skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO that's almost a meme: The US spending is paying for all the research other countries benefit of. Usually used to defend the US system against criticism. The arguement, by the way, isn't true.

Kind of like the argument Europe is benegiting of US military spending and would be overrun by the Russians if it weren't for the US...
Also thanks for mentioning Clascal, I wasn't even aware of it. Also fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/toolkit_3.0/Package_2_E...
The US already spent significantly more per capita than every other nation (iirc Switzerland was a distant second, 25% lower or so) back in 2007.

It has not gotten better since.
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US essentially subsidizes the entire drug research industry _profits_.

Fixed that for ya.
> "The EU" didn't repack anything - treaties are agreed or amended by national governments

Yes, but you got the point, I used "EU" as umbrella term to mean the institutions and national governments controlling them. They all came together and 'repacked' the initial Treaty because they had decided to move forward with it even if the people made the "wrong decision" when asked about it.

> everything else (who can stay where for how long, which services they can access, etc) is for the local authority to decide.

That is not correct. EU law extensively governs these aspects as well.

> You won't find a single UK cabinet minister not genuinely convinced that immigration should be curbed; it's just that nobody knows how to do it without looking like a buggy whip maker in a world of car drivers. To compete on the global stage of modern capitalism, a country needs talent and labor to go there, regardless of where they were born; a closed country inevitably declines

And here we have it. The usual blurb that we cannot do anything and that, anyway, this is required, both of which are not true. We could divide immigration by 10 (the government is free to decide how many visa are issued and to whom) and still get the real, actual "talent". That's exactly the point and issue of all my comments in this thread, and this applies across Europe.

Certainly, in case of the UK, it is totally mad to claim that 700k extra immigrants in a single year were "needed talent". They are used to hide the decline of the UK economy that keeps declining per capita while the overall GDP holds on because of the ever increasing population (which is unsustainable so, actually, we need to learn to do without more people sooner or later), and too bad if that is going to create social and cultural issues in the future.

I agree with you that cabinet ministers do not want to curb immigration, that's the point: this is not "schizophrenia", it is a deliberate, deceitful strategy by the government. Again, the same seems to apply in many European countries and when the people show their dissatisfaction in the polls they are suppressed by the usual labels of "far right" and "xenophobia", which is also a deliberate strategy.
Over 1/3 of US adults have cholesterol levels that cause them to use or qualify for a statin. High cholesterol which leads to cardiovascular disease (leading cause of death in the US).

what usually causes this also causes a bunch of other chronic issues. So, yeah.

Life expectancy rates in the US were going down before COVID. Chronic illness.

The numbers aren’t looking good. Unless you’re trying to make money on healthcare. Healthcare income goes up when health goes down. Capitalism.
I do live in country with universal healthcare - Poland, and

On one hand when my mom had eye problem that required spending 2 weeks in hospital and surgery, she didnt have to pay for it except for some simple things that were cheap

On the other hand im paying not small amount from my every salary for health care and due to wait time or quality I still often go to private med (except for basic sickness where doc can give me a week or two "sick leave")

Also Ive been pissed off when I had serious surgery (at private med) and my insurance didnt cover it (but ok, thats insurance not univ. health care)

All of that makes me feeling like im paying a lot for mandatory health care and things like insurance

And at the end of the day I must go and pay for private health care. At least my mom didnt have to pay.

I feel like im getting scammed. I'd rather manage my own money and how I want use it
The contextual rebase, diff, etc is the biggest advantage for me.
No. The largest cost of healthcare in the US is all the admin associated with it.

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OECD Health Statistics data show the U.S. spent $1,055 per person on “governance and health system financing administration” in 2020, compared with the OECD12 average of $193 per person.

A 2021 study by McKinsey estimates hospital administrative costs at $250 billion and clinical services administrative costs at $205 billion, representing 21 percent and 27 percent respectively of 2019 NHE spending in these settings.16 A 2014 study by Himmelstein and colleagues comparing hospital administrative costs for the U.S. and five comparator countries found that the other countries spent 42 percent less than the U.S. on hospital administration.

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https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2....
At least, some of what was available before (abuse and incest) is typically not recreated by labor.
The paper only simulated it up to 10 microseconds. But they also only used a simplified 2D toy model. They acknowledge that a realistic simulation will need to factor in a ton of other things, including rotation of the asteroid.
Feel it's more about how the stories are angled. So often it seems phrased like things during Covid was the norm, rather than things returning to normal.
not to mention the varying obesity rates - USA is almost double that in France - solve that problem and a lot of the health problems and costs will be solved as well.

Instead we as a country are glamorizing obesity, which has become a bizarre and deadly trend in the USA, we should attack it like we did smoking.

Even my local doctors office is advertising how you can be 'healthy at any weight' - talk about gaslighting, no you cannot.

Without a doubt the 'healthy at any weight' campaign is directly or indirectly funded by food companies and drug companies - neither of them which want thin and health populice.
It's because these companies over-hired during the pandemic.
Bowling sound synthesis seems doable. Like the shutter sound when you take a phone picture, only more so.
(lazy comment, but:) I'm sure we'll nip this one in the bud like we have with all other planetary crises we've encountered.

Also: likely they were talking about Bennu[0], which is about 500m in diameter and is frequently quoted as devastating an area the size of Texas.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu
Unless of course you are barred by law from negotiating rates.
It was a partial outage, so you could write tweets, but not read them.
I'm still not convinced yet that more meetings makes better software, but I appreciate that you have shared your position so passionately and I feel like I learned a lot.
In America my friends pay $3,500 per child per month. The grass is always greener I suppose.
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Always remember this site is full of western liberals. Just stating your worldview is subject to moderation.
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Thus the interesting question a journalist should research would be: Why did spike during the Covid years happen?
The small tweak = new patent loophole is easy to solve with patent abuse reform. The sting of the reduced profit margin by stopping patent abuse can be offset by making prizes for making stuff generic bigger than the profits they would get from patent abuse.

The job loss from transition to single payer is a tougher problem, but I would rather just rip that bandaid off than keep a lot of unnecessary insurance jobs around.
I know a guy (in Europe) who didn't get B-series money because the investor cancelled few days before the notary appointment because of SV Bank troubles in the US
This is correct, US total healthcare spending equals 16.6% of GDP with less bang for the buck than many other nations.

"The United States perfoms better than the OECD average on 29% of indicators"

https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/health-at-a-glance-United-...

Most European nations hover around 8-12% of GDP.
Why aren’t they allowed to become doctors?
> Well, physicians have to be paid accordingly for their time and financial investment. Consider most are hundreds of thousands down in education debt and have been in training for almost a decade

> What is most baffling to me, as someone who isn't from America, is how expensive even the most basic tests are.

If you understand the former, then why is the latter baffling?

The cost of any tests includes labour...
Except for the intense speed pressure to create artificial rankings for competition, "drilling" is "practice for understanding".

OP says in the article that he didn't understand what he was doing, but was just trying to imitate people who did to try to appear brilliant. And he claimed that most students in club were like this, due to parenting and teaching that was focused on resume building for ignorant Admissions Offices, instead of focused on learning.
I suspect some of that is due to 4 years of med school (at a cost of $200k-$500k) followed by 3-7 years of low paying residencies, when you could alternatively go into tech or consulting and have years of high income during the same period of time.
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The "spinoff" feature I mentioned is a magit extension. As are other things like stashing (git's own stashing only recently got updated to be able to do little bit more of what magit can do). Magit actually claims to be a git porcelain, not just a git GUI. I think the long term goal is still to do what it does via libgit and not even use the git CLI at all.
YMMV here. I’m in and from the UK, and have family members who are hospital doctors.

The NHS is indeed collapsing, but my understanding is that this is a combination of (1) underfunding, (2) Brexit, which caused many healthcare workers from the EU to leave the country, and (3) an incompetent, corrupt, far-right government that hates public services and would like us to move to a monstrously inequitable but profitable US-style system (but know they can’t say that out loud).
> Acupuncture isn't actual medicine.

That's an extremely dismissive take on a practice that has been around for an extremely long time.

"Alternative medicines", which itself is a dismissive name, get thrown out way to quickly in the west.
Please explain how agency is "just a matter of time". This is a pretty big statement you're just assuming to be true. I have seen no indication that current autonomous systems could achieve agency, or that anybody even considers that a development goal.

Also, I think it seems clear that LLMs and other generative models are poised to strengthen the moat of status quo beneficiaries. I'm not sure if this decision weakens that impact, but generative models are not the tools of the "little guys".
please explain why it would? The government essential funds colleges educations (through loan guarantees and grants etc) for tens of millions of students - has that driven down the cost of college? or did it have the opposite affect?
Bluesky saw a lot more traffic today.

https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3kh2253dzi22s (https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile... if you don't have an account)
This is a misleading clickbaity headline. Those 6 countries added up equal about the population of the US, so it's not like we're spending 6 times other countries on a per capita basis. We spend more and get less than other countries, but you don't need to mislead people to get that point across.
"The average wait for an appointment with a physician for new patients is 26 days, according to a 2022 survey of 15 metropolitan areas by the physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins. That's the longest it has been since the company began doing the survey in 2004"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/10/30/medical-a...

That's not too bad. Until you start counting people who never get to a doctor because their insurance doesn't cover costs.
Oh my, this really sends me down memory lane. It must have been around 1996 when I spent a substantial amount of time downloading and listening to VGMusic. Back then I was on dial up and would continue to be for another five years or so. Thus, MP3s were expensive to get and it would take a good portion of an hour to download a single one anyway. With Midi I could get entire tracks in a few seconds, plug them into Winamp, and be on my merry way.
If I understood correctly. Ruling doesn't concern with who is the actual "inventor", just that the ownership must be with a person or Corporation. So, you are free to file patents under your name that have been created by your AI. Which makes sense as AI isn't legally an autonomous entity.
Wow, those are awful looking.

Regardless of what the other poster says about comfort, those are almost peak, "emperor's new clothes" fashion.
Cruise control is as understandable as a turn signal.
The thing is, I'm not not from a very good college, Higher-ups in my college really do not care. It's all on us students to figure our stuff out. Speaking of professors at college having contacts in the industry, barely any of them do, and even if they do, they try to make us work for it as a contract through them, so the professors usually are a man-in-the-middle for a certain project they recieved, the professors earn money, we do free labor, not getting any certificate of any sort, neither getting paid, and I don't think that's what an internship is. Also sorry for replying late, and thanks for replying.
all you need to do is look at the profits (and running costs) of the health insurance industry to see where a lot of Americans health spend is leaking to, completely ignoring the fact the government is already spending more! Not to mention Americans still have to pay out of pocket costs over and above what insurance is paying for as well. You could still fund the drug industry out of the spend and make massive savings. Better yet, you can make it so no ones incentivized to push drugs other than what is evidentially effective (given a non perfect world where you can't 100% guarantee such things).
The U.S. also has a lower life expectancy than these countries.

So it’s probably shaving off a few years of the most medically expensive parts of a person’s life.
Or, alternatively, they're looking to save money while improving service?
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I get that for people trying to make a living off of their content, but for companies issuing a press release, nine times out of ten I’ll bounce before clicking it away.
It doesn't mean that, it does mean there might be less time-wasting, over-funded startups wasting talent though.
You could look at why this worked in most of Europe.
You uave to be a real pleasure to work with...
Perhaps mothers could stay at home with their children. Relieving the cost of child care.
As someone who believes that patents and copyrights should be abolished, this is a great first step. If AI can do to innovation what it did to Chess where it made even centaur matches pointless, within a short time a significant amount of inventions will be unpatentable and public. In 10 years we can work to abolish the minority created before AI took over.
This blog post describes “Based” a mamba-adjacent architecture with huge context that achieves similarly low perplexity in NLP. The request came up in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717236
Software people have the same difference with Europe, if not worse. And it's ok. Both numbers are a very, very decent pay in respective countries.
There is nothing you can do in the OS that replaces the VMENTER instruction. You need this precisely because it mitigates SPECTRE and Meltdown, assuming your microcode is up to date.
All car software is abaondonware after a period of time. This idea of constant software updates, risky as that is, only came about recently. And no manufacturer is going to update every year of every model forever.
One of the reasons for that is that in America a lot of people don't want to go to a doctor's office until things are "really bad", for cost reasons.

Some issues could be resolved completely if attended to early, but instead the patients suffer until they have no choice.

If it were free/cheap to visit a doctor then more people would go, which would cut down on long-term suffering.
While your point is valid, I think the "propagate all ledger entries to all nodes" kind of decentralized is different than the "route around broken nodes" kind of decentralized. I'm guessing GP meant the former not the latter.
I didn't know what nostr was, so I clicked the link[1] and I found this gem:

> Because Nostr accounts are based on public-key cryptography it's easy to verify messages were really sent by the user in question.

If you think asymmetric encryption makes anything easy, you're missing the point.

If you have a reliable way to know other peoples public keys, and there's a way to repudiate them, asymmetric encryption can make things somewhat secure (that is, until private keys get stolen and after the theft has been detected), but that's a very big “if”, and getting a decent UX generally involves some kind of centralization, be it keybase or Certificate Authorities.

[1]: https://nostr.com/
I have been trying to stay connected with a first cousin who recently had two children by sending her and her family books each year which I recalled having read and enjoyed and being formative (in a positive way) when I was their age.
I have a kawaii ca99 and it does a very good job at handling that
Wholeheartedly agree. And I think the problem has gotten worse for a few reasons. One is that if you’re interested in a subject, you likely follow it closely online, so reading a book-length treatment feels like learning a lot of stuff you already know. Two is that publishers try to find authors with social media audiences who likely already published all their good ideas for free and now have to dredge for additional material that’s usually less interesting.

When I was a child and teenager I loved science fiction. When I became an adult I shunned fiction as a waste of time and read only nonfiction books. Then I started to find that most nonfiction books could be summarized in a blog post or Wikipedia entry, regurgitated well established ideas, or spewed unfounded bullshit. I’ve since flipped my perspective again. I think good fiction is worth reading at book length while most nonfiction is better consumed in blog posts, articles, journal papers, or via a ChatGPT tutoring session.

I will highlight one consistent exception. I love every book I’ve read by Yuval Noah Harari.
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Lack of residencies which are funded by the government. Medicial schools in the US try to get as many students placed into residency as possible so they control admissions to match residency slots, because if you don't have a residency you cannot become a doctor and med school costs $200k-$500k so it's life wrecking if a student doesn't match. The side effect is that we have a lot of pseudo-doctors who have roles that overlap in capabilities with doctors like Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to fill in the gap.
Does CPI adjust for shrinkflation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

Federal research grants that end up as patents held by US universities and pharma companies.
Indeed. That’s why the role of the scrum master exists – the thinking goes that because managers can’t be trusted to protect the team from unproductivity due to complicated conflicting interests, you need a "neutral party" to do it instead.
> Why is it so hard...

Because people are often too full of their own emotional reaction to the situation to care about the reality.

Also check the reactions of many 21-year-olds to the idea of their 90-year-old great-grandparents trying to have a sex life in their nursing home.
There is also a "Clascal Reference Manual for the Lisa" (1983) available on the web, and Larry Tesler talked about it (https://youtu.be/OloLXE4I5fw?t=7665). They needed an OO language, but Smalltalk was too slow, so they came up with Clascal.

Some years later Apple joined with Wirth to co-design Object Pascal.
The impacted side might outgas for years.
Waves don't cancel out, they pass through each other.
>an asteroid big enough to destroy an areas the size of Texas, that WILL hit Earth in about 140 years

There is no such thing. 101955 BENNU currently tops the special risk-list of potentially dangerous asteroids, with the latest estimate giving an impact probability of 0.037% in the year 2182. The only other candidate on that list has a probability that is even lower and and a timeframe of many centuries.

https://neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list
Interesting how everyone always focuses (almost) entirely on The Prince and (almost) completely ignores his Discourses on Livy. Here's the thing: if you read the Discourses first, Machiavelli comes off as a staunch republican — and then when you read The Prince you just have to conclude that it could only be a brilliant satire, subtly aimed at Lorenzo Medici, because there is really no way he was not writing it tongue-in-cheek. And yet people take it completely at the face value and think that Machiavelli was keen on giving advice to the tyrant on how to tyrannize people more efficiently because he thought it was just the greatest way to run the world.
> please explain why it would?

Well, look at all the other countries where universal healthcare has been implemented.

> The government essential funds colleges educations (through loan guarantees and grants etc) for tens of millions of students - has that driven down the cost of college?

Look at all the countries with free university. Yes, the cost is lower.

> or did it have the opposite affect?

Fixed fees and a single payer obviously would have that effect, like everywhere else it's been tried.
> don't announce it on pitchbook/crunchbase

Isn't the entire value of pitchbook that they get data that is not "announced"?
That's a very nice way to put it, but in reality this turned out to be money not spent wisely and instead distorting the market. This often does not lead to innovation, see e.g. the absolutely zero innovation that we got from the cryptocurrency craze. It could even stifle innovation by distorting the market in weird ways, driving away the money from productive (but less speculative) endeavors.

> It’s why having deflation or 0 inflation in an economy is bad, because they want people to invest back and take risks in an economy ?

You can also tax the shit out of large capital in a non-linear fashion which, unlike inflation, will not hit the small savers.

This will still encourage that capital to not stay in banks, while helping small savers to build capital (which is the only way to really drive out the oligopoly) instead of riding the funding wave and hoping for an exit out of a business built on burning money which will only make the corporate conglomerates even bigger when they acquire you (which is your only incentive as a business-owner, to strive for an exit, since otherwise you'll just be hemorrhaging money from your "business").

Note I don't think this is the way to go, I just think the common narrative (which I saw implicitly in your comment, forgive me if I'm wrong) is just a rose-tinted glance at our current situation in post-capitalism.