skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UHC had several cases where they denied air ambulance transport for seriously injured car accident victims to a trauma center due to lack of pre-authorization.

I'm a paramedic...

"This is John, I'm a paramedic working on one of your patients who was hit by a truck. We would like to fly him to the hospital due to his multisystem trauma but we need your approval. His name? Hang on, let me find his wallet. No, that's Smythe, S-M-Y-T-H-E, sorry, it's a bit loud with the jaws of life in the background... Uhh, yes, sure, I can hold for a nurse consult..."
Yeah, but if you're like 95% of developers you really don't need React either, but 'something' forces it on you.
Not surprising at all, actually.
Which cultural norms is this catering to? Certainly not the previous norm of pluralistic society where people could eat beef in public without government reprisal.
Or maybe vigilante justice isn't people's first choice, but justice is justice to them.
The salient point is that the shooter was hanging around early in the morning, and he probably didn’t loiter for too long because that would have drawn attention. It suggests he knew Thompson would be leaving the hotel around 6:30am, and it’s difficult to see how an outsider could have obtained that info.
What difference would it make to anyone if you care when they die? They’re dead.
It's different than campaign contributions. When I see a campaign ad I acknowledge that it's a campaign ad. What's devious about the bot armies is it gives the false appearance that my neighbors hold certain beliefs when they do not.
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I'm not exaggerating for hyperbole: literally every single time I've ever seen a comment online of the form "why isn't the MSM talking about X", I've clicked over to the homepage of the New York Times and seen X right there.
Time certainly seemed to slow down for me!

Gracie was uninjured, for those concerned. Caught her gently. Learning experience. Future experimentation was done with a lacrosse ball.
What is the crime? What law was broken?
Google should do it. If some CorpDev of theirs are listening. This could be their Satya Nadella <> GitHib moment to bring back the lost shine.
Turning search results into Markdown for LLMs
Looks like it's been lifted
I'm not giving these governments the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm wondering if these really are state actors at play here, or just tech savvy trolls

Or if this can be considered trolling at all?

The good that will come of this that a lot of these social media platforms will need to become more regulated or just flat out banned.

They're generally not good for us emotiona anyway.

We should all touch grass more often
It really helps to have a hard problem to solve in the first place. Try scheduling all the classes in a university timetable into available classrooms, subject to constraints like maximum seating and not double booking an instructor. Now try to add constraints like “art classes must be in a studio.” Then to make it really fun, “no more than one fourth of the Electrical Engineering classes may be taught outside of the EE building.”
You are confusing two separate issues. A single-payer system would also deny many claims (or refuse to authorize many expensive treatments). Every socialized healthcare system rations care. It might be a net improvement overall, but we see a lot of affluent Canadians coming to the USA as medical tourists to skip the queues back home.

For cancer care, the USA generally has better 5-year survival rates than Canada.
Thanks! Super informative link, and what I was hoping to get.
Roaming RAG – Make the Model Find the Answers
RAG is a pain to set up, so I tried something different. Instead of dealing with vector DBs and all that complexity, just let the LLM navigate well-structured docs like a human—exploring outlines and diving into sections. It’s simple, and works great for stuff like technical manuals or llms.txt.
Show HN: I Built Squids.Games: Track YouTube Stats with a Squid Game Twist
Hi HN,

I’ve launched Squids.Games, a website that tracks YouTube stats—likes, dislikes, views, and more—inspired by the life-or-death competition vibe of Squid Game. While no actual games are played here, the site serves as a fun and dramatic way to visualize how creators are battling it out for attention and engagement on YouTube.

The idea came from watching how the world of content creation has turned into its own high-stakes arena, where stats can make or break a creator's success. Squids.Games gives you a clear snapshot of who’s “winning” the game on YouTube, and who might be falling behind.

It’s a simple concept right now—just tracking numbers—but I’m exploring ways to make it more interactive and insightful.

I’d love your thoughts on:

What additional stats or features would you like to see?
Does the Squid Game metaphor resonate with how you see social media today?
Any ideas to take this further?
Thanks for checking it out, and I look forward to your feedback!
It only matters where your state draws that line.
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I'm wondering if HIPPA might be overly costly and counter productive. While I agree with the critical infrastructure designation for healthcare and associated cyber security initiatives, I don't think that there's any real value to my health information being private. Getting basic health care requires you to allow multitudes of third parties access to your health care information anyways, so is HIPPA's purpose actually being achieved? It's not like a hacker is going to get access to my bank account if they know I have high blood pressure. Just about everybody has some kind of condition. I think there are misplaced concerns about health insurance misusing the info to discriminate against people based on certain conditions, but I'm pretty sure there's already ways for them to do this now, and if we really want that to not happen, then just make a law to address that concern instead of HIPPA.
Electoral politics haven't worked, so here we are. Healthcare bankruptcy is the leading form of bankruptcy in the United States.
Capitalism with transfer payments (the Nordic model) and socialism (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics model) are two very different things.

Regardless of how we might wish it to be, it's an observable fact that the latter sense is how the word socialized is understood in the USA. And yeah, people rightly object to totalitarian control over their health care, whether it's by a government or a for profit cartel that has managed to achieve a stranglehold on medical payments.
Deterministic Simulation Testing – applying simulation testing on Simple Paxos
Election rigging isn't the right term. It should be election interference.
According to Wikipedia, kyivinsider.com was founded with a grant from European Endowment for Democracy which like its American cousin, National Endowment for Democracy, is an NGO explicitly set up by Western intelligence agencies to push pro NATO narratives.
The HN hate boner for React is unreal. They've added a new hook to allow you to provide a more optimized implementation for a particular special case. It sounds like it's in the obvious place to find it if you need it, and does what you would want it to do. Why would you care about this unless you needed it? And if you needed it you'd know what it does.
This remind me why enterprise don't integrated OpenAI product into existing toolset, trust is root reason.

It's hard to provide trust to OpenAI that they won't steal data of enterprise to train next model in a market where content is the most valuable element, compared office, cloud database, etc.
Chillingly, the CEO was on his way to an investor's conference.
Not encouraging it to keep happening, just pointing out the fact that this isn't an effective response. If someone wants to get your information, and is motivated enough to kill you, they will.

The best response would be to up security in the short term, and try to change how you work so people aren't so motivated that they'll want to kill you in the long term.
Code reviewing is not the same thing as writing code. When you're writing code you're supposed to look at the documentation and do some exploration before the final code is pushed.

It would be pretty easy for most code reviewers to miss this type of bug in a code review, because they aren't always looking for that kind of bug, they aren't always looking at the AWS documentation while reviewing the code.

Yes, people could also make the same error, but at least they have a chance at understanding the documentation and limits where the LLM has no such ability to reason and understand consequences.
HN has long had a huge anti-Facebook bias, I wonder if it's just that.
tbh I'm more interested to see if it changes the arguments around gun control.
I don't think AGI is coming in 2025. I expect more incremental progress in AI/ML, but AGI is likely to remain vaporware & marketing hype for many years to come.

I'm not a geologist, but I do think earthquake prediction is going to get a lot better over the next century. However, this improvement will be mostly independent of AGI: The classic ML models & paradigms from a decade or 2 ago are probably adequate for the most part[1]. We just need more & better sensors & several decades to collect enough data.

[1] I'm not saying we won't develop better models & techniques that will help - I expect we will - but I predict the sensor suite & data collection period will end up carrying more weight
You are literally making the case that if CEOs are scared they will change their behavior. You shouldn’t even have to squint to see how that’s terrorosm.
That’s a non issue. FSD is quickly approaching self driving in all scenarios. Waymo is limited specific cities and surface streets.

In a way Waymo is behind, they can’t scale fast enough. Their vehicles are far from optimal and expensive. When CyberCab comes around it will blow past Waymo with ease.
"processed foods" are just tastier is also consistent with the data, no?
New Mexico Driver's License or State ID. Now in Apple Wallet
This is true.

It's more than uncontrolled campaign spending, but these days, political campaigns are doing a lot of astroturfing, as well.
I have a similar problem and I've built a list of projects that I now cycle between. I'll add new ones as I get the inclination, but I always rotate through the list doing one clear small or medium change. If the project is in a state that I have to do work that I abhor on it to get it far enough to get to the fun bits, I do some small change that pushes it towards that goal, whatever it might be. Just a bit of pain to inch it forward to get it closer to having fun with it. Sometimes, just getting back into a project ignites the passion again and I make serious headway with it. If not, well, it's a bit further along than it was.

I might spend an hour on a project and move to the next one, or I might get excited and stay with it for a few weeks making a medium fix or enhancement. Just knowing I'll come back around to each project makes me feel less guilty about leaving them hanging.
The official rumor is DataDog:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/google-backed-software...

Given New Relic is a direct competitor, Bill Staples' background makes even more sense.
In the U.S. there is a whole lot that is going in the wrong direction. This direction isn't new, but more and more 'regular people' are sliding into the 'desperate' category.

That, in my mind, is why there is a visible amount of schadenfreude or even glee from seeing suffering of the people who make millions running the companies that bankrupt them or prevent them from getting treatment they need.

It is a waste of time to argue whether those feelings are right or wrong. They are a result of a broken and exploitative system that is benefitting only the perpetrators of it.
- — are built into Mac OS with Opt+- and Opt+Shift+-. I use them all the time

there are also bindings for bullets • and probably other things I'm forgetting (or that may be conflicting with other bindings I have setup)
A lot of people do write in markdown but when things finally get the RFC Production Center they work with the XML directly. This can actually cause problems if you want to produce a revised RFC (jargon: a "-bis") later, because the copy edit changes are in the XML and need to be backported to the markdown. The pro move is to backport the changes during the publication cycle as part of reviewing the copy-edit changes the RPC makes.
>In the UK the doctor will see you in 5 years

I get your point but for reality's sake the last time I saw a doctor, on the NHS in the UK it took one day. The service is a bit ropey but in strange ways.
Yea... "complicated resource allocation issues" is a really, really charitable way of describing "massively profiting from denial of health care, leading to the suffering and death of one's customers."

I'm actually kind of pleasantly surprised at the raw "FAFO" comments we're seeing. I was truly expecting the mainstream media to circle the wagons and treat this thing like a hero-has-died tragedy, with "respect the dead" and thoughts and prayers and everything, but the public's cynicism actually seems to be overtaking all the corporate whitewashing. This was a truly evil person, and although nobody should call for someone to die, one is allowed to "read an obituary with great pleasure," as the saying goes.
I think the average American understands everything they need to understand when they pay their premiums and are refused the care they require to survive.

It’s laughable that anyone can have this reaction of “gee, maybe if people only understood _why_ a CEO makes billions and has the highest rate of denied claims, they wouldn’t accept violence”
We always had better options than CSS. The whole industry went in the wrong direction for years. But React is the opposite of that, it's someone finally bringing some sanity to the web.
The process you describe took me right back to my childhood days when I was fortunate to have a simple 8 bit computer running BASIC and a dialup modem. I discovered the concept of war dialing and pretty quickly found all the other modems in my local area code. I would connect to these systems and try some basic tools I knew of from having consumed the 100 or so RFCs that existed at the time (without any real software engineering knowledge - i was a 10 year old kid). I would poke and prod around each system, learning new things along the way, but essentially going in blind each time.

The only real advantage I had over the current crop of LLMs was the ability to reliably retain context between sessions, but even that wasnt very useful initially as every system was so bespoke.

I then moved on to using some level of social engineering to extend my ability to gain access to and learn about these systems.

Doing this over and over, I like to think I have developed some pretty complex understanding and abilities.
Because it's possible that specific pain is absent in a different layer of reality.
> Not endorsing the practice, merely pointing out that to put someone to death in the U.S. defined notion of due process, no more than about 2 dozen key people's assent/cooperation need be attained.

Surely you mean no less than two dozen?
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People should just stop including those warnings. Unless they are a google, FB or some other juicy politically rich target for the EU to make an example of, they are a complete waste of time. Nobody is going to hassle you about it.
Anybody motivated enough to murder someone in this fashion would probably know or learn about the internet archive.
I had a 95% deviation to my septum. I spent years basically mouth breathing, because it was so occluded.

Finally went to an amazing ENT (where I got that number, and saw how bad it was on imaging). "Great, so when can we schedule surgery?"

He sighs. "First, I need to prescribe you these two nasal sprays so you can take them three times a day for four weeks and come back to me and tell me that surprise, surprise, they haven't realigned the cartilage in your nose. That way insurance won't deny the authorization of surgery."
Of course the "delve into" and "dive into" is just its default to be corrected with additional instruction. But once you do something like "write in the style of...", then it has its own tells because as I noted below, it is, in the end, biased towards frequency.
The problem is the vehicles are expensive, it doesn’t scale. CyberCab is designed for mass mass production.

If you need a clue, look at CyberTruck already out producing both Rivian and Lightning in less than a year.
"whether large organizations will prioritize the kind of integrated, reliable, and "safe" AI solutions"

While safe in output quality control. SaaS is not safe in terms of data control. Meta's Llama is the winner in any scenario where it would be ridiculous to send user data to a third party.
You seem to speak as if the only choices are React and jQuery style DOM manipulation. React isn't the only framework you can use to build scalable web apps.
Are the limits applied to the org or to each individual user?
It's unclear from a brief skim of the documentation what the story is around memory safety in Acton.

Pony uses object capabilities in its stdlib, but its real value proposition is reference capabilities that provide memory safety at compile time.
Yeah but many people wait months to see specialists in the US that will only give them 10 minutes of their time...
Did I miss something? Didn't IBM acquire Hashicorp?
The response can still be considered mass hysteria if it was disproportionate to 20-40 million deaths or unhelpful in mitigating them.
Many accountants are worried about the risk of filing for their clients and won’t do it at all. Determination of ownership is not as straightforward as one might assume in many cases.
The NHS is crumbling under a decade and a half of underfunding and intentional mismanagement to designed to prove it doesn't work by the Tories, and even then, it isn't as bad as you make out. There are 100% unacceptable wait times for some things and some procedures, but I'd take having an annoyingly long wait to see my GP over people I care about not having healthcare at all, and realistically it isn't as bad as you are making out.

In 2022, the British government spent £3.5k ($4.4k) per person per year on healthcare. The US spent $13k per person per year in 2022, of which $6.2k was government (national+state+local)[2]. The UK government spends less per person than the US government on healthcare, even before the amount paid privately.

Even if you think the UK's healthcare is worse than the US (which I fundamentally disagree with), you have an extra $2k to play with and do better than the UK before it costs more than the current system to the government, and then another $6k of extra tax before people would be more out of pocket than with private healthcare.

Healthcare is complicated, all systems have flaws and all are vulnerable to being manipulated. None of that changes that the US has the worst system, run in the worst way, with the least efficiency. And that's without even getting to the obvious point that a country where people are healthier is worth paying for: my friends and family, colleagues, people I interact with being well, living longer, and not having diseases is very worth paying for and I want to be taxed to achieve that.

[1]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
[2]: https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...
That third plan might be there just to make the other two look reasonable. Restaurants do this all the time with menus.

You conclusion reminds me of yesterday's thread about Rogue where one the best players was that way not due to some amazing trick or skill but because he was just a bit better than average on most aspects of the game. He didn't have to be the best at anything, all the little parts above the median added up.
Illegal tactics, it sounds like. Elections have rules. Breaking them to give someone an advantage is rigging it, no?
Do you have some reason to think HIPPA is responsible for the cost of healthcare in the US?
In enterprise, there will be long content or document be poured into ChatGPT if there isn't policy limitation from company, which can be a meaning training data.

At least, there's possibility these content can be seen by staff in OpenAI as bad case, there's still existing privacy concerns.
How about something like the "Denied Claim Hero"?

Wouldn't positive wording be more appropriate given the public response?

> Don't be greedy, or The 3D-Killer will go after you next!

It'd feed into wording something like "Might need to re-think automatically denying that claim, as the Denied Claim Hero is still at large".
Not playing with words, I'll tell you straight up that you sound self-conscious about how you look.
When one says seemingly counterfactual or less-held beliefs, one should expect to have to provide more evidence for those beliefs.
Optimal control of polar sea-ice near its tipping points
Well, today BCBS rolled back their plan to limit anesthesia, which is a similar policy to one UHR recently launched: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/blue-cross-blue-shield-anes...
The family’s rich off money made killing some people and making a ton more suffer.

Live by the sword…

> If he had done wrong to people, he should be brought to justice via the court of law (in a democratic nation at least..)

Even the Sacklers are free and still rich. This is like wishing for a unicorn for Christmas. You want something that flat out isn’t real.
Any reasonable defence lawyer would simply submit "evidence" showing that the judge or prosecutor actually committed the crime. The point being to make it obvious that photos and footage can no longer be trusted.
I'm aware of what the belief is (admiralty court, all that hokum...). I'm interested to know the actual origin of the belief-- like who was "patient 0" for coming up with the silliness.

It's probably lost to time...
The two key things I've been wondering about since the initial shooting:

1. Do you think this could lead to a cascade of murder attempts towards CEOs who are perceived by many as doing harm or being evil?

2. Do you think this assassination will lead to companies with a negative public image to invest more heavily in reforming how they're perceived?
The list of things at the end of your comment are all basically drivers for GDP. Our economic policies seem to incentivize the construction of Kafkaesque dystopias. I just can't see how such a leviathan could ever be dismantled.
HarmonyOS Next gets container tool to run Android applications
Isn't everyone (including the US) trying to do the same?
Hey, I think I may have to file this report but have zero idea on how/where to do it.

Could you share a source for that?

My accountant wants $160 to do that for me. If I could do it in 5-10 minutes I would definitely do it myself.

The problem that I have (and many other LLCs I'd guess) it's not that the report is complicated, it's that I (we) don't even know where to start ...
Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail
Just thought this article really drives home how a behemoth company like Intel in the midst of a turnaround can be completely kneecapped by a board of directors (virtually none of whom have any semiconductor experience!)
Which the rest of the executive team held without him. The same day.
This is what the Azure OpenAI offering is supposed to solve, right?
This assassination appears to have reversed Blue Cross Blue Shield's very recently announced policy of not paying for longer periods of anesthesia.
Put more clearly, I think parent comment is critiquing the use of "rigged", which is associated with actual manipulation of election results, with "unfairly influenced" which is what TikTok propaganda lies would be.