skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In simple terms, if an investor bought $100 worth of shares in the ETF, Calamos would put a percentage of that in Treasury bonds that would grow back to $100 over a one-year period, ensuring that regardless of where the price of bitcoin stands at the time, the investor has the full $100.

So, with some rounding, if you invest $100 there, $.5 goes to management fees, $95.5 goes to Treasury Bonds, and $4 goes to BTC(derivatives).

After a year you get $100 (discounting inflation) and some "free" BTC, so they claim "no downside".

I still don't understand how much you would gain if the BTC price increase, because the investment in BTC is tiny.
I think you overstated the percentage of grants that include these "woke" terms. This dataset is going to be heavily biased towards grants that include lines like that. Without knowing what percent of total grants this dataset represents we don't have a good starting point to see how widespread this is. To get a really good sense of this, we'd need to also look at data from research proposals that didn't get funded.
I have one for CVEs in case there are security folks here - recursively finds details like code commit diff which fixed the vulnerability in references links too to generate one single json.

1. https://github.com/BandarLabs/cveingest
None, I'd wager.
Go watch five minutes of Fox News and then ask yourself if treating the other side civilly is going to help.
The article states this doesn't change anything.
This is self-promotional, but https://github.com/nahco314/feed-llm has TUI to choose what to give to llm. There are many similar tools out there, but I think this approach is relatively effective for larger code bases.
Bloat starts with our inability to reuse software, on which one premature optimization has a big impact on: compilation. When did we forget that it's the targets responsibility to manage its own time and space, and link everything in it?

Despite the security risks we are still addicted to executables, and we still give the user instructions, while the computer supposedly is so much better at following them. A computer should be able to run anything anywhere it wants to, safely. No exceptions. While the web slowly inches closer to that reality (maybe), Fuchsia was supposed to be here by now and make this vision a reality. But even people here just don't get it.
Yeah maybe. But I think the thing I like is that is takes me a much shorter amount of time to create solutions for my users and myself. Then I can worry about “tech adoption” once I’ve achieved a relevant solution to my users.

If performance is an issue then sure let’s look at options. But I don’t think it’s appropriate to expect that sort of level of insight into an optimised solution from llms - but maybe that’s just because I’ve used them a lot.

They’re just a function of their training data at the end of the day. If you want to use new technology you might have to generate your own training data as it were.
Larger context windows are helping solve this, though.

I use ALpineJS which is not as well known as React etc, but I just added a bunch of examples and instructions to the new cursor project rules, and it's now close to perfect.

Gemini models have up to 2M context windows, meaning you can probably fit your whole codebase and a ton of examples in a single request.

Furthermore, the agenetic way Cursor is now behaving, automatically building up context before taking action, seems to be another way around this problem
“We are what we pretend to be.” It’s not necessary for a public figure to be a bigot in their heart of hearts for them to be functionally a bigot in any way that matters to us.
Everyone plays games, they fill out the grant proposal and forms as instructed and so on.

We go to work and say good morning to our boss (I don't want to say good morning some days) and we roll on.

I'm all for removing any actual requirement, beyond that I think folks are falling for a flimsy excuse made just to make cuts and keep folks terrified of a boogie man.
How to build your own MCP server?
I don't think they see a problem with this. My grandfather used to say we needed to get a couple leaders from GE or whatever company was huge and successful then, and let them have free reign for a year.
This funding was diverted toward questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.

Class warfare? Finally one of them says the quiet part out loud because that's what all this 'anti-woke' crap is actually about. Our rights are the 'woke' that they're waging their war against. The culture wars were artificially created to keep us from fighting a class war against our economic oppressors.
NOSTR!
>With the likes of Qualcomm already having issues with ARM

Actually the Court ruling makes it even more favourable to work with ARM because it has not been tested in court of their ISA license agreement.

Until ARM decide to make ARMv10.
NYSE Chicago (formerly the Chicago Stock Exchange) hasn’t been relevant for a long time and it’s easier to move the existing exchange license than file for a brand new one.

And I don’t think this exchange has been centrally staffed in nearly a decade, possibly longer.
So, I did some OCR research early last year, that didn't include any VLMs, on some 1960s era English scanned documents with a mix of typed and handwritten (about 80/20), and here's what I found (in terms of cosine similarity):

Overall | Handwritten | Typed
Google Vision: 98.80% | 93.29% | 99.37%
Amazon Texttract: 98.80% | 95.37% | 99.15%
surya: 97.41% | 87.16% | 98.48%
azure: 96.09% | 92.83% | 96.46%
trocr: 95.92% | 79.04% | 97.65%
paddleocr: 92.96% | 52.16% | 97.23%
tesseract: 92.38% | 42.56% | 97.59%
nougat: 92.37% | 89.25% | 92.77%
easy_ocr: 89.91% | 35.13% | 95.62%
keras_ocr: 89.7% | 41.34% | 94.71%

Handwritten is a weighted average of Handwritten and typed, I also did Jaccard and Levenshtein distance, but the results were similar enough that just leaving them out for sake of space.

Overall, of you want the best, if you're an enterprise, just use whatever AWS/GCP/Azure you're on, if you're an individual, pick between those. While some of the Open Source solutions do quite well, surya took 188 seconds to process 88 pages on my RTX 3080, while the cloud ones were a few seconds to upload the docs and download them all. But if you do want open source, seriously consider surya, tesseract, and nougat depending on your needs. Surya is the best overall, while nougat was pretty good at handwriting. Tesseract is just blazingly fast, from 121-200 seconds depending on using the tessdata-fast or best, but that's CPU based and it's trivially parallelizeable, and on my 5950X using all the cores, took only 10 seconds to run through all 88 pages.

But really, you need to generate some of your own sample test data/examples and run them through the models to see what's best. Given frankly how little this paper tested, I really should redo my study, add VLMs, and write a small blog/paper, been meaning to for years now.
The WASM IDL for components (WIT) seems sleek enough.
I was thinking the other day how coding assistants would hinder new languages adoption.
Well, it seems to be working fine now.
A telematics tracker in a vehicle that logistic companies use (e.g. Amazon, FedEx) is also considered as an IoT device. I don't believe that the author is talking about Smart Home appliances exclusively.
Chx/nyse chicago has never really caught on as a venue as it didn’t have much to distinguish it from the pack of second tier exchanges. Especially given cboe local dominance.

It’s mostly a marketing move to take advantage of the pro-Texas stuff that has been swirling lately.
The requirements are showing the broader impact on society outside of the very narrow point of research. This can be anything like what Maxwell told queen Victoria that his equations will be the reason of a lot of taxes England will collect (If the story ia true that this conversation happened).

And regarding your questions. Very little if none because the requirement was not what you describe.
have you ever applied for a scientific grant?
I can foresee a big hat Texas Crypto boom that will zero retirement plans from middle class MAGA and libertarian tech bro crowd in 8 years.
Pathologists as a specialty has been grousing about this for several years, at least since 2021 when the College of American Pathologists established the AI Committee. As a trivial example: any trained model deployed will necessarily be behind any new classification of tumors. This makes it harder to push the science and clinical diagnosis of cancer forward.

The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new music to break out.

It's absolutely fascinating watching software developers come to grips with what they have wrought.
A few extra thoughts since I wrote the parent comment

- I did my PhD in Europe where it's only 3 years after master, so the opportunity cost is less

- I noticed a lot of frustration with PhD candidates comes from applying to academic positions. If this is not the end goal, this could also lead to a better experience.

- I said a lot of what I learned is useless, this can be mitigated by carefully choosing a topic, although not easy when you have little perspective, and possibly limited options (lots of candidates pick a topic in their local university for instance). It's also possible to intern in companies during a PhD.

- Having a PhD can open new doors.
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Here is what the article author failed to understand:

If a grant for harvesting energy from radio frequency/WiFi mentions any woke point such as "promote equitable outcomes for ..."

...then its approval was tainted by wokeness - it doesn't matter that the main goal of the project itself isn't woke. It means grant money didn't go to another project that might be even more important but didn't pass the wokeness criteria because it didn't add those "kneel to Zod" keywords.

You can say it was a "false positive" and throw a tantrum but can't deny that the process was vitiated. Its approval didn't follow the strict goal of advancing science because of that shadow.
Grace is High Performance CPU. By Server CPU I was referring to AWS EC2 or other web hosting, general high core count web hosting.
It would be interesting to read if there are anything in particular that you disagree with? Which objections did Darwin handle and where?

Darwin's understanding of e.g. Heredity via Pangenesis turned out to be wrong, so it is not like just holding up a copy of 'On the Origin of Species' as the final judge of "origin reasoning" will take use very far.
Searching for the Cause of Hung Tasks in the Linux Kernel
A woman made her AI voice clone say "arse." Then she got banned
A majority of people thinks it's not useless.

What core features do you believe need fixing?
The jump in performance, efficiency, battery time was not incremental or "evolutionary". Such jumps we call evolutionary.

What they did doesn't matter. Even if they merely took an intel laptop chip and stuck a chewing gum on it, the result was evolutionary.

So much so, that it put a fire under Intel's ass, and mobilized the whole industry to compete. For years after it came out the goal was to copy it and beat it.

What did you expect to call "revolutionary"? Some novel architecture that uses ternary logic? Quantum chips?
Wow this is really neat. Please also add cut and paste of files in the Finder... Why Apple keeps leaving that out of Finder is beyond me.
AWS vacates its board seat at European cloud crew CISPE
Usually, i remember that type annotations exist when I'm debugging after things aren't working. If you look at the python code that I've written, type annotations are a sure sign that "there was a problem here". it's like a scar on repaired code
AI and Civil Service Purges
The NSF falls under Federal executive authority which is exactly why Trump is able to do what he's doing. Biden did the equal but opposite thing with his very first executive order. It effectively required all branches of the Federal government to institute DEI policies and policies aimed at furthering DEI ends. [1] In fact his executive order specifically worked to undo a previous Trump executive order [2] which forbade Federal agencies from discriminating against/for individuals/groups based on their race or sex.

To put a number to this, by the metric this report (from this topic) was using to measure DEI funding, 0.29% of NSF grants were for DEI stuff in 2021. By 2024, it was up to 27%! [3] Apologies for the excess citations here, but I think it's important on such a charged topic.

[1] - https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01...

[2] - https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/28/2020-21...

[3] - https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/4BD2D522-2092... (page 2)
My sex doll is mad at me: A short story
Accept by default is what you do if you want to distribute malware.
There is no such thing as a “Chicago Branch” in this case. This is purely a corporate legal move.

I’d be surprised if they moved the matching engine out of mahwah.
Working in Zed I'm full of joy when I see how well Claude can help me code. But when I ask Claude about how to use Zed it's worse than useless, because it's training data is old compared to Zed, and it freely hallucinates answers. So for that I switch over to Perplexity calling OpenAI and get far better answers. I don't know if it's more recent training or RAG, but OpenAI knows about recent Zed github issues where Claude doesn't.

As long as the AI is pulling in the most recent changes it wouldn't seem to be stiflling.
This seems useful for building new tools. It's not strictly an end-user tool.
> random companies need to comply with press releases from politicians now?

You are misinformed. This was not a "press release", it was an executive order. [1]

Google naturally has some expressive latitude, but that's constrained by legal, diplomatic, social, contractual and political considerations that all map makers have when they balance what they might personally feel is a nice boundary or place name, versus the legally-protected designations of sovereign nations and their governments.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf...
Cool project. How does this compare to Cursor composer? I was planning to get the pro subscription for Cursor :)
If you can pick parallel universes, just pick the one where the data happens to be sorted
I don’t understand the appeal or value of analyzing a bad faith argument as if it were simple error.

These grants were funded through normal nsf scientific processes by experts. The report refers to that funding as “diverted” because they don’t like the content, which is just manifestly dishonest. The are implying that the funding was stolen or decisions made maliciously.

That report does not have truth or valid data as an intent. His commentary at the end shows where this whole argument, and the larger rationalist movement, fails when it encounters the real world. To him the false positives are errors that affect the data and larger claims. To the people creating this false positives are beneficial because they dishonestly multiply the claims they are making. The tell is that it is so easy to do this analysis and no one bothered.

Both this response and the original report also fundamentally misunderstand how grant reviews and broader impacts work.

> It reflects poorly on the Biden administration that you could only get a grant to cure cancer if you suggested you might teach an underrepresented minority child about it.

Implying that this is specific to the Biden administration is taken as true by this re analysis. It has been a review criteria since the 90s. An honest attempt at this work (I’m not even sure that exists) begins by looking across administrations.

But honestly it’s only been in the last few years review panels began to care about broader impacts besides “yup it’s there”. Pi’s pick there own broader impacts work. Most of this is all congressional mandated.

Stop taking lying about things as counter argument because it’s not. This is why the rationalist movement will always fail in the face of reality.
I agree. Most frontend rewrites are totally unnecessary, caused by resume-driven development, desire for the latest fancy thing and most JS frameworks having a short lifespan. If LLM's reduce that behavior by steering devs towards most popular solutons, then it's only a good thing.
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What do you think happens when we finally confront the illusion of infinity in everything we build?

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Sadly, Rust still lacks some features that Ada has. For example, range types[1] (a narrow case of the dependent types).

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/range
> I do my day-to-day work on an M3 Max with 64GB RAM and fiber to the home

And you still pay a few cents extra in power used because of all those inefficient and memory hungry "applications". You just don't notice.
>It means grant money didn't go to another project that might be even more important but didn't pass the wokeness criteria because it didn't add those "kneel to Zod" keywords.

I think that's something that needs to be proven. The grant process is far more complex than just "included a sentence", they're evaluated by experts too.

Meanwhile the solution is to ctrl-f for "things that might mean what I don't like". The solution is more arbitrary, unscientific, and "kneel to Zod" than even the described problem.

Also none of this accounts for the possibility that a study might include words like "minority" and actually be of value, but under this kind of ctrl-f style cuts ... it could never be studied. So what are we talking about?

Required words bad, banned words good?
The same reason they don't charge themselves 30% processing fees for subscriptions.

Money.
>Those types of goodbye letters are not the types of goodbye letters stoics would write.

The alpha male stoic carricutures, maybe. Real world stoics have not been above those.

>you too should be able to have picked up that I replied because I disagreed with that implication.

You could then just say that you disagree and state your case, without rudely asking why they posted it.
This makes me fear less for web development jobs being lost to AI, to be honest. Look, we can create new frameworks faster than they can train new models. If we all agree to churn as much as possible the AIs will never be able to keep up.
And they refer to themselves in the third person, with a hero arc. It even has the gpt sections.
Does anyone know of tools that go the other direction? i.e. taking a technical writeup (scientific paper, architecture docs, or similar) and emitting a candidate codebase.
Arguing features cause bloated businesses: https://www.seangoedecke.com/difficulty-in-big-tech/

Features is the better word, but code size is measurable. Everybody knows we shouldn't measure lines-of-code so we now use kB or MB as an equivalent for web sites
The question is whether L and M commute.
So, if you're a large e-commerce company that's trying to juice out last percentage points of conversion, and are researching alternate javascript libraries, is it plausable that the only research a development team would be to ask ChatGPT?
The answer is probably unfortunately, "it's whatever you want it to be, just be on my side". Not defining these things is a feature, not a bug.
Rogue states could use AI to do 'real harm', warns ex-Google CEO
Your "anecdotal experience" is just your words. It can be (and most likely is) just a lie from some internet rando. Did your wife (or who trained who, I don't remember) document the progress or followed some methodology that's proven successful and reproducible? How do she know her kids didn't have it before "training"?

Beato's explanation is that his son was exposed to a lot of different music since the age 0 and at some age they noticed that he associates sounds like "hey, microwave sounds like star wars". Nobody drilled sine waves 5 hours a day. His whole point is that you need to immerse children into the world of tones, that will train to "see" them.
Yeah, I mean that archetype exists for a reason.
In linguistics, the term would be "morpheme"
Mightn't it just be that it's a newer technology, which newness has attracted a younger crowd, and this happens to be part of the younger culture right now, more broadly?
Reasoned speech only works with people who are acting in good faith, and they aren’t.
Some Chinese researchers have worked on copper nanotubes and abbreviated them as CuNTs [0].

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260800015_Structura...
> And being that rich in and of itself, I imagine.

There was a thought experiment posted on Reddit and I think was from elsewhere. Something like:

Imagine you get $1 million dollars a day. You can't keep it -- it's all gotta get spent. You can invest it, sure, but those holdings aren't going to go up as much as, like, another $1 million the next day. And you have to spend it

So at some point you're going to start doing stuff basically on a whim. You're going to get 3 Lambos in different colors -- because you can. You already have the harem, you already have donated to most causes you care about. You've already got a house (houses, really), so now you start thinking about political causes you're mildly interested in, on top of ones you strongly are. And then you can get petty; if you don't like person X? Take out ads on billboards... cuz you can. Or fund their lawsuit against Gawker, cuz fuck em. etc. etc.
It's why I wouldn't want to pursue PhD. (besides simply knowing I'm not cut out for research).

I don't want to spend even more years in education. I want to still use my youth while I can; going into PhD would make me unable to.
Does Ricochet Refresh use Gosling right now?

Thank you a lot for the write up!

> This of course does imply that you need to trust you contacts aren't cops.

What happens if you find it out after the fact? Just regenerate everything and re-add friends? How much would it compromise though to have a friend that turns out to be a cop?