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New comment by fhsm in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

fhsm — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:41:34 +0000

What’s the slash dot of the current era or blogging?

I’m skeptical that it’s out there and robust because I think hn would be the obvious answer and yet it’s not as if small bloggers are dominating the charts here.

I am skeptical that there is any single author where I would be interested in the majority of their output. Perhaps I’m the outlier and other people find authors where they want to consume ~all.

Regardless it seems to me that all of these sole proprietor subscription models are contingent on being generally interested in that person‘s average output whereas the past was faceted meta-aggregation over all producers which I think made it work.

New comment by fhsm in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

fhsm — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:22:57 +0000

> 150 of world’s most expensive modern hospitals

https://sfyimby.com/2024/06/construction-underway-for-4-3-bi...

Probably not the most expensive , just first I thought of … so maybe it’s more like 10-15 typical urban hospitals.

New comment by fhsm in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

fhsm — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:21:13 +0000

This is a more comprehensive survey that’s light on methods but from a respected industry watcher with similar conclusions:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

New comment by fhsm in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

fhsm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:45:56 +0000

Record retention is covered by a complex set of overlapping regulations and contracts. They are dependent on much more than date of service. M&A activity, interstate operations, subsequent changes in patient mental status, etc can all cause the horizon to change well after the last encounter.

As all the comments in this thread suggest the cost of having an extra record , even an extra breached record is low. The cost of failing to produce a required medical record is high.

Put this together with dropping storage prices, razor then margins, and IT estates made out of thousands of specialized point solutions cobbled together with every integration pattern ever invented and you get a de facto retention of infinity paired with a de jure obligation of could-be-anything-tomorrow.

New comment by fhsm in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

fhsm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:45:07 +0000

I’m from a culture in which family use a very small number of very highly conserved names and non standard name positions. I’ve noticed this is sufficient to confuse the low rent data brokers that do statistical linkage. My parents and grandparents and my siblings and my children have all at various points shared addresses landlines and have overlapping names. The brokers are very unclear on how many people are involved , what sex , what generations what states.

New comment by fhsm in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

fhsm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:03:08 +0000

This is a suboptimal characterization of this site.

I think it would be less wrong to say this is where covered entities that discover reportable breaches of PHI (whether their own or that of a BA) that trigger the immediate reporting obligation report them.

This is a narrower scope of coverage and shallower depth of epistemic obligation than you implied.

New comment by fhsm in "2025 Letter"

fhsm — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:50:35 +0000

I don’t follow it but your last suggestion (use single income not household) was new to me and interesting in as much as it seems like an obvious extension of “The Two-Income Trap” thinking.

To some extent seems like it would also provide a margin of safety given homogeneity effects eg https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa...

New comment by fhsm in "2025 Letter"

fhsm — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:04:57 +0000

Isn’t the obvious answer that many would refute the premise of meaningful regional variation? In which case the claim isn’t that somewhere else is that place but rather than all places are substantially equivalent on this difficult to measure concept (or difference is unknown).

New comment by fhsm in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

fhsm — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:06:50 +0000

An adjacent point but despite ubiquitous birth order superstitions quality literature consensus seems to be that birth order is not a large driver of predictable differences. Example:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4655556/

New comment by fhsm in "Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades"

fhsm — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:43:24 +0000

This paper shows a use case running on Apple silicon that’s theoretically valuable:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12067846/

Who cares if result is right / wrong etc as it will all be different in a year … just interesting to see a test of desktop class hardware go ok.

New comment by fhsm in "AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All"

fhsm — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:24:55 +0000

S&P500 isn’t “the economy” but in the context of talk of a bubble it seems like we’re talking about equities not the whole economy. So let’s just keep taking the short cut …

The top is over performing so concentration is real but it’s not the only growth driver:

https://www.fool.com/research/magnificent-seven-sp-500/

The return / valuation concentration prob not as titillating as the PE run up:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/surprisingly-excellent-run-st...

True or not true hard to say without better definitions of terms but seems like current profile is not ultra common in history but it’s not a bunch of losers getting diluted out.

New comment by fhsm in "Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study"

fhsm — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:49:47 +0000

The article is clear — lottery offer of a seat in a school which met inclusion criteria. Inclusion criteria are clearly outlined in the supplemental materials which are a single URL away which also include details on the allocation.

https://www.pnas.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1073%2...

Talk of causation anywhere other than the unit of randomization is speculation.

New comment by fhsm in "Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be"

fhsm — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:17:35 +0000

Most studies of hospital resuscitation survival puts it at about a 1/4. Plenty of people survive and have good neurological outcomes lots of people do not [0].

Outside of diagnostically defined cohort it’s a bit of a silly idea as you can attempt on anyone without respect to readily identified odds of success [1] so the what of CPR isn’t readily untangled from the who of it.

Out of hospital is a similar story but with less ability to triage and thus the same pattern in which the fact of CPR [2] is less informative than the underlying problem [3, old but the best study I know of would be interested if someone knows of an update to it given in hospital trend since].

0. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1109148

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8118500/

2. https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-02...

3. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1767484/

New comment by fhsm in "Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp"

fhsm — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:57:50 +0000

I expected the link to be to they https://www.dw.com/en/they-called-her-jamila-the-mystery-of-...

New comment by fhsm in "Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022)"

fhsm — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:44:55 +0000

Should tag 2022. Fun article but familiar to many after making the rounds back then.

New comment by fhsm in "The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris"

fhsm — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:27:03 +0000

The ~15% infant mortality at the time was spectacular progress and yet by modern standards unbearable. Medieval would have been closer to 50%. So on this measure about a third of the way back to the Middle Ages.

https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/demograph...

New comment by fhsm in "Big Book of R"

fhsm — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:40:07 +0000

Use it every single day. Absolutely fantastic tool.

New comment by fhsm in "LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper"

fhsm — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:32:22 +0000

> xA5 for $670

No longer for sale (out of stock with no plan to restock https://www.nuand.com/product/bladerf-xa5/ )

New comment by fhsm in "Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money"

fhsm — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:11:14 +0000

Of course, outside the environment -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

New comment by fhsm in "Lyft launches a rider verification pilot program"

fhsm — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:05:26 +0000

Time for the #UndeleteUber campaign to being?