skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have experience with health systems. I do have experience with entering a market with settled incumbents, and I do have experience in large organisations.

Firstly, Open Source is not a factor here. The number of customers who care about our code is zero. Not even rounding to zero, just zero. Paying someone to look at, understand, Make, test, change etc dwarfs what they pay us. They are in the "health" business not the software business.

Our business model -does- matter though. We often get evaluated "as a supplier". The obvious things like how long we've been around, staffing levels, track record etc. Also non-obvious things like profitability, income model, some even ask to see the books (we draw th line before that.)

It turns out they're not buying software. They're buying a relationship. They want to know we'll be around in 5 years, 10 years, 15 years. That's -much- more important than the cost.

(As an aside, having the primary message on your front page literally soliciting donations is a bad look. Funding via donations overall is not a good look.)

Lastly the software is not used by the guy who makes the purchasing decision. The buyer doesn't care about the UI or workflow (much). As long as the price is "ok" (and he has a large budget to spend) that doesn't matter either. He cares about the warm and fuzzies the salesman gives him. He cares about the success of the project overall. He cares about his job rolling out this big project. Decisions like this are career making, or career breaking.

Oh, and the desire to -change- systems is zero. Sure there's lots of whining, that's easy to ignore. Changing is high risk (and will bring in the same amount of whining).
> Waymo becomes most interesting as an alternative to public transit.

I really wonder what this looks like logistically, when you realize how inefficient it is for everyone to be in their own individual Waymo during rush hour.

The obvious first step is:

> Many people who currently drive themselves would probably be happy to carpool in a self-driving vehicle if it’s reliable and easy

But if it's a 4-person vehicle, I'm not sure that's enough -- that's still a lot of vehicles clogging bridges and tunnels. And if you get to 12-person self-driving minibuses, it feels like too much time picking up and dropping people off if you're trying to stick to one vehicle.

So I kind of wonder if there will be intermediate ~20-person self-driving buses to bring people in and out of cities, that respond instantly to demand?

So in the suburbs, you take an 8-minute individual Waymo that brings you to a perfectly timed Waymo Bus that you wait 3 minutes for, get on with 19 other people for 42 minutes, everybody gets off at the same point at the edge of downtown, and everybody gets into carpooling individual Waymos already waiting, so you take 7 mimnutes to get to your office, dropping off 2 people along the same route you would have taken anyways.

But the buses don't have fixed routes or stops or timetables -- they just aggregate the demand along the common long corridors. Essentially replacing light commuter rail.
The fact that a language is used for large, successful businesses/projects doesn't mean another language wouldn't be better. It's just terribly difficult to measure such things.
You could try Nuitka [1], but I don't have enough experience with it to say if it's any less brittle than PyInstaller.

[1]: https://nuitka.net/
Luckily, such innate drive and desire to dominate can be funnelled into something more productive and less detrimental to others.

Instead of becoming a president and starting wars of aggression, why not try sports? How about becoming an academic, an expert in some esoteric field, and spend your days acquiring intellectual territory and terrorising your intellectual opponents?

Or use your greed to start a business that somehow ends up benefiting us all even whilst making you richer than all of us.
I also got this same response
Thanks for this. To my untrained eye, I had always considered Secession style to be "rectilinear art nouveau". I know there's more to it, but that paragraph in the article talking about the differences between art nouveau/jugendstil and the Secession style did confirm at least that part of my take on it.
I'd have to think about it more. However, my first thought (which is not always correct), if you know that it might rain, then raise the prices beforehand, not when it starts to rain. That just feels like an extra tax.

A lot of stores increase their prices when they're expecting something like bad/good weather, events, etc., and it's fine for me. But when prices are increased momentarily due to a sudden need, that just feels bad for the customers. And it's not just me. A lot of people feel that way. That's why there's such a negative connotation to surge pricing.

As a small scenario, if I came to your booth when it isn't raining and asked about umbrella prices and you quoted a price, would you respect that price if I came back later if it started raining? If yes, then great. If not, and you raise the price, do you think that I won't say negative things about your booth to others? You may gain a few dollars in the short term, but overall you may lose more than the few dollars you gained.

And a reason I said I'd have to think about it: A solo person selling to a small flea market affects a lot less people than a major grocery chain. Like even if you did raise the price to me when it started raining, I wouldn't feel bad, knowing that you're just a small seller. When a large multi-billion dollar revenue chain does it, it feels bad, since they're just taking advantage and don't give a damn.

Side note: I stopped using Uber during surge pricing due to the fact the driver doesn't actually get a good portion of it. If the driver got all or most of the extra pricing because they're the one's stuck in traffic, I probably wouldn't mind.
But if disabled workers are less productive shouldn't we expect that?
Wow. Just wow. People in here posting positive and uplifting insights, then along comes the smooth brain maga crowd.
It's been almost a decade since Ubuntu started shipping ZFS. I recall at the time that there was much speculation about what the legal implications of this would be. I never really heard much more than that though. Curious if anyone is aware of anything?
But both work poorly in my experience. We'd need to define metrics and a lot more data to really know which one performs worse.

Keyword filtering is only as good as those who decide the keywords to filter on and how well the algorithm can match keywords and variations of keywords. I've worked with plenty of tech recruiters over the years, they rarely understood anything about the jobs they recruited for. I never trusted the keywords and parameters they would set on any automated screenings.
What do you mean by revenue neutral?
For the life of me, I don't understand how this almost always misses people: that AI only has data from humanity to learn from, and so every result/action it provides/takes reflects the state of humanity. Even "hallucinations" in some way are likely triggered by content that is for example broken by web sources interspersing unrelated bits such as ads. Or maybe it's a convenient ignorance.
Can attest to that.

I once had a "Language" section that contained "American Sign Language", never heard from FANG until I removed the presumably offending section.

Should not have mattered if I have a disabilty or not.
No, I'm saying that if you can keep all of our laws in your head at once there are scenarios where you can't follow all of the laws.

I'm also saying that we have case law that contradicts itself and violates the rules of how the courts are supposed to work. Those examples, if included in training data, would confuse an LLM and likely lead to poor results.
A Patel Brothers opened near my house. I, whiter than Wonder Bread, wandered in to see what they had. I went to the back where they had snacks and baked goods. I wanted to try something but the employee warned me that it would be quite spicy and steered me to some somosas.

There's a lot of things that I have no idea what they are but also a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. The place is big.
> The output is already correct according to the input (humans behaving as they are). It is not biased.

This makes sense because humans aren’t biased, hence why there is no word for or example of it outside of when people make adjustments to a model in a way that I don’t like.
That's called uOP cache, which Intel has been using since Sandy Bridge (and AMD but I don't remember on top of my head since when). But that's more transistors for the cache and its control mechanism.
> ... maybe extract those files to required files, add gems, whatever.

CPAN is the killer feature of Perl. It just works. First off, most of the time I don't need a CPAN module for doing shell scripting in perl. Perl itself is rich enough with the file manipulations that are needed for any script of less than 100 lines.

My experiences with Ruby and installing gems have been less pleasant. Different implementations of Ruby. Gems that don't compile / work on certain architectures. Breaking changes going forward where a script that was written 2 years ago doesn't work anymore. Sometimes it's someone was doing something clever in the language that doesn't work anymore. Other times its some gem got updated and can't be used that way anymore. ... which brings us to ...

I believe that Go's advantages come into play when the program gets more complex that that 100 line size and it becomes a "program" rather than a "script" that has complexity to deal with. Furthermore, executables built in Go are most often statically linked which means that someone upgrading the libraries doesn't break what is already working.
lol what this nonsense. tether's regarded as the safest bc their biz model is providing entities usdt for usd without offering interest on the cash.

now why would any entities want to deposit usd into a private bank and receive usdt without any yield on their cash? you think you understand tether so well maybe think about it for a few minutes
Alphabet has way more money to spend on it than Ukrainians. I was a professional driver in a couple of jobs and as far as I can tell Google Waymo doesn't care about the millions of Americans they want to put out of work, possibly by having cheap foreign labor drive their cars, so you see I can't let it go that easily
Nobody actually follows the LSB as written. But it remains useful as an idea of "stuff that was installed in old distros so usually has some newer version available".

Assuming you can survive all the incompatible interpreter changes for Python etc., the main annoyance with LSB proper is shared library versions.
I empathize with this article, not much about a manager's schedule is energy-giving, and plenty can be energy-taking.

However, I have found a significant source of endorphins through community activities. I've been part of committees, co-chair of a technical special interest group, and have been invited to speak at major events. Perhaps amplified as someone who used to harbour a lot of social anxiety, I get a very nice rush of endorphins from these extracurricular activities. I definitely encourage other managers to volunteer for groups and events related to their specialty.
We surely are! Upcoming is the Slack integration
Wind turbines do not provide grid inertia.

They do not spin at 50/60hz, they are deployed with frequency converters to match optimum generation to the grid and spin at whatever speed they can achieve.

They're essentially another type of solar plant.
It’s why if my bash turns into more than a page or two I start re-evaluating it and turn it into python
Wild Patagonian yeast improve the evolutionary potential for lager brewing
"induced" demand is just the normal demand curve when the "price" is something other than money, in the case of traffic: time. It's not some special kind of thing.

You build more lanes, that reduces the time of a commute, that reduces the "price" and therefore more is "demanded" until you back up at the equilibrium. It works exactly the same as every other good except that the price is in a different currency.

No one is surprised when, if the baker lowers their cost, more people buy bread. Yet somehow, people are flabbergasted when, if you reduce travel times, more people travel.
> Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only: (1) Building THE reference implementation web browser, and (2) Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.

I think (1) would more properly be W3C's job, although these days, they probably wouldn't do a good job either (although they did some in the past, and Line Mode Browser has some good features (including a few that modern browsers usually lack), but unfortunately it doesn't work very well).
Use literally. It still means literally. Language has all kinds of things like sarcasm, exaggeration, and metaphor that change the way a sentence should be interpreted, but the meaning of each word remains the same.
The one sentence that matters is decided later though, right? The court doesn't write 10 pages and then point to a single sentance to listen to, that's a matter of what the public and/or law enforcement key in on.

For future cases the full explanation does still matter too, especially from the Supreme Court. People only remember 9 words from the Miranda decision but the rest of the 10 pages are still case law that can absolutely be used to impact future cases.
This obviously reveals how public sector-brained I am, but I can’t imagine hitting revenue numbers in a company I wasn’t a financial partner in being that intoxicating.

Definitely glad that it’s for some though, helps keep the industry moving forward
You should be able to find the fresh leaves in small bags at Indian grocery stores in the U.S. In California, you can also purchase plants (they grow very slowly the first 3-4 years) in pots and survive mild CA winters.
Don't forget the implied ASS-umption of "American Sign Language" in your language section of your resume.

I could have been an interpreter, or culturally absorbed instead of having a disability of a hearing loss of any kind.
Does Arch even ship with Python by default? Its whole thing is being minimalist by default and letting you customize what is and is not installed.
What worries me about those kind of job roles is the missing or very slow feedback loop.

As a programmer I can learn quickly and get better, because I have very quick feedback loops when I do something wrong (compiler, CI/CD, continous deployments).

As a manager, architect etc. the feedback loop is month, years - if you ever really get something back. That makes it really hard to find out if you're really doing a good job or if you're trading short-term gains for long-time losses.

I personally think, this is why we often are so unhappy about managers or architects in our field and developers often look down on them. But it's just really difficult (and often unrewarding, see article) to get good at these roles.
Doctor here, I hate EMRs, they are oppressive, in many ways they make things worse for patients. I think the future of EMR is no EMR.

An LLM that takes multimodal input (audio, video, images, observations etc etc) and outputs whatever is required (a podcast summary of clinic patients, a checklist relevant to a patient’s condition in preop) is the future.

Forcing doctors, nurses and allied health to manually document everything they do in annoying web forms is stupid and soul destroying.

Multimodal LLMs will also replace much of medicine and nursing which is good.
I agree, but the legal system is designed that we can set up rules for humans, and punish them. It's hard to imagine how to introduce similar rules for AIs.

My prefered route is I can sue the company if their AI misbehaves, but we are already seeing cases of companies saying "Oh yes, the chatbot said X, and the chatbot is the only way to communicate with us, but that's clearly just the AI being wrong so we will ignore it".

Hopefully some cases will go to court, and side with consumers against companies and their black-box AIs, but I'm not hopeful.
Bootstrapping and different behavior for different versions and not being able to use the dependency ecosystem really make it a lot more difficult than people realize if you’re trying to “script” at scale.

I’ve used rust for this task but people get mad that I’m calling it a “script”. “That’s not a script that’s a program” which…sure. But so maybe we need another term for it? “Production-scripts” or something.

My experience is rewriting Ruby and bash buildpacks for the open spec CNCF Cloud Native Buildpack project (CNB) https://github.com/heroku/buildpacks

I agree that Ruby is easier to start and grow complexity, that would be a good place to start.
Why on earth would you add the compilation of a Ruby interpreter to your docker build? Just install it through the package manager of whatever distro your image is built on.
A car that's been around a few years is old by definition.
When I see that weight, I think "medium-sized car engine". Not too difficult to move around with an engine hoist.
I was so excited to read my special message but got this instead: "Response.json: Body has already been consumed."
The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is also his work (along with Ceriel Jacobs):

https://github.com/davidgiven/ack

Just as Minix perhaps could've been Linux, The Amsterdam Compiler Kit could've been gcc, but for licensing issues:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/apr/10/firstchapters....
If I say "imagine a triangle" and ask you what color it is, why would it have a color if there is no image there? I didn't ask you to imagine a red triangle. Only a triangle. The only way it logically gets a color is if you are visualizing it.
> Ruby does have a terse and intuitive syntax that would make for a good system shell.

I learned enough PowerShell to be comfortable using it, and then picked up Bash and Ruby a few years later.

I longed for a Ruby shell for a couple years.
The whole flame war between the two is worth a read [1], at least for historical reasons; very different points of view. And while Linus disagreed with Tanenbaum's POV, I Tanenbaum's criticism to Linux made it actually better.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI#9f3c...
It's an unfortunate mix up - curry leaves and curry powder/paste are different things.

Curry leaves are just the aromatic leaves of a bush like plant used primarily in south Indian cooking much like basil in Italian or makrut lime leaves in Thai cuisine.

Curry pastes and powders are mixtures of spices: turmeric, cumin, coriander, fennel, mustard seeds, asafoetida, black pepper, cloves etc. Every region and family has their own blend of spices.
Agreed, and honestly this is one of the easiest and best behaving use case for LLMs. We’re not talking replacing any diagnoses, but freeing the humans to do what they do best, using their intuition.
It might be installed by default from the graphical CD, but you can't assume everybody uses that, even outside of server environments.
The mish-mash of regulatory regimes and insurance industries that change state-by-state, as well as practice-specific workflows that are every bit as unique as any business logic developed for one-off companies who evolve without any unifying or centralized force to standardize procedures, apart from compliance requirement, but those are not prescriptive in regards to the content specifics. If nothing else, just the combinations of integrations necessary for radiological imagery, insurance and patient forms, billing, patient services, communications, office admin, marketing/outreach, etc., make a lot of small healthcare offices some of the most unique businesses I have encountered in my ~9-years of freelancing as an I.T. consultant.

One restaurant has much the same needs and day-to-day procedures as another, even if they serve different types of food at a different price point to a different target market in a different part of the country. Healthcare is not nearly so uniform, and to the extent there are common elements to their processes, they are elements that have long since become standard features in every ePHI management system. But even then, the task of adapting those features to an individual doctor's workflow is nowhere near as straightforward as setting up a POS or inventory management system.

Then there is the unique nature of the data itself. It doesn't just store SKUs of mutable entities with well defined attributes that support pattern-matching, data verification, and formatting rules. It stores patients, each with unique histories, conditions, diagnoses, prognoses with instructions, contraindications, supporting documents, scheduling, billing options, and the documentation of each discrete visit or encounter. Every doctor will have their own approach to all of these aspects that should comply with applicable laws and standards, but who are otherwise empowered to construct their own policies and procedures, especially if they are focused on a specialty or niche.

TLDR; I expect the idiosyncrasies and demands in ePHI management are more diverse and uniquely challenging than one might think.
Today I learn they weren't the ones who coined "Eggcorns"
> If people are discriminatory or racist or sexist, it is not correct to attempt to hide it.

What is the purpose of the system? What is the purpose of the specific component that the model is part of?

If you're trying to, say, identify people likely to do a job well (after also passing a structured interview), what you want from the model will be rather different than if you're trying to build an artificial romantic partner.
>I read somewhere that running on bunker fuel was the equivalent pollution of 50m cars.

For SO2 and NO2 pollution, not CO2. They are the most efficient way of transportation in terms of CO2 emissions. Ironically reducing their sulfur dioxide emissions is likely what caused the uptick in global temperatures the last two years. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3
Athletes on a once (or at least very infrequent) in a lifetime trip want to get some good sleep / cool off as needed. Yeah I can understand / support that.
Genuine question because I think about it too: On (pro) sports teams, the coach is not the highest paid. The stars make far more. I think what's challenging is that managers (and founders) are paid similar and often more than the team. I think this changes the dynamic. Is it possible the feelings relate to that as much as not building? No doubt managing is different than IC'ing, but the sense of contribution relative to pay might play a role.

A head coach also has more impact on a team's outcome than many middle managers (but probably not a founder). Managing well is hard and can be a major multiplier, but there is room at many companies to be mediocre or worse (even when trying your best) and still pass. I'm talking mostly functional managers as in Engineering Manager, PMs (most of whom are ICs) are different. Being a functional manager would be more like being the running back coach in football, the big man coach in basketball, or the pitching coach in baseball. These are different than being head coach, they help those players be good at their role, but have much less impact on the team's bigger picture. Winning in this role is seeing a player grow more than it is seeing the team win the championship. These coaches make far less than the head coach and the players.

Ultimately, I think the manager role is diminished by modern org structure. One thing said about a good manager is they block and shield—which implies the report needs protection from the org's process/structure. So a good manager runs counter to the company reasonably often. Is the manager helping or hurting the company? Both I think, but on net I don't know. It feels oddly baked into the role.
5.9 mil?? that's like fining a working class citizen 5 cents LMAO