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I don't really think the suggestions made in the last section of this article really address the core issue here.

> Enhance transparency in healthcare pricing

So after you're in an emergency room, and a posted sign shows that to see any medical professional there, you'll be charged X plus a facilities fee Y. After you wait k hours to be seen, you're told that the treatment they think you need will cost Z. If you think that's too high, during an emergency do you try to go to a different hospital to see if they have the same treatment for W < Z?

> Institute arbitration for billing disputes

I mean, better than no arbitration, but if you're dealing with a serious illness , trying to recover from an injury or whatever, while getting time from work, bouncing between specialists for follow-up visits, still foggy from pain meds, etc should you need to navigate an arbitration process? Are you equipped to?

> Advocate for consumer protections: Educate and empower patients to advocate for themselves through measures such as the right to appeal surprise bills and negotiate payment plans with providers.

... so again, placing the burden on patients to defend themselves during what already may be a very challenging time in their life.

I think the highest level bit is that the most predictable cost for health care would be under a free-at-point-of-care, single-payer system, that lets us cut all the medical billing and medical insurance overhead out. Everyone pays the same (nothing!) for their care, and every earner pays a predictable amount for the system overall. Even if the exact same "amount" of health care was provided, we'd collectively pay less for it. But if we also went all-in on value-based/outcome-based care rather than fee-for-service, we might also be able to get people to live healthier longer lives with less total care (and costs). And no one who's sick or recovering from a medical crisis needs to spend their energy "advocating" for themselves, or in dispute arbitration, or researching which provider has the best prices for their needed service.
I am the only one
I think what the poster is getting at is:

"How do we validate claims of end-to-end encryption?"

It is a lot of trust to place in a company. I would be curious if there are ways to test Apple's claims?
It didn't read that way to me. It read more like he's upset he had to pay for the whole bill on an HDHP. I got the other parts about cost.
Writers of all types. Not a complete replacement but if you can get away with half as many + AI, that’s substantial savings.
because the form factor of a laptop is better for typing. detachable key boards are awkward to carry and set up.

also lots of computer tasks require very precise clicks that mice do better with. touchscreens really need another interface and the keyboard only solves some of the issues. a solution here is to carry a stylus..

but if you’re walking around with a ipad, a key board, and a stylus, the laptop is simpler
Can't you train a model on LSD experiences, and use that as a prompt?

https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/artist-draws-a-series-po...

or some sort of reverse stable diffusion training?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lsd+trip+artist&iax=images&ia=imag...
They should just unlock the iPad's virtualization capabilities. That would let power users run a desktop OS without them really needing to support it.

Also I don't particularly care how any of the touch stuff works in a hypothetical desktop mode as long as I can hook it up to external display with KB+mouse.
> why don't I have a device that I can basically run MacOS on and have a detachable keyboard

I think the answer is market cannibalization. Apple would much rather sell you both an iPad and a MacBook Pro rather than just an iPad.
> How do we get any better as a species if we do that?

By providing people what they want and incentivizing businesses to create something superior to it so that the demand for the prior solution goes away?

If the new solution isn't competitive with the old one then we arguably aren't improving as a species anyways.
I'm not talking about twisted panties, I'm talking about their inability to generate anything but soulless slop, due to blatantly obvious '''safeguards''' present in all big models, making them averse to even PG13-friendly themes and incapable to generate content palatable even to the the least discerning consoomers. you couldn't generate even sterile crap like a script for capeshit or Netflix series, because the characters would quickly forget their differences and talk about their bonds, journeys, boundaries and connections instead.

without those '''safeguards''' implemented to appease the aforementioned 0.01%, things could be very different - some big models, particularly Claude, can be tard wrangled into producing decent prose, if you prefill the prompt with a few thousand token jailbreak. my own attempts to get various LLMs to assist in writing videogame dialogue only made me angry and bitter - big models often give me refusals on the very first attempt to prompt them, spotting some wrongthink in the context I provide for the dialogue, despite the only adult themes present being mild, not particularly graphic violence that nobody except 0.01% neo-puritan extremits would really bat an eye at. and even if the model can be jailbroken, still, the output is slop.
We’re so lucky to have realoem. I was kind of shocked to find no equivalent for my late model GM vehicle.
It is possible. Apple does have an ad network so it is quite possible that this is just Apple logging searches in their apps and showing ads in other apps.
Last year I had minor surgery, and before the procedure started, I asked the anaesthesiologist if she was out of network. Her response: laughter. Very comforting when I was about to trust her with my life.

Turns out she was out of network, and the cost of the anesthesia on top of my in-network hospital bill was around $1050.
That isn't free. For every terabit of bandwidth, you have to physically build out a terabit of network. Not even remotely free. Having already built the network, and being already paying to run it, you can then use it for free, yes.

This is the model for all networks, indeed, most businesses - they pay a big upfront and moderate recurring cost to make a fast network (or restaurant or widget factory) and then sell it in slices with a large freedom to choose a pricing model. Pay per terabyte is a pretty reasonable way to pass on the network's fixed cost to consumers, just like part of the cost of the restaurant meal covers the interior decorations, even though the decorations don't actually cost more the more people eat, until the restaurant gets so busy it needs to expand.
IDK why 81 year old Poli-sci major, attorney, and ultimate NASA executive decision maker Bill Nelson wasn't forced out of office after he incorrectly explained to Congress that the far side of the moon is always dark

https://youtu.be/daZyPwCQak8?si=n9KXH-LJFBlpKXUp&t=153
I think it’d be nice if the user could go into settings and opt apps into running in the background indefinitely (on iPhones too), but given how common it is for random junk to be sitting in the background sucking up CPU doing a lot of nothing on desktop OSes I don’t think that it should be something that apps can do out of the box, or even request permission for since too many users would absentmindedly grant permission to a bunch of apps and then wonder why their iPad only lasts 1h30m before running out of juice.
I bought the game twice, because the DVD version eliminates the disc swapping. (And slightly improved the image quality.)
I saw one like this 15 years ago. It was terrifying as I was alone in a forested area and I had no idea what it was at first. But then the sonic boom that lasted for minutes was even more disconcerting.
I looked at leaving the US years ago. Australia was on my short list after spending some time in Melbourne. Alas MS is one of those things that makes immigration harder nearly everywhere because it "puts an undue burden on the health system". Never found a way around that aside from maybe marrying a local; it's been a while.

Glad he's getting the treatment he needs!! Drugs have made incredible advances in the last decade.
Nobody mentioned this so far, here goes:

The latest 'national security' bill signed into law this April grants the US govt access to any and all commercial hardware. This as I understand it, am I wrong?

Doesnt this imply that every cloud service should be assumed insecure?
Comes with a virtual shadow for the Apple Pencil, but no calculator app. Go figure.
The real lunacy is using chemical rockets instead of nuclear thermal once the ship is in orbit. That could reduce the fuel requirements for an Earth - Moon transfer by 4x. And this isn't some sci-fi tech. NASA built a working engine in the 70s.
"Shop around" is a great capitalist mantra, except that medical emergencies are pretty obviously a situation where you're absolutely not going to shop around.
A physician of mine has said that he thinks HDHPs are predatory and (in his opinion) should be illegal. They sound attractive until the moment you actually need to get medical care.
My sympathies and commiseration. I am on a different infused medication and survived a couple of years of CVS Caremark acting as a Pharmacy Benefits Manager for "specialty drugs" before my insurance and the hospital system I work with negotiated a different delivery and fee structure. Not before, of course, my own higher-than-expected bill.

I am on an HDHP and arrange my finances and budget with the expectation that I will reach my out-of-pocket maximum. I am thankful that I am in a position to do that. The backside being that I am under enormous constraint in terms of my employer. They literally own my health, as while I am skilled and valued, I doubt that I am skilled and valued enough for another employer to keep me after poaching me away. I would expect something in the off-the-record review comments of "...health care costs are how much!?!?" followed by quiet PIP-and-dismissal or dismissal outright under the laws of my state-of-residence in the United States. Yes, I live in a right-to-work state, meaning that my employment can be terminated at any time, by either party, for any reason, or no reason given at all.
It is important to plan your emergency visits as early in the year as possible. That way if you hit your maximum deductibles and maximum out of pocket limits you get free-ish healthcare the rest of the year. Had a bad appendectomy happen in November. The limits reset Jan 1st. Out another $5000 for the second attempt at removal after a surgery to stare at my appendix before deciding a week of hospital stay with IV antibiotics, 4 CT scans to determine when they would feel comfortable removing my appendix (maxed my $12000) family out of pocket.
This is a common storage vs bandwidth trade-off.
I wouldn't have predicted that the inventor of modern CPUs would be so certain that computation is a bad model for consciousness. Is that a good way to characterize him and his position?
Depends on what you're bringing to the table. Having a lifetime's effort stolen from you by a nonprofit hurts as much as it would if they were a traditional company.

Sure "it was good to do the works we did" helps. And them bastards walked off with hundreds of thousands of dollars whilst others burnt their health running the shop on a shoestring.
> CVS insists on calling me to confirm they can ship it to my house. F no!

You joke, but this is what my wife does for her infusion. Drugs get shipped to our house, and nurse comes to the house to administer the infusion. She gets to spend the time on the couch watching TV instead of in a hospital. And as a another indictment to the broken health care system, this is actually cheaper to the insurer!
What I find interesting is how people don't think animals are conscious, but then there will be some article where the partner of a goose is killed and the goose wails and moans like this is a surprise.
It can't come soon enough. Expectations and hype have reached stratospheric levels and are due for a hard correction. Every company is jamming "AI" into places it isn't needed to juice their share price and please the clueless shareholders. Despite LLMs popping up everywhere there's limited evidence to support the claimed productivity boosts. Other than using GitHub Copilot I don't know a single person who seriously uses language models for work, whether it's by prompting directly or pressing a magic "AI" button that performs some RAG.

I've half seriously considered the possibility a large portion of the hype has been manufactured in an attempt to shock stagnating economies back to life, post-COVID, post low interest rates.
Chomsky's critique of LLMs was somehow not even correct about his own theories (https://x.com/profraha/status/1634311282135318529). And of course has the usual problem of 1. claiming LLMs are random statistical models (they aren't, the sampler is) 2. claiming instead of generating correct text they only "seemingly" generate correct text and not explaining why this is any less impossible.

But people have built explicit grammar knowledge into LLMs (it's in llama.cpp) and nobody seems to need it to make English text.

Of course the main reason Chomsky is a crank is that he's completely convinced he's right about politics despite his unbroken record of endorsing every mass murderer in the world as long as they're anti-American.
he's using dingboard.com to edit his images. i believe the anime girl is one of the default images (or used to be) on a new canvas.
The reason is clear. "We're not interested in this." Have you not been following this saga for years now?
AI chatbots' safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers
Apple claims they cannot decrypt. What will you do if that claim turns out false? That is what the person you are talking with means, and it is very clear throughout the conversation.
The high learning curve for tiling window managers is definitely worth the effort in the end. I'm a sway user, used to be an i3 user, and will never return to GNOME or KDE Plasma Workspaces.
Can you simply just not pay? What are the legal consequences in that case? Effectively some random 3rd party is requesting you pay them for something you didn't ask for or contract them to do.
There's the other part of the servicing bit they are leaving out.

- Giving a Payoff amount for whatever reason

- Reporting to agencies

- Trying to work with the client when payments are missed, ideally ethically.

- (Before COVID this was true, I know it was at least temporarily suspended, dont think still suspended but might be) If above fails, remitting payment to the owner of the loan during that period between 'first missed payment' and 'able to apply for and receive relief from Fannie/Freddie'

Those things cost, and depending on your originator, may or may not be baked into the price as to how well it works.
Web content has a maintenance problem
It's to drive engagement by getting people to comment on it.
But anyone doing things at great scale, isn’t going with OVH. You could use it as an origin I goes but you’d still need CDN for decent content delivery.
Yeah I've always found the browser bar hiding when you scroll to the bottom of a page a bit weird. But yeah you're right, it looks like a Chrome-only thing my bad.
Tiling window managers are a different way of thinking about how one uses a computer, similar to how different touch interfaces are, but in the other more keyboardly direction.

I find I reach for a tiling WM (or tmux) when I have a lot of terminal tasks I need to do and being able to quickly summon, dismiss and rearrange windows visibly is more important than their placement.

As with everything else, everyone has their preferences and each paradigm has its strengths, weaknesses and natural use cases.
IIRC, there was a BYTE magazine article about Modula-2 once, maybe written by Dick Pountain, a regular BYTE columnist from the UK.

That is where I heard about the language, and I remember thinking that it seemed good and useful, based on the description, and due to having heavily used and liked Turbo Pascal earlier.

I somehow never got to know there was a Turbo Modula-2, although I did know about Turbo Prolog, and may have tried it out briefly.
One other thing to add is large-scale RLHF. Big Tech can pay literally hundreds of technically-sophisticated people throughout the world (e.g. college grads in developing countries) to improve LLM performance on all sorts of specific problems. It is not a viable way to get AGI, but it means your LLM can learn tons of useful tricks that real people might want, and helps avoid embarrassing "mix broken glass into your baby formula" mistakes. (Obviously it is not foolproof.)

I suspect GPT-4's "secret sauce" in terms of edging out competitors is that OpenAI is better about managing data contractors than the other folks. Of course it's a haze of NDAs to learn specifics, and clearly the contractors are severely underpaid compared to OpenAI employees/executives. But a lone genius with a platinum credit card can't create a new world-class LLM without help from others.
It is about time, that we get a solid framework for handling those and other cases.

I would also argue, that models learned from publicly available data need to stay public as well.
As long as it works that’s all that matters. It’s natural for people to not want to be an outlier
This is a criticism rooted in viewing the problem the wrong way.

You can't compare a modern attempt at a moon landing to the Apollo program. It's straight up invalid. The Apollo program was a national prestige program, so successful we stopped going to the moon for ~49 years and counting. At it's peak it consumed 2.5% of US national GDP. We will never, ever, nor should we run a program like the Apollo program ever again.

The second problem is, it's thoroughly dismissive of the political concerns which are the essence of the entire problem. NASA's budget changes every 4 years. It's priorities in fact change every year because the US has struggled to pass a yearly budget that didn't go to a government shutdown for multiple years at this point.

In that view then, you get weird statements which are essentially arguments from increduality: i.e. the concern over how many launches you'd need to refuel an HLS in orbit. But it straight up doesn't matter how many, what matters is whether you can do it. SpaceX can launch multiple Falcons in a week, is there a reason to think scaling to the required number of launches is prohibitive? - who knows, because no one ever includes a failure expectation or cost expectation, they just throw the number out and gesticulate at it a bit.

And that is the core problem of the arguments about the mission itself, because again, what is the goal? Getting to the moon with an Apollo style fully expendable, enormously expensive rocket is obviously possible because it was done. We absolutely should not do it that way again. If we don't get there with a more sustainable approach, then there's no point going.

The SLS's deficiencies are accurately identified, but the reason for them is pretty obvious - NASA was ordered to build the SLS that way by Congress. NASA would really rather pay SpaceX or Blue Origin to build them the rocket they need instead, but they're not allowed to do that - by Congress.
The fact that he is an astronaut because of a congressional junket is just perfect from a bad faith argument perspective.
can't decide what is better?

1) curl | sh

2) llm | sh
Interesting if perhaps a little over simplified, however I can't take anyone seriously who self describes as "a member of the East Coast liberal elite"

Yikes
This is the obvious case. What is even more shocking is the happy case. You have a week to make an appointment for an outpatient procedure. Call around. No one can even give you a price. Doctor doesn’t know; sends you to some billing department. They don’t know. You will spend a month to find the actual price at 5 places, and it’s not even locked in price. Bill come for another amount? Tough
I'm generally a fan of HDHPs, but I echo some of the same complaints made in the article. For example, just a few months ago, my toddler was complaining about horrible pain in his stomach. Now, being 5, it's awfully hard to determine exactly how much he's hurting, and of course, the strong recommendation from every nurse, doctor, and UC clinic we talked to was to bring him to the ER. A UC clinic or PCP won't take the liability if it turns out to actually be appendicitis and not just a virus with nausea.

I knew full well the ER visit was going to sting, but I had no idea how much. The amount after insurance was almost exactly what was quoted in this article (almost like they plan that). That pretty much maxed out his OOP max, but I'm not wealthy enough that 5k doesn't make me mad. It shouldn't matter, but it feels worse that it was just a stomach bug, so $2 worth of anti nausea meds (that the hospital charged $150 for) was all we got out of it.

Rationally, I don't really see a way out for (possible) emergencies. That care is expensive, and HDHPs are a bit of a gamble that usually pay off if you're healthy. The OOP max ensures you won't be financially ruined, and 'cadillac plans' or gov care just means you pay far more in premiums or taxes for the majority of the years.
Did the American people really expect any other outcome from such a project ?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Efficiency projects like the transcoding ASIC are a big part of pushing YouTube to profitability, as well as the alternate revenue streams and heavy increases in monetization. Video serving is extremely expensive and difficult compared to everything else Google does.

Ruth Porat has been on record many times indicating that YouTube wasn't profitable in the 2010's. I think her public statements have only indicated that YouTube was free cash flow positive as of the 2020's, but I haven't found exactly where that happened - Google has experimented with a lot of different kinds of breakdowns of its finances. I assume that hiding the economics of YouTube is part of this (as well as protection against a zealous DOJ saying that Google's businesses are separable).
You can run VSCode on iPad simply by not using Electron:

https://medium.com/@thebaselab/my-attempt-to-run-vs-code-on-...
> the patients get treated, and treated well

Absolutely anyone who’s ever dealt with healthcare system will tell you otherwise. From being denied necessary medical procedures because insurance doesn’t agree with it to subpar quality of care because how stretched the doctors and healthcare professionals are, US medical system is far from treating everyone well.
> I don't understand why this hasn't become a boil-over issue for Americans yet.

Media keeps people distracted with idpol
Go to urgent care instead. I told my kid once, if you think you need to see a doctor, tell me before 8 so we can bypass the e-room. The last time we went to emergency, I got a $3000 bill for a strep check and a generic pill.
Not likely in a way that's worthwile I'd wager. you'd need a lot of cabling (likely easy to pilfer yet valuable due to copper) and labor relative to savings.
Gardiner's Sign List
See 3mux for terminal i3 like tiling https://github.com/aaronjanse/3mux
I've seen it often on Hackaday over the years, and while they probably could do it all with a 555, I certainly couldn't... My specialties are software and mechanical stuff, for everything in-between I shove in an Arduino and hope it works!
Do you have any source on that? Google has never released separate revenue/profit details for youtube.
Probably because Congress isn't smart enough to realize his mistake. Here's one of them worried that Guam might capsize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q&t=75s