skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this deep in another part of this discussion - but the majority of the money being discussed here isn’t really for Harvard or educating its students - the largest portion are for NIH grants funding to Boston area hospitals, most of which have affiliations with Harvard Medical School.

> The Crimson analyzed the proposed Trump administration funding cuts and estimated that the five hospitals’ multi-year commitment from the NIH is over $6.2 billion and the University’s multi-year federal research funding exceeds $2.7 billion.

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

I’m sure that you have legitimate issues with politics at Harvard, but penalizing a number of independent non-profits that serve the community because they associate with a University that the administration disagrees with also seems to be forcing speech.
It has nothing to do with the pandemic. The ban on masks is about whether or not protesters are actually students. Masks have been used to conceal identities when taking over buildings or shutting down classes.
Looks like the Quasar and Optimus stealth models on Openrouter were in fact GPT-4.1. This is what I get when I try to access the openrouter/optimus-alpha model now:

{"error":
{"message":"Quasar and Optimus were stealth models, and
revealed on April 14th as early testing versions of GPT 4.1.
Check it out: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-4.1","code":404}
Now you're calling me a liar? Pathetic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518866
>> "Lisp is better because it is homoiconic"

>- Lisp is better because it manipulates the same data that the program code is represented in (car works on a data list, and it works on a code list as well).

Don't those two sentences mean the same?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676798
I think they understand that, and are referring to more nuanced side effects. Logging, for an example, is a side effect, same with even using a date function. Hitting an API endpoint without cache may be functional if the response never changes, but do you want that? Usually we want a cache, which is skirting idempotency. The closer you look, the more side effects you see
> In general, it would be inadvisable at this point to try to switch hit between HTTP and HTTPS based on the initial packets from the client, because then you would need to ensure that there was no ambiguity.

Exactly my original point. If you really understand the protocols, there is probably zero ambiguity (I'm assuming here). But with essentially nothing to gain from supporting this, its obvious to me that any minor risk outweighs the (lack of) benefits.
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Some context for those interested:

https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-instagram-fours...
He did, he worked at Google. What is your contribution to society? Some language reinventing the wheel for the 500th time? Google created a dozen of those alone and they don't even make the footnote of the contributions list.
"Should We Buy Instagram, Foursquare, or Pinterest?"
It's just a ~/.config/containers/systemd/ folder for rootless containers, I stuff the whole thing in a git repo
This is based on entropy being closely tied to your knowledge of the system. It's one of many useful definitions of entropy.
It literally doesn't matter how you structure a democracy, at the end of the day, all the rules and requirements etc are just words on paper. None of it will work unless people choose to play their parts.

Democracy cannot survive a political party that spends 50 years electing worse and worse criminals, and sacrificing everything to the alter of "More power for our party"

Voters did not punish republicans for Nixon. Voters did not punish republicans for Iran-Contra. Voters did not punish republicans for several market and economic failures. Voters did not punish republicans for multiple outright illegal wars waged on false pretenses that cost us tens of trillions of dollars, spent explicitly from debt.

So this is what you get. The bar will keep getting lower until republican voters finally decide they won't support literally any criminal with an R next to them.

So we are fucked basically.
As a ChatGPT user, I'm weirdly happy that it's not available there yet. I already have to make a conscious choice between

- 4o (can search the web, use Canvas, evaluate Python server-side, generate images, but has no chain of thought)

- o3-mini (web search, CoT, canvas, but no image generation)

- o1 (CoT, maybe better than o3, but no canvas or web search and also no images)

- Deep Research (very powerful, but I have only 10 attempts per month, so I end up using roughly zero)

- 4.5 (better in creative writing, and probably warmer sound thanks to being vinyl based and using analog tube amplifiers, but slower and request limited, and I don't even know which of the other features it supports)

- 4o "with scheduled tasks" (why on earth is that a model and not a tool that the other models can use!?)

Why do I have to figure all of this out myself?
>...much of the money is reserved for a particular purpose

I would assume that a tax on an endowment would be like a capital gains tax, i.e., taxed on the investment growth. Is the growth 'reserved for a particular purpose'?
How often do we talk about Korean anti colonialism or Chinese anti colonialism nowadays?

These are central to the recent histories of both countries and a big part of their own national mythologies. Comes up directly and indirectly all the time.
> What's the point of getting FTC approval

Efficiency? The people at the FTC reviewing mergers can't be experts of every corner of the economy, but if they catch an illegal merger during the approval process it can be blocked early without having to go to court.

An illegal merger is illegal no matter what. It's the corporation's responsibility to not break the law.
It isn’t crazy, it’s that startups are just that bad of an investment when averaged out. You have better odds playing the lottery.
I don't really know anything about the UK medical system, but my guess is comparing it with how the US works isn't a good fit.

Just doing a quick google search on dermatologists in the UK mostly pointed at hospitals that offered the service, so may have something to do with that.
No wine... but something something .NET : mono
I just wish it had been relegated to an appendix. A lot of people drop Silmarillion there, but you can just skip it and get on to much better material.

It could be replaced on first read with a decent map. Or even a mediocre map. Or nothing; you just don't need it.
The infamous lung map! David Day must've introduced so many people to the various interesting aspects of Tolkien's world but there's so much fanfiction mixed into his works. Though in the case of the map it's not really fanfiction, it's just wrong.
I feel like this a common pattern with people who work in STEM. As someone who is used to working with formal proofs, equations, math, having a startup taught me how to rewire myself to work with the unknowns, imperfect solutions, messy details. I'm going on a tangent, but just wanted to share.
Wrong. Garcia's defense claims that the Associated Press claims that a memo from El Salvador claims that it's a one year contract.

No one has seen any such contract, which is legally required both to exist and to be publicly listed under US law.
> I need the trial to go through and acquit me, because it guarantees me against future trials

On substantially identical charges, where the principle of double jeopardy holds sway.
Yay, this works :-)

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front
door.
There is a small mailbox here.
The keffiyeh bit reads as really suspect (not saying the student was lying—mistakes are common in these situations) given all the other details of that incident I can find in other sources covering this. That claim appears to be the only connection to the pro-Palestine movement of the attack by a 52 year old white townie whose mugshot reads "homeless"—all of which paints a very different picture.
I recommend you 3 books that changed my perception and really helped me during tough times. The Power of Habit" by charles duhigg, "The Forty Rules of Love" by elif shafak and "Man's Search for Meaning" by viktor E. frankl.
Yeah, it's like how when they wanted to put in a Jewish quota at the university it was struck down and then they found that the same percentage of Jewish applicants were well-rounded coincidentally so they just stuck to determining if they were well-rounded. Today's folk may call it anti-semitism but really it was just that Jews Were Square.
what's hilarious to me is that I asked ChatGPT about the model names and approachs and it did a better job than they have.
No. You misunderstand endowments.

Their principal is not intended to be spent, ever. The point of an endowment is not to "provide stability during trying times".

The point is to spend the interest that it generates, in normal times, in perpetuity. Which Harvard already does and has always done. Interest from their endowment is already a large part of their revenue. That's what the endowment is for.
None of those points are even remotely relevant in this case, unless you're worried about dolphin-English translators losing their livelihood?

Mindlessly parroting such talking points where they're not applicable is also a form of virtue-signalling.

And the comments in this thread are predominantly such virtue signalling nonsense.
Where are you getting your news? It must be good because you're 100% right lol
>"Anyone who is fair would see it exactly how I see it!"

That's not what I was saying. I was saying anyone would reflect there is a long list of questionable behavior. Whether or not you think that is disqualifying is your opinion. Scam university, scam banks, scam businesses. These are facts of Donald Trump's past, not opinions.

>Wonderful way to have a conversation, isn't it. Everything else in your response is nitpicking and hanging up over minor details!

It's not everyone else. It's you. And it's because that's what you did to the other poster and I was rightful in calling it out. You could just stop instead of digging in.

>The other example was groping. So I refuted half the points the user made, pretty major to me. It's not being nitpicky, it's major difference. If I said Kamala wanted to establish soviet like price controls, people would rightfully correct that and that wouldn't be nitpicky or hanging up over minor details.

You didn't say that the other example was groping. You only talked about "injecting bleach" and even then not reasonably engaging in it, just pulling the kind of "technically right but clearly not getting the point" kind of argument that I accused you of. If you want to engage with the other poster fairly, you can. You didn't. It's not the end of the world but no need to keep belaboring the point by bringing up things you never expressed which would have totally changed the situation.

>No, you are just nitpicking.

How is that nitpicking? I never said conversations should go like that, so there is no reason to ask me why I would prefer it go that way. Do you not know what a strawman argument is?

>I did, by engaging in the DIRECT argument that the user provided for him being unintelligent. User said "Trump did X. He is unintelligent". I'm supposed to say "ohh no but he is intelligent" completely ignoring the reasoning for his conclusion? In an actual conversation, you engage the reasons provided - otherwise it just turns into unproductive "no/yes/no/yes" conversation.

That wasn't the entire argument. Are we now going back to grade-school reading comprehension? I quoted his point. You ignored that in your response to me where you continue to pull this obnoxious shtick. ENOUGH!

> I'm supposed to say "ohh no but he is intelligent" completely ignoring the reasoning for his conclusion?

You did completely ignore the reason for his conclusion. He said there are many reasons why Trump has questionable character, you zero'd in on a minor detail of one of those arguments and did not address anything else, let alone Trump's actual character and why it would or would not be good based on evidence. Then you accused him of doing it on purpose! You're really rude and a really bad poster that is doing exactly what you complained about and now your ego is too big to walk away. Sad!
Funny the bulk of the server is vestigial client code.
If this is the case then they really are not for the benefit of students?
I would guess it comes down to that the best researchers in the world want their work out in the open
Almost always stock options at a startup are the equivalent of an unsecured iou. Even if there is a conversion at some point due to a buyout, common employee stock rarely ever sees any of that money. If anything they’re often negative value because you pay taxes on their claimed value at assignment.
Standardized test reliably predict academic success. IQ tests similarly.

Here in Sweden, if you do well enough on the entrance exam, we simply let you in, even to the best universities. This means that people other than hoop-jumpers have a chance.
What do you think is the data structure underneath a hash, stack or queue? It's likely a linked list.

So, you are completely correct. The issue is simply that you are at a different level of abstraction.
Most UK health stuff starts with a GP appointment.

Even for private health care, you usually see a GP first (could be a private GP or NHS, in-person or video) and they then refer you to the next thing whatever that may be. ( N.B. that a NHS GP can give you a referral that you use for private treatment)

There are some things you can just straight up book an appointment for yourself without a referral from a GP, but 95% of the time you start with a GP.

No idea specifically about dermatologists, but my expectation would be that would be the sort of thing that would need a referral for. Perhaps for some "non-medical" procedures and 100% for cosmetic procedures you don't need a referral, but anything even tangentially close to The C Word would almost certainly be sending you down the normal channels.
Do I love maps because of the fantasy books I read as a kid? Did I love (and still love) the fantasy books because I love maps? I may never know.

I've heard of the Atlas of Middle Earth but never knew this amazing story behind it. Thanks for posting it, bookofjoe!

Also, really cool to know she did D&D maps too. Maps are just rad
The legitimate uses feel kind of rare. Maybe there's some stock photo abandonware out there (questionable "legitimacy", but it's not so out there)? Maybe someone bought stock photos from a company that went bankrupt and never downloaded the non-watermarked version, and somehow that company's IP isn't accessible now? Feels like a stretch.

Upscaling old purchased images feels like a more common need.
You request me to supply evidence, I can only make a request for you to actually read the article
This implies that every horizontal acquisition is anti-competitive, does it not? If not I would love to read why not.
The post is about Mark Hyman not Huberman.
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> The framers held certain rights to be unalienable from human beings - something that no government can take away

Unless, of course, the government considers you to be 2/3 of a person
I run Arch Linux on an AMD Ryzen 5. I have mono installed, not sure why, i guess it is a depenency for sdrsharp or the like. However, the sh ./zork1 did the trick :-)
anyone want to guess parameter sizes here for

GPT‑4.1,
GPT‑4.1 mini
GPT‑4.1 nano

I'll start with

800 bn MoE (probably 120 bn activated), 200 bn MoE (33 bn activated), and 7bn parameter for nano
In Catholic theology, God is the ultimate end of Man. The created order, with all its good and beauty, can be understood as a sign that points to God.

Marriage under a Catholic understanding has both a natural and a supernatural end. The natural end is procreative, but the supernatural end is that of a friendship in which husband and wife help each other on their journey toward Heaven.

In Dante, we see Dante's love of Beatrice lead him to God. He never marries her, but through her beauty and his love of her, she becomes a kind of icon through which Dante is led toward virtue and the divine. Eros draws him upward, but he is purified by agape. Agape purifies eros. The willing of the good of the other, self-sacrifice, surpass the satisfaction of one's desires and purify them.

(Incidentally, this is why, in this theological light, vile perversions like pornography become even more horrifying and dark. There is a sense in which one is also participating in an act of desecration.)
I did. I didn't see evidence of a leftist student group targeting students based on ethnicity in the article you sent me.

Can you quote the part that talks about this to me?
> magine if South Vietnam had remained independent. If it had become a thriving prosperous free democracy

That’s not obvious. For starters South Korea was a brutal and oppressive dictatorship during and after the war (not that much better than NK). It only became a democracy about the same time (coincidentally) as the USSR began collapsing. Same as Taiwan for that matter…

Also it’s a sample of one.. there are plenty of other countries where the US intervened that ended up not doing very well.

> you can’t help but wonder

About what? Waging the war indefinitely or direct invasion of North Vietnam? Because there weren’t really that many other options..
In a delicious twist of irony, Artisan, the AI startup that made waves with its provocative 'Stop Hiring Humans' campaign, is actually on a hiring spree – for humans. The company just secured a hefty $25 million Series A funding round, and while it's building AI 'employees,' it's simultaneously expanding its human workforce. Welcome to the fascinating paradox of modern tech.
> is not entitled to set arbitrary conditions

Indeed, but most of these conditions _are_ arbitrary and often mutually-conflicting. Mask ban? What is the scientific basis for this?

The government already set numerous conditions on research funding relating to accounting, ethical conduct and so forth. Attaching conditions that are only tangentially related to the purpose of the funding is almost arbitrary by definition.
Furry engineer explains the nightmare that is the underlying complexity of USB-C
It's reserved because the donation was earmarked for a specific purpose (eg. a business program or whatever), not because they reserved 30% on tax owing.

>Is the growth 'reserved for a particular purpose'?

It's probably safe to assume donors are competent enough that such glaring loopholes don't exist. After all, the concept of endowments being used as long term savings, rather than spent immediately, isn't exactly a new concept. Failing to take this into account would mean any earmarks are void after a few decades.
Is it possible to vibe-code a production-grade database?
> Discord is very much in the same boat of build user base, then either sell or lock people in and charge a lot. It's current model is unsustainable. It will get bought out or enshitify eventually, there's no other sustainable model unless every user starts handing them money every month like its Netflix.

I haven't looked at their financials, but I wouldn't be surprised if their current subscription offerings targeting power users were enough to support the service.
Protect the Earth with 3B Vector Search
It is a video of an interview between Huberman and Hyman.
Agreed. For the revenue tax activists want from billionaires, it would necessitate a wealth tax, which I believe is unconstitutional. The non-profit tax exemption fight is about "income taxes" which billionaires already have to pay (but avoid). So it is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Yeah, but I wanted to emphasize that homoiconicity isn't just some superficial "nice thing" to have, it literally is why we can have powerful macros in Lisp.
35 GiB is probably a third of the data I index into Meilisearch just for experimenting and don't forget about the inverted indexes. You wouldn't use any O(n) algorithm to search in your documents.

Also, every time you need to reboot the engine you would have to reindex everything from scratch. Not a good strategy, believe me.
I think Toyota never really believed in EVs and said as much. But I assume if they say they have a solid state battery on the way it'll turn up some time. I've owned three Toyotas and always found them quite reliable, both the cars and the company.
> no evidence that ALL CAPS or Bribes or Tips or threats to grandma work

Challenge accepted.

That said, the exact quote from the linked notebook is "It’s generally not necessary to use all-caps or other incentives like bribes or tips, but developers can experiment with this for extra emphasis if so desired.", but the demo examples OpenAI provides do like using ALL CAPS.
People offering stock comp in an unlisted private are the moral equivalent of Jeff foxworthy’s “oh you’ll take a cheque? Hell I’ll pay the whole damn thing off then. I didn’t know you’d take a check I thought you wanted real money.”
Show HN: Gradually-Loading Web Fonts
Abrego Garcia's lawyer has asked the court to withhold payment[1]. They may have already paid it all ($6 million for 300 prisoners for a year); I don't know of a source about any payment schedule. And this is Trump administration paying it, so nobody but Trump or courts probably has legal power to stop paying now.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250402000938/https://www.theat...
Could you give us some of these restrictions? This seems like a BS excuse to not support the students.
>> College endowments are typically tax-exempt, but a 2017 law imposed a 1.4% tax on investment income for a small group of wealthy private universities.

> LoL - why it makes any sense to do this for universities and not billionaires is beyond me, but I'm sure half the country can explain it to me like I'm 5.

Because they already do it for billionaires: unlike university endowments, billionaire investment income is not tax-exempt by default, it's already subject to income tax [1].

[1] At least theoretically, ignoring the loopholes and tax-dodges billionaires can take advantage of with literal armies of accountants.
What makes you think the products you like will even be launched, if the acquisition pathway to success is not available?
I agree - trying to show that other people may have discovered things that we believe we did exclusively is abhorrent and those people deserve all the sanctions that we can impose on them.
I wish we had more of these internal discussions public. Waaay more helpful than random masterclasses
The contract-first design and return to REST seem like solid improvements over trpc.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what would be the simplest way to typecheck a rest api. I wonder if…

- …it would make sense to define endpoints in isolation, rather than one big router object. Large / recursive types have bad performance, especially when mixed with zod. Isolated contract definitions would prevent statically checking for path conflicts though.

- …a composition-based api would be better than a wrapper to minimize the API surface:

const getPostById = endpoint(/* */)

// client
const postResponse = fetch(getRequest(getPostById, 123))
const post = getResponseData(getPostsById, postResponse)
New Plan for Acquiring Greenland Is US-Funded UBI for Its Residents
It’s current year. They might hobble along for a few years without federal funding but they need federal funding to keep their academic reputation and be elite institutions.
It will take a majority of states, and their military backing, forcefully overthrowing Trump.

I really hate to be alarmist, but it does feel more and more that we're headed to massive, coordinated state against state violence.
"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

Any organization is probably in violation of any number of rules and regulations due to the sheer number of them.
You constantly have input from all your senses, which is effectively your "prompt". If you stick a human into a sensory deprivation tank for long enough, very weird things happen.