skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in the ER, held a license to work there, and spend everyday with licensed providers in addiction medicine. I assure you I have more familiarity here than even most addicts.

But you win the victim totempole height contest I guess.
Are those labels based on periodic random testing or based on risk avoidance?

What proportion of these labels are false positives?
Against Config as a Lifestyle
First ever rocks from the Moon's far side have landed on Earth
Engineering Panchromatic Light Absorption in Foldable Dyes
Airing greivances is fine and healthy but so is allowing a defence.
> a wound care company

What is the name of the "wound care company" that Alexandra Gehrke and Jeffrey King owned?
> Still looking for that 9-figure scam run by (apparently) morons.

Again, the health insurers themselves are doing much bigger scams than nine figures.

Eleven figures: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage...

"Another estimate, from a former top government health official, suggested the overpayments in 2020 were double that, more than $25 billion."

> Are you or Propublica making the claim that private insurers pay out the majority of their claims on trust?

That claim is made, under oath, by a "supervisor in Aetna’s Special Investigations Unit".

In a case where the insurers were repeatedly willing to be reimbursed from future payments to a provider they knew was unlicensed, no less. Where were the magical "systemic protections" that private insurers have nearly perfected while Medicare supposedly lacks them entirely?
I have one too, great device for the price, the review is spot on.

Thanks for your repo, good info, starred. The link [1] to rooting is fascinating and frustrating: a reminder that most Android is still far from open. A smart Chinese manufacturer should make one of these with completely open bootloader and full source: Watch what the enthusiasts do with it then steal those ideas for v2.

[1] https://github.com/qwerty12/inkPalm-5-EPD105-root
Main threats I see are lead and cadmium in some foods from China, also high levels of

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

in some foods.
That the authorities think it is wrong for someone to know their rights is more of a condemnation of the "authorities".
I don't don't see why a sizable bank account would make one desire to put on a clown nose.

If you were poor and threw your money at sucker-bait, I might not bully you for it, because the price of the item is punishment enough already.

But if you're rich and buying that, I'm definitely bullying you.
Chrome AI – Vercel AI SDK
And without overregulation those consumer choices wouldn’t be be easily faked?
Dupe (10 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790139

Discussion on another source (233 points, 2 days ago, 116 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790057
Overregulation + Monopolization is the 1-2 punch in operation here. It's the only reason you'd even think to do something like this.

"Fine. Now _everything_ has Sesame in it. What are you going to do? _Settle_ with us?"
This sounds like the prior owner is financing the phone, not purchasing it outright.
Yeah but a mandatory national ID or voter ID isn't what the comment a few up is asking for. Driver's license is an optional form of ID as far as the govt is concerned, but this doesn't stop Uber from requiring it. The state or federal govt could help prove that someone has a valid DL without that person having to give the original DL to Uber.
Sociopaths and other dark triad types have been the driving force in unifying and leading people since prehistory. It takes exactly that kind of person to unite tribes of strangers in order to go conquer, subjugate, and murder your neighbours.

"Evil" is immaterial. Markets and society are ecosystems, and the optimal patterns of behaviour in ecosystems are as ruthless as they are predictable.
>you'll quickly have to introduce routines, modules, objects of whatever to have some control over side effects

that claim seems absurd. all the functional languages I've come across also frequently use routines, modules, and 'objects of whatever' to manage the complexity of huge amounts of code.

objects/entities are just a pattern for hiding complexity behind a simple interface. they can be useful in any language, regardless of mutability.
> Color on an e-ink screen is not an interesting feature to me, esp. not when it makes the device more expensive.

I have both the Libra 2 and Libra Colour, the issue isn't so much cost (in my opinion) as contrast. They should have introduced an upgraded Libra BW at the same time as the Libra Colour to account for that.
It’s amusing to me to see companies asking their devs to play with AI to try to find some kernel of value there.

Meanwhile, if said devs do that playing in other languages/frameworks, they’re chastised for not focusing on business value.
> it’s literally the thrusters that aren’t even part of Starliner that _will_ return

That is cool. How will they deorbit if the thrusters shut down on them? Will they break Fred Flintstones style?
It's kinda impossible to give out DL, SSN, etc to so many companies and not have it leak. If these theoretical lawsuits scared companies enough, they might pay some centralized third party to handle the verification for them, but bad things follow from that.

The federal and state governments hand out these IDs in the first place. Shouldn't they be the ones to verify them?
that statement really bothered me. they can of course say that they don't see any evidence of exploitation, but this kind of personal data is valuable to bad actors because they can take it from au10tix and then use it to exploit other services or the individuals directly. au10tix would never know about that exploitation.
Maybe they are just waiting for the existing chains to go belly up and scope up their real-estate on the cheap??
Langui – AI Language Learning Application
Warning: This is released under the Elastic License, which for obvious reasons is neither free software nor open source:

> You may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed
service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of
the features or functionality of the software.

> You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license key functionality
in the software, and you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the
software that is protected by the license key.

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
2-month Gemini trial makes the previous Google One subscription disappear
This year the jersey has Thomas’s, the English muffin brand owned by Bimbo.
Is "don't go out and actively break programs you used to promise would work" such a great ask?
Not claiming it has the same performance as real shared memory,
But at least rough semantics can be had: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Can be read and written from multiple workers / main thread.
Synconized with WASM atomics.
Propgation speed of writes is undefined, likely to leave side channel attack mitigation options without spec-breaking.
This website was my dad’s second bible when I was a kid. He went down the rabbit hole and ended up building a massive steel spud gun that had a 10 foot copper barrel. That thing could throw a potato close to a quarter mile. Some great childhood memories right there.
Disagree. There's a concept of people "growing out of allergies". I think it's at least plausible someone could eat product A without checking the label, then subsequently read the label and assume "well I must have grown out of that allergy" and hence proceed to eat product B.
I write C because I like C. That's the only reason I've got. It's what I feel comfortable writing code in. I tried learning Rust but I just couldn't get used to it.

I like C where I write the functions and the structures and the compiler just translates it to the simple processor instructions you expect it to. No complicated hidden machinery under the hood, just simple unmangled symbols pointing at simple code that conforms to simple ABIs. This simplicity is also the reason the so called "C ABI" is so ubiquitous.

Another reason I write C is it's one of very few languages with freestanding code support. I only write freestanding C targeting the Linux kernel-userspace ABI. In my opinion C is a much nicer language without the libc and its legacy. I really enjoy it.
And probably their own Gemini too!
And here’s their wedding invite [0]. Money made off dying old people had to sustain their vacuous lifestyle

[0]: https://www.theknot.com/us/jeff-king-and-lexie-gehrke-feb-20...
Chrome Root Program Policy, Version 1.5
Sometimes there's probably negligence involved; sometimes not. You don't know without having access to the specifics. Always blaming "negligent companies" is just as wrong as always blaming "evil hackers".
Perhaps they just want to write programs that work without becoming confused?
> Rather than minimize cross-contamination, as they argue the law requires, many big food brands have opted to add sesame to their bread products, then simply declare it as an ingredient.

Right.

Bimbo has not been actually adding the allergen to the product. Presumably, they will start explicitly adding it, so the warning will be proper.
The Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior
This atheist says the Song of Solomon is not at all boring.
Usually those are labeled as "may contain traces of....".
This is more about people feeling they are clever. It's the CS equivalent of "everything is an eigenvector".
Gwern’s final point - that ‘safe’ decisions might lead to a dead end with ultimately not enough creativity to get to AGI - feels contrary to the rest of his essay, so I feel like I must not understand his point.

Is purging / exodus of safety folks at OAI a ‘safe’ choice?

Yo @gwern, I’d love your thoughts on this. To my mind you can read OAI right now as either ‘acceleration for the win’ or ‘the innovative soul is gone’ or just ‘with liquidity some people want to do some different things / work at a different scale than OAI has got going rn’.

Contrary to your pitch I do think there’s a wide middle road where acceleration + billions + solving engineering challenges and collecting data = something valuable and interesting, esp with Sam running strategy.

Maybe Ilya and co are needed for round 5, but maybe not, maybe from here it is just mostly engineering, data and regulatory capture, and the question of creativity won’t be the defining one. I’m not saying this is likely but I don’t think it’s unlikely either. Actually I’d say it’s more likely than not.
Hey there! I've been on the site since 2015 and use it every day. Admittedly, I have posted a number of Show HNs since then (8 or so from my count), but didn't consider this usage "primarily for promotion" but i'll keep it in mind, thanks!
> total amount prescribed opioids through time

This... Dr were involved too!

> long term pain management opioids suck

Opioids suck. And the medical profession was complicit. For a class that is supposed to be professional and well informed most Dr's are, shockingly, not that bright.
>"There is no criminal underclass of convicted billionaire sociopaths"

To that I agree. However you can not make laws specifically criminalizing rich for "violations of accepted ethical norms". It will just open floodgates diverting regular and poor to underclass. This whole criminal background check should be made illegal with some very specific exceptions. It hunts people for the rest of their lives. Europe handles this situation much better in general from what I've heard.
Show HN: I made a site for finding cheaper alternatives to pricey software
No. When something went wrong with a booking, your company would say it's the airline's fault, and the airline would say it's your company's fault, so nobody would be willing to help me. I'll never use a middleman to book anything if I can help it.
Ask HN: HIPAA compliant scheduling vendor?
Hi HN,

The healthcare startup I work at currently uses Acuity Scheduling to enable patients to schedule appointments with zoom calls with our providers.

It has decent APIs, so we've been able to build a fair amount to make it work for us, e.g. syncing to our EHR (athena), custom handlers for notifications / appointment confirmations.

No doubt it has gotten us pretty far (google calendar integration is nice!), but we find it lacking in several ways:

- no localization support

- no concept of licensing for our clinicians / more complex scheduling algorithms dependent on patient attributes

- no support for multiple provider appointments (e.g. when 2 providers share an appointment, one taking the intake portion, the other the provider taking the rest of the appointment)

- subpar support for class appointments, e.g. patients can't add themselves to a class after the first session has occurred

Does anyone have a HIPAA compliant scheduling vendor they particularly like or dislike that supports some of these features?

Thanks in advance!
If you’re in the US, contact HR and tell them that you’d like to request reasonable accommodations for a documented ADA-covered disability. Do it soon before you get any formal performance warnings or put on the PIP.

Will buy you some time at least.
Interestingly, this is the exact (typical) mindset that billionaires have which contributes so much to extreme wealth inequality.
I mean "for" and "while" loops are effectively used in natural language all the time, even to the youngest of kids.

"Do this action 10 times"
"Put one item in each box"

I fail to see how recursion is /more/ intuitive, in pretty much every (english) language construct I can think of the condition is separate from the action.
My wife's pregnant great-grandmother was part of this, gave birth on the banks of this river. One of the reasons why if you're a communist supporter or adjacent you are scum and no better than a nazi holocaust denier.
They are probably outsourcing to a vendor who will do god knows what with it
I choose Apple to be the custodian of apps that go on my phone. There is a platform where the user is the one that determines what goes on their phone, it's called Android.
Struck by other smaller but high energy debris, faulty batteries that are still receiving charge from unshunted solar arrays, similar mechanical failures from attitude control systems, unused propellant leaks or ruptures. There are a lot of things that can go wrong which is why we have the 25 year rule now.
How to fight economies of scale…
Even voter ids would be optional. The govt. won't force you to have one. Voting is a right unlike driving but driving is more important to livelihood and life (which are rights) and yet we require driver's licenses to drive.

Ideally, national (voter) ids should be free and obtainable with minimum effort.
Construction has a much more mature building process, much of that is probably related to the cost of replacing things. We even get to cut and paste :)

That last document seems like something that could be done in software development. Their list (starting with the worse) is dominated by mistakes pouring concrete.

- Inadequate planning (from task through to project level)

- Late design changes

- Poorly communicated design information

- Poor culture in relation to quality

- Poorly coordinated and incorrect design information

- Inadequate attention paid in the design to construction

- Excessive commercial (financial and time) pressures

- Poor interface management and design

- Ineffective communication between team members

- Inadequate supervisory skills

For software we would have to gather the data similarly. Then you put it all into an LLM along with the employees previous assignments and code, pull the lever and the answers come out.

Ah, yes. The aim should be to have pure information so that insurance companies can pick up the bill. In order to accomplish that the system should prevent the employer from meddling in the process. Working from home seems required to properly benchmark the employees.
Its not a high-trust thing, these vendors exist largely because it gives the organizations with direct relations with consumers a step of removal when a breach occurs; they are blame-outsourcing firms.
> How people feel about the way democracy is working is strongly related to how they believe their economy is working.

The chattering classes in the West have completely taken their focus off raising living standards in favour of a number of other ideological goals. Energy and industrial policies across multiple democratic countries are in an absolute shambles to the point where we're being challenged by Russia of all countries. Over the past decades the US has adopted a strategy of printing money which is a very bad sign in a leading economic power.

I can see why people would be dissatisfied by democracy right now; I certainly am. The leadership classes aren't focused on prosperity. I hope we stick with it though, it is still a better approach than the alternatives.
Oh, Arch was rock solid and I was also able to keep my install going for years. However, in the few instances where I would get a new laptop or experience a drive failure, it was non-trivial to get it going again. If you're using a stock install + Gnome, it's not bad, but I had lots of things set up (e.g. Secure Boot, udev rules, usbguard, tiling WM, etc.) and those are all things you can declare in a NixOS + Home Manager config, have versioned, and re-establish in ~30 minutes instead of days.
> I stopped updating my open-source Mac apps because I can't justify the cost of jumping over artificial hurdles Apple puts in place that ensure users can't run the apps they want to use. I have other hobbies where spending money actually gives me tangible goods and benefits versus paying an arbitrary yearly tax for the privilege to build stuff that ultimately benefits Apple.
Yep, I had a huge library of SASS (SCSS) mixins that I’d use to accomplish a lot back in the day. ThoughtBot had (has?) a library called Bourbon that came with a bunch and they were amazing.
I was advised that if I get one variety of pants I wouldn’t have to sort them but that didn’t work for various reasons that I was compelled to inform the advisor of.
There's no atheism allowed in 12 step programs . . .
Most of the article is about Gehrke and King, but the last fraud case mentioned is absolutely vile:

> Another case alleges a scheme in Florida to distribute misbranded HIV drugs. Prosecutors say drugs were bought on the black market and resold to unsuspecting pharmacies, which then provided the medications to patients.

> Some patients were given bottles that contained different drugs than the label showed. One patient ended up unconscious for 24 hours after taking what he was led to believe was his HIV medication but was actually an anti-psychotic drug, prosecutors say.
You would be surprised. Banking companies / their vendors for instance will outsource to india and Poland. Some of the people in Poland are citizens of Belarus. Us customer data is all over the world (account numbers / ssn / other personal info ).

It may be stored in the us but accessed by people in lcol areas.
Nice to see the worlds tech gets better and better.

Compare it to Jerri Nielsen breast cancer in 1998, I think they had to open the doors early since they thought they would freeze over before the drop site -

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

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - 90°S 0°E - Might have been harder - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Amundsen%...

This incident is McMurdo Station - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=McMurdo_S...
What the standard says doesn't really matter. Only what major compilers do matters. GCC has decreed that type punning through unions is supported, therefore it might as well be standard.
This is like how the internet changed surveillance. Surveillance used to take time, people, and effort, then the internet came along and now surveillance can be done on a mass scale with low cost. Before AI people could learn from musical works, learn from authors books and articles, learn from painters, film makers, photographers, etc., but it took effort and it was not scaleable, one person could not emulate 100 film makers. Now AI has brought scale to mimicing art, so one software program can mimic the art of all artists. Copyright was not made for this situation. Just like with surveillance we need new laws about what is allowed and what is not allowed. The nature of society will be decided by this. We probably won't get it right the first time, it will have to gradually change over time, and the lawmakers will have to understand what the problems are.
I will never not be in disbelief when learning about things like this existing.

I think I understand art, items created by skilled craftsmen, special materials, uniqueness...This has none of those properties.
My experience was very similar - back in April I also tried the option that was clearly labelled as Trial in my GMail interface, just to see how Gemini Pro would compare to ChatGPT Plus. After only about 10 days, I decided it wasn't for me - and thought I'd better cancel it before I forgot.

It was only at this point that I realised that the Gemini Trial that I stupidly took up was actually a _change_ of my existing ~$125 AUD Google One yearly 2tb subscription - and not a standalone ~$30 per month offering like ChatGPT.

There was no _cancel trial_ option at all. There was only the ability to change back to a different plan, which was hidden but I managed to find my way to. In doing so, I lost nearly 3 months of subscription - my annual 2TB had been paid up late 2013, and now I had to renew the subscription for a year in August.

Tried contacting support twice, but both times I was just brushed off.

This morning however, I got an email stating that I'd been issued a refund of unused balance, and when checking my Google One page, they are listing the $32.99 MONTHLY plan as the current plan I'm on. And there's no longer the option of a classic 2TB plan that I was on, hiding under a show more plans hyperlink.

So what the actual is happening here? This is such a hot, confusing mess.

I'd strongly advice against trying Gemini on a primary account, or at all, after this experience.
Thanks.

(Here's another reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1ate68d/google_one_... )
Ergo (formerly Oragono) covers some of that. I can't say if it provides a server based search.

> https://ergo.chat/about - Combining the features of an ircd, a services framework, and a bouncer (integrated account management, history storage, and bouncer functionality).

Putting it into SASL-only mode is a couple lines in the config. I'm not sure if you meant poorly supported in clients.

Are there any clients that don't split long messages when sending?
Next step Critic²GPT, a model based on GPT-4, writes critiques of CriticGPT responses.
There are many small bakeries that offer a variety of options. It seems silly to confidently assert this as you do.
It's going to be fun when there's repeated incidents like this each week because every site will require your driver's license to prove you're 18 so you're allowed to post on the internet.
High-income for whom?
It generally feels that the modern Western nations are ready to drop democracy for more or less trivial reasons, like moderately higher inflation (I'd go out on a limb and posit that it's inflation and its downstream effects that sour the mood specifically since 2021). At the same time the Western democracies went through way more serious economic upheavals in the past and yet democracy itself was not questioned. What is different today? For example, why didn't the US go Nazi after the Great Depression?
Did the horned dinosaur Protoceratops inspire the Griffin?
A sidenote: my immediate interpretation, and this article's interpretation, of the quote is to disparage someone who only sees things from one perspective. But reading the Wikipedia the original quote seems to mean more like that Bruce Lee quote of "I fear someone who has practiced one kick a thousand times".