wefarrell

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by wefarrell 25d ago
What if it didn't "destroy" the evidence, but instead encrypted it in a way that couldn't be decrypted at that moment? Or if it copied a snapshot some remote and inaccessible server while bricking the phone? The digital
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by wefarrell 3mo ago
From the article: >While it is commonplace for allies and adversaries across the globe to spy on each other, the current and former U.S. officials said Israel’s recent efforts have gone well beyond what is typical and expected espionage.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
"The truth is, it’s actually difficult for any microwave oven to melt ice. That’s because solids tend to transmit, rather than absorb microwaves, and because the hydrogen bonds in ice are stronger than (and harder to induce vibration&#
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by wefarrell 3y ago
If it's the only way to achieve interoperability with a communication protocol, then yes. Core infrastructure like this should be treated and regulated more like a utility.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Because there’s always additional context that the junior and higher ups need that they aren’t aware of, the most obvious being time/capacity. I used to manage an engineer who was responsible for a critical part of our system and he wo
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Qualified immunity doesn't apply when the officer clearly violates a constitutional right. Unfortunately the article says: Judge Jessica Clarke, who ordered the injunction last week, ruled that while the First Amendment claim might be
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by wefarrell 3y ago
No, the US system is far far far worse. Look at the changes in life expectancy the last few years in the two countries. Consider the number of nursing strikes recently and it's clear that the system is getting much worse.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
And that's the irony. Covid's death toll in the US was a hundred times worse than 9/11 yet we still don't have federally mandated sick days. State provided insurance coverage was expanded but that expansion is ending ove
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I have a company that sells to hospitals, they absolutely care about keeping the wrong people out of the emergency room. “ Hospital networks require you to either pay outstanding balances or meet with someone to arrange a payment plan befor
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Yes and I have a company that sells to health systems.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
It’s terrible for a hospital’s business to have their ER clogged by people who don’t have emergencies and can’t pay. It means they see a much lower volume of people who can pay. So they aren’t going to deny people primary care because doing
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by wefarrell 3y ago
The obvious consequence would be that people go to the emergency room for any kind of healthcare. That’s a much worse outcome for hospitals so I doubt they would deny people primary care.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
It’s impossible to falsify patient reports of pain, yet the medical field takes them quite seriously.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how it's possible for a COPY statement alone to remove existing data.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
One nice thing about CSV files being zipped and served via the web is they can be streamed directly into the database incredibly fast without having to persist them anywhere (aside from the db). You can load the zip file as a stream, read t
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by wefarrell 3y ago
> I mean that intuitively I couldn't imagine replacing 1 experienced professional with 1, 2, 10, 100 or even 1000 intelligent high school graduates This analogy doesn't make sense, because the professional is presumably also a
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I'm guessing you have to pay for it and that you can't freely redistribute it, in which case it's not open source.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Costco doesn’t prevent the things you mention, you should come to my area in NYC. Within 3 blocks I have 3 supermarkets and maybe 12 smaller markets and corner stores. Within a mile I probably have 20-30 supermarkets and one of them is Cost
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Really? I've been using it to recruit and if I didn't have access that would be detrimental to my career.
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Ask HN: Anyone else locked out of LinkedIn?
2 points by wefarrell 3y ago|2 comments
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Saying they “need some kind of target date” is not polite, it sounds a lot like a demand.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Commercialization of someone else’s likeness sounds like the type of thing that should be heavily regulated, and skewed in favor of the person whose likeness is being exploited.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
That reminds me of how the CIA was able to track Pablo Escobar. He had a mobile phone that he only turned on to make calls, however the CIA was able to remotely activate and track it using surveillance aircraft.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Average medical school costs are ~230K. Residency is not college, residents are practicing physicians that are providing considerable value to society and in many cases they are paid appallingly little for the amount that they work.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
It's not even that complicated, you just need to prompt it properly and it won't respond with those disclaimers.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
GPT-4 is capable of fairly complex reasoning and it's possible to mitigate the obvious giveaways by prompting it to write in the style of a particular author. Students who pay the $20 a month for it and are aware of its limitations wil
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by wefarrell 3y ago
For the LIGO waves they didn’t need to since the frequencies corresponded to audio frequencies that are audible by human ears.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
They can do that with waves that come from LIGO because they happen to have frequencies that are audible when converted to sound. In this case the wave periods are measured in years rather than milliseconds.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Crazy to think that we’re been observing the cosmos for thousands of years through a single sense and we only recently opened up a second one. What a time to be alive!
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by wefarrell 3y ago
This discovery didn't actually involve LIGO, nor any other feats of impressive physical engineering. It was made by observing neutron stars and finding patterns in their unexpected perturbations. Neutron star rotation is so consistent

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