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> our culture has trained us to take rhyme less seriously

As I was reading this, I realized compositions with metric and rhyme are a good way of decreasing the chances of someone altering them.

I'm thinking about the times before the printing press. Times when people copied books by hand, sometimes altering stuff during the process. I imagine altering a composition that has strict form is much harder than altering free text. Can't just insert or remove words freely (metric would change), can't just exchange a word by some other unrelated word (rhyme would change). Someone wanting to modify such works would need to be more than copyists.
Nope. Not the enterprise release notes or the security content notes either.
That's called "structuring" and is illegal.
Seems like no one so far actually read the article (podcast transcript).[†]

Bottom line: the "backfire effect" doesn't replicate. They managed to cause a backfire effect by phrasing their "fact checks" in a deliberately vitriolic way. This should surprise nobody, and to me, only confirms that the general "backfire effect" isn't real.

[†] Including me. I used Kagi Universal Summarizer and then spot-checked it. https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?target_language=&summ... or pastebin[.]com/z0qx45tG
Unfortunately, people are often ignorant of both how wealthy the billionaires literally are... and at the same time, how much of a drop in the bucket it is to government spending.

If we seized 100% of every billionaire's net worth and managed to liquidate their stock at market rates without causing a shock (impossible), we would theoretically gain $14.2 trillion. Note that this is for all billionaires worldwide, not just the US.

$14.2 trillion is a mountain of money. On the other hand, it's only enough to pay for US government operations for a little over 2 years.
I read somewhere that these were likely Motorola devices. Does that mean they are complicit in adding explosives to their pagers (wtf?) or is Mossad conducting supply chain attacks on such a massive scale? How do they ensure only the right pagers explode? Or did they randomly blow up a bunch of innocent pager users?
It's absurd that this was flagged and pushed off the front page. Either it was a supply chain attack with explosives installed, or this was a hack that caused battery explosion. Either way this is extremely relevant to Hacker News.
Can we carry the not-useless people instead?
I wonder if they could build a very large dish in Earth orbit. Probably cost prohibitive though. Also there's the power and cooling aspect when transporting... Would there be any advantage to a space based station?
Weeeelll, one of the issues is that I'm female and am sensitive to pressure. Wearing a bra all day everyday SUCKS, especially since I'm a very strange size and shape so finding ones that fit costs hundreds of dollars and hours of my time. But God forbid men be aware that we have breasts and that sometimes they dangle or have nipples.

Sizing up also doesn't work for women - we look slovenly then unless we go tailor everything which is more time and $.

I prefer being able to work in a sports bra and sweatpants.
Hardware schematics and full source code doesn't tell you everything about how a piece of hardware is made either.

How was the hardware tested? How was it calibrated? How was it assembled?

An ingredients list tells 90% of the story about how food is made, and in most cases an expert could guess the remaining 10% to get a decent result. Likewise, hardware design+code tells 90% and an expert could figure out the remaining 10%.

The government could totally require all consumer products have published source code. (published source code != a license for others to use the code)
Probably because they have been stalking for a while, and this escalation is a precursor to further action. Destroying lines of communication is usually done before military action.
So no one has a credible source on how and why the exploded? Because the mostly likely answer is they were intercepted and rigged with explosives
Ask HN: What is the reason YC switched to 4 batches?
I can't help myself but think that some fundamentals changed over the past 2-3 years in the software space.
Because of the rendering features provided by HTML, CSS and JavaScript semantics.

That is why Flash became so loved by Web designers, allowing them to target a rendering surface, completely bypassing the browser.

Also why we are now having Flash's revenge with WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly.

However the "until you have to debug it" still applies, unless you ship the browser with the application, but that isn't something people usually do. /s
Even cooler is that it's possible to create an infinite-layer gzip file: https://honno.dev/gzip-quine/
Shein is the worst polluter now unsustainable industry and practices
Right and I think people believe this myth that unions flatten everyone down to a seniority level and there's no room for the rare, brilliant 10xer or genius. In reality, in any unionized industry there are still the Brad Pitts and John DeLorean's who break the mold.
What about "whether WFH is more or less productive is irrelevant because people hired with the understanding they would work remotely shouldn't be forced to 'return' to an office they never worked in?" Sure, maybe it's more profitable for the company to have all of their employees in the office, but plenty of other things are more profitable that we also have decided as a society aren't reasonable, like paying below minimum wage or flouting safety regulations. If a company didn't think it could make a profit while employing remotely, they shouldn't have hired remote workers in the first place.
There's also the consideration that taxing the milk lasts a lot longer than taking the cow and selling it, once.
Hobbies and shared passions are not the only things people can bond over.

You know, sometimes I need to remind myself this site has people from other cultures and also significantly younger than me.
I'm also fairly new and would like to second this. HN is really interesting. Or, rather, it does a good job both making it harder to find the less interesting stuff and making it easy to guess if you'll be interested in it.
An englishman, a scotsman and an irishman are marooned on a desert island. Afer a long year one of them finds a lamp, and when cleaning it up a genie appears.

The genie offers them one wish each

The Irishman says 'sure i'd give anything to be back in galway, stuck in a snug, with a pint of porter' and <poof> he's gone.

The scotsman is amazed and roars 'take me back tae glasgae!' and in a similar puff of smoke is gone.

The englishman, looks around and says 'I say, its going to be awfully lonely around here without those chaps around, can you bring them back please?'
It's middle management mostly directly responsible for IC/team productivity and blaming misses on WFH. Upper management is hearing 'WFH is the problem' from middle management and making the RTO decisions.
I'm connecting to remote SSH endpoints for 20+ years and the connection quality actually improved over the years. Some of these connections are not just encrypted text-based stuff, but tunnelled VNC and other more throughput-hungry use-cases for using SSH (than logging into remote text-based terminal).

I'm curious - what do you do, or what use-case do you have in mind, that renders 16 Mbit/s throughput "completely unusable"? I never required 16 Mbit/s throughput for... anything related to my work. It's enough even for high-quality video conferencing.
https://archive.is/EF6Sj
I don’t think it is a problem at all though - I don’t look for friends at work. I have an active social life _outside_ of work with people whom I choose to spend time with.
Fictional parasites different from our own
If it was targeting pagers used for Hezbollah's internal communication then it would be justified, no?
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarity_(physics)
For what it's worth I like my job, if I didn't I probably would have made the move when the office relocation was announced. I was just pushing back on the idea the only employees are to blame for commutes. I take the train and bike now and it's chill, but certainly less efficient.
There's some serious academic critique of the Swiss Cheese model, too.

That said, I rather like it. It's straightforward to explain to people, they very quickly "get" it, and it gets them thinking along the right lines.
Most of it is in San Diego or Boston, really.

I'm not sure on remote devs, as honestly, biotech isn't really dev heavy (much to it's detriment). I'd look at the larger players in the space for jobs there, as they will likely be working in Canada too and may need help with local law compliance. If you're looking to switch things up, compliance is a very boring but deadly necessary sector of biotech that always needs people. I'll forewarn that the pay is less, though the stability is greater too (but not by all that much).

https://www.biospace.com/news

This may be a good site to keep your finger on the pulse of the industry and to find companies looking for talent.

At the end of the day, you are going to take less salary for a greater sense of mission and purpose. It's not as bad as teaching and nursing, but you're on that slide ruler now. Negotiate hard on starting salary.
Which I guess was the point of the post, that those "modules" can also be books on those topics from the professors that teach classes at the best MBA schools in the world.

10-15 pounds instead of 10k-15k pounds. If you are the kind of person that needs to be in a (remote) classroom to learn and that is worth 1000 times more, then great. Whatever one needs to do to achieve the goal.

The worlds information is all on the internet. If you don't need the credential, the connections, or the learning structure, everything is free and can be consumed in a perfectly personalized way.

Personally, I would argue that, after a certain point, if you need to pay to get access to that sort of structured environment to learn it's going to be pretty hard to start a company that is, by definition, purely in unstructured space. Also continue to learn because knowledge in those areas is not static, and the things that are just basic foundational info.
Other comments here are suggesting it was more likely a real explosive put in as part of a physical supply chain attack. Anyone able to say which is more plausible?
In hiring threads there's disconnect people have because the employer's goals and the potential employee's goals are different. Candidates often think the employer wants the best employee so will bemoan things like whiteboard coding because some people don't do well in that situation. They're correct about that but wrong about the employer's goals.

The employer is simply filling a role. They're looking for someone sufficient. They don't need to be perfect in this process.

It's the same here. You are replaceable. Never forget that. You may be thinking the company is losing a good employee. And they might be. But it doesn't matter because keeping particular employees is almost the goal. There are very few people who are truly irreplaceable.

If out of 20 employees, one quits over the RTO mandate then their work gets spread around the other 19 who now do 5% more work for less money because they're not asking for raises and there's no severance to pay. It's win-win-win.

The company would rather understaff and underpay to any other outcome.
My economic theory is that the price reflects ecological costs fairly well.

At first glance it might appear that fixing would have a lower environmental cost. But the money spent will be spent by the repairman on things like international travel or whatever - and each of the things the money is spent on have environmental costs and externalities.
I am not current with C#. If I may ask - which features specifically?
how does this compare to streamlit ?
Sorry I missed our coffee date next Tuesday.
I'm still blown away by what many of the LLMs can do, but I'm not fooling myself into thinking that they're more than extremely flexible functions. You put in a query and get an answer. How are they that different from any search engine or web site?

When the Internet first bloomed, a hands-off ethic appeared and took hold. Let's not regulate or tax any of it lest we kill it. But now there are significant groups-- often from the establishment players -- who are concocting scary what-if narratives that seem pretty unlikely to me.

How about we just try the "slow regulation" approach again? It worked pretty well for the Internet. We've slowly added some laws with the utmost care not to destroy and, over all, it's worked. Let's do the same with AI.
> you will forget almost all of the stuff your learned

Speak for yourself.

You are also developing a meta skill of being able to read technical material, and a fluency with basic concepts (algorithms, signals, etc)

Also sometimes learning something isn’t knowing exactly how to do it on the spot, but knowing it’s the right thing to look up when you need it.
They’re likely already stalking their owners via software exploits on their phones
Isn’t it simple economics? There’s no incentives

Perhaps entertainment might fund it? Like a reality show on the moon? Still doubt it will finance billions
That is fantastic that that was true for you. I, too, have tried many times to lose weight, and I hadn’t given up. The closest I got was losing 55 lbs, which worked great, until I dislocated my shoulder and had to have surgery, which meant I couldn’t work out for a long time.

For many people, it is simply a lot easier to lose and maintain weight, even if it doesn’t feel that way at the time. If we were to perform the same actions, in the same way, my body may simply have a predilection to maintaining a higher weight. (This is a real phenomenon, bodies have “set weights,” this is how stalls happen, etc.)

Is it impossible? No, of course not. But is it much much harder for some than others? Absolutely.

Yes, if anyone eats fewer calories than they expend they will lose weight. That is how thermodynamics works.

But the level of difficulty with which that can happen varies greatly.
The "clever show" has caused a mass casualty event of Hezbollah fighters. I would say it was an extremely effective attack.
The ancient greeks when listening to Homer, would be quite familiar with the story already, having heard the stories over and over since they were children, and very few of them probably ever experienced the story from "the beginning', but rather heard snatches of it here and there from story tellers, and in fact, the story is optimized for _retelling_, rather than _telling_, and presumes the audience is familiar with the characters and events.
My Experience with the Knowledge Society (TKS)
The Rise of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes
You don’t get yearly refreshers?
I didn’t learn this until recently but in psql you can use \e or \editor to open the current line in $EDITOR. It helps a lot.
Imagine working all your life, and your crowning achievement being:

- buying a house you never see the inside of while the sun is up

- buying a car whose purpose is making the two hours every day you spend commuting a bit less miserable
that’s generally what happens when you / the people you work with are socially awkward autismos. i hang out with several colleagues outside of work multiple times a week, and consider them friends
I'd be very interested to hear the perspective of your sales and management teams. Your view is obviously very biased and only tracks "productivity" from the programmers. "Number of builds, commits, releases" off-handedly does not sound like straight progress, typically fast direction changing (adapting to the business environment) from management and sales is what drives profit. Code is not an asset, it is a liability.

The loss of programmer productivity can easily be overshadowed by gains from other parts of the business. I know it's not always the case, and nobody wants to hear that their suffering is better for the company as a whole since it devalues your work, but I would be super curious to hear why the decision was made.
> it's nice to find they accept me despite maybe not voting the same way they do.

They don't accept me, if they vote for people who would make my life terrible for nobody's benefit
You can also try Bishopi.io APIs which is cheaper than dataforseo :)
It's probably faster, I never really timed the resumption and I don't have a good sense of time. I don't personally feel inconvenienced by hibernate.
Show HN: AI powered clinical trials search
I built this app over the past couple of days using phenoUI, the app development toolkit for healthcare that my co-founder and I built. I was motivated to build this app for a few reasons: a) to serve as a demo of how our tools can be used to rapidly build bespoke healthcare AI apps, b) evaluate different models to determine how they perform with healthcare AI use cases, and c) explore a more user friendly experience for clinical trial searching based on my personal experience.

Having built my career in healthcare and working in biopharma for a number of years, I am the person in my family & friends circle that people turn to when they need help finding clinical trials. The current process of searching for clinical trials is challenging for both patients and providers alike and while the Clinical Trials gov website has made significant strides in the past few years (including a modernized API!) it's still overwhelming and difficult to navigate.

What can you do in the app?:
Enter a search query (e.g. “45 year old female her2 pos”) which is then processed using Gemini API + Clinical Trials.gov API to analyze relevant clinical trials and assess how good a fit the trials are given the input search query. The top 10 search results are provided along with a measure of the trial fit (determined by the AI), a rationale for why the trial is a good fit (provided by the AI), and links to the official clinical trials government website for the given trial

How:
I used our phenoUI tools (e.g. phenoUI figma plugin, phenoUI flutter runtime, phenoUI gateway) to build and customize the frontend and easily connect the app to the custom backend service I built. To build the AI clinical trial backend, I evaluated Gemini Flash 1.5, Gemini Pro 1.5, Claude 3 Opus, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Anecdotally I observed similar performance in terms of latency and accuracy across all four services so opted to go with the option with the highest quota and lowest cost (e.g. Gemini Flash 1.5).

The search query is processed using Gemini to extract key search parameters to then perform the search using the Clinical Trials.gov API. The top 10 search results are returned from the Clinical Trials.gov API and these results are then sent along with the original search query to Gemini a second time to assess which trials are a good fit for the characteristics described and the AI is asked to explain its rationale for why it recommended different trials.

Youtube demo with more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GffgxMEA4TM

What’s next?:
I built this app primarily as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how healthcare AI applications can be built using our phenoUI tools.

I do think this search interface could be helpful for providers and patients to improve the experience of searching for clinical trials but would love to hear any feedback, suggestions, or questions! This app is currently for demonstration purposes only but if there’s sufficient interest we would be excited to build it out further either on our own or with a healthcare company partner!
At yes lets use a screwdriver to do something which a hammer was meant for and call it progress.

That is what I read when I read the title. People should think about what a language's purpose is before planning to interate a technological design around it. Python is very good for many things just not this...
This being a hack is improbable in my opinion. If you see the pictures of the aftermath, the damage is too big to be the result of a lithium battery explosion. Moreover the devices exploded at the same time in different locations (won’t happen if they made the battery overheat till explosion) HA probably bought a bad batch with implanted explosives and they set it off now.
This is true, however I can also accept that a thread on this is going to descend into a shit show.
NB: that's probably backwards. Batteries contain a lot of energy, they just don't release it particularly quickly.

Most explosives have relatively low energy density, however the energy they have is released far faster than with conventional fuels. By unit mass, TNT (or other comparable explosives such as C4, RDX, etc.) have about 1/10th the energy as liquid petroleum fuels (petrol, diesel, kerosene).

Though again most battery technologies also have fairly low energy densities. But those are probably roughly comparable with most mainstream explosives.

TNT has an energy density of 4.184 MJ/kg.

A LiON battery: 0.36–0.875 MJ/kg.

Motorola pagers (a widely used type) seem to typically take a 3.5V 500mAh battery, which if I'm doing my conversions correctly (mAh * V * 3.6) works out to about 23 kilojoule. That would be the energy equivalent of ~5g TNT. A light charge, but one you wouldn't want going off on your hip.

(Note: I've corrected an off-by-an-order-of-1,000 error above, earlier read 23 MJ / 180g TNT. As I said, I'm not entirely certain of my calculations, which are using the Wikipedia energy densities noted and GNU Units.)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density>

Again, batteries won't explode as footage of the presumed Israeli attack on Hezbolla members shows. But they do contain appreciable energy. It would more likely burn rapidly at worst case.
"Political" (including geopolitical) posts on here lead to an enormous amount of anger and noise and I fully get why they're verboten. In this case it's actually a fascinating issue that has a lot of crossovers with the domain of this site, but invariably the conversation would get overwhelmed with geopolitical noise instead of just focusing on the technical aspects.
> Maybe I only feel that way because I came from skilled labour before I started programming full time.

No, I expected things to work the way you think it should and I don't have a background in the trades. It's just bonkers how bad the industry training is.

I suspect (but definitely do not know) that it stems from a "Why pay to train them when someone else (or maybe they, themselves) will do it for us?" mentality that also just so happens to result in it being hard as fuck to find entry-level work.
I learned about the construction of this shape from a numberphile video a couple of years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87uo2TPrsl8

There's a bit at the end showing the construction used in place of a building number on the front of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) building at 17 Gauss Way, UC Berkeley.
> It's possible that the kid uses a different rule to evaluate it. Like "a small person needs small portions" or some variation.

Fair enough. It's definitely missing the opposing case where 1 graham cracker each is split on only one side and therefore the situation goes from fair to unfair, even though it's the same amount of graham cracker.

> I'd be convinced that the kid doesn't get it if they swapped crackers and then it stopped being fair.

I wouldn't count on that. I think the kid (and most adults) would claim it's fair if they thought they could get away with it. The deep intuition for "fair" that I expect from children would be derived from past experience negotiating with peers, not from any kind of moral theory.
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