skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the only way to do this is to require ID checks,

No, it isn't. Check out Yivi [1]. Its fundamental premise is to not reveal your attributes. It's based on academic work into (a.o.) attribute-based encryption. The professor then took this a step further and spun off a (no profit) foundation to expand and govern this idea.

[1] https://privacybydesign.foundation/irma-explanation/
Same disclaimer: not in the US.

From the other side of the table, as patients that were very regularly ill and bouncing between medical professionals, EMR were a godsend.

For instance in vacation at the other end of the country, we lost an Anapen with a luggage mishanded at the station, though we had a spare but we actually didn't (was in the same bag...). We went to the closest doctor, showed the insurance card and they got access to the allergologist's diagnosis and original prescription, gave us a new one with a memo in the file, and done.

Same way having two generalists looking at us, one near my work and another near home wasn't an issue. At no point did we have to bring folders full of papers to explain long treatment histories etc. (it still helps to have the key files, in particular scans)

I moved away and everything is back in small silos at each doctor/clinic, and it's a real PITA.

I'm truely sad it's such a pain on the care giving side, because there's so much potential and I think it merits investing a lot to get something decent. It's such an important part of our forseable future.
Very poor article.

9to5's leak shows an option of chatting to bard in google messages and this article takes that to make the point that all your messages will be shared with Google.

reference article: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/18/google-messages-bard/
This is more like those indie tools that send message to chatgpt from your texts app.

And that's gonna be not-encrypted anyway.
Japan press should be fine too.
Can we talk about particular examples? I know for a fact that in my area private train ticket booking app is vastly better than government one. So at least there is an exception.
> As techies, we're best suited to tackle some of the evidence around tech, like what was the tech, how does it work, how was it represented, how was it used, what did it do, etc.

Go ahead then...
Why is this exposed to the user? If it isn't exposed to the user, what on earth are you talking about?
Most people that I've taught (sometimes fairly advanced) computer skills to have been held back up to that point almost entirely by their own fears. First actions I've always taken is whatever I gotta do or say to get them past those fears so that the actual learning can begin. Once they're no longer scared of the subject matter at hand, they almost always have no troubles actually grasping the concepts (as long as they're explained in terms that make sense to them). Lotta folks are a lot smarter'n they give themselves credit for, even about things they think they can't understand, but their fears create a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.
If I’m not mistaken, the Spanish healthcare system has a fully electronic medical record.
I hear what you're saying, but "because we have so many of these planes out there" isn't a rationale that gives me a lot of confidence for justifying a waiver. In the grand scheme of things I'd rather see them stop building shitty planes.
Story from last week.

When there were related stories and discussion:

Netflix is turning into cable TV

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111600

Netflix adds 13.1M subscribers, tops revenue estimates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111287

Netflix Hammers the Last Nail into Linear TV's Coffin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39149036
It seems their result has been out for almost a year now... https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14605

I'm curious how this affects Traveling Salesman. I was under the impression that all NP-Complete problems take O(n!). Does this method improve it at all?
Your description of Gauche makes me think of Racket, which I really like. How would you compare the two?
In the last 10 years and 6 different clients/employers I worked there is pretty much no way to run production on the cloud. Only 1 of them had some stuff running in the (GCP) cloud at all.

Of all of the 6 infrastructures I've seen, only 1 of them is half decent, with 6 dedicated teams around the datacenter working closely together (by dedicated I mean, nothing is required of them concerning the core software product that the company develops). Network, Unix/Virtu, Windows, Storage, PC, and datacenter. That's 30+ people just to run a couple big datacenters and a few more server rooms. The service was actually quite good with VMs/zones delivered under an hour and most tech issues solved in half a day. The other infrastructures were either bigger or smaller, with more or less people, and were all terrible, sometimes needing weeks of email exchanges with excel attached to get a single VM.

AWS was the dream everywhere I went for everybody. Oxide may be coming out with a product that will solve a LOT of issues. SmartOS/IllumOS has all the tech to be self-sufficient (virtualization, storage, SDN...), add support for networking and storage and you get a complete product that a handful of people can run (well, you still need a windows team in most cases but fine).
When I dropped out all of my teachers said "you know, some of the smartest and successful people dropped out" etc. The fact that "education" is compulsory isn't really a good indicator, depending on what kind of abilities we're talking about. Years of "knowledge" "accumulated" sounds a little unmalleable. A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for. On the other hand, standardization, setting a low enough or average enough common denominator, socialization, behavior modification, etc are all features of the education system which do provide some utility. I'll be the first to say an org or team of outliers isn't generally going to be effective.
I was thinking the same. I can respect a decision to only show four photos max for [reasons], but in that case, photo number three absolutely gets cut for more food.

Photo three is just kinda bad anyway.
This one is pretty good: https://blog.packagecloud.io/the-definitive-guide-to-linux-s...
https://github.com/shirok/Gauche

http://www.practical-scheme.net/gauche/index.html
It's wonderful when an interaction makes you question that which you thought you knew.

My understanding was that, in order to produce a triangle or sawtooth wave, you need to have a phase control. This is because of the (-1)^k term in the Fourier expansion, as seen in Wikipedia.

After seeing this site produce a sawtooth wave with no phase control, my mind is blown apart, into tiny little pieces.
I was using punchline to actually mean “point”, as in: I assumed the article would show some examples of toggle buttons, but the _point_ of the article was whether the checkboxes were round or square in shape.

Yes, literally, at the very end there is a punchline on toggles. But it’s more for the laughs - a literal punchline - it doesn’t change the focus of the article.
Getting results or becoming rich has a magical property where overnight you are viewed as turning into a genius! ;)

Having persistence and constantly monitoring yourself so that I did't get trapped in the weeds! That's how I got stuff done anyway, and I've never been considered very talented or smart! Except of course after I started to get results, at which point some people started to consider I was talented and smart :)
Thank you. Now I can be properly impressed, something the article didn't prove.
Yup, I thought of that one too (actually of the original Darcula, which is built-in and I think the default theme if you use dark mode). Clever wordplay between "dark" and "Dracula", but some probably misread it. Anyway, that theme is actually completely different than Dracula and more to my taste...
Great answer. Thanks for not just downvoting me.
> It was the first time in 20 years of hoping for such an opportunity that I managed to get to bet on something that had already happened. That’s every gambler’s dream and I’m unaware of many instances of it happening without breaking laws or trickery.

There was a Chinese lottery scandal in the semi-recent past. Someone noticed that the winning numbers were posted before the close of ticket sales, and bought a winning ticket. And he completely got away with it.

Then, he did it again...
Given that the ex gratia payment per falsely killed Arab is generally less than $5k, sometimes less than $200, often nothing, I'm sure that's even less of a concern.
Wow, this is all over the place, not worth reading. Also it fails to point out a critical and very confusing distinction: EHR stands for "electronic healthcare record," as in an individual record / file / document, but in healthcare tech "EHR" usually refers to "Electronic Healthcare Record System" - a product like Epic / Athenahealth / etc. Also surprisingly no mention of the semi-garbag-y healthcare data interchange format FHIR.

The author seems confused - confusing issues with EHR system UX and data entry and data fidelity and interoperability itself.
I could see that badge system easily costing a million+ dollars, fyi. RFID identity management is an entire platform in itself and is extremely expensive.
Blackstone Is Building a $25B Empire of Power-Hungry Data Centers
I thought it was well known that certain allergies (eggs/peanuts) can transfer via transfusions? At least for awhile. It looks like there’s some literature on it at least, but I didn’t dig into it or anything. I just thought this was “common” knowledge since that’s what I was told years ago by a nurse I was dating in college, a long time ago.
One great thing about this is that the Flash support isn’t a feature of the QuickTime container format—it’s just another type of track media! The container or overall structure didn’t have to change to accommodate it, it could just be added in like one more CODEC.
No! you click on the pdf button which... uh... opens an empty firefox tab
Very true, people complain about software, but my recent experience in a Gulf country, was stellar, all my medical records, were entered properly including procedures, it takes approximately 12 minutes to get medicine from the pharmacy and can view the records online. The patient interface could be improved a bit but did its job perfectly. The article was stellar, as it summarized the state of the art and the issues well.
All of what they said isn't very controversial. Which part did you disagree with so vehemently that you decided to stalk their profile?
Some more discussion and anecdotes from 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33032095
On an intuitive level I love message queues. I like how they loosen the coupling between components and the amount of flexibility they provide. A few years ago I even built quite a large system production with RabbitMQ (a scheduling, monitoring and reporting system for distributed tests).

However, I find it extremely difficult to reason about them. What do I mean with that? I mean all the nitty gritty details like performance, bottlenecks, crashing participants, network issues, queues filling up, protocol issues that lead to message cascades and DDoS etc.
True, these are all fair points! I didn't intend to diminish the impact or complexity of linear programming solvers. Well-written solvers are some of the most useful and powerful computational tools that exist today.
If I do not have the liberty to fly torpedo-like through the rear window of a car that I’ve slammed into at speed can it be said that I have any liberty at all?
That initial fee is quite the racket. Quarterly's not as bad, but looking at some recent TLDs that have gone inactive you can tell those companies are desperate to save the cash:

Paramount let .cbs and .showtime expire in October, and Gap let .bananarepublic
and .oldnavy expire this month.
So what? It takes time for the community to digest the result, grasp its significance, and then write popularization articles about it. If you want to know what's being discovered right this second, read arXiv preprints. If you want to know what was discovered semi-recently and you want an explanation in layman terms that puts the results in perspective, read popularization pieces a while later.
"Boing" because of the little jump it makes after crashing?
These parts are largely irrelevant at large as they make at most single digit percentage of complexity
Depending on the problem it can also O(2^n), but that is always the worst case scenario. Modern ILP solvers employ a variety of heuristics that in many cases significantly reduce the time needed to find a solution.

Anecdotally, some years back I was developing MILPs with millions of variables and constraints, and most of them could be solved within minutes to hours. But some of them could not be cracked after weeks, all depending the inputs.
Hopefully this should be sufficient. If not, filing a claim with a small claims court might be the next step.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_claims_court
The DOJ acted as Boeing's PR firm in the Jamaica 737 NG crash of N977AN. Obama's DOJ made intentional false statements to media that the NTSB supposedly concluded that faulty bear straps and other structural components weren't a factor when the NTSB hadn't reached any conclusions. It came out later..

> "I'm expecting a gold watch from Boeing at the end of my presidency, because I know that I'm on the list of top salesmen at Boeing," Obama deadpanned in 2013.

https://www.wprl.org/npr-news/2024-01-19/cozy-relationship-b...
It's the broken window fallacy. There's literally a fallacy named after the very thing you're espousing.
Relevant - paper here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250633/ - which is the paper that rescued my PhD (on electronic health records rather than medical records, but adjacent).

Note that Scotland got electronic medical records much more correct than England by making the whole thing a Clinician lead process rather than the English technocratic approach.

Finally it's very difficult to do "proper" scientific research on electronic health records, as control matched research is not achievable. Therefore you have to reach for things like single case study

Final brag - when I submitted my PhD it was politically quite sensitive so we had to find the right external assessors. One expert, one person whose judgement we trusted. The expert returned their report saying what a great piece of work it was and it should receive high commendation. The other person said it was solid and thorough but ultimately pretty obvious. Therefore I conclude that I received better than a high commendation for my work :D
Why would they build data centers in Arizona?

The outdoor heat would seem to increase cooling costs, made even more expensive because the data centers' demand would maximize just as everyone else's demand does: the hottest days, the hottest times of the day, the latter made even worse because I'd expect the hottest times of day to be the busiest for the data center.

Is there abundant, cheap power in AZ? Do the data centers use solar?
Japan: Foreign-born residents sue government for alleged racial profiling
The main point was, "carbonated" vs. "CO2 from the yeast", and neither beer nor champagne are carbonated.

carbonate
/ˈkɑːbəneɪt/
verb
dissolve carbon dioxide in (a liquid).
Certified variants are currently flying under an Airworthiness Directive. The requested exemption would have allowed the MAX 7 and MAX 10 to be certified despite the EIA flaw, with Boeing having until 2026 to design and certify a permanent fix (not sure about the deadline for actual implementation of said fix).
This is good. Time’s Up for this stuff in East Asia
> heavily updated versions of the original 1960s design

Isn't that the cause of many problems?
Booting Debian with U-Boot on RPi (2018)
Tether is by far the largest counterfeiter of USD and has already been shown to be backed largely by nothing.

The introduction of Tether coincided with the hijacking of the Bitcoin GitHub repo by the for profit company Blockstream.

Blockstream's Samson Mow had close ties with Tether and El Salvador dictatorial President who made Bitcoin a national currency on exchange for billions of dollars of free Tether dollars.

Tether is not and does not need to be backed by anything other than US intelligence agencies. There is no proof of this other than the fact that the larger USD counterfeiter is allowed to exist and control the price of the hijacked Bitcoin chain with the ticker, BTC.
I can say this has its flaws too... I was recently trying to pick up a prescription but the first pharmacy i visited did not have it in stock, they gave me my card back and i went to another pharmacy who could not find a prescription on the card. Turned out the first pharmacy forgot to "release" the prescription back after they told me they don't have it in stock.

Had to go back to the first pharmacy, have them unlock it, go back to the second pharmacy, only to be told after they could read the prescription that they do not have it in stock either.

The problem here is not the digitalization itself but the tangibility of the implementation. how could i possibly tell that i was wasting my time on my way to the second pharmacy?

With paper i would see that someone forgot to hand me back my prescription and i would not have left the first pharmacy prematurely.
At ClearHealth/CLH we defined thousands of core business processes in a typical over 100 bed acute care institution. These are complicated animals. A hospital of any size is pretty much a city unto itself. There isn't one thing, there are a lot, a lot of things from how items and equipment are procured which is very complex to simple things like making sure that people wash their hands when they should. How laundry and trash are handled. HVAC and plumbing are insanely complex in a hospital setting. It is absolutely absurd how viscious the fights get between staff and management over parking assignments. It requires virtually a threat of termination to make a lot of doctors follow even a 3 to 8 step evidentially developed checklist for certain situations.

ACHC, joint commission, CLSI for laboratory, are groups that outline some very basic frameworks of how facilities should be operated. Less than half of facilities can meet even these extremely low bar standards for operations. It is difficult for me to see how many patients have been harmed by ransomware impacting hospital opertions, this is entirely preventable and no one on the hospital side has been meaningfully held accountable so very little will change.

A counter example is the pricing transparency regulations. Failure to meet those is resulting in multi-million dollar a year fines which is resulting in change. It is happening slower than people like or had really conceived of but it is causing some real meaningful change.

99,000 americans a year die from hospital acquired infections that are entirely preventable using procedures and operations (not surgeries) that are known and evidentially proven. It's just really hard to get all of the parts of the orchestra to play the same tune so those people die needlessly.
In many cases you can actually insert outside numbers in the middle of the solver process via callbacks. For example see IncumbentUpdater at https://python-mip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/classes.html

And various C APIs for solvers have other callbacks

It's generally quite limited of course, for the reasons you mentioned.
Please don't post summary comments like this. There has been an uptick of them lately, and it's not a good trend for HN.

The idea of HN threads is good, curious conversation, and that requires avoiding formulaic responses, even if they're well-intentioned.
OP didn't make the statement that you're arguing against.
This is interesting but nothing new. This idea has been posted on hackaday several times in past. Some even went to stream video

2009: https://hackaday.com/2009/06/05/ds-optical-mouse-camera/

2014: https://hackaday.com/2014/01/14/your-mouse-is-a-terrible-web...

2021: https://hackaday.com/2021/07/30/streaming-video-from-a-mouse...
Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne [video]
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I'm very clearly illustrating a point, not making a factual claim that Walmart pays stockers $50/hr
SIDN .NL Registry New ICT Strategy
Silicon Valley investors build $300B cash pile in startup funding crunch
Can you please not post this type of comment on the articles you submit? You've done it more than once and it's not the convention here.

For more information see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180235
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39187161.
I wrote a library to handle these and the older ARC files to use with an archiving proxy that a friend and I built for the Internet Archive. https://github.com/internetarchive/warc. He wrote the WARC parts while I did the ARC one using this https://archive.org/web/researcher/ArcFileFormat.php

Good memories.
Is it a scenario, even if unlikely?
Well-Defined In-Textile Photolithography Towards Permeable Textile Electronics
I am unable to evaluate how far we are and how feasible these are, but these "smart textures" are the reason why I'm watching the design space.
We actually don't know how long NP-complete problems take to solve. We conjecture that it's superpolynomial, but that can be exponentially faster than O(n!).
It doesn't have to be based on crypto designed by NSA, does it?
Don't forget about the HiGHS solver [1]. MIT licensed and getting to the point where it's outperforming SCIP on the Mittelmann benchmarks [2].

[1]: https://github.com/ERGO-Code/HiGHS

[2]: https://mattmilten.github.io/mittelmann-plots/
> " I got tired of cleaning the goo off my car windshield "

Imagine what that does a person's lungs
I never used ZeroMQ (visited their webpage many many times though) but I totally agree that going through the pain, struggles and subtleties of message queuing is a very valuable and important learning experience.

I had those experiences with RabbitMQ around 10 years ago when I pushed the team I worked for towards a message queue solution to scale our distributed test system. It turned out successful but it took quite a while :)
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152306
> more sugar is added, called "the dosage"

A dosage is added at the very end of production, but this is to already fizzy wine to sweeten it for the market, and leads to the classification like brut (dry) or doux (sweet).

"During the bottling process, the winemaker adds the liqueur de tirage (a sweet blend of 1 kg of cane or beet sugar per liter of old wine), which initiates the second fermentation period lasting for 6-8 weeks." [0]

You can get champagne with no dosage, usually called extra brut, that is very dry.

[0] https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en/media/champagne-production-...
I had no problem with “hold on a sec” and then “sorry, please continue”
Zilvia?
Do they do they in craft stouts too? I find those to be silky.
And yet they end up on bing.com somehow. This has happened to me and I have had to write special code to hard block bing by looking at the user agent. This is a real problem that I have faced personally. This is not a rumor.
Grandfathering should not occur when the grandparents have quantifiable and qualifiable issues
Probably, but not including the required previous step: Getting it into the database.
Home depot has returned over a million percent since 1981.

Compare that to Apple who is up about 150,000% since IPO and less since their S&P inclusion.
A serious mail provider would not block legitimate incoming email with massive amounts of collateral false positives.

A serious mail provider would care about ensuring that this does not happen and handle enquiries sent to the RFC-mandated address postmaster@ and respond promptly to such enquiries.
From what I gather the parent post is saying that it is easy to make a naive implementation of this improvement, but due to naivety of the implementation it will be slower in practice. Hence it is a lot of work (and thus difficult) to actually put this improvement into practice.