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>>If urgent care can reduce unnecessary strain on their thin ranks, so much the better.

You are not completely wrong, but it is not that simple - the problem most PCPs have is that 'doc in a box' places tend to soak up all the quick and easy visits, that pay just as much as the long and complicated ones that can takes hours for a typical PCP to resolve - but they often pay the same - so urgent care clinics see you, look at your throat, write you a prescription and send you on the way - "treat'em and street'em"

Meanwhile the 82 year old 400lb diabetic, pre-dementia patient on 12 different medicines with 7 different things they want to talk about during the visit, takes a doctor and team of nurses and medical assistants a hugely disproportionate amount of time to diagnose and treat - and they can't bill all that much more than the doc-in-the-box got for writing a script for a sore throat.

In other words, these places are skimming all the profitable and easy to resolve cases, and the PCP now only has complicated patients that proportionally pay less, further eroding the finances of most primary care facilities, which then means they can't pay as much, so then they have an even harder time attracting talent.

It is also difficult to ask a PCP to see 16-20 complicated cases in a typical day - they need a few easy ones thrown in that they can quickly resolve and move on. Nobody can go 100% all day long on hard problems.
> Why would you read a book that you don't really expect to learn anything new from?

Entertainment! A sufficiently wrongheaded idea advanced at length and with a measure of braggadocio can be funny as anything. Startup-culture biens-pensants are often good for this, I find.

That said, in the general case you're not wrong, and it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Goodhart's law that the gamification of reading produces perverse outcomes.
There are lots of things Python could've done better that would make it easier to work with...., But the Chief AI Scientist here cares about white space instead...

Seriously: Virtualenvs and multiple versions of python are a mess (even with pyenv), packaging and package installation is a mess (why was there ever a need for running setup.py script to figure out dependencies?), dependency management is a mess (pip-tools? poetry? pipenv? why 3 imperfect tools instead of a single perfect one?), deployment is a mess (virtualenvs aren't easily transferrable between machines, docker makes it a bit more palatable)...
I'm one of those people who is obsessed with viewing or listening to content more quickly. I've managed to push to 2.8x on video and 3-3.5x on audio depending on content.
I've seen similar impact going from Python to Golang, with less runtime errors/bugs to boot...
Art takes time to create, and the more time it takes to create the more art it is of course. Makes sense.
If you've got an old HP Touchpad or Palm Pre handy, you can still get the original -- free of telemetry and micro-transactions: https://appcatalog.webosarchive.org/app/AngryBirds
That's just institutionalized racism, but literally.
Why Sat Is the Hardest NP-Problem
I think that the way you get to the content is also important. If you are looking at a copy (good enough so you can't tell the difference) of painting by Rembrandt, you should be informed that it is a copy.

Same with words. Provenance for text will be a thing.
That's not true? For example, I think the first TSMC 4nm chip was by Mediatek, not Apple.
What we need to do is package LGTM as an OpenAI-based automated service...
I was relying on backup codes until I recently learned (via a PSA on HN) that you should actually backup the TOTP QR codes and not rely on the 2fa backup codes because they may not provide the same level of access.

Specifically, the HN post claim was that using a backup 2FA code to get into your Google account won’t allow you to add a new authenticator app.
People read for different reasons. Some people hope to "take notes and think deeply" about a topic. Some people read for fun. Others hope to gain a broad overview of a subject but aren't hoping to remember everything they read. What's wrong with listening to an audio-book on high speed if you are reading for one of the latter two reasons?
Geez, if this is your biggest problem you life, you are indeed leading a very privileged life.

Count your blessings
> The worst part of these methodologies is that there's no evidence that they work.

I think it's worse than that. The management that promotes these bastardized "Agile" methodologies are often hostile to any empirical data that raises questions. It's not for a lack of evidence, it's that the methodology is elevated to untouchable status and any evidence to the contrary is explicitly suppressed and ignored.

Take the example of "story points". If all planning is based on story points, and all sprints are based on executing those stories, surely each sprint retrospective would look at how well the original points aligned with objective reality - use the empirical data and compare it to the estimated story points in order to refine the theory. This is the basic scientific method! Yet I've found that teams systematically avoid any such analysis. In the worst cases, I've seen teams explicitly forbidden from discussion story points in the retrospective ("How dare you attack the methodology with empirical data!").
> This is why America was intended to be a melting pot:

That's really a concept that manifested much later in American history. By no means was it intended to be a "melting pot" from the very start, or even the first 1/3 of its existence.
Wrote about this originally in my newsletter but didn't think a link post was appropriate so I posted the text. ancientbeat.substack.com if you're interested.
You can still work out the total weight and the location of the center of mass (in 2D) from the strain on the three landing gear struts. It's a linear system of 3 equations and 3 unknowns.

As another commenter has pointed out, there may be an issue with wind, as the whole point of the airplane is that it efficiently converts a relative air velocity into an apparent change in weight.
But it isn’t about the plagiarism. It’s confirmation that the institution only cares about empty platitudes while not really doing anything else to help their students. And if they’re not helpful, why does their job exist?
Intel can't figure out how to make the next generation of chips. They used to be able to innovate on a steady regular basis, but they're still trying to get 7nm right and they've been working on that for many years while TSMC is on to 3nm. Makes you wonder what happened to that company that they got so far behind.
They may still keep both. The bug spenders will not play the original one - it becomes challenging at some point and does not have gems.
Yes, as computers don't really get faster anymore, and I travel all the time (right now writing this from a hotel restaurant), the biggest change I notice is in battery time, which depends on energy efficiency improvements that usually come with process node change. I'm not being sarcastic.
Status page that there are no issues: https://www.redditstatus.com/
Start with the official Rust Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/)

Then move onto Zero 2 Production In Rust (https://www.zero2prod.com)
This is a farce in its own right.

I was referred to a “dermatologist” recently that turned out to be a PA with a background in nutrition. She had virtually no experience with actual dermatology. I was forced to wait over an hour after my appointment was set to begin, and my insurance was billed $500 for a 15-minute visit. She did not improve my situation one iota, so that was a complete waste of time and money.

Our health system is failing spectacularly at every level.
Yes, BUT number 1, it is fast.

I use Firefox + vertical tabs reloaded as TST was too slow for me and adding tabs is much slower when you have lots open.

Edge vertical tabs implementation flies in comparison.
TLDR: Author has an airtag on their dog
> One of my key takeaways is the iPod represented not one but multiple simultaneous tech revolutions. Consumer storage until then unseen

I disagree entirely, for reasons that should be obvious once we examine the actual state of the market at the time. Storage was not the thing that made iPod successful.

The microdrive had existed for several years by then[0][1], developed originally for digital cameras. Like most storage technologies, it was growing in capacity as time went on. I don't think "technology gets marginally better with time" counts as a "tech revolution", nor do I think the microdrive counted as a consumer storage technology that was previously unseen by the time the iPod launched. A physically larger 1.8-inch microdrive (with consequently greater capacity) also does not count as a revolution... it's like making a bigger montor and being surprised that you have more screen real estate.

I also find the anecdote you replied to confusing because surely Apple would have known what a microdrive was before this meeting. That part of the anecdote makes no sense. IBM had their own 1GB microdrive by June of 2000, so even if Apple had exclusive rights to Toshiba's larger 1.8-inch microdrives, that seems entirely irrelevant, contrary to the "key takeaway" that the anecdote posited.

Maybe Apple would have slightly higher storage capacities, but... we're talking about a relatively marginal difference compared to the gulf in storage capacity between these microdrive MP3 players and the flash based MP3 players of the time. An advantage, but not a revolution.

As it turns out, Apple didn't even have a storage capacity advantage[2], in direct contradiction to the anecdote posted upthread.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAsBiplfM9A

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897209
Do you mean the cards themselves are programmable and get rendered on the canvas?

What first came to my mind was Obsidian Canvas which was recently discussed on here[1]. It is a feature of the note taking tool Obsidian where you can write code blocks (contained within notes or sections of notes) and drag them around on a canvas.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066824
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I wish this comment could be printed on billboards all around Silicon Valley and just put up everywhere, just to get all those folks thinking about what they're doing with their lives.
I think the GP's point was that "fluid ounce" is a measure of volume, not mass or weight. If you're measuring a liquid whose density is different from water, a fluid ounce won't weigh anywhere near an ounce.

"degrees" is an interesting one, as it's really just another word for "amounts" or "units" or "subdivisions". 100 degrees centigrade is 100 amounts of centigrade. Or actually Celsius, as "centigrade" means "100 subivisions". The name of the unit is just "Celsius".

Really, degrees of arc should probably have been given a "proper" name too, but it's too late for that. Or you could switch to radians ;-p

Language is fuzzy. People know what you mean when you say "degrees centigrade" or "fluid ounces", so it's fulfilled its purpose. But that doesn't mean that some "proper" terms for measurements aren't weirder than others. "Celsius" is straightforward and unambiguous. "fluid ounces" is kinda weird. And yes, "degrees (of arc)" is a poor choice of unit name, worse than "fluid ounces". That still doesn't make "fluid ounces" good though.
Intel's future hinges on graphics and accelerators.

They arent going to undercut or outperform ARM... but they can make x86 essential by bundling it with graphics and accelerators you can't really get in the ARM ecosystem, just like AMD.
Movies probably not. But I wonder what would happen if a band like the Beatles ever showed up again. Would they suck the air out of the room? Would they get trapped on a five year tour after two albums? Would they get ignored?
Was there something else just like this on the homepage yesterday, or did I see it elsewhere? I recall seeing some kind of AI tool that did auto testing to see what UI aspects of a website broke, if any, after new code is pushed
Strict yes, but a company with the lobbying budget of Amazon can easily get around those laws.

The USA has demonstrated time and time again a pattern of fining corporations a minuscule amount in comparison to the damage done.

Besides, even before it comes to fines and it's in discussion in Congressional chambers, Amazon lobbyists can say to practically any senator or congressman/congresswoman: "you want to go against us for antitrust reaons? Oh well, guess we're going to have to close that Amazon warehouse in your district that creates so many jobs...and oh yeah looks like that Whole Foods in your district isn't profitable, we're going to have to close that one up too."
Infants Outperform AI in “Commonsense Psychology”
Yes, because the parent comment's point was they are an argument _against_ not _for_ de-extinction
I wonder what the prompt was.

"You're a PR administrator of an American college. Write 5 paragraphs with platitudes on the importance of inclusion and diversity in response to a recent shooting on campus."
It's the same, e.g. the git bisect command is just a binary search API for a commit history.
This reads like a typical hatchet job with the usual fallacy of extrapolating from "didn't immediately succeed" to "is impossible".
> And this is why you can’t move your own table or plug in a power strip at tradeshows. The unions have a detailed contract about who does what when

I think that's probably over simplification, tradeshows have things like planning for fires, keeping escape routes clear, making sure power supply isn't over taxed. Maybe you can blame the unions for protecting their members because someone had to say they set up everything in compliance, and if you come along and change something, and disaster happens, prob the guy who set things up will get blamed.
I meant zebras
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Here's a question I'm not even remotely qualified to ask: could it be that supermassive black holes cause a contraction of local spacetime in a way that gives the impression that local space is static while distant space expands?

I think this mechanism would be largely indistinguishable from classic hubble expansion, at least on local scales.
Every entrepreneur was a wantrepreneur once.
The hierarchy of castes (and the untouchables) is intrinsic to the caste system, I am not the one making a value judgment. It's like saying "upper class" vs. "middle class" vs. "working class", which are within the reference frame of the class system.
Probably one of the coolest uses of Haskell in verification is as the high level model implementation of sel4, where a theorem prover embedding is used to prove that the c impl of sel4 microkernel operating system is basically just a more detailed refinement of the Haskell description!
Yeah that's definitely the funniest part to me.

Honestly would have expected Google to buy it before Amazon, halfway just for that reason.
Wow after 22 years! That's incredible. Thanks for sharing.

I know that metal fatigue is the primary limiter of aircraft lifespan. How many years does an aircraft typically live for today?
Dark energy is just the cosmological constant. It fits into general relativity with no problem at all.
Yup, because that works out really well in India...
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"chatgpt helps me sound more empathatic in my correspondance"

The only reason this is a story is a handful of overly sensitive and loud people saw the disclaimer. Do people get upset when someone uses grammer and spelling checks in Word? Of course not, that's silly. This is the same thing. Total nothingburger. Next time just don't include the disclaimer, and nobody will know the difference.
You're missing the point.

Instead of a law to stop "lower" and "upper" caste from discriminating against each other (like that comment was saying), the entire concept of caste needs to be purged.

That won't happen if you continue to use those very terms and then say it's (describing) reality. The sooner people stop dealing with it, the sooner it stops being a (real) thing.
Easier is relative :) You have better maneuverability in a way, but it's harder too because you're looking the wrong way, and the steering wheel turns opposite way to that which you are used to. I always have to think to myself "left hand down means the back goes over there...", it's not as instinctive as driving forwards.
My future perfect podcast player would

- transcribe

- automunge that transcription

- remove "ah", "um" etc

- remove repeated phrases [0]

- optionally summarize [1]

- stitch the surviving segments back into continuous audio

- match words-per-minute between the speakers [2]

- do all the "smartspeed" stuff that Fastbook and Overcast.app do

[0] Notable example: Scott Galloway of The Pivot adopted the affection of repeating phrases for emphasis. Drives me batty.

[1] No shade, because I understand it's a chat and not scripted, but Accidental Tech Podcast could benefit from summarization. I love that they're talking stuff out. But sometimes I just want the conclusions.

[2] Like when Lex Fridman interviews someone who talks faster than him.
That only works if you're signed into Google, whereas the popups will also occur if you're not signed into Google.
Yeah that's exactly what's happening - TSMC predicts they can make N chips per Y period, and apple has said they'd like 100% of Y period to be dedicated to making chips for Apple.
Where did you get those numbers?
According to [1] its not even the same ballpark. To me it seems that even normal m1 is a bit better [2].

[1] - https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-pro-vs-amd-ry...

[2] - https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-vs-amd-ryzen-...
I didn't say anything remotely close to that. Not sure what you're referring to.
You likely won't be thinking creativity if you have mental limitations due to medical state. Heat injuries, dehydration, etc can cause mental impairment. My guess is that's why they are focusing so much on him creating his own emergency and focusing on inconsequential things like lack of first aid kits or flashlights - so they rule out a temporary insanity plea.
Outside of the huge ramifications of the Microsoft acquisition, I think that it'll set the new standard for when antitrust gets used.

Essentially if this deal goes through it'll most likely neuter antitrust cases for years to come.

Same thing with the Adobe figma deal.
Well that is what dogs do.
On Django any of Adam Johnson or Will Vincent books are great

https://adamj.eu/books/

https://wsvincent.com/books/
Equality labs survey is anything but scientific. The participants were not carefully sampled. They say it was "community organized", which basically means it was a link that was propagated by activists to like-minded people to participate and pass the link on to. They don't explain their methodology in their report. See a rebuttal here [1]

Caste discrimination does exist, but not to the extent the report projects.

[1] https://medium.com/@rachelgotham5/equality-labs-caste-report...
I personally don’t mind any amount of criticism and scrutiny if it means an end to the evil scourge that is casteism.

However what I do mind is when this criticism is mixed with religion and culture bashing (in this case Hinduism) by ill-informed people who read hot takes on the news.

Case in hand, the Seattle ordinance. The councilwoman proposing the ordinance went to great lengths to assure people that it doesn’t target a single religion and yet here’s a BBC article[0] that manages to convey an extraordinary amount of misinformation in one line on the third paragraph. This is exactly what people were concerned about and exactly what is playing out.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64727735

Edit: Text from the article “ The caste system in India dates back over 3,000 years and divides Hindu society into rigid hierarchical groups.” There are many flaws with this statement but Hacker News is probably not the best place for history lessons.
On the other hand, I repeatedly recommend that ordinary users do not install software from third party apt repositories unless they really really have to.

Fundamentally they're a hack, don't work right, and often result in latent packaging problems that cause future release upgrades to explode. People then unfortunately attribute those failures to the distribution rather than the broken hacks they themselves installed from third parties.

It is fundamentally impossible for a third party deb to correctly declare the necessary metadata to avoid breakages on a future upgrade. In distribution packaging this kind of thing is dealt with in metadata provided by the distribution packages being upgraded to, but third party debs don't have that luxury, even when using a third party apt repository. For example, a "Breaks" metadata declaration can only declared from one direction, so if a newer distribution package Breaks a third party package, then it cannot be declared on the third party side so ends up just not getting declared, resulting in breakage.

So apt/deb only really works in the curated distribution model where all your software comes from the distribution.

This doesn't work when users want software newer than their distribution release, or want to install proprietary software that cannot be curated by a Free Software distribution.

Further, third party debs have root on your system, which is terrible for modern security. Installing software from third party sources which aren't sandboxed should really be unacceptable from a security perspective nowadays. For example: do you really want some game to have access to your online banking session? How secure is that game's development infrastructure that will stop a bad update from resulting in you losing money?

On the other hand Snaps and Flatpaks actually provide app sandboxing.

That's the use case for these packaging formats. If you don't need them yourself, then that's fine. But it's disingenuous to declare that there's no need for them.
Controller users benefit from lower cool down, more action sequence. In a basic controller set-up, you have access to 32 hotkeys, in addition to directional and camera movement (L/R analog). With some additional setup, you can get up to 64 hotkeys easily without too many compromises.

How many keyboard users can access that many from one hand?
This isn't a Netflix sci-fi. A single startup is not going to diametrically reverse climate change by planting some GMO trees.
> The US has some (IMO) pretty strict laws about protecting PHI. One Medical isn't going to keep your data in an open public S3 bucket, and random Amazon employees aren't going to be snooping around your medical records on their intranet.

HIPAA provides far fewer protections than you probably think it does, and flagrant violations are frighteningly common.

Worse, HIPAA provides no private right to recourse, so even if your PHI is exposed, you're not entitled to a penny in compensation.

HHS may fine Amazon, but to Amazon, $1.5 million (the maximum cap for all violations of a provision due to negligence) might as well be the cost of doing business. And you won't receive one cent of that.
There is definitely an element of conditioning here. People have grown accustomed to frenetic action and the studios like it because it’s easier than hiring good writers – especially since they’re hoping for global sales and humor, subtly, and nuance are hard to translate – but that’s a learned preference based on what dominates the market. If different things came back on the market people would get used to them, too.
This seems to be happening with many works of fiction.
They can't compete so they remake or redo things with modern audiences sensibilities. These usually fail because people liked those works of fiction for their historical sensibilities.

Even Roald Dahl is having his works censored and rewritten.

I believe its due to reaching "Peak Content".