skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 75% of those would not have been admitted w/o that help

this not making a claim anywhere near as interesting as it pretends. Since you're using a %, what is the % difference in quality that admitting these 75% makes (assuming it's even true, considering I don't believe much from the Guardian) and how does that (what the author calls "affirmative action") compare with other affirmative actions taken to achieve a balanced class? were they otherwise 99% good enough, or only 10% good enough?

My money is on above 90% because I went to an elite school (that has no legacy) and lots of people there were extremely highly qualified, and the ones who weren't did not fall in a pattern of being wealthy or whatever, probably better explained by something like your evidence of how ineffective IQ (what SAT does correlate to) or high school grades are in predicting college GPA and how effective GPA is or isn't in predicting future contributions. I find grades have much more to do with psychological makeup, like do you rebel against authority, or knuckle under. Good grades are valuable, but don't tell the whole story of your value as a contributor, sometimes screwed up and crazy genius works better. But either way, shouldn't that be up to the school what combinations they wish to place their bets on?
> Amanita muscaria, while not of the Psilocybe genus, contains psilocybe

This is misinformation.
It contains ibotenic acid and muscimol. The effects are very different than psilocybin containing mushrooms.

Reference on the chemical compounds: https://pharmacia.pensoft.net/article/56112/
Great recommendations. My wife and I played and solved Obduction together too, it was a ton of fun!
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NOTAMs and TFRs are easy to find online and not too hard to learn how to read.
Quick scan and of course it already randomly omitted words. ChatGPT is really just designed to bedazzle people who don't realize whats going on.
Anyone else feel like we aren't getting the whole story here?
Thanks, this wasn’t on any of the retrospectives I saw!
Tangentially related, but this site (and its editor, Tyler Rogoway) are my go-to news source for anything military aviation related. Consistently great reporting. He’s worth a follow on Twitter [0] if this sort of thing is of any interest to you.

[0] https://twitter.com/aviation_intel
When autocorrect reveals too much…
Update: NORAD and U.S. Northern Command confirmed the TFR put in place and later rescinded over Havre, Montana was in response to a "radar anomaly" that it sent fighter aircraft to investigate. Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, and NORAD is still monitoring the situation.
I take your point, but I would argue that retinas and brains are categorically different than telescopes and photomultiplier tubes.

But the point you make brings up an interesting analogy though. If we consider optical illusions — where the mental model our brains create at a preconscious level lead us to incorrect conclusions about reality (insofar as an objective reality can exist) — can that inform our understanding of the models we use to interpret our astronomical observations?
Your expectation of the Canadian Prime Minister is that before he tweets out news to his fellow citizens, he thinks about potential American ignorance and whether he needs to craft his words carefully so as not to give them the wrong impression?
is it just too expensive to put tamper proof stickers on the lids?
The original article is pretty long, so it makes sense that the refutation might also be long.

I skimmed both.

It feels kind of shitty to be asking for a tldr or a summary.
Update: NORAD says it was a radar anomaly and they didn't find anything

https://twitter.com/NORADCommand/status/1624596337890058240/...
50 Years Ago, UFOs Seized Washington's Imagination (2002)
TDD can be great if you know exactly what you're building and what you must test for, but it gets in the way when you're rapidly prototyping and exploring.

Just don't be dogmatic about practices like TDD. It's always a tradeoff. Being a good engineer means understanding when the tradeoff is worth it and when it isn't. Be wary of development teams, or people, that force you to practice certain methodologies regardless of context.
People are being fact weenies to your post, but your point is fundamentally sound and showcases foresight. Some new construction is rent-only because its corporate backers rightly assume it will let them wring residents for all they're worth. If things continue to trend this way, then merely building more is not a sustainable solution to the housing squeeze.
The plan is obviously bankrupt the US one half-million sidewinder at a time.

How much does 2000 balloons cost?
These things happen very often and there could be many explanations. Every time the President moves one is declared. There is a permanent one at Beale AFB, CA. And there are permanent ones at Disneyland and Disney World. Any aviation mapping source and many weather apps with aviation data (MyRadar is my choice) shows these come and go.
Live in Montana. Very confused. Mildly concerned. Obviously they don't want to divulge everything they know....
It's ludicrous to suggest that this is an easy outcome. If it were, you wouldn't be making 300k TC.
I've been waiting to discover whether or not I'm getting laid off (probably not, my M2 tells me). But anyways, yeah I'm at a big tech company going through rounds of layoffs.

I'm at a good point where I'm wrapping a bunch of stuff up. So I've been trying to make sure I tie up all loose ends and make sure, if the axe lands on my neck, that my colleagues can pick up everything where I left off. After round one, it wasn't the anxiety (I'm in a good spot, companies are hungry to poach from tech companies like mine; I'll land on my feet), it was the lack of will to really work too terribly hard until I knew that I'd be sticking around.

I still don't know. So I'm not working overly hard of late. I have started to see people I know get the axe though, and that has an effect on you. I'm only working hard on wrap-up activities, and turning down new big stuff.

Congrats (Big Company), you played yourself. Want to keep morale up? Don't hire a shit ton of people, and then fire a shit ton of people a few months later.
America does not follow the law. Americans do not follow the law. They may decide to risk it and the punishments are clearly laid out for the enterprising lawbreaker or journalist.
I see it as a form of a stand-alone complex. There are multiple companies engaging in this behavior, independently, but resulting in what resembles a concerted effort. However, for renters (and their representatives in government), the concern isn't so much that it's an accident of spookily aligned intent/incentives as it is that 1) it's clearly pushing up rents (beyond affordability), and 2) the companies engaging in it are aware that something they are doing is helping to drive these increases.[1]

I'll also note that a falling occupancy rate is not mutually exclusive with the alleged practice of property managers warehousing inventory to prop up pricing. I also wonder how much the common practice of offering "new renter specials", rather than simply lowering rents to meet demand, contributes to ever-increasing "market rates."

1:https://web.archive.org/web/20220127071929/https://www.entra...
Not a downvoter, but yes, ‘we’ (governments) have airplanes, but that doesn't mean ‘we’ (you and I) get to see the pictures.
It's pretty common throughout the US, but there's a section of Ohio that I recall driving through which has several cities named for European and Asian countries.

I had a girlfriend early in college who's grandmother lived deep in rural Ohio; we visited the area frequently and it involved driving past several.

A bit of obscure trivia I learned while down there, "Russia, Ohio" is pronounced like "Roo-She". I was told this was because of the Cold War but even in my late teens "I wasn't so sure". The dialect of Southern English spoken by Grandma and the local population was a cross between deep Appalachia, slowly spoken and ... I don't know ... English-like words[1].

[0] Nice to see Wikipedia had the goofy pronounciation. It did not explain "why", unfortunately.

[1] She had an English (only) speaking neighbor who had the most "articulated"/"exaggerated" variant -- I remember having "Tonne Cohwa" or "Tonne Cohs" (plural) translated for me after several attempts to figure out WTF that referred to... Yeah. It was the word Taco. We were talking about the cold weather, I thought.
> ffs, Do the downvotes mean "obviously there is" or "obviously there isn't"?

Downvotes on HN are handed out like candy to mean anything. Some people think obviously there is, and so downvote, others will think there isn't and downvote. Others think this is a stupid idea and will downvote. Others might think it's a good idea but disagree with the way you framed to the question

I wouldn't really worry too much about the votes here. They mean nothing.

I predict I will get downvoted on this comment, I don't know what it's meant to signify.
Ask HN: What will SWEs do when they're replaced by AI?
Maybe "they" have been here all along.
> copy a function with its closure

By closure, do you mean the values of free variables at the time of the copy?

If so, the inability to do a perfect copy is applicable to regular functions at the top level, too. (For such functions, other global variables are free variables.)

Considering this, I think this is why copying a function is generally defined as just having a reference to the function that can later be used to invoke it. It does not include each copy of the function having its own copy of the function's free variables from the instant of the copy. Separate invocations of the multiple copies (i.e. references) of the function may affect the shared closure environment/free variables.
Amazon Subsidiary Zappos Lays Off 300 Employees, 20% of Staff
Is this unusual? Serious qn.
I, for one, will welcome our new insect overlords.
There’s tons of equipment on it too.
Maybe it’s just because I’m old and Myst was such a big deal at the time, but though the quality of the graphics is way better I find myself disappointed that the modern versions look so different from an artistic point of view.

Yes it’s recognizably the same game, but the color pallet is so different. I can see changing some objects because the original modeling was so constrained it seems like they went further than necessary.

It’s sort of too different to be a remaster but not different enough to be a remake. So it feels oddly like messing with history a bit to me.

I’m kind of amazed the game is still popular enough to justify something like this commercially. I’m glad to see that.
Apparently, nothing was found at the reported site. The airspace is now open again.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1624595395635474433

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/16245934178785280...
I worked a block away and we were back in very quickly. Then the HEPA filters came, then there was a lot of chaos. I learned a lot of how government can go wrong those few months.
Isn’t selective service is still in force?
A couple of points. Govt's dont make what they fund, its nearly always outsourced including but not exclusively the decision making. You want Govt's to fund roads, a roads laying and maintenance is nearly always outsourced to a business.

On the point of this software, does open source software really matter when its still going to be run on a closed source cpu of sorts. Your network switches, are just highly optimised cpu's for the job of routing, which is still closed source. Even something like ARM on the RaspberryPi is closed source BLOB's.

At best, this is like arguing for legislation to made available online when previously it was only available from the parliamentary library's or some of limited and specific journal like the thegazette.co.uk for company related announcements.

However all my internet access comes from private businesses, so how would open source software be of benefit to me, when most people are still using a private provider. Even Broadcom provide most of the broadband cabinets here in the UK which is a private business last time I checked.

Its a nice idea, but impractical in practice.
Unrelated but since you mentioned boiling frogs: https://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoviews/ecoview071223...
More or less the same?? We had 4 years of the largest reversal on environmental protections we've ever seen

The Trump administration had replaced the Clean Power Plan, redefined critical terms under the Endangered Species Act, lifted oil and natural gas extraction bans, weakened the Coal Ash Rule, which regulates the disposal of toxic coal waste, and revised Mercury and Air Toxic Standards–just to name a few

Here's a full list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir...

And that doesn't count the extralegal strategies used by the administration to bring the department to a halt
I agree people are over reacting since new Bing isn't even available to most people yet. They're not even first to put AI into search - https://you.com/search?q=who+are+you&sharedChatId=b7ba11f3-f...
You're certainly right about the routine.

If they dumped all the donors over $50,000 for the last 10 years, even on paper, I can't believe it would be that much to go through.
I was noticing that west coast cities have higher density than rest of country. One cause is that many had big booms in the 20s and 50s which gave them walkable suburbs. Second is natural and legal boundaries that slowed growth. Bay Area and Los Angeles are surrounded by mountains. Third is that land prices were high and it was most profitable to squeeze in houses.

The problem the west coast has is not replacing housing once things got full and prices increased.
Housing can not be both an investment and affordable.

This might sound like a complex or intricate statement, but it is deceptively simple.

If you graph housing price over time, is the graph increasing or decreasing? If it is increasing then housing is a good investment and therefore becoming less affordable, if it's decreasing then housing is not a good investment because it is becoming cheaper and therefore more affordable.

It is supply and demand. As long as supply is restricted homes will increase in value, and if homes increase in value, that's a pretty good indicator supply is not increasing.

This is in aggregate, of course.

Homeowners want their homes to appreciate in value, and many, particularly old people, are using homes as their main vehicles of investment, so of course any policy to increase supply is bad for them. This creates an incredibly powerful political force.

How do you fight that political force?
West of the applachians, east of the rockies. Midwest.
>I would love to hear more about you're experiences growing up and especially the dysregulation.

Dysregulation[1] was Hell on Earth, in the literal sense. Very little in life works the way you think it should, and the reaction to these things constantly going wrong is extremely intense, negative, emotional unable to be controlled in any real sense. You lose the ability to reliably form even basic episodic/autobiographical memories, and with it any sense of the past or future. Entire chunks of your life go missing and you don't know what day it is, where you've been or where you're going. All you know is that you're constantly exhausted, nothing makes sense and everything just feels wrong. You don't know how long you've felt like this, and you don't know how long you'll continue to feel like this. As far as you're aware, past and future suffering will keep going on for eternity. And you will do anything, literally anything, to make it stop.

For me, I was fortunate that my mum took me to a sleep specialist, who recommended getting my adenoids removed and prescribing an extremely specific sleep schedule which I followed to a T (all screens off at 9:00, in bed by 10:00, I don't remember if there was a specific constant time I needed to wake up by but I suspect that was part of it to. As an adult, I now supplement this routine with melatonin). This was enough to get me from a state of complete dysregulation to "garden-variety" depression, which eventually I overcame with the help of a supportive network of friends and parents who (semi-forcefully) steered me down a path where I could succeed.

A hypothetical AussieWog98 might have convinced himself that the cause of the dysregulation was gender dysphoria, cut himself off from the people who really care and spent all his time online with other people just like himself until one day he couldn't take it any more.

I really, genuinely believe that this is what is happening today, at least in the case of some people. For others (especially people who transition later in life), it really can help them be comfortable in their own skin, and this is of course where the trans "debate" gets hairy.

[1] This is not technical language, but is the best and most concise word I can use to decribe it. There may be a more appropriate technical term, or a more scientific description of what is happening (seizures in the amygdala?). Feel free to comment if you have any scientific information or proper terminology, I'd love to read the literature on it.
Microsoft failed to rotate certificates for winget CDN on time
NORAD is North American Aerospace Defense. It’s bi-national - both US and Canada.
Do you see any convergence on wire (arrow?) and storage (pandas?) formats?
Did you even read the article?

> The Pentagon said the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected the object over Alaska late Friday evening. U.S. fighter jets from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, monitored the object as it crossed over into Canadian airspace, where Canadian CF-18 and CP-140 aircraft joined the formation.
There’s usually a battery and sometimes a jumper on the board to reset settings
"NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation."

Interesting, maybe it was a stealth aircraft? NORAD could probably detect a stealth aircraft like the Serbs did in the 1990s, but getting a precise location would be difficult.
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> We have no obligation to pay their rent because they explicitly waived such desires.

It's not about obligation. Nobody is claiming we're legally obliged to pay developers of free or open-source projects. It's about interest. As in it's in society's interest to pay for valuable infrastructure that's available to the public.

As an example, consider weather data. It's a huge benefit to all sorts of people to have good weather and climate data. It supports not just the activity of citizens, but of many businesses. Are we obligated to pay for that? No. But is it in our interest to? Definitely. If we want things to be sustained, we need to make them sustainable.

Otherwise, eventually the person in Nebraska will decide they have something better to do: https://xkcd.com/2347/
If you look at a map, it's clearly not. Not "mid", which would be from Chicago to Denver, and even more not "west", which would be west of Denver.

But "midwest" is a term for a region, and terms last longer than the reason for the term. When the term was coined, the US essentially ended at Chicago, and Ohio was midwest.

Hmm. I must be in a mellow mood today. I've made the exact same complaint you did when others said Pittsburgh was "midwest".
UFOs are just spy drones with sensor jammers and detectors that are designed to look strange and unnerving to pilots so they will scope them out. Pilots are trained NOT to go by them or engage with them for fear of secrets leaking.
I thought you had to be wrong, but you’re right. Real Myst was around 2000. I would have placed it far later (the updated version was 2014).

I remember when it (or a demo) was first released.

Wow.
I wonder if the north american military is concerned about enemy aircraft seeding the countryside with weaponized drones.
Maybe I should. Got some paternity leave coming up, so might have a bit of time to get my thoughts in order...
(Precision Scheduled Railroading)
Reports seem spotty but five tanker cars full of vinyl chloride, aka chloroethylene is no joke. That's a really nasty monomer (feedstock for making PVC pipe). Once polymerized it's a pretty harmless by all accounts, but the monomer is highly unpleasant (MSDS):

Inhalation:
Several minutes of exposure to high, but attainable concentrations (over 1000 ppm) may cause difficulty breathing, central nervous system depression and symptoms such as: ataxia or dizziness, drowsiness or fatigue, loss of consciousness, headache, euphoria and irritability, visual and or hearing disturbances, nausea, memory loss. Prolonged, high concentration exposures may cause unconsciousness or death. Cardiac: Acute intoxication may cause irregular heartbeats.

Chronic Effects:
Chronic exposure to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) may cause damage to the nervous system, respiratory system, musculoskeletal system, and lymphatic system. Occupational overexposure has produced a specific cancer. (angiosarcoma of the liver) and is associated with hepatocellular cancer. Repeated prolonged exposure may damage: skin (scleroderma), bones (acro-osteolysis), blood vessels in the hands (Raynaud's Syndrome). Suspected of causing genetic defects. Suspected of damaging fertility or the unborn child. Reproductive effects and testes damage occurred in rats exposed to vinyl chloride. These endpoints, however, were generally noted at concentrations greater than those necessary to cause liver damage.

Looks like a lot of cost-cutting (not shipping on trains with the most modern safe braking systems?) and regulatory shenanigans (not classified as highly hazardous material?) were involved in this... oh wait, it gets better...

> "Thousands in East Palestine, a town of about 5,000 people, evacuated, and officials warned the controlled burn would create a phosgene and hydrogen chloride plume across the region. Phosgene is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble, and was used as a weapon in the first world war."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/ohio-train-d...
Check out "band in a box", some of the real band drummer samples are fantastic and adapt in a pretty harmonically interesting way according to your chord progression that you've set up.
If I'm reading this correctly, the top stock holding in Euclidean Capital only accounts for 0.1% of Simons' net worth. The fact that the top holdings are biotech doesn't mean much when they're still such a small percentage.
Mostly just a higher priority
Yeah, I don't think that's it. Detecting a balloon doesn't take any exotic technology.

Now a hypersonic missile, or a stealth plane -- that would be a test. But losing one of those would be pretty expensive.
Is there though? Doesn't have to be, not anymore.

North Korea wants to agitate world, just release thousands of balloons with sand.
No, that's not how it works, as it is NORAD.
Although it might not be related to the Chinese balloon, does the US have the technology to capture it intact vs shooting it down? It seems like they are going through a lot of trouble now to recover the pieces after it was shot down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval
The only truthful answer to this is that the media reporting on it this much is unusual.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758429
Then why do they fear monger with alcohol and not Tylenol? That's my question.
edited my comment for clarity thanks!
I don’t think the gaffe proves it on its own, it’s the gaffe comment, the fact that the US policy towards Russia/Ukraine directly benefited from it’s destruction, there was bi-partisan opposition to the pipeline, and our history in such things that make me believe the US probably did it.

As President Obama famously supposedly said: “Never estimate Joe’s ability to fuck something up”