skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really speak for other doctors, only for myself. White coat syndrome is extremely common in my experience. The existence of false positives does not make hypertension "overdiagnosed" though, it's still underdiagnosed.

There's a legion of people out there with high blood pressure who don't feel a thing. This is why doctors employ high sensitivity testing for every single patient: office blood pressure measurements. If you get a normal result, OK. If you get high blood pressure, it could be hypertension so the doctor monitors more closely.

Screening works by testing everyone with simple, cheap, fast tests and selecting those with anything that even remotely looks like a positive result for more elaborate and expensive specific tests.
No, we haven't. Nothing is misinterpreted here, we just disagree. That's okay! But call it what it is...
Yeah, I was just talking to the CEO of a startup that I built the tech for, and still have a small equity stake in.

They formed a partnership with some dev shop that's going to rebuild everything that I made (that's working great and scales well).

I asked her why, and she said "because they say that doing microsevices on Azure is better architecture".

There goes that bit of equity, I guess.

/shrug
Some parts are expensive (EC2, NAT and VPC endpoint proliferation) but others are simple and inexpensive (regional API Gateways, latency based routing, DDB global tables, lambdas, state machines).
Maybe another symptom of a broken immigration system? People with tenuous immigration status are easily exploited?

More generally, I think the specific question is: if a worker is choosing between two companies, one which offers water breaks and one which doesn't, wouldn't they choose the first? This makes sense in a case of labor demand >> labor supply.

An alternative question is: if companies face a cost for worker injury, why wouldn't they take better care of workers. But there's huge amounts of evidence (including my wife's as a resident at Ben Taub) that injured workers are discarded into the public health system (with no insurance). And by "discarded" I also mean "lose their job" as well.

Finally, the cities largely bear these costs with only local property and sales taxes to support them, but have found ways to get around barriers erected by undemocratic rural and suburban legislators, and no doubt will continue to.
you're right colors may be confusing if the user is color blind, I guess that's why the close is always the one on the left, the minimize is always the one on the middle, and the expand + extras is always the one on the right, so user can find what they want where their more accustomed to
https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Less than a sentence per instance, but it's enough to get a decent sense of what instances you're interested in exploring more.
> if the shielding is too thick, it could actually increase the amount of secondary radiation

That's because the paper assumes aluminum shielding, not something more sensible like water/polyethylene.

It's long been known that aluminum GCR shielding has a local minimum around 30 g/cm^2. Water and polyethylene don't have this problem.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22145...
This is such a great article. Amazon tackles this problem by emphasizing "working backwards", but it ultimately depends on the people who enforces such cultural value. I remember in one of the Uber all-hands meetings, an engineer asked the CTO whether Uber engineers should always make sure their systems can handle at least a million requests per second. To Thuan's credit, he unequivocally said no.
I wonder what the rationale behind AGPL is? Prevents it from being used for commercial SaaS
There's something severely screwy with their shipping. To my rural US location, it'd cost $12 for the cheapest shipping for just one Ox64. I've shipped 15lb/7kg, microwave-oven-sized packages more than a thousand miles for that price. It just should not cost that much. A USPS priority flat rate box costs less than that even for your average non-commercial human individual.
Should be an XKCD comic
And now MIPS, the company, makes RISC-V
The world's elderly are more healthy and older where ever they constraint to eat less food. Often, or better, always, that food isn't preprocessed in any way by machinery and intents of industrial production. But rather freshly made like rice. Noodles. All with natural ingredients, that may be self produced, too.

A diet with lots of fat fish and less carbohydrates allows some Japanese elderly to live looong time.

It's not about exercise. They don't exercise anymore since long time, I guess..
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They’ve put their heart and soul into creating this app, and it has some amazing features:

A state of the art recommendation system

An algorithm generating the transcript of all your streams, in real time

Your front page loads in sub 200ms times all over the world

A streaming protocol and client build almost from scratch, in case you don’t want to rely on Facebook live

A service that allows you to easily integrate over 20 ad exchanges

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What a dumb article.

This is just made up. If you hired consultants and they pulled this lawyers would be involved.

I stopped reading here. Why continue reading something based on a fake premise.
I have a little bit of equity in the company that I work for now. It's super small and early stage, and still between me and the product decision there exists a Designer that reports to a CTO that reports to a CEO. For everything that I want to see done differently, I have to make a case that convinces all these stakeholders that it's the right way. Ultimately, equity or not, my job is to row the ship where the cap'n tells me.
I do not think of my argument rests on the degree to which I am an LLM. I was fairly specific in speaking about the ways in which an LLM is different and the ways in which it lacks the functional capacity to be aware of itself.

I made a mistake here in in using the word sentient the way I did. To help you understand here, I use these words as follows.

Sentient - to be aware of yourself.

Sapient - to be humanlike in your ability to think and speak

Conscious - to have a self experience of any form.

What I am saying is that an LLM is definitely not aware of itself. It doesn't receive itself as an input, so it cannot have thoughts like "I'm happy right now". It's functionally incapable of doing so because it has to receive itself as an input in order to do that.

However, it's possible that such a machine still has a experience of some form in the sense that there is some ethereal consciousness created by the fact that exists and is thinking, but we can't observe that aspect of the world so it's not really something we can discuss in a functional way beyond speculation.
Tardigrade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

"Scientists Put Tardigrade DNA Into Human Stem Cells. They May Create Super Soldiers." (2023) https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a43509580/t...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35447885

Tardigrade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade#Physiology :

> Tardigrades are thought to be able to survive even complete global mass extinction events caused by astrophysical events, such as gamma-ray bursts, or large meteorite impacts.[9][10] Some of them can withstand extremely cold temperatures down to 0.01 K (−460 °F; −273 °C) (close to absolute zero), while others can withstand extremely hot temperatures up to 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C)[36][37] for several minutes, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space.[38] Tardigrades that live in harsh conditions undergo an annual process of cyclomorphosis, allowing for survival in subzero temperatures. [39]

What selected for tardigrades' radiation shielding features?

Perhaps humanoid robots (that children can push over) could better withstand high-radiation environments.

What are some of the other advanced solar and cosmic radiation shielding approaches? IIRC spinning Superconducting materials have better shielding, but may not be as shielded as drilling into an asteroid already on a trajectory similar to the desired transit.

Barring that, I think it's going to need to be matter teleportation (which we don't want to imagine un-friendly aliens having either).
Falcor was cool. I'm sad seeing it go away.
You know, going on strike because of the threat of automation always struck me as a rather flawed tactic. It not only acknowledges the alternative as equal-to-superior but shoves them into their arms of their rivals. Before it might have been a risk that they would have been reluctant to take and would back out of after the first box office bomb. Now they are getting forced into considering the automated approach.

It is ironically pretty unemphatic on the part of the workers. The empathic question is "What did you think they would do in response to their actions?".
A rapper named Big Pokey died today [1] after two outdoor concert performances: one in Baytown and the second in Beaumont. I'd cite the source but the original Twitter post of him collapsing on stage was taken down. He was a pretty big guy, so I doubt that helped. But in contrast even fit and healthy people being forced to work construction with no break is inhuman. There's no excuse for such brutality.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/14ciker/rip_big_po...
I don’t see the value ins Graphql. Most apis rarely change and the complexity of supporting queries is not worth the time saved.

Graphql was a cool experiment, but I’m sticking with rest/protobufs
Long long ago a group of 20ish people (I vaguely knew) occupied an abandoned office. They agreed to spend 500 per person per month to improve the place as they all could easily afford it. Then came the struggle actually spending the money. No one wanted to spend time on it so every other month they just quickly agreed to one or two things at a time and spend as much on it as possible just to burn the money. After 6 years, 720 000 later the place looked completely insane.
That or automod
My favorite subreddit essentially killed itself, locking all new posts, with a stickied thread linking to alternatives. I tried one of the alternatives (a Lemmy instance) and like it significantly more.

There are a couple subs keeping me on reddit, but for less time, and I'm less engaged. They could be replaced with a modicum of effort.

Financially it seems like Reddit is between a rock and a hard place, and has opted to pick up the rock and bash itself in the head.
I agree the common sense around this issue seems to be lacking. I think this issue is more of a political lightning rod for those who "hate workers" vs those who "want government to control everything."
There’s also the mod for the HD-439 where you cut away some tape that covers up some holes and you get markedly more bass.
The paper the article is talking about, is talking specifically about the travel to and from mars, and specifically _not_ about the time spent _on_ mars.
The "Invest Now" button just screams "scam".

Others have built human-scale multirotor electric aircraft. eHang has been demoing theirs for years.[1] eHang has 16 motors and 16 props. They've been through a few iterations on the design, so they're past the prototype stage. But they seem to be kind of stuck. These drone-based things are so limited in range due to battery capacity and weight constraints that they are not yet useful.

Aviation Week and AAM have a "reality index" for companies in this space. Currently, Joby Aviation and Volocopter lead, followed by a three-way tie between Archer Aviation, Beta Technologies and EHang.[2]

Joby [3] is a 6-prop tilt rotor with a minimal wing. It can take off and land vertically, but flies more like an ordinary aircraft. This takes less energy than helicopter mode. Joby's range record is 151 miles in a 77 minute flight, going round and round over an airport. This is a complicated aircraft and takes a skilled pilot plus considerable computer power.

Volocopter [4] has 2 seats, 18 props, and really good renders on their web site.
They're demoing at the Paris Air Show, starting tomorrow. They're working, slowly, towards type certification in Europe, then certification as an air carrier. Range limit maybe 60 miles.

There's still the clown car of the industry - Moller. Real Soon Now for over 50 years.[5] Apparently "inactive", but the web site is still up. They once did get a prototype, running on a large number of small Wankel engines, to hover while connected to a crane for backup.

[1] https://www.ehang.com/

[2] https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/advanced-air-mobility/lea...

[3] https://www.jobyaviation.com/

[5] https://moller.com/

[4] https://www.volocopter.com/
Please observe a construction site in Houston (I just drove by some roofers a few minutes ago). There are breaks, but they are much rarer than a "normal" person might expect.
How do modern GUI toolkits like React and Compose, sync view with state changes?
When wet bulb temperatures get high enough (over human body temperature basically) it becomes deadly to be there. It won't be a matter of politics or housing prices or any of those other issues when people move away because you risk dropping dead just being outside for 15 minutes.
That’s a really long way of explaining what a ripoff is.
it's the "empty" part. I assume the 5 gallons of fuel are not included in the 254 lbs, just the fuel container. They could argue a battery's weight shouldn't be included because it's fuel. I doubt they'd be successful, but I don't know. If they are, then you take that to an extreme and make a cockpit frame out of batteries, and you got a frame for no "weight cost".
> [it eschews] Reproduction problems coming from out-of-order execution

Wouldn't immutability and lexical scoping go a long way here? What am I missing that would explain why notebook people (in general, not this project) have not long ago decided that exposing execution order is a bug?
AaaS, aircraft as a service.
No, it's not. That square root is well over a foot tall, maybe close to two feet, and he's clearly not in an amphitheatre.
How I feel quitting my own startup
I left the startup I co-founded 4+ years ago. The entire process was an emotional roller-coaster.

My co-founders (and business partners), who are the majority shareholder, made it abundantly clear that the company was 'theirs'. They made decisions behind my back although I am the only founder working full time on the company. I felt alienated, undervalued, and frankly quite miserable for a while.

At some point, when this behavioral pattern started affecting other team members and I realized I had nothing left to do, it was time for me to move on.

I tried to write down how I felt, keeping it politically correct.
We need way more details on this.
I worked in this space for years. The answer is no. If you evolve a multirotor design to be more and more efficient you will end up with fewer, larger rotors, until the time comes that you require variable pitch to have sufficient control bandwidth. At which point you have a helo.
> mediocre journalists (or sometimes even vloggers with no training) who start thinking about themselves as experts on something all of a sudden and start touring radios, podcasts, and TV shows, giving opinions left and right, these are probably the worst.

Us vendors pay for those and have some random journalism grad or ChatGPT ghostwrite it.

B2B SaaS and Enterprise Sales absolutely depends on SEO from a brand and pipeline creation perspective due to legacy marketing leadership and perverse incentives.

This is starting to change (a la Product Lead Growth, Persona Segmentation, Direct Sales, etc), but to paraphrase Max Planck, GTM Strategy only advances with every retirement.
This linked paper [1] is in Spanish but believe it says to be the first two cars of multiple lines, and to accommodate passengers under 12.

Edit: looked it up because don’t remember from personal experience

1. https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/metropoli/cdmx/vagones-para...
Coworker of mine wrote a thing in java… it was too slow (intensive locking between threads)… so he rewrote it in C… it was crashing all the time (because he sucks), then he rewrote it in go. Got promoted for this feat.
Damn kids. I was an early adopter of 32 bit coding. When I was in a big hurry to get my career started there was still plenty of 16 big code around, even Netscape ran on the 16 bit version of the Windows API. I ended up tapping the brakes and changing gears to make sure I didn’t have to deal with that bullshit. Most of my CS classes had been taught on 32 bit Unix boxes so it just felt like sticks and rocks.

The jump from 32 bit to 64 was not so dramatic. I Wonder if I’ll be around for 128 bit. I suspect the big disruption there will be changing the CPU cache line size, which has been stuck at 64 bytes for ages. I can’t imagine 4 words per cache line will be efficient.
Burglars want to change ownership of things in your house, so why don't we move on to communal ownership where all things are shared?

The root of the problem is the "seed of evil", also known as selfishness or the idea of separateness. But selfishness is a necessary step in evolution, and if you remove all shiny things that provoke greed, and all other things that make selfishness meaningful, you'd derail the evolution.

So, shiny things that people can own and display bring more good than harm at this point.
There are very very few jobs that people actually want to do - and some places do provide stools. Aldi’s does and they’re notoriously famous for overworking their cashiers as much as they can.

I’d expect to see stools at union grocery stories (but I don’t) so it must not be that big of a complaint.

I have seen that almost all now have those padded floor things.
Depending on this scenario, it could mean the free market doesn't actually have anything at all to do with certain policies or actions. If something goes right people are right on top of claiming it is a win for free markets, but how often is it really the free market at work and not other factors and incentives, be it political, cultural, historical, situational, emotional, or just a local quirk?
For an API that centers around filters and nested subfilters to retrieve exponentially specific data, graphql can end up saving you a lot of work.

For anything else, it seems pointless.
Bounds check out of the tight loop can give the possibility of the compiler dropping bounds check and/or related branches later.
Remember times where you could change the theme and all of the apps followed suit ?

Even in Linux there were tools to sync gnome with QT look so you could have one theme applied to every app for nice and consistent look, all the way to how the common icons look.

Nowadays ? Every fucking app gotta have their own different styling. Will the setting icon be three dots, gear, or honey badger ? WHO FUCKING KNOWS. You'd be lucky if you even get a choice between light and dark theme

But hey, we can write same code to work on windows, mac and mobile ! It will work shit in all of them and be slow but we don't care!
While true in the general sense, I specifically think this particular space should be. This is an insane device to sell to someone without requiring any licensing or training. I honestly feel the same way about my 249g drone, to a lesser extent--I should have needed to prove that I'm not an idiot before firing it up, but I didn't have to. I both injured myself and lost the drone because I actually am an idiot. I can't imagine what kind of mess I could get into with this size of device.
corrects metadata, and adds some custom stuff like our own reviews from our family google account spreadsheet.
Why do you think they're pushing for RTO if it doesn't boost productivity? Do you think they believe it benefits the business but they're just wrong?
And everything had a keybind so if you worked in software every day you could be as fast as cli nerds.
These things won't be successful before drone deliveries are wide-spread.
The bill in question

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB02127F....

Maybe I didn't read it properly but water breaks are not under attack
Can't wait to buy a clone kit off aliexpress.
a similar website which i love is https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
Sounds like this would make for a fascinating read. I don't suppose any of them recorded their progress as they went and published it somewhere?
Do employers always pay for these breaks, or do they garnish wages?
They knew exactly what they were doing/getting into. Nobody got groomed into doing anything, and certainly nobody was forced to be a mod.
In my experience many safety rules are there to force workers to do stuff they don't want to do. Like wear helmets or whatever. Management has to be quite bad before they are the weak link.
A question that maybe HN can help me answer: are there any new instruction set architectures since, say, 1985 that are CISC? (Excluding, of course, ISAs that are extensions of previous CISC ISAs.)
I fail to see any examples of this. Do you e.g. think Israel supports Iran in building nuclear weapons?
I am curious what your experience was like moving TX=>CA. I've been considering the same.
Election stuff like that would be simply outright unconstitutional in Germany.
A CTO should be the bridge between technology and the business. They should understand both business and technology. You'll learn things as you grow. But the CTO mindset is important. Your job is NOT JUST to be a developer, an engineer, or an architect. The decisions you take can have a huge impact on your business, and the bottom line. Your experience at FAANG definitely helps. But think beyond that engineering experience. You're building a business. Can you foresee where your company is heading? Can you recruit, train, and grow a team of engineering leaders who will also steer the company in the same direction?

From day one, keep these in mind

1. Anyone can build anything, given they have the time and money, and resources. But only a few people can understand what their customers really want, and build that.

2. You are not an engineer. You are an entrepreneur.

3. You are not here for a solo game. Can you be a great leader?

4. You should understand how your decisions affect the company's finances.
The problem with the controls is mostly because they don't want to pay for Qt (multiplatform toolkit), so instead every company (badly) implements their own controls in HTML to save money. I suspect ultimately they waste much more money than they save.
I'm experimenting with Raindrop.io both as a replacement for the (long dead) Delicious and for Pocket, which I use for long-term bookmarking. I'm not happy with Pocket's shortcomings as far as organizing, despite my use of tags, and I really need a way of preserving bookmarks across systems and browsers. I also wish Pocket had a way of exporting my data (though maybe I just haven't found it yet). Raindrop allows me to take notes on websites and gives me a more structured way of organizing things, but moving stuff from Pocket is a royal pain.