skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicare is a almost a trillion-dollar program.

The fact that it pays millions for food is merely because the program is huge.

This just sounds like ragebait.
Well, that's what I'm saying. When I get an SMS from one of my banks for example it says "your code to transfer X to Y is ABC" or "Your code to add a new payee is ABC". In this case she had a code generating app, but the codes were not different for login versus other high risk actions. The same is true for my other bank, which has a code which you use to login, and the same code generator, with no distinction, is used for example when you make a large BPay transaction.
It sickens me when I see thousands upon thousands sunning and partying in Dolores Park.

Think of all the housing it could provide.
I solved the first one in my head in less time than it took for me to recognize that the second one was the same maze.
https://zephyrsolutions.com/what-are-the-different-grades-of...

"Grade 4.7 (4.7 helium = 99.997% purity)
A “Grade-A” industrial helium, 99.997% helium is mostly used in cryogenic applications and for pressurizing and purging, but is also used as a control atmosphere in manufacturing, as a cover gas during welding, in breathing mixtures for divers, and leak detection."

"Grade 4.5 (4.5 helium = 99.995% purity)
Often the grade most commonly referred to when people say “industrial grade,” 99.995% helium is most commonly used in the balloon industry, but is also used as a push gas in MRI applications.

Grade 4 (4.0 helium and lower = 99.99% purity)
Any helium that is 99.99% and down into the high 80 percents is within the range of purities referred to collectively as “balloon grade helium.” While Grade 4 helium is used mostly for balloons (although the mid-high 90 percent heliums could be used in leak detection, air bags, and heat transfer applications as well), that doesn’t necessarily mean that higher grades of helium aren’t used in balloons. In fact, in many cases, it may be Grade 5 helium."
There’s a nice coffee shop near me but they have somewhat hostile policies toward people wanting to sit on their laptops and work for hours, which makes it hard to be a decent third place. On weekends, laptops are banned entirely.
Great find :)
Measurement by duplication is another fascinating sub-area of tools and techniques. Templates, pin guides, profilers, slotting jigs, tick sticks, ...
I think this open-source parser details a typical ATS algorithm: https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser
I called this a "replay attack" because it sounds more like this:

"A replay attack in a network communications setting involves intercepting a successful authentication process—often using a valid session token that gives a particular user access to the network—and replaying that authentication to the network to gain access"

Even though this wasn't a session token, it was an authentication process and token, gathered from a fraudlent source and replayed to a valid source.

MITM is:

"A man in the middle (MITM) attack is a general term for when a perpetrator positions himself in a conversation between a user and an application—either to eavesdrop or to impersonate one of the parties, making it appear as if a normal exchange of information is underway."

So to me a MITM would be more like using a wifi access point to access the correct banking URL, but the service carrying the data was acting maliciously.
The interesting thing is that apparently there were still unassimilated Denisovans in Eurasia 48,000 years ago.
> Second, you're saying that bulb lifetime scales linearly with brightness?

Looks pretty close to it

https://www.raptorsupplies.com/pd/ge-lighting/25a-130v

https://www.raptorsupplies.com/pd/ge-lighting/50a19-rs-75v
I read those messages. The ones from one of my banks that uses SMS and differentiates them, says "your code to do BLAH is BLAH". I was actually saved from phishing once because my credit card company included the vendor and the amount in the transaction SMS and it was for a different site and a much larger amount than what I thought I was spending.
There are a lot of musicians that aren't on the charts that play in Ticketmaster-controlled venues.
Oops, you're completely right. I retract my previous comment. I not only copied the wrong article (got the "rolling" part from https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2024-06-25/restaurants-ch...) but also misidentified which bill would have required rolling.
Thanks.

Approachable explanations like this are a huge part of the reason I hang out here.
The extra fees are shared with venues and bands. Keeps them on TM's side.
do they? when i want to work, ill go to the big one. if im late for work and feel like coffee, the takeaway one is quicker and less chaotic without the tourists/campers/families

im not usually one to defend a company, and i dont know what's best for starbucks the company and brand. but what i see isn't necessarily or obviously bad
it is useful, i do not understand people hating on it calling it useless. I have used it countless times for various things from work to things around the house.
(Very old-school, in the nicest possible way ...

... looks aside, so "information-dense", such little "padding", so little wasted space. Great stuff ...
If you don't want to have others distribute and modify your art, never show it to anyone else, put it in a box, and bury it five metres under your house.

Even aside from any technology angle, the human mind is fundamentally very good at copying and modifying information-- it's why we can have a coherent cultural zeitgeist rather than individual siloed units of Capital-A Art. You can aspire to be part of that, and be respected for your contribution to it, but expecting everyone else to hobble their potential in service of your fetish for purity is self-indulgent if not downright sociopathic.

TBH, I feel like AI is eventually going to be slotted in as a tool rather than something magical. I can't draw a straight line or a circle, but we don't feel the need to permanently stamp pictures as "he used a straightedge and compasses!" (or "He used Krita!" these days) The ability to make lots of fairly realistic stuff cheap may change some value propositions (see: portrait painters when photography took off) but eventually we'll get past the initial panic phase.
Inventing Liraglutide (2019)
I’ve hired someone off HN before. It only lasted two weeks or so but it was great.
A real life "cone of silence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence_%28Get_Smart%2...
>How did small towns in the past get created

People in the 1800s and before didn't worry much about medical services. When they got sick, they suffered with it, or died. The state-of-the-art with medicine at the time could be handled by one doctor. Expectations these days are a lot higher.

>I wonder what was the last town in a america to be established?

That's a good question, and probably impossible to answer without some qualifiers. I'm sure some new "towns" have been created in the recent past which were really nothing more than an incorporation of a previously-unincorporated area immediately outside another municipality, but that's altogether different from establishing an all-new town far from any other settlement, as was probably common in the 1800s expansion westward.
Hopefully this is a great book, what a great topic to write a book about. Kudos to the author.
why not? isn't their a shortage
> immediate personalized instruction from ChatGPT

Is it actually any good at that? I've found it just makes stuff up and lies to you convincingly. Sounds like a terrible tutor.
They also think robotaxi will make Tesla a 7T company [0]. For reference, our US annual budget is 6T.

[0] https://www.ark-invest.com/articles/valuation-models/arks-te...
> nothing is technically stopping you from walking into a SCIF with a phone most of the time

That is ridiculous.

I've been to multiple embassies as a nobody and no electronics were allowed and this was strictly enforced.
I'm from a city in central China, where Starbucks is a great place to talk because it's located around a mall, and unlike other stores, the seating is less crowded, but if I want to study or get quiet to do something, I'll choose the library or a less lively local café.
Oh. I see. Sounds a bit like that bakery that said "we don't bake cakes for gays" and got justifiably (in my opinion) sued. Though it's not really the same, it's kinda the reverse (refusing business)

I guess if such a thing really happened he might have a case. But I'm sure Disney can easily get out of it by just submitting the infamous "go fuck yourself" interview into evidence :)
Have you tried with <Control-Left Square Bracket>? aka Ctrl-[, or ^[, as seen sometimes in the terminal. This works for me in most terminals as an alternative to Escape when using vi/vim.
My dad, a sign painter, would always splay his hand out and measure things from his pinky to his thumb, which was about 10 inches.
22 minutes for a full build of an OS written in C in the early 90's seems fast. Then again, it wasn't a big as it is now.
Cloistered Rule
People talk of her acting, which was fine and good, but I think her largest achievement was Fairytale Theater, Nightmare Classics (only four, but a quite good adaptation of "Carmilla" was in the lot), and so forth. She executive produced four of these series, putting together quite a lot of talent in one place. The IMDB credits for some of these episodes are amazing.
I think they are doing this already, I was in NYC a few months ago and saw a “Starbucks Reserve”
Isn't this the plot to RoboCop 2?
This sounds ludicrous. Their own projections are saying that the value of the companies doing robotaxis are going to be worth 20x as much as the companies making the actual cars. It doesn’t even make logical sense. This for an industry that doesn’t even exist today outside of a few limited players like Waymo.

To put it bluntly they’re predicting a whole new industry will be launched on the global stage that within 6 years will be bigger than Apple, Microsoft, NVidia, Google, Amazon, and Meta combined.
Everyone's complaint about Chrome and Electron apps like VSCode is that they are (supposedly) enormous memory hogs...
If you don't know how something works, do you assume it is magic? Why? It's a wildly irrational assumption to assume that it is magic rather than assume absent evidence to the contrary that it works according to known physics.
> Units of measures applicable to spies are left as an exercise to the reader.

A garrote, about a foot, a key, about two inches, and a razor's edge, less than a millimeter.
> But if we go back 20 years (others have said this is written in the early 2000's), satellite communication was probably worse than 28.8k modems

I take it you are under 30 years old.

You've got all your timings wrong.
The IANA (“Olson”) database handles this.
Prions: the final selfish g̶e̶n̶e̶ protein
I don't think it really makes sense to talk about "laws" for places like North Korea, as it's not a rule of law state.
I honestly expected it to be worse. Shows you a decent portion of information for free. But I don't see how it differs from google lighthouse which is completely free
Lots of people use commercial software they didn’t pay for.

But corporations have too much to lose and little to gain by not paying for the software they use, so following the law is legal insurance for them. And so commercial developers get paid by significant users.

Nobody expects proposed laws like this to have much impact on what individuals do with their screenshots and cameras. The hope would be that it curbed mass unpermissioned use.
Why do you say 'us' on your website if it's clearly 1 person who made the website?
The hash bit is by design. See https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONHA... and http://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for more.
German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution
> Were they categorically broken back in 2018? What would you have recommended companies do around that time frame, if they wanted to use Ubuntu?

They were and still are. The irony: the fix need not be breaking/demand a new major release.

> Most server code is not going to get very out of date over the course of several years. It's not significantly more decrepit than the day it was deployed.

That's my point. It was broken from the beginning.

Reminder: 'firewalld' is a management daemon for N firewalls. You use it exactly because you don't care about implementation details like the backend. It's not even part of the default Ubuntu install. Just offered.

Most users wouldn't see it, I don't judge that. I judge how Canonical behave{s,d}.

I would have recommended they, the integrator/procurer of the distribution, avoid the 'iptables' backend for 'firewalld'... a release or two before 18.04. Not even this one. It was well on the way out already/communicated/ignored.

If they wanted to fix it 'breaking upgrade' style, they had at least two chances. They could also avoid the rake-kickflip of the '--wait' option.

Final point being: I'm not here to do their work. A distribution is a collection of software. They chose to offer it, not me.

Just because I - the seasoned administrator can find/fix the problem - I shouldn't have to. I like a compelling experience too. This odd mixing isn't it.

I will fully admit to seeking out the problem in... asking to install firewalld. Not offering the packages at all, instead of poorly joined, would be an improvement. I'm not without options. I don't need poor ones.

To be clear: I'm not yelling into the void. This was reported to their bug tracker in at least 2019. I escalated it to them through $EMPLOYERS. Several. Canonical's support means jack to me.

"Vendor support" is largely a Bogeyman and compliance racket IMO. I've, outside this wild thread, otherwise moved on to nicer pastures!
Am I right to understand the basic issue is: people are, due to illness now homebound, and in the middle of nowhere? Like they used to live on the frontier or call it what you want but they used to drive 3 hours every few weeks to the closest grocery store? Now they have cancer, can’t leave the house, they are broke how are they gonna eat?

You can use food stamps to have a local Walmart or Amazon or a number of grocery stores deliver you frozen food at cost and either no fee or like $5-$10 max fee depending on retailer. But that is in cities. If there is really nothing that food stamps (SNAP) could do to remedy the situation (if you qualify for Medicaid, you qualify for food stamps, and vise versa, usually) I’m not sure if this is a big deal.

It definitely strikes me that if you’re billing Medicaid to feed me I better be getting hot meals from a nearby kitchen, not frozen shit, but maybe there are literally no commercial kitchens nearby.
It's neat that the Egyptian measure was subdivided in an increasing fashion, almost logarithmically. I wonder what the error bound is if you use the Egyptian rule as a slide rule.
Bypassing protections for accessing sensitive data...
When I was about 6? I used to play this on a decwriter dot matrix terminal connected to the university’s DAX. My mom got free computer time every month that she never used, so I used it to play Sumer, trek, and program stupid stuff in Fortran.
Have you considered Malaysia? approx the same cost of living as Poland and they grew up speaking English. Timezone is a bit trickier but asian work culture is solid.
Lupus is kind of lousy for the punchy scientific format because it has as a nickname "The Great Imitator." (Note that the porphyrias are known as the "little imitator.") Because of this somewhat Protean nature, lupus can masquerade as quite a lot of things, leading it to be a casual element one would have to bring up and then eliminate in episode after episode. Thus, for screenwriting reasons, it needs a kind of general dismissal which would stick in the mind of viewers ...
[...] You've heard of the Kirghiz Light? well that's the ass end of a firefly compared to what we're gonna—oh, you haven't heard of the—oh, well, too bad. [...]
Life, uh, finds a way.

On a serious note, have people had deterring experiences with spikes?

I had spikes installed on my top-floor back porch and the pigeons kept hanging out anyway. A hawk came along last fall and was just chilling right on top em before deciding to adjust them out of their way.
Great Plains Software
I can't say I am convinced.

Wine can have up to 329 mg/L of methanol [1]. Blindness can come from ingesting as low as 4ml [2].

I find it plausible that someone could try to make a 2000ml bottle of cognac. I imagine that should take ~10L of wine. The methanol should (mostly) be distilled first. If that person drank the first fruits of their labor, would they not ingest approximately the dose for permanent blindness?

[1] https://www.methanol.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SafeHand...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-prof....
I would make an exception for invasive species, but that’s about it
>Seems strange that the person who headed up benefits would get this one wrong.

Musk ... has denied wrongdoing, saying he fired the executives for cause.

I think the plaintiff just showed cause with that one.
SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore
Whatever your thoughts about piracy ethically it's hard to argue it's going to soon be the only viewing experience where you actually own the media.

Torrenting has for some media become the only way of acquiring it at all.
It’s kind of hard to describe why we feel this is so irrefutable, but one of my favorite thought exercises is doing exactly that.

My algorithms prof once took us on a fun journey describing the median-of-medians variation of the SELECT algorithm, and had us play around with different partition sizes to see its effect on asymptotic running time. Turns out if you choose any other value than 5, you get superlinear running time.

This is probably the most random display of fatuousness I’ve encountered from mathematics. There should be absolutely no reason the number 5 - not 3, not 4 - has anything to do with recursively selecting a median, and yet here we are.

It makes me wonder. Maybe there are computational rules similar to gravity or conservation of energy, but similar to physical machines, there seem to be computational ones that can be built defy them.
Safetensors.cpp – Zero Dependency Safetensors Loading and Storing in C++
> Too hard to believe ...

It continuously amazes me the extent to which we (collectively) under-estimate human ingenuity - especially of people in the past. It's like we have a built in belief that current-era humans are as smart as we get. If anything in the past - especially the very distant past - seems unbelievable to modern eyes, some will go as far as conjuring advanced, space-faring beings that "must have" either built those things, or aided humans to do so (conveniently ignoring the fact that the advanced aliens must have also either developed or acquired their knowledge somehow. "It's aliens all the way down").

EDIT: I'm not having a go at the commenter! It's just that the opening comment seems to hint at a universal trait that people have to disbelieve clever stuff from the past.
Ah, makes sense! Would they really have such a simplistic KPI tho? We have collected 12 PB daily over the last quota and are fast approaching 15 PB. We are expected to hit the 20 PB amount sometime in the next 3 months Everyone nods in excitement, gasps and woos.

Surely they would have a more targeted and relevant KPI to do with how much of that data is useful / actionable?? Anywho, interesting little chat thanks! Haha :)
“The 1% paid more in tax than the next 9% combined” is a great soundbite. Even completely accurate. Makes it sound like the 1% part their fair share, or rather, even more than (which is the Foundations goal)…

But then if you learn that that 1%s earnings are dozens of times more than that next 9%, you realize “hey, it’s not that proportional or progressive as they’d have us believe”.

The Tax Foundation openly wants the rich to pay less tax.
It is very much software-world-thinking to believe that dismissive Kafkaesque responses that just shut down the conversation without addressing the fundamental issues around usability and customer satisfaction will ameliorate the situation.

For a lot of service based businesses they see their customers face to face and it is imperative that the customers have a seamless experience. Imagine having a business where customers who can't sign into some online system you have are bringing in old Android phones and wanting help from your staff members on how to get 2FA set up on those devices and it is easy to understand why many such businesses settle on SMS based 2FA.
How do you resolve the disparity between semantic and text search? Surely these rankings are difficult to combine.
> In reality they haven't gained anything because every house is $800k and you still need somewhere to live so you still only own one housing unit of wealth.

They can borrow money against the extra value of their house. They don't need to move out. That's what everybody in the landed gentry has been doing for the past two decades.
Is this Cathie Wood? She hasn’t been right about anything in the last decade.
Am I missing something? Where it says "The Result", I don't see the result. Am I looking in the wrong place?
It's been a larger sequence of events until I got hired, but it all started by having shared a little side project[1] here that hit the front page in 2016.

Back then, Zach[2] from Timber.io reached out to me since they had just recently launched a startup in the logging space. We had a good exchange, but didn't get to work together. (I was burned out from my job and wanted to go back to university to study computer science, and felt that accepting "yet another job" wouldn't give me the perspective and foundational knowledge I was looking for. So I proposed a ridiculous rate that they understandably declined.)

However, we kept in touch over the years and I had good memories from our conversations.

During my studies, I fell in love with Rust. When I finished my bachelor's degree in 2020, I was looking for jobs in Rust that were specifically not in the blockchain/crypto currency industry (disqualifying at least 90% of the postings I had seen). Then Vector[3] caught my eye – a project by Timber.io. So I reached out to Zach again, and even though I had been fairly inexperienced in Rust, they took a shot on me. Eventually, Timber.io got bought by Datadog in 2021, and I sticked around until the end of 2022. After that, I was fully focused on finishing my master's degree.

To close the circle, I ended up founding a new company with Zach at the beginning of this year. We're still in stealth, but working on open source real-time video communication. If you're interested in tackling hard challenges in infrastructure/networking/native UI with Rust, please feel free to reach out – we have some open positions and I would love to reach for the same community that has once so openly accepted me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830763

[2] https://zach.sh

[3] https://vector.dev
Question for those that have success with it. How did you handle auto complete with something like SQL where you need to query the db for table and column info while remaining performant.
Show HN: Creative ways to express your appreciation
I’m visiting a local board from time to time, won’t share the name. It has a pretty strong tech and ai boards. Speech is raw but mostly helpful. It also has few non-tech boards that are (occasionally) comfy. Reddit doesn’t cut it and feels like mindless reposts of reblogs and toy science.

Never seen an english-speaking board that wasn’t political or just cringe-y garbage, tbh. Maybe it’s a cultural thing amplified by usual IB format. All other boards I visit are boorus.
> DMCA safe-harbor covers copyright violations.

That's true, but Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 provides broader (but not unlimited) immunity for user submitted content.
Great, great book on applied cryptography!