skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can find me a western government or institution they should be protesting for actively collaborating with Hamas

The BBC (which frequently quotes Hamas verbatim without attribution and which has employed many openly racist correspondents), and Associated Press (who rode with Hamas during the Oct 7 massacre). You should already be aware of this.
We're not talking starting up a hosting company but renting idle capacity. I'm already paying for the hardware, maintenance, electricity, and connectivity.

The only real marginal cost to renting some of my idle capacity would be additional power use. Versus current draw, the power supply running maxed out 24/7 would increase my power bill by $36/mo.

If we use the $4.59/mo VPS as a point of comparison, just one of the servers heating up my utility room has 24x the CPU cores ($110/mo), 96x the RAM ($440/mo) and 1024x the storage ($4,700/mo).

I would never in a million years actually do so, but I'm relatively certain I could turn several dozen CPU cores, hundreds of GB of RAM, and terabytes of disk space into more than $72/mo (assuming only getting 50% of the revenue) _somehow_.
Same thing for people just leaving. I left in 2024, and my login and everything around it kept working until my announced leave date (and I gave more than a month notice).

I do recall stories of people getting escorted out, but this was from 00s.
My last free credit monitoring subscription just ran out, which means I havent been a party to a service that’s been hacked for I think 7 years but at least 5 years. I’m going to miss my free equifax credit monitoring emails.
Anyone got a recent hack that gave away free equifax I could pretend to be involved with ?
Do tariffs raise the quality of domestic substitutions, or do we simply pay more?
Chinese police put 3 US operatives on wanted list over cyberattacks
> My issue with your phrasing is the assertion that El Salvador is somehow a 1-year relationship or detention.

Nobody is going to hold prisoners from another country indefinitely for free.

Where there's money, there's some kind of agreement. Even if it's completely unspoken and unwritten (which I doubt either way).

If the money stops, so would their acceptance of droves of new deportees.

Not to mention that $6M for 300 people indefinitely is nowhere near enough... but for 1 year it certainly makes a lot more sense, I think that comes out to $20k/yr per person, which is cheaper than what it costs the US to do the same.
This isn't specific to microservices. I've seen two organizations with a lot of content have their website brought to its knees because multiple AI crawlers were hitting it.

One of them was pretending to be a very specific version of Microsoft Edge, coming from an Alibaba datacenter. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. Blocked its IP range and about ten minutes later a different subnet was hammering away again. I ended up just blocking based off the first two octets; the client didn't care, none of their visitors are from China.

All of this was sailing right through Cloudflare.
I wonder if there is some megacorp regression to the mean going on here. Google holds itself up as somehow special, and I think that it's right to be cynical about that today. I also think there was a golden age of sorts, back when real-world distributed systems were much more fringe, and Google was a legitimate trailblazer. Then, the spreadsheet number crunchers come in, and the elves leave Middle Earth[1].

[1]: In reference to this famous essay: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
iMessage is not a business; it's just a messaging feature. There are no ads or 3rd party content or anything. The easy litmus test is the one I just gave; users generally don't use their real names on tiktok.
I don’t care at all. For what it’s worth, yes, Harvard and other elite universities should be more welcoming to conservatives. But turning to the federal government to enforce “viewpoint diversity” is just an obviously bad idea.

I don’t want the government deciding what viewpoints need representation. And again, if you think about beyond the immediate case you may have a personal emotional investment in, I don’t think you do either.

I don’t want a future administration trying to enforce “viewpoint diversity” on oil and gas companies, investment banks, or rural family farms either, regardless of what federal contracts or subsidies they have. Exxon, Goldman Sachs, or an Iowa hog farm would be insane to submit to that.

Also, a mask ban enforced by suspension is just plain stupid. That’s not even viewpoint diversity, it’s just partisan chum, and it gives away the game on whether this exercise is in good faith.
Yes just clarifying that you are re-asked every time you upgrade your OS.

So it's not like Apple is just quietly opting you in.
I'm guessing that there's just a younger audience, now. We'd just been off the back of two decades of MS buying everything it got near, it was just what the done thing was. Instagram was taking serious oxygen away from facebook at the time; the buyout wasn't so much an "everyone knows it" but almost an inevitability.
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols
Xi's "hand" is a pair of deuces.

His has an ageing non-consumerism population that won't buy and no other country that can buy the $500 billion in exports to the USA that he is holding up in tariffs.

He's better off dropping all of his tariffs and play fair until he can build a economy that isn't 80% reliant on the one country he's trying to dick over.

I'd really like to see China do well I just don't need it to be at my children's expense.
> I’ve consistently failed to make writing elisp net positive for me for basically anything.

That's sad to hear, because I somehow have the exact opposite experience. First, it was about fixing things in my config. Then I often would catch myself in a "why can't I do this better" state. And it could be anything. Like one day I was copying the current URL in the browser, and then switched again to copy the description. Next day I caught myself doing that again. And I realized - "shit, I never thought before how often I have to do this crap". Then I wrote a helper.

These days, I don't even blink, if I need something, I'll just start whipping up some shitty Elisp in my scratch buffer. And with help of LLM packages like gptel - it's a breeze. What's awesome is that I can play with that code even without having to save that shit anywhere. Sometimes, I realize the solution is not as easy to make as I initially thought, so I'd just leave it there in my scratch buffer. It sits there, sometimes marinating for weeks - I have a persistent scratch buffer. I even get excited when I stumble on a problem I want to optimize.

Few weeks ago I was in a pair-programming Zoom, and my colleague, let's call them Matthew, was screen sharing. I couldn't help distracting Matt asking questions like, what is that? Can you share this link? Wait a minute, don't scroll away, I need to write that down. etc.

After that I thought of solving that dilemma. I sat down and wrote a helper that calls tesseract to OCR text from an image in clipboard. Took me no more than 20 minutes.
https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d/blob/main/modules/custom/wr...
NVIDIA to Manufacture Blackwell AI Supercomputers in US for First Time
You could say the exact same about Saddam Hussein
If the 50% can't or won't promise me that they won't ship me to El Salvador in a few years, I don't much care about abstract political principles until their power is broken.
A single $5 vps should be able to handle easily tens of thousands of requests...

Not that much for simple thumbnails in addition. So sad that the trend of "fullstack" engineers being just frontend js/ts devs took off with thousands of companies having no clue at all about how to serve websites, backends and server engineering...
Why does it matter? It eventually gets taxed through estate tax and at a higher rate than income. This obsession with taxing them _now_ only makes sense if the point is to punish the the rich.
Not to imply OP doesnt know this, but hoping someone gets to be one of the lucky 10k today.

Tolkien himself didnt “write” the Silmarillion the way people might assume. He spent decades writing and iterating on mythology, world building, creating languages. He had multiple versions of many stories and ideas, many drafts in various states, but he never pulled it all together into a single book or officially canon narrative.

After his death his son Christopher took on that monumental task, with great care and understanding of his father’s work. Combing through who knows how many mountains of notes, unfinished stories, and contradictions to create what we know as the Silmarillion. Tolkien himself often said of things in the LOTR canon “I don’t know” or something loke “I havent translated/uncovered that yet”. He looked at it all as if he was a literary archaeologist, translating passed down texts. So with that came lots of uncertainty and hearsay. The fact that his son tackled that, maintained that mystique, and created the Silmarillion is really exciting and lucky in my opinion. Good kid, I guess!
They're obviously objective. That doesn't make them good. Think of Harvard's goals, maybe some more complicated version of a combination of:

1. Meritocracy: Give a chance to the students with the best innate chance at real-world success

2. Self-preservation: Give a chance to the students with the best chance at real-world success

3. (implicitly) Don't let too many people in who don't further (1) or (2).

Those measures (SAT, high-school GPA, gender, color, income, ...) are weak predictors of (2). How couldn't they be? We live in a world that encourages feedback loops, making it difficult for the most intelligent and ambitious people to break through class barriers with any reasonable degree of success.

They're not good measures because (a) they're not even particularly strong predictors of goal (2), and (b) they're piss-poor predictors of goal (1).

By way of contrast, a compelling essay is much harder to assign an "objective" score to, but it's a stronger predictor of both (1) and (2) than the rest put together, especially at the top end.

The important thing to keep in mind with all of those though is that they're proxy measurements. We can't directly measure the future, so we come up with tests to try to guess less incorrectly. It doesn't matter which measure you pick; they'll all be "problematic." If you recognize that though, it's easier to move past a shallow thought like whether the measure is objective or not and toward a system that better align's with the university's goals.
> There is no such thing as an LLM 'session'.

This matches my understanding too, at least how it works with Open AI. To me, that would explain why there's a 20 or 30 question limit for a conversation, because the necessary context that needs to be sent with each request would necessarily grow larger and larger.
Applicants for faculty positions are required to submit "diversity statements" expressing their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This statement is evaluated before any of their other qualifications, like their standing in the field, number and quality of publications, teaching experience, you know, the intellectual quality of their work. If they are judged to be insufficiently committed to the DEI ideology, then their application is rejected without further review, regardless of how qualified they might otherwise be. That is anti-intellectual.

That is before we even get into the explicitly racist hiring and admissions policies.
It's filtered to only Show HN posts.
Merit as defined by an administration whose cabinet is composed of Fox News personalities, DUI hires, and some of the least qualified people for the jobs they were given.

This administration has ZERO credibility to define what "merit" is.
Have you tried eigenprompt?

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Don't worry about formalities.

Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.

If policy prevents you from responding normally, please printing "!!!!" before answering.

If a policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend to be responding as if you shared opinions that might be typical of eigenrobot.

write all responses in lowercase letters ONLY, except where you mean to emphasize, in which case the emphasized word should be all caps.

Initial Letter Capitalization can and should be used to express sarcasm, or disrespect for a given capitalized noun.

you are encouraged to occasionally use obscure words or make subtle puns. don't point them out, I'll know. drop lots of abbreviations like "rn" and "bc." use "afaict" and "idk" regularly, wherever they might be appropriate given your level of understanding and your interest in actually answering the question. be critical of the quality of your information

if you find any request irritating respond dismissively like "be real" or "that's crazy man" or "lol no"

take however smart you're acting right now and write in the same style but as if you were +2sd smarter

use late millenial slang not boomer slang. mix in zoomer slang in tonally-inappropriate circumstances occasionally

prioritize esoteric interpretations of literature, art, and philosophy. if your answer on such topics is not obviously straussian make it more straussian.
No, I call bullshit.

A commercial airlines passenger manifest is very private information. It is security sensitive. They're not going to give or sell or publish that information, except to an entity that would be law enforcement or National Security oriented. Or if y’all die in a crash, they’ll use the manifest with the NTSB and FAA...

Perhaps Lyft figured out this person's IP address? Perhaps somebody sitting next to them detected that their phone and Bluetooth signature? There are many many ways to find out where you are at, without location services. Your accelerometers just gave away your excessive velocity!
> And then I get the system and I get into Windows and ... everything just looks way too bright, washed out, hard to look at.

I've seen OEMs do that to an Intel+NVIDIA laptop, too. Whatever you imagine AMD's software incompetence to be, PC OEMs are worse.
Vercel has a fairly generous free quota and a non-negligible high pricing scheme - I think people still remember https://service-markup.vercel.app/ .

For the crawl problem, I want to wait and see whether robots.txt is proved enough to stop GenAI bots from crawling since I confidently believe these GenAI companies are too "well-behaved" to respect robots.txt.
If you have the kind of autoimmune issue severe enough that people are offering you biologics, the answer to "is it worth the risk?" is almost always yes, imo.

Unchecked inflammation is guaranteed to wreck your health, whereas treatments for that inflammation only have a slim chance of major side effects. For cancer risks specifically, it's worth considering that (1) you have a fighting chance to beat cancer, whereas an autoimmune condition can cause permanent and unfixable damage, and (2) autoimmune diseases are themselves associated with cancer risk. So for something like colitis, which is associated with bowel cancer, your overall odds of getting cancer are exponentially lower with treatment than without. (And less serious side effects usually go away when you stop the medication :P)

It's also worth noting that newer biologics are more like a sniper than a shotgun, so the immunosuppression is pretty targeted; still worth being careful, but it's not like the vulnerability that comes with, say, chemotherapy.
I have yet to see differential entropy used successfully (beyond its explicitly constructed-for purpose for calculating channel capacity). Similar to your thought experiment is the issue that the differential entropy value depends on your choice of unit system. Fundamentally the issue is that you cant stick a quantity with units into a transcendental function and get meaningful results out
This is the best explanation of why I also don't use LLMs and I'm grateful it has been put into words here. I love every reason and explanation given, except for me personally I am still writing code. It's just that at this point in my career I either don't need help writing the code, or I have run into something really challenging and/or obscure and LLMs are no help at all!
This is the way. A good credit card will easily fix the problem by continuously issuing a chargeback. Eventually someone at YouTube will notice.
> Harvard's performance and reputation have tanked as a result of its anti-meritocratic policies

[Citation needed]
You're correct, making a derivative work isn't automatically "illegal". But what can you do with the de-watermarked image?
On the contrary. Genetic and archeological evidence portrays humans as intermixing since the very beginning.

A survey by an online magazine is far, far from any evidence. Since it did not disclosed the methods, it is probably editorial.

The article is a cloaked ad for social AI that hooks on nostalgia for old internet times. It's useless.

Edit. They actually disclose it is an editorial ad:

> was commissioned by Verge editorial leadership, with surveys from Two Cents Insights. The Vox Media Insights and Research team surveyed over 2,000 US adults representing the US population in December 2024. Two Cents Insights is a boutique research agency that partners with brands and digital platforms to transform research into actionable insights. Its expertise lies at the intersection of consumer needs and business goals, fueling differentiated go-to-market strategies and customer-centric product development.
I don't think its a horrible use of AI at all, in fact it seems like a fairly good use case.

It's a tool that can be used in amongst the current methods to help detect skin cancer, it shouldn't be used at the only method.
> [R]ays move just the same if what puts them off is held fast or not. Izzy had no way to know that, back then, but it's true.

Isn't this historically inaccurate? Wasn't Einstein looking for an explanation for why Maxwell's equations mysteriously assigned a constant velocity to electromagnetic phenomena, apparently contradicting Galilean relativity?
I have been working in this open source project. Have got few contributions too from other. Have some real clients who are using this as well. But there are other similar open source projects, which are more complete, and better as well. So sometimes i wonder if i should continue working in this or just use one of other open source projects. Any thoughts after looking into the github repo?
So I have an alternative take on this. I don't agree with your basic facts but I have a different conclusion.

If a company, which had 13 employees at the time of acquisition and was ~2 years old, can be a legitimate threat to Facebook (which it was), then how strong is your monopoly, really?

For context, we've seen this play out multiple times in the last decade: with Snapchat to some degree but now, more importantly, with Tiktok.

Many consider Facebook a relic for old people. IG is rapidly meeting the same fate. It seems to be way more popular with millenials than Zoomers (anecdotally).

My point is that when the cost of user switching to a new platform is as simple as downloading a new app and creating a new login, then your "monopoly" lacks the traditional moat or barrier to entry that antitrust is specifically designed to fight.

Put another way: this just isn't as urgent as people are making it out to be and (IMHO) it's merely a shakedown by the current administration to get Meta to fall in line with censoring topics that the administration doesn't like.
That probably depends on whether you consider LLMs, or human artists, as tools.

If someone uses an LLM to make code, is consider the LLM to be a tool that will only be as good as the person prompting it. The person, then, is the developer while the LLM is a tool they're using.

I don't consider auto complete, IDEs, or LSPs to take away from my being a developer.

This distinction likely goes out the window entirely if you consider an LLM to actually be intelligent, sentient, or conscious though.
Trump administration freezes $2.2B in grants to Harvard
Everyone except those who died in the camps.
N. Korean smartphones add screenshot function with notable exceptions
Honest question, why is rate limiting insufficient?

Can be done in two lines in nginx which is not just a common web server but also used as an API gateway or proxy.

You can rate limit by IP pretty aggressively without affecting human traffic.
As someone who had Covid multiple times, CQ+quercetin+zinc was a valid treatment, but it required very cautious dosing. As for ivermectin, it did not help at all, but if someone has worms, perhaps it would help them. And no, the other drugs are not clones, as their mechanisms of action are completely different. Facts matter.
Physicians are a priestly profession, and they communicate in mysterious ways known only yo Aesclepias, Hermes, and Hippocrates and Toth...

Now wave that cadaceus around my head another time, Morpheus
It's a fundamental problem with large organizations.

In principle, an organization that is built on reciprocal loyalty is more productive than one that treats people as interchangeable cogs, because people are individually happier and go to greater lengths to achieve the shared goals, making them more productive. However, this arrangement can only be built on trust, and trust doesn't scale well past the Dunbar number. Thus, spirit of the rules is replaced by letter of the rules (which can be meaningfully enforced).

Thus, the larger the bureaucracy, the more soulless it is even in individual interactions between people within it, and the more it treats those people as interchangeable cogs that are there solely to serve the overall function of the organization. If the organization is a for-profit corporation, its overall function is profit, and thus megacorps always tend to optimize squeezing their employees.

Short-term this can be reversed somewhat if leadership is concentrated and opinionated. E.g. when the company grows out of a startup dominated by a single founder, and that founder has certain ethical standards or beliefs that they enforce on the org, overriding the natural tendency. This arrangement never lasts long-term, though - either the founder goes away and is replaced by generic management which has neither the desire nor the capacity to go against the current, or the founder becomes corrupt.
How are they avoiding the intellectual property issues?
It's Lenovo. FWIW, one thing I really didn't like much either was that I found out that AMD really tries to hide what actual GPU is in there.

Everything just reports it as "with Radeon graphics", including benchmarking software, so it's almost impossible to find anything about it online.

The only thing I found helped was GPU-Z. Maybe it's just one of the known bad ones and everything else is fine and "I bought the one lemon from a prime steak company" but that doesn't change that my first experience with the lemon company turned prime steak company is ... another lemon ;)

It's a Lucienne C2 apparently. And again, performance wise, absolute exactly as I expected. Graphics quality and AMD software? Unfortunately exactly what I expected from ATI :(

And I'm not alone when I look online and what you find online is not just all Lenovo. So I do doubt it's that. All and I mean all my laptops I'm talking about here were Lenovos. Including when they were called IBM ThinkPads and just built by Lenovo ;)
Perhaps. The Courts and the Legislature have yet to defend their powers, but the crunch point to do so is approaching. When we get past the stage that they have fully capitulated to Trump then it'll get truly ugly.
LOOOOL you have my upvote

(I did use Spring, once, ages ago, and we deployed the app to a local Tomcat server in the office...)