tyoma

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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words(devblogs.microsoft.com)
97 points by tyoma 3mo ago|1 comments
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by tyoma 4mo ago
Agree this is largely the hidden issue much AI discussion misses. AI industrialized a previously creative output. If you enjoyed the writing of code this is a nightmare. If writing code was a chore to solve a problem, this is a blessing.
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by tyoma 11mo ago
Surprise ambulance bills are mostly (but not completely) illegal in California as of Jan 1 2024. Ask the LLM of your choice about AB 716 and whether it applies to your situation (it likely but not certainly does). Have the LLM draft a lette
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by tyoma 1y ago
Chronic absenteeism is a huge misnomer. The statistic covers both excused and unexcused absences. The reason it’s since covid up is because (more) parents stopped sending their kids to school when they are sick. Last year I got a semi-threa
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by tyoma 1y ago
> Again, don't put private health information into ChatGPT. I get the temptation, but don't do it. I'm not trying to gatekeep healthcare, but we can't trust these models to count the number of b's in blueberry co
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by tyoma 1y ago
I think its less amnesia and more that many commenters were too young to have experienced pre-Uber taxis: the call for a pickup thats routinely ignored, flailing arms in the cold hoping someone stops, the smelly car, refusal to pick you up
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by tyoma 2y ago
From a quick spot check… yes? Assume 120 homes in an area, evenly distributed per month on yearly leases. If all renters switch every month and it takes a month to re-rent the unit, there is a vacancy rate of 8.3% Obviously not every renter
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Evaluating Solidity support in AI coding assistants(blog.trailofbits.com)
1 points by tyoma 2y ago|0 comments
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Arsine (AsH3) – From Reconnaissance Balloons to Integrated Circuits(toxandhound.com)
2 points by tyoma 2y ago|0 comments
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by tyoma 2y ago
I feel for the victim and Google’s continued inability to provide customer service. Maybe the media attention will escalate this to someone who can fix it. As an aside, I am relieved to see this is from the UK. Whenever sim swap stories end
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by tyoma 2y ago
They successfully completed high speed rail service that has been operational since 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Boraq Meanwhile California has yet to start service.
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by tyoma 2y ago
According to the linked post there are PQ algorithms that will fit this niche: > This variety of different trade-offs gives developers a lot of flexibility. For an embedded device where speed and bandwidth are important but ROM space is
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by tyoma 2y ago
For a long time I wondered why there was such a big push for PQ even though there was no quantum computer and a reasonably working one was always 15 years in the future. … or was there a quantum computer somewhere and it was just kept hush
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Understanding Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models Release(blog.trailofbits.com)
1 points by tyoma 2y ago|0 comments
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by tyoma 2y ago
How much should they spend?
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by tyoma 2y ago
Yes. Why is it so difficult to believe that the US has an extensive safety net carveout for pregnant women?
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by tyoma 2y ago
It is bonafide 100% government paid coverage for anything pregnancy or pediatrics related. From: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/cost-sharing/cost-sharing-... > Out of pocket costs cannot be imposed for emerg
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by tyoma 2y ago
It is very relevant. The US definition of maternal death is very expansive. The expanded definition counts any reason a woman who was recently pregnant and dies. The prototypical example is murder by a spouse. While tragic and extremely imp
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by tyoma 2y ago
Yes that is also covered under Medicaid!
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by tyoma 2y ago
> First, mothers-to-be in the US need single-payer healthcare This is already true, pregnant women qualify for Medicaid in every state. Medicaid pays for ~50% of all births.
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by tyoma 2y ago
Kind of relevant: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-many-of-our-facts-about-so... > In 2021, Joseph et al. published a paper in Obstetrics & Gynecology demonstrating that the entire recorded increase in maternal
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An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string(devblogs.microsoft.com)
127 points by tyoma 2y ago|29 comments
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by tyoma 2y ago
The core problem is that Grant’s Pass is being asked to shoulder the homeless burden for the region. They are not being provided with any means of help, and their ability to remove those who cause an excessive burden is being taken away. Lo
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by tyoma 2y ago
Aider can answer questions I can’t search for via LSP, like “what code would process the following URL” and similar.
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by tyoma 2y ago
I’ve used aider to understand new codebases using technologies I don’t know and it did a fantastic job; much faster than grep/find + google.
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Technologist vs. spy: the xz backdoor debate(lcamtuf.substack.com)
16 points by tyoma 2y ago|1 comments
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by tyoma 2y ago
Flights to/from WAS are artificially restricted by congress: https://www.mwaa.com/protecting-dca-perimeter
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Retro Computing via Cheap FPGAs(github.com)
2 points by tyoma 3y ago|0 comments
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by tyoma 3y ago
I am sure there are many organizational reasons, but the mere existence of a first-party “fix search engine results” app implies that personalized search must be broken for enough people to warrant its creation.
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by tyoma 3y ago
Seems bad that the cookies are still valid after password rotation. Relatedly, is this another instance of HN serving as de-facto Google tech support/customer service?

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