skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry to hear this and of the incredible suffering your mother and her loved ones have had to go through. I am quite aware that there is a significant number of physicians who are careless, apathetic, rushed, eager to get home after long working hours. Many are incompetent but I would venture to say that a larger number is plenty competent. It’s just gotten to a point in their career where they are “burnt out” for whatever reason and they are aiming for speed. It becomes another consumer transaction and as the patient load increases during the night, the clinician just tries to simplify things as much as possible, taking shortcuts, working under weighty incorrect initial diagnoses. Once you’re seen by that first doctor who makes what should be a tentative diagnosis, that opinion carries a great deal of psychological force. Of course this depends on the docs seniority.

In your mom’s specific case, it is inconceivable to me that any trained physician would see her post-surgical history and subsequent development of an abdominal mass and not think immediately of a hernia and possible strangulation as it grew. A first-year medical student can palpate the abdomen and readily tell there is herniation through the abdominal wall. Is it reducible or not? An abdominal CT scan should be reflexive. It’s even more maddening when more than one physician misses the obvious or at least the way it sounds to me given the information you’ve provided.

Physician burnout is a real alarming phenomenon with emergency room doctors having one of the highest rates. This was already an issue pre-COVID-19. I can’t help but worry about how worse it may get.
Welcome to the ecosystem of lead-generation, and the specialized marketing campaigns which drive business sales. One of my earliest technical jobs was writing the middle-ware systems that handled lead data, and tracked the sales conversion rates of the companies we served. As an aside, it is the worst job I ever had in any of my careers…

In general, you are never dealing with a single company:

1. An advertiser operating on Radio/TV/Web/Email to drive specific consumers to a company sales lead funnel

2. A marketer running a consumer data collection form (Web/1-800-Call-center/SMS/IVR) to sort which campaign is best suited for the potential consumers

3. A marketing data-broker cross-referencing and scrubbing user data to filter bogus/old/duplicate customer leads, and ascertain the time critical nature of which campaigns to deploy new leads into

4. A company sales campaign manager monitoring lead conversion rates between the data-broker and the company sales platform (often another web-form/call-center/IVR/spammer/SMS). In general, most professional firms will drop campaigns under a 17% success rate, but spammers are happy even under 0.056% terrible rates (where old lead data goes after everyone else gave it a hard pass).

5. A sales conversion success rate lead price adjustment by push back from the company campaign to the data-broker (higher % sales per lead pool mean higher prices). The data-broker also cross checks the conversion rate for a given lead pool, and will adjust the quality/price per lead by comparing many company campaigns to keep everyone honest.

While many firms will honor a Do Not Call record flag by law, once a lead is in the ecosystem it can be resold to dozens of firms all over the world. It was also common for call-centers to leech call lists to resell to other data brokers, which would predictably have terrible conversion rates equivalent to spam email.

I should probably mention the data-broker was also a social networking site owner, and this was the primary fiscal motivation behind running the platform. ;-)
Who is DD and what do you mean they crushed them in food? Uber Eats is king in every major city I’ve been in.
I've just been doing some repairs on an old deck and all the hardware is square. I don't think I've ever seen a square screw/bolt before moving to North America...

With most of my deck screws I just can't get them and have to force the board off or try to pull them out like nails. Between dirt, rust, corrision and some s(l)ight inaccuracies between the driver and the screw I can't seem to get a grab without rounding the square. As the article mentions you have to keep pushing the driver in which isn't always easy depending on what sort of access you have. The other problem is there's so many different sizes and there doesn't seem to be a clear way to figure out the right bit given their slight variations and the condition of old screws.

Would be interesting to try and quantify these differences with tests. I still prefer Allen screws, especially if you can get enough depth. The difference between the sizes is pretty clear (if you can tell if it's metric or not...) and they seem to grab pretty solidly. Don't have that much experience with Torx but when working on my BMW motorcycle that had a lot of Torx bolts they seemed to work fairly well, too many different styles/sizes for my liking though so harder to find the correct bit...
Most devices randomize the second half by default, using RFC3041 and its successors.
> It's simply a tool to use alongside UIKit, and it happens to be fun to use too

exactly. the way i look at it is like a super powered version of xml (xib) for describing app uis

there are alot of things you cant do in pure xml/xib and the same is true of swiftui, in those cases you need to use an island of imperative code (uikit or custom class) and things work smoother in those cases
> ^H^H^H^H^H

Alright, can someone finally explain to me what this is? I see it all the time on HN.
This is why I can no longer read the LinkedIn feed.
Interesting. There are indeed small external DAC's that can be plugged into the USB adapter, for example DragonFly Red or Cobalt DAC.

[EDIT: looks like the Apple 3.5 mm headphone dongle has a good DAC, see other comments by hug/JohnJamesRambo below]
GIMP still does. But it was on GTK 2 until fairly recently.
I'm not sure I agree, at least for the subset of people that take part in local government and advocate for or against changes.

The bigger problem is not innumeracy, but ignorance, and also a willingness to prioritize short term personal gain over their stated values. It would be a lot easier if everyone was honest and upfront, but I am not so naive as to believe that many people are arguing their true beliefs in my local political arena. Instead people say whatever has the best chance of effecting their desired outcome.
Slack stands for Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge - I'm not sure why people don't like to use it to look up information, especially disjointed information not formally recorded elsewhere?

It shouldn't replace tools like BookStack, but nuking it every 2 weeks feels like its losing genuine knowledge too
holy spaghetti! that algolia search palette or similar needs to be in every online documentation.
Liquified hydrogen will anyway be the fuel of all future aviation.

Enough will be stored in underground tanks at airports to fuel aircraft for a day. More will be made at need via transmission line and local electrolysis.
If you live in an area with poor rail infrastructure, the solution is to improve it.
1. If you own a condo, you get voting shares in your strata/HOA. The owner collective collectively sets fees, maintenance schedules, etc. The owners act for the interest of themselves, so as an owner, that is usually in your interest. Legislature protects your rights as an owner.

2. If in some hypothetical world, you were unhappy with the fees, and you couldn't sell your condo, you can walk away from it anytime you want, and all you're out is the purchase cost of the condo.

3. You can't do that with the timeshare. You need to find another sucker to take the timeshare off your hands.

4. For what you get out of it, the cost of owning/renting a timeshare versus owning/renting a condo is horribly tilted against the timeshare.

5. Which is why intelligent people will pay a million dollars for a condo, but only idiots buy timeshares.

6. Which why you get screwed if you want to do #2, because of #3.

The reason people buy timeshares is because they are bad at math, bad at finances, and don't understand that they are getting fleeced.

Timeshares don't necessarily have to be shitty scams, it's entirely possible to design one that isn't a waste of money. But in practice, all of them are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H

> This sequence is still used humorously for epanorthosis by computer literates, denoting the deletion of a pretended blunder, much like a strikethrough; in this case, however, the ^H symbol is faked by typing a regular '^' followed by typing a regular 'H'.

And

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

> An epanorthosis is a figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement. "Thousands, no, millions!" is a stock example. Epanorthosis as immediate and emphatic self-correction often follows a Freudian slip (either accidental or deliberate).
Today I wore Mojo Lens
> reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources

Uber and Lyft generate 70 percent more pollution than trips they displace[0]

>reduced wealth creation

Uber and Lyft are pushing drivers into poverty[1]

> lost government revenue

How Uber dodges paying tax in Canada[2]

I don't care about the complexity of the the black box algorithm that Uber implements because I know what purpose it serves. The whole purpose of Uber is to make people entirely dependent on it by driving out alternatives like local cab companies and public transit through low prices subsidizes by Saudi money.

I think it's great that Uber has forced cab companies to modernize and make their services more convenient but we both know what will happen if Uber gets a stranglehold on this market. You'll see jacked up prices for the captive market and declining service.

This is how it always goes.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21152512/uber-lyft-climat...

[1] https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/03/uber-and-lyft-are-pushing...

[2] https://troymedia.com/technology/how-uber-dodges-paying-taxe...
Higher pressure is necessary to keep costs down, smaller pipes and higher pressure is what makes sense for vast majority of liquids and gases.
> I imagine this black box could be a relatively inexpensive ASIC or FPGA that could be a stand-alone widget, baked into hardware network adapters, or just built into routers, middleboxes, etc.

It's not that simple:

- The box has to translate IPv6 address space into IPv4 address space, but it's too big to fit. So the box has to be some kind of stateful reverse NAT, with all the problems that that involves, and the hardware requirements go way up.

- The IPv4-only host might make all sorts of assumptions about IPv4 addresses that are no longer valid. E.g. it might cut off addresses that it detects an attack from - but now as soon as two IPv6 addresess get mapped to the same IPv4 address you're going to block a legitimate user (in fact, since changing IPv6 address is easy, you're probably going to pretty quickly block the whole internet). E.g. it might expect to use an IPv4 geoIP database. E.g. it might be speaking a protocol like FTP where it's supposed to make an outbound connection to the client, so now your middlebox has to not only keep track of TCP streams but also the details of every protocol you want to be able to support.
I used to use Popcorn Time for a while when all I watched my movies on was on my old HTC Sensation XE with a 540p display, 11 years ago.

Now, I've upgraded to a nice 55" OLED, and I can't move away from Blu-ray rips. The sheer size of these rips (~25-70 GB) will burn through my data plan in an hour flat, not to mention that even with a 4G connection, it might be a little hard for a sporadically-seeded torrent to keep up with the bit-rate required for the film to play without buffering.

Even so, great effort bringing it back again; I had great fun with it when I did use it.
I don’t find it surprising. It’s a solved problem. Every phone has a music player built-in, you can even choose which one to use from hundreds of options. Offline, streaming, self-hosted cloud, the options are nearly infinite.

Even if you don’t love the lack of headphone jack in the typical phone [1], the solution is an adapter that costs less than $10. What open hardware project can compete with that?

[1] Non-audiophiles are perfectly happy with AAC/AptX codecs over Bluetooth, the bottleneck is still the quality of your headphones, IMO, and the convenience of never tangling a cable greatly outweighs missing out on the audiophile ghost whispering that they supposedly hear
I just took a glance at Google News and I see multiple articles with headlines like "The last city in Luhansk has fallen to Russia. What does that mean for Ukraine?", "With latest capture, Russia edges closer to complete control over Ukraine's Donbas", "Ukrainian forces withdraw from Lysychansk, their last holdout in key region".

What exactly are you complaining about? Be honest, how closely have you been paying attention to this issue and how various sources cover it? It seems that so many people are only capable of ingesting the very first headline, declaring their knowledge complete, and then ignoring any further information. How is this the fault of the media?
React should act like a framework/library, not become a transpiler and create javascript 2.0. It's hugely confusing, and harder to reason. I shouldn't have to learn about internals of the library to figure out what's wrong with my code. it's a smell of bad library, this wasn't the problem when simple class functions were used as lifecycle methods.
They may be efficient given the layout of the airport (which can't be changed), but if you are to design a new airport, you cannot beat the efficiency of jetways. Hundreds of people just walking down the hallway.
I actually agree completely with this part of the post, and even came here to quote that part.

I've gone completely off Uber since about a year ago due to their ridiculous price increases (per item fee + delivery fee + service fee), and I order direct from my half dozen favourite local places now, who absolutely do deliver personally and directly and usually for free if it's over a certain order size. They usually rock up on an e-bike or e-scooter just with my order. It's faster, way cheaper, and always fresher.

I'm not sure if it's just certain parts of Australia that I and the OP have in common, or what the reason is for the different experiences, but our happiness with the experience of ordering food has gone higher than it's been in many years. I won't miss Uber at all.
Even if they weren't too lazy to, an IP doesn't and can't identify a person or even household. Must be my neighbors downloading movies on my open wifi network, I can't figure out these high tech router thingymajigs ;).
No mention of the formation of our moon. I suspect that much of the continental crust ended up in the moon, with not enough left to cover the earth - thus producing the basalt ocean basins.
Hydrogen will be one storage medium among many. It is not the cheapest, but has certain practical advantages that overcome that, in places.
I am very pro-duolingo as a product.

However, I am not sure if there's a use case for it that Anki doesn't achieve with notably less adverts. Am I just not the target audience?
My relatively uninformed opinion is that the Library of Alexandria was an amazing resource for its time, but in modern context is tremendously overrated. While it certainly contained a vast amount of knowledge for the time, the amount of valuable, useful, accessible information of a modern mid-size city library I would guess is substantially greater.
https://npmtrends.com/parcel-vs-vite
Except that would be changing the title, which is verboten.
You're a control freak. But you can't control love. I'd suggest you let go. Perhaps the Universe is telling you that should help people, instead of trying to subdue them. Open your heart and let people in.
macOS: App sandboxing via sandbox-exec (2020)
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. Something about this book speaks to me. It's a wonderful examination of how the human condition never changes in a world of magic, wonders and terrors beyond imagination.
> I’m sure you’re here to rub your reflex hammer in our ignorant little pig faces.

I do realize there are a lot of crappy doctors out there, but about the person putting a reflex hammer in your face -- are you sure that was an actual doctor?

To your other point, while I often realize the futility of responding to the direct commenter, this is a public forum so maybe others can get some information or entertainment, whatever might be.
Kudos to you, but I would probably be wary of admitting to participate in the illegal book piracy scene unless your pseudonymity is really tight. Thanks a lot for helping out, though.
Those Sony earbuds are absolutely fantastic. Excellent audio quality for the price, solid build quality and cables that seem to last longer than most.
Here in LA in some areas, little trucks drive around on sidewalks delivering food driving remotely by an assumably low-paid driver.
Is it possible to show document and code side by side? really need it!
Batteries alao have the additional burden of recycling and pollution issues of their own. Not to mention replacement every 10 to 15 years.

When it comes to Hydrogen, its basically industrial compressors, tanks, piping, etc.
In France it's an offence to not configure securely your network if there's some illegal stuff happening on it. You are held responsible for any downloads on your own network.
Medium sucks balls. I know someone who was making $2-$5 per month and writing some high quality content, who got kicked out of the partner program for not having 100 followers (as she was more interested in the content then getting followers, but still she got a very healthy following online - just they didn’t click the “follower” button), now she’s getting zero and hasn’t blogged in ages as a result
https://scribe.rip/cryptofireside.com/goodbye-medium-hello-g...
There're special instructions to reduce Gitlab Hardware requirements for small appliances [1].

[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/memory_constrained_...
Have always thought this would be a great way for many people to share well organized Plex libraries. Many semi-overlapping libraries basically creating a virtual Netflix, with some way to stream in Plex from the whole library no matter if you actually have the content locally or not
Wealth is always relative to those who have less.

Often wealth provides the strength to insure there will be a constant stream of those who have less.
Like most Internet enthusiast, I signed up for Medium when it started and have somehow gotten over 4,500 followers. I have no clue why as I write mostly about our family stories, and some technology stories targeted at non-technical parents, etc. etc.

Since then, I had moved to my own domain as I realized most people are asked/forced to signup and sometimes have to "pay to read". I do make sure I do not tick that monetize button/checkbox or have never agreed to be a paid editor. I even changed my username and I continue to pay for Medium to support other editors (and of course, read their stories).

I like Ghost but aren't they doing lot of things and blogging is not the main/default thing anymore? On that note, if you want to quickly try out Ghost, I have been happy with pikapods.com (I have no relationship with them). I start with them, if things go north, perhaps figure out dedicated resources.
As the cost of top-line energy production falls, so does worry over inefficiencies.
Sounds like a great idea to force someone who doesn't want to take you somewhere to take you somewhere. I'm not letting someone make me an asshole. I'd rather use the app.
In most cases if you dig a little they’re already illegal.
Do you know the root cause? I have exactly the same problem for last two years, and I took Iron supplements for 6 months, still same situation.
I do have a autoimmune disease, just wondering if it can cause things like this.
If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.
> Patreon has done a good job in this space.

Not really, they shut people down too, unfairly and without recourse. They shut down Sargon of Akkad for using bad words while arguing against racism, for example.

And don’t forget - Visa and Mastercard have started to go after content they don’t like (mostly porn and hate speech - but you never know where they’ll draw the line a year or two from now.)
Not all batteries are exactly like the ones in cars.
Blowing up right to collective defense is an amazing way to make consumers powerless. The cost of small groups having to fend for themselves is absurd. This is remarkably bold.
That’s the thing that naïve expected value arguments miss - sometimes even though in the long run you’re better off not buying lotto tickets or insurance, we don’t live in the long run and often it’s worth sacrificing a bit of expected value to hedge against a potentially devastating loss, or create the tiny possibility of a life-altering windfall.
On the other hand, may be it should not be things like obsession at all?

Many important things in life like fitness, diet etc are very repetitive and hence boring to some extent. There are times when you just to have to get through the grind even if you are not interested or you are aligned with it. The point being don't just depend on the initial euphoria of things to do a thing that's good. If something is good on the longer, at some point it does get a little boring, and that's ok, just keep doing it.

There are things that I stopped doing because I was bored and a few months later I had like a moment of epiphany- It wouldn't have hurt me if I had stuck to this, quitting has cost me more.

May be one should think beyond doing things for immediate emotional relief.
What you've found in your research is the common story, but there is not a lot of evidence to back it up, AFAIK. Like if you actually go read the references, there isn't a lot of history from the early 1900's that agrees with the narrative.

Also, slotted screws (that they were using) actually cam out before phillips (and aren't self-centering).

It's more likely the self-centering part was more useful to the automated screwdrivers back then.
Sure, but that's money that is being taken out of my community and I would prefer that it stay here.

Why do I need to involve a middle man from another country to facilitate a trip across town?
It's pretty simple really. Consider two scenarios of buying a $100 item:

a) pay with a 2% reward credit card

b) pay with BNPL scheme with a 3 month term.

In the scenario a) you effectively paid $98 right away and in the scenario b) you pay $100 but after 90 days (let's say you don't have monthly payments for simplicity). For b) to be no more expensive than a) you need a way to make at least $2 from a $100 investment in 90 days. This means that whatever investment you make with the $100 has to yield 8% annually. Even though you withdraw money after 90 days.

If you have monthly payments you need even higher yield to compete with the 2% reward. E.g. if you pay $33.33 every month then you need to make 1% yield per month to collect $2 off your initial $100 in 3 months: you get 3 months of yield from the final $33.33 payment, 2 months of the previous payment and 1 month of the first payment for total 6 months yield from $33.33. That's 12% annualized yield.
is this still relevant? the article is 2 years old, was the flaw addressed?
They certainly aren't as common as they used to be, but I still see them. I think maybe Royal Life Saving Society still do it? Gold Coast apartments are typical properties now. I'll never enter though - not since they sold my details and I got spam calls for years.