skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like as a culture we have a lot of weird baggage around dealing with doctors. It makes me wonder if it has something to do with our fear of our own mortality and unwillingness to talk about death or something.

I remember my classmates who went on to med school and became doctors. They were bright, but I don't remember their being extraordinarily so. Their classwork mostly seemed to involve a lot of memorization of facts, following rules and procedures, not so much thinking creatively or solving problems.

But now that they have MD after their names, we expect them to be familiar with a thousand different kinds of possible nuance? While operating in a system that only gives them 15 minutes per patient to hear what's going on and come up with a plan?

It almost seems unreasonable and unfair of us, but they expect that of us too. If we dare to question their assessment (again, after 15 minutes with the patient), we're "questioning their authority," even if we're advanced degree holders ourselves, and a stay-at-home parent who has spent nearly every waking moment with the patient or reading about research relevant to the patient's symptoms.

I know for every one medical research journalist like the author of the article, there are 10,000 exhausted working single parents armed with Doctor Google and a story about Kim from Accounting's niece's best friend's little brother who had a similar symptom one time, but it really seems like there should be a way to communicate when there really is something unusual going on.

Maybe it needs to be like customer support, where there isn't just one tier of doctor. Maybe there should be a system to filter actual complex cases up layers of specialty. But the customer support experience normally sucks, so maybe the model just doesn't work. I don't know.

There just has to be something that could make it better than this.
It is probably infeasible to cram all of this into secondary school.

Hard to imagine being able to learn how to be a doctor or get to "useful" in electrical engineering

It is also probably too hard to even do this for technical training that is almost required now for manufacturing jobs.

To me this points to a tertiary level of education that is academic or technical/professional.

I think that broadening this education out to "blue collar" job education (which is in fact these days highly skilled) will also increase political support for it.
Is it bad to take both evening and morning showers?
Ultimately, Gavin Newsom will need to sign it. I doubt he will unless he plans to end this term and move out of California. Remember how Dukakis lost Massachusetts. Different but has similarities.
I'm not sure how much more 'actually complex' it is. I think we can often underestimate the complexity of incumbent systems because most of the complexity is not in the open.

I'm sure that market makers and exchanges in traditional finance have a lot of complexity behind them.
Phones, besides the functionality, are fashion accessories and bragging chips, and sometimes chiefly so.

I think it was Vertu who first recognized the potential back in early 2000s, The Matrix (1999) made a visual point of it, and since 2007, Apple has been building their entire strategy based on that, with enormous success.

People who need sturdy phones do exist, are few, and they don't brandish them, because these phones are well-beaten.
Should also mention that it's almost certainly recorded for all time for the government.
Shrimpgrad (Tinygrad for the Low IQ)
>Which is odd given you often listen to his podcast - how curious that you're not an expert /s

Be nice.
They share enough information to be useful to the civilians but not enough information to show capabilities. If everything is automated, the enemy can subscribe to the automation and work out radar capabilities, response times, and accuracy. Those are all terrible things for an enemy to use and abuse.
What a waste of time. Who provides funding for this? Also mildly annoying to use "isomorphism" outside of mathematics to describe a relation or analogy between things. You can just say relation or analogy.

Relying on the technical mystique of precicely defined jargon in a context where it doesn't apply should indicate that there is a lack of substance in the ideas being presented, which is why the author feels compelled to obfuscate it.
Except for products where the price is itself a feature. For example a Luis Vuitton hand bag. They show round prices like 2k or 3k.
>The brevity part is seemingly completely ignored.

Try "your answers should be concise"

That has worked well for me.
There's been massive investment in ventures related to AI. This is no-doubt coloring the picture. Because tech hiring and retention is way down, there have been massive layoffs. Some parts of the economy associated with investment are doing well, but this isn't associated with most people.
Maybe even point out (in many cases) that poor leadership lead to the deaths.
A handful of iOS apps (2Do, Omnifocus, DevonThink, PhotoSync, GoodReader) support user-hosted WebDAV/CalDAV storage for state sync between devices. If Braid can lower the cost for apps to synchronize state across devices without "the cloud", that would be a win for decentralized infrastructure.
yeah, that's the problem. let's fix it. This is not a crazy amount of money.
There's the Stowe Janey Scerri Table.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stowe-Janet-Scerri_Peri...
If a provider organization is out of regulatory compliance, then you should file an official complain with CMS. I understand that this is a hassle but it's the only way to improve the situation.
This one officer.
I recently saw one of these at a thrift shop. It very well could be the same unit. I'm more into "real" synths, I was mainly impressed by the number of buttons and the dual manuals.
Yeah, I know. It's a bit like "let's think step by step". I usually go for "Right?" or "yes?" and that seems to do something.
> sure Hacker News will have some earnest argument for why this form of competition is actually good for people.

Nope, the current consensus this time is HN assuming they know better than a researcher (and decades of business) and inserting their own opinions.

>The kind of person who looks at this sort of thing and says, "Hey we should use this to manipulate people" is the kind of person our society needs less of.

Ever since JC Penney, I grew apathetic. People want to be tricked, why ruin their fun?
yes that's pretty blatant isn't it
Housing is more expensive, food is more expensive, childcare is more expensive. Long term retirement plans for the younger generations look abysmal.

The average American doesn’t care how the investor classes stocks are doing and rightly understands that the parasites in the investor class are growing their wealth by siphoning it from the labor of the masses.

Uncanny “let them eat cake” vibes from this article.
The browser reports the error closest to what it was doing at the time - host not found? Well, the network was reliable enough to reach a dns server that returned that the lack of address for a name. But if the dns server itself can’t come reached, it’s some sort of network error between you and that server. The typical way to diagnose that kind of problem is to perform all the steps yourself - can I ping the dns server address? Can I resolve this host with that dns server? What about a different dns server, maybe that particular name is being excluded because of corporate policy. The command line tools ping, traceroute and dig are useful if you want to get into it.
>> I'm getting stuck to doing this for way too many hours now.

Sorry I don't want to tire you more. I think this conversation would benefit from having a common set of assumptions that we all can go back to, but that would probably take too much work for an online conversation.

Anyway thanks for the exchange. Let's hope I'm right and you're wrong :)
"Remote is extreme". Have you seen how many jobs on the boards are remote?
Not a network person, only played with trace route a long time ago but I'm pretty sure that only really happens if you explicitly ask for information about all the middle men.

Most of the time a lot of software kinda doesn't care about what's happening just if it can do what it's told.

For Websites you often get more informative errors like 404, 500 or something else.
Yes I consider myself somewhere on the democratic socialist/social democrat border but I wish policy makers would at least start by looking at what pressures their policies will apply in our mostly capitalist system. The market works fine for lots of things as long as you don’t break it.
i met waits briefly in a bar in occidental california during late 1990s. he was behind the piano, playing away. looked healthier than i expected.
High "Economic output" is great for profiteers but says nothing meaningful about the experience of working people.

Low "Unemployment rate" sounds nice until you realize how many of these jobs are low wage and part-time (no benefits) although the workers need full-time employment.

Exploitation is at an all-time
high, and it's no surprise to anyond that the media isn't reporting on that.
I'd probably thank them for their service more around veterans day or just in a general context. Memorial day is about the fallen.

I've seen better treatment for vets in the past few decades than in the past. Many Vietnam vets had absolutely terrible experiences coming home. You don't hear too much about that these days.

As for ideals, a lot of that has been eroded by the policies and leaders from the inside. Moat of the people I know getting out got tired of the stuff happening internally.
How is it that Amazon's price per unit is still so often nonsensical?
E.g. smoke alarm, "£24,950.00/kg".

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kidde-233045-Smoke-Alarms-Battery/dp/B07FRZ1NQF

Its is not even remotely accurate mathematically.
Certainly. The issue is, if you persistently push the message “are you sure your spouse isn’t cheating on you?” through all forms of media (including LLMs), down to kindergartens and preschools, you’ll inevitably will get a proportion of vulnerable population driving themselves crazy trying to get to the answer at some point of their lives, damaging the relationships and fabric of society in the process.
You can call it marketing if you're really cynical. What client has more money than the government, and the budget to spend in the trillions?
Vikunja: The open-source, self-hostable to-do app
It's a joke. I'll make sure to add a suitable smiley from now on :P
Isn't inflation measure by comparing a set of product prices (including petrol and food, https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-inflation-and-how-is-i...)? And the inflation graph in the article shows that inflation is down to about 3%, from a high of 9% in 2022. I know it's compounding but 50% seems a lot.
Been looking for such a website to show weather for the whole year like this. Thanks for sharing.
It's like any other job. Contacting organizations directly is the simplest thing that might work and starting with people in your professional network provides the highest probability.
>It still feels very fishy to me that a closed capped fund has insane returns while the public fund that investors can invest in, has lukewarm results (not even beating the market from what I recall).

The point of the public funds is to be less risky than the S&P 500. Simons and co will never ever suggest anyone invest a serious amount of money into the S&P.
Thanks. Well I don't really use my phone so I don't know all this.
So far I’m loving this. Would love a language tour doc!
No Limits, interest, and letting universities charge exorbitant costs without carrying any of the responsibility.
I didn't mean unqualified repair shops. Rather professional recovery services who specialize in getting data off of damaged and failing drives.
Isn't there some kind of law against companies extorting the customers and being evasive about their terms of service and their prices?
I implemented all of them. Thank you for sharing.

I recently finished Atomic Habits and these actions pair well with it. Especially the points about making the bad habits less accessible and make them less satisfying.
Also came here for a lively discussion of luncheon meat. Was disappointed.
Indeed some of the most social times of my life was when I went to church despite not being Christian. They tend to be very welcoming and friendly in my experience. Sports clubs are great (e.g. badminton) as something less controversial
Yes, we should try to bring up everyone to the highest standard of living possible. I just have no patience for suggestions that for most people that standard of living was higher in the past and we simply need to return to it.

It's false, ahistorical nostalgia for the past. A well known psychological effect that distorts peoples understanding of how much the past actually sucked in reality. People watching shows like Bridgerton always imagine they would be among the nobility.
The nerve of some scumbags --- to actually use an open source license.
Obviously needs to be evaluated further. The images on the Mirror are too blurry and does not provide a direct link to the Google Maps location
So you can't explain your stuff to an 8 year old child like Richard Feynman insisted ?
Wow, AI sure is turning out great! /s
I'm talking about when I hear my own voice. It happens when the person I am talking to is using speakers and a microphone, and my voice is picked up by their speakers and transmitted back to me. I didn't know this was controversial.
We went through a post-covid recession where absolute numbers got fumbled by super high inflation. It seems the cost of living and food is 50-150% higher now in Spain.
People do remember how the governments tried to downplay the whole inflation situation and post-covid recession. Thinks are getting better now but since the previous recession was completely denied it doesn't feel like the small recoveries compensate for all the loss in purchase power.
By the way this is not an accusation of the Biden admistration.
This would have happened exactly the same with Trump.
Who's wearing headphones in a meeting? Good luck trying to get people to do that.
I think that is kinda my point. These comments are all in reference to the idea of using these bricks for electrical storage, as an alternative of offset to other technologies like molten salts, batteries, or pumped hydro.

Im skeptical that they would be improvement on other forms of grid power storage.

This is independent of the question if they are good for melting steel.

I guess I dont understand the point you are advocating for.
The parent correctly notes that you can't use solar thermal directly for industrial processes because it won't get hot enough and that it's easier to retrofit electric infrastructure than a bunch of mirrors and optics.

Grandparent:

> These are unique it seems because they're durable electric heating elements that can hit industrial process temperatures and might be cheaper then alternatives?

Storage usually makes less sense, but depends on capital cost per kW-hr right? No idea on the economics of that, but an electric heater can get hotter than solar thermal and use much less space at the point of use.

They are durable electric heating elements that can get hotter than solar thermal and hit industrial temperatures without using fossil fuels to heat locally with fire.
You’re assuming the conclusion. What may appear to be irrational emotional behavior can be completely rational under a different set of information.
>The upside of what's happening here is maybe getting to have a cool gadget for a little while

That’s not a good faith statement of the upside of a neural implant.

The upside of having a neural implant is that the quality of life for a quadriplegic person is greatly improved for as long as the implant lasts, which is potentially indefinite, if the device works correctly. It’s not a “for fun” project, see the video here for a real demonstration of this man’s life being improved: https://youtu.be/5SrpYZum4Nk?feature=shared

A man who is paralyzed from the neck down being able to use a computer fluently again and do things like play his favorite video games is a huge upside.
Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi
I think the other party would need to try it? I'm using a headset, the feedback is coming from the other party.
They describe that part as the “cool challenge” on their page, so I guess it must be part of the research.
It took this many years to get echo cancellation implemented? Many other services had this like a decade ago.
Have you tried ddrescue?
Very cute project!

I personally wouldn't call anything Rust based "simple" (I'm not trying to hate on Rust, it's my daily driver.), so I have to ask: Wouldn't be the simplest possible wasm language, a small macro system for WAT, that bootstraps a slightly more highlevel lisp dialect?

Wasm already seems like an increadibly high-level language, given that it's a low-level compilation target.
I'm not saying you can reuse the entire SSE protocol and interfaces, but why not use 200 and Content-type text/event-stream, like SSE does? Use mixed/subscription of mixed/braid if you really want, but this whole new thing, why?

I don't see what's too fundamentally different about Braid that it needs a new status code and protocol. Shouldn't SSE use 209 then?
Does a benchmark suite for these exist?
Everything in that article is a little outdated, 30% of web request are in HTTP3 now a day with CORS. There is no date of publication.
We use google meet internally where i work but i often have to work with external companies using teams, zoom and whatever else. Google Meet just works, all day, everyday for us (barring a fucked up client audio setup...) and this is such a sweet feature we've struggled with, I genuinely look forward to testing this
I have never given my work my number, and yet meet seems to work for all my work meetings.
Cool guide
I like this way of saying it. I don't think anything here is well studied at all. It is not like we are all fishing in the dark but the organizational structures that determine the conditions in which software development and operations happen are not well understood. I found Herb Simon's writings and his concept of bounded rationality very lucid.

When we shift from "reliability" to "safety" we also need to shift from the individual to the system.
What does Spinrite actually do that is materially different than ddrescue?

And the idea of repairing a failing disk and not just making an image is usually insane.

> I should point out that SpinRite works below the file system structure

This is not the flex that you seem to think it is.
My Androids made better dumbphones.

The always-on display simply showed a small Whatsapp icon. No need to unlock your phone or check an app for messages. Only unlock it at all if you have a message. Ignore the message without reading its contents.
And, as LineageOS/cyanogenmod can, disable notifications also in the status bar. Use Google Maps or your train ticket app without being interrupted by the status bar icons/notification center. "Do not disturb" really means you won't get any notifications. 1-click toggle.

iOS on the other hand, I haven't even found a way to make notifications silent while making calls ring. (Apart from toggling notification settings for 30 apps individually!)
+1 for TwoSum [1]. To expand on that: Kahan summation is an approximation which is a bit cheaper, but not great if some inputs can also be negative. That's because it is basically FastTwoSum(a,b) in a loop, which only works if the exponent of a >= that of b. TwoSum removes this requirement and is not that much more expensive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2Sum
30% of requests are CORS? Surely this depends on what type of development you're doing. I'm doing SaaS development for systems generally deployed inside corporate networks. Very close to 0% of requests are CORS. Same for HTTP3.
I dream of going a whole month without someone asking me "wtf is this code and, like, whyyyyyyy?"

:-/
Towards Fearless Macros – Ashton Wiersdorf
isn't whisper the speech to text model by openai? which model did you mean?
You Are Not the Only One
Stocks arent the economy and their performance is not indicative of economic health. This needs to be hammered in over and over again.
Change the font of a PDF without the source? Sure buddy, just give me a research team and five years.

Edit: Whoops, apparently this is trivial. TIL.
What the hell is a Tiling Window Manager? [video]
When new cars are forced to go 55 on that one long curvy downhill where the big trucks are all going 80, you just increased fatalities on that corridor by a LOT. And probably for like 15+ years without forcing regulation that requires updates. The body count will be very substantial when you multiply it across all of the roads, or even just California roads.

Not trying to be contrary or throw up imaginary hypotheticals, I drive a car that sometimes has trouble keeping up with traffic on such downhills because I’m very top heavy.

People that talk about stuff like this seriously have no appreciation for the variety of car and road types that are already present in the real world. Robot assistance being offered is fine. But robot enforced compliance killing people in the name of safety is absurd.
I definitely agree there, the past is quite bad for most people in most places in most times, compared to now.
Years ago I bought Spinrite. Past the 30 day return policy I was disappointed to learn that it was limited to 2TB HDDs. At that time most of my HDDs were larger. I asked about an upgrade and was told "Real Soon Now." Years ago. I asked for a refund and was told (paraphrasing) "you took too long to determine that Spinrite doesn't meet your needs."

Back in the day before integrated drive electronics, Spinrite was very useful for adjusting the sector interleave to improve disk performance. With drive electronics and management firmware improvements, Spinrite was useless.

> Steve Gibson often says it hasn't seen an update because it hasn't needed an update.

That's the worst kind of gaslighting.
Thanks! Yes this is exactly it. Interesting about the choice of 32 bits for carries. N=67 is pretty high. I suspect N could be tuned down significantly depending on the problem. Eg global sums in geophysics models -- the range of values being summed does not span the full double range. But that would require analysis to decide about, while the full sized superaccumulator works directly. I wonder how it stacks up in terms of performance w/r/t the methods in the blog post
Mosh is great if you have spotty, high latency connection with a lot of packet loss.
Yes - my response was to the rejection that rules are to be broken.

I have worked there fully remote jobs and the ones that did it best fully leaned into being remote.

There is no hard or fast rule, I've been in a team social where I was the only person remote and it still felt relatively natural. I've done a fully remote follow a recipe and cook at home session which was also pretty fun.

I've also been in places that do the bare minimum of what constitutes remote "oh we use Zoom and screenshare" and dictate to people where everyone is cam off. And the difference is night and day.

I think that a little bit of cargo culting wrt remote etiquette is probably a net good thing because I posit many people still don't know what good looks like.
A mentor put it this way to me: you can't steer a stationary ship. The ship has to be moving for the rudder to work, and therefore it's better to be heading in the wrong direction (where you can turn around once you figure that out) than to be sitting still, doing nothing.
A influential mainframe Pascal compiler – M247