skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in pharma and we do tons of medical research in the cloud and it was done before in academia; it typically wasn't my own university that developed (on its own from direct funding) the necessary infrastructure, but universities under contract, or NIH itself, or a consortia funded through grants. The university IT department itself struggled with just keeping wifi up, or giving us 10BT networks on a hub in an age when gigabit switches were common.

Note: I was not typical. I set up as a digital nomad a long time ago. A scientist with a lab on campus who pulls power, AC, and other resources from central services, must have some way of compensating the university, and you could argue that instead of a prenegotiated (and amortized) overhead, it could instead be a cost center billing (scientist gets contract, uses campus resources, gets billed directly for their consumption). Don't forget also that because of Bayh Dole, the university gets monetize the IP generated by their scientists (who typically do not see any direct revenue; instead, they have to make a startup that licenses the tech from the university).

My experience with overheads showed that the universities I worked at had the highest (50-75%) while less prestigious regional universities were more like 30%.

Oh! This is new: I just looked up Berkeley's rates now and they explicitly have an off-campus rate that is 25%, while the on-campus is 60%. Apparently the federal government was already capping off-campus at 25%! I also see that funding agencies like Gates, Chan-Zuckerberg, etc, already cap at around 10-15%. Man, the deans must be furious
He needs really to be removed from the process. He may be useful for now but for long term he is an impediment. C is the 1970’s. Sure it’s proven itself… but so had Assembly when Unix was invented.
saw this just now.

will reply in a day or two after reviewing my own comments, yours, and your link.
I mean that only a few of the services generate all the profit in AWS, and the rest are currently priced at a loss.

Surprised to hear they’re canceling some of them. That usually scares away developers.
This seems really bad. Did they intentionally pick the worst possible people?
I wouldn't call being vocally against something "sabotage". Would it be reasonable if that person said anyone trying to get rust integrated is sabotaging the Linux kernel?
Isn’t this already built into browsers?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...
NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs
The privacy notice[0] says:

> In addition to the data collection described in this Privacy Notice, these versions by default may send certain types of web activity and crash data to Mozilla and in some cases to our partners.

Is there any way to switch off that additional snooping around in stuff they shouldn't do because it's not their business what I do on the web with the only version allowing me to run unsigned addons?

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#pre-release
https://www.redox-os.org/

It's not a fork of Linux but a ground up effort to write a kernel in Rust. Still they're trying to make it compatible with Linux/BSD
Unfortunately if you built this, half of the world would publicly condemn you as a terrible horrible person.
You have to be pretty clueless not to understand that Martin's is wrong here, he, and the rest of Rust bozos he clicks with should have been kicked out of the Kernel the minute they started with their social media drama... of course, drama and rust are just bound to be hand in hand.
> The federal government collects its tax from the states which it does through programs approved in congress.

You’re aware that income tax, corporate income tax and payroll tax are paid directly to the federal government from individuals and companies right? The states don’t collect on the federal government’s behalf.

>nuclear option

There is no nuclear option. The country decided that 160 years ago.
>consistently deliver class-leading cameras

That is debatable and I would argue hasn't been the case for many years. Their camera still takes the best video though.
thank you! that's a good suggestion! i kept the pie charts monthly for simplicity. I think adding an annual or all time report doesn't take away from simplicity. I'll look into prepping an insights pdf and having a button for that. cheers:)
There are plenty of stories of people of modest means who found opportunities through standardized tests. I'll call out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb

who was a Marine Officer, Journalist, Novelist and U.S. Senator. This article points out that wealthier people do better on the SAT

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/new-study-fin...

and also points out that wealthier people also do better on everything else. Standardized tests get talked about because they're visible, but there are all sorts of things that aren't visible such as many forms of opportunity hoarding (wealthy parents will push harder to get their kids into gifted programs, can afford to get kids out of toxic environments where they get bullied, can put use the carrot and stick on teachers to get boost their kids GPAs) etc. For example there is a low level of awareness that certain sports like Polo or Lacrosse at the Ivy League privilege rich kids because they are more likely to play that sport in school.

Thing is, everybody knows the SATs are important, but there are 100x extracurricular things you can do that wealthy people know about and poor people don't that get only a small amount of criticism because they're invisible.
No need to be sorry, you're all good!
I really couldn't care. I get cold easily in winter, and it chills me to the bone making me miserable all day, much less via a cold plunge. Not worth the (much needed) mental health benefits.

Sauna? Any day, any time!
> Why would anyone living in a democracy be against this?

In normal democracies searching through records require a court order.
If these contributing sciences are as obfuscated as the language in your post suggests, that could be why. Effective integration into the general discourse is about building handholds that a reader can use to climb upwards into a more complex idea.

I don't think I can grok the value in what you're saying without sitting down with a browser window on one side to research each reference in depth.

As another commenter suggested -- that's too many brain calories. Could you try a more direct brain injection?
Yeah...no.

Only preview versions and developer versions can run unsigned addons. Both coming with their own set of reasons why you shouldn't use them as your daily browser.
24 hour service is one of the factors that make NYC Subway maintenance difficult.

They literally have switches from the 1930s that are impossible to replace - they have machine shops that fabricate spare parts.
> Refactoring can be painful in Rust when it involves very low-level changes in semantics

I don't know what this is about. In my experience, refactorings that change the semantics of APIs are much easier in Rust than in C. E.g., change assumptions about the lifetimes of pointers passed into APIs: the Rust compiler will tell you where you need to change anything; the C compiler will happily compile your code and you'll corrupt memory at runtime.
"not as easily accessible information" and "disinformation" are two different things

> Everywhere, in schools, in cafes, the bus stop people would tell you crazy things

Where and when is this supposed to be?

Even taking that at face value, at MOST every living person could be talking about one crazy thing at the same time, and then there would be nobody to listen. Or half of them could talk, the other half would listen. With the internet and bots, there is no upper limit. For every person, there can be 50 trillion bots chirping at them.

> So thinking we are in a life threatening misinformation epidemic is just false if you compare to just a few decades ago.

Is this supposed to be an argument against researching it over taking your word for a world where everybody was telling everybody else crazy things all the time? If there is no problem, then all the less reason to be coy with the data, right?
This is a little silly, of course, because processor-provided random number generators (e.g., RDRAND) already incorporate quantum mechanical phenomena [1].

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-gen...
QwQ Preview 32B Q5_K_M: Tried a couple of techniques, then decided to set C to 1.00 and used the quadratic formula to get 2.17 and 2.17 for the other values.

Phi-4 (unsloth's dynamic 4-bit version) keeps trying random and repeating numbers with no particular strategy. Adding Maharshi's "contemplative prompt" did not really change anything.
Sorry maybe that wasn’t clear: i think musk swung right because he wanted to be seen as Ironman and instead was mocked for being a loser.

Twitter can be mercilous. Musk wants so badly to be liked, didn’t get it (in part because it was so obvious), and went full Ben Shapiro aggrieved middle schooler.
That would be pretty miserable!
It's not clear whether you think the problem is them or is you.

They own their problems, and the best you can do is tell them what you think, and maybe encourage them if you see some positive sign. You can also act as a positive role model, but people in that mindset are unable to draw lessons from others.

But if you hang around people who you think are miserable and self-defeating, and you don't want to move on, but you don't like it, maybe the problem is you.
StealthSolver: Open-Source Undetectable Coding Assistant
Cleanliness is... mostly downstream of storefronts and the like picking shit up _all the time_.

Indeed, it’s the same in Singapore.

Despite the law and order reputation of Singapore, plenty of people regularly break laws there, including littering.

All you need to do is get off the tourist strips and you can walk down park paths with plenty of trash strewn everywhere.

What people don’t see is the army of foreign labor who is constantly picking this trash up.

The government is good at enforcement - if an area has problems with trash cameras get put up along with signs warning of the consequences, but if the cleaning staff were to disappear overnight it wouldn’t take more than 24 hours for Singapore to look quite untidy.

In terms of Western countries like the US, cleanliness does come down to an operations issue. Cleaners don’t come often enough, trash cans aren’t emptied enough and littering enforcement is weak. But it’s certainly possible to make the US as clean as Japan with surprisingly little increase in effort.
1) Experiments, by their nature, must spend resources in order to produce tangible results. In this case the relevant results are saved lives, and the expenditure is often going to be lives. You framed your comment in these terms, I’m arguing the costs very well may not be justifiable by the benefits. You’d need to make a case for that.

2) What if the families of experimentees receive payment? Allowing that would be a short way down the slippery slope from allowing the experimentation, and would make the matter of consent more difficult to assess.
It would still be unenforceable because there's no consideration.

There is nothing of value that the license gives me that I wouldn't already have if the contract didn't exist. I can already read the book, merely by having it in front of me.
Isn't that what this whole thread is about? They're surely not going to come after Meta with the same vigor.
Let Shaping Surprise You
This is a huge cut. Back of the envelope calculations for UCLA (a big research university with public finance information): $200M cut in operating revenue.

In 2023, UCLA had $270M in indirect costs [1] and they negotiated a rate of 57% with the NIH [2]. So, they had about $473M in direct costs. The new rate would be 15%, which is ~$71M. $270M-$71M = $200M.

[1] Page 24: https://ucla.app.box.com/v/acct-pdf-AFR-22-23
[2] https://ocga.research.ucla.edu/facilities-and-administrative...
> Isn't the current Linux already Linus + communities + companies?

Absolutely. To that point the companies I listed are the ones that I'm aware of employing kernel developers who work specifically on rust in linux.

The control of the project is in Linus's/community hands though, not corporate ones, and I think that's a good thing.

> More to the point, any two such projects would quickly diverge. Once a particular piece of Linux is reimplemented in Rust, if the C version adds a feature it is no longer as simple as applying a patch to keep in sync.

I don't think so. Linux is a huge modular system, and no one is really interested in rewriting the core components of it at this point. Nor maintaining their own copies of components that some other company is responsible for (like graphics drivers). Until and unless it became the dominant fork I'd expect that they'd keep merging in the mainline branch and updating their things as necessary.

This is already how projects like Android work.
Pretty crazy that he's still sharp. Unfortunately he was no longer teaching when I was an undergrad 20+ years ago
About time. Research foundations like Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation rarely allow more than 15-20% in overhead from grantees.

Research universities are bloated and epically inefficient, and hopefully soon go the way of Blockbuster.
Through private/personal records. This is not the case here.
these days anecdotal is better than "science"
https://www.tibobeijen.nl/2024/04/24/12-factor-13-years-late...
But on the weekends the trains run 24 hrs a day, so schoneweide isn’t really a station of despair. It’s not even really that far out.
> IMHO the one and only thing that made Linux successful as a project is Linus' strong leadership - which has been criticized ad-nauseam over the years; yet it's the only thing that yields results.

I wear garlic every day and have yet to be attacked by a vampire; clearly this is due to the garlic!

Tang/ballpoint pens/velcro never would have been invented if it weren't for the Apollo program.

etc.
Wow what an ignorant take.
Have you tried a cold plunge after a sauna? It’s a lot more bearable, borderline enjoyable I would say
Back in 1995, Carl Sagan had a relevant thought:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or
grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological
powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one
representing the public interest can even grasp the issues;
when the people have lost the ability to set their own
agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when,
clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our
horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to
distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we
slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and
darkness.[0]

0 - https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1069554
Sony won, not Philips. It seems that the rationale is like so: a higher rate would not be compatible with both NTSC and PAL VCRs, and a lower rate would shrink the transition band for the antialiasing filter (or alternatively, reduce usable audio bandwidth to an extent that encroaches on the generally accepted limit of human hearing). Although the latter hardly seems relevant when the alternatives being debated were so close (Philips' 44056 Hz, for example)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz#Origin
You can have a diverse low-trust society or you can have a homogeneous high-trust society, but you can't have a diverse high-trust society.

People will trust someone more the more they think the other person is similar to them.

Japan has made choices that make it relatively homogeneous, the US has made choices that make it relatively diverse.
> introduced by PWM dimming, but why would that be a low enough frequency to bother people?

The human fovea has a much lower effective refresh rate than your peripheral vision. So you might notice the flickering of tail lights (and daytime running lights) seen out of the corner of your eye even though you can't notice when looking directly at them.
Oh, no, not at all: any political movement built around negativity & anger is probably highly dangerous and bad and should be thrown out!

We absolutely need to be struggling again the things that dog us & hurt us too. But when that dominates your party, when you have more blame than concrete useful things you are offering, that's usually an incredibly fantastically bad sign.

The virality of negativity only further heightens the crisis of concern here.
Do you have a dev team that maintains the POS system?
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It's not much of a loophole, and it most benefits the poor.
Come on. There are no sources that would report this. It makes as much sense as claiming that "as everyone knows, the greatest contributor to tidal pull is the odor of the moon as its cheese rots, which attracts plankton on the ocean's surface". And it has as much scientific backing. Where in the heck are you getting your "facts" from?

Here, from a book chapter subtitled "The case for eliminating the SAT and ACT at the University of California":

Table 1.1. Correlation of socioeconomic factors with SAT/ACT scores and High School GPA
+--------------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------+
| | Family Income | Parents' Education | Underrepresented Minority |
+--------------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------+
| SAT/ACT scores | 0.36 | 0.45 | -0.38 |
+--------------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------+

Of the three factors they bothered to look at, family income had the lowest correlation, just below a poor approximation of race and very far below parental education.

( https://cshe.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/geiser_chapter... )
This is a huge cut. Back of the envelope calculations for UCLA (a big research university with public finance information): $200M cut in operating revenue.

In 2023, UCLA had $270M in indirect costs [1] and they negotiated a rate of 57% with the NIH [2]. So, they had about $473M in direct costs. The new rate would be 15%, which is ~$71M. $270M-$71M = $200M.

[1] Page 24: https://ucla.app.box.com/v/acct-pdf-AFR-22-23
[2] https://ocga.research.ucla.edu/facilities-and-administrative...

(Reposting from a less popular posting)
No, you get it backwards. Open source community folks despise any commands, the moment Linus orders free folks like you to do something will be the moment his leadership ends.
It's way more painful to contribute to the kernel than contribute to Firefox, at least, unless things have changed since I was involved with Firefox.

Suppose you find a bug in the kernel and come up with a patch. You email the patch to some kernel mailing list and ask for feedback. Typically, you will receive no response whatsoever, because no-one is responsible for responding. You can try emailing random developers and eventually maybe one of them will have mercy on you.

In Firefox and I think Chromium, you can file a bug, attach your patch, request review from someone (the UI will help you choose a suitable person), and it's their job to respond.
What kind of acquihired exec from a failing start-up gets a guaranteed $10 million employment contract? That's really...something....
If you want the protocol? Sure water temp 50-55f for 15 minutes 4-6 days a week (generally 5) for 3 months. Water chest height, arms generally above water.

How exactly does credibility matter here? Science is heavily reputation based because there’s so much at stake and so few experiments take place, but with anecdotal evidence I don’t see the credibility of individual datapoints mattering much.

I can’t tell if I minimally influenced my upper respiratory tract infection risk etc, all I can tell is the hassle wasn’t worth a benefit too small for me to notice. And that’s the issue, more than credibility if effect size was large enough to be noticeable to individuals you’d get extremely strong results from scientific studies. Conversely if it isn’t showing up as extremely effective in the literature that’s strong evidence individuals are misattributing their experiences.
The only thing that worked for me was switching to dvorak. Too many clicking only video games (diablo), and too much typing for my day job really did a number on me. None of the stretches or exercises did much for me. It was very hard, but ultimately worth it. I have been typing with no issues for 20 years now. I do the stretches and some exercises, but it was the reduced finger movement of dvorak that made it so I could continue as a systems engineer and programmer. I still type most of the day, and really feel it again when I am forced to use qwerty. I think dvorak saved my wrists, and my career.
Looks like many places in Europe to me
Ah my favorite content source in brain rot format. Thank you
When the public government services are privatized, it's not going to look like a bunch of scrappy companies engaging in free market dynamics to deliver services better than the government could; it's going to look like darling contracts granted to crony insiders who leech tax dollars into offshore accounts while delivering the worst possible service they can get away with.
That's apparently still unclear according to the LKML.
Nothing is gonna happen.
Just a slap on the hand.
And we all from the intelectual work class, writers, journalists, programmers will be proletarized by LLMs that have been:

a) Financed via inflation/"cantillon effect" due to ZRP/Stimulus that absolutely flooded the market with funny money in the hand of the sharks.
b) Trained upon copyrighted work without compensation.
c) Trained upon open source without even asking politely for authorization.

The Robber Barons from the last century can't even get close to our modern Feudal Tech Lords.

Unless you're one of us that have amassed multi-generation wealth in a exit in the last 20 years, you're completely fucked.
Neutraface has some similarities, including the low crossbar height. Fittingly, it appears to be used in materials published by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
2 hours? There's an LD50 line in there somewhere.
Yes vscode is awful. Zed ssh does a far better job. But we are living in an awful world.
Used to do them, and really want to start again. For me, felt more awake than I ever have been. And, your body feels like it's running at its best for a short while - think it's partially because, at least for me, I tense like every muscle in my body before that super cold water hits me. It's like a mini work-out.
The US is more accessible than any country I’ve been to (and I’ve been to a lot). Water fountains are another thing the US is good at.
From what I understand, TAoCP is building up to that compilers book! When initially tasked with writing about compilers, he realized all the background necessary for building them and planned out these books as an overview of computational techniques that would be helpful to use.

See the "future plans" section of his website: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html has volumes 6 and 7 as being on compilers.
https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas

Asterinas is such an experiment. Purely written in Rust and Linux ABI compatible.
Nice to hear PCEngines is still in business.

The website for the US distributor listed on PCEngines webssite is now selling "BoingFire" products instead of PCEngines.

https://manestate.com