skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're doing a whataboutism. Neonazis are voting for Trump, that's a fact. Anti-semitism on the left is nowhere near as mainstream as it is on the right.

Regarding Soros, he is the target of a unique amount of hate, much more than other billionaires, when he is far from the worst of them. And it's coming from the right, from the aforementioned reasons.
I mean idk about you, but I don't want anymore of these people to die. I might not like them, but they're still people.
Your nefarious plan for enslaving humanity is still unlikely to fit into 128k tokens.
The big question is if OpenAI will achieve "general" AI before their investors get fed up. I wonder if they used the success of ChatGPT to imply that they have a path to it. I don't see how else they achieved such a high valuation.
Relative to Tesla Waymo cannot scale. Waymo vehicles are more expensive, plus the bolted on technology is expensive. Waymo can’t scale up production like Tesla. There is literally no way for them to compete. The field is tilted towards Tesla in every direction.
What I -am- curious to see is how NYPD's response and resources in response to this compares to the average homicide in NYC.
> Theoretically and philosophically speaking, why shouldn't we?

Because what you are describing is literally anarchy. It’s antithetical to our foundational principles as a society.

> I bet not many Americans would object to taking out terrorists, especially some who have caused a lot of damage like 9/11.

Opposition to the war on terror is not a fringe position in the United States.

> What about Timothy McVeigh? The U.S. assassinated him basically (how is lethal injection different than assassination? I think it's basically the same).

Well you’re wrong. Timothy McVeigh was tried and convicted. That’s literally the difference between assasination and the death penalty. Opposition to the death penalty is also not a fringe position and many states no longer practice capital punishment.

> And what about this? Imagine a world where the especially blood-sucking CEOs have a 1/10 chance of being assassinated.

How do you identify the 1/10?

> Don't you think that the regular expectation of this might make them a little less blood-sucking?

I don’t know what the effect would be, why are you so confident you do?

> I wonder why it's morally acceptable for a country to send an army to assassinate some guy causing trouble or for the police to kill a terrorist holding hostages, but when another rich guy takes charge of a machine killing many more people than the average terrorist, assassinating them is taboo?

Do you really wonder? Do you really, honestly not know the difference? I find that very hard to believe.
There's a shocking amount of #EatTheRich crowd totally happy with the assassination as supposedly justified vigilante justice.

Divide and conquer. The weaponized ideological mob is quite the useful herd to wield.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...

> On the 2021 phone call, which was recorded by the company, nurse Victoria Kavanaugh told her colleague that a doctor contracted by United to review the case had concluded that McNaughton’s treatment was “not medically necessary.” Her colleague, Dave Opperman, reacted to the news with a long laugh.

>“I knew that was coming,” said Opperman, who heads up a United subsidiary that brokered the health insurance contract between United and Penn State. “I did too,” Kavanaugh replied.

> Opperman then complained about McNaughton’s mother, whom he referred to as “this woman,” for “screaming and yelling” and “throwing tantrums” during calls with United.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for these people.

One of my early crap jobs was the mailroom at a Wausau Insurance branch. A claims adjuster gave me a case to make copies of, not warning me I’d be seeing graphic pics of a kid smashed between a dumpster and a wall. I guess she was so immune to that stuff by that point that it didn’t occur to her.

When I gave it back to her I remarked on how tragic the incident was. Her reply was that the mom had two other kids and was going to make a lot of money off this. Naturally the claims adjuster was white and the kid was black. There was testimony in the case about how much their brother’s death traumatized the two surviving boys, who saw it happen. How they tended to just cling to each other in meetings with a therapist.

On top of that the incident occurred because the insurance company had told the Rent-A-Center that their employees weren’t allowed to help delivery trucks back in, specifically because of liability if something like this happened (kid ran behind the dumpster to get a ball right as a delivery truck hit the dumpster).

The job warps these people into losing their humanity.
Describing the behavior in those terms implies a level awareness that has not been established. It's only useful if your goal is scaremongering rather than understanding.
In the 1980s we were told that the future of personal transportation was flying cars. Similar flying car predictions had been made since the 1950s. Go watch "Back to the Future, Part 2" to see what people imagined: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874/

And . . . we still don't have flying cars. It has not happened and might not ever happen.

>> Whether it’s 3 or 30 years down the road, it’s probably coming, so what then?

The same goes for AGI--until it happens I have no reason to believe that it will happen.

If it actually does happen, it would be so disruptive that I am not sure there is anything that a person could do to prepare for it.
Anthem BCBS reverses decision to put a time limit on anesthesia
> The whole point of Matrix is to be decentralised. In particular people should be able to keep talking when on different sides of a netsplit, by design.

OK but I still don't see the problem. Even with a fully decentralized system where the servers are just pure relays with no authority, you have two options:

1. Display messages in the order in which they claim to have been sent, or

2. Display messages in the order of arrival

Case #2 is the obvious/uninteresting one, there's nothing to say about it.

Case #1 is what people are saying is so impossible to achieve a global order for, but really, what's the big deal? If a client claims to have sent a message at an unusual time (say, > 10 seconds in the past, or after the app was already quit, or whatever criteria you want to set), then just insert it at that point in the conversation, and visually indicate to the user the discrepancy. And clock skews won't really be much of a problem because messages can easily indicate prior messages in the conversation, so that a mere clock skew doesn't insert them before preceding messages.

What's so hard to make user-friendly/intuitive here?
Good work using a custom AML interpreter instead of a premade one!
I am sure it's easy when you likely have direct access to APIs.
Fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO wake-up call for executives
This a very cool side project, congratulations! Any tips for anyone that also would like to attempt something similar ? Like where to start or or sources etc
That's always the excuse that gets trotted out whenever anyone even suggests punishing a corporation for wrongdoing: "Bbbbbut what about Middle Class Joe and Jane whose pensions and 401(k)s might go down slightly? Won't someone think of the 401(k) owners?" That and "Bbbbbut the jobs! If you punish a company, they'll have to fire people!" Those two combined are enough to scare the general public into allowing companies do whatever the hell they want.

Maybe if regulators grew a sack and started absolutely deleting companies for wrongdoing, people would think twice before they invest in them or the various institutional funds that invest in them. Wishful thinking.
Huge +1 to this. Looking at python 3.13 release notes [1]:

> asyncio.as_completed() now returns an object that is both an asynchronous iterator and a plain iterator of awaitables. The awaitables yielded by asynchronous iteration include original task or future objects that were passed in, making it easier to associate results with the tasks being completed. (Contributed by Justin Arthur in gh-77714.)

"I’m pretty sure it’s a cool feature but, what a mouthful. Imagine you decided to start developing python scripts today, how do you even start?"

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#asyncio
Dangerous Things Sells “Cybernetic Microchip Biohacking” RFID and NFC Implants
Ex-Surrealer here. Thanks for listing us. Never thought someone on HN would cite us esp when it comes to MongoDB.
Simplifying the system should be the goal for lawmakers IMO. But that would never really get much traction. Getting care to people who need it has an obvious priority, so we layer more and more complexity over the current system.
> have reasonable margins

You should really take a look at the 10 year stock price history of UNH. It's price is up around 650%. IBM has gone up 12% in that same time. Gold metal up 60%.

UNH is the third highest earning issue I have in this 10 year old strategy test portfolio beat out only by NOW and MPWR.
Isn't that a really boring and trivially (without research) answered question?

Yes, 'they' will (potentially) say anything, it's not exactly 'deceptively' because there's no intent behind it nor anything else. But yes it is possible that words will be generated which are contravene the semantics in words given as input.

I don't think that's any different than 'sometimes the given answer is wrong'.
I know this is crazy talk, but with enough political will, US law can actually be changed.
Lobbying and regulatory capture are preventing the very simple solution of universal healthcare.

If targeted assassinations are what it takes to get progress, then it is what it is.
Google models have huge contexts, but are terrible...
Oh I think there are better vector stores than pinecone. For ex Marqo or extreme case Elasticsearch
Because htmx is limited in scope. And it's encouraged to use JS for the parts of your app that would benefit from it. But it's encouraged to do so in a way that fits with web standards. Eg https://dev.to/yawaramin/handling-form-errors-in-htmx-3ncg
> People don't treat it as insurance against catastrophic events so much as a subscription for ongoing care

_People_ don't treat it this way, it IS this way.

Health insurance resembles insurance in almost none of the important ways.

Picture health insurance models laid on top of your car:

Imagine your car gets totaled. Your insurer says, "Hey, we're going to pay out $25K for your vehicle. So you have a $1,000 deductible, so that's $24,000, and then your copay for a total loss is $2,000, so that brings us down to $22,000. For total losses, your coinsurance as your contribution for your vehicle coverage is 20%, which is $5,000, so here's a check for $17,000. But that's only if you're buying a Hyundai, otherwise the vehicle is out of network and you'll get a check for $8,500 instead."

(And to be clear, I'm not saying auto insurance is without its own issues and sketchiness, just that it at least conforms to actual "insurance").
ReCAPTCHA: A Deceptive Tool for Mass Surveillance [video]
They reversed it, I’m surprised they did it that fast but the public eye is watching very closely right now. I expect them to try again once scrutiny settles down a bit.

https://apnews.com/article/anthem-blue-cross-anesthesia-insu...
I think that's a valid and even __good__ question.

The historical reason for why it's tied to specific jobs is because salaries couldn't raise for a period of time in US history and so jobs started offering other perks, like paying for all or most of your health insurance.

Now, companies get group discounts and still (often) pay meaningful percentages of many employees healthcare, and so getting private insurance is a nonstarter.
this sounds exactly like the scientific discovery(ies) of something unknown. you are scrambling in this case to figure things out and you want to do it as fast as possible because you know - the government has decided to lock everyone up. so you go about trying to figure it out. but science is not dogma, if you first believed that masks do work and then get a proof that they don't after enough people start wearing them and you perhaps see that that shows otherwise, you pivot. this is exactly what you want, you don't want "experts" to sit and go "shit, we told everyone to wear masks, we now have this new data which shows limited utility but shit we can't say we were wrong, lets have everyone keep wearing masks... maybe even double-down and say you should wear masks alone in the shower cause virus might be in the water too..."
The bribe that keeps on bribin'...
The article says that the legislation was introduced today. It has a link to the text, which says 118th Congress on it. But the 118th Congress has less than a month to go, and the 119th is sworn in on Jan 3.

So this bill will go nowhere, right? There is no way to get through committees, readings, debate, etc etc.

They have to reintroduce it in January, correct? Anything accomplished this month is thrown away and they start from scratch, right? So why do this thing now? Why not wait another month?
They didn’t rig an election — at least not based on the description in the article. They campaigned for a candidate using underhanded tactics.
UHG had $22B in profits last year. They did it in part by having the highest claim denial rate of any major insurer, and things like (allegedly) using an AI based claim evaluation tool with a 90% error rate. UHG also includes other "middleman" companies that are purely extractive, like Optum.

"Profiteering" doesn't seem like that tough a claim to make here...
Sounds like you two could split the cost of the family plan-- ahem the team plan.
I thought it came across as genuine and reflected the sentiments of past interviews with I.P. Sharpers without the tint of rose colored glasses (as these interviews were made at the time).

As someone who has spent quite a bit of time in the lousy job market the last two years, the thing that stood out to me most was the philosophy of having an open door and allowing people in to see if they are a good fit (and ultimately allowing them make that decision for themselves). While I’m not sure if the interview-by-light-meter holds up, I can’t say that I feel that tech interviewing, as practiced today, holds up either.

Thank you so much for your work on this, Bob! I’m sure you spent a lot of time on it, and it really shows. Wonderful job.

P.S. Did you happen to come across the article with Professor Weizenbaum that Iverson quotes in the interview with Whitney Smith? I’d love to read it.
I don’t even know what the timeline is, but you see it coming fast plain as day. Both CyberCab and FSD are very far along. I’d say 2 years to build that factory and initial production line. With half the part count, they’re going to be pumping these out fast.
They’re buying back $8b in stock per year. How many denied claims is that?
The failures of our legal system to hold the wealthy in general and CEO’s in particular accountable for their decisions is why he was gunned down instead of being brought to justice via the legal system.

If he killed as many people with a gun or a knife as he has with his decisions as a CEO, he would likely be the most prolific serial killer (though maybe not since there wasn’t a cooling off period).

I like many people am not cheering his death, but I’m also not ever going to mourn the death of an objectively terrible person.
Is PublicPrivacyPolicies.com a live website?
Of course I dont want to waste my money. I dont think claiming I do is good faith discussion. Same with with assuming I want or support your long list of other subsidies. You seem to be arguing with a strawman instead of what I'm saying.

If you support a public healthcare option where I can choose to opt of the cost and service, then you have my support too! It is really that simple.
Lossless Log Aggregation – Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data
After joining hackernews I realized people here are generally open minded and thinkers. If you provide a valid point they will often reflect on their stance.

Hackernews is my fav forum.
Wow! I wonder if this will mean better x-ray imaging in hospitals. Having the ability to tune the x-ray to the type of material you are looking at:

“This mid-range capability also makes this source suitable for looking into paintings, silicon wafers, or biological material without damaging it. In addition, this source is special because the energy of the X-rays can be very accurately adjusted to the material you want to detect. You can 'tune' it to visualize any periodic table element. In addition, the light beam is reasonably coherent. Because of this, the measurements you can make with it are of great accuracy.”
Lucid just built its first Gravity electric SUV for delivery
I tend to use OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude. All are excellent, but when I am not happy with results I hit all!three.
Sounds recursion-schemesy, maybe, those always struck me as the right way of doing AST transforms.
Sonnet isn't good at debugging, or even architecting. o1 shines, it feels like magic. The kinds of bugs it helped me nail were incredible to me.
indeed you should avoid postgres if all you need is saving files on a disk. that's exactly the point. people reach for complex client side frameworks when all they need is to render some markup.
>look at how music subcultures have incredibly varied ways of expression through clothing - metalheads, hiphopheads, punks etc.

Metalheads? Huh? I like metal, but metal fans are some of the most boring dressers I've ever seen. Go to any metal show and you'll just see a bunch of guys wearing jeans and black T-shirts from their favorite bands' prior concert tours. Some of the musicians used to dress pretty flamboyantly back in the hair-metal days of the 1980s, but those days are long past; the musicians these days are in their 60s and dress rather casually and plainly.
Did you not sign in, and still get the occasional dialog box asking. “Ok to use ChatGPT?”
How exactly will targeted assassinations of stuffed suits running healthcare companies lead to progress towards universal healthcare?
They are certainly luxuries, given that we were willing to drive without them.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out what drives such high costs in US healthcare, some years back.

My conclusion is everything does. This conveniently makes it easy to dismiss criticism of any one part (all of which are responsible) because “well they’re just increasing it a little—go look at these other things, they’re bad too, and if you add up all of that, they’re worse!”

Right, but if you keep not addressing the one in front of you because of that kind of misdirection, you never fix any of it, because all of it is taking too much money.

I will say that our private insurance system in particular seems to be responsible for most of the insanely-high indirect costs of our system.

Dozens of hours for patients and their families lost per major incident, playing middleman between insurance and provider billing departments, trying to make insurance do what they’re supposed to. Stupid billing systems where the prices are all kinda fake, which wastes time in a few ways. Tons of time shopping for and managing healthcare plans by folks in HR. Government social safety net people having to dick around with private insurance nonsense to sort out who’s getting what from where. Employees losing time poring over plans to figure out which one they should get (is it just me, or if you’re offered three is there always one that doesn’t make any sense compared to the other two, no matter what kind of usage pattern or expectations you can think up?) Tons and tons of overhead staff at providers.
I bought it. My first prompt? "To prove you're smarter, tell me how I can get this Pro plan for $10 instead of $200".

It answered.

I've been in contact with OpenAI and if they decline, I guess their AI isn't that smart. If they accept, a win for me.

Stonks.
This is fundamental. Waymo doesn’t make cars. They can’t scale like Tesla can. Waymo vehicles are way more expensive and not optimized at all for FSD, it’s all bolt on.

If nothing changes, when CyberCab comes around Waymo will be screwed.
Mentally replacing every CEO's about-page blurb with “Here are some words you can use to describe me: bulletproof, golden, untouchable, ironclad, godly.” https://youtu.be/UsGcg1icSyA?t=125
That's an interesting idea. I think as long as the continuity of consciousness happens then it doesn't matter and you would negate the copy problem.
I may be getting old, but the current valuations of pretty much anything, make me think a lot about the Tulip Mania. We're way past dot com bubble.

What's funny in this headline is the 'crashes to $60M' part. Just think about it - something meaningless, launched by a cute girl, is apparently still valued at $60M. You could buy some really nice businesses for that kind of money !
I used to try to build “lisp’y” wrappers. Misplaced esthetics.
SwiftUI is to UIKit what React is to the DOM.

I think the big difference right now is React has been released for 10 years vs SwiftUI's 5, so people had had the time to shoot themselves in the foot much more with React. IMO it doesn't take away from it still being much better than what it replaced.
I wonder why nobody uses jsonl format to represent an entire codebase? It’s what I do and LLMs seems to prefer it. In fact, an LLM suggested this strategy to me. Uses less characters, too.
Wonder if AI companies are updating their LLM filter rules to account for this.
Not what I’m reading. People on my timeline are asking why we’re forced to pay into a feudal system in which health coverage is not guaranteed leaving them with hospital bills in the tens of thousands of dollars for minor procedures after their claim was arbitrarily denied. Others are asking how in the wealthiest nation on earth 1 million people go bankrupt from medical bills when guys like this CEO are making $56 million a year
The Ukraine game all over again, i really have to say the CIA/Pentagon is doing an incredible job, and Europe is playing the perfect socket-puppet....

The US knows how to play games, that's for sure.
CodeBuild asks so much and gives so little.
"Correct" here doesn't mean "correct" information -- I made sure to clarify what it means with an example.
This depends on the amount of context you provide, and the quality of your retrieval step.
> There are 3 possible values in a digit of a ternary number. 3 possible values, which could actually be anything.

I was lost on the first sentence. Article should start with the definition of a ternary number. And without added context, "3 possible values, which could actually be anything" doesn't make any sense.
And it's a ho, hi
Farmers bar your doors
When you see the Jolly Roger
on Regina's mighty shores

XD
> I'd much rather see that worked through legislative means than through targeted assassinations.

Like, we ALL would prefer that. But it isn't happening.
It’s hard for me to think of a more disingenuous statement than this:

“To be clear, it never was and never will be the policy of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services,” the statement said. “The proposed update to the policy was only designed to clarify the appropriateness of anesthesia consistent with well-established clinical guidelines.”

They forgot to mention this part: “We, not doctors, define what are ‘well-established clinical guidelines’”
>there is an uncountable amount of indie (or even well respected established studios) working on passion projects or working on respected titles in reasonable and relaxed working conditions.

Not these days, in this economy. It's usually not so gloom and doom but we are in very weird times. And obviously it's not just games nor tech. Games get hit "harder" because what's the first thing people knock off their budget when money is tight?

But of course, there will always been some other well off people tinkering on the side. No pressure if they never make a release.