skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding Flapping while using Azure's Autoscale
Which happens for many reasons besides red lights, especially in a country like the UK where traffic circles are more common.
Another nuisance is that unencrypted port 80 must be open to the outside world to do the acme negotiation (LE servers must be able to talk to your acme client running at the subdomain that wants a cert). They also intentionally don't publish a list of IPs that LetsEncrypt might be coming from [1]. So opening firewall ports on machines that are specifically internal hosts has to be a part of any renewal scripts that run every X days. Kinda sucks IMO.

[1]https://letsencrypt.org/docs/faq/#what-ip-addresses-does-let...

UPDATE: Apparently there is a DNS based solution that I wasn't aware of.
Your comments are unusually poorly informed and mean spirited for HN.

Here is a course on neuroscience to get you started. Take a look and get back when you may have some idea of what you're commenting on.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience#syllabus
Drone Racing League Launches Play-to-Earn Crypto Game on Algorand Blockchain
This stirs up some memories of Perl, where flattening arrays/lists is the default, and you need explicit references to have nested arrays or hash tables. I remember it used to be a kind of foot-seeking gun for newbies, but I never ran into trouble with it once I understood references (which isn't super hard).
this guy is very brave. people get into fist fights for asking them to put on a mask in the US and I can't imagine what'd happen if he was standing in front of someone's car on a street out here.
Researchers identify new bacteria and viruses on human skin
Interesting, there's been an [ongoing discussion to use tree-sitter with Emacs](https://archive.casouri.cat/note/2021/emacs-tree-sitter/inde...) because right now, syntax highlighting is a mix of regex and functions.

I don't how language parsing should be exposed to make it easy to have parsing in editors. But I believe some efforts like tree-sitter are most welcome and also more inline with what we expect editors to be.
C combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power and efficiency and ease of assembly language! ;)
The moment I saw the diagram text "Seismic moment connection with Fuses", I knew it was not meant to last 1000 year. The moment you introduce seismic fuses, you need active Repair post a large earthquake. This is like expecting to keep repairing every few years and claim Life.

My first though reading the title was, you need to build it with STONE. So was "Taj Mahal" and many other religious structure lasting LONG years.
> And this article and its commentary are replete with examples that defy the usual straw men associated with arguments for UBI, if that helps. CERB at $2k a month is the prime example and the source of the original article.

CERB does exactly what a UBI shouldn't do: phase out if you made more than a (small) income threshold. This creates an explicit incentive to not work. The "U"-- "universal" -- is important to not create these types of cliff where work is punished.

Right now in the US we have a mess of systems: tax brackets, EITC, SNAP, housing assistance, WIC, etc. I don't think we can quite "nuke them all" and replace them with a UBI, but a UBI with a flatter tax system, no EITC, less unemployment insurance, and a bit less SNAP could ensure everyone can still eat; would tide over people between jobs; would assist people in situations where they're voluntarily changing careers, etc... and most importantly, would remove the perverse disincentives to work that the cliffs on SNAP, WIC, etc, do.
Seems to me like, given the expense and duration goals, you'd be much better off forgoing steel entirely and creating a stone gravity-bound structure, and making the places where you can't go with stone easy to repair or replace, something for which I'm not sure structural steel is ideal.

> Our other option is slate. Slate roofs have extremely long lifespans and are extremely attractive. But, like copper, they’re more expensive upfront, and require more specialized skills to install (since they’re less common). A slate roof is also extremely heavy, putting more weight on our framing and increasing the risk of damage during an earthquake.

OP apparently doesn't know that slate roof have to be repaired all the time. Slates will age and break, especially if they're nailed (because the metal expands and cracks the slate).

I've spent 10 years with a slate roof, and it has to regularly be fully checked, and missing or breaking slates replaced (because they'll leak).

Screw slate, give me terracota tiles any day of the week. Lighter, way more flexible, and easier to replace when they invariably break.
I'm not convinced Apple could make a viable search product to compete with Google. Their Maps app is OK, but not as good as Google's, and I can't imagine anyone other than the privacy conscious installing an Apple Maps app on their Android phone. It's possible Apple knows it has no interest in the search business, but Google doesn't know that, so they might as well squeeze a few extra dollars out of them.
Who should get first dibs on Pfizer’s Covid pill?
I feel like your post is incongruent. Intel engineers wouldn't be willing to endure a 10-14 hour longer commute to save 32 hours of working time?

Moving an hour down the road isn't a big deal. I've done so many times. You don't even need special moving companies and looking at houses isn't a huge deal if you batch them up.
I actually went on a course a couple of years ago to be trained in how to prepare and use traditional lime mortars - the course had us building a wall that was going to be knocked down and the stones re-used for the next class:

https://www.scotlime.org/

NB I did this because our house is an old Scottish farm building that was converted to a house ~12 years ago - I wanted to be able to do proper wall repairs and build garden walls in the same style.
This is the right answer. In other words, you take the next right step towards your vision. After that you take the next step and keep repeating it. Slowly and steady.

Eventually, if you succeed at the previous phase, you’ll have something that you can get help with and by then you’ll know how.

None of the “big” stuff we have today was born big.
Those seem fairly separate industries — I don't know how many power-plant operators would switch to fishing. The process I was thinking of would be more like this:

1. A major hydro / geothermal / solar / etc. project goes online providing n GW/day

2. Usage within the region where that power can viably be transmitted is 0.2n so there isn't pressure to elevate prices. Because the power supply is based on the local geography, there isn't a way to bring production closer to the consumers in distant areas (e.g. a solar farm is going to be more productive in Arizon even if you want to power a factory in Portland).

3. Ordinarily, someone who owns, say, an aluminum smelter might consider building a new one in that region to take advantage of the guaranteed green power rather than facing escalating prices based on competition and emissions controls take effect. However, if someone ships a bunch of cryptocurrency miners in to soak up any available power there won't be slack capacity and that's guaranteed to happen because they can ship containers of mining hardware in days whereas building an industrial facility takes years.
Only true if you're using HTTP validation. Use DNS validation instead and this isn't an issue.
That's not strictly true. Consider our complete set of medical knowledge today. What percentage of that knowledge came from studies with control groups?
"> What of those who argue that using a phone in stationary traffic does no harm? Van Erp has little patience with this – noting the “WhatsApp gap” – the way phone-distracted drivers tend to jerk forwards belatedly when the queue moves, often after a toot from behind. “There is evidence that phone use is as dangerous as drink-driving. I think it’s also very naive to imagine these people only use their phone in [stationary] traffic,” he says."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/05/filming....
> Americans are sure kind and friendly alright--as long as you happen to subscribe 1000% to whatever divisive flavor of propaganda an individual has been brainwashed to believe

You, my friend, are spreading your own flavor of propaganda right here in this post. Take a moment to breathe. There's both good and bad things in america, but it sure isn't the worst place to be born or to live in.
> I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this statement (and comparison to IE). If anything, Safari is "the new IE" rather than Chrome.

Some people who either don't know history or willfully ignores it keeps claiming that Safari is the new IE, at one point one even made a webside out of it.

Don't fall for it.

Chrome is the new IE:

- technologically advanced? Check!

- implement a number of things without asking or waiting for consensus? Check!

- will be abandoned as soon as they have crushed every competitor? Well, it is produced by the worlds most famous company when it comes to killing its own software.
What happened to Visual Basic in April 2020?
Ask HN: How does HN obtain hospital procedure “quotes”?
The background: Booked a procedure in a hospital, only to to find out that the total contractual amount (the hospital 'insured' price) is 250% higher than average amount @zip. The quoted price is 22% even higher than the out of network average.[1]

Therefore, I tried getting competing quotes from nearby facilities. The only billing team that responded actually stated they "don't quote patient-portion costs". [3]

They suggested we check their "standard charges" list, which is a JSON file that cannot be opened by firefox. [2] (Can't seem to open with JSON viewer either)

This wouldn't seem to be a reasonable way to deal with patients seeking valid financial info. Do you have experience on successfully getting price info ? And, is there a regulatory agency to complain to due to lack of disclosure ?

[1] https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/

[2] https://www.nyp.org/patients-visitors/paying-for-care/hospital-price-transparency/standard-charges

[3] Good morning,

The hospital does not process estimates for patients with insurance coverage. However, our web portal contains charges under the Hospital Price Transparency link. I have included the link in the subject line for easy access. As far as out-pocket responsibility, your insurance company is the best source for that information; they will advise if you have any copay for the encounter.

Respectfully,

XXXXXXXXXX
Financial Clearance Center Supervisor
Email: xxxx@nyp.org
______________________________________________
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX @nyp.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Patient responsibility inquiry

Hello!

I was told by the very helpful Ms. XXXX, that you would be able to provide patient responsibility amount , related to facility CPT codes for a XXXXX procedure.

For this purpose, I am attaching front and back of my insurance card (XXXXX). The member DOB is xxxxxx. The specific 2 codes in question are :
CPT XXXXX
CPT XXXXX
Can you please provide the total patient cost for the facility charges for the CPTs above, so I know how much we are expected to pay ourselves (after insurance) for this in-network procedure?

Also, can you let me know if there is some kind of additional surcharge / tax ?

Thank you.
That's not true. You can validate domains using dns-01, without exposing hosts.
I think it's quite obvious what "chip-to-cloud security" [1, official MS Blog] and "remote attestation" [2, Azure blog] is.

To quote Microsoft:

> However, AS3 must also authenticate the device itself. It does that via a protocol called remote attestation:

> [...] 2. The device signs these values with Pluton’s private ECC attestation key and sends them back to AS3.

> 3. AS3 already has the device’s public ECC attestation key and can therefore determine whether the device is authentic, was booted with genuine software, and if the genuine software is trusted. [...]

It is OBVIOUS exactly what this is. This is technology that will progress as follows:

1. Your streaming platform will only work if you are using a Microsoft Pluton hardware-backdoor agent. The blog post literally talks about verifying "genuine" and "trusted" software. That's as close as you can say 'DRM' without explicitly saying 'DRM'.

2. Your banking apps, and eventually websites, will not work unless your device features a Microsoft Pluton hardware-backdoor agent; just like Google's "SafetyNet".

3. Your government is going to introduce QR code check-ins (like those here in Sydney, Australia; which technically carry a prison sentence if you don't comply), and the government QR scanner app will only work on devices with SafetyNet, Microsoft Pluton, etc.

4. Eventually, it will technically be impossible to connect to the internet, or your ISP, unless you are running ring -1 backdoored hardware. Your ISP will 'remotely attest' that your hardware and software is 'trusted'.

5. Think Apple's client-side CSAM scanning is bad? Just wait for governments to require all OS vendors scan local content (photos, soon text) are scanned against a government-controlled secret database of 'illegal' material. To protect the kids, and stop terrorism, or course.

6. Much like DMCA's anti-circumvention clause, attempting to disable Microsoft Pluton, or comparable agents, will become a felony, because you are circumventing a 'control measure'.

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/01/04/ces-2...

[2] : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/anatomy-of-a-secured-...

P.S: 'The Pluton security processor’s firmware will be updateable through Windows Update along with standard industry control'.
Thanks! Yeah, I think of refactorings as being a level of abstraction above text and AST editing - kind of like macros for AST edits.
Ah, yes, the other reason not to use that form: remembering to use + instead of ; for efficiency! No point removing xargs just to add in many more invocations of the target command.
Indeed. Beyond that, it's also entirely possible there's someone -- a pedestrian on the sidewalk ahead, a driver about to exit their driveway... -- that you don't see but who is interested in what you're planning to do. (This happens to me commonly as a pedestrian.)
Sure, but it's increasingly relevant the more we see governments and currencies fail. If the same thing happens in El Salvador, the people will be in a far better position than Venezuelans were. Or if it happens in the West. The USD is at risk of losing global reserve status, and it's inflating, and some (Jack at Square, for instance) are making the case that hyperinflation is coming for us too. With how unstable things are this point, I would at least entertain the possibility.
Very cool, another backpack enthusiast here! I built a backpack review aggregator, dedicated to finding the best backpack accroding to the internet. Sources include Reddit, Youtube or Outdoorgearlab: https://baqpa.com
A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November
So it is like next gen TPM to lock down what OS is blessed to be booted ???.

I guess mainstream Linux distro's will be okay but probably not homebrew stuff you see pop up on HN every now and again.

Apple does the same for the T2 so why the pitchforks ???.
> The house will be torn down if it's in a city

The world is varied, it's not just a copycat of the terrible design affecting US cities.

One example? I live in Venice, Italy. The city is 1,600 years old. Most houses and palazzos are at least 400 years old; a big chunk of them is at least 600-700 years old. No one is going to tear down these places. And no, rising sea levels will not destroy Venice (see the MOSE dam [0], which is working, despite the big corruption scandals).

Besides Venice, which I'd agree it's a rather unique place, many other places in the world consist of small/medium towns, not huge megalopolis where a small house will be tore down to make space for a skyscraper.

Finally: I'd love to build a house that will last 1,000 years. Even if my great-great-great-grandkids will not be around to see it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mose
But it is possible to have initial certificates without opening anything: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2021-06-04-letsencrypt-certific...

From there, it’s possible to use HTTPS negotiation.
The problem is that small changes are barely worth reviewing. Also a series of small changes can obfuscate the larger context of all those changes.

Each small change on its own might make sense and be ok to a reviewer, but if you step back and look at the series of changes together there might be some issues that could have been noticed.
I prefer a touchpad to a mouse...and the laptop's touchpad is convenient to the keyboard so it is even better ergonomically (for me at least).
I cannot tell if this is a troll comment, or in good faith. Where do you get off assuming my accent?
You could also look at houses that are still mostly standing after ~5000 years, complete with some furniture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae
So we're presumed guilty of stealing and cheating unless we can prove to The Company that our computers are obedient consumers. And if our own computer makes a mistake and testifies against us, it's our word against a black box.
It’s not clear why they don’t just use a finer-grained timestamp component (e.g. nanoseconds) and increase that number if two events are within the same clock interval, and keep the random component random.
It might feel dangerous but actual fatalities are very rare. So keep your eyes on the cars!

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestria...
I came here to mention that. SS rebar is, indeed, a thing and would be an interesting combination with long lasting (fly ash) concrete, etc.
Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled by this comment. Either you are going for the comedic value, or you are actually serious in which case I am not sure where to begin to address your comment if by now you have not yet realized the difference between dying vaccinated and dying while COVID positive.

On the off-chance that it is the second, and that you are really serious:

'Death while having COVID' does not equate 'death by COVID', it merely is something that is registered. A death certificate lists conditions around the time of death, and being COVID positive may (or may not, not everybody is tested, after all) result in a mention on the death certificate.

If COVID is a part of the chain that led to the person dying then you are likely to see something mentioned in the area that is related to the cause of death, likely an infection with COVID will be listed there as well as for instance pneumonia, the direct cause of death.

With the vaccines and their side effects, something similar happens: there is the possibility of a link, and when such a link is confirmed then that will cause all kinds of feedback loops to engage, which if the evidence points to the cure being worse than the disease may even lead to the vaccine being taken off the market, or, alternatively, to be restricted in its distribution based on whatever demographics turned up to have an adverse risk profile.

I hope that answers your question, and that you understand now that there is really only one standard here.
I'm surprised by comments about how it didn't work ok for some people. It worked almost flawless for me, maybe because I chose Fedora 35?

Things I did:

- Enabled fractional scaling to use it at 150%

- Changed suspend from s2idle to deep, archwiki mentions that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop

One small thing I loved about the laptop was how I was able to (albeit slowly) charge it with a pixel 3 charger.
I appreciate your even-handed perspective here. I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. Mostly I disagree with your conclusion.

The criticisms you mention about take-home tests apply equally to practicing Leetcode-style questions. It will filter out a ton of people who don’t have time or aren’t willing to spend it. In that sense it’s not better (and it’s probably why I see a lot more take-home coding tests lately).

But really neither of these is ok. They’re both ageist and sexist and lots of other things (older people and women disproportionately carry the burden of caring for others and many won’t have the time or energy to prep for Leetcode problems). Even if I’m willing to jump through those hoops, I don’t want to work at a place with a strongly ageist and sexist filter.

Lots of other careers don’t ask people to prove their skills before they get hired. They accept that some resume fraud will happen and deal with it. Bad hires are really bad and destructive, it’s true. But let’s not adopt solutions that are worse than the problem. Discrimination is not an ok price to pay. I’ve been working in this industry for almost 25 years now, and we did ok before Leetcode-style interviews. We can do it again.
I am finding a lot of value in the posts that get flagged, but only after they get enough votes to appear on hckrnews.com. So reading those has become a routine for me. Most of those quite deserve their fate. But a surprisingly large number have valuable content that I'm not finding elsewhere.

It turns out that the combination of many-votes + flagged and killed is a strong value signal: Things That People Want To Talk About That Other People Don't Want Them To Talk About. I sincerely appreciate that HN does not entirely disappear them.

It's disappointing though that hckrnews.com has started to obscure those headlines, so you have to click through to decide if they are worthy of more attention. That's a backward step.
I don't think that dividends are typically coupled to inflation. The return on an investment (at least via stock ownership) includes dividends + asset appreciation, right? I would expect the combination to be related to inflation but not necessarily dividends alone. Is that the right way to think about it? I'm not a finance guy.
Pardon my english please, I only meant that you != me.
Just to add Creo and Siemens NX to your list of major CAD softwares.

There is a russian one also, but I don't know the status. Or if it is only a kernel like opencascade.
It should probably be loudly default-disabled or outright removed, that's a very, very unexpected feature. It's an unprecedented tool for moving laterally and gaining gigantic amount of access within internal systems. Nobody could possibly build a secure network around a VPN where the controller can bypass all isolation, containerization, and all access controls through a web interface on another machine.
Company uses Windows exclusively and there are no in-house Linux ops/admin skills. We have good ops/admins resources for Windows and we need to leverage that. A native solution (even if running behind Apache/Nginx) is preferable. In addition this would be a critical part of the infrastructure so we would want that piece to be somewhat familiar to the ops/admin resources for debugging (access the box, restart a service, troubleshoot networking issues, etc).

Edit: This is a requirement for self-hosted but if your enterprise solutions offers it as a highly available service that would by-pass this issue. It would need to be HA and spread in such a way that a single cloud provider going down does not affect things.
What do you get with new houses? Well, you get wiring, with outlets conveniently located. You get modern plumbing. You ought to get good insulation.

You may not get good design, you may get shoddy construction, true.
> they get points (in US) for race and gender, outside US on gender

I was thinking about white males being privileged and it sounded ridiculous ( as a white male). Did you mean the opposite for diversity on the workfloor?

> but it is just a bunch of paper in a closet that nobody ever read.

ISO certification mostly means that there are standards in place. Once it's implemented, you shouldn't notice it.

It's pretty important as soon as you want to do business with the governement.
Go to your profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tylermauthe an enable "showdead".