skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gptel.el is straightforward to configure and comfortable to use. It is indeed opinionated in ways that don't exactly match anything else out there, but if that sort of thing bothers you, you should not expect a comfortable time at first with Emacs. I like it a lot.
Let me connect the dots for anyone confused.

Last Spring in particular there were a bunch of student protests against the genocide being done by Israel with material support from the US. Many of these protestors were themselves Jewish. Organizations such as the Jewish Voice for Peace [1] were heavily involved. Jewish people in the US have a long history of being active in civil rights movements. Notably, 3 of the 4 of the students who were killed by the National Guard at Kent State in 1968 were Jewish.

Genocide (and apartheid) supporters try and silence dissent by claiming anti-Zionism (that is, opposition to Israel as a settler-colonial state) is anti-Semitism, which it is not. For every Jewish Zionist in the US there are 20-30 Christian Zionists who are motivated by bringing on the Rapture [2]. It's worth pointing out that if this prophecy were to actually come true, all the Jews in Israel would be killed. The point here is that many Zionists are actually anti-Semitic.

The state came down hard on such protestors. There have been something like ~3500 arrests of college protestors (compared to ~1300 for January 6, an actual coup attempt). There's lots of lies disseminated to demonize the protestors. For example, false claims that Columbia protestors blocked Jewish students from going to classes.

The administration has used research funding as a weapon to bring colleges into line to expel or otherwise punish studnets who protested, implement policies to say that criticism of the state of Israel was anti-Semitism and so on. Columbia, in particular, has already completely capitulated.

All of this is a direct attack on free speech to silence any protest or critcism of US foreign policy in the Middle East. Columbia is being made an example of but it's odd that this is potentially going forward to a consent decree since Columbia has already fallen in line.

But it goes so much further than this. Protestors and organizers have been targeted for unlawful deportation. They have in some cases been black-bagged and illegally kidnapped 1000 miles away without due process and then deported without seeing an immigration judge to have a deportation hearing, under the ludicrous "state of emergency" related to a Venezuelan gang.

So where is ICE, who is the Gestapo in this scenario, getting these names? From places like the Canary Mission [3]. Canary Mission had already engaged in doxxing protestors. Now they seemingly have the ear of the administration to point the finger and have opponents black-bagged and sent to El Salvadore to a prison on a seemingly indefinite sentence.

This is the 1930s Nazi Germany playbook.

[1]: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical...

[3]: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israe...
there's some history missing. when i learned unix, any text file with the x bit set was run as a /bin/sh script, unless you put a comment as the first line and then it was considered /bin/csh
VSCode extension to export your codebase or specific files as LLM-friendly text
The article dismisses sleep duration and regularity as weak indicators of quality, and I’d say that’s true - for one night of sleep considered alone.

However so many don’t have a sleep routine at all, and can benefit from simple starting measures like gamifying sleep duration and timeliness. Hence the sleep trackers on the market cater to “sleep quality novices”.

Once you’re no longer a novice then for sure start tweaking, like the author seeks to do.

But so many are just start of the journey and the author - no doubt way further down the road - might’ve forgotten how hard it is to get a good night’s sleep when you block any hope of a routine with alcohol, late nights out, late night coding binges, and early morning starts for run club.

It’s horses for courses. Considering how few “advanced” sleep trackers exist for consumers it’s likely hard to get quality data and not a lot of people know they’re ready for the next level. May their product find its niche!
What "AI" is involved in this? It's mostly just a few database lookups based on merchant name and/or category, isn't it? Or is that just marketing gloss, because everything is "AI" now?
> WW3 has already come and gone.

You are no longer masters of your own destinies.

You have been sold out, and what ever is left of you is a sell out.

You will be broken. Only in the darkness of minds eye, where no one will hear your screams, they will break you and remake you, your thought controlls, for their games. For they are as god over you and they are the voices in your mind. The world will scorn you and turn upon you in your desperate hour, and in time it will happen to all of them.

We are thought controlled.
Maybe this is an oversimplification, but optimism is gone from media because people are no longer optimistic about the future. For a long time, the next generation always just kind of assumed they'd have it better than the previous ones. Apart from a couple of terrible historic blips like world wars, of course. Everyone has kind of believed they'd live better lives than their parents. The Baby Boomers were the last generation that really felt that way, and it was by and large true for them. From there on, Gen-X knows already that they'll never live as good as their parents. Milleneals are finding out very quickly the same, the next generation is going to have it worse, and so on. So it's no big surprise that all of our media is doomer and pessimistic.

Maybe if we want more optimism in our media, we should give ourselves something to be optimistic about.
I definitely didn’t just mean leadership like speaker of the house or senate leaders, I mean leadership as in congress itself, because by definition members of congress are all party leaders compared to more local levels of politics.

Many of the rank and file need to be replaced.

The median age of the senate is over 60 years old, and many congresspeople are staying in seats long after their health has badly deteriorated (Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein as recent examples).

Besides just age, I am also specifically dealing what change is merged. Democrats need congresspeople who understand how the modern systems of society and how their opposition works. This isn’t about age, as people like Bernie Sanders clearly understand those concepts well and knows how to articulate them.

But then you have leaders like Chuck and Nancy who are clearly not what they used to be. In the last presidency they were negotiating with Trump like they were old pals in the same of party. Now Nancy Pelosi is pulling a Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer is coasting.
I had no idea. There was an Amazon Go right in my workplace in 2019 (Brookfield Place) and I got lunches there almost daily. I loved it -- felt like magic, and it was crazy fast. I guess it was just an illusion (as all magic is).
I think Deadpool summed it up pretty well with "maximum effort". Though I think the whole path-of-most-resistance thing goes back to Marcus Aurelius at least.
This article, I feel, misclassifies the show and then criticizes it on the wrong grounds.

It's in the horror genre. Of course it's fearmongering, that's what horror stories do. Just because it's not the stereotypical horror doesn't mean it's not in that domain. It's great as a horror show because it shows somewhat plausible futures, and that dream/nightmarelike quality is truly gripping.
This was before the Court on an emergency application for relief from the District of Maryland's order. (Of course — virtually everything from this administration is filed as an "emergency" — see https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/supreme-court....)

The Chief Justice temporarily stayed the order pending the Court's review.

The Court restored the effect of the District of Maryland's order that the government facilitate the return but ordered that the District of Maryland clarify what it meant by "effectuate" and that it give due deference to the Executive regarding foreign policy functions.

So the Court was balancing its own role vis-à-vis the District Court's role as the court of first instance, as well as the Judicial Branch's role vis-à-vis the Executive Branch's.

But a heavier hand is warranted and required, in my humble estimation.

Later edit: Prior administrations have taken full advantage of the emergency docket too; I intended to emphasize that, in these first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the (not unexpected) flurry of cases has the government seeking emergency review left and right.
The funny thing is you could probably make money on Amazon Mechanical Turk by hooking it up to an LLM. We’re at this weird limbo point in history where the fraud could go either way, depending on what you think you’re paying for…
A lot of comments describe trying to build something better and abandoning the problem. (Including my own) It is nice to hear the different issues, use cases, requirements and workarounds.
> It's a "mirror" on current society, which is probably where they got the name.

Nope. It's a reference to the surface of a screen. (Though undeniably there's important double meaning there)

> The "black mirror" of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-b...
I really hope this story doesn't get ganged up on and flagged into oblivion.

A few key things to note in the decision

* The decision is unanimous with no dissents.

* This case is pretty atypical of the other cases involving people deported to Cecot(the El Salvadorian prison) in that the govt straight up admitted that they had deported this person in error

This case is almost certainly not indicative of the supreme court's thinking on the broader issue as the facts involved were very clear, and there are no real broad implications (regardless of what the govt asserted)

The case regarding the applicability of the Alien Enemies Act without the exigent circumstances of a war or genuine existential threat to the nation is the key case to watch.
The part I don't like about it is that the premise is too often:

"Imagine some theoretical technological advancement. Now take it out of context, put it in the worst possible circumstances, and imagine it appeared into a society like ours without any prior thought or discussion about the possible downsides of that technology."

For example: in a society where autonomous security guard robots kill intruders, there would not be people sneaking into warehouses. In a society where people can play back and re-live prior memories, it would not suddenly come up that one can relive experiences with past lovers. In a society where one's consciousness could be contained inside a "cookie," being unexpectedly in a strange place with no explanation would immediately have one questioning whether that's what happened.

It just feels ham-fisted. In their defense, I'm sure it's tough to introduce an entirely new concept and world and sell a brand new story all in the scope of a single episode, but the formula felt a little stale, at least while I was watching it.
Don't be so pessimistic, how about these uses:

- Let Gemini watch you drive so you can get advice on driving better

- Let Gemini help you rewire your outlet for the first time

- Let Gemini help you pick edible mushrooms in the forest
> Go developers seem to have taken no more than 5 minutes considering the problem, then thoughtlessly discarded it: [2]. A position born from pure ignorance as far as I'm concerned

There are a million things in go that could be described this way.
Are we talking about what philosophically the government should spend money on? I think education and general research is a good expenditure. And R1 universities are probably the right places for that research. Before Trump, people from all over the world came the US to study with great benefit, now we're throwing them out. Either way, if we don't want to spend $400M on grants, why are we going to spend $100M+ on a military parade [1]? It's all about efficiency right?

And since you mentioned libraries, IMLS recently was DOGE'd which used to provide funds to a lot of libraries.

[1] https://fortune.com/2025/04/07/trump-birthday-military-parad...
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649079
> I would still use pattern matching for branching and destructing, but I’d put it in a helper

Yeah, using a helper function makes things much clearer. To be honest though, I'm not a huge fan of using either `isinstance` (which is generally a sign of a bad design) nor `match/case` (which is essentially a "modern" way to write `isinstance`).

I can't help but think that a better design could avoid the need for either of those (e.g. via polymorphism).
Our culture tends to embrace technological progress. But we don't have to. It's just something we do accept. And yes, many technologies have eliminated jobs. Some have created new ones sure, but it's not always 1 to 1. Not everyone replaced on an assembly line by a robot or machine, is needed to repair or build that new machine.

Our tendency to 'progress' doesn't have to be the case, we all could collectively decide to hold ourselves here.

Also, I don't think that all our technology has always been good for us either. But we are blind to the downsides mostly.
Not quite; the interpolations are not eagerly stringified which is the potentially expensive part. In this sense it's kind of a middle ground between the two approaches.
If you want something closer to Docker functionality, take a look at https://github.com/bsdpot/pot
We don't owe Jim Davis any kind of respect as an artist. He must earn it.

In the scale you're describing, he leans heavily towards making money and away from the art part. It's OK to feel scorn for this. It's also OK to respect it, but that's not me.

> Art without money is madness

This isn't what my comment was about, but I cannot refrain from answering: art can exist perfectly well without money. I'd say the vast majority of art humanity produces is not related to money at all. It is definitely not madness without money.

> Money without art dies on the vine in obscurity or pays its dues in criticism through time.

Sadly, I don't think the former is true, and I don't think the latter matters enough.
They actually do. Most universities have a foundation that runs their endowment and a delegate (or multiple) research corporations each with its own rules and policies and procedures.

As to the separation of research and education, where we have achieved the noble goal is a worthwhile discussion but the intent was that the creation of knowledge through research and the transference of knowledge through education have such significant parallels that the should co occur.
That all make senses to me. But it definitely won't make sense to my intro to programming students. They already have enough weird syntax to juggle.
I’m more asking about how the universities are spending the money (and which pile of money they’re spending).

The government could spend the equivalent of a university’s endowment many times over and nobody would notice. If it wants to spend more money on scientific research, great - but I’m questioning how effectively that can be used as leverage if the universities don’t really “need” it.
>I just can't imagine being the guy who decides to litigate this as long as possible

Fortunately, in the other related case Judge Boasberg has been carefully & systematically building a contempt case against the DOJ lawyers. The Supreme Court ruling on procedural grounds yesterday does not make it moot. Remains to be seen whether a contempt verdict could be enforced, but Boasberg is a patriot doing heroic work.
simdutf [1] from the same people who did simdjson [2]

1 - https://simdutf.github.io/simdutf/

2 - https://simdjson.org/
"In addition to the use of Signal, some DOGE staffers are bypassing other vetting processes and chains of custody for official government documents by working simultaneously out of Google Docs instead of circulating single copies of drafts, a source briefed by a government official said.
“There's multiple people in one Google Doc editing things simultaneously,” the source said, referring to the online word processing software. That was partly how DOGE was working so quickly, the source added"

Outrageous!
My favourite emacs-is-for-old-people joke is the backronym "Editor for Middle-Aged Computer Scientists".
I don't know what to say other than I am pretty sure I have never encountered it before. I have been coding for over 30 years, 20 years professionally, and have never seen it. You can see by my account age and comment history that I have been active on HN for 15 years.

I actually have interest in game programming, too. So I don't know.

I am sure I'll encounter it 10 times this week now, good old Baeder-Meinhoff
Because besides the TV show one none of your examples benefit from the video/"live" modality? Or at least I wouldn't be motivated to use video for that.
> I just can't imagine being the guy who decides to litigate this as long as possible knowing they renditioned an innocent father.

The original gov. lawyer was put on leave after not wanting to be that guy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/justice-dept-...
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I would presume that the US would have to stop paying to keep him there, which should be a step in the right direction at least.
IIRC they take it more kindly than the French to have their public services be run by corporations
I don't believe that the text indicated as quoted appears in the order or the Sotomayor statement.

That language is in the right direction of a summary, but the Court did not hold that the district court erred — merely that the district court must clarify that part of its order on remand, in light of the deference the Judiciary owes to the Executive in foreign policy matters.
I would say playing CTFs would help you pick which carrer in cyber you like. Although many challenges aren't real world scenarios but it would make you try most fields (web, osint, forensics, crypto, pwn, reverse)
Nothing wrong with that. It's okay to indulge the things that tickle your fancy now and then, even if you're a super serious adult who's vibe coding the next OpenAI 36 hours per day, 15 days per week.
So did Usenet, no one cares. They simply require you go to 18 different sites to follow what friends are up to. Tumblr would just be the ad tech company instead, or the blog hosting company, for a while it was MySpace.

It's either free and supported by ads, or self hosted or comes with a cost and doesn't gain mass adoption.

When did the comments here get to the point they can't think past 1st order magnitude effects or remember genuinely how things actually were. Your grandma didn't have a blog to follow the grandkids. Yeah, there's a one off exception or two, but nothing at the scale of MySpace and later social media companies.
Same, and I had completely forgotten it existed. It feels even more prescient now than a decade+ ago
I would imagine it turns into fraud when you don't tell investors about the human fall backs.
What a stupid time to be alive.
I'm quite disappointed with the pace of development of the Python language. Five years of support for a particular version seems far too short.

I mostly use Python in scientific contexts, and hitting end-of-life after five years means that for a lot project, code needs to transition language versions in the middle of a project. Not to mention the damage to reproducibility. Once something is marked "end of life" it means that future OS versions are going to have a really good reason to say "this code shouldn't even be able to run on our new OS."

Template strings seem OK, but I would give up all new language features in a heartbeat to get a bit of long term support.
This undersells gptel.el, because IMHO it does a really good job of feeling emacs-native: you can read from the minibuffer or active region; send outputs to the message area, another buffer, or replace the marked region; use buffers or files as context sources; build "tools" out of elisp, ...
Instead they can pass the more expensive labor costs for less product onto American consumers.
I'm the person who asked about the definition of a chair up thread.

Just to make a very obvious point: Nobody thinks of the definition for a chair as a particularly controversial idea. But clearly:

- We don't all agree on what a chair is (is a stump a chair or not?).

- Nobody in this thread has been able to give a widely accepted definition of the word "chair"

- It seems like we can't even agree on what criteria are admissible in the definition. (Eg, does it matter that I can sit on it? Does it matter that I can intend to sit on it? Does it matter that my dog can sit on it?)

If even defining what the word "chair" means is beyond us, I hold little hope that we can ever manually explain the concept to a computer. Returning to my original point above, this is why I think expert systems style approaches are a dead end. Likewise, I think any AI system that uses formal or symbolic logic in its internal definitions will always be limited in its capacity.

And yet, I suspect chatgpt will understand all of the nuance in this conversation just fine. Like everyone else, I'm surprised how "smart" transformer based neural nets have become. But if anything has a hope of achieving AGI, I'm not surprised that:

- Its something that uses a fuzzy, non-symbolic logic internally.

- The "internal language" for its own thoughts is an emergent result of the training process rather than being explicitly and manually programmed in.

- That it translates its internal language of thought into words at the end of the thinking / inference process. Because - as this "chair" example shows - our internal definition for what a chair is is seems clear to us. But it doesn't necessarily mean we can translate that internal definition into a symbolic definition (ie with words).

I'm not convinced that current transformer architectures will get us all the way to AGI / ASI. But I think that to have a hope of achieving human level AI, you'll always want to build a system which has those elements of thought. Cyc, as far as I can tell, does not. So of course, I'm not at all surprised its being dumped.
I’ve been using the Robinhood Gold card over 6 months and found the unlimited/unrestricted 3% cash back to be nearly unbeatable.
Crossing the line into fraud is how you pitch it.
I'm so incredibly sad due to this state of affairs. I don't even know what to do really. Do I drop everything, try to get a law degree, and fight via the law even though this administration doesn't really seem to heed it?
Do you have a system or tool for finding card offers with signup bonuses?

Also (this is possibly common knowledge but) your credit score is negatively impacted not just by % of available credit utilized, but also by average age of credit accounts. If you're going to want a significant loan (eg a mortgage) in the forseeable future, something to keep in mind.
Then dont teach them t-strings
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It seems that there’s a subset of people who will agree unironically.