PaulHoule

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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
The path to board-certified MD is long and I know my share of people who decided to get the MD but skip the residency and go into startups. There are a large number of healthcare related jobs, such as nursing, psychotherapy, physical therap
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
(1) Social media addiction is an addiction but taking away the phone isn't a simple solution. For one thing, apps have dominated many markets such as dating and finding out about local events. A local board game club, for instance,
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Look at drones. Drones are a revolution in military affairs if there ever was one but they were not brought to you by military contractors like Boeing and Lockheed-Martin but instead developed as a consumer technology by the likes of DJI.
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Europe will talk tepidly about reusable rockets, China will develop reusable rockets.
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... and there is some of that two-sided market effect that (1) people who want to publish a model will publish on HuggingFace and (2) people who look for models will look at HuggingFace. Even if HuggingFace is poorly run in the future it w
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
That government id thing is a joke. I get endlessly harassed to identify my identity with CLEAR, which I have no problem with in principle, but I have the practical problem that "it just doesn't work" and of course there i
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
It's the argument of Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691004129/no... which is a book that I enjoy less now than the first time I read it. He was worr
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
Could you fix the spelling of the title? It reminds me of the time I adapted a very early "centaur" AI framework I'd made to processing job applications... Then I got the very first job I applied for because, of course, my
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam#Digital_Data_Pack The Coleco ADAM was a weirdly overengineered machine that had a heavy case only equalled by the old IBM Pentium 3 machine that I had my developm
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It proves that you can’t trust the claim that “it is the same network”, I mean it is the same network but you may find yourself riding the back of the bus and there is no independent way to check what service you are actually getting.
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Ezra Klein would point how how dangerous it is. In New York we had really big talk about a fiber buildout where it was clear they kept spending money and spending money in multiple rounds but nobody I knew was getting fiber well past the 2
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In the U.S. I perceive MVNOs to be a scam. Like Tracfone was OK in 2011 but somewhere afterwards it became normal to go around rural upstate NY and no service and go around NYC and no service and go to LA and no service. This year I got a
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
The usual complaint is that those sites are not accurate. Like back when I had 2Mbps DSL sites like that claimed I was served by 15+ ISPs that did not serve me.
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Satellite services make an end run through a lot of bullshit, that’s true, but the long term costs of fiber are overestimated because cable companies want a very fast profit. Whereas thousands and thousands of satellites will need to be re
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(1) communities have already committed to universal service for electricity which uses the same poles and (2) fiber investments are good for at least 50 years and are much cheaper in reality than the usual ROI metrics say they are; the aw
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
My "street photography" involves getting consent at least 90% of the time but I practice an unusual form of "character photography" where I "go out" like this https://mastodon.social/@UP8/1
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Great show!
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The 1990s were the peak of "you will be able to buy a better computer in a year and a half" and "the cost of computing power is going down rapidly" and, for me, the 2010s were the decade where you couldn't sell sp
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
Gawd, that image-based approach to programming has never been mainstream because it creates a terrible mess. Look at the nightmare notebooks you get from data scientists working in Python where they want to have their answers baked into a
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Yeah, I call my friends on some platforms "my furs" but of course I have a shtick that attracts them. [1] On Bluesky in particular you have to put some effort into having a good feed. You just can't follow the people who po
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
You can't underestimate the power of two-sided networks. Every day "Ask HN" people underestimate the difficulty of starting a new community platform by orders of magnitude. And no matter how you mismanage a platform it&#x27
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I dunno. Those rationalists seem to be in some kind of intellectual black hole which never had any danger of sucking me in. Like I have seen many strands of posthumanism and transhumanism, speculations about an intelligence explosion circ
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by PaulHoule 2mo ago
The singularity in a non-rotating, non-charged black hole is as you say. It’s like in a finite amount of time you “run out of time”, like there isn’t any more time on that trajectory. The singularity in a rotating black hole is entirely di
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If you really treated them as points the theory would blow up because the electrostatic potential energy of a point charge is infinite. This is dealt with by “renormalization” which is roughly: assume the theory isn’t really valid all the
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She's one of those crossover performers, such as Kenny Rogers and Taylor Swift who escape Country music as a genre and get mass appeal. Whenever I comment about a Dolly Parton song playing in a public place I hear things like "S
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Dolly Parton, Effervescent Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80(hollywoodreporter.com)
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There are founders and there also are the rest of the startup workers. I felt my most valuable formative experience for being a startup worker was the summer I was back from college and the supermarket I worked at in high school felt they o
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I am LMFAO about claims that Cornell is too "woke", like there is a woman's studies department, but also a Hotel Management school, a Business school, an Engineering school, ROTC, an ag school, a vet school, etc. Very voca
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I like In fact there are only two things universities need to change to be perfect at preparing founders: they need to make students feel that starting a startup is something they can do, and they need to encourage them to wo
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There is something to aromatherapy. Essential oils are full of molecules that look like drugs and bind to GPCR receptors in the nose that head to the brain and have all sorts of effects, even if these molecules don't transport well i

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