Clark Minor

The legacy COBOL code is gone and the IBM z/OS mainframe has been decommissioned. The era of manual payroll batch processing over a 3270 terminal emulator has come to an end. The whole project took less than a year.

@TheStalwart A real throwback businessinsider.com/did-shinichi-m…

I love that people are still trying to crack this. I wasn't, however, 100% convinced by the evidence or the conclusion. The stylometry is interesting, but on content, ofc all the cypherpunks had similar thoughts on politics and privacy and the architecture of the internet.

The US Government is one of the largest buyers of technology, but HOW we buy tech isn't working. Time to level up with M-26-10! No more: ❌Paying bogus prices and getting ripped off with YOUR taxpayer dollars ❌Buying the same tool multiple times ❌Paying for tools we don't use ❌Buying tech without CIO approval Check out the Marvelous Mega Memo here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

@zachterrell57 @mass_marion @anish_koka yes

@mass_marion @anish_koka All of this will be eventually released, just as separate datasets. Highest ROI was outpatient non-prescription, so we did that first. Remaining datasets will be open sourced over the next month

"No inpatient hospital claims, no long-term care claims, no prescription drug claims." Sounds like there is more to dump. Medicaid is 100% funded by taxpayers and 61 years old. It's about time.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….” The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

@cryps1s this is awesome

Introducing Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT. Lockdown mode is an advanced, optional security setting for higher-risk users, businesses, and enterprises. Lockdown Mode disables certain tools and capabilities in ChatGPT that an adversary could attempt to exploit to exfiltrate sensitive data from users’ conversations or connected apps via attacks such as prompt injections. This includes moving to cached web browsing, and preventing interactions with the web more broadly. While not designed for the average user, I think this will really help protect a lot of organizations who demand strong, deterministic security controls for their workflows. The team really did a great job with this one. Available for Enterprises/Businesses, with consumer access to follow soon. openai.com/index/introduc…

@zachterrell57 🕵️‍♂️

@jeffreytucker There was a WSJ opinion piece Friday but I haven’t seen anything else

Looking around for mainstream media stories on this. I find none. Why is this? x.com/DOGE_HHS/statu…

@as400495 @jgebbia always be shipping

Wise words @jgebbia

Credit to the feds for publishing Medicaid data that will let the public search for potential fraud. on.wsj.com/4kyhZeJ

You can now visualize the full dataset here: medicaidopendata.org

Check out justice.gov/civil/false-cl… "the FCA allows private citizens to file suits on behalf of the government (called “qui tam” suits) against those who have defrauded the government.  Private citizens who successfully bring qui tam actions may receive a portion of the government’s recovery."

@MeTrevorLoucks cdomagazine.tech/us-federal-new…

@clarkminor Nice, how much are you guys using AI now internally to do datascience work inside the gov? Seems like we’re close to a torrent of fraud detection flagged purely by models.

200 million row csv ready for download

@mikesowerss 🇺🇸

@clarkminor Nope who looks more than two sentences deep or opens a file before replying these days 😆. Nice job govt. go USA 🇺🇸

@Mihoda @lhfang

@lhfang @clarkminor Use parquet and polars or something

@mikesowerss Did you even look at the site?

@clarkminor Not even a parquet eh? This is the most government thing ever

@Nemtastic1 Yes - most of the spend is there, but many of the smaller cells had to be dropped to prevent beneficiary reidentification.

@clarkminor 200 million rows seems awfully high for number of providers, but awfully low for providers+code+month...

fat shot