skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting! I've been having some pretty bad intermittent panic attacks over the past year or so and a thing I've noticed is that I have general inflammation across my body along with the panic attacks. For a long while I thought it was an infected tooth, but with that fixed and the panic attacks still ongoing, I'm not sure! But this is a nice confirmation that there's some correlation.
Yes. It's the typical 'hen & egg' problem. I'm watching there from time to time, and even found some things (independent trance/ambient/goa music) which didn't exist on YT at all! Though the selection is limited, compared to YT or whatever, it's less algorithmic, and because of this you're not forced to use most exaggerated grimacing or clickbaity titles, IF you have no commercial interests and give a shit about ads.

If that's your thing. And you have some sort of presence online elsewhere, then you can link to peertube, no matter which, or selfhosted, without problem.

That's why I pointed you to it. If you need/want the most massive audience, because of platform familarity/network effect, then probably not. At least not now. But someone has to start somehow :)
> After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be.

As a backend Kotlin developer, I wonder if a lot of the advantages that Kotlin used to have over Java are rendered moot by new features in recent versions of Java.
> That's a little alarmist. It's not going to happen.

Serious question, when someone tells you what they want, why don't want you believe them?

It's openly being discussed and you think it's alarmist? No, we need to turn the temperature up and start taking people at their word.
Let's set aside specific terms like "fascist" for now. Below is one of the demands from the government:

> the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for
viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually
viewpoint diverse.

Do you feel this is ok for the government to demand of an educational institution? This isn't about specific political ideologies. If the Biden administration had threatened to withhold funding from a university because, for example, their hiring policies weren't left-leaning enough or something, it would be equally outrageous.
At both startups we bought our shares early using Section 83(b) of the IRS tax code. That first year when we bought the shares I had to file extra paperwork but it shifts the tax rate to long term capital gains.

https://www.cooleygo.com/what-is-a-section-83b-election/

So I ended up writing checks of $60 and $100 to buy thousands of shares at $0.0001 a share. I left both startups before they went under but everyone lost that small amount. When people ask me how much money I made at the startup I joke that I lose $60.
That was a voluntary pledge the company made to the users, right? It wasn't a legally binding commitment that there would never ever be any data sharing.
The point of bitcoin, in words of their creator is to “allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution.” That’s it.
It would have been water under the bridge if him and his cronies all got perpetuity starting jan 7th and we never heard of them ever again. Instead the dems chose a demonstration of weakness, and showed that an attempt on our democracy would be punished by a strong worded reprimand, at best.
I make it 8.9% with a binomial test[0]. I rounded that to 10%, because any more precision than that was not justified.

Specifically, the results from the blog post are impossible: with 200 samples, you can't possibly have the claimed 54.9/45.1 split of binary outcomes. Either they didn't actually make 200 tests but some other number, they didn't actually get the results they reported, or they did some kind of undocumented data munging like excluding all tied results. In any case, the uncertainty about the input data is larger than the uncertainty from the rounding.

[0] In R, binom.test(110, 200, 0.5, alternative="greater")
Not if the US keeps electing Climate Change Deniers :(

But the time will arrive when this happens, it is just a matter of when. We should have been there by now, but I think *coins and AI is keeping fossil fuel demand high.

Two things will happen, we move to renewals, decreasing oil use a lot or Climate Change ends our society. Either case will lessen Oil Demand, that is the choice we are facing. The way things are going I expect the latter.
you say as your comment about downvotes gets downvoted, echo chambers are dangerous to democracy imo
Small discussions (including possible ID of vendor):

(72 points, 1 day ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669151

(17 points, 5 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681758
I promise you right now that no one in the Trump administration is interested into providing more books to local schools. Quite the opposite
TypeScript does an amazing job at describing the types of real-world JavaScript. It's incredibly good, and very useful, even in the face of extremely dynamic programs. The fact that it can describe transforms of types, like "this is a utility that adds an `xxx` prefix to every property name" is frankly unparalleled in mainstream languages, but more importantly lets us describe patterns that come up in real-world JS programs - it's not fluff!

And luckily, the most complex of types are usually limited to and contained within library type definitions. They add a lot of value for the library users, who usually don't have to deal that that level of complexity.
Who hates you in particular? What do you mean by that? Also, that's fine to have a conversation about funding, but it's fairly different from arrests, deportations, and shipping individuals to foreign prisons. Rather motte and bailey to earlier suggest that the government was going to go "Henry VII" on universities, and then say that you just want to change funding. These are very different positions.
Harvard is probably thinking they just need to draw the $1 billion extra for another 4 years. Unless, Trump runs for a 3rd time which he has floated. If that happens then I think everyone's just screwed.
It's always really hard to be let go, especially when you were a successful person in the company. Sadly, companies choose the people to fire by some obscure means, mostly the money earned. I've been recently dismissed from work due to "reorganisation", and it really hit me hard in terms of psychological health. Please take care of yourself, do not lose your strength, don’t let your sense of self-worth be harmed by this (I got really vulnerable after this event), and wishing you good luck in finding the next job!
Massachusetts has some of the best public schools in the nation.
The problem is that TypeScript is terrible at codegen, there are no standard extension points like we have with javac and others. So we are forced to do these crazy hacks at the type level rather than just generating types as you would in other languages.
It's starting to like authoritarian is the wrong word.

Totalitarian? not yet, but....
I have never been a "woke" person, but Trump really makes me doubt the meritocracy argument. If Trump was a black woman he would never get away with half the things he is doing now.
I think.... you're agreeing with me?
There are regular legal battles about what public schools can and cannot teach in the schools.

Consider also the Equal Time rule and the Fairness Doctrine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

As I am not a lawyer, I suppose we'll have to see what the courts have to say about it.
He didn't get caught doing anything; he said it, openly, during an interview: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrx6b2gxy2f
Well one thing is for sure: it's not a coincidence that after they determined that it was impossible to get him back, they've changed the narrative to "no mistake was made" (and begun throwing around the magic word "terrorist" which justifies all sorts of things).
Keep in mind labor is something like 10%-15% of the cost of a new car so even if you cut that down by 80%, including transport, and ignored recouping capital cost to actually move the production lines then you'd still need to move the production in less than 2 years to actually see the price decrease rather than "not move up as fast" at 3% car price inflation of the early 90s. Interestingly there was a dip in the price increase rate of cars at the end of the 90s https://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation but it's too large to have been reasonably attributable to this trade change.
Indeed, Bukele can refuse in the same way my boss cannot literally gun-to-my-head compel me to file TPS reports. If Trump actually meant it and started bouncing cheques for the other prisoners, he would move quickly. Instead they coordinate this ratchet effect where they take combined action and then pretend to be completely ineffectual when it is found to be illegal and ordered to be undone.
I suspect much less than 50% actually wanted legal residents of the United States disappeared to El Salvador.

Also, research tells us that it only takes 3.5% to overthrow a government.
Lawyers and doctors aren't undergrads.

Medical research depends heavily on faculty and postgraduate folks.

Only some of their thousands of annual graduates are undergrads - about 1/3 of them, per Wiki.
Republicans Are Floating Plans To Raise the Endowment Tax. Here’s What You Need To Know : https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/11/increasing-endo...

Proposed College Endowment Tax Hike: What to Know : https://thecollegeinvestor.com/52851/proposed-college-endowm...

College endowments are typically tax-exempt, but a 2017 law imposed a 1.4% tax on investment income for a small group of wealthy private universities. A new proposal seeks to increase the endowment tax rate to 14%

Other article:

proposing an 8.6 percent tax hike

When hacking the government rules is used against you.
If anything negative you can say about Israel is equated to antisemitism then Israel gets a free pass. Hamas engaged in terrorism, but Israel's response was out of proportion. Saying that aloud doesn't make one antisemitic. The ICC and UN are not antisemitic organizations for ordering arrest of Netanyahu and condemning Israel's use of excessive force.
Ill settle for agreeing in principle that Harvard should be merit based
Why is it any more necessary to fight "leftists and muslims" than it is to fight righties and MAGAs?

That's the question that the Trump people never seem to acknowledge that the rest of America is asking itself?

What's the difference between muslims bombing whatever and MAGAs shooting up or torching a black church? The rest of us are finding it hard to see the distinction.

In fact, recent events have served to crystalize the dangers posed to the republic by ill considered MAGA policies. And to concentrate minds on the problem of how to extricate ourselves from the crises they have gotten us into in as efficient a manner as possible.

If efficiency is even possible at this point? Maybe "in as minimally painful a manner as possible" is a better way to say it?
>Within such a framework, it should be impossible to disenfranchise people by denying them due process.

Yet, US was systematically disenfranchising people for centuries
Merit-based admission sounds good to me. Harvard is vigorously defending its "right" to continue to deny admissions to highly qualified Asian applicants out of nothing but pure racism, and somehow they are the good guys?
NGINX detects attempts to use http for server blocks configured to handle https traffic and returns an unencrypted http error: "400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port".

Doing anything other than disconnecting or returning an error seems like a bad idea though.
> The rubicon has already been crossed

So when would you consider the US crossed this threshold? Guantanamo Bay? The internment of ethnic Japanese in WW2? The Trail of Tears? Or is there something about the excesses of this particular administration that makes this an unprecedented and irreversible step, if I understand your metaphor correctly?
Jewish Students on campus feel bad*
That's fine. I'm not the one making claims about chatGPTs retention. But assuming they have poor retention is just silly.

Why would OpenAI share their retention numbers for their competitors to know? Nobody outside of silly AI-skeptic HN devs would think they have crappy retention.
> The government, on the other hand, has every right to put conditions its counterparty should conform to in order to get money from the government.

It really doesn't. There are both normal laws and Constitutional restrictions on how the government can make decisions, and the reasons it can have for making those decisions.

I'm very much not an expert here, but this includes restrictions on viewpoint discrimination in funding.
Habeas corpus doesn't seem to be working for Rümeysa Öztürk right now.
I don't understand the FTC's strategy here. Their entire case hinges on the fact that the judge will accept that Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and MeWe (?) are direct competitors of Facebook in the "personal social networking" space while TikTok, YouTube, X, iMessage and all the rest aren't. Unsurprisingly that is what Meta's legal team is spending all of its efforts debating. I really can't see the judge allowing such a cherry-picked definition of what Facebook's market is.
What specifical threat to our nation are they trying to defend against?
If you really believe that then I don't know what to tell you. You've been successfully brainwashed. I hope one day you're able to hold a 5 minutes conversation with an actual student and clear that bullshit out of your head.
It may be the exact opposite. You can't express (at least you shouldn't try to avoid Turing tarpit-like issues) all the desired constraints for your problem domain using just the type system (you need a readable general purpose programming language for that).

If you think your type system is both readable and powerful then why would you need yet another programming language? (Haskell comes to mind as an example of such language--don't know how true it is). The opposite (runtime language used at compile time) may also be successful eg Zig.

Gradual typing in Python provides the best of both worlds: things that are easy to express as types you express as types. On the other hand, you don't need to bend over backwards and refactor half your code just to satisfy your compiler (Rust comes to mind). You can choose the trade off suitable for your project and be dynamic where it is beneficial. Different projects may require a different boundary. There is no size fits all.

P.S. As I understand it, the article itself is about "pragmatism beats purity."
The actual information comes from Microsoft's CVE listing [0]. Allegedly it's to prevent a privilege escalation to SYSTEM via the Windows Update stack.

(From attackers who can already add subdirectories to the system drive, I guess. Though I wonder why Windows Update would even be writing stuff into the inetpub directory in the first place.)

[0] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
FYI habeas corpus has been under attack by GOP administrations for nearly a quarter of a century - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_St...
I don't understand why people get so angry when a compiler points out that their code is broken. Is it better if runs and does the wrong thing instead?
I am confused. Who says credentials only apply to undergrads?
When the guy lifting your TV starts quoting Marx at you, it's not actually an invitation to engage in philosophical discourse, and no amount of sound economic reasoning is getting your TV back.

The Trump administration is not, has not, and will not be arguing in good faith. Stop pretending we're working collaboratively towards a shared future - they're either stealing your television or stealing your neighbor's television, and attempts to interrogate the merits of their television relocation policy aren't shedding any actual light to the situation.
Not sure about Copilot, but the Cursor agent runs both eslint and tsc by default and fixes the errors automatically. You can tell it to run tests too, and whatever other tools. I've had a good experience writing drizzle schemas with it.
FYI apparently the www.* link doesn't actually have the menu for some reason? It's just the world graphic and a blank menu bar.

You need to visit http://thebookofshaders.com/
Instead it will go straight to military contractors, yay!
Maybe I am.

The part of thr article on information theory is more about mathematics than software. I don't deny there could be some generalization there.

The problem I see is that this could slip to measure human actions, which are also source of uncertainty, but although the words fit, in this particular case I think associating it with classical entropy does more harm than good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot

Entropy as described in this article (software entropy), to me, does not fall under the same generalization. It is a looser use of the word. I used it myself several times, but now people are buzzwording entropy all around, and I think that looser use should be retracted to avoid thinking of humans as numbers or particles.
Software engineering has involved a lot of people doing trial-and-error hand-waving for at least a decade. We are now codifying the trend.
the judge you are quoting literally worked in FDR's admin when they were deporting millions of Mexicans, regardless of whether they were born in the US. They didn't get due process
I meant this in the form of the Federal government handing out contracts and funding to private businesses, not state government.
That doesn’t mean they don’t care though. Now this could come from spending time at a company where the executives were only ~3 levels of indirection from devs.
SafeBrowsing uses local database AFAIK.
Chathouse and Ollama
I love that the author clearly describes why saying entropy measures disorder is misleading.
> the more they will accelerate down a path where there is no coming back from.

Why do you say this? At practically every point in history where a government or dictator goes too far, we've come back from it.
You're taking "Human resources" a bit too literally.
My father works for a big pharma company, which means they have to listen to the federal government or risk being shut down by the FDA (which would be easy for Trump to do).

He uses this an excuse for the company's complacency, and by extension, his own. I'm glad to see some institutions take a stand.
> 1,047,576 context window

interesting. They are trying to catch up with Grok and Gemini.
> Except that I don't recall cars produced in Mexico ever getting more affordable.

According to this site[0], new car prices were about 6% higher at the end of NAFTA in 2020 compared with at the start of NAFTA in 1994. Considering inflation on other things was on average much higher and also that more recent cars are significantly safer, more performant, and fuel-efficient—i.e. more provide more value—it does look like cars did effectively get cheaper.

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation
I feel like most people that are using the term deliberately, are doing so based on reasoning close to Umberto Eco's "Ur-fascism" essay: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

If you want something more modern, someone made a tracker: https://www.realtimefascism.com/

The tracker uses "the 14 characteristics of fascism identified by Dr. Lawrence Britt" (which is slightly different): https://osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf
Trystero can do this: https://github.com/dmotz/trystero?tab=readme-ov-file#audio-a...

You'd need to make a UI for it
Well you kind of answered yourself. After limping with Emacs for 19-ish years, during most of which I never made the serious effort you alluded to, I finally admitted I just don't have and don't want to have the mindset that's deemed necessary to make full use of Emacs.

All of my professional experience, which is at this point substantial (though of course I make no claims that quality stems from quantity!), has showed me that smaller specialized tools always perform better -- in every meaning of the word.

To me Neovim wins because it's extremely snappy, it has no visual noise, and doesn't show me a warning from a random plugin down there in the command bar almost every minute (something which Emacs apparently will always do). And is configurable in a way I find intuitive. I never cared about all the directories where I am supposed to install my own Elisp files, and I still don't. I want a plugin manager and I want to issue commands to it: install, update, delete. Neovim's Lazy and Mason do exactly what I expect.

I was never, in almost two decades, able to look at how Emacs does things and think to myself "oh but of course it will work like that".

So no, I haven't used Emacs for anything except coding. And I don't intend to use Neovim for anything else as well (with the possible exception of lazygit integration, that one works great). Though I am also working towards having everything except my web browsers be in the terminal.

Again, many will say "skill issue" or "it's just not for you" (the smarter ones). Which, again again, I never denied. But I don't plan to mince words and I am tired of the (to me) unjustified praise for Emacs. It absolutely is not, not just for everyone, but not for most even, IMO.

If you have tamed it and find it intuitive, I am sure it empowers you. I never got to that point and I regret trying to fit in for such an extremely long time. But oh well, we live and learn. We live for sure. :)
The fact that people were obtaining it from sources intended for horses is mostly unrelated to the fact that it is not effective as a Covid treatment for people who don’t have some other parasite in addition to Covid.

I don’t think calling it a horse dewormer is helpful, despite the fact that people were obtaining it from people who were selling it for the treatment of horses. People who (wrongly) think it works as treatment for covid will probably be aware that it is not exclusively a treatment for horses, so I don’t think calling it a horse dewormer will change any of their minds.

Even if it did, I am uncomfortable relying on misleading people in order to convince them of something true. (If someone believes X, and X is false, and you want to convince them of a true statement Z, then it is fine to say “X is false, but, I know you believe that X. Y is true, and X and Y together clearly imply Z. Therefore you should conclude Z.” (Assuming Y is true.) That’s not misleading someone. It is something different.)

It seems like allowing oneself to mislead, even if only when the misleading statements are sorta true in a sense, just not in the way they will be interpreted, in order to convince someone of something that is true, is rather dangerous. If such behavior were universalized, I think it would be rather bad for collective understanding. (What if someone U is trying to convince someone V of some statement P which U only believe is true because someone W misled U in to believe P in order to convince U of some other statement Q that is true, and then U says something misleading to V (leading V to believe a false statement R) in order to convince V that P ? Not good.)
There's definitely a conversation we can have about the cost and accessibility of higher education in this country. I don't think that conversation should include an administration that is unilaterally and arbitrarily canceling international student visas, threatening to withhold research funding that was already allocated by congress, and turning back foreign scientists at the border for things they said in private conversation that the government only knows about after a warrantless search.
Karma sharing would be huge. That's a great idea and I think would increase the overall quality of links a lot. At least worth a shot.