The US “loses” $1T every ~150 days on delivering basic government services, and every US citizen is on the hook for that, not just investors.

> The bottleneck in fixing bugs like these is the human capacity to triage, report, and design and deploy patches for them. Finding them in the first place has become vastly more straightforward with Mythos Preview.

This has always been the bottleneck. Automated tools love to flag vulnerabilities, but almost all are false positives. These need to be triaged and evaluated by humans. This is okay. I’d rather close a false positive after a careful review than miss it altogether.

I don’t think it’s appropriate for calling out humans as a bottleneck. They are an essential part of the process, I’m sure Mythos will also become a catalyst in the process.

It is definitely not the case that human remediation was the bottleneck for most vulnerability eradication 10 years ago. Proving out vulnerabilities was much harder than resolving them.

> Name, city, state, ZIP, email, phone

Does this work for anyone outside the US as well? e.g. Will it work for an Australian?

You know there are 34 countries in America other than the United States.

You are welcome to remind people of this, but don’t expect that you’ll change anyone’s habits on an English-speaking USA-based forum.

There’s nothing to be reminded of. English has a word to describe North and South America together (“the Americas”). Other languages have different words for the same concept.

It’s like reminding someone they shouldn’t say “bicycle” but should instead say “fahrrad”.

The USAians are largely seemingly already convinced the name of their country starts with an A, those that live elsewhere generally have better geography chops, so you're correct - it's unlikely any minds will change.

We have a similar thing on this side of the Atlantic where people argue about whether it is acceptable to refer to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as "Britain". I feel it is, as an abbreviation, and it is my preferred abbreviation, along with "GB", because I like to look forward to the time when we won't have a monarchy any more and I therefore don't like the abbreviation "UK", and also, despite not having any strong Irish connections, I tend to feel that Ireland ought to be reunited. This may seem like the opposite of my opinion on the US/America question, where I prefer "US", and I suppose it is, but I have my reasons!

Are there any countries named after continents though? Aside from Australia?

I was taught that the continent is Oceania, not Australia

In English that would be "the Americas".

I am quite surprised no one is bothered by the fact that the name is that of a colonialist and slave trader (he personally took part is slave raiding).

Apart from The Economist, I don't know anyone who says "the Americas".

If you asked a random person what Columbus discovered, what would they answer? Round here I think most people would say that Columbus discovered America. By landing in San Salvador and then Cuba.

By the way, I don't strongly object to people using "America" as an abbreviation for "The United States of America" in contexts in which it is obvious that a country is being referred to, and "American" is even less objectionable in an appropriate context. At the same time, "American" obviously doesn't mean "of or pertaining to the USA" if someone is talking about "American species of conifer" or "American dialects of Spanish" or "American tortilla recipes".

> If you asked a random person what Columbus discovered, what would they answer? Round here I think most people would say that Columbus discovered America. By landing in San Salvador and then Cuba.

Do they actually know where he landed? I think that other than your Columbus example it would be very rare for people to say "America" to mean either or both continents.

Most people I know would say America for the US, North America, South America, or the Americas as appropriate. when referring to the continents.

Other than The Economist's usage, "The Americas" is used by other publications and books, its the name of a TV series, its the title of most wikipedia articles relating to the two continents.

It appears to be "open to uncertainties" but is the commoner usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#cite_note-oxfordc-3

Of course - most HN users live in the United States’ northern neighbor (which just so happens to also be called the United States).

Security issues aside, they are a nightmare in enterprise environments where internet and OS access is heavily restricted.

They should probably go back to the original invite only flow they used when Gmail launched.

Every account having the ability to invite an only small finite number of new accounts is one way to thwart scammers.

That's certainly an interesting idea - mostly everybody should know someone who has a gmail account, so if you get a couple invites a month, that should be plenty and the setup would

Well I was about to say destroy scammers, but I just realized that they would send out spam to places where you could gamble your invites for Real Cash(TM) or just straight up buy them.

This would lower the creation of accounts, but then they would be rarer and worth more to spammers, since a spamming gmail would be rare.

And we would hear sob stories of people getting their accounts closed for inviting spammers.

Not without some kind of delay function and probably filtering/evaluation of which new accounts get this capability...

Everyone here should be familiar with exponential growth of n-ary trees. If you can get one of these accounts and each new invitee gets to invite 2 more, you can already have accounts gone wild.

If it's a tree, it's easier to prune an entire branch that's gone bad.

So, the scammer should send an invite to a real person from one percent of the accounts in the tree, wait a few months, then flip the evil bit on 90-95% of the accounts they registered. If the whole tree is cut off the reputational damage is really high (10,000 valid users nuked because of actions other accounts took...)

Yep, it's a never-ending escalation.

It was not finite, or uniform. I refilled the invites every week or so based on user behavior.

Not really, even "legit" marketing providers have massive automation rigs to warm email addresses, make them behave naturally and email each other in rings for a bit before using them for cold outreach.

So they'd just do this to farm invites if they needed

I have a lot of fond memories of Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0.

I remember saving up for it at high school with my student discount. From memory it was about $120.

Same. My first paid programming job while I was in college was for writing VB 5 software for local businesses. The GUI builder was the obvious star, but you could also write sophisticated programs.

IIRC VB for DOS came out after the Windows version...

I remember the form designer was a standout feature. Microsoft added a complete UI framework into VB for DOS based on the standard ASCII character set.

VB for DOS really needed a version 2.0, but it never got it.

I agree. I think the issue with LLM’s are not with the correct diagnoses’s but rather the incorrect ones.

Real doctors tend to have a degree of cautiousness. I would rather a real doctor be hesitate and seek more information, than an alarmist LLM suggesting I have cancer.

Yeah apparently my comment wasn't clear enough. If you can get the opinion of a doctor then good for you. I'm saying an LLM is the best some of us can get.

Oh right. Almost everyone in the world has free and easy access to actual doctors.

For that one country that doesn’t maybe universal healthcare can be an Anthropic model.

I live in a country with "free and universal" healthcare (Brazil). And guess what? I also pay for private healthcare and both sucks. Even the local private doctors (outside of healthcare) aren't that great and they are expensive. Maybe your local reality is different but for us that live the other side of the coin AI is a net positive.

This definitely wasn’t on my bingo card.

160 flights isn’t really that many, I suspect they are all on commercially marginal routes to begin with.

In my region, quite a few airlines have cut routes citing the fuel crisis. Including Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Air New Zealand. But again, we aren’t seeing widespread cancellations yet.

And they're letting go of employees citing AI. And increasing management perks citing something-or-other, perhaps cosmic rays. The sun rises, the sun sets, the Sun crashes, it is the way of things.