MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ebiester | 2025-05-08 18:38:48+00:00
Okay, yes, we get it. But the United States as a name even is not unique to western hemisphere countries - the name of Mexico is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" - or United Mexican States.

We were the first country from the to be recognized by the Western Europeans, and the people at the time didn't anticipate the current situation, so forgive us for having a name in English that is a bit ambiguous, but how many people complain that there's no common name for Europe and Africa combined? Why is everyone so interested in lumping two continents together whose commonality stops with being the result of European colonialism and the consensus of a few mapmakers?
by henryfjordan | 2025-05-08 18:38:51+00:00
I'd read it as requiring the Pope to renounce his title if he wanted to be President of the US unless congress votes that it's OK.

But also the emolument clause is effectively unenforceable and the whole "insurgent" ruling basically made it impossible to challenge a presidential candidate. If Trump wants a 3rd term, for instance, I'm not sure what mechanism would prevent him at this point.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-08 18:39:01+00:00
That's a reasonable desire, but I'm not convinced the real shipping cost is being subsidized very much. At one point the US was losing a dollar per item. Fix that and the trinket only goes up to $12. And we've already been fixing it.

When shipping from China instead of the US, the first segment is cheaper, the middle distribution and last mile are the same, and there's a ship segment that splits a couple thousand dollar container cost across a massive pile of packages. I don't expect a particularly big difference.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-08 18:39:08+00:00
> States would need to increase taxes to fund more research, which would cause some of the wealthiest residents to flee to low-tax states.

The people who actually pay most of the taxes aren't the billionaires (both because there aren't that many of them and because they already engage in sophisticated tax avoidance), they're the likes of senior partners at law firms, cardiologists, successful small business owners, etc. But these people are not only not going to move to Wyoming for lower taxes, because they can't operate the businesses that them that amount of money there, a lot of the reason Wyoming has lower taxes is because they're large net recipients of federal funds. If they had to fund their own stuff that would make it more attractive to live in the states that are currently doing the funding.

Moreover, research funding has always been a small proportion of government spending, e.g. the NIH is ~0.7% of the federal budget. This does not require a large change in tax revenues to move somewhere else.

> Some of us don't want the U.S. to experience brain drain that will cause our country to become more like the rural states that suffer from the loss of their best and brightest.

The first search result from your link is an article saying that isn't actually happening:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/20...
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-05-08 18:39:15+00:00
Please do not be naive. This was not a stray accusation from an opportunistic adult, This was multiple accusations to the same people from children.

I would think the bare minimum is when multiple children tell you they are being molested by the same person, you tell that person they are fired if they are seen near a school, and you interview other children at the school. Or you go to the police yourself and ask them to investigate. You know, common sense things. You don't, for instance, do this.

> "As the Archdiocese of Chicago had already placed restrictions on Ray being in the company of minors for nine years prior to his residence at St. John Stone Priory and communicated these when seeking approval from the Provincial, Robert Prevost, Cardinal Prevost was aware of the danger that Ray posed to minors when he gave approval," the letter says. "Nonetheless, Ray was permitted to live at the Priory in the vicinity of an elementary school without informing the administration of the school. By doing so, Cardinal Prevost endangered the safety of the children attending St. Thomas the Apostle."

I would invite you to apply skepticism to the adults who famously covered all of this up, and not to catholic children.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-05-08 18:39:30+00:00
The thing that's always made me skeptical of Gates and any other enormous foundations is that they operate at such a high level and with such enormous budgets that they basically exist in the same "amoral" world of nation states and corporations, but yet they face none of the scrutiny or criticism that those entities face.

How do you judge the actions of someone when those actions are powerful enough to move markets, take down regimes, and change people's lives for generations?

We take them at their word and assume that everything they do is well-intentioned and good and has zero negative impact or secondary effects, but is that really the case?

To me it seems like the only charity that can be trusted is a small-scale one that acts locally and with lots of transparency.
by timewizard | 2025-05-08 18:39:37+00:00
You could eradicate a disease by killing all the hosts. I worry that the people who want to "eradicate disease" don't actually care about long term outcomes, they just want to have their likeness cast in bronze, with a nice plaque beneath it, lauding their "oversized" achievements in life.

Anyways, the type of person who can earn a lot of money in this economy, and the type of person who can best decide how to spend it altruistically, are almost certainly not the same person. The person who earned the money certainly understand this. Yet. Here we are.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-08 18:40:35+00:00
I have a number of family members that work at different levels of government facing the public. Based on your rhetoric and their stories there's a high probability that you'd fall under the group I'd consider 'howlers'.

What is that?

The people that blame everyone else for problems without understanding any of the complexity of the system. Everything is some scary other persons fault. Then later they have to interface with the system after the laws they have promoted and they are aghast about how abusive the system has become.

I got to see this in person just a few days ago. I was renewing my license in Texas and had a stack of all the proper identification that I needed because I triple checked online on what I'd actually need. In front of me was an older gentleman that evidently had waited till the last day to renew his license. He didn't have any of the needed documentation, in this case his birth certificate. The clerk told him that unless he had that record he could not renew. He was all pissed and storming out and said "I bet it was the democrats that make us do that!".

It is this wild disconnect I see quite often where I see people that want others inconvenienced, you know people from other places or people that don't look the same, but proceed with shock when the rules apply to them also and start howling about it.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-05-08 18:40:43+00:00
Economies of scale could vastly benefit a lot of charity work, but few charities can attain sufficient scale to achieve that. There is an unfortunate amount of overhead and administration in charities that do not directly benefit the cause.

In that sense, I suspect targeted and planned large investments into charities with scalable plans is a lot more efficient than years of trickle donations.
by mlmonge | 2025-05-08 18:40:45+00:00
From Catholic News Agency [1], for your convenience: The history of the white smoke, which indicates that the cardinals have elected a new successor of St. Peter, is ancient. In 1274, at the Second Council of Lyons, Pope Gregory X, in a document titled Ubi Periculum, determined the procedure for holding a conclave. There he specified that the election would be done in isolation and with strict secrecy. For this reason, and to avoid any communication with the outside, the smoke signal was eventually adopted as part of the ritual. The tradition of burning ballots goes back to at least 1417, and likely before then, according to historian Frederic J. Baumgartner. The addition of the white spoke to announce the election of a new pope is more recent, however. Baumgartner traces it to 1914, with the election of Pope Benedict XV. If the smoke coming out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel is black, it means that none of the proposed candidates has reached two-thirds of the votes needed to be elected. If the smoke is white, the Church has a new universal pastor. In ancient times, the method to give the smoke these colors was to burn the ballots used in the voting with a bit of wet straw so that it would come out black, or dry so as to obtain white smoke. Nowadays, and due to some episodes that caused confusion, special chemical compounds and a procedure that includes two different tubes, one for each color of smoke, are used. In addition, a bell is rung, part of the ritual introduced when Pope Benedict XVI was elected, which confirms the smoke is white and a new pope has been elected.

[1] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263867/the-story-beh...
by bee_rider | 2025-05-08 18:41:03+00:00
I think most people worldwide basically know what you mean when you say American, but are actually referring to a person from the US, via context. It is pragmatic label. They aren’t from the US so they don’t have to worry about some identity based thing or feeling like they are stealing the name from two continents, for their one country.

On the other hand, some of more conscientious people in the US are feeling a little awkward about the name these days. So it isn’t surprising that we’d be the ones objecting.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-05-08 18:41:17+00:00
That report you say has 1 hour of storage has four hours of battery in all the systems it compares.

It's a bit of a weird measure anyway, since it's just the ratio of storage to inverter, so it's the time it could run for when working flat out.

For your wider point, if anyone, anywhere was really contemplating a near full nuclear grid they'd have the exact same issues. Do you overbuild and curtail? Export? Store in batteries? The problems and solutions are incredibly similar now batteries have basically solved the daily variation for solar.

The fact that no one is even bothering to think that far ahead for nuclear is a recognition of how totally out of the race it is.
by blibble | 2025-05-08 18:41:46+00:00
I wouldn't worry about this too much, at least whilst the attestations in the spec remain anonymous

this necessitates sharing attestation signing keys between many devices

if someone starts banning non-trusted attestations then attackers will extract and leak yubikey's/microsoft's/... attestation signing keys

and which point anyone can sign whatever attestation they want

then the other side has to decide whether they lock out & ban thousands of innocent users, or accept the loss of control
by hintymad | 2025-05-08 18:42:28+00:00
A trajectory question: do we still have the debate that whether open-source software takes away SDE jobs or makes the pie grow bigger to create more jobs? The booming OS community in the past seem have created multiple billion-dollar markets. On the other hand, we have a lot less growth than before now, and I was wondering if OSS has started to suppressing the demand of SDEs.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-08 18:42:30+00:00
I am not here to shill for Google, but I cannot believe that Google doesn't have a special arrangement with McMaster to index all of their part numbers! The advertising potential is very good. As a related point, I am almost sure they have special handling for programming searches to prefer StackOverflow over other sources. A few times, SO.com has made some incredibly tiny change to their webpages that made them virtually invisible to Google. After some internal email exchanges, SO.com was "fixed", and again, dominated Google programming searches. (Of course, this was 2010s... long before the AI slop era!)
by paddy_m | 2025-05-08 18:42:42+00:00
I call it Trader UI vs VC UI. Traders want as much info jammed onto the screen as possible. VC backed companies use bootstrap, and want rounded corners on a pricing page with little actual information.

I have been working on Buckaroo, a table UI for dataframes that runs in jupyter notebooks. It's much more TraderUI, with sparkline size histograms, and decent baked in formatting for numeric columns.

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-05-08 18:42:45+00:00
So, there is a limit to these deductions, meaning, the government is still usually getting the lion's share of most people's taxes (and, generally, I think 50% of your income is the max you can deduct).

I think there is value to letting people allocate some percentage of their income directly to causes they are passionate about. Even if you assume the government is efficient and not bloated, and benevolent, this lets people contribute to causes without waiting for political consensus, or to smaller causes that would not be on the government's radar (yet) or ever. It's more pluralistic. It lets smaller causes bloom. It keeps me civically engaged.

On a personal note, I do take issue with the amounts spent on "defense" (which is often bombing people or threatening to directly or indirectly), and would rather help folks than bomb other folks.
by bitwize | 2025-05-08 18:42:53+00:00
People online say piracy isn't a big deal because "the artist/band makes their money from live shows and merch anyway". But that wasn't always true. Before internet piracy, selling music actually was a viable business. Only when anything and everything became downloadable all at once did the bottom fall out of music sales as a viable way to make money. If piracy hadn't beat legitimate distribution to the punch, physical album sales would still be a niche thing but a musician could live on digital sales.

This is why opposition to DRM is such a techbro take. If you care about art, like at all, you want DRM built into the fabric of the network itself so that those who hold the rights to downloaded material get paid for others' access to it. We had such an opportunity to use the internet as a distribution network such that creators could get directly paid for their work and not the middlemen. Ted Nelson, coiner of the term "hypertext", explicitly included DRM in its conceptualization. Creatives are now paying the price for lack of followthrough on Nelson's complete vision.
by jerf | 2025-05-08 18:42:56+00:00
"Conway's law is about communication, not team boundaries."

I'm a spirit of the law sort of person, not the letter of the law. I don't care how you draw your internal organizational diagram; communication barriers are your team barriers.

It's for management to read the flow over time and keep the de jure boundaries somewhat sync'd with the de facto boundaries, but in the meantime the de facto ones are what will get written into your software.
by mattl | 2025-05-08 18:43:03+00:00
I worked at a place that sold its products in the US and Canada and didn't sell them elsewhere. In a handful of other countries a third party supplier was distributing them, but most of the world couldn't buy them.

The website was set up such that US and Canada traffic was allowed, but other countries would bounce you to a page explaining this and then redirect to either the page for the product in the country you're in, or a generic page explaining why.
by znpy | 2025-05-08 18:43:15+00:00
> And that's where Cloudflare can make a killing, because they are literally serving so much content, they can train their own model on the content that is passing through without any need to run a bot.

I think you're missing an important aspect: CloudFlare is in the unique position to be able to:

1. train a model on content that's actually getting visited by people (they are fairly good at cutting out bots)

2. They don't even have to scrape the website, they can collect the content while they serve request. it would be completely transparent (zero cost, actually a benefit) to website owners.

@jgrahamc if you're reading this and you end up doing what i wrote, I want a cut of the profits (or a job offer) :P
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-08 18:43:16+00:00
> The most common thing that makes agentic code ugly is the overuse of comments.

I've seen this complaint a lot, and I honestly don't get it. I have a feeling it helps LLMs write better code. And removing comments can be done in the reading pass, somewhat forcing you to go through the code line by line and "accept" the code that way. In the grand scheme of things, if this were the only downside to using LLM-based coding agents, I think we've come a long way.
by sakras | 2025-05-08 18:43:26+00:00
I intuitively think about linear regression as attaching a spring between every point and your regression line (and constraining the spring to be vertical). When the line settles, that's your regression! Also gives a physical intuition about what happens to the line when you add a point. Adding a point at the very end will "tilt" the line, while adding a point towards the middle of your distribution will shift it up or down.

A while ago I think I even proved to myself that this hypothetical mechanical system is mathematically equivalent to doing a linear regression, since the system naturally tries to minimize the potential energy.
by 9rx | 2025-05-08 18:43:27+00:00
> but give big government a pass.

Its probably not so much that government gets a pass as much as government is the organization that, by virtue of being a citizen, they own and control, so when things go wrong it is their own fault, and they really don't want to accept blame for their own faults. They would have to ask "How did I manage to fuck this up?", which is a hard question for most people to ask themselves.

When it is distinctly someone else's organization it's much easier to throw pointless shade to make one feel better about their own failings.
by switz | 2025-05-08 18:43:34+00:00
It's unfortunate that there is so much misinformation about what react server components really are, but it's not necessarily the fault of either party. The name is confusing (names are hard), the architecture is new (people don't want to learn it), and it lends itself to conspiracy theories (that aren't true).

But it really is a magnificent piece of technology. Because they're called "Server Components" people think that "server" means run-time, but as a friend pointed out, 15 years ago people were running wordpress servers and caching pages ahead-of-time. As Dan mentions here: "server" doesn't imply it has to execute at run-time.

But there are also massive advantages to running a server at run-time that seem lost on people. I do think over time the concepts behind RSCs will filter out into most web frameworks because they are so powerful. It's the best functionality of the old-world SSR languages (PHP, rails) combined with the best functionality of the new-world client frameworks (React). You get to pick and choose when to lean on either, and they work together through composition.

I wish people were a bit more patient and spent a bit more time trying to understand these concepts before bashing them. Part of that is the fault of names, communication, and lack of documentation. But the underlying technology is rigid and strong. It's here to stay, even if it arrives in other forms.
Show HN: GhostHub – Instant, zero-setup media server
by BleedingXiko | 2025-05-08 18:43:56+00:00
I built GhostHub because I was tired of Plex/Jellyfin setups just to watch or share a few files.

This lets you: - Run instantly (Python script, .exe, or Docker)

- Browse media in a swipe-based UI (mobile + desktop)

- Share online with built-in tunnel support (Cloudflare or Pinggy)

- Set session passwords, live sync views, and even chat

No logins. No setup. Just run it, point it to a folder, and go. Live demo (limited features): https://ghosthub.net

Would love feedback, bug reports, or ideas!
by lillecarl | 2025-05-08 18:43:57+00:00
While it might be hypocritical it doesn't matter whatsoever what he does with his personal life if his foundation is pouring billions into making the world a better place.

Helping people out of poverty is really bad for the environment too but I don't think we should be complaining when someone does that.

On a global scale his yacht(s?) and private jets are nothing, and if it helps him do good by establishing/maintaining relationships with the right people they're an "investment" into a stopping climate change.

A bit of a naive take as opposed to yours.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-08 18:44:07+00:00
The thing I'd really like to see & try is DSoftBus. Theres a massive distributed computing toolkit built in to the OS, it does cross-device operations? That's supposedly integral to even regular apps? That's so neat.

Unfortunately the barrier to entry seems to be sending government identity to Huawei, and I'm not willing to do that to get access to their software development kits. There'a source available at least for the earlier OpenHarmony forks, but figuring out how to take all the pieces and weave together a working OS is probably quite complex & undocumented. Here's some kind of developer centric openEuler link, https://github.com/openeuler-mirror/dsoftbus_standard

There's been such a dearth of clear advancement for users in OSes, in IoT, in distributed computing. It looks like there's something super super cool here, but so far, that view has mostly been some 5 or 10 second clips amid product promos and demoes. .
by mFixman | 2025-05-08 18:44:16+00:00
Francis was seen as being too close to the Kirchnerists in ideology and too conflicted with the Kirchnerists in actions when he was Archbishop. Visiting Argentina would have forced him to take a side and trigger a political crisis he probably wanted to avoid.

As far as I know there's no similar conflict with the new Pope, and he wasn't even in America for the most important part of his church career.