skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same but different.

I've been watching someone close to me have all their direct collaborators & senior mentors in cancer research across the top national labs (NIH, the top VAs, etc) be systematically fired and/or defunded. Pure R&D cancer researchers are typically on 'annually renewing contracts': think tenure-level principal investigators, not just lab techs/coordinators/programmers. They are all, by default, fired. The remaining senior cancer researchers with partial clinical duties might stay due to clinical duty exclusions, but they are still closing their cancer R&D lab portion because they have to fire all their staff specialists, cannot pay people, and cannot hire replacements. Each PI is basically a small business that got pieced together over years, so reestablishing them and their R&D programs performed by all their staff means many man-years of cancer research going down the tubes. The fraud, waste, and inefficiency is from the people lying about this.

It is pretty 1984. When they fired "powerpoint people", that meant clinical trial coordinators who, as part of coordinating cancer trials, need to convey information. They gutted teams running active cancer drug trials with sick people getting cancer drugs through them. "Oops." (And no, the "mistakes" have not been
corrected".) Even when cancer research staff is externally funded by non-government sources, they're still being fired.

The university hospital + R&D side is a mess as well due to frozen funds, retroactive grant cancellations, well-performing grants not being renewed, review committees not looking at new grants, and even the program directors overseeing it all being fired. Imagine if you are a small business and your customers are not allowed to pay you - how would you plan your next 12 months? The result has been a slower version of the same thing. Universities and lab heads are firing trained staff and gutting future generations of new faculty & grad students. You can see this in the hiring freezes & job offer retractions, and less obvious, when openings are more about reshuffling internal staff.

The people who are less impacted are researchers essentially bought out by big pharmaceuticals to run their trials, those not performing cancer research, etc. Different people.

People aren't saying things because, until they're officially fired, federal law prohibits it. Even if they want to, they are busy trying to get their cancer research staff not fired, and do not want to put targets on the backs of people relying on them.

Anyways, next time you see or write nonsense like this, please remember you are being lied to about basic things like cancer research and medical care. By supporting them, you are likewise promoting harmful lies about cancer research and medical care.
I only tried out Yabai once I discovered AeroSpace in order to compare. I immediately appreciated AeroSpace's take on just completely sidestepping MacOS spaces.
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well, if there's a carbon tax, we exhale carbon, literally, so, yes.

p.s. i am being glib.
No, your description of doomer destruction is non-factual. She works in the blue state, Ivy-league affiliated research hospital that is supposedly on the chopping block. We are not observing child cancer funding being eliminated even in the lion's den of leftism
I don't know about you but I think trying to build a business on "Maybe (hopefully?)" sounds pretty scary. I'd much rather be literally giving away money (if that's what it takes) to get someone to be the Pepsi to my Coca-Cola on the platform.
Ah yes, this static weights file on my hard drive is "state-controlled" and thus must be banned. Very logical.
Oh wow, i never would have made the connection. 'Lock In' was one of my favorite books growing up.
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My partner works in academic research. Morale is extremely low with many people exiting the industry entirely because of the uncertainty.

This is generational damage being done. Most of these people will not want to work in the public sector again, or at least anytime soon. The next admin will have difficulty coming back from this. This is by design.
No one has yet to give him reason to believe otherwise.

Only after he causes enough pain for his base/money source will he do his flip-flop routine--but by then the news cycle will have moved on and his voting base will still think he is the best thing for America since sliced bread.

This should be one of those pain points, though.
Indiscriminately hobbling your best institutions is like setting your middle-aged self up for recovery after falling off the workout wagon. I know because I'm an expert on falling off that wagon... One month off requires three or four months to just get back to the previous baseline. Three months off, and I need a year.

Hopefully enough of the culture of curiosity and open-minded inventiveness stays so that they have a fighting chance of making a comeback.

Otherwise, the US of A stands to experience net-brain-drain at a scale rivalling only India since Y2K to present day, and the former USSR after its heyday.
As a fun anecdote I think this same rationale - ”next years hardware is so much better” - is why so many desktop softwares 90’s->00’s became slow - ”meh you don’t have to care about performance, next year’s cpu is going to be so much faster anyway”.

Then suddenly single threaded speedups didn’t happen anymore (and people realized even though cpu speeds had grown, it was not directly related to Moore’s law).

Ofc your rationale used Moore’s law correctly while the ”cpu infinite speed growth rah rah rah” peoples didn’t.
Yes, the Word of God says the "church" is either the whole set of all believers in Jesus Christ or a local group of them. It's people who together make up His "body" while He is the "head." Example verses:

https://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-the-church.html

False teaching that contradicts God's Word often tries to elevate specific people or buildings while the Word elevates Christ. Over time, more religions started focusing a lot on their buildings. They identified as Christian even though their practices were getting further and further from Biblical examples. This caused much confusion.

Our church would just call it an old building that used to house a church (group of people). Hopefully, the members are still gathering to worship God, read the Word, share Christ, and love each other. Those are what's important.
I think the main reason is it allows for easier access to Tor hidden sides with a “regular” web browser. Consider a wifi network that exposed .onion domains via normal DNS, or a VPN, or other similar mechanisms. It’s not as good as Tor browser, but may be a lot more accessible.
I just want to know what the catch is versus using Termux.. Is this feature going to hoover up all my dotfiles and offer to "summarize" them for me? SSH keys? GPG key ring?

Maybe Apple offers less freedom but it's getting hard to trust Google these days.
I think it is more like an NBA situation where a single superstar player can pull up the whole team just look Nuggets but still most likely thing is that the Cavs, Boston, or OCK wins the championship because those teams have a superstar player + a great team.
https://www.ti.com/support-quality/faqs/wafer-level-chip-sca...
It probably depends on when the grant cycle was going to pay them. A month ago, all payments were stopped, illegally, until a court continued them. They may continue trying to cancel existing grants, and many politically motivated targets, say anybody at Colombia, are getting hit.

Last I heard all study sections are cancelled, hopefully they resume or there will be no more grants.

A friend just got back from a meeting at NIH on Monday and said that three people got up in the middle and left because NCI had cancelled all travel, so they couldn't continue their talks.

Pediatric cancer has lots of external funding from wealthy families that have been affected by pediatric cancer. My wife also works in pediatric cancer, but most of her funding has come from NCI in recent years rather than private donations. The payment from an existing contract to pay her lab was caught up in the several days of cancellation before being corrected by the courts.

Calling science of "questionable value" is at a minimum a questionable value judgement. Suggesting that the hits are due to somebody looking at the science and deciding "this is good value" is also a very questionable statement.

Moods are bad because the "fuck you" attitude of current management in trying to cut off payments, as well as statements about cutting two thirds of the science budget: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/white-house-budget-p...
For me, the most meaningful test of decentralization is whether one player can decide what most of the users can see. And that is entirely the case with Bluesky. You can own your information alright, but what is it good for when the single centralized app can decide what to do with them? If the single centralized app gets sour, you will be left with the impossible task of coordinating all your contacts to move elsewhere. If the single centralized app is down, nobody sees anything. How is this progress?

Meanwhile, the Fediverse has dozens of thousands of independent nodes and dozens of independent implementations.
Strictly speaking this is about dimensional analysis, not units. (When discussing curricula we should be precise!)
They show up on eBay. A search this minute revealed two:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/205220626817
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156686655356

They go for a bit more than the original price, according to this:

"Pricing varied by retailer, however Pickett did offer demonstration slide rules in 4 foot and 7 foot lengths: a 4 foot rule sold for $15 and the 7 foot rule was $25 in 1960. These were available with scales to match models N4, N803, and N1010 with the Ln scale added. These large rules were available free to schools which ordered 24 or more slide rules!"

[0] https://www.sphere.bc.ca/oldsite/test/pickett.html
You have ignored my question

“Doing something” is the beginning of how to describe the actual truth of what some actions causes in relation to its affect on reality.

“Supporting something” has literally nothing to do with reality beyond what’s necessary to support a brain that can _intend_ a result or action regardless of what actually happens.

I linked the xkcd comic because the behavior described by the developer in the comic met the criteria for “doing something” but it didn’t meet the criteria for “supporting something” because the behavior of the software was not what the developer intended.
Japan is kind of a special case, as the country in general is depopulating.
The US is essentially the fastest growing rich non-microstate country in the world. If US cannot do it, then I guess that you also believe all other highly developed nations with large social safety nets will become insolvent?
The skill gradient is steep. Broadly speaking a top quintile dev will have 5-10x the productivity of the median dev, but only 110-150% of their salary. A bottom quintile dev will have zero impact, negative impact, or .1x impact relative to a median. The goal is to have the top quintile for your project, whether that is product engineers working on b2b saas, or graphics devs working on improvements to game rendering.
Sorry, please forgive me for not knowing Arroyo completely.
It's Christianity by a wide margin (about 2/3rds of the population). I'm not sure where you get the idea there are more masonic lodges than churches. Just a quick check for my state, Massachusetts, shows about 300 masonic lodges and about 4000 churches.
I built FreeAIGen because I was frustrated with existing AI image generators that either require signups, add watermarks, or have excessive ads.

Tech stack:
- Next.js App Router for the frontend
- AI-SDK for image generation with Replicate backend
- PostgreSQL for user data and credit management
- [Include any interesting technical challenges you solved]

I'm particularly proud of how we:
1. Implemented a credit system that works for both registered and anonymous users
2. Optimized image generation for speed and quality
3. Built a clean, no-nonsense UI focused on the core task

I'd appreciate any feedback on both the product and technical implementation.

Link: https://freeaigen.com
It is common in Norway to also write 22.7.
> even in the lion's den of leftism

Interesting choice of words but it throws all the rest of your assessment into doubt.

Especially your idea that your wife's research is worthy and then all the rest is less worthy.
I wonder if it is similar to people who camp out in trees to keep them from being cut down. Maybe it is the same sort of veneration in both cases?
I have no data on enforcement but since it went into effect, every place I've worked has taken it very seriously so it has definitely had consequences, very positive ones in my opinion.
Thank you for your valuable experience, I will seriously think about what you said.
I think the Seeed Studio XIAO RP2350 will run NuttX soon too. Just saw the pr.https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/15968
Hey, sorry about that. I mistakenly believed that my email template had an unsubscribe button built in. I will make sure that the next one has one. If you want to message me your email directly I can remove you so you don't even receive the next notification that the site is opening back up.

What do you mean you can't sign in though? I will add password resetting soon but I'm curious if you're running into an issue with the login system.
This is how I've always taught logarithms to students I've tutored. I photocopy a table of various powers of ten, we use it in all sorts of ways to solve problems, and then I sneakily present an "inverse power" problem where they need to make the lookup backwards.

Almost every student gets it right away, and then I tell them looking up things backwards in the power table is called taking a logarithm.
Typical US profit margins are somewhere in the area of 8%. If dropping healthcare costs by 8% is what people are arguing over then I've been badly mislead about the problems with the US healthcare system.

There is a real issue with regulatory capture. Making the system purely public is not going to result in the regulators suddenly purging their souls of all corruption. It'll still be a disaster just without any pretence of an alternative. There are literally people on HN every day who would happily improve on the US healthcare system's costs and outcomes if well meaning busybodies hadn't banned them from doing so by overregulating.
There is a playlist by 3b1b for different interesting derivations of Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPy_UMV-08&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
I think stability, reliability and high performance are the foundation of infrastructure.
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I suppose, but (off the top of my head):

- insulating high voltage lines isn't trivial

- the conductor will be hot inside the insulation...

- service cost of either system will be increased (by rather a lot, I'd guess)
I haven't heard that definition of "Regulatory Capture" before. I mostly thought it was just when the regulators are working for industry instead of the people. That is, the regulators have been "Captured." The politicians who nominate the regulatory bodies are paid off by industry to keep it that way.
That's a light spec for a subset of the interface and behavior of the crontab command line frontend, not a standard for cron in general. It's not really relevant to a discussion about how distros set up their cron defaults for per-user access.

Thanks for sharing it though. I wasn't aware it was in the posix spec and it explains why pretty much every implementation supports .allow/.deny files even when most already implement better access control mechanisms.
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Arroyo has been designed with more comprehensive consideration.
Last year, my wife was flown into a beautiful American resort for a conference. It had a hosted a casino night where the top prize was $5000. There was much drinking and dancing, and to be frank the "conference" part of it was an afterthought. One night the whole group of ~200 scientists and entourage was dancing late, drinking, and partying into the early morning hours.

She has admitted she cannot understand the purpose of this, why it was funded, how the budget was deemed acceptable. To be honest, over the past decade she has attended many conferences in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Newport, NYC, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and Austin to name some. The taxpayer dollars allocated to this seem quite suspicious. She doesn't understand why the data can't be presented over Zoom instead of a large conference center with such luxurious accommodations.

Waste is real, even in the sciences we all worship.
Pew polls show about 5% or slightly less identify as atheists. About 30% (including atheists) are non-religious. About 60% identify as Christian. Then a few other groups that are 1-2%: Jewish, Mormon, Buddhist, Muslim.

Your statement of "mostly" is an extreme (10x) overstatement.

The text above was from memory. I just looked it up and I was pretty accurate:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/

I take umbrage at another aspect of your statement: "culturally Christian atheists". I've heard this pointed specifically at me by people saying things like, "You are Christian, you just don't know it." That say that because I tend to be sensitive/kind/helpful/low ego. Yes, good Christians should be those things, but that doesn't mean that Christianity owns those traits or that those traits didn't exist and weren't valued before Christianity came along.
France sets fusion energy milestone by maintaining a plasma reaction for 1,337 s
Grants/contracts aren't necessarily just for one year and often the numbers are about obligations and not outlays.

I don't know which specific grants were cut but here's a random example[1] of one (which is probably(?) not involved). In this example it's over multiple decades with ~$253 obligated but (assuming site accuracy) only $53 million has been outlayed.

It would be nice if media reporting included detailed information though.

[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_UM1AI068632_7529
Ah yes, the questionable value of checks notes reducing child and maternal mortality and providing HIV/AIDs treatment.

(That seems to be the primary mission of Jhpiego, where 90% of the layoffs occurred)
Evangelical Protestants, Catholics, and mainline Protestants make up 60% of the US population. Atheism isn't that common, maybe 5-10% of the population depending on definition.
Is it the difference between a church building and a temple? The Romans would put a wall (or it could have been a ditch) around some ground. The wall was called a fanum. That which was outside of the fanum was called the profanum (pro = before) or profane. Inside the fanum was sacred or holy ground where the sanctuary was situated. We see this kind of think in Greek Temples, Egyptian Temples, the Temple of Solomon, etc. Perhaps some people view their church buildings similar to how ancients viewed their temples.
Like a CEO who provides defense as a service. Unfortunately, customers don't like that model.
Right after I started first grade, and later again when we learned about democracy.

I'm autistic, and just before first grade I found a science/physics book and I was absolutely amazed. I spent all my days reading, thinking about the universe and trying to understand the stuff, and I was imagining that I'll go to school and me and my friends would study science after school, as who wouldn't want to? Learning scientific method also gave me relief, as I was always struggling with thoughts if I'm wrong about anything I believe as I had no ways to confirm - like half my day was spent thinking "could I be wrong on X", but now finally I could perform tests to adjust my confidence.

When the school started, I was amazed to find out nobody wanted to learn science and the scientific method, they did not care at all. But much stranger was that people didn't care at all if they're correct or not. If somebody told me I'm wrong about something and I couldn't 100% confirm which one of us is wrong, I'd lose my sleep and spend hours / days trying to confirm the validity of our claims. But when I told people I can prove them wrong, and I have the books I can show so they don't need to trust me at all - it just never mattered. They wouldn't spend five minutes proving themselves wrong, they'd just look at me like I'm insane and continued their day without giving it another thought. It was mind-blowing, compared to my constant crippling self-doubt.

So when we studied democracy, my first thought is that some evil greedy people will be using this feature of humans to tell them what they want to hear while taking advantage of them, and that new technology will make it easier to surveil people and also to make massive global damage compared to localized tragedies.

Obviously I thought I was wrong, like I always did. The humanity has survived for a long time, and I'm just observing a tiny slice, would be really unlikely to be born just at the time when brown hits the fan. But nowadays it feels like I was way more correct than I could even have imagined at the time..
I think the academy is long overdue for a reckoning. The Assistants to the Assistant Vice Deans, the absurd grants in the soft sciences, the absurd increases in undergraduate tuition for degrees that make absolutely no sense.

The golden age of the academy is ending, and to pretend there is nothing to cut or make more efficient can only be the opinion of someone whose bread is buttered by the existing system
The 'we' follows the tradition of the Agile Manifesto. This manifesto isn't about speaking for everyone - it's about capturing a movement happening in real-time. If these ideas resonate, you’re part of the 'we' too.
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Good one, close.

I used Ruby in the Web 2 days in a few dotcom projects.
How is it Peter Thiel's administration though?

Direct ties to Trump, okay, but the question was specifically about(pointing out) multiple direct ties to Peter Thiel.
More likely the cost of building the structure needs to be adjusted for depreciation and/or cost of bringing it up to code. If a building costs more to fix up than starting from scratch, or effectively just needs to be demolished, clearly it's the building's value that's negative.

Although, there's no reason unimproved land value can't be negative, the land just needs to be burdensome.
I have several slide rules and use them daily. Especially in the kitchen where we deal a lot with scaling proportions they are the best tool available: you set them for the desired scale, and then you can just read off any proportion you need in the blink of an eye.

I'm honestly surprised they are not standard issue in kitchens.
despite being crypto-adjacent, nostr seems to have mostly solved this problem at least.
Those people very badly need some perspective, then. That is not remotely the middle of nowhere.
No worries! We definitely rely heavily on DF (it’s an incredible project!). Part of what makes it so great is its modularity—it’s a toolkit for building sql systems, which is extremely cool.