skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, and they have likely been accelerating the arrangements they already had for a while now. At the same time however, getting 50 billion in assets into various European jurisdictions is not at all easy. I'd estimate Trump could cut off 70-90 percent of what Harvard has to work with.

Alumni will need to come through for continuing operations if the worst does happen. And I'm certain Harvard has put some thought into that contingency as well.
> obtaining planning permission in the UK takes the median hectare of land from £20,000 to £2.4 million - a 139x uplift.

The opportunity was clear, but they couldn't find a model to capture some of the value.

> competitors, some well-resourced, all of whom appeared to be competing on price. These were already cheap contracts: a few hundred pounds per month for a small/medium-sized team. And they were getting cheaper. We concluded that this was a difficult market to sell into, with race-to-the-bottom pricing dynamics

They pivoted to a different model.

> In retrospect, we may have been closer to viable products than we realised. Multiple British prop-tech companies have been funded, including in the US, during the lifetime, suggesting alternative paths we could have taken.
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They sure are insistent on it being literally zero for people who don't think it's literally zero.

If you like, I'm happy to update my claim to, "startup equity often has non-trivial value, say, >$1000 per year."
Add Obsidian to this list - working in markdown is freeing.

And the ecosystem around fitness tracking - Garmin, Strava, TrainingPeaks, Wahoo, & others all connect to each other and let you export workout data as a .fit file. The market dynamic has led to amazing cooperation which lets each provider specialize and empowers you to stitch together point solutions into something that works for you.
I would absolutely love to see my federal tax dollars doled out to schools and institutions where they would more directly benefit a wider set of people. If that was what was under discussion it would be great. The administration isn't proposing to redirect that money, simply rescind it, and they are very, extremely clearly attempting to use this to coerce institutions and punish people for their speech and associations.
I am glad it helps you out. Do you mind sending me any improvements/feedback via the contact form?

Thanks
Good points. But they did open themselves up to this by blatantly discriminating against Asian students. I mean, "you have an ulterior motive in arguing against our hugely racist policies" is not a great defense.
The post tells that the product should be explained, yet does not explain what that company does.

Looking at wikipedia I also dont know what are their products.
Which is, of course, deeply antisemitic of the people claiming antisemitism when they are talking about only criticism of Israel, to equate all Jewish people with the Israeli state.
Err yeah, mostly based in China ~2001-2022 here. Basically in China hitchhiking makes you look like a criminal because there's perfectly good long distance transport for not much and the government bans people it doesn't like from using it. Therefore, if you're thumbing you're looking suss. Sounds like a cool trip! Where'd you go to/from? Got a write-up somewhere? Highlights? I really enjoyed cycle touring in the west of China, there's some really beautiful areas.
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nope, just a random stranger trying to add some random noise into these often one sided conversations, I of course support public academic investment and Trump is bad for the country, but I worry we've fully mapped one to one trump and nazis, and it just doesn't resonate with me as much as it seems it does everyone else.

I'm from small town America, I know that the federal government doesn't care about my hometown, so when I hear things like Harvard gets billions while already having tens of billions in endowment, it's hard for me to not think that's crazy and why can't that money go to average americans, meanwhile here I am typing words into a screen connected to the internet so I fully acknowledge I've benefited from the institution
He also said Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor may have committed treason for criticizing him as president after signing an executive order to investigate them.
You forgot the cost of his golf excursions. (there are a surprising number of Trump golf trackers LOL)

https://didtrumpgolftoday.com/

"Est. cost to taxpayers for golf since returning to office: $32,200,000"
Trump can make that illegal in no time. „No foreign funds” is a well known method of fighting opposition, tried and tested in many soft regimes (looking for a recent example, Hungary comes to mind).
Yes. Trusting them is my competitive advantage.

I've also been following Anthropic pretty closely for the last two years and I've seen no evidence that they would break their principles here and plenty of evidence of how far they go to respect the privacy of their users: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/12/clio/
What institutions other than Columbia are caving in?
LOL

I like the way you think!
It's a conditional. I am predicting something based on observation. The unfolding of those things (AI companions, incels, use of those things for manipulation) will tell if I am wrong or not.

I think it's cute that you are slowly trying to steer the conversation towards this "feeling of loneliness" by selecting what parts of my answers you decide to quote and address.

However, the parts you chose _not_ to address tell more about who's trying to create a convenient narrative than the comments themselves.

As I said, the process of creating kind human beings that are not fools is what I aim for. Definitely not winning some vain debate.
Atlas of Middle-earth is a truly monumental feat.

I think the article writer misses how much of it is really about The Silmarillion, rather than about Lord of the Rings. Tolkien put a lot of work into First Age geography, an entire (interminable, excruciating) chapter of The Silmarillion. Very little of it would be familiar to viewers of the films, and a lot of it opaque even to readers just of LotR.
The dispute between Harvard and the Trump has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. You can read the government letter and see for yourself, none of it is about Harvard spending research money irresponsibly. It is an attempt to assert deep government control over the institution's policies and ideologies. So your comment reads as an attempt to distract from the real issues at hand, which I (and I think many others here) consider existential for the survival of the rule of law in the U.S.
Hacked crosswalks in Bay Area play deepfake messages from tech billionaires
Universities don't sell or do research. They provide facilities, equipment, services, and sometimes funding for research. The actual research is done by individuals, who are nominally employed by the university but largely independent from it. If a researcher doesn't like a particular university, they can usually take their funding and projects to another university.

When grants are revoked for political reasons, it affects individuals who happen to be affiliated with the university more than the university itself. And it particularly affects people doing STEM research, because humanities and social sciences receive much less external funding. If the decline in public funding is permanent, it makes humanities and social sciences relatively stronger within the university. They are more viable without public subsidies than the more expensive STEM fields.
Musk wasn't even close to being a billionaire when SpaceX was founded. He is a billionaire because about 10 years after SpaceX was founded Tesla and SpaceX at the same time took off.

And other people as rich as Musk tried their hand in the space industry.
So you acknowledge that it’s a race for the government to get permanent residents on flights as fast as they can to El Salvador before a petition is able to be filed?
Every law firm.
So first they demand "Merit-Based Hiring Reform" and "Merit-Based Admissions
Reform", and then it continues to demand "Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and
Hiring".

I can't even engage with these levels of cognitive dissonance. Or bad faith. Or whatever it is.
Wikipedia[1] says

>Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, veteran status, or religion.

Brittanica[2] says

>Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs—meant to address historical and systemic disparities based on race, gender, age, ability, and sexual orientation in the workplace

CNN lists the following as examples of the title of this article[3] ("DEI programs benefit many groups, not just Black and brown communities"):

>White women

>LGBTQ+ people

>Families who need IVF

>Disabled people

>Veterans

This is the first three links I clicked on, so it seems to be broadly agreed upon. It's (obviously) not an exhaustive search of the literature, and I'd love to see your side of it.

I have heard ideological diversity used as a defense of DEI, but it doesn't seem to be central. I've never heard of a DEI push to get more conservatives in tech or academia, for example.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusi...

[2]https://www.britannica.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclus...

[3]https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/dei-programs-diversity-lis...
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I've been working on Pyladoc, a Python package designed for web apps that generate data rich documents from code. It outputs HTML and LaTeX/PDF with Pandas tables and Matplotlib figures. No fancy interactive js - simple solid static outputs with all figures and formulas embedded in a single piece of HTML or LaTeX code.
This sounds amazing, and a bit scary - how does it obtain the info it needs?
Or the Supreme Court.
Given the absolute security tire fire that was Recall, I would absolutely not trust any password management solution blessed by Microsoft.
The I2C peripheral is DMA - a write just queues an operation descriptor in a hardware FIFO, and interrupts fire whenever something exciting happens or the FIFO is drained. The synchronous implementation is just blocking on a condition set by the interrupt handler.

But this is exactly the kind of thing the SPI peripheral is meant for. This cannot be said for the I2C peripheral, with its measly fast mode support.

Depending on the chip and your usecase, you might also want to use I2S for your DAC.
the future of the internet is greater personal power and autonomy.....everyone will get there own personal web space, to write, create, sell, buy, and comunicate, they own it, it's "free"
one to one comunication will be protected in the same way that physical mail has been protected for centuries, ie: dont touch without a warrant
groups will have less and less privacy, the larger they are, and a crime by one, is a crime by all
ie: just dont do it, play nice, no conspiracy's or calls for insurection
platforms will die, unless they can attract and nurture tallent, that out competes all of the indipendents......which is very likely...as top performers, always need team support
Every law firm is hyperbole but I meant what other universities other than Columbia?
Local mutability is fantastic and practical... In a language like Haskell where the type system tracks exactly what values are mutable and all mutation is precisely scoped by functions that freeze the value they generate in a way that prevents leaking.

In a language that isn't so precise, it's a lot harder to get value from the idea.
In many countries, the refusal to pass budget authorization automatically removes the current leader. In ours it merely robs them of resources.

It's very difficult understanding what Schumer was thinking a few weeks back, beyond personal cowardice.
> By this logic it was “over already” at the end of the Civil War.

That may be true. The North won the war, but let the ideology that caused it fester.
Public funds should not be subsidizing wealthy private universities. The end.
El Salvador has 1 in 60 people in jail, up there with the worst of Stalinist Russian.

If the US doesn't have control over who it sends there, the crimes of Trump & his ICE are far worse, far more in violation of the constitution. If this weren't horrific monstrosity to circumvent habeas corpus maybe perhaps this wicked act could scrape through the courts.

Its just so fucked how much misanthropy is running the world. Hating other people is powering the growth of such deeply sick rises to power.

I strongly recommend a tour of the Grievances of the Declaration of Independence. Ironically a document shown to Bukele before his situation down. The things being done are absolutely wild tyrant shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievances_of_the_United_State...
The thing to remember is that these grants are their research budget. The endowment is largely earmarked for educational projects. Your average university professor is there because they want to do research, not because they want to teach - so the research budget is critical for educating as well.

I assume Harvard has a plan for dealing with this dynamic. They have some extremely smart people there, so I don't doubt they've found a way.
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this is identity politics, rather than discussing ideas we discuss whose ideas they are and whether we like that person, I don't like that kind of discourse and don't find it valuable, bad people can have good ideas and vice versa

edit: that being said, I agree what's happening to harvard is in bad faith and has nothing to do with making the government more efficient, so my argument isn't good
A long list of extremely large, well-heeled law firms
The governments conditions are not unlimited.

Their proposed "viewpoint diversity" is absurd at face value.
Are you talking about channels or some other concept? https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
Most if not all of his cabinet (surprisingly) have an Ivy League background. Not sure if that's an endorsement on them, or an indictment on Ivy League schools
Do you believe antisemitism is a problem at Harvard? If so, what led you to believe this?
> if these institutions hadn't spent decades burning their own credibility

They burned their credibility among those with whom they never needed it in the first place. Harvard as a taxpayer-funded institution is oxymoronic. Return it to an elite institution that the President can commend in private and mock at a rally in rural Kentucky or whatnot.
What an outrageous and incoherent letter

So much for academic freedom
Maybe there’s a conversation to be had about that but this isn’t it, this is attempted coercion, and yes, it is fascism.
Oh, that makes more sense. Thank you!

Is this linked list type then mostly meant to be used as an internal implementation detail, and not be exposed in a public API? Because if I see a function that takes a non-generic list I won't really know how to call it. :)
Just say "oops, sorry, that was a mistake but we can't get that person back" every time you want to disappear someone, and somehow you'll have people claiming that habeas corpus is still alive and well while people get disappeared.
Genuinely curious: what part of the federal government's letter to Harvard seems fascist to you?

Is the government asking a university to shift their bias away from skin color diversity to viewpoint diversity fascist?

Is there a historical parallel?

Or is it just the fact that the government is asking for reform, and any reform request would be considered fascist? If so, do you also consider the DEI reform requests fascist?
Because OpenAPI doesn’t solve the problem that MCP does. How does the LLM and its host make tool calls?

OpenAPI doesn’t solve that at all.
kinda but i think that's for files. I am specifically thinking for live content like twitch
There was Joost in 2008, from Skype founders. Skype was originally P2P until Microsoft acquisition and killing this legally questionable feature - need to feed the big brother (:
Joost raised ~$50M.

I remember it as it was one of rare apps built in XUL, the same framework as Mozilla apps (Firefox).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost
OpenAI has decided to troll via crappy naming conventions as a sort of in joke. Sam Altman tweets about it pretty often
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Uh yeah, why wouldn't I?

I mean I don't know that it's their policy but it sure looks that way.
And if you believe that, @DannyBee's productivity isn't real.

Or maybe it's a business problem that Google shares with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple.

Microsoft has struggled to find any new products that will really move the needle in terms of revenue but they support their old customers with enduring loyalty while making the occasional absurd-but-bold move like Windows 8 and sticking to businesses that seem to make no sense like XBOX.

Facebook is the captain of cringe, not cool, but at least they're investing big in VR as a platform. They subsidize great rigs for Beat Saber because Zuckerberg will never forgive himself if he gives up and somebody else succeeds. [1]

Apple will never find a product as big as the iPhone. To do so they've have to make an iCar or iHouse or skip Starship and go straight to O'Neill Colonies. At least they are indisputably the best at what they do and they can occasionally take a hopeless shot at someone else's turf (Vision Pro) feeling justified that the only rival platform has a trashcan for a logo.

Google has trained us all that anything new from Google has a shelf life less than day old bread. They go at new projects as if they a startup that didn't get into Y Combinator or like the kind of company that Marissa Mayer starts these days [2] -- they don't realize part of the special opportunity of being a huge company like that with an absurd valuation is you can do really big, audacious, and irrational things.

[1] I learned for myself how dangerous this attitude is but all I could do was max out my HELOC.

[2] see https://sunshine.com/ not to put it down, I might be involved in something like that if I wasn't doing what I am doing
Starlink already has connections to phones operational and deploying more of that far, far faster then any of the competitors.

And IRIS2 as far as I know isn't a direct to cell technology.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

-Alexander Solzhenytsin
> Although the president was caught on mic musing about deporting American citizens

The canaries in our coal mine are permanent residents. Anything that can legally be done to a permanent resident can basically be done to a "bad" citizen. Trump is trying to run roughshod over permanent residents' habeus corpus rights. Courts are currently pushing back; I expect he will defy them. That, for me, will be the line at which I'll start helping with civil disruption.
My mind was blown when I read it as a teenager.
Right, money is just the first and most obvious cudgel. Does Harvard have any biomedical labs that require federal approval to handle hazardous materials? That could be delayed or revoked. Do they file taxes? They could face an audit. There's no shortage of painpoints an organization that large has exposed to an unethical government.
Never mistake a man's rhetoric for his principles.
Harvard, as an institution capable of sustaining itself without relying on federal funding, bears a heightened responsibility to champion academic freedom and intellectual independence. Its financial independence positions it to defend these principles more vigorously than universities with fewer resources, which may face similar pressures but lack comparable institutional stability to resist government overreach.
Know the story. Such a tragic end.
- Great way to confirm if email address is valid

- People tend to use bad passwords

- People tend to forget passwords (you need to write whole password recovery, etc)

- You always have your smartphone with email close to you

- It's way easier than 2FA with Authenticator and cheaper than SMS

- You limit password sharing for your service
Do we really believe there is a rooted undercurrent of antisemitism at Harvard of all places? Or is this just anti-zionist expansion straw manning? I'm sorry but the continuously faithless positioning of the Trump administration right now makes me believe the antisemitic accusations are a pretext.
The opening passage of the Wikipedia article:

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right [checks box], authoritarian [ignoring courts decisions, sending people to prisons without any due process; check], and ultranationalist [MAGA, american exceptionalism, etc; check] political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader [do I really need to explain; check], centralized autocracy [feckless GOP congress, EOs left and right; check], militarism, forcible suppression of opposition [J6, anyone? also see Maine and TFA and the law firms being blacklisted and more; check], belief in a natural social hierarchy [pro-life, shrouded in "traditional family values", anti-gay, anti-trans, etc; check], subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race [tariffs, massive deportations without due process, etc; check], and strong regimentation of society and the economy [bathroom bills, tariff policies with exceptions for those who bribe him with million dollar dinner purchases, etc; check].

Tell me how this doesn't fit?
I wonder if the large quantity release of opensource AI tools, models etc is a deliberate strategy of China to counter the US dominance.
A good thing for the market imho
So you're fine with them arresting dissenters as long as you disagree with the dissenters? That's fairly antithetical to the ideas expressed in the US constitution.
Healthy security practices that should’ve been followed all along.

The first-order effects of the world changing in 2025 are what we mostly notice - but some of the second and third order effects are really positive.
Edited:

Yes, I doubt they're cool with the ideas in the letter like the federal government auditing everyone's "viewpoint diversity" and mandating staffing changes to fit what the federal government wants.
Juice not worth the squeeze I imagine. 4.5 is chonky, and having to reserve GPU space for it must not have been worth it.
Makes sense to me - I hadn't founding anything it was so much better at that it was worth the incremental cost over Sonnet 3.7 or o3-mini.
Ooh never heard of that. That's awesome! As mentioned in the last point in the document, often if you get repeat punctures it's because the causative element is still embedded in the outer tire. Once this happens you learn the real value of fixing a tire is not in the patching, which is a different challenge, but the analysis: 1. Locate the puncture. 2. Match the inner tube back to the rim using the air valve location. 3. Translate the puncture location from the inner tube to the tread. 4. Search like hell for the cause.