skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funding for primary care comes from a bunch of places in NZ, but most of it comes from the government. Most people in NZ don't have private healthcare insurance, it's just not needed.

The way it works is patients 'enroll' with a doctors office, and then the clinic gets funding based on that patient population (how many patients, what sort of patients, etc). GPs still set their own fees ontop of that, but it's usually not much (like $20 USD), as they're competitive.

There isn't really an incentive to maximize the number of visits, the goal is to maintain a good patient population, who's satisfied with your services.

The average book size for an individual doctor is about 1000 people (might have gone up a bit by now). But I found that number quite interesting, as it lets you frame the job of a doctor quite differently - their job isn't just to take appointments as they come, their job is to keep about 1k people healthy. It lets you think about how else that problem could be solved.
Multiple reasons. Let me start with one: Flexibility.

I can add a new attribute the very moment I create a new row.

When I want to add "not_available_before: 2026" to a car, I can do that right away. No need to alter the table and add a new column.
XYZ metric is at its highest ever!

Is it adjusted for inflation and the rise in population in that period? (hint: it isn't)

10 seconds of simple math usually takes the steam out of the vast majority of such sensationalized headlines.
Do you really want to see Bond slapping women in 2024?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hWeIjwLhs
get up around 6 and pee...eat 1/2 homemade oatmeal cookie...drink glass of juice...eat rest of cookie...60g of porridge in a bowl with skimmed milk to bring it up to 240g...90s in microwave...cut up fat pear while waiting...add pear to warm porridge with a generous amount of honey...cup of regular coffee...read the news and other stuff...7, read bible in a year daily reading quietly outloud (as it helps me concentrate)...pray...save some thoughts to my private wordpress journal from my phone so not to bug my wife with my random musings...8, get ready for work [I was fat for 50 years of my life, now I am not...routine helps me but I am learning to stop boring my wife and kids about it...hence this outburst ;-)]
The sad truth about metabolism: why nothing works
I was a middle schooler in the 1990s when I first used QModem. My dad found a list of BBSs from the local newspaper and I dialed them up with my trusty 14.4 modem. It felt like unlocking a secret world.
Okay, so how far do your rights extend? If you have a right to no pollution on your land, how far can the nearest road be built?
It's the "effective" bit that the article doesn't address whatsoever.
The fact that such data was being collected and kept at all should be concerning too.

I want to buy a car, not a snitch. (And yes, my current one does not have a cable running from the head unit to a cellular antenna, I've checked.)
I will concede the technical point: there is a body of law that sometimes expects business owners to prevent crimes and sometimes doesn't, with a whole lot of ambiguity about exactly what any given owner is actually expected to do. I think that ambiguity should be reduced by putting criminal acts out of scope.
According to https://point.com/blog/arm-report-2024, ARMs were 10-20% of mortgages 2015-2020

So I think the GP has a good point.
Wow what a horrible, self-centered, inhumane way to look at this.
It depends on the mode you're using. If you use the transparent unlock functionality (the default) then it's vulnerable to hardware key extraction. If you use anything else (PIN, password, whatever) then I'm not aware of any weaknesses or workarounds. I'm certainly not aware of any backdoors.
Every day I get older, and things just get worse. I remember being a young 3d enthusiast trying out blender, game dev etc, and finding resources there. Sad to see that it got shut down.

At least polycount seems to still be around.
https://ofhsoupkitchen.org/best-cities-to-be-homeless

6 cities that have made substantial inroads on their homelessness problems.
The way to do it seems to be to offer homeless people homes.
Well, 2015 was about 10 years ago now, and both 5 and 7 are less than ten.

So how about you tell us how some of them have already done renewing at 6%+? Did bad things happen?

Edit: clarification
Thanks for answering. What are your overall monthly earnings in percentage? 0.5%, 1%? Is this too high or too low?
big tech is big babies that don't like when you tell them that you cannot do whatever you want at the expense of customers so they get fussy
There's no world where anyone adapts the book series closely with live action. The series is simply too long, particularly for the level of CGI, etc., we expect out of this sort of "premiere" television. I think overall they've done a good job given how difficult the task is, though there's certainly some changes that I think were mistakes, and other things that while I might not outright believe are mistakes, are different from how I would have done it.

I will say I agree that the last episode of S1 is my least favorite, but, they had a lot stacked against them and had to rewrite the final two due to Mat's actor not coming back after covid forced a filming break. That set off a chain reaction with a lot of far reaching consequences.

I liked S2 more than S1. Quality went up on basically every metric for me, though the finale still wasn't as epic as I would have hoped for... but is probably about all you can hope for without a LOTR-like budget. If they somehow make it to Dumai's Wells, hopefully they have more money then.
Wow, QModem! I wish a had a screenshot of my main QModem page with the top BBSs & dialups in my list. I never met John Friel, but his software changed my life.
they didn't try to land it seems. trying to land was the better option.
> What are the use cases that can make a terminal be slow?

Rendering huge stdout/stderr can be a bottleneck. Try running a program that writes half a million lines of text to stdout without file redirects and a lot of terminal emulators will struggle to keep up.
If you were designing a legal system you probably wouldn't want for profit insurance companies to decide who gets to determine if a patient needs treatment, due to the obvious conflict of interest.

But that doesn't mean applying the same "malpractice" framework to the people deciding what's covered under the program is necessarily the right approach either.
Adding meaningless chaff like this to the rulebook has a near 1.0 correlation with entirely in-module railroad campaigns, avoidance of house rules and homebrewing, and by-the-book rules play. The new D&D audience only knows how to color inside the lines. Case in point: Celebration and debate over tiny rules changes any group could have made themselves.

Really jogs the noggin.
Thats because anyone with a 2.5% mortgage would rather die before losing their home.

34% of mortgages are below 3% interest rate, which means their house payment is at least 30% cheaper than renting. Nobody is going to give that up easily.

Here you could easily go from a 3/3 single family home to a 2br apartment for the same price monthly. Which means you would need to move into a 1br apartment to save any money.

All this to say, the first thing to go is the credit card payments, then the car payments, and finally the mortgage payments.
Since when is bank balance considered in credit scores and checks?
Also worth checking out some of the author's other compressors e.g. another one of their neural network solutions using a transformer https://bellard.org/nncp/ holds the top spot in the Large Text Compression Benchmark. It's ~3 orders of magnitude slower though.
NATO can do several levels of conventional response that is at once completely in accordance with international law, more destructive to Russia than tactical nukes will be to Ukraine, and not threatening proliferation.

And Russia will be nuking shit left and right each time in response? What do you think this will achieve?

China will invade them at that point :) After their conventional army is destroyed in Ukraine and they are tossing nukes around - why not?

If your only card is "I'll commit extended suicide" - you're done.
Connery was British, he was from the British Isles, hence British.
> just a train away

I don't think any continental European city has the quality and diversity of live music that St. Pete has. Prague is perhaps closest.

Obviously Dublin and Glasgow are world class, if they're a train away for you.

Also, wildlife? And local fruit?

My personal anecdata is that many Europeans come to and enjoy Florida's west coast for these reasons.
That seems odd. I got stimulus checks too, but I never once felt "covid rich", and my spending patterns during 2020-2023 hardly changed at all.
Specifically, Carmack exploited the fact that on the Pentium, integer instructions could run in parallel with floating-point division[0]. This goes to show that an optimization that usually gets you ~10% might get you 200% depending on what software you're running. And that no implementation detail is safe from an ambitious software engineer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249029
I am so sorry for your loss. I used QMODEM a lot on my BBS years.
Because Google's search results are so good, it's possible (and maybe even common nowadays) to use Google's rank(someQuery, someDocument) as a relevance label to train your own ranker on, but what Google alleged here is even more interesting: they claim Microsoft used IE to telemetrize users' Google searches, scraping the query and results -- `(someQuery, [document1, document2, ...])` -- phoning that home, and using that _directly as their IR_, presumably by caching it or something. Kind of a cheeky move by Bing!

Edit: Just checked and Chrome wasn't the dominant web browser until mid-2012 or so[0], so IE definitely would have seen a big enough share of Google searches to make this viable. I wonder if this factored into Google's strategy for Chrome and monopolizing search, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...
> I hate that it doesn’t have types. It’s totally YOLO:

SQLite _does_ support strict column types since 3.37: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
If the first-come first-serve is true, what prevents a creator from self DMCA-ing all his videos so as to get all the revenue? Possibly by embedding a copyrighted sound that belongs to a company they create just for that purpose.
I love the fact you can buy two 16GB/256GB Mac Minis and have cash leftover compared to somone that bought a single 32GB/512GB Mac Mini. Apple's upsells are insane
Personally I just watch Youtube 95% of the time (TVs and phone) and had canceled Disney, Netflix, Max two years ago.

Yet on black Friday I signed back up for their $3 a month promotions of 6 or 12 months. Im still using Youtube almost the same and for sure will cancel the other ones after promo ends.

I wish all of Hollywood's content was on YouTube. It's algorithm knows me like no other!
> This is FUD.

Yeah. Because I have tons and tons of fear, uncertainty and doubt about how these giga-entities control so many aspects of my life. Maybe I shouldn't be spreading it but on the other hand they are so massively huge that any FUD I spread will have absolutely no effect on how they operate. If you want to smell real FUD go sniff Microsoft[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt#M...
Running on-prem/colo across two sites linked with 1 digit latency link won’t be free of charge either
You're correct about the figure not being adjusted for inflation but the metric on the rise compared to last year is concerning:

> Credit card lenders wrote off $46bn in seriously delinquent loan balances in the first nine months of 2024, up 50 per cent from the same period in the year prior and the highest level in 14 years
documentary abt Aaron Swartz.

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...

637,000 views.
As a piece of writing feedback, I would convert your citation links into normal links. Clicking on the citation doesn't jump to the link or the citation entry, and you are basically using hyperlinks anyway.
This is such an odd take
> With LUKS it at least has a password prompt to unlock the drive.

BitLocker should ideally be used with a PIN/password too. This means the key isn't decrypted until the correct PIN is entered. No SPI sniffing, UEFI exploits, or memory dump would help the attacker in this preboot state. BitLocker with TPM and PIN is a pretty powerful combination.

But by default, without any second factor, BitLocker is two parts convenience and one part security. Probably the price of user adoption.
Except they don’t. Have I been saved with the cookie law ? No, it’s just a pain in the arse for everyone.

But we got net neutrality right ? Well no, they fucked that up as well with ISP blocking whatever ports they want. The law is useless.

The fact is the EU don’t understand tech properly and they screwup all the regulation around it.
If you're worried about inflation, why not invest the money?
Yea, I'm not seeing this compassionate approach we have been doing for the past decades apparently.
China Hacked Treasury Dept. In 'Major Incident,' U.S. Says
Link for the curious https://bellard.org/tsac/

Has anyone done the work of comparing this to other similar extreme audio compression solutions?
Your main point might be real, but until we manage to make it work around 0K, i'd have a hard time to believe a carnot engine can have an efficiency close to one. I think current "future" tech aim for something like ~50% (theorical) efficiency, and that's with a _very_ wide temperature differential that would put a real strain on materials.
I would sum my original comment up as "NSO doesn't matter". It's an interesting CCC talk. It's worth digging into what NSO implants do. There's not much bigger-picture stuff to pull out of it.

By all means, sue them, sanction them, proscribe them, whatever it is you want to do to make NSO less profitable, I'm fine with it. But don't pretend that's solving the broad social problem of CNE operations. Everybody does it, and most people don't need NSO to do it; they have other, better vendors to work with.
You seem to conflate the term sustainability with "degrowth" which is just not the case in the book Thinking in Systems. I'm really curious where you picked that up from? In fact, a non-sustainable system is a system that is very far from any growth because it is about to collapse - only a sustainable system is able to grow, natural and artifical alike.
Even if you're doing serial IO on a single thread, I'd expect you should be able to handle hundreds of qps. I'd think a slow language wouldn't be 1000x slower than something like functional scala. It could be slow if you're missing an index, but then I'd expect the thing to barely run for normal users; scraping at 2/s isn't really the issue there.
Do you like even reasonable accuracy to the canon of a fairly well fleshed out and documented universe?

Do you like character development that rises above B-grade movie tropes?

Do you find blunt multicultural recasting for the sake of awkward forced multicultural injection, shock value, virtue signalling annoying?

Do you like epic battles between empires fought between more than 10 people?

Do you like timelines to be somewhat realistic?
Is Crypto Ready for Some U.S. Regulation?
I'd rather no-one read it and die forgotten than help "usher in the AI era"
> Theoretically no, but realistically I doubt even intel agencies can pull this off.

For older LPDDR3 it's completely practical, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTvIQDe0rQU . It definitely gets harder with newer systems, though.

> In my mind the only real solution is UEFI APIs to support this (or wiping the ram as shown here). But then you have to trust the UEFI vendors which don't exactly have stellar track records.

This already exists: it's the MOR bit and it's supposed to be in play here.

I actually think that having a CPU scratchpad key area which is guaranteed to be wiped across any reset action is a much better idea than trusting any dumpster fire UEFI implementation of anything, ever. At least you're trusting a few CPU vendors with something you can audit that way, rather than a million different cobbled-together junky firmware blobs.
At least equally important to whether a reasonable person would take it literally is that there's no way to prove it isn't. If I call something the best cookie, the closest thing that has to a concrete meaning is "I like it better than any other cookie".
Embeddings Are Underrated
Back in the day I found them on forums that required accounts. I've long since switched to other mechanisms for pirating content not available in my region, so I wouldn't know where to find them these days.

Presumably, there are Discord servers for that kind of thing, seeing as Discord has mostly replaced the forums of yore.
You need reference materials to learn both of them. The Python example looks more like English, but anybody who assumes it works like English and tries to modify it will quickly find it doesn't work like that. The experience could be more discouraging than seeing a mysterious BASIC keyword. BASIC has the advantage that you don't need to read so much reference material because it's a simpler language. Well-written printed manuals for BASIC were widely available.
We need to decentralize barcodes by treating product lookups as a URL, with metadata as query parameters. This way GS1 can operate much differently.
How about this, then. It's my (possibly incorrect) understanding that all the big LLM products still lose money per query. So you get a Web request from some bot, and on the backend, you query the corresponding LLM, asking it to generate dummy website content. Worm's mouth, meet worm's tail.

(I'm proposing this tongue in cheek, mostly, but it seems like it might work.)
In nearly every US State, if someone trespasses on your property and abandons their assets on it, you're completely allowed to dispose or liquidate their assets after a reasonable amount of time. If they've been warned about their trespass (signs, verbal warnings, etc) this period can pretty short or require no further attempts. To my knowledge, no state has provisions that you must care for or even attempt to reunite the owner with their property.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@FrankWilhoit">My music</a> will interest anyone who is interested in this discussion.
> Maybe the person responding to me also not understanding what I want

By asking for the docs? If you found that file already then it’s clear they misunderstood what you are looking for, and also that what you are looking for doesn’t exist.
On one hand many people don't want to be dead weight when the dice start rolling. On the other hand it can be more fun to be the Half-Ork Wizard with 7 INT trying to role play a big dumb guy who's only love is setting things on fire with his mind and getting paid for it.

There's the age old role play vs. roll play argument. With a good DM it shouldn't matter but if you're running some prebuilt campaign then it might lead to unexpected struggles.
> SQLite takes backward compatibility very seriously - All releases of SQLite version 3 can read and write database files created by the very first SQLite 3 release (version 3.0.0) going back to 2004-06-18.

This is so remarkable and reminds me of my troubles with MongoDB and specially InfluxDB.

My MongoDBs are mostly still on 4.4 because of the complicated upgrade path (mostly related to the Python drivers), and InfluxDB is now officially split into 1.x and 2.x for me, where I have no plans for upgrading. And I specially will keep my hands off of 3.x because I've learned my lesson.
Yeah right, its easy to write a PAM module too, but configuring an authentication registration and flow is not actually a similar skill set.
I've probably 10 more questions, but you've already shared generously in a couple of other comments. Thanks for that. I've bookmarked, and will investigate. Best of luck with it
> Fabrice also makes some programs you might use, like FFMEG and QEMU

This would be the one sentence that wouldn't cause me to look down on somoene, if used as a third-person humble-brag.
I think his conclusion was that enforcement at least makes the city more livable for the people who do choose to be a part of society, air-gapping the problems endemic to vagrancy (assault, abuse, drugs, crime), while having at least a margin deterrence effect.
To a lot of people that was more money they have ever had all at once that wasn't immediately eaten up by bills.
This is valid: use case matters. But almost no one has a use case for which hardware keys are optimal.

If you live in an area where you don't have bars on your windows, you don't gain more security from using a physical key over a PIN or app. (Even if you do have bars, the physical key is likely still suboptimal).

If you're a regular user of the kind of application where anyone ever thought passwords were a valid authentication solution, you don't benefit from a hardware key.

And it's not just a question of more security than necessary: using a security mechanism that is overkill for your needs can actually leave you with lower total security, because you'll end up doing things to make your life more convenient that are worse than what you'd have done with a weaker mechanism (like in the physical case leaving the door unlocked to avoid locking yourself out).
If there's a huge class action lawsuit win on reddit shadowbanning.

Some stockholders will care if the stock goes to zero.

Tencent won't. They're not in it for the money.
>people showing their asscracks can also happen with suits, especially if someone is not used to wearing a suit

citation needed
The 2024 Good Tech Awards
We cannot know what really happened, but we can look at the end result. Britain wanted to leave EU, not quit trade. Britain has worse trade agreements than before joining the EU.
Wooden Boxes
I made a bunch of wooden boxes for gifts this year with a CNC router and laser cutter and wrote an illustrated description of the process.
China Shows Off New Fastest Bullet Train
> Norway is right to give away an island with an inuit population to Denmark in 1814 or whatever?

not only do you lack knowledge of North American history, you do not know the relationship between Norway and Denmark. Would you say the same thing about Iceland, because they are not Brown?
This is a cool article! And it lead me down the path to another cool factorio compsci paper called 'The steady-states of splitter networks' where they really go into the theoretical properties of the belts and splitters.

But I can't help to feel that the following paragraph should be removed, since it really seems to be a bit confused about the concepts of both Np-complete and NP-hard.

> Finding a feasible solution is NP-hard because we can't do any better than start placing the components on a 2D grid and check if the properties are respected. Furthermore, finding the optimal solution (i.e., minimum number of components) is NP-complete because it will require enumerating all the possible solutions in order to find the best one.
There are some benefits in using an alias instead.

First, it is easier and shorter to type and remember, as the path to the socket can be long. Second, multiple users may run a given service in a socket located at different paths. And third, using a host name can be used to create virtual hosts, so you can serve different responses to foo.unix and bar.unix while both point to the same server UNIX socket.

If you see a problem with using a host file, could to provide an example of how it could go wrong?