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My dad used to say he had three piles of papers on his desk: "urgent", "very urgent" and "no longer urgent".

While it's mostly not quite as bad here in Norway, it's getting there.

Lots of GP's here are quitting because they've been overloaded by paperwork. Government wants more documentation on everything. Can't just trust "some random doctor" who's known the patient for decades to sign a few days of sick leave, nope, we need paper trail!

My SO's GP almost started crying during one of her checkups since he was so overworked. He'd have a normal day seeing people during normal working hours, then there would be at least 5-6 hours of paperwork to do. He quit half a year later.

The newly trained doctors have caught on and don't apply for open GP positions. The result is that we have a massive deficit of GPs which keeps getting worse day by day.
Around 1990, IETF had a big fight over where to go from "not enough bits" IPv4. Should we IPvNext with an incremental "mostly just add more bits"? Or attempt a "second-system syndrome" "let's punt this time on rough consensus and working code" kitchen-sink monstrosity of a... err, IPv6. Followed by years and years of "ok, IPv6 was arguably the wrong call, but here we are now, things are turning around, and it will replace IPv4 RSN".

I don't recall what Vint Cerf's position was. But attributing the last few decades of IP dysfunction to 1970's choices seems... incomplete.
> They recommended I use "modern infrastructure" which means Docker.

It looks to me they recommended to never consider Datadog for anything whatsoever, ever again.
<mean message edited out - despite me really wanting to be mean to someone who's been programming for longer than I've been alive but seems to lack reading comprehension>

You don't have to understand APL to know what it's attempting. From the article it clearly is meant to return [0,5,9,11,16], your rust returns [4, 8, 10, 15] (at least the second one, the first one doesn't even compile!).
Main causes of physician shortage: (1) the AMA limits the number of doctors produced and (2) residency slots are limited by funding from CMS.
Well yes -- it's not words, it's tokens, which are smaller than words.
General practitioners (who you need for primary care doctors) are unfortunately in extreme undersupply in the US.

This is a combination of things:

1) Being a specialist is much more lucrative

2) The AMA has been resisting calls to increase the pipeline of doctors

3) The absolutely shitty treatment of medical interns.

4) Many of them left due to Covid (the primary care physician is on the front line dealing with the Covidiots)
Palantir's surprising Q1 2023 Earnings Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmcl1MCQCI is an interesting talk on Burnham and explains how Orwell designed 1984 to reflect Burnham's insights, even though he didn't like them at all.
> I'm wondering if this is worth it to use for very simple CLI scenarios that can be addressed by more lightweight libraries like Cobra. Maybe so your client-side business logic can stay more unified?

I'd say yes. Performance will be "good enough". Disk space use or whatever other nonsense HN people love to fret about will be "good enough". And the gains from reusing the same stack everywhere are worth it. I used to think writing little helper scripts in a JVM language (Scala) was an unacceptable overhead, then I realised how low the practical cost was.
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To give you some context, my home country is Brazil. Last time I used my private health insurance was in July 2021 and the wait time to see a top specialist was one week. However, I have been there again (without health insurance) and was able to get a same week appointment at the end of March this year, which cost $200.
> I imagine this sort of thing happened all the time.

Ah well that settles it then, nothing to see here, anybody who thinks or talks any further about it must be a crazy conspiracy cook.
I'm far from an incel (thank you height and sales skills), but I've been around the 'manosphere' online even since early "Ladder Theory" and before pickup artists learned how to internet market.

Reality is some guys are not genetically blessed PLUS they have been lied to when it comes to what women really want. If you take an average real incel, and give him advice from his mother+sister+female friends, and advice from Andrew Tate, I promise you he will get further with Andrew Tates advice.

His mom's advice MIGHT get him a girlfriend that uses him for money, and divorced later in life.. andrew Tate will atleast tell him to get actually attractive through working out and performance at work/business.
The medical office building attached to my small town hospital has a lab and x-ray suite. Sometimes you have to walk over to the x-ray suite in the hospital if they are short staffed.

I've never had one done, but I guess the hospital has an MRI also.
Why? most people only have it attached to their drinking/cooking water, it ain't that bad. that's worrying about the 1% problem when the 99% problem is stuff like industrial usage and watering lawns in areas that were once arid scrub lands.
I don't live in the US so take this with a grain of salt but I get the impression recently that with the insurance regime they have in place, for most people the US effectively has socialized healthcare, with all of the downside. The advantage I think, is that if you have enough money you can get better care and not have to wait. But if you've got some run of the mill insurance you're relying on, you might as well be in Canada (our healthcare sucks) with massive wait times and very limited access to any kind of specialist.

Personally I'm growing to favor a mixed model, where people pay for primary care and government insures treatment for really expensive, catastrophic stuff. That's much more in line with the normal way we insure things (insuring against regular, knows costs is stupid) and also makes sure people don't become bankrupt when they get a serious illness.

Lastly, I was in a European country recently and got doctors appointments (without national insurance) for myself and my son basically on demand, for so little money it was not an issue. That's possible in the US too, I think the current "socialized" insurance system is the biggest impediment.
> Has science ever observed speciation via natural selection amongst a sexually reproducing cohort?

Theories of speciation do seem to lean toward asexuality.

I mean, at an extreme, we can consider asexual-reproduction through cloning -- where genetic-mutations simply get cloned along different lines, allowing for increasingly divergent genetics.

But even when we're talking about sexual-reproduction, [theories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation#Modes ) often focus on [bottlenecks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck ) (e.g., an isolated population on an island) -- which, while nominally "sexual" in the sense of individuals still engaging in sexual-reproduction, is asexual in the sense of the isolated-population disengaging from sexual-reproduction with other populations.

Where, generally, greater population-level asexuality might be expected to lead to greater divergence -- with full-blown individual-level asexuality being an asymptotic-limit.
> Even when the supply chains are fully operational there is no slack.

In 100% of worldwide supply chains, across products with wildly varying BOM cost ratios of parts and labor?

Companies in certain sectors have been able to take advantage of the state of emergency of pandemic and war to raise prices in ways that are not possible in normal times. When prices rise more than costs, profit margins increase ... In the United States, companies are now recording the highest profits since the end of World War II.

Did pre-2020 prices exhibit the same dynamics as 2023 prices, because of zero-slack supply chains? Could you share a few industry examples of these zero-slack supply chains?
I remember being teached pole kicking as a drunk teenager...
Can someone explain how Google Groups has posts from 1990?
It's amazing for searching examples of rarely used / non-public APIs
It's been available at $40-$50 in practice for years and years.
This assumes that current neural networks topologies can "solve" intelligence. "Gains" could be a problem of missing subsystems, rather than missing data.

For a squishy example of a known conscious system, if you scoop out certain small, relatively fixed, regions of our brains, you can make consciousness, memory, and learning mostly cease. This suggests it's partly due to special subsystems, rather than total connection count.
I didnt want to throw this guy... but he was basically churning back and for forth like he was going to throw the entire national teams under the busses....
I see it, I understand what's going on - it's clear, but I still cannot read it. How do you read those pronunciations?
That may be but they're sitting on their laurels more productively, in terms of revenue and profit per employee, then either Microsoft or Google or Meta.
Yes it is my experience in the US -- but not across the world.

Last year, I was in visiting in Korea and needed to see a doctor. I randomly picked a name out of the phone book and asked my Korean-speaking friend to call and make an appointment. They said no appointment needed, just walk in. So I did.

The doctor saw me within 5 minutes of arrival. He did a physical exam, listened to my lungs, did a simple blood test and gave me a prescription. He then asked if I had insurance, to which I said No.

So he said: "I'm sorry I wlll have to charge you." I went out to the front desk and got the bill. It was the equivalent of $12. In the US it would be $300 before insurance, and $50 after -- not counting the lab cost, which would be separately billed. And all this would take weeks or months to schedule.

I went to a Korean pharmacy with a prescription for 30 days supply of multiple medicines, which in the US costs me $200 with insurance. In Korea, the cost was $50 without any insurance. I had a similar experience in Portugal years back.

People in the US don't realize how screwed up the healthcare system is here. And seem powerless to change things.
Isn't that what they are saying? 0.5 lumen spread out over 2000 sq feet is still more lux than the night sky?
They bought all the Usenet archives, I forget what company it was though, Dejanews?
To save anyone else the lookup, djb was not quite 19 yet :)
IRC is still like that.
Is a doctor really necessary for GP type stuff though? I've found physicians assistants to be just as effective and more readily available.
I'm talking about assaying the subjects' blood for prior and subsequent levels of the vitamin under test. Inasmuch as we have no way to tell whether they took the pills, we don't know whether the groups were properly randomized for their pre-intervention levels, diets, or effectiveness at metabolizing the supplement. It may even be the case that people with high CAC scores in the first place (the test population) already suffers from one or more of these problems across the board.

It isn't that hard to test people's blood, and yet the researchers prefer us to take it on faith that their sorting of control and intervention groups ironed all of this out? If I sound unreasonable, I don't apologize for it: public health decisions are important.
God didn't dictate that only CMS can fund residencies.

Congress could do something else if they wanted. Or like hospitals could act privately to fund them.

There's probably all sorts of reasons it would be bad, but I like the idea of a revenue tax on hospitals. Automatically scales to the price of the most intensive care.
I disagree with the author's points, they seem to be missing that the open source is catching up and moving faster, that eventually smaller models will be on par with these super sized models. They are basing their arguments on the situation today, things are moving at an incredible pace.

> I don’t believe that there will be free alternatives that actually are comparable in quality

There is so much effort going into this, it's hard to believe the companies will be able to keep up.

> On the B2B side, having a robust API that meets enterprise SLAs is not trivial.

OpenAI has not done great at production, throwing errors regularly and having security issues. Further, they don't have a strong backwards support story. Having built a prompt, then having them update their model, our prompt broke. This is a big issue missing from the discussion. These LLMs are inconsistent at one version, and the versions are changing under us without the ability to lock for more than 3 months. OpenAI got an early lead, but that does not mean it will dominate. The one thing they have going now is that Microsoft owns more than anyone else and they will be shilling it hard.

I suspect many businesses will rely on their cloud provider products and APIs, rather than OpenAI, though the brand argument has some weight. We are waiting excitedly to see what GCP offers with PaLMv2 and the VertexAI product. We want to move over ASAP, OpenAI is not meeting our needs.
Paying MDs to do physicals is as wasteful as paying engineers to install software updates.
I don’t think you read the article, or at least you’re not addressing its claim that doctors are burned out and leaving the profession while new doctors are unable to secure enough residency spots to enter the workforce. Those two issues probably go hand in hand — there just aren’t enough doctors and the existing ones are overworked as a result.
That's ironic, since NeXTSTEP 3.1 and later did run on Intel x86 machines (although with a much smaller universe of supported hardware than Linux/Windows).
I think that would be wise. You wouldn't make much money from the reward, and at the same time, at least where I live you need a license to run a competition like that.
The limitations are not a matter of Lightning being old. USB-C is almost as old.
I use horse medicine (burow's solution / used to be star-otic but now that stuff is reformulated to remove any active ingredients) for an ear infection.

The ear nose throat medical profession is so corrupt. They got the only medicine that works taken off the market so you have to see a doctor. By the time I see a doctor the infection is either gone or three times worse. So I buy the horse / dog / cat medicine instead. It's the same as a human medicine but the human medicine has been taken off the market! You can't talk me out of doing this because it's been working for me for 3 decades!

Lots of medicines have been castrated and/or taken off the market to drive more people to see doctors more -

1. Chlorasceptic
2. Burow's solution
> "Big ideas are more important than usability fixes: the art of balancing long-term vs. short-term goals."

ie. https://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/
quit being silly. all those things would still be possible. probably even cheaper without all the corruption that higher than normal profits bring.

child labor only enables more profit for a very few. nothing else.
I was trying to avoid spoilers.
Does anybody have a link to that effect a French economist figured out after the revolution where printed money doesn't get distributed equally in the economy?

I vaguely remember it from my uni economics courses, but blasted if I can remember who discovered it.
Linux 6.4 Features: Intel and AMD Additions, Better Desktop/Laptop Drivers
Something something thunderous applause.
Not the one you were responding to, just a car nerd.

> You say that flat-plane engines do not require the complex header primaries that have to cross over from one bank to the other, but AFAIK typical road car and truck V8s do not have such headers[1]. Would the purpose of such headers be to give a cross-plane V8 scavenging about as good as a flat-plane one, all else being equal?

Yes, but as you point out deployments of this technique are limited due to packaging, cost, and even other performance parameters. See the GT40 “bundle of snake” headers for an example.

For a notable example of the other performance parameters, exhaust header lengths are tuned to the powerband of the engine such that shorter headers are more efficient at higher RPMs and longer headers at higher RPMs. This can even get into resonant effects as with intake runners. It’s difficult to design cross bank headers short enough to suit modern high-rpm engines, with the exception of the “hot-V”, exhaust inside intake outside, concept deployed on German V8s from BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche on the 918 (though the latter is a flatplane crank).

> In that case, would the cross-plane engine lose most of its distinctive sound?

Yes
It's (some of) the old DejaNews stuff.
About 40 million years ago, some monkeys in Africa evidently floated a few thousand kilometers across the ocean to South America, probably on driftwood. Neanderthals were a lot bigger than those monkeys, but a similar scenario might have happened here.
anecdata - E/Rs in my locale are 6 to 8 hour waits with total time spent with triage/nurse/physician totalling maybe 15 minutes (20 if they decide you need an x-ray). Since the queue seems to vary very little it just seems weird.

Due to this wait, I've been conditioned to treat it as a last resort. Perhaps that is the desired effect.
>Deregulate medicine. The AMA restricts the supply of Doctors way too much to achieve $500,000 salaries . .

This is a stupid conspiracy theory. A very brief check shows the average salary of a doctor in the US is less than $200k annually. The AMA does not have the authority over licensing of doctors to restrict anything.

Deregulating medicine can easily be shown to be a disaster in the making... since the Reagan years, regulations on health care have been relaxed like most other limits placed on corporations and it's led to poor quality care, the highest health care spending in the world, and rent seeking middlemen pocketing billions.

Health care in the US needs to be a government provided single payer system.
Did noone here read the article? It says the defendants were the ones who were lying. The attorneys just tried to cast doubt on the evidence, which was at best exacerbated by the defendant's claims.
It’s strange that it takes such a ridiculous amount of time to see a doctor. Every time I need one this is the standard procedure:

Are you dying?
- Yes: call 911 and go to the emergency room
- No: wait weeks to see PCP or months for specialists
- Don’t know: go to urgent care and they’ll decide between 911 and waiting few months

If you’re not dying, like say you’re in extreme pain but doctors determine you can wait a few weeks to see the right specialist, emergency room or urgent care will send you back with pain medications and say “only take them if you need it otherwise they can be habit forming”. Then you wait till you see the right doctor. This is not how medicine should work. You can’t say that the country has the best healthcare in the world if you have to wait months to receive it.
> If I can reduce the number of people that can hack you to the people who can access a single, uncloneable, physical object, is that not greatly increasing your security?

In my case, no.
I love the privacy policy. We will do whatever we want, we don’t respect DNT, you cannot opt out. No thanks IEEE.
It's a mistake to equate "scientific research" with "the truth" or "reality". Aside from some fundamental questions on what "scientific research" exactly is, it should be pretty obvious that "someone published a paper somewhere" is not really worth much of anything on its own; you can find published papers on all sorts of topics that are clearly nonsense.

The further you move away from the hard sciences the harder it becomes to prove anything. Math, physics, and biology tends to be fairly easy as these things go; in medicine it already become significantly more murky, and with social sciences it's very hard indeed. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of valuable stuff in the social sciences, because there is, but "I will only accept what is scientificality proven" is a seriously limited view of things.
this is an overreaction and there are much more dangerous things out there. If you are concerned about your water then get it tested, this is by far overkill. If you're super concerned get a RO system for your kitchen sink not the whole house which would be extremely wasteful.
The font annotates each character using the Jyutping system for Cantonese pronunciation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping
Fax or mail (certified with return receipt) Facebook a letter and state that you revoke their authorization to post electronic funds transfers to your account. Staple the certified receipt or fax confirmation to a copy of the letter. That's all your bank needs (double check me here) to reverse any transactions thereafter and assess a fine to Facebook, which will likely face a fine from it's bank as well.

The matter will be resolved by next morning.

When return receipt arrives, staple that to the copy as well should the matter escalate further.
You list social issues and then list a collection of privacy-oriented technology as if it's a solution.

Those two domains are orthogonal. Perfect privacy won't make racism or banality go away. It may make it harder to be targeted by ad farms, but it will make it easier for scammers and other bottom feeders to infiltrate and exploit online communities for personal and sometimes political ends.

Instead of being flooded by spray-and-pray spam, users in online spaces will be targeted by more sophisticated attacks based on estimates of psychology and interests derived from their public posting profile.

The DFW quote sums it up nicely. There is no technological fix for a lowest common denominator culture which rewards predatory greed over sincere mutuality.
Ex Kaiser user here. I was in a lot of pain at a point, after trying quite a few things, had to do CT scan. Couldn’t get an appointment sooner than 3 weeks out.
Things changing as a complete 180 mid sprint every single sprint doesn't mean Kanban is more suited as a process. It means your company is not using any process but rather is just a chaotic "who screamed the loudest most recently".

If you do Kanban right you have to have predictability through tasks of roughly equal size. If you will you can think of Kanban as Scrum where all tasks have to either be sized 2 or 3, else they don't make it into a sprint.

New items get added to the end of the backlog by default and stakeholders know when they can expect their request to be done because you know your velocity and queue length.

Putting every single request that comes in at the top of your Kanban backlog is orthogonal and bad.
Before you randomly start popping supplements the first thing you should be doing if you care about maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system is getting regular blood tests, ideally at least one a year.

Not managing high triglycerides or high LDL cholesterol will put you at a much higher risk than not taking any specific supplement. Some people are genetically prone to heart disease in which case monitoring your cholesterol and taking pharmaceuticals to manage it (if needed) can significantly reduce your risk.

The other thing you should do before you start popping supplements is get your diet right. Reducing sugar, eating less processed foods, consuming healthy fats (especially EPA), and intermittent fasting – these will all help dramatically more than taking any supplement.

Then there is exercise. Doing a 20-30 mins of high intensity exercise a few days a week will help reduce your resting heart rate, improve your metabolism and help maintain a healthy cardiovascular system.

The only supplement I think there is currently good evidence to take for heart health is high dose EPA, but it's pretty expensive... I use Pharmepa Restore personally which I take due to a family history of heart disease. High quality fish oil supplements with DHA and EPA probably have a minor benefit, while cheap fish oil supplements are probably mostly useless for several reasons. If you're going to take fish oil for heart health take one that's pharma-grade and high in EPA.