skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LINKED IN THE COMMENTS (I was trying not to repost stuff that was in the prior thread):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/nyregion/columbia-univers...

A direct quote from the letter the Feds sent Columbia reads:

MESAAS Department – Academic Receivership. Begin the process of placing the
Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under academic receivership for a minimum of five years. The University must provide a full plan, with date certain deliverables, by the March 20, 2025, deadline.

The NY Times article provides a directed link to the PDF of the letter.

Awaiting your retractions doubters...
Maybe because the policy exists that people have not so easily been able to get to the top position. Remove that policy and Putin himself could run for the office. It's an idiotic comment for an idiotic misunderstanding of why the policy exists
Ok, youre arguing that we should ascribe character to the statistics. So answer my question about what we should do with group of people who commit more violent crimes.
American states wish they had as much influence on US politics as Israel.
What is unsafe about writing some code? I don't get this.. also this is like an anime character...wha..?
> Can't they afford $5K for websites and UI design? Everything here looks absolutely terrible.

Can you give examples? People in the thread aren't even clear whether you're talking about a Peertube instance or joinpeertube.org.

> but they're asking me to consider this as an alternative to YouTube - how it presents is critically important.

I'm probably in the minority, but I've hated Youtube's design since Youtube first came out. Really cluttered. There's a reason people made several alternative frontends to Youtube, and it's mostly not to avoid ads. Youtube's design just sucks (according to many).
I thought your link would be

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24751821
> Snowden leaks: Google 'outraged' at alleged NSA hacking
That's a fair point. My phone has a compass, so I can always look at a compass there. Not having it on the watch is just an inconvenience. My phone isn't a heart monitor.
Why would this be a good thing?

Keep in mind that the word "dumb" gets thrown around in all sorts of situations and has no objective, easily-verifiable test for "dumbness". It's entirely plausible that merely "making a decision I disagree with" could be construed as "dumb". Imagine if, say, Biden and Fauci had decided to disenfranchise anyone who refused the COVID vaccine as "dumb", or, worse, Trump and RFK decided that taking those vaccines made you "dumb". See how easily this can be abused?

Even with that aside, the natural consequence of disenfranchising "dumb" people is that you want to fuck them over somehow. No thanks.
because the amount of money is so huge, the grandparent poster imagined there must be something wrong or sus going on. Likely due to personal biases.

And since most people's experience is shallow, the only analog they can muster is the mafia.
Sudo Make Me a Makefile
More people who eat 3 cows a week and drive a monster truck 40 miles each way to work? No. More people who mostly eat plants and mostly take the train or ride their bike where they need to go? Shouldn't be a big problem.
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
I totally get that too. Right after I struck out as an independent contractor a long time ago, I did some stuff for ExxonMobil. Very smart people there. Very tight, collaborative structure. It was easy to see how they had been so successful for so long. Lots of things working in sync. Totally unlike the situation at Scumbagger where you advanced quickly if you could get your snout far enough up the FSM's ass. If you were like me and came from an oilfield culture where ass-kissing could get your ass whooped before they fired you (seismic field crews never put up with any bullshit), then it didn't work for me at all. My FSM actively held me back and denied promotions that I had earned, moving the goalposts every time I hit the expected target. I wasn't the only one. He openly bragged that his payroll burden was the lowest in Anadrill for all regions globally because he had the least number of SFEs on his payroll. He said that he delayed promotions at all levels to keep his numbers low. He had come out of college with an MBA on a fast-track to management.

Life is full of new experiences. Every day finds you at another node on the decision tree that will ultimately define and document your life to others. Pick the wrong path and your options at the next node will be less attractive than those behind you. Pick the right path and you can continue like branches on a hackberry, making the most of every opportunity to continue growing toward the light.

Had I followed the path that vengeful rage had offered me I would never have had the opportunities to polish my skills and grow my career into a successful consultancy. They got off easy because I chose to take the long view for my family's sake and chose to let it slide while taking every opportunity to find another job. If I had let it be personal then a lot of things would be different.
"side loading" in the EU still requires you to have your app reviewed and notarized by apple, which means you can't call private APIs.

You also still need to pay $100/year developer fee for your app to continue to be side-loadable (otherwise they revoke the notarization), and need to pay the €0.50 "core technology fee" per side-load to apple after a free allowance of side-loads.

I doubt it's going to help pebble since they'll have to pay more for users to side-load the app than to install it from the app store.

https://doesioshavesideloadingyet.com/
Vanity Fair's Heyday
I miss having pebble watches, they hit a sweet spot of lifetime vs functionality. That said, what is this team going to do to avoid crashing and burning the way the original pebble did?

Specifically I refer to the debacle around the pebble 2 variants and the 1st round pebble core that totally got the ball dropped on it.
> PeerTube is specifically advertised as a YouTube replacement.

And about 99% of people who upload to Youtube are not concerned with any kind of incentive other than "Let me share this video". For 99% of people, it is a perfectly capable Youtube replacement (well, beyond being able to search well - a problem the whole Fediverse has...)
They are relatively popular legal pets in Europe - though not sold in many mainstream pet shops. 100% of those kept as pets here are bred in captivity.

Having kept them before, they are genuinely about as hard to care for as goldfish but need bigger tanks and a little bit more cleaning.

Also super easy to breed, we let the spawn hatch once and ended up with about 70 larvae, they cannibalize quickly but 6 grew to full size and we sold them on very easily.
I believe the correct answer is “nobody deserves the copyright”. It’s a big fat myth that creatives would starve if copyright disappeared tomorrow. Think of all the countless hours society has wasted arguing about who owns creative expression. If we assign it to the public, we can move on and find better ways to keep creatives housed and fed.
Posts might be public, but data connecting an individual to a post, such as email or phone number, might not be.
In your opinion, are they a whale because they make a great product... or just have a great marketing/PR/sales team? I am guessing "great product" because I cannot believe that Google cannot just rebuild it themselves (if not a great product).
I assume they’ll say he was robbed in 2020 and it’s two consecutive terms he gets. And congress won’t stop him. At least 40% of the electorate will support him. Most states will put him on the ballot, threatening to remove the democratic candidate if the others don’t. He will be in charge of the FEC and the various enforcement mechanisms, as he is now. So then what?
I remember the thrill of installing FC4 on my then-new laptop entering college...

(and have been running fedora ever since...)
Aside from the what the modal actually says (mine doesn't say anything about "sending" info, and I have a 2023 M2 MBP) I don't really think it's fair to put Apple in the same category as Amazon when it comes to sending data to the cloud, because they actually have more of a financial incentive to keep your data private than selling it to the highest bidder.

I also highly doubt that they will somehow later down the line magically change their minds given the millions (maybe over a billion at this point) of dollars invested in things like private cloud compute (1) and challenging the U.K. government (2) in court over E2E cloud backups.

(1) https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

(2) https://www.reuters.com/technology/court-hearing-reported-be...
Is having a secret password security by obscurity? What about a private key?

Security by obscurity is about the bad practice of thinking that obscuring your mechanisms and implementations of security increases your security. It's about people that think that by using their nephew's own super secret unpublished encryption they will be more secure than by using hardened standard encryption libraries.
At scale though the cost of the board space outweighs the problems with manufacturing
Ask HN: Why pay for Cloud Hosting if I can just use Cloudflare Tunnels for free?
I'm paying thousands of dollars a year for AWS when it seems to me I could just buy a computer and a couple solid state drives, and host locally.

Now, normally, my ISP would block port 80 or discourage servers, but the key to all this is Cloudflare Tunnels. It's is even better than SSH-based tunneling or port forwarding. You install a service on your machines which opens encrypted outbound connections and then you can literally tunnel all your web servers, on all the ports, thorough that. If a connection drops, it will just reopen it.

You own, don't rent a cloud.
You own the compute, not a fraction of it.
You manage the data, locally.
You have a strong CDN for caching.

And best of all, it can be totally free, the free tier of CloudFlare is good enough for any startup.

Any infrastructure that you actually don't want to pay upfront for, e.g. GPUs, you can just use any external service and just pay as you go.

So, why pay for AWS at all, if you're starting on a new project? Just host locally! No?

I should also mention that AWS, GCP etc. have similar servics, like AWS PrivateLink and Google Cloud VPN and Azure VPN Gateway.

PS: by having multiple machines in multiple locations with gigabit connections, and a Galera multi-master MySQL setup, you can achieve uptime guarantees comparable to cloud compute instances probably.

PPS: you can use CloudFlare workers and CDN to intercept most traffic to your machine at the edge, and use it mostly as an origin server and API server for people who entered a credit card or connected their crypto wallet
I've been building my own emacs for a long time, and have yet to hit any weird bugs. I thought that as long as you avoid any unsafe optimizations, you should be fine? Granted, I also thought that -march=native was the main boost that I was seeing. This post indicates that is not necessarily the case.

I also suspect that any application using floats is more likely to have rough edges?
Martin Skirrow, campylobacter researcher, obituary
Skirrow was significant in the Nobel-winning discovery of H. Pylori, has an Agar gel named after him, and championed public health.
When we set up the PyCon India website back in 2009, the webmaster was very insistent on it being archived properly throughout the years. The sites were maintained using various applications (I think 2009 was by a Django app called fossmeet, 2010 and 11 were using infogami etc.).

However, after the conference was completed, the entire site was downloaded and the HTML files were uploaded statically at the same URLs. This preserved the sites from 2009 till now. You can actually see the old talks and discussions e.g. https://in.pycon.org/2009/, https://in.pycon.org/2010 etc.

I came across httrack around that time but we used wget to mirror the website. I found it interesting. IIRC, it used to refresh itself to copy recursively but I could be wrong. It's been a long time.
I think they mean lead as in IC pins (as opposed to BGA balls or QFN pads), rather than lead as in the toxic metal Pb.
There are many constitutional restrictions on the freedom of speech?
This is google. They've got everything. I use google password manager, wallet, biometrics to log into my google smartphone and google authenticator for my 2FA. I use google voice and maps, photos, youtube, search, docs, gmail and gemini for AI.

Imagine if you found an authentication backdoor - a way to impersonate any account and you could start sucking down data. You do it for 5 billion people and charged google $6.40 per person not to put it on Tor.

$32 billion would be a steal.
Ruby, Ractors, and Lock-Free Data Structures
Pretty much everything with strict resource requirements or other reasons for aggressive resource use optimization: embedded, automotive, industrial control sytems, games, operating systems, audio and other (soft) realtime media applications, hft, tools and frameworks for all these things, etc

But you'll note that most of these things are very sensitive to quality of work. That is not something that people find easily on freelancing platforms like upwork and so people seeking contract help for these things don't post their work their.

Instead, buyers generally reach out through established connections ("word of mouth", past coworkers, approved vendor lists) or fall back to hunting through Google and LinkedIn for firms/individuals that look impressive, hoping that the impression holds up during a requirements gathering, bidding, and estimation process.

Given where it sounds like you are in your career, your best bet might be to find work inside a contracting firm that can feed you gigs (they'll do sales, they may do project management, they may staff a team alonside you, they'll take a large cut). If you make good impressions on the clients and colleagues you work with there, they will become the personal connections that feed you independent work some years down the road.

Without taking the time for that, it can pretty had to break in, and much of the work you may be able to find will be miserable table scraps for poor clients who barely know what they're doing themselves.
It seems like you're saying this thread is not constructive or not on topic. What could I have responded with that might have been better?
I'm curious how applicable these are, in general? Feels like pointing out that using interior doors in your house misses out on the security afforded from a vault door. Not wrong, but there is also a reason every door in a bank is not a vault door.

That is, I don't want to devalue the CVE system; but it is also undeniable that there are major differences in impact between findings?
Sure I see that trend of downvoting too, but I also see a trend where the American users on HN hijack topics that aren't about America to talk about America because they feel that there isn't enough content on social media about America or something?

It's a phenomenon that I think many users from outside of the US will agree is a pernicious problem on all social media platforms.

Americans should be more aware of this and aspire to not be so self-absorbed.
I be they're setting up private intranet hundred times more corrupt than any "e-mail server" they lied about being concerned-over.
These things were despicable but not an attack on the system itself. This time is different. I haven’t written American democracy off yet, but I wouldn’t bet the farm.
> What the OP and others like them actually want is a total lack of accountability for bad actors, and they will pick whatever argument is convenient in that moment regardless of consistency.

Thank you for eloquently putting this into words.
It's all-encompassing; there are way too many of us and, on the whole, we kinda suck.
> Apache Iceberg builds an additional layer on top of Parquet files that let's you do ACID transactions, rollbacks, and schema evolution.

Delta format also supports this, correct?
It looks like there was a version that worked on Classic OS and OS X.
"The end of tuning is stock."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910736
When to pay down tech debt
They say crypto doesn't have a killer app. They're clearly wrong. It has several: easy scams, rug pulls, money laundering.
You seem to put people in the category of "born here, so good" and "birn elsewhere, less good". Fair enough.

If you are a supporter of, say, Trump you therefore say that Biden or Harris are much better than any other, naturalized citizen, as presidents?

It's hard to see the logic here, probably because I am an idiot, but if where you were birn defines the man for you then fine - everyone has their opinion.
So basically an agent is a procedure, by this definition: it takes parameters (environment) and acts upon that by executing side effects. An email filter is an agent. A database trigger is an agent.
Exaone Deep Released ━ Setting a New Standard for Reasoning AI
Yes, and that's the problem. What Zhang et al [2] showed convincingly in the Rethinking paper is that just focusing on the hypothesis space cannot be enough since the same hypothesis space fits real and random data so it's already too large. Therefore, these methods that focus on the hypothesis space have to talk about a bias in practice towards a better subspace, and that already requires studying the specific optimization algorithm in order to understand why it picks certain hypothesis over others in the space.

But once you are ready to do that then algorithmic stability is enough. You don't then need to think about Bayesian ensembles, or other proxies/simplifications etc. but can focus on just the specific learning setup you have. BTW algorithmic stability is not a new idea. An early version showed up within a few years of VC theory in the 80s in order to understand why nearest neighbors generalizes (it wasn't called algorithmic stability then though).

If you are interested in this, also recommend [3].

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04742
Open Gimp's settings dialog.

I don't think you have to worry about settings disappearing in newer releases.

Which, major releases of Gimp are so slow anyways, if it was a realistic worry for this software specifically (it's not), it would probably be 10+ years before such a change hit stable.
Belatedly relatedly: Hexagons are the bestagons.
There’s a noticeable inconsistency in how Hacker News community reacts to electoral controversies in Romania and Turkey. In Romania, the Constitutional Court disqualified candidate Călin Georgescu based on unproven allegations that he was influenced by Russia. In Turkey, opposition leader and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was barred from running after his university degree was annulled under dubious circumstances.

Both cases involve actions that directly impact democratic processes—effectively ensuring that those in power remain in power. Yet, the reactions to these events seem to differ significantly.

Does this reveal an inherent tribalism in our thinking? If HN represents a community of intellectuals, are we truly guided by reason and intellectual honesty, or are our responses shaped more by instinct and bias?
I thought this community is security over convenience? 12 years ago my iMessage got hacked. Someone was sending messages from my name to my relative. My password was secured and there were no ways I thought it would get hacked but there it is.
Well the American born presidential policy is just strange because it seems so un-American. You’d think the country would have had at least one range to riches president who was a refugee from some war torn country by now, it’s just such a fundamental part of the nation’s mythos.
I have no issue with Apple inventing a new, superior connector; I applaud them for it. My issue is with them making it a closed proprietary standard with authentication chips to lock out unapproved third-party vendors. They could have just invented Lightning and made it an open standard. We might not have even needed USB-C then; the industry could have just iterated upon Lightning.
Their interaction being they are in no way copyrightable because they are functional, not creative expressions. That's part of why every recipe has a dramatic story, so they can have a clear copyright case if copied wholesale.
RIP to the other Mac ShapeShifter: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613064350/http://unsanity.c...

There was a whole community around theming OS X in the aughts, chock full of talented designers. It all depended on ShapeShifter. MacThemes2.net was bustling, along with self-important invite-only communities like macristocracy.com.

Good times.
just spirit!
Tin foil hat time, Google regularly complies with LEO. It's often joked they are an unofficial intelligence agency; peers being CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. Wiz is a foreign-owned company with a detailed vulnerability map of more than 50% of the Fortune 100. It can be argued this is a matter of national security, and not simply business.
> I really don't like to see things like any sort of recommendation for use of n-propyl bromide. That shit's neurotoxic.

I don't even like to see recommendations for IPA (isopropyl alcohol). In 95%+ of the cases ethanol (ethyl alcohol) is just as good and is way less toxic than IPA.
Traditionally most other countries don't have as many immigrants as the USA.
That only applies to video game level stuff. Most "real" scenes from professional movies won't fit in RAM on a typical desktop, let alone the extremely limited VRAM on a GPU. For example (from 2016, so 10 years out of date): https://www.disneyanimation.com/data-sets/?drawer=/resources...
We’re really messing this place up huh
Not hard to figure this one out: An untraceable connection to any other party anywhere in the world; notably, his handler and anyone willing wanting to know how much a favor will cost.
> I WANT to be able to download any stupid thing in there without a care in the world re: viruses or other damaging experiences

That's rich knowing that most of the money Apple gets from the Appstore is made from predatory casino-like games
Why You'll Never Make a Living Playing Live Poker Tournaments (2014)
Some iPad Pros used USB3 lightning that used pins on both side of the lightning cable.
No, but this is a huge oversight on character judgement.

There's a history of gloating here. So much so they named a podcast "The Social Radars."

Back to the point: they should consider re-evaluating their admission process. Heads down coding, talking with users, selling -- choose two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9dnFp1M0E
Iceberg-go is working on it! (edit: it being write support)
The issue I have with Lightning is that over time they tend to develop side to side wobble, to the point the connection becomes unreliable.
Maybe the stakes is just lower now? But anyway, yeah I can relate. It's like the mind has renewable and unrenewable 'stores'. The unrenewable ones are just buildups of life experiences that you can transmute into work in a certain way. But once you harness it, it's done. Probably.
Sadly, yes. I'm not sure what it will take to make people realize that a "strong man" is not the answer.
Show HN: I built a system to develop AI MVPs in 4 weeks
I was only making a technical point about real-estate.

Critiquing the OP’s project doesn’t interest me intellectually.
Except if you want pebble an iphone, thats the loss.
MicroUSB was absolutely not fine. The connectors were difficult to insert and very vulnerable to damage.
Google's special relationship with Reddit says the Ambrosia website disappeared only 6 years ago. Perhaps you could try emailing the guy?
I also got married young (21) and moved to SF and then NYC, and got all the same reactions.

But then at 38 we did divorce lol
No, but it can often expose undefined behavior that doesn't stop a program from "working" on lower optimization levels.

Which is why I'm in support of always building your own software with -O3.