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by sxg 2y ago
There is an alternative: use cash. > Most transactions are repeat business and require no trust intermediary. I'm not an expert in this field, but I know enough to be humble when it comes to cybersecurity. I don't think fraud p
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by sxg 2y ago
This argument gets brought up repeatedly on HN (most recently on Patrick’s last post about credit card rewards). The counter argument is that there are costs associated with securing transactions and fraud prevention that do benefit all cre
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by sxg 2y ago
HIPAA trumps the warrant. HIPAA is serious when it says patient data can only be shared for treatment, payment, and hospital operations purposes. Law enforcement is not an allowable reason to disclose patient information without their permi
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by sxg 2y ago
Yes, I do believe what you're telling me—the state of healthcare tech is definitely leagues behind general consumer tech. However, I do think this is a meaningfully different class of issue when it comes to patients' perceptions a
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by sxg 2y ago
No problem—glad to participate! There's a lot of cynicism that leads to misinformation about how healthcare works, so I'd like to clean that up. Let's attack and fix the broken parts of the system, but we should praise the wo
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by sxg 2y ago
My email is in my profile page. And if you have truly found that the institution is sharing protected health information (e.g., even just names and date of birth) with third parties who have not signed BAAs, that is a lawsuit worth tens of
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by sxg 2y ago
It's mind boggling because I highly doubt it's actually true. I'm not sure where the OP is getting that info. Patients can't waive away HIPAA privacy/security rights. I think the OP is assuming that when healthcare
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by sxg 2y ago
Wait—this doesn't make any sense. I'm a physician and have a lot of experience dealing with protected health information. Third parties are required to sign a HIPAA BAA and obligated to uphold privacy/security standards equal
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by sxg 2y ago
This is exactly the type of thing that LLMs are very good at generating and explaining for you. I've done this countless times to create and understand regex patterns.
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by sxg 2y ago
I agree with you in that the population size is the key question here. However, I have two issues: First, otherwise healthy people don't just die from stress. Stress can sometimes exacerbate underlying health issues and lead to a long,
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by sxg 2y ago
I'm baffled by this comment. It's exceedingly rare for two middle-aged and otherwise healthy people to die without warning. > With so many people in a position to notice and speak out about Boeing's issues So many? Both we
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by sxg 2y ago
> Hospitals are supposed to prevent this from happening, but it is hard. Physician here. Hospitals do work to prevent the spread, and it is hard—so much so that it's nearly inevitable. MRSA is a naturally occurring part of the respi
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by sxg 2y ago
Windows is good enough for the vast majority of people. Businesses simply care about achieving their broader goals (i.e., selling their own products or services) and want to minimize effort on tools required to do that. The vast majority of
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by sxg 2y ago
That's definitely not the main problem. Risk of intracranial hemorrhage/strokes and other complications make it problematic.
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by sxg 2y ago
> This should be the measure of our country The most important thing about a metric is that we all agree on how to interpret it. While money may not measure exactly the right thing, we can all agree that $50 is $50 regardless of our age,
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by sxg 3y ago
Definitely not a fan of the Databricks site, but the curl site also isn't very informative for a brand new user.
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by sxg 3y ago
Agreed. Lots of parentheticals that distract from the main point.
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by sxg 3y ago
Yes! You'd probably enjoy this blog: https://ciechanow.ski
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by sxg 3y ago
We don't know that all the laundry has been let out. It's also possible that there could be criminal charges against some of Boeing's leadership if this guy were to testify against them or if he had more info.
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by sxg 3y ago
> The parent comment mentioned feeling tired after consuming something with a lot of sugar, was that really a mystery prior to using CGM? I doubt it. They may not have known just how sugary that item was since most people don't both
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by sxg 3y ago
I have a work-issued Lenovo ThinkCentre M Tiny...it's so infuriatingly loud! The fans seem to spin up at completely random times that have nothing to do with workload, and they're incredibly loud.
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by sxg 3y ago
Not at all the same situation. Although imperfect, the UK has an actual functioning democracy while Palestine is an impoverished, semi-autonomous, largely refugee state partially controlled by Israel. This video explains how the Palestinian
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by sxg 3y ago
By "A series" are you referring to the Nvidia A100 or the Apple A-series iPhone/iPad chips? If the latter, I don't think you can draw that conclusion. Training has memory and processor requirements that are very differen
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by sxg 3y ago
We're already there. I use Readwise Reader and often take advantage of the text-to-speech feature for listening to articles from the Economist. The Economist already provides an audio narration of the article by a human, but some of th
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by sxg 3y ago
Sure, I guess I’m conflating society with government. Yeah, doctors and lawyers make more money than other professions, but those incomes are a result of innumerable positive and negative incentives (eg, cost of education, opportunity cost
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by sxg 3y ago
Are there any interviewers that don’t violate these pet peeves?
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by sxg 3y ago
How is it that society is preferentially allocating resources to creating lawyers rather than engineers or researchers? It seems to me that people chose to become lawyers, engineers, or researchers of their own free will. Sure, many researc
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by sxg 3y ago
A lot of survey data supports this sentiment, and I personally agree as well—I wouldn't ever buy a non-CarPlay car in 2024. However, car manufacturers that remove CarPlay may be able to decrease prices, and their target customer is ver
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by sxg 3y ago
You could, but in practice essentially no one will do this.
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by sxg 3y ago
Several reasons come to mind: - AI regulation is partly based on the number of parameters - It's generally accepted that bigger models perform better, so counterexamples to that notion are valuable - Smaller models are needed for local

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