skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, "invent" had the wrong connotations there. I just meant that there are scenarios where crashing wouldn't be acceptable. And in that case, sure, you should prefer to handle the error directly.

But, allowing the process to crash doesn't punt retry logic at all. For instance, in the work scheduler example, the work scheduler would detect that a worker had crashed and would back off appropriately. This allows you to write your worker code in a way that avoids error handling while still managing faults.
"In a 2018 analysis published in JAMA Open Network, researchers found that up to 90 percent of the symptoms that prompted an adult to go to the emergency room overlapped with symptoms of non-urgent conditions, which may be denied coverage in the future. But those same symptoms could also be linked to life-threatening conditions."

From the study:

Findings This cross-sectional study found that 1 insurer’s list of nonemergent diagnoses would classify 15.7% of commercially insured adult ED visits for possible coverage denial. However, these visits shared the same presenting symptoms as 87.9% of ED visits, of which 65.1% received emergency-level services.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Yes, depending on the scenario. MRSA and other bacterial infections are good (and unfortunately too common) examples.
I think this is a joke, but Virginia had Tobacco-based currency in colonial times.

It was just as terrible as one would think. In surplus years, a family could spend their life savings on essentials to get them through the next season, to be left with nothing when prices spiked the next year.
The simplest implementation here would probably be something where the server pulls a copy of images and then bundles them into an inline blob in the IMAP email storage.

They're "reading your emails" for functionality like spam filtering anyway. This seems like it would work on basically the same level as that kind of stuff.
> It was a Eureka moment, and entirely based on such a simple statement that was never brought up in lectures

Young me picked up the basics of cryptography at seven or eight, a couple of years before classes in the first foreign language began at age nine or ten. In Finland, for the Swedish-speaking minority, the first foreign language to learn is Finnish — often mentioned as one of the world's most difficult languages to learn. Neither the textbook nor the teacher mentioned how languages work, and specifically not how they are in no way related to cryptography. Young genius me concluded that surely the teacher will soon tell us how this crypto works, so we could move on. While waiting for that to happen, I skipped more or less everything. It took a couple of months to realize the actual situation, by that time the damage had been done. Picked up Finnish seven years later, the natural way through a colleague at a summer job.

That little omission had a detrimental effect on my average grades throughout the school years though, and therefore I certainly do not judge anyone's abilities based on their paper qualifications.
The answer is a Phase IV clinical trial, which a number of vaccines have undergone post-approval and I suspect the COVID-19 vaccines will as well.
The program generates the HTML for its own website (in DRAM) and serves that HTML over HTTPS. When you access that webpage, you are communicating with an NN-512 process that is running on a $5/month Linode cloud instance
Old discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23652804 ([flagged] 110 points | 11 months ago | 71 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24234665 ([flagged] [dead] 8 points | 9 months ago | 3 comments)

Look at the comments in the old threads. It's almost sure a false positive.
already happening in tesla cars
> I recall something I read about people who work in high places like antenna towers would often rather do away with the harness if safety regulations allowed as they find it tedious to be unhooking and rehooking every few steps up the ladder.

As a rock climber I find this comment absurd if true. Unless the number is extremely small.

I also find rigging a multi-pitch anchor and keeping ropes untangled tedious. But guess what: that keeps me alive! Sure there are some who climb without ropes, but that's an extremely small number of people.
Something tells me that a person who reacts to Vim with
a “yuck!” won't like Acme either. Also, I don't know how
true this is, but I've read that Acme loses some of its
advantages when it's run in e.g. X11 as opposed to its
native rio[1] with plumber[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)

[2]: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man4/plumber.html
> As a healthy 30 year old I would prefer to take my risk with covid than take these vaccines.

Unfortunate that you're also unilaterally forcing everyone you come into contact with to take that same risk if you are infected without realizing it.
The S Combinator Challenge
Right, Adderall is near-racemic amphetamine, not methamphetamine. Amphetamine and methamphetamine are very similar in their effects, as discussed here, and both can easily be used at neurotoxic levels. Among their effects in therapeutic doses are weight loss and, yes, being good at memorizing things, like if you're studying for the GRE.

I'm not a big fan of any of the drug family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY I would guess
Working with data from monitoring vaccine side effects were two of my early projects in graduate school. They are intensely monitored - vaccine data is some of the best quality data in the infectious disease world.
True, it might be cheaper if they go with the razor/blade model.
That... doesn't make sense. You WILL get exposed to this virus. Worst case, the virus will be able to do the same and more without any prior training for your immune system. If you said "I'll try not to get covid" I'd say "Impossible but godspeed" at least your logic would be sound.
I suspect communication happens better at the office. Not necessarily formal communication - you can do that with a video call or an email - but the other stuff. That snippet of conversation you heard over a cubicle wall or in the break room, that told you about an infrastructure change that your code needed to handle? You're not going to hear that at home. That co-worker who saw you in the bathroom and asked how it was going, and you whined about the bug you were trying to find, and they gave you a suggestion that saved you two days? That's not going to happen at home.
This was literally the pinnacle of dumb cars. Everything could be manual or automatic, but you still got OBDII, warning lights, and of course ABS and air bags. Adding a new DIN head unit, you could have HD radio and Bluetooth completely disconnected from the ECU. I think the automotive industry forgot how to engineer. All the features, all we ever needed in a car, was right there in the late 90s.
Anaphylaxis often first shows as a rash. Toxic shock syndrome and MRSA too. Probably others.
Argo: Collects ocean information with a fleet of robotic instruments
And that's putting it politely.
What's particularly lacking in the MS interior? Very comfortable, leather all round, heated and adjustable seats. Best infotainment/nav system hands down, glass panoramic roof, and a very clean look.
Holyshit, thanks for the heads up. If I rent a new car, first thing I’m doing is disabling all this crap.

As long as pre-2010 cars are available, I’m gonna continue driving them.
> Verifying their e-mail address would be useless as attacker would already know the e-mail.

How?

Everything you said is true for the implementation that was listed, but my point was short URLs for password reset aren't always bad, if other mitigations are in place, which should be in place anyway (rate limiting requests for password reset URLs and requiring verification of the email address).
I was born in the USA, but every day I question if I will be able to afford to retire in this country, or if I need to plan to emmegrate elsewhere while I still can.

My primary concern is healthcare costs.
How am I supposed to budget for healthcare costs during retirement when it's already so complicated.

530,000 American households are bankrupt each year due to medical costs [1]. It seems like the most complex piece of the retirement planning puzzle.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...
in fairness, a delta is far more discoverable to a casual reader than, say the APL Grade Up symbol. :)
I sometimes use https://www.justwatch.com/ which covers some other streaming services, too plus pay-per-watch (I don't have Amazon Prime but a 1,99 movie is alright) and allow to set your Netflix country as coverage is different across regions. The killer feature for me would be to mark/hide everything I've already seen. Could even be a browser extension. Netflix keeps showing me pages of movies I've seen already.
The speed and effectiveness are astounding. I was braced this fall for "It's probably worthwhile for high risk individuals" effectiveness metrics in the 50%'s.
> If you're a manager, how do you tell if your team is spending 50% of the time slacking vs. working on a problem that is twice as difficult as everyone thought?

I... talk to them? Ask them questions? Probe to see if they're running into issues? Offer help, support, possible solutions, or just be their rubber duck?

If I sense there might be issues, I probe into the team, solicit anonymous feedback, and otherwise discretely ask for other people's perspectives.

Is it a perfect science? No. Can you get fleeced by staff for a while? Absolutely. But the low performers eventually reveal themselves if you're paying any attention. And the reality is the vast majority of people genuinely want to do a good job. So my preference is to trust my staff to be honest and hard working, recognizing the rare possibility that I could end up the victim of a sociopath who deliberately tries to abuse that trust.
I agree on the performance characteristics. But if your using `get` then it doesn't matter that keyword lists have non-unique keys. You just get the first one.
> Do employees hold firm on these demands or just return to the office grumbling?

My career long experience has been that with any major hits to quality of life at a company: not every employee follows through, only the good ones.

While the switch to WFH might be a new issue, there have been continually waves of quality of life changes at companies durning different stages of growth. An obvious one is direct cuts to benefits, but others include rapid decrease in perks offered, change in vacation policy, change of office location etc.

In my experience good employees are quick to change whenever the signal from employers changes from "we respect you are want to reward you" to "we obviously don't care, or can't afford to care".

This happens all the time in startups that lose their trajectory. Snacks disappear, flexible work hours become more rigid, bonuses shrink etc.

So long as there are competitors out there who still offer these perks, good employees will leave often within a few months of the change. This causes a cascading effect where there are less good people on the team, so more and more people leave. Even if you don't care about perks, you care about good team mates.

I have seen multiple companies where after a major shock like this nearly all of the best and brightest are gone within a 6 month window.

What's funny about WFH is that the people that like it, like it so much they'll take a lower total comp to WFH. In the case of all the other perks I mentioned, a company has to pay more to keep them (and top talent). Sometimes it's just not possible to do this. With the return to office you're effectively spending money in drive out your top talent.

I'm sure plenty of companies will still do it, but I also suspect many companies that are looking for an edge will get an easy win by remaining remote friendly.
I didn't even know gold bonds were a thing. I guess they're the ultimate inflation proof bond...
Incidentally, that's about the amount my wife paid for a covered visit to an ER with a legitimate reason in the US. Doesn't matter if she had gone in with toe pain or a GSW, it still would have been the $100 copay plus whatever coinsurance the visit would have cost.
Several macOS Monterey Features Unavailable on Intel-Based Macs
Show HN: OctaSine, a FM-based VST2 synthesizer written in Rust
> I bought a new Nissan Kicks last year (the lowest-end crossover SUV) and it seems pretty dumb.

Not sure about 2020, but 2021 has Automatic breaking, pedestrian detection, and collision detection standard. There are likely a few hundred thousand to millions lines of code in these various systems. Even "dumb" cars today have tons of software, it's just hidden since it doesn't require user input. Literally every aspect of your driving is fully computerized - braking, acceleration, engine spark plug ignition, transmission, steering, etc. The infotainment is often relatively simple compared to all of the other software running internally.
Apple will apparently always retrieve the images independently of the user’s actions, so the metrics become worthless.
There’s plenty of evidence here: https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/xinjiang

It’s up to you whether you think it casts reasonable doubt on the claims of US corporate-owned media.
Data indicates actual effectiveness as about 91.5%.

However, that's across the population. Factors like extended contact period increase viral load intake, could further decrease the effectiveness. Since my 4 month old can't get vaccinated against COVID yet, we decided it wasn't worth taking the risk.
Future headline: "Cars now as reliable as computers. Bicycle sales boom"
OctaSine is a frequency modulation based VST2 synthesizer plugin that I’ve been developing over the last couple of years. It has now reached a somewhat stable state, so I wanted to share it here. The typical way of using it would be to load it in your DAW of choice (Ableton Live, REAPER et cetera).

Features:

* Works on macOS, Windows and Linux
* GUI with Iced
* Four operators with independent parameters such as volume, panning, modulation index, feedback, three different frequency modifiers (ratio, free and fine) and ADSR volume envelope parameters. The operators can be independently switched to white noise mode
* Flexible routing allowing setting the output operator (with some limitations) as well as the percentage of signal that is simply added to the final output, enabling additive synthesis. By default, operator 4 is routed to operator 3, operator 3 to operator 2 and operator 2 to operator 1.
* Modulation panning (!), not present in FM8
* Master volume and master frequency parameters
* Four LFOs capable of targeting most operator parameters as well as most parameters of lower index LFOs.
* 128 voices
* Fully automatable
* Preset handling
* SIMD-accelerated audio synthesis with runtime feature detection

Thoughts on development:

When I came across vst-rs, I realised that I could try out writing an audio plugin. Since I was already familiar with FM synthesis from Elektron Monomachine and FM8, I decided to go with it. It has worked out pretty well.

I though I’d write about some things that happened along the way.

At some point, I decided that I wanted to accelerate the synthesis with SIMD. I started out with using packed_simd, but switched to simdeez to abstract over vector widths and enable runtime detection. However, I wanted more flexibility and the option of splitting SIMD code into multiple functions. My solution was to skip frameworks and instead use custom traits and the duplicate crate to abstract over Rust simd instrinsics for different instruction sets. I use sleef for fast sines.

I eventually decided that I wanted a GUI. The Rust GUI situation is not very mature and special considerations required for vst plugin windows complicate the situation further. I discovered baseview at some point. With the mentoring of wrl and others, I was able to contribute code to get it working on macOS.

I went with iced for the GUI, using the excellent iced_baseview. Iced has been a pretty good experience so far, but the high resource consumption due to how GPU calls are (not) batched is a pain point. If I started over, I might consider other options such as egui.

Preset and parameter handling with VST is tricky since locking must be avoided. It took a while to get there, but I think my current abstraction is workable.
When Casey Newton (author of the article) first launched his Substack newsletter, he was alarmed that the full posts were not displayed for gmail users - instead there was a "jump" (that many users probably don't see, because it's formatted as "... [Message clipped] View Entire Message"). The issue is that gmail clips emails at 102k, and the substack emails easily hit that limit when posts contain lots of urls due to 1) inline styling on links, and 2) the ballooning hyperlinks due to the tracking strings.

This person found that substack was ballooning a 59 character url to over 400 characters.

https://tedium.co/2020/12/22/gmail-102kb-email-size-limit-hi...
(same author, more detail): https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/133992146683031961...

I was hoping this incident would cause substack and others to pull back on the reins a little bit. The urls on these emails are redonk, and clearly the authors aren't happy about users missing out on content.
I would "take your chances" (quotes because it's both rare and temporary according to the linked article) with the vaccine rather than risk infection with covid: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cog...
This occurs because it's the area you can get hit with totally extraordinary out of network bills your insurer may have to pay. Super lucrative for hospital / physician / transport providers.

Your kid bumps their head.

"There was no blood, but the baby was inconsolable. Jang and her husband worried he might have an injury they couldn’t see, so they called 911, and an ambulance took the family — tourists from South Korea — to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH).

The doctors at the hospital quickly determined that baby Jeong Whan was fine. He took a short nap in his mother’s arms, drank some infant formula and was discharged a few hours later with a clean bill of health.

... the bill finally arrived at their home: They owed the hospital $18,836, the bulk of which was for a mysterious fee for $15,666 labeled trauma activation"

Hahah. For the insurance companies this happens over and over.

Of course, the lobby groups will get everyone riled up over this and HN contributors will be calling UnitedHealth scumbags / capitalist pigs.
Goodluck with this. Movie discovery is indeed a pain and something close to my heart which I want to solve. Atleast for me.

I have been thinking along the lines of finding the k nearest people who like movies like you and suggest ones they watched.
While I have no sympathy for the insurance companies, many hospitals are all too eager to gouge the hell out of emergency services and resist attempts to reduce costs. It's where you get slammed with out-of-network specialists.
The company claims this is cost-cutting: "Unnecessary use of the emergency room costs nearly $32 billion annually, driving up healthcare costs for everyone. We are taking steps to make care more affordable"

But: "UHC’s parent company UnitedHealth Group posted a 35 percent year-over-year jump in operating profits in the first quarter of 2021. Despite earning $6.7 billion in a single quarter, UHC enrollees are being asked to pay more for their coverage."

The greediest, most depraved people in the country are responsible for keeping us healthy.
Hey emrah - thanks for the feedback :)

Good point - I was trying to be playful and fun, but perhaps it doesn't read as I expected. It's still early stages, so I can rebrand if needed. Will have a think and talk to a few users to hear their thoughts too.
I will never be able to understand a person who doesn't think healthcare is a human right.
Is that for an individual not taking the vaccine but benefiting from herd immunity of others, or a person in a while society without vaccines?
All percentages should be reported as "1-in-XXX".

The difference (in "certainty", not "risk") between 90% (1-in-10) and 95% (1-in-20) is the same as the difference between 98% (1-in-50) and 99% (1-in-100).
At least (as far as i know) mummification wasn't intended to require ongoing maintenance. "We can live forever" as long as the freezer stays cold.
Designing Software with Predicate Logic
Many extinct species where known for being quite tasty without any surviving equivalents. Being unusually tasty is in fact why many species are extinct because people put extra effort into hunting them.

Now you personally may not particularly care but most species have a rather distinct flavor which is why flounder, salmon, etc are listed differently on a menu rather than as generic fish.

PS: Among my circle of friends Tablets/iPads are into the whole Tissue/Kleenex brand as synonyms with category.
I remain mystified why our US Healthcare system seems unable to do common sense things. Also, when I last ran my own business, which was a while ago, the monthly premium for ONE employee+family was $2400. A high-end plan, but still...I was well into my late 20's before my entire paycheck was that much.
Having a chronic, irrational sadness is way less likely to incur in damage to third parties, while chronic, irrational violence puts vulnerable people in danger. Emphasis in vulnerable, irrational violence doesn't mean the person, if bad-natured enough, cannot pick easier targets, specially women and children. Their violence might also manifest in manipulation and abuse "as an outlet".

It's less about getting help and more about wanting to get help. The depressive person might want that help because they realize they can hardly function, the violent person might not want that help because they discovered they can use violence as a tool.

And that's why it's considered repugnant.
Yep.

When Gmail first introduced this image proxy feature in 2013 it started showing images in emails by default, which is great. I researched blog posts from then and apparently a workaround that still worked was to serve a fake HTTP Content-Length header of "0" and Gmail's proxies wouldn't cache the image. It's unclear if this bug has been fixed or not, or if similar bugs affect Outlook's proxies, for example.

The rest of this post is speculation -

I wonder if it won't affect Apple's Mail app because Apple isn't loading images directly from a proxy, instead, the original URL is sent to the Mail app over IMAP or Exchange and then Apple will download the image by asking the Apple proxy for the unmodified URL. This means even if an existing Gmail or Outlook image proxy server can be tricked, it shouldn't affect the Apple Mail app.

That's not to say Apple Mail won't have other issues - for example, it shouldn't stop at images. Apple Mail supports CSS and web fonts, so theoretically all network traffic not destined to hit the IMAP server should go through the proxy if complete privacy is desired. I think the wording of the Mail app suggests it's more than just images.

And the way it's implemented, because it's not server-side, it does indicate that an email address checked using Apple Mail downloaded your email, so you know it's pretty likely there's a human at the other end and they use Apple Mail even if they don't know exactly when you opened the email for the first time, they know when your Mail app downloaded it and possibly when you received a push notification about it. Unless it caches content with every request, which it might, you might also know how many different Apple Mail clients downloaded the message and when which might still indicate patterns of use especially if you can create a network of tracking pixels across different email messages. Finally, nothing about the feature actually anonymizes links or prevents specifically tracking pixels, but that's probably a good thing until we invent local Content Blocker extensions for Mail app, for example.