Hacker News: guynamedloren

New comment by guynamedloren in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

guynamedloren — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:10:57 +0000

Perfect. Instant buy for me if they can deliver on their promises. No other car in recent memory has spoken to my minimalist frugal engineering mind like this one. Hope my 2000 4runner lasts until the Slate gets delivered to my door!

New comment by guynamedloren in "The year I didn't survive"

guynamedloren — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:40:11 +0000

Fuck. Reading the original post on Something Awful, then your experience in 2021 in the days leading up, and then this all these years later... it's just harrowing. I'm so sorry.

New comment by guynamedloren in "PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory"

guynamedloren — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:57:47 +0000

Wondering the same. I couldn't make it through the article. Fascinating discovery, but poorly written and difficult to navigate the author's thoughts. The interstitial quotes were particularly disorienting.

New comment by guynamedloren in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

guynamedloren — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:42:40 +0000

Incredible. Congrats, enjoy the fruits of your hard work!

New comment by guynamedloren in "Who killed the rave?"

guynamedloren — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:05:09 +0000

I’m confused. You say that you “go to” an annual event, but then you describe it at a massive private festival that you’re self organizing. Which is it?

New comment by guynamedloren in "Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine"

guynamedloren — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:56:22 +0000

> Known limitations:

> - Lets an AI completely take over your computer

New comment by guynamedloren in "MI couple running out of time to prove they found Great Lakes' oldest shipwreck"

guynamedloren — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:34:10 +0000

Read the whole article (quite a fascinating story!) yet this key detail is still unclear to me: why is the state fighting the divers on this? What do they have to gain, or to lose, in the matter? If it is some historically insignificant ship, as the state claims, what's the risk in letting the divers salvage it?

New comment by guynamedloren in "It's Time to Bring Back the iPod"

guynamedloren — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:31:46 +0000

This very much resonates with my recent experience. I've searched for a tiny, battery efficient music player for exercising and backpacking trips, and there's just nothing of reputable quality out there made today. All low quality Amazon junk. I miss my Sandisk clip from ~10 years ago!

New comment by guynamedloren in "200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown"

guynamedloren — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:01:52 +0000

> Total fraud in that case was $900 million, for a only 500 patients, or almost $2M per patient.

That seems so outside the bounds of reality that I'm questioning if it's what happened here. I can't imagine how that would pass any kind of sniff test by Medicare.

Quote from the article: "In less than two years, more than $900 million in bogus claims were submitted to Medicare for grafts that were used on fewer than 500 patients, prosecutors said."

The alternative interpretation of this is that the grafts were _applied_ to 500 patients, but potentially many many more were billed for grafts that they didn't need (and didn't receive). Maybe more feasible?

New comment by guynamedloren in "200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown"

guynamedloren — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:49:29 +0000

Horrible, disgusting, yet not at all surprising. I don't know what medical billing accountability looks like in this dizzyingly complex system, but as a US citizen and patient of the US healthcare system, it looks barely existent. My family has fought our fair share of bogus healthcare charges. One instance: after my daughter was born at a birthing center (independent of a hospital), my wife experienced postpartum complications and was transferred to a nearby hospital for care. As if that experience wasn't stressful and traumatic enough, many months later we were hit with a surprise charge from the hospital for treatment and care of our newborn baby - the baby that was delivered hours earlier, in a separate location, that never left my arms in the hospital!

All that to say - it's alarmingly easy for a charge to get processed in a batch of other charges, and either insurance pays it without question, or the patient pays it unknowingly. During our experience, we learned that this kind of thing is exceedingly common. The power dynamic between patients and healthcare administration severely misaligned, the information imbalance is huge, and the patient is always in a compromised position.

The article doesn't include details on how they tracked down these criminals (I'm curious to know!), but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is just the tip of the iceberg.

New comment by guynamedloren in "Building a rocket engine from scratch"

guynamedloren — Thu, 02 May 2024 22:20:15 +0000

This may surprise you, but it's possible to be completely obsessed with your work (while you're working!), while also maintaining a work-life balance.

New comment by guynamedloren in "Making old orchards new again"

guynamedloren — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:17:53 +0000

Pork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?

New comment by guynamedloren in "Expanding Our Partnership with Google"

guynamedloren — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:20:04 +0000

I may be naive, but I'm not sure where the hate is coming from in this thread. It's no secret that Google search result quality has rapidly and consistently diminished over the past few years, a common topic of discussion here on HN. Many folks, myself included, have developed a habit of appending "reddit" in Google searches by default. And reddit's native search, on the other hand, is just abysmal. If this partnership results in finding quality and timely content in reddit faster, then I'm all for it. Net positive IMO.

How to Determine If It's the GPT-4 Model

guynamedloren — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:46:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aaamoon/copilot-gpt4-service/blob/1aae86152c1236fc772c3863e0becef2bdf894a1/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959644

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by guynamedloren in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

guynamedloren — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:32:37 +0000

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I just finished the book, Losing the Signal. Totally captivating story with so many powerful takeaways. I'd highly recommend it, even if you're already familiar with the BlackBerry story.

New comment by guynamedloren in "Mold Course"

guynamedloren — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:17:29 +0000

Nice! I'm diving into the world of charcuterie too. The most frustrating piece has been sourcing an pH meter that is both affordable and accurate, all the while hearing accounts of many folks who forgo ph testing altogether. Curious what you decided on here!

New comment by guynamedloren in "A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy"

guynamedloren — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:42:06 +0000

Content aside (which is both thought provoking and incredibly alarming) I’m fascinated by the author’s commitment to deeply understanding a system and the factors at play within that system. There’s something inspiring about relentless truth seeking, to the point of obsession, with some extraordinary level of meticulousness. Particularly when it challenges conventional wisdom. This is a slippery slope as it can quickly nosedive into junk science and contrarianism, despite best intentions, but when it’s done well, it’s really something.

Probably a faux pas here these days, but reminds me of Elon Musk’s First Principles.

New comment by guynamedloren in "The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam"

guynamedloren — Tue, 09 May 2023 02:27:17 +0000

Haven’t heard it, but I like it

New comment by guynamedloren in "Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg"

guynamedloren — Sat, 06 May 2023 21:18:47 +0000

I was entranced by this project from the very first episode 5 years ago! I followed along for maybe a year or so, and haven’t caught any updates since.

Happy to see the project (and channel) is still going strong. Such an incredible endeavor!

New comment by guynamedloren in "U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers"

guynamedloren — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:41:05 +0000

I'm clearly naive and haven't worked closely enough to filtering stage of of the hiring process, but nevertheless.. I'm shocked to hear that there was a deliberate and explicit filtering by a list of "top schools. An implicit look at the school and some dose of bias, okay sure, I could see it, but an explicit filter? Wow.