skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weirdly, Amazon had far more compassion than Google here. When my role got eliminated at Amazon, I got an email at 5am PT to my personal email telling me that my role was eliminated. It also told me what I would still have access to, and how to access them from the outside.

Crucially, it said that I would still have limited corp access until 1pm, and then told me which things I still had access to.

I got on my work machine, and found that all of my previous emails had been erased (or at least blocked from my view), so I couldn't download an email archive or otherwise see anything. I also couldn't send emails externally anymore. Most of my systems access had been cut off where I could have downloaded or exported anything "secret" as per the email.

But they did let me send emails internally. I still had slack access to affinity groups. So I was able to shoot off a bunch of goodbye emails and slack messages.

And true to their word, at 1pm, my laptop rebooted and I was then locked out. But at least I got to say goodbye and share my personal email and linkedin with a bunch of people, and they were able to send me "so sorry to see you go" replies, which was nice.
Anyone who uses such a thing to "communicate" with mom & pop fully deserves to be disowned. This is even worse than just not calling at all.. Grotesque
While this is true, I would say that your advice only applies if you have experience with other web frameworks from other languages. If you’re coming at it blind to any sort of web development, the features afforded to you by a web framework are really useful and helpful to understand.

For example, imagine someone who had never really thought about routing in a definitions file versus file based versus annotations. Three valid use cases that might not exist if if you have a background in something like hardware or if you come from a non-programming discipline.

If you do have that experience, you can rebuild almost any affordance in PHP at this point and it purely comes down to personal preference and how you like to write and design with code.
Well, okay, but I'm certainly not an expert who knows the fine differences between all the models available on chat.com. So I'm somewhere between your definition of "layman" and your definition of "expert" (as are, I suspect, most people on this forum).
The better the benchmarks, the worse the model is. Subjectively for me the more advanced models dont follow instructions, and are less capable of implementing features or building stuff. I could not tell a difference in blind testing SOTA models gemini, claude, openai, deepseek. There has been no major improvements in the LLM space since the original models gained popularity. Each release claims to be much better the last, and every time i have been disappointed and think this is worse.

First it was the models stopped putting in effort and felt lazy, tell it to do something and it will tell you to do it your self. Now its the opposite and the models go ham changing everything they see, instead of changing one line, SOTA models rather rewrite the whole project and still not fix the issue.

Two years back I totally thought these models are amazing. I always would test out the newest models and would get hyped up about it. Every problem i had i thought if i just prompt it differently I can get it to solve this. Often times i have spent hours prompting starting new chats, adding more context. Now i realize its kinda useless and its better to just accept the models where they are, rather then try and make them a one stop shop, or try to stretch capabilities.

I think this release I won’t even test it out, im not interested anymore. I’ll probably just continue using deepseek free, and gemini free. I canceled my openai subscription like 6 months ago, and canceled claude after 3.7 disappointment.
Oh wow this is super nice I'll definitely be using this
"You must disband these groups, including the National Lawyer's Guild student group. In addition, you must discipline officers and members of these groups, and you must make them ineligible to join any other student group."

Sorry, I'll take "holier than thou" institutions over government-mandated "these student groups are acceptable and these are not".

"You must ban all masks and have penalties no less than suspension for any violation".

Oh yes, look at these ethical high ground ivory tower types...
Also, didn't Deepseek demonstrate that enormous compute is not a pre-requisite? All these analyses completely ignore the possibility of a breakthrough in the technology that drives costs down by orders of magnitude.
As a consumer you care about speed tho, and GPT-4.5 is extremely slow, at this point just use a reasoning model if you want the best of the best.
Study: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S03605442250011... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.134473
It seems like the government has a soft Monopsony. There are many universities willing to sell research, but the government is the biggest buyer and controls the research grant market
In the name of "fighting antisemitism"?

It's true, though. It's a convenient tool. "What do you mean you don't want to cede control to us? Don't you want to fight antisemitism?!"
The vast numbers of people online who have been very public about how much they use ChatGPT.
This is absurd. What you want for any critical system are human interpretable rules which tell the operators how the system is currently functioning. Gathering that information is obviously useful, but if the human staff isn't constantly interpreting it, something is going very wrong.

I can not imagine this AI ever having any use, personell failures will not be mitigated by an LLM and routine operations need to be human supervised.

LLMs are not useful here, they are useful if the rules making up a system can not be formalized and you need statistical methods to extract information.
Can confirm as well, was laid off from Microsoft in 2023, and I kept access for about a week and a half (and then was paid for an additional 60 days after that, but no longer had access to anything, this was just the WARN period).
Is 4.5 not strictly better than 4o?
I2C is fine for sensors and other low-bandwidth devices, but inappropriate for displays and other high-bandwidth devices.

When used with those kits, you'd use the QWIIC/whatever connector for all the sensors and other low-bandwidth things like I2C is meant for, while the display would be connected with SPI.

(I2C isn't more plug and play than SPI though, and a preterminated plug shouldn't be a big deal.)
There is more than one pension -- one for old age (which the government is paying) and another from the company plan. The usual trick is to also pay out mortgage by this time, sell the house to buy something smaller and enjoy your life somewhere in a sunny place.
I thought more emphasis should have been given to DJB.

The article does mention that he created the ChaCha20 algorithm, and that he first characterized the timing side channel attack, but his extremely small, simple and fast source libraries are publicly available.

They are fully self contained, no dependencies, and small enough to easily include in small-ish embedded systems:

https://nacl.cr.yp.to/

Elliptic curve vulnerability to quantum computing is discussed here:

https://pqcrypto.org/

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a crypto expert, just an occasional user

DJB has been at the forefront of advancing crypto for decades, and has a very strong emphasis on simplicity and security. Any article on the subject really should reference his original source pages:

http://cr.yp.to/

I've always been a fan of "the DJB way", which is a very simple method of initializing and managing unix type systems. The voidlinux distro roughly follows these principles today.
Periodically I keep trying these coding models in Copilot and I have yet to have an experience where it produced working code with a pretty straightforward TypeScript codebase. Specifically, it cannot for the life of it produce working Drizzle code. It will hallucinate methods that don't exist despite throwing bright red type errors. Does it even check for TS errors?
It wouldn't. The consumer would need to know to expect a date as a string and parse it.
Will Peak Demand Roil Global Oil Markets?
Scathing, and wonderfully so.
With their endowment above $50 billion, combined with Federal plus Non-Federal sponsored revenue at 16% of operating budget, it makes sense to me they just forgo Federal funds and operate independently.

If all 16% is canceled, then they'd need to draw an additional $1 billion per year from endowment at current budget levels.

That would put them above 7% draw so potentially unsustainable for perpetuity, historically they've averaged 11% returns though, so if past performance is a predictor of future, they can cover 100% of Federal gap and still grow the endowment annually with no new donations.
Seems like it would be easy for those countries to get around the ban
> I specifically DON'T want to have a window that shows all my other open files.

There are multiple different ways of separating project/workspace/etc. contexts in Emacs - tab-bar mode, persp.el, etc.
This is the only correct response, but I don't think I'm being overly cynical in thinking they're being opportunistic either.

They're quite happy to turn a blind eye to unfashionable political views being silenced, so there's a pinch of hypocrisy in making such a show of standing for openness.

All in all though, I'm happy to see this.
"the folder is created as part of a security fix"

Just like removing the ability to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account is "security", right?
The mode wasn't added after the announcement, Aider has had it for almost a year: https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html#aider-v0320

This benchmark has an authoritative source of results (the leaderboard), so it seems obvious that it's the number that should be used.
I remember a few years back when it seemed anyone who (1) had a pulse and (2) had rumors circulating that they might be a software developer got a contact from an AMZN recruiter about once a month if not sooner. It was frequent to have somebody complain on HN about how they could not get an interview with FAANG and I'd say "you really haven't gotten interviews with AMZN" and of course they were getting interviews with AMZN.
Laughs in 150 EUR per month of basis zorgverzekering from the bottom of the sea
cd /some/dir && python -m http.server 8080
Even if Harvard wanted to comply with the government letter, it's full of so many non-sequiturs and self-conflictions that it reads more like a piece of satire:

> The University must immediately shutter all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices, committees, positions, and initiatives, under whatever name, and stop all DEI-based policies, including DEI-based disciplinary or speech control policies, under whatever name

> 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

> In particular, Harvard must end support and recognition of those student groups or clubs that engaged in anti-Semitic activity since October 7th, 2023

> Discipline at Harvard must include immediate intervention and stoppage of disruptions or deplatforming, including by the Harvard police when necessary to stop a disruption or deplatforming

The letter is a complete joke. Giving it any sort of compliance would be giving validation to a set of rules that are literally impossible to follow by design. There is literally nothing Harvard could do to not be in trouble later.

Also buried in the letter is this gem:

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

Keep in mind Harvard also runs a medical school!

This is Maoist-style social reform through and through.
Good. I think Harvard has faltered a bit recently with academic integrity scandals, but they are still well-respected overall. Them standing up for students is an important signal to other less high-profile schools that they can do the same.
Correct. They've mentioned the name during the live announcement - https://www.youtube.com/live/kA-P9ood-cE?si=GYosi4FtX1YSAujE...
thanks for explaining, and that makes sense!
Facebook's attempt to broaden my social circles consists of showing me reels even though I keep clicking the button saying "don't show me reels", a list of people it thinks I might know but usually don't, and adverts every third post for things which are often not available in my country or for my gender.

--

Half the real content is promoted messages from groups such as "U.S. Naval Institue" and "KentLive".

The remaining posts are 80% from only one person I actually know, and their posts are mostly pro-Palesteine or blaming the Democrats for Trump.

I am a British citizen and live in Berlin.

--

I can definitely blame Facebook for giving me an experience on par with my attempt to run a phpBB forum in the late 2000s only to find it got no real users and a lot of spammers.
While you are completely right about the impossible/conflicting legal standards here, this is not an unusual state of things. For example: it has been illegal to discriminate for a very long time, but it has also been de facto illegal to have demographic compositions substantially different from the general population. So, they've always been faced with the problem of needing to either discriminate to get the numbers to match, or not discriminating and risking the numbers falling out of line. The real law has always been, and always will be, prosecutorial discretion. Whatever party is in control will choose whether they go after you or not, and they can because you're always violating one side of something.
How do we explain things like plasma and UV to anyone?
" Initially, Stevens spoke with a dry tone, like you might expect from a generic Apple or Google product. But it turned out it was just more fun to have the assistant speak like a formal butler. "

Honestly, saying way too little with way too much words (I already hate myself for it) is one of the biggest annoyances I have with LLM's in the personal assistant world.
Until I'm rich and thus can spend the time having cute conversations and become friends with my voice assistant, I don't want J.A.R.V.I.S., I need LCARS.
Am I alone in this?
It is far from universally accepted that 'the current interpretation of diversity is of outward characteristics, not points of view'. In fact, I would be surprised if anyone who favors DEI aggrees with that statement.

Moreover, the actual interpretation of most proponents of diversity is very much that we desire a diversity of views, which it wants to get through getting a diversity of backgrounds.
That is, of course, not the only reason behind DEI. There is also the fact that it is fair to allow people of all backgrounds the same opportunity.
Where do you find ethanol-free gasoline? I haven't seen that in decades.
> actual moral fiber.

Maybe? Or maybe they realize that they will lose all future credibility with students, government and NGO's if they bow to the conservative & Christian right?

There are two outcomes for the the current American government situation - a slide in to authoritarianism (it's right there in Project 2025), or these wackjobs get voted out because they are destroying global financial stability.

If it's the former, Harvard eventually has to cave because literal Nazi's.

If it's the latter, Harvard is screwed if they capitulate.
codebases of high quality open source projects and their major dependencies are probably another good source. also: "transformative fair use", not "stolen"
You do seem expert in all research fields. You can do on your own.
NCATS and other NIH data resource teams were heavily affected or completely dismantled during the latest reductions in force (RIFs). Getting data from certain areas inside HHS will be difficult to impossible for the foreseeable future.
>3. Testimony before Congress that equated opposition to war crimes to antisemitism [4].

Can you link to a specific line of testimony that supports this allegation? "war crimes" isn't even mentioned in the article. Far too often claims like this devolve into a game of strawman/motte-and-bailey, where each side tries to paint their position as maximally charitable, and accuse the other side of rejecting the maximally charitable position.
> The Federal government has always attached conditions in exchange for Federal funding and Federal contracts. This is not dictating.

It effectively is. Just look up the history of the drinking age - a classic example of the federal government using extortion tactics to override state rights.
Show HN: ChatGPT sucks, so I built Zarin to access 200 AI models
I also use this! like I wanted a backup of my device once to my phones when my system was messed up.

and I used this. Though I would prefer a way to keep it downloading from where it left because this method ISNT reliable for 40 gigs transfer

I am also wondering about this comment in the gist which was linked (gist.github.com/willurd/5720255)
by olejorgenb which is

Limiting request to a certain interface (eg.: do not allow request from the network)

python -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1

Like what does that really do? Maybe its also nice, IDK?
you're stating that vacation planning is 90% of the pleasure as a truism???
If this was aimed at fighting China, Trump wouldn't be tariffing 99% of the rest of the world.

China has the upper hand because USA has turned against all its allies and countries will favor trade deals with the country which is not tariffing them. China will form stronger trade coalitions with the Japan/Korea/Europe and leave America to cannibalize itself.
I had plans to try the same, but with Python background and having never touched any lispy languages or any macros I found the Janet for Mortals book surprisingly difficult to follow and gave up.
As information, the current administration is doing similar demands to foreign universities, trying to impose the point of view of the world in a president we didn't vote for.

Here is an article about the Trump administration demands to our universities.

https://www-publico-pt.translate.goog/2025/04/11/ciencia/not...
They don't. This is the federal government threatening to withhold payment for research they commissioned.
> I'd guess bad-to-good ratio is at least 10 to 1. Should we fix that?

Should we fix... what? Your unsubstantiated claim? You didn't even bother to do napkin math about it, you just asked a bunch of leading questions and then claimed inaction by the masses.
I hope everyone is ready for a general strike because that time is coming up at us rapidly.
Just consider the tax-exempt status as an indirect subsidy for research and education. I think its ROI is much higher than from any other way the government could use the uncollected amount.
I was hoping to hear how are php types better than TS instead of another rant about how Rust is the greatest. Anyone?

By the way, having lived in Scala 2 for a few years, Rust is half-assed. Type system leaks through the fingers when working with async collections. Future.sequence from Scala makes great cli apps. Scala collections are a work horse. The only thing from Rust I like is the shorthand question mark return (compiler magic for Result type).
No I don't. Do you?
I feel like this is one way to implement censorship.
> Harvard has a 50 billion endowment, what do they need federal funds for. If they value their intellectual independence so much, then cut the cord.

I agree. Gulf monarchies will probably come in a give even more billions to these institutions anyway to make up for the losses. No strings attached of course...

Harvard probably already secured some more funding from Qatar and what not.
It seems like the big tent entertainment projects bringing people from various echo chambers have ended temporarily. 2019 was the release of Avengers Endgame and Star Wars Episode 9. I don't think the subsequent releases in those franchises were nearly as good at bringing in a wide audience
SEC approves Green Impact Exchange as new national securities exchange [pdf]
references for all the above + added more notes here on pricing https://x.com/swyx/status/1911849229188022278

and we'll be publishing our 4.1 pod later today https://www.youtube.com/@latentspacepod
Two points here:

Linked lists are useful in unsafe code. Most recent use case I had for them was in an event loop with coroutines. It's not possible to implement such thing in memory safe languages. For example if you use Rust, you have to use unsafe [1].

@fieldParentPtr does not yet have safety but it is a planned upcoming change to the language, with a fairly straightforward implementation [2].

[1]: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atokio-rs%2Ftokio%20unsafe...

[2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2414
Yeah, seriously, unless I'm missing something if the Supreme Court unanimously checked him on this and he said "LOL, no, get wrecked" then, what? Like, that's the ball game. Total authoritarian power checkmate, right?

I really hope I'm missing something here.
> I still view Neovim as a huge improvement

Neovim unlike Emacs is an editor. Emacs is not a mere code editor, not an IDE, text-processor, or web-browser. Emacs first and foremost is a Lisp REPL, with a built-in text-editor. Without deeply understanding that aspect one can never truly appreciate the incredible power it grants you.

Do you use your editor to read and annotate pdfs? Or watch videos? Or manage the library of your ebooks? Or track your expenses? Or control project management like Jira? Or keep your knowledge base and note-taking? Or interact with LLMs? Or explore APIs like Postman? Or keep your spaced repetition flash cards like Anki? Or use it for chat over platforms like Telegram and Slack? Or find and read RFCs and manpages? Or to perform web-search, search through your browser history, Wikipedia. Do you have etymology lookup, thesaurus, dictionaries, translation? Or to order pizza? Or measure distances between coordinates on a map? Automate things based on solar calendar or moon phases? Manage all your configs, aka dotfiles? OCR images with text? List, browse and code review Pull Requests, etc., etc.

In what sense exactly is Neovim/VSCode/IntelliJ/whatever is a "huge improvement", please tell us?
The point of no return is Trump getting a third term. The parallels are strong there.

I was just thinking this morning that we very much needed the USA's help fighting Nazi Germany, but who will we turn to when we're fighting fascists coming from the East _and_ West? (Russia and the USA)
Risk assessment report relating to Psilocybin [pdf]
Importantly, the Civil Rights Act is a (well-litigated) law, not an ad hoc decree from the executive branch. If the current administration wants to strong arm universities, they should go through Congress.
That is exactly the feature we are using, right now you need to be on a beta release of containerd but before long it should be pretty widespread.
In combination with lazy pull (eStargz) it's a pretty compelling implementation.
The mask obsession these people still have is just amazing. So angry at being told to wear a mask during a pandemic that they want to ban anyone else from doing it now. I would expect better behavior from a toddler.
Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year
I don't think most people would consider "You can't discriminate based on race", to be extortionary. Instead, its a well accepted principle in most of society.