skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious whether earlier accommodations or therapy can ease the pressure to move forward with surgical transition, and thus reduce the number of people who feel regret for their decision.

That said, I'm not sure these articles are intended to improve treatment options. Rather, the goal seems to be eliminating transgender care altogether.
Depends what kind of capital gains you have. I have no idea what they have, but short-term capital gains are treated as ordinary income.

And obviously the logic would be the same for if/when they change the long-term capital gains tax rates.
Both of the (commercial) solutions work well, if you are looking for open source, try LangChain.

It's just 15 lines to do document summarization and you can ask it to summarize arguments by customizing the summarisation prompt.

You could bring in other papers context with other tech, but indexing it all would be the tricky bit.

There's also something called GROBID which extracts scientific PDFs much better than generic PDF readers. it's worth spinning up a docker instance of it and getting the text that way for LangChain if you have time.
Feels like it will perpetuate the trend of young adults not being able to afford to purchase a home. Duplexes and more apartments mean more renters.

No matter your view on home ownership, there’s a lot to be said of the ability to stabilize your budget’s largest line item via fixed rate mortgages.

This helps but is just a band aid.
Show HN: G-Script – Visual Scripting for the Web
Hi all,
I'm a PM by day who taught themselves to code over COVID. One of the things I enjoyed during that process was learning how to make basic games in Unreal Engine using Blueprints. I found visual scripting was such an intuitive way to express what I call "mid-tier complexity" logic and I felt there really wasn't a great equivalent for the web - so I built one over the last few months and this is my MVP.

Tools like Zapier etc are great and easy to use, but they're heavily limited when it comes to expressing any kind of complex logic or trying to follow coding principles like DRY.

On the other end of the spectrum, serverless setups like Cloudflare workers or Firebase functions give you all the power of code, but there's atleast 20-30 minutes of additional overhead involved in just getting the things live.

G-Script is designed to land exactly in the middle of these two options. It's "Lower level" than tools like Zapier and supports most of the code-level primitives you NEED in order to express logic.

Examples being:
- Conditional Logic
- Loops
- Static Typing
- Objects & Arrays
- Version Control
- Reusable logic/functions

On the flip side, it's much less friction that writing an actual serverless function, both up-front and ongoing.

Examples:
- You don't need to know "Code", just how to express your logic visually.
- No need to manage even basic deployments or use a CLI, it's all done via a UI.
- Every Workflow is a seperate little microservice with it's own URL that you can call via HTTP.
- The super simple version control system makes it easy to role back to earlier versions of a workflow if you break something, or make changes to your logic without impacting what executes and the Workflow URL until you're ready to deploy your final iteration.
>One official told ABC News that the object was “cylindrical and silver-ish gray” and gave the “balloon-like” appearance of floating without “any sort of propulsion” It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/alaska- mystery-flying-object-us-chinese-balloon https://news.sky.com/story/us-shoots-down-unknown-object-fly...

Any idea why they refuse to confirm that its a balloon if it is? The pilots confirmed its "unmanned" but why wont they confirm if its a balloon or not? strange dont you think.
Zoning. They're ending single family zoning, not single family housing - it doesn't claim they're doing the latter.
With ethnobotanically medicinal plants there's almost always many uses for them:

> Henbane is used in traditional herbal medicine for ailments of the bones, rheumatism, toothache, asthma, cough, nervous diseases, and stomach pain. It might also be used as analgesic, sedative, and narcotic in some cultures
The sad thing is that students from poorer and racially segregated areas are paying for 18 years of falling behind by the time it comes to college. When some high schools have barely literate graduates betrayed by adverse conditions their whole life, it's hardly shocking that it results in college admission readiness being grossly skewed. Not that I want to oversimplify.
I wonder if future historians will look at the Russia/Ukraine war as a consequence of the pandemic. Pandemic and war often go hand in hand due to general emergent psychotic behavior.

If so, the post-pandemic war has resulted in huge profits for fossil fuels. Texas doesn’t know what to do with their massive tax surplus.
It is critical that any housing solution incorporate equity, in my opinion. Taking away home ownership so we can all pay apartment owners for our entire lives is wrong.
ICANN charges a $25000 per year maintenance fee for Top Level Domains so a few unpopular TLD's have gone out of business and ceased existing over the years.

Anyone can apply to own a TLD, the application fee is about $180,000, but you will spend lots more on lawyers and lobbying. The chance of success depends on existing trademarks and suchlike.
If it was indeed an American F-22 that shot it down, he didn't order it, he acquiesced to having it shot down in his territory. As a canadian, I see it as co-operation, like when another dude sees you struggling and offers to open your beer for you.

The announcement is from the PM's twitter account and not an announcement by military leadership, or the Governor General, our head of state, (so no aliens, basically). I'm interpreting our politicians needed to be seen to be involved in this one for some reason. After reading about the first balloon, to me this announcement is like a really nice dinner after forgetting your birthday.
Trio: Structured Concurrency for Python
For my recent layoff from a 100% remote role at a well known BigTech co, I was in the midst of a meeting and was abruptly signed out of my laptop and presented with a screen saying it had been frozen and prompting for a 6 digit passcode to unlock it. I had no idea what was going on and began calling IT support to get back in so I could let coworkers on my team know I was completely unable to do anything. They evidently hadn't been informed either as they actually gave me the passcode! I put two and two together when I got back in and was still locked out of everything, and a friend in a personal non-work Slack @'d me with the headline that my company was doing layoffs.
Condos? Townhomes?
Nope, just needs to be more building. New luxury apartments will make the old stock cheaper. The fight over the number of affordable units in every single new development slows things down and exacerbates the affordability problem. Remove as many of the barriers to development as possible, and the problem will be solved.
cf. Microsoft's attempt to contribute MSVCS's Ryu float to_chars implementation to LLVM, with review comments from Ulf Adams: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70631
If they'd locate the jobs to smaller cities and towns we wouldn't have this argument.
New apartments are inevitably going to be higher priced. Unless we're just going to deliberately build units with worse insulation, earthquake resistance, etc. all new construction of the same square footage is going to be higher value. Today's "luxury" apartments are tomorrow's affordable apartments. Today's dearth of affordable apartments is due to lack of construction in the past couple decades.
I would say overwhelming and daunting is not knowing why your software becomes fragile and low quality without tests.

TDD gives you a sense of control. You know that you are done once your tests (read: documented requirements) pass.

And yes, I realize not doing TDD is not the same as not doing tests at all, but writing tests post-fact is just an excuse to wiggle out of writing them. "It worked when I coded it!"
Go to the staff nights out and get to know your colleagues.
Wait, borg has several special features and considerations for D (the service that actually holds 99% of the state). It's not exactly as seamless as you make it out to be.
An interesting question to ask is why do we always seem to grow by increasing density rather than establishing new small towns? Leon Krier's Drawing For Architecture contrasts over-expansion both with excessive density and excessive sprawl and by duplication.

It seems to me that if it were legal to do so there are plenty of tiny towns that could grow to the size of a small city like Arlington or Buffalo.
> I've definitely noticed a trend of people on the spectrum suffering from mental health problems, self-diagnosing as gender dysphoric and then launching themselves down a one-directional, miserable path that ends in their suicide.

Are you saying that the gender dysphoria self-diagnosis was the only factor in the suicide, and without it the mental health problems and difficulties of being neurodivergent in society wouldn't have been an issue? If not, why is it the important one of the three?

Every problem a person deals with will contribute to stress and influence their choices, but it feels a little weird to list 3 big challenges and then say "and the last one is why they killed themselves".
> I hate how that's phrased. No one is ending single-family housing.

That would be a fair complaint, if the word “housing” had been used in place of “zoning”. Single-family zoning is a legal restriction that allows only single-family housing. Ending it is not the same as ending single-family housing.

If you are going to complain about phrasing, you should complain about the actual phrasing.
Not really, wealthy students alone don’t make or break elite schools. Yale for example doesn’t have nearly the reputation of Harvard even though 5 presidents went to Yale etc.

In the end it’s the non wealthy students that make or break a schools reputation which is why schools give out scholarships etc. It’s a pure transaction your future achievements aid us and our reputation and resources aid you.

Schools also specialize so Harvard doesn’t have nearly the reputation in say animation as CalArts etc.
The new version of "our political enemies are communists" is "our political enemies are domestic violent extremists". It's a rationale for using state resources and law enforcement powers to degrade the political opposition. The FBI went after MLK that way, accusing him of ties to communists in order to justify extreme measures. The most notorious of those measures was an attempt to blackmail him into commiting suicide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter
> New

How often are they new and how often are they "newly renovated"?

As I got a downvote I'm going to edit this and say I used to pay a little over $800/month for a particular apartment. About 7 years later I looked back at the complex. It had been completely remodeled and the cheapest unit was over $1600/month. How often is this happening?
> It leaves open a lot of conspiracy type theories, and I just don’t see the motivation to do that

Really? You can't think of any reason the US government would be happy to stir up disinfo and bullshit? I mean...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-using-...

> Multiple U.S. officials acknowledged that the U.S. has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes it has used low-confidence intelligence for deterrent effect, as with chemical agents, and other times, as an official put it, the U.S. is just “trying to get inside Putin’s head.”

Emphasis mine.
> Some locals still use it, as an alternative to hemlock, to stun fish.

Why is anyone using Hemlock to stun fish? Given there are dozens of plants that stun fish, it seems odd that folks would use one that's also absurdly toxic to humans.
Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker up there flying at 25K feet, amid reports that F-15s were scrambled out of McChord (possibly Portland ANG instead).

https://www.flightradar24.com/2f2ab347

Idea of ground conditions: https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/havre-mt-59501

Word is air assets are headed home for now and will possibly take down later/tomorrow. NORAD possibly loving this moment in general

(Gotta wonder...where are the people with superzooms? Rural news crews willing to tilt their cameras upward? Even 25x portable Canons? Or Samsung AI zoom assist? xD ...25K feet and significantly higher is not usually a huge problem for even basic superzooms, especially with setting sun as light source)
"Uncharacteristic".

Every time I read about cases like this, my mind repeats the phrase that is a title of a niche (but prophetic) song I've heard long time ago: random is resistance.
I'm one of the Ray developers, thanks for the shoutout :)

If you're curious about how Ray is used for LLMs, here are some interesting examples of LLM projects using Ray!

- Alpa does training and serving with 175B parameter models https://github.com/alpa-projects/alpa

- GPT-J https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax

- Another HN thread on training LLMs with Ray (on TPUs in this case) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731168

- OpenAI fireside chat on the evolution of their infrastructure and usage of Ray for training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiL5QQnN64

- Cohere on their architecture for training LLMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=For8yLkZP5w&t=3s

Some other thoughts

1. There is a lot more we want to do to make Ray better for working with large language models and for making training, serving, and batch inference work well out of the box.

2. The original post is about training, but we actually see even more interest in fine-tuning and serving with LLMs, in part because there are good pre-trained models.

3. For LLMs, we see a lot of interest in Ray + Jax or Ray + TPUs relative to what we see in other use cases.
An increase in housing supply can only put downward pressure on prices, even if the majority go to rentals. There's no magic solution to high demand for limited land, the best we can do is build up.
Because vaccines lower the likelihood and severity of infection and do not have any significant negative side effect.
Covered at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34660938 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673119
Nice, clean, very reasonable pricing. Maybe you should add an enterprise tier for people who want to buy a bunch of licenses without wanting to generate 10-100 purchase orders. Otherwise, no notes. Best of luck!
I responded to them too, but I think their point is that some people have an internal sense of resilience, or a constructed foundation of security, that makes them less susceptible to anxiety in the face of unexpected change.

You’re right that this doesn’t mean that people who are more anxious have somehow failed morally or behaviorally, and also right that nobody is immune to anxiety altogether.

But I don’t think they were saying those things. They were just saying that some people are capable of navigating stuff like job loss with confidence and sharing their experience of environments that seemed to have proportionately more or less of those people.

I do think that on net it read as dismissive to the real personal experience of the “oranges” who are highlighted in the article, but also think you’re responding to things that weren’t said there.
What exactly does this even mean? The very origins of "Christmas" are from people drinking the piss of reindeer who have consumed Amanita muscaria. Amanita muscaria, while not of the Psilocybe genus, ~~contains psilocybin~~ (EDIT: it contains other psychedelic substances but no psilocybin) but (unlike Psilocybe mushrooms) is poisonous. The poison is neutralized in the reindeer piss so you can consume it to have a fun trip

And Psilocybe themselves are global in distribution with hundreds of species. Almost all hallucinogenic and none are poisonous.

A quick google search shows we have evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe for at least up to 6k years ago:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928025-400-earliest...
Health care systems that abet aging are the cause of this. Everyone wants to get old, they want to see their grandkids or just not miss out. No one wants to deal with the fact that it's not sustainable to keep having more younger than older in the population. Environmentally, how do you avoid eventually running out of water, land, food, something that is a gating factor? Carpeting the earth as some sci-fi envisions seems dystopian at best. Developed economies are something of a pyramid scheme in their reliance on more youth than other age brackets.
> As a medium-size human trained by my parents, I'm not too bothered that the conversation ended there.

Sorry, what? Why would your size have anything to do with either your view of the conversation or the fact that you were raised by your parents?
Point taken, it is indeed easy to ape anything with a distinctive style...

Seurat paints with points, Hemingway writes in short sentences, Hitchcock shoots train scenes and dutch angles.

If LLMs can do anything, it's maybe copy style. But the end result won't be better than the worst parodies you'd find.

Sidenote: If there's something that I dislike irrationally, it's bad parody. Good parody has something to say. Bad parody is someone making something because they think they're awfully clever for "cracking the code" of some artist because they can describe overt style and themes.

Sorta like the person who thinks the entire appeal of magic is figuring out how an illusion is performed.
Is it that simple? From a lay perspective (and granted I’m a little foggy because I actually have covid right now), I’d expect the answer is yes but with huge unintended consequences.
Don't decisions like this, where you have 10ish minutes to make the decision, go all the way to the PM of Canada?

In that case, don't the relevant military authorities ask him to choose between scaring off the object/escorting it/shooting it down?
I'm adding to your comment and not trying to argue (unless you want to!): There's no distinction between the public and the government. The government is made up by the public. And corporations are usually first in line anyway. Much more "public" in the cake mix right there alone.

It's hard for me to think in terms of rights. I don't know what the word even means. Legal rights? Moral rights? God-given rights? You can say I have a right not to be murdered, but that doesn't matter very much if in fact I just got murdered. All I know is that some people feel they have a "duty" for lack of a better word, to keep all their dealings as private as possible. If I were such a person, this would mean using cash, metals, and cryptocurrencies like Monero as much as possible through decentralized services. It would even mean using things like credit/debit cards to maintain a "good person" public persona. Going grey so to speak.
While I personally think gender related care is far too restricted in most places, I agree that comprehensive mental health treatment is the biggest priority. People will have a much easier time dealing with gender-related stresses and issues if they're not ALSO staring down a bunch of other problems in their lives without access to care.

It's also my understanding that trans and non-binary individuals tend to have other co-morbid problems going on, mental health or otherwise. This may be a data problem - the other problems being diagnosed more often because they go for treatment, etc - but from the specialists I've spoken to, it probably is an actual connection, induced by stress or otherwise.
Ask HN: Anyone else having IPv6 issues with Cloudflare?
Got a bunch of pings from updown.io saying there are IPv6 timeouts to sites using cloudflare, they seem to be intermittent for about the past 30 minutes, nothing on the cloudflare status page though.
As long as we don't have teleportation there are network effects to concentration. I don't like it though, and would take a pay cut to move to a more roomy area.
This has been a major point of confusion. A lot of people respond as if their house will be torn down against their will and replaced with an apartment building.
I've found that people often mean 'far East' in CT when they say 'far North' (because 95 runs E-W), in which case it's a few hours' drive to cross CT, IIRC.
People are terrible at analogies
True, but it is not much different than gas stations selling CNG or LPG. It's doable since the land is there and you are still dealing with flammable chemicals. There is a lot of common expertise. Many hydrogen stations are in fact converted gas stations in California.
I'd say that a Wired article on NK laundering money will garner some fast attention.

Virgil Griffith is in jail for 63 months for arguably less of an offense.
Maybe not clearly expressed, but I took the parents point about mental preparedness and environment being big factors in dealing with anxiety, generally, and layoffs.
I don't think the genome has a specific length of the tail (33 is a consensus length)

During genomic assays, the poly a tail will not be a specific length, but a single consensus sequence is still provided.

This was also posted in the first comment:

> Similar to eukaryotic mRNA, the positive-strand coronavirus genome of ~30 kilobases is 5’-capped and 3’-polyadenylated. It has been demonstrated that the length of the coronaviral poly(A) tail is not static but regulated during infection; however, little is known regarding the factors involved in coronaviral polyadenylation and its regulation. Here, we show that during infection, the level of coronavirus poly(A) tail lengthening depends on the initial length upon infection and that the minimum length to initiate lengthening may lie between 5 and 9 nucleotides. By mutagenesis analysis, it was found that (i) the hexamer AGUAAA and poly(A) tail are two important elements responsible for synthesis of the coronavirus poly(A) tail and may function in concert to accomplish polyadenylation and (ii) the function of the hexamer AGUAAA in coronaviral polyadenylation is position dependent. Based on these findings, we propose a process for how the coronaviral poly(A) tail is synthesized and undergoes variation. Our results provide the first genetic evidence to gain insight into coronaviral polyadenylation.

Peng Y-H, Lin C-H, Lin C-N, Lo C-Y, Tsai T-L, Wu H-Y (2016) Characterization of the Role of Hexamer AGUAAA and Poly(A) Tail in Coronavirus Polyadenylation. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0165077
Google employees criticize CEO for ‘rushed, botched’ announcement of Bard
This quote from the source you linked seems to suggest an obvious reason why it might be a controversial "diagnosis":

> Lisa Littman, at the time an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, coined the term rapid-onset gender dysphoria in a 2018 study based on an online survey of parents on three anti-trans websites who believed that their teenage children had suddenly manifested symptoms of gender dysphoria and begun identifying as transgender simultaneously with other children in their peer group.

Doesn't sound terribly scientific. I do look forward to seeing a robust conclusion drawn from studies over the coming years, though, so we can find out how real it is!
GPL talks only about "object code or executable form" as means of software distribution. When you ping a network server, it's not covered by the license. That's the whole point of AGPL: it covers network access as a mean of software distribution too.
This is a mobile release. Proton runs on desktop machines, and the "new" Myst on steam works just fine on macOS and apple silicon devices.
How much more does stuff now than when benefits were increased?

What was the median single family home price ratio to median minimum wage annual income when you were growing up?