skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe progress is slowing down but after using gemini 2.5 there clearly is still a lot being made.
even partially agreeing with anything the trump administration does on this forum makes you a target for downvotes.

let me cred fall. idgaDANG
If they can decide someone is a migrant and deport them without due process and no recourse, they can decide anyone is a migrant and deport them without due process.

If a class of people don't have habeas corpus, no one does.
> Every law firm is hyperbole

How? Which major law firm is standing up like Harvard is?

> I meant what other universities other than Columbia?

Trump has only really gone after Columbia and Harvard. (Institution is a broader word than university.)
It will definitely happen if everyone is as complacent as that. At this point this attitude is extremely hard to take serious: you're either not paying attention or you're not engaging in good faith.
Its not clear what the effect no Harvard would be on those metrics. And all of those are necessarily in Harvards best interest to maintain too.

This is compared to a direct payment to sustain operations which the government is saying they may not be in favor of. But its not like Harvard would say ”it may not be in our interest to produce successful people anymore.”
As my peer comment hinted at, I think "just capture co2" is the part that plants are really good at. However, yes, the general approach is: capture co2 -> make plastics -> use plastics -> bury plastics forever. And "capture co2" can be "grow trees" or "grow algae" or "create a machine that pulls carbon out of the air" or whatever :)
How I win without playing to win
The more fundamental corollary is that the US government does not grant any rights. We have them by default and cede limited power for the benefit of an orderly society. Within such a framework, it should be impossible to disenfranchise people by denying them due process.
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Is there any evidence that we've been "blindly" pumping money into academia? Funding agencies are part of the federal budget and don't just get everything they ask for. Then those agencies have all sorts of review procedures for choosing grant awardees.

There isn't just some big slush fund labeled "dumb science ideas" that everybody grabs from.
Awesome response from Alan Garber
To some degree it already has been. After the economic genius Larry Summers paid for the Allston campus expansion with some dodgy loans that blew up in their faces during the 2008-9 financial crisis, there was some attempt to reform the endowment, back off some risky investments, and build up more of a free-cash emergency fund. This actually paid off during the Covid lockdowns, which the university was able to weather without too much disruption.

The other oddity of Harvard's endowment is that each school at the university basically has it's own fund--so that for instance, the Business school and the Law school don't have to worry about money the same way that FAS (the main undergraduate school) does.
"Zaporozhian Cossacks write to the Sultan of Turkey" by Ilya Repin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozhian_Cossacks#/media/Fi...
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I've visited a handful of encampments. Super peaceful, mostly kids educating each other about colonialism and the history of Israel's occupation and apartheid.

If you're looking for violence, the attacks on the Palestine encampments at UCLA were by far the most horrific violence on campus of the last year, and that was funded by Jonathan Greenblatt (CEO of the ADL, which is a racist org)
Interesting, I take risankizumab, which looks like it indirectly suppresses IL-17 (through suppressing IL-23A). I've been on it for a bit less than a year, and I can't say if I've had improved mood. Maybe? It definitely fixed the psoriasis. Might also have contributed to me getting sick more often, though.

I wish I had kept logs with some sort of self-screen depression instrument now (maybe the BDI? I don't like the PHQ-9). Might as well start now.
Indeed. I wish the government side was more reasonable, but it's hard to expect now; they are into running a TV show :(
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I think this means you learned about 'lived experience' on Twitter in 2018.

The term has been increasingly used since around 1960 - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lived+experien...

Here's one example from 2001, https://archive.org/details/qualitativeinqui0000pars/page/98... :

> How can an investigator attend with fidelity to the description of an experience- as-lived, without reducing it to experience-as-observed?

Here's another example, not specifically of "lived experience" but of breaking things down into different types of experience; three in this case: https://archive.org/details/cpsnow0179shus/page/56/mode/2up?...

> Snow has divided the sequence into two main parts: three novels of Lewis Eliot’s direct experience, Time of Hope, Homecomings, and Last Things ; the rest, eight in all, are novels of his observed experience with “flickers of inner experience.”
With their large untaxed endowment, they should be fine without federal funding. Make it so.
Linked lists are sometimes the right tool for the job. They are available in the standard library for such cases. If you are struggling to understand how you would use this API then it probably means you have not yet been exposed to such a use case, and you are being quite intentionally steered away from using them.
One positive thing I heard from Amazon folks is that everyone there is honest that they hate the company and hang there only for moneys. Both ICs, their managers, and managers of their managers. At least no hypocrisy.
I'm fine with stopping the flow of federal money to people who hate me in particular and who take a salary to convince others to do so too. Those who defend the conduct of universities need to pause and consider that the public has noticed the radicalization of academia, despises it, and will support state action to reverse it.
I was speaking in probabilities, not making a judgment myself (I wouldn't be qualified to do so anyway). Numerous mental health professionals have made the assertion that he is, and he has a family history of it, so at the very least it can't reasonably be claimed with 100% certainty that he's not in the early-to-mid stages of dementia.

Furthermore, my statement was very clearly presented as a massive stretch in the first place; noting that it might slightly increase the chance that he'll be unable to make an attempt at a third term (even if by 0.01%). Sometimes squinting hard enough that the resulting bokeh resemble a silver lining is all you can do to muster hope.
Harvard isn't the first to be targeted, nor will they be the last.

The American university system is undeniably impactful on American success over the last century. It would be tough to put any sort of exact number on it, but we can absolutely say "a shitload".
That’s very cool - I definitely gotta work on adding partial refreshes. Thanks for sharing!
The DOJ has continued to indicate it intends to require Google spin off Chrome and obviously the tariff game has done no favors to Apple.

Giving Trump money appears to be a game for suckers.
> all I can think is what a fucking lay-up

I am nervous about the US right now. So many cases are going to end up at the Supreme Court that is controlled by conservatives. It may not be the lay-up you think it is.

Also what happens if Trump just decides to ignore a court loss as he did with the recent deportation of Kilmar Garcia?
I've been using linkwarden the last few months and loving it.

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
Noice! Hope this gets passed down to the Shield TV if they'll ever release one
What organised group of leftists has attacked a group of people based on their ethnicity? Do you have a link you could share?
Don't confuse the credential factory with the skills and quality of the underlying students. Harvard is little more than a toll booth for students who were already smart and over-achieving. It's not like the teaching is extraordinary.
I did; it explicitly demanding an audit of employees and students political views, the forced hiring of more professors who are sympathetic to the current administration's politics.

That doesn't sound authoritarian to you? Can you imagine if Obama had demanded that any university do an ideological purge of its conservative staff and students?
Between 1935 and today car price inflation is at 2.41% per year while general inflation is 3.56%. You may have not noticed. Since free trade it's been less than 2%.

You may not have noticed but it happened.
Yes we all know what good defenders of truth and knowledge the Trump administration is. Surely the same people who seem to have made a habit of causing constitutional crises and have directly challenged the 1st, 5th and 14th amendment have our best interest at heart.
This reminds me a bit of the octree quantization implementation I hacked up to improve speed of generating Racket's animated gifs.

* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/6b2e5f4014ed95c9b883...

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https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/f2a1773422feaa4ec112...
In fact, wouldn't a trial where they aren't found guilty would probably be better a better outcome for Zuckerberg than no trial at all?
Honestly, the problem is not that there are layoffs, the problem is that the process sucks.

you don't need to fire this person immediately - you can talk to him, wind his operations down and then let him go. I.e. in Germany it's often half a year between announcing a layoff and anything happening (besides other stuff like making sure the layoff applies to the newest people first). Even if you don't want such a long period - talking to him and giving him a few weeks to wind down at your firm and starting to search for a new job seems perfectly reasonable.
What happens if he wreaks havoc on your firm out of revenge? Really? Happens practically never. If it happens, sue him.

ofc this process applies to reasonable layoff - if it's for something egregious (breaking the law) you can and should fire him immediately.
How? Which major law firm is standing up like Harvard is?

WilerHale and Jenner & BLock are two: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56890/law-firms-sue-trum...
They will once the administration revokes the visas of half their grad students and shit-can all the international undergrad tuition income.
the timeline of the first plane clearly shows that that is not the case (plane departed after the judge's stay). it would be helpful if people didn't cavalierly pronounce these kinds of things.
The government does not have all that right tho. First amendment and all.

I would invite you to read the government letter if you have not, but look at each demand and put yourself in the position of the recently affected but also try to see if you can hold a "controversial" view of the world that should be fine but would be put in danger by these demands: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

Civil rights, suffrage, they were all the controversial opinion at some point. Some people still argue that they are but anyone against those can go pound sand.
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> wrong about amyloid plaques

Sorry... you think that Trump is doing this because of suppression of dissent about amyloid plaques?
They hate you because you're a useful idiot, not because of your skin color, for the record.
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I wonder if documentation would help to create an carefully and intentionally tokenized overview of the system. Maximize the amount of routine larger scope information provided in minimal tokens in order to leave room for more immediate context.

Similar to the function documentation provides to developers today, I suppose.
> How? Which major law firm is standing up like Harvard is?

Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling LLP, and Elias Law Group are fighting Trump's executive order. Those are 3 of the biggest law firms in the US. As far as I know only two major firms have made deals with Trump while many are sitting quiet but not everyone is cowering.
The technology on which it relies was invented here and could be built here again. The consumer cost of an iPhone is due to the extraordinary profits Apple extracts from it. Those profits could pay US labor rates easily.

This is absolutely false.

Yes, semiconductors and microprocessors were invented here but haven't been manufactured in America by American companies in several decades. The primary reason? Cost.

Among other obvious issues, you'd need a workforce of at least 300,000 to 500,000 skilled people to do the final assembly work on iPhones at Apple's scale. There's simply not enough people with the required skills to do that work in the US at almost any price.

That would be like taking a city the size of Boston and have it only do iPhone assembly.

Take a look at "A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy".[1]

[1]: https://www.404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-is-pure-fantasy/
> I'm glad they are standing up to the Fascists

Today I learned that demanding an end to racial discrimination makes you a fascist. I swear this word becomes more meaningless by the day.
Emphasis on "doing something useful with their lives".
Watermark segmentation
Seems like an interesting feature. It’s not easy to see how this is immediately useful; people in this comments section are complaining that this is not a feature they’d pay for, but it looks like something that becomes seriously useful only after years of runtime and terabytes of screenshots. These kinds of things cannot be sold.

On the one hand, MS Research seems to have a long history with lifelogging. On the other, MS aren’t capable of implementing decent search in Outlook; I very much doubt their ability to do the same in this more complicated setting.

I don’t think Windows has any privacy-conscious users at this point (outside corp contracts where this will be limited), and they generally seem to be doing everything they can to get out of the home market, so the moment is chosen well.
One may expect that the funding is paying for research, such that the government finds the trade to have positive expected value.
General strike when >50% of those who voted wanted this? What world are you living in?

Edit: I stand corrected, 49.81%. It doesn't change the point much. Especially when that ~49% includes many "working class"[1] voters. Who's going to participate in this general strike? A bunch of office workers?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-return-power-fueled-...
The SH1106 (1.3 inch) is a better option now. You can get them for 1.50$ on aliexpress sometimes
Not OP but I found these at least, googling in 30 seconds:

Australian Border Force searched phones of 10,000 travellers in past two years, data shows

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/...

Canadian authorities, like U.S. authorities, say they will seize a phone if a traveler refuses to unlock it. New Zealand imposes a $5,000 fine for failing to unlock a phone, and Britain considers refusing to unlock a phone for police to be a counterterrorism offense.

https://reason.com/2025/04/04/what-to-do-if-border-police-as...
The aggregate demands of the administration are confusing and contradictory. They seem to be simultaneously asking for:

- an end to diversity initiatives

- a new diversity initiative for diverse points of view

- a new policy of not admitting international students with certain points of view

- ending speech-control policies

- auditing the speech of certain departments and programs

- ending discipline of students who violate policies related to inclusion

- disciplining particular students who violated policies related to inclusion
Governments have a monopoly on violence in exchange for protected and upholding our privileged rights. When any government start disregarding that contract, so too can the populous.
>The American university system is undeniably impactful on American success over the last century.

Merit based reforms would only help. What kind of DEI programs did Harvard have 100 years ago?
that's 10 cents per american (still crazy!), but not $30, and $30 is only for Harvard much less how much federal funds go to other schools

Obviously I'd rather that 10 cents go to something productive, but on the national stage trump golfing feels like just a distraction from much more important topics
It has been really frustrating learning Godot (or any new technology you are not familiar with) 4.4.x with GPT4o or even worse, with custom GPT which use older GPT4turbo.

As you are new in the field, it kinda doesn't make sense to pick an older version. It would be better if there was no data than incorrect data. You literally have to include the version number on every prompt and even that doesn't guarantee a right result! Sometimes I have to play truth or dare three times before we finally find the right names and instructions. Yes I have the version info on all custom information dialogs, but it is not as effective as including it in the prompt itself.

Searching the web feels like an on-going "I'm feeling lucky" mode. Anyway, I still happen to get some real insights from GPT4o, even though Gemini 2.5 Pro has proven far superior for larger and more difficult contexts / problems.

The best storytelling ideas have come from GPT 4.5. Looking forward to testing this new 4.1 as well.
Harvard does substantially more than teach undergrads.
Which people do you think "hate you in particular"? Why do they hate you - what have you done to them?
Lot of bluster from Harvard. Harvard is free to not do what the gov't is requesting, they just don't get the fed money.
Susman Godfrey.

There's a lot going on and it's really hard to keep abreast of it all

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-says-law-firms-agree-pro...
Theoretically it would be feasible with something like STARTTLS that allows to upgrade a connection (part of SMTP and maybe IMAP) but browsers do not support this as it is not part of standard HTTP.
> And merit based reforms would help continue this.

I look forward to some.

This ain't it.
One of my biggest takeaways from the first time I saw her work was that Beleriand was actually situated to the west of Middle Earth prior to sinking. I had seen far too many erroneous maps placing it north of Middle Earth (https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uplo...)
I think the 9 billion is very misleading. More than half goes to hospitals affiliated with Harvard. I am not sure but I don't think they get anything from the endowment. The impact of loosing this money would be very uneven across different parts of the university and hospitals affiliated with it.

The faculty of arts and science would be fine. Yes, some cuts, a hiring freeze etc. The med school and public health school would feel a big impact. They employ so many people on "soft money" through grants including many faculty members.

The hospitals are a different story and I am not sure why they are even lumped together.
Statistically at his age he has a 25% chance of dieing before his term ends.
FYI because it can be misleading here, "the defense" is Kristi Noem/DHS/the US Government.

Kilmar Garcia has never been charged with a crime and is not a defendant in any case whatsoever. He is a kidnapping victim who is suing his kidnapper.

Into the main topic: I looked and don't see any such filing. I can find references to a memo from El Salvador claiming that it's 1 year for $6 million. I can't find a contract though, so the evidence suggests no such contract has been produced. Curious if you're willing to link directly to it though!

Here's what the aforementioned filing states:

> According to a memorandum issued by El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the agreement provides that the detainees will be held “for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on [their] long term disposition.”

I.e. referencing a memo, not a contract. This is unusual/illegal as any contract that USG signs over $25,000 must be reported.
> With Microlithic architecture, deployments are always an adventure. Container orchestration à la Microservices means juggling hundreds of Docker images, but monolithic coupling guarantees they all must deploy together.

Sounds like my friend's last job. Now I know what to call such an architecture: Microlithic!
What parts have I not addressed that you think I should?

I'm trying to make you understand that maybe there's other valid reasons people may be drawn to AI companions - and if I'm right, your misunderstanding of why people are or are not drawn to such things will make it really hard for you to make any progress in your goal of "creating kind human beings that are not fools"

Anyway, in my experience, most people are in fact kind by nature and not fools. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective and approaching people with a bit more good faith; not assuming they're unkind, or telling them how they really should feel. Maybe if people were willing to see the other side a little bit more, and have a bit of empathy for others' feelings, they'd not feel the need to retreat from the world.
Precisely. If only the people who worship the Declaration of Independence and recite it like parrots singing a psalm, actually understood what the document was saying.
> Lawyers? Doctors? Medical research? Thousands of highly educated graduates annually?
Maybe. Not sure. More explicitly the letter demands that tenured professors be given more decision making power than non academic activists.

The outright dismissal of the letter suggests that at least maybe non academic activists are calling the shots, and if that is true Harvard is destined to wither and die.
How can you know that? Please don't assume stuff about others just to make a rhetorical point. If you say it's not that common as it's often made out to be, why wouldn't I believe you?

Though what would also help if you had an explanation for why we tend to hear these stories mostly from the US and not from other countries.
It’s not identity politics to observe that the dilemma you presented (public funding for universities xor local schools) is false.
Unless you're Stephen Miller, who insists that no mistake was made: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrobxubic23

And, more recently, Bukele and Trump insisted that they would not return a "terrorist" to the United States: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrwrrkbnf2e

It's clear that the administration does not consider collateral damage a bug, but a feature; it confirms that as long as they insist that they will not do anything, then nothing will be done.