skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear I'm advocating that if someone is flagging this due to it not being intellectually interesting, that they reflect on whether that's actually true or if it's just that fear or anxiety are getting in the way.

I certainly don't want all news on this topic to be here; there's plenty of places to get that. But we definitely could discuss it here in ways which aren't accessible many other places if we take on the rather difficult task of finding some curiosity about the what exactly is going on.
Harvard Medical School?

Ah yes I've heard of that, it's one of the "Programs with Egregious Records of Antisemitism or Other Bias" which most fuels antisemitic harassment and reflects ideological capture!
100%. To an extent that's why I don't often freelance anymore as it's very easy to fall into a place where e.g. to build a booking app for a pet shop you need to become an expert in the field of veterinary.
Universities and colleges are hotbeds of political protest. Take young people with poor impulse control, expose them to education and political literature, and let them freely associate (e.g. form student groups). They're going to question authority and government policy, often in an unruly manner. That's just how it goes. The thing is, when students are right, protests often spread to the rest of the population. That's why the letter makes explicit a concern about non-students being invited onto campus. The last thing any administration wants is for student groups to spark a big protest that sticks around for a bit and pulls in protesters from off-campus. That stuff will make the news every time!

Most governments recognize that large protests can influence public opinion against them. If you let such a protest occur and do nothing to satisfy the demands of the protesters, then things can get ugly quick. Freedom of speech and association are powerful things! There's not much an open, democratic government can do except respond to protests by addressing the underlying issues or crush the protest and hope that the public decides the protesters were wrong. What the Trump administration is trying to do here is reduce their risk by infringing on freedom of speech and association. It's fascist or totalitarian. Take your pick.

As for their claims that they're trying to "unwind enforced ideological conformity"... You can't do that by enforcing conformity to a different ideology, as they are attempting here. This is a case where you should pay less attention to words and more to actions.
If it's a bad idea, it's a bad faith argument - why would you suggest it? The tax laws shouldn't favor the gross accumulation of wealth, nor the starvation of the treasury, so the laws need to change to force the rich to pay their fair share.
> Harvard's performance and reputation have tanked as a result of its anti-meritocratic policies

Do you have data to back this up?
It's tricky when you think of a continuous system because the "differential entropy" is different (and more subtle) than the "entropy". Even if a system is time-reversible, the "measure" of a set of states can change.

For example: Say I'm at some distance from you, between 0 and 1 km (all equiprobable). Now I switch to being 10x as far away. This is time-reversible, but because the volume of the set of states changed, the differential entropy changes. This is the kind of thing that happens in time-reversible continuous systems that can't happen in time-reversible discrete systems.
I didn't say it wasn't anti colonial at all, but by the time the US got actively involved it was certainly also/mostly a civil war/communist revolution.
You can give away your money by making contracts.
It's the usual PaaS convenience tax, you end up paying an order of magnitude or so premium for the underlying bandwidth and compute. AIUI Vercel runs on AWS so in their case it's a compound platform tax, AWS is expensive even before Vercel adds their own margin on top.
Thank-you, you're right. Hopefully we can borrow it in the future.
Got it - thanks! I might suggest adding a comparison section to the website (whenever appropriate). Appreciate the response, I look forward to checking it out.
Add a Cloudflare snippet / some other edge function, and transform the response to convert to plaintext
Weird. Pretty much every time I've gone to a doctor (in the Midwest US, no less) for an illness, the second question they ask is always "have you been out of the country recently?" just to rule out anything caught from abroad.

Then again, my one experience with a university hospital was pretty shitty, so maybe that's it?
I think what we're going to see is that republicans won't receive much blame for groceries and consumer good costs rising. I also think outside of extreme events (e.g. COVID) the vast majority of the voting public doesn't really understand how to judge the health of the economy, and instead only defers to the economy as a post-facto rationalization for what they were already leaning towards.

The tariff chaos is on everyone's mind right now so it seems as if people genuinely care, but in reality it's just a function of the media attention cycle. By the time the next elections come along, complaining about tariffs is going to be a boring talking point that democrats mistakenly think is a winner, but the public will have already moved on to the next thing.
We need to start turning the temperature up or this country will be completely lost
Hard to prove something's lack of existeance.

But from what I roughly understand, Xinis own documents don't have direct reference to a contract. They rely on AP's reporting of such a contract. So it's legally pretty ephemeral as of now.

Yet another law brokenm since such foreign treaties and contracts should be publicly documeted. But what does that matter at this point?
Bezos gets a much better margin rate than you or I would ever get on IBKR. And IBKR doesn't margin call, they straight up auto liquidate. Bezos's lender would never do that to him.
> I think in the future, websites will learn to serve pure markdown to these bots instead of blocking.

What for? Why would I serve anything to these leeches?
I have this instruction in ChatGPT settings:

> Be direct and concise, unless I ask for a formal text. Do not use emojis, unless I request adding them. Do not imitate a human with emotions, like saying "I'm sorry", "Thank you", "I'm happy"
All they did was point out humans have trended towards tribalism since… forever.

Social media has not remade our genome.
Absolutely insane pricing, maybe for small blogs, but didn’t they calculate this trough?

Millions of episode, of course they will be visited and the optimization is run.
Similar story: mom had a melanoma removed from her foot. multiple lymph node biopsies and other tests said it had been successfully removed.

She went back once a year for checks for 4-5 years. It was only when she was called into see an oncologist and told an unrelated x-ray lead them to discover she had stage 4 metastatic melanoma (brain, liver, spine, femur, lungs and i’m sure i’m forgetting something) that we found out that they’d only been giving her visual checkups each year, no PET scans or anything else. The oncologist was shocked that the checks were so basic, mom didn’t know she was supposed to have anything else and she was dead in about 8 weeks.

We were told that the form of melanoma only came back like that in 1% of patients and usually simple visual checkups were enough. I have no idea how true that is.
Yes, perhaps the government should subsidize (or allow states to subsidize) the fixed costs of mail, just as we subsidize the fixed costs of roads, so that our business can be competitive. Is this what China does domestically, or what the US does when we charge for international shipping? Point is, we should at least list all the ways that we can be more competitive, rather than cheering isolationism that makes us all worse off.
The administration defines what ideology is and given the current administration claims it’s based on merit and given the nonsense they do economically, scientifically and militarily they are the ideological activists.
Not to mention that they are clearly hired based on gender and skin color.

RFK jr., really?
> In the US, we'd just go straight to a dermatologist

In the US, you would go straight to a dermatologist, because your health insurance plan (or high paying job) allows you to do that.

People with an HMO would begin with the GP, because that's what the plan requires.
He was effectively appointed by Steven Mnuchin in 2017: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/23/trump-is-reportedly-diss...

This go round Trump is liable to appoint someone from Fox Business.
I guess it goes to show how jaded I am, but as I was reading this, it felt like an ad for Vercel. I'm so sick of marketing content being submitted as actual content, that when I read a potentially actual blog/post-mortem, my spidey senses get all tingly about potential advertising. However, I feel like if I turn down the sensitivity knob, I'll be worse off than knee jerk thinking things like this are ads.
At least we can rest assured that they will be more expensive.
Do you consider that a cure for migraines or is it just a strawman?
>If you take enough steps back and really think about it, the only synchronization primitive that exists is a futex (and maybe atomics). Everything else is an abstraction of some kind.

You're going to be surprised when you learn that futexes are an abstraction too, ultimately relying on this thing called "cache coherence".

And you'll be really surprised when you learn how cache coherence is implemented.
> every spot (5+ over the past decade) I’ve asked my dermatologist about has resulted in a biopsy

Not to be too cynical but... is there a financial incentive for them to do a biopsy?

Of course it might be best practice as well.
What alternatives are those, that enable realizing income without incurring income tax?
Are your skin checks just visual checks? If so, read my other comment in this thread. It was in UK fyi.
nope. if i ask an llm to give me a detailed schematic to build a bridge, im not magically * poof * a structural engineer.
> Locality is so important that linear actions trump asymptotic complexity until you get quite a lot more elements than you might expect.

The reverse of this can be true. In the following paper, they found that William's Heap Construction (one by one, O(n log n) time) beat Floyd's Heap Construction (O(n) time) when the input is larger than the size of off-chip cache.

https://doi.org/10.1145/351827.384257
>what's more likely?

That Trump 47 is true to his word and will keep boiling the frog if we don't stop him. I'm pretty tired of giving the BOTD to an administration that has so far done all teh bad things they promised (oh sorry. "joked about") and none of the good things.
Short term dividend income is taxed at the same rates as wage income.
>A new proposal seeks to increase the endowment tax rate to 14%

That would be great that Harvard pays %14 on investment income on its 50 billion fund, considering I pay a minimum of 20% on my 'way less than $50 billion' in
taxable investments, which was funded by my already taxed earnings, where as Harvard gets much of its endowment funds gifted to it.
I would call it ignorance tax, paas can be fine if you know what you are doing.
In my ~35 years of being a Tolkien fan I've never actually seen this. Wow, so inacurrate.
This is not a solution for now, but a solution for 'next time', but can you migrate to using 'virtual credit cards' where you can essentially use a separate credit card number per subscription. In cases like this, you just cancel the credit card number that's been "burned", but you don't have to re-jig all the other subs to use a new number.

(ie. the advice for this situation is cancel the credit card, knowing that's a giant pain in the arse).
How soon before criticizing Trump, his allies, and his backers is classified as preaching hate against America?
> I am beginning to think M&A are just some sort of ego thing for bored megacorp execs

It seems like a low risk effort to put a promising inexperienced exec in charge of a recent acquisition.

If they're a screw up and run it into the ground, imagine how much damage they could have done in a megacorp position of power.

Megacorp saved (at the cost of a smaller company)
Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2B for Harvard
>if you don't hold any shares, then you have closed the position.

Even if I acquire new shares < 30 days later?

My employer (Google) had a CPA give a recorded presentation about how to file RSU taxes. In it he said that the vests can was your sales, and this is especially prevalent if you have monthly vesting. This was a CPA who specializes in helping Google employees file taxes.

> Your other two points - states don't do income tax calculations based on the grant, but only what vested while you lived/worked in the state in the respective year of the vesting.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/tax/comments/q8ythd/interstate_move... .

Also, that same CPA gave a different recorded presentation specifically about state-to-state RSU taxes, and he said that if you work from another state, you need to track the number of days between grant and vest that you work from that other state in order to properly attribute the earnings to non-resident states.
And you’re taking words of this administration at face value, correct?
Borrowing against assets. Wealthy people get low, low rates, much lower than the hoi polloi would get on a HELOC or brokerage account margin loan. Banks like having them as clients.
And this is why I believe governments should tax nonprofit organizations!
This is true for ultra high net worth individuals. They can do schemes like borrowing against equities and using the tax-free cash for expenses or purchasing other assets.

It is also true for many “normal” one percenters. For example there is a service for incorporated anesthesiologists where you tell them where you plan to go on vacation and what dates, and they create a bullshit anesthesiology conference, including the brochure and other artifacts, that meet the letter of the law IRS definitions for a valid business expense. None of this stuff ever hits AGI.
It is a thing.

For livestreams there's AceStream built on BitTorrent, but I think it's closed-source. They do have some SDK but I never looked into it. It's mostly used by IPTV pirates. I've used it a few times and it's hit-or-miss but when it works well I have been able to watch livestreams in HD/FullHD without cuts. Latency is always very bad though.

Then for video-on-demand there are some web-based ones like PeerTube (FOSS) and I think BitChute? Sadly webtorrent is very limited.
Props to Intel duping AMD to buy Xillix for whooping $50B
Does it suffice to load the content with JS or WASM to keep them out, or are they using some sort of emulated/headless browser?

If they're running JS or WASM, can the JS run a few calls likely to break (e.g., something in the WebGPU API set, since they likely aren't paying for GPUs in their scraping farm)?
It’s also not what they’re doing. Seems like you’re arguing against a strawman.
LaTeX (for my CV), a bunch of PDF (for examples of my work), experience, and some good references.
... I know this. Again[1], not the point of my comment.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687028
According to Google:

"Entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on social networks that this year he will pay 11 billion dollars, thus becoming the largest taxpayer in the history of the USA."
Can you point to a specific security problem this change is actually solving? For example, can we attribute any major security compromises in the last 5 years to TLS certificate lifetime?

Are the security benefits really worth making anything with a valid TLS certificate stop working if it is air-gapped or offline for 48 days?

> CAs and certificate consumers (browsers) voted in favour of this change. They didn't do this because they're incompetent but because they think it'll improve security.

They're not incompetent and they're not "evil", and this change does improve some things. But the companies behind the top level CA ecosystem have their own interests which might not always align with those of end users.
Admissions data does not back it up. And based on my college recruiting data, recruiting doesn’t back it up either.
See my answer in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687920 .

In terms of the amount of tax to MI, it's not a whole lot. A couple hundred dollars. And it doesn't change my total taxes paid, because I get a tax credit for that against my CA taxes. MI's tax rate is lower than CA's.
International shipping from China to the US is subsidized by USPS under the Universal Postal Union rules since China is classified as a developing country. Terminal dues to the US have been increasing over the last 5 years to compensate for this.

https://www.ecomcrew.com/why-china-post-and-usps-are-killing...
If only governments weren’t so damn useful we could all avoid taxes.

Instead it’s mostly a question around who pays what share, and there’s some massive winners and losers.
Ah but you forget that the economic exploitation of the former colonies was supposed to continue. It is not so much communism that frightened the West as it was nationalism.
Top researchers prefer federal funding, it’s fairly predictable..till now. It’s messy now so I might be wrong.
Wait why would $0.75 have a $75 charge? Is there a minimum tariff that’s not as widely reported reported on? That would be a 10000% tariff. Or is this just exaggeration
This paper is surprisingly badly written in terms of English, to the degree that it's hard to know what they are talking about at times and idiotic in terms of its methodology.

Did the number of EVs up until 2017 have an effect on a countries overall CO2!?
I think this is a classic example of headline number being scare of a factual report. Yes. this number is in the report. No, it's not black-and-white "ban CT scans"

The number of cancers found, the number of cancers attributed to the CT radiation dose, the number of OTHER cancers found, and dealt with, it's a far more complex story.

They try to say this in the report:

> That's based on some assumptions and historical data from high radiation events, but if right, it would put CT scans on par with other significant risk factors for cancer, like alcohol consumption, at least at a population level.

So, if we're going to target CT scans as a risk, lets start with returning to prohibition. one.. two.. three..

> "To empirically quantify lifetime risk would require decades-long follow-up studies of very large populations," the authors admit.

Admit is again headline-ese. It's just a pretty straightforward thing: epidemiology on risk in these matters has to weigh up many many things.

What about Radiation hormesis?
I think your attention heads might not be reading the positional encoding quite right. :P
This court decision seems insane, being illegal because you work hard to become the best.
Actually I stand corrected--he was ALSO caught on tape with a much more chilling version of this statement.
That’s understandable, especially in the current climate. I’ve definitely encountered the straw men from the anti-science types too, and it’s incredibly frustrating.

As a layperson, I often come in contact with people who believe in science but fall into what is essentially scientific absolutism and see philosophy as irrelevant. I was one of those people in my 20s before I went down some rabbit holes that set me straight. Many of the people around me did not.

The scientists I know are not the absolutist types. I sometimes forget there are more scientists here than the average internet community.
I’ve been consistently impressed with AMD for a while now. They’re constantly undervalued for no reason other than CUDA from what I can tell.
(I work at Vercel) We moved to a transformation-based price: https://x.com/TheBuildLog/status/1892308957865111918
FPGAs might not be ideal, but AMD's NPU IP originated with Xilinx.

Intel was an early player to so many massive industries (e.g. XScale, GPGPU, hybrid FPGA SoCs). Intel abandoned all of them prematurely and has been left playing catch-up every time. We might be having a very different discussion if literally any of them had succeeded.
The issue is Vercel Image API is ridiculously expensive and also not efficient.

I would recommend using Thumbor instead: https://thumbor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. You could have ChatGPT write up a React image wrapper pretty quickly for this.
> Are you talking about channels or some other concept?

yes channels. I used them to power the websockets system for my startup. workes 100% as advertised out of the box with no special configuration. Handles thousands of messages per hour at the moment.
No. This fight will be much bigger than money. It’s true they have money, but this will be a literal fight of academic freedom against authoritarianism.
Too bad that’s not the argument being made by people pushing the current policies, instead of the idea that this will magically lead to us having more and better things.
I'm really tired of this song and dance at this point of being alarmist for trusting every little thing Trump says he'll do, no matter how crazy.

This is the exact opposite of the Boy who Cried Wolf. How many sheep need to be eaten before you trust the shepard? Or you know, the wolf who keeps saying "I'm going to eat these sheep"?
Sweet! That's much more reasonable!
> it’s a regular occurrence for Intel to announce a bold new venture to try to claim some new territory, and just as regular that they announce they’re halting that venture in the name of “consolidating” and “focusing on their core.” [...] [Intel's new thing's] expected lifespan is shorter than the average Google product.

You got there in the end. You get the same outcome with the same corporate incentive.

Both Intel and Google prioritize {starting something new} over {growing an existing thing}, in terms of corporate promotions and rewards, and therefore employees and leaders self-optimize to produce the repeated behavior you see.

The way to fix this would be to decrease the rewards for starting a new thing and increase the rewards for evolving and growing an existing line of business.
This part was galling to me; somewhere in the USPS, the data about what mailpieces/packages are arriving soon exist in a very concise form, and they templatize an email and send it to me, after which I can parse the email with simple+brittle regexes or forward the emails to a relatively (environmentally-)expensive LLM or so.... but if they'd made the information available with an API or RSS feed, or attached the json payload to the email in the first place, I could get away without parsing.
I guess Harvard saw the decision at Columbia made the situation worse [1], so they decided to make a different one.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-all-rese...