skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Honestly, that's not hugely reassuring in the context of what I was talking about.

The problem isn't the medical effects but the fact that the certainty a misdiagnosis brings blocks people with mental health issues from actually treating the root of the problem. And this decision, practically speaking, isn't reversible. Once someone on the spectrum decides to go down this path, there's no stopping them.

If you have an Autistic kid and they're asking questions about gender, you should absolutely be worried. Hell, I'd be worried about an Autistic 25 year-old.
> Don't pilots planning a trip in an area of NOTAM have to read it as well?

Yes, pilots are included in "those whose job involves reading these all the time". Every flight begins with a weather briefing, which includes NOTAMs near the route of flight.

Generally pilots will start with a graphical overview, and dive into the details of a TFR if the flight path intersects. If you're navigating safely around it, it can mostly be ignored.
It suggests that there is something new in the air, deliberately obscuring its source and mission.
More likely an anomaly mixed with an already cautious NORAD due to the past week of incidents.
Except that to my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong) they still have non-closed loop emissions--no catalytic converter or EGR--which would mean a brand new Rotax 912 would emit more NOx, CO, and VOCs than my 20 year old Mazda gas engine car. I feel like it is my right to "rag" on something which doesn't have to follow the same rules as I do.

To be fair, my neighbors probably emit 10X the pollution running their backpack-mounted, gas-powered leaf blowers and open fire pits year round. I rag on them too, and display my rake in protest.
Lmao "seemed to be floating".
Suburbs aren’t the problem. There are walkable neighborhoods with all that stuff. I live in pre-war streetcar suburb that doesn’t feel like post-war but is mostly single family homes. Part of increasing density is making those things you want possible. My feeling is that most of the effect of upzoning will be felt in close-in walkable neighborhoods because they are most desirable and easier to upgrade.

Also, there is a wide range of multi-family housing from giant towers, mid-height apartments, and N-plexs. Most proposals are to mix “missing middle” housing in with single family. A lot of older neighborhoods already have some. A few triplexes are not going to cause problems. Around here, they are allowing 6-story apartments along major roads. They work well because there is good public transit.
Agree. The vast majority of complaints about C are actually complaints about the standard library. It's library - if you don't like it, use something better :)
> In from the UK and earn about a quarter as much and I could be unemployed for several years before I had to start caring.

Luckily you live in a still mostly civilized society, where you don't lose your health care when you lose your job, and you have a decent welfare program so you don't lose your house and can still eat.

We don't have that here. Also, in the Bay Area, $300K will barely get you by if you bought a house in the last five years.
Other articles have reported they've changed how they're filtering radar signals, which could partially explain why more real objects are being found now, but would also result in additional false positives.

> The incursions in the past week have changed how analysts receive and interpret information from radars and sensors, a U.S. official said Saturday, partly addressing a key question of why so many objects have recently surfaced.

> The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that sensory equipment absorbs a lot of raw data, and filters are used so humans and machines can make sense of what is collected. But that process always runs the risk of leaving out something important, the official said.

> “We basically opened the filters,” the official added

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/11/...
I suspect finding a small balloon in the mind-boggling huge space that is American airspace is, can be surprisingly challenging.

My understanding is that these UAFs are much smaller than that first Chinese balloon last week.

It probably also costs a lot more money to shoot down a balloon than it costs China to put a balloon in the air.
Definitely time to bring back Mulder and Scully from retirement.
what does that even mean? if you make over 200k a year in a busted market, then you are worthy of sympathy?
I'd imagine that there's enough of a possibility of an ability to self-destruct that it may not be worth the risk.
Rigetti Computing to Slash 28% of Jobs
That sequence is present everywhere in your body and living beings, so no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyadenylation
I mentioned in another reply (1), part of it is that they've reduced the filtering of radar signals, resulting in more objects being spotted, but also more false positives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34759149
But why are people doing this?

Is this just a malicious act, like that woman who licked the ice cream and put it back?
Those salaries are a new experience to a lot of people. In some cases, because they came out of school into them and have little experience with financial management in the first place, and in other cases because the prior benchmark for tech industry was like 30-50% of that until fairly recent (and remains that way at many US tech companies).

And like with a lot of "new money" experiences, the answer to your question is: no. You get excited to taste a luxury lifestyle and get carried away buying an dangerously expensive house because it fits your Peleton and your bank says you're good for it. With this being your first time through a tech boom, you didn't believe the old cynics telling you there was a second act coming. But now you might get laid off and have $15,000 per month in bills to pay lest that house go back to the bank.

It's an understandable story, and a tragic one. :(
Mirror Fever: The history of mirror halls in France and China
My understanding is that only the balloon from last week was huge and easy to see with the human eye. I believe the other UAFs are much smaller. Also there were 3 or 4 during the Trump administration and noone noticed them with their naked eye
Relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7tN7MhQ4I
Please note that the above link has been claimed by squatters and isn’t the right link for CCAN anymore! The maintainer suggests [1] just using the GitHub repo [2] instead.

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/ccan/2022-September/00141...

[2] https://github.com/rustyrussell/ccan/
Depends on which hat you're wearing. If you're wearing an astronomical or GR hat, new particles are simple. Just add their mass, and space curves differently, and you're done. But if you're wearing a particle physics/standard model hat, new particles are a huge deal. They change all kinds of things. Some of those things that change have rather large effects on cosmology.
Unfortunately that's how tech and media works. OpenAI itself was lucky as well. Before the LLM success, they were just another research lab that did the same stuff as everyone else and were mostly focused on RL. A few researchers randomly stumbled upon [0] the fact huge LLMs work unexpectedly well, but this might as well have happened at any other lab like Google or Meta because everyone was doing the same kind of research anyway. Anyone who is acting as if any of this was planned is just spinning a narrative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34754355
Unless you work on a big company where you're just a small cog in the machine and your work doesn't matter much, you will be defeated and destroyed by folks who move much faster at building and fixing things in this rapidly changing world. By the way Android OS wouldn't exist , if the amazing team have used TDD rather than just focusing on building good quality product and moving really fast
My understanding is you actually need to wear sunscreen that blocks UVb and a lot doesn't. Which is why Zinc is preferred in places like Australia, because it actually "blocks" UVa/UVb, does'nt just stop you from getting red skin, it protects your DNA from radiation.
"anti-cholinergics"

Based on what little I know, that sound scary.
So according to the article, apparently "cognitive skills" are less important for trades than marketing.

I would like to live in a world where the opposite is true. How can we legislate that?
WebAuthn: Secure sign-in in the browser, without passwords
That's cool, but am I the only one that doesn't believe China?
If developers build at a faster rate than new renters want to move in, the rent will decrease, because it will again become a competition between landlords to try to reduce their vacancy rate, for the same reason they're currently increasing rent - revenue maximization. Vacancies represent a lot of lost revenue.

Please, don't agitate for more rent control, it's such a bad idea.
1. It is lowest of the low rhetoric to argue from what a hypothetical exaggerated caricature in a hypothetical situation would say. If you want to upset people then keep doing it, but I advise punching above the belt.

2. We've got a bunch of balloons in the air. Balloons are a technology dating back to before they started keeping records [0]. If it turns out people aren't registering every single balloon flight with every government then that isn't really a surprise. Drones are in the mix now too.

2b. People are going to use balloons to spy on each other. That isn't new. Governments spy on everything all the time. These comments are probably being logged in a super-database somewhere in the NSA, in the GRU and the Chinese Ministry of State Security. While it makes a good story it is not evidence of change unless someone does the legwork to show that it wasn't just a slow news week.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning
Echoing this. One of his favorite such lessons was, "a little bit of slope make up for a lot of Y-intercept". It's easy to get demoralized encountering someone way more skilled than you. But the right response is to learn from them and accelerate your own growth.
phosgene gas was used in WWI chemical warfare
Same. People back then went on stamps as the very last option after family, friends and community (including church) --then they'd go to get food stamps if they could muster the courage. I don't think that culture is widespread today.

For good or bad, people have been conditioned to depend on others. Safety nets are of course good --but we also do not want to make society dependent upon them whether because adult jobs don't pay enough due to job exports, or unmitigated drug addition crisis or other. For psychological health, people need to have the opportunity to be self reliant.
Same reason why I use every possible technique to lower my taxes as a wealthy person
I don't think it's 40,000 suicides but additional deaths :

https://www.edhovee.com/edhblog/2020/5/6/more-deaths-from-un...

The actual paragraph of interest from the 2005 book is this: “According to one study [the one by Bluestone et al.], a 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate will be associated with 37,000 deaths (including 20,000 heart attacks), 920 suicides, 650 homicides, 4,000 state mental hospital admissions and 3,300 state prison admissions.”

Actually the author of that post thinks the number is higher at 47,500 based on data:

And the impact likely is now greater than estimated by Bluestone, Harrison, and Baker nearly 40 years ago. With this updated analysis, a more current estimate appears to be more in the range of 47,500 deaths for every 1% point increase in America’s average annual unemployment rate.
Maybe too much money is spent on unhealthy food and subsidising Coca Cola.

> on a typical day less than 1 percent of households now face “very low food security.” That low figure contrasts with the 17 percent of U.S. households that currently receive food stamps.

> The study found that SNAP shoppers bought slightly more junk food than non‐ SNAP shoppers.

Quotes from https://www.cato.org/blog/snap-15-billion-junk-food

SNAP is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Another pertinent quote. From NIH in case you don't like Cato.

> It is no longer controversial to say that the United States food system does not support a healthy diet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6168179/
Insist that 'AI will never create real software' and hold underground live-coding demos inside faraday cages while jacked up on 4loko. Scene falls into disarray when '0xDEADBEEF', the star of this edgy new entertainment genre, turns out to be running a lightweight LLM on a local TPU.
Why do we need to lower our expectations now? Single family homes are what most people want. Why jam people into apartments if they don’t want to live in them? All houses should be cheap imo - it is just a few cheap sticks and some plastic after all.

Some cities obviously have no room to expand so the only option is higher density. Where that is not the case, build single family homes en mass until anyone can afford one. I’m a home owner now but would rather see people be able to afford what they want than to see my own 2x4s appreciate.
I don't find much need to have done the thing before.

Before I write a line of code, test or no, I usually have some idea of what the code should do. Then I run the code to see if it does what I want. So if I'm not doing TDD, I'm still doing "manual test test first"; the test is just in my head.

TDD is just saying, "Let's start by automating a bit of that test and make the test fails correctly. Then we write production code until the test passes. Once it goes green, we look at what we've got, see how we like it, and maybe refactor a bit before writing the next test."

If I'm totally off the map and flailing around, yeah, I won't write tests first. I'll hack at something until I have a clue. And then I'll throw that code away and write my first test. Which is something I should do regardless of whether I'm doing TDD, as scratch code like that is too messy to keep. Easier to dump it and start fresh.
More simply, it could have been an act by the army to torpedo improving relations between the US and China. The more strained the relations, the easier it would be to get funding for military projects.
Source: https://twitter.com/NORADCommand/status/1624596337890058240
Please stop using a $400k missile to shoot down a $300 party favor.

Certainly we could have a kid wave a high powered laser out of a window of a Cessna 172 for 1/10 of the price
This is an opportunity to shill my efforts with a similar goal, check my profile for the link.
Below is a summary:

- It exclusive, given that the aim is to co-operate and potentially take on major projects. To pull of major projects a certain threshold level of IQ and wisdom is required.

- An example would be to collectively provide financial security. (IMH insurance companies and govt. are failing except for the simplest of cases)

- Another example would be say health care: say put up a surgery ward for the participating members are willing to bend or break the law to avail of a life saving procedure.

More on the link on my profile.
Thanks egonschiele, I would say your summarisation is quite accurate :)
There is definitely more work to be done on the positioning/landing page text, I do hope that the service will grow into something more general than just GPT-3 prompt organising and sharing, but should maybe keep it more grounded/specific for now
Woops edited my comment, thanks. Either way my point was it's a psychedelic mushroom
Reminds me of GUK.ai , which uses AI to generate generic samples.

Interesting that Audialab is focused on drums only.
I don't think I buy that without a bit more justification. On an individual case, or when analyzed very locally, there can be wild departures from the aggregate case, but if housing is rapidly increased compared to demand, in aggregate, how can that not plummet the price of grandma's land for the aggregate grandma?
I can’t imagine the state grade level standards are even that high, so this is even more grim. From what I’ve gathered, mathematical standards in USA schools is notably lower than Asian countries like Korea, Singapore, Russia.

From the graph is looked like the highest percentage was 36%. So only 36% testing as proficient was the best district? If so, what an absolute disaster.

Another one of those “how on earth is the richest country on earth this bad?” moments.
Thanks for your feedback! Would love to hear about your use-case :)
> Housing can not be both an investment and affordable.

If old homes were somehow better and more desirable, they could theoretically be both. But homes aren't like comic books or magic cards: newer-built ones are generally better in quality, often dramatically so.
I thought of that immediately. And of Spacey’s character congratulating the remaining folks because you need to somehow rebuild morale.
> If the board get upset over this, the board is the problem.

Are you saying that boards shouldn't get upset at botched product launches, especially ones involving tech inflection points?
I can't find the article I read a month or so ago that indicated a low protection of around 20% compared to vaccinated.

Here's a much older article about the original omicron (quite distinct from the BA.2 descendants we have now): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7109e1.htm

> The ARs among household contacts of index patients who had received a COVID-19 booster dose, of fully vaccinated index patients who completed their COVID-19 primary series within the previous 5 months, and of unvaccinated index patients were 42.7% (47 of 110), 43.6% (17 of 39), and 63.9% (69 of 108), respectively.
A corporation always lies. Start there. See where the liability is, then see who they’ve donated to…
People come from a myriad of circumstances.

In addition to the other responses, two major factors for me:

1. At the time, I wasn’t making anywhere close to that salary. The tech job market in my region at the time didn’t pay anywhere close to SV salaries, and even less as someone working tech at a non-tech company.

2. I only had a few years of decent earnings at that point, and was funneling most extra funds into debt.

Having enough savings to quit for a few years is amazing, but a privilege that few people have.
I had that same card. I think that was the last desktop I used for gaming. I must have done the same thing.

I became a mostly laptop person shortly after with most of my gaming going to consoles.
> jumping with both feet to conclusions

What conclusions?

I'd actually like to see some conclusions. So far all we have is 'objects'.
It depends on what they mean by "cannot". It cannot be recycled today but it can be recycled when facilities are built to do it. The batteries currently in EVs will go to non-transportation uses when it is no longer able to be used in EVs. Then it will need recycling and that is when the recycling facilities will be built and begin recycling batteries.
Who is your customer? Why should they use your product over alternatives to solve their problem / improve their life?

This is the realm of product management and product marketing as much as general "marketing".

Read The Mom Test. Follow what it says to do practical user research, so that you can effectively target your niche within time management / productivity tools.

https://www.momtestbook.com/

After that, here's a good video from a YC person about launches, and why you should think of them as things to do over and over as opposed to just once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xU050kMbHM
I feel if the balloon was carrying an explosive payload this would definitely be an act of war. Would it be worth it for the Chinese to do that?
The open source community driven platforms tend to have gratis games with no purchases, unfortunately iPads don't let you install such platforms, so you might need to buy a different kind of device.
Soda bread is easy and quick to make: get the oven on very hot gas 7-8 with a saucepan or casserole dish in it. Get a a bowl, 450grams flour, half to one teaspoon salt, heaped teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, optional teaspoon sugar, mix, ~350ml milk, mix until dough, shape into blob with hands, dust the hot saucepan with flour and drop the dough in it. Bake until crusty and done, 30-60 minutes ish.

Voila, delicious soda bread.

No kneading, no rising, no yeast, no proving, no loaf tins, no mixer, no added time, no work surface, just mix and cook. Optionally swap ~50-75g of the flour for oats, or some-all of the milk for plain yogurt.

Yes yeasted bread takes more time but soda bread is really good and way more convenient.
Movements that are dogmatic don't like to be questioned.
The film adaptation of White Noise is about a freight train crashing and releasing toxic chemicals in the air and was filmed in Ohio around this area so yeah it seems like a very apt connection to make
There are many libraries available that you can use as a libc replacement instead of CCAN, if that’s what you prefer [1-3]. Taking on a beefy dependency like that can be overkill, though, if all you need is a linked list or dynamic array implementation.

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/

[2] http://apr.apache.org/

[3] https://libcork.io/
Because they are the very ones who made this urgent, yes. Getting it out this week or this month isn't going to make a difference in the long run.
TDD can be great if you know exactly what you're building and what you must test for

But you should know this from your functional requirements, right?

(Slightly sarcastic comment, I know in a lot of places people just start coding without a plan, but I think TDD and functional requirements go together well).
I don't get it from your web page. What can I connect? Slack, Github, other APIs (like Zapier) -- or is it meant for running code on an existing page (automate front end)? I on purpose did not read your description above so I can give you feedback on the more important piece, your web page.
Too long did not read. Me thinks Prolog should be parallel only now that we have AI-machines and such shit. It should starts every direction immediately and when some criteria is fulfilled it should start dropping answers without ever reaching the end.

fib(X,Y1+Y2):- fib(X-1,Y1),fib(X-2,Y2).

This should be legal kwestion and machine should start spewing numbers from zero to infinity.
>require a much (much) larger societal unit to be really effective.

Larger, yes, and also I might add smarter. When groups that are not so smart get larger they're prone to politics and/or corruption and/or infighting. Nation states are a classic example.