Hacker News: arkades

New comment by arkades in "Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan"

arkades — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:53:42 +0000

> the possession of such devices will generally be prohibited by March next year. The police are currently conducting a free collection campaign, urging individuals to turn in coilguns at their nearest police station."

New comment by arkades in "Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow"

arkades — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:31:11 +0000

It wasn’t a simple texture swap. They added 40 new levels.

New comment by arkades in "Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR: The Best All-Purpose Lens I've Ever Used"

arkades — Sun, 26 May 2024 15:26:23 +0000

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/compact-cameras/all-vlo...

“ ZEISS® Vario-Sonnar® T* 24–600 mm F2.4–4 large-aperture high resolution high speed zoom lens”

New comment by arkades in "Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla"

arkades — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:08:11 +0000

I have a hard time picturing the radiologist whose reputation and malpractice rely on catching small anomalies being comfortable using a machine predicated on inferring the image contents.

New comment by arkades in "What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)"

arkades — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:01:00 +0000

The SEC only found wrongdoing in eleven trades, whose profit netted approx $272K. They did not penalize him for trades not found in violation of the law.

Clearly, too long, didn’t read.

New comment by arkades in "One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice"

arkades — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:18:52 +0000

We have known about sleep deprivation causing a remission in suicidal ideation for a while - we have inferred a depression benefit as well, but it’s nice to have it quantified.

However, we also know resumption of sleep pretty quickly ends the effect. It’s not a sustainable intervention, so much as it an interesting finding for hypothesis generation.

We also see the reverse effect in mania; on balance, regular healthy sleep wins the day.

New comment by arkades in "Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity"

arkades — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:18:16 +0000

Physician here, and I cannot emphasize this enough. To the point where I actively avoid most medical/healthcare threads - it’s oppressive to contribute.

New comment by arkades in "Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins"

arkades — Tue, 16 May 2023 01:39:53 +0000

This is incorrect.

Phase I is “is it immediately dangerous?”

Phase II is assessing side effects at various dosages, to dial in possible dose ranges. There is some measurement of clinical effect here, to assist in dialing in dosages.

Phase III is does it work / what is the effect size.

New comment by arkades in "Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine"

arkades — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:01:29 +0000

In short:

A common adverse effect from oral polio vaccine, occurring at a far lower rate in the new vaccine than in the one it replaced.

Headline link makes it sound like -bad- news.

New comment by arkades in "Canada geese beat humans in longstanding territory battle: study"

arkades — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:58:11 +0000

> “I thought using these Fitbit-like devices on the neck collar was a creative way to understand resting, flying, or foraging behaviors. And when Ryan was doing all this physical work to figure out what this accelerometry data would tell us, I was very eager to see what the results were,” Ward says. “But when it was all analyzed, I was like, ‘Wow, that's not too exciting.’ Basically, when you harass, they fly a little bit more because you're scaring them, or they might be alert a little more, but it wasn't a fundamental difference.”

Well, that’s one way for a PI to publicly skewer their former grad student.

New comment by arkades in "Twitter Blue for $8/Month"

arkades — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:37:35 +0000

Stephen King’s tweet on that topic, to summarize:

“ $20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.”

https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1587042605627490304?s...

New comment by arkades in "Physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities"

arkades — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:04:50 +0000

You’re more literate than most patients. You’re right, it should list all of the above. I think your post reads (and per other poster, I’m not alone) that you had a $1300 normal outpatient visit, so I read that as you misreading your bill.

New comment by arkades in "Physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities"

arkades — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:16:00 +0000

When working for a hospital, it’s an admin somewhere. When in private practice, the insurer generally has geographic monopoly, so I sign off on whatever they shove in my face if I intend to accept their patients. The only time I have a real say in price is in private practice for uninsured patients, which is where I set aside a piece of my time for charity care.

New comment by arkades in "Physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities"

arkades — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:02:02 +0000

That’s not what the doc gets paid. That’s the pretend amount that the insurer and doc have agreed upon, before their agreed upon discount.

Source: doctor.

New comment by arkades in "Write a note to your spouse every day"

arkades — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:33:36 +0000

My issue with my wife is not having 45 mins a day with her. If I had that, the note would be supernumerary.

New comment by arkades in "Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023"

arkades — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:13:01 +0000

They’re addressing a real pain point that real people actually have and regularly fork out money for. The fact that they didn’t do it out of altruism means diddly squat.

New comment by arkades in "MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations (2020)"

arkades — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:19:39 +0000

Scihub seems to have stopped updating. I haven’t gotten a recent article out of them in a while.

New comment by arkades in "NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers"

arkades — Mon, 09 May 2022 22:13:39 +0000

Any chance whatsoever they’re going to actually reimburse doctors for their massive school loans, while forcing them (“no network restrictions”) to work for this insurance plan? Especially if it’s anything like Medicaid, and reimburses physicians and hospitals -below cost-.

New comment by arkades in "Show HN: I made Ankify that converts notes to Anki cards"

arkades — Sun, 08 May 2022 01:12:28 +0000

Obsidian needs to acquire you guys asap

New comment by arkades in "I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)"

arkades — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:04:27 +0000

> Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU.

> Their model is competency-based, so you must demonstrate you posses knowledge in any given domain.

The guy took courses at college, online, and worked in the field for over a decade before speedrunning WGU. It seems to me he’s the exact model of “demonstrating competence” that you mention - I don’t see how that makes WGU out to be a degree mill.