skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better to implement a system with a high rate of false positives (more importantly, low rate of false negatives) from the machine learning component, with all positive findings passed onto the radiologist. If the system can reliably (big if) filter out 98% of the chaff then the radiologist can spend a lot more time separating the false positives from the true positives. This approach has worked well for me so far.
But then what is emigration?

People who don't like government oppression in China can leave and escape it.

People who don't like a "rigged" system in Korea can come to the U.S. to escape it.

Those people might stay and fight if they didn't have somewhere to go -- open immigration policies aid and abet oppression in the places where people come from.
> As I mentioned above, the problem didn't even end up being with anxiety, so going to a therapist would have been worse than useless for me.

I wouldn't go that far. Therapy is a broadly-useful non-medical intervention that can increase across-the-board mental health. It bridges the gap between medical intervention, where specialists act as necessary gatekeepers to otherwise-dangerous courses of action, not that they're always successful at reducing the danger, and self-help, which is thoroughly hit-or-miss.

There is an established body of psychological research that the therapist brings you in contact with that the medical community is only tangentially aware of. Sure, you could read up on this stuff yourself. But it's the talk therapist's job to know about it. And even if you don't find purchase on your stated problem, you might find other problems that you didn't realize you'd had.

If you can afford it or get it covered, I highly recommend regular sessions for a few years.
Can I call myself an AI specialist if I successfully fed a plain support vector machine once or twice for diagnostic support? Feels like driving an old timer here...
Sorta like "If this, then that", but made for the enterprise uses. It's an enterprise service bus.
I dunno.. it’s nice and all that these companies support it. But they are exactly the kinds of companies that don’t have the best customer service.
What does Nolo say about corporations or LLCs? That's what we are talking about here.

Individual people have the option of hiring a lawyer in some states but most don't. Corporations on the other hand, because they are "legal" and not "natural" persons don't get that right. They must be represented by counsel. A corporation can't represent itself in court because it's not a "natural person". They MUST use a lawyer.
Good question

On the one hand I would prefer to be given $100.

On the other, a 226% interest rate is very attractive.

Can I have the $100 invested at 226%?
When suing a corporation in small claims court in the state of California, an attorney may only be present if they are an officer or director of the corporation and all other officers and directors are attorneys.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

The corporation doesn't need to be represented by an officer or director, however, they can also be represented by a non-attorney employee: "a corporation may appear and participate in a small claims action only through a regular employee, or a duly appointed or elected officer or director, who is employed, appointed, or elected for purposes other than solely representing the corporation in small claims court."

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
This is easier to solve by just passing a law that insurance companies move to reference pricing. Meaning that private insurance cost is always Medicare + 30%. This is what most private insurance negotiates anyway. It is completely unnecessary bloat to have all this maneuvering on price for no benefit. The insurers (payors) will push back because they see themselves as gatekeepers and this as their differentiation. They need to go back to only making their money on their float against premiums. Additionally, we should also add that paying cash means you get the Medicare price.
The Supreme Court strikes down 'scandalous' part of trademark law
I was tricked into doing SFDC development for a while, about eight years ago. I had a background in more “traditional” application development: Java on the back end and Javascript on the front end. Working in Salesforce was honestly a pretty miserable experience. Everything you do in it is metered; you have a limit on the number of DB calls you can make in an hour, a limit on how many bytes you can access in an hour, a limit on how many rows you can save… it’s almost as bad as AWS, but nowhere near as manageable because you can’t tell if you’re going to hit a limit until you hit it in production. At least back then, there was no interactive debugger for Apex, and no test client for SOQL (their “almost SQL but not SQL” query language), so any debugging you wanted to do was done using print statements. And of course, you couldn’t run anything locally - everything had to be copied up to their servers in order to something as trivial as test a form validation. I slogged through it for about 3 years before I finally gave up on it - although it does a good job of making simple things like creating input forms for database object easy, it makes harder things like an actual business workflow impossible (it’s noteworthy that even the CRM functionality wasn’t implemented in “pure” Apex/VisualForce because it was too limiting even for the thing that Salesforce was designed for).
I remember back when I had a Lumia 920 and searched the app store for “Facebook” there were several pages of results for apps called “Facebook” that all had similar icons. Searches for other popular apps had similar results. The store was full of fraudulent copies of popular apps in addition to the real ones.
For best results, you need to tell us: what are you going to be with your Raspberry Pi. Are you going to use it as a desktop? A server? If so, do you need backup power for your modem? Are you going to use it as an automatic control system? Outdoor? Do you need protection against momentary power-loss only? Or you need to have a longterm battery backup? How much runtime do you need?

But in general, there are three practical solutions. You need to choose one from your intended applications.

1. Use an office/server UPS, 110/220 VAC. This is not recommended, many UPS are optimized for 50%-80% load, the conversion loss of the inverter is significant. If you put a very light load on an office UPS, like a lamp, a modem of a Raspberry Pi, some UPS's inverter will drain itself first before the load even drains battery. However, if you intended to use the Raspberry Pi as a desktop or server in your home or office, or you only need to protect brief loss of power, you SHOULD USE this option, since your LCD monitors, external drives, etc, probably also needs a UPS. You can also try finding one designed to supply backup power to routers and modems to avoid the light-load problem. Other advantages include strong safety guarantee, and a good UPS has a data port. But it seems that UPS units designed for modems, and UPS units that have a data port is mutually-exclusive...

2. Use a 5-volt power board. There are plenty of low-cost little boards available on AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.com/af/Raspberry-Pi-UPS.html). They are basically a 18650 Lithium-ion battery charging board with a boost converter and a USB output. The size and efficiency made them an ideal choice if you only need to power a single Raspberry Pi with some accessories (e.g. sensors, screens). But there is no way to tell how much power is left in the battery without hardware modification.

3. Use a 12-volt backup power, with a 5-volt DC-DC converter board. Sometimes, powering a Raspberry Pi is not enough, the modem and router also needs backup power. In this case, using a 12-volt backup power intended for routers and IP cameras is preferable, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Monerator-Uninterruptable-Independent.... The 5-volt power can be obtained by using a 12-volt to 5-volt buck converter board, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Converter-DROK-Regulator-Inverter-Tra.... Also, there is no way to tell how much power is left in the battery without hardware modification.

4. Use an open-source UPS specifically designed for Raspberry Pi, some have battery data output, but I don't personally know any. There's an overlap between (2) and (4).

WARNING: If you decide to choose (2), (3), or (4), remember: boards with poorly-designed circuits, defective Lithium-ion batteries, or exposure to outdoor environment can be very dangerous. Linked products are examples, I do not endorse any of the products. Caveat Emptor.
Do you know of a browser that isn't massively resource intensive?
>Are poor people not allowed to have fun?

Not out of proportion with their income and expenses, no. You might as well ask "are middle class people not allowed to buy a Ferrari?" Of course they're allowed to, but they're going to have trouble raising money when they can't pay their mortgage.

>Are depressed people not worthy of keeping alive? Do they not bring enough value to the table, so it's okay to just let them die?

That's a pretty sweeping assumption, but to some extent what else are you going to do? If someone refuses to participate in society, it's not on me to bail them out. Otherwise I'd spend all my time on the streets of SF trying to fix people.

>Is poor financial sense justification for not helping someone out that needs help?

Yes, absolutely 100%, yes.

No one else is entitled to your money. It doesn't even matter how tenuous the reasons are. There don't need to be any reasons to not give someone money.
If any Cameo employees are on HN please note that clicking "Visit Ice-T's Page" is a broken link :)
Yes, but only when considering above the level of a hidden machine monitor built into your processor. It could have huge implications for the compiler, libraries, and OS - even firmware. But you're still running on hardware.
At least for starters, maybe this is a candidate for a browser extension? Where the guilty sites/pages can be compilated via crowdsourcing? If it can't be automated a la ad blockers then can't we work together to protect ourselves? Somehow?
Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking#Scotland
The problem to me looks here

> The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with the hospital or fight it with the insurance.

For me it sounds like she could have done more on her own to solve this problem before “socializing” the solution.

PS: Yes, healthcare is broken but at the end, she as a resident knows that and when someone comes to visit it is her responsibility to advise or buy a travelers insurance. It is not that expensive.
I got one. Because my electron app is a game. I don't want you interacting with text as text, it's supposed to be more of a "texture" like one would expect from a native DirectX implementation
I was mostly listing things you need for Erlang. Elixir, thankfully, hides a lot of things away in much friendlier packages.

That said, even with Distillery, if something goes awry, you'll need to know the warts behind the magic :)
Lots of comments focused on having a good paying job with comprehensive benefits (insurance). I don’t think that is even the solution here. The main problem is that lifesaving medications have prices spiralling out of control to the point where it becomes unaffordable for people to get it.

Not everyone will be lucky or capable enough to have a job that will allow them access to the medicines they need through some benefits or financial salary.

Will regulations work such that medicines categorized as lifesaving will be capped at a price that is affordable for people? Or is a solution based on ensuring patents are used not as a leverage to gouge prices but to protect the intellectual property and not financial commodity?

Solutions abound but when the greed of a few is being upheld, then it just becomes a reality that people becomes the bearer of bad news and in turn have to swallow the bitter pill of unaffordable medicines.
Just to add one more note to this lengthy thread... :-)

> Dr. gets his $100 for the visit and gets a $300 tax deduction

I think that is the phrase all of us have been jumping on. What you wrote there is simply not true. There is no scenario, regardless of whether the doctor uses cash or accrual accounting, where they get $100 for the visit and a $300 tax deduction.

There are three possible situations here:

1. Doctor uses cash accounting. The $400 invoice is not a taxable transaction. Doctor gets paid $100, reports it as income in the year it is paid, and that's that. There is no $300 deduction.

2. Doctor uses accrual accounting and is paid the same year. They report $400 of income along with a $300 loss in that year. Net income is $100, and doctor pays taxes on the $100 income. Their tax for this transaction is exactly the same as if they had used cash accounting.

3. Doctor uses accrual accounting and is paid in a subsequent year. They report $400 of income in the first year and pay taxes on the entire $400. Then, in the year they get paid, they report a $300 loss, because they were only paid $100 out of the $400 they previously declared as income. The only reason this $300 loss exists is that they already reported the entire $400 as income in the previous year and paid taxes on it. They aren't getting $100 income and a $300 deduction, they got $400 income in one year and a $300 deduction in a subsequent year.

As you mentioned in another comment, there may be reasons why a doctor would want to do this. Perhaps they just started their practice and are in a lower income bracket this year but expect to be in a higher bracket next year. In that situation the accrual method may help balance their income across those two years: they can pay taxes on the accrued (billed) income in the year that their tax rate is lower, and then take the loss in the next year at a higher tax bracket.

There may be other reasons to do this as well, but none of them change the fact that accrual accounting would mean they reported $400 in income along with the $300 loss, whichever years those happen to be.

It's not $100 in income combined with a $300 deduction, whichever way you account for it.
> justification for not helping someone out

We should help this person out. But giving him money clearly is not the best way, in fact it may seem like giving him money is only enabling his bad lifestyle choices.

Money is not the solution here.
As an Icelander, I'm glad I'm not American. Your values and health care are extremely fucked up.
Most places block pre-paid cards for purposes like this (although I have seen Stripe report a card initially as non-pre-paid and then later revise it to say pre-paid).
Not true. In CA, a business can hire outside counsel to advise them on the suit but outside counsel cannot represent them in court. There are circumstances in which the business can send an in-house lawyer as its agent, but never an outside one.

I'm not a lawyer but was once my former employer's agent in court in a small claims suit we filed against HP. I assure you there's no requirement that corporate parties be represented by lawyers.
I am in the process of dealing with that myself. In my case, the leadership of our company was convinced by a consulting firm that Salesforce is capable of anything, including acting as IaaS for a huge SaaS application we are building. The result being that we have to make very expensive work arounds for API call limits.

The hard part about this is that it might function eventually, so "there is no reason to switch until we KNOW for sure". Salesforce can do a lot, but it can NOT do IaaS. Use AWS, GCP, or literally anything else if you want a 100% customizable autoscaling application with in depth monitoring.

EDIT: Pardon my cry for help, but if anyone has any business targeted material to present these ideas to company presidents who don't have a clue in the world, I implore you to point me to it.
Can they host mail on your own domain? If so, that is a good suggestion. A lot of services only do POP/IMAP/webmail, which kind of sucks.
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Of course. It's no different than any other debt. In theory the provider can obtain a judgment against the patient and then ask the home country's court system to enforce it. But in practice this is so expensive, uncertain, and time consuming that most creditors will just write it off as bad debt.
How to join the cannabis business boom
Yes, Tylenol 3 with codeine was available until 2018 in Canada without a prescription, oddly. But that 'loophole' would eventually be exploited by those needing their 'fix' ... so it's now prescription only.

As far as I know the rule for ads is 'non prescription', beyond that it's hard.

I don't recall seeing an ad for a prescription drug in Canada in the last decade, though they might exist in some form.

We get American TV and those ads seem quite ridiculous, what with the senior citizens dancing away, and the narrator iterating through a huge list of symptoms, then listing off 30 or 40 side effects as fast as he can, as if people are remotely capable of understanding.

My family works in the drug industry, I should say one thing that people don't want to hear: a lot of doctors are lazy. Just because they're doctors, does not mean that they keep up in any way with current issues, trends. The level of power they have, and the relative lack of ongoing certification is ridiculous. Once they get their ticket, it's a golden ride for the rest of their lives if they want.

Many people complain about the 'free lunch' doctor's visits by the sales reps, but I don't see it as such a bad thing. It's intense and important information, I have no problem with Doctors getting a 'free ham sandwich' to entice them to go through the data on the latest trials.

Obviously, there are shenanigans there, misrepresentation, competitive issues, pricing etc. etc. - but frankly a 'highly moral sales/communication force' actually I think does add value - they get doctors to pay attention to the specific issues. Obviously, there are probably better alternatives ... but again, Doctor's guilds are very powerful and archaic, nobody can tell them what to do.
Your argument seems to be that since you live within range of many health provider options, that everyone does. I strongly disagree (for the obvious reason: not everyone does).
It is not open source, however, the platform is very open and a large ecosystem of third-party developers has existed for decades. It is like Windows vs third-party software. Windows isn't open-source, but people can still use it for amazing projects that go far beyond what Windows offers out of the box (e.g. MS Paint vs Photoshop).
the goverment's role isn't to be a monopoly, it's to provide and enforce rules. otherwise the strongest player will coerce everyone to their own rules via force. it's naive to think that without governments everything will suddenly be better and cheaper - on the contrary, there will be a period of anarchy where no fair trade is possible because fraud won't have any consequences and after that the strongest players will form a kingdom or whatever with support of many tired ordinary people who just want to live.
Comcast broke consumer protection law nearly 500K times, WA state judge rules
In the Mule ecosystem, you use a drag-and-drop flow builder of canned components to build flows that typically ingest events, do something to them, and possibly write someplace. Almost anywhere, you can also inject your custom code.

You deploy these flows in their engine, where they're kept alive. You can self-host the engine, but they also offer it in their cloud.

Then you can choose to frontend it with a HTTP API that you build in their builder, and choose to put it in your organization's private store, or the public store for others to use. There's management dashboards too.

There's hundreds of other products or product combinations that could be described in the same sort of vague language, but MuleSoft ships and supports a particular environment and a particular collection of tools that does it pretty well.

Ultimately, the goal of all of these is the reduction of the effort around every other piece besides the parts that are custom to your unique circumstances.
That would be true if .01% of all rentals resulted in fraud, but that's not what that sentence says. It could be the case that such "bad actors" represent a disproportionately large share of all rentals.

Which makes sense--if you're planning on stealing the equipment, you'd probably expect to have your account banned so you'd probably try to steal as much as possible while the account is still considered legitimate. As in this case where the author alleges that the same person also stole someone else's gear on the same day.
"It's my understanding that machine translation started to become semi-useful after abandoning traditional grammars (or anything Chomsky would recognize) and switched to statistics."

The same thing happened in speech recognition. IBM started throwing statistical modeling and horsepower at the speech recognition problem, and folks like Kurzweil thought it was inelegant and not "true" speech recognition. However, it serves the purpose, and we know that humans use similar tricks when listening to augment pure recognition. It's harder to hear someone in a loud room if you can't see their mouth, or don't know the context of what they're saying.
Publicity stunt by whom? The whole point of the Arch Mission is stuff like this:
https://www.archmission.org/

Using this exact media was a full test of the technology, to get it out of the lab and into the environment they intend for it long-term.

But I can see you're committed to this narrative, so please don't let me interrupt it with the actual organization responsible for it.
It's ideological battle, which the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to do on HN. Once someone starts going on about "feminist propaganda" or any other classic ideological flamewar topic, curiosity departs, the same way wild animals depart a forest fire. Please don't do that to the threads here.
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Ah, but you don't waste time, that's the whole point of the idea. You just repackage your existing web app and distribute it as a "native" app, no effort required. You also have a cross-platform application with no extra work (the auld "Write once, run anywhere" slogan), and can use web developers instead of people who know QT/Java/what have you.

Then the user can run your chat/music/text editor in the background, have it appear in the taskbar, and start boot, at the cost of requiring a few gigabytes of RAM and 25% CPU utilization while idling.

Personally I'd rather have Progressive Web Apps but for some reason, those are still in an awkward stage.
Which is really dumb. If you're whole company is based around being a middle man between renters and owners your answer to the inevitable issue of theft by renters had better be better than a giant shrug and "we'll keep trying to charge this fraudster (who's definitely either using a stolen card or whole identity)."
The government can't bring themselves to stop robocalls. I have little if any faith they can save us from something as nebulous and abstract as "dark patterns".
> “I think expecting a seller to make sure they have the lowest price compared to other sellers is ridiculous.”

It’s fine for you to think that, but it means you’re just arguing with yourself, because most everyone agrees it is a fair expectation of sellers, and that when seller behavior deviates from this social norm, it is proper to view that as a manipulative or normatively condemnable seller behavior.

Sellers can’t have it both ways. You can’t act like your prices are lower by hyping them in a discount, but really be coyly saying you have no obligation to provide competitive prices and the discount reference point is purely fictional. That’s disingenuous and such a seller knows full well they are banking on tricking or manipulating people.