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Juniper (YC W21) | Senior Software Engineer | NYC | Full-time | juniperplatform.com

Juniper operates at the messy financial infrastructure layer for US Healthcare. We’ve built an end-to-end insurance billing system for recurring care, starting with Autism clinics.

Healthcare in the United States runs on private and public insurance billing, but providers spend huge amounts of time on faxes, phone calls, and error-prone legacy systems to get paid. That’s not why they got into care.

What’s worse, these systems aren’t hugely successful—clinics regularly get back 80% what they know the insurance company should pay. Those missing dollars could be used to hire more care providers to help more kids, but instead line insurance companies’ pockets.

We’re changing that.

At Juniper, we’ve built an end-to-end billing system. It starts with ingesting from a clinic’s EHR, then create, validates, and submits claims to insurance providers across the country. If claims need corrections or appeals, most of the time we can handle those automatically or our CX and Operations team use our in-house internal tools. We also handle patient invoicing for co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles (we never send anything to collections.)

Our typical paid rate is above 95%.

We are a team of 25 with strong product market fit—we’ve had to push out onboardings because engineering can’t build quickly enough.

You’ll be working with an engineering leadership team from AWS and Stripe to get doctors and clinicians back to work helping kids.

Email me at chris@juniperplatform.com
Sucks that Poland did not include itself in these
From Apple's perspective Vision Pro is going to be the next Mac.

So they do believe they will ship enough units over the next few decades.

As for capex, Apple claims 5000 patents cover the Vision Pro so it must be unprecedented for them.
Reading about his 8-ish hour stint at post-Musk-acquisition Twitter was really funny.
Mostly because China's leadership is getting totalitarian, corrupt, ineffective, and warlike ... I've seen projections on some combo of all of the above, but really none that are even "everythings fine!" except those that have tinges of totalitarian psychology.

China isn't that cheap anymore either. They have machine tooling and economies of scale.

The US is basically in a cold war with China since they are now the principle global rival.

China's population is set to decline by a massive amount from one child policy. This combined with other supposed economic boondoggles will collapse the system.

The world learned that ultra extended supply lines aren't a good thing in COVID, and the world just seems to be going to a more chaotic era with likely lots of wars over resources, population displacement from global warming, and lots of other not-fun stuff.

Finally, the United States is becoming more isolationist. With the shrinking geopolitical importance of oil, the US might stop enforcing Pax Americana on the high seas. The primary function of the navy was to secure petroleum, and now with EVs, alt energy, and the Bakken Shale we don't need to do that for us, or the rest of the world.

So... take your pick
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Even if this particular research doesn't lead to any life expectancy improvements directly, it can still further our understanding of the mechanisms involved, and possibly lead to effective interventions when coupled with future studies.
In general, how is the initial alignment performed?

Is there rough pointing, followed by some rastering, until the sensor gets a hit? Maybe with some slight beam widening first? My assumption is that you would want exactly one laser, one sensor module, and probably a fixed lens on each? Is the sensor something like a 2x2 array, or pie with three pieces, to allow alignment? Or is it one big sensor that uses perturb and observe type approach to find the middle?

Also, is there anything special about the wavelengths selected? Are the lasers fit to one of the Fraunhofer lines? 760nm seems like a good choice?
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We are an early stage health tech company using AI to improve hospital revenue cycle (making healthcare costs lower and allowing doctors to focus on patient care). The team is small but high functioning (MD + data scientist combos, former ASF board member, Google and Amazon engineers, Stanford LLM researchers, etc.) and initially scaled the company to $1MM+ in contracted revenue without raising capital.

We have been backed by top investors including Floodgate (Lyft, Twitch, Twitter), Bessemer, and are currently on pace to 30X in revenue over a two-year time period.

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Old inspect features are still available without paying, although they were moved in the UI to make space: https://www.loom.com/share/d4f9856c04f24818913d1de8ecb2a08c
Ok, don’t believe there’s full encryption because it changes often and better to let the community experts handle. (Besides the ancient crypt module.)

But the recent secrets module might have some building blocks you could use.

This whole thread reminds me of a Hollywood sequel—need to spend ten minutes regurgitating the backstory to an audience who maybe saw the movie two years ago.
A simple majority is 50% + 1. This is a specific, mathematical term with no debate.

A supermajority is usually 66% (can be 60% or 75%, etc: more than a simple majority anyway). The exact value is context-dependent, but the concept is commonly defined, and the range is broadly represented.

So I think, in my mind, a "vast" majority would be something like 90%, perhaps as low as 85%. But it's not a defined term.

I don't think it needs to be 98% or 99% (I'd describe that as "basically everyone").
Holy cow that’s at least a billion in lawyer salaries.
> It will not attempt the riskiest attack scenarios

What does that mean exactly?

Do you manually assess what is risky for a particular API, or is it up to the system to choose?

If it's up to it, what happens if it thinks that's not risky to delete user data?
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Simulations show how HIV sneaks into the nucleus of the cell
That's a good point. By the same logic, actually, counterfeiting currency wouldn't be a crime either, as the scarcity is artificially sustained by the government, but the consequence of everyone being able to print their own currency is that cash would become worthless.
I did a code golf competition in college once where we could pick whatever language we wanted per problem. One problem was to format a number as a Roman numeral, and of course I won that one by just calling the built in Lisp function. Good times.
When people describe DNA as PII, I don't think they imagine being involuntarily cloned (yet..), I think they're imagining heritable conditions becoming public information through data leaks.

People have a right to privacy from imprecise yet correct information about themselves. Someone wouldn't want to explain an abusive parent to a prospective employer, but they could see a strong tendency to, schizophrenia, with DNA data leaks.
> if you think simulation theory only applies to YOU

Is there any reason to think otherwise (if one believes in simulation in the first place)? Why simulate the whole universe, when it is sufficient to simulate just one's internal state? Doesn't even require to simulate the high-definition sensory perception, only the mind's latent space — which surely is way more compact. Occam's razor.

Ah, and it is totally not required to simulate your internal state at every moment at all times. It could be just one single moment that captures the feeling of continuity, and then you disappear to the void, but you never realize. See "Boltzmann brains" (again, it is not required to simulate the actual wetware on atomic level, just the compact internal state of the mind).
It's not human effort and will. Some people have genetics that give them an advantage. The idea that the only difference between the 1st and 2nd place is effort is so naive it's childish.

Or do you think that in swimming, it's all the 6'5 guys with broad shoulders that have all the effort and will, but in the marathon it's all the 70kg guys that have the effort and will?
I also count at least 8 acquisitions just for Vision Pro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

So definitely a lot of lawyers.
Not much of a take.

* Thinks string theory is wrong (in good company but doesn't prove anything).

* Seen lots of previous attempts to make testable predictions that didn't pan out (says nothing about this attempt).

* Thinks nobody should write articles about new ideas they don't agree with (completely indefensible).

Point me to some useful analysis, not just a rant from someone who doesn't like string theory.

I personally found the article interesting. The theory is probably not correct, but so what? We will know more when we test gravity at smaller scales, which we are doing to do anyway.
I doubt the revenue after cost of goods is much more than $1000 each with how expensive the displays and chips are.
How does that differ from the ISO handwave?
I think labeling Apple Watch as “mid” is a bit of an understatement.
My sister had one of those "blank autopsies." Otherwise healthy 29-year-old women just don't normally experience sudden cardiac death, even when they are 8 months pregnant.

The medical examiner's report even said that since the cause of the sudden cardiac death could not be determined, any of her siblings or offspring (me and our brother; her son didn't recover brain activity after being without oxygen for an hour before they could do the C-section) receive a full cardiac workup and look into testing for any lethal heritable cardiac channelopathies.

Neither of us found anybody who would do a broad-scale genetic test on the basis of the report, but we both saw cardiologists who confirmed our hearts are apparently fine.

It's much too late now to take her blood (she passed away six years ago), but I thought the lab had retained some of it for later testing. It's probably one of those things that'll just stay a mystery, but I'm glad fewer people will have to wonder.
Even if they use in-house counsel? I would assume having salaried lawyers lowers the cost of registering that many patents at least a little, but I suppose it could also end up still being $1B.
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Agreed. I'll settle for good commit hygiene over good commit messages.

It often seems a tough ask to have both
>Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago

1GB flash drives are still 1GB today.

>256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)

If we're completely changing what we're using for scale, you can fit a petabyte on ~10 100TB drives, which is like 3% the length of an olympic swimming pool.
> Should a cyrillic `а` and a latin `a` have the same code point?

Yes. Consider a book. Can you tell if it's a cyrillic or a latin `a`? Of course you can, because of the context. Unicode is about visible text, having hidden semantic meaning makes it something else.

Besides, 'a' can have all kinds of semantic meanings - all depending on the context in which they are used. There is no way to encode all this into Unicode.

> If they did then there's no consistent way to group those two alphabets

Doesn't matter.

> And what happens if the shapes of those two characters divege over time?

If it actually looks different, then it becomes a different code point.

> There are characters in Chinese and Japanese that share a code point but the shapes of the characters aren't the same in the two languages

More evidence that the Unicode committee lost its way.

Think of it this way. Printing Unicode text on a piece of paper, and then OCRing it back into Unicode, should be a lossless operation. Or another way - anyone should be able to tell what the code point value is by looking at the visual representation of it.
Alphora was supposed to be really nice to use and a definite improvement on SQL. It didn't have market share so it never got more market share, that's why it failed and not for technical inferiority.

> The few products that have attempted to implement TTM's ideas are 'hobby products' developed and supported by cranky, strongly opinionated and difficult to deal with individuals

Do you actually know anything about the TTM? Can you point to some of these products other than Alphora? (I've looked at them and their just research projects/personal projects IIRC). Do you think the SQL is the pinnacle of RDBMS languages? Cos it bloody well isn't.
https://archive.ph/XMmoF
So I randomly decided to patch the YouTube app for Windows Phone
I think channelopathies are an exception to that general rule, so it would depend how specific the issue is that they're identifying.
It’s a fair concern, but there really isn’t so much there. If they compromise my trello account then they know I have some meetings coming up with people, and that I’m starting on ticket 927109 and planning to deploy ticket 901223 on Tuesday. Just referencing items in our ticket management system with very sparse details.

My notes are text files on the computer, so we’d have problems regardless if they got that. But maybe I should’ve left it out of the list above in that case… nothing else seems very damning.

But you do raise a valid concern, and it’s worth reevaluating!
Maybe the parent post is exaggerating a bit, but I think that at least it is fair to say that most good programmers began programming just for fun. And when managed well and presented with interesting problems, they will become highly productive and self-driven.
These would make great visual unit tests. There was a post earlier today about a library for the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205725
You're bending over backwards to prove a point that's not there, but I don't care enough to go in circles forever.
To me, it seems really obvious that the current Vision Pro is step 1 in a plan that extends out for at least 10 or 15 years of iteration, until they finally arrive at the "Apple Glasses" that are a practical replacement for phones for a noticeable percentage of people.
But virtually every diff is one that someone in the future might want more information on. You can't know that they won't until you get to the end of the future and haven't needed it.
Love the callout to this in 'Other': https://xkcd.com/221/
Nobody can make someone else motivated.

You can put someone in a situation where they can motivate themselves, but you personally can’t make anyone motivated to do anything.

If you disagree, think about this:

Would you bet your life that if you offered me $1,000,000 to work at Burger King for a year that I’d be motivated to take the offer? What about paying me $1,000,000,000 to sit on a beach for a year? Or maybe just a weekend?
Apple News+, AppleTV+, Apple Fitness, Apple Arcade.
I’m still waiting for my Knowledge Navigator: https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0?si=8q1W3ue40Kw_HRN0
> I imagine searching "place to hangout downtown that is vegan and dog friendly" is not going to return the results you're hoping for.

I tried and it did.

‘Downtown vegan dog-friendly’ works just as well, of course.
The AI is based on Alpha Zero and developed by Keldon Jones (known for the nn Race for the Galaxy AI).

I worked on the game, happy to answer any questions!
While I agree that you want to be wary of any particular claims, and more study is warranted to establish the effectiveness of any particular intervention based on data, there’s a Bayesian justification to looking at otherwise unexplained deaths. “When you have eliminated the impossible, all that remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
Big tech killed the internet – blockchain can help revive it
https://archive.is/Fsa2X
me actually
We go through... a lot of eggs in this house, and I have other uses for waxes as well (such as waterproofing, candlemaking, and sealing wine bottles). This is genius, I'm stealing it.

...or so I'd like to say, practically speaking the minimal prep work of "grease a wadge of paper towel and spark it" is more realistic for my degree of laziness.
I don’t think most programmers code for fun in their free time. I do and know quite some who also do code for fun but still….

Story points and sprints are there to save you from people who would otherwise come to you and ask for changes or shift priorities on daily basis.

You don’t care about story points but with them you can say “I am busy with this 8 pt story will pick next when I am done” instead of having some pointy haired boss insisting to do something else each day and after a month yelling at you “why nothing is finished”.
I think we agree then?
Space firsts: Metal 3D printer and surgical robot on their way to the ISS
> beware of modelling a domain so tightly that you leave some of it unmodelled (cough email-address validation regexes).

In many cases the only feasible way to model the domain with types is to cut the scope as much as possible.
We do need motivation from good managers, which can only be effective after the C-suite stops kneecapping the "safety" hierarchy near the bottom.

You can't talk about Maslows Heirarchy and how "[middle managers] are the ones best positioned to both understand the needs of individuals and motivate those individuals based on that understanding" without spending a LOT more time acknowledging that middle managers can't do shit in the face of corporate leadership across the entire industry behaving like erratic parents that are traumatizing the masses. We have witnessed nearly all the companies we all work for go on huge hiring and then firing sprees. It's like giving someone a house and then burning down 1/4 of it to save money. Sure there's less upkeep, but did you folks really think no one might find that a little... traumatic?
I use starlink, it works pretty well, as good as cable. Not garbage.

I've ridden in Teslas. Some likes, but holy shit that drivetrain. Not garbage.

You however, have been consuming garbage media. Hint: if every other day (ahem Gawker sites) there is an outrageous anti-Musk headline or "crazy thing Musk said" headline, your media source is total garbage.

Is he a "good guy"? No. Is he "the worse thing ever?" No. What does it matter what he says or does? Nothing. Yet he is living in seemingly millions of people's brains as the sum factor of dozens of PR and advertising campaigns, in addition to the general anti-intellectualism of America.

Anyway, Starlink is a transformative data provider service that blankets virtually the entire world in broadband class connectivity, including massive amounts of third world countries and other areas.

Calling it garbage is dumb.
Rust still has some key pieces missing, but looks promising, see: https://github.com/wiseaidev/rust-data-analysis

F# has a very decent data community: https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science and https://fslab.org

And obviously Julia is also something to consider. It depends on the compromises you want to make and what you define as data analytics.
Don’t you dare open that window!
The iPhone was an obvious win for people who wanted an Apple phone. There were many critics who thought the iPhone was over priced and lacking features. Steve Ballmer was famously in that group.
> It took time to arrange the bits in such a way that you desired to copy them.

Correct. It's that labor which is valuable. The labor of creation, of finding that interesting unique number in the sea of infinity. That's valuable.

Well at least it used to be anyway. AI is proving itself quite adept at finding interesting numbers.

> it's counterfeiting

No, it's copyright infringement. That's what they call it anyway. I don't consider it worse than literally anything. I consider it natural. People do it without even realizing that they're doing it. Every single day. At massive scales.

> the original work is devalued over time, because as the counterfeit becomes more widespread, the value approaches $0.

It doesn't approach zero, it is zero. It always was zero. Once created, information is infinitely copyable, it is infinitely abundant, supply is infinite.

That's the reason why they had to create an artificial scarcity system on top of it. Because it's not actually real.

It's this copyright nonsense that allowed people to delude themselves into thinking numbers could bought and sold. Maybe that was true once in the age of the printing press. It's not true in the 21st century, the age of information and globally networked pocket supercomputers. Copyright was over the second computers were invented.

It's time to let go. Creators need to find alternative business models where they get paid before the act of creating for the act of creating. Because it's that labor which is scarce and valuable. The end result is not.
No but it increases the risk of a suicide attempt and it's lethality. The link between homicide and guns is small and nebulous, the link between guns and suicide is clear and much stronger.
Would you say that Wayfair is a tech company, and why?
Jon Brower Minnoch (638 kg) breaks this program. If a hardcoded constraint is going to go into a program, it's basically necessary to do a bunch of expensive research on what it should be. It's much cheaper to just let the numbers be unless there's a pressing need.
Worse, PR tools like Azure DevOps (and GitHub?) don't do a good job of displaying the information.

Just a big diff.

I often get asked about the reason for a change in a review comment, even when there's a thorough description in the backing commit.

It's sad. I would prefer PRs over email like Git does
The answer here is to have dumb types to store the data in, smarter domain types correct by construction, and only write business logic on the domain types.