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If Boeing claimed a plane was airworthy, but it crashed because basic engineering controls were skipped, we have collectively put our faith in the NTSB to preserve evidence, run an independent technical investigation, etc. There is no such authority for software - most security auditors (SOC2, HITRUST, etc) are just looking at self-reported data.

Just take a look at the recent Epic vs. Health Gorilla lawsuit to see how nonexistent the protection is around exchanging your medical records, one of the most sensitive types of PII.

The cost to operate a single jet is $6-7 million a year, so the total cost over its 30-40 year lifetime would be closer to $400m :(

Missing from the article - the hacker first compromised Resolv Lab's AWS account, took a private key from KMS that was used to control minting, then managed to extract $25 million into ETH before all protocol functions were suspended.

English is full of animal-based metaphors, and that's a pretty innocuous statement. "I herded everyone into a room" does not automatically imply that one perceives those people as animals.

The most telling sign of a human commenter is brevity.

Consequently, I hardly ever spend the time to write out long and detailed HN comments like I used to in the pre-LLM era. People nowadays have a much harder time believing that an Internet stranger is meticulously crafting a detailed and grammatically-airtight message to another Internet stranger without AI assistance.

The Puya PY32 series MCUs found in most vapes have 3kb of RAM and 24kb of ROM, whereas Doom requires at least 4MB of RAM. Assuming Moore's law also applies to the computing power inside a disposable vape, we should be seeing that post in around a decade :)

The fact that this occurred in Bombay is important context. In India, the culture amongst older people is to have a clear sense of where you fit in the hierarchy. You might be verbally abusive to those who you consider below you, but you will remain silent and deferent to those who are considered economically/socially superior. This manifests as a certain class of people who have never been called out on any of their obnoxious behavior, because their economic/social status has shielded them from criticism for their entire lives. Meanwhile a majority of society is perfectly accustomed to being verbally abused, to the point where someone like me saying "please" and "thank you" makes it clear that I am of the Indian diaspora.

By the way, I've noticed that the younger crowd in India leans much more toward egalitarianism and tends to reject bizarre social constructs like caste. The fact that a young guy also thought of this solution speaks to their ingenuity as well.

I wouldn't call CareQuality a "data broker" as much as it is an interoperability framework. It's essentially a big distributed system of participants who agree to instantly share patient records - CareQuality maintains a central list of participants and the URLs where they can be reached. Since the technical requirements to actually participate in this network are fairly complex (far more than a hospital IT can or should manage), there are companies like Health Gorilla which serve as QHINs (Qualified Health Information Networks) which query the network on behalf of their customers (i.e. doctors engaging in some form of care).

There are many gray areas to this - for example, a value-based care program or ACO can pull records en masse, for the purpose of "care coordination" (i.e. checking if a particular patient requires intervention). However, what Health Gorilla has done is certainly no gray area as some articles on this matter suggest - if the allegations are true, then they have engaged in outright criminal behavior along with their co-conspirators (RavillaMed, LlamaLab, and others). Thankfully, this situation has completely eroded all trust in Health Gorilla and prompted a massive customer exodus.

If this actually happens, get ready for an avalanche of AI-generated garbage code that exists for the sole purpose of boosting a scammer's metrics, so they can maximize their slice of the pie with the minimum amount of effort. Spotify is dealing with this same issue around AI-generated music [1].

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2024/09/08/man-charg...

Thank you for the excellent feedback. I had this realization a while back that I'm a mobile user during "consumption" (e.g. browsing HN late at night), but a desktop user for "production" - now I see how it applies to this side project as well. Also, I still need to figure out some React performance issues which make it virtually unusable on pre-2020 machines :(

This comment actually invigorated me to try the site from my phone and improve the experience, so I sincerely thank you for the motivation.

I love the Typescript handbook, but wanted the examples to be "runnable". It turns out that the TypeScript compiler runs pretty fast in the browser for trivial code snippets, so I threw together https://ts.coach (TypeScript handbook with code examples that execute in the browser + instant type checking)

You are effectively saying that the indiscriminate slaughter of the Japanese civilian population was justified, due to the actions of a few Japanese leaders. In my opinion, there is no justification for violence against civilians.

Notice that we have a holiday for MLK, and Indians have a holiday to celebrate Gandhi. Something deep inside all of us knows that pacifism is “correct”.

In my reply above, I evoked the memory of Jeanette Rankin, who was the lone dissenting vote against the Pacific War after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (somewhat analogous to the October 7th attack).

It is a natural human tendency to desire that the people who inflict pain upon others to also feel pain inflicted upon them. This has been the human condition since ancient times, and yet the most revered figures in human history have been the pacifists who consistently advocate against violence (e.g. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Gandhi, MLK, etc).

My point equally applies to everyone who condones violence to achieve some end goal. Jeanette Rankin was vilified for her lone dissenting vote against war, yet decades later she is among the few of her contemporaries to have a statue in the Capitol to honor her dedication to pacifism.

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

Completely agree with you on this. It will be an unfortunate exercise for future historians to look back on this time, crunch through the enormous amount of data with their quantum computers, and end up realizing just how many people were willing to condone the slaughter of innocent civilians.

Public opinion on Amjad shifted quite a bit in 2021 when he threatened to sue a former intern for his open-source project.

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

Thanks for sharing! I used to teach students to build ML algorithms from scratch (everything from Markov chains to multilayer perceptrons and convolution neural networks) - I rewrote some of my notes in TypeScript here:

1. https://github.com/keshavsaharia/numbers/blob/dev/lib/nn/neu...

2. https://github.com/keshavsaharia/numbers/blob/dev/lib/cnn/cn... (still working on the visualization)

Hope you find these useful in your own learning journey!

Absolutely - the channel is called "Dolton Documentaries" on YouTube. I'll definitely check out the features you mentioned, and am super excited to see where this goes!

Last year, I made a YouTube documentary series showcasing the prolific corruption in a small city government. I downloaded all the city government meetings, used Whisper to transcribe them, and then set up a basic RAG so I could query across a decade of committee meetings (around 1 TB of video). Once I got the timestamps that I'm interested in, I then have to embark on a tedious manual process of locating the file, cutting out a few seconds/minutes from a multi-hour video, and then order all the clips into a cohesive narrative.

These seem like problems that LLMs are especially well-suited for. I might have spent a fraction of the time if there was some system that could "index" my content library, and intelligently pull relevant clips into a cohesive storyline.

I also spent an ungodly amount of time on animations - it felt like "1 hour of work for 1 minute of animation". I would gladly pay for a tool which reduces the time investment required to be a citizen documentarian.

"Participation trophy" has become a modern aphorism in many situations where people are rewarded for simply showing up.

The abacus is a standard part of elementary education in several Asian countries, for precisely the reasons you mentioned regarding numerical intuition. In American education, a student might only learn about the abacus from a brief paragraph in their history textbook.

Even today, there are average people in the Chinese countryside who know how to calculate the solution to a set of linear equations with counting sticks (a technique known as fāngchéng - 方程). My point being that usage of mechanical calculation assistance is indeed a useful skill, and would probably be beneficial in American/western education as well.

I finally figured out how to address my burnout with a 10 day Vipassana meditation course (dhamma.org) - hope it potentially helps others as well.

The website (coralprotocol.org) is stunningly designed, but makes no reference to anyone who is actually using this. I also think the numerous references to a crypto token that is tied into this project severely undermine any research credibility.

I really don't understand why crypto is involved in this to begin with. I can't imagine any serious person wanting to tie their inference costs to a token price.

I used to sell software to CS teachers, and noticed n8n really explode in popularity with that group around 2015-2018. Along with Node-RED, it is a fantastic paradigm for teaching practical applications of computer science, rather than simply having students solve leetcode-type problems.

If you think of each button press as a matrix being added to the board state where only the row and column are set to 1, along with the commutative nature of the moves (order doesn't matter), then as long as the total number of "flips" from the cumulative matrices of moves is odd, then it will reset the board.

Mathematically I might say that the system's precomputed solution vector is readily apparent.

N8n is extremely popular among CS educators. I imagine at least a few thousand of those stars are from students who learned to code with n8n.

This was during the time when people in California were being threatened with legal action (up to imprisonment) for breaking social distancing guidelines.

Gavin Newsom had a famous COVID scandal where he dined at the French Laundry in the midst of his own austere lockdown measures, and now the owner is telling him to not interfere with his cookware revenue. If you don't already realize that your government leaders are bought and paid for, I don't know what else to tell you.

I also live in California, and agree with you in sentiment because the housing prices are too damn high.

However, the reason that most municipalities around here will bend over backwards to attract wealthy residents/businesses is because of their chronically underfunded liabilities (pensions, retirement healthcare benefits, etc).