MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by repeekad | 2025-04-14 19:24:49+00:00
nope, just a random stranger trying to add some random noise into these often one sided conversations, I of course support public academic investment and Trump is bad for the country, but I worry we've fully mapped one to one trump and nazis, and it just doesn't resonate with me as much as it seems it does everyone else.

I'm from small town America, I know that the federal government doesn't care about my hometown, so when I hear things like Harvard gets billions while already having tens of billions in endowment, it's hard for me to not think that's crazy and why can't that money go to average americans, meanwhile here I am typing words into a screen connected to the internet so I fully acknowledge I've benefited from the institution
by alganet | 2025-04-14 19:25:15+00:00
It's a conditional. I am predicting something based on observation. The unfolding of those things (AI companions, incels, use of those things for manipulation) will tell if I am wrong or not.

I think it's cute that you are slowly trying to steer the conversation towards this "feeling of loneliness" by selecting what parts of my answers you decide to quote and address.

However, the parts you chose _not_ to address tell more about who's trying to create a convenient narrative than the comments themselves.

As I said, the process of creating kind human beings that are not fools is what I aim for. Definitely not winning some vain debate.
by jfengel | 2025-04-14 19:25:18+00:00
Atlas of Middle-earth is a truly monumental feat.

I think the article writer misses how much of it is really about The Silmarillion, rather than about Lord of the Rings. Tolkien put a lot of work into First Age geography, an entire (interminable, excruciating) chapter of The Silmarillion. Very little of it would be familiar to viewers of the films, and a lot of it opaque even to readers just of LotR.
by allturtles | 2025-04-14 19:25:22+00:00
The dispute between Harvard and the Trump has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. You can read the government letter and see for yourself, none of it is about Harvard spending research money irresponsibly. It is an attempt to assert deep government control over the institution's policies and ideologies. So your comment reads as an attempt to distract from the real issues at hand, which I (and I think many others here) consider existential for the survival of the rule of law in the U.S.
by jltsiren | 2025-04-14 19:25:35+00:00
Universities don't sell or do research. They provide facilities, equipment, services, and sometimes funding for research. The actual research is done by individuals, who are nominally employed by the university but largely independent from it. If a researcher doesn't like a particular university, they can usually take their funding and projects to another university.

When grants are revoked for political reasons, it affects individuals who happen to be affiliated with the university more than the university itself. And it particularly affects people doing STEM research, because humanities and social sciences receive much less external funding. If the decline in public funding is permanent, it makes humanities and social sciences relatively stronger within the university. They are more viable without public subsidies than the more expensive STEM fields.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-04-14 19:25:48+00:00
Wikipedia[1] says

>Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, veteran status, or religion.

Brittanica[2] says

>Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs—meant to address historical and systemic disparities based on race, gender, age, ability, and sexual orientation in the workplace

CNN lists the following as examples of the title of this article[3] ("DEI programs benefit many groups, not just Black and brown communities"):

>White women

>LGBTQ+ people

>Families who need IVF

>Disabled people

>Veterans

This is the first three links I clicked on, so it seems to be broadly agreed upon. It's (obviously) not an exhaustive search of the literature, and I'd love to see your side of it.

I have heard ideological diversity used as a defense of DEI, but it doesn't seem to be central. I've never heard of a DEI push to get more conservatives in tech or academia, for example.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusi...

[2]https://www.britannica.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclus...

[3]https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/dei-programs-diversity-lis...
Show HN: Simple Solid Static HTML and PDF Reports
by Saloc | 2025-04-14 19:25:50+00:00
I've been working on Pyladoc, a Python package designed for web apps that generate data rich documents from code. It outputs HTML and LaTeX/PDF with Pandas tables and Matplotlib figures. No fancy interactive js - simple solid static outputs with all figures and formulas embedded in a single piece of HTML or LaTeX code.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-14 19:26:17+00:00
The I2C peripheral is DMA - a write just queues an operation descriptor in a hardware FIFO, and interrupts fire whenever something exciting happens or the FIFO is drained. The synchronous implementation is just blocking on a condition set by the interrupt handler.

But this is exactly the kind of thing the SPI peripheral is meant for. This cannot be said for the I2C peripheral, with its measly fast mode support.

Depending on the chip and your usecase, you might also want to use I2S for your DAC.
by metalman | 2025-04-14 19:26:19+00:00
the future of the internet is greater personal power and autonomy.....everyone will get there own personal web space, to write, create, sell, buy, and comunicate, they own it, it's "free" one to one comunication will be protected in the same way that physical mail has been protected for centuries, ie: dont touch without a warrant groups will have less and less privacy, the larger they are, and a crime by one, is a crime by all ie: just dont do it, play nice, no conspiracy's or calls for insurection platforms will die, unless they can attract and nurture tallent, that out competes all of the indipendents......which is very likely...as top performers, always need team support
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-14 19:26:31+00:00
El Salvador has 1 in 60 people in jail, up there with the worst of Stalinist Russian.

If the US doesn't have control over who it sends there, the crimes of Trump & his ICE are far worse, far more in violation of the constitution. If this weren't horrific monstrosity to circumvent habeas corpus maybe perhaps this wicked act could scrape through the courts.

Its just so fucked how much misanthropy is running the world. Hating other people is powering the growth of such deeply sick rises to power.

I strongly recommend a tour of the Grievances of the Declaration of Independence. Ironically a document shown to Bukele before his situation down. The things being done are absolutely wild tyrant shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievances_of_the_United_State...
by amalcon | 2025-04-14 19:26:42+00:00
The thing to remember is that these grants are their research budget. The endowment is largely earmarked for educational projects. Your average university professor is there because they want to do research, not because they want to teach - so the research budget is critical for educating as well.

I assume Harvard has a plan for dealing with this dynamic. They have some extremely smart people there, so I don't doubt they've found a way.
by repeekad | 2025-04-14 19:26:44+00:00
this is identity politics, rather than discussing ideas we discuss whose ideas they are and whether we like that person, I don't like that kind of discourse and don't find it valuable, bad people can have good ideas and vice versa

edit: that being said, I agree what's happening to harvard is in bad faith and has nothing to do with making the government more efficient, so my argument isn't good
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-14 19:27:17+00:00
Genuinely curious: what part of the federal government's letter to Harvard seems fascist to you?

Is the government asking a university to shift their bias away from skin color diversity to viewpoint diversity fascist?

Is there a historical parallel?

Or is it just the fact that the government is asking for reform, and any reform request would be considered fascist? If so, do you also consider the DEI reform requests fascist?
by miohtama | 2025-04-14 19:27:41+00:00
There was Joost in 2008, from Skype founders. Skype was originally P2P until Microsoft acquisition and killing this legally questionable feature - need to feed the big brother (: Joost raised ~$50M.

I remember it as it was one of rare apps built in XUL, the same framework as Mozilla apps (Firefox).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-14 19:28:08+00:00
And if you believe that, @DannyBee's productivity isn't real.

Or maybe it's a business problem that Google shares with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple.

Microsoft has struggled to find any new products that will really move the needle in terms of revenue but they support their old customers with enduring loyalty while making the occasional absurd-but-bold move like Windows 8 and sticking to businesses that seem to make no sense like XBOX.

Facebook is the captain of cringe, not cool, but at least they're investing big in VR as a platform. They subsidize great rigs for Beat Saber because Zuckerberg will never forgive himself if he gives up and somebody else succeeds. [1]

Apple will never find a product as big as the iPhone. To do so they've have to make an iCar or iHouse or skip Starship and go straight to O'Neill Colonies. At least they are indisputably the best at what they do and they can occasionally take a hopeless shot at someone else's turf (Vision Pro) feeling justified that the only rival platform has a trashcan for a logo.

Google has trained us all that anything new from Google has a shelf life less than day old bread. They go at new projects as if they a startup that didn't get into Y Combinator or like the kind of company that Marissa Mayer starts these days [2] -- they don't realize part of the special opportunity of being a huge company like that with an absurd valuation is you can do really big, audacious, and irrational things.

[1] I learned for myself how dangerous this attitude is but all I could do was max out my HELOC.

[2] see https://sunshine.com/ not to put it down, I might be involved in something like that if I wasn't doing what I am doing
by tastyface | 2025-04-14 19:28:12+00:00
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

-Alexander Solzhenytsin
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-14 19:28:17+00:00
> Although the president was caught on mic musing about deporting American citizens

The canaries in our coal mine are permanent residents. Anything that can legally be done to a permanent resident can basically be done to a "bad" citizen. Trump is trying to run roughshod over permanent residents' habeus corpus rights. Courts are currently pushing back; I expect he will defy them. That, for me, will be the line at which I'll start helping with civil disruption.
by vel0city | 2025-04-14 19:29:02+00:00
The opening passage of the Wikipedia article:

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right [checks box], authoritarian [ignoring courts decisions, sending people to prisons without any due process; check], and ultranationalist [MAGA, american exceptionalism, etc; check] political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader [do I really need to explain; check], centralized autocracy [feckless GOP congress, EOs left and right; check], militarism, forcible suppression of opposition [J6, anyone? also see Maine and TFA and the law firms being blacklisted and more; check], belief in a natural social hierarchy [pro-life, shrouded in "traditional family values", anti-gay, anti-trans, etc; check], subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race [tariffs, massive deportations without due process, etc; check], and strong regimentation of society and the economy [bathroom bills, tariff policies with exceptions for those who bribe him with million dollar dinner purchases, etc; check].

Tell me how this doesn't fit?
by contingencies | 2025-04-14 19:29:20+00:00
Ooh never heard of that. That's awesome! As mentioned in the last point in the document, often if you get repeat punctures it's because the causative element is still embedded in the outer tire. Once this happens you learn the real value of fixing a tire is not in the patching, which is a different challenge, but the analysis: 1. Locate the puncture. 2. Match the inner tube back to the rim using the air valve location. 3. Translate the puncture location from the inner tube to the tread. 4. Search like hell for the cause.
by gilbetron | 2025-04-14 19:30:01+00:00
As my peer comment hinted at, I think "just capture co2" is the part that plants are really good at. However, yes, the general approach is: capture co2 -> make plastics -> use plastics -> bury plastics forever. And "capture co2" can be "grow trees" or "grow algae" or "create a machine that pulls carbon out of the air" or whatever :)
by vinhnx | 2025-04-14 19:30:07+00:00
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• MMLU: 90.2% vs 85.7% (+4.5 pp)

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• SWE‑bench Verified: 54.6% vs 33.2% (+21.4 pp)
by Finnucane | 2025-04-14 19:30:39+00:00
To some degree it already has been. After the economic genius Larry Summers paid for the Allston campus expansion with some dodgy loans that blew up in their faces during the 2008-9 financial crisis, there was some attempt to reform the endowment, back off some risky investments, and build up more of a free-cash emergency fund. This actually paid off during the Covid lockdowns, which the university was able to weather without too much disruption.

The other oddity of Harvard's endowment is that each school at the university basically has it's own fund--so that for instance, the Business school and the Law school don't have to worry about money the same way that FAS (the main undergraduate school) does.
by pbiggar | 2025-04-14 19:30:50+00:00
I've visited a handful of encampments. Super peaceful, mostly kids educating each other about colonialism and the history of Israel's occupation and apartheid.

If you're looking for violence, the attacks on the Palestine encampments at UCLA were by far the most horrific violence on campus of the last year, and that was funded by Jonathan Greenblatt (CEO of the ADL, which is a racist org)
by null_name | 2025-04-14 19:30:54+00:00
Interesting, I take risankizumab, which looks like it indirectly suppresses IL-17 (through suppressing IL-23A). I've been on it for a bit less than a year, and I can't say if I've had improved mood. Maybe? It definitely fixed the psoriasis. Might also have contributed to me getting sick more often, though.

I wish I had kept logs with some sort of self-screen depression instrument now (maybe the BDI? I don't like the PHQ-9). Might as well start now.
by robgreen | 2025-04-14 19:30:55+00:00
Thanks! Whenever a user visits a web page, we check (locally) to see if that url is present in our database of verified SaaS app urls. If there is, we record a session. If not, we don't do anything. So no url or browsing activity is ever sent to our servers unless our extension has already determined that a match has been found in our database of apps.
by eesmith | 2025-04-14 19:31:07+00:00
I think this means you learned about 'lived experience' on Twitter in 2018.

The term has been increasingly used since around 1960 - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lived+experien...

Here's one example from 2001, https://archive.org/details/qualitativeinqui0000pars/page/98... :

> How can an investigator attend with fidelity to the description of an experience- as-lived, without reducing it to experience-as-observed?

Here's another example, not specifically of "lived experience" but of breaking things down into different types of experience; three in this case: https://archive.org/details/cpsnow0179shus/page/56/mode/2up?...

> Snow has divided the sequence into two main parts: three novels of Lewis Eliot’s direct experience, Time of Hope, Homecomings, and Last Things ; the rest, eight in all, are novels of his observed experience with “flickers of inner experience.”
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-14 19:31:59+00:00
I was speaking in probabilities, not making a judgment myself (I wouldn't be qualified to do so anyway). Numerous mental health professionals have made the assertion that he is, and he has a family history of it, so at the very least it can't reasonably be claimed with 100% certainty that he's not in the early-to-mid stages of dementia.

Furthermore, my statement was very clearly presented as a massive stretch in the first place; noting that it might slightly increase the chance that he'll be unable to make an attempt at a third term (even if by 0.01%). Sometimes squinting hard enough that the resulting bokeh resemble a silver lining is all you can do to muster hope.
by bhouston | 2025-04-14 19:32:17+00:00
> all I can think is what a fucking lay-up

I am nervous about the US right now. So many cases are going to end up at the Supreme Court that is controlled by conservatives. It may not be the lay-up you think it is.

Also what happens if Trump just decides to ignore a court loss as he did with the recent deportation of Kilmar Garcia?
by dyoo1979 | 2025-04-14 19:33:04+00:00
This reminds me a bit of the octree quantization implementation I hacked up to improve speed of generating Racket's animated gifs.

* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/6b2e5f4014ed95c9b883...

* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/f2a1773422feaa4ec112...
by HdS84 | 2025-04-14 19:33:26+00:00
Honestly, the problem is not that there are layoffs, the problem is that the process sucks.

you don't need to fire this person immediately - you can talk to him, wind his operations down and then let him go. I.e. in Germany it's often half a year between announcing a layoff and anything happening (besides other stuff like making sure the layoff applies to the newest people first). Even if you don't want such a long period - talking to him and giving him a few weeks to wind down at your firm and starting to search for a new job seems perfectly reasonable. What happens if he wreaks havoc on your firm out of revenge? Really? Happens practically never. If it happens, sue him.

ofc this process applies to reasonable layoff - if it's for something egregious (breaking the law) you can and should fire him immediately.
by guax | 2025-04-14 19:33:57+00:00
The government does not have all that right tho. First amendment and all.

I would invite you to read the government letter if you have not, but look at each demand and put yourself in the position of the recently affected but also try to see if you can hold a "controversial" view of the world that should be fine but would be put in danger by these demands: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

Civil rights, suffrage, they were all the controversial opinion at some point. Some people still argue that they are but anyone against those can go pound sand.
Show HN: ClojóR – Get better testimonials from clients with minimal effort
by hackertobie | 2025-04-14 19:34:18+00:00
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by 9283409232 | 2025-04-14 19:34:45+00:00
> How? Which major law firm is standing up like Harvard is?

Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling LLP, and Elias Law Group are fighting Trump's executive order. Those are 3 of the biggest law firms in the US. As far as I know only two major firms have made deals with Trump while many are sitting quiet but not everyone is cowering.
by alwillis | 2025-04-14 19:34:52+00:00
The technology on which it relies was invented here and could be built here again. The consumer cost of an iPhone is due to the extraordinary profits Apple extracts from it. Those profits could pay US labor rates easily.

This is absolutely false.

Yes, semiconductors and microprocessors were invented here but haven't been manufactured in America by American companies in several decades. The primary reason? Cost.

Among other obvious issues, you'd need a workforce of at least 300,000 to 500,000 skilled people to do the final assembly work on iPhones at Apple's scale. There's simply not enough people with the required skills to do that work in the US at almost any price.

That would be like taking a city the size of Boston and have it only do iPhone assembly.

Take a look at "A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy".[1]

[1]: https://www.404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-is-pure-fantasy/
by akho | 2025-04-14 19:35:12+00:00
Seems like an interesting feature. It’s not easy to see how this is immediately useful; people in this comments section are complaining that this is not a feature they’d pay for, but it looks like something that becomes seriously useful only after years of runtime and terabytes of screenshots. These kinds of things cannot be sold.

On the one hand, MS Research seems to have a long history with lifelogging. On the other, MS aren’t capable of implementing decent search in Outlook; I very much doubt their ability to do the same in this more complicated setting.

I don’t think Windows has any privacy-conscious users at this point (outside corp contracts where this will be limited), and they generally seem to be doing everything they can to get out of the home market, so the moment is chosen well.
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-14 19:35:22+00:00
General strike when >50% of those who voted wanted this? What world are you living in?

Edit: I stand corrected, 49.81%. It doesn't change the point much. Especially when that ~49% includes many "working class"[1] voters. Who's going to participate in this general strike? A bunch of office workers?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-return-power-fueled-...