MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fernandopj | 2025-05-08 18:51:36+00:00
If you "relax" your notion of what is a "nation", even POTUS is at fault at this rule - USA has states (50), territories (5), unhabited territories (9), district (1), and a lot of extra-continental bases and even disputed territories. [0]

I believe USA also claims land around any Apollo device at the Moon. [no source]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
by delusional | 2025-05-08 18:51:48+00:00
What does the usage pattern look like for this. Will I need to be root to run it, and can it run from inside a container without "real" host root?

I'm always looking for a way to make sniffing traffic from inside a container easier, and if I could attach a debug sidecar with something like an eBPF based SSL pre-master key extractor (both on incoming and outgoing requests) it starts to feel a lot like having network JTAG.
by jfengel | 2025-05-08 18:52:10+00:00
Not going to happen.

Cutting rates increases inflation. You do it when you expect deflation. Tariffs will already increase prices. You don't increase them more just to artificially boost the GDP.

It might have been an option to cut rates instead of tariffs. That could have been applied to building the kinds manufacturing you want, though it would be better to do it in conjunction with mechanisms to encourage that. Just cutting rates increases the money supply everywhere, much of which goes into stock buybacks and stock-market inflation.

Tariffs are going to cause the economy to contract, and ordinarily that would cause the Fed to lower rates. But since you're already going to get higher prices, trying to inflate your way out of a recession is just going to make it worse for consumers. There is zero chance of Powell agreeing to that.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-05-08 18:52:18+00:00
May be great or may be terrible applies to both the small and the the nation-state sized charity right?

Maybe my judgement or efficiency is bad when I try to help my neighbor. Okay, whoopsie. Now apply that margin of error to a foundation whose decisions impact millions of people and possibly entire societies, possibly for generations. The unintended or possibly negative effects can be enormous and long-lasting.
by cloud-oak | 2025-05-08 18:52:34+00:00
Perfect analogy! The cool part is that your model also gives good intuition about the gradient descent part. The springs' forces are the gradients, and the act of the line "snapping" into place is the gradient descent process.

Technically, physical springs will also have momentum and overshoot/oscillate. But even this is something that is used in practice, gradient descent with momentumg.
by VladVladikoff | 2025-05-08 18:52:41+00:00
Yeah, I have really big fingers as well. However for web forms, this rule really does make everything look too big IMHO. There are cascading impacts of these decisions as well, a field which is 48px tall must have a significant amount of padding around it as well, to look balanced with the field size. Typically the rule of thumb i've seen designers use is 50% of the field height. When you factor in field label sitting above the field things get even bigger. I did however recently find a pretty nice solution which moves the field label inside the field, allowing for a slightly more compact layout while still hitting the tap target size requirements. https://m2.material.io/components/text-fields#filled-text-fi...
by magicalist | 2025-05-08 18:53:07+00:00
> A lot of the church abuse scandal happened during a couple of decades when the church's handling of the cases were the result of following the then scientific consensus on the matter. The church was not alone in this. The scientists told us they could be reformed.

That is not what happened though. Is there any evidence that the church decided that it would hide and cover up accusations of abuse and move clergy around to avoid them being charged and convicted because that was the "scientific consensus"?

Certainly many within the church believed they could reform the abusers in their midst, but that's a wholly different statement than claiming the coverups, which are what's being discussed here, were due to this belief and not that they were merely protecting their own and putting their own judgement above the legal system in which they lived.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-05-08 18:53:20+00:00
It is a bit more complicated than that [0]. Most of those costs are not attributable to the antivenom but to other overheads that are part of the process, including litigation costs. The FDA fees per vial alone are a few hundred dollars, even higher than the clinical trial costs.

[0] https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)00781-0/fulltex...
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-05-08 18:53:49+00:00
You can always wait another year. And then another. When is it time? 50 years? 100 years? "We will maximise good by donating it all in 1000 years" is questionably not a charity at all; it's just a massive pile of money that isn't used for anyone but paying the people sitting on it.

Even if you trick-feed donations to charity over 100 years, the sums may be insufficient to reach a usable scale. - A big investment in research. - A concentrated push to vaccinate against a Disease so it goes away for good. - An infrastructure investment that lifts a community out of poverty.

These themselves produce "good over time," perhaps even faster than the money in the fund rises in value. It's a balance, but immortal trickle donations are likely quite far off to one direction of that scale.
by crab_galaxy | 2025-05-08 18:53:59+00:00
I got a ‘meaningful’ tattoo on my 18th birthday. I don’t fully relate to it with the same passion 20 years later. I still like it though for different reasons. It’s a snapshot of who I was and what I stood for when I got it. Tbh I don’t regret it at all and mostly forget I even have the thing. I think I’m lucky to have a mindset to appreciate that permanence, a lot of people end up regretting ‘meaningful’ tattoos once they lose their meaning.
by frollogaston | 2025-05-08 18:54:08+00:00
The type system almost never catches a bug that proper testing would miss. And if the code has such nasty untested edge cases that you don't even notice a wrong type going somewhere, it'd probably behave wrongly even with the right types.

Indeed "any" breaks type checking all around it, but it can be contained more easily in a helper func with a simple return type. Most common case is your helper does a SQL query, and it's tedious and redundant to specify the type of rows returned when the SQL is already doing that.
by dingnuts | 2025-05-08 18:54:16+00:00
if the language police want to tell Americans what they're allowed to call themselves and expect any actual adoption they had better come up with a better word than "USian". How do you even pronounce that? Oosh-an?

But also sure, telling Americans to rename things, that hasn't caused ANY backlash now resulting in the renaming of huge bodies of water to stupid things, keep up the cultural dictates, it's totally working!
by seraphsf | 2025-05-08 18:54:45+00:00
Bravo!

Future generation will be richer and better-off than the present. Saving your charity for the future is, effectively, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.

Also, giving now maximizes the compounding effect of your charity. Saving 100 lives today is way better than saving 10 lives every decade for the next 10 decades.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-08 18:54:53+00:00
This seems like an "argument from incredulity", where there's no particular reason beyond "it doesn't match my intuition". While I agree that it feels somehow wrong, there are a lot of factors to explain it like:

A few possible factors off the top of my head:

1. Shipping is much cheaper in bulk.

2. A local delivery service has different markups for different kinds of delivery.

3. Local delivery services that pick up from you may have additional expenses, like a wide but shallow network of pickup locations and daily collections.

4. It costs more because somebody is charging what the market will bear and the local market is more affluent.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-08 18:55:25+00:00
> "Whereas Francis said, “Who am I to judge?” when asked about gay clerics,

He also called abortion doctors assassins and described genderideology as "the ugliest danger of our time" (or the 'greatest danger' according to some other sources). He wasn't really all that progressive.

Sources:

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-03/pope-francis...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/10/pope-francis-c...

Of course he was a pope. It's in line with his church's doctrine. But I wouldn't call him progressive by any means.
by lastofthemojito | 2025-05-08 18:55:37+00:00
Of course you do, that's the reasonable thing to do. It's just interesting to think about what broader shifts will accompany the transition from pension to 401(k) style retirement. My parents and grandparents owned little to no stock AFAIK. They didn't care directly how Wall Street did, they just cared about their pensions (which admittedly, I'm sure was opaquely tied to how well some companies were doing). With a sizeable 401(k) I absolutely care about how Wall Street does, and so does a much higher percentage of the population these days.

You used to occasionally see bailouts of too-big-to-fail companies or industries, now the White House holds buy-a-Tesla day, presumably to boost TSLA. Just today the US Commerce Secretary announced that a UK airline would buy at least $10 billion of Boeing airplanes (Boeing stock is up ~4%).

Maybe it's just me paying more attention to stock market news these days, but my impression is that politicians have recently begun to care a lot more about the overall stock market going up because a lot more voters care about the overall stock market going up.
by juliushuijnk | 2025-05-08 18:55:50+00:00
> that's when they'll have to contend with the blood, sweat, and tears.

Or, most software will become immutable. You'll just replace it.

You'll throw away the mess, and let a newer LLM build a better version in a couple of days. You ask the LLM to write down the specs for the newer version based on the old code.

If that is true, then the crowd that is not brave enough to do AI-first will just be left behind.
by danabramov | 2025-05-08 18:56:15+00:00
I think it’s fair to say that a lot of the negative reception was also due to

1) No easy way to try outside a framework (now there is with Parcel RSC, but eventual first-class support in Vite will likely be the real tipping point).

2) Poor developer experience in the only official integration (Next.js). Both due to build performance problems (which Turbopack helps with but it still hasn’t fully shipped), due to bad error messages (massively improved recently), and due to confusing overly aggressive caching (being reworked to much more intuitive now but the rework won’t ship for some time yet).

Time will tell but I’m optimistic that as there are more places to try them, and the integrations are higher-quality, people will see their strong sides too.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-05-08 18:56:33+00:00
well, you're changing from "people only complain about some billionaires" to "people complain about all billionaires and it's just a conspiracy theory" so I'm not sure what point you're trying to get across.

maybe you could read the book to dispel your mistaken notion that it's just "billionaires bad", since it's stated (and successful) objective is to cover a specific group of highly-influential people that have worked on very specific projects in furtherance of a specific political/economic ideal that we're reaping the fruits of now in real time.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-08 18:56:54+00:00
The whole enterprise of constantly renaming things is stuoid. But there are groups on the idiot left (LatinX, USian, xey/xem) and right (freedom fries, Gulf of America) who enjoy it. Between gender and race-based language policing and a nationality-based one, I think the latter is a safer place to constrain them.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-05-08 18:57:04+00:00
I heard that NIF was never intended to be a power plant, not even a prototype of one. It's primarily a nuclear weapon research program. For a power plant you would need much more efficient lasers, you would need a much larger gain in the capsules, you would need lasers that can do many shots per second, some automated reloading system for the capsules, and you would need a heat to electricity conversion system around the fusion spot (which will have an efficiency of ~1/3 or so).

Any truth to that?
by roguecoder | 2025-05-08 18:57:05+00:00
"But there's a reason the crowd is moving against inheritance"

Yep: it requires skills that aren't taught in schools or exercised in big companies organized around microservices. We've gone back to a world where most developers are code monkeys, converting high-level design documents into low-level design documents into code.

That isn't what OOP is good for: OOP is good for evolving maintainable, understandable, testable, expressive code over time. But that doesn't get you a promotion right now, so why would engineers value it?
by andrewmunsell | 2025-05-08 18:57:19+00:00
Given that there's a dozen agentic coding IDEs, I only use Cursor because of the few features they have like auto-identification of the next cursor location (I find myself hitting tab-tab-tab-tab a lot, it speeds up repetitive edits). Are there any other IDEs that implement these QOL features, including Void (given it touts itself specifically as a Cursor alternative)?
by aipatselarom | 2025-05-08 18:57:29+00:00
My faith in Christ is way stronger than the influence of a small group of crooked and virtueless human beings.

Even if 9 out of 10 of cardinals, priests and worshippers were crooked, my faith in Christ wouldn't move one inch (2.54cm); it might actually become even greater.

I think there is a profound difference on how two different kinds of people approach religion.

On one side, I've never given much care to what the "social opinion" of something is in order to engage with it or not. My choice to follow Christ is rooted on myself, not on what I'm told to be right or wrong.

On the other, I can understand people who choose to associate/dissociate from specific groups/trends based on what they hear on the news/radio/etc... and I think that's completely valid as well. There was a even time in our past where having this trait was a desirable thing!
by elAhmo | 2025-05-08 18:57:35+00:00
There is no plan with YC in this space, everything is just basically vibe investing and hoping something sticks.

Continue.dev also received investment from YC. Remember PearAI? Very charismatic founders that just forked Continue.dev and got a YC investment [1].

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/after-causing-outrage-on-t...
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-05-08 18:57:41+00:00
No that's not what I mean, I mean technologically, UEFI is flashed in your motherboard and there isn't any way for an OS to mess with that. You need to boot from a specially prepared USB with compatible firmware in order to change it. Your problem must have been above UEFI, or an error in your OS that mentioned UEFI.
by perihelions | 2025-05-08 18:57:45+00:00
- "That's possible with distilled water as the working fluid"

Distilled water is pretty corrosive at high temperatures, isn't it? I'm no engineer but I've read that the water-chemistry management of nuclear reactors is a highly finicky topic.

Here's a crazy fact I can't get out of my head: the PWR types of reactors rely on lithium hydroxide in their nuclear water pipes, as a critical corrosion inhibitor. But the US can't make this (meaning, the isotopically enriched lithium of the correct flavor for nuclear reactors); it imports 100% of this key ingredient from foreign countries— currently, exclusively, China and Russia. Our top geopolitical adversaries could kneecap most of our nuclear power fleet, if they wanted, because of the difficult engineering minutae of "water is corrosive".

True story. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-13-716
by 7e | 2025-05-08 18:57:47+00:00
Solar and wind aren’t reliable energy sources. They’re not dispatchable 24x7 and fluctuate along various timescales. Storing renewable energy for 24 hours doubles the cost. Storing it seasonally increases the cost 150x. Show me any place, anywhere, which is using renewable for baseline energy production 24x7.

At this point, that’s sufficiently well known that you should have known it. If you’re not deliberately lying, it’s only because you steered yourself away from learning the truth.
by delusional | 2025-05-08 18:59:14+00:00
The big usecase for me would be if you could attach the trace after starting the binary. The idea of coming into a production system that's behaving unexpectedly and getting a network sniff without having to fiddle with certificates is very attractive.

There's an alternative implementation where SSLKEYLOGFILE is more "dynamic" and permits being toggled on an off during runtime, but that doesn't currently exist.
by dredmorbius | 2025-05-08 18:59:23+00:00
One of my biggest gripes against HN's front page is that there's so little context to go on --- just an <= 80 character headline, often not especially informative.

My own news-page rewrite includes several paragraphs of lede context, which is probably a bit on the overkill side. But a hundred characters or so should help.

I'm also wrestling with the sort-order aspect. Current cut is time-ordered within sections (another thing I wish HN had), but I'm going to be extending the article count in the next iteration.

That said, your design is clean and light, I like it.
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-08 18:59:49+00:00
Can it run in a GitHub action ?

What I want is to be able to do is.

1. Create a branch called TaskForLLM_123 2. Add a file with text instructions called Instructions_TaskForLLM_123.txt 3. Have a GitHub action read the branch, perform the task and then submit a PR.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-05-08 18:59:54+00:00
I couldn't use AI code without agentic mode.

At it's most basic, agentic mode is necessary for building the proper context. While I might know the solution at the high level, I need the agent to explore the code base to find things I reference and bring them into context before writing code.

Agentic mode is also super helpful for getting LLMs from "99%" correct code to "100%" correct code. I'll ask them to do something to verify their work. This is often when the agent realizes it hallucinated a method name or used a directionally correct, but wrong column name.
by vel0city | 2025-05-08 19:00:22+00:00
I'm not talking about overnight postage; I'm talking standard 3 or 4 day ground. It ends up on the same trucks after it clears the port. There's no choice of postage that makes it cost less to mail something I made in my own home to my family 300mi away (no matter how long I choose it to be) than to ship the same kind of thing from China within a week. In fact, I've often found it just cheaper to buy a new item with their home be the shipping address than mail the thing I already have to them.

Once again, tell me how that makes any goddamn sense.

https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c450

You should really research UPU rules.
by coldpie | 2025-05-08 19:00:33+00:00
> then the other side has to decide whether they lock out & ban thousands of innocent users, or accept the loss of control

My worry is more that relying parties will ban all providers except for (more or less) iOS and Android and Windows clients. That would cover probably 99% of users, but as a side-effect, effectively completely ban open source software from logging in to the service. It's not hard to see a well-meaning person flipping the switch to only allow big-name providers in the name of "security," especially given the existence of the spooky non-compliant list actively maintained by the spec authors.

It's true we could work around this by stealing the tokens from approved software, but I am extremely uninterested in having my authentication rely on stolen attestation tokens.
by doublerabbit | 2025-05-08 19:01:15+00:00
Life spans of reactors can cause instability. Nuclear requires unstable mines for unstable materials which are unstably finite. Controlled by unstable governments and where by a nuclear explosion causes a very unstable aftermath. I see nothing stable about nuclear.

Unless, you mean renewable being "unstable" in the sense of no wind, no sun equates to no power. Then yes, but only until the fuel is spent.

However, renewables are stable when resources are available, stable in providing consistent clean fuel and stable in cost on upkeep than say one of a nuclear reactor.

Which is why you combine all three.

> Show me any place, anywhere, which is using renewable for baseline energy production 24x7.

El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, holds a unique distinction as the only island to operate solely on wind and waterpower for 28 consecutive days.

The facility ingeniously combines wind generation with pumped storage hydroelectric generation. Now that's cool.

https://www.renewableinstitute.org/el-hierro-a-renewable-ene...
by haswell | 2025-05-08 19:02:10+00:00
> You're assuming the 'total reliance' argument and corresponding actions are being done in good faith.

To clarify, I’m not assuming the administration is acting in good faith.

But in casual conversation, I try to assume the person who worries about total reliance is acting in good faith, so my reply was primarily directed at the comment itself which I have to assume comes from someone who may believe the administration is actually attempting to address the issue.

I think there are numerous ways to split this:

- The reliance concern as a standalone consideration

- How the current administration sees/uses this concern

- How the public perceives this concern

- How the current administration claims they’re addressing it

- Whatever the current administration’s true goals are
by MisterBastahrd | 2025-05-08 19:02:25+00:00
Jesus never said he was superseding a single thing. His entire ministry was about railing against the legalistic structure of the Pharisees, who were more interested in following "the Law" than having common sense or taking care of people. His ministry was about Jews, for Jews, and had nothing to do with gentiles at all. The grifter Paul is the one who opened up their cult to gentiles.
by superkuh | 2025-05-08 19:02:27+00:00
The problem with these kinds of amazing computational geometry papers is that they never, ever, ever actually release the software associated. You can go look at the siggraph stuff from mid-2010s and none of it ever released; not in open source or even commercial form or even a demo or pseudocode (looking at you "Aerophones in Flatland" and "Printone: Interactive Resonance Simulation for Free-form Print-wind Instrument Design"). This won't either in all likelyhood. So cool photos... but much else.
by tptacek | 2025-05-08 19:02:59+00:00
1955 born (chicago) 1977 seminary grad (chicago) 1982 ordination (->rome) 1985 canon law doctor (->peru) 1999 midwest augustinians (->chicago) 2001 global augustinians (->rome) 2015 bishop (->peru) 2021 dicasterate (->rome)
by pc86 | 2025-05-08 19:03:18+00:00
Honestly not even sure it's meant to be a counterfactual experience, just more pointing out that the original comment isn't really germane.

"The aesthetics of $THING are really very impressive whether you believe the underlying mythology or not."

"Yeah well I had a bad experience with $THING so I don't get any joy out of it all because it's dark and sinister!"

...ok? What's the response to something like that supposed to be? Is this Reddit where we should fall over each other to apologize to someone we've never met about a thing that theoretically happened decades ago and also presumably happened to hundreds or thousands of other people? It just doesn't make any sense.