MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nashashmi | 2025-04-14 19:17:41+00:00
I have been trying to use podman with docker containers to avoid the docker license fee, yet to no avail. Wish there was a tutorial. The docker desktop is a nice interface to interact with containers and podman did not have that last time I checked.

edit: Looks like it changed quite a lot. this looks so much nicer

edit2: I still need a tutorial. had so many errors come up. :(
by marsh_mellow | 2025-04-14 19:17:57+00:00
p-value of 7.9% — so very close to statistical significance.

the p-value for GPT-4.1 having a win rate of at least 49% is 4.92%, so we can say conclusively that GPT-4.1 is at least (essentially) evenly matched with Claude Sonnet 3.7, if not better.

Given that Claude Sonnet 3.7 has been generally considered to be the best (non-reasoning) model for coding, and given that GPT-4.1 is substantially cheaper ($2/million input, $8/million output vs. $3/million input, $15/million output), I think it's safe to say that this is significant news, although not a game changer
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-04-14 19:18:12+00:00
> that we can have a conversation about how much money is leaking out of our tax dollars

Of course. It's clear you didn't read the letter because Harvard addresses this specifically. The Trump admin is literally refusing to have a conversation. This is 100% politically motivated and it's obvious to anyone who is not in the Trump cult. This is particularly disgusting because their doing it under the guise of 'antisemitism', while Trump keeps friends with known white supremacists.
by tastyface | 2025-04-14 19:18:28+00:00
I’ve said this before, but I’ll repeat it for emphasis. The administration wants the power to enact summary justice on the street: immigrants, protestors, political rivals, same as every other authoritarian regime in the last century. Currently, there is no mandate to just execute people without due process. So the lovely humanist wonks in Trump’s orbit came up with this brilliant solution. Just send undesirables to Guantanamo-Salvador and pretend nobody has the jurisdiction to bring them back. Same result.

In other words, when you read news like this, you should be reacting the same way as when you hear about third-world death squads lining up dissidents against the village wall and dumping their bodies in a well. The impact of the violence has been sanitized and laundered, but the net result is mostly the same.
by Kbelicius | 2025-04-14 19:18:44+00:00
Oh, well if that is the standard of evidence that is acceptable to you then here is some contradictory evidence. I paid for ChatGPT for 2 months and then canceled it. Did not even bother getting it trough work after that.

On a more serious note the only ones that could prove that ChatGPT user retention numbers are really good is OpenAi. Since it would be very good for them to do that and they haven't done it one should infer that the numbers aren't that good.
by MR_Bulldops | 2025-04-14 19:18:54+00:00
Let's have a conversation about leaking tax dollars. How do you feel about our tax dollars directly enriching the sitting president? How do you feel about our tax dollars leaking into a military parade to celebrate the president's birthday? If you don't address those leaks, how can we be expected to take people like you seriously when you defend authoritarian policy as fiscally responsible?
by somethoughts | 2025-04-14 19:19:14+00:00
It'd be an interesting strategy if you could split the organization based on departments that depend heavily on federal funds (i.e. perhaps STEM fields such as medicine and physics/hard sciences, etc.) and those that are not (and perhaps simultaneously requiring more freedom of thought).

Perhaps resurrect the Radcliffe College to support the more intellectual, free thought based departments. [1]

[1] https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/about-the-institute/histor...
by immibis | 2025-04-14 19:19:41+00:00
The ones GP is referring to all go away when you use -O0. They're completely artificially constructed by compiler writers language-lawyering the language. They were unforeseeable to the people who actually wrote the language, who expected interpretations like "dereferencing null crashes the program" or "dereferencing null accesses the interrupt vector table" and absolutely were not expecting "dereferencing null deletes the previous three lines of code"
by HaZeust | 2025-04-14 19:19:48+00:00
Partially, but that's not my point, because now U.S. Citizens are being threatened - at least verbally - on U.S. Soil. Just 2 hours ago, a press conference talked about Trump wanting to do the same thing to home-grown citizens [1]. Today's practice with Garcia is not just an appeal to the "slippery slope" argument (in case anyone wants to call fallacy, I'm shutting them down ahead of time), it's an appeal to the fact that Trump is actualizing the slippery slope and discussing - literally less than a week later - how he wants to use this situation as precedent to do the same to home-grown criminals - American citizens.

Also, Garcia was granted protected status to remain in the US, and had a separate court order saying he specifically couldn't be sent to El Salvador. They are no longer saying it like it is. Will they for us?

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1jz477g/trump_to_bukel...
by mattfrommars | 2025-04-14 19:19:49+00:00
I just find this very sickening. On one hand, Google laid him off and best excuse I can think of is, "reduce operational expense". On the other hand, they happily paid $32 billion dollar for Wiz where the both fonder net around $3 billion dollar.

I don't know guys but there needs to be some crackdown on this bull that is going on with corporate America. Something feels really off lately with these tech companies on how they make excuse and get away.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-14 19:20:13+00:00
The point is, it's eating your seed corn.

Spending a billion of it is not just spending a billion. It's spending the many billions it was meant to provide, in interest, over the next decades.

It's extraordinarily expensive to spend it directly, as opposed to spending the income it generates.

You can certainly do it, in a true emergency. But you certainly don't want to make a habit of it.
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-14 19:20:18+00:00
This is about lots more than money. Sure, Harvard can go without federal funds. Then comes federal tax breaks. Then Harvard's ability to recruit foreign students (no visas, no foreign students/professors). After that comes the really draconian stuff like the fed revoking clearances or not hiring/doing business with Harvard grads. Such things were once thought illegal but are now very much on the table. That is why Harvard needs to win the money fight no matter the numbers.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-14 19:20:20+00:00
If there was no track record of Trump doing things off the rails, we could turn down the temps. However, he very much does not, and quite the opposite. Him admitting they are "looking into it" on how to achieve a third term is quite unsettling. Especially with congress acquiescing to any whim he has as well as SCOTUS giving him permission to do whatevs. None of this instills confidence that there will be any push back.

The same people that came up with Project 2025 are the very people that would come up with plans for giving a third term. Those plans might seem ridiculous to some, but so did the alternate electors and the other things Trump has already tried before. The fact that no negative outcome came from any of those previous attempts just emboldens even further attempts.
by simonask | 2025-04-14 19:20:37+00:00
Linked lists are worse than flat arrays in every single performance metric other than ordered removal. They use more memory (the links), have inferior cache locality, cause more allocations (unless you're allocating anyway, in the case of intrusive lists).

Their one benefit - O(1) ordered removal - is easily achieved with a flat array, in at least two common ways: swap in the last element if you don't care about the order, or mark the index as vacant if you do care about the order, or if you care about the stability of references.

I mean, I agree that they're kind of neat from a certain perspective, but they're almost never the right choice.
by areoform | 2025-04-14 19:20:41+00:00
It's not.

The rubicon has already been crossed. If you asked some of the framers of the US constitution - beyond all other factors, unelected powers etc - what was the one defining trait of the government structure they wished to avoid; they'd have replied with arbitrary imprisonment and the suspension of due process.

Please don't take my word for it, hear it from the Prosecutor's Prosecutor. The SCOTUS justice, former AG and former USSG who led the American prosecution against the Nazis at Nuremberg, Robert H. Jackson,

No society is free where government makes one person's liberty depend upon the arbitrary will of another. Dictatorships have done this since time immemorial. They do now. Russian laws of 1934 authorized the People's Commissariat to imprison, banish and exile Russian citizens as well as "foreign subjects who are socially dangerous."' Hitler's secret police were given like powers. German courts were forbidden to make any inquiry whatever as to the information on which the police acted. Our Bill of Rights was written to prevent such oppressive practices. Under it this Nation has fostered and protected individual freedom. The Founders abhorred arbitrary one-man imprisonments. Their belief was--our constitutional principles are-that no person of any faith, rich or poor, high or low, native or foreigner, white or colored, can have his life, liberty or property taken "without due process of law." This means to me that neither the federal police nor federal prosecutors nor any other governmental official, whatever his title, can put or keep people in prison without accountability to courts of justice. It means that individual liberty is too highly prized in this country to allow executive officials to imprison and hold people on the basis of information kept secret from courts. It means that Mezei should not be deprived of his liberty indefinitely except as the result of a fair open court hearing in which evidence is appraised by the court, not by the prosecutor

There is a reason why citizenship was not a requirement for receiving due process under the law. Citizenships are bestowed by the government. They can be taken away by the government. The framers held certain rights to be unalienable from human beings - something that no government can take away, and that was the right to not be unjustly detained for your beliefs, your behavior, your dress, your religion or composure.

Suspending due process for anyone is fundamentally un-American. But we have crossed that threshold. What comes next is fairly inevitable - if the process isn't stopped now.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-14 19:20:44+00:00
> trying to build a company around this

I am still very open to this one. An email-based, artificial coworker is so obviously the right way to penetrate virtually every B2B market in existence.

I don't even really want to touch the technology aspects. Writing code that integrates with an LLM provider and a mailbox in E365 or Gmail is boring. The schema is a grand total of ten tables if we're being pedantic about things.

Working with prospects and turning them into customers is a way more interesting problem. I hunger for tangible use cases that are actually compatible with this shiny new LLM tooling. We all know they're out there, and email is probably the lowest friction way to get them applied to most businesses.
by goosedragons | 2025-04-14 19:21:04+00:00
MacOS Sonoma only supports a single model from 2017. The iMac Pro. Everything else is left out. Much easier to find a PC from 2017 that has support for TPM 2.0.

Software devs come and go, there's no guarantee the dev will go back and update old software. Just look at the graveyard of abandoned Mac games on Steam. And even if they do, it often means rebuying or worse a subscription just for the sake of running what you already had.

Can I run something like Crysis in VM with good performance? Especially on a completely different architecture like ARM?
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by francio445 | 2025-04-14 19:21:04+00:00
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by dogleash | 2025-04-14 19:21:21+00:00
I'm not saying this is the case here, but every time I've been in internal or promotional videos related to my work, I've been performing for a camera. I'm not playing a theater character, but it's also not what you'd get if you dropped by my desk and asked me the same questions. Calling it acting might seem strong. But it's not not acting. So it's acting.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-14 19:21:42+00:00
Have they implemented "I don't know" yet.

I probably spend 100$ a month on AI coding, and it's great at small straightforward tasks.

Drop it into a larger codebase and it'll get confused. Even if the same tool built it in the first place due to context limits.

Then again, the way things are rapidly improving I suspect I can wait 6 months and they'll have a model that can do what I want.
by duxup | 2025-04-14 19:21:52+00:00
The GOP / Trump administration shows no real focus on employing experts, Trump shows no curiosity about anything. They're slashing research and science across the board department by department. They employ anti science people as heads of departments that require science.

I don't think the GOP & Trump thinks they need anything from Harvard other than agreeing to impose first amendment violations on others on behalf of the GOP and Trump.
by panick21_ | 2025-04-14 19:22:00+00:00
Calling building the biggest rocket in the world and the largest sat company in the world, that both launches, manufactures and operates the most sats in the world, while being the only company that can deliver humans reliably into space and also has a private space flight business. Claiming that ist 'stagnet' is an absolutely absurd claim. Oh and that was the Falcon Heavy.

Starship is even bigger and more powerful and has the most advanced rocket engine ever designed.

Just because they haven't yet managed to create a fully reusable vehicle, doesn't mean its 'stagnet'. A fully reusable rocket is insanely hard to build. Lets alone all the new infrastructure required to do it. And the first stage has already proven re-usability. If all they were shooting for was a much bigger Falcon 9, they would already have it.

And maybe try to actually compare it to the competition. Ariane 6 for instant was financed in 2014. And had lots and lots of work done before it, the engine that is in the Ariane 6 second stage has been in development since the late 90s.

SpaceX only had the resources to seriously invest in Starship around 2020 and even then it was nowhere close to top priority.

I know its fashionable to shit on Musk, but common, at least have some perspective. They are by far the biggest most successful space company in the world by such a wide margin that its not even funny. The competition has not yet even replicated the Falcon 9. And Amazon is struggling to get even an inferior version of Starlink up. And Boeing can't get their human system to work at all.
by TrevorAustin | 2025-04-14 19:22:11+00:00
A demand letter that said only "Harvard may not use race, gender, or national origin as criteria for admissions and hiring" would be a lot more defensible, and much harder to oppose.

But the government's list of demands includes all kinds of stuff that would be mildly insane even if offered in good faith. And we have seen enough already that any independent organization would be very irresponsible to assume good faith.

I would go so far as to say that any institution trying to make decisions based solely on merit is required to resist this kind of pressure very forcefully. There are many examples of the administration using "DEI" as a buzzword when firing meritorious women and minorities, all the while promoting totally meritless white men.

-JD '08
by wavecall | 2025-04-14 19:22:26+00:00
You're right that the previous privacy policy language wasn't GDPR-compliant. It is now updated our policy to make analytics and marketing fully opt-in rather than assumed consent.

The updated policy clearly separates essential data uses (providing services, billing, support) from optional uses like marketing and analytics. These optional uses are now explicitly opt-out by default, requiring users to actively opt in through their account settings.
by clivestaples | 2025-04-14 19:22:49+00:00
Likely I'm very naive. But here goes... It seems that taxpayers fund a lot of research. This research is very valuable and lucrative. It finds its way into the hands of those who know how to profit from it. The taxpayer is again screwed paying exorbitant prices for said breakthroughs. Insulin is one area of interest to me and it very much seems to be the case in the diabetes world.

This was how NAFTA was sold. Move car manufacturing to Mexico and they will enjoy better living wages while we get more affordable cars. Except that I don't recall cars produced in Mexico ever getting more affordable. I'm sure corporate profits were great. Should probably look into this someday and see if my perception is correct.
by panick21_ | 2025-04-14 19:23:40+00:00
People only deserve success if they were born in a trash can during the civil war in Sudan. That's such a fucking dumb logic.

Musk specifically went to Silicon Valley because that's where the opportunity were.

But he was only one of many who tried to make it big. Just because the US is a big country doesn't magically create rockets that can fly to space.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-14 19:23:42+00:00
He may issue an EO against them similar to the ones he's successfully used to bring major law firms he doesn't like to heel: ban consideration of former Harvard employees (... maybe also graduates?) for Federal jobs, revoke clearances held by anyone employed by Harvard, and ban them from Federal property. Maybe with some other creative terms thrown in to mess with universities in particular.
by davidjhall | 2025-04-14 19:23:47+00:00
A wonderful atlas -- my favorite are her trail maps where she depicts a character's daily journey in the book.

The article (almost) footnotes her other work which was equally impressive:

* She also created atlases for the worlds of fantasy authors Anne McCaffrey, creator of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series, and Stephen R. Donaldson, who wrote “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” series.
by nine_k | 2025-04-14 19:23:56+00:00
The university, as a private institution, has every right to hold whatever views and enforce whatever policies it sees fit within itself.

The government, on the other hand, has every right to put conditions its counterparty should conform to in order to get money from the government.

It's best when the bargaining about such conditions happens with mutual respect and without overreach, but respect and sobriety are in very short supply in the current administration. Even better it is when a university does not need to receive the government money and can run off the gigantic endowment it already has, thus having no need to comply with any such conditions.

(It's additionally unfun how the antisemitism is barely mentioned as a problem, in a very muffed way, and any other kind of discrimination based on ethnicity, culture, or religion is not mentioned at all. Is fighting discrimination out of fashion now?..)
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-14 19:23:59+00:00
This is true, and they have likely been accelerating the arrangements they already had for a while now. At the same time however, getting 50 billion in assets into various European jurisdictions is not at all easy. I'd estimate Trump could cut off 70-90 percent of what Harvard has to work with.

Alumni will need to come through for continuing operations if the worst does happen. And I'm certain Harvard has put some thought into that contingency as well.
by robocat | 2025-04-14 19:23:59+00:00
> obtaining planning permission in the UK takes the median hectare of land from £20,000 to £2.4 million - a 139x uplift.

The opportunity was clear, but they couldn't find a model to capture some of the value.

> competitors, some well-resourced, all of whom appeared to be competing on price. These were already cheap contracts: a few hundred pounds per month for a small/medium-sized team. And they were getting cheaper. We concluded that this was a difficult market to sell into, with race-to-the-bottom pricing dynamics

They pivoted to a different model.

> In retrospect, we may have been closer to viable products than we realised. Multiple British prop-tech companies have been funded, including in the US, during the lifetime, suggesting alternative paths we could have taken.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-14 19:24:23+00:00
Add Obsidian to this list - working in markdown is freeing.

And the ecosystem around fitness tracking - Garmin, Strava, TrainingPeaks, Wahoo, & others all connect to each other and let you export workout data as a .fit file. The market dynamic has led to amazing cooperation which lets each provider specialize and empowers you to stitch together point solutions into something that works for you.
by plorg | 2025-04-14 19:24:23+00:00
I would absolutely love to see my federal tax dollars doled out to schools and institutions where they would more directly benefit a wider set of people. If that was what was under discussion it would be great. The administration isn't proposing to redirect that money, simply rescind it, and they are very, extremely clearly attempting to use this to coerce institutions and punish people for their speech and associations.
by contingencies | 2025-04-14 19:24:37+00:00
Err yeah, mostly based in China ~2001-2022 here. Basically in China hitchhiking makes you look like a criminal because there's perfectly good long distance transport for not much and the government bans people it doesn't like from using it. Therefore, if you're thumbing you're looking suss. Sounds like a cool trip! Where'd you go to/from? Got a write-up somewhere? Highlights? I really enjoyed cycle touring in the west of China, there's some really beautiful areas.