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Wife is a nurse. Required surgery for lifesaving/severe disability (inherited congenital, killed her father). Insurance was Aetna and Hospital Self Insured. Surgery recommended by world class surgeon she worked with.

Finally pre-approved on 3rd appeal after 8 months and 150pages of documentation of every piece of every single communication (who, when, response, expected next contact) only weeks before surgery scheduled >6 months before. First rejection was automatic, second was revealed to be a dermatologist, third was a gynecologist. (They really hated that we figured out who the person was, their specialty, the state they worked in, and pending disciplinary actions).

Standard answer is we can't tell you why you were rejected (code only) because the criteria are from a third party and their review document is proprietary. When you find an online leaked document with the same code it says "unnecessary cosmetic surgery". Wrong contact numbers are provided, people go on vacation and do not respond for weeks, "that person doesn't work here".

If you're not a professional in the field with time on your hands and a detail oriented A-hole, you will be denied anything expensive that isn't considered immediately lifesaving at a trauma ICU recommended by the attending.

After pre-approved surgery with excessive blood loss and an extra 12 hours in recovery... Overcharge/All-claims-denied. Multiple appeals until involving Hospital CFO who agrees to split the extra (self-insured) cost of the insurer and get the final insurance reimbursement check... it is $3k less than promised (hospital paid the correct amount). Surgeon was going to start charging late fees and interest or send it to collection after 4 months.

Is it worth fighting any more? No.
Please use this approach for something more constructive, like designing an FTL drive.
I'd argue pretty small.

I primarily work in a language out of the APL family.

When I first started it, the entire reference page of every function/command/flag fit on a double sided printout in regular sized font.

Past a certain point you just end up with overlapping versions of the same thing maintained for backward compatibility or slight differences of opinion & behaviour.

I feel the same way about framework ecosystems. Some languages almost have too many, to the point that they are constantly being introduced, changed in ways that make old code non-portable, and then sunsetted. It's hard to keep internal corporate software running when if you choose something mainstream it's less than 5 years from EOL, but if you choose something emerging it may never go mainstream. A lot of it seems like reinventing the wheel.
(2010), though as relevant as ever
Because it isn't really a problem with the tests but rather the interpretation of the test. They're not actually false positives — poppy seeds do contain opiates. The problem is assuming that detecting opiates at a very low level implies a drug habit and not a deli habit
Presumption of guilt, demanding proof of innocence, is not justice.
It’s not intended to be “fair” to authors, is my point. It is intended to encourage them to create new works. And I don’t think anyone has ever even tried to argue that a century-long copyright incentivizes authors to produce works they otherwise would not (if the term were only, say, 10, 20, or 50 years).

The original (US) copyright term was 14 years with registration + another 14 years with renewal. That seems to me, in broad strokes, like a good balance between promoting new works vs. giving public access to previous works.

The century-long term only benefits a vanishingly small proportion of creators (which is to say, a vanishingly small proportion of creators' inheritors). The primary beneficiary is a small number of very large monopolistic media/publishing firms, who have e.g. bought up the rights (for peanuts) to the past century of back issues of thousands of scientific journals, and now keep them behind a paywall.

But the harm to the public is incalculably large.
C-suite, board members, a bunch of "foundations", probably some for-profit contracting services for IT and accounting (also managed by the c-suite, probably). Unraveling health insurance admin costs is probably similar to Panama Papers level of financial engineering, especially after the ACA capped profit margins, the companies just turned to malicious compliance.
Yeah that’s basically my point. The hype on HN/Twitter/etc. forget this.
Refusing to report anything positive about 50% of the country (conservatives) is lack of empathy.
except people with 1b+ these days dpfjy have money - they have assets whose value will plummet when you ido that
Good luck automating the socio-technical nature of organisational politics and requirements capture…
We have these in the UK, but they are prohibitively expensive. Like you are looking at £500 for a simple board overnight. For something more complex could easily be multiplies of that.
Even if you are not in the rush, most are stuck in the 90s when it comes to ordering, so before you agree everything, you'll probably get your boards delivered from China at a fraction of the price.
There used to be a great PCB manufacturer in the EU that had very short lead times, although still expensive, it was a good alternative if you were in a rush.
Now often you get your PCBs quicker in the UK from China than from the EU.

It's a shame such (one would think) crucial services are so underdeveloped locally.

I'd say one thing is that equipment is very expensive, the other is that nobody believes in engineering culture anymore here. Engineering has become just another blue collar profession and people's attitude has become hostile - population see an engineer as someone who sits by the computer all day (meaning not actually "working"), makes "a lot" of money and engages in tax avoidance.

Something is very broken in Britain.
The email itself said "you're the only person who would understand this sort of humor" so it's important to look at this in context. The recipient of the email was asian himself.

Whether it can end careers? Sure people freely ignore context and socially burn people at the stake for much less. But IRL it's important to ask whether they were actually being racist with their satire. Which I personally think is a pretty thin argument.
> This ruling is not about the emergency library at all. It's a ruling that [...] one physical copy backing each digital copy lent out) is illegal.

That's not what I read in the linked article, specifically:

Regarding "IA’s promise not to lend simultaneously": "IA has not kept its promise. Although the Open Library’s print copies of the Works in Suit are non-circulating, IA concedes that it has no way of verifying whether Partner Libraries remove their physical copies from circulation after partnering with IA…. To the contrary, IA knows that some Partner Libraries do not remove the physical books from their shelves"

As I understand it, this case exists because the IA was not keeping its promise anymore and made an error of judgement by breaking the 1:1 ratio without any legal argumentation or even a logical reason for it. It was said at the time already, but the obviousness, whether something as important as the wayback machine's owner should compete with the pirate bay for market share on illegal ebooks, and the use of (my/our) donated money on the ensuing legal nonsense, is a different discussion...

If these underlying facts and circumstances were different, such as if someone tries this concept again but keeps their promise and implements it correctly, the same ruling cannot be passed because it's not the same situation. It would have to be tried again and it might (or might not) swing the other way, at least that is my general understanding of legal systems around the world.

Perhaps it would also be different in another country whence ExampleBooks Ltd could operate legally, that will depend in part on whether the copyright alliance pact (I forgot the name) has provisions letting signatories (afaik that's every nation you might want to live in) make exceptions for things like this.
Yeah yeah, I've heard this before (internet anyone?). EU does have new legislation which is great, it's something the US should have. China has been some activities but promoted others, and India has a corrupt banking system where you have to bribe officials to even get a license for anything, so not sure why you think that's a good example.

There are also many other European, Middle Eastern, African, and South American countries embracing and promoting crypto as a new payment system for various reasons.

The fact that you think it's just a ponzi shows how close minded you are and tbh not worth "debating" with.
Most of the Ivies were much more academically rigorous in the past. There were no ideological, unrigorous majors like Sociology or Gender Studies. Graduates were expected to read both Greek and Latin.
Finally, a dose of sanity. I was thinking everybody in auto industry went crazy with those touch screen control. I would never buy a car without physical controls, at least as long as I am supposed to drive it, it is refreshing to see somebody understands it.
Because the presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of our legal framework. It's been well known for a while now that poppy seeds can trigger false positive results in a drug test, and it's not a particularly uncommon component of foodstuffs, so it constitutes reasonable doubt.
I used to struggle with anxiety and depression (it's very likely was stress-induced depression), and nothing seemed to help. But then I read a similar research article about how gut health could affect mental health. So I started eating more fiber and multiple probiotics. And guess what? My mood improved! I felt less anxious and depressed and more energized. It's crazy to think that something as simple as gut health could make such a difference in a brain.
Based off this definition George Washington would have been a terrorist
> To guard against false positives, the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs, published in 2017, require a codeine cutoff of 2,000 nanograms per milliliter of urine. But the Hackensack University Medical Center's lab, according to Kate's complaint, used a cutoff of 300 ng/ml, less than one-sixth the federal standard. Virtua Voorhees Hospital's lab, according to Kaitlin's complaint, used a cutoff of just 10 ng/ml, 99.5 percent lower than the recommended level.

Using a cutoff that is 200 times more strict than standard drug testing practices without giving the patient any warning that they’ll be tested (and guidance to avoid poppy seed foods) is asking for false positives.

Given that the other cases resulted in six-figure settlements, it’s surprising that this practice continues.
My take, like the parent comment, is that this is a joke on the admissions office, and the systemic racism in such institutions - not at the expense of Asians (esp. since the one sending the joke was Asian to begin with).

If the Dean of Admissions and a government official with detailed knowledge of Harvard’s admissions process both privately believe that Harvard illegally discriminates on the basis of race, that seems extremely probative in a trial on that exact issue.
>by definition you can't shut down things like Bitcoin)

Tomorrow, the US government could declare that no US company can do business with Bitcoin or enable someone to do business. Effectively declare sanctions (similar to North Korea) against the entire ecosystem.
Lifos? LIghteweight Federated OS?
Greeks had this procedure where you had to wear a noose have you planned to propose a new law. That one would be appropriate here.
> Must we permit everything that might be of benefit to someone, even if it comes at the expense of everyone else?

If we can offset "the expense of everyone else" (in this case via a carbon tax), why not?
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Depends. Is your company in the middle of a financial downturn and all it matters is that the software delivers the features that will keep your customers paying? Then probably you live with it and improve code as you go.

Is your company riding a wave, doing great with hiring, and the software is measurably bad enough that it affects revenue / engineering productivity? Then you can make the case for rewriting it.
Carbon taxes (as they exist now) are a con. You just buy some carbon credits from some company that is supposedly carbon-negative, because it plants forests somewhere so obscure that nobody checks.

And anyway, forests are not carbon-negative; all that lives must die. They're carbon-neutral.
Man how lucky is Nvidia? crypto winds down just as AI is ramps up.
They need to make GPT4 capable of gathering new information and updating itself further. Each time you make the model bigger it needs more information but they're limiting themselves to whatever data they've currently got from 2021. It should be reading the entire internet in real time and swallowing it up.
Probably because they weren't blasting out a paper every 2 weeks and could invest much more time on frankly more fertile ground.
100% worth it. Modern ICs don't work on perfboard... Actually, I'm not even sure where to begin. Download KiCad and experiment.
Some core designers of Swift, at least Doug Gregor, John McCall, Dave Abrahams, were very much part of the C++ world. Abrahams mentions Gregor's proposals for C++ here: https://youtu.be/6JYAXADQmNQ?t=1157
> This project gives a large language model (LLM) control of a Linux machine.

Well that escalated fast ...
This is the reason we need universal public healthcare.
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I think we can just go a step further and kill their entire toxic business model. After decades of observing how it behaves, it should be pretty clear that it's always going to devolve down to privately-ran death panels.
Apple also runs an OS on that device, so they can't just offload infinite computation for it: it would use too much battery.
Sounds interesting. Rubber ducky approach to self awareness?

How do you start these micro sessions? What prompts do you use?
Souls aren't a real thing.
Public health care can be similarly dystopian in other ways: Very long wait times due to limited resources, subpar medical care, limited prescription options and drugs, beauracracy.

No matter what society you live, the advice is the same: try not to get sick.
I actually take calls over car audio frequently. But only when I am inside the car, obviously. When car's Bluetooth tries to take over from the garage while I'm inside the house, that's hugely annoying.
You can view it as a label and the nice thing about labels versus boxes is you can have a bunch labels at once. Labels and identities are also temporary. Being something doesn't inherently mean you'll be that way forever. I say "I was a pilot" since I don't fly anymore, even though I still have the licenses. Someday it will be that "I was a software engineer". Someday it will be "I was alive".
Nobody is on board with crypto. And while governments can't shut it down, they can strongly discourage people from putting money into it, by simply enforcing existing regulations, which is what I think governments will start to do now.
How many of these requests do you get per day?
To be fair Microsoft does this a lot too. Gamepass is not officially available to most of the world for example - you need to set your account's address to a country where its supported and then you lose the Cloud streaming feature even if you are paying for it. Its more of a surprise that Bing/ChatGPT was available worldwide right from the get go.
Hand built boards are great for getting something done right now. It's also a fun sort of challenge sometimes.

Just drawing up a PCB can take as much time as building out the same circuit on perfboard. Manufacturing and shipping obviously adds even more time.

Take this next part with a mountain of salt. Things vary wildly based on circumstance, but in general it's easier to make mistakes on perfboard. They're less resistant to physical damage from handling, impact, vibration. They're harder to repair, especially if any time has passed between design and repair.

You should choose a PCB if your circuit:

- needs to last a long time

- must be repairable by another person

- will be produced more than once

- will be anywhere other than a box that never leaves the bench

- has physical or mechanical constraints from the enclosure

Personally, I find joy in building quick and dirty circuits on perfboard. But I get the same joy from a well-designed PCB.
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Heroin isn’t made from poppy seeds, it’s made from the latex secreted by the seed pod. but yeah, other than that detail, agreed.
Meh I'm not storing sensitive information in my todo lists and notes (and my calendar is entirely uninteresting) where that threat model concerns me much.

I would certainly prefer such a feature but that's not worth paying 4.5x as much money every month. I'd rather keep sensitive notes stored on my local machine or in Bitwarden if I need remote access.
Experienced sell-support-for-open-source business conservatively funneling enterprises into its support network vs increasingly desperate VC money young-ish startup doing things without being able to predict consequences.
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It seems one of the core components of human-level thinking is the ability move beyond just a recomposition of what you already know. Not long ago the epitome of expressible human knowledge was *emotive grunting noise.* Somehow we went from that to the greatest works of art, putting a man on the moon, and delving into the secrets of the atom. And we did it all exceptionally quickly once you consider how little time was spent dedicated to advancement and our countless behaviors that tend to imperil, if not reverse, advances.
> A ban on supersonic flight over US soil is not a ban on the development of the technology.

I am not defending the author's economic arguments, but this sentence is quite dubious.

Who's going to spend millions (or billions) of dollars developing better supersonic technology when one of the most important markets is off-limits?

(Edit: remove superfluous word.)
No it won't.
Sick and tired of all those statements that also pollute Twitter lately.
Why should crypto currencies not be considered a security asset?
Correct. (It is also unlikely that Apple exposes the Neural Engine directly.)
I have always seen Ivy League admission controversies as stemming from the fact that the number of "perfect" (as measured by objective criteria) candidates is so high versus available spots, that there are only two solutions:

* Select candidates randomly from a pool of perfect candidates.

* Select candidates based on additional, subjective criteria.

The first approach seems inherently fairer, but schools went with the second approach. It's hardly surprising that all sorts of biases creep in.

I once read that a candidate was rejected because, having an enormous amount of extracurricular activities in his CV, was deemed "too intense".
Maybe if Microsoft bothered to invest in and promote F#.
And they like to keep the club exclusive...

>In the 16 years since, although the number of applicants to the College has more than doubled, the size of Harvard’s undergraduate population has remained relatively constant. This year, the College admitted 2,037 students to the Class of 2020; in comparison, 2,035 students were admitted to the Class of 2004.

IMO when your non taxable endowment gets large but your undergrad population stays the same maybe part of the endowment should become taxable.
There’s too many considerations:
“What should I name this note?” “What should I link this note to?”
“What folder should this be under?”
>release your own code using it under GPL as well

Yes this is what I'm doing - although there are a lot of ways GPL'ed software can nevertheless still be used to generate revenue ..

>For that I'd look for a more community-based project on an equal footing.

I've found the JUCE community to be quite supportive, very knowledable and for those who don't want to pay the small license fee, the GPL requirement has been enough to produce a lot of great projects. The OP would be well-advised to inform themselves:

http://github.com/sudara/awesome-juce
People don't have to do anything. You use CoreML to program it.
I got one recently and generally think the phone is garbage, but the OCR built into pictures is really something else. I took a photo of a label for a barcode when I couldnt see it myself but could get my hand nearby, it was at an odd angle, but when I pressed my finger to the text I was interested in the phone captured it immediately, highlighted it, and I copied it nice as you please.
Is it not illegal to perform nonconsensual, nonemergency testing on people? The people that authorized this at the hospital should go to prison for that imo.
Of my colleagues, the who is most successful didn't attend college at all. With the internet providing near free information we don't *need* college.

Sure it's a fun 4 years, sure you might meet someone nice, but it's not needed to live a full life.

In fact, I'd argue before attending college you should have to work a real job for a bit. Understand how money works, then blowing 60k a year to get a degree means a different thing.

With all of this in mind, get rid of race based admissions.
Plasma Wakefield and “accelerator in a chip” are those breakthroughs that are expected to mature soon, though accelerator on a chip would be pointing more towards new applications
Assessing a tax doesn't actually clean the air. All it does is ensure that only the rich have the right to fuck everyone else over. If the government committed to funding carbon capture at a rate of at least as much as they would've in the counterfactual where there was instead a ban plus the additional amount funded by the carbon tax revenue, taxing the externality would probably be adequate redress, but that isn't ever going to happen.
Also the irony here I think for you specifically is Finland is one of the most crypto friendly countries in the EU lmao
The long term plan is what generates the next word.
> By comparison, software engineering is entirely digital, exponentially scalable, and always behind schedule. It’s the perfect target for a hostile takeover.

So, as an engineer, it may be more inherently job-secure to work with a software engineering market that is required to be somewhat analog, is inherently less scalable, and generally easy to keep on schedule (likely because that's not where the real problems are for that market, or they don't really care about measurements of time in proportion to traditional engineering environments).

In a context like that, any prospective AI takeover will automatically be awkward, a risky business bet by its very nature, and inherently resisted by stakeholders for good reasons. Grass is greener for AI elsewhere, and will be for decades at a minimum.

You'd want to connect your services further up the chain toward where people with hearts and loneliness and all the other human foibles dwell. People who need people.

And you'd want to take on the burden of dealing with AI on behalf of those people.

(A lot of engineers already do this...)
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