skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In US healthcare (insurance), mailrooms may receive accountable mail i.e., mail pieces that can be tracked by sender (such as USPS registered mail, FedEx/UPS courier packages etc.,).

Mail is cut, opened, documents sorted, scanned and processed at the mailroom. But the paper is retained for X number of days at the mailroom facility and then Y number of days in an offsite storage facility and then disposed off through shredding. Mailroom staff move the paper that is ready for shredding into a shredding bin (that is locked; because HIPAA). Accountable mail is retained the longest (barring Legal which is even longer).

A shredding company brings an industrial heavy-duty shredder and picks up the shredding bins. A mailroom staff member unlocks the bin and supervises the onsite shredding.

That is the level of complexity that a simple deferred shredding requirement adds to a workflow.

Before you ask Why on earth are they keeping the paper? -- Remember that these are claims (and many times, claim appeals i.e., appeals against a previously denied claim; sometimes they come from lawyers on behalf of the insured); Imagine a mis-sorted document that causes an appeal to be delayed in processing. The insurance company is liable to be fined for each day of delay. Also, in case of accountable mail, the sending party has proof of delivery of the document, so if the case went to court, it is going to be a replay of the scenes from movie The Rainmaker and arguments on why the insurance company did not process the appeal decision on time.
Python 3’s approach snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

They aimed to work with a nice, clean, abstract concept, untrammelled by encoding squabbles. They failed badly by choosing code units rather than scalar values (Unicode strings are sequences of scalar values, not code points—'\udead' is a valid Python string, but you can’t encode it into any UTF-* format since [U+DEAD] is not a valid Unicode string).

Then they also neglected to observe that they were optimising for something that you should practically never be doing, so that now everyone has to pay the costs. As the article summarises it part-way through: “The choice of UTF-32 (or Python 3-style code point sequences) arises from wanting the wrong thing.”

Seriously, Python 3’s approach is almost the worst of all available worlds. I loathe UTF-16 with such fiery passion that I can’t quite bring myself to say Python 3’s approach is worse than weak UTF-16, but it’s of similar badness in practical terms. The decisions were very clearly made by people that were not expert in the domain and who were caught up in a Concept of Mathematical Purity. They’ve since walked some of it back as far as they could, and I think did recognise it all as a mistake (no citation, just a vague memory of seeing such an admission), but they can’t fix it all properly without a breaking change.
What do you mean? The point is identifying if parachutes prevent death when jumping from air aircraft, it's in the title!
I found that 21:9 works very well for me for work (gaming too, mind you). Sheets can show many rows, I can compare things side by side, I can maximize a console with ridiculously long lines, and I can dock the dev tools in the browser to the side. It's a like two 5:4s, side by side, without the bezels.
It is useful: When iterating over a string in Python (which I hope you agree _is_ useful?), you get that many parts.
They state the point at the end, and it's serious point: if you were inclined to use "science" to argue against a certain intervention that some group believes in, you could do a randomized trial of that intervention, but manipulate the conditions so that the intervention is unlikely to help. The study would look right and sound right to some people. It would use all the best practices. And yet it would be a bullshit study.

I suppose an example would be comparing the death rates of people who'd been on a statin drug for a few weeks to those who weren't on the drug at all. You'd probably find no different in morbidity, which might suggest that statins don't do anything.
I'm a bit in a niche, specialized in Data Science training and candidate screening / analysis of their skill gap.

If you're hiring Data Science/ML Engineers/MLOps candidates, and you want to either do a technical interview during the process, or you need to do a "Skill Gap" analysis once they're hired, let me know.

You just tell me the technologies that your company uses and I build tailored projects for candidate to resolve. Then submit a full report on their strengths, weaknesses and the aprox time for them to catch up (if any).
It’s both mobile apps; we use WP for the marketing website.
The other tool we used was Django but we do not have anybody left in the company who knows how it works, the software is outdate: it was easier to simply remake the website using WP (we also re-designed it).
> With $400m, you can probably just buy a small apartment in Idaho for every single one of them. Problem solved.

The problem is that people become homeless due to a number of reasons that include addiction, mental illness, trauma, loss of work, etc. It’s not going to be solved by JUST providing them an apartment. At least not for everyone.
At least the button on the seat works, unlike usb-c and thunderbolt hubs. Lots of amusement if ever software engineers get control of that button.
In find that even though I’m typically pretty spot on in the amount of actual design and coding time a feature requires, the actual wall clock time can be way off. Ad hoc meetings, days off for holidays/corporate events, waiting on external feedback, etc. are all very hard to account for.
Thread from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154455

“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware - 26 comments
The author of the article was in favor of face masks even in the early stages of the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, the mask opponents concluded from the principles of evidence-based medicine that masks are not effective. During a pandemic, there is no time to wait for 10 years until sufficient evidence accumulates. If evidence-based medicine cannot be used in the case of pandemics, an improved methodology is needed.
Do we know if some drivers become dependent or reliant on AEB systems? Seems like a technology that creates moral hazard or risk compensation.

Maybe a certain number of AEB events should put the car in limp mode until a dealer can review and reset, as a deterrent against texting and driving habitually?
It is mentioned in the article about a woman working full time, yet still unable to afford rent.

I think a big steps towards resolving homelessness should go in addressing the housing market; which in California is really really bad. This isn't just "build more homes" (which is already an extremely difficult task in the state given the zoning laws) but comprehensive housing policies. Take a look at the way Austria has controlled rent prices (though californians might not like the fact that around 70% of housing in austria is limited or non profit).

Also, this is a US-wide problem. California just has the best weather and open doors. But I doubt it's going to get better, wealth inequality does nothing but increase in the US. We'll see, but this looks to me more of a symptom than a sickness in itself.
I thought I was crazy when looking at all those vector extensions piling up made me think "why not just have some generic-sized vector instructions, and then let the CPU to sort out what is the largest chunk size it actually supports internally" but apparently no, I am not! It was actually been done before and we might even have that again in the future. That's nice.
yes those two are amazing
This is objectively useful: Now we can build an underground railroad for getting LGBT folks out of Florida and similar states.
As far as I understand, it's mostly the weights. If you only have the models, you're still gonna need to get a massive amount of training material, huge costs for training it and fine tuning the hyper params until it works.
Thanks! That is interesting and well reasoned.

If one wants to change neural computation via a global oscillator, it would seem that a flashing light, auditory tone, or tactile vibration might be a more potent alternative. These stimuli indisputably drive substantial brain wide activity, including many action potentials. I suppose I’m reluctantly team Firing Rate when it comes to mammals—there’s beautiful work on spike ordering in cold blooded animals for example but I’m less aware of computational work where precise spike time matters and not the relative time ie hebbiwn plasticity.

I’m also somewhat influenced by my first hand difficulty when doing in vitro patch clamp to induce sub threshold voltage changes on a neuron with a second probe even just 100um away. Color me skeptical, in part as it’s really hard to do a double-blinded control and the effect sizes seem small.
That’s because Cali’s approach is insane.

They give you hundreds a month in cash grants (some make $1k a month in SF) and require you to make NO alterations to your lifestyle.

I was amazed when living in SF how many of the homeless are not locals. Not even Californians! I myself lived on the streets for a number of years and have dealt with addiction issues. It is absolutely insane how we’ve stopped treating homeless people as humans with potential and aspirations and assume that all they can be is a vacuum for drugs and cash. There’s no other conclusion to reach about how policy makers truly think about this class of people with the way the incentives of these “support” programs are structured.
Very frustrating to see the right blame the left for the homeless problem when the left are the only ones attempting to do anything about it.
Vivaldi is great, but I've hidden the tab bar, and use the window panel instead. Then you get a nice tree view of tabs (nested, grouped by domain etc) and windows. Kind of treating my tabs as bookmarks, which is probably why it consumes a lot of memory :-)

I guess the last part is fixed in later chromium by hibernating tabs now?
Yeah, first off there's nothing special about "blood" relationships. It's just the people you grew up around, so you're more partial to those people, because time in = time out.

My siblings and I aren't close because we're related. The proof of that is my parents and I aren't close. They rely too much on thinking they don't have to show up for the relationship because "they created/raised me." My siblings, friends and romantic relationships know I could end the relationship if I'm unhappy with it. They are all the same, and all invested in it. They don't think they deserve anything special from me. They know they have to earn it.

I don't feel obligation to keep these relationships alive. I just do because I've gotten good things out of them in the past.
If you think there's something special about the contract of marriage... I gotta tell you, that divorce is a thing.

There is no difference between any of these. I can join or leave any of these relationships as I like, and I do for the same reasons. Maybe not the exact same reasons, but the same general reasons of "I'm getting less out than I am putting in".
Online Ads Are About to Get Even Worse
So the reality of this "mind-control":

"That’s a problem, because digital ads are terrible. Users hate them, they’re easily exploited in fraud schemes, and they encourage controversial business practices such as tracking. They also might not work very well: Studies suggest that most users ignore them, and roughly a third of display-ad clicks are believed to be accidental."

Also the author shares the common sentiment that the future will be about garbage:

"In the ChatGPT era, we face a future of low quality content automatically churned out, itself 'read' only by other algorithms as they train themselves up and by bots generating fraudulent ad clicks—a 'gray goo' internet created by algorithms, for algorithms, and shunned by everyone with a pulse. Ads already make the internet less usable; the effect will only be magnified as we’re forced to wade through the sludge."

Also the power grab is there:

"So-called artificial-intelligence search, powered by large language models such as GPT-4, will likely make that conflict even more intense, as Bing and Google allow AI assistants to present information from across the web on their own sites, giving users even less reason to click through to publishers."

But who knows:

"The AI monkey wrench is being thrown into the machinery right as regulators are taking a hard look at the digital-ad industry. Google is facing an existential antitrust lawsuit against its advertising business, led by the Department of Justice and joined by a coalition of 17 states."

A good reminder that corporate empires are not immortal:

"The tech companies most hooked on the ad industry are left to hope that this time is different. Advertising was the engine that propelled them to global prominence and unbelievable wealth. Now they’re left wondering what to do as they feel the engine sputtering. Do they restart it, or do they accept that they’re destined to spend their future in a state of stagnation?"
I don't think it's missing the point, but you do want to be aware of the context a little bit. Randomized controlled trials are often held up as the gold standard of evidence, and they are good when it is possible to carry them out, but the point of the linked study is that the kinds of treatments it is possible and ethical to perform RCTs for limit their applicability. In this case, it would be unethical and criminal to get volunteers to jump off airplanes at 10,000ft with placebo parachutes, and the kind of RCT it is possible to carry out (this study) does not show parachutes to be effective. Thus no RCT showing that parachutes are effective is possible.
> People should absolutely be able to turn this thing off if they don't trust it.

Absolutely not. There are other people on the road. Families. You don’t get to kill other people in a preventable accident because you believe you’re an above-average human who can outperform a computer.
Surge: Static web publishing for Front-End Developers
Private usenet is a much better model for corporate discussion than eg Slack and typical alternatives. More natural message threading, integration with email clients, binary and document handling built in. Not sure about search but easily done on client side.

Private nntp servers never seemed to be a thing though.
I don’t think the feds are to blame.

SF and similar CA cities have set up a program that encourages people to move there because it makes being “homeless” an actual possible lifestyle choice. Even an enjoyable one.
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> Human-started wildfires accounted for 84% of all wildfires, tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned.

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The Greeks had similar sayings about infinite, and the Chinese too for sure, they did proto-Calculus and integration. Zeno's paradox it's a good start.

This is why we should use Mathematics, it's an universal language. If you think about it, from Geometry itself you can extrapolate the 90% of the core Algebra laws.

Religion and philosphy are just either methods of power or the emergent culture of the society of their days. Kinda like Nietzche was the "son" of the industrial revolution on cities against the old Regime which was tied to rural societies.

When Nietzche said "God it's dead" for sure it meant as the old regime which emerged from ruralist towns and the Neolithic revolution which was something born of agriculture.

Even the Bible itself it's a metaphor as a war between hunters/gatherers and farmers (Cain vs Abel) and the Abrahamic religion are just Sun/wheat workshippers. The Holy Week meets exactly harvesting times after a hard winter. Abrahamic religions are just that, the glorification of the Neolithic symbols.

The paradise was in the hunter/gatherer society, were no hard work was needed to keep the lands farmed and the cattle fed, you just hunted animals and collected fruits; and giving a painless childbirth could be possible maybe with either drugs or hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Not in any modern encoding and certainly not in ASCII either. Having the highest order bit set makes that kind of problematic.
This comes from the same dev known for the 128-language quine relay, where each of the 128 languages prints a program in the next one, looping all the way to the original one. In alphabetical order and as ASCII art, no less.

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
First time I’ve ever heard such a strange story. Do you have any evidence for your sweeping radical claims?

All other evidence I’ve heard of points to the USA being the only major country without public healthcare and price controls in place, but maybe you can blow my mind with facts.
> It is useful: When iterating over a string in Python (which I hope you agree _is_ useful?), you get that many parts.

That’s… not useful?

I can’t say I remember ever caring knowing how many items I would be getting during an iteration[0]. If I want to set an iteration limit I can just… do that, using `islice` or some such.

[0] in python anyway, in lower level language there can be a utility in order to pre-allocate an output collection
FreeBSD/Linux can boot faster without license outputing to serial port
Separate reply, because I've already made two edits :) -- also don't confuse Judeo-Christian-Islamic philosophy with religions in general. The majority of Buddhist philosophy doesn't say anything about "acts of god"; rather they really emphasize that the problems you have in life are about *you*, not the universe, or any external forces/deities.
From the many hundreds of homeless people I’ve met in SF, there’s been a massive increase of out-of-state movement. That said, they seem to mostly come of their own volition - they realize the combination of the nice weather and massive resources available means they have a pretty maintainable lifestyle.
Maybe you should read Gödel or Cantor or Turing and realize that any logic system rests on axioms and your choice of axioms are no better then anyone else's
I think when submissions like this stay up, it encourages other people in the future. If you search for "hired" and sort by time you'll get this submission along with other "Who wants to be hired" posts.

"Who wants to be hired (June 2023)" : 140 points, 17 hours

This submission: 121 points, 4 hours

There's a certain kind of user / member that really craves being a part of the group and yet never really tries, he'll just try and ape what the "successful" people do. As communities get larger, these people increase in number. Submissions like this are basically crack for them. You'll get a couple of these threads every single week, and in the end you'll have to moderate the problem away anyway, because they won't just stop at "Who got hired", they'll start with "How to get hired on HN" and then try to game the entire thing. It'll tank people's confidence in getting good talent off HN. After all, there's only so much you can do to filter candidates, you can't conclusively claim "fraud" if someone has 7/10 "good" indicators.

I speak from some experience, I moderate a small niche community that doesn't require any physical capital to initiate the "hobby". There's a lot of people that just want an exclusive "community" but don't care if they're genuine about it. Some people get it, it invites countersignalling (not always direct, in-your-face stuff) and then the community degrades rapidly unless you can silo the good users away.