skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're also directly behind some of the anti-TikTok push; again, trying to kneecap their competition.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/report-facebook-hi...
The Language of Tree Rings
First, it's not blind. These big universities are where a ton of research happens. It makes sense that research dollars will end up there.

Second, I agree that local schools (I guess you mean K-12?) should get more money. DOGE is busy cutting that also.
"Bad" citizen can end up meaning anything Trump doesn't like, such as criticism. Even the most conservative person should be worried about this.
Yes, but given the choice, I think most people would opt for the less-efficient mouse navigation on a web page, even if there were no actual upsides to doing it that way.

If a business forced a keyboard-only input method, then that might help to raise the efficiency of everyone more equally.
> Importantly, the Civil Rights Act is a (well-litigated) law, not an ad hoc decree from the executive branch

That's right. And it's the function of the executive branch to enforce those laws.
> because Wall Street wanted cheap exploitable labor

totally a ton of illegal immigrants running across the trading room floor yelling put orders and putting the real, American stock brokers out of jobs they deserve!

Wtf you talking about bro? Cmon buddy.
Which I would definitely recommend as a strong default.
I think a conversation about what the taxpayer should get back from university research funding is a good question, I personally don't like privatization of medical breakthroughs discovered with public money.

However, I am cautious to extend that argument to this situation. This is an attempt to use federal funding as a backdoor around the 1st amendment (from what I can tell). I'm not going to extend this administration any leeway when their bull in a china shop policies inadvertently break something I don't like. I don't want to improve taxpayer funding of research by losing the 1st amendment.
What, exactly, were you hoping to learn by accusing Airparif and the EU of bias?

All this time I’ve been asking questions of you, hoping to learn about your thought process: Who should be performing these measurements? Who should be funding them? Who is someone without bias in the outcome of this process? What is an example of any result on any topic you accept as having been produced by an unbiased party with unbiased funding sources? What do you think are deficiencies in this research caused by the authors’ biases?

Not only won’t you even attempt to answer these excruciatingly simple questions, but you make it obvious that you have no desire to. So it seems more than just a little disingenuous to suddenly hold up “just asking questions” as a virtue when you have zero interest in answering any yourself.
This is a larger idea, just tangentially related to this particular case.

In 2011 there was Occupy Wall Street. It was a movement that argued that many of the financial problems we saw in 2008 were a result of a 1% of wealthy business people who were prioritizing their own wealth over the needs of the populations of the countries they operated within. I mean, they created a financial crisis by inventing obviously risky financial assets based on peoples housing. They knew it was a house of cards that would fall in time but they did it anyway with callous disregard to the inevitable human cost.

It was in the wake of that the "wokeness" became a buzzword, seemingly overnight. Suddenly, corporate policies were amended, management teams were upended, advertising campaigns were aligned to this new focus. Women, minorities and marginalized groups were championed and ushered in to key public positions. In a brief 14 years, then entire garbage dump of modern capitalism was placed like a hot potato into the hands of a new naively optimistic crew. This coincided with huge money printing and zero percent interest rate, the likes of which we haven't seen. That new elite grew in wealth, stature and public focus. They became the face of the "system" as if they had created it instead of inheriting it.

And now that the zero interest rates are done and suddenly everyone believes in the scary size of the deficit and the ballooning debt, the people sitting in power as we are about to actually feel the crash instead of just kicking it down the road yet again, those people are the target of public ire. I actually see people in these very comments acting as if the looming crash was caused by the DEI departments which formed just a little over a decade ago.

And guess who is coming back to claim they will save us from these DEI monsters? The people who created the actual mess in the first place. Yet now, instead of calling for their heads on spikes like the public was in 2011, we are literally begging them to save us from these DEI proponents.

Our anger has been redirected away from the wealthy and towards the minorities with such skill I almost admire it. The collective anger at DEI is at such a level that we are willing to cede core rights just to damage them.
And don't forget people who like me are in the UK but weren't born there.
Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

There are other genuinely useful crypto projects (like Monero for privacy and I don't like the idea of smart contracts)

I really want to tell you the fact that most crypto is scam. These guys first went into crypto and now I am seeing so much crypto + AI.

As someone who genuinely is interested in crypto from a technology (decentralization perspective)

I see transactions as a byproduct not the end result & I see people wanting to earn a quick buck feel really weird.

Also crypto isn't safe. I just think like now its better to correlate as a tech stock though 99% of the time, its run by scams, so absolutely worse.

The technology is still fascinating. But just because the technology is fascinating doesn't mean its valuable. Many people are overselling their stuff.

That being said, I have actually managed to use crypto to create a permanent storage (something like ipfs but its forced to store it forever) , so I think this can be used where anonymity/decentralized is required. But still, this thing could be done without including money in the process as well & crypto is still not as decentralized as one might imagine.
The Invisible Crash
My apologies, but I no longer remember. I only remember my huge annoyance that almost anything I did, even successful, led to some warnings or unnecessary notifications in the command bar. Always some noise there. Not to mention the occasional actual failure in a plugin leading to huge stacktraces and leaving me with a partially working editor that kind of still works but not quite.

My brain mercifully deleted all details. At one point I really had enough (and waiting for 19 years for an editor to get better is IMO having an angelic patience that Emacs did not deserve) and just moved on and forgot all about it.
> Which was also a law passed by Congress. Congress passes laws.

Indeed, but this was a clear evasion of prior laws. I don't like such workarounds in principle - either Congress should have gone the proper way and go for a constitutional amendment, or it should have buried the fucking bill. This created the nasty precedent that the current admin is using to push through the SAVE Act.
Perhaps the most commonly-cited (but not actually all that practical) example for rejection sampling is estimating the value of pi (as hinted by the first example under uniform random sampling): generate two random numbers between 0 and 1, then check the fraction of points that satisfy x^2 + y^2 <= 1. As number of samples tends to infinity, this will converge to pi/4. (You can instead take x,y from (-1,1) if you want to generate points on the full circle.)

> However, rejection sampling is only efficient when f_Omega can make use of a significant proportion of the probability density in f_D.

Perhaps a more relevant example: the unit n-sphere encloses a vanishing amount of volume as the number of dimensions increases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball

This is one of those weird consequences that gets labeled as the curse of dimensionality, especially in ML contexts.

"As the dimension d of the space increases, the hypersphere becomes an insignificant volume relative to that of the hypercube."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality#Distan...
Whenever an LLM struggles with a particular library version, I use Cursor Rules to auto-include migration information and that generally worked well enough in my cases.
> it's hard for me to not think that's crazy and why can't that money go to average americans

Are there world-class research facilities in your small town? Why would it be hard for you to see it makes sense for billions to be spent on research at world-class facilities with world-class scientists?

FWIW, chances are whatever local state university nearby also receives quite a bit from federal grants as well. But it probably scales based on the research facilities and staff actually there. Do you think it would be better management of federal resources to instead spend the same amount at facilities that don't do nearly as impactful or nearly as much research?

These are grants for specific research. Researchers put together proposals to study things, the federal government decides that's something worth looking into, and funding gets cut (simplified). Harvard has a lot of people doing pretty fancy research, so it makes sense they'd have a lot of grant proposals requiring fancy and expensive things. Complain to your state legislature for not focusing on making your local university a research university if you feel your area should be getting more of these grants. But let me guess, you probably voted for people who argued for lower taxes. Gee, I wonder what they found to cut...

And FWIW the federal government spends a bunch on a lot of small-town America. FEMA grants for emergency preparedness comes to mind. A higher percentage of populations of small-town America live off federal aid programs. Small-town America also sees more of its school funding from federal sources and grants.
What's the point of getting FTC approval of an acquisition in the first place if they can just go back a decade later and undo it?
It could be a feature not a bug. Inventible violations can be used as leverage for future requests/mandates.
Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time?
Alternatively 10 to 14 new colonies without voting right with people getting less than citizen rights (something similar to status that Baltic states have for ethnically Russians). You have to deserve right to vote.
I agree it’s not particularly attractive as a console in 2025. But as a Geforce Now streaming box with all the latest tech (AV1, Reflex, 120 Hz and 4k upscaling, etc), i’d buy it in an instant. Been waiting to pull the trigger on the 2019 model for 2 years, but not worth it if they will use the leftover chips from the switch for a refresh soon. I can wait a few more months.
49.81% of the people who voted did so for Trump.
Everyone recovers from a sickness. Until they don't.
NOAA: Five Historically Huge Solar Events
Meanwhile, they all roll their eyes at the "jaded greybeard" advice. I know, because many years ago I was doing the eye rolling. I guess some lessons really can only be learned through experience.
They want to ban it for absolute facial recognition coverage, and pretty much nothing else.
This 60-80 hrs/week maybe a startup myth. Since Europe in general has far fewer startups than US people hear these wild numbers in Europe far less. For normal big tech worker, or enterprise workers 40 hrs is really the norm. Now many people specially in contracting, consulting can stretch hours for billing purpose or impressing upon clients thats a different matter.
I am, I misread your response, my bad.
Pigeon Mountain Caving (Georgia, USA)
Does anyone know how to find the incredible pit? Don't intend on going down it (yet) but i want to look down.
> when it becomes antisemitic is when you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold everyone else.

And where it gets disturbing is when you make the claim of different standard without any evidence, and launch accusations of antisemitism.

Not everyone in Gaza is Hamas. As of January 2025, at least 46,707 Palestinians have been reported killed, including about 18,000 children. Israel has a right to annihilate Hamas, but those 18,000 children were not Hamas.
I am torn on whether I used the word arguably correctly in my original comment. When I first posted it, I thought I could find many sources that had argued it was PKD's best work.

Upon trying to find those sources I could only find Terence Mckenna's article on it, in which he doesn't exactly argue that it is PKD's best work https://sirbacon.org/dick.htm

Perhaps I now believe that those who read the book and "got it" would argue that it's his best book and perhaps even the best title.

But part of me wondered just now if those sources were out there and now I cannot find them.
I agree on the matter, but pressuring states with financial strings is not the way to go for it.

All other democracies on this rock just go and modify their constitution, that's the proper way. Y'all just are so completely gridlocked that this is all but impossible...
Imagine if instagram took down Facebook as a separate company and leadership

Same for WhatsApp

Both companies had amazing founders who could have thrived if Facebook didn’t take them out

We would have a tech landscape of two independent companies and “meta” being just another Yahoo or MySpace

Facebook didn’t innovate it crushed innovation.

Fuck them and I hope Trump scewers Zuck
Perhaps but "the framers of the US constitution" are almost always over idealized. It was the very early stages of democracy (even if you can call it that). When elected to office they regularly used they official powers to supress political opponents, partisan enmity was endemic and the levels of corruption were pretty extreme (of course there was only so much money to go around due to very low taxes). Trump is unhinged of course but some of the founders or early US politicians weren't too far off...

The constitution was more of an aspirational ideal than a binding document back then since there were very limited ways too enforce it (e.g. the only way to repeal the Alien and Sedition Acts was by electing a new president/congress). The First Amendment was also interpreted and viewed extremely different that it is now before the 1900s...
It's my understanding that the issue is not that they're "espousing the right views" but rather that they have the constitutional right as a private institution to espouse whatever views their students and faculty want under the first amendment.
One of the "justifications," should you desire to care for the Japanese POV, was explained this way:

We grew up in this small town all seeing each other naked; for outsiders to come in and disrupt their `normal`, would be disrespectful to their culture.

My native partner and I eventually found a large enough / open enough spa which allowed us both in without concern (we just had to travel more, which was fine/informative; and promise not to "be disrespectful" // fuck).

Definitely discrimination against non-Japanese might still be common in less-urban areas ... yet your "rewording" my comment to be Nazi-themed is (by your own perogative) just another unrelated confirmation of Godwin's Law.
As soon as you carve out exceptions for who should and shouldn't have their basic rights, you've lost the plot. Someone with a little bit of authority only needs to claim that you are a part of that group that shouldn't have their rights, and then you get to experience a flight to El Salvador wondering where it all went wrong.
Re: "Google Is Winning on Every AI Front"
A response to the "Google is Winning" article that is making the rounds. Google has a great model _now_, but winning is ephemeral. I discuss what _I_ think "winning" in this case should mean.
What would have been a proportional response? Is it a numbers game? lets do 2x? 5x? 10x?
In the gilad shalit deal Palestinians established the proportion of 1 Israeli to 1027 Palestinians.
So on Oct 7 - 1,195 were murdered, by your standards Israel should have killed 1,227,265 Palestinians.
Just to be clear, you are suggesting that it is fine to kidnap and send American citizens, ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN, to foreign prisons. They could come take you or any family member for any reason, and all they have to say is they thought you are a dangerous gang member. They don't even have to say anything! Once you are on that plane, it is a black hole, and they are grinning about the fact that you can't do a thing about it. That is why we have due process. This isn't about immigrants or cheap labor or anything. This is about disappearing political enemies for any reason. Flick off a Tesla driver? Gulag. Post on facebook that maybe we should be nice to gay people? Gulag. Trying to enter the USA on vacation with too much melanin? Guess what, gulag.
As a software engineer, I learned what entropy was in computer science when I changed the way that a function was called which caused the system to run out of entropy in production and caused an outage. Heh.
I just tried making it public, sorry!
How do you manage and deploy it? Git a systemd directory?
> the government's list of demands includes all kinds of stuff that would be mildly insane even if offered in good faith

And their demands are so insane you couldn't name one. I've gone through it and it all seems incredibly reasonable

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...
1. OK, great: this is a legitimate argument against the existence of Israel. So we can then expect Israel to be the focus of 0.5% of anti-nationalist protests, since it is one of ~200 countries.

2. What is the "correct" number of fatalities when fighting a defensive war against an enemy committed to annihilating your country? And besides, even Hamas now admits that 72% of combat-aged fatalities they have recorded were men.

3. I never said carte blanche; I just find it curious that people find so much time in their day to protest against Israel, but when Alawites are massacred in Syria, civilians slaughtered in Sudan, or hundreds of thousands of children starve in Yemen, nobody says "boo". Surely you value the lives of innocent Muslims everywhere the same?
oh boy I was thinking of doing something like this for the lolz but I genuinely didn't knew what it meant to put tariff in programming.

The author however has it figured out.

What an amazing job to create something so mematic I think. A perfect blend of politics and programming.
I'm not an expert, but definitely there were Jewish thinkers who opposed the idea of rebuilding Israel (Mt Zion and all) and argued that living as a diaspora is a better way. A quick web search / AI inquiry gives a variety of examples.
Conservatives should start their own universities, if they aren't happy with the existing ones. The federal government has no business enforcing conformity to certain ideological demands in private institutions. It's right there in the very first amendment.
> I said it's crazy how much money harvard gets

A place that has all the facilities, faculty and pedigree to pull some of the best researchers from all over the world. It's in fact crazy that Harvard, or any R1 university, wouldn't get a large amount of research dollars from the federal government.
MongoDB Atlas, Integrating Knowledge Graphs with LLMs
> Urine is not a magical substance

No, but people do have urine (specific gravity, consistency, etc), physical (flow rate differences, penile dimensional differences, urinary meatus differences, etc), and behavioral differences (unkempt urinary meatus, different holding patterns, shaking, shy bladder, etc) which would affect those ideal scenarios.
OpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its API
Question for you - if you don't exercise due process, how do you know if any individual is one of those 10 million you speak of, or someone who is here legally, or for that matter, a citizen?
Article says medical photographers take the pictures. I'd guess a future iteration will have the app direct the patient to take the pictures.
Also very very excited to see not just 48GB, but 64GB x 2 kits arriving, as prommised.

I'm more an undervolter than overclocker with my aging, but G.Skill has done me well & had great value in a number of builds. Will be neat to see what their DDR5-8000 and DDR5-9000 dimms go for!

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/g-skill-unvei...
Isn’t a problem there that a cache would be model specific, where the cached items are only valid for exactly the same weights and inference engine? I think those are both heavily iterated on.
Goodness gracious. Invoking religious self-harm imagery in response to mild criticism feels wildly out of pocket. Do you genuinely think anti-colonial activism demands this or anything even resembling this of post-colonial states?

It feels like a really silly way to deflect from the concept that maybe average UK citizens do benefit in some way from their colonial past.
Fair, thanks.
Not true. The uncertainty of the dice rolls is not controlled by you. It is the property of the loaded dice itself.

Here's a better way to put it. If I roll the dice infinite times. The uncertainty of the outcome of the dice will become evident in the distribution of the outcomes of the dice. Whether you or another person is certain or uncertain of this does not indicate anything.

Now when you realize this you'll start to think about this thing in probability called frequentists vs. bayesian and you'll realize that all entropy is, is a consequence of probability and that the philosophical debate in probability applies to entropy as well because they are one and the same.

I think the word "entropy" confuses people into thinking it's some other thing when really it's just probability at work.
The section on "Student Discipline Reform and Accountability" is explicitly fascist. Harvard police must prevent/crush serious protests that cause disruption. Student groups must be vetted so that they don't violate orthodoxy. Masking (even for valid medical reasons) is banned. (This lets you know that this has nothing to do with facts or diversity of viewpoints and everything to do with the supremacy of theirs.) The "Whistleblower Reporting and Protections" section is basically a demand for a hotline, direct to the government, to inform on anyone not toeing the line. The "Transparency and Monitoring" section makes it clear the government intends to monitor foreign students at Harvard closely.

This isn't quite 1930's Germany yet, but it's getting there. The next step to watch for would be any laws passed that regulate who can serve as faculty in universities or attempts to impose different leadership on universities that don't comply with demands.
It does, shockingly well in my experience. Check out this blog post outlining such an approach, called Literate Development by the author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524673
> No, intrusive would be (note: no pointers in user_data_t):

typedef struct { node_t* next } node_t;

typedef struct { ... } payload_t;

typedef struct {
node_t node;
payload_t payload;
} user_data_t;

That's exactly the same as my intrusive structure, no?

> typedef struct {
node_t list1_node;
node_t list2_node;
node_t list3_node;
payload_t payload;
} user_data_t;

In C, at any rate, that doesn't give you "inclusion into multiple lists". It gives you "inclusion into at most 3 lists. The extrusive example I posted gives "inclusion into multiple lists".

So, yeah, I'm still not seeing your point.
That judge was against the interment of Japanese Americans. He took a stand against anyone deprived of due process throughout his life.

The US came close to losing its democracy status with FDR, which is why after he died, the 22nd Amendment was quickly created - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the...
I agree. Also, the quality and independence of the research will improve when it is funded outside of government influence.