Three distinct objects combine into one thing. A human by definition is the union of these things. It's fundamental. It's just your bias is trying to see it as something else.

>So now the objects have 90% of their properties shared. That's different from what you were saying earlier. But moving on...

So? I can talk about multiple things right? This is allowed in life right? Did i break the law here?

>The composition answer is similar to the inheritance answer. Take the common parts and extract them out into a self contained type. Use that type everywhere you need it - eg by including it in both A and B.

Composition is the same thing. But it's saying instead of overriding duplicate properties, Clone the duplicate property. That's it. And it uses nesting to achieve this. This arbitrary rule isn't more fundamental then overriding the duplicate property.

>Via composition, you do it like this:

Why don't you take a look at my examples again. You are either not able to comprehend or you didn't read it. I literally said the same thing:

B = {a: A, e}

The above a complete dupe of what I wrote.

B = {a, b, c , d, e}

Just nested. Which I brought up:

B = {{a, b, c, d}, e}

Is it not? Please read my response replying with stuff like this. Read it thoroughly.

>And that's an incredibly damning criticism, because complexity is an absolute killer.

Not exactly it's not that straightforward. Because inheritance minimizes code copying. It reuses code in the most efficient way possible. So actually lines of code and duplicate code actually goes down. So complexity in one area falls and rises in another area.

Our brains are biased towards handling complexity of duplicate code better then tightly coupled code.
by mynameisash | 2025-05-08 18:00:37+00:00
> The teachings of Jesus supersede the stuff from the Old testament (the one with all not very nice things) however they are rather vague and undefined.

Except Jesus said that he didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, and not one stroke of a letter of the law will pass away. So he didn't change anything about slavery, mistreatment of women, etc.
by marssaxman | 2025-05-08 18:00:41+00:00
> regardless of your income level, you can almost certainly live on 10% less

This did not become true for me until my very late 20s, and by that point I was so well adapted to living on the edge, in a world which offered no end of surprising new ways to knock my financial situation out from under me, that it took years more before I started to see any value in planning for anything more than a couple months away.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-08 18:01:13+00:00
> The President and Secretary of State have less power than you think; they aren't corporate CXOs. They are subject to the laws, and NSA must follow laws made by Congress. That's intentional - the division of power is that Congress makes the rules and the executive branch implements them.

Indeed indeed... but sadly, as we're seeing (especially, but not just) with DOGE this keeps on eroding.
by dang | 2025-05-08 18:01:41+00:00
I've been at many open source meetups with YC founders and can tell you that this is not the thinking at all. Rather, the emphasis is on finding a good carve-line between the open source offering and the (eventual) paid one, so that both sides are viable and can thrive.

Most common these days is to make the paid product be a hosted version of the open source software, but there are other ways too. Experienced founders emphasize to new startups how important it is to get this right and to keep your open source community happy.

No one I've heard is treating open source like a bait and switch; quite the opposite. What is sought is a win-win where each component (open source and paid) does better because of the other.
by dacke | 2025-05-08 18:01:54+00:00
Really late at responding here but I agree on the idea that agents lock up new frontiers for improving AI-powered products/systems. I think that the principle of going towards where tech is heading applies not only to the LLMs but also to the surrounding tools, infra and plumbing. You might not have skills to leverage LLMs yourself today but have some kind of unique user insight that will be easier to translate into a product soon.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-08 18:01:54+00:00
The Francis quote "Who am I to judge?" is misleading, as it is quoted out of context by the media from what was one of many fuzzy off-the-cuff remarks he made during his pontificate. The media almost certainly quoted him out of context intentionally. Note that Francis also said there was “too much frociaggine” in the seminaries.

This is perhaps difficult for people to understand, but while the Church's pastoral approach toward people with same-sex attraction can change, its teachings on same-sex attraction and the gay lifestyle will not.
by sam | 2025-05-08 18:02:05+00:00
Author here - some other posters have touched on the reasons. Much of the focus on high performing tokamaks shifted to ITER in recent decades, though this is now changing as fusion companies are utilizing new enabling technologies like high-temperature superconductors.

Additionally the final plot of scientific gain (Qsci) vs time effectively requires the use of deuterium-tritium fuel to generate the amounts of fusion energy needed for an appreciable level of Qsci. The number of tokamak experiments utilizing deuterium tritium is small.