skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting, nonprofit drug company that is trying to resolve pharmaceutical shortages and price problems, and where the founding hospital system is also a nonprofit with a very good, long-term reputation (and good personal experience--their intake agreement to get a blood sample drawn totaled 2 reasonable pages, where the next-nearest hospital came out at 11) and have generally done friendly good work for a long time as far as I can tell.

Wikipedia said (lightly shortened): "Civica Rx is a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer .... started by national philanthropies and leading US health systems. By [EO] 2019, over 45 health systems representing 1200 hospitals were members of Civica. Member ... pharmacists and clinicians help prioritize the medications Civica makes.... By the end of 2019 Civica had 18 medications (28 SKUs) in production, and plans to bring over 100 medications to market in five years through various manufacturing approaches such as partnerships, developing ANDAs, and building its own manufacturing capability. ... The first shipment of Civica private-label medication was vancomycin, delivered to Riverton Hospital, a part of Civica founder health system Intermountain Healthcare, in October 2019." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civica_Rx )

Other related links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932233 ("The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company" about which I don't know more.)

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/dr... (edit: thanks to pottertheotter in that HN link/discussion about Mark Cuban, just above)

https://civicarx.org/
They had massive problems with their main database cluster (MySQL). If you read through their engineering blog, most of the outages were related to their growth and the main database cluster. They moved workloads for some features to different clusters, but that's only to buy more time. Eventually they'll do proper shredding (by user or org I guess, not by feature) but that takes time.

Their engineering blog is full of articles about MySQL and the main "mysql1" database cluster, e.g. https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relation...
Having been the "is there a doctor on board" doctor before: you make the call based on what's in front of you and the turmoil that would result from a precipitous landing. The case I had to be involved with was a relatively uncomplicated chest pain. I couldn't rule out angina, but the patient was stable and they had aspirin and it started halfway into a 4-hour flight. The patient remained stable all the way through and I released the individual to EMS on the other end. I don't see what an early landing would have bought in my case, and I'm not sure what it would have bought here.
Is there a reason to validate an email address? Even if it is valid, you can't use it for anything until you check that the right person owns it and is able to read mail you send there.

I personally accept any string that is between 3 bytes and 1 kilobyte, if they click the link in it then it's good.
Just dig a well.
Or grab some ocean water and filter it.
Then build a big pipe.
Problem could be solved worldwide in less than 10 years.
But then what?
Important to the cooking process, not important to the final dish if the texture is off-putting. If you make it at home, just remove before incorporating.
Airbnb comes to mind, they added left and right arrows to their tabs.
https://imgur.com/a/MXDabnS
A problem with his debunking at a fundamental level - when calculating how often the air temperature is lower than the ground temperature, he uses Canada and Wisconsin. I'm not sure those are representative of Africa?
Thanks. Indeed my package of "Parkview Uncured Turkey Franks" has the following notation:

"No nitrates or nitrites added, except for those occurring naturally in cultured celery powder and sea salt."
It's due to the C/C++ extension: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/9041
There is a plugin called Zotfile that makes this easier.

But in some ways Zotero 6 makes filesystem workflows more complicated, in that PDF annotations don't get stored as actual annotations in the PDFs.
There has been a better option for a long time, called on-staff Medical Interpreters. In fact, my spouse worked as one for approximately seven years. Unfortunately due to hospitals consolidating into medical networks and cutting costs wherever they could, this went from on-staff interpreters, to contract interpreters, to on-call phone interpreters (works incredibly poorly), to google translate.

Blame the beurocrats running your hospital. The systems were in place, just have been absolutely gutted.
What's fascinating to me as a web dev is that (unless I'm mistaken), if I store all my images as JPEG-XL, I won't need to create thumbnails or resized images anymore... I think I can literally just hold onto the originals and just truncate the image binary stream at whatever resolution is required.

I'm not sure how this would interact with "right-click to save image" though... what resolution would it be at that point?
Compilers: The Old New Security Frontier [pdf]
Can’t wait to see what you build! We’d love to get your feedback, comments, concerns, ideas, etc. Thank you soooo much.
Amazon MGM streaming now available! chucks amazon prime video into the dumpster
You can even use it as a general knowledge repository since you can save anything on zotero pretty much, not just journal articles.
I'm sure it will be great given the history of Netflix and Amazon.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmYqh8z4hoFhJPko6TvjBEWQqGZ...
> n'th degree of performance and memory control, don't pick Python, for instance.

Or be comfortable rolling the critical parts in another language like cython, which I've done and got a 10000x performance speedup because the hot part of the code fit in the CPU cache and the rest was plain old python. There are times to start with something like Go when you're absolutely sure you'll need it, but I rarely regret starting in Python. It's usually easy enough to shift a single endpoint to another language or to use extensions to call into something faster.
Interesting - ADMX templates really is trying to address the business users use case.

We are < 100 so they have relevant pricing.

I'll download and see how it handles some of our documents if they have a trial. And they do seem to have a consultancy.
No, this mechanism is simply not working.

Western politicians and public media have been bashing and portraying Russia as "a haven for hackers" for some time now, but it's not like the US is any better from Russian perspective.

Russian law enforcement has huge stacks of unsolved cybercrime cases, that are essentially blocked by lack of cooperation from a foreign counterpart.
If your devices are mostly Apple ones, and it’s just you, Apple’s iCloud keychain is actually very good. Syncing is excellent, and you can have things like encrypted notes as well.

I was a longtime user of 1Password myself until they got greedy, at which point I shifted to the native Mac/iOS keychain. I haven’t migrated all my passwords over, and I haven’t really seen the need to, since a lot of what’s in my 1Password vault is old stuff that’s not useful anymore. I look up passwords as I need them, save them to the iCloud keychain on whatever device I’m on, and that’s it.

The one issue with the Apple keychain is that it’s not available in Chrome—Google doesn’t let you use it because they want you to use theirs instead. It’s not a big deal for me—I just look up passwords in the Keychain app, which I had to do on 1P anyway.
>ocean water

Requires desalination, which is more complicated than simply filtering.
Electric lights are a way of doing exactly that.

I know, you meant creating sun outside. But blackouts also only create darkness indoors.
On the other hand, in some cases, such as vanilla, the secondary molecules in the natural ingredient are seen as desirable.
You don't have to use their system, you can just use your standard pdf viewer too.
I read that as a generic "you", similar to "one".
I've had a Macbook SSD fail (suddenly and completely) within the warranty period. Surprisingly I've only had one hard drive fail before I retired it, maybe when it was about 6 years old.

But those are just the catastrophic failures, I'm pretty sure I've also had hardware-related data corruption here and there as well.
Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1B (2007)
Current anti-trust laws are a poor fit. Congress really needs a trust-busting 2.0 movement or they're always going to be able to weasle their way through the court system until they get lucky with some judge or outspend the opposition on lawyers.
It is interesting to think that there are smaller than 8-bit processors around, but I think the author might have forgotten that they started the section with "most processors are..."
Looking back at this, yeah, I agree with the criticism that the last line is overly harsh. I try to be lenient to people with unconscious bias, and this doesn't help with that.
Sharing is caring. If you have done the research and you, have taken time to create this collection you are saving time for someone that will come across it.

Do you use any tools for web site analytics? Do you have visitors?
You are avoiding the question of whether it is appropriate to present the results of a linear regression on data that is so poorly explained by a linear relationship.

Random looking balls of data points don't have slopes. It is invalid to perform a linear fit on data that does not derive in large part from a linear generative process. And presenting a fit from a model that is facially absurd to apply is bad data science. Whether or not an informed reader would discount the absurd model fit is not material to whether it is appropriate to present such a fit.

They could have binned the data and plotted percentile bands. They could have used a non-parametric density estimator. There are lots of things they could have done to summarize the data and make some sense of the ball of points. But linear regression with slope error bars is not an appropriate choice. That it is easy to compute linear fits, and that it helped them make their point is not justification.
Several big services have had outages longer than 4 hours in a row during the last year. A big hosting data center burned down completely.

Such outages just happen. Of course Yahoo offering their service for "free" (i.e. some moderate price paid in customer data and advertising annoyances) won't necessarily make any efforts to tolerate them.
I don't think this argument holds, because Section 7 refers to "this License", which the AGPL text defines specifically as:

> "This License" refers to version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License.

Thus I don't think that references to "this License" within the portion of their custom license that is the verbatim AGPL text would automatically expand to also encompass the tacked-on Commons Clause text.
What's the use case, loading plugins?
There used to be a service that would send out startup swag (I think it was actually called startupswag). Wish something like that still existed.
How to prevent NPM install for unsupported Node.js versions
Consider supporting Zotero through a subscription for their online storage.
Yes, but at the cost of needing to run a browser. In this modern era of everyone fetishizing single-instance applications, a browser crash caused by one tab would mean I lose not only all my open websites but also all these "apps".

I have to `pkill -9` firefox once every few days because of bugs; a few months ago it used to break the clipboard until it was restarted, these days it freezes when dragging tabs around in the tab bar, tomorrow I'm sure it'll be some new bug... I'm glad I don't lose my editor / IDE / chat clients / monitoring dashboards when this happens.
True, but it's honestly pretty fiddly. If you want to do exactly-this, adding an emoji is a pain because you have to jump through a few hoops to resize it -- pinch-dragging doesn't work.
one or two Billies in volume

Possibly the most universal of all units of measurements. For the uninitiated: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/billy-bookcase-white-00263850/
If you're interested in PBR in addition to this book I've found the filament write up on their method extremely useful too https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html
I keep about $500 in small bills hidden I’m my car. I have been on road trips where I have had car trouble, and the small town mechanic nearby only takes cash or local checks. When it happened, I had to get a ride to an ATM with an huge fee.

I also live in the PNW, which is way overdue for a >9.0 earthquake. I keep some cash in a safe at home because it could be a week (or more) before phone systems are up and working again for things like gas stations, etc.
If they’re giving it away for free, that must mean there is a fatal flaw they could never design around and are confident nobody else will either. What’s the point then?

At least tell us why it’s a dead end.
IIRC people get started for free with canary tokens: https://canarytokens.org
Those statistical differences are used to more quickly reduce the search space of symptoms when the cause is unknown. So yeah, they are still important, even for individuals.
The only thing holding me back from using Zotero is that, afaik, you need to use a Zotero account to reliably sync metadata between devices (the Zotero Data Server isn't supported). I wish it was easier to self-host; there's no reason for me to interact with their servers.

It's always a disappointment to find otherwise great open source projects that have key components that deny privacy.
> Could? Yes. It'd probably be the most expensive way to get rid of CO2, though.

So? I in this context that is a plus not a minus!
Record patterns are coming to Java
Release a highly communicable airborne disease with a low fatality rate, but which noticeable reduces the IQ of a large portion of the infected group.
You're right. I disagree with those who would not accept the license modifications as truth because I support them but the author of the PR did not state their political stance.
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That's why part of this is the mentality of treating the Windows partition as a game console - it's a seperate system from your main Linux workspace (generally when you play on your game console you're at your TV and not working at your computer as well). If you really want to do both at once then dual-booting is not the solution for you.
> The start is only valuable if there is an end

I don't think Game of Thrones lost money. I would guess HBO paid George Martin well.

Moreover, I think that in the eyes of most, GoT would have been better without going beyond Martin's published works. In other words: finishing that story significantly reduced its value.

In case you think this is an exception: Matrix, Terminator, Coupling, How I Met Your Mother, Battlestar Galactica reimagined: all stories whose value was diminished greatly by their ending.
A natural question I've pondered from time to time is whether Fabrice Bellard is really a time traveler from a more advanced civilization in the future, sent back in time to show us, mere mortals, what humankind will be capable of in the future.

If this sounds far-fetched, consider that he has created not only BPG, but FFMPEG, QEMU, LibBF, SoftFP, TinyEMU, a software implementation of 4G/LTE, a PC emulator in Javascript, the TCC compiler, TinyGL, LZEXE, a tiny program for computing the biggest known prime number, and NNCP, a clever lossless data compression system using deep neural networks (transformers, to be precise). And that's just a partial list of his successful projects.

Any of these projects, on its own, would be considered a notable achievement for an ordinary human being.

Source: https://bellard.org
Most all of it comes as a side product. The amount of CO2 used for the applications listed pales in comparison to the amount used for urea (fertilizer) production.
Yes, and yes.

I can choose to live without internet, and it would suck. I can choose to live without electricity, and it would suck. But I can choose it.

I cannot imagine a future where my brain, my actual living brain, is interfaced with anything that I do not have complete and utter control of. And it might suck, I might miss out on entertainment, medical treatments, or whatever, but you have to draw a line somewhere.

There's being a Luddite and then there's being skeptical of something that can really mess you up. I am convinced being absolutely skeptical and refusing to participate with brain interfaces owned/operated by a third party is not being a Luddite.
HW vendors have already/are implementing AV1 because they were on the big consortium and the industry is a bit more grown up now.

AV1 is a big compromise between a bunch of vendors. It is definitely the future, the powers that be have already decreed this, but these things move slowly.
You can still access the pdf file via the file system by right clicking on the item and 'show file'. The files names may not be user friendly though.
Agreed.

What really blows my mind is how many of my academically inclined friends manage (and cloud sync) a big library of pirated papers using a rival piece of software owned by a major rights holder of said pirated papers. I mean... there's a good chance nothing will come of it, but it just seems like tempting fate. Zotero isn't just good enough, it's so good that the choice is completely trivial IMO!

Thanks, Zotero :)
I wouldn't call it bias. You can make a claim "I know my use-cases so well that I can guarantee that ASCII will cover it". I'd call that foolishness, not bias.
This is my favorite one. Being on stage and hearing music come out of your mic is a hell of a trip.
Given this is supposed to make 5 litres per day and is targeted at people who do not have access to safe drinking water, 1 kwh (I assume you mean kwh not kw) for 5.7 or 6.8 litres (imperial and US gallons are different) seems acceptable.
It's looking like Picard S02 is going to be some moral lesson for Picard and his crew and I'm hating what that could mean for the story. The CGI has been pretty good so far though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_agriculture#Carbo...

Possible. Practical. Increases productivity.
What I fear is law-enforced backdoors that could literally destroy everything - programs, code, data... Just imagining this dystopian concept brings me shivers. You didn't pay taxes? Data deletion.
Inject CO2 into basalt formations, and over the course of a year or so it will turn into rock. There are already several pilot programs doing this, and it's very scalable.

Other projects apply energy to turn the CO2 into liquid fuel. Of course that returns the CO2 to the atmosphere, but it'll be a long time before we electrify long-haul jets so it'd be great if their fuel were carbon-neutral.
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How good is Zotero as a bookmark manager similar to Pinboard.in or Raindrop.io? Both have a paid feature that stores a permanent copy of a site, but these are stored only on their servers, and Pinboard's archive download feature never worked for me.
AI suggested 40k new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
Yet another reminder that human bodies are incredibly fragile
For aviation, specific energy, or mass-energy density, wins. Lofted volume is cheap, lofted weight is dear.
If some library e.g. libpng depends on a particular version of glibc, and your application depends on libpng and glibc, you better hope they want the same version
Scan for hardware errors and reroute as needed. Then, defrag all stray neural clusters.

Once I've got bare metal, I'd consider what my OS options are and check for upgrades. I might even be able to run Windows 11!

Then, I'd check the cybersecurity policies in place, probably VM inside a VM just for fun.

After that, I'd probably get to some light evening reading over the entire works of that Bill Shakspeare guy who keeps getting ripped off.
This is just advanced desalination using natural evaporation as input.
> so it may end up there anyway

Yeah, like this, the GP if your very own comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30698861
Nothing is original. One who is tasked to create a pie from scratch will have to invent firstly the whole universe
GPT-3 Streamlit App running on Tesla browser written by GitHub CoPilot
To be accurate, all three of the hosts are programmers.
Bummer! Presumably manufacturers will want to get their products certified and for sale in advance of the holidays, so hopefully this will be the last delay?
Thanks for correcting. Unfortunately I cannot edit my comment now.
I try to make clean commits that do one thing only. If I have trouble writing a meaningful commit message, it means I have failed and should do a better job next time.

That said, I often make a messy "wip" commit that I push to my branch, just so that the work doesn't get lost. But I always undo such a commit and clean it up.

Also, I always use git add -p, so that I can break changes into multiple meaningful commits and review them one more time before pushing.
> Then I should see no-one being surprised or complaining

Oh agree 100%, this is the equivalent of the "reply-all email threads" and people responding to be remove or stop. I find it entertaining overall.

> Until the next time GitHub goes down again

Cheers
And no more time travel!
I wonder if hacker news would allow this post if it was American cameras being hacked?
I found his Wikipedia entry interesting as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Well, so much for institutional faith in open source software. 'Fourth Generation Warfare' is defined by a blurring of lines between combatant and civilian, and in our interconnected world that seems to be our normal operating state. This dev is essentially a software terrorist.
The organizations that you think are credible, are credible. The term is not legally protected.

Personally, when Subway calls their sandwiches "good", I think they are actually making non-good sandwiches, and they're trying to redefine the term.

Both "good" and "open source" are descriptive terms that are subjective. The OSI recognizes this themselves:

> "Open Source" is not and cannot become a trademark.

> there is virtually no chance that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would register the mark "open source"; the mark is too descriptive

https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...