skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The Dangerous Trend of Xenon-Accelerated Everest Climbs
By Anthony David Adams, NOLS Wilderness First Responder

A concerning trend is emerging in high-altitude mountaineering: the proposed use of xenon gas to dramatically shorten Mount Everest climbing expeditions from the traditional 6-8 weeks to just 7 days. As a wilderness first responder, I must emphasize the severe risks this approach poses to climbers.

Understanding Traditional Acclimatization
The standard two-month Everest expedition timeline isn't arbitrary - it's a carefully calculated protocol that allows climbers' bodies to make crucial physiological adaptations. During proper acclimatization, the body gradually develops more red blood cells, strengthens respiratory muscles, and creates new blood vessels to cope with extreme altitudes. These changes can't be safely accelerated.

The Xenon Shortcut: A Recipe for Disaster
Xenon gas, banned in sports since 2014, artificially stimulates erythropoietin (EPO) production, increasing red blood cell counts. While this might seem like a clever shortcut to altitude adaptation, it creates a perfect storm of potentially fatal complications:

Critical Medical Risks:
1. Severe Altitude Illnesses: Rapid ascent drastically increases the risk of acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), and high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) - all of which can be fatal within hours above 8,000 meters.

2. Blood Clotting Dangers: High altitude naturally increases blood viscosity. Adding xenon-induced EPO production creates an unprecedented risk of lethal blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks in an environment where medical evacuation is often impossible.

3. Unpredictable Responses: Individual reactions to xenon-induced EPO can vary dramatically, making it impossible to predict or control blood thickness at extreme altitudes.

Beyond Biology: The Human Factor
Technical climbing skills, extreme weather awareness, and high-altitude decision-making abilities cannot be compressed into a week-long timeline. The mountain demands respect and patience - there are no shortcuts to developing the judgment needed for survival in the Death Zone.

A Call to Action
As wilderness medical professionals, we have a responsibility to strongly advise against this dangerous trend. Artificial EPO stimulation through xenon use cannot replace the complex physiological adaptations required for safe high-altitude climbing. The promise of a quick summit isn't worth the extreme risks to human life.

The time-tested approach to Everest remains the only responsible path: proper acclimatization, thorough training, and respect for the mountain's demands. No breakthrough in EPO manipulation can safely replace these fundamental requirements for survival at extreme altitude.
Nobody thinks the arithmetic is wrong, we're saying you're engaged in (really transparent and unconvincing) deception.

If the approval rate was 0.1% and 0.2%, does it give someone the correct impression to say "Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to approve of the killing?"

After saying that sentence, would someone draw a diagram that's even remotely close to the actual probabilities and support levels?

No. Of course not. That's called deception.

If you say, "5-11% of Harris votes vs 2-8% of Trump voters approve," would someone be able to draw a diagram of probabilities that's pretty close to reality?

Yes. They would. That's called honesty.

So all you're doing here is adding to the outrage machine in, again, a really transparent, unconvincing, and deceptive manner. I know you probably think this is all clever and whatnot, but it really is wildly unimpressive.
The oligarchs just call them police officers.
Thank you for posting this. For those who didn't click through, its an article headlined "Wyoming bar calls for murder of gay people as “cure for AIDS” and are selling it as merch", and shows a picture of the bar's horrifically bigoted t-shirt.

People who dismiss labels like "LGBTQ-friendly" as "performative moralism" (to use the term Paul Graham used multiple times in his article) have clearly never had their very existence threatened on a frequent basis simply because of who they are.
Another thing that bothers me personally with emergency vechicles at night are the very bright emergency lights (blue in Europe).

Especially in situations where a lot of emergency vehicles are parked with the lights on outside city lights. It's often very disorientating and for me it reduces visibility of the surroundings when passing by. Those traffic situations require additional caution, because there could be people and debris on the road, but might reduce passing drivers abilities to properly see them.

It's probably also a problem for car safety systems.

Maybe the emergency lights and reflective strips got too good, to a point where they start causing harm. Emergency lights could easily adjust automatically to the ambient lighting conditions.

(Mazda/honda definitively need to get better, the data shows it's possible, not arguing with that fact)
It isn’t a quote really, just a somewhat common sentiment. People are really frustrated with some of the voting patterns in the US.
Let me put it another way. If you start a new job and introduce yourself as "Bob" and someone says, "haha no you're Herman. Hi Herman" and they continue to call you "Herman" at work from then on, then they're being an juvenile asshole to you. They're denying you your identity as Bob. Gender identity (including one's chosen name) is the same way.
Related, Ridge Racer Full Size based on an MX-5/Eunos/Miata

https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/11/20/the-last-ridge-racer/
Honda and Mazda use radar as well.
I believe the most commonly supported tax strategy by economists is an income tax that goes negative below some threshold.

Personally, I'm open to VAT tax because it would be much easier to incorporate the disposal cost into goods and remove externalities (like pollution).

As you've said, it would be ideal to have strategies in place to lessen the burden on people with lower incomes.

This bill doesn't have any of those strategies or objectives.
Man, this makes me feel old.
My hot take as to the reason EE is a bit of a dead end in the US is that the options outside of the handful of primary employers are limited. It is very capital intensive to run a semiconductor fab, design chips or assemble electronics at scale. Therefore the employer has all of the leverage. The equipment and/or factory worker infrastructure comes first and the engineering teams are just a cog.

Compare that to having all the degrees of freedom as a computer science student to start up a niche mobile app or internet based niche service after working at FAANG for 5-6 years. Even AI infrastructure will eventually go down in price making niche AI first startups a possibility. In finance its the same, as a post i-banker you have the option to start a boutique fund, a niche fintech or just invest your own savings.
The cookie law does not demand websites display cookie banners. It requires users to explicitly opt-in to their data being collected for advertising purposes.
If your website is not user-hostile and only uses cookies for site functionality (log-in, remembering settings, cache…) then there is no need for the user to ever see or accept any banner/disclaimer.

tl;dr
Ask US data-hoarding startups and corporations
Very interesting article. Is there any model that can generate embeddings given a system prompt? This can be useful not only for similarity searching but also for clustering use cases without having to do too much custom work. Essentially, a zero shot embedding model.
It's been a challenge to me to figure out what's too much. If you let them, they will spend hours watching YouTube shorts, or tiktoks. I've removed YouTube from our TV for that reason. Also the devices are locked down using Google family, plus the screen pin code is only known by the parents. One of the most wholesome digital experiences I've seen is setting up a Minecraft server, and watching the kids have a build battle. You do need to set up grief prevention though, they will try to vandalize each other.
100% this

On rare occasions, using a 3rd party site will net you a better deal, but often, it's the exact same price, or a price within just a few dollars.

But if your reservation has a snag of any kind, you're basically fucked. The hotel will tell you to talk to Booking, Booking will tell you to talk to the hotel, if you can even talk to anybody.

I'd rather spent the extra dollars and book directly and just not have that worry.
Even someone who has never had an amaro might enjoy Cynar (artichoke; powerfully vegetal with a sweet finish, refreshing in a lot of the way a slice of cucumber in water is) or Averna (orange and anise, what's not to like?). If you take a sip of Malort and your brain doesn't immediately scream POISON, something is wrong.
> You can "soft-migrate" to another Mastodon account and server my creating your new account, then pointing your old account to your new account.

Yes, on a cooperating outbound server. If it disappears, your handle is permanently gone, with no way for you to put up a redirect.

Contrast this with DNS-based handles on Bluesky, for example. All I need to do to change hosting providers there is changing a TXT record.

> I'd rather have a reddit [...] style moderation

Sure, that model works well in some situations, but why unnecessarily tangle content moderation with content and handle hosting?
I'm surprised they built something this involved and went with a belt drive wheel. Direct drive options are very affordable these days and the difference is night and day.
Aren’t you forgoing some other wants? Such that it’s not been satisified to the maximum feasible extent.
Allstate accused of paying app makers for driver data
> so that I don't miss content I might have wanted to see.

I think people should start by learning again that missing stuff is ok.

I sometimes spend a week or two without checking my mastodon feed, and there is no way I will try to catch up. I was much more miserable when I was addicted to content.
As far as I can tell, this case went nowhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Department_of_Element...

I'm curious if you know of any court cases that back up your position. I've connected to a lot of servers today and downloaded all the information they sent me.
How does “elections not being controlled by whims of billionaire/s” sound? Or is this too radical for this site too?
Yes, but eliminates Income Tax, I added that the Income tax will be kept, maybe in a reduced manner.
That's likely because alpha and beta emitters are trivially blocked by common car materials, but getting your skin covered in them or inhaling them does much more damage (this is actually what killed a lot of Chernobyl firefighters: they wore their dust covered coats for hours, and died of sepsis from extensive beta burns. Had they been decontaminated quickly, they would've survived).
Typo: "When we with vectors" should be "When we work with vectors" I think.
Well, the other ticket was less unreasonable and there are other political discussions than US presidential elections.
>ongratulations, you're raising future disgruntled outcast class of people who are not integrated with the society.

This society is dying, nearly dead. Anyone who is integrated with it will die by extension. Only lunatics would want to be integrated with it. This society can't even be bothered to make more humans so that it can continue into the future... it wants to be dead.

My children aren't outcast, they have friends. Just not ones that would bully them because they didn't see the latest softcore porn on whatever the most popular social media happens to be today.

>The next step is some canny asshole will take advantage of these people by selling them on their superiority or offering community, and radicalize them.

Uh huh. What if someone taught them that it was normal to possess firearms, or to be skilled at using them? Those crazy radicals. What if they were taught that the most fulfilling thing they could do in their life is to make a family of their own, and raise their children well? What if their teachers were so radical that they taught arithmetic and trig and calculus instead of helping them decide they were trans?

Everyone in this thread knows I'm right, even if they can't afford to agree openly. That's what this thread is... we know the society that our parents and ourselves have created is rotten and pathological, or we wouldn't be talking about how to insulate our children from it.
It may be interactions with ublock origin. On Chrome, I only have adblock plus. However, disabling UBO on Firefox does not fix the problems. The most obvious one right now: blank page after login.
Yeah I don't judge other parents, this stuff is hard.

We do use downloaded stuff on netflix on flights or rarely long drives if we need to keep them awake. But we use colouring, activity books etc on planes before resorting to Netflix.

To be honest, sometimes I feel that if they are on a device too much they just get frustrated and wound up anyway, so you end up shooting yourself in the foot a bit.

Having said that we do let them watch TV at home. If you're parenting alone, sometimes it's the only option to get stuff done.
It’s not necessarily about the parent being excluded. It’s about the kid, the kids friends, and the kids friends parents all knowing that a) bad behavior will get back to the parent and b) screenshots are forever.

It’s an entire community.
> TCL

I actually know the answer to that one!

> The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

> Another lesson from Emacs is that the way to make sure an extension facility is really flexible is to use it to write a large portion of the ordinary released system. If you try to do that with Tcl, you will encounter its limitations.

> Tcl was not designed to be a serious programming language. It was designed to be a "scripting language", on the assumption that a "scripting language" need not try to be a real programming language. So Tcl doesn't have the capabilities of one. It lacks arrays; it lacks structures from which you can make linked lists. It fakes having numbers, which works, but has to be slow.

From Why you should not use Tcl by Richard Stallman [1].

[1] https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/0000.html
Leatherbee (iirc) made one; they had it at Publican for awhile. Here's the problem: Malort is a Bask, which is its own whole kind of digestif. If you make a Malort-like Bask on purpose, as opposed to finding it in a puddle in the basement and bottling it like Jeppson's did, what you come up with will probably be fine. I remember not hating the Leatherbee stuff (but it was incredibly high ABV and we all got pretty messed up on it).
You mean "hotel booking sites offer discounts to non-bay area customers", surely?
Usually considered the way that first humans got to the landmass, way back when.
What words would they be?

FWIW, I try to use "male/males" to refer to sex, and "man/men" to refer to gender, since AFAICT, there are no terms that clearly refer to gender.
This response doesn't make a lot of sense.

What's the justification for taking all of the environment variables? This post tries to paper over that particular problem. If your goal was to see if you could attack the dependency chain the first steps of user+hostname would have been sufficient to prove your case.

Taking the environment variables is about taking the secrets, and kind of moves this from PoC to opposition supply chain attack. Not to mention it's not only Cursor devs that would be affected by this, it could have (if your plan worked) attacked anyone using the extensions.

It's also a tough buy given the note about the Snyk cofounder moving to compete directly with Cursor (courtesy @tankster):
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/tessl-raises-125m-at-at-50...

Assuming truly innocent motivations, you guys still need to give your heads a shake and rethink your approaches here.
In civilization yes. But these were not the conditions under which human evolution happened. It's about having the judgement and balls to take a risk like bluffing in poker. Also it's not the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog.
So basically fits the theme of "we gave up silicon production to cheaper countries and we're shocked those countries have surpassed us"
The idea is to make things like petitions or demonstrations easier on a global scale and to also make voting data accessible for independent analysis, where further manipulation attempts can be identified and excluded.
My guess is that it's much cheaper to create 10000 fake accounts on facebook etc than to send 10000 requests from unique residential IPv4 addresses in a target country, which are also evenly distributed across Internet Service Providers and IP blocks to evade detection.
I generally agree.

Nix is an excellent build tool. I use it for all of my projects now. And when building is tricky, e.g. Elixir, I rely on Nix devshells to get my tools setup.

NixOS is an amazing server distro. My primary home server VM is running NixOS and it has been rock solid and easy to maintain. I plan to run NixOS exclusively as I add more machines.

But I haven’t had a good experience with NixOS on my development VM (as compared to Ubuntu or Debian). You end up spending more work than expected up front just to get something working. One recent frustrating experience was trying to get VS Code Server to run on NixOS so that I could connect to it over SSH. Ultimately I just gave up.
Note that you don't have to use the UI of your chosen instance. You can use whatever client you like, be it a web, desktop gui, mobile gui, tui or cli.
Yes, using conjunctions to compose small sentences into larger ones is a form of recursive nesting. For example:

"[He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream] and [he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish]."

"[It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty] and [he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast]."
To be fair, Republicans have consistently opposed the income tax since the 1800s.
There's one important factor this experiment is not controlling for: inventory. If user A gets deep enough into the purchase flow, the hotel will place a hold on their room for 10 or so minutes, and that room will not be available when user B does a search. If pricing is dynamic, and for these hotels it obviously is, user B may well be shown a higher price regardless of geography.

This applies even if the experimenter is not going any further than checking top level prices, because other people are booking actual hotels and thus impacting prices all the time.
'Will Pay Any Amount': Private Firefighters Are in Demand in L.A
To you, maybe. But I find the idea that enormous chunks of the mass-energy in the universe is totally noninteracting unconvincing.
Half of the works are from Taiwan
All machines were imported to build the factory.
USA can't do anythings without immigrants.
China was able to develop its own chip factory without immigrants and without buying machines (because USA blocked the 'free market')

USA lost.
https://archive.ph/qB12I
I don't think this has anything to do with Google's OAuth. This issue is literally with every single expired domain name out there. All one has to do is register the expired domain and look at all the emails sent to that domain.

Granted, Google "could" do something, but I don't think it's Google's responsibility to police expired domain names. What am I missing here?
My Toyota is like your Subaru: it gently slows behind traffic, nearly stops for stop signs, and guides me in lane marker.

It’s kinda of terrible because it teaches me bad habits to depend on the car and then when I drive conventional, I’m more vulnerable as I’ve been trained to let the car take over.
But not for the hardware that powers the white collar. China is taking those.
My family did this too. It did make me a condescending asshole, but worse than that, it taught me to be paralyzingly afraid of doing The Wrong Thing.

Did it protect me from driving drunk when I was in college? Yeah, but it also "protected" me from having a healthy social life because I couldn't engage with any sort of normal behavior. Did it protect me from getting on drugs? Yeah, but it also "protected" me from getting on desperately needed psychiatric medication because that was for Other People, Who Are Too Weak To Handle Their Problems Properly. Did it protect my parents from sleeping around? Yeah, but it also locked them into a miserable marriage for half their lives, leaving both them and their children with heaping scoops of extra trauma.

Maybe that trade-off is worth it, but if you're going down this route, make sure your kids know how to experiment and screw up sometimes, too.

I'm inclined to say that a better solution is to recognize that none of us exist in a vacuum. When our societies are full of toxicity and manipulation and brainrot, we can't escape those things without cutting off a part of ourselves. Sometimes we have to do that, but ultimately what we need is a healthy culture to live in - and if we don't have one, we should be working to make one.
That sounds like a problem for the embedding, would you need to renormalise so that low signal inputs could be well represented. A white square and a red square shouldn't be different levels of details. Depending on the purpose of the vector embedding, there should be a difference between images of mostly white pixels and partial images.

Disclaimer, I don't know shit.
I tried to remember when the last time was I used “Off”. I use my AirPods for about 4 hours a day, and I’ve never really had battery life issues.

This post will make me try it again though.
It’s easy. Don’t let them have it.
The "calories in" part is usually understood to mean "metabolically available calories from food (& drink) in a human or other animal's diet". Calories from heat, electricity, gasoline, etc., wouldn't count.

There can be some edge cases around water retention, foods an individual happens to metabolize more/less effectively than average, & practical considerations like negative-satiety foods (things like candy or beer that contain calories but end up making you more hungry after a short while). Metabolic & activity level changes are another confounding variable one might need to track. But overall the CICO model gives accurate predictions for weight change in most cases as far as I know. I pay attention to my diet & weight & it's been perfectly reliable for me (although maybe that makes me biased to think it's a better model than it really is -- sorry if that's the case)

Anyway, you'll need to provide some evidence other than a straw-man/non-sequitur about drinking gasoline if you want to convince me CICO is a "myth"
Promotions are always going to be subjective because they're a judgement call about how well the person will perform in a more senior role. Firing someone is different; the bar for that is that they are squarely underperforming relative to what is reasonably expectable.

The idea that some fixed percentage of people always underperform is possibly Jack Welch's most toxic contribution to management, and with all the BS he spewed over the years, that's saying something. It makes people compete against each other Hunger Games-style as opposed to working as a team.
The first link ignores payroll taxes because it doesn't paint the same picture. The second link seems to show the US tax rates are significantly lower for the upper echelon compared to other first world countries.