skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about "disruptive", since they were trying to enter, using conventional tactics, what is in general a mature market with pretty high barriers. Urgent care as a market combines a very small number of very large national chains (Concentra, MedExpress, etc.) with a lot of medium- and small-sized regional chains, about half owned by medical systems and half not. There's even an existing national-level pediatrics chain, PM Pediatric, which has about 100 locations.

It's not an easy market to jump into; you spend a huge amount upfront on site construction (particularly if you're building standalone clinics outside of existing medical buildings, which is not unusual for urgent care), labor cost and complexity is high, and reimbursement cycles are long and painful. Healthcare chains scale like retail, not like software, with all the attendant cash management problems.

It feels like they did offer a superior service with lots of effort put into getting into the community, but I question both their decision to try and build a custom EHR -- yes, EHRs suck, but once you start building your own, you're no longer a medical services company, you're now an EHR company -- and not to pursue a regional-centric expansion strategy aligned with local health systems via contract or JV, instead choosing to build a small number of clinics across the country, which goes against proven successful buildout strategies in healthcare.

It's a shame they've gone under -- again, superior service, obviously a lot of care for their patients -- but "we went under because of cash management problems and inappropriate growth strategy" is a pretty standard story in the healthcare world.
QModem and then Telix were a window through which I explored another world as a young teenager with a budget modem with shaky MNP compatibility. In that world I eventually found friends, a wealth of knowledge, and a career. So thanks JF. RIP.

ATH0.
The law doesn't work by analogy.
I can't help but recall a certain former coworker who apparently believed that he was getting paid by the word, the most committed user of autocomplete and IDE code-generation features I've ever seen, and imagine what he must be doing now with the help of AI. At the time, I felt like simply following him around and tidying up his sprawling, repetitive, bug-ridden verbiage could have been someone's full-time job; with his output accelerated by AI, I imagine he could keep a whole team busy.
Anecdotal. Maybe I should compile a list of terrible US healthcare anecdotes so I can share 10 for every 1 I see here.
You are the stupidest person on this website
To me it seems he didn’t win, he just lived to fight another day. Winning would be if YouTube would treat him as if or better than if this never happened, or if the guy got in trouble, or if it would be harder to do this in the future.
I tested it on your site and I'm curious, is there a reason why the link-maze links are all gibberish (as in "oNvUcPo8dqUyHbr")? I would have had links be randomly inserted in the generated text going to "[random-text].html" so they look a bit more "real".
All I get in the article is just 1 word, "OK".

Real Information:

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/bench-accounting-to-be-acquire...
I used QModemPro (after it was bought by Wildcat) and it was the best. It integrated with OLR (offline reader) which meant I could login to the BBS, download my messages via Zmodem as a compressed QWK file, and logoff.

It was so much more efficient than downloading plain text messages. Of course these days we no longer have bandwidth constraints like that but back in the day it enabled long discussions like the sort we’re having on HN today.

Qmodem wasn’t the only terminal emulator but it was the most professional one.
> But SQL is "naturally composable" using string concatenation.

It is not. Not even in a simple case. Consider:

base = "SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 10"
cond1 = "WHERE foo = 1"
cond2 = "WHERE bar = 2"

base + cond1 + cond2 or any similar combination will not produce a valid query. It could if SQL had some thought put into it. There are many languages that have no problem with such things. But that irrational fear of moving beyond the 1970s when it comes to SQL...

The only realistic way to assemble queries is to prepare an AST-like structure to figure out where the pieces fit, and then write that out to a final query string. In practice, that means either first parsing the partial queries into that structure (hard) or providing a somewhat SQL looking API in the host language that builds the structure (easy). Unsurprisingly, most people choose what is easy.

> I am sure neither of those "invented" the pattern.

None of these invented the pattern. But the invention point is irrelevant anyway. You must have misread something?
QModem was great software. I remember meeting many new friends from BBS days using that program. My condolences to you and your family.
> like what?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/us-russia-puti...

The US and its allies would destroy Russia’s troops and equipment in Ukraine – as well as sink its Black Sea fleet – if the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, uses nuclear weapons in the country, former CIA director and retired four-star army general David Petraeus warned on Sunday.

Petraeus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.

He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.”
If anything our regulatory system has been hijacked by capital sponsors to reinforce the fundamental monopolies that operate our economy, and the secondary consequence is that if we do not continue to do it at this point, our economy will implode. So the government is not only captured but also has only one meaningful choice: to further reinforce the monopolistic control of the western economies in the hopes of continued “economic growth.”

Obviously this should be seen as a disaster scenario (and highly likely outcome) for a capitalist society.
So I've been using Deepseek for 3 months with Aider coding assistant. Look up the "Aider LLM leaderboard" for proper test results if you like, in my experience the Deepseek V3 is just as good as Claude at less than 1/10th the price. I can't speak about o1 it is just too expensive to be worth it

OpenAI is going to be beaten on price, wait and see.
My congratulations to all local entrepreneurs who are gearing up their printers to print "replacement" QR codes to put over the existing ones, once the 25-refill limit is reach.
the robots.txt on the wiki is no longer what it was when the bot accessed it. primarily because I clean up my stuff afterwards, and the history is now completely inaccessible to non-authenticated users, so there's no need to maintain my custom robots.txt.
Hi! I’m the author of another open-source project in the same space that I’ve been working on for a while: Filestash [1]

Were you familiar with Filestash before starting this? If so, was there something specific you felt was missing that inspired you to create your own solution? Would love to hear your thoughts.

github: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

demo on s3: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=s3&access_key_id=Q3AM3...
One difference is that it is hardcoded to the destination site.
Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11
An acceptable false negative rate really depends on the consequences of getting caught.

If someone's nefarious plan depends on smuggling a gun in, they want to be confident they won't be arrested or shot at the entrance. Even failing to detect 20% of firearms means there's an 80% chance they'll be caught before they can do whatever it is they plan on doing. This is also why it's important to have armed guards alongside the scanners. Scanners aren't very useful if the only armed person is the bad guy.

If the consequences of getting caught are negligible (as is the case for anyone trying to bring a box cutter through airport security), then the attacker can try as many times as they want without issue. Even if the false negative rate is low, they only have to get lucky once.

Annoyingly, I can't find any info about false positive/negative rates for various scanners. There doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Consumer Reports or Underwriters Labs for scanners. My guess is that the numbers must be pretty bad if companies aren't willing to go through public 3rd party testing.
Years ago I was building a search engine from scratch (back when that was a viable business plan). I was responsible for the crawler.

I built it using a distributed set of 10 machines with each being able to make ~1k queries per second. I generally would distribute domains as disparately as possible to decrease the load on machines.

Inevitably I'd end up crashing someone's site even though we respected robots.txt, rate limited, etc. I still remember the angry mail we'd get and how much we tried to respect it.

18 years later and so much has changed.
Did Aider integrate v3 in its benchmarks? I checked yesterday and I didn't see it...

EDIT: Oh it did, wow, and it's better than Claude! Fantastic, this is great news, thank you!
It's not that I'm defending our medical system, it's just that applying "medical malpractice" concepts to the practice of financing of procedures seems to me to be a bit of a stretch.

A doctor at an insurance company isn't deciding the "final call" on anything. The patient can pay for it without insurance, insurance company management could say "ignore the doctor and pay for it", the patient's medical team could say "You can't afford the procedure and insurance won't pay for it, that's okay we'll do it for free!"

It's not that I'm arguing against some way of holding insurance companies accountable, I just don't think what doctors are doing there is practicing medicine.
Cost control? Think about an insurance company for a moment.

They could pay their CEO less.

They could not engage in needless advertising.

They could refrain from paying dividends to shareholders.

The list goes on...
Microsoft Access/JET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Database_Engine
Is it falsifiable? What is H_0 in this study?
For anyone interested in this topic, Primeagen has a pretty great video on how he used several encoding schemes to save bandwidth in one of his projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9tbqSIm-E
Not everyone, I was given the option to go to the US legally (L1 visa) and passed on it, the person that chose to go instead regretted it and came back.

I am from Uruguay though, which is the best Latin American country, so YMMV, if I was from Venezuela I'd move to the US 100%.
Add me to the list of early 90s QModem users! Just looked it up now and was reminded of the various download protocols like ZModem and Kermit. I haven't thought of those for years! When I used them, I don't think I even knew what a protocol was!

RIP JF.
I sideload on android because the apps on f-droid are better than google play. So I would imagine the same would apply to iOS. With sideloading you can run open-source software that works in a straightforward way and isn't intentionally crippled so that it can be monetized.

The last time I used iOS I found the app store quality was also really bad. People listing "free apps" that immediately require you to start an expensive monthly subscription to use. The effect on the mobile games industry has been so disastrous that people would rather carry an entirely separate mobile device on them just to play "real games".

On google play or the app store you can play a mobile version of minecraft with microtransactions for $7. With sideloading you can just play a full version of the more popular java edition PC game, for free. (pojavlauncherteam.github.io). I think that sums up the sideloading experience.
I understood as much. My point is that it's not clear to me that it will be a biologist, and not a statistician/mathematician, or developer/data-scientist that will be the one to sufficiently find the solution. There are literally petabytes of public data which already hold the answer.
We now have to accept a different paradigm by which we can do biology, and biologists are not always the best equipped for this paradigm.
It was like a doorway on a floppy disk.
What is this encoding scheme that produces Chinese characters from binary data? E.g. from the first example:

> 뮭䅰㼦覞㻪紹陠聚牊

I've never seen that before. The base64 below it, in contrast, is quite familiar.
That opens up the opposite attack though: what do you need to do to get your content discarded by the AI?

I doubt you'd have much trouble passing LLM-generated text through their checks, and of course the requirements for you would be vastly different. You wouldn't need (near) real-time, on-demand work, or arbitrary input. You'd only need to (once) generate fake doppelganger content for each thing you publish.

If you wanted to, you could even write this fake content yourself if you don't mind the work. Feed Open AI all those rambling comments you had the clarity not to send.
The problem is that in the US we also pay for our neighbors who are on welfare and drug addicts.

Welfare -- my 30%+ federal income taxes

Medicare -- my income is taxed for it.

MediCal(California only) - my 10%+ state income taxes.

Uninsured/homeless goes to emergency room and hospital writes it off -- my 30%+ federail income taxes and my 10%+ state income taxes

City spends millions on homeless -- my 10% state income taxes and probably a bit of my property taxes.

On top of it, thousands per year of monthly medical insurance premiums for family of 3, thousands per year of "deductibles" before insurance kicks in.

This cannot be better than just paying high taxes and receiving high benefits for it.
> it was played from sheet music by a professional organist.

I assume the claim didn't come from that organist. But would it be an infringement if it was?
Even a simple "A vs B" selection process would be an improvement to what most of what we spray'n'pray photographers currently use. It's been forever on my list of mobile apps I might want to write (I expect that similar things exists, but I also kind of expect that they are all filled with other features that I really would not want to have)
Find Zen in mundane daily repetitive tasks. Avoid all screens for first hour after you wake up (and the hour before you sleep). Stay focused in the moment – focus on your body and mind. First/last thing everyday, do these activities with mindfulness – personal hygiene, exercise, gratitude/prayer, set positive realistic intentions for the day, set intention to act, prepare, eat/pack fresh healthy food.

Then start your materialistic business end of your day. Learn to breathe and keep your mind calm and present throughout the day. Watch/catch yourself if your mind runs wild with background threads – try and disable background jobs in your mind for a few weeks.

If you have a spouse/partner, discuss these goals with them and ask for their cooperation while you are trying to change your habits. Have realistic expectations, and be generous towards others.

Coming to materialistic business hours of your day, focus on problem-solving and living in reality.

Work through your own personal Maslov's hierarchy of needs. Be strategic, be realistic, and try to build a reasonable position of confidence. Then, launch yourself further from there. Don't overextend yourself.

All the best!
> And there is enough low IQ stuff from humans that they already do tons of data cleaning

Whatever cleaning they do is not effective, simply because it cannot scale with the sheer volumes if data they ingest. I had an LLM authoritatively give an incorrect answer, and when I followed up to the source, it was from a fanfic page.

Everyone ITT who's being told to give up because its hopeless to defend against AI scrapers - you're being propagandized, I won't speculate on why - but clearly this is an arms race with no clear winner yet. Defenders are free to use LLM to generate chaff.
Israel's founding did not require anyone to become stateless.

Only that they have no meaningful rights of self-determination within the proposed Jewish State.
Running Llama on Windows 98
You don't even need to be in your 70s or not tech-savvy. Password-sharing happens frequently between spouses, children/parents, friends and probably a lot of other cases.
> I could invent similar argument for why it is people in the global south that deserve credit for democracy in the west..

And you seem very right to me. It is much better than bullshit that some propagate like "we can all be college educated, doing a high paying IT jobs, living in nice house in nice neighborhoods and so on.."
There's a family of encodings optimized for fitting the most information possible into an Unicode string of a given length, e.g. for gimmicks like fitting the most possible binary data into tweets.

For example: https://github.com/qntm/base65536

For short messages in the mobile phone (i.e. GSM/3GPP) sense, which was my first association for "short message compression", it doubt that it works better than just sending binary messages with the appropriate header, but if that's not an option, it might just beat a custom alphabet based on the 7-bit GSM charset [1] (since that allows 100% of possible 7-bit characters to be used, whereas UTF-16 probably has at least some reserved codepoints that might be causing problems).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
> We should train lots more providers and eliminate barriers to entry (so for instance, if someone wants to open an MRI suite, let them).

Is there something blocking them now?

Presumably you would still require qualified staff, safe and maintained equipment?
> Meta is a terrible would-be guardian of all the data they’re requesting.

Do you have any examples of Meta misusing this sort of data in the last 7 years?
Its unfinished. At the moment, the links are randomly generated because that was an easy way to get a bunch of unique links. Sooner or later, I’ll just get a few tokens from the markov generator and use those for the link names.

I’d also like to add image obfuscation on the static generator side - as it stands now, anything other than text or html gets passed through unchanged.
This is one of the few interesting uses of crypto transactions at reasonable scale in the real world.
These bots are so voracious and so well-funded you probably could make some money (crypto) via proof-of-work algos to gain access to the pages they seek.
> Everything on this can be programmatically simulated by a bot with bad intentions. It will be a cat and mouse game of finding behaviors that differentiate between bot and not and patching them.

Forcing Facebook & Co to play the adversary role still seems like an improvement over the current situation. They're clearly operating illegitimately if they start spoofing real user agents to get around bot blocking capabilities.
All these things increase attacker costs. In the current landscape, increasing attacker costs has the effect of shaking out some of the lower-rent players in the market, which may put some targets out of reach of lower-caliber threat actors.

The problem you have over the medium term is that CNE is incredibly cost-effective, so much so that you need something like multiple-order-of-magnitude cost increases to materially change how often it's applied. The alternative to CNE is human intelligence; it competes with literal truck rolls. You can make exploits cost 10x as much and you're not even scraping the costs just in employee benefits for an alternate intelligence program.

What that means is, unless you can foreclose on exploitation altogether, it's unlikely that you're going to disrupt the CNE supply chain for high-caliber state-level threat actors. Today, SOTA CNE stacks are probably available to the top IC/security agencies† of all of the top 100 GNP countries. It probably makes sense to think about countermeasures in terms of changing that to, like, the top 75 or 50 or something.

I think we tend to overestimate how expensive it is for adversarial vendors to keep up with countermeasures. It's difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first; I vividly remember 20-30 extraordinarily smart people struggling back in 1995 to get a proof-of-concept x86 stack overflow working, and when I first saw a sneak preview of ROP exploitation I didn't really even believe it was plausible. As a general rule of thumb I think that by the time you've heard about an exploitation technique, it's broadly integrated into the toolchains of most CNE vendors.

Further, remember that the exploit development techniques and people you've heard about are just the tip of the iceberg; you're mostly just hearing about work done by people who speak fluent English.

† Reminder that customers for CNE vendors usually include many different agencies, invoiced separately, in the same governments.
Last I tried, many non-gaming apps do not function anymore because google identifies the device as non-physical.

I think its opt-in by the app developer, Authy (shitty company, I'm aware) does not work on Bluestacks. That's a pain, because I've used Bluestacks to migrate auth codes before.
> I’d say it’s a family disorder we inherited.

A pre-existing condition? You’re not covered.
He seems to spend all time to write truly amazing software.
I use Amazon Pharmacy and it’s been an amazing experience. I get my drugs auto refilled, insurance is recognized and delivery is fast.

I haven’t filled a prescription in a brick and mortar pharmacy for a long time. Only limitations of online pharmacies are no consults, no vaccinations and no controlled substances.

I still go to a Safeway pharmacy for my shots. Even with an appointment I have to wait 30 mins or mlre because the staff are slammed. Pharmacist friends tell me it’s not a great time to be a pharmacist because of the shortage of techs.

I tell folks that if they can move their prescription online, they should. Not only will it save you the hassle, it’ll take the pressure off brick and mortars and actually help them improve in-person service for those who need it.
Well, it's not all knowledge. It doesn't know the inner thoughts of everyone. And human explicit knowledge is limited, it can't tell me whether I'll enjoy a certain bookstore if I go there.

And it's only explicit knowledge, not tacit knowledge. Nobody learns skills from browsing the Internet.
> I don't think anyone is talking about "fetch, decode, operate, retire" pipelining (though that is certainly called pipelinig): only pipelining within the execution of a instruction that takes multiple cycles just to execute (i.e., latency from input-ready to output-ready).

I'm curious what you think the distinction is? Those statements are equivalent. The circuit implementing "an instruction" can't work in a single cycle, so you break it up and overlap sequentially issued instructions. Exactly what they do will be different for different hardware, sure, clearly we've moved beyond the classic four stage Patterson pipeline. But that doesn't make it a different kind of pipelining!
"The more things change, the more they stay the same" doesnt account for Dopamine level stimulation, which differs depending on the medium.
Condolences, and thanks John Friel for the QModem memories.
In my limited understanding, they are similar to SSH public/private key pairs. But the details continue to elude me, no matter how much I read about them. Won't try them out until I get how they work.
For compressing short (<100 bytes), repetitive strings, you could potentially train a zstd dictionary on your dataset, and then use that same dictionary for all rows. Of course, you’d want to disable several zstd defaults, like outputting the zstd header, since every single byte counts for short string compression.