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Oh, I see that now. That makes it so much more interesting as a puzzle. I'll have to try again with that in mind. Got up near 20 but couldn't get past that. Played for like 45 minutes. Super fun!

That was really not meant to be the focus of my comment, but that range definitely seems high, from all those that I know in the field. You have to also factor in the significant amount of debt they incur over the 14 years it takes to get through undergrad, medical school, residency training and then subspecialty fellowship training. Adult ICU doctors make twice as much as pediatric ICU doctors, that was really the thought behind the comment on being underpaid. That, and she works difficult hours (long shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, on-call, etc.) and the emotional toll of the work can't be understated.

That's a an honestly upsetting statement. My wife is a pediatric critical care physician and there is not an evil bone in her body. She works her tail off, is (in my opinion) underpaid (like most pediatricians), and her job takes huge emotional toll. The same is true for all of her partners. Maybe I'm reading this wrong and you mean administrative or insurance or something else. But at least in my orbit, that statement is not true.

This is great news! I worked on the redesign and replatform with last.fm when they were part CBS Interactive. They were a lovely team of engineers and designers who cared about their product, and I appreciated their culture. Fun memories spending time in London with the team. Glad to hear they found a new home!

It's really hard for me to tell from the video what this does exactly. I can infer the premise but it's unclear how this works.

I've used other keyboard locking tools in the past that were free. What I'd really love is a smarter app that detects keyboard mashing or whatever so I don't have to manually lock/unlock when my cats come around.

Am I understanding correctly that this Nobel prize is for work that was completed over 20 years ago? I'm not a biologist but it sounds like they discovered regulatory T cells together, which sounds relatively major. Is it typical for a Nobel prize to lag that kind of discovery for decades? Or is it only now that we understand how major the discovery was? Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding the discovery and the timeline.

My Retro TVs 11 months ago

I just realized I was listening to news of the 911 attacks in the background for at least 20 minutes. Then heard the sound of static as it changed to a different stream. Super cool, I love this.

GPT-5 12 months ago

Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?

I'm 10 minutes in and find the narrator is a bit hard to understand. There isn't much in the video beyond the audio, at least in the first part, so maybe the storytelling improves. I'll keep watching later.

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think the article is misrepresenting the study. The research looked at over 1.2 million children and specifically examined whether increased exposure to aluminum containing vaccines was associated with autism or 49 other health conditions, and it found no evidence of a link. Since aluminum adjuvants are one of the most commonly cited concerns in vaccine skepticism, especially in claims about autism, the study directly addresses that idea.

So while the article’s headline simplifies the finding by saying “no link between vaccines and autism,” it’s not inaccurate. It reflects the key takeaway, that within the vaccines that include aluminum, which are widely used in childhood immunizations, there is no indication of increased risk. That’s important and relevant.

It’s fair to expect transparency, and I agree that people should be encouraged to read the actual research, but in this case it seems to me that the summary is consistent with what the study actually tested and found.

How would an AGI prevent others from competing? Sincere question. That seems like something that ASI would be capable of. If another company released an AGI, how would the original stifle it? I get that the original can self-improve to try to stay ahead, but that doesn't necessarily mean it self-improves the best or most efficiently, right?

Google Pixel 9 Pro 2 years ago

I broke my iPhone 12 mini and part of me died that day. A tired dad moment – set the phone on the trunk lid when getting my kid in the car and then later opened the trunk. It slid down and crunched in the hinge.

I could replace it with another mini but have been holding out hope for another updated version. I love the small form factor, even at the expense of battery life and camera quality. I just want a reasonable phone with solid hardware that fits in my pocket.

I’m actually giving a presentation tomorrow to my team about a tool I was building to leverage our runbooks (came out of a hackathon) and this just blows my app out of the water. I’m really stoked to give this a try and possibly contribute back by creating a connector for our messaging app. Thank you so much for making this available and for explaining so much about the architecture.

These are precisely the reasons I want a smarter phone. Taking pictures of my kids and navigating around town. We also listen to children’s stories in the car using Spotify so that too. Banking I could probably work around but it’s possible I’m just not realizing how much I use my phone for these types of things. That said, I have zero social media or scroller apps, outside of HN.

Omegle 2009-2023 3 years ago

I’m so glad to see Harry Mack getting love on here. It’s wild that he just shared his last episode on Friday and now the site is shutting down. Glad he already took off and found success.