skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am misquoting a famous quote so pardon me but "a revolution is three meals away."

Funnily enough, I was looking at this saying recently.
There are several variations so it's hard to find the "one true version".

The canonical version is more likely: "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. " - Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Lewis

Implying that roughly three days of total breakdown of essential systems would cause societal breakdown. One day wouldn't do it, but it wouldn't last a week.

Is it true? That's not for me to say, and lets not run the experiment. The versions where the quote is "three meals" and the version where Lenin or Stalin said it don't appear to be accurate.
Svelte 5 is the antidote to vibe coding.
> mild criticism

It's not though. It's either being obtuse or outright silly. How exactly does "decolonisation" figure in any of the things they said?

> average UK citizens do benefit in some way from their colonial past.

Even if they do, which is debatable (i.e. it's not clear they benefit more from it than people living in other European countries which didn't have extensive colonial empires) what does this have to with nonsensical subjects being taught in universities?
Depends on what you mean by anti-Zionism. It's not a natural congregation point -- even those that don't think Israel should exist don't generally call themselves anti-Zionist. As a label from the outside, it's thus very flexible. A lot of mere criticisms of Israeli actions gets labeled anti-Zionist.
What motivates the commercial AI companies to share their research results and know-how?

Why did Google published the Transformer architecture instead of keeping it to themselves?

I understand that people may want to do good things for humanity, facilitate progress, etc. But if an action goes against commercial interest, how can the company management take it and not get objections from shareholders?

Or there is a commercial logic that motivates sharing of information and intellectual property? What logic is that?
The point you're trying to make is meaningless. You're trying to compare two things of distinct categories. It's as if I said - "I like Zoom, we sometime use it for screen recordings", and someone replied: "I've moved away from Zoom for my screen recordings - OBS is such a huge improvement over it..."

I don't care what editor you use or like or moved on to. I use Neovim myself. But like I said, Emacs is not just an editor. Come back when you find a better replacement for a "Lisp REPL with a built-in editor", maybe then, the conversation start making sense.
I didn't say anything about Google.
Or, you know, they could follow the bullet points in the government's letter:

- foster scholarship over activism

- hire based on merit, and review potential employees for plagiarism issues

- admit students based on the merit of the candidate

- not admit foreign students hostile to values in the U.S. Constitution, openly espousing anti-semitism, or supporting terrorism

- abolish ideological litmus tests for faculty, provide a diversity of viewpoints to students

- adopt policies for student discipline that disrupt scholarship and normal campus activities including allowing campus police to enforce these rules

- implement whistleblower protections

- disclose foreign funding

Taxpayer money comes with strings attached. Be good enough to deserve it.

Not sure about the mask ban... Is that about mask wearing during protests?

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...
Do any of these watermark removal systems support simple "training" on multiple images with identical watermarks? Having multiple example images with consistent watermarks should make removing watermarks much easier than trying to remove one with no context.

I haven't found a tool that implements the techniques described in this Google paper from 8 years ago: https://watermark-cvpr17.github.io/
SJP for example. That's why Khalil and others are deported.
LVGL works better on slow displays with internal video memory if you minimize the vertical height of widgets. That allows the library to update smaller strips of the display as widgets are redrawn.
fascinating. I thought the meme was that FAANG tech workers were all day and lazy and didn't have to work that hard and were grossly overpaid, but that's as much a stereotype as the next one.
If it’s related to the task at hand, I create a comment block inside the ‘main’ file. Sometimes the comments are spread out so I make sure not to commit them to git which is easy because I’m a GUI using heretic. Sometimes I even have a single commit that contains all the comments with a simple DELETE ME commit message. I simply move the comments up to HEAD and append new comments to it where necessary.

Otherwise I send myself a DM in slack.

I actually use slack self-DM for all sorts of notes and TODOs. They’re available on multiple devices, they have an amazing preview functionality for files and urls, they accept markdown to a degree, they’re still around when the power goes out, etc.

For something more long term like a journal, I use Bear.app.
What is the killer feature that will make me want to switch from Docker Compose to Podman Quadlets?
TBF Skype wasn't profitable when MS bought it, it every much was in the line of make something everyone wants to use and figure out how to make money later. Skype was more or less free to use and it didn't make enough from paid services to cover its operating costs if I remember correctly. So it was always someone buys it or it dies.

The point of many of those companies is to get bought out and then get enshitified or stripped for its IP and integrated into for profit products.

Discord is very much in the same boat of build user base, then either sell or lock people in and charge a lot. It's current model is unsustainable. It will get bought out or enshitify eventually, there's no other sustainable model unless every user starts handing them money every month like its Netflix.

People here used to know this, are we getting an eternal September? Comments are getting more and more "reddit" like.
I mean it's not much more unreasonable then the argument that iphones and android phones don't compete but courts bought that.
First of all, the proportional response should be delivered directly to the source: Iran. There are lots of bad guys in Gaza, but there are lots of innocent people too. Indiscriminately killing everyone is not the solution.
> The points "Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring" and "Discontinuation of DEI" seem inconsistent. Enforcing "viewpoint diversity" is a DEI practice in all but name. Actually, it is even in the name. Also with the merit-based stuff, of course. What if people of merit skew towards certain viewpoints? Then hiring/admissions won't be merit based after all?

"Diversity" in the intersectional jargon means "less white 'cis' straight people", it has absolutely nothing to do with diversity of opinion, since it's the very implementation of intersectionality, a far left orthodoxy.

What is remarkable is that you don't even realize this, which is a perfect example of double speak. Same for "safe space", people want to be physically safe right? No, it just means spaces void of anything but intersectional orthodoxy.

I usually try to stay clear of 'culture war' issues on HN, however, I don't like being flagged for telling things they really are. These groups like to present a public front, but the moment they are between themselves the real stuff is going down. All that newspeak exists only for plausible deniability purposes and needs to be exposed.
Well I obviously don't believe they are committing genocide.

If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why are there more Gazans alive today than this time two years ago? Israel could turn Gaza into a parking lot overnight; why didn't they?
I think the intent is to reduce the politically leftward trend in universities, as well as the fact that not all viewpoints are presented anymore. Universities used to be billed as a "marketplace of ideas".

Also, the hermeneutics used for interpreting literature on the fringes in the 1980s are now mainstream -- students aren't learning the methods of interpretation used everywhere in the west up until the turn of the century.
> Is there anything they could say or do to make their opinion worth listening to?

That’s the thing, I didn’t say their opinion isn’t worth listening to or consideration in general. Acknowledging bias isn’t the same as discarding opinion.
Unless you're speaking about the high overhead rates, that's really the wrong framing. The public funds at issue are buying things like research, or hospital services.
I didn't say I was ok with anything, don't put words in my mouth. I was asking why the thing that has always existed is a big issue now. For this administration specifically, the thing that has always existed wasn't an issue that demanded these actions the last time they were in office, just 4 short years ago. See what I'm pointing out? There are other reasons that things are being done.
Harvard can do whatever they want. They can also not get taxpayer funding for it.
https://youtu.be/cvVBY4QuA5w

I hope Mark issues a public statement that he is dropping his emergency arbitration against her and will allow her book to Publish. I get why he did it, but it didn't work and now it is hurting more than helping. There is no such thing as Bad PR --but an open wound is a different story. (I am on his side in that I don't neurotically hold people accountable for being dbags back in their 20s and early 30s when they aren't that person anymore...google for "brain development at 30" to see why.)

PS: Was at a startup that was wiped out by Instagram 4.3. This was after Mr. SnapEgo reportedly turned down a cool $1B and McAfee's lost son snapped up the technically troubled Vine (that Mr. FootInHisMouth should probably retool and rebrand as "X Prime").
For massive video distribution, getting acquired by a company with "infinite bandwidth" is the sustainable approach.

Orchestrating p2p realtime video distribution is going to have a lot of problems, and spend VC money until someone acquires you is just a lot easier.

Here's a small list of challenges you'd face:

You'll need to have a pretty good distribution network to handle users who just can't manage to p2p connect.

Figuring out the right amount of user's bandwidth you can use without people getting upset; there's a lot of internet accounts with bandwidth quotas, especially for mobile

Trying to arrange so that users connect to users with the least transmission delays would be needed to reduce overall latency. Between cross oceanic connections having unavoidable latency, the potential of buffer bloat, and having a reasonable jitter buffer, pretty soon you have wild delays and potential rebuffering.

Bandwidth constraints / layer switching is going to be a big challenge; it's one thing when your server can just push the best stream the client can manage, but if you're streaming from a peer and the stream is too big, the peer probably doesn't have a smaller stream to switch to and there's no good way to know if where the bandwidth constraint is ... maybe you should switch to the same stream from someone else or maybe you should switch to a smaller stream. Can you get even packets from one peer and odd packets from another ... should you?
A federal judge recognized the imprisonment service agreement in trade for money.

That's a contract.

You can semantic-smith all you want that a memo cannot present the contract. A contract can be referenced without there being some big document that says 'contract' on it. Everyone else but you knows what it is. Whatever you reply next will just be word-garbage to try and refute that. Judges in this case aren't buying it, and they aren't buying your case that informal arrangements are nothing but memos.
The submitted article was about Google…
Well in most cases you just ate your competition, so there's not a whole lot to care about.

The hardest part of competing with encumbants, especially when it comes to stuff like social media and IM, is acquiring users, due to those coveted network effects. When you look at what happened with Discord, it was able to swoop in when there was somewhat of a vacuum building with Microsoft-owned Skype being completely shit, MSN and AIM falling way out of fashion, and IRC... continuing to be IRC. Then they took advantage of something relatively new; they could lower the barrier to entry. Most existing IM networks required you to download a client to really use it, but Discord, just being a web app, you could log in from a browser and get the full experience. And if you needed to jump in quickly, you could literally just enter a name and start using it immediately, at least in the early days.

That doesn't happen often. What usually happens is the company that acquires the software makes use of the asset they actually care about (the users they just paid for) and now they don't have to do all of that hard work of actually acquiring the users by making a better product and marketing it. (Nevermind that they're almost certainly better-resourced to do that than the company that they are acquiring.) A large minority of users are very unhappy with the enshittification of the service, but most users don't really care much since they are pretty casual and a lot of them may not have even known things to be much better anyways. Microsoft squandering Skype seems to be the result of a lot of things at once, ranging from incompetence to the complexity that the P2P nature of Skype brought with it (at least early on.)

For example, look at Twitter. Elon Musk could do basically anything wrong but it has such a long history and so many users that it really is hard to squander it entirely, even after making many grossly unpopular moves. Don't get me wrong, Mastodon and Bluesky are doing fine, and it's also fine that neither of them are likely to ever really take over the number one spot in their niche; they still function just fine. But Twitter will always be the place where basically everything happens among them, even if the people who care the most absolutely hate the shit out of it.

I wish more acquisitions did go like Skype, only much faster.
When I said binary JSON I didn’t mean literal JSON. I meant “common denominator interchange format”. It’s too chatty by far and has dismal performance for queries. So you’re better off asking a specific question and getting a larger document that could answer many questions that you do t yet have. For CDNs things like this matter a lot.
So at a higher level it sounds like you use the google workspace to distribute a browser extension to everyone in the workspace without their awareness, and the you monitor all sites they visit, recording only those sites that match your SaaS candidates list.
I agree the democrats have terrible messaging, but what would really help 'regular' Americans is universal healthcare, free education, and maybe even UBI. As departments get DOGE'd a lot of 'regular' Americans are starting to find out where a lot of federal money goes, to those rural parts of the country.

And let's be honest. The force 'driving people away from the democrats' is the propaganda network known as Fox News.
I think it's also important to point out the auditing and spying the government is asking the universities to comply with including the whistle blower section and things like - "report all requested immigration and related
information to the United States Department of Homeland Security".

It appears that because it's easier to bully, punish and disappear individuals than an institution the Trump administration is doing everything it can to find out who these individuals are so they can be targeted.
> what does this have to with nonsensical subjects being taught in universities

Since we’re bringing it back onto topic, has any university ever ran a “decolonised maths” program? What would that look like?
> It is straightforward to write a fast parser generator for languages that require just one character of lookahead...

Then you get VHDL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15017974

You need (at least an approximation to) the symbol table for correct lexing.

Or Postgres/MariaDB's SQL with the the DELIMITER statement that can change semicolon to something else.
Presumably they could go to a large bank and make a deal so that they only have to take a relatively small haircut by getting a loan to be paid back from endowment interest.
I really didn't intend that as an insult! I just find it very easy to distinguish between a case where someone followed reasonable rules and got an outcome they didn't like, versus a case where someone found absurd rules - clearly not intended by anyone - and exploited them for an undeserved gain.

If you see a case where someone exploits a badly-coded computer program to take a hundred million dollars from someone, refuses to return any of it (even when offered several million dollars for their trouble), refuses to co-operate with the judges and the rest of civilised society, and just see "waa waa baby doesn't like his medicine" then I don't see how to actually reason with you. That's just a value difference, not really an insult.
Okay, it's common across other industries, but not this one. Here is Google, Facebook, and Anthropic comparing their frontier models to others[1][2][3].

[1] https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-...

[2] https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

[3] https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet
Route wise, did you deviate at all from the suggested route? Never felt the call of a fork in the road? I find value in small roads (less traffic) where feasible. Basically riding with wildlife rather than cars.

Rhythm wise, super surprised you did the whole thing without stopping! I used to do a half day (pre-dawn to late morning) then chillax at a place and explore. This gave time to recover, take in the area, balance cycling with walking, and time to maybe wash some clothes which means carrying less. Rest days can be best days. That's totally nuts you did the whole thing without stopping!

I'd be sketchy on those Utah areas too - no shade! Probably would have camped out at the lookout there, etc. Of course, not feasible if you're running out of water.

I'm getting old now (43) but have to mention one thing I never properly appreciated in my earlier travels and regret missing was the biology. iNaturalist is friggin' awesome. It has never been easier to get in to biology, and it adds a deeply fascinating dimension to travel. Looking at those instant pot meals, foraging would be one application!

Re. Diet, I was veg when I did most of my cycle trips too. Used to acquire bags of raw husked peanuts as easy protein. On later trips (Romania) deeply appreciated eating a steak!

So... any ideas for next trip? Europe? New Zealand? Around Australia? Back across Canada from "Europe"? https://maps.app.goo.gl/URwtvz9wxWHWYEb18

Good luck, don't be afraid to slow down, and keep it up. Once you have kids it becomes difficult to continue.
Re: endowments, really good post on why universities can't just tap into endowments for budget shortfalls:

https://medium.com/@myassa_62896/why-you-cant-just-use-the-e...
Out of curiosity, what do you work on where you don’t have to experiment with different solutions to see what works best?
> Every company that buys another company buys it because it adds something to their business.

The point is that they didn't acquire those companies to add to their business, they acquired them because their continued independent existence detracted from their business. Also known as competition.
Personally, I always liked things that never had an "acquire users" phase, or VC funding, but those things are less shiny (and frankly, less user-friendly.)
Well you do have a point. It would be absurd. Just like the opposite. Both decolonizing and "further" colonizing maths makes no sense and is a waste of time at best...
I think what I had seen before was replacing the http variant of the "bad request" page with a redirect to the HTTPS base URL something akin to https://serverfault.com/a/1063031. Looking at it now this is probably more "hacky" than it'd be worth and, as you note, probably comes with some security risks (though for a local development app like this maybe that's acceptable just as using plain HTTP otherwise is), so it does sense that's not an included feature after all.
Post-acquisition products can still dominate their market even if they have declining quality. E.g. they can be bundled with other offerings from the parent company. This is exactly the point of anti-trust.
Can you expand on this?

What is SJP? What student did they attack based on ethnicity? Can you send any links?
Anyone making claims with a horizon beyond two months about structure or capabilities will be wrong - it's sama's job to show confidence and vision and calm stakeholders, but if you're paying attention to the field, the release and research cycles are still contracting, with no sense of slowing any time soon. I've followed AI research daily since GPT-2, the momentum is incredible, and even if the industry sticks with transformers, there are years left of low hanging fruit and incremental improvements before things start slowing.

There doesn't appear to be anything that these AI models cannot do, in principle, given sufficient data and compute. They've figured out multimodality and complex integration, self play for arbitrary domains, and lots of high-cost longer term paradigms that will push capabilities forwards for at least 2 decades in conjunction with Moore's law.

Things are going to continue getting better, faster, and weirder. If someone is making confident predictions beyond those claims, it's probably their job.
> Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity; every teaching unit found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will provide viewpoint diversity.

Insane

> Harvard must implement a comprehensive mask ban with serious and immediate penalties for violation, not less than suspension.

Insane

> reducing the power held by faculty (whether tenured or untenured) and administrators more committed to activism than scholarship

Is even insane if you think about it for two seconds; nobody wants the government deciding what counts as activism and what counts as "real" scholarship. A good heuristic: do any of the proponents want a Bernie Sanders or AOC wielding this authority?
That's the point. Big tech kissed Trump's arse in the hopes that he would end the antitrust investigations. Meta literally bribed him to do so. Now Trump is just doubling down on them.
i've recently set claude 3.7 as the default option for customers when they start new chats in my app. this was a recent change, and i'm feeling good about it. supporting multiple providers can be a nightmare for customer service, especially when it comes to billing and handling response quality queries. with so many choices from just one provider, it simplifies things significantly. curious about how openai manages customer service internally.
This is a civil trial, not criminal. There is no way to find a defendant "guilty".
In my explanation, if the particles trajectory can change, you can see how gravity affects distortion of space. Its not really that the space is some sort of entity that is being distorted, its the concept of measuring what you define as distance gets influenced by how these particles fly about.
Who Owns SpaceX?