skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard's admittance policy should not be up to the government outside of preventing discrimination along protected classes. If Harvard admits students that are bad consistently, and they turn out to be bad hires/professional connections, then Harvard the institution will lose its competitiveness with other schools for the best talent and previous alumni will pressure/complain that recent admittance policies are devaluing their degrees.
If you haven't seen it, you'll probably like:

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
Who has a (publicly released) model that is SOTA is constantly changing. It’s more interesting to see who is driving the innovation in the field, and right now that is pretty clearly OpenAI (GPT-3, first multi-modal model, first reasoning model, ect).
Lots of people behave stupidly in their early 20s, and then grow out of it later in life. But the key is: they have to grow out of it. I'm not convinced this is true of Zuck.
Cool project! Setting up a quick local HTML server can be annoying.

Alas it looks like it's web/electron based. :/ Downloading it and yep, 443.8 MB on MacOS. The Linux one is a bit better at 183.3 MB.

Electron really should get a kickback from disk manufacturers! ;)

Shameless plug, I've been working on a HTML inspired lightweight UI toolkit because I'm convinced we can make these sort of apps and they should only be ~10-20 MB [1] with nice syntax, animation, theming, etc. I'm finally making a suite of widgets. Maybe I can make a basic clone of this! Bet I could get in < 10MB. :)

1: https://github.com/elcritch/figuro
Currently it does not track the separate books. Something that needs to be done in future iterations. Thanks!
Endowments have come from people over the entire history of the institution. The vast majority of the endowers are likely deceased and won't be able to agree to change the terms of their endowment.
> You're eligible for free daily usage on traffic shared with OpenAI through April 30, 2025.
> Up to 1 million tokens per day across gpt-4.5-preview, gpt-4.1, gpt-4o and o1
> Up to 10 million tokens per day across gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-mini, o1-mini and o3-mini
> Usage beyond these limits, as well as usage for other models, will be billed at standard rates. Some limitations apply.

I just found this option in https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/data-contr...

Is just this something I haven't noticed before? Or is this new?
I think that people balked at the cost of 4.5 and really wanted just a slightly more improved 4o . Now it almost seems that they will have a separate products that are non chain of thought and chain of thought series which actually makes sense because some want a cheap model and some don't.
This reminds me of Teilhard de Chardin's take on complexification, as laid out in his seminal book Le Phénomène humain. See e.g., this article[0] for a simple overview of the hypothesis. For further reading, I recommend the excellent new translation by Sarah Appleton-Weber, The Human Phenomenon[1].

[0] <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/%28SICI%2910...>

[1] <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/...>
I fail to see how the lack of a perfect quantifiable metric of merit logically flows down to "stop admitting Asians because we have too many"? Whatever the university's method of determining merit is, it should be applied to everyone equally, and racially discriminating because one group historically performs well is indefensible imo
You haven't discovered the lemmyverse yet? Head over to piefed.social and be happy again ;)

I'm not related to either project (piefed is federated with lemmy instances), but enjoy those feeds A LOT.
Everyone assumed malice when the board fired him for not always being "candid" - but it seems more and more that he's just clueless. He's definitely capable when it comes to raising money as a business, but I wouldn't count on any tech opinion from him.
Yeah their approach of using two different models to detect and then inpaint is very subliminal given that many watermarks are semi-transparent. They could have just trained a UNet with adversarial loss + LPIPS to do all the work and it would have worked much better already.
The intercept article you linked says HRW gave the money back, so that's kind of a nothingburger, isn't it?
> Software will get automated, and it already is, people just havent figured it out yet

To be honest I think this is most AI labs (particularly the American ones) not-so-secret goal now, for a number of strong reasons. You can see it in this announcements, Anthrophic's recent Claude 3.7 announcement, OpenAI's first planned agent (SWE-Agent), etc etc. They have to justify their worth somehow and they see it as a potential path to do that. Remains to be seen how far they will get - I hope I'm wrong.

The reasons however for picking this path IMO are:

- Their usage statistics show coding as the main user: Anthrophic recently released their stats. Its become the main usage of these models, with other usages at best being novelty or conveniences for people in relative size. Without this market IMO the hype would of already fizzled awhile ago at best a novelty when looking at the rest of the user base size.

- They "smell blood" to disrupt and fear is very effective to promote their product: This IMO is the biggest one. Disrupting software looks to be an achievable goal, but it also is a goal that has high engagement compared to other use cases. No point solving something awesome if people don't care, or only care for awhile (e.g. meme image generation). You can see the developers on this site and elsewhere in fear. Fear is the best marketing tool ever and engagement can last years. It keeps people engaged and wanting to know more; and talking about how "they are cooked" almost to the exclusion of everything else (i.e. focusing on the threat). Nothing motivates you to know a product more than not being able to provide for yourself, your family, etc to the point that most other tech topics/innovations are being drowned out by AI announcements.

- Many of them are losing money and need a market to disrupt: Currently the existing use cases of a chat bot are not yet impressive enough (or haven't been till very recently) to justify the massive valuations of these companies. Its coding that is allowing them to bootstrap into other domains.

- It is a domain they understand: AI dev's know models, they understand the software process. It may be a complex domain requiring constant study, but they know it back to front. This makes it a good first case for disruption where the data, and the know how is already with the teams.

TL;DR: They are coming after you, because it is a big fruit that is easier to pick for them than other domains. Its also one that people will notice either out of excitement (CEO, VC's, Management, etc) or out of fear (tech workers, academics, other intellectual workers).
Probability is subjective though, because macrostates are subjective.

The notion of probability relies on the notion of repeatability: if you repeat a coin flip infinite times, what proportion of outcomes will be heads, etc. But if you actually repeated the toss exactly the same way every time, say with a finely-tuned coin-flipping machine in a perfectly still environment, you would always get the same result.

We say that a regular human flipping a coin is a single macrostate that represents infinite microstates (the distribution of trajectories and spins you could potentially impart on the coin). But who decides that? Some subjective observer. Another finely tuned machine could conceivably detect the exact trajectory and spin of the coin as it leaves your thumb and predict with perfect accuracy what the outcome will be. According to that machine, you're not repeating anything. You're doing a new thing every time.
Mira just raised $2B for her company pre-revenue and pre-product.
Is there any evidence that GPT-4.1 is using RoPE to scale context?

Also, I don't know about Qwen, but I know Llama 4 has severe performance issues, so I wouldn't use that as an example.
The problem is that a common method is to seed the linkers symbol generation with a relative file name.

This reduces entropy across binaries and may enable reliable detection of bas addresses or to differentiate gadgets in text regions.

It is all tradeoffs.

But think about how a known phrase is how enigma was cracked.
He's being blamed for stealing the 2020 election from Trump, so no donations or ring kissing seem to be enough.

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2025/trump-officials-s...
To agree and extend, that's actually how human language works too. The cultural connotations of "dog" in english might be quite different from "perro".

And it gets even more complex because the connotations of "dog" in the USA in 2025 are unquestionably different from "dog" in England in 1599. I can only assume these distinctions also hold across languages. They're not a direct translation.

Let alone extreme cultural specificities... To follow the same example, how would one define "doge" now?
It's actually worse that that. Making acquisitions hard is one thing; changing the rules post hoc is another.
How to use generics to avoid duplications and make your code better
Nice research, but I can only guess that this was fixed ten minutes after the report was published?
I wrote the original version of this "simple web server" app (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-server-for-chro...) because the built-in python http server is a bit buggy. It would hang on some connections when loading a webpage with a lot of small assets.
I was surprised how many people found it useful. More so when Chrome web apps were supported on other platforms (mac/linux/windows).
This is a really good suggestion (changing "news" to "latest filings"), done, thanks!
Doesn't this tax only apply to "net investment income"/realized gains? Billionaires technically already have to pay it at a higher rate. And well they generally do? I mean when they personally actually sell stock and or receive dividends and interest.
I was struck by how many of the people whose ages are named in that article were in their late thirties through fifties. Both as alleged perpetrators of violence, and victims.
It's a shame that this is not the link that was submitted because that (long) article was a really interesting read that gave me some food for thought and also articulated a bunch of things rather clearly that I've been thinking in a similar form for a while. I'm not sure that I agree with all of it, though (I still prefer maps, folds etc. over explicit loops in many cases, but do agree that this is less important than the overall code architecture).
Is there a good place to read on what the benefit of MCP is? I'm behind the curve on this agentic AI shit and am not quite sure where to look
I think the only way for the universities to escape this blackmail trap is to bind together in their response, refuting the Trump's claims that they're not doing enough to "stop antisemitism" (obviously a cover chosen by the WH because it immediately gathers public sympathy), and reject Trump's demands. If they cave in now, it will be used against them again.

Take the haircut and wait for either the next presidential elections, or maybe midterms if the GOP gets pummeled because of this and starts standing up to Trump. One thing we've seen about Trump is that he fairly easily reverses course when the right pressure is applied.

Granted Harvard's in an easier place than most, but I predict Columbia will come to seriously regret their decision.
> Who would’ve guessed phones and social media would cause mass protests because bystanders could record and distribute videos of the police?

That would have been quite far down on my list of "major (unexpected) consequences of phones and social media"...
> highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio

Very hard to believe.
This might be true for Harvard, but I don’t think free speech should only be for those who can afford it. I know my school couldn’t if the government came knocking.
Netflix Aims to Join the $1T Club
Typical mafia technique ensuring perpetual extorsion.
> promise is not legally binding unless there is some sort of payment in return

If I recall correctly, I gave them a worldwide, perpetual license to some data.

> if you can prove you suffered monetary damages

This is a separate question (that of calculating damages) from that of whether there was a breach per se.
The referral is just because a non expert can't be sure. The cost of the referral is relatively small, but the cost of getting it wrong is large.

Someone I know recently had a referral - it's pretty light touch, you just get a prompt appointment, and they do a minor op to remove the mole, and send it to the lab for testing. Luckily in their case, it wasn't cancer. But nothing in the process seemed weird, it was just the way of the GP escalating it because they couldn't be sure. Hypothetically, if the AI had been able to diagnose with higher certainty than the GP, all of this could have been avoided, so definitely room for improvement.
Yeah I'm no expert in financial systems but since the money ultimately needs to be spent in the U.S. it doesn't seem that important whether the funds are frozen in the U.S. or locked away overseas and can't be transferred in for the next ~4 years.
Should have named it 4.10
> Deprecating GPT-4.5 less than 2 months after introducing it also seems unlikely to be the original plan.

Well they actually hinted already of possible depreciation in their initial announcement of gpt4.5 [0]. Also, as others said, this model was already offered in the api as chatgpt-latest, but there was no checkpoint which made it unreliable for actual use.

[0] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/#:~:text=we%E2%...
Ask HN: Looking for Retro Website
A while back (I believe it was late last year, but my memory is foggy), there was a site posted on HN that had a bit of a retro feel to it. I genuinely cannot remember the contents of the post at all, I only remember the aesthetic. I recall it had a beige/pinkish background color, and I also recall that the name was something like...turnips? Or radish? Maybe cabbage?

Listen, I get that this is a longshot and a ridiculous Ask HN, but I really thought I favorited the post but alas, it is not on my list.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Is that what the FTC is claiming happened?
> If Trump was a black woman he would never get away with half the things he is doing now

If Trump were a black woman (or man), he would have never survived the release of the Hollywood Access tape and therefore would have never gotten elected.
What would be the state of the art?
the release and research cycles are still contracting

Not necessarily progress or benchmarks that as a broader picture you would look at (MMLU etc)

GPT-3 was an amazing step up from GPT-2, something scientists in the field really thought was 10-15 years out at least done in 2, instruct/RHLF for GPTs was a similar massive splash, making the second half of 2021 equally amazing.

However nothing since has really been that left field or unpredictable from then, and it's been almost 3 years since RHLF hit the field. We knew good image understanding as input, longer context, and improved prompting would improve results. The releases are common, but the progress feels like it has stalled for me.

What really has changed since Davinci-instruct or ChatGPT to you? When making an AI-using product, do you construct it differently? Are agents presently more than APIs talking to databases with private fields?
I think "life changing" and "universal" are contradictory.

A person who is ready to pick up the bar, for instance, would benefit from Rippetoe's Starting Strength but if you don't pick up the bar it's just another book (you might get something from just plain lifting Schwarzenegger's Modern Weighlifting though, if not the Misner, Thorne and Wheeler book Gravitation.) Similarly Super System will change your life if you are serious about playing poker, otherwise it's just a fun read like the D&D Monster Manual I'd say that Ashcroft and Mermin's Solid State Physics was a great adventure even if I didn't end up doing physics in the end, but I was a grad student in condensed matter and I took Ashcroft's class. When I was wanting to explore the edges of applied philosophy and literature I felt Alain Badiou's Being and Event was meaningful to me but a lot of people would say it is obscurantist French trash like Derrida and if you believe that I can't change your mind.

I'd tend to reject categorically that fiction could be life changing but maybe that's harsh. So often people nominate books that to me are trash like Atlas Shrugged, The Illuminati Trilogy or Hitchhiker's Guide. From time to time though I do discover an author with a large body of work that I'm obsessed with for a few months, like last year I rediscovered Poul Anderson (want to see Dominic Flandry have a fight with Kimball Kinnison) and got into Pratchett's Discworld.

I think a lot of books that offer simple answers to things like books by Malcolm Gladwell and Robert Greene are often harmful and also I think Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl is absolute poison for 21st century people.
The Present Status of Civil Service Reform by T. Roosevelt (1895)
And why are skin cancers being referred to a hospital at all?

Personal experience in the US... treatment can be done on the spot at the primary dermatologist's office (curettage usually) or referred either to a Mohs specialist or a plastic surgeon (both of whom usually treat at their office). Short of a melanoma that's progressed/metastasized, I don't think I've ever heard of a skin cancer being treated at a hospital (not saying it doesn't happen, only that that would be an exception, based on personal/family/friend experiences).
This has been my take on things forever. Power user tools tend to be made as a TUI, which is great in that it lets you work from the framebuffer and over SSH, but it really makes you wonder why we can't have the same conveniences with proper graphics.
Using an external service is very different from posting your details in a blog post.
>An economically viable solution to this problem would be simply force companies to pay all laborers, foreign or domestic, legal or illegal, a living wage

Do you think that the law has a cut-out to allow for paying illegal immigrants less than minimum wage? This is like solving the murder rate by making murder illegal -- it's already illegal to employ these people and pay them below minimum wage.
Very cool work!

Also, I hope you expected me to read that output in the same cadence as the Hooli focus groups, because that's exactly what I did.
I am sure you can read, but apart for the very numerous mentions of violent attacks against Jewish students, we have this quote:

Kates, the head of Samidoun, and leaders of other hard-line pro-Hamas groups, say they don’t randomly attack Jewish people at demonstrations. Rather, they said, protests turn violent due to clashes with the police and run-ins with Jewish counterprotesters who carry Israeli flags and become targets.

“If you were to carry other flags of countries and nations that have committed genocide, one might expect them to be taken away,” Kates told NBC News. “That’s really a very low-level of confrontation for actively going out and supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people.”

That's a pretty straight up claim admission of violence during demonstrations by a student group. This group that was part of the "student's" demonstrations in the universities was later on designated by both USA and Canada as affiliated with the PFLP terror group [1][2]

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/10/g...

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2646
Slightly related, I once created an app that calculate the volume of a random shape using Monte Carlo https://github.com/victorqribeiro/monteCarlo
> universities should probably be concerned with their credibility among democratically elected political representatives if they are going to be accepting public funds

Agree. I don’t think they should accept federal funds to the extent that they do. Maybe it’s time for elite institutions to get past the 70s camp era and start behaving (and wielding the power of) being elite.
What do you mean by this being a "horrible" use of AI? (Although as another commenter has mentioned, this should more properly be called ML).
I'm not in any way qualified to have a take here, but I have one anyway:

My understanding is that entropy is a way of quantifying how many different ways a thing could 'actually be' and yet still 'appear to be' how it is. So it is largely a result of an observer's limited ability to perceive / interrogate the 'true' nature of the system in question.

So for example you could observe that a single coin flip is heads, and entropy will help you quantify how many different ways that could have come to pass. e.g. is it a fair coin, a weighted coin, a coin with two head faces, etc. All these possibilities increase the entropy of the system. An arrangement _not_ counted towards the system's entropy is the arrangement where the coin has no heads face, only ever comes up tails, etc.

Related, my intuition about the observation that entropy tends to increase is that it's purely a result of more likely things happening more often on average.

Would be delighted if anyone wanted to correct either of these intuitions.
The biggest problem here is that about a week ago, the Court reduced the legal protections afforded to potential deportees. They can still petition the Courts for due process, but it will have to be in local courts in Texas and Lousiana, and under a new interpretation of habeas that even Justice Amy Coney Barrett took issue with.

So to recap: weakened protection of law preventing you from being deported, once deported you can never come home. Excellent work by the Supreme Court.

https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/judge-labeled-radical...
Further, the people who have purchased this situation for us, and the wealthy tech VCs who are staying silent now, are all people this community once admired.
You still didn't define what's the proportional response.

Come on armchair commander show us your battle plans for Iran. Do we nuke it? Do we destroy all the dams? Do we hit just the nuclear facilities? Or do we eliminate their oil industry? Maybe just all the military bases, oh we forgot all the subterrains rocket facilities, do you want to invade Iraq style?

If the IDF would have Indiscriminately killing people then the number would have been 10x, and you know it.
Tldraw raises $10M to build the infinite canvas for developers
The combination of neoliberal laissez-faire economics along with how strongly tech supported President Obama's campaigns meant that the industry got to run amok for a decade. It's easily one of the biggest stains on his presidency in hindsight.
You must not be aware that the ride hailing cars are not brand exclusive. One driver will simultaneously run Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Postmates, Amazon, and a half dozen other apps all at once in order to stay busy.

Switching from Lyft to Uber doesn't change a thing.
They made a big fuss a few years ago about what I read imo as over investing in foreign farm land, esp south America and Africa. Which seems to have completely flopped, if not yet realized.

At this point, you really do have to question whether each university hire was merit based or not, including the fund managers.
>Why is this an issue now when it has always existed?

Because it's a relatively new phenomenon that the ruling administration enables and advocates for the import of 10 million illegal immigrant laborers.