skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might as well keep it updated I suppose.

Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32212719 - July 2022 (295 comments)

Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302 - July 2022 (236 comments)

Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828509 - June 2022 (307 comments)

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225 - Dec 2019 (382 comments)

The amyloid hypothesis on trial - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618027 - July 2018 (43 comments)

Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214 - July 2018 (109 comments)
Maybe I'm not the target user, but the UI is an exercise in frustration.

- Why have a cursor if you can't type?
- No errors for "call paint -> color"
- The icons aren't useful. Why not have hover "help" messages on the UI, instead of a separate Keypad help (which you have to hover anyways)
I grew up in a rural town that’s primary exports were dairy, corn, and tobacco. I think you might need to visit a rural town and look around if you never noticed the cosplay farmers who didn’t ranch or farm but kept up the appearances.

Did you not have people constantly getting ragged on in high school for “being a pussy” if you didn’t drive a pickup?
It also won't work if you worship Satan and let end users enter the table name dynamically, but who the fuck does this?
- Larger upvote (and downvote) buttons.

- A way to format lists without adding blank lines.

- On mobile (Android), the comment box lacks the attribute that allows word completion, etc.

I could consider upvote-capping: not in absolute terms, but maybe at 110% of the next most upvoted peer at the top-comment position.This would allow for more top-comment dynamics which currently is often runaway.
I’m not particularly attached to time zones, so perhaps I would have opposed introducing them.

Sticking with local solar time in the age of jet planes would have been at least as much fun as daylight saving time.
I agree this must be a typo! The demo car in the video (BMW i3) is a rear wheel drive car.

Given that, this whole thing doesn't make any sense to me as a supposed advance. RWD cars have always had tighter turning raidii. Many of them actually have a stop to keep you from turning the wheel 90 degrees such that the tires push instead of roll. I remember adjusting an early 70s Volvo so the front wheel could turn almost 90 degrees just as an experiment, and doing this adjustment was trivial.
IIRC mine had a chat with my wife and one of the first things he did was ask me how many kids I had. If he'd gotten answers he didn't like, I assume it would have been a lot harder to convince him to do the procedure.
We co-incidentally launched "Mentza" - a social audio platform in India with 20-minute timed live audio conversations early last year.

The community is close-knit and we've had some success at getting the "sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name" vibe going for our power users.

Most of our content & culture is averse to casual chit-chat and more focused on peer to peer learning about something that's mutually of interest, or enjoying some local poetry & music. We've been fairly editorial from the start with a focus on meaningful conversations which will always be a core proposition.

We raised about $300K in seed in September and we have been humming along since, with monetization coming next month.

I'm obviously biased but I think our format is simpler - it's 20 minutes, you set the context, say your piece and talk to upto 5 others and unlimited listeners who can chime in from the live chat. If you want, you can extend for another 5 minutes to wrap up. All the conversations and chat transcripts are publicly available and recorded, so you don't really miss out if you join late or can't make it.

The Clubhouse story is great because it's like a lens into the future for similar apps in terms of the challenges that one can expect - curation, spam, lewd content, crypto nonsense, harassment, etc.
Exactly! Raymond Chen is doing a great job at sharing interesting stories from a bygone era.
It's not really a straw man because Meta's not really attacking that position, they're ceding that point.

Like a straw man would be Meta saying "astronomers think that leap seconds are helpful but in fact they're not useful for anything!"

Here, if anything, Meta is attempting to steel man leap seconds a bit by saying "look, sure, leap seconds are at least useful for some things, like astronomy, but they're still not worth it overall". And GP is claiming that it's not a very good steel man because even astronomers don't like leap seconds.
> If you think it shouldn’t then measure time differently, for example as seconds since a certain instant

Isn’t that what the article is arguing we do? What practical benefit does keeping this historical definition of time give us? Outside of people trying to account for the rotation of the earth precisely who could even notice?
Got it, "higher-order thinking" is the new reincarnation of "doing your own research". Not that surprising, actually.
Formatting SQL Data with Magic
I just released this feature for Beekeeper Studio Ultimate Edition because I thought it was super fun to use. Hope others find it interesting.
well if its called 'farmers market' then that's the assumption. Should be called 'random market' otherwise.
The emissions graph only considers particulates, so it's massively undercounting air pollution improvements from EVs.
The naive implementation is slower mostly because of the DOS resistant hasher in the Rust stdlib, and the smallish buffer a line represents.
Everybody Loves Raymond
I get what you mean by this!
Let me clarify what my way of thought is behind the "completely free, no strings attached". I do not ask for your credit card info, I don't put you on a trial that magically renews at the end of the month, I don't offer you a sketchy sign-on deal with an unexpected bill at the end of the month. I try to make it as ethical as possible, unlike some other marketing/emailing tools.

That is my meaning behind no strings attached. Of course I put some features behind a subscription because they demand significant work from my side (managing the domains is one of those).
BSD:

"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:"

Can you use and redistribute it or not?

"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions"

Are you free to deal in, redistribute, sublicense and sell the software, or are you not?
Your centralized exploitative adtech business that exists at the expense of the well being of society is failing because another bigger centralized exploitative adtech business will not care about your well being?

Now you want a tech worker community who is among the people you track and exploit to help you get back to doing that.

I suggest you take this as an opportunity to seek out a living producing something that has a chance of being actually positive for society.
yah, that's exactly the kind of change i advocate as well. it's low cost and high bang for buck. LA instead spends millions of dollars doing studies and community outreach and anything else before they actually implement these kinds of changes. and when they do, it's small, isolated and disconnected, and low utility as a result.
I'm not sure what's the original interpretation was supposed to be, but as a French, bsaul interpretation is the one I choose to believe, and I think that matters more :)
I guess you brush your teeth for one hour once a month.
I wish they would reuse the pattern of Cloud SQL where you can get temporary access without manually handling the Authorized Networks setting. The Cloud SQL API lets you exchange your API access token for a short lived TLS client certificate. This is done client side by things like cloudsql-proxy[1] and the cloud-sql-jdbc-socket-factory java library[2]. This way, I can access my Cloud SQL instance from my IDE, even though my list of authorized networks is empty.

I feel like the gke-gcloud-auth-plugin cloud do something very similar.

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloudsql-proxy

[2]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-jdbc-socket...
Nah, they're just different. And often quite good.
That is sufficient argument, alone, to drop it.

UK used to decide on which date to switch to and from "summer time" every year. "The admiralty will take up the question in coming weeks."
https://youtube.com/c/CaptainDisillusion
Despite what the article says, this is only for RWD cars with no front axles.
I'd argue that often what's inside of us (at least in side of me) is a lot of verbal communication. Maybe you mean the verbal communication we do with others, yet I just wanted to say I think the language we use with ourselves is often the language we use with others. I've found that yes, working on how I talk to myself has helped how I talk to others. For example, I'm not an idiot when I make a mistake, I'm angry at a specific behavior I did.

So I try to pay attention to how I speak to myself and how I speak to others, trying to learn from both. E.g., I just said "gosh, how stupid are you" to someone (or thought it), wait, how often do I say that to myself?
This topic keeps coming up and I'm not sure I want to read all the comments just in case someone has written something that wasn't written last time it was discussed.

Personally, I would like to keep leap seconds. The only change I would make is to demand a longer notice period: 18 months instead of 6 months would be good. Presumably that would mean we'd have to tolerate a slightly bigger difference between UTC and UT1 but that seems all right.

It would be stupid and irresponsible to abolish leap seconds without deciding on and implementing an alternative way of keeping time, and therefore the calender, in phase with the cycle of daylight. There are alternatives (leap minutes, redefining the second, ...) but to me they all seem a lot worse than leap seconds.

Of course, whatever we do in the future, software will still have to handle leap seconds for processing timestamps in the past so any change to the system would mean that most software gets more complex.
And how many invasions have you noted across the Bering Straits since 1945?

The world changed.... You dont need an 800bn standing army any more.
In 2022, "state of the art" is throwing a deep net at it. It will likely pick up on all of these findings (and better ones, incomprehensible to us) by itself given correct architecture and enough data, but I can't help but feel a bit saddened by this - seeing the ingenuity and mastery of all these cited names be obscured and superseded so easily, in a way.

I love advancement in the field and what machine learning will enable us to do, but I don't know what to make of this. One argument is that now we have engineers who design the machine learning models, but it is still depressing to me, for some reason. Never knew I would feel like this, am I the only one?

P.S.: I'm commenting purely on this topic, which is an ideal big data case - of course, we still have a long way to go with machine learning, one where human minds will have to especially shine.
>Looks like rockets were invented before a global war broke out with peaceful intentions, then the military used that invention for violence, as a global war broke out.

This presupposes that the V2 is the first use of rocketry in history which...well, it's just not true. You conveniently skipped over the bit about Congreve rockets, which were invented in the late 18th/early 19th century, explicitly for war, or the growing evidence about the use of gunpowder rocketry in Imperial China. Both of these uses were explicitly NOT peaceful. (not hargreve, I misremembered in the OP post).

Also, if you bother to read the article you referenced, it makes it clear that literally nothing came of the experiments apart from that book. It took a war to get the funding and manufacturing resources available to actually _do the work_ of advancing rocketry.

EDIT: to sound less like an asshole and engage with the comment on its face value.
Specialized vendors usually deliver better products than generalist vendors though because its simply harder to have expertise in all domains than a fewer number.
That was my thought too, pointing out why NTP smearing might be fragile is a crucial point in any argument against leap seconds, and the reasoning in this post are lacking (regardless of the conclusion's correctness).

My only guess is that because smearing takes place at Stratum 2, if the network partitions part of the NTP servers downstream (Stratum 3+), they'll have an offset as large as T/(17 x 3600) (T being the partition duration in seconds).
Yet I guess it must be something else for I cannot see why that won't be tolerable.

More generally AFAIK the NTP RFC does not include smearing period, which is why the best practices are to only use smearing in a well controlled environment rather than on public facing NTP networks, but why is this not something that can be fixed? I'm not sure.
Is it deliberate that your comment itself is like an instance of the methodology you describe? Small separate stand-alone thoughts vs. a well-understood description (harder to write, to consume) in longer form commentary?

That's not a criticism at all by the way, I just found it striking.
History time: In 1972, David Parnas wrote a paper about "Information Hiding," and a few years later Fred Brooks wrote The Mythical Man-Month, possibly the most influential book about software engineering, which largely discounted the value of information hiding. 20 years later, in an updated anniversary edition of The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks wrote "Parnas was right, and I was wrong about information hiding."

Coming from Fred Brooks, this was an enormous admission! What is this amazing "information hiding?" It is separating interface from implementation, leaving one public and the other private. It is accomplished, among other means, by marking things "private."

This is the one thing in 20 years that Brooks found to be valuable in increasing programmer productivity in terms of essential complexity. Marking implementation details as private reduces the essential complexity of the code.

By the way, in some of your comments you talk about "everyone" having access to things, as if that makes a difference. Marking things as "private" is not about closing off access to particular people. It's not a security measure. It's about reducing the complexity of a given class by ensuring that the number of access points to that class are limited. That could affect other teams, sure, but it could also affect future-you, or you-working-on-other-class.
This article includes a Go code example:

start := time.Now()

// do something

spent := time.Now().Sub(start)

It's worth noting that the Go time library is specifically designed so that computer clocks running backwards won't cause `spent` to be a negative duration. A monotonic clock that only ticks forward is used for time comparison and subtractions.

Source: https://pkg.go.dev/time#hdr-Monotonic_Clocks
Parent is not referring to the actual weight of the tire, but to the particles emitted by the tires as you drive your electric car. Electric cars are heavier than ICE cars (due to the battery) so they tend to apply more weight on those tires as well, which increases those particles

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1135856_bigger-batterie...

Not trying to make a case against electric cars, but just wanted to explain that it's not just the 12kg of your tires that are the issue.
Worst case, public indecency.
DB schema to DAOs to business interfaces to binary persistence and to json.
Not OT. Casablanca is considered by most film critics to be one of the greatest films created and that's one of it's most powerful scenes. But I'm glad it made you think of that commercial; it was really funny.
Because it is a solid line (the policy rule) drawn across a fractal boundary (actual porn), and given lots of attempts you can find somewhere inside the line but across the boundary.

Stopping more than so many attempts makes this much harder / much less likely.
> Looks cool, but is this a solution in search of a problem?

The problem of maneuvering vehicles in tight spaces and parallel parking with limited room is a real one that anyone can observe by just standing around in places with heavily occupied streetside parking.

Whether that problem is annoying enough to the right people to be worth the cost of this system is a different matter, but there is definitely no problem searching required here.
As long as you're not putting bleach and vinegar in the dispenser together, I'd think it should be OK. The dispenser will be rinsed pretty thoroughly during the cycle of the machine running a load of laundry.
SF should reinvent itself along these lines.

I used to live in Paris and believed that this sort of transformation would be impossible.
No, I just wanted to paint a broad picture. Maybe I failed in that regard for you specifically, but I think other people got it.
> ...democracy... It's a system explicitly designed to be short-sighted.

It's not explicitly designed for that. It's designed to avoid concentration and abuse of power, peaceful transition of power, and to create some level of fairness.

Democracy wasn't designed to produce the best society or the most wealthy society.

Democracy was designed to avoid dictators/kings and other really bad things :)

That said, we often seem to think that we can optimize for something beyond the short term.
It's a seductive thought. But experience with communism/central-planning, suggests that maybe it's best to optimize for the short term. At least that works, and produces results in the meantime.

It's the same with waterfall software development vs agile software development. Optimizing for the short term and iterating is usually better than to try and plan the future top-down.
And forever handicapped. The expo line takes about 15 minutes to go from Expo park to 7th street metro center two miles away. The last good piece of transit LA built has been the red line and that was over 25 years ago.
I'm 31. I used to get stoned daily in my early 20s, until I got a job with a clearance, and so have abstained for several years.

The two best (and most difficult) lifestyle changes I ever made in life were cutting out weed and pornography. I probably wouldn't have had the strength to give up pornography without giving up the weed.
Great news, just a couple of years too late to help me.
> I do it anyway, because I'm clean-shaven, and need to look at myself, every morning.

I really appreciate this point. I do this not necessarily to win the argument or change how the other person is thinking/feeling, I do it mostly because I feel better when I do it. Believing someone is out to get me can cause me a lot of fear. Believing they don't care about me can cause me a lot of loneliness. Believing they're trying their best and are swamped with suffering? I actually feel relieved and maybe even grateful that they may have tried so hard to help me.

Will I ever know their deepest intentions? Probably not, but I sure feel a lot better when I believe they have good intentions for me.

Glad to see you comment on here, you're one of the few names I recognize on HN and appreciate what you said and what you often say, thank you.
But not out of character, or out of the question.
How does Walmart (cited early in the article) fit into this overall narrative?

As a consumer, I feel like Walmart operates in a competitive market. I go to Walmart even less often than I go to Target.
This would all be fine if there was a toggle to turn it off somewhere.
My favorite Chen article:

Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...
We all have different interest I suppose ;-)
I grew up in the north of Sweden but studied in Mannheim, Germany. Winters in Germany are miserable. If you get snow in winter you will perceive a 2.5-hour day as a lot brighter than it is. Mannheim was like a dystopian crime novel from a 1970s Britain in comparison to my home town, despite almost 4x the actual sunlight in January.

I am not saying "move to north Sweden". Just that amount of daylight is not everything.
Time you got paid for is not time wasted ;)
>yep. why was the default the slow path?

Only thing I can think of is that they reused to code from their integrated graphics drivers which likely don't support GPU memory. So the default is the option that works on the millions of "GPUs" they have already shipped.
Smearing is absolutely the worst of all possible choices. Instead of one second, you are out of sync with the whole world for all of 24 hours. And you are fooling with things for the whole period.

Of course it was Google who picked the worst of all possible choices.
It unfortunately is "the very least" we can do, though.

> That should drive down our prices

No, in Canada, foreign owned properties make up a tiny percentage of the total, so banning it doesn't actually have any impact. Works as future protection for sure, but that's all.

The "foreign investors" are a convenient strawman that hides bigger underlying problems.
It was intentional and well intended, so that CC0-1.0 use (e.g. for research datasets) would not be blocked by academic tech transfer offices. But yes, they should issue a CC1-1.0 that is not copyright-only.
Manhattan is definitely a painful outlier thanks to the finance industry. In this thread, I think the relevant question is whether that’s something which cars help with - most of the people I’ve known who commuted there were still car-free because transit or biking because of the traffic & the cost of insurance, parking, etc. making the cost higher than those AAA national averages.
> Encapsulation is a founding principle of OOP.

The more fundamental principle that predates OOP is: Abstraction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)
Here's some additional information on the SPEED-I and SPEED-II applications.[1]

[1]. https://www.appx.com/history
So it sounds like you don't have a house problem, you have a neighbor problem. Or rather, you have a community problem where you and your neighbors have not assembled into a good-faith community. If you don't feel comfortable knocking on neighbors' doors and asking them to be quieter, you have three options: make friends, move out, or deal with your emotional reaction.

But perhaps more importantly, the problem of nosy or overbearing neighbors doesn't go away when you move into a single family home, it gets strengthened and bureaucratized into what's commonly known as an HOA.

I personally would rather have close neighbors that I have the opportunity to make personal relationships with, versus the dispersed set of homeowners over a much larger area who get to fine me if they don't agree with how I decorate "my" house.

In my experience the tyranny of HOAs vastly outstrips any conflicts that may arise between apartment neighbors, but then again I try my best to treat the people with whom I share my space with respect instead of contempt.
Not being both de facto and de iure controlled by Google would be a start.
It's called perfect price discrimination[0] because it maximizes the profit for every sale. It's also unethical and illegal in many circumstances but cleverly not for college tuition.

[0]https://www.myaccountingcourse.com/accounting-dictionary/per...