skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While technically true, hospital sticker prices actually are extreme because hospitals try to impress insurers with gigantic discounts off a fictitious base price, which no one pays except the unfortunate middle class person who finds themselves in an emergency without adequate health insurance.
AoC was a Great Opportunity to Learn Emacs
The SAT is just way too easy in the modern era. It needs to be rescaled so that the number of people attaining a perfect score is in the single digits per year.
Peri for close and Ap for far is the existing terminology, and has been since Kepler, who in turn created them following a pattern set by Ptolemy in the Almagest (apogee and perigee are simply transcriptions).

So you are somewhere between 400 to 1800 years late to this terminology fight.
I see. I had checked attestKey and it says "Mac Catalyst 14.0+ | macOS 11.0+" among others, but that just means the API is present. developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/dcappattestservice/attestkey(_:clientdatahash:completionhandler:)
Self concern and, if we're lucky, his exceptional foresight can explain that comment.
According to Wikipedia, the largest (version 40) QR code can hold up to 1852 bytes, though they are huge and difficult to scan.

A more readable size is a version 10, which can encode up to 174 bytes with maximum error correction and no compression. This is plenty if a certian predefined binary structure is encoded into it and a device knows how to decode it
Does MS365 cover all potential use cases, needs and scenarios?
Some of this looks great, but some of those benefits are literally never going to materialize.

> barcodes highlighting allergens and other dangers

Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart already sell homeopathic sugar pills labeled as closely as legally possible to real medication, stored in the same sections, intermingled one box to the next on the same shelf. The lack of information about a product isn't a technology issue; it's a combination of proper information being expensive to produce and more expensive when it keeps you from buying a lower-production-cost alternative.

You see this in all kinds of markets. Say you want to buy a plant grow lamp; you want physical dimensions, power in, and power out. If you're a nerd or using a lot of them you might like the wavelength distribution (_and_ the units used to produce it), the weight, whether it has UV protection, .... That information is ommitted from most Amazon listings and the packaging from most big box stores. Why is it missing? I guarantee the problem isn't that they used a barcode instead of a QR code.
Not just "most passkey stores". The spec has nothing about export/sync, so they've been working around it by hand.

There is a process of drafting a decision to put before the committee to change this ~now[1], but tbh I think the omission from v1 is a strong sign that the omission is literally intentional. I'm sure spec authors will disagree, as I am sure that many are well-meaning... but there are very strong incentives for the current giga-corps to impede and complicate it during design phases, as they are now doing to the UX. If backups and device-loss considerations for such intensely personal data is not baked in, simply, and mandated from day 1, it's intentional by someone.

[1]: https://blog.1password.com/fido-alliance-import-export-passk...
The biggest offenders for my website have always been from China.
Both the music and the tea are produced by and through market capitalism which depends on a particular configuration of the state to operate efficiently, ie politically. Its just the case that the most efficient configuration is also the one beyond politics.
> Prusa

abandoned open source for their most recent products... that plus the fact that bambu added lan-only-mode makes the purchase decision easy.
Telix with the salt scripting language!! What memories!
Probably. There’s a whole category of organisms that can’t cultured in a lab or effectively studied called microbial dark matter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_dark_matter

These kinds of DNA and RNA studies are the only ones that can realistically pick up evidence of these organisms outside of an extraordinarily lucky electron microscope slide.
I still have impaired smell after getting infected a couple years ago. The pandemic won't truly be over until sterilizing nasal vaccines are widely available.
There was barely enough money to pay for the last week of wages, would you expect employees to volunteer to achieve that?

I'm not defending what they did, but doing the work even one more week was not an option afaik. At best they could have wrapped up earlier?
Any chance there is a correlation between Obelisks and autoimmune diseases?
Agreed, as there are many discussions on HN for people and software being security risks:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=is+a+security+risk
The Cody Computer doesn't use a PS/2 keyboard, it's actually using the 65C22 VIA and a CD4051 to scan the keyboard matrix. This is mentioned in the book and in the schematic up on Github, but for a quick version, it's conceptually very similar to the Oric (as mentioned on Garth Wilson's site: https://wilsonminesco.com/6502primer/potpourri.html).

But for the Propeller itself, there's actually a driver for PS/2 keyboards and mice written by Kwabena Agyeman. It's up on the OBEX (https://obex.parallax.com/obex/combo-ps2-keyboard-and-mouse-...) which is a good place to look for Propeller-related code. I've never used that driver personally, but that's where I would start.
My point isn't that I don't think a luxury tax isn't a horrible idea, I just don't think it'll solve the problem. If there is a profitable way to remove housing to create a shortage, there is an economic incentive for everyone who is able to participate to do so. So, it doesn't matter if one entity owns 1000 house or 500 people own 2 houses, the incentives are there to remove housing from the market.
Idea: Markov-chain bullshit generator HTTP proxy. Weights/states from "50 shades of grey". Return bullshit slowly when detected. Give them data. Just terrible terrible data.

Either that or we need to start using an RBL system against clients.

I killed my web site a year ago because it was all bot traffic.
'Slowest growing' is hardly disaster! 2008 was pretty bad for a few countries.
"Your service will continue seamlessly with the platform you’ve always trusted,” reads a message on Bench’s homepage.

It's a bit late now to rebuild that trust?
I am a big fan of 86box for my retro PC hobby. Some neat things I've used it for:

* Log virtual POST codes to a text file for a physical motherboard I'm troubleshooting to see where it's hanging up

* Install an old OS to a .img file which I can then extract and pull bit-perfect files from

* Create a virtual hard drive with matching CHS values to a real hard drive, install an OS, then write the image to a real disk and boot it on real hardware

* And of course, play around with old hardware, software, and games in fairly accurate simulated way :)
This is an interesting case to me and thus my questions. Don't feel you need to answer to some stranger on the internet interrogating you.

Public domain is largely a US government concept, I think the was the main reason that sqlite was put "in the public domain" it started and was initially payed for as an internal database for some military contract. So when Dr. H wanted to release it to the public he did it in the normal US government method which was public domain.

Would you legally be able to use nasa papers or programs? these are also in the public domain.

A short essay on public domain, because I am feeling a bit philosophic this morning.

As far as I know public domain is a concept that originated in the US when it was a new country(probably wrong and US centric). The question was who owns works created by a government "of the people", the answer was "the people" so it was formalized that US government works were not protected by copyright[note 1] and were in the "public domain" at first this was just laws, and when government research organizations(nasa etc..) were founded their works, the research they did, was also "public domain"

It really is an open question whether private citizens can also declaim any copyright on a work, declare it "for the public good" and put it in the public domain. Are you allowed to give up your rights?

1. The US government is able to protect it's works through mechanisms other than copyright, think classification levels. top secret etc..
Thanks for listening and considering. That's already more than most people do :)
The opposite of inflation (when prices go up), deflation (when prices go down) is never a good thing

so if we have high inflation say due to global pandemic's effects on global supply and in response we get say 40-100% price increases (say milk was $1.00/gallon and now it is say $1.50/gallon, a modest 50% increase).

so now inflation eases, global supply chain in back to normal etc etc... we should expect now that milk prices will stay forever at $1.50/gallon (or higher) because now that would be deflation if the prices eased…?! :)
And yet, also a thermostat is doing nothing else but following a gradient towards a desired state (albeit the gradient is discrete and it's moving along the dimension of temperature).
Organizations Are Distributed Systems
Isn't this a GDPR violation by VW?
Floridians have no right to bodies of water 'free of pollution,' court rules
Show HN: I built an app to listen to foundational ideas in economics as podcasts
Often, while driving or working long hours, I will run out of podcasts to listen to. I am also very curious about the fundamental ideas in economics. And thus thetreeoflife was born.
The TSA's own security tests clearly show a significant percentage of guns, knives and explosives regularly get through. This is further confirmed by the number of travelers who, after arriving, discover the handgun they accidentally left in some pouch in their suitcase that was never detected.

> 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.

Of course they are but the main reason there's no publicly available objective testing isn't only that sellers don't want it. In reality, no stakeholder in the security market wants it. The vast majority of high-volume public security like airports, concerts and sporting events is largely unnecessary and mostly ineffective but our current political/media environment requires appearing to "do something" to "make it safe". The Vice-President of "Make it (Seem) Safe" knows that their shareholders, politicians and the public aren't willing to pay more or be even more inconvenienced than they already are for 800% better "Make it (Seem) Safe"-ness.

Metaphorically speaking, the tiger repellent is working just fine, thank you. Those truly worried about tiger attacks feel safer and those being well-paid for preventing tiger attacks can claim virtually 100% effectiveness. So, if you start the world's best Tiger Repellent Testing Laboratory, you'll find a shocking lack of interest in buying your test data from both sellers and buyers in this brisk, profitable and growing market. Much like the lack of interest in objective testing data for lie detectors, astrology readings and placebo pills. The smaller minority of customers actually willing to pay more for improved detection (like Tel Aviv airport), do their own in-context performance testing anyway. In fact, a good proxy for doing your own effectiveness testing is available for free. Just look at what those under constant active threat with real consequences actually pay for and do.
> There may be some reduction in care quality but it's good enough for routine treatments and patients will just have to accept that. Real physicians should be reserved for more complex cases.

Every efficiency idea is ultimately just used as an excuse to make the system worse and worse. As it stands "real physicians" are already mostly phoning it in, because their attention has been sliced up into 10 minute slivers by "insurance" companies. I'm not saying that NPs or PAs are going to be worse than that (in fact individual NP/PAs can be more engaged than individual MDs!), but it's still galling to be on the receiving end of negative-sum cost optimization - "our next appointment with a doctor is in four months, or you can see a PA next month".

The sweeping reform we need is to drastically introduce actual market dynamics into the industry. This applies regardless of the payer structure - the entire industry needs to be moved from cost-externalizing negative-sum interactions towards cost-internalized positive-sum interactions. Imagine having actual supply and demand for doctors and hospitals funding their own residency programs rather than a set number of government funded residency slots.
PornHub and all of its affiliate sites now block all residents of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia (and Florida on Jan 1): https://www.pcmag.com/news/pornhub-blocked-florida-alabama-t...

Child safety, as always, was the sugar that made the medicine go down in freedom-loving USA. I imagine these states' approaches will try to move to the federal level after Section 230 dies an ignominious death.

Keep an eye out for Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton to hit SCOTUS in January: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2024/23-1122
I think not. It's like requiring people to have licenses to walk on the sidewalk because a bunch of asses keep driving their trucks there.
> This means that insurers are actually incentivized to overpay for care to maximize the size of their 20% slice.

I'm confused. If that's the case, then why would they deny coverage? Wouldn't that be an easy way to overpay?

Heck, they could simply allow everything through and use rising costs as a justification to increase premiums.

This nefarious scheme of course requires insurers to have no competition. After all, if your competitors don't overpay, then they can lower rates and steal your customers.

The truth of the matter is that hospitals and doctors try to maximize their profits through excessive billing and care little about cost efficiency. They don't try this at the same rate with medicare/medicaid both because the government does not generally negotiate - reimbursement schedules are largely fixed and because defrauding the government is a criminal rather than civil offense.

There are some easy fixes here and there. We could, for instance, ban price discrimination by healthcare providers. Every payer would then pay the lowest accepted rate - which is usually medicaid or medicare's. This won't prevent billing for medically unnecessary or inefficient services, but it would eliminate the negotiation problem.

The problem is political. If you save a trillion dollars a year in healthcare costs, the GDP gets lowered by roughly the same amount. Healthcare providers would, of course, fight to prevent any reduction in reimbursements from happening - which they've been extremely effective at historically.
I wish the trend of moving fast and breaking thing would go out of fashion already. I guess being kind and fixing things doesn't make any money so why would anyone want that /s
Borland’s Interbase.

I also vaguely remember an optional SQL interface for Btrieve circa 1990, but I might be mistaken.
Vibration Data
> For anyone looking for a nuanced perspective on this, I highly recommend Peter Attia's interview with Saum Sutaria (McKinsey's formed healthcare lead)

The taste I got of it (introduction bit)

https://youtu.be/QqrpFICtqpQ?si=iqrhOc6lvELGuzvV

A definition of insurance that doesn't seem to understand how randomness can be upon the group instead of the individual. A person in his situation can't be so grossly misunderstanding pooling risk over a population.

I've skipped here and there among the multiple videos to get a better feeling of the whole interview, but to be blunt that perfectly fit into the stereotype of a guy coming from McKinsey.
What I learned reporting in cities that take belongings from homeless people
Virtually no one is prosecuted for perjury generally, much less in the context of DMCA abuse.
SAT solvers have also been thrown at the Factorio belt weaving problem (which has in-game reasons to maximize).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2NKK_2v4jiE&lc=Ugx5goGzTGz-z1g8t...

Search:

“ @Jodmangel
2 weeks ago
I wrote a quick script to find the longest belt weave with an SAT solver. It finds your 32-tile bridge, but also a 34-tile one:

The circles are the "external" belts and the squares the 34 "internal" ones. No longer solutions exist (unless I messed up the script, obviously).”
Thanks for your perspective.

> it was just a lot of hard work

If that was true, then many would have done it instead of only one.

> Their was organization before Inca, as there were tribes which were organized. The Inca just took them over and re-organized.

Organizing a small scale is commonplace; everyone does it. It's the large scale that only the Inca managed.

> The Inca were also geniuses.

Must have been! But in what way? And it can't just be one person; you need a whole culture (especially with limited communication, the Inca depedended on locals everywhere understanding the concepts, methods, etc.) - what was special about that culture? Where did it come from?
1 MBps is insanely fast for a method like this, it must be in the 100k tokens per second range. Probably with large batches.
Revealing the Secrets of Blue Zones
Binary goo, barely distinguishable from random data, if at all. The arithmetic coder will make sure of that.

It's the nature of compression: Any discernible pattern could have been exploited for further compression.
The model gives you a probability distribution over the tokens. You could use that directly with arithmetic coding, but there are ways to convert that to a distribution over e.g. the next byte instead which would improve efficiency further by removing the redundancy in alternative token encodings. ts_zip does this, and README says this works similar to ts_zip.

EDIT: Hm, or maybe ts_zip uses just the token probabilities directly. I thought it was slightly more efficient about it.

"The language model predicts the probabilities of the next token. An arithmetic coder then encodes the next token according to the probabilities."
This man is an absolute wizard, and a legend who hasn't stopped since the fantastic LZEXE days.
First they came for the soda bottles...
What's with the weird jump in life expectancy around 47 years in or so? It's especially visible at higher values of the 4th slider.
I wonder if this might be somehow related to selecing "" rather than specific columns. I know some older database systems incurred a performance penalty due to how "" would check all columns. I don't know if Postgres handles this differently or not. Just a thought, though
Don't confuse the actor and the character. While Connery was not British, Bond was.
BitLocker is crazy easy to bypass if you have physical access to the device. I work IT, and had to demonstrate to our head of security, that if you just pop in a Linux USB and boot from it, the drive is completely open.
It is sad how many allegedly and vocally "free market" capitalists don't actually want a liquid and free labor market. The shame is that most of them also don't know what "free market" technically means anymore.
AI in Customer Support: Expectation vs. Reality
I knew him personally. We worked on a few projects together in the late 90s/early 00s. He was a good man and I remember him trying to be a good father to you. I will miss him and his infectious laugh.

My condolences to you and your family.
If you're copy-pasting passwords from 1password into your browser you're making yourself vulnerable to phishing. The browser extension's autofill will at least check the domain name and prevent that.
The term for your buddy is "underhoused". Part of the push for the term "unhoused" is to establish that housing is a matter of degree.
Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs
Only if the organist recorded it.
This already happens even with regulations.

It is impossible to fix.

Also, note thst even with regulations and, more important, INSIDE regulated areas, these things already happen.

I think there is a case to discuss what constitutes harm, but pretending that regulated means "harmless and ok" and not regulated "evil and dangerous" is a bad mindset and the one that is dragging us to a false sense of security via hyper regulation. Not always, of course, but in many cases it is just a false sense of it.
GUID - 128-bit (16 bytes) code is enough to code unique id that can be stored in central database, that's smallest possible scenario, i think.

The other option is unique id (same 16 bytes, plus maybe other claims like bottle size) plus assymetric signature, 64 bytes i think - for Ed25519. Should fit into 174 bytes just fine and can be verified without internet
Not gonna comment on anything else but

US education has problems that can be fixed with the right approach and incentives. This is not insurmountable, it simply requires recognizing the issues and acting in the best interest of future generations and the nation.

If you came here to discuss and said this to begin with - the conversation would have been a lot different. This is what I mentioned couple of times, there are problems. however, you said that US is one of the worst which is why you had to read a bunch of stuff ... not sure I have to tell you this but there is a very slight difference between US education has problems that can be fixed with the right approach and incentives vs. "US education system is one of the worst" :)
Seems clear that (effectively) nobody is voting for fraud or rape.

But I've thought about it a lot, and I'm still clueless. Something to do with lots of people getting screwed, I guess. But why ordinary folks switch their vote from a party that serves the top 20%, to a party that serves the top 0.01%, that is still mysterious to me.
It's odd that so many on HN don't see that it doesn't happen. 99.99% of societies don't manage anything like that, and the Inca did it in unique ways with relatively very limited technology.
I have a T14s (AMD) which works very nicely, battery lasts for long 7-8 hours and things generally work.

Before that, I had a P14s Gen1 for work. No matter what, that system runs a bit hot and battery times are awful.
I haven't dedicated days to searching for fixes, but that's my point, it used to _just work_, and in this case, it works poorly.

It used to be the case that outside of certain specific setups (like a dual-GPU machine), Lenovo Thinkpads would just work, Ubuntu certified or not. But that P14s G1 really soured my experience.
I would advise you to check the return policy, maybe double-check if anyone has blogged about their device.

FWIW I have had many thinkpads over the years, they _mostly_ work well. But there have been more misses as of late.

I will add that I also own a Z13 Gen 1 and that it works well. Albeit the battery drains much faster because of the high-res oled screen. And I do think the palm-rest is a bit uncomfortable, the edges are too sharp, but that's not a Linux issue :D
Now with a list of Board of Directors

https://x.com/amasad/status/1873018020895047744
Then the drive wasn't encrypted!