skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't make sense to me. Why wouldn't maximizing denials always be the priority for an insurance company? If you make denials slower, it will just slow down all cases.

Insurance is fundamentally incentivized to scam its own customers. We need to add more regulation/oversight to reduce situations where management can play tricks to tip the balance in their favor. It's an arms race.

The article was mostly about optimizing medical director "productivity levels", but it also mentioned that they outsourced to nurses in the Philippines who were doing a really bad job. Is there any oversight there? Are the nurses being incentivized to maximize denials? It'd be interesting to see how their productivity measurements are calculated too.

Of course nothing is going to change (because of something to do with "socialism" I bet), but at least now I know to avoid Cigna.
EMP: The FACTS You NEED to Know! (Full 80-Min Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHoOH8_t9Ww

Solar CMEs correspond to EMP pulse 3. CMEs can occur at any time during the solar cycle. You may get 1-2 hours warning, but authorities may be scared of crying wolf.

It will last for hours. It may affect the night-side of the Earth. Higher latitudes are more at risk. It consists of low frequency pulses, affecting long conductors (miles) and their connected equipment (transformers).

It will probably not affect your phone, laptop, car, kitchen ... unless your home devices are plugged into the mains, and the fuses/surge-protectors cannot cope (unlikely). Hint: buy a Siemens surge protector.

If your domestic solar/wind/diesel generators survive, only use them to keep your food freezer working, almost nothing else matters when grid & internet are down. Your neighbors, or less charitable types, may notice lights.

The mains power will likely be off for weeks, maybe months. Some emergency aid may be available (water, food, basic medical), depending on preparedness of your local authorities and military, but don't be surprised if some/most/all civil authority collapses (e.g. police go home to help their families). Some hospitals may have generators and fuel for days, up to a week.

Mad Max scenario only happens if power is not restored within 2-4 weeks. Emergency aid will depend on how the damage is distributed across the locality or country. If everything is down, fend for yourself. If it is localized, you might get some help, but .... remember Katrina in New Orleans ... don't hold your breath and hope.
What’s the context for “Do Not Install”?
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Can you point to any kind of write-up (or video or audio) from an expert on security who has examined Flatpak?

I always though that Flatpak's security properties rely on Linux container tech and that it is pretty easy for an attacker to break out of a Linux container (which is why Qubes uses VMs and why public cloud providers use VMs).
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I think what's happening today is almost all #2, but I'd argue it's not really that language is evolving, but just that people are continuously making mistakes, and somehow correcting them has become this weird taboo. You're a pedant or "grammar Nazi" for pointing out incorrect usage and grammar, so nobody learns and people keep making the same mistakes again and again.

Language evolves, but it evolves very slowly. Middle English didn't just turn into Modern English in a year, it happened over hundreds of years. What we're seeing today is probably noise due to a (hopefully temporary) illiteracy and education problem. If the language is really evolving such that "literally" turns into its opposite, we won't know this for decades.
Seems sort of irrelevant if one is already a touch typist.

Personally, I find labeled keycaps pleasant for a few reasons: One is that I have a glowy keyboard, which is aesthetically enjoyable to me (or I wouldn't have one), and it wouldn't be as much fun if the LEDs were just shining up through identical dots.

Also, I find it useful to re-register my fingers. I added Braille dots to all the alphabetic keys, so I can also do this by touch, but a quick glance down also does the trick. For whatever reason, checking that my pinky will hit p is the most common case here.

Last, I find it helpful with chords, especially when I add a new one to the firmware. Layers as well. I do intend to converge on what my other two layers do, but there's been some churn, and it's easier to remember what a key does on a particular layer when it has a distinct symbol. Modified key commands which I frequently use are part of the muscle memory, but when I'm adding a new command to the repertoire, precisely where the key finger needs to go once the modifying finger has hit command/control/meta isn't kinesthetically obvious at first.

Note that this is from a baseline of touch typing, so I naturally stop double-checking things once I've done them enough. If you don't touch type, do yourself a huge favor and learn. Some people find blank keycaps helpful here, especially if they have many years of whatever ad-hoc system they use to type with.

Some people aesthetically prefer no keycaps as well. Also functionally: it's just easier for them to think about a key geometrically rather than symbolically. I don't think there's a one-for-all answer on this.
> This is partly due to the spread of cheap and extremely potent synthetic cannabinoids that can cause serious neurological and cardiovascular complications—and deaths—every year.

Source on this claim? What are the current synthetics? 'Nobody' smokes synthetics and people don't even want to smoke semi synthetic hemp (like delta 8), jwh018 hasn't been a problem for nearly a decade. And deaths based on it? Haven't heard of it and the news would have loved that. I haven't heard of a single one, bath salts or mdpv was a small blip of a problem around that era too.
Something I don't see in keyboard layouts often is mouse buttons. I use a trackball between my keyboard halves and prefer using mouse buttons on my left hand while moving the trackball with the right.

https://imgur.com/Eac4PVL
It'd be great if this could end up in the hands of some group like the Living Computers Museum.
There have been some gen ai architecture design tools posted here with such flaws. They were not so bold as to call them construction plans.
The Post Office leaves themselves open to this, because their site is at a level of tech that makes it hard to distinguish from a spam site from 5 years ago. It's too easy to make the phishing site look more legit than the actual site.
"but if you look closely to the stats, you'll find out that for eg. in sweeden, the birthrates increase to >=2 when families reach certain income lvl."
https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...

I should have mentioned income instead of wealth, but my point holds
Disregarding the 6% cap, there's nothing to suggest that a large company would receive a company-ending fine here, yet they still get a cap codified in law.

This doesn't seem to fit my layperson's understanding of the spirit of (US) equal protection.
Unintuitive LLM only rag?
In most companies, "operations" staff is among their lowest-paid: customer service, cashiers, bank tellers, factory workers, etc. They are used to constant adherence to strict metrics.

Medical care is strange in that the operational staff includes doctors, who will bristle at their expertise and years of schooling culminating into being judged on how many reviews (or appointments) they can churn through.

It's an interesting issue that I sense naturally causes this kind of conflict.
> this is the same dumb deserving argument for uninsured, they are still getting treated in ER usually repeatedly when it would be cheaper to cover them

This is a myth. Insurance is low-cost or usually free for all low income people in the US.
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> Landing on the moon is a very different endeavour than simply reaching Earth orbit from Earth. In order to refuel and reuse rockets on the moon, you'd need to build out all the infrastructure for doing so first, not to mention the resources necessary for continuous operation. Even getting running water on the moon would be a huge logistical and infrastructure challenge, let alone operating a launch pad.

Anyone that wants to intuitively understand these challenges can simply play Factorio's Space Exploration mod (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-exploration).
This feels to me like saying "hey, you don't need to buy a fire extinguisher to keep your house safe from bushfires, the primary way of protecting it is clearing vegetation away from the walls." While technically true, it presents the two methods as if they were in opposition to each other, when they are in fact complimentary. You can do both! If you absolutely have to prioritise one, then I guess you could pick one, but why bother?

It also assumes you'll "lose" people if you even mention exercising in a positive way unless someone comes along to tell them how pointless exercising is. I think the exact opposite is true: people get burnt out on weight loss because they aren't able to make it stick, and the solution is to incorporate exercise as well as educate them about concepts like losing your weight in stages then stabilising before metabolic adaptation hits, how your BMR needs to be recalculated as the weight comes off, water retention and weight loss plateaus, calorie tracking, satiation, and everything else that's been learnt through trial and error over the years.
But this doesn't apply to all domains equally.

Debbuging, for example, is harder than programming. And the difficulty is related to the 'amount of code' you are debbuging.

This means it is pretty easy to verify the Copilot's output when he just spits out a couple of lines at a time. But you will have a pretty bad time when you ask ChatGPT for a complete service. Things will not work out and the time you take to fix it will be greater than what you saved in the first place.
US medical is not capitalism. I believe more than half of all spending is done through taxes.

140 years ago the American Medical Association started siphoning resources and clawing power.
This is the biggest contract they've been awarded, sure, but they do have an established track record and have been investing in larger scale capacity lately.

For highly specialised aircraft with a small procurement number it can make sense to go for mid-tiers rather than the massive primes.

Here's some more background: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/s...
You might try building Ruffle from source. I’ve found that online versions don’t work for the games I want, due to using an outdated version of Ruffle.
USPS.gov redirecting to USPS.com certainly doesn't help matters.

Things like this should use one of the few TLDs that actually has policies and procedures in place; then it's a simple "if it's not .gov, it's not real."
The miasma cometh, followed swiftly by the death of the internet as it stands.

Authentication, verification, and curatorial products will be the next gold rush – and smart investors should be skating to where that puck is gonna be.
Maybe because these sites are hosted outside the US ?

But to really stop this, USPS would need o buy all possible domains that start with USPS.*

That can get very expensive that to ICAN. Plus the USPS has no $ due to what Bush II put in place when he was president and the GOP refusing to undoing that change. I believe that was done to bust the union.
Keep reading about stuff like this, I don't notice it in my day to day usage of Google at the moment honestly, are other people having the same experience, does this actually matter at all? Is it affecting Google in any meaningful way?
what about 'moot'. Do Brits screw that up like Americans? 'moot point'
What do you think would be the killer app for the AVP?
dude, you're like a phreakin' h4x0r.
There are many groups in the US that live with very little use of advanced technology, but very few people have joined them from outside, the vast majority leave after experiencing the lifestyle for some time, modern conveniences are hard to leave behind. It's easy to judge others for not wanting to live your "neo-Luddite lifestyle", I believe they are less delusional than you.
If the visit is in-network or an emergency the insurance company will prevent the practice from billing you anything until the denial is fixed. You don’t have to do anything other than throw the letter away and just wait for them to fix it.

If the practice tries to bill you anyway that’s called balance billing, is illegal, and violates their contract with your insurance company and you can call your insurance’s hotline to report them.
I could less.

So much less!
It must be peculiar living in such a backward nation that still relies on physical currency to buy food.

I just wave my phone at a terminal.
> "unimpressed." That is not the "new" meaning under discussion

That is pretty much (very close to) the new meaning under discussion: as the article says, the old meaning was “at a loss as to what to say, think, or do”, and the new meaning (started showing up in the early 20th century, though I only encountered it recently) is “unruffled, unconcerned”, which is close to your “unimpressed” (and close to the opposite of the earlier/standard meaning).

(The upshot is that the word “nonplussed” is basically skunked now, and should not be used because readers will misunderstand/be unsure. Some discussion in this thread https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/111684566418809307 including examples of “enervated” and “livid”, and the observation that the etymology of “non plus” is similar to “I can't even”.)
This is why for me the best setup is VSCode with a solid VIM extension. You can run NeoVIM directly in VSCode. Best of both worlds.
If it were in common usage, there couldn't be confusion over its meaning. The whole situation can only arise for words that most people don't know.

Which means it's of particularly limited use to a foreign speaker.
What are the issues with them in 2024? Like actual examples.

I don't do webdev but the answers never seemed completely wrong whenever I had to look something up and I know I've read praise in recent years about how they completely revamped and the old "wrong?" Information was fixed. I know some people like to recommend other docs over them but that's not saying they're wrong or bad, just not as good.
We've been using ECharts for many years now and it's great. Built some of our own overlays to create the charting json.

Highcharts was something we originally were going to use but it's just too pricey.
"This blog featured no updates since 1.4’s release, as the activity around the project slowed down until my comeback, and other contributors of the project were not inspired to write. We want to avoid such a hiatus happening again."

Seems like they sorted out the infighting.

I very much enjoy the game on Linux Mint 21.3 with a fake Super Nintendo controller via Bluetooth.

Here you can support the project financially: https://supertuxkart.itch.io/supertuxkart

Any other games you'd like to recommend for Linux?
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Thank you! :)

I wanted film lovers to have an ease of access and a simple to read format.

I working on adding a list of locations in and around that can form a dedicated itinerary.

Will also link this feature to the main app, Tourist vs Local travel comparisons of any destination city.

Trying to give a holistic and new travel experience to users!
Aw man... I was going to use it for my homelab but that's 1696320W more than I can supply. Well... maybe if I use two plugs instead of one...
+1 - the holder of the right to defense
Self promotion (in the form of a video I made anyway if that counts).

I did a video that explains some of the ways I use Vim as a non beginner. It covers some of what's in the article, but more around what I'm thinking about when I'm doing them:
https://youtu.be/N__lwGR2kdA?si=7Nqc7BGGkaqJr5J8
If atomic clocks become a few orders of magntidude better than the current state of the art (see atomic lattice clocks) then such clocks would do direct gravitational wave measurements and measure some fundemental constants.

The latter is important in physics to determine if these constants are truly constant in space and time. Which is a large assumption we have about the universe.
Maybe I misread your post but why was there no mention of crypto and synergies?
I do the same thing I have never understood the use case and it is included in every tutorial aa if it is something used daily.

It’s so much slower to move your eyes and type the number even with relative numbers than it is to just hit w, e or f horizontally or j k vertically.
Google is becoming unusable for programming related questions.

The telltale sign was when I have to actually put in "MDN" in the search to get MDN to show up.
Do they have an incentive to stop those ads? They get paid to run them after all.

This is the perpetual problem with scammy advertising - the ad network would lose money if they controlled it, so they don’t try very hard.
I've found EasyOCR to work much better at pulling text out of irregular or unknown images. Requires more resources than tesseract but gets much better results in my projects.
Looks very usefully, thanks for sharing and good luck!
I have not had that problem. Only thing I have to do when I update Nix after a MacOS update is to move /etc/shells to something like /etc/shells.old
No reason but personal preference; here is me using the arrow keys:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/jtjol5/cinnamon_l...

Of all things people get stubborn about regarding Vim, "use hjkl!" is probably the silliest. The whole notion of text object is meant to make character-wise navigation irrelevant.
The cost of change is real, and I think you've touched on it.

When I started developing, Stack Overflow was in its infancy and occassionally had helpful answers, but "search the internet" was usually the fourth or fifth option when you couldn't find answers using the following:

1. Look through the documentation and/or man pages

2. Look through (one of) the book(s) you have on the subject

3. Ask a knowledgable co-worker (depending on what you're doing)

4. Try a few things to see if you can figure it out. If the source is available, dig through the source code of the framework you're building on. This was especially useful when it was a Qt-related question for example.

So I came up with a balance of having theory/foundation in place before starting . There were pros and cons to this approach of course. It meant a bigger investment and higher barriers of entry to learning a new language/framework, but it also meant I would really learn those things and understand them deeply.

The javascript world around 2011 or so when I got heavily into it (more than just jQuery, I started learning Backbone.js) was a change. It felt slower then than it does now. My approach of book-based learning worked great for learning Ruby and Rails, but not JS stuff. There just weren't many great focused books, and when I found one it would be outdated quickly or lose relevance (for example, because we moved to Ember.js, and then to React, etc). Eventually I did get the foundation in JS, but it was painful to get at especially with how many levels of abstraction there is (or used to be, now that browsers support a lot of ES6 and above features it's much better).

Anyway, all that to essentially say that yes, the javascript world makes this very hard by being so fast-moving and mercilessly fragmented. I feel mostly insulated from that world now that I'm mainly doing Elixir (Phoenix and LiveView), but if you're doing anything web it's impossible to avoid it entirely. If Alpine.js disappears I'll be much regressed!
Maybe if messaging wasn't so absurd then people would feel more empowered? Losing weight is as simple as counting calories and cutting some of them. This isn't just theory. But every time the topic comes up I see the comments dominated by discussion about diet and lifestyle optimizations. People really don't have to change their whole lives at once to make noticeable improvements. Most of the advice I see on weight loss feels more like coping or even trying to sell people things rather than actionable advice.
Thanks so much! Took me a minute to get that going and the solution I found was as long as folks entered movie name in Latin accepted characters it will return the details in a perfect way.

That is the reason I left it to be a text box instead a drop-down of Pre listed movies.
> Btw this is how kakoune works all around. Multiple selections are first class citizens

And Helix too. It's like a middle ground between Vim and Kakoune
RTO has been instituted and there not much you can do to prepare for a whole career change when in the office…

And esp for those with families they might be dependent on big tech comp to support their family in high CoL areas, else have to move their kids and school or make big lifestyle downgrades

Management holds the cards and they know it. Lesson for workers is to live way below your means while you still can
IANAL, but doesn't it fall under HIPAA?
Add "before:2023" to your search query
The reason this is so incredibly bad, is that there is no competition in Medical.

Each special interest group carved out a chunk of taxes and Power, and now they seek to expand through taxation or higher prices/lower quality.

I own a clinic and our most maligned incentives are that medicaid patients have basically free care, so they will somehow find themselves getting more visits than someone who has private insurance is paying out of pocket until deductibles are met and is much more cost conscious.
This is an excellent question and I dug around on the website looking for an answer too. I have _no idea_.

Presumably, as a release, it should be installed?

The website has a wonderful semi-retro esthetic, a noticeable political stance, and a sense of humour, and I wonder if the naming is related.
If you accept that socialism can exist alongside capitalism, then it most definitely has been realized. Travel to just about any rural area and you will find co-ops galore. A very least in providing means of production to farmers, but quite often beyond – telcos/ISPs, grocery stores, gas stations, etc.

If you see socialism as only some kind of state where capitalism no longer exists, then sure, we've never gotten there. Probably never will. Hell, even if post-scarcity communism is someday realized, it is equally possible that we got there by way of capitalism. Just because someone theorized that capitalists would put up roadblocks on the way to post-scarcity doesn't necessarily mean they would or that they couldn't be overcome.
This is from Cheyenne, Wyoming, not Cheyenne Mountain (in Colorado Springs).
It is purposeful obfuscation. The number of people that can't get the paper work correct, is profit for the insurance company.

I knew someone whos wife got cancer. But good luck, she actually worked in the insurance industry and knew everything. Yet, it still turned into a Full Time job for her to get all the paper work corrected. How is the common person going to fight the system if insiders have difficulty.