skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The incumbent interests in cities like New York and San Francisco are so entrenched that the battle for housing deregulation is hopeless when fought with politics.

This is an extremely bold statement. So far it has been difficult to make change, but consensus that there is a serious problem is relatively new and there have been some improvements.

Recently in San Francisco a developer proposed a smaller building than possible in order to appease neighborhood concerns. When neighbors came out in opposition the developer changed to plans for a maximally large building and by new rules had no need of neighborhood approval. Even more dramatic changes to zoning have been proposed and come close to passing. Berkeley is now allowing four units where single family homes now stand. So there is significant progress and a change in the political balance.

> If these regulations are so costly, why were they passed in the first place? The answer lies not in the aggregate cost-benefit calculation of land use regulations, but rather in the analysis of who pays the costs and who garners the benefits.

This is absolutely wrong and critical to understanding the situation. Building codes and ordinances and environmental hearings were all put in place with the intention of functioning as reasonable restrictions to preserve quality of life. The idea was this would be similar to rules about clean air and water. The problems we see now developed slowly over time and have many contributing factors including social and organizational inertia and of course classism and racism and such like. What we need to do is understand how to preserve some basic level of quality of life without unreasonably impacting ability to build, especially in areas that are already dense or have unusual demand.

We are increasingly in a time where young people who are underserved by housing markets are getting political influence while older property owning boomers are seeing their influence steadily reduced.

> There are three stages to the Startup City.

There are no such stages or Startup Cities. Cities are social and commercial constructions which are not wild bets on fast growth that can readily fail and be replaced. Cities have an absolute obligation to move forward carefully while they balance land use concerns, forms of taxation, and costs of labor and so on.

> poorly managed cities like San Francisco or Jakarta ...
> Próspera, a private city in Honduras ...

Now that is all just sloppy. It takes only a small effort to confirm that these cities are in very different locations and contexts and have different strengths, weaknesses, resources, priorities, and so on.
The iPhone 13 Does Not Have Satellite Internet, Band N53 and Globalstar
Is that Software Engineer salary accurate(despite being far lower than what all the household names pay), or is it excluding bonus and/or equity grants?
Square (Credit) | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Remote (USA), SF Bay Area, NYC | Full-time

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That is misinformation. The CDC estimates COVID-19 death rate to be 0.6%. And vaccination cuts that rate close to 0.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Right. So, an overwhelming majority of the people who “died from COVID” would have likely passed away in the near future from something unrelated. They just were unfortunate enough to catch COVID in their already incredibly fragile and deteriorating state and end up with COVID listed as their cause of death.
I don't see Swedish city officials being required knowledge of Finnish language, even though the Finnish minority in Sweden is roughly the same size.
Dystopian musing, not a serious proposal...

Next step: set up a miscarriage support line, which only collects people's information and hangs up. Why use fake info when you can target grieving families? Are they gonna be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the miscarriage was not intentional? Or will they be willing to settle out of court for $500?
Um, your graph shows that younger people are several times more likely to be unvaccinated than older people
Does anyone know what Israel is doing in terms of lockdowns, etc? Are they back to business as usual, or something else?
Sounds like now you should be worried if they "leave" your iPhone USB cable, they might have switched it with one that hacks you.
Some lab tests conducted by a TV show gave the Box Fan With HEPA Filter the highest marks over commercial air purifiers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26101153
Are you speaking for yourself or interpreting the GGP?
Markets are at an all time high.
Interesting. I haven't met many who have. Your two usecases basically never arose for me. If I switch back to a branch and there's random stuff there, then I can just revert easily. So it's an extra operation at a different time to get there. The other usecase for switching branches temporarily where it's one less command, is more important to me though. The crucial thing though is that both behaviours can be accessed easily but we are dealing with one less data store/stateful thing, because we don't need the stash.

As for the first point, fine grained control for what goes into a commit, that's definitely a power user feature, but an important one of course. Again there are ways to achieve this without introducing new state (the index), for example by allowing to amend the last commit.

I wouldn't claim that gitless is a 100% complete git replacement for expert users. It just shows that git has way too much state exposed to users, and has confusing commands to make that state interact. Obviously we all learned git and use it successfully, so it's obviously not broken or anything, it's just worse than it could be (and the constant chorus of "it's so simple, just a DAG!" is a bit grating if you have to teach beginners regularly).

The gitless authors did do some research with users that backs up the claim that this is conceptually easier to use:

https://spderosso.github.io/oopsla16.pdf
The 60% is also not adjusted for age, see here for good explanations:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/31/covid-isra...

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

This is such an important point, I think it's worth including the key table here:

Vaccine effectiveness vs. severe disease for younger (<50yr) = 1 - 0.3/3.9 = 91.8%

Vaccine effectiveness vs. severe disease for older (>50yr) = 1- 13.6/91.9 = 85.2%

But if you combine the two, you get 67.5% !!!! which is the # people have been wrongly focused on.
I just received my Somu a week ago. Really like the form factor and am mostly happy with it's functionality so far. One thing that bugs me is that the RGB light is always on. While it's position inside the USB socket is deep enough for it not to be bothersome to the eyes, I'm annoyed that the security token quite literally has a bright light on it that potentially draws the attention of bad actors. Luckily I got the "Hacker" version that allows this behavior to be modified. Anyone who gets the standard version will have locked firmware, meaning this behavior cannot be changed. FYI.
The downvotes come from conservatives who are insecure in their beliefs. Any comment that appears critical of that ideology receives downvotes.
SPACtacular
> This implies that there were a couple of AI systems that actually beat a radiologist,

Without any more details about the error rates, we can't be sure how likely this is due to chance. I would caution making any conclusion about AIs without better understanding the underlying statistics.

FTA:

> Thirty four (94%) of 36 AI systems evaluated in these studies were less accurate than a single radiologist, and all were less accurate than consensus of two or more radiologists.

So yeah, no AI system beat consensus of two radiologists. That's pretty damning.
No it really wasn't.
The risk within the “internet chat” sector is huge. Many popular discussion platforms disappear almost overnight. Slashdot, Digg, MySpace. I wouldn’t put a big bet on this leadership team in such an unstable environment.
I suspect it might be due to demand/ability to unload hot goods. Or maybe yall got it good in Croatia and no one feels the desire to go rifling through cars?
Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list
How to Make Paper Airplanes
Tweets don't load a significant amount of the time even when I'm logged in.
And how do we know that this small handful that beat the radiologists didn't just get lucky? You really need to know the sampling distribution of what's being measured here.
> I'd push back on the 6% of AI systems being better than a radiologist and calling that a success,

How much time does it take to train a radiologist to that level of performance?

How much time does it take to clone that ML model?
That's federal. I see from the wikipedia article that 47 states have felony murder laws, and their requirements vary widely by states. I think it's a fair assumption that the Sacklers committed felonies in one or more states.

This brings me back to: I don't really understand the extent of this deal. Apparently 15 states have agreed to it. Does that mean that they've granted immunity to criminal prosecution in those states?
I admit that radiology sounds like a tractable problem for machine learning, they'll probably get better.

It strikes me, without any real knowledge but this is the internet, that it just goes down the typical rabbit hole of human specialization. Make the data portable, move the data handling overseas, add computer optimization over time. You do have to wonder if radiologists (any here?) really need general medical knowledge or if high specialized training with pictures would be enough.
This feels like a dumb question, but I can't find dimensions of the Notecard anywhere and I can't quite judge the scale from the pictures. How big is it?
The wirecutter DIY test used a filter with a rating of FPR 9. Since FPR isn't standardized like MERV or HEPA, it's hard to tell what this means, but likely to be < MERV 13. The OP used a HEPA filter on their testing which is > MERV 16.
Why would they? It's obvious that French is not going to be the main one and they master English much better than German.
> Workers didn't "win". It's just that the conditions for workers are MUCH better now than they used to be in the past.

Only if you ignore pay. Most workers pay has remained flat adjusted for inflation, while housing, education, and medical costs are growing faster than inflation.

> So unions are able to do less for workers. That doesn't they're obsolete, just that the line for the decision for "are they worth it in _this_ situation" has moved.

You’re ignoring the other possibility: the fear that unionizing will draw retaliation from the bosses that’ll make life worse. It’s not like we haven’t seen plants close down and move in response to unionization before.

Of course if that’s true, it implies that unions could help and bosses fear that.

> The Frito Lay workers issue is a prime example of "in _this_ situation" mentioned above. Some places are greatly benefited by unions, some are/would not, some are gray areas.

Right, but the original thesis was “labor activists got all their non-pay related demands codified into law, making unions less desirable”. The frito lay situation obviously disproves that.
Studying to pass an exam and learning are two related, but different things.
The fact that Reddit let Discord grow to what it is today always amazes me.
> To make this harder

Or, y'know, open it up and solder the connecter together (or remove the connector and solder the cable wires directly).
TLDR for those who don't want to watch the video!

We've started building daily images of some Linux distributions' desktop environments. Those run using LXD VMs and get you functional desktop environment already setup with user account and all. No install or setup needed, great to try other distros.

Currently got Arch and Ubuntu available, Fedora should follow soon, then we'll go based on demand.
What universe are you living in? Slack and GMail are horrendous compared to twitter.
Twitter loads almost instantaneously. Only web app that correctly handles infinite scroll.
Another interesting subtlety is that there are only a finite amount of radiologists and they’re generally concentrated in wealthy countries/areas.

AI based analysis - whether it’s better than a human radiologist or not - is far more scalable and cost effective. Even if used as a screening mechanism to be escalated to a human radiologist, this approach will be very helpful to much of the world.
ah yeah, I had forgot about that one specifically
You can still grow outside your local market with just local developers.
It kills large numbers of middle-to-rich people who are highly motivated and make advocacy groups that are effective lobbyists.

Back when I was a life scientist the best advice I got was to work on diseases the family members of congresspeople had.
Oh cool need to think about this a bit more. I’ll see you in the slack channel :)
I still judge them a bit more harshly, but I do think the sacklers have essentially become the scapegoat for a problem that went far beyond perdue. painkiller prescriptions in the '00s were really wild. I remember a classmate got a thirty day supply of percocet (IR, no time release) when he got his wisdom teeth out. that's simply reckless. nowadays you would probably get less than a weeks worth or even just a recommendation to try ibuprofen first. the government crackdown on overprescription didn't help either. that was when people started overdosing from fentanyl-laced heroin en masse.
Don't. Domain squatting is a shitty practice and we shouldn't engage with exploitative practices. Otherwise, we signal demand, which justifies the feasibility of the practice. You can probably come up with variants of your desired domain which are a lot cheaper, e.g. foo.com -> fooapp.com, getfoo.com, ... .

Anecdotally I don't think a snappy domain has much effect on SEO or a company's market value. Most users will access your website through search engines or links, and reasonable investors care about product-market fit, moat, strategy, and all those other things which have tangible effects on the success of a business.
CLICKBAIT. Not a thing mentioned about Tether that is relevant in this article.
The EspUSB is small! It fits inside a USB port and can act as a USB keyboard & mouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBzOaLbWhM

There's an even smaller design on the github that I had custom-manufactured at PCBWay before. Please email espusb@gmail if you want to know more.

https://github.com/cnlohr/espusb/tree/master/hardware/usb_82...

Charles Lohr made the amazing design. I built a little on top, and made a slight modification to the firmware to allow text entry in all languages by sending Unicode codepoints.

So now I can type Chinese (or Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Thai...) on my phone's keyboard, and have the EspUSB type it into my laptop. Very convenient when the characters aren't printed on the keys.

Pity I never figured out how to do the regulatory compliance for the EspUSB, so couldn't follow through on actually getting it onto a web store (e.g. Tindie, AliExpress, eBay, TradeMe). I looked into it, but the lack of EM shielding is quite difficult to justify, and adding such shielding would make it too big.
Rezone the area, allow houses to be bought and redeveloped into denser housing. Destroy or move the victorian houses, preserve any of especially notable significance.

The payment and expertise is the easy part, if the law allows it. The hard part emotionally is allowing the city to change.

But any growing city has destroyed much of what came before. Manhattan has been a city for hundreds of years, current buildings were not what was there before.
Japan Tests Rotating Detonation Engine in Space for the First Time
that would also do it, but it's politically more difficult
Is there an argument to be made that decreasing the workload on radiologists could improve their results in more difficult cases? I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that less tired/busy doctors would be able to perform their job more effectively.

There's also the fact that radiologists get paid a pretty decent salary. If I could devise a system that can do a highly paid worker's job faster, cheaper, and at a similar level of effectiveness, why wouldn't I? It also opens up that skilled worker's schedule and allows them to tackle more difficult to interpret scans.
Hi, author here. Note this is not really a "new idea"; in a very reasonable sense it's simply the most obvious thing possible. I do think that it's likely the first mainstream "productized" implementation, however (though I would be interested to hear of other places that it's been tried).
No, because all new projects are on fire from the get go.
I remember learning how to break master locks back in the 1980s. But I also heard they changed the mechanism after that.
So two private sector unions and a public union. Not exactly a strong base to build a trend from.
It depends on context.

Here, the context appears to be a somewhat arbitrary selection of published algorithms. All they've really determined is that at least 94% are not ready to replace radiologists.

That's pretty much confirmation of the default assumption. If they were, they'd all be trying to get these into hospitals, and they're not.
I was making a joke.

But I don’t know? Would it have been better, more fair that Jack went into space in a billion dollar rocket than he was forced to spend the money on “common prosperity”?
What is not being said is some people are on the brink of death anyways and being vaccinated will not stop that trajectory(dying). The older you are the weaker your immune system is.
A 97 year not vaccinated would most likely die after getting covid, either from the virus itself or an infection that happens after the body is weakened by the virus. The same fully vaccinated person may or may not die, if they do die its going to happen anyways but will be listed as a hospitalization/death from covid.

A few other things about Israels vaccine program.

- They started early(12/20) so I imagine alot of the populace is starting to run into vaccines that are less effective than if they were administered late Spring like US/UK and Europe.

- I don't know what the obesity levels are like in that country but the CDC says there is a strong correlation between being obese and covid severity with a person.

- Of the hospitalizations mentioned there is a strong indication of age being a cause for more severe illness:

>Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older
And the best features are (proudly) locked behind patents, so if you need a great lock in a form factor they don't make, oh well.
Next week the answer to your question is probably "yes" https://twitter.com/NathanGDQuest/status/1430992735192985605
How is this grim? Case numbers are mostly irrelevant now. What really matters is the death rate. Very few vaccinated people die, and the death rate for unvaccinated children is also extremely low. All of us are likely to become a "case" at some point no matter what we do.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Oh, ha! So much for my reading comprehension.
Thanks for the link. I think that should be compatible with a Pi. I can try it out in a couple weeks when I get some free time to tinker.
I'll bite. I think some of the crowd on HN might be interested in selling bandwidth. It seems like that's not the focus for orchid at the moment (based on the lack of info on the website and the lack of github build instructions.) Is there a support channel for someone interested in trying out staking, running a node, selling bandwidth, etc.? Is there a roadmap for supporting people interested in that side of things?
I still have mine. And use it almost daily.

https://unsharpen.com/pen/lamy-unic-ballpoint/
anon gets fooled by randomness
Israel indeed provides nice stats for Covid.

Especially where some of the population aren’t fully complying with suggested/requested measures. So we pretty much see the vaccination performance.

If it’s for health reasons (not leisure or traveling, PCR testing is free and there are many places available each day to test without scheduling.

Anyway, I was “fully vaccinated” on March 2020 iirc.
I didn’t yet get the 3rd/booster shot. And I’m writing this being isolated with mild symptoms after testing positive for Covid. (Hoping symptoms will regress and I’ll be out within 10 days). I have no reliable assumption from where I got it and me and my oldest son are the only ones tested positive out of my close family and others we’ve been in touch with.
I've been going to DefCon for many years and the hak5 merch booth is the first stop for all newcomers (myself included). Long lines and people handing over fists-full of cash.
Could you provide a source for your 99%, given you're accusing others of lying?

The numbers I have are ~96% for the Pfizer, and ~94% for Moderna.

I explain this in another comment below, but even against Delta, the efficacy is actually quite high, even in the Israeli data:

Vaccine effectiveness vs. severe disease for younger (<50yr) = 1 - 0.3/3.9 = 91.8%

Vaccine effectiveness vs. severe disease for older (>50yr) = 1- 13.6/91.9 = 85.2%

The combined number suffers from Simpson's paradox, please read more:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

& please stop spreading misinformation. 96-94% to 85-91% is against a new variant is hardly a drastic drop. The vaccine is saving millions of lives globally.
I initially thought this would be another usenet story.
I don't think that would be nearly as big of a deterrent in SF as you'd hope. It seems like nowadays any car that CAN be broken into will be.
what's nah? did the democrats vote yes for different reasons than the republicans? What were their reasons then? Otherwise, why the nah?
AMACS.
That's exactly right (in fact, thinking about AC is what prompted me to implement it).
> Researching formulations that are more robust to viral resistance is already becoming a top priority.

Are you aware of any good resources to help a lay person understand the basic concepts around this?
Total disagreement. There has never been a time in history where people have had anywhere near the capacity to express completely free speech, including wild bigotry, than today.
It’s spreading https://github.com/rust-random/rand/issues/1172
The voters are revealed - they do nothing and vote for people who do nothing about these problems. Did you do anything?
There is absolutely no way any Scottish government could agree to a long term presence on the Clyde.
Doing some form of PQ at train time is possible but typically the goal is to make the model’s embedding layers more robust to quantisation [1][2]. I did some work on this in the recommender systems space [3].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04629

[2] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/chen20l/chen20l.pdf

[3] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2431/paper10.pdf
How are reddit and discord related?
Some credit cards will refund the difference in price within a certain period of time. It's one of those spiffs like airline miles or vague "points" that some cards use to hook new customers.