chaboud

29 ms·

301.
by chaboud 6y ago
I don't think eliminating private insurers is a panacea. I just think that the nature of incentives and negotiation between hospitals and insurers has resulted in plainly ridiculous chargemaster prices that harm uninsured and underins
302.
by chaboud 6y ago
I'm saying that the hospitals and insurers, while somewhat adversarial at times , are largely aligned in their incentives. Chargemaster prices can drift upwards while negotiated discount rates fall to compensate. The hospital makes m
303.
by chaboud 6y ago
Chargemaster prices (the non-negotiated price) are ridiculously high in the US. They’re so high that some hospitals will give uninsured patients a break of “half off” without even negotiating. The reason for this is that chargemaster price
304.
by chaboud 6y ago
If I'm still alive when someone says "hecka hellabytes", I'll shed a single wistful tear, for humanity will have run its course...
305.
by chaboud 6y ago
Sorry for the jump straight to the abbreviation. "PE" stands for "Principal Engineer". Amazon's Software Engineer level progression is: SDE1->SDE2->SDE3->PE->SPE (Senior Principal, Director Level)->D
306.
by chaboud 6y ago
Disclosure: I'm an Amazon Devices PE, but not on Alexa devices. Jeff (and others) have spoken publicly about this in the past, and this teardown is correct. The hardware is designed such that, if the privacy LED is on, the microphone
307.
by chaboud 6y ago
You'd need to be convicted of an act of reason with due process, which would require a court, which would imperil state secrets. It's much easier to kill you and then say that you and your estate have no standing to challenge the
308.
by chaboud 6y ago
This seems really simple to me. I tweeted my suggestion of rebranding as “vigil” and selling “pro” features to allow branding as “provigil” (commercial modafinil name).
309.
by chaboud 6y ago
I’m pretty sure that Liquid Death is just water.
310.
by chaboud 6y ago
This is why, when you start to discuss it in writing, you To line your in-house counsel into a new thread that you mark privileged and confidential. Discussions of legality and regulatory compliance are discussions you should have with t
311.
by chaboud 6y ago
Schedule chicken is a hell of a drug. This also applies to start up difficulties in software/service ecosystems, where everyone is waiting for the greater fool to jump in and pay the "first through the door" cost. The GM EV1
312.
by chaboud 6y ago
I don't think that uncovering faults and cracks is a disincentive. Prohibiting use of machine learning techniques and technologies definitely reduces the addressible market, and, thus, profit incentive. There are plenty of reasons to
313.
by chaboud 6y ago
Funny enough, Aggregability is NP-Hard, so comprehensive consideration of the larger set is not actually practical/possible. Here's the proof: http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2006/tr06-29.pdf Perhaps there
314.
by chaboud 6y ago
I’m saying that papers should be read with a default position of skepticism and consideration of the motivations of the authors (and they all have an angle). When I read an ML paper with authors from Google, I assume they have an angle. W
315.
by chaboud 6y ago
When I was young and (more) idealistic, my department chair pulled me aside after I’d been dogmatic about something and said “everything is political... The sooner you realize that, the better off you’ll be.” It took 10 years for that to re
316.
by chaboud 6y ago
I doubt they would just dump heat to the threaded base for a few reasons: 1) Heated metal expands, and different heated metals expand at different rates, changing tolerances for threaded mounts and possibly causing thermal locking and/
317.
by chaboud 6y ago
I completely agree with this. I’ve been in software since ‘98, but many of the valuable tools I apply to interpersonal interaction were learned on the path of raising my 5 year old. Natural consequences, timely feedback, parallel modeling,
318.
by chaboud 6y ago
“It means they can do things that would otherwise stall due to waiting for industry adoption.“ That was certainly the case for the Vegas Video team back when Sony owned the group. That said, it enabled some head-scratching behaviors, like X
319.
by chaboud 6y ago
I don't know what it's like now, but, when I worked at Best Buy in the 90s, we had a couple of shoulder height palletized bins in the back. If a customer brought something back with a "didn't work" reason, it went
320.
by chaboud 6y ago
I agree. I am utterly unsurprised that gradient descent was unable to optimize a “minimal” network to a complete solution of a binary state problem with a Boolean rule set. I’d have been shocked if it went any other way. I’m also reminded o
321.
by chaboud 6y ago
The practice of obtaining warrants with artificial but believable evidentiary basis to conceal the illicit means by which the basis was actually obtained is called "parallel construction", and the intentional practice or facilitat
322.
by chaboud 6y ago
We’ve observed this in end-user devices, especially on some ISPs. It makes sense if the overall adoption and resource allocation are comparatively smaller, making individual or small-group coincident spikes more impactful against the amorti
323.
by chaboud 6y ago
That’s wild. I’ll leave it off, though. I don’t trust Finder to handle file operations safely and effectively (too many dangling files, partial copies, and littered indexing files in my history). If I have dot files, I’m gonna go all grey b
324.
by chaboud 6y ago
Is there a way to shut off the long press functionality? Sometimes I just want to type “byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”, and I have already made the effort to learn accent key combos.
325.
by chaboud 6y ago
It’s easy enough to test, but I don’t really need to. Alexa Guard has had this functionality for a while, and I’d expect the folks here at HN to be able to infer a few things from the support link and basic reasoning. Support link https:&#
326.
by chaboud 6y ago
What manifests in the linked writing is a near-perfect articulation of the head-scratching argumentation made by old-school fiscal conservatives when confronting the actions of now-dominant social conservatives. Calls to demonstrate conserv
327.
by chaboud 7y ago
Both hazing and cheerleading are bad. The value of a sunk cost is zero. Who cares what you invested into the process so far? It's time to make the best judgment you can for the benefit of your organization. If you learn that the pre
328.
by chaboud 7y ago
A possible (I think probable) explanation is that we're seeing in this graph a ramp in testing, not a ramp in infection. If we were to just randomly select individuals for infection and antibody s teeming, we could generate a clearer p
329.
by chaboud 7y ago
It seems like it's time for them to move in together. The question of what one considers "family" is up for debate/exploitation.
330.
by chaboud 7y ago
"It seems to be able to only be able to control the bottom 12-bits of the address to recover (but I didn't fully get why)" That looks conspicuously like the load/store port address aliasing size (look up "4K Aliasin

More ›