MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-08 19:03:20+00:00
I'd wager that the rates of abuse in public schools are not as high as in Catholic schools. I'd go so far as to say that there isn't necessarily anything about Catholicism that produces more pedophiles than normal, and that there aren't necessarily more pedophiles employed by Catholic schools than by others.

However, it seems likely that there's something about the institution that produces more molesters than normal, and clearly there is something about the institution that causes it to lean towards quieting and covering up accusations rather than rectifying them. It doesn't really have anything to do with the reformability of pedophilia; the church faces the necessity of changing either how it handles molesters, or how the nature of its organization seems to create more molesters. The problem is that the church is an institution that seems loathe to change in general.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-08 19:03:45+00:00
> China is a potential adversary because they are an authoritarian, undemocratic regime making military threats against neighboring free, democratic nations (Taiwan).

As opposed to an authoritarian, Democratic regime making military threats against neighboring free, democratic nations (Canada)?

> If everything stayed exactly the way it is today, except the Communist party rulership were dissolved and replaced by a multi-party constitutional republic with representatives appointed through free, open elections I don't think the US would have nearly the same incentive to divest from China.

Why does the U.S. have the right to declare unilaterally what forms of government are acceptable and what aren't? And no I'm not saying we have to necessarily trade with them, obviously, apart from the fact that the CCP came into power in 1949. We're a bit late to suddenly have issues with their government NOW after nearly half a century spent working with them in the open, and giving them shit tons of money.
by CharlesW | 2025-05-08 19:03:56+00:00
> You're probably talking about Peter's Pence collection contribution which is just pocket change (a few millions).

Pocket change for sure (13.6 million/28.1%, says https://zenit.org/2024/06/30/the-ten-countries-that-made-the...), but there's also U.S. congregational giving of ~$20 billion, and the U.S. is the source of most large Catholic hospital, university, and foundation endowments.
by w10-1 | 2025-05-08 19:04:13+00:00
May I ask why did you decide against starting with (Eclipse) Theia instead of VSCode?

It's compatible but has better integration and modularity, and doing so might insulate you a bit from your rather large competitor controlling your destiny.

Or is the exit to be bought by Microsoft? By OpenAI? And thus to more closely integrate?

If you're open-source but derivative, can they not simply steal your ideas? Or will your value depend on having a lasting hold on your customers?

I'm really happy there are full-fledged IDE alternatives, but I find the hub-and-spoke model where VSCode/MS is the only decider of integration patterns is a real problem. LSP has been a race to the bottom, feature-wise, though it really simplified IDE support for small languages.
by 1-more | 2025-05-08 19:04:18+00:00
I think the more fitting example from that island is the personal union whereby the monarchs of England and Scotland happened to be the same person, but England and Scotland were still separate states. This started with James VI and I who became king of Scotland in 1567 and became king of England in 1603. This state of affairs continued (with I guess some de facto if not de jure interruptions) until the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, after which time the monarch held one title over one state.

Throughout that time and afterwards, the monarch of England & Scotland was often also the monarch of other territories too, so that "one title" is eliding a bunch of stuff.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain
by sepositus | 2025-05-08 19:04:43+00:00
> As far as I can tell there is no consistent application of logic and understanding what parts matter and which parts do not

I would disagree. The art of hermeneutics has been around for a _long_ time and has been refined over time as we develop new understandings about the ancient cultures that wrote these documents. So, yes, things do change, but I would argue they do not _dramatically_ change. For example, the message of "the gospel" has been the same since the founding apostles. But our understanding of something like Genesis 1 has changed dramatically over the years as our understanding of the sciences, history, etc. increase.
by westurner | 2025-05-08 19:05:01+00:00
There are 0.05 Tesla MRI machines that almost work with a normal 15A 110V outlet now FWIU; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40965068 :

> "Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla" [1800W] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm7168 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335170

Other emerging developments in __ spectroscopy:

/?hnlog Spectro:

NIRS;

> Are there implied molecular structures that can be inferred from low-cost {NIRS, Light field, [...]} sensor data?

NIRS would be low cost, but the wavelength compared to the sample size.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528844 :

> "Reversible optical data storage below the diffraction limit (2023)" [at cryogenic temperatures] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528844 :

> [...] have successfully demonstrated that a beam of light can not only be confined to a spot that is 50 times smaller than its own wavelength but also “in a first of its kind” the spot can be moved by minuscule amounts at the point where the light is confined.

"Eye-safe laser technology to diagnose traumatic brain injury in minutes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510092 :

> "Window into the mind: Advanced handheld spectroscopic eye-safe technology for point-of-care neurodiagnostic" (2023) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg5431

> multiplex resonance Raman spectroscopy

Holotomographic imaging is yet another imaging method that could be less costly than MRI; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819864

"Quantum microscopy study makes electrons visible in slow motion" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40981054 :

> "Terahertz spectroscopy of collective charge density wave dynamics at the atomic scale" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02552-7
by HaZeust | 2025-05-08 19:05:42+00:00
We call those "analogies", my friend.

When someone shares that their time in the Church was marked by coercion and abuse, responding with “well, my experience was uplifting” can feel dismissive of their trauma. It’s similar to hearing a survivor of sexual assault and replying, “my sexual experiences have all been wonderful.” Both experiences can coexist as true, but leading with your positive story in that moment risks minimizing the other person’s pain. It's distasteful, and is not conducive to a productive dialogue.
by hallh | 2025-05-08 19:06:11+00:00
Having linting/prettifying and fast test runs in Cursor is absolutely necessary. On a new-ish React Typescript project, all the frontier models insist on using outdated React patterns which consistently need to be corrected after every generation.

Now I only wish for an Product Manager model that can render the code and provide feedback on the UI issues. Using Cursor and Gemini, we were able to get a impressively polished UI, but it needed a lot of guidance.

> I haven’t yet come across an agent that can write beautiful code.

Yes, the AI don't mind hundreds of lines of if statements, as long as it works it's happy. It's another thing that needs several rounds of feedback and adjustments to make it human-friendly. I guess you could argue that human-friendly code is soon a thing of the past, so maybe there's no point fixing that part.

I think improving the feedback loops and reducing the frequency of "obvious" issues would do a lot to increase the one-shot quality and raise the productivity gains even further.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-08 19:06:25+00:00
I suppose it depends on how spectacular your buying is (a common criticism of sales tax is that rich people don't buy much, relatively), but wouldn't you only need enough tax lots that are close to current market value? If you've been accumulating, you've probably got a blend of tax lots from "nearly 0 gain" to "nearly all gain". You're also going to be receiving some dividends or have some other income sources that you presumably re-invest to create recent tax lots. The only case where that wouldn't happen is if you got lucky on a concentrated bet you made. If you inherited your wealth, you got your step-up, so you're faced on day one with "okay I have tons of assets with cost-basis at market value, how do I do rich person tricks?" Is that group not a good fit for buy-borrow-die, and it only works for founders/early investors of companies that blew up?

Taking on loans also means you're adjusting how leveraged you are, so I feel like there's a missing risk analysis component here. Otherwise of course I'd just take out as many loans as I could right now to get that sweet 10% expected growth at only 6% interest or whatever. So I can't borrow to avoid the tax man because I already borrowed as much as people are willing to give me.
by pfdietz | 2025-05-08 19:06:37+00:00
It will be comparatively small even when scaled out. PV waste too.

My biggest concern with wind is not the blades, it's concrete foundations and perhaps steel. Concrete inherently releases CO2 when produced (from calcining of limestone), even if the energy source is non-fossil. Nuclear also faces this issue, of course. PV doesn't typically use concrete footers these days, instead using steel anchors that go directly into the ground.

There are plans to make lime from silicates, but this is not a mature technology.
by danenania | 2025-05-08 19:06:38+00:00
If you're open to something CLI-based, my project Plandex[1] offers git-based branching (and granular versioning) for AI coding. It also has a sandbox (also built on git) that keeps cumulative changes separate from project files until they're ready to apply.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
by rich_sasha | 2025-05-08 19:06:45+00:00
If there's any labelling of "dirty words", it is by you. A key tenet of Christianity is that homosexuality is, in short, bad. I don't hold that view. But also I find it weird to turn around and tut-tut at a Christian bishop because he failed to express pro-gay views. And in turn, waiting for the Catholic Church to change its mind is like saying it should bend to popular, "progressive" views. Quotes because, simply calling non-homophobia progressive is in itself reductive.
by tptacek | 2025-05-08 19:07:04+00:00
He was a substitute science teacher at St. Rita, on the South Side (when we were in 8th grade in Catholic school on the South Side, Rita is one of the high schools that came and pitched to us; Marist and Carmel were the two big draws for boys, McCauley for girls). Can you imagine how weird it would be to have a high school science teacher that went on to become pope?
by yupitsme123 | 2025-05-08 19:07:52+00:00
Yes they're local, but its not like there's a limit to how many local charities there can be in the world.

Operating at a huge scale requires you to lump people together into groups and make assumptions about who they are and what they deserve, as you've done in your example. To me that sounds antithetical to the concept of charity. And even with the best intentions, if you mess up, you're messing up a huge scale.
by hn_acker | 2025-05-08 19:08:03+00:00
> Why do you believe that? They're not defunding research in these areas.

If you mean that the administration is not defunding cancer research more than it is defunding other medical research, then you might be right. If you mean that the administration is keeping cancer funding the same while defunding other medical research areas, then you are probably wrong [1]:

> Separately, on Feb. 7, 2025, the NIH issued new guidance on indirect costs for grants. Published late on a Friday, the guidance capped such costs to 15% of the amount of the grants. According to a congressional research paper, "indirect costs represent expenses that are not specific to a research project and that maintain the infrastructure and administrative support for federally funded research." Effective the following Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, this cost cap would apply to all new grants, and also to all existing grants.

Tangentially, the administration is cutting employees at the National Cancer Institute [2]:

> Among the cuts on Friday were around 50 employees at the NIH's National Cancer Institute, or NCI. They had worked in the institute's Office of Communications and Public Liaison overseeing programs like the Cancer Information Service, which provides answers to doctors and patients about cancer, and updates to databases summarizing cancer information for healthcare providers.

...

> While several communications offices at the NIH's institutes had been gutted during an initial round of layoffs on April 1, NCI's team was spared. Around 150 staff at NCI had been laid off last month, two people said. The institute's contracting and training staff were eliminated, and there were deep cuts to its human resources team.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/28/trump-nih-cancer-rese...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lays-off-hundreds-more-staf...
by phodge | 2025-05-08 19:08:30+00:00
This article conflates the Monolith|Microservices and Monorepo|Polyrepo dichotomies. Although it is typical to choose Microservices and Polyrepo together or Monolith with Monorepo, it's not strictly necessary and the two architectural decisions come with different tradeoffs.

For example you may be forced to split out some components into separate services because they require a different technology stack to the monolith, but that doesn't strictly require a separate source code repository.
by kragen | 2025-05-08 19:08:32+00:00
It is true that the two licenses differ significantly, but not in the way you are asserting, namely, that one is an open-source license and the other is not, or that one is a free-software license and the other is not.

The so-called "MIT license" (one of many licenses that have been used by MIT at different times) is also both a free-software license and an open-source license.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License "This is a lax permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL."

It's also listed without comment on https://opensource.org/licenses, the list of OSI-approved open-source licenses.

Like the AGPL, it does not represent a difference between the set of open-source licenses and the set of free-software licenses.
by skybrian | 2025-05-08 19:08:37+00:00
Some government programs are good, but if it went to the US government then Trump could cancel them. (Unless the courts stop it.)

It seems fortunate that some charitable funds aren't subject to that risk. They have other risks, but they seem lower.

In an imperfect world, government funding alone seems insufficiency diversified. That's too much power in one place.
by bchapuis | 2025-05-08 19:08:47+00:00
Really cool project! I tried it a couple of weeks ago with an Anthropic API key and will give it another shot.

Could you share a bit more about how you handle code summarization? Is it mostly about retaining method signatures so the LLM gets a high-level sense of the project? In Java, could this work with dependencies too, like source JARs?

More generally, how’s it been working with Java for this kind of project? Does limited GPU access ever get in the way of summarization or analysis (Jlama)?
by Aurornis | 2025-05-08 19:09:19+00:00
> Hi - I'm new here. I did something dumb and

> set up a mail alias so that steve@next.com

> would go to me.

> This was a bad idea, I'm sorry.

> I've changed it to steve@next.com goes to you,

> not to me. I think that makes more sense.

> My apologies.

> Signed, new guy.

What a great example of how to own a mistake, apologize, communicate, and get it fixed. I can think of so many past situations with coworkers that would have been so much better handled with quick communication like this.
by jamesfly | 2025-05-08 19:09:20+00:00
I’m making a new version [1] of https://www.physician.fyi that has this as a key trait since I'm trying to show medical practitioners' complete individual profiles as well as aggregate patterns across practitioners. I took inspiration from https://www.plasticlist.org. I'm still trying to figure out how to integrate the chart(s) and map now, so I'd appreciate any ideas.

[1] https://ibb.co/VYQpcz9Z
by mvdtnz | 2025-05-08 19:09:36+00:00
> Families are drowning in low-cost, low-quality products that wind up in a landfill. Free trade created this situation, and I don't think it's good for anybody except importers and factory owners.

No, free trade did not create this situation. People like you did. I'm not over here drowning in useless plastic and we've lived in the same globalised world together.
by DennisP | 2025-05-08 19:09:47+00:00
It's an experimental facility. Yes, a power plant would need much more efficient lasers, but NIF's lasers date back to the 1990s, equivalent modern lasers are about 40X more efficient, and for an experiment it's easy enough to do a multiplication to see what the net result would have been with modern lasers.

Modern lasers can also repeat shots much more quickly. Power gain on the capsules appears to scale faster than linear with the input power, so getting to practical gain might not be as far off as it appears at first glance.

These are some of the reasons that various fusion startups are pursuing laser fusion for power plants.
by camtarn | 2025-05-08 19:09:53+00:00
General PLC HMI (Programmable Logic Controller, Human Machine Interface) design as well. Here's a good example:

https://rockwellautomation.scene7.com/is/image/rockwellautom...

Not only is this showing details for every tank, valve, pump etc in the system, it's also highlighting those which have warnings or alarms against them, so the operator knows which values are nominal and which ones need action to be taken. Depending on the system, you may also be able to tap on each value to pop up a dialog which shows that value on a graph, lets you set alarm thresholds, or lets you switch a piece of equipment from automatic to manual control (from the operator station) or local control (from physical buttons on the equipment) or maintenance mode (safely locked out).

I'm not claiming that all of these SCADA/PLC HMIs are good, but they're really interesting examples of what a user interface can look like when information density and usability matters more than being pretty, and where you can require your end users to have training to use the system.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-08 19:10:12+00:00
> I'm not sure if nuclear has always been a field where charlatans proliferate, but it's certainly true of the past few decades.

I think it's less an issue of anything to do with nuclear in particular, and more that we're just living in an absolute golden age of charlatans. It's like the 1980's all over again except instead of fraud being doable because of a lack of information, fraud is doable because everyone for whatever reason you'd like to describe is thoroughly committed to pretending it's the 1980's.
by jonfriesen | 2025-05-08 19:10:20+00:00
Qtap does require root privileges to function as it uses eBPF to hook into kernel and userspace program functions. The good news is it can also be run within a container.

There are some important flags when spinning it up in docker: `--privileged`, `--cap-add CAP_BPF`, `--cap-add CAP_SYS_ADMIN`, and `--pid=host`. These provide access to load eBPF programs, and monitor traffic.

Many deployments use Kubernetes daemonsets where Qtap runs in a container, but monitors all of the traffic on the node. The Qpoint paid offering comes with a Control Plane that produces context specific dashboards so seeing what's happening from a specific container, or pod namespace can provide a lot of insights into your deployments.
by voytec | 2025-05-08 19:10:46+00:00
Please note: this research comes from a short-seller focused on decreasing the value of a subjects of their write-ups.

As far as I understand this is the team of people previously working at closed Hinderburg Research[0], which was known for well-done and backed-up write-ups.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42717234
by ivape | 2025-05-08 19:10:46+00:00
If that is true, then the crowd that is not brave enough to do AI-first will just be left behind.

Not even, devoured might be more apt. If I'm manually moving through this valley and a flood is coming through, those who are sticking automatic propellers and navigation systems on their ship are going to be the ones that can surf the flood and come out of the valley. We don't know, this is literally the adventure. I'm personally on the side of a hybrid approach. It's fun as hell, best of luck to everyone.

It's in poor taste to bring up this example, but I'll mention it as softly as I can. There were some people that went down looking for the Titanic recently. It could have worked, you know what I mean? These are risks we all take.

Quoting the Admiral from Starcraft Broodwars cinematic (I'm a learned person):

"... You must go into this with both eyes open"
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-05-08 19:11:22+00:00
It's 200€ per year here in France, not that expensive. I am talking Sorbonne and other prestigious universities.

Then we have chep engineering schools (including the most famous ones) and then we have crazy expensive finance schools (including the best in the world) at about 25k€ pet year. Except if you are poor and then it is basically free.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-05-08 19:11:32+00:00
You seem to advocate for some holier than thou perfect path rather than the messy reality that is a transition of the entire energy system to a new cheaper source while upholding our modern society.

Let’s look at the area under the curve?

You know, we need to decarbonize agriculture, construction, transportation etc. as well.

Let look at what the UK has done:

- Coal has gone from 150 TWh to zero.

- Fossil gas from 175 TWh to 85 TWh.

- Nuclear from 80 TWh to 40 TWh.

Would you say this reduction in fossil fuel usage is insignificant because they obviously aren’t done yet?
by spauldo | 2025-05-08 19:12:29+00:00
96% of the world does not consider "America" to be a continent. A large chunk of the world considers North America and South America to be separate continents. Similarly, some countries teach that Europe and Asia are distinct continents while others teach that Eurasia is a single continent.

Spanish speaking countries tend to treat America as one continent. English-speaking countries tend to treat North America and South America as separate continents, which is convenient since when speaking English, America means "the United States."