skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The administration wants to revoke visas for non-US citizens who come here under the pretense of education and instead advocate for terrorist groups.

1. You can get an education while advocating for causes

2. The letter doesn't only say advocating for a terrorist group.

From the gov demand letter:

"International Admissions Reform. By August 2025, the University must reform its recruitment, screening, and admissions of international students to prevent admitting students hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism or anti-Semitism."

>Why is the US government expected to fund people who want to destroy the US government?

1. They aren't, Harvard does

2. Federal grants aren't targeted to specific students so revoking them isn't a targetted punishment

3. Harvard can still operate without these grants, including bringing in international students who the current admin might disagree with.

4. The US government gives money to people who want to destroy it all the time. Welfare, social security, etc is given to anti-gov US citizens with no restrictions based on those views.

5. Although only proposed Trump wanted to set up a fund for January 6th protestors who he pardoned. Some of whom attacked the US capital to disrupt a Democratic election process.

>Should you be required to pay people who want to kill you?

No. How is that related to this? You just overly generalized the entire situation in order to produce a question where I'd mostly likely to say "no" as a argument manipulation tactic.
OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model
You have it exactly right sans the reason to allow them in the first place. They're bots that provide reciprocal value to the site owner. Otherwise why even bother letting them through.

It's wild how people don't get that facebook and googlebot gets let through paywalls and such because they bring the site real tangible revenue. If you want to get the same privileges you have to start with the monetary value provided to the sites you index. Lead gen is hard and major search engines provide crazy value for next to nothing.
Show HN: I built an app for multi-currency and multi-identity net worth tracking
TL;DR:
It’s an iOS app to calculate my net worth in minutes. It works no matter how many accounts, currencies, or personal and business identities I need to manage.

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I built this out of necessity.

I manage multiple accounts in several currencies for both personal and business use. Each business has its own QuickBooks account, but I still lacked a simple, unified view of my entire financial picture.

I used custom spreadsheets to track everything, but updating them took hours every month. Most finance apps focus on budgeting or assume a single currency and identity, which didn’t meet my needs.

Since getting a clear overview of my finances is something I’ll likely need for the rest of my life, I built this iOS app to make that task take just a few minutes.

At its core, it’s a calculator. It supports over 160 currencies (updated hourly) and lets me filter net worth by any combination of accounts or identities.

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Would something like this be useful to you?
> Objective-C came up in the frenzied early days of the object-oriented programming era, and by all accounts, it should have never survived past it.

this is deeply uninformed, with bald prejudice added.
I'm guessing vaccines have something to do with it, and maybe drinking water fluoridation.
Anyone else notice how the entropy in the 1000 bouncing balls simulation goes down at some point, thereby violating the second law of thermodynamics? :)
dupe, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688395
If you hold stock long term, you will pay the same or less tax.

From Google: "For the 2025 tax year, individual filers won't pay any capital gains tax if their total taxable income is $48,350 or less"

If you've got a smart phone and a credit card, you can buy stock. See robinhood.com
I mean, it turns out the fed has the power to pull any money from any account they wish, at any time, like they recently did with NYC.
So what? You’re basically claiming that it’ll fail because some companies won’t want to provide too much value for free.

But that’s such a small part of the equation here. If GitHub has an MCP server, you’re still paying them to host your code (potentially), and you get the benefit of agents being able to access GitHub in your development workflow (say, to look for similar issues or start work on things).

Yes, not every company will shove their data into AI agents. But can you take various tools and plug them together using agents to power up your workflows? That’s what these projects are thinking about. And there are vast numbers of tools which would happily integrate into this process.
Facebook's login/account recovery codes are not TOTP/HOTP, but are random numbers. Also, the author struggled to check their implementation. One can easily compare an implementation of many websites by grabbing the QR codes they use for login and importing into your favorite authenticator app and also decoding the QR code to get the secret. In theory your code should produce the same codes at the same time as the app.
1. Does not follow. Just because you don't like someone's politics doesn't mean they're dishonest.

2. Your own link contradicts you. It says explicitly that that site hasn't failed any of their fact checks and doesn't use loaded words that they say are typical of that category. It says the categorization is because the site promotes libertarian policies.
'Thirstwaves' are growing more common across the United States
Absolutely. Huge claim with zero examples is hmm.
Just be more creative on your name and use a .com, and don't think about it any more.

I think PG had an article about this (on naming?) a while back...
I won't deny it. Though I think if it was just capitalism and not also an expansionary monetary system which compounds the wealth of incumbents and gives them an unshakable advantage, then my brain would be a little bit more balanced.
Agreed. But that only makes me wonder: Out of the "a lot" that GP recently learned about hat-making, what are the next one or two most interesting factoids after that one?
My wife had a similar experience, except it was her shoulder. They took a margin, looked at lymph nodes, and did a nuclear test that traced something that I can’t recall.

Another lesson learned is that if at all possible, go to a national cancer center. Even if for a second opinion analysis. The level of care is different and better than what you find in community oncology or hospital practices.
How does the inexperienced developer become experienced under said circumstances?
Yes. The best example of something that is popular and homoiconic is Bash. Bash keeps your functions in source code form, though comments may be lost, and they get reformatted. You can see the code when you type "set all", and can copy and paste the definitions back into Bash.

In Common Lisp, the homoiconic feature is the ed function which allows you to edit the source code of a function. Support for ed is implementation-defined!

It may be absent (e.g. in a Common Lisp that compiles everything to machine code). A Common Lisp that compiles all forms and doesn't support the ed function isn't homoiconic.
Those look like calamondins (Calamansi limes).

Just like with oranges, their skin will remain green or mostly green unless grown where it gets cold enough, then their skin will turn yellow then orange then reddish orange. Where I live, calamondins trees have entirely orange fruit when ripe.
Suggestion: define who your target user is. A dev who speaks one lang and needs to quickly output another? A student in high school? A TA in college? That will orient the reader and set expectations appropriately.

Also show some samples of output, eg Python or Go. It's difficult to assess the tool without understanding how idiomatic the output code is. As in, is USL doing anything more than "tokenizing sed on steroids"? I can't tell.

Then again, if it's meant as a learning tool, maybe it matters less.
It can only be "de facto" illegal if legal action was brought against some entity and succeeded, otherwise it'd be "de facto" nothing. GP also asked for an example case. TBH though I'm not how legal action would succeed without an accompanying law.

Any source at all here for your claim would be nice.
Hey, congrats on the launch. I'm interested in what use-case led you to create this? What problem does it solve?

I've had a little experience translating code between languages (ObjC/Swift, Javascript/Python), and it has been frustrating, not because of re-stating the logic, but due to different availability of libraries, different execution semantics (e.g. async/await), different type systems, etc.

Also, it looks like USL is a new language? Did you consider something like CEL instead (Common Expression Language, https://cel.dev/), which seems to be doing something similar for the expression of basic logic.
I agree. I had a couple of NeXT slabs from 1991 to 2000 or so. Objective C had some benefits. The NeXT Obj-C libraries were very usable and well thought out. I will grant that it had problems, the biggest of which was that it wasn't Windows 3.11 and it wasn't backed by Microsoft. The amount of pro-Microsoft press and propaganda was astonishing during that period.
Whoa there Boomer, that doesn't sound like it uses enough npm packages! It also doesn't sound very web scale. /s
I’ll definitely check it out if it’s ever published as open source software!

Source available isn’t my cup of tea (especially for programming languages), and I’m not exactly a big fan of Gumroad either…
> growing number of states and schools have also begun eliminating requirements that job applicants furnish “diversity statements” — written commitments to particular ideas about diversity and how to achieve it that, at some institutions, have functionally served as litmus tests in hiring.

https://archive.is/UeZ2A#selection-5289.442-5297.27

> Chavous and her colleagues did not collect demographic information from applicants. Instead, they were asked to submit statements addressing how they would advance D.E.I. goals, whether through research into “race, gender, diversity, equity and inclusion,” “significant academic achievement in the face of barriers” or “commitment to allyhood through learning about structural inequities.” Departments were invited to nominate candidates from an application pool created by the diversity center, which then oversaw further vetting.

https://archive.is/i6Gv9#selection-1183.358-1187.413

Ohio State Reports: DEI Litmus Test

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/ohio-state-reports-dei-lit...
Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
Vast majority of JS/TS we write doesn’t live on the critical path and should be optimised for readability over performance.

However, when it does, it should be explicitly recognised, appropriate boundaries put, and that code written in a completely different style altogether. There are A LOT more of idiomatic and widespread JS/TS patterns that should not be used in such code.

Before TS, I used to write games in C# (Unity), and it was the same there too. I think this distinction between two kinds of code holds in a lot of environments.
You can just read and write the notebook directly with ordinary calendar/todo-list UIs and get 99% of the utility without an LLM. I'm not really seeing value in the LLM except the butler voice? It is just reading the notebook right? E.g. they ask the butler to remember a coffee preference, but then that's never used for anything?
That's simply not true. A loader can do whatever it wants. It translates the raw file contents into anything. Granted, at that point you'd might as well have the loader just be a traditional protobuf compiler, but the point still stands that this isn't an invalid solution.
This hits the nail on the head for me. When I built my open source project, I felt like a part of society, I was happy to be a part of it. I was proud to contribute even if I didn't capture much of the value I created...

Now I feel like all of this structure is exploiting and manipulating me and others psychologically. The level of ethics is so low, it is beyond what I could have imagined. I simply don't get the same feelings as I once did. Working on open source doesn't make me hopeful and feel like part of something, it makes me feel like a naive fool.

My comments may sound negative but I'm trying to help others, who may be slightly younger versions of myself, to avoid a lot of pain.

This pain doesn't teach you much besides resilience and the gains there become extremely marginal... On the other hand, it doesn't seem very useful career-wise to see things as they are.

To succeed, you need to be on the same wavelength of optimism as existing successful people. My worldview is holding me back. Ignorance can be an advantage.
"What?" Great rebuttal, you sure convinced me!

Oh, I forgot to mention that if your local water is hard, then no amount of handwashing will save you from your dish being made worse. Not an issue for me at the moment, though, but I've lived in places where the water seems to be about 70% calcium.
Wow, I wondered what the limit was. I never checked, but I've been using it hesitantly since I burn up OpenAI's limit as soon as it resets. Thanks for the clarity.

I'm all-in on Deep Research. It can conduct research on niche historical topics that have no central articles in minutes, which typically were taking me days or weeks to delve into.
Yes because a small company could deliver a national same day shipping infrastructure and worldwide network of cloud servers including its own undersead cables.

And again, work is a transaction. I’m perfectly fine with being treated as a resource when I was getting a quarter million a year and working remotely…
You've invented IR - eg take a look at egress targets in MLIR https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/mlir/lib/Targ...
Working hard for a place that will not reward me is no way to live.

And with less dedication, I can spend far less than half my time there ;)
> YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created.

That's bizarre.
> vibe coding allowed me to figure out some rough edges of my design document, and experiment with "what would it look like built with threads? As async code? As procedural?”

This doesn’t fall under my understanding of the phrase “vibe coding”. In the tweet from Karpathy which many point to for coining the phrase, he says that when vibe coding you essentially “forget the code exists”. I think it’s distinct from regular ol LLM-assisted development
Looks similar to most other mid-level remote procedure call protocols, from XMLRPC to CORBA.
The usual sync, async, poll, progress test problems apply.
Things I'd expected to see and didn't:

- Client to server: "tell me what you can do". This has always been hard, but in the LLM era, it could potentially work, because a textural response would work.

- Similarly, being able to ask "How do I..." might be feasible now. It should be possible to talk to a new server and automatically figure out how to use it.

- "How much is this going to cost me?" Plus some way to set a cost limit on a query.
Russia is a foe because it chooses to be a foe. It won't be an ally for any foreseeable future.

Trump doesn't care about cost. And investing in your own military is not the same as paying America. The Baltic countries and Poland have spent a higher then recommended percentage of their gdp on the military and have done more to keep a positive relationship with America but Trump doesn't seem to care
I wish authors would actually test their performance claims before publishing them.

I quickly benchmarked the two code snippets:

arr.slice(10, 20).filter(el => el < 10).map(el => el + 5)

and

arr.values().drop(10).take(10).filter(el => el < 10).map(el => el + 5).toArray()

but scaled up to much larger arrays. On V8, both allocated almost exactly the same amount of memory, but the latter snippet took 3-4x as long to run.
Not really, in my experience. There's still fundamental differences between designed systems and trained LLMs.
yep, it is just couple lines of code and nice math behind it
I bought an AMD Ryzen Thinkpad late last year, and I had the same issue with bright/saturated colours. I fixed it by running X-Rite Color Assistant which was bundled with the laptop, and setting the profile to sRGB. I then turned up the brightness a little.

I think this a consequence of the laptop having HDR colour, and the vendor wanting to make it obvious. It's the blinding blue LED of the current day.
I absolutely think it’s valid to want to express one’s viewpoint anonymously.

However, I don’t think your argument really covers this particular situation. The events in question predate Trump’s reelection, and a lot of the things done by people, many whom were wearing masks, were approaching (or far beyond, depending your perspective) the line where free speech stops and harassment, vandalism and hate begins.

I think that one of the most self-defeating things that some of Trump’s opponents do is to ignore the fact that many of his actions are based on actual problems in the US. In my mind, bad things really were done on college campuses. Awful things really were done in the name of DEI. Cancel culture really was out of control. The US really does have economic deficiencies in the manufacturing sector. None of these excuse most of what Trump has done, but minimizing the real problems that he and his supporters latch onto doesn’t help.
Kind of ironic that Facebook+Cambridge Analytica seem completely forgotten despite being a coordinated, successful effort to push for swings towards Trump.

Roko's Basilisk might be hitting us faster than we thought.
Honestly just good advice for engineers in general - understand the difference between programs and products
Modern dishwashers are great. I was firmly of your opinion for years, stubbornly a hand washer. Now I rinse dishes until there are no chunks left, sauce, grease, etc is all OK. Put them into the washer, and most evenings decide it's full enough and click start. The next day clean dry dishes are loaded directly into the cabinets.
Does Omnom not? They have FF and Chrome extensions...
I expect the video in homepage to showcase the engine but it just play BGM for 2 minutes....
Bilbo crossed the Misty Mountains back during the spring.
The tariff definition is just a dict so it's pretty straightforward to pass a dict that has a default value instead.
Interesting. I know that some people in SF will prefer Waymo over a human driver, but lately I've noticed Waymo is significantly more expensive then Uber or Lyft, even considering you don't tip a Waymo. Like I'll see $12 or $14 fares on Uber/Lyft, but $25 on Waymo.

Another downside of Waymo is it still won't take freeways in SF, so rides can be significantly longer depending on where you're going.

But yes, when the Waymo price and trip time are competitive with Uber/Lyft (incl tip), I'll pretty much always take Waymo.
> as if casual readers pick it up!

I was a casual reader, but then I picked it up.
> If you want to do something interesting with the feeds it would be harder.

I am curious: What do you do with the feeds that can't be done in a client-side app? An aggregation across all users or recommendation system is one thing, but it can even be done via the clients sending analytics data back to the servers.
You're dodging, and I know you're smart enough to know how this goes. I don't make money with long term stock, I make salary. I pay >>20% tax on that salary. Billionaries make, statistically, zero salary. All their income is on long term gains. All of it. So billionaires pay 20%, and that only if they're dumb enough not to find other shelters.

You're just saying "Well, that's the way the tax code works". I'm saying "The tax code sucks", and your point is non-responsive.
What he explained in his book is that he's an evil, dishonest person, who routinely lies and harms people in negotiations in order to get his way. I agree that being evil and dishonest is often quite effective - if you came up to me with a knife and an outlandish demand that I should give you my wallet, I'd probably concede the negotiation. But I don't at all understand the idea that I have to respect this as some kind of clever negotiating strategy. The innocent researchers whose grants he's cancelled are real people suffering real harm, and they don't become transmuted to a mere negotiating tactic just because Donald Trump doesn't care about them.
PE’s buy companies to increase the company’s value then sell it. There’s been many successes. Powerschool, Hilton, Dunkin’ Brands, Dollar General, Beats by Dre, Petco, GoDaddy, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Neiman Marcus, Panera Bread, Allegro, Guitar Center, Nielsen, McAfee…
Thomas Jefferson on Kids Reading Novels (2024)
Virtually Tour Salvador Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres, Spain
You have to clean the filter more frequently, is the trade off. Not a bad one IMO.
Add the cancers from mammography to these and you'll get a pretty substantial number of redundant suffering!
Isn't this the purpose of most acquisitions?
"Bet I could get in < 10MB."

I use one that is 99K static binary.

Even the full-featured TLS/HTTPS forward proxy I use, linked with bloated OpenSSL, is still less than 10MB static binary: 8.7MB. When linked to WolfSSL it's only 4.6MB static binary. The proxy can serve small, static HTML pages, preloading them into memory at startup.
Johann Caspar Kerll
And I mentioned on average people take 20-25 days a year and managers are dinged if their reports don’t take at least 15 days a year.

I don’t care what the “average” is. I plan on taking 30 days this year.
A good family friend caught abdominal TB while abroad, came back to Canada, and was terribly misdiagnosed. TB is very rare here; abdominal TB even more so, and early symptoms look like a lot of other diseases. It took several hospital visits before the doctors realized the actual problem. He very nearly died, and spent nearly a year in the hospital recovering from a parade of complications.
The experiment design sounds pretty cool. I hope they see some cool results. It would be very cool if humans could talk to another intelligent creature here on earth. This is certainly a step on the way there.
Sure it will. $53.2B is the value of their endowment, not their yearly budget. They only take out a single-digit percentage of they every year. It wouldn't last very long otherwise.
Most people don't wash the dishes coming out of the dishwasher.

I guess you might legitimately be confused about that.

Anyway, the other poster wasn't trying to rebut you, they were prompting to explain why you do those things.
Wasn't Harvard's president a woman who wrote her PhD thesis on DEI? I vaguely remember the news about this (fraud or something). If this is what Harvard considers that the person for the job, I think the sense making apparatus of Harvard personnel is specifically tuned to not bend the knee in this case. The instrument would likely fail at the input validation step and not proceed to the sense making portion.
No, that’s backwards. It means what it says. When you see a symptom first look for the common things it could be, not the one in a million chance.
An uneducated populace is easier to manipulate and control. Trump and his cronies didn't really care about US dominance; they'll find ways to profit regardless. I'm sure they're profiting already from what they're doing.
Ok. I quickly rinse the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, and put them straight back to the cupboard once it's done. I've been washing dishes by hand for 15 years and now I have my first dishwasher. So I know the difference, and I'm loving it.
The first one is included, you can ask for available actions as well as mcp sever feature support. Is there something else that's missing?