MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mystraline | 2025-11-04 03:49:57+00:00
Wrong. 'Medical insurance companies' do absolutely nothing in terms of health care, drain massive amounts of money in what amounts to a Brazil-style (movie) system, corporate death panels, and a drain on all of our resources.

And its not even a product we want. We dont buy it. The companies we work for do, and never have to dogfood any of it. But for the rest of us, its a take it or leave it proposition.

> doctors are a scarce and greedy bunch.

Speaking of that, an MD is the ONLY profession who is solely controlled how many can apply is controlled by Congress.

Get rid of that, and that would fix a facet.

But getting rid of insurance companies would also work a great deal. Or at least, decoupling work/med insurance would be a start.

Even going full competitive capitalism OR full socialism would be better than the garbage we have now.
by richardfeynman | 2025-11-04 03:50:29+00:00
You phrase your argument in a sarcastic way, because if you clearly stated what you mean your argument would appear ridiculous.

Take the sarcasm out of your position and this is essentially what you're saying: "Yes, I reject the past 400 years of progress in jurisprudence because it's not always perfect, and I would prefer for us to return to medieval times."
by a_belova | 2025-11-04 03:50:33+00:00
For two decades, the digital economy revolved around visibility. Every startup, every marketer, every strategist was playing the same infinite game: how do I get seen?

Search was the great equalizer. Google turned relevance into currency — a perfectly measurable system of intent, ranking, and reward. The playbook was simple: understand demand, optimize for it, and scale. The best players — from HubSpot to Atlassian to Notion — didn’t just use SEO; they built it into their DNA. SEO became the compounding engine of B2B growth: lower CAC, higher discoverability, infinite leverage. If you could capture attention, you could buy time.

But the internet has changed its interface. And with that, the physics of visibility are shifting again.

Where once you competed for clicks, you now compete for citations. Because before a user ever reaches your website, their question may already have been answered — by a generative engine.

ChatGPT. Gemini. Perplexity. Copilot.
by silisili | 2025-11-04 03:51:42+00:00
The confusion here is that trad IRAs can be pretax or posttax dollars.

This rule only matters if you have pretax dollars in an IRA that you want to also use posttax dollars to backdoor.

To be clear, it wouldn't be taxed at 90% in this example. It's that 90% of the conversion amount would be taxed as ordinary income.

AFAICT there's no extra paying taxes here or anything. Your pretaxed dollars are being taxed, instead of posttax dollars not being taxed.
by danans | 2025-11-04 03:52:31+00:00
> Isn't "stuff that most people can't afford but would help with healing" the stated purpose for health insurance?

You are confusing "health insurance" with a "system that guarantees healthcare as a human-right". Those are different things.

The purpose of health insurance is:

- To constrain healthcare coverage to the minimum allowed by law or the plan contract, therefore maximizing profit margins.

- To provide a shared risk coverage pool to pay for treatment for catastrophic health events that are unforeseen.

- To provide a product to be used as leverage by employers over employees as part of the "benefits" of a compensation package.

Healthcare as a human-right doesn't exist in the United States unless a health situation has gotten so bad that you end up in the emergency room, which is then legally required to provide you emergency healthcare.
by deanishe | 2025-11-04 03:53:07+00:00
> The author addresses that in the article. Python can scale but then developers would have to work with unintuitive async code

Python didn't cause their problems, Django did. They wanted async, but chose a framework that doesn't really support it. And they weren't even running it on an async app server.

Python didn't work for them because every subsequent choice they made was wrong.
by socksy | 2025-11-04 03:53:49+00:00
This is less to do with claude and rainbows and unicorns, and more to do with whatever your chat context before this request looked like. IMO you should be regular cleaning out your context, and use something like https://github.com/steveyegge/beads to keep track of your status.

In my work's repo:

> In the frontend app, change the label from "login" to "rainbows". Make the toggle switch super rainbowy and unicorny so that it's really fun and that my 5-year-old daughter will like it. I'll help you make the login toggle super rainbowy and unicorny for your daughter! Let me start by exploring the frontend app to find the login toggle.
by izyda | 2025-11-04 03:55:15+00:00
New Hedge fund | Full Stack Engineer | On-site (NYC)

We are a new discretionary, tech industry focused hedge fund, founded by a portfolio manager with 15+ years of experience at a Tiger Cub. I lead the data/technology team here and previously spent ~6 years in a similar role at a well known Tiger Cub and briefly running a data startup.

We are hiring for: - Fullstack engineer for our internal research management web application

Our tech stack: * Frontend: Typescript, Vue3 * Backend: Cloudflare, Supabase/Postgresql, Typescript *

On the data side: AWS, Cloudflare, Snowflake, Clickhouse, Dagster

Obviously, we are not the only ones trying to figure out how to use AI in investing but in a world where there are lots of people trying to build picks & shovels, this is an opportunity to be one of the goldminers at a greenfield, new firm. This role makes sense for people who are interested in finance/investing (although you do not necessarily have to have experience in the industry).

We're in full-time in office in NYC, so that's a requirement for FTE.

We work very hard, hours are long, and people are very dedicated to the mission. It is not for everyone, but for those interested in competing in financial markets, love startup atmosphere without near-term existential risk, and want to work with super smart colleagues (both technical and investors!), this could be a great fit.

I write about hedge fund data teams frequently here, if you are just interested in learning about the space: https://magis.substack.com/

Target salary 180-250K, depending on experience + Bonus/Carry (hedge fund equity equivalent)

Contact: I am at: ai (at) nx1 (dot) com (I'm Alex, ai are my initials... you are not being sent to an ai :] )

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by b01dc0de | 2025-11-04 03:55:42+00:00
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, depending on area

Technologies: C/C++, HLSL/GLSL, DirectX, OpenGL, Linux, Rust, Unreal Engine

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/b01dc0de/Resume/blob/master/resume.pdf

GitHub: https://github.com/b01dc0de

Email: cka.txt@gmail.com

My main experience is C/C++ game engine and graphics programming, but I'm interested in any roles that are low-level or performance-critical work.
by xfalcox | 2025-11-04 03:55:57+00:00
> what does the rag for uploaded files do in discourse?

You can upload files that will act as RAG files for an AI bot. The bot can also have access to forum content, plus the ability to run tools in our sandboxed JS environment, making it possible for Discourse to host AI bots.

> also, when i run a discourse search does it really do both a regular keyword search and a vector search? how do you combine results?

Yes, it does both. In the full page search it does keyword first, then vector asynchronously, which can be toggled by the user in the UI. It's auto toggled when keyword has zero results now. Results are combined using reciprocal rank fusion.

In the quick header search we simply append vector search to keyword search results when keyword returns less than 4 results.

> does all discourse instances have those features? for example, internals.rust-lang.org, do they use pgvector?

Yes, all use PGvector. In our hosting all instances default to having the vector features enabled, we run embeddings using https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-04 03:57:35+00:00
there is a multi-pronged solution necessary that is both intertwined with insurers and also completely separate, so in that part I agree with you

the costs of services are arbitrary and need to be addressed before we can realistically deal with how any insurance pool works, in the US both parties have chiseled at this over the last decade - from getting prices more transparent, to attempting to have a large scale state negotiator - and this makes the conversation more palatable in gaining consensus

not close, but it's not as partisan as people think, despite the parallel existence of entrenched interests

what doesn't have consensus is a forced insurance pool that doesn't address the costs and has no ability to negotiate those costs (yes, this is partially due to the bill being gutted and a handicapped version being the only thing that passed) a deeper review and regulation of costs is the only thing that can help reach consensus
by kelnos | 2025-11-04 03:57:51+00:00
> Due to these dangers, non-fatal strangulation and non-fatal suffocation were made a criminal offence as part of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021

Wow, this sounds like a great way to get screwed over by a former, disgruntled ex-partner. Partner wants you to choke them a bit during sex, you know (or don't know) it's illegal, but think "eh, it's fine, what we do in the privacy of our own bedroom is our business, and $PARTNER really likes it". Fast-forward to an acrimonious breakup, and your former partner is now accusing you of an illegal act.

I 100% get that domestic violence is a real thing, and even aside from that, there are some things that we do try protect people from, even if they consent to it, but I feel like this crosses the line.
by tormeh | 2025-11-04 03:58:20+00:00
Afaict the original sin of the US healthcare system is having the healthcare providers chosen by employers. That means that the patient is not the customer, the patient's employer is. That in itself has dire consequences.

Privatized health care need not be so bad. Germany has privatized health care, but it's pretty much fine, at least for patients. It's regulated to the moon and back, but afaict so is the US system, just with very different goals. The ACA feels a bit like the beginnings of a German-style system.
by gligierko | 2025-11-04 03:58:27+00:00
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by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-04 03:58:52+00:00
The US side doesn't quite have this, but man we sure have a parade of officials shown the door or who resign. No major leaks like this, but:

A. Notable how in the US all the JAGs were dismissed almost immediately, https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/24/people-are-ve...

B. And now CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis has let go of Counsel there & appointed himself Acting General Counsel, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/michael-ellis...

C. And top southern command admiral just retired after having bombing boats in the carribean. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/politics/southern-comm...

Sure seems like the US is trying to purge faster than any weak links can form.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-04 03:58:57+00:00
The fact that these atrocities happened is not surprising at all - war is war and it happens all the time.

The fact that people in Israel took it to the streets *in support* of the guys perpertrating these atrocities is stunning. They may have won the current war, but they've lost the support of the West in the long term. Won't happen immediately, but the change in public opinion is quite apparent. And rightfully so.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-04 03:59:45+00:00
Note that the record for absolute highest manned single propeller-driven aircraft is still held by Mario Pezzi who flew to 56050 ft in a Caproni Ca.161 in 1938. The Grob Strato 2C flew even higher in 1995 but it had 6 m diameter propellers, wingspan almost as wide as a 747, and not just turbos but full jet engines as "gas generators" to feed the manifolds of the piston engine pusher props. And the Grob G 520 went up to 53573 ft but it's a turboprop rather than a piston engine. Finally, the Perlan 2 when up to 76124 ft. with no motor at all.
by jjav | 2025-11-04 04:00:14+00:00
Nextcloud is great, but I don't use it for backup (didn't realize it would even do that) so maybe that's why.

I use it for a family cloud service for chat, shared todo lists, shared calendar and shared editing docs (don't want to put anything private on e.g. google docs).

For all that, it's full of awesome.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-04 04:00:23+00:00
> United Healthcare isn’t the reason healthcare is unaffordable any more than Geico causes car repairs to be expensive. American demand for healthcare is insatiable, and doctors are a scarce and greedy bunch. That there is a middle man trying to get his 5% isn’t the problem.

Spoken as a software developer who's salaries are approaching or even surpassing doctor salaries while working on optimising "engagement" (or how to make their app the most addictive).
by Buttons840 | 2025-11-04 04:00:40+00:00
I've been listening to a book: Opening Heaven's Door.

The authors sister was dying of cancer. One morning her sister said she had a strange dream about her father. They later realized that their father had unexpectedly died around the time of the dream. Her sister then went on to have some interesting experiences around her own death from cancer.

The author began talking to people, as part of her grieving, and realized many families have experiences like this, but nobody talks about it.

Eventually she realized why few talk about it:

She was at a social gathering of some kind and was talking about her recent enthusiasm for this sort of spiritual near-death stuff, and she shared her experience with a man, who she mentioned was a tech worker (judge for yourself whether that deserves special mention). The tech worker listened to her experience and then felt it was his place to tell the author that it was all coincidence or hallucinations created by a dying brain. She then points out that the guy had no special training that makes his opinion any more respectable than hers. The tech guy knew how to use computers, he wasn't a neuroscientists or a doctor or a psychologist, he just felt he knew, probably because he picked up some ideas from Reddit comments or something, and he had to share his opinion.

Anyway, I hold out some hope that there might still be some mysteries in this world.
by estearum | 2025-11-04 04:01:41+00:00
For-profit pay-viders (payer-provider mergers) should be illegal. In theory they can drive greater efficiencies that pass down to consumers, but in practice pay-vider integration makes available a lot more levers to screw consumers. All of those levers are easier to pull than increasing efficiency of care delivery.

If you want to act as both insurer and provider, then you should have to be a non-profit and have thorough performance monitoring in place to ensure you're passing what's possible back to consumers.
by cholantesh | 2025-11-04 04:03:08+00:00
No, that's what has been identified within the past 400 years as a straw man. You aren't even acknowledging the possibility of miscarriages of justice, let alone the possibility that it can be an institutional pattern. You should probably reflect on that and the impact it has on your argument, particularly in light of how it's been observed in the Israeli justice system.
by tombert | 2025-11-04 04:05:01+00:00
Sure. I guess I would draw the line in a different place.

There are plenty of things that aren't strictly "necessary" but are still provided by insurance. My wife's painkiller medication isn't strictly necessary, she wouldn't die without it and the leg would probably heal the same way, but they covered that because obviously they should cover that. I feel like a piece of medical equipment like a CPM machine is more necessary than painkillers.
by lacker | 2025-11-04 04:06:05+00:00
Batteries are also a pretty good solution. It's possible that eventually there is enough battery storage on the grid that we can shut down the highest-risk transmission lines for longer periods of time without having power outages.

Casey Handmer has some interesting writing for people who are curious about this direction: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/grid-storage-b...

The nice thing about batteries is that they get cheaper and cheaper over time, as opposed to generic construction in California, which seems to get more and more expensive over time.
by quuxplusone | 2025-11-04 04:06:36+00:00
TFA says the author has been "trying to transcribe on and off for the past few months." It's a two-page letter in English. To save anyone else the bother (including TFA's author), I just sat down and wrote it all out:

https://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/disseminate/leibniz.html

The letter is basically Hooke saying: "Well, I can't convince anyone but you, Leibniz, that Wilkins' Universal Character is a cool idea. I think we'll have problems figuring out the medium (i.e. what the characters look like and so on), but that should all shake out during testing. What kind of testing? Well, we need a bunch of smart people to come up with a lot of true facts in different fields, all of which we can try writing down in this language. Do you know any smart people I could brainstorm some true facts with? If you were to send me some such people, that might get the ball rolling over here."

Now, "get a bunch of smart people together with Robert Hooke to come up with true facts in a wide variety of fields" sounds suspiciously like the founding idea of the Royal Society... but in fact the Royal Society seems to have been started already about 20 years earlier ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham_College_and_the_format... ), so I guess I don't know how this letter fits into the big picture there.

FWIW, John Wilkins (the Bishop of Chester mentioned in the letter) had been dead for nine years by the time this letter was written (1681).
by jlarocco | 2025-11-04 04:06:47+00:00
100 pounds of bike plus 150 pounds of person hitting a pedestrian at 30+ mph is still going to do cause serious injuries to both of them.

But it's really a moot point because there are essentially zero motorocycles travelling on sidewalks, bikepaths, and trails where pedestrians are going to be concentrated, while it's a free for all for e-bikes.

In general, motorcycle/pedestrian accidents are pretty rare. Statistically, motorcyclists are most likely to injure or kill themselves rather than bystanders.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-04 04:07:49+00:00
Agreed. We could never put out a residential structure fire with one truck's worth of water. That's why we ask for mutual aid and an army of shuttling tenders shows up.

Our big tender never leaves the street; it's too big and too heavy for residential driveways.

We do have a brush truck for tighter spots and for use as a relay pump for extra long driveways.
by Intendant | 2025-11-04 04:09:04+00:00
Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Vercel AI SDK, Graph RAG, Langgraph, Openai Agent SDK, Langfuse, Databricks, MLOps, DevOps, Typescript, Python, Java, Azure, AWS, cloud architecture, express, docker, k8s, datadog, react Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/branperez/ Email: perez.brand.on.off@gmail.com
by dash2 | 2025-11-04 04:10:24+00:00
I wrote this almost entirely vibe-coded, I don't even know C++. A slightly scary process, but interesting to see how codex/claude can be both brilliantly fast and competent, and ridiculously stupid and/or dishonest.

There's a companion library just started at https://github.com/hughjonesd/RmlxStats. It's under the GPL. The reason is that codex borrowed a load of code wholesale from base R. Without telling me....
by mulmen | 2025-11-04 04:11:12+00:00
Oh yeah. It’s a constant threat.

The wheat is harvested “dry”. The plant dies and dries out. The drier the better. Moisture leads to mold in the silos and clogs up the harvesters.

The wheat is harvested by “combines” which are literally a combination harvester and thresher. Both machines are extremely complex.

They’re used at 110% capacity to beat the fall rains then sit rotting for 9-10 months. Lots of seized bearings or broken bits of machines sparking and starting fires.

The grain trucks I drove had their air conditioners removed to discourage idling and the exhaust pipes dumped directly in front of the rear tires to auto-snuff exhaust fires.
by layman51 | 2025-11-04 04:11:17+00:00
I recently learned of him because of a service that he seems to be affiliated with. This is a service that seems to search for webinars or meetings and surreptitiously records them. It is an interesting concept, but it has definitely baffled some Zoom users. This is a Reddit thread I saw where it seems to be him who is responding to some of the comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/Zoom/comments/1lpvv06/webinartv_ste...
by bri3d | 2025-11-04 04:11:21+00:00
> Continually demanding that anything worth source controlling is text-based, and even further line-based, is as antiquated as it gets.

Do you have examples of working version control for non-text programs, including the ability to combine work from two parallel workstreams (aka, merge)? I worked for a long time at probably one of the largest companies using non-text based programming and version control was never even close to solved, and my subsequent forays into the literature when I worked in the "no code workflow" space still came up empty handed for working solutions here. We always fell back to "try to represent the structure of the change in some text-based way."
by droopyEyelids | 2025-11-04 04:12:11+00:00
In a monarchy all justice, authority, and moral order are centered on the person of the monarch, symbolically and legally.

In medieval and early modern English law, the “King’s peace” was the fundamental idea behind criminal justice. The Peace was not an abstract civic order; it was the personal peace of the Sovereign, extended to the realm.

The Crown was the earthly reflection of divine order. To offend that order — whether by sedition or obscenity — was symbolically akin to rebellion against the sovereign.

Pretty cool to think about how different that was, compared to today when people want the law to be based on maximizing the greatest good. What if this was banned simply because it offends the King?