derekdahmer

Physician Assistant, which is like a RN

I RFTA and the majority of the complaints are about call center metrics and the pressure to ration care. These are real concerns about misuse of metrics, but not AI. The AI empathy thing was a 2024 pilot that was discontinued.

FWIW my wife works for Kaiser and finds a lot of value in the the medical LLM tools available to her. She tells me being able to do live translation, summarize notes, and quickly get comprehensive answers save her time and help her give better care. Her older patients also frequently come in bringing AI-powered alerts from their apple watches that detected cardiac events.

It's annoying that we use broad terms to describe a set of technologies that in some ways can be problematic and in another ways are very beneficial. We gotta evaluate each of these as they come rather than talk about blanket bans.

When I was a little kid I was playing a DOS submarine game which had a Boss Key.

All I knew was the button makes it quit the game so my 6 year old interpretation was that it must be something you press when you get to the final boss and are too scared?

One day I played for an hour straight trying to get to the boss part of the game but it never came.

Testing for an extremely rare bacterium is not the bare minimum. In fact even the water treatment plants rarely do it. They admit in the article we don’t even know whether or not the bacteria originated from the water supplied by the city that entered the pipes in the first place.

DCs should be responsible for their output but this seems to be a super edge case.

It's wild but 80TB actually is modest compared to some of the enthusiasts on /r/homelab and /r/datahoarders that are running 300TB NAS servers at home. 80TB can still maybe fit in a single box. (8x10TB)

They also hold their performance well so for some people it’s worth saving a few hundred bucks plus sales tax by buying a used one.

The Owens River source for LA is so good because it’s basically a continuous gradual decline from the source to the city, requiring no pumps.

Pumping is very energy intensive. At around 2000-3000 ft the energy needed to pump fresh water starts to equal the energy needed to desalinate the same amount of salt water.

Even if it’s just going up then back down again like the Tehachapi Mountains only like 1/3rd of the energy can be reclaimed.

A H100 uses about 1000W including networking gear and can generate 80-150 t/s for a 70B model like llama.

So back of the napkin, for a decently sized 1000 token response you’re talking about 8s/3600s*1000 = 2wh which even in California is about $0.001 of electricity.

Actual shootings with 3D printed guns are relatively rare but it’s come up because Luigi Mangione killed the United Healthcare CEO with one.

Steam, the Kindle Store and iTunes all had similar sales cuts since before the app store launched in 2008.

It’s egregious now but at the time it wasn’t crazy because software developers often made way less than that when going through traditional publishing routes. Plus everyone was just happy to be making money off the new platform.

Well that’s one interpretation.

Another way to think about it is a good that we once bought for private use where it sat around underutilized the majority of the time is instead being allocated in data centers where we rent slices of it, allowing RAM to be more efficiently allocated and used.

Yes it sucks that demand for RAM has led to scarcity and higher prices but those resources moving to data centers is a natural consequence of a shareable resource becoming expensive. It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy.

My 7700k, a top of the line CPU from 2017, doesn’t support Windows 11 even though it has TPM 2.0. I had to install using rufus.

How is this different from linux? People happily spend hours customizing defaults in their OS. It’s usually a point of praise for open source software.

They have 800M weekly active users that have yet to be monetized but enormous capital costs. It makes sense they'd be looking to raise large amounts of money in an IPO.

Firstly, I can tell you phone number verification made a very meaningful impact. The cost of abuse can be quite high for services with high marginal costs like AI.

Second, all those alternatives you described are also not great for user privacy either. One way or another you have to try to associate requests with an individual entity. Each has its own limitations and downsides, so typically multiple methods are used for different scenarios with the hope that all together its enough of a deterrence.

Having to do abuse prevention is not great for UX and hurts legitimate conversion, I promise you most companies only do it when they reach a point where abuse has become a real problem and sometimes well after.

Theoretically yes but a few issues:

- Account creation usually happens before plan selection & payment. Most users start at free, then add a CC later either during on-boarding or after finishing their trial.

- Virtual credit cards are very easy to create. You can signup with credit card with a very low limit and just use the free tier tokens.

As someone who implemented phone verification at a company I worked for, it’s 100% for preventing spam signups intending to abuse free tiers. API companies can get huge volumes of fake signups from “multiplexers” who get around free tier limits by spreading their requests across multiple accounts.

Even after reading this comment I went searching for the button and it took a while to find it.

And the homepage says in bold letters “The PeerTube mobile app for Android & iOS is out!” but it’s not a link! There’s a link further down but it goes to this article where you then have to scroll.

Not every site has to be super conversion optimized but it’s just common sense to put a CTA at the head of an announcement. joinmastodon.org gets it!

Assuming power is free. Even small wattage differences add up quickly for a server running 24/7 and those older CPUs can be very inefficient.

FWIW, I have USAA and had the almost exact same thing happen to me in 2020 - car stolen and totaled. They paid me a really fair deal on the cash back for the 2yo crosstrek.

It probably helped that it was a cut and dry case - the thief took the keys from inside my house and I called the cops seconds after I saw him drive away with it.

Damn give it a minute. All this LMM/GPT stuff just blew up in the last 9 months.

They did pay severance.

The West Hollywood, California-based company also gave a severance package to staff who were unable to relocate, in what the CWA alleged was an attempt “to silence workers from speaking out about their working conditions,” according to a statement from the organization.

Part of their orb tech is a ton of sensors that make sure its a real eyeball on a human.

Can multiple APs work together to do beam forming or do all there antennas have to be in a single AP?

She got there well before her 8am meeting and and stayed through to what looks like a happy hour at the end of the day. Meanwhile even working from home I feel good if I start working by 9am.

Webpack 5 was that push to fix the monolith. I would guess that after that herculean upgrade effort that the creator of Webpack has a pretty good idea of what’s fixable and what’s an inherent limitation of the existing tool.

That’s really not what’s going on here.

All the previous gen bundlers are written in JS and support a giant ecosystem of JS plugins. There’s no incremental way to migrate those projects to Rust. The benefit of these new bundlers is that they are literally full rewrites in a faster language without the cruft of a now mostly unnecessary plugin API.

And the “cost” of this? Some of these new bundlers are written by just 1 or 2 core contributors. Turns out with the benefit of hindsight you can make a much better implementation from scratch with far less resources than before.

Webpack was flexible and “good enough.” But it turns out rust-based bundlers are 10-100x faster and so the definition of “good enough” has changed, for good reason.

It’s hard to overstate how game changing this new wave of zero-config, ultrafast rust bundlers are for the day-to-day dev experience.

I’m nostalgic for the clubhouse feel of private servers but I played CounterStrike 1.6 in the early 2000s and also remember nightly encounters with aimbots, wall hacks, porn sprays, toxic voice chat and uneven teams because there was no centralized matchmaking.

Todays system certainly has trade offs but the competitive experience is so much better.

If they truly want to require one person per ballot drop them in the mailbox then yea this system is not going to work. Most people aren’t going to make their spouse come along with them in the car just to drop their ballots off unless someone there is enforcing it.

Not sure why this rule exists though. There’s no one preventing you from mailing a stack of absentee ballots in so why does it matter with the physical dropbox?