skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IF I could do it again, I would homeschool. My kids are both relatively gifted. If you have a gifted child, this is what school looks like:

K-5: Extreme boredom and anxiety because roughly 1/2 the year is review or test prep. If you are lucky, your child might have a GT teacher.

6-8: Your child will struggle to make friends, especially if they aren't connected to social media. Thankfully, my kids were athletes and musicians but for the smart kids who weren't, I saw a lot of bullying.

9-10: Your kids will learn, but not all that much. They'll start being offered advanced and AP courses, but because of most kids' busy schedules these days, this simply means that they are completely segregated from their friends that aren't "smart."

11-12: Curricula have been gutted, and so your children will leave high school less smart than you are, especially when it comes to history. Your kids will be pushed to take AP courses, not realizing that many of the AP credits they earn wont be honored by many schools depending on their career track. It's relatively safe to say that 30-50% of all of the learning in the K-12 space happens during this time for gifted students. In fact you could probably give kids time off from 6th through 9th grade, and they'd still wind up being 90-95% as knowledgeable as if they hadn't.

In contrast, many of the homeschool families I know have kids who learn for 4-6 hours per week. When they aren't learning, they are at co-ops, on field trips, enjoying free play, or learning other skills (woodworking, music, etc).

Something is fundamentally broken with our public education system. The system is more stressful, less educational, and far more expensive than it was 20 years ago, and it's putting out students who are in many ways hollow.
I always find it funny when people say that we'd have less doctors under 'socialized medicine'. This article clearly shows that other countries have more doctors per capita. Not only that, but by and large those doctors are happier working under that system than our doctors are working under ours

https://image.slideserve.com/488686/physician-satisfaction-w...

My guess is that not dealing with a mercurial insurance industrial complex that tries to constantly deny medically necessary treatment to your patients makes your day to day work more enjoyable.
"Better to fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally" - IMO, this often leads for people making decisions that are defensible by comparison to "industry norms".
There has been a push back, and hours are now capped well below 100 hours (maybe 60 hours a week now?) with limits on duration of shifts, also. When I trained the cap was 80 hours/week with a limit of 30 hours in a row.
I have some unconventional sleep tips for those interested.

DURPLEDRANK'S GUIDE TO BETTER SLEEP:

Line your sleeping room with books. They are an inexpensive way to soundproof your room. If you have noisy neighbors upstairs, you'll "hear" them, but more importantly, you won't "feel" it.

Use comfortable earplugs and a baggy winter hat as a sleep mask. Sleep masks can be uncomfortable, so this is a great alternative.

Play a BROWNIAN NOISE loop on speakers in your room. You can easily generate this in Audacity with a few mouse clicks.

Take antacids before bed. Many sleep problems are linked to acid reflux. Drinking carbonated water or water with baking soda can make you feel tired instantly. For any scientists out there, please credit me for this discovery. If you have acid reflux, your brain won't let you sleep.

Stay warm. Being warm often makes you sleepy, although the reason isn't clear.

Use red lights in your sleep room to avoid blue light. Replace your reading lamp with a red light to help your brain switch into sleep mode.

Limit screen time. Dim the brightness and enable blue light blocking mode on your devices. Older devices may be less disruptive to sleep than modern ones.

Keep a notepad for quick Google searches. Whenever you have a random thought, jot it down on a to-do list to avoid grabbing your device. This helps you stay off screens.

Consider taking 1g of melatonin, but note that it may not be very effective if you have acid reflux.

Elevate your sleeping position to combat acid reflux. Even if you don't feel it, you might have some built-up reflux if you burp or fart after drinking carbonated water.

Invest in blackout curtains.

Cover every blinking light or power LED in your room with electrical tape to create a pitch-black environment.

TL;DR: In my journey to fix my sleep, the most critical factors are 1) managing acid reflux, 2) soundproofing and reducing light in the room, and 3) using red light.
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> It's basically impossible to make managed hosting more expensive than cloud.

So, I've got 6 different backend services running as monolithic Lambda functions. They all must be up for a number of nines per year, each going down will cost our company actual money for every second of downtime. They've never been down except when AWS broke something - and then the customers couldn't have accessed them anyway.

Can you tell me how I can host 6 services that can't be on the same machine in a managed system cheaper than my current setup? 6 servers, preferably each duplicated.

We'll assume that all the other AWS services we use can "just" be replicated in managed hosting too. (DynamoDB, S3, Aurora and a bunch of others).
Is there a mod that makes it so the Win11 volume bar doesn't freeze up the computer and take 5 seconds to load?

For real though, this is awesome. I really wish Microsoft would get back to their roots and make a "lean" Windows again. They've lost what made their OS great - being a platform for potential, a barebones box that you got to make your own by filling it with what you wanted and it never got in the way of that. Nowadays there's so much clutter, it no longer feels like it's "mine".
I think that there's still a perception of electric vehicle owners as being fanatical and unrealistic (e.g., "Tesla fanboys") that really isn't true. Yeah, they want EVs to work for everybody, but if someone without a feasible charging environment shows up to a place like r/electricvehicles they aren't going to try and sell them on it.
A red message saying "Please enter a valid e-mail address" when I've only typed the first three letters
It's interesting how truth can disappear over time. They were out and proud about it back then.

Here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/03/09/r...

> Last week a powerful coalition of medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges -- the umbrella group for medical schools -- proposed their own plan. Their idea is to limit residency slots financed by Medicare to the number needed for the 17,000 annual graduates of U.S. medical schools.

There's other things like this that folks say "Well, where's the evidence?" and the truth is that the evidence was all around us back then. Now that people have changed their minds on this stuff, it's harder to find as the perpetrators go quiet about it. And you have to search the past which isn't that easy.

I'm sure the pandemic response will be similarly rewritten, especially the business about telling people masks don't work because they wanted to make sure that average people won't take masks that they wanted to keep for healthcare people. That's being rewritten in front of me to say "Oh there's no evidence that masks ever worked and that's why they said that".

Where's the evidence? Well, in many cases, it was everywhere. Truth casts a small shadow on time. The motivated sceptic stands purely in the light.
I'm not sure about TensorRT, but in llama.cpp there are seperate kernals optimized for batching and single use inference. It makes a substantial difference.

I suppose one could get decent utilization by prompt processing one user while generating tokens for another.
This article is political and can and should be ignored. Being a doctor is extremely difficult, and pays about as much as a sinecured, pseudo-academic "economist" who sells analysis and lightly dressed up op-eds in the Economist to the highest bidder. These articles get picked up by people who are predisposed towards the argument it is making because they have had a bad health care experience or want to take someone else down. It pits patients against doctors, when the real money is being made by the hospital systems and insurers who add little value but have massive influence over policy (much more than AMA).

The AMA should stop opposing single payer, though. That is the key difference in the US health system and other national health systems with better outcomes.

also: just look at the section of the Economist it is in: United States | Medicine’s gilded age - very professional.

also: What percentage of the total healthcare costs in the US are attributed to physician salaries? That is the theoretical maximum improvement to the cost of care delivery, if you dropped it to zero. And is that net or gross take home? Is the data before or after paying malpractice insurance of administrators to navigate the intentional bureaucracy created by providers?
Without looking it up do you know what are the Java memory model guarantees? Or what's the difference between >> and >>> ?

Even "simple" languages have things that most people simply don't remember without looking it up because it's just not useful to know in day to day work.
Regardless of your take on this, the animated graphics here are really nice.
How does the client generate the same salt every time they visit the page, without using cookies?
Hey, thanks for this! I was just looking into this a few minutes ago and didn't know there were open source options.
If North Korea is manufacturing artillery shells, where are they getting the raw materials and capital to support the factories? (And how reliable is the labor pool in such a repressive state?)

I'm guessing the Russians are saying "Uh, okay, thanks. (Hey Yuri: put those over in the corner with our factory rejects...)"
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Coworking spaces may be a good idea. Giving billions of dollars to a lunatic grifter, not such a good idea.
Yea, in practice you need at least one node up at all times to process stuff, then start scaling up when queues start filling up.
I didn't really start my 'real' professional career until I was almost 40. Before that I was just hopping around between different jobs, trying things, and seeing if there was anything out there that I actually wanted to do for a living.
I have a friend who is an EMT and another who dances at a strip club. It always amazes me that the things they complain about are mostly the same management BS people complain about at office jobs.
I think they are requiring apps on their store use ads provided by their store as well though.
No alcohol or weed in the evening is critical for me. Either after about 5pm completely ruins my sleep.
Thanks - already have a couple. See you there :-)
Yes, can certainly delegate cert-manager to a CA in Anchor, which gives you a nice view into the cert material in use in your environment. And the client package support automates the toil of updating all your apps or images trusted root CA certs.
> It’s not that they don’t have the resources […] it’s that they don’t want kids to learn too much.

Hehe, this is simply not true. Where did this conspiracy theory come from, and why do you think this poorly of people who are spending their time trying to help kids despite low pay and a constant barrage of harsh critical opinions from parents, law-makers, and hordes of armchair critics on the internet?

You’re making wild assumptions and using the worst possible motivation to build a straw man criticism. If you can do better, maybe you should get involved or consider being a school administrator?

I don’t like it when there is less support for the motivated students, and it happened to me in high school. But you are aware the situation we’re discussing is due to needing to educate 100% of the student body up to a minimum standard, right? Public schools are almost always underfunded and short-staffed. Nobody’s trying to actively prevent the smart kids from learning, they’re trying to avoid using all their resources teaching the kids that don’t need it as badly from leaving the larger group of kids who’s families have less money completely behind. Your comment is completely ignoring what happens to the students who are behind in math already, and how to get them enough help.

What is always true is that what’s best for the group isn’t necessarily best for the individual. In this case, you’re suggesting the opposite of prioritizing education for all, and thus you’re not talking about prioritizing education, you’re talking about prioritizing resources toward students that already meet the minimum standards. Schools, teachers, and administrators are trying to prioritize education for all, and they have an explicit duty to get every last kid up to basic minimum standards. If they don’t meet those goals of getting the bottom half of their classes passing, they could lose their jobs and they would be failing to prioritize education for all.
They have no incentive to use or benefit from ACPI. They don't have the problem of trying to scale to an innumerable number of hardware permutations. They have a limited set which they control the entire stack of. I would certainly be very confused if they went with such an overkill solution as well.
"AI could also differentiate between leiomyosarcoma and liposarcoma in 84% of sarcomas tested, while radiologists were unable to tell the difference in 35% of cases."
- What is the ground truth based on?
- Are the biopsy results coming from the same 89 cases?
- What is the signal AI based system is picking up that humans have failed to from different modalities?
- Why is the biopsy even considered as a good test when it exhibits such poor performance?
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I'm not an expert on this topic, but the article confuses a handful of issues that should be separated.

There is a limit on the number of seats in US medical schools but this does not affect the number of new practicing physicians in the US directly. Thus the article's discussion of MD matriculations and of DO programs should be ignored.

The article correctly states that all physicians must complete residency programs. The US Medicare and Medicaid programs fund the vast majority of residency slots. Residency slots preferentially are awarded to US medical graduates (i.e., new MDs) but they are available to any graduate of an accredited MD program. Thus, if a bottleneck exists, it exists here.

However, hospitals can - and do - use other funds to train medical graduates in their residency programs. I do not know the thinking about how many such slots a residency program operates, but this would have been a far more interesting area for the article to examine.
What's the point in hashing the IP + salt then, just let each client generate a random nonce and use that as the key
There's more info at the NASA link: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasa-tech-breathes-li...
Hey that's good stuff, thank you!
Do you know the history of its inception? I feel that would be a good read. Like, what use cases did the original authors had in mind, how did they convince others to accept a GC in C++ spec, etc.

I like these kind of development stories, it’s often a weird mix of social and technical challenges, from a specific time period.
I think the usual phrase is “mumbo jumbo”?
I was running debian stable for the last few years (until a few days ago, due to a brand new laptop ...) and was perfectly happy with the Firefox linux build tarballs:

1. untar as root into /opt

2. symlink /opt/firefox/firefox to /usr/local/bin/firefox

3. compose a 13-line firefox.desktop and put in ~/.local/share/applications/

Only the first step needs to be repeated when there is a new release.
> While there might be a lot of people who still cling to its earlier more modest ambitions, the core of the movement changed.

I know this is true, and I'm totally willing to admit that my out-of-date impressions of the "movement" are probably coloring my resistance a bit. I've seen some of the "longtermism" stuff and it's crazy to see what was once a legimately "rational" community devolve in that manner. SBF is definitely an example of the worst of the dumb ideas associated with the movement (at least, if you take him at his word).

But dammit, there's still reasonable ways to engage with these ideas, and I hate to see a perfectly good baby thrown out just because it took a shit in the bathwater.

> Is there a perfectly straight line between Scott Alexander's writings and some alleged Adderall abuse of a particular EA advocate? I don't know, but there's probably contributing factors there.

There might be, and there might not be. I'm sure they read the article in question. Just doesn't seem fair to me to take reasonably ... reasonable writing from Scott and then somehow lay SBF's drug abuse at his feet.

I assumed the "54 billion lives" thing was a joke, and I make that assumption because I find Scott to be generally smart and reasonable. If he meant it seriously, well, no mincing - that's pretty dumb.

> Beliefs like this may have made SBF far more dangerous. One interpretation of his actions is that he justified building a massive fortune from fraud in the present, because he planned to save billions of lives from rogue AI in the future.

I have a really hard time buying that SBF truly thought he was some kind of hero here, but that may be my own bias. I'm somewhat reminded of the back-and-forth about Islamism that was in vogue 5-10 years ago, where folks just couldn't seem to believe that groups like ISIS actually believed all that jihad stuff. So I might be making the same kind of error.

Maybe he really does see himself as some kind of AI savior - but it still feels equally reasonable that he just identified a way to convince nominally smart people to give up their money to enrich himself.
heh, fair :)
So you're shocked, just shocked, that someone would openly admit to doing something that . . . is common practice and has always been legal? (in the US, where I'm guessing we all live)
Naps are terrible sleep hygiene. Any deviation from a regular set sleep schedule is bad hygiene. Better to get less sleep than to nap and disturb the sleep schedule. Many people develop insomnia this way, especially shift workers.
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The gli.NET option listed isn't even shipping yet... how are they able to review it?
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The AMA issue is not new. In “capitalism and freedom” 1962, Milton Friedman wrote that it will turn into a cartel, then it did.
On PC platforms, ACPI tables are some mix of static and dynamic data. There's a table for CPU information, and you don't need to flash your firmware everytime you change your CPU, but you do sometimes. PC firmware generally does a PCI scan before booting an OS, and I think some of that ends up in ACPI tables too.
That was the original dream for DT that so far hasn't been very successful.

In practice the kernel only wants to add support for DTs that conform to a reviewed and approved schema, but most/no manufacturer wants to do the effort of having every single thing on their DT schema bikeshedded to death on the device tree mailing list before the device is manufactured. So the vendor just makes up whatever kind of unapproved DT schema that only their own vendor kernel fork supports, and if mainline support is ever added it will have its own DT.
While the article claims that North Korea is manufacturing (and it probably is) the bulk of supply is probably old Soviet stockpile
Triodos might be what you're looking for.
The "stay mashed" property is by design for these types of earplugs because they are meant to go right into the ear canal. The idea is you mash them (well, carefully roll and compress) then insert them while still mashed, holding them in as they slowly re-expand.

But this is, of course, to ensure protection in the case of dangerously high sound pressure levels. Cutting them would also compromise them in this regard. Perhaps different if you are using them to block out low noises for sleep.