skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like "6 percent of public universities consider alumni relations in their admissions policies" - https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/legacy-admissions .

Quoting it: "Public universities that do consider alumni relations in their admissions process include Auburn University in Alabama, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Virginia"

Only recently has it been made illegal in some states. Colorado was the first: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2021/06/01/legacy-ad... . The article mentions how Colorado School of Mines (a public school) had legacy admissions, and "found the legacy preference useful because the children of alums are the most likely to decide to attend once they are accepted."

My understanding appears to be out-of-date. That is, I could have sworn that my alma mater had legacy admissions, but that does not appear to be the case. It may have changed since I went to college.
> the constraint of not making our own silicon

Is changing that on your roadmap?
They will if the pay is good enough. See: tech workers.
I think the biggest complaint is performance, which is reported by some users to be amazingly poor (to the point that such a user would call the whole thing a joke on that account). YMMV.
This is extremely useful. I’d just add that it’d probably be helpful to be able to add a few filters up front.

I rarely buy used books or paperbacks, for example.
I just learned a new word, thank you for that ;-)
I don't, but I am so sick and tired of the nonsense that I have been thinking of creating a site with more detailed data on this, methodologies, calculations and perhaps a better version of the simulation that anyone can try, reproduce and challenge (it would not be science without it being open to honest review).

BTW, I built my model many years ago, way before anyone was talking about this. While it seemed to be a reasonable rough-order-of-magnitude model, it wasn't until the end of last year that I finally got confirmation that my model produced reasonable numbers. This by non other than Elon Musk himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcI6FaaDp8g&t=3510s

In this interview he says we at least double our power production capacity. We (US) have 1200 GW of installed capacity. That means we need at least another 1200 GW. Which means 1200 nuclear power plants.

That number, for me, gives the problem a dimension, a scale, that is difficult to understand in any other way. 1200 nuclear power plants is nothing less than daunting. In the context of not even being able to build a high speed train, I am not sure what the reality of nuclear power in this nation might look like in the next 50 to 100 years.

Of course, Elon is pushing solar. Great for some areas, not so for a good deal of the nation. Imagine, for example, if Florida depended 100% on solar. Yes, that's an extreme example, of course. Sometimes these are necessary to jolt people away from thinking about the fantasy of something and focus on reality. Solar in Maine or Illinois has very different prospects when compared to solar in Southern California, Arizona or Texas.

Solar isn't the solution. It is part of it, of course.
I'll wait until they figure out how to make paints and plastics from solar PV

Absurd that people don't consider the industrial uses of oil and gas when they talk about green tech. Nearly a fourth of all oil and gas is used in industrial processes and as base materials for pretty much every modern product you can imagine. And that has no synthetic replacements yet.
Does it cause you to laugh and frantically try to move away from the tickling? My understanding is that that is what most people don't experience when they try to tickle themselves.
Ok, I'll bite. What is wrong culturally with our computing history/culture?
> The con is that the components don’t seem as complete as MUI and not free either.

I think you're mixing different things here. Not liking Alpine because you don't like the components is like not liking React because you don't like some component library for it.

Alpine per se is a perfectly standalone library. I use it for my projects and I do not use their components library. Same I use React and don't use MUI either on some projects.

> Also the repo activity of next/react/MUI is much higher than PHP/alpine.

If the project is well maintained, widely used, documented and has no evident unsolved/ignored bugs... isn't this a feature? Why do we need things to constantly change?

> One thing you want to do is try to choose a stack with the best chance of not leaving you stranded in few years. Also a good set of components so I’m not stitching together random packages that may or may not be under active development.

I've worked for companies that, even using popular tools, ended up stranded. One of then with a Vue 2 project which they already "declared" they'd never move to Vue 3 because of all the third party dependencies and own code they had. Same at another job with Python 2/3. So choosing popular libraries, while safer, it's not always safe.

On the other hand, when you choose React (or any other "SPA" heavy tool) you will also need to decide on 10s of other libraries. From state management, to routing, maybe a meta-framework, a validation library, an ORM or data access library, some other for doing maybe background jobs, another for translations, another for graphql or your rest API, etc, etc, etc. Any of those can go unmaintained and cause big headaches.

I highly doubt anything such as Rails, Laravel or Django will go unmaintained and leave you stranded. Alpine.js doesn't look like it is going away any time soon as it is already pretty popular. Would love to say the same thing about Adonis, but I don't know many people using it yet, although I have big hopes for it. Unpoly, HTMX, etc... are more valuable by their ideas and ideology that by their implementation imho. They're small enough like to maintain it yourself or write your own implementation in a worst case scenario.
Agree. The only thing that should be blocking them is their previous poor performance.
Cmake is confusing as all get out. Make follows the Unix philosophy of just doing one thing - call other programs. It comes with almost all tool chains you’d care about. You can pick up the basics of a makefile in an afternoon… I still don’t know where cmake functions come from, how you would know about them or how to write your own. Let alone which version is the right one.

It’s like jsonnet to me - if you need config files that make config files something has gone horribly wrong.

Then again, I stopped bothering trying to learn Cmake. If I see Cmake I don’t bother with the project so there’s that - and also not a fan of c++ so I am probably the wrong audience anyway.
Thank you for the feedback! I'll look into it.
or use apngs
I'm chinese (american born), I have a lot of chinese friends and relatives so I know about a lot of the on the ground anecdotal data. From that anecdotal data, I would say this video perfectly matches what I'm seeing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30VyMMce9s
I'm sure environmental matters will take front and center stage during the midst of a bloody class war. Yeah right.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll work on adding these filters in should have them running before the end of the week.
I am very curious - when you say that, do you mean that you get that same sensation on your skin as when someone else is tickling you, possibly with a need to scratch afterwards, or do you get the full laughing and avoidance response?
Show HN: A.I. Runner with Stable Diffusion
Hi,

I have been here a few times showing off tools that I have created for Stable Diffusion. This is my latest creation, A.I. Runner.

It is an application which allows you to run Stable Diffusion locally. It runs on GPU or CPU (slower), allows you to watch the images generate in real-time, offers a NSFW checkbox, and installs all requirements including the model. You can also go from cold start to generating images in seconds.

I have many more features in the works including the ability to run more models (thus the more generic branding).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Startups
So the benefits are only available once or twice, but the code is going to be verbose forever.

If I were to come up with environment where it is guaranteed to be a net positive it would be a company with lack of boundaries between teams and a lot of churn.

Essentially TS averages out engineers in your team. You're going to be slower, but more predictable. Your 10x engineers will become 5x, but 1x will become 2x.
This reminds me how I wish I hadn’t loaned my friend my copy of LSD by Otto Snow a long time ago. Apparently it’s $877 on Amazon right now.

I bought it for like $30 at the time.
Wait, what? The problem to ve solved is giving people money without PayPal being involved? You guys need SWIFT…
PDFBox can do this but to have to build the CLI tool yourself from this example:

https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/5b00807463279f1002e245...

Everything about PDF signatures is maddeningly complex.
100 years from now people will look back at the tech and crypto startups of today and think the same thing.
The problem is that they are forced documentation. You can't choose to skip it after you became familiar with it.
Separation of concerns. Search is a different problem from storage and retrieval.
The French Dispatch is likely Wes Anderson’s worst movie.
Every real dollar you add back to worker consumption via housing affordability measures is a real dollar you remove from non-worker consumption via a reduction in investment income via rents, mortgages, and housing sales. Housing is a market where there's extremely little productivity gains available for improving the size of the pie as a whole - at best you can improve energy efficiency, commuting waste, or other non-valuable housing related consumption. But if all you're doing is making housing more financially affordable, you're going to have to deal with the fact that Peter's financial savings is Paul's lost rent-seeking, and Paul is generally a pensioner that votes.
It's funny...walk into a liquor store and shoot someone and you can get the death penalty.

Advocate an economic policy that destroys the local economy in particular locations, bringing all the social ills that come with that, unemployment, societal breakdown, drug addiction and arguably 10's of thousands of deaths over time and you get, well, nothing....

It's the kind of thing that might make you end up voting for a reality television star....
You have to be able to export a binary interface of some sort to be able to write operating system components. As Zig is intended for system programming, the Zig implementers will surely figure this out eventually.
An audited open core CPU like RISC-V. “Instant” on booting from my camera card with the starting address set with DIP switches. That is all.
An end-user doesn't want to manually update a domain each time they update their site. That's practically a non-starter for the technology. Especially since domain updates require transactions (on a L1 or L2 chain) to complete.

As mentioned by another person, IPNS does solve this issue, though. My domains are pointed to an IPFS+IPNS-published version of my site, which is re-published on change from Github.
You are putting words into my mouth, please don't.

Obviously there were wars and conflicts between indigenous people. Obviously some of those resulted in the destruction of a tribe, culture, or people.

But that's nothing like the genocide brought by colonizers. Scholarly estimates put pre-1492 populations in the US at about 5 million. At it's lowest point, around 1900, fewer than 250,000 indigenous people lived in the US. Across the entire continental United States, 95% of indigenous people were killed, amounting to millions of deaths.

Whatever the scale of ante colonial conflict, it just isn't comparable to the genocide that colonizers brought, and to argue that it was somehow comparable is tasteless at the very least.
> ISPs and government agencies can't do anything because it's all anonymous and any individual person is sharing encrypted pieces of a file anyways.

Note that there is no (happy to be corrected) publicly available IPFS implementation that can be run reasonably anonymous. Trying to tunnel kubo (go-ipfs) over Tor or other proxies will break stuff. There's also a bunch of fingerprinting that is not possible to disable without modifying source.

The answer to HA IPFS seems to be "just run more nodes". I am yet to speak with someone who has tried and reached success with load-balancing IPFS using available load balancers.
I don’t usually get a laughing reaction at all from tickling, it’s more shocked gasping, but yes to the involuntary spasm and retraction.
Economic mobility studies are interesting, but there's a fundamental issue with the way all of them look at things: they're measuring relative success, not absolute. Of course it's easier to move between deciles if the distribution of income is flat, but the net result of the movement also has less actual impact. It's also zero-sum: everyone moving up from the bottom decile has to be replaced by someone! Overall quality of life is the metric that should be optimized around, not economic mobility.
Inequality has been found to cause crime, poor health, child poverty (ie something that prevents children from developing properly and reaching the same economic productivity as their peers), etc. Some effects are felt by the rich. For example, my options for a partner are limited to those of similar income due to inequality and a desire for a certain lifestyle (amount of cooking at home, amount of holidays etc)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_economic_inequali...

Inequality is also correlated to children having the same income level as their parents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve
Most people wouldn't mind bringing back a non-military federal job guarantee in the form of returning the WPA in some form.
It won't be a particularly glorious or high paying job but I definitely believe such a program would have a place in rebuilding various pieces of infrastructure.
If compared to the US, isn't Europe spending significantly less on defense? I guess that Europe will spend more now. I think a big defense budget is a factor, the money spent on military hardware doesn't trickle down through the economy, as far as I know.
Does this mean that your data requests become public to anyone listening for data requests?
Correction:

Temporal.Now.plainDateISO().with({ day: 1 })

Today (2022-10-10 on my computer), that’ll get you a PlainDate representing 2022-10-01.

The “ISO” in there identifies the calendar. Want to know what the first of the current month in the Hebrew calendar is?

Temporal.Now.plainDate("hebrew").with({ day: 1 })

And that gives you 2022-09-26[u-ca=hebrew].
Documents showing Instagram's review process for a XCheck user
the tooling in the demo was impressive, and I don't mean to be overly critical I have gazed into the os/hardware abyss and I'm still paralyzed to figure out an approach. and maybe you will find what I'm looking for out there, or maybe we are looking for different things and that is fine too. it's certainly better than doing nothing.
There is some interesting models that show that equality is essentially a phase transition. Once you go beyond a level of inequality it becomes completely unequal (concentrated in essentially one actor) unless worked against [1] . I would argue it follows that those societies become also socially immobile, because one actor controls everything.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
Ah yes, just tear down the redwood forest.
> And as far as centralization, you've got a Pareto distribution, no network topology can change that.

Explain for the more obtuse among us?
Swift has them. They can even be recursive. See https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Enumerations...

I know there are ways to do it in C++ that are clunky but work.
Have you heard of annuities, and do you believe they are economically possible?
That's weird, I can tickle myself but am not at all ticklish when anybody else does it. This has always proved to be a kind of superpower when in a tickle fight. I've never looked into why.
Can you buy an American TV that supports 230v, but doesn’t support the European broadcast format?
I’ve always wondered about this! That being said, the answer provided still seems somewhat of a “here’s our best guess”—of course this can be said about most answers, but this just seems particularly far on the “just a good guess” side of the spectrum, rather than a more substantiated theory.
You made me stop and question myself for a second, but this definitely isn't right. Usually when people talk about "TCP/IP" it's shorthand for the whole "Internet Protocol Suite", but even naively TCP and IP are two different layers.
> Why should residential property values increase anyway?

Total non-worker consumption is equal to the unconsumed portion of total worker production, the worker-to-retiree ratio is getting worse each year, and total productivity gains are stalling. Working-age adults have to get squeezed somehow on pain of retirees voting different policies, and housing/rent/mortgage is the least flexible in terms of household budget and least politically obvious pathway for it.
You bring up a good point. But there are other important reasons. Particularly the availability of cheap money for speculation in the housing market. The reason for this is the historically low interest rates.
What're the failings of elaborator reflection in providing this in your view? I haven't used it thoroughly, but I thought one could define custom binding forms with it (in Idris 1, at least).
I think a big part of this is because of the the popular teachers and bloggers/youtubers which are not more than undercover (and some not even undercover) marketers for companies or solutions promoting the use of their platforms.

So many "Look how easy it is to build a blog with Next.js/Remix/Nuxt.js/Whatever", and it is true. That's really easy and cool and has a really good DX and we all love it.

But in real life you need a ton more things to make things robust and secure. And when people start to patch together stuff to get, let's say, authorization or authentication, into their apps, is when things go wrong and you end up getting emails of "data breaches" from services you signed up to.

Had you used a battle proven full stack framework, 90% of the problems would have been solved in standard, well documented, secure and proven ways.

In the node ecosystem, the opportunities are right there. From what I've seen and tried, Adonis.js is the best thing that has happened in this regard. A real "full stack" framework following Laravel's ideas. It's opinionated, fully featured and well integrated as every feature works nicely with each other. And you're not handed over 40 decisions to make about the ORM, the templating system or how to do permissions. It's all there ready and documented. As with Laravel or Rails.

We just need to have people understand that there's a *very common* set of features every single non-trivial web application needs and that it makes no sense to rewrite it from scratch on every single project.

What scares me the most is all of those people saying that implementing all of this themselves or by tying together 10s of libraries every single time is easy. To me they just don't know what they're doing and what they're getting into.
Low density areas do not produce enough property taxes to fund the infrastructure required to maintain them. They're not sustainable.
Once you can make methane, you can make pretty much any hydrocarbon.

Air captured carbon and electrolyzed hydrogen are not very far off comeptitive with fossil methane.
You sure can tickle yourself. I've had an itch on the bottom of my foot that I can't scratch because it's unbearably ticklish.
This was the Wes Anderson movie that would (in my very humble opinion) have benefited most from being a limited TV series instead. Have five or six episodes, one per story. As a film, like every anthology film I can bring to mind, it's a curate's egg. Good in parts, not good as a whole. (Of the three stories, the first is wonderful; the second insufferable; while the third relies too much on a thing, the policemen's chef, that isn't a thing.)
Haven't seen this one, thanks!
> It is likely because about 25% of the country would not like a more liberal immigration policy.

The blame isn’t just with the “build the wall” crowd, the majority of the other 75% of Americans do not place fixing immigration as a top priority, and immigrants are not voters in the short to medium term so they‘re not benefiting anyone in the next election.
I would be careful drawing analogies from nature. There is no support that shows that there is any equivalence between diversity and economic equality. On top of that if you believe it is valid draw parallels from nature, you need to explain why there should be private property, as no such concept exist in nature (as well as many of the other rules we quite happily accept).
that's nice but doesn't speak to any "holistic"ness.
If not be so quick to jump on conclusions that the distributing sites and servers are aware that they are complicit, or "fake". Infected WordPress installations participating in botnets and spreading malware is a scourge.

It would be commendable to try to contact the site operators in cases like this.
The answer is a bit more complex when it comes to the transition to modern high definition television. It's a bit of a long story with very interesting twists and turns that involve politics, national security, the Pentagon, US Congress and none other than Donald Rumsfeld (CIA and Defense Secretary).

The story is well chronicled in a book I read about twenty years ago:

https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Governme...

The title is intriguing enough:

"Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television"

I can't possibly do it justice here. I'll just mention that one would not be wrong to call Donald Rumsfeld the father of high definition television. His approach to wrangling the ATSC and FCC into adopting a cornucopia of standards was, from a business perspective, nothing less than genius while, from a technical perspective, a complete mess. The fractional frame rates would have evaporated from this planet had it not been for this part of the story.

Well worth reading for anyone interested in the technology or working in associated industries. Your jaw will most definitely drop as you get deeper into the story.
> To be completely frank I've looked down on UK/EU broadcast techs a little ever since because being able to set everything to 25fps and forget about it is easy street.

My experience has been the reverse. Because they can, people in UK/EU have historically cared much more about frame accuracy. It’s only in the last 10 years or so that people in North America have started caring about frame accuracy. In the past it’s been quite hard to do because of the non integer frame rate.
When did "Yellow paper" become a thing? Searching makes me think it's specific to crypto companies?
> Edit: I also wonder if it is some kind of response to nord stream getting blown up, like "Just look at that, some of your infrastructure out at sea can mysteriously blow up too with no one claiming responsibility, funny isn't it?"

Do you seriously think Russia blew up a pipeline that it had complete control over? Why would Russia give up leverage like that?
Have you confused the theoretical concept of "annuity" with the real-world investment product, or do you believe the world will end when you die?
I don't know about "enough". There are a lot of things we need to do: fertilizer, iron smelting, off-road machinery fuel production, plastics, lubricants, shipping and airplane fuel, ...

I do know that when energy is produced domestically, then your energy can't be held hostage by OPEC or the Russian Federation.

That is the promise of renewables: freedom from geopolitics.