skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minutes instead of days
A huge percentage of Medicaid goes to nursing homes. Medicare does not fully cover the service. You either pay out of pocket or if you’re destitute (as many elderly people are) you get Medicaid to cover the difference.
Astounding how quickly all the liberals here were convinced to become neocons nearly overnight out of spite over Trump. All this talk about “soft power”, one user below even bemoaned the end of the “US hegemony”. Unreal
Its the environment that compounds the complexity. Go down the list of Largest companies by revenue in the US and 8 in top 20 are related to "health" - are they running hospitals? are they pharma companies? No.

They run pharmacy benefits management, health insurance and drug distribution.

The estimate is 4-5 Trillion flows throw these firms. Which is larger than the GDP of India. So this gigantic structure has emerged that doesn't really make too much profit btw (very similar to Amazon Platform Economics) but is layer upon layer upon layer of cash flow passing through middlemen.

Drastic change requires new ideas about what do we do about all these middlemen who shape the environment on top of which everything exists.
Such as /usr/bin/bash!

More seriously rename (sometimes rename.ul) is built to do (some) of this task, and you may have some others depending how "featureful" your install is, but why bother for a one time task when it's not going to be more work to figure out what tool to use, what options it needs, and what parts will still need to be done after anyways?

Honestly this is just a great task for a script, even if you were going to hand write it. It'll be clearer, rely on fewer assumptions, and be more flexible if the task needs to change as you try to do it and notice something else.
>Reading that defined Quora in my mind for the next few years.

Because he was an impersonator? Or because he really was Joe Bloe?
It has its advantages… but wasn’t done until Svr 2003.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/introducti...
> I was doing some file management last weekend and wanted a little script to remove any numbers at the start of a file name and any region values at the end. I also wanted to ensure any duplicate files were moved into a separate folder so i could remove them.

> I could have written that code.

Not knowing precisely your desired result, the benefit of going through the effort of writing a script is experienced gained and deepening one's understanding of the tools involved.

For example, assume this file structure exists:

.
├── 001name-eu-central1.ext
├── 001name-us-west.ext
├── 002name-eu-central1.ext
├── 003name-eu-central1.ext
├── keep
└── research

The script logic to do what you describe could be similar to:

for file in [0-9]*
do
dest="$(echo $file | sed -E -e 's/^[0-9]*//' -e 's/-(eu-central1|us-west)//')"

if [[ -f "keep/$dest" ]]
then
mv "$file" "research/$file"
else
mv "$file" "keep/$dest"
fi
done

This results in:

.
├── keep
│ └── name.ext
└── research
├── 001name-us-west.ext
├── 002name-eu-central1.ext
└── 003name-eu-central1.ext

The net-net is that the journey is sometimes more valuable than the destination.
Yeah, that's what I think too. I have been working on a project[0] to do just that, would you mind commenting if my project is something that can be considered complicated enough? In your experience, were you not blocked by the fact that companies are looking for "years of professional experience"?

[0]: https://github.com/mayo-dayo/app
paywall: http://archive.today/073Hr
I'd say the reason there is so little opportunity in science is that science as an instiution is terrible at capturing the value it creates. Thus it instead relies on charity of which there isn't enough.
Probably referring to this?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7828946/
Show HN: Outcast – a platform that repurposes videos into 20 content pieces
Which is why open source AI will be so important to support.

It's not this individuals fault, it's the pretty obvious outcome of monetising this absolutely enormous venture capital spend. Advertising infects every possible medium as soon as the dollars make sense.
Describing wealth tax reasoning with an absurd example of the same reasoning on an individual level is an attempt to get people to understand what wealth taxes are.

The government that is supposed to work for you thinks you have accumulated too much stuff and is trying to make it legal to take a percentage of your physical wealth annually.
Right. There’s obviously a totally valid market-based reason for it, and I am absolutely not implying that developers should receive less of that than they do. However, its an external factor which gives many developers a very skewed understanding of how much work most people expend for the amount of money they receive and agency they get at work, and how much they’re worth as workers outside of the software world with roughly the same amount of ambition and effort. Compared to most industries, software companies coddled developers and really tried to trump up the mystique of the great hacker genius. While particularly apparent in the restaurant industry, developers thinking they’ve ‘solved’ an unrelated business they’ve got no experience in using their genius software brain or assume they can simply transfer their existing skills to a new field is pretty common. I encountered one developer who thought they’d simply pivot to crime to keep their family comfortable, which is hilarious. The beginning of a career in crime is long and full of petty bullshit crimes that pay very little because you don’t have the wisdom to not get caught doing more serious crimes, and you don’t have the network to support you doing things like getting unregistered guns, fencing, etc. What I wouldn’t pay to see that guy walk into a bar in a rough part of town, order a craft beer, and try to debate the sketchiest people he saw about why he’d make a trustworthy partner in crime.
Russians are stealing butter and rationing electricity, Russia won’t level anything to rubble far beyond their borders this century. They are almost out of steam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701640
Thank you! I went searching for more information after my post and was shocked to see the recent news, it made my day to see that and to see that Prof. Mullaney is in contact with the finder.
Is this something that structured propmpts a la DSPy are designed to address?
It is sold to integrators, not customers. No one walks into a store and buys a Windows for their computer at home, they buy a computer that has Windows already on it.
AOC is against taxes and other countries paying their fair share?

She realized prices are going up just now?
Good coverage, but it’s absolutely abysmal in terms of reliability, convenience, speed and cleanliness. I tried to survive a week without Uber/driving in LA, and gave up after 3rd day.

If your public transport is mostly used by low income residents, you’ve already failed. It just shows that it’s not good enough for anyone else and alternative methods are superior if you have money.
In the case of Hungary, Orbans behavior is double embarassing, given the bloody soviet invasion they suffered in 1956:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
Citigroup Almost Made an $81T Mistake
I can't use anything below iOS 17 because I use SwiftData, probably some other newer APIs too. Sorry.
Yep. Housing can be affordable or it can be a good investment. Not both. Not for long.

Home owners are heavily incentivized to "not understand" this, so the cycle of abuse continues.
I may be way off base as I have been out of the job market for 20 years, and you may already be way ahead of me. But, you could try this:

Use your employed college friends as a way to get around the recruiters and HR. Locate them (particularly those who graduated a year early) and discuss how you might offer something to their employer or who else might hire you.

Good luck!
I wasn't thinking about subscription but one time payment for a download.
In the military context, breaking formation and abandoning your post (as you suggest) is a punishable offense, even with death.

By the way, if you’d like to see a real life example of this neighborly coercion you’re so concerned about, Russia is the most guilty party with its blocking units. As a matter of fact, given the tremendous amount of dead on the Russian side, you should be appealing to Putin to stop this, not Ukraine.
Seriously, Windows 2000 was one of the most stable OS back in the day, rock solid. I used 2000 server as a desktop OS, instead of 98.

unlike shit show that was windows 95/98/ME
That was the main reason I stopped using Google and Quora. I wanted real, relevant results. Instead, they tried to trick me with advertisements.

These companies are just intentionally throwing away users.
> So the government takes physical assets?

Not quite. If you are ultra wealthy because you happen to own several large buildings, fleeing the country to avoid taxes is easy. Doing so with you wealth, however, isn’t.
I think most Americans of various stripes would endorse this. Europe is more than welcome to saber-rattle on its own budget.
For me, vibe coding is the only logical way forward. I see that the term gets a lot of flak. But in almost 10 years of writing web-applications for a living, this feels even more exciting then when I finally "got it". And its measurable, I am sitting on 5 completed web-apps with traffic just this year, working with 3 clients, and due to my ability to be this productive, feel like I have a very stable future ahead. I even had my last client seek me out, for writing about coding like this, because he wants to replace his back-end and front-end coders with people who can "AI Code" the full-stack, but aren't new to this. Well, its sad, but I am likely replacing 3 people on their team. Only time will tell if that was their right decision, but I am not saying no to that.

But then again, I have been doing this for 10 years; that is my edge. Same exact stack (Django + boring frontend). I know the ins and out of my stack, quite obviously every single day, I see AI go into a direction that I know is going to produce a huge footgun along the way. I can just see that up ahead, suggest a different approach, and continue. IF I was entirely new to this, I would end up building stuff that breaks down after weeks or months or investments, not knowing when things went wrong, or how to go forward. Regardless, I feel like my time has come, and I am definitely spending 95% of my time just prompting the AI versus writing actual code. Even for the most minor changes, like changing a CharField to a TextField, I don't even want to open the models.py myself. In Cursor, I am averaging 5000-7000 fast requests per month, because in terms of ROI it pays off. I am looking forward to this getting better.
Right? Great marketing though.
App Services can also run as a Linux container, should you not want Windows.

But the Windows containers have more features. I stuck with them for quite a number of websites.

Significantly cheaper than a VM as you noted just based on maintenance that would otherwise be required.
I'm curious why people pick Azure, if anyone here has direct experience with making the decision.

I work at a startup that runs on Azure, and we're only here because of Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. We switched because Microsoft gives Office 365 discounts to our customers as long as all the the SaaS services they use are hosted on Azure, and so our customers demanded we use Azure. Part of the monopoly playbook: "using a monopoly in one area to create a monopoly in another".

I used to work at GCP, and I thought it was almost shameful that we were in 3rd place behind Azure. Now it just makes me mad (especially since I had to migrate our startup from GCP to Azure).
Companies have been long concerned about exfiltration of data and ran MITM proxies to stop it, which ironically has been the target of propaganda about "privacy" by the browser makers.

Every home network needs a MITM proxy too.
I suppose it’s something like inequality is inevitable so you can’t remove it; instead you can try to make it comfortable for everyone and that due diligence can help.

Perhaps a well-run military would be an example; unequal by definition but without all the parts working well it falls apart.
I don’t agree much with Machiavelli for one, but more importantly he and Sun Tzu lived during a time when war was very common and just happened all the time with little provocation. In the post WW2 world the goal should be to avoid war at all costs and achieve goals by other means.
I mean how many hours does one need to work to make the search results even worse by adding more adverts?
Calling the recently-elected Vice President of the United States "bitch" in Russian, on camera, in the White House, was probably not the right way to appeal to the American people.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1895555421269868776
Like make a feedback loop? Agent/Actor type of play? Maybe test against an AI formed thesis even?
For one, I’m somewhat familiar with Chinese culture and how their government functions. I would warn against underestimating how quickly they can turn things around, both culturally and economically. They have the ability to make sudden drastic changes with little pushback or resistance from the population. They have focus, reliably execute, and recover relatively quickly from mistakes and are getting increasingly good at social engineering to enable those things. They are thinking 50 years into the future at all times.

Yes, it’s absolutely possible they go too far and end in a revolution but I don’t see that happening in this century. The overall sentiment in the country (outside metro areas) is a tremendous amount of support for their government.
So speculation then. Here's some more: because it won't be a dragged out meat-grinder if he has a puppet US administration/political party.
European colonization of the world is a unique enough phenomenon to not hand wave it away as business as usual. Further, the industrial intensification and financialization of this colonization through the 18th-20th centuries alone is singular on its impact on human civilization with no precedent.
This is hot, thank you!
What’s the quote?

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

If AGI wants to hit human level intelligence, I think it’s got a long way to go. But if it’s aiming for our collective intelligence, maybe it’s pretty close after all…
The company itself will ban you for similar reasons. The views could be a faith with a billion people. Still hate speech or harassment for peacefully sharing it. Whereas, mockery of that group was allowed in the same spaces.

Given the state of the world, I'm not sure if that will help or hurt their marketing. Probably help with enough like-minded people. Same for social nets with opposing views.

I'm not sure what effect AI will have on places like Reddit due to the community factors. It will be interesting to watch.
Show HN: Video Motion Scanner App in Python (My First UI)
https://www.dvr-scan.com/

A tool I wrote a few years ago that extracts motion clips from videos, completely free and open source. I released this as a CLI-only program a few years ago, but just updated to have a new GUI. This is the first GUI program I've personally shipped, so I'm excited to hear any feedback.

Works on all platforms anywhere Python is installed with:
pip install dvr-scan[opencv]

Windows installer/builds are also available above. Feedback is welcome! https://github.com/Breakthrough/DVR-Scan

One constraint I gave myself was that the GUI had to be completely done with tkinter since it comes with most Python distributions, and avoid bringing in too many extra dependencies. The software aims to be able to run on low-end systems with ease, and tries to have as little dependencies as possible.
> a lot of VPs, Sr VPs and above reached to that level primarily they started a decade or two earlier than me

Not refuting your point but there is a selection bias here. You are in contact with people who did in fact achieve VP or higher levels. Lots more also joined the industry 10 or 20 years before you and burned out, failed, hated it, got fired, whatever. The people who succeeded may not be particularly exceptional in terms of talent, brainpower, innovative thinking, etc, (lots was luck, or being in the right place at the right time, surely) but it's also not true that everyone they worked with back then became a big success.
and on top of that Chromium is the new IE, which on it's own a bit better than before since the core is open

The original IE was closed source, yet it wasn't anything more than just a browser, and people trusted MS on that.
Yes. I was speaking in admiration when I said Macron whooped Trump.
I couldn't have less bandwidth for people who want to villainize landlords. Want to reduce the influence of landlords? Let more people build multifamily housing. Who's keeping that from happening? It's not the landlords. It's the people who live in freestanding single-family housing.

Social housing is what people who own houses say they want, because they know it's never going to happen. It's a safe way to genuflect to a totalizing class conflict without staking anything on it.

Every landlord I've ever met is a lower-middle class Black person who owns an apartment building, that they also live in, in Lawndale or Austin. Miss me with this stuff.
>the majority of people in the US are not caricatures of POTUS

It's so sad that an evil magician has hypnotized so many Americans into voting for Trump. Thank you for reminding us how the majority would have voted if they hadn't been hypnotized.
Thought experiment: if all habitable land on the planet is surveyed and transferred to private ownership, all subsequent generations that are born from that point on, will be doomed to rent-based servitude. Forgetting all political theory, it seems that planet-bound species with a positive population growth rate must not rely on socioeconomic systems that exclusively (or heavily) favour private ownership of land.
<simpsons> "The worst month of your financials so far!"</simpsons> [0]

It doesn't seem too surprising: The products were already of questionable quality-per-dollar, and most of the goodwill that overcame that was from a bloc of consumers the CEO is busy actively alienating.

At the same time, the broken yearly promises of "self-driving next year" or things like "your car will appreciate since you'll be able to rent it out as a robotaxi" etc. might--finally--be coming home to roost. Or maybe not, but it's more a question of when than if.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfpPArfDTGw
Nobody working there now had anything to do with Nazis or WWII. In fact, a good way to get fired from either company is to be seen throwing Hitler salutes in public.
Perfect example of the context of a definition being important.
I really can’t understand the rationale behind the tariffs on Canada, from any perspective other than “big American bully”
Yea, I don't have a problem with the quota, more that the "out of quota" throttling lasts 2+ hours even after the traffic spike dies down.
To call it "completely different" is false. They are built differently, but the end result is still 90-95% the same software versions (because it has to be as the major version of RHEL). In fact, the way it is built differently is a massive improvement over the old process. The old CentOS was put together by 2-4 people at a time, with long delays after the corresponding RHEL releases, with no ability to actually fix bugs or accept contributions. The new CentOS (CentOS Stream) is built by thousands of engineers, literal subject matter experts who can actually fix bugs you report to them, or even better merge a contribution you submit. Also, the branding wasn't reused, the branding is for the whole CentOS Project, which still exists and is more active than ever. Also, you can still use CentOS in your dev environments, and it works great for that because you can prepare your production workload for upcoming changes in the next RHEL minor version ahead of time. You can also get free RHEL for dev environments, for the things you need to validate with the same minor version as your production RHEL environments.
Please do some research before accusing people of "BS".

>In general, rural collectives own agricultural land and the state owns urban land. However, Article 70 of The Property Law allows for ownership of exclusive parts within an apartment building, which endorses the individual ownership of apartments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_law_in_China

>Individuals cannot privately own land in China but may obtain transferrable land-use rights for a number of years for a fee.

https://maint.loc.gov/law/help/real-property-law/china-real-...
There have been past complaints by researchers about their research being misrepresented, despite clarifying.

Unfortunately, they are just choosing to misrepresent the research sometimes.
I've not tried that top N method and I will.

Early experiment showed I had to keep the temp low. I'm keeping it around 0.20. from some other comments I might make a loop to wiggle around that zone.
Would be nice if librewolf and WaterFox changed their flow to make it clear that Mozilla's Sync Server is being used, and make it opt in with something like:

To sync please select one of the options below:

[x] Custom Sync Server: ___________

[ ] Mozilla Sync
> what are people living with debilitating depression supposed to do?

Way more depression than anyone is aware is clinical depression.

Address the issues in your life, and your long-tail health.

For me, it was multiple systemic infections - took the drugs and buried it down, didn't realize until it got really bad. Luckily I was young enough to survive the mistake.

If your endocrine system is doing the wrong thing, ask why.
People that actually care about the distro being sustainable are quite happy with the changes. Sorry you don't get it.
Is it Dekker?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578243.Field_Guide_to_Hu...
TLDR Firefox has been selling your data all along in exchange for ad money, but now state laws with more teeth forced them to come clean about this behavior.
America has enough room to build many new cities in useful locations, yet it doesn't. Why is that?
> we should set a bar for qualifications and let anyone over the bar become a doctor

Absolutely. Let’s stop using different bars for different races.
The first Trump administration lifted Obama's ban on lethal aid to Ukraine and supplied and trained Ukrainians on Javelin anti-tank missiles, night vision devices, counter-battery fire radar systems, and secure battlefield communications equipment among other things. The proposition that Trump is an appeaser does not bear scrutiny. Neither does the speculation that Russia might be capable of or interested in a wider war with Europe, let alone the USA.
and the author report this about Wikipedia

> Also, over 5B visits a month - consider me impressed.

How does Wikipedia only do 5X the visits that Quora does? Which number is way off?
SQL Server is really Sybase tho, which was always capable of running on UNIX.

Can't say much more, but I worked on a huge (internal) Sybase ASE on Linux based app (you've _all_ bought products administered on this app ;) ) way back (yes, pre-SSD, multi path fiber I/O to get things fast, failover etc.) and T-SQL is really nice, as is/was ASE and the replication server. Been about 20 years tho, so who knows.
Those Russians have their own government to blame, which in addition to stealing Ukrainian land has stolen assets of Western companies, including billions in planes. They are legitimized in overthrowing their poor leadership.
Waterfox or Librewolf aren’t viable alternatives?
Opposite of a hot take; this is the near-consensus position in the AI field.
Sure is, autocorrect got me.