skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5-10 hours of test prep may add a couple hundred points to someone’s score, but probably won’t take someone from ann 850 to 1200.

Looking at the math section, you might get a 600 if you don’t study but could know all the material but don’t know how to take the test.

But to get a 600 requires you to know a certain amount of material and know how to take the test. Most kids at my HS couldn’t get a 600 math even with 40 hours of math prep.
I’m also curious - could you maybe give an example of something concrete that is (or was) difficult in go but easy with rust?
'integrating' is a complex way of saying 'stuff leaks across a boundary slowly, and eventually when enough has leaked it triggers the spore to wake up'
It's plausible that some volume of people had gone on a hot air balloon before and just not had pictures taken of the experience.
Taking you at your word, I assume you have some examples in mind of when the U.S. government making actual tangible progress was standard operating procedure?
For me, Linux would be a downgrade. Suddenly there's a bunch of software I can't run anymore. I actually really like windows 11, plus I can install and run any linux software as if it is a native windows program, and while I can do this, actually, there really isn't many gui apps in the linux world that aren't already on windows and worth running. However, being able to open a linux shell on windows is really useful. Reading through all the "why", I can't find a practical day to day advantage.
>never did transmute lead into gold.

That we know of.
So its contents aren't lost if Earth's surface gets depopulated.
"Your reputation preceeds you".

"Thank you sir."

"It wasn't a compliment".
Tossing out insulin = 0 (which is too vague... hepatic? Supplemented? Total daily dose? Average dose in units per hour?) will bias your dataset to having more diabetics.

- a diabetes researcher
No One Wants a Pizzaburger
Motivated + enabled. 110%.

I will say. In terms of man hours, often those teams take a multiple of effort from people around the company to support.

They just, consume a lot of time and attention. From various business analysts, vice presidents reviewing their output, etc etc.
Good luck; it's scheduled under US Treaty with the UN and governed by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

>>"The CND is mandated to decide on the scope of control of substances under the three international drug control conventions (1961, 1971 and 1988 Conventions)."

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/index.html
Well.... I mean... we do consider trucks and cars to be different markets. And they are often the same technology. Same for passenger trucks to long haul trucks. Fundamentally same technology, but very different markets.
How are they useful to you? Do you just like having the sound of someone’s voice in the background? That can be nice when driving, but if I’m really looking to learn I personally expect that I’ll have to pay full attention.
It isn't really car-length, is it speed-adjusted to scale larger at high speeds and closer at low speeds.

But the display on the screen shows a car with a line and the numbers 1-7 as you adjust it so people shorthand refer to it as "car-lengths"
Yeah but you don’t need to do that if you haven’t been charged and probably won’t be charged at this point.
they should be able to do both. In case a high severity issue is ongoing, and someone knows how to fix it very fast - they should probably do it. Or guide another engineer in realtime on how to do it.

If it's not that urgent, they might guide others in a more asynchronous fashion on how to get to a fix
I’m honestly kind of surprised they’re not required to be rated for submersion for a few days.

Not that the car has to work anymore, but that the battery can be flooded and not later burst into flame.
"But it seems to me you could do "self-driving" a lot cheaper and easier by improving the commons. Embedding sensors in the roads, street signs, and furniture - isn't that going to make more sense than turning ever vehicle into a super-computer?"

I think this is the way to go. Could maybe improve safety which was is holding autonomous back.
Here is the only clinical data:
https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.46...

Looks as promising as any other promising cancer therapy in phase I trials!

There is a renaissance in cancer drug delivery at present, exemplified by antibody drug conjugates. The tech in the article is very interesting, and a superb bioengineering effort. A caveat is that complex multi-unit therapies don’t have a great track record. They are hard to manufacture reliably, and have a very large optimisation volume, so it’s difficult to increment the development as you only have finite resources for human trials. Contrast this with small molecules where there is a well defined process over various chemical and pharmacokinetic factors, prior to testing in humans. We also lack a good system for developing and trialing ‘platform’ tech like this - the current system is set up for single drugs/combos to be tested and eventually reimbursed in each cancer type separately. If you have a platform for delivering tailored therapies agnostic of cancer type, you will run into many barriers. There is currently only one drug I know of simultaneously approved across multiple cancer types (pembrolizumab in mismatch repair deficient tumours, a rare population). So many challenges ahead of the hype here.
Truly dreadful website design, I don't know what they were thinking but that's not going to win anyone over.
>What do you mean by “It does not get viruses”?

Well, I mean, um https://www.linuxexperten.com/library/e-resources/linux-malw...
Thuffering Thucotash! That's a well-crafted pun.
If I have learnt anything from being in Academia, never bother reading a press release from a university describing their own work.
Honestly, this sounds to me like an analytical/creative mind with ADHD.
That sounds interesting, what was the context?
s,God,Unicorn,g
These HIMARS rockets are tiny compared to the thermobaric warheads used by Russia.
That could be correct, I didn’t read it closely. I think the total number then is still probably quite low. I’m not disparaging the move and think it’s good but adding perspective.
The average user doesn’t share this opinion. Seems the majority of people I know are on the iPhone pro max and would buy bigger if it existed.
Syncthing doesn't solve the problem OP is talking about. It's amazing software that works as long as you don't have to sync the same file edited on two machines before they have a chance to sync. There is no logic, besides something using CRDTs, that can reliably resolve the conflicts in every situation when you just have two sets of bytes and nothing else.

Even if you maintain "last synced" copies + the current latest version and use those to compare against the server there are still simple situations where the conflict resolution doesn't work and/or requires user input. Anything that requires user-input like that can't properly sync binary files without resorting to making a new "File (Conflicted 1).sqlite" which you now manually need to compare.

It just isn't the same thing
Because they always did, and never needed Apple to compete.
USB comitee is filled with companies competing with each other, and Apple is one of these companies.
I dabble in adult content creation and could absolutely get fired for it. It's not exactly a vice though.
Thanks. I had not understood that the download is the actual "raw" wiki files, not the pages as they would be delivered to a browser.
There is also a 3D Earth map in one example of globe.gl:

https://globe.gl/
I wonder what the intended audience of this page is supposed to be
I’m not a physicist but did take some college chemistry, so take it with a grain of salt, but thats kind of what was forming in my mental model.

Industrially speaking, short bursts resulting in spent reactor components might be manageable for recycling, too, so it definitely seems interesting.

I’m curious as to how long it would take for the corrosive action to cause unmanageable defects in the reactor.
Xero has a pretty large and I'd say half-decent user documentation. You can usually find out how to do whatever you need. But if they had focused more on their UX that would be even better.
HN itself is hosted on a single US-based server. Does this actually bother people outside the US?
Asus Zenfone 9 hands down. Best processor on the market (apart from Apple), fairly stock android skin, good battery life for the size.
Please just use the same system london does. I dont need another useless app just to buy a ticket...

I dont want to think about tickets. I am happy to pay the price but just let me not think about it. Like I was travelling to La Defense, and my ticket did not work.. How I am supposed to know that this isnt part of the same system when the tube goes there.. just charge me whats appropriate and let me be..
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What? They’re doing VR because they think it’s the basis for the next general computing platform, and owning the platform gives you unlimited access to the user’s data. And in VR, that data includes the user’s gaze, height, physical fitness, high resolution 3D model of their gaming area, and other inferred or measured biometrics. As well as every virtual strip club, naughty video, and indiscreet personal message.
Very large portions of some very major companies have <4 years work experience. Couple that with incredibly large engineer to management ratios and that inexperienced devs are often placed under more experienced ones, and the ability to call out unmaintainable code starts to diminish.

A lot of these prolific devs will not see the code base complexity for the "tragedy of the commons" it is, and bemoan the people and teams who start to try adding "regulations" (meetings/code review) to protect the common because it slows down their ability to meet their management given goals.

There is also a magic phrase that frequently disarms attempts to prevent bad code from entering a code base "this is just temporary." It's easy to put off fixing the "temporary" code forever as other things become higher priority.

Often times someone will inherit a staff engineer's code and therefore won't have been able to stop it. Sometimes staff engineers are able to create an entire service with minimal review that is then "gifted" to a team to refine and maintain.

In a lot of these situations, the feedback mechanisms (yearly peer review) will limit who can give feedback about who, not to mention they are not anonymous and staff engineers are usually highly connected.
Do not store 96gb of anything on exfat, use ext4 or APFS or zfs or some journaled file system. Does NTFS really have a 4GB file size limit? Structures should match exfat so that part seems suspect to me.
Ukama: Run your own cellular data network
Yeah. Microsoft has been more effective at getting users off Windows than Linux ever has.

Since Win 11 I've had multiple inquiries from friends/family about how to switch to a different OS... (or get them back to at least Win 10...)
Devices look awesome. Too bad they have to be connected to Google.
Zenfone 9
A bit, but not much. Our tethered option is for people who want to connect to beefier hosts because they need the extra GPU power (or want to use our headset's high pixel density for gaming purposes). We've sold very few of them though. Our primary offering is our standalone unit.
If it was still the year N-10 then this would be a great X more or less sums up my entire desktop linux experience.
It's actually a compressed archive, but I think the contents are in fact HTML and other browser-accessible media types.
Just to be clear for others: those who reject Ranked Choice Voting do so because it does not support 3rd party candidates - it encourages strategic voting (due to its non-monotonicity) that locks in to 2-parties again. It thus completely fails to achieve the most important part of reform, and falls below ALL other systems previously mentioned here (including also Condorcet or Proportional Representation systems, where applicable). This is not simply "oh some people like Approval voting a little more" - we are dumbfounded by those who prefer Ranked Choice Voting. STRONG negative preference.

It's also worth considering that the same parties who benefit from First Past The Post would be threatened by a change to literally any other system aside from FPTP or Ranked Choice Voting. Surely that comes into play when voting reform movements are funded. And surely that kind of "conspiracy talk" shouldn't be dismissed in an intellectual forum when there is a very clear path to how these reforms could directly affect very powerful parties.
This is not correct. Schedule 1 drugs require UN approval to downgrade; at least according to treaty. The US Congress can pass a law, but they can't undo a treaty they signed only in-part; else the UN has legal standing to contend their unilateral scheduling.
There were probably many smuggling cases that pled down to simple possession for various reasons. And now pardoned.
Glad to see another oncologist on HN!
Jack Welch was CEO of a different era. Remember when GE owned NBCUniversal? No? That was also under Welch. The WSJ lays some of the blame of GE's downfall at the feet of his successor, Jeff Immelt.

> GE’s precipitous fall, following years of treading water while the overall economy grew, was exacerbated, some insiders say, by what they call “success theater.” Mr. Immelt and his top deputies projected an optimism about GE’s business and its future that didn’t always match the reality of its operations or its markets, according to more than a dozen current and former executives, investors and people close to the company. [0]

Jack Welch didn't always make great decisions -- diversifying away from GE's core businesses into financial markets, media, etc. His last act of trying to acquire Honeywell failed. But it was Immelt who brought the company down. Immelt grew GE Capital from 40 to 55% of the company at the onset of the Great Recession, took government bailout money when it tanked, then divested it from the company when it was clearly a drag on profitability. He championed GE Digital which never materialized, and then made big bets on conventional energy just when renewables were taking off. I don't know if it could have been different in someone else's hands. But a little more truth-telling would probably have helped. Welch did think that appointing Immelt was his "biggest mistake" [1].

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-jeffrey-immelts-success-the...

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-welch-one-regret-general...
White Elephant.
> What do you do when your bloodwork is good?

Yearly blood panels provide time series data against which it might be easier to spot changes even if all metrics are in the "healthy" zone.

At Kaiser, which usually has its own lab in every facility, yearly blood panels are completely routine. As an HMO Kaiser has every incentive to minimize costs, and they don't make any such practices routine unless and until they've been demonstrated to provide clear benefit across their patient population. (They also regularly run all sorts of trials--they're vertically integrated from the research lab on up.)
is there any evidence of ticketing system being used for that? (not saying it isnt happening. )
I don't know why there is this hatred of lawns. They are wonderful for laying on, as a place for kids to play, and so on. It's not the same thing to play in the dirt or on a slab of concrete no matter how much people want to make that a thing.

There are plenty of options for slow-release fertilizers and responsible ways to care for lawns, including non-toxic pesticides,special grass varieties, subsurface drip irrigation, water saving additives, etc. I'm OK with getting rid of "non-functional" lawns that people don't ever step foot on, but the idea that lawns are responsible for droughts is the biggest lie that was ever told, residential is only a small fraction of water consumption.
That is what the law says, but government officials, including Border Patrol officers, sometimes do break the law.
Yes, the pardon wipes it off your record.
Most startups today I would imagine fit this bill.
assuming ssh and not scp, replacing traditional ssh with mosh in this setup could prove for some interesting benefits wrt network dependency. If the connection was less brittle, and directories could be opened and cached and rewritten later on, after the connection was disrupted and re-established…that’d be awesome.
Some percentage of websites are actually Atlassian Confluence. Those might fall over.
Me too, but I don't have a local bank account. You can't sign up for a Navigo Liberté (pay as you go card) without a local IBAN (which is illegal, there is an EU law that anyone accepting bank transfers needs to treat accounts from all EU member states equally). So I buy paper tickets. This is really dumb. Paper tickets work, just leave it alone.
I visited a few European countries this past summer and Paris was definitely not the best in terms of public transport tickets. I had to buy the paper 3 day visitor pass from Orly after finding no way as an iPhone user to purchase a ticket on the Île-de-France Mobilités app or their website. Constant fear of losing my $50 euro investment that's a mere 6.5cm x 3cm rectangle.

Some cities had the tap to pay gates which were by far the most convenient option as an Apple Pay user. Others like Berlin or Wien had working mobile tickets.
The Search for the Best Mullet in America
thank you very much. that page brings me back. it even has technorati tags.

by the way, do you still have an olpc? i never got to use one but remember seeing them. my one weird piece of similar era tech is a cr48, the early chromebook google gave away. I remember on the form for requesting them it asked what you would do with it. i responded “install linux on it” and they gave me one.
Nothing wrong with that, after all that’s how the good ol’ 555 timer works!
Take it one step further. A test _never_ has a binary outcome, this is _always_ the result of some score thresholded against something else (could be another score). Sensitivity and specificity are a function of your data to validate the test, as well as this tunable threshold!
The tunability of the threshold should be a core concern in the reporting of the performance of a test. Look at ROC or DET curve and their performance measures (EER, False accept @ some given False reject rate, or False Reject @ given False Accept rate, AUC).

This allows applications to understand the costs and benefits of tuning this thresholding parameter, and understanding what happens when you accept a higher false reject rate, than a higher false accept rate.

Just reporting a specificity and sensitivity totally misses the point that the threshold is tunable and different applications can have fundamentally different needs for this parameter.

The vitamin-c case is a case where false accepts (model predicts I have some deficiency where in reality I do not) are essentially cost-free, so you can take the threshold where FAR==100%, and then report on the FRR at this point
They intend to destroy our lives
I often wonder if ALL the cars are driven by AI would it be safer as the cars would behave more predictably, provided the code was bug free.
Versailles ticket was so hard to buy, way faster to just have the human at the window do it.
Exactly my point, and I'm working on a complicated web app on top of Pages Functions and Durable Objects. The idea is that you can provide dynamic functionality without or with less client-side JavaScript, which is what SSR is about, and at the same time you can also build things like an authentication server, which traditionally requires an actual server, but can be done with just Workers and Durable Objects.
I am finishing on my free time a complete desktop music player using React+Tauri, and this looks amazing! It's just the piece I'm missing most/have lest developed, so I will definitely try it, and at the very least look inside to see the pieces.
Resources page: "even Mac users can upgrade!"

- Link to a 1 minute tik tok video on how to boot Kali off of a thumb drive??
We have three terms here in the cupboard:

-Colloquial geek: someone who likes geeky stuff and does it for fun

-Circus geek: addict who debases themselves at a carnival as a job

-Internet troll: someone who bothers people on the internet for fun

I started with a joke conflating colloquial and circus geeks. What is the shared "blackness" of these "kitchen apparatuses" here? That nobody really wants them? Why did you decide my joke was a good place to reply with social commentary about internet trolls??
The 10x developer isn't someone who crushes 10 times as many tickets, or works 10 times as fast, they're someone who makes a large number of people marginally better while their peers focus soley on their individual contribution. It's both surprisingly easy to accomplish and sadly under recognized (or even actively discouraged)
Midwest Express (YX) tried this (a whole plane of quasi-first-class seats for only a little more $$$ than coach on other airlines) for a decade or two and couldn't make a go of it either. It was great while it lasted, though.
> I'm not sure what you mean by that. I2P is almost entirely focused around hidden services, and those services more or less work the same way for the end user with the added bonus that there's a loose sort of "DNS" that creates human readable URLs for services. How does Tor's services have more of a network effect than those on I2P?

Tor's tech doesn't create the network effect, it's just that the network effect exists for various reasons. Facebook is on Tor, for example, but it's not on I2P. This notoriety means a beginner to the private net will be more likely to reach for Tor than I2P.

> That doesn't mean people shouldn't be aware of it or consider it as an alternative for their own use.

To some extent I do think the Tor project has spent more resources on trying to make Tor usable for folks who aren't just power users, but I2P has also had a fraction of the resourcing that Tor has. It's a sort of "worse is better" here. It might also be the case that the pool of users interested in the anonymous net is small enough that there's just not enough room for a lot of competitors. I'm not sure and the nature of these networks make it hard to draw any ideas about their size/shape.

> I think people here are misunderstanding me. I'm not saying to never use Tor under any circumstance. I'm telling people to think before they use a tool with known flaws and an interesting origin story. There's nothing unreasonable about this.

This is mostly tone I think. I agree with what you're saying. I also think Tor, for better or for worse, has a lot of somewhat rabid fans. But yeah if I wanted to run a net service that I only wanted accessed anonymously, I'd probably use I2P.
This is great!

I've been jamming to Mind Amend on Youtube/Spotify - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELOA2U7FPQ&t=2384s
others use HN "viewers"

all the links always appear plaintext for me
Is that the same thing as 'rank and yank'?
You can blame gold if it is very easy to steal. Or if owners are more likely to have it stolen, etc etc.

Crypto has certain vulnerabilities that gold doesn’t. But it also has lots of benefits.

But I don’t know of any situations where gold banks let them drive trucks of $40M in gold before they stopped customers. It’s just harder to move.