skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are you saying the doctors contracted to review the treatments need access to the clients insurance policies in order to make a decision on whether the treatment is appropriate? For what purpose? My, arguably naive, understanding is that the reviewer should only need to provide two things for the adjuster to take it from there; whether the treatment is appropriate, and alternative potentially cheaper treatment options. If there are alternative potentially cheaper treatment options available, those should be discussed with the care provider and ruled out.

I just don't understand why the reviewing doctors report is required to take into account the policies of the contracting insurance firm?
One costs $60/year, the other is over $2M/year and not tested and not widely used outside the US
The full 30 minutes of "The Way Things Go": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAVrSSNfHw
I'm doing it out of historical interest. I was doing it for that reason when I was 12, as well, and I'm the same age as the C64. It does not change the perception of my own age in any way; rather, I have the feeling of operating a little ROV that I've sent through the TimeStargate(TM) into the mid-1970s.
> .41 and .42 were triggered directly from the repository. One was triggered by the UltralyticsAssistant account and included a human bypass, which strongly suggests that the attacker controlled (and maybe still controls) that bot account.

Ah, but if they controlled the bot then didn't they have other problems too? If that is the case, then disregard my comment. I was under the impression that this was not the attacker.

> That would be search.sigstore.dev, unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

No, that's it in theory I suppose. I did try this but when I used the commit I thought triggered the release (cb260c243ffa3e0cc84820095cd88be2f5db86ca) I did not see it show up.
Samsung is much closer second to TSMC, not Intel. And in any case, we have gone so small that quantum effects have started creeping in. My guess is that 5-10 years from now everyone would be converged to 5% of each other, unless something drastically changes in fabrication process.
there's a list with common commands you might want to run: https://mise.jdx.dev/walkthrough.html

if you post an issue/discussion about the python thing I'd love to investigate it a bit
> No argument from me other than to say: you've just described every public-private partnership, ever.

This is patently untrue. The entity that paid for my 2yr college was a public-private partnership. It was administered by the Dept of Labor. The private end was a mix of businesses and philanthropy that wanted to better align education and careers.

Funding was predicated on students completing degrees and a period of related employment. It was tremendously successful. It was also immediately axed when the 'Contract with America' took effect.
What Would Revolutionize EdTech? Seeking Ideas and Feedback
I’m working on an EdTech startup for YC W25 and am curious to hear your thoughts. What do you think would truly revolutionize education technology?

Are there tools or platforms you wish existed as a parent, student, or educator? What’s missing in the current landscape that could make learning more effective, engaging, or accessible?

I’d also love to hear ideas about what kids specifically need—whether it’s in terms of content, accessibility, or experiences.

Your insights would be invaluable as I refine my product. Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!
> So, it’s very important that some of the first words you want to get people to hear are the words good, bad, right, wrong, normal, abnormal, should, shouldn’t, have to, and can’t

How can you manipulate the first words that people hear if you’re not a super powerful conspirator?
I’m astonished that Verizon didn’t charge separately for installation. Seems like it would take many years months of service to recoup the cost.
> others need the abstraction before the examples provide the most benefit

Would anyone need examples if they understand the abstraction? They can stamp out their own examples, can't they?

Needing examples after you've a grasp at the abstraction would be like saying 'I need help coming down this zip line', where as discovering or arriving at the abstraction is the result of working through and distilling n number of examples. To relate to the analogy, that's like climbing the hill in the first place.
In a way, they're just cutting out the middle-man. Instead of financing politicians to do what they want, they're grabbing political posts for themselves.
As a Chinese speaker I agree that the historic problems are indeed heavily weaponized in the patriotic propaganda, and I don't care about these at all personally.

However, there are people that do care much more about these, in particular in the older generation from my personal experience. Probably the propaganda was more effective before China's opening up.
In addition, Japan also have some conflicts from historical reasons with South Korean, which is an ally to Japan (and to the US).
Sports are good at distinguishing drills from practice. Practice is meant to look almost like real play. Drills are something you do so practice goes better, and to narrow your window of harm in practice.

I put, for instance, TDD in the drills category. I don’t think you should live in TDD. nor do I think you should avoid TDD because someone said they thought it wasn’t a viable lifestyle choice. You should do it for a while every six months or a year to knock the cobwebs off and remind you what sort of tests you’re going to need and write code that complements good tests, rather than fighting them.

DRY is a bit more complex. I think DRY in unit and integration tests is a slow death. Tests should be DAMP because requirements change, and so do languages, frameworks and libraries. DAMP avoids the sunk cost fallacy which I’ve seen nerd snipe too many people. Test isn’t useful anymore? Just delete it. Or replace it. Boom, done.
Having a MMU, even one without support for virtual memory, would have increased the number of transistors in the CPU and,

For graphics and sounds abstracting that without adding many more transistors would have enormously slowed down graphics and sound generation (for example, even on the more powerful PC, which had a BIOS to abstract away writing text to the screen, programs had to bypass that and write directly to screen memory to get decent performance)

So, short-term, it only had disadvantages.
If you need the upgraded performance, you can pay a bit more and get the ESP32 equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4Z4YG4H/

Personally, I've found the ESP8266 version adequate in the year I've owned it.
I use it many times per day as my primary means of communication outside work, and while it’s not perfect, I prefer it over all the alternatives.

But yeah, it’s “done” in many ways, and idle product managers and business developers are rarely a good thing for a product.
not true, Insurance Pharmacies Doctors and Hospitals all work together.

The high list prices you see are only exist there to scare uninsured/underinsured Americans and to force them to buy/pay more expensive insurance.

As soon as you get treated, these list prices magically get reduced on the backend by factor of 2-3x.

Doctors themselves cannot price gouge patients, but they can price gouge via middleman (insurance).
The same procedure that costs $50 will be billed to insurance as $500 procedure.

same with pharma drugs, there is a very complex system in place to keep the face of expensive prices, while keeping a system of rebates/discounts/pre-negotiated contracts between each big player.

Americans are simply getting taken for a ride and their money being stolen by Pharma+Hospitals and Insurance is simply acting as a financial middleman.

Also insurance literally FORCES americans to work, because thats the only way to get affordable health insurance. Aint noone is paying COBRA (list prices). If you do you are stupid and throwing money away.

American population is being squeezed and extracted of their labor due to system that forces you to work to stay alive and healthy.

for comparison, just go to Thailand or Vietnam to any of the private hospitals: you can get the same western standard treatment but for pennies (the actual cost of care). This is the healthcare that Americans COULD have, but unfortunately the American system would lose too much money so Americans are not allowed to have affordable health care.

A lot of things in America is simply regulatory capture and requires Americans to keep ignorant of what they could have, what other countries enjoy, but Americans are not allowed to
> I haven't heard of any cases where somebody cracked the OS security and accessed user data.

https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/endpoint-security/new...
I don't think anyone anywhere should cater to suppression of Tiananmen Square, and think 100% of the fault lies on the active act of censorship, not the morally and ethically positive act of making a government attrocity visible. I guess I don't care "why"... color me crazy.

Censorship goes away, problem goes away. End of story for me.
Tbh just having to install node ensures I'll never use this. At least use something like python that's already on my system!
> By their very concept, they are unconditional and inalienable.

That is just the theoretical approach. The fact that someone says that human rights are unconditional and inalienable does not mean that they are so in practice.

It is the execution of those human rights, including prevention, education, and punishment, that makes them seem unconditional and inalienable. How do you execute human rights or facilitate their execution in a situation, where they are neither unconditional nor inalienable in practice?
When I was younger, I used to roll my eyes at older guys who would seemingly do the same and old thing everyday.

Today, I am that older guy seemingly doing the same and old thing everyday as younger guys roll their eyes at me.

I'm getting too old for this.
I don't think US and friends would have any problem with them having a successful economy if they didn't use it to attack and threaten other countries.
We actually have no sure idea what the motives of the individual were.

There's the obvious angle.

Then, maybe Thompson paid someone to kill him, so his family could get an insurance payout.

Maybe Thompson was fucking the shooter's ex girlfriend, and he wanted to mislead investigators as to why Thompson was killed.

Maybe it's a Russian operation to sow discord in the US.

Etc
Hashes with that property are just a special case of one-way functions.
Patients must be incentivized to understand their care and question care that is unnecessary and wasteful. The partial solution you mention is the way to go, and if every employer adopted it, it will change the culture, and will at that point become a full solution.
VictoriaLogs: A Grafana Dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – Migrating from Grafan
Nope, it was a Linux project.
Anyone dealing with "conservatives" IRL know that they come from a cesspool of dog whistles, religious fundamentalism, and invented victim complexes. Personally, I have had several ugly experiences with people like that in the dev community, usually by so-called Libertarians, who don't seem to have read anything outside high-school level Ayn Rand nonsense, and who've confused understanding Software with overall smartness.

Codes of conduct are useful because they give a community the tool set for preventing the warping that these people cause on their surroundings.
Marvell has a fraction of the revenue, so I assume this is just a verdict on which company has better growth prospects? I mean, that's always true of market valuations, but: could have been the case whether or not Intel was hitting its marks?
And then, the certified programs would be rapidly pushed off the market by much faster programs that directly accessed the hardware (that’s what happened for the IBM PC)
I think US healthcare is an outlier in terms of its poor outcomes-per-dollar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...
I've seen defender be the cause of all those things that the grandparent listed
Sometimes they are fun, like in Portal.

But I saw the remake of Shadow of the Colossus had achievements for killing the colossi, and it really fucks up the mood of the game.
The point of single payer is to tell doctors and patients unambiguously how much they can spend. The free market puts the insurer(s), the provider(s), and the patient in a competition to see who can stick whom with the bill. The savings come more from not doing that than from the insurer's profit margin.
> they would plant them upside down

That makes no sense. It takes more effort to plant a tree upside down and not irrigating it than it takes to plant it the regular way and not irrigating it.
> I'd criticize China but CCP's most repressive aspects seem to be finding widespread appeal here in the US.

And so does Russia, which is another effective repressive dictatorship. From my perspective, they're just exceptionally adapt at pushing their propaganda abroad.

Historically, the USA was the only one doing that, but it's no longer the only player. (To be clear, I meant spreading propaganda abroad. The USA is at least currently not a repressive dictatorship. And I doubt it will become so before I die.)
Laws of Power: Lessons
1) virus database gets updated, what was written virus-free with the previous database may not be virus-free on the current database.

2) removable storage devices

3) the system drive is not controlled during reboots

You could imagine building a system that tracks which files we wrote and with which virus database version, which resets things to be scanned across reboots and virus database updates, and has exceptions for removable devices and so on, but it screams "attack surface"...
> One guy pays the AI to dig a hole, the other guy pays the AI to fill in the hole. Back and forth they go, raising the BNP but otherwise not accomplishing anything.

Not accomplishing anything would be better than what is actually happening. Like with the hole example, once you fill it back up there’s a good chance you can still tell a hole was dug in that place.

What does “BNP” stand for in this context?
Show HN: Uniquely identify any process you run (with o pidfiles)
Codenames is awesome, and this was a neat read.
nah at the scale I'm talking about, if you've shipped a produc but your engineers are increasingly dissatisfied with the effort it takes to ship (and are becoming gun shy because you haven't decoupled things so their outage blast radius is huge), then you are currently failing as a technical leader. And if those things are true and you stick to "one Postgres monolithic DB for everything" you are cargo culting too hard.

You can't just keep "doing things that don't scale" forever. If you have 100+ engineers [1], you aren't a startup anymore no matter your roots.

[1] and remember, my comment that is the ultimate parent of this conversation is about not continuing to do this at 100+. I said nothing about scaling up to that point.
I am pleased to receive your waste!
node is used in a lot of the examples (because it's popular) but mise is written in rust and certainly doesn't require node
If you want to go even deeper, I recommend Andy Grove’s books “High output management” and “Only the paranoid survive”.
GP is rounding. It's an approximate centroid of a variety of numbers over time, but pretty consistently in the 70s or 80s.
> A private file repository with a closed source license is in-facto different than a private file repository with an open source license.

Yes, and "in-facto" is not the same as "de-facto".

De-facto means "describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms". It is not a precise term.

I have some code on my server that I wrote with an MIT license. You have no way of accessing my server, and the code has not been made available elsewhere. You can't even know that the code exists, much less that it has an MIT license. To you, it is for practical purposes the same as closed-source software, in the sense that you cannot obtain the source code of the software, despite it having an open source license. This is an applicable situation for "de facto" by its common meaning.

"Open source" is not even a precisely defined term, although people who are persnickety about the definition refer to the OSI definition, which includes "Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code". By this definition, code with the MIT license held secretly in a private repo is not open source. It became open source when Roman made it public, as was his right to do by the license. The license is one component of what makes software open source, but there are other components as well.
Insurance firms have the unique benefit of being able to offload their costs to their customer base in the form of premiums. That and excess would be the appropriate level to ration in the cost. Is that not verbatim how insurance works?
Is this the best choice if I wanted to wire the outside of entire house?
What's a better word than IC? :-)
Literally no other group has autonomy or aspirations for it.
> When you look at how “IP” is used by firms, a very precise – albeit colloquial – meaning emerges:

> “IP is any law that I can invoke that allows me to control the conduct of my competitors, critics, and customers.”

> That is, in a world of uncertainty, where other people’s unpredictability can erode your profits, mire you in scandal, or even tank your business, “IP” is a means of forcing other people to arrange their affairs to suit your needs, even if that undermines their own needs.

-- Cory Doctorow, IP (Locus, Sep 2020), https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
Network share, the possibility that a client wrote files while the AV software was disabled, etc

I always felt the same way about daily/weekly scans. How would anything get there if your client, server, etc all have AV? At that point it probably wouldn't be caught anyway.
You don't have to install node, or Python. mise is written in rust and distributed as a binary.
You're getting downvoted, but this is exactly the reason people buy it. There is even an economic term for this phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Then the malware is hiding in the system space, which for some reason takes over 70% of all my available memory.

I’ve heard that as systems update, they keep the old stuff around until you run out of memory. I haven’t checked, and I have yet to reset my phone to factory setting, but if that’s what’s really happening, that’s still unacceptable.

One reason for low memory being responsible for slow loading times, is on the fly (de)compression, to save what little memory the phone has left.
Show HN: Sysroot Generator
It's a description of a toxic partnership. Not all partnerships are toxic.
> ISPs tend to oversubscribe these services as well (where you and your 10 neighbors might all be able to sign up for 1Gbps symmetric service, but not everyone can leverage that full 1Gbps at the same time).

How does this work for FTTH? I know nothing about fibre optic networks. I had the impression that each subscriber has their own wavelength, or rather a range of wavelengths that captures their bandwidth, and that does not overlap with other subscribers.

Otherwise I have no idea how passive optical networks could even work.
> It also doesn't help that the community is still fighting over whether flakes should be a thing.

Could you elaborate on what the debate is? Haven't heard of this before!
NHS currently does not recommend the treatment that this guy was receiving (as far as I could find):

https://eastkentformulary.nhs.uk/media/1868/pr-2022-25-dual-...
I’m not sure how meaningful that is. I’d rate my coverage as excellent. My out of pocket costs are low, lots of in network providers, etc. At the same time I do not like my insurance company at all. They have stupid issues that I’m forced to resolve, and I definitely don’t look forward to dealing with billing after a major event.

I want to see a poll specifically on “how much do you like your health insurance company?” Not your coverage, not your insurance, but specifically the company.
I fly back to the US pretty often (I am a US citizen living abroad) and have declined every time. This is in SFO. They are generally fine with it. But most people won't risk it.

It's much, much more annoying in Ireland, where US immigration happens in Dublin (an affront to Irish sovereignty, but that's another matter) - so being delayed can mean missing your flight.
Having a right and receiving justice are two different things.

The point is that you can’t say that something is a human right and at the same time define conditions upon which they don’t apply to some human(s), which the GP comment tried to do.
The AV our company uses regularly pops up obnoxious warnings about things that are benign. This trains people to click through warnings without reading them (on any product).
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Better not being much into kids and being free to not have any than being forced to and hating them for the rest of their lives. Spoken as someone who grew very close to such scenario (the second).
>ostensibly
No, I've just been paying a lot for healthcare and I know where the money goes (not my insurer)
Anybody vaguely interested in this story would probably enjoy this documentary about the the direct ancestor of this band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmhS6hcY-A
Microsoft itself recommends developers use a "dev drive" where defender is partially disabled because of how bad it is.
That's a daunting endevour not sure SOM will cut it. Many tried and failed or had to cut back. Oscar Health springs to mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Health#:~:text=Oscar%2....
Even the combination of big players called Haven with very deep pockets ( Amazon & Buffett & JPMorgan) eventually flagged.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-j.... Not to discourage you but this market is so lukrative for existing participants (hospitals, health care providers etc.) they will fight new ideas tooth and nail. VCs know that.
Spotted the straphanger
Oh, is that the page that resulted from the issue I opened? It looks good, thanks!

I'll open an issue for the Python thing, I can reproduce it reliably.
Brain stimulation helps partially paralyzed patients walk again
How do you think technology could transform how kids learn or how parents engage in their education?
With recent events in the American healthcare industry, let’s hope this can be a rallying call to end privatization of healthcare. Profiteering by holding patients and their families hostage with overly complex payout schemes, “deny, delay, defend” policies aimed at squeezing max profits, and complicating the relationship between patient care, doctors, and hospitals/clinics is beyond unethical. It’s inhumane.
I just don't see your point. I don't pretend not to understand this phenomenon, and the need for healthcare reform has always been one of my strongest political beliefs. But that doesn't mean murder is any less bad!

Is the implication that this kind of murder can only happen as an expression of widespread popular anger? I definitely don't think that's so. There are plenty of places in the world where corporate executives have to fear being murdered in the streets, and it does a lot more to drive accountability to criminal gangs and oppressive governments than to the common people and their interests.