skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a decent amount of flying in non-LAANC controlled and military controlled airspace (some near active airports). At least on the M300 RTK, their algorithms are total junk, and I get endless warnings (and serious ‘oh my god, reduce altitude now!’ type alerts for aircraft like jetliners coming in for approach - when I’m 90 degrees off their flight path, and 3-4 miles away. I also get critical warnings for aircraft flying overhead, which hey could in theory be a problem - if they weren’t climbing at 1k ft/min+, and at least 10k feet in altitude over me, when I’m at 200 ft AGL puttering around and the nearby trees are 100 ft tall.

It’s literally worse than useless, as it makes gives alarm fatigue. I’ve also had 3 sudden aircraft just showed up and almost ran me over events in Class G airspace, including one with a very expensive helicopter running nap of the earth - none of them were running transponders. But at least the helicopter pilot had some bitching sunglasses on.
I’m not arguing that all zoning is bad. I was responding to the claim that SFZ is irrelevant to affordability.
There is evidence of possible "long COVID" symptoms in breakthrough infections.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072

In breakthrough cases where the individual has a high viral load and typical COVID symptoms (shortness of breath, fatigue, etc.) it's not unreasonable to assume that the person might suffer from the same course of illness as an unvaccinated person. While the vaccines clearly reduce the incidence of hospitalization and death, there are people whose breakthrough cases aren't exactly what the average person would call "mild".
I just tried Obsidian today. It’s amazing.

For the last little while, I converged on a local optimum in note taking: writing Markdown files with VS Code. VS Code (with the Markdown Preview plugin) lets me type math equations in LaTeX and draw block diagrams using Mermaid notation.

Turns out Obsidian supports Mermaid and LaTeX in Markdown too. And it runs on desktop and mobile devices. And has an elegant folder-based interface.

I’ve struggled with other second brain tools, but Markdown files with LaTeX and Mermaid support somehow just fit the way I think and work —- that is, I like writing lots of prose but still have the occasional need to draw diagrams and to write math, and have the doc transform into something that is aesthetically pleasing.

I think I need to give them some money.
This is much more complex problem, and each time someone offers one simple solution, you should suspect it’s BS.

Sure, single family zoning contributes to the problem, but Manhattan doesn’t really have single family zoning and is still not affordable. Just getting rid of it, won’t be the end of the world for the neighborhoods, but also won’t really solve problems it’s advertised to solve.
An upvote is not sufficient to convey my support of this comment. Seriously, CA would be vastly different if people just showed up to vote. Unfortunately that never seems to change.
Guerrilla Public Service 2011
There is an upper limit to how many single family homes you can build; transit costs eventually come to dominate and mean that more doesn't really help much.
25+ years career here. Always worked 9 to 5. Except in one job where I had to work late for a few months. Which made me quit and find a better job. Life is not your work.
I'm not using debian that much anymore, but I'd be happy to make any changes upstream to make it easier on debian.

When possible I try to have reproducible builds (https://reproducible-builds.org/) that respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH extracted from the commit datetime. At least for IPython I alway build twice to make sure the sha is identical.

I'd also be happy to have a way to signal to debian that there is a new release instead of having QA watch have to scan things regularly.
That's for one type of muscular dystrophy, SMA, there are many other types without great treatment options. Lifelong exon skipping treatments recently approved for subsets of DMD are >1M USD per year, and result in dystrophin expression at only a few percent of "normal" (see data from trials of casimersin).
Fair enough I was wrong on that one, with the small detail that on Khronos it was and still is, a NVIDIA extension, whereas all DirectX 12 Ultimate cards must support it.
> And convince people to part with their cars because street parking will become impossible.

Convince nothing, price them out. The state is not obligated to pay for permanent storage for your private property on public land. If you want a car, you need to pay for its permanent storage.
But the effects of high housing costs ultimately does impact those people. Everyone, from
the well-off to the impoverished, will seek housing. Those with more money have more options and when the market gets tight, what otherwise would be middle class accommodations in any other market, are only accessible to the wealthy. Middle class families are living in what would
be normally be for working class, working class are living in poor housing, and the poor are pushed out. The homeless person may have been evicted and could not afford a place and subsequently lost their job for reasons relating to their lack of housing. Even if this happens in Oakland, they may set up camp in places that have better services for homeless or larger homeless communities like SF.
Muscular Dystrophy isn’t a single disease— it’s an umbrella term for a whole class of neurodegenerative diseases with different etiologies. We need to be clear on which one we’re talking about when we talk about cures.
It's not baseless. China is full of a new class of wealthy people who can have their property or wealth confiscated by the state at any time. They also know that won't happen in foreign real estate and as a bonus it affords their children the opportunity to attend a prestigious foreign university. Many wealthy Chinese own foreign real estate in western countries as a hedge.
And yet all of the desirable(aka expensive) places to live are mixed use dense neighborhoods built before the concept of Euclidean zoning? Eg. Old pre-zoning, pre-car neighborhoods in Toronto, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, ect.
The stats can be collected only from public torrents where DHT is being used (AFAIK). There are many private trackers that are closed to the outside world and have tens of thousands of members, each of whom may not only download from the peers within that private tracker, but also share the downloaded content with others.
Surely there's things that can be better with webapp model, but .exe or .msi are so drastically worse on the spyware front that it's not even close.
They could support security work at WG14 with some of that cash.
That depends. Water? Probably not. Most of the water goes toward Ag. Electrical? Probably, especially as we add more electric transportation options. Sewer and trash, yes.

That said, as others have mentioned, urban living arrangements can be more efficient. There is a big question though if that is compatible with the historical CA dream ideal. Sure, that ideal is becoming more and more incompatible with reality, but people want what they want. CA could offer me a free condo in a high-rise urban environment and I'd still leave because that's not something I would ever want to live in.
Easier alternatives such as?
Bluster is what you say!

OK then I am sure you would be ok with zoning being changed to allow for a nuclear power plant in your neighborhood whenever someone(s) with big piles of cash comes through. Yeah, no thanks mate.

Where I live the last heads of our county council, where openly corrupt with sweetheart deals handed out to local construction and developer companies. The one before last ended up in jail thanks to the feds investigating these type crimes. This is in the US no less. No way buddy. The public has a right to decide who can built what where and for what purpose.

Yes there should be defining discrimination which rightly limits a free for all when it comes to zoning.

How naïve are you?
It's great how naturally the charts and data are integrated into Evidence reports. I spent today trying to accomplish a similar style in a Metabase dashboard and was largely unsuccessful due to the limited text controls and layout options.

SQLite support would be nice!
Then why shouldn't people with natural immunity (whether vaccinated or not) demand the vaccinated be intentionally exposed to COVID? (And quarantine after exposure.)

Presuming risk of severity of breakthrough cases is as low as we've been told (over and over), isn't demanding intentional exposure a justifiable risk, if it improves a vaccinated individual's immunity to the levels of natural immunity?

Does it make a difference if risk of breakthrough infection severity ends up being lower than risk of vaccine side-effect severity?
The system is complicated, especially the PSI paper. But it is clear, that it is designed to run on encrypted images, there is choice to run without it.
It's worth noting that while upzoning can help the whole housing market go down in price, it can also unlock value for existing home owners.

If you currently own a home and a law is passed that allows you to turn your upstairs into an apartment, then your home may now be worth more, and you actually can access the value stored in your home (by renting it out).

Similarly, if any home in your neighborhood can be turned into a fourplex or larger, and there's the demand to do so, then the supply of large single-family homes in your area shrinks. So your house price can increase as it becomes a rarer find.

But since the total supply of units is going up, rent goes down. And since rent goes down, you don't need pay people extra just to accommodate for crazy expensive housing. For the home owner, cost of living goes down, as every store and restaurant they go to gets cheaper.

Plus, it means that they pay less in taxes, or at least get more for the taxes they're already paying. Places like San Francisco are so inefficient with their tax bases because you need to pay every random bureaucrats $100k+ just to keep up with cost of living.

If you stop restricting the size of the pie, it grows and benefits everyone.
Weird that they call it "COVID-19 related" and then discuss how it's lockdown related and TikTok related.

Among boys, even pre-covid, we had Fortnite related spastic dancing tics.
...I'm confident the suggestion was very dry humor
I think the point was that the digital natives and the next generation of digital natives coming will not know any different and will thus tacitly accept it.
This is my favourite hackernews comment for ages.

I think though that it would be more accurate to say that there are now two haiku formats - the Japanese one, and the English one which was originally a misunderstanding of the Japanese one but which now has a life of its own, for better or for worse.
Stem Player portable music device for Kanye West album
There are a number of responses that don't make me comfortable.

The clearest reasoning for why anabolic or androgenic steroids' are NOT given in the context for recovery strength or function in a professional medical setting are that:

- it has unintended consequences that can be severe

- it has unintended consequences that can be long-lasting

- the expected consequences of use are more harmful than the regular recovery

- and that these can be quite harmful, enough that the use of AAS isn't necessary.

and finally the primary goal post surgical:

> One of the most important considerations in selecting operative versus nonoperative treatment is the risk of rerupture. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7031433/

Quite a few responses are getting into details of AAS use that isn't quite correct based on my understandings.
Sure, I'll just defer to an older comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17779395

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8 points by buu700 on Aug 17, 2018 | parent | favorite | on: OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit

We (Cyph) have been pretty disappointed in the Chrome team's decision to kill HPKP.

Paraphrasing, but IIRC the reasoning pretty much boiled down to "it's a pain to maintain and Expect-CT is kind of similar anyway" — which I think is a really weak justification for harming end user security and breaking established APIs that people depend on in production. Fingers crossed that Firefox keeps it alive! [Narrator: They didn't.]

That said, it doesn't entirely break WebSign in Chrome, just weakens a bit further below strict TOFU. https://www.cyph.com/websign goes into detail, but WebSign has some client-side logic to validate its own hash against a signed whitelist. The major downsides to relying on this are:

1. It depends on a caching layer, not a security feature. This means that any guarantees are potentially out the window if a browser vendor decides to do something crazy for performance reasons or whatever.

2. It opens up an attack vector where it can be forcibly unpinned by filling up the user's disk and making the browser evict the cached WebSign instance.

All in all I think it's still basically fine, but shipping an optional browser extension for hardening WebSign is now a higher priority because of this.
Netflix seems like a split brained company. Most of its original movies are terrible, and are in sharp contrast to many of the Netflix original series which are very good. I personally wouldn’t (and don’t) look for movies on Netflix.
I agree completely with this comment. The numbers in this paper are a casually spectacular defense of the vaccines. You would be hard pressed to find 100k unvaccinated people anywhere in the world with outcomes like that.

Nonetheless, the interrogation of natural immunity (+1 dose of pfizer) against naive with 2 doses of pfizer is incredibly valuable and I am intrigued by the outcomes here. What this suggests to me is the vaccines are good, but we can do even better with careful applications of science. I look forward to what scientists and drug companies produce over the next few years.
That's just the immediate change, but the Chrome team has said they plan on removing alert() entirely: https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1422647331804037120
don't question unending economic growth :) it's definitely not the root cause of many modern existential problems!
> If the forums weren't there, read the docs, if the docs weren't helpful you could read the source.

This experience made me a true believer. Never needed to do it with kernel source code, but with libraries and userspace apps.

Hitting the closed-source wall in SDKs and environments like Matlab is frustrating and takes all the fun out of programming.
Clinically speaking, if it hurts the individual, it's a disorder. If it hurts the people around the individual, it's a personality disorder.
Well put. As an admitted Crockford fanboy, I reach for Javascript in a number of non-web situations. When I don't use Racket :) Also, thank God for node and deno.
Sure. Let’s take the 2 trillion we spent on the Afghan war and instead build up a few more tech cities with high rise apartments, great public transit, new great universities and so on.

I think the problem is that outside the government spending like that, private industry has a hard time getting sufficient funding to create a meaningful new center of innovation.
Ask HN: How do I get my PM to stop using Excel to track bugs?
They swear by it, I hate it. Any recommendations?
I can't speak to the rest of it, but concentration of populations is often extremely good for certain types of endeavors. Cities often have the surplus value available to support speculative and "non-productive" cultural output. The rapid mixing of ideas and cultures often helps a lot too.

I'd argue that it's good for California to have all those people. It's pretty hard to argue that it isn't, based on the cultural, economic, and agricultural output of the state. Now whether or not it's good for the people in California is another matter altogether. And I say that as someone who recently left CA for another state.
Space Station Marshall: Men cannot grow beards in space.

Bearded Man #1: But I have a beard.

Marshall: Well, then you're an alien.

Bearded Man #1: No I'm not.

Marshall: Yes you are.

Bearded Man #1: No, I'm not.

Marshall: Well, then you can't grow a beard.

Bearded Man #2: But he has a beard.

Marshall: Well, then he's an alien.

Bearded Man #3: He's not. He's from Pittsburg.

https://vimeo.com/7117832
> you cannot renounce citizenship unless you have a valid destination country that will accept you

Not true. If you’re an idiot, you can renounce citizenship and render yourself stateless.
thanks for plugging and chugging it all out.

carbon engineering's carbon capture technology is projected to be significantly less than $600 tonne, they say the plant they are building for occidental petroleum in texas will be profitable from 1) cost of avoided CO2 purchases (CO2 is used to pump oil out of the ground) and 2) california CO2 credits for "low carbon oil" which is between $175 and $200 USD/tonne [0].

so if carbon ends up at $200 per tonne instead of $100, cost per gallon would be $3.11 + $1.96 = $5.07. If you drive a lot probably enough to nudge you towards an EV!

[0] https://www.neste.com/investors/market-data/lcfs-credit-pric...
Sure, I do agree, but having some additional single family homes built wouldn’t be a terrible thing if we also built a million apartments.
> Everyone thinks the other side is dumb and can’t see why the other side believes the way they do no matter what.

That's easy to see in other people talking about other people, and difficult to see in yourself talking about other people.

TFA is not really about that.

TFA is about one man who exhibited two distinct personas. One was loving and kind, the other was tormented and self-destructive. He left a diary as the only way he could find to present his better self to his family, free from the interference of the destructive aspects of his persona/s.

It is tempting to wonder which persona is the "real" one, which leads to attempts to resolve or cure or purify the self, either by ones self or by others. But that assumes there is such a thing as a "real" self. That's a common paradigm in western cultures, particularly Hollywood films, and less common in other parts of the world, particularly easter cultures.

What if the self is not singular, but a fluid network of identities?

https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-...
Then by that logic, you should risk a breakthrough infection to achieve natural immunity levels.

Because breakthrough severity risk is "minimal" and the greater benefit for society is enormous.

There are plenty of arguments for increasing your immunity by catching it.
> As if 2003 and WMDs is ancient history. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

There weren’t good intentions where 2003 and WMDs were concerned.
I just picked up a Pixel 3a for like 90$ on eBay and flashed CalyxOS on it in about 10 min. Really easy to get started and I’m impressed with the functionality and polish of this open-source mobile OS.
Because now everyone is invested in the news event, they are likely to hear about the reversal of the decision.
> Forms with passwords marked Not Secure over HTTP

It requires a rather curious definition of “breaking change” to consider this one.

> A̶r̶r̶a̶y̶.̶p̶r̶o̶t̶o̶t̶y̶p̶e̶.̶f̶l̶a̶t̶t̶e̶n̶ ̶b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶s̶ ̶M̶o̶o̶T̶o̶o̶l̶s̶ renamed to Array.prototype.flat

That doesn’t belong in the list at all; it’s a prime example of the platform bending over backwards to avoid a breaking change, for better or for worse (it means that future users are stuck with an inferior name, see also contains which got renamed to includes because of, if I recall correctly, MooTools again).
Interesting. So 50 years ago, with labour efficiency and productivity being a small fraction of what it is today, single-family houses were easily built and bought by people.

Today its somehow an unreachable goal that people cant obtain. Why? I dont want to live in a pod or communal flat with 20 people. How are people not revolting over the direction western economies are taking?
>2) I said missiles bc that's what got built, but the origins of the idea predate them. The most likely implementation (at the time) would have been, as you said, against aerial bombers, and actually based on a Battle of Britain style/ Nazi-derived rocket drone, but manually remote controlled via joystick and analog TV, and air launched from a hybrid interceptor/bomber. It could similarly be used in a bombing role with drones hitting ground targets.

Interesting. So a V1-style drone used to send up "fizzle" bombs to destroy incoming bomber fleets carrying atomic weapons, Safeguard-style.

(I don't see the point of calling them "fizzle" bombs, or distinguishing "pre-detonation"; even a fizzle is more than enough to take out any nearby aircraft, whether they are carrying atomic weapons or not.)

I still suspect that Johnson was talking about a fission primary:

* The 1949 timing strongly points toward the ongoing hydrogen weapon program that Johnson would be aware of, and not a theoretical air-defense system using yet-undeveloped drone cruise missiles carrying atomic weapons. The fission primary is something that a layman might very well refer to as "pre-detonation".

* In 1949 atomic weapons (let alone any theoretical hydrogen weapon), intentional "fizzlers" or not, were still so heavy that special B29 SILVERPLATE aircraft were needed to carry them, and the US was designing a new series of ever-larger high-altitude bombers to penetrate enemy airspace. I am very skeptical that any back-of-the-envelope work at Los Alamos or Oak Ridge on bombs small enough for a V1-like drone AA cruise missile would be something that a Senator would hear about and think notable enough to mention on the air.

Remember, WW2 had semi-conclusively refuted the prewar "the bomber will always get through" maxim; I am aware of no serious thinking/planning in 1949 for defending against atomic attack other than, as I said, AA and fighter squadrons, because there was no prospect of any atomic attack other than via bombers. The US maintained squadrons of interceptor aircraft on 24-hour standby around the country well after both sides deployed ICBMs and SLBMs.
Why do you believe that? There are literally tons of studies showing more housing reduces prices and basically none showing increased prices. Look I think you are right that SF will never be as cheap as rural Ohio or something, but the idea that building housing will make the problem worse seems just wrong.
If we build that many apartments, we probably won't need any more single family homes. The ones that'll remain will probably balance out for those with the ability and willingness to pay for the luxury.
A keyword that should pull up quite a bit of related information would be: "Digital Nomad" (though I'd think covid is still throwing a wrench into much of that).

The most "stereotypical" answer is Thailand, which offers cheap internet, food, month-to-month accommodations, friendly to visa runners (hopping over the border for a day and coming back into country every X months to reset your visa), quite a bit to do, and is also pretty safe.
Trees decomposing and being consumed by other trees is literally how it's worked for untold millions of years, so doesn't seem like a problem to me ...

Forests also provide local cooling, improve the water cycle, and aid biodiversity. A world with forests is a healthier world.
I have a potentially stupid thermodynamic question. Since carbon air capture is essentially going from a high entropy state to a low entropy state, would it be dumping more in the form of waste heat into the environment than you would save from warming caused by CO2 in the atmosphere?

I already have an answer to why this reasoning is wrong - CO2 acts like an insulator and traps heat in the atmosphere, and does not generate any heat directly. Just curious if that's right.
Would Apple actually change their default search engine to a far inferior competitor like Bing if Google didn’t pay up? It is shocking to me that Google needs to spend this much when they are already the most preferred search engine by Apple’s customers.