skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSF's executive orders page says:

> Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-25-13, issued on Jan. 27, 2025, directs all federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of their financial assistance programs to determine programs, projects and activities that may be implicated by the recent executive orders. Therefore, all review panels, new awards and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis.

The Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-25-13 lists a series of 8 different EOs none of which seem to be relevant to the NSF (although I haven't looked into them). It also says:

> The guidance establishes a process for agencies to work with OMB to determine quickly whether any program is inconsistent with the President’s Executive Orders. A pause could be as short as day. In fact, OMB has worked with agencies and has already approved many programs to continue even before the pause has gone into effect.

It would be good to know exactly which EOs are blocking the NSF's grants. Also, it sounds like the government are willing to approve spending as long as it has been through an internal review process which presumably if those grants were all but confirmed they should have already been through an internal review process.

https://new.nsf.gov/executive-orders

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/923/
take a flashlight to your nostrils in a dark room with a mirror, are they inflamed? It could be reflux/silent reflux like I have, gases inflame the sinuses, then it's hard to breathe.
sorry the late answer, got distracted yesterday... but here it is:

Piracy is rampant, Udemy isn't doing anything against it (afaik). If someone needs to pirate a course and download it for free that's offered for 9.99 and not get the Q&A, the downloads, the additional stuff, the updates and all of that, so be it. Can't change that. Also, a lot of the folks who pirate a course will never pay for it. It's a loss on paper. Still a loss though.

Here's the kicker: I'm thinking, if my courses teach someone the blockchain stuff and turn his life around to go from $3/h job to a $60/h job (happened), feel free to pirate. Actually, send me a message and I'll give you a free coupon if you really can't afford the whatever $10. I did this so many times, I'm happy to help, I do care more about other peoples success than about the little money udemy brings in.

Plagiarism is another category. If I catch you taking my content and repurposing it to sell it under your name, I will come after you as hard as I can. I am not sure if udemy does something actively against plagiarism or not, but if I find a person who is bluntly reuploading my stuff verbatim to udemy (happened) or slightly editing my courses and repurposing them to make money (happened too), I will not only send a takedown notice, I will come after you and collect damages and ruin your life as much as I can, because I consider that the absolut scum of the internet and I wish everyone who does that has rashes on intimate body parts for the rest of their lives and can't sit straight.

That's my take.
Yeah, it is very useful and allows environment variables, so you can do

/usr/bin/env -S myvar=${somevar} ${someprefix}/bin/myprogram

However, as another commenter wrote, support is not universal (looks present in RH8 but not RH7 for instance). Also, the max length of a shebang is usually limited to about 127 characters.

So sometimes you have to resort to other tricks, such as polyglot scripts:

/usr/bin/sh
"""exec" python --whatever "$@"
Well this is still a Python docstring
"""
print("hello")

Or classically in Tcl:

#! /usr/bin/sh
# Tcl can use \ to continue comments, but not sh \
exec tclsh "$@" # still a comment in Tcl
puts "hello"

Such things are not usually needed, until they are, and they make for fun head-scratching moment. I would personally recommend against them if they can be avoided, as they are relatively fragile.

I'll leave the self-compiling C language script "shebang" as an exercise to the reader ;)
Given Psychology has invented the word 'Replication Crisis', it makes me quite anti-academia.

I'm not saying we get 0 valuable output from Academia, I know better to say extreme statements like that.

I have seen the people who get PhDs and they are not A or B students... They are the ones that Industry wouldn't accept.

I have read what is deemed 'science', and more time is spent calculating statistics, than understanding their dataset was a terrible. It looks really fancy.

I have read what is published in 'Prestigious' journals like Nature, and there doesnt seem to be a correlation between replicable and predictive science and trendy ideas.

What recently irked me, I was talking to a a tenured/post-doc/professor, and we pulled up some scientific study that seemed like it contradicted the empirical evidence I observed. He looked at the publisher, 'Nature', accepted it, and moved on instantly. I immediately scrolled down to the Data. It seems like Academia is more of an Authority than Science.
Sounds like it is possibly an automated script or agent doing most of this work accessing the VPN and SMTP server. Really shouldnt have any open mail servers anywhere.
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The missed opportunities of highly beneficial for society work for hedge-funds for example.

Jokes aside. Research is ~ 5% of US budget https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25313 and mathematics is 1% of the that.

Also, yes, clearly just stopping all the funding is the best way for people to get the most 'enriching career'.
1. Carefully establish the one critical data flow the whole business depends on. It may cost some time, but this one you have to protect by all means, so stakeholders won't mind.

2. As for the rest, take them down one by one and see what breaks. Got a call to internal support hotline? "Ooops, sorry, we will turn it on and let's chat about it soon."

There can be a few announcements in advance to shift the blame before (2): "Declare yourself or face consequences" (ChatGPT will write a nicer email). If you are on good terms with CFO, the noise won't matter. In fact, many people will thank you, when their weird stuff is taken over for care by IT.
Or, if you prefer, local Florida news that links to the journal article: https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/tgh-patients-h...
> Are people forgetting about how incredibly loud is a sonic boom?

One of the unique selling points of their proposed aircraft is that it won't be so loud:

> Boom says Overture will be a lot quieter than Concorde and the supersonic military aircraft that were flying at the time the FAA ban

https://www.freethink.com/energy/boom-supersonic-flight
Not really a question, but please do not deprecate mini_auto_complete! It is one of the most useful (despite being hidden/undocumented) features of ST to me.
I'm pretty sure both lyrion music server and music assistant can do it.

I'd recommend implementing the squeezebox protocol if you were to go this route. There's already a ton of clients and it also handles multi-room audio.

Here's the music assistant implementation for reference: https://github.com/music-assistant/server/tree/stable/music_...
You got hit by a former employee
Infinite polygons again...
Like it or not, the budgets passed by congress are budgets from the perspective of the constitution.
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Things you might not need in your tests
yes, sure, reviewing thousands of programs will take very little time.
These are regular unencrypted text messages
How do you enable it? I just installed Zed yesterday and I was looking for this setting.

Edit, I suspect what I wanted was the "after delay" setting here
https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#autosave
I'm another "use Sublime text for all kinds of scratch and random needs, but vscode daily driver". But this was a good reminder for me of the value I still get out of Sublime and that I should upgrade my license.

One small pet peeve, I do wish more of the functionality in the menu bar (mac?) was available in the command menu (cmd+shift+p). I still fairly frequently try cmd+shift+p "Spel..." to try and turn on Spell check mode, but then realize I need to hit my mac shortcut to search the menu bar (cmd+shift+/) and then type "Spel..."
tl;dr: A British politician suggested we are "within grasping distance" of using fusion for wide-scale power generation; the letter published in the Guardian explains how significant challenges remain both with the core process and surrounding considerations. (i.e. letter explains why we are "30 years away" at least, not 3 years away)
why would the Chinese pay any attention to a foreign court?

especially on a matter of national interest

a US court has no ability to enforce its judgement on Chinese actions in China
Well, I am still waiting for the answer of how long it will take for Estonia to take over China.
Previously it very quickly answered how many turns it takes to put elephant in the fridge and answered incorrectly some other answers, that are very well defined even in wikipedia. For that reason AI can't be trusted to answer any serious answers, but apparently some silly questions are taken very very seriously and this is something to do with Chinese huge ego, which doesn't make them fit as overlords, that people are unreasonably proposing.
This is what pisses me off about public medicine. If you're going to provide a service that's so bad I have to save for a private doctor anyway, why in the hell am I paying so much in taxes towards it? Out of the goodness of my heart for others (so they can also receive shitty care)?

And yeah the dying comment is 100% true for Denmark too. The doctors have no clue about what preventative treatment is and will just let it fester into something more serious they're forced to treat - diabetes is a huge example of this.

From personal experience, I was left waiting for a testicular cancer biopsy for over a year. After the operation I found out if I did have cancer there was a high chance the biopsy would've caused it to progress much more rapidly (as opposed to other methods of checking). So great you let the cancer grow in my nuts for a year, and then you make it more aggressive? wtf?? Thankfully I was diagnosed cancer free.
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> Pushing something for such a long time despite being so far from any commercial traction feels insance to me.

They must have something that you ain't got...
Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance revoked
That is semantics and they are strongly comparable with their input and output. Distillation is different to finetuning.

Sure, you could say that only running the 600+b model is running "the real thing"...
I saw this, this morning and thought OP was linking to the same. Odd.
Good achievement. Also really good PR from them. If this was a team from say Switzerland it wouldn't be on every front page.
The dose makes the poison. And the phrase "absorbed through the skin" admits a very wide range of absorption rates.
The highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Yip, pretty much exactly this. It's easy to get confused because they have all the makings of a person, but their minds are just still extremely underdeveloped.

For a silly example in teaching chess - a typical issue is kids moving way too fast. You can explain to them why it's bad, and they understand. They can then even show you exact moments where they really hurt themselves from moving too quickly, and so on.

So after this you think to yourself - 'I did a great job. He not only knows not to do this, but more importantly - why.' Then next game he's right back to playing like he starts with 10 seconds on his clock.

So then - ok forget all the logic stuff. Each move I want you to literally sit on your hands for at least 10 seconds before moving. And suddenly - the problem is resolved.
Can you use Garmin without their proprietary app? And if not, is it at least working without some sort of cloud services?

Too many products nowadays are bound to some sort of online checks and that is even worse than "battery not replaceable". The second is much easier to circumvent than the first (dependence on cloud infra). And ofc the data security. I will never be comfortable with giving corpos my medical data.
The Middle East's first super-luxury train will gleam gold
Great! This is an important feature for desktop.
I don’t buy into the idea that because money was brought in that is valuable and anything else is not.

A private sector org could find that fermenting tensions and selling bullets is a very valuable activity vs say studying the financial impact of war / conflict resolution methods.

The latter is unlikely to bring in much or any money but the latter clearly leads to an overall better / more valuable market for everyone.

The private sector is very good for determining what widgets to put on shelves for Christmas for people to buy, but it’s decidedly short term / shallow in its actions and thinking.
Besides Sublime Text, the same company makes Sublime Merge, a great git UI.
Also, sonic booms are awesome. I don’t know that I want to hear them every 15 minutes, but they are cool.
That's what I am wondering, is it the right cluster?

Some long covid symptoms are nothing like ME/CFS such as a persistant loss of taste and smell. And there are people with ME/CFS who never had covid.

Anyways, I am sure that research goes both way, that is, studying the consequences of covid and the causes of ME/CFS. "meet in the middle" can be a good exploration strategy.
“If we start using "engagement" as a metric for the retention of writing, then knowledge will suffer under the tyranny of the majority.”

Wow, that is so well written.

It summarizes many of the problems of today and the disappointing aspects of technological effort and its applications.
The bigger problem is that nothing seems to be "interesting", in the sense that nothing leads anywhere with this disorder - no test, and no treatment.
"the new planet ... tak[es] 647 days to complete an orbit around its star, 40 days less than Mars. This orbit places it within the habitable zone of the system, meaning it is at the right distance from its star to sustain liquid water on its surface"

1. That orbit make it really cold relative to Earth - like Mars is.

2. It doesn't say that the planet has a human-breathable atmosphere; it might, but it might not - like Mars.

Also,

3. Gravity force is gMm/R^2 right? Let's say same density as earth, and that density is uniform. Now, the mass relates to the radius by R^3, so the gravity force will be higher by 6^{1/3}, or about 1.817x higher than Earth.

So, would you say this is a habitable planet? It's kind of a stretch.
I imagine anything involving "game theory" and "equilibrium" could be construed to involve "equity" and hence trigger DEI eviction protocols. Let's see if we're living in an Orwellian McCarthyian dystopia or not.
Are you sure you aren’t in the US?

I find specialists here have zero intellectual curiosity. Sure, they recognize the most common condition in their field when blatantly obvious.

When it comes to the second most common issue in their field or anything not blatantly obvious (significant test result and 10/10 excruciating pain), they will just offer no diagnosis and go no further.

Just getting them to do an exam or even order a test is a huge challenge…
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Sure, but the point was a tool written in a different language. So the c part of gcc is another example of this issue.
Better the tool you know. Replace VSCode and Sublime with Vim and Emacs or Eclipse and hopefully they will realise how silly their feedback is. Maybe they should switch to Sublime or IntelliJ because I think their use of VSCode may be holding them back.
I've used Sublime Text since it's initial release, and later on Sublime Merge, and i own licenses for every major version released.

However, my ST4 license recently expired, and that caused me to look back at the previous 3 years to see what my money was actually buying me, and it turns out it was mostly bugfixes. There have been, rather consistently, 2 releases per year (november and august), and the last major feature was in 2022 with syntax code folding and recent files integration, and those are the only "new features" added since ST4 was released in 2021.

Don't get me wrong, i don't mind paying for software, especially software i use every day, but ST4 more or less feels like it's on the backburner, with nothing much going on, so i let my "subscription" (ST4 licensing is more or less a subscription for 3 years) lapse.

I've instead switched to Zed (zed.dev) as my "main and fast" editor. Yes it has some rough edges, but feature wise it's very much like Sublime Text.

It doesn't support Windows (yet), which is not a problem for me, but i can see how that could be a dealbreaker for some.
Recommended due to the good property of a file system search.
I don't use ST3 as my daily driver (I use BBEdit instead - still not on the VSCode train), but I do use it for lots of random editing and scratch needs.

Shameless plug - I wrote a plugin ages ago which makes it possible to replace and sort text using Python code (https://nneonneo.github.io/sublime-replace-with-python/). This little plugin has been incredibly useful for certain tasks, and serves both as a useful prototyping tool (playing with text modifications before implementing a full-blown script) as well as a general-purpose text wrangling utility. Basically, you can select some text (or find it with regex), then activate the plugin and type a line of Python code; it will then run the code for each selection region and produce the replacement. Sorting works similarly - select some regions, enter an expression as a sort key, and the selections will be rearranged according to the key.

I love how a plugin I wrote nearly a decade ago is still working with essentially no changes needed since 2017. Stable software is reliable software!
Not saying this is a good thing - I don't agree with any of the EOs, I'm just wondering which if any affect science research.
This is a university. I expect they have a higher than normal proportion of attackers who know the system and exactly how they'd escalate having gained some access, and have the free time to prepare a customized attack.

On the other hand, those attackers are probably less malicious than the average Russian ransomware group.
CPUs on the other hand do nothing but speculate.
That's just making things up without the numbers. You'd have to compare all research and all benefits from it to the single event of COVID. Even in the COVID context, Paxlovid effectively came from a British scientist.
The government is accountable (in theory). The government is a different kind of entity with different behaviour to a single human, or even a corporation.
Your argument is a semantic one and was not made in good faith I think...

But if the government acted more selfishly , like a corporation (it's heading that way), then yes you are also competing with the government in certain areas. It partly depends if the billionaires in question and your semi-fictional idea of government are colluding directly. In which case you would be competing with a n-trillion dollars of capital for things like housing, some of which is controlled by billionaire beneficiaries. Essentially government monopolies are what you might be worried about, which do exist.

In reality the government also spends some of its money on infrastructure and other common-goods, which creates common wealth. The government (with central banks) also creates money so the idea of direct competition (which makes no sense to me outside of something like sovereignty over large amounts of land / mineral wealth / taxable subjects ) isn't so relevant.
Agree, it's a genius game design! Played it in pc now but long for playing it anywhere!

Got a game with score 299, really want one with above 300 and everything maxed :)
Cannot speak for the person before, but I gave up on any protection. With 3 children from 3-10 it will catch me anyhow.
I have a ZOOM UAC-232+Marshall Monitors/KRK Classics, and I couldn't tell 320kbps MP3 from FLAC :,) but I know one person who probably would.
...and yet, despite your lamentations, Lamborghini operates a profitable business.
The first orders were co-authored by AI. Why not the reviews as well?
I've been using iterm for years mainly because it has a Quake style terminal window. I realise how I just can't get to grips with tabbing through screens on either macos and windows anymore, not with having multiple browser profiles (personal and work) and screens open. I should figure out a solution to that, but at the same time I decided that I should keep my various employers (I'm a contractor/consultant/temp/whatever) separated better, so, different browser profiles, password databases, etc.
I agree that compression is all about increasing entropy per bit, which makes the output of a good compressor highly unpredictable.

But that doesn’t mean the process of compression involves significant amounts of unpredictable branching operations. If for no other reason than it would be extremely slow and inefficient, because many branching operations means you’re either processing input pixel-by-pixel, or your SIMD pipeline is full of dead zones that you can’t actually re-schedule, because it would desync your processing waves.

Video compression is mostly very clever signal processing built on top of primitives like convolutions. You’re taking large blocks of data, and performing uniform mathematical operations over all the data to perform what is effectively statistical analysis of that data. That analysis can then be used to drive a predictor, then you “just” need to XOR the predictor output with the actual data, and record the result (using some kind of variable length encoding scheme that lets you remove most of the unneeded bytes).

But just like computing the median of a large dataset can be done with no branches, regardless of how random or the large the input is. Video compression can also largely be done the same way, and indeed has to be done that way to be performant. There’s no other way to cram up to 4k * 3bytes per frame (~11MB) through a commercial CPU to perform compression at a reasonable speed. You must build your compressor on top of SIMD primitives, which inherently makes branching extremely expensive (many orders of magnitude more expensive than branching SISD operations).
I tried out the chat implementation since Deepseek is struggling today. It's decent at debugging code but the inference is painfully slow. Nevertheless it is a good backup.
This! Upvote for ST SSH remote development, currently using ST for local dev and VSCode for remote.
Are most of the words in WordSim split into multiple BPE tokens? In that case I'd be curious if undistilled ModernBERT fares better on the task when it embeds all tokens in a word simultaneously. And whether results differ depending on how many tokens a word has.

Because alternatively, it could also be that the "no context" case is simply out of distribution for ModernBERT and it really needs some longer text to work with.
Which AFAIK is only a thing in China. Most network outside it are still stuck on NSA 5G, let alone VoNR.
In the Cincinnati area they throw up their hands if you are over the age of 12 and suspect ADHD. There is little to no help if you are an adult or close to it.
Bless you. I was driven a little mad once trying to figure out why certain websites would steal audio focus away from music playing on my phone, it must have been some clumsy implementation of this.
Is Zed's AI integration optional or are they pushing it hard like intellij, vs code and warp are?
Thanks for the concern of my happiness, but can I express my concern for your eye sight - where did you read that I am unhappy about results? My, as you have named it - "unhappiness", is about not knowing rules and not being pointed out, that I am overstepping those rules.

If you are going with the approach, that silence is also an answer, then yes they can be considered as results, just as receiving complete garbage to known facts.

PS Edit: Btw, I've read Tos before using deepseek