skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why would the insurance company fake data?

It's easy to imagine reasons. A lazy assistant who's supposed to go through 13,488 filled-out forms decides to count 1,000 of them and then fabricate the rest so they can spend the week watching soccer online instead? Or an employee lost the data on which form results were associated with which condition, and they might get fired or not get promoted if caught, so they made it up? And so forth.

And metadata as you've described it doesn't sem like a smoking gun either. It's easy enough to imagine Ariely created an otherwise empty Excel sheet in the column format he wanted them to insert data into, e-mailed it to them, and got it back with their results. Or he just copied their Excel results into a spreadsheet of his own that already had other tabs, or similar.

I'm not saying Ariely didn't do it or did do it, I'm just wondering if there's an actual smoking gun here, or if it's accusations but there isn't enough evidence to actually know.
The nominal reason for the (seemingly insane) billing codes is the codes are based on ICD-10. The ICD (International Classification of Diseases) system was supposedly originally developed for epidemiological tracking.
You want different addition functions for floats vs ints vs unsigned ints?
> where it’s obvious what the operation is (inherently mathematical types like vectors and matrices)

Considering there are like 3 different types of matrix multiplication operations, I don't think it's obvious at all. Feels like you should either use a language with complete support for implementing custom DSLs (that can express the whole domain naturally) or eschew ambiguous operator overloading altogether (gaining consistency and quality at the expense of a few keystrokes).
But why? I could understand from a treatment perspective the type of animal mattering (but even then initial vs subsequent encounters?). From a billing perspective, wouldn't it make sense to have animal bite exam fee, with possible additional charges for bandaging, stitches, rabies shot, etc based on doctor's discretion?
it's a feature, not a bug. The lousiness of it is it's main selling point.
For instance, sortings by low ratings and ordering from most recent is a trivial SQL query, but if they unleashed that then it would be much harder to hide the negative reviews. A good portion of that $300MM revenue is from the ability to hide the negative reviews. Hence, the lousy interface is a money making feature. You can build the competition with a better UI, but you won't get the revenue.
I think the 4 pin version was also standard, it's just that Sony didn't own the trademark on FireWire, Apple did. Sony was actually one of the companies that developed the spec, according to Wikipedia.

I had a HP laptop with that connector, but it was labelled IEEE-<numbers>. Bought a 4 to 6 cable to connect it to an old iMac, but never bothered enough to use it.
Ducktales?
What is your priority?

Do you really have something you have to tell the world, or are you just about the money? Either way is fine, but they require different approaches...
With that quoted line, I was specifically referring their mention of laws related to interrogation.

As a civilian, I can ask a lost child what their guardian was wearing to help locate them without breaking laws surrounding interrogation. Similarly, I can ask a child if they intend to fly to New York or if they intend to get off in North Carolina.
The only place I ever encountered these was in the computer labs in Soda Hall at Berkeley. They’re a great fit for an environment like that so there’s one machine for each person without needing the extra space for a traditional tower. But I imagine outside of situations like this where you need something that’s not locked down for programming, Chromebooks have probably taken the lion’s share of the education market.
Latest from July 10th, changelog:

https://intellij-rust.github.io/2023/07/10/changelog-198.htm...
It's available right on that page (after clicking the preview):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/07-Lania...
Dude it's a movie review. Sports writing and the entertainment section get to be overtly biased, which is obnoxious if your team isn't the paper's Home Team.
It's true! I opened the website and there was nothing there.

Just a blank white page...
> - don’t click or share this stuff when you see it on Reddit, HN or anywhere else.

I think this point is under appreciated. I also want to add another point

- Don't take a (strong) position on something you don't understand or have equally strong evidence for.

We live in a world of specialization, which means a lot of us "are dumb" with respect to a lot of domains. There's nothing wrong with that. But there's a propensity for society to generalize this intelligence, which makes people think that because they can adequately reason about one domain that they can do so in another domain. It is kinda like the Murry Gell-Mann Amnesia, but to ourselves. Look at a domain you _are_ and expert in, and you'll probably realize that a lot of nuance matters, resulting in many things that would be non-intuitive without that high level of detail. Then ask yourself, do you have sufficient nuanced understanding for this other domain topic? I think we know the answer. Opinions are totally fine to have, but it is the strength of them which matters, and places like Reddit and HN are full of people who have been taught that their intelligence generalizes far better than it does, because what we're comparing ourselves to is other people's ability to reason and rationalize and not the distance our knowledge/reasoning is from the truth. i.e. you can out debate someone while being an absolute walnut.
Because our (US) system is at Monty Python levels of absurdity.

We waste more money with this "system" than most other countries spend as a total, and with worse outcomes on average [1].

Fundamentally, there are two factors, IMO, that have been conclusively proven (repeatedly, and for decades - much more strongly, recently) to be incompatible with delivering quality healthcare with some level of efficiency:

1) For-profit entities (particularly, publicly-traded / with "fiduciary responsibility" to shareholders)

2) Administrative burden / bureaucracy (partly stemming from all of the competing private entities, partly stemming from essentially impossible efforts to effectively regulate these entities and the created "market")

The manner in which the US system evolved, tying insurance to employment through basically existing tax policies, and the move by companies to take advantage of this to attract workers (IIRC), created a massive landscape of entrenched interests that works exactly like such ecosystems work. It is a "teergrube" - an absolute tarpit - where any attempt to fix problems ultimately fails.

The administrative situation is out of control, which means fraud (particularly with the turn towards "digital crime" of everyone from traditional organized crime networks to high schoolers) and waste are impossible to effectively control, adding to an already absurd situation where ever-increasing money is spent on marketing, lobbying, administrators / clerks, etc. Meanwhile, we desperately need more doctors, nurses, etc. AND, these professionals are now increasingly being politicized by "exploiters". A great many healthcare professionals are quitting, and those remaining are often trying to move away from areas that often MOST need their services!

It's amazing to watch (from the inside, so far) a country that built such "soft-power" might ... such a dominant "marketed / exported 'culture'", have those same tools (used, in any scenario, intentionally or not) turn against itself (/ be turned against it) - sowing the seeds of collapse in all sorts of systems, top-to-bottom.

There isn't a face or palm big enough for the facepalm this BS deserves.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27526... - only providing one of a parade of articles examining the issue in the past decade, especially
You can. It's just neither recommended nor enabled by default.

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/nested-virtualization/14790

Poke around /etc/libvirt/libxl and your particular VM's config file. You'll find some lines like:

<feature name='vmx' policy='disable'/>
<feature name='svm' policy='disable'/>

Enable it, and you should have working nested virtualization.
This could work really well if it replaced GPT-X-judged performance ranking with human-in-the-loop ranking of prompts, but that’s not as exciting, I guess.
>the "ads" are crazy

Currently it is possible to turn these ads off via Settings -> Privacy and Security -> (four ad-related toggles).

Rumor has it they won't be avoidable in the future.

So I'm forced to conclude, the only way to remove bloatware completely from a computer is remove Windows itself.
Isn’t this happening more or less at the same time Jobs was calling it the feecesbook and yanked its integration from iOS???
If a person were sucked into a jet engine, they'd be turned into soup. Maybe they could be poured into a container and the doctor could subsequently encounter them in that state.
Do we get separate diagnosis codes for each verb? So, sucked into jet engine, walked into jet engine, fell into jet engine, pushed into jet engine, etc.?
> Maybe because some drivers don't work, plus the fact that we want to keep this one Windows machine at home, for cases of Windows only software (e.g. old book-companion CDs).

Plus maybe to run an experiment?
I don't understand this comment. Bigtable requires that each tablet is only assigned to one tablet server at a time, enforced in Chubby. There's no risk of inconsistent reads. Of course this means that there can be downtime when a tablet server goes down, until a replacement tablet server is ready to serve requests.
My experience was very positive, much better answers than GPT for me for non technical chatty stuff.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/coroutines

But highly doubt you need anything like async/await for this kind of application. In fact, I'd go as far as to say async/await is almost never needed except for building networked services with truly massive performance demands.
There are many use cases where server components making no sense:

1. RESTful or API sites that just need a SPA to render
2. embedded boards that can never run node.js etc, there are millions or billions of them.
3. Eletron.js or React Native related applications, why do I need a next.js alike component involved at all?

Mixing SPA with SSR into React makes thing unnecessarily complicated, can SSR be an opt-in component just like what it used to be, so us SPA users do not need know your yet another revolutionary goodies that everybody must love it or he/she has no clue what's the best right now?

I switched from Vue to React, now it seems I must switch back as Vue still separates SSR from CSR, god knows how long will that stay.
ivegottogivemyupmostrespecttotherapists

Doesn't that undercut yours?
Godot Funding Breakdown and Hiring Process
Well, it employs a lot of people to have this complex billing. And whoever argued the need for it got to do some major empire building, maybe scored a promotion.
"Dependency resolution is something programmers usually take for granted. Be it cargo, npm, or whatever package manager you use, no one is actually surprised when this black-box figures out, all by itself, the specific set of packages that should be installed."

I am personally still surprised npm/node etc. both work and are used unsarcastically.
And if you'll note, under your original comment I added some detail on how to enable nested virtualization in Qubes.
Might not be quite what you're thinking of, but for typed Forth, there's StrongForth, which is statically typed. I wrote a Forth-based scripting system for Dreamcast homebrew, and used StrongForth's type system in it. I would run and edit the scripts live on the console, and the static typing was a big help to prevent errors that could crash the system (since the game ran under a single process, and did not use the MMU).

https://www.stephan-becher.de/strongforth/intro.htm
None of the things you listed are bad or failures of academia.

1) Yeah, lots of people missed the crisis.

2) Yes, when funding doesn't come from the government it comes from industry. And then you need to find hypotheses that are interesting for industry.

3) That's how science works! You don't know what is true or false. You need to take your shot, see if the experiment you run works out. Sometimes you can be the smartest person in the world, put in the most work, but be in an area asking a question that doesn't pan out. It happens!

There are many ways to mitigate this. For example, you can often make experiments where it doesn't matter what the answer is. It's always interesting and publishable regardless of how the statistics work out. But, there is definitely luck involved, not just skill.

> Only a true saint would accept data that actually does NOT support their hypothesis because it makes it unlikely they will get a job in a very competitive market.

Only a scientist would! That's the game we play to discover new truths. And the vast majority of scientists do this.

Pretty much every idea that I have ever had is bad! Yet, somehow, I managed to get a PhD and now graduate many of my own PhD students. The trick is to learn to fail quickly, to ask the kinds of questions that are interesting no matter what, and to develop a sense for the types of questions that are more fertile.
Use IoT version of the OS instead. It's quite difficult to remove some of the bloat from mainstream versions even having Windows debloater scripts or O&O's tools because of how deeply they're intertwined into the system. Removing some unneeded stuff sometimes causes either OS functionality or updateability to break too.
> BTW there are other vendors like Beelink that make semi decent tiny computers and I have one of those as my teenage kids pc,works just fine.

The issue is, Intel's aiming more upmarket (based on their pricing) for something that doesn't offer a lot more. Intel's done interesting/fun things, such as building the entire motherboard into a single slot sized unit, but going out and buying a Beelink is a better proposition for most people.

If anything, I think Intel can exit this market because they succeeded. They lead the way, they begat a new form factor, and it's won. But the market has grown much more competitive, and it's hard to see what Intel would do to remain relevant & important in this market. Their current efforts are interesting, and even good, but not really enough to clearly differentiate, not enough to command a huge lead in this market, and certainly not at the somewhat above average prices Intel has been asking.

This follows a lot of other Intel examples. Intel left DRAM market in 1985. Intel left SSDs in 2020, in a similar situation to NUCs here: they basically created the mass consumer market, by pioneering NVMe & creating amazingly high-value products that used to be ultra-expensive proprietary botique items.

This seems like a classic Innovator's Dilemna situation, of Intel having a strong hand creating mass-market products that define the industry, but then being chased out by down-market competition, once the offerings really become a true everyday commodity. I'm not sure if there even is another way Intel ought to behave here.
It's hilarious how AMP pages have become a cesspool of JS dark patterns trying to bombard with you with as many ads as possible and keep you from escaping their site.
Keras + Pytorch is not mature.
If you click to bring up the "start menu", you can then right-click on the "live" boxes that come up with the start menu and remove them. This doesn't remove the bloatware, but does remove the distracting crap that Microsoft is pushing in your face.
> But since they’re off, that doesn’t make any sense, now you can’t reach any windows on those monitors.

Perhaps I want to turn off the displays to darken the room.

I don't want anything done with the programs/windows except not look at them.
I've been a designer for a number of hospitals (tech, and physical, some systems) but never in the billing, however I can attest that billing codes are complete BS (billing codes are basically a number for the procedure/system/resources used such that they can say 'Code 10 == $10,000" to simplify it...

Hospitals are usually 'health *groups*' and they work just the same as insurance companies - they have actuaries that do all the calc to determine what they CAN charge for a procedure, not what its summary cost actually is...

When youre in a hospital GROUP you have more negotiating power with the insurance companies - so the exact same procedure in one group may be significantly different than what another group charges you....

HOWEVER - and this is important, and they wont ever tell you this - you can "haggle" with hospital billing departments... NEVER pay a hospital bill once you receive it.

ALWAYS call and ask for more details about the bill, with a line item receipt for every single action, drug, interaction 'encounter' and you will generally see your bill reduced significantly.

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As example, I went to the ER with chest pains. waited 2 hours for an MD to come see me, he didnt even touch me, take a BP, EKG, etc - then 'prescribed' me some motrin (over the counter) and then billed me $1,500 for a 4 minute interaction.

I refused to pay this and they tried to drop it to $900 - and I told them, that if they can drop it from $1500 to $900 with just me protesting, then they needed to pay me for the two hours I waited to speak to the MD

They dropped the bill entirely.

Good Samaratin Hospital, Los Gatos CA.
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As someone who has written math libraries over and over again for the last 25 years (I wish I was joking, but it turns out it is something I'm good at [1]), I find that operator overloading works only for the simple cases but that for performance and clarify, function names work best.

Function names let you clarify that it is an outside product or inside product (e.g. there are often different types of adds, multiplies, divides), and I can not stand when someone maps cross product onto ^ (because you can both exponent and cross product some vectors, like quaternions, so why use exponent operator for cross?) or dot product onto something else that doesn't make any sense. Also operator overloading often doesn't make clear memory management, rather it relies on making new objects constantly, whereas with explicit functions, you can pass in an additional parameter that will take the result. Lastly, explicit functions allow you to pass additional information like how to handle various conditions, like non-invertible, divide by zeros, etc.

I find word-based functions more verbose but significant less error prone and also they are more performant (because of the full control over new object creation.) Operator overloading is only good for very simple code and even then people always push it too far so that I cannot understand it.

[1] 1997: https://github.com/bhouston/BezierCurveDemo1997/blob/master/..., 2001: C# math library: https://github.com/bhouston/ExoEngine3D/tree/master/Librarie..., 2013: a bunch of the core Three.js math library, 2023: https://github.com/bhouston/threeify/tree/master/packages/ma...
I'm more familiar with the world of spirits but it's much the same situation - there is certainly unpalatable swill on the very bottom shelf, but at some fairly low price point you hit a perfectly adequate level of quality and products priced above that level are about some combination of brand cachet and/or unique and interesting flavors, moreso than being objectively "better".
Ask HN: Should I learn more of Excel/Power BI if I'm cracking on Python?
Since I posted a link to an accomplished certificate in Data Analysis from freeCodeCamp in my profile and created an alert for Data Analyst, LinkedIn Learning continues to offer me free 3-hour courses on Excel and Power BI. I like working with Python rather than with Excel/Power BI, but some companies require Excel/Power BI. I am currently completing 2 other Python certifications in scientific computing and machine learning and am already out of my planned schedule for them.

Are Excel/Power BI courses worth more than Python courses?
The advantages in a social setting lie in the introduction of entropy, that is _creativity_, to a community. In a rigorous academic setting and with proper training these individuals are more likely identify links between ideas or information that may not seem obvious at first, and tend to be your more 'eccentric' academics.

For the interests of the wider group, the best outcome is to help these individuals refine their communication to make it clear when information they present is unsubstantiated inference as opposed to verified knowledge.

Once the proper 'rules of engagement' are outlined the contributions of these individuals is an oftentimes useful 'ingredient' to the success of many enterprises.
What an article about nothing.

Sommeliers always do blind tastings. Taste and texture descriptors are extremely well understood. Expert winemakers can tell you a lot about the qualities of grapes, climate, and process through blind taste.

This meme that wine is fake really needs to stop. You have no reason to care even one iota about subtleties of expensive wine, but you really don’t need much training to tell good wine from bad wine.
Sure, but what were they thinking it would do exactly?

Person 1: Wow, your new phone looks incredible!
Person 2: Oh, it's Nothing©, really...
Not even ironically, this all smells of insurers wanting sufficient data to raise rates on different types of farmers and breeders. It might be scandalous if they didn’t collect the data and then were biased against, say, chicken farmers. But if they do collect the data, they can say they analyzed it, whether or not they did, to support any kind of tactic they desired.
What is that? Does it also run WSL?
If you have the skills to port the tools to KVM, please do so. There's a shortage of sufficiently paranoid low level sorts with the time and interest in the hacking on Qubes.

Getting it working on ARM is also of interest.
If they are airline employees and not cops I'm not aware of any way they can detain you, short of a citizen's arrest which usually requires them to have observed you committing a felony?

In this case I would just declare that I'm leaving and if any resistance, demand the real cops be called or call them yourself. Same if they refuse to return your cash and/or luggage.
That's really interesting, because I had a customer that did nothing but provide medical billing services, and about 15 years ago when the industry was moving from ICD-9 to ICD-10, that customer seemed really focused on their billing coders learning ICD-10.
There is so much data because of insurance. Insurers are in the business of declining claims. They have discovered that the best way to decline claims is to create byzantine rules while offloading all the work to comply with those rules to healthcare providers. The only way to fix it at this point is to nationalize the system or to exclude all routine care from the insurance system. Something like a legal ban on deductibles smaller than 20k/year would work.
>Maybe Microsoft should argue this point instead. But they didn't. They argued that they would allow CoD on multi-platforms so it's only reasonable to expect people to respond to that point.

That's just basic business. If I buy a shoe factory, I'm going to say of course I'll sell them to Canadians! I wouldn't say "Eh, stuff it Canada, go make your own shoes!" even if my own internal plans didn't prioritize exports.
Microsoft Can Close Its $75B Buy of Activision Blizzard, Judge Rules
For those of us in Oklahoma, it's great entertainment during a severe thunderstorm.
*Half of England's land.