skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sample Healthcare (YC W24) is hiring #1 engineer (SF)
Sample builds financial infrastructure for healthcare so that doctors can focus on their patients. We believe that healthcare providers should get paid for the work that they do.

We’re starting by automating billing for clinical labs. Clinical labs often go unpaid for >30% of the tests they run, and pathologists will inevitably get roped into insurance paperwork over helping patients. Our product automatically gets the right documentation together for reimbursement, sends paperwork to insurance, and follows up over the phone to make sure clinicians get paid for their work.

Labs are just the start: our goal is to become the payment rails for medical benefits. Instead of doctors spending their time on paperwork, we’re building the infrastructure to let them focus on patients again. After winning in labs, we'll support more specialties with their billing and sell directly to health insurance.

We’re based in San Francisco, and are hiring an on-site founding engineer to join our team. We’re profitable and backed by some of the best founders & leaders in the industry, including Homebrew Ventures, Hummingbird VC, Y Combinator, Kulveer Taggar (CEO, Zeus), Zack Kanter (CEO, Stedi), and great folks from Retool, Stripe, Ambience Healthcare, and Watershed.

If this sounds interesting, send by an email to ankit@samplehc.com with HN in the title. Looking forward to meeting you!
While that would be my goto choice as well, I have to admit that a strong online presence rarely factors in when I am interviewing candidates. If they have an online presence with projects I can look at, I certainly do take a look and it serves as a nice discussion point.

That said, I don't ascribe a lot of value to it (though, it's true, I never saw anything exceptional). I always make up my mind through discussions and a live coding session. I know the latter is cringed upon but I keep it really simple, more like a smoke test to see if they are not just good talkers.
I've been running it on hundreds of servers in prod since once of the lead devs gave a talk at LinuxCon 2014 saying it was good to go. Had a few performance issues here and there, especially on older kernels, but never any data loss
FOSS equivalent is https://github.com/the-butterfly-effect/tbe
The article mentions the economic gain from the billboards but what about the negative externality that the advertisers don’t have to pay?
On #1, biodiesel competes directly with food, so I'm not sure it's a good thing to grow the industry into a much larger scale.
Every job I've landed so far in my career has involved a discussion about the works I am willing to post to my public Github (under this very silly username) along with a discussion about my work experience on my resume. Mind here that my Github has mostly retro emulators and games, nothing that looks like "real" work projects. My LinkedIn is barebones and my social media presence is almost nonexistent outside of my gaming stuff, and I prefer to keep it that way. Maybe I've just been lucky, but it doesn't seem like a huge limiting factor in my search. If nothing else, my projects are fun to chat about, and if the interviewer is having fun then you're off to a good start.

As a new grad, you likely don't have much of this portfolio built up yet, and that's where the in-person job fairs can help tremendously. They're basically an opportunity for you to gush about your student projects and impress the recruiters. Once you have actual work history, just putting that on your resume (accurately! don't make stuff up!) is the most important thing.
Related: I don't know why software estimation doesn't spend more time on risk and less time on estimation.

How much risk (to delivery) is left out there? What can we do to reduce that risk?

It's a known thing, but seems rarely used in software shops. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model

Who cares if 97% of the code is complete, but the remaining 3% is a critical feature, with unclear requirements, that's never been prototyped, and has no test data?
Regulation only shifts corruption, it doesn't stop or prevent it. There is plenty of corruption in and around government including the judicial system.
Or placing coffins in front of the Eiffel tower.
Or painting red hands on Jewish cult monuments.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldd7n97dvro
You're only virtualizing once. Serverless/FaaS is just a way to run a container, and a container is just a Linux process with some knobs to let different software coexist more easily. You're still just running VMs, same as you always were, but just have a new way of putting the software you want to run on them.
Not that young either. Reddit is 19 years old, Facebook and Gmail are 20, LinkedIn is 21, Google is 26, HN is 17. That's a lot of time, especially for the modern fast-paced timescale.
It'd be interesting to see how the LLM sees us, vs how we see ourselves, vs how other HN folks see us.
I hope there will be a ublock origin AR edition.
You definitely don't need a personal website, blog, or even github for most jobs. If you're cold-applying to jobs online, and you don't have a linkedIn it will be seen as a red flag by some hiring managers - easier to lie/exaggerate about employment history, durations, title inflation, etc. Also more likely that you might be trying to work multiple jobs at once. LinkedIn doesn't need to be fully fleshed out with a ton of content or even any activity, but just a public list of companies you've worked at, rough timelines and titles, is enough to reassure most hiring managers.
Well i use mainly FreeBSD but have used CachyOS for about 3mo to have some systemd refresher :)
You know what, how about this: A corporation gets to spend let's say up to 5% of its total budget on advertising in the first two months of its existence, as long as it has a new product that is exclusive to the company and as long as the company is advertising exclusively for itself and for the new product, and as long as the corporation is financially and structurally independent from established corporations. Any loopholes that let Coca-Cola take advantage of this are systematically closed, the intent of the law is clearly communicated, and the FTC fines any established corporation trying to work around it.

This advertising is only legal to put in free versions of media that have paid ad-free versions, and to opt-in newsletters organized by product (so that people can pay to keep it out of their lives but if they're curious about innovations in a space or just want to know what's coming out they can get a slight discount for it).

This also gives an advantage to new companies, which is probably a good thing, though could of course be abused by a billionaire with fly-by-night companies, at which point we'd have to patch that loophole. Maybe with my favorite idea of "ownership disclosures", where the majority owner(s) of any given corporation has to be disclosed on product labels, so that you know if you're buying from Nestle or Unilever even if they want to obfuscate that fact.
I don't know that 2% not working is substantially distinguishable from noise and suspect people with very marginal needs and earning eg old folks working part time are a factor.

I should think one would want to find out instead if society actually lost real productive work or Walmart lost 65 year olds working as greeters because they need more social security money to pay rent.
This was such a great game. Many fond memories.
You get to choose what games to play in life, and how to play them. When I was younger and the internet was new and exciting, I had more of an online presence. I don't have a family and plenty of time to spend online, I just choose not to.

If the kinds of jobs you want penalize you for not having an online presence, then you have to decide if you want to play that game. Personally I have always hated jumping through hoops; I don't have anything to prove and am confident in my abilities. I don't need to broadcast my hobbies and opinions to the world.

So while I could probably make more money if I conformed to a different play style, I am happier playing my way where I don't do anything (including using social media) because I ought to, but because I want to.
AR “metaverse” stuff did not take off on the last hype cycle, and even Apple's VR headset does not sell. If AR is “coming,” it is coming rather slowly.
Warsaw is the most visually depressing place I have ever been to.
>If you want an emby fork without the login etc, you can try Jellyfin out. I really think it's overtaken Emby in functionality already anyway.

Thanks for the suggestion. I did try jellyfin (for playing my 18,000+ audio tracks) and when I tried to shuffle them all (that's my use case) it crashed, every. single. time.

I'm sure it's fabulous for many folks, but it doesn't meet my needs.
It's just that with people you don't expect them to update every few months with a new and improved version of themselves that supposedly bullshits less. Instead at some point you just stop asking, or at least don't take them seriously any more.
This was a fantastic writeup!!! Congratulations on the website. To me, though, the writeup is what you should be most proud of!!
Author here, yeah I know....this fig is a trade-off between having a nicely looking scene but also being scientifically clean by stating what we did and did not do with our system.

Also everything the other comment said is correct :)
I think toxicity is a relative concept, not absolute. I mean you can die from drinking too much water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication) yet at the same time you need to drink plenty of water to survive. People have been making this point better than I ever could for hundreds of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
Doesn't "chattr +C" give you back that performance, while still letting you keep the rest of the benefits of Btrfs?
As a retailer, stopping the bleed is probably pretty important.
> it originated in South China

Oops. Wonder if there was a virus research lab near that location too? /s
This is actually really cool. A device that will help take strain off people's legs while recovering from an injury, or let people stay active longer in life or longer throughout the day could have a huge impact on society, if they can bring it to market at a price affordable enough for many people to have one.
Just set a 1 year timer.
My god the memories just flooded in. I played “The Incredible Toon Machine” version of this all the time on my family’s Gateway 2000.
"This avionics firmware is absolutely terrible."

"Well, last week it was driving a bus."
Great marketing for Apple.

This was alluded to as a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41049051
I find it incredibly impressive you did this in 15 minutes! You should really help out in formalizing math (completely serious).

Personally in the past I tried a few times to formalize some statements and sometimes I found that the mathlib libraries were pretty lacking in these more open-ended problems (I wanted to reason about lists and stuff). But it seems that I am just very bad at formalization lol.
Even if that is true—which I doubt[*]—it is completely irrelevant to the question of ethnostate. The question of ethnostate is if the country has practices and policies to control the demographics that favors the dominating ethnic group. A country could be very friendly to minorities but still control the demographics in favor of the dominant ethnicity. The immigration policy of Israel, the carving out of the West Bank, the policy of settlements in the West Bank, all work together in demonstrating that Israel does indeed have practices and policies to control the demographics to favor the dominant ethnic group.

Just a case in point, if we look at historic ethno-states, Apartheid South Africa had dozens of languages. But they still had a policy of carving out bantustans and deporting people into those bantustans, with the hope that the demographics in the remaining South Africa would favor the dominant racial group. Apartheid South Africa was an ethno-state.

That said, Israel obviously is not the most friendly to any minority in the wider region. Israel is currently engaging in an ongoing genocide against a particular minority, they are illegally occupying their territories, and—as the ICJ has just ruled—they are engaging in apartheid against this minority. When all this is evident, how can you say they are “friendly” towards that minority?

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*: There are millions of metrics to measure this, and you could surely point to the few which conveniently “proofs” your point. You’re not even doing that, so I highly doubt.
I feel many security researchers like to overemphasize the importance of certain security practices (the most common one being "longer and random password with symbols and upper case letters") without considering its costs, trouble, and human's lazy nature. Forcing long passwords causes people to use repetitive or easy to remember words, enforcing Secure Boot doesn't work if it gets in the way of normal boots. Making sure that these security mechanisms "just work" is as important as enforcing rules like these.

A natural question is whether Secure Boot is the right place to protect against the type of attack mentioned in the post. Given that we've already invested a lot of effort in fixing kernel privilege escalations, and any program able to install BIOS rootkits can access all data and modify any program anyway, what justifies the extra complexity of Secure Boot (which includes all the extra design necessary to make it secure, such as OS'es robust to tampering even with kernel privileges)? I mean, why invest so much in Secure Boot when you could harden your kernel to prevent tampering BIOS in the first place?
Poisson designs and minimum detectable effects
Can you please remove the email address from the user profile page?
Isn't it more a globalisation problem? ie stuff being transported between countries all the time now, and invading species seem to be good hitchhikers?
Unraveling the Mystery of Magnetic Bacteria
Yes, there are many senior professionals who have minimal digital footprint. Some possible reasons are:

* Working in one company for 20+ years and not needing to market themselves externally.

* Working in a regulated industry (banking, finance, insurance) where social media presence is frowned upon.

* Working in a niche where everybody knows everybody else already.

* Working in a government organization where keeping a low profile is expected.

* Being a specialist career contractor signed to an umbrella company or recruitment agency who does all their marketing on their behalf.

Thus, a small or nil online presence is not in and of itself a red flag. However, in all of the above cases, this low profile is mitigated by having alternative channels for finding work. If you aren’t already in that network, you need to find a way to demonstrate your experience.
How to stop X from using your posts to train its AI
Implementing and Improving Skiplists
Does it allow both shrinking and growing the FS? Really wish ZFS allowed shrinking.
> but in Java the language is constrained enough that the tools can figure it out

So, ironically, the AOP tooling both takes advantage of this issue and fixes it in the same stroke. Once you have an AOP-endowed language like AspectJ, tooling can no longer know what code does
$4500 now, so we could see alternatives on the market by 2030 around the $500 mark (fingers crossed)
Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
I created a puzzle game after some recent years of hiatus from game development. It was a puzzle game where you have to assemble a randomized tiles. You can view the preview using eye icon on the top right side. You also can undo your previous step.

I created this game using Unity because I am already familiar with it.

If you encounter the tiles is not randomized, please try recreate the tile again, I don't exactly know why it's happenning.

Thank you
Google Planned to Sponsor IT for IDF Conference
This, for me at least, was the most fascinating game at the time. Even though I played more RTS (Dune 2 and later Warcraft and Starcraft) and enjoyed coding even more, TIM had something magic that flipped a bit in my brain (I was 10-12) and I always remembered that feeling. In hindisight it was aboutbuilding, degrees of freedom and composability.
Some other awesome, related early games were Scorch Earth and later Worms.
Now that's what I call horizontal integration, i.e. reducing competition.
>Waterfall in software was continuously changing those fundamental parts. You'd be fine tuning the irrigation and needed to destruct the whole bridge because some new requirements came up.

Exactly this same thing also happens in non-software "waterfall" projects as well. Mid-project fundamental requirements changes which result in having to re-engineer large parts of the project. This is one of the reasons military acquisitions are so expensive, there's a huge problem with requirements changes.
All programs are Steam Early Access now.
What will happen to the Merchant of Record feature now? Hopefully they still keep it. That was the best part of lemon squeezy
I think they address this in the article. They use arrays instead of linked lists. Which makes direct key comparison very fast, because it's all in CPU cache.
it wouldn't surprise me if what we think of as intelligence is nothing more than brute force attempts at prediction with educated guesses
Can anyone comment on how different the AI generated proofs are when compared to those of humans? Recent chess engines have had some 'different' ideas.
Experimenting with Claude 3.5's New Artifacts Feature: A Designer's Journey
Thank you! I spent substantially more time on the writeup than I did on the site pre-launch, which is pretty funny to me
Idk if it's still around or not but Lego Mindstorms I think it was called was the gateway into my robotics interest as a kid.
How long until this tech is integrated into compilers?
It's both. Globalization causes the outbreak, but climate change makes the world more habitable for these microbiotics.
Ok, but how one make a 2.2m x 2.2m x 2.5m "single-piece steel forging" so the inside cavity can be machined out of the solid. That sounds a great metallurgical achievement in this size, allowing the huge piece of metal not only cooling without breaking itself apart from temperature differences of inside and outside but preserving a great deal of streangth too.
Citation needed. Maybe it's difficult to state it, entirely.
Add to the grub kernel option, rootflags=degraded.
I’m gonna share the raw data soon! Just have one more story about the site I need to tell first.
Not sure why this in particular does it for me but the thought that in my old age I'll be able to continue enjoying the outdoors with an Arc'Teryx branded exoskeleton that they might sell next to the hiking poles at REI really gives off some "holy crap I'm living in the future" energy.
We will definitely keep it.
In other words, you don't know any specifics. Which is my point.
>The market never seems to end producing those developers who spend their life refactoring and never shipping anything, nor taking responsibility for the fact that their pile of technologies SLOWS DOWN the other developers while never solving the problems they were implemented for.

The market absolutely produces those developers, it's just that their salaries start at 7 figures and go up from there.
The Man Who Invented Times Square
Series of blog posts on search and information retrieval

https://medium.com/@dtunkelang

What AI Engineers Should Know about Search from Doug Turnbull

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/06/25/what-ai-engineers-n...

Videos from Berlin Buzzwords

https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSchwarzUG/videos

Videos MIx-Camp E-commerce Search

https://www.youtube.com/@mix-campe-commercesearch2961/videos

Videos from OpenSource Connections / Haystack

https://www.youtube.com/@OpenSourceConnections/videos
Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, of course.
No desaster. On an actual attack (eg if the seed leaked) you count the collisions and return empty on some low threshold. Like 100 on 32bit
> AI closing in on general intelligence

That’s what the hype men say, but increasingly I don’t believe it. I read yesterday that most major AI systems cannot correctly answer “which is larger, 7.11 or 7.9?”.

Often I read of these strange examples, and struggle to remember each one or provide accurate examples when people challenge my claims that these systems still have many flaws. And fair enough. I’ve thought about that recently, and I think this is partly due to the fact that intelligence is a complex highly dimensional phenomenon, and failures in artificial systems manifest as all these weird little quirks and strange behaviors and failures and they are honestly hard for me to remember as an interested lay person.

That said, these systems have loads of shortcomings, and in particular they’re not good at learning from small datasets which means they can’t easily generalize to humanoids (for example) doing the millions of little real world tasks humans do. And they can’t serve as general algorithms for all software problems. They work well with text and pretty well with images but I think we will find for a long time to come significant shortcomings that prevent them from really manifesting as a truly general intelligence.

And I don’t know about this quantum stuff but until we actually solve AGI I don’t think we can really say with confidence what it takes to make intelligence function.
Without any proof, while France has literally arrested multiple Russians in France preparing for sabotage.
I wonder what the battery life is like.

Things like this will be awesome to get people out hiking more, but it could also get people into some trouble if it dies and they're too far away to make it out on their own.
explain why this is funny
How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)
I'd say it's more common for people to not have an online presence than to have an online presence. Working at a FAANG, the vast majority of social media from the employees I've seen have nothing to do with technology (probably for risks of saying something they shouldn't say as an employee of a publicly traded company).

I do know a personal friend who pivoted from english teaching to startups to FAANG and he was kind of smart. He made a podcast in his field, but when he became a manager at a FAANG, he deleted his podcast.

The most important thing in your early career is to work at the right places or the right opportunities. If you're early in your career I don't think your portfolio or LinkedIn is going to matter than much to be honest.

If I was young and starting out today I would focus on:

a. An internship if I was in college with a great company. It's the easiest way to get a job at a FAANG or whatever industry or place you ultimately want to work in

b. Contributing to some llm or technical crypto project where there's demand for people to contribute and you can make an impact because the market isn't crowded. Avoid the easy tutorial copy/paste stuff and push some code in a technically interesting and useful project. You'll learn a lot and make valuable connections as a lot of these people are usually established

If you have to pay bills, you can get whatever job you can find today, but while pursuing a & b to maximize opportunity. There's also communities you can join where you can potentially get referrals, but being very clear on what you want will help you tailor your experience.

Most "professionals" with an online presence use it strategically and are only showing exactly what they want you to see