skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is, the biological model of Alzheimer’s isn’t panning out. They have drugs that reduce plaques but they don’t improve peoples conditions. Seems they need new models to try again. Billions have been thrown in this hole, but it’s such a huge market they’ll keep doing it if anything shows promise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353874 Nov 2008 (5 comments) - dead link, but also mentions SimCity 4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594478 Aug 2010 (48 comments) - dead link,
"Removing street signs, lights and arrows increases safety and road capacity"
I'll check it out. Learning from failures, as long as they are written constructively, is always useful.

Have you read about Kibbutzim in your studies? I'm obviously not a fan of ethnonationalism, but they seem to be a collectivist arrangement akin to your brief on farmers in America.

As for books to recommend, I'm just finishing The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood, but that's more of a historical analysis of the differences between French and English agrarian land ownership and how that led to capitalism in England but not France (not immediately, anyway).

Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread is next in my queue. It's quite critical of ML politics and suggests instead socialism is only achieved via bottom up worker organizing. It's highly recommended by a bunch of folks.

Also, I've found David Harveys lectures a very approachable intro to Marx's Capital https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vu4MpYgUo&feature=emb_title

And yeah, holy shit so many socialists get way to caught up in feeling superior and it sucks. Also, so many people see the word socialist and start hitting insults. Always nice to have a conversation with someone who disagrees but does so in an interested way.
This was the link I found while going through CMU's database course. I wasn't aware of the usfca url, thanks for letting me know!
Are we witnessing a sinking ship ?

He loaded the company with a 1 billion dollar interest per year, and the best twitter has done is 600 million in profit.

Its sad because as a Twitter user their is really no alternative.

And no, Mastodon with its garbage discoverability is not an alternative, more details on why here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33428254
Seriously.

Different strikes for different folks.

I love stuff like this. It’s computer history. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as well as being a snapshot of culture.
An accurate summary. I was reflecting exactly your cons when I left gaps in what I said Rust was good for.

Con (1) (Existing examples / training) is a legacy language strength in general, C++ is going to lead in this for a long time.

Con (2) (Low level data structures) I 100% agree. A toy example of a datastructure in C++ is going to be really easy to express but also dangerous to use.

I think you'd really enjoy this chapter of the Rust Docs on making your own Vec
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/vec/vec.html

And you are correct (Con 2 again), it IS an advanced practice. The result of making a data-stucture the rust way is a bulletproof class anyone can use, rather than a C++ foot-gun so it's worth the effort (but less so for learning).

You might find you can make your whole module unsafe and write a very similar data-structure in rust to your C++ solution (pointers and all) and it would compile and run fine.
Think Replit Ghostwriter fits the bill best.
https://replit.com/site/ghostwriter

With the right prompts, it's pretty easy to get GPT-3 or its open source clones to explain complex jargon in layman terms, as seen here:
https://twitter.com/jajoosam/status/1545364935395639299?t=FS...
Assuming that this technology can advance enough to become practical; are there orbits a satellite can take where it could collect sunlight continuously (i.e. it is not in the Earth's shadow very much) yet still be over a spot where it could deliver energy to a desired point on the Earth for a significant amount of time?
I can’t believe this is a tech forum. The answer is simple. 2FA has a url. All you have to do is store the url in your password manager. Then you can import it into any new app at a moment’s notice (as long as you have access to the vault) and generate a 2fa code.

In fact, KeePassium on iOS works on this concept. I use it as my primary otp url storage app and then put limited stuff into aegis on my android tablet for anything I may need there. If a keepass based app with an otp generator (like KeePassium) existed for android, I wouldn’t even need that.
.expect("fireworks")
There is an error in the opening paragraph of the article, while it's true Trump added another conservative to the Supreme Court, prior conservative courts have always upheld the legality of affirmative action; indeed, every iteration of the Supreme Court has been conservative since affirmative actions inception.

One would question why affirmative action was legal and constitutional just a few years ago, and as far back as the 1980's, but illegal now.

As for the content of the article, discrimination in the US against blacks, historically and presently, is race based, not class based. This is common sense, perceptualy one only sees someones outer features, not their bank balance or other unknowable signs of class.

At one point blacks (even world famous American blacks) couldn't vote, couldn't attend the commons, couldn't purchase homes in certain affluent neighborhoods, and couldn't be part of certain organizations (and still can't till this day). Curiously, blacks were never compensated for this injury perpetuated against them by their own government.

This sort of discrimination was wholly race based, your income or your social standing was irrelevant. This is why people focus on race and not the red herring that is class.
Between laying off 50% of jobs and pushing employees to work 12 hours a day, how is there enough morale at Twitter to even develop the myriad of new features Elon wants?
It still boggles the mind Twitter has 7000 employees when Whatsapp had fewer than 50. There must be a huge amount of deadweight.
The second thing Žižek said was

"I hate movies, but I love to watch porno.
I cannot resist it.
Yes, why not?
It’s far more interesting than these old-fashioned procedures."

Incredible conversation.
Race often enhances that effect.
Because one does not imply the other. A minority of whites are disproportionately wealthy. Associating the trait of a minority of a group with the majority is racism.

It's really that simple.
Not in this case as far as I can tell.
Thanks! I bought a spy cam from Amazon, but it’s a piece.
Most white people of course don't have multi-million dollar businesses. The real issue is that many white folk just aren't all that privileged in the first place, and once you start applying such broad generalisations to entire populations without nuance it just becomes silly, even if the generalisation is broadly true.

Many people who strongly argue in favour of things like white privilege tend to be well-off, so from their experience the generalisation holds true, but they fail to realize that their experience is not universally shared and dismiss people with things like "racists" or "handbasket of deplorables", without even attempting to understand where the opposition might be coming from.

The entire thing is a catastrophic failure of empathy, which is ironic because the concept of privilege is useful IMHO exactly to understand that your experience is not shared by everyone.
My Samsung TV "smart" feature overlays for 1+ minute when using HDMI-CEC.
Because reads can be served from a cache and writes can not.
Show me the five million ways to climb this mountain
> It can easily be said that Hitler just did not do [Nazism] right just like Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and the Kim dynasty and Castro and all the others did not do [Communism] right.

I'll assume we can stay focused on Nazism and Communism, rather than any precursors to complicate things. In that case, I don't see how the above statement can be right at all.

According to Wikipedia, communism is all about common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, allocating products to everyone in the society. That sounds very fair, admirable, equitable. Further, it involves the absence of social classes, money, private property. Lack of social classes seems especially appealing to an anti-harm, equality ideologue. Nazism on the other hand is associated with fascism, dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, and racism. These are directly linked to aggressive, harmful mindsets. I mean, it's pretty clear that an ideology that promotes racism is going to lead to problems.

So do you disagree with that? Is that an example, or result of how these subjects are treated in schools, media, politics, and entertainment?

> The dictatorship of the proletariat needs a class enemy

Admittedly, I had no idea what this meant until looking into it just now, but it seems this is further deviating from the main point of Communism vs Nazism since it is not quite Communism. I don't really understand why you're bringing precursors into the discussion if it's very easy to see parallels between Nazism and Communism. We should be able to talk about them directly and leave out precursors. The Che t-shirt guy is not championing precursors to Communism in this discussion, he's championing Communism, which doesn't have inherent animosity as part of its ideology.
Cold comfort to the near-penniless and penniless.
Get an NAD+ booster like Niagen quickly; even a mild Covid seems to deplete a month-worth of NAD+ in 3 days and as it is a required part of any energy reaction in mitochondria, people end up like zombies for months thereafter if they don't replenish it. See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831132/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04809974
Lots of small rocks can cause a 'heat pulse' over wide areas on atmospheric entry.
Wanna see a whole boatload of LED companies making lights for horticulture? Here is a list of 117 firms that will have booths at the upcoming MJBizCon (cannabis convention): https://mjbiz22.mapyourshow.com/8_0/explore/exhibitor-catego...
How is $1500 per 4x4 area possible? My 4x4 tent is somewhat over-lit using brand new Samsung LEDs with a dimmable, low-heat, high-efficiency fixture and it cost me more like $800 CAD. What do these lights do that mine doesn't?

The actual power draw on mine is about 460W according to a kill-a-watt, which seems like plenty for a 4x4 space using high quality LEDs. 630W seems like far too much, but I'm also a relatively clueless hobbyist. This light certainly grows lettuce and herbs really well, but maybe it would be terrible for tomatoes/cucumbers/peppers.
It's kinda fascinating to watch mining for precious metals go from digging tunnels, to extracting from other people's cars.

I wonder if this will make a dent in how often it happens. My niece's was stolen in broad daylight.
Wouldn't running your development environment inside docker provide the same safety levels?
What do you think would work better than shadowbanning for spam?

> this approach affects a number of legitimate users

Yes it does, but so will any such system. They all have false positives. Perfection isn't an option, especially because it's beyond impossible to manually review everything. The best we can do is try to correct those cases as much as we can. Usually accompanied by a sincere, hand-typed apology.

As for throwaway accounts, people create those for lots of different reasons—some legit, some not so much.
I've read speculation that this could find itself on shaky legal foundations depending on how SCOTUS rules on the latest affirmative action case? Not a lawyer so can't really tell if that's just FUD or a real concern. I think the TX approach is really interesting and would hate to see it ended.
If I hosted malware, I would be in jail. It is against the law. I wonder why Github is allowed to host malware, and continues to provide a platform for it?

https://sanctiontrace.com/malware-hosting-providers-sentence...
>Maybe the Ivies will move to a similar system in the wake of the current SCOTUS case.

AFAICT, the ivies don't have a problem with filling their graduating class. I believe a place like Harvard even considering the top 10% of students would increase the applicant pool. I'm reciting these numbers from memory, but apparently the size of the incoming class at Harvard is roughly 2,000 students, but there are ~5,000 applicants that scored 95th percentile of the SAT. (Edit: This source [3] says there are 22,000 students who scored in the top 1% percentile; Harvard could likely admit every perfect scorer if it pleased).

While I believe there is belief that Harvard is accepting C-students over asians A+ students I think the reality is much closer; they are rejecting students with perfect scores and accepting students who scored in the 98th percentile.

The real problem is the size of the undergrad class for these select elite schools have remained the same (The harvard class size of 1992 was 2,200[1] compared to 1,954 today[2]), while the US population has grown almost 30% in the same time frame. You have more and more qualifying students fighting for the same number of spots and an organization that is more than happy to split imaginary hairs to keep the class size the same.

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/column/a-new-day-at-harvard/artic...

[2]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/1/admissions-class...

[3] https://go.collegewise.com/how-many-people-get-a-perfect-sat...
Forced busing worked too. Got the money more evenly distributed and fostered healthier, more heterogeneous cultures in the schools. Parents just weren't ready for interracial marriage, and were terrified their kids would date 'other'.
You can simply read the report
Horticulture - ha! Just call it what it is for - weed!
I've been working on a framework in Ruby for a few months. It's kinda like React but server side, it streams DOM-patches to the browser, and it uses Haml templates. It's super easy to work with and I don't know what to do with it. It's also full of minor bugs but I think the architecture isn't too bad, because it's been easy to rewrite different parts in isolation and replace them (I think I've rewritten the server 5 times by now).

I'm running it on Fly's hobby plan and it's been working really well, I really like using their stuff.

I feel like server rendering is something that will become very common. It's becoming easier to deploy apps near user, and it's easier to keep state on the server (and you can talk to your database directly instead of having an API between, which is probably the greatest win).

Here are some examples from what I've been working on...

Simplest component possible:

%div Hello world

With CSS:

:css
.hello { color: fuchsia; }
.hello Hello world

With state:

:ruby
def self.get_initial_state(initial_count: 0, **)
{ count: initial_count }
end

def handle_click(e)
update do |state|
{ count: state[:count] + 1 }
end
end

:css
.counter {
border: 1px solid fuchsia;
}

.counter
%p Count: #{state[:count]}
%button(onclick=handle_click) Increment

Since latency is so low, you barely notice that the app is running on a server instead of in the browser. CSS class names are scoped to the component and the stylesheets are loaded lazily when the components render, and with HTTP/2 everything loads in parallel. Asset filenames are based on their content hash so they can be cached easily.

That HEEx syntax looks really interesting though. What I didn't like about LiveView and HotWire was that it didn't feel like React. Now maybe LiveView will feel more like React.
> directing the housing authority to decertify rich cities' zoning codes that flout RHNA housing obligations like Santa Monica is huge

The true test is whether or not this works in Palo Alto. That's the NIMBY capital of California.
> The rate of poverty of black children is much higher than that of white children, so black children will ultimately get more benefit because it's needed more. The problem is that we think this is a zero sum game when it isn't. We can help them both.

I agree -- but a college application isn't for an average black student or an average white student. Each application is for one individual student, who had an individual life experience. If we want to help students who struggled in poverty -- let's measure their individual poverty. Then we'll help everyone at exactly the correct rate, rather than on some generalized presumption.
No account is required to read this, did you try?

I opened it with an incognito window, no problem.

I opened it with a logged in window, no problem.

Some authors try to monetize their posts. Not this one.

I'd love to know if your experience was somehow different.
UT Austin is considered one of the "public ivies" -- a public university offering an educational experience competitive with ivy league universities.

Other examples are UC Berkeley, University of Washington at Seattle, and Penn State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy
CA has exactly the same system. I’m not sure which was first.
The point is that you can hold a door open for everyone, but only the people who need it will use it.
My favorite definition for systems engineering is "the management of complexity"
Why do you believe "privilege" is a negative word?

Also, assuming you mean Robin DiAngelo, what of hers have you read? She's pretty clear in both White Fragility and Nice Racism in advocating against "constant, deliberate, self-flaggelation" because they center the person doing it and take energy away from productive action.
That argument is much more convincing in the "open world" of internet searches, where enumerating all results is simply not going to happen.

In the scenario where you're searching for a file in a group of low-hundreds of files, it's nothing but a bad cop-out excuse.
Real life is filled with disappointments and limitations, even with the best social structures in place. The false promise of a social revolution that provides instant wealth and salvation for all is used by populists to gain power, but any attempt to realize this promise leads to worse outcomes for the public.
This is happening more and more frequently in my locale. Several of my friends and many of my neighbors have had their catalytic converters stolen.

It's good to see something is done. Let's hope this steamrolls into a nationwide manhunt for these criminals. They should also consider targeting and auditing shops that buy used car parts. Making it extremely difficult to fence these things will be practical and useful because they aren't sold and reused as is - the rare earth metals are extracted. Something your average criminal won't be capable of doing in their garage.
> There's nothing stopping me from going to the "town square" and yapping on about how God has returned, or that Kanye West is my dad, or is dead. People would just ignore me, I suspect.

As I understand it, many people are actually incapable of performing this function and are desperate to have what they view as a higher authority (corporations, governments) protect and guide them. I do feel for these people, this must be a terrifying and bewildering time for them. Hopefully if Twitter does become less moderated, it could provide an affordable service for them that filters out content that they would be unable to cope with being exposed to.
From a very cursory look at just the main page you linked, it seems that with greyhole you configure it to store a certain number of copies of each file?

On snapraid you have one or multiple parity drives for the whole array, and the parity drives have to be larger than the largest data drive you have (although you can use split parity, where a single parity volume is split over multiple physical drives).

So greyhole seems a bit more flexible in this regard.

Greyhole does seem to share some of the limitations of snapraid though, "storing files that change often, especially large files, is asking for trouble. i.e. don't use a Greyhole share for your currently-downloading torrents". Snapraid is the same in this regard - it throws errors if files are being written to when it's syncing.

So they sound fairly similar.
Whatsapp literally has nothing to moderate or do.
The infrastructure is basically just a mail man to deliver messages, and that's it.
Almost everything is encrypted, there is nothing to moderate really.
Eh more like they shift managing the state to cloud providers.

Someone has to bootstrap a DC of machines before you can run that containerized business logic.

All the old barnacles are there it’s just hidden behind the wizards curtain.
My oldest will be applying to college in 2027. If it would maximize their chances of admission, I could arrange for my 2026 income tax return to show any 5 or most 6 figure sums that I needed. If I really needed to, I could do the same for 2025 as well.

Showing a household income of $75K in that year/those years won't change the more comfortable financial situation they grew up in.
Oh wow, I had no idea! I played The Bard's Tale a lot when I was a kid on a DOS machine, making my own maps on grid paper and stuff.

I just bought The Bard's Tale trilogy remaster[0] on steam yesterday, and it's great! It's just that sweet spot of being very close to the original, while still having many QoL upgrades to iron out the more painful parts. I highly recommend people who like dungeon crawling types of games (like legend of grimrock) to give it a go!

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/843260/The_Bards_Tale_Tri...
Large installed Windows base (and Office, AD, SQL server, Sharepoint, …) in enterprises.
Pardon my language, but hogwash. Ever send a resume? You’d be an advertiser.
I'm talking about prophylaxis. Dexamethasone is used for critically ill COVID cases only. There is no approved prophylactic drug or even early treatment drug. It's use an off-label drug or nothing.

The link I referenced includes monoclonal antibody studies, and also paxlovid studies. It happens that I'm fully vaxx'd, got COVID, took paxlovid, and recovered (slowly). You might take a look at the link.

I'm not interested in "large groups", I'm interested in scientific evidence.

You may know that IVM is a Nobel prize winning drug that has been administered in billions of doses world wide for decades. It's on the WHO Essential list and is safer than aspirin.

The FDA staffers really enjoyed their "horse de-wormer" propaganda campaign. Yes, some people were using veterinary grade IVM, because they were denied the pharmaceutical grade prescription.

It's disingenuous, like saying don't drink water, because it's a chemical used in sewage treatment plants.

Here in NH, the legislature passed a bill to allow OTC dispensing of IVM. The Governor vetoed it (rightly, I think). His comment, when he signed the veto, included the remark that the measure was unnecessary, because any doctor can legally prescribe IVM for COVID. Except, most are actually not allowed to do that by their administrators.

As an experiment, my wife asked the local Walgreen pharmacist what he would do, if she gave him an IVM prescription for COVID. "We can't get any," he lied.
Today’s inflation is not a repeat of the 1970s
>The 21 defendants are charged in two separate indictments that were unsealed today in the Eastern District of California and the Northern District of Oklahoma following extensive law enforcement arrest and search operations. In addition to the indictments, over 32 search warrants were executed, and law enforcement seized millions of dollars in assets, including homes, bank accounts, cash, and luxury vehicles.

I obviously don't have any sympathy for these likely criminals, but unless i misunderstand it sounds like people lost their homes (civil asset forfeiture) before being convicted of a crime which I'm not sure is something to brag about.
The Workplace Is Rigged to Favor Morning People
Haven't found it yet...