skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I had (minor) surgery in France, I was given antibiotics "as a shield". I obviously do not know if this helped or not.

Now, French doctors were always very quick to prescribe antibiotics (as a kid I had plenty of them) and it took quite a lot of effort to change their(and parent's) mind. My children got much less, though they were almost never checked for virus vs bacterial infection.
Yeah, I would read this and assume the 2 ends of the spectrum are "autistic and not-autistic," considering what the word "spectrum" means.
Yes, but creating tv/movie is much much more expensive.
but the alternative isn't having no doctor at all, but to get more doctors, so the "basic game theory" is about why the limits on more doctors stay in place despite the higher risk of death etc.
I don't vote. The statistical insignificance of me changing the outcomes and the net benefit I get from it is a joke.

These people don't even know I exist.

edit:

also, biden is not my president.

(bc im not a us citizen lol, we have other clowns in our local circus)
Seems like the code they added in place of the call to the huge libsystemd should be in a little library that all the other programs that need to perform systemd_notify may use. Seems like systemd should ship that library, or split out the part of their massive (789981 bytes in the text section) library that does just that bit. And probably split out other parts.
Ehm, no thanks. REMOTE work YES, hybrid no. Hybrid, short workweeks etc are made as kind of cadeau to keep people in cities, witch is at all illogical and unsustainable. People in cities in the modern time means just service slaves who live spending the 100% they earn in services, as human puppet of some large puppeteer.
aka The darker side of having people who wouldn't make it through the first four weeks of med school managing health services.
I know America strictly limits the number of people who can become doctors every year. Does Australia have a similar system?

It seems insane to me to first limit how many there can be, and then overwork the ones you do allow to become doctors.
The informed customers aren't the issue. If Disney is paying to make Netflix look bad, it's because somebody is getting fooled into thinking Netflix is to blame for this, otherwise what is Disney getting for their money? So that plan is an anti-competitive measure, regardless of whether it also presents an arbitrage opportunity for customers who don't care about video streaming. If its only customers were the arbitrageurs then Disney would have no reason to pay and it wouldn't exist.
A ppbar proton-antiproton bound pair. pp̄ - It's structurally similar to 'muonic hydrogen' (H-μ).
Sherman's march achieved its aims; Reconstruction fell a bit short.
(At least some) of the new generation of doctors appears to be better about refusing overwork. AFAICT that's a large component of the doctor shortage here in Canada -- the ratio of doctors to patients is better than ever but if a doctor "only" does 40 hours a week you need more of them.
The word luck has no meaning. Otherwise everything is luck.
The problems with prohibition are well documented. There's a good reason we re-legalized alcohol, and we suffer those same problems with the current prohibitions (the creation of a multibillion-dollar organized crime market).

I think it's important that we define exactly what it is that we're trying to mitigate / accomplish with drug laws in general. If it's the reduction of harm, then we're going about it completely wrong.

The overwhelming majority of overdoses are from opioids [1] and yet we treat lsd, mdma, cocaine, and a whole slew of psychedelics exactly the same as heroin. There's evidence [2] that suggests that prescription opioids drive abuse behavior.

It's known that fentanyl adulteration drives a significant portion of OD deaths [3] even if it's hard to get good numbers on how many of these ODs are adulterated compounds vs just fentanyl because of how the numbers are reported. If we legalized everything but opioids, a significant portion of these ODs could be easily avoided.

The DEA has failed it's mandate, and it's time to disband them, end the prohibition, and focus on harm reduction techniques rather than incarceration. We could also spend a little more time reigning in "legitimate" organizations like Purdue Pharma, who cause unarguable harm in the guise of medicine.

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html

2 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6224673_Illicit_Use...

3 - https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2022/05/what-is-...
I don't think any of the common suspects targeted Win 3.1 (or its beta version of Win32). Most of them shipped with a DPMI kernel (Dos4GW being common), which Win3.1 happened to also provide, but I can't recall if, say, DOOM even ran under Win3.1 at the time as 4GW did a lot more than DPMI.
Cinnamon

Best obtained via LMDE
> but to get more doctors

Have you found that magic fountain of endless doctors?
The Ethical Cloud
Yeah, I've got some numbers that would make me move, but most traditional w2 jobs don't come close. I know they exist, but just not plentiful.
I’m all for looking out for the less fortunate, but people running businesses are people too with spouses, children, mortgages, etc. they need to live a sustainable life too. Pricing something to market value is not necessarily a bad thing.
I helped install the combat systems on a CVN, so I can speak pretty authoritatively on how that process works. It's not different on different ships, that contracting process is very cookie cutter. Contractors don't get to choose how they want to run cables. Everything is carefully specified and if it's not followed nobody gets paid and they have to rip it out at their own expense.
This has always driven me nuts. We're ALL "on the spectrum," if you just stop and think for a moment before saying it. That's what a spectrum is.
I'm no golf expert but I don't think this is how you do it

https://stockcake.com/i/golfers-perfect-swing_656278_515716

They have some very specific niches covered though, such as "soldier petting a dog with both right hands"

https://stockcake.com/i/soldier-embracing-dog_655559_294061

And "cat space adventure, wait, oh god we accidentally overfitted the model on dogecoin memes"

https://stockcake.com/i/cosmic-cat-adventure_353671_432927
IDE: IntelliJ. I love the various JetBrains products and can’t imagine giving them up.

Basic text editor: BBEdit. Simple, clean, FAST, plenty of feature if you need them.
100% agree: hybrid works and short workweeks are made as kind of gifts/bonuses to force people in cities instead of allowing remote work witch have the effect of depopulate congested and unlivable cities to spread toward smaller and less denser areas, witch means a good density for the modern economy of scale for all humans, except for giants who can't enslave people making them spending 100% of their income, no matter how small or big it is, in services.
Do different versions react to prompts in the same way? I imagined the prompt would be tailored to the quirks of a particular version rather than naturally being stably optimal across versions.
> find an enterprise that doesn't shy away from big budgets

How do you identify such enterprises?
LXQt is excellent in terms of resource efficiency and snappiness, although I suspect the person you replied to will have the same issue with it as they stated they had with XFCE (not "refined"?). It's a much lighter desktop environment than XFCE, from what I remember when I last tested them (~200MB vs XFCE's 0.5GB+).

It's a continuation of LXDE which was absorbed into another project when LXDE was discontinued, iirc
It would not pass the non-obviousness criteria. Both gene editing and the existence of pre-existing organelle are prior art, and combining those would be obvious to anyone in the field.
If you use non-cloudflare DNS, it should work.
(On MMLU)

Tangentially related, I just posted something about all the weights available models trying to beat GPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40024925
I actually really like this article, even though it’s clear the author has some sussy beliefs.
Systemd manages daemons. Sshd is a daemon. It knows when sshd has finished starting up, in case something else is waiting on that, and if it dies, and whether it needs to be shut down. If systemd didn't do it, something else would.

That is not to say systemd isn't a hypertrophied pig, but it does do important work.
oh god the visual.
> 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. And I wonder if this is what many young doctors are experiencing as well. Medicine used to be a meaningful pursuit. Now it has become a tiresome industry. The joy, purpose and meaning of medicine has been codified, sterilised, protocolised, industrialised and regimented. Doctors are caught in a web of business, no longer a noble vocation. The altruism of young doctors have been replaced by the shackles of efficiency, productivity and key performance indicators.

tl;dr: professional feels like a proletarian.
Sure, it's very easy! Just do things that prevent burnout (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8834764/) and the job gets more attractive, drawing more students and producing less attrition:

- Valuing work gives meaning (money, appreciation)

- Autonomy gives feeling of control

- Managing burden prevents overwork, exhaustion and fatigue
Closer to our time, in the comments from 2017 we have this:

> I live in General Sherman’s birthplace: Lancaster, Ohio. I learned quite some years ago not to tell anyone in the South where I was from, unless I prefaced it with the fact that I was born in Kentucky.
Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits
Obviously coming from Sequoia there won't be an bootstrapped approach, but I'd love to see one for that.

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.
If the garage is too small because the house is so old, I can almost understand. But if it’s because you have too much shit and you stuffed it in your garage, screw you, enjoy your tickets.
There's a lot of Rails bootcamps out there and it's still a popular option for beginners.
> Every use case we have is essentially “Here’s a block of text, extract something from it.” As a rule, if you ask GPT to give you the names of companies mentioned in a block of text, it will not give you a random company (unless there are no companies in the text – there’s that null hypothesis problem!).
Make it two steps, first:
> Does this block of text mention a company?
If no, good you've got your null result.
If yes:
> Please list the names of companies in this block of text.
Failure to vote, is not voting-for-no one. It is spliting your vote 50/50.

If you're happy with that then by all means, don't vote.

But please then don't complain about taxes, or depending, or policy, or whatever. If you think its all the same, then what's the point of complaining.

Personally, I don't think you'll ever find a politician who shares your exact set of values, much less a party. That's OK. For me, one party represents more of my values than the other. When push comes to shove I'd be happier with more than less.
Is Dr. Bronner's the Last Corporation with a Soul?
Dutch ebike maker VanMoof resumes sales on its own website
It's possible that people have evolved to be more attractive than a long time ago, but the issue is not of absolute beauty but rather relative attractiveness. There will always be a top 10% and a bottom 10%, even if the entire population increases in attractiveness across the board.

But separately, it's not clear that attractiveness is hereditary in the same way that height, for example, is. If two tall people have kids, they will almost certainly be tall. It's also incredibly unlikely that two short people will not have kids that are tall.

With attractiveness, heterogeneity between generations is much more common. I know some very attractive people who have not-very-attractive offspring, and vice versa. It depends on how the features of the two parents mix together.
I see little reason to think Bezos is on any sort of enhancement. He previously looked like he'd literally never worked out in his life, and probably also had a horrible diet. Put somebody like that in the gym with a proper diet and routine, and they're just going to blow up fast, even when starting late. Most people can't do it for lack of self discipline, but that's one thing he seems to have no lack of. And no idea what people are saying about Musk. He just seems like a typical yo-yo dieter with a hair transplant.

Also, it's relevant that Bezos is one of the guys blowing money on life extension tech. So I think there's 0 chance he sees anabolics (or other enhancements) as a good risk:reward when he certainly fantasizes about there being a possibility of life extension happening within his lifetime.
How it would work with startups that pay via non liquid equity?
Or what about innovative works that is not well funded. Most of jobs will go to large corporations while new businesses will suffer. And it will reinforce corporations even more.
Thank you. I started reading, then headed for the comments as one does with technology-induced adhd. Your comment made me finish the read and for that I am grateful.
Sorry, that is bollocks. That is the story most people believe, and makes for a convenient story for those people actually to blame. Funnily, it is also the story most doctors themselves seem to chose to believe in.

First, those are not the only choices. There is also the the option of training and hiring more doctors. 2

Probably, there is also an option of making more efficient use of doctors time, but that one is more complicated.

Most of the work of doctors is not life-saving.

I think, you see a standard problem of pushing shit down or up.
Government lowers budget, pushes quotas down, which gets pushed down further until it reaches the bottom rank and file, the doctors.

They have to "do more with less" (Not limited to public sector, see Boeing), and that works for a while, until it doesn't.
What about the meta-game, where doctors get burnt out or suicide, and that increases pressure on the remaining doctors, in a negative feedback loop.

We should impose work limits on doctors, just like pilots.
> The question is, why is it okay for medical professionals to wear themselves down to the bone (sometimes literally, like in this article), while some other professions take care to avoid it?

I think the answer here is that if you there aren't enough pilots, schedules can be reduced. You can't scale back (in any ethical way, anyway) the demand for healthcare. People will just die at a higher rate and outcomes will worsen.
Hi! My work is similar and I'd love to have someone to bounce ideas off of if you don't mind.

Your profile doesn't have contact info though. Mine does, please send me a message. :)
paying the bills? fuckin hell man it feels more like being held at gunpoint that being naturally inspired and motivated, but it works well for me.

when things are comfy and convenient i find myself slacking. having accountabilities and responsibilities forces me to perform and compete whether i like it or not. i hate it, a lot, but it keeps me alive. capitalism meets stockholm syndrome.
I share the same objection about the lack of regulation in the medical profession worldwide.

My best friend from high school became an MD and I witnessed doctors in training being proud of powering through extremely long, back to back shifts with little rest.

Meanwhile, as an engineer I've seen short and strict shift limits on employees operating machinery like trucks and forklifts. Under the obvious principle that insufficient sleep impairs judgement, put lives at risk and creates massive liability.
The author sounds unhinged. Also, their email address is kobld@proton.me, and Protonmail easily lets you block email addresses or entire domains. The author comes off as an attention-seeking baby.
I don't have much on the way of valuable insights or conversation starters, I just think this story is sweet and these 2 brothers obviously love the hell out of each other, made me happy to read :)
Learning Python with a little help from AI (2023)
For inpatient hospital care, research has shown that transitions in care are particularly risky for patients. When one doctor goes off shift and hands off a patient to another doctor, sometimes things fall through the cracks. In theory all of the data needed for a smooth transition should be documented in the patient chart, but in practice this doesn't always get done plus there is some tacit knowledge which clinicians build up by observing a particular patient which can't be put into words.

This risk of iatrogenic harm has been used to justify long hours, particularly for residents in teaching hospitals. I'm not saying that it's necessarily a good idea or that there are no better alternatives, just explaining some of the rationale.
The three factors mentioned (loss of control, loss of support, loss of meaning) are the pillars of occupational burnout, according to researchers like Christina Maslach.

In many cases, someone experiencing occupational burnout NEEDS extended time away from their work environment to heal. In severe cases, they might not be able to return to work at full capacity for years (or ever). This creates a negative feedback loop for understaffed doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers.
Have doctor’s unions helped before?
I think someone also did the math and figured out that having fewer handoffs side a patient led to better outcomes so now there’s pressure to have two doctors per24 hours instead of three or four.
Yeah it’s called correct incentives - I look at the over work, and insane stress levels that doctors suffer and I say “NO THANKS”

I am definitely not the only one
>I had worked in a hospital where I didn’t get home for days at a time, sleeping overnight in hospital quarters, outpatient clinic benches and in my car. I used to have my sleeping bag, toiletries and change in the boot of my car because I didn’t know if I was going to make it home some nights. Plans change every single day at work because of emergencies. I can’t even be sure what the next hour will bring when I am on call.

This is absolutely insane. Are we reading a town doctor's tale or a war tale?
Report is that shortly before the hole was reported, a PR had been posted requesting to remove the dependency on xz.
You haven’t seen me play.
Ctrl-F can already search the transcript on YouTube. I use it all the time. I guess this could be useful for videos YouTube doesn't have captions for.
For our company we are in 2 phases.
In the cloud, it's 'hair on fire'. MLOps is a hot space.
For on-premises, MLOps is basically download MLFlow and Kubeflow and you think you're sorted. So it's the 'hard fact' segment.
There was a philosopher who once wrote "all regimes exist under the consent of the governed." This should go double for the medical profession. They have the brains, the education--and in most cases, the money--to object, weather a fight if need be, and comfortably pivot if they lose. If the situation is intolerable, the person to blame is in the mirror. They are competitive people. The bureaucrats and administrators understand this, and use it to pull their strings--make them dance. Click. Click. Click.
I suppose that is one of the benefits of using a local model, that it reduces model risk. I.e., given a certain prompt, it should always reply in the same way. Using a hosted model, operationally you don't have that control over model risk.
stumbling on vb6 kn a computer.

being able to drag and drop text fields and buttons was majestic.
I think you might be projecting.
The AMA only allows a fixed number of seats in medical school.

There also can be tiers of medical doctors. Most doctoring work is routine, and can be handled by a more of a medical tech.
> Some people will pick the lowest price and not realize that the ISP offering it is taking kickbacks from incumbent services to degrade their own competitors

> And some people will pick the ISP where Disney's subsidizing the subscription to make Netflix look bad, and not care because they're only using the connection for SSH terminals and email

It seems unlikely that there are anywhere close to as many of the latter as the former
> Most of the work of doctors is not life-saving.

Yes, but working out which parts are and aren't critical is the $64,000 question.
Something I've never quite understood is why, in the UK, we cap the number of medical students per year. I've known very bright people who aspired to be doctors but had their applications turned down only to go on to do phds and become scientists instead. I'd rather have twice as many doctors who work sensible hours rather than the status quo burn out. Looks like there are calls to change this. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
I'd add one caveat.

"you came here to learn about <topic>, not me. Feel free to Google me if you want. Just please keep in mind that all teenagers make mistakes. It's not my fault you only made boring mistakes."

To make it work, you need to deliver the last line while seemingly preoccupied with something presentation-related. Otherwise, it seems hostile. An example could be as simple as pretending to change settings on microphone or moving one slide back, then forward twice. It conveys it was intended to be inner monologue
DSPy on Databricks
This is what happens when everything is financialized. There is no reason that we should be running doctors into the ground. Health professionals are a necessity in a functioning society. I know in the US Government seems to have no problem throwing money at corporations and providing endless tax breaks. But god forbid we proved a functioning health system.

For the US this needs to happen.

1) Medicare For All - a universal, no pay at service, insurance system, everyone taxed at 4% for it.

2) People that have the grades to make it to medical school should get a free ride.

3) Small Private practices should come back with free digital billing with the new health insurance system.

4) Price regulation on all basic medical supplies and medicines. No more $20 tongue depressors

5) All medicines researched at public Universities will not be sold or given to private industry. They will be licensed. That money goes back into supporting this system.
I had a problem with a neighbor who would constantly park over the sidewalk and block it completely.

I knocked on his door and politely asked him to stop. He reacted in the worse way possible and tried to intimidate me while never opening his storm door. This caused me to laugh and it made him even more angry.

He refused to move the truck and my wife and I refused to push our child’s stroller into the street. So I called our city’s police non emergency number.

I thought the city would send out an officer to speak to the guy. Nope. They just sent a tow truck and towed it without even knocking on the guy’s door.

I had that guy’s truck towed four times in less than two months.

He made multiple posts on Nextdoor and to my surprise many individuals came to his defense and supported him parking on the sidewalk.
I'm curious how education or entertainment companies fit into this framework, or how they think about PMF in general.

Was Duolingo targeting customers who accepted the "hard fact" that passive audio was the only way to learn a language? Was MasterClass a "future vision" because people didn't believe celebrities would spend their time teaching? Or is it that we NEED education and entertainment, so these two providers just differentiated from a crowded market.
Well put! Nice framing.