skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that there are different kinds of private health insurance, and american system is one of many. I live in Argentina right now. I pay about $150 per month for insurance (which is pretty expensive by local standards). They operate their own hospital, which is about 15 minutes from my home by car. I buy medicine with 50% discount, which already makes the insurance pay for itself. I don't have to search for doctors, I just open an app (or website, or call them) and make an appointment, almost all of them work in the same hospital building. My girlfriend had to use an ambulance, and now is prepping for surgery — of course, all of that is completely covered. Oh, and all the doctors give your their email or WhatsApp so you can follow up and ask them stuff anytime.

I lived in Russia before, and I've had even better experience. I don't remember how much I paid (on the same order of magnitude), but home visits costed me may be around $20 a pop. (Personally, I'm buffled why more health systems around the globe don't have home visits, I'd gladly pay a reasonable extra fee). I've also used private health insurance subscription when I lived in Israel and had to see doctors in Turkey, Georgia, Serbia and Peru, paying out of pocket; in all these instances, prices were reasonable and the whole system very nice to interact with. For instance, in Georgia, my ex had to ride an ambulance and spend week in a hospital. The whole thing cost me around $300 out of pocket.

Anyway, in any of these systems where I had a subscription, I've never had to pay and then file a claim; doctors were employees of the organisation that I paid my insurance to.

Public health insurance, on the other hand, have always been an abysmal experience, with doctors and nurses not giving f about you. It was more expensive, too: you had to bribe people so that they actually did their jobs, and it didn't improve their attitude much. Nobody in that system has any incentives to help you. And, of course, it's much more expensive in the end.
Reconstructing cell histories in space with image-readable base editor recording
Blame literally anything except the glaringly obvious perverse incentives produced by the profit motive.

Glad we have folks willing to do the hard work of defending negligent insurance companies <3
People here are vaccinated against sarcasm it seems
A failing health care system caused my husband's death
In my experience this sort of thing is definitely worth it due to the knowledge and insights you will gain. However, monetarily, expect to spend 2-3x the cost of the commercial offering (you will go through at least 2 and likely 4 or more revisions and components will cost more in low quantities).
You misunderstand me.

If you solve valuable problems you will make money.

If you have a side project then spend all your time solving valuable problems not posting about $$
The horse is only dead because it didn't have the cash to pay the out of pocket, so it died from a preventable disease. And even if it had the cash, the lines are so long it would've died waiting instead.
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I know how hard it is from that non-fiction work, The Rainmaker.
What is a correlation, and how do you think clearly about it?
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but there's no actual graphics in this besides a yellow ball and green rectangles, while the OP game has actual textured pipes, a textured floor, a background scene. The score counter looks to use a basic system or browser font, while the OP game has a custom font. The OP game has also high score tracking, sharing, a proper main screen instead of just dropping you into gameplay.
one day we’ll find the first incel cave painting. What wonders the ancient world holds!
We (family of 5) live in Vienna and we're pretty multi modal. We have an annual ticket for the public transport system, have a minivan, a cargo bike and individual bikes for all of us. On top of that kick scooters. So money is really not an issue when it comes to picking the right vehicle since we have pretty much all the options. Within the city, the cargo bike and the kick scooters by far get the most utilization. The kick scooters in part because they are super useful to speed up the way to public transport.

But man the cargo bike is just a whole different game. Yes, it's a bit heavy but you can use pretty much all infrastructure with it and you can haul a lot with it. Particularly in the summer time when we go to the pools or other activities it's a no brainer. Parking is not an issue, neither is being stuck in traffic.

The cost obviously is a massive hurdle for most families probably, and so is over night parking for many.

Within the city we have more kilometers on the cargo bike than the car by at least double.
Yup. In my city, on windy winter days the CO2 is as low as it gets, in the low 400's.

But on a hot windless summer day in a temperature inversion, my meter will read 700 or even 800 outdoors, as the CO2 from vehicles and maybe even power plants just sits around without going anywhere.

In the winter, if my indoor reading is 800 I open the window a crack to improve my concentration. On certain days in the summer, I just accept it's going to be 1,000 indoors and there's nothing I can do about it.
How low is low and what's the fair market value? Because it ain't millions
> This suggests that humans socially dominated Neanderthals when they came into contact.

Why? Is it because it is assumed that the dominant specie would steal the women (who would spread these traces in the dominant specie)?

Isn't it possible that the dominant specie would also just rape, but not steal the women? (which would presumably cause the opposite genetic "flow")
You forgot all those “what does 4chan think of HN?” posts that mocked the living shit out of the ridiculous blogs posted here. This is a drop in the ocean. Thankfully, 4chan doesn’t have the toxic concept of upvotes/downvotes so the art-imitates-life was on full display.

And just to be clear, one of the facets that 4chan mocked was in fact some common, mundane event or situation that the author then uses in a melodramatic way for a blogshit smug title.
Attention seeking activity... I guess it's one form of marketing, but if the attention is on the builder, probably not
100%

Meaning that if you solve valuable problems you will [probably] make money. So spend all your time solving valuable problems not posting about $$
I’m not aware of any UK-based registrars that rival US registrars such as Porkbun on both price and service, but there’s also no reason not to use those providers regardless of where you’re located.
Yes, the healthcare industry is one of the main reasons FTC is trying to go after non-compete clauses.

That plus as the insurers vertically integrate all the way down to care providers, they’re making it harder and harder for external providers to join their insurance network.

Capitalism doing capitalism things, and we have enough rightwingers to neuter any possible intervention.
> Yes for sure, I never had much hope for any kind of change because of the reasons you gave. I think it's quite telling of our time how we cling to some idealized idea of the past.

Or perhaps leave old things as they were and build new things according to current ideals?
But the idea that he actually knew about this and let it happen, is IMO very, very unlikely.

Another take is somewhat between yours and that of the parent:

It's not that Bibi "knew" that an all-out massacre was coming on the scale that it actually did. Rather, that he chose to discount the signals he was receiving (that something "big" was in the works), and to downgrade the actual risk to his people. Thinking "Okay, so they might try something, but then we'll just hit back with some heaver-than-usual rounds of lawn mowing. Which will get the message across, and be lots of fun besides."

So in that sense he did "know", in that he could have known if he wanted but his ideology and his blind belief in his insane long-term strategy vis-a-vis Hamas prevented him from seeing what should have been staring him in the face.

Very much like with Bush II and the warnings he got about 9/11 -- but in Bibi's case, apparently the indications were much more specific.
In European inner cities, it can be faster to get around on bikes.
Man I miss home so much. Sadly the saying 'you can't go home again' is too true. Wish I could have afforded to stay in the town I grew up in.
> Let's admit it, the main purpose of build in public is to attract attention and build a community

It's more like open sourcing your code. On one hand: yes, it's good marketing. On the other hand: you're creating positive externality, so random people show up, thank you for your contribution, and help you, monetarily, or by giving you valuable leads & feedback.

it's the same benefit of going to a conference & networking, just doing it continually. It's still useful even if everyone is doing it, because when someone stumbles on your work, they have an entry point/signal on whether there's mutual benefit in collaborating.
The doctor supply problem is orthogonal, at best, to the insurance problem.

You can avoid the insurance problems with the same number of doctors or you can have the exact same insurance problems with 100x the number of doctors.
On the other hand, the game dev might just make the graphics slightly less realistic, whereas the scientist has to simulate the true physical equations.
I think you’ve got your facts garbled, or the podcast has. Up to about 20% of Neanderthal DNA has survived somewhere dispersed among humans, but some countries and backgrounds have a maximum of 3% per human.
The average is about 2% outside Africa.
Does that really matter for a local-only 5KB app that only talks with my phone‘s flashlight, or reads sensor data? Now, maybe for the 500MB adware-filled “flashlight” app that connects to 100s of servers and demands access to everything my device can do, but that would be banned on any competent app store anyway.
Thanks everyone for the answers I’ll look into all of them :)
This seems to be the report mentioned: https://www.larryvsharry.com/media/wysiwyg/cms_pages/Stories...
> Also regarding your buddies girlfriend’s advice she’s completely wrong. It’s actually anything with less than 3 ingredients or more than 5 but less than 7 you shouldn’t eat. Everything else is safe. You can trust me because “I’m a huge health nut”.

Wtf?
I'm also skeptical. I worked for a delivery company using cargo bikes. These things were needing repairs all the time. Employees were passionate about bicycles and accepting a very low wage. The bikes themselves are expensive. In specific situations they make sense because they're narrow and quiet, but I don't believe they're cheap to operate.
Net, sure, but it's actually really really complex when you look at point in time numbers.

> Carbon dioxide is not released during photosynthesis, but small amounts of that gas are emitted both day and night as a by-product of cellular respiration. It is worth noting that the majority of plants absorb carbon dioxide during the day for photosynthesis and do so in greater amounts than they release for cellular respiration.

So depending on the time plants could easily be pushing out more CO2 than they are pulling it at that time, which could result in CO2 concentrations increasing during that time.
If there's a ton of evidence for this, please provide some citations. I for one have never heard a single scientific claim for individual people having 20-30% Neanderthal DNA. As the sibling comment said, there may be that much Neanderthal DNA spread around in total, but no single individual sapiens has more than a tenth of that.
That's his only bet
I‘d wager it‘s cost.
I think it coincided with a growing demand of reading material as the merchant class expanded.
Larry vs Harry is the producer of Bullitt bikes. They're cool, but it's fair to say they're probably biased.
I don't think it is possible to do any really high quality work when you are overworked.

Working under muse on a project as a technical founder is different. But for everyone else, which is basically ~100% of the workforce with a rounding error, overwork is harmful for good work. But this is how most of India works. Every sector is like this.

And, tbh, only the lowest of lowest quality of Indian students work in BPOs, nobody does it if they have other opportunities. That is why it is shit.
Man, American healthcare sucks.

Who came up with this "network" idea? I hope they are burning in hell.

Here in Germany I can just go to any doctor/care provider. The insurance companies don't have networks I need to worry about. I have always considered that normal, and think the American system is horrible and perverse.
For last-mile deliveries in dense cities with good infrastructure, cars have to make detours and spend time stuck in traffic, I imagine.

Plus, you don't need a driver's licence for a cargo bike, so you can also hire younger (cheaper) delivery drivers, I guess.
Totally agree. Things that you work on often start off as intellectual curiosity of “why does the world work this way?”

Money often comes as a side effect but not the motivation that drives you to build in the first place.
Getting Russia to give up on an invasion is a reasonable goal.

Afghanistan and Vietnam "defeated" the US with the same objective, so it's far from impossible.
https://archive.ph/u5nuM
IIRC direct sending of mail wasn't removed in the name of convenience, it was removed in the name of "99% of incoming mail is junk, can we permanently reject the worst offenders?"
If I have to think on first principles, the reason why people are building things in public is because that's just a form of marketing and self-promotion. We're way past tech being the hard part of launching a product. The harder part is building the audience and trying to stand out. Building in public is probably the easiest way to build buzz, gain an audience, and name recognition.
Where do apartment dwellers store them?
Honestly, if you're money-focused, you're not a part of hacker culture.

Edit: Deleted a claim that was probably stronger than I meant.
Cosmo gives you what you described above and it’s <10kb

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Show HN: I built a tool that helps with user onboarding and app understanding
Hello HN,

In April 2024, I launched my first app, in which people faced difficulties navigating it. Therefore, something had to be done in that regard. My first idea was to make a blog, in which I could present the app’s features so people would get a better understanding of it. However, that did not work, as people simply did not have the time to read all of the long and detailed instructions on how everything works. As this first experiment failed, I decided to add Knowledge Bases, where I took the content of the blogs and basically made them shorter so it would be easier to follow. However, users had difficulties following the instructions as they were simply too boring. It was still a difficult task for the user, as they had to remember each step, and if they forgot something along the way, they had to go back to the Knowledge Base and redo all the steps.

At this point, I decided to step things up by creating video tutorials for each of the previous posts I had created. At that time, in my opinion, that had to be the end of the issue: I was literally showing the user what buttons to click step by step. However, despite it being an improvement, it did not solve the problem. People still had issues with finding the same buttons, especially if they were using different devices such as tablets or phones. I realized the solution was close; the only issue now was that the tutorials were hard to follow on different devices. I got tired of googling solutions and decided to create my own tool.

The first idea was to directly mark the elements in the code and display pop-ups for each of them. As you may have thought, this was a tedious task because I needed to find the specific elements in my codebase and insert some attributes on them, not to mention that if I needed to use the same element for two different tutorials, I had to mark them differently. That said, I came up with the idea of creating a tool where you had a “Record” button, and once you start a recording, you just click the elements you want to highlight and type a description. With this, I finally had the solution to my problem. It was easy for me to set up, and it was just as easy for the user to follow.

After seeing the results, I decided to make a standalone tool that could potentially help others. This is how Tooltip Tutorial was born. It’s very simple to use, it saves a lot of time, and right now it also has comprehensive analytics, which will help with optimizing the onboarding process for your apps.

I am eager to see your opinion on this, and if there is anything I can do better, please let me know, and I will do my best to meet those requirements. Thank you!
Sir, this is a hacker news not VC news.
As a person who was way ahead of the trend in America, having had a (non-electric) family cargo bike 15 years ago, I have come to agree. When you see any kind of vehicle, whether a pickup truck, SUV, or cargo bike, just try to imagine what will happen if the most clueless person you know buys one. These days in my town the bike parents ride their ebikes right up to every place and leave them there, so a playground or park is totally surrounded by parked bikes now. Say what you will about SUV drivers, but at least they had to leave them parked on the street, instead of parking them on the actual park.

It is easy to think it's going to work when only the 1% most socially conscious people are riding them, but you have to create a system that continues to work well even when average clueless American is participating.
> PR-chitecture is, essentially, the architectural equivalent of vaporware: Proposed projects, ideas, and innovations that generate a lot of hype and publicity and yet never materialize (and even when they do materialize, they do so in a muddled-down form). It’s architecture for the click economy, a product of the internet age of short attention spans and a constant, uncritical drive towards the new and shiny. PR-chitecture is the inevitable result of an image-driven, buzzword-laden media atmosphere where big ideas and sumptuous imagery are rewarded time and time again with attention, clicks, and opportunities over the work of up-and-coming or more critical and subversive practitioners.

* https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-w...

* https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrif...
The abstraction of individual contributions is problematic when you end up with huge swathes of rent extraction justified by capitalist meritocracy. As a society, we don't need so many (any?) of our best and brightest wrangling zero-sum financial algorithms, yet that's where we are. These very clever people basking in their smug wealth whilst the poors outside actually dig up the streets to repair the water mains or produce the food they eat.
> This is so lost in Agile.

My personal experience is that you have to blame the people and not the method.

I would define my current project as very agile in the sense that we only have details plan for what to do a week ahead at the time. Each week the team has an hour long meeting where we present what we have done, and discuss if it's good enough. If something like a hover region is found to be wrong it will get fixed for next week. If you find this issue while working on something else, you make task and PR and just fix these smalls things. I feel like this way of working is what what meant by the people who invented the idea of making software development agile.
I've started using Emacs as a database explorer.

So, Emacs has a built-in interactive SQL mode (M-x sql-mysql / postgres / sqlite). This mode opens a SQL shell similar to what you would see in a terminal. From there, you can do your selects, inserts, updates, etc.

You can also send strings from a different buffer to your SQL shell buffer.

Now in Emacs you can very easily evaluate Lisp code to define functions, redefine functions, and execute arbitrary expressions. You can also wrap your SQL expressions inside of Lisp code. By doing so, you can take advantage of Emacs's built-in Lisp evaluation tools to interact with your SQL database.

So instead of opening a shell in your terminal, selecting a database, and writing select statements to inspect your DB, you can instead...

In Emacs, create a file called something like "sql-notebook.el". Inside that file you write Lisp expressions to execute SQL queries. To execute those queries, you move the cursor over it and just run the command `eval-last-expr` (I have this bound to Ctrl-c Ctrl-c). The results of the evaluated expressions appear in your interactive SQL buffer.

The obvious advantage of this is that you end up creating a library of often-used queries which are very convenient to execute simply by moving the cursor over the query and hitting Ctrl-c twice.

You also retain a history of these queries by virtue of them existing in a plain file, as opposed to ephemeral shell history.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38349899/

Not a rumour.
You're spot on. We shouldn't lump all LLMs together. This approach might work wonders for Anthropic and OpenAI's top-tier models, but it could fall flat with smaller, less complex ones.

I purposely set the temperature to 0.1, thinking the LLM might need a little wiggle room when whipping up those markdown tables. You know, just enough leeway to get creative if needed.
Initial cost (6000 euros buys you a decent second-hand car), storage cost (to protect it against weather and thieves), maintenance cost (bike mechanics get paid the same as car mechanics), limited usefulness. I have owned multiple cargo bikes and I believe they're a status thing.
watch the podcast again, he explicitly calls out:

"but some countries and backgrounds have a maximum of 3% per human. The average is about 2% outside Africa."

as mostly false
> Kind of like Steve Jobs not telling his staff more about the iPod than "It's white and needs a dial"

Isn't Apple infamous for siloing information amongst its departments such that almost nobody grasps the full extent of what is being built?
However the trials in humans are really the primary source of cost and risk in drug development. It’d be great if there was some mechanism to push royalties back to the public agencies that funded the basic research though.
Maybe I don't truely care about my problem? But I just care a little bit, and I've done the risk analysis.

I used a whole lot of "ChatGPT just wrote it all for me" for a rust program that watches for and renames video game clips for me. Maybe it's insecure or has subtle bugs, I don't really care all that much because it does the job for me.
Say goodbye to the hassle of currency conversion for your invoices
It's true that a complete solution doesn't fit easily into an HN comment. But one possibility is to send only one message at a time, and keep re-sending it until you receive an acknowledgement. Then send the next message. On the receiving side, deliver the first instance of the multiple copies you receive and discard the rest. (Send acknowledgements for all received instances of course.) This guarantees not only exactly-once delivery with only constant storage required at the receiver, but also in-order delivery. It's not particularly efficient, and it's not what you would want to do in real life, but it would work.
This is technically correct but unfortunately presented in a confusing manner.

Different modern human populations have indeed different trace amounts of genetics of other lines of humans, but it’s „homo sapiens sapiens plus 1-4% homo sapient x“ for all of them.

The Wiki page is a good source of references:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archai...
What are you primarily using during winter and rainy months?
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41619279