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Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network' (164 points, 18 hours ago, 414 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42327272

Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO (62 points, 9 hours ago, 57 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332347
One of the main issues that enterprise AI has is the data in large corporations. It's typically a nightmare of fiefdoms and filesystems. I'm sure that a lot of companies would love to use AI more, both internally and commercially. But first they'd have to wrangle their own systems so that OpenAI can ingest the data at all.

Unfortunately, those are 5+ year projects for a lot of F500 companies. And they'll have to burn a lot of political capital to get the internal systems under control. Meaning that the CXO that does get the SQL server up and running and has the clout to do something about non-compliance, that person is going to be hated internally. And then if it's ever finished? That whole team is gonna be let go too. And it'll all just then rot, if not implode.

The AI boom for corporations is really going to let people know who is swimming naked when it comes to internal data orderliness.

Like, you want to be the person that sell shovels in the AI boom here for enterprise? Be the 'Cleaning Lady' for company data and non-compliance. Go in, kick butts, clean it all up, be hated, leave with a fat check.
I've recently found that the N5105 is cutting my HFC in half due to not being powerful enough to handle 1000/50 with IDP/IDS, so guess what I had to order to replace it :-D

looking forward to setting up the N100
> In other words, they're applying years of hard-won engineering wisdom to shape and constrain the AI's output.

This. Junior devs are f*cked. I don't know how else to say it.
Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith?
Agreed. On re-read, my prior comment sounds almost negative towards React's lack of opinions.

That couldn't be further from the truth! While I appreciated having a path laid out for me when I stated out, 10 years end I much prefer forging a path myself.

Mastering these tools, and leveraging my own creativity in how I use them, is much more enjoyable.
This is the equivalent of the consumption of roughly 1k to 2k inhabitants for one day in winter.
Small-scale investors are building Vietnam's EV charging network
Poe.com goes straight to login page, doesn't want to divulge ANY information to me before I sign up. No About Us or Product description or Pricing - nothing. Strange behavior. But seeing it more and more with modern web sites.
OS/2 was so far superior to Windows in 1992 that it wasn't even funny. Nevertheless, my company gave up on OS/2 and we had to port our Smalltalk application to Windows 3 instead. Someone had to explain segmented 16-bit addressing to me, and I was totally appalled.

Fortunately, Windows 95 came out a few years later with the Win32 API and I pretty much forgot about OS/2 after that. I still feel a bit guilty, though.
It's at the point where I can see the shadow of my car at night when one of these vehicles is behind me. Bright white light along the road to both of my sides and a giant ass shadow that makes it seem like I don't even have my lights on.
I have their Titan magnet in a ring finger. Unlike all other magnet implants it does not degrade at all because it has a titanium casing, so it will last good as new until I die or remove it.

I can feel AC with it very easily, because the magnet vibrates. Microwaves and laptop charger bricks are fun. There's a little gadget [1], literally just an inductor soldered to a USB-C connector, that you can plug into your phone and test your sensitivity with. Having a literal sixth sense is the coolest thing in the world to me and I haven't gotten tired of it at all about a year post install.

I also have their Next in the same hand that I use to get into my apartment everyday and have a link to my website on (has both RFID and NFC)

[1] https://github.com/AxelFougues/Lodestone-biomagnet-tools
It's far more that "regulatory capture" is the root cause here. That Boeing knowingly and deliberately played fast and loose with the rules around how the 737 MAX was certified and got away with it because they had outsize influence with the FAA.

It's not exactly capitalism, but it is a regulatory failure that exposes the corruption of the institutions that oversee Boeing. Corruption is the cause.
Why is Yellen crying loud about "overcapacity" in China then? According to market principles, overcapacity is good and people will get cheaper goods. Maybe US has overcapacity of WMDs.
I came here to comment the same!
R&D funding provided by IBM wasn't classified as "profit". The Windows NT code base didn't use much from OS/2. In the end OS/2 was mostly worthless garbage to be thrown away; it had some good functionality in a few limited areas but was essentially a "local maximum" and had no viable path forward. If anyone wanted to turn OS/2 into a viable modern OS they would have had to start over from scratch.
Well the process isn't quite the same, they are missing the immense value-add of substantial human suffering in their creation.
The problem is user experience. It's still very much a chatbot... To justify that amount, it needs to integrate a lot more with an employee's day-to-day tools such as code editor for SWE, the browser for quickbooks, words/sheets/powerpoint, salesforce, HR tools, and so on.
You can take the raw SQL string and pass it--at compile time, treating the database itself as part of the product you are linking against (and it doesn't have to be the full production one: it can be a local one built from the artifacts in the repository)--to the database server along with the types of the input placeholders and it should be able to tell you the types of the output columns in the result set. I've implemented this before as a macro for Clojure and it was a godsend.
No, this is mostly the story of a small local airport that was dingy becoming more modern and airy. But it has nowhere near the traffic, amenities, or experience of Changi.
They're probably lay an adult, so I would guess not.
This seems to lead to a broader "dancing in the street" moment, left,right and center?
In the 1999 classic Galaxy Quest, the plucky underdogs fail to stop the countdown in time, only to find that nothing happens when it reaches zero, because it never did in the narratives, so the copy cats had no idea what it should do after that point.
The paper should've used a better title, for example this line from their abstract itself:

> "people may systematically underestimate the informational benefit of conversation".

Anyway, +1 for the paper.
> First, Diona's mom sucks (is it legal to kick out a 17-year-old child? Then again, maybe you don't want to live with a mom who is so disagreeable she'd kick out her single-mom daughter and baby.)

It is generally not legal to fail to provide housing for minors you are the parent of. That would be child neglect. So you can kick them out, but only if you arrange for an alternative.
Return value is not needed, so just "call away" -- asynchronously.

I guess this means when a return value is used, the call is synchronous, and after running the method processing resumes where things left off.
Here's the high pressure, high temperature process, in China.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMkcetAiV4
> Wouldn't positive wording be more appropriate given the public response?

Encouraging murder is generally frowned upon.
> Stare at sheet music your whole life, and your brain starts to predict sheet music anywhere.

Sounds like the Tetris effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
You forgot:

d) Stop the anaesthesia and continue the procedure with you regaining consciousness.
I've been wondering about this. They'll still get that hard-won engineering wisdom that comes from watching AI agents code badly, deploy it, and have it fail---as much as we'd like it to be otherwise, engineering wisdom often comes from experience, not just from hearing stories from senior devs.

I guess the question is whether this role is still employable.
This is not a thing. You cannot simply continue surgery with less anesthesia. The issue here is that CMS has guidelines for the anesthesia requirements for different procedures, and anesthesiologists have become notoriously for surprise billing for much higher amounts than those guidelines.

Again: this is a dispute about bills patients don't pay. The most routine imaginable surgeries --- appendectomies, laparoscopic gall bladder removals --- all have average costs that greatly exceed average out-of-pocket caps for insurance.
You just hit the chatGPT api for every row of data. Obviously. (Only 70% joking.)
I hadn’t heard of an unconference before, sounds like a cool idea. I’m a longtime enjoyer of Oxide and Friends, so looking forward to the event!

Also what the hell is Fishpong, I will be looking into that.
I don’t think this information should be hidden. I hope others create sites that make clear who the leaders are that may be causing harm to them, by just parsing their filings. There should be accountability. And while I am not a fan of laws being broken for that accountability, let’s also be honest: being denied claims in illegal, or at least deeply unethical ways, is an experience MOST American adults have been through. These insurance companies make profit by denying the service you think you’re paying for. Normally that’s called stealing but when a company does it under direction from their CEO, it’s somehow legal. But when it comes to life and death situations of patient health, it’s a lot worse than just stealing.
That's a not-uncommon "security" feature $bigco will add as a requirement for buying software as well.

Honestly, it's not a terrible policy if you're working with privileged information. A contact mine had with a big insurance company required a 30 minute inactivity logout I think.

OTOH if your job is filling out spreadsheets and forms for a retailer and you don't even have access to customer info, it's way overkill.

Nuance tends to be the first thing tossed out the window when dealing with $bigco though, too many people to manage smartly.
> GitLab was the first code host to add more products (CI, security, ops, helpdesk, analytics, etc.) and create a whole suite, and GitHub followed.

Disclaimer: I've worked with Sid and his team in the past.

Few people realize how long it's been since GitLab was a simple clone -- there has been a ton of legitimate net new innovation, and that happened under Sid (and of course all the awesome people working at GitLab).

Another thing that's actually insanely under-discussed is how openly GitLab runs and how that's been a successful model for them. I'm not sure I know another open core company that has been so successful in the space of developers who bend over backwards to pay nothing and spend hours of their own time (read $$$$$) to host their own <X>.

IMO they are the only credible competitor to GitHub, and they're open core, huge open source orgs, small companies, and large companies trust them (rightfully so), and they've built this all while being incredibly open and to this day you can still self-host their core software (which is a force multiplier for software companies).
It was pushed upon me by management. I would have opted for Svelte or Lit. So I hate it, I hate writing code in it, I hate that it wants to control all your DOM, I hate how they "re-invented" HTML with JSX components and how the code now looks like PHP, as JS wasn't annoying enough by itself. I hate how it makes accompishing even simple things a PITA. At least I can use Vite and not bother with their opinionated tooling. There you have it, these are some reasons for all the hate if you had to ask.
The first case that came to my mind was Daniel Penny.
i've certainly never been counted towards that unemployment metric any time I've been unemployed. Am I not part of the labor force? The metric only counts people who actively apply for unemployment relief. So either I'm not part of the labor force—doubtful, as I'm employed—or "unemployment" doesn't mean "wants a job and doesn't have one".

Simply: the way the federal government employs the word "unemployment" is, at best, disingenuous; I suspect it is intentional, though, to obscure the intent to leave some part of the population without employment to keep the labor market weak.
Yes and no. Like, is there a guy who decides who to kick out of the intramural softball league? Probably yes. But people will see that it's happened and talk about it, and if it was unreasonable then at some point they'll have a word with the guy, and maybe oust him or start their own splinter league or what have you. All of which is sort of possible on reddit up to a point, but those mechanisms are much less functional because the only community interaction is the subreddit itself where the moderator can just silently remove any posts they don't like.
This went over my head in some spots, but I learned a few things while looking up some of things mentioned. I respect the deep knowledge reflected in making this work, especially in such a seemingly elegant way. I see the appeal of a minimal and mostly stateless system, but I do not yet have the confidence to maintain something like this.
They sign business associate agreements. It's good enough for HIPAA compliance.
I’m a big critic of OpenAI generally, I know a lot about their board members and it’s dim light between them and war criminals.

With that said, I strictly approve of them doing real price discovery on inference costs. Claude is dope when it doesn’t fuck up mid-response, and OpenAI is the gold standard on “you query with the token budget, you get your response”.

I’ve got a lot of respect for the folks who made it stand up to that load: it’s a new thing and it’s solid AF.

I still think we’d be fools to trust these people, but my criticisms are bounded above by acknowledging good shit and this is a good play.
What I'm failing to understand in your argument is how this relates to the scheduled end time for the surgery which presumably can be different from the actual end time. If X hours are planned and it takes X+2 hours, who pays for the 2 hours? If the insurance doesn't pay for it, what does the out of pocket maximum have to do with it? Are the anaesthesiologists just legally compelled to finish the procedure without billing for the extra time? If so, what incentive does this create vs. simply negotiating down the rate?
These companies also outsource to middlemen companies that do some of the claim denying dirty work for them (see evicore). That’s why they all universally provide a bad service. But I have to say, Aetna is by a long shot worse than others. Look up stories of moms being denied coverage for a routine delivery. Aetna seems to regularly deny first, and then force these exhausted and vulnerable women through long drawn out appeals process. It’s just a way for them to delay payments and change their cash flow. Executives should be in jail.
>In view of their genetic similarity to seals there was a fear that dog distemper might mutate and cross over into the seal population.

Sounds crazy. Does someone know, how realistic this was. Is there more evolutionary pressure in Antarctica to make that happen? Are those seals closer genetically? Could this happen elsewhere?
For a frozen open air cemetery, I direct your attention to Mount Everest.

Your odds of dying while climbing it are better than while attempting suicide. And most of the bodies just...stay.
I read it as trying to include the middle-ground, the maybes and the kindas and the it-depends-ers.

NIMBY would would be a more-exclusive label indicating a smaller subset.
None of this has anything to do with what's actually happening in the OR. The most common surgery performed in the US is a laparoscopic appendectomy. The low end of the average cost of that appendectomy as an outpatient procedure significantly exceeds out-of-pocket caps for insurance.

* This is not money you were ever going to pay.

* There is no such thing as cutting anesthesia off early because of a billing dispute.

You are getting rolled by a professional trade group for some of the most highly compensated, well-off people in the American economy. We might just as well take up arms against the rapacious costs of M&A litigation in the finance industry.
I think it's very reasonable to draw a distinction between dumb technology and digital technology, and I suspect almost anyone you talk to would understand that distinction without being precious about it.

Even though I understand your point, technology is technology, I understood what GP meant too.
> the real killer for this proposal is that it creates a new mechanism for rich people or corporations to take work away from others.

There's two ways you could mean this:
1. A rich guy really likes your IP, for personal reasons; he's willing to pay a bunch of money for the rights to it.

2. A rich guy making business decisions thinks he can profit at someone's expense from owning large swathes of IP; he swoops in and buys it all up, to the detriment of the public.

Case #1 could absolutely happen under the harberger IP scheme. If Elon Musk decides he likes your cartoon, he can buy it at your declared price, and say it's his, and everyone will say "yes, Elon, that is yours."
But Elon Musk already does that every day; he's constantly cropping the watermark off some cartoon or other and posting it on X, and everyone says "yes, Elon, that is yours." The only difference under the harberger IP scheme is that the artist actually gets his declared value for the cartoon from Elon.

Case #2 is what the harberger IP scheme is designed to facilitate, but it's not taking work away from others--it's buying the products that others have created, at the price at which the owner is willing to sell. This is what professional artists want. There's nothing here that would allow rich people or corporations to profit in some way that normal people cannot.
I was just highlighting a scenario of cantillon effect on the back of reserve currency status. But such a convergence of factors is possible, don't you think? Or atleast it could play out in this manner.
Good points!

I think I'm just coming to terms (in a public forum) with the bleak fates of animals that humans transport, ie. to the ends of the Earth.
Spolsky's Camels and Rubber Duckies
I agree that the board's lack of technical expertise is an issue, but I think the root issue is - and hear me out, because this sounds ridiculous - the vibes.

At the end of the day, a company is a machine to turn employee labor into revenue. Intel has clearly been a sinking ship for years now. What kind of people work at a failing company? What kind of people serve on its board? Is this portrait of the board not a portrait of any other failing business?
I understand what React does. My point is that what it does is unnecessary for the vast majority of websites, and I stand by this.

> Compare it with the nightmare of JQuery, where any line of code can affect any UI for whatever reason.

False dichotomy, and a somewhat strange one, given jQuery and React aren't even remotely aimed at solving the same problem?

You're free to stick to a functional paradigm in JS without requiring the overhead of React (and all the cruft that tends to pile up around React - build systems, compile times, masses of dependencies, the inevitable CVEs for those dependencies, etc.)

But more importantly, I'd respectfully note that you're pre-supposing that UI state rightly lives in JavaScript, which is a point of view already limited by framework-centric assumptions.
This man indirectly killed thousands and left many more sick and destitute. His policies have made countless families mourn. His life had negative value. I celebrate its end.
Market cap are by no means an indicator of the future of a company! I bought AMD shares when their market cap was 20x smaller than today and everyone was telling me that AMD didn't stand a single chance vs Intel. I'm pretty sure that you were that guy then.
I tried using gleam for real work the other day and found myself really enjoying it. It's a cool language and surprisingly productive coming at it with no experience with OTP or the BEAM.

I know it's a me issue, but I got stumped by how inefficient it is to write code that handles linked lists in some cases. As far as I can tell, there's no built-in array or anything more convenient. I had to write a function to find items at indices, haha.

I looked through the docs and it seems like I'm not missing anything. I'm clearly too accustomed to web development

https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/list.html
Between the pandemic (no real mentorship, terrible discipline, rampant cheating) and the productivity gains for seniors, the next generation of juniors will need a lot of help.
I’m less sure. This seems like an asymmetrical battle with a lot more money flowing to develop the models that write than detect.
Microsoft hired Dave Cutler to develop WinNT. Prior to that, he worked on VMS.
https://app.hearth.ai/login?ak=418914c6fd39728416f89f7dcb718...
Most log collection systems do not compress logs as they send them, because again, why would they? This would instantly turn their firehose of revenue cash down to a trickle. Any engineer suggesting such a feature would be disciplined at best, fired at worst. Even if their boss is naive to the business realities and approves the idea, it turns out that it's weirdly difficult in HTTP to send compressed requests. See: https://medium.com/@abhinav.ittekot/why-http-request-compres...

HTTP/2 would also improve efficiency because of its built-in header compression feature, but again, I've not seen this used much.

The ideal would be to have some sort of "session" cookie associated with a bag of constants, slowly changing values, and the schema for the source tables. Send this once a day or so, and then send only the cookie followed by columnar data compressed with RLE and then zstd. Ideally in a format where the server doesn't have to apply any processing to store the data apart from some light verification and appending onto existing blobs. I.e.: make the whole thing compatible with Parquet, Avro, or something other than just sending uncompressed JSON like a savage.
Sorry, I meant in an actual corporate (ie, Windows) environment, not conceptually.
Anon for reasons. I worked with Bill at Microsoft. Bill was fired from Microsoft along with most of his cronies who almost managed to completely tank Azure.

He is the guy responsible for the absolute train wreck that was the Azure portal v2 (post silver light) and v3 (Ibiza). He lied to Scott Guthrie, buried efforts to benchmark or in any way measure CSAT or usability, and stabbed many many people in the back.

Dude was also borderline incompetent.

His partner and buddy in the whole fraud was Jonah Sterling who managed to continue to get promoted and is one of the top design leaders at Microsoft despite having zero UX/UI/Interaction skills or knowledge and costing Microsoft years of wasted effort and ruining many design careers by overpromoting his directs to boost his own career trajectory.

After working with so many Microsoft execs who were either astoundingly incompetent or downright malicious people - it saddens me every time I see another one get named to a csuite of another company.
Can you be a bit more explicit in describing what the problems were? I don't immediately see why that wouldn't apply way more to Windows at the time.
I did not use OS/2 much, but.. I did write some communication software so that we could work on a remote computer (this was via X.25, which was the option at the time for companies staying connected), and that was easy. Modern, I would say. Thread model easy to work with. I wrote a DMA driver as well. Again, a great API to work with, and overall a good experience.
The user interface (GUI)? Any problems? A roadblock for the future? Can't really remember how it worked, but again - compared with Windows (even NT, which came about later), I can't recall anything "worthless garbage" with no path forward.