skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No permanent side effects? Risks of puberty blockers include compromise bone development, underdeveloped genitals, and infertility. I don't know where you're claiming that they're the "opposite of unproved and ill-advised". Using synthetic hormones to block puberty in adolescents and pre-teens is something that's only been done in the last decade or so. Most publications indicate that the safety is far from certain, due to the limited amount of time that these drugs have been used [1].

The potential benefit of puberty blockers is that it potentially makes children who transition to the opposite sex more aesthetically similar to that sex. But since the majority of people who identify as transgender as children desist [2] (they eventually identify as their sex at birth) many are going to endure the risks of puberty blockers for no benefit.

1. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/142/4/e201821...

2. https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-re...
I use this one
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Yup I've heard the same, Yakuza leadership (also rank and file) has a lot of Zainichi.

I also remember hearing about how Pachinko parlours are usually owned by Yakuza/Zainichi and they funnel profits into North Korea.
I now understand what was your point.

Also to clarify, there is no cost for anyone (EU residents) here too if you use the public health system, but if you cannot wait till you're dead then you can use the (optional) private system and pay for that.
facial recognition is a particularly weird example too. the data is skewed from the onset when your image sources are pretty much all han chinese. This has already been a problem in the west with most photos being of white people, but china would have this issue to a far greater degree.
> Every election system that allows more than two candidates or allows people to skip voting has this flaw.

It's not even necessarily a flaw. It's good because it allows the minority a chance to not have certain views crammed on to them by the majority.

Just people a larger amount of people agree to a certain set of ideas, doesn't mean everyone does or has to. Densely populated areas have an advantage and likely different views to rural areas. What's best for one group might not be best for the other.
Wow, you are truly delusional. Markets don’t work in the absence of a governing body with a monopoly on force. If you relish the thought of explicitly living in a world run by gangsters, I guess it’s true we are headed that way. But the emergent properties of such a future do not include anything you or I would call “individual freedoms”.
I posted this a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105484

DonHopkins on May 18, 2018 [-]

Reminds me of one of Microsoft's first Dynamic HTML demos:
There were two buttons, one labeled "Our Web Site", the other labeled "Our Competitor's Web Site".

When you moved the mouse over the "Our Competitor's Web Site" button, it would quickly slide out from under your cursor before you could click it!

Then when you stopped moving your mouse, the "Our Web Site" button would slyly slide right underneath your mouse!

Dammit Microsoft!!! ;)
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The idea is to keep you trapped. Move.
>There is a real need to legislate against this on an overall level.

I could not disagree more strongly. Legislation is simply the people already in position pulling the ladder up behind them. The people with money and lawyers will insert and then exploit loopholes.

Instead, disrupt it at its source. Flood the data collectors with adversarial noise, learn to remove your personal information from the web, and so on. Personal privacy is becoming a duty not just to ourselves but to our democracy.
This is not entirely correct. It's not Bazel but "build system very similar to Bazel" (from your source) and that's I guess their internal Blaze tool.

I wonder what's the real usage of Bazel (not Blaze) in Google.
What about the mass of money paid for by secret Super PACs with vague sounding names like "Paid for by Concerned Mothers of America"
“We never want to break the law or abuse privacy rights but”
odd that so called progressives don't need to care about climate change nor womens' or minority rights per this test.

FWIW labels like this are largely useless and generally are about value signaling more than action. there are countless so called progressive politicians who did nothing when push came to shove. it's just another word that sounds nice but means nothing.
I have been waiting for the 3 body problem film. Last I checked it was delayed, with just the trailer released.

Will check out the wandering earth. Thanks.
this is not a very persuasive tack though. what approach hasn't collapsed upon itself over time?
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Do people really need Ghee specifically? Or do people need "clarified butter"

If you just want "butter that doesn't burn", here's what I do.

1. Melt butter in a pot. This separates butter into its three fundamental parts: solids (floating at the top), oil (in the middle), and water.

2. Heat until all the water at the bottom vaporizes.

3. Pour remaining mixture through a coffee filter. This removes the solids (which easily burn).

Milk Solids burn at 350F, making raw butter unsuitable for frying. The goal of clarified butter (and Ghee is a type of clarified butter), is to raise the smoke-point to roughly 450F (roughly equivalent to canola oil).

Normal butter will burn before the mallard reaction (Mallard is roughly 400F). But clarified butter burns AFTER the mallard reaction. The mallard reaction is what makes the slightly-sweet nicely cooked meat taste.

Similar reactions occur in vegetables, meats, breads, etc. etc. So its very important to use oils which burn at higher temperatures (450F+: Clarified Butter, Canola Oil, Soy Oil, Peanut Oil).

Some fats, such as normal-butter, bacon fat, or olive oil burn at 350F. So you end up with a "burnt" taste from the burning fat before the mallard reaction even takes place.

--------

Ghee is a particular "cooked butter" taste. Its a bit more difficult to make (and more expensive than) simple clarified butter.

If you're sauteing, frying, or whatever with butter, its important to know how to clarify it. Or I guess use Ghee (but that's more expensive / time consuming).
An interesting thing about managetialism is that it's basically what made the USSR fail. The MBA is our exact equivalent of the Soviet "apparatchik." We postured ourselves as the opposite of the USSR but in reality US business culture aped a lot of its bureaucratic structure. I've called it Soviet capitalism for some time now.
He's obviously taking fitness [boxing] classes and will not actually be sparring anyone.
> And that equity often amounts to next to nothing. Look at Uber

What are you talking about? Everyone who was early Uber is a millionaire now.
Take a look here:

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=astronomy+machine+learning&s...

Plenty of ML work being applied to astronomy. Much of the code is open source too so you can dive right in and contribute.

Here's a recent survey you might start with: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02934.pdf
Do you know a better article that dives into the reasonable explanations and only spends 1-2 sentences on "maybe it's aliens"?
Are the stars vanishing in the sky or just in the data?

Are stars also appearing?
It's just the reversion-to-the-mean effect described elsewhere[0]. It seems bothersome that on a startup news website run by an incubator, the view is that startups aren't a good idea. However, that's only because HN is now what /r/programming+technology+apple+google was, not what HN was. It's not really a startup news website. So I wouldn't worry too much. The people in startups are probably in real-world groups, and the networks are tighter.

I suppose the real problem is that some genuine startup-oriented personality may be dissuaded from working on one, but perhaps the cultural force against them is in the range where it should dissuade someone who isn't more wholly convinced that they know a truth that others do not believe in.

I think it may be counter-productive to attempt to convince people who prefer aiming for the safe money. I think that while attempting to draw a line hits the Sorites paradox really fast, there is quite clearly a difference between someone with your world-view and someone who runs the math on total compensation alone. I think the person with the latter view will not recreate the OP experience because all the choices are very non-independent. The same person who'll take the low-variance high-expected-value out of school will do the same the next time they're faced with a choice and again and again and again ad inf. They provide the selective pressure of optimizing for 'exploit' (in the explore/exploit sense) while the startup-type folks provide the selective pressure of predation.

0: For instance in the geeks/mops/sociopaths view https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
The trick is to never have more than one human per ship. We would "wear" our space vehicles like an extension of our bodies, in the same way we consider clothing today.
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The real issue with startups is that there is currently no efficient secondary market for startup equity.

This makes the game much riskier than it should be since:

1) There is no way to diversify for founders and employees.
2) There is no exit for employees.
3) It gives VC monopolistic power.

There were attempts to solve this (e.g. ICO) but those were misused.

Once such a market exists, it would be much easier to join/leave this ecosystem.
You could always buy a business class seat then. Economy is supposed to be uncomfortable because all the things that would make it comfortable have been removed to make it cheaper.
Isn't there something wrong if you have to explicitly state i=i?
Isn't this the plot of BioShock?

If this sounds like a dorky joke post, it's not.

Isn't this literally motivated by the same neo-fuedal oligarchical narcissism that made the bad guy in BioShock build essentially the same thing as this? Tell me one of these "seasteads" won't get hit by some speedboat pirates and decide OK, we're gonna arm up and hey why not build down? And you know what? No one's gonna say we can't do human experiments on our residents, so why not? As long as they sign their names to it.

Just stay in Palo Alto or whatever, and pay your god damned taxes. This is bleak, bleak stuff.

“Do I want to create the first venture-backed city-state? Hell yeah”
On this KirinDave is absolutely correct. Those systems are stable in spite of the language choice; anyone seeking to do similar work today would be professionally negligent to choose C.
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Well, you could. I have it on 3D printed case, but have no need for mobility. Of course you would need battery and with small (1000mAh or so) battery it could run at least few days with one charge.
That's because the pitch-up behavior isn't actually the problem.

The pitch-power coupling has been problematic on the 737 since Boeing went with GE engines. Thomsonfly almost got a classic to stall in Bournemouth ages ago and flyDubai managed to wreck an NG in Russia a couple years ago. It's possible, but unlikely, the 737 MAX is better behaved in this regard.

If there weren't significant aerodynamic problems with the 737 MAX it would be flying by now. This whole type cert / training thing is a red herring. The cost of slow and shuttering production both in financial and diplomatic terms far outstrips the cost of a separate type. Beyond that Boeing has a captive market. The only 737 MAX alternatives out there are made by Airbus, and Airbus has a healthy backlog for both the A220 and A320. While some airlines may be able to take the range / consumption hit with an NG other airlines, like Norwegian, were counting on the increased range of the MAX for certain routes.
> The new CEO has a degree in accounting. I bet he’ll do great.

And, if Wikipedia is to be believed, once worked for GE!
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I monitor my office. It works its way up to 1300-1400 ppm during the day. At the start of the day it is the outdoor baseline.
> [at a startup] you get very direct access to users and customers and their problems, which means you can actually have empathy for what's actually going on with them, and then you can directly solve it.

I'm calling BS on this. The empathy fairy doesn't bless you just for working at a startup, just like it doesn't disappear when you work for big tech. You have to actually create and nurture empathy yourself. You have to engage in the work: learning about the products, all the people you've never met that build things you didn't know existed, how all of it eventually becomes a thing for a customer to use, and how to make it better. In that process, you learn to care about things you didn't before.

Can you "directly solve" a problem for customers in a big company? Sometimes. But more often, you have to work together with other people to solve it. You have to use initiative, talk to people, coordinate things, lead initiatives. It's more work. And because it's more work, it's even more rewarding when you solve something. You may have even improved a lot more than the original problem in the process.
Ah OK, that's good, just was reading too much into this section in the README:

> BigCache does not handle collisions. When new item is inserted and it's hash collides with previously stored item, new item overwrites previously stored value.
Garry, where do you get that figure of $1.6 million per employee per year in profit for Google, please?

In Q2 2019 Alphabet (GOOGL), Google's parent, made $9.81 billion in profit[1].

At the end of the previous quarter, they reportedly had 103,549 employees[2].

Doing the division yields $88,654 profit per employee in Q2 2019.

Doing the naive thing of multiplying that by 4, which I know will be somewhat off, gives $354,615 profit per employee per year.

That's a tidy sum, but only a quarter of what you claimed so, again, can you tell us where you got that figure, please?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/25/google-al...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/29/tech/alphabet-q1-earnings...
"there seem to me too many anomalies to explain all the vanished stars as known natural phenomena. In their current paper, the authors themselves discuss the possibility that they're seeing unknown phenomena, or that the vanished "stars" could be relics of technologically advanced civilizations, particularly the theoretical mega-engineering projects known as Dyson spheres."

What about the possibility that the inclusion of those stars in those 1950's star catalogs was a result of human error, instrument error, or scientific fraud?
It’s a good comparison and thanks for the info on Israel system.
Tesla finally seems to be focusing on building cars in volume. Not making heavy-truck prototypes. Not talking about "transportation as a service". Not claiming self-driving. Just making electric cars at a profit. That's good for the stock price.
The reason I haven’t responded to the math changing is because it’s Christmastime and I’m spending time with family. Some of the responses to my post require a much more thoughtful answer than I can muster while at the gym between meeting family members.

Be patient. I’ll respond to the other post if you wait.
Fixed, thanks!

Still working on legal stuff.

Working on more bugs now.

This wasn't like an official launch still very much work in progress.
Ghee is just clarified butter. You should end up close to 1:1.
It annoys me. Smart people should be able to deal with subjects outside their comfort zone but what I see here is the intellectual version of footguns employed more as a rule than an exception. - People downvote things they don't understand. - It's crazy. They can't even stand up for their opinions but do it anonymously, like cowards.
Climbing reduces cortisol (stress hormone) by producing testosterone. I also think fear makes you forget about everything but the problem and grounds you in what matters in life (usually not work).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20963437
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> When your brand is suffering a crisis of confidence, you don't rebuild it by missing deadlines and dodging reality.

has worked for Elon, and now his stock is trading at an all time high. $420
Regarding the fact that some people align with Trump: sure. But they are the minority. More broadly the Republican platform is a platform of minority rule, and it goes against US popular opinion on every point: welfare; immigration; corporate taxation; healthcare; gun control; abortion; etc.

At the end of the day, the only way for the GOP to maintain power is to subvert the democratic process. Mass propaganda is one tool in that toolbox, but there are others. Mass voter roll purges are underway in several Republican controlled states right now, for example.

Ultimately this will lead to one of two outcomes: either the GOP will disappear into irrelevance, or the US will become a single party autocracy.

(sadly I expect a highly partisan response to this comment, even though corruption and ensuring free and fair elections should be a non-partisan issue. You can downvote me, but you can’t downvote reality, sorry)
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Or we could just stick a few house plants in each room...
There are a lot of envs that are not abusive. Having your workplace generalized and called abusive on the internet when it's not in real life, definitely feels abusive, however.

I've seen people join abusive personal relationships with worse pay than startups, it happens with friendships and marriages everywhere. I've also seen very bad relationships between founders and teams that have caused lots of pain...

The only way this is worthwhile is if you really believe in some product + are working with non-abusive people you trust and have known for a while + actually get paid enough to live a comfortable life. You can't join a startup thinking that the world owes you and will make you rich and the startup is how it will do that. But I just hope people reading your comment don't think that any small group of friends working on something is abusive to new folks that join.
See: https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...

Its conclusions are overdrawn (for example ignoring businesses that don't already have a brand presence). But it makes intuitive sense for the scenario you mention.
The bit about making nuclear weapons from thorium by products is both true and false. It is true that bucket weapons can be made from uranium 233, but not really.

Right now, when we make nuclear weapons from plutonium 239 and uranium 235, it looks like a regular machinist doing regular machinist things on a lathe, except they're doing the work in a glove box. These elements, their contaminants, and their decay products all decay by alpha decay, which is blocked a thin layer of basically anything. As long as it doesn't physically get inside your body, (hence the glove box) it's safe.

Uranium 233 from the thorium cycle inevitably is contaminated by uranium 232. Uranium 232 decays quickly into thallium 208, which is a hard gamma emitter. It takes a lot of work to get uranium 233 pure enough to make nuclear weapons out of it. Bodies with the resources to deal with this are already sophisticated enough to enrich uranium 235: the uranium 233 angle is irreverent.
js also doesn't behave as you want:

var a = 9;
function foo() {
console.log(a);
var a = 12;
}
foo();

$node foo.js
undefined

The same goes with ruby.
Maybe not applicable but reading the unit and integration tests are usually where I start
Palm oil is also high in palmitic acid, consumption of which is associated with CVD[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmitic_acid#Health_effects
How did Airbus avoid the problem Boeing ran into?

As I understand, Boeing wanted to use larger engines because larger, hotter engines burn less fuel. But increasing the diameter of the engine ordinarily means raising the wing in order to accommodate it but that would make the plane incompatible with existing infrastructure (such as jet bridges) at airports. For that reason Boeing positioned the engine forward on the wing instead of raising the wing.

Don't newer Airbus planes also have larger engines? How did they maintain compatibility with existing airport infrastructure while accommodating a larger engine?
quick rule of thumb I developed - if product has long shelf life and does not require refrigeration - it is probably unhealthy.

fruits and veggies get optimized for heavier weight per piece and longer shelf life, instead of taste. Same thing for every other grocery product.
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There were lots of scientists and ‘experts’ on our TV in the UK. Do you think they were part of that? That would be some impressive PRing.
>Germany has several existing, historical train systems. California, less so. There's a lot going on in that case beyond just California having a lot of digital tech folks.

Yes, but that is the point. Process knowledge is lost when it isn't practised, and the attitude in the US over the last few generations of prioritising so-called 'shareholder value' and tightly concentrated knowledge sectors in the economy over a more general, infrastructure and manufacturing-oriented course is the reason for this. Digital tech is both a symptom and a cause of this, I don't blame it alone obviously.

By the way, this was not always the case for the US. The US used to be a world leader in for example rail transportation in the 19th and early 20th century. The changes in the US that have made it fall behind in infrastructure were choices, not fate. If the US wanted it could revitalise that culture.

And maybe as a cautionary tale for the US, we have one example on the European periphery, the United Kingdom. A country that went from being a world leader in many sectors to harvesting global IP in one part of the service economy to the detriment of competitiveness in others. The average British worker is now 30% less productive than their German or French counterparts, and internationally British products outside of finance are largely irrelevant.
Even in this scenario, you don't need a scrubber, just a fan or open a window.
Plus, Canada.