skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On average, 33 cents of every insurance dollar in the US goes to paperwork and paid negotiators on the doctor or insurance company side.

That's misleading, this is the percentage quoted for overall non-clinical costs. The better number you should be mentioning is billing and insurance related (BIR) expenditures which ranges from 3-15% depending on the setting you're talking about.

Note that a fixed fee schedule does not eliminate BIR expenditures, Medicare which works like what you're proposing is ~3.5% for BIR. Canadian provinces are in the 5-10% range.

> If hospitals and insurance companies established a standardized (regional) fixed price list for all procedures

Should procedures cost the same wherever you go? The quality of care is certainly not the same although everyone meets the minimum standard. e.g. cancer care at Stanford is higher quality than at a neighboring community hospital, should they not be allowed to charge more for it?

In any case that's the point of PPOs, the hospital/provider has pre-negotiated/accepted the insurer's fee schedule for the year. It's not negotiated on every visit.

> auto-approved everything

Does anywhere do this? How do you control for unnecessary/wasteful use of resources? Neither HMOs nor the public Canadian health system auto-approve everything.

HMOs like Kaiser appear to "auto-approve" but they control the referral and keep a check on their PCP resource utilization and referral rates. You can't just walk in and demand a spine MRI because you've had back pain for 2 days, if the PCP imaging rates deviate from what is expected they will be audited and/or disciplined by Kaiser.
> Really, how is this any different than recording TV on a VCR (or DVR)?

Each time a viewer watches a video a monetised channel makes a little more money. This money either comes from ads or Youtube Premium fees (Premium viewers are worth significantly more than free viewers).

Programs like yl-dlp bypass this - non-premium users can download ad-free videos contributing a single view to a video and consume that content any number of times. Youtube no longer makes advertising revenue per view, and content creators no long get their cut.

None of this is the case in TV, where ad revenue must be based on metrics other than straight-up view count, which cannot be counted meaningfully.

> But the website could embed ads into the downloaded video.

Many video creators do embed their own ads, but revenue from these ads are often based on view counts maintained by Youtube as well.
Linear transformations preserve the structure of the space so you can keep applying them. It's not surprising that you can always find some "space-preserving" part of a problem and fold the rest (the "non-linear" structure) into transformations or the definition of the space itself.
>How do you see it connecting to the culture war?

The urban rich and well off children could avoid the war (college and all), where rural areas not so much, born and work on a farm, off to Vietnam. Thus a divide started to happen :)

>Try the NY Times, Financial Times, etc

Yes for national news, but in many areas there is no local news, so Town, City pols, in theory, can hide a lot.
Though I never have used Youtube premium, Louis Rossmann talks a lot about this. If I remember correctly it was something about not actually getting a file when downloading, instead having something you're forced to watch in the app and something not working right without internet access/location restrictions.
I like this project since it's bringing attention to a semi-unsolved issue, modular mounting that's somewhat consumer friendly.

It looks nicer than most pegboard, although maybe I should look into pegboard more.

I also wonder about MOLLE. It's soft instead of ridgid so panels can be larger, not limited by transportability. It's somewhat cheap, and works really well, and can theoretically allow 3DP parts.

But I like general, one size fits all, bulletproof solutions, that are 0% hacky.

> Maintenance is not going to be very easy on this setup...

Not that exciting. Good enough in this case, not great if you expect to need to modify stuff.
The point is: what's the point of wrapping this at all? You can just directly call `[object foo]` instead of doing your own `object_foo()` wrapper just because you want to make the syntax prettier. It's like doing `#define saith printf` -- you're obfuscating your platform-specific code and making it more difficult for people familiar with the platform to understand what's going on. This is subtracting value from your sourcebase, not adding value!

And it doesn't help people who aren't used to Objective-C, because they'll be utterly, hopelessly lost trying to deal with platform-specific features like autorelease pools and Foundation-specific calling conventions. And they won't be able to find docs for your weird syntax.

You cannot remove the platform from the platform specific bits! It will come back to bite you.

Also, you really need to check the memory management situation -- the code samples are leaking memory out the wazoo and it doesn't give confidence that any code using your wrapper isn't doing the same.
Signal is rolling out quantum-safe key exchanges
I am glad for all the paying people who care less about their privacy to the extent they can justify that. You matter, seriously. I'm being 100% genuine. I don't think the world (economically) would continue to turn if everyone was like me unfortunately. It would be a tradgedy of the uncommons
Update:
Cold brew is a game changer, I'm a convert.
It’s called white coast hypertension, I don’t think of myself as particularly nervous but I get this too. I’ve had blood pressure readings in various medicals etc. from 145-160/90, and endured several stern lectures about salt and exercise and alcohol. Finally did a 24 hour ambulatory test and I’m < 130/60 or something in a non-clinical setting.

After this experience I did some reading and as far as I can tell, blood pressure is the least consistent, least rigorous test you can do in mainstream medicine. The “normal” range spans ~10mmHg and yet readings can vary by 10-20mmHg according to each of: stress level, standing up in the last 15 mins, recently having a drink of water (as you do in a doctor’s waiting room), whether your legs are crossed, etc. Without controlling for all of these (which is almost never done properly) they might as well be reading your tea leaves.
I think today python fills that void - people who are not serious programmers but need to put something together. Think academics, data analysts, etc. And since Python is cross platform and easy to get started with it is a lot more attractive than VB.
So cool. An episode of I Dream of Jeannie is on WTTG at 11 AM.
They're one of the few, if not only, technology vendor that is willing to sell something with a written 6 nine's reliability guarantee (e.g. 99.9999% uptime and conformance with advertised specifications/features), or your money back.

No companies in SV, or Microsoft/Amazon, offer a single product that has that kind of guarantee, that I know of.
Airline messaging is wild, this blog from 2010 knows what’s what: https://cos.livejournal.com/79455.html
AirPrint isn't magic. It's just PostScript with DNS-SD bolted on top.
Very cool! I hope the website itself keeps expanding to more rare pinouts - this information can be very difficult to find!
He can solve it if he tells yt-dlp to download a mix of .mp4 and .m4u
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vici_Properties#Properties

Insane. Who is competing with them on the Las Vegas Strip? Just Blackstone with Bellagio, Cosmo, and Aria? Those investors have the power to have practically all properties on the strip not compete with each other.
Did you turn off the HP "DIRECT" wifi AP that screams at the top of its lungs and hogs valuable wifi spectrum? I live in a fairly low density townhouse, and 3 of my neighbors' printers are visible..
Incentivizing innovation in open source: Evidence from GitHub Sponsors program
I'd believe that if this sort of speech would result in action or if they're saying they want to do more but are being blocked by others. I'm not seeing actions nor hearing such frustration, so that makes me think it's just nice words and a "white lie"?
And this completely fantastical future pails in comparison to what the government and the police state do today without any repercussions.

This is what police will do today to people who disagree with them

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/23/us/marion-county-record-n...

> We busted monopolies and company stores years ago because businesses harassed and murdered people left and right!….

I’m sure I need to be more worried about Google murdering people than some yokels claiming they were doing a “citizens arrest” where the prosecutor covered up video taped evidence…

https://www.wtoc.com/2022/12/28/timeline-former-brunswick-da...

But I guess I should be more worried about Google putting a cookie on my computer…

Not that I would ever personally use Chrome
Lesswrong is basically a new online religion where you worship by acting like you're a STEM expert, which is part of why they have so many strong assumptions about how AI must work all based on untrue ideas about how it actually works.
More like a "download into Google video locker that can only be played with the Youtube app, can't easily be format-shifted/clipped/transcoded/etc. and tracks you whenever you play it," right?

So much effort that downgrades the experience for paying users.

I imagine Tivo-style ad-skipping isn't a feature either.
Is there any reason you can't just propogate and cultivate them in a seperate breeding receptacle for an unlimited supply like people do with SCOBY or whatever for making sourdough?
It's actually sometimes sold as a "security" feature - short DHCP leases with no memory.

Which is kinda silly, if the router hasn't needed to give the IP to another client, just remember it forever.
I prefer VB syntax :) I'm not a fan of semicolons and curly braces.
The title is incorrect -- this is still using Objective-C, it's just obfuscating the syntax for no really good reason.
How do they ever associate your Youtube account with this tool?
Deno vs. Bun vs. Node.js: A feature comparison
Beans are not recommended if your goal is normalising electrolytes and micro-nutrients. Phytic acid in beans messes with your micronutrient absorption, in other words you absorb fewer than if you abstained from beans (or any other vegetable high in phytates). Quite counterproductive if you're trying to figure out the correct dosage of supplements.

Same with nuts and other seeds. Fine, in moderation. Phytic acid literally is a chemical countermeasure to stop animals from eating the next generation of a plant.

Oxalic acid, abundant in spinach, is another fun one.
If you suspect you have high blood pressure, please have yourself checked by a medical professional. Hypertension is known as the "silent killer" due to its frequent lack of symptoms.
Did the church group not already believe there to be an entity capable of ubiquitous observation and judgement of everyone, that as an added bonus happens to be entirely benevolent? I'm not sure how any human-made competition in this department could be beneficial.
Relative to python it's cheap. A set of Ferrari tires for $1000 is simultaneously expensive but also very cheap compared to the normal cost.

Basically, if you're worried about string formatting overhead, it's probably time to ditch Python.
It's not broadcasting that, so either I did turn it off (and then forgot), or it was off by default.

That's funny though. Can you connect to them and print them a message asking them to turn it off?
Obligatory reference to https://github.com/alexta69/metube which allows you to front yt-dlp with a webpage.

Already posted here how I have it as part of my stack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113339
also, it works both directions, so you can downgrade (at least to 1.21.0)
I don't care how it works, I only care that it does work.
You know, when I read this after clicking "reply", I realized it could sound harsh. I didn't mean it to be that way, it was just an example.

Please! Don't actually step in front of a bus! It's just a thought experiment!

--- org message ---

There's a very simple test for the existence of objective physical reality: Step out in front of a bus

You can even start by very ernestly ensuring yourself that the bus is just a figment of your tenuous senses.

The outcome is obvious. I wonder why you're so determined to deny that physical reality isn't the same as our inner imaginings...

--- end org statement ---

The general answer to how we know what's real and what's a dream is: Experiment.

We can cogitate on what we do perceive and construct scenarios, the outcomme of which tell us more about what's "out there". Then we can use that new info to cogitate again and construct even more suble experiments.

The scientific process...
This is fair, and yes it's 100% "download into an encrypted area on a closed platform device and self-destruct for no reason after 30 days," not "download it so that you have the video and can reliably play it offline or re-encode into a different format."

YouTube itself is the lamest entity to be wasting time fighting youtube-dl because I doubt most creators want that protection. I can see why say, NBC.com or whoever doesn't want to be sued by the content owners for letting people download a show. But YouTube? The site that shows videos to anyone without a subscription? Interesting choice of where to focus your attention, Google.
Nice strawman. He didn’t even say any of that, simply that all websites should have options to download videos. No mentions of price, nothing that would harm copyright (which is an absolute joke).

Maybe, if you weren’t an RIAA shill, we could have a productive conversation.
Maybe something related to 'pic'? This doc on it is a revised version of a 1984 edition, so maybe it's a little too late, but there are references to other systems back to 1977 or so.

https://pikchr.org/home/uv/pic.pdf
That's terrifying that people thought it was potentially good
Make sure you build subs (functions/methods) for everything....I mean everything. Break all of your code into the smallest subs possible with clear names. Otherwise you will not be able to make heads or tails of your own code in a few months. I built a fairly sophisticated VBA project and left it for a few months, came back and was pulling my hair out. I had to refactor before I could move on, and it was very painful. After the refactor I could make changes and modify it without issue. You have to be, what seems like, over-granular. Its just "clean code" principles: the name of the sub should describe exactly what it does. If the name is too big...break stuff out into different subs.

Excel is perfect for building proof-of-concept apps and Microsoft has a cloud offering called PowerApps that use a somewhat similar "Excel concept." I have built a significant app in PowerApps...not recommended. If you don't have a development team Excel is good. Same for PowerApps. Very painful if they get big. Keep things simple.
From what I know:

XBOX runs a variant of Windows.

PS3/4/5 OSes have all been based on FreeBSD.

Apparently Nintendo Switch runs a proprietary kernel, which is interesting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...).
That's easy: points are mostly a function of time spent on the site.

What's objectionable is not determined by points.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Correct, and I believe you can't even access the video if you the app can't phone home after a certain time.

Also if you're in (or even visiting) some (most?) countries this feature doesn't work. You don't get any refund either.
Building Billion-Scale Vector Search
ZeroConf actually works pretty well as long as everything is in the same range.
A national zoning law, for example, sharply limits the ability of local governments to impede development. Instead of allowing the people who live in a neighborhood to prevent others from living there, Japan has shifted decision-making to the representatives of the entire population, allowing a better balance between the interests of current residents and of everyone who might live in that place.

The ease of building in Tokyo means that new construction is not synonymous with luxury housing. Small workshops and factories are common. The Mendos’ neighbors include a custom lacemaker, a small factory that embosses items for department stores and a paper goods store.
I think this is a good base case for exploring how achieving feature parity affects the code.
For this specific subdiscussion, I wouldn't underestimate Elon's own knowledge and capabilities in the technical sides of Tesla and SpaceX, and similarly his continued work on, generally, making his engineers (in addition to his own) effort to bear fruit.

So, "his engineers have" sounds too dismissive.
A funny thing GPT-4 is unusually good at is giving driving directions. This shouldn't work, and of course isn't 100% right, but… it's kind of right.

Bard can answer questions like this, but I think it actually uses the Maps API. (It certainly says that's what it's doing.)

On the other hand, every chatbot including GPT-4 is both unable to do ASCII art and unable to tell it can't do it. (Bard always shows you `cowsay` and tells you it's what you asked for, no matter what it was supposed to be.)
It’s not Postscript. AirPrint supports a few different formats/PDLs including its own raster format and Postscript is notably not an option.
It's been widely speculated that his extreme diet is likely what caused or contributed to his pancreatic cancer. Supposedly he was also ignoring his doctor's medical advice and had some irrational belief that his fruit diet would cure his cancer.
> Facebook has been a tool for genocide.

This is very surprising news to me. What genocide?
I don't think that's even remotely true, based on https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#examples
> Thankfully, there are tens of thousands of talented artists all over the world who will take your money and create artworks for you. This continues to be the case, so what rights of yours have been taken away; Its not clear to me.

That does not negate the fact that most popular culture nowadays is locked behind DRM and terms that are on top of the normal copyright protection Congress devised for rightsholders.

According to most content and software production/distribution companies, people shouldn't even own individual copies, but licenses to those. This is even in the case where the average consumer would ordinarily see it as a purchase of a copy outright. There's a very clear line between a subscription service that provides access to movies on a time-limited basis in exchange for a monthly payment and a virtual store "selling" digital goods, using terminology on its UI that deceives consumers, such as "Buy" buttons.
You missed the point. I wasn't asking for help on how to assign a static IP address. My point was that ordinary people shouldn't have to know what an IP address is, let alone what a static IP address is, in this day and age.
That’s not even a genuine problem, just an excuse the RIAA hid behind to continue being a vexatious litigant.
Ok, that doesn't address my point though:

Do we agree that in the _real_ world, it is impossible to determine which image have been used to generate the model (not talking about just the LORA part here).

So the solution i see is:

- we ban AI-generated image from public use because of IP: basically, the use of any image not in the public domain, even CC0, will cause that

- Most non-public-domain images on the internet you can use to train stuff are CC and CC0 (which is kinda public domain if i remember my wikipedia days). My point is: the majority of the images used to create the model (again, not the LORA part) are public domain or free to use as long as they are attributed. It's impossible to attribute according to what CC is demanding. The list would be impossible to find. So either we get back to the first sentence, and sue AI-generated images to oblivion, or the image are public domain/CC0.

Also, the legal point: the creator of the art isn't a human, so it isn't copyrightable. A curator do not have the copyright of the image/painting he found at a garage sale, even if he put a lot of effort to restore it.
Just curios, what language was used to develop?
I’m now waiting for the Wireguard, going PQ, beyond the preshared keys!

Any idea if there is activity?
Elon Musk went from superhero to supervillain
You've broken the site guidelines egregiously here and elsewhere (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446036, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36696864). We have to ban accounts that post like that, so please don't post like that again, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Again, I think it comes down to tooling. Our app is basically a document management system with quite complex business rules. I can write a test that takes a document from inception to completion in about 15 LoC because we've put time into our test framework to provide sensible abstractions over our API.

Setup and teardown can be an issue, but we've found a good balance. We spin up a clean DB for each test in less than a second. Running out full suite does take a couple of hours, but that's what CI servers are for.
https://archive.ph/fUf0a
Sorry is the suggestion here that if a certain constituency is not successful across all of its agenda items, then it surely couldn't be behind the success of some of its agenda items?
>The other thing is that C# consistently adds features to itself that are inspired by F#, since F# already implements these features on the CLR, thus showing their viability. So what happens is that C# continually approaches a more bloated language with a subset of it being a poor copy of F#

C# and F# sometimes remind me another pair of languages: Java and Scala.
Agree.

Add the Teensy, please.
The real stakes of the Google Antitrust Trial
They already sent me the fucking content when I watch it. Having a download button that just saves it to my disk means they save money delivering it to me if I watch a second time.
I had a conversation with a friend regarding this exact question and my understanding is that model trains to optimize the distribution of all texts, therefore when you restrict it to deterministic sampling that is not representative of inputs you select the slice of the distribution that model learned that conveys much less information than the full distribution, and hence has poorer results.
How? By keeping it locked away? That's their only protection. If it gets out of the gate they have no claim.
My favorite VB6 moment was as an intern. I opened a project that lived on a shared drive that wasn't in source control. Visual Studio popped up a dialog warning that I didn't have the proper license on my PC for the parts of the app that interfaced with Excel. Then it cheerfully deleted the offending project files and sections of code and saved it. On the shared drive.
Don DeLillo's 'Libra' is sterling, convincingly colors the multiple-shooter narrative, and adds lots of depth to Oswald the man - a whole biography really. It is a novel, therefore fiction; but, by now, what of the assassination's narrative isn't in question? Highly recommended.

Link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(novel)
> What genocide?

https://rsilpak.org/2022/facebook-genocide-and-social-medias...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook_con...

https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+genocide

> This is very surprising news to me.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
carbon-negative is the goal within the next decade - https://burningman.medium.com/burning-man-project-2030-envir...