skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> VGA cards haven't provided actual 80x25 text mode since forever,

Are you sure about that? The memory range still exists and still operates the same as it ever has. The _card_ just does the translation for you.

> so you're still converting to pixels at some layer.

This has /never/ not been true.

> With full control over pixels

Yea, again, you are intentionally not understanding the point the article or myself made. The application in text mode does NOT need to do this work. The application IS lighter as a result.

> but with a normal mouse cursor and a scrollbar with pixel granularity.

And how do you receive mouse inputs? With more code. How do you manage pixels? With more code. Are you understanding that this is PRECISELY the point here?
80% of the endowment funds are heavily restricted as per donor requests and cannot be used unconditionally.
arguably the best episode of Drunken history has duncan trussel retelling this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ruBotHWUs

Paraphrasing carl sagan: "You don't go to Japan and kidnap a Japanese man start jking him off, give him fing acid, and then ask him to learn English!"
> Fennel is little more Lua-with-parens.

Totally. And Clojure is Java-with-parens; Janet is C-with-parens; LFE - Erlang-with-parens; Elisp is a Stallman's erotic fantasy, neatly wrapped in parens. Only Common Lisp is an "actual Lisp for immortal souls" - the rest is for peasants.
I meant both posts within a thread and threads within the forum. Reddit makes it hard to track a discussion within a thread and also tracking new threads vs. read threads vs. previously read threads but with new posts, or picking up a half-read thread later on.
> Do you think Harvard should admit students that are, "hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

Sure, why not? Everything should be open to criticism at our institutions of higher learning. If not there, where? That which is above criticism is dogma.

> including students supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism

In Trump administration code, this means "has ever said anything positive about the Palestinian people." So yes, them too.
> Israel has a right to annihilate Hamas

How should they go about this? What rules should they follow? And when other countries violate these rules, are you commensurately outraged?
Man muss immer umkehren

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

(One ought always invert.)

"Invert, always invert."

— Charlie Munger (echoing Jacobi)
First Audio Plugin in Rust (VST / Clap) video]
I don’t agree with Roberts but he isn’t a hack. For what it’s worth, he also went to Harvard.
I did in fact recognized another use for it. Bullying with AI generated content. That is one of many points you decided not to address. I don't need to repeat them, go over the thread.

The discussion on whether humans are good or bad by nature is not new. So is the discussion of nature and nurture. Let's assume we're both familiar with that, otherwise the discussion will be dragged to philosophical mud.

"Making kind human beings" is not a goal. It's not a project I am working on. It's the way I framed the problem. That is in fact the most empathic way I could think of. Definitely better than thinking of products.

Desensitization is a social condition, not a sign of unkindness. It has been demonstrated by the "guard" personas in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Incels are not the only current branch of online people presenting that symptom (although they are the only ones that _appear_ to be sad and lonely).

Empathy is very different from talking soft and making good will speeches. Specially in an environment such as the internet that is deprived of many social cues.
The US is paying El Salvador to take the prisoners. Presumably they could just stop paying if they don't want that?
Yeah, this is not going to end well for all y'all:

https://bsky.app/profile/pbump.com/post/3lmryeyuj6s2v
A direct link to the deleted ICE post:

https://i0.wp.com/www.techdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...

Considering the department of educations demands for "viewpoint" auditing of students and staff at Harvard by the federal government ... it seems pretty clear that the intent of being the thought police is real.
> If Trump was a black woman he would never get away with half the things he is doing now.

It sounds like you're aware of the present reality of race and how it impacts how one is treated in America just for being who they are.

> I have never been a "woke" person

I have news for you!

Edit: to be clear, I'm certain you don't match the the adversarially bastardized caricature of what a "woke person" is, but it sounds like match the original, well-meaning definition.
Especially the most conservative person.
4.10 > 4.5
— @stevenheidel

@sama: underrated tweet

Source: https://x.com/stevenheidel/status/1911833398588719274
My old prof taught entropy with marbles in a jar and cream in coffee. “Entropy,” he said, “is surprise.” Then he microwaved the coffee until it burst. We understood: the universe favors forgetfulness.
I would think that the easiest way would be to not use torrents, because torrents have fixed top-level hashes. Instead, create a new protocol like bittorrent but streaming.
So, many of these universities were taken over in positions of power by people promoting intersectionality which also promotes systematic discrimination (eg DEI) against specific groups. That's a highly-divisive philosophy with no proven benefits that's similar to Marxism which killed 50 million people and wrecked countries. They did this while describing themselves as open-minded institutions commited to everyone's success.

In the degree programs, they forced these beliefs on students in "diversity" classes, rewarded those on their side, and canceled or limited people with differing views. Those who make it through the process are more likely to force it on others in government and business, which they often do. Worse, being federally funded means taxpayers are paying for students' indoctrination in intersectionality and systematically discrimination it claimed to oppose.

Yeah, I want their funding cut entirely since theyre already rich as can be. I also would like to see those running it take it back to what it used to be. That's a Christian school balancing character and intellectual education. Also, one where many views can be represented with no cancel culture. That is worth federal funding.

On top of it, how about these schools with billions in endowments put their money where their mouth is on social issues and start funding high-quality, community colleges and trade schools and Udemy-like programs everywhere? Why do they talk so much and take in so much money but do so little? (Credit to MIT for EdX and Harvard for its open courses.)
It’s an argument for how to break up the company not just a complaint about what happened. Companies that buy a supplier or customer frequently didn’t compete with that supplier so breaking them off wouldn’t break up the monopoly.

Whatsapp was purchased as a competition and therefore there’s a solid case for spitting the company along that line. Split off Instagram and things look even more competitive.
I am misquoting a famous quote so pardon me but

a revolution is three meals away.

Whereas pesticides death are so much easier to control since they don't happen simultaneously, they happen way less and is overall net positive.

Accidents happen on roads with cars, that doesn't mean we should ban cars though (though in all honesty, maybe we should all use buses and use less cars, maybe this is a shitty argument?)

I am personally a two wheeler electric kind of guy since electric cars are way too expensive and I actually want to have cheap transport and I am comfortable for 99% use cases otherwise for the rare cases, I might use Uber and I am still net positive.
Companies exploiting labor to maximize profit is as old as this country itself. Slave labor, child labor, god awful minimum wages, union busting. What's your point? Why is this an issue now when it has always existed?
The 'oN' schema was a such strange choice for branding. They had to skip 'o2' because it's already trademarked, and now 'o4' can easily be confused with '4o'.
They flagged it because they are scared.
MAGA hates:

1) free speech
2) higher education

You don’t see them going after Joe Rogan or Andrew Tate
It's another Daft Punk day. Change a string in your program* and it's better, faster, cheaper: pick 3.

*Then fix all your prompts over the next two weeks.
Creating a chilling effect on acquisitions is the whole point of antitrust law.
Maybe that's why they named this model 4.1, despite coming out after 4.5 and supposedly outperforming it. They can pretend GPT-4.5 is the last non-chain-of-thought model by just giving all non-chain-of-thought-models version numbers below 4.5
Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy
> This has nothing to do with software engineering.

You should note I said that way of thinking "is tempting to software engineers," not that is exclusive to them or has anything specifically to do with software engineering.

> It's about business risk management. I'm not justifying it, just explaining the sad reality of it.

The actual sad reality that some people chose to treat others unkindly pre-emptively.

> I'm glad you have a crystal ball to perfectly predict how everybody will act in future situations.

I don't, but I think you can minimize your risk, if that's what you need to avoid being an asshole. Then you have to practice trusting others.

> But sometimes it's the people who seem the most pleasant and helpful who take layoffs the worst, because they feel the most betrayed after everything they gave emotionally in good faith.

Honestly, that seems like an argument for making sure employees have good work-life balance, so they're not giving an unhealthy to the point where they feel betrayed.

But I suspect the people who think "I'll make them angry, but that's OK because I'll make sure they can't any damage," are probably also the kind of people who would knowingly exploit an over-committed employee.
>Your job exists more or less at the whims of the currently governing administration.

Perhaps in theory, but not in practice as a historical norm. And, certainly not for "standard" non-appointed, bureaucratic roles.

It's important that we don't normalize what we're seeing here, in terms of quality or degree.
I think people frequently forget that the North didn't actually have the firepower to stamp out the ideology.

Like any ideology, you can't actually destroy it with force any other way than burning books and, eventually, men.

And whether or not that would have been wise: the war was extremely costly for the North and there was a non-zero chance that if they started dropping every third Southerner from the gallows the federal government would lose legitimacy in the eyes of the survivors on both sides of the Mason-Dixon and that'd be it.
>- dont self-inject/parse toolcalls (+2%)

What is meant by this?
I'd kill for a chilling effect on acquisitions. Every single fucking time something I like gets acquired, it takes anywhere between a few months to a couple years before it is completely ruined. Maybe if we're lucky, Microsoft will acquire Discord and run it into the ground the way they did with Skype. (Then, we can all go back to IRC, right? ... Right, guys?)
Obviously the answer to "this doesn't solve my problems" is "don't use it then". If your problem domain literally is nothing but API calls and DB updates, then you may not benefit from this.

OTOH, in my experience a lot of people underestimate how much pure business logic exists (or can be extracted) in many applications. In apps I've worked on I've found a lot of value in isolating these parts more cleanly. The blogbook series by the author of TFA (linked further upthread) goes into some detail about how to do that even without going fully down the "pure functional programming" rabbithole.
Harvard admitted it needs to "...broaden the intellectual and viewpoint diversity within our community..."

This is a no-brainer considering only 2.3% of their faculty identifies as conservative.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/22/faculty-survey-...
So, there you go, the market has spoken.
Same, I want a bot as terse as I am.
Unfortunately, those people have a lot of practice worshipping a text that they have not read.
Interesting analysis but not sure it‘s correct. The subscribers are likely consuming much more resources than the free users. A 20$/m user might consume much more than that in compute, thus creating a loss.
I don't think that the government's demands are all reasonable, or even permissible. Some things read like they were written in the height of the civil rights movement in 1960s:

> By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement
merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices

Some though read as if they were written in an advent to a totalitarian dystopia:

> Harvard will immediately report to federal authorities, including the
Department of Homeland Security and State Department, any foreign student, including
those on visas and with green cards, who commits a conduct violation.

To my mind Harvard is right in bringing this to the public attention. It's also free to walk away from governmental financing programs that stipulate such conditions (if they are even found legitimate), and is even in a position to do so.
Too bad OpenAI named it 4.1 instead of 4.10. You can either claim 4.10 > 4.5 (the dots separate natural numbers) or 4.1 == 4.10 (they are decimal numbers), but you can't have both at once
I went searching for more. The tool is called DERM by Skin Analytics. They have more info on stats:

https://skin-analytics.com/ai-pathways/derm-performance/

A few peer reviewed pubs down the bottom of the page
> we've come back from it

We as a species have come back from it, yes. But generally after millions of victims are killed, and what is left over is very different than what existed prior.
U.S. tech worker here. The only time I’ve ever worked 60-80 hour weeks was at a much smaller company, where for a month or two leading up to a trade show a whole bunch of work that had been put off was attempted to get crammed into the product. At my subsequent BigTech jobs I’ve never been asked/required to work more than 40 hours a week. I mean, nobody was tracking exact hours, but nobody was also pinging me at 8PM or on the weekend and expecting me to be working.
>a bank account outside America’s control

There really isn't such a thing if you want to do business in America. If you're in the US and doing business with a bank, the courts can order that bank to do things or face isolation from the entire financial system.
> The government is claiming that Facebook bought Meta and Whatsapp because it couldn't compete with them.

s/Meta/Instagram/
It's a bit worrying there seems no due process involved and with the gay makeup artist Andry Jose Hernandez Romero who was mistakenly sent as a gang member they don't seem to be making any effort to free him and say oops sorry. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14600433/cop-venezu...
My Falsifiable Forecasts for the Next Two Years
The ability to understanding bee's communication was made possible, so I'm not sure why dolphins would seem harder?
The Federal government making funding to a university contingent on them "reforming" specifically named departments whose foreign policy views the executive branch disagrees with (Israel/Palestine policy) seems like a clear violation of the First Amendment.
This has been brewing since 2020, trials of this scale take time to build: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_v._Me....

If anything, he was kissing Trump's ass because he knew it was about to reach trial. The date was known since November.
Too often it's just insecurity masking itself as posturing.
It's a weak response, in that it accepts the Trump Administration's position on antisemitism. This is tied to the broad definition of antisemitism which includes acts by the State of Israel.[1] That definition comes from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. There's a more balanced definition called the Jerusalem Declaration here.[2][3]

This will lead to a controversial discussion, so I'll stop here, with the comment that getting involved in religious wars of other countries hasn't gone well for the US. The US has constitutional freedom of religion partly because the drafters of the constitution knew how that had gone in Europe.

"Maybe they is not evil. Maybe they is just enemies." - Poul Anderson

[1] https://www.state.gov/defining-antisemitism/

[2] https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Declaration_on_Antis...
Sure, but you can understand the perspective of someone growing up with zero access to those resources and lives in a rural part of the country hearing your argument and then voting for someone like trump, I would argue that sentiment is one of the forces driving regular people away from democrats and lost them the election in 2024, it is an "ivory tower" perspective and regular americans don't buy it (even if it's true that harvard is a great investment for public money)
I loved Moomins as a kid, and was so surprised when I talked with my wife about it, she thought they were so scary and "off" feeling.

I'm watching them now with our son, and I guess I was just born with a strong appreciation for melancholia.

I changed my mind, when I was a kid I thought they were good, now I think they are great!

In many ways, what makes moomin dark is that it shows us what we already know, the world _just_is_ and in the big picture, does not care about you, you might die, someone you care about might go away, and everyone is, fundamentally, alone, and what makes a person who they are, is partly how they deal with, if at all, being alone in this world of loners.

Moomin is very real and very direct in its dealings with the pain of the meaninglessness of life.

Snufkin, as a child, I took him for a cynic and disliked him, but he taught me something about the world, I think he is a stoic and a nihilist, and I very much like him now, he simply _IS_ in the world, and he accepts, and so appreciates that which also simply is, and which he cannot control.

Yeah, Moomin is dark, but life is dark, life is pleasure and pain, and we will all die, everyone we ever loved will suffer and die, but they will also experience pleasure and life, one could chose only suffering and death, one cannot chose only pleasure and life, and must come to terms with the fact that the underpinnings of pleasure and life is indeed suffering and pain. That's it, the world just is, and we're just in it.

I feel like a lot of the cartoons and tv shows of my childhood was like this, life.. it kinda has bad parts.. and back then, they showed them to kids, and what do I know.. maybe it prepared us to take it on ?
I do believe the universities have a lot to change for better, but sadly this government is the worst to ask for.
So not a comparable situation.

In this intra-elite competition, the previous winners might deserve to lose. The current regime and its allies absolutely cannot be allowed to be winners.
This is spot on. The US has enjoyed enormous wealth and prosperity, but it's been mostly captured by the top 1% of private individuals. The GOP has done a masterful job redirecting the blame to China, DEI, immigration, etc... when the real problem is that we have not spread around the prosperity through programs like universal healthcare, free college, and heck, even UBI.
The stupid, it burns.
You're basically saying "I believe the problem exists because of the way human nature interacts with social media, not social media themselves".

And sure, maybe it'd work for baboons, crows, or ants, if they ever evolved sufficient intelligence. But it doesn't for human.

Attributing personal blame for systemic issues is just silly. If it happens everywhere, it's not happening as a product of individual, malleable factors but because it's a natural consequence of the factors that add up to it.
Related, discussion on A2A from the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631381

"The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)", 279 comments
If that were true then acquisitions would be great for competition.
Is distributed scale storage projects not enough? The grid doesn't need huge storage projects if every house has a house-sized battery and an increasing number of cars can double as a storage buffer (V2G/V2X). Both of those things are statistically hand-in-hand with current PV rollouts, not always sold together, but they form a virtuous cycle for the average home owner if a home can manage PV, storage, and EV all together to (selfishly) reduce reliance on the grid and keep energy patterns much more localized (if not fully "off grid").

A PV-heavy grid potentially starts to look a lot more distributed in interesting ways like scale than the traditional grid which was always more centrally orchestrated than it sounded.
This is technicaly impressive, but I wonder if this could be put to a use which is generally more constructive. Like maybe removing stains from scans or red eye from pictures.
The 9 billion isn’t specifically just for Harvard “the university”.

The lion’s share of it appears to be NIH programs for area hospitals - all of which are associated with Harvard.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/4/funding-review-h...

We all benefit from that research.
The Journeys of Frodo is also worth a look if you like this kind of thing. The author isn’t a professional cartographer and it’s more focused on LOTR locations than general world building. Anyway, I was completely captivated by it as a child when I stumbled across it in my high school’s library.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeys_of_Frodo
You have come to the realization that systemic racism exists, and it grants privileges to the dominant socioeconomic groups. Congratulations, you are now "woke"!

That's what the term originally meant, before it was turned into a strawman for "anything I don't like" by the conservative media machine and weaponized to divide people.
In this case, itt's easier to just run it locally: https://github.com/invisal/sqlite-internal

But you can get sort of what you want by:

1. Loading a site.

2. Go into the Web Dev Tools.

3. Select the Network tab.

4. Click on the "No Throttling" dropdown and check "Offline".

5. You should now see a yellow warning icon in your Network tab and it should prevent all network access. If you reload the tab you should get the "No Internet Connection" error page.
Try getting then to output Svelte 5 code...
Octoshape developed this tech, I believe it was sold to some american tv networks.
If the thermometer says 39 C/102 F I will want to speak with a doctor about it but that doesn't mean I want to go to the hospital every time I want my temperature checked.

I suspect it has a lot more to do with these lines:

> medical photographers taking photos of suspicious moles and lesions

I.e. it might not be ready enough or validated for an average person snapping their own photo and:

> The images are then transferred to a desktop computer for greater analysis before the tool determines the result

There is more to it than the phone app and it may not be packaged in a way that is currently worthwhile to distribute to home users.

Both of these (and other things) may change with time of course.
> That's a Christian school

> That is worth federal funding.

... interesting.
Ah I do to be honest. I loved the construction job, but I see lads my age now struggle physically.

I think the best part of my journey was the unpredictable nature of it.

And having a laugh along the way
Discovered in 1817, but we weren't using pesticides at scale until the early mid 1900s.
If everyone indeed "knew at the time" then why did the FTC allow the acquisition to go through in a 5-0 vote?