MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by r2b2 | 2025-09-07 18:53:09+00:00
Patients and providers should have the ability to shop and negotiate price directly with each other. No 3rd party will ever be in a better position to negotiate individualized care and prices for 350,000,000 people better than we (or our family) can for ourselves.

Currently, patients cannot price compare anything, not even for the exact same drug from two different pharmacies on the same street! To make it worse, most providers can't even make sense enough of the provider-insurer prices to shop on behalf of the patients.

To improve prices in healthcare, all care must have a price visible to all, paid by patients. Insurance should be required by law to publicly publish their reimbursement rates and immediately (48 hours) reimburse their insured patients for care at approved (in-network) providers.

This would end the current: impossible to self advocate, impossible for providers to advocate on behalf of patients, intractable insurer-provider price web.

Insurers and providers should never negotiate price. Providers should only be concerned with providing good care, how to classify/code it, and the amount they need to charge for that care to be financially viable. Insurers should only be concerned with how much they will pay out for each classification/code, and which providers they authorize as in-network.

Last, since there is a long tail of medical care that doesn't fit nicely into a code box, each plan should have a mandatory minimum coverage of something like 50% all unknown-care costs at in-network providers and pharmacies above $5,000 annually, with some annual cap.

As a society, if we want to further subsidize healthcare for those with lower economic means, and/or those who end up with catastrophic expenses, then that should be done on it's own, as two distinct standalone welfare programs.
by SandboxEscape0 | 2025-09-07 18:53:25+00:00
Just watched the log video in the report... it's legit.

These are not ephemeral or misinterpreted logs... they’re hard evidence that SecureROM and HAL subsystems are exposing debug logic in production mode. That shouldn't be possible unless the chip itself is violating its own trust enforcement model.

If this behavior is reproducible across multiple production devices, it's a class of vulnerability that Apple cannot patch in software. We're talking about a silicon-level debug bypass that persists without jailbreak, unsigned code, or tampering.

Strongly recommend pulling logs from known-good A16/A17 Pro devices and look for those same entries.
by gonzalohm | 2025-09-07 18:53:29+00:00
Or regulate prices. How can a hospital charge $250 for an IV bag while in Europe the same bag is 10€

Or an ambulance ride in the US STARTS at $500. An ambulance ride in the EU is 260€/hour (obviously is free in case of emergency)

I think the problem is that the US is in this weird dynamic in which hospitals charge more because "the patient is not paying for it, the insurance is" but in the end insurance are going to raise premiums to pay for that
by pdonis | 2025-09-07 18:53:56+00:00
> The US claims at least to have built a free market solution

I don't know that "the US" has actually claimed this, but in any case any such claim is false. There are lots of reasons for that, but the key one is simple: the people getting care, patients, don't know how much it costs. You can't have a free market if the person receiving a good or service doesn't know the cost of what they're getting, and so can't judge whether what they're getting is worth what it costs.
by viceconsole | 2025-09-07 18:54:28+00:00
Because there is a statutory requirement that applicants who require an interview appear personally before a consular officer. So far, the State Department has interpreted this to mean "standing physically in front of".

Having done tens of thousands of visa interviews, I do think the requirement of a physical appearance before an officer is important. I could quickly review a person's travel history by looking through their passports, questioning them about prior trips. A person's travel patterns and visas to other countries can tell you a lot. I could quickly use a UV light or magnifier on educational documents to see if they were genuine. Several times, I overhead conversations from other applicants and officers that were relevant to my applicant (same employer/group) and I would consult with them. There are many other details you notice when doing this in person thousands of times.

There are also practical matters - if you're trying to do this via video link, how to you authenticate the person on the other end? At the consulate, we fingerprint them and compare them to previously collected biometrics. If you offload this authentication to a contractor site in the US, but I'm in India, is this site open in the middle of the night?

In cases where the applicant qualifies for a waiver of the interview, the State Department actually does (or at least did when I was there) have a substantial program whereby visa applications are largely processed remotely. An applicant would have no hint as to whether or not that happened, though.
by strcat | 2025-09-07 18:54:36+00:00
X cut off the link you copied within our reply. Here's that link along with 2 alternatives other than X:

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1964754118653952027

https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lyb6rx46tc2r

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115164133992525834
by Cermank | 2025-09-07 18:54:43+00:00
Thats so interesting.

Grok has a conspiracy theory for this one. 'No, a seahorse emoji does not exist in the official Unicode standard. Many people seem to recall one (often described as a yellow or orange left-facing design), but this appears to be a Mandela effect—a collective false memory—with no evidence it ever officially existed. Social media discussions and videos often highlight this misconception, sometimes showing fabricated images that mimic Apple or other platform styles. Instead, people commonly represent seahorses using combinations like (horse and water wave) or related aquatic emojis such as or .'
Show HN: The World After 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 Years Ft. AI
by mandarwagh | 2025-09-07 18:54:54+00:00
AI is arguably the greatest invention in modern human history. Humanity has always evolved in hockeystick curves, each major discovery unlocking an entirely new trajectory of progress.

But what does this mean for us, Humans ?

dive in for more info here⬇ https://www.mandar.cloud/blog.html?slug=the-world-after-3-5-...
by caminante | 2025-09-07 18:55:10+00:00
> but it's beside the point

Why is it beside the point?

You haven't established their intent for gross negligence and give no charity to the fact this was 30 years ago (pre-Wikipedia and the search breadth we have today). Since then, people have continued to expose severe RNG design flaws in other systems designed by very smart people. It happens...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-07 18:55:29+00:00
I actually have a WIP library for this, the indexing server isn't where I want it just yet, but I have an entire agent toolkit that does this stuff, and the indexing server is quite advance, with self-tuning, raptor/lsp integration, solves for optimal result set using knapsack, etc.

https://github.com/sibyllinesoft/grimoire
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-07 18:55:40+00:00
I can't read the article (paywall) - does the "international arrivals" include Americans travelling overseas, or only non-Americans?

If the latter, then indeed it's not dramatic. But if the former, then the number of contingent trips to the US might have dropped a lot, and is hiding mixed in with regular unaffected traffic of USians.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-09-07 18:55:46+00:00
> What specific action did the US government take against Hyundai here?

There are levels of plausible deniability that need to be pierced for actions to stand up in a court of law. Hyundai has already claimed these workers were not employees and were subcontractors or sub-subcontractors. Just the negative press and pressure from the SK govt may do a lot in the future for Korean carmakers to try and do better checking on workers working in their factories.
by franga2000 | 2025-09-07 18:56:06+00:00
Using it isn't the problem, joining it is. Finding a server that has the right combination of

- isn't The Big One (defeats the point) - has a nice domain (that's your name forever) - is stable (major downtime or data loss is unacceptable these days) - is guaranteed to stick around forever (no, migration isn't solved and it will never not suck) - has rules you agree with and can guarantee you'll follow - is running the right software (no, "fedi" isn't compatible, you either run Mastodon or things will always be ever so slightly broken)
by conscion | 2025-09-07 18:56:07+00:00
It think these "positive news" approaches are always falling prey to stated vs. revealed preference. People's revealed preference is that they want news about _actual_ events, which is why these positive news approaches always stay niche.

People stated reason for not liking news is the stress, attributing this to the negativity of the news. I think a larger issue is the frequency and transience of the updates, leading to oscillations in peoples understand of situations (similar to the car dealership example in the "Thinking in Systems" book).

Modern news networks are always pushing shallow views of new events (i.e. "BREAKING"). Unless someone explicitly follows up on a story, they were only exposed to the crisis and not the resolution of it. I'd love a network that was "yesterdays news" which waited to publish any news until a broader picture of the situation was understood.
by b112 | 2025-09-07 18:56:23+00:00
That might be more efficient.

But to be clear, you are socializing risk though. You're just doing it a different way, by genetics and age.

Your monthly payment (and what your employer kicks in) are for all those day to day costs. And of course there's the deductible. But people in their 40s to 50s often don't have young kids. Meanwhile, people in their 80s to 60s have more health risks.

So what happens elsewhere is that everyone throws money into the same pot for their entire lives, and your costs are averaged as per above. It's why a single insurer, the government, is perfect for this. And it works for rare conditions that might happen to some during their lives, and not all too.

And typically, for thousands of years, we've had more young than old. So while elderly people do have more issues late in life, they've paid into the system the whole time. And, now there are young people to pay just as they did.

The only downside is when you end up with an age skewed population, such as is happening with the entire planet. It's affecting all health care systems, private or public. The US has this problem too, as medicare is being hit by spiraling costs.

One thing I find really weird, is the need for-profit in the US system. Other systems have that too, sure, but not like the US. An example, the fire department isn't for profit. It'd be insane if so! Why would it be?! Yet, there is private sector work in the fire department, such as all the equipment bought from the private sector, chemical analysis done on debris post-suspicious-fire, and even training in some cases.

Most health care systems around the world are like that. The insurance is public, not for profit. The hospitals too. Many parts of the system as well.

But then some aspects are private.
by DaSHacka | 2025-09-07 18:56:51+00:00
You should enable showdead in your user preferences, I think you may be surprised to see what gets flagged.

I think the big issue is new accounts aren't allowed to downvote posts, but can flag them. In effect, the "flag" merely becomes the new downvote, leading to unpopular but relatively high-efffort coments becoming dead and invisible rather than downvoted.

Honestly just switching the two around (anyone can downvote, but only 500+ karma can flag) would go a long way to ensure only actual low-effort posts and spam get flagged, and unpopular posts get downvoted. As it is now, I rarely see an unpopular opinion that was downvoted and isn't already flagged.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-09-07 18:57:05+00:00
Okay, so there's so much wrong here i don't know where to start.

> Like it or not, TPM was meant to increase security by deterring evil maid attacks. If you can't stop this sort of attack, your device doesn't offer serious security, and a feature phone with wifi/bluetooth/cellular data turned off probably has similar security

TPMs in their commercial implementation do not deter any evil maid attack. Only some special cases like HEADS Firmware actually protects you from an evil maid attack. TPMs, Secureboot, etc. merely prevent non-signed code from booting when the hard has not been tampered with. Tamper with the hardware and make it show a green "everything is fine" screen while booting a tainted kernel and device drivers and a tpm won't save you.

> Moreover TPMs were introduced over a decade ago and there's still no DRM that's based on it.

Google Play Integrity API is essentially this. Can't run certain apps on devices that don't pass TPM based attestation. Not exactly DRM but something akin to it.

> People did forget about SGX though, which came and went but had actual DRM built for it.

People didn't forget, it got broken so badly intel gave up on it.

> I've also never heard a peep about HDCP which is specifically for DRM purposes and is built into every GPU/monitor.

You've just not been listening. It's just that HDCP also has been bypassed a lot.
by jerome-jh | 2025-09-07 18:57:31+00:00
Social media platforms are no more closed circles. They are platforms for advertisers and "click fishers". And people engage with content which revolt them.

As a consequence social platforms, and low quality newspapers, have converged to show the bad news from all over the world. There is no shortage of them. This affects people's morale, confidence. Have you noticed how people you talk to can be very concerned about seemingly minor events that occurred on the other side of the world, to which they cannot change anything, and which should not change anything in their life?

Turns out today I have cut access to Youtube, Google Play to my 12 years old daughter. Internet is limited to a whitelist of sites, with only Wikipedia for now. She had turned phone addict in an unmanageable way. Blame Youtube and Tiktok. Unfortunately she needs a smartphone for school, she would otherwise have a dumb phone.

Of course there is wonderful content on Youtube. But the "shorts" is a literal trap for kids. As for the adults (well, me) it is just painful to see the list of trending videos, such that I seldom go and never stay. This is a stinky place. Ask the dictator in me and I would say blocking Youtube makes more good than bad.
by Kranar | 2025-09-07 18:57:49+00:00
While this has nothing to do with the expression problem, it's worth noting that in any case your solution does not work in general.

Rust does let you impl traits for types or traits that are inside of your crate, so your example strictly speaking works, but it does not let you impl traits if both the type and the trait are not inside of your crate. This is known as the orphan rule:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/implementations.ht...

As the article points out, the expression problem itself is pretty simple to solve for code that you control, it's when writing modular software that can vary independently that gives rise to issues.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-07 18:58:26+00:00
For my embedded needs, I've relied heavily on TurboLua, which I find really kicks some serious butt:

https://turbo.readthedocs.io

What's great is that signals and fd_sets are supported, so it can really tie the web services and the hardware together nicely. I can easily wire up GPIO, for example.

I haven't dug into Microdot yet - but are there similar mechanisms? I love my Lua projects based on TurboLua, but wouldn't mind seeing some python chops get sharpened, same-wise ...

Edit: I dug in, and I guess the things I want are to be found in the python batteries included anyway .. plus, Microdot is a very small tack-on to microPython, and a pleasure to read ..
by fsfod | 2025-09-07 18:58:46+00:00
There was commercial fork of clang zapcc[1] that did caching of headers and template instantiations with an in memory client server system[2], but idk if they solved all the correctness issues or not before abandoning it.

[1] https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc

[2] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2015-May/043155.htm...
by Arnavion | 2025-09-07 18:58:58+00:00
I am the pmOS maintainer for the PinePhone. It was demoted from main to community because I was the only maintainer and one of the criteria for main is to have two or more maintainers. ( https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merg... ) Originally many pmOS core devs were maintainers, which is why it was in main, but they all lost interest and it was about to be demoted to testing / unmaintained, so I volunteered to become the maintainer to stop that from happening.

A blanket statement of a phone being "of daily driver quality or not" is impossible to make because everyone has different expectations of a "daily driver". I have been daily-driving the PinePhone since 2021 (it is my first and only smartphone) but that doesn't mean everyone else will be happy with it.
by overfeed | 2025-09-07 18:59:24+00:00
> Doesn't this exact same argument work in the opposite direction too

It absolutely does; the article discuses this, and at no point did anyone describe license-changes as "destructive". The community/competition also has the right to fork the project when there's a change they don't like (with no assurance of success).

> Realistically, what license do you pick on day one that doesn't doom you to failure?

That's my point exactly! If I have a slice of cake, I can either eat it now or save it for later - not both. You have to pick a poison: AGPL or a custom license will prevent hyperscalers hosting your service, but will slow adoption. MIT or BSD will juice your growth and leave you vulnerable to SaaS alternatives. Switching licenses after achieving popularity leaves you vulnerable to forking - this strategy has been popular lately, but valkey proved that it carries a major risk as well.

AFAICT, there's no license that assures one can maximize adoption, and capture most of the projects value, because these two objectives are in tension. Continuing with the cake theme: the options for project authors are growing the cake and likely capturing a slice of it along others, or having the entirety of a much smaller cake.

edit: the article does outline a strategy that maximizes upside for project author: make outsider contributors sign CLAs, and ensure your org is responsible for most of the contributions.
by jdlshore | 2025-09-07 18:59:42+00:00
As @dragonwriter said, the HSA doesn't protect you against ruin, the linked high-deductible insurance does. You use the HSA for your ordinary medical expenses and get a nice tax discount from it. The HSA is also acts as a retirement investment account.

So, if you're young with minimal healthcare needs, you can get multiple benefits:

1) High-deductible insurance that's (relatively) cheap but still protects you against financial ruin

2) After 10 years of maximum contributions, you'll have ~$10K in cash for emergencies and about $33K in retirement investment contributions.
by loquisgon | 2025-09-07 19:00:13+00:00
Thanks for the reference. Never heard about the "belling the cat" concept before (I am not european/american). However me and another colleague at work always joke/inquiry (sarcastically?) about "who is going to do it" whenever the "team" (in retros, planning, etc) brings up some idea that it would be very nice to execute.

This reference will be very useful to articulate what so far it's been sarcastic comments at best.
by danlamanna | 2025-09-07 19:01:04+00:00
Many of the images do include a size, see https://api.isic-archive.com/images/?query=clin_size_long_di....

FWIW @sungam - I'm one of the maintainers of the ISIC Archive, so feel free to let me know if finding/downloading data could be made easier. It's always interesting to see people using our data in the wild :)
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-07 19:01:15+00:00
> Health insurance companies do not provide any medical services.

This is substantively not true (though literally true at the level of a company, due to separate companies within the Kaier consortium) of the nation’s largest managed core organization, the Kaiser consortium consisting of the Kaiser Foundation health plans and the Kaiser Permanente Medical Groups.

> No when they deny coverage, they just keep all the premiums paid by the patient. That money is sucked up by the middle man. So you don't need to raise premiums, you need to lower profits at health insurance companies.

Something like limiting retained profits at the plan level to a fixed fraction of costs covered, and requiring refund of excess premiums to members?
by crooked-v | 2025-09-07 19:01:17+00:00
The US has a fertility rate of 1.6 (https://apnews.com/article/fertility-rate-us-low-cdc-replace...), i.e., 1.6 kids per 2 parents. Better social services and social safety nets would likely increase this some, but it would still probably be under 2, since that's the general trend for wealthy countries.
by jampekka | 2025-09-07 19:02:57+00:00
> Also - don't write CLI programs in languages that don't compile to native binaries. I don't want to have to drag around your runtime just to execute a command line tool.

And don't write programs with languages that depend on CMake and random tarballs to build and/or shared libraries to run.

I usually have a lot less issues with dragging a runtime than fighting with builds.
by mindslight | 2025-09-07 19:03:16+00:00
The problem is that it's framed as a payment from the insurance company, so people think the insurance is helping with the bill. What has actually happened is the insurer and pharmacy are cooperating to create sham prices/paperwork and confuse the market.

It's even more glaring for post-facto bills from providers, because those prices are being presented on a cost-reimbursement basis (not contractual). The provider is essentially saying "You owe us $500 because that is what it cost to provide your care". But it obviously could not have cost $500 to provide the service, because they're happy to accept $150 in total.
by fooker | 2025-09-07 19:03:40+00:00
> with Lamarckian inheritance is a fundamental category error

Would you believe that things are more complex than neat categories discovered in 1850 that you learn in fifth grade?

Starvation is just the most studied aspect of this as it is easier to find control groups. However, you could easily search and find others, which you don't seem to be willing to do for some reason.

This is not groundbreaking research, this has been known for a while. The current focus is to understand possible non-genetic pathways for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
by DaSHacka | 2025-09-07 19:04:40+00:00
"Its free speech when I talk, but if you, someone who says things I disagree with talks, then you're merely an asshole being shown the door"

I wonder what his opinion on pro-Palestinians getting banned on twitter is? Is it different then? What about the canning of Stephen Colbert?

I love these smug posts about how "free speech as a concept only applies to the government censoring people" that were made a couple years ago, where now the same figures are unbelievably opposed to sites like Twitter "excercising their right" to ban dissidents.

Turns out this free speech thing might be a pretty useful ability to have, huh?
by crooked-v | 2025-09-07 19:05:47+00:00
In this case for at least some of those people there was no visa and no visa needed. South Koreans can make trips for business purposes to the US without any extra paperwork as long as it's under 90 days.

It's true that what counts as 'business' and not 'work' has always been an ambiguous line, but given that the arrestees include executives who generally haven't been historically subject to this kind of treatment, I'm sure the lawyers could make a very good argument in their favor.