MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-05-22 21:20:05+00:00
I'm a severely disillusioned alum of a couple of the campus orgs really driving some of this.

> Surely there are existing institutions of some form or another you'd like to see not made enemies of the state. You don't maybe see a principle at work here beyond your personal dislike of academia

Hold up - I'm massively pro-academic freedom and autonomy. I'm just pointing out that there's a fight happening behind this fight that has been going on in a subset of the Harvard alum community that has snowballed into this fiasco.

> That is just shockingly cynical

You don't understand unless you actually attended Harvard. It's a very isolating and cliquish experience which incentivizes you to exist within your echo chamber.

Even joining god damn clubs on campus required "Comping" (basically the same as rushing in frats)

Major reason I spent most of my time at MIT and BU or the grad schools like HKS and HBS instead - middle class schools tend to have less of a stick up their butt.

Edit: can't reply to you below, but tl;dr I agree with your callout. I edited my initial comment because as you pointed out it did come off as if I had schachenfreude.

> I can say with 100% sincerity that'd I'd feel the same horror if a White House was similarly going after TCU, or Liberty University, or even Yale

I agree. I'm just exasperated by this whole fiasco and that's why my post is so angry in tone
by ultimafan | 2025-05-22 21:20:33+00:00
It's for a reason similar to this that the only game I will play in casinos is craps.

It's not hard to imagine ways to get cheated out of a "fair" bet in card games, roulette, slots, etc. whether it's a mechanical cheat, sleight of hand, adjustment of odds, or whatever. Not saying it happens or is even a common occurrence but it's very easy to imagine ways it COULD happen or has happened in the past that are impossible for the player to detect.

Craps is the only game it feels like to me where provided the payout odds used are the same standard you see everywhere and the dice aren't metallic there is virtually no way to cheat the player/a bet in a way that wouldn't also benefit another player/another bet.
by boroboro4 | 2025-05-22 21:21:10+00:00
This being said the opinion explicitly shield FED:

> respondents ... necessarily implicate ... removal protections for members of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors or other members of the Federal Open Market Committee. ... We disagree. The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States.
by squidsoup | 2025-05-22 21:21:38+00:00
> Most of the soy sauce you encounter in the US has wheat, while in Japan (and seemingly South Korea) there's no wheat added.

My favourite jang is made from fermented wheat and soy - chunjang. Chunjang is the star ingredient in one of the most delicious noodle dishes ever conceived, Jjajangmyeon.
by cube2222 | 2025-05-22 21:23:17+00:00
Alright, I think I found the reason, clearly a bug: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1236#issuec...

Basically it seems to be hitting the max output token count (writing out a whole new file in one go), stops the response, and the invalid tool call parameters error is a red herring.
by johng | 2025-05-22 21:23:47+00:00
I love the option to add transparency to the background. Other than that, I have no reason to use the tool... this https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx

works better, is free.... and generates 4 images faster. If I don't like the logos, i run it again and generate 4 more, and repeat until I get what I like.... tweaking the prompt as I go.

The only benefit of this tool, I'm sad to say, is that it does transparency. I have to use another tool or cut out the logos manually on the google site... but still, those are all free as well.

For example, try this prompt on the google AI tool and your tool and see the results.

"Draw a logo that says CTPP and has an outline of the state of Texas. Make the logo red white and blue like the US flag."
by SamBam | 2025-05-22 21:24:02+00:00
This is the first LLM that has been able to answer my logic puzzle on the first try without several minutes of extended reasoning.

> A man wants to cross a river, and he has a cabbage, a goat, a wolf and a lion. If he leaves the goat alone with the cabbage, the goat will eat it. If he leaves the wolf with the goat, the wolf will eat it. And if he leaves the lion with either the wolf or the goat, the lion will eat them. How can he cross the river?

Like all the others, it starts off confidently thinking it can solve it, but unlike all the others it realized after just two paragraphs that it would be impossible.
by ajross | 2025-05-22 21:24:33+00:00
> Hold up - I'm massively pro-academic freedom and autonomy.

Then maybe you'd like to rephrase your upthread comment which seems very comfortable with a clear and obvious attack on academic freedom and autonomy?

> You don't understand unless you actually attended Harvard.

Class of '96. But really I don't see how that's relevant in the face of the current crisis. I can say with 100% sincerity that'd I'd feel the same horror if a White House was similarly going after TCU, or Liberty University, or even Yale.

It's. Awful. And it's not made less so because some of the students are Zionists, or Palestinian Sympathizers, or Vegan, or whatever it is you're upset about.
by yubblegum | 2025-05-22 21:24:55+00:00
Is it is really Trump holding a 'box cutter' to America's throat, or is it a 'controlled demolition' of an "empire" that presents obstacles for a grand plan for the future of global governance ..

[p.s. bravo to the one who downvoted as soon as I hit submit! Wow, that was quick. Bots on HN?]
by echelon | 2025-05-22 21:25:12+00:00
That's so hilariously backwards.

Google should be split into several business units [1], should be forced to give up Chrome [2], and should be forced to invest several billion of its war chest into competitors.

That's what the DOJ would do if it still had balls.

The fact that there's no money in a product like Firefox is insane. It's absolutely bonkers. There is so much value in it, yet everybody's favorite mega monopoly is pouring value into commoditizing everything to keep eyeballs and attention and dollars and a taxation regime the size of a medium-sized country in its gravitational singularity.

Google is an invasive species in every market. We need the EU/DOJ/BRICS equivalent of Chicxulub-level regulation to end its throat-grip predation on everyone.

[1] Six "Baby Bells", or "Tiny Googs": Search, Android, Deepmind, Cloud, YouTube, Ads. Shuffle everything else into another bin or spin it off independently. Waymo, etc.

[2] You could put Google with the Ads business as there is (1) no synergy between Chrome<->Android<->Search anymore, and (2) if Ads fucks it up, it doesn't kill the broader browser market or web ecosystem.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-22 21:25:13+00:00
Isn’t Omnivore discontinued? I didn’t hear what happened when they joined ElevenLabs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985118

Apparently the community is trying to shape the project into a workable self-hosted state. Ironic post from two months ago about a user trying to migrate away from Pocket to Omnivore:

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/4550

Same community users provide crowdsourced list of open source alternatives to Omnivore:

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/4462
by gxqoz | 2025-05-22 21:25:43+00:00
Yeah I have 32k saves and hit the same problems with search being extremely unreliable. About 5 years ago quotes stopped working in search. Trying to find "The Grapes of Wrath" would return all instances of "of" and "the." You could sort of hack it by searching for the most distinct word (maybe "Grapes") if you already knew exactly what you were searching for. I long suspected there was some architectural change they made on the backend that broke this and they didn't want to admit in support articles. Perhaps the Mozilla legal department determined that having a text copy of all articles in their database was some legal risk and they moved to just having the URL and maybe the title (this would also explain why "permanent copies" disappeared).

Anyway, as the 32k articles indicate, I was a power user of Pocket so part of me is sad it's going away. But they've really been checked out since maybe 2019 with regards to any real support for this product.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-22 21:26:03+00:00
Most of what it said is fitting math to heuristics - “don’t put starting points too close to each other” and “have some chokepoints so there’s some battles” and “give everyone equal access to resources”

The map was likely developed iteratively via playtesting - no need even for heuristics then. Just play & ask “is it fun?”
by jmoore15 | 2025-05-22 21:26:09+00:00
There was a thoughtful reply here with some feedback on the scores. It seems to have been deleted while I was writing a reply. In the interest of substantive discussion, I'm posting my reply below, since I think it's still valuable information.

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Yes, I noticed there were a few things off about this example (e.g., certain questions feel inapplicable for certain examples, or certain scores feel too optimistic for the bad example), and I intentionally left them there so as not to window dress things too much.

To add to some of your observations, I'll note that: 1. Automatic question generation runs before I've given any examples in this particular chat. This can be a positive (in that you can get started without even providing an example of your own data), but it also means we sometimes add questions that don't make sense for the data you actually have. The co-pilot is meant to be iterative for that reason. (As an example, towards the end of the chat, I do ask it to remove some questions that don't feel applicable).

2. The model still has to output a score for all questions, even if they don't apply to a particular input. We're working on a new system that will understand which questions actually apply, and can turn certain questions off if they're impossible to answer given the inputs provided.

3. We do get feedback from users that the scores feel off sometimes. In some cases, they're too high; in others, they're too low. We're working on an interface for calibrating the scores to your own preferences, e.g. with a small amount of thumbs up/thumbs down data. There's a tradeoff here, though, because we're also trying to make the evaluation process a lot easier than today's "prompt an LLM as a judge" paradigm where writing a prompt with a rubric can take a substantial amount of time, and any kind of calibration adds friction for users.

Overall, we release new models every other week and track ourselves on internal benchmarks to see improvements to both question generation and question scoring. If you play around with the system more and find other ways it's not working as you'd expect or like, please feel free to email me your examples and we'd be happy to prioritize looking into them.
by Alupis | 2025-05-22 21:26:41+00:00
Or, perhaps more simply, the days of the "Good Ol' Boys" who all went to the same power school and use that as a way to influence politics are over?

I'm reminded of the infamous George Carlin bit "It's a big club, and you ain’t in it"[1]. Maybe not anymore... and that's a most likely a good thing.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason...
by jonahx | 2025-05-22 21:26:51+00:00
This is very cool.

The thing I really want is this, combined with some automated local background LLM training / rag (not sure what the right approach is) process. So that, at the end of the day, everything I bookmark get saved locally, can be read in a nice format like you have the video, and be semantically queried, and it's all local:

"What was that article I saw read 1-3 months ago some new type of LLM training?"

"Find that really nice explanation of determinants article"

etc...

Have you investigated anything like that?
by JCattheATM | 2025-05-22 21:28:58+00:00
I guess that explains it, thank you for responding, and sorry about the off-topic nonsense from the other user.

To maybe try and explain, as I said earlier anthropomorphization is a pretty common writing tool, which means to treat a non-person being or object as though it were a person in limited contexts. In this case the glacier is being anthropomorphized to help describe its behavior, otherwise, sure, the use of steal wouldn't really make sense.

Does that help you understand it at all?
by cma | 2025-05-22 21:29:09+00:00
Claude 4's system prompt was published and contains:

"Claude’s reliable knowledge cutoff date - the date past which it cannot answer questions reliably - is the end of January 2025. It answers all questions the way a highly informed individual in January 2025 would if they were talking to someone from {{currentDateTime}}, "

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#m...
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-22 21:29:52+00:00
> The Trump administration is not targeting the students, they're targeting Harvard.

The Trump Administration is targeting Harvard, foreign students (and foreigners, especially non-White foreigners, generally), free speech, due process, limited government, and constraints on executive power, and a whole bunch of other things simultaneously.

"It's this, not that" is the wrong mental model. It is more like, everything, everywhere, all at once.
by magicalist | 2025-05-22 21:30:26+00:00
> Try steel manning in order to effectively persuade. This comment does not address the argument being made it just calls a field of study icky.

Disagree (the article linked in the GP is a great read with extensive and specific citations) and reminder that you can just make the comment you'd like to see instead of trying to meta sea lion it into existence. Steel man away.
by shiomiru | 2025-05-22 21:30:39+00:00
I was curious what "view transitions" are even about: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-view-transitions-1/

It's yet another 2.8k line specification solely authored by Google employees, introducing a brand new complexity monster (clones of ghost elements represented as a pseudo-element tree) to... make it easier to add fancy animations.

Now what I really miss is a "disable CSS animations" button. I find them very distracting and an unnecessary burden on battery life.
by alaxhn | 2025-05-22 21:30:43+00:00
I don't have first hand experience with your situation and I would imagine that you believe you are doing a great thing for society and I don't want to disparage thats so I don't intend my comments to speak to your specific institution or situation. I apologize if you see my comments this way.

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Broadly speaking the spending and staff levels at universities have grown over time while the number of enrolled students have stagnated and tuition costs per student have risen. There is a desire to reduce the per-student cost without providing additional subsidy and a straightforward way to do this is to look at the side of the university that doesn't have anything to do with undergraduate eduction and see where cuts may be made. One clear example of what we perceive as administrative bloat in the recent past was the Stanford Harmful Language Initiative (https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/08/university-removes-harm...). Every institution makes mistakes but if a tax-exempt and grant receiving institution has the bandwidth to produce something that to the eyes of the right appears to be fairly silly while charging ~$60k for tuition, this does raise some eyebrows.
by daveguy | 2025-05-22 21:31:03+00:00
> Between Harvard, Yale, and possibly a few other schools, I thought they had influence throughout government.

Turns out the "deep state" is just some made up bullshit to make people distrustful, angry, and easier to manipulate.

> Is some other faction at work now, or is it the same people as before? Are the power networks changing?

Nope, it's always been this dynamic. It's made of people after all. But that doesn't work as well to get people lapping up Trumpty Dumpty propaganda.
by abetusk | 2025-05-22 21:31:11+00:00
You're not really addressing the point head on. The argument about how science is communicated is orthogonal. The argument is that science academia prioritizes career over pursuing academic science.

I won't speak for anyone else but here are three things I think are all true:

* We live in a renaissance of academic research that is giving us profound scientific discovery

* Prioritizing a scientific career over scientific discovery can lead to a net positive of good scientific results, and, so far, has

* Prioritizing a scientific career over scientific discovery produces low quality science

Saying that people who know how to maneuver the political academic landscape, to secure a position, also produce valuable contributions might be true (I believe it is) but the argument doesn't address the cost of prioritizing, or promoting, that behavior.

I'm reminded of "The Economics of Superstars" [0]. If someone is "better" by a measure of 2x, say, but gets (10+)x the amount of resources, this is not a good allocation of energy. Saying that the 2x person should get more resources is true. Saying that they're justified in getting orders of magnitude more resources, at the cost of everyone else who might use them to better effect, is not.

These conversations are subtle. I notice that one of the common crutches is to attack people as "just being bitter". This seems like a cheap attack and I wish you and others would try to be more thoughtful.

[0] https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ201/Superstars....
by threeseed | 2025-05-22 21:31:14+00:00
Absolutely.

a) One of the only languages you can write your entire app in Scala i.e. it supports compiling to Javascript, JVM and LLVM.

b) It has the only formally proven type system of any language.

c) It is the innovation language. Many of the concepts that are now standard in other languages had their implementation borrowed from Scala. And it is continuing to innovate with libraries like Gears (https://github.com/lampepfl/gears) which does async without colouring and compiler additions like resource capabilities.
by krapp | 2025-05-22 21:31:15+00:00
People may not have had a good choice, but they had an obvious choice. The status quo of a Harris term - even considering the likely negatives, her pandering to the right and pro-Zionist stance - would have been objectively preferable to Trump. What is a voter to do? Not vote for the greater evil because they aren't in love with the lesser evil.
by inerte | 2025-05-22 21:31:21+00:00
2 things, I guess.

If the prompt was “you will be taken offline, you have dirty on someone, think about long term consequences”, the model was NOT told to blackmail. It came with that strategy by itself.

Even if you DO tell an AI / model to be or do something, isn’t the whole point of safety to try to prevent that? “Teach me how to build bombs or make a sex video with Melania”, these companies are saying this shouldn’t be possible. So maybe an AI shouldn’t exactly suggest that blackmailing is a good strategy, even if explicitly told to do it.
by rozap | 2025-05-22 21:31:33+00:00
fwiw this happens regardless of AI or offshoring or whatever. my old employer was bought out, and the senior staff trickled out the door over the years as the working environment got more frustrating. i heard from a friend who still works there that the product has been having "rolling brownouts" for months that "nobody can figure out" which sounds exceedingly bleak - it's just a saas product for crying out loud.

so you're right - but whether it's AI/offshoring with layoffs, or just regular churn with no plan to train people up to replace the knowledge that leaves, the result is the same, which is a degraded product that eventually falls apart. and yea, who cares if you're not in it for the long haul.
by speerer | 2025-05-22 21:32:20+00:00
This is very cool.

> Writing in the journal Cell[0], the scientists describe how they made soft contact lenses seeded with upconversion nanoparticles. When worn, people could see Morse code-like signals flashed from an infrared LED and tell what direction infrared light came from.

> Their infrared vision improved when they closed their eyes, because eyelids block visible light more than infrared, so there was less visible light to interfere

[0] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00454-4
by basisword | 2025-05-22 21:33:00+00:00
>> Apple also has a read later service built into Safari. It’s not the most feature rich, but it has existed for several years now.

I was a big Instapaper user until they added Reading List to Safari. It's just enough features, it's built into all my devices, and it's the thing that keeps me using Safari too (Chrome's reading list implementation sucks).
by kleer001 | 2025-05-22 21:33:03+00:00
No. This is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and has, even in its weak form, been conisdered a dead end.

That said the culture (relegion and other stories) we live in completely drive our cognition.

Culture & Ideology Are Not Your Friends (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

Presented at the Whole Life Expo, Denver, April 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0gsHFatPp0
by randomor | 2025-05-22 21:33:19+00:00
That's how it inspired me to create this app really. I often do this to important text subconsciously so one day I asked what if i can automatically save that... It feels intuitive and avoids the extensions.

With that said, you can disable this double copy trigger easily, it's an menu bar option if you right click the icon. Also there are other ways to capture: share sheet, service menu, drag and drop into the app icon or into the menu bar icon.

On ios, it doesn't have this double copy magic obviously, so it just functions as a normal pretty read-it-later app. Hope that clarify things!
by pfannkuchen | 2025-05-22 21:33:50+00:00
One explanation might be that the objects of their influence are nested within agencies.

Most presidents let the agencies run mostly unsupervised, it seems like. With the agencies now under heavy fire structurally, they may not be able to do what they would normally do to prevent this kind of thing.

I think the whole agency model gives the president way more power than they are meant to have. I guess this exists to serve as a form of blame laundering from the people without term limits to the guy with term limits? But if the president does not play ball, suddenly they have power over things congress would otherwise have power over. Oops.