skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly not much gain up front, if anything it might be more expensive than a really efficient custom design (though I think most recent UK hospitals are not cheap, one near me cost something like £200 million and has 500 beds and took quite a while to design and build, would be interesting to what went to the design consultants).

You can still put a custom fascia on it. Most recent large buildings fundamentally work that way anyway. Concrete inside, panels or bricks outside.

The real gain comes in 20 years when you need to change things (medical technology changes, demographics change, multi-hospital organisations-trusts in the UK, networks in the US-change), and you find that you need to gut the whole place to do anything at all. So you either do that at huge expense, or you make do and do your consultations in a disused lab area with a waiting room in a corridor (because labs don't have waiting rooms, but now the lab work is done elsewhere, so it's what you got).

Of course when it's all about "profit this quarter" (US) and "being tough on spending" (UK), having a major problem in 20 years is not your problem.
Also along tenure lines.
Inside America's School Internet Censorship Machine
About a book about the prosecution of Reality Winner for espionage, and how her conviction was based partly on taking fragments of old social media posts out of context. Quote from Amazon blurbs for the book:-

> I love this book because I can't quite describe what it is. It bristles with the precise kind of strangeness that we live in but cannot name.

The book looks interesting.
Because in the US they'll counter with 'freedom of speech', which is correct. they are allowed to talk to each other, but not allowed to collude. The state just can't yell 'collusion', they have to gather evidence for that.

I'm not saying they aren't colluding, because by their behaviors it seems like they are, I'm just saying it is much much harder to prove.
I was expecting something about the demoscene.
IMHO the physical markets are becoming less relevant. Relatively little R&D occurs around these areas now, the majority of such operations being in the shiny Nanshan district, various outskirt districts or in nearby cities such as Dongguan. The chief drivers in this shift appear to be efficiency, the rising cost of real estate and salaries in Shenzhen, and the availability and cheap fast couriers (you can pretty much order anything online and have it arrive next-day). Therefore, the markets have tended to generally shift toward consumer retail and finished products and away from electronic components (although they are still present).
The amount of division in the Balkans -- especially in the last 20-30 years -- has never made much sense to me, given how close culturally and ethnically most of the population is. This only confirms that the fragmentation of the region is driven more from the creation of 'national myths' than on genetic differences between different groups of people.
Doesn't work. Try https://archive.is/dLvnF
That is not at all what I have found, but who am I to argue with "everyone", heh heh.
Related article from the same series: We Can’t Stop Writing Paper Checks. Thieves Love That. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/business/check-fraud.html
AI helps startups, not incumbents
> US hardware

Chinese hardware.
Thanks for reinforcing my point about over reliance on euphemisms.

“Rich people” in a fiat economy is due to the valuation of their assets, often but always, large stakes in corporations.

All of which is politically correct hallucination. None of it exists as immutable physics.

The mistake is yours for memorizing vacuous political statements.
There needs to be a truth in labeling act so every DRM'd e-book and digital download clearly states that you're buying a license to it and not it.
Personally, I see the opposite trend: decreased differences in salary and cost-of-living. As developing countries develop, they'll look more and more like the US.

Put another way: Since WWII, we've been moving from US engineers (used broadly) with US as the only country who can afford our products to global engineers with everyone buying products.

There's no magic "US is a superpower fairy" which guarantees US salaries, cost-of-living, etc. will be 10x higher than everywhere else forever.

I can't predict the future, so I don't know what that will do for jobs outlook, but it's not as simple as "they're coming for our jobs."

My biggest worry is that the US is increasingly training incompetent engineers (again, used broadly). Much of the rest of the world has much better math and science in K-12. In winner-takes-all markets, 7-figure salaries can make sense sometimes to get the best over low 5-figure ones in the developing world, but if we're not the best....
It was written with lyrics that were never used[0].

[0]https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28895/star-trek-theme-so...
> A transparent but poor decision is not really much better than an opaque poor decision

But it is better, or rather more desirable, as it is easier to fix and testable against rules which might be very important in certain contexts.
This doesn't work for me unfortunately. I am on my phone maybe an hour a day tops anymore. In fact I find tech and gadgets somewhat repulsive these days. I visibly cringe whenever someone wants to show me a video or something on their phone.

The problem is my job. I'm a software developer which means I'm flooded with disorganization and distractions for many hours a day, five days a week. There's no escape from that other than leaving the field entirely and that's no longer a practical option at this point in life.
And as someone who pirates, I highly discourage pirating proprietary programs that save your data in their locked-in formats.

Your data is more important than to be locked into a data-roach-motel. The companies know this, and count on piracy. From there, the pirate user has MB's of content locked into something they cant convert out of. And then, it's pretty easy to force a sale, or worse yet, a rental.

Looking at you Adobe, Autodesk, etc.
Do they bring marshmallows?
Switch to security :)
Cruise missiles can fly for a long time! Now, ballistic ones...
Either way, almost spilled the coffee over this haha.
Back when my family was in the old country it really was like this. Children were free range as soon as they could walk. They’d scarcely be able to speak and would be running all over the village and up and down the mountainsides. When the Germans came during world war II, the boys would hide in bushes with a stolen pistol and take shots at the troops.
LLMs: “A lump of text in the shape of an answer”
It’s an anecdote just like yours.
It's only fraud if you sell them as genuine?
Kids are losing the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics, They were for parents, anyway
Did they design the two meal plans within similar calorie intake? If the whole vegan group is losing weight, it means the vegan diet plan has much less calories to the point of calorie deficiency to cause weight loss.

It looks like the trial was designed to skew the results. The trial becomes comparing a short term dieting plan to a full meal plan. It’s known that short term fasting and calorie restricted meals do improve health overall.
We use consul/vault/nomad at $DAYJOB. It's been a mostly stable platform for us.

Me the other hand, I can assure you... I am not reliable. /jk
Since engine is targetting pixel art, isn't ECS a bit of an overkill...?

And yes, technically artstyle has nothing to do with game architecture.

But in practice, most games of this style are pretty small, and thus don't really have any real performance requirements, so ecs'ing everything is overengineering compared to oop-style, coupled architecture, no?

Also related:
https://youtu.be/JxI3Eu5DPwE
If isolationists like Trump come to power in the US and do things like pull out of NATO, Europe might be suddenly in serious trouble.

This is not a far fetched possibility. Even if Trump loses or isn’t even on the ticket, an increasing number of younger Americans are opposed to overseas involvements including some on the left side of the spectrum. Ballooning US national debt interest and social security issues could force the US to make steep cuts in places like military and overseas aid.
Survival. What would you do when someone much stronger than you corners you? You hit back.
Summers is a rubber stamp: See what Elizabeth Warren said he said to him: “ He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.”
I will forever remember Fallout 4 and the ludicrous amount of hype around that game because it was announced at E3 in June and released in September. These 3 year hype cycles are just plain silly (and expensive).

But stealth launch with no marketing whatsoever very rarely pans out.
I think it’s a stretch to say that it’s hard to draw any conclusion. There are many extremely useful conclusions one can draw. Especially when placed in other studies that have been done in this area.

There’s a lot more data that probably will come out of this study but the key to it is that it helps us eliminate genetic factors from many known effects.
I agree with you, and the issue seems to be people are being trained to get their sense of identity and worth from something external while also outsourcing their sense of well being to something else. People have always blamed media for societal ills, from traveling theater troupes performing questionable shows to radio dramas to television to TikTok. While those things are a tool which can cause issues, the underlying reason it happens is because people want to turn themselves off for a bit and be entertained to distract themselves from the pain of their lives. The pain never goes away, so the escapism becomes more and more common until people are barely functional without a hit of dopamine. Being bored is painful for my son because he's so used to constant focus on something entertaining. Mostly it's fear of missing out in his case, which is something good for him to learn to recognize and resist.
In addition to your reasons, and sibling's 'easier to get up', I'd add:

- does actually look much more comfortable than the ground to me. The middle would give a bit into the cavity of the base, it's not just a sheet on the ground as I imagined reading your comment.

- being raised makes it easier for medical personnel to attend to any injuries etc.

- looks like a more clearly delimited arrangement, I imagine it would more easily become difficult to walk around people sleeping on the floor, as they'd sprawl out, lose the organised grid arrangement, etc.

But I don't have any relevant experience to comment on how important any of that is, or if it's the best way to spend whatever cardboard beds cost in such a scenario.
TL;DR: The only newsworthy vulnerability is the breaking TEA1 - which is anyways the least secure of them all and only intended for commercial use (that is, no emergency services).

https://www.tetraburst.com/
Before you learn React, you should learn html and JavaScript and before you learn those, you should know how to read. Every skill builds on the next. For me, having a positive experience with this led to more positive experiences with MAUI and GTK. I’m not writing out the most scaled out projects - I’m just having fun learning.
I prefer news that doesn't lie by omission or lie by selective retelling. It's naive to believe a story like this is complete and honest.

After your work has been covered by the media, you may understand how the trick is executed.
There can be no clearer example of simply thinking Palestinian lives don't matter than this. It's pretty disgusting. You use the word "unfortunately", but the entire gist and underlying assumption of what you're saying is that the death and suffering of Palestinians is not as important as the death and suffering of Israeli civilians.
Yuh. I guess that's "modern times". I taught in the late eighties, and auto-grading wasn't a thing.

FWIW, I was a "temporary visiting lecturer", i.e. contract fill-in help. I had to write the syllabus (literally), the course plan, and the hand-outs. I also had to write all the tests and the exams; and I had to mark the exams, and then sit on the exam board through the summer holidays. The pretty girls would flutter their eyelashes at me, and ask for leniency. I suspect they took their cue from my louche colleague, who was evidently happy to take sexual advantage of his students in exchange for better marks.

[Edit] I liked this colleague; but I would not have introduced him to my wife or my daughter.
The reality is LLMs aren’t competing against normal classification algorithms, as the tasks have no algorithm that approaches the observed precision and recall of LLMs. They’re competing against humans, who also have no metrics other than observed precision and recall. When you observe their performance vs humans at these sorts of tasks they’re generally superior, especially as the quality of the human work is very low - poorly trained, poorly paid, and poorly incentivized people doing very boring work do very badly. LLMs do very well.

The savings can be substantial even tho the people are poorly paid and trained, because you need so many of them, and need a complex organization built around them to source, train, manage, and observe all the humans - of which there can be many thousands with high turnover. Their function is actually pretty important and the high failure rates cause material impact to the business in terms of loss and risk. Improving these dimensions substantially upgrades the business over all.

The truth though is we are really early in the development cycle. These sorts of changes will play out over a decade. In that time I expect the technology to improve in many dimensions - power, capability, ease of integration, ease of observing, ease of fine tuning/alignment to task, applicability to other functions, etc.
> The vulnerabilities were discovered during the course of 2020, and were reported to the NCSC in the Netherlands in December of that year. It was decided to hold off public disclosure until July 2023, to give emergency services and equipment suppliers the ability to patch the equipment.

Interesting discussion about responsible disclosure. It seems a strange belief that you can tell all the radio operators about the vulnerability without also telling exploiters. Aren't they often one and the same? What's a reasonable approach here?
Well, if we talk about battles, they seem to be very common in whole of Europe, according to this map:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAH3_cHXoAAgy22.jpg
(taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5OsDWYJmQ)

Although I'm not sure if this isn't because Europe has more written history than the other places.
My bad, I meant voluntary slavery, I don't know what the proper term is.
Also many other submissions here over the years about Doug Englebart and the famous 1968 demo. Use this HN search link:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Anyone else want to call this library “Gargamel” after the character from The Smurfs? I can’t unsee it.
Sure absolutely, and if the comment about condoms was put with a little more context it could be read that way. The other comment though, not so much.

In any case, If you go to pharmacy and browse that aisle the products are targeted at women because it's primarily women that experience symptoms. You can certainly take those medications, and you probably should if a partner needs to.
Sounds like they took the "roll your own and don't tell anyone how it works" approach. Security by obscurity is never security. History has shown that the open encryption standards are the most secure.
Actually, Clojure has typehinting! It looks like ^String or ^Int but usually it is not required because the compiler is very good at determining things. You can use the Clojure function (typeof? the-object-goes-here) to get the type. It is not a type-less language, it is a language of heterogenous collections and therefore lax type rules because they gotta go into the same collections together. The collections can be built in creative ways, so using fundamental elements to make larger nested collections is direct and possible. We can always ask what the type of an item is, and we can introspect contents, it's not as cumbersome as some people make it out to be via hn comment.
The first two extensions (constrained deflate, multithreaded encoding/decoding) only present optimization opportunities for the decoder. It is still the same image.

Single-threaded decoding of large PNGs is enough of a bottleneck that Apple has their own version of PNG with multithreading support.
Open Source Spotlight: OldInsuranceMaps
Dont think that existed in the 60s mate
Your "Quick Compare" table has EnvKey winning on everything and doesn't mention anything about the fact it only does about 10% of what Vault does. The 90% of stuff that Vault does that EnvKey doesn't, gets one sentence in the advantages list and is downplayed in the conclusion.

A fair comparison would point out that EnvKey only does a small but important part of what Vault does, and explain why it does it well. Somebody who didn't know either piece of software, might read your comparison and get the false impression that they had equivalent functionality.

I don't expect you to agree, because that would mean you had to change the page to one which maybe doesn't convert so well.
> many in tech vilify him.

He did that to himself.
Older ones do, because the readout speed of sensors was not fast enough. Cameras with stacked or global shutters generally don't, because it's no longer an advantage. In between, it's a choice you can make whether or not to use the shutter.
How about lets just get rid of all of it.
Usually if/when you identify a spy from an allied country, you just try to keep really close tabs on them and otherwise let them go about their business. If they start crossing some boundaries, then you quietly and firmly let them know it's time to fuck off.

You don't publicly expel them unless you really want to weaken the alliance, and you certainly don't torture them like some of the commenters in this thread are suggesting. They watch too many movies.
When I was a kid, I would get dropped off early for “before school programs at school” and stay at “after school programs” at school and get picked up late because both of my parents worked full time. Do they not have those anymore (which sound like less money than “hiring childcare”)?
Yeah, how can you even be certain this is why?
I’ve never seen this before, but having perused through it for a bit I’m convinced this is the absolute best blog on the entire internet.
I believe the "boring kids" statement was intended to mean something like "You don't get wise men by boring (verb) boys in a classroom all day." Boring them because the teacher is boring, rather than a judgement about how interesting the boys are.
I wonder if it is easier for fast food to stay consistently vegan than a sit-down restaurant. For example, holes in the wall or food trucks that sell takeaway Middle Eastern staples like falafel or koshary. Sit-down places have too much space that, with soaring rents in so many countries, costs too much money.
We had oscilloscopes in the 60's. It could have.
I guess I never would have imagined it either until a past CEO of mine shared that he was a part of one. I can’t recall if I was surprised or not. It seems kind of obvious once you know, I guess?

It seriously rubs me the wrong way. The way it surfaced was in a discussion about money. I foolishly admitted I don’t really want much money and if I was exceptionally wealthy, I would have to quit development in order to find ways to use my wealth constructively in my community.

This was a disturbing concept. He relayed anecdotes from the WhatsApp group in which various absurdly wealthy people discuss the need to have more wealth, in some form or another. To him this wasn’t a sign of illness or anything, it was evidence that we all in fact should pursue wealth. Because look, even this billionaire does. Very surreal. Despite that, one of the best bosses I’ve had.
We're using GitLab EE in Arch.
It secretly extracts its internal Python files to a temp directory and runs them from there, which can look a bit virus-ish and can potentially leave them lying around forever if the application doesn't exit cleanly.
It also bears pointing out that the amount of water needed to achieve these anti-clumping effects is probably twice what people are using following existing RDT (water spraying) methods.
SOPS +
STEP +
Teleport
If someone edits a png I expect them to output a new file. So if they use the SDR version as a starting point... they use the SDR version, that's it, nothing else breaks. Everyone sees the same output from Sarah. You can have the same kind of issues with baseline png already; not every tool does all colors or editing effects correctly, and if someone uses a worse tool to edit then that's unfortunate.
In a ''For All Mankind'' sorta way, I suppose.
> Per Israel, 15k people have been killed, approximately 10k of whom are civilians.

Oh much better! If true, seems perfectly justified and A-ok!
Must have gotten the Ikea assemblers from McKinsey
Option 3 is to recognize that all societal freedoms exist within the construct of society. Limiting some of the rules of that society (as opposed to removing all of them) is often the focus of limited government types.

The Non-Aggression Principle[1] is generally accepted as rule #1 for a limited government or a maximally free society. I can't speak to the ideals or proposed solutions to this from the Hobbsian State of Nature types.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
> People don't like being tracked without consent, but people haaate all the "This site uses cookies" popups.

I thought that was the intent… surfacing ubiquitous tracking to direct consumer frustration at the practice itself.
Maybe this is the genius in it.
In order to get everyone to move to better formats, you just break everything in the one everyone uses, so they have to move.

Like Twitter becoming X to push everyone to mastodon. Mastodon is better in every way, so it's a net win.
Google can harvest data from "virtually all Android devices" just by offering Chrome, Google Search, and Gmail as apps. Almost every Android user has at least one of those apps installed. They don't need Play Services itself to spy on you on top of that.
The Electronic Connector Book
Four people were recovered from the rubble alive (one later died) in Surfside, so that wasn’t the conclusion at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse
We do a very similar thing for X-Ray rejection from electron microscope cameras.
Just as telephones were a step backwards from telegrams, every other HCI mode has been a step backwards from the Xerox Alto :P
Apache is a suitable choice when the project has a need for contributor agreements. GNU is paperwork free...as are BSD and MIT but with different ideas of what "free" means.

However in practice, the license only matters to the degree you are willing to lawyer up and enforce it...and to the degree it is not a non-starter for other developers.

But mostly, choosing a license is playing house. It feels like moving the project forward, but really is just a way of avoiding the hard work of building something. I am sure your philosophy is important to you, but it's not something that matters to me very much relative to whatever you build that actually works.

Good luck.
Eventually, I hope, we will move to safer battery designs less prone to thermal runaway.

It might take a few decades, though. Town gas (made from coal, a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) was used for several decades before the change to natural gas (all methane), despite the explosions and suicides.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas