skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's more than 12 times the number of people in the US. Yes i understand this is "per 100k", but this still kind of reads like "adding lanes to highways does not reduce traffic," and that means that there is some other issue. If you have more doctors, more people will go to the doctor. This is good, more people should go to the doctor, because early and preventative care reduces the overall cost burden on the system.

And i don't want to put this in its own comment or even continue reading the defense of doctors (as they stand now): Women get shafted so hard by the medical community. People with mental health issues get screwed by the medical system. Both get their problems written off for non-medical reasons. There are bad practitioners just like there are bad developers and bad general contractors and bad bridge builders and bad pilots. The whole system is not very good and i don't see, necessarily, how merely adding more medical degree holding people to the mix will improve things. There isn't enough patient advocacy, there's too much friction with medical insurance (in the US).

But at least the shareholders are making money.
"Easy to describe" is very different from "easy to do".

It reminds me of the famous "just eat less and exercise more", the alleged simple solution to the global obesity epidemic.
This is really frustrating and I would argue feeds into a lot of accessibility issues even outside the more salient points surrounding the handicapped.

The fact that vehicles have grown so large that on-street parking has become virtually necessary is a frustration I've had to deal with frequently as a driver, pedestrian, and cyclist, moreover, just using the street for recreation has become more hazardous. It's even more frustrating when it's done for the sake of convenience. Trebly so when some dickhead parks their RV in the road at an intersection which forces everyone to, quite literally, pull into the lane to see if there's oncoming traffic. And I'm still waiting to get doored while cycling by some dipshit parked on-street for their half-mile unburdened commute since despite the very evident easy-reasonable-good use for our 4mi² town bike lanes are actually just parking.

All of this makes roadfaring in any capacity unnecessarily obnoxious, and I would say it's a glaring oversight which has many, many invisible downstream costs.
I agree the pocket integration on Kobo is the thing that sets it apart from the rest. I lost my Kobo a while back and bought a onyx boox, and although I have an almost full fledged android E-ink tablet-ish ereader now. I resent to pick it up since it's so dependent on data and electricity, I don't feel I can always just use it.
Matchmaking has been a blessing and a curse
Also self-evident: the existence and nonexistence of God.
I think it's a matter of the 'tradinionalist' mindset in doctor education

most doctors will think "well, I went through a hardcore intesnse experience in medical school, therefore that's how it should be"

I'm saying they've normalized overwork as part of their specific subculture of modern medical professionals. they really believe they won't be as good doctors without this arguably abusive overwork system

it's yet another group of people who all belive in some form of the "no pain, no gain" mindset; the issue is these groups don't give nobody anything unless there's some harm or pain involved
But the use of each work is very minuscule in sum and is generally, if not always, an original new work. How is a Mona Lisa in the style of Van Gho a violation of the copyright of Mona Lisa or Van Gho? It is a new and unique work. Makes it a legitimate use. In fact, in certain cases the entire work can be used and is considered fair use.
As someone who has given numerous talks at conferences, 100% yes. This is all good advice.

"What new skills do I want my audience to have, and know how to use, when they leave this room?"

That's effectively the same thing as the way I look at it. "What actionable thing do I want people to take away from this talk?"

I will add: Practice! You should have given your talk multiple times before you ever give it publicly, and you should have watched it. That means recording yourself and watching yourself and listening to yourself. Yes, this takes time. But it's important.

Also: do NOT plan to do live demos or live coding. You can easily record these and present them and know they work. They are edited, there are no mistakes, and things happen. You can even make the joke that it was "live coding when you recorded it."

Yes, if you have to answer a question with some live coding, fine. But it doesn't need to be live. No one wants to watch you typo stuff, complain about the network, etc. Just record it. If "recording it takes too much time" then doing it live is going to suck.
Yea Michelangelo hasn’t produced in a while now probably due to motivation, it’s hard out there for an artist who is just trying to break into the scene.
I totally agree with your general point, but in case you haven’t tried it, disabling “Slide to type” massively improves iOS keyboard accuracy.

(Picked up the tip from another thread on here about how sloppy the iOS keyboard is, and have subjectively found it to be a big improvement.)
Public healthcare doesn't work.

They just get progressively worse and start adding expenses for the patients. The quality is terrible, despite the propaganda. The best companies were offering private healthcare with their offer.

I've seen it happen in two countries, now I live in one which just made most of private healthcare (which is excellent quality) available as public. It's working well for now but they're spending a ridiculous amount of money and it's not sustainable. Doctors are happy, I'm not because my taxes increased from 12.5% to 15%.

Public mismanagement is huge, they'll screw it up.

The USA government needs to stop being in bed with insurance companies to make everything expensive, then your private system will be fine.
Short version: if you include interest rates in the inflation metric, 2022 looked bad.
Can Pilots Leave the Cockpit Mid-Flight?
Artificially limiting the supply of doctors is one way of rationing healthcare and holding down costs. Healthcare in the UK is largely funded through the NHS. Voters are already financially struggling and don't want to pay higher taxes. In some cases, even emergency patients are waiting hours in ambulances because hospitals are so overloaded.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-68171254
as long as the client has money in their savings account*
Ways to Understand LLMs Intuitively
Live-patching code so that a call to something becomes a call to something else.
Statements like this tell me your analysis is poisoned by misunderstandings:
"Why is this crazy? Well, it’s crazy that GPT’s quality and generalization can improve when you’re more vague – this is a quintessential marker of higher-order delegation / thinking."
No, there is no "higher-order thought" happening, or any at all actually. That's not how these models work.
I think, that is a bit besides the point I wanted to make.

Yes, it is very hard to know a priori, what is life-saving, and what not.
No, I do not wanted to suggest that the work of doctors it is not important.

The common understanding of doctors (their self-understanding included) is, that their work is very important, to the point that they exploit themselves. Or allow themselves to be "exploited".

In this forum, more commonly you have people here working on productive systems, which can empathize with the feeling the responsibility for the operations and not wanting to drop the ball.

People with that mindset think, they may safe a patient / the system, but working oneself to exhaustion won't solve those problems. And on the contrary, the exhaustion may be a contributing factor of making things worse in various ways. One directly by your actions, the other indirectly by covering up systemic problems.
Kinda funny how neutrality is hurting consumers. I dont think many of us thought about this potential benefit.
It's easier for the public to recognize and be outraged about 237 dead airline passengers compared to 237 dead patients even if both are caused by overtired pilots or "providers" (I hate that word for it's vagueness).
This can happen in any work.

But I concede, medicine is grueling - not worth the money if you ask me.
extreme Bayesian reasoning
I think it has to do with the cost structure of the good. Healthcare is dominated by labour costs, which means in industrializing economies it lags behind in productivity and labour starts getting squeezed to try and keep prices at a reasonable level. A pilot, despiute being in a highly skilled profession, is only a small part of the puzzle when it comes to the cost of flights.
People need to accept the legitimacy of government and laws, especially local where you have the most direct representation and influence.

Stop complaining. Either change the rules or shut up.

If everyone on SF hates these rules they will be easy to change.
It did break everything, but I'd hardly call it a mistake. Python3 is more popular than its predecessor ever was. It was very painful for many people, yes, but it doesn't seem to have hurt the language much if at all.
In contrast to ballistic missiles, you don't know where drones are heading.
I usually dislike Forbes but this was a great article.
im not able to do this, can you explain?
After hearing about a new concept in JavaScript, our protagonist (me) proceeds to tell Chat GPT to teach them using simple examples. The idea mostly works.
> For bootstrappers, the approach I've heard of is simply just nicheing down to find a segment of the market that is big enough to support you, but small enough to not be worth it to bigger players.

Thank you, as someone hoping to bootstrap myself this is makes sense. Any idea how to make the niche smaller? The broader market I'm thinking of is huge (likely billions of customers), I suppose I could charge more to narrow it down but that has other risks.
Because doctors' associations and regulatory bodies (like AAMC in the US) lobby to keep it that way to keep the value of their profession up.
That is a very good point. Why buy big iron "pets" when you can buy x86 "cattle"? It works for a lot of stateless apps and services. A node dies, and k8s quickly moves the workloads to new nodes.

It does take some work to accomplish this on more complex apps, though. Things like SQL databases and rabbitmq are very often single points of failure in practice. At smaller companies, it's often easier to stick them on more resilient hardware than to architect an active/active or active/failover system. I agree that this isn't the best way to do it, and IMHO any important service should have HA of some sort.

That said, I use x86 based machines for all my personal projects, and I wouldn't buy IBM systems if I owned a tech startup just because they're like 10x the price of x86.
They're in a bank. In person. How can an SMS be considered safer than that?
I know, but it's important in this context.

"Browsers are for browsing internet. So many of them are now turning into bloatware."

This person is implying internet as only the web, when the reality is, suites would access more than just the web. To suggest they are "for browsing [web]" only is 100% wrong, and history shows them.

So, normally your comment would be appropriate, but it ignores context and the discussion at hand. Context is important, and you shouldn't ignore it.
I think having more physicians is the core thing.

The US stands out in having so few physicians per capita (per 1000 it's 3.6 in the US, here in Sweden it's 7.1, in Germany 4.5, Spain in 4.6). This has been discussed before here before, and I don't think it was controversial that a sensible solution was to simply have more physicians.

I think one major thing that the US is doing wrong with that which is not so well known is that the training starts rather late in life. Thus you get less out of the physicians you train. Here in Sweden a physician has a MSc in medicine and is ready to meet patients and be trained when he's 23, and I think this has the benefit that there's no need to overwork them.

By the time they're 30 they'll have all the experience the need without having been overworked, and not sleeping enough kills intelligence, memory, drive, all mental qualities one may have.

I think these two policies, ensuring that people graduate earlier-- removing the pre-med and having people start right away with a medicine program, and graduating in 5.5 years, that's the right approach.

Physicians would earn less, but they'd have substantially better lives. Being able to start younger also means success younger, and happier families.
Could be small, hard to track, coming in unknown numbers and unknown times. Maybe most get shot down but some get through.
We got RULER 3 days ago.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06654

https://github.com/hsiehjackson/RULER
It imposes the real cost of the goods including externalities. The costs will be borne by somebody, why not the consumer of the good?

It also encourages people to find ways to get goods to consumers that are more efficient.
My assumption is that is a doctor does nothing the situation will get worse. So therefore them doing anything is seen as a step in the right direction, they will improve things over the base line?

A pilot isn’t in charge of a deteriorating situation, then doing something could make things worse below the base line (a tiredness induced mistake) so therefore make sure the only do stuff when fit to do so?

Note I’ve used questions on both of these examples as it’s more of a half thought and a feeling that a statement or fully fleshed out thought.

I guess the summary is, I’d rather have a tired doctor work on me in an emergency than no doctor work on me. I’d rather not fly on the plane than have a dangerously tired pilot fly the plane.

That’s being said the system clearly needs improving and we need more medical professionals to balance the work load.
We need to ticket all of these people, and tax city car use on an income based scale. It should cost you an enormous amount of money to have a car in the city. Car ownership is antisocial, if the government was doing it's job it would he heavily disincentivized.
I assume this similar to the west when we give our own industry subsdies ? Why are we not using "Dominate" in the headlines when we do it?

Or am i missing something?
I'm not suggesting that anyone here will make $3 per minute shooting random videos, whether those videos are "man walking outside", or "family gathers at the fireplace". The distinction between those types of videos was not pertinent. I was pointing out that making videos for the purpose of training AI doesn't require you to put 10 hours of effort into making a 10 minute video, like for example, Youtube creators might do.
It's not public domain anymore. It's Italy's domain.

Companies should be more willing to stop doing business with countries that produce crazy rulings like this.
Nice, but needs some more attention to variant (but equivalent) responses.

For example, for one of the questions in the first module I selected "Other", then typed "Error" (in the free-form response box). The answer it was looking for was "error" (lower-case e).

Either it should accept both, or if you're really insistent on distinguishing the two, it should be made more clear at the beginning that system messages (rather than explicit results) are going to be case-sensitive. Counting "ABC" wrong when the expected answer is "abc" would be fair game. Counting "Error" wrong for a pseudo-language that hasn't even been formally defined is not, or so I see it.

Looking at some of the languages on which this is claims to be based:

In JavaScript, typing abc when it's undefined produces:
Uncaught ReferenceError: abc is not defined
at <anonymous>:1:1
(anonymous) @ VM33:1

(note capital E in ReferenceError)

In Python3 you get:

NameError: name 'abc' is not defined. Did you mean: 'abs'?

(again, note capital E in NameError)

In Racket 8.9 you get:

abc: undefined;
cannot reference an identifier before its definition

(no 'error' of any kind!)

I didn't install OCaml, because I need another "package manager" like I need a hole in the head.

Java: does not compile, although to be fair the compiler error message does have an 'error with lower-case e' in it.

C#: Yeah, not gonna install that either.

This may seem extremely nit-picky (and it is), but when you're teaching people who've never programmed before, and who may have never even encountered the concept of case sensitivity before ("But Google doesn't care even if I type in all caps!"), nit-picky is the way it needs to be.

As I said, I do like this, but it needs more attention paid to parsing free-form responses. The problem is not unique to this system, of course. The free-form response is where most systems of this general type tend to fail.
It's really funny math, based solely on the idea I borrow enough with floating interest rates, pegged to treasuries. <sarcasm>but it confirms I am suffering, therefore it is correct</sarcasm>
Whenever I read either an English article about a Japanese business doing well or highly paid Japanese gig worker saying how much he earns (always from Tokyo and not the conservative parts of Japan) I always get suspicious.

I'm suspicious because often these are publicity stunts (as covered before in Japanese media) using Western audience to test the waters before legitimizing themselves in Japan. The neural-pathways are almost always the same in the japanese psyche: "gaijins stealing our X is bad, if Western media talk about it then it must be true so we must protect our X"
> Nowhere does he acknowledge the risks to his patients or whether the costs are worth it in the end, or if a different system might be better

c.f.

"...everything is rushed, and mistakes are bound to occur."

"I am realising more and more that what brings me greatest distress is the relentless administrative pressure which take away the meaningful clinical engagement I have with my patients."

"I was burned out and I couldn’t control my emotions at work and at home. I’m not inherently an offensive or rude person, I’m just a person pushed to the limits and set to fail because of the circumstances around my work."

> In the end in his mindset whatever he's complaining about is better than the alternatives, which is ceding over some of the care responsibilities to others or opening up healthcare to a more competitive market so he's not the only provider who could provide those service

This is Australia, which does not have artificial restrictions on the supply of doctors to the same extent. On the other hand, they don't have a surplus of surgeons nor can nurse practitioners do the work

> (note the comment about denying other physicians income).

Yah, he's saying that if he doesn't come in, the backlog gets worse, and other people don't get paid.

> He's proud he's never sought help or tried to change anything.

He says he would like to seek support, but highlights the structural problems that prevent it:

"I know where I can get support, but practically, when and how am I going to get that support?"

"In addition, doctors who scream for help may be formally reported, therefore having restrictions placed on their practice and then incurring higher medical indemnity fees in some situations. Trainees who ask for help may be labelled as underperforming and have to be commenced on probation or remediation. We may not have practical access to the support that are often advertised."

I absolutely am in agreement with you that the things done to artificially lower the supply of residency training in the US are terrible. But those criticisms don't seem to apply to this essay.
This why I postulated "a new kind of cyber insurance" rather than what the industry has already cooked up.

The implication is: This new insurance would be legally obligated to actually fund stuff.
Only $108 per ticket seems low to me. Depending on how often they write tickets it may still be worth it for residents to park on the sidewalk:

If monthly rent in SF is between $4.63 and $5.35/sqft[1] then the value of an additional ~130sqft[2] room would be at least $600/month. An unfinished garage space is probably a little less so let's say the value of a garage is $500/month. As long as you get four or fewer tickets per month then it's still cost-effective to continue to park your private vehicle in the public right-of-way and continue to use your garage for an office, gym, storage, other car, etc.

Something similar happened in NYC. Renting a garage became more expensive than just paying a couple street sweeping tickets a week so many people started keeping their car on the street and treating the tickets as a parking fee.

[1] https://www.renthop.com/average-rent-in/san-francisco-ca
[2] https://www.dimensions.com/element/parking-spaces
Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next
GPS has been jammed in Israel for a while, not sure they can hit anything meaningful
And everything is always a critical business initiative, because otherwise some senior manager is worried everyone will realize his job is pointless.
Most of these people would repeat the common lines of taxation is theft, government is bad, prefer small government, complain about things like that existence of USPS/FDA (and an inaccurate story about peanut butter)/health instructors, and all those things you'd stereotype of those positions. They'd also take positions like you say about things like drugs (despite the state having a lot of dry counties, including the one Jack Daniels is in...).

Truth is that people say they believe a lot of things but don't act as if those beliefs are true. I think people like labels more than beliefs.

A common one is how common it is to say that all politicians are corrupt. I know people that say that like it's a catch phrase and then when we talk post voting they vote in incumbents. ¯\ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Transparency is part of the problem. It makes the anti-competitive practice easier to carry out because customers don't know they're getting screwed. But there's still a potential anti-trust issue even with perfect information.

Suppose Facebook doesn't want anyone using their competitors, so they subsidize the cost on some ISPs that then block their competitors. The customers of those ISPs are 15% of the market, and they know the other competitors are blocked, but they want the discount. Then the other 85% of people have to use Facebook in order to communicate with anyone on one of those ISPs, and social networks have a network effect, so now everybody is stuck on Facebook even if they don't use one of those ISPs, because they know somebody who does. This is anti-competitive and so an anti-trust problem.
If a bank teller doesn't know that multiple pieces of government-issued identity documentation are a stronger form of authentication than insecure SMS, ask for a manager.

TOTP 2FA is more secure than SMS and it works on an offline iPod Touch. There are also VOIP-based SMS services.
The author of this post sounds like an obnoxious person frankly.
TL;DR

The discussion is framed around a detailed examination of the evidence related to the early COVID-19 cases, including contradictions and ambiguities in the reported connections to the Huanan seafood market. It questions the initial assumption that the virus directly emerged from this market, considering other potential sources, including the possibility of a lab-associated incident.

Alexander contrasts various points of view, highlighting the complexity of drawing definitive conclusions from the available data. The debate also touches on epidemiological data, such as the early spread of the virus and its genetic mutations, to scrutinize the lab leak hypothesis further. The review uses a critical lens to assess the strength of the evidence and the reasoning presented by different stakeholders in the debate.