MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-14 21:30:07+00:00
The keffiyeh bit reads as really suspect (not saying the student was lying—mistakes are common in these situations) given all the other details of that incident I can find in other sources covering this. That claim appears to be the only connection to the pro-Palestine movement of the attack by a 52 year old white townie whose mugshot reads "homeless"—all of which paints a very different picture.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-14 21:30:41+00:00
No. You misunderstand endowments.

Their principal is not intended to be spent, ever. The point of an endowment is not to "provide stability during trying times".

The point is to spend the interest that it generates, in normal times, in perpetuity. Which Harvard already does and has always done. Interest from their endowment is already a large part of their revenue. That's what the endowment is for.
by freejazz | 2025-04-14 21:30:54+00:00
>"Anyone who is fair would see it exactly how I see it!"

That's not what I was saying. I was saying anyone would reflect there is a long list of questionable behavior. Whether or not you think that is disqualifying is your opinion. Scam university, scam banks, scam businesses. These are facts of Donald Trump's past, not opinions.

>Wonderful way to have a conversation, isn't it. Everything else in your response is nitpicking and hanging up over minor details!

It's not everyone else. It's you. And it's because that's what you did to the other poster and I was rightful in calling it out. You could just stop instead of digging in.

>The other example was groping. So I refuted half the points the user made, pretty major to me. It's not being nitpicky, it's major difference. If I said Kamala wanted to establish soviet like price controls, people would rightfully correct that and that wouldn't be nitpicky or hanging up over minor details.

You didn't say that the other example was groping. You only talked about "injecting bleach" and even then not reasonably engaging in it, just pulling the kind of "technically right but clearly not getting the point" kind of argument that I accused you of. If you want to engage with the other poster fairly, you can. You didn't. It's not the end of the world but no need to keep belaboring the point by bringing up things you never expressed which would have totally changed the situation.

>No, you are just nitpicking.

How is that nitpicking? I never said conversations should go like that, so there is no reason to ask me why I would prefer it go that way. Do you not know what a strawman argument is?

>I did, by engaging in the DIRECT argument that the user provided for him being unintelligent. User said "Trump did X. He is unintelligent". I'm supposed to say "ohh no but he is intelligent" completely ignoring the reasoning for his conclusion? In an actual conversation, you engage the reasons provided - otherwise it just turns into unproductive "no/yes/no/yes" conversation.

That wasn't the entire argument. Are we now going back to grade-school reading comprehension? I quoted his point. You ignored that in your response to me where you continue to pull this obnoxious shtick. ENOUGH!

> I'm supposed to say "ohh no but he is intelligent" completely ignoring the reasoning for his conclusion?

You did completely ignore the reason for his conclusion. He said there are many reasons why Trump has questionable character, you zero'd in on a minor detail of one of those arguments and did not address anything else, let alone Trump's actual character and why it would or would not be good based on evidence. Then you accused him of doing it on purpose! You're really rude and a really bad poster that is doing exactly what you complained about and now your ego is too big to walk away. Sad!
by mattlondon | 2025-04-14 21:31:31+00:00
Most UK health stuff starts with a GP appointment.

Even for private health care, you usually see a GP first (could be a private GP or NHS, in-person or video) and they then refer you to the next thing whatever that may be. ( N.B. that a NHS GP can give you a referral that you use for private treatment)

There are some things you can just straight up book an appointment for yourself without a referral from a GP, but 95% of the time you start with a GP.

No idea specifically about dermatologists, but my expectation would be that would be the sort of thing that would need a referral for. Perhaps for some "non-medical" procedures and 100% for cosmetic procedures you don't need a referral, but anything even tangentially close to The C Word would almost certainly be sending you down the normal channels.
by krupan | 2025-04-14 21:31:32+00:00
Do I love maps because of the fantasy books I read as a kid? Did I love (and still love) the fantasy books because I love maps? I may never know.

I've heard of the Atlas of Middle Earth but never knew this amazing story behind it. Thanks for posting it, bookofjoe!

Also, really cool to know she did D&D maps too. Maps are just rad
by gs17 | 2025-04-14 21:31:32+00:00
The legitimate uses feel kind of rare. Maybe there's some stock photo abandonware out there (questionable "legitimacy", but it's not so out there)? Maybe someone bought stock photos from a company that went bankrupt and never downloaded the non-watermarked version, and somehow that company's IP isn't accessible now? Feels like a stretch.

Upscaling old purchased images feels like a more common need.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-14 21:32:31+00:00
In Catholic theology, God is the ultimate end of Man. The created order, with all its good and beauty, can be understood as a sign that points to God.

Marriage under a Catholic understanding has both a natural and a supernatural end. The natural end is procreative, but the supernatural end is that of a friendship in which husband and wife help each other on their journey toward Heaven.

In Dante, we see Dante's love of Beatrice lead him to God. He never marries her, but through her beauty and his love of her, she becomes a kind of icon through which Dante is led toward virtue and the divine. Eros draws him upward, but he is purified by agape. Agape purifies eros. The willing of the good of the other, self-sacrifice, surpass the satisfaction of one's desires and purify them.

(Incidentally, this is why, in this theological light, vile perversions like pornography become even more horrifying and dark. There is a sense in which one is also participating in an act of desecration.)
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-14 21:32:34+00:00
> magine if South Vietnam had remained independent. If it had become a thriving prosperous free democracy

That’s not obvious. For starters South Korea was a brutal and oppressive dictatorship during and after the war (not that much better than NK). It only became a democracy about the same time (coincidentally) as the USSR began collapsing. Same as Taiwan for that matter…

Also it’s a sample of one.. there are plenty of other countries where the US intervened that ended up not doing very well.

> you can’t help but wonder

About what? Waging the war indefinitely or direct invasion of North Vietnam? Because there weren’t really that many other options..
by aiagenttoday | 2025-04-14 21:32:53+00:00
In a delicious twist of irony, Artisan, the AI startup that made waves with its provocative 'Stop Hiring Humans' campaign, is actually on a hiring spree – for humans. The company just secured a hefty $25 million Series A funding round, and while it's building AI 'employees,' it's simultaneously expanding its human workforce. Welcome to the fascinating paradox of modern tech.
by kashunstva | 2025-04-14 21:33:00+00:00
> is not entitled to set arbitrary conditions

Indeed, but most of these conditions _are_ arbitrary and often mutually-conflicting. Mask ban? What is the scientific basis for this?

The government already set numerous conditions on research funding relating to accounting, ethical conduct and so forth. Attaching conditions that are only tangentially related to the purpose of the funding is almost arbitrary by definition.
by gruez | 2025-04-14 21:33:04+00:00
It's reserved because the donation was earmarked for a specific purpose (eg. a business program or whatever), not because they reserved 30% on tax owing.

>Is the growth 'reserved for a particular purpose'?

It's probably safe to assume donors are competent enough that such glaring loopholes don't exist. After all, the concept of endowments being used as long term savings, rather than spent immediately, isn't exactly a new concept. Failing to take this into account would mean any earmarks are void after a few decades.
by dmonitor | 2025-04-14 21:33:07+00:00
> Discord is very much in the same boat of build user base, then either sell or lock people in and charge a lot. It's current model is unsustainable. It will get bought out or enshitify eventually, there's no other sustainable model unless every user starts handing them money every month like its Netflix.

I haven't looked at their financials, but I wouldn't be surprised if their current subscription offerings targeting power users were enough to support the service.
by Kerollmops | 2025-04-14 21:33:40+00:00
35 GiB is probably a third of the data I index into Meilisearch just for experimenting and don't forget about the inverted indexes. You wouldn't use any O(n) algorithm to search in your documents.

Also, every time you need to reboot the engine you would have to reindex everything from scratch. Not a good strategy, believe me.
by minimaxir | 2025-04-14 21:33:44+00:00
> no evidence that ALL CAPS or Bribes or Tips or threats to grandma work

Challenge accepted.

That said, the exact quote from the linked notebook is "It’s generally not necessary to use all-caps or other incentives like bribes or tips, but developers can experiment with this for extra emphasis if so desired.", but the demo examples OpenAI provides do like using ALL CAPS.
by zzrrt | 2025-04-14 21:34:02+00:00
Abrego Garcia's lawyer has asked the court to withhold payment[1]. They may have already paid it all ($6 million for 300 prisoners for a year); I don't know of a source about any payment schedule. And this is Trump administration paying it, so nobody but Trump or courts probably has legal power to stop paying now.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250402000938/https://www.theat...
by palmotea | 2025-04-14 21:34:40+00:00
>> College endowments are typically tax-exempt, but a 2017 law imposed a 1.4% tax on investment income for a small group of wealthy private universities.

> LoL - why it makes any sense to do this for universities and not billionaires is beyond me, but I'm sure half the country can explain it to me like I'm 5.

Because they already do it for billionaires: unlike university endowments, billionaire investment income is not tax-exempt by default, it's already subject to income tax [1].

[1] At least theoretically, ignoring the loopholes and tax-dodges billionaires can take advantage of with literal armies of accountants.
by SebastianKra | 2025-04-14 21:35:25+00:00
The contract-first design and return to REST seem like solid improvements over trpc.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what would be the simplest way to typecheck a rest api. I wonder if…

- …it would make sense to define endpoints in isolation, rather than one big router object. Large / recursive types have bad performance, especially when mixed with zod. Isolated contract definitions would prevent statically checking for path conflicts though.

- …a composition-based api would be better than a wrapper to minimize the API surface:

const getPostById = endpoint(/* */) // client const postResponse = fetch(getRequest(getPostById, 123)) const post = getResponseData(getPostsById, postResponse)
by Scoundreller | 2025-04-14 21:36:32+00:00
Friend did a lot of work in Africa. Got back to the US and starts getting symptomatic and says to himself “I think I got malaria”.

Goes to the biggest university hospital nearby he can find.

Was initially dismissed but waited it out for the infectious diseases specialist and they quickly agreed with his self-diagnosis.

They kept them in hospital for a few days so a parade of clinical students/residents could come by for the specialist to say: “this man has malaria”
by dtagames | 2025-04-14 21:36:38+00:00
I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones.

The "cost" argument is a thinly veiled way of saying, "We don't want to pay people in America American wages."

Our contemporary American lifestyle requires commensurate income and Apple and all these other companies can also afford to pay US wages. Just look at the money they give shareholders.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-04-14 21:36:51+00:00
This looks nice! I have chatgpt+ and wanted to give my gf access, so I set her up with an app (chatbox) connected to my api key, but it doesn't seem like it can do web searches so it's stuck at the training cutoff date. If I provide my own API key here, can you do web searches with it?

Regards
by throwanem | 2025-04-14 21:37:03+00:00
I've never had a Facebook account, other than a burner for the brief time I spent investigating VR via Oculus Quest 2.

I almost had one once, some time in the very early 2010s. After first login, the first prompt I saw was for my email account's authentication details, so that Facebook could "find my contacts for me."

I forget the exact language they used, but I know a boundary test when I see one, and I completed neither that nor any other further onboarding step, but immediately "deleted" the account - understanding this would not actually remove any information, but would deny me at least the temptation to develop what I could see would become a dangerous habit.

I don't exactly think I blame people who were slower to catch on, which is a relief, considering that appears at one time or another to have been about half the species and it would be a lot of work. But I would incline much less to say that mistrusting Facebook as early as 2018 would have been cynical, than that still to have trusted them so late seems remarkably naïve.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-14 21:37:06+00:00
Thank you,

Let me start by saying that I am not American and I am not your enemy. Also, I am genuinely trying to understand the truth about these matters, with an open mind to the possibility that it's messy and complicated and I might not be capable of understanding it. I hope that provides context for what follows.

Honestly, I am not sure if it's okay. It reminds me of the anti-racist movement, in that the action almost feels like it's anti-fascist. It's using a fascist action (use of state power to enforce conformity), to undo a fascist policy (suppression of political opposition and dissent). This reminds me of anti-racism, which uses one type of racism to compensate for a different type of past-racism.

What I find interesting is the very last statement in your post. I am not aware of anything Biden did, but it does seem like Obama did something very similar with the DEI policies forced on universities which came with funding implications for non-compliance. It was a different time, everyone was upset about the great financial crisis of 2008, and on their surface I am sure these policies sounded like a good thing. In the end though these policies were very much a form of facism in that it was a state sponsored effort to suppress political opposition. This probably sounds like I am defending the political views of racists, but really I am defending the political views of people who believe leadership roles should be filled based on the merit of the individual and their ability to take care of those in their charge, and not based on the color of their skin, their gender or sexual preferences.

As I have tried to unpack all this, the perspective that is growing for me is that for the last 20 or so years both administrations have been taking steps towards fascism while hiding their fascist actions behind intentions that sound anti-fascist. If this perspective is even partially correct, it would explain why so much of this has been so confusing for me.
by chucksmash | 2025-04-14 21:37:20+00:00
Of course there is such a thing.

Lifestyle inflation is a known phenomenon which you (and your spouse) can choose to avoid if you prioritize it, not some immutable rule of nature.

If the treadmill of accumulation that lets someone believe "there's no such thing as enough" ever stops, I think they would be shocked at how quickly they realize what enough actually means.
by scott_w | 2025-04-14 21:37:25+00:00
> Pretty much all drivers agree that most or all of these requirements are reasonable

Twitter used to be a great source of taxi drivers bitching about getting caught on their phone, driving dangerously, driving drunk, no insurance, expired MOT, driving while disqualified, speeding.

I can continue but you can just watch Cycling Mikey for more examples. Oh, then look up the articles written on how much drivers hate him for checks notes reporting drivers for breaking the law.

But no, it’s cyclists who hate having their behaviour policed.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-14 21:39:05+00:00
financial incentives for Greenlanders, including the possibility of .... an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenlander. officials believe those costs could be offset by new revenue from the extraction of Greenland’s natural resources, which include rare earth minerals, copper, gold, uranium and oil. Reuters reports: The vision for Greenland ... could include a hub for artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, space launches, micro nuclear reactors and high-speed rail. The discussions reflect a longstanding Silicon Valley movement to establish low-regulation cities globally, including in the United States
by rsoto2 | 2025-04-14 21:39:11+00:00
Yeah the Cambodian-Vietnamese war wasn't colonialism.

" In the first major clash between the two former allies, the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army (KRA) invaded the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc on 1 May 1975 (barely 24 hours after Saigon fell), claiming it was historically part of Kampuchea's territory.[17]

Nine days later, on 10 May 1975, the KRA continued its incursion by capturing the Thổ Chu Islands, where it executed 500 Vietnamese civilians. "
by michaelt | 2025-04-14 21:39:37+00:00
If there are 7 different grocery stores in driving distance of my house and two of them merge, I've still got a choice of 6 stores so there's still reasonable competition.

If there are 3 different grocery stores and two of them merge, though? That's a different matter.

And if 1 of the remaining 2 is the zero-waste organic store that only rich people and hippies use? It might not even be providing all that much competition.
by pbnjeh | 2025-04-14 21:40:05+00:00
Close to 20 years later, people still complain about the ribbon. (1)

I think that says something about it.

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1. And not just "grumble, grumble... get off my lawn..." Many of its controls are at best obscure. It hides many of them away. It makes them awkward to reach.

Many new users seem as clueless, or even more so, than pre-existing customers who experienced the rug pull. At least pre-ribbon users knew there was certain functionality that they just wanted to find.

(And I still remember how MS concurrently f-cked with Excel shortcut keys. Or seemed to have, when I next picked Excel up after a couple year hiatus from being a power user.)
by borski | 2025-04-14 21:40:09+00:00
Something being predicted poorly, hypothetically, doesn’t mean you can’t rectify a past mistake, right?

Not specifically related to this case, necessarily, but if you let an acquisition go through and discover a decade later that it was, in fact, anticompetitive (and intentionally so), presumably you would still try to break up the resulting monopoly, even if you didn’t predict it would happen?
by 9dev | 2025-04-14 21:40:19+00:00
Or, like, we could stop ravaging the oceans by industrial fishing, stop pretending magical technology will save the day, and try to limit our resource consumption to sustainable levels?

Humanity’s relationship with animals is so schizophrenic. On the one hand, let’s try to learn how to talk to cute dolphins and chat with them what it’s like to swim!, and on the other, well yeah that steak on my table may have once lead a subjective experience before it was slaughtered, and mass-farming it wrecks the ecosystem I depend on to live, but gosh it’s so tasty, I can’t give that up!
by holsta | 2025-04-14 21:40:36+00:00
> I honestly have no idea why the recruiters from these places have such a superiority complex that they need to belittle people like that.

Many, many years ago I sat next to HR in an open plan office while on a freelance gig.

They treated almost all candidates like subhumans, both when talking about the candidates within the team and when speaking on the phone to candidates.

They handled everyone from factory worker and janitorial roles, to specialists to director level. I very clearly got the impression that they only treated candidates well if those candidates could turn into people who had any power over them within the org.

I've carried that with me since and I often recognize it in HR staff I interact with now.
by iAMkenough | 2025-04-14 21:40:38+00:00
Just watch what happens when they exercise their Constiutional right to "say whatever it wants."

Stephen Miller made it clear this morning: "Under this country, under this administration, under President Trump, people who hate America, who threaten our citizens, who rape, who murder, and who support those who rape and murder are going to be ejected from this country."

If the government decides you "hate America" or your business supports some hypothetical rapist/murderer they imagined, you're going to end up ejected from this country without due process.
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-14 21:41:12+00:00
“Chemistry literacy” is very poor in the general public because it has very few everyday applications, so everything learnt at school just drops out of people’s brains.

That’s why your hear nonsense like “It has chemicals in it!!!”

It’s also why you regularly see science fiction where characters can grow in seconds, totally breaking the law of conservation of matter.
by zaishi | 2025-04-14 21:41:35+00:00
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by kolbe | 2025-04-14 21:42:16+00:00
DAs of all kinds have enormous discretion. A significant part of our legal system is entrusted to them to act honorably, regardless of what judges and legislators say. DAs can't force outcomes that judges say are incorrect, but DAs can and do choose not to prosecute obvious crimes, and there are not great checks against that power beyond replacing them with the political process.

And even when cases are brought, the DoJ needs to defend them. See a number of cases that were very far along in the court system that the Biden administration was pursuing, that the Trump DoJ just quit defending. They simply no longer have a lawyer, and functionally cannot proceed.