skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2021 I presented my doctor a hypothesis that a COVID infection I had recently was persisting in my body leading to long term symptoms. They told me I was completely wrong and that RNA viruses do not do that.

Fast forward to today and the NIH director and leading scientists believe this has backing proof.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/03/427241/covid-19-virus-can-...

https://www.science.org/content/article/long-covid-trials-ai...

It has taken me almost three years to convince my doctor on the rationale of using therapeutics acting as COVID antivirals to treat my chronic symptoms. I now have to wait until clinical trials present data hopefully this summer to at least try.

So I hope this is a story to show that patients are helping doctors think. And it is very slow going.
> The team have named the species Ichthyotitan severnensis, meaning “giant fish lizard of the Severn”.

I wonder what part of that they think means "lizard".
Odd to get downvoted for adding my perspective on why it feels rendered.

Even more odd to get a response like this that has certainty without any facts or debate.
Thus demonstrating more common sense than the indigenous who don't budge from contracting areas?
Have not read this article behind the paywall.

I assumed that in India many buildings are not being finished, because there will be some kind of taxation upon finishing the building construction.

So it makes sense to keep the upper floor indefinitely unfinished. Keep some tools, bricks and cement bags lying around, in order to show to an inspector, if one shows up.
If someone wanted to learn antenna design and eventually sigint, what resource would you start with?
Nobody? Tons of people are using Bing, because their IT-skilled family members only reset it to Google on Christmas and Thanksgiving, but Microsoft resets it to Bing every other Edge update
I'm only 20 years into my career, but my retrospective would be that I wish I'd realized that work sucks and that software was not going to save the world a little sooner. Then I would have focused less on impressing business people and people one level above me in the org chart. They talk about a work-life balance, but don't believe it: there shouldn't be a balance, the scale should be tipped toward the life part.
I use this technique in a few of my projects:

https://reversedns.space/ (a map of the Internet) - Morton curve is used as a visualization tool;

https://adsb.exposed/ (a visualizer of air traffic) - Morton curve is used as a database index;

Both projects are open-source, so you can find how exactly it is applied: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/blob/main/setup.s...
I think understanding what services specifically you’re paying for would be a good start.

With things like session replay or distributed tracing, you might find that the best thing is to simply do without.

If your issue is paying for big-3 cloud companies, you could migrate to running on a cheaper provider like digital ocean, linode or hetzner, and not use expensive value add products. You could use a single DB or compute cluster for multiple projects and so on.

In terms of organization, you don’t need to necessarily run multiple businesses. You could run one business with multiple product lines. It might be easier to keep on top of things by approaching it that way.
> The center for Medicare and Medicaid is the primary source of graduate medical education (residency) funding. Per the Graham Center interactive GME data tool Mt. Sinai received around $175k a year per resident, and pays them a salary of $84,479\year, leaving 90K to pay for their “education.”

This is straight up fraud and should be treated as such.

My wife wanted to be a nurse her whole life, went to school and got a good job, after 3 years at the hospital she had to quit for her own sanity. Every nurse and resident in her circle had a similar story.

U.S. hospitals are for profit assembly lines. Managers with MBAs that have never worked a shift on the floor in their life see staff as fungible. Throwing a pizza party when patient quotas are met, instead of you know, hiring more to relieve overworked and stressed employees.

Seemingly every motivated and caring person in this field is systematically chewed up and spit out.
Reminder that on Android you can pin the subscriptions shortcuts to your homepage, and open that directly.

Depends on the launcher, but usually: long tap the YouTube app, then long tap the subscriptions entry and move.
The sphere are being very aggressively about writing and sending articles to major news sites as paid advertisements...
Grassy front yards are a complete waste of space and water. Kids don't play on them. The person who uses a front yard to grow food is pretty rare.

At the end of the day, too, we have a housing crisis, not a front-yard crisis.
Beware, popups and more popups
Even the MuPDF native app fails?
I could tell. It loaded nearly instantly and rendered as fast it was loaded. (Also, I read that article on one beautiful afternoon in the summer of 2008.)
Or maybe Twitter would have also pushed back, but it wouldn’t have been news because Elon wouldn’t have been involved.
or there isn't and you're just looking for things to argue about?

There are humans with significantly reduced cognition that one could also argue would not be troubled by such a deal;

Families would care
Tbh, I don't understand the fixation on async/await in any language, and the last place where I would want to have that baked in is the stdlib (instead even with async/await available the lowest 'async stdlib layer' should use simple completion callbacks, which can then be wrapped in a higher level async/await compatible API if desired - although the original Zig async/await actually had a solution for the function color problem, which made such an 'async-agnostic' layering less important).

Async/await is a nice-to-have syntax sugar, but not required to write asynchronous code, and considering the substantial under-the-hood complexity I'm not sure if async/await is a good thing overall, especially in a low level systems programming language like Zig (or FWIW, also Rust and C++).

Arguably, promises are an important concept in JS because it's a convenient and composable method to let code complete "in the background" without proper multithreading, but promises work just fine without the async/await code transformation magic (which even in JS is just the cherry on the top, but not a must-have feature).

> sanitary minimal API for a stack object + state machine + set/longjmp builtin primitives

Traditional async/await doesn't use most of that but instead relies on the compiler to transform sequential 'async code' into a switch-case state machine. What you want sounds more like green threads / fibers with stack switching. This isn't portable to some platforms where the call stack isn't accessible (like WASM). But as I wrote above, I think that lowest layer should simply be 'stdlib functions with completion callbacks'. Those low level functions can then be wrapped into all sorts of asynchronous/multithreading runtimes.

FWIW, I think a stack-switching fiber runtime should be possible in Zig without special language primitives, because Zig has inline assembly: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Assembly
You can try to go through the amateur radio extra class.
But it’s correct. Without independent verification, you can never, ever trust anything that the magic robot tells you. Of course this may not matter so much for very low-stakes applications, but it is still the case.
It is very hard to find good info on this. I had to piece it together from multiple sources. But here's GPT-4 has to say on this topic:

Magnesium plays a crucial role in the relaxation of muscles at a cellular level. Magnesium ions are necessary for the proper functioning of the muscle cell's contractile machinery. The muscle contraction and relaxation process is regulated by the movement of calcium ions into and out of the muscle cell. When a nerve impulse reaches a muscle cell, it triggers the release of calcium ions from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (a type of intracellular membrane) into the cytosol (the fluid inside the cell). This causes the muscle filaments (actin and myosin) to bind together, resulting in muscle contraction.

To relax the muscle, the calcium ions need to be pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum. This process is facilitated by the protein called Calcium-ATPase. Magnesium ions are necessary to activate this protein and pump the calcium ions back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Additionally, magnesium ions also inhibit the release of calcium ions from the sarcoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol, helping to prevent muscle contraction.

Therefore, adequate levels of magnesium are required to maintain normal muscle function and prevent muscle cramping and spasms. If magnesium levels are too low, muscles can become overactive, leading to cramps and spasms.
Nice. What game is that card from?

And I like the idea of meeting folks in London Mensa, my IQ is probably not high enough to be a member AFIAK, I’m perhaps top 10%-20% IQ, but that’s not all bad either. But I’ve met some people in Mensa that I’d not consider to possess a good comprehension of the world works. I’ll always remember the article on the how the man with the world’s highest IQ had almost debilitating intellect. And I tend to feel uncomfortable in environments that reinforce “we are so smart aren’t we?” I dunno! Part of me is afraid of committing in any one direction for fear of losing myself. But I suppose like skiing, “the mountain behind you is not your friend.” I ponder the quote from Kurt Vonnegut: “We are whatever we pretend to be” a lot. I think I’m good at pretending but do not yet know who I really am. I don’t need to pierce my nose or dye my hair to figure that out, but I am exploring psychedelics in a guided manner to unlock whatever subconscious feelings I might need help accessing. We’ll see!
Unless you're on classic Mac OS if we are being pedantic :-)
Hypothetically, if one had good reason to believe a certain medication/treatment would work, and has some degree of risk-tolerance, they could acquire said medication online from other countries without trying to convince some doctor willing to listen to prescribe it.
It matters for switches and things releasing in a physical sense, so muscles may not come into it. Also, there are issues with high voltage DC contactors welding themselves closed in high demand EV situations because they were sized incorrectly or had poor control.
Is/was this something specific to Europe and UK? I'm in the U.S., born in '66, and I've never heard of this before.
Andre Onana uses Vaseline on his gloves – our goalkeeping expert finds out why
> Wang noted that for a small group of graders (about 5%) that grade from Z to A, the grade gap flips as expected

This is critical. Otherwise we could not discount some group (e.g. some ethnicity) disproportionately occupying one end of the alphabet or another.

Super interesting and important finding. I hope this gets wide visibility and universities take a break from politicking to fix the problem - presumably through enforced randomizing.
Between the official nvidia drivers and Linuxulator, FreeBSD can run CUDA applications, but it's a bit hacky

No other BSDs can
I was expecting this to be an article about a phishing attack that allowed some rando to run his own fun stuff on the Sphere. Of course, the ultimate use of the Sphere would be to project a BSOD on the outside.
I clicked on a random open problem and found https://www.erdosproblems.com/170. The text of the problem didn't make sense. The wikipedia article stated the problem much more nicely which was thankfully linked from the OP's website.

Wish the problem could be stated more simply on the main site as well. Will certainly try and help the owner of the website.
You can learn the lambda calculus in a few hours.

If you read just the first page of the linked paper and work through a few examples, you will likely already know enough about it to read the book. It's really just like equational reasoning in mathematics.
How much time do you actually have to spend in San Francisco? I've seen 3 months mentioned, but also relocating...
I went to my older sister's informatics class when I was 6, at 7 my parents got me a half-broken (no persistent memory) BK-0011M (a Soviet PDP-11-compatible BASIC computer), and at that point I knew what I was going to do.
Been there done that. In some ways the best time of my life, and another ways the worst time of my life. However momentary homelessness does put things into perspective for a person.
What's important? Having that flashy new car or driving that junker that I must work on every two months.
Keeping up with the Joneses or living frugally? There's a big difference between needs and wants.
Making smart financial choices so that I can have a spine when speaking to my boss? Yes.

Post script: People can get a new job before quitting their current job...
Post script two: People can also bring issues up to leadership in a respectful way that doesn't risk unemployment. If someone's leadership is a tyrannical, it's probably best to get fired anyhow. Oppression is never a good feeling; be it from a boss or a government.
the 80s are forever 20 years ago
We have a Sony A95K; the 55" model.

I don't watch TV unless I'm with my wife, but when we do, we get stunningly accurate 4K HDR video at any time of day, faithful color reproduction because the panel is QD-OLED (I had to tune it a little beforehand; I still need to color calibrate it), and the ability to tilt the display based on where we're sitting.

You can get those with a projector, but you need space, a good panel to project against, and, most importantly, a REALLY GOOD projector (Epsons that can do this are $2k+, which is how much our TV was).

That said, a projector can't be beat for watching stuff outside (though, again, you need a really good projector to watch anything during the day)
Wikipedia is consistently fast, reliable, free, invaluable, current and transparent and has been for years and years. It’s a cornerstone of the internet. I’d wager it’s the internet at its best.

So yeah I’m not seeing the issue here.
Seems like a good thing that purdue lets many students into engineering who can't hack it(i couldn't!). If they didn't have mayn failing that would mean they would be rejecting too many edge case students who might be able to make it through the program.

Don't get her argument that someone willing to show up to a 7:30am class is necessarily smart enough for o-chem. Tendentious
I would assume that GP is referring to the problem of induction. Basically, your reasoning seems to be circular.
I couldn't have written it better than Phil. I think it is important to take some time out for yourself.
Apparently the author recently sold the project to a company called apilayer: https://lukas.im/2020/01/30/selling-dehydrated/index.html

They plan to keep the project open source and employ Lukas to continue maintaining it.
Yes, it wasn't a thing in the US, but basically all televisions in Europe had a text mode for this, and it was very popular when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.
You need money to say money does not matter :)
That the answer to a cultural-intellectual problem is monetary is not fully convincing to me. Do we really want 30% more attending physicians of the orientation this article describes?

These all seem like valid, but unrelated complaints. On one hand, there is a complaint that doctors are judged subjectively, rather than objectively. But in the next breath those same objective metrics are skewered as deductive and maybe even greedy.

The current attending physicians, according to the author, have a population-wide cultural problem where they don't believe they should have to teach. The author's solution to this problem is to hire more attending physicians.

Many of the issues raised in this article merit investigation, but this piece feels too eclectic in its thesis to serve as a launchpad for policy direction.
I suppose it's to be expected since they spent $2.3bil on a music venue and sell tickets for hundreds to thousands per seat.
Short Term Rentals do not help, but ... as someone who has been doing housing stuff for a few years now, they're one of several bogeymen that people want so badly to be 'the real problem'. But they aren't. It's your neighbors who show up to oppose housing, like this crowd at a hearing I attended to support some apartments: https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-housing...

That's 40 homes (aka 'units') that are not built, and it's not because of STR's, foreign buyers, Blackstone or whatever other bogeyman.

That happens all over the place, every single day.
My first PC had a Cyrix "P166+" running at 133MHz. That CPU used almost twice the power of a Pentium running at the same clock speed, yet many PC vendors put the same fans on both.

As a result, under heavy load, my PC would crash rather often, leading me to curse audibly until somebody pointed out the power vs fan issue to me and recommended I get a bigger fan. So I did. After that, it ran pretty stable.

Cyrix made a trade of in that CPU, the integer performance was far better than that of a Pentium at the same clock speed, the floating point performance lagged far behind. I got that machine in the summer of 1996, and then all my friends started playing Quake, which made me sad. Playing Quake (let alone Quake II) on that machine was more like staring at a slideshow. A 3dfx card was way outside my budget, unfortunately.
Here's what I found about the underlying system
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/the-software-behind-the-hi...
and the Hitachi Vantara Press Release:
https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/news/gl240307

"27 nodes, with 4PB of flash storage for playback within Sphere and streamed in real-time to 7thSense media servers, each streaming 4K video at 60 frames per second"

I would be interested to better understand how synchronization is achieved here. Is that a relatively solved problem for applications such as this or was there significant engineering to achieve it at this scale?
People have and have been successful. Especially repurposing HIV/AIDS drugs and ordering Paxlovid from India. Mostly due to USA prices being ridiculously high and insurance companies refusing to prescribe more than a 5 day dose.

The other major challenge is that certain approved drugs in other countries can be held by shipping due to FDA approval.
This seems related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672111

As in, order matters
I was speaking mostly with the concern that the famous person may try and solicit nudes from the kid, which is bad for obvious reasons.

I will acknowledge that I was speaking a bit too broadly, I have clarified a bit in sibling threads. I do think it’s a perfectly reasonable precaution, especially for very young kids, to ask them to CC the parents.
I keep seeing this about OS X, what was special about those versions? And what are the problems with recent versions?
Enforced randomization isn't going to fix the problem, it just evenly distributes the problem.

Based on these results, it would mean that the graders are just getting tired/lazy/inattentive the further they get in their stack of papers to grade. That's the problem the needs to be fixed, not the order they get graded in. Enforced randomization is simply a short term alleviation so no student(s) get disproportionately affected by this phenomenon.
>One simple fix would be to make random order the default setting.

Fixed in the sense that the bias will be random. Presumably students graded last will still receive lower grades.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai_Hospital_(Manhatta..., Mt Sinai is a 'non-profit', but in my opinion, we need a much more expansive definition of 'for-profit'. It's true that there are no shareholders, but the salaries the executives make is a form of profit, and ought to be treated as such. In some ways it's worse because in a company, the board sets the CEOs and execs compensation, and can adjust it according to their own financial interests (which means there's less desire by CEOs to 'waste', because waste means the board / shareholders make less money, and then their compensation is lowered -- theoretically).

In a non-profit, the board uses arbitrary criteria, the board is incentivized to waste all money on executive compensation, because that means the execs throw them excellent parties, galas, soirees, and other social events where they can network with more people to make more profit in their for-profit ventures. Ask me how I know.
At my university, almost all of our marking was pseudonymised. We were assigned a random candidate number at the beginning of each year, and that is what went on our important papers/exams. The less important coursework often didn’t bother with this, and used our student numbers instead, but the general idea was the same.

We didn’t put our names on any of our work other than our dissertation (and a few trivial assignments that didn’t impact overall marks). It wasn’t that hard to de-anonymise, but it meant that the system had a bit more integrity.

It’s a really straightforward system to implement and I don’t know why it isn’t done more frequently.

I also think that our VLE sorted assignments by time of submission rather than any identifier.
Should you take Vitamin D?
It's a systematic thing. As long as management is decoupled from actually doing the job one is expected to manage, that outcome will be inevitable as a consequence of the overarching fiscal optimization function being applied Procrustean Bed style to all fields of capitalistically orchestrated human endeavor.
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Yeah, that sucks. Used to be, one could just replace a single component to upgrade one's PC, soon you could no longer just replace the CPU, you needed a new motherboard, which also required new RAM. We lost something there.
That was really interesting! Thank you!
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I think you are totally right!

The VIEW itself is not a "materialized" view, but when the (normal) view is instantiated within a single query it is treated as MATERIALIZED because it is used multiple times in the query execution: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html#materialization_hints
Git-bisect-find
A young girl, Ruby Reynolds (alliterative name), makes a large scientific discovery.

...This is how comic hero backstories start.

I look forward to Dinogirl or whatever (far better) name she comes up with!
Here's a different source https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/study-cwd-fatal-...
That sounds good. I'd pay for this if it was simple and gamified enough. (E.g. RPG style w/levelling and achievements.)

Via Negativa - I wouldn't pay for this if it:

- Uses LLMs/AI and gives me more text to read lol

- Isn't gamified

- Requires me to track work beyond 10 seconds of input

Just some thoughts off the top of my head, sounds like a fun idea! I have an approach that took me almost 13-16 months now to validate ideas with, would be more fun to do as a game.
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