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by pak 1mo ago
OpenSSH has the best track record, but even it had a zero-day RCE (regreSSHion) in 2024. There are bound to be many more discovered as LLMs capable of doing so proliferate among those who don't report such things responsibly. Keeping p
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Apple raises Mac Mini starting price $599 to $799, 256GB storage discontinued(macrumors.com)
22 points by pak 5mo ago|8 comments
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VoiceCraft: Open-source neural codec text-to-speech model with voice cloning(jasonppy.github.io)
5 points by pak 2y ago|1 comments
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by pak 4y ago
webscalist was referencing a 12 year old joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by pak 4y ago
You know we’re doomed when half the comments here are taking this seriously, and not as the satire it clearly is (1KB of state? come on people) Props to the OP for showing once again how lightheaded everybody gets while gently inhaling the
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by pak 5y ago
Big fan of tqdm in python, so I ported it to ruby 5 years ago: https://github.com/powerpak/tqdm-ruby (shameless plug and an invitation for pull requests)
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by pak 5y ago
People already do need it! In the US alone, about a half million people are on dialysis. There are many health and functional consequences to both intermittent and peritoneal dialysis; they are not exactly benign treatments.
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by pak 5y ago
The major benefit to implanting it under the skin, as we do with pacemakers, is that doing without permanent holes or tubes through the skin reduces infection risk. Consider also the danger of having something dangling from your body that i
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by pak 5y ago
You'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes: https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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by pak 7y ago
The video evidence of the L-form switching is no doubt very interesting, but a more accurate headline would be “One cause of resistance to certain antibiotics in UTIs identified.” Or the original article’s title, which is “Possible role of
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by pak 9y ago
Well, for starters, it's hard to get 200 people who might be eligible for life-preserving surgery to volunteer to possibly get a sham procedure for the exclusive benefit of othewars; not to mention build a team of surgeons, hospitals,
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by pak 9y ago
I found the Statistical Learning self paced course on Stanford's site to be a great formal intro to ML algorithms implemented in R, and it is taught by the inimitable Hastie and Tibshirani: http://statlearning.class.stanford
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by pak 9y ago
So what good does increasing US medical school graduation rates do? OK, it would displace some IMGs/FMGs from residency positions, but it doesn't ultimately create more doctors. You can't be licensed to practice independently
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by pak 9y ago
Thanks for replying! I'll certainly be looking forward to the publication. >about 10% of people who come in to the cardiology clinic experiencing symptoms are diagnosed with an abnormal heart rhythm OK, but I'd be more careful
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by pak 9y ago
We need to see the full, published study and its methods (particularly around recruitment and exclusion criteria) before we can judge it properly. Until then, the presented statistics about accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity potentially
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Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks(npr.org)
428 points by pak 9y ago|343 comments
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by pak 10y ago
As of right now, the USB-C hub situation is actually pretty dire, as in the only all-in-one solutions are $100+, or not yet released [1] [2]. My past experience with non-powered USB hubs has taught me they're pretty hit-or-miss with a
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by pak 10y ago
The upgrade from floppy to optical only, or optical to bigger hard drives and SSDs and fast WiFi, are leaps in capability that don't even compare to the marginal gain of USB-C over USB3/Thunderbolt 2... especially when that &quot
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by pak 10y ago
Speaking of people picking up refurb last-gen models, I'm going to post two links here for your consideration. Before the MBP 2016 announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20161028012214/http://www.
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by pak 10y ago
I love this brief history of the Ruby ecosystem and its community, maybe the Trump parody I've enjoyed most. Maybe, the best. Incidentally, I suppose the first 5 minutes of fighting with a three-way dongle and a poor connection, havi
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by pak 10y ago
Well, if you want to become a doctor, at least in the US, knowing some biology will certainly help you on the first step of licensing exams... :-) But the general point does hold that yes, a high level of math or CS training is advantageous
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EHANG184 – autonomous aerial vehicle for one human passenger(ehang.com)
2 points by pak 10y ago|0 comments
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WikiLeaks Just Published Tons of Credit Card and Social Security Numbers(gizmodo.com)
10 points by pak 10y ago|3 comments
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by pak 10y ago
Hmm, well as a counterpoint to your point about the FDA, fidaxomicin was approved in 2011 for general use against C. difficile colitis, because it showed certain outcomes that compared favorably against the current standard of care (oral va
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by pak 10y ago
Teixobactin is cool, but if it's only active against gram positives, it's never going to work against most of the bacteria listed in the article: E. coli, Salmonella, Klebsiella, N. gonorrhoeae, etc. Most of the terrible new drug
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by pak 10y ago
Whoa, let's not put words in my mouth here. First of all, I said nothing about denying people access to their medical data. Once the tests are done, yes, it's the patient's data (and in the US, HIPAA concurs). We're n
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by pak 10y ago
There's a difference between false positive rate and positive predictive value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_and_negative_predicti..
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by pak 10y ago
The history of blood glucose testing is informative here. You're conflating a diagnostic test with a test that patients need to control dosing (of insulin). To make a diagnosis of diabetes, such frequent testing is not any more
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by pak 10y ago
You've missed the other side of the equation, which is: what if there is no cure for the 27% with the supposed condition? What help has been provided then? What if there are some recommended follow-up treatments, but they are all expen
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by pak 10y ago
Also, the US has generally higher rates than the rest of the first world, and it's not entirely clear that this actually leads to better outcomes. I think more in the medical field are starting to rethink this. See: https://

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