skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice it almost always leads to people who are entitled to that benefit being wrongly denied it, or unable to access it. It also introduces a grey area of people who should qualify but don't.

Assessors are pressured, and incentivised financially, to get through as many cases as possible[0]. One gentleman recorded his assessment and found multiple falsifications[1]:

> On his phone recording you can clearly hear the assessor carrying out a peak test to measure his lung function, and reading out the data.

> But in the final report, his last reading appears to have doubled from 150 L/min to 300 L/min, making him seem better than he actually was.

The means testing of disability benefits in the UK is such an abject failure, that a noticeable number of people die within a month of being declared fit for work[2].

[0] https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/pip-assessors-paid-bo...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41581060

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-di....
I have been running Home Assistant for over 4 years (end of 2018) and and the beginning was rough. However since about a year and a half, a lot has done to improve stability. I can now safely update every time without breaking anything. The only integrations that break from time to time are custom integrations, which aren't supported anyway. But those have become rarer too. Automations and scripts have been stable for years now. And the release notes are also really, really good.

I would recommend to take another look at HA if you get the chance. Especially within a VM (or bare metal) it's a really good experience.
The scalpers are doing their job. That’s why prices have been so high.
There are plenty of good subreddits outside tech. Unfortunately, telling anyone about them risks ruining them due to how easy it is for a subreddit to blow up.
re: "lack of syntax"

I agree (though it doesn't necessarily irk the eye after some getting used to). Rather than saying it has a "uniform" syntax as the article author does, I am fond of saying lisp has "no syntax," because it's essentially true.
It might be neat to voice activate a mood with lights, music, etc. but the amount of effort to set that up and maintain all of that is literally 100x the effort I'd spend flipping a couple switches and turning on a playlist on a speaker. Literally 60 seconds to do it manually (assuming you know/have setup a playlist).

The only "smart" devices I have are for a room where you want a switch for a lamp but there isn't a switched outlet. Add a smart plug and a physical switch, done. No hub, no scripts, no automation. Its cheaper than buying smart bulbs which usually require some manufacturer's hub/app/nonsense.
Yeah, Tal's sacrifices being unsound is more or less a meme and fails take into account the historical context the games were played in. Tal did miss some things in his calculation, but they were usually things the opponent would never find. Because at that time, essentially no one could outcalculate or even match him in complex positions except maybe Viktor Korchnoi(who somehow had a clear positive score against him) and Fischer in his prime(though since he stopped playing in his prime he never managed to get a + score). So if Tal missed a refutation to one of his sacrifices, almost certainly the opponent missed it too. It was usually some bizarre computer line. Sometimes even grandmasters analysing the games at the time didn't find them, so clearly finding them at the board was pretty much impossible.

I never really studied the Karpov-Tal complex of games but somehow all their 23 games but one were a draw, with one win for Karpov. I think this is more a case of Karpov's ability to avoid tactical complications and outplay his opponents positionally than matching his calculation. But interestingly, Tal positional play mostly survived the Karpov test, which is impressive. Tal was also much older than Karpov.
His peak ELO was 1705 in 1980 which is nuts considering he was 44 by then and his health was deteriorating, yet he was still behind Karpov in his prime by only 20 ELO points. Probably all those draws with Karpov helped a lot...

In the historical chess ratings linked in GP, Tal's peak rating is 2799 in the 60s. Kasparov peaks close to 2900 in this system though and so does Fischer. Unfortunately, it seems the ratings stopped being updated ariund the mid 00s, so current top players don't have meaningful ratings :( I would love to know if Carlsen et al would come out close to the same as Kasparov and Fischer, or whether they'd still be ahead by a significant amount. Hell, maybe they'd be behind, since they don't necessarily dominate in the same way.
ChatGPT has a problem no one wants to talk about
https://archive.is/jOE9z
Rust does make compromises of performance. That is not always bad so long as the compromises are minor. Fortunately Rust can do most of the checking at compile time, but it if you read from an empty vector Rust doesn't have undefined behavior and that means there is a runtime check of some sort in at least some cases.

The trick is to find the right place to compromise so the cost is minimal overall even if it isn't zero.
I think you've hit on something here.

I understand very well that it is active moderation which keeps SO from being a toilet of spam and junk. At the same time, in my limited experience SO moderators are petty tyrants, very jealously guarding their tiny domains.
"the fact that statutory exemptions in the anti-kickback law allow PBMs to legally receive kickbacks from drugmakers."

Not sure what smaller(or bigger for that matter) government can do about laws like that.

free market should stand for free from corruption first.
As someone who likes OCaml, but hasn’t touched OCaml in ~5 years, that’s a very hard example to read. I can tell it’s making a network request, but I have no clue:

- what the type of res is (is it a string? A buffer? Async string? Something else?)

- how this code does not block: what is happening in parallel? At which point will it block?

I would like to be excited about OCaml’s algebraic effects, but right now I don’t really get it.
> Thirdly was the user interface. Usenet looked dull. In a world of animated GIFs and MySpace colour schemes, Usenet didn't even have avatar images! Sure, the spartan nature meant that you could focus on a conversation - but it didn't feel as modern and exciting as the web did. NNTP software was fragile.

Forté Agent was a masterpiece. Change my mind.
Yes - and I find it rather tedious. Why do you think that every other major SN has avatar images? It's because most users find it a better experience.

I also have my own CSS for HN which makes it much more pleasant (for me) and I I've started using https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668137
Digital drugs? Either you are unserious or you have fallen victim to hysteria. That very notion makes no goddamned sense. Do we call decks of cards paper drugs? Actual digital drugs would be literal magic.
No, I can't say it's rent driven per se as there are other factors but housing issues have gotten progressively worse last 20 years or so, same problem as everywhere else except that in our case it's amplified by having to structure an economy around the peculiarities of having world's second smallest independent currency in our wallets. That said, there definitely exist worse housing markets in the world, this is no Munich.
Regarding the currency, that Iceland is expensive, is partly due to rules such as our pension funds not being allowed to invest but 20% of their fund outside the country, a rule designed to reduce the downward pressure on the local currency and create demand for it that would otherwise exist to a smaller degree as the long-term returns of local investments have been worse than the performance of the "foreign" portfolio. Mix such rules which create "artificial" demand, actual demand for the currency from tourism, indexed mort­gages (a concept so unbelievable I've added a link at the bottom) driving up prices and you end up with a situation where economic problems are one of the few things that we don't have to import.

https://www.islandsbanki.is/en/news/what-is-an-indexed-mortg...
A state charging 0% capital gains on top of what the federal government already charges is not "finding a tax loophole." It's following tax law as it is written.

What tax deductions or exclusions do you qualify for that you are avoiding in order to not accidentally "find a loophole?" You are free to donate more of your money to the state or federal government should you choose to.
Frightening how companies could control desperate people in the near future
I couldn't find anything on that website about what a "carbon removal purchase" is. Apparently it's something that people just know about.

"Carbon removal marketplaces are the bridge between companies that sell the removals of CO2 from the atmosphere and businesses or individuals, who are willing to purchase these removals, in order to offset their emissions and help mitigate the climate crisis." [0]

[0] https://carbonherald.com/top-10-carbon-removal-marketplaces-...
How do we know? Reddit could be full of stupid karma-farming bots since years. How can we distinguish them from just your average stupid reddit-human? Thinking about, this could be also another angle of Turing test, find the true human idiot.
> My philosophy with HA is not to touch it too much.

I get where you are coming from, but for me updating hasn't given me any issues since about a year or so. Especially if you stick with the .2 or higher releases. Those are really stable.
This very site does as well.
To be successful, it is not enough for a language to be good. It might not even be necessary. What matters is if there is s significant niche where the language is a better fit than any alternative.

PHP show that a language only needs to get that one thing right.

Rust have found its niche. Graydons vision seem to be a more elegant language which would compromize on the points which actully make Rust succesful.
> And then you may just have introduced side channels in crypto code.

incorrect crypto code. If overflow is intentional, it should be annotated as such in operations, will generate similar assembly and won't panic. If it isn't intentional, then the code was bad to begin with.
Yes. That's what I'm saying. Alternatively you could play with domain following, but the request here was a simple solution.
Probably the biggest revolution in app packaging is there is now a tool that helps automate enabling an app to request outside network resources. It used to require you write some Cap'n Proto and all, now you just need to include powerbox-http-proxy in your app package, more or less.
ISPs decommissioned their news servers. That's what killed netnews.
Thermometer Study Attempts to Blame Schools for Covid Spread
Twitter appears to have removed their andt= referral tracking code
This year old reddit post refers to the tracking ID that twitter included when sharing links.

It's unclear if it has been dropped completely and if referrers are being tracked a different way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/sfbc2h/what_does_the_tjumbled_string_of_encrypted/
Space probes: https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
whataboutthem?
You can do this with: https://github.com/RJVB/sse_mathfun
Those functions do not have the same safety as libc, but even for scalar sin/cos it can be faster.
It seems like solid advice.

I'm curious about the known exceptions. I.e., when has holding one's tongue entirely, or taking time to think before speaking, worked out badly?
Tie to a phone number, is basically it. Even that's not full proof with virtual number apps akimbo
Device probably requirements maintenance and the patient requires antibiotics and constant monitoring for inflammation or something.

Just spitball from learning about pacemakers
XD yeah. you can implement lisp in any language.
I'd like the extend the Trigger warning to people still building Java apps because it's the same shit.
What is ANSI C or C99 then?
for me that happened because of interference. I switched from a Conbee II to a Sonoff Dongle-P and that already helped tremendously. That new dongle is way more stable for me. Also I changed my wifi and Zigbee channels and reduced the transmit power for less interference. Since than my Zigbee netwerk is really stable.
Homepage: https://kbin.pub/

Example of a running instance: https://kbin.social/
I know this has been talked about ad nauseum but the new Intel Alderlake CPU are really good and low power consumption. Recently got one with a N100 with removable 16GB of RAM 500 SSD and and it’s been an absolute workhorse. You can get a N5105 for about a Rpi 4 8GB price as well.
Show HN: 1 iOS Developer, 9 Apps
It prevents you from having to topologically sort your definitions, or otherwise declare everything at the top. Since idiomatic C uses header files, though, it doesn't matter too much. Main benefit is that non-public implementation details (e.g. static functions) needn't be declared at the top of the source file.
With enough time, you can boot Linux with a pencil and paper.
The amount of time needs to be practical, in order to be able to be useful to do stuff. That is maybe what is expected from "runs". Eg, a device can't run Doom if it is unplayably slow.
- Reddit didn't do anything to Usenet. Reddit postdates Usenet's glory days by over a decade.

- Sears, a dying company, bought K-Mart, and they died together. K-Mart didn't do anything to Sears.

- Walmart didn't do anything to K-Mart except sell stuff cheaper and work on its supply chain. Wikipedia article says this: "Unlike its competitors Walmart and Target, Kmart failed to invest in computer technology to manage its supply chain."

I don't understand the analogy at all.
It turns out that it isn't terribly hard to implement hygienic macros on top of "non-hygienic" macros. I recently saw a paper that had an implementation. The code itself was fairly short.
Ask HN: IAM Policies and Early-Adaptors
Almost 6 months ago I wrote this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34038663 which was a big motivation to start building the IAM Policy Copilot.

We conducted a lot of interviews and honestly were confused about the best place to start. How can we best ingest data in order to generate a “least-privilege” policy. We started with integrating with Github actions to intercept traffic and generate the policies that can be used for deployments.

Our roadmap includes a multi-layered approach of analyzing data through traffic, static code and patterns/context in order to address more use-cases.

For now, we would love to learn from AWS partners and heavy AWS users how they currently deal with IAM and what an ideal solution would look like for them.
Proposed as a wiki project:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiask/Introduction

It never got anywhere. If it ever does, I would consider being a contributor.
Here's my compilation of AI learning resources - I think some of the ones I've collected will be a better place to start for most people.

I categorized them into what kind of goal they're relevant for - building products, deploying custom models, or self study towards ai research science and research eng roles.

https://llm-utils.org/AI+Learning+Curation
Speak for yourself!

A good onscreen keyboard, such as Swype, can be fairly fast... but horribly horribly inaccurate so I need to spend more time correcting the message than entering it.

The same is true of speech recognition. Quick, but so inaccurate as to waste more time fixing the resultant text than just typing it by hand would have been.

Source: I broke my right arm in mid-April and have spent a LOT of time and money looking into text entry systems since, including the very latest available Apple and MS Windows offerings.
Mirador – Point of Interest AR explorer (open source)
Ask HN: Do you think metaverse will catch on?
Meta seem to have gone quiet on it publicly but they are still doing research in VR/AR, and now Apple are entering the industry. What do you think the future holds for VR and metaverse? Will it catch on?
His pharmacy has great prices ( and medicines delivered to your door).
It is delusional for sure.

The kid that hits puberty is going to figure out a way to watch porn on their phone if they have a phone. The phone has to practically be useless for them to not figure this out.

Parents are just in denial because the whole subject is so uncomfortable.
It's not going to work. The NIH has no equivalent private sector competitor. For every single researcher, there are 10 other graduates and staff who would be willing to do their job for a fraction of the cost. This is a supply and demand problem, a funding problem. Strip congress and the medical board of their ability to control the number of residency spots and you will see the free market correct itself. Most biology people's first career choice is medicine, not working in research.

The only protection they have is the fact that it is hard to get fired from a government job.
beautiful ending!
You could have your Usenet client to the same thing. Generate some sort of image out of the email address.
The dirty secret about "metabolism" is that, except for an EXTRAORDINARILY SMALL part of the population, the range of metabolic differences between individuals is approximately equivalent to a single candy bar's worth of calories.

If you have a "slow metabolism" eat one candy bar's less worth of calories and you'll be fine.

Nine out of ten humans will be within 10% (less than a candy bar) of what an online BMR calculator spits out based on their sex, age, weight, and height.

The tenth out of ten humans is the person in the article you linked to, or an elite athlete.

If you are one of those one out of ten humans, you are or should be under the care of a physician.

Everyone else can count calories and adjust based on their observations.

BMR has the same factoid-spouting prigs as BMI. Yeah, we get it, you're a powerlifter so BMI doesn't work with you. Shut up and let the 99.97% of the population for who it works use it.
It's even worse than that.

Here, Google pulled one from the Microsoft playbook: embrace, extend, extinguish.

Google bought DejaNews, rebranded it into Google Groups (embrace) and then proceed to Googlify it, making it less and less Usenet-y and more and more Google specific (extend), until only the Google-specific mailing lists remained (extinguish).

Edit: see https://web.archive.org/web/20010226023947/http://groups.goo...
Usenet had avatars: XFaces

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XfacesSupport

I remember them being used by some Usenet posters in the 1990s.
Hygienic macros are a waste of time. I've never once had a macro bug from CL.
Yeah. All languages other than LISP are Blub. :(

Relatedly, I was just looking at this, mostly to see what the fuck possessed someone to do it: https://macropy3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Origin of the phrase "Blub Paradox": http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
In C++ a small change to a header can result in having to rebuild thousands of different files. Even if each file builds fast the total can be long. I have also benchmarked including a specific header (not using it, just including it) costs .5 seconds which adds up quick in those thousand files. Another benchmark found a specific boilerplate code construct added .1 seconds to the time to compile the file each time you added that one line - and it was a line commonly repeating in a header (MOCK_METHOD from gmock - there is a FAQ entry on how to get this time down)
It’s worth noting that for fixed-precision math libraries, we usually want the best approximation in the (possibly weighted) L-inf sense, which doesn’t generally have a closed-form solution, so we use iterative methods to generate approximations instead.
I’m not sure I understand how there are no lists out of the box in Clojure. What makes the data structures not valid lists? Basic lisp lists are nestable, doesn’t that make them trees? The underlying structure is to support immutability by default but that’s under the hood stuff. Conceptually and, I think more importantly, syntactically they’re list.
[citation needed]

Inflation might not be driven by wages but by company profits: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/an-economic...
Inform Consumers Act Included in FY23 Omnibus Funding Bill
For the last time, llama is not open source!

That aside, "AI" has been open source from the beginning. Almost all of the meaningful models and research from the last 10 years are freely available, under real open source license. A better article would be that AI has discovered proprietary models with chatGPT, claude, et al.
What I learned from the folks over at WW2 in Real Time / TimeGhost History (check them out, they have dedicated D-Day channel with a 24 hour real time coverage coming up on June 6th), is the following: Someone with access to Overlord code words inadvertidly leaked them to authors of cross words. As a result, everything from Neptune over beach names to Overlord were solutions in cross-words. The leaker was arrested and interogated, upon release hebtold his collegue to burn the notebook containing those words. Only years after the death of the arrested, did the other person come clean (details on the WW2 channel). Truely crazy stuff!

I'm curious of their coverage of Operation Bagration, and the Soviet shell games around that. After all, they fooled the Germans to the point of stripping Army Group center of basically all armor! Another fun fact: Gehlen, the guy chosen to create the post-war BND, was a big head in Fremde Heere Ost. And as such directly involved in each and every German intel blunder on the eastern front. Only thing he had going for him: he was a staunch anti-communist.
Maybe George can volunteer as an unpaid intern, like he did for Twitter. He certainly solved their problems! /s
Air Gun (Seismic)
> The Psions were nice toys, but not a lot more than that.

Absolutely the reverse of my own experience.

I used an Organizer II LZ32, a Series 3, 3A, 5, and finally 5MX.

The 5, for instance, paid for itself in creating work the same weekend I bought it -- work that I sold on Monday.
When the Bluesky and the Facebook competitors launch I can see a lot of big firms moving across to those and leaving Twitter behind. Twitter is going to become the Fox news of social media I think. Lots of hardcore maga, funded by ads from the same people that advertise on Fox News.
According to the parent post, two families of languages. I disagree, though. Each standard _is_ a language. But which one does your compiler implement?
Worlds Apart – Weaponised Insecurity? – Vasily Kashin
Stripe missing large scale credit card testing fraud
Global heatwaves are getting hotter. How can risks be curbed?
Interesting. So it looks like once he let the C++ folks in, they started to damage it. As they did with their own design decisions before.
> for 10wks at a caloric deficit.

A human lifespan is not 10 weeks. Did he do that for the next 50 years? Because that's what's necessary.

IIRC the average American gains weight equivalent to a 50 kCal / day surplus, or 2.5%. By that same logic, going by weight gain and activity, I've started eating 70% more over the last two weeks, and I can't agree that's what happened. I eat out rarely and my groceries bill and cart contents have not changed.

I might believe the claim in isolation but, if all of his health metrics improved - sorry, I'm going to need a replication. Over 40 weeks.

> However, he did admit to eating veggies around his kids.

Oh look.
Even in worst case scenarios (short lifetime, no reuse, no recycling, dumped in badly run landfills) it's an environmental and economic win.

All the stuff being discussed is pure upside, and easily achievable.
The GBP USD rate went from 1.6245 on Jan 1 2013 to 1.25 today - which is a drop. Perhaps this is what is being focused on.

But your comment is dead on - this doesn’t feel like a collapse it feels like currency fluctuations, at least from the outside.
I think that is far from guaranteed. Most people aren't reading twitter to see what Fox news, or any other media company, thinks the news should be about.