skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the Federal Free Covid Test Program Guilty of Fraud Waste Abuse?
I love the program but I found it frustrating when my free covid test arrived last week and the expiry date on the box was for last January. Yes they were extended to this coming January, but that means they are only good for about ~90 days. When you call the number on the website the automated message says the the test are guaranteed for only 60 days. I asked this question elsewhere and there was some good base information I recieved that explained from the time of manufacture the initial expiration is only 4-6 months. Even if that's true, that means these test have been in storage 80%+ of their useful life, presumably where no one could use them. Now, at my house, most likely, all 4 will be thrown away without use, leaving me without test, again. One theory on the now removed post, was that they were left overs from government agencies. That seems doubtful to me as I believe the program has it's own funding and it's a nationwide program and I wouldn't think the "leftovers" would be enough of a supply.

Again, I love the idea of the program; I just don't understand why there is only a 60 day guarantee on something that seems to have a 1-2 year lifespan and why many of us seem to get them at them at end of life. Can someone enlighten me as to whats really going on?
That sounds more like an urgent care than anything.

I have probably seen 20 doctors in the last 2 years for ongoing health issues, and never once did I get two different doctors from a group practice. You would have to request that since when you make an appointment you make it for the doctor you want to see specifically.

However urgent cares are pretty much exactly as you describe, so perhaps you are confusing group practice with urgent care? Hospitals are also kind of in the same vein as urgent cares too.

If you have the means, I would highly suggest finding a good primary care doctor. Mine will sit with me for an hour if needed, no rushing, talks through everything. Search locally and you can check reviews online. Although the best ones are often not taking new patients, you have to shop around a bit.
Lex Fridman with Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Microsoft intensified its lobbying efforts when it faced scrutiny for bundling IE with Windows. Similarly, Facebook, Google, Apple, and others have increased their lobbying over the years.

As you pointed out, this is nothing new. When companies or entire industries feel threatened, they ramp up lobbying – even Huawei hired Tony Podesta to advocate for them.

Hillary Clinton's call to repeal Section 230 for stricter social media regulation will likely prompt tech companies to boost their lobbying efforts.

Sooner or later, companies in emerging industries will start lobbying to protect their interests or advance their agendas.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/23/huawei-hires-tony-p...
There's some life kilometers deep into the Earth, don't think it's possible to destroy that without deep-frying whole planet
We call thrift stores "offsite storage" because it's almost always cheaper to buy a thing like a keyboard or furniture, use it until it gets in the way, then just return it until we find we need it again.
I used to go to work past one like this. They replaced a light where you would always eventually get to go with a roundabout where the 99% of traffic going north/south meant the other two ways were effectively not part of the traffic network for a few hours a day.
<< few details are available to the public, it's hard to estimate the impact.

Would it not be a good indicator that it may not be a great idea to begin with?

<< carrier SOCs would've noticed immediately.

I want to believe that. I do. But the longer I live in corporate, the more I think that we are experiencing a serious competency problem across the board.
Oh my. And you think the prior attitudes were honest on their face, and not about undermining the prior incumbents so they could eat their lunch - to get the new folks here?

The prior incumbents were the way they were because they were incumbents. all incumbents end up doing these things. Because they work.

At least until someone figures out the chink in the armor, and it stops working.

Welcome to the new set.

Die young a hero, or live to be a villain.
https://hackaday.com/2019/12/06/visiting-the-facom-128b-1958...

I was quite impressed to learn about the 66 year-old computer that is still in use with the Japanese transit system.
It even has an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2128/
Getting Empirical about Refactoring (2011)
The opposite problem is much more common and shouldn't be downplayed: A developer or designer using the "every change breaks someone's workflow" exaggeration as an excuse to break a workflow.
Remember that the corruption index is just about how much corruption people "think" there is. And italians are pessimists, so you get this idea.

In sweden or germany they're just as corrupt, but also believe to belong to a superior race, so keep repeating to themselves that these things only happen to those people with dark skin, not to them!

Plenty of corruption around me in sweden goes completely unpunished. They just pin it all on the low level guy (who's often an immigrant) and never involve any higher up (who's often not an immigrant).
Ending jet lag: Scientists discover secret to regulating our body clock
> This type of infrastructure isn't exactly hooked up to a public IP address somewhere.

It's getting from point A to point B, and probably not via sneakernet. The details will make it more or less secure, but I'd be shocked if it's going through anything other than public internet pathways.
And AM has use as an emergency utility and FM is more accessible than digital radio.
People just don't talk about Ruby anymore. For those who don't do webdev, has it just stabilised and people take it for granted now, or was it always hype and people have long since moved on?
> they can finally stop maintaining X11 legacy code

They already have, this is what I'm trying to tell you. All the X.org maintainers are on Wayland, and none of the DEs are contributed to X.org. It's on hospice. It happens to work just because, but that won't be the case forever.

It's fine if you currently like X and use X. I myself use X on Debian Stable.

But the reality is that it's dead technology, and eventually it won't work right.

Wayland is constantly being improved by many, many different parties. Valve, KDE, Gnome, freedesktop, Redhat... they're all constantly making new protocols and implementing them to solve problems.
> I see this strictly as a one-way only, and I would like for any commenter to treat this feeling at face value.

Sure, I believe what you say. And still, you have 5.5M USD stashed away. You will be fine financially. After you return from your Eat/Pray/Love-styled adventure, buy some middle class rental property (2-3M USD worth), and you can live forever on the cashflow. Also, move to a cheaper place -- I assume that you live in a very high cost of living place now.

At the risk of overstepping my bounds: I do think that you are underestimating how much a year away from work will rewire your brain. Even 10 days away from the office has a distinct effect upon mine. New possibilities will emerge once your brain is much less stressed for a long period.
A very interesting perspective on the legal war on the copyrightability of AI-generated works. The comparison to photography feels apt. Although I'm not sure if the creator's unwillingness to disclose their prompt engineering helps or hurts. And the office's proposed workaround to make the AI generated image copyrightable by adding a filter isn't unreasonable for now.
I can accept that total warfare where the population was the target as a “thing” in that type of conflict. A dirty business, but reality.

The daylight raid aspect, however, seems to me to be more grounded in ego and dogma than military utility. I don’t think avoidance of civilian casualties was a deciding factor. Those airmen were sent into a meat-grinder.
Interword for the C64 (80 columns, ported from Amiga) [video]
Even then I question if you can do so. You can level your enemy perhaps, but if the enemy is the US or Russia they have provisions to end the whole world after you level all their cities and so you don't win. If it is anyone else they might not end the world themselves, but there are good odds many countries that otherwise hate each other will join together to destroy you because they don't going nuclear to be an option for the next country. (basic physics and engineering can build a nuclear bomb - it isn't easy, but several countries have proven it can be done and most suspect more would if it was cost effective - but since you can't use them in war it isn't cost effective so they don't)
This is very handy given the recent de-emphasizing of S3 Select by AWS.
When Cups Runneth Over: The Threat of DDoS
Anybody have any opinions on moving away from Redis for cables/caching/jobs?

I supposed it'd be nice to have one less thing to manage, but I'm wondering if there are any obvious gotchas to moving these features over to sqlite and postgresql.
This is a fair criticism for the current state of the site - but our goal is to expand this if the PoC gives useful results.

In our experience people are very sensitive about allowing their images to be used for certain generalisations of research like this; e.g., when it comes to guessing someone's ethnicity or gender.

Our goal is to allow questions to be answered for those generalizations and we are working on adding those to the website soon.
Funny you skipped over all my actual examples, eh? How are seagulls ‘terrible lizards’?

Isn’t the public perception the actually more honest one?
It's DHH marketing style (it sez right there in his earlier book: pick a fight).

Back when Rails burst into the scene, he picked the EJB mountain to battle and positioned Rails vs EJB for as long as he could.

This is another battle in the Infrastructure world that he picked.

The timing was perfect too: Rails grew during economy crisis 2006-2009 (layoff, EJB complexity, web-app complexity, the rise of single-developer entrepreneur). Right now we're sort of in similar situation too: layoffs, infrastructure complexity, BigTech culture, FAANG-leetcode grind.

Tech is like a cycle :)
Is there any benchmarks for the SD Card speeds now? Last time I promised a high end SD Card I got around 95MB/s on my Raspberry Pi. What is the theoretical max speed now?
Money and power is clearly one hell of a drug.
War crimes are not what Zionists says it is. Rather it is what they do, and continuing to do so.
If so, this should answer the question where the compiler knows it from?
For a buildroot alternative that solves many of these problems, without going to the complexity of Yocto, see ptxdist: https://www.ptxdist.org/
The magic command in other settings would be pyenv. It lets you have as many different Python versions installed as you wish.

Pro tip: outside Docker, don’t ever use the OS’s own Python if you can avoid it.
> AM radio can be transmitted with a roll of wire and a relatively simple transciever from an FOB or refugee camp.

Don't forget it can be listened to using a crystal radio set that is powered from the radio waves. No batteries needed and it can't be detected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio#%22Foxhole_radio...
This is cynical. There's some truth to this, but the constitution provides a much stronger guarantee of rights as opposed to the Free Market, which guarantees nothing. There's real risk of allowing this to be a fully private-sector endeavor.
And worst case there is always the rubber hose.
Is there a chance to get a link to the page? I'd love to try it out and fix.
I am not sure what your subtext here is. Are you saying it doesnt matter as much because there are fewer SV companies?
I may be alone here, but I don't it find it that absurd (though the implementation may be if JS doesn't support this well, no idea). This would be crazy in languages that actually enforce typing, but function type signature overloading to alter behavior seems semi-common in languages like Python and JS.

Entirely unrelated, but the older I get, the more it seems like exposing the things under ".prototype" as parts of the object was probably a mistake. If I'm not mistaken, that is reflection, and it feels like JS reaches for reflection much more often than other languages. I think in part because it's a native part of the object rather than a reflection library, so it feels like less of an anti-pattern.
> This type of infrastructure isn't exactly hooked up to a public IP address somewhere.

Without going into details, consider that sometimes they are, even with very large providers that you think should know better. Law enforcement’s got to get to them somehow.

And much of the documentation for these systems is publicly available. Search for your favorite enterprise company and for “lawful intercept”.
https://www.groundcontrol.com/products/iridium/short-burst-d...
Who’s “them”?
I've love to see a revamp of the import system. It is a continuous source of pain points when I write Python. Circular imports all over unless I structure my program explicitly with this in mind. Using python path hacks with `sys` etc to go up a directory too.
I think we've started to enter a weird space. For a number of "necessary" things in life (in the US), one needs to purchase insurance - in some cases its required by law, or an unavoidable policy of obtaining a loan. Cars and houses.

But insurers have started just refusing to insure some cars, or homes in some locations (and we're not just talking about building in a flood plane). We're going to have piles of cars and homes that no one can use because the risk profile is too high for insurers.
Its Ceph.

> Our S3-compatible Object Storage provides you with storage capacity for saving data in "Buckets". Any data you save in your Bucket is saved in a Ceph cluster.

from https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview#obj...
The flog gem reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report
Does https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764555 answer the question?
I'm sticking with redis purely because it's battle tested and I'm not endowed with enough talent nor time to work through kinks in Solid.
Isn't "Worse is better" just a restatement of "Perfect is the enemy of Good", only slanted to make better\Perfect sound more enticing?

>The right thing takes forever to design, but it is quite small at every point along the way. To implement it to run fast is either impossible or beyond the capabilities of most implementors.

A deer is only 80% of a unicorn, but waiting for unicorns to exist is folly.
Ptxdist – "Professional Embedded Linux Made Easy"
I work on different projects that use with Rails and others that use a microservice-based architecture, and while the trend has been to encourage avoiding monolithic architectures like Rails, I can say that I highly appreciate what it provides at its core. I love that the Rails team continues to trudge forward to add value and improvements despite the trends.
I vaguely remember (sometime in the 80s) sticking a straightened paperclip into a small hole on the face of a payphone to avoid having to drop a dime / quarters, and being able to call anywhere.
or (worse?) to not change anything; but I think this comes usually more from devs (guilty as charged).
This was very well written and an amazing challenge but my brain is wired to that "hacking common sense" that if you have physical access then it's already over...
the first thing that came to my mind was that, if you have physical access, then you can reflash the BIOS, install a driver backdoor, you can boot a live OS and then it's just a matter of tampering /etc/{passwd,shadow,groups, etc} ...

but I remembered that most of the physical access hacks would not be possible if the disk is encrypted.. which then makes this kind of hack enormously attractive.

The antenna idea can be extended to be a piece of hardware with the interference device built-in (piezo or whatever) which communicates with the external world with any wireless medium and then the attacker can trigger the interference remotely. This, plus a website controlled by the hacker which the victim is scammed to visit can be enough to make it viable.
The uBlock Origin “annoyances” lists filter these cookie banners really well. I used it on Firefox for Android. I almost forgot about cookie banners because it worked so well.
Is it me or is the introduction written in a very chatgpt-esque style?
Comb jellies fuse together when injured, study finds
They introduce Charlie Kelly the previous paragraph, explain what a Munro is right after that and use quotes around “bag”. What else could you expect? “Bag” is extremely common in many industries and they defined both other different terms.

You just ripped on an editor for absolutely no reason.
Yup. At my last gig, upgrading to a new version meant setting the Docker tag to the new one and running `make test`. If that passed, we were 99% certain it was safe for prod. The other 1% was covered by running in pre-prod for a couple days.
When the income tax was first passed it applied to less than 1% of citizens, yet look where we are now. Just because a new law doesn’t apply to you personally doesn’t mean you can’t be concerned about the potential downstream effects.
You might find this interesting as well: https://lettermatic.com/custom/pentiment

I thoroughly enjoyed the game, but you may enjoy it even more if you're quite into western calligraphy. The characters "speak" in different lettering based on their education, profession, etc.
> extremely suspicious timing.

I've been wondering for well over a decade why Hetzner didn't get its ass in gear and start offering AWS-like services. Instead all they've offered for years is remote control of VMs. Even now, this new S3 offering is very little, very late -- 18 years after Amazon first offered it and took off like a rocket.

The only odd thing about the timing here is what was keeping them.
Also Lisp came out in 1958, and ESPOL/NEWP in 1961, PL/I and its derivates, predating C by a decade.

Had AT&T been allowed to charge real money for UNIX, and the Worse is Better would never happened.
Why not give it to this team instead?

Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA - AE Pasquinelli, BJ Reinhart, F Slack, MQ Martindale, MI Kuroda, B Maller, DC Hayward (Nature, 2000)

Limiting it to three people really doesn't make much sense, and the selection of winning candidates has far more to do with political maneuvering then it does with how scientific discovery works. Similar issues arise in many other Nobel Prize awards, eg the discovery of the mechanism of ribosomal protein synthesis.
The excellent financial podcaster/youtuber Patrick Boyle has a related entry, "Crypto Has Bought The 2024 Election": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZvC_5leDY
“But they ended up exactly the same. Helping the worst regimes, all-in in military complex, taking advantage of screen addiction and teen insecurities.”

This implies all. I then said I don’t doubt their impact.

They’re not all like this is my point.
This also happens because the Italian television dumbs people down. Now we have also the social media so there is very little hope things will get any better.
> If you can stomach the $200 to $250/month plans, you will get better healthcare than anywhere in Europe.

I beg to differ, Switzerland is top notch and at least comparable to above. Accident insurance is mandatory for all employers and you pay 0 nothing, sickness insurance is slightly above the costs you mention and paid by every resident. Due to country being tiny you are never too far from really well staffed and equipped hospitals. I'd expect nordics have also at least very decent healthcare system.

Plus when you have any sort of issue, any normal employer is not desperately looking for ways to fire you quickly. Social safety net is on completely another level compared to US. Also lower taxes. Healthier environment to live, much better food. Vastly better and free public school system. And so on. If you plan kids, US costs will quickly spiral out of control unless on FAANG salaries, and then you have corresponding costs. Or you just let have your kids have those wonderful student loans, fuck their freedom and best years right.

But yes its still probably the most capitalistic country in Europe, and they are where they are due to all this, not some alt-right fairy tales about evil bankers and nazi gold I keep hearing from those who skipped way too many history (and other) lessons at school. Germany could be at same level but 8x more if they didn't adopt continuously ridiculously bad social direction and dangerously terrible and weak leaders. Alas, Germany's economical future and conversely EU's doesn't look that great due to this.
Wouldn't people just secure higher cost insurance to offset the risk?
Dismantle what SV has evolved into under venture capital.

When tech was scrappy and didnt have billions at stake, its products seemed to benefit humanity. Now it is (the most powerful?) part of the oppresive regime.
I think for beer there's a reason of bringing the glass to a colder temperature, which (from what I've heard) should reduce the amount of foam (not sure that's the exact term) in the glass.
My take is that maybe we shouldn't paint all of SV with the same brush. Not every SV company is Philip Morris.
There are, and they've been in practice for many decades.

However, I give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they have a functional brain. Therefore, I conclude if someone "doesn't believe" in climate change, that is a choice. Not a matter of ignorance.

I do not pity you enough to spit in your face with hand-holding and euphemisms. There is a deliberate choice and I'll treat you as such.
Suprisingly your first idea is illegal in some states. For example it is illegal in Texas.

https://www.skysenderos.com/blogs/thermal-drone-deer-recover...
> Can someone enlighten me as to whats really going on?

You never get the newest tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO_(computing_and_electronic...
Specifically re: git, I think a more fair comparison (than deep git vs. shallow git knowledge) is about learning how to use automation tools vs understanding the processes that they automate.

Case in point, there is an employee in my office who, after attaining a 4-year CS degree, was unaware that "git" wasn't "GitHub". GitHub is so aggressively pushed on new programmers that they don't even need to know that git exists, much less how it works. Actions that don't have a large colorful button may as well be impossible for someone so thoroughly dependent on tools-in-the-middle.
The Health Effects of Being a YC Founder: A 3-Year Data Analysis (Part 1)
I think maybe “foundation” was the wrong word.

Maybe origins?

My point was that the basic ideas that have been studied and refined over centuries were simple.
No one can "end the whole world" or bring about human extinction using nukes even if that were their explicit goal.
Wasn’t milk.com the website for the super-fancy electric-powered White Table during the 2010s?
If you include the cost of gathering information, the expedient solution may in fact be the best.
Ruby and Rails really seem to be going through a renaissance lately.

- The pickaxe book, Programming Ruby, has a new edition this year covering Ruby 3.3

- The Rails Way is being updated for Rails 8 and is available in pre-release, and will have two companion books

- A new title, Rails Scales, is being published by PragProg and is available in pre-release now

- YJIT has made Ruby fast. Like, _FAST_

- Rails has a bunch of new features that cover the "missing middle" levels of success

- Ruby has a bunch of new and new-ish features like Data (immutable Struct), pattern matching, Fibers and Ractors, and more.

I had largely moved on from ruby into the world of front-end applications by 2013, but now I'm excited about the prospects of diving back in.
This comment comes of as over-intellectual incoherent internet babble. I do not even know what you are saying.