skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article lists out why it's not good of an idea as you think.

>Universities’ endowments are not as much help as their billion-dollar valuations would suggest. For a start, much of the money is reserved for a particular purpose, funding a specific professorship or research centre, say. Legal covenants often prevent it from being diverted for other purposes. In any case, the income from an endowment is typically used to fund a big share of a university’s operating costs. Eat into the principal and you eat into that revenue stream.

>What is more, eating into the principal is difficult. Many endowments, in search of higher income, have invested heavily in illiquid assets, such as private equity, property and venture capital. That is a reasonable strategy for institutions that plan to be around for centuries, but makes it far harder to sell assets to cover a sudden budgetary shortfall. And with markets in turmoil, prices of liquid assets such as stocks and government bonds have gyrated in recent days. Endowments that “decapitalise” now would risk crystallising big losses.

More worrying is the fact that the federal government can inflict even more harm aside from cutting off federal funding:

>the Trump administration has many other ways to inflict financial pain on universities apart from withholding research funding. It could make it harder for students to tap the government’s financial-aid programmes. It could issue fewer visas to foreign students, who tend to pay full tuition. With Congress’s help, it could amend tax laws in ways that would hurt universities.

https://archive.is/siUqm
The criticisms were valid then, too. C (including the preprocessor of course) is still not fully parseable if you include things like token concatenation.
I am happy to see that PV is being deployed at incredible speeds. But dismayed at the lack of large scale storage projects & international interconnects.
Thanks! i will just check it out.

I just meant like never caught on as in like it's not super popular, but looks like it's on the come up. would be nice to have a real youtube competitor lol
Not too hard. If you happen to be on CRI-O this has been implemented for a bit but if you are like us and on containerd then you need the new 2.1 beta release.
That does most of the heavy lifting, implementing a CSI driver that mounted these as PVs wouldn't be super hard I don't think and you could borrow liberally from the volume source implementation.
It's rather convenient that anyone that doesn't agree with your personal view is just... wrong, and they really do feel this way, they just can't talk about it.
And this why I call it EEE: if Anthropic had simply added HTTP API endpoints with auth, everyone would have copied it, and Anthropic would have no control over the spec, which can keep future contenders out.

The MCP spec is a moat, and we’ve seen this movie before, whether they intended it to be or not. I use it, but I don’t have to like it, i.e. MCP should not exist.

As previously stated [^1], OpenAI can one-up them by simply supporting any API endpoint + auth and it would be way more powerful, no moat to defend against startups. No VC-funded corp can resist a moat.

[^1]: 2025-03-06: https://x.com/petrustheron/status/1897760788116652065?s=46
You're describing anti-science sentiment, which is problematic and dangerous. But this is also whataboutism.

I'm describing unfounded beliefs many people hold about science based mostly on a lack of philosophical understanding, which is orthogonal to anti-science sentiment and still important to examine.

I don't see a reason for there to be tension between the two.
Is that „becoming happier“ also observed with TNF blockers like Adalimumab?
I am all for the Disney utopian fantasy of us living with animals.

However if universal communication was to be made. Don't you think that animals are going to be pretty pissed to discover what we have done with their kingdom?

"Hi Mr Dolphin, how's the sea today?" "Wet and a plastic bottle cap got lodged in my blowhole last night..."
Good for Harvard. As idiotic as many of its policies are, this is clearly government infringement of freedom and speech.
Other articles posted about this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/meta-antitrust... (https://archive.ph/8wOPP)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/media/meta-ftc-trial/index.ht...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/meta-zuckerberg-ftc...

(I've omitted the HN links this time because there weren't any comments yet. Someday we're going to do proper URL bundling and karma sharing for cases like this, where multiple submitters post good articles on the same underlying story.)
Multicast doesn't work on the Internet.
Interesting, good job.

Minor suggestion: I would make the home page feed show popular stocks (so that it is more interesting to new visitors and also engaging to regular visitors). You could just pick 100 stock symbols or combine that with something like what you are seeing people search for (I would manually check the popular search ones - some may not make sense to add to the home page feed).
Session - no phone number or e-mail needed.

It creates a 66-digit alphanumeric number for user identification when you create a new account.
Same with speed limits.
Kai Ryssdal Was America's Economic Voice of Reason This Week
I am not a fan of PEG. It is straightforward to write a fast parser generator for languages that require just one character of lookahead to disambiguate any alternation in the grammar. This gets you most of the expressivity of PEG and nearly optimal performance (since you only need to look at one character to disambiguate and there is no backtracking). Just as importantly, it avoids the implicit ambiguities that PEG's resolution algorithm can hide from the grammar author that lead to unexpected parse results that can be quite difficult to debug and/or fix in the grammar.

It does require a bit more thought to design an unambiguous language but I think it's worth it. While there is a learning curve for designing such languages, it becomes natural with practice and it becomes hard to go back to ambiguous languages.
What is your definition of "fascists"?

Edit to explain my point, because I'm getting downvoted (which I don't care about, but I _do_ care if people don't understand my point): fascism was a specific ideology/movement in the 20th century that, other than being right-wing and authoritarian, doesn't bear much resemblance to right-wing authoritarianism today: they have different goals, different motives, promote different policies, etc.

It seems people just use "fascism" as a synonym for "destructive right-wing populism" or even just "bad". And I agree that things like the MAGA movement, or AfD in Germany, ARE bad, and one could even argue that they are just as bad as historical fascism.

But I don't think we should use "fascism" in this way, because it gives ammo to your opponents: the supporters of these right-wing movements can point out that indeed, they are not the same as historical fascism and make you look silly.
OK but it was still added specifically to improve Gemini and nobody else on the leaderboard uses it. Google themselves do not use it when they benchmark their own models against others. They use the regular diff mode that everyone else uses. https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-...
Tribler has had video streaming over BitTorrent for a bit less than two decades. https://www.tribler.org/StreamingExperiment/
These are important questions, but your skepticism has no roots in firmer grounds. How are you arriving at a ratio of 10:1? Bad faith actor.
I hate the way typesense are doing their « hybrid search ». It’s called fusion search and the idea is that you have no idea of how well the semantic and full text search are being doing, so you’re going to randomly mix them together without looking at all at the results both searches are returning.

I tried to explain them in an issue that in this state it was pretty much useless because you would always have one or the other search strategy that would give you awful results, but they basically said « some other engine are doing that as well so we won’t try to improve it » + a ton a justification instead of just admitting that this strategy is bad.
without a user id number it has to track your usage think about that for a minute.
There really is no incentive to compromise with the Trump Admin on anything. Even if you cave, they just go for more. You need to act like a cornered animal and not expect honest negotiation.

OTOH if Trump admin WAS at all rational partners they could be extracting historic changes from these institutions. But they won’t.
> Just run it in a Docker container

You should probably read the original article in the footnotes of OP's article: https://equixly.com/blog/2025/03/29/mcp-server-new-security-...

While a container will surely protect you from those, it will also prevent you using the features implemented by those MCP Servers.
The federal government cannot attach conditions that limit free speech onto federal funding.
There is precedent for the federal government expanding into areas it has no direct constitutional authority over through conditions on funding. But e.g. 'regulating commerce within a state' is not something the constitution explicitly forbids. Whilst 'abridging the freedom of speech' is very much explicitly forbidden.
These people (not only MAGA) perverted the very meaning of antisemitism to the point that it means nothing today. I am saying that as someone who's lost a family member to Holocaust. When I hear someone mention antisemitism today, 90% of the time it is to punish someone's views critical of Israel.
Do you guys not even get the chance to send a goodbye mail to colleagues?
Nah, you're just confusing the KPI with the desire.

You get different viewpoints by having people with different sets of experience.

Differing gender, race, and socioeconomic backgrounds are drivers of different experiences, and therefore viewpoints. You can't easily measure "did this company hire different experiences", but you can easily measure "did this company hire a bunch of different genders, races, etc", which doesn't guarantee differing viewpoints in individuals, but does strongly suggest it in aggregate/at the statistical level.
This is much more revealing of how western media reports on Latin America than anything.
Hey HN, I just launched FretLabs - a web application I've built to make guitar scale practice more engaging and productive. It started as a personal project to give a little structure to my freestyle sessions and has since evolved considerably. If you're familiar with Chordify, it's like that but for scales.
Features:

- 10,000+ song catalog (growing daily), or upload your own MP3s

- Automatic key signature and song section boundary detection

- Dynamic 3d fretboard with customizable scale options/controls

- Left-handed mode, support for 4, 6, and 7 string guitars

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or answer any questions!
This reminds me of the demotivator with pictures of cogs.

> Just because you are necessary doesn't mean you are important.

https://despair.com/cdn/shop/files/worth_6b813282-f9f8-41ab-...
> a lot of the tech in that vehicle is pretty good

For all the insistence that "Tesla is a software company" and "Tesla's advantage is software", the Cybertruck has entirely software defined anti-slip and skid prevention loops that are utterly broken.

Which is funny, because ICE cars have solved this, again, fully electronically and with significantly less control over the drivetrain (the primary control is holding the brakes on whichever wheel is slipping and letting the diff sort it out) for decades.

My VW GTI can crawl its way across sheer ice by just holding down the gas pedal and letting the computer sort it out. A VW Passat from 2008 could do the exact same thing. Every other ICE vehicle manufacturer had this as standard functionality by like mid-2010s.

Meanwhile, you can find videos of Cybertrucks struggling to deal with an inch of slush, which is an trivial situation for electronic stability controls to handle.

There is no excuse for a fully electronic drivetrain which has perfect ability to modulate not just the speed but also the force with which it turns the wheels to be this bad. It's pathetic.
He's not gonna be happy they can operate financially without his assent
Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology
The point is that a parliamentary system doesn't need to mean an unchecked leader
elixir has an even better offering baked into phoenix. unlike node which is limited to 1 process and necessitating a complex IPC cluster, erlang's vm can use all cpus on the host as well as connect different machines. The end result is a much more robust websocket solution that can relay state to whichever machine resumes the connection.
If they want to abridge freedom of speech, they also need 2/3s of US states.
The page acknowledges that Harvard lost that case and will comply with the ruling.
> And there aren’t enough technical people on the planet to pay those bills.

This rings so true to me. The tech side seems hyperfocused in on these diminishing return results around benchmarks, but I just don't see a 4% improvement in X benchmark as any kind of market mover.
Umm... output. Outside of hyperscalers and probably the tier below them, most EU tech companies aren't making the kind of money per headcount to justify huge salaries.

There is demand for tech workers, but the output of EU tech companies can't afford huge salaries. Lower margins.
This isn't close to a monopsony but it's more directionally correct than it is wrong. Keep in mind research institutes can be funded by private foundations, state and local governments, industry (e.g. pharma), venture, or even foreign governments. The federal government is undoubtedly the largest buyer though. I do think there are other motivations to rely primarily on federal grants beyond number of dollars. In particular, funding sources other than federal grant money is often looked down on from an academic prestige perspective. Until now federal money came with very few strings attached compared to the perceived loss of objectivity that could occur when receiving money from other sources. The current situation may alter or relax the prevailing view on which sources of research money are perceived of as potentially compromising.
> who will we turn to when we're fighting fascists coming from the East _and_ West? (Russia and the USA)

Like a heart attack can be good for your health,perhaps this USA withdrawal will be good for Europe. (If Europe is what you mean)
Also, isn't a ton of the IP from federally funded research just handed over to US corporations for free or pennies on the dollar?

Something tells me this is more of the current administration threatening to completely wreck US prosperity if they don't get wins on their bigoted social war agenda.
These "values" are not sincerely held, but tactical. Once they got the SCOTUS win and affirmative action was toast, they quickly moved on from fighting anti-Asian hate to a new fig-leaf/tool to useful for fighting the next ideological battle, which was prominent protests against government policy, which happened to be pro-Palestine, so this is the best tool for the job.

The messaging is very similar too, conflating pro-diversity with anti-whiteness, or anti-asian when needed, and now redefining being pro-Palestine as anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas. It's dumb, lacks nuance, but effective when the Fifth estate is pliant, co-opted or otherwise ineffective.
Zuck waved the white flag, settled the frivolous Trump libel lawsuit, and made several trips to kiss Trump's ring - now he is getting skewered anyhow. Deliciously ironic.

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

― Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.
In our case some machines would need to access less than 1% of the image size but being able to have an image with the entire model weights as a single artifact is an important feature in and of itself. In our specific scenario even if eStargz would be slow by filesystem standards it's competing with network transfer anyway so if it's the same order of magnitude as rsync that will do.

I don't have any perf numbers I can share but I can say we see ~30% compression with eStargz which is already a small win atleast heh.
Which was also a law passed by Congress. Congress passes laws.

Should we also say that the president can strike down unconstitutional state laws because the Supreme Court is in the federal government?
That would make sense if OAI were the leader.
The point of no return is Trump getting a third term

That's a little alarmist. It's not going to happen.

Things are close to going off the rails and people are understandably troubled with the direction in which the US government is headed. I am as well. But we all need to start turning down the temperature a bit.
As the Harvard letter says, "I encourage you to read the letter to gain a fuller understanding of the unprecedented demands being made by the federal government..." This goes far beyond a demand to follow existing civil rights law. It's a demand for a full-on, government-monitored cultural revolution that will punish Trump's enemies and bring in his supporters. It's also hilarously self-contradictory. The government demands an END to all DEI programs, yet in the same breath, "Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity..."
It's just words, obviously contradicted by many of Harvard's recent actions, but all I can think is what a fucking lay-up. If only Columbia's administration had half a spine they would have responded similarly.
They could also possibly fire some administrators. Not every vice-provost out there is strictly necessary.

Just a few years ago, Harvard Crimson carried an op-ed complaining about the bloat:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-burea...
I might have missed a point you stated, but a few thoughts:

1. I am not sure the issue is double empathy

2. A group of people could see holding a performance standard as attacking livelihood. I believe this view ignores that the teacher chose to mis-grade a paper, so the jeopardy to livelihood is on the teacher themselves -- assuming the standard and expectation is fair. An organization needs to hire and be willing to fire based on its values.

3. Tone policing of text has a long history on the internet. Five years ago we'd accuse tone policing enforcers of expecting privilege where none should be expected if you seek a meeting of the minds. Tone policing is a weird mix of shibboleth and inability to simply state: "I disagree" and disengaging from a conversation.
More like 80%. Americans are simply richer than Europeans.
there's no need to defend any good things the nazis did to germany
While impressive that the assistants can use dynamic tools and reason about images, I'm most excited about the improvements to factual accuracy and instruction following. The RAG capabilities with cross-validation seem particularly useful for serious development work, not just toy demos.
They've been talking about a nuclear renaissance since roughly a decade before Fukushima.

It's just getting kind of weird and sad now.
Nope, it didn't. The Nazis started a war economy almost immediately and yes, they hiked employment, but the Nazi economy was boom or bust. They couldn't sustain it long term without the war.
Yeah, but this also offers a clear exit opportunity (during the raise), and limits the "blast radius" to time-since-last-raise, rather than progress against the first four years of the company.
$9 billion dollars from the federal government to Harvard equates to nearly $30 per American, that is an ignorant amount of money for a single academic institution, surely the world isn't so black and white that we can have a conversation about how much money is leaking out of our tax dollars without it always coming back to "fascism"?
Edge AI and IoT in 2025 – All You Need to Know [video]
This is a talk that I made back in February at TechEX conference in London.

edge AI is becoming ingrained in the industry. This is especially evident now in 2025; edge AI is no longer a mythical creature or two separate words in a sentence, but a set of technologies and practices that is proven to deliver real value and is being adopted by largest players in all kinds of verticals. But how does this latest and greatest category advance IoT — a recent technology that has found mass adoption across all sectors?
The convergence of IoT, AI, and edge computing is now reshaping industries. It enables smarter, faster, and more efficient systems. In the talk I highlighted how these technologies are evolving and why their integration is critical for the future of innovation.
How did that work the last 10 times we said the things trump wants to do aren't gonna happen. He's saying he will so we should believe him

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-t...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-going-run-third-term-ste...
I make no representation as to soundness, then or now. Not till I figure out where my copy of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook has got to, at any rate. I've had cause reasonably recently to reread the X and sendmail chapters, not so much this one.
The only entities that could use such a thing are major streaming platforms, and projects trying to stream copyrighted content without consent.

The former don't want to use it as it degrades their control over the content, and the later don't want to make a new system cause systems that are built on torrents are good enough.
I'm sure it does work really well -- the social dynamics are there, it's obviously easy to use. That doesn't mean I have to like the technical characteristics.

A counter-point might be that my credit card doesn't require Google Play Services either. And won't run out of battery. And works with all the local businesses, including the smallest -- while there are some people (mostly outside cities) who still only take cash, I can't imagine them signing up for TWINT either.

There are several providers of services allowing individuals and small traders to accept credit and debit cards, and I've happily accepted cards from foreign banks too.

I'd be sceptical of anything like TWINT catching on in the UK, because NFC payments are already ubiquitous and also really easy to use.
Good. Trump is simply trying to see what he can get away with and the answer as it turns out is a lot. Everyone need to stop capitulating to this nonsense. People, universities, companies, all of them.
In every single situation where "anti-semitism" is being called out, the thing they are calling "antisemitism" is students who advocate for an end the the occupation of Palestine by Israel, the US providing the bombs that are killing tens of thousands in Gaza, and the university complicity in Israel through investment and academic partnerships.
That room must have smelled amazing. I want to go hang out there.
This tech has been developed several times but ultimately CDNs are now so cheap that P2P is pointless. You can't ignore development cost since it dominates all other costs in this case.
> At least the Nazi party created a strong economy in Germany

This is a myth. Wages of Destruction [1] details the Nazis’ autarkic economic incompetence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction
if a $50,000,000,000 endowment can not be used to smooth things over in times of need or turbulence then the endowment managers need to make changes.

You can not possibly convince me that Harvard’s endowment doesn’t trivially have one year of liquidity in it.

I’m sure it’s not structured to handle a 7% annual draw down for the next 30 years. But it’s got plenty of time to restructure if needed.