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> >HIPPA has made it basically impossible to do science in Medicine without being part of the establishment

I really don't follow this line of reasoning at all.

If anything, HIPAA makes it really hard for "the establishment" to do medicine. It actually doesn't apply to non-"establishment" actors at all, because they're largely independent entities that are not subject to HIPAA by law.
MAAA. I suppose Microsoft deserves to be in the club. MAMAA.
This is what I wanted to do when I was getting my math degree! I wanted to be a quant. Things went a different direction and I'm a programmer now. Is there any hope for me? Think I could still chase it down in my spare time, or is it something I need, say, a master's degree for?
The author just completely threw out the control?

There was no control. Reread what you quoted: there wasn't a statistically valid number of incidents involving white people to make anything of it. I don't even know why I'm paraphrasing, what you quoted was crystal clear to me.
There's big swathes of the US that aren't dense enough to attract an NFL team but have plenty of people who like football. The urban/rural divide and state rivalries in the US also makes it an awkward fit sometimes for a person to root for their nearest team.

University teams may also be less anchored to an individual star since they age out so quickly, and could have a coherent identity for decades under a single coach
South Africa is cheating by having three capitals.
No. They are optimising for financial independence. They may use that to rest, but they may use it for travel, community projects, time with family. Not necessarily restful activities.
This is a case where there's not a super compelling reason to believe it would fail in other mammals.
These wingnuts you mentioned weren't democrats or republicans - they supported George Wallace and his "American Independent Party".

I for one like having the ability to vote without paying a poll tax or taking a poll exam and drinking from any damn water fountain I wish, which are rights Segregationist White Supremacist orgs like PAY, the John Birch Society, and the Citizen Councils wanted only for White Protestant Anglo-Saxon Americans.

The fact you were able to pull up a primary document published by a movement from an era that is largely not taught in depth about is honestly very suspect, unless you are studying for a BA in American History, which I honestly doubt.
I hear about so many AI powered stockpicking in the investing space that I am even more firmly convinced that just investing in broad indexes like S&P 500 is the only move left for retail investor. pretty much all the alpha is going to squeezed out even if a small number of these efforts are successful.
The best sub reddits are heavily modded, but Usenets support for moderation is very small, which means it will only be great if you can preselect by limiting who gets access to the groups.
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True but I thought the article was advocating replacing the doctor with ai not augmenting?
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> Think of all those images traveling uuencoded and being stored at every hub.

Yes, the text-only bias of Usenet (really NNTP) is a bit of a problem, but otherwise it's a pretty good starting point. Better IMO than ActivityPub, which is insane wrt consistency - e.g. everyone viewing a post from different servers is likely to see a different set of responses - and is actively cache-hostile. Fix the text bias, or add a side protocol for images like IRC did, and it would be pretty close to what you'd want for a decentralized Reddit (or HN) replacement.
Climate writer quits journalism to become electrician
A Clown Motel and a Cemetery Tell a Story of Kitsch and Carnage
guess you'll have to listen!
I find it helpful to invert the perspective; let’s assume we have perfect VR/AR; what would monitors be good for when you can call up arbitrary number of windows anywhere in your visual field?

There are maybe some information-radiator type use cases. Probably things like big screens at live events / shows.

But for individual users, I think anything a monitor can do, an endgame AR display can do, and more flexibly.

Why would you (personally, I’m interested in your viewpoint) want a monitor if you had a perfect AR display that you could dismiss into thin air when you didn’t need it, or conjure up a 6-screen dev environment when you did need it? You could put your keyboard and mouse down at any comfortable chair and be as productive as your current dev setup with your optimal monitor count.

(My claim was even stronger than yours, I don’t think they need to be perfect to be better, but since you volunteered it, let’s explore that extreme.)

I’m assuming “perfect” is something completely unnoticeable like lightweight glasses or contacts BTW, and I think there is a bunch of good stuff before perfect.
Tell HN: The HBO Max to Max “transition” locked me out of the service completely
I don't have a Twitter but I wanted to post this and get some more eyeballs on this.

I live in Mexico, where HBO Max was available and I purchased a year long subscription.

Then they made this switch, and now the HBO Max only opens to a splash screen telling me to download the Max app:

https://imgur.com/a/YsbAdPK

When I download the Max app, I get a screen telling me it's not available in my region yet:

https://imgur.com/a/vhlfqAh

This whole thing has been so stupid and botched, it makes me really mad. Now I have to contact Apple support and try to cancel my subscription since I cannot access it anymore.
Time management is a huge important part of American football; books have been written about the (often unintuitive) results: https://johntreed.com/products/football-clock-management-5th...

The clock acts as an impossibly powerful defense that only comes to play for you after a time, and that can be exploited.
Yeah but this is neither of those. Its stupid people misusing AI.
The U.S. almost became a nation of hippo ranchers
I can only really speak to astronomy, but the biggest problem is generally not hosting the raw data. The problem is maintaining the process of analyzing the data.

When you are doing science, you often do not just have a single standardized data format. It's not like taking a picture with a camera, where the jpg format is a standard and the metadata is a standard. If you are, say, storing data from a radio telescope, the metadata is more like taking a snapshots of a production database. Over time you might track additional data, like how much the telescope slewed recently, how much radio interference was nearby according to some new algorithm, etc etc.

Your data formats are constantly changing. So your analysis scripts are constantly changing as well. But this sort of thing doesn't just maintain itself. You very often need to add code like, how do you handle versions of the data where column X is missing. A research project might spend a year gathering data, and change the data format a tiny bit ten times over that year. If you publish something a few times a year, there eventually are a huge number of data versions and script versions that old publications rely on.

It isn't impossible to maintain data like this. You can have code that regularly runs integration tests and reruns past analyses. But most research doesn't operate to this level of "software engineering quality". One-off Jupyter notebooks, code that the developer only got working on their local machine, and so on.

I think we could do better, but it would involve hiring more software engineers and building engineering teams to support scientific research. It is not as simple as allocating more budget towards hosting large files.
Is Oracle's PGQL (e.g. 2.0) more or less the same as SQL/PGQ?

It might be interesting to have a comparison of where major databases stand (or plan to be) with respect to SQL/PGQ
Is the scheduling of oncall work something worth making better?
I didn't say its not impressive, just that there is nothing about it that is a camera.
All of us who have worked oncall for years, know how stressful and difficult it can be.
Among all the pain though, I've always felt that the scheduling of who-works-when is something which should be solvable in a great way.
I've tried to build something which solves oncall scheduling. This post is a shameless plug for that thing. But besides trying to get someone to click on the link, I would also love to get some feedback and hear some input from all of you who work oncall. Is the scheduling painful enough to be worth my time to solve?
What I've tried to do with this tool is:
Make the scheduling FAIR. There's math and an algorithm deciding the schedule. All scheduling actions are available for all to see in a log.
Make the people who get scheduled have great CONTROL over when they work or (more importantly) _don't_ work.
Maintain a PREDICTABLE and STABLE schedule at least several months into the future, which doesn't get all scrambled if someone leaves the team and their shifts become holes in the schedule.
Make the scheduling FULLY AUTOMATED so nobody needs to think about it more than at most once/quarter.

What do you think? Is this a problem worth trying to solve for real? If you look into the tool, do you think it looks like a good solution, or does it miss the mark somehow?
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PGQ looks neat - create a "property graph" from a relational model, then query it via Cypher-like expressions. The best or the worst of both worlds, depending on implementation quality.
Reddit is Fun is reddit for me.

When I use a computer and I get sent to actual reddit, the experience is so jarring and terrible.

I used to use old reddit before it was old.reddit and before smart phones dominated my internet browsing time.

Frankly if reddit is fun dies then reddit becomes just another search result rather than a place I casually stroll
A common misconception, wind turbines require thick air to be effective.
Commenting to remind myself later
Yeah but it’s got AI. So you know it’s good.
> What exactly is HIPAA’s role here? With or without HIPAA, medical institutions don’t want to share their data, especially not the ones with good data because they do their own research.

I agree that OP's thesis doesn't make much sense.

HIPAA provides a legal framework for institutions to share data without liability[0]. It doesn't apply at all to non-"institutional" actors (in the way that OP seems to be using the word "institutional").

HIPAA is an extra cost for the big players, but there's little, if anything, that it prevents them from doing which they would otherwise want to do.

[0] More precisely, it provides a framework for capping liability exposure for institutions
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>> I think a lot of people mistakenly believe that core.logic is working some magic behind the scenes to solve puzzles in some amazingly efficient manner. On the contrary, it's just brute force search, using complex machinery which just slows it down versus a for comprehension.

If that's what core.logic is, then core.logic is not logic programming.

Logic programming refers to one of two things: either Prolog-like languages where programs are sets of definite clauses executed by SLD-Refutation of a goal, and evaluation returns all bindings of the variables in the goal that make the goal true; or Answer Set Programming (ASP), where programs are similar to definite programs, but the semantics are stable model semantics and evaluation finds all the stable models of a program.

Both of these approaches incorporate search, but neither is "just brute force search", in any way, shape or form.
One thing that has always agitated me about SQL is that although it's standardized, and the standard seems to encompass a shit-ton, in practice a lot of SQL engines don't really seem to have any meaningful interoperability for practical uses among the world's most popular database engines.

For example, OK, I realize auto-incrementing IDs are not the most important thing in the world, and arguably not even a good approach in many cases. But sometimes you want them, and helpfully almost every database engine I know of has some kind of support for this, even if the semantics may differ. It's a super basic thing to want a unique ID that roughly counts upward on a table. You might have specific needs about re-using numbers and whatnot, but the general idea is very simple.

However: in practice, there is not an excellent way to do it that I can see. The closest thing I could find is `GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY` which, well, works. However, none of SQLite3, MSSQL, nor MariaDB support this to my knowledge.

This is relentlessly annoying.

Is it the standards fault, or the implementations? I honestly can't say. However, I definitely find this annoying, since I was really hoping that by this time, we'd at least have a nice clean subset of standard SQL you could count on anywhere, for popular database engines. Unfortunately, it's not quite there yet, necessitating ugly hacks to this day.

I assume this new standard doesn't really change anything on this regard, since it's a desync with implementations that is a problem, and it does not seem the standards committee really cares too much about this kind of thing. (I could be wrong, though, as I am saying this based on feel and not evidence.)
Critical vulnerability in Gigabyte Motherboards discovered
> the fact of infection was detected by Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform (KUMA), a native SIEM solution for information and event management; the system detected an anomaly in our network coming from Apple devices.

Interesting. This demonstrates the big downside of iOS's security model - it's basically impossible to run useful host-based IDS, which likely would have flagged this much more quickly.
Defund NPR.
I think this is starting, but I'm not sure it has been internalized. People still frequently quote Goebbels and saying "my data isn't useful." I think one key change that is happening now is that our data and decisions have really changed. For example, with the advent of LLMs I've thought of not just deleting accounts (despite being semi-anonymous) but purging them, so that my data cannot be used for future training. This is something that wasn't reasonably predictable 5-10 years ago, despite understanding the information was public and utilized for other means. Maybe we need to update how accounts are handled. On HN you can only delete your account. You can't purge and the reason was to ensure that there's a record of conversations for future readers. But the environment has changed and thus we need to weigh the threat model of privacy now vs the consistency argument.

Dang, if you're poking around, I really would be curious about your thoughts here. Are you thinking about allowing account purging due to this new environment change?
GP mentioned this though:

> not even in the little kids leagues

It might just be something that is very common somewhere or at some level (dunno where), but it's pretty alien to the pair of us and would be for most/all of continental Europe at the very least.
UK House Prices Fall at Fastest Pace in 14 Years
We wrote a vector database in a week (in Rust)
Why would I use zig c compiler in place of gcc or clang? Mainly for zig interactivity or does it have some advantage other than that over the aforementioned compilers?
> in the one-month period covered by this study, the city's police officers did 588 stops of Black drivers and only 262 stops of white drivers.

So keep in mind they had recordings from 262 traffic stops of white drivers.

If they had the data that said "white drivers" were 80% less likely to hear the escalatory phrases and so they didn't escalate - boom! That's an open and shut case.

But them using the excuse of a lack of escalations to justify the complete absence of this data is just way too problematic.
They don’t seem to be here. My wife is still on Tello and her phone doesn’t get the same reception as before.
Public debt, ownership, and power (2013) [pdf]
To clarify, CLP((Z) does not stand for "Constraint Logic Programming for the Zebra puzzle"

:P
Toyota did wait far too long before taking electric vehicles seriously. I'm amazed they stuck with their hydrogen fuel vision for this long.
Location: Boston, MA
Remote: Yes, or in Boston
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Kubernetes, Envoy, LLMs, service mesh, Hugging Face, Python, SQL, BigQuery, DBT, LangChain, Docker
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardli/
Email: rdl@amorphousdata.com

So this is a bit of an odd post, but I thought I'd try this out!

I'm an entrepreneur & product person. I've been an exec at two successful exits (Duo, Rapid7) and started my own company (Ambassador Labs) whose story is still being written. I'm super-interested in LLMs and what issues people are running into. So I'm interested in anyone who could use a product person for a part-time consulting gig. The more interesting the consulting, the less you need to pay me! :)

Some examples of work I could do would be helping you tell your story, building a sales deck, or maybe figuring out what you could do with all the new AI stuff. Or something else. Thanks for reading.
I remember alt.religion.emacs - quite vividly, in fact.

NNTP was a massive quasi-distributed forum (I wasn’t the newsmaster at the ISPs I worked at, but frequently dealt with the servers and setups) and a pretty big overhead resource and management-wise, but pretty interesting to deal with until it was overwhelmed by binaries groups and all sorts of weirdness.

I do miss the quirky sense of humor and the community - somewhat like Mastodon, for those who are leaving Twitter - but I don’t miss the drama, the flooding and the flame wars.
If you want to be closer to X without reading the protocol documentation, you might look into xcb; it's much less abstraction than xlib.
Bruh I have been in multiple life and death situations, I didn’t come out of them thinking I was amazing for not being considerate of others.

> Due to circumstances beyond my control, I learned at a young age that I am to be the universal asshole, and for a very long time I was not okay.

No you’re not required to be the “universal asshole”. That’s a choice you are making everytime you have the chance to be better and decide to go with the easy path of being a dick. You have the agency to do otherwise and you don’t get to absolve yourself of those choices.

You’re not a guru, you’re just anti social
Were you in NYC by chance?
Every ecosystem I've ever worked in has had good tooling for managing DB migrations (and in some cases I've been the one to add it). It's trivial to write a migration to ALTER TABLE bar ADD COLUMN foo and I think keeping structure explicit is generally quite beneficial for data safety even if you're not doing fancy things. DBAs are great but most companies simply don't need one - you can just get by with some pretty rudimentary SQL and skill up as needed.

Assuming you've got good integration test coverage of the database schema alterations end up taking a minuscule amount of time and if you lack test coverage than please reconsider and add more tests.
> It's a camera in the general sense of "result is a image"

So is the midjourney discord bot a camera? Microsoft paint? Your printer?

You could say its kinda a camera because it takes pictures are your location. But it is in no way seeing anything (obviously, because there is no lense). It's just sliding some preset parameters around based on location.

Again, not that its not impressive, but camera seems like the wrong word for it.
FYI, you can click on the "favorite" button to add it to your list
K9 is great
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Remote: Full remote, open to travel a few days per year

Willing to relocate: Maybe?depends where, and I'd expect a significant pay bump

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Perhaps not, but to answer Cher's question in the negative, I don't really believe in life after love. It really does feel like we're made for each-other, and I don't really want to experience life without her. She makes it all worth it.