skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've visited Chicago once, and hope it's not too long before I visit again. I actually love many bits of the U.S culturally and physically, I meant to say that I just don't know that I'd prefer to live there for an extended period of time.

Regarding the degree, it was less a matter of whether people care, and more about the actual visa. Perhaps a two-year diploma is more workable; I only have a 1 year technical diploma from a Uni, and although I haven't aggressively pursued getting across, it doesn't seem like I'd meet the requirements with it. Would be curious though, because the job market is truly shit here atm.

Just took a short road-trip down through Washington and Oregon, and really enjoyed my time. You're right in that I didn't think much about the difference until I got down to the Bay Area. I do think there is some sort of imbued mega-capitalist eat eat eat buy buy buy nature to many other places though that just sort of vibes me out sometimes, and maybe some airports are an example of this; almost a volume difference.

I noticed it for the first time when passing through the Minneapolis airport of all places. Felt like there was a hundred neon signs flashing at me to eat some burger or get a pedicure while waiting for my flight. Every table at a particular restaurant had an iPad right when they came out. While we have Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops, there's are basically theme parks. That kind of thing; it's not everywhere, in-fact it's probably a rare feeling I get, but it's a level of excess that's hard to feel comfortable around.
Never said there was. I said there is a constitutional idea that items stored at home have more expectation of privacy than things store with other people. That you have some axe to grind with this or that company shouldn’t cloud the issues.
I'm guessing 300% in 30 years. There's always going to be another crisis that 'demands' short term spending boosts.
Is it? We have over 500 members of congress -- do we want all of them to have access to any secrets they want?
The article question is even a little telling of the sentiment held by modern architects and architecture, "What do modern architects think of architecture", rather than "What do The People think of modern architecture?". They're a bunch of oversocialized, overacademized, overintellectual pseuds in this elite little club, all getting high on each other's supply. They and their enablers should be charged with crimes for their creative abominations and the insults they've flung against Beauty and Truth.
And great experiments like randomly dosing Americans with LSD and torturing war prisoners to death.
> NMS claims CLIA certification. This is the older law where labs self-certify compliance. Congress left CLIA in place alongside FDA IVD regulations to protect small pharmacists, but obviously Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp run fleets through that loophole, and most labwork is CLIA-certified, not FDA-approved.

This is highly misleading. CLIA and the associated federal regulations are the standard to which diagnostic clinical laboratories are held, not an "older" or "loophole" regulation. All laboratories in the US that provide patient results for clinical use are regulated by CLIA. There are FDA-approved test systems and "Lab-developed tests" (LDTs) that are BOTH subject to CLIA obligations, which are unbelievably complex (and in my opinion are a source of regulatory capture in laboratory medicine, but that's not directly relevant). Most high complexity lab tests are LDTs.

FDA-approved tests go through a formal FDA process such that the performing lab only has to "verify" the performance characteristics prior to patient testing. An LDT requires a much more stringent lab-level validation plan prior to patient testing. Both requiring strict ongoing quality control and quality assurance. And while the validation plan for an LDT can be self-designed, there are still strict requirements for what it most contain.

Compliance is NOT "self-certified," instead there are routine, extremely intensive compliance inspections (scheduled and unscheduled), either by a regional CLIA office, or by an organization accredited by CMS to provide such verification of compliance (such as CAP or COLA). These are not cursory inspections but a deep dive into all lab operations and personnel, equipment, maintenance and quality records, and other documentation.

I'm not a huge fan of Quest or Labcorp's presence in the field, and I don't know the specifics of NMS and this PFAS testing (CLIA compliance isn't required for research or non-clinical). If NMS has CLIA certification and they state the methodology and limitations of their LDT it's generally perfectly valid to provide the test, and the burden is generally on the downstream physician or provider to ensure the results are properly interpreted and applied.
I am for fixing loopholes, instead of getting rid of the entirety of H-1B program as some people advocate here.
Source link or bs.
Maybe they mean it’s less random and less uncertain. The criteria are more transparent.

US immigration literally runs lotteries for various streams including H1b.
It doesn’t feel great when your work/future/life depends so heavily on a coin toss. And we’re not yet even talking about being at the mercy of an immigration officer.
U is a fairly new letter anyway.
individuals / companies that cannot afford their own workflows will fine-tune models with heavy preexisting biases. The upper-class of the market will train their own models, producing advantaged outcomes. Data is the moat.
Here is a broad overview of some current Modern Monetary Theory thinking. It's a good read, dispels a lot of fearmongering while also exposing where the real problems lie.

https://fictitiouscapital.substack.com/p/money-myths-and-deb...

https://fictitiouscapital.substack.com/p/5

https://fictitiouscapital.substack.com/p/8-the-global-reserv...
That's hardly an apples to apples comparison. A typical American has around 100 ng/mL selenium in their blood. By your logic, that's a toxic heavy metal that's ten times as bad as PFAS in terms of concentration. It's actually an essential cofactor in many biological processes. I'm not implying PFAS is harmless, but the dose makes the poison and it depends what biological processes are being interfered with.
They're talking about the US Fed, aka the US debt, and now you're talking about Japan.

Anyway lets be real, the reason why sudden think pieces on the debt are coming out is that it's going to be election season soon, and a Democrat is the incumbent.
Oh my god, no. Why is presentational description language being used to _query the very presentational state it’s creating_?

This is not at all like media queries or other meta states driven by some higher level operation. This is absolutely the wrong direction.
Plex has the annoying habit of stalling indefinitely for me. I don't know what it's doing. I believe it's transcoding so that it can "burn" in the subtitles, but I have no clue.

I've mostly given up on it. I use sshfs and mpv when sitting at a desktop, which actually does work flawlessly.
Simulate Your Voice Organs
This sounds like horrible advice for anyone who wants to excel at their work.

From a management perspective, 1 and 2 are no good and will result in 3.

Programmers I know are pretty good and have multiple opportunities. If you suck and just want to hang on, then you could do this.

But if you’re good, then it’s best to avoid a PIP. Or if you get on one, figure out why and correct it. Or, easiest, just take one of the other offers and work somewhere where you’re in better sync with management.

Of course, you’d never want to quit without a new job lined up.
Why is supercompute going to be a scarce asset? NVDA is going to sell 50 training-oriented supercomputers in the next 18 months.
You're tripping if you think everyone is going to give all their output for a year to pay for debt without a revolution.

Almost half of households have less than $1000 in savings. How are they making it through the whole year without income?

How are all the old people who live off social security making it without 5% of GDP set aside to finance their lives?
This works really well places like Saudi Arabia and UAE.
I watched this recent interview with Stanley Druckenmiller (one of the best macro investors with an incredible track record) on more problems we will be facing in a few years. Mainly about how the US is not going to be able to pay for our older generations healthcare unless taxes get hiked to obscene levels. And that these predictions they made years ago are coming to fruition slowly but that their predictions of course could not predict the wild COVID spending that occurred. Future looks interesting to be sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53wThFFuOqU
> In the USA, government spending accounts for 37% of GDP

First, and most importantly, this is a critique of all societal institutions. I do not think that the correct solution is necessarily taxation and redistribution. The investors in Stability AI didn't have to choose to misspend their money on an organization structured as a typical 20th century corporate dictatorship run by a big personality; they could have set up a much more effective structure. But they chose that corporate structure and leadership personality type/background because our society is sick on a fundamental level.

I would like to think financial markets are capable of breaking out of this insanity, but I'm extraordinarily skeptical.

Second, almost none of our alternative to the financial status quo of corporate-big-personality-dictatorship (aka government spending since we have no other alternative) goes to R&D/innovation. The vast bulk of that spending goes to entitlements and defense. The part we do spend on science is barely enough to support basic science and is still embarrassingly small compared to other outlays. For example, we spend twice as much on farm subsidies (not AG total, just subsidies) as we do on the National Science Foundation.

Third, of the part that does go toward R&D/innovation, almost none of it is spent on development and innovation. Almost all of our federal spending buckets on R&D is heavy on R, light on D, and "hackathon"/"pre-seed" levels of interest in innovation. We do not spend enough on R&D/innovation, and what we do spend is misallocated (mostly towards the goal of generating IP for Springer) because it is mostly allocated by folks at elite universities who are all friends with one another.

The public sector in the west is just as broken as the private, albiet the pathology presents differently.

I imagine there are alternatives beyond choosing between two horrendously broken systems.
In the case of the satanic panic, people (including well-credentialed physiologists, sociologists, and criminal investigators) also testified under oath that the abuses had occurred. People also testified and made specific accusations before congress.

And Rubio has said (intentionally or not) very demonstrably false things in the past. I wouldn’t trust him to always be accurate.
But not the cost to service the debt. Sorta misleading headline.
Check out "les étoiles d'ivry" from Jean Renaudie then, you might like it. Habitat 67, but triangles. And a lot more green.

https://hiddenarchitecture.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/n8...
https://hiddenarchitecture.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/E-...
Reminds me of a few rabid "activists" trying to stop any further development of SpaceX Starship because of a few chunks of concrete a single test launch scattered on a beach.

In their minds, all human scientific progress should just stop dead if it makes a mess.
OP was talking about Japan having 220% public debt to GDP - which is what I was responding to.
Yes, how else are they supposed to make informed voting choices? It's literally their job to have access to secrets so they can represent the public at large that can't.
Markets don't have a choice. US dollar dominance is backstopped by US military dominance.
Instant payment networks are an existential crisis for legacy debit and credit rails/networks. Have to go upmarket to value add when you can’t get interchange revenue (in this case, buying an emerging interface to Pix, Brazil’s instant payment system).

> Pismo’s platform will also enable Visa to provide support and connectivity for emerging payment rails, like Pix in Brazil, for financial institution clients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012262
Authenticity, Social Media, SAT Scores
My Plex server hosts rips of my (quite large) DVD/Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray movie and digital/CD music collections.
I think using chemicals like this can be a shortcut. Might be useful, might be dangerous.
it's all people who heard something who heard something

People with direct access to such classified materials would not legally be able to divulge details and especially not publicly. It would be a fairly quick trip to prison.

This doesn't directly prove the claims of Grusch or anybody else, of course. But it is a decently persausive explanation for why it's always "people who heard something who heard something" and not direct sources.

"if Grusch is right about any of this, why did the DoD allow him to say it publicly"

I don't know anything about Kean so I have no opinion on her.

One thing you have to say about Grusch is that he is really putting it all on the line. He is going through the official whistleblower channel and is triggering a major investigation.

If he is telling the truth, the DoD would more or less be admitting guilt by going after him.

(There is also a third possibility. Grusch is being truthful, but he and/or others have been deceived. I think wrapping a secret program under the cover of some UFO nonsense could be pretty effective camouflage, since UFO-related claims usually are instantly deemed noncredible in the eyes of many)

"she has a particularly harebrained theory that DoD
classification rules allow Grusch to describe this
stuff in generalities as long as he doesn't cross a
line of specificity, which, just, no"

I honestly don't know how this works. Surely there is some line of specificity? I mean, you and I can talk about this and it's legal. At what point are you close enough to something classified to make it illegal?
You can start a react project with TypeScript, tailwind with just one command
I was agitated by the amount of time and tab switching I had to do just to start a basic react project with typescript, then configure tailwind, and then finally set up routing. So much so that one night I said "F it!, Ima do something". So I sat up entire night figuring out how things are done. Doing hit & try, I finally ended up with create-react-tt. A single command which sets up a react project for you in less than 5 minutes with just one command.

It is built on top of vite, and comes with typescript, tailwind, and react-router-dom... all configures, up and running with a starter template.

All you need to do it run:
npm i -g create-react-tt (for the first time only)
and then
npx create-react-tt project_name.

That's it. Hit enter and sit back, the next command you will be running is going to be simply npm run dev.
Judge Tosses $100M Lawsuit over Chess Cheating Scandal
None of it is related to the link above.

I love Fly.io - they a building a great product.

The website https://upvpn.app is hosted on Fly.io as identified in the comments below. VPN servers are not hosted on Fly.io
Now apply Occam’s razor to the following two choices:

1. Aliens have visited Earth. They crashed their spaceships or we shot them down. The US Government (and possibly other governments) retrieved and studied their technology and managed to keep it a secret for decades

2. Aliens have not visited Earth
Thanks for the feedback!

We have tests for the base32 encoding which is the most complicated part of the implementation (https://github.com/jetpack-io/typeid-go/blob/main/base32/bas...) but your point stands. We'll add a more rigorous test suite (particularly as the number of implementations across different languages grows, and we want to make sure all the implementations are compatible with each other)

Re: prefix, is the concern that I haven't defined the allowed character set as part of the spec?
> 10x every project timeline and it's fixed, simple as.

I'm skeptical. I've seen too many developers write poorly performing code purely out of indifference. If you gave them more time they'd have a lot more Reddit karma but I'd still be finding N+1 problems in every other code review.
You missed what the US actually does: it grows its economy until the debt is insignificant. The US has never (in modern times) substantially reduced its debt level in dollar terms.
Not a moto rider, but wouldn't that be really hard to drive? It feels like sloshing would cause significant balance issues.
It is kinda hard to find more information about the arm. The below site has some Trieste pictures [0] and how the same model of arm was used at Los Alamos [1] for working with radioactive material.

0. https://cyberneticzoo.com/underwater-robotics/1961-trieste-s...

1. https://cyberneticzoo.com/teleoperators/1960-minotaur-remote...
US debt is such a tough thing to wrap my head around.

About half of the debt is to... the US government. And all of it is in US dollars, that the US government can print.

So the US could get out of debt tomorrow if they wanted, forgiving the loans it made to itself, and then printing enough to pay off the rest. Which presumably wouldn't impact its ability to lend money to itself.

The tough part for me to wrap my head around is why the debt is important at all, given the US is more or less fully in control of it.
The Invisible Effect Medical Notes Could Have on Care
Tech is never the hard part in payments.
If you too think most modern architecture and art is ugly, you might enjoy:

Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters (2009)

https://vimeo.com/549715999

I'm not a fan of Le Corbusier or van der Rohe—too cold and sterile—but I am fond of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Ray Kappe.
Oh you drive a car? How long have you been a pedophile sympathizer for?
MMT is simply a way to get rid of progressive income tax and wealth taxes (property).

Instead, everyone pays equally through inflation, and retirees get screwed as their savings get inflated to dust and they have no income to make it up.

Maybe that's what you want.

But if you think you can just magically fund the government on unicorns because the market is dumb, I have some 1000 year T-bills at -10% yield to sell you.
Such brilliance, such originality. Buried by a copier-focused organization.

Ironic that Xerox published a book called "The Billions Nobody Wanted", about Chester Carlson's long road to inventing xerography.
It's commodity software. It's hard to justify a recurring subscription for something like this. It targets advanced users. If they can set up plex, they can set up alternatives too. And plex does not invest much in improving the core product. I don't remember it as being any better than it was 5-10 years ago. It still has rough edges. Skipping title/end credits is a nice feature though.
> implementing CSS from scratch (just looking at the specs) would take the average developer at least 10,000 hours.

You're way too generous: the average developer couldn't do it.
Hi.

I'm deeply sorry to hear about your tragic situation. School is shit, and being a teenager is fucked up for the people who get bullied as well as the bullies. High school is quite an emotionally unhealthy place (at least in the US).

When I was 6, my father was in a car accident (head-on collision) which resulted in a TBI to his temporal & frontal lobe. He was 46 at the time. He's 70 now and he struggles every day.

My brother was in a car accident with a train when he was 24. He also suffers from a TBI, but his recovery has been incredibly remarkable. He's 33 now & 99/100 times after a conversation with him, you wouldn't have a clue that he suffered from a TBI.

What's the point of me telling you this? Brain-plasticity is very real and based on the small sample size I have personal experience with, it's a function of age.

One big caveat I'll mention: my brother isn't particularly academic and hasn't been in the classroom since his accident, and I'm not sure how he'd fare under the pressure of coursework. But that's not an apples-to-apples comparison anyways.

I feel as though you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself. As a self-motivated individual, I empathize with you. But, there's actually some adverse effects from that pressure & stress: it negatively impacts your decision making (https://news.mit.edu/2017/stress-can-lead-risky-decisions-11...).

What's interesting is that over time, this appears to have an exponential impact on cognitive function:

"While stress can shrink the prefrontal cortex, it can increase the size of the amygdala, which can make the brain more receptive to stress" (https://www.tuw.edu/health/how-stress-affects-the-brain/)

What's my point? Take some time to de-stress: the stress and pressure you're putting on yourself is actually making you more stressed and increasing the pressure.

You're young. You're bright. You have an incredible future which you will determine (in due time). Your brain will adjust. Focus on learning how to learn again & seek ways to improve cognition rather than worrying about work (if you have the privilege to do so, whether via family means or societal/governmental). Don't get lazy, but don't crush yourself because you're not who you were before this bullshit happened to you. Work will always be there. Focus on the pillars of your health (physical, cognitive, emotional).

Would love to connect with you and hear more about your journey if you'd like (I'm a software engineer & happy to share anything I can about my experience working in the industry).
Dude do you not have a credit or debit card?

Seriously asking
https://archive.is/CYDkh
(By the way, I do think immigrants integrating into society is a moral good! I'm very left-wing and it's one of my most conservative beliefs. But the burden of that should be on the hegemonic/native-born population, not on immigrant communities.)
Meanwhile some people have been using C# and Java for decades which perform better than Go on many benchmarks and their software is still slow as shit.
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