skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop paying any bill under $1k, hospitals and healthcare networks have stopped sending these low level bills to collections. Source: I do it all the time.
> a coordinated agenda

... of making me have empathy with sentient beings suffering? Joke's on them, I already had that.
> Hospitals can veto any building plans of a hospital near them. This is to “keep the current hospital profitable”

wow that is absolutely wild and maybe one the most transparent profits over people i've heard of
Imagine monkeys on meth and you basically have the school environment.
They are a surprise. They’re variable length and appear at random moments. Their volume can greatly differ from the content you are watching. No thanks.

The proposed alternative is Google can continue to bankroll it. They are not hurting for money.
Yes, that's what dynamic means in a frontend dev context. This is a typesetting and document layout context.
In the US people gripe about prescription costs but the hospitals are the real villains. Especially if you look at what an uninsured patient would pay.

I recently had a planned, non-emergency outpatient procedure that did not involve any incisions, nor medications, lasted about 2-3 hours. Hospital billed $100K, insurance negotiated to about $20K. The actual doctor only got $2-3K.

Makes me wonder why doctors don’t build their own hospitals…
Ha! I was thinking more "a drawing language" like the one in the Show HN post. So cool!

I was wondering if there are other languages like these, and a measure analogous to Turing completeness, but for "canvas completeness" for drawing any bitmap on a canvas! :)
My belief that part of the depth of Trauma compared to WWII and Korea was the rotation system as used, vs demob as a unit.

To expand on this, in Vietnam, individual soldiers were rotated in and out based on time in country, in WWII, units rotated as a unit, with replacements added during the rotation.

The fact that it took weeks or months to repatriate people back to CONUS after WWII, gave time for people to process their experiences with their brother in arms.
Do you want anyone to be able to create their own pharmaceuticals?
There are more people on HN than there were people in their entire civilization, so, yes.
I use this and it is mostly fine. Absolutely better than ddg, which I used before this was launched.
I think breaking the hold of the AMA on things like residency slots that has caused physician shortages. Increasing supply should eventually have an effect on wages.

We could also move to 5 or 6 year degrees for doctors, like Ireland, instead of 4+4 schemes.

We can do more targeted immigration for doctors.

We can continue to expand the activities that can be done by non-doctors.

We can massively reduce the number of things that require a prescription.
I was mainly trying to point out that the mathematical term "computation" is not limited to deterministic computers. Since the GP was mentioning computable functions as something requiring determinism, I believe they were also talking more about the mathematical notion of computation rather than physical computers.

I should also note that our computers can very much solve NP-complete problems. They can't implement NP-complete algorithms to solve them, but all NP problems can be solved by a deterministic computer or a quantum computer - it just takes [much] more compute time (assuming P != NP, otherwise it may even take the same time).

This is very relevant to this discussion, because in fact it is well known and proven that the non-determinism in the NP model does not give any amount of extra computational power beyond a Turing machine. That is, a non-determinstic Turing machine can solve exactly the same set of problems as a deterministic Turing machine (but, as far as it is known today, faster). The same is true of Quantum computers.

Hyper-computation refers to even more fanciful mathematical models which are actually able to solve problems that a Turing machine can't solve, even with infinite time. They involve things like performing an infinite amount of Turing machine steps in one Hyper-Turing machine step, or having access to an oracle which tells you if a computation halts etc.
Making LLaMA See and Draw with Seed Tokenizer
> Ages ago, I worked at a school for boys, and one could pretty much map negative trats of the parents to corresponding unsocial behaviours on the part of the child.

My parents were both teachers, and it was a very commonly held belief among teachers that you could predict a kid's academic outcome reasonably well by simply learning about their parent(s) behaviors and home life. Kids' academic achievement has little to do with the quality of schools, quality of teachers, wealth or poverty of the area, but has everything to do with the positive and negative traits of their parents.
Vertical integration helps reduce the double margin problem. Instead of each middleman needing their own profit margin, a vertically integrated company can earn e.g. 5% on the entire operation. Of course this assumes the new market power is not abused to increase prices more than they would have increased without the vertical integration, or results in damaged choice and quality.

Something like Kaiser is closer to the solution if we don’t have a government led rationalization.
Talking about "public" and "in-state" is not the point.

College is mostly about the private institutions at a national level. That's where people would like to go.
> and I can guarantee any significant refactoring will introduce a regression

Refactoring suffers from having almost no meaning. I would interpret what you are saying as re-architecture and/or update of system design. That is what most people mean by refactoring today. The article laments that people skip the part of "make it clean" in the "make it work, make it clean, make it fast, in that order"

In theory refactoring is a safe activity to do because you are only updating something that has a defined API which is tested.

> Except that isn't even remotely true.

This is hyperbole. How long before a system is actually fully and truly battle tested? 1 month, 1 year, 5 years? I'm making up numbers; but you could think of it in terms of iterations and code paths. How many executions of a block of logic before you start to trust it more? The passage of time adds more certainty because conditions vary over time. Without any testing, that production release is going to be iteration number one in the journey of battle testing that updated (which can be called re-written) code. All I'm saying is running that code through a battery of tests fast-forwards (some) of that battle testing time.

As an analogy, car tires - testing is like running a car tire for a few thousand miles before giving it to the customer. When getting a new one (ie: any update to the code at all), the customer is not getting a new tire with zero miles on it, where perhaps the rubber is bad and that would have been discovered easily after about 10 miles. That car tire might still have issues after 20k miles that are abnormal, but nonetheless the testing released a car tire that had more confidence compared to one with no testing at all.

I think my favorite analogy would be more RPG & DnD like games. Testing is like having your resurrected characters start at level 3 instead of level 1. Are they level 9? No, but at the same time it's far better than starting at scratch every time. Every time any modification is done to the code, you don't have to start back at level 1 on your journey to get back to battle tested.
Helps to have some money too. I could just about afford to get some PCBs made for some RF work but ain't no way I was getting mum and dad to buy me my own electron microscope (or move house to have space)
They are adding a second redirect on top and sticking it into the state parameter, presumably so they can redirect to anywhere.
so the flow wanted was

Go the some harvest authorize url,

That redirects to the Microsoft authorize url with redirect_uri=registered_uri and state=some_encoded_final_uri,

user enters credentials,

redirect to a registered uri

read state parameter and redirect to uri encoded in state.

This exploit still redirect to an authorized uri, but that endpoint then reads the the state parameter and happily forwards the response/token.

3 mistakes in this, abusing state, not encypting and validing state if you are going to abuse it. Enabling implicit grant(even if they needed it, should have made a second registration with limited uses).
No, it really is.

Consider a sealed room with an experimenter looking at a box with Schrödinger's famous cat in it. The question we usually ask is whether the cat is alive, dead, or in a superposition before the box is opened.

Schrödinger's famous equation predicts that if the cat itself can be described by quantum mechanics, then it must be in a superposition. If the experimenter can be described by quantum mechanics as well, then the experimenter must also go into a superposition upon opening the cat's box. And, thanks to thermodynamics, there is no experiment that is doable by the experimenter from which the existence of collapse can be demonstrated.

Therefore the claim that there is a collapse at all is an entirely unnecessary hypotheses. All other interpretations of QM have to invent explanations for an event (collapse) that no experimental evidence exists for.
Where do you guys come up with this stuff? When I was a teen in Appalachia, I butchered dozens of chickens a day, by hand, during canning season.
I've been watching Dave's garage for a while now and really love it. The combination of new projects and "war stories" as well as his personality ticks all the boxes for me.
You just need to exclude immigrants from social benefits.
This has been the situation my entire adult life; I've never understood why American Exceptionalism means that we seem to get screwed on healthcare (and seemingly just about everything else), but I think I've more or less come to accept it, and mostly I just try and avoid the medical system.
It would fix some of it.

But when you need emergency in-person medical care, or even not-so-emergency ongoing care for chronic conditions, it is generally not an option to visit another country for that.
> It is this complete lack of variance, this flattening of detail into a homogeneous soup, that is the most notable characteristic, and limitation, of these models.

And yet when hands came back with beautiful variations in finger count, people were unhappy.
Thanks. I didn't mean that it affects the score, but I know I'm more likely to click into a post/discussion if there's already a comment there.

I was trying to think of what would be a good stock format of response that would be constructive. A good one is to say that it's an interesting topic and this other link has good details on the topic. Maybe identifying shortcomings in the post such as writing, poor logic, or posed facts if sufficiently bad to warrant it.
Probably, just not a triumph for everybody else.
The OP article provides clear evidence that for-profit companies is not limited to Pharma:

> ...insurers, chemists, drug distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combined revenue of the nine biggest middlemen—call them big health—equated to nearly 45% of America’s health-care bill, up from 25% in 2013. Big health accounts for eight of the top 25 companies by revenue in the S&P 500 index of America’s leading stocks, compared with four for big tech and none for big pharma.

It goes on to detail their profit relative to the S&P as well.
The Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06602-7, and

A corresponding "News and Views" piece: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03101-7
My least favorite part of this site is all political posts that get upvoted like crazy when they have nothing to do with technology or really anything in the field
I've seen this pattern again and again where if something is not a luxury but a necessity then rampant capitalism sees an opportunity to absolutely wring money out of people.
It may well not be holding on to it. The text may just be in freed heap memory space that hasn't been overwritten yet.

Memory pages allocated to the firefox process typically stay as part of its working set, so they get dumped along with everything else.
Man's search for meaning
I do not believe that the comment above is about the effectiveness, but merely stating facts here. University "sticker prices" are often inflated to maintain prestige and very often supplemented with grants and financial aid based on income. Opaque pricing is never a good thing, but there are two sides this story.
Calamares and Arch (Derivatives)
Many thousands of people do it every year, and just a few experience pick pocketing or a vehicle smash and grab.

If you're smart, don't drive at night and don't go looking for trouble, there's no reason to think you'll have problems.

After driving the Pan-Am I drove right around Africa through 35 countries. Never had a single "bad" moment, never heard a single gunshot. I was in LA a couple of months ago, heard gunshots.
Don't use the [[likely]] or [[unlikely]] attributes
We’ve got such range as a species. Yesterday I read about a 99 year old walking up 1776 stairs of the CN Tower. I’d probably require medevac if I tried that.
Note: some have pointed out I went by weight while the article went by revenue. I don’t have a Bloomberg so can’t update this comment with ranking by revenue).

I have loved the Economist for 40 years but you have to check things sometimes:

> Big health accounts for eight of the top 25 companies by revenue in the s&p 500 index of America’s leading stocks, compared with four for big tech and none for big pharma.

Actually tech constitute 9 of the top 25 and pharma four, while of the parasitic rentiers discusssed in the article, only one, United Health, makes the list (https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/find-stocks-in-s...):

Apple (AAPL): 7.05%
Microsoft (MSFT): 6.54%
Amazon (AMZN): 3.24%
NVIDIA (NVDA): 2.79%
Alphabet Class A (GOOGL): 2.13%
Tesla (TSLA): 1.95%
Alphabet Class C (GOOG): 1.83%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B): 1.83%
Meta (META), formerly Facebook, Class A: 1.81%
UnitedHealth Group (UNH): 1.28%
Exxon Mobil (XOM): 1.27%
Eli Lilly (LLY): 1.21%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM): 1.18%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): 1.07%
Visa Class A (V): 1.05%
Procter & Gamble (PG): 0.99%
Mastercard Class A (MA): 0.93%
Broadcom (AVGO): 0.92%
Home Depot (HD): 0.85%
Chevron Corporation (CVX): 0.81%
Merck (MRK): 0.75%
AbbVie (ABBV): 0.75%
Costco (COST): 0.67%
PepsiCo (PEP): 0.67%
Adobe (ADBE): 0.65%10
Not just mobile, it's doing the same thing on my 30" desktop monitor
https://archive.ph/feKCr
> there aren't business owners that get the surplus the business generates

You don't have to be a sole proprietor for those at the top to take a ridiculous level of compensation.

> Nonprofit hospitals are under increasing scrutiny for skimping on charity care, relentlessly pursuing payments from low-income patients, and paying executives massive multi-million-dollar salaries—all while earning tax breaks totaling billions.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/nonprofit-hospitals-s...
Register. The Economist’s paywall is generous w free articles.
Allowing the query string to be altered is allowed but discouraged by the OAuth 2.0 spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-3.1.2....
I am playing devil’s advocate. Incentives definitely matter. I am tired of anti-vaccine scams being peddled. A few years ago I noticed a sign of regulatory capture in Scott Gottlieb, Pfizer board member, who went to the media often about the Covid vaccine. He was previously FDA commissioner.

I once read of a school board member who held Pfizer shares and recused themselves from a vote on whether to nor to require it to attend class.
Stuff like this leaves me wondering...is that bad?

I mean it's bad from an honesty and ethics standpoint, but is what JP is doing honest and ethical? And the enemy of my enemy is my friend?

The world is complicated
I guess an obvious question is can this technique be used to replace eg the LHC?
the question might be the other way around. #1 What You want to be? (now, but do reevaluate later ~1year into it) The tech guy? The people guy? The <other aspect123> guy? Be mostly that one, keep other stuff more-or-less afloat, and when/if that work gets too much/critical, hire other people for other 2++ aspects.

But there is another question which is harder to answer: #2 What do they/others CXO want you to be? Because this can be/become obstacle to #1. And, in some cases, it's CTO without the C. Just some tech guy who is told what needs be done, runs bragging-shows and is never told the "why's" about business.

Here few links i've bookmarked on the topic "WTF is a CTO"..

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/09/what-does-start...

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/07/the_different_c...

and also the book Manager's Path by Camille Fournier.

have fun
You argument only holds true for insurance.

Europe arguably has more competition in the healthcare manufacturing and labor sectors than the US.

Europe has the same pharma and device companies. Im not aware of any country that has price controls.

What Europe has is purchasing controls. If something is too expensive, the national insurance plans simply dont buy it and dont provide it.

This is what the US lacks.
PGO is not a silver bullet. If you've identified a problem that can be solved by a simple static hint you should do that. I agree littering your code with likely/unlikely will probably make things worse, so it's best to save them for those exceptional cases where you know it will make an improvement.
> Talking about "public" and "in-state" is not the point.

I think the point is about access to higher education.

> College is mostly about the private institutions at a national level. That's where people would like to go.

Where people would "like to go" is highly subjective, and the statistics would wildly disagree with your statement on where people actually go.
In the long term, yes. But shouldn't we have some compassion for those who get screwed in the short term? The horseshoe makers who were thrown out of work at the time may not have been able to find decent new employment. We have copious modern-day examples of jobs that have been obsoleted and those who were immediately affected still haven't been able to recover.

These sorts of labor shifts can't avoid harming those who get the short end of the stick.

Saying this is not to say that such changes shouldn't happen. It's inevitable and necessary in order for society to adapt to changing conditions. But I very often see a disregard for the reality that people really do get hurt badly in these shifts.
From experience working at big tech I’m willing to take a guess.

Maybe a couple of dozens will be actual more complex and meaningful services. Then few dozens more services that are somewhat more unique.

And then majority of the long tail will be mostly cookie cutter services, doing X, but for lots of different use cases, where each of use cases is separate deployment counting as a service (for example - systems to process streams of logs related to business logic).
Nghttp3 v1.0.0 – HTTP/3 library written in C
He talked about not having a marriage and you misread it as not having a partner. That's a pretty severe misunderstanding and I'm very curious what caused it.
It's from a novel, I think. It reflects battle results of legions against barbarians. One on one, the barbarians could win. A formed legion could take on a larger group of barbarians and win. See Gallic Wars.

Google's coverage of books is worse than it used to be. Search results from old books don't come up much any more.
It's a similar structural problem in real estate. There are lots of perverse incentives that make it very resistant to solutions.
Once again, you focus solely on performance. This is why I don't believe you care about correctness.

But to answer your question, because the malicious compiler doubled the work I had to go to get to this point. Or worse. Maybe it increased the work by an order of magnitude.

In addition, the checks are what prevent UB, especially the kind where you claim that any pointer anywhere can mess up everything. It's not UB if the behavior is defined as a crash before anything bad happens.

And to answer your complaint that I'm leaving performance on the table, so what? Sure, I'm "messing" with speculation (though not by much because I tell the compiler that the error branch is unlikely to be taken), but Spectre and Meltdown showed that maybe speculation was a bad thing.

By the way, in my bc, I actually turn a lot of checks off, the checks for which I am 10 9's sure there aren't problems.

Not an exaggeration, by the way; I've run my bc under a fuzzer for probably 50 billion executions or more. And every single one of the paths were fixed until they came out clean in the sanitizers and Valgrind.

Even across the entire world, I doubt my bc has run 50 billion unique executions; most of the time, people run it on the same scripts with similar data, over and over.

In my other project, I don't turn off checks because it hasn't seen that level of testing.

That's why I said you could attack bc; checks will actually be off. Make sure you do it in release mode, though if you get an assert to trigger in debug mode first, that same input should also cause UB in release mode.

Have fun. I'm done. Contact my through my bio if you succeed.
Most medical decisions are not shopped. It has nothing to do with competition. Quality of care is first and foremost for me. I want to live costs be damned. Only rarely will cost come into it as a decision for me. Only on things I don't need. This is for both emergency and non-emergency care. I don't know of anyone who seriously and consistently looks at costs when making medical decisions. I usually have higher priorities.
Been doing it for a decade. It’s a huge business. Had one shipment seized by Customs. It was promptly replaced, at no cost to me, by the UK source.
> the immune system can’t forget a target

This recent study has developed an “inverse vaccine” for multiple sclerosis that apparently can make the immune system forget stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528816
Wondrous. Now I know why my premiums keep going up.

The money’s gonna come from somewhere, dude.
Is it because the person is saying the thing we're not supposed to say in these times?
Four Decades: From SuperMemo 1.0 to SuperMemo 19.0
It’s also not the nordic light bridge that connects the realms together
I work for a SaaS company that provides software to doctors, so it seems somewhat relevant? To answer the question of the article, I don't think it's us; we do OK, but I'm not exactly rolling in dough, and I don't think my bosses are either based on their lifestyles.
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This was true until the Nixon administration, which not coincidentally is when the cost structure began to skyrocket.
I once got fired because i upgraded a company's wifi network from a single apple wifi bridge (the residential one!) to a managed linksys or netgear deployment, and there was a bug in the firmware. I don't recall the bug, but it made the chief lawyer's apple laptop drop connectivity to their printer or something a few times the first day. I opened a support ticket, and got confirmation of the bug - at around 8PM, forwarded the email to my boss, and was fired the next afternoon.

what a crap company. They folded within 4 months IIRC, and listed me as the "financial contact" for the fiber optic internet links - got a bunch of nasty phone calls later in the year about needing to pay 5 digits in billing arrears!
I suspect the high cost of health care, education, and housing are all caused by the same thing: the enormous amount of third party money involved. People are willing to pay a lot more for a monthly payment over time than they are willing to pay in cash.