skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please see if it's still the same?
Any idea why Columbia in particular? Dozens of universities had protests of varying kinds, and they fell over themselves trying to comply. Does something make Columbia stand out? Or was it an arbitrary pick to be an example?
It baffles me because everyone wins when we fund research. And by and large, the biggest benefactors of public research are private companies that can develop and commercialize the research.

Not only will this cause brain drain, but in the long run it will surely make American industry less competitive across the board.
I'm aware of this. Will look into asap
It's not explicitly mentioned in the article, but the arrival rate and queue sizes are related via Little's Law [0] — the average number of people in a system is equal to the arrival rate multiplied by the mean wait time, regardless of the arrival distribution, service distribution, or service order (e.g. FIFO, LIFO, random).

I was fortunate enough to take some great queueing theory classes in college, and fondly remember flailing about in Simio [1] trying to get a bank teller simulation to work. Really useful stuff to learn, although it did make me incredibly susceptible to Factorio and similar games.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCzAhKtucck
It would take you all of 5 seconds to try in Claude yourself. I do this work on a daily basis; I know its value.
fair point. offline+local would be ideal, but as it stands we can't run asr and an llm locally at the speed that is required to provide the level of service we want to.

given that we need the cloud, we offer zero data retention -- you can see this in the app. your concern is as much about ux and communications as it is privacy
Can you identify a person that best exemplifies this steelman argument?
It's more of a work backwards thing. The price is set by demand, what the market will bear, etc. Then for well established supply chain / commodity goods overhead tends to rise to meet COGS. The reason is that there exists profit taking at every level of "overhead" but when the cost of revenue exceeds the cost of goods it becomes a marker of inefficiency. In the same way when manufacturers recognize that their cost are less than the retailers overhead to generate sales they see room to raise costs so markets trend to 50/50.

But consider Footlocker sells a lot of other shoes for much less than Nikes. Those shoes don't cost any less to manufacturer and depending on the brand are just as well established so the 50/50 ratio still applies. It's just that at each level the overhead adjusts to meet the ratio over time.

For fringe brands the retailers markup can be huge 10x or more.
"Boiling down" is taking something to its fundamental level. Breaking it down to the axioms, essentially.

And yes, when it comes to value systems, those axioms are cryptically religious.
Does Trump seem to be using the country's credit to make money?
This is mentioned in her book. In the book she says Meta wanted to build the pipeline, despite the warnings. But yes, ultimately the construction fell through.

She is not claiming the pipeline exists today.
> pressure Columbia over its handling of anti-Israel protests and other allegations of antisemitism at the university

I don't think the article is saying anti-Israel is antisemitism. My reading is there are antisemitic behaviors within the anti-Israel protestors.
I was asking if there is one, not asserting that there is. I don’t understand your question.
I’m thinking there will be prosecution but there will be quid pro quo’s like the guy Trump just pardoned after the felon donated 2 million to GOP.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/nikola-founder-mil...
Wipe the slate so the felon no longer owes money for fraud.
The same company Applause recently bought out Strongbox [0], which has been discussed a few times on HN a few times[1]. They have a pretty reliable history of destroy applications / extracting maximum value.

[0] https://strongboxsafe.com

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=strongbox+site%3Anews.ycombinator....
> Are you really doubting that countries wouldn't negotiate? Seriously?

I doubt everything those charlatans say. They are liars and will say anything to maintain the illusion of competence.
They might randomly generate them. Some orgs do this for security sensitive projects, so that there's nothing you can infer from the project name.
>the endorsements at the end somehow made this seem worse

holy cow you weren't kidding. legit the last people i would trust with software development.
US scientists create most comprehensive circuit diagram of mammalian brain
It hasn’t. Europe is still functioning perfectly well.

Let’s not start echoing far right talking points. Immigration is a topic that should be approached with measured language. Terms like ‘decimated’ is not helpful.
I can't believe it's coincidence and accident that this Administration is assaulting medical research simultaneously on multiple fronts: here, with these attacks on universities, that seem to primarily target NIH research at America's most prestigious schools; the DOGE attacks, which are preferentially deleting medical workers, multiple entire offices at the FDA and the CDC; and that decision to elevate an HIV/AIDS denier to the office of HHS secretary.

I don't know what the intention is behind this systematic assault on medicine. It's incomprehensible.
I don't mind the China tariffs. They have been abusing US interests for years and scoffed at promises they made when they entered into WTO and any IP is fair game for their corporate spies, and US companies would be laughed at to try and litigate any of it inside their borders. Something does need to happen with China, but the vast majority of Trump's tariffs were indeed as if he is stupid as a sack of rocks.
A working theory is a grudge from a long time ago over not buying land from trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-u...
Based on the accurate coloration of the Yomei-mon gate at Nikko, the painter must have been familiar enough with the photo subjects.
Playing devil's advocate: If the allegations about Meta violating laws in the book are true, what would be an appropriate waiting period before the author testifies to the Senate, so that it doesn't appear to be a PR tour?
It's like saying income taxes and tariffs do their damage in similar ways. They do. Income taxes are another thing that mostly just hurts the country introducing them.
> That doesn't pass muster. If they had much interest in balancing the books, they wouldn't be ripping huge holes in revenue collection.

It's not about balancing the books. It's about not making a problem far worse.

You remember the global financial crisis of 2008? The reason most of the bailed out countries requested bailouts was their bonds spiraling out of control when they had to refinance their debt. That was the primary reason they reached out to the likes of IMF and had to undergo austerity programs.

The Trump administration put the US on that path with their global tarrifs and provoking their main trading partners, specially China.
How so? Racism vs Asians and Whites and Jews is still racism by the letter of the law.
I did door to door sales for a while and came to a similar place.

It wasn't that I was expecting to make a wage on a commission job, its that during the training portion I was expected to comp my sales back to the company and then on top of that, my trainer put his name down on my sales anyway.

Ultimately I learned that they handed new people territory that had been walked twice already in the previous 2 months.

The whole hierarchy of the business was designed to suck value out of new starters, and the winning move was to just drop it and leave.
The antiviral valacyclovir was discussed in an article in The Economist recently. Is used to treat herpes simplex or herpes zoster (shingles). What the Economist article discussed is that the drug seems to reduce the severity and onset of dementia. The drug's patent expired long ago.

I'll be seeing my doc soon and will be requesting to begin treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valaciclovir

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7045215/
Yeah if you don't attend Christmas markets.

Not wanting your culture to erode is not a "far right talking point". Mass immigration has absolutely decimated Europe.
Darn right. Lots of smart, hard working, innovative people in China. And every single one of them would get on plane tonight if they could get a visa to live in US or UK (and a few other countries). So, which countries offer a better future for our children?
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million

A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-u...
Would never use LLMs to find things, it's like asking a human to find things, they suck at it mostly and unlike human LLm doesn't have awareness to know it sucks
Post author here... Coming from you, borkdude, that's high praise! Made my day :)
From the article:

> Brown University and Princeton University have also had their NIH grants frozen, and the agency is reviewing its funding to Harvard University as part of a broader Trump administration review of some $9 billion in federal funding to the Massachusetts school.
Q star confirmed?
Can't really eat plastic figures. And you maybe only ate frozen fish in your life but fresh fish is great.

It's way more profitable for me to work than to sleep but I still sleep.
Bow to Queen Aphyr.
> Seems like an odd choice to move some but not all comments between posts like this

The idea is to move good, substantive comments that have something to contribute to the new thread, and to leave the ones that don't fit that description and are bound by the context of the previous article.

I'm not saying I made all the calls perfectly about which ones to move and which ones to leave, but that's the idea at least! If there are cases I missed, I'd be happy to take a look.

> Especially when the only ones moved seem to be conservative talking points.

You can't jump to conclusions like that from such a paltry handful of datapoints. I say "you can't", but of course you can, because everyone does! But it's not reliable to do so:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> This one even discusses a title that doesn’t exist on this article?

Yes, that's why I replied—to make the context switch explicit because otherwise the comment wouldn't make sense.
What DSP accelerator does Intel have?
As an outside observer, the difference between the current US administration and the CCP is becoming smaller every day. What's the point of having actual domain expertise when the primary selection criteria is partisan support of the current party in power? It's policital appointees throughout the apparatus of government, top to bottom. The USA is surrendering any pretense of higher moral superiority at a frightening rate.
They view it as an assault on Universities, not "science". The thinking goes (you see this kind of rhetoric right here on HN) that The Radical Left has infested education in the United States and polluted the thinking of a generation of future leaders. "Woke Mind Virus", etc...

So to stamp that out, you need to get the kids to stop with the bad thinking. But you can't actually do that as the government because of the whole "shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" thing.

So instead you hit their school instead. Make it so Columbia (in this case) knows that their funding depends on the grace of the government, and that if they want it back they need to start expelling or otherwise controlling the spreaders of the woke virus.
The special kind of freedom that is limited to one specific group of people. See recent events for reference.
That’s unworthy rhetoric.
As is so much else going on, this is a failed marshmallow test meant only to satisfy short term emotion.
Can you... provide the prompts? Because I have a hard time believing this.

I have tried the hand holding approach with Cursor. It doesn't work for me. I have to constantly correct and over correct. Getting auth working sounds insane to me.
If you're a director of global public policy for seven years, who are you really whistleblowing, the company, or yourself?

I appreciate the information coming out, but in some of these situations I can't help but picture that "the worst person in the room" in regards to the offenses might also end up being the person that then becomes the most holier than thou when they get out of the company.

If you ever met someone who used to work in software ads and ask them about privacy you'll get what I mean.
The intention? A country that is broken and looking to the fascists in charge to keep them safe from the same mess they created.

people keep trying to attribute a rationality beyond a selfish power/money grab... they are racist bullies looking to be the boot stomping on humanity's face forever while also looting the place six ways from Sunday along the way (just like Putin and his circle in Russia)
As a person currently working on a project that uses Firestore (the db component of Firebase), there is one thing - and only one thing - I want.

A web GUI for Firestore that lets me work on documents like, idk, any other DBMS GUI would: the ability to select multiple records, and operate on them.

That's literally it. I don't need AI, I don't need dark mode, I don't even need MongoDB compatibility. I just want to select multiple documents with my mouse and do things to them.
I am happy to see more Kamal posts, but I don't think the title is the best ;D

Kamal is relatively simple tool. If you understand a bit about DevOps and what Kamal can do things are pretty much smooth.

If you never did anything with servers and suddendly want to deploy with Kamal? Then it can be painful.

For those that want to take Kamal for a spin I wrote Kamal Handbook. No self-torture required.
Israel's direct enemies make it very explicit that they are antisemitic. Consider Hamas' charter, for example.

Those enemies have long used European allies that descend from a long line of antisemitism, from both left and right wings. They often use "Israel" as a cover for their anti-Jewish beliefs. Several United Nations agencies seem to exist for the sole purpose of condemning Israel, while ignoring much worse issues elsewhere -- and that's not because Israel is uniquely bad.

Israel's right wing government has taken advantage of this. So much anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitic that they can lump in all of the many, many valid criticisms. They believe, with some justification, that they will never receive fair treatment so they might as well do what they are accused of.

I don't wish to "both sides" this. I'm just explaining that Jews have experienced so much bad faith argument that even Jews who are disgusted by the Israeli government expect outside criticism to come from a similar malfeasance. Maybe you specifically want to have a good faith discussion, but statistically the odds aren't great. So the arguments get shut down by the most expedient means, not the most correct ones.
The general opinion on the post seems to be justifiably negative. I have s few things where AI has helped and one where I'm not sure how i could have done it before.

1. It's great to cure "starting trouble"

2. A specific case is to brainstorm ways to layout libraries to handle cases.

3. When I code, using an AI completer is usually faster than looking up docs but with lsp and familiarity with the language, it's not that great.

4. When I'm setting up new software for the first time, i give the AI a few blog posts and books and then have it guide me through while explaining concepts.

5. As a Google substitute to look for things. I get clear answers for most things which aren't too complex.

6. I've used it to explain concepts to me. eg. the difference between ac and dc current.

7. I've used it to create throwaway apps which i don't care about maintaining.

8. I wanted to get a copy a proprietary program to integrate into my application. I couldn't get it. I had an LLM create s dummy version which produces the same output and did my integration. It more or less worked when I substituted with the real tool.

As for the hype, yeah.. Genuinely s problem but there's some meat in there.
Design System Options for Rails
You can, but most people go to a shoe store and check out different brands. Most people that end up buying Nikes aren't the people that only buy Nike and know what they want without trying on a few pairs.

Like unless you just know you specifically want some Nike shoe you aren't likely to visit Nike.com to buy shoes.
LLMs make it really trivial to work with MermaidJS. Just yesterday I used it to sketch out some business logic. Seeing the whole flowchart like that helped me catch some corner cases.
Show HN: I made a line graph maker
Won’t matter. A handful of judges will use big words, cite legalese, and it won’t matter.

Every time I think “but the law/constitution won’t allow…” there’s some end run.

The rule of law is only as good as thems that rule the law.
OpenAI introduces Pioneers Program for startups
And China has no corruption or grifting in the government? I do not believe that at all. I reckon it's just as rife as any western government. What the do get right is long term planning and sticking to it, but giving it a time limit (5 years) and the reevaluate priorities. The American government literally has several founding documents and a purpose, I don't see how you think otherwise? Can cronyism happen? Sure, no one is denying that. However what set us apart during the recent downturn is we had some of the most free trade in the world. Now Trump is wrecking that with tariffs and short sighted "look a squirrel!" tactics.
Ha, that is funny. Void Linux desperately needs a better installer. (IMHO)
I’m absolutely dreading the enshitification of these models. Google views it as absolute blasphemy that products are getting recommended and they aren’t getting paid
Yup those Greek gods were nothing but drama and problems.
> But do you assume that getting to n=10,000 is going to show little or no effect (e.g. having a level you define as little effect)?

I don't necessarily assume this, but even if you assume linearity, 0.7 * -0.32 is pretty dang small at baseline. I think if you generate n=10000 showing MLE=-.32 or +.05, few people are going to change their minds. I might, but I don't think it does much to shape the debate.
Glad to see the zonal object store take off. Such massive bandwidth speed will re define data analytics where 99% of all queries able to run on a single node faster than what distributed compute can offer.
That and because UK uses a ring circuit, which was seen as a solve for a copper shortage at the time.

Ring circuits generally way higher in power - and a lot more than a single appliance needs or could handle. Hence the need for a fused plug.

The upside is each socket can take a 13A plug (circa 3kW), whereas a standard US socket maxes out closer to 1.8kW.
> You're going to get a frankenstein NEMA-Schuko-Chinese power outlet

They are very practical, as they accept any plug
It’s GCP’s answer to AWS S3 express zone
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/
I foolishly worked for over 6 months without pay at my first job. Do not do it folks.
CDC guidelines are nonsense here and I fail to see why they would give them. Is there a vaccine shortage?

The claim is that you're more likely to catch the virus early in your life and thus "lifetime efficacy" is reduced as you grow older. Duh, this is true of any vaccine. There are various strains of HPV and you can catch them one after the other. Having HPV at 50 is just as painful as when you're 18, if not more since your immune system is less effective.

The second part of I don't understand this advice is that they say there's no HPV test for men because the result is non-actionable. What? HIV is also nearly "non-actionable" but knowing one has it definitely reduces the chances of spreading it, does it not?

I don't get it.

I got the vaccine in my thirties against doctor's advice.

Please get the vaccine if you're sexually active with more than one person, regardless of your age.
Peasant has a more specific meaning than this. More importantly, it has been used as a pejorative for a very long time now and that is clearly the intent the vice president had in mind.
> Google's non-AI efficiency is not much better than Amazon or anyone else.

I don't think this is true. Google has long been a leader in efficiency. Look at the power usage effectiveness (PUE). A decade ago Google announced average PUEs around 1.12 while the industry average was closer to 2.0. From what I can tell they reported a 1.1 average fleet wide last year. They've been more transparent about this than any of the other big players.

AWS is opaque by comparison, but they report 1.2 on average. So they're close now, but that's after a decade of trying to catch up to Google.

To suggest the rest of the industry is on the same level is not at all accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness

(Amazon isn't even listed in the "Notably efficient companies" section on the Wikipedia page).
Hmmm. And yet this is normal for entering just about every other country.

The people being deported are those calling for genocide. Good riddance. You do not have a right to come to this country to organize a foreign country's wars.
Totalitarian countries like China and Russia routinely arrest American visitors to use them as negotiation chips. Be careful.
You gotta feed the GPUs & TPUs with enough data to avoid them sitting idle. Which starts to become incredibly challenging with latest gen GPU/TPU chips
The font is Times, not Times New Roman. The original PostScript standard only mandated three font sets: Times, Helvetica, Courier.

Personally when reading long man pages (or any long documents), I greatly prefer a proportional type face over a monospace one like in the terminal. These days, people's hand-written markdown also overuses the backtick syntax to make too many things monospace. Using a proportional font just feels right to me.
From the story: "Last month, White House began to pressure Columbia over its handling of anti-Israel protests and other allegations of antisemitism at the university..." If anyone thinks this is about antisemitism please check out the links below.

John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, reiterated his assertion that Trump said, “Hitler did some good things, too,” in a story published Tuesday in The New York Times.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-...

Donald Trump dabbles in Nazi allusions too often for it to be a coincidence.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-nazi-allusions...

Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53098439

Trump’s latest flirtation with Nazi symbolism draws criticism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4677700-trumps-latest-...

Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/11/fac...

Donald Trump's 'Star of David' Tweet About Hillary Clinton Posted Weeks Earlier on Racist Feed
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-...
Indeed, whether it is a badge of honor to be so professionally dislikable you can no longer hold employment in the entertainment sector under anyone but yourself is something reasonable people can disagree on. But what a great country it is that guarantees him the right to still be so self-employed!
You forgot to add that when the fuse does go it can melt the plug and sometimes the wall socket.
went right over my head. oops.