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Yes, they get visually more sphere-like as more faces are added. But spheres are obviously/trivially non-Rupert, while the question of whether a convex polyhedron can be non-Rupert is more interesting.

Re: Sendgrid killing their free tier - I used them for the contact form on my personal website, and after they ended the free tier I was able to move to Resend (who has a similar free tier) without too much work. Pretty happy with it so far.

What does that look like in a more intensive hospital setting? I've seen the shift to midlevels happening in primary care, but I'm not sure how that translates to inpatient settings - I'm vaguely aware that there are rules around when a PA/NP must consult an MD before making a decision, and I feel like they would encounter those situations way more for an inpatient.

For other readers: "15 Twh per year" is equivalent to 1.71 GW, 17.1% of the "10GW" number used to describe the deal.

I'll leave it to you and others who read this to evaluate the columnist's argument in the linked article vs. the UN commissioner's argument published last week in the same publication. https://archive.ph/FP2ek

See mort96's comments about 7-bit ASCII and parity bits (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225911). Kind of archaic now, though - 8-bit bytes with the error checking living elsewhere in the stack seems to be preferred.

More so than tables per unit time, it's dollars per unit time. When I was a server, the usual metric of how well you performed on a given shift was the total of your bills ("how much you sold"). The best servers were good at encouraging parties to spend on the things they were on the fence about: the appetizer, the second drink, the dessert. Even with the volatility of individual tipping decisions, getting your tables to order more increases the EV of your total tips.

That's really cool. I was mostly envisioning hands-on admin stuff (because that's the work I'm most familiar with), but I hadn't thought about how much of a boon it would be to have someone with incident management experience arriving to help out. If you ever do a write-up about your experience, I'd love to read it.

I helped to recover my nearby hospital as a volunteer when it was ransomwared.

I'm curious about how you got in the door here. Very cool, but isn't healthcare IT notoriously cagey about access? I've had to do PHI training and background checks before getting into the system at my (admittedly only 2) PHI-centered jobs.

Granted, if it was such an emergency, I could see them rushing you through a lite version of the HR onboarding process. Did you have a connection in the hospital through whom you offered your services?

"Artslop"? Care to elaborate on your usage here? I'm curious if your problem here is with the incursion of art into your preferred dinoslop, or if artslop is your catch-all for works that aren't in the high-concept genre film realm.

Just trying to keep my finger on the pulse of a neoword as it spends more time outside of containment.

Looks like I'm about to start learning which of my time-killing websites are hosted on GCP - The Ringer is down, and since Spotify owns them and is a major GCP customer, it looks like they've been hit by this. CRAZY that the GCP status page is still green.

It's worth nothing that it takes less money than you may expect to significantly shift a prediction market's trading price. This article, while its tone aged poorly with the relevant election results, covers the math behind this quite well.

https://quantian.substack.com/p/market-prices-are-not-probab...

I like letter-slash-letter abbreviations but I've never run into c/f before. What does it mean? Do you remember where you first picked it up?

I agree that it's not wrong, but I would certainly call it incomplete too. It's your choice which of those two points you want to emphasize, but calling the Standard Model "not wrong" with no mention of its incompatibility with General Relativity would feel disingenuous to me.

"since 2018" means "starting 2018, through the present", no?

You're missing the point - a rapist would have a criminal arrest warrant, which would absolutely be the courthouse's responsibility to enforce. The ICE agents attempted to disrupt a criminal proceeding to enforce a civil immigration warrant not signed by a judge. More on that distinction here: https://www.fletc.gov/ice-administrative-removal-warrants-mp...

My small liberal arts college sent a lot of people to Epic (3-5 grads out of each year's class of ~550), including me - they are known for hiring lots of fresh grads with academic-STEM backgrounds who lack tech industry experience into their technical services and QA roles. I think the hiring dynamics for those non-developer technical roles are more favorable to Epic than those for full developers, and those people tend to make up more of a company's headcount overall.

I feel like this shows up in any news article about resale markups of trendy merch - the highest-price listing gets the headline, regardless of if it ever sells. I get that these soft-news articles are more about driving traffic to the site than quality reporting, but I'm still surprised (and annoyed!) that these easily disprovable eye-grabbers are omnipresent in this class of story.

Edit: further example - come on, man https://www.delish.com/food-news/a64457108/trader-joes-mini-...

I thought that most FOSS projects took multiple compiler implementations as a sign of a healthy language environment, without much prestige associated with being the "premier" compiler and instead having more of an it-takes-a-village attitude. Granted, I'm mostly extrapolating from Go and Python here - is it a sharper divide in the Rust community?

I find the road cycling arms race really fascinating too, especially for tech focused on measurement rather than performance. See the 2021 ban on diabetic-style glucose monitors during races [1], the recent restriction of carbon monoxide-based hemoglobin testing [2,3], and the possible upcoming ban on breath sensors during races [4].

[1] https://www.bikeradar.com/news/uci-bans-supersapiens [2] https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/the-uci-bans-repeated-inhal... [3] https://www.bicycling.com/news/a61677020/carbon-monoxide-reb... [4] https://archive.ph/XMrVg

Soatok wrote a blog about this specific incident yesterday. Signal may have the most reliable E2EE, but that isn't the only security step required to secure the most sensitive information. https://soatok.blog/2025/03/25/the-practical-limitations-of-...

Soatok wrote a good blog post about this that was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43471223 The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption (41 points, 42 comments)

The gist is that there are potential threats that any end-to-end encryption cannot fully protect against. Signal is a good provider of that encryption, but there are other considerations to protect highly confidential data, and Signal often lures non-technical users into disregarding those.

Now imagine an ASI that isn't confined to the Go board, but operating out in the world.

I don't think it's reasonable at all to look at a system's capability in games with perfect and easily-ingested information and extrapolate about its future capabilities interacting with the real world. What makes you confident that these problem domains are compatible?

The NY specificity implied by the publication name is archaic. Apart from the event listings or performance/exhibit reviews, The New Yorker's long form coverage has been nationally (sometimes globally) focused for decades, albeit through the lens of what America's coastal elites find interesting.

Hovering over the time-ago item on the comment header displays the exact post time, and interestingly it shows times from Feb 16 (3 days ago) for many of the "2 hours ago" comments. Must be an artifact of some moderation tool.

Anyone care to share their experiences with some of the less common Jellyfin frontends? Which ones are most in need of contributions?

I've had a decent experience with the Samsung TV (Tizen) client. It's annoying to not have it on the app store yet and to jump through the developer-mode hoops to get it installed, but to be fair it was a one time setup and I've been happy with it since then. Seen some occasional slightly janky menu navigation, but really it's been far better than I expected.

You might enjoy this video that attempts to rigorously define how many "mainline" Mario games there are among the hundreds that exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw

I'm surprised that more sibling comments aren't covering the lack of a unified theory here. Currently, our best understanding of gravity (general relativity) and our best understanding of everything else (electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, strong/weak force via the standard model) aren't consistent. They have assumptions and conclusions that contradict each other. It is very difficult to investigate these contradictions closely because the interesting parts of GR show up only in very massive objects (stars, black holes) and the interesting parts of everything else show up in the tiniest things (subatomic particles, photons).

So we don't have a set of equations that we could expect to model the whole universe in any meaningful way.

Can you tell us about how you use Go in the small? I like Go, but it doesn't strike me as particularly nimble for scripty use cases like this - error handling is part of it, but I know that's fixable with the Must() pattern.

Do you really think that the fundamental human act of the current era is running logic programs? I don't dispute that digital logic and its uses deeply changed humanity, but this is like calling humans "weak af imitations of steam engines" during the late-1800s railroad boom.

Calling actions/thoughts that follow a concrete list of logical rules/algorithms "animal mode" is deeply anti-human.