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chapium commented on Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/impish9208

karl_gluck · 3 years ago

Wow, the exact opposite of what I might have guessed from the title.

Does this mean percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI] is over-applied, or something else?

chapium · 3 years ago

Risky procedures likely scheduled around when the cardiologist is available

chapium commented on Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases kotaku.com/reddit-third-p... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

fumar · 3 years ago

What is an alternative?

chapium · 3 years ago

old. Is fine. You do need to zoom in a bit and then its not noticeable.

chapium commented on Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases kotaku.com/reddit-third-p... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

atyppo · 3 years ago

Reddit conveniently unchecks the “redirect me to old Reddit” button every ~6 months. Quite annoying. I’ve been using Reddit for ~8-9 years and it’s gotten palpably worse. I knew it was dying the first time I saw an emoji on there. Seems they want to go the way Digg did.

chapium · 3 years ago

This might be your browser settings because this never happens for me.

chapium commented on Tipping at self-checkout has customers crying ‘emotional blackmail’ wsj.com/articles/tipping-... · Posted by u/impish9208

noisy_boy · 3 years ago

Do I get to pay less if the service is crappy? If no, then why should I get pressurized to pay more, even when the service is just what I expected? My appreciation for the great service will be reflected in my repeat patronage. Obviously there can be exceptions e.g. if I don't have any plans to revisit, say when I am traveling or someone going wayyy above and beyond their role etc.

My company pays my bonus when I have done my job very well and they have turned a profit. Why aren't the service sector's employers doing the same for their employees?

chapium · 3 years ago

Simply, its not a bonus and its not for service. Its so the employer can pay less when business is slow.

chapium commented on Tipping at self-checkout has customers crying ‘emotional blackmail’ wsj.com/articles/tipping-... · Posted by u/impish9208

electrondood · 3 years ago

Tips are for table service. That's it.

When you go to Starbucks, ask for a product, then make payment for that product, and the little POS machine basically says "hey, can we have extra money?" it's systematized panhandling.

chapium · 3 years ago

Do you not tip for a haircut?

chapium commented on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media' wbur.org/npr/1169269161/n... · Posted by u/davidbarker

fortuna86 · 3 years ago

China controls their state media, NPR/BBC etc. have state funding but remain editorially independent.

chapium · 3 years ago

That seems like a contradiction.

chapium commented on Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/gnicholas

smabie · 3 years ago

I could say the same about you

chapium · 3 years ago

I guarantee you, I’m not doing any math in my head. Its at best a rough estimation.

chapium commented on Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars economist.com/internation... · Posted by u/doetoe

chapium · 3 years ago

EBikes are a huge win for mobility for people who live in areas that are sprawled and have poor access to transit.

chapium commented on Amazon warns employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT futurism.com/the-byte/ama... · Posted by u/mikece

chapium · 3 years ago

So its the plant from little shop of horrors?

chapium commented on ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web newyorker.com/tech/annals... · Posted by u/ssaddi

bbor · 3 years ago

Ugh I’m beginning to think I’m going to spend the next 6-12 months commenting “no, large language models aren’t supposed to somehow know everything in the world. No, that’s not what they’re designed for. Yes, hooking one up to our long-standing record-of-everything-in-the-world (google’s knowledge graph) is going to be powerful.”

It’s getting to point where I need to consider stop going on HN. This is like when my father excitedly told his friends about the coming computer revolution in the 90s and they responded “well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house, they’re just a fad!” Makes me want screaaaaam

chapium · 3 years ago

I’m just searching the comments for novel use cases where its effective. Most articles I’ve read seem like either moral panics or snake oil.

I like how it can generate songs and poems based on a prompt. Its not particularly useful, but it is entertaining. It really does seem curated at times, leading me to think this will eventually become a fad or replaced by a more advanced algorithm.