skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this analysis is (at least) two fold:

1. health care is a mixture of the predictable and the utterly unpredictable. It is vaccines, regular exams, and minor trauma care. But it is also cancer, severe trauma, rare diseases.

2. insurance in its purest form is not a business but a way of pooling resources and distributing risk. Even in some countries with socialized health insurance, it is still called "insurance" for that very reason. We could get rid of every for-profit health insurance company in the USA tomorrow, and we'd still want something that is in every way just like "insurance" and would likely still be called that.
A lot of insurance plans are employer-paid, meaning that the money comes out of their bank account, not the insurance company's bank account. The insurance company just takes a fee to administer the claims and keep as few bills from hitting your employer's bank account.

I remember Google denying coverage after a surgical procedure that they approved during the prior authorization period, and then running out the clock on my appeal. That's on them, no evil insurance company to blame, just my employer. And, the market decided... I don't work there anymore.
> I was specifically talking about the case where everyone derives the optimal price independently

If you're using the same model you know your competitors use it isn't an independent derivation.
When (not) to write an Apache APISIX plugin
I don’t get what point you are trying to make.

If the people of a country want the lowest prices for medicine, they can pay for them via taxes, and that includes clinical trials. Then there would be no middleman with a patent to collect
profit.

If taxpayers do not want the risk, then of course they will have to compensate businesses to take the risk.

And there is no “nationalizing”. The government paying for clinical trials and FDA approval does not preclude pharmaceutical businesses from doing the same.
The weirdest thing about health insurance in the US is how tied it is to employment, Obamacare helped a little with this. The second weirdest thing is that insurance companies can't offer more tightly defined plans for, say, young people who never go to the doctor except for critical/emergency care vs me who goes a couple times a year for various things. Obamacare did not help with this, at all.
I wonder if some of that could have been automated. Have a field to indicate if you are an individual, small business, or large business, and then at least flag fields that seem unusually high (or low, don’t want to provide too-rosy estimates) for that part of the market.
But thats a lot of power over rent cost 'normalization' given they can set the prices on a large # of units and pretty much all real estate is driven by "comparables in the area/market" thats an awful lot of "comparables"

Also these are basically fake numbers.

Unit could be an entire complex with hundreds of actual apartments.

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EDIT:

They dont own any direct units, apparently, but they own a large percentage of the companies, developers, funds that do.

It a far more nuanced issue and hard to get a true understanding of, as money is the grout that fits everything together - its hard to see how it all works.
Like the gender drugs don't have trade offs?

In my limited understanding - as with many drugs - they're the best (or least worst) available option for people with a condition that's affecting their wellbeing. Untreated gender dysphoria can have terrible outcomes for mental health, and so therapies have been developed which are medicine's best solution so far.

And, as with T, this is where "normal for you", "normal for other people", "normal for the person you think you should be", "normal for the person society thinks you should be" overlap and interact with all sorts of potentially destructive interference patterns - especially if you're young.

Because "normal" varies from individual to individual by a factor of at least 2.
But there's no harm IMO in getting tested (2x) so you know where you stand, and have a baseline against which to measure if natural interventions are effective for you.
For example: You just instructed people to put on bug repellent, without qualifying that.

Then you appended a supporting rationale that applies only to some people, in support of your advice.

So it's unclear whether you're speaking from a public health strategy, informed by expert knowledge on pertinent topics, and trying to minimize net harm over a large population, when you can use only a few broadcast words.

Or whether you have almost no idea what you're talking about, but are simply parroting your own interpretation of those few words you heard.

I'm speaking as the kind of person who was fine getting Covid vaccine, as soon as I heard doctors in general were giving it to their own families.

I'm asking why I keep seeing this particular blanket advice about bug repellent, and what does it actually mean.

For example, if we take some of the uses of this soundbite advice literally, it would imply that the situation is so dire that even incurring a population percentage of known adverse effects from people who will follow these instructions without reading the back of the bottle and second-guessing, is worthwhile.

I think I need a straight answer about what it means, from someone who knows what they're talking about, including about any public health and communications calculus involved.
> Men had gone from sons of God to sons of apes. Salvation was a lie and death was the end.

Yes, that's correct.

> There was no justice in the world, and mercy was just the delusion of fools.

You're allowed to be as just and/or merciful as you like. In fact it's encouraged. Just don't expect it from inanimate objects.

> Man was a small being in a cold universe.

OK, and?
Right, so that's part of my original point. Size is increasing because of preference, and cost is (at least in part) a function of size.
Show HN: Cigs- Chainable AI Functions for TypeScript with OAI Structured Outputs
Hey HN!

With the release of OpenAI [Structured Outputs](https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-t...) it gave me an idea to build a library to make it easier to build Ai powered with functions.

It's somewhat inspired by the many cool libraries in Python. [Fructose](https://github.com/bananaml/fructose), [Ask Marvin](https://www.askmarvin.ai) and others but has a few main differences

* For Typescript!

* Chain AI functions easily and get type safety throughout the entire chain

* Call typescript functions with natural language (or structured inputs). If you define an input schema for your function, it will map the natural language input to that input schema

* Specify output schema for a function. When you call a typescript function you can specify the output schema. (I guess sort of like graphql but for functions?)

Not sure that makes much sense, but I have some examples on the repo!

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and any creative ways you could use cigs in your own projects. Let’s discuss in the comments!
Regarding 'spiral note-book-like hinge', I'm surprised they didn't mention the "watchband hinge" which older lenovo Yoga models had from 2012-2018.

Personally, I havent understood this design and think it may be better to reuse an old tablet if one really needs a second screen.
Great to have local tools. Here's another one that uses the exact same combination of technologies: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/remove-background-web (Feb 2024)
200+ AI models? How many of those are actually useful vs just inflating your numbers?
Can't you offer a free trial for everyone to test your service and potentially convert if they like it?
Yes, you could bring a suit if you knew about the interception. However, like FISA s.702, intelligence collection warrants under the French LI and German BND are generally secret, so most targets have no knowledge they are under surveillance. All three pieces of legislation have an oversight mechanism in terms of oversight bodies who have access to secret warrants and are supposed to ensure that they are being used appropriately.
Finale music notation software discontinued; devs embrace Dorico
All those companies cooperate with authorities. Telegram doesn't.
I can't believe they didn't have this right previously. I have almost always (except when I was paid specifically for being available anytime) had a habit of turning my phone off/airplane as soon as the business hours end.
> In fact, we’ve gotten worse at it over time. Consider the homicide clearance rate. It was around 80% in the 1960s. Today it’s more or less a coin-flip.

I think this needs adjustment for whether they caught the right person. This was before video cameras, DNA, etc. and during a time of significant racial bigotry. Same with car theft, vandalism, etc. Standards for convictions back then were laughably bad.
I too had roommates coming up. People today have roommates coming up. That doesn't change the fact that even with roommates, the burden is disproportionately higher than it was for the last generation, particularly with housing.

Median household county in my area is about $55,000 a year. The median price of a house is $450,000. Assuming two people, the 50th percentile wage is equivalent of $14/hour. (This as an eyeball looks pretty close to a median wage.) Fair market rent for a 2 bedroom apartment (40th percentile) is 1500, or 32% of income.

If you let everyone get their own bedroom? For a below median two bedroom apartment, they will barely be able to afford the place.

A 4 bedroom place is $2500, so you're going to get about 100 dollar discount, but that all gets wiped out if one of your roommates leaves and you can't find a replacement. The more people sharing a space, the more risk there is.

It's tougher out there right now if you're not on an engineer's wage.
There are two kinds of bootstrapping:

* Bootstrapping a language on a new architecture using an existing architecture. With modern compilers this is usually done using cross compilation
* Bootstrapping a language on an architecture _without_ using another architecture

The latter is mostly done for theoretical purposes like reproducibility like reflections on trusting trust
I don't know if it's lag, I think it's prioritizing the business' recurring revenue over the consumer's control.
Mosquito elimination has been a common public health measure for a long time, mainly by draining swamps and spraying pesticides. (The Massachusetts town in the article will be spraying pesticides.) And many countries have more recently been releasing millions of sterilized mosquitoes, which can quickly drive down populations.

You may be thinking of the relatively new gene-drive experiments. I believe these are mainly focused on Aedes aegypti, which is the biggest vector for many human diseases. Aedes aegypti is a non-native invasive species in the Americas (and many other parts of the world). But the disease discussed in this article (Eastern equine encephalitis) is spread by native mosquitoes including Culiseta melanura.

I expect that many people who are okay with eliminating invasive species will be more hesitant about eliminating native ones, even harmful ones. On the other hand, we’ve long been eliminating mosquitoes in populated areas with the lower-tech methods discussed above. (Not to mention killing off countless other plant and animal species every year unintentionally/neglectfully.)
Young workers face a new challenge: Older workers aren't retiring
> Health insurance is such a weird thing. It shouldn't exist. You insure yourself against exceptional things. Yet we use insurance for our yearly flu-shot, hardly exceptional.

I treat it more like a subscription. I pay a little over $100 a month for health insurance. A doctor visit would cost around $10-20 out of pocket, so it wouldn't be worth it. However, the insurance also costs with 50% discount on medicine, which ends up right about $80 a month (in discount), so it pays itself back more or less.
Tailing the WAL is an interesting approach. How do you handle the potential increased load on the database from constant WAL reads?
spdlog is designed as a general purpose logging library and it can’t beat low latency loggers. It doesn’t scale for multiple threads because it’s async mode is using a mutex and a cv to notify the background thread.

You can find some logging libraries benchmarks here
https://github.com/odygrd/quill?tab=readme-ov-file#-performa...
Are you the sort of person that says "ackshewelly people in orbit aren't weightless" or complains that wireless headphones technically contain wires, or that motionless rocks are actually moving really fast because the Earth is moving through space...

It's just annoying.
Wow! This being released is wonderful and unexpected. I first heard about these tapes being found six weeks ago yet the NSA being unable to release them due to not having a suitable working 1-inch VTR machine (via this article: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hop...)

That article was re-posted here on HN and elsewhere but didn't seem to get much attention and I feared the worst, since 1-inch magnetic video tape degrades with time. Very frustrating since such vintage VTRs do exist in working order in the hands of museums, video preservationists and collectors. Now six weeks later we get the best possible news! Hopefully, that article and the re-postings helped spread the word and someone in control of access to the tape got connected to someone with the gear.

And what an amazing piece of history to have preserved. I'm only ten minutes into the first tape but she's obviously a treasure - clear thinking, great communication and a sharp wit. Even captured here later in life you can clearly see why she was so successful and highly regarded by her peers (including some the most notable people in early computing history).
I think every country has some forms of censorship. In many countries it is illegal to speak negatively or make jokes at the expense of the Crown or government. In many countries it is illegal to speak against the state religion. In the EU it is now illegal to NOT moderate your platform in the way the government demands. The US probably has the highest legal protection for free speech but companies in the US are far more likely to bend to public opinion.

Pick your poison.
Great post! I didn't know about vmsplice(2). I'm glad to see a former ENSL student here as well!
They didn't even start a build out initially, they bought most of their fiber from Verizon. Which ironically sent them into bankruptcy.
The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games (2010)
I would like to see it as a proportion of overall necessities (e.g., compared to percentage of income for food, healthcare, etc.) and controlled for relevant variables like size.

E.g., if housing in 1960 was 25% of median household income and averaged 1500 sqft and housing in 2024 was 40% and averaged 3000 sqft, that doesn't immediately appear to me that the problem is housing affordability, but rather housing expectations. In other words, a change in preference leads the change in cost. Similarly if housing went up 10% of total income, but food went down 15% of total income, it doesn't necessarily mean the overall situation is less affordable.

The main aspect that's "new" now seems (at a casual glance) to be the amount of student debt being carried now compared to previous generations. Even with that, if you look at real disposable income per capita, it seems to be going up over the last few decades (ignoring the anomalous COVID years).
That's not a EU problem. If the US puts laws in place that prevents their company from expending overseas, that's a problem that Americans need to fix.
Client Side Decorations are different than moving the menu bar.

Even using the global menu in KDE (which isn't that new BTW, I think it was in KDE3), you'll still have a "height = title bar + toolbar", where with CSD it's "height = toolbar".
I am all for being loving and respecting towards nature, but mosquitos and ticks should be erased from face of this planet for good. Food chains would absorb this change without breaking a sweat, compared to what humans are causing daily.

Every effin' year around 700k people (mostly children and old) die only from mosquito-borne ones, I presume ticks don't add that much on top of that. It cripples entire economies to halt, feeding massive disparities in the world set up by colonialism. Its a typical western privilege talking this style about matters not directly threatening lives of you and your closest ones.

I guess you would have a different opinion when say your mother would die during your childhood from it, or saw your sibling being disabled for life from early age by it.

Do similar people feel same sympathies towards syphilis or bubonic plague? Whether something is single celled or multicellular organism shouldn't make much difference.
Honestly, those systems don't look too good for trans people. The NHS requires you to wait years to go on $40/month hormone replacement therapy. The government passed a law banning prescription of puberty blockers for kids that are undecided on which gender they'd like to be as adults, forcing them to go through the wrong puberty or work around the system. Saw a post on Reddit yesterday that was "I support my daughter but we can't keep her on GnRH analogues anymore because it's illegal here." The consensus was to fly to Spain once a month and pay cash for the injection, or skip puberty blockers and start estrogen early.

This is not amazing. The single-payer model is unfortunately too political, and somehow being trans is a hot button political issue right now. It really, really sucks for these kids.

Meanwhile in the US, there is a lot of hate, but a lot of insurance companies do cover the necessary care. They even pay for flights/hotels in other states when care isn't available in your state because of political issues. We all like to hate insurance, but seeing those things commonly available in private insurance policies is ... refreshing. You are still going to have to file appeals, but it's better than "the government doesn't believe in trans people so fuck you".
The perfect laptop for interviews and 1:1 meetings!

- Just look at the back of my laptop instead of the projection/TV.

- You want to see more? Sure, let me tilt it. Now I see less. Perfection!
License key management for developers of macOS applications. https://padlocksdk.com/

I've been building some macOS apps lately, and I kept duplicating and adding onto the license key backend. I figured I should build it more properly so I built a Saas for myself (and finally took the step into Laravel at the same time).

I have no costumers except myself. If anyone wants a free account in exchange for feedback I am happy to help set it up.
I don't have to. I didn't try to make any claims.

My point is that your own comment, which does make claims, is guilty of the exact same thing that it accuses the article of. If the article is invalid because of X (unsupported plain assertions), and your comment exhibits the same X, then either both are invalid or neither are, or or neither has any bearing on the other. In all 3 cases, the comment winds up having no value.
> 3. Terminals

Since you use Emacs, why not use Eat or vterm?

https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat

https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm

> 4. File Manager (gui)

Why not use Dired?

(More than 90% of the time, I only run Emacs, Firefox and nothing else, which is why tiling is useless for me.)
Wrap Your Dependencies
It really doesn't pay that well, these fines are a drop in the ocean at the scale the EU operates at.
Normalize it now; take advantage of it later when there is some sort of benefit, however short-term/sighted it may be.
I wonder whether the iron law of bureaucracy could be a special case, or maybe related to, the iron law of oligarchy by Robert Michels.
So I've been learning about expander graphs, and it seems like they preserve some of the good things about hierarchies (low fanout) while being very unlike hierarchies in other ways (higher # of paths, lower # of hops, between an arbitrary pair of nodes).

Have any HBR types done a case study of non-traditional firm organisation, along expander lines?
But... why? Why would you do this?

I mean, teams/zoom gets me 99% of the way there. I can see people, read lips. What do I gain from a "virtual environment"? Because I can already talk to people all over the world, right now. And they can share their screen and stuff. It's a pretty good system.
If you look at the investment portfolios of politicians you'll quickly understand why there is no interest in using Medicare to reduce prices. Watch a single commercial break during the nightly news to understand why they will never cover it, drug companies are half their advertisers (more worrying a quarter of them sell bombs)

Reimports of drugs produced in the United States back from Canada are prohibited for safety reasons. You know because those Canadians are famous for tampering with drugs for unclear reason and benefit. It's all a farce.
You may want to talk to who-t or others if you have an interest in touchscreen calibration tools, or possibly try kde under x11: https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/06/?m=0
FWIW, this seems to be being worked on right now: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/6360
I used to work at the Vehicle Engineering Lab at the Technion in Israel. China is the only place where large volume of tires are manufactured and distributed to worldwide retailers, which documents their tires using the DOT standard yet consistently fails all DOT tests when tested. As the DOT requires tires to be tested only after a certain number of failures, the DOT standard is meaningless when the factory can change owners and name on a whim. That consistently happens only in China.
the problem is for any given Russian novel, there are often other translations from the 1960s-1990s which use sufficiently modern language. maybe these are better than P&V or maybe not (in some cases yes to my taste), but good luck finding one in a bookstore.
Health Insurance pays for vaccines and other preventative care in part because they believe that doing so will cost them less money in the long run.

Somewhat similarly, car insurance will often give discounts for completing defensive driving classes, and home insurance for having an alarm system.
> because Uber is almost invisible there, as regular taxis have been protected

Uber is almost invisible there because they continue to blatantly break the law, and even when told to stop, they continue like nothing happened. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dutch-authorities-raid-uber-off...). This seems to be just another case of the same hubris.

Of course Uber faces pushback when they act like that.
Might give them a try when I get the chance, but I'm skeptical that those will be much better than tiling for my usage, particularly as someone who prefers a centered main monitor and angled secondary monitor over ultrawides.
Supply & demand is such a basic emergent property of, well, anything involving life as we know it, that I have a hard time imagining opposition to it.

If a vendor anywhere in the world has more stock than their customers want, the price goes down. If more people want it than the vendor can provide, the price goes up. If there's more food than animals that want to eat it, animals eat their fill and the rest rots. If there are more animals than food, each spends increasing effort developing strategies to get more than their neighbors.

Now, if someone claims they can prove that demand increasing by X results in prices increasing by exactly Y, I'm with you. There are too many variables to make that predictable. But the basic idea behind it? That's pretty fundamental.