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I thought about that, but it is indeed getting worse. If a doctor works from 30-70 (not sure what the average retirement age would be), then about 38% should be over 55. Clicking through to the actual statistics: Percentage of active physic
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It doesn’t help that doctors and other healthcare professionals are leaving because of burnout. It will only get worse in my opinion. “Warning signs for the U.S. health system are piling up” “Nearly half of practicing U.S. physicians are ol
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Wow, it is not driven nearly that much. It has < 120k miles on it :) But it did spend its first 6 or 7 years in Western NY, with snowy, salty roads a good chunk of the year. There definitely is some rusty spots and corrosion. I think peo
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The headline basically says it all. My 15 year old car is starting to get some issues so I was browsing some EVs. They are literally twice as expensive as a comparable ICE car, even after tax incentives. With interest rates where they are,
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100% this. I have some big wooden cutting boards, and while they are really nice in a lot of ways, they are an absolute pain in the ass to wash by hand in a normal kitchen sink. You have to wash half at a time or something. After spending a
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Silicon Valley's Perversion of Philanthropy(axios.com)
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I do this. Sometimes I add the info the same day, or just do it all on the weekend. Probably takes 10 minutes a week. I can then take that info and compare to any budgets or predictions and see where things are going right or wrong. I’ve ha
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by sseagull 3y ago
To be lovingly snarky: HN in aggregate is incredibly skeptical of academic research, claiming reproducibility crises everywhere, misalignment of incentives, brutal working environments whose results can't be trusted, only in mice, etc.
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Years from now? I've been mad at this for at least a decade. Look at how much control media companies have exerted over pretty much everything. Look at all the anti-piracy stuff with HDCP, or the DRM stuff in browsers, and how some ser
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by sseagull 3y ago
If we are talking about oral contraceptives, it was prescription-only in the US until earlier this year. “On July 13, 2023 the first US daily oral nonprescription over-the-counter birth control pill was approved for manufacturer by the FDA.
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by sseagull 3y ago
> You want to benefit off the work of others, and bear zero cost. What if you just built those libraries yourself No one can do that to any large scale. That is all there is to say about that. And all my projects are open source. I give
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by sseagull 3y ago
I'll be kinda honest here, but one thing that pops into my head is to stop developing so many new languages and workflows. It's hard to build any sort of critical mass (paying or not) around hundreds or thousands of tiny communiti
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GrandParent. The parent comment of the parent comment :)
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I seem to remember being able to chat with Facebook users from my personal server, but it doesn’t look like it was possible [1]. Actually, searching for this stuff made me sad :( There are blog posts from Facebook still up about how they ar
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by sseagull 3y ago
Saying anyone who makes mistakes is just incompetent is really just a “no true Scotsman” argument. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s the whole point of the Swiss cheese model and of layers of security in general.
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by sseagull 3y ago
Oh yeah, the article. I guess this thread got sidetracked on the topic of Dell's pricing :). I wonder how common a 24-drive NVMe server is. I don't know all the ins and outs of SAS vs NVMe. Maybe someone else can chime in. I am at
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by sseagull 3y ago
I am not too much of an expert on enterprise hardware, but those are PCIe interface. I don’t know how possible it is to rack up 24 of those in a single server (you would run out of lanes). This is something more similar to what is in those
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by sseagull 3y ago
We recently purchased a similar server. One thing to note is that a VAR (as mentioned elsewhere) will knock 75% off the price listed on Dell’s website. Another this is that that is way too cheap for those SSDs. Enterprise SAS (not plain SAT
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by sseagull 3y ago
> I'm still confused why all the attempts at clearing amyloid plaque don't stop progression of the disease Newer drugs aimed at inhibiting amyloid-beta plaque formation in early-stage Alzheimer’s disease are showing an effect.
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> Umm, the bill of rights is a set of restrictions on the _federal_ government. The last one is explicitly a statement that the states can do a lot of things that the federal government _can't_. Taken literally, yes. But legally, ma
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by sseagull 3y ago
This is being worked on if I recall: https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm
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Fortran is unpopular because programming is fashion driven. That is basically all. It is very suitable for it’s domain, but it’s old. Programmers have no attention span and love new and shiny things. They would rather reimplement known solu
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by sseagull 3y ago
See also how ads used to be very visually distinct from search results but gradually moved to blend in: https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog... Edit: Image has 'ads' in the URL so blocked b
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by sseagull 3y ago
Kinda related story about data and context: I saw a discussion on a website (ask a doctor type of stuff). A guy found that a lymph node in his neck seemed a little big. He found an academic article that stated about 50% of lymph nodes over
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I find it frustrating to search for stuff for mid-scale problems sometimes. There's a lack of context about what 'metrics' or 'analytics' means, and that leads to over-engineered solutions. I run 2-3 (primarily data
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When I got a dog, it also fell on me to walk her. When we had a storm a while back, I realized that I only knew the dogs’ names and where they lived. “Yeah, Fido’s house got tore up pretty bad”. Didn’t know the owner’s name :)
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This is correct. You can’t just say you are invoking the 5th and refuse to testify. If pressed, you actually have to get up there and invoke it — possibly to every question if needed. The fear of perjury is an interesting twist, though. And
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It’s like universities with billions already in their endowment fund. Whatever it is, it isn’t enough, and the fund better be bigger next year. It’s the equivalent of individual people who never feel financially secure, even with millions i
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This seems to come from a joke, which some (AI-generated?) sites take literally. https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/o8i3as/fun_fact_...
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Ok, I guess. I work adjacent to AI in chemistry, and lets just say it’s a very crowded field. It’s not like everyone is sitting around. There’ probably at least 1000 startups looking into it, along with the large established companies (incl

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