skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If those involved are in the US, it’s a trust thing.

This isn’t the fault of medical professionals, but rather a system optimized for minimum risk and maximum billing.

For example, my adult son recently went through a bout of rectal bleeding. He sits a lot in his job and we assumed it was hemorrhoids.

It was a Saturday so rather than wait we met up at the local urgent care. They did an external exam and decided he needed to go to the ER. No, it couldn’t wait. We had to go right away.

So we went across the street to the ER and took up a bed for seven hours waiting for a CT scan and results. The CT scan showed no active bleeding or any other cause for concern.

At this point, it was 2AM. The ER doctor suggested we allow our son to be admitted so that they could accelerate a colonoscopy on Monday or Tuesday. Yes, that’s 2-3 days in a hospital room just so we could avoid outpatient delays.

Now, keep in mind, there are no other symptoms. He feels perfectly fine. The CT scan shows no active bleeding.

To us, admission seems like overkill. The doctor isn’t much help. They are mostly exhausted and also exasperated at “the state of health care in this country.” We try to be empathetic but more or less it feels like they are holding back.

So what to do? Well, my son made his own decision - we left. The next day, I called in a favor with a GI doc I know. We were able to get a colonoscopy 10 days later. Guess what? Internal hemorrhoids.

This is irritating enough, but what is even better is that we could have had that answer in 15 minutes if someone had pulled out an anoscope. Sure we’d likely need an colonoscopy as a follow-up but we could have been out of the system very quickly. We could have freed up that bed in the ER. Heck, we didn’t even need to be in the ER at all. Oh, and 10 days of needless worry would be gone.

I asked a hospitalist I know why no one thought to just have a peek. The answer? Oh, they definitely thought about it, but no one uses anoscopes these days. The preferred route is a colonoscopy. Why? Well, a colonoscopy is a better diagnostic tool, but frankly it also happens to allow for better billing.

And boy, oh boy is the billing good. For the hospital alone, we’ve got upwards of $6K in billing. Who knows what the colonoscopy will run. We have good insurance but to cover the deductible I’ll likely be out $2K.

Naturally, I’ve already called the hospital and asked them to conduct a billing review, which will be followed by a medical review. The result will likely be a claim by the hospital that all procedures were followed correctly, which is technically correct. They did it all by the book, wasted an enormous amount of time and money, and irritated all humans involved.

Anyway, this anecdotal story might explain why well-educated people are suspicious of modern medical practices (at least in the US).

FWIW, I’m in my mid-50s and I’ve not had a colonoscopy either, and I won’t be getting one. It isn’t that I don’t want to take care of myself but rather I can’t afford to actually know if I’m sick. In the end, squeezing a little extra life out isn’t worth the financial tradeoff for my family in the long run.
I saw some great results years ago around restoring old film and placing in between frames to make old karate films 60fps.

It looked really really good at the time. I’m sure it’d only be better now.
I thought of it, too. It must have been a reference, given that he was a squirrel.
Curious, did that make you "fall back" to more conservative OCR?

Or what else did you do to correct them?
Not to disparage your heroics, but I am fairly sure you weren't 100ft up, and the tale grew taller in the telling.

Conkers is good fun. Though a bit dangerous for modern sensibilities perhaps.
I think it's probably inevitable that something like this will happen eventually, but I worry that it makes the cost of an interview too asymmetrical. Companies could "interview" effectively all applicants, since it requires no time and negligible expenses on their side, while job seekers still have to prepare and go through each interview (say, 10X more on average) despite the company having no real intention to hire them.
Short films are ^^^^
Morriss dancing isnt a real thing. It is just something silly invented by the BBC as a self-deprecating joke, like Canadians street vendors selling fried beaver tails.
Bayes theorem isnt a reasonable approximation, because it isnt answering the question -- it describes what you do when you have the answer.

With bayes, you're computing P(Model|Evidence) -- but this doesnt explain where Model comes from or why Evidence is relevant to model.

If you compute P(AllPossibleModels|AllSensoryInput) you end up never learning anything.

What's happening with animals is that we have a certain, deterministic, non-bayesian primitive model of our bodies from which we can build more complex models.

So we engage in causal reasoning, not bayesian updating: P(EvidenceCausedByMyBody| do(ActionOfMyBody)) * P(Model|Evidence)
China Counts Wild Pandas. Nobody Believes Its Tally
Adobe has no good reputation anyway, they are just so entrenched in the media and print industries that they can do whatever they want.
While I didn't hear anything, I think the walk control would have to be local circuitry. I can't see how a remote operator could sense balance and do all the leg movements.

You can see a Tesla upper body controller here. Not sure if it's what they used for the event, but probably something like that. https://x.com/TroyTeslike/status/1845047695284613344
https://archive.ph/zOlKC
The only update this site needs is at the beginning: instead of a helpful result, it needs to be below 16 AI generated or SEO spam links, and an AI-generated answer needs to appear and start pushing them down the page as it slowly spawns into existence.
Apparently he was cleared of cheating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKIbq2FuG8
Pumpkin spice latte season
I once spent an hour on a back and forth conversation with cursor on a boilerplate for a tedious task (I provided a working example). Then the next 2 hours fixing it because of sheer amount of subtle bugs and misplaced values.

Maybe 1 out of 10 chats was actually time-saving
For me, the first reading is usually higher (by 20-30, even after a long rest period) and subsequent ones get lower and lower as I calm down from the initial worry about whether I will get a high reading or not.

At the doctor's office / hospital I try to tell them this, but they tend not to care. I think they know it varies a lot, they know about psychological effects, but i) they anyway take it much less seriously than overthinkers like me and some fellow HN-ers would imagine and ii) they may prescribe something and anyway expect it not to do much, and also expect the patient not to follow through with taking it properly etc. Honestly, the whole thing is quite a farce. The painful truth is that generic lifestyle improvements are the biggest bang for your buck, instead of worrying about getting exact and precise blood pressure readings.

The other similar big thing is routine blood tests for deficiencies and cholesterol, iron etc. It can also have huge variance over the year, and often people only do it every one or two years and take it as this extremely solid evidence that you need to take this or that medicine. If we were truly serious about this, we would do several tests, separated by weeks, done with different kit manufacturers at different labs etc.

I think the reason for not doing more thorough testing is implicitly admitting that the results aren't really all that actionable and improved precision doesn't really improve treatments because we have no idea what to really do with the results. There are studies showing correlations/causations of certain interventions on specific markers, and those markers are in turn correlated to some outcomes, but often the "evidence-based medicine" doesn't follow the full chain towards the actual outcome.

The other big reason for not measuring more times is the same that a man with a watch knows the time, but a man with two watches is never quite sure about it. In other words, if you got a test and had a result, you can document this and all is fine.
From the rustic readme:

> rustic currently is in beta state and misses regression tests. It is not recommended to use it for production backups, yet.
More charitably, perhaps people are looking at the movement foundering and asking if the reason is that its leader has too much baggage to talk to the people with political power to move free software forward?
Hi, I am the CEO of Keybase and i can assure you we are working on features that will make this a reality
Good shitposting
TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
This makes me think of the "Person unimpressed by Place | person amazed by Place (Japan)" meme. In this case it feels like "Person unimpressed by basic concept | person amazed by basic concept (Philosophy)".
Trapped
A private psychiatric hospital did this to me. I was voluntarily committed and they kept me for 10 days because that is how long Medicare would pay for. I was literally fine after the second day. Meanwhile a poor kid with horrible delusions was let out after three days after being involuntarily commuted and was still having active hallucinations. He had no healthcare at all.

The hospital has been under intense investigation by the local news.

https://www.wral.com/holly-hill-hospital/21507953/

This is the newest scam running, privatize health care so that these companies can rake in billions. I am sure this dental school probably gets millions for doing this.
Yes that is usually the way things go for rich people.

They have an asset and take out a loan against the asset (e.g. stocks). Say $10M. This does not count as income. Then they spend the money on what they want and refinance the loan with another loan, say $20M on their grown assets. Then you spend more money, again with no income, so no taxes. When the asset goes up, you refinance. When the assets crash, banks can have the assets. Again, you've spent the money without income. One of the many tax "avoidance" schemes (this one is for income, others are for inheritance tax or VAT avoidance) of very rich people (those with no real income, not professionals with very high income).

You can read about it e.g. in the leftwing-marxist-propaganda Forbes Magazin:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2021/11/11/how-americ...

When you die, you never pay back the money, the strategy is called "Buy, Borrow, Die" for a reason:

https://smartasset.com/investing/buy-borrow-die-how-the-rich...
> I don't understand how you consider the Nintendo Switch to be abandonware.

I don't? My comment was on the primary use of emulation.

And Nintendo Switch is not the predominant console that is emulated. In fact Switch emulation runs only on relatively modern systems, not on Android and not on the myriad of cheap emulation hardware that is sold on AliExpress.
> The Three-Body Problem is one of the most famous unsolvable problems in mathematics and theoretical physics

This claim might seem incongruous with the fact that they obviously analyze three-body systems and "discover" interesting things about their dynamics.

The subtlety rests on the definition of "solvable", which here means (loosely) to express the trajectories of the gravitational bodies in terms of "known functions", thus to have an "exact solution" that one can write down in mathematical notation, say x = sin(w t), instead of an approximate (numerical) solution that is a stream of numbers.

The chase of exact solutions was a holy grail for 18th/19th century physics but has lost much of its mystique in the 20th century. On the one hand the systems of interest become much more complex (thus in general "unsolvable") and on the other hand the invention of digital computers enabled new forms of analysis.
Following this out of interest. I built an AI clone app for iOS, and faced a similar challenge around looking for a business case.

We are taking it into the visualization / interview prep space, where I think the tech offers a 10x improvement over a mirror or someone's imagination, instead of replacing another human, where it's 10^9X worse.

Andy Rachleff (Wealthfront, Benchmark) says venture-scale startups are about developing new tech and then finding business cases for them. It's helpful as founders to pattern match, watching how it's done in AI drones, AI iOS apps, etc.
Probably only inasmuch as 1 is a theoretical framework. While 1*N dollars is nice to have, I'd probably have more dollars without fractional rounding.
> In any case, the nature of the product / features / refactorings usually dictates the minimum size of a PR.

Why not split the big tickets into smaller tickets which are delivered individually? There's cases where you literally can't but in my experience those are the minority or at least should be assuming a decently designed system.
Godel's theorem is irrelevant to systems of concepts, conceptual analysis, or theorising in general. It's narrowly about technical issues in logic.

It has been "thematically appropriated" by a certain sort of pop-philosophy, but it says nothing relevant.

Philosophy isnt the activity of trying to construct logical embeddings in deductive proofs. If any one ever thought so, then there's some thin sort of relevance, but no one ever has.
Yeah. I wish 1.6 worked on Apple Silicon and I wish there was an active scene of that still.
I probably shouldn't divulge this since it risks this privilege disappearing, but Twitch is the one place I don't see ads, even though I don't use an ad-blocker.

I think some years ago, I may have had a flag set on my account which stops me getting ads. In the past I've given security@twitch a heads-up about some minor vulnerabilities, so perhaps it was a gesture of good will from twitch.

It may also have been a freak case of falling between the cracks when having "twitch prime" transitioned from ad-free viewing across all twitch to not doing so.

It took me years to realise that I don't see adverts on twitch when I "should", and I don't fully understand why not. I'm not sure who even at twitch I would report it to, as it doesn't feel like a security issue.
Our team has members in every US timezone.

I find I'll often try and use relative times in conversation, e.g. "after the stand-up" or "at the top of the hour" rather than specifying a wall clock time.
The memoir Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing describes using a heated icepick.

You take a chestnut, and you hook the ice pick. You wait until nobody is in the kitchen, and then one kid presses down on the pilot-light button so that a long delicate blue finger of flame comes out, and the other kid puts the ice pick in the flame until it is red-hot. When it is, he bores a hole in the chestnut. You do as many as you can until somebody comes and asks you what you are doing, and then, according to your standing in the family, that day, you either plead, argue, or say, “Oh, jeez,” and slink away.
And it is the biggest reason we need universal healthcare.
Perhaps, but it would have been of little use as a question there.

Once you acquire enough of a feeling for a foreign language that not every bit of your skill in it comes from somebody telling you that a particular thing is said in a particular way, you are doomed to live with a constant suspicion that your feeling is somehow off in a way you don’t recognize. Usually it can be suppressed and ignored, but sometimes it can’t, and occasionally it has to become a question. (I expect this is a fairly common experience.) This was one of those.
In this case, it seems it is just the weights that are Apache licensed, which doesn't quite fit. Apache license is primarily designed for software, not binary data like video or music, we typically use Creative Commons or similar for those types of things.

Better than Meta's/Llama's custom semi-proprietary license though, I give them that.
just add a ton of cameras and lidar hardware, and you have waymo
Still after all these years, a blockbuster classic

Thorium Remix 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG1YjDdI_c8

[00:00] LFTR in 5 minutes; [06:05] dialogue on Energy sources & conservation; [08:29] Elizabeth May on why nuclear 'fails', response; [13:40] Kirk Sorensen's time at NASA, discovering molten salt research; [17:30] on Glenn Seaborg's discovery of Thorium's fissile properties in 1942; [20:05] What nuclear fission is, decay chains, half life; [26:45] neutron absorption, cross section, Xenon poisoning at Hanford; [30:06] isotopic enrichment, Thorium/u233 rejected for weapons; [32:45] Atoms for Peace, absorption propensity and performance of nuclear fuels, thermal & fast spectrum, Thorium/Plutonium debate; [36:28] Alvin Weinberg focuses on Thorium and liquid fuels, Oak Ridge Labs, Aircraft Reactor Experiment, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, Fluoride Salts; [44:40] two-fluid molten salt reactor; [48:18] light water reactors, Watts Bar, reactor safety and containment systems, issues with water, Fukushima Daiichi hydrogen explosions; [01:01:38] solid fuel & rod assemblies, Eugene Wigner & liquid fuels; [01:04:38] PWR efficiency, Weinberg's quest for near-100% utilization, AEC's choice to pursue Plutonium fast breeders; [01:06:46] Weinberg's concerns about LWR safety, Congressman Chet Hollifeld's inquiry, Weinberg leaves Oak Ridge, WASH-1222, Integral Fast Reactor, Traveling Wave; [01:11:26] Fusion is hard; [01:14:12] Thorium in a CANDU; [01:18:12] Colonel Paul Roege on military reactors, Robert Hargraves: prosperity is related to energy, Robert F. Kennedy on mercury from coal; [01:21:42] transuranics, LFTR active processing, electricity & isotope production from LFTR, Pu-238 and RTGs, Molybdenum-99 & Bismuth-213 in medicine; [01:27:48] cost to build LFTR; [01:30:26] proliferation concerns; [01:31:50] hysterical news coverage of radiation, LNT; [01:40:02] coal & natural gas radioactive emissions, Thorium & Uranium decay in the Earth, magnetosphere, Hargraves on CO2 emissions & ocean acidification & energy density, one-sided press coverage for 'renewables'; [01:50:07] various approaches to nuclear power, the 'reason why not' , LWR business model; [01:54:40] China and LFTR, Sorensen's visit to Oak Ridge to obtain access to LFTR documents, the Chinese visit Oak Ridge; [01:58:01] Thorium and rare earths, China's domination of rare earths market, China's LFTR program; [02:06:39] transitioning energy sources, without plentiful energy we will revert to slavery, energy cheaper than from coal; [02:10:44] process heat applications, desalinization, synfuels, Brayton Cycle, managing transuranics, gas & oil working against nuclear, closing remarks and recap.
On the flip side I have had a lot of success parsing spreadsheets and other tables into their markdown or similar representation and pulling data out of that quite accurately.
Do you think this is true in private vs public health care as well?
If you can parlay it into an 1/8 wavelength, 25cm is probably not impossible to fit into some monstrously meandered beast that could fit in a phone's footprint. We've come a long way in terms of miniaturizing antennas, though I'm no expert.

But I think your second point hits the nail on the head - cell phones have enough antennas in them, and asking to add another one at such a low frequency is a great way to get your antenna and QA teams to look for a more sane employer, and to put your EMC compliance partner's kids through college :)
A note to posterity:

A few days after the above exchange, the Wayback Machine was back online and I ran the site’s URL through it. The only archived version was from October 9, 2024.
Bad observation.

Stop projecting, you two.

Just because you want to take take take from others doesn't mean everyone else is.
Based on all my recent research:

Best UI: Breville

Best "normal" microwave: Panasonic inverter

Best for people who enjoy cooking: any microwave with convection/broiler (IIRC Miele speed ovens are popular)

Best for early adopters: Miele Dialog
NASAs "do stuff" budget is super small because their "keep all the experts on staff" budget is insatiable.

It's not entirely bad though, I'm sure lots of those folks are doing good and important stuff. But I don't think the balance between employment and building things is quite right. At least to my tastes.
Instantly reminded of this gem of a news report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53w9E774fGE
The worst of it is even the Pictures Under Glass have got worse. They used to be designed to look like things, so you’d see something that looked pushable and push (tap) it.

So even if there was no tactile engagement there was visual engagement communicating tactile interaction.

Now even that’s gone. Our Pictures Under Glass are bland and flat and look like translucent acrylic and, well, glass.
No one said it was true for every game. Conker is more akin to corn hole than football, but maybe even more obscure.
FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers
> Why hosting costs apparently weren't such a big deal 15-20 years ago with crappier hardware and much less storage space, I honestly don't know.

Back in the so called "golden days", I actually hosted a forum with a friend. His uncle offered his old office PC(bought at a bargain) and internet with fixed IP for us to tinker with. Our tiny forum has local kids and some "supervising adults" doing moderation. Many of our international members were mostly on dialup, so even if we didn't have lovely CDN, the slowness was accepted as normal thing. We did not face much spamming, grifting and any trouble makers were policed out immediately by moderators.

In present days, I am very afraid to put something online, because if the moderators are not vigilant, I could very well expect a police letter by a week or two asking about certain type fo contents and my infra provider banning or null routing my forum. It was easy back in days, now the risks are too high and trouble makers have more resources than well intent folks.
Some plausible reasons:

1. Smaller market than more general market.

2. HiFi is a proven market.

3. “You are dying” is not a great marketing subtext.

4. Digital audio jellybeans produce 20khz and adding a low pass filter adds cost.

5. If a person only hears to 12KHz, there’s no advantage to a low pass filter.
It's a lifetime management system for short-lived objects, same idea as memory arenas but for manually refcounted objects you got out of an API. It keeps the object alive until the end of the autorelease scope without anybody having to explicitly call the release method (the autoreleasepool does this instead). Not sure if the concept still makes sense with ARC though, it's probably just a no-op there - or probably not seeing that Swift seems to have inherited autoreleasepools from ObjC).
Recovering from the Party
Internally the design of Vortex is very similar. The file consists of a whole bunch of "messages" (your files), which then have some metadata attached, and the read logic decides which messages it needs when.
It is not how I experience the Web today, and I was initially confused by what the hype was about this site, because… Anytime I see a pattern like this, I just close the tab and move on to browsing sites that respect me. So that's what I did after clicking the first link.

It’s sort of like if an annoying or obnoxious person approaches me on the street… I just walk away! What could they possibly have to say to me that could be so important?

And I have noticed the same with Web sites… this type of low-quality behavior correlates strongly with low-quality content, which also adds nothing to my life. So by immediately leaving, I am not only saving myself from aggravation, I am also saving myself from wasting time on fluff pieces, useless studies, clickbait, etc.

I highly recommend this strategy, because it has transformed the Web for me into once again being usable and useful.

(I still use an ad blocker for security reasons.)