skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ProPublica has done an extensive series on this; at least a skim is worth it. Even the industry doesn’t claim to be as effective at combating fraud as you do.

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-make-it-e...

> While Pratte, Lankford and some of Williams’ clients repeatedly flagged bogus bills, the mammoth health insurers reacted with sloth-like urgency to the warnings. Their correspondence shows an almost palpable disinterest in taking decisive action — even while acknowledging Williams was fraudulently billing them.

> In September 2015, United wrote to Williams, noting his lack of a license and the resulting wrongful payments, totaling $636,637. But then the insurer added a baffling condition: If Williams didn’t respond, United would pay itself back out of his “future payments.” So while demanding repayment because Williams was not a doctor, the company warned it would dock future claims he would be making as a doctor.

> In November 2016, United investigators caught Williams again — twice. They sent two letters accusing him of filing 820 claims between May 2016 and August 2016 and demanded repayment. Again, almost inconceivably, the company threatened to cover his debt with “future payments.”

> Fraud in government programs, like Medicare and Medicaid, gets more publicity, he said, and has dedicated arms of agencies pursuing fraudsters. But the losses may be even greater in the commercial market because the dollar levels are higher, he said.

> He called fraud investigators from Aetna, Cigna and United, who testified that their companies auto-pay millions of claims a year. It’s not cost effective to check them, they said. “Aetna relies on the honesty of the person submitting the claim verifying that it’s true,” testified Kathy Richer, a supervisor in Aetna’s Special Investigations Unit.

Big catches make for splashy headlines, but for every $2B case that makes national headlines there are a whole bunch of these $25M cases they can’t be bothered to notice.

Why would you care about fraud if you can just raise premiums to cover it? My insurer just sent me a letter saying they’re applying for a 21% increase in my $3k/month health insurance policy for next year.
There aren’t food prep areas when it comes to manufacturing at this scale. There are silos, storage tanks, essentially duct work to transport ingredients from bulk storage to production, and large-scale machinery which is designed to minimize exposure to the environment and people while in use. That’s putting aside the equipment and facilities used to acquire ingredients or store products after production.

Yes, all of this equipment is also designed to be cleaned and sanitized, but these are large surface areas covering large distances. And we’re talking about one little sesame seed which can’t be easily detected if it somehow makes its way into a product, unlike, say, the metal detectors all finished goods pass through to ensure no metal object found its way into something.

Spending time in facilities like Bimbo operates will disavow someone of the idea that the work a company like that does is akin to what happens in restaurants or catering facilities. These are factories where product assembly happens to involve edible parts.
No, that isn’t the case at all. The issues with Starliner do not affect its ability to return to earth or function as an “escape pod” if that were necessary. There’s no safety issue or concern at all with using Starliner as a return craft. The issues with Starliner, as has been mentioned many times over the last few weeks, are to do with other parts of Starliner that don’t affect its return (it’s literally the thrusters that aren’t even part of Starliner that _will_ return).
Eating from a plate straight out of the dishwasher is something 19 y.o. me would have done, if I had a dishwasher.

That plate needs a resting period first.
Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics
... and Boeing used to be the shining example in the field until they were reverse-acquired by McDonnell Douglas, 81 years after their inception. It will be interesting to see where SpaceX is in another 100 years from now and how many mistakes they repeat. IMHO, it's already being run by someone who cares more about profit than technical excellence or safety.
Show HN: I created a skimmable guide to the 35,520 Steam Summer Sale games
I'm a long-time indie dev who's moonlighted at Valve to work on Steam for some years. I've always wanted to improve discovery, as gaming news and social media tend to focus on a small subset of titles at any given time, but gamer interests are so varied, and there are thousands of highly-rated games that don't hit the news. How can I connect those gamers with the right hidden gems?

I've recently shifted my focus from game development to game discovery (separate from any official Steam stuff), and am pleased to share the We Love Every Game Steam Summer Sale guide, which is my stab at making the 35,520-odd games in the Summer Sale (excluding NSFW titles) easy and fun to skim through.

The site is very much a WIP, but I'd love to hear if anyone finds anything new and exciting!
This is the United States and you have every right to claim the system is rigged against you even if it isn't. You even have the right to sue if you believe it. This does not impede the investigation in any way.
Completely agree. There really is not a better one. But, a student bringing in the Greek Old Testament familiar to Paul should be able to participate. And Jewish kids. I find no value in segregating kids into different groups like the way sex ed.
Bingo. Lawn equipment is about the worst potential application for internal combustion engines.
The thing is, they don't have a metric for me to hit. For example, my throughput is the same as the other midlevel dev on the team who is doing well. If it was the metric, I'd be hitting it already (at least according to the only indicator I have for what that metric might be - the other dev doing well).

Some sprints I'll close multiple stories because they don't have impediments. Then I hit sprints where my stories all carry over (yes, I'll have multiple open to fill the downtime, otherwise I'll get even more scrutiny). So my average is good, but my consistency isn't, and is basically beyond my control.
Well, it's really easy to see. When I you search on Google, and go on, say, stackoverflow or medium, you get a ton of context:
- rank of the page
- name of the website where it's posted
- date of the post
- context of the post (comments, replies...)

All this context refines your result, because you know what you interact with. ChatGPT obfuscates all this, and on top of that introduces hallucinations.

For a more explicit example when looking for a code snippet, I can ask ChatGPT to give me the answer, but I more often search for the answer in stackoverflow because I can see if the top answer is from 2016 and probably outdated, and I can see if the top answer has a lot of criticism or praises. chatGPT could just regurgitate the medium post of a junior with bad practices and you'd have no clue about that.
> how can they keep dirt and bacteria out?

They can't. It's statistically impossible. Even operating theaters and clean rooms can't keep every trace bit of dirt or bacteria out. All anyone tries to do is reduce the incidence to below a meaningful threshold.

If the requirement is: either eliminate every last molecule of every offending substance, or use a label that the offending substance may appear in trace amounts... well, everyone is going to opt for the label.
> I think most people learn about loops before they've learned about functions

That may be so, however I was taking issue with the idea that they couldn't possibly understand tail recursive functions first. Many (if not all) of the concepts that loops introduce also get introduced with functions (scoping, regions of code, stack parameters, jump return statements e.g. break/return). The programmers just may not have words for all of them with loops, however these concepts are usually explicitly covered with functions.

Loops are particularly useful in applications of batch processing or indirectly for parallelization (again, actually functions are more useful here), so they may learn them for a business use case first, but that doesn't mean they couldn't learn to master both functions and tail recursive variants first. As a sibling commenter pointed out, if you were to come from math's background you might even naturally prefer this construct.
I think you mean Eggcelent.
In the optimistic case the future won't require any of this licensing because there won't be private information to steal. There are solutions for identity verification without including scans of actual documents. Maybe smartcards will come out in the US at some point.
LOL, reminds me of Latin in school (UK 1940's)
Latin, a dead language,
Lying in the dust,
First it killed the Romans,
Now it's killing us!
New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
They are slant rhymes of one another. B and M are phonetically nearby, as are ia and ih and ao and ou. In no way like hacker news and cake her knees -- but more like hacker news and hagger moos ;)
> My employer is asking me to try out Copilot

this says more about your employer than CoPilot ?
>Inability to update internal implementation details inevitably leads to ossification and obsolescence of the whole system.

No, in practice I think it leads to growing complexity, because the system then adds additional APIs (e.g., v1, v2, v3, etc.) to support new features, but has to continue to maintain the old APIs for backwards compatibility, leading to lots of extra code and a huge maintenance burden.
It depends upon what you are starting with and what you are trying to accomplish. In times past, what you were doing the image editing on also mattered.

Programs like CorelDraw and Inkscape treat anything you draw as an object. If you want to draw a circle, it stores the parameters of the circle (e.g. position, radius, colour) in memory rather than a rasterized version of it. If you want to create a circle that looks like a sphere, you may draw a second circle inside the first circle to serve as the highlight, then connect the circles using a blend to create the gradient effect. If you don't like the position of the highlight, you move the second circle and the blend will be automatically adjusted. If you don't like the colour, you select each circle and adjust the colours. Of course, you don't have to limit yourself to colours. The circle could contain bitmap to end up with a textured sphere. The second circle doesn't have to be a circle either. It could be a crescent shape. I used to create some amazing looking alien planets using these techniques. You don't have to limit yourself to primitive shapes either. Graphics tablets digitize a number of different parameters for strokes. You could create a stroke with the pencil tool, then modify a parameter of that stroke so it looks like it was created by a calligraphy pen or a paint brush.

That description implies an intrinsic limitation: it's greatest utility is in image creation. You could store modifications to a pre-existing raster image in a similar way, but it is not quite as useful. For detailed images, it is also CPU and memory intensive. That's not a huge issue today, but it was a huge issue when people were initially developing the standard image processing techniques.
You can directly count the total amount prescribed opioids through time and adjust for potency.

Purdue Pharma didn’t just manufacture a drug. They did a great deal of behind the scenes manipulating so even people who did not seek out severe pain medication were prescribed extremely high doses.

In terms of long term pain management opioids suck. People need increasing doses over time until the drugs side effects become toxic. Not such a problem in hospice or someone in an ambulance after a major accident, but handing them to people with chronic conditions guarantees a downward spiral. Perdue Pharma knew this, strait up lied about it, and even pleaded guilty to mislabeling OxyContin.
Developer productivity is about leveraging developer context into more stuff while making the developer do fewer things.

Automate and shift left.
The problem is that naive lawmakers/voters believed that forcing companies to say “may cause cancer” or “may contain allergens” would be enough to cause customers to flee or enough to shame the companies into changing their products, but in reality, companies feel no shame and just happily add whatever labels they need to and continue to sell their shit.

Forcing disclosure doesn’t stop companies from doing bad things they have to disclose.
Australia's giant lizards help save sheep from being eaten alive
I had a relative who excelled in Latin in high school and then found it a huge benefit in the natural sciences later, so much of the terminology originated in Latin. The same is likely true in the field of law as well.
Opinions like this are why I’m glad I don’t live in the USA anymore. Live practically anywhere else, where there is no opioid crisis, and this line of thinking sounds insane. Copy paste for other uniquely American issues like gun violence - the answer is… more guns?
> We have definitely need a term, more accurate than source-available

I think you mean more marketable. "Source available" is extremely accurate and descriptive. It's not as sexy, though, and that's the real reason people in favor of broadening what "open source" means don't like to use the available alternatives that actually apply. They want the shine of "open source" without having to meet the criteria. This isn't a problem of language. It's a problem of a group motivated by self-interests wanting something that is directly at odds with what their marks want. Not unlike, for example, used car dealers wanting to put their ads in the "for sale by owner" section and being unhappy about being excluded because it means because of all the people who will only see ads by folks who aren't dealers, when that's the whole point. See also: men who can't hit on women in spaces where men aren't allowed.
Depends on the feature. In 99% of cases, I'd prefer an engineer to launch it and have the change tracked by source control
Yes, precisely. The escalating complexity, maintenance burden and constraints eventually cause the whole system to lose momentum, lose support and become obsolete.
It's only fraud if the other party (Medicare in this case) is tricked. They expect this kind of pricing/discounting.
You said:

>I don't understand people who think the Sacklers are villains who destroyed lives, but Purdue should continue operating more-or-less as-is. Which is, I think, the conclusion from this settlement. If this is you, can you help me understand? Do you think there is/was a realistic way to prescribe opioids routinely and safely?

As GP noted, that is not the conclusion of the settlement - not even close. If you want to better understand comments on this page, perhaps reply to them asking for clarity?
Everything I Knew About Stretching Was Wrong
It's much deeper than that. Just go to r/teachers on Reddit some time. We have just stopped enforcing standards as a society.
The thing is what exactly is "unrelated" ? If you want just quality unrelated videos then just check the most popular ones on a topic or in your country.
If you don't care about quality then just find a YouTube randomizer (I'm pretty sure it exists)

But I'm pretty sure it's super rare to find something that is unpopular, that fits your tastes, and that is unrelated to your history, all 3 at the same time
The issue is not about feature flags then.

It's stakeholders not giving engineers necessary time for upkeep, probably caused by engineers lacking ownership, or failing to communicate
I get your point, but:

1. Good Friday is a stock exchange holiday. This reinforces you argument, but admits that business is not the secular unifying force we’ve been taught.

3. If I recite the Pledge of Allegiance from before Feb 12, 1948, without that phrase, what will I be accused of?
I wish you well but the name is unintuitive (Why fair? Is there an unfair source?) and the definition¹ is vague.

1. Fair Source is software that is safe for companies to share and developers to use. It's best for a company's core products, not shared infrastructure.
Ironically I was just thinking earlier today how the most valuable Google products to me are YouTube and Android... and that's it.

I gave up on Chrome a decade ago, going back to Firefox. I don't use Google for search anymore, I do use Gmail but I also got Protonmail so could easily migrate the Gmail traffic there.

A lot of non-techies I know have complained for some time how Google search sucks, and while a lot use Chrome it seems to be mainly inertia.

Not saying Google is dying, but it seems vulnerable for disruption.
Why aren't you just ... paying the 100$ a year to sign your app?
Wdym, the whole comment or just that statement? If you meant the statement, then yeah. I was just offering the context for my usage of copilot. Essentially a solution in search of an unstated problem.
The only thing that works well for me is: thinking hard (ie: writing some definitions, asking questions, editing, repeat) and then writing some code. Then repeat.

When working on a team, splitting up work across modules/contexts/domains works well. I’ll give you an API you tell me what works well, what you still need from it, what errors there are; I’ll address them.

Nothing works better than trust and autonomy. I don’t tell you how to do your job, you don’t tell me how to do mine. You want me on the team because of my expertise and some of my values overlap with everyone else’s.

When working alongside non-technical folks, communication and trust is key.

Trying to quantify developer productivity and sell a system is what the snake-oil hucksters have been selling since the 90s. Management consultants, process engineers, whatever you want to call them. They’re selling something.

We’re knowledge workers. We’re not manufacturing cars or widgets. We learn. We design. We think. Our output is knowledge, not widgets.
Ray Kurzweil is (still, somehow) excited about humans merging with machines
Agree. A lot of non documented processes lives only in the heads of certain people. I remember conversations like

"you know how to access the server? ssh it's not working"

"Oh yeah about that, ask Josh in the 3rd floor, he knows how to deal with it, requieres an extra step, and nobody had the time to fix the confluence article"

Then Josh gets layoff or changes jobs and the rest of the team has to deal with it. Good luck for those who remain.
http://archive.today/7eZD7
Reducing the levels of allergens in food very likely has the side effect of promoting food allergies in children, due to lack of exposure during development. That's a strong negative consequence.
> It specifically recommends against breaking the law.

It's so kind of them.

Otherwise yes, any trick that ends up in a popular book would probably not be that useful for people actually trying to flee from law enforcement. Or it would be some super vague advice in the tune of "don't leave traces of you being there".
thank you, captain obvious

now explain if it's higher performance of JS or WAT
This feels like it’s going the way of prop 65. To be on the safe side, everything gets the label, thus making the label pointless -it no longer helps differentiating things.
Lol fentanyl is more toxic by an order or two of magnitude. People would be on prescription opioids, lose a script, get on heroin because that was 4 to 8 times cheaper and more available than black market pills. The fentanyl crisis is a phenomenon between cheap imported precursor and Cartel economics.

The synthetic opioid demand in the US was a result of a chain of events including the purposeful stimulation of demand by marketing directly to Drs, lying about abuse potential, lying about withdrawal and addiction potential, and not introducing mediating controls when evidence of abuse and sales not meeting market demographics was clearly evident. Like they imported millions of pills to small towns with over selling pharmacies. Drs would up dosage to adjust to tolerance.
But anyway it’s fentanyl that is killing people. I’d argue just let people use opium and regulate that sale.

Edit: changed and to an. Chinese precursor to imported precursor bc I honestly don’t know how many different countries are sources of a precursor. Added part about importing to small towns and upping dosage.
That's not a feature flag, that's a feature of the product. I would keep the 2 very distinct.
Why I Resigned From The Anthropic Board
> If these facilities cannot keep unwanted visible particulates like sesame out of their products, how can they keep dirt and bacteria out?

They seemingly cant. There is a federally allowable amount of rat droppings allowed in food and it is non-zero!
An open source MySQL plugin for storing and querying vector embeddings
> Take-home fentanyl is probably unnecessary

Nah, a friend and colleague needed fentanyl lollipops at one point. You'd be at lunch and he's like "Oh I can't eat food, they had to remove my entire stomach" sucking on the lollipop, and he'd calmly explain that you mustn't touch his weird lollipop because while he can suck on it for a normal person the dose from doing so would be fatal, he'd just used so many strong painkillers for so long that it was now necessary because the painkillers they give regular people did nothing.

Weaned himself off eventually too. Amazing willpower, probably related to why he's not dead.
Maybe Indiehackers should write short stories instead of novels [video]
> Improbable did. But who cares? Why do we care about compatible third party implementations? The gRPC maintainers merge third party contributions. They care. Everyone should be working on one implementation.

Until they get fired by Google.
Cool read. Makes sense.
As Iran Picks a President, a Nuclear Shift: Open Talk About Building the Bomb
I'm curious about the quantization quality claims in the table there. Is this a Gemma 2 specific thing (more subtlety in the weights somehow?). In my testing and testing I've seen elsewhere at least for llama3 8B (and some less rigorous testing with other models) q_8 -> q4_K_M are basically indistinguishable from one another?
They arent stranded, they are just resting!
Doesn’t this open up the market for a newcomer to make verified sesame-free bread?
What about the Flying Spaghetti Monster ?
The sole reason I like feature flags is that I can quickly toggle off a change if it causes a problem. I'd hate to need to find someone to sign off on restoring service. Anything more than 1 or 2 clicks is just adding precious seconds to an outage. I've worked at places that gave broad implicit approval to developers to toggle away as needed. It worked well.
The second is azure sql only.
Looks cool even though closed source makes me wary.

Trying to save Anthropic API key on Arch Linux doesn't do anything and there's a message "If you're experiencing problems saving API keys especially on Linux, contact Discord", if it's so common problem maybe you should have a link with possible fixes? Adding another Discord server and searching for answers for a question that clearly has been asked often enough feels like quite a hurdle for testing it out.
Chrome will distrust CA certificates from Entrust later this year
1. Medicaid, 2. Medicare, 3. Military, 4. VA, 5. Indian Health Services

Maybe 6 is Medicaid through a managed care plan.
There is no criminal underclass of convicted billionaire sociopaths. What are you talking about? Of course it won't happen if we continue to permit, excuse, and enable their behavior while crying about how hard life is.